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What does refusing to navigate a bad UI have to do with being a "technophobe"?

User interfaces (and webshit) aren't technology.
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>I'm impressed that despite all of this, though, they've managed to keep desktop dominance, even with the rise of of Chromebooks and Macbooks.

It's simple: Chromebooks are crippled by the mostly-web concept and Macbooks only cater to (a part of) the more affluent end of the market.
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If your talking about my Dad he wouldn't be eating salad anyway.
Well Windows phone was just different. And being different does not always mean being the best. Windows on mobile should have been more modular when it came to looks. Enforcing tiles on mobile when people were used to traditional icons on screen was a terrible decision. I am not going to write about the other issues like incompatibilities , lack of apps and other chicken and egg problems.

You can experiment when you have the user base and even then you need to be super careful.
Oh boy, Nokia's gonna be pissed
I'm was born during the soviet union in Eastern Europe and I always understood the phrase the same. I wasn't too keen on the forced Marxist studies, though.. :)
When I switched around Red Hat 6 (not RHEL 6), the difference in quality of uninstall scripts and dependency management was stark: you can install and uninstall Debian packages without changes to your system. They test for this. If you need to tweak source, you can get build dependencies with one command, source with another, and build and install from your tweaked version with just one more.
What specific features of VM/CMS are you thinking of when you say that?

If anything, I would say it is the other way around. The classic MVS filesystem is more hierarchical than the classic CMS filesystem (when I say "classic", I mean ignoring newer innovations such as SFS, BFS, HFS and zFS). The components of MVS dataset names resemble directories, even though they are mostly (but not entirely) just a naming convention. By contrast, the classic CMS filesystem (pre-SFS/BFS) has an essentially flat namespace on each minidisk – its file naming is closer to PC-DOS 1.0 than to Unix. So, even though both filesystems are quite remote from Unix, the MVS filesystem is a little bit closer to Unix's than the CMS filesystem is.

Also, if you compare the support for multitasking on MVS to VM/CMS, I think you'll find that MVS is closer to Unix. A single MVS operating system image has multiple address spaces (processes) each containing one or more tasks (threads). By contrast, VM/CMS works by running a single-tasking operating system (CMS) in separate virtual machines on top of a hypervisor (although more recent CMS versions have added "application multitasking" which is roughly equivalent to threads). Although neither is exactly the same as the Unix model of processes and threads, MVS is much closer to Unix than VM/CMS is in this area. Given that, it is actually much easier to implement the Unix process model on top of MVS than on top of CMS, which I suspect is why MVS OpenEdition / z/OS Unix System Services comes with a full-featured fork() implementation (which passes the Unix conformance test suite), while CMS OpenExtensions' fork() isn't really fork() at all, it is actually vfork() pretending to be fork().
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Every enterprise I have worked at had both linux and mac available to developers. Is this not your experience? You seem to present as truth the opposite of what I have lived.
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I am 30, and working in a call center. I think there is no future in this job. So I am looking for a change in career. I have no previous experience in programming. I like building and working on new ideas. So I want to learn coding. Is coding right choice? What do you suggest me starting from?
Trading desks and other tech savy groups overuse spreadsheets so that can minimize their interactions with a bank's underwhelming IT department.

Of course, the above is a generalization, but I stand by the assertion most tech savy bank workers try to interface with Bank IT as little as possible.
Pretty much everything? I hope you was just joking.
Maybe this particular robot won't cost jobs (though I have doubts about that, but we'll grant it) but other robots will. I don't understand how there's even a sort-of discussion between the author and their audience about "Do robots cost jobs" of course they bloody do, that's the point, those robots are sold to the businesses that buy them on the idea that they're going to reduce labor costs, that's the point. Restaurants have been serving us filthy salads out of bars for decades, do you think they suddenly had an attack of conscience about it? Of course not, having that machine means a whole host of things the employees don't have to do, that's why they bought it. It may not cost anyone a job right now, but it will be contributing to that down the line.
Oh boy, Nokia's gonna be pissed!
I'm not sure how that's relevant, especially as it seems to counter your original comment ("Maybe because Americans have seen socialist welfare states are far from a utopia?")

And no, I mean they injured themselves and experienced the healthcare system firsthand.
If my area was merely served by two tin cans joined by a piece of string I'd have changed years ago.
I meant that the recording equipment itself would be familiar to any producer from the 80s.

I last played around with recording software back in 2004 or 05. I think it was Cubase. I don't remember it being a particularly pleasant experience.

Moving from that to Ableton has been a revelation. Modern software synths like Serum are absolutely mind blowing in what they can do.
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They want to make money, period.
We need to pump this. Anonymity only protects the vulnerable in inverse proportion to it's ubiquity.
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Hmmm im not used to seeing articles this interesting in the Irish Times, good read.
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another article : "Police in Waltham say they have identified the man responsible for a series of bomb threats that have terrified and frustrated the city for months."
http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2017/10/06/ryan-lin-...

Looks like he forced the FBI to unleash hell. Let's not forget parallel construction https://www.reuters.com/article/us-dea-sod/exclusive-u-s-dir... with the NSA and other intel agencies: "It's him, now go find evidence that will hold up in court"
Honestly I have zero beef with touchscreen interfaces, some are a little clunky but I've never found one I couldn't figure out.

That said, DUMP THE GODDAMN RESISTIVE SCREENS IN THE TRASH. Seriously those things were fucking garbage when they were invented, now that we have capacitive screens, there is NO REASON WHATSOEVER to keep making me endure the touch technology of 2001.

While we're at it get them out of my fucking car too.
You're right.

Both claims are in the first paragraph of the privacy policy though, if you don't read even the first paragraph of a privacy policy for a service you're buying to get privacy, I don't know what you'd expect!
I do several things. Pomodoro technique with the timer visible to see the clock run down (www.tomato-timer.com).
Stay focused Chrome plugin to blacklist sites and only have a set duration e.g. 10 minutes to look at them during the day (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stayfocusd/laankej...). Finally put your phone at least 20 feet away to not compulsively look at it (with airplane or moonlight mode on). Also check out the book Deep Work by Cal Newport for more strategies.
Ummmmm, that's not a "mean" caesar salad. It's competitive with a supermarket premade but doesn't compare to a restaurant or homemade caesar salad.

This isn't any different than a vending machine or those coke dispensers with a touch screen flavour picker.

The real job loss will be when this is a real robot that is fresh tearing the romaine and whisking the dressing after you press the buttons and delivering an actual caesar salad.
I'm also still using my Lumia 925 as my main phone. And despite this news I'm still thinking about buying a newer one, second hand. Every time I use android or IOS I miss tiles, pinning, the super clean settings
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'Staying longer at home' was key to stone age technology change 60k years ago
You can start with your family and relatives. Live close to each other, help each other. Best communism ever and it actually works because you care. Of course the urbanism makes things difficult but nothing besides greed is forcing people to cities. The biggest problem in my eyes is that people lack any gratitude for everything we have in the western world. Maybe because I was born in soviet union I think about it more, but I'm sometimes guilty too.
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The view that Communism === Authoritarianism is understandably common in Eastern Europe (my s/o is also and we have had a few fun debates about this). It's a difficult one to falsify because they have historically usually coincided. One could even reasonably propose that Communism may necessarily lead to Authoritarianism in all cases but they are at least theoretically distinct. Anarcho-Communists in particular would take issue with this.

> I certainly agree that democracy is a dictatorship of the majority

Yes!
Would their reaction be so swift and competent if it wasn't Troy but someone with no name?
Developers make a very small percentage of overall enterprise market.
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You can interweave everything into one long function full of ifs and switches. E.g. procesurally. Not saying it is better.
That's the standard MO with pretty much any big piece of software. Other than security updates, you really don't want to take the risk of becoming the one who finds the inevitable bugs.
I can't even comment here when I use my homemade vpn, hosted digital ocean or linode. And HN is not the only place... I understand spam is a problem, but it feels like a hammer solution.
Quite sad how WinDev torpedo the WP7 efforts with the WP reboots (WP 8, WP 8.1, UWP).

For quite some time WP was the best developer experience between iOS, Android and WP, regarding tooling and available SDK programming languages.
> If you're going for minimal, it won't get much more minimal than this:

> https://surf.suckless.org

Minimal UI maybe (or maybe not; is there still a truckload of stuff when right-clicking, or pressing hotkeys, or visiting `about:something`?)

I'd say lynx, w3m, links, dillo, netsurf, etc. are all more minimal in general.
I still remember one of the first HTC phones which had a mobile version of I think windows xp. The phone came with a stylus and the windows felt like a miniaturized version of desktop. This improved significantly in the Lumia series, the UI was good and easy to use. But by then the app ecosystem had already built strongly around android and ios so there was not much traction. I feel microsoft lost the ecosystem battle rather than OS. With too big app stores, the developers did not have much appetite for supporting another ecosystem which was very small.
>Mattered to whom?

To those that run society and determine policy.

>People always matter at least to themselves.

Which is neither here nor there as to whether anyone will lend them a helping hand or let them perish e.g. in slums and poverty.

Though even at that one would be surprised. People left without a job/role in society often don't matter even to themselves -- low self esteem, turning to drugs, alcohol, etc.
You wouldn’t need to test it like that. What’s missing here is simply a test of that StorageKit API that the GUI uses. The test would be straightforward: set all the options and see if the resulting volume is created correctly. So for the hint your test would generate a value — a good test will exercise a range of values over multiple iterations — and verify the hint on the created volume.

No doubt this basic test was done on the command line API, which works correctly. It’s likely the problem here is they created a separate StorageKit API just for Disk Utility to use and got sloppy with the unit test for that. A good example of why it is a good idea to try to have GUIs and command lines use one code path whenever possible.
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In my (bigcorp) experience, its all windows all the way with macs available only to developers who have a need (iOS dev usually).

And don’t forget that developers are a tiny minority of employees.
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if the FBI knew of his email address, and they know which host you're accessing (even via https), then they can deduce that it was a gmail account access. THen they can compel google to provide their logs to corroborate (based on timestamps).
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This is the primary reason why I switched to using Fastmail with a custom domain. Sick and tired of other people using my email address for stuff, or worse, their friends regularly emailing me to organize get-togethers.
Drinking the sweat of your workers like a vampire drinks blood?
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Only if one doesn't account for the opportunity cost.

E.g. if one tries and fails 5 times and ends up nowhere (or in debt), another person that never tried but used the same time and effort and got to a 200K salary has it better.
I never worked on an enterprise with GNU/Linux worstations on their IT policy, on some companies IT tolerated rebel developers provided they took care 100% of integration issues with the company network and official tools.

Macs are usually only available to upper management, unless required for iOS development, in which case they are part of a pool shared among project teams.
> Thoughtcrime? No, viewing or possessing CP is an actual crime.

Who is the victim in this case? This is the definition of a thought/victimless crime.

> the child/children in the pictures they're viewing.

How so? They are not affected in any way.

> but unquestionably morally reprehensible

I will have to question that.

> How could that ever be considered 'not wrong'?

There is no victim nor is anybody harmed by possession nor viewing. Thus it is not wrong.

> How do you protect children from paedophiles

* from child rapists

Just like not every straight/homosexual person is a rapist, not every paedophile is a rapist.
Seems like a rational choice.
Don't try to cut off social media or junk internet completely because it has its uses. Don't schedule breaks from it, schedule time where you can fully engage in it. Maybe only nights or weekends.

Train yourself to enjoy boredom. Boredom is not unproductive. Boredom trains you to focus. Force yourself to be bored for periods of time, even if it's just closing your phone before bed.

You might want to replace your bad internet habits with better ones. It can still be 'unhealthy', as long as it's enjoyable. I've replaced it with Netflix and HN. Netflix at least trains me to focus on something for 20 minutes without getting distracted.

The book Deep Work also covers this quite a bit.
That level and timeline of response tells you a great number of things, regardless of the source:

1) they had a plan for breaches (it would be hard to cover all the ground without one)
2) they had technical controls/capability to respond (mass password reset)
3) they had clear and direct accountability all the way up to ceo

Other than not having detected the breach, and using not-the-best (but not entirely the worst either) password storage, I don't know what else you could ask for.
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> a little over half of the country still subscribe to the much slower and less reliable ADSL (up to 8-20Mbps) based pure copper line services.
He's implying nobody says the mill design is bollocks because they don't want to be viewed as stupid for not seeing the genius in this obviously dysfunctional design

(not to imply I agree)
As seemingly ubiquitous as Macbooks are, their market share has never really budged. It's been 3-5% for the entirety of the OS X era.
Why they are duplicating StorageKit code? If diskutil was using StorageKit, it's more likely that someone would find this bug (because apparently everyone in Apple uses diskutil instead of GUI).
I wish most software would switch to this, I really don't like semantic versioning.
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Depends on the opportunity cost.

If they could have much better results putting that energy to another use, then, yes, simplistically we can say that they are idiots.
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> "Read the article from a month ago how Alibaba got stuck with using MySQL for mission critical tasks, and how much efforts they put to "unhack" it"

Do you have a link for that?
I hard-code ("freeze") known-good versions of dependencies (including nixpkgs) in my derivations; but I also check to see if an override has been given in NIX_PATH (using `builtins.tryEval <foo>`).

This way, I can override things if needed; and in particular I have continuous integration (Hydra) building both a "stable" (all fixed versions) and "unstable" (all latest versions).

This way I always have a known-good build I can use, but I can still spot impending breakages and bit-rot in CI.

In the case of nixpkgs I don't actually track the very latest commit, since it updates so often. Instead I just `git pull` into a fork every now and again.
Microsoft was already on the mobile space before Apple or Google even thought about writing a mobile OS.

They just failed to properly capitalize on that.

In Europe we only had Symbian and Windows CE handsets to choose from.
> Tests that only fail in CI are really annoying. I’ve had this a couple of times, and it’s always taken hours to sort out, because the “try something, get results, think about what they mean” cycle is so slow.

To address this, CircleCI has an interesting feature where you can enable SSH access to the build, so one can investigate locally (relative to the build) instead of repeatedly throwing code over the wall and waiting for something remotely meaningful to come back in logs.
Obviously it's not entertainment in any concrete form. It just takes 1 minute every week or so to play the lottery, and that's about it.

It's wishful thinking and daydreaming more than entertainment.
There are several self-hosted alternatives, for example my own toy-project:

https://github.com/skx/e-comments/
No proof, but I have a feeling its more of a way around regulations for most tech companies. For example, in hiring, IQ tests are known to have predictive value but they're basically banned because they discriminate against women and minorities.

So you build a grey box neural network that analyzes resumes to find "good" candidates. Underneath it might draw correlations between female or minority names. It might decide that people who lived in certain places or came from country X are "bad employees". Since nobody can explain how it works once you've trained it, you're free to build it using whatever biases you want.

Same with financial regulations. The network could rely 100% on insider trading. Analyzing the HTML of websites for leaked information that isn't visible to humans yet. Again nobody knows this is how it's so good at taking in bytes at one end and buying stocks on the other.
I was using WP since times of WP 7 and Lumia 710. At that time other options were either super costly iPhone or crappy lagging Android. WP had a fresh look, smooth OS and range of hardware from Nokia.

Unfortunately, MS fumbled couple of times with internals while moving to WP 8 and WM 10.

In the meanwhile Android fixed the kinks and improved UI. Motorola and Xiaomi improved value for money of Android.
Is this not your experience?

Not at all. Linux can sometimes be made available on servers if necessary, but if you want Linux on your desktop you have to use a VM (ideally without telling IT). Never worked at a large place where Macs where readily available. Macs used to be more popular ~10 years ago or so with the marketing and communications people doing a lot of DTP and design work, but even that seems to have greatly decreased.
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Unrelated to protection: Ivan mentioned that this is an SSA-like architecture.

How does the compiler implement PHIs connecting expressions with different latencies? Let's say I have:

`if (cond) { x = a + b; } else { x = a * b; }`

The MUL is may take a bit longer than the ADD, but the user needs to accept the argument at a given belt position. How do you avoid having the pay the latency cost for the MUL if `cond` is usually true?
Considering the fact that Richard Thaler made a cameo in The Big Short Movie that was primarily demeaning Wall Street Banks and Economists who played along in the crisis, itself makes him an Economist who stands out. http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20160226/NEWS01/16022...
>That makes no sense. When someone plays the lottery they don't put their life on hold until they win. Nobody seriously plans their life around a big lottery win

You'd be surprised. Especially if we expand the "lottery" to cover betting (horses, etc), gambling, and such stuff.
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