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A lot of the comments are setting up a dichotomy that BG giving away money makes him good, and not giving it away is bad. Really, if you get to the level of wealth that BG has, giving away money is really the only thing that makes sense. It's a way of making your mark on the world even more than you already have. Unfortunately, the way you give away your money can have negative as well as positive effects. Though a lot of what BG does is great or fine, other interventions, especially in education where he was involved with the Common Core, have arguably been a net nagative. Really, billionaires giving away money is, at bottom, another way they exercise power. It should be viewed in that light, not as an unalloyed good.
If not, you can find it here:

https://www.uber.com/newsroom/uber-waymo-settlement/
It's not just old people. When I was a kid, the Commodore 64 was the absolute state of the art in consumer computer hardware. What I was able to produce in C64 Basic after a few months of trying was, at least to a first order of approximation, comparable to the sorts of things that were considered professional software back then: the machine just couldn't do that much, so writing a simple game with an amorphous blob that was controlled by the joystick and shot at other amorphous blobs was not _that_ far off from the sorts of games you could buy; I felt like I was doing "real" programming. Compare that to the situation today. Modern games have gigabytes of 3D rendered playfields. Even iphone games like jungle run are in 3D. But what a beginner can produce after a few months of practice still probably looks like something that might have been state-of-the-art on a C64 back in 1986 (in fact, may be harder, because the development tools are so fragmented these days). What felt like a real accomplishment to me when I was 12 feels like failure to my kids - once they realize what a hurdle they have to climb, they wonder if their efforts might be better spent elsewhere.
College is inexpensive in the US. Even top privates are affordable if you choose an appropriate career such as software engineering at a top company, management consulting, investment banking, medicine, or big law. You don't spend 50k/yr at a top private school to be a school teacher unless your family is already very wealthy. Paying $30k/yr at even a top state school is not a good idea to enter low paying career fields. Most people major in fields that are an extension of general high school studies, these majors are traps and should not be offered as they do not provide additional earnings and only serve as a four to six year timeout from the labor force as well an employment program for professors.

I have multiple degrees from US schools and zero debt.
It depends on the part of Brooklyn. Downtown, Williamsburg, and Greenpoint are all seeing significant new units added. After lagging behind for a long time, things are finally starting to happen in Brooklyn Heights. Park Slope is mostly stangnet, but out on fourth avenue (I guess that's called Gowanus?) new units are going up. There is still plenty of Brooklyn that is stagnant, it's a very large boro, but the overall picture is decent.
Do you think Google is willingly sliding into censorship with their core search product?

The reality is, Google is in a tough place legally with certain content. How will your proposed search disruptor handle these same legal and ethical issues differently from Google?
Having any valid cert (DV or otherwise) proves that you are viewing the example.com that the owner of example.com wants you to see. Without a certificate, you can/will be MITMed.

>It's just too easy to get them to think they really mean anything.

I'm not sure what you mean by this:

1. Are you saying that there is a vulnerability where you can get a valid certificate for a domain you don't own?

2. Do you mean the fact that valid owners of a domain can get a certificate easily?

If 1, please provide more info. If 2, why is that a bad thing?
Why do you think a game that sells for ~$50 was not important to EA, but a game that sells for $0 is extremely important to Epic?

Epic is a pretty big operation too.
> Programmers have to remember a vast amount of domain knowledge. Consider the basic task of choosing where you are going to store some data, well first you need to know which options exist and there's dozens of them (do you want Postgres, SQLite, Redis, LevelDB, ..?). Then you need to know the strengths and weaknesses of each. And I hope you have been keeping your knowledge up-to-date because the answer in 2018 is very different to the answer in 2008.

I'm pretty sure 90% of us would just look for a Stack Exchange question describing a bunch of popular database platforms and choose whichever looked best after thinking about it for a few minutes, and that outside of extreme circumstances (>terabytes of data, distributed over an actually unreliable network, other exotica) almost any option would work well enough.

Which is to say, programming is complicated but it's not very precise. Compare to mechanical engineering, where if you use the wrong steel your bridge will fall down; or to medicine, where if you prescribe the wrong drug someone might just die. So while there's lots that's useful for a programmer to know, if they don't know it they can get by alright almost all the time, and it's really hard for their managers to tell the difference. (Which is also why we can get away with not having a "programming school" beyond a handful of required courses for a CS degree.) So it's hard for this to seem like a very effective barrier to entry.
6k base means 80k all-in/year which is the highest union level (e.g. IG metall EG17 in Baden-Wurttemberg). You can reach this level only on a specialist level (PhD) position, with very senior >> 3 years experience or as a manager.
Yup, I've been using videostream for years now. Seems like Chromecast support in VLC was always just around the corner, glad to see it's finally out there.
The stupidity of this is, Twitter made Tweetdeck. Why are we complaining about how bad the UI is if they made something better for specific users?
Wow, pretty nice so far. Sequel Pro has been my main workhorse, but the fact that it's MySQL only has often left me looking for other tools.

It would be great to see better support for relationships and triggers and such like Sequel pro, but I like what it has so far in the structure view. I think the idea of the colored connection status bar, but it would be good to see some sort of logic for coloring the text on top to match or at least contrast sufficiently (something like how iTunes did it[0] would be awesome).

Lastly, better import/export would be nice. You can export and specify a few options but it would be good to see a little more full featured (see also Sequel Pro).

The price point seems reasonable too. Honestly, it feels a little awkward that Theming (even using alternating row colors) is a paid feature, but it probably will generate sales as I am inclined to use it immediately just to get rid of the popups.

[0] https://panic.com/blog/itunes-11-and-colors/
Is this the Furoshiki project you are referring to?

https://github.com/shoes/furoshiki

I'm just wondering since it says it is alpha and only supports Shoes.
Poetic, or maybe he is the real Satoshi :-)
How is it a pain point? It's literally a preference designed to work with HiDPI displays. And it was set to 150% automatically (because EDID contains info about the monitor's physical size).

100% on 28" looks tiny.
That is an interesting state of affairs isn't it? Why do we, the world, expect that large, supposedly more professional companies, communicate less honestly?
Not even ten random strangers. Ten strangers that are almost certainly not technical, since lawyers always try to dismiss smart people from juries?
> and tramples all over my lawn about 30% of the time

The more I read the comments the more I realize the complaints about delivery services really hit "corner cases" insanely fast. Like I would be livid if a driver didn't just leave a package at my door/driveway. I got it delivered because I don't want to deal with the hassle - if it gets stolen that's simply a cost of doing business. But I have friends who would be just as livid in the opposite direction.

I never would have considered someone cares about a delivery person walking over their lawn to drop a package off.

I think we're going to see more and more of these pain points as we migrate from "dedicated delivery guy you become friends with who knows all the idiosyncrasies of his customers" to "random dude in a Prius who had a couple hours to spare". And I'm completely convinced the latter is coming to the major delivery companies if they want to stay competitive - Fedex Ground is only a hop skip and a jump away from that already.

I imagine what's old will become new again as we re-invent the wheel for a solved problem of 100's of years. The mailbox. We'll simply see a standardized set of shipping lockers be available for both home install and shared use. I imagine within 15 years delivery services will refuse to deliver to anything but such a device. Much like how we saw the evolution of mail service in the US - went from "bob's farm in Springville, MA" to basic numbers, to streets, to zip codes, to requiring standardized mailboxes if you are to get delivery.
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You're making the mistake of equating the law with morality. Greatly simplified, the a law is just an attempt to roughly codify some moral principles and give them some teeth.

We still expect people to act morally, even in the absence of laws to force them to do so.
We are exploring some ways but we have nothing to announce yet.
That could happen! Send me a Twitter DM, @abrkn
super!

just downloaded it on windows.

UI now renders good on 2k screen.
I've been teaching my partner bits and pieces of programming. Sequential logic, and control flow were some one of the easier topics.
> U.S. immigration laws act as a protectionist barrier to prop up programmer compensation

It's almost impossible to immigrate to England (much harder than the US), yet programmers in SF are far better compensated than those in London.
Emby is awesome, unfortunately it has really low performance on Linux and they don't support raspberry pi.
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Outsourcing creates all sorts of new project planning and communication challenges that most companies are not accustomed to managing. Add in significant timezone offsets, language and cultural barriers, lower communication fidelity and often a tinge of resentment and you've got a recipe for low quality if the project is completed at all.

I don't think this has to be American to be true.
Do we really need Amazon Everything?
..to complete with FedEX, UPS and USPS, with later one being the worst of them all. Amazon has been stockpiling used cargo aircrafts for some time now in Seattle (hint..hint) and creating a delivery service at grass root city level makes much more sense for them because 1) you are not relying to ship goods from your regional warehouses often 2) this helps you get tax benefits by bringing in delivery jobs locally 3) expedited shipping of common use products such toilet papers, toothpaste etc that do not need to get shipped from regional warehouses. A lot of time your late delivery complaint just ended up you getting a $5 credit or a month waiver from your annual prime membership because Amazon can't hold USPS delivery guy accountable as it can to one of its own.
I just chose Epic because the author did. I honestly don't know anything about it.

However, I do have to point out that it seems that Epic is trying to become more competitive with regard to that same subset of engineers that Google hires. Presumably, if they're trying to become more competitive, then they're not yet competitive. Either Epic will have to pay some engineers the same as what Google pays (including equity etc.) or they won't remain competitive for that small pool of devs.

Also, worth noting that I'm saying that as someone that was once rejected by Google on a first-round phone screen.
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I've used Querious for a while and really like it: https://www.araelium.com/querious

Like TablePlus, it's a native MacOS app, has great performance, and a clean interface.
> Should I assume that American code is usually low quality?

Yes. It usually is.
Nothing new here [1], they've been doing this for the past 5+ years. They are still at least half a decade away from taking away any significant volume from FedEx or UPS.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12600094
> Is it perverse to go swimming because you were born near a beach? Is it perverse to visit the Louvre if you are Parisian? Is it perverse to go to a good university because the universities in Elbonia aren't good?

If you actively promote or passively allow politicians and legislation that bars other people from having a shot at earning those things themselves, then yes.
Is there anything planned for adopting the UI (visible and technical) changes of Firefox?
As often happens, very nice, but of no practical use whatever, I mean first thing you have to BOTH infect the PC AND place a "magnetic receiver" within 100 cm, but the "magnetic receiver" needs anyway to transmit the data, and that is IMHO the unresolved problem, as this method of transmission would be easily detected (if electromagnetic/radio) or impossible to deploy (cable/wire) in 99.9999% of the "secure sites" where actually an air-gapped computer is used inside a faraday cage.
When Intel stole Digital's alpha technology the lawsuit ended with intel acquiring the Digital chip business. I guess that's also sort of money, but not exactly.
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The whole rest of the country is out there and is exactly what you are looking for. Why should the nostalgia of a few be allowed to impede progress for a whole country? These decisions should be taken out of local, parochial hands and made at higher levels of government. That way they can be made for the benefit of all, instead for the benefit of a small group of incumbents.

As I understand it, that's how they do it in Japan. Zoning is done at the national level.
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$69 is chump change - Navicat is like $1,000. I worry that it's not enough for the app to be maintained for a long time after purchase.

I'd pay $69/year without even thinking about it, maybe they should jump on the subscription train!
>Offshore developed code is not usually the same quality. Not that we all deserve huge salaries, but code quality important.

Cheap offshore developed code is usually not the same quality. Pay people the same and it's amazing what you'll get.
So what is Lewandowski's final status here? I know he doesn't work at Uber anymore, but did he keep all the money?

Seems like he got a pretty good deal if so, he's retired with hundreds of millions.
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This seems like it's going in circles, but, if you selfsign modern browsers display a big scary warning. If you're making a device or software meant to live behind a firewall and to be accessed from a browser, users will either have to install your CA in their browsers, or deal with the big scary warning. Both of which are bad.
I have a few requirements when I choose my distro:

1. Ubuntu based, since I know where everything is. I don't mean to knock other great distros like Arch, etc.. but I'd rather do my stuff than try to figure out another package manager or another file system layout.

2. Customizable. I make my environment look a bit like windows, with the task bar and all. Not because I love windows, but because I have two laptops, one windows and one linux, and I need a bit of a seamless transition. I am sure if my other laptop was a fruit, I'd want my linux machine to resemble a fruit.

3. I need my desktop right click context menu, with a command line option.

For the longest time I used Xubuntu. I still think Xfce is the best out there, but its glacial rate of movement made me look in other places. It is falling behind in some things such as multi-monitor support with docking stations.

I now use Ubuntu 17.10 with Gnome shell. I was able to make it look almost like my Xfce setup. I had to turn off Wayland, since it was causing gnome to crash randomly on wake from sleep and close all my apps. It is also far less customizable than xfce, and some things are unexpectedly buggier (the terminal window loses cut and paste abilities randomly, and I cannot replace the console shortcut in the desktop context menu with Terminator).

I may yet go back to Xubuntu. Not sure.
duplicate https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16341094
Here in Mexico Amazon has been getting contracts with crappy local couriers and the experience has been negative. DHL always did a great job in my area.
Amazon's delivery service now (in my area, anyway) takes a photo of the package once it's placed on your doorstep, and the Amazon iPhone app confirmation includes a notice showing the photo.

It's been a nice feature for me, until one driver put the package on my front porch, but then too, a photo from their car of my entire house as the delivery confirmation photo.
First of all, if it’s not reproducible, it’s not science. The entire point of science is getting results that give insight to others.

Second, often the papers set prerequisites that are not available to anyone else, because these, too, are undocumented.

This is cool if you want an inspiration, but large parts of these papers are as useful as watching Star Trek for actual science. They can serve as inspiration, but they can’t tell you how to replicate something, or give you possible leads to expand on it.

And this issue gets even worse – if I’m writing an undergrad thesis on a tech that Google has several years lead on, my thesis won’t be able to produce anything new. I can’t expand on the state of the art, because the state of the art isn’t even available to me.
I'm not sure they all have a choice, sure you can learn new frameworks or technologies but without real experience it's difficult to demonstrate competence in them. How many employers would hire a Cobol programmer who learnt Angular in their spare time?
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I've had similar experience finding on-site work in a healthy market as I have as a remote worker. I don't think parent's advice is sound, claiming that software eng. is a dead-end path for most, with a five year fuse. Clearly if you're not excellent or willing to move to a city with jobs in your industry, you're going to be in for a rough time. Not specific to software eng.
Depends on what do you mean "live better". iPads, cars, plane tickets, electronics and other luxuries aren't cheaper in Poland than they are in US. You might "live better", but you also might never be able to visit Hawaii or drive a Tesla.
"Bitcoin has enjoyed wider adoption than any previous cryptocurrency;"

Was there anything before bitcoin that could have been defined as such?
I love learning about cryptocurrencies through shitcoins. It helps keeping perspective in check. Keep up the great work.
I can't seem to find the 64bit build of the 3.0.0 release on the web nor on the FTP. Is there not one? Further, are there any advantages of using the 64bit versions over the 32bit? Any disadvantages? [edit - just saw this in the changelog: * 64bit version of VLC for Windows is recommended. And there is another post in this thread about it which I did not see, apologies, it looks like they will be arriving in a little while.]
Are you asking whether you have to use Uber? It gives you a list of providers.

If you're asking whether you can ask maps to switch into the Uber app, I'm not sure there is a lot of value (you can pop open the app and your ride appears there too). Uber exposed developer APIs presumedly for this reason. Embedding the UX lowers friction and tightens up the user funnel.
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Software doesn't keep running indefinitely. It has a shelf life of a few decades at the most, and usually just a few years.

Programmers definitely have leverage due to scale, but lawyers also have a lot of leverage when dealing with cases that have large $$$ amounts tied to them. Traders obviously have leverage by using large quantities of capital in their trades.
Such things does not exist because of copyright holders forces DRM
> You don't face water probles every day but you face charging problems every day.

Speak for yourself. I have water problems about as frequently as I have low battery problems.
That seems like a poor analogy, if you mean the park already exists and the company is just trying to take possession of it. In this situation, there is no park at the outset, and the company would have no incentive to build one if it didn't have some way to benefit from it once built. Companies will only create this kind of IP if they can profit from it; they're not charities. If we as a society want this IP to exist, our only options are to protect the profit motive that leads to its private creation, or (like the park!) fund it publicly.
We can totally accept old-fashioned UI as developers. Hell, we even work in our terminals all day or use i3wm instead of any desktop environment. However, most apps target normal end users, not developers. Show your cousin whether she likes a flashy "modern" UI more or a succinct UI more, the answer is a no-brainer. And then try to explain to her what RAM usage actually means... The same as asking her whether she prefers using i3 or Windows, Vim or Word etc.
To be honest I'm not really sure how it works in the US, but in the UK if a doctor has passed their exams to become a registrar, they are by that time reasonably competent to practice their chosen speciality (except for surgeons). Obviously being a doctor requires a lot of practical on-the-job training but the point is the whole process is managed top-down.

Programming education is totally ad-hoc and you can be a great programmer even with a degree in agriculture.
Agree with your analysis -

Waymo's trade secret violation case was flimsy so they were willing to settle, and Uber from the beginning has been looking for the quickest way out.

Even if Uber could have won the case, their reputation is now such that if you see Uber in a headline, you are primed to think "scandal" or "evil" - even if you see "Uber wins Waymo case" you'll think "wow I wonder what shady stuff Uber did to pull that one off against Google".

I'm interested to see if Waymo pursues anything directly against Levandowski.
If you don't have a domain, chances are that you don't provide service to normal users. Or to users at all besides yourself.
Is there chromecast support on MacOS as well?
> I think we're going to see more and more of these pain points as we migrate from "dedicated delivery guy you become friends with who knows all the idiosyncrasies of his customers" to "random dude in a Prius who had a couple hours to spare". And I'm completely convinced the latter is coming to the major delivery companies if they want to stay competitive - Fedex Ground is only a hop skip and a jump away from that already.

That will be a sad day.
Thanks! If you have a shitcoin you want me to review, I'm open to suggestions.
The statement might as well have just been the title. It was completely void of substance.