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I find the best way to learn anything is to come up with a thing I want to make or do, start searching for similar things, and copy/modify/analyze until I can do it. But for hands on skills you should go find an in person class about it, stuff like how to solder I mean.

Without the motivation of a thing to do it's very hard to learn much useful for me. So much is interesting or important in theory but rarely used, and without a target goal it's hard to tell the difference.

Like, newton's law for circuit analysis was really great for lots of interesting problems -- I just never have to solve those problems in real life ever. It's important, but is harder when you're self-teaching. When I self-teach I want to be getting pulled into a rabbit hole and pick up deeper knowledge there. I want to know what questions I need to answer.

And when you get more sophisticated, read many, many datasheets very closely. It's the only way to really get a feel for the wealth of options available as an electronics designer.
Ya, for a remote worker, I don't believe it. If it is true, there is more to the story. They would have to be working on something extremely esoteric and most likely, either have some kind of ownership in the company or just a sweetheart deal from management. The rules of economics apply. And if you are remote, you are competing with an enormous pool of labor and there are very few skills that you have to pay $400k to retain.
I've seen it go the other way plenty of times -- the dev thinks a system should only receive numbers, but occasionally a string is valid as well.
Besides the irony of mobile apps not really offering better/faster experience in most cases.

Also ironically - many companies just buy into "best practices" (hype) without actually checking conversion rate/ROI between the mobile apps, mobile site (non-responsive) and responsive.

At which point we're also probably talking about corporate politics and sinking costs - where I don't find it hard to imagine someone needs to prove investment into apps was not a mistake ...

Though everything I just said is nothing more than my impression looking from the outside.

Place where I work at www.booking.com has both mobile apps and mobile website (request desktop website functionality works). And my general industry impression is based on things I know from most of my time here being in mobile web teams.
You don't think $400k is top of market for a remote developer?

It's not about showing business value if someone else can show that same value for less. I find it hard to believe there are many developer skill sets that couldn't be retained for less than $400k. (or 4 x $100k remote devs for that matter)

There are tons of employees that generate far more than 10x their salary for the business. But salaries aren't set based on your "value". They are based on market rates.
SO sucks for the most part. I've certainly given up on it. It's certainly not that I think I could do a better job. Managing such a large community is more than likely a losing game. It's only going to get worse, I suspect, because of the growing inequality between the old-timers (who don't actually seem that interested in answering questions but in excessive moderation) and the newbies. The only hope of SO is devolution: spin out the communities that can be saved and give them more autonomy. But this will never happen. This means the site is going to die. There are powerful negative forces aligned against it. Eventually, even the old timers who've amassed these enormous reps, are going to start wondering why they devote so much time and energy to making Joel rich. Wikipedia, at least, is a non-profit foundation.

The interesting thing will be what comes after SO. I'm always struck by the Ubuntu community which does a much better job providing fast, relevant answers and support to the community than SO ever did. (The Stack Exchange, https://askubuntu.com/, is dead. All the exciting stuff happens elsewhere.) There's also something much more organic; you've got blogs, wikis, Q&A, chat, and various reddit forums all working together to serve the community. This seems to me be the future and should scale better than SO at the end of the day.
There's a new fluoride replacement called novamine that is apparently significantly better at re-mineralizing teeth.
One thing I like about SQL constraints is that they're so much shorter than in a procedural language.

Has anyone developed an elegant system for bubbling them up to the user interface? It seems you either have to write the same constraints again in JavaScript or build some massive list that maps ugly database errors to friendly user errors.
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How would you know if you'd made a false negative if you drop all "bad" data? It's more of a mess when you realize you've accidentally been losing records for the last few years.
In a family with radically diverse genetics, and radically diverse oral health outcomes seemingly independent of oral care: congratulations on hitting the genetic lottery!
Daughter. Tochter.

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The linked story is quite heartwarming. I don't know how you could make a comment like this having read it.
SpaceX currently has test satellites in orbit.
Nice piece, amused you somehow conspired to get "unsatisfactory lunch meat" into such a deep and meaningful thought sequence.
I'm always amazed how I end up seeing long threads from HN users who read an article, but when I click on it, there is a pay wall. Are all those readers subscribers to these news sites?
>That's basically the argument against capitalism and wage-labor, sure.

Yeah, we also don't allow child labor. I assume you don't have a problem with that? Capitalism doesn't work by itself. Human beings are social animals and all capitalist societies have a welfare component.

>But, strangely, many people cheering shuttering prostitution marketplaces are quite happy maintaining and exacerbating conditions in which the bulk of the population is economically coerced to sell themselves like a piece of meat,

That is ridiculous. "Many people" are certainly not happy to harm vulnerable sections of society. I have no clue who you're refering to. People are against prostitution for rational sane reasons.
Yep, I agree 100%

A few years ago I quit my Software Engineering job to drive from Alaska to Argentina, absolutely loved every minute.

After a few more years of work behind a desk to save money, I have again quit and I'm now driving around Africa. It's already been over 18 months, probably something like 12 to go. [1]

It's so freeing and rewarding to do exactly what I want each and every day. Freedom is so much more important than money for me.

I feel so passionately about doing this with my life and teaching others how I did it that I wrote an eBook on how I do it, called "Work Less to Live Your Dreams" [2]

[1] http://instagram.com/theroadchoseme

[2] https://amzn.to/2IywUT0
If a system can't reliably differentiate between a flat object lying on the road, an object fluttering rapidly in the air, and a stationary object that is protruding from the road, it has no right to be in control of a car.
If you hit the "web" button, you can usually bypass the wall. I was able to read the article just fine, even though I don't have a subscription.

"Simultaneous consumption" is one of my new favourite phrases, actually.
This has been quite a stumblingblock for the English persons I have been challenged to teach a bit of Scandinavian and/or German over the years.
I remember one particularly challenging Cambridge graduate, otherwise sharp as a tack, who had enormous trouble with the the concept that vowels in general are not diphtongs, and that it doesn't really behove an Englishman to giggle over this quaint continental anomaly.
This article reads to me like a propaganda piece, employing USSR-style 'what-aboutism' argument [1].

ISPs 'could be worse' than Facebook already is, the article argues.

>"Your internet provider doesn’t just know what you do on Facebook – it sees all the sites you visit and how much time you spend there. Your provider can see where you shop, what you watch on TV,
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But, really, a consumer has a choice of VPN to protect his/her traffic, and demarry it from their identity. This is not an option when a user has to login to use features within Facebook or Google+, or Youtube.

What I think is happening, is that Ad-revenue based service providers (eg most CA-based 'thought-leaders') are deathly afraid of consumers choosing VPN.

I think, actually, ISPs should encourage consumers to use VPN, this way ISPs will still get paid their 'utility' value,
but the 'digital footprint collection, and then Ad-selling business companies, would have to rethink their business models...

Which is why, the content-providers propaganda machine was so intensive against repeal of 'net-neutrality' (which was, essentially, a form of business-net-privilege for Ad-selling content providers).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
Why would ISP have credit card number? I pay my ISP with old good wire transfer.
Ya, or maybe even more precise:

You want to sell me a car for $50k that can go only 60 mph. But it has carbon fiber brakes and titanium alloys, requires premium gas, and has a fancy logo. Oh, and it has a flux capacitor which does nothing.

Or I could just buy a car that can go 100 mph for $20k.
Places like D.E. Shaw, Two Sigma, Jane Street, Renaissance, Citadel, etc... were doing this long before any of these banks. To call it innovation is a bit of a misnomer in my opinion, more of a catching up with the times really.
Most of the sites show their content to archiving services. If you go to archive.is and enter the URL, you'll see the content.
Another reason is change of generations.

Many old style AAA developers see using off the shelf middleware as heresy.
I specifically don’t visit the site for that very reason now. Not only does it make it unusable on phone without the app (why any company wants to make that decision is beyond me) but it has also built resentment against the brand. Overall, a stupid decision and plenty of other similar sites I can visit instead.
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Society will treat you as a convicted criminal even if you're a suspect.
Probably because it's same group of people that defined standards like media queries and wrote "best practices" ...

Technically browser would need to report different pixel density or resolution (check what https://www.whatismyscreenresolution.com gives you) to get "desktop looking" site.

Though in reality it's one/same site - so I'm not sure how much would you get with that...
No, that's sound you hear when you override and take over the autopilot
>At the same time many people will blame a prostitute for their lifestyle, yet the very same people will marry/date for money.

No idea what imagined point you're replying to.

>By the way you may find exchanging sex for money deplorable,

Please don't put words in my mouth. I want to see fewer vulnerable people being exploited.

>but how about having sex for a promotion, or requesting sex in exchange for funding, how about sex for a home and meal. In reality people use sex all day in exchange for something. It is just when money is involved people flip.

Okay, .. and is this a good thing? I sure hope you don't think so...
I think the idea was "why add another layer of things that might kill me on top of existing ones?" In this regard, SDVs deliver the exact opposite of their marketing pitch.
How private are files "sent" using this method? Doesn't the pinning node broadcast its hashes to the network?
The easy solution, and this is what a lot of newspapers in Germany do, atleast for most stories, is to not use the real name or only a shorted (ie, Albert E. or Qubert T. instead of Albert Einstein).
Unity and Unreal did not exist when 1983 crash happened.

I had tons of floppies and CDs with shovelware for ZX Spectrum, MS-DOS, Amiga and Windows 3.x, 9x, Linux,....

All before Unreal or Unity ever happened.
i turned it off. google indicates it was in the hamburger menu in the top right on the mobile site, but i dont have the option to turn it on/off now, not sure if its because i turned it off already.
Either you are concerned about surveillance or you are not. If you are then you would have to be concerned about both.

And more about Google and Facebook because of their global reach, access to location and content across all devices, an insatiable greed for user data including collation from all available sources to build detailed long term profiles of individuals, not unlike files by the stasi.

Here is Facebook trying to get user data from hospitals. [1]. This is truly sinister.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/05/facebook-building-8-explored...
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This was a good comment from the author --

"I've tested the ODROID-C2, Orange Pi, and am finishing up testing on the ASUS Tinker Board, and all of these boards are leagues beyond the Pi in terms of I/O performance (both networking and local storage). The problem is most of these boards are either priced the same as or more than the Pi 3 B+, and have a much worse initial onboarding experience (grabbing a disk image, flashing the card or onboard memory, first boot, then figuring out where to go next) than what you get with the Pi and it's handy, well-written tutorials."

That is the only reason that the Raspberry Pi maintains its position of where it is. It isn't a great computer, it is a great ecosystem. So often when I talk to people about my efforts in that space I get the "but my computer is so much faster than that" and I just nod. When the environment is the same on all machines (like it has been in the WinTel era) then its all about the specs of the machine. But when the environments are all different, its all about the environment.
There are videos that show that most of the carbonation effervesces in your esophagus and mouth, and most of the carbonation is gone by the time it reaches your stomach.
Do you have a document (or a set of issues) describing the social problems you were trying to solve? They may have already been solved, in some other context.
Good point. I think that escorting itself should be actually legalized. Not only because they would pay tax and have a better life than they have now, but also because this would make pimps obsolete and would help cracking down sex traffickers. Men/women using a legal escorting service could check for license/id, making the whole thing safer for everyone.
On Firefox with uBlock Origin and I could read the whole article without any extra steps. And also yes, I agree, this post only has a few comments but others that have more and require a form of subscription to continue reading make me feel the same way.
Oscillators are supposed to oscillate but when you want them to, they don’t resulting in debugging.

Amplifiers can have a big phase shift and gain which fulfills barkhausen criteria which is the fundamental requirement for something to oscillate. Oscillating amplifiers are usually a very bad problem because it trashes the signal you are amplifying and tends to suck up a lot of power.

Fuses take a glacial amount of time to blow compared to an integrated circuit. When something goes wrong the IC blows up way before the fuse goes.
Instagram would've killed it if it didn't get bought by Facebook. The days are gone where you need a social network to keep track of your friends. Messaging apps (Messenger, Whatsapp) are making a comeback (remember when ICQ and AIM was cool before social networks took over).

We don't need a social network. Kids don't need to get poisoned by a social network to the point where they think liking someone's post or stalking someone on Facebook is socializing. Worse of all, people don't understand the amount of personal information they 'leak' to Facebook by just sharing their photos, where they've been or where they are when they post.

As for a nonprofit public-spirited replacement, there's no guarantee either that your data will be protected. Facebook, a multi billion corporation, while is in the middle of a privacy and data leak problem, is likely more capable in protecting data than a nonprofit given the amount of resources at FB's disposal.
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Some food for thought.

Let me state up front, I am no fan of the "black hole" and "neutron star" concepts so take the following comments as arising from that basis.

The x-ray data and observations are only "supposed" to be coming from "black holes" as we cannot and have not directly observed any such entities. Now, it may be that there are specific entities involved that are dark body and gravitationally significant. However, as we are unable to directly observed these entities, they may also be quite visible and as well as gravitationally significant in terms of the effects seen.

The current consensus model for the universe entails a belief that General Relativity is correct and at the base of the GR model is a belief that the ONLY significant force at solar, galactic and universal levels is gravity, in whatever form your model of gravity may specifically mean, as in a force or in GR terms a warping of space due to mass.

Since we also know that there are large areas of charged space, we need to be able to ask the question - "are these charged space areas of such significance that they effect large areas of solar, galactic or universal space?"

The thing that we call gravity is of such weakness that even weak electric or magnetic fields completely override any gravitational effects. The simplest example that I use with my grandchildren is rubbing a balloon against my limited coverage of hair on my head and that balloon will stay connected with my hair against any force of gravity that is around me.

Too oft, methinks, the consensus models of the day are considered "holy writ" and ye are considered "blasphemers of the highest order" if one even dares to voice any doubt in those models. We take ourselves so seriously, even though what we should be doing is knuckling down and looking at all the facts before us.

If our models are wrong, so what? Is not the purpose of participating in any science a means to getting a better understanding of the nature of the universe around us? If our models are wrong in any area, let's try something else. To me in a sense, we are still in the mindset of those who came before who fought against a heliocentric view, they would rather add more gears to the geocentric model than consider that maybe another model is more useful in describing the world around us.

Mayhaps, we need to take some steps back from our current models, put aside our pet theories and just look at the data that we have and see if some other pattern arises. It should be no skin off of our noses if the models and theories we have are shown to be wrong.

Let's make science fun again, because it ain't no fun today.
Similarly, it is not because one can play a guitar that they are entitled to turn into musician, or writing something doesn't turn one into a writer.

There is crap in all kinds of artistic work, for some reason devs seem to think they should be special and get everything for free.
>Arguably, this is an attitude problem on the demand side - people who want to buy other people like they're pieces of meat - rather than something about the supply, or the trade itself.

Yes, which soliciting sex is also prohibited.

>Would you consider professional dominatrixes to be in the trade [of selling themselves like meat]?

I don't know. Are 40% of them former child prostitutes? Are they at a high risk of getting murdered? Do they get raped outside of work? Do the vast majority of them experience physical violence?
I've sort of been that employee once. In my defense, I am fully convinced that the designer was not a capable individual, unpleasant in many ways, and a general net negative to the company.

But in hindsight, my way of dealing with him was probably more detrimental to the (very small) team as a whole, and if not for the fact that my role was more important than his, I'd probably have fired myself or at least given an ultimatum. Because in the end most of my issues with the designer did not keep me from doing my job. I just hated the guy...

While the specifics might be different in OP's case, I do now also believe that team cohesion and basic 'professionalism' is often more important than the individual quality of a misbehaving team member.
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I use Brave browser on Android and can see whole article.
What with Facebook's recent API and privacy issues in the press, are we seeing the start of the end for developer APIs as we currently know them? I really wonder if this trend is going to continue with other API providers, and if so, what does the final state look like?
So if you're not going to take it straight from the horses mouth, what then is your complaint and how can anyone ever hope to resolve it?

This isn't personal, I just find it increasingly odd when people in online discussions gripe about company not doing x, is then shown clear examples of x and coping back with "that's what they want you to believe" or when asking for an example, is given one and backpedal saying "that doesn't meet these new criteria that weren't up for discussion from the start"

It boggles my mind.

If you won't offer concessions when evidence comes straight from the source what evidence will you?
I had raised this issue of demarcation a few days back [0].

As a newcomer to git a few years back I wasn't able to tell if github is a part of git or not OR can you work with git without a github account. It was confusing to me as github allows some of the exact functionalities offered by git.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16600666
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Durability will be the test. I've one data point, but I've had 6 SSDs, most from Crucial, used for developer-desktop work (VMs etc) and as well as regular file corruption via 'bad sectors' (didn't think those were standard on an SSD due to its error checking) they've failed more regularly than any hard drive ever did, even the ones thrown around in laptops.

I am seriously considering paying double for an Intel SSD next time, as I understand they are less likely to fail.
I use the private mode of a browser to get around article limits.
growing up, this was one of my favorite books

https://mightyohm.com/blog/2008/12/the-greatest-electronics-...
I am 41, and have recently been coming to terms with the fact that my relentless drive to pursue big dreams has been one of the chief obstacles to my own happiness, in part because it has encouraged me to devalue comfort and everyday desires. In fact, failing to build in a foundation of comfortable enjoyment has been a significant impediment to accomplishing those big dreams, because the resulting build-boom-crash-regroup cycle has limited my ability to apply energy consistently.

Life is mostly random; you don't get to control as much of it as your analytical brain might like to believe.
And I stopped using Twitter on my Mac when they discontinued it. (I tried the web version, but that didn‘t seem like the twitter I signed up for)
Incognito mode is also a good bypass for N articles per month type paywalls.
Thanks for the correction, I was on mobile andm was writting out of memory.
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