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I'm not sure I'd have made this particular blogger the target for my ire if it was my work, but in principle I agree with the penalty. Copyright sustains the people who create the art that this blogger was curating. Without copyright, there would be nothing for him / her to curate in the first place because there would be no such thing as professional photographers, designers, or writers.
I'm sorry, but from the screenshot another commentor posted, it clearly shows that this person had advertising on their blog. That shows clear intent of monetizing the blog and generating revenue. They might not have made much revenue from the ads, but they still showed intent to.

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Ah yes... this guy https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/11/3...

Great source.
I agree that most startups should work at a Heroku level of abstraction.

You mention 18 microsevices, I think that small teams are better off with a monolith.

I would see Kubernetes as a new machine level. We're moving from bare metal, to VMs, to container schedulers.

Heroku was one of the first companies that ran a container scheduler internally. So I think we agree that is the future.

But a small team probably doesn't need to work at that abstraction level.

At GitLab we think most teams will want to work at a higher abstraction layer. Just push your code and have it deployed on Kubernetes. Without having to write a dockerfile or helm chart yourself.
B2B encompasses a very wide range of buyers, with very different allowances for risk. The article talks about what would be commonly known as Enterprise Sales, which is marked by long sales cycles, high prices, and a lot of legwork in selling. It is possible to sell B2B software where the buyer is a single person within an organisation, or a small team.

Those are much easier to sell to, because there is a much smaller amount of buy-in needed from the organisation as a whole. Because the stakes are so much lower than in an enterprise-wide deal, an MVP may be perfectly acceptable to your customers.
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Perhaps you mean sapient. Snakes and other animals are definitely sentient.
I don't agree with the policy but surely it makes it harder to manage staffing levels and re-engagement will take longer for longer absences. I'd call it mean rather than ridiculous.
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It's vary rarely written.

As an mechanical engineer educated in the UK the base unit would be kg but you would use ax10^n [kg] to denote mass.
The entire point of my comment is to note that "the SI base unit is the kilogram and not the gram" appears to be a contentless statement which is repeated mindlessly by people. And you responded by just repeating the statement that someone else made.

If the President issues a statement that says "the base unit of the US is the furlong", but nothing else about the US or its system of measurements changes, this is a contentless statement. If someone else asks "but what does it actually mean for the furlong, as opposed to the inch, to be the base unit?", pointing them to the President's statement does not help.

(Remember, saying "the kilogram is the base unit" cannot refer to the fact that the mass object in France weighs a kilogram, not a gram, because people also say "the meter and the second are base units", neither of which are physically instantiated anywhere.)
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I can take my full amount at any time, assuming it's not in the middle of some massive project already scheduled. But those are rare. I don't think it's common, and you're just being taken advantage of.
Actually, it's not uncommon for enterprise sales to involve signing an MOU/contract without the software being ready. You don't even need an MVP. Maybe a POC or strong reference customers of related nature.
Hmm, I would guess that if somebody doesn't already know about the Julia language, this wouldn't be a very interesting page (which is fine). So this is a great title!

In case you're curious, the website is https://julialang.org/

> Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language for numerical computing. It provides a sophisticated compiler, distributed parallel execution, numerical accuracy, and an extensive mathematical function library.
Yep, you're right, I messed that up.
It's simple to follow the law. If you don't have positive proof that you have the right to use an image, don't use it.
I read this situation differently to you and a lot of other people here. I think your CEO was testing you for your reaction.

It's a confidence test. Or, possibly a "dude" or "bro" test, depending on your CEO's age. You're supposed to match his jocular tone while telling him where he can stuff his ideas on fashion (and his flip flops).

Volleying his smack talk back at him as one does to equals sends a signal. As does obediently Yes Sir, Right Away Sir'ing. As does getting offended. As does being embarrassed and humiliated.

He wanted to see which of those signals you'd send. (And he's probably not the nicest human being for doing so).
Not really. My line is reasoning is that crypto has no fundamentals to support it. When you invest in a stock, you have financial metrics: revenue, profit, assets, cash flow, and other business activity... something you can equate to actual monetary value.

Most crypto behaves like a penny stock, with the same sort of pump-and-dump schemes, relatively low volumes, and many people trading on hype, hoping to get rich quick. Bitcoin swings wildly for almost any reason, or no reason at all.

Yes, you can make money with it, but I wouldn't suggest anyone invest the majority of their cash into it.
It's unfortunate but most of the B2B marketing is done at business conferences I imagine. It's not cheap to setup a booth and I imagine the success rate is not very high.
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they were optimising their algorithm for rage

The humans think this is “engagement” but the algorithm knows the truth.

Phillip Morris is also profitable...
Isn't the point of a cutting board to protect the counter top from the knife, mobility (move chopped food to another location) and being easy to clean? As opposed to a flat counter top which can get marred with marks, can't move, can be cleaned but not thrown in a sink.
Natural variation and selection. (Biological) Evolution changes populations, not individuals.

Suppose there's one snake that is genetically disposed not to eat toad-shaped things, frogs, cane toads, anything like that, the same way I don't like nuts. They're not toxic to me, I could eat them, but I don't. Previously toads weren't toxic to snakes, but that snake didn't eat them.

Normally that snake has a small disadvantage, other snakes eat toads and it goes without. Too bad. But now it won't get poisoned. This means it's slightly more likely to survive to adulthood, breed and produce more snakes.

Further genetic changes to avoid toads will also be selected for in the same fashion.

This process is very slow in multi-cellular creatures, but it does exist. It may not be fast enough to adapt to the cane toad of course.
Cane toads are an ecosystem destroying highly invasive introduced species.

The crows are doing our work for us. The method might be messy, but cane toads should be exterminated in non-native habitats as expediently as possible.

Instead of feeling bad for them, why don't you feel bad about the species they have almost wiped out?
I am active on Twitter and have curated my feed to be full* of rage.

* Ok, more like 50-75% depending on what the Dumbass Gibbon or the Brexidiots have said/done recently.
That sounds completely insane and abusive to me. Where I live, I'd assume – though I'm not sure – that this is illegal to mandate.
> If indeed Facebook did trick the CEO, then he should write about that as a public service warning to all of us. That's newsworthy.

Facebook did legitimately trick many of its clients with the "content from pages with more likes appears higher in users' news feed, if you want your content higher in the feed then advertise with us for more likes" / "lots of pages with many likes have low user engagement, we're rearranging the feed to prioritise content shared by family and friends" bait-and-switch.
Honestly: Whatever. As long as we stop doing the clock change.
> even when the disclaimer "based on"

I can't exactly fault them as "based on" seems to be more of a marketing gimmick used to imply some form of authenticity rather than an actual disclaimer. For the longest time I fell for the fallacy that "based on" implied some semblance of factual accuracy.
> ps. I have a tool to help workers get the longest possible vacation. Am I allowed to publish the link here?

I don't see why that'd not be allowed -- please do go ahead!
There's even the higher-level desire, what users really want isn't a place to run their app, but to the function the app provides. e.g. in a more micro-services-like environment with a service that simply looks things up in a database, what they really want is just query access to the data. But now they have the data in some db, the db in some container, some API written using the latest API style, some software the provide the API (also in a container), some container orchestration to coordinate everything, load balancers, caches and so on.

So there's all these layers of stuff that sit between the user and the data just to make the act of asking WHERE DATATHING="STUFF" convenient.
> Many believe the clock change negatively impacts on people's mental and physical health.

This is absolutely not true for me. An "extra" hour of daylight during summer evenings has a large positive impact on my mental and physical health.

I don't find the actual physical change of the clocks to be a problem either. Change them twice a year by one hour, which most digital clocks do automatically now anyway.
> Am I allowed to publish the link here?

Yes. If it's your own work, and it meets the rules, you can post it as a "Show HN" too. https://news.ycombinator.com/show
> I work hard on my hobby, but i do not feel entitled too money for it.

It's not that simple. What is just a hobby for you might be a source of income for someone else. You can't turn tables around and say they can't make money only because you don't expect a payment for your hobby.
It's amazing how tech companies and unicorns are valued. If they are losing, the public market or VC's cover their aes and their value stays neutral, and first signs of profit send the stocks to the moon.

That is also the behaviour of crypto, but in this case the stocks aren't overvalued to start with, as decades of inflation have done to stocks.

Looking from another side, in crypto we haven't developed a sound investing framework yet, other than the usual github/reddit/social/TA checks, possibly because we are dealing with a protocol, not a product.

The interesting thing here, and maybe a somewhat contrarian position to take in the Twitter case, is that they're not a tech company, but a protocol company. And their value can't be measured with a number, they're essentially playing the same field as TCP or IRC, which value we haven't measured.

I would be buying $TWTR stock, if it weren't for cryptos like VEN, GVT or REQ which may be equivalent to investing in Twitter in the seed phase. Actually, this line of thought is really interesting, I may write something longer and more coherent about this stuff.
In case anyone else is curious, the author's 1500m Olympic trial is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dSLUVmK1Ik
I learned a long, long time ago to keep code clean. Only take being burned once for you to realise it can come back and bite you years later.

Oh, and be careful of your messages in debug/trace statements, should your client decide to have a look at those ever-growing files.
We could also just get up an hour earlier without redefining what time it is...
The eyes of dogs are less forward facing than on humans.
Any chance you can start and leave work earlier, and get the same effect?
I think that's what the top comment was trying to say. High profile controversy like that prompts many people to react (either to disagree or to agree), which generates traffic and therefore helps the platform.

In addition, just the huge media coverage of Twitter (in the slipstream of Trump) is like a massive free ad campaign.
Facebook just persists on the inertia of the network effect its leveraging. The only thing that will ever stop them is actual updates to anti-trust laws to stay in step with the current state of the industry.

It’s bullshit that a single company should get to pick winners and losers in the economy. We get squeamish about allowing our (barely) democratically elected government do that so I don’t understand why proponents of free-markets think it’s fine to let an unaccountable corporate entity exert the same kind of influence.
How did being a protocol work out for DEC? Or Sun?
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I work in the legal industry and my employer has sabbaticals.

Employees who have been here for X years (10 for salaried, 13 for hourly) get two months of PTO.

An additional month of PTO can be taken at the same time.

Edited for formatting.
This is what Turkey recently did, but this has no sense in my opinion. If you want something that's happening at 8 AM to be like 7 AM, why not just do it on 7 AM?
I'm curious to know the evidence found against them - this article literally gives no details beyond the headline.
I was involved with a case earlier this week with Apple making a false IP claim under penalty of perjury, they don't seem to care too much. Have heard from others who've been bullied by them as well.

Look up HARD2FIND ACCESSORIES INC v. AMAZON COM INC APPLE INC for another instance of them abusing IP claims.
Except that not everyone has a license plate but everyone has a face. So its a much bigger intrusion.
Boa Constructor used to do a lot of that, back in the day, and was a pretty good way of making UI apps. I don't think it's still maintained now, unfortunately.
"just because someone uses swear words doesn't mean they're racist or homophobic"

Where does it ever imply that? It says racist and homophobic slurs, not just swears like "fuck" or whatever. And yes, if one uses bigoted slurs, then one is a bigot.
To answer a sibling. Yes, this was at AIT. One of the moments I remember most vividly was the first project review we were doing. The task was to fold hard construction paper into an object. I was starting work on a human face and had completed just the eye.

After taking a few seconds to roll it over in his hands, he handed it back to me and said, "what is it?" I said, "It's a human eye." He responded, "It is not shaped like an eye, it is not colored like an eye, it does not look like an eye." I was very disappointed.

Looking back on it years later, that conversation taught me a valuable lesson. Metaphors are built up of tiny little pieces that all come together to form a complete picture. If one of those pieces is off or missing, it's like missing letters from a wrd (word). At a certain point the wd (word) just breaks down until it's not even recognizable as a w (word) anymore...

The same goes for design. The eye I had made definitely resembled an eye. It had an iris and it was as round as I could make it. But the illusion of the eye was lost on the viewer and at best it looked like eye-shaped paper. That was the point he was making and my future work suffered until I realized that it wasn't the outcome I should be focusing on. Instead, I should reflect on the individual pieces that make up an experience in order for it to match the user's expectations.
Checkout Shodan where you can look into thousands of cams around the world from parking garages, shops, and even baby cams.
You can not put up minefields and fences on public property to protect your lifestyle by making everyone life in constant fear.

I wish there was some way to mark such hostile silo-parts of the web against the allmende, original web.
A pattern I've witnessed on some enterprise B2B startups is that they start out with the founder having a pre-existing relationship with a decision maker at a company.

That guy is going "my business has this problem" over a beer and the founder goes "I can solve that for you" and they work out a deal. The founder builds the MVP that solves the customer's problem and incorporates so they can get paid.

The founder iterates and continues getting paid and at some point uses the cash to hire one of those expensive salespeople who knows how to chase down decision makers.
It isn't as cross-DE as it could be, but a lot more than just GNOME: MATE, Budgie, Pantheon, XFCE, ...
> I licensend all my content under the GPL

GPL requires copyright law to work. Without vigorous copyright law the GPL is worthless.

If you don't believe in copyright you should pick a different licence.
you should check out docker swarm. the UX of swarm is brilliant - use a 10 line compose.yml file to get a stack up and running. Let's you specify tons of stuff if you want to.

The batteries included nature of swarm is a huge help as well - with k8s, you have to muck around overlay network, ingress, etc.

However, I think the writing is clear on the wall - k8s has won. Probably even to Docker Inc, given the kubernetes integration they are building into swarm now.

I think Docker Swarm can exist as an opinionated distro of k8s. I wouldnt mind paying it money for that.
> At the point where he said there should be a law that recommendations need to be made by humans it’s like dude...

You’re taking him way too literally. “There oughta be a law” is a figure of speech.
Inertia. Most things will work to the time of 9-5 (or whatever) regardless. It's a fine plan for individuals. It's not fine when you want to interact with anyone else.
I strongly disagree with this comment (needing an MVP). For a serious B2B product you need a team, sales process and social proof/track record that convinces the customer you will deliver on your promises.

But above all, you need a product which solves a tangible, significant problem for the customer!

If the willingness of a customer to sign a prelaunch sales agreement comes down to the quality of your MVP, something has gone wrong in your sales process and the customer is just looking for an excuse to decline.
"Super interesting" sounds like a good metric for top-voted entries, especially at 4AM (PST)
The internet suggests that in Germany it is up to the employer when employee holidays are taken. For example, if the business wants to shutdown over Christmas, it is well within its rights of that business to have its employees take holidays at this time. The minimum number of holiday days must be taken by the employees over the course of the year, but when the employer says it is acceptable to. As such, there seems to be nothing stopping them from allowing no more than two weeks at a time, just like the business in question here.

Is this information outdated/incorrect?
Only if everyone else did the same thing and my son's school decided to start an hour earlier too.
I would actually prefer to have summer time year round. One solution is to move westward, possibly to the north.
No! Let's keep time that make sense, I like the concept that the sun is at its highest at noon. Shit like drawing the shadow of a stick is stuff that kept me interested in school, as opposed to arbitrary/political things such as spelling (in french and english anyway).

If natural light matters, shift society to do everything earlier!

It shouldn't be very difficult, especially in Europe, where governments have such an influence, mandate that schools start earlier, shift transportation peak time (number and frequency of trains and buses) earlier, give some tax incentive for a year or two to companies who let their employees leave work earlier, etc...

I lived in countries where the currency was changed, people got used to it, it didn't turn out to be the end of the world. Some countries shifted on which side or the road cars drove, people adapted.
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I have never worked anywhere with that policy in the US. I have taken month long vacations at two different companies. I gave months of advance notice and got it cleared before hand. At your company, I would still try to ask for a month off well in advance and see what their response is.
>This used to be very common for machine shops to have wood floors

That is done because wood is soft and if you drop a tool or part on the floor it's far less likely to be damaged. Wood has been superseded by (usually vinyl IIRC) tile and/or rubber/plastic mats in a lot of places.
It being a biological limit is certainly possible; your post is interesting and I don't want to discount it. But I really do think psychology plays a huge role in these stories. From my personal experience running track and field this phenomenon occurs rather frequently. All it takes is one person achieving a long-standing milestone for the rest of the team to quickly follow suit. I've seen similar things happen in non-physical competitive games, like chess and dota 2, at the highest level.

Maybe there is some kind of safety mechanism built into our brains preventing us from doing things that we've never observed or heard of being done. Brain: "No one's ever run sub-4 minutes, so I don't know for sure whether doing so would kill me or not. Better not try."
I once had to write a daylight savings calculator from scratch for a Windows CE system -- its kernel couldn't be updated, and I had to implement the 2007 changes to the DST rules. Good times.
I'm against any such limits, but one could argue that a week of vacation twice a year will be more helpful against the burnout than a single two weeks vacation...
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They also protect the knife blade from damage: if you were to cut directly on stone, the knife hitting the stone would cause it to dull more quickly.
It takes about 36 hours one way to reach India. If I am going to spend so much time and money on flight, I would rather stay for 3 weeks and make best out of the vacation.
Yeah, so this policy is a little strange imo.
Good point — I guess it's akin to the effect of napping on a macro scale. However, if I only ever take a week out, I find that I don't get the mental rest I need to come back to my work fully energised. So, perhaps a mixture of both is ideal? :)
The reason why there are no people like that is that the vast majority of the K8s is driven by the teams that try to masquerade their lack of understanding of systems ( cloud or non-cloud ).

Building containers that contain entire operating system gives no wins. In fact it add additional layer that will create issues, will break in a different way, etc.

The current love of the modern orchestration system by the management is similar to mid-nineties love of the "compute management packages" running on SGI that showed one "flying" though from one server to the other.
Maybe it is time to switch one global time and ditch the old system completely. E.g. UTC, but it carries the old semantics with 'high noon' at 12:00. Maybe another system, but UTC is very popular already, e.g. for logging.

Imagine you don't have to deal with different time zones any more.
you can just split backend from frontend and use in the frontend an all-in js framework like Ember, Angular etc or combination of different js front-end libs like react + redux + react-router.
Distance from Earth and solar aphelion aren't the same thing. The former will be larger by 300 million km (the diameter of Earth's orbit) when Earth is on the opposite side of the sun. It's unclear which value Musk was referring to.
IANAL, but when I've seen this asked in the past, the guidance was pretty much "if you agree to it, you agree to it". In other words, don't work for a company which has such stringent intellectual property requirements.

That said, I'm sure others here are better qualified to comment.