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I too have installed Kubuntu for many, many people. Literally every week I would have to reset someone's borked KDE settings because they accidentally clicked or right clicked or dragged in the wrong place. After install I would simply ` cp .kde{,.BAK}` and set up SSH to restore it when needed.

For one user I even added `cp .kde{.BAK,}` to their login script. I wish that I remembered how, actually, because there seems to be only one way to get that to run before KDE reads it and I can't remember now.

I love configurability and everything from my fountain pen to my car is heavily modified. But normal people cannot seem to deal with the ability to modify their surroundings.
It doesn't have Moscow Domodedovo. That's number ten maybe in europe's top100, with 30 mln passengers actually. What use does this DB have with holes like these? F for effort.
I'm certain there's some compelling argument to made about Amazon abusing its market position but this isn't it.

You say "Prime has been proven to be losing money the more a customer buys" like that isn't an obvious consequence of having flat pricing for shipping. The idea that Prime and Amazon's shipping as a whole are a loss leader isn't a new insight.
Did your lectures take attendance? My attendance rate throughout college was probably about 10%, and I certainly wouldn't say I learned any less than my peers. Naturally, this is more suited to some majors than others, but I never understood what compelled people to go to lecture.
Anyone have a free/inexpensive source for regularly updated airport pairs for scheduled airline flights?
So let me get it straight.

You, a designer in a big company, see a plain, unremarkable photo that has no artistic value on a private blog that has 5 visitors a month. You go to your boss and say, "Mr Boss, there is no price here but I would like to negotiate with the owner of the blog and pay them. Can you please ask the accounting to open a vendor file for kewldude32893, owner of WakeUpSheeple.org, and issue a purchase order and ask the legal department to send him a SOW?"

No, it's more like exceeding the speed limit on an uninhabited island. Nobody is impacted and nobody cares.
> But it turned out that the tablet future never happened.

I see as many tablets walking around town, taking the subway, etc as I do laptops, when 6 years ago I saw none, so the tablet future definitely happened, and we are living in it. It’s just that it turned out to be a new category of device that coexists with laptops, rather than replaces them like some pundits thought.
I've used Cinnamon, MATE, Gnome 2, and KDE before making the switch to i3. I highly recommend switching to a tiling WM.
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I’m not an anthropologist but I’ve read a few things over the years.

Honour and social status are often correlated inside of honour valuing “subcultures” that often use the honour system they make up as the driver for the typical in group vs out group social dynamics that perpetuate the majority of subcultures. So it’s often hard to distinguish between different “honour systems” that can make some of the more extreme behaviour understandable.

For example the honour killing of wives can stem from absolute moral codes surrounding sexual behaviour combined with strong social stances on purity. Once “tainted” it is viewed as more honourable to kill the tainted wife than to allow her to remain in the family. She is no longer pure enough to remain a suitable partner for anyone thereby making death preferable. This relates back to my honour subcultures point because in this subcultures view, failing to “eliminate the taint” risks devaluation of their own social standing and creates sufficient incentives that some are driven to commit murder in the name of “honour”

Also it often happens that “both” people involved in the extra marital sex are killed in such honour killing cases.
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I don't think there was anything close to 1000 there. It was one puny random unremarkable photo which had nothing to do with art or a job.
>> “I’m all for capitalism. But predatory pricing to build market share isn’t capitalism. It’s simply anti-competitive and we must call it out. “

I have to disagree, creating a monopoly is part of the capitalistic process of creating profits in the long term and I would say it’s one of the aims of capitalism itself: when you compete do you want as many competitors as possible? It could be for some reasons but it certainly can be the opposite for more reasons as well.

While I do agree that this may have some negative consequences for customers, I can’t understand how they would legislate this:

If they keep with this strategy they either fail (or just crash very hard) for not having a scalable business or they prosper in some way, let’s say by increasing prices:
if they prosper the only thing we could do is making sure that customers can access more convenient offers elsewhere.

That’s why I think having transparent and accessible information is truly enforcing meritocracy, while preventing monopolies is not
> Shouldn’t companies be trying to increase valuations at each round?

A CEO, who was pushed out [1] over a sexual harassment scandal [2][3] while his company was being sued by fucking Google [4], launched a civil war at the Board level [5]. An outsider had to be brought in to save the peace [6]. Also they got hacked and tried to cover it up [7].

Yes, bigger valuation is generally better than smaller valuation. But sometimes smaller valuation has to do.

[1] https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/business/Uber-CEO-Travis-Kalanic...

[2] https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2017/2/19/reflecting-on-on...

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/19/business/uber-sexual-hara...

[4] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-uber-lawsuit/way...

[5] https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/30/pishevar-says-delaware-cou...

[6] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-27/uber-soft...

[7] https://www.engadget.com/2017/11/25/uber-ceo-knew-about-hack...
KDE 4 was on par with KDE 3 since about the 4.4 or 4.5 release, a few years ago. I too was a KDE 3, then Trinity, holdout.

KDE 5, last I tried, was still missing some features and had troubles with panel positioning on multi-monitor setups. It is also missing all the little touches that made KDE 3/4 so pleasant to work with, such as Ctrl-U to clear a field (lifted right from Emacs). I stick with KDE 4 on CentOS.
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He spoke at my University and mentioned that he does talks regularly now - not sure if any other are recorded though.
It's clear from the exchange that the CS rep wasn't a native English speaker, and I'd guess they're an outsourced contractor, certainly not in regular contact with actual employees. The entire goal of that department is to avoid bothering productive workers with trivial questions. The only interface to the rest of the company available to a CS rep is to file a ticket which will go into a deep triage pool.
Guardian is too opinionated to say that this is a good thing. Its contributors are more often "feeding their bubble" rather than supporting independent journalism. You can see that their quality has gone down rather than up during this time.
At that time, various countries in Africa were struggling and at a nadir: Sierra Leone, Guinea, Burundi; others flourished: Kenya, Ghana, Tanzania, Zambia. Many others didn’t change materially: Egypt, Tunisia, South Africa.

It is as meaningful to lump all African countries together as it is to group all countries in Asia. There are more commonalities between North Africa and the Middle East than similarities with southern and central Africa.
"Fake news" was a left attack on the media supporting Donald Trump (think Breitbart).

No, "fake news" was used to label news that was quite literally fake. As in: false. Not true. It was not used to describe simply biased reporting.

As others have said, Trump co-opted the term and uses it to describe news that he doesn't like, regardless of truth. Thus, he has muddied the meaning of the term and created a new dog whistle. Brilliant move on his part.

Fake news was generated to appeal to all sides of the political spectrum, but the pro-right literally untrue news was much more popular than the pro-left literally untrue news.

This is a good article on the subject: "Inside the Macedonian Fake-News Complex" https://www.wired.com/2017/02/veles-macedonia-fake-news/

It's opens:

"The first article about Donald Trump that Boris ever published described how, during a campaign rally in North Carolina, the candidate slapped a man in the audience for disagreeing with him. This never happened, of course."
When hiring, especially for tech roles, I only evaluated what the candidate had accomplished in the last 1-3 years. Beyond that didn't seem relevant to evaluating current skill set.
I don't understand what you're trying to express here. You agree that all of the things the author describes do happen, and pretty much for the same reasons the author describes, but you...still think he's wrong, somehow? Possibly because you don't like him using the word "honor," even though he went to great lengths to not do that?
I spent 3 weeks there in October with friends and thoroughly loved it, in the same breath also loved coming home. [yes...I can drink water out the tap and it won't try to kill me!]. I think the dogs have improved in the last few years with a concerted effort to clean things up in that regard [errr.. don't want to think what that actually means].

We spent 10 days on the Sayan Terrace area in Ubud and could certainly see the mental wellness qualities of coding overlooking a stunning vista. That said the latency was pretty terrible back to servers located in the states (quite iffy internet) + power up and down; as opposed to North Kuta where at least internet was more solid.

If younger me were trying to do something hidden way for a while coding; and location didn't make a difference, and you wanted to limit costs... it certainly would be a consideration.

Stunning beautiful country, with a lot of litter, a healthy dose of asia-traffic-chaos, lovely, lovely people, cheap cost of living. You would just have to have a bit of a strong constitution about the odd thing you'd see. Of course, you'd have to not get sucked into getting into Island time and loosing productivity to Bintangs...
This is something that I can't get first world people to understand. It costs more to live in a third-world country. And I mean that literally. It is cheaper to vacation in third-world but try running a business there.

Here is an example:

- Imported products have high tariffs. Electronics and Cars are usually more expensive than the US.

- No Good Transportation Hubs/Companies like DHL to move things around. Broken and corrupt customs.

- No trained professionals to repair electronics.

So What gives? I had to pay around $200 to fix a Wifi issue on a Macbook; and the worst part? Wait for 3 months until the replacement was shipped.

Let's not then get to the other issues: Health, Public Transports, Schools, Taxes, etc...
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With respect, I’ve got nearly 30 years of experience in the field, and I have the same questions —- why do people equate years of experience with competence?

I’ve met so many people who are incompetent and yet have many years of experience, and I’ve met a number of people who are very competent but do not actually have that many years of experience.
No I don’t. Maybe no difference in his bank account, but morally speaking it’s the difference between being taken advantage of and being respected.

Also, there’s a 3rd option Netflix could have chosen: licensing the author’s work.
> I'd try to stay longer if the government would do something about the education system, dual citizenship, military service requirement, and air pollution. Those reasons make me think it's better to go elsewhere to start a family. This is a nice place to be young though.

Are these issues in Taiwan? I haven't been to Kaohsiung (except when flying back to Singapore) but my wife is Taiwanese so I've traveled to Taiwan a lot. Taiwan care a LOT about education and the people are pretty highly educated AFAIK, They also allow dual citizenship (which a lot of countries in Asia don't), granted it's impossible to get citizenship in Taiwan. And air pollution is no better/worse than say, Sydney - Australia.
When building a team, you need more than just technical aptitude, therefore years of experience can also help judge:

- how well someone can get along with the group

- how well someone knows the industry and relationships they've built within it

- how well make decisions that are not specifically programming-based that may need a business perspective as well
Let's be honest: fake news was one the biggest own goals of the leftist American media. After breathlessly fellating Clinton non stop, they thought drawing attention to manufactured or biased information would not backfire. Because they still see themselves as the gatekeepers of informed and civilized society.

Kind of like everything else they've done lately. Rape culture: turns out it's real after all... in ultra-left circles.
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It's been permanent off-season in the Sinai for quite some time thanks to Islamic State and friends, who killed several hundred people worshipping at the "wrong" mosque earlier this week...
I felt bad about posting the above about 7 hours after I posted it, but couldn't edit it :-P. I should have stayed out of the discussion because I don't think I helped. But basically what I was trying to say was that I don't think your response was clear enough -- in fact I had to think about it quite a bit before I understood what you were trying to get at. At the time I felt that it probably would have been better not to say anything at all than to leave a reply that was difficult to understand. I think the OP left feeling bad about the situation when they could have left thinking, "I learned something today". I hope you can appreciate the irony in typing that, given that I did the same thing!

Anyway, I enjoyed your blog post and it gave me lots to think about. Thanks for doing it.
Unlike Tesla, Spacex is not a threat to any other publicly traded company AFAIK. So the barrage of negativity will be minimal.
For every incompetent investor who comes on board, you'll have a great investor who'll trust you. This is the case in Tesla too. I mean, the odds that most of your investors will be incompetent is fairly low.
It's not that much of a time sink, if you are running just one public company. Running two is a miracle. Jack Dorsey is doing it, so I wouldn't put it past Elon.
All said and done, given a choice, Musk will keep Spacex private forever.
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Not really. How many people are only being called out now for having done all sorts of inappropriate things, and who are at or near the top of their field?

You can be an 80 year old man who is doing totally inappropriate things by sexting pictures of their junk to underage kids.

Or haven’t you been watching the news lately?
It's an interesting idea, but it would systemically tendency towards ossifying views that the community already holds/has held in the past. If those who hold a certain opinion already have more karma, a feedback loop is created whereby they're more free to downvote the opposing opinion, the other side is less able to downvote theirs, so the original group doesn't lose as much karma, etc etc.
> Because dang messaged me about it being re-upped on HN so I assume somebody at YC

There's no reason to assume that anyone at YC sees the posts we re-up. That's just routine moderation. The only reason they'd know about it is if they ran across it on Hacker News like anyone else.
(This is specific to the US--the author is Australian)

Yes, that's correct, but at that point you can only sue for actual damages, not statutory damages.

For someone who does not sell photos, the damages would amount to be the cost of a license for use of that photograph. GettyImages has an image of a VHS Tape for $600, which includes royalty free usages globally.

How much will it cost to fire a legal shot across Netflix' bow, and negotiate a license agreement? $300/hr?

I just don't see any scenario that can playout in which the author comes out ahead--hence out of luck.
Creepy! It makes me wonder what other ailments people may currently have for which their isn't yet technology to discover. Had they done an Xray of Nellis they surely would have seen the needle, I'd imagine.
You're assuming that salary is determined by how "good" somebody is at the job itself. Sorry to be the one to tell you that is but a small part of it. At the end of the day, the company really doesn't know how good you actually are. Your manager may have a decent understanding of the skill level of the members of their team. But your manager doesn't have much of a say over your salary.

It's 2017, and we are still using an archaic architecture for the worker-business relationship. As long as the workers continue to believe that they are getting a great deal, then this will continue.
> It has been almost 20 years since Amazon got started. When are those mythical monopoly price increases coming?

They're already here! Over the last few years Amazon has become notorious for the level of counterfeit goods making their way through their storefront - including Prime[1]. With moves like mixing supposedly identical goods from different sellers in their distribution centres, Amazon seems to be indicating that they don't really care about this problem - regardless of how much lip service they pay it. In effect, they're getting some percentage of their customers to accept inferior goods for similar prices. I don't think they could get away with it if they had robust competition in online retail.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/08/amazons-chinese-counterfeit-...
for those who are interested, we also have an active dev community here in Bali. There is Facebook Developer Circles, BaliJS, Python Bali, etc

https://www.facebook.com/groups/devcbali
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As someone that runs a 200+ member meetup in SF, I wish I had better tools to promote my meetup and put events in front of people.

From the other side, discovering relevant meetups is hard. Searching all meetups in my area one keyword at a time sucks.
Thanks for your replies! Along with your other reply here, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15794032, I do think both sides could have done better, but it not a path sufficiently well-traveled. The issue at large seems deserving of some best practices love: e.g.

1) All inbound corporate communication channels should have an escalation path to the registered agent / general counsel.

2) Potential plaintiffs should be able to access the directions here https://blogmedia.whoishostingthis.com/wp-content/uploads/20... from here https://www.whoishostingthis.com/blog/2016/01/27/images-stol... .

3) The directions in 2) need additional guidance language for international issues.

4) Maybe 1) should have a link to 2) or something like it, but for more general legal issues / workflows.

I can see that in this case that a web search would have helped, but the root of every complicated, multi-party, decision problem is probably not going to be found on the first page every single time. In 2017, I'd strongly argue that it really should be.
I'm not it that business myself, so I don't know.

But I do know of this one case where a 787 was bought. When the plane is ready, people from the airline (project manager, pilot, etc) go there. If all is fine, the payment is made, and the plane can be taken home with their own pilot. The airspace regulation back home also needs to approve the airplane is ok to fly.

The person that I know told me the transaction looks like some James Bond movie where banks are called and laptops are used to verify. And it was timed so the bank in Europe was still open, and first transfer was to NY.
Blockchain provides no benefit here though, just slows things down
People go to "meetups" even if they are announced and booked on Eventbrite with absolutely no counterpart on meetup.com. It became a word to define an event format. From that point of view they've been pretty successful. How they fare financially, I don't know.

The platform is in the middle of a revamp, with parts accessible only through the old interface. The messages subsite always felt like it was engineered with the technological limitations of 10+ years ago and never improved. Not good signs.

I have no idea of the impact of the acquisition. WeWork doesn't operate in my country. Luckily I have found a zero cost location for my semi technical meetup. I'll be happy if nothing changes.

By the way, there are many technical meetups around me, but there are many more non technical ones (meeting people, yoga, hiking, foreign languages, politics, really anything). A friend on mine told me yesterday he estimated a 90/10 ratio. Not what you can fill coworking spaces with.
Interesting read, but the analysis felt super surface level. It would be useful to understand what expenses cause Amazon to be unprofitable and whether they can become cheaper over time through market dominance.
I was merely pointing out that Apple was not immune to the paradigm; it isn't a bad thing but needs clear thought of the differences between the two platforms.

Windows 8 might have been a step back but 10 is a job damn well done imo.

My only concern in computing is that of vendor lock in, on the desk/laptop/living room - I'm using a self assembled PC, Surface pro and Xbox One X and the integration is outright amazing but on the mobile side I have an iPhone and an Apple watch which can work very well with each other but not so well with the other ecosystem.

Windows is trying to better work with non Windows devices since Satya whereas on the Mac side, anything but iPhone is (and has been) crapshoot. Cloud storage and syncing services (Google Photos, Drive/Dropbox) are godsend but I feel I've gotten way off point now.
Mark my words, we will see major improvements in this area within 5 years.
You are simply picking a measure (immigration) and saying that “being better at my measure that I picked equals being better, period.” What if I threaten all my neighboring countries with nuclear annihilation unless all their citizens move to my country, so that I will be sure to top your list of greatest countries?

Be careful what you optimize for. ;)
I always love to see jobs that list 5 years of React skills as a requirement ;-)

Seriously though, I think what’s important is to look at your weaknesses and keep improving and learning new technologies. X years of experience just shows that you have hopefully grown professionally and personally from where you are today. If you are sure you can do a job I as an employer wouldn’t mind seeing this sort of information in a cover letter hopefully with links to code examples on github.

Finally X years of experience is meant to show how to get the best out of working on a team!
I reported some bugs in the Wayland support for GNOME Mutter a while ago. They were all fixed in a few days/weeks.
I was reminded of Chapter 6 of Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. The chapter is called "Harlan, Kentucky," and discusses the feuds that took place there. He makes an attempt to blame it on genetic heritability, tracing it back to Scotland and forebears who herded sheep and practiced honor culture, with mention of a psych study showing Southern students responded differently to insults. Higher testosterone levels? I can't remember. I think it's unsettled that genetics plays a role, but why not?
P.S. Any reason not to knock this out in a couple minutes using Google Sheets? They can be shared to the public.
Whoah, I'm actually surprised they're not cash-flow positive