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It's a step in that direction but some key things don't work. Like the behavior of ctrl+shift+D is not available in VS code. Neither is multiple cursor copy/paste. Text drag & drop is missing. There are many other small quirks that won't let me make the move. A decent ftp client is also not there. The only one that works is shitty entire folder sync, I can't upload individual files. Their git and intelliJ integration is good though.
If I may give my 2 cents; are you deeply passionate about your startup? Are you trying to solve a personal problem?
My high school graduation present in 1995 was a TI TravelMate 4000M laptop computer. It had no built in CD-ROM drive (I don't think any laptop did until the late 90s) but it had a full size SCSI port on the back. I promptly went to the local electronics superstore and asked for a "Ess See Ess Eye" external CD-ROM drive. The clerk looked at me like I was smoking something, then said "Oh, you mean a 'scuzzy' drive, sure we've got those!" I distinctly remember thinking at first the guy must not be proud of his product lineup. A few moments later the acronym and his pronunciation clicked and I felt really embarrassed.
'Data scientist' is just title inflation by statisticians.
I feel like the tighter your developers are with each other, the higher the impact of turnover. I personally know from experience that when my high performing friends move onto bigger and better things, they constantly encourage me to go with them or find something new myself. Entire teams can end up leaving through a sort of snowball effect.
mass storage over usb has much less protocol overhead (you can x-fer 64K without any interruptions) network over usb has smaller frames and more framing. please see specs
I think it's worth to check the workflow video[1], how it is to actually build those animations. It really surprised me positively!
[1] https://vimeo.com/185587462
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That's exactly the question I asked them, with "or you want us to radiate the remaining the remaining 15kW into this single mode fiber going to your switch? we can get laser capable of that"
I had a chance to ship the first Tower Defense game for iOS. The OS X game I was porting had some crippling performance problems that were incredibly hard to track down.

The problem was two-fold:

1. The relevant tools (Unity3D) were extremely immature and the problem was quite diffuse. No profiler, poor quality of generated code, tiny caches, etc.

2. A problem in string-handling code that was quite diffuse throughout the game. As near as I can tell, it was blowing out the tiny CPU cache hundreds of times per frame.

On desktop, this code was a complete non-issue. On the puny little ARM on the iPhone? It was the difference between having dozens of towers and 50 enemies in play vs half a dozen towers and less than a dozen enemies in play. The impact on game dynamics, and need to re-balance everything by itself would add weeks to the shipping schedule.

There were plenty of other things that needed to be scaled WAY back of course: Switching from 3D to 2D to get vertex count and draw call count down. Completely rebuilding the entire UI. Revamping the pathfinding and suffix caching to not play havoc with the CPU cache. Moving from a 24x24 grid to a 12x12 grid. All of that combined helped a LOT, but not nearly enough.

The string manipulation was for a hierarchical property system that let me parameterize all sorts of attributes for enemies/spells/towers/projectiles in a set of text files. Ultimately, I had over-engineered on the assumption that I would be tweaking many more things -- with much greater frequency -- than I wound up actually tweaking.

Had I ripped most of it out and just had local properties on each prefab that I assigned manually, I might've hit that market opportunity. Finding that that was the cause was a multi-month project because of how interwoven it was with everything else. Hell, it would've been fine, had a not over-generalized it into a shared component on each prefab that the other components inquired with to get property values. But I did. And it took me vastly too long to identify it was the major problem it was.

Opportunity missed, and that was the final nail in the coffin for my fledgling game studio.
Where can I find this standard set of axioms?
What, if anything, can be said about what is unsayable?
Well, the correct answer is often also "They did it that way because it was a reasonable choice then, and they didn't have the benefit of hindsight that I have now."
I've noticed that many companies fail to recognize this, and hire two types of employees 1. Good ones who take the job for some reason, realize there are better options and leave shortly and 2. Bad ones that stay

Rinse and repeat, and the cycle gets shorter, and the problems get bigger
The ceiling will be significantly higher. But it's an interesting floor given that most employers know and hate paying for recruiters.
You are right. Unfortunately the american electorate is easy to manipulate so they will blame their problems on other groups that are suffering the same problems. Instead of asking why salaries don't go up anymore while the company makes record profits people start attacking each other. The last election was a classical example of distraction. there was almost no discussion of things that would make people's lifes better but instead the propaganda machine talked about e-mail servers, infidelity and "he said, she said".
ö in Icelandic and Swedish is phonetically equivalent to ø in Danish and Norwegian.

However the æ in Danish and Norwegian is like the OE one described in the article, between a and e, which is written ä in Swedish. Icelandic does not have that sound, and uses æ in the Latin way, representing the ai diphthong (as in English "fine").

The more common vowels also have fairly different pronunciations in the four languages.
I am not sure, but that page doesn't talk about deliverability at all, as far as I can see. Is it generally true that spawning a mail server on a random cloud instance will work for deliverability? I would have assumed that any given cloud IP has a nonzero chance of having been used by a spammer in the past.

(Or, in other words, if this does work, why do people who have small- to medium-scale deliverability needs use a dedicated email-sending provider instead of just using a t2.nano running an AMI with Postfix?)
Once I understood what a Cartesian product was and how it really relates to joining tables in a query, then I felt everything clicked and building complex queries was no longer daunting.
I've never had an issue with memory (have RAM to spare) even though I use tab-groups extensively and frequently have 600+ tabs stored that way. But I do have issues with slow startup times. Is it linked to tab groups? I didn't see any significant speedup upon switching to an SSD, so I'm assuming it is inherent in the program and not anything specific to reading profiles from disk.
In theory, an open blockchain like Bitcoin eliminates the need for a trusted authority to be the system of record. A spreadsheet needs someone to manage it. That person, and that data, must be very trustworthy, else they can simply change the data for their benefit. The compliance procedures that assure trustworthiness cost money. Lots of money. And they still fail.

Blockchains, in theory, could also serve as a voting mechanism on splits, which could be manifested as blockchain hardforks. As Satoshi Nakamoto wrote:

> The proof-of-work also solves the problem of determining representation in majority decision making. If the majority were based on one-IP-address-one-vote, it could be subverted by anyone able to allocate many IPs. Proof-of-work is essentially one-CPU-one-vote. The majority decision is represented by the longest chain, which has the greatest proof-of-work effort invested in it.

Essentially a blockchain can codify the ownership of a stock share into a smart contract.

That's the theory, and only insofar as it applies to a Proof of Work blockchain like Bitcoin.

A private blockchain is more likely to be a Proof of Stake blockchain, in which shares (or tokens of other sorts) are issued in a "premine" which creates all of the tokens that will ever exist. These are then distributed to the initial group of trusted members of the private blockchain. From there, the blockchain can eliminate the need for a trusted authority to serve as the system of record of ownership.
IDK. I've been at a few organizations where the cost of employee turnover almost certainly would have been negative.
Is IBM CEO Ginni Rometty someone who can actually provide insight on the impact of AI on society? I'm sure some of her subordinates could, but the only thing I've ever heard about her personally is that she's driving IBM into the ground by chasing some unrealistic financial metric, and I'm not super inclined to bypass a paywall just to hear an executive say executive things.
For an offsite backup, Backblaze is fantastic. Unlimited storage for $5/month and the client works perfectly. It's not highly-redundant or anything, so use it in addition to a local backup.

CrashPlan is the next-best option if you need Linux support, but the client isn't as good.
As I said, "variables that can amount to TENS of watts."
Often, it's because neither the company nor the employee really knows what the market rate actually is.

There is little industry agreement on what titles mean (SR engineer, for example isn't universally the same job).

And...both sides are incented to either over or under state market rate.
The original article is usually something like this "China considers Taiwan to be a renegade province, while the self-governing island Ms. Tsai leads traces its roots to the formation of the Republic of China in 1911 that overthrew the last Chinese dynasty, only to lose the Chinese civil war to the Communists in 1949."

No mention of the dramatically different standards of living (Taiwan has a higher PPP per capita than any PRC province, including Tianjin). No mention of the fact that the ROC declared the civil war over in the 1991. There is one aggressor and agitator here.

That's an entirely different issue all together. I think part of the reason is that they (myself included) are sick of seeing all the negative coverage of China 24/7 so they are just trying to balance things out. I myself recently did this on Hacker News:

Might I suggest voting with your feet and repatriating yourself back to the motherland? Wealthy chinese are often upset at hearing criticism of a communist dictatorship with an atrocious human rights record - but they don't want to live there themselves if they can avoid it. Clearly the benefits of western civilisation are wasted on them. They can go back to the unfairly slandered land they love, and the rest of us might be able to afford a house in our own country again.
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The idea looks cool but not that they explicitly don't want to support OMEMO sticking with old OTR: https://github.com/twstrike/coyim/issues/233
This is all you need to read from the article:

> Advances in artificial intelligence will lead to job losses, but new forms of employment will take their place...History, though, has demonstrated that technological breakthroughs lead to new employment opportunities

-- IBM CEO Ginni Rometty

But, I think we are approaching (if we haven't already crossed this point) the time where new jobs created by technology advancements will be fewer than old jobs displaced.

My example here is Instagram, a company of a dozen staff or so when acquired, is the digital replacement of photo labs in every city. New technologies are not the job creator that they once were and I haven't read anything to contradict that statement or posit that new tech is going to drive jobs growth.
> Soon the world will turn completely on merit.

lol
> It's a good idea to try to quantify the cost of losing an employee.

Yes! But this is difficult. But beyond the easily computable costs (e.g., $x that the company spends on recruiting / total number of people recruited per year) there are significant costs that involve a lot of assumptions to quantify (e.g., effect of drop in team spirits). Those estimates often get discounted by bean counters exactly because they are based on some personal guesses.

In general I find the article somewhat disappointing: it refers to the need to quantify the cost of turnover and IMO does little to help people get defensible estimates. On the other hand it goes on (and on) on why it is important to keep employees. No contention, but I thought the goal was to get to this conclusion by independent, numerical means.
Sounds like poor sales to me
Just for info, they're not an incubator in the traditionnal sense. You can't work at their (gorgeous) office. You can see it more like a "club", for doing networking. You also have access to some ressources, but most of their "startup spirit" talks you'll find are mostly translations of american books or talks from valley people, not really first hand experience. They do provide you with good trainings on fund raising, but you may want to ask for the detail of everything you're going to bave access to before you agree to give them 1 to 3% of your company.

Also, to my knowledge, the only successfull startup they have was "save", which is a fantastic company lead by very nice people, but it unfortunately filed for bankruptcy a few months ago, after having had a too intense growth.

At the moment, i'd say the biggest problem with every single incubator i know is the lack of unicorns coming out of them. Most people giving advices haven't created anything big themselves, and the few people who created really big companies ( criteo and blablacar for the last 10 years) don't go in those ecosystems to mentor newcomers.
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Wonder if it does Wordpress integration.
I enjoyed Nylas but was unsure about the features being worth enough for a subscription. So I am glad a free version is now available.
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It mostly refers to a discussion -- now flagged, though there's no reason it should be, as it's perfectly within HN's community guidelines -- about an interview he had in the NYT recently ("Peter Thiel, Trump's Tech Pal, explains himself", or some variant thereof) in which he definitely soft-peddles, and attempts to district attention from the famous Billy Bush tape, in which the Grabber-in-Chief-Elect says, well, you know what:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13378029

That's what I mean by "normalizing" -- "it's no big deal, what are all these people so uptight about?" -- that whole line.

As for "basic awareness of political history", I'm referring of course to events in the 1920s and early 1930s. With respect to which it is, in my view, really, really hard not to see close parallels (despite certain differences) with the current situation. Unless, that is, one spent one's formative intellectual years going out of one's way to not become aware of certain things.
Well, maybe she didn't lead the team during the whole process, but she certainly wrote code for it. You'd think she'd be mentioned, especially in the part about the AGC alarms that went off during Apollo 11's landing sequence.
How can you destroy a small device inside another person's head?
Oh god, not this again. Sounds like Accenture are looking to bring in more 'technical integration' clients (read: marks). Government and old financial being the favourites, given their deep pockets and technical illiteracy.

If anyone is in a job that involves holding back some of this insanity, this decision-flow diagram might help: http://i.imgur.com/4nZ67Sq.png
I agree with that. I don't think it's counter to the spirit of HN. I build apps for clients with the tools I know I'm proficient with but I play and hack a lot too. Sometimes that leads to use with client software though more often it doesn't, but learning is always good.
I would love to see motion and animation get more attention and love from the JS community, but at the same time I shudder at the potential for abuse.

How do you build a powerful tool and avoid that side effect? D3 is one example I can think of for a very powerful, yet constrained and focused tool (I would say opinionated but that word has lost all meaning).
We've seen this before with the transition from a labour force that was 50%+ involved in farming to one that became a manufacturing based society and then again in the move from manufacturing to services.

One of the bigger differences with AI is that it now may take away many of the lower tier "white collar" jobs along with blue collar jobs that were previously displaced by technology shits.

I'm not terribly familiar with my economics history but is it possible that a huge tide of AI backed apps could be the first time that a significant portion of white collar jobs are lost along with the typical blue collar jobs that are more traditionally lost with tech shifts?

Then again, in 2000, alot of first world programmers were worried about offshoring of programming jobs, I haven't seen any real impact of the loss of these jobs on programmers in North America so perhaps IBM is correct that AI will produce as many new jobs as it replaces.
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Yes, absolutely. Multiline thread lists in particular.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213945

This bug has been open for ~14 YEARS. Thunderbird not being actively developed is not exactly a recent development.

Reading through this thread I see tons of great MacOS mail clients, but very few Linux and essentially zero Windows. That's why I still use Thunderbird myself-- nothing better has ever come out.
Oscar. I'm a young non-smoking male though, so I have the cheapest possible plan (with a high deductible).
EU has free movement of labour and goods but does it have free movement of services I didn't think it did (that's a genuine rather than rhetorical question)
Yeah, that. But even things like cvs, that were modern and hip in 1998, are still floating around 20 years later.

I actually thought Subversion would be the last version control system, when it came out. Of course, now it's git. Maybe someday we'll get something better, and git will look decrepit.
I may be old (is 34 already old?) but to me a "startup" by definition is the latter in your post, VC-style funding aimed at hyper-scaling. Hence the "up", from the "start".

Otherwise it's just a regular small business (most countries and stats institutes would have a specific name for these >10 employees companies, like "very small" business or whatever).

There's confusion, imho, when we call any new company a startup just because it's operating in the tech industry (you can totally be a startup in any industry, so long as it has the potential to scale up dramatically). You can be a regular small business even in tech, you can be a startup-er in food. This is a 2x2 matrix.

Also, funding can take many forms, e.g. some startups being groomed by corporations (I know HP did that sometimes, with former employees). You still get the big money and obligations, and you already have one major future client; but nowhere near the same level of nonsensical buzzing.
Because building a machine that can support ridiculous options like those increases cost and introduces tradeoffs. Supporting 128GB of RAM would constrain the machine to certain unusual, expensive, power-hungry chipsets, and would require the machine to be physically larger to hold all of that memory.

Trying to build one product that satisfies everyone's needs will inevitably end up with a product that satisfies nobody.
It builds on earlier propaganda techniques, of course, in much the same way that web design builds on typography. What makes it modern, is the "social" element and the even more multifarious "multichannel."
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What in the heck is the reader on that page called? Couldn't zoom, fonts looked terrible, very slow...
More like 'analyst' in how easily it is thrown around. Calling a built in function in python or R is just about equivalent to calling one in Excel. Sure, you can claim that folks need to know more about what is going on, but honestly, how many have actually gone through the work of deriving the functions they're calling to begin with?
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In my experience, this is not true in San Francisco. I've never worked anywhere in the bay area where engineers were thought of as easily replaceable. Everyone knows how hard it is to hire competent engineers around here. Even if people were lined up to replace a lost employee, just the interview process for hiring people is expensive as it takes multiple people out of their role to sit and interview someone for a day. When you lose someone, you end up with an empty position for at least a month, as even if you do hire someone right away they have to quit their current job and leave notice.
I've been through this once and it was enough for me.

In retrospect, I should have left way earlier. I urge you to consider whether, by staying, you are just enabling the sort of disfunction you dislike :)

Camaraderie is great and if there is actual friendship/respect then the relationship will continue even after you quit.
I don't know much about blockchain, but the salespeople of big consultancy firms like Accenture are master snake oil merchants.

When you combine the two it must be like a perfect storm of bullshit.
I took the Stanford Database MOOC course. A lot of work, but you get a pretty deep understanding from it: https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/Engineering/db/2014_1/...
https://henrikwarne.com/2011/12/18/introduction-to-databases...
My review of the course:
Actually you don't know at all how Brexit was 'primarily caused' if indeed there was a primary cause. Plenty of cosmopolitan EU-savvy intellectuals supported 'Leave' with excellent arguments. An opinion is one thing; the pretense of having a penetrating analysis to the extent of proving it with a virtual quiz plus results (wow - it agrees with your prediction!) is another.
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One idea is that I may be able to correlate it with other data I log into Health, like caffeine input, stress levels, sleep patterns, etc.
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Thanks! I also love that book, as it's full of practical advice. I really recommend reading Contagious if you haven't because it really made me realise how important all the offline stuff is for a tech startup :)
That's vague (thus arguably incorrect). Valve makes a video game every few years, and sells more video games except for about five other companies.
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