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I provide detailed development estimations, maintain a line of communication throughout the project, and strive for the simplest solutions.

Stack: - Python, Ruby, PHP, Javascript - Django, Flask, Rails, Node, Magento - AWS, Puppet, Fabric

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Almost thought that was Ask HN and was terrified
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Yes. Also, license costs in Italy sunk in the last 15 years anyways, as more of them were granted. Add to that that the license is individual, and you can surely sell it, but just to another person; corporations can't own them and ask for a daily ransom from taxi drivers.
Prejudice and discrimination are close enough to synonyms. You shouldn't be confused by the word swap.
That sounds like how Ireland used to work, before 2000 when things were deregulated.

We've gone from a shortage of taxis, to an overabundance. When Uber launched, it wasn't interesting as our taxi system (which Uber appears to comply with the laws of) already works.
"The law should apply equally to everyone"

In this case, the law doesn't apply equally to everyone. Holders of existing taxi licenses actively lobby to restrict the issuance of additional licenses. This isn't new: https://www.eurofound.europa.eu/observatories/eurwork/articl...
Implementation may be strictly mechanical if you have everything planned out NASA-binder style, but surely there'll still be a need to adjust the plan from time to time? Then there's debugging and maintenance, both of which may not require all your creativity all the time, but if you're creatively sapped, you're walking into it with a few tires already slashed. At least that's what I've found in my own experience. It's not that you have to be creative constantly, it's that you have to be able to summon up the capacity to be creative at any given time.
In case of government, it's often another issue. While the social network of the parent was probably a lean stack, the government one was probably over-engineered. Some webapps are front-ends that communicate with a back-end in XML, with massive flaws like serialization and lack of transactions, and the backend syncs with a business solution backed by dBase, all of that for 11 web pages (I know, I've been on govt apps before – France). Scaling was a major requirement from the beginning, but those engineers just don't know what they're doing and follow the XML frontend/ESB bus patterns, assuming that's what gives performance. And committee design (12 to 24 ppl) does the rest of the bloat. 11 screens, $2m, sluggish result.

Had they started with only $300 like the parent comment, their webapp would have often performed much better. Big projects are a difficult curse, our most difficult question in IT engineering.
PostgreSQL will always be technically superior, and it is a single product.

MySQL is MySQL or MariaDB.
...easily see...

...taxi apps...
That's unrelated. The lights need to be able to connect, not your browser. It's not about having a website where you can download a new image, it's about having the lights download a new firmware image. What browsers do or do not support doesn't matter.

The WRT54G is also 15 years old. That's probably longer than the lifespan of a smart lighting system.
It's true. I love the US, but our student loans and healthcare systems just flat out suck.

As a country we've slowly-but-surely gotten so many things right, but we have a god damned long way to go, and it just feels like we're crawling. I guess with a population of 320 million it's kind of like trying to turn the Titanic.
The easy cases... Like 99% of your entire project including checking for data races?

Until we have perfect AI writing all our code, it's going to be pretty difficult to fix the other cases. That's what code reviews and extensive unit tests are for.
Or you could say a politician's main role is to create and trade loopholes.
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A better title would be: scalability is a luxury problem.
I built a service (~10mm users at peak) which was designed from the ground up to scale, around 2002. When the numbers did grow we just sat back and watched it pretty much.

Even given this, I completely agree with you. That's why I now develop in ruby. I'll take developer productivity over performance any day.

It's the old saying - 'nice problem to have'.
How is rust "not safe"?
Via what? Flashing the apartment lights?
Oh? Like Starbucks using the Dutch sandwich? What an ignorant slur!
Sounds like the amount of information a typical web forum stores about its users private messages.

I am not saying if this is good or bad in general, but just... I could live with it in 2005 when Vbulletin was all the rage, and I can live with it now.

Also, other chat clients like Skype, Paltalk, Yahoo Messenger, Facebook Messenger also store this information---its kind of a requirement to do any kind of search over previous messages, and allow people to find their contacts or talk to random unacquainted individuals.

Maybe this is a big negative for Wire if their PR basically touts "security" and "encryption", when the reality is they want to be secure against middlemen only.
What is the nature of the debt? Housing?

As an aside, I once saw a homeless man in a Scandinavian country. Someone actually stopped their car to check on them. As a tourist from NA, my mind was blown. Was impressed by that but not having to pay 10 bucks for a cup of tea :p
BearSSL is my favourite crypto software of 2016, however it's still in alpha stages of development and is not production ready, Ikea couldn't use it for this product: https://www.bearssl.org/todo.html
Gotta follow the rules in Deutschland! Not so in Italy...
So harm everyone by reducing competition in order to subsidize people that spend €200k on a license? That doesn't benefit the public, that benefits a tiny special interest at the expense of everyone else.

I spend more money on a taxi, I spend less money at the restaurant. And get less value from my money than I should.

So we 'protect' taxis but what about struggling restaurant owners (or other shops) that lose money because taxis aren't subject to competition? Who cries for them?
I tried running Arch Linux on both VirtualBox and VMware Player on my Windows machine at work and Compton's performance is terrible. It's strange because it runs so well on VMware Fusion on my MacBook. Can someone recommend a better way to virtualize Linux desktop with composition in Windows?
> Changing from master to replica is easy, but now you have to rebuild that original master off of the former replica now. Completely start over. You can't just start up again from a given transaction ID. MySQL's GTID implementation is much better in this regard. You can change masters and replicas all repoint them without rebuilding. You can't do that (currently) with Postgresql.

Have you heard of pg_rewind? https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/app-pgrewind....
The article is about choosing a business idea where technical scale isn't important.

Those sorts of business ideas don't exist, unless you don't have any customers. :)
> the government doesn't want thousands of taxi drivers without a job.

I don't know, I find this quite unfair to say to be honest.

Once you make an agreement, as non-sensical as it can be, you should hold your end up. Especially if you are an important institution.

The agreement here concerns the taxi licenses (and the fact that you can sell them).
It's a bit selfish and narrow-minded to scrape off all that was agreed upon (leading people to pay 200k+ euros !) because "modernity" has arrived.

A better solution would be to legalize services like Uber and charge them a royalty fee for a certain number of years. The collected money should serve as a reparation to current owners of taxi licenses.
Shit. I have never believed that someone would really build and run a Haskell-based back-end in production. Respect and kudos. Classy as fuck.
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It doesn't matter. That's something that should be brought up and discussed in parliament and then either changed or accepted as it is. The people enforcing the laws have to follow the legislation as it stands.
>Astonishingly still many client CEOs ask me how they can make their developers work more, marketing also works 60h they claim.

Some larger software firms try to capitalize their R&D costs by developers to enter timecards. If the CEO doesn't prioritize work culture and labour norms appropriately, it's easy to make the case that developers aren't working hard enough (i.e. >40hrs/week) against anecdotal claims from other departments.

One might think the easy way out of this is to fight data with data and ask the marketing teams to enter timecards. But I've never seen or heard of any marketing department enter timecards, primarily because marketing is considered an operational cost to the busines from an accounting perspective, as opposed to Engineering being classified as a more favourable capital cost.
In India, most of the students get a bachelors degree without any loan. No one in India becomes homeless in a week if he loses his job. This loan and debt thing is really messed up in the US.
Why do you need 3d acceleration for using a system? GUIs work perfectly without any 3D acceleration. Are you planing on playong games? If so it is not a good idea in any VM.
I grew up in Stockholm, Sweden and used to live there until a few years ago. There are plenty of homeless people in Stockholm nowadays. There's one outside almost every grocery store in the city center. For comparison, I'm currently living in Taipei, and I can count the number of homeless people I have seen in the last few months on one hand. They probably exists but they are definitely not visibly present.

As to the nature of debt, it is almost entirely in housing. It is currently a big debate about whatever there should be laws on private cash investment and mortgage repayment rates.

Homelessness example from Sweden's public radio (2014): http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=2054&art...

OECD private debt: https://data.oecd.org/hha/household-debt.htm

EDIT: Almost all the homeless people you see in Stockholm are Romani people. They are one of the five officially recognized national minorities in Sweden, along with Jews, Sami, Sweden Finns and Tornedalers (https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr...)
I have used PostgreSQL extensively before but now I just use MySQL. It is easy to install, maintain and use - even on a Windows box.

Basically it gives me everything I need in a relational database and let's me worry about other things.
That's how I read it. Clarify OP?
> Without 3d support, basically no-one can use virtualbox

What? I can only laugh at such a statement

Don't use hyped up desktop managers that need 3D to work.
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> You do not need to frequently upgrade TLS versions to be secure. TLSv1.2 will likely be fine for many years and TLSv1.1 has been fine for 11 years

Famous last words.

I'm also in favor of keeping IOT devices as simple as possible. In that regard, dropping HTTPS is a no-brainer (as long as some verification is done through other means).

I'm making a bet that anyone here who religiously advocates HTTPS on embedded devices never have tried it in practice and over time.
Perhaps if taxes were less punitive and confiscatory people would be less likely to be creative in their avoidance.

Lowering and simplifying taxes would increase revenues (per the Laffer Curve,) however that would result in politicians not being as powerful. Milton Friedman explains this brilliantly: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TruCIPy79w8
Pros and Cons depend largely on what you're hoping to use your DB for and how you intend to deploy/administer it. Feature-wise, Postgres has a break-neck speed of new feature adoption compared to MySQL. That could be a Pro or a Con depending on your perspective. If you're dying to try out deep indexing of JSON columns in your SQL DB, then you definitely want Postgres. If you need something stable and reliable, then MySQL might be a better choice.

Not to be trite, but I think the biggest high-level Pro/Con comes down to this: Postgres has the more active OSS community, MySQL has Percona. Seriously, if you're in a situation where you have the option of spending money to solve problems, then having the option of hiring Percona to fix your problems alone makes MySQL a sound decision. If you don't have a large cash reserve, but are willing to spend time combing through message boards and blog posts, pick Postgres.
How people perceive it is not relevant if it actually is a side business
The state apologists who think that 'the law' is some kind of holy bible, when there clearly are far better outcomes from sidestepping overly burdenous regulations is appalling but not surprising. It's no surprise that the US consistently outperforms the EU in GDP growth and innovation.

The best approach to burdenous regulation is to grow fast enough to challenge it.
Not a book, but there was a Pharo MOOC on the FUN platform (france université numerique); which was as interesting for the theoritical and the pragmatic side of ST like languages.
24 yo here, so I can't answer your question.
BUT. From what I read in your post, you're not only asking if there is a future in tech, you're also saying you're afraid because you don't have as much energy as you used to.

I'd say energy has little to do with age. As every 40yo you probably are 20lbs overweight, you haven't done much sport in the last years, you probably don't manage your sleep as well as you should, same goes for nutrition, etc.

When is the last time you took a MOOC, a new formation, learned a new skill by yourself?

tldr your energy has more to do with your lifestyle than with your age. Gl. :)
I think (another) root cause of the problem is the education system in America. People go to great lengths (i.e. playing "slave" in High School) to get into great colleges which are often privately funded. This means that high performers go to good colleges and some of them score big and give back to their alma mater which reinforces the school with money so they can hire better people etc etc. Disclaimer: European and total outsider so please correct me if my views are wrong I am very interested in how Americans see this system. Do you think it's unfair?
The XPS 15 does not suffer from coil whine. However almost all the XPS 13's will have it. Some will be quite others will be really loud. Its a gamble and shame on Dell for not fixing it after so many complaints
There is a thing called discretion. Perhaps France should jail a few million women for wearing pants?

Just because something is "law" doesn't mean you have an obligation to follow it.

Uber offers services far superior to uncompetitive, entitled taxi drivers that should've been put out of business years ago. I hope Uber will continue operations in Italy.
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In case you don't want to slog through the headache inducing nonsense that is the manifesto, password is at the bottom. You're welcome.
The first line of Seveneves is "The moon exploded with no warning and no apparent reason". The Kessler effect is involved, but its not really about space junk at all

It is excellent though
Did anyone use OpenPGP for this? Seems interesting...
Is the Dutch sandwich illegal? If not, then blame your government. Starbucks follows the law. That's what many people here say about Uber "Uber doesn't follow the law -- so they should be banned; don't like the laws, then change them."

Yet Starbucks follows the law -- they have a huge legal and tax team for that purpose. So how can we complain about Uber not following the law and Starbucks following the law and be intellectually consistent at all?

There is no such thing as a loophole. The law either is or it isn't.
>The state apologists who think that 'the law' is some kind of holy bible

LMAO are you even being serious with this ?
as another comment said these look like bad design not bad scaling.
I just heard a "machine learning is taking over everything" lament earlier this evening - not from ad tech specifically, even. Although I can't comment on my personal experience(being younger myself) one pathway to longer term job security for software seems to be to gradually move "down the stack" towards increasingly deep, low-level problems, where the necessary competence and experience is high enough to eliminate most young competitors. Another is to grow entrepreneurial enough to do consulting, or if more ambitious, product. A third is to transition towards an adjacent role where your specializations become more adaptable and less commodified - for me, I've pushed for a mix of design and management skills.
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While I understand and support that Uber must comply with local laws and that it is unfair to taxi drivers who paid 200k or whatever for a license (which is the case in most EU countries), I do would like to see Uber push for modernization because that will not happen with those local cab drivers. In countries where Uber is allowed, I can pick between a nice, clean car with a friendly driver or an old crappy vehicle with a grumpy, smelly driver. In Hong Kong UberX are mostly new Teslas driven by people who speak some English, while the local cabs are so old and decrapped I do not understand how they even are allowed on the road. And those are not exceptions. In Spain, where Uber is no more, I get in to cars, the drivers swear in Spanish (they do not speak English mostly) that the drive is too short, burps and then drives off. Again no exception: it happens only to us already a lot and we are polite people (maybe we should not be?).

After that experience you have no recoarse to complain: with Uber you tap in the app and even get some or all money back. And drivers under a certain score drop off. With regular taxis it is fuck you very much for your money.

So banning Uber is nice and all and logical but then the gov should at least demand of taxis to offer the same level: hell their prices are much higher than Uber as well in almost all instances, so even if we do not mention that all the rest should be at the same level. I know they cannot and that is why Uber breaking the law is needed; that is a sad thing. The client is king and that has been lost by traditional cabbies in Europe a long time ago.
> the idea that you can figure out where someone is from by analyzing their written text

That idea is quite well known, so it's likely that the post was written like that deliberately. I was just wondering if you could create a similar sounding post with a chain of people rewriting the original in their own words.
Also of interest is this teardown of the Koppla USB power supply:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRe9w5PKmsE

It's also a pretty darn good piece of kit.
Uncompetitive? Uber has spent billions subsidising taxi rides. That is the very definition of uncompetitive!

If they charged the amount to of money needed to actually turn a profit/breakeven then suddenly all those regular taxi companies would be competitive at worst and cheaper in many​ situations.
Italy -> advanced economy -> lol
Pretty much this. A few years ago, I used to work for a small-ish American company that had offices in my corner of the world in Europe. They tried to pull this sort of crap in our office -- everyone except the guy in charge of the local office (who was a VP of something something -- his company had been bought some time before) quit within months.

The occasional week-long sprint before a release is one thing. I think better management/planning would avoid them, but they're normal in such a competitive industry, I guess. So I've worked 80-hour weeks at times, no complaint here. In fact, I think they're healthy now and then, I like the buzz that I get at 3 AM, it's good concentration exercise...

Constant work at this pace though, no, can't do. First, that's how bad software gets written. You literally get worse at your business for doing it. Second, those additional hours per day aren't just family time hours. They're also learning-new-things hours, reading hours, keeping myself informed hours, debating stuff with friends hours and so on. Not having them further decreases my chances of getting better employment somewhere else (or even getting a better position where I work right now) and slowly turns me into a social retard living in a bubble made out only of headlines. That can't be good for me.

Oh, and without additional pay, it's illegal pretty much everywhere around here.

It's probably like getting drunk -- getting shitfaced once a year with your old highschool friends to celebrate the anniversary of when you all got arrested for egging the principal's house is kind of a healthy social activity. Chugging a bottle of Jameson every day because that's how we do things around here is called being an alcoholic and it's really bad for your insides.

I've had colleagues who glorified this sort of work. It does create some amount of peer pressure (unsurprisingly, the managers are quick to praise this sort of stuff), but after the ripe age of 17 I've learned to deal with that.
Where I live (eastern Sweden) we all say "trådlös", so almost "trådfri". But IKEA have many names that either sound like gibberish or are just strange.
"you need something stable and reliable, then MySQL might be a better choice."

Thats not what I have heard of and experienced with postgreSQL. Its feature set isn't stable in the sense that they add new features all the time, but it is stable in the sense that features that are present stay. They carefully consider features before committing to adding them (example: upset support)

I also haven't heard of unreliability claims w.r.t. PostgreSQL, certainly not more than with MySQL.

Also, MySQL's deviations from the SQL standard (silently chopping data of long strings to fit them in the database, for example) for me are a cause for concern.
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You know that those cashback and airline miles rewards are all paid out of interchange (which is part of what the merchant pays), right? The Dodd-Frank Reforms, specifically the Durbin Amendment limited interchange on Debit transactions, killing debit rewards cards.

Meanwhile, Visa's interchange rates keep getting beaten down, they're passing through 1.8% to whoever your bank is on average across all cards, with the higher end rewards cards being of limited issuance. If they issued everyone a Visa Signature Preferred card (at 2.10% interchange) like the Chase Sapphire Prefered, Visa would get sued by Walmart, Kroger and the like. Interchange keeps falling due to regulation and lawsuits, up in Canada Walmart even stopped accepting Visa.

Interchange Rates for Visa: https://usa.visa.com/dam/VCOM/download/merchants/visa-usa-in...
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Wrong, Uber subsidises taxi rides to the tune of billions of dollars. Billions.