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Sorry for the newbie question, I've never written a desktop application. But do you write the UI in a different language than you write its business logic? For instance, you would write the UI in Delphi with the Lazarus IDE and then the "back-end" of your app would be written in C++, Go or something alike?
Other than the archival for $25, I don't see what I'd pay for that my own bookmarks don't already get me.

And the archival itself is likely only useful for stuff other people have already archived anyways; in the rare instances I find something I definitely want to ensure I have a copy of, I can usually find a way to get a copy onto my local machine and NAS.
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To an extent, yes.

However, I would say typical early stage startup work is 55 hours/week.

Basically 10 hours day through the week, and a couple hours on the weekend.
This is a weekend project I started in light of the news that ISPs are now able to sell your browsing history. I'm not a huge fan of random VPN providers, and have been using a private VPS to run a VPN for a while now. I decided to turn it into an app that deploys a VPN server on DigitalOcean with automated OSX setup. The deployed VPN server includes automated updates of both the OS and VPN software, so you don't need to worry about managing a server. If you have OSX and a DigitalOcean account, grab the latest release here and try it out: https://github.com/dan-v/dosxvpn/releases
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Did you see that they implemented CBR for audio calls and submitted patches to both Signal and WebRTC?

https://medium.com/@wireapp/call-security-constant-bit-rate-...
Would it be as big if they had stopped to consider all scaling issues at the beginning?
False. The first lesson is "the spice must flow".
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In the United States there are strict definitions between contract roles (1099) and employees because it determines how you are taxed . I agree about the above certain tasks thing though.
>anyone else??

Credit card partners!

So if you get your favorite sports team's credit card, they get a cut.

http://www.doctorofcredit.com/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-...

There's even a Linux credit card (not kidding) https://www.linuxfoundation.org/offerings/linux-credit-card
gitlab.com is not their core business. It's mostly a demo.
Gotta say SF Bay is definitely NOT a best case public transportation scenario. Try Hong Kong, Paris or London.

Of course those places you don't just pay for parking, you pay congestion charges, high gas prices and steep registration prices (HK) as well. Oh and toll roads.

It's quite stunning the amount of things that are under costed in the US to enable our car economy.
It depends on the window manager. From my experience recently, lightdm without acceleration is snappier than cinnamon with acceleration.
If you're being paid $200/hr it doesn't depend on the exit.
ASN.1 is most definitely NOT Turing-complete.
Thanks for putting across your point in such a straight forward way.

I didn't call out directly not the DB tables point. This kind of premature optimization is a huge red flag and I would anyone I am advising to avoid it.
> Time is the only currency you have which can't be earned and only spent.

I would argue that you can earn lifetime with a healthy life style.
I remember to have read a study that measured the average difference between healthy and unhealthy life styles with 14 years.

If you spend 1 day a week more for a healthy lifestyle (exercise, self cooking, enough sleep, little stress, enough recreation time) for 40 years you have earned ~9 years life time.

And I would argue that those 40 years are more enjoyable.
This is part of a joint military drill that occurs every year around this time. Making this seem like an aggressive action by the U.S. is FUD.
She was pregnant and broke. She signed up for uber – and fell into debt
Why should it include it if you remember when it was ?
What's your experience on the average workweek for mid/later stage startups?
Flexibility vs efficiency. Agile vs high momentum.

As a rule of thumb, start-ups need to be more agile as they are mostly exploring new territory, trying to create new value or re-scope valueless things into valuable things.

Larger companies operate at a scale where minor efficiency improvements can mean millions of dollars and thus require more people to do the same thing, but better. Individualistic thinking on new directions to go is not needed nor appreciated.

Of course there are excepttions. The question boils down to whether or not the ladder is on the right walk before charging up it.

In rare circumstances you can do both. Either the problem is trivial, or the problem becomes trivial because you have a super expert. 10x programmers who habitually write efficient code without needing to think too much have more bandwidth for things like strategy and direction. The car they drive is both more agile, accelerates faster, has a higher max speed, etc...but even this can't move mountains. The problem an individual can solve, no matter the level of genius, is still small in scope conpared to the power of movements and collective action and intention.

The most poweful skill is to seed these movements and direct them.

Abstractly, this is what VCs look for in founders and also a reason why very smart and technical people feel short-changed that they are not appreciated for their 10x skills. (Making 500k instead of millions/billions) They may have 10x skills, but there are whole orders of magnitude they can be blind to.
Updated my post, cheers.
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Wind power is frequently curtailed. All commercial/utility scale wind turbines can control blade pitch, and all but the smallest residential-scale wind power have braking systems to prevent runaways. Controlling blade pitch is also important for maximum efficiency at regular wind speeds.

Safe curtailment is particularly important for wind power, because storms carry two orders of magnitude more wind energy than a light breeze. Solar doesn't vary that much from day to day.

Ideally, though, rather than curtailment, we'd have enough dispatchable demand to soak up all of that free energy. Hopefully, soon it'll be a bunch of internet-connected lithium-ion batteries.
That's called a "secured card."

Anyways, you were still borrowing money they just had you put up collateral first. You were still in debt to the bank, the fact they were holding collateral for the debt is irrelevant.

It's like if I had a fedora collection worth $30,000 and I go to the pawn shop and they give me a $10,000 loan and hold my Fedora collection as collateral for that loan.
And tech magazines rarely give a straightforward explanation of why memory speed is important when talking about DDR5.

This is likely because they presume most of the readers reading a Bloomberg article about whether or not airlines are undervalued due to the revenue stream of their loyalty programs are passingly familiar with many of the core concepts.
Would love to know more about your story.

My biggest learning is Functional->Fast->Pretty from the product POV and Launch as soon as you can from an Engineer's POV.

Some more details on my blog: https://anandprakash.net/2016/10/28/how-to-build-a-business-...

Most of this was written in sleepless nights when we had a baby. So do not expect a super artistic flair ;)
Who cares who's leaders are worse? Both countries are ruled by people without the population's best interest at heart.

Do not trust the people telling you Russia is behind all of these problems for the US. Even if it's true, it's a fraction of Russians that are guilty, and if you judge the whole population by what they've done Americans are guilty of a whole hell of a lot too.
Is the idea really that the moons of Saturn might be contaminated by microbial life that has survived attached to Cassini for 20 years? But we're not worrying about the Mars landers? I don't get it.
It is easier to use the reader's mental stack (especially if we know our audience) than to figure out a better way to say it (I didn't major in english for a reason).
Importantly however, and what is being noted, is if I use my Delta credit card, Delta has an income stream whether or not I'm flying. Eventually, someday, perhaps those miles will be used for seat, but it's a different revenue stream that's likely not perfectly correlated.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

I've been part of many projects that couldn't scale because lack of forethought meant there was a nasty implicit O(n^2) thing going on when it could have easily been designed to be O(n log n).

Almost all of these projects were killed with CYA hand waving about "just not fast enough".
vmarsy added that link after I wrote my comment, and it clearly doesn't justify his use of the term "best case".
look at it with a terminal based browser like lynx.
I've used a default Ubuntu desktop install in VirtualBox and it seems to work (though a little laggy). I haven't tried playing video games in it.
A device running 1.0 could still be upgraded to a vulnerable signed 1.1 when a patched 1.2 with blacklist is current on the site.
I do. I'm 47 with 24 years experience in tech. I don't plan to retire anytime soon. I have kids and a mortgage too.

I'm still a Sr. Engineer, not a director or Sr. Director, but I'm happy as an engineer. I've been fortunate to work in a lot of different technologies, Windows Server, Linux, Chef/Ruby, AWS, etc.

I've also invested time in mentoring junior engineers and interns. I find that my experience combined with good listening skills, and an ability to communicate with engineers, non-engineers, and senior mgmt helps me to stay relevant.

I also run a DevOps meetup group and I'm learning Golang in my spare time.

In short, I'm planning to stay in tech a long time. If anything I'm enjoying it more than ever.

My one piece of unsolicited advice is that developing networks in your city can help you move to a company which appreciates you and gives you opportunities to learn new things while working for an empathetic boss. Also, don't underestimate meaningful work. Helping to cure cancer is more emotionally rewarding than serving up ads more efficiently.

Best of luck. Hope you can stay in tech and find meaningful work.

Doug Ireton
You make a great point. Health should be the topmost priority and I need to get better at it.

However to my original point - you can lose fitness (within reasonable limits) and then gain it back and not notice a difference later on. However time lost is lost forever.
Can you please share some examples. I would love to learn from your experience.
KVM isn't an option on OS X or Windows - in those cases, VirtualBox is the most mature free VM software available.
You are assuming that I haven't "lived it". Over the past 2 or 3 years, I have built around 8 web apps. Some which got virtually no traction at all, and some which have reached a happy medium of users and income. None which have reached mega scale or millions of users (yet).

Some of the (real world) feedback I got from the web apps that failed to get off the ground were due mainly to our customers complaining that:

* pages were taking too long to reload.

* not enough fields on a particular data table to store information in

* missing API

* pages that would refresh in entirety instead of just updating the changed portions

Most customers didn't stick around to wait for us to address or fix the issues - there were plenty of other competitive products that fitted them better that they could start using that same day.

A couple of those sites also got negative feedback on Reddit or HN because I hosted the front end website on a $5 VPS server and when the site suffered the inevitable 'hug of death' from posting to these sites, they immediately went down due to inability to scale under the sudden deluge of visitors, and I received uncomplimentary feedback on that (where people actually elected to post feedback rather than just close the browser tab and completely forget and move on from my app).

Yes, over thinking scaling and design is bad, but putting it aside as a 'totally not important now' factor is also just as bad, if not worse, in my 'lived it' experience.
Interestingly, the page doesn't claim to be HTML or even XHTML --- it's served with "application/xml" content type, and is pure XML with an XSL that transforms it into HTML in the browser. I don't see that very often.
The difference between US agencies and others is that US citizens believe their own propaganda. All that stuff about freedom and human rights is not conductive to an environment of strict discipline and secrecy dedicated to screwing people. So, when the ideological opposition is not clearly antithetical to their way of life (as it was in Soviet or Nazi times) and their government acts too brutally, free people will question and/or leak. The Russians and the Chinese have less qualms with anti-democratic practices, which usually work better on a military level, at least in the short term.

Wikileaks could have been an awesome tool of US foreign policy, enabling whistleblowers all over the world and unsettling tyrannical societies. But the Americans overreacted after Manning and tried to screw them for good, cutting out credit cards and so on. That was such an existential threat that Assange and friends basically became life enemies and will now uncritically help anyone with an anti-US agenda. What a shame.
Paul Feyerabend argues as much in [Against Method](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_Method), that "science is an anarchic enterprise." Our greatest innovations were created by people who were claiming "irrational" things against the backdrop of the knowledge of their time.
> I wonder if Netflix had any monitoring that noticed them initiating a stream of every single video. I wonder if they used multiple Netflix accounts.

I am very curious why this matters to you.
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Is there free paying in New York city? I thought parking rates there were astronomical AND the city has a decent public transportation system, and yet traffic is so poor... So there may be more to it than free parking
Also cool would be to use this library to turn on lights based on where one's phone is located:

https://github.com/kootenpv/whereami/blob/master/README.md
Nope. These are just different kinds of trash-talking for different audience. Somebody thinks an ultimate shame is to have a fat mom, and somebody thinks it's being corrupt or being a fraud or being of wrong religion. Insults should match the audience, otherwise it doesn't work - in a culture where being fat is considered a sign of prosperity, the insult should be "yo momma is so thin".
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Given that Netflix won't let anyone use a VPN to access their service, any security / privacy issue is 100% on them.
The overall premise of the blog is exactly correct; though I would say some areas you probably need to consider more than others.

Spending a lot of time figuring out what exact microservice/sharding/etc strategy you need to serve a zillion visits a day and building it before you've even got customer/visitor one is overkill out of the gate. But that shouldn't mean you shouldn't think about how you'll scale over the short term or medium term at all.

When I approach scaling, I'll tend to spend much more time on the data retention strategy than anything else: databases (or other stores), being stateful, means that it's a harder problem to deal with later than earlier as compared to the stateless parts of the system. Even so, I'm typically not developing the data services for the Unicorn I wish the client will become, I'm just putting a lot more thought into optimizing the data services I am building so it won't hit the breaking point as early as it might if I were designing for functionality alone. I do expect there to be a breaking point and a need to change direction at some point in these early stage designs. But in that short to medium term period, the simpler designs are regularly easier to maintain than the fully "scalable" approaches that might be tried otherwise, and rarely do those companies ever need anything more.
I pay all my bills/groceries/expenses with a credit card, and get points. I use to use my debit card. Might as well get something out of a process I'm already doing.
You're a programmer.  What career do you want your kid to pursue?
I dunno man, things seem really bright to me.
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The "etc" is absolutely critical as it is shared memory: BEAM works the way it does specifically because it does not want to model shared memory, which means any implementation of threads over it will be an incredibly painful and certainly ludicrously slow simulation, and there is nothing in Python that really maps to the primitive BEAM offers.
Forgive me if I'm missing something obvious, but what exactly is the point of a secured credit card - how is it really different from just paying in cash?

(I'm from .au, where secured credit cards apparently don't exist, but I've read about the concept on the internet in the American context)
I used to drive my wife to work, down the 405 corridor. With traffic 30-45 minutes, an hour on a bad day. But when she takes the bus it takes close to two hours, mainly because she had to transfer.
Going to Seattle is better, if I catch one of the few express buses. Taing the express is usually faster than driving. But miss the express, then it takes closer to two hours
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AFAIK it's not the only source of entropy, but gets mixed in with all the other entropy sources its RNG uses.
Ask HN: What do you use to benchmark databases?
It's a broad question - but are there any industry standard database benchmark that companies use ? I have seen YCSB [https://github.com/brianfrankcooper/YCSB] - but don't know if there are others.
It is great that you got a few which got traction out of 8 tries. This is an incredible success rate.

Most people see much less success. The original suggestion is geared towards first few tries that people make. Once they have made a few attempts, they learn from it and naturally build more scalable products without spending extra effort. You have already read my story about my first try which had a very poor start. My subsequent efforts have scaled in that order without needing a single rewrite.

However, if they spend too long procrastinating, worrying about and investing in scale - they are wasting precious time which would be better spent finding product market fit.
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This is a different suggestion: removing parking at businesses and centralizing it using government (which does not lead to the problem I mentioned).
That sounds horrible. I'm still at university anyway, but it seems to me that there should be a mechanism for detecting these companies and shutting them down, if they don't recover.
I sincerely hope you'll find a job (industry, academia or otherwise) doing something you like doing in a place that you like. Good luck!
> No programmers really work 60-80 hours a week, especially in a 5 day span. That is a 12-16 hour day, 5 days a week.

Who works only 5 days a week? Saturday... sure take the day, but many of us end up working Sundays to get everything ready for Monday mornings. Making sure all the issues are prepared, reports for the past week have been written, all of our tasks for the week are defined and prioritized... 8-10 hours a day, 6 days a week... seems common to me.
> I know of absolutely no service which failed because it couldn't scale.

Bullshit. What about the site (voat something?) that tried to be an alternative to reddit when there was some scandal there but couldn't keep users because they kept crashing?
I agree: the suggestion I was replying to was to remove regulation and try to let the market come up with parking, which this suggestion is clearly not anything similar to ;P.
>I know of absolutely no service which failed because it couldn't scale.

These days there would be hardly any way to fail to scale given a large budget. The technology to do so is all so good. However, back in the day it wasn't always so. I'd say Friendster was an example of a company that failed due to scaling issues.
ASN.1 as used by Internet PKIX X.509 uses [1] a form known as DER (Distinguished Encoding Rules) which provide a canonical way encoding any particular value such that any particular value can take only one specific form.

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Is <abbr> etc. Used by screen readers? I kind of thought that was the point...
>"What is it with "capacity factors" that seems to confuse people? It's a relatively simple concept, but all over the net I see people turn it into big mystical numerological nonsense."

Of course people are interested in the capacity factor of any power source - a utility planner would be crazy not to take that into consideration. In an interview, Bill Gates pointed out a real world implications of this: "..It’s kind of ironic: Germany, by installing so much rooftop solar, has it that both their coal plants and their rooftop solar are available in the summer, and the price of power during the day actually goes negative—they pay people to take it. Then at night the only source is the coal, and because the energy companies have to recover their capital costs, they either raise the price because they’re not getting any return for the day, or they slowly go bankrupt." He adds that clean energy advocates: "…They have this statement that the cost of solar photovoltaic is the same as hydrocarbon’s. And that’s one of those misleadingly meaningless statements. What they mean is that at noon in Arizona, the cost of that kilowatt-hour is the same as a hydrocarbon kilowatt-hour. But it doesn’t come at night, it doesn’t come after the sun hasn’t shone, so the fact that in that one moment you reach parity, so what? The reading public, when they see things like that, they underestimate how hard this thing is. So false solutions like divestment or “Oh, it’s easy to do” hurt our ability to fix the problems. Distinguishing a real solution from a false solution is actually very complicated."

>…You've just explained how natural gas is horrible and causes explosions so I guess it won't be that.

That comes off as a rather flippant comment. Are you saying that you think natural gas is safer and has less effects on the climate than nuclear power or are you trying to say that the safety and the effects on climate change by using natural gas don't matter?

>…France appears to use natural gas and hydro in this role, both of which are regularly demonised by nuclear fans, which seems a bit self-contradictory to me.

I haven't noticed anyone here "demonizing" hydro or natural gas - please give an example of someone spreading false information.
I am willing to bet that 9 out of 10 'weekend projects' have had to be thrown out completely and redeveloped from scratch when the number of users became significant.

9 out of 10 weekend projects never get to a significant number of users.
Right. That is, in fact, the point, and why the suggestion to remove regulations and to just let the market regulate parking ends in combat and a bunch of people trying to game theory each other's parking... the result is everyone hates each other and is clearly unfair (if potentially efficient).
Being able to actually program for 25-30 hours per week sounds like a dream. I'm lucky to get 5-10 solid hours of programming a week. I still refuse to work overtime.

/team lead