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Another article about LeBron James and the Raptors?
I understand your frustration, but in a world with a dozen different languages to choose from for cross platform native desktop apps, there's very rarely a case to be made for electron even existing.

I'm not trying to prove your point by making the insufferable comment that you hate and already expect, so please understand I am genuinely interested:

Why would, or why should, a person interested in creating a cross platform desktop app, choose electron?

If it's just to use their favorite web components to design with, is that really a good enough reason? When GTK and Qt both provide js api capabilities, what else is there to gain?

Please understand, I'm not a web developer, I'm not familiar with most of it, but just the thought of 100+MB overhead for an app is completely unacceptable to me. But again, the benefit of using web tech is lost on me.
See I think of elegant as "set the picture on a table".

The engineer might think it solves the problem and does so in a way that is seen as cheaper, easier, and faster. But in reality it's not what was needed and the elegance of the solution will come back to bite them when the first user wants the picture a bit higher (which is normally met with "why would you want to do that?")
What was your role in CAD and then USA?
This is HN, don't try to bring reality in here.
Have you read "The Amazing $1 Microcontroller" [0], which might have been posted here before? It's a survey of available microcontrollers, with the intent of helping you choose one. If you have read it, are you in agreement with the article, for example on how AVRs compare to others?

[0] https://jaycarlson.net/microcontrollers/
I didn't any say of those things! From my perspective, you've put my words through a really intense filter and then gotten angry at your filter.

For example, I didn't suggest that the government should do such a thing. It's a hideous idea, besides being an obvious legal and political impossibility. What I said was that if they did, it might affect the software salary market in Canada, in contrast to other things people commonly bring up, which seem oddly imaginary.
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Not much, Apples p/e is 17.99 that's not expecting much growth. They simply make insane and slightly growing profit year after year. Honestly they may be undervalued relative to tech stocks as even Microsoft has a p/e of 25.07.
You know why you can fill your car's tank on any petrol station? Because all the different players -- pump vendors, car makers, oil companies etc -- are using the same standards for the size of nozzle, fuel composition etc. They have concluded that standardisation is in their interest, as opposed to locking the customers in.

In software there are no such standards, or rather there are too many standards, and new ones are being released every day. Currently there is no clear incentive for vendors to standardise, and it's quite possible there will never be, it's early to tell.

What you're describing currently requires enormous resources, and no single company can pull that off -- even Google is struggling with keeping both back-end stability and front-end simplicity (I'm currently working on a new GCP tool which just got into beta, so I can see it firsthand). Standardisation allows many different vendors to focus only on a part of the whole supply chain, while with the cloud you have single vendors trying to cover everything under one roof.

It would be great if we could combine Digital Ocean's droplets with Google's BigQuery with Amazon's RDS, all through a simple front-end UI -- but the nozzle size is not standardised, and I wonder if it will ever be...
The original idea of time crystal is a material that has periodic structures in time, at the lowest energy state [1]. That means it can have repeated structural change over time by itself at rest. In that case, the crystal itself has an intrinsic periodicity in motion, and can be used as a source of time information.

However, now it seems to be changed to that an external energy source is driving the frequency of the structural change of the crystal over time. Like in the Yale experiment, an external pulsing light shines at the system at certain pulsing frequency and they found the system reverses its nuclear spin at twice as slow as the light's pulsing frequency. There's no intrinsic timing property shown in the crystal, so it cannot be used as a source of time information. I've asked the same question. [2]

[1] https://physics.aps.org/articles/v5/116

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=16997756
Is that really the case though or are the people "resisting the status quo" actually feigning offense over "discrimination" because they resent the fact that their position is widely accepted as immoral? (Racism or sexism.) They refuse to argue their actual point... minorities should not receive benefits because they do not deserve benefits for one reason or another...because those reasons are also considered unnacceptable to express by most people.
Are they actually pulling it? Maybe they're just trying to avoid negative publicity.

If they are pulling it, I wonder why. I suppose it probably meant all their AIB partners hated them.
Canadian here who worked in the Valley for ~7 years, and currently works for a US-based startup remotely.

You're absolutely right that the culture of respecting changemakers is not as present in Canada. But the SFBA is the world leader here. There probably isn't any place on earth that's more optimistic about innovators.

I don't think this is a culture thing, exactly. It's just that everyone who became rich in the SFBA did so by exploiting trends or innovating – since like, the 1890s. And the USA plowed zillions of dollars into the tech ecosystem in the Bay Area since World War II. Once you have that tech investor class, culture bends a lot towards their way of thinking.

Investors in Canada just don't have that kind of money to play with. Or, they made their money in an old-school industry, like resource extraction, and they flip out at the risk levels in tech startups.

In terms of prevailing national norms, I'd say Canada is slightly more change-friendly than the USA. Think about all the ways that the USA tries to kill immigration, stifle innovation in favor of incumbents, and put regulatory barriers in the way for entrepreneurs.

In contrast, Canada has lots of official policies to support tech entrepreneurship and skilled immigration. Plus, socialized medicine really does make it easier to be an entrepreneur. Politically and culturally, Canada isn't that into retro stuff, or trying to revive earlier, more conservative eras. People think their best days are ahead of them.

It's true that the people in Canada are not super interested in overturning anyone's applecart, for its own sake or just to get rich. That's not as respected here. People are more likely to be interested in innovations that improve the general social welfare. But maybe that's not such a bad thing.
"Government: If you refuse to pay unjust taxes, your property will be confiscated. If you attempt to defend your property, you will be arrested. If you resist arrest, you will be clubbed. If you defend yourself against clubbing, you will be shot dead. These procedures are known as the Rule of Law."

- Edward Abbey
Canada has gay marriages since 2005. Why would provinces need to pass more laws on that?

As of legal cannabis, it is better when it is federal. In US you will go to jail in one state, and can be just fine in another.
> "And now we no longer worry about Python version 2 or 3 (is it ever upgrading?)"

I just threw out my back cringing.
A Job's Guarantee is a real movement, and a reasonable idea for this reason. Not having a job puts you in a lower social caste - might as well have them doing SOMETHING. Even if it's not especially productive, the small positive affect is better than nothing.
Trump decides to excite his base and draw attention to himself by threatening to or actually banning immigrants from your country this week

difficult to plan for the future where this is a possibility
Wow, I had no idea this was such a common issue. That explains my unreliable left cmd and up arrow keys.
M8, Supcase, Fuck if I know, Default Android 5....

Yeah, I'll take the damn bus.
The article reads as a perceived straw man attack against PWA idea, but the author really captured the heart of the issue right here:

Google is, by far, the most aggressive in adopting
new browser standards behind PWAs in Chrome. Other vendors,
such as Mozilla, Microsoft, and, in particular, Apple,
have been much less aggressive...

The only thing more important than the "native vs. web debate" is user experience and accessibility. When "Mozilla, Microsoft, and Apple" become more aggressive, we will all naturally evolve to the (relatively) better option. The author argues with the wrong people.
There are municipalities in the USA that do not extort property taxes -- I've heard of one in Colorado, one in Arizona, a few in Texas, and some in Alaska.

Since a common justification is to finance public schools, I suppose that complete privatization of education would be a necessary step in order to vastly reduce or generally abolish property taxes.
I think people don't understand how their cost of living can be different then someone else's. Your COL calculation will be very different based on what standard of livings you want to preserve (house vs renting, downtown SF vs commute, sending kids to private school). So the COL delta is different for everyone.
Just like the Martian invasion tropes of decades past, the zombie tropes of today play on & exaggerate social fears. They're not a projection of what would actually happen.
These lessons match muni experience building https://github.com/nzoschke/gofaas

Except I opt for Golang and the Serverless Application Model (SAM).

Go let’s you ditch even more stuff by cross compiling binaries.

And SAM is a framework built by AWS and vastly simplifies the config files.
Mostly because the NSA will enforce the status quo which has made them powerful and the oligarchs rich (and powerful). It's a self-feeding mechanism. Read more about this phenomenon–the beige dictatorship– here: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/02/politica...
Not to be glib, but I think I saw this comment a couple weeks ago, substituting "Facebook" for "the NSA."
Could they run into the same problem Facebook ran into? If they have too many private investors, they have to go public.
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>After capitulating to the GPP requirements from nVidia, all of ASUS’s AMD card offerings are rebranded under the name AREZ.

source that one caused the other?
If there is a historical defcit of resources that have been denied to a group is it ok to help that group recoup some of that deficit?
The equivalent of $1750 Toronto condo (modern high rise with all the amenities) is going to be very hard to find in SV except some of the newer constructions at $3500~4000.

A friend has a one bedroom in San Mateo in the sub $3000 range. The building is very old, no amenities or views to speak of, and not even in-suite laundry.
Perhaps I'm reading to much into the title - but seems like pointless jobs have been around a very long time. What is the "rise" really referring to here?
I am extremely sorry for that. I launched the app on a few sites today and traffic seems to be a little bit too much for the server at the moment. I have already called my server company and do my best to get it up and running again as quickly as possible. I apologize for the inconvenience.
Stay DRY in Django with Decorators
Hadn't seen that before -- it's in "Sherlock Jr." :

https://youtu.be/cC1aD7e4ZHs?t=256

(There's a bit more to the bit -- give it a couple of minutes).
Automatically collecting everyone's cell phone data, has software automatically installed in Smart TV's everywhere, monitors your online footprint (emails, social media[of course]). All those warning from Snowden all those secret software reveals from wikileaks an untold amount of funding from congress with virtually no oversight. And yet tons of bad things keep happening to regular citizens in the US. What exactly does the NSA do? Whom are they protecting? Cause it sure is not the average citizen. Just a random venting from a pissed of copper-top battery.
Or maybe they think this is acceptable, in the interest of security. I personally find this kind of stuff acceptable.
Unlike other tragedy of the commons scenarios, we don't actually know what will happen and if it'll be positive or negative. We just know that the current state of things is not great.

The ad world has caused some really shitty optimizations to flare up among sites supported by ads. Optimize for clicks and eyeballs instead of quality.
The apps I'm thinking of write bytes, not strings. If you enforced UTF-16 compatibility, they'd have to say what encoding they're using (they don't) or convert it themselves (they don't) - and changing either of these would require at least an application recompile.

The reason they currently work is because bytes out == bytes in, so they can read the files they create, despite what mojibake the user sees.
Staff software engineer in a somewhat niche field so the lack of opportunities was a real issue.
When you stop solving interesting problems crusty old man reality sets in. If you agree to stagnate in a pointless job you a part of the problem until you change your perspective. Are you waiting for Linda Carter to save you?!
the message does not change. we, as a society, seem to be ok with trading privacy for free fb or illusion of safety.
the abbreviations aren't mine: ethereum dapps are distributed apps, pos = proof-of-stake (the theoretical efficient alternative to proof-of-work), TON = telegram open network mentioned in the article.
Neither do sites like Glassdoor and Paysa. Maybe if you count signing bonuses + equity bonuses. But those aren't salary per se.

With that said, 200k wouldn't be that unreasonable as an expectaction at a senior level or above at a household name tech company.
Good progressive web apps are user friendly.

I can't do anything about bad devs, but you've already decided that the path we are on (and will continue to be on because we're not getting rid of JS) is absolutely bad.

It's not 1999 anymore. We've gotta figure out how to do things right with today's tech, not a nostalgic view of how things were, because we're never going back.
I want to see a good identity and user manager SaaS oriented towards smaller customers. There used to be Stormpath, which was pretty amazing, but they got bought by Okta, which is less friendly to small teams and more enterprise oriented.
So actually they title should be “Stop using AdBlock Plus” for reasons that are old news.
What seniority are you?
Something like laracasts.com for example gives you just enough free content to be useful in of itself and then there's a monthly fee for the rest. A well put together content-based business model.

Instead of thinking of it as not having a viable alternative think of it as not having a viable business model. That's on the business, not the user.
> no competition in the GPU market

There will be no goalpost moving here.

AMD, ARM, Qualcomm and PowerVR all build compelling GPU solutions.
Does "collected" mean that these calls have been searched for criminal or terrorist activity? I recall that Clapper --or someone like him-- was using that distinction in order to claim that the NSA wasn't "collecting" the phone calls of US citizens.

edit: ah yes, it was Clapper; to Congress, in 2013. [1]

[1] https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-11-17/lawmakers-re...
Wait, people still make phone calls?
If it's collecting this much stuff why not be useful and stop all these annoying phone scammers!
OVH/Soyoustart/Kimsufi (same company) at least doesn't let you pay money for, or order a server, unless it is "in stock".
I'm not complaining per se, but quite puzzled why someone would downvote this factual comment. Plenty of companies sell you things without maintaining a record (say, a brick and mortar shoe store) and there's typically little reason to do it online either.

Yes, I know plenty of online companies do routinely spy on users but I see no reason to consider this "of course". This is admittedly creeping into meatspace (there's absolutely no legitimate reason for causing things like automatic toll tags or driving licenses to supply privacy-busting data to third parties, but on the other hand plenty of sandwich shops manage to have "frequent diner" programs that are simply a card the customer carries which is punched each time a sandwich is purchased. There is no reason why an online business shouldn't do the same -- and GDPR should drive businesses to do so. It's in the customer's interest.
Just because you've given permission to an app to access, say, your microphone, doesn't mean that it's not spying on you. That guitar-tuning app that was mentioned earlier might well be spying on you using the microphone it got access to.

The guitar-tuning app is a special case that actually has a legitimate need to use a microphone, but I've seen countless apps that need all sorts of permissions that they don't legitimately need. Like calculator apps that need permission to access my microphone or contacts.

The sad thing is that most users will just click through a popup asking for permissions, just like they do the "Run as administrator" popups on Windows. Such things are just not very effective safeguards.

Even with limited permissions, allowing JS apps to run on my system opens me up to all sorts of JS exploits, tracking, and advertising that just aren't possible or much more difficult with static HTML (which has a much smaller attack surface than JS anyway).
Kidding, I'm kidding.
It is other way round I feel. Because of Citizens United a lot of groups are able to raise money and awareness about this.
How blatant bullshit from Taboola is "acceptable" is beyond me. Our standards are really, really low if an acceptable ad merely means that it doesn't install malware or do sneaky things to your browser window.

Even before I learned about uBlock Origin, I installed an extension dedicated to removing Taboola ads. It's shocking how many people willingly tolerate that garbage.
I've only had a few issues with my 15" 2017 MBP, mostly dust and dirt easily fixed with compressed air. That said, I never had a problem with any MBP keyboard before this machine. It seems some people are having way more issues than others, which speaks of a significant inconsistency in quality and wear/tear over time.
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for 2) did you try yEd? https://www.yworks.com/products/yed
We run a small SaaS which basically implements (mobile) Quality Control for the cleaning sector.

Being able to inspect buildings, rooms etc. while one is offline (imagine the cellar of a clinic without proper WiFi) is crucial for our users. So we had to build native iOS and Android apps to support that, duplicating many features of our responsive webapp. Most users still prefer our webapp though (some use the „Add to Homescreen“ feature of iOS for example and use our webapp like a native app anyway). With Service Workers supported on iOS since 11.3 we are currently evaluating if we can finally implement offline support with our webapp. So far it looks good, which for us and our users really would make things a lot easier.
If there's a chance of that, I'm good.
Interesting, I only knew the piezo diaphragms that need a frequent pulse drive to vibrate, probably because the energy need and loss in the process is much bigger for the amplitudes needed by audible vibration.
Can I ask what sector and languages/frameworks you use?
I guess I'll have to brush up on whiteboard interviews. It just seems goofy that 350k is normal! I'm a sr engineer in chicago, and thought there was no way I could command the salary needed to make COL worth it.
In other industries, if workers are paid so cheaply in a city, this would incentivize more companies to move there, as their labor costs are much lower. But, for software engineering, companies aren't price sensitive. This is why the bay area is so popular: most software companies here don't mind paying x2 to x3 the salary.
> Its also why you can never truly own land. Dont pay taxes on land, and they will take it.

> You can only pay for the privilege to rent land. Forever.

Yet, you benefit from the state recognizing your rights to exclusively use that land, and from foreign military invasion. Why should I subsidize the government protecting your assets?

If anything, land should be the primary source of taxable revenue. Mis-distribution of land (And the low cost of asserting ownership of it) is the cause of no end of social ills.
They live on if they provide value.

And that's OK, because we're in the business of providing value, not building shiny monuments to our incredible cleverness.
Rents in Montreal are low.
Very similar situation in Montréal. Handful of SV companies with offices here, a few success stories, and everything else far far below in terms of compensation.
Yes, but most companies in this space provide some sort of healthcare, which covers a lot of that, and accidents are a small percentage of total healthcare outlays anyway. Much more healthcare spending goes to older people, for a much broader array of more common conditions than "got into a bad car accident".

Health insurance is much more expensive at 55 than at 25.
"World War Z" [1] -- the book, not the movie -- is based on the premise that people would work together to ultimately overcome the zombie plague. Notably, Max Brooks wrote "The Zombie Survival Guide" [2] before he wrote "World War Z".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_Z

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Zombie_Survival_Guide
Seattle's housing market is going up really quickly, though. Last time I moved, I definitely noticed higher rents and more expensive purchase prices compared to a few years ago. It's not yet at the level of Vancouver, and far from SF/NY levels, but its trajectory isn't great.
I Knew Buying a Newly Redesigned MacBook Pro Was Stupid and I Did It Anyway
I’m holding off an MBP update for as long as possible until Apple: 1. Gets rid of the touchbar, 2. Fixes that daft keyboard, 3. Slaps Intel and makes them ship 32GB lpddr4, and an 8 core iWhateger.
What does this description have to do with being a "right-winger"? Looks like you are the one bringing a preconceived worldview into the discussion. You are not a victim.
Trump's actual rhetoric revolves around tougher controls on immigrant backgrounds and cracking down on those who immigrate illegally, neither of which policies are any less strict in Canada.
"Would it be worthwhile to have to deal with all the crazy shit with the education and healthcare systems and the politics down there?"

I don't know, 325M other people seem to be living with it and are not leaving in droves.
> That's on the business, not the user.

If I don't like the prices the grocery store is charging, I don't shrug and walk out with a loaf of bread.
This argument is obviously flawed: Hillary Clinton received more money, spent vastly more money, and lost.

[edit] Down-voting does not change the above facts.
I've never once seen this in my life (I typically have over 100k miles of airline travel per year) and have been traveling for work in the US since 2000. I don't understand how this scenario would play out, does he just grab a bag at random and hold it over his head? Read off the tag? Most people I know would be incensed if someone else were to grab their bag off the luggage belt.

You might be confusing this with curb side check in, which is a service airlines use as a convenience to customers checking bags (so they don't need to go to the ticket counter with heavy/numerous bags ).