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I have an ARM64 React Native toolchain sitting on blocks for ChromeOS. Caret is the IDE for this but Android SDK is truly lacking for ARM the build tools are base level. There is a guide floating around out there to make your own too. Looking forward to more stuff like this because essentially you get realtime Native app development with this but hooking into the debugger via crosh terminal is hard. Smoothing out the rough edges on this and then wow! You will have a powerhouse. NativeScript? Even better in theory.
Caltrain has been encouraging shuttles for decades; you're saying that they're wrong? OK, let's cut Caltrain ridership by about 1/3 by ending shuttles, that'll improve things.
Sky trains are just more congestion. Need teleporters.
Are they disconnected from every power grid in the world, and using their own solar panels and windmills 100% for everything? Of course not. They're drawing from the same grids that have most of their electricity supplied by coal and oil and gas. It's just that the power companies arbitrarily declare that the watts they draw out "come from" the small fraction of solar that gets fed into the grid. See my response here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16799265
> high stress, low happiness career...
Personally I feel like you've already answered the question.

While I haven't tried something like that, I'll tell you that doing something you enjoy is almost worth the risk.
Granted you have a family to consider. But if you fail, so what? Yeah, maybe you won't be able to go back to the same high paying job you have now, but you aren't happy with it.
This isn't a decision you can make alone, but happiness is worth a LOT.
$500k a year Cali translate to $100k a year where I live. Cost of living in Cali is crazy expensive.
Wrong advice. First live the life before doing it. Going to move somewhere? Rent first. Going to live a life with a lower living standard? Start living on a budget first. So when you are forced to do this, you and your family will be able to accept and adapt properly.
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I think positions at FANG-type companies are relatively risk-free (compared to other industries, such as finance), and also relatively stress free (if you allow it to be stress free by consciously ignoring the stressful).

Is it something you can start as a stealth project after work, while you collect the 500K/year coupons?
Thank you too for putting the code for your article out there. There is always a shortage of public code to study this field, and every bit helps.

I've actually wanted to write a similar article on 2048 for a while, but unfortunately I've never found the time. But it seems now I won't have to, your article is great and much better than anything I could have ever done!
Unfortunately (or fortunately depending on the perspective), I'm still relatively young and will likely have to pay years of living costs. The average retiree is much older - which is an advantage in this case.
"Does a neurotic's mind wander?"
I guess in this case we are fine big corporations telling city govt what to do.
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To my knowledge, the shuttles all pick people up from San Francisco, which is a) a very long drive and therefore CO2-heavy even in buses, and b) has a huge housing shortage itself. So if workers commute from San Francisco to Cupertino, that creates an even larger gaps between the number of jobs in San Francisco and the number of housing units in San Francisco, forcing those who work in San Francisco to commute in from even farther away.
Caltrain is sloooowwww, need high speed high density public transit that doesn’t add to rush hour congestion. Each stop should have a massive high rise with grocery, entertainment, etc.
Apple threaten to leave One Infinite Loop?

"Obviously" they would have to make this decision in the early 90s?
I think this goes for all the mainstream social networks. They are just echo chambers where people feed their ego on the ego of others. In the past 4 years I've been cutting down on all this crap, not because I couldn't handle it, but because it provides 0 value to me and only consumes time. Still got all the accounts but dont use them. Cut out snapchat, twitter, facebook, instagram and like 20 news portals. Currently only look at HN to keep up to date and sometimes open Reddit. No games no nothing on the phone. Entertainment is at home or out with friends.
Do they include the Three Gorges Dam as being a source of "renewable" energy?
Is this an actual statistic or is it your impression in general?
No you don't. At least not even on old IE 11, and I can't imagine any other browser doing it worse (and I know Firefox). The browser is supposed to allow you to access the site my just confirming that you want. No root certificates.
Apple products have the most thriving second hand market out of perhaps any electronics manufacturer today. Their product resale value and reliability alone make them a far better option with regard to the environment than almost anything else.

The products have extremely long usage cycles relative to the industry standard. It's such that they've integrated the environmental impact deep into their product design and business.

You can argue that this is simply a byproduct, but they've talked a lot about it over the years that it's pretty deliberate.
Good news on the living standard - I grew up in relative poverty, so that won't be as much of a problem. I still don't spend a lot these days...
The site was originally an HP campus, so the office space was already there; they replaced 80% of the former parking lots and office buildings with green space—increasing CO2 absorption.

The new building also allows them to consolidate employees from many of the 100+ other properties they lease within Cupertino and Sunnyvale. This further reduces the need for intercampus transportation. Hopefully these newly unused office buildings can be converted into residential space (edit: but Apple does not own them, so it's not their choice).
Is it possible to leave the safety of the high paying job and not do something risky?

Move somewhere the cost of living is lower then do something that earns a regular income but doesn’t suck.

I think when we read HN a lot we are susceptible to think the only two choices are working for FANG or risking everything on a startup.
At many companies, including all FANG-like companies, you can't start a business on the side. Your employer may claim ownership and you can be fired for breaking your employment contract.
Three of those are about employed vs unemployed, not how much you earn. Compairing nil to n rather than n1 to n2.

The last one, that actually might have said something about earnings vs divorce is a study done from 1957–1964. A fairly different time for women in the workplace, and male-female relationships in general.
What a crock of crap.

"Don't be ambitious: be mediocre and replaceable."

He's right. Don't try to be a youtube star or a professional athlete, or an actor. Do something realistic.

But I mean... do something ambitious for god's sake! Be an accountant! Be a doctor! Be a computer programmer! Hell: Be a lawyer. These are not crazy pipe dreams.

Lets say someone makes $120k as a programmer a year taking out NO debt, and having NO risk invested in the company they work for. That is a damn healthy small business.
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> Sometimes a government is to blame, but eventually it's just us.

What do you mean? The tendency for bad guys to exploit bugs is really important. But the fact that a government deliberately broke security for everyone is an additional thing, not a special case.

And its worthwhile noting that it is a failure mode we can expect from governments. The US had a realistic concern that opposing nations would use strong crypto against them. The trouble was that they put that concern above all the other consequences that followed from their laws. The policy makers probably couldn't even imagine most of those consequences.

It is in the nature of legislation that it can amplify whatever particular concern captures the political imagination without having to consider the broader picture.
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Use Jeff Bezos 'Regret Minimization Framework' to decide [1].

Basically, when you are 80, will you regret having tried and possibly failed or regret having not tried at all?

Granted you aren't going to be Amazon probabilistically but it will definitely make your life more interesting and put you in control of it and fully responsible for it.

Personally I'd rather try and succeed or fail on my own than just be a cog in the machine and possibly be on a ship that sinks out of my control or merely latching onto success. I'd rather be the captain whether she sinks or sails smoothly, hopefully the latter.

I went fully independent six years ago, originally just planning on a year, and there have been times of awesome and times of rough waters, but she is still sailing and it has been an adventure I know I won't regret having embarked on. Three of my six years are the highest revenues/income I have had annually in my career but one was the lowest ever, prepare for more volatility if you do.

If you do, my recommendation is make good habits early, cut your costs, be disciplined, aim for revenues as early as possible, work hard but work smart, be sure to take time off, and especially enjoy your successes and learn from your failures. Ship on the regular, and if you aren't, kick it in gear to go all in.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwG_qR6XmDQ
> if workers commute from San Francisco to Cupertino, that creates an even larger gaps between the number of jobs in San Francisco and the number of housing units in San Francisco

San Francisco's voters and politicians choose to restrict supply. An affordability crisis predictably ensued. Transmutating that into a burden on a non-SF company is incorrect, if still fascinating.
For software updates, it's hard to imagine that any other phone, tablet, or laptop can compare. For example, I'm typing this on a "late 2012" mac mini, which is running the latest OS X.
Did you read the article? They're specifically investing in building solar farms and other renewable energy sources, as solar becomes more cost efficient it will push back on new developments of coal plants and other dirty energy sources.

This is not about the short term results, this is putting a strategical bet on clean power. And as you can see from Apple's other business, they're all about long term gains.
> To my knowledge, the shuttles all pick people up from San Francisco

Your knowledge, and many of your arguments in this thread, are wrong.
Basically only pirates used MKV, yet it's now gaining wider support; the beta version of Windows supports it natively.
I loved my pioneer scarf, too bad that they decided to ban their use (I’m not from the former USSR, but from a neighboring communist country)
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I was sad. Now I'm despondent. At least Stan's Donuts is still open.
You’ve just described Tokyo. Was that intentional?
The typical HN answer is "yes, and start a new company", but I think there's a lot to be said for "yes, and work remotely for the company you're at." It's probably not too difficult to swing, you'll get to enjoy life instead of panicking at your struggling new venture in a new town, and you'll be able to take advantage of all the experience you've gathered at current company.

Honestly, I don't know if I'm giving you advice or myself.
There are no engineering jobs in Europe that would pay anything close to the poster's current $500k/year salary. He'd be looking at a 80-90% pay cut.
I used Windows 2000 in a VM about a month ago so my memory is fresh. The warts are real, of course, but I was struck by how cohesive, clean and friendly it was compared to every Windows version since. It still feels like peak Windows to me. Once they merged and consumerified NT, it was all downhill from there.

Windows 2000 just gets out of your way and works. It's such a refreshing feeling in 2018 using computer software that doesn't try to sell you anything or steal your data.

You are right about the boot times but on a modern-ish system with an SSD, it's no big deal. And obviously, if you were to do this, you would also backport support for newer hardware like Wifi, USB2 and 3 ;)

I don't miss a lot of UI things from newer Windows, either. I do like being able to hit the Windows key and start typing to find stuff. Also, being able to snap windows to the left half/right half of the screen.

So the ideal Windows would be Windows 2000 with the hardware support and selected UI improvements of Windows 7 :)
Not really - he was a submarine nuke engineer before going into politics.
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Hi,

I wanted to know from the HN crowd if you have any pointers about how you are going about the same successfully.
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I'm not sure - from my experience it seems they've been going further and further along the road of planned obsolescence.
> Also, finding differences in signature is much easier and much more advanced / developed than you would think. Even if you copy mine after seeing it or having a model, the places where you slow down your pen etc... Vary compared to me, and that can be detected.

How often is this actually effective/useful?
Prop 13 is perhaps the biggest reason for the lack of supply. The other reasons you mention (zoning, NIMBYism, etc.) are also big contributors.

But tech is where the demand comes from. The median home price in Santa Clara county is almost $1.3M, and ~20% of residents can afford that price. Those are tech workers.

Supply has been steadily decreasing for years and years, so I don't see that problem getting solved. Therefore I think we'd need to see a significant drop in the tech industry for prices to slow down.
No, not encryption.

Steganography.
So did you go for the $89 battery replacement, or were you lucky and got it for $29 because of the cpu-throttling problem?
That was not the point I was trying to make, some of the best developers in the world live in the San Jose area.

To build a new campus in the middle of nowhere and build housing there would never be a valid solution.

Maybe for a second campus, like they're planning. But that one is rumoured to be put in Austin where, you guessed it, the density of a skilled workforce is high.
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>Apple products have the most thriving second hand market out of perhaps any electronics manufacturer today.

I think the big N still has it going.
I agree that drastic moves are not always wise. OP said they had 1.1M in the bank. If that money was invested in dividend stocks, they could have over 38K of passive income a year. In the US, dividend income is only taxed at 15%, too. They could opt to withdraw the 600K from the 401K, use that to buy a condo in cash, and live off the dividend income. Retire now, basically, and live a fairly comfortable life.

It's not princely living, but if I had that option, I would seriously consider it. Having the freedom to do whatever you want with your own time, without the pressure of a job, sounds amazing. I think if I were in that position, I would end up doing something monetizable anyway, through hobby programming projects, but it would be so great to have the freedom to do it at whatever pace I want, and to get to pick what I work on.

If retiring on 1.1M cash + 600K 401K doesn't seem like enough, then sucking it up and staying at the 500K/year job for 2-5 years more is also an option. Cut down on champagne a bit, delay the yearly car upgrade, and you should easily be able to put away 100K a year.
It's not more effective technically, or perhaps only slightly in some metrics. In some ways it's much worse, like encoding speed.

People like it because it has better licensing.
As much as people like to hate on Apple and all the other stuff they do wrong, this is how its going to have to continue if we still want to be living on earth in 50 years. Companies like Apple have massive global influence, and if what they want is some free marketing and press in return for investing in renewables, that is a price I will gladly pay. Governments and companies are the only real force large enough to enact the kind of change that needs to happen, and if what they want in return is good press than that is fine by me.
If the offending IP was a tor exit node, and dude was using tor at home during the same time period, that would almost certainly be appropriately admitted as circumstantial evidence.

He would of course be permitted to make an argument as to why that circumstantial evidence is weak and should not be given any weight.
being a programmer is pretty far from ambitious these days, I am already beginning to regret my career choice just a few years into it and I make six figures doing exactly the programming I always wanted to do and more. I am already bored of what can be done with computers and the entire tech culture that I grew up in and loved. it is so repetitive.
This is kind of a loaded and open ended question. Without knowing something about the architecture, or what your goals are it's hard to answer.

Is this for a web page or web app, native iOS/Android app, desktop app?

Is this for Client/Server or P2P?

Are you sending files that can be encrypted, or is it a real time connection link of some sort?

In general, you can use TLS/SSL (as mentioned by @bigiain), but there are other use cases where you might want to do something more specialized.
I use a 2010 laptop running the latest Windows 10.
I left a high paying job as well (400k+/year) and have a similar financial profile as you about 2 years ago. I pursue my own projects, at my own pace. No regrets.

In terms of finances, let's just say the year leading up to executing my plan, my family (wife and kids) trimmed down a lot on expenses. No more crazy vacations. We ate in a lot more. Psychologically, every one needs to be on the same page. It goes without saying, but a spouse that is supportive helps a lot.

Good luck.
> Next, focus on making products that can be repaired and upgraded by end-users for an extended period of time.

Not sure if I want them to spend resources and make products more expensive just so I can repair my 10 year old iPhone myself. I have no desire spending time repairing an old phone that isnt usable already anyway due to its aged hardware.
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Total, the huge oil and gas company, also invests in renewable energy. They have a whole list of investments, one can read through them all on Crunchbase:

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/total-energy-venture...

Does that mean Total is a "green company"? Of course not.
Noon question: what is a typeclass in the sense of the feature Elm lacks?

Does it mean the equivalent to `class` keyword in the OO sense?
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All of my device's services are on 192.168.1.254. The app CamKing which speaks the protocol has a string in it that references rtsp:// but I've never tried. I have a blog post on the device in the queue, waiting for a time-lapse video to finish...
"Have aspects you dont like" and "can't really stand my job" are two fundamentally different statements. It is not the same.

Majority if tech jobs are not "high stress" either. They are "somewhat stress" at max.
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That was a PR opportunity, so he used it.

If he toned it down then such advertisement would be not even noticeable.
I’m not anti-VC but if you have followed the development of bike share in Seattle it seems to be more about making businesses work than about making transit work. My problem also has to do with the selective enforcement of the helmet law to enrich investors.

I don’t mind if investors make money. I mind when they circumvent our laws and endanger the public to do so.

I also admit to some ignorance about e-bikes which has now been cleared up by you and sibling commenters.

My comparison to motorcycle helmet laws and seat belt laws was just to reinforce that if we are going to selectively enforce the bicycle helmet law we should just repeal it because it’s clearly not as important as motorcycle helmets or car seat belts.
Having a kid is among the worst decisions a person can make for the environment. A childless person could smash iPads all they wanted and not make a dent in comparison.
Your risk tolerance should be a function of your confidence in turning your company in to something of future value. It seems like you haven't done your research on your probability of success yet. I'd advise talking to investors about your idea to get a sense of that. Try approaching them to get seed funding. If you can't raise, quit, and try raising again.

If you can't raise within a year, go back to work. You need to talk to investors to get a feel of how people will value your company if you take the plunge. If you feel your probability of breakeven is at least 50%, I'd say go for it. Keep in mind, every person that joins your company after you will do an implicit probability calculation, so think about what makes you unique and hence more likely to succeed.
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I wonder if there will be a successor to Wayland and X11 that learns from the mistakes of both?

Can't always make wise improvements if you don't first make awful mistakes that weren't properly considered in practice.
Sort of the problem with this sort of thing, it’s too much of a black box to really know what’s going on and pretty easy to subvert if you are in the right position or sophisticated enough. How do you know it’s real people watching the videos and not bots? Some of the creepy kids videos are worth thinking about more so than Alex Jones.
Cost of living in Cali is crazy expensive, though your example is a bit exaggerated. $250k if it's medium-ish midwest town maybe.
You come off as severely misinformed in this whole thread. I would urge you to read the article and do some research on the questions you ask before asking them. The answers are not what you think they are in light of any actual context.
If your job is making you miserable, how are you even worried about some hypothetical future job?

You have a 1.1 million dollar safety net and you're worried about having to take a random job. I think this is a classic case of having too much money for to long. You need to make a change but you need to be 100% that change is likely to increase the happiness of the people in your family. You have the finances to live your life 1000 different ways. Think for a moment if these two really are the only options.

Make a change soon or you never will. And if that change is needful for family reasons it's even more important it comes soon.
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I am not saying its write or wrong. I agree that it makes sense. I was simply responding to GP asking whats an example of 'burdensome'.
Total do not run on, or in this case; produce, 100% renewable energy.

What does the main article say again?
Whos that? Nokia?
Oh, I get you now. I grew up super poor and the thought of falling back into it keeps me up at night to this day.

That's what's making this decision hard.
I don't understand the idea that living off investments is "independence". It's just a different kind of dependence. You're depending on other people to do work while reaping the benefits. Sounds great, except when too many people do it.