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For a lifestyle or contracting business, you are too worried. For a ventured backed or exit oriented business the thing to worry about is how an investor or an acquirer will think about the contract. "You're getting $50k per year from this customer but exposed to unlimited liability in the event of any software bug? We can't take on that risk, our pockets are too deep." A good lawyer will pick out the important things and tell you why. As an entrepreneur you will still need to decide what to let slide, no lawyer will ever say you are being safe enough.
You could say the same thing about electrical work, carpentry, welding, and vehicle repair.
The quote I used happened to be incongruent with the source I linked, so I'm sorry for that - I wasn't trying to be disingenuous. That said, you asked for statistics and I have provided them - Cuba in terms of poverty isn't as bad as most of its peers in South America.
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This is narrowly tailored advice presented more broadly than to the context it's useful for. And it's not the best way forward in that case, either.

If someone needs a fire lit under their ass to get going, a sense of falling behind their expectations for themselves can be a perfectly useful motivating factor.

Of course it can become all-consuming if that's all they've got as a life planning system. It's a setup that will inevitably trigger the brain's way of telling them there is a contradiction between desires and perceived actions. Regret doesn't have to be stressful, but this guarantees it is.

Throwing it away for a self-evaluation system that nullifies regrets is jumping to another extreme. Best case scenario is lying to yourself long enough to let your actual value system catch up. Or maybe it'll make someone lazy and complacent in a way that they're content with and much later come to regret that too, or maybe it will lead to the clichéd cycle of a "fresh start" every few months.

Building and maintaining a system of motivation, discipline and self-evaluation that lets someone live their life while working towards their goals productively for decades requires good mental hygiene, a topic with suspiciously few quality resources.
The Zork Anthology is available for $6 on Steam.... just saying :-) I'm reliving my childhood. Used to play it on a TRS Model III. Good times!
I guess we can use a car buying model instead, either pay upfront for a lot or pay subscription until you dont want to or until the amount exceeds upfront payment, I think it will be easier to stomach for users.
Anecdotally I know, I got my foot in the door at Amazon by temping and later being hired. Amazon is a great place to start as a temp IMO because they are always looking for talent and you will often be embedded directly with teams and be treated as a regular employee. I also know several former FC employees that moved HQ.

Similarly, Apple Store employees can work their way up to HQ.
It seems like a safe assumption for today but you're right, it's an assumption.
In many (most, imo) cases the value added is minimal, sometimes added seemingly only to justify the monthly costs.

And it is very much rent-seeking. How could you not describe big 5's lobbying activities as conducted at least partially for regulatory capture? Look who is in charge of the FTC and FCC, particularly that one kid that tried to act cool to tech geeks, what's-his-name.

And that is not even what I meant by rent seeking. We are seeing a new kind, at least in tech: subjugation of consumers means of production, achieved by carefully dispensing bits through services instead of allowing customers to retain control of them (via un-drm'd media or downloads). The purpose of this change is to create more revenue for the owner.... which is rent-seeking. Similar things have been going on for years with consumer stables... DollarShaveClub's One Wipe Charlies (expensive) to replace toilet paper (cheap), or juicero (expensive) to replace a blender and fruit (cheap). Chemical cleaners (expensive) instead of centuries-old natural techniques (cheap) even when chemicals are inappropriate to the cleaning job. And so on...
Keep in mind, though, that Amazon is doing everything it can to automate most of those blue collar jobs (warehouse robots, delivery drones, etc.). That workforce has a very limited shelf life.
I think you are making a very valid point, but is there any practical problem with simply calling them translators?
I would love to install this on one of my former phones, but... both of them had some kind of fatal hardware failure.
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Or because of the acute pain of losing be more likely to tell their story. I guess whichever side gets this wrong is exhibiting survivorship bias bias.
There were tax implications. Paying the top executives a gazillion dollars wasn’t attractive because that was also a gazillion dollars given to Uncle Sam.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15161755

Another change since then was the rise of the corporate raider. Used to be that you could run a public company without profit as the primary motive. Parable of the Mexican fisherman, and such. (https://bemorewithless.com/the-story-of-the-mexican-fisherma...) But now people like Carl Icahn (and Mitt Romney in his private sector days) actually hunt for companies that are not maximizing return to investors, and remake them into companies that do. Apple actually had to fend off Carl Icahn recently. (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/carl-icahns-2-billion-apple...)
Cuba's poverty is only relatively good (ie not actually good) when you restrict its peers to the countries of South America.

But when you consider that when Cuba transitioned to communism it was a fully developed economy not a developing country you can understand how badly they have regressed.
But overall, most failed business owners don't whine on the internet.
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Agree on both points. It's ironic, my pay is the same or less today than it was 5 years ago and it was lower then, than it was during the dot com boom.
Collaborator or Lone Ranger?
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>Apple gets quality janitors and security guards while paying the outsourcing company more.

I suspect Apple will then go and find another contracting company.
How is a PHP "program" easier to distribute and run than one written in Go, Rust, or Haskell? For any of those three, you have a self-contained executable that you run. One scp to your server, one service restart, and you're running your new server. How could any distribution and deployment process be easier than that?
thanks I hope thats the end of that rabbithole, that MDL almost looks like XML

neat: https://github.com/itafroma/zork-mdl/blob/master/rooms.mud#L...
How many startups can take advantage of improvements to the web platform to ship to more devices or ship faster?

How many more "uber for cats" startups do we need? (That's purposefully not a fair characterization… A lot of startups are doing less interesting/useful work than improving the platform.)

A team of 10 people can creatively put together some really cool stuff. But you know what? Not all problems can be solved by a team of 10 people. And what happens for the ones that manage to bring in either revenue or more VC? They start hiring. And then you can complain about "why does company X need 1,000 people to do what they do?"

I do get what you're saying, but I'm pretty sure the list of things those 1,000 developers produced and those 1.5 million lines of code represented would be substantial if you dug in. A great deal of it might not have any appeal to you, but undoubtedly has appeal to someone.
What incentive would anyone have in making more then 400K a year if you were going to be taxed at 90%?
> ORA stopped being a tech co a while ago, now it is a finance play. Use cash to buy a business for its locked in customers, gut it to squeeze max money out of it until last customer is gone. Rinse, repeat.

Yup. Precisely what happened to Stellent, a company that used to produce great document filters. After ORA buyout, employees fled like there was a plague epidemic and prices spiked at such a level that you'd either cut your veins or consider migrating to another technology.

> ORA is the elephant's graveyard of software.

Well, except that some of the elephants were still alive and perfectly fine, and ora worms started eating them before they were dead.
https://newrepublic.com/article/144144/give-wells-fargo-corp...

Our government granted Wells Fargo’s corporate charter, and it can take it away.
It I were starting out today, there's a good chance I'd go the college route too. Back then, it was tougher, I'd been accepted but couldn't afford it without working FT and doing college FT. In retrospect, I'd have gotten to where I wanted to be faster though it wouldn't have been the same journey. ;-)
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This. It's far more likely to be doxxing attempts.

I was contacted by an undergraduate asking for grad school advice. Five minutes later there were several emails in the inbox from Facebook with exactly that content. I don't normally receive anything at that address (everyone I know emails me at a different address). How do you expect me to give you advice when you pull this shit on me?
Good points and I'm not arguing them. Things are now extremely more convenient then they were. What's missing is differences in approach to solving, well, everything. Everything was different from system to system (esp. mid 80's to mid 90's). People were still figuring out what to settle on. From a perspective of someone who likes to tinker with stuff, it was a blast. From a business and maybe usability perspective - it was a nightmare.

Now, when most stuff is settled-upon, it's like cars. There are differences, but not really. Turn lights to your left, wipers to your right, wheel turns left and right, there's a manual stick or automatic, pedals... it's all there, where you expect them to be. And that's good! Times were a bit more pioneering back then, naturally.
I've seen a number of people posting comments here that violate settlement confidentiality or non-disparagement agreements using anonymous throwaway accounts.
This in turn also helped software like WordPress and phpBB become significantly more popular than their alternatives. They may not have been better coded, nor more secure or feature rich, but setup was a complete walk in the park. At most, you needed to set up a database through CPanel or whatever you used, then upload some files and run an installer. At least, you just clicked a few buttons in the control panel to install the system there and then.

Meanwhile, recent attempts at fancier competitors (like Ghost and Discourse) have completely failed to capture the marketshare of their PHP based counterparts because they're just more difficult to set up for the non technical individual or company. Their creators put image (aka a more 'glamorous') tech stack above ease of use, and paid the price.

PHP's ease of deployment is basically why so many of the larger CMS systems of today got popular at all.
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I think many have argued that an App is a product, and you dont upgrade your Washing Machine, Set Top Box or Routers etc, you buy a new one. Hence you buy a new App.

That is all perfectly fine, but it turns out most users, ( Not developers or Geeks ) will only buy a new product when their product stop working or became OUT DATED. Since most App will continue to work for as long as it is, users have no incentive to buy a newer version.

That is why developers wanted a Subscription model. It is hard to sell to its existing users pool, a rental model allow them to have a continuous revenue.

With upgrade model, it is basically offering a discount for its existing users, instead of telling them to buy a New version.

And it turns out, the more subscription Apps there is, the more i like the upgrade pricing model better.
Be careful of the large selection bias there: you're looking at the 20-30 year old code good enough not to have been replaced 18-28 years ago.
Because of the 10% they keep, which can still be a huge sum.
The first time I saw 'enormity' used as a synonym of 'vastness', it was as if I had stumbled while walking, as nothing in the text up to that point indicated anything bad happening. 'Enormity', however, invites misunderstanding, and it would be better if it were retired, though that is not going to happen.
Independently of that in Tetris the pieces (tetrominoes) are drawn from a bag: http://tetris.wikia.com/wiki/Random_Generator
I went to a small town public school in the late 80s and early 90s and we had an AppleSoft Basic course. I'm amazed that schools don't have that now.
Interesting, but inference only and convolutions only is kind of a non-starter for a specialized chip, since the field is simply too dynamic for it to be really useful to focus on only 3x3 convolutions. I'm guessing FWIW, that this guy is implementing the Winograd filtering method or something similar in hardware, hence his restriction to 3x3 kernels.
Nice writeup. Interesting enough, SIGKILL does not work from inside the container: https://andrestc.com/post/killing-container-inside/.
Agreed, he was in a bunch of bands and had classical piano training his entire life. He was recording on the side and happened to be working as a janitor at a music studio.

Trent is more similar to Good Will Hunting than this story.
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>>> All the "I can't say" responses will derail a lot of interviewers though.

Not so sure about that.

The majority of interviews in the HN bubbles is hours of technical questions and quizzes, where the interviewers will not ask a single question about your resume.

Outside of this bubble, the more mature interviewers, who did hundreds and hundreds of interviewers, are not moved by a "This is confidential... I could talk about -other thing- instead".
There are probably some specific factors--like the rise in healthcare benefit costs. But, overall, there's just an increase in specialization throughout the economy. As you go back in time, you just generally had fewer services companies that were available to fill every need that was tangential to the main focus of a given company.

To give one example that goes back a little further, companies used to handle the whole payroll process themselves. Now they use ADP or whoever.

There's also been a lot of automation/self-service of mundane tasks. You don't really have the stereotypical "starting the mailroom" job any longer nor do you have the steno pool.
Entirely irrelevant to the content of the article, but is there a solution to the problematic interaction between sticky headers and full-page scrolling?

At least in Firefox, if you press Space or PageDown (to scroll down a "page"), on the linked article, you'll lose several lines of the text, as they're obscured by the header. Illustrating:

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Chrome isn't afflicted by this (on the linked article), due to the fact that its page scroll is slightly shorter than Firefox's (on a webpage without any sticky headers, Firefox gives you about 1.5 lines of context from the previous "page"/screen, when you page-scroll; Chrome gives you about 5). However, if the height of the sticky header were greater (as often is the case), Chrome would also be affected.

This is obviously in addition to the annoyance of the sticky header wasting vertical screen space, but the latter is just an aesthetic preference, while the former is broken functionality.

Yes, I know that on Firefox I can just use reader mode, but it seems sad that after almost 30 years of the development of the web, going back to a design that could easily have existed in the 90s, is an improvement.
Or one might have not even noticed it. Just a click somewhere in a dialog, end of story. Among 10,000 other events we go through everyday...
>Because I live in a country that was under Communism for almost 90 years and actually experienced how bad it is first-hand.

That's as silly a reason as you can give. You don't think I can find a capitalist country that's as bad?
> .. which is written in plain C using GLib ..

That's about as "C" as C++ is. Why not Gneural or libpng or even GNU make ?

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gneuralnetwork.git https://github.com/glennrp/libpng http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/make.git/tree/
All of them would have to obey minimum pay regulation. If Apple knowingly hires a company violating that law, then absolutely go after them. If loopholes come from that regulation, then that has to be fixed too.
Why would anyone need more than 400k a year for himself in the first place though ?
Think he meant within Asia
That his supposed power is entirely based upon the North Korean military, I see him as nothing but a puppet.
If this were a crime being committed by an individual on the same scale, what could that person expect to receive for a sentence? I really don't know the answer to that and I'm curious, but I strongly suspect that fines wouldn't be in it and it would be more of a custodial sentence.
For a curious novice, can anyone point out why one would use Solaris/Illumos over Linux?
OK, then this is more like "I once walked across a busy street without waiting for the crosswalk signal, and I did not get hit by a car. So a good strategy is to just go, you won't get hit!"
Oh, absolutely. My biggest expense was shipping, by a long shot. If I could have shipped from China I could have been ridiculously profitable, which explains the massive growth in these companies.

At the same time, shipping from China would have made the whole thing more... fake, I guess. Like the author of this article found, these companies never had any physical address. The quality of the watches from these companies also seems much lower than the quality that I had.

That's one of the problems with dropshipping - you don't know the quality that your customers are getting. I could take the 5 in 40 watches that would be broken or had dings/scratches and toss them, but you can't do that if you dropship. There's also the ridiculously long shipping times and lack of tracking.
In addition to the 10 percent cut, "or reinvested" is the answer.
Ran into the same issue with the mysql docker container which ultimately bothered me into making my own. Started off experimenting with trapping signals (trap foo INT,..) similar to the article but found this nifty `--gdb` (nowadays `--debug-gdb`) flag to mysqld that enables more signal handling.

Source: `docker pull jbergstroem/mariadb-alpine`

edit: docker should really open the doors for a cleanup/shutdown phase. There's both entrypoint and cmd but not a "exit" command.
You get to keep 10%. Or you can give the money to charities.
>Uber re-privatized the gains by circumventing this ridiculous system, and we're all much better for it.

Who are those all? Taxi drivers or the general public? I'd rather have professional, decently paid, taxi drivers instead of amateur hour weekend drivers making minimum wage at the expense of yet another working class job.
I've been journaling almost every day for 15+ years. I've a bookshelf of full, handwritten, unlined notebooks...

When I journal with pen and paper, it's less about recording 'task and goals' or being 'productive'. Instead, I sit down to just write. I explore whatever's on my mind. And if there's nothing, I just write until something interesting shows itself... and invariably, something almost always does. Writing in this way is about letting go, about listening to what You really care about in that moment.

But I also journal digitally, (used to use Evernote, now just use Atom). This is where I keep my project notes and ideas, stuff that I want to record, come back to, and edit. The point of this is to keep my ideas / projects organized. While my folder structures are strict, what goes in the files is all very freeform.

I also wrote an app (www.bicycl.com) to save the gems from all my journaling, since it's easy to lose track of and forget key insights.

The key to journaling is about reflection... developing self-awareness about how you relate to the future (goals, tasks), the past (what's happened, stories, accomplishments), and the present (emotions, inspiration, insights). If you find you're always thinking about 1 of those, try to understand why. Perhaps, look instead at a different vector to see from a whole new perspective.
Corporations are people until they commit a crime. Then they're corporations again.
Yes. The Infocom games were written in MDL, which was a LISP derivative.
I’d like to see the fish equivalent of the “rat park” experiment where rats were tested on addictive behavior in a barren cage, and then again in a cage with lots of toys and social opportunities.

Those fish were pretty much in the worst environment possible.
avoid the taxes by taking the deductions, invest in new jobs and businesses with the possibility if those investments pan out of making even more money.
I think that using animals to impart moral lessons tends to imbue a child with the subconscious connotation that morality/ethics belong in "fairy tales", and not in the actual world of the "grownups" of their own kind.
The reason for inequality is that people are not equal. The work they do produce is not equal in value. More people can do a janitor's job, and/or do without a janitor, so the value of a janitor's work is less. More supply, elastic demand, means lower price point.

Through technology, some people are able to produce much more than others, so inequality is inevitable unless there is a balancing force (aka taxation).
Yeah, it's definitely a status symbol as it is now.

But my question remains the same. Why treat it like a status symbol?

I don't see a reason why this should be something fancy that only an elite few should have. Why not have a different system for marking elite users which is based on some sort of merit (or actual real world worth) rather than just a vague sense of name recognition?

Just seems like they're misusing the concept, and that a system which does away with the 'prestige' aspect of verification would do equally well on a user level.
not charities, more like angel investments
Did anyone offer him 19 billion?
Well, yes. So will the others. But in the present scenario, China atleast has a head start, has the resources and clout to discourage or sanction countries going towards nukes.

Still a better situation than facing countries already armed with nukes.
$400k adjusted for 1954 dollars would be $3.6M.
>Speak for yourself. Also you have the option to move to socialist/communist countries whenever you see fit, they exist. Don't force your horrible ideology on the rest of us (which communism literally calls for).

A perfect case of strawman.

In his comment, GP was never advocating that communism is particularly good. He was merely using the same logic as his parent.

Also, moving to different countries is not straightforward. The statement does not even come close to being an argument for anything, and does not contribute to the discussion.
Um we already have those, they're called _laws_, and strengthening them doesn't mean a slippery slide into communism (whether or not that itself would be a bad thing is another discussion entirely). But thank you for McCarthying this so quickly.
Exactly. It's a good short-term, bad long-term strategy.

Just like any other short-term strategy, could be appropriate sometimes, but very rarely is.