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The registry is not very discoverable. However, once you discovered, a lot of customization can be had from running as little as a single registry script.

As a trivial example, remapping caps-lock to something sane was easier on the last few windows releases I tried (just run a registry script) than on any of the 'nixes I used in the same time period.
In my case I work in a small company that expects you to work 3h full, then 1 hour lunch, and then 6 hours full. Luckily is only about a week and I can leave and start in a normal company where everything is bit more structured. But now I understand why I was more productive during mornings than evenings.
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I can't speak for “them”, only for myself. And I for one disagree.
This is something on our radar. How do we provide a managed customer service solution? I would run customer service for Deutsche Bahn myself. I'd want to see how well I can match their brand/voice and then write code where possible.
Wouldn't it be nicer if we had something like this on the level of the filesystem, instead of on the level of a version control system? Advantages would be that git and any other user-space application wouldn't need much extension, and files could be opened as if they were on the local file system.
I've been puzzling over a Killer App for a little while, but just don't have the headspace to deal with it. Take The Money And Run:

Write a mobile app - or maybe crowdfund a gadget - that would be an always on video camera, or perhaps just an audio recorder with a sometimes- but not always-on camera.

This would be done in such a way that it is simply not possible to erase the recording, not even if law enforcement confiscates your device. The most-straightforward way would be to upload it to a server however law enforcement could take your entire server, or block access to it &c.

Worse who ever operated the server could be subject to prosecution, say for enabling wiretapping. Yes, I know. :-/

However a solution would be for that server to be a Tor Hidden Service. That would make it difficult, maybe impossible to physically locate the server or its admins; it would also make it more difficult to block the communication between the recorder and the server.

Commonly overlooked is that it's not enough simply to operate a hidden service; if someone does grab the actual box, then they've got your filesystem. For this to really work you need a fully-encrypted disk. But then you have the problem that the OS as well as the hidden service require private keys. If you store them right on the box then you lose.

Possibly Trusted Computing would help somewhat. However another way would be for, when the OS boots, it cries out for help in some surreptitious way, say by posting a racy JPEG on imgur. When an admit sees that JPEG show up on Reddit, then he transmits the secret keys to the server.

There is also the problem that, were these recorders always on, then they would record things that anyone would want to be private. Typically we would want whoever possessed the device to choose which recordings to release to the public; however if they were required to do so under a subpeona, again we lose.

So there should be more than one person making the decision. Whoever has a legimate reason to want privacy, as well as someone who can deny a subpeona with complete safety, in principle the server admin.

This outline doesn't scale at all well. I've been puzzling over it for a little while and I can see that it could be made to scale.

But this is the very first time I've written down any of these ideas.

If you can make something of this, More Power To You.
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> Treating drug users is better than criminalizing them.

Not having them become drug users in the first place would be even better. Let's not forget that a lot of drugs really are seriously harmful

Criminalizing drug use is fucking stupid, sure, but I also really don't want to have big companies spend big advertising budgets on making people addicts.
Sounds like high stress. I'd make a distinction between stress and pressure.
I believe it's supposed to be open source, thus you don't really need the daemon, you can probably make the service calls yourself. The daemon however, will ensure that your cert is replaced on auto-renewal, so for something fairly hands off, that be pretty cool.
Forget about Flappy Bird, I have a few showcases to +1 this article

- http://re***d.com (which was posted here on HN when it launched as well)
- http://joomlarts.com : The most popular Joomla sites
- Android Tank app

And many other enterprise software which I don't think is appropriate to mention here were completed by an outsourcing company in Vietnam. I personally know the companies that implemented the software, from A to Z, that is now operated by US companies. It does work.

I keep on telling my friends who have never been to Vietnam that the fact that Vietnam is a one-party country does not absolutely affect the software business at all. And people in Vietnam love to work with foreigners, 99,99% of the population do not give a about the past Vietnam war. What is ahead is more important, and that is business opportunities. It's fact.

I really encourage small/medium sized software companies give Vietnam a shot, it's a good chance. I've personally seen it myself, trust me.

Edit: removed a website's name. I think probably the owner of the site doesn't want to be listed.
Side note: the article contains quite a few language mistakes, mostly missing small words like "of" or "for":

>This is probably a side effect over breeding

>you can find plenty of dogs that were simply disappeared economic reasons

These mistakes are very easy to miss while scanning an article fast, as I (and presumably many other people) are nowadays wont to do with the enormous overload of information on the net.

I would not be surprised if these words would much less used in the middle-term future.
I haven't read the book yet (planning to), but there is this thought I keep thinking about and I've mentioned here a few times, that our choice might be that between privacy and continued progress humanity. There are great benefits to the same technologies that "enable mass surveillance", and I feel this angle is underexplored.

(And yes, every time I mention this I secretly hope someone will argue with me, explaining the reasons to fight for so strong privacy we enjoy now (relatively to all the history of humanity) that are different than just belief in the privacy as a basic human right - an axiom which I don't really recognize).
It would be good if there were some sort of deal during YC interview period for a few days accommodation that included transport to YC offices.
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I think the real problem is that, by assuming users won't read error messages carefully, and making them shorter/less informative as a result, we've been implicitly encouraging this behaviour, leading to even less attention paid to the messages, etc. and the vicious cycle continues.

The original argument was that seeing error messages often will make users ignore them, but I don't think certificate errors should be very common now. Either way, I think we should be encouraging users to read error messages more carefully. Maybe the Yes/No buttons on the dialog should be put in a random order, and the question randomly flips between "Do you want to proceed?" and "Do you want to abort?"... adding a "learn more" option would be a good idea too.
Which is weird, considering the cartels and the drug trade are part of the house that Reagan built.
To avoid having someone who has an incentive to work towards more widespread use.
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>> I also really don't want to have big companies spend big advertising budgets on making people addicts.

I don't want that either, but what I would really like is if we could find a way to encourage our massive pharmacological sector, in the private and public spheres, to research and produce less harmful recreational drugs.

The problem we'd have if we just de-regulated to encourage this is that there would be a market incentive to produce things that are more addictive.
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This wouldn't work for me at all. Actually it would put me right into a psychiatric hospital - repeatedly.

I expect it would do that for lots of other folks.

The last little while I've been thinking of buying a car or maybe a motorcycle. For quite a long time I've enjoyed the fine public transit we enjoy here in Vancouver and Portland, but I'd like to go camping in the desert.

The reason I haven't already done so, is that I know from experience that when you drive a car, the police find all manner of reasons to pull you over. The cops don't always have evil intent in doing so; consider that Timothy McVeigh was pulled over for expired registration a few days ago after he bombed the Oklahoma City Federal Building. I expect everyone was getting pulled over back then.

I was appalled just a couple days ago to learn that the Feds have - or maybe they are working on - a nationwide license plate reader database.

Even were I completely law-abiding, drove my car legally, my physical location would be in that database. No matter where I travelled in my car or on my motorbike, my entire path would be in a computer file.

I've thought about that quite a lot; I am simply unable to tolerate such a thing, even today.

By contrast, one does not need a license plate to ride a bicycle. I'm rather out of shape but back in the day I used to ride my bike fifty miles on a regular basis.

I'm not dead certain but I might ride my bike from Portland to Burning Man this year. That's mostly desert, much of it mountainous. To do that wrong could be life-threatening but to do it right would be quite cool.
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Easy solution would be something like what we have here in Finland with alcohol. Allow sales but ban all marketing. There done.
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Treating users has a cost, and while there already are problems with healthcare, I don't know if it's possible to spend money to treat users. taxpayers would moan.

A more viable solution would be to license hard drugs to pharmacists, and notify health department and non-profits so that they can help users.

I agree that it's an error to criminalize them, but you should also discourage people to use hard drugs like heroin and meth. Putting a frame around the use of drugs is a good idea, but it's also important for public health to not send a mixed message.

Obsoleting the dealer is one thing, but don't forget the users.
I'm surprised that even a small amount of legalization is having such an effect on the drug trade, and I've always cited this as a reason to legalize. Seizures being down a third in mexico and a fifth in the U.S. should just be hard evidence that the way to win the war on drugs is to kill the pipeline.

More sweeping measures, including federal decriminalization and the passage of recreational use in the American Southwest, would probably sink the black market altogether. Let's see if republicans get the message or if they'll continue to cover their ears and eyes.
Uploading that much video / audio via tor wouldn't really be feasible with the current infrastructure.
THIS so many times over this.

These days when I phone or email a company and get someone capable who can actually help me I go around the next few weeks recommending the company to everyone who will listen.

In some ways could a few small glitches and fast useful responses could actually be better than it just works?
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This is really awesome. Why do certificates expire in the first place?
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Much like toolbars back in the day. I still think that browsers should just let extensions be fully disabled by default so only the power users who know what they are doing can enable them poking in settings.
Exactly this. I worked in Apple's EMEIA HQ for about 11-12 months. Actually I started about a week before Steve Jobs died, and honestly, nobody on the floor seemed to care that much.

As for my own experience, I moved from a comfortable telecommute job with an amazing team, naively expecting that Apple would be a huge leap in my career experience.

Instead I found a huge factory sized cube farm (office space!) and a beleaguered internal dev team, whose job was to maintain a giant mountain of bockety legacy ball of tcsh/php/mysql. Project management and infrastructure were pretty much nil. Training and documentation didn't exist, it was sink or swim.

There was a bit of a siege mentality in the team because a lot of what they maintained was critical to a lot of people onsite, and these people frequently beat a path to your desk to berate you because 'the site was down'. Which site? There were countless report sites and webpages scattered around the place. There wasn't much time to go back and fix old code because the work pipeline was always gushing forth new work.

One feature of the job was endless, pointless meetings - these happened a lot, and it gave an glimpse into how some management types played the ladder-climbing game. I definitely came across some predatory/aggressive types. This seemed to be a good strategy because it equalled "visibility", which was often lauded as a career-making goal to aim for in the team and the company. A lot of things seemed to be done with the hope that it would "create visibility".

To be fair, I gather that things in that team are a bit better now - there were some bright, really hard guys there, working against ridiculous odds. But I cannot say I found the experience enriching - I found that I was using less of my skill-set, I hated the cube-farm corporate environment, so I took another opportunity as soon as it came along.
How much would you pay for digital content?
Ahem... not to sound sarcastic but... everything... in a company... is a cost center. A good company knows you need to spend money to make money, in fact a lot of cost is reported ad a % of sales, meaning if you grow your sales you grow your cost. I really don't understand where your views are coming from, but they seem to be very biased. And remember that executives at public companies (like Apple) sell stock, not cost, and stock goes up based on expectations, not only cutting costs, meaning you sometimes are better off spending (like in R&D or in customer service) and give the expectation of a growing and solid company than cutting down all spend and give the idea that the firm has no future because managers only look things short term.
A device that costs money, that you have to carry with you at all times, that you have to have connected to the internet, and you're likely to never use... I get your goal, but I don't think it's practical in the way you're thinking.

There are phone apps which do some of what your suggesting, but leaving them on all the time would mean that you would have to have an unlimited data package and lots of spare batteries.
I actually don't hear FUD from MS about open source any more. I'm doing tests on my workstation of .net core and asp.net 5...all open source. Mark Russinovich said the other day that they are considering open sourcing Windows one day. They contribute to the Linux kernel. I can spin up a linux VM in azure with a powershell command. I don't know how much more friendly to open source they could be.

The article that was quoted and that you are talking about is an old article by Raymond Chen where he is talking about the importance and value of backwards compatibility. He's talking about the pain in the ass that large businesses face when trying to update the base image for a fleet of servers. I can tell you from personal experience that its a painful process.
> What's calling? What's a method?

No different or harder than calling a function in Haskell.

> What's 5 that lets me "call" "methods" on it?

A value like any other. That's how you do everything in Scala - calling methods on values. Again, I don't see how you could reasonably claim this is any more intimidating or confusing than calling a function in Haskell.

> Yeah, absolutely nothing intimidating for a 10 year old there...

I didn't say that; just that it's less intimidating than Haskell. It doesn't introduce confusing abstraction immediately like Haskell does.

In Scala, 5 is an Int, you can click through to what an Int is and see that it has a + method on it. "Hello" is a String, you can click through to what a String is and see that it has a startsWith method on it.

In Haskell, "+" comes from a mysterious faraway place and you can see that it's "a :: Num => a -> a -> a". I do think this involves not just more symbols but genuinely more abstract concepts than the Scala version.
I enjoy the perfect 60 FPS smoothness of Apple Watch’s second hand — a smoothness no mechanical watch could ever match.

How can the the smoothness of an actual, physical piece of metal smoothly rotating in a circle at a constant angular velocity be "out-smoothed" by a 60 FPS simulacrum?
You clearly get it.
This meme needs to die. If someone says "the prison corporations are keeping drugs illegal" it just means they don't know what they are talking about. The Unions have much more power but it is not even them keeping drugs illegal, although they don't mind.
Lots of mechanical clocks have hands and seconds which ticks one unit at a time, and doesn't move in a smooth movement. But that's obviously done intentionally through the mechanics and requires extra effort to "implement", so it's not a sign of a "low" quality watch either.

Not sure what Gruber is hinting at here honestly.
I'm also curious if a widespread "gaming tradition" has positive effects on other areas of life. Games tend to require critical thinking, creativity and most importantly create interesting social situations.

TED Radio Hour podcast just had an interesting episode about the benefits of play, check it out: http://www.npr.org/programs/ted-radio-hour/390249044
Who would have expected that outcome?

Lets look back in history to see how well prohibition has worked in the past.

The exact same result happened back in the 1920's with the prohibition of alcohol. The 1920's prohibition resulted in nothing more than the rise of the Mafia.

Back in the 1920's there was similar waste of government money fighting alcohol, only to see the rise in the power of the Mafia.

Move forward to today's 'war on drugs' and once again government is wasting massive amounts of public money trying fighting a loosing war.

The harder the fight the richer the drug kings become.

But now the states decide to go softer on a 'war on what ever' and guess what, the 'drug kings' once again start to loose money.

Nothing more than history repeating :(
If its anything like Alcohol, the top 10% of buyers spend $3500 per year.
I guess that's a classic example of survivor bias
almost Victorian attitude to business relationships and social status

I've heard a couple of rants on this subject from people who were in a position to know. The UK is much more connection-driven than it looks. Much of our past and current industrial problems I would lay firmly at the feet of managers provoking needless conflicts with staff and failing to be open to change. Look at the car industry: the successful firms are either small enough to fit everyone in one shed or foreign multinationals. While the local brands coalesced into MG Rover before finally sinking among allegations of fraud by the directors.

This is partly why the UK startup scene is coalescing in London despite the very high costs there; you have to get personally acquainted with the finance people in order to get the money in.

(If anyone has comments on the Scottish startup scene I'd be interested to read them)
Ooh, thank you! That's exactly what I've been looking for.

Basically the only time I feel the need for vi editing powers in bash is when one (or more) long complicated commands need edited and this fills that gap nicely.

One of the Google results that most succinctly summed up what this command can do:
http://htks.kylemilnes.com/2012/07/bash-fc-fix-command-cheat...
A month old article, that was wrong then as it is now.

Stream is an internal name.
"He will receive a salary of $1."

I gotta say, if you're looking to cut costs, paying your CEO a buck is probably the most effective.
I'm hip to that but I expect a solution could be found.

The main problem is that it is risky and expensive to operate an exit node. It's not a big deal to have an internal node.

I expect such an app would be quite popular; if one were able to calculate how much server capacity was required for each recorder, then a retail price could be found that would keep the network within capacity.

Another possibility is that while I assert it would be best to always be recording, sometimes it would be acceptable to do so in low fidelity.

High fidelity audio these days is quite compact.

Had better audio recording been present at JFK's assassination, there would be no doubt as to who fired the shots. Today's Ogg Vorbis or MP3 would be great for that; back then they were using reel-to-reel recorders on police car radios.

Perhaps an accelerometer would help. If nothing bad is happening one wouldn't expect there to be much acceleration. But if you hear a scream or a gunshot, even if you don't aim your phone at it you are startled so that you jump up, look around or maybe even run away. At that point the app would increase its video fidelity - or use less compression.

Most of the time it would use high compression, low resolution or monochrome.

This kind of video doesn't really need to be in color. 8-bit grayscale NTSC video his highly compressible
This is a problem with the decriminalisation route - production and distribution are still in the black market.

I'm not saying that full legalisation of anything and everything would necessarily be better, but...

The portuguese experiment has been a huge success in terms of harm reduction, but probably less so in terms of discouraging or removing criminal activity.
Exactly. I think its weird that people think of marketing messaging as like a person communicating with them...Like somehow Apple is a quirky guy that loves music and simple Swedish furniture and just happens to be the most valuable enterprise on the planet.
We are already paying both directly and indirectly with drug enforcement costs, immigration, etc. If Mexico, for example, becomes a less violent country, and the economy grows, fewer people will cross the border. In fact, more Americans would retire in Central America if some of those counties stabilized.