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Lepaya | Full Stack Developer | Full-time | ONSITE | Amsterdam, NL
We help companies to make training stick. We do this by blending on- and offline learning, and creating engaging, learning journeys. We leverage on the latest research in learning, to ensure we do that what works - and we continuously measure and (im)prove. This way, we help employees grow - in a way that fits busy and demanding schedules both at and outside work.

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>>>> Message queue specifically built to meet our needs

Mind sharing needs not met by "standard" message queues (rabbitMQ, Apollo, NSQ, etc)

>>>> optimized XFS volume

Is this just some specific mount options or is it a more complex setup ?

Thanks. Asking out of curiosity.
I seem to be in the minority of HN users that actually like Gmail and strongly dislike things like mutt or pine.

Nothing else syncs to my phone in a manner that "just works" and doesn't require excessive fiddling, or using k9mail which appears to quite simply not work at all.

So with that said, how does a person use git via email with the Gmail ui?
If they can offer these without the inconvenient docking stations it’ll be a much more popular transportation option.
From the article it sounds more like Intel kept building up a moat that everyone got sick of crossing.
Millions of Americans Make a Costly Mistake When Paying Credit Card Bills
Sounds like a case of different strokes for different folks. I live within walking distance of my store, so I take more frequent trips with fewer groceries. I rarely buy more than can fit in a hand-basket.

Also, I grew up with the expectation of emptying your cart onto a conveyor belt, so it's probably socially programmed into me that it's expected.
I am tired of seeing this programmer's meme constantly being repeated.

Superfluous parens:
Do not assume that the parentheses are superfluous, they are an excellent way to write down and communicate a tree-like structures. Code happens to be such a structure.

With regard to the readability, this probably reveals an initial training in an Algol-syntax language. It is really not self-evident that s-expr are harder to read, and find it hard to believe that is true.
Most likely, if it is the case for you, it more likely means it is not leveraging years of brain-training on Algol/C style notation. Do not mistake this for anything intrinsic about s-expr.

To grab to personal experience: I have thought both Lispy and Alogly languages to complete programming virgins and have anecdotally seen less syntax-related mistakes in the former. The benefit of pre-learned infix semantics from mathematics courses is vanishingly small compared to the complexity of learning how to program. Unless your domain is actual mathematics (R, Matlab, ...), only a very small set of expressions in any program actually leverage that familiarity. The benefit in teaching/learning S-expr syntax is that is comparably uniform: whitespace breaks with paren ends. Infix languages introduce a set of context-dependent symbols. For example, a good portion of the errors I saw first timers make in class is mixing commas versus semicolon breaks. Even Python does this in the form of complex line breaking rules mixed with symbol-breaks (semicolon expression seperators, colon in conditionals, etc). It isn't hard when you are already familiar, but you definitely notice the complexity when holding the hand of a first-timer.

In short, the 'not seeing parens' is akin to not 'seeing commas, semicolons, colons, braces, parens, backspaces, ...' in Algol-syntax languages.

But honestly, things that are different should look different. Leveraging familiarity is a vital tool when designing a consumer-facing interface, but avoiding faulty preconceptions and ambiguities is more important for the professional tool that is a serious programming language. I personally think in C when handling low-level memory, Lisp when doing metaprogramming, Prolog when doing logic programming and something APL-like when doing linear algebra.
Oh, I skipped that paragraph. Oy, sorry. I think the text format for interleaving source and commentary needs its own discussion somewhere, and probably a standalone repository separate from implementation (and some day preferably too, an RFC, or at least a MIME type registration).

I've looked at the examples you linked, and... I like that the review format for review authoring is just plain trivial. Not sure how it works with quote trimming... I'm not sure I like the output format, but I'll go think about it.
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I agree. I did decently in my algorithms class - got an A, but I feel like my intuition is still lacking even though I have the pre-requisite knowledge. The class also wasn't inordinately tough like it would be at UWash/UT/UM/HYPSM, so its possible my fundamentals aren't as good as I would have hoped.
I agree with you in spirit, but it looks like the unsolicited gifts law is explicitly for "merchandise". Giving someone a deposit check is a common way of making a serious offer for eg real estate, and is likely to happen through the mail.

It would be an interesting argument if said check were cashed without knowledge of any implicit contract (say another person opening+discarding the rest of the correspondence, or just simply someone who can't read well).

I'd imagine if you complained and really pushed after getting the first bill, they'd just void the arrangement upon your returning the money. If you couldn't pay it back immediately, there's a good argument to be made that you're entitled to a payment plan that is not their terms, but it's not like these scams are targeting people who have access to equal protection!

(I also have to wonder about a limited power of attorney with the ability to endorse checks, but not to form contracts)
> A company sends you a gift in the mail...Whatever you do, don’t pay for it — and don’t get conned if the sender follows up with a phone call or visit. By law, unsolicited merchandise is yours to keep.

https://about.usps.com/publications/pub300a/pub300a_tech_021...

EDIT: IANAL
Do you have any link to the research you're reffering to ? I looked into this a while ago when wondering why my headlamp had red ligths, and people seemed to advocate for a dim green light (eg. http://stlplaces.com/night_vision_red_myth/), but I'm struggling to find any research article backing this
Mike Monteiro – Fuck you, pay me. How to deal with clients as a freelancer
You can hardly fault newcomers for not understanding the finer nuances when everything they type automatically gets uppercased.
In a post about the non-Apple-related open source clone of the non-Apple-related BeOS, someone starts a thread about how much they don't like the style of package managers that come from Linux, which I am fairly sure is, again, not related to Apple, this is relevant how?
I got my start as a DBA working for a company that was founded to serve as oversight for this process. We'd assign a risk label to a loan (from the originator) and then weight our aggregate risk against the documented risk of the financial instrument (a security from the "bank"). Finally, there was a group within the company to follow up with the loan servicers to ensure that they were properly servicing (erm, collecting) loans within that instrument.

It was insane how many new dimensions we'd have to create (on what seemed like a daily basis) for the variety of security and documentation types that the banks would generate.
They are smart for using their own metal. I am still waiting the world at large to recognize the fact that the popular cloud services are not actually cost-efficient at all.

I sometimes wondered if I should try and work in the area; these people seem to constantly have to do stuff better and better which is an appealing aspect for me and keeps me from being bored. And as more and more time passes, I don't care for societal approval. Plus I never viewed porn as a "sin" or whatever.

Thank you.

Also, are you folks open to something newer in terms of stacks? Something much more efficient and fast out of the box, like Go or Erlang/Elixir? Is the legacy too big for a code reorganization to ever be viable?
The palm pilot had been around and popular for 10 years when the iPhone came out, at a 300+ dollar price point.

That and most people don't actually pay anything for their phones, they get them on contract (in the us). As far as I know in Europe, smart phones are less common among poorer communities.

And an iPhone provides more reason utility over a palm pilot than a model three does over a used Toyota that costs 1/5 as much.
Like iOS is just custom NetBSD?
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Most of my career has roughly been in full stack web development but I'm open to explore other areas. I'm always learning on a side project, be that Android development, AI/ML, or general game development. See my GitHub (as linked in my CV) for my experiments!
I find the Lisp variants to be lovely right up until I want to package and ship an actual application to a normal human being. Then they are quite clumsy. I find the same to be true of a number of other more recently popular high level languages. I've always assumed it was because graduate students never got to the point where they ship anything.
Yes, 'other community' questions imply binary division on issue. I think this questions were proposed to a mediator between the debating parties to try to move conversation into more productive direction. This questions aren't that useful when you start a conversation and can frame it not as a debate.
No, the votes don't matter. Ironically, in fact, I think I got pity upvotes for the plea, which are not really helpful. What does matter is that I'm expressing myself effectively and the votes usually operate as feedback to that effect.

I'm still curious about the motivations of those downvoters.

Also, I apologize for the meta discussion in this already off-topic thread.
Are you suggesting that Christ's birth was the marker for early history? There was the Egyptians, the Akkadians, the Hittities, Sumerians, the early Chinese, and the early Indian just to name a few organized civilizations that are thousands of years older.

Additionally you are using Alexander the Great as your earliest marker? How was he democratic at all. He was a literal military dictator as were the Hellenic kingdoms that's descended from his empire
Say goodbye to usernames in Atlassian Cloud
Exposing processor-specific details is the desired feature, not a bug. The people who want to program C for portable assembly do so because they want to take advantage of things they know about the architecture: the same source code isn't really portable across different architectures without #ifdef anyways.
> AMD won both races

AMD's revenue is half of NVIDIA's and about 9% of Intel's. There's something missing from your analysis...
Yeah, a better expression would be:

“There a billions of desperately poor people in the world, and in order for them not to have a strong interest in either immigrating into the developed world by any means necessary or smashing the international order, both of which produce adverse consequences that was have to deal with, their relative standard of living must improve, which also had costs for the developed world, but much less than continuing to deal with the consequences of the current level of structural inequality.”
The docking stations are convenient in some ways because you know where to go to find a bike and you can feel good that you're not leaving it in a place that is in the way.
Good op-ed by the founder of ProtonMail.

Between 2015 and 2016, revenue jumped 22 percent. (Google and Facebook alone were responsible for 99 percent of that growth.)

Big data companies already control an unimaginable amount of information about all of us. One database marketing firm, Acxiom, stores an average of 1,500 data points on 96 percent of the U.S. population.

This article is reminiscent of the great piece by Bruce Schneier on “surveillance capitalism.”

https://www.schneier.com/news/archives/2017/07/surveillance_...

(actually, that’s an interview follow up with Schneier - this is the article https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/03/facebook_and_... )
Scientists Are Sending Astronaut Mice to Space to Study Biology
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This article is extremely biased and poorly written. I'd prefer to read something coherent with a more neutral tone vs an angry one. Sucks for the 13 year old - a felony charge seems extreme.
For PDF, try qpdfview or xpdf (you cannot get any more old-style than that!)

For images, you can always try feh or imagemagic's "display". Or if you want a bit more UI, "geeque" (which is based on gimageview, and still has not changed the design much)

For web browsers, I am afraid you don't have many options if you want to use modern web apps. The web evolves too fast for that. There are still independent browsers (like netsurf), but I gave up on them and just use chrome.

I doubt that Haiku can ever be practical, unless you live completely offline. Even PDF format keeps evolving -- version 2.0 was released in 2017 -- so you cannot keep maintaining versions just for a single OS.

And once you start porting entire programs from different platforms (like LibreOffice), the platform's unique UI traits will slowly disappear. Who will notice the unique kernel if it has POSIX compat layer and GTK?
> Combined Xbox One and PS4 sales dwarf all of the sales both Intel and non-console AMD do;

Margins on console chips are garbage. AMD was the only chip maker desperate enough to take the deal.

Intel has 12x gross revenue and 90x operating income as AMD.

AMD is doing good work. But they’ve got a long, long ways to go.
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Rabbu is a technology and operations company in the short-term rental market that provides guests with enhanced travel experiences and accommodations through our tech-enabled homes while providing property owners with higher returns on their investments. We are creating a consumer brand representing the future of travel.

Full-Stack Software Engineer - Seeking driven, self-motivated, software engineers looking to work with cutting-edge technologies and transform how an industry operates. Primary technology stack: Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Bootstrap, Material UI, AWS, Heroku, React, Postgres, HTML/CSS/JS, Ionic.

Work on API's, integrating 3rd parties, IoT solutions, voice skills, smart home technologies, mobile apps, and building out new platforms from the ground up! Be heavily involved in decision making.

if interested?
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Renault Zoe has a 400 km range model for €23,600 (in France). They compare to Model 3 in some aspects and not in others. I can of course claim that Tesla doesn't have any experience in producing affordable electric cars.
Thanks for an idea. As part of developing a rough-quantitative feel for physical properties, I like associating measures with real-life adult-world examples. Eg, a Newton-meter torque is reopening a 2L plastic soda bottle.[1] But my mindset was 'make the associations transparent and low-barrier', and do 'number->example, to allow easily exploring the measure space"'. But what if there was more mystery, struggle, challenge, tease? An adaptively tuned barrier.

Instead of 'touching a thermometer scale at some temperature instantly yields a video about making chocolate', or a video clip of a tv news weather report, what if instead a video had temperatures bleeped/blurred out, and required an act of effort - "give me the temperature, d*mnit! it should be around here somewhere...". Then maybe related videos (of similar temperature or topic) aren't just more surfing, but payoff? An unlocking. "Ohhh, change the temperature of that step and you get a different kind of chocolate!"

Maybe a little animated critter that watches videos with you, and cheers for temperatures, or jumps on them, and sometimes makes it so you cant hear/see them, unless you shush the critter, or move it.

Anyway, random brainstorming - I'm exploring maybe doing a temperature education app. Thanks for your comment.

[1] http://www.clarifyscience.info/part/ZoomB?v=A&p=CK6Ji&m=torq...
Perhaps inflation should be measured in markets that are not changing - like food. And in areas that are not directly affected by interest rates like housing. Commodities are not very exciting, but the ones people rely on are key.
Hello everyone, back in 2016 I started researching how to improve the residential rental estate space and realized that long-term renters are the gold of the industry. Similar to good drivers in the car insurance industry, and inspired by cash-back programs from credit cards, and airline mile points -- I figured we could create a new financial instrument that exists between the world of renting and owning property.

For our generation, it is unfortunate that rent prices are increasing faster than wage hikes. This is partly due to the influence that pension funds, sovereign funds, and other retirement funds have had on the real estate landscape. To keep returns high on pension funds, they invest in REITs that increase the rent price of our generation. In a way, the retirement fund of a previous generation is making the living expense of the current generation impractical.

Colibrin sends landlords very long-term tenants, and it gives renters a 401(k) fund-like-experience that they can cash out when they move out. Overall, renters can get 10% to 15% of their cumulative rent payments when they move out, and hopefully will use that to buy their next home.

We're still in the early days, so if you wish to join - this is the time. Please let me know you if you have any questions. I can be found at omid+hn [at] colibrin [dot] com

Thank you all, I feel privileged to have welcomed Colibrin to the world via HN, this is our first public mention.
>>Was this upvoted by people who hate ads and simply like the title?

Seems like it.

As much as I like ProtonMail, and want to see ad-based-revenue die out, this is a thinly veiled self promotion.

There is nothing to suggest that ad-based-revenue is going away any time soon. The dwindling of Facebook users over the past couple years is hardly a drop in the bucket of use, and AFAIK they are still making money hand over fist.

HN is very vocal about anti-ad, and for good reason (usually), but this low quality and offers nothing of substance.
>>>.The iPad pro keyboard cover is a great example of how out of touch apple is.

FTFY. The first time a colleague requested an iPad pro with a keyboard and got it, I was blown away by how much origami apple expects you to do to properly use it.
It's still supported by OpenBSD and QNX as well. It's actually not really dead and is moderately popular in embedded systems. Also, the patents are expiring and the http://j-core.org/ project is working on an open-source reimplementation (they've already done SH-2).
This is encouraging to read. Right now I'm at what feels like the nadir of a similar situation, and am trying to figure out the right steps forward.

I attended Caltech for CS, struggled with chronic late submissions, cratering self worth and other issues over about three years, took several short leaves ending with a medical leave and was diagnosed with ADHD. Got on medication, got a development job for about a year at UT Southwestern and enjoyed it immensely. Decided to come back and try again, but coming back to junior and senior level classes after a break was very hard, and even being back in the environment that I associated with such failure was hugely draining. I decided to withdraw indefinitely.

I'd already finished all but one or two of my CS requirements, most of the rest were going to be maybe 4-5 non-CS math/engineering/science classes, several humanities and a biology. About a year and a trimester's worth. As far as GPA, I left with about a 2.7.

I'm still not sure if that was the right decision. Part of me says I'm living in LA and I have a year of work on my resume, a bunch of knowledge from the tech CS program, a couple of mildly interesting personal projects on my GitHub, and I should be ok; I just need to put myself out there.

Another part of me says I'm a piece of shit that can't complete the only thing worth completing related to my career, I'm going to have to explain why I don't have a degree to everyone I ever interview with, and why would anyone ever pick me over a graduate.

All this made more painful by the fact that if I had graduated, the Caltech degree would have been an amazing asset - and if I had gone anywhere else (well, anywhere a bit less high powered) I believe I would have at least graduated, if not done very well. Source: the two sophomore CS classes I took at UT Arlington in half a summer and got A+s in both.

This thread is hard to read. Thanks for your story; I need to remember people like you exist while I'm job hunting.
But email chains are universally terrible. You also lose the ability to look at the context around the lines in the diff from the review itself.