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The point of salaries was to pay employees by the week instead of by the hour. My first job had a weekly timecard that consisted of a checkbox: "Did you work this week?"

Now, every job I have requires me to account for all my hours, so it seems like the only reason I am not a wage employee is to avoid paying me 150% base rate for hours worked beyond the first 40 in a calendar week.
> This is anecdotal, but I have also noticed the related inverse problem as well.

Carol Dweck argues in her book (and the research behind it) that you're describing different symptoms of the same problem, rather than an inverse.

The problem being; a mindset that believes a normal person's ability at a task (at least at a high school level) is governed by fixed traits rather than something that can be changed.

- People who consider themselves inherently unskilled at a task are more likely to not bother.

- People who consider themselves inherently skilled at a task are likely to fear failure because it damages their self worth.

- People who focus on growth/learning/effort are less afraid of failure, attempt harder problems and are more resilient to setbacks

These ideas may seem trite these days but the book was published in 2006 so maybe less so then.
> To set up your own mirror, you can configure a post-receive hook on your official project repository to automatically push commits to a mirror repository on GitHub.com (or GitHub Enterprise).

source: https://help.github.com/articles/about-github-mirrors/

so, basically, it either needs to be a repository you own or you would need to do cron job polling from some third machine.
TL;DR: Very interesting article about improving performance in Common Lisp. The author has a 6502 CPU emulator and finds out how to improve his assembly output. Additionally, it shows how the "static" typing facilities of Lisp help for increasing performance.
I don't see how Brave/BAT solves this problem. There is no anonymity between publisher and advertiser on Brave. Amazon could just as easily pull ads on Brave.
Can't find a link right now, but Steve Jobs, when he was acting as Interim CEO at Apple, used a NeXT computer for his own desktop -- it was a significant event (maybe the Power Mac G4 Cube?) when Steve changed over to running OS X for his own use.

Perhaps the twelve Platinum Members could donate 1 engineer each (for a team of 12 - https://www.linuxfoundation.org/membership/members/ ) to spend a year focusing on the issues (Codecs? Desktop tweaks? Interoperability?) to get people like the CEO able to function with 100% Linux. I wonder if SuSE would be functional for the job.
You’d be surprised on both counts. Union factory workers face significant pressure — as in slashed tires — from their peers not to drive foreign vehicles. Auto makers give sizable discounts to their employees.
I'm sorry, but do you know anything about my work as a coder besides that I work 30 hours a week?

I bet you, if you were to ask my boss if I've proven a valuable asset to the company he would sing you a song of praise for my work.

Working long hours isn't everything.
Are you saying that an advertiser deciding not to feed the hand that bites it (wait, that didn't work out right) is somehow the same as institutional employee abuse?

Every newspaper, every news magazine has had this same tension between the advertising department and the content department. Every advertiser should understand that; every editor certainly does. This isn't new.
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> Youtube dominates the web as video platform.

Is it profitable?
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In government consulting at large companies it's very common for people to work ~40-44 hours a week including lunch. I often see people work less than 40 hours if you exclude lunch breaks.

It's not uncommon for people to have literally nothing to do for long stretches while say waiting for clearance paperwork / between contracts / etc.

Sure, you get paid less but cost of living is also less and frankly your often working on things more important than selling Ad's.
The TN panel on the X230 is indeed absolute garbage, and mine was the first time I'd seen burn-in on a modern laptop screen.

I did the FHD mod on my X230 a while ago and can say it makes a world of difference. Well worth the effort of disassembling most of the machine and soldering the mod.

The 51nb folks have also made some other amazing mods like the X320/X330, an X220/230 fitted with a 13" panel: https://imgur.com/a/0m3a1
Isn't this what brick and mortar retailers do all the time? The "save" amount is (in my experience) often based on an inflated list price, which makes it look like you're "saving" more.
Doing so is still dodgy - but what makes it different when Amazon does it vs anyone else?
How does Zelle compare to Venmo on things like fraud protection and customer service? (I imagine simply not being owned by PayPal is a real good start.)
Ad Nauseam is a curious recommendation. While it devalues you individually, it also consumes bandwidth locally and remotely. Feels like accelerating the arms race.
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I use CCleaner for maybe even 10 years, a great tool.

But Windows 10 (a few older versions as well, but somewhat hidden) has something similar called "Disk Cleanup" (Win key > enter "Disk Cleanup" > "Clean up system files" > Check all marks). "Disk Cleanup" removes stuff that CCleaner doesn't, so I use them together.

You can even remove system restore and shadow copies (Win key > enter "Disk Cleanup" > "Clean up system files" > "More Options" tab > "System Restore and Shadow Copies" > "Clean up" button).
Perhaps if you are primarily a consumer. Some of us type for a living. I go hours without moving the mouse.
By making the association with cockroaches so explicit, they're placing a bet:

*People will change their perceptions and "cockroach" will assume a new meaning. Instead of "something disgusting and negative", people will associate the word with "something resilient and positive".*

It's a tough bet to place. We've been around cockroaches for millions of years, and the roots of the disgust are deeply biological (HW, not just SW).

Will the masses shift their mental model, for this company?
I've done quite a bit of lock free programming and getting into this situation should mean that the design isn't going to work in the first place. To start, using pointers to objects is a red flag to me. What you are really working with is data. Indexing that data in an array or lock free map can work.

This is also ignoring the issue that global heap memory allocation locks anyway, so allocating a new object is already taking a lock every time. That is rarely what you would want for performance on a single core, but definitely not what you want for a lock free data structure.
Wow, that was incredibly well-written. It reads like good horror. I wasn't planning on reading any longer articles but couldn't help myself.
Debian packages are signed. It is hard to make software distribution completely secure. But, one could imagine creating pretty strong guarantees. Imagine that you have N completely different parties/machines (isolated, on different infrastructure, different user accounts).

- (N-1) machines build a new Debian package.

- The (N-1) results are fetched by the fourth party.

- The Nth party checks whether the build results are identical.

- The Nth party signs the result with GPG on a machine that is not connected.

- The signed package is distributed.

An attacker would need to compromise either: (1) N-1 build machines; (2) the offline machine used for signing packages; or (3) the upstream source.

I consider (3) to be the most serious thread. But in this scenario, only the distribution packagers need to inspect the source changes. In the common scenario where you download from a vendor (e.g. the Transmission or CCleaner website), every user has to inspect a binary blob.

Another possibility would be to have strong sandboxing for applications. An application could still participate in DDoS attacks, etc. But it would at least not encrypt/destroy your data.

tl;dr: reproducible builds are an extremely important development and Debian (and other distributions participating in this initiative) should be commended for their work!
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Is it just me or do these approaches seem hacky? If you were using something like Angular or React wouldn't you plug into lifcycle events that are exposed by the library like Abgular's OnInit?
Private Eye has done a pretty good job of maintaining the vibe.
I disagree your definition of what 'lock in' is.

All new technologies and process imply some degree of disruption.

'Lock in' is existential disruption.

+ You wrote your entire app in .NET - that's lock in. Changing it means gambling the whole company.

+ You went Oracle/SQL because of regulatory requirements - your app is wrapped around SQL, you have SQL/Oracle exports on board, you're not going to change that.

+ SAP - your whole company is wrapped around it, it's integrated with a dozen other systems.

+ You went Cisco - it really only interfaces with other Cisco gear. Lock in.

Slack is a 'chat app'. It's not that big a deal to switch.

If Slack evaporated tomorrow - one could switch to an alternative instantly. Teams would figure out a new protocol for communicating instantly. It's just chat.
Perhaps it's the sleep deprivation showing.
I wrote a blog post about wanting privacy back in 2008 that went hyper viral, I'm familiar with the arguments and used to believe in them fully.

I don't anymore. Not to the libertarian extreme that most people associated with Bitcoin mean. Maybe in the European context (right to be forgotten) where you functionally have privacy, but law enforcement can issue court ordered warrants to stop crime.

I've seen too many evil people do evil things with their money. I'm not allowed to talk about the specifics, but I've advised some organizations on how to deal with organized crime and when you're on the other side of it you really see how weak most of our law enforcement really is against real crime and how the only thing slowing these guys down is that they can't access our banking / investment systems and that they are generally pretty unsophisticated with technology. If all of that changes I don't know how we stop them.

Privacy will always be an arms race, but I don't think that unregulated crytpocurrencies are going to be a force for good consequences in the world. Maybe blockchains for international settlements between banks, where a newly multipolar world makes a unified global order harder, but I'm not even sure we need them there either.

To me the best thing to come out of cryptocurrencies is that there is now a profit motive for companies to prioritize cybersecurity. I'm already seeing it make a huge difference. Giving that up would be a tough pill to swallow for FVEY because we're the most vulnerable to cyber attack.

But once politicians start getting assassinated or ransomed for BTC, I doubt that cryptocurrencies will survive. It might be the very flaws in the usability of Bitcoin that allow us enough privacy for normal actions, without the extreme privacy that would enable cyber criminals to operate with impunity.
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I was intended to say unauthorized change but spell check fucked me up, although you could probably tell my actual intention from the rest of my comment. Thanks for pointing out.

I ack when it comes to size my comparison is not fair, but I am trying to say just because there is a large community, we sometimes still overlook. Usually big projects would have some "module owners" to approve merge. This limits to a number of people. If the project is active enough, there will be dozens of commits or more per day. Sometimes people really do overlook and let things pass. Until someone spots something wrong, the code could have been in the wild for days or years.
as I said, '... So goes the theory.' But as far as widely accepted rules in parenting, pretty much any baby book will mention this.

I don't think anyone is trying to achieve an outcome where their child feels inadequate. The point is well meaning parents can unintentionally do harm with their words. So I don't know where you are going with your analogy.
Just give them fake information and mail the thing in. So now cannon thinks Tittle Sparkles lives at your address, whatever.
There are two key factors to me: employers refusing to increase salaries to make their job remain competitive, and employers stuffing employees into highly specific boxes that can easily be replaced which is just boring, repetitive work.
Compare it to a Corsair keyboard or a Thinkpad keyboard, you can get that new feeling much longer in between cleaning. Additionally, your wife may have drier skin, meaning less or no grease.
"what @baldfat said ... is plainly false" is a broad claim
Let me put it this way: if someone has a wound in the foot, the solution is not to rub their neck with aloe vera.
I live near the Tesla office near Arastradero Road. The last time I rode my bike by and paid attention, there were very few Teslas visible in the parking lot ( though one cannot see very far in the lot from the street due to the terrain/landscaping).
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It's been showed for girls and also other classes too. Too much bias is bad, positive or negative. It shifts your focus from reading and thinking to an imaginary expectation about things.

Reminds me something else: in college I failed hard, some times I tried to really learn but would drown at the second question. Surprisingly the topic I didn't even bother to learn, I had better grades. Because all I had was 2 hours, the subject and my brain. I didn't feel demotivated by not being able to answer question 2 since I was unable to answer any of these right off the bat. But after thinking, I could grab a few point here and there, and try every problems. It even became absurd when at a discrete math exam (that nobody loves) every body left after the first page thinking page 2 would be even harder. Turns out the remaining exercices were trivial, even for my tourist self. So I ended in the first pack.
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Doing terrible things is not enough to keep governments operating at scale. The general trend is the opposite where the worst atrocities where commuted by governments that failed shortly afterword.

EX: Cambodian genocide (adjusted for population) was far worse than any similar time period in recorded Chinese or Russian history and it did not help.
Incredibly so, in USA. Even salaries are often paid with checks. In Europe (and elsewhere?) we've used online transfers for everything since 90s and USA is a really weird in this regard. That was almost the first thing that Internet was used for.
actually that kinda shit happens very often and very rarely make the front page stuff.
Yep. Every single iPhone I got continued its life in the possession of someone else.
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I read articles of people finding people in forums and twitter that are complaining about xyz problem and they contact them and see if they are willing to pay for a solution.
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I recently read the non-fiction book Command And Control by Eric Schlosser. It's structured around an incident when a Titan II missile blew up in its silo in Arkansas, throwing the warhead out of the silo and into the air.

Anyway, it uses that incident to go back in history and explain the development of nuclear weapons and how the command and control systems we have today came about. A lot of it was driven to prevent all sorts of near-miss accidents that have happened in the past. We've been really, really lucky.

Highly recommend the book, especially for the HN crowd. It's good prose, but gets deep enough into the tech and system details that you come away with a solid understanding of how it all works.
> Why bother writing two different drivers for two different interfaces when they do the same thing?

Reliability and quality, the hardware is already there, why would you hamstring the product's reliability?
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This sorta already exists (Bendle) but I've found it underwhelming.
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I've bootstrapped a single-product business selling add-on software for a well-known software solution deployed in reputedly 25% of development firms (and growing). For sales, there is a small collection of both large and small paying customers spread around the world (fun fact: the sales cycle ranges from 1 week to 1 year). Paying customers have told me that the product solves concrete problems, but I'm still not satisfied with fit partly because telling the right story is integral to finding fit. There is a trickle of a revenue stream, juicy TAM and upside, and established competitors with inferior but lower-cost solutions (customer's words) and primitive marketing (my assessment).

Despite being well-versed in software & product development, I'm a marketing newbie. Pushing into marketing, especially positioning, opening sales dialog, and generally getting the message into peoples minds, I feel blind (side note: please mention "syzygy" in your message; this little trick helps filter for those who pay attention to details), lacking sheer know-how, and frustrated that I don't have the additional capacity to make the time investments that those activities properly deserve. I'm way stretched - I feel like too little jam spread over too much toast. Clearly, it's time to ask for assistance.

So, I'm looking to strike a long-term, productive relationship with a talented and motivated person/people. An accomplished-but-still hungry autodidact, self motivated and disciplined. Like mercenaries or crack lieutenants, we'll cooperate to grow the product and ourselves. And if we find our synergy is great, the future is wide open..

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If anything, this is as good as it gets with regards to a modern jobhunt. First response is from Skyscanner!

For us 'flexible' travellers, it's even harder than the story suggests. I have 4+ international airports with 1,5 hours drive. A long time ago Kayak would let me enter three of them at the same time, for their matrix-look. So I had flexible departure, flexible dates to one destination. Skyscanner gives me flexible dates, from one airport to the other. The true beauty (for me) would be flexible from, flexible to, flexible dates. Perhaps even with some

I usually solve this by tweaking the url until it hurts and then running multiple search for a first pruning. Then zooming in on a few well priced trips.
Amazon pulling advertising is scary but not entirely beyond the pale. I find the idea that authors are afraid to criticize Amazon to be much more worrisome: these days, writing a book is an important source of income for politicians, academics and many other import leaders. If none of these people are free to criticize one of the largest and most powerful business organizations in the country (and that business is an arbiter of what they choose to sell more broadly), that's a huge loss for democracy.
How do I install vim?

PS: It has git, but no network.

PS: Upload non-zipped tar balls works. How to access the image (downloading)?

PS: Well, it is way too slow and hangs easily. I guess it is only an interest at this point.
Not that I would strive for it myself, but I think at least it was honest that the job posting was upfront about the requirements instead of being silent about it and then peer-pressuring the employee into 70 hour work weeks anyway because everyone there does it.

Who knows, maybe being upfront about it causes the applicants for the job to self-select for those who are confident that they can productively work 70 hours? Maybe the research only applies to normal people like us and the mythical super engineer they are looking for can do it (pure speculation, I don't know the research - I guess even super programmers have biological limits).

Then again, it's probably right to be wary of such job postings so that they don't create a general atmosphere in the industry that such working hours are necessary, whether you want it or not.
I use Little Snitch too. I had a Little Flocker license, but the rules were quite painful to maintain. Especially if you are also using the Terminal and command-line apps.
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I work at a startup now in a leadership role. I am not a founder and I get paid less than I could make elsewhere while doing more work. However, working in a large company is not an alternative for me. Whenever I do I lose my motivation and phone it in, which damages my mental health because I feel like I can and should be doing more to keep my brain active. There is more time for R&R but something deep inside me is unfulfilled and I break down. I need the action and adventure of a risky bet. If I'm not fighting for my life then there's no fun in it. I'm going to spend a third of my life working regardless, so I want it to be exciting and interesting enough to keep me motivated.

I'm getting to the point in this company where the risk is almost gone and all that remains is work, and the closer we get to that point the less interested I am in the business. I'm sure it will feel nice when we're consistently profitable and can hire more, delegate, etc., but it loses something at that point too. I won't be as hands-on, will have to work harder to whip the team into moving in the right direction, we'll be moving slower even if we're accumulating capital... Not my cup of tea. I find myself exploring side contracts, ideas for my own businesses, grad school, thoughts of alternative lifestyles that might make my wife and I happier... Fewer hours worked is part of that, I'd LOVE to have more time to learn and play, but it's hard to get there without putting in the effort upfront. The main thing that keeps me where I am is that I've spent years shaping my role into one where I can learn exactly what I want to learn, and I'm on the precipice of being able to finally do that. That's not something one gives up easily.