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At this exact moment, I'm fortunate enough to have a dayjob where I get to do a lot of different things and learn new technologies, etc. But in the past, when I didn't have that option, I just worked on my own open source project(s) and did stuff at night and on weekends, to fill that void.
Is this still possible from gchat? That used to be (and possibly still is) an option if I recall correctly.
A lot of reading blogs, articles, etc. online, and a lot of time spent in your spare time working on projects. Also working on things that are new and challenging to you. Also if you come across something you don't understand while reading and article or working on a project don't just skip over it, spend the time to really understand the concept.
Yeah, that's a very good point.
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I wonder how this will work if I have Ubuntu on Hyper V.
I use Sennheiser HD 280 Pro. Really comfortable and at <$100 is probably the best value for money
I think having the founders own a total of 50% is a seemingly high risk but that is totally opinion based. If the other entire 50% rise up in agreement could they halt the company? Wouldn't 60-40 in favor of the founders give them a little more leverage because after all it is their shared idea/vision/etc and they should be shouldering a large part of the risk.

If you're ever in a situation where the entire remainder of the company, investors included, are wanting the company to go in a completely different direction then I would have to agree that something is terribly wrong. Maybe 50% is enough. Maybe I'm bringing up a hypothetical that has no basis in reality.
I've often wondered this and experimented myself with meditation from time to time. I do have a little ritual I do before I start coding that helps me reach the zone, that is basically a small meditation:

1. I close my eyes and try to think of nothing except what I'm about to do.
2. I focus on my breathing.
3. I envision myself coding with everything going smoothly, I'm in the zone.

I do this for a few minutes and try to maintain my focus, seeing myself coding with a big smile on my face. Then I get to work. It helps on days where distractions are especially tough and my mind seems like a huge mess.
Communism is not the opposite of individualism, that's nonsense. Have a look at "The Right to be Greedy: Theses on the Practical Necessity of Demanding Everything". Greed in its fullest sense is the only possible basis for a communist society.

https://libcom.org/library/right-be-greedy-theses-practical-...
udev is a necessary component of Linux.

Why do you say that? That's what I don't understand. As far as I know, that's not true. You can run a Linux system without the udev daemon, or with one written by you.

But the thing is, you can't remove udev from the Linux kernel if you want to keep it calling Linux, as it'd be a fork.

But udev isn't in the Linux kernel! How can I remove it from there?!
Yes agree that there is trust factor, also there are dozen of similar services. However I came across inquiries for shortening api services which are free / cheap. as per that there was bit of exclusivity required.

At the moment all still in flux. Thanks for your honest comments.
1. Why should a company have to pay an ISP they have no business relationship with.

i.e Netflix gets service from Level3, my ISP is Time Warner. Why should Time Warner get money from Netflix?

2. They're not forced to provide more bandwidth to anyone, but they shouldn't be able to restrict bandwidth to an endpoint to shake them down.

Again, I pay Time Warner for a 50Mbit connection, why can Time Warner say what I can use it for?
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Weren't the calls already free on Google Voice for years?
Didn't this used to work fine with Google Voice and Google Chat? Then they broke it, and now it's fixed?

Lately, Google Hangouts has been giving me abysmal results when talking to my parents in the US. The video freezes every minute or so, and even voice only doesn't work so well. It used to work much better.
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There are already tiers of service at the "producer" level. Companies can buy more bandwidth for their servers just like "consumers". They can also distribute servers around the globe or even co-locate with ISPs. So, each Comcast user pays for their connection, and Netflix also pays for their bandwidth. But now residential ISPs want to charge Netflix again for delivering their data to customers, even though they're already being paid by both ends.
This article explains pretty well what went wrong with the stream. It wasn't Akamai, it was Apple. The interactive JSON-based elements that had on their page prevented it from being cached which resulted in the issues we were seeing. http://blog.streamingmedia.com/2014/09/why-apples-livestream...
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According to /r/android this also finally brings Google Voice into Hangouts: http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/2fz6hh/hangouts_and...

I haven't seen the update yet to try it, but am hoping I do soon. This is long, long overdue.

All this said - Hangouts on desktop is still so much worse than GChat was - and GChat had free calls too. I'd type a number, two seconds later it would be ringing in the bottom right corner. Now, a Hangout window opens, the Hangouts plugin loads, my CPU goes haywire...
Completely agree - I've been at startups with 20-40 people where I was the best developer in the company...with 1 1/2 years of experience. I left those places quickly, it reeks of not knowing what they are doing.

These places all had in common heavy interest in outsourcing when timelines were tough. They just wanted stuff done quickly, and didn't put importance on the execution. What that does is frustrates the developers that have to fix the bugs and refactor the heavily coupled code, and ultimately makes good developers want to leave.
Regardless of what ends up happening with the most popular distributions, there will always be another distro that will stick with something different or more antiquated for you to choose. You can even do it all yourself with something like Linux From Scratch. If some software doesn't support systemd, you have the choice to either avoid that particular piece of software or submit a patch to support your preferred stack. There's still plenty of choice to be had.

As someone who is responsible for a fleet of various machines, I like that going forward I'm probably only ever going to have to hassle with one init system (at least until the next big init system enters the fray). I don't even really care which one "wins", but it's nice only having to write one style of init scripts/units. I especially don't care which package contains my dhcp client or ntp server. This is stuff that, for the most part, I don't need to touch after writing an Ansible playbook for tweaking.

On the desktop side, the various organizational and technical differences between distros (in spite of efforts like the LSB) make life harder for those writing distro-agnostic software. A good example is Steam. This is one of those potential "killer apps" for the Linux desktop, yet they're only able to officially support Ubuntu during the early goings because of the variations between distros. This may change as Steam for Linux matures, but it's telling that they picked a single distro to focus on initially.

systemd being adopted by the more popular distros is a win-win. The major, popular distributions get closer together for greater interop, while the fringe distros can cater to the vocal minority who actually cares about this. You'll always have the choice to choose other distributions and other software.
if u have to send your startup offshore should you really be founding a tech company?
Finally. Now when I'm in my basement I can at least wifi-call my family from my cellphone instead of having to open up my damn laptop to call from a Chrome gmail browser tab.
Thank you, will check and fix it.
My car has a "reverse" mode which tries to kill me every once in a while when I hit the gas. I think a separate reverse pedal to the left of the brake would do the trick instead, and be nicely symmetrical.
Agree that this bit isn't relevant to the title, but MAN, I wish politicians had this sort of longterm vision in mind. But I suppose Musk, being the CEO, is politically like a benevolent dictator of SpaceX, so he can afford to plan longterm :)
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A native app that opens .doc/.xls/.ppt files is a useful thing for a large number of people.
I think most users of Docker would agree with you. We value the dependency management and portability. The fact that the software is running inside a container doesn't magically relieve the burden of ensuring the application is secure. I'll also say that you seem to have a little bit of an axe to grind in these posts. If your mission is to undo Docker's success in the market place, then I would begin with fresh research rather than resurrecting old articles.
> But yeah, the inability to extract the words "I don't understand" or "I don't know" from foreign workers drives me utterly batty.

That's a cultural thing, and you're doing it wrong if you are trying to extract admissions out of people. That's the totally counter-productive approach. I understand that from a 'western' background admitting to failure, a lack of knowledge or even downright incompetence does not have to be a problem but in other cultures this can be a near impossibility.

I would like to suggest a different approach. Assume the "I don't know" or "I don't understand". Simply go over the thing for your understanding. This will take care of the problem in an elegant and face-saving way without having to torture co-workers.
There are three key factors (location isn't one):

- If the product is a success, I'm going to get some money/benefit?

- Do I need to maintain the software?

- I got a good salary?

Usually offshore developers don't have stock in the company, don't have to maintain it and they are poorly paid. So their incentive is to finish the product as fast as they can and just get the money.

If you work in-house you are more aligned with the interest of the company. You'll have to deal with this software every day(nobody wants to maintain spaguetti code) and problably you have some stock, also if the company does well you can get a raise.

It's about incentives, people optimize for its own hapinness.
I agree but to even get to that, One probably needs to be good enough or higher than the average bar to get in their company.
It is just extrapolating the error rate reduction over the last few years. Spam filters have become better than moderators in labeling spam only in the last decade or so.

When computers first started to become faster than mathematicians this was really a breakthrough. The same is happening now with object and speech recognition.

The computer succesfully completes a task. That it is not how humans intuitively approach these same tasks is irrelevant for this accomplishment. What if the results were only half as good, but the system behaved more like humans, who does this satisfy?

The state-of-the-art is capable of detecting far more than 1000 objects, does not need labeled data, is robust to changes in light and does not care about the camera used. No preprocessing the data needed, features are automatically generated (preprocessing the target labels is a bit silly BTW).

So yes, in the very near future, algorithms will be better security guards than well... security guards.
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So.....

Why are we paying for ginormously expensive cell phone bills again? With a wifi connection, you can now:

Talk

Text

Send MMS (think Snapchat)

Do everything else smartphone-wise.

I know a few things that might run into issues - you can't take a call while on the road without cell service. GPS would be a no-go. Things like Google Maps and Nike Running wouldn't work.

But aside from that.... what good reasons still exist for having a cell phone bill?
Your blog comment has been posted; we don't moderate things that are criticism (or anger) only spam. But the moderator does need to be awake.

As the for CAPTCHA problem you are seeing, having you tried contacting CloudFlare Support about it? We can look at the IP you are coming from and see what's happening.
Many offshore teams don't have anywhere to put that teleconferencing equipment. They're often totally slammed for space as it is, they have relatively poor IP connectivity, sometimes they don't even have reliable power. So the cost is really the equipment plus the infrastructure upgrades, to solve only one part of the problem. It might still be worth it, but it's not a slam-dunk by any means.
I can't help but think that there really is a hard limit on the number of powered electronics that a person is willing to routinely carry on their person, and that number is one. Am I alone in feeling this way?
Well now you're just nitpicking. Vim's notion of a mode is far more central to its operation than that of Emacs. Major/minor modes work differently than do vim's modes.
First - When was the last time you read a popup? Hell, who doesn't have a popup blocker now?

Second - This is not information - "Cable companies could make this page so slow, it would still be loading..."

How? Why? What is this about? There is no information there. On top of that, many ISP's already are (people are familiar with throttling regarding their mobile data plan) so this doesn't even say that anything is changing.
Interesting technique. It mirrors with what Colzato recommends about short meditation sessions before a meeting. There's something about sitting quietly before the work that "shifts" your mind into the right state.

The problem I think many of us who work in large, open-space offices, will encounter is finding the right place to do just that.
The Google Voice app still did a traditional cellular call to my knowledge. You had to get a third party app like GrooVe IP in order to make a data call via the Google Voice system.
A couple of summers ago I did a week on the Grand Staircase. Some of the stuff that truly astounded me, even after spending a lot of time in the rural midwest as child:

* Lying on my back and looking straight up presented more stars than I usually see in the entire sky.

* When the moon rose, it woke me up with the brightness of it. The first night I thought it was morning for a moment.

* Watching satellites go overhead wasn't reserved for just the very reflective ones.

* I thought I'd seen the milky way before. I was very wrong.

* The sparks and tiny flame from a cigarette lighter were painfully bright. The glow of a cigarette lit my companions' faces when they had one (dimly but noticably).

* Staying one night at a motel in the tiny town of Kanab before heading back to civilization, I had trouble sleeping because it was so bright. Staying the next night in Vegas was even worse.
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> Your freedom of speech is not a right on private websites

Do we think that the principle of freedom of speech is a good thing? And if so, shouldn't we attempt to make it available even in situations in which we are not compelled by law?

HN takes a very active role in curating discussions, and PG has made it clear why--HN serves a very specific purpose and needs to be kept on track. Reddit, on the other hand, seeks to be the "digital commons", and a broad allowance for speech is appropriate there.
> But aside from that.... what good reasons still exist for having a cell phone bill?

Coverage. Cell phones are much longer range than wi-fi.

For instance, you couldn't make a wi-fi call out of your car without using the cell network. So if your cell phone is connected to the net in your car then you're using the cellular modem, not the wifi one.
We'll have to agree to disagree, I think. I don't see how something so impractical (daily battery charging?!) that forces a specific user interface and user interaction could ever be considered jewelry, except in some abstract pedantic way.
Maybe you can describe this a bit more. The Great Seal Bug was used for wireless audio recording in the 40's, but this operated by using a microphone/cavity to modulate the load of an antenna; thereby embedding audio in the reflected fields.

Bell did a similar demonstration in the 1890s using a mirror to embed reflections in ambient light and demonstrated wireless audio transmission over 200 meters.

However, I'm not sure why audio would cause a frequency shift in a radio circuit. Perhaps you are meaning the antenna will be perturbed and that could possibly be recovered? I'd be interested to know.
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Maybe it's just me, but I've had this functionality on the iOS version of Hangouts for a while (I already have Google Voice). Outgoing phone calls from Hangouts show my GV number as caller ID. Incoming calls also ring on my Hangouts app. I did not know that that wasn't available for Android users...

Anyway, it's very handy. I have a US Google Voice account, but live abroad. Calls from hangouts are the primary way I talk to my friends and family back home. Wifi or a very strong 4G signal is required, 3G doesn't really cut it.
It's really sad that Google took all that direction with Hangouts.

Now requesting any bug fixes for federated Google Talk is just pointless. Google completely ignores them under excuse that "Hangouts is the way now".

For example there is no hope they'll fix server to server encryption which they don't provide in Google Talk federation, which cut off all contacts from there since a lot of servers now make such encryption mandatory.
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How's the screen refresh rate? I have an Arch distro on my Pi, used mostly for remoting purposes. RDesktop works really well, but the refresh rate is slow... 1-10 fps in most cases. I was hoping to bump it up to 50-60.
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Yes. They are re-announcing it as if it is a completely new feature.
They are merging their different messaging services in Hangouts.
Gchat is now called Hangouts.
Even if the iPhone 5 or 5S had NFC, payments wouldn't be possible because there wouldn't be a secure element.
Isn't this an RFID tag? What makes it different?
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They had a phone system built into Gmail's web interface, which IIRC could be treated the same as any other forwarding phone in GV. So when someone called me, it'd ring on my computer and on my phone, and I could answer either of them.

I don't recall personally placing any calls from the Gmail interface, but I think the functionality existed.
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Fine, but I wish they'd stop breaking some of the core features in hangouts. Since fairly recently, non google users are unable to get into video hangouts via new-style (non /_/calendar/) google calendar created links. Uberconference integration doesn't consistently work. Screenshare (since the plugin was phased out) doesn't work in chromium/ubuntu, but does in firefox. I've reported all of these issues in the product forums, but haven't seen resolution on any of them.

I know google isn't "into QA", but for such a core product it's remarkably flaky.
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It wasn't integrated with Google Hangouts / Gmail Chat. (well it was before they migrated from the old chat to Hangouts).
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Emacs knowledge is scattered across superuser/#emacs/emacswiki/programmers/stackoverflow/github tutorials/youtube screencasts.

Let's make our own emacs.stackexchange so that we have that familiar format of stackexchange and a centralized place for emacs knowledge, solutions.
Please please please don't screw up Google Voice.
This has been available on iOS for a long time, which I found to be really, really strange, given that you would think Android would be the platform where they'd want to put their more advanced features.

It isn't half bad, though -- the call quality, even when the call terminates in an actual phone number, exceeds that of cellular by a good margin, due to what I assume is a much better bitrate being used. And it works even if you don't have a Google Voice account. This is nice, because I can fire it up and make a phone call to a customer (I work for an MSP) without giving away my cell phone number. This is important to me because if all my customers had my cell number, I'd have to change it constantly or never have peace.

edit BTW, some pitfalls of this I have discovered. Depending on how well your cell handles handoffs between Wifi and LTE, your call may be dropped as you walk away from a Wifi hotspot. It works over 3G, but not well. The ringer for Hangouts on iOS is almost impossible to notice, so if you get an incoming GV call, good luck with that. I have had a good number of randomly dropped calls that I could not trace back to a cause. If you get an incoming REAL phone call on your real phone number, Hangouts (at least on iOS) immediately boots you out of your Hangouts call, even if the Hangouts call is on Wifi. (With Verizon, voice call kills LTE data stream, so this is to be expected, but with Wifi... not to be expected.)
It's my understanding banks also charge a transaction fee (may be flat per-transaction rather than a percentage.) (Source: I work for an online ticketing company, so we deal with these types of things.)
Well, apparently the digital commons ends where the risk of impending lawsuits affects the bottom line.

So much for that principle.
"Now"? This is the first time Mentions has had geolocation, so the US has probably been in the minority for some time. It's not exactly shocking, since Twitter claims to have nearly as many daily active users as there are people in America (270 million vs 300 million).
Not just you. I was traveling internationally the last few weeks and was using the phone calling in my iOS hangouts app the entire time! So, this announcement must be either slightly belated, or they've been testing it on iOS beforehand?
It is

* In country where google doc is blocked
* In country/places where your connection speed is too slow
* In places where you have no connection at all
* For documents too big
* For people that are used to it
* For people that care about freedom etc. (regardless of your opinion on it)

etc. etc.
You mean, besides all those good reasons you listed. Wifi is far from ubiquitous.
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I think widespread 3G is making the range less of an issue now. I can see providers - third party or not - using existing cellular networks offering data-only plans that make this far more feasible.
Most of the fees end up back with the card-issuing banks. That's how they pay for the rewards programs, and why the fees are higher for rewards cards than other types.
Can this hand off between Wifi and data? Multipath TCP?
It would require its own secure element within the watch. Interesting if that is the case.
>First of all, I feel it's too expensive, because those smart watches are basically obsolete after a year.

I felt the same way when introduced rMBP but the prices are going down. Hopefully, they will go down in the next couple years. Personally $200 would be perfect but $350 is too much especially when I can get a new iphone for less (with a subsidy from my carrier).
That was my thought also - I've been using this with and without GV (different accounts). I'm pretty sure it also worked in Google Apps before too.

In Android, GV has always been very tightly integrated, so I'm not sure there is a real change here.
The GMail functionality appears to still be there. I think OP was referring to the Android app Google Voice.
I had the pleasure to chat with him for awhile after he gave an Elixir talk at a ruby conference a couple years ago. He is one of the friendliest and most humble people I've ever met, and his work speaks (very highly) for itself.