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> everyone who writes software or designs computer products should spend some time doing tech customer support.

As someone who's done both, oh yes please, come into "the trenches" and see how customer-facing support, even at the enterprise level, is done and what demands and limitations we face. I have a story on this.

I used to work support for a large technology company in the big company software division. Our support tools were pretty limited. We could get logs, we could try to make sense of them, we could ask our peers, and, In Case Of Emergency Break Glass, we could send an inquiry to the developers. This one developer for this one component kept getting upset with us about "how hard could it be" and all that.

The problem was, the logs for that component were obtuse. They'd just say "ERR852019" or something like that and we couldn't have access to the source code or symbols to go look it up ourselves and our entreaties for a list of ERR codes was met with "we'll do it when we get to it." Finally, that group hired somebody new and a manager somewhere had the bright idea to send the new guy down to us (support was in a different area, many states away, as these things usually are) to see if the new guy could "straighten us out."

We unloaded on him. Poor sod. But, he went away with a vision. He realized the staggering amount of time, effort, and, yes, money being spent on us sitting around getting yelled at by the customers with no real way to help them other than poking the program with a stick and seeing what happened.

He championed our cause to that development team and, later, as he moved through the company, made support a priority, if not a focus. Logs stopped just saying "[DATE] [TIME] ERR91" and included full error messages and file paths and even abbreviated stack traces. Senior people on the support teams got access to source code so we could find the error strings and figure out what the program was doing. We even got mini tools we could use to tweak the program to get better logging or maybe even fix the problem for the customer instead of making the (overloaded) development team do it. And the big payoff? We bothered the development people less with "this is making a funny noise" and brought them quality bugs with, in some cases, proposed fixes that saved them time.

Oh, and people from the development team started coming down to sit with us "in the trenches" once a year or so.
Possibly but that would also put downwards pressure on the rents/house prices in the high cost of living areas.

Supply and demand, if I could earn 90% of a London salary in the North of England I'd be about 13500-20,000 better off.
I recently acquired a DeskCycle and so far it seems like a great solution to this problem. It's much cheaper and less bulky than a treadmill desk and fit under my existing desk with minimal reconfiguration.

The only problem is that I now have to wear shorts to work or I get excessively sweaty during the day, so it may not be feasible in less permissive work cultures.
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Styled Components is a CSS in JS library. It generates classes from your CSS and inject them into components. This is much more complicated than adding a `<style />` tag in your component!
Exactly this. I make well into six figures, but only recently. I’ve got a bunch of student loan debt to pay off, I don’t own a house. If I got laid off tomorrow, my family would have serious financial problems within a few months of living off of savings.

I’m doing well, but I’m by no means rich. Now give me another ten years and it’s a different story.
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I wouldn't have thought this until I had kids, who "forced" me to greatly expand my social milieu beyond my fellow geeks and musicians.

Our kids got involved in some activities (e.g., violin lessons) that are almost exclusively the domain of the upper middle class. I remember attending a large group recital with maybe 100 kids, and virtually none of them were obese.
This man famously has a series of videos where he intentionally confronts border security. It doesn't always go like that, here's where he gets tazed and beaten by using similar tactics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toKIxkgnAV4
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Education is the 2nd largest expenditure in California:

https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/piechart_2018_CA_statel...

Number 1 expenditure in Texas:

https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/piechart_2018_TX_statel...

People perceive education to be underfunded, but digging at the data it definitely is one of the Government's highest spending priorities...
I noticed this happening at several grocery stores and some big box stores. With the grocery stores, 4 out of 5 times, the clerk will say something along the lines of "Oh I was looking for something like this" or "Oh that looks good, what are you using it for?"

One check out person, who seemed fairly new, ask me where I found a cleaning sponge... this was just a regular green sponge with blue on the other side for pots and pans. Ever since that time, their chit chat often seems forced.
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Does it have apps for mobile to share-save? Pretty important. The following would make me move from Pocket; Support for PDF, ppt, etc. Offline reading on Desktop (Pocket works fine on mobile but on Desktop it seems not very good). And yes, total export so when you close the doors, I do not have to start over.
I don't think you can expect users to be anything but selfishly motivated, and concerned with their own experience only. I don't think most will care about the experience of others. Certainly not if they're deleting their own account from the service. Plus the point is that in these cases, potentially the users who would most want to delete are the ones most motivated to do so: the scam/spam/fraud ringsters.
> Mactaggart recalls the moment about four years ago that turned him into a privacy advocate. He asked a Google engineer at a cocktail party whether he should be worried about his privacy. "He said, 'Oh if you just knew how much we knew about you, you'd be really worried,' " recalls Mactaggart.

It's not like we don't know that they don't know but if they did know they would not like it, and we know that too.

Creepy: doing something to someone that you know they would not like if they knew about it but doing it anyway.

What the tech industry et. al. is doing is deeply creepy and the only reason we're not up against the wall is that people haven't quite understood yet what's going on. It's so egregious that people are incredulous, but as they start to get a clue it will eventually be pitchforks and torches time. (Ahem, GDPR...)
Our friends over in Silicon Valley strikes again.
Why is this better than a style tag?

What’s the purpose/benefit of generating classes from CSS versus just using CSS?

Couldn’t I just inject a CSS string into a component and put that string into a style tag?
The question seems "can you swim 250m" or "500m"

Both of those are excessive "can you swim" questions. US scouts standard for "Swimmer" is

Jump feet first into water over the head, level off, and begin swimming.

Swim 75 yards in a strong manner using one or more of the following strokes: sidestroke, breaststroke, trudgen, or crawl; then swim 25 yards using an easy resting backstroke.
The 100 yards must be completed without stops and must include at least one sharp turn.

Rest by floating…Long enough to demonstrate ability to rest when exhausted.
It's doom-nord from the doom-themes package.
This is a massive overreaction. As somebody in the EU I hope this GPDR hysteria that the tech industry seems to be experiencing passes quickly.
While it's not the absolute latest version, I've installed emacs 26.1 from https://github.com/m-parashar/emax64/releases
So far it's working flawlessly on Windows 10
Blocking EU visitors doesn't actually make you GDPR compliant.
What is the difference between this and working with a frame? I guess one could be the security policy (this being more flexible than a blank frame document which is automatically of different origin), but is there anything else?
Agreed that homes and college are getting insanely expensive. But as a counterpoint, a higher % of the population own homes and go to college than in decades past (though certainly accruing higher debt than was needed before).
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Yeah, once you hit the multi-millions money management means a completely different thing!
State can be orchestrated from the parent document. Custom elements can implement their own APIs.
Simply untrue. Do not change the definition of middle class. A single-wide prefab of real lumber for a family of three costs a year of wage or two for a high school graduate. Resourceful individuals can develop land cooperatives. Vacations and college aren't strictly necessary for many, nor particularly unattainable. A road trip anywhere in the USA or continental Europe is nearly free, and a four-year degree at a State U in eight years will barely touch the discretionary income of the sort of individual who has decided to pursue that objective.

The idea of a "middle-class struggle" is confused with changing standards and lifestyles of the middle class. Certainly the regular use of jet airplanes, hotel accommodations, and full-service dining may be out of reach for some, but an urban-agrarian lifestyle with the use of a motorcar and modern conveniences such as electricity and indoor plumbing is cheaper and more accessible than ever.
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You have it mostly right. Thanks for clarifying my sloppy writing here. I just wouldn't say "completely useless," especially at the start of the s-curve but then at the shoulder of the s-curve you have diminishing returns.
Fun indeed!

Can you talk about how the artists authored the original models? Was it an automated conversion from a standard polygon model or from a full voxel model? Or was it all drawn in this special slice format directly somehow?
Even if the 51% attack by itself might not be illegal, using it to double spend almost certainly is. On the civil side I'd expect you to be liable to pay the receiver in order to fulfill the contract you made when you exchanged the coins deposited on the old chain. Plus I'd expect criminal fraud charges.
Crypto currencies seem to have this sort of ethos where nobody controls the currency and that is great .... except for what seems like a baked in ability for a single entity to do exactly that....
This is almost spite from US companies that don't want to conform to EU regulations
I can see how it's potentially a problem, but I still don't understand where the vulnerability occurs. The static initializers will be run before the data (which the attacker controls) is inserted into those instances. Yet the attacker has to be able to somehow "execute" code via the data he sends.

There has to be a few specific classes that are common, and that have methods that the attacker can expect will be run (such as toString conversion, comparison etc), where the attacker can control the data used.

E.g. if he knows that serializing a certain collection type containing Font objects will use some platform native code that reads the font data, he can then pass a corrupt font in and fool the deserializer into an out of bounds read. Or something like that. I vaguely remember hearing about one of these attacks and I can't find it. It would be interesting to hear about some real world attacks.
I think steering questions to a chat is a terrible idea. There is no collective learning anymore.
Every time someone on FB shares a picture with other people in it they are doing just that.
That's really cool. Great job!
Yes, I’m saying that rather than needing an hour to get 6 blocks if the hash rate doubled, you’d only need 30 mins _until_ the adjustment occurs. Then it would be an hour again.
No, then you will need a lawyer.
It's a great experience, for sure, but I think the point is the toll feigned cheerfulness can take over the long term. What's just a memorable formative experience to one person is another's entire livelihood for years.
So what alternatives do consumers have? It's the nature of capitalism that every company does what it can to legally maximize profit.
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Depends on how you budget. If the amount you are calculating on the 10th is the amount you have left after fully funding your retirement accounts and setting aside some long term savings, you aren't on the razors edge, you are just checking to see if the purchase fits into your short term discretionary budget.
Not really. It's more of a sign that the person knows how to swim efficiently, which I suspect is inversely related to risk of drowning.

Case in point: go to a public swimming pool (YMCA, etc.) when old people are swimming laps. You'll see people who are clearly not athletic swim for many tens of minutes without taking a break.
I should be able to add a json endpoint with all the data from the table if that would be helpful.
Any advice for installing 26.1 alongside a debian repo 25.1.1 build?
Hi author, nice hacking and writeup!. Nordic employee here. Note that if instead of the SoftDevice and the SDK you would've used Zephyr then you'd be able to do the same you did but with a fully open source software stack, including all layers of the BLE protocol stack. More here https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr
You would additionally have to ensure that you use no servers in the EU.
Agreed, Near where I live I can buy a nice three bedroom house in a decent area for less than a 1 bedroom flat in a good chunk of London.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-654846... round the corner from the street where where I grew up, it's a nice solidly middle class area with decent schools, parks.

200K for a detached 3 house with garage and a reasonable garden, In a good chunk of London the equivalent would be 2-4x more expensive and in the city proper more than 5x.

So suddenly £32K where I am starts too look pretty good compared to 55-60K in London.

Also it's not just the housing that is cheaper up here, almost everything is cheaper.
Context: this fellow (Oli Frost) is something of a social media satirist, having previously built LifeFaker (http://lifefaker.com/, a place to buy your way to Instagram fame), and Flopstarter (http://flopstarter.com/, a Kickstarter clone for terrible ideas).

I found the latest idea pretty funny - actually trying to monetize your data instead of letting companies do it for you is kind of a cute turnabout. In any case, please do view this project as an artistic endeavour - a work of satire.
California ballot initiates have a pretty wonky history.

I'm not a legal expert or legislative one but I do think there is good reason for public vetting as in a ballot initiative, and other things that require a bit more / or different type of vetting, such as something that goes through a legislature and maybe has the input of some folks who pay attention for longer than a tv advert.
Like I said, it would be an open source project aimed at new learners who haven't yet built up those preconceptions. It's ok if it doesn't take off since it's not a business.

(If there's one thing I've learned in my career, it's that you can't change developers' minds about anything fundamental. We are extremely stuck in our ways, myself included, and all too ready to pretend that tiny incremental changes in syntax or tooling are revolutions.)
And least anyone misunderstand your comment and misses the big picture, those are all in principle minor bugfix (although with some new features).

The release you're referring to has maybe 20 lines of non-autogenerated code changed, and was "an emergency release to fix a security vulnerability in Emacs".

By and large new Emacs features only get released every 2-4 years. If you write any non-trivial Emacs code you're only targeting the major releases, and if you're contributing to Emacs you can expect other users to have your feature in the in their hands by the time your newborn is old enough to walk around and argue with you.

It's one of the remaining free software projects that really takes its time with releases.

1. https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/history.html
I don't know that it's safe to assume unconditional basic income is inevitable. There's not much precedent. But there's centuries of precedent for caste systems and serfdom. Although, I do share your enthusiasm for the idea.
Rent-a-miner attacks seems to be another amusing example of when the existence of a market can break the system.

For example, voting works well in a democracy, but if we can sell votes, democracy would likely collapse because rich organizations would buy it up and control all politics. (Some say this is already true; but you know it would be way worse if votes were openly sellable).

Satoshi foresaw people trying to mount a 51% attack by buying a ton of machines, and so he went to great lengths to ensure this was unlikely using mining. I don't think Satoshi foresaw the liquid AWS-like market for instant hashing power. The ability to mount a limited-time 51% attack makes the attack literally 1000x easier than a buy-machine 51% attack.
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Your handle is green, so old timers know you are new. It takes a week or two for the green to wear off.

Welcome to HN.
That's pretty bonkers. Is there some bizarre tax incentive that makes this more attractive (for somebody presumably? the company? the employee?) than just paying them more and possibly reimbursing them for mileage?
I've worked at physically demanding jobs (loading trucks at UPS) and at emotionally demanding jobs (call centers). In each case for 2-3 years, so I have a decent amount of experience with both. Neither is particularly fun, but I would take the physical work every time. For me at least physical tiredness or discomfort is much easier to adapt to than the kind of soul crushing emotional exhaustion that you get from doing doing those jobs every day.
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I've done

- been at the help desk

- waited tables

- worked in concrete repair (noisy and often really cold or really hit or really wet)

- worked at a go-cart center (smiling to customers)

- showeled tons and tons of grass and manure in smaller farm buildings where tractors where not an option.

The thing that broke me was the smiling part in the gocart center. It took 6 months or so before I cried whenever I was alone.

Full disclosure: the job was stressful in other ways too.
I'm reminded of a passage about the "Professional Smile" from a David Foster Wallace essay:

You know this smile, the strenuous contraction of circumoral fascia w/ incomplete zygomatic involvement – the smile that doesn’t quite reach the smiler’s eyes and that signifies nothing more than a calculated attempt to advance the smiler’s own interests by pretending to like the smilee….Am I the only consumer in whom high doses of such a smile produce despair?...

And yet, the Professional Smile’s absence now also causes despair. Anybody who’s ever bought a pack of gum in a Mahattan cigar store, or asked for something to be stamped FRAGILE at a Chicago post office or tried
to obtain a glass of water from a South Boston waitress knows full well the soul-crushing effect of a service workers’ scowl, i.e. the humiliation and resentment of being denied the Professional Smile. And the Professional Smile has by now skewed even my resentment at the dreaded Professional Scowl. I walk away from the Manhattan tobacconist resenting not the countermans’s character or absence of goodwill but his lack of professionalism in denying me the Smile. What a fucking mess.
This is nothing specifically against you or your comment, but it highlights the problem with how we talk about these things. A single 25 year old making $75k in the suburbs of Youngstown, Ohio is in no way comparable to a family of 4 making $75k living in the San Francisco. We really should frame the numbers in relation to the per capita poverty line for that city/region. For example, middle class should be something approximating 2x-5x the per capita poverty line rather than any specific dollar amount.
This is a great canary to weed out shady businesses and websites which cannot account for how they treat their users data.

Meanwhile other businesses which takes the GDPR seriously gets a massive boost in trust and reputation.

Guess which ones are going to get meaningful new business and which ones will be deemed unreliable and untrustworthy?
The question is, why are these based on CDI? I believe the parent is making a good point: if this is a cultural thing, the first question that comes to your mind is "why are not being as conservative as everyone else and not just going for an easy employment?"
Doesn't matter. In Kansas outside Salina, highway patrol pulled me over because my new car had a temporary tag, which they claimed was in the wrong location. It wasn't: KS and OR differ in where they want you to put it. I declined consent for a search, at which point they put hands on guns and ordered me out of the car. They spent about an hour tossing everything they could remove into the ditch.

There are some real top to bottom jerks around with badges, and with those folks, knowing your rights is effectively meaningless.
Did you do anything to increase your modeline's height?
This tripartite split (elite, bourgeois, poor) is a very old one. I am sure I read a paper in an undergrad poly-sci course that analyzed the fate of nations based on which two teamed up against the third. Elites+poor is a pretty dangerous combination because they end up catching civil society in the pincers.
sometimes lawyers will use "and" to mean "or" or vice versa https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/conjunctive
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>Many of the businesses to which this law would apply have established their business models in a time when privacy may have been less in the front of a consumer’s mind.

I think the degree to which your business model is future proof in the face of changing preferences of consumers should be on the mind on entrepreneurs, and if it isn't I think it's a good thing that new companies will eventually supplant them.

Not different at all from companies that had their eye on increasing environmental standards and planned accordingly.
We'll get there - it's getting harder and harder to distinguish ads and stories. "Around the web" panels specialize in creating just this confusion.
And don't forget about "Dry Drowning". It can happen days after someone is rescued from actually drowning....

http://www.livescience.com/59444-dry-drowning.html
Not sure why history made Henry Ford a hero and example of modern capitalist. To me, Henry Ford is pretty controversial person. He started his business by infringing already valid car patents. He (as underdog) had luck, that it was in time America has started battle with monopolies, so public sentiment was probably on his side. Trying to reproduce what Ford did back then today, layers would rip you apart.

He also supported german nazi party and directly supported Hitler with annual 50000$ donations. In one of his factories he ordered to suppress employee strike, resulting to many injuries and also some deaths.

So now, where is the similarity with Elon Musk? I see Elon musk as true visionary and honest guy.

Oh yes, the article is about manufacturing process, not about comparing characters. :)
I think they are saying they will not care about this issue after 2024 or so.
I was thinking something similar. Like some of the people who say they aren't active are people who experience pain or discomfort from activity, and hence consciously avoid it (and that's salient so they report inactivity); some deaths are resulting from whatever caused that pain. Or something like that.
Spending money on trying to find out who is addicted to opiates is a massive waste compared to offering treatment on demand everywhere. It's a very safe bet to assume that opiate addiction is in every community across the board.