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"dead in the water" is incorrect. SUSE's SLES (I believe OpenSUSE as well) uses btrfs on root and XFS on home for default install. And SUSE systems are very far from "dead in the water" as it's employed in lots of big servers around the globe.

Just because Red Hat marked btrfs deprecated on their systems, doesn't mean the technology itself is deprecated.

Also, from what I've read, they deprecated it because of resources issues rather than tech issues (seems like they had 0 btrfs devs and lots of XFS specialists on the team).

Besides the obvious, I'd also like to see:

  - Salary range for that specific position (not for the whole department (I've seen that))
  - Remote work policy
  - Visa sponsorship policy
  - Vacation policy
  - Interview process
  - Link to future manager's technical background
Also, please avoid using cute/hipster phrasing shit that's full of puns, hearts and whatnot. Just get straight to the point.
This is how a review is done. Thorough and covers the details that matters for a distro review.

Although I could experience the advantages it's offering over 16.04, I tried it yesterday and it's incredibly slow. Like 5-seconds-to-activate-focus-on-any-window slow.

Has anyone had similar issue? The last time I experienced something laggy like this was with crappy hardware.

It doesn't happen on RHEL 7.5 (with GNOME Classic), Fedora (with GNOME), Ubuntu 16.04 (with Unity). I have a beefy computer (HP Z600, 2x Xeon, 48GB RAM ECC), so I'm pretty sure it's not a hardware issue. Windows 10 also runs fine.

Re:It’s time to give Firefox a fresh chance on Sunday April 15, 2018 @03:41PM (#16844495)
I have the same issues/annoyances as you.

Also, for the past few weeks, I set up a few Linux desktops. When you install Firefox Quantum alongside with the pre-installed Firefox ESR (most of mainstream distros has it) and enable sync, your bookmarks will have a higher chance of being incorrectly synced and your history (if you chose to sync it) will probably be at FIREFOX_PROFILE_DIR/places.sqlite.corrupt

A simple fix is to close Firefox and

  $ cd ~/.mozilla/firefox/YOUR_PROFILE
  $ mv places.sqlite.corrupt places.sqlite
I'm still trying to find the time to prepare a proper bug report.
Re:Ask HN: What would you have asked Mark Zuckerburg? on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @05:48PM (#16805832)
I would have asked this too (aka shadow profiles).

It's sad that it looks like the senators weren't even aware of this, or maybe some were but couldn't phrase in layman's terms.

Just found out about your site. It's great! Will be using it for my next projects for sure.
> eul is a registered company, and all binaries are signed. Your data is safe.

I see a lot of companies drawing that conclusion from such premise (and you're using C, which really decreases the odds that my data is really safe).

Using that sentence on your main page makes it look shady. Specially if you're not a security company.

IMHO, if you remove "Your data is safe" it will look much more professional.

Re:Google's CardDAV server isn't standards compliant (2014) on Monday February 19, 2018 @11:03AM (#16413631)
I don't think they have a "compatibility" slide anywhere at all at Google.
Re:AMD Returns to Full-Year Profitability, Forecasts Strong 2018 on Thursday February 01, 2018 @11:35AM (#16283193)
I was about to buy a Ryzen workstation, but ended buying an (used) HP Z600 (2x E5620, 48GB ECC RAM, 2TB HD) because it was the best bang for the buck; just the Ryzen 1800x + motherboard would cost me what I paid for the Z600 (I live in Brazil, prices here are crazy).

That said, I'm really rooting for AMD here. It's very nice to have this kind of competition and customers will benefit a lot from this.

Re:Ask HN: What is your password management solution? on Saturday July 15, 2017 @11:03AM (#14776981)
Oh my ZSH (http://ohmyz.sh/), if you use zsh of course, has autocomplete, so folders and GPG files are only a few tabs away.
Re:Ask HN: What linux distro should I start with? on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @09:53PM (#14449960)
I recommend you try Fedora.

Even though Ubuntu is beginner-friendly at first sight, in very short time you'll see that all the benefit you're supposed to get from a community are actually hacks to solve things like: GUI issues with Unity, some services not starting, services crashing randomly, and so on.

Fedora is often taken as somewhat unstable because of its fast release cycle and lack of a long-term support release, but, in my experience, it has proven itself to be very reliable and stable for my workflow.

Yes, I understand that. I mean, why don't these censors block the whole wikipedia.org access then?

If they don't want their population to access a Wikipedia topic/article and can't block/determine if someone is accessing it, the easiest thing to do would be just block it right away. So why they won't do it?

(PS: I'm in no way in favor of censorship, I'm just trying to understand such mindset)

  Critics of this plan argued that this move would just result in more 
  total censorship of Wikipedia and that access to some information 
  was better than no information at all
I'm no critic of this plan but I still don't understand why this wouldn't result in more total censorship. Someone explain please?
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2017) on Monday January 02, 2017 @12:03PM (#13302397)
Location: Florianopolis, Brazil

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: C, C++, python, Linux drivers, macOS kernel extensions, shell scripting, debugging, reverse engineering

Resume/CV: https://github.com/enzolovesbacon

Email: enzo.matsumiya at gmail

Re:Let's start using DuckDuckGo more often on Friday December 30, 2016 @12:53PM (#13285807)
Logged in just to upvote.
Re:Ask HN: Is there a “ground-up” explanation of PGP/GnuPG? on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @09:15AM (#13070835)
Although it doesn't have PGP/GnuPG, I found "The Architecture of Open Source Applications" to be very interesting and something that should be spread out more.

My work demanded me to read the ITK and VTK parts. Git and GDB are also very nice.

http://aosabook.org/en/index.html

Re:Ask HN: Software Developers – Do you like your job? on Sunday November 27, 2016 @02:29PM (#13050912)
5, being an employee

I'm in my late 20's, working for the same company for the past 5 years (worked on 3-5 projects in total, though), C, C++, Qt, VTK, ITK... it's very interesting and also my preferred stack to work with, I also learn(ed) a lot here, so no complains. But currently I'm bored and also the financial situation on the company isn't helping. So yeah... 5.

10, starting my own business

After my 9-5 work and at weekends, I work on my own company (mobile security consulting). I'm full steam on this because everything non-technical is new to me, and I'm very excited to see where this is going.

Re:FreeBSD on a MacBook Pro on Thursday November 24, 2016 @09:17AM (#13030401)
I'm periodically installing FreeBSD on my ThinkPad T400 to see how it's performing with Chromium. It's the only application I use extensively, and the only one that performs really bad with FreeBSD (and OpenBSD also), which prevents me from switching from Fedora.

Is there any magic I'm missing, aside from the shared memory support?

I have a similar setup: OS and browser set to English from brazilian IP address. I got the italian page as default.

And I also took some time to find where to change to english.

I'm not sure what's the protocol for this kind of stuff (I'm not blind), but, your website being directed at blind people, wouldn't it be better to be set english as the main language?
Re:Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build? on Monday September 26, 2016 @01:03PM (#12583529)
Dirt cheap, stylish, recyclable clothing.

I really like this idea.

Re:Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build? on Monday September 26, 2016 @11:54AM (#12582868)
Of course.
Re:Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build? on Friday September 23, 2016 @06:26PM (#12568397)
An operating system which is a mix of OSX UI, Linux flexibility, FreeBSD network stack, and OpenBSD security.

It doesn't need NetBSD compatibility nor anything from Windows.

:)

Re:Using Gmail with Mutt on Friday September 23, 2016 @11:46AM (#12565467)
+1

I still haven't found any setup that beats it.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2015) on Monday June 01, 2015 @01:58PM (#9640739)
Location: Florianópolis, Santa Catarina - Brazil

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes (preferred)

Technologies: C, C++, Objective-C, Mac OS kexts, python, php, git

Résumé/CV: https://goo.gl/hgyjzj

Email: enzo.matsumiya at gmail dot com

Re:Ask HN: What OS do you run? on Sunday April 19, 2015 @05:26PM (#9404945)
Thinkpad T400, Slackware 14.1, dwm, screen, zsh, vim, gcc, make, git.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2014) on Friday August 01, 2014 @12:00PM (#8120810)
Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil

Remote: Ok

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: C/C++, Objective-C, reverse engineering

Resume: Available upon request

Email: enzo.matsumiya at gmail

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Great interest for low-level stuff (drivers, kernel, asm, etc) be it development, debugging or disassembling. I'm also an infosec enthusiast.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2014) on Monday June 02, 2014 @12:12PM (#7834223)
São Paulo, Brazil, Remote | relocation, Full time

Stack: C/C++, C#, Objective-C, Python

Resume: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B33_gHEXKq_wTkJyQ3VQRGJpVGs/...

Contact: enzo.matsumiya AT gmail

I like to solve problems. The "stack" doesn't really matter as I will adapt to whatever technology I am introduced to. That being said, I think that the area the most challenges me is driver and/or embedded systems development, which I am very interested in to. I also am an infosec enthusiast, and would be very happy to work with that too.