jaredandrews

> The separation is necessary is there to protect people from being fired for having unpopular opinions because it's not an argument we want to follow to it's logical conclusion.

We can follow it to it's logical conclusion because it happens all the time. People get fired for unpopular opinions frequently. This case is interesting because the unpopular opinion is "political" to some. I would contend that breathing is political.

I can't answer any of the hypotheticals you present because they are exactly that: hypotheticals. It would require additional context for me to give a personal opinion on any of them. Even with that, your or my opinion on the situation would be irrelevant to the employees who are actually part of the organizations in question. They would be taking action to fix something within their organization that they found to be uncouth. Why shouldn't they be able to?

I am getting the impression that you see a clear line between what belongs at work and what belongs at home. How do you define it?

> work life from home life

I have to imagine it would be hard to separate your work life from your home life when you know your boss doesn't believe that you have the right to your home life.

Very interesting, just installed the app they created. Going to be driving all over the northeast for the next few months. I wonder if I will find any skimmers...

Can anyone guess how this happened? A static generator going haywire maybe?

I had no idea this tag existed so I looked it up: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/no...

Turns out it's a non-standard tag. FireFox supports it though and the Red Star OS uses a browser that is a fork of Firefox[0].

My understanding is that the Red Star OS is the only OS used in North Korea. So I guess that means in North Korea, `nobr` _is_ in the standard.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Star_OS

I wondered this the other day while working on a website. On the top of the site there is a header with three words, each a different color. The third word is blue. It looked fine during the day but at night, with flux turned on, I was unable to see the blue text against the black background.

I actually made the decision to paint the header the same color as the body text. No idea how many people will view the site with flux on but since _I_ need to look at it a lot, I figured it was a good change to make.

I personally wouldn't wear Spectacles, but I did expect them to do much better than they have. It seems like people don't feel silly wearing GoPros or carrying selfie sticks so they looked like a logical next step to me.

Some anecdata: I have been traveling the U.S. for the last year, stopping in mostly major cities, and lived in Boston prior to that. In all that time I didn't see a single pair of Spectacles until last month... in Houston, TX of all places!

I think there is a serious conversation to be had about the implications of this sort of technology but this article reads more like a lazy propaganda piece.

My understanding is that this tech is meant to be used on a website forum/comments/etc to organize comments. I find the text that the author tested against particularly bizarre. Does he disagree with the assessment these are "toxic" statements? I would love to see an online conversation where these comments did not lead the thread into flames.

In the time since this article was written Chance the Rapper tweeted[0]:

    Just had a very fruitful call with Alex Ljung. @SoundCloud is here to stay.

About an hour later SoundCloud tweeted[1]:

    *airhorn* Spread the word: your music isn’t going anywhere. Neither are we.

So it seems things have changed? I don't know much about Chance the Rappers financials but perhaps he is buying SoundCloud or investing in it? It will be interesting to see what happens.

[0] https://twitter.com/chancetherapper/status/88592122075935539...

[1] https://twitter.com/SoundCloud/status/885940178292023298

    I got a full education on washers, including a lot of industry dirty laundry. 

Please tell us more.

This reminds me a lot of Matthias Wandel's "binary marble adding machine"[0] which you could, theoretically, build yourself if you think this is cool.

[0] http://woodgears.ca/marbleadd/

I recently deployed a wordpress site, using Trellis[0], on to Digital Ocean. The site has a pretty low traffic volume, but so far it has been working great. Considering switching all future sites I work on to DO but I'll be interested in seeing how this first one turns out.

[0] https://roots.io/trellis/ - If you have to work with Wordpress at all I strongly recommend you give Trellis and the other Roots.io projects a try. Coming from more "sophisticated" tools to Wordpress was a real struggle until I found roots.

I think you are referring to Jay Sankey's appearance on the show. He has a YouTube channel where he teaches magic in a manner that I think any engineer would respect. I first discovered him watching the video where he discusses his appearance on the P&T show [0].

I have been watching a lot of his videos since then. I doubt I'll ever learn to do any of his tricks 100% but I find his commentary on the social aspect of magic very interesting.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSIijZf2GiQ

Reading this bug report makes me feel uneasy.

I'm on a VPN out of Tampa Florida and I see the same page but in Spanish. Shakin' my head.

Never looked into it. Thanks for the link!

Very interesting, thanks for pointing out. As far as I can tell nothing was installed by Verizon on my most recent phone. I was using it as a dev device before using at as my primary phone, so I was pretty aware of what was installed on it. This was over a year ago and I think I started with a 5.X version of Android. Will have to see what happens next time I switch phones... welp.

Verizon is the only cell company that has coverage in my home town in central Massachusetts. Thus I have used them all my life.

I recently had my first "positive" customer service with experience with Verizon switching to their unlimited plan. My bill dropped significantly. ($120 base -> $80 but really $200 -> $80 because I always go over on data)

I just noticed that I have a "phone upgrade" waiting as well. I am an Android dev and typically just buy unlocked phones when I need them and switch SIM cards. This sort of shit is why. Even as it is, Verizon branded phones are filled with crapware you can't delete. It sucks knowing that thru my monthly bill that I am subsidizing a "phone upgrade" program that I am never going to take advantage of due to the way Verizon molests Android before giving you the phone.

Last time I was using Ubuntu consistently I was shocked by this deficiency +1

Very cool! I had never figured out where he worked.

I cannot recommend Matthias' channel enough! He is absolutely amazing. I love the organic points in his videos where he messes something up and then fixes it and concludes "good enough". A true demonstration of the hacker mindset!

I believe he was a computer programmer full time before his YT channel and website took off. Watching him work makes me want to become a woodworker. Maybe someday I'll have the appropriate space and give it a shot!

I bought a System 76 desktop a couple years ago. I had extra $$ and like you, I wanted to support a company selling Linux devices.

Previously, I had used Ubuntu on multiple laptops that did not have "hand picked" hardware. I was used to having to fix things randomly after updates and just running into hardware issues from time to time.

I assumed that the selling point of System 76 was that because they chose the hardware with Linux in mind these things wouldn't happen.

Maybe it's a QA thing but I found that I was running into just as many issues on my Sys76 machine as my old laptop. Manageable, but really puts the value prop into question. It became difficult to justify the purchase over building my own PC or buying a pre-built machine from someone else.

Kind of a muddled message... I am an Android developer and while I don't _love_ Java, I don't _hate_ it either. But to say it isn't verbose... well I don't know, it definitely seems verbose to me.

I feel like the author set up a straw man so he could knock it down. But buried inside is a message that I think is important: "use the tools that make sense for your specific situation".

I started developing a new Android app just under a year ago. From day one the client had a release date in mind. Sure, I could have come up with a million reasons to use Kotlin instead of Java. I could have justified using Kotlin to myself and my client would have trusted my decision. At the end of the day though, I had no experience with Kotlin and could not confidently commit to the proposed timeline if I used it.

So I went with Java. Everyday I read articles about the cool things happening with Kotlin. I'm definitely curious about it and I hope to try it out at some point. But I don't regret using Java.

With all that in mind, I feel like the general weirdness of the Android SDK and the fragmentation issue are far bigger problems in the Android world. I don't see any particular language choice solving this problem. I also don't think there is much that Android App Developers can do to fix this issue. I think it comes down to what Google wants to do to fix it, until then developers can only build ways around these deficiencies. Maybe this helplessness is why we see so much noise about different languages/frameworks/patterns/etc in the Android world.

Excellent work! I have been traveling down the East Coast for the past month and found all the similar solutions for this problem very clunky. So happy you posted this!

> I am coming up on two years of this next month.

I thought you were gonna say you were coming up on two months... It seems like you were at your previous employer for 4 years!? There is no way you would be interpreted as a "job hopper" by the managers and recruiters I have worked with through the years.

Dude, quit!

> My employers were somewhat negative about the idea and suggested they might need to bring on a freelancer to cover my position for a few of the days I'd be out

Really..? They can just pull in a freelancer like that? I have a hard time believing it... Sounds like an empty (and bizarre) threat to me. Either way, just say "great pull in the freelance for 3 days so I can take my vacation".

> Is there any way to reason with them?

I think the only thing you can do here is take your vacation. Stand your ground and do it. It might feel awkward but if you don't they will continue to push back on your vacation time.

Very cool. Does anyone know if the way you "throw" the plane actually affects it's trajectory? I'm curious what level of detail they are using behind the scenes for sending the planes around the world.

I have done the first week since estefan suggested it to me. After week one, I will say this: It has definitely been helpful.

It gets a little too philosophical at times in a "you need to want to change the world sort of way" but the professor really emphasizes that you need to become aware of your own strengths and suggests different ways of utilizing your particular skills to discover and solve problems. He provides concrete examples of how others have done this which I have found useful.

If you lack confidence and creativity I think it might help you out. Of course there are no silver bullets for this sort of thing but I think I have already learned something from it.

If you would be interested in taking the course in sync with me and discussing the various lectures, let me know. I find that to be helpful when MOOCing. My contact info is in my bio, hit me up if that sounds appealing to you.

Hmm... I strongly disagree with your assumptions. But, hackers have long debated the meaning of the word "free", so who am I to say?

I guess we will have to update the Jargon file to include your curious new definition, "free as in free when compared to specific things that Slack Technologies Inc. sells".

I'm not a Slack fanboy but this whole article reads like it was written in an echo chamber where the word "free" has no definition.

> Ryver is entirely free. We give away what Slack charges a lot of money for.

> We’re a freemium model. We offer Ryver Team Communication for free and we will be charging money for add-on products such as a Task Manager.

So it's not "entirely free" the proper description would be "freemium".

Also from the FAQ:

> Then we will ship Ryver Enterprise for big companies. These will be priced very creatively and competitively.

BUT I THOUGHT THAT TEAM COMMUNICATION NEEDED TO BE FREEEEEEEE!

So once again, very clearly not free. Also "creatively" and "competitively", is that another way to describe: "hard to understand"? Reminds me of sketchy mattress dealers...

> The difference is that their free tier is a crippled product whereas our free level is a full product without limitations…

Okay..? I'm mean I see what they are saying but if I consider "task manager" to be a requirement for team communication, then you too are selling me a "crippled" product.

My key take away from this article is that Ryver is apparently the Donald Trump of the team communication world. Lots of smoke and mirrors and very few, if any, features that distinguish it from their competition.

But congrats, I guess... I now know the name of your company.