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>Seems such a small gain with potentially huge downside with African countries distancing themselves from China.

European countries and the US have been meddling in African countries for centuries, even more blatantly (including directly toppling governments or bringing in their armies) and they have hardly "distanced" themselves from them -- and they'll do that to China for such small peanuts?

The population doesn't know better or is kept down, and the leaders do what brings money to their accounts, not to the country.
I agree, but still acknowledge that school has the power to shape habits, nonetheless
3 new experimental, flexible UI's were the headline features of LibreOffice 5.3.

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2016/12/21/the-docu...
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In the depicted cartoon case of an Ethiopian that has a local Briton or Celt wife, who has multiple children with her, there is the valid question of seeing what is in the genetic record, though, wouldn't you agree?

The reaction, and Beard's answer, was specifically about the family shown and not the narrow question of whether or not an Ethiopian conscript would have ever set foot in Roman Britain.
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Indeed. To me "native" implies that the app will also use the typical keyboard shortcuts that are native to the OS. For example, copy to clipboard via Ctrl+C on Windows and Cmd+C on macOS. Is that the case with Xi?
> Or maybe that's the lie told in order to make the system more complex and harder to navigate

Not sure if that's a lie. In my experience, a big chunk of the general population is selfish enough that they'll abuse any system if they can get away with it. In a way, it's tragedy of the commons all over again - those people, confronted, will tell you, "I'm just a single man, just a drop in a bucket". They conveniently forget that there are 20 million other people in the country thinking the same thing.
No, it's the Marxist part that makes it not work, doesn't matter which inspired party adds their flavour. If you want Marx's society (not saying his analysis, especially of his surroundings, was wholely incorrect), it can only be had by force.

I challenge you to convince me to willingly join in your Marxian ideal, until then I will fight it when it comes to my door, like so many in the USSR understandably didn't,
comfortably boiled frogs as the record shows them.
I also would like to drop backwards compatibility in favor for a clean simple language, because I happen to write completely new functionality.
If you ask yourself the question: "Do I want to break backwards compatibility in 2020?", then that same question could have been asked in 2003. Which would mean that the language lost traction (at least that is my opinion), because I could not recompile my old code and therefore I keep using the old before C++2003 compiler. So, the reason that it is popular, _is_ because it takes care of installed base and does not break existing code (or at least minimizes breakage).
Source: basic understanding of how batteries & CPUs work while following tech forums for decades.

This isn’t considered controversial
I know most people here are fairly well-paid, intelligent and many are well-adjusted and stable. But it'd be mistake to assume this happens to other people. Sometimes a series of unfortunate events (lost job, lost child, lost marriage) trigger a series of events, helped by alcohol and poor-decision making and resulting in homelessness and poverty.

When I lived in Oxford I came across a book put together of mini-interviews of the homeless there - their stories. It really surprised me how many of the biographies started off with a well-paid professional job with a happy family and spiralled out of control.
>found it met all my requirements. Although I also stopped customizing my theme, and I keep as many defaults as possible

Well, if your requirements are low and the defaults are OK, sure, Terminal.app can do it. But iTerm2 does so many more things it's not even funny.
Is this a good technical fit? Is this good for the tech community as a whole?

I am a bit disheartened to see discussions often going in the direction of big corporation politics / power play, rather than how it benefits the community.
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In this automatic-benefits-allocating world, there would also be no more fraudulent claiming of money not entitled to! It should overall result in a net saving, I believe...
Kudos to Microsoft for Ribbon UI. While I myself was supportive from the beginning (and am so glad to see it coming to LibreOffice as well), they saw a lot of backlash for it in early days.

Aside: Only thing I miss from Ribbon UI is being able to make it vertical, putting it on the side of the screen. Monitors are mostly landscape, while documents often portrait, so using space on the sides of the screen should be considered for it. (Putting Windows task bar on the right side was an instant boost to my productivity and ability to focus.)
I prefer my toolbars from the nineties, thank you very much. Now you know one person who prefers that.
I was there, it was great. Suddenly I could access tons of information, save hundreds of dollars by sending emails instead of long distance calling, look up airline schedules, download lists of jokes, find local singles looking to mingle, browse mail order catalogs, read recipes, or order books from a small Seattle company with a huge selection.

The personal real-world benefits of the www were real and obvious and constantly improving. What has the blockchain actually done for people on a daily basis?
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We have both in our school (Bavaria, Germany) MS Office and Libre Office. You are free to use what you want but you get thought Libre Office (or Open Office ~7y ago).
I'm a registered Libertarian (lol) who isn't against reigning in ICOs. My chief concern is regulation creep from problems that do exist, to problems that may exist in the future, but aren't really a current concern. I find targeting the latter gives a government a whole lot of elbow room to extract wealth, via things like trade license fees, ICO officiation fees, a requirement that a coin some some property that creates a weak binding with a given fiat currency, etc.

It is worth noting though, that ICOs are primarily a problem because there are a lot of hungry investors looking to 100x their returns, and don't have the tech background required to dissect a whitepaper. Protecting the gullible and uninformed from the manipulative is one of hardest tasks of any society, and the fight is never ending.
North Africans at that time were not "black" ; I thought that this was already well known?

Was Libyan leader Gaddafi, black?
Came for the “seam carving”... okay.

Didn’t expect image expanding... was blown away.

Mix in temporal energy plus a ML objects DB, put that in a chip, and turn decades of 4:3 TV into widescreen!
I think tone on HN can come across as very derisive or dismissive sometimes. It's one thing to not be unary, but it is another to be able to write down a coherent set of thoughts which critique the platform without sledging it, and congratulating a company on their success.

Overall HNers aren't the most supportive and compassionate bunch, but then again we're here for news and discussion and not back slapping.
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Using LibreOffice feels like the software equivalent of visiting a historical re-enactment village where everyone dresses in costume and pretends it’s still the 90s.

The project feels like a preservation society for a type of software from the past.
Ah ok, then valuation should actually be $4B no? :D
Competition isn’t an inevitable good. While it’s a very powerful tool in certain markets, in others it carries more risk than benefits. Currency is not really a realm that is lacking in competition anyway. The main competitive drive in the cryptocurrency world appears to be tax and banking law evasion, and now scamming naive investors. Harder to do those things with Euros and Rupees.
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Have you tried any of the new UI layouts?
In 2009 our 9th grade geometry teacher had us all learn to solve Rubiks' cube for a semester project. Never knew the story of the inventor thlugh, pretty cool.
The delivery medium is irrelevant. And yes, this particular video is a good source, since the person in the video is an authority on kernel engineering; his teams have managed to deliver a fully functional storage appliance, a volume manager/filesystem from the future, infinitely extensible kernel and userspace debuggers, a dynamic tracing framework, a very high performance operating system which for more than two decades was the textbook on large scale symmetric multiprocessing, and a large scale cloud solution which mops the competition in efficiency and design of use. Oh, and a parallel startup/shutdown mechanism as part of a larger self-healing framework. I have a sneaking suspicion that this person might know what he’s talking about after having written and debugged a good portion of that code. I’m not putting in Linux as firmware because I already have it in the products and infrastructure I use and not only is it piss poor slow and inefficient and crashes all of the time, but greenhorns who think they know best keep introducing compatibility-breaking changes. Out of the question, no more. And polishing a piss poor solution is no solution either. Start with a solid foundation, which excludes Linux immediately from the consideration.
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That doesn't make any sense. The days in Spain are longer in the winter by a wide margin.
They may have previously been housed in SF, but they lost their shelter for one reason or another - likely drugs or mental illness, given statistics - and stayed in SF for the reasons I gave.

Your data isn't really at odds with what I said.
> but maybe students accustomed to LibreOffice can push the change

But... why? For 99.9% of students Word is all they need. There are not many compelling reasons to not teach the software people will actually use in the real world.

I mean, why not eschew the English language in schools and teach kids Swahili? Maybe students accustomed to Swahili can push the change. Or maybe not.
I would not want my child to learn Excel/Calc at all, so that doesn't bother me. :-) While spreadsheets have been very sticky, super-useful for quick calculations, they are often abused for a variety of cases where alternative tools would be better. If I could, I would ban installation of Excel and Calc at my workplace!

Hope LibreOffice Impress improves over the time to catch up with PowerPoint.
This is wonderful to see, big fan of LibreOffice.

I am left questioning a few things based upon the feedback in this thread. I'll preface this that I'm trying to be cordial and tactful here.

Why is it so bad that Microsoft charges for their product? I use Office in my professional life and Libre+Office in my personal life. I think if you make a decent product, it's perfectly okay to charge for it. Am I missing something ideological?

I constantly read that Office is clunky and unstable, and I haven't experienced that in years at this point, probably since Office 2007 after they famously had to rip out CustomXML in a hurry. For me, both Office and LibreOffice perform well, and I often only use one over the other when I find support for one or the other is lacking because of some crazy scenario.

P.S. To those barking about "scary" warning for ODF files. It does the same thing for Office 2003-2007 documents too...
Definitely the Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition. My sister has had two (one of 2014 vintage, the second one purchased just weeks ago) and they are rock solid, svelte, impressive machines with flawless Linux support.
I'm not sure their direct competition really is Red Hat or VMware to be honest. Their product is Containers-as-a-Service, which is becoming a table-stakes service in cloud: everyone offers k8s management at a starting price of "free".

Docker is in a kind of weird place in the market where they're selling as-a-service for on-premise. Puts them in the same place as OpenStack and CloudFoundry for me - the former is already squished; jury's out on the second (IMHO). I don't see their current strategy succeeding, personally.
I don't think they haven't thought about it, but:

* what Microsoft did was a major change with many, many thousands of man-hours invested into it; and many of those hours were UI/UX research, usability studies, analysis for the data phoned home by Office; does any of this sound like your typical Open Source project work? :)

* the Ribbon concept is patented by Microsoft; so not Open Source friendly, which leads us to...

* the LibreOffice developers would have to come up with a novel concept for a GUI, which is superior to the existing menus; and one that doesn't fall into the traps that Microsoft Office already went through (see Harris Jensen's blog series called "The Why of the New UI"); I'm a big fan of Open Source, but unless it comes from academia (Office products are not known to be the main focus of academic research right now) or from startups (good luck taking down Microsoft Office! :) ), most of the user friendly GUI stuff in Open Source-landia is copy-cat stuff

Edit: I just saw bryanlarsen's comment. Glad to hear that they're trying. However quite a few of those attempts fit into stuff Microsoft already tried. But they might still prove superior to the current interface, so kudos to the LibreOffice devs for that ;)
Did anybody here use LibreOffice online? How does it compare to Google Docs or Office 365?
I have a strange recollection playing with Linux text processing command line tools in the 90s and stumbling upon something that looks like the "concordance" output and having no idea why it might be useful, nor any way to find out. Now I know! (And I can finally fix a dangling reference in my brain.)
Angry and disgusted at my own country.
During 2017, BMW among other car companies, and Sony have migrated from C to C++ as their main language for embedded development.

https://archive.fosdem.org/2017/schedule/event/succes_failur...

https://www.autosar.org/

"Developing Audio Products with Cortex-M3/NuttX/C++11"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8fLjWyI5nI

Unless you consider their devices Raspberry Pi kind of platforms

Of course with companies like Microchip still focusing on Assembly and C89, C is going to stay around for a very long time

What is done in C and macros, can be safer done with C++ and constexpr templates and better optimized, problem is to change the culture of those companies.
I'm not sure why you assume he would have been a conscript.

There is no reason to think that a few interracial marriages in Roman times would have left much of a trace in the modern genetic record. Surely no-one would get so up in arms about a cartoon that showed a Saxon married to a Norman, but we have no modern "genetic record" of this either. We know with a reasonable degree of certainty that interracial marriages existed in Roman Britain, often involving soldiers.

Talk about the "genetic record" might seem sciency sounding, but its really the historical evidence that's much more informative in this instance.
> The idea is that children learn concepts, not individual implementations

I fully agree, but why wouldn't you teach these concepts using an implementation that the vast vast majority of children will use in their adult life?

You could teach kids how to use a computer using OpenBSD, it's arguably better than Windows and I'm use a lot of institutions use it. It's just not very useful to the overall majority of kids who do not go into a comp-sci field.
Thanks, I think this is a reasonable viewpoint that I can understand, even if I don't agree with it - but it makes it clear that we come from different places and hence different conclusions on the situation at hand as well.
i'm utterly shocked at this development!

/seriousness

but for real now how do we break into the chinese market!?!?
I am sure some of your boardgames have increased in value simply for being old.
Never really had a problems with the lack of namespaces actually (and not due to insanely prefixed names), if everything is properly seperated there just doesn't seem to be enough chances for name clashes: headers should have only things which really are publicly needed, sources should only include headers they need, and one of the design targets should be high cohesion/low coupling. Though it probably depends on the project.
you mean cleptocurrencies.
> It's just a joke, it isn't tied to any commercial franchise or brand, nor does it promote any ideology or organization.

This is an interesting point - I guess the blowback would also have been far less intense had it been a reference to e.g. Big Buck Bunny rather than Mr. Robot.
> In this case, copy cats of Jack the Ripper were trying to emulate his (her?) ideolect. So one expects the entire exercise to be hopeless and the conclusion holds no predictive value.

The letters in question were sent before the first letter was published. How would a copycat know what to emulate before the first letter's publication? It was also found that the latter letters were not very good at copying the original author's style. This is all in the article.
I have enabled Ribbon UI and it looks like ribbon ui build in nineties. There is no obvious way to revert the change.
It's the eye-catching headline of an interesting article. HN has a policy of reproducing headlines more or less verbatim.

Favouring Brian Cox over Mary Beard is rather STEM-centric. He may be more your cup of tea, but I'm pretty sure that my wife, for example (who has a shelf of Mary Beard books) has never heard of him.
Do you happen to remember the name of that book/any details? I'm from Oxford and would like to have a look at that
> free education and healthcare

Sure, these would require a lot of redistribution. So much that, AFAICT, no developed nation ever afforded it (except maybe USSR, but their healthcare wasn't great, and the level of redistribution, colossal.)
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Honestly the best use case is actually for the very financial services industry that the crypto community thinks they are supplanting. Distributed ledger with trusted confirmations + quicker and cheaper wires is actually pretty big. It's a rock solid use case that a couple of big banks have openly said they are working on. Of course, it's almost certain that any currency they move will probably end up pegged to a fiat, so that idea doesn't give people the warm and fuzzies, to say the least.
TL;DR doing 3x 10min brisk walks every day is (a) easier and (b) healthier than aiming for 10k steps each day

Rob then split them into two groups. One was asked to hit the 10,000-step target - around five miles - in a day, while the other group was asked to do three sessions of "Active 10" - which adds up to around 1.5 miles - more like 3,000 steps.
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The Active 10 group actually did 30% more 'moderate to vigorous physical activity' than the 10,000-step group, even though they moved for less time
LO comes with a ribbon-like UI called "NoteBook Bar" from atleast an year. It's deployed as an experimental feature in 5.x, but I've found it stable. Perhaps they've made it a mainstream feature now in 6.

https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/Using_the_notebook_bar
I saw that by applying some diffs you could get HW acceleration, but I doubt you'd be able to use other things such as Google Sync (my passwords are stored there and in a Keepass but it's more useful)
>why wouldn't you teach these concepts using an implementation that the vast vast majority of children will use in their adult life?

Because it makes it too easy for the teachers to cheat and only teach mindless button clicking.
It's not obvious to me that the cartoon character is unambiguously black rather than brown. Berbers and other North African groups that were well-represented in the Roman army have brown skin. In any case, Beard points to instances of Romans in Britain who were either described as having black skin ("Ethiopean") in the historical record, or whose skeletal morpholgy suggests Sub Saharan ancestry.

Also, nothing is "well known" about the skin color of populations thousands of years ago, for obvious reasons.
Thankfully the second part of the headline wasn't "...you actually need 20,000 steps."
> But... why? For 99.9% of students Word is all they need.

MS Office is especially better than LibreOffice with Excel and PowerPoint. If all you use is Word, then the licence you have to pay to use it might not be worth the difference with Writer.

> There are not many compelling reasons to not teach the software people will actually use in the real world.

Well, I do use MS Office in "the real world", and LibreOffice at home. When I landed in my company, we got a mandatory session of "advanced" Excel and Powerpoint usage, because that's inexpensive for the company to spend a day or two to make sure we can use the tools adequately rather than betting high school taught us.

Not everyone uses MS Office in "the real world", nor in "the business world". Most of the document we receive and send is in PDF format.

> I mean, why not eschew the English language in schools and teach kids Swahili? Maybe students accustomed to Swahili can push the change. Or maybe not.

Come on, I'm quite positive we can both be smarter than that :)
They gave that statement earlier and linked it in this post: https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/update-looking-glass-add/
They’re great, really. Yes, it takes effort to master, but then you can generate faster, safer, generic code with much less effort.

Source: Another everyday C++ programmer. There are dozens of us. Dozens!
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Where in this thread has anyone said that it's bad that Microsoft charges for their product?
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Seems like it was added as an experimental feature in v6.3.8-4. It requires compiling with the option `--with-liblqr`.