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It's always important to remember that one area's skilled immigration is another area's brain drain.

The moral issue is whether it is ok to take skilled people that have been trained using the limited resources of poorer areas of the world without supplying an equally skilled person in return.

Consider it within a country. The cities take the skills from the rural areas. What does that do to the rural areas? It is no different between countries.

Fiscal transfer payments don't correct the problem. A pile of dollars will not treat your sick grandmother. You need a doctor in the local area. If they have been poached by a richer country, then you're in trouble. And no country on earth has a surplus of medical staff, and not everybody can realistically become a doctor.

The framing with immigration is always down to the choice of the individual, and never really takes into account the desires of the community the individual has moved into, nor the desires of the community the individual has moved from - particularly if the source area has expended effort training the individual. What do you owe beyond money to the people that helped you be who you are?

As with companies if the drain continues, then nobody bothers training anybody - or doing the training - and we all eat our seed corn.

There's no simple answer, but net zero migration seems the best prospect to satisfy all sides - for somebody to move in, somebody else has to move out. A swap of equals. After all fair exchange is no robbery.
I didn't really get into what aspects of production that developers are thinking about today in the post, because I didn't think it was necessary to make my point. My point is to get some people thinking about this, not decree exactly what I think the issue is.

I do think that open source is working. The question is more of, who is it working for, and why? Could it be made to work for more people? Is it working in the way we want it to work?

For example, your comment is framed about the health of Open Source itself. I see a lot more developers concerned about the health (in many senses) of the developers who are working on open source, over the health of the idea of open source in and of itself. They're also concerned about corporate control (in a steering sense more than a "total control" sense) over open source and platforms that are open source.

Can today's open source sustain itself? Sure, probably. Lots of things that are not fundamentally sustainable manage to last for quite a while. But I do think people are wanting something better, even if they're not totally sure what that is or how to get it. I mean, I don't fully know either :)
This comment makes it sound as if you don't think generating massive amounts of goodwill among your most passionate customer base "drives business." Google Reader was the loss leader that drove me deeply into Google's whole suite of applications and made me a paying customer of theirs.
Is that a problem, or a different market mindset? Why is it considered good that housing is an investment basically guaranteed to shoot up in value and become unaffordable to young people? Housing is illiquid, it’s one of the last things people should probably be using as an investment; otherwise we get repeats of the foreclosure crisis as people rake out mortgages on their house to support their lifestyle.
they believe in socialism as a means to an end not an end in and of itself. If you can achieve what they would like to achieve (elimination of suffering) by some other means, I suspect they would be open to it.

I personally think they have the wrong goals and that inequality and suffering are what drive people to become better and achieve.
I think the certification proposal basically comes back to licensing, if I read it right. "We'll extend you a license if you have the proper certificate." I have a hard time imagining a way of enforcing good behavior that doesn't hinge on restricting some parties' ability to use the software.
You know, sometimes I wonder if this whole conversation really isn't just meant for developers. I ask myself what is the sentiment across the larger population and realise no one really cares. They love free beers. They'd do anything not to pay 0.99 for an app, seeing that as an incredible amount of money to pay for something they expect nowadays to be free. There's a lot to unpack here and I don't think I am in the right mind state to do it now. Good piece!!
I mean, if one of your requirements for a laptop is that "It has to run macOS." then worrying about touchbars/keyboards/etc is mostly pointless since you have to buy whatever Apple is offering.
I don't suppose you remember, but they did their key management in native code plugins 10-15 years ago. Silverlight and Flash both had DRM capability, IIRC. I've worked with that and it was no joy at all.

Without W3C DRM they would have kept those plugins alive instead of deprecating them. I see no reason why they'd have migrated to webasm, webasm wouldn't provide the know-thy-customer aspect the DRM people want.
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I do this on every machine I use. I wrote a blog post with detailed instructions: https://www.dannyguo.com/blog/remap-caps-lock-to-escape-and-...
And don't forget mobile.
How is the T490 a regression? I've decided to get a T490, and willing to wait out it becoming available with full options in my country. But if it's a regression, I might as well get a T480.
All this content having DRM drives me totally crazy. I don’t have a windows machine or games console where I live that can output 4K, but I have a laptop and desktop running various Linux distros that both have very nice 4K monitors. It appears that the only places where I can get content that will play at native quality on them is through the usual illegitimate sources or through breaking BD drm. Anyone who says that this (Netflix, Amazon etc) is a smooth process doesn’t care about quality (or heaven forbid offline access). I’m sure Netflix likes the free reduction in bandwith for desktop users though...
Isn't a Creative-Commons-style license good for that? You could choose attribution-sharealike-noncommercial or something like that and be done with it.
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The touch pad is what keeps me on my macbook. Has any other manufacturer managed to create something comparable?
How common is depression? It feels like in every depression thread every single comment is someone's experience with it.
It depends what you intend to do with that money though. For example, if I can put an extra 100k into a retirement fund or investments over the next 5 years then that is an incentive to go for the 20% raise. I say this because I am currently in that situation. I am about to accept an offer for a substantial raise. I own a nice new car and have a big home. I could decrease those expenses and put more into retirement or I can continue with my current standard of living and put more money into retirement by accepting the offer. In the end, depending on what your financials are like, that 20% raise could mean the difference between retiring at 67 or retiring at 60...or before that. It's all relative right?
Ironically, if he were to get real users (and begin to post real pics from the restaurants he visits), he may no longer be committing fraud.
You have to install the (closed-source) widevine plugin for Chromium.
> Wish Lenovo could match up with form factor and screen quality.

Lenovo X1 Carbon? That's what I bought instead of a MacBook Pro 13, and I absolutely love it.

No Magsafe connector, but two Thunderbolt 3 ports, USB-C charging (even via low-end chargers, like a Nintendo Switch adapter), two full-size USB ports, HDMI out, the best laptop keyboard I've ever used, a 4K HDR screen, etc.

Yes, it's slightly thicker than a MacBook. But it uses that space to be such a better computer.
I have had this problem occur with both my MBPros, turned out to be a tiny amount of. lint. that made its. way into. the ports. Now. I use. usb-c port covers to keep it in check.

I. of course have. keyboard. issues. as well – in case the random periods. and multiple spaces thing did not. make it obvious.

Figured this would. be a good time to. not correct the. issues. Along with the space bar my left command key doesn't always register, its shit.
The fact that the repo hasn't been deleted and they continue to accept PRs is a pretty strong hint that no such thing has happened yet.
Tokyo is still growing, but not for much longer. I think it's expected to begin shrinking by 2020
Yes, ultraviolet is technically outside the visible range (ultra meaning too short a wavelength). In the same way that infrared wavelengths are too long for us to see. In optics, basically anything beyond blue is referred to as UV until you get to other stuff like X-ray. The reason is partly laziness and partly that there aren't many functional uses for violet light, whereas UV is used for all sorts of things.

There are several different classes of UV light, just like there's many shades of blue or classes of infrared (near, long-wave, mid-wave, etc).

The reason that you can see light from "UV" lamps is because they're usually emitting over a range of wavelengths and some of that falls in the visible spectrum. And on the other end, some infrared LEDs emit a little bit of red light which is visible.

If something isn't visible it matters for safety. Most of your eyes' defense mechanisms rely on limiting the amount of light entering your pupils, so they need to be able to perceive how bright a light is. Strong UV is particularly dangerous because it's high energy (think sunburn) and you can't see it so you won't reflexively blink and your pupils won't close. Infrared can also be dangerous, but it's a lower wavelength so you need more of it to do damage.
I don't get how people don't consider the power cords apple gives also a fiasco. I've literally never seen one last more than a year before the outside rubber breaks. Shortly after the internal wires. Meanwhile I've had the same power adapter for my x220 for nearly a decade now and its just fine, no signs of any insulation breaking what so ever.
The touchbar as a pro feature always seemed a little odd to me. Aren't pro users the ones that are going to learn all of the keyboard commands? If anybody is going to make heavy use of function keys, it's pro users, right?

It feels like consumers are the users that would like to look down from the screen to see a small second touchscreen.
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The /r/datahoarder subreddit is full of people like this. I'm happy they exist, if nothing else so at least there may be a digital record of our civilization if it's destroyed.
> The blame for this sits squarely on the w3c for their efforts in trying to replace flash by letting the content companies dictate standards for encrypted playback.

It really isn't. The W3C at the very least permits a solution whereby content companies liberally distribute binary blobs for every platform under the sun. Hell, it even permits an open source solution that e.g. speaks directly to the DRM hardware in graphics chips (don't know if that would be technically feasible, don't shoot me).

It doesn't have to be this way.

In this context it's really specifically Google being assholes about this. They can choose to not be assholes about this. The fact that the W3C allows them to be assholes about this doesn't change the fact that Google is choosing to be this way about it.
I used the removal of a real escape key to finally remap caps lock to escape, which I really should have done over a decade ago.
Zoning laws (minimum lot sizes, minimum setbacks, minimum parking requirements that are uneconomical to meet on a small lot, bans on 2- or 3-family houses, etc) have intentionally outlawed many smaller, more-affordable styles of houses since 1970, so new houses have gotten bigger.
DRM are like locks on a house, just keeps honest people out
I'm hoping this is what happens in the next redesign which should be coming soon. The iPad Pro already went for a flat edge design, so hopefully that gets carried over to the MBP.
That and also older buildings are considered to be dangerous in major earthquakes as regulations improve demand for newer buildings increase. Japan is a safety first culture.
You left out serviceable hard drive. If some component on the MB fails and the laptop won't boot, data recovery is almost impossible.
most power is solar power (hydro, wind, solar, oil, natural gas, coal).
I think I post this every time I read something about Dropbox Paper but I think it's important: Every note is shared by default when you know the URL, nothing is private by default. You explicitly need to make every single note private so no one can access it. I really want to use paper but I think this really sucks IMHO.
And some people would think it's wrong and would not be happy if you constantly sent it to them.
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Actually, this is a pretty incredible starting point to starting an "Influencer as a Service" biz. I've seen one (selfmade.co), which basically an agency that will help manage your Instagram for you, but if you can create tools to help anyone maximize their followers (with AI-suggested captions, tags, who to follow, photo ratings or improvement tips, etc.) I could see that (sadly) being something a lot of people would pay a subscription for.
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Thanks for clarification! You should have a look at arengu.com
If only somebody could have known that fixing supply in the market, will also fix the prices.

https://www.vox.com/2016/8/8/12390048/san-francisco-housing-...
> You want to CRISPR yourself to gain a few IQ points?

Would you CRISPR yourself to not get Alzheimers or Dementia when you get old?
As others have said, this is much agreed with... however, the hardware problem is so profound as to create a lens by which the OS isn't a required element of work.

My life is basically 3 browsers and Adobe CC and a code editor and a bunch of cloud file stores. I also connect to a pile of cloud Linux VMs in AWS and GCP, but I can use any decent terminal app for that. (Biggest problem for me is, access to my Photos on Windows, for personal life stuff.. but I can keep the old MacBook around for that).

I know a few people who need new hardware now and would consider buying a Windows laptop now for a year until the news is that Apple has fixed their stuff. And who's to say it's that much of an issue that people won't stick with Windows even then?

I'll also add: the new iMac Pros are nice, but the issues they've had with the Mac Pros make me wonder if they can even get a new notebook hardware line "right".

I like having Messages on my desktop, but I also sit at my desktop with an iPad and an iPhone. When my MacBook Air dies, I'll need a machine I don't hate.

Turns out, I probably hate Windows less than I hate new Apple laptop hardware.
What I liked about Linux was that it was better while being cheaper, in fact free of charge. Higher quality yet less money. It sounded too good to be true.

Did I even care that the source code was visible? I have yet to contribute a patch to any of my favorite projects: Linux, Apache, PostgreSQL. A big reason is that I don't even know C or C++. But yes, come to think of it, the source-code publicity gives me comfort. At least some people are out there checking for bugs, backdoors, etc. (Right?)

Copyleft always struck me as a little weird. This article has helped me realize why. Copyleft is still based on the idea of intellectual property, and I don't believe in intellectual property. If we translate the phrase from its Latinate words to Old English, its meaning, as usual, becomes clearer: thought ownership.

In my own little projects on Github, I usually ended up going with Public Domain. It accomplishes what I want: that I and others can keep using what I wrote free of charge, that it can remain visible forever so that others might learn from and build upon it. I don't really care if a company wraps it in their little package and never lets anyone know. Also, being prior art, it should prevent someone from getting a patent on it.
Does even know what the push notifications do? I'm too scared to ask for them.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19553452
>I still have my 2009 MBP and mid-2013 rMBP and had already budgeted ~$3000 every 4-5 years for a brand new machine

Hey me too. I wonder how many of us there are?
Thanks!

I didn't get into it, but I do think that the user/developer distinction plays a part here. That is, one way to think about the Free Software/Open Source divide is that copyleft ensures freedoms for users at the expense of restricting developers, and permissive licenses ensure freedoms for developers at the expense of restricting users. As developers gained some power, we directed it towards helping ourselves.

I don't think that's the whole story, exactly, but I think it's an interesting way to think about it.
This article is total bullshit.

What people are calling “spectral violet”, as in, a particular range of wavelengths of light, is not a “color”. Color is a perceptual phenomenon which happens in people’s brains, and is several steps removed from light spectra, involving several types of adaptation and varying from person to person and context to context.

“Violet” is a type of purple or purple–blue flower. People use the color term “violet” to mean a hue between blue and purple, without specific reference to the spectrum. People get confused about this because Newton stuck the label violet on a diagram of a color wheel one time.

> The “red” signal path has an interesting additional property. As you can see above, it has a small bump of activation around the short-wavelength (violet) end of the visible spectrum

No this is bunk. That bump is an artifact of the process used for defining the XYZ color matching functions in the 1930s before anyone could measure cone cells directly, and the author is grossly misinterpreting what it means. On a linear scale the cone responses look like this https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Co...

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While we’re at it, “cyan” is a terrible generic name for a blue–green hue. Stick to “teal”.

“Cyan” is just the Greek word for “blue”, and is a technical term for the type of greenish blue ink used in 4-color printing.

You can see what “cyan” is as the little x, square, and + in this picture, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ed/Color-map-2.p...

Also it’s a crying shame that the RGB display color made of mixing yellowish green and purplish blue is called “cyan”, since it bears almost no resemblance to the printing color.
2011 MBA here. Waiting to buy a new MBP,... but not on your nelly with that keyboard, touchbar, and lack of ram on the smaller model.

Also budgeted for one. I've also become very cautious over Apple, which is a shame.
Not sure why this is downvoted - it’s accurate, if jaring to an Anerican’s ears.
Where can I buy an affordable new 700-1200 square foot fee-simple townhouse on a small urban lot with no parking because I don't have a car? They're illegal to build in almost all American cities, but a huge component of Japan's housing stock.
lol no. read the latest ipcc report
Sounds like a fun project!

RE: integration with what I did - I'm hoping to release the source code one day, then you'd most likely be free to use that code however you want (I'll probably MIT-license it). But as for my involvement, I'd like to be done with this project.
The white insulation around the cable tended to wear out extremely quickly, especially with any kind of heat. It discolored, then started to come apart, especially at spots where Apple did not provide appropriate strain relief.

I think between 2013 and 2018 I went through three replacement MagSafe 2 adapters at $75 a pop.

The MagSafe idea I miss. Their implementation? No.
> People still have all this on their drives. I'm sure the community can be revived someday.

I so dearly hope this is true for other sites like What.CD
PcapPlusPlus v19.04 released – C++ network packet sniffing and crafting library
One thing I like about paper and pencil is that I tend to have a better signal to noise ratio in my to-dos and notes. I guess the extra effort to write encourages me to trim the fat. I also can't check my mail from my note pad, so there's that.
Yes, I tried to say that in the piece. Sorry if that wasn't clear!

> I have a hard time imagining a way of enforcing good behavior that doesn't hinge on restricting some parties' ability to use the software.

Absolutely, but I think this problem is inherent. There is no such thing as "no restrictions," so doing so is impossible.
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Perhaps we will stabilize at some point our impact. But will earth be a golf course then with a number of species you can count on your hands?
Except for ClickHole! All that is 20,000% valid, valuable content!! cough
nitpick: throes, not throws
The Dell Precision developer edition w/ Ubuntu from the factory is a great package worth considering.
I gave up on apple last year. I did not buy one for my personal work when I needed a computer. I use an Hp Spectre and ubuntu now. I miss mac os x. Ubuntu sucks majorly sometimes. I may turn my computer into a hackintosh, though I see apple's recent decision to become a "media" company indicative of the reality that apple may soon be going the way of the dinosaur.
Absolutely. I’m in the midst of a project like this right now. PMs and Devs suggested a launch date of August/September but the Execs arbitrarily mandated mid-April. So, design gets rushed, Devs have to work overtime and half bake everything, and what should have been a great new venture for the company is probably going to be dead on arrival.
The value proposition is very clear and not fraudulent or are you saying that stuff build by robots is fraud?

Here's what is being exchanged:

Hi, I have lots of followers (to my knowledge they are not bots themselves) that I can present advertisements to. Many of them are either interested in NYC or located here. Would you like to

Ie: let's exchange visibility (for this target group) for perks.

This is the basis of advertising, just that perks is money. It's not the person asking for money who might be an idiot, it's the person paying if the value provided does not match. And frankly exchanging visibility for perks instead of money is extremely cheap for restaurants. If the value does not match what the restaurant was after, they can not accept such proposals anymore.

There's risk in being in business, you just have to accept that.
I've never understood why Linux laptops have such a hard time with suspend / resume triggered by opening and closing the lid. On my ThinkPad it will resume, but there's a 50/50 chance that the wifi will come back.
None of this requires an API. You can scrape the web version of IG and obtain everything OP claims.
> This is a ridiculous article.

It is ridiculous because it presents a reality different from the US? I found it quite interesting.
When I first started using touchbar macbooks for dev work I literally was accedently hitting the escape "key" on the touchbar all the time. It was super annoying and I had to re-train my pinky not to hover over the touchbar.

The macbook touchbar is a disgrace and I have NEVER seen anybody use it to improve on their workflow.
Basically it's possible to download Google Chrome and extract it:

https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/?h=chromium-wide...

Basically Arch Linux Downloads Google Chrome, Extracts the *.so file and puts it into the chromium lib directory. (This could've been done in his own browser aswell.
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