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Profession: Software Developer - full time, Remote from Asian metropolis, with a US based company <20 employees.

I work 9hr days Mon-Thur, and 4 hours on Friday morning. A lot of my work is lone ranger type projects.

Typical Workday:

[09:00] Wake up, maybe shower, maybe just drink tea.

[09:30] Skype session with language teacher.

[10:00] Start work.

[11:30] Take 15 minutes for me. Maybe, skim HN, or practice a skill that has nothing to do with work or programming.

[13:00] Clock out. Go for a walk and have some lunch. Shower if I haven't done that yet.

[15:00] Work more, usually from a cafe.

[17:00] Clock out, have some fun, eat some dinner, go home.

[19:00] Clock in, it is now 6AM at the home office. No one bothers me until 8-9am.

[20:00] Take a 15 min break, usually give my wife some attention. Do a house chore, or chit chat.

[20:30] Check in with the upper echelon. Sometimes it is just an IM giving a status update, other times it is a meeting going over the beginning or end of a project.

[23:00] Clock out. Go get a massage, or late night snack. Work on personal project etc.

[01:00] Go to sleep.

Probably once a week I cut out that 1pm-3pm break, so I can have a longer afternoon break. Those days, I'll see a movie or have something planned with friends in the afternoon.
> Sometimes they do a good job:
> * XBox

Oh, do you mean Xbox 1 or Xbox One?
Hi everyone,

Karan Walia, Co-founder & CEO of Cluep here. Let me know if you have any questions!?
My questions were rhetorical. One reason I post my thoughts here is because companies like MS are on HN. It's useful to know why people don't want to use your product or are hesitant to do so. Besides, MS has been doing a lot of surprising things lately post-Ballmer.
I fail to see that quote in the entire article.

EDIT: Just read your username, you already have a predisposition to Microsoft.
I used to think that way too until I opened my project in Visual C++ (with the Visual Assist addon).

The productivity boost was so great that I've decided to never use Xcode for C++ again and do all my development in a VM if I have to.

Best alternative is Qt Creator and it's probably what I'm going to use for my next C++ project on the mac. Many people recommend CLion, but I've never really managed to actually use it (and it isn't free and runs on the jvm).

Still VC++ is a powerful tool for C++ development, which is probably quite hard to beat, so having it on the mac would make using Windows totally optional :).
Two sigma starts total comp for a recent PhD around 250k.
Ok, fair enough. The coin flipping analogy isn't great. But it's a pithy way to make a very valid point: there's a massive amount of luck in investment. To see this, let's think about coin flipping again :).

Suppose I have a 90% chance of making a positive return in any given year. The chance that I'll make money every year for ten years is about 35%. Over 20 years, it's about 12%.

Now, I don't believe that anyone has a 90% chance of making money in a given year. Even if I conceeded that it's possible to have a long-term edge in the markets, I'd say it's more like a 55% chance of making money. So instead of there being a handful of elite geniuses with a 90% edge, I think it's more likely that there are many smart people with a 55% edge, all tossing coins.

I've hidden a lot of things away in this analysis, and I'd need to write a full essay to give the issue its due. For example, I've ignored the possibility to "beat" the market by leveraging up your S&P exposure and charging fees on top. If the S&P goes up, you beat it. If the S&P goes down, you blow up and start again.
"Writing" was done by manually stringing wires though those big rings. Those could be changed, but it was a big headache.

It's like classic reverse DNS. There was already a mapping from A to B (phone number to outgoing wires) and a mapping from B to A was needed for billing purposes. But B to A info couldn't be obtained from the switch fabric. A physically separate B to A mapping had to be built and maintained in sync. There was nothing which inherently made the two match. That was all done by hand.

The early history of computing was a struggle to find a usable memory device. Relays were very bulky as memory devices, and none of the relay computers had much memory.
do you have a guide on doing this successfully? do you have email on your phone as well?
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We've used Aspose for manipulating PDFs but they work with "over 100 file formats". Offers both SDKs and RESTful APIs

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My eyes glazed over at the vast number of priors introduced in this work. Why should I believe the assumptions hold?

In Machine Learning, the standard expectation of research papers is to empirically demonstrate the increased statistical power of the model over benchmarks, and I wish the authors demonstrated that their model aligns with historical reality.

I attended a talk recently by Aswath Damodaran where he explained that there are two types of investors, most often lying in disjoint sets: 1) number crunchers and 2) story tellers. Perhaps the success of tech companies (e.g. AMZN, GOOG, FB) can be explained in aggregate via the Wright model, but my feeling is that the majority of 'optimal portfolio distortion' these companies caused is mostly idiosyncratic to those specific companies, e.g. the "story tellers" have more information in the long-term behavior of a company. Consequently, aggregate modeling captures statistical correlation rather than causation, which can still make money but is not robust to long tails.

I think number crunching is only useful for short horizon portfolio selection.
My point was that the job of a technology decision-maker is to make decisions on the actual technical merits of various options, the costs and tradeoffs thereof.

If you are in that role, and you permit the name of a vendor to trump the actual merits of the vendor's product, you should never have been trusted with decision-making authority in the first place, and any competitors who don't harbor your particular emotional hangups will get the better of you, and you won't be long for your position anyway.

Cockroach Labs is not selling to the end-consumer. They're selling to people whose job it is to behave like Vulcans. In this particular market, it doesn't matter what the name is.
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As the creator of a moderately popular open source project, I can attest that the name of the project is very important.

A common problem for open source projects is that the name is not recognizable enough (e.g. too technical) or too generic (e.g. a simple English word which makes is heard to search on Google).

In this case the name evokes negative emotions of fear and disgust which are not what you want to associate with a database.
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I'm not saying there aren't issues now, or that everything will be fine, but as it stands now it's not like we've lost any of our rights as citizens in the past 6 years. We can still protest, vote, conscientiously object to laws, so on.

Throwing up our hands and saying, "Welp, the world is different now. Nothing we can do," is exactly the mindset that will lead to the loss of our ability to have an impact on government.
The different costs of housing and living in different areas is of course a valid factor when it comes to comparing incomes. I disagree with your second sentence though.

> Most of the finance guys I know in New York make what I would consider great money... but their lifestyle is such that they save almost none of it.

I don't know, is how well you're doing really based on how much money is left after you choose to spend a bunch of it? If I make $2m/year but have several expensive mortgages to pay and therefore I don't save very much, that means I'm doing "just OK"?
No backup/restore?
Not really. It's a new database and is a superset of DocumentDB.
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You can stream torrents [0], how long until someone makes a Spotify clone using torrents with a curated home page and integrated torrent search? Like Popcorntime and Netflix?

You could re-sell a one click VPN for revenue.
A few thoughts, though I'm not an economist:

* 14 million is a big number, but it's less than 5% of the U.S. population. I do agree that it's a serious concern, but because of the welfare and economic opportunity for those people, and because of the social disruption of economic inequality; the economy in aggregate is doing well. For those interested, you can find the numbers here (you can adjust the years at the top):
https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000

* Debt is a bad word colloquially, but in finance / business / economics, it's actually a great efficiency: Instead of useful resources (e.g., money) sitting around unused (e.g., in a vault), they are lent out to others to make productive use of. Financial institutions are like Airbnb for money - others get to rent your asset while you don't need it, and you make something from it. Borrowing is fine as long as you are generating more income from the borrowed funds than it costs you - e.g., as long as the software you build with the borrowed funds earns a better return than the interest you owe. Generally, that works out well or people wouldn't have a reason to lend or borrow.

* As of December 2015, of the total U.S. federal government debt, 40% was held by foreigners. Interest paid was $94.9 billion that year. The U.S. economy was ~18 trillion that year, so the debt service was ~1/180th of U.S. income; not a problem. Source: https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RS22331.pdf
Give me a couple of examples? Python is tied to an older Visual Studio normally. VS12 was different for reasons I can't remember but anything from VS13 onwards (for desktop) should build fine.
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Thanks for sharing this... FWIW, I wrote a story about it on Observer.com
http://observer.com/2017/05/turkey-wikipedia-ipfs/
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I was unable to glean from a quick read of the consistency documentation, does CosmosDB support uniqueness and foreign key constraints?
Good to know. That said Reaper enabled me to use the 7-8 vsts I was really interested in using that didn't work (or worked poorly) in lmms. If I new c++ better I would contribute.
It's basically a matter of who got there first. NIMBYism blocks new construction. But rent control keeps things cheap for long term residents. And if you bought a house 20 years ago you're in a good spot.
MIDI isn't tab though. It requires note velocities and durations for a start, which tab doesn't. You can go from MIDI to tab but you couldn't go from tab to MIDI.
Divvy is great. I was a heavy Divvy user. These days I swear by https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst
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It boggles my mind that people like the one in the hat exist. I am aware of their existence, but find them so insufferable to interact and have a conversation with that it's easier to pretend they don't.

One wonders what leads someone to become such a snob and how to prevent it.

And before someone accuses me of being a human-snob, well, we don't really have a choice, do we?
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>But Google's search monopoly and concomitant cash flows also gave society free worldwide communication, self-driving cars, cheaper smartphones, free digital maps, and countless other benefits.

To be clear you can't be sure those things wouldn't be around if google hadn't had a search monopoly. Maybe we would have even better digital maps for example had there been way more firms competing. Monopolies can't just be measured by the businesses that they outcompete but also in all the never-realized businesses who their market domination discouraged.
Why do you say most mutations will completely break an application? This is certainly not my experience.

Mutation testing systems normal use fairly stable operators (e.g changing a > to a >=). In most locations in the code changes such as these will have only a subtle effect.
We have a post on why we chose Go, from a year and a half ago: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/why-go-was-the-right-choi...

More technically, here's a somewhat random set of thoughts on the subject:

The Go GC is performant and predictable, unlike the JVM GC. We do have some very memory-allocation-conscious code patterns to minimize the performance impact of working in a garbage-collected language runtime, but in the end it's not as bad as you might expect if your expectations are coming from the JVM world.

Library support is good. To quote our CEO, "Most of us on the team have done extensive work with C++ and Java in the past. At Google, C++ was the standard for building infrastructure and there are a lot of good reasons for that. It's fast and predictable. It would be a good choice for Cockroach, except that in the world outside of Google, in open source land, the supporting libraries for C++ are either terrible, incredibly heavyweight, or non-existent. We didn't want to rebuild everything which you take for granted at Google from scratch. It turns out that Go has many of the necessary libraries, and they're straightforward and very well written."

Basically, if Google's internal C++ libraries, tooling, style guides (and the tooling to enforce them) were available externally, we might have gone with C++.

Some of us are fans of Rust, but Rust sadly did not exist in a stable state when CockroachDB started. I'm not sure we would pick Rust were we to start today (tooling is still a concern there), but it would certainly be part of the discussion.

The native support for concurrency in Go is a huge plus. We use thousands of goroutines in CockroachDB, and that's been a huge blessing.

I can answer any more specific questions if you have them.
I'm sorry it comes across that way, but I'm not really "offended" by it. I just think it's a gross name and it gives me a bad feeling. It's not something I can really control.
Can this be used in React Native apps?
I wonder how does this refer to Microsoft with Azure and other companies with ultra-broad platform offerings with hundreds of services and products.

Maybe internet companies should scale horizontally and not verticly in their product offering after they reach certain size?
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(Cockroach Labs co-founder) I gave a talk on exactly this subject at the ACM Applicative conference last year: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/community/tech-talks/challenge...

Overall we've been happy with the choice. The GC is sometimes a performance issue, but it's manageable (and Go gives you better tools to limit the cost of GC than many other garbage-collected languages)
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Well, if that 'murder' was an execution of a convicted criminal. Why not?
Yes Bodymovin is not smooth for every situation. It plays back path data rathe like a sprite sheet (but with data in arrays).

But then Flash wasn't smooth for everyone either. Yes the IDE made creation much quicker but I have developed workflows that almost match that speed.

I usually animate with Greensock and that IS smooth pretty much all the time. But then it's a mature platform so it has had a lot of time to grow up.
If you're already using Postgres then just use that. If it doesn't work out switch to Mongo. No sense in adding another layer of infrastructure and complexity if you don't need it.
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Try compiling SciPy from source using Microsoft dev tools. Or libgmp, the standard library for arbitrary precision integer arithmetic.
They guarantee durability. I imagine that's a part of it? I guess no backup/restore is a problem if you manage to delete all your data, so we'd have to see some docs, heh
I wondered for a time if the action movie XXX[0] chose that name because it would be very hard to search online.

[0] http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0295701/
In that case, feel free to bookmark this one: http://bostik.iki.fi/aivoituksia/random/developer-debugging-...

This got more attention that I thought possible, so I decided to pull it out as an item all by itself.
You know why they call it Xbox360? Because you take one look at it, turn 360 degrees, and walk away.
See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yfmw7swCtZs by Turing Award Winner, Dr. Leslie Lamport, as he talks about Azure Cosmos DB
Let me know when this supports .NET 4.
This is meant for people who need services and guarantees that can only be provided by a huge infrastructure provider
Yes, there's lots of building automation / HVAC stuff that uses pneumatic signalling/actuation (like the infamous T-4002 thermostat, look up images of it, you've probably seen it before!).

Amusingly enough, lots of those pneumatic systems use 3-15 PSI signalling, which works the exact same way that 4-20 mA signalling works -- with a live zero so breaks in circuits can be detected!
You can write C++ in Xcode (and I do so on a daily basis), but it's pretty terrible. None of the IDE features more complicated than build-and-run actually work reliably, and the debugging experience is miserable compared to VC++.
Almost 10 years since I exchanged emails with Steve Ballmer about this:
https://medium.com/@jot/me-and-steve-ballmer-in-2007-68456a5...
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I can't speak for others, but at least for me the main attraction of CockroachDB is getting foolproof HA straight out of the box. That is something I think anyone can appreciate regardless of their dataset size.

Note that I haven't actually ran CockroachDB yet, so I can't confirm if it really delivers on that promise, but I'm hopeful.
> CockroachDB uses synchronous replication via raft

Deep space aside, I wish the announcement just said that! I came back to HN for insight into the paragraph about "multi-active availability... an evolution in high availability from active-active replication". Marketing... sometimes... I tell you what.
Why is this one different from the hundreds of similar clones?
I think we could avoid an actual tax with an effective tax.

Container deposits such as bottles and cans have proven to be effective. It's worth exploring whether expanding the concept to cover materials in general would yield similar benefits. It wouldn't have to cost consumers anything more and it provides an incentive for the consumer to take on more responsibility for material and environmental stewardship.
A lot of people run their entire business directly from their WordPress website. Having a plugin that allows quotes, invoicing and payments in the same place is quite convenient for them.

I built this because people were asking me for it before I sold my previous software business. I know tools like WaveApps (and countless others!) are really useful but I think invoicing built into WordPress does meet a need.
People obsess too much about telling the world how unique they are.

People also obsess too much about telling the world which groups they are a member of.
I think we have bizarrely different definitions of the word "cult."
Except that "Surface" started out as a table, which is now called "PixelSense". Oh, except they've also now started to use "PixelSense" for their Surface Book displays.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_PixelSense

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It's also hosted on the Moon, so it's not just globally distributed but planetary distribution as well.

If anything happens to Earth, your data will be safe.
...walk away backwards? Why not 180 degrees?
I don't see how losing backwards compatibility would be a good thing per se. Even if the preprocessor were considered a problem (which is disputed), it could coexist with a new FFI system that could be implemented.

Losing backwards compatibility is usually a price to pay, not an objective. As an example, Python 3k chose to lose partial compatibility to 2.7 in order to change some parts of the language. While the user and maintainer community still debates if the change itself was a good decision (a different discussion IMO...), probably most will agree that the incompatibility bit has been and will be for some time a source of pain.
Jesus, yes, how did I have to scroll down this far before I read "ATT was a government monopoly"?

Google doesn't have a monopoly on anything. They have the best search engine, but I can switch in seconds. Likewise the rest of their products all have very well established and really quite functional competitors. That I don't use, cause I like the big G, but I could if they annoyed me too much.
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Similarly, PDFs of articles in the PeerJ family of journals (e.g. [1]) have a progress bar symbol at the bottom-right of each page, which is also a nice feature.

[1]: https://peerj.com/articles/cs-103.pdf
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I would definitely say U of Toronto and Waterloo are strong competitive advantages. Working in Silicon Valley I'm surrounded by Canadian engineers, many from one of those two schools.
Do they? I have less than zero idea of what getting LP funding is like, but it may work out better for them. As long the unicorn hasn't IPO'd yet, it's not a failure. Once it's IPO'd it is what it is, and if it's bad it's bad. Bad returns + high potential may be an easier sell to a pension fund or family office than what the actual numbers will be.
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I pulled out my copy of Knuth vol 2 to answer this (pages 190-193):

* You can negate a number by interchanging 1 and ̅1.

* The sign of a number is given by its most significant non-zero trit.

* Rounding to nearest integer is the same as truncation.

By the way if we had balanced ternary computers today, then you wouldn't have programming languages with signed and unsigned integers. They'd be the same thing.

Of course the above might be academic if it's more difficult to implement in CMOS ...

Edit: Also you can argue that the most economical radix is e, and 3 is closest to this ideal. See: https://web.williams.edu/Mathematics/sjmiller/public_html/10...

Edit #2: Removed the claim that addition is easier than binary. I misread what Knuth was trying to say.
Backup is automatic and restore is available within a time frame. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/documentdb/documentdb...
I know MapQuest is pretty bad but I don't think Google Maps out competing it is equivalent to executing a convict.
Capitalism can be more than just cost cutting, that isn't the only good in the equation, right?

I avoid the self checkouts as much as possible because they're annoying and because I figure I might need a job as a checkout clerk sometime after I retire. It's self-interest, which is also a feature of capitalism.
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So how many journals and forums do you subscribe to in order to find out what the programs installed on your computer are doing?
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Yes, it can be disincentivized with steep fines. But then you just end up back where we are now. Developers would not build if they face the future prospect of such steep fines. What happens if the code is unclear or ambiguous (and when big money is involved everything magically becomes ambiguous).

This is why a balanced regulatory approach is needed - one that is more proactive than reactive. By the time we're reacting way too much damage has been done.