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> I do have little patience for people telling me they want to "change the world" by creating an obviously inconsequential consumer web app or the equivalent

I know what you mean - while also building a consumer app to change the world (well, the worlds of people).

There is certainly BS out there and it does draw out my patience. But likewise, there are apps and services out there that really are trying to change the world.

But in the end, you're not a mind reader. Everyone is different and has different reasons, although there are certainly trends.
Similar experience. Win10 was really, really sluggish on my spinning rust drive. Problem went away with an SSD. Must be tuned for use on a solid state drive.
Well, people who don't want to taste chlorine, yes.
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Jesus, it's $3k per YEAR now? My house built in 1995, also AA county, is only $300 per year, but it is for 30 years. Still quite a significant difference, and not fully explained by inflation alone.
They've written it down in more detail than "shared responsibilities" too. It's a pool of self-employed freelancers handling projects in their own way paying fees/commission to a holding company with dedicated admin/sales responsibilities and major decisions made by a board or by vote. Paid projects people don't want to handle themselves go to the first person to indicate interest unless the interested parties agree otherwise. It sounds more like a non-profit, elected-board, closed-shop Uber than "shared responsibility".

Needless to say, this model is not going to work quite so well with every type of creative process and personnel.
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May as well go to cosmetology school for a year instead of getting a CS degree if you're going to work in asinine conditions like that.

If I want to eat what I kill, I'd rather go make millions (or starve) on Wall Street. At least there's a base salary instead of a base rent.
> Just because you are working for a long term (technological, scientistic) goal doesn't mean you are above the many different perspectives of the rest of the world.

I've never implied this. You are making severe assumptions and putting words into my mouth
> And with all the money you save on gas, you can buy a little cabin out in the country and enjoy real nature there a few weekends a year.

1. At peak, I only spend $1800/year on gas. Even if that doubled or tripled, that's not enough to buy a cabin in the country - not by a long shot.

2. If I had a cabin in the woods, how would I get to/from it without a vehicle?

3. I don't want to enjoy "real nature" a few weekends a year. I want to enjoy it every day when I get home from work.

Owning and driving a vehicle is about freedom. Freedom to go where I want, when I want, with whom I want. Freedom always makes an exchange for risk (cost, crashing, health, etc) but I wouldn't exchange my freedom for any of those. If you would, that's fine, but don't tread on me.
The soda stream was the game changer for me. I'm addicted to soda water (aka seltzer aka club soda).

I don't even like adding flavor. Filter water + CO2 is good enough for me. Curbs appetite.

I also have this probably unfounded belief that even if what you are consuming has zero calories but has a strong taste it will have some sort of impact on your hunger levels and perhaps worse insulin as well (some sweetners I believe do).
Isn't that still true?

(And Streisand effect is '00s, not '90s)
Ubuntu Studio isn't managed by Canonical (though I think they do receive financial contributions?) so that's a little different from the Canonical lead variations that the GP was discussing. However I do agree with you that Ubuntu Studio is a great product. I remember using it back when it was relatively new and even then I could see real potential in the making.
Now that's a startup idea.
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I don't know why they choose it, but I get the impression they are the party for all animals, including humans.
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I can tell you that I agree completely with that. But, that's not at all what I'm disputing.

People within companies are building web apps because thats what they know. The world has changed in the past 10 years. In response to that, you took a hard line stance that this is "definitely not the reason." I disagree.

I _think_ you're trying to argue about why developers -- as a whole -- have moved towards web apps, but its hard to say because that's not at all what I'm talking about and you haven't made that part clear.
They didn't do anything morally wrong. The data is already public and easily searchable with a few regex tricks. They just made it a tiny bit more convenient but anyone that's thought of this as a source of credentials can easily scrape it themselves.

If anything what they're doing might help shine a light on how big of an issue this actually is and provide a helpful corpus of data to train algorithms on to detect this better.

The issue at this point is far too big to be able to go around and notify everyone about this. There's also plenty of repositories that are abandoned or maintainers that are MIA so you'll never be able to properly resolve all of it.
And Eros, thanks to those damn Inners.
Depends where you are. It doesn't need to be at tasteable levels; the US apparently uses rather a lot and has poor quality control (Flint passim)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2242094/Chlorine-t... (apologies for poor source)
My point is that some artistic work is valued extremely highly.

The issue with saying "we'd like everyone who wants to be an artist to be able to make a living at it!" is that thanks to easy duplication, a very few winners take almost the entire pot.

That's radically different to most other industries, and so requires different solutions.
Please (re?)read the parent's last paragraph:

> The problem is that artistic jobs in the 21st century suffer from a truly vicious power law curve, and a comparatively small number of people can create most of the art and storytelling most people will consume.

But I think the problem is not unavoidable - for example, you could avoid it by trying to get the locals to have preference for local content, so it alleviates the pain of fighting against global artists. You just need to find a niche to exploit :) for example, being a bullfighter reduces competition as there are not a lot of countries that enjoy it. For music, try folk. Etc.
Because that takes (a lot) more effort, and you're on a schedule?
> Look, if you want to wrap your life around riding your bike to work, more power to you, just don't try force your lifestyle on the entirety of the US population through punitive taxation.

No one is talking about "punitive taxation," we are talking about eliminating subsides for driving.

This is not a stick, it's a reduction of your free monthly carrot delivery.

It's as if the government were giving massive subsidies to Angular developers. After 50 years of this the small community of React developers says "hey, um, can we eliminate those Angular subsidies someday?" and the response is "oh my god--stop this horrible social engineering! Don't try to force your lifestyle on the entirety of the US population through punitive taxation!"
You could build destroyers and train crews in four or five years. That's a fraction of the time it takes for an aircraft carrier, particularly if you haven't been building them.
Cool idea. Anyone know of a python flavoured version of this?
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"There's nothing wrong with that model (as another commenter mentioned doctors paying into a "group practice" for shared expenses such as an office and billing staff.)"

Another common one I've seen is hair stylists. They often rent their booth from the shop in exchange for equipment, pay processing, foot traffic especially, and so on. They get some cut of the base pricing plus tip money. Idea is they'll come out profitable on a regular basis despite paying to be there. Just another business expense really.

" If workers are the ones paying the company, it's easier for them to agree not to have a CEO manage them."

Testing the comparison again, this is also true for hair stylists. They're the ones who have to pay to be there and maximize their revenue. They'd rather be left alone to use whatever methods they can to keep customers happy, regular, and with high tips. Likewise for a consultancy where people renting space in the company would want to be flexible to maximize number of clients and revenue by targeting methods to each one's or each group's preferences. Both for hair stylists and IT consultants this take experimentation that might not happen in organizations with top-down management, esp micro-management.
Don't do this.

In languages where accidental assignment is possible (i.e. writing if(a=b) when you meant if(a==b) ), configure the compiler or linter to emit a warning in this situation.

For example in C, GCC will complain about this when compiling with -Wall, which you should be using anyway.
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> “We ask ourselves ‘can we avoid this process altogether?’ When not, we ask ‘can we fully automate it?’ This is what we try to do,” Lindner told a conference in Zurich in November. “We are really trying to automate not just our production sites but also our back office.” - Ricola CFO
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Basecamp is one of the few bright beacons in the tech industry. They walk the walk.

I often turn to SvN whenever I need a quick morale boost or injection of reality.
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I don't say I'm autistic, no. I have wondered bringing it up, but I don't like the handy caps.

I never wanted extra time in exams. My brain works so well in so many wells thanks to my autism. I've genuinely never seen it as a drawback. The only time it's a problem is when people decide it's a problem.

And the problem isn't that I don't want to assimilate, I simply don't understand how. I don't know how to make a joke. Whenever I try to tell jokes I'm told my joke is weird, or offensive, or disrespectful. I don't understand the rules of humour so I shut my mouth and get on with my work.

I had a conversation the other day with my parents about how I should respond to "how's your day going?" When is it appropriate to be honest if you're having a bad day? How do I tell if someone is saying that to start a conversation, or just saying hi? It's tricky. So I say, "i'm fine". And then people tell me I'm being rude or laugh at me.
That's crazy you and I posted the same example at about the same time. Although, I have kinder thoughts about that market it seems. ;)
Could we change the link to a better article, like https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/02/dad-who-live-str... ?

The article on thememo.com leaves out key information, such as the fact that ABC broadcast only 22 seconds of the 45 minute video.
That absolutely can happen - but remember that the traits of the 'evolved' lung cell will not be passed to offspring, as the genetic makeup of gametes (sperm) is a random (50%) subset of the main genetic code.
> bought and downloaded a React Admin template

huh?

> Angular did have its issues, but I dropped a reference to CDN's version into a web page and was off to the races very quickly.

Then you're not really comparing apples to apples here. There are <script> loadable versions of react on CDNs that you could have used.
"Water in the US" varies greatly from place to place. You see, the United States is a very large and varied place.

Amazing tasting well water pumped directly from old glaciers turned into underground reservoirs is "water in the US."

Water so brown and contaminated you can't even drink it is "water in the US."

Using fluoride, chlorine, chloramine, is "water in the US." Desalinated water along coastlines that tastes as such. Streams and springs that are safe to drink from.

Having lived in the area for years I can say even througout the D.C. Metro area, you have different tasting water as well.
Do you think there are non-technical and technical people, or do you think everyone has different levels of various skills?

What is a "non-technical" person? If you mean someone who literally doesn't code I would submit that the majority of the articles are not about programming.
I've spent the vast majority of my career in OO-centric projects, but between my experience in Javascript and Clojure I've begun to see OO as FP with a layer of syntactic sugar. Objects are just closures at the end of the day, after all.

The mental fun was when it dawned on me that most of the benefit from the FP I was falling in love with was coming not from FP itself, but from the liberal use of immutability... and that OOP can be written in a way that similarly embraces immutability.

I don't know if my OO code got better or worse from an outside perspective once I realized that, but it certainly made it easier for me to reason about my experimental side projects.
While it's true that you can't read minds, it is at least somewhat possible to read actions. You can certainly see guys like Craig Newmark or Scott Heiferman who make obvious visible decisions against their own material self interest in service of a broader principle. For the most part it's those exceptions that prove the rule in my opinion.

Again, I don't think it's a pejorative observation at all. I think wanting to feel valuable and special, and a desire to have resources, are quite fine things to cultivate in life, and I think a decent measure of our society is to see how well we do at giving everyone an opportunity to do those things.

The original article in this thread seems to be written by someone who is consumed by regard for their own self image, and has trouble admitting it. Being self-deprecating is not the same thing as being humble at all, it's just the other side of the oversized ego coin.

He goes on about how great he is and then how horrible and hurtful he is as if those are the only two ways to possibly evaluate him, while excluding the obvious first default theory we all start with, which is that his life is mostly inconsequential.
I'm 31. Almost all of us are in different cities or countries. Facebook is the only place I see the majority of them.
That is crazy. React is just the current trend but having tried both React and Polymer (Web Components), I'm confident that plain Web Components will win out in the end. You just can't beat simplicity.
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I just buy seltzer water and I add a little bit of juice to a cup of it. It tastses great and I lost it about 10 pounds doing this alone.

I only buy juice like Langers which does not have any high fructose corn syrup. My favorite seltzer water is Adirondack brand because it's very fizzy.
I'd say I was "partially technical" I guess.

I work in security so have technical expertise in that space - the traditional 'hacker' - but I don't primarily sell myself as technical in business.

I'm here because I like the technical detail, I want to stay up to date with the technical detail, and I want to improve my skills in this area as a generalist.

I quite often find that the technical discussion here ends up either over my head or beyond my interest, but I'm more likely to find something insightful, useful, or just straight up interesting when existing around here than when existing in other 'lower' level forums.

What I really like is finding a 'gem' of a comment that might quite incidentally make the penny drop on something I've sort-of understood for a while.

And beyond that, I find the moderation and general community around here to be the least toxic I've seen of basically any other place on the internet.
I am one of those. I came across HN a year & a half back to know happenings in tech world, esp tech startups. Now I am hooked to it for genuine news and the discussions that happen are a goldmine of information.
You mean a whole bunch of people standing up to transphobia? because that's what i'm seeing.
I didn't read it because it was just a wall of text. I don't need silly infographics, but some editorial formatting is required.
> I'm perfectly fine with censoring racist/sexist/homophobic etc. hateful or fascist content.

With how liberally those terms are being thrown around now, I have no confidence in any non-human and even most human curation.
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> Does the space used for parking even register compared to height limits and other NIMBY policies?

you're thinking of dense urban centers, like midtown Manhattan. Think more about what horizontally sprawling cities look like. or suburbs, for that matter. in the suburb I grew up in there was a 3 to 1 ratio of parking lot to buildings in all of the major shopping centers and housing complexes.

in addition to that building was basically restricted only to areas that were suitable to construct huge parking lots on. i.e. it had to be very flat, and have easy access to the large highways nearby.

the way we build our cities has been utterly warped and distorted by cars being much too cheap.
Consider your statement against the fact that Microsoft are currently pushing a Linux subsystem in Windows.

They are doing what is basically a clean-room implementation of the Linux ABI to avoid the GPL.

What stops ReactOS doing the reverse? Microsoft have had 13 years to review the source code for ReactOS and haven't had a problem with it so far.

The only major issue arose internally:

> A claim was made on 17 January 2006, by now former developer Hartmut Birr on the ReactOS developers mailing list (ros-dev) that ReactOS contained code derived from disassembling Microsoft Windows. The code that Birr disputed involved the function BadStack in syscall.S. as well as other unspecified items. Comparing this function to disassembled binaries from Windows XP, Birr argued that the BadStack function was simply copy-pasted from Windows XP, given that they were identical. Alex Ionescu, the author of the code, asserted that while the Windows XP binary in question was indeed disassembled and studied, the code was not merely copy-pasted, but reimplemented; the reason why the functions were identical, Ionescu claimed, was because there was only one possible way to implement the function.[1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReactOS#Internal_audit
Two questions for you - Is your autism medically "documented"? Are you applying in the US?

If both answers are YES then you have to mention it when you apply online in the disability section of the form. In the US it is required by law for companies to acknowledge disabilities. Or should I say, a company can easily get sued for discrimination. That could help you during the recruiting process, if your autism is recorded as a disability.
IANAE. I enjoy playing around around with databases and web design as a hobby, so I like the coverage there. I also like interesting articles about scientific discoveries, controversies, etc. Also, the commentariat on the whole is fairly civilized and actually enlightening sometimes. That's a rarity online, in my experience. Bonus points when people who created the project/product (sometimes a long time ago!) show up in the threads.
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A similar but arguably more useful version of this is when you have two variables, one of which may be null. Traditionally you issue an if-condition test using the variable user input as the left operand but switching it handles the null case automatically.

Ex:

Foo SOME_CONSTANT = <something-not-null>;

Foo userSuppliedInput = <some-user-input-possibly-null>;

// This can raise an null pointer exception
if (userSuppliedInput.isEquals(SOME_CONSTANT) {
// ...
}

// This can't raise a null pointer exception (assuming isEquals handles nulls properly):
if (SOME_CONSTANT.isEquals(userSuppliedInput) {
// ...
}
I read this as "human employees are hard to find, and really expensive, so we automated".

Which I think also means "unemployment is low and wages are high".

So.. this is a good thing?
I agree whole-heartedly with the article and how they do things, but this is just recycling their same old shtick for marketing purposes. Nothing new from them here.
I've had the complete opposite. I deleted Facebook after they outed a gay friend of mine to his religious parents when they made groups public, but I came back after 5 years without it and I'm invited to far more events and I keep in touch with people from other cities way better. I'm not the type to just randomly text someone I met while visiting a different city, but I'll like a post or leave a comment. Keeping the relationship alive until I'm there next.
Different ways for different people. For one thing, I moved here for graduate school so I had a ready supply of fairly like-minded people of roughly similar intelligence and social views to hang out with.

Even besides that, as a poor graduate student I was living in a group house when I first got here. Essentially that's a mansion where people rent the bedrooms and share the common spaces (living room, kitchen, etc.) It has its downsides--mostly about keeping things clean and stocking essentials like toilet paper and soap--but it's a great way to meet people both through your roommates and your roommate's friends.

And aside from that there are lots of communitarian hobbies you can get involved in. I joined an "urban forestry" group that plants and maintains trees around parks on the weekends. People join board-gaming groups, community gardens, hiking/outdoors groups, meditation centers, reading/book clubs, or similar things. Meetup.com is a good way to find groups that are open to new members. There are also 'community gardens' where you can rent a plot and plant vegetables and it tends to be a good way to meet other gardeners.

There are also lots of social sports leagues in cities. The abundance of public parks and sports complexes makes this easy. So you'll usually find flag football leagues, kickball, cricket, etc. For the really indolent there are even leagues for bar-games like bowling or darts or skee-ball. Volunteering is another good option. I briefly volunteered at a high school to do mock-job interviews for kids where I met some folks. I also got involved in a South Asian Young Professionals group, which I then promptly left because it was a status obsessed meat-market, but if that's your thing. . .

You can also join classes. Crossfit, for example, develops a culty mentality because the gyms tend to form a community. I joined a martial arts school and made friends with some of the people there. If athletics isn't for you, there are amateur cooking classes, acting, improv, poetry, pottery, painting/art, etc. Density creates viable markets for all sorts of niche services and organizations that can't really survive in a sprawly environment.
I'm not sure any product is viable if it takes just 15 minutes to develop and deploy.

Aside from that: Does serverless support proper staging, documentation of all deployments, role management (who is allowed to deploy to what stage)?

Because that would be actually useful for us.
Good question: I'm fascinated by startups and I came across HN and I've been reading this site since around 2010. I now work for Streak (YC S11) in support and I'm learning web dev on the side.

Also, even if a reader of HN isn't a hacker, there are tons of interesting articles about technology and other topics that are interesting as well.
It might be the natural size optimal for efficiency but not for survival (in the natural selection sense). The capacity of an organization grows with headcount even with diminishing efficiency per capita.
Is it actually quittable or does quitting it just relaunch it? Because using killall Finder on the command line or killing through Activity Monitor just kills and then relaunches Finder.