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A related issue: more people nowadays seem to enjoy working too much (at least in the United States) to just stop, go home and do something else. Maybe people, by and large, enjoy their work or don't think about doing something else. The real question is whether it's a healthy balance or not.

Also, glowing boxes like these have an addictive quality. Just go into any college coffee shop and the biggest drug there is no longer the coffee, it's wifi and the glowing screens of laptop, iPad and iPhone getting high on whatever new notification pops up.

In conclusion, the instant-gratification of outright gamification of commoditized labor in an Idiocracy-like future doesn't seem either far off or far fetched.
Ick...
In the US at least: meanwhile, China overbuilds housing to the point where ghost cities (not just towns, cities) are scattered across the country.
Inflammatory rhetoric during jury argument is already grounds for objection and, in certain cases, appeal even if not objected to. While the courts are obviously having to catch up to the use of new technology -- judges have traditionally not aggressively policed openings and closings like other parts of the trial -- the rules already exist to deal with these issues.

Contra your argument, I do think that the use of emotionally-targeted visual presentations are injurious to the health of a justice system that is at least ostensibly based in law and fact. While the jury system is far from perfect, it's absurd to let it descend to mockery. An inflammatory visual presentation is more memorable and emotionally-impactful than even the most impassioned speech, and it's dangerous to allow attorneys to have too-free a rein in manipulating jurors right before they head into deliberation.
What's more, if you developed your framework in-house, devs feel more empowered to improve it and tailor it to their needs.
> Likely if they leave one they will zip out an email, but those take more time to write than leaving a voice message.

That's exactly the problem. Voice mail has the wrong kind of contract - it takes very little effort from the demanding party, and too much effort from the demanded party.
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I think you've just done a really good job explaining the differences between good developers and great developers. Good developers display that anti-intellectualism, but great developers spend the time to learn what they don't know and design a system that fits their problem.
I pretty much agree with the reasoning how templating doesn't promote anything other than separation of languages. It always frowned how people emphasised templates being logic-less, which imo oversimplifies the matter.

Yet i still don't seem comfortable writing the markup in js. Even react's JSX preprocessor doesn't seem right to me.
Its called 'Pain Optimization'. I think its the ultimate goal of a capitalist economy as practiced by Americans (and now parts of China). It doesn't create the best possible situation, it optimizes down to the least worst situation the super-majority of its participants will accept.
GNAA - is it still an article?
This belief that there's one blessed version of any open source project is common, but pointless.

I have contributed to dozens of other people's repos. As a rule, I make a change, share it back, but run my own fork. Later if they merge my change, great, I can point back at upstream. But it's no big deal to have your own version -- that's part of the strength of open source.

People get bent out of shape over whether upstream will merge their change, and I've heard people complain that they "wasted" their time making a change that's not accepted. But that's silly -- if you wanted the code, it wasn't a waste. Run it.

Git also makes it really easy to maintain your own changeset over time even as you incorporate upstream changes. It's pretty much designed with that use case specifically in mind.

It's wonderful when project maintainers are responsive and work to incorporate every good-faith improvement. That's the ideal. But it's also fine to fork when they simply can't or won't keep up.

On many occasions I have also merged other people's lingering/rejected pull requests into my own fork. The project maintainer doesn't have to be the final arbiter.
Surge pricing in Uber's case is not rent-seeking if surge-pricing actually increases supply (i.e. more drivers on the road). My gut says it doesn't ( don't think that drivers get out on the road fast enough), but I don't have the data to prove that.

But in the case of parking spaces, I don't see how me being able to out-bid you for the last space makes me a more qualified candidate for that parking space. I'm paying a higher price for the same good, the number of spaces isn't going up, and the owner got richer without adding any value. Textbook definition of rent-seeking if I've ever seen one.

High parking tension means that people will try to make more parking, but is that the most effecient allocation of resources? What about alternative solutions, like mass transit? This is a digression, but you mentioned it with supply.

On a more pragmatic level I don't really think the ultra-rich have that much more of a right to a parking space downtown on a Saturday any more than I do, and a parking space is more or less a public good (and should be shared as such).
Next, do email!
Thanks, drewcrawford, meowface, for an interesting alternative perspective; I'm not particularly familiar with DPRK as a country. It is feasible that they could be involved in some way - some of the rhetoric sounds plausibly bizarre enough, but I just don't see much - if any - technical evidence that they actually are.

I think you may be highballing a budget estimate on this particular attack. 5-10 good people could likely pull off something like this at a larger company with relatively competent security, but I reckon this could have been done by one or two moderately unskilled hackers over several months - Sony Pictures' security was just that awful, and the malware's style is remarkably amateurish - it isn't even packed, for heaven's sake.

Here you'll find no 0days, no factored signing keys, no memory-resident non-persistent "CRIT" agents - compare and contrast it with, say, the so-called "DarkHotel" malware (very probably from the Republic of Korea) and it's just night and day.

Literally anyone can afford that kind of budget: impoverished (or otherwise) nation-state; disgruntled employee; random hacker; or any combination thereof. I'd say many readers of this comment could feasibly have done it themselves, if they'd felt so inclined.

If you find that a bit concerning, so do I, because (as I'm sure you're well aware) Sony Pictures is far from the only company in the world with dreadful security practices, and they just make movies. Imagine if it was something actually important.
My PhDs in Economics, Finance and Game Theory agree with you.
Jameco is very much alive! However, My bank recently called to verify some purchases with them. They claimed that my regular transactions with such a company were flagged as suspicious. I suppose the everyday household is not impulse buying this stuff as I do.
I know your comment is being sarcastic, but it is also a borderline strawman argument. Please remember that the original promise of the industrial revolution was that it would help us be more efficient and therefore would help workers work less and get the same or more done. The problem is that the oligarchs realized they could "force" people to work the same hours and all the extra efficiency in the form of profit trickled up.

So I would say don't be so quick to dismiss the lifestyle of a hunter/gatherer society. Of course the modern world can't sustain such a thing and thats the beauty of agriculture, but as a person who grew up hunting, it's nice to get a big kill and have enough food to eat off for a couple of weeks.

Thing about how much you spent on two weeks worth of meals, a full half of your monthly budget goes to food in that time. I can spend 1 day out in the forest, get a good elk, and another day dressing/butchering it and have enough food for two weeks. Whens the last time you made that much in one day?

Not to mention that a more time-free society has more time to spend educating itself in more nuanced views, a reason I think the enlightenment is in danger because everyone's too busy to even learn these days.
There's definitely a middle ground. I have a couple friends who are in unions, and they're very pro-union. They don't claim they're perfect, just that it's sure better than not having one.
Sometimes I meet people who feel obligated to work late because they're told to. Since I'm in the privileged position of never having been asked to do this, I can't fully know what my response would be. But I'd like to think at some point I'd simply tell my boss that I would not be working any more, and trust my daytime productivity to keep me my job.

In theory, the company would not take negative action as long as my productivity less cost to employ was positive. In fact, in an ideal world, you'd even continue to be promoted as needed to retain your services. But what would actually happen? I've never had the chance to run the test, and, surprisingly, I haven't been able to convince my friends to experiment with their careers either.

By the way, I upvoted you, but I also wanted to actually say "thanks" for these links. They are very interesting.
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It's interesting - but I've noticed that, without any discussion whatsoever, we stopped using Voicemail at my company somewhere in the last three years. I haven't listened to any voicemail whatsoever in about two years.

A lot of my customers in the UAE and Singapore Region have switched to one of calling directly, and expecting you will always answer (Dubai), or alternatively making extensive use of Whatsapp/Whatsapp groups (Singapore).

Voicemail though? Completely dead.
4) Realize that repairing fax machines is pretty much your intellectual limit and now that fax machines are disappearing you don't have the mental capacity to learn how to fix self driving cars. You are now in the group "those who don't have the skills or abilities".

4) is what is actually happening now. The "bar" is constantly being raised.
>they all have smartphones

and they all have UBER app installed, same app that spies on everything that happens on the phone, fancy that :)
"What does this mean for bots? Now bots can use an OCR tool to solve the information or require somebody to solve the image initially, post which, the bot can retain the cookies and continue scraping!"

They did not tried if this works though. I mean the team that implemented the new Google captcha won't be that dumb. They would have known this as a flaw..
I think the speed of development gained now by leveraging all the good stuff that frameworks offer in the 10% tip of the iceberg is hugely beneficial in the short term. In the long term, thanks to initial productivity, teams will get more resources to invest into rewriting code for new frameworks or even rolling their own JS "paradigm" (be it a framework, lib, or nothing)
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before Uber replaces them all with self-driving cars

If Uber (or any other company) wants to replace them with self-driving cars, what stops them? My point here is that if self-driving cars have value in the future, they will be a secular trend that will come to pass whether or not a group of drivers are unionized.

The only option a union might have to prevent this is get political power/influence to get lawmakers to prevent new self-driving services from cropping up. But if we go in that direction, you can see what that situation looks like when you see car dealerships and their battles with Tesla.

If self-driving cars become a big reality, no union will save drivers. I sympathize with people losing income opportunities and jobs, but unions do not seem to be a feasible long-term answer here. They might prevent their specific employer from laying them off to replace them with self-driving cars. But they would not be able to stop the overall technological trend.
> In the end i disabled retina resolution and am running native 1680x1050 now. Definitely not as crisp but i got used to it and system load is considerably less (especially when playing back video and such) now and battery life improved as well.

I don't think that 1680x1050 is native or even half-native on the 13. IIRC the Air is 1440x900 and the 13 rmbp is less than that (when you count the points).

This is why I keep telling people who want a 13' Mac to get the air, but sadly very few listen…
The first thing I do when I sit down at a new job is disconnect my landline or VoIP phone and put it in a drawer. HipChat, Skype chat, Email, text, or FB message, please. Voice is dead to me.

I'm looking forward to the day when you can buy a SIM card from a cell carrier which offers only data and text, no voice call support.

Also, am I the only one that is mildly disappointed that Coke's headquarters isn't shaped like a huge Coke can?
I feel the same as you that Node seems to make sense in my brain. I find JavaScript in general really fascinating to begin with. I've been watching videos on how people have been structuring apps in Node and every new trick blows my mind. It may just be because it's the new thing, but I'm really enjoying it.
The worst part of voicemail was not even the monologues, but the fact that the important bit of information may be hidden deep within the various boring screed.

The issue is that most people have no idea how to communicate and voicemail is a very painful method to be forced to endure from someone who cant get to the point.

Email generally takes more effort to produce (since its not as much of a train of "thought") and its way easier to summarize as the consumer, so you can just hunt out the golden info in the pile of crap.
In my personal experience, my vision has decreased since I started working as a developer (4 years ago from today). I don't think the display by itself causes damage (at least I haven't found a trustful source claiming radiation or something else damages your vision). But I've noticed my vision gets tired after I keep staring at something for a long period of time, it could be my laptop's screen, phone, tablet or a book.
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Things like this is what leads to billion dollar valuations for companies like Slack. Corporate communication is finally evolving from email and voicemail.
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This is a lot of anti-union FUD. Unions generally now don't seek to ban or outlaw non-union operations in the same field. Remember there are A LOT of unions and behaviors and platforms of various unions range widely.
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Just some very vocal individuals on a niche website, and some trolls.

My own experience of Yosemite has been the polar opposite of many here; better stability, faster, longer battery life etc. All on a 2011 MacBook Air. I never had any kind of issue with iOS 7 either. The odd reset over the last year on my iPhone 5, but the significant majority of the time (99% at least) it worked and it worked well. Sorry to rock your world view, but have you at least posited that these people vociferously complaining are not representative of the whole? Ditto iOS? I know you will chalk me up as another "fanboy"...
I lived in the US and currently in Brazil, so it's great to see two different aspects of the "voice mail culture".

Before cell phones were introduced here, almost every one in middle class had someone bring them an answering machine. When cell phones started showing up, thou, people didn't use voice mails that much.

Today, when you wanna talk to someone and they're not available, you just leave a text or a WhatsApp message. If it's not that important, they'll just see their missed calls and call you back.

This article made me remember that when I started working in the US, my boss got mad many times because I NEVER checked my voice mails so I missed meetings etc. Haha!
> Voicemail doesn't seem as "on the record" as email.

Funny, I had the opposite response. Since it was Coca Cola HQ that ditched VM, I was guessing they didn't want those records around. (Sarbanes-Oxley requires maintaining the VMs IIRC).

As many point out, there's more verbosity to a VM than email/text, and that can work against you in bad situations, like an investigation.
I see your point now more.

I agree on roads being a band aid and pushing people further out, which if it continues requires exponential additions to roadways, which is impossible. Metro rail, on the other hand, is a different thing in allowing accessibility across the dense centre. The most effective 'acessibility' I can see is rail stations as the focal points of density.
I'm taking this course next semester! However, it mostly likely will be taught in C/Java.
> Unions were a necessary part of life when industrialization first took off, now they are not. In heavily regulated countries they are abusive of both the public and private entities they have workers within.

All you anti-union people make them out to be the devil. It's ridiculous.
I think that could be a great solution for me. My vision gets tired when I don't change my focal point after a long period of time.
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This article is pure link bait. Both ends of the extreme are far removed from the truth. There is hardly anything in this article that isn't sensationalist fluff.
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>how about you point out the specific fault in SEL4 that causes people to need to use other L4 implementations instead?

I'm talking about people in general, prefaring their mainstream OS of choice over some platform based on L4.

Not about L4 users opting for this or that implementation.

The parent talked about people in general not caring for software quality, while those L4 users are highly specialized enteprises and businesses making a choice.
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> my boss got mad many times because I NEVER checked my voice mails

I had that problem too. Now, the company phone system emails voice messages left on voice mail. It's very effective, and I never miss a voice message now. I like to think they did that because of me (but probably not).
What's also interesting is the new F2FS by samsung on many linux distributions now (open source).

Shows higher performance on SSD than ext4 and virtually all other file systems.
It doesn't help that the styles updated to be super vibrant.

It highlights that the buttons are disabled then enabled when the animation has finished.
This piece pretty much echoes what I've felt since I first read about all the speculation and FBI report.

I'm just glad someone with credibility was able to come out and say it, I just hope (but doubt) that mainstream media will follow up on it and ask the right questions going forward.
I think an obvious fact is overlooked that while new technology accelerates existing tasks, it also introduces a lot more possibilities and new tasks. For example, Internet messaging allows us to spend a lot less time for each message, but it also allows us to send more messages within the same time. It's also cheap, so we are free to set our own limits (which we are pretty bad at).
The U.S. patent system makes it impossible to guarantee anything with respect to patent infringement. But how many royalty-free codecs does Xiph need to develop and deploy at scale [0-4], without anyone filing lawsuits, before people believe that success here is possible?

P.S., in case it's not clear, I've volunteered for the Xiph.Org Foundation for over a decade.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorbis#Support

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_hardware_and_software_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speex#Applications

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theora#Playback

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus_%28audio_codec%29#Support
I decided a couple of years ago that my O/S focus would be Apache Solr. But I did not start by jumping into the source and trying to fix it. I started writing projects around it with Solr being a common-theme. And with the focus being the newbies and on-boarding experience.

And, it turned out that there is lots of opportunities. I now run a Solr resource website (http://www.solr-start.com) which is quite appreciated.

To create that website, I used Solr of course (for Javadoc search). But I also used and contributed back to Spring.io client for Solr. I cloned and improved Javadoc generator. I wrote a bunch of custom Javadoc doclets to automatically generate various lists from the Solr source code itself.

I even contributed to Python and Ruby clients for Solr by just trying to do the most basic TodoMVC equivalent in multiple client libraries. You'd be surprised how many libraries have outdated examples on their home pages due to recently changed APIs. And how many more will break when you try to do a basic example of your - rather then their - choice.

And vast majority of that code is Open Source on GitHub.

Oh, and I wrote one book on Solr and am writing another. Run a couple of workshops and presented at the Solr Revolution. And finally, I am now - slowly - starting to contribute to the Solr itself. So, it is very possible to contribute from the outside in, you don't have to start from the codebase itself.

If somebody is actually looking for O/S projects and like the idea of the Apache Solr, feel free to contact me with details on skills you already have. I have a list of at least 20 different projects around Solr which require supplementary skills I don't have time to acquire. I'd be happy to play a mentor role if it contributes to the Apache Solr ecosystem. No absolute beginners though, I am not a school :-)
> I'm looking forward to the day when you can buy a SIM card from a cell carrier which offers only data and text, no voice call support.

You can get these now. Get an LTE USB stick sim and add a $10 text package to it. You can add voice as well, but why bother.
Dated. DHCP can be done in milliseconds, 50ms over a WiFi connection:

https://plus.google.com/+TomGundersen/posts/eztZWbwmxM8