DarkIye

Nice, this is like Vimium link hints but for everything. So long carpal tunnel!

Another x220 club member reporting in. My employer was getting rid of old machines a few years back, I got it for £20. The only work it needed was to resolder the left speaker, I think it already had an SSD in it.

It weighs less than 2kg and is perfect for light duties.

Thanks to Wordpress publishing an RSS feed endpoint by default (/feed) and Feedly's aptitude at finding feeds, RSS is not dead, or undead, or anything of the sort and I have been using it on a daily basis for over a decade now.

"At the time of the 1969 Stonewall Uprising, the Greenwich Village bar Stonewall Inn was owned and operated by the New York Mafia."

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/stonewal...

This article started off well but began to lose me around the time he said:

"Computer scientists have an aphorism that describes how algorithms relentlessly hunt for patterns: they talk about torturing the data until it confesses."

This is the first time I have seen this formulation of the nature of data. Data is almost always regarded as an input, or a resource, or a substrate, not a being of any kind.

The article generally seems to be less about its title and more about Facebook's business on the whole, and it's an interesting read.

As a university student in London, I noticed Chinese students (the main foreign contingent of the student body) overwhelmingly tended to socialise with one another, and groups of Chinese students speaking Mandarin to each other was a common sight on campus. If you weren't a Chinese speaker, it was hard to penetrate these groups (I tried and failed). Is this also the case in American colleges?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

it was a bad idea #savedyouaclick

For when your pickle cat needs that special extra something: analogue synths

For general sanity: $150,000,000

I remember reading about positive conceptualisation techniques in Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus. This is nothing particularly special. What if you spent 90 minutes detailing one another's flaws? You'd come away with a similarly inaccurate negative impression of your partner.

Are you sure it was the "height of her ambition"? Sounds like she was primarily focused on practising her English and didn't mind too much about the work.

In fact, Scott Adams proposed this in The Dilbert Future as a workplace scheme to improve productivity (he called it 'OA5'). He may be accurate in thinking it's up to the employer to destigmatise leaving 'early' (when in fact it's a symptom of an employee having a good work-life balance, providing his performance is sufficient).

However, I've been thinking about this recently - the logical extreme is that you should never expect the employee to turn up at work at all, provided he performs his tasks (say via telecommuting). Perhaps employers mandate 'desk time' because it's important to have regular physical access to the employee, for example in order to talk to him? I can think of HR/legal reasons where a private in-person interview is needed in order to inform the employee of something or to retrieve information from him. Consequently, if an employee only came in to work for these meetings, it would be obvious when the employee was engaged in some sort of 'serious' communication with the company. It would make mass layoffs especially conspicuous and difficult for the company to hide.

I think this explains why I hated school.

I started writing a sample-level audio suite in Java, for musical purposes:

https://github.com/williamberg/audioDCB

which I'll probably discard because Java is not the right tool for the job. Inspecting pydub/pydub/pyaudioop.py , I see there are methods for working on the sample level. I'll make a mental note to come back to this project when I get back on the computer music bandwagon again.

If he were emotionally stunted, he would have difficulty expressing his emotions. Evidently, he does not have that problem.

You aren't Jewish, are you?

Yeah, me too. We're paid for the lip service - that's our incentive.

Linus has no incentive, financial or social, to be nice to Kay. Chewing him out, however, probably lowers his blood pressure and saves him the time of refactoring his immediate emotional reaction into a polite response, both of which are probably critical metrics to him.

The Open Source community is young, like the rest of the field of software engineering, and we're still childish and uncivil towards one another, derived from a root of individualism, fed by the promise of a vast and plentiful uncharted territory.

Eventually we will install a system that will protect ourselves from one another. I hope it's a good one.

On a more specific note, PulseAudio sucks and I could care less what Lennart thinks.

That's a very interesting theory, but quick googling doesn't bring up anything relating to this correlation you suggest. Do you have any evidence to back up your claim?

This article is really long and has no easily discernable point. Can someone highlight it?

Seriously? Most founders' ideas hinge on their hardware product looking sleek? This is progress?

Can somebody executive summary this big lump of wooly garbage?

Your hasty "this is a rant" cover does nothing to compensate for the fact that nobody cares.

lol, nobody cares. flails arms in hysteria

The real question here is whether democracy (i.e. the vote) is taken after influence games have been played out and resolved, or before.

I think the vote should be taken after influence has been applied, because I think part of what defines a person is their influence (it is perhaps the most important part, especially in questions of politics like this one).