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This post hits close to home. I went through this when I worked full time at tech helpdesk / call center.

I was a contractor of a contractor of a contractor of the Navy.

Me <- Contractor (payroll company) <- Contractor <- Contractor <- Navy

Each step took a bit off the top, I made $17/hr no vacation, no health insurance, no sick time.

At one point my contractor (they signed my checks, a faceless shell) who I never met or communicated with called me at work and tried to reduce my pay. I felt so angry and upset. I ended up arguing that I would quit if they touched my pay.

I learned when I quit that:

Me ($17/hr) <- Contractor ($35/hr) <- Contractor ($55/hr) <- Contractor (???)

Its all about liability, health insurance is a liability, sick time is a liability, vacation is a liability, and the possibility of paying for layoffs is a liability.

Trickle down.

Also related,I was also working part time in retail where I learned that over 80% of the staff was part time to avoid paying health or vacation or sick time...

This is common practice in retail. These companies have huge workforces of part time people, they avoid giving people enough hours to be full time... Its terrible and needs to be fixed.
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i'm not sure this is true. erlang ranks lower than elixir, but erlang is a prereq for elixir
Anyone still left is likely far too comfortable working on Solaris, not really interested in working on something different or like you said they would have left.
Investing in crypto is fantastically risky. The premise under which almost all investors view the asset is that it will be worth some multiple of where it is today, or zero.

To invest in any crypto you have to understand what separates each of them in terms of security from their counterparts. There is a significant amount of buzz that has no relationship to the value proposition of a given alt. I can think of only three (perhaps four explain later) cryptos that have any real ecosystem that isn't 100% controlled by the founders. That is bitcoin, litecoin, and ethereum. Every other crypto is really just a crypto in name only.

In order to be a crypto in anything except name only you have to be able to validate transactions as they are attached to the blockchain of the crypto. Without doing this, all you have is an expensive distributed database, and when I say distributed, that's exactly the problem. Bitcoin is distributed. Every node holds a copy of the blockchain, and it is fantastically difficult to get each of these nodes to adopt consensus rules changes, especially changes that reduce the network security. That feature makes bitcoin more valuable than all other crypto currencies combined, because even if the most competent crypto open source development team, i.e. bitcoin core, chose to put forward a proposal that the node owners thought would reduce security, it would be rejected. No other crypto has this level of separation from the maintainers of the system, and the developers of the system.

In my opinion, unless you are a sophisticated trader, there is only one crypto worth investing in. If you are sophisticated trader, there will always be pump and dump schemes for new cryptos, and I expect there is a lot of money to be made. But that seems little more than gambling.

It is possible that the offshoots of some of these cryptos might gain traction. Bitcoin cash provides no real security because its node decentralization is almost non-existent, and it is controlled by a small group of miners, perhaps only even one. They can change the rules at any time. Same goes for Ethereum really. Vitalik Buderim might just to modify the consensus rules, and there's very little anyone could do about it. People will blindly follow him. But with bitcoin cash, it is possible that the chinese government will capture bitcoin cash, given it would only need to capture one company that exists in its country, and dictate that that is the crypto that must be used. Maybe that will make it more valuable? Maybe it won't? Can't say. It seems a big risk to me though.

So unless you really understand or believe in the value proposition of a crypto, and understand how it can be protected from capture, it's best to steer clear of all of them. There is only one crypto, bitcoin, that you can reasonably download and run a node, and ensure that your crypto is secure, at least in the short to medium term.
Ooo, neat. I've enjoyed several of their songs, but didn't know they had a show.

I spend most of my time listening to the "Vocal Trance" and "Epic Trance" channels on DI.fm, and specifically enjoy several shows that run on there: Mellomania Vocal Trance Anthems with Pedro del Mar, Vocal Vibes by Richiere, More than Words by Ciacomix, and Uplifting Only with Ori Uplift.
I'm surprised companies still buy Oracle software, I figured that they were only in business because of Vendor lock in from governments and large corporations.
I definitely don't think you are wrong but in practical purposes, "curated" doesn't mean what it used to and I think we can all suffer less when we accept that. It's probably one of the prices society pays for the internet and doesn't have to be a bad thing.
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I found sine and associated concepts to be arcane and Byzantine when learning then through algebra and geometry alone.

Seeing sine, cosine, etc as merely each other's derivative was astonishing and eye opening. So elegant. It made me love math again.
What the gender pay gap tells us is that the category of "professionals" at any given income level is far from gender-balanced. It's not mathematically possible for everyone to marry within their income bracket.
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Search for "tetris championship" on YouTube. Some great tetris gameplay and you can pick up on a lot of the strategy pros use.

Ex: https://youtu.be/DdfRQjb5o9k
Reminds me of a talk I saw at a conference a while back about doing it with fractals.
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> similar to other package managers

Interesting; I don't see apt, dpkg, nix, or yum maintainers releasing top lists of packages. Even the package providers rarely provide a "top" list, especially one with compile-time flags.

Those flags being provided in this list are very explicit, which could be easily correlated with data provided (or harvested) by other parties.

> a good way to measure the health of the Homebrew ecosystem

What value does this really provide to the general public, other than a, ahem, "member" measuring contest? You already see this occurring in this very thread - the MySQL vs. PostgreSQL comments. I fully expect a "Node vs. X" one as well.
Did you have a birthday between the second and sixth sentence of this comment?
lol if this is curated then so is the poo that comes out of my butt during my morning poo
They stopped producing good hardware.
At the time I hoped that Apple would buy the Amiga company and fix AmigaOS to run Classic Mac stuff and merge both systems into PowerPC systems and then later on use Intel X86 chips.

Amiga still exists but it is very expensive, AmigaOS has evolved a lot and AROS is like an open source AmigaOS 3.X that can be ported to other platforms.

Apple can still buy out Amiga and the license to AmigaOS and make high end PowerPC workstations and servers out of them and install BSD or Linux on them. The Amiga One was better running Linux than AmigaOS, so just make an Amiga API WINE like software that runs AmigaOS apps in Linux. Then make Intel based versions to save money.

Just think Apple could use HaikuOS, MacOS, AmigaOS, AROS, Linux, etc on their Mac line using Intel chips, and contribute to their development to take on Microsoft and Windows.

Yet Apple could make a deal with Valve to port SteamOS to their older Intel Macs to make use of them for playing games on them, etc. Give them PowerMac specs as well to make a PowerPC version of SteamOS.
That only sets up the value proposition for the maintainers - not for making it public. What value do any of us, not on the Homebrew maintenance team, derive from this list (other than fuel for "X is better than Y" arguments)?
a while back in another thread one of the guys involved with brain.fm gave a discount to HN, I gave it a go, it's pretty good ( no idea whether the theory behind it all works or not, but it's good zoning music for coding)

I have a massive list I've built up over time of electronica/trance/rave type music I use for coding on spotify. If you look for coding music on spotify there's a number of lists that are similar.
>>If this were a Democratic administration

In this case, there is no defining line between the two major parties. They both rely heavily on bank lobbyists and come from their stock. There's going to be no changes.
Its not just janitors, this happened to me in a highly technical call center.
There are of course applications like Wordpress where it's a default
Well that sucks. I never used ProTube but it looks like it was a great app.
Laravel has built in console commands (using a light Symfony console wrapper I believe)
Are tomatoes grown in the UK more tasty, or is it all the same?

I am asking because I've moved back/forth a couple time between the US and Canada, and tomatoes made in the USA or central/south America are tasteless in the US. When I see tomatoes made in Canada in a US store that's what I buy, no matter what the price is, organic or not. Savoura is the brand that I prefer, but then again, I am not sure it is Canadian, and they make it all over the world and it taste different depending where they come from...
>>it can take it away

Ever since the "collapse" of the over-leveraged and irresponsible firms relying on subprime mortgages and BS credit swaps to boost their stock prices, the government is scared to death to allow anything like that to happen again.

It would take far more than silly accounting fraud to do that, unfortunately.
Could you go more into the specifics of the stability problems you have experienced with macOS as of lately?

In my experience the latest versions of macOS have been more stable than ever. My MacBook Pro from 2013 came with OS X 10.9 Mavericks installed, and with that OS version I would get an occasional kernel panic.
With macOS Sierra, and before that with El Capitan, I haven't experienced a single OS (or Finder for that matter) crash for over two years. I only need to restart the computer for updates once every few months. I could go on and on..

Are Apple products perfect? No not at all, Xcode crashes once per day, I've seen people having glitches with the Touch Bar etc.
But the base system? Stable as a rock. So what's going on with your system?
Along with their pricing still being laughable high. The "Mac tax" is more than a running joke.
I have Pro and I have it download and notify me of updates but I install them on my schedule.
>I see, you have to do "rg -g '.l' foo"

Actually it's just:

rg -g '*.js' query

And if it's a known file type, like js, you can do (-t type):

rg -g -t js

>Why force people to put asterisks inside of single quotes on the command line?*

Because else the shell will auto-expand the asterisk before it even gets to rg, and rg will instead get the expanded list of files that match the pattern. E.g. if you have

a.js b.js /foo

in a folder, then:

rg -g *.js query

will be expanded by your shell to:

rg -g a.js b.js query

and THEN run. rg will never see the asterisk in that case (and it also wont search inside /foo).
Noob question (I've been on HN for over 2 years but I suppose I don't have enough "karma" to do so), but how can one downvote posts?
Cost out Oracle v. Google and get back to me.
Life isn't all about getting promoted. Loads of people get far more satisfaction from knowing they're carrying out an important duty than they do from knowing they got promoted from Javascript Ninja to Javascript Assassin.
It's too bad KTLS was completed for FreeBSD but still not integrated.
My parents still have my old StarMax somewhere around their attic. Last I heard, a sibling nuked the old IDE hard drive and now it doesn't boot at all. Sometimes I feel nostalgic and want to try to recover what I can from it, but... that's a giant can of worms.
Why is there a class action lawsuit on TV telling me that people who are exposed to it have higher rates of cancer?
Chicken or the egg? It seems equally intuitive that investment drives the economy. Investment gives companies capital, capital to spend on employees and services or products from other companies (which in turn spend it on employees or other companies). In this way, money makes it way into the pockets of consumers who then spend it on products and services, and the endless cycle of economic activity continues.

But I'm not an economist and am somewhat skeptical of macro-economics in general, which seems a bit like reading tea leaves.

Even if you if you don't buy into supply side economics, I think "Money doesn't do anyone but the holder any good sitting in an offshore account" is somewhat misleading. Savers and investors, through loans and capital, certainly help someone.
Sounds like it could be great, terrible, or somewhere in between in the future you describe. I'm a socialist by upbringing, hopefully we would be smart enough to organize our society such that we take care of those most vulnerable among us. Currently we make a modicum of effort towards this, and vilify the working poor as lazy, no good scum, despite how they often work much more than those who earn more than them.
UWP has a really good chance if Windows 10S will be well received in education
Yes. http://php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.argv.php
Also, the Randian superman does not exist and is a juvenile fantasy.
I'm curious why the mods changed the title from "Java Creator James Gosling: Why I Quit Oracle (2010)" to "Why I Quit Oracle (2010)"

The fact that it is James Gosling saying this instead of a random employee seems important.
> The ones who are slower will teach the next batch of students

Could you expand on the reasoning behind this?

Presumably, they are not teaching material that they are still struggling with. Are they teaching the previous material, which they have understood?

If you are having students teach each other, I would have thought that quicker-to-learn students would be better candidates to teach the material.
Censorship, monetization algo changes, dark ux patterns, buying whitelist space on adblockers, political bias coded directly into search algo...

I do hope the future holds something better for the consumer than YouTube
I recognize a lot of myself from a few years ago in that (and I'm 32) and the main things that changed me in no particular order were:

* Adopting a more deliberately Stoicism-inspired philosophy - whether or not I'm succeeding at my goal there will be another struggle waiting after that, so there isn't really an endpoint here other than my death or permanent incapacity.
* Buying into feedback loops over goal-and-achievement systems. Feedback is more important to doing good work than any other thing - if you don't have it then you don't know if it's any good. But also, it's easy to miss what forms of feedback are available and sometimes it's as simple as critically thinking about whether or not an expected result happened(e.g. write software, add a feature: did it actually do what you expected?)
* Got a lot of money. I did this through crypto. I had no expectations about it, it was just a way of putting another iron in the fire. The amount of physical effort put in was, of course, clicking a few buttons, typing a few passwords. But the mental/emotional effort of "why bother" and "why study this" - that is why you aren't seeing everyone on the street talk about it(yet). I had to make a firm decision to get in for anything to happen. And there's a lot of random chance to that, just as with my game projects, which have hardly gone anywhere in years of trying. And now that I have the money my mind is rearranging things so that I will further devalue my work on games in a monetary sense.

A lot of "striver porn" - worrying about productivity and getting ahead and making Right Decisions - stops making sense post-success. If you end up with the success, great, but I wouldn't try to impose a narrative arc on it. The actual factors involved are just mindboggling. The feedback loops, on the other hand, those are something you can improve from nearly any life status. And they tend to vastly differ from productivity tropes because they're about optimizing a whole cross-section of life, not just quantifiable output. E.g. if you do less but your stress level is lower, do you end up ahead on health later?
Someone super needs to turn that list into an expanded version with a 2 line summary of each line.

I found myself tabbing out to google constantly like 'fdk-aac, wow, that's a thing? cool~'
Get back to me ... in 30 years.
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While comments can be flagged and/or downvoted, submissions can only be flagged. There's a karma threshold to flag submissions—offhand I don't recall what it is.

From the FAQ (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html):

> Why don't I see down arrows?

> There are no down arrows on stories. They appear on comments after users reach a certain karma threshold, but never on direct replies.
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Bitcoin will always be there as the proof that blockchain model works. It will stay simple for the sake of stability.

Calling Ethereum better is like saying JavaScript is better than HTML.
that's kind of what i'm getting at. there's a presumption that the future will be for tech workers, and everyone else will have to starve or, preferably, be supported. i think that's optimistic. i think the future will be for janitors, and everyone else will have to starve or be supported.

manufacturing went away, agriculture went away, mining went away, all through automation. coincidently, this corresponded to growth in the people working in tech and other intellectual labor. but it's sloppy thinking to say that automation causes growth in intellectual labor, which seems to be the presumption. automation causes whatever it automates to shrink. intellectual labor will be automated-- possibly before janitorial work.
> as justification for removing an unused formula

This does not, in my mind, help the case at all. This culture of deletion makes no real sense to me; something not being used for a month or a year doesn't mean it's not being used at all. What's the real cost of just leaving those formula around? A slight problem with it not working immediately when it is used? At least then it can be fixed, instead of seeing the "No formula found" text.

The culture of deletion surrounding the long tail of digital artifacts just doesn't make any sense. Yeah, yeah. Get off my lawn, too.
`ag -G l` and `rg -g '{STAR}.l'` are not equivalent. The former will match any file name that contains `l` where as the latter will match any file name that ends with `.l`. (ag's -G flag accepts a regex with match-anywhere semantics, where rg's -g flag accepts a glob that matches on the basename of a file, e.g., `rg -g Makefile` will search all files name `Makefile`.)

The asterisk is part of standard globbing. You can also write it as `rg -g \{STAR}.l foo`, if you find that nicer.

If you want to match a list of extensions, then you can fall back to standard glob syntax: `rg -g '{STAR}.{foo,bar,baz}' pattern`. Or, as others have mentioned, if you're searching for standard file types, you can use the `-t/--type` flag. e.g., To search HTML, CSS and Javascript: `rg -tjs -thtml -tcss foo`.

Basically, ripgrep's `-g` flag is supposed to match grep's `--include` flag, which also uses globs and requires the same type of ceremony. I'd like to add --include/--exclude to match grep's behavior more precisely (which is based on user complaints wanting those flags).

N.B. Replace {STAR} in text above with a literal asterisk symbol.
Nice set of tutorials for Devs attempting to do their own graphics
In classic Tetris you can slide the piece briefly after it lands, so you can always keep the game going.
How about curating your comments instead?
This CNN article has an autoplaying video. All of my attempts to find a way to block the offending content have failed; it starts blocked, but as soon as I scroll down the page, some javascript animation moves the non-existent video to the sidebar. The side-video is hidden, but still loads and plays audio.

Even worse, though I remember the original video being a mere 14 seconds, it is still playing some nonsense. Does it just loop new video downloads until I close the tab? Is there no mercy for bandwidth? [/frustrated]
> through many mechanisms, not just taxation

What other (governmental) mechanisms do you view as anchoring the currency?
I was really taken with BeOS at the time but NextStep was a much better operating system given that it was built on top of Unix and in addition was just beautifully engineered. The evidence of the excellence of its architecture is how easily it converted between CPUs and how easily it was changed to become iOS.
I just set all the network connections to "metered" and turn off the Windows Update service.
Yup, that's part of the racket.
If the definition of "good" is MagSafe, full-size USB, and HDMI, then I agree completely. It was for those reasons that I recommended a friend to buy a refurbished 2015-model MacBook Pro instead of the touch bar version.

The neglect of user needs in the hardware department doesn't totally explain the software shift, though.
Mac hardware is still "good" but I think that it's plateaued and it's less of a differentiator than it used to be, paricularly considering its price.
ProTube actually got me using YouTube on a regular basis and became part of my nightly routine - I subscribed to channels, occasionally commented, made playlists... I even started using the (terrible) YouTube app on the Apple TV from time to time. Boy is it bad!

Before ProTube, I only watched YouTube content when it was embedded in sites I was browsing. Hopefully the current version works long enough for me to figure out a replacement (either for the app or for YouTube itself.)
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