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In the early years of Mao Zedong's China, the government appeared open and willing to listen to common people's ideas on how it should be run. Many, especially younger generations, were encouraged to openly express their opinions.

Shortly thereafter, Mao backtracked on the whole thing, surprising everyone, and labeled anyone who had spoken out as opposition; because people had publicly spoken out against the government, they were easily tracked down and imprisoned.[0]

What the government gives with one hand, it can easily take with the other. There is no reason to think such an event could not happen again, and that what you freely share today could be used against you at some time in the future.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Flowers_Campaign
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It appears that FB [edit: is attempting to patent] a questionnaire that allows them to guess your socioeconomic status from, for example, where you live, how old you are, and how many internet-connected appliances you have. Another argument for overhaul of the US patent system, and to delete the FB app.
I recently bought a Linx 14 from Tesco in the UK (https://www.tesco.com/direct/linx-14-ultraslim-full-hd-light...) which is Intel and I've been pleasantly surprised by how good it is! Particularly for the money! And an OS that I could get on with or give to my mum to use.
I suspect the majority of people implementing this stuff are either largely apathetic or are so thick they wouldn't ever see the bigger picture. Most wouldn't have a clue where to start with even the simplest of articles posted here.
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I worked from a 2.2m x 2.5m "pod" office once and it was great, but the views also helped. Imagine one wall being a massive screen window in the country side with views of a lake, and the opposite wall being mostly window, leading to a balcony overlooking and inside courtyard (where other pods also look into). The side walls were exposed brick and the ceiling was at a decent height. The entire building was an old Arabic courtyard house that had been restored.

Small spaces _can_ be amazing :)
Clean water is an exponentially larger problem than any single disease. From Flint, MI to Malawi, no one is going to listen to any aid worker about anything else if they’re dying due to lack of clean drinking water.

https://www.charitywater.org/global-water-crisis/
This is a frustration I have with my current position. I'm the second most experienced person on the team, and most knowledgeable about our platform. And I'm...not that experienced or knowledgeable. Big fish, small pond has never appealed to me. It gives me no one to check my ideas with, and pulls me, as much as I consciously resist, down the path to being a know-it-all Dunning-Kreuger assbutt.
Is this ethical?
Wasn't part of the promise of Bitcoin that no single entity or cabal would control it? It would be a distributed platform, owned by the masses?
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I'm assuming it would be easier having one IPv6 address used only by a single application, that's why. Amazon/Google services would be less affected then. There's a whole different question if government would bother to be that precise, still.
Normally I would agree, but we are talking about Oracle.
I don't know if Trello still works this way after the spinoff from Fog Creek and subsequent Atlassian acquisition, but I visited Trello's NYC office and they had a similar setup to Fog Creek's. Trello also has a significant number of remote employees.
Exactly. It's risk free.

If you become successful people will use it as bragging rights. Otherwise you go back and finish the degree and no one hears about it.
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NBA playoffs just began, so I need a better way to watch live game when I'm working. I have created a NBA CLI called nba-go before, but I found that isn't good enough.
Therefore, I build an electron based menubar app named "NBA Bar". This is much more convenient than CLI, and it has a nice GUI for better user experience. It's totally free and open source, and it recently supports macOS and Windows.

Here is the repo: https://github.com/xxhomey19/nba-bar

Hope you like it!
My apologies. At the time, I was expressing my distaste for what I view as an over-zealously regarded sentiment here, but I did mistake you for the above user :)
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Can you recommend a good place to get new 18650 cells? I live in Norway.

I’ve been wanting to order some but obviously don’t want to buy them from some rando off of eBay because I don’t trust that they will

1. actually be new, and

2. that even if they are new they won’t explode in my face
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Popularity to a certain extent is a prerequisite for viability. Given problem X, and given that language Y is the most suitable language to solve problem X, how likely are you to chose language Y to solve it? If you are unaware of language Y's existence? If you have heard of Y on a internet forum but have seen zero lines of language Y code? If you have written 10 lines of language Y but you are the only dev at your company to have done so, and all other code at your company is written in Z?

The more popular Y is the easier it is to choose, not because we are pop culture, popularity hounds but because popularity conveys certain benefits. Libraries and infrastructure, documentation and blogs, knowledge in other people on the team. That is why large companies are able to so successfully produce new languages, they are able to pay people to convey those benefits without the chicken and egg problem of natural growth popularity. For an interesting example of this D is almost the same age as C#(2001 vs 2000). D had to grow its user base and tools organically vs C# hitting the ground with thousands of devs working on an in it full time.
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Don’t worry, we’re used to it. (I’m a straight white male)
It absolutely matters. Maybe it doesn’t matter to YOU, and that’s great, but it absolutely matters.

Racism is alive and well in this world, and saying it doesn’t exist does nothing to defeat it.
I fell into the trap of subscribing to the WSJ once. When you want to cancel your subscription, you have to call an international number where they try and stop you from canceling. There is no way to cancel online -- not only annoying but also against Dutch law.
Thank you! This approves the gradual release thesis, although I am surprised that no communication was made by GitHub.
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Wow, this looks and sounds great.
Yes universal references take a while to understand. I read Scott Meyer's book and the chapter dedicated to it took some getting used to, and note taking.

The language is dealing with some tricky concepts. To hide them or try to gloss over them would lead to writing virtual machines and bloated memory usage etc. in the style of C# / Java.

How else would you deal with movement of variables and when an rvalue becomes an lvalue inside a function?
This is the intended behaviour and something Github Pages users have been asking a long time for:
https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/156

It's using LetsEncrypt under the hood, and only generating a cert for the custom cname pointing at the Github page.
"We will undertake a full lifecycle analysis of Mylo™ prior to large scale commercial rollout, and we look forward to sharing those findings with the world."

I'm assuming this also means finding out how long 'til it disintegrates.
This strikes me as ironic, because Zulip started as a SaaS project. Much of the current cruftiness perceived in the install process is likely because earlier generations of the Zulip codebase were written with the presumption of developers in the same team being the ones deploying it.

SaaS itself is the cancer killing usable software installations, not the other way around, IMO.
So this is for Clojurist who want to try Clojurescript? That's what is screaming.
Looks like rebranded Chinese laptop. Some Chinese companies sell very decent low-budget laptops (Chuwi, Teclast, Jumper, etc.) and some have full Linux support (according to reviews [1]).

[1] https://techtablets.com/
> ... retro computer in the photo...

I don't think it was retro when the photo was taken.
I have to maintain other people's code, people who have left the company and not commented it. It is horrible to do, but it is possible. It's even better if they wrote it in a logical way.
Email predates google, however I don't thing the services would be anything alike without the bigger players. Initialy email was just a communication tool, however it quickly evolved to be sold as a feature on various hosting provides or was "thrown in" a more general package just to be feature par in attempt to bring in more people to use the service. This is not really directly related to online ads, however just shows that it's comercialized one way or another.

Open street map is a great example, along with wikipedia and numerous open source projects which are either backed by some foundations or collect donations and membership fees. The broader scope here is that while this is a better approach for the world, as long as there is the possibility to earn a buck on some service, there will be a comercial version of it. Guess capitalism just works that way.
The reason that COBOL developers get big bucks today is because so few of them remain. During the late-80s and the '90s, there were massive layoffs that decimated the COBOL job market.

This if false, I work at a company that still employees several hundred cobol developers onshore, and many hundreds more offshore. This is down from > 1,000 several years aog. Cobol pay is mediocre, here it's around $75k at the 10 year mark. Plus they're subject to being RIF'ed and any time (reduction in force, layed off).

The idea that there's a shortage is false too. In the local market there are several hundred if not thousands of cobol developers who have been laid off over the past couple of decades. Most probably left the field entirely.

I see no reason to believe this local experience is not typical of the US in general.
True on all counts, but it might make the person actually doing the search question their own motives for doing so. Just because they have the power to conduct random warrantless searches with no prior suspicion (which I totally abhor as it likely leads to racial profiling, like Stop and Search here in the UK), does not mean they need to use it.

Then again, I'm a university-educated white male. It'll probably never happen to me, but will disproportionately to others.
The data keeps telling us too, maybe we should listen to it, even if it makes you feel uncomfortable.
I went to msnbc to confirm that autoplaying content was blocked...only to find that the video is set to start playing when you scroll the page, as well. Jesus.
This cuts both ways though. Sure, if you learn Java you'll be likely to find employment.

If you learn Java and also Scala and Clojure, and some Haskell and R just to round out your experience, then you will find a much higher paying job regardless of what language you end up doing, because you'll not only be better at programming in a "standard" job but you'll become eligible for more niche, higher-paying positions.
>> At least you looked it up like I suggested

> Don't flatter yourself. I had read that article or another like it years ago.

Really?

Wikipedia:

> With a sufficiently light bike (especially a bicycle), the rider can initiate a lean and turn without using the handlebars by shifting body weight

You:

> Every article you'll find will point out that on a light vehicle like an bicycle you don't need to countersteer with the handlebars and can achieve the same effect by weight shifting

That's an astonishing amount of paraphrasing for something you read "years ago". I think we both know that "minutes ago" is more likely to be true.
I like this, but 2018 Internet is essentially needing this for every website you visit.
I think they should just add a line in the UI instead of hiding the info deep in tickets or issue, but that's a mere communication issue.
Overall, it's not surprising, and actually good for the user.

On letsencrypt.org:

In Progress:
These large providers are currently rolling out support for Let’s Encrypt for custom domains.
You may or may not be able to enable support in their control panel,
or you might notice certificates have recently been issued for your domains hosted with these services.

Blogger
GitHub Pages

https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/156#issuecomment-366...
https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/web-hosting-who-support-...

and so on.
If VB6==VBA then we're including Excel power users, and there are a lot of them.
You don't need CloudFlare anymore, as Github are gradually rolling out native https support for Github Pages with custom domains (using LetsEncrypt)
If you have a force pushing it onto the road wouldn't that suffice to make it steerable?
> there is A LOT of idle capacity

The MTA's biggest problems right now are overcrowding and old, crumbling infrastructure, not idle capacity.

This article just pointed out we're chasing our tails so much on those 2 problems we don't even think about (gasp) adding new subway lines, although it argues because we're more committed to cars as a form a transit.

> rethinking of above ground transportation, congestion, flexible work hours, whatever, etc.

Since the Bloomberg Era the city transportation dept has added thousands of miles of bike lanes but there's not much more it can do to "rethink" above-ground transportation.

Flexible work hours are just a nonstarter for most companies. Starbucks going to let you start your shift late? Goldman Sachs? No.

> where the only goal was a twist on the status quo,

What constitutes a twist? What specific policy proposals would change the reality of public transit? DeBlasio proposed a Brooklyn trolley line -- the kind of "out of the box" thinking you're proposing -- and it's gotten nowhere.

> I didn't notice anything here about off-hours / peak-hours pricing

The pricing is always the same it's just that the trains run at different frequencies. During rush hour they can come every 3-4 minutes, in the middle of the night every 30 minutes.

There are no magical fixes to NYC's transit problems. It just requires more money (via higher taxes) and better management.
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This would have been better as a poll. https://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll

The people submitting the article don't always know it's paywalled. Either they have a subscription; or they haven't hit their article limit this month; or the article is free for a few days and paywalled later.

So any tagging would be inconsistent.
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Absolutely. And once you get that reaction, all you need to do to drive the privacy message home is to ask 'and why not?'

No other words need to be said after that point, even if they can't come up with an answer.
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Congrats on a major release I guess but, it's still Electron
Yes I think it is, but it doesn't have such visible iterations as the Chuwi (which went from having to take the bottom off to get to the SSD and then adding a flap) and having indeterminate specs from the sellers, or having bad reviews where the screen scratched on the body when hinged open.

At least with this one, the specifications are on a reputable seller's website and the Linx company is a UK Ltd company; the box it came in and tiny manual were good quality, unlike some of the Dells I have ordered!

I was pleasantly surprised! Impressed by the lack of bloatware on it too.
> He didn’t face constant questions about whether he could actually do something

Actually he is being questioned right now in OP's subtle statement that it was his 'rich whiteness' that was responsible for his success.
Considering black people were still living under Jim Crow just 11 years prior to 1976, it would have been impossible for a black person to enjoy the sorts of privileges that come from having rich and successful parents.

No one is devaluing his accomplishments, they are calling the article out for pretending he’s some kind of special snowflake, when in reality he had been dealt an ideal hand in life.

Articles like this remove all historical context to convince lower middle class people of all races that it just takes dropping out college and faking it to you make it to get what you want. This is not to say that there isn’t some truth to that, but let’s be real about the massive head start Gates got, so we aren’t just ultimately implying that poor people are lazy and deserve their lot in life, because if rich white boy Bill Gates can do it, anyone no matter how poor, unlucky, underfunded their public education or broken their family is can do it too.

I’m not saying people should just whine and accept their bad luck and victimize themselves either, you have to play the hand your dealt to the best of your ability, but articles like this just perpetuate a contextless ashistorical lie to sell to other mediocre neolibs.
Even side windows block ~65% of UV light, it's really more about exposure though as people may spend a lot more time driving than walking outside.
You have it backwards, the "no barriers" mainly came from being wealthy. I'll give a small anecdote: One of my friends is from a very wealthy family. He is a person of color. He was still able to gain admission to an elite boarding school, now works for a prestigious company, is respected by his peers, etc.

Privilege mainly comes from wealth. Of course it is a serious problem in society when certain groups have disproportionate poverty or less wealth, because that indicates some structural cause.

However in the modern day that cause is simply the fact that most people, regardless of skin color, do not move out of their parents' income decile. And when one group is already more economically disenfranchised than other groups, then that economic disenfranchisement will perpetuate itself.
Google Pittsburgh is like this in many places. I like it.
It hasn't been challenged yet, and it likely wont be. Basically, Facebook (and other companies) patent stuff so if they are sued they can counter sue. Essentially, causing a kind of nuclear war for the companies (think Apple and Samsung).

The whole point is to avoid conflict. Even if it's not enforceable it might cost a few hundred thousand to million dollars to fight it.
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When it comes to Apple being behind in machine learning, perception is all that matters. Technical explanations about how Apple makes choices that preserve privacy are irrelevant. Actual head-to-head tests showing that Apple is ahead in some areas and behind in others are irrelevant. All that matters is that we all know that Apple is behind in machine learning.
> rich white kid

Excuse me, but was Bill Gates back then or is the article right now being discriminative against the people without the privileges he had? The article rather depicts him as an influential figure that encourages all people to have "self-confidence", not confidence in their wealth or whiteness.

This comment, on the contrary, suggests people with the privilege to think twice before establishing any business, which is rather discouraging for those people, and detrimental for the community's well-being.
This is a very interesting video that debunks some common theories of how the bicycle balancing works, and also proposes some extra insights (although no definitive theory yet)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NcZCzr9ExKk

Also see this one for extra footage of the Gyroless, "trail-less" TMS bicycle that still manages to balance itslef

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LbeENKn5kZU
Ha. That seems like a good joke.

Try doing online dating as a White Guy and then doing it as an Asian guy: I can 100% assure you the response rate and experience is going to be wildly different.
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It is also true that having money makes it much easier to be more involved in your child’s life.
I don't get it - they broke the computer didn't they? So why is this Apple's problem to fix it?

Can you imagine if a car company tried to pull this? Oh, your car is broken, we don't sell parts, you gotta buy an entire new car everytime. Hmm, no.
Not a 'tech company' per se, but at SEI / CERT research we had our own offices.
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That all depends on which process will be cheaper and which material will have the most desirable properties. I certainly hope the competition fosters better products in the end.
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All these discussions are useless as long as there is no objective way of measuring the quality of a programming language.
I'm thinking of something along the lines of 'The Invention of Lying' but I don't think I can imagine anything worse...
Capital helps. Being in the right place at the right time helps (along with connections).

Being brilliant, having a vision, and working hard for decades helps significantly more than all of the above.
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> C and C++ devs can be hired for Rust positions

In my experience, this is very untrue. Knowing C++ does not make learning Rust any easier than knowing Java.
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I see Docker / your container tech of choice as a solution to this. Your server can still run whatever distro, and a specific app can run a different one.

This can be annoying from the sysadmin perspective, since there are now multiple operating systems to take care of, but at the same time, the developer may not be able to produce builds for all distros their users would like.

Ubuntu is a fine choice IMHO, given the above. But yeah, some debs / ppa would be nice.
It's also extremely unhealthy. I've never been so sick in my entire life as since I started this job a year ago. Literally herded like cattle into an open air room with hundreds of other people from all around the world coughing and sneezing in your face all day. I'll never ever accept another position with this kind of setup.
This probably wouldn't hold up in court because it's essentially doing something marketers have been doing forever, but on a computer[1].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_re_Bilski
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My best insight on what is driving the opposition is contained in a book by Zillow researchers called “Zillow Talk”. Basically, housing shortages drive up home values.
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This is great news!

At my employer, we're currently using btrfs in production for deduplication. It's relatively stable nowadays, but fragmentation and maintenance are massive issues for our use case.
We wanted something that was more in line with our product vision. We hope to be a major unit of account, functioning as a basis of value.