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Which is why my closet is absolutely packed full of (metal) band t-shirts.

I want to support the artists, so i usually get one if I liked the show, but sometimes I wish they would get more creative with merch options. I know there's an upfront cost and focusing on t-shirts is a pretty safe option. But I just love it when they get creative with patches, stickers, hip flasks, rings, belt buckles, skulls, necklaces, booty shorts, all kinds of stuff.

It may be a little bit odd, since I usually don't like obvious branding and advertising, but doing something different will absolutely make me consider buying more merch.
> It's also extremely hard to estimate so gets avoided in scrum.

So, one more time Scrum seems to be unable to support actual development needs.
It is indeed not ideal, so there is a drawback, but imho it's worth it.
The user was not sending large attachments. While attempting to troubleshoot, the phone was idle. This was definitely an automated background process.
https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/who-actually-reads-the-c...

"Two-and-a-half months later I received an email from someone who not only managed to find the comment, but also managed to guess the code had to be rot13'ed."
I lived in SE Asia for 8 years, and I learned to squat again. It does open up your hips. At first I couldn't do it without almost falling backwards, but then I worked up to where I could squat for over 5 minutes in ease.
Now that I am back to the US, I have gained 25 lb. in one year. I am vegetarian, and still eat healthy, no junk, but I eat more. I had to start my exercise program up again, since I am back to an office job whereas in SE Asia I was doing 50-50 office/physical labor.
Squatting loosens my hips, and generally seems to make me feel better if done more often. I go outside at work and walk a half mile, and squat at lunch for 10 minutes in the sun if it's out.
It is, that is also where the name is coming from (Firebase + Datastore = Firestore).

Firestore also differs a lot from Cloud Spanner, most notably in the way that it can be used directly on the client, whereas Cloud Spanner is meant to be used in combination with a server side application.
It's currently summer where I live and my wife has been sleeping upstairs at our room with two freaking blankets (one of them pretty heavy). Since NYE I have been sleeping at the ground level of the house where it's cooler, practically naked every night, desperate to be able to sleep without sweating profusely. I guess my wife really likes her serotonin bump.
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You can make a prediction about what not how. Set things up and E Coli will develop antibiotic immunity, repeat the experiment 100 billion times and you might see 1+ billion different solutions. Insert fragments of a solution and repeat the experiment and you increase the odds to get the same solution, but the original solution space was still vast.

Consider, we say cancer mutates to disable specific genes, but not how those genes are disabled because it's outcomes not methods that are so common.
I love the k-Anonymity model. Makes it actually feasible to check passwords against HIBP when carrying out password audits for clients. Shameless plug but I've added it to my Active Directory audit password tool: https://github.com/eth0izzle/cracke-dit
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Yes, all the time. Being pessimistic helps, but you also need good - and more importantly, self-aware - engineers, and a senior management structure that's willing to work with you.

The keys, basically, are realistic estimates and a willingness to de-scope. If you're willing to launch something with a few bugs and some small features missing, and to improve them in subsequent releases, you can hit any reasonably realistic launch target.

In the days of shrink-wrapped software, those bugs and missing features might have been unacceptable, but in a world of web apps and of app stores with automatic updates, iterative follow up releases for polish and improvements and even to incorporate user feedback should be a routine part of any software process.
Reply to a deleted comment, mentioning that once the client wants to make edits themselves you end up back at wordpress:

Absolutely correct. Unfortunately, I wouldn't trust most of my clients with a wordpress login so that's never been an option. Coming from wordpress sites that clients have installed all manner of plugins on and I have to fix every two weeks, updating some text files manually is a minor issue. I will never go back to wordpress hell.

I am looking into online editing of the content files to address this issue, but I would rather stick with making the edits myself than see a client site with 5 H1s in a page.
Reading code always felt awkward, slow and ineffective. The cognitive load is huge, you have to compute some things while memorizing others and at the same time keep track of flows. Thats why I always have pen and paper while diving into a new big code base, you simply can't keep it in your head. But something we forget often is... the goal of reading code is almost always to understand a system or some part of it. And reading code for me is a terrible way to do it.

Code is just one level of abstraction and one way of seeing things. We should have multiple ways of "reading" a system depending on what level we want to understand it. No, I don't think that rushed, out of date "system documentation" you wrote will do. I still think this is not solved in a satisfying way. We could find inspiration from things that works well, just imagine how google maps lets you look at the world at many different levels, from continents down to street level. Also it provides different views of each level, street maps are useful for tourists, terrain maps for hikers and satellite images for someone who want to study vegetation. How you will "read" a system depends on what you are trying to understand.
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Is there anyone who's sufficiently qualified in astronomy/astrophysics who could point out what advances in HPC/modelling/signal processing will be necessary to accelerate things like this?

I don't know telescopes but I know enough about DSP to make me suspect this is gonna need all sorts of fun high performance deconvolution algorithms....
An income of $150,000 puts you at the top 13% in New York, and the top 12% in Dallas (no state income tax) and the top 14% in Seattle (no state income tax). The income distribution isn’t as skewed by state as you’d think, and some of the largest states have very low state taxes (Texas, Florida, Illinois, Pennsylvania).
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It's not really so much that _git_ is lacking the functionality -- it's actually much more possible to do reasonable vendoring with git than with (say) subversion, as you can use submodules to point at your fork.

To my mind the issue is more with tooling: you don't typically want to vendor your code, most of the time you want to use a published module. And the process for publishing your fork is too complex to be worthwhile.

Also, the work to keep the fork itself up-to-date when you realise it's necessary is minimal, but by switching away from the original you lose tooling support for telling you when you need to make that update.
Newton's third law is: "Actioni contrariam semper et æqualem esse reactionem"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%27s_laws_of_motion

Translation from google: "To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction"

If the golden rule is: do unto others as you would have them do unto you and you restate that as if it has force of law then you get:

Whatever you do to others will be done to you.

And then that moral law is generalized to all things to make the physical law:

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

Also, it could be argued that the use of actio (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/actio) implies a rational agent, not an abstract principle.

It could also be pointed out that the "law" itself is just metaphysical twaddle. There is no empirical basis for this "law" and it makes no sense at all unless taken as a principle based on established authority.

The modernized version of the law is "When one body exerts a force on a second body, the second body simultaneously exerts a force equal in magnitude and opposite in direction on the first body."

The extent of revision required to make the "law" even vaguely scientific demonstrates how unscientific the original was.
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I think that an official at least cannot hide what they do with the public money. See also: https://publiccode.eu/
How many of these large grand “tutorials” actually get completed?

I am still waiting to write my compiler in haskell [0] and to learn linux inside out [1]

[0] http://dev.stephendiehl.com/fun/

[1] https://github.com/0xAX/linux-insides
>If you sleep like a cocoon

That's basically how I sleep, though I do move around a bit.
>In 20 years you've never started work on something and after a bit said damn it I think I'll use that library that other guy developed?

nope, I am just saying what I said, I never regretted not using one, and have regretted investing in a few that later caused more headaches than they were worth.

When we switched from inhouse code to a dependency, we never regretted doing it on our own to start with because there was so much insight gained from this and many other side benefits (like direct control, intuitive understanding of how our code worked, etc...).

But when you have a dependency you add that you later have to work around, you simply can't fix in the same way can your own code, and you just hate the mess in a totally different way.

When it's your own code, you can fix anything. And replace it a piece at a time if need be. With a dependency, there's usually catches, hacks or work arounds, or conflicts built up over years that finally have come to a head. And it sucks to fix and in many cases if I had waited even a little while, or did more research at the time, I would have picked a different dependency or none at all.

There are a lot of dependencies we use, I don't think you can run a business properly these days without them. They just are not a part of our core systems anymore. We use them for tertiary systems and addons, things that a replaceable. Then our core systems can't be hijacked by stuff like the latest NPM debacle.
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The Dutch more or less invented the Western economic model.
If you want to access it over HTTP you will have to pay for "AWS API Gateway" which is not free.
So I recognise all of the signs the article talks about in my partner. Most prominently (other than behavioural symptoms) she really struggles in social situations - finds them totally exhausting. I think it contributes heavily to her depression.

However, she’s undiagnosed, and has not self-diagnosed - she just thinks she’s ‘not normal’.

Do HN readers think I should bring this up with her? Does anyone dealing with this personally have any advice on this? I’d really appreciate it.
Russia is developing smaller tactical nukes in a similar vein which is what I heard on NPR as the rationale for our own development and deployment of these weapons.

NPR also asserted that there is a feeling among Russians (?) that they could use a small nuke against the US and we wouldn't retaliate because we only have overwhelmingly large nuclear weapons.

I don't know what the basis is for the claim of non-retaliation though NPR isn't necessarily known as some sort of portal of nationalist rhetoric so I'm left confused by the report.
>I swear that experience of learning Z80 assembler by typing in the hex or decimal opcodes (I couldn't afford an assembler), was the single most important event of my programming career.

I eventually graduated to doing the same thing - in my case writing out assembly programs on paper, putting the decimal opcodes next to each instruction.

Once the main program was "assembled" you'd then go put in the jump targets - which had to be calculated last, as you didn't know how many bytes each instruction you'd used was until that time.

All my programming started by accident, as the family-computer arrived as a Christmas-present one year. The tape-deck didn't work, so we couldn't load any games, and I was "forced" to read the manual instead. At least back then computers had decent manuals..
honestly what was just "created" serves no purpose. because I dont want to expose my address I use zappier and then add it to a google spreadsheet..
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It's a mixed bag, about half & half on the turnover part.

GE, IBM, Sears, Alcoa, AT&T, GM, Ford, Xerox, Kodak, US Steel. Nobody seriously thinks of these companies as dominate giants today. Kodak and Sears are dead. Alcoa & US Steel are barely surviving in the era of Chinese production. Walmart is still holding on (with several straight years of contracting profits now), we'll see how they do the next ten years as Amazon's growth starts cutting into the muscle.

A lot of people think the newer power group is exclusive to tech companies. However, Home Depot, as an example, was a far smaller company 10 and 20 years ago. Today it's worth $220 billion (with sales & profit that largely justify that).

Disney is thought of as a conquering media juggernaut today. ~15 years ago it was worth $23 billion and its business was in disarray.

20 years ago Amgen was a barely a speck on Pfizer's wall. Gilead today is worth 100 times what it was 20 years ago. The same is conceptually true of Genzyme, Biogen and Celgene.

Just ten years ago Netflix - which is part media company, part tech company - was worth less than two billion dollars. In the meantime it has blatantly surpassed companies like Fox, CBS, NBC, Viacom, etc. in the media game.

20 years ago 3M was a small shadow of GE, worth about 10% of what GE was. Now it's worth more than GE, with a 6x increase in valuation in that time.

Boeing is thought of as a perpetual industrial titan. Not so however. As recently as 2003 it was worth a mere $15 billion.

United Technologies is worth ten times what it was in the mid 1990s.

Procter & Gamble was a sleepy, almost comatose, consumer goods company in the early 1990s.

Johnson & Johnson was a far smaller, rather dusty company as recently as 1994, worth about ~$25 billion. Now it's worth $354 billion.
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What frustrates me about the JS world is that all too often, what you get from NPM is the output, not the input. Maven might not be universally loved, but you do at least get to navigate through the original Java source and stand _some_ chance of finding what you're looking for.
I think either way is fine, the main reason i placed the check to the item is that it is usually an item attribute (e.g. daggers are usuable by warriors, thieves and wizards, staves are usable by wizards and monks, swords are usable by warriors and thieves, etc).

Generally if you see mod tools for existing games (e.g. Skyrim) you'll see that the engine does have inherent support for the base classes (Weapon, Armor, etc) but it relies on data for the specific items, so what i describe above can be the engine (gameplay code) side of that.
What's worked for me is using Scala on real production projects and just taking it slow. First year or two I was writing Scala that looked like Java, last year or two I've been writing Scala that looks like Haskell, but because the language supports both styles I was able to learn one piece at a time and stay productive the whole time.
LOL, I got to soi-disant (self-proclaimed; so-called) but that's actually just French, so it doesn't count. The word minatory (menacing; threatening) was the first actual English one I had to Google.

Stopped reading there, but hey, I learned a new word.

I did skim on, though, because I am kind of interested in the topic of difficult novels. My favorite novel, Neuromancer is at least marginally "difficult", based on the reactions of the high school friends to whom I recommended it in the late 1980s -- but I don't think it really is. It introduces many things before they are explained, and probably uses a wider range of vocabulary than most novels of its time, but it's really not that demanding.

A better example is probably The Road, the post-apocalyptic masterpiece by Cormac McCarthy, versus, say, The Dog Stars, the post-apocalyptic masterpiece by Peter Heller. Though the meat of both stories is similar, the former is an energy-intensive slog (but wonderful), while the latter is a light read that can be completed in a couple nights of falling-asleep-reading (and also wonderful).

The reason that I am interested in "difficult" novels is that I find myself incessantly badgering my friends who don't read, or who don't read fiction, to read novels. And even buying them books. But I've found that I can't start with the very best novels because then they won't complete it and it won't take. They won't even finish the first one.

Anyway, before this comment itself grows to novel length, let me just recommend some great — but decidedly not difficult — novels I've recently read.

REAMDE by Neal Stephenson, who often does write difficult novels, but this one is like his version of a supermarket paperback (and still good). Seveneves likewise.

Spin by Robert Charles Wilson, probably my favorite novel of the past few years (published in 2005 but I didn't find it until years later). Hugo winner.

December 6, by Martin Cruz Smith, a well-known but (in my view) pretty hit-or-miss author, who nevertheless has written a few great novels (Gorky Park being the most famous, but not as good as December 6).

Ancillary Justice, the debut novel from Ann Leckie. It was great, although I didn't find the rest of the trilogy had much to add to it. Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke award, though, holy shit right?

City of Thieves by David Benioff.

Memoirs of a Geisha, the unbelievably awesome debut novel from Arthur Golden, from which an unbelievably horrible move was somehow extracted (this story is the kind that cannot be told in a movie, and is a great proof of why we need novels).
Not sure if I should've done a text post, here is an explanation:

This is basically a tree of text files that you can add to via a submit form.

You can post anonymously, which works pretty much like any other forum that allows anonymous posts...

But if a message is signed with GPG, it generates a colorful avatar and an author page for you, and it's like you have a user account... that you control! No secrets on the server!

And you can clone the whole message board by just taking a zip of it (conveniently generated and linked at /clone.html) and putting it on your server!

Synchronizing between different message boards to come in the future...
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This is pretty cool. Great job!
I've loved programming since I discovered it, while I'd love my daughter to share my passion I've been reading around and largely agree with this point, particularly poignant was a tennis forum, swathes of warning that if you want your child to love tennis, let them discover it themselves, also anecdotal but my friend tried to enforce a love of disco, that's not worked out to well either...
My pet peeve is an even lower level of technology - having multiple light switches for a single light, for "convenience" means that you sometimes click "up" to turn off a light, and sometimes "down" depending on which switch was used last. The logical state and the physical state didn't sync. I found that incredibly annoying and impossible to memorize.
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I would love to read these, however, if they are only printing 1000 of them, I doubt I will be able to afford them. Is the text available online? I didn't see it after a quick read of the article.
There is no such feeling among us, I assure you :)
What he predicted was a correction to a housing bubble. Specifically, it seems, the Californian housing bubble.

There is nothing particularly special about housing bubbles and their correction. This happens all the time.

What he didn't predict was the effect that that correction in 2008 would have on the global financial system. That's because you'd need to include securitisation, how the big players were holding risk and the effect of perceived credit worthiness on short term liquidity.

A while ago, when I looked into this, I found just one paper, written prior to the crash, that could reasonably be considered to have predicted what occurred. Unfortunately, I can't find it, if I do I'll add the link.
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I've seen executable state machines (via UML) adopted in a few large companies that thought they could cut out all the boilerplate and increase productivity. But, they didn't realize the same level of effort would go into getting the behavior with edge cases nailed down. Then you were fighting a tool to get the last few bugs details worked out. Ultimately we saved no time and alienated developers.
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> on any input (which is hashed and cropped clientside)

You could still run a volume analysis on the reply. If it's very short, you can guess it's a 404. If it isn't, you might be able to get which prefix was queried... \end{tin foil hat}
> Things that you can't look at can't look at you, too.

This is why, as every seasoned hitchhiker knows, always travel with a towel.
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Thank you for this. My daughter will be 5 later this year and, I myself have started learning to code. I feel like it will be good time with my kid teaching and helping her. I even built her a game with tkinter to help with math and reading that we can do together.
That's interesting, and echoes my understanding, but what would you do when a client says "we want to be GDPR compliant"? I'm not sure saying "there's no such thing" would really wash. Do you have any resources that might help?
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What are the main benefits of using OpenFaaS except for vendor lock in? 99% of the time, I want a kinesis stream, or S3 event to start my lambdas, which it seems I would have to wire up myself
If only your face is uncovered, I think you are more likely to notice a mosquito, either by sound or by touch. On the other hand, mosquitoes can reach you through a net or thin sheet if it is against your skin, as I have found to my cost.
I just write that the library's function at hand is unreliable and can't be used this way.
Someone paid $20 for this teapot with no lid. Two years later, it sold for $800k
one of the reasons that I switched from using node.js to ringo.js
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Out of curiosity, may I ask why Google App Engine if the content is purely static. Surely there are better and simpler options like Github Pages. Wondering if there is a benefit to App Engine here that isn't quite obvious to me.
I don't think you can start teaching coding before grammar. And without any arithmetic it's going to be a bit tricky to do any 'proper' coding.

Although in the most abstract sense programming is just thinking about what effect a certain sequence of commands has. Like with all kinds of abstract reasoning it can be a good idea to encourage kids to play around with it.

However it's possible that some kids aren't ready, or don't have the motivation, to learn those concepts; and forcing them will only make them hate it more. In that sense programming and mathematics should be considered the same.
And JavaScript is eating software... :sob: