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> Many startup founders go through months, and years of living on beans, struggling to pay bills and making do on a shoestring budget. Why should they not enjoy the benefits of their spoils if they do make it?

I think the problem is that they are still working for the investors, having sold them the dream. Because they are also acting as CEO, they are still on duty to the investors to create an exit.

They haven’t “made it” yet, unless you consider raising investment as the goal. But it isn’t. Until you’ve made your investors a great return, the point of the article is to show some modesty.
Only now we will start draining engineers worth atleast $90K from other countries. In SV $90K can be considered a starting salary.
My point is that it's not consistent. Why would they leave serial rapist Harvey Weinstein verified on Twitter, meanwhile "unverifying" idiot Laura Loomer?

They also don't verify popular people on other platforms who have hundreds of thousands of followers on both YouTube and Twitter who might actually be the target of some fake Twitter accounts.

Foreign terrorist association the Muslim Brotherhood is also verified, is that a tacit endorsement?

I've seen notable accounts permanently suspended from Twitter for arguing with actual neo-Nazis.

Absolutely no consistency or transparency is part of what is killing the platform for large swaths of users.
This is strictly true, but IMO a better argument against iPhones than against cash.
There is something endearing to me about the ones who choose to lie low despite their new found wealth. I think it displays a sense of contentment that existed even before they "made it". People like that are rare in my experience; individuals who have an inner stillness that is unruffled by the elevating or depleting circumstances they find themselves in. I have met a few in my time, and have often enjoyed their company, not least because they seem to live life with a more meaningful purpose, rather than with a drive to "make lots of money".
>the blue checkmark is reserved for accounts of "public interest"

>Everybody knowledgeable about Twitter (including Twitter themselves) who makes this claim is gaslighting.

Absolutely so! Tptacek has spoken truth, albeit in a jumbled manner. The claim that the blue checkmark signifies people of public interest is ridiculous given how major world actors such as Julian Assange have been denied it.
If all of the above were true it would be great for new companies and great for consumers with the downside of being unreasonably expensive to the middlemen (car dealerships, grocery stores, etc.). I would say the same thing doesn't apply to internet companies. It's not unreasonably expensive for them to carry all websites and in fact they are making great profits. I don't think the internet companies gaining more profit (by not being neutral) is worth the consumer and new company benefits lost.

The other major issue is competition. All the above examples have a lot of competition, but internet companies are a lot of times monopolies and duopolies. The consumer has no choice but to use them.
This can make sense when you're doing batch requests and allow partial failures.

Wouldn't that be a 206?
This is an excellent rewrite, but I'm hesitant to try it because Moment doesn't emphasize speed.

I'm in need of a fast date and time library (close to realtime) and have reluctantly rolled my own until I find a better option.
Well, I certainly agree with getting rid of subsidies that give a competitive advantage. But I don't understand how that translates into being against net neutrality, wouldn't you just be against the FCC in its entirety?
It is linked on the Github page. There's also a link to a page making direct feature comparisons to Moment: https://moment.github.io/luxon/docs/manual/faq/moment.html
Every time I see Photoshop, I look for the launch/splash screen to see Thomas Knoll's name at the very beginning of the long list of credited names.

Without the software craftsmanship and skill of the Knoll brothers, there might not have been the dynasty of Photoshop.

http://www.drdobbs.com/a-conversation-with-john-knoll/184410...
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I just read about and play with things I don't use for work or any real projects--recently-ish I posted about Dart/Flutter here, and I worked through some basic Kotlin exercises after Google announced it as a supported language for Android. ML languages fascinated me early on; I think OCaml was the first language I saw with both strong typing and good type inference to keep code from getting verbose. Once I started looking deeper the pattern matching seemed like a key feature. Stuff like WebKit's new Riptide GC for JS is interesting (concurrent and generational but not copying is a neat corner of the space I hadn't heard much about). Rust is making progress on low-cost memory- and thread-safety. Computers can be interesting!

HS/college was a lot of C(++). My work has been Perl (I'm old) and then Python/Django (with the usual sprinkling of other stuff: JS, bash, etc.). Go has been a surprisingly intense hobby over the past few years and it's probably the only lang I could bust something interesting out in soon without much of a learning curve. (I guess also some of the close cousins of JS out there, but not really a brand-new environment then.)

I did play with very early (pre-`var`) C# more than 10 years back (I'm old!), but that was before most of these improvements happened and before I understood the relevance of the things like value types that were in there from the start. It's interesting now mostly as another point in the space of programming languages/environments, e.g. different tradeoffs around GC, generics, etc. Guess it has somewhat more potential to be relevant to me as an open/cross-platform project, but it's hard to see myself making the big time investment to actually get up to building-stuff speed in it just for giggles. Similar feelings about Swift or Kotlin, FWIW. (Not that I'm totally ruling anything out, but I've got stuff to do!)

That specific discussion of proposals I just Googled up looking for the C# pattern matching stuff. I first heard about it via a different link posted on lobste.rs a while back, but it was faster to Google this than look for that.
Is Eugene Kaspersky going the way of Julian Assange, or is he just another Deep State 33rd Degree Freemason casualty? Who knows.

Either way the flavor of the comments on this thread are really, really unusual for Hacker News and YCombinator in general.
Reminds me of slices in Rust.
With registrars being as censorious as they've been lately?
Meanwhile when they opened up the application process for anyone to request verification, they made the implication that a verified account was a "high quality" account you might want to follow.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/twitter-announces-a...

>We hope opening up this application process results in more people finding great, high-quality accounts to follow

This seems to be where the line started blurring between "this is who they say they are" and "this account is an asset to our platform."
Do you leave your phone at home as well?
The standard library is really difficult to work with and does very little for you. There are some improvements to Dates coming through the standards pipeline but it will be a while.
I might be leaning towards suffering maybe a little too much. Intellectually, I can justify but it but it takes its toll, perhaps needlessly.
This will make writing IOT apps easier as one often have to scan/process contiguous buffers. Using string was slow and onerous - this could be cool, and when combined with .NetCore starting to make C# a contender in device space and other low level uses.
Right after he lost control of his company (FB clone) when he refused to shut down opposition related groups on it. He openly talked about pressure from FSB etc. Telegram is not run out of Russia and Durov does not live in Russia. So if you don't mind loosing all your russian assets and living in exile you sure can speak out :)
Oh, without a doubt, it has morphed over time. It probably should be called something else now. But to say it was never about identity is false.
Various sources for day-length estimates are available, see for example https://design-of-time.com/slowing.htm (appendix A).
Feel free to reach out to the email I gave OP when you're further along. Took a look and has a nice MUDdy feel but was frustrated that "look" wasn't implemented yet :)
No, they're 0-indexed in Moment. But yes, the reason I made Luxon 1-index them is that days and years are 1-indexed. I also fielded a lot of issues in Moment that were caused by newer programmers not knowing that months were 0-indexed.
I can see how people may consider some of these things a 'waste', but a lot of the time, they fail to see the 'down river' consequences of the spending.

I remember there was a great deal made in the press a few years back about a famous Indian movie star spending several million dollars on his wedding in a poor city that he grew up in. He was criticised for his 'wastefulness'. However, a follow up report on the event a few months later pointed out that his one wedding actually was massively beneficial for the entire city's economy. Catering and hire companies made several year's profits in one day, and were able to hire more people and take them off the streets.

Similarly, we may criticise the extravagant marble entrance stairway in a startup founder's mansion, but that stairway may have probably put the stonemason's kids through college or helped to extend that dying artform for another generation.

If they have an empty house, they still contribute to the local government's activities via land tax or rates bills, and they probably also employe local cleaners, garden maintainers etc. Far better than just snorting it all away in cocaine and other heavy drugs.
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Sorry but this is just wrong. I rent in Lake Merritt just off the 17th St BART stop for 2200/month. I split it with my wife. If you can't make a 2k/month rent payment on 100k/year of income, you're not managing your money well.
> If the implementations were open source with a strong consulting component for integration you'd probably see less non-removable bloat.

I believe about all UEFI implementations are based on the open source (though not copyleft) TianoCore implementation.
The answer is acceptance.
If they have a new job offer, it is not difficult to change. I've known quite a few people who interviewed one week and just moved to the new job. Their employer has legal staff to take care of the paperwork.
More than that, every extra square foot is an added ongoing maintenance hassle and expense. It would be interesting to study where the "status = big house" thing arose in our cultural history. There are other measures of status, like staff, participation in civic events, charitable giving, etc.
"Many startup founders go through months, and years of living on beans, struggling to pay bills "

Most don't though.

Most come from upper middle class families.

They live 'Grad School Life' until they are successful.

Meaning: ok, nothing phat or fancy, but they don't have any real trouble or risk.

Of course - many do struggle for a long while.

I think they should buy what they want ... but they shouldn't be showy about it.

Don't drive your Ferrari into work when there's a layoff :). Or ever maybe.

EDIT: there's quite a lot of data to validate that richer kids are more likely to be successful founders [1]. I'm not indicating that this is always the case of course, but it's pretty common.

I worked for a while at a Fortune 50 and the kids we saw coming in as interns were really well prepared - I also noticed a pattern - their parents were Doctors, CEOs, high level government officials. I'm not saying they didn't earn the positions, but there's no doubt that their status helped, moreover, they already knew how to behave properly in a corporate/professional setting. I had no idea, that's not something my parents could teach me.

Two of my 'rich kid' interns went on to found major companies, one of which there's 100% chance you've heard of and probably 80% chance you've used - the other just raised $50M.

[1] http://www.andrewoswald.com/docs/entrepre.pdf
My own experience, mostly. It doesn't include any government-owned enterprises or oil companies, of course — but in IT, the correlation is staggering. From all my peers, I hardly know a single IT professional with a salary over $60k (usually a team lead level or above) that wouldn't be in opposition to the current regime. Of course, about half of such people I knew a couple years back have already moved out of the country.
I'd love to make it smaller. Several of the builds contain polyfills for newish JS features not supported in IE. I'd like to strip that out and shave off a few k.
D'oh! Edited.
In 1997, farmers illegally smuggled a hemorrhagic virus into New Zealand to control rabbit pests.

Interesting. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/798d/8b6f9874ae41d0105b012b...
Well, Quassel is the same, open source, under GPL, self-hosted. (Disclaimer: I contribute to Quassel occasionally)
Chemicals refers estrogen from birth control pills. It's a valid argument.
It's worth mentioning that C# is one of the most flexible languages available today.

Not many languages can claim a great web development, native GUI, native mobile apps, and first-class gaming development, story.
For what it's worth, there's no code (edit: well, maybe a few lines) in common between the libraries; Luxon is written from scratch. I haven't done a ton of perf testing, but depending on your use case, I'd expect most operations to be much faster in Luxon. The caveat there is that Moment objects are mutable, which can sometimes be a perf advantage.
> the world is 100% worse off due to ads

Do you have the source for that? Personally, most of the modern targeted ads I notice are a net gain for my life. Do you have a different experience?
This was one of the reasons I left the agency world. I was leading the strategy part and pitching for new business (not to mention scoping the work and contract) and won 7 figures in new business we would not have won otherwise. Didn't get a dime in commission or bonus (or even a raise that year) because I wasn't officially on the sales team and was salaried. Learned my lesson there.
Luxon author here, happy to answer anything.

Edit: Here's a thing I wrote about why this exists: https://moment.github.io/luxon/docs/manual/faq/why.html
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I had a pirated version of Photoshop 4.0 off of Hotline (because every self-respecting teen had to have Photoshop), but I never actually used it until I purchased CS3 (in a boxed copy!) for work.

Before that I used a Mac shareware program called "Color IT!" that always seemed far more intuitive to me.
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Take some solace in the fact that if he doesn’t grow up a bit, he’s only going to hurt himself. The blue collar folks of the world will just grab a beer and talk about what an asshole he is, and he’ll never realize the opportunities he’s missed or the friends he could have had.
That might be true in some cases (Brendan Eich, though?) but making your product more complex for the user just to raise easy money seems like a poor trade-off.

On top of that many ICOs seem to have unjustified valuations and reduced oversight from investors vs traditional fundraising.
Going with a weight of 20 lbs/m^2, that's only 600 lbs - less than 1% of the fully-loaded weight.

It's fairly likely one could get well below that mass using some of the more experimental solar panel designs (such as those in use for solar aircraft), but it would probably not be cost-efficient .
Fire (and fire suppression system) is another major hazard.
The boss is not deciding how much both sides get, supply and demand determines at which price point someone is willing to work for someone.
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It's interesting seeing tons of "journalists" who aren't well known, of public interest, or in any way prominent being given this status. Specifically if you're a new journalist straight out of school for certain publications, have penned maybe a few articles which nobody has read, and have a Twitter account with a few hundred followers if that (most likely friends/family and acquaintances), apparently this badge is warranted, because a LOT of people matching that description have it. It clearly doesn't follow from any need to be correctly identified, your "credibility" on anything, whether Twitter necessarily endorses you, whether you're being promoted, or whatever reason anyone claims.

Tim Pool recounted how his account got verified a few days ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67nFNUPQaeI&t=1m25s.

TL;DW: His employer, VICE, instructed Twitter to verify him, and they did.

Ultimately that's what this badge comes down to: for most people it's a mark of being on the inside, knowing the right people. The right agency, the right employer, maybe just having a friend working at Twitter. There are some other certain criteria that aren't publicized, and they have in the past randomly given it out to "high profile" people on Twitter, even though that seems to be totally random as well.

This is a special club, Twitter has on and off said it means many things, but there's no consistency. Just like there's no consistency with how they enforce their rules, there's no consistency with this special privilege either.
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Ya I have a two bedroom townhome in the east bay, have kids and my wife doesn’t work. When I made $120k I saved over $2,000/month.

It’s expensive, but it’s not that bad.
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That concern is really only for US citizens.
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No questions - just a huge thanks for doing this!
I'm Indian calling my own people 'Code-monkey Indians'. My friends have told me that this makes me a 'reverse racist' i.e. racist on my own people. Not sure if that makes sense but it's funny and I whole-heartedly embrace that title :)
For those of us who grew up playing touch-tone chose your own adventure games, something even slightly more sophisticated would make for a most enjoyable extended bath. AGI need not apply.
Well, if we want to fix that, we could rework our degree system to function like the European one. Over there, a Master's is a mixture of coursework (and research for more ambitious students), while a PhD requires a Master's to enter and has the legal classification of an entry-level job, with work duties but few to no courses.
An apartment shared with another person in Oakland is exactly what I identified as baseline.
> Many startup founders go through months, and years of living on beans, struggling to pay bills and making do on a shoestring budget. Why should they not enjoy the benefits of their spoils if they do make it?

Many of these founders have only "made it" in a paper sense. It's at best ungracious to be living large while your employees and investors are still sweating it out and/or losing money.

Also, I find the "years of struggle" trope irritating. Many of people live on beans while working 70-hour weeks and don't end up rich. Plenty of those people work at companies whose executives do get rich.
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> Anything outside of learning enough to do your job should be at the business's expense.

There's no "should" here — it's an open market with a lot of agents. You're free to pursue certain working conditions and then look for employer that will agree with them. And another developer is also free to go an extra mile and ask something extra in return.

This is why I'm against any kind of unionizing for developers, by the way — too many different situations and opinions about what our working conditions should be.
Indeed...

> every dollar the boss keeps _is_ a dollar that the employees don't get and the boss is the one deciding how much both sides get.

I've thought a lot about this over the past few years. There's definitely a difference between being an owner and an employee. An owner lives with a whole different level of stress and risk. An employee has a choice to work for an owner, or go work somewhere else, or become an owner by starting a company.

I'm not sure where the balance of power between business owner and employee is determined...it's fairly complex.
"But a _MASSIVE_ mansion won't add much value to their life". Not sure I agree. Have you ever seen the kind of parties you can throw in a mansion? That's quite a lot of value that you otherwise wouldn't have.
This is perilously close to the broken window fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
For a downtown SF office, anything on BART is probably going to be a faster commute than anything on the Peninsula.
Are you an indentured servant? The boss certainly doesn't get to decide how much both sides get. Those that hand out high salaries aren't doing it as some form of charity. It'd be absurd and stupidly inefficient if they were, most of the world lives on US$10 or less.
One note, your second claim is not entirely true - while land vehicles are a ways from being feasible to power with photovoltaics (although I would have to do the math for trains, which may be close), we already have primarily [1] and exclusively [2] solar-powered aircraft.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Impulse#Solar_Impulse_2_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helios_Prototype
You are correct. I was using the term in relation to all of us here at HN critiquing the people mentioned in the article. Assuming none of us are employed by those companies, we are essentially peers in the industry.

The boss/employee relationship is an interesting one as well. If the boss is a self made entrepreneur that built his/her company from scratch and lived by the skin of their pants for years, then I believe it should be their decision as to how much of every dollar coming into the company goes into their pockets.

I would also assume that being successful from those beginnings would indicate that they are shrewd business people, and that they can figure out a ratio of boss/employee allotment that would be fair and also be beneficial for future company growth and reinvestment.
I read the blogposts, I have 10 years of C# under my belt (with very scare unsafe usage). Why is this important for me? What problems does this feature solve?
> I’m not sure if I’m missing something, but isn’t this basically just the same as Java 7’s Buffer, ByteBuffer, etc?

Aren't those Java types heap-allocated and GC managed? I think the big deal is that Span can be allocated anywhere (native, stack, heap).
> One finds IRC clients everywhere.

Yet I find myself using the web interface of Freenode when I need it, instead of installing a client in my Linux machine with a single command, any of the ones I used for a long time.

> Is the value of a program measured by the number of features it has?

I'd say by the number of features reliably shared by everyone else. This is why XMPP never took off and basically Google killed it.

> Apples and oranges.

Discord specifically targeted communities that used IRC, at least initially. The main difference with the other chat services is that you can enter a room from a browser, so it's almost friction-less to bring someone. IRC natively doesn't support that but many servers could and did (and I think it's the reason IRC remained somewhat popular).

For the record, I don't like Discord for its proprietary and centralized nature (despite calling the communities "servers"). Instead I'll be supporting Matrix and Riot as soon as Riot issue #4488 is fixed.
I don't work in finance, but I see the modern global financial system as one of the greatest achievements of humankind and one of the main reason behind humanity's prosperity. I would love to work there if I had the skills or patience to gain them (instead, I work in gamedev, where I acquired immense domain knowledge over the years).