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>>> Don’t spend any money: Do as much as you can yourself. If you can’t afford it, don’t pay someone to make assets that you could do yourself. What’s more, do you really need to hire a full time coder? Or can you just hire a freelancer for a month? If you don’t have money, make the sound effects yourself.

Nah. As a solo dev you need to spend your time efficiently.

You can go to Fiverr and pay literally $5 for stuff like that. Sure, what you get won't be amazing, but it will be passable and it is pretty much guaranteed to be better than what you can create as a pure beginner.

That is far more preferable to spending hours or days (or maybe even weeks) learning to do it yourself.
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Maybe people using GPL only want their code to be used in other GPL projects and they want to improve the world in that way. For example I want people to reciprocate: if I give you some code, give back some code too.

But don't forget the LGPL, which lets GPL code to be used even inside proprietary one.
> I fail to see how one could actually live on Mars without sacrificing 30 or more years of lifespan.

Maybe they just cant can't, but don't care. Some people could be willing to decrease their lifespan in order to colonize a different planet, making the human race interplanetary.

Also, theoretically, people will evolve over time to be able to handle those conditions. We're used to making plans a couple years ahead. When thinking of interplanetary colonization, we should think many generations ahead.
I feel like I'm the only who has ever read the nutrition facts. It's a garbage product full of ingredients I wouldn't aim to put in my body.
Love the idea of it all, just not the science behind it.
Fascinating analogy. Are you saying that the rise in Bitcoin's value recently is driven not by speculation so much as more people realizing Bitcoin's true value as an investible asset? And where are the yields coming from if not speculation ... ICOs?
A million times this.

So basically they conned people into a walled garden without providing any of the benefits they explicitly(or implicitly) promised.

As long as they get 30% of fart apps, who cares, right?
> What if you're in the ground-zero scenario: there is an application but practically no infrastructure?
> I'm in that situation now (with a SaaS product), and my approach so far has been:
> * set up tests
> * set up Docker images
> * set up docker-compose for easy local deployments

In my personal opinion, this is all good work to do. One minor nit: You probably want to get out of the habit of thinking about `docker-compose up` as a deployment, and just think of it as a much cleaner, much more "prod-like" local development environment.

> * do lots of work to make the app behave inside Docker

I'm curious about this. What was the overall nature of the work? Things you would have had to figure out in a distributed platform anyway, or container-specific issues?

> * take control of AWS and IAM using CloudFormation, making it easy to set up and roll back permissions

This is amazing, I applaud you for your foresight. I wish we had known about this pattern much earlier.

> * bootstrap KOPS/K8s with CloudFormation

This is where there's going to be another giant time sink, unless you're already pretty familiar with Kubernetes' resources—Deployments, Services, PersistentVolumeClaims, Secrets, etc—how they work together, what they enable, what their limitations are, and so on. Not to mention picking a network overlay plugin, deciding on a service discovery model, and understanding how Kubernetes works. BTW I am currently working on this very knowledge, and at least for me it's been pretty heady stuff at times.

>Future work:
>* set up Jenkins CI on top of K8s
>* K8s deployments of the app for CI
>* staging K8s deployments
>* K8s in production

Everything here seems relatively sane, in broad terms. I mainly caution against moving too quickly and also against spending engineering efforts on this if you are also an IC for the applications your teams are writing.

>This has been my first venture in operations and it's been very interesting and rewarding, but at times it gets very intimidating to "be" operations with no senior guidance.

Honestly, you seem to have the right mindset for this and so far you haven't mentioned anything that I see as a huge red flag.

>I enjoy the freedom and responsibility and I feel like I at least have a significantly better grasp on this than anyone else in the company, but I wish I knew of a way to feel like my work was good in an absolute sense, like "definitely good enough".

Welcome to ops! There will never not be an operational issue that either needs to be fixed or is silently waiting to strike at 3AM on Monday morning.
If this test excluded less than 0.1% of the immigrants, why bother? The immigrants we're taking in who will become successful will pay more than enough in taxes over their lifetime to pay to the costs of those who need care. Just take them in and accept it as the cost of doing business. The ethical implications seem to outweigh the marginal gains.
i don't mean any ill intent about this comment, however that said. i worked something similar, and i strongly feel the direction that SourceGraph is heading in is the correct one.

developing in the browser, especially at large organisations is a huge productivity benefit in addition to cost benefit etc. the pros are endless. just let your mind wonder.

intro
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the one i worked on, alongside Sourcegraph is available at:

live: https://cloud.bana.io/monaco-go/
repo: https://github.com/mbana/monaco-go

the backend was adjusted somewhat to support a WebSocket connection, besides that, the code was almost written entirely by the folks over at Sourcegraph. please note i do not have funds to pay for the Azure cloud so it might be down, or seem very slow.

i would love to resume development on this seeing as i work at large organisation and i see the huge potentional.

implementation
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in my opinion, i think the approach taken in my implementation might be better. there was hardly any custom code aside from stubbing code out to make VScode, or rather, monaco-editor run in the browser.

i will stress, i can and want to continue finishing this and having it land in monaco-editor master but my current job doesn't allow it.

if anyone wants to join me, please do say.
You can get the same from other kinds of USB-C docks, not just proprietary Microsoft. Griffin makes magnetic USB-C cable if that's what you are looking for and possibly other producers will start.
1.) Uber was praised as role model and people tried to mimic them. That has impact on behavior or other companies and founders in tech community. Crooks being praised and rewarded means more crooks in the future.

People who think this is bad thing, wants (and have absolute right) to put attention on previously praised crooks so that opposite message (it is bad behavior and you might get punished) gets attention too.

2.) If you brag about your success and break-the-rules-strategy, people like you less and get more angry with you. Once you get caught, they get happy, talk about it and wants to see you punished more then as if you did not bragged. That is how humans work.
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Any large piece of software will have its own terminology (car, cdr, frame, window, buffer, yank, kill, meta, ...). It is a shame that people would rather fixate on these superficial things instead of the minimal effort to get familiarized.
That's quite a chunk of change for rebranding SlimFast for the urban millennial set. I wonder how many other eight figure venture-fundable concepts could be exploited by lurking in the grocery store aisles with a label maker.
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You're overlooking a big reason for the using the GPL I think: GPL projects are more attractive to certain communities of contributors. People are more willing to invest (potentially a lot of) their time in an open source project if they don't feel they're being taken advantage of. A lot of people don't feel great writing code for free if it's going to be relicensed and incorporated into a commercial product.
I'm thinking the cost for not including Thunderbolt 3 (needs a chip, more power, etc.) but not for missing USB-C.
Sorry custom elements might have been the wrong term to use. I mean custom interfaces, say an image gallery or a realtime search box where you would use elements like buttons and input's in a different way then the usage this framework defines for you.
Using a nav both in your header and sidebar is a different example where these are not good defaults
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In the words of the /b/east itself:

(Warning: VERY harsh language)

>If I can pontificate a bit for your edification, one of the rules of the internet is "There are no girls on the internet". This rule does not mean what you think it means.

>In real life, people like you for being a girl. They want to fuck you, so they pay attention to you and pretend what you have to say is interesting, or that you are smart and clever. On the internet, we don't get a chance to fuck you. This means the advantage of being a "girl" does not exist. You don't get a bonus in a conversation just because I'd like to put my cock in you.

>When you make a stupid post like "hurr durr i'm a gurl" you are begging for attention. The only reason to post it is because you want your girl advantage back, because you are too vapid and stupid to do or say anything interesting without it. You are forgetting the rules, there are no girls on the internet.
Maybe not nihilist but claiming people's opinions are not sincerely held beliefs based on nothing more than you disagreeing with them seems pretty pessimistic to me. It's just the new way to say SJW.
Soylent gets a lot of hate (I'm looking forward to skipping out on this thread before the inevitable negative comments from people who assume that Soylent consumers will eat nothing but Soylent for the rest of their lives), but to me, it's solved a large problem in my life: what to eat when I'm hungry but I don't have enough time to prepare a full meal. It can happen every now and then when I'm rushing around, and soylent blows away whatever I'd eat before (nothing, some Mexican I bought in the Mission, clif bars, etc).

I've actually switched over to a product called Ample which is similar to Soylent but a bit more health conscious with ingredient choice. Still, I've got nothing against Soylent.
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> Also, if this is for an educational market

Break-away magnetic charger connections are huge if you're going to be issuing them to students. There goes a big chunk of your out-of-commission broken laptops, because somebody tripped over the cord.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-spacex-ipo-idUSKBN17Z1Q8
I'm working on a board that will allow you to address multiple kindle form factor screens in an array (each with 600x800 resolution).

I noticed that the module I purchased last year for development ED060SC4 has become quite a lot more expensive on eBay but is still pretty cheaply available on Alibaba, the issue I forsee having is that the screens have edges which will create gaps in the image, might not be too noticable in a sufficiently large array if the virtual image is larger to account for the gaps in the physical display.

There's also the ED097OC1 which is much larger but I think would still suffer from the edge problem and I'm not sure what the price is at medium scale (10s of units).

Please e-mail me if you have a source on these parts or larger tileable panels!
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I just looked at the demo again and it is only the <input type=… buttons that (since they have no extra styling compared to the other inputs?) don't stand out enough, when I imagine the <button type=… ones next to a form they look fine. (I personally like a 3D-effect on buttons, but that's really a matter of taste and doesn't always fit the other elements)
Why don't individual apartments have more "negative externalities" than a room full of bunks?
This guide is so primitive that it cannot be called useful. It can possibly be harmful, though, to those who don't know the language well and use this guide as a sole source of information.
For some people, user freedom is a large chunk of the value.
To be honest, for personal use they aren't too useful due to their volatility. However, systems like Ripple and Ethereum could have potentially very big impacts for banks and businesses. They replace a cumbersome lower layer for which settlement time is usually on the order of days
Out of curiosity, what did you see that disturbed you?
Can you elaborate a bit? What exactly is garbage about the ingredients?
Within the city there's usually wifi. Broadband that you can use anywhere on the world (or at least anywhere there aren't so many people), even Antarctica or Everest or Crimea or the middle of the ocean, seems like it would be worth paying quite a premium for.
Serious question -- do they have an FDA approval?? Can they produce and sell it without it?

Recently learnt about some Amish selling home made honey without FDA approval; now awaiting trial on a 20 years jail charge.
The cacao is pretty good, but the other new flavor, nectar, is terrible IMO. Tastes like liquid pez. I still prefer the original flavor for meals. Cacao tastes more like a treat than a meal.
An anarchist ought not care what the license terms are; they are already operating in an ethical framework that revokes concern for a collection of words that rely on state violence to have meaning.
Why bother with lexical or local variables at all? <satire>

With only globals used, you don't have to worry about free() at all. The OS does it better and faster.
Which ingredients do you have a specific problem with?
> Ample which is similar to Soylent but a bit more health conscious with ingredient choice

What does that mean? How did you make this judgement?
Everyone is talking about the hardware cost, but people seem to have forgotten the software cost, which will have a much bigger impact to the industry overall.

Yes, there will be a few great VR apps and games that actually add to the experience, but what an average VR app is going to be? Making something in VR doesn't necessarily make it better. You have to make a good game/app in the first place. And then there's an additional cost for VR. Now you have one more element to screw up.

Look, even a regular standard PC could be 10x more useful if all the software is better built and run flawlessly. Instead we ended up with half-baked glitchy mess. Making a good VR app won't be easier than this. The profit break even point will be higher because people have a higher expectation. It seems the industry is ill-fated.
That is simply not true. For instance iXsystems contributes back to FreeBSD snd also sponsors the foundation.

On the other hand a lot of WiFi router vendors violate the GPL by not releasing the code and contribute nothing back to Linux.
I've been wanting to try Soylent but have not done so b/c of the price. Is there an HN promo code or something? I'd try it for a full month.
You piqued my curiosity. Here are the nutrition facts from their drink product:

Calories 400
Total Fat 21g 32%
Saturated Fat 2g 10%
Polyunsaturated Fat 2.5g
Monounsaturated Fat 16g
Trans Fat 0g
Cholesterol 0mg 0%
Sodium 300mg 13%
Total Carbohydrate 36g 12%
Total Sugars 9g
Protein 20g

The ratios don't seem that bad. The top ingredients are water, soy protein, maltodextrin (a filler/preservative with a high glycemic index), and algal oil.
I'm trying to understand what Soylent's business moat is. My inclination is economies of scale to drive cost of goods down, like many food companies.

To that end, I don't see their product as all that unique or difficult to replicate, and I also foresee headwinds for them if/when they try to market to a broader base of consumers who already have powders, shakes, bars, and hundreds of other meal substitutes to choose from.
Previous, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14225557
The website doesn't feel well on iPhone. What's you guys recommendations for CSS franwork nowdays?
When was Apple ever first to the game? Didn't make the first home PC, didn't make the first MP3 player, didn't make the first smartphone. They tend to take validated markets and redefine them with design.
But SpaceX already has a launch backlog as long as my arm. They don't seem to be wanting for customers.
I'm wondering the same. The only thing that jumps out to me is 9g of sugar but even that is not bad. 20g of protein in a 400 calorie meal is pretty good.
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Do not confuse a house with a home. After all, you have a homeland, not a houseland.
Mathematically, you're correct. Unfortunately, real world systems have bugs, and even multiple parties can be compromised. Back doors are a bad idea.
The biggest fallacy in the post as well as in the comment is that there's some "true", "fair" value of software, and we can just work it out with clever arguments.

There isn't. Developer and consumer have conflicting interests as far as price of the software go, and the price is set at a point where these interests meet. Of course, there are other variables (such as software developer being able to pay the bills) and parties (such as Apple) at play, but ultimately, this is, as always, just a matter of conflicting interests and resources that both sides have to influence the outcome. All discussions about what is "fair" or "right" in this situation have literally no meaning.
Given how much Democrats and Republicans detest each other's candidates, you'd think it would have sunken in by now that relinquishing basic rights and allowing the government to create powerful apparatuses prone to abuse is never a good idea, no matter how much you trust the current people in power. Even if you loved Bush, next up you get a closet-Muslim itching to take your guns away (/s), and even if you loved Obama, now you get a narcissist with fascist tendencies behind the reigns (/s?).
No, this was because WP security team ignored this issue. From the article:

> This issue has been reported to WordPress security team multiple times with the first report sent back in July 2016. It was reported both directly via security contact email, as well as via HackerOne website.

> As there has been no progress in this case , this advisory is finally released to the public without an official patch (0day).
Agreed. Basically we could grow up upto a value of $3 billion, and then Facebook would show interest. Ok.

But I think this is true for products that are somewhat orthogonal to their base product and not in direct competition, like a radically new innovative full-blown social network could be.

What if mine was such a ground breaking idea?

What if, at stage 1 of funding, FB takes over the idea and improves with the same resources that I would only have at "stage 100" funding?

Oh and guys, please, I am just reasoning by making hypothesis, no need to remember me how hard is to build such a thing. :)
While that is true, I still count "getting into legal trouble" as a lose, as Blizzard already has well-payed lawyers. Even if you win in the end, you won't get the time and a compensation for the stress back.
In my experience the barrier is always the lawyers.
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Yes, coffee and reading hn and the like. You could also say "don't procrastinate". Sure, I'll start doing this right after I read this one last post ;)
There is a significant portion of people living beyond their means, I'm not sure that says much really.
Can you point to that story? I know some got caught putting "cures cancer" on the label and that is a big no-no.
Would you mind listing the other 10 things? This is the most cogent critique I've seen so far of ether and I'm keen to hear more of your thoughts on this!
Programmable blockchains in context: Ethereum's future
> I find it astonishing that startup indie devs pay out for an office, with all the extra bills that entails. Work from home, keep your overheads as close to zero as possible.

I've been a solo dev for nearly a decade (8 years) and I found that sometimes it makes complete sense to pay for an office. Before my daughter was born, I was able to work from almost anywhere: noisy cafes, at home, the library, etc. But after she was born it was like my brain needed a space away from home where I could close a door and have a room all to myself, a place where I couldn't hear family sounds or be within walking distance of anyone I knew. I tried cafes and libraries but, oddly, they no longer worked for me—the noise and the people walking by suddenly became a huge distraction. I couldn't focus. I decided to rent a tiny artist studio for $350/mo that I found on CraigsList and it was the best $350 that I spent each month in terms of direct impact on my ability to get work done.
I'm curious about the naming choice as the end of the movie with Heston reveals that eating "Soylent Green" is a form of cannibalism. Does the term "Soylent" signify something outside of the movie?
There's a growing interest in the underlying technology's implications for fintech. I think largely because transactions can be ultra fast, ultra cheap, and can execute auditable, but arbitrary custom logic. ACH is extremely old, very slow, inflexible, and still used across the world for large financial transactions.
What advantage does Soylent have over say, other meal replacements e.g. Slimfast, weight watcher shakes, juices etc that have existed for years before it and will continue to do so for years after? All I see is SV hype and marketing. In fact you just showed that Soylent is easily outplayed because you switched to a different drink already.
What numerous factors are you talking about? Did they got a mention in emperor's address?
Shame you're being downvoted. You can find powdered meals or ready-to-go shakes with similar or better nutrient profiles than Soylent in most grocery stores .
Love that one. Def don't like the coffee though :(
And we should worry about our politician's security too. What if they are blackmailed while in power? That creates a terrible national security situation.

This line of argument would hopefully resonate with the constituencies of the politicians pushing hardest for these backdoors (although it's a fairly bipartisan effort).
> “We shrunk the sensors and got high fidelity signals,” Chung says, “by figuring out novel ways to fit more powerful sensors into tight spaces.” Some of that had to do with the arrangement of the magnetic material, he says, but can’t say more until patents are filed.

Which is interesting. I guess the main component here is manufacturing cost, since very small, very high capability probes exist since the ~60s. E.g. Tektronix has had small probes with 50-100 MHz [which is orders of magnitude wider than you'd need for this] bandwidth since then.
Thinking of yourself first and before others isn't necessarily unethical. You're seeing denigration where it doesn't exist.
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Library?
And if you're a fan of poor life choices or post lunch naps, then their Zapatos are excellent!
I'd like to "ride along" with my favorite rally team. Wow, what a great experience. Even if pre-recorded that would be simply amazing.
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In the movie "Soylent Green" (the book its based on is different, in fact I don't even think there's cannibalism in it) there are a variety of meal-replacement foodstuffs known as Soylent, including red and yellow, that are made from soy and algae. Green is the only one made from humans.
most != all

And one counter-example isn't enough refutation.

not saying i believe either of you. just saying, language matters.