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Does he know that's why I'm coming in 5 minutes late? Maybe he just thinks I'm a slacker who doesn't want to get out of the bed in the morning. I think I'd rather try and explain to him the situation I'm in before walking out. He's probably doing it out of ignorance, not out of malign. You can talk to him about it and explain your side and maybe understand his.

Right now you're making the same kind of judgements of the boss as he is making of you.

By left, I assume you mean left the job completely?

As interesting as a story this is, is it really the only reason you chose to leave? Did you enjoy the work and did you try and negotiate at all? I don't mean to criticize your prioritization but the decision seems a little impulsive given how you described it. As you mentioned you gave your priorities a lot of thought, but what about the decision itself?

The new reader modes that browsers are adding let you kinda do this.

I recommend f.lux too. The only problems I've encountered with it are:

- doesn't take into account wacky sun hours in nordic countries during winter, I get around this by setting my location to be somewhere else

- isn't able to automatically detect when I'm playing a fullscreen videogame, when I would prefer it automatically switch off

If you like BeOS, you should check out Haiku which is an open-source OS inspired by BeOS [0].

[0] https://www.haiku-os.org/

Might have something to do with the scrolling: the video at the top autoplays if it's visible and pauses if you scroll past it. If you've already paused it and you scroll past it makes the audio cut in and cut out for a second (at least on my machine). Scrolling back up causes it to autoplay again even though I already paused it.

Probably because Github is hosting code they don't like (e.g. code used to bypass censorship).

As someone who thinks Lisp is pretty cool and uses Emacs to study it and is about 100 pages into SICP: I still don't get it. Common Lisp macros went entirely over my head too. A programmable programming language? Aren't all languages like that? I've only been programming for a couple years so I'm afraid I might not recognize the value of Lisp until I use more of the "less powerful" alternatives.

Funny I should see this. Just today I finished section 1-3-3 in the Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) which dealt with continued fractions. I threw my answers up on Pastebin if someone wants to take a look, it's exercises 1.37 through 1.39 [0].

[0] http://pastebin.com/Vp1JsVh0

If he knew he would have probably mentioned it.

I have to agree, the first thing I did was roll my eyes at the choice of name.

"Screencoatening?"

Emojis with skin tones, something every human can use, that have arrived before a character that only Bengalis use is taken as an "outright insult"?

Who cares if emojis can be used by every human? Bengali language support is something people actually need to to function normally in the digital age without jumping through a million hoops.

Emojis with skin tones are a joke.

This article strikes so many right notes for me and I can easily come up with even more examples of it in action, like systemd. I'm sure there exist valid criticisms but there's also a lot of people who would hate it just to look smug or feel like they're smarter to reject something so popular[0]. "If there's a lot of people who like something, and I find a reason to detest that thing, that means I know something they don't. Go me. Everyone will think I'm cool and respect me. Bring in the upvotes."

I also used to be the guy to swear by Emacs and C, bitch about how awful Java and C++ are with all the crappy IDEs (despite never having tried them out, just reading articles and comments bashing them). Eventually I matured a little and tried both out, then tried a few IDEs like NetBeans, QtCreator, and PyCharm, and I actually prefer them now. If I had never broken out of the "hating circle" I would only be able to write programs in Lisp and C. Some of you may think that's fine, even preferable. Personally in retrospect I'm happy to have widened my horizons.

[0] This is from my own experience, I used to do that.

Logitech discontinued their best cable based mices, MX500 and MX518 too.

The MX518 for me at least lives on as the G400s. I used to own an MX518 and got the G400s recently and it's basically the same thing except with a better surface texture (and higher DPI? I don't really care since I always keep it on the lowest setting).

What traditional cable based keyboards/mices and business notebooks with normal keys should one buy?

I use a ThinkPad T420 which would seem to be the last "traditional" ThinkPad. I mean it's clear it's already going in the direction of the newer laptops but this one still has the traditional keyboard while having up-to-date hardware otherwise. Hopefully by the time that becomes outdated there will be something worth buying on the market...

As for my desktop keyboard: IBM Model M, accept no substitutes.

Just like I wouldn't listen to Usain Bolt if he were trying to teach me the biological mechanisms behind doping, I can't see why Stallman's opinion is considered so correct in these matters.

That's a false analogy. Stallman has been fighting for our digital rights for ages and has actually been right most of the time. That doesn't make him right all the time, but it does make me more inclined to believe he isn't just spewing nonsense.

IMO his ramblings about personal liberties and freedom being infringed by everything under the sun from Amazon to Google to Facebook are oversimplified and childish. The world isn't black and white and he obviously fails to understand the entire point behind many of these companies.

He has to be that way, because otherwise he would be seen as a hypocrite. It is interesting you think his arguments are "childish" when it seems every day more and more of his arguments are proven true when we find out how another company is using our data for malicious purposes.

When Facebook makes you use a real name it's not because theres some "Mr. Evil" at the top level plotting to steal your freedom, it's because it leads to a better working social network.

You are correct in assuming that there is most likely no "Mr. Evil" at the top, however that assumes that ordinary good people aren't capable of collectively and unknowingly becoming "Mr. Evil" through their actions, which our knowledge of psychology would point out is more than likely.

In my experience I cut out a lot of candy, sugars, and sweets from my diet at a very young age and haven't looked back, so I don't have that much experience with the "cravings" or withdrawal symptoms people describe (I don't drink coffee either). I like to believe the reason for this is that my tongue was a little more sensitive than normal and so I often got "overwhelmed" by sugary foods and simply started avoiding them (I still do). Grownups used to tease me about this whenever candy came up, they were flabbergasted that a child would reject candy as a reward or present for doing something. What? A kid that wouldn't do anything for a candy bar? Impossible.

I also avoid soft drinks like Coca-Cola because they produce an almost allergic reaction with my tongue (it aches for the rest of the day) though that might just be the preservatives. As a result I mostly stick to "vanilla" foods and drinks as I like to call them, like plain water and milk.

I might be wrong and still be getting too much unhealthy sugars and stuff from other food, but I'd like to think that it's not so severe since I live in Finland and not the US. I'm also slightly underweight so there's that, though I suspect that might be due to my genes. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I'm sort of glad they way things turned out in my case.

As an aside, the hilariously long user-agent string is perhaps the best evidence that string-based browser detection is something that web devs should avoid at all costs. It manages to include "Safari", "Chrome", "AppleWebKit", "KHTML", "Mozilla", and "Gecko".

Further reading:

http://webaim.org/blog/user-agent-string-history/

distros ship with horrible defaults.

I guess you haven't used Ubuntu lately, which ships with better fonts than my Windows machine.

Keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer.

China?

I still prefer LibreOffice to cloud document editors because it has better support for writing in Finnish through plugins like Voikko (for proofreading and the like). I would assume this also applies to a few other languages.

That made me very, very uncomfortable. Probably one of the worst things I've ever felt while comfortably sitting in front of my computer, browsing the web.

No kidding. I only noticed after it was over how much I was sweating. It was pretty powerful.

I wouldn't recommend Iron.

http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2009/12/iron.ht...

In my experience I stayed with Firefox after I learned about tab groups. Sure you can run an extension on Chrome to do the same (and you can run extensions on Firefox to do things Chrome does) but after seeing just how much extensions can bog down a browser I prefer to run mine as close to vanilla as possible.

It's not even "if you download a poorly made extension your browser will be slower" but it seems like extensions have that effect in general. It's probably irrational but I've honestly seen a lot of the most popular extensions falling into this category, extensions like AdBlock and HTTPS Everywhere come to mind.

At least with Titanfall coming in at 48 GB (and probably other heavy-weight AAA titles coming out nowadays) the reason for the huge size wasn't really the amount or quality of the assets, but mostly just because the audio assets were uncompressed. According to them it was so that "they could dedicate more system resources to running the game, and less to unpacking audio files." [0]

[0] http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/132922-Titanfall-D...

Interesting article, though I wonder why the title here on Hacker News is "How One Stupid Tweet Ruined Justine Sacco's Life" whereas the title on the actual article is "How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life."

As a programmer who is too often focused on perfection, yes.

Why does "being a programmer" mean that I don't want my usb key to automount? Why does "being a programmer" mean that I should want to hack my desktop environment? Maybe I want to work on my own stuff, and have a desktop that works?

I agree, it really doesn't. Just look at Linus Torvalds for example. Some people asked him at a recent DebConf [0] what he thought of Debian and Linux distributions and his reply was basically "Oh I don't really care about distributions or systemd, I just wanna install it and get on with my life (i.e. the kernel)".

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Mg5_gxNXTo

Don't let the "unstable" tag fool you, stability is a relative term.

I don't see why people throw this around a lot, it really isn't. Most recent example I can remember is when Debian decided to remove NVIDIA drivers from Testing and you end up with a nonfunctional desktop [0].

[0] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=755020

I like watching it to get a better idea of people's workflows (and through that hopefully improve mine).