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This has been blowing my mind for years, because I think it's surprisingly common.

I won't name the company because to my shock (and frankly vast horror) they're still chugging along and I don't especially want to get sued but, a few years ago when I was still working for Red Gate, one of the leadership of a local company - also significantly hardware driven - came in and told their story to anyone who wanted to listen.

Over a period of maybe a decade or so, through successive rounds of funding, they'd managed to raise about half a billion and had produced... nothing commercially viable. Zilch. This guy's job in the company had been and continued to be to raise the necessary funding from investors, and I have to say he was clearly pretty damn good at separating fools from their money.

So imagine the situation: this guy comes in to a bootstrapped software company that had always been profitable and acts like he's really pleased with himself for raising half a billion dollars and pissing it up the wall because they'd gone all in over and over again with no clear product market fit. (N.B., it may have been pounds, but it was years ago and I can't remember, so let's call it dollars to keep it less dramatic.)

The reaction was quite hostile: I don't think we knew whether to be befuddled or enraged.

I mean you literally could get a better ROI by handing me $50M or $500M or whatever it is and standing by whilst I try to blow it all on cocaine and high-end hookers because there's just no way I can snort my way through that much coke in an entire lifetime without overdosing so you'd at least get some, and probably most, of your money back.

Don't get me wrong: I understand that VCs expect most ventures to fail, and to an extent that's perhaps reasonable, but surely there comes a point where you stop throwing good money after bad?
The UC system was created to serve residents of the State. These are publicly funded institutions. They are here to serve the taxpaying public. Private schools exist to serve aspirational foreign students.

If residents feel the system does not serve them, they will defund it, and everyone will be worse off. We have these things called Propositions, and they tend to elicit emotional responses. Most California residents are probably beginning to have a negative impression of UC...most of the news from UC is graft, corruption, etc
Your argument is that if you come up with an idea, and spend 20 years failing to profit from it, I shouldn't be allowed to give it a shot.

That sounds a lot more "shitty" to me than the alternative.
And with slack too I think. I’ve seen slack integration on my atlassian pages.
California really needs to bail on Proposition 13...
In fact, JVM doesn't start slow. The fact is most Java web apps start slow. The more libraries a Java web app depends, the slower it starts.

The current dominant culture of the Java community is very weird. Although Java has a huge standard library, if you don't use a lot of third-party libraries, you will be viewed as a non-professional Java programmer.

Most popular Java tech stack look open sourced, but are backed by lots of money provided by many companies with bad reputations on pure open source culture.

BTW, slow start-up is not the only problem of many Java apps. GUI Java apps often lag for one or more seconds from time to time, which hurts the experiences of Java GUI apps much.

The third problem of Java apps is they often consume much more memory than apps written in other languages, in particular for the long running Java apps. The longer they run, the more memory they will eat.

[edit] the library use way of Java, by putting library jars into your projects, is not good as the way of other languages, by putting library sources into your projects. By putting library sources in your projects, you can view how the libraries are implemented easily. Yes, you can also put Java library sources into your projects, but the main stream culture of Java doesn't recommend to do this. Just look at maven.

[edit 2] just my personal opinion. I don't like the way to use a separated VM to run many apps. This makes it is hard for me to use a different permission setting for each app. Sometimes I want to block a Java app to access network, but I must block the whole Java VM to achieve this.
I... didn't ask those things?
Copied? Snow White was a groundbreaking feat of animation brilliance, a result of tireless effort, craftsmanship and detail that experts widely agree rivals any animation project produced to date. It was literally the first feature-length color animated film with sync audio ever produced, and you’re cutting it down for it’s screenplay being inspired by a fairy tale? This is no weakness. This is consistent with filmmaking tradition and the nature of humanities efforts in general. The line is not a sharp one, but in terms of Snow White, if I understand your accusation correctly, your point is lost.

I am open minded but, with all due respect, it appears you might not be aware of some critical truths of how art gets made.

Either way, what do you suggest?

We probably generally agree on the topic at hand. I am saddened seeing many early films eroding which have yet to be digitized because they are not accessible.
While you might have seen it it is very far from general rule at companies that matter in security space
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Moving a billion XRP from one wallet to another is not liquidating to $USD.
Serve Trump and the runaway deep state, or serve spam. That's bleak. That's not the only two options though.
Maybe one day they will find captain america
>> I can't really devote time to countering the unfounded assertion that every contended mutex must be a bug.

> Good, because that's not what I said.

It is literally what you said:

>>> If you have a heavily-contended mutex you already have a major performance bug. If this is the kick in the pants you need to go fix it that's arguably a good thing ;)

> You might be confused with general contention that's being resolved with a spinlock rather than futex wait, though.

I'm not confusing them at all; I'm literally reading exactly what you wrote. You literally said contended mutexes are necessarily bugs (right here^) and that you considered mutexes to include the initial spinlocks ("note that mutex contention does not itself mean immediately falling back to futex - commonly you'll spinloop first"). But maybe you meant to say something else?
To make things even more confusing the DOT is sometimes separate from the DMV, and sometimes not.

In Georgia we have the DOT that handles road construction etc..., and the Department of Driver Services that handles drivers licenses.
Been the story since George bush. I wonder if they would have acted narrowly within the law if they would have had better org
Needless to say, I have a hard time with relationships because my mother's have been extremely out of the norm.

I am very sorry for what you suffered.

For some years, I read as much scholarly info as I could on infidelity.

In a nutshell: Infidelity doesn't destroy a relationship. Instead, it grows out of serious problems within the relationship.

I hope you find a means to heal.
Personally, I would say, no, not the same outlook, unless you treat any system where an advantage is gained by one actor over another.

But I don't think we can equivocate the action of not only breaking into a system (weak or not) and stealing something from others, from the government (or any actor) leaving money on the table due to their inefficiencies, or lack of foresight.

But if we're going for false equivalencies, you could also say that government's using the act of force to take money is also equally wrong, which is the typical libertarian argument.

I'm not a big fan of either argument, as they all fall apart as soon as you get into the details.
Adding that option costs them money (engineering time, QA time, support issues resulting from it, etc...)

Until it's financially worth their while, why would they spend money on it?
When was a model like React + Redux (or Elm) used previously, and why did it fail?

What do you mean "a model like React + Redux"?

Programmers have been separating underlying state, rendering and interactions since at least the earliest days of MVC in the '70s.

We've been diffing model states to identify changes to act on for as long as we've had explicit isolated state management, which again is several decades.

We've been identifying specific parts of a display to rerender fully because doing the whole thing was too expensive since the earliest graphical video games.

We've been using markup languages to describe UI layouts declaratively for a long time too.

Adopting similar techniques in browsers was likely as soon as serious front-end coding to build larger client-side web apps became viable, and they have much the same pros and cons now as they did in other UI development before. React and its surrounding ecosystem may have been the first JS libraries to popularise the ideas for a new generation, and IMHO those early versions of React were well done and useful, but let's not pretend the underlying concepts are radical and new in themselves.
It’s the monthly 1B to the devs, that will happen for 54months.
Trump is going to ruin the American economy.

Attack universities by discouraging foreign students. Cut federal funding for research. Encourage political attacks on universities. The most damaging will be not forgiving student loans from people who went to scam universities, like Trump university.

What Trump and others don’t recognize is that the American university system is a distributed system of factories that manufacture knowledge, innovation and the future.

Just look at self driving cars. Much of the tech and the talent came from various universities.
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it occurred to me today that rather than provide an open search box, or try to filter by specific semantic fields, it might be really interesting to just provide a view of the keywords by frequency (whether 'react' or 'boston' or 'social')
Would it be possible to run this system in reverse, and make a holographic display?
Our Spring Boot apps at work take about 60 seconds from hitting Enter on the JVM command to being able to do something useful. YMMV.
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This mindset seems fine in isolation, but it falls apart when you consider that corporations and the wealthy first subvert democracy to pass tax law with loopholes only they can use, and then use this aphorism as a gag order to keep the rest of us from complaining about it.
I think you mean there is no legal obligation to pay additional taxes beyond the minimum that tax law permits.

Whether your moral obligation lies above or below the legal minimum depends on your viewpoint.
Assuming $250/hr is a real example, that’s $470k/year. Is that really a problem?

(Assuming 40h per week, 47 weeks per year because systematic staff shortage and EU-duration holidays because that’s what I’m used to).
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Or the MassDOT RMV in Massachusetts. (Which always has to be different, like calling itself a Commonwealth instead of a state and having a General Court instead of a state legislature.)
My point is that just getting projects started in space has a high barrier of entry due to the expense of moving personnel and structures into space. If we had permanent residents there, and the ability to manufacture the structures in space, it would become cost effective to build those specialized zero-G factories. It's unlikely that any single company will pony up the cost for that space habitat/construction facility, since it will be the most expensive structure to build.
Hey that’s great and actionable feedback, and I really appreciate you taking the time to deliver it, in addition to reading the post itself. I’ll apply this to my next post. Thanks again!
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Copyright has been abused to the point where it is more of a detriment than it is worth.

There will always be weasels and bottom feeders that seek to constrain every other individual in the world from extending an artistic work or idea, even generations after his or her death; but do you really believe copyright/patent law has somehow pushed forward innovation?
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In what area?
I am a civil servant. There are special pay scales for scientists and engineers, but they are still capped by law at the top end at the same level as the GS scale. In the DC area last year that was $166,000.

I am not aware of any exceptions to the law, unless you mean the Special Executive Service. You can - eventually - make it into the Special Executive Service (SES), which pays somewhat higher (around $200k per year, depending on specifics). But that typically takes 20+ years of service and is reserved to less than 1% of the total workforce of a lab or agency. It is extremely rare for someone to be hired directly into the SES, unless that person is a presidential appointee.

Which means that under ordinary circumstances, my lab cannot offer a Nobel Laureate more than $200,000 per year.
1493 has some explanations for this, i.e. silver, but mostly guano

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1493:_Uncovering_the_New_Wor...
That, or maybe some of these people held senior managerial positions and ran their companies and know what they are talking about.
> The people who have left were responsible for collecting and analyzing the intelligence that goes into the president’s daily briefing

Cool, because the demand is gone too.
The absurdity of this "prioritization" framing is obvio9us when you get away from technology:

> I, for one, see great value in the prioritization of [shipping medicine to doctors] and [the shipping needs of new high-tech businesses] over [your personal letters talking about your cat]

The personal letters were not blocking shipments of medicine, because they are both paying for their own carriage, Businesses have always paid for the level of service they needed.

In any other service industry, customers wanting to use your service all the time is good. You probably even offer them volume discounts. Comcast, however, has successfully used a lot of confusing language to reframe Netflix making their business a lot more popular as a some sort of problem. This is like UPS/FedEx complaining about how many fo their shipments are from Amazon.
I absolutely believe that this is recognized, and is considered by some to be the precise point of this assault. A poorly-educated workforce drives down wages, speeds automation of low-skill jobs, decreases social mobility, and makes for a more predictable and easily-manipulated electorate. The few remaining high-skill, high-pay jobs can be filled by those who can afford to foot the entire bill for 12-18 years of private education.

It is not seen as a "ruination" of the economy, merely a continuation of existing policies designed to "reshape" the economy into a less-equitable form. It only seems like ruin to the majority on the wrong side of those changes. I believe someone else on HN referred to these changes are "corporate feudalism", which I think is apt.
Installing the JDK has no ask toolbar (vs the JRE which is just the client libs)
"Federal pay grades are capped by Congress, and the top grade is around ~$150k a year [1]."

If you make over $80k a year -- you are doing well in NSA [i]. The 150k number is pretty much fantasy land. With NSA on your resume I am sure a penetration testing firm would love to have you at 100k.

https://www.indeed.com/cmp/NSA/salaries
"No framework" generally means "poorly-written custom framework".

That is not generally true at all. It might be true if you've got a very inexperienced and unskilled team of developers who don't know how to build a non-trivial application without the structure that a framework brings. However, there must be millions of developers in the world who do have sufficient skill and experience to do that, and these days plenty of those people work in web development. I imagine they can still remember how to do things like basic software design and using libraries, which have been working since long before any of these modern frameworks existed.
The Thinkpad T4x0 series has two batteries as well. I had a T450s at my previous job and I think I'd get 6-7 hours out of it (usual workload of ssh, vim, 50-100 chrome tabs, slack, google play music all running).
Can you post a few links maybe to the SYSRET issue mentioned? Just curious.
Ripple is interesting. If you're a true believer of the decentralized concept of crypto, you shouldn't like Ripple because it is controlled by a company (but is open source, similar to Java), and many financial institutions use it. So it's kind of towing the line between centralized and decentralized.
> Something that offered flexible rewards for the categories they cared about: dining and travel.

So, the article's posit is that millennials care about these two things hence the card sold well. Were there no cards which covered this category? Was it only traveling and fueling which earned reward points?
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The only surprising thing about this article was how lowly paid a language professor is. $47,000? What?
Civil disobedience is not constrained to the most directly onerous legal abuse.

The "an unjust law should be obeyed" rhetoric works... never.
Probably the opposite. American students with options are deliberately avoiding the fields the foreign students crowd because of the wage and working conditions suppression the added competition produces. Deliberately discouraging the huge numbers of foreign students will help better cultivate greater American talent.

A talent pool of 320 million people is plenty. We don't need to scour the globe.
I was very sad the day MP3.com closed. I loved the music there, and it was in an age before YT. Was the catalog deleted or did it survive?
> The resentment comes because the UC system has a limited enrollment capacity with competitive admissions, and has a mission of educating residents. So when foreign students take some of those enrollment slots, local students who missed the cut feel cheated.

It's competitive, however it is anything but impossible to get admission into a UC. I'd consider the paths to getting in straight forward.

Either in highschool you are in the top 9% of students statewide, or top 9% in your local highschool if the school participates in the program. You are guaranteed an admission to at least one UC campus.

Didn't make it? Most community colleges offer guaranteed transfer agreements where you complete a requirement of classes and GPA, giving you an automatic admission.

And if this is still too much, there is the entire CSU system to consider.
The T470 (not the T470s) also allows you to hotswap out one of its batteries too, so you could carry an extra if you needed it:
http://www.notebookreview.com/feature/business-laptop-battle...
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I was born in a small town on the border of Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee. I remember my parents telling me of the rare, old chinese immigrants there, but they only came there in the 80's to work as engineers in a glass manufacturing factory. They said they had to drive 1.5 hours to the closest chinese grocery store in Huntsville, AL.

Weirdly enough, I think this generation depicted in the article, and my parents, are among the last of the chinese-americans you'd find in Alabama, Iowa, or small town america. It seems more and more young chinese are opting to go back to China.
Look, misattributing the introduction of NaN to JS is not going to help make the case that JS is poorly designed[1].

JS uses double-precision floating point numbers, based on the IEEE 754 standard first published in 1985.

[1]: Though there is a case that using doubles for all numbers is poor design, that's a different topic altogether.
Exactly this. During the dot.com boom and bust when a dot.com wonder bought company X for $YM but it was an all stock transaction and later the stock when converted to $USD was done for about $Y.

When someone converts a billion in Ripple into $2B in cash in a reserve account at UBS or something, then you can be impressed.
Why stop at "corporations"? How about any sufficiently large social group?
You can't get an F1 visa without the school knowing, they are sponsoring the visa.
Sergey Brin went to Stanford. Musk went to UPenn and Stanford. Picchai went to Wharton and the University of Chicago. Narayan went to UC Berkeley. Only Brin and Musk came as undergrads and only Nadella originated at a so-so school: Wisconsin-Milwaukee (he made his way to an MBA at Chicago, too).

By and large the article is not talking about those people. Undergrads are where schools make their money (lots of graduate students are funded anyway). Almost none of these people would have been affected. It's hard to overestimate how useful and desirable the top schools are.

When students from Akron are running any of those companies (a school the article talks about), then we can worry about losing out on top talent. I think the way US society is so divided based on if you went to a top college or not is just as problematic.

Not that the recent rhetoric isn't a problem...
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Depends, for a leader in their field that's on the low end. But, I understood $250/hr to be what the firm received -- usually contractors don't get nearly that much, but I don't have any experience with government contractors.
> with the added disadvantage that changing routes is tremendously expensive since you need to lay new track.

That disadvantage is actually a good thing when you're buying real estate, a bus route can change but my tram stop has much more permanence.

It also doesn't have to be an either/or thing, my local trams are dedicated in large parts but on road where congestion is lighter.
Symmetry isn't totally arbitrary. In many deployed access technologies, scaling head end send speed is easier than scaling user end send speed; sometimes there are settings to increase upload speed at the expense of download speed (ex annex M for adsl2), but sometimes it's an inherently asymmetric system.
The contracting company takes a significant cut of that.
How so? The last century saw the civilian death rate in war increase fast, such that something like 90% of war deaths a civilians. The overall stats are not skewed much by the overwhelmingly male make up of most armies. Or are you arguing that male civilians die in wars a lot more than female ones?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualty_ratio
I'm afraid you're being terribly optimistic. I'm not totally sure how many millions of people, in absolute numbers, are even competent developers. Out of those, some are web developers, and some subset of those are doing things without frameworks. That leaves a lot of yahoos.
Music streaming has resulted in a better discovery experience, which is valuable to users and creators.

There is an awful lot of innovation being held back. You are likely unaware, since it is not you who wants to innovate, and you aren't experiencing those innovations.
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