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I believe so, which is why I'm working on a version 2.0 of each application.

In the case of Fileloupe, version 1.0 is "just" a file viewer at the end of the day. It's a really fast file viewer with some neat features, but it's still just a file viewer and thus it has to compete against everything from the macOS Finder to Adobe Bridge and Lightroom.

Fileloupe 2.0 adds the ability to create libraries that are persistent across app launches. Photographers have a dozen applications out there that let them organize their photos but there aren't many applications for organizing other types of media that use a similar system of albums, ratings, color labels and flags.

For example, videographers have few options for cataloguing and organizing their raw footage outside of the Finder and professional media suites. Fileloupe 2.0 will allow them to organize their video files in a similar way to how a photographer might organize their photos. (And it's not just applicable to videos. You could organize graphics, PDFs, documents and just about anything else.)

I've never really had a macOS user tell me they were desperately in need of a fast file viewer, but I have had many tell me that they want a better way to organize their files and media. I'm hoping to solve "that problem" with Fileloupe 2.0 and thus make it a much more essential application for a set of users.
""I'm still waiting for someone to completely eliminate the need for a software engineer and charge a reasonable flat fee to bolt together some libraries and handle all the related details."

That can be done (and is done) for cookie-cutter projects such as websites.

A company I consulted for offers 600 dollar CMS websites, no extra fees.

I've also paid amazingly low prices for other kind of "bolt-library-together" projects.

A lot of companies do overpay, but there's also a lot of variance between projects.
If you want something GUI-driven, deja dup or Back in Time might work for you. You can take a look at the articles I wrote on them here:
https://github.com/kororaproject/kp-documentation/blob/maste...
Anyone can do this. In fact, I do it every time I walk into a home and decide what I might be willing to pay for it.
When was the last time you went somewhere (other than a concert) and saw a live musician? When was the last time you saw a hung up original painting or drawing. I see drawings and paintings far more often than musicians, especially with electronic music.

I think what I've said is fairly accurate, some people just use ready made software like garage band and feed it samples from "real" instruments, sometimes they don't, but it doesn't change my point much.
People worked their asses off to avoid Y2K, everything needed to be tested, patched, and tested again.

Unfortunately we have not been as vigilant about security. We're barely able to handle script kiddies armed with a bot army of webcams. We're completely unprepared for when a nation-state actor declares electronic war.

You're right that as we get more and more automation going on our exposure surface grows dramatically.
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I see this in myself at times. A few ideas based on your scenario:

1. We are constantly screamed at on sites like HN that there is a right and a wrong way to do something. It's almost always just a fashion trend of some kind, and the reality is: there is rarely a single "best way", the pros mess up all the time, and even the perfect design will grow haggard with age, and that ain't a long time in this business. Perfect is an illusion, so just try to make some reasonable choices.

1.5. Naming things is hard, but there is no perfect name. Pick a single letter and move on! :)

2. You are replacing something that already works. As you begin your planning, you'll start to notice all kinds of little features you'll have to build out.. the boring minutiae that you didn't even notice the first version did.. and then the scope of work changes, becomes less thrilling, and that can be discouraging.

3. It's always difficult to start from a blank page, especially in a software system where the "method of entanglement" of all the moving parts is such a key design decision. Sometimes it's good to just pick some interesting part and write that in isolation. Then you will get some momentum going and you can move on to fleshing out the rest.

4. Anxiousness sometimes comes from not knowing the full scope of the problem. Try sketching on a napkin some pieces of what you have to do. Try to start from large blocks and decompose. This might help you feel more comfortable committing some code.

5. Maybe the project is just way more boring than you thought. :)
I want to do this but I'm afraid of two things:

1. Show how horrible my code is.

2. Accidentally leaking sensitive stuff.
As a fellow note-taking application maker (https://quicknotes.io), a friendly advice: you need a better landing page.

Show me how it looks before asking for signing up (screenshots).

Better yet, have a demo with publicly visible notes.

Reduce signing up friction by allowing twitter/google/github/facebook logins.

In "what is this" you talk a lot about you and technologies used. People don't care about that. Write about how lickth.is is better/unique than other options.

Read https://www.julian.com/learn/growth/landing-pages for short yet comprehensive tutorial on good landing pages.

Also the name is bad and tagline both icky and not making much sense.

I'm not saying that will change much. As I've learned the hard way, note taking apps without clear unique selling point are a hard sell those days.
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I love waterproof messenger bags as [ortlieb](https://ortliebusa.com/product-category/ortlieb/messenger-ba...) offers. Perfectly waterproof and sturdy material. A bit pricey though. They also have some more traditional looking bags.
A younger version of myself would be against Web DRM, but these days I wonder if there's a potential for it to help in democratizing distribution among indie content producers. Ideally I'd have some time to piece together an essay, but the major points are:

1) Ted Nelson's vision on how Project Xanadu would have some form of copyright protection / micropayments for authors.

2) Independent content creators that have called it quits. There's tons of examples, but here's one that highlights issues: http://www.tonycomstock.com/2011/09/12/why-i-dont-make-movie...

I guess I see a vision where webDRM is an improvement over the walls of 'Apps' where content may not be DRM-free, but at least be linkable/URL-addressable.

(Disclaimer: I'm writing this without actually reading into the WebDRM spec, so feel free to criticize)
Hi, I'm the person who submitted this link (I didn't write it).

IMO, assuming no power imbalance it's only ok if you don't work together in any capacity regularly or could, if the relationship goes south, stop working together regularly in a very quick timeframe.
I'll second this one.
So long as the planet of the population keeps going up and the population density of cities increases the chance of multiple millions of people being killed in a single military exchange keeps escalating.

I'd like to think we can keep a lid on things and work it out in a more civil manner, economically it makes more sense, but you know, dictators don't really care about economics as much as they do ego.
I don't. Coward
They were very rarely available to show us homes and instead just gave us the lock box codes to we could walk through on our own.

It was also suspicious they felt the need to justify their existence saying the hard part is drawing up the contracts. But as far as we could tell the loan company did all that work. The realtor just showed up to the signing and let the loan officers answer any questions we had.

Sure, most transactions are not as fast and easy for them but it seems with these numbers if they are with one client for 2 weeks straight and sell a house at the end they are still way ahead. Even if they sell 1 house a month at that rate it's still a killing.
As buyers, we simply hired an appraisal firm. I think it cost around $300. Then we hired a notary public to handle the paperwork, about $2500.

Honestly, if you think real estate agents are the only ones capable of managing this process, then I can only assume you've never bought a house.
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This looks awesome. I found the pricing confusing tho, it is hard to estimate how much it will cost me.
I feel like that case was true back when this fight actually mattered. These days people use native-ish apps on iPads and smart TVs and not just laptops. So I think there is less market power on the web's side than there used to be.

Google and Microsoft both sell the CDMs (content decryption modules, ie, the actual DRM components used in EME), and it was certainly a benefit they touted for consumers before Firefox had an implementation as well.

Now anyone who wants to make a web browser must pay to play, and the people you pay are your competitors. Even if you could write your own CDM and get it ceritifed/trusted or whatever, you'd still have to convince every DRM-using video provider to also use it in addition to the others, which is going to be a very tough sell. And of course, it may be that no one wants to license a CDM to you to start with, and now part of the web is closed off to your users.
I am routinely told it cannot be done for my condition, the health of the "health and wellness" industry not withstanding.

And you are, ironically, proving my point that a lot of attention ends up on me, and not in a good way, rather than on my work.

My life is a case of "fact is stranger than fiction." I am confident that trying to lie about it in order to make it more palatable would only compound the problem. I am making progress, in spite of continued comments of this sort.
Some general thoughts:

1. Look at the product. Can you describe what it is, what value it creates for customers? Is it exciting? It probably shouldn't be. In 9 out of 10 cases boring products in boring industries will lead to steady work and chance to add real value to the company, get raises, etc. Small company unicorns can raise money, but they don't last. Successful companies ship products and create happy customers.
2. You want a company that is high trust with their team - including in interviews. How many customers do they have? What is their runway? How much money do they make? What are the biggest complaints from customers? Do they have any raving fans, what do they say? Who are the dominant personalities in the business, who leads? If the company isn't willing to go into detail even over the phone on this stuff then tred carefully.
3. Read! Don't give up an being business-savvy. There are a lot of good online lectures, tons of great books, podcasts, etc. You don't need to be an expert to start to develop a nose for what is going on. Listen or read something once a day and you'll gather the tools, vocabulary, and emotional perceptions to ask better questions and even help companies execute their strategies. Believe me, having a developer who cares about product, customer, and execution even half as much as they care about code can be the difference between life and death for a small company.

Some resources:
Entreleadership (good, easy book on leadership and business):
https://www.amazon.com/EntreLeadership-Practical-Business-Wi...

Tropical MBA Podcast (will touch on sales, product, marketing, teams, and more):
http://www.tropicalmba.com/podcasts/

Gimlet Startup Podcast (start with Episode 1 to go behind the scenes of what the business leaders are feeling):
https://gimletmedia.com/startup/

Harvard Business School Youtube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk8n46m74K5XWfdeBzOXDfA
I'd be very happy to discuss any pain points or particular problems you've run into trying to learn Redux, and any suggestions you might have for improving the docs to make it easier for others in the future. Please feel free to ping me on Twitter, or in the Reactiflux chat channels.
Anyone think life behind bars is harsh for just holding someone up at gunpoint? Though a lawyer - probably has connections w/ judges and other lawyers so--he got the book thrown at him... Kind of sad that we waste tax payer dollars keeping people in jail this long who don't need to be.
1. Stop
2. Just use a part of your screen that is off the recording. Never open `.` files on the stream.
Never login on the screen, always off of the screen. If you are showing AWS cli console stuff, make sure you hide the public IPs and public DNS of things.
This happens with full price agents too. In my experience, their "expertise" is really just confidence and bluster. Commissions are high not because real estate salespeople are good, but because they are inefficient and because they operate under a de facto cartel.
Anyone can do an estimate; whether they can do it better than Zillow, etc., algorithms is a different question.
That is a tough one. I have been in the industry for 10+ years and a lot of it in the higher end custom home side. To me a couple of things that standout as super cheap are jump ducts (basically they didnt bother to put a return air duct in a room and just put a whole in a wall with grills on either side to allow air transfer), hollow core interior doors (you can hear/feel the difference if you knock on a hollow core door versus a solid door), all stucco exterior (cheapest clading material where I live), sometimes upper floor water pressure is almost non-existent and they dont put in a booster pump, and on and on... I feel like it really varies from project to project. I have seen some where they actually spent a decent amount on the cabinet drawer/door fronts, but then didnt bother to spend a couple of hundred more on good undermount drawer guides. Others where they didnt bother to think about layout/flow in a kitchen (aka the island looks great, but if I open my fridge I cant squeeze by the island and the door to actually get anything out of it). I think generally a lot of what people are trying to build today qualifies as "modern" but to me it just looks/feels cheap. To truly do modern well is very expensive. I dont particularly like the look, but thats just my opinion.

Older construction is another area entirely. When flipping houses became popular a lot of people got into the industry who didnt know what they were doing, or they went about trying to do it as quick and cheaply as possible. I have heard that the less you know about a place you are trying to flip the better. AKA if I dont open up any walls to see if the electrical doesnt actually meet code, then I dont have to spend a bunch of money replacing it! Or I didnt get a structural engineer to look at the foundation so I dont know if there are any issues with it and therefore I dont need to disclose anything to a potential buyer.
> A company who wants to compete in more or less established market will have no choice but work on link building.

Link building isn't adding any value to your site; you're merely trying to game the search engine who doesn't want to be gamed and who actively resists gaming by hiring some of the smartest people in the world to ferret out and eliminate your tricks. Google wants good content, not back links (back links are only a proxy they use to rate quality and only one of many), focus on good content and the rest will follow automatically without gaming the search engine which is only ever a temporary win at best. Trying to continually "trick google" by creating more links to your site that natural traffic would warrant is not a good long term strategy. Creating content people want is always a good strategy and works long term and removes you from the trying to trick google game which removes you from being taken out by a change in their algo aimed squarely at you fake back linkers.
There's a chilling effect with regards to beliefs that fall outside the Overton Window.

As norms change within a group, those who hold beliefs outside the Overton Window can become afraid to express those beliefs, and that leads to people simply not even comprehending another group's views. How did Trump get elected president? Why didn't we see it coming? This is what the people in my Manhattan office were thinking the day after the election. On the other hand, family members from Nebraska were laughing and asking how the coastal elite "didn't get it". We aren't talking because we can't disagree without falling out with each other.

I expect the same is true of sexual norms, dating norms, social norms, norms about drugs and alcohol, etc.

Generationally, the Snapchat generation probably has no idea what those growing up in the 1940s believed, and those who were teenagers during the American sexual revolution of the 1960s would probably be surprised by the way teens date and have sex today. We have vague ideas and notions but how many of us have had 30+ min conversations about these topics with people who are from a far off generation?

No one communicates and I believe historians of the future will feel it's an enormous tragedy that we don't have better surveys and public records of personal beliefs in areas that are controversial or highly personal. And more than just 'what do you believe', but 'what are the circumstances that led you to have those beliefs, what were the consequences around your actions that influenced those beliefs', etc.
You can't just accept a plea deal where the prosecution has no evidence. Plea deals must be approved by judges, and involve a colloquy with the defendant and a showing by the prosecutor of the evidence that the government would be prepared to put forward to establish guilt at trial.

And plea cases come up on appeal all the time (and in fact are probably the typical criminal appeal). A plea bargain agreement generally precludes appeal of the conviction, but does not preclude appeal of the sentence (because the judge, not the prosecutor, decides the sentence).

I have lots of friends who are public defenders. Almost everyone they work with is guilty (much of the work is hammering out plea deals that ensure that they're convicted of the correct things). Same thing for people who work with Innocence Projects, where filtering out all the requests for aid from guilty people is a big part of the work. If the issue were just not sending large numbers of innocent people to prison we would have fixed it. What makes criminal justice so challenging is the constant fight to protect the rights of the innocent within a system where the overwhelming majority of the accused are not just guilty, but obviously so.
You are not 'forced' into using it.

You can compile your own information of houses that may be for sale that aren't for sale and approach the owner directly and try to buy it. You can also approach people who had their houses listed that took them off the market and approach them after the listing expired.

Think I am making this up? That is exactly what I did with one property that I bought. It was listed one year and never sold. I wrote a letter to the owner saying I wanted to buy it, struck a deal, and bought it. Simple common sense.

Let's say you are interested in a condo (as only one example could be houses in a development) in a particular building. Send a postal letter to everyone in the building. Say you are a serious buyer and ask them if they want to sell. In a large enough building you will get people that are thinking about selling and you can strike a deal.

Management offices (at condos) often know who might be selling as well. Contact them.

I have gotten deals for buying real estate from property management companies as well. They send me leads and I don't have to use a realtor at all. They know I am a buyer because I have communicated that to them. Also helps to buy small gifts for the person that holds that info or at least be super nice.
The linguistic sense of the fantasy is of an idea of dubious value. But you (and the OP) seem to take position that one can use the term for any idea. If we're going to operate that way, I could just as well say that your claim that "A model is not reality, and is indeed a fantasy." is itself a "fantasy".
We (Searchmetrics, http://www.searchmetrics.com/ ) are happy to hire Data Scientists, Frontend Developers, and Backend Developers in Berlin :-)
Indeed, but this engine doesn't exist, and in 15+ years of weaponised adtech, noone's been sufficiently economically incentivised to make it. Telling, no?
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The real economic question is whether they can keep charging 6% commissions as the internet evolves

That's the point. In pre-internet ages, there was a huge information imbalance that kind of validated that 6% (also, there wasn't such a ridiculous housing bubble).

Someone mentioned a real estate agent making 1250 dollars/hour. I would be willing to jump whatever hoops were needed to make that kind of money if I were in the U.S.
Thanks for going through the effort of finding some of those other numbers for me, puts a proper frame around the picture. I'm also sure "online" will likely continue growing.

A bit of a tangent, but I'm a tad amazed "through mutual friends" is as high as it is. Statistically, I'd think I'd be able to think of far more couples around me that I know met through a mutual friend. I would've ballparked it at less than 3% if I had to guess it myself.
Link to the original story?
Many municipalities have sold off large chunks of their infrastructure to private companies that are always more concermed with profit than expenses like "security".

It stands to reason that the smaller towns will be hit the hardest since they're the least prepared for electronic warfare. Their IT department is going to be the same guy that tests the water and removes dead animals from the reservoir.
I also think thats justified. A newer, and more specific term I particularly like is "Machine Learning Engineer", which will probably soon be recoined to "AI Engineer".
We (www.datarevenue.com) basically have to use "AI" now to make it clear what we do. Something that would have made me feel awkward just 3 months ago.
Thanks! It's technically available as a beta, right now I send invites by hand to whoever signs up.
Without getting into any of the rest of this comment: that's not what you said. You blamed teenaged girls in part for not taking advantage of contraceptive pills. Specifically, you wrote:

It's common knowledge how reproduction works. You have condoms, birth control pills and copper rings among other options.

That's simply not a reasonable argument. Don't move the goalposts now.
Brian Smith had a good string of tweets that summed up my thoughts on it, but I can't find it now. There's two parts to why Patreon feels inappropriate for me: The units are too small to be realistic for a market rate salary for a software developer. If a single developer's salary is six figures, trying to fund a whole team this way a dollar at a time spreads the "crowd" too thin. Second: There's no established deliverable associated with the donation. It makes sense for people who are doing something like making YouTube videos on a regular schedule infinitely into the future, but for a software project, you want to see more specifically how the money will be spent, how much it will cost to complete a project, and what the expected timeline is. Kickstarter's model is much more appropriate for this. The developer can give an honest estimate, "We want to build X. It will take us Y time, and we need Z dollars to make it happen." Then everyone donating can better judge how much to spend and know what they can expect for their money. This is more fair to both the developers and the donors.
Oh I never got to use networked opengl (which existence I learned years after I learned about opengl), that's very nice.
I take it this is your first transaction buying a house. You are basing what you think on that and what people are saying online. I can assure you as someone that buys real estate (as investments) it typically isn't that easy, at least in a typical market and for most transactions. And I have been doing this since the 1980's fwiw.