People just cannot seem to grasp this. I moved to Cambridge, UK for work and despite my salary being more than 30% higher than it was before, my quality of life is lower and I'm struggling to save as much money each month. It's even worse in London.
It's amazing how the moment a post about women comes up on hacker news all logic goes out the window. Perfectly sensible comments based on simple, real-life experience like this one get flagged and downvoted. I think it's due to a very high proportion of male virgins combined with feminist moderators.
> but it’s frankly as though women have some sort of “life-tax” attached that we men don’t
Men require more calories throughout their lives, meaning higher food bills, and usually die sooner as a result of that. Men also contribute far more tax revenue on average than women anyway. It's silly to try to boil down something that's incredibly nuanced just based on one experience you've had.
Eh? "To be" is not the main verb in that sentence so of course it's in infinitive form. "Add feature X" is imperative. "To add feature X" is infinitive.
The infinitive form of verbs in English always starts with "to", as in "to add", "to fix" etc. That would be a very strange commit message. Imperative is normal: "Add x feature" etc
What does using the word angiosperme have to do with intelligence? I used to work in finance and those guys used all the same words I used: algorithm, runtime, microservice, you name it, but none of them had the foggiest idea what any of it meant.
There's no correlation at all between vocabulary used and intelligence. More intelligent people will actually use a smaller vocabulary if anything.
It's nothing to do with not invented here. It's just not my itch, so why should I scratch it? If you want someone else to scratch your itch you have to pay them.
My point is only to highlight that these are very different worlds. Apple decides what you want then charges for it. We say, here, this is what I want, but feel free to make it what you want. There are always going to be pros and cons.
Why should things change just because you want them to? We're a community of hackers who built our own operating system. You're very welcome to join us but unless you're willing to pay us what you're willing to pay Apple you're going to have to implement what you want yourself. But you're free to implement it yourself. That freedom is what we value.
X has the manual clipboard as well, though. It's always worked for me. Do you have any specific examples of where it fails?
> is a totally solved problem on Mac OS X.
It's solved there because it's a walled garden. It's essentially a different problem that they've solved. The problem here is making that work while still being the free software operating system we love.