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>Sudden loss of employment is incredibly disruptive at best, and for many it's a significant financial hardship.

It's a standard meme here that if you quit/are fired/company shuts down, you send a few emails and walk into a new job the following Monday. Good for you but that's just not the norm for most people in most roles.
Without an inkling of doubt, Richard W. Hamming lectures and the book based on them “The Art of Doing Science and Engineering, Learning to Learn”. Nothing has had a greater impact on me.
> If you're in a creative industry - and I consider software a creative industry - giving away your creations for a wage is psychically harmful. If you're genuinely creating something of value, you want to own some fraction of its value - its revenue-generating value, its future cash flow.

If you work as a freelancer or partner in a small agency that does software development for non-technical clients, then keeping ownership and reselling your work is often possible. You can negotiate to sell the client a non-exclusive license.

But it's not realistically possible for an individual contributor at a medium to large tech company. There are too many people involved with each project or product, and no part of it is individually useful. You can't resell a git patch that fixes a bug in an existing codebase.
China enters the battle for AI talent
Yes of course. As this example demonstrates in fact: the rational behavior would be to do something that hurts everyone for the sake of an individual who has privledged information. The penalty makes the behaviour we need to encourage become the rational course.

I'd say a large portion of rules of society function this way for this reason.
Well is it really "spam" if they are paying the same rate as you? It also points to tx fees being extremely necessary, as without them what would stop a malicious actor from spamming SIGNIFICANTLY more, clogging up the blockchain making it so a miniscule fraction of the real transactions could get through?

Also, I'm well aware of GDAX and coinbase and their pitfalls and benefits, but that doesn't have much to do with the discussion of fees and why they are necessary.
For some further context, Ethereum allows miners to vote on block capacity increases in a way similar to that which some people wanted to add to Bitcoin. Apparently it's recently started acting like a live demonstration of the reasons why the Bitcoin developers didn't consider this a good idea: https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/7pfshh/why_is_8m_...
Yes, the CoL (housing in particular) is a significant issue for the entire Bay Area but that hasn't stopped the rest of the industry from continued local expansion. I would argue for a strong regional authority to tackle this issue but that's another discussion. Also, San Jose's mayor has not rejected the Amazon HQ2 proposal, only the notion of providing major financial/tax incentives to any corporation as he feels the civic benefit does not outweigh the cost.
Marriage, parenting, bankruptcy & then learning proper financial management from Dave Ramsey, almost getting a divorce and then going to marriage counseling, OA & other 12 step groups, reading the entire Bible, leaning into hobbies (like learning electronics, learning guitar), home ownership.

Whew.

Wow. I'm surprised I'm still alive!
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The latter. The GC won’t collect it while the pointer references it.
Strongly agree. Something that really helped me was to start listening to audiobooks. It made reading something that required just a little less effort, and so it was easier to do it more often. And I can listen at times when I can't read, like driving or walking.
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Some sincerely-intended, friendly advice...

Whilst I understand it's possible that you may have contributed more to HN under a different username, your complaint would be taken vastly more seriously if it came from an account that had a solid history of posting quality articles and comments of the kind of which you've said you'd like to see more.

This community is only as good as people make it through their article submissions and comments, and it's up to all of us to do our part.

And as others have pointed out, the flag link is there for stuff you don't think belongs here.
11 months into the pregnancy you quit? isnt 9 months the usual gestation period?
Sure! Here you go [1]. It works for me (it's just a few hacks), so you may need to tweak it for your own use.

[1] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Nf5IfzmRephJJFiT1VWY...

P.S. This is the newer version[2] I'm using to track my daily work (goal is to do 40 pomodoros per week). I've left the data in it because still developing this new habit

[2] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vwxiz_eh3KnwuziKUqvM...
If you actually want to do a good job raising those kids, it certainly isn't the easiest way to find fulfillment...

But of course, in societies where you (can choose to have) everything (basic) provided for you, there are indeed some who have many kids but don't bother to actually raise them. This is how underclass is created.
That's precisely my point though (I could have made a better job of explaining I wasn't just talking about hardware/OS) - "as long as Google Docs works on it". Those kids will go into the world of work with knowledge of GDocs innately.

That position has been Office for the best part of 20 years, it's baked into syllabuses, exams, training materials. If that changes, it potentially has huge impact going forwards.
> Sure, but why wouldn't you run some swap with your much bigger ram anyway?

If you don't need it, you don't need it. The other question is: how much swap exactly should I have? And why wouldn't I just add that much RAM instead?

> In the end the core idea is: sometimes you have anonymous memory that is accessed so rarely that you'd rather have an extra disk cache page.

That's the theory. In practice I always have more than enough RAM for all the cached pages the system wants to cache. On my laptop right now (booted today), I have 500MB of cached pages and 5.8 gigabytes of free memory. On my server (booted 499 days ago) I have 700MB of cached pages and 6 gigabytes of free memory.

If I were running out of memory [be it for cache or applications], I'd prefer to have more RAM than add swap. Yes, I keep calling it emergency memory.

> If you assume that the kernel is not paging out memory that you actually use when not under pressure, swap doesn't hurt you.

1) Bad assumption 2) it doesn't help you either, so why bother? Actually I might have a use for that disk space. In that case the swap just hurts.
This is the beginning of an empire, with emperors, court jesters, "off with his head" will be heard....

Woe to Ham Radio
First: props for stopping smoking pot.

Next ... 11 months in to your girlfriends pregnancy? How does that work exactly (since full term is usually 9 months)?
"[M]uch of the debate in both the popular press
and academic circles centers around a false dichotomy. On the one side are the alarmist
arguments that the oncoming advances in AI and robotics will spell the end of work by
humans, while many economists on the other side claim that because technological break-
throughs in the past have eventually increased the demand for labor and wages, there is no reason to be concerned that this time will be any different."

The paper provides a model including considerations that could swing the impact of automation either way, including some mixed outcomes. Ie, new jobs could be created to replace those displaced, but skills mismatches create long adjustment periods.
The machine that goes PING: Developing Gradle Plugins to detect completed builds
Exercise, and books. To name a few (in no particular order):

"Choose Yourself" by James Altucher
"Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill
"Mindset" by Carol Dweck
"How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie
21st: To Be or Not to Be – Salon.com
>Well if there is no money [...] No preferential share classes

You're creating a circular contradiction about the money flow.

A founder has no money.

He gets interest from a VC like Sequoia Capital to invest $10 million. The standard and non negotiable terms of the deal means Sequoia gets "preferential shares" as a condition of writing a check for $10 million.

One of my potential employees (Yizahi) I'm trying to recruit insists on "no preferential shares!". Sequoia then says, "Ok, no $10 million deal then. Bye!"

As a result, both the founders and the employees have no working capital to build a more valuable company.

We can't just shout out "no preferential shares" and "no dilution" without understanding the full ramifications of what that actually means.
I want a robot to do my job so I can have time to be at home with my family, travel, make more meaningful memories, and have the time and energy to fold my own laundry.

I am far more interested in automating the parts of the day that really enslave me so that I am free to spend my time exactly as I wish. I spend maybe 1hr a week folding laundry, tops, but I spend 40hrs a week at a desk doing something I am at best somewhat interested in but generally wishing I was at home/away doing things I enjoy with people I truly care about.

The future I really care about is one where people don't have to spend nearly all their waking hours doing things they don't really care much about. If I could have a farming robot that could grow all my food for me in a self sustaining closed cycle, that would revolutionize my life. Add solar and decentralized sanitation/water and I really don't need much else.

These are idealistic naive fantasies, but there is something to it. Technology has the potential to really free us well beyond folding clothes and washing dishes. And the task of folding clothes actually sounds more complex than growing food on a hobby farm.
Perhaps, but perhaps I should explain.

I passed on Ether in 2014. It’s been hard to come to terms with that decision.

But I finally decided not to double down on stupid. I’m going to beat some of these finance guys into this space. This is because I am a techie and I know that Ethereum is the truth. They are not so they are still jumping at fraud attempts built on the Ethereum network.
I actually had a job where it was relevant. Solving whiteboard problems is half the job of a nuclear field operator. I had to do boards with the captain of the ship, senior enlisted, and the reactor officer to qualify watch stations. The other half of the job is cleaning bilges till you make first class or weasel your way into an office job. It's not a fun job by any means but it paid for my College so I could do something I enjoy, Computer Science.
Elon Musk – How is he learning/How is he spending his time/Best learning method?
Well, taking account US-level use of water and electricity (eg. let the faucet run and wash the dishes leisurely, wasting water in the process).

Not sure it is as green as "have some predetermined amount of water at the ready and wash dishes with it", as is the case in much of the developing world (and could be an alternative for the developed world too if environmental costs were a concern).

Plus the cost of water+electricity to develop, pack, transport, etc a dishwasher could be big too.

Of course it could be premature optimization -- if 99.99% of the water is wasted in other uses.
No more MVC
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I just started watching once I got home. The intro with the gangster rap is funny and stupidly awkward, but the value proposition/pitch of all these amazing rich people like Ellison show you how cool databases are does not gain traction with me. Will definitely download it all and watch it later for the technical bits, but does anyone like tech to not be a guy with a reputation for massive ego, inspiring work culture that is famously bad, and dating women of "undetermined age" (quoting the prof)? Zuckerberg is just as bad. I mean come on.
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What types of books have you read that you've found helped the most with your critical faculties and such?

This year I've finally got around to Infinite Jest. I don't know that I'm enjoying the book itself so much as I enjoy the mental exercise that I get from its reading, if any of that makes sense.
The way I see it, my whole computing environment is necessarily a kind of place. Emacs happens to be a really good one.

So, I use Emacs as a window manager. My computer boots into a full screen Emacs, so I don't think of it as opening Emacs — I think of my computer as an Emacs-based thing, which in turn contains a bunch of other tools (like M-x shell for running shell commands).

The way the author uses xterm with tmux and Vim, I use Emacs instead.

My environment has a large font and no syntax highlighting. I find that language mode regexps so often get confused that they're more annoying than convenient.

I would really, really like to try working with an e-ink monitor. Slow latency and monochrome would be a benefit as far as I'm concerned.
No matter where the price points jump, in the next ten years a bunch of stuff is going to be running on Ethereum.

Go long. Bet on the tech, not the hype.
This for me too. You can't really understand the influences your culture has on you until you try to have a life in a different one.
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>Is this a shared resource problem though?

The shared resources is the limited amount we can use an antibiotic before it becomes useless.
Street photography.
This is a very relaxing activity, where your brain is at rest while observing the world and walking.

Good things that happened to me:

I travelled in all the region to diversify my pictures.

I bought the books of master photographs to learn their technics, so I can now "read" a picture.

And of course I watched a lot of photos on the internet to diversify my tastes.

Now that I have reached a level that I am proud of, I praise that hobby very much.
It is surely delusional but the founders tell themselves they are going to exit for 1B. So the chump options you would get for 1% worth is still going to net you 10M, which would be quite nice.

Obviously, they are going to have to take more money and you are going to be diluted to nothing and you'll be lucky if the whole company exits for 10M. Equity seems only to have value as golden handcuffs, keeping early valuable employees at the company since they lose everything if they leave and can't afford to exercise 400K of options plus face the tax implications.
This sounds very reasonable to my personal observations. It's basically a type of government, that is not officially recognized as such. And yes, people are worse off under it than under most official governments. However even without mafia like governments, due to the chaos of whatever change is happening, they are already worse off even without any mafia.
In the liberals' world with markets unimpeded by regulation and entirely self-governed by market forces, how does something like the rise of superbugs play out?

It takes a good 10-20 years lead time for this to become a real issue, and then probably another decade for the market to adjust to punish the bad actors. In this time, the damage has been done.

The downstream impact of certain business practises are too detached from the source, and the impact itself felt too much in isolation from the cause for the market to react appropriately.

Sadly, it seems government too has moved too slowly on issues such as this so what to do?
I was in a club once (in a basement) and the fire alarm went. Music stopped, everybody looked around confused for 30 seconds, no one saw an immediate fire, and then the music started up again twice as loud to drown out the alarm.
I'm very happy it's not written in {insert technology unpopular among hackers to gather points}.

Nowhere is Electron mentioned and still comes the hate. A close friend of mine (not a web-developer, unlike me) has a very popular app (>10K users) which uses Electron and he got only around 30 performance complaints last year and all of them could be solved without rewriting the damn thing. The app has a giant "Feedback" button in the main view and there are at least 10 bug reports / suggestions per day (I manage the support desk).

This is getting to the levels of this silly Java hate because everyone thought the performance of Eclipse from years ago still is the state-of-the-art for Java development. There are many bad electron-based apps, that is for sure and completely normal because the barrier to entry is so low. Yeah and there is Slack, but don't complain if you gave up IRC for that incompatible piece of... Whatever.

Sorry for the rant.
My favorite part of the 30 under 30 lists is the part where there are literally thousands of people claiming they are on a list of 30 people.
This is like saying that getting a Tesla is greener than walking (once laundry is taken into consideration).

Which is true, if I was to walk from Land's End to John O Groats then I would need a lot of food for that plus the overnight stays in guest houses would not be that green as the sheets would be changed daily rather weekly-ish.

A friend of mine is not capable of washing dishes unless there is a scorching hot tap at full beam running straight to the plughole for rinsing purposes, no hand basin is used and the plug is nowhere to be seen. No draining board support is allowed to spoil the kitchen aesthetic and anything washed has to be dried with those paper towels you just use once and throw in the bin.

Fortunately for people like my friend there are dishwashing machines. Since they do have a machine and it has to be put on anyway, there is therefore no harm in my friend using a different cup everytime he wants a cup of tea. Therefore there will be a good dozen mugs and glasses in there by the time the machine goes on.

Undoubtedly the dishwasher definitely makes sense and is more economical now!!!

Meanwhile I just make do with the same cup that I wash each time I need it, a quick rinse, usually without chemicals. Come main meal time I also manage to wash as I cook so there is only the plates and a couple of pans to wash at the end. Of course you could put the dishwasher on for that or wonder what happens if you have a vast Mormon family, but it does not have to be the case that the dishwasher is greener.