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I can't say that I know your pain, but I can sort of feel your pain. Simply because I've been there done that. Taking advice from HN, no matter how well meaning, may or may not help, it may even frustrate you more. Best thing to do is to step back. Find a way to clear your head. A long hike worked for me. Even washing dishes. You may have your own thing that works for you. Do that. Talk it out with someone you trust or who is willing to listen. You can talk with your wife later when you have your bearing back. Heck if you are in bay area and need a sounding board, you can ping me. Keep in mind though, the best answer probably will eventually come only from yourself.
IE has been abandoned by Microsoft. No comebacks. Edge is pretty good though.
This doesn't answer the question.
Yes, Apple make money by taxing software, not selling software directly. There is a long list of complaints by Apple software developers about the lack of marketing support that they receive from Apple, in return for the 30% tax that is yielding the app store revenue cited above. Apple can enforce iOS ISV tax because of hardware control.

From that article, the top 10 mobile "apps" by revenue can be mapped to the modern equivalent of TV, radio and telecom services. None of these are creative software apps like those from large ISVs on desktops/laptops. Instead we have many mobile ISVs who are not very profitable.
Good job! Getting something out is always tough. I guess this is still WIP but I'd recommend putting out some info on why I should log in. It's tough to give someone my email when confronted with a simple login box.

I wouldn't worry too much about the name. The idea is pretty cool. I'd love to know how you're dealing with listicles and tone of the blog-posts (but again, don't want to share my email at this stage).

If you're open to more features, the other way around from podcast to blogs would also be a nice.

> I was thinking about: 1. Supplying the blogger with an HTML snippet for easy embedding in the blog. 2. Re-scan your blog daily and produce a new audio file, if changed.

I'd recommend #2. Preferably something that monitors rss / atom feeds. I'd worry about updates/changes after figuring out how the monitoring of the feed works.
I hacked together a quick demo using Ruby, Sinatra, and Heroku with Twilio this last weekend and the whole time I was thinking "Heroku makes this easy, but having to host a server makes this harder to debug".

I feel like this new feature will make it super easy to work with Twilio. It's almost a no brainer.
This? Hard working? Psh. If you're not using a magnetic needle and a steady hand you're way too lazy for me.
>Charley Briese said his job involved pulling down a hanging drill three times a minute for 12 to 16 hours a day, causing severe tendinitis

12-16 hrs a day?
i hear you, but whether you get more than static depends on team/organization culture. It is good advice though.
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The key word is “slightly”. Beating IE6 after years of neglect was possible; going against a very good team which isn't slowing down is much harder.
This is actually a really interesting footnote in the history of Nike's evolution and expansion into different markets. They (as well as Adidas and the other big brands) had been trying like hell to entice skaters to wear Nikes with little success. Much of what they released was really techy looking (like: http://skately.com/library/shoes/nike-sb-zoom-tre or: http://skately.com/library/shoes/nike-sb-url ) and you would have been mocked for wearing them.

But there was a history of some of skateboarding's most iconic figures wearing Nikes, particularly Jordan 1s but also Blazers and Dunks, in the 80s and early 90s. And it turned out that if you took a Dunk Low, overstuffed the tongue, and added some Nike cushioning tech
(bonus points for stitching a Chocolate logo on the heel: https://www.kicksonfire.com/nike-sb-skateboarding-releases/n... ), it fit in just fine with the Osirises of the world that were popular at that time, or classics like the eS Koston, and performed at least as well, if not better (while, critically, not appearing to be built for performance at all).

To your point, Nike quickly leveraged that "vintage cool" aspect that only they could offer, plus collaborations with artists like Geoff McFetridge who had credibility among skaters (and maybe more importantly, among photographers and videographers who shot them), to finally convince skaters that they could wear Nikes without turning into a jock or a dork.
I only jumped ship to Chrome when FireFox was having performance issues way back in the day. Since then FireFox improved its performance to be on par with Chrome, but Chrome isn't broke so I'm not switching back.

FireFox probably had the greatest contribution ever to modern browsing though giving us developer tools, plugins, and tabbed browsing.
>It seems like smart people have been predicting that China's growth is unsustainable on a regular basis for at least 15 years

If you mean sound growth, they were right. That has ended and growth is increasingly based on financial tricks that will make things worse in the long term, so I would say the experts turned out to be correct.

Also, even with all the debt, yearly GDP growth is down from the previous 10% to something like 6%, so again the experts were right.
And sailboats can sail upwind.
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two - five years isn't much if you're going to be rich. unhappiness is part of life. and when you get rich enough, just quit. because you will be able to.

if you're not going to be rich in any case then the answer is simple: you should quit. let it die. i know there is emotional investment, but there is no reason to continue to be unhappy. get another job you like better. assuming you need to get another job:

construction is not stress free. its not normal work, its labour. its risky. people develop physical problems. but yes i understand the appeal. diy'ing is fun. construction could be fun as well if you have the talent for it.

retail pays enough for kids, not adults with a house. so although it could be chill that is not really an option.

finally i recommend having some people around you to distract you from your worries. roommates. a loving wife. whatever you can get.
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Do not talk it over with your wife. It won't go well. And if it does.... she will see you as weak and eventually leave you (80% of marriages are terminated by the woman)

You are the captain and you can rely on the people for support like your family and close friends.

You tell her what you decided, and act like it's no big deal to you and she won't think it's a big deal either.

If she does act like it's a big deal, then you know what she was after all along.

Best of luck.
No, actually POSIX does mandate awk to be present:

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/aw...
> Faster browsing and less memory use is the only reason I've ever heard anyone switch browsers outside of privacy issues.

Stability.

License, at least for me. I would only use a free as in speech browser.

Add-ons and success blocking ads.
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how awesome would it be if mozilla forked chromium?
I don't buy that excuse. Everyone knew the Greeks are very corrupt, and one feature of corrupt governments everywhere is they fake their economic numbers. So the lenders really should have looked deeper. They didn't because they knew the EU would bail them out.
> I have no idea why it hasn't caught on.

Because there is no parenthesis problem; there's a newb problem. The people who complain about parenthesis haven't used a Lisp long enough, that's all. Parens are a feature, not a problem, and everyone eventually figures that out and stops complaining or they move on to a language more suited to them.
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Lol. That works. "These long haired kids need a good classic French crop."
I'm pretty sure US GDP wouldn't look so great the day after you take all the cars and trucks off the roads.
It also collides with the beaker framework
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For all time, Everest fatalities are 4% of summits. Of the 14 8k peaks, it ranks 11. The "huge" caught me too. At 30% fatality to summits, Annapurna and K2 are huge.
What you need to do is go to the company acquiring you, and make sure that the deal allows for you to leave a year and a day after the acquisition closes with "minimal" penalties. You'll get less money, but you should get at least half, and everyone else will end up OK.

Also, take 2 weeks off after the deal closes and the money for the acquisition is in escrow.
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My pickup (Ram 2500) gets about 1200Mpg of DEF. When I am towing our large RV trailer, it drops to 800Mpg. I drove the RV from WI to OR on about $10 of DEF. I don't understand why some people think it's a big deal.....
Men and woman ARE different. Men don't need providing for.
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Well yes, in theory, but it's generally considered in somewhat bad taste to replace fundamental basics of the language. At that point you're not really writing Clojure anymore, it's hard to read other people's code, it's hard for other people to read your code, etc. See the somewhat controversial Allegro CL IF* macro for an example of this (I think that's what it was called; turns out that's really hard to search for).

It's a little different if you're either creating a domain-specific language (at that point you've already made the decision to have a new language, so go nuts) or if you're adding new control structures that you can't have in the base language without excessive boilerplate (see for example the somewhat common AIF macro, which binds its conditional result to a variable). But I'd consider making a new MY-LET macro because I don't like what the built-in LET looked like to be a bit gauche.

Regardless, I just decided to stick with the Lisp dialect that already worked the way I wanted.
Or falling into a machine at a slaughterhouse and having it mangle your leg or everything below your waist.
everyone's got a boss, in some measure, but not every "startup" has investors. and, if/when you're the owner, you have more choice in which clients to serve, vs the OP working retail.
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Been there. It's a hard choice.

I took some risk off the table and did the deal.

Was it the right choice? I'm still not sure. I was certainly less stressed about money afterwards. But I was also left feeling like I probably short circuited many more meaningful (and profitable) levels of success. How much would we have been worth? I'll never know.

But... looking back on it... If I had it to do over again, I probably would have made the same call.

I know exactly where you're at.

Here's the question: What else do you have going on that gives you hope, enthusiasm and energy?

If the answer is "nothing". Don't do the deal.

If you have a list of other things in your life, or things you want to try. Do it.
The only bit of the book Superintelligence that I liked was the historical bit at the start, where it described the problem AI researchers have: as soon as they achieve a milestone in AI, the goalposts shift and that milestone is no longer considered an AI marker.

The simplest example was "can make a human believe they're talking to another human", which was achieved with ELIZA. Before then, what ELIZA could do was "AI". After, it was "just this thing, you know"...
Fair point, and I'm not suggesting that other browser vendors can't possibly have an answer to Servo and Webrender by the time they're ready, but just that I haven't heard about any such efforts from them yet.

So it's not entirely unreasonable to suggest that Mozilla's next-gen engine efforts could be first-to-market, and that everyone else might have to play catch up.
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I'm sorry you're going through a bad time.
Some things I can say:

- I think your wife needs to know. I have never taken a big decision like a job change without consulting my wife. We're in this together, and if I wanted to not have to share this decisions with someone else, I would have stayed single. Please don't take this as an attack, I am not judging you. I'm pretty sure you don't want her to know so you don't stress her, but you too are in this together, and there's no need for you to go through this problem alone.

- I think you may have a partial view of those jobs you mention. It's quite likely that a bagger at a grocery store does not suffer the stress you have at his or her job, but the pay is also much less, and the stress may come at other parts of life (for example, if that job forces him or her to live in a bad, dangerous neighborhood). Construction? working outside must be very hard in the middle of the winter or the summer, for example. I think it's good that you consider other options if being a founder is burning you out, but you don't need to go to the other extreme.

- You and your family are the ones to decide if quitting is a good option. Don't worry about the company in that case. You are entitled to pursue your own happiness, and people who work for startups (I know, I have) are or should be aware that failure is one of the options, usually the most likely one. So please don't feel like you need to put up with something that makes you supremely unhappy so that the company stays afloat.

So my summary is: Find what is best for you and your family, don't worry about the company if you really feel that unhappy, and if you do quit, if finances allow, take a short break and then don't go for the first thing that comes your way. You are smart enough to have started a company and getting it close to an acquisition. That's something I was never able to do, so I say 1) hats off to you, and 2) you won't have trouble finding a good job once you're ready to do that.

Good luck.
I like Chrome, it is my go-to browser as a user. As a developer, though, I hate how it spits on the face of standards, like not expiring cookies when the HTTP response says, and instead turning them into session cookies instead.
> My girlfriend is MOSTLY supportive but I don't dump everything on her. Learn to deal with stuff yourself and you'll be happier.

Learning to deal with stuff yourself doesn't preclude asking your partner for help with making a decision that can impact both of you for the rest of your lives.
Sure, you forgot to talk to your wife. Come on man, you've entered a partnership. Adding hiding secrets from you partner isn't going to make your life any less stressful.
$2.75 a gallon at truck stops...
I'd like to know details on why you can't be automated. My info in profile.
Mozilla has had "we'll be #1 again once X is launched!" things since I was there 5 years ago (and servo was one of those things back then). It won't happen.

Mozilla won the browser war. Firefox lost the browser fight. But there's many wars left to fight, and I hope Mozilla dives into a new one.
With five machines to maintain, it's become a nuisance, but it's only about two hours if there are no problems. It's restoring old, rusted, or damaged machines that's hard. One machine took weeks of work.
I do it to make this steampunk telegraph office possible.[1]
(Plug: This goes operational tomorrow morning at the Clockwork Alchemy steampunk convention in San Jose. People text in messages and they're delivered by messengers.)

[1] https://vimeo.com/124065314
Doesn't it? If Tesla is about as dangerous as slaughterhouses and sawmills, and Tesla is more dangerous than other automakers, then it follows that other auto makers are less dangerous than slaughterhouses and sawmills.
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Great little book. A friend gave me a copy... and I bought a copy for another friend.
The stand alone complex existed before Trump. He just tapped into it and galvanized their ideas.

And it's clear Gouda didn't work alone either -- he pulled the strings behind the scenes through fake media, but others were obviously working with him offscreen. Bannon fits this well from his time at Breitbart -- he was trying to create a movement, and eventually a charismatic leader emerged and people projected whatever they wanted on that leader.
Ideological leanings aside as an end user I went back and forth between Chrome and Firefox several times.

In fact I would visit https://arewee10syet.com every couple of months and sigh for years wanting to switch back.

On Firefox I used to have hundreds of tabs open and no visible ui chrome most of the time, just vimperator/pentadactyl and usually hidden treestyle tabs. Along with a rotating collection of adblockers and privacy extensions.

These days? I just use Safari on a Macbook with Content Blockers (https://webkit.org/blog/3476/content-blockers-first-look/). My battery lasts double digit hours and everything is always snappy. Readability and integrated 'read it offline later' mode is a cherry on top.

Ultimately I think we forget that with Flash being truly dead and buried on pages with no junky javascript trackers even a NeXT computer, far less powerful than your phone, should be enough.

And all the browsers are now able to limit the damage a heavy/crappy page (like gmail) does to its own tab.

tldr; And Jesus wept for there were no more worlds to conquer.
The Simpsons explained unions many years ago. It's spot on:

Waif: You can't treat the working man this way! One of these days we'll form a union, and get the fair and equitable treatment we deserve! Then we'll go too far, and become corrupt and shiftless, and the Japanese will eat us alive!
I don't think Rust's usage is large enough to fit into that category although it is growing and its followers are very devoted.
The headline says “worse than slaughterhouses and sawmills”, not, “abous as dangerous as”.

So no, it doesn’t answer the question. It could be that slaughterhouses and sawmills are really safe—say 3 on a 1-10 scale—while automakers are 6 and Tesla is 8.
There's no defending Tesla's worker rights or saftey record. This is a company that's stood at the brink of failure for years and only survives through the blood, sweat, and tears of its employees.

Maybe you believe Elon when he says that it's worth it, but there's no arguing that it's a steep price to pay.

It's incredibly frustrating that no one has figured out a way to bring about the kind of transformative change that Tesla is after without such back breaking sacrifice. But I think the fact remains there's too much non-linearity in the means of production to get where Elon is trying to go without pushing his people to the limit.

The only "answer" I can give is just that I hope TSLA employees are getting enough equity to make it all worth it.
ROS is pub/sub, but that works because most of the data traffic is one way, sensor->compute->actuator. ROS isn't usually used for function call type operations. If nobody's listening to a sensor, that doesn't hurt the sensor any.
Being a founder is tough and the grind several years in can feel like a heavy burden. However, it sounds like with the LOI, you might be looking at an opportunity that comes with a welcome change of pace.

Directly answering your original question, I would take a serious look at option #2 ("Suck it up and work on the same thing for 2-5 more years").

In my personal experience, I sold my previous company to a much larger company some years back and it was a great change. Even though it was "working on the same thing" for 3 more years, there were new people to meet and new challenges to tackle. After all, humans are a social species and just having a different set of people to interact with can be a much needed change.

You might be thinking you'll be working on the same problems, but really it will be nothing alike. Your work might get better or it might get worse, but I guarantee that you and your company post-acquisition will be experiencing something very different. And I'm not just talking about the money part. That might be very helpful to get you out of this unhappy burnout.

If you need someone to chat with over email about what might be upcoming if you decide to take the deal, feel free to hit me up. Contact info in profile.
Well I have had several moments where I suddenly experienced equal parts gut-wrenching and liberating realizations about my life an life in general. Whether or not these count as epiphanies is perhaps up for debate as I can't access other people's subjective experiences, but based on the descriptions of epiphanies given to me by others it sure seems extremely similar.

I'm assuming that thinking hard about my life led to additional subconscious thinking which led to these realizations, just like any other eureka moment. It seems the wheels did churn out something behind the scenes, they just had to be prompted to do so.
People on HN, maybe not you, love Musk. He accomplishes a lot in tech but must he get credit for everything, even the things others do? Boeing has a long track record of major technological innovation and development. They also build the X-37, which seems much more similar to the XS=1 than SpaceX's systems.
No, I don't think your logic is sound.

The article says Tesla has a worse safety record than slaughterhouses and sawmills.

Accordingly, other automakers may still be more dangerous than slaughterhouses and sawmills, while being less dangerous than Tesla.
If they run out of funding many of those great things they are working on won't get the resources they need.

The amount of funding they get is in direct correlation to how much market share they have in Firefox at the time they negotiate a search deal with one of the big search sites.
I have to disagree with you on language and cognition. If you went around asking famous mathematicians how they think the last thing they would tell you would be "words".

Creative and inventive thought is very picturesque and non-linear: https://www.amazon.com/Psychology-Invention-Mathematical-Fie...
YMMV, but I don't want the average car owners to replace their hardware with whatever they found on Aliexpress, especially if those cars are supposed to drive autonomously at some point.
If you have to replace words to interpret the statement correctly, then there is a problem with the statement, not the reader.
You're also on Hacker News. They have been available for a long time, but they're firmly a techie/early adopter product.
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I tried it only once following some tutorial on how to make a snake game in re-frame, did some code changes and neon snake was born. You can try it here https://smnplk.github.io/neon-snake/resources/public/live/in... ;)

I'm certainly using re-frame on my next spa project.
The Guardian reported on the same issue recently:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/18/tesla-wor...