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Years from now when Linus retires, what will the platinum members of the foundation decide to do with the project? Is it like Apple without Steve Jobs? Him taking time off leads one to wonder about such things

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/membership/members/
The key here is not to take the cursing personally. He's cursing the code not the coder. He don't hate specific persons. He can curse you on one not-so-good patch and praise you on another. The anger it's not directed at the person.
I agree with your point, though you might be exaggerating their current market share a bit. But Chrome does not make certificate trust decisions on most platforms, so it would certainly be a wild scenario for them to do something like this.
> If you see something stupid, call it out. If I’m doing something stupid or say something wrong, call me out!

...but that can be done politely, or not(†). In my experience, being polite doesn't add a high cost to calling someone out, makes the person being called out less upset on average, and generally improves the quality of ensuing answers/discourse (because those involved aren't burning emotional energy on pushing their anger to the background). Both of those latter two things are good.

Sure, there are some people who can take a flaming load of unfiltered criticism to the face and remain unfazed, but assuming that that's the _norm_ doesn't seem especially realistic.

(† = Or in between - "polite" is not a boolean. It's not even a numeric measurement; one can be polite/rude in different sorts of ways.)
This is an excellent answer! With the ever-changing frameworks and libraries, I couldn't agree more.

Rel: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16352336
Generally if something costs more (and have been sold at said cost), it's because someone thinks it is worth that much.
https://www.qwant.com/ needs to fix the homepage, so that the search bar doesn't jump up and down while the page loads.
I recently had to call the Dutch tax service help line Belastingtelephone and the experience was rather pleasant. You have to wait 15-30 minutes sometimes, but you do get connected to someone who really can help you. I had to fill in a number of rather obscure forms recently and I called them 3 times in total. Each time I had my questions resolved with about 30 minutes.
I’ve worked for a company that IPO’d and those people who made a ton of money tried to stay on for a while to maintain a normal life but most people just rested and vested.

IPO day had a bunch of people walking around in a daze because they became millionaires on paper during the day. Nice people too. That was a good day :)
Time Magazine seems to have had no problem killing itself without owner intervention.
A middle ground solution between the former situation and leaving completely is to have someone [with good editor skills] edit your emails before they go.

1. Write your usual technical emails with possibly some knee-jerk personal attacks stuffed in.

2. Click send; which sends the email to the email editor. The editor redacts your email, keeping the technical substance while removing anything personal.

The editor could only remove the problematic stuff, and for instance keep the congrats, personal encouragements and whatever other personal positive remarks. With time, the editor can learn what can of messages make the community thrive, and edit the emails towards this. Some people are naturally good at this; for others, hiring someone to edit emails may end up cheap for the outcomes it may bring your organization.
Minimum wage hikes in six cities: big impact on pay, none on jobs
It's not 'accusing'. It's just making a mistake. And either way, that's not any sort of evidence of the piece being written by some three letter agency.
I've been wondering why Feedly, which I use exclusively to follow webcomics, has been hammering me with ad copy about "the news you need to stay on the cutting edge" lately.

(RSS is, like, objectively the best way to follow multiple webcomics. I don't understand why it's not more popular.)
Absolutely.

A big part of the problem with many projects, or even companies, is that leadership is too soft and so you end up surrounded by incompetent individuals who either through delusion, or Dunning Kruger, have difficulty assessing their own ability. This results in incredibly inefficient and 'noisy' (as in signal:noise ratio) working environments. 'Hard' leadership gets rid of the slack and is willing to tell people when they're screwing up. This means you're going to be surrounded by the best, and anybody that's not carrying 100% of their weight is going to get removed. Of course you can have a problem there if the leadership is brutal and incompetent, but brutal and competent is a phenomenally desirable mix -- and that really sums up Linus, perhaps to extreme on both sides of the equation.

And in my opinion that really sums up many of the most successful leaders, both past and present. Though of course one huge difference between a Steve Jobs and a Torvalds is that Linus' work and behavior is, like Linux, completely open. Steve Jobs' was able to keep his persona restrained to within corporate avenues, with the rest of the world shown an extremely sculpted and fake image, the depths of contrast between the two only coming out after his death.
You can surely find a new job at the worst in a few months and no well-paid engineer should be living without a few months' liquid savings anyway (emergency fund). So, every time people say startups are dangerous because they can go bankrupt, they're full of bullshit. Unless you live in rural US, or very inexperienced, there is no way in hell you'll burn all your emergency fund before finding a new job. Especially in tech heavens like SF, Boston, Seattle etc, it should be pretty easy to find a job even the day you're laid off. This is, unless tech industry collapses. Which I suppose is quite possible, but currently there is no evidence this is happening.
> If I could consume Facebook via RSS

You used to be able to do that. The problem (from fb's point of view) as the sibling comment points out is that you'd never visit facebook.com unless you wanted to actually wanted to interact with the content.
For programming, I recently came across Corey M Schafer's channel and he is by far the best programming teacher I have seen. He usually builds a full application starting with a blank page and explains every single line. Please have a look at his Django or Flask tutorial and you will be amazed.

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCCezIgC97PvUuR4_gbFUs5g#

For frontend stuff, I will highly recommend Brad Traversy. He does teach in a similar style to Corey and they both seem to be teaching programming on a full time basis now.

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC29ju8bIPH5as8OGnQzwJyA#
I completely agree up to the point scour ”everybody on the same team”

The most egregious errors made in my experience and often Linuses, are by people who don’t see themselves, or have no interest in being “part of the team”. Who dont abide by the code quality guidelines, who have been told time and again, or who are trying to make weasel changes to subvert the organisation of the code to their own ends.

Linuses way, however isn’t really the most productive approach, Aine these kinds of individuals don’t care anyway. It sounds as though this new “code of conduct” might be an attempt to move things forward.
It's also culture.

https://pando.com/2014/01/23/the-techtopus-how-silicon-valle...

> In early 2005 ... Apple's Steve Jobs sealed a secret and illegal pact with Google's Eric Schmidt to artificially push their workers wages lower by agreeing not to recruit each other's employees, sharing wage scale information, and punishing violators.

> ...an estimated $9 billion effectively stolen...
On the bottom they mentioned [1] Etoile.

[1] http://etoileos.com
rss-bridge supports facebook profiles/pages[0].

[0]: https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge
Have the founders considered a profit-sharing solution in the interim? No matter how profitable the current circumstances are, every startup ive been a part of would badly want to solve for the response you wrote about. Particularly in an early engineer who (i assume) knows basically everyone about the codebase and surrounding tech.
A research paper recommender for ML/CS,  embedding representation for each paper
FWIW, I'm pretty sure that "tearing someone's work apart" doesn't require "tearing the person apart / humiliating them"... and I suspect it's the former rather than the latter which is, in the right contexts, useful in learning / improvement.
Thanks. Ill check that out
For swords, I gather that key features are 1) notching or shattering other blades, and 2) resisting being notched or shattered by them.

Are you arguing that modern alloys and methods can do a better job at that than Damascus or other classical methods involving layering and folding?
This is already solved by HLS - all you'd need is a .m3u8 file in the feed. Industry insistence on DRM issues is what's preventing it from taking off, but "indies" could do it.
It's incredibly easy to start whatever you want from any environment. Normally a wm will come with a way to start apps or run scripts you can start whatever tools you need there.

Example gnome starts pulseaudio if you are run a minimal environment it probably does not depend on a particular sound daemon or have anything to do with sound
so instead if you want pulse you simply run pulseaudio --start in your config.

I've never had a problem with wifi drivers and Linux perhaps because I've always bought devices with good Linux support.

Gpu similar.

Used to be the rule was buy Nvidia install official drivers, no step 3. Now newer amd are supposed to be well supported with just open source drivers.

Honestly before I buy hardware I search insert hardware +Linux and if I can't find anything or discover issues with no obvious solutions I buy something else and experience few problems.
I believe you can only do the online process once you've already had a passport and the initial passport is issued by the "traditional" means of showing up in person.

Replacements and renewals can be done entirely online because of facial biometrics (to compare the previous passport photograph with the new one and to see if the new picture may be used elsewhere) and digitization of other records for internal comparisons.

ABC (Australia) has an interesting video on Youtube describing the process.
Thanks, Opalgate is a really good example (along with the ousting of Brendan Eich).
Having worked at a giant company, I know there are many competing motivations, teams, and personalities involved - companies are not uniform entities.

Still...

Google Reader did more to destroy my perception of Google's reputation than everything else evil they've ever done. Conspiracy to suppress wages for tech workers, James Damore, the Snowden revelations - all of those bugged me, but not like Reader.

They killed Reader, I suspect to support Plus, just as the walled gardens of the social networks turned into iron curtains, destroying the only viable alternative decentralized content distribution mechanism. And now we get to live in that world.
Steve Jobs might have been an even bigger asshole.
I believe in rule of law that applies to all, ideally equally. That's step #1 for democracy. Democracy is a process that involves me in the decision making. That’s it, very simple. I just do not see that is happening nor they have the slightest interest in doing so.
It makes sense in theory, but it’s also a short road away from mass employee surveillance when trying to keep watch over hundreds of thousands of employees to attempt to eliminate any potential outlier risks.
> they have this idea, that if we starve it, people will hate it so much we can make it go away.

Not just congress uses this tactic. See: CFPB.
It takes a lot of courage to say what Linus said today. Especially in this current climate and in the face of some of the comments I'm seeing here and elsewhere. Respect.
Would you not accept 10x terrible handling for 3x longer flight times?
I've been using that on my electric toothbrush before 2009, but it probably has nowhere near as big of a battery as a smartphone.
So what? Isn’t that what kernel development is all about? The careful detailed stuff goes in kernel space so that if you want to make a mess of things in your application you can do so without bringing down the whole system. It’s not like that to hurt your feelings or make you feel “excluded”. It’s for the greater good.
I actually have almost the same story. Spent long nights and weekends building a company for a number of years, from the ground up, and I was naive enough to go off a handshake and a verbal promise that my boat would float when all the rest of them did.

When it started to look like the company would be sold, I politely asked if we could finalize an agreement in advance of knowing the sale amount, so that all would be clear. And I wasn’t expecting the moon, just fair compensation if the company was sold. We never even got that far.

2 weeks before the owners sold the company, and I was left out of the org chart handed to potential investors, I was “asked to leave”. I could have sued but I was young and didn’t have the money or energy to do it, so ultimately I left and moved on with my life. Not before going through a period of burnout and depression.

It still stings sometimes. The owners got off with all the money, and I never saw a dime.

A very expensive lesson learned.

That said, I have come to learn, I don’t think I would have been where I am if it had gone any differently - a place where I can sleep at night.
What People Don’t Tell You About Product Management
> If you are so certain it is mispriced, there are numerous places for you to profit from such stupidity, if you are confident enough to put your money up.

"The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent."
It's hard to imagine that it went for that much.

Print magazines are dying. Given possibly debt, pension obligations etc. - it wouldn't be surprising if they were really worth a negative value, i.e. they get bought for cheap just for the tax write offs.

Many newspapers facing bankruptcy would love to have a $200M valuation.
4 Phases of Rapid Application Development Methodology
In that case, future Apple USB-C chargers may become a good solution for charging Android devices.
If you have enough money you can even elect a monkey for any office. It’ll be news to you maybe but that has happened already.
I've seen this with some financial institutions I am a customer of. It's an incredibly great practice that very few folks in the US deploy.
I wonder how much you learn from hacker news submissions. Thank you, dang!
That is explicit race-based discrimination carried out by the government

It is also racist to assert that Muslims are all of a single race. Like most religions there are followers of all ethnicities in all countries.
Reading this comment and thread was painful because I immediately agreed and can tell that it was written from the wisdom you gain only by having experienced it first hand.

I was so naive when I started out in tech as a starry-eyed fresh grad, only to have my soul slowly crushed somewhere between the transition from slash and burn start-ups and boring behemoth big Corp bureaucracy. How do you guys stay sane in tech and do you see yourself do thing forever?
> 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 have. The problem was not so much the things he wrote in public but what he said (that couldn't be documented) or probably told the bosses (which also could not be documented.)

He was a (mostly) well mannered and soft spoken guy esp. compared to the image of Linus, but he made me quit my then dream job and I'm pretty sure I'd preferred working with Linus.

Also in school I had another one: well behaving, soft spoken (mostly) but who turned out didn't care about others except as a way to get what he wanted.

I'm really happy to not work a place where I get yelled at either but at least Linus seems fair so I think I'd prefer him.

It's also interesting to see him admitting it might be a problem in his own way: wanting to ralk to someone, joking about tooling, asking for ideas.
I also agree that "people" is the dark side (as well as the bright side). Mixing friendship with business is complicated, especially in a co-founder relationship. I've seen many instances where not only the business fails, but lifelong friendships are lost. To me, this is definitely the dark side.
To be pedantic, the first Wiki link in that article goes to the Fruit preserves article[0], which begins with: "Fruit preserves are preparations of fruits, vegetables and sugar, often stored in glass jam jars."

So while tomato jam is a type of fruit preserve, not all fruit preserves are made of fruits (despite the name).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_preserves
The ONLY time I ever pick up a print of anything (newspaper, magazine etc.) is while traveling, if I don't have enough juice on my devices, or don't have wifi etc. And if the mags/ papers are free.

That said, I do prefer reading printed versions of text books and maybe some novels.
For me personally, get it in writing and pay my own legal and tax advisor to review any agreement, if it was serious enough.
I've experienced the hit/miss DMVs in Texas, and it's similar in the PNW (if you avoid the major metro downtowns, then it's all miss). I've heard horror stories about the DMV in CA.
If a new plug becomes best, the government can be convinced to adopt that as new standard.
When you start your argument by comparing company CEOs to politicians you are already lost it.
Let me take a guess being part of this kind of enviornment and also sometime being cause for this (i.e., I was on the on both side of table).
Most likely this originates from the belief that things are being done for "greater good", and usually "collateral emotional damage" is rationalized away (consiously or subconciously) as acceptable in the cause for a holy mission.

Anyhow Linus shows great self awareness and I'm walking away thinking that it maybe very painful but I would be a net gainer if I work along with him.

Excerpt from the mail:

I am not an emotionally empathetic kind of person and that probably doesn't come as a big surprise to anybody. Least of all me. The fact that I then misread people and don't realize (for years) how badly I've judged a situation and contributed to an unprofessional environment is not good.

This week people in our community confronted me about my lifetime of not understanding emotions. My flippant attacks in emails have been both unprofessional and uncalled for. Especially at times when I made it personal. In my quest for a better patch, this made sense to me.
I know now this was not OK and I am truly sorry.
I don't know that I agree with your idea of polite

To me, at least, polite in a code review is, "This commit is bad because of [X]"

Brilliant assholes are the the second best to work with because they give the information polite coworkers do concatenated with ", and that's because you are a completely incompetent engineer and should rethink your career" or something similar.

The kind of polite you are referring to would be one of two people.

Option A:The sociopaths trying to control their image in an organization so they can gain more money/power

Option B:Actually incompetent people trying to protect their job because the brilliant asshole who is the leader would rather fire anyone who annoyed them instead of mentoring them
Why do you think the founders did that? If they made serious money, why not throw at least a bone at you to compensate for the work? Do you think it was all pure greed, or something went wrong in the relationship between you and them before that?

If they made 100, why not give you 0.1 and keep the 99.9 for themselves? In my home country, doing something like that would probably cause the founders to be worried about their physical safety (eastern europe).

Clearly you did wrong in not having it in writing, but if you were dealing with such vipers, who knows if having it in writing would have been enough anyway? Very shady
What do you miss without the DBUS-native tooling?
Long-term cost comparison of patients using additional homeopathic treatment
Are they heavily penalized for giving wrong info to credit bureaus? Or perhaps it's not a big problem as banks have the drill down with regard to identiy theft's aftermath?
> careful detailed stuff

> if you want to make a mess of things in your application you can do so without bringing down the whole system

You don't need an exclusive community to make that work. We as an industry have tools: fuzzers, testing frameworks, better programming languages and type systems, and proof assistants, all of which will do a better, more consistent job of ensuring quality than project leads being assholes.
Enough of your identity to have a wild night out in Boise on your dime.
Having been on both sides of the fence, mega corps have politics so bad that you want to rip out your hair in addition to it falling out. I can’t honestly say one is better or worse than the other - I think what matters most is are you bringing enough in to survive reasonably comfortable, and do you have a reasonable enough amount of time/energy for your family or personal pursuits on the nights/weekends?
Look up what A t-rex looks/acts like now. No roaring, running, licking, had feathers and freckles:

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/rex-was-ginger-freckle...

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/T-Rex-Likely-Could-Not-Roa...

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/t-rex-couldnt-sti...

https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/tyrannosaurus-rex...
My experience with the IRS was the same. On one hand the slowness with which they operate is ridiculous (does it really take a year and a half to tell you that some documentation in your return doesn't match up? and a couple months for every subsequent response?). On the other - once they got all the required documentation they were fair, acknowledged their mistakes, and adjusted the bill accordingly (canceled, really, since once everything was refigured the total was negligible). They're a bureaucracy, but they're not really an evil bureaucracy.
It's a Spanish name

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximiliano
You can find the rss feeds of (almost) all podcasts in the world here: https://www.listennotes.com/

Or use the API: https://www.listennotes.com/api/
In terms of tech evilness, those aren't really comparable, they're more political.

Reader's shutdown, after monopolizing neAly RSS tech and in order to push their own flavor of the year (Plus), was a classic tech evil

The other evil that Google is perpetrating is AMP. Reader followed an "embrace and extinguish." AMP is a full on "embrace, extend, and extinguish."