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Oh man, do I feel this. I started programming in the late '80s and it really was a creative exercise. Now you just string together other people's stuff and call it a day. Lower barrier to entry is better for the world overall, but as a career, it can be a bit of a bummer.
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I agree, and posts like this [1] leave me floored. How does anyone have time to evaluate all of these individual components. My CS education taught me to build components for myself but not to necessarily do a complete evaluation of 3rd party components in a short time.

" We use Heroku for hosting, and run automated tests on CircleCI. Slack bots report what’s being deployed.

There are a lot of external services we rely on heavily. To run through them briefly: Help Scout and Dyn for emails; Talkdesk and Twilio for calls and customer service; HelloSign for online contract signing; New Relic and Papertrail for system monitoring; Sentry for error reporting.

For analytics, we’ve used a lot of tools: Mixpanel for the web, Amplitude for mobile, Heap for retroactive event tracking. We mainly use Looker for digging into that data and making dashboards."

[1] https://stackshare.io/opendoor/the-stack-that-helped-opendoo...
From the article:

> As long as the work isn’t related to GitHub’s own “existing or prospective” products and services, the employee owns it.

It's strange this statement isn't getting much attention. This sounds like one of those catch-all type of clauses which allows Github to go in any direction they want and potentially still claim your work is their IP in the future. I'd have to read the contract to be sure, of course.

Whether they would do that is another matter. Probably not. Maybe another company that adopts similar policies would though.

If you're going to be building a company while working at another, I think it's more safe to just use your own time and property so there is definitely no claim (assuming your contract doesn't have one of those nasty clauses saying the company owns everything you work on while employed with them).
We should stock up on IBM 5100's
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Reminds me of my grandfather's office -- he was the only doctor in town and he dispensed all the drugs.

I think this is great. Like many things it can have scale problems: in countries where doctors dispense drugs directly (like Japan), prescriptions are higher. But that's hardly the problem in this case!

(After my GF died my mum collected all this stuff. He had a file for re-sharpening his needles after they had been boiled. Ouch! He opened his practice around 1930 and worked for a subsequent 50 years, through wars and foreign occupation.)
The charter granted to the business can contain clauses requiring the business to attend to more than just its own returns.

The state or the people grant that charter to the business, with the benefits its confers regarding liability and taxation, so we could decide to do so only if the business commits to the terms.

There's no inalienable right to incorporation in the US constitution - the corporation is a statutory fiction we've all agreed to use.
By default, Marta shows file icons that identify directories pretty well. You are free to disable the icons and specify `directoryPrefix` and `directorySuffix` in conf.json.

But it would be an interesting idea to make a "set up wizard" that will suggest users disable the icons.
What is wrong with embiggen? It's a perfectly cromulent word.
Does it support wildcard?
Anyone who has watched Apple over the last few years?

They've labeled the more expensive/"faster" models of their laptops "Pro" for quite a while. While the cheaper/less fast but still capable for a large swath of users lacked the "Pro".

You seem to assume most users are going to care. They'll have a price and get what they can for as close to that price as possible.

Average Jane/Joe doesn't wander around going "does it have ECC and multithreading?"

They're more concerned with "Can I Netflix, YouTube, and Facebook on it?"

For this new iPad the answer is "Yes." and they'll decide on price then.

This forum is making this much more complicated while arguing for simplicity.
When I was an employee at Salesforce.com, their legal department claimed my pre-existing AppExchange app potentially conflicted with their future product roadmap and asked me to relinquish ownership of the app within 90 days.

My Lawyer advised me that a "fire sale" of the assets would make Salesforce liable for the difference in devaluation. So I stood my ground and kept the IP.

Claiming prior art as competitive is a different stance than claiming ownership, but it ultimately resulted in terminating the relationship.

The irony was that I drank the Salesforce start-up Kool-Aid and developed the IP on their platform prior to joining.
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Old days you would think and then program more (even being repetitive among programs you made).

Nowadays you think and integrate more, find which pieces fits in which one. You do program, of course, but just to glue those pieces together.

Sometimes, when you came from programing microcontrollers and so on, you might miss that you had control of every single bit of what was happening. You just rely that some package will deliver you what it says.
First of all, congratulations on your success and experience.

Second of all, correct me if I am wrong, but you do not seem to be factoring in your time (16 working days) or any kind of opportunity cost required to produce the content?
Thanks! Glad you found it helpful.
Embody, also by Herman Miller.
My respect for pypy grows with them nearing CPython's current reality (3.x features). This is great news!
I hope not. It's the best form factor. I think all the other iPads are too big.
I completely agree with you on this sentiment. I've often been quite disenfranchised by this whole palaver around financial reward around realestate percentages...
From your wording it sounds like you frequently buy/sell houses.. Or is this just me reading into things?
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Any advice from the community on what environment is best for SICP/Scheme? I'm currently using Dr.Racket as I've heard to avoid Emacs at this point, any other suggestions/thoughts?
pgbarman [0] will handle the restore to point in time use case above. There are other solutions as well, but I've found pgbarman to work great, and can't speak for others.

[0] http://www.pgbarman.org/
I Wonder how DRM anti-circumvention laws will mix with this; You have a locked-down device you use, depend on, and know is defective, but you are not allowed to hack the device to fix it.
I'll repeat my comment from the last time this was posted:

The last time this article came up the consensus was that the author was pretty biased towards Postgres and had little to no experience with actual MS SQL Server use.
Also, the lack of author identity was frowned upon.
Lastly, the conjecture and attitude towards Microsoft lacks some substance.
Conclusion: The author is free to write whatever he likes, but take this resource with a pinch of salt.
I use both Postgres and MS SQL Server professionally and whilst philosophically I prefer Postgres, for practical reasons I truly prefer MS SQL Server, if only because of its excellent development tools.
To justify not caring about this one.
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My favorite youtuber for sustainability broadly, with a focus on housing: https://www.youtube.com/user/kirstendirksen
The second biggest difference is that the internet has changed the nature of debugging.

You used to follow the program all the way through on your local machine and interrogate all the variables.

Now, you're debugging across the client and the server. I think that is one of the reason unit testing has taken off. It is much harder to know where something happened.

The third biggest difference is that languages can be a lot more complicated because documentation is searchable so you can have a lot of functions that do the things you might have written yourself.
If having a github repo factors into your hiring choices, then you're more likely to find compatible hires if you use one or more of the languages in the top-most, right-most blob, and still pretty good if you use a language from the less tight blob below that. Although, of course, you should use the language that is most right for your tasks, and most approved by your developers.

Similar statement for "what if I want lots of SO help for my language."

Similar statement for "what if I want lots of potential contributors to my GH project."

And, for any language that you use, regardless of where it falls on the graph, you get to say "Huh."

And you get to discover new languages you've never heard of.
yes mucommander, it could open websites too. it literally parsed html and showed you list of included resources in the panel. how cool is that? :-) which commander has that?
The stat for Google in the citation (https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html#tab=per-...) shows 30%; where do you get the 50% adoption from?
But it sounds like he implicitly hinders CPython! It sounds like “we won't merge code I don't understand” and no brave intelligent soul will risk improving the interpreter.
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“[I]t says on your website that you use [SSL]. You do not.”
We use several inches of closed-cell foam insulation interior to the metal. In addition to an r-value of 15+, you're not hearing much outside:)
Hmm, worth asking. Seems the Internet of Things is still relatively unknown, so it could be good to have a place to go for canonical differences between the standard Internet and the Internet of Things.
We our having issues getting access to RDS for our phabricator instance right now. This is really frustrating.
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Definitely - I use Moom for this purpose and can recommend it, https://manytricks.com/moom/
The answer is simple: It doesn't protect the US at all.
And if you option double-click the divider, all of the columns will be the right size.
Not really true..

The math that made the rounds was based on a faulty premise. You basically had what I'll call Yahoo Group (YG) comprised of Core Yahoo (CY), a stake in Alibaba (YAB) and Yahoo Japan (YJ).

People were saying that if you took YG and subtracted YAB and YJ, that the value of the remaining business, CY, was negative.

What they missed was that you can't just plop in the current market price of YAB and YJ. Yahoo's ownership in those companies was old enough that they would have to pay significant taxes to unload them.

So the real math would be YG = [YAB x (1-T)] + [YJ x (1-T)] + CY

Where T is the tax rate. Realistically, it'd be some Monte Carlo of the likelihood of tax rates as they were aggressively trying to minimize the tax paid, but still, CY wouldn't be negative.

As a final bit of evidence for this -- Yahoo's core business was just bought for over $4.5 billion. So.. you know.. not a negative number.
It looks like it's correlated with the weekend. I guess workplace computers are more likely to use IPv4? It makes sense on the surface. Workplaces have little to no incentive to use IPv6 since they either have a huge block of IPv4 space or run NAT or both. Also they tend to rely more on enterprise network appliances which have bad IPv6 support in my experience. IPv6 is more of a boon to consumer applications since carrier-grade NAT is a nuisance and otherwise you need an IP per customer.
Thanks for the comment.

This is the third and final update, so didn't really cover the time aspect as in-depth as I had in previous updates.

My aim was to show what you can do without spending money. Time is undoubtedly an expense, but you have to factor that into any online business.
Good, they submitted it to Khronos as a proposal, unlike Apple who made their similar attempt on their own. Why is it so hard for them to collaborate properly?
Suspect Apple has a pretty good idea of what features and prices people are willing to spend on iPad than anyone on HN.

Even if they get it "wrong", they're probably in a better position to judge.

No one says you should get an iPad. Deciding to is up to you. Make a decision for yourself; stop needing to be talked into things. Like it's another's job to inform you.

Good grief, this is where society is today? "Give me all my opinions?"
Right, I wholeheartedly agree. I'm saying that it's strange to use the fact that an article did not mention his faith as a point against it, when Mister Rogers took great care to not mention his faith.
Does anyone use a cellular iPad mini as a phone replacement?
He was as nice of a guy as he portrayed on TV

My mom met him. She worked PR for the United Way in Pittsburgh and did a favor for someone at PBS. They asked what they could do in return and she said she wanted to meet Mr Rogers.

They had a wonderful lunch a few days later
I've been thinking about writing something about 'the predicaments of doctors and patients', based on stories from my various taxi passengers.

I don't think doctors appreciate how the system is rigged against them. Patients just want to feel better - sometimes their problem gets solved, sometimes they get fed to the medical machine.
in the paper, it seemed to work quite well for LSTMS (language modeling), although it is best suited for tasks with very, very large neural networks for which parallelism is beneficial
Ah, heavens, it is a most pathetical nit!
I'd love that. I'll definitely let you all know when that time comes.
Here's a good example of what I'm talking about:

> And while widening the broadband infrastructure is an essential step toward bridging the digital divide, simply ensuring access does not address the issue of affordability, especially since the F.C.C. is considering slashing parts of a federal program, known as Lifeline, that is meant to help provide affordable broadband to low-income residents.

So here we have a program that benefits poor rural people, being ended by an administration strongly supported by the poor rural people who benefit from that program. How do you resolve something like that? How do you help communities that keep voting in people that want to hurt them?

It seems to me like the first step is knowledge. If the people in rural areas who benefit from urban subsidies become more aware of that, maybe their voting patterns will change.
It's perhaps not really as rare as it seems, it's just rare that someone who does it also becomes famous enough that the part of their life they don't advertise as much also becomes common knowledge, so that people know that the public teachings that don't advertise a religious basis are nevertheless​ grounded in one.
Not if you use company resources.
But otherwise, it looks close.

Note, IME, employees have a very very very different viewpoint of what the company's business is than the company.

Google has a fairly simple (IE takes < 1 week, approves 90%+ of requests) for releasing IP in the same situation github is doing this.
Most of the conflicts are when people come and say "I want to build an ad auction for mobile search, and if it goes well, i want to quit and build a startup around it", and then want to argue over whether "ad auction for mobile search" is part of Google's business or not.
That's the problem with Authoritarian (Liberal and Conservative) interpretations of the Constitution. USBkill sticks are non-regulated items, so you don't NEED the government's permission or a "good reason" to possess them.

Unfortunately, Liberals have weakened the 2nd Amendment to mean "only if you have a good reason", and weakened the 1st Amendment to mean "as long as you don't offend someone", while Conservatives have weakened the 4th amendment to mean "we suspected it without good cause and it turns out we were right which made the whole search ok."

I think if we stop weakening the ammendments we'll stop seeing violations of our basic civil liberties. But when California passes laws that regulate firearms you can wrap a thumb around (yes, this is a real thing), and Arizona passes a law that allows police to stop you if they suspect you're an illegal immigrant, we'll be in a slow spiral with decreasing rights.
It was probably that simple on purpose, knowing Cisco's ties to intelligence agencies.
I love the idea, but as-is, I think your product could more attractive if you hired an interior designer to help with the sample pictures/overall product "image".

Attractive product, unattractive design. There's nothing there to make me want your product over another company doing the same thing with more emphasis on design.
Hence why they don't care about OS updates as Play Services run all the way down to 4.0.

So who cares if the customer owns a device full of security holes, they still get their money.
Shameless plug for my old buddy Ang's product, Symbiote Defense. Definitely watch the DEFCON talk about this.

https://www.redballoonsecurity.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyEiMyyrfyE
Definitely – but I would consider that to be separate from simply finding apps in the app store.
Does not support wildcard, but it will support a multi-domain SAN cert up to 100 custom domains
This is a completely anecdotal analysis. Every time this comes up it makes me cringe. Yes, I use MSSQL. Yes, I really like MSSQL. I know loads more about MSSQL than I do PostgreSQL and that plays a huge part in it. Like this person I am qualified to tell you how totally awesome MSSQL is. Also, like this person I AM NOT qualified to compare it to PostgreSQL even though I do use PG too. This isn't a problem of bias, this is a lack of knowledge on the part of the author. I don't know how to do X in MSSQL so PostgreSQL is clearly better. What needs to happen is experts on both sides sit down and do a true comparative analysis and then the reader can decide which product suits their needs best.
You can always get the certificate yourself and then upload it to Heroku. You own the custom domain, so you can use dns-01 instead of http-01 verification. Or, as others mentioned, the default endpoint is SSL-enabled.
This is very similar to a new trend: Concierge medicine[1]

I know of several doctors moving towards this model. It's quite disruptive to patients who can't use their insurance for their doctor anymore, and must find new providers.

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concierge_medicine
There are, in fact, a lot of 32-bit ARM chips still being deployed today. Yes, arm64 is usable, but using e.g. a Beagleboard- or even Raspberry Pi-class device still often makes sense (for cost or compatibility reasons.)
> "He never mentioned God"

I was actually saying the opposite. He wasn't ordained to not talk about God. On the contrary. He just didn't preach on his kids' TV show.

Regardless of what their faith is, I wish good people actually "talked the talk" that matched their "walk" more often. Lots of people act responsibly: being productive, staying off drugs, caring well for their families, generally treating people well, being generous, and so on. But then they think it's unimportant to teach other people to do the same thing.

So the otherwise unguided or uninformed are starting from square one, causing a lot of pain for themselves, their loved ones, and the rest of their communities. While the rest of us tell them to "find what's right for them" and feel good about ourselves for not being judgmental.
+1 for https://www.youtube.com/user/kirstendirksen

An amazing channel. My first thought about Boxhouse was, if I've ever seen you on there! You should totally make an appearance.
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it sounds the most like Apple except for the open source part. There are a limited set of licenses they allow, but many employees at Apple contribute to open source software, both at work and in their free time.
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Leaning more towards software engineering and software architecture based themes.
Can pledge for the Embody, I bought one and it's one of my best purchase ever.
Right near the top of the post: "Time was undoubtedly my biggest expense, which I’ll cover in more detail at the end."
Well, I was thinking about this. And I actually don't know how to interpret this sentence because there are lots of projects that are announced but don't have anything to show at all.

Marta has – but the difference is that it doesn't provide the direct link.
Path Finder is pretty good. I'm still not sure I exactly love it though I should maybe take the time to customize it one of these days. You end up back in Apple's Finder in program dialog boxes in any case.

Way back when, I sold a shareware file manager for DOS. I think the program was something like 32KB. :-) Times have changed.
Yes, exactly. The Apple Pencil is incredible, by the way. The experience is comparable in my mind to using the original iPhone for the first time. Apple should market the hell out of the 12.9" iPad Pro to artists.
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When we got Rubu's diagnosis, we knew we only had weeks. He was going through bouts of suffering, but not in real pain, and was "himself". We were able to keep him for two weeks, before the attacks were coming too often and he was truly suffering.

We could have kept him alive. He would have lived maybe hours, maybe weeks, but sooner or later, the cancer was going to kill him. We could have gone into "treatment"... removed his spleen (which might kill him then and there), followed by intensive chemotherapy. That might have gotten him months, but at the cost of great suffering.

We did what was best for him, not for us. If I had my way, he'd be curled up on the couch next to me right now.
I think this misses a whole section on security.

e.g. https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/33851/protectin...
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I also work for IBM, remotely. So far I've heard no hint of anything like this internally. My boss claims he's heard nothing about it.

Are there any technical IBM employees here who have been "forced" to relocate?

This post and all others I've seen are just rewrites of the original (unsourced) article last month in The Register (https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/09/ibm_workfromhome_cu...) with no additional facts or updates.

I may be proven wrong, in which case I'll be looking for another job. But agreed, as far as I can see, at least regarding technical employees this is FUD.
Kirsten's visited us a couple of times: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfqunEuw61k
While that's true, Apple grew to have a wide variety of products during Jobs' tenure as well. In 2007 there was the iPod Nano, Touch, Shuffle, and Classic, for example.

So it may be that different times call for different strategies. Perhaps the lesson is that you should focus intensely in the beginning and ship varieties once the product has reached a certain level of maturity?

I'm not in a place to say, but sometimes I wonder if we could go back in time and replay "Apple with Steve Jobs" while believing Steve Jobs to dead how often we would say, "Steve Jobs must be rolling over in his grave."