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Repl.it sounded really epic... except it's not REPL, at least not for the first language that I wanted to repl: C (https://repl.it/languages/c).

Still, I like the website better than TIO. At TIO I picked PHP to test and it gives me options like headers, options (without a list of options/settings to modify, just an "Add" button)... I just want to type code in an editor and run it. Repl.it also has syntax highlighting.

(For those who don't know, REPL is read-evaluate-print-loop, so it takes an input (e.g. "int i = 0;"), evaluates it (runs it), prints any output, and loops back to the start.)
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Before Shift-Back (or right click?) would work and it stopped working a few versions back.
I've been working remotely for three years. It was mostly a positive experience, but I've decided to move back to an on location job due to a few negatives that were making me unhappy;

* My routine decayed over time and work and rest became too intertwined. I felt too stressed while relaxing and too lazy while working.
* As an extrovert, long days at home in front of the computer are isolating.
* Collaboration with coworkers was so difficult that projects often took much longer than needed, delayed by "phone tag" and simple misunderstandings that usually took 24 hours to correct, vs 30 seconds in an office.

Of course, working remotely does have advantages and there were some times I was very happy to be doing so. I'm surprised it hasn't become more common for companies to offer remote work allowances. Say three months of working remotely a year, and working from the office the rest of the time. They could specify "all hands on deck" weeks, for the busy times of year, and otherwise employees could schedule remote time like they schedule vacation time, they'd just get a lor more of it.
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In particular, software development by medium-to-large teams engaging in fairly fine-grained collaboration.

I can see why the students he mentions are not necessarily buying this stuff.
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"Isomorphic" templates are not enough. You also need isomorphic data fetching for client code. If you have to manually reinvent the same data fetching on the client and server, you don't get the full benefits of isomorphic code. You only have brittle templates with two different ways to glue data to view.

So far isomorphic Node + React has been the best (but not perfect) way I've seen to do this. You abstract out the API layer, and now you can define components and their data sources that have the exact same code on the client and server, and it just works. Apollo/GraphQL is probably a giant leap forward in this as well.

Having an option to do hand-glued "isomorphic" data in a few places is probably nicer than Javascript spaghetti on the front end, but it doesn't get you all the way there. Rails has the same problem by the way, the "Rails way" is coffeescript glue to get any kind of modern front end application functionality. Even with React on Rails you have to have to reinvent data fetching, and lose the benefit of a well structured isomorphic codebase.

Until browsers support a different language natively other than Javascript (which will never happen), Node + React is currently the most straightforward path to get there.
Features:

* stars follow your cursor

* click in starfield adds 100 more stars (3D Touch, i.e. 'press really hard' on iPhone)

* click on STAR TREK toggles true color stars

* turn up your speaker volume and listen to those beautiful Enterprise engines

On Github here: https://github.com/vnglst/startrek
The difference is a real-sounding name like Harry Potter (or Michael Bolton: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_BaMx_n2_hM) attracts comments rather than suspicion.
http://www.bestplaces.net/cost-of-living/fort-worth-tx/los-g...

TX doesn't have state income tax, but CA does. TX has close to the cheapest fuel prices in the country while the bay area has the most expensive fuel prices in the country. Food costs less in TX and there is no sales tax on retail food purchases in TX.

Yes, you get paid less in TX. For an average software developer you tend to get paid about 40-60% less. Since the cost of living is probably 3x more in CA getting paid a little less in TX still puts you at a huge financial advantage.

I am not guessing at this. I am looking at the numbers and performing very simple arithmetic.
I prefer Trident Layers, sorry.
It will work but a common reason to crack passwords is because people use the same password on multiple sites. Getting the wrong value may work to log into that specific site but will not work where the user the real password elsewhere. (unless that other place is using the same hash algorithm)
To be honest, I'd use GraphQL at any scale. I've recently used it in programming challenges for job interviews, and I've used it in production for about 18 months. It's such a good conceptual fit for front-end, that it now feels strange to work any other way.
Maybe we are getting better at programming but we still suck at delivering computing artifacts to end users. Who here has tried to ship a Ruby or Python application to desktop or even server users? Was the experience "modern"? We might as well be shipping punch cards.
When everyone is wearing a suit, how does one differentiate?
Ok, so you are saying that, since people in general like to do fun things, it takes a lot of self discipline to make yourself learn programming, history, etc, which in general requires doing things that aren't fun. I think you are overlooking something however: people don't just like to do fun things, they also like to make things that are cool (maybe not all people but this is very common in my estimation). And making things that are cool often requires doing boring work and learning boring things, even though the end result is not boring. I find this can be a very powerful source of motivation, so it actually might not take so much discipline as you think.

I would even speculate that how interesting / boring you find something is not static, but that otherwise boring things can start to seem interesting once it's clear that they are relevant to something you want to achieve.

Personally I learnt math mostly from self-study, and I've learnt it well enough that I now have published research (see [1], also [2] is in review and has been recommended for acceptance with revisions by the referee), have been invited to give talks about my research [3][4][5], and have stayed for a few months as a visiting researcher at University of Muenster [6]. I don't consider myself as having a lot of self-discipline; I have a tendency to hit the snooze button many times, to overeat, to let my room get messy, etc. But once I have an idea, I want to flesh it out and share it with other people, which motivates me to do the things that are necessary for this, which are sometimes boring.

[1] http://content.algebraicgeometry.nl/2017-2/2017-2-007.pdf

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.07306

[3] https://www.uni-muenster.de/FB10srvi/HotNews/show_artikel.ph...

[4] http://www2.math.binghamton.edu/p/seminars/arit/arit_spring2...

[5] http://www2.math.binghamton.edu/p/seminars/arit/arit_fall201...

[6] https://web.archive.org/web/20170121000748/https://wwwmath.u...
Perhaps you enjoy movies with Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts? If so, you might enjoy the movie (and there is a book on which it is based) "Charlie Wilson's War" which is Operation Cyclone. [1]

It is very, very entertaining and based on fact. The Soviets were using armored helicopter gunships to slaughter Afghan citizens.

Congressman Charlie Wilson worked with the CIA, and with Israel, Egypt, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia to supply arms to the Afghans so that they could defeat the Soviet invaders. This was the beginning of the end of the Soviet Union.

The arms used had to "look" as if they were Soviet weapons that were captured. To use American weapons would start a real war. Israel has the largest cache of Soviet weapons outside of the Soviet block. This they acquired from 1967 and 1973 Wars with Egypt, Syria, and Jordan.

So, again, the US and Israel are the good guys defeating the Soviets.

[1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Wilson%27s_War_(film)#...
> "and there's no LTS option, as that's what RedHat is for"

On the FOSS side, the LTS option would be CentOS

https://www.centos.org/
It's such a small market that there's multiple businesses who focus on it?

www.stelligent.com

www.reactiveops.com

www.fuzzy-logic.org

none of these businesses are hurting - in fact, they're growing. $300k, in the scope of an individual, is a staggering amount of money to most. To a (healthy) business, it's more along the lines of a small/medium capital investment. A lot of the pitch is "You can home-grow this over the course of X years, making occasional mis-steps and paying your expensive engineering salary along the way, with every hour they spend developing this automation thing being an hour they're not spending developing your core product. Alternatively, you can pay Y and have it done in weeks/months while your FTE staff focuses on your core product the entire time. You get to reap the return (on time, on money, on agony, whatever) much faster, you have experts setting it up right the first time, and it's delivered turn-key, with training, to your FTE staff so they can start using it immediately"

There's a reason most engineering talent is under-paid, and it has much to do with the individuals not understanding the business mindset, the actual value of the services they provide to the business, and frankly being snowed by 'big personality, business-oriented' hiring managers. $200k for a talented mid-level engineer with a history of producing should be the 'good start' number, not the 'pie in the sky' one, not just in SV but from sea to shining sea.
You need to set expectations. When you are working at home, you are not daycare, dogsitter, handyman or generally at leisure. I have worked at home for eight years now, and my family generally understands this.

As someone who now manages a remote team, it can be tricky to help people adjust to working from home. Some people just have to have that physical partition because they or their family won't adapt. I recommend a co-working space for those people; that partition can be essential for keeping them productive and happy.

The other side of this coin is making sure you set that time aside for your family and personal recovery. If you had a coworker who never left the office, you should worry about ingrowth and their health. The same is true for a remote worker who seems to be always online and always working.
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I suspect that a well designed app including all the security and authentication and backend infrastructure could easily run take a thousand or more staff hours. Without a learning curve or research.

I'd put it another way...if digital cards in the form of a mobile app are viable, then why have cards at all? Just verify paid dues against a database and authenticate using an existing form of id such as a passport or other government issued document. I mean even with a mobile app, sound practice would be to authenticate identity using a third party service rather than something created in house.

There's the possibility of a hybrid approach where a physical card is permanent and the cardholder's payment status is verified against a database. And perhaps a delinquent status can be fixed by swiping a credit card using Stripe or a similar service...that might even increase membership renewals by reducing friction.

I'd put it this way, building an app using developers without experience is kind of 'doing it like it was done in 2009.' In the interim people's expectations have become higher and building a quality multi-platform app requires more sophistication. Not to mention maintaining one has become more complex as the app store requirements change and hardware diversifies, e.g. the latest iOS requires 64bit compilation.

To me, the business problem is not the lack of an app. It is the process of maintaining the union's membership roll. An app doesn't really solve that.
> And yet you slap him down and not davidf18, whose response is, in fact

On the contrary I scolded that user not once but twice, and more harshly, in accordance with the comments themselves.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14776948

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14776963

(and later banned him: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14778558)

Even if I hadn't, though, it's entirely bogus to conclude that moderation responding to one commenter means implicitly endorsing an opposing commenter.
Funny must be an American thing I bet in many of the clubs in London not wearing cufflinks would almost be as bad as wearing brown shoes in town.
HAHA! You're just animating the UVs! I can see the brick texture moving across the polygons. You can't fool me! I grew up with Quake!
I cried a bit. Life is unfair
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MIT's OpenCourseWare [1] has a lot of great material that's as rigorous and in-depth as anywhere you'll ever find. I've been using it to supplement and extend areas where my alma mater's curriculum has fallen a bit short, or where I just want to focus.

[1] https://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
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Good point. I'm planning to make sure all protocols and latest features are supported.

I came across the new threaded conversations yesterday, and they can be implemented in one or two days.
If you're writing a SPA, server side rendering is probably the most important optimization you can make to speed up your application. No other optimization will come close to the benefits of server rendering. SPAs are both slow and perceived as slow. True SPAs are only appropriate for a subset of the web where you have very specific user constraints.
Why don't we drop names entirely? I think UUIDs are much better for identification purposes.
I think the concept of "flow" as it relates to Kairos is best described by the classic song, "Row, row, row your boat".
You do much work in this field?
Same way you differentiate between different stuff in the same class--quality, style, that sort of thing. I've never worried about that part of things, though, because the jump from "no suit" to "well-fitted suit" feels bigger to me than "well-fitted suit" to "well-fitted, expensive suit", and I mostly wear one because I like them, so I haven't indulged.
Could you take the complicated bits and put them in a library? How complicated is your app?

To me, what you described is an app that was not designed to be easy to test component-by-component & will have a high overhead on maintenance. Apple’s restriction on virtualising MacOS seems unrelated to how the app was architected, so it feels unfair to expect Apple to alter their position to better support something they weren’t responsible for.
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I'm glad I'm not the only one who felt that.

Another commenter pointed out, it seems to be moving the texture not the polygons themselves. And if i may add to that, perhaps our brains are picking up on that which is why we both feel like the tunnel is moving towards us not the other way around.
I honestly think finance is overall a worse deal, I used to think it was the panacea of making money. There is the chance that you can make 600 - 800k in finance as a senior developer, but you need to either be incredibly intelligent or incredibly hard working, generally you need an ivy league degree.

A year or so ago I received an offer from a well known quant hedge fund, I spoke to a google recruiter to see if they could match, to my surprise right there on the phone he told me they never get beat out and that they would beat the offer by 50k.

The hours are much better in tech, you get treated better, and at Facebook/Google/Amazon/other big tech firm you have less variance in pay.
I understand why it makes people uncomfortable to know that they're not getting all the information I could possibly convey in a comment.

I don't see how that would make it better for me to not comment at all.
I have a technical question here: Can this be called a true AI? Because as far as I'm concerned, most companies just use AI and ML interchangeably. I guess these are only applied AI tailored to do a plethora of tasks, but at the end of the day, they're not conscious and aware of their existence.
Hawking argues that due to the fact that we can't have a long term sustainable earth we need a backup in the form of a moon base and or mars outpost .
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Don't all banks do this? Here in the UK it basically seems mandatory. Try to change your password/phone/email, they'll send you an actual letter which has a passcode you need to enter in to the website. Although mine took only a day to arrive.
>> The AT&T of the Bell Labs days ... designed their own ...

True, I am old enough to have see my own employer (France Telecom) doing the same: Computers : SM80 and SM90 [0] and heavy involvement in other computers like the LCT3202. Operating system: A clone of Unix in Pascal! Phones indeed: S63 and older phones, Phone switches: E10 and software of 11F.

For me the 80" were the good old time, you well describe what came after that "just takes bids for everything from Cisco et al"

[0] http://www.feb-patrimoine.com/projet/unix/sps7.htm
Is there a serious MOOC that gets into this? I'd like some academic rigour rather than some kid on YouTube. I tried the Unity route and had issues with shaders. Trying to get into GPU programming.
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Thank you! And thanks for the link to indiehackers. I could find some company informations there that I could not find before (e.g. Sidekiq and Shogun). I will definitely add more content very soon.

Will try to find workaround regarding the javascript too.
I think this is too one sided.

In these types of situations you generally have to allocate some of the blame to the company, instead of the employee.

Sure, the employee might not be performing to expectations, but why were they hired in the first place?

Im not saying that in some situations the employee isn't clearly to "blame", but I think it's important to hold management accountable too.
Since you haven't stopped despite repeated requests, I've banned this account until we get a guarantee that it won't do political flamewars again.

I suppose I need to add that this isn't any kind of position on Israel, Iran, the U.S., terrorism, 9/11, bombs, or wars. It's just a position about what sort of threads aren't ok on Hacker News. One could flip all the political bits in your comments and its status for HN purposes would be just the same.

My colleagues and I have a lot of empathy for the feelings of loyalty and love that drive a person to fight these battles. The feelings are important and the issues are important—much more important than Hacker News. Nevertheless the moderation job here is to protect HN as (1) a community and (2) a web forum dedicated to what gratifies intellectual curiosity. Nothing threatens that more than political battle, so we have to be proactive about this.
I'm still traumatized from working in banking tech. When I see a line of Java code I start to break out into cold sweats.
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I've been writing a basic script (https://github.com/adampie/granscan) and was looking for feedback, what diagnostic tools/commands do you guys use? How should I change the script?
I've used various KeePass variants for the past 10 years or so. For anyone on Windows, I still recommend the original at http://keepass.info/.

For everyone else KeePassXC is really nice.

I really like that there are so many "clones" and variants that can read/write the file format natively: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KeePass#Unofficial_KeePass_rel...
Society doesn't choose the same way one rational might choose, but it definitely chooses. It chose facebook over myspace over not having a social network, for instance.
If you're waiting until they're ~18 to teach them how to fail, YOU have failed.

There are hundreds of cheaper, safer, and more responsible ways of doing that long before then.
I'm glad that you like the content :) Thank you! I will add more content soon since I've gotten more resources from the comments too.
I use 1Password and have used it for 5+ year a now and love it. I used to pay one time fees. They were doing a sale for their pricey subscription service when my business partner got interested in using a password manager. So he bought an annual subscription for the both of us at a sale price. I think it ends up being $60 a year for the both of us.

Being able to use different shared password vaults has helped us a lot. As our business entails going through lots of quick sites before moving on to new ones, along with working with different partners.

Sure it still isn't "cheap", but I get a good app and browser plugins on all major platforms.

I highly prefer 1PW to Lastpass because it is much easier to get a lot of different form fields saved into 1PW along with easily adding any number of your own. Lastpass plugins also aren't the greatest.

I'd move to KeePass if I hadn't to stop using 1PW. But I doubt I'll switch while doing business. Shared repos integrated tightly into the UX is too helpful.
Meals are taxed in TX as they are in CA. Groceries aren't taxed in TX as they aren't in CA.

Gas is more in CA (2.89) than in TX (2.03). Our property tax rate is 0.81%. Yours is 1.90%.

The #1 employer in TX is Walmart. In CA it's UC. Not that that really matters. [1]

You haven't shown that the COL is 3-10 times higher in CA than in TX. A reliable cite would help. More, yes. 3-10 time more? No, that's not even remotely true.

[1] http://www.marketwatch.com/story/these-are-the-largest-emplo...
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My point is companies like Google and FB are not a using it to hire low skill workers. Every H1B I met there was very skilled.
The account @dazilcher created just for this reply. They also hijacked the top comment for visibility.

Treat with skepticism.
Ok, but what is the potency of these phthalate? Natural hormones are very potent. Everything I've seen says phthalate aren't that potent.