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> I never saw it like that in the days I had to change Borland, Zortech and VS experience by UNIX one in the late 90's,

I'm not sure I understand what you mean by this. Can you explain?
Also, what did you not like about the experience?
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Could be. If they don't want to compete solely based on price. Or don't believe that price is their strong point.

There are many reasons to compete on price but just as many reasons to not compete on price including service, support, delivery charges, home delivery options, shopping local. Or simply not wanting to support a race-to-the-bottom Walmart world.

Yes, forcing retailers to be part of your system is great for your business model but that doesn't equate to necessarily be good for theirs. And since they may never know that you even exist (if a customer doesn't visit because of your site how will they know?) they may be losing traffic without even knowing why.
+1 Been using tarsnap for over a year now and couldn't be happier.
Direct link to the talk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvKaC4pNvck

CCC Munchen wiki pages on Iridium: https://wiki.muc.ccc.de/iridium:start

GitHub for the Iridium decoder software: https://github.com/muccc/gr-iridium
How do the security of this compare to for example Sandstorm?

Afaik, Docker is not as isolated from other hosts as Sandstorm is.
My use case: Open some html file with thousands of lines. Was unusuable. But that was long ago.
This is an interesting idea in that it basically becomes the store for post-kickstarter projects that had traction but not enough to negotiate a contract with major retailers. Great idea -- I hope it takes off (no pun intended).
One thing I just tried: opening a bundle.js file. I accidentally do this at least once a day and it crashed Atom every time. The 1.11 beta handles it fine now. Good job Atom people!
Counterpoints galore here - http://www.financialwisdomforum.org/gummy-stuff/gummy_stuff....

Warning - it can be tough reading (and not in the usual scholarly sense, either!) as the author definitely had his own "style". Also it's written from a Canadian point of view, though the concepts are universal. (ie - Americans shouldn't automatically dismiss the link.)
> The theory is tax breaks for charity make people donate more, and a dollar donated to a charity is a dollar that doesn't have to be paid by the government to do the same thing.

The second half of this theory is obviously unsound when the definition of "charity" is not limited to functions that would otherwise be performed by the government and which directly reduce government expenditures in those domains.

It is especially ludicrous when the definition of charity for which subsidies are provided includes, e.g., religious institutions, which perform functions that the government is Constitutionally barred from performing, which are obviously not functions that the government would otherwise be required to perform.

(The first half -- that providing a public subsidy for an action encourages that action -- is true, but it doesn't make a lot of sense for that to be an income-weighted subsidy. Were the second half sound, the first half would be better served by a tax credit for, or proportional to, the amount of donations, rather than a tax deduction.)
I'm also used to seeing change in key metrics structured as a year delta. This is obviously only useful a year after you start, but it's still a useful practice.
Having never heard of Atom before this, I appreciate the notice that it is not a suitable replacement for a general-purpose editor like vim. Saved me who-knows-how-many hours of frustration.
If you need a fan to keep cool in that small space then a second body will make things a lot more uncomfortable.
I don't work with DNS at the protocol level; it's done via the Exim "verify = reverse_host_lookup". The documentation says:

This condition ensures that a verified host name has been looked up from the IP address of the client host. (This may have happened already if the host name was needed for checking a host list, or if the host matched host_lookup.) Verification ensures that the host name obtained from a reverse DNS lookup, or one of its aliases, does, when it is itself looked up in the DNS, yield the original IP address.

The phrase "or one of its aliases" seems to imply that the match does not strictly require the A record.
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I gave up on contributing to Stack Overflow a couple of years back. The site comprises of questions that can be mostly categorized as:

- FAQs (a single FAQ would have scores of questions, if not more, at least in the popular tags; the same set of contributors would happily copy/paste their answers to similar questions)

- too-specific problems (those that would rarely help a visitor; more of a lack of effort on the part of OP or the OP being too lazy)

- extremely poorly written questions

This doesn't imply that one doesn't get to see good quality posts on the site, but that the majority of the posts are continuously deteriorating in quality.

--

You'd also find meta posts that mention issues:

http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/252506/question-qual...

http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/171172/stack-overflo...
The problem is philosophical. StackOverflow is what you get when you accept the proposition that there exists one canonical way to ask each possible question and that there's one corresponding best answer to it.

This approach was revolutionary, but, once accepted fully, leads to all sorts of silly limits on behavior.
Of course it's the government's fault - they are threatening you and your prospective employer with violence if he actually hires you. You would find a job in the US if it wasn't for (potentially) violent actions by a third party.

In contrast, no one wants to hire the philosophy major. There is no one else to blame because no third party is preventing him from behind hired.
I've refused to sign employment contracts which push all "IP" into the employers ownership saying things like "You don't get to own my graphic-novel or my band's songs or whatever just coz you pay me to write some web-app"

I've never had them refuse to amend that clause in the face of that. Maybe it's different outside the UK.

If they did refuse to amend, I'd continue the job hunt basically. I probably don't wanna work for a company that inflexible anyway.

Also, contracting works well for owning your own IP. Contractor clients appreciate you have other clients too and don't usually even try to demand exclusive ownership of the product of your mind.
Ask HN: What are the best way to curate content?
I am planning to lunch a blog. Should I curate or create the content?
>Furthermore, there is a rash of jobs that are primarily cost-cutting measures from companies based out of more expensive areas, which puts you at a kind of career positioning disadvantage

Does/will the midwest not have this problem though?

>jobs seem to regularly pay under $100k for senior developers here when the cost of living has gone up dramatically compared to my perception that I could get a decent place for <$1500 / month where I wouldn't have to suffer from a horrible commute - this is patently untrue I've found after spending a month searching for housing (not apartments, admittedly).

You can rent a family home on the north perimeter for around $1700 a month. Not nearly as cheap as some midwest locations but not nearly as expensive as the Bay Area. You also do have the option of having a 40 minute commute and paying a fraction of that in rent. It's a nice option to have on the table especially if your job is located outside the city or allows remote days which is often the case.
What's their benefit to putting in the extra work to delay such emails based on your start time? What if some people actually wanted the emails regardless of a recent new job? What if they don't trust the start times that people claim?
probably around the same time as the last stupid blog post.

maybe shortly after..
:)
I dropped Spotify completely because of the ridiculous energy use.
This is really unfortunate. Technology should be used to empower local business, not destroy it...
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So you make a living off of publishing on youtube? I was always fascinated by this model.
Counter-counter moral: detect Jumbo packets and use them. Except maybe still not over general Internet.

Modern OSes have a thing called black-hole detection, it is a good idea to have something similar in your protocol running on top of UDP.
that is a nice idea, but i think we are unfortunately years away from that. i dont have time at the moment, but take this article and run it though this state of the art algorithm and see what comes out:

https://research.googleblog.com/2016/08/text-summarization-w...
Great, you are welcome! :) I have a complete program for training sysadmins at http://verticalsysadmin.com/blog/training-program-to-make-a-...
I used to be addicted to SO while I was at Uni. Amazing source of knowledge. Wanna learn Python? Go to top 20 questions and answers from `python` tag and read all (e.g. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/231767/what-does-the-yiel...)

I don't care about "help vampires" I learn from their questions as well. What is more problematic is the SO equivalent of grammar nazi. For example http://stackoverflow.com/questions/652788/what-is-the-worst-... this is considered a bad question even though I learnt from it a lot.
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That's not what the article says. The article, by the way, generates the same question your last comment did: what does it even mean to "inherit" the backbone? Does it mean "be allowed to interconnect with"? That's a pretty counterintuitive definition of "inheritance".
It's for just this sort of reason that I took my DSP plugin business 'Airwindows.com' to a Patreon-only model when my 'shopify' (Kagi) went bust recently.

It's getting pretty weird out there. This is very much about obliterating things like Shopify: helping startups is strictly tangential and/or temporary. It's all about the strategic moves and trying to prevent other players in the sector from growing. If they don't grow, they die, so seizing control is worth anything.
Keys can still be cracked, and ciphers can be broken. Not giving anyone your information, if you don't have to, is always the preferred option.
You are abusing the definitions of words, here.

A tax is an effectively positive tax rate. A subsidy is an effectively negative tax rate. A tax rate which is effectively zero is neither strictly positive nor strictly negative, so is neither tax nor subsidy.

In order to make the argument you seem to be making, you must be holding government revenues from taxes to be constant, which makes tax cuts and tax increases a zero-sum game. If someone is taxed less, someone else must be taxed more. But I do not agree with your assumption that the government seeks to keep its revenue from any one particular tax constant when considering changes to tax law, or that it must necessarily even consider the revenue impact at all.

The goal in this particular case actually seems to be to influence the behavior of those who pay the tax in a particular way, and the revenue is mainly a pleasant (for them) afterthought.
The spam bit sounds cool but the nosql db sounds odd. E.G. That tree implementation with batched rebalancing sounds downright scary, and I thought avl was considered the worst kind of balanced tree due to excessive overhead (an int per node to red-black's bit) .
+1 StackOverflow remains a valuable resource but there has been a very clear shift in the responses from nurturing, supporting to snarky and mean. Perhaps it was the intention but I now think twice before posting a question and half expect the first few comments to be along the lines of "Duplicate", "What's with the lame use of <fill in blank>", etc.

It really sucks the fun out of coding but alas it has far more positives than negatives.
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Some languages do have more-or-less canonical formatting styles. The Lisp family comes to mind, as do ML and Haskell. You see far fewer arguments about formatting there, partly because there's very widely-accepted style, and partly because nobody cares to argue about the few things that don't have established canon.
> And even if you don't "spend your days worrying"
> about the latter (which I didn't suggest everybody
> should), doctors, biology researchers, drug companies
> etc, better DO worry.

That was the point of my links, I do think it is an important topic, and when the threat of antibiotic resistant bacteria came up read a lot of different sources on how people were responding. That lead me to understand that the threat was being taken seriously, that significant funds were being invested in the solution, and really smart and dedicated people were working to find solutions. As those people started reporting on their work I could put it into the category of big problem, competent people are working on it, and they have the funding they need.

I spend more time thinking about underfunded efforts that are trying to address hard problems. For example I believe the development of tornado/hurricane proof affordable housing is under funded. Every year we (as a community of tax payers) fund the reconstruction of housing and neighborhoods destroyed by tornadoes or hurricanes. We reconstruct these neighborhoods with the same types of housing that were destroyed before knowing that it will be destroyed again. That is GDP that if we invested some of it in research and development of weather proof housing we could save in future years. As the planet warms this is just going to get worse, and flooding is going to be a huge issue. One thing about warmer air is that it carries more water, more water, more rain, more rain, more flooding. That is a problem worth spending time on and investing in.
> Not responses to the question, ...

I'm surprised. Try an experiment: ask elementary questions in popular tags such as Python. You're bound to see at least half a dozen answers on the question.

Your observation is likely to hold true when the question isn't as easy to answer or when the question isn't framed well.
When will the last painting be painted?
The Cloudron is intended to run on a VPS/Single tenant server. Apps get installed into this server as docker containers (this is so that apps are isolated from each other). We also have some best practices in place for Docker containers - read only root fs, non-root user etc. We also have a change coming up where apps will run with user namespaces (but it is waiting on a patch from Docker).

At the server level, the Cloudron will only expose ports from the server that the app requires. For most web apps, this means only port 443 (https) and 80. The server is otherwise completely locked down.
Because it's not really detectable by patrolling without in-depth investigation. A patrol cop staring at e.g. a stockbroker doing insider trading would not deter it because that wouldn't be visible even as he would be doing the trades. A patrol cop sitting in all Madoff's meetings and sales presentations wouldn't prevent the Madoff scam from succeeding. There's nothing to suggest even getting a warrant without analysis of the actual trade data/accounting information/etc, which cannot really be done by most nonspecialized police officers.
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>Motorola's whole business model with the original Iridium was pretty insane.

Agreed, their original use case made some assumptions that have proven false. It's too bad Motorola sold off Iridium (and for that matter Motorola Mobility) because now with Project Ara we're finally to the point of single device satellite and terrestrial convergence. I.E. You could presumably purchase or rent an Iridium expansion for your handset much like you can rent Iridium handsets today.
Rather than the "same goods" argument, I would say that charitable tax deductions moves the agenda and decision-making process of what specific public goods we want away from the political process (i.e. the people voting in politicians who promise to fund/promote/ xyz) to private (read: wealthy) individuals, which is why I think conservatives favor it more. Conservatism views Oligarchy as a Good Thing.
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As a consumer, the idea sounds great. But as a SAAS business owner, I don't like it. The reason is that most businesses rely on their "inactive but paying" users to keep going. They don't have to support those users all the time, get easy revenue and it is not illegal to do so. It sounds like a dark pattern but this is a fact that any honest business owner should confirm.

I bet that for a lot of subscription based businesses, this is the case. I myself have a few subscriptions as a consumer and a lot of them have taken money from me when I did nothing. Just because I am either too lazy to do something about it or I just don't care enough. Either way, the business is happy to keep charging until I force myself to cancel if needed.

Now, it is also easy for a business to setup a simple recurring model. From a technical standpoint, can you imagine if the subscription billing functionality now needed logic to not charge due to inactivity ? How the hell do you calculate "inactivity" ? Just by checking login ? What if a user starts claiming that they never did anything even though they logged in once by mistake ? Do you still not charge them ? See how easy it gets crazy with various permutations and combinations. It will most likely end up in being a huge hassle for a business and not worth their time.
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I've heard Health Insurance is pretty expensive if you are self-employed. How did you deal with that? Is your wife also employed in which case you are just able to share hers?
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i have a late 2012 macbook pro 13' w/ i7 2.9ghz, 8gb ram for work. this isn't exactly a high-end device, nor a low-end one but i would say this laptop is pretty common.

atom runs slow for me. just too frustrating to use even though i would like to use it (even despite reporting bugs that essentially get left to die). sublime just runs faster.
This is true if you are first and foremost a company that provides technology to other customers, and in that case, you

a) have a very competent dev and ops team
b) have a business where you are the provider of an SLA.

For many companies with 5K+ employees, they are already distributed, already have multiple data centers, have workers all over the globe, and, when they are not primarily in the IT delivery business, tend to have IT departments that have limited budgets, lack of training and poor organizational awareness.

This leads to poor security practice, poor cost analysis, and long/nonexistent upgrade cycles on many behind-the-scenes workloads.

You are of course right, there are many diverse reasons to be on-prem, but at some point, many of those reasons go away with sufficient size and differing priorities. Things change when a company's business involves the consumption of IT services, rather than the delivery of IT services.
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are there better alternatives though?
I thought tarsnap is completely different in that it is in a way its own cloud storage that uses S3 as the backend?

As in it encrypts your files, dedups and puts them on S3?
I think that is not what is happening.

Standard of living in the US is growing - but very slowly.

While standard of living is increasing rapidly in developing countries.

You can see the same issue in China, where standard of living has actually grown rapidly.

I am not arguing to make American standard of living regress at the expense of improving the standard of living for other developing nations.

Standard of Living would have risen regardless of FDI money moving into India and China - the only difference is that western capital is allowed to make money off that development.

The issue is that the amount of money that is required to bring any massive improvement in living standard in western countries is really large. Things like self driving cars are much harder to create - then just copying current technology and distributing it.

This is why it should have been upto western govt to channel a lot of public money and tax multinationals aggressively so that western countries can have accelerated rate of growth.
Zilog the company wasn't founded until 1974, years after the first microprocessors were made.
Noncompetes are illegal in at least one state (California), difficult to enforce elsewhere, and usually severely limited in scope. For example if you worked for Uber, you could be barred from starting your own taxi or rideshare app on the side, but not from starting a healthcare services business or game studio.

I did have one company try to get me to sign a 10-year noncompete, upon pain of having to pay twice the market cap of the competing company. I am not shitting you. I tried pointing out why this was outrageous and unenforceable (what if I worked for PayPal?!) and they didn't seem to get it. So I told them to gtfo.
Multiple users getting access to same secret encryption key on single computer?
Because it's a jpeg and not a png.
Jpeg will show artifacts (smudging and mosquito noise) in high contrast areas and flat fields of color.
PNG is lossless, and well suited to compress repeating color values mixed with high frequency signals.
I'm on my way out. I had a break in a few years back and lost everything. So I sold what I had left, took my savings and went backpacking for a year:

http://khanism.org/perspective/minimalism/

I had dreams of getting into grad school, but that didn't work out and I ran out of money ($20k NZD) so now I'm back in America working software. It's soul draining.

I'm not an entrepreneur. I have no desire to start my own business. Right now I'm saving until my lease expires. Then I plan on selling everything and doing something crazy again.

I might look for writing residencies. I have a film I'm self-funding a demo for in order to crowdfund the rest. I'm looking at fellowships. I'd like to get the film started while still employed and quit work once it's funded and I'm over 50% done with its development.

If all else fails, I'll buy a car and live of my savings, driving around America for a year or so while perusing some of these things mentioned. The 2nd major option I'm thinking of is getting another Australian work visa and taking another dev job or finding a writing residency there.

The thing is: I have no kids, family or debt. My parents came from poverty and my father spent ever dime on making sure his kids had a debt free college education. I feel like these things artificially limit others, but they shouldn't.

If you're religious (I'm not), missionary work is something you can do with your family. I also have a close friend teaching English in Germany and just allows her college debt to grow (we'll have forgiveness eventually. Either that or she'll eventually get her German citizenship and renounce the American one).
> Very few non-profit organizations are "funded by taxpayers".

All 501(c)(3) charities are funded by taxpayers by means of the tax subsidy provided by the deductibility of donations to the organization (which is a separate issue from the tax exempt status of the organization itself.)

Tax exempt non-profits that are not charities may or may not be taxpayer funded by some mean, but, the subject of the thread here is charities, not nonprofit organizations more generally.
A little off topic, but that got me thinking... Is there actually any major software that is still using decimal version numbers? So that, for example, 1.1 < 1.12 < 1.2?

Wikipedia [1] says it was common in the 1980s, but gives two only two modern examples: Opera and Movable Type. And even that seems to be outdated. Neither of them uses decimal version numbers any more. Can you think of any others?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_versioning
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