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You'd be surprised at what a good job the individual pieces of Amazon's empire do at operating as individual units as far as competition is concerned. It would be VERY bad business to "screw" an AWS customer because they competed with some other part of the organization as a whole. Given that Amazon operates in so many spaces and could potentially expand to any space, this behavior would effectively make AWS unappealing for a significant portion of customers.
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What stuff do you find non cringey reading?
You could "kill file" a user, which meant you wouldn't see any of their posts, but other people still could.

What I like about news readers is how they track new threads / messages. I could pick up where I left off. It encouraged longer term, more elaborate discussions, as opposed to posts that fall off the first couple pages like most web forums.
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Could you clarify which parts of your anecdote can be attributed to `npm` in a way that's at all unique to `npm`? This story sounds like it amounts to "I saw a bad piece of software" and "People put modules I don't like on NPM".
I see your point, but don't forget that almost 50% of Americans don't pay any federal tax at all.[1] In fact some of them get EITC, so they are getting free money from the government on top of keeping all of their salary.

So my question still stands, what would be a fair breakdown of tax burden? Top 1% pay 100% of all income taxes? 90%?

I'm not trying to start an argument, I'm asking an honest question.

Unless we know what "fair" looks like, we don't know what needs to change.

[1]http://dailycaller.com/2015/10/07/in-2015-45-percent-of-amer...
First, I'll assume you meant 'photon'. With that in mind, is it your assertion that if photons have no mass, they necessarily possess no energy?

Because if so, and assuming you have some reason for believing this i.e. you can prove it, I would urge you to forward these findings to a physics journal of your choice posthaste, as this basically represents a total refutation of much of physics of the last century or so. You will easily win a Nobel Prize.
> Epicurus, upon whose atomism all of modern science is based.

It is difficult to comprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a statement.

Modern science makes no reference to Epicurean atomism, other than in the historical choice of the word "atom" to refer to something that Epicurus wasn't talking about.
I'd like to believe this, but then I can't buy an Apple TV through Amazon because of some petty dispute over Prime Video (which I really don't care about). So if Amazon the store can pull products to try to protect prime video, then how can I be sure that other units won't?
Agree, there would only a handful of days where the combo of temps and solar gain would provide the right boost.

PCM's (phase change materials) might work better in this application. However, air tightness and a consistent insulation layer is best.
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You're right that is fast. Keep up the great work!
Interesting talk. I really couldn't tell how much of it really meant something and how much of it was fluff like "power poses".

In any case he's been giving similar talks for a while.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZBViI8ZaU0
There may be a zillion references to this news item on HN but I read every one and get more and more excited each one I read.
As already mentioned, that is revenue, not profit. If you take $1000 worth of material (costs) and make something you can sell for $2000 (price), then you've created $1000 in value, not $2000.

My point is that the value created by a worker doesn't define the salary (although it creates a cap, you can pay more than value created).

A great example are lawyers. With the glut of lawyers out there, a lot of lawyers are getting paid less than $50K/yr. I would argue the work they do is worth more than that, but since there are so many lawyers chasing so many jobs, salaries fall.
If we’re talking recording, it doesn’t matter that much how exactly you arrive at some fixed audio sequence. Indeed, use loops or goats, borrow $xxxxx gear from friends, pull multi-terabyte libraries of perfectly sampled cello—as long as it floats your boat (and your target audience’s. If you make stock progressive house for clubs, goat involvement probably isn’t worth it). By way of knob tweaking and some applied randomness you arrive at a take you like and then you delete everything else and let the goat roam free.

Things are different if we’re talking live performance. You’d be fine with that multi-terabyte cello library on stage, but not if sampling plugin brought opaque nth-party dependencies you can’t vouch for and have no time to properly wrap your head around. You don’t want surprises and you want to know for sure there’s enough performance leeway on your concert laptop.

There are steps you’d take to reduce the error margin while you perform that have no parallels in software engineering realm. Maybe you’d bounce your cello loops to audio to never have that computation happening in real time. Maybe you’d bring analog synths, which are bulky and pricey but also simpler conceptually, self-sufficient, well-tested and never give blue screen of death.

Your song is essentially being created every moment your program is running or being developed. You’re putting even more trust in what you’re pulling—the black box abstraction boundaries around your dependencies can contract, the input you receive from audience is more direct, and importantly there’s no you actually playing instruments and directing the performance because the whole behavior is defined by algorithms that often end up partly delegated to dependencies.
>"These places weren’t necessarily vast repositories of lost literature, but the eruption froze them nearly perfectly in time, preserving them for nearly 2,000 years—and preserving thousands of pieces of graffiti along with them."

Actually, Pompeii and Herculaneum are precisely one of the largest and most precious repositories of lost ancient literature.

http://ancphil.lsa.umich.edu/-/downloads/papyri/JankoRecentD...

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/11/16/the-invisible-l...
Issue you are talking here seems to be about pushing software with a critical bug (a logical mistake by the developer). This issue looks to me as a test scenario that wasn't covered before. I guess these kind of issue could happen at anywhere else too, irrespective of their working (hacking) culture.
It takes immediate effect. I often have a terminal open and toggle commenting out an entry when testing something. As soon as you save it, it's good to go.
It amounts to "npm is a pig of a dependency manager and the statistics about how many packages it has are not realistic because JavaScript developers a) insist on recreating every single tool as a node script; and b) distribute the tiniest pieces of functionality via seperate packages where more sane packaging systems/communities tend to group things together logically.
There was a good quote on Pando about who lost the most in the bubble - it wasn't tech, it was telecom by a long shot. All their income looked real - it was providing a real service - but a few levels of indirection down the line it was all broken.

I'm not doomsaying, but if there's a big movement in anything it tends to have weird action at a distance.
Is Netflix at the top end of some curve? My understanding of moving from cloud -> datacenter is, you know, there is some line where it's cheaper to just lease your hardware than pay for cloud infrastructure. At that size you tend to have DBAs, dedicated infrastructure people, etc., to make scaling up go.

But now has Netflix come through that line where the cost savings is outweighed by the uptime/availability etc.?
Couldn't agree more. I think the title is unreasonably one sided, and saying "be part of the solution" is equally one sided.

Dependencies are great for the reasons you specified, and I saw nothing in that article suggesting otherwise. The part that feels the worst to read is:

> Can I implement the required minimal functionality myself? Own it.

This is largely a judgement call; "can I" and "minimal functionality" are subject to change based on many external circumstances. "Own it" also seems to imply owning it not as a dependency, based on the context, but rather as a part of a monolithic whole.

It is also interesting that the sidekiq product makes use of gem dependencies. At top level 5 without platform dependencies, which (mostly due to rails) expands out to many more. The message should not be to "kill your dependencies", because that mindset is outdated and slow.

So tired of hearing about how bad dependencies or scripting languages are. Would be much more excited to hear about how to contribute to open source dependencies, and how to write efficient scripts.
Honestly, while I'm not inclined to believe vinceguidry's opinion, I'm also pretty sure NTDF9's opinion is wrong, for a two simple reasons:

1) Virtually every single time I've heard my guy friends talking about (and drawing conclusions from) a bad date, it's almost always (in my judgment) psychobabble BS - there are a million reasons for having a bad experience. Now that I think about it, this applies to women talking about their dates too.

2) Why would you talk about a bad date on an internet forum? I have a strong prior belief that any personal interpretation of the opposite side in a romantic situation on an internet forum, is probably wrong.
>The examples given for sports training seem practical, but I'm having trouble envisioning small variations of a similar type for things like instruments. Maybe varying the size/weight of the piano keys, or fret spacing on a guitar?

Huh? It's not about changing the instrument. They mean stuff like practicing in different tempos, the same pattern in different scales, playing a piece with different accompaniment styles, playing the piece with open vs barre chords, or with a different strumming pattern, etc.
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If your macro is ugly, but it makes your code pretty, it might mean you’ve successfully sequestered some ugliness, which is probably a good thing.
> I'm not being judged on how well I do, or even that I solved the problem at all, I know I can put down the game whenever and no one cares. This is why I don't think gamifying work is too useful in the long run, because deep down we know we're expected to solve those problems and get results.

Well in World of Warcraft a lot of these players care deeply about their earned reputation, and the gameplay represents a huge chunk of their social life. I suspect that while these players are collaborating to clear a dungeon they are (emotionally) taking the gold and loot drops pretty seriously almost as if it were a real life salary on the line, but yet they're having fun.
> But they survived 100+ years and trying to find way to stay in business.

They haven't had to try too hard to find they way. They sold to big business 100 years ago and they still do today. The fact that computers became prominent in smaller businesses doesn't change their success with the biggest.
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In general the only people doing that are in marketing, and they only do so in the frame of trying to monetize that relationship/power/leverage.

Political wonks talk about it a lot and have various daydreams of having that type of power.

It's not talked about much, and when it is you can counter it by labeling it as a "kids these days" type argument.
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The current version (Origin series) is the Tesla Model S of homes; high end, luxury, max performance, premium tech, blowing most Mercedes and BMW's out of the water in every way.

Next year we will offer the Tesla Model 3 version in addition to our premium version. Average price, above average performance, cool tech and blows away Acura's, Fords and Chevy's, but lacking the flash and bells and whistles of the higher end.
You have made my day/week. It is comforting to know that only a few more weeks and I might have a fully functional cyanogenmod install on my phone.
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Yev from Backblaze here -> sorry! It took us all day to figure out what the hell was going on. Kept getting folks writing in, when nothing had changed on our end. Our Mac dev probably left a dent in his wall from trying to figure it out. We finally narrowed it down to the ACC update. Then realized that WE were affected more than most apps simply because .bzvol starts with a "B" and so a bunch of our users were affected. Likely if a user had a hidden folder with data in it named anything /.0-/.a that folder's data could have been removed as well (we tested this). So hopefully they had a backup/hidden folders are rare and few were affected.
>there is tons of music that has been created in the past 5+ years that exists exclusively there, and it would be a tremendous cultural loss if it were to disappear.

Would it be really? Most of it wasn't even heard by more than 200 people in the first place.

For something to be a "tremendous cultural loss" it should not just a cultural artifact, it should also have had cultural impact (mass appreciation or influence) to begin with.
Yes! The first time I used the mobile app I literally spent five minutes trying to figure out how to play an album in the correct order, until I eventually realized I could hit play on the first song. Definitely a huge wtf. Does anyone at Spotify actually listen to whole albums?

It's so maddening I'm considering switching to Google Music, but I'm not sure it's much better. Their mobile app has also really annoyed me in the past.
Netflix doesn't pay what you or I would pay. Netflix is at a point in their AWS usage where Amazon calls them to help track down AWS bugs.
Same for me for all sorts of anxious situations like exams, speeches, even computer games.

Plan meticulously. Then, moments before entering the situation, deliberately tell myself to throw everything I've prepared away and react to each moment as it comes.

Play to the ground.
All of this information was available via "finger" on a sun e5000 server when I was in college.
The multiple pendulum systems sound really cool. I wish they would put up more images, and high resolution ones, to show what is going on from different angles.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11078415
6 sales total with a couple of developments and a influx of individual buyers in the wings.
I finally managed to wean myself from windows a year ago and switch to linux exclusively. I do have trouble speaking badly about windows though. For many years it provided a tool that I couldn't replicate in Macs and Linux no matter how much I tried. It will forever hold a place in my heart (and I almost mean that).
I guess it depends how much vendor lock-in they have with AWS. If they are just using their own virtual machine images that can run on any cloud infrastructure, then they could quickly re-locate to Rackspace or Azure if they needed to.

On the other hand, if they rely on lots of proprietary AWS tools, then that seems like a dangerous place to be.
Interesting to see the author list AWS and Twilio as money saving services.

Do executatives actually believe AWS and Twilio are saving them money? That seems like the least sensible reason to use the services.

I thought the AWS/Twilio value was based on the fact that most companies don't have the know-how or time to recruit or manage or build their own infrastructure, and it's better to spend more so you can focus on your core competency.
Wasn't familiar with OpenConnect. It is the program where Netflix puts a caching server in an ISP's datacenter so that the traffic is more "local" and cheaper for all involved.
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No. The article says In other words, female CEOs tend to marry other CEOs; male CEOs are OK marrying their secretaries.

This means that female CEOs want to marry other CEOs. Male CEOs are happy marrying secretaries. If you want to marry a female CEO, you're best off being a male CEO.
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> To qualify for the exception, your library or archive must: [...]

> Produce no more than a single reproduction of a given work.

Copyright law would consider the Internet Archive to be reproducing the software every time someone clicks the link and their browser downloads it, so this wouldn't apply.
"This post is off topic because... "

Just reinventing the StackOverflow experience.
I use bash based dotfiles manager "dot".

* https://github.com/ssh0/dot

And I have dotfiles repository at GitHub.
Some files are hosted in Dropbox (for API keys and etc.).

my dotfiles:

* https://github.com/ssh0/dotfiles
I wasn't ever arguing that it occurs in nature, or even that we will one day engineer it. I was just answering your question that GR does indeed allow for such a thing.

I vaguely recall other weird edge cases where gravity is repulsive, but I can't find any links right now.
Perl takes a pragmatic take on this (as well as other takes...) with the collection of ::Tiny CPAN modules that just do one thing pretty OK. Things like Try::Tiny that help immensely with exception handling - something you don't want to really roll you own.

It itself does not have any dependencies that aren't in core:

http://deps.cpantesters.org/?module=Try%3A%3ATiny;perl=lates...
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Nah, this is already a common part of good practice techniques. When I was 12, I learned Chopin's Fantasie-Impromptu, a piece where you have to play four sequential notes in the right hand in the same beat length as playing three notes in the left, over and over again (they call this four-against-three), by doing the following:

1) Practicing right hand alone slowly
2) RH staccato (short punchy notes)
3) RH long-short long-short (so it "swings" kinda like jazz)
4) RH short-long short-long
5) RH short-short-short-long, and all other combinations
6) Same techniques as above, but with the LH, applied to a triple rather than a quad
7) Practicing both hands together, with RH steady but LH a syncopated "wrong" rhythm
8) Both hands together, LH steady but RH a syncopated "wrong" rhythm
9) Gradually speeding up the metronome until 7) and 8) "met in the middle" and it started sounding smooth

Later when I learned Beethoven's Appossionata (first movement), there's this section in left hand that is hard and fast, five notes per beat. Really hard if you're not left-handed. My teacher had me learn it by learning the mirror-image inverse in the right hand at the same time - so for instance if you'd play a C# in the left, you'd play an Eb (an octave up) in the right. It sounded like crap, but the end result was like it was my right hand "teaching" my left hand and I was eventually able to nail it.
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This is great feedback: constructive and substantive.

I like your idea framing the quotes as an alternate telling. They were listed first out of habit (ex-philosophy major), but you're right that this is primarily our story to tell.

Empathy

The difference between front-stabbing and giving good feedback is one of maturity. If you've had many conversations with young kids, they are incredible at giving blunt feedback, but it's only funny because they are tiny humans. Some of what they say would be unconstructive coming from an adult.

Front-stabbing, to me, is someone trying to justify being an asshole. Your comment is a great example of the difference, of being honest and direct but mature. The opposite of the kumbaya culture isn't telling someone they suck, even if you do it because you want them to be better.

Don't always be right

This is my fault, I mixed too many concepts. This value is about not getting complacent with success or being afraid of failure. I don't want us to get it right every time, because experimentation (where the magic happens) involves making mistakes. As you point out, that failure isn't the same as taking the right risks. This value is counteracting our need to be perfect, about pushing back if we seem to always be getting what we expected.

Happy to dive deeper if I didn't answer your questions. Thank you for the thoughtful consideration!
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We run a small web service business.

Our products mostly SEO are a monthly subscription and range about 5K/month.
We are experiencing a bit of a cash flow issue as most invoices are pending from 3 months or more.

The clients are all happy with the services they receive but are not making the payments on time. How do you deal with your invoices ?

Whats the structure at your business ?
So then they should make the licensing exam harder. People learn at different rates, they shouldn't punish fast learners.
ya they kill of what was a VERY nice place to go for music. Better quality, better UI/UX even more so the spotify, (see others comments in this HN thread for some examples), Now I am back to being stuck with spotify since getting the same music over and over again is really bad. in both services. (I have not used Google Play Music enough to really comment on it) So sad we had to lose a great service to one that was going down hill and did not even use the great service to bolster itself.
Netflix has hugely 'spikey' load across the globe, AWS is perfect for that use case.

They need to spike for prime time and then don't really need much infrastructure.
It's possible that jaw clenching and grinding could cause the neck pain and tinnitus. Or it might be a sign of a disorder like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporomandibular_joint_dysfun...

And take a look at 'sleep bruxism' in the table on this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruxism#Classification_by_temp...
My problem isn't the bug. Bugs happen. It's that a developer thought that screen scraping a payroll system and setting up a recurring job to overwrite all bank account information in the middle of the night was a good idea.

If you care about security and stability, that should have set off major alarms.

Scraping data and pushing to internal APIs in another product have no spec, so any tests you write are either wrong or not wrong yet.
That was your full time job. There's a difference when you're a volunteer, you have limited time and want to spend it on stuff that matters.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11049067 (801 points, 5 days ago, 994 comments)
Interesting to note that the Stripe gem removed one of its dependencies seemingly in reaction to being called out at the end of this article.
The story of how Feynman found out about the Challenger disaster is quite interesting. It is not that he was a clever detective ferreting out the facts -- it's just that he tried something different and let himself be nudged along in the process.

To quote from his book "What do you care what other people think?"...

Well, a few days after the accident, I get a telephone call from the head of NASA, William Graham, asking me to be on the committee investigating what went wrong with the shuttle! [...] When I heard the investigation was going to be in Washington, my immediate reaction was not to do it: I have a principle of not going anywhere near Washington or having anything to do with government, so my immediate reaction was -- how am I going to get out of this? [Gweneth, his wife says] "If you don't do it, there will be twelve people, all in a group, going around from place to place together. But if you join in the commission, there will be eleven people -- all in a group going around from place to place together -- while the twelfth one runs around all over the place, checking all kinds of unusual things. There probably won't be anything, but if there is, you'll find it." She said, "There isn't anyone else who can do that like you can."
I was dumped by a medical resident recently, she said she is "looking to settle down with a doctor". :\