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People aren't stupid. They learned from Prohibition that it is hard to ban a drug once it is legal and established. Hence the reluctance now to legalize marijuana. If it turns out to be a mistake, it will be hard to roll it back. That seems like an honest and fair argument to me, even if one might disagree.
Easy to explain: Users don't really know what they want. Nobody likes the idea of changing their ways before finding a good reason to do so.

Every male that I know that has a Note-sized smartphone said, before having one in their hands, that those things where too big for them. Now, none of them would go back to small screens.
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off topic (i think)

for a "phone" that has 493ppi, you expect the site introducing the phone to be retina ready (couple of images and the favicon)
The question is, what did they simulate and how? A full-on dynamical plasma simulation of the entire machine is intractable, and every approximation technique has its blind spots.
I was at SGI via a software subsidiary from 1996-2004 so just at the peak and then riding down the long decline. I remember going to Siggraph in I think 1998 and seeing nothing but SGI machines in every booth on the show floor.

One thing I recall is that at one point everyone at the company was told to read "The Innovator's Dilemma", which is of course the tale of large dominant companies having their market share eaten from below. Some people say SGI didn't see it coming - I think what was interesting was that they did see it coming but still structural issues prevented the taking of any effective action (for example salesforce commissions continued to encourage sales of large systems rather than the low end machines they really needed to push at the point.)

There was also an internal news group called sgi.bad-attitude where you got to find out what was really going on in the company. I believe the idea was brought over from Netscape via Jim Clark, but it was impressive to have a forum where you could say just about anything and not be censored. That is where I learned things were over long before it became apparent to the outside world, or even much of the company.
Yeah, nothing I've tried feels better than this app.
It's eBay all over again… first it was regular people, then it gets taken over by full-time professionals, changes focus, and divides into two completely distinct groups of business and customers instead of a social platform.
you can tap on the bar extending from the poster's username to collapse the comment.
Looks nice, other good screencapture applications for Linux would be fx Shutter, http://shutter-project.org/, also really nice.
>Is Apple experiencing a problematic decline in software quality?

No, blogs and articles are experiencing a problematic decline in long and medium term memory.

Apple has always (under Jobs or not) had ups and downs, in both software and hardware quality control.

Remember how OS X 10.1 was unusable, the problems with Lion, when it first came out? The file-loss bug in the FS? And tons of other things besides.

As for hardware, well, Jobs first love child was the cube, with the overheating problem (and the not-selling-well problem). Then we had the iBook G3 logic board issues (for tons of models). Battery issues. The G5 Pro cooling goo leak issue. Etc etc. And of course, as any long time Mac buyer knows, a classic advice is "never buy the first revision of a product".

Part of it, for hardware, is that a bug in a production run e.g. for Dell doesn't affect that many people (because Dell puts out 50+ different models, whereas Apple puts out a few, so each of Apple's has tens of millions of buyers). And of course the press doesn't care much for a fault in Dell or HP or whatever production run, whereas the slightest BS in an Apple production run is a "*gate". And of course Apple does more daring stuff with machining, weight, thinness, internal design etc than most companies, so there's always a chance to screw some things that's bigger than in just assembling some brick-sized plasticy laptop.
Oh, of course they cant do these simultaniously, right?

Or features are wrong? What's exactly wrong with this feature? Its improvement.
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Maybe. It really doesn't come off as Wikipedia.

What it does do is allow for structured conversations about a lot of things. The question answer, and in particular one answer only per user, format seems to focus people into their primary thoughts about something.

This has some nice value. Great advice in the relationship section, for example. There are also some very good instructional answers dealing with concepts of many kinds.

There is some elitism, but it's not all bad. Like I said, the norms where people can come and share unabashedly is a high value norm, and it's somewhat elite on that basis. I find that notable and valuable personally.
One thing to consider is you can't just move to the US. You need a proper visa, which as a Canadian means either a TN or H1B most likely. So you'd need to get a job first, and you'd need the proper experience or degree qualifications for that visa. Unless your business was already successful and qualified under another type of visa.

If you're okay with moving, consider moving to Montreal or Toronto.

Why not just build the first iteration of the product in your spare time and see where that takes you first?
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I held off on the subsequent X series because of the dumb 16:9 screens at low resolution! Less than 800 vertical pixels just doesn't work. Also, after the X201_ they started breaking the keyboard, killing the full-sized legendary boards.

The X240 finally improved the screen a bit, but has totally ruined the pointer input and keyboard. Plus apparently it has a lot of problems, and they crippled the RAM (8GB max, in 2014).

I wish some hardware hacker would find a way to mod these things. I'd pay $400, plus costs, to mod modern ThinkPads to use the old kb and pointer setup. I've lost at least that much in decreased work, frustration (I have a under 20% success trying to right click on the abominable clickpad, and worse for middle click) and literal physical pain.
I assume by the down votes I'm wrong? I checked some reviews and they all say it doesn't have one. Has it changed?
From what I can make out, there is no reason why you shouldn't get paid more money. You don't owe this company anything.. If they are left with nobody, it is because they didn't keep their one developer happy. It doesn't look terrible. People leave their companies for better places to work all the time.

Ask for a big raise. Do your research and figure out your market value, and bring that number to the negotiations.
If this doesn't work, start looking for another job, and leave till you find one.

If you think its unlikely that they will give you a raise (and you don't sound happy with your job anyway), just start looking for another job.
Sure, why not - let's bolt another leg onto that dog ;)
Thanks to George Lucas, Steve Jobs' Trust Now Making Money Off of Motorola(2012)
Thanks for sharing the PainMath exercise. It throws all our beliefs (I wouldn't call them plans anymore)out of the window but I guess that is what was needed.
Absolutely disagree. Right now I am in a major german city, and I can get an Uber ride in exactly 6 minutes. Perfect service, everything is done through the app, I don't even need to speak german.

Last time I got a regular cab, I waited 30 minutes for a middle-eastern guy who did not speak a word in english and tried to rip me off since I'm a foreigner. It's even worse in my country - Poland - where taxi drivers can very well be considered gangs, fighting for territories and being involved in illegal activities.

They are absolutely not "same old taxi drivers and motel owners", is the point I am trying to make here.
To be honest I only use Here Drive, ebay, weather and the built in apps (which are fantastically good) so you may be right however all the major names are there now. The mail client and search destroys all other devices if you ask me.
the medallions are distributed in auction, to align with the great american myth that those who can pay the most deserve it the most.

Granted, alternatives would probably involve taxi companies wining and dining to get preferred treatment.

Once we've decided on having some sort of system to limit the number of taxis, there's going to be some form of selection. Apparently people thought auction was the "least worst" way (compared to some other selection method).
I think a lot of recruiters fail to understand that many tech folks (like myself) simply don't want to work for the kind of company that would hire an outside recruiter, period. So...how do I want to be recruited? Only by actual employees of the company I'd be working for. No middle men.
My hope is that this is partly the case due to what is often lamented as an endemic sense of entitlement in Generation Y. Capable, well-off, "smart creatives," having been raised to believe that they can and will make a positive impact if only they try hard enough and make the right decisions. Cumulatively (not collectively, yet), they demand the conditions they need to execute and to feel like they're getting a fair bargain for their most precious resource: their "passion."

This might mean that we can make the world a better place by raising their expectations even higher. In other words, if no one will work for Google unless they are given the environment and autonomy to do truly great things, as measured by a well-considered external standard, then Google might just be forced to do great things.

We all know Google has done some things that are not so great. Regulation is one tool the public wields, but perhaps we can do something about that from the inside as well.
It has done since WM7.5 for ref.
I still glower, but I know of two loopholes:

1. You can get Amazon Instant Video on your cellular tablet if you use the Amazon Appstore directly. It's kinda vague on the distinction between a cellular tablet and a phone.

2. Amazon Instant Video works just fine if you sideload the Amazon for Phones and Amazon Instant Video apps.
My setup for this kind of thing is scrot+filepicker.io script+xclip. Works fine for few years now.
These slides are a summary (introduction? teaser?) for Schmidt and Rosenberg's new book, How Google Works[1].

1. http://www.howgoogleworks.net/
I had IBS symptoms well before my severe issues with gastroparesis and digestive motility in 2006 and 2012. I feel my underlying issues with IBS made me more predisposed to additional further complications brought on by severe gastroenteritis from viral or bacterial origin. Often most people do not know what caused their "24 hour stomach flu", if it was something they ate or a virus.

I am not doubting the work it's taken you to achieve your remission of IBS, but I am saying your cure may not be the cure for others dealing with IBS.

>>You don't catch IBS by swimming in a river.

In a contaminated river you certainly can.

Have you really researched IBS fully? Post-infectious IBS is quite common. There have been major studies on it.

http://www.aboutibs.org/site/what-is-ibs/intro-to-ibs/post-i...

http://fhs.mcmaster.ca/main/news/news_2010/walkerton_study.h...
As far as I know, public spending in the US is about 40% of GDP, which is in line with other countries like Canada and Norway, and higher than countries like Japan and Switzerland.
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I started work at google pretty recently, and expressed an interest in working on a particular project. I made some notes about some of my ideas, and was putting some stuff together to show to one of the teams, to get some input before prototyping.

I asked a senior team member to have a look at the notes I had made, and see if they were ready to show to the wider team.

His advice?

"Go build something, then we can have meetings"

Coming from an academic background I find this type of thinking very refreshing.
Thanks for the down vote for disagreeing with your opinion.

The courts took issue with bundling it with Windows. Not that it was not innovative. There was even a few articles in recent years suggesting the courts went too far over the "bundling" case; sighting comparisons to vendor lock-in all over the industry now not reaching the courts at all. Just one top hit cite: http://readwrite.com/2013/11/12/apple-maps-takes-off-cue-the...

The whole bundling IE case was fundamentally stupid and run by lawyers and judges who had no understand of the technology industry, the web and the wild west stage the web was going through. Back then, it was all about enablement. Getting people just onto the web in the first place was hard. They had to buy a computer, a modem, sign up with an ISP, possibly upgrade their operating system, install a web browser etc. But in those days, installing a web browser meant you had to go buy a Magazine from a shop just to get the CD-ROM. Microsoft viewed this, rightly, as an impediment. So they bundled IE with their OS. A practice that is still common place today by every major operating system that exists including Windows, Linux, OSX, Android, iOS, WinPhone.

Without IE bringing DHTML we would not have the foundations that made modern day JavaScript, SPA, "Ajax" applications today. How is that not fostering innovation? IE 1 to 6 were a technology showcase to show everybody else what the web _could_ be or become. That's one reason why, though they'll never admit it, Mozilla abandoned Mozilla Suite and started work on Firefox.

"So little knowledge of the history of Microsoft and the web"? Er, what? I date back to having to when you had to install a TCP/IP stack manually in order to get onto the web. What you're actually surprised about is that anyone would dare challenge you on what you perhaps believed would be a widely held opinion when it's far from that clear cut.
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Uber drivers are potentially getting exploited because they don't get the protections of regular worker.

You could say that they could just go over to another service, but there are only so many of these new-age taxi operators. Unless the number of drivers is extremely limited, the same thing will happen to them as to people in other industries (say, cleaning houses):

The customer wants lower prices, the business wants higher margins, so the business squeezes the (badly-positioned) workers.

There's already been protestation with Uber's "misleading" ( it was heavily subsidised at first, but stopped recently) wages given to the drivers.

This is just another example of why the labor market is really not an efficient free market.
Ooh, clever!
Unless apps are specifically designed for 12" screen and they work like traditional desktop I am not buying them. A screen as big as 12" needs to multitask. It has to has a dedicated taskbar not clicking the 3rd button to bring a bunch of backstack windows.
HN policy is as worse it gets among discussion sites. If you didn't deleted it within 24 hrs, everything you wrote here is stuck forever with no recourse for taking it down. I always wondered why this is the case. Is implementing delete is that hard? After all this is hacker news.
I just spoke about price.

BTW mentioning ethnicity of the taxi driver wasn't necessary.
Nigeria didn't actually do an awesome job: http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_world_/2014/10/15/nigeria_and... (published 3 hours after BI)
Great readme explaining why to use this over scrot (the tool I use atm) and others. An improved render rectangle was the first item I checked for (saw this mentioned in slop). Section with examples of of other commands to combine is great as well.

I think good readmes are a bit undervalued on GitHub.
Ireland never defaulted.
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If you think that, then you can't have read much communist literature.

Marx spent large parts of his life criticising the idea that this was easy, and criticising the idea of the "inherent goodness of human nature".

On the contrary, Marxism assumes that it is human nature to first of all satisfy our own basic needs. In the German Ideology, Marx made the point that if a socialist revolution were to happen in an under-developed economy (like say Russia, or China, or Cuba, or North Korea, or Vietnam at the times of their respective "revolutions"), then redistribution would only make want common, and the same class struggles would reassert themselves. It was Lenin who laid the groundwork for ignoring that central part of Marx' of theses - a part he kept repeating in various contexts throughout his life.

Because a vital part of Marxism is the idea that society moves through phases that are dictated by social and economic conditions for production, and which "traps" us all. Marx did not see the capitalist as evil, nor did he see the workers as good - he saw everyone as effectively being forced into roles they either lived up to or lost. E.g. a capitalist that failed to act like a capitalist would go bankrupt and enter the working classes.

It was not "inherent goodness" Marx expected to bring a socialist revolution, but the working classes rising up in anger as capitalisms focus on increased productivity eventually reaches a point where the way of further increasing productivity makes capitalism itself fail as it runs out of fresh markets to expand into, and turns inwards on itself, with wages and jobs eventually being the only thing to cut. Couple this with the expectation that the ruling classes will refuse to yield to popular demand, but instead will use the means of oppression available to them.

The only reason a socialist revolution is considered necessary by Marxists is the assumptions that humans are not "inherently good", or at least not "good enough". But nor are they evil: It is natural to want to keep what you have, and so natural for the ruling classes to resist.

> Produce as much as you can, take as much as you need, what could possibly go wrong?
>
> (Spoiler alert: pretty much everything)

Of course no system has ever attempted that kind of distribution, and Marx explicitly warned (e.g. in Critique of the Gotha Program) that this was a long range goal for an advanced, well developed communist society, and that in the intermediate stages leading up to a socialist revolution, and during socialism, he saw it as more realistic to aim for a gradual transformation of the modes of production and to gradually redistribute through changes to taxation and salaries and welfare systems - not some "free for all" overthrow of all existing structure. In fact this is a defining difference between Marxism and the various anarchist ideologies (which tends to advocate the immediate destruction of the state to various degrees)

Even Leninist and subsequent bastardisations of Marxism kept to this - in large part I suspect because it became a convenient excuse for the various party elites to keep the masses in check while they lived in luxury.
>I'd just like to point out that this is likely not to get better with this (arbitrary) decision to release a new OS every year.

Release dates are arbitrary and inconsequential. Scope and freeze dates are what matters.

>Couple this with the stark reality that Apple has simply run out of ideas in terms of software. Every new version of OS X boils down to: 1. arbitrary UI tweak (forcing developers to refresh), 2. Gimmick features in Mail.app/Safari (RSS in Mail/Safari, Postcards in Mail, yet another 3d effect to re-arrange your tabs in Safari, annotations in Mail, etc etc etc), and 3. regressions of features that worked for years.

Siracusa begs to differ.
Arqade (Gaming Stack Exchange) doesn't allow game recommendation questions. In general, such recommendation questions are not a good fit for SE, some sites allow them but many don't.

Some people just ask those in chat, which works reasonably well, but you need 20 reputation to do that.
I think enabling RES for every user on Reddit would have pretty major implications on the server-side.
Chrome does other tricky stuff that's "evil". When you go to turn on "Do Not Track", they put up a very big warning. Much more than other privacy related features. But then!... They flip the OK and Cancel buttons around. Literally, for that one feature, they intentionally go out of their way to mess up the UI to trick people into keeping DNT disabled. Chrome doesn't do this for any other critical options.

The permissions on Android are further weakened, with apps able to add permissions without any indication via updates. (So long the permission is in the same group.) It's well-known that all-or-nothing, say-yes-or-it-dont-work is a busted model -- MS proved that with ActiveX and Vista's plethora of UAC prompts. So it's very unlikely that Android's permission model and UI is accidental.

And even then, consider the rampant abuse in the Google Play store. It's hard to find small apps, like a flashlight, that doesn't request all permissions. Yet Google does nothing, and takes no effort to inform users that such apps are likely to be doing things the users don't want.

I've realized, unfortunately, Google is not a force for good. They're happy to protect users against other threats (like code execution exploits or SSL attacks), but they are actively working against privacy, openly hostile. Do no evil indeed.
Always be looking for a new job. How hard you're looking should depend - in part - on how happy you are, but looking for work is a skill you need to keep up. That should also help you have a sense of how much they should be paying you.
Native support is the ultimate goal. WebStorm 9 will have EditorConfig support built-in (as noted here: https://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/nextversion/).
For most sites (Stack Overflow is one of the exceptions) you can simply ask a question without ever registering. Unlike Quora, SE doesn't have anything like a real name policy, you never have to give them your real name.
Strangely, I worked at a place that did batch data processing on IRIX in the mid to late 90s. While we didn't even use the graphics capability of the machines, I did notice, at least in 95, that they were a hell of a lot faster than PCs (although the DEC Alpha that I used at a previous job sure gave them a run for the money).

I don't know what the price difference was between the servers, but in 99 we got new servers from IBM. We learned from personal experience that the way to pronounce IBM flavored unix is "aches" (AIX). I missed IRIX after that change over, regardless of the hardware price-performance ratio. I also missed having a workstation that ran the same architecture as the prod server. Sharing a dev server sucks, as there's always some jerk who will fill up the disk.
If the shielding is made of matter, then the nuclei of the atoms in that matter will absorb neutrons and become radioactive. Clearly the solution is to make it out of the many materials which are not composed of matter.
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I agree in principal, but unfortunately taxing dividends is a necessity in the defence against tax avoidance. Were the practice to be abolished I could see companies using this as yet another loophole; faciltiating avoidance of both corporate tax (siphoning all of their profits through dividends) and income tax (by making all employees minor shareholders).