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Agreed, and the above is important advice, because there is a bias on the part of potential clients. If you do not charge them for what they expect to be charged then that makes them uncomfortable with hiring you. In other words, if your rate is lower or you give them freebies they weren't expecting, then they think you are are having trouble getting work - and what do the other potential clients passing on you know that they don't? Sometimes they think this consciously, sometimes subconsciously. In a way, it is like dating.. your potential date has to feel appreciated, but not so appreciated that you look desperate.

I see this in starting consultants all the time, though usually it is as a discounted rate rather than out and out not charging for somethings. These consultants don't realize that they are telling potential customers 'I value myself at X, less valuable than my competition'. They also don't realize that once you give a customer a rate it is difficult to raise the rate later and retain the customer (it can be done, but puts stress on the relationship).

My advice is to charge what you are worth. One way is to figure out how much you would be making in a corporate job, not as a self employed freelancer. Say $160k. Now, once you go self-employed you will need to pay an addition 6.2% (12.4% total) for social security on money up to $118k, 2.9% for medicare, and to be safe you should allocate 25% to health care costs (seems unreasonable, but it does add up - you can trim here to match your health, but it would be better to sock away any extra in a given year). Back of the napkin, and very roughly, that means you need to be making $261k to approach the same take home (261000-(.25 x 261000)-(.124 x 118000)(.029 x 261000)-(.05 x 261000)). Given that if you work 8 hour days (not likely), and allocated 25% to overhead, that gives 2000 hours * 75% = 1500 hours, and a rate of $174/hour. However, your overhead might be more, and there are other costs (such as liability insurance). Also, you will be better off if you charge by the week, rather than the hour, because your accounting will be much simpler. I am neither an accountant, nor a lawyer, so consider the above my personal opinion and do your own due diligence before starting down this road. It is a great road, and managed properly can be successful. Beware though, it is high stress, and will eat up your time with your family.
Georgia tech at one time had code base based on these ideas as an HLA simulation architecture. I'm not sure if it is under active development still or not. If I remember right, it was free as in beer but you had to contact someone to download.

http://www.cc.gatech.edu/computing/pads/tech-parallel-gtw.ht...
I'm a little skeptical too although it seems to work for sports planning physical movements. The other stuff I'm not so sure.
making things illegal has mixed results. alcohol was a failure, im glad rocket launchers are illegal though. im also glad murder is illegal.
I've actually spent quite a bit of time working on a design document for an open source version of the Facebook platform. I got a fair bit of the architecture and requirements down for what I believed would make the project successful. Then I came to the slow realization that the world had categorically no use for a Facebook alternative.

The features of Facebook are largely meaningless. What matters is the absolute stranglehold Facebook has and will maintain via acquisitions of users. It's not a question of simply getting the user to register for another site. Many Facebook users will have as many as five or more Facebook products on their mobile. They'll also be logged into a half dozen other properties on the internet with Facebook's OAuth scheme.

Icing on the cake? Tinder. Every college aged person I've spoken to has little interest in Facebook. But they've all reinstalled it in order to use Tinder.

You cannot get a mass migration to occur unless their is an absolute PR Apocalypse at Facebook or if you can offer absolute parity to the slow dopamine drip provided by constant notifications and social validations coming from all their products. At once.
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Do not do any of these without speaking to your lawyer first especially any small business owners.
> I, for one, am deeply distrustful of what we call meritocracy in this country.

From my observation is that the minority. I'm in D.C. where our liberals are of the highly educated, latte-sipping variety. Most believe quite deeply in at least the idea of meritocracy. That's why they're so focused on education: it's easy to point to "failing schools" as the reason for observed injustices if you believe that the meritocracy is otherwise sound. That's why "college for everyone" has become such an issue in mainstream liberal circles.
I searched the github page and this HN comment thread for the string "frag" and got nothing ...

I don't know if the authors are here, but if they are - would you comment on fragmentation and the dangers of growing a filesystem past 95-98% full ?

In the world of ZFS, performance can become significantly degraded with as low as 90% space filled. Further, our experience has been that you can permanently degrade filesystem performance by churning the usage above 95% for any significant amount of time. Which is to say, even if you reduce usage back down to 80%, the zpool maintains poor performance until it is destroyed and recreated.

This is exactly what you would expect to see with a fragmenting filesystem that has no defrag tool.

Unfortunately, creating a defrag tool for ZFS is a very daunting technical hurdle and it appears that nobody is interested in pursuing it.

How does TFS behave ? Does it have, or do you plan for it to have, a defrag utility ?
I think that if everyone in America read NYT or WaPo, we'd be a lot better off. Because they atleast live in a world where facts matter. But hey, that might trigger some people.
A competitor can compete by building a platform that handles user load & doesn't shill out for advertisers. And one that focuses on actually improving the site's functionality (search, anyone?) instead of user profiles which don't even make sense really given reddit's original purpose.
Yeah... that immediately was a red flag for inexperience. Not to mention when hes "not sure" if things were cleaned up. How have you been programming for 10 years and don't know how to properly clean up records, whether its through the database, ORM, or manually in a transaction.

It sounds like this guy has sucked on the rails teet for far too long, instead of challenging himself with other approaches and paradigms.
Unless you use non supported 3rd party repositories, it never happens. Like never, ever. With snaps on the rise, people will probably not use ppa anymore unless they are tech saavy enough to take care of any (rare) problem.
Check out Crystal. That's it's goal, essentially. We could always use more contributors!
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:-( Sorry about that. We were going through a pretty crazy growth period so our recruiting and HR practices were not where they should be. I'd like to think we've improved quite a bit now with a bigger team and a dedicated recruiting/HR person for our team. If you want to reach out (@davepsmyth) I can give you some feedback and an update on the team/roles.
It was patched for 7 months before WCry started to spread. So it's not "The people who got infected have only themselves to blame, they were using an old an unsupported OS!" it's "The people who got infected have only themselves to blame, they were using an old and extended support OS and turning off Windows Update!"
There were/are 100m+ user, who wanted none of that political shitstorm. it's not a witch hunt.
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I've just started using mastodon.social as a replacement for FB and like it just fine. Give it a look.
That's incredible. The side by side comparison was so stark. I wonder what the physiology behind this is.
I'd argue its current success is because there's no site quite like it in design. We used to have digg and reddit, until digg redesigned and users jumped ship to 'an alternative'. Now, there really isn't a good alternative. The only one I even know of is voat, which seems to be a somehow worse clone, filled with the hate of those banned from more traditional places. And that's failing, too.

I agree with parent comment, a reddit like idea with a tech refresh, and less toxic leadership, would be successful. But as acknowledged, it would take time to grow its user base.
I mean Win 10 and XP both have relatively similar install bases of around 10% of installed windows instances. So of course 7 spread it more... It's more commonly installed.
I don't know. Is this normal to cry when you see something like this.

Or I have to go to psychiatrist especially considering I have symptoms of BPD.
The tradeoff is that JavaScript programmers don't have to understand concurrency or deal with locking. Threads in Java (which became popular around the same time) are trickier both to implement and to use. Early multithreading was buggy, even at the OS level.

You also don't gain a lot from multithreading in typical UI event handling. Most event handlers have to finish quickly anyway or the user will notice lag in updating the display. A UI that responds to events slowly and out of order would confuse users, even if it had no concurrency bugs (which is unlikely).
DDG could still profile you via an account and just not sell the info to advertisers. Incorporate in Germany for the strong privacy protections, et voila :)
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And within macro and micro tasks there are several different queues that have different priorities.
>Because we're discussing getting features when the user wants them, not as a surprise auto upgrade in the middle of a presentation

That's not the issue because even if there aren't feature updates to apply, there are still security updates that triggers a restart. They extended the working (no restart) hours to 18 hours, which should be enough to prevent surprise auto updates from happening.

>And getting security updates quickly without having to buy-in to new features at the same time.

Then get LTSB. But if you're going to be using the latest version anyways (as indicated by you wanting the creators update) use CBB + defer feature updates, which buys you at least 8 months of extra time.
I've lived in four cities in two different continents in the past five years. Sure I have peoples' phone numbers, but many friends already have established group chats on Hangouts/Messenger.

Disconnecting from Facebook would mean disconnecting from a huge base of friends I don't want to lose track of.

I never read status updates. When I go to Facebook, I always go straight to my profile page. I pretty much just use it for the chat. If I like something a friend has posted, they usually know I specifically went to their page to look. For people who have blogs, I'd rather add them to my RSS reader and encourage RSS use.
Absolutely, the new servers are ok but after a while of permanent load (a year or so), you'll also have to expect issues, at least in our experience. The server auction itself is worse but they replace hardware without any issues and most often the replaced hardware is new as well.
What salary range are we talking about? Sadly the link you provided does not mention salaries anywhere.
They thrive in an environment devoid of organic matter!
Since they thrive on inorganic matter, we might be able to harness some of them to deal with electronic waste :)
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"Need," in the "greater good for society" sense, is often disconnected from profitability. Shut up and build it? There have been several attempts at undercutting Facebook in the last decade and they failed. Their failure is not evidence of Facebook's divinity, of a mandate to rule all social networks. To assert as much is to claim that consumers are rational actors through and through, which is not true.
This is discounting the idea that people quickly become jaded in general to the concept of being sold shit by internet personalities. People quickly identify and begin to ignore/resist new forms of advertising, see the ever falling click-through rates of internet advertising and concepts such as "ad blindness"

It all speaks to the radioactive toxic waste that is advertising in general, and its insidious ability to poison discourse. Couching the tactics in terms like "influencers" seems pretty distasteful to me.
Can anyone with a medical background chime in with some simple theory about why pulsed vibrations are so effective?

This is incredibly exciting work.
Kushner describes it as a "city", but with no power, water grid, sewage system or stormwater management,[1] it's more of a squatter camp with roads than a city.

They want to build infrastructure, but since nobody owns the land they're squatting on, there's no way to raise money via land taxes. The technocrat answer to that would be individual septic tanks and solar panels, but because there's no land ownership and no law enforcement, you'd have to be nuts to invest any serious money in building a house, because a gang would just take it from you. Classic development trap.

Jonathan Katz talked about Corail/Cannan in The Big Truck That Went By, and he wasn't positive. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B009OZN6GM/ Published in 2013, but it doesn't sound like much has changed.

1: Port-au-Prince gets about twice as much rain as Seattle per year, and is routinely hit by hurricanes. If you don't manage the stormwater, it washes your house downhill. Sewage systems have also become important, since UN peacekeepers brought cholera with them after the earthquake.
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>The tension/problem as I see it is this: we need distributed networks, where people run their own services, and are servers as well as clients, but at the same time a large proportion of people do not or cannot run their own services. Solving that problem seems key to me--have people act as servers without realizing it (maybe something like with torrents).

We already have a model for this: email.

You and I can use whoever we want as email providers, including hosting our own, and if you don't think I'm a trustworthy provider, you can drop my messages.

The system isn't without it's corner cases, but it's certainly proven to be a robust model over the last ~30 years.

The only thing it requires is standards. We already have one for facebook messenger: XMPP. Facebook and Google used to support it, but they both shut it down because they wanted to lock their users in harder. We have CalDav for events, but again, none of the big players want to know about it.

We could have a "social status" standard, allowing you to send a robustly versioned life update to other servers from whatever social service manager you'd prefer, but you and I know that no amount of user outcry could persuade any of the major players to adopt it. Network effects, peer pressure and social expectation (e.g. please submit a snapchat along with your job interview) power their meteoric growth.

What we need is a "Regulating the Gauge of Railways Act 1846" for the digital age. We need international bodies to review software that has become mandatory to the modern world, distill it down to a set of living specifications, and then ram it down the throats of software vendors.
It's also used only with their specific flash storage devices.
Why downplay it?

It's an impressive feat, regardless of the differences in target devices. Even with the hardware configurations well known, the fact that it was done at such a large scale successfully means that even unusual edge conditions didn't crop up.

This shouldn't be downplayed, it actually speaks to why it's important to have incremental stages of software delivery. First target highly constrained environments (iOS, Watch OS, tvOS), then work on the more difficult and less constrained general computing environment.
Elixir/Erlang and apps written in them parallelize embarrassingly well. Think the native asynchronous nature of node, but using all cores.
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Airlines have been ripping customers for years. Ever tried to search for tickets while in incognito mode? Prices will most likely be lower, because there is no tracking information that can tell the airline "this person can pay more".
Not at all. Contributing is giving. Producing is making.
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I liked the old term for "fake news." Before 2016 we just called it "news."

What seems like a free press in the US and the world is heavily controlled by less than a dozen conglomerates. They often game the system, mixing propaganda with news to create a narrative. Just look at all the pro-Monsanto comments on Hackernews and the recent court revelations that Monsanto had a big marketing program to post pro-company commends on tons of major/minor social networks.
What Reddit was like 5 years ago didn't make much money.
I actually thought about doing this a couple months ago but never got past the "cool idea in my head" phase. Great to see this!
You can give Proxmox a try too.
Firstly, it's ChaCha20. I don't think anybody in their right mind would advocate a 2 round ChaCha. Secondly, there _are_ steam cipher constructions to achieve the design requirements for something like TFS.
The BBC documentary "The Big Life Fix" is available here:

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

It's worth watching, it's very emotional watching her try and write with the watch on for the first time.
Really fantastic story. Reminds of those times when engineers have a really profound effect on the lives of certain people -- like development of the cochlear implants that help the deaf hear.

The next thing I expect along these lines is 3-D printing of human organs.
I'm not sure what you mean, both are in the exact same menu.
> I don't know. Is this normal to cry when you see something like this.

I did :)
I've had some discussions with file system developers and a developer of a distributed file system. The sheer number of failure cases that need to be handled, because they are hit in production systems, is simply staggering.
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This kind of looks like just another continuation of the man made ecological disaster in Haiti. But in lieu of real solutions, people are going to do what they need to.
Okay, I believe I can say something about that, because I've just finished my 9th novel in German - where only one [1] is (self-)published so far, though -, have published a little hobby music album [2], and also used to sell a little shareware program [3] next to my full-time job. So I'm definitely not super-productive but still relatively active, even when most of my projects never see the final daylight.

In my experience, if you find something that you really, really like and manage to reserve the necessary spare time, then you will become productive automatically. That could be anything, from sword smithing to rocket construction. If your projects persistently fail or die, then you're perhaps already too busy with family or daytime job, or maybe what your doing is not really the right thing for you. Just do it for the fun, never for money or fame.

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He was deported to Syria, where he was a citizen. Uncool, probably, but he was not imprisoned by the united states.
This right here, this thing will only attract new developers and will delay the inevitable - which is learning git properly. Reminds of a banana peeling machine ....
The point is that you shouldn't risk having to learn a new UI or resolve driver issues in the middle of your exam or presentation. Or even during a particularly busy work week.
It's absolutely an impressive feat to pull this off. But it's not quite the same problem as building a robust general-purpose FS for a diverse ecosystem.
Synchronous mode for xmlhttprequest has been deprecated now for some time (at least in FF anyway)