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> Troubleshooting a working, in-motion system requires a different set of skills, in my experience, from writing and debugging code

I'm not convinced of this - or rather, if someone can't troubleshoot a system in motion, they're going to struggle to actually develop anything substantial. Debugging is a very underestimated skill of programming.

I think the conflation of "devops" is nothing to do with skills and everything to do with culture. When you have them as separate business units or teams it becomes adversarial: every deployment is a potential headache for Ops, so Ops try to prevent deployments or set up staging barriers to minimise this. Whereas developers may not appreciate the difficulties involved in deploying a large system vs the toy one they're developing on.
Flight fares and tourist visa applications don't really jive with the last minute "we'll come and go when we want" mentality. It's quite expensive to travel this way, and you usually need an exit flight booked before entering. Otherwise you're gonna have a heck of a time convincing the border guard you're actually planning on leaving.

I'm all for a world with fewer borders and this flexible mentality you describe. I just think it'll take a while for governments / transportation to make it feasible.
Yeah. In fact most likely, she's already written down "kitten4" in a notepad somewhere, because she doesn't trust herself to remember. So asking her to use a slightly longer password is not a massive change.
What you said is Correctly predict
Docker is a nice runtime, but you cannot reproduce the build of a docker container. What if you want to make a small change to the image? You need to rebuild it, but if it's years later, the versions of packages in the ubuntu repository may have changed and a lot of other things (if you're not careful, tarballs downloaded during the building of the image may have disappeared/changed/...). While you can try to avoid these through careful scripting and pinning things, this is what Nix makes really easy: just pin your nixpkgs version, and you can almost guarrante that you'll get the exact same build years later and you can still change parts of it if you need to.
TCP-Starvation
I think, in a meta sense, that this comment feels also really gratifying to read, there goes my upvote.
IMHO Slack should be used only as informal communication tool. Neither Slack nor Discord or others facilitate the most important part: long-term result from communication.

Why? People are used to WhatsApp, FB Messenger, etc. and chat these days is mostly without consequences. That also translates to Slack and others.

Effective communication producing results IMHO requires investment. Chat is the opposite of that.

Anecdotal part from various companies: Slack is mostly a place for slacking off, doing silly things or send "untraceable" reprimands (since free tier does not archive) long-term.

Organisation has to be company culture before using tools like Slack, or Slack will do you no good.

... feel free to replace Slack with any other messaging app.
I think the answer is the discontinuity you get from a sharp bend is smaller than the highest frequency/wavelength in the signal. So you don't get any reflections off it. The way I think is the length of the wave front heading down the trace is much longer than the size of the bend. I think very high speed stuff can start having trouble with via's.

I think curved traces were used make layout easier when running tape. Bending the tape is easier than doing a cut to shift the trace over.

And safer, a problem with old tape layouts is it's easy enough to knock off a small section of tape. Old draftsman I worked with would check the layout against a blue print on a light table to make sure nothing was amiss before making mods. He also got really antsy if anyone was rummaging around in the drawers holding PCB layouts.
It may not be clear from the search, but the SRE book is freely available online: https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html
> The parents of those children contribute to the economy and pay taxes

It's unlikely the parents pay more in taxes than they receive in benefits like free schooling for their kids.

And at the same time by working here they illegally decrease wages and jobs for the most marginalized Americans.

> Some of the kids of unauthorized immigrants are US citizens

They wouldn't be here in the first place if we enforced our immigration laws.

> With proper education, these children will grow up to be productive

Not with current levels of funding they won't.

And I don't see any political will in California to double the education spending per child.
People on ProductHunt are interested in products in general. The cross over between ProductHunt users to <your product> users can, and often is, zero. Getting a ton of traffic from there only means your product is new to people who are interested in seeing new products; there is no reason to believe they're ever going to be customers even if they come and see what you've made.

Not getting any customers from DesignerNews is more of a problem, and probably indicates something is wrong with your call(s) to action. They're obviously not working, or your product isn't useful. Ideally you should have set it up to capture user information before launching, because then you'd be in a position to ask the people who visited why they didn't buy. It's a little late for that now.
This is excellent.

Looks like this was first posted two years ago, and has been posted a number of times since; but I never noticed any of them.
We had music playing while our eldest was being delivered by caesarean, and for several months afterwards she'd cry whenever we played it.
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Like I pointed out above, thats not how it works. And if it were, then women would be at an advantage. If genetics confers any difference in math ability, it's due to the Y chromosome. Period.
A new podcast on startups in the Middle East
A bunch of Californians moved in and changed politics for (what the locals would consider) the worse.
We are caught in an ideological chasm in the US. On one side is a harsh society wide approach like that of the Chinese. On the other hand is complete tolerance and legalization, which is more compatible with a Western social and political values. We are in an awkward spot somewhere in between.

Unfortunately we must measure success of our national drug programs by the number of people who do not become junkies. I say unfortunately because it seems that many people self medicate to deal with sadness or emptiness in their lives, which makes dealing with hard drug use a daunting task. How do we remove sadness from people's lives? How do we heal the abscess of loneliness?

Unfortunately people do not always make good decisions, even if they are content, well adjusted people. If we legalize heroin in the manner I believe we should with marijuana, I fear many more people than now will stumble into heroin addiction.

So caught in a valley between two extreme responses, one which is antithetical to our Western social constructs and another which does not adequately protect people from themselves, what do we do?

Perhaps the case of Portugal represents an alternative. While not legalizing the all drugs - you won't see commercials for Black Tar™ brand Heroin - Portugal has decriminalized all drugs, meaning that while they haven't granted heroin the tacit acceptance that comes with legalization, they have made life easier for those who inevitably do become addicts. Perhaps this is the best we can hope for.
Although today, well, yeah you can pretty much learn anything online and with ebooks if you have the focus and drive.
For the same reason an organization will ask you to fill in a standard form page (even on paper) rather than writing a long form essay.
I Wrote Down Everything I Learned While Programming for a Month
Snapchat’s New Update Triggers Revolt by Millions of Teens
https://indieweb.org is more or less about this. May I suggest that instead of writing about it, implement something that's actually usable for others as well? There had been enough writing, but very little actual solution.
It's not free software, unfortunately, so that is a showstopper for me. Thanks for suggestion, though.
Out of interest (and having only read Siddhartha and The Glass-Bead Game), what would you say was his best novel?
All the docs for graphql (and Apollo) recommend always making backwards compatible changes.

If anything, graphql apis would be easier to maintain in the long run, since clients asks for what they want. New clients could ask for the new data, without breaking the responses for old clients.
> It's impossible to get a team to be uniformly disciplined.

Not if you hire veterans.
Good question, this is also mandatory for me.
Being an expat myself, I cannot help but notice that it's often more expensive than being a local, especially in the beginning. Less choice in housing, no family support, being unable to claim certain benefits either because not qualifying or simply being unfamiliar with local laws are some of the reasons causing this. If you need a visa/work permit you can also incur siginificant expenses (both time and money) because of that.

I have an above-average income in the UK, and often hear about "people who live on half of what I do" conviniently omitting their reliance on social housing, family help, and state benefits, all of which I lack. While it's possible for a foreigner to acquire those things, it takes a significant amount of time.
I think its a bit of a misconception to think that such a volume in traffic _should_ result in a donation. If one was of the mindset that getting 4k traffic is cool then this would be time for excite but as the expectation has been to make a little off this the outcome is sad.
I wanted to measure how much I was really learning while programming. So I wrote down notes every time I learned something for an entire month in January.

The result revealed that we do not actually learn much and that we have misconception about 'learning.'
They are using snap! an apparent derivative of Scratch. Seriously?

The course sounds exactly like my six graders middle school course. Well the six graders did read Hacker News, so I guess that is what makes it a College Level EE course (eyes roll).
.colors() isn't exactly groundbreaking and there are plenty of free color scheme apps/sites out there that are more full-featured.
I recomment reading Bernard Cornwell's book Agincourt.

It has some very interesting (and gruesome) reconstructions of battles with English longbowmen - from the point-of-view of the longbowmen.

In the actual battle of Agincourt [1], ~5,000 archers and ~1,000 men-at-arms took on ~20-30,000 French infantry.

As the ~5,000 archers could fire ~12 arrows a minute, with 72-100 arrows each, the French would have had 360,000-500,000 arrows hit their lines during the battle - 10 to 20 for each Frenchman.

The article talks about the impossibility of shooting 10-12 arrows-per-minute, however it doesn't talk about how the English trained from childhood to fire a longbow - in fact, it was written into law for hundreds of years.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Agincourt
This is the NYT magazine; I see it as more like travel writing than anything else. One of the downsides of digital articles is that it's no longer clear which section of the paper they're in and therefore whether they should be considered reporting, investigative reporting, reprinted press releases, "lifestyle", or whatever.

I suspect they "paid" simply by having an interesting enough story, giving free accomodation to the writer of the article, possibly other expenses included, and giving access to the founder.

It's not exactly a pure puff piece either. The writer (https://twitter.com/chaykak) puts in subtle clues that he regards it as a Ballardian dystopia, and has retweeted someone's description of his article as "The Talented Mr Ripley, but with digital nomads"
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I understand what you are saying. I agree that heroin by itself is not very harmful to the body relative to some other drugs.

But let me be more clear about what I mean by "death grip".

When someone cares so much about a drug that it becomes the focal point of their lives, where they become so utterly ruled by the object of their addiction that friends and family and all else not the drug become secondary fixtures in their lives, then they have become the walking dead and are very much in the death grip.

I have seen it with friends. Some are still breathing, some are not.

Sure people on medical grade heroin regimens can continue to exist, but the drug will kill them inside nonetheless.

Revitalization is possible of course, but it is exceedingly difficult.
Thanks a lot for the suggestion! It was set to 100… that's a terrible default for a phone with 64 GiB onboard storage…
Not ancient, I suppose :)
Yes, its also the second link mentioned in article
Trust Me I’m Lying by Ryan Holiday is the definitive text on the subject IMO, published in 2013. Some of the examples the author uses involve manipulating humans here on HN to distort reality, in most cases for free press, shares, and back links.
If you make a product based on donations then you should never expect any revenue from it. If you want some revenue from it, then charge your customers.

Also, getting no donation from 4500 visitors is not really bad nor good. People do not donate often (because you can't donate every time someone ask for a donation).
Bottom of page 52 is hilarious.
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Half the comments here are complaining about twitter, and with good reason. It shouldn’t require fifteen page-downs through the avatars of a bunch of twitter blowhards, just to read a simple list of links.

Beyond that, there is basically nothing interesting about this post. It’s a list of lists of books that probably covers 99% of the NYT best selling list.

There is nothing novel or interesting to HN readers about this.

The only time linking to twitter is justified IMO is when the linked tweet is truly a primary source of breaking news. If I wanted to read any of the other BS on that site, I would use their app.

And btw it’s not true that you can “technically send anything,” as the HN guidelines [0] establish. Granted I’m guilty of violating them by calling out this post; I should have just flagged it as trash (which I did) and moved on without commenting.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That was my thinking too: slick looking and all, but you can actually pretty easily do it yourself if you are a web dev. Most people use truly amazing frameworks for free, I don't think they would donate for this.
This was fun, I did a live demo at work a few months ago on this, got stuck on getting the model to predict with enough accuracy to be useful then came across this post, my activation function was slightly off.

Most people understand Fizz Buzz, building up and solving the problem with a neural network shows that a bit of ML code can solve the problem without being programmed explicitly to do so, quite a good example.
The big company is half of rich privileged kids and half of people who just moved in to the most expensive city in the world and don't know if they can pay rent the next month.

You'll meet both types of people in the interview panel.

Interviewers are just people who happen to be here at the moment, they have nothing special. They have the power to grant you the job or not but that doesn't mean anything about their personal life.
The author nails my thoughts on Slack (and its OS clone Mattermost). It is less a communications tool, more of a productivity tracker.

I've worked in places where it was unofficially compulsory to have Slack always open. If you didn't respond to a message is a timely fashion then you'd be asked why. It became the case that Activity on Slack = Productivity.

This wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the fact that I think Slack is a pretty poor way to do workplace communication. It's the textual equivalent of shouting out a question to the whole office. Everything seems to mush together in to one big conversation about everything that is hard to track and search.
Me neither. It reminds me a lot of http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.219431....

The data is conclusive : there is a strong correlation between those articles and the name joel.
The "ADD" that Slack creates might be the killer feature. I suspect that many middle managers may not know how to organize work, and this lets them get away from that.

The name Slack becomes even more ironic in this context.
visitors != users. With an average visit time of 24 sec, I guess most of the 4500 "users" are people who, like me, found a link, clicked out of curiosity, spent a few seconds figuring out what it was and playing around a bit, and then moved on.
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> 1. Some people might pass the test and sell it to others who didn't.

How would this be worse than now?

And there would not be enough money to make for "full time" dealer.
Having looked at the tool, I'm wondering what OP expected. I "used" it for 10 seconds, and am still wondering why I'd need it or what the provided value is over "extract colors and order them in a list". Color scheming shouldn't start in your editor IMHO.

Paid use is based on perceived utility, and donations (to me) go to a perceived need (and if there's utility on top, that's great). This app doesn't cry "I need money to do X", so I'm not sure why the author even expected donations, and "boatloads of traffic" isn't a reason that gets me to donate, really.
> you usually need an exit flight booked before entering. Otherwise you're gonna have a heck of a time convincing the border guard you're actually planning on leaving.

Digital nomad here. Only a small minority of countries across the world enforce any rule about having to prove that you will actually leave the country, and so often nomads don’t book their flight/bus/train out of a country until they have already entered it and spent some time there. Digital nomads know, for example, that UK officials are particularly strict and hard to please, and getting a Chinese visa might require faking some plane tickets. But for most of the rest of the world, the border officials will simply wave through anyone from a developed country who says they are there for tourism.
I think its less of a deal considering that you'd have consumed A LOT of propaganda building you up to that moment. Also warfare probably had good opportunities for social mobility compared to other pursuits.
This might make sense for the >$200k jobs, but you know those are specific to a few companies in a few cities. Yet the homework trend will spread to all sorts of companies with much less competitive money.

It's very interesting how even the Internet mega-giants haven't solved distributed working enough that they can avoid paying the massive premium for people to move to SF.
It doesn't work well either in my experience. Not sure if K9 is really the one to blame, or the IMAP server (Gmail, in my case). As Thunderbird indeed does search locally, it isn't impacted by poor server side search anyway. Thanks for the suggestion, though.
Break Glass Procedure: Granting Emergency Access to Critical EPHI Systems
Ruby on Rails: Setting up redis and sidekiq for heroku
You can ship Dockers built with Nix. It's actually a great and quite popular combination.
It's pretty normal to ask for credit card details for a free trial. For example major services like Netflix do it.
Came here to post this.
Modern devops as in what used to be sysadmin..
Which reminds me of the Devil's Dictionary's definition of admiration:

Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another’s resemblance to ourselves.
Flying cars will be in the air within five years, CEO of Larry Page-backed firm
>DHS is increasingly targeting activists who publicly oppose or resist the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant agenda.

>These incidents are part of a broader trend by the Trump administration to target anyone that doesn’t agree with its policies.

Oh please. DHS is not morons. They are boys with toys. They want to play cop, arrest people and do the other "fun" parts of policing. They know what the administration will let them get away with. Nobody in the administration needs to tell them to crack down. They know they can so they do.
If you are looking for donations, make something worth paying for. Personally, I spent 15 seconds on your site, and couldn't find anything of value to me.

The act of making it doesn't entitle you to turnover....
> The only advantage maybe is you meet fellow nomads.

These coworker/coliving spaces advertise heavily in the digital nomad community and there’s often a suggestion that hanging around fellow nomads will magically make useful new connections and boost their businesses. Maybe there are some entrepreneurs who benefit from that kind of socializing, but a lot of digital nomads are a solitary bunch – if not outright hostile to other nomads who, they fear, might compete with them for clients.
>Wow. Okay, so it's one heck of a moonage daydream, but if you don't believe it, ask yourself this: did you ever expect a Tesla Roadster would be orbiting the Sun in 2018?

Yes. All Tesla Roadsters are orbiting the Sun. Have to admit I didn't expect it to be doing so separately from the Earth...
If you've watched all of Primitive Technology, Survival Skills Primitive is not quite as good but has a larger variety:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChUP6B_3zcdFYZnOdMM21og/vid...
The Heathrow flight paths cover most of London. http://your.heathrow.com/under-the-flight-path-reducing-nois...
Author of the article here :)

I'm glad to hear it sparked your interest (btw, I didn't pick the headline).

I agree with what has been said about A/B testing so far - it is a great tool for more mature companies, but I hope I could also make my case for personalization.
After all, the "let's test that" mentality is not always applicable. Startups and SMEs should not underestimate how good their gut feeling is when it comes to optimizing their website for different audiences. And yes, splitting your visitors into different segments might seem counterintuitive when talking about testing but I strongly believe it's the way to go for companies who haven't achieved their desired results with A/B testing.

Disclaimer: I work for Unless, a personalization service.
Yeah, but what about the other word from the term? It's not well-defined and its definition varies vastly from person to person.
I hope there's more than Asimov's books. Like wikipedia or an archive of news would seem to be a meaningful way to express where our civilisation's at.
Because bribery usually happens when people are in power. I've never heard of preemptive bribes, where hopefully the bribee will run for office 10 years later.

You know what, this just isn't worth it. You calling them "business partners" shows me what I need to know. No reasonable person would call the counter party in a transaction a "business partner". You realize that Trump has done thousands of deals with people of all sorts of nationalities right? Do you expect them to all get favored treatment, or just Russians? Is that how good business people operate? "We did a transaction once, therefore I will favor you and give you free consideration for no other reason"
4,500 is larger than a lot of cities in the Midwest, and Census data shows that in many of those communities, everyone is under the poverty line.

You seem to be running under the assumption that all or any of those 4,500 users even have any money to give you.