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> For one thing, it's highly convenient that the standard US work-week happens to be the exact "correct" amount of hours to work to maximize productivity.

It's not in the slightest bit down to convenience. It's because 40 hours was quite simply discovered to be a more productive length of day, well over a century ago, back in the later stages of the industrial revolution.

In the US, if memory serves, the move to a 40 hour working week largely started out at the Ford Motor company back in the early 1900s, after Henry Ford experimented reducing hours and discovered that the number of mistakes made by workers went down drastically, and productivity increased. This swept across the industry because the improvements were impossible to deny. Slowly but surely that spread across other industries until it became the staple.

40 hours isn't done by custom, it's done because it's proven to be the most productive working week. This isn't a case of scientists discovering that "what people are used to is what they're most productive at". For most of the industrial revolution people worked 12hr+ days, and that was considered, even by the labour force, to be perfectly acceptable.
Hauling that back to 8 hour days was a herculean task that no major factory owner was going to do without damn good evidence that it would improve things.
So never reveal abusive practises ever if it's by someone who employs you?
That goes against the director presenting (from his Mac) that 2017 will be year of the Linux desktop.
Doesn't Windows 10 basically do this itself?
>Perhaps this is why the Rolling Stone is for sale then?

Obviously not. Else countless others shit-rags would also be.

In the era of fake news this is a misdemeanor.
What would alleviate some of your privacy concerns regarding that?
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Of course it’s a “hypothesis”. No one wants to drink polonium tea after confirming it.
Elementary os looks beautiful. This is exactly the kind of stuff i found missing, will definitely install it today.
Are you rude and is your comment argument-less?
The article doesn't claim this is endemic to only startups, and in my experience work life balance among small, medium, and large companies is equally threatened.

Even the term "work-life" balance seems to assume an artificial divide between the two. When work is a facet of a rich life, those extra long hours, the grueling commute, the vacillations of the newest management fad are just not worth it. Not to mention that those with families are severely disadvantaged in a workplace that values hours at the office rather than productive hours.

I am curious to find out how this becomes a culture and whether this is reversible? Does this toxic overstepping begin at companies who once valued a predictable balance between work and life or was there a mistake made in company culture from the beginning? Can a company effectively counter this tendency? However you might answer these questions, it seems clear that throwing new studies out showing that overwork is counter-productive is not changing this trend. It goes back to the age-old idea, knowledge doesn't make you good, just more knowledgable.
Agreed from my experience. From what I have seen it's mostly juniors who are putting in extra time consistently in order to either impress their boss or to get up to speed.

Experienced engineers who are often key technical people in companies are much more consistently going home at 6pm. Makes sense as they are much harder to replace so they can get away with working ordinary hours.
The issue, of course, is that web technologies outright don't allow true decentralisation - there is no way for arbitrary web pages to ask the browser "who is the identity provider I should be talking to?", or to make a request of such an identity provider. This has been a problem for a number of years - the OpenID Foundation's hack is "Account Chooser", a centralised website that keeps a list of accounts for a given browser in localstorage.

Being able to click "log in" and have logged in, and having functional single logout, with a decent UX over the whole thing, is the holy grail. Facebook has the current solution, and browsers don't. Portier does not even attempt to solve the same problem as Persona did, and by being a "self-hosted" application, it can't.
There's literally nothing I've ever lost by blocking any element that follows me down the page, ever. Video or not.
Because GRASS doesn't play nice others. Calling GRASS from other apps isn't as easy as one might like and GRASS has a very GRASS-specific way it want to do things. Which is a shame because most of GRASS's algorithms are really best in class.
Most of the time, you'll be just fine. Even with the "at-will employment" clauses, most people are decent people. That said, it only takes 1% of managers being dicks to ruin the image for everybody, and it's sad to say that it's probably more than 1%.
Most systems ended up that way, communist or not. It's more of a human thing really.

We have yet to try communist.

Actually we even have yet to try democracy.

All we manage to do now is a decent amount of freedom, comfort and peace for a lot of people in the same place. It is an achievement, but nowhere close to the terms we like to label our systems with.
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> 4.4 is even growing

No it's not. The arrow is wrong. August 4.4 is 16%, September 4.4 is 15.1%.
A.) Privacy and legality are not strongly connected or related. Privacy is self-preservation. It is very common that you want something that someone else doesn't want. For instance, while you work at company X you may want to see if you can get a job at company Y. You don't want your current boss to know this, before you actually are sure about company Y.

B.) If you look closely the privacy here is not just defined by using the right tools. It's also usage patterns. For instance drawing money from two accounts for the same transaction gives people high confidence that the same person controls both accounts. So it's a lot tougher than "just taking the offer".
As someone used to mechanical keyboards, I seem to keep physically straining or even internally bruising my right pinky on the Mac keyboards.

I'm not sure what to do apart from not using the laptop keyboards (both 2013 style and 2016 style)
I glanced at the title late last night and thought it said VB bytecode, as in PCode.
How would I go about creating a github mirror for some other project? I mean I get that I can just upload the project as it is, but what if I want it so that updates to the original are reflected automatically in the mirror?
Just because you _can_ spend 5 minutes re-inventing the wheel in every project you write, doesn't mean you _should_.
And why exactly can't the source be compromised?
Confusingly, the email field in your HN profile is not public. You need to add it to the "About" bit if you want people to be able to contact you :)
I tried Ubuntu only. Couldn't get the third monitor to work. As per another comment I will give it another try and see if things have changed now.
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This seems normal in US from what I have read (could be wrong as I have never worked in US) so I would stay in London if I were you :)
1/3 is the MAX allowed by any sane landlord / bank (though I think some go as high as 50% for renting at least).

If your household income is 60k gross, your net should be north of 50k (figure at least 2 adults, maybe some kids, your tax burden will be lowish). 10% of 50k gives you $416 a month. Where I live (Indiana), that can get you a mortgage payment on a house that cost about 110k (say 15-20k down). That is totally reasonable. In my town you can get a solid 3 bedroom house with a yard

(First random result I pulled up from my city: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2612-Southridge-Dr-South-... )

I think most people spend far too high a % of their money on housing. Sometimes you can't help it (say, fresh out of college, moved to NYC for a big job). But a lot of people can, and still make bad choices.
In Spain this is quite normal ( they don't say it in the job offer, but is expected that you work more than 40 hours/week ). When you ask to get paid for those extra hours they usually laugh at you.

People outside Spain usually make jokes about Spanish "siesta", but in fact we are exploited in the same way this article describes.

( making jokes of course is ok, what is not ok is the exploitation )
Absolutely. That's human nature. The differences: there are due process, separation of power and free speech in democracies.
would it really make a difference? my guess is that expenses would be as always adjusted to the budget. and if the budget is u-payments + ads then the advertisers will still have power.

what actually matters is the ideology of the journalists involved. do they have a mission or are they primarily interested in wealth and fame.
Terraform is a tool to automate provisioning of infrastructure: https://www.terraform.io/
In India, most employment agreements in the software industry mention an average of 40 work hours per week.

They usually also have a disclaimer that mention that one may have to work more than 40 hours per week without any additional compensation. That's just a legal disclaimer. In reality though, in every software company (except Oracle) I have worked for overtime was rewarded with free pizzas for the extra hours we spent after sunset and also additional paid time off (known as "compensation time off").
I've take a slightly different approach. When my kid has success, I praise the effort put in to get there. This doesn't praise the kid directly (leading to inflated beliefs about how great they are) and it doesn't praise effort for it's own sake. It praises the kids ability to put in effort to get the results they want. I'm not saying it's right, or better, but like some of the other commenters here I've got my own issues in this area and it's my attempt to handle the next generation a little better. BTW to a lesser extent I apply this to myself now too.
This is pretty amazing. OP made a comment about people not hating on those who enjoy coding and you came and called them naive. Plenty of people code outside of work, on personal projects, and are not being taken advantage of.
A bit of both is probably good.

For example: in Belgium, in recent years a lot of kids are (often) given points for effort so they can pass a certain grade. More and more the case. I talked to a teacher friend about this, and while he thinks its great, I think it's ridiculous. Do we want a society of people who put in some effort yet achieve nothing?

Now, not that I think the educational system shouldn't be flexible and account for the fact that not everyone has the same level of intelligence or ability (everyone is different + has different talents, which is great!), but you can end up with some weird situations. Add to that the fact that the people who become teachers are generally of quite low quality (very few bright minds end up teaching) and you can easily see the quality of education declining.

While grades are to be looked at on a case by case basis (and I'm aware people don't often find their passions and talents until later in life), I don't believe that you should get (too much) points for effort. You don't get points in life for effort either.
>"When CAN YOU work after hours?" "You're a 40hr work week kind of guy" "Time to put on your big-boy pants"

Sue them like its going out of style.
No, purely pointing out that what @baldfat said was a broad claim that is plainly false.

> For the last 10 years at all Linux events the number one laptop is a Mac.

If you go to any of the linux fests in the Pacific Northwest, you'll see a low percentage of Macs. Thinkpads vastly outnumber Macs at these events, where you'll have a room of 300 people with 100+ Thinkpads and perhaps a dozen Macs, if that.
Don't lick the boots that stomp on you, either.
From the people i know nobody keeps their bluettoh devises on for extended period of times. Its used usually to transfer images/videos. But it will be a hassle though.

What else are there which would affect users very hard?
I mean, nobody is stopping you from deleting stuff. They're just saying that if you want to do it you're on your own.
> The people who pull 70+ hour weeks successfully tend to have an abnormally high tolerance to stress as well as an abnormally high 'drive'. I'd be willing to bet there's a genetic component.

Or else they're just killing themselves. I'd be interested to see how they do in the long-term.
It's because 40 hours was quite simply discovered to be a more productive length of day

That was true when most of the workforce was doing manual and factory style labour. To the best of my knowledge it hasn't been rigorously reproduced for works that spend their days staring at a screen thinking.
I am Red Hat's EMEA Evangelist. I do my work on a Lenovo X1 Carbon running Red Hat Enterprise Linux. I also use a privately owned Macbook for video editing and an iPad to watch movies when flying.

There's a good tool for every job. For most of my day to day stuff Linux is an excellent choice. But for some tasks it just is too poor compared to other solutions.

As I must make choices on what to spend my precious time, it will always be in favour of an Open Source solution where the invested time is worth it but sometimes also the pragmatic decision to use something else.

I have always been open about this and I have been attacked, also by Bryan, who blocks me almost everywhere for that.

So be it. I will always happily sit down with developers to explain why I am not (yet) using their solution and I will always listen to their explanations on why I might be having wrong expectations. IMHO especially on the desktop it's a process to get to better solutions, not a binary switch.

Attacking people for not complying with your criteria is simply wrong and messed up. You win by convincing, not by shouting down. Simple.
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Yes, have you seen this article? https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/i-significantly-underestimate...
> It's not impossible, it's just annoying.

Indeed it is not impossible. It does requires a tremendous amount of expert knowledge. (And people with such knowledge usually have successful careers not requiring this sort of privacy).

The Bitcoin client got a lot better over the years as more privacy-enhancing features were added, but it's still far from perfect. For example, traffic analysis on the peer-to-peer network will still give you IP addresses.

Creating an anonymous wallet is easy: Create a wallet on an air-gapped computer, send any transaction from a public computer over TOR to https://blockchain.info/pushtx. Make sure your transactions look average and uncorrelated in all dimensions.

Now you need to fund this account without revealing your identity. This is much harder. Mining your own block would be the most anonymous way.
Eh, I appreciate it. After all, what worth is the thread without the content to discuss? Good to have it front and center.
I was watching a coming of age Japanese movie yesterday (Flying Colors) and exactly this was said there. I didn't search it at the time, but I am glad to read this now and to have it answered.

As now I am teaching people I will strongly take it into consideration when praising, however I wonder how much it differs from adults and kids.
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Actually, I think Buzzfeed has it right. Make money where it's easy to do so then use that money to fund bigger stories. The fact that the silly stories often find a bigger audience says something.

Also, I would recommend following journalists rather than news outlets.
The 'winner' of the cold war?
That's extremely self-aware, and honest of you to be able to admit.
Reminds me of chapters eighteen and nineteen of the Tao Te Ching. Specially the third and fourth lines of chapter eighteen:

"When wisdom and intelligence are born,/ The great pretense begins."

But I'm not entirely sure if it's a permissible interpretation of the text.
He says in like the first 30 seconds of the video "It's the year of the Linux Desktop"...
Haha. In realistic terms they simply wanted to avoid that awkward moment. Although, if you work for GM, and exclusively drive a Toyota, would you feel pressured into switching at some point?

Edit - to answer my own question I searched Google and found this:
http://jalopnik.com/dear-car-companies-stop-punishing-employ...
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> For another, anecdotally at least, most people know plenty of people who work longer hours and do it successfully. And most of the really successful people out there will mention that they worked insanely hard at some point. Are they all lying? All wrong?

You have it reversed. Get a sample of people working 70 hours a week and see how many are successful by some chosen measure compared to those who work 40 hours.
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You can add me on steam if you have it. Ascetik or thelegacyslayer
I don't think it's worth praising effort nor results. The real thing that should be praised imo is measurable improvement.
Yes this is standard. In all my employment contracts there has been 37.5 or 40 hours defined as work week. In Europe it's mostly 37.5h so you are paid to work 7.5 hours per day and have 30 min paid lunch break.
23m = 3m leaving desk + 10m smoking + 10m talking + 3m returning to desk
Alzheimer's is a degenerative disease. So, it is challenging to even test experimental treatments (or other interventions) unless you can identify individuals early in the disease process.
> ES6 does not fix the left-pad issue

Actually, for that particular problem... https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
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Erdely did not just make "a mistake". The evidence is that she was grossly and willfully negligent in the very basics of journalism, e.g. soliciting information from the accused.
https://www.amazon.com/World-Without-Mind-Existential-Threat...

Doing well, too...has a Bestseller icon.
The whole point of a doomsday device is lost if you keep it a secret! But, a little bit of polonium in your tea is nothing compared to the international conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
> For one thing, it's highly convenient that the standard US work-week happens to be the exact "correct" amount of hours to work to maximize productivity.

It's probably not, for thought workers at least. The correct value is probably lower - closer to 30 hours a week. There have been studies which have begun to correlate this, but I don't have them off hand.

40 hours is for manual, repetitive labor. And from my limited experience doing manual, repetitive labor when I was younger it's a pretty good number. I wasn't so exhausted I couldn't do anything at home after work, and I had the weekends to spend with friends and family.

Working hard is a personal choice, but the chances are pretty good that the quality of work is going to drop as the hours pass.
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It depends on the trust relationship -- stores will not accept checks from customers most of the time anymore, however as the parent said, rent and utilities are still often paid via check as there is an established relationship between the payer and payee.
Problem solving with six hats
> Meaning, they have to constantly drain and charge the battery even with ac plugged in.

I'm nearly certain this is wrong
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I picked up an Intel RealSense video+depth camera a couple years ago to mess around with. Haven't done too much aside from some experimentation in TouchDesigner and playing with stuff like Z-Vector to use it in projection visuals.

But there are still a few depth cams out there other than the old Primesense ones or hooking up a Kinect to your PC.
Amazon didn't employ him.
I think a distinction must be made between a completely extractive economy and one that is based on manufacturing. So if its simply raw materials being mined and shipped abroad, then yes I agree with the stripping the countries part. If they are actually manufacturing stuff....

Oh actually, if they're employing only Chinese citizens for manufacturing, then I agree with your assessment.
Hardly. CCleaner can easily remove 5-6GB of junk.
The first part of what you have outlined is in fact part of 'proper' journalism here in the UK. A journalist is supposed to approach the subject of the story and get their point of view, partly for reasons of fairness and balance as you rightly point out, but mostly as a defence against defamation actions after it is published. You'll notice that the BBC always does this.

However, it can very difficult to get any sort of comment out of any party that has acted less than admirably, and many see staying tight-lipped as a strategy that can make a bad story go away. Of course, it doesn't work like this.

Additionally, some publishers have deep enough pockets that they are prepared to risk a defamation action if the story is strong enough, or they actively don't want to tip off the subject to upcoming coverage because they may put countermeasures in place (either legal or a pre-emptive "My drugs hell"-type confessional in a rival publication)

The difficulty with quoting full responses anywhere is that, just for example, anyone ever asked for comment by one of our more popular UK papers would be well advised to work in something about their past support of the Nazis or indeed the tax arrangements of their proprietor. I'd expect many such responses to be defamatory in themselves, and thus unpublishable.
I've heard about the popularity of SWIFT. ACH is nowhere near as accessible, and it has fees depending on your bank or 3rd party ACH provider.

EMV was also much more rapidly and properly deployed as compared to the US, where some javacard applets just give a static code instead of a rolling code. We have literally hundreds of banks and credit unions, plus a few thousand payment processing resellers all fighting to hold back progress in the payments industry here.
One of the reasons I like lightboxes is because it doesn't trigger a content reflow. This does, which is an issue on slow mobile devices.
I like it - it's clean, flat and full of useful info without any of the marketing drivel.
I found the animations on ElementaryOS to feel....clunky, to say the least.

That being said, the majority of UI animations in Linux are like that, so meh.
What they're doing with Android 8 is making it so that the HAL is separate from the OS and the OS is then upgradable outside of the HAL. This should mostly resolve the issue, assuming they enforce it with the Play agreements.
https://satoshipay.io/ is another interesting project. (Disclaimer: I don't have any stake in the company but Meinhard is a friend of mine.)
Yes, because it was a lesson learned the hard way :)
My Windows 7 machine still has a nightly scheduled cronjob to run ccleaner in headless mode. I mostly used it to automatically securely wipe anything I put into the Recycle Bin.

Fortunately I don't think I've updated the program in 2-3 years, so it probably doesn't have any malware in it, but still, rather scary to think that was used to be a daily program for me is now infected.

Which reminds me, I probably need to call my dad and anyone else I installed that for...
CCleaner Compromised to Distribute Malware for Almost a Month
The more we look at "smart" the more we find it's akin to "athletic", might be broadly true, but in practice doesn't mean much without hard work and discipline.

Praise the effort.