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I cannot edit my comment, and want to clarify one point: I don't think that she had a "bullshit" job, nor did I draw any conclusion on the effectiveness of frequent cleaning and disinfection. I was referring to the statement of the parent comment.

So the fact that the EU will not renew a contract at expiration in favour of other providers is impacting your freedom?

The underlying truth is that a lot of Brits have identified with AZ, and any "attack" to the vaccine feels like a personal attack to their country and their identity to them... You seem to be in that category.

That statement can be applied to a lot of countries outside of the EU, it is not an EU specific problem. It represents a challenge for western democracies that appeared with the recent waves of populist movements (Trump, Brexit, 5 Stars, etc.)

So your reaction to this article is to assume that she was actually guilty of slacking off, and that was the reason for her not installing the application. All that because she had a "bullshit" job with poor cost-benefit. This is surreal.

We should all be concerned, as employees and as citizens, of companies asking their staff to install monitoring applications (especially on their personal devices). These applications are not open-source, there is no way to audit what they do with the collected data. Worse, there is nothing preventing them from changing their collection, sharing, storage practices, and those employees would be unable to remove the said application because they would be fired.

What a sad world we live in, where employees are assumed to be slacking off (like you just did with your extremely caricatural comment) if they are not tracked. The relationship should be built on trust, and common interest, not fear.

The article is not accessible because of the hard paywall. Frustrating as it looks like an interesting read.

You could use TextEdit I guess, but I agree that it's not a good experience; it just does slightly too much and not very well.

Ten years ago, this same frustration led me to release Fraise, a fork of Smultron, for quickly editing files.

I now use vim with a terminal to quickly edit a document, as I find most modern editors to be too slow to start (Visual Studio & co.).

That's the British narrative at the moment; self-identification with this vaccine mixed with a constant feeling of being punished for Brexit.

Fascinating. I had never considered using Proxmox for this, and had abandoned the idea of building a Hackintosh because of my Ryzen processor.

Where exactly did I cast anyone who disagrees with me as unreasonable and/or unwilling to listen to reason?

The problem with a referendum and abstract propositions is that people all put something different behind the Brexit vote and it was then impossible to reconcile all the positions (plus all the empty promises like the 350m for the NHS). Brexit became something very different than what was originally sold and some people asked for a second referendum to clarify the situation now that things were getting clearer. This act can be criticized or misunderstood, but I don't think anyone can argue that Brexit is a very different animal 4 years later (the unicorn honestly looks more like a donkey up close).

Brexit has shown that the disconnection between the political class and the people had nothing to do with the EU. Dominic Cumming refused to quit despite being caught in clear breach of the lockdown is the perfect example of it.

The EU parliament is elected directly by the voters, and representative are nominated by governments that are also elected. The US has a completely different electoral system, where (like in the UK), candidates with fewer national votes can become leaders (I find these systems undemocratic, a voice is a voice, its geographical location should not matter).

The vote was a close one; it should have been taken into account to come up with a compromise. I think remainers were ready to accept a soft Brexit and everyone would have moved on. It would have represented a loss of influence for the UK (it's going to happen anyway), but it would not have been the shit show that we have seen since then. The soft Brexit proposition exploded right after the vote, and Brexiters started pushing for a very hard Brexit.

I disagree with your statement on the democracy not working at the scale of the EU. The EU is a democratic institution, with limited responsibilities (the UK famously fought back against tighter integration). Recent history in the EU has shown that people are ready for more integration now that the UK is (unfortunately) gone (as seen 2 weeks ago with the common debt).

The regions of the UK that voted for Brexit will probably be hit the hardest because a deregulated environment for technology companies will not benefit them. The loss of the single market and JIT manufacturing will, most certainly, lead to the closures of manufacturing sites. We could also imagine the downfall of some industries in the UK (aeronautics for example).

The eye-watering spending plan will require cash, a lot of it, and the COVID + Hard Brexit that's currently looming could very well prevent it from happening. The government has not been great so far at following up on their promises.

The EU was scapegoat that the government and tabloids used for a lot of issues that were mostly national (including the infamous immigration laws). Even after leaving the EU, the blame game is still in full play; never is anyone taking responsibilities for their actions, it's always the others' fault.

That's not my experience; a lot of friends and colleagues have left the UK to go back to the EU since the referendum vote.

Also, in terms of recruitment, very few people are now interested in coming over to the UK for engineering positions. We used to have a lot of talented candidates from EU countries (especially Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, etc.); we have not had a single applicant from these countries since the vote.

I really enjoyed reading your post but I have a comment regarding your final football analogy.

Football players goals and statistics are publicly available and analysed. Additionally, every football team plays the same game, so the rules and context are understood by all.

As an employee, you do not necessarily have this kind of visibility so you necessarily need to market yourself in some ways. This way, your achievements are visible, but also understandable to others who are not familiar with your company's context and situation (to put things in perspective).

That was my first idea of course. Unfortunately, my friends who work at great companies are based in the US (Apple/Amazon/Google) and the others are in Finance or contracting (very popular in Europe right now).

What a fascinating article. It is interesting to see how people in the 60s and 70s imagined the future of flying: fast supersonic planes flying between continents. We have gone in a completely different direction with "slow" and cheap air travel.

PS: Only on H.N would you find a majority of comments referring to the website CSS/JS and technical glitches when the content is of such quality.

I would rather have this kind of discussions in the retrospective. It is a dedicated time for the team to discuss pain points, and to take actions to heal them.

You clearly don’t know Paris.

Still using pinboard; one of the best investment I made in my entire life.

This would be a showstopper for me. Turning off the notifications addresses only part of the issue, I would never trust them again.

Why not use Firefox?

Windows 95 itself was relatively stable but the drivers were globally not. Your experience variend depending on the hardware you were running, and the stability of the associated drivers.

They tend to quote the raw number, and not the percentage, so it makes it sound like it's the entire population that voted for the current situation.

People have a feeling of being dragged against their will at the moment; there is no consensus, and that's mainly the fault of Theresa May who, by not reaching a consensus across the house and the different positions on Brexit, has just created a situation where no one is satisfied by the outcome of the negotiations. She should have reached across the house and the political spectrum, across Leavers and Remainers, to reconcile the country and reach a compromise that was acceptable for everyone; instead she defined extremist red lines that haven't changed since the first very day she took office, assumed these red lines were the redlines given by Leave voters, and ignored the rest of the electorate... She does not even respect the votes of the Parliament, and comes again and again with the same deal with a single strategy: running down the clock.

At the end of the day, the country is now more divided than ever, and for some (including myself), the only voice we have left against this nightmare is to sign a petition.

EU parliament defends the interests of EU countries, including the Republic of Ireland. Europe is protecting its interests; politicians in the UK assumed that the EU would bend to their will, they were wrong. With Theresa May's hard Brexit and red lines, it was impossible for the EU to do more; I actually think they did some compromises in the current May's deal. The problem is that May's deal is not what was sold to voters, far from it, that's why no one is happy about the current situation.

Europe just said: You cannot have your cake and eat it.

I could return the question: what are you talking about?

I have never said countries from the EU would not be impacted economically by a 'no deal' scenario. It would be bad for the whole continent. I was commenting on the "the UK will be perfectly fine, the EU is the one in trouble". Nonetheless, the economy of the UK is hugely dependant on the EU (financial services, JIT manufacturing, etc.) and the UK will greatly suffer from a no-deal. Quoting a highly biased and very specific article from a man who has been pushing for Brexit from the very start will not change the facts; a man, by the way, who said that leaving the EU with no-deal was more important than respecting the Belfast agreement. By the way, he also said that the UK would be even around 2030 (and he is a rather optimistic individual when it comes to Brexit): https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DqTgF9QXQAADxR5.jpg (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/shortcuts/2018/jul/24/t...)

I also hope that I am wrong, but I can definitely feel a xenophobic underlying tone in your message. That's regrettable.

Negotiations for a trade deal take years and the country will greatly suffer in the mean time as it is not prepared for a no deal scenario. The recent events with the traffic jam simulation or the ferry company without ferries are great examples of that. And that’s assuming that the trade deal negotiated with the EU after the departure would be more favourable than the one proposed today; the four freedoms come together, and it’s unlikely to change.

I would be curious to know about why the EU is in trouble; in my opinion the UK is, and massively. Brexiters have sold leaving the EU as the solution to a wide range of issues (housing, health, immigration, etc) and when people will realise all of this was extraordinarily optimistic (not to say, a lie), there will be a certain uprising and it won’t be pretty. We could also mention that the union is also at risk, from the non respect of the Belfast agreement to the fact that Scotland and Northern Ireland did not vote for Brexit: independence desires could loom again, and it could become very real very soon.

Every sensible organisation in this country have warned against a no deal and the catastrophic effect it would have. -8% GDP according to the government’s analysis. But yeah bloody remainers, the source of all misery...

Eventually it probably will (brexiters seem to think in 25 / 50 years time, which is apparently a good price to pay for Brexit...).

However, the UK will lose the huge amount of influence it has at the moment on the world stage, will be pressured by bigger economies to accept unfavorable trade deals and deregulation (US food standards, VISAs, etc) and its manufacturing will be severely damaged; it could possibly collapse entirely. The irony is that this will likely create a wave of unemployment in the very regions that voted in favour of Brexit.

But regardless of the consequences, if you think people voted for a "no deal" when they voted Brexit, you are deluded. Let's illustrate my point with a few quotes:

"The free trade agreement that we will ahve to do with the European Union should be one of the easiest in human history" - Liam Fox - 2017

"Getting out of the EU can be quick and easy - the UK holds most of the cards in any negotiation" - John Redwood - 2016

"Within minutes of a vote for Brexit, CEO's would be knocking down Chancellor Merkel's door demanding access to the British market" - David Davis 2016

“It is also true that the single market is of considerable value to many UK companies and consumers, and that leaving would cause at least some business uncertainty, while embroiling the Government for several years in a fiddly process of negotiating new arrangements, so diverting energy from the real problems of this country – low skills, low social mobility, low investment etc – that have nothing to do with Europe.” - Boris Johnson 2016

As you can see, no deal is far from the position that was pushed to the people, even after the vote had occurred. Saying people voted for a "no deal" because they voted for Brexit is disingenuous. Long gone is the time of "Having our cake and eat it"

I didn't know about Bear. Just had a look on their website and the application and user experience looks pretty stunning.

However, I am not quite sure it justifies paying for this service when Apple Notes has got a lot better in the past few years (I also feel confident in the privacy approach of Apple).

Out of curiosity, what features make you use Bear and not Notes? I take a lot of notes, and if something can make my life easier, I would seriously consider making the move.

It looks like their servers are struggling with the current load.

If you are curious about Nitrux:

Nitrux is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu suitable for laptops and desktop computers. Nitrux provides all the benefits of the Ubuntu operating system combined with a focus on portable, redistributable application formats like AppImages. Nitrux uses the LTS branch of Ubuntu as a basis using only the core system and then slowly building up to ensure a clean user experience. Nitrux is suitable for newcomers to Linux as well as *nix experienced users. Nitrux uses KDE Plasma 5 and KDE Applications; we also use our in-house software suite Nomad Desktop adding to the user experience.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6_rEvBLiKI

Great tools can save you an immense amount of time = money, so it should not be as black & white, even with startups in their early days.

Assuming that a majority of developers refuse to pay for software is, in my opinion, an exageration.

I feel that we are in a position where we can estimate the amount of work and the dedication that a team has put into a great product. I have paid for many of the great softwares that run on my machine because of this knowledge.