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Mobile World Congress 2018: You Can't Teach an AI to Run a Telecom Network–Yet
The point is that business and personal overlap for a lot of us. I don't want separate products.

Are my professional contacts business if we're socializing?

Are my personal contacts personal if they are also clients?

I don't segregate my life cleanly into business/personal and I certainly don't want to double the number of installed apps because marketing.
To me a senior software engineer can, with mid and junior engineers at their disposal, design, document, implement, deploy and maintain systems that have a demonstrable ROI for the organization for a long period of time after deployment.
This is exactly why I am going to start my own company in my own name and start being a contractor with my 'employers'. Why be a slave when we only have a limited amount of years on this planet?
No, it chastises misplaced faith in it.
> Which is not a problem. The command line was only one, historical UI. Not the be-all end-all of UIs,

A similar trend is happening in electronic communication: from letter to email, to text, to emoji's. The text is just one historical communication way and there's no reason it should be of any real interest to modern communicator as long as we have emojis ... wait, we've been there before.
The “forgetting curve” theory explains why learning is hard
Not quite you have to do some special things to it to hackintosh it. Check tonymacx86.com for details.

Yes I think there’s a good chance it’s compatible. Sorry for the slow response. Hope you get this.
I think your specification of a "correct way to report a problem" is company specific, or your personal preference, or the way that you think an ideal problem report would be stated.

We're humans. Unless there's been a training day or a Readme file explaining HOW to report a bug, I think it's perfectly reasonable to expect this protocol to work:

"I'm blocked!"

"Why?"

"{reason}"

If nobody ACKs the "I'm blocked" message, it's reasonable for someone to think that nobody cares or nobody is listening. This is a normal human protocol, as used in most human environments.

"{problem}!"

"What's happening? How can I help?" (any considerate person nearby responds)
Headline could also read: "LittleThings builds business model dependent on some other for profit business, blames them for doing something."
Elop: "The first iPhone shipped in 2007, and we still don't have a product that is close to their experience. Android came on the scene just over two years ago, and this week they took our leadership position in smartphone volumes. Unbelievable."

That was an accurate (and arguably obvious) description of the market in 2011. Nokia had a big problem on their hands and that's true whether they chose to acknowledge it or not.

Should the CEO have stayed silent to his own staff about the perilous fate of the projects they were working on?
“How Starting Small Helped Me Build a Server Backup Company”
I can say without a doubt Spotify has given me the greatest ROI for listening to music on mobile. Youtube might be a close second if it wasn't for the fact that I can't have my phone on sleep and continue the video.
> it has trained a crop of computer users that are afraid of command lines and with an attitude of anything beneath the GUI interface is owned by and of someone else's problem.

There is nothing beneath the Windows UI interface. The GUI is the primary subsystem of Windows, the command line is a separate subsystem. Windows has traditionally been built up around the Win32 API, which is GUI first.

It is of course possible to do things from the command line, and some advanced stuff may need the command line, but users should never need to drop out of the UI unless something has gone horribly wrong.

The Windows UI is incredibly powerful, with advanced diagnostic and logging capabilities, incredible performance monitoring tools, and system hooks everywhere that allow the entire UI to be modified and changed in almost any way imaginable.

The way Services work on Windows is not some (hotly debated) config files. It is through a UI. Management of hardware takes place through a UI. Pretty much everything short of running Ping has a UI around it.

I love the command line, if I am developing it is how I primarily work. And while doing so, younger devs look at me like I am crazy because they have customized the living daylights out of their UI tools (VS Code, Atom), to do amazing things that exceed what a command line can do, and of course those editors have a command line built in for when that is the best paradigm!

> and having it heavily disguised as an appliance is mandatory.

Something working so well that it becomes an appliance isn't a bad thing. It means the engineers who made it have put in so many fail safes and worked to make the code of high enough quality that it doesn't fall apart around itself all the time.

Heaven forbid I can upgrade my installed software and not have some random package break my entire system.
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Awesome setup process - wasn't expecting it to be that simple!
Furthermore, being behind a CDN, the CDN might be caching some resources at their edges for additional performance improvement.

(I believe someone stated DTube was running behind a CDN.)
I think you're underestimating email. My almost 70 yrs old mother constantly exchanges mails with her friends. None of them use any chats.
Effective meetings. A myth or a reality?
True that. Welcome to BMC, Jonathan. Enjoy a coffee on the house :)
> but eject an SD card at 60C into your hand and you'll be throwing it across the room.

Probably not, given the very low heat capacity of an SD card's plastic casing. But I can say from experience that ejecting a 2.5" SATA drive with a metal case that's well over 60°C will cause you to drop it quickly. It's a good thing SSDs can handle falls without trouble.
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Yeah. This isn't the first time we've seen Facebook pull the rug out on something. Used to be that my news feed was absolutely full of posts from the Facebook apps/games platform spamming your whole friends list to join into Mafia Wars or FarmVille.

Eventually Facebook caught on that this was annoying and not a good use of the news feed, but if your business was dependent on it I imagine the effects were similar.

Having seen that happen before, building a company based on what Facebook decides to put in the news feed sounds insane.
Ask HN: Favicon.ico in 2018?
What are the best practices for creating a favicon.ico in 2018?
As far as pastimes go it seems pretty innocent, but I guess one could argue that because jail is supposed to be punishment time passing actives aren't a priority (not saying I do or do not agree with that stance).
It is, essentially, with the addition of context-sensitive controls and elements. Or at least that's my very layman's interpretation of the patents.
UPDATE: Reddit shill appears to have deleted / [REMOVED] his story (must've seen the traffic from HN lol).

Here's the archive link http://archive.is/vvwl5 to his post that @chrononaut here located.

http://archive.is/vvwl5
Hah, similar thing happened for me. I think the main issue was that departments that relied on creative problem-solving (e.g. business development) ended up being way louder than others that didn't as much (e.g. QA)

Another issue is that tech orgs are extremely political. There was one person who had single-handedly created a viable migration path from the company's aging proprietary framework to .NET MVC5, but no kudos there. Just lots of pushback and skepticism.
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As can reason and sincerity. Humans, being humans rather than Vulcans or robots, should understand that excessive snark serves to distract from the point and draw attention to the author.
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People should read Noam Chomsky’s books then.
Slavoj owes much of the theory to Hegel (which Stavoj is a follower of).
This video is a very light intro to Hegel by Rick Roderick:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MsNyR-epBM
Are you more in-line with Confluence, as a place to build a database of knowledge in the organization?

This is purely my opinion, so please take it with a large grain of salt. I'm not a fan of videos and won't last long enough on a site to sit through them unless I've arrived there from a referral (there is too much software out there that does the same thing, so time is at a premium). I'm more of a fan of descriptive workflow/image showing what the software does and keeps the value prop simple.

As an example, this marketing site impressed me greatly and I actually took the time to read through the different features as it was easy to follow and I didn't feel flustered by each of the feature explanations: https://www.contactually.com/how-it-works

My only gripe, there is no cohesive single blurb explaining how all these features fit together in a complete package. Their tagline at the top is weak, but visually they've nailed it.

Also, having to sign up for a demo kind of sucks and slows down the process of me getting to try out your product to evaluate if it meets my needs. I'd love for our industry to move towards a "here is a sandbox, have fun for a few minutes" model which would be completely painless for folks evaluating the tool. After a couple of minutes it could nudge you to sign up for a full trial account.
It is quite nice. Not the best country but can't complain :)

The internet services are not so great, compared to mainland EU. Mostly because it's an island, I guess. I pay ~30 euros for 100down/5up. There are not a lot of options, look up Melita or Go for more in-depth info on that.

I work for a Maltese company as a developer. Can't complain. If you work in a Maltese company, it is fairly more relaxed than working in an iGaming company :)
I did the Triplebyte interview around six months ago. It was pretty pleasant. (I used Triplebyte because I'm self taught, without a college degree.) I really like the company I ended up getting hired at. I only interviewed at my current company, though, so it's very possible I just got lucky.
Hmm...that's not a review of the book, it's a hit piece by someone with a personal axe to grind because of a previous article.

An example:

The ultimate import of his graphs is to demonstrate some kind of inexorable and progressive historical law (although he doesn't admit as much).

Where to begin with something as inane as this? The reviewer makes up a silly interpretation of what Pinker has provided, claims without any evidence that this is what Pinker really means, because he obviously knows better, and then faults Pinker for this silly interpretation. Hmm..

He goes on:

In Pinker's history, it seems as though there are no real contingencies - no prospect that the battle of Britain might had been lost, no prospect that the cold war might have turned into nuclear catastrophe, and for the future, no real sense of a potential calamity produced by climate change or a trigger-happy Kim Jong-Un (or his U.S. counterpart, for that matter). This is an almost providential view of history.

Again, the reviewer completely misses the point: we have always had potential calamities. But the real calamities have decreased dramatically, and life has improved so incredibly that it is not even funny. This really hit me when I was on a tour at the Neue Palais in Potsdam, a palace/guest house built by Frederick the Great to impress his neighbors. This palace has a bunch of apartments for royal guests. Even the poorest households in Western countries today live better. Much better.

We. Are. Living. Like. Kings.

No: better than kings of even a few centuries ago.

So yeah, Pinker is right.
Looks good and suggestions are good. A little OT but what is your opinion on using the new TLDs like .win, .rocks, etc? Does that sound professional?
He did mention payment processor issues.
Yep, trying to make it as frictionless as possible :)
Thanks for trying us out. Glad to be your first supporter!
So someone wanting the system they are a part of to work appropriately without them having to be an excessively aggressive asshat about it needs to swallow their frustration entirely and not even vent about it on an online forum?

Wat?
> Almost every CLI program I've ever used in Windows has no problem with spaces in filenames, so I don't exactly ...

Just to clarify on what we think as problem could differ:

C:\Users\hzhou>ls *.txt
new 2.txt

C:\Users\hzhou>ls new 2.txt
ls: new: No such file or directory
ls: 2.txt: No such file or directory
> If the UI of an application involves a huge deeply nested menu of actions that directly modify the visual look of the data being worked on, then a Ribbon might be the right paradigm.

I would add to this 'and your user base already has a well-established set of paradigms in mind when using your product.' Part of the reason that the Ribbon works for MS products is that they had to make their UI backwards compatible with decades of user intuition, which required carrying forward a lot of baggage. The Ribbon is necessary because they not only have to include a huge array of functionality, they also have to include dozens of ways to accomplish the same task presented so that they feel familiar to an enormous and diverse user base. If you could design Word/Excel from the ground up to optimize for efficiency and usability, but with zero prior user expectations, the UI would probably be radically different.
I think that's a simplification. Facebook owns an audience, a huge and (until last month) easily accessible audience. Companies built on renting that particular audience are going to have a bad time, but that doesn't mean all audiences have just dried up. Facebook has admitted that the algorithm changes lowered engagement. Those eyeballs didn't just vanish into thin air, they went somewhere else, somewhere publishers only focusing on Facebook can't reach them.
Would not using cards (which appear to be allowed) be simpler
I've used Sim Daltonism[0] for some stuff at work. I've only used the Mac version, but looks like there is an iOS version, as well.

[0] https://michelf.ca/projects/sim-daltonism/
Yeah, basically online casinos.
You're not wrong. They are a great source for inspiration.
"Entrepreneur" is only one label for the people who read Indie Hackers, though. They are software developers, designers, creatives, fitness enthusiasts, etc. All the people who currently work a day job and are hoping to do their own thing. Entrepreneurship may bring them together, but it's not necessarily their only (or even their primary) identity.
There's so many comments, I'm sure this will get lost. But just so you understand what the grass looks like on the other side.

At Google you got paid a great salary, had great 401k and perks to work on projects that most likely go nowhere.

Working for yourself you're sacrifcing all those perks, to work on projects that will most likely go nowhere.

That said, definitely do it. It will teach you a ton in the process, everyone should go out on their own, mostly to realize how hard it can be.

New perspectives are invaluable, so I applaud your decision and wish you all the luck in the world!
> Locking someone up for a few years with nothing interesting to do sounds like a good way to make someone come out the other end worse than they were before.

Given the (growing) number of private, for-profit prisons - that would be seen as a feature, not a bug. Because if they leave worse off, they'll likely be returning - thus generating a steady income stream courtesy of taxpayers.

Cynical, yes - but likely true.
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Damn, the jokes don't end. Co-worker was wondering why the site was using a whole core to run, and checked developer mode for crypto mining.
You only have to look at the outrageously arrogant title of Pinker's book to see that the reviewer is being pretty restrained.
That’s probably the problem. Jail/prison should primarily be for reform, not pusnishment. If I punish without helping you change, I’m only telling you to not get caught next time.
Welcome to BMC, Don! Crypto support is just around the corner and we're equally excited :)
This question may be an odd one, but how did you create the little cartoons in your blog post? I feel like they really improved my experience as a reader, and if I were to create content in the future I wouldn't mind knowing if there was an easy way to include something similar for someone with little to no artistic skill.

Edit: Found my answer in this blog post of yours https://mtlynch.io/how-to-hire-a-cartoonist/
Yeah make seems like a great first tool to grab in this case. But apparently some of the requirements of this current usecase don't play well with make. Too bad, but it doesn't mean make is somehow a bad tool...it just doesn't fit all problems.

Given that make isn't working well in this case due to spaces, I would personally probably use something like find and sed in a bash script to just get all the files and convert them to pdf. (Obviously this won't work if your system doesn't have these tools though...)
The "growth imperative" is ... complicated. I wouldn't put the cause / blame / credit / fault entirely with capitalism, and I'd specifically exclude fractional-reserve lending[1]. At the same time, there is a clear tendency for a growth-at-all-costs mantra. Seems to me there are several dynamics at play.

1. Given growth, redistribution is not as urgent.

2. Redistribution is politically exceedingly unpopular ...

3. Most especially with those who have the most wealth to redistibute. As Adam Smith wrote in one of his briefest sentences ever ...

4. "Wealth, as Mr Hobbes says, is power."

5. There's a great deal else that becomes more convenient in a growing economic domain, a topic also discussed at length by Smith (Wealth of Nations, book 1, chapter 8, on wages, particularly as concerns England, the Colonies, and China).

6. Though that argument largely boils down to the fallacy of consequences: "The alternative to growth is too horrible to consider, so we won't consider it." This bodes poorly.

There have been a few fairly long-term stable or negative-growth regimes. The Indus River Valley civilisation(s) seem to have been particularly equitable (archaeological evidence shows little diversity of housing stock or personal chattel property), and the Byzantine Empire effectively went through an extensive period of de-growth successfully, if not entirely happily.

Growth as a present economic mantra seems all but ubiquitous. You'll find it held as sacrosanct by voices as diverse as Milton Friedman, Paul Krugman, Thomas Piketty, Lawrence Summers, and Christine Lagarde. It's the fundamental axiom of both hard-left and hard-right economic theologists (what they preach is not a science). See Mauricio Schoijet's "Limits to Growth and the Rise of Catastrophism" particularly for reflections on this: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3985399

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Notes:

1. Brief counterargument: Fractional reserve + fiat currency + at your option any of a) a strong bankruptcy law / process, b) a gradual devaluation of all debt, including perhaps c) a gradual devaluation of all paper currency[2], and/or d) a periodic debt jubilee (see Steve Keen) would allow for a FR banking system without the spectre of debts-in-perpetuity.

2. China instituted this, historically, by requiring regular stamping of paper money. The stamps cost money, and this effectively became a tax on cash holdings. Other mechanisms might be instituted. Remember that money is not wealth, but rather is tokens of wealth. See generally Richard von Glahn, Fountain of Fortune: Money and Monetary Policy in China 1000-1700 (1996).
Display technologies that light up are all based on RGB, as far as I know (additive color). Printers and such, which use subtractive color, would use CMYK.

What takes more power depends on the hardware. An OLED display would take more power to light up a pixel than to keep it dark. An LCD display would typically take slightly more power to show a dark color. The backlight is always shining (which takes most of the power), but darkening an LCD pixel takes more power than just letting the light through does.

Maybe the actual power savings would come from lighter rendering calculations (only having to calculate a single color channel)?
> And we've now reached the point where our automated assessment substantially outperforms human interviewers at evaluating technical skill.

What does this mean exactly? E.g. does the test successfully identify the people who have the best portfolios of things they’ve built previously?
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From the company's perspective it's always a game of getting maximum effort/value for minimum price. From the employee's perspective it's the exact opposite: maximum price for minimum effort/value. If they can dangle that carrot in front of you and get you to give 110% at your current pay scale for 1-2 more years then why the hell wouldn't they do it? And how many people grind away on that treadmill after having that conversation with their boss? For every post like this there's gotta be hundreds if not thousands of people at these big companies that put their noses back to the grindstone to keep chasing that promotion.

To be sure I'm not downplaying your commentary. It's extremely illuminative and very well written. After almost 20 years in the industry I've learned the burning truth of it all, though. Loyalty to individuals is worthwhile. Loyalty to companies is meaningless. Be earnest and caring in your interactions with individual coworkers but feel nothing as you squeeze every drop you can out of the company because that's exactly what they're trying to do to you.
Hi,
I just went through the interview questions, they were fun (they said that I did exceptionally well, but nothing concrete, like percentage). I'm not looking for job, just though I try it out.

What I was interested in is whether the questions get harder, if I answer well, but they seemed random.

You could use logistic regression to estimate the level of an interviewer and adjust the questions to get to the same accuracy with less time (or to improve accuracy with the same number of questions/time)
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The onboarding experience was great. As you grow, the page settings will need to evolve to support branding that concent creators have already decided on.

Also, the 'save' button on the pages did not give me any indication that my changes were saved (like a green checkmark or some sort of a banner)

+1 to the idea of having more than one category (and a goal for each category). I like to write about healthcare, automotive repair and business. There's little overlap in the audience.

Thank you for building this!
>they need us for the content

Wow, that's adorable
Just ship it works great if you have a unique mailing list with 100.000+ interested users. He had a hit with NL and kept building it from there; most of these businesses share the same target audience. Good for him!
Latest available numbers, $4.99 billion in revenue for 2017, but with a loss of $1.5 billion for the year. As expected the highest cost is paying music publishers. So while the revenue and user growth is tremendous, it's hard to see how they will turn a profit anytime soon because of how the deals are structured.

Interesting to see the similarity but also the differences between Netflix and Spotify. Technically very similar in business model and their reliance on third parties, but Netflix has structured better deals and evolved beyond that, and the question now is will Spotify get into publishing itself, taking a page from Netflix?
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The comment on the article by graffic (16 Jan 2015, 21:30) sums it up quite nicely.
Do you know which jurisdictions and laws that includes?

This sounds like the Investigatory Powers Act in the UK, though I haven't heard of similar laws in other liberal democracies.