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> I have plenty of money

If that's as true as you claim, why wait for the 'cheap' Tesla Bluestar? Jump in with both feet and get a Model S!

On a more practical note; if you're worried about compatibility, it's Tesla, the brand that's inventing the field entirely - at worst there will be adapters to allow backwards compatibility, but more likely the current plug is relatively future proof.

If it's the battery-swap tech; that works on current Model S's, so that should be no concern either.

My current car is gasoline powered but I do believe it's the last gasoline car I'll own. Only time can tell.
its not a false dichotomy. sometimes tone IS content. if a person did something that you consider to be such a bad error that you wish them to hear your deep concern/annoyance then it is correct to be "rude", or rather to use harsh language and avoid sugar coating. Linus exemplifies this style of communication.
The fact that so many people have popped up here to defend or justify Linus's behavior terrifies me.

There is no excuse for being mean. Period. Full stop. This is basic human courtesy - they teach it in grade school.

It doesn't matter if you're famous, or if you lead a project with tons of users and contributors, or you're nobody - anything that you can yell at people, you can also tell them politely. And you can argue about the technicalities of what constitutes "professionalism" or "abusive speech" all you want - the fact is, what Linus said was mean, and nobody should have to be on the receiving end of that. It doesn't matter if it's said in public or private, or whether the person he was talking to did something "stupid" (and haven't we all, at some point?) - nobody should have to be treated that way.

And if you think otherwise, well, I hope I never have to work with you.
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Same. A (Finnish speaking) Finn I know likes to brag to me about this.
I have never heard of the concept before. It would seem to me that, if you have a team of motivated, experienced, and intelligent programmers working on a creative project, this might be pretty effective.

It won't work for everyone though.
Geographically, sure. Culturally - not at all.
Exciting addition, almost missed it:

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Yeesh...if your experiences with beer have been vomit and alcoholism, then you either have a very strange group of friends, or an allergy to something in beer.

Beer has been an integral part of the human experience for a very long time.
I'm referring to faux-politeness as Linus's strawman alternative to being rude. It's a false dichotomy.

And when I talk about behaving like a caveman, I should be clear that I'm generalizing the behavior he's trying to legitimize. I don't claim to have an in depth knowledge of his behavior outside of the handful of times things he's written have popped up here or on Slashdot.

For all I know, these are isolated incidents. But even if that's the case, I think it's behavior he should be working on improving, instead of rationalizing. Whether it's coming from him, Steve Jobs, the former Rutgers basketball coach, or whoever else, I simply don't believe that being rude or bullying is optimal or morally acceptable. And I'm not some softie hippie who thinks we should all argue with kid gloves. It's quite possible to be severe and explicit with your thoughts, without being insulting, either to the person or their work.
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I have posted this Techcrunch link already. Just with the slash at the end :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6053424
I agree that there will be some interesting disruption when personal genome sequencers are available. I'm not convinced that changes the struggle. I think it makes it more likely that everybody's genome will be sequenced and publicly available as it is hard to not inadvertently leave DNA somewhere.
The best kind of friends are those that right out calls me idiot when they see I'm doing something idiotic. It's liberating, because we both know that the harsh tone is not due to my whole being being defined as a idiot, but that specific thing I did was indeed stupid and he/she cared enough about me to tell me straight out...
…or as if he spent some time in Berlin. Really, nothing particularly rude/big/abusive/bullying.
Don't think current administration would risk that, republican controlled house is looking for any shred of a scandal to have hearings, they are itching to impeach Obama. More than likely you'll see the executive branch would do any business(advertising etc) with yahoo and military would do some knee jerk reaction like ban armed serviced personnel from viewing yahoo properties similarly to what they did with the Guardian. Its easier and safer to cut the money streams. Luckily for Yahoo it isn't much, unlike Microsoft or Att who have more to lose in terms of government contracts.
Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6028905
He addresses this in the quote in the article. When he acts less abrasive, people take him less seriously.
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Verbal abuse might be necessarily unprofessional, but nobody is asking Linus to wear a tie. It would be nice if he would just not bully well-intentioned contributers.
yeah.. but I'd expect a publication of such reputation to dig deeper than that. The ideas mentioned don't even scratch the surface. Hence the reference to "4 year olds".
There is almost unlimited empirical evidence for exercise making one stronger, so I don't see how that is intuitive, a better term is common knowledge. Is it intuitive that eye exercises improve age related visual decline? (It doesn't, just an example)
What sort of problem would cause this error?

Can we glean anything from Paypal's system by the amount that he was accidentally credited?
I just wanted to say congrats on getting something out in the world.

Don't worry about all the criticism on this page, particularly from anyone who has never written a book before.
In which way do you think they are wrong?
> Think tanks develop policy proposals and other types of information, that is then used by political parties.

Sure. Nobody would ever formulate policy proposals if they never felt anybody would adopt them! That doesn't make them lobbyists.
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I'm all for options, but isn't swap slow enough as it is already without adding additional overhead?

Even on tiny embedded devices, storage is cheaper than cycles IMO.
Throat microphone + headphones makes it all effectively private from literal evesdroppers :)
As another Swede I would say he is acting rather Finnish. Though he would not be out of place in Sweden either, our countries are not that different.
Perhaps voice identification could help. There seem to be quite a few solutions [1]. Unfortunately I do not have any intuition how good they are, but probably they can be broken with a simple recording of your voice ( or a recording of a passphrase). So before you trust these, you should probably play a bit with an mp3 player.

[1]https://duckduckgo.com/?q=voice+biometric+login
GitHub pages provides free hosting for something like this, some templates, and with some fairly simple changes in Markdown and CSS you could have this up relatively quickly.
I totally agree, as a cypherpunk and an EFF/FSF donor (notice the GNU in the end of the video, I bought that from RMS at an auction for a few hundred bucks) I'm bothered by the possible privacy intrusions from glass. At the same time we are trying to highlight the good that can come from glass (see our VizWiz project which is an iPhone/MTurk/CV mashup to help blind users find objects https://www.cs.umd.edu/~bwhite/extra/papers/UIST10-jbigham.p...). One area we are researching is how to protect bystander's privacy without requiring them to "opt-in" so that they can "opt-out" (like Germany does with street view).

We're already working on the next demo, but the one after that (let's say 2 weeks) I'll try to show what we can do in terms of protecting the public's privacy (incidental bystanders). Thanks for mentioning this.
> The higher up you go, the colder it is to the point you don't get that many insects at all.

My experience doesn't completely agree with that.

Everything up to and including the Brooks Range was horrendous for mosquitoes in summer, same over on the Dempster Highway in Canada. Once you get within ~60 miles of the Arctic Ocean the temperature does drop enough to get rid of them, but before that it's a nightmare.
The use of words such as violence and abuse is disturbing. We are talking about a guy thats swearing - not a rapist. Sorry, but swearing isn't very uncommon in Scandinavia.

I didn't sign an agreement to act according to some US code of conduct - I assume Linus is feeling the same way. Although I certainly wouldn't do what he does, I respect him standing up against the American CoC mafia.

I heard Steve Jobs was very rude to his employees, if they did a poor job as well - I guess all of this happened inside the Apple HQ as well - its just easier to be angry with someone who is not your boss (oh, and if everything happens on a mailing list).
This model assumes everyone in your organisation is Clueless and the author correctly points out that it falls on its face when you try to apply it to a group with a few Losers in the mix. Also, someone is always writing the checks and handing out the raises, so there will always be a leader somewhere in the group.
I spend a few years in USA. Yes USA is quite diverse , from Maine to California , but that was not my point ( i studied in CS Maine and in Massachusets ).
this is why you have to keep mainstream out of technology. We're going to start acting like gossip girl. I've worked in all different fields, and IT has been the most efficient field by far, mostly because of the lack of coddling. I've done the nice thing, and all it does is create more work for me. Being more direct, and yes, rude may not be your favorite way to communicate, but it is direct, and at the end you have no doubts about what needs to be done, and what people consider important. Plus, people are a bit sensitive
He's wrong, the behaviour isn't acceptable. He's right: he can run Linux however he wants. It'd be a bit more honest to say "I can be a jerk because I wrote Linux." than all of this moral relativist survival of the fittest macho bullshit, though.
Why is everybody so concerned about Linus being who he is? Every month there's yet another article about 'rude open source developers'. I thought we were hackers and not conformists. I could care less what Linus says it's his kernel, his project, his life, his personality. Linux is not a job, it has no sensitivity training or rules of social conduct. If you don't like it don't volunteer.

Nothing stopping you from forking the kernel, developing it yourself and calling it Sensetivlix: The GNUspeak conformity project.
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Why can it not be both?
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This blurb needs to be on the landing page!
Hah! Thank you.

I pray to the FSM for this PRISM-induced group psychosis to end.

I agree the NSA overstepped their authority. But the idea that A) they would want this information B) they wouldn't have trivially easy ways of otherwise getting this information (ie a single hair) or C) that this information would somehow be safer with a UK based firm are all _hilarious_.
Really? Didn't know that. Still might be worth a shot in my eyes since it's unclear to me if autodetect happens before or after an OS bootup.
If you're in the UK they can be picked up pretty cheaply from surplus stores, and no doubt online too. There must be some consumer-grade ones knocking about too which might be worth a shot if you're not sure if it'll work or not :)
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She says she will "roar back" and considers that a threat of retaliation that might deter them, but she is talking to people who don't mind roaring at all. She really is missing the point of cultural sensitivity -- cultures that are louder and more confrontational aren't required to play by the rules of cultures that work more quietly, just to cooperate with them. There isn't any accusation here that Linus unfairly judges the work or contributions of people who don't "roar." They just want him to stop yelling because their cultural bias causes them to perceive him as a threatening and potentially violent person.
You could look at "Natural Language Processing with Python" for a case study of this - that book is available for free online but seems like people still buy it.
Cunt.

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Nice. I'll take this as an opportunity to link to an Austrian economist. Austrians happen to be the best economists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_von_Wieser
Actually, it's the opposite.

"This is specifically contrasted to the Swedish consensus decision-making, where the manager makes sure that everyone involved has been heard before decisions are taken."

Ergo the "management by perkele" - as a Swede, you probably know what perkele is ;-)

More about it here; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Management_by_perkele

Also acted out in this commercial; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8_7yPocGPg
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There has to be a solution for this kind of problem (duplicate posts like these two): check first https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6053531 and now check the other link https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6053424
Yeah. Considering how much Apple prides itself on good UI design, I have no clue how ES2 happened.
Yes, I would get that feeling, if I knew that the ring was designed by the same engineer designing the bridge. If you set out to do a book well, you also want to promote it as best as you can. Average website here raises the question why it's average.

There isn't necessarily a correlation. I am talking about the feeling the website gives.
I checked this out for the same type of role in Bay Area and London.

There was no difference when you take tax,rent and holidays into consideration (10 - 15 days vs 25 - 28)

This didn't include any bonus / equity / perks
I published a book on Cheetah 3D (a nice 3d program for Mac OS X that conspicuously needs a manual). You can find out about it here http://loewald.com/c3dbook/

The main thing I learned is that if you need to sell your book for more than $10 (if it's aimed at a vertical market) split it into multiple $10 books or you'll be screwed by Amazon (which gives lower royalties for books between $10 and $20 than for $10 books). I ended up only selling my book through Apple and Lulu (and BN but that's useless).

Another problem is I've found most of the epub tools I've used to be fairly awful. Were I doing it over again I'd probably write the whole book in markdown and convert it to epub using scripts.
Hi everyone, I actually signed one of these contracts as a local elected official.

We had no money, laying off teachers and cops 3 years in a row. Cable company shows up and offers to fund our public access TV and hook up a bunch of electronics, to the tune of $100-200k or so as part of the contract.

What the fuck do you think we did?

Yeah, we signed the contract, but it was their demands (we did have both comcast and verizon in the market, at least). We came cheap, because the fans of the free market have starved local governments of resources.

The cable companies have way more resources than any given local government except for a few cities. They're the ones playing the tune, we marched to it. Blaming it on local governments is willfully stupid.
> rather to use harsh language and avoid sugar coating.

It is tedious when people keep saying that "avoiding sugar coating" means "be rude".

It is fine to avoid sugar coating something. It's not fine to be rude.

> such a bad error that you wish them to hear your deep concern/annoyance

There are many ways to express deep concern or annoyance without being rude, and without sugar coating something.

"It is very frustrating to me that I have to check so much of your work. Please take extra-special care next time you commit something. Here are the errors you've made so far. This has involved a lot of extra work, and has distracted me from doing other work. This is not the first time you've made these simple mistakes. We appreciate your effort, but it might be better if you worked on $OTHER_THING rather than $THIS_THING until you understand our requirements."

That is professional, harsh, true, constructive, and gets stuff done. It's not sugar coated. It's also not rude.
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We stopped getting exceptions a dozen times from a few hours to a couple of days. And no the exceptions didn't came up after that delay, it's like they were never sent.
Ultrasound sonar should work, since many animals efficiently detect insects at range that way.
It would be nice if seasoned veterans did not submit crap and regressions. It would be nice if there was documentation coming out of our ears. It would be nice if P always equals NP. It would not be nice if Linus were a saint.
So maybe this is nitpicky, but it's the difference between books I buy and books I don't.

In the 'Technical Debt and Slop' excerpt, there is an example about determining whether an order is free. Basically it compares the customer's store credit plus discounts against the price of the object. It does not account for quantity, or other items in the user's cart. Essentially, the same store credit amount gets applied to every item. This is a bug in the logic, and it took about 30 seconds of me scanning the article to notice it.

Now I realize that's not the point of the excerpt. It's about code duplication. But it's still sloppy writing. That's fine for your blog, but if you expect me to pay, I expect content that is of high quality. Code examples should be complete, and free of bugs.
Absolutely wrong. You don't get to choose the skill level of people you drive away by being an asshole and having people let you get away with it.
> SELinux is open source. At least you can verify and prove they it has a backdoor in it.

If you are able to decipher such backdoor in the code, or do you expect the code to have a comment saying /* backdoor */ ?

http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html
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I don't see how that would make it harder. Audio surfing is easier than should surfing. Wonder if he could somehow get his one-button clicker to translate morse code into ascii. Then he really could log in in a fairly secure way.
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Using Sentry here at FlightCar. Have had very good experiences:

https://twitter.com/cjbprime/status/347467911050448896
Hmm. Maybe it won't be a problem after all. The size of the sonic boom seems to correlate positively with the size of the wing surface. Since a track (or tube) based system wouldn't need much of a wing, it ought to have a pretty small boom.

However, I do want to point out that rifle shots are supersonic and are annoying to the neighbors, and they have no wings at all.
I don't necessarily disagree with you on that, but I'm still thinking about how we usually evaluate this. I don't think it's often that people come to this conclusion after actual self-directed work, rather it's somekind of assumption after perhaps showing lack of passion in a directed-from-above workplace.
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> Nothing stopping you from forking the kernel, developing it yourself and calling it Sensetivlix: The GNUspeak conformity project.

Weirder things have happened
Sarah Sharp is not messing around; here's her commit log:

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.g...

She's a USB developer and it looks like the primary maintainer of the Linux xhci driver.
I dream of working for/with someone like Linus Torvalds. Seriously.

There is absolutely no pretense here, no guessing, no fakery. If you work with Linus, you know exactly where you stand. He doesn't hold anything back, including criticisms that are critical to your own growth as a developer.

And there can be no question - NONE - that what he does WORKS. Linux is on BILLIONS of devices worldwide, affecting BILLIONS of peoples' lives in as literal a sense as can be imagined. You have to be strict about that sort of software, you have to be hard, you have to have a very sharp edge, and you absolutely cannot afford to make mistakes.

You don't have to like it, and you don't have to agree with it, but you certainly don't walk into Linus Torvalds' kitchen and tell him it's too hot.
Do you also get a performance bump by writing to memory? This post was quite helpful. Thanks
Perhaps you should pay your carers better, so you can hire quality people....

You can also get a proximity alarm for your iPhone.
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Great, yet another software development methodology. What happened to good-old todo lists?
We drop motherfucker and other "curse" words in my US office all day long here. Mostly due to some bullshit coming down the fucking pike from some dumbass account manager who doesn't know their ass from a hole in the ground.
Nobody called Torvalds a rapist. Engage with her argument or don't, but don't caricature it.
And the benefit has to be multiplied by the odds I'll ever actually read it after purchase. Ebooks are so tempting!
"Exercise makes you physically stronger" isn't intuitive at all. Are you stronger after you exercise? No! You're weaker than when you started. Rest makes you stronger, short-term. The increase in strength from exercise happens over a very long period of time and is tough to correlate with the exercise unless you study it fairly deeply. Furthermore, non-living objects almost universally decrease in strength from exercise.

Without actually studying the question in some detail, I don't see how one could intuitively conclude that exercise increases physical strength.
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Both Ableton and Reason are over $400 and tons of musicians still choose those over Logic. For many, price is not the only consideration when picking a DAW and there are plenty of developers selling mere VSTs, not even DAWs, at $200/pop.
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Why to use node instead of Clojure then?

This seems just like hacking around a non-existing problem if JS wasn't being used.
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