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A definite yes. Your time is valuable, they're already saving money and time by using your open source code, so there is no question about whether or not you should accept money for your time.

>What is a polite way of saying "Yes, I can assist, in return for payment"?

Just say something to the effect of: I would love to help. My hourly rates are $X.XX. Just be direct and professional with them.

>Should I also charge students who inquire (there are 10x more inquiries from students than from companies)?

It's your choice. Remember, your time is valuable. Can you afford to spend free time?

>Do I need my lawyer to draw up consulting contracts?

Speaking from personal experience, no. I've just found a freely available consulting contract online and tailored it to fit.

>What is a typical rate for this kind of thing?

I triple what I would get paid normally at my day job (to account for taxes and whatnot).

The best advice I can give you is: don't be afraid to charge more than what you would for say a freelance project. Consulting is essentially you becoming a temporary employee of the company you are helping, you're writing code and doing other things an employee would (without the employee benefits).
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I've heard of a contemporary mathematician who had small contributions and did it as a hobby. The recent article about insect population decrease was possible thanks to data collected by hobbyists too iirc (but ended up written by scholars I guess). I don't know if there are many other examples.
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> the only effect of laws like that is to make things too easy for prosecutors

No question that judicial and prosecutor efficiency are important factors in deciding to prosecute, but they are not the only ones. Prosecutors often take on difficult cases when there is strong political support for it.

For example, after years of dragging their feet, NYC prosecutors tried to convict someone (anyone) involved in the 2008 financial crisis. They got a few people on the sides, but their effort was mostly seen as a failure. Still, it was probably better that they tried and failed rather than not tried at all.

Another example is the war on drugs in the 1990s. As far as efficiency and resources, it was a horrible program, not easy or efficient by any measure, but the country was terrified of drug use and it's related crime. The goal was based more in societal norms than efficiency.

Last example, Mayor Guiliani's tactics of removing small crimes (illegal street vendors, minor trespassing, graffiti) was based in the theory that you can improve entire neighborhoods and reduce major crimes by eliminating the smaller ones. Again, unclear if this tactic really worked, but it's clear that his aim was not purely judicial efficiency, it was economic development.

These cases were not efficient at all, but there was strong demand to
This is awesome! I've been eyeing the ability to use an iPad for a dev device for a while now. As a frontend and react native dev I'm unfortunately still restricted by my need for a good web debugging experience (eg chrome dev tools + react/redux dev tools) and the ability to compile to an iOS device. I can't imagine either of these are coming anytime soon, so for now I'll stick to an old fashioned MacBook Pro.

That said, sometimes I wonder if Apple will ever make the plunge and make an iOS version of Xcode. The thought of a mobile version seems scary, and obviously this would only be practical on the iPad, but at the same time if they ever try to make the iPad replace the professional workhorse that the Mac currently is that'd be a natural direction to go in.
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There's no reason to use Flexible SSL. Cloudflare will support any certificate on the origin server (e.g. Let's Encrypt if you don't want to pay someone), or will give you a free "Origin CA" certificate.
Well said. It is hard to read as a non native, fully technical person.
That's mostly propaganda and the fear of "socialist" Europe its actually quite easy to remove people for poor performance assuming it is really poor performance or trying to avoid redundancy.

If its so easy to fire in the USA why is hr so paranoid about it
Literally the biggest patent troll around.

Sources:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/03/stupid-patent-month-me...

http://www.businessinsider.com/biggest-patent-holding-compan...
And it will lead to pay inflation as publishing CEO's salary proves
When you are sshing into server you are using the server, not the local machine (beside the terminal and ssh app itself).

Please correct the title.
For frontend web developers like me, the last big thing I miss is the web inspector. Ain't gonna get anything done without that.
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OK, but why should we respect such wishes?
In your instance though, it sounds like the development on remote machines was a client choice and not your own? The author is choosing to develop remotely themselves because Docker makes their MacBook get hot and burns their thighs when they don't wear pants. Would have just been easier to buy one of those laptop rests with inbuilt fans than spend money on a monthly server though, right?
That's odd. I've been using it on Ubuntu as the rootfs for over 18 months now and have been through 16.04/16.10/17.04/17.10 upgrades and numerous kernel upgrades and it's worked flawlessly every time.
No, not really, or at least, not comfortably.

I tried this with my 12.9 (with the same keyboard, the foldable one) for a few days on the train and it is possible to balance it on your lap while sitting nicely with your legs bent at the knee at a 90ish degree angle, feet flat on the floor. The keyboard is stiff enough as long as the gulf between your legs isn't too wide. The problem is that any shifting around can cause this set to move and tip. It just doesn't feel long-term stable. It is possible to do it for a few minutes, say, to reply to an email.

That said, the keyboard is really nice to type on and is really easy to get used to. I know these things are very subjective.
You are bound to get down voted for this comment, however I do agree with you. I am one of those people who managed to realize by a good stroke of luck that perusing a Phd in my field would severely limit my earning potential. It was all the Phd grad students always talking about their money problems in the college cafeteria that gave them away.
I wouldn't say Kotlin feels nicer in my opinion, they are both very expressive languages these days.

What I like about them both is that you can very often intuit how something is likely to work.

Kotlin + Anko makes Android development much less painful indeed.
>The problem is with egos, Employee A might view themselves as more valuable to the company than Employee B and vice versa.

In which case after finding out they leave and if it turns out they're not all that valuable they mainly just end up screwing themselves.

I'm not sure why any employer would consider this a problem.

An underpaid employee leaving and getting a better job though - sure, that's a problem.
MacBook 12” works great, has a better keyboard, is probably lighter/smaller than an iPad Pro

Why not use that instead?
It's a very comfortable position, but not for the cervical spine. I just had an injury that according to the doc was because of this posture. I don't believe it though. Anyways, try not to sit in this position for long durations. The injury isn't fatal but will leave you with shooting pain in your arms and shoulders for weeks.
but the external market breaks that you might need to hire a new person when the market is hot and they will be paid more than some one hired in a recession
We have not yet seen any indication that universal constants (or any other laws of physics) would change over time, therefore Occam's Razor suggest that we continue with the assumption that they don't until contrary evidence appears.

> If the measurements used to define these constants are defined in terms of the constants themselves, how would we see change?

Either the constants change such that we can measure the effect (e.g. the mass of atoms changes but the calibration of scales does not change accordingly), or they change such that our measurement apparatuses are equally affected. In the latter case, we will not be able to see the change, but then again, you could go into epistemology and argue that nothing has happened at all.
Not worth it. The blocking that the government uses blocks only the http version of the sites. Append an s manually and access is restored. But to the uninitiated that block poses enough of a challenge.
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See also: http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2010/04/28/the-univ...

> You may have noticed that the universe is actually expanding, rather than contracting as you might expect the interior of a black hole to be. That’s because, if anything, our universe bears a passing resemblance to a white hole. Our universe (according to conventional general relativity) has a singularity in the past, out of which everything emerged, not a singularity in the future into which everything is crashing. We call that singularity the Big Bang, but it’s very similar to what we would expect from a white hole, which is just a time-reversed version of a black hole.

> That insight, plus four dollars or so, will get you a grande latte at Starbucks.
Good Question. But do they not get fished / killed before they mate?

As one of the point of farming them is that dont get to fresh water and decrease the risk of parasites.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design
Yes, that's fine. The problem is offering flexible ssl in the first place. It is not the end user's job to verify if the traffic between cloudflare and origin is encrypted.
Interesting question, in that kilogram & second are only really handy ways for humans to be able to compare things to other things reliably. Using constants is presumably a more reliable way for the higher level comparisons to be reproducible. It's turtles all the way down...
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I'm from Myanmar and not sure why this is posted here.

It's true that the traditional units are still in use. Mostly in rural areas and, local markets and small stores in cities.

Although not all the unites from smallest to largest are all in use. Mostly middle parts of those unit are in common use. e.g., only Htwa (length from tip of your thumb to pinky finger), Taung (length from your fist to elbow), Lan (length of stretch of both hands) are in common use of length. Same goes to weight and volume as well. Even local people don't know the correct measurement of smaller and higher ones.

I have created a converter app for that (Burmese language): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.eimaung.th...

Imperial units are also in used, such as mile in highway roads, inches to measure clothes, feet to measure building, pound to weight foods, etc... Government is trying to migrate metric system (I think there was an official statement), but without proper plan, no progress so far.

So, you will see all three of systems are in use in mixture of here and there. It's so mess-up. We have serious standardize problems. Measurements is not the only one. There is a similar story with character sets and encoding that seriously messing up Myanmar language on computer.
Most artists own their own work and are not under NDAs.
It sounds good but price ceilings rarely help people. The free market generally does a good enough job at finding the optimal price. It's easy enough to say that movie theater owners are greedy and just want more money, but that's exactly why they're even in the business--to make money. If you remove that incentive, they really have to reason to continue operating.

You can see this in action in New York with its rent controls: the government decided the common man needed to be able to afford housing. Seems like a noble goal, but soon landlords couldn't afford to fix their houses or pay for utilities, and so they left the market. And nobody was going to start a new apartment and nobody was going to fund one because it's unprofitable. As a result, the housing situation is even worse than how it was before.
I have the feeling that the point was the simplistic and damagingly narrow screening process here not the criticism of screening as practice, quite the opposite.
The side project request became so mechanistic that everyone can expect it but the reliability is questionable as the authenticity of the product is beyond validation. When people face something expected in a competitive situation then the really competitve - and unethical ones - will go to great lengths for raising their profile even through manufacturing reliable looking evidence (doing it continously, possibly plagiarizing), posing as excellent through acting.
No good and easy - and cheap - screening process is available as the reliability of workforce is multidimensional beyond the human capacities to comprehend, also beyond the technical level.
Over the years I had bright but unfit colleagues (damaging the team effort, jobhoppers, unsteady performance, cheaters) as well as average ones with grey personality carried the company on their backs.
The real test of the bread is eating. They have to show in the particular environment if they are capable in that very specific situation or not.
Side projects will tell nothing on this. Using it as a turning point is very ... to be polite, unwise.
Still not questioning the need for first filters so the chance of wasted efforts is minimised by not nurturing someone inadequate into the precious environment for months in vain. But that first filter must be way broader than the topic of side projects.
This is nonetheless a helpful article for pointing out some interesting tools available on iOS and on a server for getting this type of work done. But I agree, the $1000+ iPad Pro here is basically being used as a dumb terminal. If you're willing to accept a less-spectacular screen, look into inexpensive vintage products instead, like a Surface 3.
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Ask HN: Would you recommend someone to learn Emacs now?
I use JetBrains products for the development. I was wondering if it makes sense to learn and invest time learning Emacs (or vim).
Interesting.

A Naive question, how do they become triploid?
Blink and mosh fix this issue, as with that you can resume sessions even after the app is suspended by the OS.

However, this doesn't work perfectly yet: https://github.com/blinksh/blink/issues/59
This is pretty much exactly what I've been looking for - if it eliminates all the messing around with various C libraries and compiling on different systems, I'm totally gonna try this!
If it helps, think of it as China's man on the moon. It's a trophy the gov can point to. Think of it as a single point of (financial) focus with long term commitment. Now imagine what the USA would do with that money. How is China's choice not productive
As a fellow Swede, I think that's slightly disingenuous. Sure, companies can't officially force you to work overtime, but for sure there are many instances where people are encouraged to bring work home or pull some extra hours to make a deadline – especially at smaller companies.
> This is a fairly terrible example given the number of book and other intellectual properties whose publishing is being controlled by their estates.

Even by Mickey Mouse standards of copyright, which don't even extend to works this old, these phonographs have been in the public domain for 15 or more years.

Not that this is the point I intended to argue.

> The special context for this is the previous mistreatment of indigenous people and their artefacts; therefore researchers these days tend to go to great lengths to include indigenous people and seek their approval, as a courtesy.

As for the previous (and ongoing!) mistreatment of indigenous people and their artifacts; I don't think that has anything at all to do with the ethics or rights regarding the publication of these recordings. To my knowledge, these recordings were never intended to be private to the band in the first place.

If people who lived near or with your great grandfather killed my great grandfather's people or ran them out of town, and my grandfather had on a separate occasion recorded a phonograph, knowing that it would be available to the recording party and all of their associates, in a language you're studying in present day, the crimes against my great grandfather's people would have absolutely nothing to do with whether or not you should publish a recording he made available in the same timeframe (or in this case, after the brunt of the damage had already been done).
I love Intellij but Android Studio so far was a complete constant disaster.

Obscure build errors, very slow builds, all kinds of device connection failures, gradle wtfs, (un)necessary manual config edits .....
I hope that newspapers then publish their hacks salary's
And, if the program processes data too quicky, users think it isn't working. (Managers, perhaps, think it isn't working hard enough.)
Aka: I use an iPad Pro as a terminal.
Having a breadth of non-technical knowledge (dare I say, "soft skills") also improves your value as a developer insofar as you may be better positioned to discuss requirements with people, and to understand the reasons why you're developing the things you are (i.e. not "tech for techs sake")
Yeah, if I run everything somewhere else, open my macbook and just SSH in there, guess what? Thing does not get warm, battery life is awesome, I can plug in a bunch of perihperals, and whenever I am completely voided of connectivity for a longer period I actually CAN work properly on the local machine.

Is this some sort of guerilla marketing for the iPad?
To clarify - In many cases you are actually running your physics or game loop at a different rate from the render loop. For instance, in CS:GO you can have a frame rate of well beyond 300, but the game loop (physics/ai/net/logic/etc.) is ticking at 60 (by default) due to the client-server architecture. This type of non-synchronous engine architecture is very complex to build reliably, so unless there is a hard requirement for it (e.g. client-server multiplayer model w/ advanced latency compensation) you will usually find a simpler synchronous approach used unless the underlying engine comes with the async architecture OOTB (UE4).

Some additional reading on the topic:

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Source_Multiplayer_...

https://blog.forrestthewoods.com/synchronous-rts-engines-and...

https://gafferongames.com/post/fix_your_timestep/
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> If you view the point of the criminal justice system as establishing social norms, then the length of punishment and aggressiveness of enforcement matter a lot less.

The more basic type of deterrence is a strong justification for our justice system, but your point that it also exists to adjust social norms is excellent, and often not considered. You referred to prosecutors, but it's not just the government that doles out social norms...

Back in the 1950s and 60s, civil rights leaders would drive from town to town defending black people accused of crimes. They were great lawyers, but due to a variety of reasons (the big one being racism), they lost case after case. The vast majority of their cases actually.

Even though they lost many cases, the very fact that these well spoken lawyers were representing people of color started setting social norms. They were fighting back. They cross-examined white witnesses, and showed everyone was entitled to a good lawyer, and that the word of a white person could not be trusted any more than a person of color.

The point is that courts are often used as a vehicle for larger social change. It's generally free to engage (minus your time), you get an public audience, you get agents of the state to make official pronouncements (e.g., the judge, jury, prosecutor), and even the accused and lawyers get to say their bit in a (relatively) safe environment.
I see your point, but you make it sound like they have no choice but play games :) Ultimately, they do that to themselves and they want it (because they want to beat it). It's like watching an horror movie and insulting actors for being scared.
A battle that catastrophic could be seen as an early precursor to the crisis of the third century, slight dents appearing in Rome's facade and armour. A stretch maybe but worth discussing.
This is cool. A few reactions:

1. Comedy writing is much more skill-based and formulaic than many people realize. Most people could learn how to write good jokes, just like most people could learn to play basic Go. (Beating Lee Sedol or Paul Mooney is another thing)

2. The resulting comedic quality is subjective. I agree with other commenters that several were LOL worthy.

3. Comedy has a long tradition of building on prior comedy, so this feels like a perfect area for building on curated corpuses.
Hey there,

Thank you for the follow up. I have an old Pentium 3 laptop lying around that I have been meaning to try to use to simulate the audio issue. I am not convinced that giving the value of "dma" is what caused the audio glitch.

I wanted to record a video showing the issue so maybe we can try to trace what was causing the audio problem. It could have been maybe an old version of the shareware demo with the bug? Maybe there was something specifically wrong with my machine back in 1995? I do recall that I did have an ISA Sound Blaster 16 card. I am not entirely sure but I may have re-tested the game (and still had the problem) in 1998 when I got a better computer, this time with an AWE64 Value ISA card.

I have to embarrassingly admit that despite me studying CS, I would not know how to trace the game like you did to discover the cause of the memory problem. One day I hope to get to your level of expertise.

I have not been able to set aside some time to see if the audio glitch is reproduced on that Pentium 3 laptop. I am not even sure what kind of sound card is in there but it is the oldest hardware that I have so it will be worth a shot.
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Minor nit: some of those needn't run every frame (ai/pathfinding, gameplay logic). It's also possible to calculate future points and interpolate between them per frame. A nasty trick is to have shadows running at a half framerate (Crysis did this).
In addition, look at China and the North Korea situation. Best I tell, China isn't interested. Sure it has a military. But it's not wanting to get involved unless it's absolutely necessary (despite the USA's insistence they do get involved).
http://spacemacs.org is Emacs setup that supports both Emacs and Vim keybindings, and it's quite nice.

On the other hand, JetBrains tools are supposed to be very nice.

I'd say pick one thing and learn it well.
Not a big fan of academia either, but I don't see how this is any different than upper management/leaderahip positions in industry.
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I can't easily find pricing information on the P3 instances. Have you come across a simple table with the prices?
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I don't think it does too much but it improves on the instant run feature which does indeed make a huge difference but at times is still dodgy
Most privacy concerns have to do with information that could be harmful in the wrong hands. My web history is useful to me, but if my roommate gets ahold of it, I will be embarrassed to no end. My SSN ensures I can identify myself within America's bureaucracy, but if someone else has it they can open credit cards in my name. My salary lets me make a budget but if someone else knows what my salary is...then what? How does that information harm me when a third party gets it?