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g12mcgovon More than 95% of world's population breathing unhealthy air, says new report

Wonder where the 5% clean areas are?

g12mcgovon James Gosling, the ‘Father of Java,’ joins Amazon Web Services

Maybe he'll help make Java more performant on AWS Lambda and cut down the initial startup times for the JVM!

g12mcgovon Farmers look for ways to circumvent tractor software locks

Regardless of all the negative feedback this comment has received, this is one of the reasons I find Hacker News to be totally cool.

Where else do you get an engineer who wrote the code commenting on the article in question?

g12mcgovon Search at Slack

Is there any possibility in the future users will be able to search ALL messages from a channel/private message, ever? It seems like Slack search cuts off after a certain point, and doesn't index into archived messages.

g12mcgovon Open offices are bad for us

This reminds me of a lot of Stack Overflow's commitment to private offices, which I read awhile back. They too have an interesting take on the anti-open office idea. https://stackoverflow.blog/2015/01/why-we-still-believe-in-p...

g12mcgovon Ask HN: What current companies have the best software engineering culture?

Etsy. I don't work there, but I've interviewed there twice and know lots of contacts who work there, and it's a great engineering culture.

The overwhelming majority of the company are engineers, and they have a large commitment to OSS, which was one of the initial selling points for me. Not to mention, Rasmus Lerdorf works there, and several of their engineers contribute to HHVM.

g12mcgovon Building Jarvis

I built something to similar this, using a Raspberry Pi, reverse SSH tunnels, Phillips Hue, Nest, and a range of sensors.

Part of the project was an admin panel, to oversee the status/health of all the systems, as well as a manual control panel. My biggest concern was security. Granted, it was an internal network in my house, but if anyone got access to it, they had camera feeds, and practically full control of my house.

I wonder how someone like Zuck protects this system, given all the nefarious people who I'm sure would love access to it.

g12mcgovon Why is airline food so bad?

I agree, on Thai airways, the food is excellent. Singapore airlines too, I've had incredible meals (not just for airline food).

g12mcgovon Apple Delays AirPods Wireless Headphones

Agreed, I've burned through 4 pairs of Jaybird X2's (easily the worst headphones I have ever used) from what I believe to be damage caused by sweat (despite being "sweat proof"). Fortunately, their CS has replaced them each time, but frustrating never the less. I too was hoping the Airpods would be a solution.