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> There's simply no way for C++ to compete with Rust

There's no way for 8-track to compete with compact cassettes. There's no way for VHS to compete with Betamax. There's no way for C to compete with <insert any language>. Yet, against all odds, technical superiority does not always result in market dominance.

Call me when there's more Rust jobs than C++ jobs, or when they're not entirely posted to Rust mailing lists.
Not only is this a great idea but there's no reason this couldn't be an API layer over any number of underlying source control implementations (Git, Mercurial, Bazaar, TFVC, SVN, etc). Could open up all kinds of possibilities for CI/CD tooling and workflows as well.
While I absolutely agree with the comp aspect and think that's probably the biggest point, I want to add that management skill is also a huge factor. I've seen a lot of startups (YC and otherwise) fail to grow the team well because the founders are good hackers but not good managers. In a large company your manager has a manager who will help guide and review them, and you can switch teams without risking your current compensation and benefits or your vesting table.

At a startup there simply isn't room to move around without taking on more significant risks and at least waiting for your first equity cliff, and honestly many startup founders I've met don't have great managements skills, or the drive to learn them. There's also simply a matter of personalities, sometimes people just don't get along with their managers and/or teammates, but the fact that you have to switch companies and re-interview again vs being able to apply to your skip-level to switch teams is a significant difference.

Some ideas of concrete options to fix these:

* Shorter cliffs, even Google has a 2 month rsu cliff now, and I think Facebook is similar

* Maybe a hiring pool, again, similar to Facebook or Google where you pick your team after you "pass" your interviews, allow you to really work with different startups and feel out what it's like. I could see YC setting up a similar program where companies can choose to share an interview pipeline and let candidates talk to different startups after passing an agreed-upon bar for the pool. This is similar to https://www.workatastartup.com/, but to not have to formally do a technical interview for every single startup would be a huge help.

* Some way to try out/transfer between startups who allow it would be awesome. Similar to Facebook's bootcamp, if there was a way to still get paid, maybe a simplified consulting agreement that YC can help broker among a few startups for a month or so while a candidate explores what it's really like to work with each startup would be really helpful.

* Management training for founders, and a standardized way to review founder's management skills. If founder's were held accountable for their management skills and rated across one of these shared pools where their ratings were available to prospective employees, they would be much more incentive to improve their skills.
A marriage is very much like a partnership, legally. Both partners are held to be answerable to each other, share joint ownership of assets, be jointly responsible for children, etc.

Joining with a bad business partner can ruin you completely. Dissolution of a partnership may mean one partner is disadvantaged in favour of the other partner (depending on the partnership agreement). Marriage is a special type of partnership where we have a default partnership agreement, by statute and/or common law, because it's in the best interest of society, but you can override that with a contract if you like.

If you live in a sensible jurisdiction (maybe not, you're likely in the US) family law is already gender neutral. If you don't like the idea of marriage, fine, but the problem is only marriage law if your marriage law is lousy.
Haha, this has to be high satire. I am thrilled to read it.
I have a serious question: If Emacs has a lot of the features people seek in Neovim, why not just use Emacs in evil mode? I watched this earlier today so it seemed relevant: https://youtu.be/JWD1Fpdd4Pc

Side note: I've been using Neovim for months now and I've not tried Emacs. Not because I don't want to but because Vim with the plugins i have works really really well.
Number 3, "Give yourself a negative identity," just sounds like "I don't like when people have mental health problems. Get over it already."
The podcast business is still teeny tiny. Which is great news for podcasts
Official [netflix twitter](https://twitter.com/NETFLIX) looks normal, but the site is down hard for me (503 & 504 errors) in Amsterdam.
What's funny is how bad most of these services are at identifying people. They seem to think I'm a southeast Asian female (white dude here) because I happen to read a particular article, buy a particular item (probably as a gift), etc. Turn on, tune in, drop out...
> Secure: no passwords are ever stored or shared over the network. PassProtect uses k-Anonymity which means that the only thing that is sent over the network are the first 5 characters of the password hash

I haven't heard of k-Anonymity, so maybe I'm misunderstanding, but wouldn't there be a high rate of collision if you're only testing 5 characters? Seems like you'd match a lot of uncompromised hashes.
Same. I find it making appeals to the just-world fallacy, not understanding that some people really do experience extended hardship without deserving it.
Thanks for the link. It's good to have someone point these things out when one gets carried away :)
That's basically the thesis of Zero To One, and yet it's responsible for burning how much Venture Capital?

One of the interesting things is how companies like CB Insights seem to have built quite successful mid-sized startups with very little funding (CB Insights are at $11.7m in funding), or Atlassian who didn't raise until they were pretty close to IPO. Compared to Uber at the opposite end - how much capital has been squandered on making very marginal gains in the name of growing market share?

It'd be an interesting research project to compare outcomes against funding raised, over say a 10-15 year period.
You, as the consumer, aren't making the choice. The ISP is picking which companies get the privileged position. It is in effect king-making certain services.
https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=617863467
> 5. Attribute bad intentions.

Me and my SO have serendipitously discovered a great way to defuse arguments: it's the question "Are you accusing me of foulness?" (any sufficiently Victorian synonym works here)

For some reason most people reflexively deny this in reply and realise that they've been attributing bad intentions groundlessly.

Unfortunately this doesn't work on people who have a mindset which requires there to always be someone at fault.
> Most of my friends that work at larger public tech companies — it just feels like they're constantly doing unimportant things

Obviously that is not universally true: All the things that do see the light of day, some small, some big, are done by actual employees of a big corporation. Maybe you will not be working on them all the time, but chances are good that you will at least get the opportunity to have a public, meaningful impact.

Just as an anecdote, when I interned at Google long ago, I got to work on a public feature in Google Maps. It was a great feeling to directly work on something that anyone could potentially use, and see even just a few public reactions.

That experience probably set my path on favoring working at big corporations, because I knew I could do meaningful things there if I position myself correctly, whereas startups seemed much more like a big gamble (which by itself is probably an exaggeration also).

Just yesterday I spoke to someone at another big corporation who proudly proclaimed that people clapped at the mentioning of their own feature, when it was unveiled as part of a bigger announcement. YMMV.
Yeah, for a short moment. Longer tern it likely leads to not appreciating the present.
You can already buy a lightning to usb-c cable from Apple, and it enables fast charging too.
FAANGS give you RSUs, which are cash equivalent. When I am referring to 400K, I am referring to "total cash in hand" at the end of the year. Generally the comp you get quoted when you get hired is $200K base + $200K in RSUs based on hire date's stock price. So in today's frothy stock market, you would at least earn $400K and possibly more.
> Everyone’s strategy, therefore, should be to identify and eliminate these big, costly rookie blunders, one by one. This is far more effective than getting quicker, hitting harder, or making that one brilliant shot now and then.

Brilliant observation.
Really appreciate the links and feedback, thank you.
Would you mind sharing how long you've been working there and your level of seniority? Would be super interesting to know for at least my reference.
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Those issues are because of leadership and culture. Unlimited PTO is perfectly fine. It's much more flexible for both sides, and limiting time off is definitely not the goal.

Plenty of companies do a great job with it and have no questions asked up to a certain amount or minimum time off to encourage usage.
I have a friend that I consider borderline incompetent. He works for an unicorn. He claims he makes up for it in spirit in charisma.

Point is, compensation and skill don't correlate as strongly as people think.
It's fine on my 4.6" phone.
"... programmers are easily bribed by giving them the coolest, latest stuff. This is a far cheaper way to get them to work for you than actually paying competitive salaries!"

Past time (20 years ago) programmers yes. Today's programmers? No.

The Math is very simple: if a company throws a lot of money, I can buy the latest coolest stuff for the next 10 years.

I doubt programmer is that gullible (otherwise they're probably a "Yes" man).
I thought of this, too, but what I decided I wanted was a book that wrote the simplest working version of some useful thing (basic HTTP server, JPEG codec, basic CRUD web app, etc.), explained it clearly, then gradually "hardened" it, version by version, into true (actually in use) production code. Each new version would introduce an issue, possible ways of dealing with it (each with pros and cons), a well-explained choice, the code that implements that choice, and a discussion of the implementation. Then on to the next issue and another upgraded version of the code until arriving at the actual, thoroughly real-world-tested code in use in some popular system.

Working through a few of these would really feel like apprenticing with a pro.
Yup. You want to take kids out politely, you gotta go to the madhouse places full of other folks doing the same thing.
Source?

I thought heat was the primary source of wear. And fast charge produces lots of heat regardless if it's in the middle of the range or not.
I don’t think your gender plays as large of a factor as you think. I think most people do not make any sort of money or connections through HN, even if they are plain straight white males.

The ones that have made fortunes off of here could probably do it through any other place just as easily.

Hell, some days I feel like I can’t even get a word in, and I’m the epitome of a Silicon Valley straight white male.
Are you practicing number 5? If so, great job!
I had a sign: Act now or homelessness later. Choose.

Homeless shelters here are terrible TBH. I’d rather sleep rough. Living in a van for me is better than a house or apartment because:

- no rent, no mortgage

- no noisy neighbors sans the phony-“tough,” backwards-hat teenager act

- less space to fill it up whth $crap I don’t need

- always mobile

- able to leap tall buildings in a single bound

- dual burner stove and 20 kg propane tank

- all Burner, all the time

- no lawn to mow

- no bills but the basics

- it’s really quiet

- no neighbor from hell to gas you out smoking, using too much lighter-fluid and cooking with their BBQ right next to a fence below you and screaming/terrorizing/trying to intimidate everyone

- indoor nudist as long as I want

- volunteers of the blond varietal tested suspension for squeaks; needs more data

- able to monitor DIY blinker fluid meters closely
This planet has reached 'peak intelligence', and is not on the downward slope.
Those are all excellent suggestions, thank you.

I'm intrigued by the idea of a "way to try out/transfer between startups who allow it". Would anyone else be interested in that, if we could broker it between a set of companies?
Reader view works in this page and is perfectly readable.
15th miserable habit: Buy a phone that is too big for you.
> Hours and days don’t capture the value. I have risked my house, every minute of spare time, I have put Heroku bills on my personal credit card, paid contractors out of my pocket and had to create something out of nothing within a difficult market vertical. Comparing that to a “long day at the office” doesn’t even compute.

First of all, kudos to you for being so dedicated and courageous.

Most startup founders that I know aren't like you at all.

Often they have seed funding very early. Not only do they pay nothing out of pocket, but typically they can draw a modest salary pretty early on.

The other thing is that nobody is claiming you shouldn't get more equity, that is fair. My argument is against ridiculous assessments that "founders always work x100 harder than any employee".

Most founders I've seen weren't like you, and I've seen early employees working harder than founders in some cases.
Doesn't appear to be related

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John Resig: Introducing the GraphQL Guide
that's what I'm saying. I'm clarifying that the value of the RSU is when you got them at the time of the offer. Not at the time you sell it or vest it.
Interesting:

" (v) Cryptocurrency apps may not offer currency for completing tasks, such as downloading other apps, encouraging other users to download, posting to social networks, etc. "

This might outlaw the "Earn" App, which pays you in Bitcoin for doing various tasks. They might have to switch to other forms of reimbursement.
This.

It's really only obvious why founders deserve a much larger exit than employees after you've tried to start and run a company.

There's plenty of edge cases where it doesn't feel fair, but in general, starting and running a successful startup is nothing like being an engineer. And it deserves a very different level of comp.

Also - there's plenty of engineers at startups that wouldn't get a job at a large tech companies.
Well, presumably you'd have to take (at least some of) the companies' option pools as well, but I'd believe that the math still doesn't work: that just reflects that the equity for employees is not a valuable deal in general.
I missed it the first time, but the article has linked source code (github.com/jackschaedler/handwriting-recognition) for all the D3.js demos that is worth a read.
I don't know why you're getting downvoted since that's literally their roadmap. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1432593 In addition to separating sites, they're breaking services out into their own processes, like moving all network access to a separate process https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1322426
Sketching phptorealistically mostly just requires patience. Just sit down and do it. It's a methodical, technical process. If you sit down and do a different drawing every night for a couple weeks you should be pretty close to photorealistic by the end. That's middle school art class stuff. They'll start with simple shapes like cubes and balls, then move on to plants, or old shoes. You can draw your hand, and then maybe try a portrait.

Now to really learn how to draw, with style and sensibility takes a little longer. There's a book called 'the Natural Way to Draw', which is broadly recommended and is an excellent guide for getting off on the right foot, with the right mindset.
Thinking about your next job
I thought it seemed strange that during the last hour while their services have been down, their twitter has been giving away all these weird coupons that seem to have nothing to do with Netflix.
Is there a way I can view this without going through Google drive?
Love the list, hate the attitude
A confounding factor with real prisons is that (hopefully) most of the prisoners have antisocial tendencies which led to their incarceration and the prisoners and guards are under credible threat of violence from both parties.

In other words, are the guards behaving like jerks because their power has corrupted them, or because behaving nicely is likelier to lead to them getting attacked by prisoners?

Another consideration is that while I'm sure abuse in prisons is rampant hopefully it's still far from the majority of guards behaving poorly. If that's true, then real life prisons might be evidence against this conclusion as most (hopefully) prison guards wouldn't be jerks.
Not fully. The point (I think) is not letting oneself be consumed by a problem & constantly identifying to be about it. There are way more things to define you.
Jeez. There's always someone that's going to seem to be offended. For clarity, the author should be just as ridiculous and claim to use the early-English definition of the phrase; a virgin. Or claim that it has something to do with Minute Maid® juices.

For reference, "maid" as someone who cleans up a place is not seen as derogatory nor demeaning to everyone, as there are swaths of trademarks [1] registered using that term, and innumerable mobile maid services available in the U.S. which use that term in their company name.

Or maybe that comment was just a troll job.

[1] http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=toc&state=4807%3Aw...
It has been a while since I contributed to HN! I sat down to share some thoughts and ideas that have been useful to me weighing new jobs against my career goals. Hope you find something useful!
This is actually being discussed as well: https://framalistes.org/sympa/arc/git-federation/2018-06/msg...

The scope of GitPub is still under active definition, and it might end up not being specific to git only.

If you're a stakeholder of any service that could federate based on Mercurial, Bazaar… you're more than welcome to give your input to the working group.
I agree with what you wrote, but the reality is that startups can't pay market rate in most cases. So they should at least offer more equity.

Or, you know, they can try to keep getting away with offering 0.01% non-preferred stock, and telling every employee that the startup will sell for $1BN at least, and they will become millionaires.
By your logic, no competitive market can ever arise because somebody is always the first, and incumbents can't possibly be competed with. Why isn't everything a monopoly?

If lack of regulation allows for an incumbent to engage in anti-consumer behavior, it opens a huge door for a more consumer-friendly competitor to sweep the market.
I think the mistake here is that you think “purposeful study” and “pick up metaskills as you hack away at your project” are not both examples of (potential) deliberate practice.

What makes either one deliberate or not is whether you make a point to focus on how well it was done, how it achieved goals (or not) and how to improve. That’s the deliberate part and that’s the part that makes the difference and is missing by default.

As long as you’re constantly evaluating and making attempts to improve, it doesn’t matter so much in what context you’re doing the thing, whether it be for fun, for learning, for work, or whatever.

“Practice” simply means you’re actually doing a thing as opposed to studying it theoretically. Though I think many people have a habit of reading into that word the notion that what you are doing is a throwaway or has very low expectations of success or importance. But keep in mind that what a doctor does every day is called “practice.”
> They want too high of a quality in their first release.

I've actually have seen the opposite. Usually it's a very crappy early product and then when the company grows they get bogged down. (They'll never address testing, tech debt, etc)
> (Europe?)

"In 2015, the total credit/delayed debit card base grew by 12.5 million cards to 310.8 million, an increase of 4.2 percent on 2014. There were 0.51 credit cards per capita on average across the E33 countries, although credit cards countries, such as Greece, Ireland, Turkey and the UK accounted for 127.4 million cards, 41.0 percent of the total."

They are very popular in the UK; when I lived there I had two. (I had one as a student!) My mum probably has about 5, "this one's for food, this one's for petrol, unless I go to X, then it's this one..."

https://www.paymentscardsandmobile.com/payment-cards-europe/
"14. Be critical. Make sure to have an endless list of dislikes and voice them often, whether or not your opinion is solicited. For example, don’t hesitate to say, “That’s what you chose to wear this morning?” or “Why is your voice so shrill?” If someone is eating eggs, tell them you don’t like eggs. Your negativity can be applied to almost anything."
What to Know About the Three Gawker Movies in Development
"Maximize income" is not helpful without probabilities attached to the outcomes. What percentage of people who start in banking end up as partners making $5m? And what does the income distribution for the rest of the bankers look like?

I suspect the long term payoff distribution for engineers is fatter, meaning if you end up around the 25th to 75th percentile, which you should expect to do, you will earn more as an engineer.
I really, really want a Turbo Pascal 5.5 with objects for linux.
We're still working on the schedule and obtaining feedback re when people want to fly. But for now, flights depart about every hour and a half between 4pm-10pm on Friday and Sunday nights and same on Monday mornings between 5am-9am.
some differences by region but most mobile phone companies get your location passively, store it and optionally hand it off to the government or sell it to interested corporate buyers.
Since you ever only worked professionally in Japan, perhaps it's time for a change and try out other places. Especially a place where language barrier won't hinder you.

Sounds like you're still relatively young, go out on a new adventure. Don't be constraint in one place, you can always go back to Japan someday.
You'd be surprised. Many programmers don't negotiate, don't ask for severance or bonuses or better acceleration/vesting terms etc., feel afraid to be rejected after completing interviews, and a lot of people end up working for far lower pay than they could have otherwise gotten. I've known a lot of people who joined start-ups because they were promised various things (freedom to work on X, guarantee of publishing research, attending conferences, etc.) and then 6 months later they feel miserable that they accepted lower pay and none of the promises turned out to be true (sometimes through no intentional fault of the start-up founders, but sometimes through complete bait and switch shenanigans).

The risk that start-ups won't follow through on ambiguous work promises is super high, yet people keep falling for it year after year.
Ask HN: How to quickly build override Google chrome extension?
Why are you copy/pasting the same comment?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17235661
On F-Droid it's just called Maps though: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.axet.maps/
Short parents can have tall kids and vice-versa. Smart parents can have dumb kids and vice-versa. Genetic inheritance is complicated. Effective IQ can be downwardly influenced by factors such as nutrition. Reality is far too complex to be captured by your pithy sentence, or my pithy paragraph.
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