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in almost all cases, what you deliver has no value on its own. it only has value in the context of business operating a certain way.

to your apple analogy... you might pay $1 whether you eat it or not, but if you had no intention of eating it you wouldn't buy it in the first place. You had some expectation of doing something with it - eating it, cooking it for yourself, cooking it in some other dish to sell to others, etc.
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Gitlab's compensation calculator produces some uncompetitive results if you want to live in small towns :(
I have payroll issues with IBM still. They overpaid me when I left, then they got my end date incorrect and wanted more back than they deserve. This has been ongoing for 7 months, they can't seem to figure it out... just check the email logs, if they had any... They sent it to collections some time ago, now trying to get them to negotiate a payoff rather than dealing with IBM Employee "services"
Very interesting question. I wouldn't say it's a problem with the approach itself, but i'm not quite sure how effective matchmaking could even become. For the majority of cases, probably very.

Speaking from experience, I can rarely closely associate with people. In the span of 10 years, from a friend perspective, I've kept approximately 8 people around. None of them are from my geographic region, either. If I lived in a large area, it might be different. All of my friends are 'online' friends. We rarely stray from our group of people either, and we all are quite similar. (It's also probably worth mentioning, solely for interests sake, that we all have some form of diagnosed mental illness, which I find quite interesting.)
Lame the pricing isn't upfront. Nothing worse than having to reach out for a "consultation"
It is very much out of favor. But it just takes a few dozen misconfigured servers with big pipes to launch an attack like this.
I was doing C++ development on MS-DOS already in the 90's.

Never cared for C beyond using it in Turbo C 2.0 for MS-DOS, and later when required to use it for university projects and client projects that explicitly required ANSI C89.

So it wasn't 64 KB, but it was perfectly usable on 640 KB systems.

The main problem has always been fighting misconceptions.
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> A change is not an improvement if it removes those.

If you see Slack as a replacement for IRC, then sure, it's not an improvement.

If you see Slack (and other proprietary solutions) as a capitalism-incentivized R&D lab for features that can then be absorbed into the open ecosystem, then it's nice that it exists, isn't it?
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Computers are automation tools that increase human efficiency by doing the grunt work for you - but they are limited to automating the tasks that can be captured as a set of rules in code. When we figure a new way to model more complex tasks in code, a whole new set of things can be automated.

Here's a concrete example: Before spreadsheets existed, there used to be legions of accountants who created complex ledgers on paper and added up all numbers to track how a business was doing. You'd literally mail off your sales numbers to an accounting team somewhere and wait three days to get the latest report generated and sent back. Sure they had calculators to add numbers, but the computers of the day didn't understand how those numbers related to each other. The human still had to do most of the work to create the reports.

The big idea of spreadsheets was to make the computer manage the more complex task of knowing how different numbers in a report related to each other. It made most ledger tasks totally automatic once the initial report was defined. Now a single accountant could do the work of the entire accounting team - and more accurately and in less time! There were stories of the first spreadsheet testers having to delay mailing back their financial reports by a few days because their clients would be suspicious if they mailed them back too fast.

Nearly overnight accounting got a lot more efficient and companies made more money. T"What If" modeling that used to be too slow and cost prohibitive to do was now it was quick and easy. Companies could plan more intelligently. The spreadsheet was a true game changer.

This same pattern happens every time the bar is raised on the complexity of what can be automated and Machine Learning raises the bar one giant notch. Previously we were limited to automating tasks that a smart coder could describe as discrete steps in code. But with ML, the computer can figure out it's own rules just by looking at data. That means in many cases you can solve very hard problems just by collecting a lot of data. Lots and lots of things that used to be done by large groups of people will now be able to be done with a single computer.

In that sense, ML is a total game changer. Don't focus on the specific applications thus far. Focus on the idea that all kinds of tasks that used to require humans can now be automated with a little bit of applied ML. The opportunities are literally everywhere.

In a few years, ML won't be some esoteric technique used by a few people. It will be a core skill that everyone uses or touches in some way. It's going to creep into everything everywhere because it's just so darn useful.
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Ah, the old "You aren't the boss of me!" objection. Rejecting the [very, very obvious to millions of your peers] authority on the ground might cause one to question one's sanity.

That said, I do understand that in some circumstances it might be the sane thing to do: for example when 99.99% of everyone else is wrong and you are right. For example; advocating for your rights as a woman in a strict Muslim country.
Maybe the solution is a classic/pro mode and a novice/Renaissance mode.
A colleague of mine uses through irc gateway but tells me a lot of stuff is not supported well like threads (which some people unfortunately started using more) and that you can't see edits, which many people also do. I think attachments and files are also a problem.

And slack is complete garbage that is pushed and we as employees most of the time have no other options.

Besides the whole problems mostly talked about related to memory and cpu usage, the one nobody seems to check or understand is that it is completely frustrating and unusable from accessibility point of view. I've seen this first hand as that person above is blind and the slack application is of one the worst offenders there is regarding this point. I've seen and felt his frustration and how slack team manages to avoid his point all the time.

So I hope it dies out eventually :D
I pay for irccloud, but most people don't. It's annoying trying to talk to someone who disconnects when they shut their laptop and will never receive your message. Not very good tooling to build a community or relationships, that's for sure.

Having to pay for basic features that competitors like slack/discord have is exactly why the slack community for something is often much bigger these days. Even the larger communities like #node.js are really just 10 regulars.

For example, Elm's slack is vibrant. Elm's IRC channel is dead. This is the reality for most communities I've been joining these days.
I think we just have to re-define what upper-middle class mean in cities like SF, maybe upper-middle class means you can afford to live with fewer than 2 roommates.
Sure, and many people also have principles that include extremely limited private property rights, limited government and flatter social hierarchies.
Back in 1999, I was in the elevator and I heard the admin. staff say PeopleSoft (the software) doesn't do anything. This was @ Polytechnic Uni. in Brooklyn. This conflicted with the school's public message where (officially) adopting PeopleSoft was a big step in the right direction. I always wondered if PeopleSoft improved since. I guess not?
But it gives up decentralization (and privacy) and still requires that you have a server to connect to anyways (read: server to set up and manage).

And on top of that, the behavior of irccloud from the standpoint of everyone else is identical to that of a bouncer like ZNC. It's yet another hack around the fact that clients don't exist in IRC unless they're online.
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I think you missed the fact that he's talking about Cmake not make. While Cmake can generate make scripts, it can also create IDE projects and some other outputs like Ninja files.
slack-term is built on termui which only supports 8 colours. At this point in time it's a bit of a deal breaker for me.
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> Another unique feature of the company's satellites doesn't come from their hardware, but their software. Many communications satellites today employ analog radio. But Astranis' satellites have software-defined radio.

That's interesting. I would have assumed analog radios in satellites would have been scrapped sometime in the 90's.
Do you mean like an API? https://developers.google.com/drive/
Clients, partners, departments... people can barely ever agree on a single platform.

I'm a WFH digital nomad (I know, but, as we travel around a lot but mostly HQ ourselves from the home-office...) with clients, and my partner has her mix of clients, some of them are shared, and we both have a few different/overlapping businesses that interface with our respective clients & vendors via different platforms.

We use Adobe CC, Microsoft 365, G Suite (G Drive), Dropbox, Slack, etc.

Our non-technical clients overwhelming prefer Dropbox, and can't figure out G Drive's weirdnesses, even if they're G Suite organizations. Dropbox is way friendlier and more normal in non-technical businesses.

(For our core business, we're as G oriented as possible, plus Adobe CC).

Frankly, this news excites me.
Most healthcare startups in the US are treating symptoms of the problem (poorly) instead of the underlying issue (a fundamental failure of the healthcare system).
It's based on Electron[1] which has a reputation for being a bit of a resource hog. The upside is that it makes it really easy to create a cross-platform app.

[1] https://electronjs.org/
If you sell certs, you're a company in a security-related context. I don't care who you are, I care if you do your job.

Saying that, that quote sounds way too long to not be BS.
Locked door will not stall a person with a gun willing to shoot through said door. And as they know about the drill they will not be fooled into thinking nobody is there. Plus they can just shoot the lock off.
And building a real barricade takes a long time, strength plus skill.

It will prevent any solid response from you though, other than jumping out the window (if possible).

This is why people are trained to evacuate not stay putt during danger. Or stall it actively if they can. Same principle as in fires, earthquakes, floods, bombings or other terror.
i'm at a loss here as to why people bother installing these kinds of apps (the focus time apps overall i mean) to prevent them from doing something?
if i have this on, can't i just simply kill the process through the task manager and be done with it?
genuine question here...

bearing that in mind, i'm curious to understand what was the rationale from YC to have them into the W18 batch from a business/revenue standpoint?
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> Humans are very good at holding lots of exceptions in our heads and, in the absence of clear rules, doing reasonable things. Computers are shit at both of the above.

Which is a remarkably concise summary of my thoughts regarding self driving cars.
Haha that's a really clever scheme
HN is not immune to cargo cults. SV and modern "tech culture" applauds people for writing blog posts like this: "Today I decided to find out what makes the sky blue! I just thought I'd write a blog post about it." Then the culture is reinforced, as when you mention how it's stupid to upvote the blog of someone who literally admits they do not know what they are talking about, you get shouted down for not handing out participation trophies. And yes, I realize how rude this comment is, and how stereotypically anti-millennial it is. But it's what has been happening on HN for years.
Please define better. If (say) an IPFS item is cached by 3-5 nodes each of which is on a private home internet connection it is trivial to DDOS each of those and thus effectively censor the content. On the other hand, it is decidedly nontrivial to DDOS Cloudflare.
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I used the first edition, but I think all you need is this:

https://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Programming-UNIX-Environment...
I can’t see how there would be any cost savings except if you dump equipment that would otherwise be available; making the entire contents of a clinic mobile is surely more costly and complicated than paying rent.
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This is absolutely fascinating. It got me all excited about pen plotters and I’m thinking of ordering to hack around with it. Would love to try attaching water pencils to it for example. How about hacking 10 of these to move a long a real person’s hand so you can sign multiple pages. This one article is going to hijack so many of my upcoming weekends...
So, I preface this by saying that I do feel like Slack could have better authentication mechanisms, decoupling the account from the networks. But I do think that some of this is by design as well.

I think it is worthwhile to think of each Slack organization as a completely independent and isolated network. This is one way that they can reasonably give some security to their corporate customers. I don't believe that there is any intention to ever lat you send a blind message to someone on another Slack organization, but maybe I am wrong there.

It would absolutely be nice however for me, as a user who is in multiple organizations, to be able to log in one time and have all of them be connected.
I think it's a case of Google strongly enforcing their policies within the company, and not doing anything to combat moderation bias, rather than them delibelatery targeting different political views. I think, as usual, people are looking for malice where incompetence would suffice; in this case, Google failing to foster a culture of acceptance, and understanding towards a wide range of political views, given that they're a global company.

Either way, silencing political views is like fighting fire by turning off the fire alarm. I think everybody should be worried by actions like these, because this breeds radicalism by empowering one side, and making the other side feel threatened. This isn't good for anybody.
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Cool, thanks for the follow up!
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There is a rather large difference between "your claim is wrong" and "you are lying". Feel free to state that my claim is wrong. If I didn't supply evidence, feel free to state without evidence that my claim is wrong. (Evidence talks louder than non-evidence, though, so if you supply some, that's a better refutation than simply saying that I was wrong.)

Saying that someone is lying is different. That's an attack on their character. You should do that very rarely, and only where you are sure. (Even better, only where you can prove that they are deliberately lying. Yes, that's a very high bar. Yes, that's how rarely you should make that charge.)
And other platforms solve this problem by having history as a built-in feature, which apparently IRC can never get due to inertia.
The primary roadblock for us is gDocs. Sheets would probably meet our needs because spreadsheet aren't really a core need, however word processing/documents are our lifeblood. While gDocs has improved it doesn't come close to Word for us. It isn't just that it is a web app -- the Office 365 web based Word actually would be usable for us vs. the desktop apps. That fact is actually pretty amazing to me, I would not have anticipated that to ever be the case when Microsoft first put out their web based version of Word. As it happens a while back I mentioned on here one of the big bugs/lack features that kept us from using the web based Word and some guy from Microsoft asked for more details and then the issue was resolved a few weeks later. That was pretty surprising and impressive to me.

I have no doubt Google has the talent and ability to make Docs competitive, but for some reason it is just not a priority for them.

I'm going to look at Hangouts Chat, but we had a particularly painful process (for no technological reason) when we migrated from using Hangouts for IM to Slack and I don't really look forward to the eye-rolls that are going to come with "Remember Hangouts? We're going back..." even if the Hangouts Chat is an entirely different product. But that is our issue.. Kudos to Google if it can eliminate the need for Slack.
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What skinning features would you like to see in Slack? You can at least set color schemes to help visually distinguish workspaces.
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Oftentimes, having just one step in the way of something is enough to break the habit. Like, move the cookies off the counter and into the cupboard above the fridge even works.

This is just another application of that.
Okay. So why isn't IRCCloud better than Slack?
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I didn't say they were. Just that right after dropping AWS they go public with a collaboration with one of AWS' competitors.
> IBM isn't a successful technology company with a proven record building good products.

Whoa, what? Sure, some of their achievements are in their past, but that claim really overlooks a ton of history.
"ADP tech chief Stuart Sackman says his company is under constant attack globally and is hoping to encrypt more of its data using the new technology. A sixty year customer of IBM, ADP currently runs its largest domestic payroll engine on the systems, calculating 20 million paychecks per pay period, while also running its money movement, tax filing systems and cloud-based software suite on versions of the Z-series mainframes."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2017/07/17/ibm-seeks...
I would give a lot for a discord, slack and irc integrated client!
Great point. You can add these features for yourself with IRC, but Slack guarantees that the other party also has those features.
they really should have called this Biz Fuzz.
It's simpler to just click services on AWS and get a public IP to connect to. Drop-policy Firewalls like AWS security groups are hard to configure and debug. Managing network interfaces and binding to specific interfaces instead of others is hard and causes hanging connections.

Those are the excuses I dealt with when I took over the current IT department. By now, only haproxy accepts public connections. Everything else is firewalled to the office at most.
According to old (2014-2015) measurements, to be in the 1% you need to be pulling in at least $455k a year[1], $1.4M on average[2]. It’s probably even higher today. That’s way way beyond the typical “professional at the height of his career.”

1: https://www.investopedia.com/news/how-much-income-puts-you-t...

2: http://equitablegrowth.org/research-analysis/u-s-top-one-per...
Was this at the city, state, or federal level? Or in another country?
I think the difficulty is in making sure the state is not mutated. This is unusual for most developers, especially those coming from an OOP background.
Original title said something about "20MB".

Is that how much memory this requires to run?
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