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This is good advice, and it's helpful to have specific tools. There are definitely certain kinds of business ideas you can gauge the market using a facade MVP. If you're making a straightforward CRUD app on an standard stack, chances are high that you can prototype & test it without engineering.

I have a startup that made the mistake of building too much too early, but I don't think an MVP app would have helped me. The core idea of the app depends a lot on the experience and performance of the finished product, and customers have higher standards than we expected and they need integrations with lots of other services to know if it'll work for them.

I suspect there are lots of business ideas where you can't tell if it's going to work until the complete experience is in place. Uber, for example, since it was mentioned in the article. Certainly you can prototype the app to get a feel for the app, but that won't deliver the experience of the product at all, you won't know if you'd pay for it until you got a ride from a stranger in under two minutes.

This American Life recently had a podcast on magic, and interviewed Penn & Teller. Teller said something interesting along the lines of 'there are lots of things you can do halfway, but with magic you can't, with magic it either works or it's stupid.' (https://m.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/619/th...)

Aside from static MVP apps and surveys, what other ways are there to gauge the market for a new business idea?
Sure, and I actually like java, but you know, blanket "don't use javascript" because it happens to have package manager is dumb. I mean, java has maven. It just so happen to be that package managers are useful things and helps to avoid massive mess in anything larger then hello world. Especially if we are speaking about open source projects.
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Damn straight. While you're assembling that $6k job, I'm selling your client's data from out from under them. Everyone gets paid.
Bank account is already linked so no need for separate link to Aadhar.
A major rule in parenting is to praise effort and hard work which strengthens the 'internal locus of control' as opposed to seeing some positive action and then commenting on how smart they are. People view 'smarts' as something binary, you are or you aren't and therefore you are strengthening the external locus of control. Eventually when smarts aren't enough, and additional progress requires grit, those who were praised for their determination will excel, because they know it is within them. Others who were told they were smart will hate themselves for not being as smart as they thought. So goes the theory.
It really can. That's what it is supposed to do. However, some companies don't wish to associate with certain speech. That's as much their right to free speech as anyone else's right to free speech. You can create your own stuff and no one is stopping them. From a government perspective you have free speech. No business has to sponsor your speech if it offends them or hurts their business.
I tried double checking this math but I have a question on this.

Coinhive says their formula is:

(<solved_hashes>/<global_difficulty>) * <block_reward> * 0.7

and then goes on to give an example of:

(<solved_hashes>/29275633095) * 6.51 XMR * 0.7	= 0.000156 XMR per 1M hashes

Does this mean the original formula (XMR gain) is actually per million solved hashes (instead of per solved hash)? If so, it seems like a million hashes would only give you 0.0000000001556584613 XMR ($0.00000001519798996).

If that payout formula is actually per hash (and if so, why do they say "per million hashes" in the example?), you'd end up with a much more reasonable 0.0001556584613 XMR ($0.015 at $97.64-monero).

Am I just reading their site stupidly wrong (and/or do I just have a gross misunderstanding of how this all works)?
I've aimed to stay within my area of knowledge, eg: conferences I have attended. Not making any broad claims here FYI, merely stating what I've seen firsthand.
Perhaps our experiences are different, I've noticed the opposite. There will always be a strong role for GIS applications, but I rarely see geospatial problem solving these days that doesn't require some amount of code.

I still do 50%+ of my work in QGIS and find the embedded python interpreter to be essential. There are very few projects where I don't open it up, or otherwise have organized/cleaned the data beforehand (often with python, I'm a one trick pony).

In 2017 so far only one project has not required some coding, and that was a print map for a small transit agency. All the data could be easily hand-digitized.
The functionality is simple and mostly based on CSS, so just set relevant attributes in your template and toggle 'aria-expanded' on click as in the JS file[1]. Then, include (S)CSS copy which handles resizing based on above attribute[2].

All files other than those in src/ are just processing fluff and irrelevant for the actual functionality.

[1]: https://github.com/charlestati/amplify/blob/master/src/ampli...
[2]: https://github.com/charlestati/amplify/blob/master/src/ampli...
Not a big fan of the X model.
Same boat here.

Pretty much everything I do commercially and open-source will end up running on - or in the case of Vagrant base box development, IS - a Linux server.

I haven't touched Linux desktop since I had a $work issued HP laptop/genital roasting device, and even then it was never usable enough in our environment. That was pre-2006.
Interestingly, in the London, UK at least, demonstrating that you made an effort to pay a parking ticket but were not able to will normally mean you do not have to pay the fine.

For instance, I was fined for not displaying a parking ticket. But I took a picture of the machine that wasn't able to process my payment. I emailed picture to the appeals process and was forgiven the fine. Which essentially meant I got to park for free (shiny sticker)
I think that's highly debatable; it's obvious human rights aren't a massive priority to China, and neither is transfer of wealth to those countries.

Even if Chinese money does end up in a rush of trade and business, without strong political systems, its debatable whether wealth will make it into the hands of people who will subsequently push for human rights.

Remember also that China is simultaneously creating a blueprint with its own country showing developing nations how to create economic transformations and a level of freedom and opportunity in society without political reform. It's quite likely that even if the push creates wealth and prosperity in a host nation that doesn't have strong democratic institutions, they might start adopting Chinese political norms and techniques.

* as a side note, the western aid model has huge drawbacks too and carries similar if/but criticisms. I think it's just too simplistic for the Chinese side to say "well, everything will be fine once we create wealth!"
Or perhaps Buffet has an information asymmetry. Don't you think when he is interested in buying a company that may not even be in the public market that the meetings, tours of facilities and financial due diligence represents a significant information asymmetry. This information is probably available to any who seek it but not practically to most.
I think that's probably more personality than anything else. I was always told I was smart and was never motivated. Perfect example: I took the ACT only once because I scored a 30 and it wasn't worth it for me to try to improve that score. Meanwhile, all of my honors & AP class friends took it several times scoring 33s, 34s, & 35s.

This was a direct result of my "intelligence complex" and yet I have no trouble learning new things. I actually get extremely bored if I'm not digging in depth into new subjects every 6-9 months. Speaks to why I have several unfinished websites because I wanted to learn a new framework, unused golf clubs, tons of cooking utensils but no food, etc.

I love to learn, I just never learned how to be motivated or competitive or persistent.
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As an aside, AppLocker was trivially bypassable for several years -- there were two different APIs that allowed you to set an "ignore AppLocker" flag. We used to use it in high-school to play games (or in my case, run gvim and some other development tools).

I think that there needs to be a more complete solution than just "secure the developers machines". You need to have peer-review, where the developers sign commits to approve them.
A very common problem for hourly workers, for example in the food service industry, is that they don't "get" enough hours in a certain week or month. They would be willing and available to work more, but there is not enough work/shifts for them to earn what they need.

Of course it goes both ways, the employer can also not be sure how much they will be available to work for him and needs to reschedule constantly.
That's the question now, is it? It depends?

I had some horrible teachers in high school (one IT and physics teacher comes to mind). Most people flunked both subjects. I passed both, but only because I liked both subjects and had some affinity for them.

But he was definitely to blame: he understood the subject matter well, but was horrible at teaching and arrogant about it. I think they fired him a few years later.

If you have 85-90% of students failing your subject, something is probably wrong with the teaching (or the subject matter is too hard).

I think any kid should at least be able to pass a subject if he is of average intelligence + puts in some effort. Not too hard, but not too easy either. But perhaps also account for the fact that some people will always be horrible in one or two subjects.
We just sped up Riot/Web by 2-3x in the last week - https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/4997 has the gory details if anyone cares. The bleeding edge CI build lives at https://riot.im/develop if you or anyone wants to try it again :)
At least talk to a law firm and see what they think
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Got a T440s myself too (running Ubuntu/Xmonad).

It's mostly a great machine, my model has 14"-fullHD-mat / i7 / 12Gb RAM / 256Gb SSD / 512GbHDD.

The only real caveat I can think of is the clickpad (no physical mouse buttons). That was a bad, bad decision. This piece of hardware has 0% usability, and under linux you need to tweak xorg.conf in order to get sensible defaults. Next generations of T4xx got it right however, trackpads with physicals mouse buttons have made their glorious comeback. Luckily I was already used to external keyboard/mouse, so that doesn't hurt as much as it could have been.

Question for whoever inside Lenovo knows the real story: what was the rational behind that whole clickpad thing?
Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit...
It died in west long ago why not in third world if it can bring social upliftment?
I really like some of the hardware from Lenovo, Microsoft and HP. As a developer I find the Windows 10 operating systems QDOS legacy to be annoying to, say the least.
Should you have to give up privacy to recycle a printer cartridge?
In EU it is really trivial and very cheap, fast and safe to transfer payments between individual bank accounts and business bank accounts. It would be really hard to further simplify it.
Or is it an environmental issue, or are you simply teaching him the wrong subject, or the right subject at the wrong time? Or are you measuring it wrong, so he should have succeed, but you mislabeled him?
How TF did you get to be omniscient, and do you have free will?

Then I'd ask since I now have life after death, am I now immortal?
What makes you think that Japan's economic growth is directly connected to the long work hours? Sounds like a stretch to me.

Also, aren't we supposed to be accepting of all cultures? If that's the Japanese culture, why is it okay to disparage it?
Hours worked is easy to measure, good/bad developers, quality of code -- not so much.
Doing deep/meaningful work for 70hours a week is reserved for genetic freaks -- 0.1% of the cases -- the rest are either the sub-mediocre bureaucrat types who want the office face time in order to climb the corporate ladder or the victims of the said bureaucrats who are guilt tripped into doing it.
In some classes, where grades can be determined purely subjectively, instructors can use effort-based logic as a guiding principle.

The problems, however, are multifold.

I remember a high school art class where I just had a complete writers-block - or maybe artists-block - and was not able to do much on a large pencil drawing while sitting in class. I just couldn't work while seated in rows with everyone else sketching away, for some reason.

But as the deadline came due, I sat down at home and sketched for 16 hours straight, barely even stopping for eating. It required so much shading that my hand hurt like never before. It ended up looking quite good, from what everyone told me.

When the grades came back, I had a D, while others who had much worse looking and mostly unshaded drawings received Bs. Naturally, I asked about this, and I was told that I must not have put in much effort, because he didn't see me putting in effort.

My burning rage at this event and the entire logic behind it all has been permanently seared into my memory.
Glad you mentioned it! I use it for most of my chat nowadays. You can use it with bridges to irc, gitter, slack and more. No problem for me. They plan to improve the native experience with more native code (Qt or GTK).
It's like driving a car you have to work on all the time or something. I have fond memories of doing it but I no longer have the time or inclination to spend that much time configuring my desktop.
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Because that's what the salary is for. You work a certain amount of hours per week, they pay a certain amount of money per month, as well as some vacation money in May, and there's no need to keep track of the details. Hourly pay makes more sense with more flexible hours or if the worker wants to carry their own entrepreneurial risk (which is what I do; I'm self-employed and bill by the hour). Many people don't want to be self-employed, though. They just want a steady paycheck.
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Lacking details, so nobody can promise anything, but I have run my current desktop with three monitors on two video cards. I currently run it with two monitors and two cards, with one bound to a Windows VM. That is somewhat trickier to set up, but multiple monitors should be fine.

My advice echoes others - you can try before you buy (install) with a few flavors of Linux; see what happens. If you have trouble, try to find a fellow human who can help - X is a little surprising to configure, if you haven't done it before.
Google wallet don't have licence in india. Its an outdated concept to UPI anyway.
I hope so. I'm following the development of IPFS closely. In fact, sillysaurus3's subthread about Twitch[0] made me think that maybe something IPFS-like (e.g. the libp2p that powers it) could be used for video streaming, making a streamer independent of big companies subsidizing bandwidth. I'm very hopeful for more developments in this area.

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15272175
There are no widely accepted rules in parenting, because the outcomes people are trying to create in their kids are so wildly different. Raising kids is like cooking a dish over a decade or more with no recipe. Imagine one set of parents making brownies, and another trying to make Chicken Kiev. How much chocolate should you use?
Simple solution: subcutaneous key implant. Someone has to physically cut you open to decrypt your notes.

Hopefully your attackers are not too determined... but then again, any system where your death results in decryption has that particular flaw. A bigger problem is if you die in such a way that your body can't be recovered.
The most successful people I know work much more than 40 hours each week.
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That's odd, I already submitted this one.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15265016

I thought HN handled duplicates by redirecting to the existing submission and automatically upvoting it?
there doesn't seem to be any strong case to assume that the ideal number for office work is higher, rather than lower, than 40.

Absolutely. I'm at least as convinced that 35 hours is optimal time as I am that 45 is. I also agree with your point about commutes. Instead of looking at time in the office it probably makes more sense to look at the time from when one leaves home to when one leaves the office. And speaking only for myself, having to drive 30 minutes to work each morning would be a pretty major deal-breaker for any job I'd consider.
I'm using a Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000. It has a great ergonomics in terms of keyboard layout and hand posture but uses very cheap key switches that feel bad and don't last long (I think I'm on my third keyboard now). Also the space bar is not engineered well.

I just wish someone would make a version of this keyboard with decent key switches for say, 90€ (the 4000 is around 36€ here).
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The alt-right didn't get him elected. Good ol' American racism did. They certainly helped. But what helped more was he had a solid pulse on scared white men.
Benchmark results aside, JVM has very little to do with the startup time. Most of the time is spent wiring Clojure namespaces together: every namespace must be evaluated, every Var initialized. That takes time. The core reason for that is that namespaces and vars are dynamic, not immutable, and Clojure runtime has to evaluate everything on each startup to uphold language semantics.
Yeah, front page last-updated 2013, too.
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>The public certainly has the right to boycott an artist's work if they committed a morally reprehensible action without any sign of remorse.

It has the right, it's just stupid to exercise it.

It's not as if we should only consume art made by good people. Or that whatever bad things an artists does in their personal life has much bearing to wether their art is any good (not to mention most good and bad things in one's life improve art: they instill it with life experience. Boy scouts seldom produce interesting work.).

If you want to punish the artist for something they did, put them in jail. Or don't be friends with them.

If they produce good art, and you don't listen to it because they are bad, you lose too.

>The public doesn't owe the artist anything

Well, if they listen to his works, then they owe him on that.
> I guess it isn't even limited to national retailers, the independent grocer here does it too, I guess because it is worthwhile for them to pay for it.

I mean, it really just saves the headache of taking the checks to the bank to be deposited. These machines scan the account information on the check, initiate an ACH debit and print the details on the check for the customer's reference.

We do something similar when patients remit payment to us by mailing a check, we have a third-party service that provides us with check scanners that do a similar job - but instead they scan the payment amount off the check and then initiate the ACH debit, they keep an image of the check and we destroy the original copies. Makes life a lot easier, especially since we have dozens of bank accounts these checks get posted to based on what legal entity the money needs to be allocated to.
What many here dont seem to understand is that you work commensurate with where you want to be. I work longish hours become I'm in finance and want to move up the organization or find a higher spot inn another. I want to know more about all facets of the firm and one day be a principal in a prop trading firm.

I don't put in 80+ hour weeks because I want to stay where I'm at in my career. I become involved in more and take on more reliability because I want more responsibility I the future. I work twice or more what I'm paid to work because I want to earn at least twice as much in the future.

Worrying about how many hours you are putting in against your current paycheck isn't very forward looking for your career.
Gone are the days of simple passive signature scanners. Now they all sink their claws deeply into the OS intercepting filesystem operations, network packets, and any other privileged activity.

Well, things have been like that for a long time already. E.g. Thunderbyte used an ISA card in the early 90ies to insert itself before and outside the operating system [1].

Old anti-virus programs also used Terminate and Stay Resident (TSR) [2]

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSAV
I think greasy and bacteria covered might just be a personal problem, and not a symptom of short key travel ;)
Great tutorial, and thank goodness it's in 3.x. About a year ago it was difficult to find many 3.x examples of geospatial analysis. It felt like there was always some dependency that was not quite 3.x compatible, so it made sense that a lot of folks would just stick to 2.x just to get started.
It's the same for me, I work in bursts. Sometimes I will have 30m-1h of not very productive time (reading blog post on web, going for a walk etc) but then I will have a burst of productivity when I hunker down for couple of hours and do a lot of work.

Obviously it isn't constant 8 hours of heads down, in the zone coding, there are things in between and also meetings and planning often takes time. I used to work longer before but as you say, that is not sustainable for a long run, you can do it for couple of years before you burn out.

I also used to do quite a lot of extra work in the evenings and weekends when I had sudden inspiration / urge to refactor or improve some piece of code. But I don't do that anymore and instead use that free time for myself and my hobbies :)

If I feel an urge to write some code on Sunday, I will work on one of my open source projects or contribute to some other projects out there if they interest me or I will experiment with new tech to keep my skills up to date.
> I believe in freedom. Founding fathers, Martin Luther King, Jr. – that kind of freedom. It’s the same kind of freedom that motivates my passion for free software.

Oh boy, this CEO is laying it on pretty thick here... I'm a pretty steadfast advocate for free software--and I think open software does make a better society--but even then, I think it's a bit strange to use a comparison to MLK for something that seems an order of magnitude less important.

It's giving me serious flashbacks to Silicon Valley.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-GVd_HLlps
It is too easy to do these things. If academia in the US is prohibited then it will happen behind closed doors in industry or overseas.
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