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The Secrets of Consulting by Gerald M. Weinberg. It showed me how to deal with, and get true value out of consultants. It also helped me become a better consultant myself and scale my service to bigger projects & customers. Also the book has great advise on how to sell your service. It's not only what you sell that sets the price but how you "package" your service. In a nutshell it's a book that can help leap from external contractor, who works only via agents to become a "true consultant" where you pick your own clients without a middle-man, create a pitch, draft the offer, and also carry the full commercial risk.

https://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Consulting-Giving-Getting-Suc...

There was another HN thread some years back linking to a fascinating blog post of somebody who pointed out not to charge hourly rates and invoice per week. It was giving really solid advise on pricing strategy for individual consultants to increase the rate from 100/hr to 6-8K/week. It argued to never compromise on the price but see what parts of the project could be left out, etc ... If somebody here remembers this site/article it would be fantastic (I can no longer remember where to find it unfortunately).
The idea is real. I'll sometimes use my green baseball hat and tilt it somewhat to block both overhead light and low sun in from the side.

Or go to a room where I can turn the light all the way down.
Because DB2, like Watson, is an overall brand name for a suite of products. This is a standard IBM practice.
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This number is meaningless in today's (and the past several years') eBay -- sellers cannot leave negative feedback for buyers.
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I am just going to drop a few quick comments. It's 6:39AM in NY, and I just woke up. Maybe not relevant at all, but...

I love reading about biography like these. I own a couple books, for example, "Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet" did keep me awake for a few days on an early train. This one, absolutely easy to digest, thank you for sharing.

1. So do the four code bases share code they reuse (think of a common repository they depend on)?

2. Are the query planners all different because they needed to be platform specific?

3. Is DB2 still on four code bases?

Would be awesome if we have one central catalog of stories like this one.

BTW, I didn't know much about the author, so I did some quick googling: http://mvdirona.com/jrh/work/

(I hope HN won't flood it to 404! Mr. James, is this on AWS!? It looks like it might be.)
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That's subjective. I still remember that time Fox News did a documentary on euthanasia.

I personally don't think Japan is weirder than living in the US or Saudi Arabia. If you want to live in a completely different culture you have to adapt.
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"if suddenly we've got useful works, such that you can apply that $X million in electricity to solve problems that are actually not wasteful, and worth perhaps $X million dollars in solutions"

first if we ignore the part "not everyone is going to have equal access to people who are willing to pay for solutions of useful work"

I think this can never happen.

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People should think PoW as lottery.

Every X minutes there is a prize draw giving you Y coins.

But ticket price converges to market value of:

ticket price = (Y coins)/(total tickets sold)

So if you add a value to 'not winning ticket' by introducing 'useful work', you are changing ticket price to:

ticket price = (Y coins)/(total tickets sold)-'work value'

so you are just giving coins more value, means making 'new ticket' more expensive.

new ticket = old ticket + work value

In the end you will still 'waste' the same amount at equilibrium.
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How can one measure the importance of a newborn thing?
We can say something is important only when it survives for a while
I think a warehouse of alien artifacts is stranger than cheerleader uniforms.
A Language with Dependent Types:

https://www.idris-lang.org
My kids know about three channels

"Bbc" (watching "do they know" at the moment)
"Amazon"
"Netflix"

We went to the cinema to watch Paddington last month. They had barely any idea what the adverts before the film were.
Delighted by this. I’ve always appreciated Plan 9 and its derivative Inferno. It’s a pity they never gained much of a toehold.
> They've completely obliterated the way messaging works. You will never see a message from someone unless you're either looking at their profile or you've "liked" them.

I've read people on /r/okcupid say it's a bad thing, but quite honestly I consider that a good thing.

There's nothing more exhausting as a guy than to write messages and basically get very few if any replies. One of my best friends is like myself, a person of colour, and his response rates are putrid despite putting good efforts in writing interesting opening messages that relate to the persons profile. He and I probably interacted with as many profiles in a two year period, except he had to put way more effort into his endeavors just to get marginal gains in the number of actual women he got minimum first dates from.

When I use apps that have a model where you can't unlock messaging unless you have mutual interest, it still results in low response rates but the amount of investment is far, far lower than when I used the traditional model of having to initiate with messages and hope to God that they're okay with dating an Asian dude. The newer model actually encouraged me to use the app because I only had to spend a minute or two a day just to navigate through a select number of profiles.

Going into online dating, I used to believe in the whole substance over selfie idea, that putting your best foot forward and having a good personality could make up for some differences, but after analyzing my stats of online dating over the last two years and seeing the disparity in terms of reply rates by ethnicity(https://i.imgur.com/UTfGthn.png), I'm particularly skeptical of the idea that putting efforts in messaging and profile writeups really make that much of a difference.
So you're saying that if the number were, say, $220 billion, you would believe that it's a real alien tech, but you don't believe it at $22 million? I don't understand.

If so, you're logically entangling an arbitrary funding number reported in the article, with the idea that perhaps some new material (or alternative particle physics) could exist.
Pretty cool idea, but the lag makes it unplayable unfortunately. Also this random respawn is annoying, it takes a bit of time to find yourself again, enough time to have already been killed. I guess its too fast, too laggy.
Any time my mom wants an eBook I pirate it for her. Takes me 5 minutes. Those of us who know how to computer need to help those who don't.
Nobody is going to get lucky and find a solution within one second on a CPU miner, it's a 1 in 750000000000 chance.
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Yeah, if you want to use jails or any container-type technology on your own to use for application deployments, then you have to write a ton of scripts for creating, managing, and destroying them. I'd rather use someone's pre-existing set of scripts for that. And I am. It's called Docker.

To me, asking why people are using Docker instead of plain jails combined with a series of other technologies is like asking why people make buildings out of wooden planks instead of trees. The question seems a bit wrong, because Docker is just built on existing container technologies. And I'd rather save a few steps. Planks are the exact shape and size that I want to deal with when building an application anyway.
I agree, but I specifically restricted my remarks to numerical linear algebra. Double precision inner product accumulation is a standard idea in numerical linear algebra, e.g., as in

George E. Forsythe and Cleve B. Moler, Computer Solution of Linear Algebraic
Systems.

People have long struggled with accuracy in numerical linear algebra. At one time at the US National Bureau of Standards, the struggles were so severe that M. Newman wrote software for numerically exact solution of systems of linear equations using only machine precision integer arithmetic. How? In the given system, he multiplied by powers of 10 to get all the decimal points to the right so that he had only whole numbers. Then for each prime number in a list of some dozens of primes, he solved the system in the finite field of the integers modulo that prime. Multiplicative inverse is from the Euclidean greatest common divisor algorithm. Then using the Chinese remainder theorem, he constructed the multiprecision integer numerators and denominators of the exact rational solution. It was nice work and somewhat popular.

Careful work on condition number estimation and exploitation has also been used. Condition number can be the basis of error estimates.

Sure, for, say, the fast Fourier transform, mostly in practice 32 bits can be fine.
Some huge claims. This is just a marketing video. Is there a link with some real details?
oh my god let me convert all my ETH into TELE
Everyone would notice if ISPs were man-in-the-middling their TLS connections because none of the TLS connections would work.
Who cares? Is it even hackernews worthy?
especially if it is about programming languages which evolve for many years
source? this is no official channel

edit: "likely a scam": https://twitter.com/durov/status/944360557318205440

edit2: or a leak: https://www.facebook.com/id77777/posts/10154846872521076?pnr...
This link can be helpful a bit but it’s not exactly what you need

https://cointelegraph.com/news/exclusive-telegram-to-release...
I have a lot of respect for databases in general, and DB2 is no different. But if you've ever tried to install DB2, you'll know it's a monstrosity, and even internally it was hard to get a license. The result of this is that most IBMers I know would rather use e.g. Postgres for other projects, not DB2. Now I'm not silly enough to think Postgres will replace DB2 at e.g. banks, but the effect is that Postgres reputation and knowledge spreads, and DB2 reputation and knowledge die. In the long run, I think this is a good thing.

Also, if you read between the lines, there's a ludicrous amount of infighting in IBM, which is probably how they ended up with four code bases. Still happens to this day.
Damn, Shenzhen is getting good.
You've never dealt with a secondaries contract, have you.
> There's nothing more exhausting as a guy than to write messages and basically get very few if any replies.

As a really quick point, dating sites are quite explicitly not built for men. They acquire men at a far higher rate than women, and men ~tend~ to be the ones approaching women, and so pretty much every feature should (from an objective point of view) be designed to filter out men that women aren't interested in, so women receive fewer attempts at interaction from them.

The bias against PoC on dating sites is a serious problem, though. And tbh, the whole mess that is the online dating experience in general is a cultural one that dating sites aren't going to solve - it's a system which allows people to much more closely follow their biases, with essentially no risk of anything bad happening.

To be honest, as a woman, I don't know anyone of any gender who's had a good experience with dating sites (aside from using Tinder to find sex partners). My experience has been that I find most of my partners almost by accident through hobby/social meetups, or in the IRC social channels where I spend a lot of my time.
Like every hashrate chart? https://medium.com/@homakov/stop-calling-bitcoin-decentraliz...
Who are the most important people born in 2017? While you can point to some born from monarchy (big company), the truth is that we are years away from knowing the answer. Same with programming, just in a smaller timeframe.
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Do they still do adverts on DVDs of films? It was a pain because you couldn't skip them. Guess that's why stuff like Netflix is so popular...
Streaming video in the conventional case may be a solved problem, but HQ has the additional (and seemingly unique to me) challenge of needing the streams to be nearly perfectly in sync. It's less like a bunch of people streaming HBO and more like half a million folks viewing a live webinar or something.

I can imagine WebEx, a far more established and mature product, might cough a bit too.
Consider fixing the glaring typo in the title.
Idris has a Wikipedia article since 2013.
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I don’t know how to answer that since I can’t even say what are the most ‘important’ programming languages of all time.
The interesting thing is that it was called the Spanish flu because Spain was neutral in the war and there were not censorship.

There has been several studies that has followed the flu to their origins by wax samples in Hospitals, and now it is very clear that it was the war conditions what made it so powerful: The overcrowding and bad hygienic state of barracks,trenches and bad feeding of the fighting population, made spreading of the flu exponential.

Now it is international traveling what could spread illnesses, in the last two weeks I have traveled over 4 different Continents. Megacities like Shanghai with 30 million people provide the overcrowding, but people are stronger and better feed than in the war.
I fail to understand the actual value-add of this crypto currency. Ok, so we will have "Grams" that will be integrated into Telegram and their users can use. Now what? What will I be able to do with it? How will "grams" gain value over time ? Who will be mining ?
Or the government would keep it hidden somewhere where nobody believes it's the real thing to avoid trouble in the UN and threats of violence...
You still need a SIM card with an active phone contract; something my burner phone doesn't have.
Perhaps if they had a way of accessing a site like pastebin or whatever anonymously which you could monitor from your non burner phone (via tor if you liked).
I don't know of any. So, I'm saying I wish there were some. But, then, we should have 128 bit floating point addition instructions. It's been a while since I looked at the x86 instruction set, registers, etc., but from other comments here it appears that x86 doesn't have 128 bit addition.
Use rlwrap as another commenter mentioned.
Wrong. Bitcoin has a lot of fundamental value - value in scarcity, future price projection and potential to become better via cheap and fast transactions. Those who claim Bitcoin costs a lot to move clearly hasnt used a segwit address. Once segwit is adopted across the board mempool will clear.

In fact, Bitcoin has so much value that 5 years from now 19k will look like bargain of the century. People just can't seem to see the true potential of Bitcoin and ultimately blockchains.
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Something completely new both released this year and that has reached wide adoption? I doubt any.

Off topic but it's interesting dinosaurs like Ada or Fortran are actually making a subtle come back as an alternative to C/C++ or other non-gc languages such as Rust. Ultimately the need to write native tools that are as fast as possible because businesses work in a scale never seen before that make even regular JVM unfit for the job is an interesting turn of events in computing. This + scientific computing and the democratization of embedded computing.
Apparently my wish for 64 bit data, 128 bit products, and 128 bit addition is not reasonable on current hardware. So, I my wish will go unfulfilled.
I hope it's fake. Hilariously goofy and a poor man's John Oliver narrating. Did someone pay money for that?

The parodies on Silicon Valley are better.
> Case in point, you can't set file ownership when you copy files into the image so that extra step adds that much more bloat.

I think you could solve that problem easily with multi-stage Dockerfiles.

FROM alpine:latest
COPY . /app
RUN chown/chmod
FROM alpine:latest
COPY --from=0 /app /app
Indeed, the answer to this question is "We will know in 20 years" IMHO.
A small thing: I think it makes sense to link to the AMS’s copy. The Notices are all free.

http://www.ams.org/notices/199701/comm-rota.pdf
>"Everyone could see that this was a lethal pandemic. Some of the symptoms were horrific — bleeding not only from your nose and mouth but from your eyes and ears. And yet the authorities were saying, 'This is just ordinary influenza.'"

Sounds like more info consistent with the aspirin poisoning theory: https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/49/9/1405/301441

I think in general people really underestimate the damage that poorly understood medical interventions can do.
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Now I'm not silly enough to think Postgres will replace DB2 at e.g. banks

You might be surprised then, because that's not silly at all. DB2 may hang on in the Back Office, the least technically sophisticated bit of banking for various reasons for a while longer, but it's long gone from the Front Office and Postgres is one of the replacements. I don't think anyone is starting new projects on DB2 even in BO.
Or just use usql.

go get -u github.com/xo/usql

Autocompletion is the only feature it doesn't have compared to these, and it's significantly easier to work with, and works with more databases. Autocompletion will be done early next year.
That sounds a lot like the narrator from Kurzgesagt. Not sure what to make of that
Please try usql:

go get -u -tags oracle github.com/xo/usql
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Yeah I have given up hope with ever using my ten year old twitter account due to a similar story :(
GitBucket 4.20 supports Squash Merge
GitBucket is an open-source self-hosted Git repository with the usual stuff (pull requests, issues, wiki): https://github.com/gitbucket/gitbucket

With the 4.20 release it supports squash on merge, which is a premium feature in GitLab.

With its very limited (but working) CI plugin, it provides a lightweight alternative to other similar services.

(I'm not affiliated, just wanted to raise awareness of the project.)
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>The only reason it's being praised is that all other tools are so much worse.

So you're saying docker is the best tool in this category?
You're assuming that most DBA's or companies using Oracle would pay for more powerful CLI. In my experience with Oracle DBA's, most just use SQLDeveloper.
Obviously the narrative you put down makes no sense whatsoever, game theoretic and otherwise. For a better, much more realistic understanding of how intelligence agencies may react to something like this, I suggest you read Richard Heuer's psychology of intelligence analysis [1].

[1] https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intellig...
This is my kind of humour too, it's silly, creative, and in spite of it's surface crudeness can oddly be a strong way of communicating your true feelings.

It's probably best left unspoken but my interpretation is that it's likely the little girl was initially being sincerely spiteful, but then being intimately spiteful can sometimes backfire with empathy, gradually transforming her attacks into this loving joke. I actually prefer that interpretation because it shows the capacity for change, but I might be seeing things that aren't there... His interpretation of her being so insightful from the start is also a nice interpretation, consciously or not.
I wonder if there is any comparison. By percentage the 2014 outbreak was most severe in Liberia, infecting 0.25% of the population and killing about ½ of that.

In the 1918 flu pandemic, a death toll of 10% of the population was common.

We'd lose our fucking minds if something killing whole percentages of the population was going around the US.
> I take the L every day from Graham to 6th at 9am.

How’s the L like during the summer on your way home? 110°+ platform temps weren’t uncommon back when I took it.

That said, I think the line you are on makes a big difference. My line (A/C) seems to have the worst trains as far as age / cleanliness of the ones I’ve been on. Way too infrequent during commute hours and when they do come they come in pairs or triplets. This causes the first train (and sometimes second) to be packed Tokyo style, which then causes delays for trains after it as it takes longer for folks to get on / off. If they just made them run consistent and more frequent (seriously 10-15min between groups of trains during commute hours isn’t uncommon), they’d not be overcrowded and not delay as much, but alas, scheduling seems to allude MTA.

As to other lines, 4/5/6 has decent trains and are pretty frequent, but horribly crowded during commute. 7 train (inside Manhattan anyway) is typically full (not too overcrowded), but frequency is sometimes a problem and I wish it was better aligned with the schedules of the lines which feed into it. 1/2/3 and N/Q/R aren’t bad in general usually. I’ve not taken the B/D/F/M/J/Z/G lines enough to have a fair opinion, but I usually seem to have one issue or another with them when I do end up on them (usually maintenance related lately).
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Cryptocurrencies (at least the first ones, those before BaseCoin) aren’t really currencies at all. They’re ’just’ clever decentralised ways of manufacturing scarcity in this day and age of infinitely copiable digita information.
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The timing of the post is interesting given Microsoft SQL Server 2017's new support for Linux. Microsoft's doing it with one code base to span Windows, Linux, and Azure SQL DB, and it's interesting to read why IBM took a different route.

My favorite line out of it: "so I ended up taking a long weekend and writing support for a primitive approach to supporting greater-than-2GB tables." Wow.
Version 1.0 was released last April this year.
1) please check the rules of HN before replying that way

2) I did read the article, paying for Google Drive or Photos storage is not paying for Gmail.
The link you gave me responded with :

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Object Not Found
Unable to find blob path 'video/iterative-review.mp4' in revision '1.0'
```

About tree graph for too many branches, please take a look at an example, such as https://dev.gitplex.com/projects/tensorflow/commits. You can see on the left of the commits, there is a tree. I just want to know if we have a lot branches, how the UI handle that :)
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How does an HDL address the limitation of software compilers at the software-hardware boundary?

By scope, I mean that the compiler can really only see as far as the source code it is compiling. In something like an OS--especially a non-microkernel--an awful lot ends up having to be read and written across the boundary, and in an unsafe context.
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While I'd agree that Ethereum was not created with an intent of scammyness, I wouldn't single it out as an outlier for good behavior. The dream of Ethereum was "code as law," yet key players have demonstrated the ability and willingness to implement hard forks in order to undo unpopular outcomes of valid Solidity code. So while I don't believe Ethereum was created with a scammy intent, I think it is certainly too premature for public release, and attempts to "fix" issues caused by this immaturity has let to some scammy behavior.