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Great writeup. It hits on age old wisdom - how do we strike a balance between saying 'yes' or 'no'?

The arguments for yes are obvious, probably best summarized by Wallace Stevens' saying: "After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs." (had to google for the exact saying :).

Logically and intuitively speaking, the degree to which our lives work is the degree to which we keep our agreements - it is the 'yes' (action) that moves us forward, shapes us as a person, far more than the 'no' (passivity).

In an infinite world of possibilities, what should one say 'yes' or 'no' to? This brings into the picture something we all struggle with finding for the better, if not the most part of our lives - _purpose_ and _meaning_.

I've no idea where your purpose and meaning come from - I know where mine do, however, if you want to be able to quickly sift through the infinite possibilities and readily come up with a 'yes' or a 'no' for what you commit to versus what you don't, then it is imperative that you seek out your purpose in life.

Generally speaking, the purpose has to be larger than what you can accomplish on your own, sometimes it might even span your life, or multiple life spans if your purpose is worth following by others.

Another way to achieve purpose or meaning is to surrender to another person, hopefully someone better than you. No, this doesn't mean becoming a door mat - it just means becoming vulnerable and coachable toward this person, whomever that is for you - could be a spouse, a higher being, whatever....

I'm starting to like HN even more when I see posts like this make it up to the first spot.
That's almost as useful as "Look! Over there! A distraction!"
OP, you have more than the choices you listed.

Here's a choice:

Get acquired and then leave as soon as you can walk away with a mountain of cash.

Act like you will stay forever. But leave in a year. Leave money on the table if you must, but grab a huge chunk of it first.

Do not tell anyone about your plan. Not even your wife.

If you tell your wife how you feel, she will likely:

- Lose respect for you
- start hunting for a better provider (Don't be surprised if she starts staying out late and you find she cheated on you)

- she will work to limit your access to your children.

Suck it up for just 1 more year. Make your decision (and make it final with only input from your closest friends and parents/brothers/etc)

Hypergamy is real. Do not listen to the crap here about therapy or sharing this with your wife. Mark my words, you will be in a more fucked up state whem she leaves you and you are broke too.
You do what you like doing, and he'll do what he likes doing. This isn't an interesting argument.
If there's anything i can trust in the web it's none other than Mozilla Firefox.

Google Chrome is not Open Source and your privacy is not guaranteed, you don't know what's happening under the hood.

Please wait for the Servo project to complete, then you'll know who won.

Mozilla Firefox is not just a browser, it's the community of freedom, it's what I have grown up with. Finally Firefox with Ublock Origin is just enough to enjoy the Web.
#MozillaFirefoxMasterRace
Not OP, but I believe this because if there is no evidence, we should assume there is no effect.

Gendered issues are highly problematic to bias, so it is imperative to redouble the value of force of science.
Another proof that Stallman was correct.
Most of my non-tech friends really don't know what ram is or how to check the usage. And they're not the type to actually do repeatable measurement to know if it's actually faster or not. Tech users are I'd be 10% of the total browser user base these days. So I doubt your statement having any sway on these numbers.
So, it's kind of a crazy situation, isn't it? If you have yarn, you likely have NPM installed, too, and potentially use both depending on what project you're currently working on.

Personally, I often use yarn when starting new projects but sometimes find myself habitually reverting to NPM.

I suppose then that NPM5 will have little to no effect on mine or my team's workflow :).
I'm actually a bit surprised there aren't scans of this up on archive.org.
That's why one should exercise and eat right. There is a strong correlation between regular exercise/healthy body weight and a productive old age. It amazes me how cavalier people are about their bodies.
If you love Lisp & Python try Hy (hylang.org).
This is how heavy truck diesels with DEF work, at least. Warning light at 10% full, flashing warning light at nearly empty, and if the tank runs completely empty, the vehicle is limited to 5mph until it's refilled.
Count Opera in. It has integrated ad blocking.
https://www.earthtouchnews.com/natural-world/natural-world/n...
> someone who has a reasonable expectation of my putting aside whatever I'm doing to consider your request--then this response would be reasonable. (But even then you have to respect the other person's time.)

The remark in parenthesis is pretty important here. A lot of people seem to feel entitled to your full and immediate attention 24/7 just because they're family or know you for a while. I suppose GP feels that too ("what, you think you're so important that you can brush me off just like that, and I'm not even worthy being given a reason?"). There's this strange phenomenon when people in some sort of relationship start treating the other party with less respect they'd show to a stranger.

I spent a lot of my late-teen / young-adult years teaching people around me that yes, I'm always open to help, but if you want me to consider your request, please respect my time and focus - it'll be better for both of us. I even translated PG's "Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule" just so I could show it to my mom (and some other) in order to explain why I don't respond well to being asked to do trivial errands at random times during the day.

At work I simplify this - when I want to signal I'm concentrating, I just put on over-the-ear headphones.

And mind you - I'm probably one of the more accommodating person you'd met. I find it very hard to say "no" when people ask me for help nicely. What I wrote above is the result of dealing with years of frustration and eventually deciding it's too much.
The thing is chrome is an open source browser with a lot of really smart people working to make it better everyday . IE, was none of theses things when Firefox came into the market. You also have to remember many of the core developers who built Firefox went on to build Chrome. And then even many of developers that built IE went on to work on chrome. In 2007, they had pulled together an amazing team to kick off the browser that is now chrome. IMO - Mozilla should use blink and be the privacy focused browser.
It would be even less wasteful if you walked.
"No one was ever fired too soon"

Steve Jobs may have been but then again maybe he did need time to cook in Next before coming back.
They are not fads. Both are still growing strongly.
I think it's different now, but when I first switched to Chrome it was absolutely because of performance.
I have worked in Sweden, and I would like to offer a counter point.

I don't think we disagree that the reason the hiring process is so involved in Sweden is because it's so hard to fire someone. This results in a situation where the company does everything they can to minimise the risk of hiring the wrong person.

The downside of this is that companies will not take any chances when it comes to hiring people. I believe this is the reason why I have seem some really bad diversity (both cultural and gender) in the Swedish tech industry, compared to other countries where I have worked.

If it's easier to fire someone, it's also easier to take a chance on someone that might night be the "perfect candidate" at first glance, but perhaps he or she will shine if given the opportunity.
+++++ for - take a vacation
Nothing else will give you better clarity.
I don't think it is a trivial situation. I think you are being pragmatic moving over if some dude gets antsy behind you.

Road rage is serious business. I think intent is hard to guess and we err on the side of caution. You are right that you open yourself up to mistakes if you weave and dodge through traffic. Tough call sometimes.
That's fair. Go was designed from the start to be pragmatic rather than innovative. It is a refinement, rather than an enhancement, of its predecessors. And I definitely appreciate that when working with other people's code: it's unsurprising.
Still, there is a gradient to "blub-ness". I think Go does a marvelous job of walking the line between discarding old conventions (like 'out' parameters) while remaining at the low level of abstraction conducive to writing fast code (e.g. unboxed types).
Sound Heroes: Smart Humanoid Bluetooth Speakers
Jeepers. That text needs to be a lot darker or a lot thicker.
Gross?

You must be a prudish woman.
USB-C can only handle 60W, and maybe 100W with certain cables, according to the spec. That's not enough for high-end workstation laptops. And honestly, pumping 5A through those tiny little contacts and cables seems like a bad idea.
To be completely honest, the legal and cultural landscape in Europe is nothing at all like the US when it comes to letting employees go. Being US based, I would be extremely hesitant taking your advice if you haven't spent time in the US.
Google has integration. My CC info, address, passwords - all stored in the google cloud. I trust google. I dont trust Mozilla or FF with the same info.

Mozilla is a browser company - and not that good of one. Mz is trying to be PC, trendy hip internet human rights hipster bullshit. I dont care about any of this from my browser company

Google makes products that work well.

i made an addon for chrome and FF. submitting and updating to google is worlds easier and faster. extensions updates go live in 30min or so. i think my FF addon update will be finally approved in 2 weeks or so.
For some disciplines, yes, but it seems unlikely that factory floor work is one of those.

(Also, back when I was still pulling all-nighters, I could do 3-5 days worth of work in a night, but I'd be largely useless for the rest of the week, so it was a wash at best. Good for catching up before a deadline, but not really a strong strategy overall.)
My kids are in school. Their peers aren't doing homework on their phones.
Most successful (revenue making) products are simplistic.

Also it could be his perception because he has done it over and over. Someone new or outsider may not have same view.
If you ask Larry Page to re-work on search engine, he may not enjoy it so much as he has done his time.
I've used Opal for client-side validation of a server-side game's rules. (player makes a move on the client, game rules are played out, just the move is sent to server and server plays the same move again using the same game class)

That said, it wasn't a breeze to work with. The compiled object's properties were hard to access. I actually had to serialize it to json
Programming def helped me understand exactly what focus means - making sure all details are intentional.
That makes me wonder: What was the largest animal that had ever lived 3 million years ago?
BEWARE: Rant/rambling/not relevant just flapping my mouth

Ahh well I find myself at least, to be hypocrytical you know. Being a poor person now,one can say "How can you spend your money on a $350,000.00 Lamborghini" but maybe if I had that money, shit why not. I made the money, should I feel ashamed that I tried hard in life and succeeded?

But I understand too, pain is universal but is it my fault people came to be in other continents that I had no control over.

So I'll keep washing my plates and enjoying living in the US. While complaining about how poor I am and wish to escape, I was an idiot with money so it's my own fault.

It's like this one person I sometimes watch on YouTube that pretty much just shows off this person's possessions haha and "privileged life" granted this person succeeded in life to get there. It's like "Why do I watch this?"

That same money could have been donated/educated to the poor in some country... oh well.

I could cease to be and the world would go on without me. Just how life is kind of funny. You could strive to be some crazy helpful scientists and die randomly for whatever reason. Or sit on your ass and live your full potential life.

Sorry useless text.

A single-sentence response, results in an MLA-format essay from me hahaha...
>Both seem related. Cheap and easy firing produces careless recruiting. And that is more expensive that people realizes.

Well put but doesn't address context.

If I just got gas-fire funding, intending to blow up my company, I will need to hire a dozen people a month.

It is a risk. But so is taking 200 hours to hire 1 person.

We are in the business of balancing many risks with many rewards.
Sure, I'll elaborate, but it may not be terribly illuminating.

As for why it's "hilarious" (okay, overstatemetn) -- it's not really a critique of how comments work -- more just that this is sort of an off-topic subject matter for the audience, and spangry is trying to reply to a comment.

If I were spangry, I would've replied to the post itself. I think HN commenters are pretty thoughtful, and his detailed post probably would've risen to the top, and enhanced the overall conversation.

So the right way to read my snark is more as a commentary on the fact that economics is a technical subject, but most technical readers at this site are technical in different ways. I would assume the top comment (and attendant conversation) would be spot-on for the latest framework or software technology, though.
Money to social networks is IMO like "System 2" to "System 1". We're wired to handle the "who owes whom" in small groups; money lets us scale this to a large society.
I've got a totally biases preference for Pivotal Tracker these days. It just kinda tells you what you're likely to get done each iteration. Really happy to not have the upfront commitment and ceremony of sprints in my life anymore.
I deliberately took a few steps back in my career after this last exit as well.

I've learned that being in charge is ... Sort of awful. I'd make many of the same decisions again, but I have regrets.
I am beginner to Clojuresript/Clojure. I am not that impressed by JVM Clojure (it is bloated, slow and laggy) and frankly there are better choices on the JVM - Ex: Kotlin offers more possibilities.

But I do like Clojurescript. However, it needs to wean itself away from the all the Java tooling and not require a JDK. We need a lein/figwheel written in node CLJS. An extension that supports REPL like Lumo and step through debugging within visual studio code. A good Clojurescript book. A good React-based UI component library written in CLJS.
Well the drone doesn't belong to Jeff Bezos the individual but to Amazon the corporation, fines and punishments for breaking the law aren't computed and applied in the same way.
This was the first thing I thought of too!
Building businesses is hard and emotionally draining.

There is always a person to do a job. It's just the matter of what you are willing to give up for your own peace of mind.
Probably because he's the dumbest man in SV? :)
http://www.coderag.com/is-erlich-bachman-the-dumbest-man-in-...
Anyway, will miss him.
Yes! I've also found that having to focus on something different relieves stress. My go to activities for this is either driving in the hills down the peninsula from SF or cooking dinner. If I'm not in the moment it's either dangerous or I ruin dinner.
This should be called GitHubSuggst. It is utterly reliant on GitHub, so it's related to GitHub, not to git.
>For me it's not a credentials thing, though it is an identifying thing, just for easier database lookup to update the user's interaction with a site ie. pages visited, scrolls, stuff clicked on... for data driven dev.

This is exactly what the law is targeting, using cookies to track users.

Realistically, as long as you don't and have no plans to do business in the UK (Edit: EU, not just the UK) you should be fine. But it can't hurt to put small notice to be safe.
Show HN: (Nepal Only) Locate and Identify mountains using phone's camera
The bit tricks are OK. We used them extensively back when we supported platforms that lacked SSSE3, but they are way slower than the SIMD techniques because of all the bit-bashing and far less flexible.

The technique I outline can match most character classes that you run into (and there's a 3-PSHUFB variant that can handle all predicates on bytes), while the bit-twiddling version will get linearly slower as you add more cases. If there's a way to get at what we did with general purpose operations and bit twiddling hacks I'm too stupid to think of it.
Not at the moment, but we might do that in future.
As someone who's been in a 9 year relationship, I profoundly disagree. In my experience sharing has helped build a foundation of trust and respect in our relationship.

Seeking out professional therapy and/or sharing your feelings with others is the opposite of weak, it's courageous.
When I feel someone is thinking this way ("true reason is laziness"), I instinctively react in an unpleasant way. I've been using a phrase "you treat me with less respect you'd treat a stranger" to remind them that empathy goes both ways, and I'm not their servant but independent human being.

I.e. if in the way you ask you show you're expecting them to comply, you're doing it wrong. Show respect to people's need for autonomy, and they'll be more willing to help you out.
Edit: Ahh I see you mentioned A11y or Ally, thought it was someone's user name.

Aside from using tab indexes to jump around on a page, what else helps?

Is Hacker News really good with accessibility?

Oh Screen Reader has that voice right? So proper use of Header tags... man how do you follow a chain of comments? control find and look for your user name? Oh maybe the threads part of Hacker News.

Aria tags...

Well probably good news for you with the move towards voice-interfaces with the Amazon Echo products and what not, maybe there will be API's or something to present data with voice-first in mind so no visual.
You can't be diagnosed over the internet so I'm not diagnosing you with depression. And it does sound like you have that. Things you used to enjoy not doing it for you anymore? Trying to handle it yourself and not talking about how you feel? Definitely, I recommend you talk to a counsellor / therapist / psychologist. I mean, you're already reaching out to the tech disapora for help ( Ask HN ), so take what may be a more effective and qualified step and talk to person whose profession is helping people.

Now I want to enjoy a vicarious "I told you so" ( since I didn't tell you anything ! ). I have however heard the advice said many times that before you startup a startup consider if you really care about it so much that you shall want to be doing it in 10 years. Didn't you think about that? Haha. Schadenfreude.

Or maybe it's just a case of "You need to love what you do, because shit gets really really hard, and any rational person would give up." Maybe shit is just really really hard and you don't love it. So, nothing wrong with you. Just your situation is sub optimal.

I don't know how this works, but if you can get your stock options ( if they've vested ), just take them, and to do the acquisition or not depending on whether that will net you more money.

Dude -- screw the duty to investors and employees -- take care of yourself. You probably never know how much time you have in this body, so do what you wanna do. Pull the trigger, since time is your most valuable asset. Why sink another 3 to 6 months ? ( Sunk Cost Fallacy ) -- just get out and be with your family. What if you try to white knuckle this, choose to be a slave to your investors and employees ( slaves ), "do the right thing", and your relationship with your wife frays, and you can't fix it...and you're in worse shape 6 months down the line?

Take care of your mental health. Fixing the company, finding a replacement, serving your investors and employees doesn't sound to me like it is going to improve your mental health. So do something that will.

And remember, depression is really just anger ( barring "chemical imbalance" believers -- sorry where does that imbalance come from? either you've always been nature / nurture fucked up, or you made choices that didn't work emotionally for you, and "chemically imbalanced yourself" ), turned inward on yourself, that you haven't found a constructive outlet to express. So work out what you are angry about ( maybe about this company, or something about this situation ) and work out a constructive way to fix the problem. You are a problem solver, right?

Working at Wal Mart, doesn't seem to me like it is a constructive solution. But yeah, talk to a professional. And are you dealing with some loss of a close family member or friend? That's definitely capable of contributing to how you are now. And it certainly pays to talk to a professional to help you through that.
I quit using clojure because (i) no C/C++ FFI, (ii) lack of strong type system, and (iii) horrific startup times (although clojure itself is fast, its startup time is not fast).
Yup! Just bear in mind that since the feature is only open to mods and OPs, the API is similarly restricted.

Also I'm a big fan of your blog, really have enjoyed reading your analyses on reddit data over the years.
Nintendo banning modified 3DSes from online
Ok, here it is:

https://mixmastamyk.bitbucket.io/pro_soft_dev/
I don't understand what the problem is. If you have LOIs on the table, SELL THE COMPANY!!! You can leave the day the deal closes.
The website having to be https is a bit too much. It is hosted on gh-pages and there is no way to get https with custom domain (without things like Cloudflare)
My understanding is the rule comes from some form of EU legislation, in which case the issue is far more extensive than just the UK, ~500 million people.
Like so many here have said: Take the time to speak to a Therapist. If you need help finding one, I'll be more then happy to give you a hand. Hell if you just want a "sounding board of sorts", I'm game too. And if you are able too, find a "workout buddy." (Personally for me - this helped greatly for motivation to get to the gym.)

Also: This is a good first step that you know there is a problem and you want to start correcting it. A sizable portion don't even know/care there is emotional problems with themselves until it's too late. But please know that this will take time, there is no quick fix. (That is one of the many primary reasons why people don't seek out treatment.)
> One method I found works disturbingly well is to have a busy life or cultivate the appearance of a busy life.

There is nothing original about this. Practically everyone is doing all they can to pretend to be busy, to the point that many people actually believe that they are, and all to avoid meaningful interactions with the people around them. Meaningful interactions are risky and costly and modern people have lost their nerve. It's so much easier to watch Net Flix when you want to feel. I'm sick to death of this. I want to surround myself with people who live deeply and with meaning.

Think about it, how many people, other than your family, really give a shit if you live or die? For most people that number is close to zero and it's not going to change if you buy in to this bullshit that the solution to your problems is to guard your time or focus more on yourself. In my experience, the only people who say they need to start thinking more of their own needs are the ones who have always done so.
This post left a bad taste in my mouth. Firing can be hard on all parties involved. Your dumb startup is not that important. If you can't figure out how to utilize an employee, that's on you.
Even better: OCSP failures cannot result in failing closed because of middleboxen. So all this traffic wasn't needed anyway.