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I really enjoyed this entire podcast. One of the best parts (starting at about 21 minutes in), are the counterarguments. So many of these arguments are what I hear out of a lot of engineers. Compensation, loyalty, stability, leverage, and mentorship. He really explains what these arguments are, why people psychologically hang on to these arguments, and why they are fallacies. At the same time, he is very careful to show why it's ok to work for corporations. But if you are going to work at a corporation, at least understand that there are other ways to not be in a situation where you are a commodity, this is so worth listening to.

The one thing that seems to be missing from his podcast is that he never really talks about the downside of breaking off on your own. There are many counterarguments to breaking off on your own, and honestly they follow well with the counterargument for why you SHOULD leave your corporate job.

For example, one of the counterarguments he gives it the compensation counter argument. Yet it is true, corporate engineers DO make a very high level of compensation per working unit compared to, well, just about every other job in the world (by percentage anyway). Stability is another counterargument. Going out on your own is not actually all that stable. He argues that going on your own isn't nearly as unstable as people think. I argue it is not nearly as stable is big corporate engineering life.

Now this isn't to stay you shouldn't go out on your own. I honestly think you should. Listen to the podcast, stop being a commodity.
I think it did make things easier, but then the fruits of that betterness were captured by the oligarch class. Our rapid progression toward a society of renters goes along with this.
San Francisco hasn't been growing at some unprecedented pace. Just 12% in the last 15 years. DC grew 17% in that time. Austin, 40%.
There are a few of ways to do this right now:

- Fork the Exponent client and add your native API.

- Try to get a patch into upstream.

- If it's not urgent, ask us if we plan to implement it and if it seems like a common enough use case we would add it to our roadmap.

- Go into the Exponent source and copy whatever native code you need into a new React Native project.

We're also working on a way to "eject" from Exponent similar to the create-react-app eject command but easier to reverse and to keep receiving updates to Exponent, because it's not an "all-in" kind of eject, you can read more about that here: https://blog.getexponent.com/answered-on-slack-ejecting-from... (caveat: this feature is still in early development)
If we're shouting out to our favourite window managers, then a long, long time ago I switched to ion3 and then for a long long time it was left unmaintained until Notion (not-ion) came along:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion3

http://notion.sourceforge.net/

My sincere thanks to all authors and maintainers of ion3 and Notion. I've used your work for at least a decade, probably longer.
Thank you for the insight.
not particularly! Sometimes problems really are difficult and demand thoughtfully designed solutions, and sometimes complexity in those solutions is both tolerable and worth it.
im trying to learn rust right now. its really hard
As someone who was too young at the time, why would it crash? I thought the Y2K problem was just programs only storing the last two digits. So 2016 would be stored as 16 and displayed as 1916.
> I don't agree that asking questions is easy, or limited only by quality barriers.

I didn't say either of those things, and I don't think either one is true :)

Asking quality questions is a skill, whether that's on SO or elsewhere. I'm just saying it's not rocket science.

Perhaps a better workflow could improve things. Almost like a wizard.
Cisco is one of the top most beloved b2b brands. I'm talking Apple level attachment here.
Aussie road trains are at most 55m

(They are still really imposing and impressive, especially at night. On the extremely flat, straight desert roads in the Outback, you can see them miles before they arrive, like a star on the horizon. When they finally get to where you are, they fly by with a hefty gust of wind. They have steel "roo bars" mounted on the front for efficiently generating roadkill. They are loud, brightly lit, and more than half a football field long.)
At least they eventually replaced the "Gen Y" placeholder with an actual name...

You know that word that Gen X hates, because the media constantly uses it to refer to us? Yeah, neither do I.

Just be glad that your generational cohort is large enough that people will actually pay attention to you as an advertising demographic or voting bloc. Even when the Boomer-controlled media is ridiculing you as special snowflakes in your safe spaces, at least they're talking about you.
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Did someone say burritos?
I'd like to try out kops, it sounded good. But step one was setting up a zone on route53, we don't use route53. Kube-aws from the coreos folks makes the same assumption, but is still useable, however it doesn't have multi-az capability.

I love kubernetes and I can't wait for the tooling to mature. I'm about to give 1.4 a spin and see where things stand.
Thank you for answering. I am still hopeful there will be another property found out about quantum behavior that will allow instant communication to be a reality.
Reducing a 25% tax on repairs is seen as an insightful and brilliant way to incentivize repairs? Well knock me over with a feather. Where is the previous article about how that level of tax is crazy to begin with?
As a former developer at one of the mentioned "large competitors", it became clear to me that the logistics and shipping field is wide open for startups like Flexport. DHL and Expeditors are still thinking it's the 80s and they don't know any other way of conducting business.

Congrats on the raise, I can't wait to see what you guys do in the future!
There might be a good reason why they use glass ceramics instead of for example stone. Maybe because it's harder to manufacture consistently (ferromagnetic impurities?), has a larger coefficient of expansion or because it's harder to implement touch controls for them. It might just be more expensive.
Ask HN: Is it worthwhile it to put ads on a site (Alexa ranked #2,209,472)?
Hi HN,
I created a download video website (keepandplay.com) some time ago, it is a rather simple site but with a tremendous support to multiple sites (youtube, twitter, Facebook, instagram....)

Since I created the site I didn't get any profits... no ads or similar.

Does anyone know whether it is worthwhile to put ads to earn some money? KeepAndPlay.com is ranked #2,209,472 on Alexa and produces 1,235 session per month (Google Analytics)

Suggestions on how to improve are welcome

Thanks!
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Technology has made things more efficient - so efficient that those who own the business no longer need us.
There are JS libraries that will inline SVG sprites for you
interesting, i live near Quincy and know a number of people that are helping build their new DCs and a couple that work there. seen many pictures of the inside and how the layout works, cool stuff. what amazes me the most if the crap hardware they run on.
It's possible to observe a trend without believing it should be prevented from happening. His argument is that we need to deal with the consequences.
> Today, families are struggling to make ends meet with 60-70+ hour work weeks.

Families? In some cities, singles are struggling to keep a crappy one-bedroom apartment roof over their head.
Well, there is a small problem with that. Road projects on the eastern side of North Dakota have been delayed because all the people capable of doing those projects were on the western side making money in the oil fields. Vocational education has for the most part been exiled from our high schools[1], and we lack a lot of that expertise. Public infrastructure projects require people trained to do them.

1) an interesting parallel to the decline of programming classes can be drawn as both have specialized instructor and facility requirements
"Second, the gains in average education and health of the workforce over the last 50 years are unlikely to be repeated"

I'm cautious about arguments that rely on a pessimistic expectation that progress will reverse because it's just never continued in the past. If the argument identified some fundamental reasons why progress will slow instead of drawing historical correlations then it would have merit. Then again if we knew those principles then we could correct our society and avoid disaster. Because this argument is flawed and human knowledge and understanding is the only thing that solves human problems, the validity of the argument is lost.
Stick with it! If you don't already have experience with C/C++ I would imagine it being extremely challenging.

I've only scratched the surface of the language and I can agree that it's not simple.

I've gotten lots of help from #rust on IRC and places like /r/rust. https://users.rust-lang.org might be good too, but I've only lurked there.
Wat. We weren't spending $50k/each on servers before Amazon AWS.
nah man, everyone has the resources to turn down jobs which don't pay enough /s
Is this a side effect of how the browser handles canvas rendering or did it have to be explicitly coded?
Thanks for the great work!! I've been using Graphene for few months and I love it
What about growth outside SF in nearby areas, though? For instance, Austin Texas, a city growing rapidly, has a current population density of 3,360 per square mile

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin,_Texas

But here's the thing - Austin has a land area of 271.8 sq miles! SF has about 48. Yes, like SF to the Bay Area, Austin city is smaller than Austin metro, but even the city area is so much bigger that there's probably far more space to build without tearing down something old, enough that I'm not sure the comparison is a fair one.

My guess is that you could draw a square around 48 square miles of Austin that locals would consider completely off limits to demolishing for high rises. Thing is, Austin continues to grow because growth at the peripheries counts as growth "in Austin".

As for SF... well, there certainly is growth going on in SF.

http://www.sfexaminer.com/san-franciscos-most-massive-housin...

My thesis is that if you compare this to the smaller, old and medium to high density areas within the cities where growth is more substantial, you'll see a very similar pattern - in fact, SF may be be showing a greater willingness to grow - but that the supposed resistance is really just an artifact of borders.

That's a thesis, not a conclusion - it's something I find intriguing, possible true, enough that I'd be interested in seeing more data on it before concluding that SF is somehow uniquely against growth compared to comparable sub-regions in greater metro areas.
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Is it a 16500? If so, you might see if you can scrounge up a 16505A, which might be able to network much faster (plus, it supports VNC and has a nice (for the time) graphical display. The 16505A is basically a PA-RISC pizza box that hooks up to the 16500 via a SCSI cable on the back, and adds some X11/Motif GUI happiness on top. I took a quick look around eBay and saw one for ~$275, but you might be able to get one cheaper if you look.

Side note: it was called a "Prototype Analyzer" because it was meant for analyzing prototypes, but we had more than one customer tell their salesperson to come back later when it was out of the prototype stage.
In the 70's, middle-class "comfortable" consisted of a 16-30,000 sqft house with a yard, two cars, and remarkably good job stability (pensions, etc).

Today, it takes nearly 2x the median household income to get something resembling that kind of life. Granted, you're still considered middle class at that level of income...
Northern Ireland was a more complex situation than being just a province where most want to secede
The employment rate would be higher. And total wage dollars paid would be higher too.

But hourly rates, particularly at the low end, would be lower than now and probably below a livable amount.
The average home size in the 1950s was just 953 square feet. Now it's 2500 square feet. You likely would have a single car. Your utility bill would be a lot lower (no internet, no cable, no air conditioning). You'd eat a lot of home-cooked meals, have a serious vegetable garden, would sew and mend your own clothes, etc. You wouldn't need to pay for your own clothes.

I suspect it's quite possible to raise a family on a single income if you're willing to live like it was the 1950s.
That's totally cool. You guys seem to do a lot of work for free. Hope you get the money you deserve.
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Wow that is cool! What if I wanted to make a model to detect cats? Can I just load a bunch of pictures from the web? Do I need negative examples?
IIRC WoSign was never in Apple's trust store in the first place; their trust status came from StartCom cross-signing their certificates.

(Not sure if cached intermediate certificates get added to the keychain - maybe that's what you saw previously?)
I fear many economists have the mentality of child prodigies; brilliant, extremely clever and very unwise. On a planet (<-- maybe note this) with limited surface-space and resources, and with growing populations with growing standards and demands, the paradigm of Planned Obsolescence(PO) is going to be exceedingly difficult to sustain. Aside from the physical limitations (see: Pacific Ocean plastic island, wars for resources, ocean acidification, climate change, etc., etc.) facing this paradigm of PO, the social costs generally go overlooked. Whether it is a reluctantly accepted 'necessary evil', or something merely conveniently ignored, there is something dishonest at the root of PO, which may have the collective effect of promoting a dishonest society. Perhaps some here can laud the virtues of the Phoebus Cartel[1], or any number of other such rackets - there are clear short-term benefits. But it seems terribly unlikely that a strong and trusting society will ever be more than ephemerally forged from this material. The PO paradigm also seems to lend itself generously to the Hegelian Dialectic while contributing ineffectuality to the masses, demarcating Consumers from Providers. I'd like to see economists explore the advantages of local economy more often.

It's a complex world that's unraveled, one where our popular methods of survival can be perfectly legal, unethical, hypocritical and irrational simultaneously, and the ensuing conflicts arising therefrom, conveniently viewed and treated as isolated. I think Adam Curtis's The Century of the Self[2] offers a bit of insight on where things starting going silly, and some of the mechanisms involved.

While the article may not be directly supporting PO as a paradigm, it gets uncomfortably close. Planned Obsolescence is great fun and games for a while, but I think the final results are predictably grim. There are definitely great challenges in maintaining a thriving economy without enslaving ourselves to endless consumerism, but these challenges must be faced. PO isn't the way.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self
I am supportive of clear explanations of some of the building blocks, but I worry repeatedly describing things as being grade school math level gives the wrong impression about the actual learning curve for getting up to speed on working with CNN's. Yes, the building blocks are easy to understand, but actually understanding why a given network structure, or optimization technique isn't working, is a black art. And if you don't have a workstation with a $2k gpu or two, you're probably not going to have a good time.
Frozen in carbonite? Just a guess.
This is very true. Flux helps with color, but it can still be a bright rectangle in a dark room and cause a lot of eye strain.

The best thing I can recommend is reducing your monitor's brightness to the same level as your periphery, including turning on a lamp to illuminate your surroundings (called bias lighting). Try something as simple as this: https://cdn.instructables.com/FUD/A1WU/GX3M1GEN/FUDA1WUGX3M1...

Also, if you aren't already, move your monitor further from your eyes. OSHA recommends almost 2 feet of distance; I personally prefer close to 3 feet. https://www.osha.gov/SLTC/etools/computerworkstations/compon...
It all comes back to money. People who've seen 20x returns on their property value want to keep the money, people who've spent $5m on a small house want to justify that investment, and landlords want to keep renting their shoebox studio for $3k/mo. Arguments about neighborhood character are just trying to obscure the obvious greed.
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> the land is low value

from what I understand mobile home owners don't own the land their houses are on, they are on a lease
Is this the only Alto running today?
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Shhhh! There is a massive labor shortage dont you know?
I'm an idiot here, so allow me this uninformed suggestion:

Could the elephant's tusks be removed and replaced with false tusks? I'm assuming there would be some way to replace them the way an implant is used to replace a tooth in a human.

If the prosthetic tusk were obvious (a bright color for example) it would signal to the would-be poacher, "No ivory here."

The tusks removed would be destroyed.
I've been running a tor relay on the original beaglebone black for a couple years now and have been very satisfied. Would have LOVED the wifi model back then.
Yes I have. The installation process shows a progress bar in an old-school bevel/embossed window, underlined with the filename it's writing. On my computer it showed alerts in the middle. Once started, it's just a normal Linux with sharp edges. Installation of at least one of my programs (probably IntelliJ) crashed, I think I succeeded to fix that using advice from Stack Overflow and the command-line, if I remember. Definitely working, but definitely not the experience we'd like.

It's already a great OS, to be honest, but what about adding 20-100 employees and making it a blockbuster?
1) If you are climbing the S-curve, most of the journey looks like exponential growth.

2) It's less of unemployment argument than reduced value argument. Unemployment is result from the lower limit for the living wage. People in India can find work for $1 per day even in automated society. If we are willing to reverse wage increases, remove laws regulating working conditions and remove all kinds of welfare, we can keep people employed for very long time.

3) In the past people could just leave menial jobs and pick a new job that required more intellectual capacity. We are reaching the limit where average Joe has no intellectual capacity that would increase their value in economy.
You did the world a service. Not everyone can say that, you know
You mean that racist cartoon from NY Times? [1]

[1] http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-29502062
I grew up in the US and worked in Austria for a number of years in my twenties, I was always impressed with this part of their education and professional process, always wondered when American companies would get smart and follow suit.

Many jobs don't need a degree, they just need you to know how to do one thing really well. A short well focused training program would do that.
Yep, that's pretty much it.

You could run into crashes if something was dependent on the date being in the future since when the machine was built (and hence you get a negative number when you shouldn't have), or if the machine was alive between 1999 and 2000 (in which case the BIOS or applications may complain because you've gone back in time).

This /mostly/ affected date formats. Well built systems and programs measured time in seconds since the epoch on operating systems that supported that time representation format.
If they really wanted to make memory-safe C happen, there are already SoftBound+CETS [1] and SAFECode [2] and other approaches. Rewriting all of the C libraries is just not a viable solution.

[1] http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~santosh.nagarakatte/softbound/

[2] http://sva.cs.illinois.edu/index.html
I take pause when I see anything from Larry Summers. From his wikipedia page:

Summers's role in the deregulation of derivatives contracts

On May 7, 1998, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued a Concept Release soliciting input from regulators, academics, and practitioners to determine "how best to maintain adequate regulatory safeguards without impairing the ability of the OTC (over-the-counter) derivatives market to grow and the ability of U.S. entities to remain competitive in the global financial marketplace."[21] On July 30, 1998, then-Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Summers testified before the U.S. Congress that "the parties to these kinds of contract are largely sophisticated financial institutions that would appear to be eminently capable of protecting themselves from fraud and counterparty insolvencies." At the time Summers stated that "to date there has been no clear evidence of a need for additional regulation of the institutional OTC derivatives market, and we would submit that proponents of such regulation must bear the burden of demonstrating that need."[22] In 1999 Summers endorsed the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act which removed the separation between investment and commercial banks, saying "With this bill, the American financial system takes a major step forward towards the 21st Century."[23]

When George Stephanopoulos asked Summers about the financial crisis in an ABC interview on March 15, 2009, Summers replied that "there are a lot of terrible things that have happened in the last eighteen months, but what's happened at A.I.G. ... the way it was not regulated, the way no one was watching ... is outrageous."

At the 2005 Federal Reserve conference in Jackson Hole, Raghuram Rajan presented a paper called "Has Financial Development Made the World Riskier?". Rajan pointed to a number of potential problems with the financial developments of the past thirty years.[24] The problems that Rajan considered include skewed incentives of managers, herding behavior among traders, investment bankers, and hedge fund operators who suffer withdrawals if they under-perform the market. Rajan also discussed the problems associated with firms that "goose up returns" by taking risky positions that yield a "positive carry."[25] Justin Lahart, writing in the Wall Street Journal in January 2009 about the response to Rajan's paper at the conference recounts that "former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, famous among economists for his blistering attacks, told the audience he found 'the basic, slightly lead-eyed premise of [Mr. Rajan's] paper to be largely misguided.'"[26]

In February 2009, Summers quoted John Maynard Keynes, saying "When circumstances change, I change my opinion", reflecting both on the failures of Wall Street deregulation and his new leadership role in the government bailout.[27] On April 18, 2010, in an interview on ABC's "This Week" program, Clinton said Summers was wrong in the advice he gave him not to regulate derivatives.
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You must have swiped left to my earlier article where I did a teardown of a Sonicare toothbrush.

I've removed Blogger's swipe left/right navigation, which I think is more distracting than useful, and I've re-enabled pinch to zoom, so hopefully the navigation will work better for you now. Also note that you can tap on a photo to get a high-resolution version (better than zooming will give you).
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Alexa is basically meaningless, the whole premise of it is fundamentally flawed.

But with regards to your site, it costs nothing to put ads on there, so you have nothing to lose. You could also approach a company and ask to be sponsored, you carry their banner and they pay you $x a month.