Sure :) I'm still curious, although it happened a few months ago, and I got hired since. It's seems kinda unfair though, for the people who never got a message back, because they don't know the right person to ask, or they don't follow hacker news.
Oh, you're preaching to the choir. They're the worst. By far, the worst mobile experience, and by far the most aggressive push for their mobile app. I choose not to open their mail on my mobile phone. And obviously I don't want their mobile app.
They must think of themselves as Facebook Messenger, which most people check with obsession, or at least aspire to become that.
My worst problems were with Toptal's website. I even tweeted them about it, but it still leaked memory like crazy. Maybe they fixed it already, but I wouldn't know - they didn't have articles that interest me in a while.
Anyway. I have Firefox with uBlock, on Archlinux. With JS disabled. 400MB, about a hundred tabs. I do recommend using it that way. I also have Chromium, for things that require JS - youtube, facebook and the like.
Yes. It seems this only works with Intel cards(wifi or ethernet); I don't know the reasons why, though - it might be some firmware support. Also, I find it odd that it can work with the wireless chip - shouldn't the laptop be associated with the AP? If somebody knows, I'd be happy to learn about it.
Yes, it's a very interesting project. I'm already subscribed to their list, I got on their site accidentally. If they do not succeed, the next best thing is to wait until ARM gets powerful enough, and hope they don't go down the orwellian route, like Intel and AMD.
I was thinking of this project - https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner
This is the one that strips most of the ME (which seems to be Java applets, if I remember correctly Igor Skochinsky's presentation), but there's still the core "OS" in PCH, which loads and executes the applets - we don't know what nefarious things that part of ME might be up to - and it has DMA, and access to the network controller - that's how they remotely wipe HDD's, even without an OS being installed, even without the computer being turned on - that shit is straight out of Orwell's 1984. Telescreen, that's what it is.
Where do you get your information from? AFAIK, it's only has been stripped down to a bare minimum, putting it in some sort of recovery mode - but it can't be erased from the BIOS chip yet.
The future is bleak though, there's not much hope in sight freeing anything from Nehalem onwards. I have a Thinkpad X201, and flashing coreboot with blobs is the best I could for the moment.
I do remember though that I had Gentoo 100% from sources a few years back. But updates were too much of a pain in the ass, and after tweaking the compiler flags, I always ended up breaking my system. So I'd take reproducible builds over that.
> How about publishers serve ads from their own main domain ? ...
Yeah, I'm a big fan of the idea. Imagine this - what if advertisers would give you a small PHP script to include in the website source code, that would run random code on the server, instead of ga.js? Would they think twice before including that crap? I bet they would.
As it stands, I've encountered sites that wanted me to run even 10 different scripts on a page, for ad networks I haven't even heard about.
It is designed for remote management of a computer. Take your best shot, do you think it has network support?
Also, it doesn't need for the computer to be powered on. One of the advertised features is remote HDD wipe, in case your laptop is stolen.
Yeah, probably you're right. And it's not like it would stop the really determined guys - X-Raying stuff would do a part of the trick, and maybe stealing the documentation would the other part.
I had the same experience with French. I learned it for 10 years, I even won a national essay competition - guess what, when I was in France, I couldn't open my mouth. English on the other hand - I had only 2 years of study under my belt, and lots and lots of practice - movies, programming books, Shogun by James Clavell, song lyrics, chats on IRC, and so on. I'm fairly confident in my English skills. I know Russian a fair bit, and it's just a consequence of living in Moldova, where we have a lot of Russian influence and a lot of speakers of the language (16%) - but since I don't use it every day, I tend to forget it.
It would probably be done in few months, if GIMP had a few full-time developers. But as it stands, with people working in their free time, don't expect miracles. If anything, I find it amazing that it's still developed at all.
> One day people who embraced this kind of thing will be old and helpless, and "teenagers" will held all posts. Just sayin'.
By then they will be molded by the system to act the same way, or they will be in a position where the unpleasant design will seem desirable to them, so don't get your hopes too high.
So, you would just fire people because they wanted to wear more comfortable shoes, and they sent a letter about it? There are places where shoes/clothing really matters, like a mechanics shop (with their overalls), a construction site (the steel reinforcement of the tip of the shoe), a woodworking shop, where baggy clothing could lead to injury - but that's definitely not the case in the article. These control freaks really annoy me, and I feel lucky to work in IT, most of the places I worked so far would allow you to wear short pants, or whatever.
I must be one lucky bastard then - it seems that I can't get addicted to almost anything, be it cigarettes, alcohol, or energy drinks. I did have once a alcohol problem, but I can hardly call that addiction.
I like coffee a lot, but I don't crave it, and recently I had cut it out completely - my blood pressure got out of control, and once I almost fainted in the office (I had 160/100). Getting rid of stress, coffee, and a blood donation did wonders.
One interesting idea would be to move the advertising server-side. Just smash a ruby gem in your project, or a PHP file, and let's see how well you'll sleep when you know somebody can inject code on your server whenever they feel like it.
If that would be the standard way to go, I doubt people would just bundle all advertising scripts they can find around the web.
The problem is - every minute of every day, they'll show their wares, while I'm interested only seldom to buy things. Most people buy their toothpaste, brushes and toilet disinfectant at the supermarket, when they do their weekly shopping - why would I have to be bombarded with it constantly?
It's like in those movies when they tie you down to a chair, forcibly open your eyes, and blast you with tormenting images.
I never even once bought something I saw advertised online (in sidebars, for example), because I mostly think they are scams - my parents are more gullible though, and I feel bad for them, so I block their ads to protect them.
Video reviews from some people I trust are other story.
Things started to go downhill, and they consider themselves too big to die, too important for the current infrastructure. Any business will have this inertia - gripping their shaky hands on the past, and showing the fangs at the present and the grim future - it's like the will to survive of animals.
That's not what neutrality means. That means the ISP doesn't take anyone side - either by making certain services faster at the expense of others being slower, or by setting preferential pricing. If facebook really cared about access to internet, they could negotiated 1 free GB of traffic / month for everyone, not just access to facebook and a few other websites that they picked.
I have ublock myself for privacy concerns, but I install ad blockers on all my relatives computers just because they are trustful and dumb enough to click any shiny green button that says "Download". Otherwise, I have to pull my hair when I look at their computers full of crap, which they can't explain how it got there. If the internet with ads wasn't such a dangerous place, I wouldn't do it in the first place.
I use pidgin, with the newer facebook plugin - it doesn't look as sexy, but it does almost all I need (except for uploading files), and I have a bunch of other accounts connected. When I need to upload stuff, I just go to https://messenger.com
I think that's just personal taste :) I remember eating fried pigs brain, rolled in flour, and it was delicious. Also, pigs testicles are quite good if fried in a certain way (with lots of garlic and wine), but disgusting in every other way I tried.
I've only shot a small caliber pistol. Leaving poetic derailments aside, my point is -
A: the solution doesn't scale
B: it will lead to further discrimination, only aggravating the problem
I'm a pretty fit guy, but I'm sure the recoil of a gun could break my wrist (well, maybe a desert eagle, I was pretty good with a kalshnikov on my military trainig). I spend more time typing on a keyboard than on a shooting range (which is kind of expected, i'm a programmer). I doubt you can apply such logic as a large scale solution. Do we begin introducing shooting classes in high school, to protect all our citizens?
As for your bet - the paradigm would shift from bullying all people to bullying frail people and avoid rednecks, as far as the violent cops go. This would hardly solve the problem.
Mostly because you descend into a circle of procrastination and self-hate. And the funny thing is, they are engineered that way: facebook doesn't want you to keep the connections with your dear ones, all they want is to keep you more and more on their website, scrolling mindlessly. That why I blocked the site in /etc/hosts, and only use messenger.com and pidgin with the new facebook plugin.
That's a rather naive way of looking at the outcome. For one, do you really think a someone with the training, experience, and exposure violence of a cop could be outmatched by you?
Second, the statement above didn't say much about requiring a warrant to take people's property - how do you get to USA v2, where that law is in place? Do you shoot enough cops, so they would change the law? What kind of wild-west mentality dwells around there, anyway?
How about writing a petition?
How about sending (e)mails to your congressmen, or whatever people with that kind of authority you have in US?
How would heavily armed citizenry help solve the problem? Are you going to put a hole in the head of the officer who takes your cash out of your car? Won't that lead to anarchy or civil war, eventually? Maybe...consider changing the law, eh?