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> Sorry I disagree, first many people who work in IT are _forced_ to use Windows as their primary host at work.

I would consider it a bad use of my experience to develop on Windows. The market agrees with me, experienced Linux developers are much better paid.

> Next, even if you install a Virtual Machine it might not work as seamless as having an Unix shell natively, thus some use Cygwin.

I would not call cygwin a native Unix shell.

> Regarding poor students, would you prefer to commute daily with multiple laptops? One for Linux one for Windows? I doubt so.

I don't use Windows for personal stuff. Apart from that, VirtualBox would still be a better solution if it was necessary to use Windows. For example, updates on a Windows machine which is rarely used can easily take hours. One does not want to have his work machine blocked for so long.

Apart from that, abandoning Windows is just a matter of leaving old habits. For me, using exclusively Linux for my personal stuff has worked excellently in the last 20 years.

> Other than that, if your work is not just coding but doing _anything_ apart from code itself, word processing, spreadsheets, graphic design, cad and you still need to run something from Linux ecosystem the WSL is currently probably your best option.

Libreoffice or Softmaker office is available, but LaTeX is much better for reports and articles, and wikis and Markdown is better for documentation. MS Word is a usability nightmare. Also, I do not use spreadsheets for myself, I use Python scripts - it's more efficient, and ledger-cli for accounting stuff. Inkscape is much better than MS Visio. I am physicist and developer, I do not use CAD, but if I had to use a CAD program on Windows, I would use a separate Windows machine, as explained before.

You sound like you are just used to do everything with Windows and never have considered seriously to use Linux software, I guess you don't know most of what exists there.

Also, I'd appreciate it if people would not call areas where some software vendors have managed to create a lock-in an "ecosystem". An ecosystem is a scientific concept from biology. Using that for proprietary software environments is simply marketing BS bingo.
Also from the author:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13565743

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13797797

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gcUWTa16Jc0
Tech giants face new uk tax clampdown
I’m reminded of “Strong Opinons, Weakly Held”:

I’ve been pretty obsessed about the difference between smart people and wise people for years. I tried to write a book called “The Attitude of Wisdom” a couple times. And the virtues of wise people – those who have the courage to act on their knowledge, but the humility to doubt what they know – is one of the main themes in Hard Facts. We show how leaders including Xerox’s Ann Mulcahy, Intel’s Any Grove, Harrah’s Gary Loveman, and IDEO’s David Kelley turn this attitude into organizational action. Perhaps the best description I’ve ever seen of how wise people act comes from the amazing folks at Palo Alto’s Institute for the Future. A couple years ago, I was talking the Institute’s Bob Johansen about wisdom, and he explained that – to deal with an uncertain future and still move forward – they advise people to have “strong opinions, which are weakly held.” They've been giving this advice for years, and I understand that it was first developed by Instituite Director Paul Saffo. Bob explained that weak opinions are problematic because people aren’t inspired to develop the best arguments possible for them, or to put forth the energy required to test them. Bob explained that it was just as important, however, to not be too attached to what you believe because, otherwise, it undermines your ability to “see” and “hear” evidence that clashes with your opinions. This is what psychologists sometimes call the problem of “confirmation bias.”

http://bobsutton.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/07/strong_opinio...
I don’t know if a god exists or not, but I feel pretty confident that it wouldn’t be the puerile and judgmental, contradictory, oh-so-Human prick described in Abrahamic religions. Hopefully any creator is going to recognize the many limitations of its creations, and if not, good luck guessing its whims.
At some point, it's silly to expect every comment to make a full and comprehensive argument. Like how I can worry about something falling from the sky because "I know" gravity exists. So when I see something straight above your head growing larger coming straight towards you as it falls, I know it will not change course, and I don't feel the need to explain general relativity to you before I suggest you ought to get out of the way.
>OO patterns do not make any kind of sense.

Isn't this a matter of perspective, though? I've been thinking recently that programming languages are kinda like hexidecimal numbers or logarithms - essentially shorthands that allow us to handle stuff the human brain isn't built for. In this sense, object oriented thinking shouldn't be any worse than any other kind of thinking, provided the practitioner finds it useful for making the problem at hand tractable.

I can see there would be two obvious problems with this kind of relativism - if there were performance implications, or maintenance implications. But I don't see OO stuff causing these in and of itself.
I'm in my prime and relatively competent. The reason I'm broke working on my own startup and not at a company is because every company or successful project I've been a part of has not led to my success as an individual.

FTE at a startup is high risk low reward. You might think with funding a startup is not high risk. It is. You are giving up the huge salary you'd get a a megacorp. And don't even get me started on the common stock issue.

FTE at a megacorp is medium risk medium reward. Not high enough reward until you get to the higher levels - difficult to do.

And also the dull monotone reward signal of direct deposit every two weeks is so incredibly boring.

So now I'm left bootstrapping. The only thing left with high reward. It's hard. My insurance sucks. Trying to work with other companies is obnoxious. Every app store takes 30% and thinks they have employees without the paperwork. One app store I built something for requested(demanded) never ending meaningless changes then released a copy of my idea without telling me. It wasn't even that good of an idea in retrospect.

The game is rigged and not optional. People everywhere hate rigged games.
FWIW, a 30 year gap between record highs is not supportive of global warming. Global warming should be making record weather events more common, which would imply records being broken in rapid succession.
Too bad Russia has no people to use it with.
Check your reading. In the parent it says "gay rights movement", not "gay people".
Very nice article and project! Have you talked with Wine people to see if you could eventually merge your patch in the official codebase? Seems like it would help a lot of us linux gamers :)
Ask HN: What would you do in my situation?
I'm asking HN since I don't have a mentor or family member to seek advice from. Throwaway account for obvious reasons.

I'm a first generation immigration, still on H1-B waiting for my green card. Have been in the US for 16 years. I work in tech, at a fairly high middle management position in a public company of 2000 employees. Yearly income of roughly $450k depending on how the stock performs. Wife does not work due to a health situation with my child.

We have about $350k in cash and $200k in investments (401k, IRA and post-tax). I bought my house a few years back and was lucky enough to have a low mortgage payment.

Here's my situation. I'm extremely tired of waiting for my green card but due to a family situation, I cannot go back to my home country. I want to do something else (take a break from work or find a different type of role or work part-time) but my H1-B does not allow me to do that. I don't know how to invest my cash or what to do with it. We have thought about buying another property but everything seems very high where I live. I'd like to move closer to work but homes are very expensive there. What would you do in my situation?
>Higher minimum wages are probably another cause.

>After declining in inflation-adjusted terms from 1998 to 2007, minimum wages rose almost 11% in real terms between 2007 and 2016, Abraham and Kearney estimated. Firms may have outsourced jobs or spent more on automation to offset the higher costs of low-skilled labor.

Is it just me, or is this a shockingly misleading paragraph? That minimum wages rose in real terms tells us nothing. They may have kept in place with inflation, or they may have even continued to fall in inflation-adjusted terms. This is not an apples-to-apples comparison at all.
So how do the immigrants manage to go by and live with the same wage?
Since human cognition is based from previous cognitive state and interpretation of sensory input, precise communication requires mapping the communicative symbols as closely as possible to your desired semantics.

Earth itself will do just fine at any temperature that's below literally evaporating. Various life on this planet has evolved to thrive in wildly disparate climates, and short of complete eradication of an ecosystem, surviving organisms both tend towards better suitability for their given environment and adapt their environment towards better suitability for them (both with limits). We humans should be looking at what temperature ranges would be the most beneficial to human society as a whole. Sure, that's incredibly self biased, but as a human, I contend that's an incredibly useful bias to have.
Dollar cost averaging is a decent strategy in a bear market. You basically buy more and more shares for the same money as it goes down. You’ll have bought more shares at the bottom them at the top.
We are talking about average values with an high degree of deviation - so it is normal the values to be out of the average (“normality” never happens in meteorology).

The problem is how much and how often this happens: global warning is very likely to be caused by human activity.

Future looks ugly, everybody is (maybe unconsciously) afraid and at fault. And instead of looking for a solution I use my brain 40 hours/week to solve useless problems. Those who have also money send cars in the space. What could go wrong.
True. But law/accounting is similar to an MLM model, where the rain-makers kinda get paid some proportion of the hours billed of their subordinates.
> patents, as imperfect as they are, provide an infrastructure for integrating expensive R&D efforts (which don't result in tangible property), into markets, in a way that avoids free-riding

Preventing free-riding is just one means to the constitutional end of promoting the useful arts; it's one that imposes tremendous transaction costs on society. Another means to that end is for the law to say to innovators, what you've done here is nice, but your bringing it forward simply doesn't provide enough net societal benefit to warrant legally prohibiting your competitors from copying your work — so if you want to keep whatever competitive advantage your innovativeness gives you, then you'd better keep innovating, because your competitors might be gaining on you. (Pace Satchel Paige [0] and Thomas Jefferson [1].)

When a patent is issued, most of the time it's a single, junior civil servant who literally makes legally-binding industrial policy for the entire nation. At a minimum, patent applicants seeking such a private industrial policy should have to do, and document, a thorough prior art search, in the same way that Ph.D. candidates must do and document a literature search for their dissertations. The existing patent examination process is like requiring a Ph.D. candidate's adviser to do the literature search, and requiring the degree to be conferred if the adviser doesn't turn up anything — and of course in the patent world there's always the factor that "the antlike persistency of solicitors has overcome, and I suppose will continue to overcome, the patience of examiners, and there is apparently always but one outcome." [2] A false-positive issuance of a patent has somewhat-greater ramifications for society than a false-positive issuance of a doctorate.

[0] "Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you." http://www.satchelpaige.com/quote2.html

[1] In a famous 1966 opinion, the Supreme Court, citing Thomas Jefferson, said: "The patent monopoly was not designed to secure to the inventor his natural right in his discoveries. Rather, it was a reward, an inducement, to bring forth new knowledge. The grant of an exclusive right to an invention was the creation of society—at odds with the inherent free nature of disclosed ideas—and was not to be freely given. Only inventions and discoveries which furthered human knowledge, and were new and useful, justified the special inducement of a limited private monopoly. Jefferson did not believe in granting patents for small details, obvious improvements, or frivolous devices. His writings evidence his insistence upon a high level of patentability." Graham v. John Deere & Co., 383 U.S. 1, 9 (1966), https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=910565259149730...

[2] Lyon v. Boh, 1 F. 2d 48, 50 (S.D.N.Y. 1924) (Hand, L., J.), https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=969659756696519..., rev'd on other grounds, 10 F.2d 30 (2d Cir. 1926), https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=121904095703982...
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Wined3d probably can use Vulcan instead of OpenGL in the future. Did anyone start working on such a port?
Reminder: iCloud is entirely optional, even if Apple device provisoning UX uses dark patterns to hide the difference between App Store account (mandatory) and iCloud account (optional).

For E2E messaging, you can use Wire which works even on iPads or iPod touch that does not have a phone number. Create an email-only account from a desktop PC at http://app.wire.com, then use that to sign into mobile device.
OP is not saddened by the existence of air currents, but by 'wind' as an energy source, specifically the tall turbines that extract wind energy.

One thing that I do appreciate is that most wind energy installations bury their cables. It's only a few percent more expensive than poles, but looks so much better and has fewer maintenance needs. It's a tragedy of economics that we as a society have selected elevated transmission lines.
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I'd go with the all time great Canadian Gamer show: PurePwnage, from 2004, as the popularizer of the spoken term. Though it goes back to at least 1999 with the original CounterStrike and the term in text, then read aloud. I remember the shouts of 'pone' in the afterschool computer lounge from friends to at least 1999, if not earlier.

http://www.purepwnage.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_Pwnage

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pwn
This is not a simple subject, but I do wonder if a revenue based tax is going to be the only answer to fairly taxing the tech advertising giants. I don't want to penalize them, but the UK infrastructure they sell through and the basic law and order that allows them to flourish, all cost money.
Sure. Let's redefine "poor" to mean "not ultra-wealthy". That's useful.
My bike is exceptionally quiet, and I get constant flak from "fellow riders"[1] at work. When they call my bike a scooter because it's so quiet, that tells me a lot about why they bought their bike. When they then also claim that they only care about noise because of safety....

[1]: Who haven't been on their bikes in years.
Ok, I found this link which is interesting and agrees with the "Batteries bottleneck" version

https://insideevs.com/musk-says-biggest-model-3-bottleneck/

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“To date, our primary production constraint has been in the battery module assembly line at Gigafactory 1, where cells are packaged into modules.”
“We had to rewrite all of the software, from scratch. We managed to write 20 to 30 man-years of software in 4 weeks.”
Second on this.
One of the ways that people tend to construct arguments against a group (from my experience in the midwestern US) is to show contradiction in the other side's argument. This would be a legitimate argument if done fairly, but it seems people always take an unfair route by synthesizing across a group using two opposing inner-sects.
My father is often guilty of this, he will talk about "liberals" and I have to remind him that it's more than a little ridiculous to merge an entire political party (in the US, basically) into one viewpoint, treating a one-off statement by a high-schooler with the same value as the running candidate.
Why Is Influencer Marketing the New Black
The potential creepiness is worse than that. VINs follow a specific algorithmic format, so it's actually possible to make a website with all VINs!
That reason being the presence of long straight right-of ways and easy maintenance access, right?
> Now I see ads for foot fungus!

I noted that, too. Advertisers have become really good at tracking health-related issues. For example, some ten years ago, I bought some device on Amazon for coping with some sensory disability issue. I am still regularly getting ads for the same issue, even if I use the net in a mostly pseudonymous way.
To be fair, it’s almost uncommon to say an articulated ‘isto’ in colloquial spoken language.
That's not true. Many people in "developed" countries reduce their energy use, and their use of energy-intensive products, in order to help reduce climate forcing. And they've done so for decades.

However, it is true that too few people in "developed" countries do that. And it's also true that too many people in "less-developed" countries lust after energy-intensive lifestyles. So overall, its unlikely that overall climate forcing will decrease. Unless solar energy and battery usage take off exponentially enough.

Even worse, there's already enough CO2 in the atmosphere to drive substantial climate change. And the poles are warming fast enough to drive substantial CO2 and CH4 outgassing from melting permafrost.

So maybe it's just too late. And so maybe the rational option for those alive now is to party hearty. Russia and China probably like that path.
It's incredible.

I don't trust any of the closed source options.

Who wants to start a bounty on an open source replacement?
Aristotle wrote that all matter is composed of 5 elements

Popper wrote that society must be intolerant of intolerance

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/purdue-online-writing-lab-...
SwiftKey is on iOS, but I can't say I'd recommend it.
> The goal of the patent system is to get innovators to PUBLISH their solutions so that the public can benefit from them.

Yes, and here the patent system fails again. By far the most patents read as an exercise in obfuscation, and nothing like e.g. a handbook or scientific publication.
Sounds like a bunch of grumpy grandpas in here today.

"Those hogs are too loud!"
"My delicate hearing!"

I can agree though that the "loud pipes save lives" argument is silly.

The truth behind the loud Harley mystique though, is much simpler and obvious to those who have ever ridden one: crack that throttle and a smile is inevitable. It just feels good to ride a big, rumbling, thundering internal combustion engine. Yes, you might channel your inner knuckle dragging primate, but it doesn't mean you are one, or need to be one to understand it.
I'm in the same boat as you were. 16 years of being in the US and no green card in sight even though I've been approved thrice over. I could potentially become a permanent resident in 2022 but even that's not guaranteed at the rate the process is going. If I may ask, what was the tipping point that made you decide to move?
Actually, you might be onto sonething with Catholic Cheese. Wine is even better, you could tell the vintage by the seated pope
AI trained to spot heart disease risks using retina scan
<From throwaway account to avoid leaking personal info>

I feel so great for you! Finally, I am moving out. Enough dealing with the immigration crap here!

I waited for 8 years too. Didn't let immigration stall my career. Built a company, sold it to one of the top tech companies in Bay Area. Building another company to solve a really tough problem. But man it has been stressful! USCIS keeps getting hung up on technicality and makes it as difficult as possible to live here.

Meanwhile I have paid millions in taxes in US.

People who are in the lowest part of the value chain, will always find a loophole - there is too much money at stake and they don't have any other choice!

Accomplished people will move out or stop coming! US, keep doing this and eventually H1B will be just be a tool for cheap labor! Best talent from India, doesn't come to US anymore! And most of who are still here will move out!

I applied for EB-1. They need 3 criteria. Accepted 2 criteria (extra ordinary contribution to my field and leading role in organizations). They rejected the media and press criteria because most of the press about my company's acquisition, while mentioned me by name, was about the company and not me. And BTW I was Founder of the company and built it from scratch.

In any other country, one of the criteria that they accepted would have been enough.

If you are talented and from India, don't waste your life in US. Where ever you go, jobs will follow you. Move out as soon as you can!

Good bye US!
Quote: ... A poll of investment experts asked in late 2007 to forecast long-term common stock-market returns likely would have seen them guess, on average, close to the 8.5% actually delivered by the S&P 500,” he said

I fear people may misinterpret what Buffett said esp. for those who don't have memory far back enough. In 2007 I recall one could buy long term CDs at 7%. These were basically relatively riskless guaranteed returns for small investors. Nowadays the comparable returns are a little above 3%.

During the financial crisis many credits of financial companies were selling for a fraction of their face value. For example AIG bonds, or Bank of America subordinated debt. You could buy them for a whopping nominal interest rate north of 15%.

Even as late as 2011, during the muni market scare, one could buy California state taxable bonds and and California school bonds (federal and state tax-exempt) at about 8% interest rate. If one were a little more adventurous (and read up on the laws a little) one could have bought California muni bonds backed by redevelopment tax increments at close to 10% (and insured as well).

All these were safer than stocks at the time and delivered comparable returns. They were not meaningful if you have a portfolio the size of Buffett's, but they were good opportunities for small investors.
I like walking, and honestly, it makes me feel very happy to know that there are bikers who don't ride noisy bikes. There's nothing more depressing than being in what feels like a perfect wilderness, except the sound of motorbikes roaring through the valleys.
Better to just drop another drive in and press f8
But apparently fear of extinction doesn't lead people to leave their cars at home or to waste less...

Seems like the only reactions these fears cause are misguided and radical ones.
The image is correct. The information is sent over a classical channel, not using entanglement.
But not the H-2B visas that Trump uses for his properties. Hmm.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/7/20/16003254/t...
I just wanted to point out that there is a good explanation of SSTables B-trees and other database structures in a whoke chapter of the great book Designing Data-Intensive Applications, by Martin Klepmann.
I always hear people claiming tech is full of over-inflated salaries, then look at jobs in my area and see that people want a web-dev with 3-5 years of experience in specific frameworks and offer to pay about $82k/year.

Yeah ok guys, that's pretty inflated, innit /s?
I love how this thread is gradually devolving into a religious argument, exactly what the article was warning about in the first place.
I don't think it's wisdom to spend your time on seriously considering every bad take you ever hear.