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Yeah, a GPU producer advertising to you should not list the headshots (benefits) but present its stats (features) in a way that you can consider yourself which benefits you gain from buying it.
> As I said another comments though Safari was doing exactly what it was designed to do

Apple seems to disagree with you, though. I would trust Apple to know better what Safari was designed to do.
One of my favorite moreutils tools is combine[1]. It allows you to compare the contents of text files with boolean operations. For example, want to know what lines are in file1 but not file2? Use:

combine file1 not file2

1. http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/zesty/en/man1/combine.1....
Did you reply to the wrong comment? I certainly never suggested they shouldn't be learning math or that the program was a bad idea.
25 years ago it was much the same as it is today. In 1992 people were typing ASCII characters into a text editor and debugging with logs and print statements.

You can do so much more with a line of code now and there are so many more ways to make user interfaces, but the fundamental actions of the programmer are the same.
I've come to think that quoting latin phrases at people is in itself a logical fallacy. Is there a latin phrase for that?
I am, as the quoted post, excited to see Apple enter the area. Many medical devices would benefit from the medical product redesign and in general more convenient ways to handle well understood medical situations.

However, this also opens up to new dangers, e.g. the easy access to cheap SDR units allows one to try to do serious mischief by jamming / hacking / reprogramming those IoT style units. This should not kill the tech, just something for the users to be aware of.
It's capitalism continuing to return to its "normal" after the exceptional post-WWII era where strong unions, social democracy, and the threat of the USSR forced generous accomodations for the working class at home while a large stable and rapidly developing economic sphere ensured a few decades of prosperity.

But an abnormal period, and we are now returning to the normality of capitalism described by critics like Marx or Dickens over 100 years ago.

The distinction between "developing" and "developed" is a dubious distinction anyways especially now. "Developing" implies that liberal capitalism has a linear narrative towards something (presumably something that looks like "the west"). There's a lot of hubris in that statement, and I don't think it is supported by any evidence.
You write as if you are trapped in IT. You say you are burnt out. Perhaps the feeling you are trapped is coming from inside you rather than the world?

Burn out comes from using willpower to force yourself to do work that you have no hope will succeed.

The feeling of being trapped comes with that. The Fight Flight Freeze response.

The feeling is inside you. You can fly to another industry but the feeling will go with you and you will remain unsettled.

Because burn out is a physiological phenomenon, one that you feel in your your body, focus on physical recovery. Sleep, go outside, reconnect in your relationships, exercise. Get the adrenaline and blood pressure down.

Then it is worth doing other things to build back the feeling of hope. But use that as the guide. Do I believe this will be fun? That I will succeed at this? You need to retrain your sense of hope in your own efforts.

It takes time. A few months to 2 years perhaps. Forgive yourself daily. You aren't the first or the last person to feel this way and there is nothing wrong with how you feel. It was a way to stop you from continuing doing something self-destructive. The primary lesson is to do things that are self-constructive from now on. Things you want to do. Things you wake up to do. Don't stop yourself from those things any more.
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One interesting observation is that the wealthy also do not seem to be concerned with a destabilizing climate. One would think with all that money & free time, they'd like the common people to stop messing up their planet please. I guess the wealthy are just way too outnumbered.
That would be the fastest way to regress back into feudalism, you know if that is what you are in to.
WeKan is a free software KanBan program like Trello, and is what powers https://todo.cyphar.com (I even have some boards public so I can show people my priority list in projects I maintain)
The difference being, here we don't let the commoners engage in bribery, it is only reserved for the higher levels, and even then measures are taken to conceal the nature of the transactions. In many developing countries, everyone gives and receives bribes for many things. It is acceptable (and there are limits). I think it's healthy, if the system is corrupt, everyone should be able to exploit its corruption.
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I just found this one
Really excited by this. Bookmarked for a more detailed look later.

Small tip - You might want to review your spell checker settings, which seems to have passed words like: "developper".
Arguably this post will lead to net-positive growth. I'm certainly going to try it after having read the top comments.
I came to Elixir from Scala, and for me the dynamic typing is a big step forward, because now I don't have to deal with the half of the Scala community that tries to make Scala into Haskell.

Between Dialyzer (a static analyzer that finds type errors) and runtime pattern-matching (extremely powerful destructuring, sort of borrowed from Prolog initially), I don't find myself wanting to go back to strong typing on the JVM.
How about just linking to something compelling, instead of saying "search this site for this"
Here's a fun example: to enable tlsv1.2, you had to enable "Turn off encryption" http://www.bauer-power.net/2014/06/how-to-enabled-tls-11-and...
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Thanks. I must have been thinking of Miss W's story there. Miss A's account is even more serious: clear sexual assault.
I don't think that's the right question. The better question is "How strong is the competition in the <XYZ> market".

If the market is saturated but companies are weak you can easily grab market share. If the market is unsaturated but a very strong competitor currently aims it your attempt will probably just lose money.

And the answer is often analysing google keywords, requesting a few security checks yourself from the google leaders, investigating who appears often in related media, and asking possible customers who they know and how they evaluate their options.

PS: If you "Ask HN" your market research, you'll either find out about together with us that there's no opportunity in the given market, or you create competitors by highlighting an opportunity.
Your argument's only valid up to a point. UK rail fares are ridiculous, even with a rail card, so the money I'd spend on a train ride from Scotland (not the most remote part, but pretty north) would probably be better spent helping in other ways. Plus, as a student, that money would directly impact my necessities like food. The bang for buck is simply too low.
>fighting a political battle on grounds where there is no space for actual exchange of ideas but only for appeals to emotions and prejudices, personal attacks and name calling.

The early US election I remember was Bush v Kerry 2004. If you used those exact same words to describe the campaign back then, I wouldn't have disputed it.

Twitter did not even exist until 2006.

Did the internet enable Donald Trump? Absolutely. It enabled him to go face to face with the likes of Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton, and beat them at their own dirty game.
That's a great read, thanks for linking it.
Yeah, Florida is mostly porous limestone and old coral. Dikes are useless, because water leaks underneath.
> If bad ideas are being communicated, then communicate better ones.

This is assuming that valid arguments always wins. Anyone who's working with technical depth knows that when you start implementing something, your simple idea doesn't jive as well with the thousands of unforeseen caveats, edge cases, and real world conditions.

The truth is always more complicated than a simple lie.

It's similar to how eating junk is much easier than eating healthier, varied food, which is also more expensive.

Exchange "expensive", and "complicated" with "requires more thought" and you'll have the answer. Idiocy always wins unless people make an effort. It's also why politicians talk like they do, and are extremely noncommittal. Speaking frankly about issues pisses off a lot of (pardon the French) idiots, who can't be rational about hard realities.
> And, as I recall, predictions were stated with far greater uncertainty.

The bigger problem is people taking the upper bound of that uncertainty and concluding they were wrong because reality turned out to not be near the upper bound. Kind of like how political polls are "wrong", even when the result falls within the margin of error.
Because literally five seconds of googling would have gotten you the answer. Your comment didn't add anything for anyone but yourself. That's why you got downvoted.
(Thanks for just asking for sources rather than immediately attacking the intensions of the grandparent.)

So a couple of Google searches show that there are dozens, maybe hundreds, of online lists of failed predictions of climate change maintained by climate change skeptics. For instance:

https://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/environment/item/18888-e...

From that list, I picked one story to track down:

> On June 30, 1989, the Associated Press ran an article headlined: “UN Official Predicts Disaster, Says Greenhouse Effect Could Wipe Some Nations Off Map.” In the piece, the director of the UNEP’s New York office was quoted as claiming that “entire nations could be wiped off the face of the earth by rising sea levels if global warming is not reversed by the year 2000.” He also predicted “coastal flooding and crop failures” that “would create an exodus of ‘eco-refugees,’ threatening political chaos.”

Worryingly, searching for this headline mostly returned more climate change skeptics websites. But this isn't totally unexpected since it dates to before internet adoption, and I was eventually able to find this archive photo from a local newspaper that appears to substantiate it.

https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/83413062/

Thats just sample size 1, though. Will see if I can find a NYTimes article.

Edit: So a lot of these lists look like copypasta. Some are partial, but here is a pretty complete version:

http://forum.weatherzone.com.au/ubbthreads.php/topics/109996...

There are several mentions of the NY Times, and the two I checked were real (including at least one which was just a letter to the editor, and so not endorsed by the paper.) Note that these predictions are generally for global cooling. Many people says it's unfair to quote these claims because they did not represent the consensus position at the time (but this doesn't invalidate the grandparent's claim; he doesn't say NY Times).

Anyhow, I would love to someone else take this further, but my initial impression is that the claim "there were a bunch of plausible sounding stories about coastal flooding in reputable newspapers" is probably true, but that this doesn't mean it reflected a consensus view back then. On the other hand, the current story also doesn't reflect a consensus view regarding any near- or medium-term claims.
The thing is if we're successfully at avoiding a cataclysm, we won't know we were right.

In this specific situation, I'd rather not know we were wrong that know for a fact we were right.
I noticed last week or so that Apache Kafka deprecated large amount of Scala API and put new Java API in its place. This can't be good for languages which already generate so much news but so little software.
I was a 4th-year student in a maths / CS programme in Eastern Europe and had a part-time job as a web developer. Over time, I got the impression that being a dev is a low-prestige job with very slim chances of moving into any position of power. So I abandoned programming entirely, enrolled in a masters' program in economics and in 3 years got a job in M&A advisory at an investment bank.

Getting a finance job was not easy (two full recruitment seasons, 20+ failed interviews - even though I graduated from the top bachelor and master programmes in the country and the financial market was booming those years), mostly due to my lack of people skills. The people's mindset and mode of communication in business are much different from what I was used to in IT and academia. It cost me a lot of time and mental effort to adapt.

Note that I was only 20 years old back then when I started doing my master's in economics but there were much older people around who also succeeded in getting into investment banking, management consulting or other business-like careers of their choice.

Now, after 8 years in finance, I became fed up with it, left the job and am currently trying to break into the IT/startup sector as a CTO/co-founder.
You make it sound like most people that make those decisions have a choice with outsourcing. If you don't lead the project to outsource they'll find someone that will. And if leadership won't make the decision the company you supply will find a competitor. and if you're a fortune 500 company then the bad quarterly results will get you replaced.
As your only criterion for validity seems to be that something has already happened, an article that attempts to use the scientific method to explore future possibilities is not for you.
I honestly feel like Pepsi and GPUs fall into different categories. With Pepsi, the customer usually already knows what it does for you so explaining the benefits isn't as important. So instead do telling customers what they already know, they associated good feelings with their product. A GPU is different in that different GPUs perform significantly differently so explaining the stats is much more important to a buyer.
Well if you believe it...and with having the science of sand castles behind you, there's not much I can say.
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This wreaks of fear-mongering. How can you claim that only the poorest would be affected? Income as a number of dollars is irrelevant, only purchasing power matters. i.e. the gap between rich and poor in real purchasing terms.
Burnt out + HR + oversaturated market + 5 in 1 requirements:

I didnt even bother to move into IT. In so many years I tried just as many different jobs. What doesnt kill you makes you stronger.

You will be fine. Start a trade: plumbing, welding, wood work. Or become a photo model if you are lazy.
How about communities, forums, boards? When I see an interesting project I'd like to talk to the developer without cluttering the Issues section.

It could be the entry point of every repo, moderated by the owner of course (something like php docs where people can post interesting stuff related to the page at the end). And it would make Github more social.
* What I would not use is any language that is not statically typed. The compiler can catch an entire class of errors and there are great tools for automated refactors. For me this narrows down my choice of languages to C#, TypeScript (Node), and if really necessary Java. But today I would probably use Kotlin instead of Java if possible.

* Technology is a means to and end for me - to get stuff done and to remain marketable. So I would probably choose the front end framework that is the most marketable. Which seems to still be Angular. Two advantages - when it's time to switch jobs I have more choices and when I'm looking for contractors to come on to projects that I'm over, Angular coders are a dime a dozen.

That being said, I'm really finding the combination of Bootstrap + JQuery + Handlebars to be refreshing for non-SPA websites.

* Databases. If I'm spending other people's money, I prefer SQL Server/Entity Framework as an MS person. When NoSql is the right choice, SQL Server has pretty good support for JSON. It really is the best of both worlds.

If I'm spending my own money or don't have a budget, I would probably choose either MySQL (relational) or MongoDB (NoSql)

* I know this wasn't part of the question, but for hosting, AWS all of the way and I would use as many of their services as possible except for DynamoDB. It just feels a little odd.

* And to go even more down the rabbit hole. I would hate coding without my JetBrains subscription. Right now, I just have Resharper. But if I were doing this as a side project I would have the subscription that included everything.
Sorry for slow reply. That is very interesting, I never knew that but I guess it makes perfect sense. What I was/am thinking of is a group that is definitely military, but the goal is governance with the option of lethal force any time the need arises - with or without assistance from external units. If it existed I would have signed up years ago.
Good morning dsacco, I really like your way of thinking based on the other comments you are posting, but I cannot understand why you are so against cheap or free (if we can find it) data? 20 years of OHLCV daily data containing all listed and delisted symbols is perfect for someone who is just starting testing trading ideas like trend following for example, but most importantly will encourage them to think about their money!
Your alternative for people to pay $3000 or more will discourage all of them and will leave them to be victims of financial advisors, companies like fintech startups, internet gurus and buy and hold evangelists. This is why I’ll always promote the $100 eBay data until I find a cheaper or a free version, maybe you can help the community here?
Then you obviously havent been to Halle/Silberhöhe. But as you said, the difference is the magnitude. The scale of informal economies is certainly higher in Brazil, Honduras or Colombia. While here, even in problematic spots of certain cities, you will have the occasional criminal, the economic situation of a whole city is not dependent on it.
"Non Volatile Memory" really means Intel's "3D X-point" memory-- estimated availability of this product for system memory is 2018-ish.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-optane-cascade-lake-d...
GraphQL sounds like a cool thing I should be using already. Now let me scroll down to find out why it's a dumpster fire I should avoid at all costs.
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My favorite unexpected tool: tsort for performing topological sorting (i.e. sorting a dependency graph by order of dependencies).
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The games are getting better. Just over half of my steam library works at the moment. Not sure when it happened but over the last 2 years I noticed more and more things being available. It's no longer just low quality indie stuff.
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Arguably, that's not a problem with the type of marketing, it's just that they shouldn't be showing them to you, but to people who don't know that a new GPU can improve their gaming experience.

It's one of the most annoying things with ad targeting: even if you let them spy on your whole life, it's still so fucking terrible at actually showing relevant ads.
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I fail to see what is new or special about this.

EDIT: I mean that all companies will be bothered by the government, regardless of what they allegedly did or didn't do. Prosecutors will go to the press and risk causing extra damage to the reputation of the companies when a company refuses their fishing expedition.

With the current administration, I would just have expected less zeal. But sadly some things never change.
Yep, only issue I have is that I now forget my netflix series because when I go to plex, my progress with those series isn't tracked or shown.
> I don't think people being forced out of the neighborhood they live in is necessarily a bad thing

I wish my account would let me downvote this
Thank you for the kind words (spell check is ok now :)
I really like the command "join" as well
This sounds just like a religious argument. "What if we do the good things that some religious book says we should do, avoid the bad, be decent human beings, and help others, and there's no afterlife to be rewarded by?" I suspect it elicits exactly the same visceral responses by the target audience.
No good deed goes unpunished here I guess :-(
I generally agree with your point but it is worth pointing out that almost any democratic system will have flaws which can lead to unexpected results. See Arrows impossibility theorem.
> everyone should be able to exploit its corruption

disgusting.
No CI? Gitlab and Bitbucket have built-in pipelines.
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>If a feature is what a product does, then isn't making quarter inch holes a feature of drill bits?

I would say yes, and the benefit with the drill would be final product the user is building.

"They don't want quarter-inch holes. They want to build a playset for their kids."
i believe it also does not have as many features as btrfs etc
Your comment is uninformed garbage. There's no nice way to say it.

>But your argument basically boils down to:

No, it doesn't.

>I would happily switch to Linux permanently the day the flagship office package UI doesn't resemble Office 97 (the ribbon UI is absolutely fantastic in MS Office), I can get all of my games to work, and I don't need to recompile a kernel to get something as basic as a graphics driver running.

So you'll take invasive, impossible to disable tracking, forced "upgrades", and worse, because the document editor doens't have a fucking ribbon? First, that's ridiculous, second, you can run MS Office on Wine, third, you can change the appearance of LibreOffice.

You can't run Breath of the Wild on Windows and that doesn't seem to bother you. Different platforms have different games. Get over it. Unlike most platforms, Linux has projects like Wine to make it so non-portable games have a chance!

You don't have to recompile the kernel to get graphics drivers to work. Have you even tried Linux? Don't talk shit about things you don't have any knowledge of.

I'll just file you into the "change resistant and lying to themselves" category of Windows user.
If I install a free version and hit the limit does it auto upgrade me and charge me or am I just cut off from the service and told I should upgrade to keep using it?
Globalization is happening with or without those policies, though. Even if you don't like it, it's an unhappy reality.
For consulting work? Not at all saturated.
If I was to start a project today it would be Elixir using cowboy and plug. I like to keep things simple. If I thought the project was more on the medium size I would probably use Asp.Net Core. For the frontend I like to stay vanilla and use bare bone so html/sass/typescript with maybe jquery if needs be. Postgres for my database needs.
Except you have to be careful with symbols in Elixir. They don't get cleaned up until a crash. That means in things like Phoenix you aren't supposed to use symbols as parameter maps in your controllers as a user could easily blow up your memory by making tons o' calls.

EDIT: I would also add that they are the preferred key for Maps when using internal Map structures (ones that you have complete control over and users don't)
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There is a whole section for CI services.

https://github.com/marketplace/category/continuous-integrati...