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I'm also a solo developer, and I take support and sales phone calls for FormAPI [1]. I found a nice number on Twilio: (856) FORM-API

I have a license for on-site deployments, and I think every enterprise inquiry has started with a phone call.

I also send a welcome email to new customers where I say that I'm happy to have a call to talk about their requirements or questions. I also use Drift [2] for live chat, and I've handled a few support cases on there.

My advice: I don't think this is an optional thing. You don't solve the problem by removing the phone number from your site. If you're getting too many calls, you need to improve your self-help support pages, or hire another person to help with the phones.

[1] https://formapi.io

[2] http://drift.com
With verizon FiOS I am billed at the beginning of the month and yet I still had to hand over my SSN. Who else am I going to go to, Comcast? I paid for the first month's service when I signed up and I pay for each month before the beginning of the month. For example, I paid for 11/02 to 12/01 on or before the due date which was 10/27. In other words, I paid for the month of November before November began. I have no Verizon equipment. The ont was already here when I moved here. I bought my own modem/router. I can provide proof if you don't believe me.
Just because they are Pilot error doesn't necessarily mean that the machine would have done better.
Interesting in the UK companies cannot use shares with different rights in employee share schemes
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Hm, I wonder if it is just the IP address people don't like to use? Like if it used Bonjour/Avahi and you could (after a bit of initial config) connect to your internet connected lightbulb via http://kitchen-lightbulb.local would that be better?
It’s supported so it’s not a bit of a stretch.

SSD’s were generally available but extremely expensive from Apple so I went for the extra space on the desktop. For some reason Apple makes it difficult to upgrade their hard drives. I bought an SSD MacBook Pro at the same time. It was much faster with only a Core i5 vs the iMac’s i7. Barely used now because I bought another laptop in 2013.

Now, I wanted to wait for the next Intel refresh. No point in getting less than 32GB in a laptop in 2018 when I got 16gb in 2013. Because of the slow change in Intel revs, I’m probably better off cracking open my 2010 iMac and putting in an SSD.

Hey, thanks for taking me back and explaining how it was “back then”. I miss the late 90’s back then when I spent $800 on several hundred megabytes of 10,000 rpm Cheetah SCSI drive, and had that thing screwed in within 5 minutes.

The bottom line is you will basically live with your Apple hardware as you bought it for 5-10 years. Better buy at the proper Intel revision and get the upgrades at purchase. That 1 port on your new MacBook Pro won’t go far
Well what's the point of paying you a salary then if you're going to be counting your hours anyway?
To be fair, some English speakers will say baby to mean a particular unnamed infant. For example, a midwife or childcare adviser will talk about what to do "when baby gets home" or "If baby is hungry.." etc.
But that is going to change in the new year with the new laws. with up to 2% of their global revenue in fines. And the fines IIRC can be issued backwards as well.
Great presentation and insights on a profession that is kind of considered less important by a lot of people, thanks
Show me what you've got before you ask me to log in.

I think Tastekid did this really well.
I guess one focus would be "extreme energy efficiency". Start from that point and solve the performance aspect later.
The lowrisc project [1] tires to be sort like a hardware linux. They are working on a linux capable SOC and they have a number of innovative ideas you might be interested in.

Maybe listen to this maybe:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it3vVtnCYiI

[1] http://www.lowrisc.org/
We were here back in 2005 with the introduction of Solaris zones, which now live on in SmartOS. Took GNU/Linux “only“ 12 years to begin to catch up. This might be new to you, but it’s nothing new to those of us who built private clouds back in 2005/2006. Just don’t think it’s new because it isn’t.
>CLT is 5 times lighter that reinforced concrete. With normal streets Tikku does not require any foundation, it will just simply stand on the street.

Stand, yes....until a strong breeze catches it.
Then they can't win.

An accusation has been made, they've refuted the claims with a response, response is dismissed as a PR shield.

What are they going to do?
The rise of more powerful graphics cards with the ports and ability to run multiple monitors made this something that ever fewer desktop users need that did before. You can still get good KVMs in the enterprise/hardware market, they are common in server rooms, but even then less so than the old days as most firmware allows remote management.
Guilds are far more restrictive than unions an din the US "Guilds" have an unfortunate history in labour relations ie excluding minorities in favour of whites
That is not "the entire point of a union".
I don't see retirement as anything worth to chase. My basic believe is that you should be able to enjoy your work, learn something new and do all possible to balance your work and life style. If you work only for the money than you should stop and try to do something else, even if it would cut your income. It's no shame to have regular income and many times you will have more free time and less stress than people who always work for big buck of money.
You hate starting an AMI and having a simple script to connect to an ECS cluster?
I don't recall the GP saying currencies don't fluctuate. But there's a few orders of magnitude difference in the rate at which they fluctuate.
For this not to be a PR shield (i.e. for Israel to really be able to read protonmail) the link would have to be an outright lie, or protonmail would have to have shared key data.

Heck, even if somehow radware (the BGP-based DDoS proxy they use) had access to protonmails private key or had minted their own SSL cert for protonmail, you'd still be protected by PGP.

For outgoing mail, they don't use radware so even if you were to send plaintext emails to a mailserver that doesn't support SSL encryption, radware still wouldn't be able to read that.

Unless the linked statement is just a lie, their DDoS protection service is not able to MitM them. Your proposed scheme seems a lot more convoluted than protonmail just giving access to the Israeli government. Similarly, it seems a lot more conspicuous.

If you don't want to use them because it indirectly supports an Israeli company, that makes sense, but their DDoS prevention scheme as outlined does not harm privacy in any way.
yeah I remember seeing those ads when I was a child as well, however I think that the invasiveness has increased. the children have this "relationship" with people on youtube, where the youtuber addresses the whole audience, but in a way that children might perceive as friendliness, while the intentions may not be so genuine.
With a technical workaround. The thing is, when does improving browser compatibility count as hacking? Most major websites "hacked" IE with a fake P3P header. This is not that different.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8048306/what-is-the-most...

http://alexanderhiggins.com/google-fined-22-5m-for-hacking-s...
Many FTSE 100 companies in the UK do have share save schemes available to all employees
I'm familiar with Marko and his arguments hence my quotes around "native" ;) But it sounds fantastic for marketing
Depends if its contractual or not
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Outside of the initial installation (brew install or apt-get install or whatever you use), you really don't have to deal with the JVM ecosystem or classpaths unless you interop with Java stuff (in which case, you'd be using JVM anyway).

Leiningen (and boot) isolate you from all of that. I've been using Clojure since 09 and I don't remember the last time I even had to think about a classpath. I also use vim (and more recently, spacemacs) and not an IDE. Its not an issue in Clojure.

Although, I agree with you on the JVM in general and can see how its a reasonably assumption, even if not actually true.
Feeling-based? That is bulshit.

Do you have other examples than the obvious white-pride hate-group?
Because you'd have to clone SIM cards / otherwise gain access to someone's text messages instead of just using a bulk list of "secret question" answers.
I agree with this but I think the responsibility for fixing all this stuff lies with the teams responsible for each app - they should be the ones dockerising apps, setting up monitoring etc - that way you're distributing the devops stuff around the team which is what you really want.
Again with the victim blaming, no matter how many different ways you say the same thing, you're completely wrong.

It's not a personal choice, it's like claiming smoking is a personal choice. 40 years ago it really wasn't, it was a social normal, and then when it became clear how badly the tobacco companies had misled the world, it took a lot of struggle and effort and huge public policy initiatives to reduce smoking.

A large section of society has been attacked by companies for profit using lies, addictive substances and manipulation and simply saying "stop smoking" or "start spending inordinate amounts of time researching every thing you eat to find out if it has added sugar, even though it's presented to you as healthy", didn't/hasn't worked.

That you're still trying to peddle the obesity crisis as a moral failing of some huge swathe of the population is really sad and disappointing.
I'd guess the comment about HDCP is onto something. To build a KVM switch that works with modern displays without weird errors, it probably has to be an active HDMI/HDCP endpoint on its own - which means a vendor would either need to get its own sets of keys and do additional work to enforce all DRM restrictions - or they'd have to use leaked keys and prepare to get sued in an instant.

Even without HDCP, I remember another article explaining that it's already difficult enough to get two arbitrary HDMI devices to talk to each other because HDMI allows so many different modes of operation. I imagine the situation would get even worse if you had to negotiate common protocols for three endpoints at the same time.
Nothing wrong with using the blockchain without paying billions to the people who bought Bitcoin early.
I did my own support as a solo dev for 15 years for an app used by around 250 companies and as much as 1000 users. Then we got bought out and I moved into an open plan office. It's not the same at all. 5 years later I still struggle to deal with the open plan noise and interruptions.
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Just curious: who's taking the other side of those trades (BTC for yuan) and what are they doing with all the yuan?
Just stop spying on your users.
It is great data hygiene to use encryption at rest. However, it gives no security guarantees. You still need to trust posteo.

If posteo wants, they can read all incoming email. Their security scheme depends solely on their good intentions.
Still great that their data at rest is encrypted in a way even they cannot read.

The scheme does defend against third parties outside of posteo being able to access data, or coerce posteo to decrypt data. Posteo could probably still be coerced to push out a fraudulent client update that still breaks their encrpytion, but that is a very hard problem to deal with.
+1 for Tutanota. The new client is simply amazing - https://mail.tutanota.com/ - it convinced me to go Premium which is way cheaper than PM.
So Google's recommended way of reporting a problem is to post on a forum that Google themselves don't officially read (or promise any kind of response)? Do you understand why some people might not think that's a satisfactory solution?
That the failure of one of those economic model for public healthcare (social security) but what can one expect from a model invented at the time population exploded (baby boomers) and then when emigration was encouraged?

What we need now is another economic model better fitted to the future challenges. For me longer life, AI, neural tools and robots are clearly somewhere in the picture, however I would not like to be in a culture of perpetual holidays where everything is managed by robots and AI.

Augmenting the human being, socially, intellectually and physically is a much better pathway.
Normal is however things are/were. Atm, the norms are whatever environment Google, FB, etc. grew up under, over the last decade.

Before that, it was even more anarchic. Before that, the internet didn't exist. Global-scale many-to-many media and communications didn't exist.

I don't understand the desire to argue for an internet descibed by analogy to phone or radio or somesuch. The comparison isn't that strong, and the outcome is not desirable. The internet exposed the flaws in those, if anything has informed anything. Is this devils' advocacy?

I do understand incumbents. They're safer and more protected the more rules get made. I understand politicians who are trying to deal with some other problem (financing terrorism, child porn), and don't understand or care about side effects. I understand the naive public, who just want their leaders to just solve these problems they keep taalking about. I understand judges ruling on specific cases, without regard (not their job) for the delay facto policy implications. The HN-er who wants an internet rulebook, I don't get it.
One might think that how satisfactory it is depends on how well it works. The parent is asserting it works pretty well.
ProtonMail does not have "ties with the Israeli military". Where are you reading this stuff?
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It's much worse than that unfortunately.

Pre-tax income 2013: $310m on $2.3b in sales

Pre-tax income 2014: $279m on $2.26b in sales

Pre-tax income 2015: $83m on $2.5b in sales

Pre-tax income 2016: -$20m on $2.46b in sales

Pre-tax income last four quarters: -$544m on $1.95b in sales

Net income for 2013 was $247m, for 2014 it was $228m, for 2015 it was $81m. For the last eight quarters, it's nearly a negative billion dollars.

Net tangible assets 2015: $676 million

Net tangible assets 3Q17: -$1.3 billion

Their business is in trouble.

To make matters worse, they've got a $24 billion market cap. When times were good in 2013, they'd have been sporting a near 100 PE ratio with that market cap. Today it's particularly crazy, given they've had net negative growth over the last five years and they're losing a lot of money.

Fair value in my opinion is closer to 70% lower than what they're trading for right now. That's assuming 30 times earnings on getting back to $230m +/- in net income. In more normal times that 30 PE would be very rich for a zero growth company. A more skeptical look at them, would be they're worth 85% to 90% less than what they're trading for today, if their business continues to contract or remains weak and they struggle to get back to something more like $80m to $100m in net income.
ITT, Devry, University of Phoenix, Corinthian Colleges, etc.

Yeah, I wonder why people would think for profit education is not in the best interest of the students too. /s
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I've found a short (20 minute) nap can help a lot with this.
And this was the intended effect of your post you wrote a long monologue instead of a clear answer. Thus proving his point, there is no clear answer.

Any truth-holder (on both side) is a blatant liar.
OK, apologies for making such a long post. Here is my point (which has turned out to be pretty long too):

1) I have realized that systematically learning programming concepts, models and algorithms first, and how to apply them through programming techniques is much more important than just keeping on learning new languages and frameworks. For this, I am finding "Concepts, Techniques and Models of Computer Programming" invaluable; it covers an amazing amount of ground, and has an excellent bibliography to know where to learn more of a particular aspect. It is is a successor of SICP, which is very good too, and, I suspect as a tribute, is the first reference in CTM.

2) Learn how to do lightweight design upfront based only on the problem/requirement independently from language; the book above helps enormously, but I also really like the approach in the 2008 version of the MIT course 6.005 (later versions are watered down IMHO) [1]. It reinforces this design approach, and has, AFAIK, the best approach to using Design Patterns properly and systematically: to bridge the gap between design and code, which this way just flows almost automatically from the design. It may not be immediately obvious, but this course has a lot in common with SICP. For this reason I am highly sceptical of TDD, although I love to write the tests first and incrementally.

3) Once you know 1), many aspects of learning a new language and using it well are a piece of cake, because what you learned in 1) transcends any particular language and is timeless; I am now starting to enjoy mapping what I learned in 1) to different languages.

4) if you have to or want to use a language that is lacking direct support for anything in 1), if the language's computing model allows it (and many do, it is amazing how adding just one little concept to a language opens a whole range of possibilities but also problems, i.e. destructive assignment, threads, exceptions, triggers, ports, dataflow variables, etc), you can just build an abstraction or find a mature library that implements it. It is equally amazing how much you can still accomplish even if you remove one of the those concepts from a language, like destructive assignment, if you know the right techniques. It may not be as efficient and convenient as a built in abstraction, but will very likely still be much better than the alternative of implementing a design that is not the right one for the problem/requirement.

5) there is no need at all to be intimidated by a language or system with an enormous amount of features/libraries. Most of the time you only need to select a subset of the language to accomplish your goal efficiently. From 1) you will learn exactly how to do this and exactly why it is crazy to try to use the full power of a language; you should actually do the exact opposite, use as few concepts of a language as you can get away with while still writing a program that has a good balance of all required good properties.

[1] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...
The question "Did you even read the article?" adds nothing of value, if not downright hostility. When someone asks a question/writes an uninformed response and one wants to respond to it, fine. But don't complain that someone made you respond to it.
Thank you very much. I am very glad to see this as #1 here.

There is a typo on Voicepaper's description in iTunes. It reads "Voicepaper is a test to speech voice reader..." instead of "Voicepaper is a text to speech voice reader".
They don't VERIFY the birth year. It is only as good as the other ID docs submitted to them.

In their own words: https://twitter.com/UIDAI/status/934731727808774144
OK, thanks- I didn't know that. It looks like perceptual hashing can even identify a heavily modified version of an original (e.g. with noise added etc). So what I say about changing a single pixel would definitely not work.

I'm sure it's still possible to steal a picture from someone else's online presence outside of facebook though and upload it as "unique" and facebook won't have any way to know that, unless they scan every other social site (and the rest of the internet, possibly).

And someone could always take a picture of someone else's face, with a bit of social engineering, and use it to get access to their facebok- although I don't think that's the kind of thing facebook want to detect here.
Thanks for the detailed explanation of your thought process.

I guess you fall into the few percent of developers who are NOT meant to be addressed by the general rule of "don't use float for money". Like with all "general rules" in software development, it is intended to guide the >90% of devs who don't want and sometimes also aren't capable of fully grasping the domain they're working in and the inner workings of the technology they use. The majority of devs need simple, clear guidelines that prevent them from making expensive mistakes while wielding technology that's made up of layers and layers of abstractions, of which some (or even most) are entirely black boxes to them. "Playing it safe" often comes with other shortcomings like worse performance, and if those are not acceptable in a specific scenario, you need a developer who fully grasps the problem domain and technology stack and who is thus capable of ignoring the "general rules" because he knows exactly why they exist and why he won't get into the troubles they are intended to protect you from.

I have long thought that every developer under the sun should strive to get up to this point, and I still think that it is an admirable goal, but I came to understand that not all developers share this goal, and that even if someone tries to learn as much as possible about every technology that he comes in contact with, he will never be able to reach this state of deep understanding in every technical domain imaginable, as there are just too many of them nowadays. We all, no matter how smart we are, sometimes need to rely on "general rules" in order to not make stupid mistakes.
What if it physically unplugged the HDMI connection, and reconnected it to the other device? It wouldn't be quite as seamless since the initialization process would be repeated, but it would work.
Thank you for having released Panako. Note that I gave the link to the relevant paper in a previous comment

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When I was a teenager, I worked in a larger store. During busy times we would get the offer to work on Sundays stocking up and trimming the stockroom so it was ready for next week, usually a very busy one. We received double pay and food, and we always accepted because, who doesn't want to get double pay at the age of 16?

This store had a gardening section was was open on weekends, and people working there got jealous and complained to the warehouse boss. This resulted in our double pay being no more, and we only got what amounted to pay for an extra 45m of pay, for a 4 hour shift according to the union agreement. Needless to say, none of us wanted to skip out on our weekend for essentially no benefit, and my boss had to hire extra people full time to cover what we could do uninterrupted during sundays, ultimately meaning greater cost overall.

Now what pissed us off, is that the people in the gardening section was hired to work on Sundays. They knew this was the job.
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> I guess you could say that there are benefits to a commute after all!

Absolutely, its forced idle time where your mind can drift. Although, over time, I find myself just getting more and more tired during my commute to the point where anything I do think about is quickly lost now... :/
I think you don't know what GPL is intended for. It's to give the USER the four basic freedoms, not the dev, not the author, the user.