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I can't imagine ever shipping a side project. That's not why I build them. If I ever got to the point in my life where I do want my own company, a side project is not the way I want to go about it. Companies take a lot of work, that work has to be understood, then delegated and shared.

The technology aspect is really only 10% of it. Sure, it's the essential 0-to-1 kicker that gets you going, but once that's done you still have to find product-market fit. That quickly assumes second-job status and can wreck your personal life. I've seen it happen.

A side project means you're taking all that on yourself without any help or real guidance. Not having that help means that when you finally do ship your side project, it's probably not going to achieve the kind of rapid growth you need to make scaling up possible.

And you really need rapid growth in order for working on a startup of your own creation to beat out having a reasonably-decent job. And if you don't have a reasonably-decent job, it's way easier to switch jobs / industries than it is to build out your own company.

What I want out of a side project is the kind of deliberate practice that is often lacking in my real job. Also to chase down random mind hares that seize my interest.
> 2. Why not do this on a NAS?

NAS boxes capable of running Plex media server are not inexpensive.
> In other words see if you can productize your "auto-scaling, multi-zone, cloud infrastructure". There’s definitely other people who would like to use that.

While working to build out the "auto-scaling, multi-zone, cloud infrastructure" product, OP (or anyone for that matter) will get caught up building his own front end JS framework that will address some shortcomings of AngularJS or reactjs.

If I understand correctly, the point of the article is that it's incredibly easy to lose focus of what you set out to do and get distracted by something that is not very important to your project/startup.
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It's a standard attempt. It's not completely widespread, fortunately. The company is a for-profit entity and as such will try to extract the maximum value possible out of every resource, including its employees, therefore the contract you're given has the most restrictive possible clauses in it. I've even seen contracts for freelancers that stipulated that the freelancer agrees to reimburse the company for any unrealised profits from the project; i.e. we expect we'll make X$ profit, but we make Y$ profit, therefore you agree to pay us X-Y$.

There is no body or union (yet) that looks out for your rights, that's your personal responsibility. You have to negotiate terms you can agree to, or if you can't, either sign the contract and look for another employment opportunity, or not sign the contract and do the same. I suggest taking a negotiation course and maybe a business course, so you know how the company thinks. It's unfortunate, but during contract negotiation, you and the company are essentially enemies, battling for opposite things.

It's also unfortunate that you'll never get the chance to practise contract negotiation as an employee. You only do that when you're doing the final negotiation of taking a job, while the person against you does it nearly every single day. I suggest taking a lawyer with you.

Or just sign the contract and pay no attention to that clause. Even if they sue you (and that's really rare), the damages you have to pay would probably be less than the effort and legal fees you would pay to negotiate a favourable contract. That part of the contract is basically jaywalking - nobody cares if you don't inconvenience traffic.
> Isn't leaking hashes dangerous for the users' privacy though (I'm not well-versed in security, so sorry if n00b question)?

No, you can't compute the password from the hash.
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I think the US likes electing actors because actors are better able to appeal to them emotionally, and because their celebrity status makes them appear more trustworthy.

Any successful politician has the traits of a good actor, but actors can claim they're not "really" politicians, even while running for political office, and using the same political tricks as their rivals. It's a weird "Mr. Smith goes to Washington" complex that Americans seem to fall prey to constantly.

Given the nature of the last few Presidential elections in the US, it doesn't seem as if voters want partisan lines crossed, rather, they want those lines maintained and defended with razor wire and snipers.
On my network, three it is £32/month for unlimited data. But, this is limited to 30GB for tethering which is why I'm still using FTTC.

http://www.three.co.uk/Store/SIM/SIM-size-select?step=confir...
neh how long would it take to upload a 4k youtube video from a phone LTE?
So... You couldn't get hired by a top company so now you think you're incompetent...? I think I miss the logic here. You know, try interviewing at companies that do not belong to the top 5%.
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That is mostly FUD. It's trendy to hate on Ruby these days.

But yes, in Ruby there is a global namespace and open classes, so you can do pretty much whatever you want.

But in any language you'll find bad libraries. I mean I can write a go / rust / Java / whatever library that immediately segfault, panic or exit(1) when you invoke it. Does it mean any of those languages are bad?
> since this clutters the inbox

Email can be deleted.
I think that these kind of tests are only fit to decide if you're a coder or a monkey. As a matter of fact I think that being able to solve riddles in code is only a small part of being a developer.
I once was subjected to a hastily organised test once. I felt it was degrading and I also felt having a good conversation with a fellow developer would be much more efficient in determining what the real level of an applicant is.
Bonus reminder: If you're reading this, you'd better go work on your side-project like totally now.
I am pretty sure Bluetooth geoloc and NFC stacks provides better tools for marketing and tracking purposes.
> I thought that was an invalid code point.

Surrogate codepoints are indeed valid codepoints. It's just that valid UTF-8 is not allowed to encode surrogate codepoints, so the space of codepoints supported by UTF-8 is actually a subset of all Unicode codepoints. This subset is known as the set of Unicode scalar values. ("All codepoints except for surrogates.")
Most of the Russian economy is based on exploiting (Gas, Oil, Steel etc.) and/or reliance (Metro, Railways, Housing, Water Treatment, Powerplants) on Soviet era infrastructure. The high levels of corruption in government and instability of investments has made the primary goal of owners and investors to gain as much profit as possible and get it out of the country - I don't expect any really positive developments for decades.
Well, learning is the fun part for me. As long as I do not have to finish I probably would not.
better than wooden sticks and flossing are the interdental brushes. Those clean a lot better in my experience and my oral health improved a lot after i started using them.
In the US the diagnostic role is optometrist.

An optician designs lenses and fits glasses.
Core2 Quad Q8400. That machine is now being used as a Linux/BSD testbed every now and then, and it's still plenty fast enough for modern desktop duties.

The other concern the Shield mitigates is power inefficiency; that C2Q is a power hungry beast, and the entire Shield box uses less wattage at full load than the Intel CPU alone at idle.
If Australia's power problem can be solved by two billionaires on twitter for $25 million, then it isn't anywhere near as problematic as I've been led to believe. There are enough problems with the grid that any solution needs to be discussed in the context of what problem is being solved.

The latest I've seen ( https://www.aemo.com.au/-/media/Files/Gas/National_Planning_... ) suggests that there is a risk of not being able to produce enough at all, let alone keep the grid stable.

My read of that report is that current "Aussie Power Woes" are the ageing generator infrastructure, not grid stabilisation which was a politically interesting but otherwise relatively minor hiccup a few months ago in South Australia.

In addition to those two there are cost troubles brewing related to the cost of maintaining infrastructure for power (poles & cables), and energy prices are moving upwards. May or may not be related to generators capacity, I don't know.
I'd like to know more. I feel in this case the title should convey the urgency with enough context. Which it does in my opinion. Just "Effective GMail Scam" would not make me care enough to click through to the post. It is the fact that "Everyone is Falling" that alerted me to the importance of the post.
I think it is cost scale.

Get cancer? That could be a million dollars in treatment. You need insurance.

Get a bad tooth? Maybe 3k max to replace it with a bridge or similar.

The idea is most people can scrouge up 3k but not a million bucks.
Quite opposite. US is far behind and expensive. UK and Ireland had unlimited data plans 5 years ago for 20 euro/month. Today even Turkey or Vietnam have better data deals than US.
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Did you have a look at Playgrounds on the Apple iPad?
That statement sounds technically correct to me. You don't need to log on to a Wi-Fi network to avoid costly overage charges. You do need to log on to use the Internet usefully, however.
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> signal booster

I think the correct term is femtocell
"Pledge now to get... well, not a copy of the game cuz it's F2P..."

Literally a preorder for microtransactions, FFS
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Email the author and ask? After he tells you, then use -std=c++XX (or similar) on your favorite compiler and you'll be fine.
You can easily leak whether someone has an account on your website -- if I know their email address and input it, does it basically tell me? This limits your ability to reasonably error if the email address inputted is wrong.

Still, a lot of "forgot password" forms seem to be subject to this, too.

Also, you can only have one account per-email -- a disadvantage for some types of service, but admittedly probably a good thing for most.
Good thing I always carry my phone in the back of my jeans. Hot pocket, FTW.
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I understand there is Paul Graham Blogs, A16Z Podcasts Start-up school(These are the ones I frequently visit), various individual blogs and videos to know what to do in different stages of start-up. But is there a single repository for all these things where I can go to?
Moderately deaf Brit here. The NHS used this technique on me a year ago when I got my hearing aid. Whether it is imprecise or not I don't know, but it generated a graph plot showing, for each ear, a plot of my hearing response against a range of different frequencies, which was annotated with the position of specific phonemes - so I could see which vowels, etc were hardest to hear. This seemed to match my experience, although I didn't test it rigorously.

If you are reluctant about getting a hearing aid, I would totally totally recommend it. It turned my social and professional life around - I was beginning to avoid conversation with certain softly-spoken people and couldn't follow arguments in conference rooms that had any sort of noisy aircon. As a Brit, I have access to free NHS hearing aids and consumables (batteries and the tiny tubes that go into the ear), which helps. I had been planning to buy a smaller in-ear device, but in fact the external device is acceptable in terms of size and appearance (silvery grey).

The device I use has an external control button (a tiny stud) which controls volume but which could alternatively be programmed to trigger different modes (e.g. noisy room vs quiet room). The fact that I almost never have to change the settings also suggests that the initial test (which is programmed into the hearing aid) was somewhat accurate.
This is somehow connected to geopolitics in the area and the THAAD project, since the US government is worried the next administration may not be so in favour of it (left leaning parties tend towards disarmament, as crazy as that sound with an insane neighbour north of the border)
Carriers have been using this particular definition for years. I used to have a plan that included 5 GiB of HSPA+ traffic, followed by an all-you-can-eat 50 KiB/s buffet. Technically unlimited!
So you can't run projects for free on Flex like you can on Standard?
I agree with a lot of this. My one comment is that not all side projects are about a "full startup business". I shipped my 2 mo. side project this summer. Donors Choose Project Finder
https://appsto.re/us/JVmbab.i . It was 100% pro bono , and to keep my skills sharp. So far over $20,000 in supported donations. Keep an eye open for the next set of features :)
T-Mobile's 10G plan says it reverts to 3G speeds after you hit your data cap. (This is the plan I'm on.)

Their "unlimited" plan doesn't seem to have that clause, but it does say that after 30GB you'll be prioritized behind other customers and might see a drop in speed.
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> Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull blamed the power cut on the state’s rapid take-up of renewable power

So typical of Australian politics. Any event, positive or negative, is used to attempt to score cheap political points. We have no leaders with long term vision. There is no discussion about building Australia's future, only mud slinging at the opposite party. The few large scale nation building projects that commence are gutted once the opposing party is elected, and in the end, the people who lose out the most are the Australian public.

"Coal is the future" - Tony Abbott
Hugely overpriced bandwidth and other resources limit your flexibility a lot and keep a lot of options closed for you, making it harder to compete or offer value to users. It might not matter for some, but could be a matter of life and death for others, because pursuing those closed options anyway and hoping to dig yourself out of a cloud lock-in hole afterwards might be too expensive to survive.
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The "reduced speed" is whatever it takes to prioritize customers on the same tower who are not over the limit so they get full speed. If you aren't on a congested tower, your speed isn't impacted.

Seems fair to me. Unlike wired internet, wireless carriers can't just throw money at the problem and get more bandwidth. A certain spectrum can only carry a certain amount of data.

Even building more towers and having each tower serve a smaller radius won't help in a really congested area like a football stadium.
Yeah, I think we're quite a ways off from this scenario. I went to a wedding a few weeks ago, and the house on the beach where they had the rehearsal dinner had no cell reception indoors. Somehow it was perfectly fine outdoors, though.

I had to fix their Wifi to stop from going nuts.
37% of surveyed sites used at least one library with known vulnerability. Websites don't upgrades these libraries frequently either. The question in my mind is why browsers don't ship with popular JS libraries? That way downloads can be reduced and also such security issues can be addressed more centrally.
T-Mobile is offering unlimited LTE if you upgrade to their "T-Mobile ONE" plan, which starts at $110/month for two lines, $100 if you set up automatic payments.

The fine print also mentions that speeds will "reduce" when you hit 30GB, but doesn't say if that means you're kicked down to 4G like they used to do, or they just throttle your LTE bandwidth.
Tops out at 1.8Gbps??
The purpose for a title is to both communicate the content and attract the viewer. I'd use something a bit more descriptive, along the lines of "new Gmail phishing technique hijacks sign-on page".
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There are, but they're virtually reserved for ex-military.

Though that can actually be an interesting problem for all three parties.
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That statistic is simply meaningless in this context. Just today some girl got arrested with her boyfriend for sex before marriage. Does that happen in Mexico or Poland?
They aren't reduced when you hit 30Gb. They are temporarily reduced when you hit 30Gbs and you are in a congested area so others can get full speed. If you aren't in a congested area your speed isn't reduced.
Updated my quote to include their claim within the next line, indicating, "That’s a critical change that threatens to render Wi-Fi obsolete."
Hell yes. When I AWS trial expires you know I'm switching to this always free model.
Indeed.

Sorry for off-topic, but is there anybody reading this who could help me claim a twitter username that is inactive for almost 10 years now? Any hints are welcome. AFAIK twitter doesn't do that officially anymore. It would be really awesome.
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I totally agree with you especially your suggestion that Dubai be considered for the interview. In fact Dubai should be considered as a site for the 3 month program.

I applied to YC for the 2017 batch and I'd rather get into the program than not. But if I have to jump through needless hoops to do so, and put up with the bullshit of a narcissistic circus-performer politician while at it, I'll bootstrap my business for longer or seek investment from someplace else.

If YC is committed to 'discovering world-wide talent' it had better do something more drastic in pursuit of this goal in the light of recent events and challenges.
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Giga byte sized strings?

Oh, no. That doesn't make sense. You need to limit by Giga grapheme strings.
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Feels more like we're going backwards here in the UK. I was on an unlimited LTE plan for £17 per month for a couple of years.

Last year, out of the blue, they told me they were capping it at 2GB.

After much argument they agreed to raise it to 4GB plus unlimited calls/sms for £14, which is enough for me but not really the same.
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Yes they understand and used the term correctly.

Throttling - your speed is reduced to a top speed of x when you go over a specified allotment until the end of your billing period.

Deprioritized - if the specific tower you are on is congested and you've gone over the "cap", your speed is temporarily slowed down to allow others who haven't gone over their allotment to get full speed.
The point of the paradox [1] is to replace/upgrade all the pieces with similar ones (planks with other planks). Unless you believe that human beings are interchangeable, it doesn't apply in this case

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
That link you posted gives me a cert error.
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Isn't the discussion happening in public a good thing?
http://www.leia3d.com for instance. I have one of their early dev kit displays and it's quite impressive (but very small).
Depends. If you use a nice fast hash like SHA256, yes. If you use a KDF optimized for nonoptimizability like PBKDF2 or scrypt, no.
I wonder if Google's End to End library will be available as a Gmail addon. It sounds like the perfect platform.

https://github.com/google/end-to-end
Its wonderful actually. It shows how technologists and technology can be a hope for the future as opposed to politics.
Seems to me alot of real change is being driven by technology and sharing of information.
Well, lets be honest, Elon Musk is a very unique individual, and I really like his style.
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Well, for one, I can't even write a portable unicode string literal.

> "\xAA".split ''

That works on a platform where my platform is UTF-32, but not one where it is UTF-8.
None. Reason: Capacity and focus on product. Are we doing it wrong?
Could it be that as the capacity of the neighbourhoods decreased, prices soared?
The only thing I've seen run on raw audio are WaveNet models, and those are way too expensive to get into an embedded chip, no public real-time implementations exist, though Baidu had a paper which claimed real-time execution speed on some server class Intel CPU last week. They do mention that their CPU implementation could be parallelized too.
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> Quite opposite. US is far behind and expensive.

The US isn't far behind. The US had over 90% 4G population coverage long before it was wide-spread across Europe. Europe lagged far behind the US in fact. [1] It is expensive. You're conflating two separate things. The US had unlimited data plans longer than five years ago. Some carriers briefly went away from them and are now going back to them due to competition.

The UK has a median income that is barely comparable to the poorest US states. [2] Why would it be surprising if our goods cost more? Despite that, our cost of household goods is almost universally lower than the UK, with a few exceptions like wireless.

[1a] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/mobile-phones/10288585...

[1b] https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304914204579396...

Feb 2017: "UK trailing behind Europe and US in 4G usage"

[1c] http://www.vanillaplus.com/2017/02/25/25474-missed-connectio...

"Europe slow to adopt 4G mobile: sector execs"

[1d] http://uk.reuters.com/article/us-telecoms-idUKTRE78Q60W20110...

Mar 2016: "Stop whining, America: Your LTE makes Europe look slow"

[1e] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/10/twin_prime_global_n...

[2] https://mises.org/blog/if-sweden-and-germany-became-us-state...
Your linked report suggests one of the solutions to gas shortage is to build more battery storage:

"Alternative generation fuel sources such as biofuels, or technologies such as energy storage, may be viable alternatives to GPG, if cost-effective. These alternatives would help alleviate gas supply shortfalls by reducing gas demand, while still supporting renewable generation integration."

Though since one of the other solutions to a gas shortage is to stop shipping so much of it out of the country, it seems the "problem" may well be blown out of proportion.
The can do optimizim here is amazing. There is obviously a bit of PR here, but that's what I've come to respect about Elon Musk. Promise the moon then deliver, literally.

If private citizens using technology to solve a nation's crippling issues is awesome.
One of these things:

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> The "reduced speed" is whatever it takes to prioritize customers on the same tower who are not over the limit so they get full speed. If you aren't on a congested tower, your speed isn't impacted. Seems fair to me.

I'm not saying it isn't fair, I'm saying it's false advertising.

I also know the technical limitations on the radios on the towers (worked in the industry). But suggesting that it's unlimited, both from the ISP side and the Bloomberg side, is disingenous at best, and suggesting it can replace wifi in that implementation, even more so.

That said: You can get unlimited 4G in both Tokyo and Seoul, and those are pretty dense. Again it technically couldn't work if everyone got it and used it as much as they could, but arguing that the US ISPs can't do better is patently false.
Not if you salt and choose a strong hash algorithm. Salting is what keeps a leaked hash from hurting a user's security
On average, probably less time than on wifi. Most consumer ISP services have abysmal upload speeds. For instance Comcast's 1Gbps plan has an upload limit of 35Mbs. Most of their other plans top out at 10Mbps upload.

With T-Mobile I can get up to 40Mbps upload.