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It's Office, silly. LibreOffice is, in a vacuum, a fine collection of software, but stacked up against the juggernaut of the MS Office suite, it can't compare. They're continually playing catch-up, since their mandate is to be compatible with Office, with a fraction of the resources, and always having to react to maintain compatibility. Likewise, businesses run on Outlook and Exchange, to an overwhelming degree; most of the serious competitors have faded away at this point - even five years ago, there were still a lot of Domino shops, but IBM has divested their software divisions, and essentially made that stack abandonware, and so everyone under the sun is moving to Office 365.
> > I do not believe investment creates jobs, I believe increased consumption and protective economic policy create jobs.

> You are entitled to your beliefs

Thank you :)

> but factually you are completely wrong. Without investment, you have no goods to consume.

I'm not saying investment in not needed at all. I'm saying that it does not create jobs. The demand for bicycles creates jobs. Not the investment in the production process.

The investment follows the (predicted) consumption.

> I suppose investment doesn’t create jobs if you have a society of pure slavery.

Seriously? Slavery has often been "invested" in. They merrily went hand in hand. Societies that did not have a capital system (like native americans or aborigines) sure were not all slaves. Your statement make no sense.

> Protective economic policy doesn’t create jobs — it stifles them. North Korea isn’t known for its booming economy (or full employment) because they don’t have much outside investment.

I have no idea, nor interest in NK, in this matter. Look at Taiwan, Singapore and HongKong. They were protective and managed to race out of poverty. Now look at the countries that signed every trade agreement the IMF made them sign: all fucked.

> Investment absolutely creates jobs because there is one human truth that can’t be escaped — people need to eat and thus they need to be paid. Getting by paid comes from capital and capital comes from investment.

Dead wrong again. Am economically-rational business owner would rather not pay anyone. The only reason he does is because he needs the worker in order to supply the demand. THE DEMAND comes first, consumption comes first. Thus investment does not create jobs: increased consumption does.

There's a chicken-egg problem there, a consumer needs money to consume, and that often comes from jobs. Investment can break that cycle, but it can just as easily fuck it up. And --as I mentioned-- investment follow (predicted) consumption.

> I get it that’s many people seem to dream of a socialist utopia — however that is a fantasy. It doesn’t exist and it never has because people are fundamentally driven by their need to eat.

If that need is frustrated, yes. But often we have enough food, and housing, and then it starts to get interesting. I'm not dreaming of a soc utopia, I'm being realistic in knowing that it is increased consumption and protective econ policy that creates jobs.

Investment follows.
Don't feel too bad, almost everyone is. And almost all of the people who are aware of how "powerful" they are tend to equate "hellish complexity" with "expressive power" and are not people you want to work with.

There are a few shining exceptions, but not many.
What I am saying is much simpler. You said that the machine can't discriminate because the machine doesn't know what race is.

I'm just pointing out that the machine doesn't know what anything at all is. All it can do is work with what humans are telling it. If the real world is biased it can then itself be biased.

There are many feedback loops in societies. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer and those subjected to discrimination often have objectively worse outcomes. An algorithm can very easily be susceptible to just recursively documenting actual bias that exists in the real world and giving it the veneer of objectivity.

It's an actual hard problem that is the topic of this thread, hand waving isn't going to fix it.
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The best (most productive, least off-the-wall) I can do year after year seems to be to run an XFCE desktop. But its not polished (although the icon set got refreshed recently which is nice.)

Poor UX for me seems to boil down to off-the-wall or geek fad UX decisions the major desktop managers make with every new version that drive me back to XFCE. Linux vendors, please focus on productivity and less on glitz/chasing the unified mobile & desktop UX dragon. Please?!

Also, I can't pin exactly why I think this is, but linux desktop managers always feel bolted on rather than integral to the experience - it doesn't strike me as valued by the operating system vendor as much as the underlying kernel. Maybe its an inconsistent frame rate thing or trackpad funkiness on my underpowered HP laptop that has me so negative on the Linux feel.
This hits on something that really bothered me in some of the Quora responses, particularly from those who had worked at Google: they smugness and superiority. In some ways, for some people, it could be well earned: someone took an idea from abstract concept to implemented algorithm and maybe even to a library or product and changed the world, to some degree.

Other software engineers, performing more mundane tasks, might also change the world. Howell's product certainly made a very positive difference for me and I leveraged this to get my own work done faster. I think we can all come up with many examples of software that's impacted our lives that doesn't revolve around a unique computer science discovery but instead, like Homebrew, solves a problem in a practical and accessible way.

This isn't in the text, but I am left with the feeling that software engineers who ended up (because life, etc.) working in less math-heavy roles are somehow inferior, and I just don't believe that. Working through BS level comp-sci coursework at a decent college is a significant achievement for those students, at that age, and should not be diminished. But to imply that those working in the field who have not had the good luck to have found interesting computer science problems to solve, who have instead worked at simply improving existing products or focusing on products that meet another need (i.e. accounting, communication, etc.) are not "really" software engineers is, in my opinion, going too far.
The thing about Belarus is not that laws change at whim. They are not. According a lawyer I know from Belarus in courts small and not so small cases are considered rather fairly. One in principle can count that in a daily life rule of laws applies and the level of corruption is not that bad.

But the moment your case is perceived by authorities as political or somebody with power finds your business interesting, one gets BIG troubles. Now, by playing by the rules one can protect somewhat from the "business" interests, so the situation is better than, for example, in Russia. But political part is very unpredictable and it is impossible to know which action can cross the line.
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What is missing is that on the Linux desktop it does not simply “just work”. You may not feel it anymore after you used Linux for a while. But if you leave Linux for a year or two and come back you will see tons of small things that are outright broken or where you need to fiddle with them to get them to work.
Thanks, that's highly appreciated.

Currently we don't have enough material for such a list tho but we can create an awesome-bytearena list.
There can be more than one reason why they're successful.
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> Look at Taiwan, Singapore and HongKong. They were protective

You literally picked three free trading economies [1], each highly reliant on foreign investment. Hong Kong was explicitly established as a free trading nexus for London and China. The IMF has for years been asking Hong Kong to increase regulation [2].

In contrast to Belarus, you also picked at least two countries which have defined themselves, in large part, around a respect for the rule of law.

[1] http://www.columbia.edu/~ap2231/ET/et27-june01.htm

[2] http://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2017/11/29/ms112917-chin...
>>...designed for normal users rather than by programmers for programmers

This is the crux of the issue. The Linux ecosystem philosophy is rooted in choice. Normal users don't want and/or need that much choice.

Average Joe doesn't care what an operating system stands for, or how involved the developer community is, or how customization a system is. They need a spreadsheet/internet browser/email machine that can run some misc. business software, but most importantly they need something that just works.

For all of the benefits of using Linux, the one thing it has never nailed down is intuitiveness. Say what you want about the (many) flaws of Windows, but you can't deny that one of the easiest out-of-the-box-this-thing-just-works experiences. It's also the same experience every single time you use a Windows machine.

Try explaining the difference between Arch, Ubunutu, and Debian to a normal consumer and their eyes glaze over before you even begin.
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Right. And that’s exactly the problem. Another problem is that ALL those desktop distributions chose application (package) managers that are ill suited to desktop. You don’t want shared libraries for desktop. That might be good for server (central patching, fairly stable environment once set up).

On desktop you need to be able to install and uninstall apps by the dozen every week and never ever worry that your “system” can’t run the app, or that the app will ruin it for some other app. This requires duplicating libs or statically compiling. However package systems tend to dislike packages that include a private copy of 100 libs. That’s broken.

Flatpak is exactly what’s needed. And it needs to grow to encompass APIs on the same level as Windows and OS X (e.g good notification apis, dpi change events for multi monitor across all window managers etc etc). Modern desktop APIs are pretty intricate on win/mac, so Linux needs to catch up. The problem with catching up is that design by committee is never quick to drop old cruft, unite on standards etc. This is why I think Mozilla, Valve, Google etc has a better chance of making the successful Linux desktop, than the OSS community has. Just like the OSS community won’t ever make a AAA game.
That second definition of racism is idiotic. That has nothing to do with race. A system of inequality can be caused by lots of things. The entire fucking world is a system of inequality regardless of your race. The biggest thing separating people right now isn't even race it's money. I see people of all colours and races every day united by their poverty, I also see them united in their wealth.
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I'm a mac convert to linux. I've switched back and forth for years. Since I started using linux in the late 90s, I have an issue where I go to paste something, and nothing is in the clipboard, so I go back and recopy, then it works.

It happens just rarely enough to make me feel insane, but it never happens on my work windows machine or my mac. Maybe I'm subconsciously sabotaging my copies on linux.

This is the most bizarre thing I encounter, but it's missing the hundred other tiny warts I ignore because I "know what I signed up for" using linux as my daily driver.
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Gnome saw how terrible Windows 8's start screen was and decided to double down on the phone style app drawer.

Then for good measure threw on the space wasting task bar from MacOS. Oh, and then in Ubuntu the window controls had to be on the wrong side too, obviously.

It's basically the anti-UX.
85% of Americans can also get 100 Mbps. It sounds like you might be in some place like Zurich, where the local power company deployed fiber and allows ISP to provide services over it. That’s a good model, but it’s not legally required. For the most part, Swiss telecom regulation is very similar to that in the United States.
> Of course what happened here was that Steve Jobs returned to Apple and we suddenly had MacOSX come onto the scene taking at least some air out of the Linux Desktop space.

That might have been the case 10 years ago, but it isn't now. Desktop OS dissatisfaction is at an all time high in both the Windows and Apple camps, among both users and developers. If a linux distro got its act together it could steal the show. But, to do that would require an overhaul to linux similar to what Next did to create NextStep.
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Please point me at a distro that has a reliable, complete "app store". E.g. installation never randomly fails

That's a feature all three nail. apt-get is great, so it's not a hardware problem, but I have yet to come across a GUI that is at all consistent.
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It's not hard to choose when there's only 1 real candidate. USSR had elections too.
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Tested in IE11, document.documentMode===11

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You're right on track in this thread. My guess is Rob Pike was not answering data structure and algorithm questions on a white board when he got hired at Google.
Yes, the problem has always been about what we do with the data instead of the data itself. The issue now is that people currently put a lot of blind trust on machine learning, even if the input data is garbage or the output doesn't have the intended result.
I said in another reply that I ignore these things because I "know what I signed up for", which is true. In fact, if you whine about a UI problem in linux and don't know how to fix it, the replies often have that sentiment as an undertone.

I do know what I signed up for, and these missing desktop users rightly suspect what they're signing up for if they were to switch.
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I will not deny that Israel's violence. It seems you are ignoring Palestine's violence.

When is violence just violence. When is it racism?
IntelliJ looks and works GREAT on Linux, though. Depending on what languages you code for, jetbrains products can actually be quite affordable too.
I blame Bitcoin Cash. But to put things in perspective, the crash wiped out like three weeks of gains. So this is just a counter part to the Bitcoin going through the roof article.
It's almost like everyone was trying to get rich quick and sold when they saw some profit.
> Apple has a monopoly on OSes that run iOS apps, OSes that run on iPhones, phones that run iOS and on App Stores that can install iOS apps.

You could also say that Samsung has a monopoly of smartphones with "SAMSUNG" printed on them.
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The safe withdrawal rate of 4% (or whichever figure you pick) already includes inflation.

The rule is supposed to be that you have a high probability of withdrawing $X per year, each year, adjusting for inflation, where $X is 4% of your initial starting sum.
In Durham NC, we went from zero to 3 new dockless bike share programs on the streets in the same week! I personally think it's great, but it was strange to go from zero to 3. To me, the interesting part is how expensive is it to keep those bikes in good working order? It's still very new here so time will tell.
For me its lack of desktop applications that may or may not work on the linux distro I decide to use. I the lack of "it just works" is a huge problem. I own a mac, and if I see an application supports apple I can be fairly certain it works with my machine (hopefully my OS version) and it will be easy to install and run.

Its fragmentation (so many distos...) that makes the app sales market quite small so businesses can't (won't) make a go of making desktop apps.

Use linux servers everyday, its the desktop experience which was never really polished.

I do want my next notebook to be a linux box though..
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I recommend this to many friends as it’s a great resource, but I have to always apologise for the name every time I recommend it, I wish it would re-brand, I turn the apology into a joke, but I feel like it’s still off-putting
If a local government wants to do this responsibly this time around, they should require the contractor to put up an escrow to cover any issues for 30 years. These are long term projects, and this will force the cut and run type companies to look elsewhere for work. The contract may then share the risk by requiring the pipe suppliers to also chip in and be on the hook.
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Not really. There have been such allegations going back to every election. There is no evidence that they were more prevalent this time around. In any case, it really seems to not be relevant in a statistical sense of playing a deciding role in the election.
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I agree! I receive newsletters from both the services and I prefer reading the CB Insights for its casual style and lots of graphics.
What I got from the article is that there's a possibility of a chaotic result: it may not be possible to get computed results which are arbitrarily close to the real-world results. I was reminded a bit of the famous Lorenz system (originally for weather prediction, IIRC), which turns out to be chaotic under some conditions.
> Blockchains reached a valuation of $0.5 trillion and attracted all the biggest financial institutions (Goldman Sachs yesterday)

You know how bubbles work, right? What I mean is that what you've described is compatible with the "bubble" hypothesis just as it is compatible with the "disruption" hypothesis. I need to see the thing solving problems to believe the thing.

This is just me though, I'm not trying to convince you. The point I meant to make in my previous post was not a case for/against Bitcoin, but against the idea that "Bitcoin is nothing like Second life". It is in some important sense: there is a reasonable case for both and it's still too early (now for Bitcoin as at the time for SL) whether they can deliver on their promises of disruption.

EDIT: But if you want to talk about the credibility of Bitcoin, I notice you didn't respond to my observation. I don't care if it's $0.5tr or $500tr: there's still a backlog of 250k transactions. The thing is unusable right now. Now, this might be solved, yes. But right now it's a serious concern. Do you not agree?
Homebrew, at the time, was the first to try and build against the libraries that came with MacOS. For a lot of packages this was a huge time saver as it would be compiling a third the amount of code that MacPorts was churning through.
> Want a really good, free git GUI client?

GitKraken?
Release looks cool! DC2DC opens many doors... but why the hack do you release on a Friday before Christmas?
> Set up a lab - 2-4 computers and a switch should do (you could virtualize some/all of it) and work on all aspects of the TCP/IP stack if you're interested in netsec.

I would like to add onto this, if you cannot virtualize this and you do not have extra computers try using raspberry pi's. You can fully customize them to act as computers (with all different operating systems), servers, super computers, routers, etc.

Its an inexpensive and practical option compared to buying expensive equipment.
True, but in the end everything is governed by how much money you can invest in a product for quality and publicity.
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I'm partial to Fujitsu ScanSnap document scanners. It's worth paying the extra money for a Fujitsu, imo.

The only catch is that you are supposed to replace the pick roller and pad assembly every year or so.

I would recommend buying a couple of extras in advance, as they will get harder to find and more expensive as time goes on.

Having said that, I didn't replace my pick roller/pad assembly until after 9 years of operation. After a few years it would have trouble feeding multipage documents, but most of the stuff I was scanning was only one or two pages. When I did eventually replace those parts, the scanner was basically as good as new.
Back in the day I really enjoyed RoboWar on the macintosh: https://www.macintoshrepository.org/3842-robowar

I've seen other robot fighting games, but I always liked the low-level-programming aspect of Robowar. It used a stack-based machine language with IO via register accesses, and it had some instructions for complex functions like trigonometry, which still only took a single cycle, so it was easy to reason about performance. I guess what I liked about it was that you had to be clever, and it gave you the right tools to be clever.

Unfortunately, while RoboWar is a lot of fun, after many tournaments it is somewhat played out. Just about every paradigm and technique has been extensively tested, so it's hard to come up with a surprising or exciting new idea. A successor that stuck to the simple low level machine programming concept but introduced new concepts would help.
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There's no date on the page itself, and the link contains the string "March2009". Is this really a recent change?

EDIT: just tried to download a driver, and this is the page that gets displayed.
That's if it stops here. People say that we've had 30%+ crashes earlier this year and that's true, but not quite this fast.
I used to ask others in last few months, at what point would you be comfortable buying?

Is it 20K, 15K, 10K, 5K, 1K, 500$, 100$, or 50$? or less?

See, the story changes, what was nice months ago now is an extremely high risk.

Myself, I probably woudln't buy unless it's under 100$. Even that is questionable. Reason being, blockchain is a pipedream and BTC is a dinosaur within that dream. What future BTC has but speculation?
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That was during windows XP wasn't it? I'm sure things have changed since those times.
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OK, it's rapidly falling now. Perhaps we get to see a fire sale today, after all!
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Hi,

Folks who are working on blockchain- Ethereum, hyperledger, Ripple etc -

For Engineers who understand what a blockchain is - Merkle tree, Proof of Work etc- what are the "meta" things about the domain, I should know, to be an effective engineer, system-design wise?

For instance:

1)On what metrics should a developer decide whether to go for Ethereum vs Hyperledge? Both technical and non-technical ( community support/ stability etc)

2)Should I be designing my application that it is agnostic about underlying blockchain? If not, how?

3)What legal rammifications could be there in using Blockchain to store hashed dataset for integrity validation? ( Eg GDPR)

4)What are some common 'metrics' which would distinguish a two 'Blockchain applications' which do the same exact thing? ie- if I were to compare two photosharing service (like instagram) - then the obvious metrics could be (1) Time to upload images (2) Time to search images

5) Microservices vs mult-layered app : Pros vs cons

6) Potential Upgrade scenarios & Pitfalls

7) Design issues when trying to implement a multi-tenant services using blockchain. Example: Lets say I have a service - "use blockchain for X", and I am designing this for an organization level.

8)What questions should I be asking about system-design?