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Click-Once is like... the smartest idea that ever got built by people who have never worked in places that need something like Click-Once.

I am of the opinion that if they had dropped the "use apps over the web" angle and focused on small-medium-enterprise continuous deployment they woulda had a true game changer on their hands... Click-Once dovetails naturally into something like Apples launchpad, its "turn it off and turn it on again" workflow was ideal for 'Sue in Accounting', its simplified publishing model is great for ISVs with lots of customers, and its sandboxy requirements are a natural fit for the way dotnet core is coming together.

And, yeah, that the Windows ecosystem is still worseoff than apt-get forever ago is a) shocking, b) further proof that Richard Stallman was right about everything ;)
I've known several drug dealers. Some of them were assholes, but they all dressed and behaved very much like normal people.

They were all white, though. Perhaps it's only the black drug dealers who dress up special, eh?
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Word Piano is a great phrase.
Thanks for writing this. It made me very sad because the traveler life appeals a lot to me but I still quite like the things I have in the city, so I have always been extremely conflicted about a nomadic life (or a period).

How do you deal with the toilet troubles though?

Also, can you give some details on how do you avoid cold weather? My girlfriend tells me there are areas in Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece where summer is much longer and the winter basically means 13-17 degrees without snow -- in the worst case scenario.

I was profoundly touched by your article. I am at a point of my life when I feel a desperate and very strong need for a change. Reasons are a lot and I don't want to derail this thread by making my comment a public confession -- suffice to say, I realize I dislike a part of my life and I want to do something about it.

Truth be told however, I like my mega-strong internet (Bulgaria). I like being able to go buy cooked food when I feel lazy or sick or tired and don't want to cook -- telling yourself "get a grip and cook!" sounds like stress and forcing myself and not like something that relaxes you. I like being able to go to a cinema on a whim.

The city gives me the sense of being able to spontaneously do various things.

I really want to try some nomadism -- or at least travel to 10+ places during a period -- and as a 37 y/o with a burnout, nature's appeal grows in me with each passing week.

Overall, I am happy your format worked for you -- it made me consider some traveling very seriously and I started to weigh pros and cons.

Thank you.
The idea of giving the average user, or even the average power-user, a device which a) doesn't automatically and aggressively update, and b) is full of every single kind of mainstream radio is terrifying. Smartphones live in one of the most dangerous environments around for security - constantly connecting to third party networks on various protocols and technologies and intrinsically in close proximity to attackers - and not auto-updating puts the average user at risk.
I was going to add this.
Education for possibly future children is one reason why I would move _out_ of London
>Mostly, it's labor. Not only does $9.50 hourly, plus tips work out to a fair amount of money for front of house staff (my partner was horrified to learn we could not do a tip credit). But the more the front of house makes, the more our valuable back-of-house staff demands in pay (or tipshare tribute). At a premium, you can't afford to lose your core cook staff, you have no room to negotiate salaries down 'until we get stabilized,' and meanwhile they have three other prime job offers waiting. The labor costs alone were enough to sink us, especially once we got to the taxes.

It is not like overnight the average pay of waiters and kitchen people doubled or increased 50%, more or less that pay has remained the same over two-three years. Either the hourly pay was underestimated or more people were needed than planned.

And the "we could not do a tip credit" coming out as a surprise?

Here:

Minimum Wages for Tipped Employees

https://www.dol.gov/whd/state/tipped.htm

2014 9.10 US$

2015 9.25 US$

2016 9.75 US$

2017 9.75 US$

And "surprise", the kitchen brigade wants some money to be on par with the waiters?

And - again "surprise" - you have to pay taxes?

The "unexpectedly expensive renovations"?

Hey, you took months of making business plans, negotiating and what not, no matter how expensive is the renovation it cannot come out "unexpected", you should have put some allowance (10%-20% at least in a project of this kind) for unforeseeable added costs.

Anyway the business plan was "wrong" on the "other" side, the income, simply it could not reach the target, either because it was set too high or because you weren't capable (for whatever reason) to attract enough customers and serve the intended number of meals.
How many of these are part of Unicode?

The download link just a font that uses the Unicode Private Use Area to display each of these glyphs, which is particularly disappointing for interrobang which I know has an entry at U+203D, but I'm not sure about the rest of them?
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This is the path of most new business people.

Getting it wrong makes you really, deeply understand why NOT to do certain things, and focuses you and what is important.

Many failed first timers never go back to business but I see initial fail as s valuable first step.

Having said that, damned if I'd ever go into the food business, it doesn't scale.
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I've worked retail before, and I'd bet money on a machine running perfectly forever before a fast food employee blowing the whistle on a dirty kitchen.
Hi, I have a question, maybe too personal, feel free to answer or not... Do you have children? I do and many rules are inhibiting nomad life (even shortly). Kids are obligated to go to school for example. If this was more relaxed, I'd love to go away for several months at a time (I have a small caravan with a bunk I made for the two kids). I'd love to teach them about everything while traveling Europe. But the kids have 6 weeks of vacation at most during the summer.
I don't think it's free speech. There was a story not so long ago about an academic who was working for a big lobby who got fired because their corporate sponsor Google did not like what that person said about Google's monopolistic practices.

This guy's livelihood was put in jeopardy because of his so called "free speech".

People should have free speech, institutions should not. Lobbies are institutions.
There have been food poisoning outbreaks traced to lemonade stands, so it's not surprising those are regulated.

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/staggers/2017/07/you-m...
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Less sophisticated but faster production was what I read:

> The beautiful Howiesons Poort industry with its long, thin blades is replaced at 58,000 years ago by a simple technology that could be rapidly produced.
If you go up the comment chain you can see a user saying

> I believe it requires Windows Media Play on all playback devices.

So in order to watch all the streams in your house you'd have to use WMP.
If everyone is a PhD computer scientist - then the wages of babysitting will rise to the true value of that service, and a babysitter will earn as much as a computer scientist. Currently due to abundance of availability of low skill resources - their wages don't depend on the value of the service and instead on their willingness to work for whatever amount to get the job, but once the resource scarcity becomes inverted their wages will be tied to the value.
> of us want to have a slower life, cherishing small things in nature and learn about the world directly, without intermediaries.

Which is exactly what small town life is. No need to go nomad for that. In my experience, backpacking is neither slow life, nor cherishing small thing. It may be compared to multi-million city, but it's not compared to living in small town or village.
It is mostly a story perpetuated in the press that racism is a Southern thing. Similar to how stories of dog fighting were the South. It is one part stereotype and one part comfort, comfort in the idea that where you live; outside of the South; possibly cannot have similar issues.
He's on his third boat. The first was the Microship trimaran, designed by him (using off-the-shelf parts) and could run on wind, sun or even pedal power.
> Every country considers Europe and Asia a single continent.

I'm afraid not. "Continent" is a surprisingly poorly-defined concept. https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Continent
It’s hard enough to tell someone which is best, telling them the particular capitalization is impossible without giving them a direct link.

In addition, preventing duplicate names is fairly hard if you support unicode. Characters like the zero width space, Mongolian vowel separator and many others make it algorithmically different but visually they are the same.
As weird as it sounds, it might be related to your system region settings, specifically the decimal point sign and the thousands separator sign. I've been only able to open CSVs by manually importing them with Excel's 'import data from text file' function.
If you'd like to know everything about opening a restaurant in equal parts gruesome and hilarious detail (at least when only reading about it), Tyson Ho's posts about opening Arrogant Swine in Brooklyn are a great read.

http://www.seriouseats.com/building-a-bbq-restaurant
I think (hope) the downvoters have missed the sarcasm in this comment
This has been happening throughout history of Earth. Just look at all the ice ages (including the most recent so called little ice age).

Just cca 11,000 years ago, without any human intervention (nobody driving SUVs around back then), temperature has risen dramatically which caused massive ice sheets on top of North America and Europe to melt. This caused sea levels to rise by 120 meters, swallowing an area of land larger than China and Europe combined.

Until this day we still don't know what caused that (and it seems to be a reoccurring event as it has happened multiple times). The last time it happened it has caused extinction of most of megafauna (with some remnants surviving in Africa as it was least affected).

We are struggling to cope with sea levels rising by 1-2mm per year. Imagine if they rose by 120m in couple of years. All coastal mega cities - NYC, SF, Tokyo etc would be underwater completely.
Motion is relative though. And just because something is moving relative to another thing does not necessarily mean it is hot.
The amount and skill that exists in high end construction is crazy. Not just in the individuals but also how they work as a team. Also how few people are qualified and want to do the work. Half of his team are undocumented Mexicans that have been with him for over a decade. I won't even get into the risks and costs associated with that.

The work is hard, physical, requires precision and attention to all sorts of details while being creative and getting up really early in the morning.

Just to give you an example of how not automatable it is. $37,000,000 home that the entire building is clad in a bespoke red aluminum paneling that the architect designed. It doesn't fit in a repeatable pattern and each panel is between 3x4 and 12x7 feet. They need to be hung with a tolerance of less than an eighth of an inch on a cantilevered split level structure with some odd pitched faces. Any drift in the assembly will mean a later piece will not fit correctly and you might not find out until the end. If say a single piece got maybe dropped or run over by a work truck it will have to be custom replaced at a huge cost because the panels were made in batch, also this would effect the overall timeline of completion. The contracts you take with a job like this sometimes come with bonuses for finishing early and penalties for delays. The process to even get to build them is highly competitive as well.

Just to get this on the wall involves coordination to make sure everything is true and to spec as it gets to the skinning. Every variance effects your adjustments for hanging the clad. Sometimes with your own guys involved in the internals and sometimes you depend on workers you have nearly no control over. Either way you have to deal with and adjust.

All of this has to be done without trampling the feeder roots just under the soil of the 250 year old oak tree in the middle of the job site because it's irreplaceable and a couple desire paths can kill it inside a year after the job is over, cutting off 80% of the work area you have access to.

I'm not saying you can't automate a job like this, but we are so far away from being able to. It is possibly on an infinite horizon in skilled human labor.
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Hi Chris, I searched far and wide for a PDF / soft copy of Readings in Computer Architecture. I searched for the same thing 6 months ago, but to no avail. Would you kindly provide a PDF or a soft copy? Sincerely,
Its interesting that some of the volunteers in Belgium who worked with the Security Service in ww1 wanted and got recognition - unfortunately when ww2 happened the Germans rounded them up and sent many to the camps :-(
That's bad advice.

http://blog.hackensplat.com/2013/09/never-sanitize-your-inpu...
Also fascinating, Dragon Head[0] is a 10 volume post-apocalyptic natural disaster psychological and survival horror manga worth a read.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Head
Step down process is necessary with every AD, possibly with everything that messes your senses. Unfortunately, often doctors don't emphasize the need as much as they should. If you slowly go off, it's not s big deal.
Great. Since everything costs as much as a high-skilled computer scientist, no one can afford anything.

We're now back to limiting the economy because we don't have enough low-skilled workers. People are now forced to work suboptimal jobs for their skillset, and our economy stagnates because we're now fixing broken windows we broke.
Dude was just curious, what services do you use now ?
Awesome! #vanlife is becoming a big thing it seems :-)

I also made a video recently about "3 Years of Living in a Camper Van and Running a 20 People Remote Business" [1]

Now I'm in it for 3.5 years already and thought I'd settle down eventually, but I still love it as on the first day if not even more.

[1] https://optimizingforhappiness.com/3-years-of-living-in-a-ca...
Interestingly, genetic biologists are probably more aware of this problem than most. When importing a CSV containing gene names such as SEPT2 or MARCH1, they automatically get converted to dates by Excel. This has potentially had a fairly large effect on research in the area [1]. One of the many reasons we insist on only using Ensembl IDs for genes at my company.

[1] https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13...
Declaratively building a Snake clone in the terminal
Python is the fastest growing language due to a feature you've never heard of
Being a Harvard Dropout sends a very different signal than being a Unknown Uni Dropout, which in turn sends a very different signal than Never Even Applied or, worse, Didnt Get In Anywhere.

Going to uni is beyond valuable. Finishing uni ... 80/20 rule. Unless you wanna work in government or super big corpos, finishing isn’t that useful. Go there for the knowledge, not the paper.

Full disclosure: I say this as an extremely bad test taker who dropped out just before graduating after 5 years of undergrad. Just couldn’t make the case anymore that classes are better than making money freelancing.

But the excuse and freedom to explore interesting tech? I fear I’m never getting that back. It was amazing
how's it going? I love to move around with my laptop, but nature is too damn distractive. Sun is too bright, stone under my ass is too cold, that view is too beautiful, oh, I'm already hungry, oh, it's sunset. That was a nice day, but I barely worked.
Or they just don't think the comment brings much to the discussion.
MS DOS used to come with a Basic interpreter, if that's what you mean ;)

Later, when the PC platform became what we know today, there wasn't really a channel for free (small f) software except shareware magazines and Microsoft surely would not be seen with that crowd! In those days, Microsoft wasn't concerned with losing the heads and minds to another platform but with losing the revenue to Borland. Since then, more and more has been made available (I still fondly remember laying my hands on the first Windows SDK day came with a free command line version of the MSVC compiler), but it is a culture shift that won't be rushed as long as there are no really pressing reasons.
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Github activity profiles.
Memory is such a strange thing. I don’t remember many things from that time, but what I do is as if it happened yesterday.

I can feel the crooked wooden floorboards under my bony pajama-clad bottom, and the NES controller in my hands with its creaky plastic buttons, and the warmth of the summer afternoon sun, and the vibration of my boy soprano voice reading the text on the screen. I can smell the static of the Sharp CRT television, and my dad’s warm chamois shirt with (I now realise) maybe just a hint of weed on it. And I can hear him standing above me saying “You can read?”
Last global extinction event was 11,000 years ago when temperature rose drastically, ice sheets melted and sea levels rose by 120m. It killed most of megafauna. What caused that (and what caused the ice age in the first place) is still not well understood by scientists.

In my opinion, to think that human caused global warming and sea levels rising by 1.5mm per year will lead to global extinction event seems a bit far fetched when you compare it to what caused the last global extinction. The current climate changes are minuscule compared to huge climate changes (not caused by any human activity!) that happened quite recently.
One of the complications here is that the CO2 costs of manufacturing the car aren't taken into account. When they are, it can actually be preferable to continue to run the gas guzzler. Manufacturing steel and batteries is hugely energy and resource intensive.
All of the above (except lower costs, not a thing for anything in Australia).

In particular, in essentially all (non-chain-fast-food) restaurants where you can get a meal for less than $10, nobody is making award rates. If you're lucky the staff is family, if not they're exploiting students or illegal immigrants.
staring at the screen while not in the calmest water isn't the nicest experience.
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Sabre changes contracts. Wants employees to support code after they leave
I'm arguing precisely this. Perhaps you misread my comment?
Ask HN: Might Facebooks ad-algorithm target sensitive groups like Alcoholics?
In Sweden we have iq.se which is a site informing about drinking responsibly and can help with information. But now they released a bot that is supposed to help students drink more responsibly by sending messages on messenger before, during, and after the party with advice[0].

So I started wondering, won’t the algorithm find that there is a large group connected by this bot where most people drink a lot ( I assume that’s the target demographic ). Isn’t there a chance that it might try to take advantage of their condition. Because we saw that Facebook had created ads to target racists[1], then I think it should be able to figure out how to target people who have drinking or impulse problems. We had the thing about being able to tell when people feel insecure or depressed to target them if they want to (claimed to not do that)[2].

So isn’t there a large chance that something like this bot or AA groups on Facebook might be used to target people when they feel left out, want a drink, feel insecure.
Not that the ads will necessarily be directly targeted towards them, just that it might be a big factor?

[0] http://iq.se/bottlier

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/20/business/media/facebook-racist-ads.html

[2] https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2017/05/01/facebook-can-tell-when-teens-feel-insecure-advertiser-target/101158752/
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Location: Stockholm, Sweden

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In the long term of tens of years, MAYBE that helps. My guess is that ODF, for instance, will be harder to find readers for 50 years from now than DOCX will.

In the long terms of tens of thousands of years, the chances anyone will be able to read any of them in any way are vanishingly low. Even if the media are intact (which is an incredibly low probability) and even if hardware were developed to read the media, all that's going to come off the media are ones and zeroes that represent a document format wrapped around an encoding that represents a dead language.

OK, maybe plain text ASCII could be decoded by cryptographers highly familiar with Ancient English.

You might look up the Long Now project and how they're thinking about communicating 10,000 years into the future.
Thanks for pointing that out! I didn‘t know that he did it as well, I just think its a really good way to visualize the data and to draw some conclusions from it.
I would question the last one. Stupid people with an education can cause havoc.

Possibly related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_von_Hammerstein-Equord#Cl...
Then again, while I agree with the value of studying for a degree, young people see the vast majority of their slightly older peers with a degree in their hands who can't get a job, so I can see why the young can decide to forego college.

This is Italy I'm talking about, I don't know enough about other European countries. While the average youth unemployment rate for Europe is ~19%, ours got as high as 37%. That is a lot, only better than Greece and Spain.

There are many more factors to keep into account, such as the undeniable fact that a lot of current youngsters feel entitled just because they have a degree, or flat-out refuse jobs because that's not what they studied for, as if it was beneath them. They don't seem to realize that it's no longer like it was in the past decades, when very few people could access higher education, and were of course preferred in job interviews to people who just went to high school.

On the other hand, taxation is extremely high and heavy on entrepreneurs (employees cost ~2x their salary), who then hire under shitty one-off contracts because it costs less, so the whole job market is very hard to get into and very easy to drop off of.

Another issue is that there are a bunch of useless degrees, such as this thing called "Political sciences", which makes you pretty much unemployable, and sadly a lot of people choose it, and wonder why they can't find a job.

There are also many other factors at play here. It's a shitshow, really.

Higher education does have a lot of value in terms of teaching how to solve problems and hopefully teaching you how to network, but there are reasons to either drop out or don't even get into college in the first place.
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Nah, it's just not that clever.
I still haven't found the time to write a little "About" section. @sampl is right, I work as a full-time employee for GitHub. Meanwhile you can read a short summary on my unmaintained developer blog: http://mikrobi.github.io/about/ :D