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Because besides incredibly few exceptions no one uses another Smartphone App for me, no one wants to have an explanation how IRC works, and E-Mails seem to be good for everything but writing to me.

No one will change their behaviour in any regard just for me. Maybe because I am not one trying to force something down other people's throats, that's not my style. Maybe you were one of those hardcore social media users people couldn't live without, but for the occasional twice a month conversation online and the 1 like a week, I won't be missed nearly enough.

And this is also the sentiment I have received multiple times from others who have abandoned social media at some point. So I strongly suspect your case is an exception and not the norm, and maybe you are portraying it as a little bit easier and positive than it was or is.

So I guess from their part it's a feature, user-friendliness, they have to serve the layman and the professional. If one uses a Google Account, you probably can tweak this with some settings?

For example: I don't see any advantage in those search bangs, simply searching "shoes amazon" on google will do the job, or if I really want to search a specific site one can easily do "shoes site: amazon.com", and considering all the other things google can do...

duckduckgo might do some of those things, some of those even well, but I don't know, therefore the question about a detailed comparison... in google:

search literally by using quotation marks "to be or not to be", show weather, stocks, definitions, times, calculate anything, you can even do stuff like "notebook 200$..300$" which searches in that specific price range, currency and number conversion, exclude some search terms, flight information and lots more... whenever I read of something about supposedly awesome duckduckgo-features, it seems like the author(s) don't know a lot about google's capabilities... or I guess don't mention it on purpose. Many don't know about google's capabilities I guess, and then they might go "look what duckduckgo can do", ehm "google has been capable of that for x years"...

and by the way: last I checked google was immensely superior in search term results (even without the bubbling effect)

That being said, of course I agree with you. I was once enrolled in a community college program out of fun, thinking I would actually learn something, but with housewives and retired people in the class, the progress was next to nil and I dropped out pretty quickly, at first I was angry, but it actually gave me a glimpse into how hard even the easiest things were to them. I could read something for 5 minutes and be able to recite it, they would struggle with it for an hour. Not to say I am a genius, but one should really take advantage of all the chances while young, that's what I got from it, so I guess it was worth it.

So I deeply respect his achievement.

Clarification: Though I also partly blame the teacher for the bad experience, but that's another story entirely.

Edit: In case someone missed it, not so long ago this was on HN "Learning Chess at 40", very interesting read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11653538

http://torontolife.com/city/life/john-hofsess-assisted-suici...

I also recommend the Documentary "Choosing to die" with Terry Pratchett http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xnu340_terry-pratchett-choo...

Very powerful and thought provoking

[1] https://nixos.org/

2) People sometimes are wrongly convicted, happens, will always happen, another point: Law is different, depending on where the trial happens, what state you are judged in, sentences differ. There is no way the death penalty can in any way be "fairly" handed down. (Law is not mathematics, it's a social science)

3) Does it keep people from committing crimes? No obvious answer, likely not

4) There is a racial factor involved, black killing white more likely to get the death penalty than black killing black for example.

5) There are no good or bad people, that might be what religious people think, but you aren't born a criminal, nor is it simply your well informed free choice to become one. What if I had grown up in a low income low educated black community with high criminal and incarceration rates, without a father and a single mother struggling to provide for her children? I am privileged and I know it, so even if someone does something hideous, shouldn't society not be one of revenge, but one that while it punishes, also tries to lend a hand and tries to give support to a poor soul? (the American justice system is not working well in that regard, solution is more therapy, psychologists, less life-long sentences, no minimum sentences, better education, more social workers, et cetera, not death penalties...)

[1] http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/costs-death-penalty

[2] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/28/death-penalty-s...

[3] https://www.law.upenn.edu/live/files/1529-nagin-full-reportp...

[4] http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/06/race-and...

We value life according to some simple factors, how intelligent is it, how close is it to ours, how do we estimate its perception of its surroundings, its "degree of consciousness" so to speak, et cetera, in that regard killing an animal or a human being is different. It's also different whether you kill an ant, or an elephant. That's why killing an animal unlawfully does not have the same legal consequences as killing a human being. Your comparison is not really relevant and fair. Regarding abortion it's the same, we are not talking about aborting fully grown human beings, I am pretty sure we are not talking about aborting fetuses one month before birth, more likely 6,7 months before birth in most cases... and even then I see how it is a moral dilemma for some people.

And wars should also be the absolute last course of action exactly because it kills people. And you see the consequences, does killing abroad make the United States safer?! In a lot of cases I doubt it, it fuels hatred and radicals... does killing criminals help anyone? let me summarize: it costs more, there is a racial bias, there always will be innocent among the criminals sentenced to death penalty, you are not a criminal out of free choice, violence fuels violence, it's likely not to deter crime, ...

I did not in any way say Nestle is not selling the cause and the solution, I was trying to make that point that this in itself is meaningless and in no sense immoral.

As kazinator brilliantly put it:

"Yamaha wants to sell you noise-canceling headphones, and a motorcycle."[1]

We can talk about a tax on sugars, we can talk about a different regulatory framework, but I see nothing wrong with what Nestle is doing here given the current legal and regulatory situation.

And people make their choices, if Nestle wouldn't sell product x, someone else would in some form, they are trying that you choose their product, that's all, that's called competition.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11659815

This way you can run Wine... PC-BSD users have done so for a long time now as far as I know.

Also there is this https://github.com/tony/steam-freebsd-client but not sure how good it works.

This might or might not be of interest to you, since chances are it might I thought I'd share. I don't think FreeBSD is much more secure (if any) than some of the better GNU/Linux distributions though. So it's easier to just run Gentoo or something similar.

Since you are a security researcher, aren't a lot of people of "your breed" using Macs as well?

As for the OS X security track record I don't claim to be incredibly well versed in that regard, thank you for the insight. But the piece doesn't primarily talk about security flaws, rather about systemic risks in using any sort of proprietary software whatsoever, especially by "evil" corporations like Microsoft and Apple (it might not say that directly, but that's how I conceived it) which I think is far over-emphasized.

Yes, there are NSA scandals, yes, the US government has repeatedly overstepped boundaries, yes, caution and scepticism is a very healthy and good thing, but on the other hand there are GNU/Linux distributions taking security somewhat seriously, they have to, they too work with open source code, have a lot of users, and review said code, I doubt someone is interested in your specific data, I doubt using a GNU/Linux distribution or some other BSD OS is some risk one shouldn't take, I doubt we should all have to automatically strive for an "ethical" all Free Software life or otherwise we are in risk of somehow being under totalitarian control, I doubt Apple and Microsoft are totally out to get you and by definition filled with evil backdoors the NSA uses to spy on _everyone_... I doubt they only do malicious things,... and talking about security, it's not all in the Software, a lot is in users' behaviour... not talking about him specifically, but "We are all spied on by the NSA, please like me on Instagram and follow me on Facebook for hourly updates on my life so we can join in the fight against totalitarian control"...

As you have guessed by now I am some kind of allergic to this... those idealistic over-simplifications... drawing everything in black and white...

Some of the OS X users I know are incredible technology-orientated and privacy concerned people, should I draw the conclusion they are being overly naive by not using OpenBSD for everything? I don't think so, they are just not suffering from paranoia, are pragmatic and living in the real world...

I don't see how selling sugary products for those who buy them and selling health products for those who prefer them is any kind of evil moral conflict. No matter if "health product" means low-fat low-sugar foods or pharmaceutical products.

Scepticism is good, control and regulation is good, blind condemnation is not, not sure what the article is representing. For me it actually is healthy scepticism, some of the comments here are more condemnation I presume.

It is my view that companies have the obligation to make information available about their products and do so in an easy-to-read manner, everything else is consumer's choice. Your comparison lacks relevance in my opinion.

(and in cases where someone asks stupid questions, which can be easily answered by looking in the manual page, yes... please read it...)

If I hadn't then why would I say so?

Also a possibility of course... his method to safe at least some of his self-image, depends on how good he is at self-manipulation, people are often very good at it.

Narcissists have an incredible high rate of suicide, because when they fall from their high horse, the floor is quite some way down and the landing is too hard for them. Rather than being found out as fake, go with a bang... I fear the bang coming...

This note kind of worries me a little bit... no matter what he did wrong, I hope he will be okay.

(when I click on "Click here to preorder" for example, maybe it has problems handling the traffic?!)

I absolutely love this car. Definitely built for a purpose, not much hand-holding, just the sight of this manual switchboard, the position of the seat, the minimalistic dashboard, ... <3

there is a reason why Lennart is good in stirring up controversy, and it's not because everyone is just against him for no reason.

some further reading/links that might interest you:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/12/459

http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/Arguments_against_...

http://www.infoworld.com/article/2608798/data-center/systemd...

http://www.infoworld.com/article/2608864/data-center/choose-...

http://www.infoworld.com/article/2608870/linux/you-have-your...

http://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2015/10/11/0//

http://suckless.org/sucks/systemd

edit: systemd might be perfect for you or other people, I don't doubt that, it might make things easier for some, in some respects in might do some things better, but if the debate (as it is now) is whether it follows the unix philosophy or not, I don't think one can reasonably make the case that it does

I run sever operating systems because I like to have the control, the minimalism, the elegance, the security. By trying to be more of a desktop orientated system, Linux actually looses what attracts people like myself to using it. I doubt they care, I don't think they have to, just as I don't have to use it.

"This is the Unix philosophy: Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface."[1]

"Much of the power of the UNIX operating system comes from a style of program design that makes programs easy to use and, more important, easy to combine with other programs. This style has been called the use of software tools , and depends more on how the programs fit into the programming environment - how they can be used with other programs - than on how they are designed internally. But as the system has become commercially successful and has spread widely, this style has often been compromised, to the detriment of all users. Old programs have become encrusted with dubious features. Newer programs are not always written with attention to proper separation of function and design for interconnection. [...]

This style was based on the use of tools : using programs separately or in combination to get a job done, rather than doing it by hand, by monolithic self-sufficient subsystems, or by special-purpose, one-time programs. [...]

One thing that UNIX does not need is more features. It is successful in part because it has a small number of good ideas that work well together. Merely adding features does not make it easier for users to do things - it just makes the manual thicker. The right solution in the right place is always more effective than haphazard hacking."[2]

Still reading at this point? Great systemd free Linux distributions: Gentoo, Funtoo, Void Linux, among many others and there is also something called BSD (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, DragonflyBSD)... you should check it out. Also see www.suckless.org

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Quarter-Century-UNIX-Peter-Salus/dp/02...

[2] http://harmful.cat-v.org/cat-v/unix_prog_design.pdf

An additional criterion actually is license (somewhat). I for one am put off by anything published under GPLv3, think it's nice i3 is released under the BSD-License. Definitely something I personally regard as positive.

I personally find that not really informative, but ok.

Regarding VW: Everyone living at Germany the last years and following the news heard that same mantra over and over again... "to be the most successful car maker", every end of the year the story was how far behind they were compared to Toyota or in other words: how much closer they came.

Problem is that they were absolutely obsessed with beating their competitors, especially Toyota, at the same time VW relied heavily on the earnings of their premium brands Audi and Porsche, the margins of VW itself were always somewhat thin, especially compared to Toyota.

Too many models, too much variation, they are definitely pursuing now to shift to less models and (even) more modular platforms, but at the same time closing down plants in Germany and shifting to foreign countries will likely not happen. The state of Lower Saxony holds ~20% of the company, VW has repeatedly pledged to "stay a german company" and doesn't want to cut jobs in their home country.

Under those circumstances, competing with Toyota might just have not been possible. VW heavily made its bet on the Diesel Engine, and maybe that was wrong, as they had to cheat to make that bet pay off. VW needs a change in culture, desperately, that is unlikely to happen though. Interesting times to come, I wouldn't bet on VW though... but then again, what somewhat rational thinking person would, I know.

So if you are into CL, then StumpWM is a nice thing to configure, hack, nicely integrated with a Lisp Interpreter, no interference with Emacs Shortcuts (default StumpWM shortcuts keep out of the way), you will feel at home in the community, et cetera...

I've tried lots of different tiling window managers, and most of them can be configured to behave quite similarly / to have a very similar workflow. So the reasons for choosing one over the other are sometimes very subtle.

So the question is not necessarily why choose CL for a window manager, the question is: why not?!

In quite a lot of cases Programming Language preference decides what WM people end up with, and that's totally fair.

If you are into C/Lua, Awesome might be your thing.

If you are into C, try dwm and i3.

If you are into haskell, then by all means, xmonad might be great for you.

If you are into Python, there is Qtile for that (also quite nice).

For a list see here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_X_window_manager...

At one point I also tried StumpWM out of interest, and though this was a while ago, it was perfectly usable.