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I also recommend "Before the Law" by Kafka. Very short prose and it never fails to give me pause.

http://www.kafka-online.info/before-the-law.html

iTunes is not necessary at this point. I have never agreed to the terms of service in iTunes desktop and thus have never used it. I don't know if there are any terms to agree to on the phone because it also never gets used there. iTunes for me lives in a folder called "other" that I never open. (Spotify is my music player)

The podcast thing is not true. You can create "stations" with different retention settings, and put the podcasts inside.

Archiving is redundant. You can have manual update and update the app as needed, you can have auto update and update all installed apps, or you can just remove the app from your device and install it again later when you need it. If you don't use an app, just remove it. You can redownload it later. Why keep things you admit you don't use?

> If you're not you are going to have a bad time

That's quite a jump from your previous sentences and I don't find that true at all. I've had no worse of a time on Debian, arch, or Manjaro for developing when compared to Ubuntu (and its various flavors and derivatives). I never used distro deps because of how horribly out of date, misconfigured, or incompatible they are

Can hackers get their name back too while we're at it?

> What are they going to do with the 3.5mm audio jacks on Macs

I imagine the audio industry would revolt if it was removed.

> What are they going to do with the 3.5mm audio jacks on Macs

I imagine the audio industry would revolt.

I used to take that approach, then I shattered a Galaxy S, then a Galaxy S4 (twice!), a Sony Xperia Z3, and an iPhone 6. I now accept the bulk and hope it will preserve the contents of my credit card better.

Sounds like devops

I imagine there are very few good startups that would offer the general public voting rights in early stages without first being able to vet those investors.

This is in the realm of conspiracy theory. No evidence points to this. Nothing the parent comment said suggests it. I think you are filling in the blanks with your own hypotheses but they're accusatory shots in the dark at this point. It's possible, sure, but so are a lot of things.

I suggest you read about Semantic Versioning (http://semver.org/).

That sounds ideal for working harder, not taking it easy :).

When I work from home (or often, a cafe), I don't waste time commuting and going out to a long lunch. I get more hours of work done and less stress from navigating traffic.

> I gave an opinion based off of experience, that doesn't mean that I'm some sort of child that needs to be supervised.

It also doesn't mean you're an expert. Next time you give your opinion, try not being insulting, and help us understand why you have that opinion. You gave one sentence that painted everyone working from home as lazy, and stated it as a fact.

I work from home when I need to be more productive. The office has too many coworkers with ad hoc questions that apparently aren't important enough to ask online.

The folks I know at Amazon may have been in the office for a normal amount of time, but they worked long night after long night from home. If they're approaching a 30 hour work week as a reduction from 40, it's bound to fail. They have to realize it would be q reduction from 60 or 80

The type of developer that only knows one language of any kind is in the same boat. Electron is popular because folks can write products at a faster pace than they could in other toolkits and languages. Being unproductive and fighting your tooling is not a sign of competency, nor is it a rite of passage. If folks can write apps faster in Java or Rust (which I love writing, by the way), I'm sure Electron would not have the adoption curve it does. Nothing to do with only knowing one language.

Atom and Spotify are pretty fast for me on OS X, but slack is both CPU and memory heavy. It idles at between 10 and 30% CPU usage, which is unacceptable.

This article discusses the benefits of providing few significant raises to high performing individuals rather than a nominal raise to all.

From the employee's (my) perspective:

* If I get a small nominal pay raise, I might stick around for up to the rest of the year, depending on how recently I started at the company. I don't know if this is a good idea, but sometimes promotions and raises aren't on the same schedule.

* If I get no raise, I'll be leaving ASAP.

* If I get a significant raise, I'm more likely to stay stay until next year's raise.

Having nearly doubled my salary in a short time by "hopping" at good offers, there's little reason to stick around in companies that value manager bonuses over employee retention.

I guess that's part of the disconnect between happy users and folks who find it too slow. Atom is an effective IDE for me. I have smart auto-completion, version-control integration, task runners, linting, and, for many of the languages I work with, definition lookup, a debugger, a repl, and inline reporting of compilation errors. It makes for a great markdown writer as well. As a daily one-off text editor I can understand the complaints. But compared to a proper IDE, the startup time is pretty competitive.

It's the reason I stopped dual booting and went full Manjaro.

Not really. I'm for strong typing, but not all mathematical concepts need to be a separate type. Should we have separate type for 'ratio' or 'real' or 'natural'? A radian is still represented as a number -- specifically a float, generally. This is more like Rust building out a standard Math library, a la Node.js or C/C++. Since rust is aiming at being a C replacement, I can understand why they'd include this.

Charter schools can dismiss students without due process, can kick out or deny students with low grades, and are usually not obligated to provide special education services. They are not public schools. They are corporate-run political organizations that prop up dozens of these PACs pushing an pro-charter agenda.

https://cloakinginequity.com/2016/08/01/breaking-news-aclu-f...

> and partly because billionaires get less than zero sympathy if they talk about having difficult lives

That quote from the essay reminds me of a Silicon Valley scene [1] where the CEO of the pseudo-Google company in the show gets vilified (rightfully so in the show) for complaining about how hard billionaires have it in this country.

I bet the creator's read PG's essay and were inspired by it.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5zQpN28xa4

And that, my friends, is how the first company I worked at ended up with a Contact table of 972 columns.

Someone stole a A People's History of The United States from me at a party I hosted, and I don't mind at all. Hope they read it or gave it to someone who would.

Can a co-op be a non-profit? Because the owners would be the paid workers, not outside investors.

People who represent themselves as employees of a company represent the company. If the company permits incompetent employees to behave like this on their work profiles, that's not an unreasonable deal-breaker.

It seems like the action from the github employee was disproportionate. That sounds like a very risky environment to host your product on. The response seems to match the proportion of the action.

What plugins have you got installed? And what OS?