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It's still FUD, it just means some unions are corrupt. Or maybe more whataboutism.

Imagine if we all (and not just the left) talked about companies the same way we talk about unions, using the countless examples of managerial abuse, wage theft etc. as examples. Would you say that would be reasonable?

And preemptively, this is not a "both sides" question either. Everything is grey, but there are shades of grey. And while neither unions nor companies are perfect, both are at the same time vital to how things work right now and not above criticism. They both are definitely preferable to 1820s style enterprises for example, but worse than the Culture.
this is probably a dumb question but did you just compile the rust binary and then expose the functions? how? I don't remember but does rust face header files?
This list is absolutely incorrect.
Yes, it's just marketing.
I see! Makes sense! Thanks for the explanation
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Imagine having to work to pay the bills. Truly offensive, and women seem to be disproportionately affected (judging by the amount of complaints).
I am not a freelancer, but I have taken the free e-mail course, because I wanted to learn. I liked it. I felt motivated to complete the course and I would definitely heed the advice if I were to become a freelancer some day. It has a soft up sell at the end, but it still gets my full recommendation anyway.
I posted this about a dev watch with WiFi from TI

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15757433
But even if it's a type of truck, calling it a semi electric truck is weird. I would have expected it to be an electric semi truck, or something.
Aside:

Station X was the wartime codename for the Bletchley Park facility where (amongst others) Alan Turing worked on breaking German Enigma-enciphered traffic and Tommy Flowers built the Colossus electronic calculator for breaking encrypted teleprinter codes (Geheimscriber).

All the laptops are named after WW2-era fighter planes. The desktop is named after a long-range wartime strategic bomber.
This is one of my daughter's favorite iPad games. She's been playing it for years and occasionally I play it with her. Did you do the artwork yourself?
Go to a town hall. Call.

Both of these are more important than voting (which you should also do).
Maybe live in a country that has a better work life balance? Or find an employer that is willing to give that benefit?
> since there's little competition so far,

The competition is simply buying bitcoin, which isn't possible to do for the S&P 500 without investing a few million and constantly incurring fees to adjust to its shifting composition.

The safe store is the only reason to buy this bitcoin ETF. Contrary to common myths, no investors, institutional or not, are constrained by regulations not to buy bitcoin directly.
The ISPs (with their local market monopolies) are also content providers. How is them using their network/distribution monopoly to gain an unfair advantage for their content distribution different from Microsoft using their OS to gain an unfair advantage for their browser in the 90's? Isn't NN about constraining unfair competition practices?
Yes, agreed. This made me chuckle. :)
A man will launch himself in a rocket designed by himself to prove Earth is flat
A reply from System76:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/5umefi/system76_refr...
Woah, TIL: https://www.asbestos.com/blog/2012/09/17/why-isnt-asbestos-b...

Here in the UK if traces of asbestos are found the entire building is quarantined while a team of workers in hazchem suits and breathing apparatus removes it!
Make no mistake, Pai is a former Verizon lawyer, he's not misled as he is intentionally misleading. He knows very well the ISPs will exploit as much as they can and then rely on a slow legal system to keep it going. He knows very well the ISPs want the benefits of being a monopoly with none of the regulations. Why do you think he prematurely said the states will not be able to pass their own net neutrality laws? The main ISPs in this nation are some of the most corrupt, unethical, and anti-consumer organizations around, and because there's no competiton (and they do work hard to keep it that way). While I agree with Pai that we need more competition, repealing NN will not do that.
This year it's a thing in France too apparently, or at least some vendors are pushing it. See for instance amazon.fr's frontpage or even the local fnac.com. When I saw "black friday" on their landing page I thought I had gone on the american version by accident. It's odd because Thanksgiving is only something you see in American sitcoms over here.

American cultural imperialism is really impressive. I can understand why Halloween gets more and more popular over here since it's a fun holiday for kids but I can't figure out how black friday makes any sense when you don't celebrate Thanksgiving. I also don't understand why they hope to make "black friday" a positive brand when the only thing I associate it with is videos of Americans trampling each other to get cheap appliances.
I live in Southern Europe, and our Volkswagen factory also has had much fewer strikes or other union protests, with workers voluntarily accepting temporary wage cuts and such.

I suggest you look into the differences in the management of companies of those countries rather than the unions.
I've an idea. Let's write GUI apps using GUI libraries, like everyone used to, instead of writing them for a web browser.

Not only will this be more secure, it'll also be 10s or 100s of times more performant.
interesting author never considers getting help for art and marketing.
It’s failing to serve its primary use case as a currency. It’s now a speculative investment vehicle with exorbitant transaction fees. I struggle to see how that’s going to last.
That is exactly why I'm happy working for someone else. I love to code, solve problems and make things. I do not what to run a business. As soon as you are in your own you are running a business.
Installing Guix on a cluster
I feel like we as an industry can sometimes forget just how good we have it. Many of my friends do not work in tech, they are low paid, they have stressful jobs with little autonomy, they are not challenged at all and they feel little personal accomplishment in their day today. I appreciate the author alludes to this but having seen friends recently job hunting (outside of tech) I am reminded that even on the worst days I have it many times better than a lot of people.

> If I won the lottery would I still code? I would, but it would not be like work. It would be projects I enjoyed. And it would be fewer hours.

But wouldn't we all love to do that no matter our vocation? Until basic income comes along I think we have to just get over it. Most jobs aren't going to provide you with fun for 8 hours a day. I feel like the older I get the more I understand that a job is a way for me to trade time for money, I don't have to (or should expect to) like it.
France has strikes too.. ;-)
What about revenue, though?
That's orthogonal to my argument though, isn't it?

I'm just saying that he didn't build the thing himself. He decided to do it and did whatever he does at Tesla, then a lot of smart people worked like crazy to finish by the deadline.

Stretching it a bit (maybe too much): think of going to war. The President gets to decide it, but when you win you don't say "President X won the war". Yet a single soldier is likely as replaceable as a factory worker (before I get more hate, I know they are different but I hope you get my point).
Stories like this will, in the near future, be part of the story about why Brexit was NBD.
There are plenty of people who are passionate about art and also able to pursue their passions fully and avoid starving. They get grants from the city or private organizations or they sell their work.
Why we have banned default exports in JavaScript
The Pirate Bay Attacking InstaCart?
For what it's worth my daughter has sunk countless hours into that game and its expansions, and loved every minute of it. Even though she now considers herself a bit 'too old' for them, she'll still occasionally fire them up and play.
I'm amazed at your lack of knowledge on a subject you insist on repeatedly commenting about.

Net Neutrality has existed longer than you pretend, nearly 15 years in various forms that have gotten stronger over time.

We have past examples of the bad behavior being stopped by net neutrality you are trying to pretend may or may not happen in the future.

The "Market" solution was already tried, and bad actors/bad behaviors already drove the "solution" of net neutrality. You're pretending the past doesn't exist and you're claiming we haven't tried and watched the market solution fail to protect consumers.

As for other comments, no China doesn't have Net Neutrality. Without NN, ISP's were deregulated preventing the FTC/FCC from being able to regulate them specifically as you've claimed. What consumers want with NN doesn't immediately fall under "anti-competitive" (look at cable for example), so no the FTC/FCC cannot use anti-competitive regulations to provide the same consumer protections as NN.

You repeatedly confuse censorship with "pay to access" or "pay to perform". NN isn't to prevent censorship, its to prevent pay for access/speeds and turning the web into a tiered/package platform like cable is.
I'm not sure I understand your question, I'll try to answer it anyway ;-)

I'm a desktop developer. Either the DB comes from one of our supplier (we have Oracle, Sql Server and MySQL) or I'm building an application from scratch and I'll choose Postgres.

I standardized on Postgres more than 10 years ago because it was free and at the time it felt better built than MySQL.

I never encountered a use case where NoSQL would have been a rational choice (take this with a grain of salt since I don't have to scale).
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What land is owned by housing developers?
> As far as I know, every consumer ISP everywhere oversells their capacity, counting on people not using it at max capacity 24x7. That implies sometimes there will be moments of congestion in the uplinks.

No it doesn't. Having every customer use 100% of their connection at the same time is something that could happen in theory, but it never happens in practice. Literally never.

A certain amount of over-subscription is perfectly reasonable. As long as you have the capacity for the actual peak load, there is no congestion, regardless of whether you have enough capacity for the theoretical peak load.
> how many incredible artists have lived but spent their entire lives merely surviving.

what you describe is basically the entire human condition as it has ever been since time inmemorial.
:)

A friend of ours does the artwork using actual pen and paper. We scan it in and clean it up in Photoshop.
As far as I know country law can be more strict than EU law, is that not so? In that case, the stricter law could not have been overruled with EU laws.
That's not entirely true. The strike was over the fact that if not enough drivers _volunteered_ to do the night shifts, TFL could assign non volunteers. They would still be compensated for the work hours being particularly antisocial.

It is also true that Tube drivers are well paid and yes that does impact the levels of sympathy available to them. The change was absolutely funded - just not as well as the union would like.

In essence, however, tube drivers having veto rights over being scheduled to work nights presents an opportunity to cause shortages and disruption without any ramifications or declaration of strike etc. It was a giant liability for TFL to accept.
That’s a really interesting link, thanks. The number 2 reason was immigration. I can see that it might be possible that immigration is a subset of “decisions about the UK should be taken in the UK”. I.e. the immigration policy shouldn’t be set by the EU.

It also suggests that leave voter see multiculturalism, feminism, the Green movement, globalisation and immigration as negatives (80%). Overall I see this as supporting the notion that the leave vote was anti-immigration, perhaps as part of a wider distrust of outside influences.
If a vendor refuses to offer a license for a reasonable sum perhaps the law should allow a petition to relinquish the copyright and place the work in the public domain, the petition going to the relevant authority (the UK IP Office comptroller probably in the UK?).

Or just let Google bypass the law and no-one else, as happened with orphaned books.
Does a project have to have a commercialization/monitization route?
> Also once in a while some jerk will be like “if women really were paid less why wouldn’t companies hire more women to save money?” I’m pretty sure they already do this and that recent lawsuits will reveal it is a common practice. My experience is companies are thrilled to hire women, it makes them look good AND they can usually pay them less. It’s not about quotas.

This misandristic conspiracy theory distracted me from the other message in the article.
Tracking issue for using it in main: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/43301
> I think union membership rates have been dropping due to the fact that companies have been increasinly more anti union.

Contrary to popular belief, companies have incredibly little power in that regard, especially when you're talking about an already-unionized closed shop (as opposed to a company that wants to prevent its workers from unionizing in the first place). Legally and practically, it's incredibly difficult even for union members to decertify or deauthorize their union, and companies are basically forbidden from taking any part in that process. The NLRB is incredibly strict on this; both the NLRB and the courts bias heavily in favor of unions if there's any evidence that companies are seen to be interfering whatsoever in the process.

But beyond this, it's not as simple as "companies have been increasingly more anti-union" because this increaseingly anti-union sentiment comes from the union members. We know this from direct public polling, from their actions on the ballot at union elections, from their actions at the polling booth in government elections, and from what we can see of internal politics with union governance.

To put it another way: if it were easier for union members to decertify or deauthorize their union without getting fired[0], we'd probably see these elections happening more often (both successful and unsuccessful ones). Instead, union members support laws which allow them to bypass this process.

(Note that, after accounting for race, union members overwhelmingly voted for Republicans in the last two election cycles, despite the unions themselves endorsing union-friendly Democrats).

[0] Even if they manage not to get fired in the process - which is totally legal for a union to do, unlike a company firing an employee for supporting a union - the NLRB can overrule the results of the decertification or deauthorization election, which invalidates the whole process.
"Battery life: up to 5 hours".

Not a MacBook Pro killer at all.
Thanks! It's so nice to get actual feedback from parents. I live in the middle of nowhere and very, very rarely actually get to witness the app being used in the wild.
starting point: Visible human project [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visible_Human_Project
Yes, it has reached mass awareness and now maintaining the network consumes more electricity than Ireland (https://powercompare.co.uk/bitcoin/). If the current rate continues it'll consume all the world's energy by 2020.

I don't know if it will be gone but something's got to give at this rate.
> Just to make clear, I am not on either ones side here. Striking is a right in Italy and Germany, so the employees sure can do it. But the reality is how it is as well :/

I hope I didn't come off as aggressive. While I am very much on the sides of the workers here as a self identified socialist (since I run a company I don't really get much cred from most socialist in-groups though), I try not to be blind to market realities and alternative view points

>Not really. Germany is small enough that it doesn't really matter if you get it from a German or a Polish warehouse (that sits directly behind the border). (Amazon Prime deliveries and similar stuff excluded - but that's a very small percentage)

Margins matter at that scale, otherwise amazon would have never opened warehouses in Germany (they never did in switzerland AFAIK). Same thing with the "small percentage" of prime: anecdotaly, if I can't buy it with prime, I don't bother with amazon, because then I can just support some independent store. It won't affect people too much, but it is definetely not a no brainer.

>You don't fire anyone. You just don't invest there any more to keep up with your xx% growth every year. You just do that behind the border.

True. But then you also have politics to think about...without investing, you don't have as much indirect political clout.

If anything ,while the most likely outcome is what you describe, there will be the next time the question of an "amazon tax" comes up and without being an employer, amazon will have to invest more into lobbying, which might work but fuel resentment...nothing ever stays still, unless people just accept the status quo
Well, TBH in italy we have too much strikes. This is not the case but in public transportation is a common thing that happens recurrently only mondays or fridays. The motivitaion are pages of nonsense printed to just justify long weekends.
Amazon is indeed actively pushing "Black Friday", and Fnac is playing catchup. But I don't know if anyone in France is aware that "Black Friday" means "discount"...?

Also, discount days are regulated in France (called "les soldes"); normally you can't have a discount day any time you want, you have to apply for authorization.

I sell on Amazon in Europe for the first time this year (started in January); I don't do discounts but am anxious to see if sales will rise this week-end.
I want to get a run of 3" die cut stickers using all 3 designs but that will probably be a couple months. :/
Even whitelisting is dangerous for web/html. Given any tag, there's probably a large number of things you can do with them that boggles the mind as in "whoa I didn't know you could do that..." including things that are not in the w3c specs but are coded into the interpreters.

Basically the experience of a web developer every day, no matter how experienced you are.
Germany has a modern welfare system. When demand goes down, salaries go down. So the state welfare system makes up the difference.

German unions also have a seat at the board. Unlike most board run companies a decision isn't made without input from the union. So yes, there few strikes in Germany because labor and management actually behave like adults.
So those companies move their servers out of the USA, which would be good anyway, or their competitirs get an edge.
It's clearer in the iPad screenshots. Thanks for asking as I now notice none of the iPhone screenshots show the characters holding anything. I should probably change that...
This is why I don't run any Electron apps on my computers at all, ever.

That means I'm stuck with the web browser version of Slack, Skype, Signal (going away), and so forth, which is a shame. But it's better than the security nightmare that is Electron.

I wish developers wanting to make cross platform GUI applications would look instead at Qt. It's extremely easy to use, really fast, and generates great GUIs. It's been around for ages and continually sees updates. Usually people who see the Qt light are pretty satisfied. It can also be used from a wide variety of languages, in case you're not into writing C++.

I sort of suspect that Electron's popularity is due to it being accessible to the hordes of JavaScript developers who otherwise wouldn't have had any clue how to make desktop/native applications. However, do I really want to be running unsandboxed xss==>rce code written by clueless devs? No, no I do not. So, in the end, refusing to run Electron apps turns out to be a somewhat reasonable security posture.
Fabrice Bellard is a god among programmers, his contributions to the world of software are among the best out there... QEMU, FFMPEG, LZEXE....

His hack generating DVB-T signal by driving a VGA card is among the best out there. I think it's a bit shameful his skills are not well known out there.
From inboxing to thought showers: how business bullshit took over
I wonder what their motives are?
I use my Laptop for 100% of my tasks ..
Think this is a very good idea and provides a great solution to the problem of finding your "dream job". Being alerted when a job that fits your criteria rather then just being spammed with loads of jobs that aren't relevant.
The US military commonly calls in airstrikes that drop bombs that cost more than houses from aircraft that cost more than entire city blocks, just to kill a single person with a rifle on the side of a hill.
Huh. I wonder how much of these correlations are because an occupation is "the only job in town" or because the children take over the parents' solo business.
How are these compared to Purism?
That is FTC not FCC.
> You are not your end-users, and you if you are a developer most likely do not run average hardware.

Then your end users won't buy your product and you will be forced to write a native application to not go out of business. But if your users can run it and your product is successful (ie Slack) why do you need to spend more resources to make it native?

This is like the "supporting IE matters" thing. It does matter if your target uses IE. If only a negligible slice of your target uses IE, it doesn't matter.
> the whole thing is a living standard compromise to save thousands on rent

Is it though?
This is why I said it's (seemingly) an independent effort. I've seen JSLinux before and heard of Fabrice Bellard before due to QEMU, TCC and FFmpeg. The one in my comment is done by another person named Fabian Hemmer. I'm not sure what your point here is while I just linked a similar project.

Where did you take the information that what I linked is "based on" QEMU? Its readme only mentions using QEMU's (and KVM's) tests/test cases and sounds like an original work with regards to the emulator itself: https://github.com/copy/v86/blob/master/Readme.md
How does the average American put tens of thousands of dollars into a retirement account within 5 years at a point in life where there is a morgage and/or children? That does not seem like conventional wisdom.
In my experience, it's counterproductive to code more than 4-5 hours per day. At a certain point you start introducing bugs/inadvertent complexity whose negatives outweigh any feature contributions you're making. There's lots of research which bears this out. E.g., https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/why-working-more-than-4...
It’s not up to the homeowner to use his insurance to repair his house when the city did the damage.
It didn't exist until a few years ago, much like Halloween. Then companies discovered that they are good ways to sell more stuff and suddenly we got Halloween first, then Black Friday. We're about to get our first Starbucks shop, in Milan (2019?).

To be fair, it's not only marketing. Ideas move by themselves.
Looks nice. It would be nice if you could add search tags there.
Turned out the RocketScript optimization provided by Cloudflare all of a sudden started breaking our checkout.js-based functionality. Will email you also.
Further thoughts on why the end of net neutrality will be fine