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I've never left a company because of my managers, in fact my managers were almost always one of the reasons that I stayed as long as I did. The true reasons, at least in my case, for leaving was always the lack of freedom to make my own decisions and the companies' support for "non project related" work. In fact, my manager did as much as he could to support my endeavors, everything within his realm of power at least.
I use Chromium, FF and Opera, but each for a specific purpose.

Opera: General browsing/research with dozens of tabs. It's so stable you can have it run for several days and don't need to worry about performance, everything runs smoothly, always. When it comes to stability, Opera is the Debian of browsers. ;)
Also it has the easiest/best implementation of incognito mode.
There are many other reason, but it's best to try it out for yourself. Not just one day or two, but several months.

FF: For development, debugging, testing and some other stuff. I prefer to use it for some darker corners of the web and websites I don't trust, as No-Script is the most advanced script blocker available.

Chromium (in specific Comodo Dragon): Almost the same as FF, but in addition I have to use it to keep track of all the cutting-edge HTML5 stuff. Sad story behind this is that many web-developers don't care about standards and only test there sites with FF/Chromium.

I like them all, I'm not an ideologist, every tool has its purpose. But Opera suits my needs the most.

What I don't like are ignorant web developers!
HN is for everything that is interesting for hackers. And yes, neuroscience could be interesting also.
Why is Home Computer Security difficult to achieve?
The USPS is a zombie. It going to collapse in 10-15 years and stick taxpayers with $40 billion in unfunded retirement health benefits, among other costs. Congress is trying to get ahead of the problem with the pre-funding requirement.
Play 2.1 = awesome, scala 2.10 = awesome, and loving the new website. This is a good time to be a web developer...
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People can have different priorities in life e.g., instead of "be happy everyday" one can choose to focus on "leave the world a better place".
Postal service ends Saturday deliveries August 1st
I'm thinking of applying for a Letter of Marques, since it is in the Constitution.
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I am considering leaving my job for this precise reason. I feel if I worked under anyone else I would enjoy what I am doing but currently it is impossible.

The problem is the guy has no managerial skills. Employee moral across the company is rock bottom. We get tasks day-to-day because he cannot plan ahead. We often drop projects to work on something else, only to drop them and work on what we was originally. Manager never sends final designs or when he does they later change anyway. (These are not tweaks, tweaks are understandable. This is the entire page layout) I could go on...

Why haven't I quit already? I am currently indispensable to the company I work for. I need to support my family. Not sure if I want to risk it on a new job in the current climate. The short term plan is to continue being miserable.

NOTE: I would go around my manager if I could. Unfortunately it is a team of 7 and its this guys company.
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Yeah - Play 1.2.5 is still pretty awesome, too. It's still my go to (Java) platform for mocking up sites quickly, especially for APIs.

Play 2.1 seemed a bit slower to develop on. At least for me, it was definitely not as quick to get something up and running ASAP. Will need to check out 2.10 soon.
Isn't that the opposite of the original sentence I quoted?
In my opinion the reviewing needs to be led and executed by HR. (Or by a manager that is at least one level higher - but forget that, those folks don't have time anyway)

That HR doesn't understand what you are doing is a bad excuse, depending on the job you might be the only person knowing exactly what you are doing. Anyway, I feel like the manager doing the review is absolutely unfair - at least not in a sufficiently large organization.

>it would cause too much gaming the system in either retaliatory

This is already the case. When your manager does the review, your review is limited by the manager.
If self-driving google robots were delivering mail it could be delivered continuously.
In the case of the near-universal snooping by the NSA and related agencies, the courts have ruled, I believe: nobody has standing. Virtually every time the US Government uses the "State Secrets" privilege, the courts just let it go. For all practical purposes, what seems to me as clear wording of the 4th Amendment gets taken to mean something else. It's not really hyperbole. There are penalties on the books, agreed. They're toothless for various factors, except maybe for the very wealthy personhoods among us.
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I think you are a lucky outlier. I've left all my jobs due to poor managers. If my manager doesn't even have the basic 'shit sandwhich' approach to telling me that I suck, then I tend to start looking for another job.

Also, broken promises in interviews - yeah, monk.e.boy, work here for a year and you'll be the head of your very own dev team. I've fallen for that one about 4 times. Then I leave and they ask 'Why-oh-why?' And I say 'Remember in my interview that you said X Y and Z and none of them happened?'
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WebRTC Passes Huge Milestone With Interop Between Chrome and Firefox
Stated as a fact in the title. Stated as a question in the article. Discuss.
It borrows a lot of concepts from rails. I think that no "conversion" tutorial is needed, if you give it a shot it won't be long until you find yourself at home again.
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And if a man's wife has the illegitimate child of another man, even while married to the first man, the first man is financially responsible for the child. Cuckolding blames the male victim.
Well, in France (where I come from) and the Netherlands (where I currently live), there is mail delivery on Saturday. And I have to say I would find it sad if it would be gone.
apropos, given the discussion we had a couple of days ago about how SCI and other for-pay institutions are crap.
The best page to find parking in any places in the world :)
Does install location matter to the CLI? The install location will be on path, so it will be usable from anywhere.
> * Some other weird or 'meh' bullet points like type-safety (you're using either scala or java so you take that for granted) or stateless-web-tier.

I think type-safety is mentioned because unlike Play 1.x, almost everything is type-safe in 2.x, such as templates and route definitions.
My thoughts exactly. A good manager can make a difficult company bearable, and vice versa.
About using the Intel "Transactional Synchronization Extension"† (TSX) from the upcoming Haswell processors to provide a "fast path" to lock code. The code would first attempt to just do what it wants, but within a memory transaction. If the memory transaction cannot commit, there is a conflict from another core or thread, then it goes to the regular slow path with the locks. If applied at the right granularity almost all of your atomic operations should succeed with the TSX path and you will rarely invoke the heavier lock based code.

There is talk of performance measurement, but no numbers in the article, probably because Haswell isn't released.

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† http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2012/11/06/exploring-i...
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I was speculating about this with a friend the other day.

The problem is the battery recharge time is way more than the flight time. You need better than 1:1 for this to work.

Beamed power (sufficient to power something's lift) is going to have a scary energy density.

Maybe mechanical energy storage is the way to go; use counter-rotating flywheels that you can spin up rapidly, and then bleed off rotational power directly into the fans. Use a battery for powering control circuitry only.
I could have written the first two paragraphs... Actually I also would have quitted already, but my situation is also uncomfortable for personal reasons.

Anyway, reading Dilbert.com helps ;)
My understanding is that multiple competing private postal services has not played out well in countries that have tried it. (For example, http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n09/james-meek/in-the-sorting-offic...)

And presumably the same number of companies would want to send you junk mail regardless of who owns the post office...
Portuguese, "puxe": http://translate.google.com/#pt/en/puxe

X sounds like SH.
"My site is broken, Unicode.org is to blame"
I've heard that line of being indispensable to a company so many times. Turns out that it's not true. They'll find someone to replace you.
When my dad left one of his previous jobs, in which he was a manager of about 10-15 people; 3 of his team quit within the week. One of them told him that he was the best manager he'd ever worked under, and that he couldn't face working in that company with anyone else.

If I ever end up in a management position, that's the sort of manager I want to be.
There are Android smartphones that go for $50 in Africa. And they will be down to $30 by the end of this year. Now that's an affordable smartphone. Do they really think $150 is affordable in Kenya? That's like a high-end device for them.

And there are plenty of Android devices from $50 to $150 and beyond, too. Microsoft is in no danger of "winning" Africa.
I got bit depressed when I read the article, but was cheered up when I read the comments here. You guys are awesome!!!

I think a better article could have been "Don't waste your day". Who has seen tomorrow, and they are talking about planning a whole decade!

Keep your expectations low, work hard, give more than you take and be grateful. If you are to become next Einstein, your destiny will find you by itself. That's the best I can think for myself.
I would do periodic organization culture assessments by an outside and professional firm. Things like, who is respected, who is hated, who is consider incapable, who people enjoy working with. etc.

As a consultant I worked for several large IT organizations, and I got to see a lot of very toxic people. Some were really high up, some middle managers. They were assholes with everybody but I bet they were very nice to their own bosses, and worked very hard at masking their incompetence. Those people can really screw the organizational culture.
I remember being a kid and getting a call from the post master telling me I could go to jail for putting my lawn service flyers in people's mailboxes. Fortunately, in the rural area I lived, the mailboxes had separate slots for newspapers, so I just put the flyers in the newspaper slot.
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I'd like to find the best way to "opt out" of the postal system.

When I go out of town and put hold on my mail, they never work. The postal worker just delivers until the box is full and then returns the letters. Of course, the box is full because of junk mail (which you can't opt out of). I'd consider a post office box, but it is inconvenient, plus I'd have to change my address with everyone who sends me legitimate mail - you know, the things that you still can't handle electronically like W2s, etc.

I've heard that there are services which can have your mail forwarded to, who scan it and send it to you electronically, but I'd be concerned about identity theft.

It's just a broken system and there's no way to opt out.
Back in the real world of things, I ran an experiment recently with t-shirts, and created a 'Premium' design to sit alongside my existing design which I renamed 'Classic'.

The new tees were priced at £35 instead of £25, and I was expecting them to increase sales of the Classic tees, but actually the Premium tees sold waaaaaaay faster.
I find it hard to take seriously any information coming from a domain called "artofmanliness.com". I find myself wondering whether the Art in question is Donovan, Garfunkel, or Carney.
Odd... I've never even worked at any one company for 2 years, so... making work plans based on what someone decides will probably happen in 4 years is simply incomprehensible to me.

The few companies I've worked at have taught me that for the most part, companies can't do much real planning beyond 6 mos to a year at most - the stuff we considered important in 2006 was often irrelevant by 2007 because of changes in the market conditions, competition, etc. Planning out moves that far ahead is probably necessary in some situations, but I've seen enough of those 'long term plans' have to change anyway that I don't actually believe many of them.
This is so true, so so true. Not neessarly "managers" per say, but people involved in "decision" making that affects you.

For me; the people doing the UX, the people doing product, and etc.
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Yes. The US Congress makes for a terrible boss. You can't price your own goods and if you have a great year you don't get to reinvest the profits.
Hey Karen!

Thanks for the feedback! I've been redesigning the whole Exec UI over the past couple of days, I didn't anticipate an actual redesign being launched a day before mine though so I rushed to get just the homepage up in time.

Love the official redesign, Exec is such an interesting service, it really deserved a solid, clean new design
Well I was going to ask if you couldn't go over the manager, but by the time i clicked reply you'd added:

> its this guys company.

well… can't you try to find an other job for that? While working for the company? If he's the owner, I don't see why you'd care for being indispensable, it's not a case of an asshole manager in a great company it's a broken company.

Also, you probably aren't indispensable.
Yep, everyone has their own reality. You cannot copy/paste one person's solutions to another person's situations.
Its really interesting to see people who believe themselves as intellectually superior acting like 5 year olds when it comes to opinions that doesn't fit their stack. I started avoiding Reddit but I am increasingly going back to find news and discussions that gets flagged off from here.

I hope there exists a place on the web, where news is served/discussed as facts minus all the fanboyisms. If not, I should make one for a better future.
>I wonder what organizations would look like if this was allowed to happen.

Probably microscopic shitstorms, not large ones because only a minority is affected. But in the long run it would probably change everything in organizations with management problems. I think hiring policies would also change a lot.
The trick is to make people think you are indispensable.

I think more than often the real challenge is the knowledge, not the skills. IIRC there was a post linked HN about that problem, written by GitHub or Stripe maybe ?
"4mericans" might actually work.
Wow...what aspect of your dad's management attributed to this?
Usually it's just a case of understaffing and not being prepared for an employee leaving on short notice.
Managed to find a suitably large monitor. Here's my landing page for comparison. On Opera with Adblocker installed. I get the same results on Maxthon that has no addons to block ads. Let me know if you want to see Maxthon screen.

Ask: http://i.imgur.com/rX72PDd.png

Google: http://i.imgur.com/Q0BusaH.png
Things like OCAI really don't work that well in practice. The main benefit you get from them is actually asking the questions, not in the results of the 'test' or anything like that. People (and organizational culture) is too diverse and complex to understand with a few simple charts. Beware snake oil salesmen trying to sell you quick and easy 'fixes' for people or culture. Always.

Culture is incredibly hard to change once it is engrained, and is going to take real work and real sacrifice, not simple questionnaires. You should look at changing company culture in the same way as looking as getting a smoker to stop smoking. It's not as easy as 'presenting an argument'.
Perhaps that explains why Google and other companies obsessed about hiring "the best of the best" seem to struggle getting the basic stuff done. The "A players" only want to work on the interesting stuff and nobody is interested in doing the "grunt work" and giving the users what they actually want.

For instance Google Docs still doesn't have decent table editing, header/footer handling or heading numbering, but for some reason they gave all kinds of useless stuff higher priority over the stuff that the users actually need. For instance automatic OCR + translation for scanned PDF docs somehow doesn't seem like the most useful feature for a word processor that is still missing much of the basic functionality.
Smooth scrolling in other contexts (globally in the browser, or globally in a desktop UI) usually has an off switch. I've turned off smooth scrolling everywhere I could find a switch to turn it off.

It feels like smooth scrolling wastes my time. I know we're only talking about fractions of a second, really, but when I'm concentrating on something that feels like a long and pointless interruption. Smooth scrolling also really does cost CPU (and/or GPU) power, and in today's mobile device world that means it wastes battery power.
Individual advertisers such as Red Plum let you opt out of their mailings. You can also opt out of credit card offers and the cash advance checks on your existing cards. Spent 20 minutes on it: it will save you a lot of time in the long run.
What's next after CSS and XSL?
Great story. Even though I love the island, especially if/when you have kids, get out of there. It's sad that rather than advise an intelligent, motivated, hard working individual to stay and make the place better I'd advice them to get out, but I just don't see the problems getting better. There is something broken about the current culture in Puerto Rico. I'm glad I'm raising my kids on the mainland, they are learning the culture and language but in an environment where I don't have to look over my shoulder at all times. There are plenty of bad places here too, but it's much easier to get away from them here than there.

As much as it saddens me, I haven't met anyone who has left and hasn't found a better/safer opportunity here. We're lucky we don't need to worry about citizenship...

Mano y si necesitas ayuda me avisas, yo soy Cagueño también! 3 in one hn thread! Ship me some alcapurrias ;)
I agree with a lot of your thoughts, but as a counterpoint, I'm impressed by the UX of the "put my mail on hold" process at the USPS site every time I use it. I'm guessing there's real variance in the quality controls from office to office.

But I have no idea why the USPS doesn't offer a "we'll scan your mail before we deliver it, and you can select what you want" service, like the idea laid out here: https://tonywebster.com/2012/07/reinventing-the-united-state...
I imagine that any feasible scientific experiment would measure only a crude approximation to reality. How can you randomize someone to a job and a way of working? Most people are not capable of concentrating for four hours a day, or have jobs that don't permit it.

At best you might recruit some undergraduates -- nearly all psychology subjects are college students -- and have them do some artificial task one way or another for a couple weeks. I find anecdotes from successful musicians, scientists, and authors more persuasive than data from an contrived scientific study.
+1 I can relate to it.
Yeah, but companies pay mortgages, not managers.

In other words, I could be working for the most awesome, charismatic manager in the world but if I'm being paid significantly below Market Rate, I'd still leave.
Sounds like you have a problem with your local post office, not the concept of a postal service. I've successfully had my mail held before. If you can switch to a door slot instead of a mailbox, I think that also might solve your problem.
This isn't really a valid criticism of the program. The project is currently moving into specific markets. These are all places with access to undersea cable and with significant penetration of Western European languages. From the linked Huawei announcement:

"the Huawei 4Afrika will be available from Huawei, in Egypt, Nigeria, Kenya, Ivory Coast, Angola, Morocco and South Africa towards the later part of the 1st Quarter 2013."

From the original post: "This online hub will initially be available in Morocco and South Africa and will expand to other markets over time"
Issues closed with version 2.1: https://play.lighthouseapp.com/projects/82401-play-20/milest...
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I think you'd be right on that one, Exec's iOS interface font is Proxima Nova and I used a bit of a dodgy @font-face generator since I don't have a typekit membership
Your second point has nothing at all to do with your first point (unwanted mail); and is barely the USPS's fault.

I disagree with letting the "market" decide when it comes to vital infrastructure (mail, internet, roads, telephone, electricity, water) because the "market" is not always a healthy place (e.g. see US internet/cable/telephone market, see UK train market, et al).

It is one of the few areas where a state run monopoly might actually help business. While it certainly hurts opportunities within that specific sector, in really helps other businesses in other sectors compete globally.
I thought he did not mean type but look.

Now you could see a very unreadable url in browser's address bar. If you share the url without shorten it, it's looks ugly.
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ImageMagick: try GraphicsMagick instead - the maintainer is a nice guy and seems pretty responsive.
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lol... I couldn't help but laugh at this clever parody site.
A Conversation with the President of the Open Source Initiative (Video)
I have a problem with the reality of the postal service, not the concept.
Too late for me, I guess. Oh well.
If we include all the second- and third-order effects, the "value produced" by both goes far beyond the measurable financial results generated by Y Combinator's investment portfolio and the personal impact Hacker News has had on its community members.

For example, many other "incubators" around the world have been inspired by, and are trying to emulate some elements of, Y Combinator's startup program. Similarly, pg's influential essays -- there's nothing else quite like them on the Web -- have inspired countless individuals around the world to become entrepreneurs and/or angel investors.
KDE 4.10 has been released.
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The sad thing is that the USPS is not all that bad off financially. Rather, Congress is requiring them to make completely unrealistic pension payments decades in advance, for employees who may or may not exist yet.

No other organization could operate under such a burden, and no other federal agency faces such a requirement. It makes one wonder if the requirement is in place as an attempt to kill the USPS and privatize mail delivery entirely.
They look like remarkably fun toys but I agree with you, TMZ and the paparazzi media will be who really pushes this stuff to the next level. At least that's how the world looks to me.
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They still do - just not for shitty projects.

To see how this is done properly, check out for example:

1) Go language issues: https://code.google.com/p/go/issues/list (I had a bug fixed within 9 minutes after posting a few days ago!)

2) the PostgreSQL mailing lists (see other submission regarding "Tom Lane writes a lot of emails")
Very nice work. The trending topics per country would also be informative when shown, but that may be personal.
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