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I started in support and do software development now and support is a much harder job in the sense of being stressful and underpaid and under appreciated, but it's a much easier job in the sense of requiring knowledge and skill. I could drop into support again at any time and it would be like riding a bike, but I'd be miserable about it.
Thanks for the kind words. I certainly admire 'tptacek's commenting style (and to be explicit, I'm not 'tptacek, nor am I 'dang, which has come up in the past). I hack Clojure a bit (and find little use for Twitter), so when I noticed the ' prefix used here, I happily picked that up. I've read HN for quite a while but this is my first account.

Over the past couple of years I've been increasingly concerned about the severe political and cultural polarization (in general, not just on HN) and the increasing role the internet plays in people's social lives. I think it's really important that we figure out how to resolve the first and how to healthily integrate the second. HN is a great place to look at both, and one I value. It's also more tractable than others (for example, I recognize your handle as well :).

I also think that the community should play a role in maintaining itself. By far members here do want to participate in good discussion and we're only held back by our own human psychology. Often we just need to take a step back and a breath and observe what's going on. If we can help each other do that, I think we'll be in a much better position to resolving all kinds of human issues (if you'll permit a bit of naïve grandiosity). So, that's why you see the comments from me that you do.
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By that definition destroying CPUs is also creating value.
Rule 5 is where dynamic languages usually utterly fail.
> that also happens whether it is inadvertently just sitting there, or in bonds

Bonds fund useful activity. Most ICOs have yet to finance a single developer's salary.
Perhaps true to some extent, but a passport can last 10 years, which is plenty of time for identity theft.
Here's the link to "obtain your forgotten or misplaced PIN".
https://www.experian.com/ncaconline/freezepin
And it says, "provide your e-mail address for faster delivery of your results."
I just wish it had a better name like ResilientDB.
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On the contrary, this is a great time for music of all kinds.

Right now, I'm following maybe 10 or so artists on social media, youtube, bandcamp, etc.

I pay a handful of them $1-$10 a month via patreon in return for them releasing their music for free via youtube (I generally also get clean, high quality versions out of this).

There's another handful I follow who release albums on Bandcamp and I can listen, and if I like it I can pay $5-$10 to download and keep forever.

I don't use Spotify or similar services, but my friends who do tell me about a huge world of similar small artists and variety of tastes they discovered through that service.

The music industry no longer takes a few select artists and makes them superstars everyone has heard of, yes. But in return there's something for everyone, and lots of artists making ends meet rather than a few artists getting rich. I think this is a net positive.
Companies should provide training program to employees on variety of skills, not just hackathon or tech talk.
Yoga helped me a lot with lower back pain. It strengthens the core, opens up the shoulders, increases hip flexibility, etc. In less than 6 months I have no back pain anymore and I feel that I have a considerably better posture.

The comments about the dangers of doing yoga are valid, but every sport or exercise can be dangerous depending on your condition, even swimming which is usually recommended as a safe sport.
General tips are: ask your doctor for movements that you should avoid, tell your yoga teacher about your condition, if it hurts don't do it. More importantly I think, is for you to understand your condition. Read about it, feel your body and how it reacts to each exercise.

For example, even though I should avoid back bends they still help me build strength and improve my posture when done carefully. I am always aware of that during my yoga practice so I either skip the back bends or I do them softly, depending on how I feel.
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Yeah. I answered phones and emails for a few years at a B2B software company, and the most I got was a veiled threat that they'd send a formal complaint. In general, abusive customers were were few and far between.

People I know who've worked on B2C support got verbal abuse almost daily.
"Safety against Null pointers, race conditions and all sorts of low-level threats.
Predictable runtime behavior (zero cost abstractions and no garbage collector).

...yadayadayada...

If you don't require any of these features, Rust might be a poor choice for your next project. That's because these guarantees come with a cost: ramp-up time. You'll need to unlearn bad habits and learn new concepts. Chances are, you will fight with the borrow checker a lot when you start out."

If you don't require...seriously is there any case ever in the world of programming when you don't require those?

I can't even believe this article exists. Why would anyone ever use Go for anything? It's the worst programming language ever invented. Yeah Im sure it makes things fast just like jumping down from rooftop makes you go fast but there is small side effect of dying.
Sounds like you want something like the Nvidia DGX workstation...

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/dgx-station/
Funny, as I get older the more pictures I take.

I once thought experience was enough for me, however I've learned that memory fades. I can only recall bits and pieces of things I thought I'd never forget.

There's nothing that jostles my memory quite as well as a picture.
Just for the RAM you'll need $20k. So I guess the whole rig would cost at least $30k. That is of course if you max out all the equipment.
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No. I won't say that there were no original contributions from the authors. They were written by highly intelligent individuals who knew their fields. I was attempting to say that compendiums in and of themselves are not amongst the greatest of intellectual achievements.
The "verified photocopies" can be a bit of a joke. I know somebody who was having trouble finding enough ID for something. They printed an online bank statement, photocopied it, and got a JP to verify the photocopy against the original printout.
Very few applications can make use of such a large amount of GPU cores - and all of them would need much more CPU cores than this provides to coordinate the work.

Any applications that can would be either run on clusters of servers to really parallelise the work, or is so custom you may as well buy a threadripper and a custom case.

Hell most apps can barely take advantage of multi core CPU.
It would be great if Amazon offered a line up of cable channels for $20 flat fee, and extra channels ala carte for like $5 extra. That would be very disruptive to the current monopolies like Comcast and Dish.
I've got an HP Z640 workstation with dual E5-2690 v4's and it is basically silent under full load. It has no problem running all 28 cores at 3.2GHz which is the max all-core speed for that processor.
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I just use IFTTT for this. Is there a difference?
I guess this is cheaper than having a Panamanian law firm handle domain name registrations amongst their other privacy-focused services.
嚔 is indeed hard to produce, even for Chinese native speakers. It is an example of an exception, though, like entrepreneur in English (I know it is from French, so the spelling is "unusual").

First, people don't write 喷嚔 often, although they use it in spoken Chinese regularly. It seems people are reluctant to write down words that describe certain body functions.

For 嚔, the difficulty is that its "sound" component is extremely rare in Chinese characters. The majority of Chinese characters are 形声字. Each of such character has a "sound" component and a "meaning" component. Many characters can share the same "sound" component. The "sound" components are usually the "harder" component in writing, in that they have more strokes. (For 嚔, the rectangle at the left is the "meaning" component. The complicated looking part at the right is the "sound" component.) As a result, if one remembers how to write one character, one can simply remember many other characters with the same "sound" component. If one of these characters is commonly used, it is an easy task to remember all the others.

I only know two other characters who share the same "sound" component with 嚔, and I don't think people use them now. They only appear in ancient books.

So 嚔 is a character you don't often write down, and there are no other commonly used characters who shared the same "sound" component. Then you get a character who is hard for native Chinese speakers as well.
On the first point I can see that it's high performance enterprise grade jvm. It's a good introduction.
There are many projects that's difficult to understand even after scrolling or clicking.
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What is the cost per watt hour of this setup when all of the electrical hardware is factored in?
That's really impressive. How many DIMMS and spinning HDDs is it cooling?
Customer support is a great experience. Yes, there are users who aren't very technical and can be frustrating. But like many have said, doing support can gian insights into how users use the product, and often enough a bug or two would surface.

I enjoy working with production system (DevOps/SRE). I don't just take tickets from technical users like developers because I build tools and I relay feedback and production issues back to developers, but I also get to talk to end users and also with the business representatives like product owner.

The best out of doing support is actually learning how the product works, if you aren't doing the product development. The aha moment comes when you relay between dev and users.

Companies, especially the technology companies should offer employees diverse training like interpersonal skills and health talks, not just hackathons and technical talks. We work 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, we should free our minds from programming or staring at the computer once in a while. I would take non-technical talk in a heartbeat if offered.
Sorry about your experience. One thing I want to say is that the quality of material put out by University Press publishers is head and shoulders above anything you’d usually find in Barnes and Noble while not insanely expensive like the $125 books Springer Publishing sells.

University Press type publishers have always targeted upmarket since the 1970’s, when a wave of consolidation and focus on short-term profits squeezed those books out of regular publishing.

So many books are written by idiot business consultants with nothing to say. Think Randi Zuckerberg but maybe not as bad. University Presses, to my eternal gratitude, do not seem to have this problem yet and all their books say something worth saying.

Sorry to go on that rant, but just wanted to stick up a little bit forOxford University Press, which publishes the amazing “Very Short Introduction” series btw.

Also would like to say your point is still valid. I’ve heard the same thing about the music industry. When you go to a label, they expect you to already have a marketing plan...weird
Back in the early 2000s, the IBM JVM was freely available and frequently used as a drop-in replacement for the Sun JVM, since it was often faster and less memory-hungry.

IBM also had an open-source Java compiler written in C++, Jikes [1], that was considerably faster than Sun's javac. However, it was eventually abandoned. Jikes is coincidentally also the name of IBM's open-source research JVM [2], which is still under development.

Azuul is apparently popular in areas requiring low latency, such as financial trading.

As an aside, there are many niches that most people haven't heard about. You might be surprised about all the kinds of software that are hiding under rocks — invisible to most people because they're not working in that industry. Things like MUMPS, K/kdb, Fortran, Delphi — lots of obscure stuff that has left the mainstream (or never entered it in the first place) but is still in use.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jikes

[2] https://github.com/JikesRVM/JikesRVM
How do you figure? I think the general wisdom among people who have a deep understanding of block-chains is that it is about the worst way you could possibly try to launder money. Every transaction you make is forever immortalized in a publicly accessible record book. Not to mention that there is strong KYC at the entry exit points between cash and crypto currencies.
> "I don't buy it that everyone would be a digital creative if they just had the right tools."

That is not Kay's argument. Not everyone who scribbles notes or draws something on a piece of paper is a "creative" or artist. Not all who write at all are professional writers. But we do not have the computing equivalent of paper for everyone. Sure, someone can write in a word processor or draw in a drawing program, but that's not all that a computer is for -- that's just imitating paper. The outstanding question is: can we make something that is as extensible as pen and paper and literacy for aiding human thought for the next level, the computing level? All we have now are stiff applications. Saying that such things make people literate in computing is like writing by filling out forms.

> "Do we have a lot more work to do? Sure. But Rome wasn't built in a day."

Kay is your ally here, a constant gadfly putting the lie to all the hype and BS. He's a constant reminder that we shouldn't feel so satisfied with our mud huts. He's reminding us to build Rome at all.
HP prices are... high. It's easy to spend $10k in processors alone for a dual-Xeon system. The ones mentioned in the article will be over $13k each: https://ark.intel.com/products/120498/Intel-Xeon-Platinum-81...
While I agree that it takes good social and interpersonal skills to do support well (as well as empathy, communication etc.), I do think that programmers shouldn't be totally isolated from the people actually using their software.

Many times now, in my own experience, a screen that I thought was designed brilliantly tends to not work as well out in the wild. It is amazing how many visual cues people miss or misread. Sometimes you have to make things more than obvious, and unless you are hearing about it directly from the customer (or better still, watching them do it), then you cannot really understand the challenges they face.

I guess it is the same as making architects live in the houses they design...
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I have watched many YouTube videos of Don Norman. Not just short talks but long lectures too. Highly recommended. It's interesting how he brings together knowledge from different domains and real life experiences, to help you get better insights about human behavior.
I'm not sure that any country has really solved it convincingly. Sure, they do better than the US and its secret SSNs, but that doesn't say much.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2012/11/28/business/john-chun-...

They got scammed by bankers late in their life. Sad.
What is the 9 for? Jackknife? Jabbering?
Not quite.

It requires special application support, you are 100% unlikely to ever discover an app in the wild that can use it.
FYI, here is list of pgloader (direct) dependencies (35 of them): abnf, alexandria, asdf, asdf-finalizers, asdf-system-connections, bordeaux-threads, cffi, command-line-arguments, csv, db3, drakma, esrap, fad, flexi-streams, interpol, local-time, log, lparallel, markdown, md5, metabang-bind, postmodern, ppcre, py-configparser, qmynd, quri, simple-date, split-sequence, sqlite, trivial-backtrace, trivial-utf-8, unicode, usocket, utilities, uuid.
I like this analogy, but doesn't it just sort of point to the non-phonetic aspects of Chinese as the problem? If every time I had a hard time remembering how to spell something I
couldn't even write down an approximation ("entrepenor") that someone or my computer could error-correct, it would strike me as a real flaw to the writing system!

(I'm assuming here that when Chinese writers can't remember the symbol for an unusual word, they also can't write down a recognizable approximation. Maybe not true?)
Tell your folks Microsoft is moving the exact opposite direction. We're building rooms like you describe.
Well there would have been no such thing already implemented in a standard library back in 1965 ;) And it's still a useful exercise for exactly why you need a thread-safe blocking queue, and probably shouldn't just roll your own if you don't know what you're doing.
These drives tend to be thicker than the standard 2.5" slot (7 or 9 mm). Which is why they are only sold as external drives. You can't fit one in a laptop or third-party 2.5" enclosure.

The one you linked to is 20.5 mm thick and weighs 540 g including the enclosure. I'm not even sure whether there's a single 4 TB drive in there, since a pair of 2 TB, 7 mm Seagate drives would be both thinner and lighter.
Agreed. I actually didn't give it much attention for the longest time simply because of the name (I'm talking years - just checked it out a few months ago although I heard of it probably a couple years ago). Now that I've taken the time to check out the project, I'm sold and will definitely use it in place of Postgres, etc. But, the name does turn off some newbies. Eventually it may not matter as all good brands eventually just become familiar.
Customer service is a very unrewarding job. First, you've to deal with angry customers then you've to explain yourself and get your answers from the developers who again shout at you or call you out on your mistakes.

Developers always consider customer service below them. Working as a customer service rep for even an hour a month will at least make them respect customer service team a bit.
You said starting so I assumed there would be a progression. Overall it doesn't seem like a good idea to me because it puts the whole weight over the lower back without any back and arm support (like the ones that exist on a good office chair, they're recommended for a reason). Also, there are a ton of good exercises for the core that don't stress the back, like planks for example.

Anyway, I recommend that people ask their doctor for advice or at least Google up a bit about the pros/cons of this and try to find articles from reputable sources. I did that some time ago and wasn't very impressed with the results.
Do the single motorcars only have one of those two? If so which?

Or do they have a third kind of motor which is wound to be a better balance?
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And Placebo is still the strongest healer out there. Coming from a very dissatisfied Chiropratic School dropout.
Impove?

I think that's a spelling error. ;)
>* You have to learn many, many characters. And using a dictionary is non-trivial. (IIRC, the key is stroke order.)

Correct. Dictionary apps makes it easy to look up characters, however.

>* You may have to learn a different language. Written Chinese is written Standard (a.k.a. Mandarin) Chinese. If you happen to have grown up speaking Cantonese, you'll have to learn a related, but different language.

This is a regional/cultural thing and has nothing to do with the Chinese (Mandarin) language. French isn't a bad language because the Swiss also learn German.

>* Traditionally, the "proper" written language is classical, and by 'classical' I mean old. Imagine speaking modern French or Italian and writing in classical 1st century BC-1st century AD Latin.

What? Nonsensical and incorrect. Mandarin evolves like every other language in existence.

>* Many characters have a "sound" component and a "meaning" component. That might help, right? You could sort of sound things out. That is, if you were into historical phonology---like every other written language, the sound component as written was frozen when the character entered the language.

Again, what? 90% of Chinese characters are phonetic compounds where the component on the left modifies the sound of the main component.

In general, these types of ideas that the Chinese/Japanese/other non-alphabetic languages are inferior are strongly culturally biased (what exists in my own culture is correct, other cultures are wrong) and has hints of /r/iamverysmart (you actually have no idea what you're talking about).
I have never used IFTTT but with MyTweetAlerts.com you can for example:
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- Get email alerts if someone tweets about some topic and the tweet has more than X retweets.
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- You can collect data about some topics and then export the twitter user data and use that for retargeting in the twitter ad platform.
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- Collect or get tweets that include some topic and have links part of the tweet.
- "real-time" alerts (with up to 10 min delay).
- and many more features...as we are constantly adding more features.

How are you using IFTTT?
Why would I use this rather than some other domain privacy service?
Congrats and definitely it's for the long game. Changing infrastructure is a hard thing to convince revenue generating companies to do, as they aren't as price sensitive. It'll take years to grow the product to the point where it reaches enough word of mouth recommendations to be considered the first choice. That or you have some killer feature that everyone has got to have.
i did not downvote you. asking for a source is not a bad thing.

in addition to what i posted above, this paper is a good summary of what we know at this point: doi:10.1038/nrc3725
"Deconstructionists, having discovered that such faith acts are necessary, then refuse to engage with any particular choice made by people who want to discuss pragmatic meaning." I'm perfectly happy to have such discussions, as long as it's understood that, regardless of the beliefs brought to the table, the idea of "good enough" is not set in stone and itself is a perspective that is also brought to the table. I'm also not a Deconstructionist, whatever that is.

I find that most arguments that I have had with people usually end with them implying that their epistemology is rooted in something that is "good" or "reasonable" or "close enough" without any explanation of why it is that their chosen way of looking at the world must necessarily be beneficial. Indeed, you have pointed out that maths is a source of "important and valuable things", which I could agree with, but only with the understanding that our agreement is bound to the reality defined by our joint observations, and not a universal truth.

My point was not about choosing axioms, but about incompleteness, undefinability, uncomputability, etc., which cut short any attempts to bless a particular set of axioms as uniquely correct. You are only seeing the surface level so far; I assure you that it all deconstructs. (Be careful when looking directly at The Void.)

Finally: Where does meaning come from when having dialogues? Hofstadter explains it well: We constantly exchange deeply-coded messages with recursive layers of meaning, trying to reflect the symbols in our mind into words which we think will reconstruct those symbols in the minds we talk to. The "mooring of their meaning" is a fascinating illusion based on the inherent difficulty of stepping outside ourselves to examine where our own sense of meaning comes from.