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About a year ago, I switched from full-time Java development (15 years, mostly server side -- some Swing) to full-time Javascript development (React at first, then Angular) with all of the mental anguish that the amazingly arcane world of modern Javascript entails. I did have a little bit of a leg up in terms of previous html/css experience, but other than that it was a whole new world.

It seems to me that there is no other way to go other than full immersion and feeling really dumb for quite some time. The thing is though that you really need to depend on an unshakable faith that you will eventually come through the other side. You need to be firmly convinced of this. If not, convince yourself. It really helps to have done these career pivots before (which I have) and that may be the best thing about being an older developer. I know that there is nothing that I cannot come to grips with given time and effort.

Some hints:

Never pretend you understand something unless you do. Always admit "I don't know that" rather than fake it. This rule can be bent for small stuff that you are going to look up when you get back from your meeting.

Take notes (which you seem to be doing already). This is what you will google when you get back to your desk! ;D

Have a really understanding tech lead. Of course, I realize that this is just luck and a crap shoot, but working with great teachers and humane people is always best.

Have faith in the fact that the problems in your new domain are largely (probably) problems of computation that are generally applicable in ALL programming domains. Look for patterns that you are familiar with, like: what are we actually doing here? Reading some data files, transforming the result and storing them somewhere else? Oh! It's ETL! I know this. Ignore the weird jargon and get to the heart of the matter.

Give yourself time to feel like a dunce. You aren't, it's just gonna take time.
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This assumes it is most efficient to build the solar locally. These radiative panels have to be installed locally. Solar can be transmitted over wires from large scale plants.
Someone who hasn't read the article: please define far left.

I think you'll find after reading the article that the term has been misinterpreted in order to follow a story arc.
excellent research to find that link!
He can (and does) use that for leverage, but then, so could Italy, Spain, and Greece. I don't think he can get into the EU under threat of letting refugees through though, not while there's violations of human rights and such still going on in his country.
Yes, I've messed with it (most recently in a virtual machine about a year ago). But then again, in the same time-frame I've also "messed with" Plan9, BeOS-recreation Haiku, and several other oddballs.

Hurd works, but then again so do a lot of other things. I very much like the philosophy of micro-kernels and everything-else-implemented-by-a-server, but in practice (perhaps just because of unlucky timing combined with performance penalties) that hasn't (yet?) caught on.

(I used the Debian distribution.)
From that post, it sounds like an asset acquisition.
In other words, they bought IP: source code and any related rights.
We use Azure Functions, mainly cause that's what our project is already on. Seems to work just fine. Done all in C# .NET no huge complaints yet.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/functions/
Big fan of Codility. They do have a lot of algorithmic questions as well, but they also have easy ones (which we use), and we tested them on our own staff prior to deploying (all then-current staff got perfect or nearly perfect). I would only use medium or above if the question tested something that the job absolutely needed in a candidate.

They also allow candidates to add their own test cases easily, which, for the ones that do, tends to be a very strong signal in their favor (they also tend to do better).
Ask HN: Does one feel they are contributing positively to society?
Don't give couch manufacturers any ideas! Couches need telemetry too.
I don't get why they would bother actually using a controlled website to actually distribute malware. It seems more valuable to just sit on it to collect user information. Eventually on of those websites will also do something unsound like storing passwords as plain text, or a vulnerability that can get you the passwords will come up.
Anarchy might be a better description, and that too within reason and having been made less and less so over time via law enforcement and such. The dark web is more of that ideal, but you know where that ends up.
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OP here. I was hesitant about the title, and I actually originally posted something less inflammatory (didn't say "far left"). But then I figured I'd directly copy the NYT title, so I wouldn't be accused of editorializing. As we've seen with A/B tested headlines, there is no way to escape this.
> follow in the footsteps of China regarding online censorship

This phrase makes the article seem overly dramatic. The proposed directive is all about copyright and not about censorship in the common sense. So, if I own the copyright (e.g. I wrote a blog post critizing the European Commission), this directive doesn't apply to me.
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Okay, here's the deal. I'm looking to get better at programming, as well to learn various popular Javascript frameworks through a side project or something. That's because the market seems to be more interested in that side at the moment, and in part because I want to move on from WordPress and PHP related work.

So I thought I'd get better through a few side projects.

Problem is, I'm having trouble thinking of anything that requires me to learn the programming languages and frameworks I want to learn. Almost every idea I have for a side project is the kind of thing any programmer could create in PHP/Perl/Python/whatever with minimal effort.

For instance, I'm currently rebuilding my gaming news site and it's going okay, but there's absolutely nothing there that would require me to learn anything new. The site concept is simply getting basic stuff from a database.

Same goes with other projects. I want to create a marketplace for game developers, but that doesn't require anything ambitious either. Again, the idea is interesting to me, but the technology required is super simple.

And that's the case with everything I want to build. It's just so simple in its requirements I don't feel I have the opportunity to learn anything.

I could theoretically just try and complicate a simple project with whatever framework I'm learning at the moment, but something in my mind just says that's a bad idea. I just find it near impossible to do something in a complicated way when a simple one works fine.

I also find it difficult to just come up with an idea knowing others might not use it. So I struggle to create anything that I can't find a way to market.

Any ideas how to fix this? How to think of ideas that require you to learn new things to pull them off?
No, you want the primary action to look clearly like a button and the others to look like secondary links to minimize cognitive load. A list of button-like shapes that do wildly different things is not good UX.
So was that some random Sun machine or are you one of the few people who had what was code named sunbox? It was a clustered NFS server and it was my baby.

Pretty sure you just mean a random sun machine, there weren't a lot of sunboxen sold.
I am not a lawyer.

In the US, contractors are not employees. Providing stock options to contractors probably has tax and legal implications. If the business is a C-corp where equity growth is the mechanism by which investment creates returns, then you already have employees in the form of founders, maiking the distributed team employees rather than contractors and using standard employee stock option practices is a well trodden path.

Talk to an attorney.
Maybe that's the intended signal.
Cynical take, having worked in organisations that have bought into IBM: IBM is not into curing cancer, it's into selling, and in particular up-selling at enormous scales (government and big business). The primary goal of the Watson project has not been to cure cancer, or do anything in particular, but to get existing customers to buy into extremely expensive contracts that include 'Watson' in some way. All the hype, which it is now becoming apparent was artificially expanded to some extent, is just a means to this end. As with most (all?) of their other products, it'll be oversold, underdeliver, but lock organisations into even heftier contractual chains.
It's a cheap/easy way to minimise the input lag. It's otherwise complicated to know exactly when updates should arrive, as different programs might fetch it at different times in each frame, giving you up to a full frame of extra lag if you're only doing it once per frame.
Turkey also won't be part of the EU. Both Merkel and her contestant for the current election stated on Sunday, that they have had enough and want to abort the negotiations about Turkey joining.
Are you assuming a 5 day workweek? Divided by 7 gives a different picture.
"Terrorism prevention", alongside of "9/11" and "save the children", has been the work horse of western "democratic" political system to concentrate power and restrict liberties over the past 30 years. It has nothing to do with corporate interest, if not to please a vocal minority seen as a threatening to their reputation.
Sounds like we could swap stories. :-)

Trying to one text messages in and one out was a 20 minute affair in the rainy mountains of Peru with Iridium. Globalstar data service seemed to have random drops and periods where connection was impossible, even in dry weather.

FleetBroadband sounds interesting.
So it's a step up over randomly pulling people right off the street?
> A beagle, to my knowledge, has never killed anyone

Wikipedia mentions two cases in the US[0], but what's more interesting is the existence and thoroughness of this Wikipedia page.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_dog_attacks_in_the_Unite...
It's possible, but it doesn't seem to be happening in practice, if you look at ICOs that have raised a lot of money so far.
I remember those days as the worst. I remember coming to release times, and having "crunch" times.
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> They're open sourcing the code (likely because they need help)

Unlikely. I genuinely believe Martin Davies is doing it as a service to the Erlang community. bet365 doesn't need to open source anything. They've got deep enough pockets to hire developers to maintain Riak internally for the foreseeable future.

> Is Riak so critical to Bet365 that the right move was to _buy the company_ versus switching to a different storage system?

Yes. There isn't a storage system readily available which offers the same capabilities as Riak. At the scale at which bet365 operates, doing so in a gradual fashion takes years. By capabilities I mean the ability to make different tradeoffs in different use cases. Riak has a nice set of levers to tradeoff consistency for availability. Its built in support for CRDTs is quite amazing.
http://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/do-use-something-in-an...

(I had never heard this idiom before)
The big mystery to me is whether Bitcoin is the Myspace or Facebook of digital currency. Only time will tell.
> If I say Marxism is evil, aren't I also vilifying subscribers to that philosophy?

Yes, and I would not be surprised to see people challenging that statement/asking for facts.

> > Comparing a political stance to a disease does affect the users

> I can't see how.

See my example from the post you quoted. Does it make sense? Try to put yourself in the shoes of a professional, successful PHP programmer who is aware of the advantages and disadvantages of the language & is comfortable weighing up the various trade-offs.
Totally agree. I actually left "far" out of the original title when I posted on HN, because I didn't remember it being there - and because after having read the article I didn't get that impression. Granted, I live in CA, so perhaps my definition of "far left" is different than others, but I can see that others here seem to share my sense that this was exaggeration on the part of the NYT.
There should be a huge backlash because of this. Make sure all people involved are fired and have no ability to govern anything public ever again.
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I have been wondering this as well. I also wonder if being a "night owl" is related, as I'm only really able to work when I'm tired. Maybe I require a less active mind to reach motivation?
Things like receipt paper (coated in particulate BPA) are very likely contributers as well. One has to wonder how much.
Thanks! I didn't know about that! I will update the article and check out SuperCollider :)
But you're talking about a totally different situation.

OP isn't talking about a mother frustrating the will of the court (and I agree that's a problem); OP is talking about an agent of the state removing children from a parent.

If anything your argument just supports my point: she's violating her child's convention right to a family life with its father, but the courts can't do much about it.

If this "the state can just take your children" argument held any water the state, after the court cases, would see the mother breaking the court order and take the child off her. They don't, because it's very hard to do.
That looks awesome! Thanks.
You mean aside from the fact that MEPs - the politicians sitting in the EU government - are elected by the general population?
Would make sense to use the same license as Erlang - Apache2
Just like Facebook, the usurper have to do something allot better to drag people away.
Oh, that's a neat idea! To classify the style and then choose the corresponding emulation... I'll think about it.
A shame you were left with that impression. For quite some time, from top to bottom, Basho had quite a reputation for solid technical talks. The distributed systems conference RICON was quite excellent.

(Disclaimer: former Basho technical evangelist & engineer.)

Suggestion for something much more meaty: https://youtu.be/3SWSw3mKApM
I have done this as a junior dev to finish my school. I negotiated 6hr days, and I know few people that did something similar to i.e finish theses, e.t.c.

People that go i.e. from intern to full-time often stay at 4h a day, untill they finish school.

On the other hand, I am not sure how well this kind of negotiation will go once I will want to go back to 6 from. 8 h days.

We will see, I definitely plan to do this if we'd have another kid in my family.
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The Internet was built on a synergy between cooperation and competition between the players. As such, the state of disorder implied by "anarchy" does not fit either. Each new competing tech was based on a strong base/protocols/rules made in the previous iteration.

To this extend, the Internet's core is very conservative.
In the article, it does say that Microsoft might shim the driver (add some code to Windows to make the driver's idiocy lower impact), so they have the one-company advantage, too.
"We are revolutionizing home-based, ergonomic solutions.

Relaxtion-as-a-service"

Translation

"We're selling an overpriced couch. The couch is manufactured by someone else. The microphone gives us your data. We're working on selling that to as many other people as we can."
Testing mobile apps in the emulator caused my pain. I mapped the mouse-button to keyboard key for my left hand.

For browsing I use browser plugins that help navigating wtih the keyboard (saka keys e.g.)
I did for the last couple of years, working in the public sector for GDS. While personal circumstances changed and I’ve gone back to agency life again, I’d recommend digital transformation of government services to anyone who’s a bit burnt out on the steady diet of startups destined to fail and brochureware sites. The USDS even advertise their open positions as ‘tours of duty’: https://www.usds.gov/join#tours-of-duty
Two things have worked for me.

(a) Switching hands.

(b) Trying to use the mouse and the keyboard without constantly forcing the hand into a horizontal position (right hand thumb pointing left). Instead I got into a habit of holding the mouse in a more (not completely) vertical position (thumb up) and pressing the mouse button with the side of my finger.
Those places ought to require a doctor's note with a legitimate medical problem (not just obesity) in order to use a motorized scooter.
The question is though how the hell do we find companies that don't do these test? It seems everyone and their mom are doing it now days, even immigration officials :)
Try a wacom pen. Different grip.
I don't like the Watson logo. It's too busy. If you shrink it or squint when you look at it you just see a blob.
yes it does: https://help.spotinst.com/hc/en-us/articles/115004157529
Yeah, I'm thinking about trying this too. I think this is like Google's approach for A.I. Duet.
Now I found my first program that actually tests it properly :)

I knew you had to systematically drive the code through every OOM codepath to even have a shot at doing that in an unmanaged language. Sadly a lot of C code is written by people who think:

if ((ptr = malloc(sizeof(struct foo))) == null)
return -1;

is the same thing as being OOM safe.
I would love to see some sort of standardisation and rationalisation within software engineering. It's so fragmented and ego driven. Every framework is better than the last, my programming language is better than yours. Thought is rarely given to longevity. I'd much rather work with a more dated ecosystem that I know will be around of true next 20 years than the continual paradigm shifts we endure just now.

I'm exhausted and frustrated with the field as it exists just now.
Yes, you could say we'd learn something is the last 500 years.

Mildly related, in the same times, a minority protection office was established and funded to some extent [1] which also incurred in some well known political upheaval.

There's nothing new under the sun.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protector_of_the_Indians
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I would say that our two party system is why this seems so strange to foreigners. Americans with nuanced opinions must shoehorn themselves into Republican or Democrat to participate in our democracy. This often means compromising on your ideals to have your voice heard on whatever issue is most important to you at the time.
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Even if they didn't abort, recent developments in Turkey have moved them significantly further away from meeting requirements for entry .
This reminds me of LivingSocial. For years, LivingSocial was like a mini black hole of really good startup-like talent in the DC area.

But when you have that many smart people under one roof, you have to keep them busy. So you get these kinds of reinventing-a-beautiful-wheel projects. Not knocking the quality, just knocking the growing distraction and temptation to build in-house rather than use existing tech.

LivingSocial had such good quality output, but they were all over the place. They had to keep all those productive people busy after all. And the best way was to keep churning out new products.
Is this supposed to be a good thing? Who the hell does Microsoft think it is to dictate to a democratically elected government?
The comment I replied to specifically used the word "doctors".
seccomp does not imply a whack-a-mole type of effort: you can have a very small whitelist of syscalls, and further restrict their parameters.

The debugging would be similar with a unikernel run as a seccomp process: you could debug it as a single process. I believe the BSD rump kernel is already used like this for debugging purpouses.

If you want to mix legacy processes and unikernels in parallel, you would still run the legacy processes on a different VM in the seccomp case.
The MEP are not part of the government, they are part of the parliament, which is elected by the public. The EU comission (which is the government), is decided upon by the national governments. Only the head of the comission was elected (indirectly) by the people.

Edit: Btw, the head of the comission is more like what the US would think of an actual president. The president, OP talks about is more like a representing nation.
What information is so critical to your company, yet only exists in a dead person's email?

> The procedure is "don't use my company's computers for personal correspondence"

So just assume they're not, and quit wasting time and energy over nothing.
Can anyone explain why eventual consistency is so scary? The way I see it, eventual consistency is everywhere. Even in your non-distributed synchronous CRUD app. The minute you start two db transactions within one script you have eventual consistency. You have to deal with the fact that one transaction can fail and that your state can be inconsistent.
During the peak of frothy VC investments, our hypothetical couch startup will have the money to hire ML and AI experts.

1) Sell the couch at a loss.

2) Acquire customer voice data.

3) Run it through ML/AI

4) ????

5) Pivot the company.
the appointed commission forms the government (executive), not the parliament

the head of the commission is chosen by the parliament, and the head of the commission then appoints commissioners

commissioners have a tendency to be disgraced former national politicians who have become unelectable at home (e.g. Jean-Claude Juncker, Peter Mandelson)
I don't know what society is. I don't think there's been a society for me to contribute to. All of us have our group of friends maybe, and our work life. But the rampant individualism and abandonment of the family unit leads us to no dialogue between peoples. Things just happen and we react to it. Go accumulate money and take vacation.
I can't remember the last time I've seen more than three neighbors within a year time span.
So no, I don't think I'm contributing to society. I'm only a student, after all.
Get a vertical mouse. Now. I used to get wrist pain and tennis elbow (lateral epicondylitis) and it was the difference between working, or not. I highly recommend anything from Evoluent.

And use the pomodoro technique where you can (20 mins on, 5 mins off).
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