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I am doing maintenance for some software in roofing industry. The software was written 25 years ago and it sux in so many ways. My first reaction was that it would be very very easy to make much better version of this software and take the market (other solutions sux in same way).

After working on it for past 9 years I can say that the software might looks very simple on the outside, but then you find a lots of proprietary data that are really hard to get (say the information how many man-hours will take laying down the some kind of roof using some type of technology process) and some partnership that will make it quite hard do as an outsider.

I am not saying the disruption is impossible, but it could be very hard and just a better software itself will not help.
I think your cv is great example how to sell benefits instead of features.
I'm not sure what's off topic about drawing parallels between the search for racial equality and that for sex equality. It's entirely cogent to the topic.
bikes are balanced without a person on them
You can, I think both were described in the theory book for notorcycle license when I glanced through it.

Fun fact: when I read about it I had to test and I had to make sure I wasn't deceiving myself so I put one palm in front of the handle on one side and the other one behind the handle on the other side. That way I could ensure I pushed it the correct way.

It worked exactly as advertised (50cc bike so somewhere below 60km/h).

Much simpler than using slow motion camera etc.
> People's personal life doesn't disappear when they arrive to the office.

It does.

Just like work life disappears the moment you leave the office.

Work is work, personal is personal, any kind of mixing always ends up with horrible results.

In many countries, the inverse - doing job related things at home or in general outside of paid time - is even highly illegal.
Hi Gichuru. My first introduction to you was when I read a TechCrunch article 3 years ago about one of your hacks [1]. The article portrayed you in a very positive and your pitch was something that I identified with immediately. Glad to see you taking another larger bet with KuHustle and all the best. Anyway, at the risk of sounding completely tangential, I have been eager to get some software development bootcamp training and, while Andela [2] is perhaps the gold standard here, is out of reach for an inexperienced guy like myself. Now, Moringa is an ideal alternative, but $2,500 of tuition fees repaid over a 24 months period [3] seems like the sort of thing debt nightmares are made of. I really want to learn to code and need your advice about cheaper bootcamps that have an opening (usually) around September.
Back to the thread: really cool concept in an otherwise unproven market. Congratulations on it and all the best going forward. Wish I could be more helpful than a simple congratulations, but I hope that it counts.

[1] Twpple Hack, Built By Kenyan Duo, Connects Small Businesses With Social Media “Big Wigs”- https://techcrunch.com/2013/10/27/twpple-hack-built-by-kenya...
[2] https://boards.greenhouse.io/andela/jobs/221859#.V1E-kpMrKRt
[3] http://moringaschool.com/finance
That's cool, but the robot there needs a large gyro stabilizer disc to keep balance. Not exactly the way we do it.
dupe, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12126548
Fraud prevention actually is a security issue. Not an Internet security issue, so mistakes aren't punished that quickly, but the analogy is still sound.
Yes, I'm looking for a browser plugin to do that (with whitelisting to turn some back on, preferably).
Unfortunately, there's quite a bit of misinformation in this article.

The author makes it sound as simple as hiring fresh hackers from Silicon Valley to take over failed projects from stodgy software developers from the large D.C. contracting firms.

Having worked on government projects like those cited in this article for several years, I can tell you that it is the government agencies themselves, and not so much the developers who are to blame. To build a cool iPhone app for a private service, you can pretty much use whatever tools and timetables you want.

Not so with government tech. With even small projects, you are beholden to policies that were written several levels up. Things like no cloud-based hosting, no sites that don't use government-written style guidelines, and in many cases, no development that occurs outside the government facility. If you hamstrung pretty much any private tech company with the same restrictions government contractors have to deal with, I can guarantee you they would look a lot different.

That's not to say that change can't occur, but to attack the contractors is to misunderstand the root cause of why government software is historically so bad. There are actually many, many very talented developers and software engineers steeped in the latest lean startup theories inside the beltway, but they can seldom use any of that because government policies stand in their way. For most projects, you are dealing with literally thousands of regulations throughout the development process, and most software apps have to account for ever-changing laws and policies that are specific to each application.

However I have already seen a great deal of positive change, with many agencies opening their minds to newer, faster methods of development and allowing better tools to be used.
Great interview with a lot of good advice for anyone starting their own OSS-based business.

Making EE "open source" (not "Open Source") is a brave move but I think anyone who's done this work before knows that having the source available for viewing doesn't really matter much to actual customers with money - a packaged solution with long-term support and legal compliance are their main concerns.
Not only that, but as somebody who was actually a nerd before it was popular, I'm terrified of the "coolification" of geekiness. As an actual awkward social misfit, I'm pretty sure that if nerdiness actually becomes trendy, I'll be uninvited from the "club". It used to be that, at the very least, there was a place for me because I could read hexadecimal and recite the TCP header format. If computer programming becomes any "hipper", I won't even have a place here.
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Congratulations on it and all the best going forward. Wish I could be more helpful than just dishing out a simple congratulatory message, but I hope that it counts.
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Note that those are the best day/time they've found to post. Everyone's audiences are different, even within the same industry. Start with the average and tweak it to be optimized with your specific use case.
Dart has more polyfill stuff built-in. This is IMHO a big advantage when I see all the related StackOverflow Angular2 TS questions. A downside is that it is sometimes a bit more cumbersome to work around if something is not fully polyfilled by Dart and you have to work around "manually".
I'm kinda disappointed that Jupiter is so small.
I know it is accepted by some where it is definitely seen as at least better than the existing method of providing support.

However, a lot of libertarians follow a non aggression principle, which says you can't use force or violence against anyone except to protect their liberty.

Basic income isn't compatible with that principle in that you will have to extract that resource by force from other people violating their property rights.
Then you're been very lucky.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/02/03/bt_blames_faulty_rou...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/17/bt_outage_three_days...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/07/29/bt_broadband_in_broa...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/12/12/bt_infinity_working_...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/06/30/bt_major_dns_outage/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/02/25/bt_cable_theft/

And that's in just over two years.
If they're still played in large numbers, then they should be able to figure out some way to get their user bases to help pay for the time it would take to rebuild them. Patreon, donation drives, kickstarter, ads...
I agree with this. I am male though so my opinion might not count.
Also all these services that try to make your life convenient frees up more time so you can pursue things that matter more.. Things that can have a bigger positive impact.
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There's a really cool video demonstrating the idea [0]. They took a set of handlebars and welded them to the frame. You'll see that you can affect a motorcycle, but only poorly. On a bicycle, you're much more top heavy and can force the vehicle to capsize far faster. On my motorcycle though? If I lightly increase the throttle it'll go absolutely straight (which is nice if you need to reseat your gloves, but scary if the road starts to veer to the side!)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PbmXxwKbmA
I posted this 3 hrs ago, didn't want to respond too early in case it killed any potential conversation. But I think it's probably run its course by now.

Thanks very much for the thoughtful comment. I did originally have 5 a week in as a target, but it didn't feel substantial enough. But I know you're right in that my most popular 'hits' (no conversion at all, but widely read) were the most in-depth pieces.

I'm not convinced that a multimedia shower will convert better than the equivalent articles, I have no data on that at all. I presume you've seen some indicators pointing to mixed media working effectively so I'll take your word for it and definitely incorporate it where possible/relevant.

Hopefully I'll have some interesting data of my own to report at the end of the challenge. Or sooner if it works better than expected. If you've any cases in mind of others doing similar things, with their results, I'd be all ears.
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I was already pretty old five years ago and I can confirm that this was not at all true at that time.
Some initial criticisms:

1. Avoid saying things that apply to everyone. Example, "I love building products that delight my users." Who wouldn't say that when applying for a job? This, "help create positive social change" is more interesting and should be the focus of your intro.

2. Avoid useless phrases. Example, "This has manifested itself in many ways during my career." Boring filler.

Overall, you could cut the length of this by 30-50% just by removing cliches and filler phrases. It would immediately become much more readable and emphasize your technical skills.
So taking extra lua dependency burden, and risk just to save 50 bucks to buy a real SSL certificate?

I'm going to call it certificateless SSL.
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"I don't need free speech, don't have anything to say."
Did, it didn't work. If it helps, I am behind a corporate firewall.
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Dart doesn't suck. Dart is different and developing in a way that meets both language needs is a pain in many situations.
If you say Dart sucks you also have to admit that TS sucks. They just suck at different things. There are no upsides without downsides. It's just about what upsides and downsides you are more comfortable to live with.
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Related pull request with more details & discussion

https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/pull/4329
Bike are balanced and symmetric side-to-side. Top to bottom they are not, obviously. The center of mass is above the ground , so a bike that is not moving will fall over to lower its center of mass. But this doesn't happen if the bike is moving. Push a bike without a rider and it will travel for a few feet without falling over, and take longer to fall over if just left standing still.
Yep, everyone can contribute and is free to take me up on that offer.
I hear you. The difference here is that I have been working on this business for years and I am fully motivated by circumstance and whatever else fuels motivation to execute. Perhaps not the case on the site you mention.

There'll be more from me on this, so do check back from time to time :)
The original link is here: https://www.digitaldefense.com/ddi-six-discoveries/

Down for some weird reason. Mod, please replace when it is working again.
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Great place to store meta data about a file, never thought about that before. I guess if the download stream is interrupted it reads that to know where to pick up again if resumed?

Another obscure feature of NTFS is Transactional NTFS which I'd never heard of until recently.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa3...
> s/bookstore/amazon\.com/g

Well, anybody can self-publish on Amazon (and I do mean anybody, including the completely illiterate), so I'm not sure that's a very high bar.
A Dart-like language designed with WASM as target will make sense now but I think Dart(as it is now)is already doomed to die. The performance promissed is just not there.
https://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/R41349.pdf p15

If you want to argue that security cordons and fences are not a "wall", then fine. There is no wall on the southern border of Mexico. Just a security cordon and fences.
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tcpdump is amazing
Hmm... I'm not granting anything in your post because there are a number o inaccuracies... But...

The level of debate that existed during the primaries, that continues to exist inside the party, the discussion of supporting a 3rd party candidate (in this case libertarian) is all centered around principles and positions.

Meanwhile, the complete lack of candidates, let alone debate among the democrats during the primary, the fait accompli of nominating Hillary, the complete disinterest in holding her accountable for breaking the law and putting national security at risk.... This is all centered around power.
And also drastically reduce the calorie count and fat content.

Of course you "can" - just not _healthily_ without significant break from norms for other meals.
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Pretty much just too much work and ever-decreasing interest with the foreseeable death of Flash. This would have probably needed a dedicated team untangling and implementing the Flash-specification over many months to get it done before most webpages had already killed off their Flash-content...
>code with Java Syndrome

You might find that most of the Design Patterns and even some of the Refactoring book are focused on working around limitations in Java/C++-style languages.

>Although, I should probably get around to reading Refactoring, and Design Patterns

I'd been programming for 20 years before reading either.

Both were...entirely unsurprising. Design Patterns at least defined a useful vocabulary for talking about different patterns, so I found it useful in that respect, and at least some of the patterns are useful outside of a Java/C++ language. Refactoring had some good wisdom on OO design, but it was pretty much all stuff I'd picked up elsewhere or come up with on my own.

Wouldn't hurt to read through both at least once to see if there are any surprises for you. Might be safe to just check them out of the library, though. I kept Design Patterns around but gave away my Refactoring copy.
> In this era, Protestants hated Catholics (and vice versa) all the same, but for the most part, they didn't kill each other over it

It is because both pointed their hatred and violence against a common "enemy". And today we have Black Lives Matter, and the same hatred and violence against them. I would not call this prospectoprospect a success.
It's an incredibly (and I mean dishonestly) generous view of birtherism to say it had nothing to do with Obama's race.
#1 - nobody in the race is more power hungry than the Clintons.

#2 - The republican party itself is at least interested in holding trump accountable. The same can't be said for democrats and Hillary.
Horrible summary actually.
1) "Local revolt"? Nopes, Pakistan invaded
2) Let's skip over multiple details like (India inviting UN/Pakistan not following UN guidelines/Increasing Islamization of the Kashmir valley/Ethnic cleansing of kashmiri hindus/Pakistan occupied Kashmir having less autonomy or democratic power than Indian Kashmir/Pakistan sponsoring of terrorism/Kashmir being fought over by three nuclear powers making it improbable to exist as an independent country)
Well first of all that article is exactly why we should use algorithms. Judges' sentences are arbitrary and biased, and not very correlated with the actual degree of risk. We should set sentences algorithmically, based on how likely the person is to commit a crime again if they go free. Not how the judge feels that day.

Second, a criminal record is the crimes you committed in the past, not the sentence a judge gave. The algorithm would see your record and determine your level of risk, along with other objective factors.

The algorithm has no bias. It sees the data and uses it to make the most accurate predictions possible. It doesn't care about race, and it is blind to it. A white criminal with the same record, should be given the same prediction as a similar black criminal. And the predictions it makes should be pretty accurate and objective.
> Short of some beyond comprehension post-singularity-ish event, no Libertarian will ever win the Presidency.

Partisan realignments in which a major party is displaced are not "beyond comprehension post-singularity events" (heck, even the kind of electoral reforms that would end duopoly aren't, though they are unprecedented within the US, unlike major realignments) even if its been 150 years since the last one in the US.
I'm hesitant to believe anyone who says definitively what trump 'is'. Because there is no voting record to speak of legislation wise, everything is just speculation based on what he says. And he says a lot of things.
Someone buying a new watch with their expense account doesn't suddenly give them access to the whole treasury -- that's the difference between physical and digital realms I am trying to emphasize.
That policy is used to silence dissenting opinion. Don't spread this PR. It's equivalent to police claiming they detained you for a broken tail light. Dorsey and his Saudi owners are on a purge.
Thanks for the response, vkou.

Since the article was discussing a specific industry and company, and the OP responded by the incentives of companies, I figured it was safe to assume that the discussion did not involve coercion or charitable actions as they are very different actions with different reward structures. Within a marketplace for commodities, an actor is rewarded with profits for providing goods or services.

Mugging would be coercion, and doesn't seem to fit within the context. Charitable actions can obviously create and transfer value, but it also seems outside the scope of a discussion of commoditization of goods.
Yeah, it is also cheaper than I can buy lunch by going out or getting delivery.
"My scheme was covert communications embedded in HTTPS to blend in, remailers through various jurisdictions that don't cooperate, face-to-face for most stuff, dead drops, calls with lineman's headset, snail mail of CD's surrounded by coupons etc, and so on. Stuff that draws no attention or has strong security against likely threat profile. Not sure how much of it would work today but no tech and low tech methods are still best."

This is way off the mark I think, how can something that requires _physical presence_ be best? Bringing up Bin Laden is not a good example here, as the particulars of his case made using cyber extremely difficult.

The Internet is absolutely and by far the best way for anonymous and/or covert communications between individuals or groups, as long as they possess domain expertise.

And this is only going to get better, not worse, mass-surveillance notwithstanding, due to the proliferation of information. That doesn't necessarily mean everyone has to use TOR and PGP, just that it's very easy to _hide_ amidst the noise and not compromise on OPSEC.

Lots of ways to do that.
That's pretty much because I'm going to be rolling out cold-calls 101. The only 'advanced' stuff I might try is pre-warming prospects with emails or similar. Otherwise it's just finding likely prospects, me, the phone and the law of averages. And of course lots of attention to objections, what works, what doesn't etc.

The post was just publicly setting myself the challenge. After a few hundred calls I'll post up some information on how it's going and hopefully a strategy of sorts will have developed. Don't expect much more than 'I called many people, was attentive, and some bought' in the best case scenario.

Thanks for the Ogilvy quote. I think that's just as valid as it was in the 20th century (I presume that's when he said it). Perhaps moreso.
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There are a lot of NTFS features that Explorer doesn't handle properly, like file paths greater than 255 characters.
> And it turns out to work great on regular bikes, too

Well yes, seeing as that's how you steer a bicycle. As a keen cyclist it annoys me when people (especially coaches) start harping on about countersteering being an additional technique you should learn, when it's what everyone has been doing intuitively since they first learned to ride a bike.
This is an argument for refactoring into smaller modules. Decentralization. Local and state government taking on more responsibilities, with the added benefit of forcing competition and choice among citizens vs. one-size-fits-all policy.
So are semicolons on Windows, yet still legal in file names. For PATH you can just quote the ones containing the separator (at least on Windows).
Same thing happened to me, after multiple resets I had to create a new account. Also, I was pretty sure I had tried the correct password and it was Microsoft that had forgotten the password/hash.
Don't we?
I doubt the lack of preview is intentionally some sort of loyalty/"in-crowd" test.
I'm an engineer at Code for America - https://www.codeforamerica.org/ - a non-profit that does this kind of work with cities, counties, and states.

Its still pretty early days for civic technology. I think we'll see tech provide all the services you listed, eventually. It'll probably be a mix of outside vendors and local governments running their own engineering teams. There are still some legal barriers in the way, procurement for example.

Its happening, just slowly.

If you are interested in speeding up the progress of your city, I'd recommend checking out if there are any civic tech volunteer groups near you. https://www.codeforamerica.org/brigade/
I find your friend's cynicism... lacking.

Here:

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

Operation Paperclip was the United States Office of Strategic Services (OSS) program in which more than 1,500 Germans[1] primarily scientists but also engineers and technicians, were brought to the United States from Nazi Germany for government employment starting in 1945 and increasing in the aftermath of World War II.[2] It was conducted by the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency (JIOA) and in the context of the burgeoning Cold War. One purpose of Operation Paperclip was to deny German scientific expertise and knowledge to the Soviet Union[2] and the United Kingdom,[3] as well as to inhibit post-war Germany from redeveloping its military research capabilities. A related course of action was taken by the US with regard to Japanese human experimenters employed from Unit 731. The Soviet Union had the somewhat similar yet much more limited Operation Osoaviakhim.[4]
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