jff

Your indentation levels will show up correctly, and that's really all that matters. Relax. Or, if you really care, switch to Go and use gofmt.

Well, except for the Lyx and KDE founder, Matthias Ettrich, who calls out his use of proportional fonts in his email on that very page!

"Why doesn't traditional outsourcing work? Well, because I came up with a competitor for it!":

> Present us with your requirements, be it a web system, mobile app, or Big Data who-knows-what. We will give you our best team of freelancers, all working remotely, and we will orchestrate their work, keeping you an active participant in the project.

I'm on the same page here with you--I agree that packet radio is pretty useless for internet access. It's pretty useless for anything except talking to other amateur radio operators, and all they want to talk about is radio and, sometimes, Obama.

But that's what the amateur service is, it's people playing with radios because they think radios are cool. Because it's mostly real-time conversations, the bands aren't insanely congested; if I tried to fetch my email over an encrypted signal on the 40m band, I'm going to tie up a big chunk of the available frequencies for possibly hours on end (cough yacht owners running WINLINK cough).

You'd have to eliminate the "no commercial business" rule too, because fetching your mining operation's email looks pretty similar to browsing ham forums when everything is encrypted.

Well, hams are doing their thing on their bands, and if somebody comes in and stomps all over the bands (cough WINLINK cough) it's kind of a dick move. Luckily, most of the ham bands are so low in frequency that they're not really suitable for general Internet access.

2m could get you dialup speeds over a pretty wide radius with some cheap equipment. Get a directional antenna and a hilltop repeater and you'd be in even better shape. The FCC absolutely could shave off a small chunk of the 2m band for encryption-OK Internet links (say, as a way to link up smaller wifi nets), but you're right, most hams would kick and scream even though they all just sit idle on whatever local repeater. And I'd have a hard time blaming them (I'm a ham myself) because they do not want to set a precedent of losing any band space.

High-power wifi is allowed with an amateur radio license, but because you're operating as an amateur licensee you're not allowed to use encryption, so you can't use it to e.g. bring Internet access to a remote RV park.

The problem is you're not allowed to use Amateur Radio for anything "useful". You can chat with your friends, but for instance you'd never want to use it for email or online banking because encryption isn't allowed. You also can't conduct commercial transactions over it, except to occasionally sell a radio.

And here we find direct evidence of the effects of over-consumption of cannabis.

I once had to do a team project with another student who did all his coding in Wordpad, god knows why. His indentation was more or less random. I wanted to murder him.

She'll tell you it's "a distraction"

Good thing all those guys are drinking at 10am every day in a bar, if they were doing it in the privacy of their homes they'd have a drinking problem!

The authoritarians that run NYC are tremendously contemptuous of the common man. See: anything Bloomberg has ever done.

I've found the exact opposite... by turning on Battery Saver mode, it disabled all the extraneous animations and transitions and actually made my old Nexus 4 feel responsive again!

> my car insurance costs more than if I were a woman.

You missed a very important word.

They explicitly say that it does, in the third paragraph.

Those are all either 1) a derivation of the general "starfleet arrowhead" or 2) a ripoff of the UN flag. Most of them are also afflicted with awful outdated-looking gradients.

See today's submission https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10198353, where the PDF discusses precisely that case and why it's bad.

Predicted by a 3 year old comic: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/COenroJWEAAjLoi.jpg:large

Used to play with these a lot as a kid. User "__bb" must have also spent some time on a cattle farm because everything (s)he's said about the magnets has been spot on.

> You obviously need to address the core issues of homelessness first. But then what? Once someone has marketable skills, mental health treatment and is in a better condition to contribute to society, do you ask them to leave the city because there isn't anywhere they can afford to live?

There are plenty of jobs in the rest of the state or the country, places where you can get an apartment for a couple hundred bucks a month. Given a choice between living on the streets in San Francisco or working minimum wage in Turlock, I know which I'd choose.

He was probably thinking more of 9P fileservers, rather than disk filesystems.

*BSD guys seem to do pretty good without a GNU coreutils.

Here's another well-researched article suggested by this highly credible news source:

http://www.disclose.tv/news/The_Russian_Sleep_Experiment_dur...

(creepypasta if you don't recognize it)

My current daily work machine is a Thinkpad X61; according to the corporate property tracking system, it was acquired in October of 2007. It's never been upgraded, but with a dual-core 64-bit processor and 4 GB of RAM I can run most things I need and even start up a VM if necessary. I've been using it for several weeks now because I don't have a proper desk at my new location yet.

There's nothing magical about a Mac, you just have to pick something comparable instead of a $300 Best Buy HP.

> It involves less testing, hiring and retaining better teachers, and making sure kids are not in poor broken homes.

ah, hide the hard one at the end :)

Yes, Oberon is referenced here: http://research.swtch.com/acme.pdf

Plan 9's Acme editor was influenced by Oberon, as I recall.

All those men want to talk to her. She decides if she wants to reply to them or just ignore them. I would find it odd to claim the men were holding the power in this situation.

The neat thing about Tinder is that nobody has to assess those first-contact messages, they just swipe people they think they'd be interested in and if they both like each other, they can talk. I've never used it but I'd say it's probably equalized a lot of things--men no longer spend all their time carefully composing introductory messages only to be ignored, women don't (necessarily) have to sort through hundreds of "wanna fuk?" messages to find the decent ones.

> why are they hanging out online with these people?

hanging out, in some cases, for twenty hours a day, according to the article.