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brb. recompiling bash in all my base images.

Back when I was on usenet, it was a common joke that all real programmers used emacs - and at the time I was a vi guy. It took me so long to get the muscle memory to do what I needed in vi that I thought I'd never change. But sure enough, I'm a nerd, and just like when I tried to learn the Dvorak keyboard layout, I decided to spend two weeks learning emacs. Absolutely frustrating for a few days. But I've been on emacs ever since. Some years I didn't update my emacs config or install any updates at all. Some years, that's MOST of what I did.

No shade at all to VIM or any other community of evangelists who have taken the time to get all the power they can out of their toolset. What works for you works.

But between org-mode and the 70 other features that I've come to know and love (like projectile, flycheck, ivy, m-x butterfly, yasnippet, etc.), I'm never looking back. I will occasionally use another tool for a specific purpose, and sometimes those tools have features and niceness that is hard to beat, but most of what I do professionally is just plain typing and I'm way more productive in emacs than any other typing tool.

Pretty cool that after all these years I can see an article like this and learn a thing or two as well. Thanks OP!

Wow gitlab. Right when everyone was looking to see if you could lead with all the fails at github, you basically said "We're going to throw our source at ChatGPT and see what happens"

Actually, it was the uploads that were a problem. Not downloads.

The title of the article and the content of the article are not the same. Zuck has been accused, according to the article, but then the article itself basically says that Meta was pursuing licensing and then at some point the business unit responsible for pursuing that licensing was told not to, presumably because there was a fair-use strategy of some sort in place so licensing would not be required.

You have a lot of trouble driving your car inside the lanes?

Not popular. Core. It was the trusted place for open source software. Then it was ads. Then the day they bundled there was a MASS exodus. And the 14 people who ran their own source code interfaces scoffed and said "see. I told you." And we all said "yup" - we knew something would happen one day, but that was a worst-case-scenario that few thought was even a remote possibility.

It's literally a 2 sentence article. Might as well have just tweeted "Adobe makes me mad"

I like how they've rebranded from "Big 3 consulting firm Anderson Consulting wrought with scandal" to "IT service provider Accenture"

Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.

Up to 104 now, with 33 services reported as having issues that have been resolved.

I wrote a whole project in pascal around that time. Analyzing two datasets. It was running out of memory the night before it was due, so I decided to have it run twice, once for each dataset.

That's when I learned a very important principal. "When something needs doing quickly, don't force artificial constraints on yourself"

I could have spent three days figuring out how to deal with the memory constraints. But instead I just cut the data in half and gave it two runs. The quick solution was the one that was needed. Kind of an important memory for me that I have thought about quite a bit in the last 30+ years.

> Assembly isn't that hard, those of us that grown around 8 bit home computers were writing Z80 and 6502 Assembly aged 10 - 12 years old, while having fun cracking games and setting the roots of Demoscene.

Finally. I found my people.

Walmart

There's a reason Amazon's Mechanical Turk exists.

That's a big misleading headline.

26% of 3400 respondents to a survey in May had deleted the app from their phones at some point in the preceding year.

Ahh... the old Tab Clear strategy. Brilliant when you can pull it off.

It's funny to me that this is news to anyone. This has been going on for quite some time - at least the length of my career. For the longest time it was wide open for anyone to access who had an inkling of knowledge about how mobile devices worked.

Did this _never_ come up at defcon or in an issue of 2600? Are people really _that_ focused on web security?

I suppose I phrased things a bit harshly. I see value in LinkedIn from a candidate/networking perspective. From a validation/reference perspective is where I see the issue.

This isn't the first I've heard of using it for back-channel references. I think that is pretty common in the bay area.

It's strange to me how much linkedin is valued in silicon valley because to me it's like the ugly stepsister of social networking. Expecting someone to have a fully built out profile and expecting that person to actively seek out contacts in their own company is strange. I typically seek out contacts either when I first meet them or not at all. The only rhyme or reason to when I do it is when I happen to have a reason to be on linkedin. People are very haphazard about what their contacts look like. Some people have 50% recruiters, some people it's all friends, some people it's work colleagues, some people it's potential clients. Just because you know somebody doesn't mean that you are linkedin friends, and just because you aren't linkedin friends, doesn't mean that that person knows much about you at all.

I wouldn't trust social profile hunting as a real gauge for anyone's abilities. I know plenty of good coders that don't have github accounts because they aren't involved in open source at all. There are plenty of recruiters that don't know linkedin because they have other sources that fill their pipelines. There are people that build out their profiles specifically for job searches. There are others that won't build out a profile at all.

As far as back-channel references go, I'm not a fan. I expect references to be minimal because giving a reference is odd territory. A bad reference can result in a lawsuit, so why would anyone ever give a bad one? A TMI good reference can result in a lawsuit. People should stick to the basics.

The danger territory as far as I'm concerned is hiring someone at the tail end of a long group of rejects. You peel back your instincts in order to get to the finish line.

I wouldn't trust this entry at all. The author did not do proper research to understand the why's behind the headers that he didn't understand or didn't know well enough.

There's no way to private message on HN, so I'm just going to leave this here for a little while and delete it.

Call me at -------. I will talk. I will listen. It will be private and not judgemental. I'm not a professional mental health specialist of any sort, but I do feel like when it gets to the point where you actually type out the words like this hearing a friendly voice might help. I'm awake. I'm ready for a call right now. If you don't want to talk today, call me tomorrow, next week, next month, whenever. Write down my number because I can't leave it posted.

1-800-273-8255 <- these people are professionals and can help too.

edit: If you didn't get the number and want it, leave a reply and I'll post again.

Suicide is not a reasonable choice. Quit. Reset. Declare bankruptcy if you have to. There's no dishonor in a personal struggle.

Money isn't the answer to most of life's problems. Getting in with the right company isn't the solution either.

These jobs are all just jobs. Garnering the approval of a hiring manager at one of these companies should be an ego boost, but not garnering it is no failure at all. It's not a measure of your aptitude or abilities. It's not a measure of you as a person.

It's very easy to get caught up in the moment and get caught up in the pressure of a work environment and lose sight of what matters.

What matters first and foremost is your own mental health. Take care of you. Nobody else can.

For a long time I've been saying that we can do better with online advertising and revenue generation - and that there's a wide open market for the startup providing the solution.

There are a lot of practices that are distasteful that simply don't provide value that overrides their distastefulness.

But quite simply the revenue is there to be had, and nobody is going to venture off in a new direction when you can make easy money doing exactly what everybody else is doing.

The market may shift with GDPR, or it may just shift in europe. Or maybe the market doesn't shift at all, but some company policies change. I think in the end what causes the current incarnation of internet advertising to go away is going to just be a better idea.

Yes. There wouldn't be so many different vendor solutions if it wasn't. I wouldn't say that the complexity isn't warranted, and it obviously can be wrangled in and once you know it it's not all that bad.

Conversely, it wouldn't be as popular as it is if the value it provided wasn't clear.

There have been instances where peering agreements were problematic. I remember Sprint being a part of one. Not sure if they were the problem causer or the victim, but I do remember their network being cut off in a major way for a short period in the 90s while contracts were hammered out.

As if Facebook wasn't already eating more than it's share of battery life.

This discussion has been a complete waste of time since its inception. Everyone with an opinion needs to go stand in the corner and think of better ways to spend their time.

When I grew up I would just show up at peoples houses. I'd be running around town doing this or that and "oh yeah... so and so lives over here" and I'd knock on the door and hang out or better yet come up with an adventure to go on and grab some other people.

I don't think I've knocked on someone's door without them expecting me to be there in at least 10 years.

500M sounds like a lot. It's a gigantic number.

But where call records are concerned it's not actually that big. I could pick out 100 mid-sized businesses and double that number readily. And that's not even thinking about text messages.

500M text messages. That's like 1 high school.