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The following (from the posting), "When management has to lay it on so thick that they don’t trust you with an afternoon at home waiting for the cable guy without a stern “please think of the company”, you know something is horribly broken.", reminds me of this quote...

How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 8:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?[1]

[1] http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/111168-how-in-the-hell-could...
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LG's 3D TV range is actually quite good. The Cinema3D series of smart TVs have a lot going for them including great display, beautiful elegant design, and an intuitive remote.
You've completely missed the point.

Having something on a security recording can be classed as "hard evidence".

The case in question was one of using circumstantial evidence alone to "statistically" decide whether she was guilty or not.

The law differentiates between circumstantial evidence and hard evidence. People aren't supposed to be convicted on circumstantial evidence alone.
Rephrase this as "Facebook Lost a Great Developer" and it begins to make sense, especially if Facebook was actually looking for a "Great Engineer".

> I would fire any developer who chose to re-implement standard library functions.

Who writes the standard library functions?

> never parse HTML without a proper HTML parser

Who writes the parsers?

On merging arrays in-place:

> Aside from having no real-world value, it’s not actually possible

It is possible, and has value when dealing with large data sets, which I'm sure is a common issue at Facebook. Here's another way to look at it: "Given two sorted 0.5 terabyte arrays on a terabyte drive, and 1 gb of memory, merge the two arrays without an additional drive."

There's no shame in not knowing or caring about things like this (it takes all kinds), but what the poster does (and seems to be good at) just may not be what Facebook was looking for.

> At the scale of Facebook, I’m exactly the sort of engineer I’d want many of.

Many possibly, but not only.
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Agree weed out but Y likely met with their top employees well ahead of the announcement to discuss strategy, intent, duration (almost certainly temporary) and get feedback?

If Y and MM indeed did have those discussions ahead of time then I like this - shake things up with change and maybe even some chaos - it is needed - even if there are some negative consequences mixed in.

x weeks from now, post weed out, we will see Y go right back to standard WFH.
>Please, please, don't poison your career on focusing on a single language

My career is likely older than you, I think it'll survive the horrors of using a good language. I've been running production web sites on haskell for a year so far, and it has been great.
> The version of Textadept for the terminal requires only ncurses.

For a while, you could only get ed on most *nix systems. Doesn't mean this couldn't become a new "standard."

Vague title? In what way? It's someone's review of why they're using Textadept. (or is this a case where HN changed the title after the fact?)
Yeah. LG's high end smart TVs have something called Magic Remote. It's no kinect, but an improved version of this might work well with an WebOS adapted for the big screen.
http://www.lg.com/global/magicremote/
Generally won't sms kind of services are limited to 160 chars. by operators? How are large articles etc. going to be handled
The problem probably lies in the fact that you cannot prove something by reduction to the absurd based on a probability distribution.

Because law requires positive proof (or it should) not just "this chain of events is so unlikely under other assumptions that our assumptions must be right". This is where Sherlock's quotation is misleading: he says "rule out the IMPOSSIBLE", not the improbable.

The judge is right epistemologically. Bayesian statistics has only a terminological issue.
I don't really see why Yahoo of all companies would earn this kind of benefit of the doubt.
> if they want to drastically change the culture at Yahoo I don't see any other way

Surely you can imagine other ways to make people accountable, dedicated, empowered and effective than focusing on the place and hours they work?
Not to mention this approach has issues with overflow.
No you don't, it says setup a django app. That involves writing no code, and is entirely a standard sysadmin task.
Interesting, din't know that it came with a Wacom stylus, but still android is far from a full OS. Maybe if you can throw in Ubuntu it might change people's mind. Also, not sure how Sketchbook Pro compares with its android app, is it a cute version or does it have full functionality? How is the performance like? Is there is a drawing lag? What about side by side use of apps? Someone needs to do a review.

>Surface Pro stylus doesn't work on Photoshop anyway.

Not yet, Wacom support on Photoshop is promised in future updates and it will come eventually.

> $400 now

I have to agree that is an awesome price for such a tablet but since I have always been a sucker for full OS, I might shell out more to just get the satisfaction.
the ability to resolve and issue face-to-face in 2 minutes rather than struggling on Skype, or waiting for emails.

If you're not coordinating your remote workers on an IRC-like system, you're likely doing it wrong. (That's my experience, if someone else has successfully used other systems I'd like to hear about it)

Also, if most of the team is on site and the remote people are a small minority, things are going to suck, unless management is also off-site.
>very rarely I do find someone who stubbornly declare that they have no other interests at all

Of course, but your wording rules out a large number of likely interests as they are technical.
If you can look past DHH being DHH, his points are valid. That said, I think he missed the main thrust of Yahoo's decision: they are looking to increase collaboration, and they believe face-to-face collaboration is more advantageous than remote or semi-remote collaboration. I would assume this is because they think collaboration is an important part of the overall productivity of their staff.

I've been a remote or semi-remote [1] for 8 years, mostly for smaller organizations under 50 people. As a developer, I LOVE working remotely, and it creates a huge increase in my personal productivity. It also enables a saner work/life balance.

That said, enabling productive _collaboration_ does take work. My guess is Yahoo is so far behind the eight ball, they want to take this out of the equation until they can right the ship.

Rather than "you're an idiot" sort of post, I'd like it see 37 signals write up how they enable remote collaboration. [2]

Trust is the foundation of great collaboration, but you need more than that to actually make it work. And, scaling that up to thousands of people would be even more difficult.

[1] Semi-remote being three days in the office, two days at home.

[2] My guess is they still use campefire, but it would still be an interesting write up in 2013.
i'm working on a project that does this with doc comments. Basically you add a doc block like this:

###
@it should return true
expect(foo()).to.be.true
###
foo = -> true

and the preprocessor extracts the test from the comment and associates it with the foo declaration.
Well, my take on this is unique only because I did work for Yahoo for years, and in the beginning I worked on-site, but then for years after that I worked 100% remotely from my house in Spring Hill, Florida. The way I work is remotely, and I will work on-site for a small time, and after trust is built up, the work is largely done remotely from then on.
Reading the Android forums, I see users refer to phones barely 6 months old as being out of date and year old phones as antiques. I find that puzzling as they're most likely not doing anything that requires the latest device out there (they're not modding/developing, just end users that want latest shiny toy). If their phone isn't getting OS updates, then it at least has some weight, but I've seen users calling Nexus phones that as well.

I guess it's a hobby for some to trade in phones every few months. I'd rather have a top of the line PC than play Angry Birds with a 500ms faster load time with the next phone iteration.

Also, where are the source links on this blog? I have some gripes about most of the Android blogs for their reporting style, but this one can't even provide a link to where the mentioned ROMs are. For anyone that is interested, you can find the Verizon Galaxy S3 Ubuntu ROM here[1]. No working radios for phone calls or data and not worth using past trying it for the sake of testing. I don't recall seeing anything for any other S3 variants though, but any of the North American ones should have minimal changes at the most.

[1] http://rootzwiki.com/topic/39299-romwip-ubuntu-touch-on-d2vz...
Not currently. This is an immediate goal for me. However, I just couldn't figure out how to make recent uploads visually interesting for audio files.
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From what I've seen, Yahoo doesn't seem like a "work from home if you want" kind of company. It seems like each person who is working remotely had an exception to a general policy, and now those exceptions are just blindly cancelled.

In this case, "saying no work from home" just means many of those people are not going to work for Yahoo anymore. That's pretty terrible for team spirit.
Nikon D9000, the D300 replacement?
As someone working remote, it's telling to me that the fun part of working in an office are all things that are...not actually working :)
It's the ultimate have-it-both-ways for the pirates.

If HBO is not making as much money as before, it's proof that their business model is dumb and stupid and they need to adapt to me.

If HBO is making more money than ever, it's proof that the pirates aren't hurting them at all, and they need to get off our backs, man!
nothing, i repeat, NOTHING can replace vim. Learn to use it, and you feel so superior to everybody and everything around you, you might even kick walls and shopping-carts for using something different!

I am just kidding, but seriously, every time i read such "i found a vim replacement"-articles, it turns out the author was not really a vim power user. It's strange, i know.
He's right up there with Nelson Mandela.
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When I was younger I took a reading test and scored just over 1,000 words per minute with 100% retention.

I remember reading an article that there were 3 types of readers.

Readers who sub-vocalize the words

Readers who "hear" the words

Readers who "see" words

Not sure if that's an accurate assessment, but I definitely don't sub-vocalize. If I sub-vocalized, I think would at least some general idea how to pronounce unusual character names from fantasy novels. I couldn't have even tried to pronounce most of the character names in Lord of the Rings, immediately after reading it but I could recognize the name patterns if I saw them.
How is Android kernel not a standard Linux ?

Ubuntu and Android simply share the Linux kernel. I don't see any preposterous about it.
>In my experience, having someone there in person is a lot more productive, I get immediate responses to my queries and they get immediate responses to their work, no waiting around for emails to be responded to.

Corporate IM is one solution to this.
Please stop using square or sqrt or recur/iter as examples of functional programming. It's as bad as every "Hello World" println from new imperative languages that seem to pop up everyday.

And please stop suggesting that imperative programmers are unable or unwilling to fully grasp the functional mindset. It's really unnecessary. This is akin to every claim that new technology is "scary". Disruption is not frightening, it's just unwelcome.

Give the imperative programmers a little slack; they're trying to solve problems just like everyone else. It's not their fault you don't enjoy reading epic poems written in iambic pentameter.
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It is well known that 70% of all statistics are wrong.
> most of text editors and IDEs have some ftp/ssh capabilities , and most of them are free. If you call yourself a developers and you cant upload a file , you cant call yourself a developer.

What does that have to do with local development?
I appreciate the input, but on the contrary, I don't think an author's history and interests should be ignored when evaluating their argument. The world is full of people who excel at making compelling arguments for whichever side of an issue suits their interests. Personally, knowing that an author has a upcoming book whose thesis might be undercut by the decisions he's criticizing makes any doubt cast upon this article much more compelling. Which is why I mentioned it :)
This reminds me of of my college. There are so many times when I want to study myself but they have a strict attendance criterion which I have to fulfil.

I do not like this new decision. Yahoo looked on a nice path after Merrisa coming back but this is a bad decision for workers. No matter they will leave soon!
... I've gone through phases where I don't get into work until 3pm. A guy I know decided he would take Thursdays off and work on Saturday instead. My manager forgot I was going on vacation for a few days and I didn't get a call or email ...

With that statement, you're really highlighting the trust your company has with you. Unfortunately, it seems Yahoo is communicating that it no longer trusts any of its employees working from home. And there may be valid reasons, such as significant lost of productivity, but punishing the "good" employees with the "bad" sends a negative signal.
If you grew up in a time when all you needed to do to watch a TV show online was google "watch Game of Thrones online" and go to the first link, you would feel much more relaxed about it than you obviously do.

That takes me to a site that has endless scamware ads, tries to get me to download a hilarious dubious "codec" from a third party site, has various false-starts while it solicits memberships, etc.

That is easy? In contrast if I want to watch GoT on my cable box, it's right there under on-demand (included with premium services).

After having dealt with the fallout when people "easily" watched videos online, I have become suspicious of any notion about the easiness of piracy.
Some people might apply without reading the conditions. The first one being that you need to be a startup.
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Barnes & Noble’s biggest shareholder wants B&N retail assets. Nook spin-out?
Well, sure we're assuming ultimately some sort of deterministic result of our computation, but we're discussing pl semantics and properties of the computation itself, and non-deterministic semantics are one of the most important characteristics of concurrent programming, no?
China is not a consumer driven economy.
Tl;dr: An editor with lua patterns instead of regex find/replace. Thanks, I stick with (and pay for) my ST.
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> Why not just keep the former name ?

I've quoted the only "explanations" I know of, as I wrote I don't know of any other. If you want more info, but the developer.
Oh, so it isn't an acronym for suit-up?

</barney>
Let's not forget that matte FullHD IPS screen, when we're talking about UX31A.
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If Wade was fired for having sex with Karen, then why wasn't Karen also fired? Oh, Wade was also making fun of one of the author's partners. So OK, Wade was fired for a poor attitude, and who boinked who was irrelevant. We hope. Because we have a number of people at my work who met there and are married to each other, and I assume that there was some amount of boinking going on. Why, there may be boinking going on right now.

Otherwise, I enjoyed the list at the end, I have to be reminded regularly how to treat people (really), so this was that reminder today.
This was originally a Daily Dot story. Mashable just syndicated it. http://www.dailydot.com/news/copyright-alerts-system-launch-...
The reason why SatoshiDICE can do this is because they include the output of the bet transaction as one of the inputs to the win/lose response transaction.

If part of the bet transaction is doublespent there's a good chance it won't make it into a block. If the bet transaction doesn't make it into a block, the response transaction won't either and is therefore worthless.
I'm not actually a fanboy or anything- I used a first-gen iPad for about a week once and hated it, but I won't deny that it redefined the word tablet. Perhaps my language was a bit clunky; I was reaching for a word to convey the importance of the original iPad in shaping tablets and genesis was the best I could do after midnight.
Sure. The diet I follow is Schwarzbein Principle, but I've had lots of influences from Art Ayers (http://coolinginflammation.blogspot.fi), SCD and Paul Pitchford's Healing With Whole Foods. And from several other sources too...

I came out from paleo/lowcarb with very high insulin levels. Also had my adrenals exhausted (ASI test show this one). It took me several years to regain my health.

I follow up the situation using Genova Diagnostics Comprehensive Digestive Stool Analysis (CDSA2.0) and measuring certain vitamin and mineral levels.
We have all sorts of discussions here on HN that derail a bit from the topic of the main article linked, e.g. discussing smart TVs in a thread about webOS; I don't see how this is negative as long as there is still connection.
Reading fast is great, but ever since getting a Kindle I seem to be reading much slower. And then they introduced the "time to finish chapter/book" and that just creates anxiety.
Yes, when you read novels/fiction book etc. Skimming texts seems to make no sense, you read novels to get entertained. Most speed reading books etc. recommend skimming or a quick glance say before actually going to attack, while it makes sense for reports and the like, most of short readings,news and the other thing one comes across may not fit in this category
Current Dystopia?? I don't know where you live ... but if you're in the US (and the kind of person that would frequent this site) I assume that what you are living in is far from a dystopia. Let's keep some perspective in the conversation please.
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I have exactly the same problem. I learned to read extremely early (before the age of 2), and read Lord of the Rings for the first time when I was 7. I devoured everything I could get my hands on.

I never took a speed reading course or lesson, but I cannot recall ever having subvocalized. I find myself hitting 750 wpm on speed reading tests with decent comprehension. Not great, but decent.

To use a computing metaphor, I feel like I'm reading with two threads - one to take in all the words as quickly as possible, and a second one to pick the important ones out of the stream. The first thread is completely unconscious, to the point where if you ask me to find a specific word on a page of text, I can always pick it out within 2-3 seconds.

But I feel like a greyhound, itching to run at top speed. Reading fiction is a constant struggle to keep myself chained, forcing myself to imagine the scene playing out, when all I want to do is speed ahead to find out what happens next. It's like an internal war, and it gets worse at the climatic moments.
I watched on the sidelines as the Google Glass frenzy was taking place, last Wednesday, and it became clear that Google Glass is going to usher in a new age of computing.

Allowing someone remote to see exactly what you see is something we've never quite had. This technology will enable us to receive help with tasks we never imagined. That's the reason I'm launching Glass Skills, a marketplace where Google Glass owners will be able to get unprecedented help with everyday tasks. Let your imagination run wild!

So, HN, what do you have to say?
How do you feel about working from home just part of the week? At my current company most of my team works from home two days a week. While we aren't required to do so, most of us sync our days so we all work from home Tuesday and Thursday. That way we are in the office at the same time for the most part.

I've found that I really enjoy this arrangement. I still feel like we have team cohesion while at the same time I can get done my transactional work two days out of the week without being disturbed. We schedule meetings where we need to collaborate for M-W-F. If we do need to get together on T-Th then we fire up a Google Hangout.

For me it seems like the best of both worlds. I reduce my commute and transportation costs 40% without really losing a lot in return.
We've been using SES for a while and while it does work well, it has experienced some significant downtime - just a thought.
I had trouble with the "You can't read without subvocalization." part too.

I can't understand if by subvocalization he means moving your throat/mouth or simply repeating the words you are reading in your mind without moving any muscles.

Wikipedia says "subvocalization is defined as the internal speech made when reading a word"[1], which further confuses me.

I don't move any muscles while reading, but my internal monologue repeats the words I read, does this mean i subvocalize?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subvocalization
So, Yahoo had a human resources/administrative problem, not a remote work problem. They failed to stay on top of their employees because they were working remotely. They were "hiding" and many didn't even know they were on payroll. That's a management failure. It can just as easily happen in-office.
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Feedback would be greatly appreciated!

Also I wrote a chrome extension[0] to help consume direct audio links while browsing.

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hoverplay/hkbbcjmc...
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My sense is that Yahoo is about to start doing some reorganization.

- There might be some trial and error runs of different managers (ergo, a period of quick reorganization)
- Leadership might want to simply make their mark on the organization
- It might be about establishing a culture of secrecy a la Apple (this is a stretch)

I do sense it's a symptom of a serious cultural problem. Layoffs might be coming. However, I'd expect more people to just to be straight up fired, without the big "we're reducing headcount" sort of announcement.