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> I was under the impression, vim does have clipboard support. Putting "set clipboard=unnamed" in ~/.vimrc integrates it with system clipboard

I was wrong about that. As it turns out, in some environments, by reconfiguration you can make vi/vim recognize the system clipboard, even though it's terribly unhappy about it, and even though the change isn't transferable to all working environments.

I stand corrected.
I agree about the quality getting much better, but the one thing I really miss with DDG is the Google Search Tools, and being able to narrow my searches down by date (last month, last year, last week), etc.

For technical searches it really helps being able weed out old content and solutions (old rails 2 solutions, etc).
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I found that a previous job where I could work remotely here and there, I was extremely productive. So much time is wasted on the getting ready to go out (more than just grabbing a shower and throwing on some jeans/shorts and a t-shirt), doing the half hour or more commute, "settling into the office" (chitchatting with your co-workers). And then I was ready to blow that taco stand by the end of day. While at home I tended to work longer hours and sometimes twice as productive.

But remote desktop just sucks no matter how fast your connection is.
How about 2 serial ports, connecting only TxD, RxD and GND? 3-wire RS-232 basically has no attack surface, there's no protocol to speak of. [edit: shabble already suggested this]
I recently wrote an article that covers some of this ground: http://www.sitepoint.com/docker-for-rubyists/

The basic idea behind Docker is that you don't have to create another operating system in order to just separate your processes from each other. This leads to containers being much more lightweight than virtual machines but also significantly less powerful (i.e. powerful as in ability to do something, not in terms of performance) in some areas.
Yet he prefers aes-256 over twofish-256 or camellia-256.
Well, twitter has "devs" then they have "Devs." They're known for their Kevin Weil-type employees and not their mumble mc. staresatfeet (because for "culture fit" they hire attractive outgoing people, not mumbles mc. staresatfeet).
I am speaking from experience. I once co-founded a company, now-defunct, and while serving as president of the company, was a formal advisor to another company. I think I provided a lot of value to the other company, and I absolutely learned from the experience.

However, in retrospect, I concluded that serving as an advisor to another company while I was building a new company of my own was not a good decision. Did taking the time to advise another company have a material impact on the outcome for my company? I don't believe so, but I can never know either. And that's the thing: when you start a business, win or lose you should always put yourself in a position where you can look back and know that 100% of the hours you made available to your work life were dedicated to the right effort.
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I would love to hear if you find any good communities out.
Seems targeted at people who are remote long-term. Maybe a little more reasonable in that light. But for short-term people,

>Approval from your team lead. Basically, just tell someone well in advance if you’re going to be altering your work arrangement, temporarily or permanently.

seems counterproductive. Sometimes problems come up and you suddenly need to be at home tomorrow to meet the cable guy, who has committed to come between 6 AM and 9 PM, but will only be there for 15 minutes.
No, it's not unfortunate at all. Please continue this kind of explanation and clarification [in the future]. Accurate and precise usage of terms helps maintain specific definitions for each idea/term, and retaining specific denotations (and reducing connotations) for more words will allow one to express more easily and clearly, so there won't be multiple connotations or inspecific, colloquial terms that dilute the meaning of what one wants to say.
This reads like yet another autocratic, micro-managing HR document. "Have a room with a door that shuts." Seriously?

How about this: hire smart people you trust, give them whatever tools and support they need to do their jobs most productively, then get out of the way.
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I don't have payroll to make, dude.
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With regards to your email: I recently switched from Google Apps (free tier) to Fastmail.fm and the transition has been pretty seamless. The interface is snappy and decent looking, and importing all of my gmail over IMAP worked well. On the other hand, I now pay a yearly fee for my email. The fee is fairly nominal (~$40/year for a mid-range account), and my money ensures that Fastmail doesn't need to harvest my content to keep the lights on.
He make some compelling arguments. The biggest downside is the mobile, what do do with that. MS has Nokia now so it don't need BB anymore. Other than for their patents, I don't see it happen.
I concur. I think another useful strategy is to treat all employees as remote workers even when at then office. This way there isn't as big a context switch and you can more effectively work from anywhere.
I've also travelled the same path. I do like that there is no filter bubble[1]. Unfortunately sometimes it would be best if they did take location into account - a search for The Greek (a restaurant in my home town of Santa Cruz CA) gives me results that aren't close to useful. Fortunately a !g added to the search term fixes that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_bubble
The post to which you were replying was amusing at the cost of a lack of rigor.

Bruce generally does not sign/encrypt his email because he views email as a low-security communications mechanism anyway.[1]

He generally advises a rational risk assessment when determining how much security to apply to a process. He often uses the example of locking doors on your house, etc.

In re PGP, he's been critical of a number of shortcomings in PGP and GnuPG since the beginning, but by the same token, one of his first hires at Counterpane was Jon Callas.

[1] http://www.esecurityplanet.com/trends/security-tips-from-bru...
Any chance you can elaborate on:

"(i.e. powerful as in ability to do something, not in terms of performance)"

Do you mean smaller units of functionality which perform at good levels? For example, I wouldn't want to deploy a large, monolithic service this way?
When raw milk sellers list the potential of disease risk their product carries on their packaging, I'll consider them equivalent.

Oh, and any claims that raw milk is better for you must be backed up with real studies or else it's fraud. Agreed?
i completely disagree that it's pointless to bring up. That is the entire point. Yes, kids say stupid things, but part of the job of the adults in their life should be to help them see why those things are stupid and learn to not act so horribly as "a joke" so they don't grow up to get up on stage and pretend to jerk off at a tech conference.
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Seems pretty micromanagey and harsh. Why so many rules? I work with tons of remote people and appreciate the headset and bandwidth requirements, but it could certainly be phrased better. How about like this: "All new hires are given a nice headset, please use it, no one likes static or echo."
Great post, to us here some things are evident but there is another world out there perhaps 4.2 lightyears away or perhaps closer. But in this world things accepted as norms, like logical argument, validating, hard data are not the norm, and its common-sense or "what i know is right" is the norm. Its baffling and this post was a great eye opener, as we are stuck in the four walls that we have built around ourselves sometimes and forget to peer outside...
Reminds me of VAX chips during the Cold War. They had "When you care enough to steal the best etched on the chip in Cyrillic.

http://popularlogistics.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/cvax1...
In case people are still curious, the upload yesterday was missing a bunch of files. There is a new file for download 9/12/2013 which is working fine for me.
Hi, that's a great idea! Btw, I'm from Singapore and we do informal meetups among people working on healthcare technology. What we normally do is to take it a step further than just getting to know each other. We describe a pain point that each of us experiences without divulging sensitive information and we generate as many solutions and perspectives as possible within 1-2 hours. If anyone is based in Asia, would like to reach out.
Seem like too many rules for you?

Use this as a reminder about why it's important to ask probing questions whenever you interview for a job. Find out what the culture is like and if it is a good fit for you. I know several developers who thrive with the environmental conditions listed here and would love having the company have rules to enforce these conditions. I also know several developers who would burn out.

It's vitally important to find something that's a good fit for you. No need to hate on their rules if it works for their team.

Edit: Also, if you don't like this list, what would rules does your team have in place to ensure an effective, productive remote work policy? Does it scale up with the team?
So... were you going to make an argument as to why it shouldn't be a crime to transport raw milk? Or is it just this irrelevant non sequitur? For all we know, dobbsbob also supports banning cigarettes AND raw milk.
I wish I could get into DuckDuckGo but I feel like in a time period where it's so important to optimize for Google using anything but Google puts you at a disadvantage.
I've been having trouble figuring out the value-add of using Docker over Ubuntu's built-in LXC functionality [1].

[1] https://help.ubuntu.com/12.04/serverguide/lxc.html
From firsthand experience, the PostGIS extension for PostgreSQL is fantastic.

A couple of my coworkers at Basho have done geospatial work with Riak, our scalable, distributed database: http://basho.com/indexing-the-zombie-apocalypse-with-riak/
Let me play devil's advocate here. The article says nothing about how many people died of measles, it just gave an estimate of how dangerous some doctors think measles is. Maybe none died and that's why they don't give a solid number? If so, the danger of measles was overstated in that estimate. Meanwhile, there's nothing in the article mentioning the danger of the vaccine, which nobody claims is nonzero. Maybe the vaccine's danger is 1 in a million. So with several million refusers 1 or 2 kids' lives were saved. At the expense of how many kids dying of measles? Zero? We need more information here.
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I've been thinking we should treat it as a free-rider problem. Given that eradicating diseases like this really comes down to herd-immunity, what we really have is free-riders unfairly benefitting from the slight risk that others are taking through a certain medical intervention.

What gives a certain person the right to benefit from everyone else's vaccinations while refusing to subject their own children to the minimal risk? We don't need to prove that vaccines are "safe", just safer than a frikken measles epidemic... and then tax the snot out of everyone who choses to forgo that risk and expense by pushing it off onto others. Internalize that external cost and I bet you'll see a whole lot of zealotry dry right up in the cold face of monetary reality.
Yeah, it's an insane number of rules. (is video chat required? why video chat?)

Down the page they mention The burden is on you to show that you’re being productive. -- that just sounds outright authoritarian and demeaning. Strict policies calling people out as "do this ... or else" don't exactly engender trust.

I think they cover most of our complaints in the poorly worded Known availability and overlap with your team section.

Most places have three levels of "work from home." There's full speed "work from home" where you're getting more done because you're not distracted by office shenanigans. There's half speed "work from home" where you're not plowing through, but you're keeping up with all communications/chats and fully available if anybody needs you. Then there's fill-in-the-gap "work from home" where you're checking into work systems in the morning, getting some things done, going to an intermediate step in the middle [an appointment at the house, going to a doctor on the way to work at 11am, going to the DMV at 10:30am], then going into the office for the rest of the day.

I think they're saying all of the above is okay, just communicate what your availability will be up front (which seems to go against their other policies of "work in a nuclear fallout shelter away from all distractions and you better have no other responsibilities at the same time either — we own you").
If you know that DDG doesn't have a filter bubble, why don't you just append your search with "santa cruz"?
> You still didn't provide any kind of evidence that editing with mouse is faster than using pure-keyboard interface.

How about the direction of computer history? Vi was superseded by Apple Writer (and other editors, some of them better) that supported the existence of control characters, those editors were superseded by editors that supported mice, and those editors have in turn been improved on to the present day. Do you really think this was all homage to empty fashion, and that modern editors require more work than vi/vim?

Apart from that, it's been proven over and over again that pointing devices improve the efficiency of text editing, compared to an editor that only has control characters to guide the process, and much less so for editors like vi/vim that don't have the advantage of control characters.

Reference: http://www.asktog.com/TOI/toi06KeyboardVMouse1.html

Quote:

* Test subjects consistently report that keyboarding is faster than mousing.

* The stopwatch consistently proves mousing is faster than keyboarding.

End quote (BTW the above is a famous quote by a friend of mine from the early Apple days).

Remember that the above comparison, and all modern comparisons, only compare mouse-dominated use with keyboard-only use for keyboards having control characters -- none of them take on the added burden of vi/vim's modes, which result from the absence of control characters on early keyboards.

> I'm less amused by your mistaken beliefs ...

I just proved that my views aren't beliefs, they're backed up by research, and they are not mistaken. You are not arguing in good faith -- you have no evidence for your position, but you have strong feelings. Not a situation conducive to generating light, as opposed to heat.
There's also the paranoia of non-repudiability with signed messages. In general, there is minimal benefit just signing a document. I don't care if someone I work with is spoofed because it will become obvious very quickly.

It's only in a very few cases where there's an advantage in signing a document, and it's usually more in the verifiability of content (so that you can verify that nothing is lost/changed in transit) than in the verification of identity.

Given the lack of adoption of PGP/GnuPG in email clients vs. S/MIME, if I'm signing my emails without encrypting them, chances are the recipient would still be able to read my emails and, knowing my writing style and given the context, be able to suss out that I was in fact the author.

I use the word "paranoia" intentionally because there's a lack of meaningful legal precedent establishing that a gpg-signed message is enough to establish authorship. In a civil case, sure, it looks bad, but you could easily say,"oops, I stored my public key on [vps or cloud service], which was a well-known victim of a hack."
i work from home and all the advice here is sensible, and describes how i work (except that you don't need that much upstream bandwidth for google meetup).

yet, as others have said, there's a bad vibe to this article. i do these things because they make sense for me. maybe they make sense for many others too. but what i expect from an employer is the trust that i will know what works for myself.

working from home depends completely on trust. if you need rules like these it sounds like you're either making bad hires, or you have control issues.

couldn't you replace them with: "you can work remotely, but it's your responsibility to make it work"? and if you really must, add "here are some things you should probably consider: good bandwidth; remote desktop access; time zones; ..."
I don't think the government can tell me not to drink raw dairy if I so choose. The only reason they raid raw dairies is because they don't want the masses realizing raw milk is safe to consume. Because if consumers start demanding it - the dirty and contaminated industrialized milk factories that get away with it by pasteurizing their milk will be out of business.

If the government really wanted to make sure you are healthy and alive - they would go after real threats. Alcohol, for example. Alcohol-impaired drivers kill 30 people every DAY. 200 kids die every year because a drunk driver killed them.

That's why I hate when people say "oh, get vaccinated to protect the babies who can god forbid contract your disease". What about my own kids who are at the hands of drunk drivers every day on the way back from school? Or when my next-door neighbor smokes outside when they're out playing? FDA and CDC go after raw milk to create the illusion that they're concerned about your health. In reality, it's a protection racket. You are much better off consuming raw dairy from a local farmer you trust and can visit in person than trusting some white liquid that's undergone numerous alterations and comes from sick cows.
Thanks for the advice, but I don't know that I'd place all my eggs in a basket affected by the politics and distance of the Federated States of Micronesia.

That's the problem with domains these days. Yay we're using a Libyan domain and whoops (remember- they took it offline http://readwrite.com/2011/02/20/what_happens_to_ly_domains_w...). io - British Indian Ocean Territory: same deal. People aren't thinking.
What if, like, the battery's dead, man?
Being able to participate in a video conference usually means at least 5 mbps up

Bollocks. Just bollocks.
share.php?r=66a5813d my session.

I wasn't paying attention and clicked the Play button and thought I was about to see a presentation. Imagine my surprise as a professional *nix systems admin as I was presented with a root terminal open on a gnome session. I didn't realize how new the posting was and I was caught off guard and flabbergasted.

With the haste of a thief I moused over to the terminal and ran
curl icanhazip.com to get the external IP. As I was thinking to myself, "This must be someone's fuck up", I started a basic port scan on the external ip from a another workstation. Seeing it was running, and back on the pinemango.com vm I telnetted to a port in the low 5000s I figured was vnc, then the session crapped out. Right, I've seen it do that before (whoops).

Cool idea, I've inferred some of the stack from my side of things. I'd love to know your thoughts or war stories about managing the systems.

Why an old school version of Ubuntu, just wondering? Would you like help scripting/pairing down the user session?
AES is really great compared to RSA, so I put my AES key on my website instead of my RSA public key. It's made it very easy for people to contact me securely.
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Dang it. Any big company that settles with these crooks instead of fighting deserves to be the target of every troll under every bridge in the world.

Thanks to CBS, NBC, HowStuffWorks, EFF, and TogiNet for continuing to fight against the insanity. Respect at least to Apple for fighting this at the district level (though they lost and settled before appeals). Shame to the courts that make it so hard to challenge validity of obviously fraudulent patents before a jury.
Does not include the iPad 1.
All we really need to know is how dangerous measles was and then count the cost of losing our herd immunity. Vaccines are not 100% effective (on an individual basis). Vaccines are a group effort that greatly diminishes in effectiveness if a large majority doesn't participate.
Maybe if people (physicians) can track down the patient zero child of a given outbreak, have downstream parents of affected children turn and sue the negligent parent(s) for tort, if it's proven they denied vaccination to their child(ren), then maybe this unfounded practice can be eradicated.
Their recycler (http://cexchange.com/) will resell the iPads to cover the $200 loss, which will actually create more competition for surface. This isn't too brilliant of a strategy.
Not to be snarky, but have you tried using google?

http://www.biglumber.com/

I get a couple requests a year when someone comes through town. It could do with more participation, though. :-)
I am just curious what is the impetus to all these rules. To me it seems the system has been abused until the management decided to define boundaries.

In fact, these rules make sense, to the point if one could be hired by FC, they have no reason not to know these. If rules need to be explicitly spelled out, I am worried the issue would be far more subtle than written rules can address. (hint: cancelling WFH by Yahoo)
Here's another Stack Overflow question which addresses that exact question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17989306/what-does-docker...
Just a week ago there was an outbrak of mumps in NJ:
http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/05/health/new-jersey-mumps-outbre...

If you only give your child one vaccine, make it the MMR. It's a lot safer that measles, mumps, or rubella.
It's not just cheap internet access that has slow upstream. I have the second from the top tier of service from the fastest ISP in my area (a major and very affluent suburb of an extremely large US city) and my upstream is only 2mbps. Moving to the top tier, which costs over $100/mo, would only get me 4mbps. It's annoying for sure. But, that said, I do video conferences on a regular basis from my home office and it works perfectly fine. I feel like that guideline is both unrealistic in the US market, and also unnecessary.
When I heard about it he was charging on a known sliding scale. I don't know about the start, but I suspect it came fast.
Yea techies can do it but it's not simple/easy to use. I couldn't give my mother a key to use.

I suppose something about the pure security of a OTP is enticing. Public keys can be broken, it's just not feasible at the moment. I don't know enough here, but it seems like past data sent via public key will eventually be trivial to decrypt?

Losing a OTP is equivalent to losing a private key, not much changes there. I suppose if your partner was "coerced" then a OTP exposes both sides of the transaction, whereas knowing their private key would only help decrypt your messages to them.
This American Life did a show earlier this year about this specific troll.

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/496/w...
Mostly because I've got a pair of RspberryPis – and I'm doing this mostly out of curiosity and learning (and a little bit of "sticking it to 'the man'"…).