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So you are equating politeness with not halting bad ideas. That is not politeness, that is incompetence. Competent people would halt bad ides, but it can be done in different ways:

- Abrasive: This idea is the dumbest ever and you are an idiot that deserves to die.

- Constructive: This idea have problems X, Y and Z.

- Polite: Thank you for the effort, but I see problems X, Y and Z with the idea in its current form.

A lot of the discussion here is confusing the question of competence with the question of tone. You can be competent and have a nice tone and you can certainly be incompetent and have an abrasive tone. I can understand not having the patience for politeness, but personal insults are obviously counterproductive.
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J&J have started moving into the Netherlands lately too... they have opened four or five stores just in Amsterdam (annoyingly kicking out some really great local places in the process). The coffee scene there is crazy compared to the UK... way more independents. I could see Costa popping up here soon as Coke take on Starbucks at a global level.
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This could also be due to selection bias, since people who are unhappy at their jobs have a higher probability of leaving the company. So if you look at the subset of people who've remained at their jobs for 10 years, you tend to have happier people on average.
Interestingly, the author has come around to the idea that the algorithms can be trusted to act in an unbiased manner, even so far as to prefer a programmed criminal judge: https://youtu.be/lUqzVH1GjQo

I'm sure this comes with the requirement for answers to questions given at the end of the article:

“What power have you got?
“Where did you get it from?
“In whose interests do you use it?
“To whom are you accountable?
“How do we get rid of you?”
Because, ultimately, we can’t just think of algorithms in isolation. We have to think of the failings of the people who design them – and the danger to those they are supposedly designed to serve.
...but they actually charge for coffee and attendant consumables; not the third-place space.

- ed

Or, rather, the latter promotes uptake of more of the former.
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And yet here we are, with corporations having trillions of dollars doing absolutely nothing of value with it. With central banks printing trillions of dollars and euros to give to corporations. And yet barely any inflation worth mentioning. But giving workers a wage to live on? Absolutely impossible, think of the inflation!
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however they do auto-correction without even showing a "Did you mean …" link. That is a deal-breaker.
I wish I didn’t have to care. Unfortunately, I have to block myself from accessing quite a lot of newspapers because despite it being highly relevant, none of the news about Trump or Brexit is actionable.
When I switched from Amiga to Linux in 1995 I thought that I will have a perfect NeXTSTEP clone within a few months. I saw pictures of GNUStep and it looked nearly ready to go.

Ha!
I don't have the time to find the comment now, but being the largest philanthropic donor does NOT infact make up for being an asshole or the amount of damage microsoft has done to the computing industry.

Am I downplaying his donations? Not at all. It's just that doing a good thing does not cancel out the bad.
"but was manufactured without any pattern-welding."

How do we know? I see this claimed a lot by those into the mystique of Damascus, but if we don't know how they were made as you claim, then how do you know they're not pattern welded?
The one much more important thing that OSS never did well is managing/making device drivers. I know it's not primarily OSS's fault, but it has made Linux on consumer devices unusable for me and for many others. Unusable or simply non-existant in the case of mobile devices.

And it's a huge shame if you look at the current historical situation, which is, I think, pretty dramatic.

We have a handful of huge, all-knowing corporate gatekeepers taking a ridiculously disproportionate cut of software developers' revenues and restricting what we are allowed to do with our devices.

We are suffering from collective amnesia as to the dangers of the authoritarian surveillance state.

We are struggling with a massive onslaught of organised crime trying to take over our data, our identities, our money and our democracies.

I'm not a computer security expert by any stretch, but it seems pretty clear to me that without controlling the end user device, there is basically no chance of ever being in control of your data.

OSS has failed where it matters most, where it's literally about freedom.

You could argue that it's not OSS that has failed but me not setting the right priorities. I don't deny that, but the choice really shouldn't be that stark.

My girlfriend is far more determined than I am. She does use Linux on her laptop.

But just in the last couple weeks this is what happened:

I had to scan documents for her on my Mac because her scanner driver isn't working properly, creating tiny, grainy images if it works at all.

When I wanted to close the lid on her laptop because we were heading out she shouted "STOP!! I need to switch graphics cards before shutting down or the computer won't boot".

She found her OpenVPN installation to be leaking DNS (again, after fixing it several times).

Her Chrome browser has stopped rendering fonts properly. There are small pixel artifacts, even lines, next to the letters. Before the previous dist-upgrade that wasn't the case but none of the point upgrades since then has fixed the problem (we know what causes this but the fix is tedious to apply and Firefox is working).

Her laptop is running hot. This has always been the case but when the nvidia card is active the heat goes through the roof (hence the constant manual graphics driver switching).

Many days have gone into trying to fix some of these things and some fixes have worked, temporarily, until the next dist-upgrade.

I just can't take this, so I'm withdrawing silently and a bit ashamed into my Apple walled garden.
Good customer support doesn't cost much more than bad customer support. They are people earning close to minimum wage who provide good customer support. The problem is that the IRS doesn't care to provide good customer support because they have no need to.
> valuable content

If I could buy a paper here in the UK that gave me a good mix of local and broad global coverage, focused on the facts rather than pushing its own agenda and stopped telling me how to think, speak and behave, I'd buy it, but that paper doesn't seem to exist.
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Complete inverse of my experience. HMRC (the British IRS) are exceptionally good over the phone. As indeed were the divorce courts. Maybe the British government see the British jurisdiction as optional for their highest ticket clients :-P

The worst offenders in the UK have been cell-service providers, where the competition is fierce, and companies like Sports Direct, where the margins are tiny because the competition is so fierce. Good luck with low-cost airlines too, where the Heathrow-monopoly-abusing (according to VS) British Airways are also great on the phone.
I'm sure the people that manufactured buggy whips didn't think cars or mass transit was a public good either. Sadly, stuff like this happens as the world advances.

I have a lot of sympathy for people in this situation and think they should be re-trained, but I wouldn't hold back progress.
Dr. Meg Jay creates a compelling argument on why putting in the work during your 20's is so important. Her book, The Defining Decade, [0] is a fantastic read that goes into the psychology behind this.

She also has a Ted Talk (Although I can't speak to this as I have only read her book). [1]

[0]: https://megjay.com/the-defining-decade/
[1]: https://www.ted.com/talks/meg_jay_why_30_is_not_the_new_20
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I believe you are falling in a trap that some people fall when they do this kind of analysis; I don't doubt that you (and lots of other users on this forum) are completely capable of doing a facebook-like app that is much more efficient in terms of space and performance.

However, facebook didn't wrote the ios app overnight. They got to this point because of a long trajectory of lots of tradeoffs, some heavily related to the human, organisation, social side of software development - its hard to coordinate an effort across probably dozens of teams.

You're commenting on a 10ton freight train travelling at 50km/h saying you can build a faster car. Well, they probably started with a car, too but built a train along the way. I'm sure if they rewrote it it would be much better but that's just how things are in software. Doesn't mean we shouldn't look at the app size, but don't forget the trajectory instead of looking at the last data point.
This is actually great news. Shows that one of the most important leaders in tech is actually capable of introspection , admitting fault and changing their ways, even after many years, without a massive public scandal.

Massive kudos, Linus. I don't think this was easy.
It's better than nothing though, but it's probably wise to only used reproduced science to back up arguments based on science.
Things like weekends and holidays are, in some cases, the only thing that let people who do certain types of work have any time off work to begin with.

Someone I know worked at a supermarket as a cashier at some point and she asked for a few days off on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. She asked for this a few months in advance. Her manager looked at here puzzled and sneered "What do you want off for?" as if it was strange to want to have a few days off on Christmas. Luckily for her it was just her student job and she quit before Christmas came around, but some people are not in a position to quit/negotiate and have to put up with asshole-bosses all the time.

Here in the Netherlands shops stay open longer and longer and on more days (they used to be closed on Sunday). This leaves people who don't have an education that gives them a lot of job security open to exposed to the whims of their bosses.

I think ideas like having the ability to choosing your weekends (2 or 3 days) leaves those 2 or 3 days open to discussion and gives some managers a chance to wiggle them out from under you. You see a similar effect with the 'unlimited holiday'-companies out there; the effect is that people feel pressured into taking less days off than they would have had with a more traditional number of days at other companies.

Also, schools are open during the week, not the weekend, so parents are pretty much stuck with the 'normal' weekend anyway.
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Agree about the overloud music, but I find J&TJ's coffee absolutely the best you can get on the high street.

Fantastic stuff, but totally agree with your point about the music. I would love to be able to post up there and work, but I unfortunately need almost complete silence to focus.
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That is funny! I thought about it the other way around: if I _have to_ put a tie on for a meeting - or conform in other ways - than how valuable am I as a consultant? I see a simile in visual design as well, e.g. Craigslist could be that white suit consultant...
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Thanks. I don't use the Desktop Search that often but I think one can bind a shortcut to it. On the rsync, I can mount the remote file system and browse through the backups in the Double Commander or Thunar, so the graphical aspect is fully there. Plus, I have reports in the Terminal when the last successful backup was done. I don't really think I miss anything.

Edit: the rsync setup to do incremental backups and naming backup folders after the day of the week is mentioned on the rsync's home: https://rsync.samba.org/examples.html
It's interesting how much more creative backups can be when you have full control over rsync on which, if I am not wrong, the Time Machine itself is built.
The FT might be the closest? I recently switched from the Guardian. But it plays up financial issues and plays down social issues, as you might expect.
The Economist is the closest thing I can think of. They seem to be doing fine so maybe it's a good business model.
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Correct, but with a few users you can get away by cutting corners, with lots of users you will have MxN potential corner cases you will have to deal with. More users -> more bugs.
> but that paper doesn't seem to exist.

The reasons for this are plenty of course, but having to rely on advertisements for survival makes it hard to focus on facts. Instead you have to focus on sensationalist news in order to garner more views/clicks/readers in order to sell more advertisements.
Easy and to the point, I like it.

I sent a quick PR for some input validation around replacing if a full URL is pasted.
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I think one has to be fair about what sort of asshole Linus is. He is not like Steve Jobs, Balmer and Gates who could be vindictive and get personal.

For Linus it is more about being far too blunt. But you can clearly see Linus himself being aware of it and having some humbleness about it. Jobs in contrast would never admit his bad behavior.

As a fellow Nordic (Norwegian) I feel a significant component of this is simply Nordic cultural trait. We are quite blunt. We value honesty and directness. However Finns I believe are farther out on that spectrum.

The second parts is that I think he has probably mild asperger traits. I have that, my wife and oldest son. That does not make you an asshole. I don’t talk like Linus but it can mean you often are not able to pick up other people’s emotional state.

Keep in mind this is very different from being a psychopath. They can pick up other people’s emotions but don’t care of they are hurting them. Somebody with asperger don’t want to intentionally hurt others but may do so accidentally by not reading the person properly. Somebody with Asperger is willing to admit they have a problem that needs fixing just like Linus.

A psychopath does not think he/she has a problem that needs fixing.
Am I the only one thinking "Well that amount is peanuts in the tech world".

After all Facebook bought Whatsapp for $19bn.
You're being peculiarly careful to reject what I say without answering my questions or offer any concrete alternatives.

Again: if you prefer to state another text (or texts), please do, and the core propositions and principles of the field.
I guess the bold move would have been to have kept Dylan around. :)
Most name lists I saw was sorted on family name, not first name. But I guess that is country specific, just like some write dates as YYYY-mm-dd instead of the day first... Just makes sorting a list that little bit more logical :-)

Everything that happened the first january I want in that pile, after that we take second january and so on.

You want the news for fifth march 1884? Sure thing, just look thru that pile with everything that happened the fifth march!
I discovered Hummingbird when looking for alternative music notation for my tattoo (a phrase from my piano song).

After reading the "docs" it was easy to read the notation but for some I struggled with transcribing it. Maybe it'd be easy to first write classical notation and then change it to hummingbird.

Also just noticed that even in the toggle example on the home page "natural" symbol is missing (flat/sharp reset).
>rather pay $3

It's not so much that I'd rather pay $3 for a coffee than valuable content but that the content is available free and nice coffee isn't so much. I used a long time ago pay cash each day for a paper copy of The Guardian and similar but there's so much free info now it doesn't really make sense anymore. It's a bit like air to breath. It's worth a lot but why pay if its free everywhere?
Have you ever worked with brilliant assholes? It sucks the life out of you - and it really sucks when they get idolized and rewarded heavily.

I've worked with a few people I'd consider brilliant. But none whose accomplishments really compare to those of Linus. He's more or less a sample size of one as far as I can see in terms of building out such successful software on such a large community and without being inside a megacorp.

I've worked with many more people who feel the need to be involved, steer projects towards failures or dead ends, who seem to live by the CIA manual on field sabotage and have to be managed to not cause a net detrimental effect. Some of those were really nice people too.

I'm amazed at how he's built Linux without more clashes, but if he feels he can be a nicer guy about some of it and still do the job effectively, more power and credit to him.
You can go in and take the coffee out, but yes if you want to look at it differently that 'coffee' is part coffee part rent.
Why cant things be more flexible, eg. you have a 7 day workweek but personally you only work 4 days?

This seems like a good idea especially given more automation and more higher level jobs.
I’m in the fourth decade of my career and I switched to a three day week almost a year ago, taking a proportional pay cut. I work Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday to get the largest contiguous block of time (Thursdays and Fridays) where the places I want to go to are family/child free. If work needs me to swap a day (e.g. to go to a Thursday meeting) I’ll often do that and occasionally I'll work longer one week and then less the next. If I'm not doing anything on a non-working day I’ll answer my work phone to keep things moving along but I avoid taking on tasks that mean firing up my laptop. So far, I haven't accidentally moved back to full time working by stealth. The precedent at work for me doing this is women on post-maternity three day weeks, for which all of whom said that the company had treated them fairly.

Here’s my responses to the article’s specific claims:

You’d be healthier. Yes, I generally get more exercise. I’d already changed my eating habits to avoid snacking and this hasn’t changed.

You’d sleep more. Not sure. Seems about the same although I can vary my sleep time to suit my own activities.

You’d be less of a jerk, probably. You’d have to ask my wife that.

All of that, plus, you’ll be better at your job.
Not sure. I'm slightly less aware of what’s going on in the office and wider industry but in general more relaxed.

On balance it’s been a really good thing. I haven't managed to progress all of the side-projects I intended to but I have definitely achieved my primary goal of improving my life-work balance. The pay cut is tolerable and in any case my wife and I were planning to scale back some of our more expensive activities (such as going camping rather than staying in hotels).

It's also sent a clear message to my colleagues and management (all of whom have been supportive) about my work expectations. I still have responsibilities (e.g. for deliverables) so there is still pressure that doesn’t go away. I also tend not be the first pick for activities that require long term full-time commitment, or for the company to make an investment in my personal development (e.g. training in new skills). To date this hasn’t been a real problem – I'd made the decision to scale back because I'd gone as far up the corporate ladder as I’d wanted to. And I feel the same a year on.

The way I explain my mood to people is “Monday mornings are just as crappy as they ever were. But when I leave work on Wednesday, it’s already Friday.”
When I read your comment I thought is going to look clean and nice... Looks like win 98... Not at all tasteful to me
It seems you can't be charitable without someone telling you you should have given more or given to someone else. It's not a great way of encouraging charity.

If it is not doing harm and making some lives better, the correct response is 'thank you for making the world a better place'. Even if you think it is self serving, we should encourage such self serving behavior.
maybe analyzing the character of your boss and coworkers and then being a pleasant figure are the key. Sometimes you have to really change your character when you enter the office and really become someone else

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No, I think that people that have had personal experiences with Larry Page have described him varying as egomaniacal, rude, and a jerk, which is relevant to this conversation. My personal opinion is, however, based on something different. I tend to judge individuals by actions, not words. Words are too often fake. This can be both 'good fake' as in people who build up artificially positive personas, and bad fake. I have no doubt that the individuals who had these experiences with Page genuinely believe him to be as they said, but one person's jerk is another's honesty, one person's egomaniac is another confidence, and so on.

So what can we judge Page/Brin on? Due to stock structuring they still have disproportionate control over Google and so Google's actions are going to be heavily attributable to their personal views and values. If you think the direction of Google is 'good' then that ought reflect accordingly upon your view of their values. And similarly if you think the direction of Google is something less than 'good'. There are numerous issues there as well of course but lacking superior alternatives, it's better than nothing.
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Other option without the paycut could be 4 10-hours a day week. Might save on gas and other thing and will still have the 3 days weekend, although day to day activities like exercise might prove more difficult to do with fewer hours every day.

Tangential question: when people in the US say 9-5 work, do you take into account the lunch break or that 1 hour is still counted as workable?
Doing a good thing doesn't cancel out the bad, but I don't think it's fair to anonymously call people assholes on the Internet when they are actively trying, and succeeding, at doing good in the world. Especially when their sins are immaterial things like whatever damage you think MS did to the computer industry.
I take brutal in this context to mean honesty, not cruelty. To me, 'very, very, very blunt' and 'extremely direct and brutal' mean the same thing.
The comments are too harsh, you can be a good person and an asshole, since when insults were this much of a problem, a few decades ago people would've just said he's a guy with an attitude, or hot blooded, etc...
I prefer people like him to calm always smiling sociopaths who only say the right things and take actions that truly hurt people.
But does it include the option of joining the Mile High Club?
Makes me feel bad about the entire ecosystem. All it takes is to have the right network and some charisma to get their money.
I'm still boycotting the Economist after they came out in support of the Iraq war!
I found this, perhaps it can be of some help https://www.bloomberg.com/view/rss

Oh, and there's also this https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/feeds/site.xml
The article downplays the significance of Atom.

Today, nearly all Web feeds are available as Atom. Hackers, learn from this. Specs matter.

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Atom exists precisely because RSS is a clusterfuck that could not be salvaged.
My parents did that. Long before Wikipedia, but the same idea. So my name is relatively common.