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Charleston, SC.

Moved here to escape the Washington D.C. rat race after 9/11.

It's great here, but word has gotten out and prices have gone up significantly (nothing like LA) over the last few years.

I love it here, but it's scary moving somewhere where there are only a handful of non-remote jobs, especially as a divorced father of two (I can not move if I want to be near my kids)
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Too many obituaries of people who had some kind of influence on my life lately.

All those I remember from my youth are getting old, yet I can only remember them as just a little older than me and even though I'm now 62 I don't feel that old inside; so every time one of my near contemporaries dies I feel a sudden shock and think, could he or she really have been that old? And then it hits me, yes they are and I'm heading that way too.

This for me, is one of the worst aspects of ageing; that the subjects of my memories are disappearing.
I had the opposite experience. I also joined a startup 5 years ago, and I was one of the very early employees. I received 0.5% equity as stock options, and my salary was around $120,000.

I stayed for a few years, and now I own around 0.1%. The company is now worth a few billion dollars, so my stock is worth a few million dollars. I have no liquidity yet, but an IPO is certainly on the horizon.

I don't feel like I took a pay cut. It was my first real job as a software engineer, and it gave me some good friendships and connections.

I can't say I learned a lot, and I didn't grow very much. The work was very boring and there weren't any technical challenges or interesting problems. I just got very burned out with the long hours and pressure. But it was nice to live in the Bay Area for a little while and have the "silicon valley" experience. I got very lucky and might be able to retire in a couple of years, so of course I'm going to say that the risk was worth it. But I do realize that I'm an outlier.

My advice: If you can somehow spot a potential unicorn and you'll be one of the first employees, then drop everything and join it.

Look for a YC company with some impressive investors, and try to get 0.5% - 2%. But I've noticed that YC has started funding a lot of companies that seem pretty terrible, so you have to be very careful. Don't think of yourself as a employee. You're a VC who invests their time and energy.

If the first one doesn't work out, then do it a couple more times. Work on your own side projects and see if any of those take off. The connections can be really valuable, and working at a startup is a great way to find future co-founders.
The library manages this the 1-2 times a year I go to a branch. They show me the latest information in the PINES database, ask me if it's all current, and input any changes. Of course, they don't have the same regulatory and liability concerns as a doctor.
Because google makes its revenue from user data.
Netflix post-mortem: hardware failure and poor transparency (2008)
Ok, that was pretty awful. Do they want to break stuff on purpose or something?
> 1. You should tax what you want less of.

Do you think all taxes should be punitive? Are you against personal income and sales taxes, and business profit taxes?
I'm a mathematician by training (though this is thoroughly outside the scope of a mathematician's job) and completely agree. That said, there's a real topic in the philosophy of mathematics called "finitism" that argues we should only consider finite mathematical objects and would exclude almost every real number. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finitism
Shrink your ops team by putting the Dev in DevOps
Haha I built this, it's called Focusmate [1]. Having an accountability partner is one of the only things that can almost guaranteed get me moving.

[1] https://www.focusmate.com
Sounds like epoxy putty. If it cures “rock-solid” it’s not the same results as Sugru, which is a flexible rubber.
Ad networks would be the least critical. Netflix at least provides content some people actually want. I have yet to hear someone say "I want to see ads".
"GraalVM runs Ruby about 10x faster than standard Ruby, for example."

Which puts it roughly up against the plateau I observe for dynamically-typed languages across the board, except LuaJIT (which AIUI compromises the dynamicness a bit to get there). Ruby is a great deal more than 10x slower than optimal (which is still roughly C, though keep an eye out on that as languages continue to challenge it).

Based on the way Erlang works, I wouldn't expect it to get much past two times faster than it already is no matter how much money is poured into it.

I remember hearing the line about how there are no slow languages, only slow implementations, back in the early 2000s, when we didn't have any implementations of dynamic scripting languages that had really had a lot of effort poured into them, by modern standards. In 2018, we have numerous such implementations with vast, vast amounts of work poured into them. They are faster than they used to be... and they are still meaningfully slower than optimal. (And eat about 10-20x times the RAM in the process.) Erlang doesn't do all the bad things that Python or Ruby do to make them slow, but it does add a lot of memory copying that Python and Ruby don't do, and which is probably not as reducible as you'd like no matter how you optimized it (the low-hanging fruit, after all, is already in current Erlang).

To be honest, if you like Erlang but you need the next step up in performance and are willing to lose a few guarantees to get there (a very common tradeoff in optimization, after all), the answer is Go, not waiting for a much faster Erlang. Go is significantly faster than Erlang, Go does not have Erlang's memory isolation, and these statements are deeply connected together, not just coincidence.
'We're America, bitch.' -- it's like we just turned into the end of an 80's action film after the bad guy dies.
I'm more of a Beagle Bone person, so I hope you don't mind me answering the question from that standpoint.

The sadness I have about the bone is that it is a means to an end. Purchase bone, insert into host board. Voila, IoT. It gets you to an MVP really fast, but limits your design to that form factor. Migrating away is difficult.

The Arduino, at least, served as training wheels. The end goal was to design an atmega328 into your circuit board, not glue another pcb on top. (Just remembering, there is some progress here with the pocket beagle... Though it does raise supply chain concerns.)

Also unlike the bone, the Arduino opened up a pathway for many other architectures and families of microprocessor, lowering the barrier to entry for 32 bit processors and ARM, keeping the platform relevant.

The bone CPU is getting a little long in the tooth, and there doesn't seem to be a path forward to the next generation of processors in the same SWaP C space. There are others, but the cost or power consumption tripples. The bone is at a real sweet point for price and capabilities. I'd love to see a lower power generation with some fixes to annoying problems (like the RTC).

In their defense, there are two or three orders of magnitude more complexity to an ARM SoC than an 8bit micro. The bone community really is on point with making a stable platform with regular releases, especially given the complexity of supporting a SoC+peripherals with the kernel, device tree, U-Boot, Debian, etc.
Got back into fly fishing. I started when I was in college but kind of just ran out of time to practice and never really had many friends who did outdoorsy things.

My new job has me on-call a few months out of the year and it allows me to sneak away and get outside at a local park while being able to easily make it back home if needed (something that I can't easily do on long bike rides).

I also recently started tying my own flies which is something I found enjoyable. Its nice to create things outside of a computer screen occasionally and I have something concrete in my hand within an hour.
You know I heard a really good sermon on the radio by an Evangelical preacher the other day about the apostle Paul and the book of Romans that he wrote.

One term he used consistently was that Paul (my namesake) opposed "the culture" of him time. That is, he did not like Roman civlization, he did not really did that there was a temple to Apollo and Neptune but what destroyed the legitimacy of it all was there was a temple just as big across the street to the living Emperor. Similarly he was no big fan of the sexual morality of the classical world.

At the time, early Christianity was a "counter-culture" than the Catholics took over and became the "culture", then Martin Luther is reading Romans while sitting on the can and decides there has to be a permanent counterculture, that the movement has to be "born again" with each generation.

See also: the Jesus Freaks, origin of the contemporary anti-abortion movement, etc.

(I am not a Christian, but I am the resident Christian Apologist and Range Safety Officer for my coven)
Believe me or not, I've bought a MacBook Pro with a 3rd-party usb-c Hub adapter and I've noticed whenever I plug it, it interferes with my hotspot connection (I don't receive any data from my hotspot anymore). Does anyone know anything about this?
There are some significant cultural/heritage differences between Mexico and the United States. The current population of Mexico is a result of large scale admixture between indigenous people and European colonists, whereas essentially no such admixture occurred in the US. Also, the US is culturally descended from Northern Europeans, whereas the European aspect of Mexican culture is descended from Southern Europe. The Northern/Southern cultural divide in Europe is pretty significant and I would guess that, in practice, the term “The West” primarily refers to Northern Europe rather than Southern (or Eastern) Europe.
Was going to post this as well! I'm 10 weeks in and feeling great. Continuing to work out as before and lost almost 8kg (10% of my starting body weight). A bit hard getting start, but easy to roll when you're going.
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i'm interested in this approach. what is your age and starting weight and what is your fasting window regime and what amount of calories per day do you shoot for?
Indeed. I'm rather dumbfounded that crowdfunded securities were greenlit by the FCA - it opens the door to exactly this situation.

Kickstarter-style project crowdfunding makes loads more sense, though.
Please avoid code snippets for blockquotes. It's very annoying to read this with the `overflow-x: scroll` that HN's CSS adds (particularly on mobile). Just put a ">" in front of the paragraph, like so:

> We expect the Raspberry Pi 4 to be based on a new Broadcom SoC based on Cortex-A55 built on < 28nm fabrication process. We can call this BCM2839 and it will feature the much alluded to VC5 GPU and a new form factor. Since that hardware is more than two years away, it is difficult to predict the direction of the industry and thus the exact specifications. We expect such a Raspberry Pi 4 board to utilize dual 32-bit LPDDR3 or LPDDR4 to cope with the bandwidth requirements of OpenCL and neural network acceleration. The exact release date for such a specimen can vary dramatically depending on Broadcom’s tapeout schedule. It should be relatively soon if the Raspberry Pi Foundation expects to release hardware in 2019.
Would you mind sharing the name of the product?
You are quite right, I do not work at your factory (TBH, I'd rather work for, e.g., Monsanto...)

Instead, I'm a reluctant purchaser of your hardware (the market is completely devoid of alternatives, if I go to buy a 6-core ARM64 laptop with a IPS display, it's the Chromebook or the highway). A purchaser who would like to actually use what he paid for. And this means the removal of all golden-key backdoor garbage, in the AP, EC, and Cr50 ROMs.

And yes this includes the FBI-subpoena-keyed "upgrade" capability, the AP ROM write-protect override, the I2C/SPI bus mastering, the locked-from-all-but-the-anointed-few console, etc.

I couldn't care less about user-installed "TPM secrets", disk encryption, etc. I get these boxes brand-new. What I want is to wipe the Cr50 and install a routine that simply handles the power button, 3.3v bringup and whatever else is absolutely required for the box to run, under full owner control like the old Chromebooks that had no Cr50.
No the OP, but this works for me: say you're on your living room and going to the kitchen. If you see something that should be on the kitchen grab it and place it there. Just one small thing at a time moved to the right place will eventually sort most of your mess.
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They last a lot longer if you keep them in your refrigerator.
Do you have any new favorites? I'd definitely like to move in this direction with my family's cooking.
I work full time in software engineering and do occasional paid freelancing work. It's quite possible to be full time and work extra.
I'm not saying economic anxiety is nonsense.

I'm saying scenarios of imminent collapse of the economy are nonsense.
> 0.5 is a real number

Yes, and it is one of the few we have no problem with (7 is an other example of this class): The rationals (or the algebraic). Unfortunately the vast majority of the reals are not that catchy. E.g. we still do not know how many reals there are. The reals are a beast if watched from a fundamental perspective.
The government has to have a source of income, and it has to get that from productive activity.

However, there is a trade-off in these cases. Look at the examples you gave: personal taxes are progressive and sales tax is regressive.

I think they are discouraging whether or not you want them to be.

In this case there was a distinct purpose behind the tax (helping those who cannot afford housing costs).
At PyCon in Cleveland this year Amjith Ramanujam did a presentation on "how Netflix does failovers in 7 minutes flat" [0]. Worth a watch/listen for anyone interested in what their response may have looked like. Now I'm curious to read a post-mortem from them and see whether their procedures worked as expected (it sounds like they were down longer than 7 minutes) or where they encountered unexpected issues.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQI56-up3Yk
I don't know what you've tried, in terms of home preparation of food. One strategy is to switch to two meals a day, plus one snack. Another is to focus on high-volume, low calorie density foods, such as vegetables and beans, while limiting high-calorie dense foods such as bread, cheese, and meat. This allows you to feel full from fewer calories. Another way to think about this is to dramatically increase your fiber intake (and not just from hard fruits, but from a variety of sources). For example, if you were to make a pasta dish, use half the regular amount of pasta, and greatly increase the amount of veggies in it, so the pasta is just a small component of the dish.
Every large company building mission critical systems, maybe.

Resilient systems take longer to build, and thus are more costly. It is not always wise to spend that much resources on this for, say, a startup.

After a startup is crushing it, then maybe they can start rewriting any brittle monolithic systems into something more resilient.
I don't understand why they don't sell it for a few bucks a sachet in a simple point-of-sale display or via the internet. I'm waaaay more willing to buy one when I need it than have to shell out for a big multipack of stuff that has a limited shelf life..
The article could have made a stronger case about the broader trends: although this is referring only to a single quarter's worth of new capacity in the US, this trend has been happening on a longer term in many other countries.
This stuck out to me too. Fractals teach us that infinite length can be fitted into finite area, so I'm dubious about this claim. Though I guess if we're in the realm of physics, the Planck constant determines a kind of minimum length, so the original statement may be true?
Maybe just add USB-C with PCI-Express lanes in there. This would allow Ethernet or anything else to be plugged into that should it be needed.
Discussion on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8qb660/microso...
> My grandma had 5 kids and was married at 19.

Funny that you've mentioned correlation and no causation, and then brought this up. How old was your grandma when she had her first kid?
>If it is open source (OSI approved)

OSI has tried to assemble all the different terms of "open source" that make sense. Creative Commons Non-Commercial isn't one of them:

https://opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical
The database is more than just tables, for your particular example you could use a computed column https://postgrest.org/en/v5.0/api.html#computed-columns.

In general, custom business logic can be done through stored procedures/views/computed columns.
Nonsense. Taxation as social policy is of dubious effect. Also, to take #1, you want people to earn less? To spend less of their earnings? The former will discourage/lower incomes, the latter will damage the economy. Progressive taxation is also a bedrock of "fairness."
As someone with a long train commute, my train time is basically my non-productive "me time". Read a book, read the internet, take a nap, program on fun, non-work projects. If I'm at home, I'm usually engaged in child-care or house-care of some flavor or another, with very little time for simple idleness.
Saying "no" more often, surely but compassionately and kindly.

It allowed me to claim back some of my own time back.

I don't mean a gruff and negative "no". A positive and assertive no.

I used to be afraid of saying no. I guess it was due to FOMO or due to trying to avoid a negative reaction. I realized though that I don't owe anyone anything (in most cases) and saying "no" is perfectly OK.
The PiZeroW is hits such an amazing triple point of price/functionality/size that although I love the Tinker Pro for coming close in size/price and the ease of Arduino programming for simple things the PiZeroW just gives you SO MUCH functionality.
From the ArsTechnica article [1]:

According to the researchers, the mechanism many macOS security tools have used since 2007 to check digital signatures has been trivial to bypass. As a result, it has been possible for anyone to pass off malicious code as an app that was signed with the key Apple uses to sign its apps.

...

"To be clear, this is not a vulnerability or bug in Apple’s code... basically just unclear/confusing documentation that led to people using their API incorrectly," Wardle told Ars. "Apple updated [its] documents to be more clear, and third-party developers just have to invoke the API with a more comprehensive flag (that was always available)."

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/06/simpl...
I actually have a bunch of unopened sugru and recently needed to repair my macbook charger. I ended up using electrical tape because the sugru packets are huge and I couldn't think of anything to do with the rest of it after repairing the charger. I guess that didn't matter so much if it's expiring anyway, but I also didn't want to leave it for 24 hours to cure.
Ooh, seems I've pissed off some people. Just look at those downvotes!
Are you using some app? I've started with Headspace couple of years ago, but after the initial lessons I found it too hard to continue and gave up.
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You are assuming that 7.5 million buys a multi room home. At the extreme it may only rent you a 350 square foot apartment.

Some people might spend 75% of their income on massive dwellings, but most people downsize if possible before going past 55% of income. And as we are talking about things on the social not individual level those preferences matter.
It does not need to read the body of email in order to work. It can index just the header(to, date, subject) or you can use a program on your computer locally to keep your emails and index&search them.
Sans buns, burgers (in moderation) are healthy.
Appellation protection is the lamest form of protection.

Nothing is special because it comes from a certain lat/long. Despite the fierce objections of sommeliers, "terroir" is cargo-cult pseudoscience.

Not being able to call bubbly wine "champagne" is like not being able to call a disc of ground beef between a sliced bun a "hamburger" because it wasn't grilled in Hamburg, Germany or not being able to call pizza "pizza" if it wasn't baked in Pisa, Italy.

Also out: Frankfurters, Vienna sausages, California rolls, Buffalo wings, baked Alaska, Worcestershire sauce, Mississippi mud pies, Peking duck, and Mayonnaise not made in Frankfurt, Vienna, California, Buffalo, Alaska, Worcestershire, Mississippi, Beijing, and Mayenne, respectively.

And forget about selling Monterey Jack cheese not made in Monterey, California.
Pendant here: the Planck constant is simply a convenient length for all things subatomic, like a hectare or a fortnight. No minimum whatsoever implied there. Many, many things are smaller than the Planck constant.
You have no idea the scale of the problem here. It's not just a few people camping under an overpass. If you walk around Pioneer Square there are encampments on many of the blocks. There are encampments on Seattle anywhere there's grass. Drive on I5 through the city and you'll see encampments starting and ending at the city limits.
Our local library, connected to seemingly every other library in the country, provides me with every book and movie I've wanted for years. Such an amazing resource. Request it online, pick it up locally, usually within two days.
It's a real PITA to work with computable numbers because even their equivalence is not computable.

Also, the field is really young. It was only in 2000 that Weihrauch has proven that every computable real function is continuous.
This is like saying "you get to Mars by starting the trip." The advice is sound, but doesn't help with getting off the ground. It's the kind of thing someone who already has little or no trouble starting buys on a poster for their workspace.