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Startup success story of LeoTechnosoft
Playing the Trump to save retail Franchise

Scott started his first business venture at a very early stage with a readymade fashion store. His unique business model allowed him to open up a store at almost zero cost. He got introduced with the new brand franchise model which exposed him to the nitty-gritty’s of brand retailing and the franchisee business challenges. With the advent of online trading platforms the franchisee business were been hit by declining sales.

Scott quickly learned that the franchisee businesses need a comprehensive solution to enhance the business opportunities. He realized that a franchise store can be profitable if they generate revenue and cut down their losses by disposing the dead-stock.

Scott’s Idea to aggregate dead stock of franchisees and selling it through an e-comm platform revolutionized the retail business. For technical expertise, Scott partnered with Leo TechnoSoft to designing and developing an e-commerce platform with the automated processes for catalogue management, tax calculation, Purchase order Management, invoicing, labeling, dispatch etc…. The e-comm platform opened up new opportunities from global venues for franchise owners and a new revenue generation source. The platform did wonders for franchisee owners and infused new hopes.

It is again a success for the BOMT model, a hybrid partner product development model.
Email is a plaintext protocol, so having a number in an email really just means that you saw the email, not that you know Peggy's password.
BlackFly is latest attempt at flying car
I wonder what the cost is. If producing a protein that protects against these things was without a downside, it seems likely many species would have selected for it. I feel there must be a downside to it that selects against it in most organisms.
Most of the comments in your history are Google related, or anti-apple
I can think of a semi-decent way of addressing this. Start issuing a Letter of Marque to anyone that wants to patrol and challenge pirates annnnd just happen to throw in a line or two about whaler vessels.

I bet after a few international news stories about some whalers being shredded by 120mm guns the crews would start thinking up other ideas for income.
The open-plan office is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea
This is a good advice and all three points are spot on (on time deliveries are unusual; management likely knows you are late; messengers often get shot).

You do need to figure out for yourself a realistic, pretty safe time when you will be ready: an extra month? three months? never? You say the work is outside your team's comfort zone. This is potentially a much bigger red flag than being late. Will the team learn and deliver, or it just cannot execute at the speed requirements are changing or will soon be? Be brutally honest with yourself.

If you think you can safely deliver the product in, say, three extra months, then keep working but be ready with good estimates when the time comes to redo the schedule. When that discussion comes (usually suddenly), having a clear plan and realistic estimates that you can confidently present will likely give you (most of) what you ask for. IME really bad options are either agreeing to fix everything in a week (if you know it will take three months) or not having an estimate at all "we are burning midnight oil and I cannot tell you when we will be done". Either could lead to quick problems.

IME when "what do we do with this crap" time comes, senior management does not care why you are late (everyone is at least some of the time). They want to know if you have a plan and look ready to execute it. Just my 2c. Good luck!
Every time I see this, I wonder if these were just people who, for whatever reason, wanted to have fun / had enough of their daily life and protested that way. Considering that people joined in sometimes when they saw the "dancing plague", it doesn't seem like a weird mental issue.

On one hand side it's interesting that there are multiple records of this happening, but on the other these seem to come from "official sources". Which reminds me of an evening when we were dancing with friends at night (with candles around) to some quiet music in a city centre. Some police guy passed by after a while to check on a report of "Satanist dancing" (?) happening nearby. (Multiple tall, residential buildings had a good view on us) Of course that only led to us moving to a nearby park and making sure the candles form a pentagram this time - and dancing until early morning.

I can only imagine how would that night be described by random people - and how it could be misunderstood without context by anyone reading it hundreds of years later.

Also in 1930s, some people joined dance marathons which were pretty much an organised dancing plague with prizes: http://www.messynessychic.com/2017/08/29/the-depraved-dance-...
Knowing what the system should do, in sufficient detail that there is nothing of significance to be discovered with regard to its requirements, while simultaneously not actually knowing enough about how it works to the point where you could plan how to refactor it, is quite a corner case in the field of legacy systems (the latter is quite commonplace, but the former is almost unheard of.)
Well there is only one way a modernization project could have gotten into that position; You were doing a rewrite.

A modernization project is only a modernization project if it is incremental by design and you have frequent releases (minimally monthly).

Throw out the flag onto the field and get the train stopped before you end up causing the entire group to be fired.
Apple Refreshes MacBook Pro with new keyboard, 32GB RAM and 6 core CPUs
The Sheer Joy of (Python) Packaging
Will the Model 3 make Tesla a real car company?
Of the people who aren't just straight up trolling, I think a large percent just like to be "controversial" and hold contrarian views that might blow somebody's mind. The Flat Earth nonsense is a pretty low stakes one for most people. It's really stupid but it's not inherently offensive apart from the stupidity. It's not racist or xenophobic or anything. I think that's why it's gained so much traction.

Frankly the best way to have it fade away is stop giving them attention, 'coz both the trolls and the contrarians want attention.
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Exactly. Managers manage many things, including expectations. Make sure your manager and you are on the same page about schedules. Then let her do her job while you do yours.

If your manager decides to blame you, rather than defend you and your team, it's resume time.
Using Aldi as inspiration for a tech product
N.Y. Is Hosting the Last Electric-Car Race of Its Kind
> we are the only ones on the planet who can't live in harmony with other species.

That's not true. Every species can't live in harmony with other species. Go read about what happened to native species on pacific islands when rats, cats, snakes, etc were introduced. They wiped out entire ecosystems of islands.

https://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2016/0725/How-New-Zeal...

https://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2016/0725/How-New-Zeal...

Go read about ants.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3352483/

They won't live in harmony with each other. A single ant colony has wiped out much of the world's ant population.

Even fish like the european carp in a span of a few hundred years wiped out much of other fish in the US and now dominate pretty much every lake and river in a continent.

> If you ever had a cat and really observed it and communicated with it, you know it has feelings and emotions. Birds have it also, so does pigs, horses... But we just ignore all that when it's convenient for us to eat them.

Cats, birds, pigs and even horses eat other animals. As a matter of facts, cats are devastating ecosystems around the world and causing many birds and mammals to go extincts.

https://abcbirds.org/program/cats-indoors/cats-and-birds/

https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms2380

> I'm not a big fan of humanity. We are pretty awful.

You are the one putting humans on a pedestal. Humans are animals just like cats, horses, etc. We are no more awful than any other animals.

Actually, you could argue humans are less awful than other animals because we actually consciously decided to save some species. A cat or a wolf or a pig would never do that. They will consume/kill until there isn't an animal left.
Yeah, such nuance. Implying that I hold Musk as a "messiah" because I'm defending a backup plan that Musk was asked to continue working on, against people that apparently knew in their heart it was 100% doomed to failure from the start and instead like to shit on people because they tweet about what they're doing or some shit.

Musk should have known how this would play out, but I don't think he's self-aware enough for that.

I'm certainly happy they had no use for the sub, because it would have meant the situation had worsened and they had to change the plan, some kid being incapacitated or whatever.
If it was too narrow after all, they would have had to keep widening the cave, which they had done in places.
Apple Launched New MacBook Pro Generation with 8th Generation Intel CPU
The "liquidity requirements" you refer to are the fraction in "fractional-reserve." If I deposit $1, and then the bank's capital requirements are 75%, and they lend out $0.75, the total amount of money is now $1.75. This is what people are referring to when they say banks create money.
Phew! I guess RAID-6 is good.

Probably not.
Facebook ruling: German court grants parents rights to dead daughter's account
Your nature is to trust the consensus, whereas flat-eathers' nature is to distrust it.

Overall I'd expect this to lead to you having more accurate beliefs than them, since even though the consensus is sometimes wrong it's usually right.
You do not understand correctly. r vs. g has little to do with the return of debt vs. the return of certain classes of securities (since neither is pegged to economic growth). Rather, the return on deposits and the return on stocks are both part of a composite (r) that is meant to be greater than g.
Not GP, but "esoteric" might be a less useful term than "not a great idea". I agree with what you've posted elsewhere with "knowing what you don't know" in order to check your assumptions, but that's very different than knowing the exact answers to factoids which--while useful to know about--may not be feasible to memorize in their entirety. That doesn't mean they're esoteric, just that there are a lot of them.

For example, if a candidate responded to a question like those you ask with "My hunch is that they would evaluate to $answer, but I'm not 100% sure of that: I can never remember the whole JS boolean-equivalence table, so I'd look that up to be sure. May I do so now? Also, if faced with that situation at work, I would, within reason and with testing, try to remove code that relies on rules like that--which I recognize are common, but still consider a very high-risk bug surface--in the area in which I was making changes", would you consider that an unqualified candidate? Or someone with perspective?
We cache the hell out of our WP marketing site. Cloudfront > Varnish > Apache > OPCache > MySQL Query Cache. It feels fast to visitors. People in the admin area still suffer.
Yeah, but compiling is complex. EPEL is just one command away: yum install epel-release
How to decide what product to build
Would Firefox "containers" solve this problem?
Bare in mind that tardigrades are known for being found everywhere, including extreme environments, and therefore there would be a selective advantage in being resilient to many forms of damage such as heat, cold and radiation. Most species stick to a particular niche and therefore mitigate the need to select for such resistance genes.
It usually works better for me to work alone in a conference room, and I can see the people around me walking around so I don't feel like nuts, and yet I can focus on what I was working on.
> Well, your cat will also likely be very cruel if it ever caches a mouse or a bird

I'm no expert but I vaguely recall hearing from non-trivial sources that this is a common but inaccurate misrepresentation as regards their "intent".
They are not "toying" with their hunting target so much as obeying a powerful instinct to be careful to kill it with the minimum risk of infection from getting even a small scratch in return from a target that is "playing dead" as a defense/evade tactic.
GTK+ 4.0 Likely Being Released in Spring of 2019 – Phoronix
Yes. You can use replace() instead of push().

But there are other issues like bookmarking or sharing the page with the menu open. People won't expect the result.

It's really not difficult to create an on-page menu so this seems more trouble than it's worth.
Did you read the blog post at all? It's a little bit ridiculous how many of the things you mention here were also mentioned there.

You:
> I believe that Hugo (and others) take Markdown in precisely their expected format, and layout, with their format of header and, with precisely the correct version of config file and template.. turn it into some really nice looking HTML. Fast.

The post:
> Currently, in addition to Hugo’s list pages, every URL must be backed by a content file (Markdown, HTML etc.). This covers most use cases, but we need a flexible way to generate pages from other data sources. Think product catalogues and similar.

You:
> I guess - even after 5 years they aren't attempting to call it 1.0 at least. Maybe the other things will get fixed before then.

The post:
> Hugo has stuck with the sub-zero versions to signal active development ... But we are closing in on the first major stable version.

You:
> Now.. a week later... new minor release time. Does the new release work with your existing config? With your existing theme?

The post:
> with a new main release every 5-6 weeks. But we take stability very seriously (breaking things add lots of support work, we don’t like that) and most site upgrades are smooth.

Words in a blog post are easy to write, the proof is in the actual use of the software. But equally, to me this post strikes a positive tone about the future of Hugo as more than just a tool that helps you ditch WordPress. A lot of that work will have already started and I'm sure they would welcome your contributions, large or small.
This contradicts the advice others are giving but in my experience here's what has worked for me.
* Communicate early
* Document the warning signals - have an email thread - this is critical in saving you later
* You will be asked to hustle, have explanations for why hustling won't help reach the deadline
* Have clear reasons why the delay is caused - why wasn't the skill gap known earlier?

Be ready to lose some weekends and burn additional hours - but people will appreciate your being on top of things.

People shoot the messenger - when the messenger is too late in delivering the warning when the rest of the business can't do anything to fix it. Even if management is anticipating delays - it will still look good on you that you are able to foresee problems, and your foresight will be rewarded later on.

People don't like hearing bad news - but if the bad news is delivered early and documented in such a way that it makes them responsible for not acting on warnings, they tend to work on it positively.

If you do the above and still get shot as the carrier of bad news - the work culture is toxic you are better off working elsewhere.
It’s fine, especially with solid state drives.
The 3 Most Important Slides in Your Pitch Deck
His argument is against rewriting a whole codebase. Refactoring is surely an alternative.
>It's like the flip-side of foobar...

I suspect they meant FizzBuzz, but am not sure.

> If you consider those questions "gotchas" or "obscure language features" you don't stand a chance of working with those lead developers. Their process is designed to weed people like you out.

> I think, for the book I'm writing, I can build an entire chapter around this subthread. Can I quote you by name, mattmanser?

I recognize that this may not be how you meant it, but that comes off as condescending and rude. Please be polite--for our sakes on HN, and in order to attract good interview candidates! I and many of my colleagues have left offers on the table before, even without other open offers, due to impressions of similar (much worse, but on the same axis) condescension and hostility during interviews.
The difference is that even though I didn’t study bird species on the galapagos I did have the high level concept of evolution explained to me. Pieces of evidence were presented and it made a pretty cohesive narrative in my mind and it is the scientific consensus of experts in the field. No aspect if flatearth theory hits this for me. Its not scientifically accepted, doesn’t make sense to me at all and there seems to be no evidence; flatearthers just reject all evidence presented
There is no need in ad network at all.
If you bury it as others suggest, you will lose credibility as a leader even if you have covered yourself. There is no good answer to “Why are we finding out about a 3 month slip the Friday before deployment? If we are 3 months behind shouldn’t we have more than a day of notice?” Execs hate surprises and engineers hate bosses who don’t tell the truth.

The key to surviving this is:

1) Informally let everyone who may look bad know the truth.

2) Gather data. (No metric is perfect but this takes it away from being about people)

3) When it comes time to present formally, list what you are doing about it and what everyone else needs to do. It should be worded as, “To hit this date, we need Jane QA to do X, Joe PM to pick the two most important features, bla bla...”

4) Document #3 in a plain-English follow-up email. List names not orgs.

5) Send weekly updates to number 4 in writing.

If people don’t give you the help you need, you’ve done your part. They also won’t be surprised.

In all of this, be specific, factual and unemotional.
If you fix the keyboard, I'll buy a new MBP. If you don't fix it, I won't. I have zero interest in any other changes.
How amusing. I wonder if the original founders have the same objections to modern implementations of RAID-6 and such.

Disk storage had gotten cheap enough, fast enough, for RAID-1 to be sufficient for my organization's storage needs. We've briefly flirted with RAID-5, but it proved troublesome.
Apple MacBook Pro Updated: Max 32 GB RAM, Third-Generation Keyboard, True Tone
My guess would be: banning of namespaces and templates greatly simplifies name resolution and so on.
For instance, look at https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/lookup
and then remove namepsaces and templates from the picture.

Or maybe they just wanted developers to be "less creative".

-ss
Yet more pointless anti-tech drivel. I wish HN had a downvote option for articles (though I know some use the flagging feature for that). The cycle: news domain hosts newsless anti-tech article, people here and elsewhere say "yeah!", site gets clicks, narrative steered as intended, repeat tomorrow. We get it, many here and mass media are against big tech, can we just wait for news or at least unique perspectives before upvoting?
That's what I would imagine. Doesn't seem to be a good investment to build their own tech unless it's research focused.
> Originally Amazon was simply an online bookstore.

If you followed Amazon history you can clearly see diversification was at their core. Amazon was founded in 1994 and they started to acquire other companies sooner than later [1]. For example, IMDB (movies, not books) was acquired in 1998.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...
Thanks; I know how to make these rules and I have a few, but there's a lot of them (lots of medium domains, and lots of non-medium ones that also deserve the same treatment (de-dickbar-ification), both of them constantly changing) so I'm looking for something assembled & maintained by a community.

I'll get in touch with EasyList folks (there's already a CookieMonster list to get rid of EU cookie clutter, an Unobstruct one would be similar or both could be merged) and the author of Unobstruct.
GDPR and third party risk
> Self loathing of the human race needs to stop

Why, because you said so? I'm not convinced.

> here are an incredible number of hard working people making the world a better place one step at a time.

There are also an incredible number of people making the world a worse place.

> If you don't like what we are doing, work to improve things.

I've always hated this retort. It completely ignores the systematic disenfranchisment of the people, the takeover of the political system by cronies and corporations, and increasing lack of financial and political power in the middle class, declining wage growth, rampant corruption, rampant incompetence, rampant apathy and maliciousness... just to start.

> Are you aware how many countless people have and do work to improve your quality of life, protect you,

I was one of those people who thought he was "protecting" when he signed up for the military. First of all, you need protecting from... thats right... bad guys! Second of all, the bad guys we were "protecting" you from ended up not nearly as dangerous to freedom and liberty as the people in suits back CONUS who were ripping the constitution apart.

Look, I get it. It's nice to be positive and focus on the positive things, but I feel like way too many first world people are stuck in this bubble where all the shitty things in the world are abstract "someone elses problem" things you only see on tv. I agree we need citizens to participate more (Solon made it illegal for citizens to shrink from political debate to decrease apathy for example), and we need to try to focus on and improve the positive.

That said, some of us have seen the darkside of humanity, and I don't think you ever truly come back from that to start thinking all hunkey dorey about life. I've seen so much death and destruction I know better.

Stay positive and change things, I like it. The reason I went on this long rant though is I think this wishful thinking type on either end of the spectrum is counterproductive to the very issue you are bringing up.

In essence, your statement is like religion to me. "It doesn't matter if it's not true, believing it can make you feel better!"... I don't think we can fix the problems until we have a frank and honest discussion about what those problems are and potential solutions, not just burying our head in the sand and saying "everything is great!" while a family of Yemeni's just got blown up because Saudi Arabia is our friend and we want oil. (for example)
Or worse, an executive misses getting some of their bonus...

NB Based on one fairly large project I was involved in for a large company where there was a huge drive to get the system delivered on time then.... nothing. Nobody used it for months.

Eventually we found out about the real reason.