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Honestly updates seems to be a more or less solved problem in Win10, for general use at least.

> We can have magsafe back too. :) Yes please. Honestly the new format is such a clusterfuck of unwanted features, poor hardware implementation, and removal of wanted features that…

This. I gave up after several rounds of dist-upgrades broke, then fixed, then re-broke things. If you’re making fundamental architectural changes on a regular (monthly) basis, it’s…

This is similar to me, but for engineering. Getting jobs via networking is much, much easier than cold-calling an interview. Talk to your friends and workmates, ex-managers etc. If…

> 1. Snapchat's design is remarkable for its hidden features that you discover by social-networking Honest question: isn't this just bad UI design?

Are there any good breakdowns for laymen you could point to about this behaviour? It sounds fascinating.

I don't believe the tech industry is necessarily worse than other male-dominated industries, but that's not really an excuse not to try and do better, is it? I like to think that g…

No, it's an implication that the OP is dressed like a prostitute. That's not cool.

It is difficult to teach tech to women when there is a perceived bias against women in the tech industry. That is the point of this article, and others like it. There are many effo…

That's kinda the whole point of the article - to raise awareness of an issue that women face. This is not about taking sensitivity classes, it's about accepting that there is a pro…

About the same time they move away from the Imperial measurement system.

So you don't know what's in the standard, but you make assertions and continue to support them? That's a fairly disappointing level of discourse for HN. It requires a very similar …

Because this completely dis-incentivises companies to spend money developing features in the first place, and makes it impossible for them to recoup the sunk cost of development ov…

European car manufacturers are required to develop safety critical software under ISO 26262, which is a derivation of IEC 61508, which absolutely does require formal verification a…

Don't get me wrong, I'm the last person to defend the overuse of software patents. Where people are genuinely creating extremely complex functionality in software however, I think …

Don't worry, I'm just as furious as you are! I want realistic solutions though, and I don't think forcing vendors to open their source will fly. For one, you will never force all v…

Are you serious? Absolutely not. Unless you can show that you are competent to modify safety critical software, and have a certified process in place to do that, it would be illega…

By purchasing a car, you purchase an end product, which is designed to be suitable for your purposes. You don't purchase rights to a million manhours of software, free to do what y…

> But the idea that code applying to the primary control functions of an automobile cannot be known (is not published and cannot legally be reverse engineered) is just a bad idea. …

A random sample of each make and model of car should be periodically put through far more stringent testing than normal, in an effort to catch this kind of thing. Allowing this che…

I'm surprised that the EFF would suggest going to the level of having companies publish their code. A huge number of manhours goes into developing the software that runs a car, and…

You would have to assume that by 'automatically failing', the test would involve checking the software version, and if it's not updated, the car instantly fails the test. I can't i…

Not sure why you are equivocating in this instance. It's clearly an intentional breach of regulations, which the CEO has fessed up to. NOx emissions are a serious concern, whether …

That's not how pollution works. Exposure limits are based on relatively safe values; exceeding those values can seriously affect people in the area. 40x legal limits is a serious i…

Students at my sons school (Australia) use the school computers to research topics, and create PowerPoint presentations. It seems like a reasonable way to introduce early school ki…