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The 'little work as you can possibly do' is a trap. It's a toxic frame that unconsciously poisons a company culture(others notice and emulate). And it happens, often, as a completely understandable defense mechanism.

This is made worse every time a manager gives an unrealistic deadline. Exemplified by rushing towards ANY deadlines. Moreover, it happens as a result of forcing the worker to sit in a chair for 8 hours staring at a monitor.

A huge amount of work can be done by communicating vision, thinking for N hours, then hacking something together in 1-2 hours. I think companies should rethink the outdated assembly line factory worker schema for thought workers.
Death by asteroids is a low risk but high impact type of event. We cannot afford to have even one such event.

It really does only take one and costs little for us to prepare. We want to mine asteroids and further science anyway, so we are going up there already. It's not like the cost of the whole space program is dedicated to defending from this. We just need to have a few plans ready to go when we do find it.

It would cost millions of dollars, compared to the billions already in space and trillions we spend in defense. What is money in the face of a 0.00001% chance of annihilation?

EDIT - Wording and spelling.
Except that's not true. Firefox collecting a small amount of data in a privacy-aware manner does not mean "convenience being always more important than privacy", not by a long shot. I don't understand why you're insisting on such an absolute black & white viewpoint.
In terms of P/N/P layering I believe (from my limited understanding) that what you're saying is generally true. However, given two diodes you can't make a transistor, so it is not equivalent to say that a transistor is just two diodes. Especially at this ultimate scale, proving a diode is not the same as proving a transistor. The mechanism of semi-conductivity is not the same at 0.5nm as it is at 14nm.
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I could easily afford to pay $100/month for it. I just don't want to, because the perceived value isn't there.

Do you think Mark Zuckerberg is willing to pay $1000 for a Big Mac? He has the money. He can easily afford it. What difference does it make to him?
I always wonder, who puts together nifty little blog posts on this kind of thing complete with graphics just for the article? By that I mean, literally what title do they have?

Myself and my colleagues would/could write up a technical breakdown of something neat or innovative we might have done to solve some problem at work, but we sure as shit can't make cool little graphics interspersed between opportune paragraphs, nor could we figure out how to make the thing entertaining to read.

Is this kind of thing done in coordination with like a PR/graphics department?
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Do their food sources?
http://offpeak.io the project my team has been working on aims to solve this exact problem. We help travelers avoid peak season, and peak dates that are often associated with large business conferences.
> But if an end-user is hooking your program up to some other program, then you want to be generous in what you'll accept, so that it'll work.

No, you absolutely don't. The only reason why you would possibly need that in the first place is because software tends to be far too forgiving. Where software enforces procotol/format compliance, a normal end user essentially does not ever get to see any deviating input because generating software is written to the standard right from the start, and the few cases where that fails, the actual bug gets fixed.

Also, you actually can't. When the standard does not specify the meaning of some input, then there is no meaning. Whatever meaning you invent for it is just that: Your invention. The next software likely will interpret things differently. You do not actually have a standardized format when multiple implementations speak the same syntax, they also need to have the same semantics. Just doing something in response to broken input does not produce interoperability, but just undefined behaviour.
With the prevalence of crypto ransom ware ... I'd really like more than 30 days.

Speaking of which -- possibly simple feature request -- when a files' entropy suddenly goes high from low, alert the user and keep the files longer.
I'm not sure I understand the use case you mention. Is it in essence the idea of someone abusing an unlimited plan to back up more data that you'd reasonably expect them to? Can it be boiled down to Backblaze's cost of hard drive space and whether users pay enough to cover Backblaze's costs?

The use case you mention seems to be very exotic, but who knows, maybe it's not as rare as I would expect. To me, expunging deleted files because of this rare, somewhat-malicious case seems like it would cause undesirable collateral damage among your service's typical users.
How do I switch that off then? I don't see any option in the windows sonos app's settings. I just see a Advanced Settings/General/Wireless Setup but that's to connect it to a wifi, which I do not want to do.
With deduplication, that is feasible.

With E2E encryption, not so much.
Disclosure: Textpattern user of 11 years, very occasional committer and docs wrangler. I don't speak for the Textpattern development/design team.

This has been a long time coming and Phil Wareham (designer) has put a huge amount of work into this redesign, along with an overhauled docs site, plus other stuff.

Work is ongoing with Textpattern 4.7, with a whole bunch of new stuff, parser improvements, tags and other things. Exciting times!

Background info:

https://github.com/textpattern

https://github.com/textpattern/textpattern (Textpattern CMS)

https://github.com/textpattern/textpattern-com-website (Textpattern website)

https://github.com/textpattern/textpattern.github.io (Textpattern docs)

New (and lapsed) users are always welcome.
Sure but there's no way they'd find every single seed on earth.
Indeed. There is a way[1] to connect to the individual sonos units and disable the radio entirely, but that certainly isn't the default.

[1]: https://bsteiner.info/articles/disabling-sonos-wifi
Then it might be more appropriate to say "has attempted to trade us for Edge and Chrome Users." I think it's inevitable that if they continue on the path they've been on since they started losing marketshare they will disappear, and sadly with so many years of audience-alienating development behind them that no one will pick it up.

The only hope is that one of the forks of earlier versions manages to get enough developers and an institution behind it that they can bring it back to popularity, but before that happens we might be calling the internet "Chromenet" and google won't allow you to visit their sites unless they have been signed with a valid Chrome developer key.
Have a super strict engine that parses as fast as possible, and do a full fail on a parse error and fall back to a more lax engine and start parsing from scratch. People that care about speed will notice that they can get a speedy page by being strict, and those that don't care will see a slight slowdown in their page times. Automatic incentivization of good future behavior.
The risk of fraud is covered by the merchant. The fees should be much lower than 3%.
I can't believe they still write these. These businesses aren't doing a bad job and failing, the millenials are killing them!
Hubic has an unpublished 10Mbps upload speed limit [1][2], which should be sufficient for most backups, but is still something worth taking note of.

[1] https://forums.hubic.com/showthread.php?173782-10Mbps-bandwi...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/4o9tm2/psa_hub...
Of course young people love their jobs!

Wow, there is suddenly all this money; don't have to live in the parents' basement, weeee!
Sooo, luck?
Just to be clear: as a seller you are not indemnified by Visa if you accept a fraudulent payment. In that case, the money is taken out of the seller's account and returned to the buyer.
PS - if you want to know more about IPO road, here's a decent summary: http://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/020916/inside...

if you want to dig really deep (like, 284 pages deep), this lays it all out: https://www.wsgr.com/publications/PDFSearch/IPO-guidebook-3....
Ask HN: Does anybody know a company use Lisp other than Clojure in production
I really like Lisp. However the more I used Clojure the more I just don't like the JVM personally.

I looked into other world and discover Common Lisp, which I'm learning from Land of Lisp book.

Does anybody know some company is using common lisp in production now?
A standard field-effect transistor has four connections: gate, base, source, and drain. In MOSFET logic circuits, two of those connections are wired together, depending on whether it is NPN or PNP, and which side of the circuit it is on.

Applying voltage between gate and base affects the size of the conductive channel between source and drain, like pinching off the flow from one garden hose by wrapping another hose around it.

If you slap two diodes together, you still need to send current through it "sideways" to see a transistor effect.
Great idea, mediocre execution, someone else here please get with OP and help him! This is an awesome tool!
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Is the x86 family the only processor family that had the segment:offset thing?
This. Firefox prompts for feedback semi-regularly. I seem to recall it even bends over backwards to make it end-user friendly by having "Firefox made me happy / Firefox made me sad" options. It seems like it would not be difficult to tie that screen to a secondary prompt that says, "Can you briefly turn on some additional telemetry for us so that we can try to fix the problem?" Let the users make that choice to temporarily lower their shields so that you can get some useful data out of their machines, in exchange for the implicit pledge that you will use this data for troubleshooting this one explicit issue (i.e. whatever prompted them to click "Firefox made me sad").

That seems like a reasonable compromise to me. I'm happy to send logs if my browser crashes whenever I visit a certain page, and if I know I'm gonna be monitored for that period, I'll isolate my browsing habit to only visit that page. I do not consent, however, to sending everything--even anonymized--on the offchance that Mozilla will see the crash events and use it to flag that domain and maybe fix the issue on that particular page.
More like DVR + save states.
Until someone makes something that I like as much, I'm not going to cut off my nose on the off chance it might spite my face.
Hi Danny, thanks for your insight about this topic. As someone who works with licensing at Google can I get an idea of what would happen in this scenario.

Let's say Facebook has a Patent on something like `Components`, `Unidirectional data flow`, and `virtual DOM` which were core to React (of course, we don't know for sure). Now let's say a framework built at Google using the same ideas as `Components` and `Unidirectional data flow` under MIT. From what I can find about patents is that if you have a Patent on the eraser then that prevents anyone from building the pencil or at least the eraser can sue for patent infringement. Does this mean the framework that was built at Google under MIT can still be affected by Facebook? If that were the case can we assume Facebook wouldn't sue Google for the same reason as start-up wouldn't want to sue Facebook for patent infringement? What if a startup were sued Facebook for patent infringement and Facebook counter-sues for patent infringement because of use of `Components` and `Unidirectional data flow` in the MIT Google framework do you think Google would step in to help since the startup wouldn't have enough money to take on the counter-sue?

The idea here is that no one knows for sure what Facebook has for Patents on React yet the core concepts that were introduced to the community is wide spread.

Disclaimer:
Of course, this is just hypothetical and you're not my lawyer and this is not an official legal opinion nor the opinion of Google.
Or private detectives stalking client's spouses. There's a lot of ugly directions for this technology.
>You even already have a good entry point for one of these - the "unresponsive script" dialog.

Thanks for bringing that up.
I think there are a couple of variants. First is watching for files to change and then uploading them when they do (possibly waiting a short period and collecting a set of changed files before uploading). This is what folder syncing programs like Dropbox do and probably what berdario is seeking.

Second is watching for files to change and saving that list until the next scheduled backup is run. This is what macOS's Time Machine does, the OS's fsevents continuously keeps track of changes and Time Machine just asks it for the list of changed files since a given time (the last time Time Machine ran). This is an alternative to a backup client scanning the filesystem itself on a schedule.
Thanks. I guess I'm applying this rule only when the result of the increment isn't being used directly, so there is no dependency on the operation. When the result is used, the semantic difference between ++x and x++ obviously determines the choice.
Turn it around and it's just a matter of not allowing anyone else to infringe on your rights to that extent; to go back to his example maybe you do have the right to sign yourself away to slavery, but nobody has the right to take up that contract.
agreed, very likely a factor as well.
I'm probably being unnecessarily reactionary about the recurring credit-card charge. I was a subscriber from 1999-2015. At the start, you paid by sending them a check. For a long time, you could add three years to your subscription at a low cost by paying in advance. I forget when I sent them my last check, but it can't have been later than 2010 or 2011. The accumulated subscription years kept me in The Atlantic for quite a while after that. I know the recurring charge is standard practice now, but it wasn't always so, and I still think it's kind of underhanded. But that may just be me not keeping up with the times.

I got a lot of value from the content, and I may subscribe again someday, but they're going to have to win me back.
HashBackup[0] works well for me and works with several remote storage providers such as B2. I recently wrote a post about one of the ways I use it[1].

[0] http://www.hashbackup.com
[1] https://jacobhands.com/hashbackup-example-1/
I think https://www.spideroak.com fits your list (specifically "One" which is their consumer solution/app). I'm a happy user who's had an account with them for years (it costs me under $10/month iirc).

It has/supports:

* Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS and Android

* Lets you share your quota across unlimited machines/devices

* Lets you whitelist/blacklist folders & files to be backed up (by pointing and clicking and/or by specifying patterns)

* Does LAN syncing

* Keeps versioned file history forever (i.e. point-in-time recovery)

* Has scheduling but I haven't used this, it just runs quietly in the background and I never notice it negatively impacting anything (client and accompanying background service is currently using a total of 51MB of memory). You can cap the upload speed if you want to make sure it never saturates your uplink.

* Uses end to end encryption i.e. they don't have your key (important caveat: this is provided you only use their app and don't use their web interface, although even then they claim the key is never stored anywhere - just kept temporarily in the server's RAM while it auths/decrypts files for you)

* Been around for ages and not likely to go out of business any time soon

* Lets you share files with a self-destructing link

* Uses aggressive de-duping on their backend (ZFS based I think?) so you can squeeze the most out of your quota (just checked my account and I'm using 94GB without compression & de-duplication but only being charged for 41GB)

Edit: and they release a lot of opensource: https://github.com/SpiderOak
visa fees? way less. total fees to the merchant per swipe is way under 3% for any sizable businesses. something like 1.2% + $0.10 was average when I worked for a payment processor.
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>But what happened to Txp5, with several blog posts years ago? Is that effort dead? Rolled back into 4.x?

My understanding is the big plans for Textpattern 5 were reined in following discussions with the plugin developer base, among others.

There are significant changes within the 4.x releases, but there's currently still a single-jump upgrade path from the earliest releases to the latest. My understanding is that _very_ old versions (early 4.0.x releases) will no longer be supported in this one-step upgrade, but anecdotally a large majority of sites run 4.6.x or 4.5.x, so it's not a huge concern.
Not too surprising answer: "your assembly sucks"
The big difference for me is that the old family plan supported 5 devices, the business plans are all per-device. If I back up 5 computers with the business plan this costs $600/year vs. $150/year.
What you really need is online cash. Like real cash, but online friendly to facilitate e-commerce.

No cash back. No fees... Just simple transactions, like walking upto the cash register and paying with cash.
Choosing not to exercise a right is completely different from giving up a right.

I can choose to speak while under arrest, but I cannot give up my right to silence. I can choose not to own property, but I cannot give up my right to own it.
Technical writers often do this. At an agency I worked at my co-worker worked that job + being a freelance technical writer and she used to make graphics all the time for documentation and articles.
That's bullshit. It's not hard to crank out a standards-compliant web page if your browser tells you where what you wrote is broken. Certainly a lot easier than cranking out a web page that looks good in a bunch of browsers that all have their own idea of what HTML means. If you think that browsers just made things work, you never tried to build a web page that actually displayed correctly in both IE and Netscape at the time.
Firefox being so arrogant to presume I want to collect the data by default is a very rude thing. You don’t just assume someone wants it, and do it for them, especially if it might hurt them.

First ask, then fuck up. Is that concept so hard to understand?

If you’d do that IRL to someone they’d never talk to you again, it’s the same with Firefox if they do this.
I think it's great for people on the "answering" side to indicate that they're willing to go beyond the literal question and offer more general support.

But as soon the asker has turned down an offer of that sort once, I really really wish people who aren't going to answer the question being asked would stay out of the conversation.
To my ear that's like saying evolution cannot sustain itself indefinitely. As long as there are generational selective pressures on imperfect replicators, evolution will continue.

Without a superstructure of omnipresent social domination to hinder or disrupt it, capitalism will be used where countable savings for investment and idea that promising accountable returns find themselves together.

Here's a thought to explain my defense of capitalism: capitalism doesn't cause corruption, but like anything else it is destroyed by corruption. Capitalism is used by the corrupt because it is so good at identifying that which the market values and in delivering it.
It's funny because I came from being a huge pirate as a young man, and then like most people made the transition to paying for content once I had the money to pay for content. Now it is beginning to swing the other way, and I'm wondering why I pay three different services for essentially the same thing, they all downgrade the video file, and this just so the same studio execs who always fucked us decided to have another go?
And who was the other finalist?
Top-level domains are still betraying the user's privacy. Does it bug me that PornoTube is significantly laggier on Firefox than YouTube? Sure. Do I want Mozilla to know that I'm visiting it? Hell no.
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Won't the translation layer reduce some of that extra speed? And if so, why is it done? so that people can keep programming to the same instruction set, even though the underlying (micro)code and hardware architecture has changed?
Didn't know this was still around. Was a very sympathetic CMS back in the days. Will have a look again.

The overhaul was done with a lot of love and it shows.
Surely you're aware of the tremendous potential for unethical uses. Do you have any concerns along those lines? Any steps to take to prevent it?
7. People hoped Bitcoin could me many things, but few hoped it would become what it is. There is no real market for legitimate businesses using Bitcoin unless you want to open another exchange. It just became a speculative asset that is sometimes used by criminals. I think a lot of people were just dismayed that it did not end up being something more than it is.
As long as your employers are not acting in good faith, then I don't think they are worth any extra effort. When most employees are doing just enough work to get by, it says more about the employer than employee.
It's not just not the default. It's actually hard to find. You can't do that from the Sonos applications.
I don't think I'd call it a "consumer" solution really, but it works very well, once you set it up.

rsync.net

It's not the cheapest either, but I never had issues when I was using them.
Spotify is mostly doing recurring payments. Folks could pay them via direct debit in the same way they pay their utility bills.
Alternative viewpoint:

https://www.consumerfinancemonitor.com/2017/08/22/director-c...
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Unless I'm mistaken, that would act as a capacitor. A transistor has a slightly more complicated doping pattern with a gate as shown here:

http://cdn4.explainthatstuff.com/fet1.gif
Nothing. There is no need for anything.
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> Property manager for a rental home

They're useful if you don't want to deal with individual tenants, ever, and just want to treat any issues that arise as an expense. Otherwise, you have to be prepared to treat a rental as a part-time job.

(That said, they can also be terrible.)

> Title/Escrow company in a home sale

Escrow seems like a critically valuable service. It shouldn't be as intertwined as it is with a pile of other services, but I wouldn't want to do without it.
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Yes, actually it would be.

Tell me, what do you think is the advantage of inventing some random meaning for what is declared to be an HTML document but actually isn't (bonus: that would not equally apply to code in a programming language)?