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My g/f and her friends got suckered in by this... they were going to the seminars which then led to currency trading.

I think there might be some good tips in there, but IMO, very few people get rich from seminars, bar the seminar leader and the company behind it. but at the end of the day i'm a cynic and quite likely a wage slave for the rest of my life.
Growth is not over:

https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/GDPC1

Edit: To elaborate, the rantings of one economist who has been wrong many times over does not make for a compelling work.
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Not withstanding everything else, I've lived in this town for years, and always found it easy to find a reasonably priced beer.
Haha, well funny you should mention it---management were also encouraging me to look into using firebase for something too, but I put the kibosh in it because we had had so much trouble with Parse. The truth is, we had no need for any of these products (even though I have heard firebase to be way better than parse); we needed to get serious and just write a little API server + postgres database and toss it on Heroku.
I got a surface book for work, its pretty sweet.
Or any salesperson.
For those that have been affected by this, what parts of your process were disrupted? I've read, so far:

* Build fails due to unreachable dependencies hosted by GitHub
* Development process depends on PRs
It's fantastic to see someone taking on the hard problems, things that take years to solve, especially if you're on your own. This is the essence of Open Source - take your time to do something right. Great stuff, good luck with it, we need more grand undertakings like this!

(This comment is mainly based on this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8RRbT4BTEw)
Countless, countless businesses use Excel and they all suffer from what you correctly put as the "worst tooling out of any application platform". They're suffering every day and yet where is the desire to alleviate their pain? It doesn't exist. I would expect to see hundreds of competing projects. I see just a few and they're all crippled in some form.

I think it's a failure of venture capital. What's funded is often what looks good rather than what is needed. That's my guess but I don't know.
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Microsoft's phone strategy has always seemed a bit lacking. Whatever happened to Windows Mobile? I look at some of the old blogs on MSDN and wonder what happened to people.

The Windows Phone right now is a great way to buy a high-quality camera with WiFi... a super-iPod for a few bucks (amazing how much difference a microSD card slot makes!). For example, the Nokia Lumia 521 with a 5MP flashless camera on sale for $46: http://amzn.com/B00COYOAYW (this one isn't a good camera, just extra cheap). Even the 8MP Lumia 925 regularly sells for $200!
Bay area real estate.
牛油 means "butter" so butter fruit. The reason is probably the colour and texture
I imagine that film studios feel more comfortable pandering to a known audience with characters they identify with rather than gambling on a potential new, different audience that may not identify at all with the characters.

The proportion of hacker films with WOC hackers likely mirrors, if not exceeds the proportion of WOC among hackers, which is to say the industry is not very attractive to WOC (or women in general).
Yes, it's currently a broken process.
I own and love both those records! Both radical, timeless and a bit saucy.

Not so pioneering, but Broadcast did some awesome stuff in a similar vein in the '00s, eg. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og7m71xuFbA
Regarding dumb startups - I can't wait for the coming collapse. There are lots of talented developers/designers working on dumb startups, which makes it very difficult for me to find good people to work with.
Gold isn't particularly real, as resources go. It doesn't have that many practical uses.

That's what makes gold rush economics similar to bubble economics: Everyone decides to chase after a nebulous source of value.

San Francisco has always been the Gold Rush City.
1) is priceless. In banks I've seen many traders build pricing and risk solutions in Excel that would take weeks or months for developers who don't understand the products and/or maths to build. In some games, time to market is everything.
Stealth Worker developer here, I coded a javascript redirection from http to https like this: http://stackoverflow.com/a/4723302. What you are seeing may be the result of a slow transition from http to https. I apologize for any inconvenience (but please only use the https version of our website!).
Google wrote an article about disaster recovery in 2012. https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2371516
Too bad Excel isn't really a standalone product. Office and windows are necessary dependencies. Given that, it is a shitty product. If they broke it out, allowed me to run it on an OS I actually want to use, away from MS's gremlins, then I certainly would buy/install/use. But as of today it comes with far too much baggage.
How big is your data? and is your machine learning?
That's a good point. I've been ignoring learning Git as long as I can but almost everything on my todo list heavily uses it. Or ties into it as you said. So, I'm going to have to bite the bullet and learn it.

Yet, I swore Git fans told me its decentralized design avoids single points of failures where everyone has a copy and can still work when a node is down just not necessarily coordinate or sync in a straight-forward way. This situation makes me thing, either for Git or just Github, there's some gap between the ideal they described and how things work in practice. I mean, even CVS or Subversion repos on high availability systems didn't have 2 hours of downtime in my experience.

When I pick up Git/Github, I think I'll implement a way to constantly pull anything from Git projects into local repos and copies. Probably non-Git copies as a backup. I used to also use append-only storage for changes in potentially buggy or malicious services. Sounds like that might be a good idea, too, to prevent some issues.
Yeah, the MS Office comment ruined an otherwise good article.
now it's time for shark tank.
I wondered if someone WANTED this to spread and intentionally left it out.
> HP straight-up detonates a datacenter

Apparently 5 server racks in the middle of an open field is a "datacenter".
The guy sounds pretty bitter, to be honest.
I'd place the explosion around the time of CVS - but that was an explosion of proprietary VCSes. They didn't have to be as good as git, they just had to be better than CVS.
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And once some devs turn it into an "engineered application" the change cycle jumps from minutes or hours to days, weeks or even months.
Nexedi is an international company with offices in France, Germany, Japan and China (http://www.nexedi.com/contact), and NayuOS is made with much Free Software love. :)
I didn't even know that "banana hammocks" were a thing. Maybe whoever runs bananahammockworld.com reads HN....

http://www.bananahammockworld.com/banana-hammocks-for-men/
I just finished my job search, and I'd agree with this strongly. I started used Trello for organizing my job applications, but I soon realized there was no point. Companies that wanted to talk to me responded to my initial application with a week or two, while companies that didn't weren't influenced by any kind of followup communication.

After sending out about a hundred applications, I found I had no control over the process, so there was no reason to track it. Instead, I spent that time working on my own projects and going to meetups to find out about live job openings and show off my stuff. The job application system at most places is badly broken and HR and recruiters don't seem to know or care enough to fix it, so it's better to circumvent through some kind of personal connection.
This is Microsoft, they can wait. The first IEs were born dead and they were mediocre products.
From the worst memory answer, this stood out:

> The technology has progressed less in the last fifteen years than it did every two or three years under Dragon Systems.

I suspect he is biased, but it's hard to not agree with the sentiment. It's a shame that someone with such enormous personal motivation in the specific technology space lost the ability and the will to be part of it. And as such, that technology space has suffered. It's a matter of belief since we cannot know how things would have played out differently, but I agree with the sentiment.
But how much profit did that generate? I don't see any mention of profit in the article.
"Engineers are particularly spoiled. They can take an arbitrary sabbatical from work..." <---> (on the about page) "...Currently a principal engineer at AppNexus on sabbatical..." ???
Funny story: I tried to install Microsoft's Exchange client for Android, and before it let me connect my account, it warned me that my organization would take control of my phone's security policy. The iOS version doesn't do that.
Since this posting, I've had 3 boutique firms sign up.
It is a supply constrained market, but a highly inefficient one.
You should rename this thread California Bubble...
interesting op is on a sabbatical himself

> Currently a principal engineer at AppNexus on sabbatical, I am trying to have a new post every day.
Yup. It's still shockingly easy to find good beer at a reasonable price in the SFBA. Same for food if you know where to go.

The only thing that's really hard to avoid spending way too much money on is housing.
Could be talking about [0] meundies. Although that seems to be an LA company based on their hiring website.

[0] https://www.meundies.com/
Defense contractors need fighter jets. Drones are too cheap.

https://www.nsfwcorp.com/dispatch/cheap-drones/

How many drones would it take to get $500 billion into the bank accounts of defense contractors?
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I like SV and do wish it would spread around more. But it does seem like companies aren't considered a startup anymore unless you are paying some of the highest rents in the country in SF. Something doesn't compute, high rent is not the best decision for early stage companies except in SV, unless there is some other angle like maybe you own the building/real estate. Maybe in the end lots of VC is real-estate plays parallel to product development.
I think it has to do with the trajectory.

iPad = declining sales year over year

Surface = increasing sales year over year

The iPad was hyped to kill laptops/PCs and Surface's doom was also hyped, so the new data points are interesting because they look like a reversal of trend.
> I mean why bother having a desktop or laptop if you can use your personal device, plug it into different things and get the full experience as if you had a laptop or desktop?

You have to hope that those different things are always there to be plugged in to. If not, you have to carry them with you, at which point I'd rather have one bigger device ~~and~~ (correction: ) THAN two pieces to assemble into a smaller device.
Even with the threading/memory management issues fixed by enforcing shared-nothing, Nim isn't memory safe unless the undefined behavior issues that come from compiling to C (for example, dereferencing a null pointer) are sorted out.

As I understand things, though, solving them is a work in progress.
Bad news if his life is as grey as his type....
Haskell is, in fact, a really good way to write parser code. That's the main thing I use Haskell for.

But how are you suggesting that Haskell could solve the problem of letting CoffeeScript plugins express which text they should apply to in a CoffeeScript text editor?
Well that's plenty of time to make sweeping generalizations. Carry on.
I recall tv spots in Germany for Lumia but one of them was mostly about how much better the camera is and the other was the usual cringeworthy lifestyle crap.
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Okay, but "effectively zero" != "statistically zero"

The "actual point" of the post is a lie.
or C-corps taxes more and international tax avoidance loopholes are closed. But i guess both of these would be hard to make happen
I miscommunicated the question: "how well would have a Thompson NFA have dealt with this?" I.e. How many magnitudes of order faster would it have been? If it was faster?
> [...] and yet I don't even remotely consider myself an engineer.

I phone screened somebody not so long ago who asked me if it was the "kind of job where you have to write a lot of code", because they "weren't that sort of software engineer". Didn't quite know what to make of that.
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You're not making an argument that Pikazo generates real art. You're making an argument that humans don't make real art. This notion has absolutely no interesting implications for AI. It's like saying "language is relative, so any output of Google Translate is just as valid as what you think is valid".
Exactly. Read my latest post - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10976903. I hate the culture/environment of co-working spaces. I don't understand why people are so opposed to working from home, they automatically assume everyone is a child that can't manage themselves. Now I have to waste YEARS of my life getting to an office.
Absolutely. And it's an even bigger problem if the question is "will you pay monthly for a Job Application Organizer... for more than two months?"

I guess a free application organizer could be relatively easily monetised by targeted job ads though...
Yet more proof that anyone who uses regular expressions to attempt to parse a context-free grammar is in a state of sin.

Balanced parentheses form a context-free grammar, and thus cannot be parsed by regular expressions. There are extensions to regexps which make them irregular — and hence capable of parsing CFGs — but they often lead to poor performance, as here.
You're probably right. I was being a bit excessive with the beer comment, I just found it funny that I never recognized anything on tap. I'm also not really an IPA guy =/
How soon I forget the big one(s). Indeed, Hitler himself was more of an architect than anything else (talked about in a digression at http://www.leesandlin.com/articles/LosingTheWar.htm); but I didn't want to Godwin's Law the matter straight out of the gate.
They spec'd the Surface Book to match up with a MacBook Pro, but I honestly don't think the quality is there.
interest rates are nosediving around the globe as i type. euribor a year out is -.33% BID. us rates are going LOWER.
Hmm.. Here's Rosamunde's beer list plenty of $6 IPAs..

https://www.beermenus.com/places/1609-rosamunde-sausage-gril...
I thought this was a great article when he posted it and it's always really exciting to see people engage with us about the research we've done. He links to it at the bottom, but here's a link to my followup [1].

We've learned a ton over the past couple of years and we've finally settled on a path forward. That means we're starting to move out of research mode and starting to execute on all of this knowledge gathering. To that end, we're going to be doing a public alpha release in the next few weeks for people to play with. :) It ought to be interesting to the folks here to see how crazily different our work could be - the latest version of Eve is better likened to Medium's content editor or Dropbox's paper than it is to Visual Studio. It's been a long road (with around 30 versions of Eve at this point), but there are some really exciting times ahead.

Happy to answer any questions! Though I imagine there'll be plenty of discussion when we do the release :)

[1]: https://gist.github.com/ibdknox/2b185fcb8e5d1de68796
> The only thing that's really hard to avoid spending way too much money on is housing.

Live in a van down by the river, or a cargo truck in a Google parking lot.
If you think that Lua is good for that, you'd be surprised how MicroPython is good - it's written purposedly for microcontrollers. And Lua was written for "desktop" scripting and found its stronghold in gaming industry. Its usage on deeply embedded systems is attempt at downscaling. Which works. How well?..

MicroPython can work in 128K of "ROM" (80K for language core, rest for modules/user code). In 400K, you can do a lot with it.
Bullshit...

If the Emperor has no clothes, and QA keep saying "naked", there is value there. The value lies in highlighting the fact that there's a bunch of advisors that either have been actively profiteering from the fake garment con, or where negligent in their duties and failed to notice the problem before.

Either party would have strong interest to cover up their negative-value-added actions, but since they cannot directly challenge QA statement, they go and say that "it does not add value". In the strictest sense of the word they are true, QA does not add value, it helps prevent/correct that would destroy already-added value in the product if left unchecked.
As far as I know ChromeOS does use Xorg, but does its own window management. So basically everything you see is INSIDE one single X window.

I think the Crouton project has a section with more details about the setup, because people want to mix chroot windows and Chrome windows. Maybe relevant: https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton/wiki/crouton-in-a-Chrom...
Git works as advertised, but when all your build processes start with a sync from the upstream master (the equivalent of "svn up") that a lot of build scripts required that to work, then they've thrown away that advantage when building.

Everyone with a checked out repo should have been able to develop and commit, branch and merge locally fine though.
Re: There cannot be these many quality engineers.

I've seen grads come out of boot camps that are better programmers than people who have been programming for years. They might lack the knowledge, but they've got good sense and hustle, and at the end of the day, I'd take that over a stubborn engineer who looks like they're gonna age into a Dilbert comic.
It's contagious. Someone, develop a vaccine for this before it spreads... except that at this point the whole globe's caught it, and we seem to be developing an immune response at last.
Personal reason #1: I can install packages and everything works the first time.

Sublime Text almost had it.

Emacs/vim takes too much effort to configure.
They kind of did the same thing with the xbox. Sunk a ton of money into. Instead of just pure revenue growth it is important to look at margins. The overall profitability of the product.
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Honest question: Do people think that Trump believes the ignorant (and racist) rhetoric he spouts? Isn't it clear that he's just doing what it takes to get elected?
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The spreadsheet format coupled datatypes made me sit for a few moment. I was trying to make sense of the rows in VBA when I realized that changing the appearance would change the kind.

btw, the last company I worked in used Excel as a disconnected editor', extraction, load, edit, save, pushback was ugly. You'd need a careful and solid bridge between the two, and hopefully a semantically adapted backend.
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> Everything is too expensive. I’m from New York...

I take issue with this one. It's entirely possible to live frugally while living IN San Francisco. I moved here about 7 months ago and expected it to be incredibly expensive but it hasn't been the case (beyond rent).

The author mentions $15 crappy local IPAs but I've actually never found a beer for this price. There is no shortage of $7 craft beers you can buy at a brewery or bar, no shortage of Trader Joe's with the same prices as, say, Charlottesville VA.

I've found that other than rent, the prices are comparable to other places. If you get a salad delivered on postmates or uber eats or something then that's what you're paying for. That isn't SF.

I think a lot of people are living a lifestyle where they have no problem paying for stuff like a delivered salad when they can walk next door, or uber instead of taking the bus, but lots of people are walking and grocery shopping and not paying those prices.
Previously when crypto was expensive, there were (and still are, PG&E is one and Mariott another) people thought just doing login over ssl was sufficient.
Honestly?

It isn't sustainable and its not a productive use of capital.

This lifestyle is going to implode when the economy stumbles.
Should carry a NSFW warning. I had no idea what a banana hammock was, I thought it was an actual hammock.
Except you can predict it. Your fail-over mechanism needs to be able to detect these things:

1. Degraded performance that might be a fault justifying fail-over. A human in the loop is a must here as complex services can just act weird under load or randomly.

2. Corrupted data or packets coming in that might indicate a failure. Might automatically fail-over here.

3. No data coming in at all for 5-10 seconds, esp on a dedicated line. Fail-over automatically here as nothing sending data is already the definition of downtime and probably indicates a huge failure.

Companies should also do plenty of practice fail-overs at various layers of the stack during non-critical hours to ensure the mechanisms work. In Github's case, number 3 should've applied and solutions far back as 80's would kick in automatically within seconds to minutes. Their tech or DR setup must just not be capable of that. There could be good financial reasons or something for that but not technological.
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Just to complete this thought. Donating the project to Apache would have been great. I would have loved the Cassandra + Parse API integration.
Takes one to know one. ;)
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Can you imagine being forced to train your replacement?

Holy hell. I couldn't do it, I'd starve first.

And can you imagine sitting with and being trained by someone that you knew you were causing them to lose their job?

Corporations making people hate each other, it's the American way.

Those H1B replacements should be keeping those American flags - what other country would allow this kind of nonsense to happen.
> I don't always want to spend insane amounts of time writing full AST parsers.

Then don't use languages whose grammars require insane amounts of effort to parse.

One can write a decent S-expression parser in an hour or two, and a full parser in a weekend. S-expressions can represent everything anyone ever needs to work with, so why use anything else?
nothing against the author but it seems like he is painting a very wide brush with something he's seen for 3? days.

i certainly have never taken ubers everyday to work even though i could probably(?) afford to do so. seems like an expensive daily habit though.

i actually live in the city where it's not some huge loft in fidi/downtown. good for anyone who can get their groceries sent up to their room but i'm not sure how close to the norm that is. tech workers are all across the board in terms of how they live, how much they get paid and how willing they are to fetch their own groceries.

i live on the first floor of a older apartment complex, but i have to walk down a hill to fetch my groceries. i do sometimes use one of the gazillion food delivery services to eat dinner though.

anyways i would say this is similar to someone who goes to ny, visits the financial district in manhattan for 3 days and then proclaims, "everyone in ny is rich! of course they can afford all that housing! they're so stuck up! why are the cabbies so rude? why are new yorkers so rude?"
It's a bit subjective since one company had huge market share out of the gate and invented the category, while the other keeps releasing 'new' products, years later. So yes, there's growth for now. For Wall Street, growth is pretty much key.