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I believe the author misses the point consistently in many ways.

Paragraph 2 - Straw man argument. People's resentment for authority has nothing to do with democracy, it's about all the false positives we consistently see ("experts" who are trusted to say make healthcare.gov but are not experts, economists who cannot predict anything about our economy).

He then argues that trusting "experts" is phased out in favor of google and wikipedia. He claims this is bad because "doctors, whatever their errors, seem to do better with most illnesses than faith healers or your Aunt Ginny and her special chicken gut poultice." another straw man argument. Wikipedia will not promote faith healing, it will lead you to the same and maybe newer medical journal articles than your doctor has read. Somehow he argues, trusting Wikipedia and google is, "Fundamentally, ... a rejection of science and rationality, which are the foundations of Western civilization itself."

Then he goes on to cite a litany of false-negatives, cases when people don't trust current experts and presumably are wrong. Okay. But he hasn't really done anything here. Because he hasn't answered all the false positives (false "experts").

The real question here is how to differentiate between an expert and a non-expert. When is it a case of hubris and group think among an elitist circle of self-proclaimed experts, and when is it true?

Unfortunately this piece provides no advancement to this question, other that pointing out one more false positive, the author.
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>I know that if you gave me your phone number that you can receive a text message.

Unless it is a landline. :)
I'm not a child expert, but I doubt children can really start to rationalize "dad's not around but at least he's providing" until well into their teens. And at that point the damage from having an absent father is probably done.
Yes. I also should have placed my response in reply to mlchild's application.
There's a big debate about this, though it's a tangent to this discussion. But it boils down to how adding money into the equation tweaks the incentives of those giving blood or donating organs in a way that's not necessarily good.

One obvious way -- suppose you're filling out a medical history form before providing blood or an organ, and you know that ticking "yes" to a question will disqualify you. You really need the money -- will you be honest?
Why Compose Functions in JavaScript like this, rather than like that?
That looks awesome.

Embarrassingly for someone who has been a Linux user for more than 15 years I'm terrible with Vim (I can just about use it systems administration (though I often just use nano)) and use IDE's for most things.
I agree that the article isn't as easy to read as the author hopes; it's not exactly "explain it like I'm five". However, I think you're going to have to give more concrete examples of the particular writing style you're objecting to, and how it could be done differently.
Got the same impression.
I was also wondering if they have embedded the Android OS in Nest. Even if there is no machine learning, handling a simple web server for UI and a Wi-Fi stack, you need a simple OS or Linux kernel.

These issues are definitely resolved in Nest, but not quite in Spark. I guess they are bragging.

- Eggs should not be washed.
Sorry, I must have made it clearly. It's among the OS that I've used. I just have been using Mac for about 4 years.
I think the simple way would be to just ask for a raise to market levels or in lieu of more pay you would take additional privileges such as being able to set your own hours.
How can you make it a conversation about company objectives? Make it about the company, not the developers. There are probably companies that don't need the best developers. Others do. Talk about cost of bugs due to less experienced devs, lost productivity time if new hires are needed, etc.
Opposing an "appeal to authority" is not the claim that "all opinions have equal weight", it's that "all opinions should be heard." Ideas aren't weighed, anyhow, they're either falsified, or not.

If you cannot explain your idea to an intelligent layman then this is prima facie evidence that you do not understand it yourself.
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The OP's Expert already was paid for the diagnosis of poor eyesight. If the customer just had a couple of contacts of different strengths to try on, it might save them a bunch of time and money.
I wouldn't be surprised if some of the instances of this happening was the result of the original extension writer trying to boost his bottom line. (And not the work of shady malware marketers).

It's easy to convince yourself you have been cheated when you know your extension has over 1M+ downloads and you only have ~!$100 sent to your donation button.
Any recommendations on a good book-length account of the Dreyfus Affair? I've read the chapter in Tuchman's Proud Tower. I've always loved her books, but this is just a short chapter in a longer book. (I also read Shirer's Third Republic, but that was so long ago I don't remember. It was just a chapter also.)
If you just want a shorter string, I'd prefer truncated SHA-256.
If every non-engineering manager you've ever had has been a problem then there's a good chance that you're the problem, not them.
I just had the impression that he wished he could have had his cake and eaten it too.

He made the familial sacrifices. He had the business success. Now looking back he wished that he would have magically had that success without putting in all the time. Does not compute.
Or just send them an email. It's effectively just as quick.
Title should be "Love letter to Japan". Bit one sided. Honestly, I don't travel much as a tourist but I'm a serial immigrant and romanticising countries has gotten old pretty fast. The only generalisation about people living in some country you can make is the language they are likely to speak and sometimes the religion they believe but things like being honest, hard working, self-sacrificing is rather far fetched and either naive (romanticising) or dishonest (advertising).
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Ambition is a big part of it, and European attitudes can be incomprehensible to Americans. I remember one discussion that ended with the statement, "the Belgians had ambition once and the Congo is still suffering for it".
I pretty much am thankful a few times a week that I've never had children. It looks like most of his difficulties at home were due to child rearing tasks; it would otherwise be easy to spend money on things like the yard and housecleaning and laundry, and if spending time with your wife isn't enjoyable in itself, you are doing it wrong.

I guess I should be glad at least some people have children, though.
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I would advise getting up with someone from rsync, they have had as far as I can tell the longest running warrant canary on their site

I was actually doing some personal research work on the legality of warrant canaries but I've both started a new dayjob and the President announced some changes to NSLs involving gag orders so Ive put that on hiatus for the moment
I think zer0defex agrees with you
I want to save more than a quarter.
Totally agree with you. The down side is not only machine learning may not meet my satisfaction, it may make me annoyed. My current thermostat works pretty well for me if I need adjust not too frequently everyday. A scheduled plan should be good enough if we really want to improve this kind of devices.

The second problem is that it's lacking of systematic design. Think about we are going to have some many "Intenet of the things" in our home or office, we have to download some man apps, each of them needs cloud services which usually not free. This is how they make money after the hardware sales.

- Eggs should not be washed.
europeans are more homogeneous and more united, with a solid culture to back them up, which gives them some leverage against the corporations. The corps thus know it is harder to exploit them. Also, because western europe is more united against Capital, western europe does not allow as much cheap 3rd world labor into their nations. Thus, capital prefers to exploit american workers via mass immigration and H1Bs etc
Class, queerness and the transformative nature of technology and open source. 
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On the Swiss german keyboard layout you have to use the capslock key to access captial �, � and �. You can't use shift � as that triggers �. I wonder if the Swiss german layout of the thinkpad x1 has the capslock key.
Really depends on the kid's age. Younger kids (less than 10yrs) are not able to grasp the concept of money or earning money, so explaining that dad is out making money for a roof over their head and putting food on the table is not going to cut it. At that age, they just want close interaction with their dad.
My advice is 100% applicable. Especially with issue #5, but in general as well.

You don't seem to understand: He is unhappy with what he purchased because he is experiencing problems that should not exist in the product. A brand new product. And not just a single issue - but several of them!

This isn't a device that (in his personal experience) worked fine at some point in the past on a different version of software but now is having problems on the latest software update.

This is a device that, brand new from Apple, has problems. This point is especially relevant as you cannot downgrade a Mac from Apple to an OS version that came out prior to the introduction of that specific model of machine. The Late 2013 MacBook Pro Retina devices shipped with Mavericks. They will never run Mountain Lion, you cannot avoid Mavericks on them for the time being.

This is the entire point of a warranty (and lemon laws in many locations): You don't have to "wait" for something you just bought to get better / work properly.

You take it back and show them the problems you're having.

Either they can fix it or they can't. If they can't fix it, he can get his money back or some other alternative offered by Apple that he might agree to (maybe a different model, or a complete replacement).

His money is not trapped in this device, so he doesn't have to put up with this experience - unless he actually prefers to complain and be unhappy.
You don't need to tell them anything.

If you're a good developer, you choose where and with whom to work. Feel your power and use your power.

Really good developer does not need others to acknowledge their worthiness or change what others should do or think.
Bredin's 1983 The Affair is really seen as the most thorough account. My favourite reading of the affair is actually In Search of Lost Time, as Proust shows the split in society during this period over the second and third (perhaps the fourth too I think?) volumes.
Is it possible to have private server on the local network without building the Cloud by ourselves from the open source?

- Eggs should not be washed.
Scared of using useful products
The ultimate response for a negative comment on HN
Thank goodness I'm always curious why half the links where don't work for me.
I also have a brand new 15" rMBP, and I have these exact same issues. I'll be returning mine for service next week.
I think you're confusing a celebrity and an expert. Your primary care physician is an expert, but not a celebrity. We know that much because he is credentialed by a fairly reliable system. Celebrity status is simply one different way to ascertain expertise, and it's not that reliable - there are plenty of famous shamans, such as that guy with the debunked autism-vaccination link study.
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You don't tell somebody such a thing. It would never work. The rules are the rules to most people.

What you do is look for another job and resign when you've found it.

This is win-win for both of you: you can find something suitable for your lifestyle, and they can find somebody willing to play by their rules at whatever level of the market that is.

It's not always better to have "great" engineers - often companies just want somebody sitting at their desk ready to act on instructions. If that's the case then there is probably a lower-skilled engineer that would count themselves lucky to be sitting at a desk for 8 hours. He will be a lot easier to manage and probably a lot more appropriate for the new management.

Even when done with the best of intentions, second-guessing what upper management needs to do for a company to be its best is a gigantic waste of time and potential. Trust me, I've been there.
Over the years, I've learned that often, "talking" does little or no good. Actions are what matter.

You demonstrate your value. They either respond in kind, or it's time to leave.

Not to omit all communication nor seeking some understanding. But this tends to be supplemental to the whole "actions" thing -- clarifying, perhaps, in some cases. I've rarely observed it to play a primary role in fixing a situation.

The new manager has no experience managing developers, and the old manager has moved into a development role to fill in gaps left by senior developers leaving the company and being unable to find replacements.

They have already failed. This is not your problem.
Most times this comes up on HN, the SE team points to http://www.slant.co/
I'm not a child expert either but it doesn't sound like it would be too hard to at least start having those conversations once they even realize you are at work and aren't just hiding behind the front door for 8 hours (9 years to them)
The world is unfair and some people are born into money and many many more are not. The government has taken the decision to provide free education up to a specific level. Should you wish to pursue a degree, the government provides a debt mechanism to do this.

The debt is non-repayable until you have pretty much become financially successful and is written off after 25 years. I really don't see this as a major issue. There is nothing financially stopping you going to University.

I'd actually argue that the government debt should also cover residential accommodation and minimum living costs.
Damn, my 2009 Macbook has been running very slowly for the past 4 months or so and no amount of rebooting would resolve the problem. I was actually puzzled when it slowed down to a crawl becoming basically useless and would even restart with the same slowness. Could you elaborate on your fix?
Bow ties are cool.
You're blowing things way out of proportion because you don't have any idea what you're talking about.

It was a server involved in a fraction of Google's downloads comprising an even smaller fraction of Google's total egress. It took URLs of one form and redirected them to URLs of another form, where other C++ servers written by a staffed team (mine) actually redirected them to the actual C++ servers (again, deployed and maintained by my team) which deliver the downloads.

haberman wasn't talking about the state of Google's C++ codebase in 2005; he was talking about the state of Google's C++ codebase in 2014. This server was written years ago, using libraries that were years old at the time it was written. It wasn't maintained, and no team was responsible for it. The core libraries on which it was based were replaced by the libraries haberman lauded.

The only reason you can even try to use this server as an example is because you have no clue what you're talking about.
I find it kind of ironic that he cites Dunning-Kruger. In my experience the D-K effect is something people love to use to pretend they're experts at psychology, without realizing how hard it really is to correctly interpret studies like this.
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What a bunch of spoiled, whining brats! Sure, you can only code for 4-6 hours a day, but why not honor your contract by spending that other 2 hours mentoring less senior people, trying to understand your employer's business goals, and generally trying to do your best to move your company ahead. Sheesh. By the way, the sheer arrogance of the question "How do you tell managers that having good developers is a privilege?" beggars belief. I believe that as a programmer, it's your duty to spend some time doing stuff your manager didn't know he needed to ask you to do, rather than running personal errands.
I forked an extension released under MIT license because of this -- original author pushing shady updates.

After I re-released it on the Chrome Store, now I get emails trying to buy "my" extension from me.
This is true (perhaps not to the same extent) in the Netherlands as well.
Add ?share=1 to the end of the URL:

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I suspect he thinks he should have figured out a way to do both and not make it into an explicit trade-off. In fact, I think the entire post is about how "having+eating the cake" is possible if you put some effort into it.
I don't know your age, but I know very few people my age who use email for anything beyond professional correspondence. I don't want friends/girlfriends to email me if they need to communicate quickly. I can just see it now, "Hey Dave, wanna head to the W?" ... 8 hours later "Sorry, just got this, why didn't you text me?"
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But noone knows it. I've asked around: exactly zero of like 10 classmates knew.
I'm happy to be proven wrong and of course this is only anecdotally but I was watching sci-fi movies at age 10 and I could grasp, at least on the surface, the underlying technology and it's purpose. When we say "kids dont understand money" I'm thinking they should start to get it at about 7 and certainly have a basic grasp by 10.
I experienced this right out of the gate after upgrading. I was very curious to see what my battery savings would be and decided to ditch my charger, only to have my battery gone in an hour. It's since subsided– I'm not really sure why, though at one point I did about everything I could think of short of reinstalling. I removed all kernel extensions I had added (KR4MB for example), removed SIMBL, reset PRAM, cycled the battery, etc. Now the only issue I have is about 10s after closing the lid, the fan goes nuts for another 10s before going to sleep.

Edit: Spring 2011 MacBook Pro.
i agree with the spirit of this but the flaw in this reasoning is an assumption that all hours are equal. Working consistent 80 hour weeks is the reason we got the Mac as well as Facebook. The extreme outcome possible due to one locally focused push could far outweigh any other strategy and could also be the maximum of the global state.
As a foreigner observing Denmark (not sure about the rest of Europe), I think Danes are actually pretty ambitious, but often in a non-commercial way. It's definitely not cool to slack off and do nothing, so there is ambition in the sense that there's a strong cultural preference to better yourself, do interesting things, produce something. Even if you have a full-time day job, you're not "supposed" to just watch TV in your spare time, but should be an active member of an organization, have projects, something. But it's perfectly acceptable (perhaps even preferable) for your ambition not to be primarily about making money. In tech, for example, DIY hackerspace stuff, media art, nonprofits like Copenhagen Suborbitals, etc., all carry at least as much cachet as the startup sector does.
advising strangers how they ought to live their life makes

Sorry, my irony meter just exploded.
As someone thats been on the osx train since 10.2. I get somewhat amused by the "OSX N+latest is the worst OSX" comments.

I had the (dis)pleasure of using someone's 10.1 machine, oy wow, surprised that even got released.

As a counterpart, mavericks has been the most stable osx for myself so far. Additionally the battery life improvements gave me an extra hour on battery alone. You can pry mavericks from my cold dead hands at this point. The energy tab is also really useful at finding out what is using up battery needlessly (looking at you chrome/firefox).
> I was really happy when they charged me

Wow, that is a brilliant comment I can only agree with. I disliked Whatsapp for doing this (even though it's not even sneaky, nobody knows it), but yeah you are totally right. I am usually the first one to propose "I'd rather pay than see annoying ads."
You can't tell them: They can only learn this through experience. Alternately they may be the sort of shop where average developers are perfectly satisfactory.

If demands by an employer change or are no longer acceptable, find a new job and move on. If you are confident in your marketability, outright state your demands about flexible work et al, knowing that this may cause conflict and a departure may be expedited. None of us are fixed in our jobs.

One thing worth mentioning is that developers, as in other high variance skill pursuits (such as sports), have individual allowances and leeways. There is nothing "unfair" about a star performer essentially writing their own rules, and it is one of the great sadnesses of this profession that there are so many lobsters desperately trying to claw their peers down to the bottom of the pot.
Interesting. Another reason why text only emails are better is they make it to Gmail's primary tab and get more attention.

However, I disagree with the only two more emails part. Email is a very strong tool, often underestimated.

Depending upon the stage in the lifecycle, you can send emails to:
1) Convert trial signups to Activated users.
2) Re-activating users.
3) Convert activated users to paying customers.
4) Upselling paying customers.
5) Improving retention.

It goes without saying all emails should depend on what the customer has done with your app so far. For example, if I'm losing an activated user, the script can check which important sections of my app have not been visited and send an email informing about what he missed and why it's important - you get the point.

So, it is best to collect extensive data about how your customers use your app and fire customized emails accordingly.

I normally don't send more than 2 emails a week for the first one month and then this number decreases. I'm wondering what others do here.
Looks like Coinbase 2FA is crap

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1vjr7b/please_advis...
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"I just think it's more constructive to at least state the countries you're talking about rather than just the continent that they share."

If we're talking about startups, there's a limited set of places this can be about. I can assure you it's not the countryside of Spain.

I mentioned the common aspects I've noticed, because the discussion is about Europe and not a specific city or a comparison between them.

But I'm basing this on experiences in Ireland, France and Germany. Sure, they are not all exactly the same, but they end up having a lot in common.
Really? My 4-year-old gets anxious when I take the day off or even if it is a national holiday. She says I'm supposed to be at work so the family doesn't get hungry. Saturday and Sunday are family days she tells me.

I'm not sure about children being born with the expectation of fatherly company. Historically it wasn't universal. Some native Americans had separate housing for men and for women and children. In other ancient societies men would leave en masse on hunting expeditions for whole seasons. Of course those civilizations were much more communal than ours and contained many more children.
To me, the problem is that the expert, especially in things like social science and public policy, may be hugely biased. The very fact that experts in these fields often have diametrically opposed viewpoints do not engender trust when it comes experts in these fields.