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I read Isaacson's biography.

Steve Jobs is convinced he never did anything bad in his entire life. Except for denying paternity, but that still took a few decades.
My experience: impossible to find a Restaurant in Mitte (Berlin) that accepted Credit Cards.
hi miguel,

thx for responding my comment. after read your explanation, i agree with your argument about xamarin form. it just need more feature and more sample. Xamarin sample layout is not esthetic. You should look at telerik example. And last one, when feature listview drag and drop swap row available on android ?

thx
> Red Hat provides 10+ years on the code they ship. What's so shocking about 3?

Does Red Hat ship (and maintain) arbitrary 3rd party code?
I like 11-4 as core hours. Not to early for the folks who like to sleep in, not to late for people who want to get home to their family, and there is still 5 hours of overlap for meeting.
I disagree. If your manager plays mind games instead of working it is not just his fault, but the fault of his manager for hiring him, for not seeing that unproductiveness, for not educating his staff. And that is a recursive assessment. So if you see that in your department and maybe another department there's quite a good chance it drags on through large parts of the whole company.

The only thing I don't know is if you can guess from this experience that the whole industry is like that.
How does raising salaries change the situation? All the other party has to do is raise the offer another 10k. There are enormous costs associated with loosing a valued employee, but naturally very little cost for the employee to move.
"Without the Taptic Engine, Apple Watch is not a compelling device."

This is why I value Gruber's reviews. He's unabashedly pro-Apple, but he's also critical and observant.
Reminds me of a project I stumbled upon while researching responsive table patterns a few months ago: https://github.com/filamentgroup/tablesaw

Demo: http://filamentgroup.github.io/tablesaw/demo/stack.html

We didn't have the time to implement this in our app, but it looked great. I'd like to see how easy it is to integrate to use Bootstrap styles.
It's still early days for Dart. Go was started in 2007, Python in 1991, Ruby in 1995. It takes some time for a platform and ecosystem to become established.
Well, you did have to pay $99 for the OS. It hasn't been free here in Europe. I do still think the Cloud is bad news and I do still think that Apple - and other OS Vendors - are intentionally misleading the public down this path to suit their own purposes.

I also still think that there is an opportunity to build the anti-cloud, and I'm quite interested in how this could be done.

I don't know why you think the hostility is necessary - got some other way to make your point that everything is okay, the Cloud is great and we should stop worrying and learn to love it? I'm not seeing it.
Oh. Microsoft reimplemented Unix, at last. Congratulations :-)
saber/conocer?

Unless I'm missing something?
Who are the "we" who kows this? According to their latest quarterly report, YouTube revenues are up more than 50% YoY, so "knowing" the opposite implies you have access to some serious insider information.

What's obvious to me is that ad revenue can't pay for top-tier content, which still prefers traditional distribution channels, and that YouTube wants to move upmarket.
The side that nearly everyone forgets to mention: cash is anonymous and the situation in Germany is no better than in Greece.

I've worked in both gastronomy and construction jobs and the amount of "black money" and especially "partially illegal workers" (you're hired on so-called "450€ jobs", officially limited to x hours a month (x * hourly rate <= 450€), and employer saves tax and social security; but in fact you work fulltime and get paid in cash) there is huge.

The only difference between DE and IT/GR is that corruption of government officials is not really widespread.
I know places (locally) that I consider gentrified where friends have been beaten up for being the wrong minority. Gentrified doesn't always mean safe.
JPMorgan algorithm for predicting rogue employees
The concept isn't normative and it definitely is meaningful. Another way to describe cost centers is that their benefit is very hard to measure but their cost easy to measure. People know that in the limit of non-existence, the company can't survive without it, so customer support has to exist. But as long as money is used to support them with no easily measurable benefit, it will always experience strong downward pressure on operating expenses.
It is pretty easy to determine things (with a high degree of confidence) about a large group of people having only encountered a small group of people.

Of course how you sample is vital. With random sampling, it is pretty straightforward Stats 101 stuff. This wasn't random sampling which throws a wrench in it, but neither are these individual people actually independent. They were all selected by the organization they belong to.
Downvoted for being right. Gotta love a zealot.
The bikeshare should refund money from your annual fee as you use it.

Bikes on local trains is huge.

http://www.citylab.com/commute/2014/07/if-an-electric-bike-i...
Will be huge for YouTube Kids and the like - I doubt many parents appreciate their children being exposed to advertising in that way.
No? If the relative benefit is greater than the relative cost, it would make sense to adapt. It would be like going from a horse and buggy to a car and complaining about having to (gasp) stop in the middle of your journey to fill your tank up with gas. Sure, that one little piece of it is annoying, but owning a car is much more advantageous for transportation than a horse.
https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/10662
The software that I work on is Windows based.

I usually get down-voted for comments like yours...but hey. HN...what ya gonna do...
Paraphrasing David Einhorn "thirty-five times a silly price is not thirty-five times as silly; it’s still just silly". It's hard to predict the turning point. Or maybe this time it's different...
Not bashing on OpenBSD here, but if anyone has any insights why dhcp would lead to a panic..
I'd like to read that. It's probably interesting and could be a great write-up.

Edit: The mailing list thread has no results so far and suspects a use after free in the network driver? But.. gory details would be nice.
>Is it reasonable, then, to be uncomfortable around knives in a kitchen, too?

In Britain it is! Bin that knife, criminal!
Is there much platform dependent code in clr? What kind of things need fixing?
> Once upon a time, a banker 2-3 years out of an MBA (say 28-30) would make $300-500K cash. The hourly rate is lower than minimum wage though (these guys used to put in 100+ hours).

No, its not lower than minimum wage, even at the low end of that range, and even if they worked all 168 hours of every week.

$300K / 8,760 hours a year (assuming a non-leap-year, and 24/7 schedule) = $34.24/hour

Federal minimum wage is $7.25/hr; even with the +50% premium for overtime after the first 40 hours in a week, that's only $10.88/hr for the overtime hours. So its literally impossible to clear $300K a year and be making less than minimum wage, without some kind of weird time warping ability that lets you work 3+ years of 24/7 work in one calendar year.

EDIT: To respond to the edit of the parent post...

> My minimum wage comment was more about making a point.

What point is made by this drastically false claim?

> Banker types like to say they make lots of money but make less per-hour than a McDonald's employee.

If that's true (along with the compensation numbers you present), that tells us that one of the following is true:

1. Bankers are innumerate,

2. Bankers are ignorant of their own compensation,

3. Bankers are ignorant of the compensation of low-wage workers, or

4. Bankers are being dishonest, perhaps in an effort to deflect criticism of their compensation compared to other workers.
Indeed similar to git-annex, why does GitHub not support that? With GitLab we added support for that recently and it was pretty easy to do. Anyway, interesting that linking to sha's is becoming the default solution. Looking forward to playing with this and comparing the solutions.
I'll bet you $250 he's still CEO on April 8, 2016.
Caviar Fastbite – $10 meals under 10 minutes
Isn't this the very literal definition of hustling, before the startup crowd decided they could rehabilitate the word to bring it in line with what football coaches mean when they say it?
It would be obnoxious to copy it for this post, but I think that by not having the title in all caps like the article does, it loses that it's supposed to be sarcastic.
Actually, it gets better. That's the dirty little secret that I never knew about. Investment banking used to have insane hours (100+ basically on call all the time). The idea was that after 4-5 years you leave for a buy-side gig (hedge funds, private equity) that pay you the same or more ($1-5M in your early to mid-30s) but with more reasonable hours. This is why the smartest CS/Math/EE/Physics grads from MIT etc went to Wall Street in the 2000s.

I wish I knew then what I know now :) I put in 100+ hours a week for a tech firm because interesting/love what I do/blah. And all I have to show for it is stock that increased a little bit.
To further complicate the issue, the human eye cannot see 668 quadrillion 'frames per second'. Under the best possible conditions, for parts of the eye, 1000 'fps' is the best we can do, though generally it's much, much lower.
I'm not quite to giving up meat, but I have been trying to cook a couple meals a week with Beyond Chicken - a company I have no connection to. I had it catered at a past job one day and decided it would do. Goes great in fried rice, on salads, in pasta.
Right on. I wish more people thought this way.
> HFS+ is creaky, ancient, but battle-hardened.

If you think HFS and HFS+ are battle-hardened I don't know what to say to you. "Shell-shocked" would be a better description.
No kidding, I had a similar experience with them, although I only had to contact them once. It was, however, in the middle of the night because it was a school break and I was up. I was surprised to get a reply from them past midnight (and at least very late in PT).

Another issue about customer support is that it isn't glamorous and usually not encountered by the typical customer since they usually handle issues and exceptions rather than the visible product. When someone mentions a company, pictures of their product, their service, etc come to mind before a customer service experience, unless it is a negative one. Had a good experience? It's usually an, "Oh yeah..." moment, at the back of your head. Psychologically, customers don't use these positive experiences to judge a company. If they have a negative experience, then that company is the worst in the world...
The crucial point is that "yo sé" couldn't be shortened to "no", in the same way that "I know" can be shortened to "no" (via "I know" -> "know" -> "no").
Google sends love to DVRs, patents automated spoiler-warning system
honestly, it's not my problem and I don't care what they do as long as I don't get stuck with the bill.
Thank you for your enlightened recommendation, I'll take it into consideration.
6 New Cars That Show Automakers What to Do Next
I've never worked at Sonic, but I'll give you a hearty amen as a customer for several years. When I try to get friends to switch from Comcast, all I hear is, "But it costs more!" To which I say, "However, it actually works. And when it doesn't, you can talk to somebody smart." Not having to fuck around is worth cash money to me.

Customer service isn't a cost center. It's a value creator.
Informatica Could Feel a Tight Squeeze from Its New Owners
Several years ago, I was contacting by a recruiting firm about a job opening. I was interested, I fit the description of the person for whom they were looking and I wanted to proceed.

The recruiter was going off an old copy of my resume that they found online and was unaware that I had a different employer. When I disclosed this, they immediately refused to go any further in the process because they were worried that if they helped me to leave then my employer wouldn't use them to fill future openings.

I told them to lose my number. Since that time, when one of my friends is looking for work in tech, I steer them away from this particular recruiting firm (I have no desire to blast them here) because of my experience with them.

This happened in the Pittsburgh area, I can only imagine what it was like out there on the left coast.

Employees do not belong to their employers, I don't know why this is such a difficult concept for some people to grasp.
I use Lightroom on my MacBook pro and my library is saved inside Dropbox. I can easily share folders with a Dropbox link and my photos are synced everywhere. The Dropbox upgrade gives me a terabyte of storage and can be used for more than just photos.
I was under strong impression it was post by woman before I even opened it: just saw the blog name.
GitLab CEO here. It would have been nice if they would have developed this in the open, Joey from git-annex is pretty open minded, maybe we could have prevented another standard.
Watch the Elaborate Process of Changing an IMAX Lightbulb
"Build it and they will come"

Besides, I'm sure Joey Hess wouldn't refuse the help.
I'm sorry but none of this is sexist. Making an assumption about someones gender, race, age, etc based on what is most common (or most common to you) does not make you a sexist, racist or agist. It just makes you human.

If, after realizing your assumption was wrong, you said "omg, I can't believe a woman knows haskell, how did she ever learn that?" THEN you're being sexist.
Court questions Google on patent values in Microsoft case
The iPod didn't take off until 2004.
Zynga CEO Mattrick leaves abruptly, replaced by founder Pincus
That's interesting, things may have changes with IB since I last looked.

The GPU thing seems to have fallen out of my original comment, I meant to write "I can build you a 100,000 core system for $300k" but some how the decimal point jumped left three times! To do that I would definitely have to use GPU's...

I am seriously lusting after such a device, I feel that there is much to be done.
Mobile games meet the Voice in the new Chosen app
Surely not diffs offered by the git ecosystem?
is anybody actually accusing vegans of being behind the drought?
I would never hire this guy.
All GitLab contributors are working on an alternative ending.
311 in San Francisco. Ok it's not a company, but damn for city government 311 has impressed me every time I call. People are knowledgable, available at odd hours, and if they can't help you the follow throughs have actually come through!
For "free exploring" of formats I usually dive with the IPython interpreter and a bunch of modules, struct and array are helpful for packing/unpacking of values.

With struct you write a string that describes the data and the modules packs/unpacks the bytes. For example you can do: struct.unpack(">4sBhLq", data) and you are asking struct to parse a 19 byte long string, data (it has to be strictly 19 btyes), because you expect the following:

* ">" big endian data
* "4s" a 4 byte field to read as a string
* "B" one unsigned byte
* "h" one signed short (2 bytes)
* "L" one unsigned long (4 bytes)
* "q" one signed quad (8 bytes)

I haven't read of anything that's automatic, if you have the API or some docs this is the closest I can think of. Of course, the online help of Python covers this module to greater detail: https://docs.python.org/2/library/struct.html
If time or space are quantized, then "infinitely smooth" would be impossible. I guess no one knows.
Yes please. And native rsync interoperability too? I've love to banish cygwin from my Windows servers.

Although I'm finding the remote powershell execution from a Linux machine use case is now handled quite well by tools like Salt (via ZeroMQ to the minion) and Ansible (via WinRM). Native SSH would still be good though for tunnelling etc.
Because deflection from the content of a criticism that one dislikes is novel?
The whole point of Ripple/Stellar is that it doesn't use proof of work. They have an alternative that trades off trust for resource consumption.
Iphones and smartphones in general are subsidized , Apple Watches are not.
Not to mention the whole thing with him and his exec team demanding employees give up their options prior to IPO:

http://www.cnet.com/news/zynga-to-employees-give-back-our-st...
Kickstarter transparency report shows crowdfunding's copyright woes
No, but the news coverage seems entirely aimed at plant farming, especially almonds for some reason, and rarely mentions animals even though they're more of a problem. Apparently the linked Times articles didn't talk about animals at all, which is odd.
There's also a very well-known language called PHP that does the same ;-)
Yes. I think you missed my point.

They are the kings of design and UX. It disturbs me that their culture is this totalitarian and dysfunctional, but it doesn't surprise me in the least.
California produces almost all the almonds eaten in the United States, indeed, the world (80% of the world's supply).

It does not produce that much beef or chicken.

Thus.
It is a shame that you finally reach a key point in your career only to find that they are not as great as they are made out to be. But it is refreshing to see that they were able to realize where they were and that it was not for them. I would think that if we ever make it to the point where people won't make these obscene sacrifices to work for (insert random SV co. name here) it might be a better place...but lets face that will never happen.
You are painting with an overly broad brush.

Where I work, our Support Heroes (yes, we call them Heroes because the lengths they go to for our customers are heroic) are one of the main reasons so many of our customers love us and stick with us so long.

You've probably heard that it can cost ~5x more to acquire a new customer than retain an existing one. An exceptional Customer Support team is your front line in fighting churn, and are an invaluable asset, not a liability. They can also be critical to making sure your product and engineering teams are up-to-date on everything they need to grow a successful product that your customers want to pay for.

Unfortunately, many companies simply don't realize this or don't care because they have a captive market (for now). I would encourage you to research more about how customer support can be done "right" vs. "wrong." If customer support is a "cost center" for you, you're doing it wrong.
Well obviously - this just seems to be creeping into the space where Linux is an incumbent anyway and I can't see anyone who's running common OSS stacks wanting to use this in favor of Linux based platforms.
Largest Beaver Dam Seen from Space
A bit of sidelined, but still...

> You simply hold the connector near the back of the watch, where magnets cause it to snap into place automatically.

I would instantly buy a phone without a traditional connector port for headphone and USB - just metal pads flush with the surface (maybe laid in rubber to be watertight) and kept aligned by magnets.

Seriously, the amount of devices failed due to either bent (e.g. during gaming) or rusted/dust-damaged Micro USB connectors (and don't forget the headphone connectors, where even the tiniest damage can be heard) is ridiculous.

The only real option is to buy one of CATs smartphones or (iirc) one of the Galaxy series with protectors over the connectors - but again, the protectors start to annoy after a while. Too bad Apple holds a patent over MagSafe - and then doesn't even employ it in their phones!
> The hourly rate is lower than minimum wage

Looks like you are one order of magnitude wrong, even at just 300K a year working 100 hours a week that's over $50 an hour.
Sprint adds Wi-Fi calling for iPhones
The condescension is a work of art. You can't achieve that level of elevated dismissal without years of practice.

/joke
...But in this case, you'll first have to work up the guts to go ask her for her phone number, so that you can go back to your desk and send her your heartbeat.
Beaver Dams [video]
Google wins patent for spoiler-free surfing
I'm having a hard time parsing this comment. It is one of the two important definitions of hustling ("making money quickly with short cons"), the other being the thing football coaches are talking about. And the distinction is important, because the football coach definition is a virtue, and the Pincus definition isn't.
The one feature I'm really going to miss is the ability to set the location of photos manually, as I was able to do in iPhoto. This would make using the "Places" feature work really well as I could browse photos by geographic location and insure the photos taken on an iPhone (with GPS data embedded) and photos taken with my older digital camera (without this embedded GPS data) would show up at the specified location. Does anyone know any ways to manually set a photo or album's location in the new Photos app? (Or do I need to revert to using something like Exiftool http://owl.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/ to set GPS data manually prior to importing pictures into Photos?)
pentadactyl is the best vim in browser experience I've had. Hands down better than vimperator and vimium last I've used them.
That's not wrong, but Apple's the only company he's treating fairly. So it's still "writing on a curve", if you will.
Let me try to offer a correction or at least a clarification. :)

First, you didn't quote this key section of Google's TOS: "You retain ownership of any intellectual property rights that you hold in that content. In short, what belongs to you stays yours." That's a significant limitation.

Second, Apple's TOS is nearly word-for-word identical to the portion you excerpted above:

"By submitting or posting such Content on areas of the Service that are accessible by the public or other users with whom you consent to share such Content, you grant Apple a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform and publicly display such Content on the Service solely for the purpose for which such Content was submitted or made available, without any compensation or obligation to you" (https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/icloud/en/term...)

Third, the general TOS has to be read in concert with the privacy policy and any product-specific privacy/TOS. Those exist for Google+, not sure about photos.

Fourth, there's no evidence Google is doing what you suggest (ad targeting, etc.). What is happening is shared endorsements: https://support.google.com/plus/answer/3403513?hl=en&p=plus_... But note Apple has plenty of leeway to do what it wants: "Apple reserves the right at any time to modify this Agreement and to impose new or additional terms or conditions..."

To actually read and understand a TOS/privacy policy takes some time -- so this isn't a comprehensive response. But maybe it helps...
Plenty of people downvote comments because of disagreement. It means that conversations that are contentious disappear...so the subjects popular with the high karma crowd end up being the ones that are seen over and over again.

I'm not trying to be too negative here...I'm just saying. There are days when the number of Go stories is just crazy. It reminds me of the Linux advocacy of the 90's where people seem to think they are doing a great good by posting them.

I realize that it could also just be a very visible indicator of the overall zeitgeist of people using the site. Something tells me this isn't the case, though.