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>But I need a job right now!..you say. Stop that short term thinking. Unless your job involves you working with really smart people that you can learn from every day, on technologies that are relevant and current (few junior developer roles offer you this), your time would be better invested learning skills to get out of the junior mindset.

This is the sort of predicament I'm in currently, and I've been thinking along the same lines as the author. Sure, I could jump to another junior role where I learn slightly more, or work with slightly more modern tech, but the number of job switches in anyone's career is limited. So I've been busting my butt trying to learn everything I need to to make a more substantial move, at the expense of staying at my current place with no team and not very many challenges.

It's a bit soul crushing in the short term but I think it will pay off in the long run.

Any ETA for the release of the course he mentions?
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It was open-sourced, so reddit's alternative would be reddit... IIRC, the main competitor (voat) is based off of that source.
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> For me the first realization is that puting files on Drive is considered publishing.

Putting stuff on Drive isn't publishing in the usual sense, but Drive can be (and often is) used for publishing, just like every file storage service that makes it possible to share a link to access stores files ever has been.

It's not clear if all the issues are with shared rather than merely stored content, but it certainly seems that the primary context of the issues in TFA is shared content.
In most of the articles which i read or have have linked in the blog, most of them were about KPTI being the mitigation for the meltdown fix.

Actually now, with context switch to kernel mode, we now have to load the page table entries ( process + kernel ) which will essentially mean flushing of the TLB. But this is a side effect of the mitigation and not the main mitigation.

https://lwn.net/Articles/741878/
I need GNUPG to encrypt messages from my friends when we brainstorm ideas and inventions. So I use Thunderbird with Engimail I have Yahoo and Gmail accounts and set up message filters.

I'd like to have a webmail address that does GNUPG on it, but the average user does not use encryption.

Also I dislike having to give out my cell phone to verify because I get junk calls when they sell my info.
Which is itself meta-interesting, as it is a "style of joke" done by others (and a far as I'm concerned, often better), such as Rob Paravonian.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM
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You're right, so much for following guides on the internet to optimize things.
Such galleries in my opinion already exist and simply require an afternoon hitting github for "* awesome (list)" with every topic you've listed. Then devoting enough self-teaching time to learn the material. These lists tend to be curated by domain experts and are already in a structured format suitable to the domain.

Here's 1 such example from the 1st result from a Google search for "github awesome security list":

https://github.com/sbilly/awesome-security
How can Facebook change when it exists to exploit personal data?
And together with the tool gasmask on Mac OS the list is a perfect tool to really block FB.
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And no one without a PhD in applied mathematics will use it, unless it is ergonomic enough.

Ada's failure in the mainstream, besides the compiler prices and hardware requirements of old systems, is lack of support for cowboy programming, so loved by users of languages like C, JavaScript, PHP and other similar ones.
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Ask the people arrested and jailed for posession of cannabis. I mean, both you and the parent comment are right: we, the people, shall resist; but we, the people, must also do our best to prevent such legislation come to pass.
The nissan.com website is, at a glance, a funny curiosity of the 1990s internet, something that seems silly at first. But it was a much more personal fight for Uzi Nissan, and a worrying reminder of how much a big company or anyone with a lot of power and money has over someone who doesn’t—right or wrong.

Yeah, something is wrong with the US legal system. The case could have been dismissed at the outset. He owned the name; his was a computer company, theirs a car company.
To be honest, I first learned about using spreadsheets because my mother worked in insurance - not as an actuary but as one of the people under the actuarial department. Lotus 1-2-3 was the norm not only for that office but the industry. As she was retiring, Excel was becoming big (because the standard OS moved from DOS to Windows), and Excel was just starting overtake Lotus. When it's been an SOP for more than 30 years to the point that they can reliably teach the basic use of these sheets in colleges/universities? You're not highly likely to shift it in an established corp.
No no no, we can't have this, that's too old fashioned!

Proper way to do this is to create an image processing SaaS around these scripts, announce to store the filter presets on blockchain and create a marketplace platform for filter creators, have a $50M ICO, spend the cash on lambos, and fail awesomely.

EDIT: Ok, I just didn't scroll far enough :)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16668686
Years ago, in the 70's, we came across a bug where some program would skip every other input line. When asked to fix it, the responsible programmer went away and within a few minutes reported back that she fixed it. When we told her it was still broken she referred us to the updated documentation, which now said "the input should be double spaced". The said program was used this way for years after.
Can you provide some context?
That's a fine theory, but to claim you know this with certainty I think is a much larger claim than you realize. What exactly makes humans behave they way they do is extremely complex - some people may behave exactly for the reason you describe, others may not, anyone that says they know for sure is not telling the truth (although that doesn't necessarily mean they're lying).
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For what it's worth, Hubzilla is working on getting an ActivityPub API up soon.

They're also looking to implement OpenID2 so it can be used to log into websites just like Facebook currently can.
Let's be real, it's a more descriptive term. Plus it isn't slang like SJW (and in many circles a slur). So yeah it's a better term when discussing these things.
something that might happen in the future and where guns might help.

So because something it's unlikely to happen you shouldn't take steps to protect you against it? Why having insurance, for instance?
>voices in their head are being beamed in by the government.

Good point! Maybe they should also work on a lizard-person suit, or the technology to actually replace all of someone's family with robots, to help those "paranoid delusions" along.
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I can't see anything wrong with the opt-out screen during Android setup [1]

The option you refer to says, "Help improve your Android experience by automatically sending diagnostic and usage data to Google."

There is a separate option which says in part, "Anonymous location data will be sent to Google, even when no apps are running".

That seems pretty clear to me - I can't see any dark pattern.

[1] https://fscl01.fonpit.de/userfiles/6473479/image/Nexus_5_mar...
Google is the source of most of those ads. think about it.
Hmm just tried it for audio and nothing I found in three audio-related lists off the curated awesome list of awesome lists even mentioned sox. I do think you suggest a good search strategy in very new areas, but I don't think it's quite the same thing as presented in the grandparent.

Personally I discovered a lot of great tools in my distribution's package management database.
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Just imagine back before that chunk of 101 was even a freeway. US 101 was Monterey Road. That stretch from just south of IBM to San Martin was literally known as "Blood Alley", averaging a death per month.
I agree. I think ImageMagick is available as a library too for other languages
> It only became an offensive word once people started lampooning it

Yes, words only become slurs by being used as slurs, and many words that have become slurs were earlier terms preferred or accepted by the people it is now used as a source against.
It only assumes that including incorrect results isn’t catastrophic for the end result, and that using mostly correct results will give a mostly correct outcome. If that isn’t the case I’d compute every block 2..n times instead.
No, your idea of insurance company role is totally wrong. It still you vs Uber.
> How is a spreadsheet scalable for a large organization?

Just gonna focus on this part here. The last offices I worked in (and the last places I even dealt with tech stuff beyond teaching it to primary-schoolers), "Track Changes" was simply a godsend. One person "owned" the spreadsheet and could allow use or not; and we had it hosted on OneDrive - of course we all had the OneDrive client on our work PCs and it could tie into Excel natively, so we were all using the same document.

If the entirety of a large org needs the same spreadsheet, you're probably looking at a scenario where they really need multiple sheets, but haven't figured out how to do references to other files and sheets yet. But using Track Changes and having one person designated as Owner so that that one individual makes a decision to approve/disapprove all potential changes makes it much easier to let multiple people work together.

> What happens when this person leaves?

That's a management / succession-planning issue. Ad-hoc solutions shouldn't be kept secret, and allowing employees to just go off and do as they please in that regard is a major issue. If all work-related documents are required to be stored in the company cloud, and you storing a new doc alerts your manager, etc., you'll be able to deal with this much easier. One place I worked for a few weeks on a project did a reset on employee's terminals every Friday at around 7PM, and anyone who claimed they lost data or progress from that on Monday was in trouble, because they didn't save company-related data to the document & data server (which obviously did not get reset) - meaning they'd done something against company policy that they'd been told about the day they were hired.
What happens when 3 cops know it and 10 cops don’t? Warrior mentality + sudden noises = dead civilians, particularly PoC
I work in a corporate environment in business intelligence and this rings true. This year we are tasked with retiring an arbitrary number of reports (mostly old Crystal reports) since they take too much of our time to maintain them. This will mean telling business partners that we are shutting down their reports, which in turn will cause them to create more Excel spreadsheets and Access databases. And in the process there will be the "heat loss" described in the article.
https://github.com/beetlebugorg/mod_dims/wiki

Backed by Imagemagick. We usually run it behind a CDN like Akamai or Cloudfront but you can also use Apache httpd’s built-in file caching.
My main complaints with Gmail are, 1) snooping content and metadata; 2) resisting anonymity; and 3) nuking accounts without recourse.

For anonymizing identity and metadata, I use Tor. Which I access via nested VPN chains, just in case. To secure content, I use GnuPG. That is, Thunderbird with Enigmail and TorBirdy. I've found both vfemail.net and cock.li to be decent no-bullshit providers, and both have Tor onion mail servers.

Sure, some of your correspondents may use Gmail. But there won't be anything useful for Google to see.
But if someone can access your email, they can already reset your password anyway. So email is the Golden Gate to your services in general, regardless of whether you use this approach. And the URLs that are sent out would not just be simple things that you could look at and remember and then go type them into some other computer.

It comes down to ultimate safety for users and development time for vendors. I personally feel much safer knowing that some startup is not having to provide security on their own and store and manage my password and control all the things that my email provider does anyway. Because if that startup is hacked, there's much less likelihood of hackers walking away with credentials they can use later to access my account.

Social sign on offers similar reliability and development benefits. The difference is that in my experience a lot of people are quite hesitant to use a social service like facebook to sign onto a site that otherwise contains important personal data. But I do typically work with customers who are older, so they're less likely to understand these kinds of practices. A very common misconception that I've heard many many times is people who think that because you login with a Gmail or a Facebook OAuth, that means you're giving those companies access to your account on our app. Seems silly, but a very common misconception.
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> causal property

"assembling a copy of yourself" is a description you are imposing on a series of events.

The events in the case of a digital computer are certain oscillations to the electric field. That shares nothing with the chemical assembly of biological material
So, for all intents and purposes, shut themselves out of the European market?
Can see a volt meter on the side of the road in on of the links pics. Wonder if the first responder use that or was it this employee Tesla sent. Do you find a ground and check a metal part?
Thech giants never stole the web. Governments have just failed to regulate them or failed to see the power they get with their currently vast scale. They need laws and a set of ethical rules people will leave them for breaking.
There is literally nothing new about facebooks invasive practices in all this news (except that CA took their lunch money).

I have a feeling all this coverage is driven by quite a bit of schadenfraude from the traditional media.

This coverage is well deserved, but I am sad that people are only taking notice now.
Also scary is entering 85 (either direction) from El Camino near Bernardo

I don't understand this. Entering northbound 85 is just an average single-lane ramp -- are you concerned about competing with what little traffic is exiting 85 to Evelyn?

And taking 85 southbound is just a basic cloverleaf ramp to the right -- are you concerned with merging traffic from the 85 northbound offramp?

Neither of those particular use cases would be a problem but for the numerous transplants who can't freaking merge.

The other direction's onramp to 85 southbound became a messy hairpin a year or two ago after the construction.
I'm usually down by 1 am, and up at 9 am weekdays. My fit bit says I get about 7 hours sleep during that period. Most weeks I have 1-2 days where I take an afternoon nap of about an hour.
> You make a good point that people sometimes simply dismiss differing ideas because "they're wrong" with little basis -- these kind of shortcuts are generally necessary in life (you'd never get anything done if you didn't sometimes use heuristics to assess the value of an argument)

YES! The problem is, who besides you and I realize this, nowadays? As far as I can tell, and believe me I'm sincerely looking for it, I feel like people are falling into some sort of a zombie state. Reddit has been like this for quite some time now, I honestly think it is spreading to HN now, at least on any topic that has a non-technical, non-purely-objective component.

> However, I'd just like to say that your previous comment didn't give me much of an impression that you're happy to engage in a debate -- how on earth can I participate in a conversation with you when your comment is 18 words, and I have no clue what you're trying to express? That is why I responded: because I had no clue what you were trying to say, but I was curious.

That's me lashing out at you due to my frustration with the new culture of close-mindedness around here. 100% wrong on my part no doubt, but being reasonable doesn't do shit so might as well join the party and get an adrenalin shot I guess is my thinking.

> If somebody downvotes you simply for having a different opinion, they're breaking HN rules

That didn't used to be true, because there have been discussions about just that. Currently, it's not even mentioned in Guidelines or FAQ afaict. (I've been breaking a few of these lately tbh.)

> So if you get downvoted, your comments might be poor quality

My main frustration is, you can post a substantive, reasoned comment, and rather than a reasoned disagreement, just downvotes. And fast. That by itself is not so big a deal, it's the intellectual swagger (my interpretation, of course) that so many people carry, but can't piece together a decent argument. Again, this is pretty much what reddit has become, but it's sad to see even HN isn't immune.

> I apologize for misjudging you based on your previous comment.

I can be a jerk from time to time.

Thanks for replying by the way, encountering someone who actually thinks, even if it's differently than me (not that it's the case here), helps restore my faith in humanity.
have you tried vips as an alternative to imagemagick? it's pretty amazing.
Proudness is quite an unimportant emotion when the betterment of human society is at stake. In fact, there are tons of examples where proudness leads to blindness (most probably close to 100% of the time). I personally explicitly try not to be proud of anything to avoid any oversight.

Anyways, its interesting to see how people frequently forget about progress and hold on to old ideas. They forget the importance of continuously fixing problems. They also forget that usually the solution to a problem is usually the simplest one (especially one that's been proven).
You've asserted several times that 'djanago' believes that "all opinions are equal" and that "all opinions are as correct as any other opinion", but I'd be willing to bet that he does not. More likely, he believes something closer to "the government should not be in the business of censoring opinions" and "people have a right to speak their opinion even if that opinion is unpopular and wrong".

If phrased this way, do you still disagree?
I had the same though when I first read about the microwave auditory effect:

"In his experiments, the subjects were discovered to be able to hear appropriately pulsed microwave radiation, from a distance of a few inches to hundreds of feet from the transmitter. [...] According to Frey, the induced sounds were described as 'a buzz, clicking, hiss, or knocking, depending on several transmitter parameters, i.e., pulse width and pulse-repetition rate'. By changing transmitter parameters, Frey was able to induce the 'perception of severe buffeting of the head, without such apparent vestibular symptoms as dizziness or nausea'."

"In 1975, an article by neuropsychologist Don Justesen discussing radiation impacts on human perceptions referred to an experiment by Joseph Sharp and Mark Grove at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research during which Sharp and Grove reportedly were able to recognize 9 out of 10 words transmitted by 'voice modulated microwaves'."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_auditory_effect
That's such an often repeated and weird argument. Censorship isn't dangerous because of who is doing it but because of what it does. Censorship inhibits the spread of information and ideas, thus inhibiting the democratic process.

YouTube is effectively a monopoly. You can upload your video elsewhere, but next to nobody will see it. That gives YouTube equal censorship power as a government censor. We should be equally appalled by it.
How would you notice a skill waning if you aren't using it at the time?
The whole system where all of these projects generally go towards some form of advertising where we convince people to buy things they don't really need is a far worse form of heat loss than this. Buying the latest shiny smartphone every year isn't just the heat loss of thousands of engineers making it slightly thinner, it's the actual loss of all the resources that went into last year's batch of smartphones that end up in a landfill somewhere.

And yet, none of this is really a loss as people need something that feels important to do with their time, and building that new smartphone that is the world's thinnest definitely feels like you're making accomplishments. And people are pretty happy when they open the box and see their new smartphone.

Moving corporate resources around is just one more step in a world we don't truly need, but which we create for ourselves anyway. In this case, it's part of the game of proving that our company has the biggest numbers so that our share holders get a smile on their faces when they open their retirement portfolios.
Did you see Avatar in 3D? It was much more than just characters.
>which is because it did not have a catastrophic outcome at the time

The problem with that statement is that you believe it was a catastrophic outcome. For the first time in history, media and new technology is able to instantly tell you if the president has so much as sneezed while the sitting president is a (highly controversial) Republican. Obama was considered a nightmare scenario for the American right, and if you listened to the right outlets, you heard every single one of Obama's missteps. Every poor decision, embarrassing association, or undelivered promise was constantly paraded as grounds for impeachment, but social media and what many consider "neutral" news sources have a noticeable progressive bent, and the Obama administration got the benefit of the doubt more often than not.

The Obama administration deported more undocumented immigrants than every past president minus HW Bush combined. The Obama administration killed over 3700 people (over 300 of which were civilians) in drone strikes. In that regard, Obama reportedly said that it "Turns out I’m really good at killing people. Didn’t know that was gonna be a strong suit of mine." Attorney General Eric Holder was the first US cabinet member to be held in contempt of Congress, and Obama exercised executive privilege to support Holder's decision to withhold documents pertaining to Fast and Furious.

Most US citizens who actively use social media don't know those things (among many other controversies) happened, but they sure as shit know that "Donald Trump gets two scoops of ice cream", and constantly beat the dead "covfefe" horse; you can swipe right on Snapchat or Twitter to that social media company's curated news page and instantly hear every single slip-up and hot take that Trump has. This notion of a "catastrophic outcome" largely exists because for the first time, news outlets are at odds with the administration in the age of mass media.
What legal system are you thinking of? I don't really see myself getting in legal trouble for revealing someone's contact information to a third party. It's a pretty normal thing to do. If I knew your phone number, and somebody else asked me for it, what's stopping me from telling them?