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Except a lot of MIDI in control type situations (lighting, user triggers) is run over ethernet these days. So if all things are equal on that front, OSC is a far superior design.

It almost doesn't even matter because outside of musical gear, OSC is becoming the established standard to control everything from DMX lighting to VJ software to OF/Cinder interactive installs to some more performance oriented software like Ableton Live (via LiveOSC).

I've written software MIDI sequencers (all the way back in the early 90's even) and you'll never be able to convince me MIDI is better than OSC.
Inspired by * I will elaborate a bit on what I think would be an OKR-approach for that. It could be a goal like "How am I supposed to know why customers are churning?". Then your key results would be, not the metric that says "Working on that", but the metric that helps you with answering the question in a way that proves or solves the puzzle ideally. There are many things that are solvable and for these the OKR recommends "Committed OKRs" while for things that are unclear there is the "aspirational OKRs".

Say, for the above: KR A being test the hypothesis for churning using XYZ analysis method and KR B bring peer review that with specialist named Klopvital, Tartirius and Mochalatet. Then, once you improved an answer, I would think you have achieved a partial goal - and if that is data to someone else then it comes the choreography of things.

. . .

The whole reason of a system of goals is to have one work and what OKR helps relates to accountability - what is a measure that validates the goal. Of course, the complexity comes when one goal system is chained with the other - the orchestration.

Your case "Someone needs to do the research, analysis, and leg work of finding potential areas to exploit." partially opens the door to it for the idea of Committed OKR (the kind of OKRs that one can do, solvable).

On your point "And then someone needs to have at least some amount of vision or inspiration about how to solve that problem." this seems to be about the idea of Aspirational OKR. In this regard, I agree that many things in the entrepreneurial outset starts with a north and not a precise thing. Certainly OKR is not a system to work on requirements - do it and that is that. The OKR approach is influenced by short feedback reviews for goals — that is derived or inspired by Andy Grove insights about MBO vs feedback vs planning that goes on like a) point to a roadmap b) work on it with a temporary plan in an accountable transparent way c) review the plan and review the roadmap.

But I hear your strong statement that "but the last time I worked in an environment with OKR no one seemed to have any brilliant ideas about how to, you know, actually achieve the Key Results." and would love to talk with you to understand more your experience. From the book I read I came upon cases that some of the success cases too years to fix their OKR system.

* Some of the ideas here I was inspired by the Measure What Matters book by John Doerr. But of course it's my limited interpretation.
Maybe that $700M includes money they spent on ideas that turned out to be failures.

So something like they spent $100M on this one winning idea but also $600M on 50 other ideas that went nowhere.
And that's only if you're lucky to use a qwerty keyboard layout. On other layouts, the backslash requires a combination of keys to produce.
I have similar thoughts but state them rather more bluntly, that the US military is 20%~ a program for national defence and 80%~ a socially acceptable public-jobs program in a society which is phobic of "socialism" but nevertheless needs wealth-redistribution in the economically productive forms of education and life-experience/connections for those involved in order to thrive on the macro level.
From the article:

> Note that the odd numbers in square brackets are the TOPS-10 way of specifying directories. Good thing DOS didn’t adopt that one.

DOS did in fact adopt square brackets for specifying (named, not numeric) directories; you see them in square brackets with the '/w' (wide format) option.
The fact gnome people are so draconian in controlling my user experience is why I stopped using that ghetto desktop environment and any environment dependent on it.

It's bad enough gnome depending on systemd was the thing that forced systemd down all our throat, no matter the distro.

It's bad enough that they made it hard or removed options to endless apps and the only way you can theme is essentially via a hack.

Now you all are arguing we shouldn't theme at all.

Godwins Law and all you're all a bunch of nazis.
Yes, but they used a much more complex material, something like carbon nanotubes IIRC.
And maybe make it look nice and also small. Maybe use laptop drives. Make it wireless too. Focus on nice UI instead of looking like Windows 95
And of course all of this sounds substantially more fun.
Just bc you wrote something doesn't give you the right to dictate how I use it on my personal machine.
> In a perfect world people would use this as an opportunity to tell the government to shove it

In your vision of a perfect world. Personally, I’m fine with this. They aren’t using call logs or other private data. Information on social media is public or semi-public. Fair game, and I’m curious about the results.

(Agree that a more productive public debate is needed. But that shouldn’t start by presuming values.)
>App Icons are the identity of an app. Changing an app’s icon denies the developer the possibility to control their brand.

Yeah so, this is bullshit. Why would anyone have any say what my computer looks like.
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It reminds me of how Reddit allows subs to put in their own stylesheets. Each sub can change the look, placement, and existence of just about every UI element. It makes for the most inconsistent interface I've ever seen for a website.
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This is really cool! and I really want to adopt it. I have a question though, can the data be represented as markdown, instead of html and json?

My current editor is monaco and the format is markdown. Monaco is too heavy, I want something closer to what Medium.com has. This renderless rich-text editor looks perfect. But my backend accepts only markdown ...

And I also need to support math equations ...
Absolutely, yes. Paper compressed with an hydraulic press.
I think it is two things. The first is that everyone goes into the military for four years or something like that (Ex: Israel), so it is a shared cultural experience that everyone understands. Second, while some of those soldiers see conflict, the scale is much less than something like Vietnam where entire graduating highschool classes of boys were wiped out and the war wasn't popular and it wasn't a defending our country in the normal sense, but a proactive war to help curb Soviet expansion. Afghanistan and Iraq have Veterans in a similar (if less extreme) circumstances. The war is a geopolitical policing act and extension of US foreign policy at this point more than an actual defend the nation type situation. I've never served, but to go through all that and then have issues and have to jump through hoops at the VA would be crushing.
If you post it publicly, then its fair game what it can be used for.
It's not misleading at all. Prior to the 2003 Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act the federal government did negotiate drug prices. Although it had less skin in the game than Part D pharma plans, it had far more market power, and the resultant leverage made it much more potent. Additionally, it's outright incorrect to suggest it doesn't have skin in the game - it not only covers the most expensive (and biggest growth sector) in pharmaceuticals, those administered in infusions and inpatient centers (the biologicals; chemo), but they also pick up a chunk of the Medicaid spending, which covers pretty much everything.

It wasn't pharma benefit managers (PBMs) that surpassed all other industry groups in lobbyingfor the final form of the 2003 Act - it was pharma companies (Ceci Connolly, Drugmakers Protect Their Turf: Medicare Bill Represents Successfor Pharmaceutical Lobby, WASH. POST, Nov. 21, 2003). They hadn't lost track of their own interests and accidentally lobbied against their own profits, and it's always kind of ridiculous when people imply they did.
The UK does not have freedom of speech; you can be prosecuted for verbally "causing annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to another". In 2016, over 1500 people in the UK were fined or even jailed under this heinous law.

In the US, the 1st Amendment expressly prohibits this kind of authoritarianism.
I usually use PyCharm in a very similar manner, to browse others code locally. This is much more efficient compared to e.g. browsing/reading the code on GitHub. Whenever I spend more than a few minutes browsing some code on GitHub, I just clone the repo instead and open it in PyCharm. Finding some usages of some function, or simple searching for some string or so is much faster and more comfortable (also because the search on GitHub is so limited). I can only recommend this workflow to anyone who reads others source code. And reading others source code is anyway also something I would recommend everyone.

About Sourcetrail, I see from the homepage that it also has some additional graphical representation. Is this more helpful over what PyCharm already offers?

If so, maybe this also can be a feature request to PyCharm.
Again, this letter is not aimed at end users. "If you like to tinker with your own system, that’s fine with us."
I've worked at Google and Amazon and they would never fire a developer for a buggy release. All engineers write buggy code. With mentorship, code reviews, and reliable test infrastructure, they write fewer bugs. With strong QA and monitoring they ship a lot fewer bugs.

Google and Amazon are not dumb enough to fire an engineer who would cost 10s to 100s of thousands of dollars to replace because that engineer happened to get unlucky and push a release that slipped through all those cracks. (Doing so maliciously would be another story, and would warrant firing.)
I am of the belief you need to be in the sub-millisecond range for jitter, in order to be capturing a performance authentically.

Whatever the range of perception is, there’s going to be another range where people can’t consciously describe what they are perceiving, yet it affects them.
Most of these Tweets seem to be about experiences from operations. Most countries never deploy on operations. Fewer deploy on expeditionary operations. Even fewer do so at the intensity of the US. You’re not comparing something equivalent.
The future of MIDI is AVB and/or AES67 with OSC
Color themes seem like a brilliant idea until hit the point where your custom control needs this one extra distinct highlight or background color to convey state. Then you're out of luck. You only have bad options left: opt out of system theming and enforce your own or hardcode a color (or put it into the settings dialog) and accept that it breaks with any non-default theme out there because no user will take time to look at the settings and fiddle with the colors. Either way, any usability benefit from good default themes (e.g. high contrast themes) is pretty much gone.
Might be connected to them opening up for free access to the Wolfram language, letting a wider audience play around with it.
Should you expect & accept for everything you speak in public to be recorded and monitored? Is it "fair game" to do facial recognition on everybody that shows their face "in public"?
I agree that changing default icons is sometimes confusing. The user have hard times finding an app. Especially apps like Geany, Firefox and VLC get so weird icons in some themes that you can't visually confirm that this is the correct app.

I also agree that if you make an app screenshot/tutorial it is better to use the default theme unless you are targeting users for specific distro.

However I see some flaws in Adwaita (the default GTK theme) and a lot other themes regarding the titlebars:

1. They are too tall for no obvious reason.

2. the most irritating thing is that it is very hard to tell the active window. I mean it is a bit lighter but that's all.
I think there are good counter-arguments in these comments, but I also think DSLs should be approached with caution: creating a non-trivial DSL that is correct in a consistent and intuitive way, which provides useful feedback on syntax errors, and is documented well enough to be used by someone else, is a lot of work.
As a Frenchman living in Paris, I would like to give you my idea and the findings. Our revolution of 1789 is incomplete, because it was based on the replacement of the nobles by the great bourgeoisie, and because attempts to involve the people (at the time poorly educated and highly instrumentalized) failed or led to situations of violence (including the so-called "Terror" period).

The people, left free, naturally turned to charismatic leaders (Louis-Philippe, Napoleon) so that this supposedly temporary step could lead to better systems for all. The only time the people have practically achieved a literally democratic feat is the episode of the "Paris Commune" in 1871.

Unfortunately, the educational gaps in French society led to the violent repression of these political projects (the "Commune of Paris" was violently repressed by the army, which was mainly monarchist at the time).

Our current system expresses this duality: we are a republic, certainly, but whose system produces an elite capable of manipulating the people "in its interest". Unfortunately, man being what he is, the elite is not benevolent and will protect his interests more than attempt to raise the whole society. Moreover, the people themselves do not share the same conceptions: thus, in the 1980s, the left-wing government tried to put an end to "private" schools to limit these inequalities. The people, still predominantly Catholic at the time, strongly disagreed that private Catholic schools (although more expensive and producing elite) should not be abolished, and the project was abandoned.

As long as the country's growth was correct, this situation was not problematic because, despite this creation of elites, the whole society continued its "social ascent" until the early 2000s.

Today, the situation is no longer the same because elitism is continuing (or even increasing) while society as a whole remains stable or even regresses. Elitism is therefore losing its legitimacy, which is why the "yellow vest" movement continues and mistrust of institutions is increasing. The elites are therefore trying to destroy this protest in order to maintain their privileges by fragmenting society, whether media or political: in particular by seeking to present to French citizens the success of so-called more virtuous models such as the American model or the German model (much more unequal). It is not a conscious phenomenon, it is unfortunately the logical consequence of the evolution of an unequal society that justifies this inequality by the social and economic stability it induces.
In this case the author is suggesting a way to avoid it, for distributions to not theme and introduce the bugs in the first place.
You negotiate when you have leverage. Leverage is an implied threat that you will leave the company where the cost to the company of you leaving will be significant. You have to be ready to actually leave the company in order for this to work. Generally this involves having a competing offer in hand.

Since you do not have an actual offer and you are not going to leave the company, you should not try any tactics in negotiating a raise. Your best play is to make a case based on the value of your work and ask politely and hope for the best. This will not get you a big raise, but it may get you a modest one.

This is not the optimal position for you in terms of career development, but it is the position you are putting yourself in by wanting to stay in your current job regardless of potential opportunities externally.
Why not? He can still move while putting up his mortgaged property on rent.
As another commenter has mentioned; it is unlikely a sample of FTEs is going to reflect the general population for suicides so that isn't a very powerful argument.

But that isn't what jumps out at me - to me the real issue is that if management pressure is so bad it is provoking suicides then there will be lots of evidence for it. Presumably the reason people are talking about it in newspaper articles is because they have seen evidence and are asking questions.

The stats you have quoted suggest the number of suicides is already above average. That, combined with evidence of a problem, is very likely what has triggered the conversation at all.

I've seen some angry workers, but generally all they want is more pay or to work with better conditions going forward. I'm not sure how many of them would bother trying to get managers imprisoned without good cause. I'd guess it would be about as rare as management policies being bad enough to cause suicides. The media might have wiped out a whole heap of nuance - so it isn't worth getting worked up over the case - but if lawsuits are flying then it is more likely than not that something went very visibly wrong.
It's plenty of dynamic range only when you know in advance what the lowest and highest values are going to be so you can scale it correctly, or if you're using a logarithmic scale. Neither are as convenient as higher bit depth linear scale.
I can’t tell if you’re calling for an end to war or for keeping it around so that we can show it to people as a reminder of how horrible it is.
I teach teenagers, and a lot of them have their own debit card... Even if they don't have a job. I'm not sure if it's their own account the parents deposit into, or if they're on their parents account, but quite a few do have one.
'ER' is worth rewatching, all 15 seasons of it
The music museum is amazing and worth a visit. They have hundreds of vintage instruments and interactive displays, all of which you listen to on Audio-Tecnica headphones in a self-guided tour.
I did, and you don't have these "customers" if distros don't ship your app. So you're most probably still net positive even if distros mod your app.

If you don't like people modifying your software, don't publish it under permissive license.
> CCTV on the track and crossings ahead is better placed for early warning.

That's a lot of CCTV to replace one human.
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Great question. I've posted several over the years and most never make it to the front page.

There are some physics, engineering, and math types on HN that can really use the functionality of Mathematica (and it is awesome), but the usual crowd here is more on the software engineering side (building systems and not simulations with differential equations and such) abd thus not as excited about Mathmatica related posts. Yes, I use Python/Numpy/Sage and Julia too, but they have a ways to go.

Recently Wolfram made some strides by making free some of their stack (arguably the less important parts) albeit with a crazy license. That caused a lot of discussion as to why they did it and how useful it was. This was of interest to this crowd (the people who would maybe use the software engineering part of their stack).
My guess is they want it to look like man pages
it's not a "significant amount of money" for any artist except a very very VERY tiny minority of popular ones.

the (overwhelmingly) vast majority of artists on Spotify see pennies.

you can be certain that you're not supporting anyone that kinda needs the money.
I couldn't disagree more. If the user wants the intended experience, they will not apply a different theme for your app. The whole reason a user has applied a different theme on your app is because they disagree with your choices and that's totally fine.
What's next, asking Mozilla to take down user style sheets and extensions that restyle web apps?

This article is antithetical to the whole cultural foundation that GNOME builds on, without which there would probably not be an open source desktop ecosystem to build apps for.

I strongly urge the authors to take in the arguments of the top comments and reevaluate their positions.

And you know what? The more you enable and facilitate customization, the better and richer will the options provided by the community be. I can see how the argument makes sense for particular distributions like Elementary OS and maybe Linux Mint that are aiming at a unified experience for novice users. I really hope other distro maintainers don't pay attention.
It is not a reasonable request, though. End users want the ability to theme their system, and you cannot expect each end user to make their own themes. People rely on distributions for this to happen.

I understand that the devs do not want to be responsible for bugs stemming from broken themes, but this is the wrong solution. Ultimately the solution is a better theme API, not this which would essentially stop custom themes all together for most end users.

In other comments people argue that this isn't aimed at end users, but end users would of course also be impacted from this.
DSLs made of elements of a real programming language always seemed weird to me. When I need a language for a specific domain I just make one from scratch using either S-expressions or manual string parsing (using just string split and replace functions).
Can't really force anyone to do anything. For awhile my spouse and I did a monthly "money talk" where we walked through the monthly income and expenses and talked about things coming up. Eventually they decided they'd rather just not pay attention.
So, in the last 12 years, electricity went up 44% (or 3% per year)? That does not seem extraordinary to me.
> Does your software support OSC over serial?

not yet, sadly ! I've got a lib for that however : https://github.com/jcelerier/oscour
> The icon theme displayed in the open letter is just garbage.

A lot of icon themes are pure garbage, or at least incomplete. I don't think the example chosen here is any worse than what I've seen on my own system. Honestly, most icon themes are a failure; visual metaphors are just plain hard, and there's no substitute for literacy.
Is any one person the general public? No one is the average.
How does its lifetime compare with ordinary wood? Does it rot easily?
This is an interesting bug. But is it a good idea for an attacker to allow for wide-open NFS mounting of their attack server?
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It's wealth redistribution all right, but it distributes wealth to the top: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket
> But it hasn't been shown that they always do it, or do it for the same reason in every case.

We don't need them to always do it, or for any reason. The fact is that it does happen, as evidenced by, e.g., https://www.cnet.com/news/twitter-echo-chambers-are-very-rea...
The research community calls them end-user programmers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-user_development