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I believe that when a company has not found the right product/market fit yet, or has not gained a significant market share in its respective niche, then it cannot afford to have core engineering done remotely.

Any pre series-C company, which is still adjusting the product/market fit and fighting for survival will not be able to afford the lack of creativity that a core local engineering team provides, and the higher communication costs associated to working remotely (especially in different time-zones).

It maybe can work for non-core engineers, or for remote core-engineers that have given up to their chances to build up a career and level up, since those spots will be taken by folks who work locally next to the leadership team.

Most likely if a remote engineer turns out to be spectacular, he will receive an offer to move locally under the same roof in order to unlock his career.
I'm pretty sure anyone who thinks sci-fi doesn't deliver good characters isn't reading the right sci-fi. Go read Blindsight and The Quantum Thief and see if you can still tell me that with a straight face.
"Registration requires an Apple developer license."

Hmm, not the open web I'm familiar with.
You said that your only goal is financial independence. I've never lived in either NYC or Sparks, so I can't give you numbers. However, assuming you make $120k a year forever, how many years are you away from financial independence in NYC? How about in Sparks?

The cost of living in Sparks is likely significantly lower, so if all else stays equal, you'd get closer to your goal faster if you were there.

That said, all else is not equal. How would you and your girlfriend deal with the climate in Sparks? What about art and culture? What if you have trouble making friends in Sparks?

Personally, I would rather be broke and happy than rich and miserable. But there's another side. If you're unhappy and have $$$$$ in the bank, the temptation will be to travel all the time. Heck, spending every second weekend in San Francisco will quickly eat up the cost of living difference between NYC and Sparks.

If you go, rent first. I've moved around quite a bit and am a firm believer that it's a bad idea to buy until you've been somewhere for a year. The alternative is to end up in a horrible neighbourhood...
It's reasonable if you think about the sticker price as the "max price". We let colleges do price discrimination, so why should they hold themselves to a smaller max price if there are people they think are willing to pay more? Then they discount it for people who probably aren't.
Biking is viable in southern california. Most of LA is flat and it doesn't rain enough to even need to worry about a plan B.
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Personal attacks like this are not OK on Hacker News.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
what is with the negativity in this thread. Its unbelievable.
Where does one work in SW in SF if one wants an office with a door? Does it even exist?
Except for how the licensor created the software but the landlord didn't create the land.
Hi, I wrote the article! Thanks for your commentary, snidely passing judgement on me and my family. Much appreciated.

The article was intended to be a little provocative, more than a little tongue-in-cheek, but suffice it to say, I never would've continued playing videogames with him if he didn't show interest.

He was nothing less than absurdly enthusiastic about it, and it was a way for us to kill time together, but I never pushed games on him for a moment. Eliot, like many of his friends, loves the creativity and collaboration that comes with the medium of games, and the social aspects of playing them with his friends and family.

He's turning 13 this week, and has taken classes on making games himself in GameMaker, and is now modding the games that he loves. I'm happy he's found a hobby he loves, and I'm proud of him.
No state income tax either in Nevada!
I have attended several different colleges, and my kids have all attended different colleges (than the ones that I've attended) and from that sample we discovered great variation in both the quality of the teaching and the focus of the teaching. From our limited data set (3 private liberal arts, 1 private "top ten", 3 different community colleges) the small private liberal arts colleges all had some classes that were taught by professors who cared that the students really understood the material, the community college classes were mostly taught to the exam, and my experience at USC was the big 'survey' classes (like EE101, CS203, etc) were generally taught to the exam (specific learning skills were 'taught' in the lab sessions) but the more specialized classes (like EE450 engineering calculus) were more focused on developing skills at using the material in your future life.

Bottom line is that it is really hard to generalize about colleges because colleges can be so different.
I'm a Reno native, and I'd be happy to chat. Shoot me a message at nv.throwaway.acct@gmail.com.
Efforts to reduce lead exposure in the 1980s arguably were behind much of the lower crime rates in the 1990s and 2000's that we've seen. There are other studies cited in relevant wikipedia articles like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States#cit...

And yes, crime rates are significantly lower adjusting for population, though that's not always conveyed accurately by those in authority and the news media.
We ban accounts that use HN primarily for ideological battle, so have banned this one.
The slight towards Ventura is unfair as well. Although he is an odd guy, he is not ideologically in the same category as the recent American presidents at all. I am proud that my mulishly-regressive home state elected Ventura in a way, even though I don't necessarily think he was the most effective politician.
I know your replies here are probably somewhat aggravating and definitely time-consuming, but I appreciate your level head and the detail and information you provide. I don't have a complex understanding of any of these technical details and you explain things in a clear and concise way.
Outside magazine has a lot of very high quality long form articles. I ended up subscribing to them since they do not nag, and produce a great product. I want to support sites like theirs.
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Thus proving that they actually are the problem after all; amazing how that works!

There are plenty of studies demonstrating the reality of sexism, if dudes are unwilling to believe what women tell them. Ongoing willful denial of this reality contributes to a hostile atmosphere where women are intimidated into silence about their experiences, which in turn lets men pretend they have no idea that there could ever be gambling in this es... I mean, sexism in tech.
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The problem here is that "outlook" hardly does justice to a very complex situation.

The implication that oppressed peoples who have been genuinely wronged merely need to put on a happy face and change their attitude is pretty horrendous. It ignores the fact that smooth social skills take time and opportunity to develop. It ignores the fact that if you are "the wrong kind of people" you do not get the benefit of the doubt that "the right kind of people" get. (This is a thing I have gotten to experience firsthand from both sides of the equation. Being homeless has been a huge education in just how much that benefit of the doubt greases the wheels of polite society. When that lubrication is missing, your life can grind to a painful halt.) And a thousand other factors here.

I am a woman and I try to tell other women what they can do differently in the face of living in a sexist world. I am routinely accused of blaming the victim for trying to empower women. I find that very frustrating because I do my level best to provide solid data and practical how-tos. I do my best to avoid suggesting that women merely have an attitude problem.

So while I am sympathetic to the idea that wherever you go, there you are and I am also sympathetic to the idea that it makes vastly more sense to focus on changing the things within your own control, given the larger context of life, I think this point you are trying to make about "just change your attitude" is a really crappy message to put out there. It is akin to telling someone maimed by abuse "It's in the past -- it doesn't matter!" and overlooking the very real legacy of impairment those past actions have left behind.
OP's point was that the failing of the Trashcan Mac Pro was that it was non-modular design that user's couldn't upgrade and (apparently) Apple couldn't refresh.

Maybe there is the thermal envelope in this design to support a more frequent refresh rate, but this still doesn't address the fundamental "pro" need to be able to mix and match or upgrade core components like the display, RAM, GPU, and storage.
This is bad, ignorant advice. See, e.g.:

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/01/women-n...

http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/lean-out-th...
I don't think you're really agreeing with the OP. The OP didn't say anything about not making you take classes that aren't directly focused on your career.

Those classes are what make college different from trade school. You may think it sounds like a meaningless platitude now when you just want hurry up and be done with the whole thing, but many of those "extraneous" classes will make you a more rounded person if you allow them to.

I'm a vastly different person at 33 than I was at 18, I'm interested in different things now partly because I was exposed to subjects I wasn't particularly interested in at the time. 15 years later, I'm glad that my past self sat through art history, biology, and economics.
Right now, Sloth runs on OSX 10.8 or later. There is no storage limit; items not used will be autodeleted after n days (set in config).

Love to hear what you think of it!
I've been thinking for a while now that there should be some sort of public access social network, just like with television. It would be a proactive state-funded effort to promote genuinely free discussion without fear of being censored (or tracked and advertised to.)

Of course it's hard to imagine a current state being on board with something like that. Especially the no tracking part.
We've banned this account for trolling and detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14491639.

Posting like this will get your main account banned on HN as well.
You do not NEED domain nor third party hosting service, you just need access to the Internet. Obviously you are still relying that your ISP doesn't cut you off or censor you.

Then why does it need to even be a website? IRC has been a thing for a long time, the protocol is simple to implement and anyone can setup a server, and once on a server anyone can make a channel. Sure at the end of the day you still need Internet access or you have to rely someone else doesn't ban you from their server/network, but if you go down this rabbit hole then you are relying on the power company to provide you with electricity and your government not to police/censor you.

There already exists ideas (if not solutions) about distributed ham radio "dark webs" which would go around the ISP issue, but even then someone could just blast the air ways with random noise which would disable the network or at least slow it down to crawl. At some point you have to accept some amount of "risk", since you literally can not control for everything.
A lot of the things you mention are presumably covered in the cloud provider's service prices for things other than bandwidth.

Another possible explanation is that the ratio of available (or build-out-able) compute power to available bandwidth they have is such that they just can't give you cheap bandwidth and their pricing reflects that.
> On the internet on the other hand, that’s not the case. There are pretty much no communal or ‘neutral’ spaces. There are no sites which aren’t classed as the private ‘property’ of someone or some group.

IPFS?

Though that might only be half of a public space.
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Why would you want to run this on iOS?
Whoops. You are correct.
I read at least 150 words on this site and still have no idea what Grommet is. A "design system" that "makes the design workflow better" (paraphrasing) doesn't really tell me anything.
This isn't a counter-argument, just an observation:

"LEED Exposed" is run by the Environmental Policy Alliance[1], which is "devoted to uncovering the funding and hidden agendas behind environmental activist groups."

It looks like the Environmental Policy Alliance is a shell organization run by Berman & Co.[2][3], a PR firm for everybody's favorite lineup of corporate bad guys: cigarettes, soda and fast food, and (presumably) some company that benefits from lessened pressure for environmental design.

The Forbes source you gave is written by someone at Berman & Company.

I don't want to make any particular claims about LEED or the USGBC, because I just don't know enough about them. However, the origins of the criticisms against them suggest that there's more at play than just LEED being a bad or ineffective standard.

[1]: http://environmentalpolicyalliance.org/

[2]: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Environmental_Policy_Al...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berman_and_Company
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Well, you know the Surface thing started with this: https://www.digitaltrends.com/opinion/pixelsense-the-not-so-... :)
I think the larger disincentive is simply downsizing (such as the common pattern of becoming an empty nester) or moving in general causes supply to be very scarce.

Moving to a smaller and cheaper home might result in the exact same monthly bill.

Now that is only fair and it is more accurate to see the low taxes paid in the past as the unfair part but the end result is the same.
Or, what to think of the sheer idiocy of Excel blindly throwing away integers it deems too large, replacing them by floats...
The sort of internecine political battle that you and bcncit took this thread into definitely does not belong on HN. Please don't do this again.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14473540 and marked it off-topic.
It would need to somehow be 100% anonymous in order to get around every last bit of censorship (because last point is self-censorship, when you see others with your views being ostracized by rest of user base)
Yeah. The alternative is the top ten links of a search linking to paywalls. No thanks.
I never want this. I always want click-to-play
I realize this is far away from the point, but that infographic starts off stupid. Painting has a 6,000% markup? That could only possibly be true if you don't count the painter's time. Just because it's all labor doesn't mean it's high markup; the painter isn't selling you the paint he's selling you the service.

And mixed drinks are more like a 4x markup. Lower at the high end even. Not sure where they pulled that number from. If it's anything like the coffee total, they'er comparing the garbage ingredients people typically use at home against the highest quality ingredients in the best places.
"Yet most enterprise servers are written for GCed infrastructure: .net and JVM."
Link to comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14487354
Personal preference. I feel as entertainment, it's too "low barrier?" and I see too many parents using electronics as a distraction/anti-boredom tool.

It also helps me be "more present" when I'm not using electronics (my phone) when I'm around my kid.
No, no, they were right the first time... "The future is here, and it's not an iPhone: it's a big-ass table." ;-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZrr7AZ9nCY
The sort of internecine political battle that you and faragon took this thread into definitely does not belong on HN. Please don't do this again. The last thing we need here is flaming nationalist passions.
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You make this claim over and over again and then double down on it when pressed (you literally call Chrome and macOS Safari "incomparable"), but you fail to provide any reason or evidence to support your claim and instead always insist on counter-evidence. When pressed (further down in this comment thread), the only thing you share is this vague idea that Apple isn't incentivized to make Safari secure on macOS. You also compare Safari/Chrome sandboxes several times after declaring them incomparable.

You then, unprompted, create a comparison of all the major browsers again with no citations or supportive reasoning.

It's all very strange.
Wrongly called as First War of Indian Independence. There was Vellore Mutiny in 1806.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vellore_mutiny
I agree! This is a real issue for cloud providers currently. You shouldn't have to pay for the super-reliable fast network if you don't want it.
I am not "anti-gun". I don't own guns but I did grow up in rural Canada and had plenty of exposure to guns, hunting, and have enjoyed skeet and target shooting myself etc. Guns are a tool which can be useful. It's the violence and normalization of it that I'm opposed to.
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Agreed... this article makes a useless one-dimensional comparison of several different services based on their pricing for a single aspect of each of those services. I'm not saying there aren't price discrepancies, or opportunities for more competition that might benefit consumers and enterprises... but the comparisons as portrayed in this article are just not useful except to show how pointless such one-dimensional comparisons are.
Do you have specific criticisms? I'm pretty fine with OSX these days now that I can have two maximised windows next to each other on a screen, and four-finger switch left and right between screens
A) no shit it was glib

B) slagging off Newbury award winners as a category is slagging off A Wrinkle In Time and them shits fightin' words

C) douche helpfully proves me as being in fact far too charitable by claiming that it is predictably disaster to expect a boy to relate to a story about a girl.
I found myself wondering whether the paranoid mindset that finds static typing reassuring is more likely to realize when code doesn't work.
Maybe this is why everyone is so angry at the airport. /s
Yeah that's what I was saying.
Well, that's an easy one: leave your cell phone at home when commiting a crime.
> I guess in Western ideology definition of CONTROL over a land is through swords, guns and bloodshed.

there is nothing uniquely western about this definition of 'control'. it's the historical norm everywhere.
...the Crain theft, along with similar heists in 2011 and 2012, ... were committed by people who ­appeared to understand the trucking business, identity theft, and computer secur­ity.

Pretty much the textbook example of an organized crime operation.
> Should MS reconcile the XBox with the PC?

Uhh. We have. A while ago. The Xbox One ran Windows 8 until IIRC last year when it got upgraded to Windows 10. UWP apps are just that, universal across PCs, phones, Xbox One and HoloLens.
Thank you for getting at what I was trying to say much better than I could have.
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You don't even need the internet, you can just whisper to yourself inside your head.

Obviously you're relying on the power company and relying on the government of your own country to not lock you up - which brings us back to the public spaces where people can rant on street corners without being locked up - being heard by random passers by. Those same people can't rant on the internet in the same way without being banned from the sites where people might be able to discover them. A dark web site is only useful for speech if you have some way to be discovered.
FWIW cost for a small biz at most major metro US facilities is closer to $1/mbit for a multi-carrier (which means generally multi-route and high quality with some caveats), and $0.20 if you do something like he.net. For higher volume customers you can easily cut both of those rates in half right now. And you can also participate on public peering switches for generally just a low setup fee at the best facilities.

AWS, GCE, azure seem like the platforms of yesteryear in all dimensions when compared to something like packet.net. I think these providers could be in a rock and a hard place due to the unsuitability of native Linux containers for secure multi-tenancy. This does leave a nice runway for Joyent as both a provider and software vendor for at least a little bit, but I think packet.net is really going to change the economy of infra.
The last sentence is as true today as it was then. India memory and its strength however have faded to the point where even its vestiges appear intangible.
I'd go to LinkedIn (or their About page if they are small enough) and just look at the people. The more diversity you see, the more they are walking the walk. You can also look thru past employees via LinkedIn (might require premium account) and reach out to diverse folks who've left the companies you're considering.

Funny thing about the beer-- we got draft cold brew coffee at work and went out of our way to design and laser-cut a tap handle that says "Coffee" so candidates wouldn't think it was a beer keg.

Other ideas: run their job post through Textio (https://textio.com/ ).

Disclaimer: I am a white dude, but my company of 65 (in Seattle) is about half women on the engineering side of things. It was a lot of work.
This site simulates a slow download of a progressive JPEG so you can test how your browser renders them. The page is from 2007 so its claim that IE doesn't render them progressively appears to be out of date.

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> What's happening is that only students from wealthy families are paying $70k a year, and they are basically subsidizing everyone else.

To be fair, this is what the system strives to. More and more schools are achieving an equitable balance (this is also why top unis are shifting towards need-based policies, as opposed to merit-based ones: your merit threshold for FA should be the threshold at which you accept students), but there are still kinks (IIRC students from farms are one notable demographic - their families tend to have high cashflow, because of the sheer value of the equipment and crops that they work with, even though their net income is incredibly low).

On the other hand you have schools like NYU that pretty much exist to strip their students of financial assets: they combine administrators who don't care for furthering their institutions as ones of education, but rather moneymaking tools, with financial aid offices so miserably incompetent that they presumably only exist so that they can claim to have such on marketing materials. (Apologies for the vitriol, but as a New Yorker I've always been ashamed of the school, and it embodies all too well so many of the things wrong with our higher education system.)
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Nice. Now read this (I think it says the same thing just shorter):
We are uncovering better ways of developing
software by doing it and helping others do it.
Through this work we have come to value:

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan

That is, while there is value in the items on
the right, we value the items on the left more.