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Great work on the gfx portability layer! I hope to be able to use it in the future, but for the time being I've abandoned gfx in favor of raw OpenGL calls in order to avoid the type complexity in gfx (I spent multiple hours trying to cram all of the gfx state into a struct, but could not figure out what to put as some of the type signatures... even with the compiler trying to help me). Hopefully the the low-level API, once stable, will give me the type simplicity I prefer.
This is all true, I sort of forget that I still have a sort of Azure Stockholm syndrome. I'd say it's good feedback but it's nothing Azure doesn't know about.

Maybe Azure Files performance has improved to the point where it's more usable for storage scenarios. I suppose it probably comes down to the use case and application behavior.

It would be good if Azure had someone testing out these scenarios and interfacing with the larger k8s community, maybe through the SIG, for these sorts of musings and questions.
I am collecting links to SCRUM-related criticism at https://againstscrum.tumblr.com/ Please contribute!
The 12 on a clock is a compromise to match between a 1-indexing oral culture and natural 0-indexing use case (which came from the Sumerians who had a better number system).

I don’t know the history of reported ages of Western babies.

> quite irritating really

Yes that is my point.
I already know about this but if you use someone else's code in a library for example in Julia the library will most likely only work with 1-indexed array, in Ada it will work with any base index.

Default matters!
Absolutely not. In case it's someone you don't know a colleague, you open a communication channel allowing them to switch to a different topic and indicating you are not currently busy or annoyed (in which case you would have added it to the "ca va" - "ca va, mais un peu presse/occupe en ce moment").

If it's someone you know well or who knows you, in the timings of responses and the expression of the face you are able to pick up how they're feeling, if something is going on in their lives or is bothering them.

It's much less scripted than the American "hi, how are you", which can only have one answer and always need to have the same expression.
Obviously I can't speak for all situations but often I'll ride towards the centre or vehicular edge of the path if there is a risk of pedestrian hazards, or parked cars on the other side. People jumping out in front of you or opening car doors is all to frequent, and almost impossible to avoid, particularly in areas where cycling is not so popular.
I dunno man... the reason why I could hike 20 hours straight today is because I run 6 days a week and now have the fitness level to do it. It's not because I ate bacon instead of toast.
Bland fruits and veggies are a result of agribusiness efforts to optimize for shelf life and visual appeal. One strategy to address this is to expand the types of fruits and veggies in your diet. Explore a local ethnic grocery to try a variety of flavors, aromas and textures. The complaint may change to sensory overload.
Nintendo's Offensive, Tragic, and Totally Legal Erasure of ROM Sites
On the contrary, Ubuntu 18.04 dropped the home directory encryption entirely and now only supports full disk encryption.
As a pedestrian, I am annoyed that after spending a lot of money to create nice fully separated bike paths near where I live, some of the lycra clad cyclists still insist on racing along the footpath.
You may have missed the part where I kept my mouth shut.

Portugal, ten years ago.

"Relativism" doesn't excuse their behavior. Smoking inside is disgusting and known to be mildly dangerous for fifty years.
Depending on the preferences Paris can be a pretty poor city or the best city in the world. I clearly fall into the first category. Living 'intramuros' is very expensive when adding the fact that salaries are not on part with major tech hubs. The city is dirty, very polluted (2nd worst area in Europe by air pollution after Moscow - don't have the reference link though), people are rude, and everything so cramped it makes you feel claustrophobic.
I'm talking about these two points from the paper, regarding the "Worse is Better" philosophy:

> Simplicity -- the design must be simple, both in implementation and interface. It is more important for the implementation to be simple than the interface. Simplicity is the most important consideration in a design.

> Correctness -- the design must be correct in all observable aspects. It is slightly better to be simple than correct.

Dropbox is simple in implementation, at the cost of simplicity in the interface and correctness. E.g. it is simpler to simply punt on locked files in Windows. Tell the user to quit Word if they want their file to sync, instead of handling file locking at the protocol level. Likewise, it's simpler to detect changed files after the fact than write a filesystem driver to knows what blocks are changed. But it degrades the user experience (their computer burns clock cycles re-figuring-out information a real filesystem driver would've had).

The upside of all that is that Dropbox was simple to implement, simple to port, and simple to deploy, which made it popular:

> Therefore, the worse-is-better software first will gain acceptance, second will condition its users to expect less, and third will be improved to a point that is almost the right thing.
People who freak out about the insecurity of voting machines worry about the first two kinds of issues becoming issues. That's different from ignoring fraud in inducing votes.
Yeah, I’ve seen that too. I’m more curious if anyone has done or is doing more principled research into the effect more bikes has had.
Ask HN: Dropping cofounder from an unincorporated startup, what are my options?
I'm working on a startup, for which I've written all the code and done majority of the work (I've put in more than 2 years fulltime). I was in an informal partnership with my non-technical cofounder (who has put in about 3 months fulltime) and for various reasons I've decided to drop my cofounder and pursue the startup on my own. So far I haven't incorporated the startup.

My goal is to provide closure for my cofounder and me, and avoid further legal ambiguity. My strategy is to incorporate an LLC and have an operating agreement, where my cofounder gets a minor % ownership (and walk away), while I get to run the startup on my own.

I have a couple questions:

1. Is my strategy sound or am I missing something?

2. To pursue this strategy, what are my options: Atlas, Legalzoom, hire a lawyer, etc? I haven't used any of these options before, please assume I know nothing.
It's really annoying that every discussion about global warming gets flagged immediately.
Expat who moved to Paris here.

The tech scene is definitely very active, lots of events and meetups to join and some very active companies with good products around as well as active VC's in the city. Add Station F and The Family and you got a nice place to start a company.

Salary wise, I guess you are looking at 40-70k range, depending on experience and role.

The part where Paris is not that great is moving into the city. Speaking from personal experience, my gf moved in with me and tried finding a job outside tech w/o speaking French and it's basically a nightmare, she moved back. Getting any paperwork done or renting an apartment in Paris is a nightmare as well.

So overall, Paris is nice, but you need to be French or speak French to enjoy it, otherwise it might take some time and in my opinion, it's the only thing that makes Paris fall short of being a good place to move to.
Good point.

I worked one summer at a five-star hotel in a ski town in the rockies. At various times and for various clients (typically on short notice) we (1) hosted a banquet for a former U.S. president that involved locking down the hotel with the secret service, (2) drove 2 of the hotel's SUVs 100+ miles round trip to buy dozens upon dozens of suitcases for a member of the Saudi royal family, (3) turned a conference room into a fiber connected operations center for a team of high-frequency traders that was visiting from NYC for two weeks.

I am certain that the hotel manager would have told all of these guests that we would absolutely find a way to handle their requests, no problem. And we did. That is part of the reason they were at that particular hotel in the first place.
That would be very much not free
>Signal is better because people who knows their shit has vetted the design

So basically, argument from authority. No Good.
In theory yes, but I don't think the team would appreciate any old random schmuck to change their product's look-and-feel :)
Black Hat 2018: Satellites can be turned into microwave weapons
Its too bad there isn't a standard for Dropbox-like functionally yet. An RFC that everyone can write to.
I agree, subprocess is a pain in the ass. But there are other ways at invoking things, like with grave quotes.

Personally I think control structures in bash are too convoluted and easy to get lost in.

Also if you are running long-lived high-output processes and you want your program to be interactive, then of course you have to do multithreading shenanigans. At that point you're going to need a proper event queue or something at the very least. The first use case I can think of (logging dmesg -w) would definitely not work using a naive approach
Plivo High Level Objects
> There is obviously a time aspect

You're not comparing the cost of balanced vs. junk foods here, but rather the cost of eating out vs. home cooking (paying for someone else to cook your food).

You can make junk food at home quite easily for even less money. Consider for instance baking a cake, from cheap ingredients like oil, sugar and flour. Ingredients like potatoes and vegetable oil are literally cheap as chips.
Portugal, ten years ago. Germany at least it was a cafe, but wintertime and all the windows closed.
I use Google drive, but the Linux support was awful and I started using insync. It's about $25 for a lifetime license and I love it. I run Ubuntu with encrypted home and have for years. It works great and I highly recommend it, and I don't work there, just a happy user. The Nautilus integration is decent too.
please give me one example of a major city where renting an apartment as a foreigner is not a nightmare lol.. in USA you need a credit score....
I'm still holding out hope that these multiphoton singlet fission systems are made to work.
It renders most major websites fine, it's similar to WebKit with a few rendering quirks. Here are a few screenshots:

- https://ultralig.ht/screen1.png

- https://ultralig.ht/screen2.png

- https://ultralig.ht/screen3.png

And yes, the renderer is completely new, this project has been in development for 4+ years.
This is a great example of capitalism working properly:

Intel has been 'phoning it in' for nearly a decade now, because their products had a significant lead over AMD, particularly in performance-per-watt.

Now AMD has taken the lead, and it's going to take years for Intel to catch up. (Because CPU innovation moves at a glacial pace.)

The winners are the consumers.
My next build probably will be Ryzen based, but... my i7-3770 is still handling all I throw at it.
To me, it's more like Facebook (and Twitter, and Apple, etc.) are more like "TV channels" and these posts are sort of like their "shows". Just like advocacy groups used to put pressure on advertisers to have "objectionable" shows taken off the air, advocacy groups here are pushing to get "objectionable" posts removed from specific web sites. So, like an old TV station, the web sites have to decide if the revenue that the posts are bringing in offsets the potential loss of revenue associated with being seen to condone the content. I'm a lot more concerned when they talk about removing "objectionable" content from the internet completely (which includes trying to force Google to censor search results).
OpenGL is pretty bad, but it's not clear to me that Vulkan is really any better. Importantly, though, it gives more control and so makes it possible to build a good API on top.
I believe they were unhelpfully commenting on your grammar.

They read "2 to 3 times less" as "-200% to -300%" instead of "33%-50%".
Well, the US was trying to embargo oil sales from Saddam-era Iraq, was it not?
I've enjoyed cleaning chores a lot more after mentally declaring them to be exercise.
Perl sits in a happy medium between bash and full-on programming. Yes bash makes piping really easy but IMO that is about it for advantages.
http://www.textfiles.com
This just reminded me of this site.
The site is quite old now, but it used to be a great source of information.
>If we truly have a marketplace of ideas then shitty ideas should be able to fail in the market.

This implies that the marketplace of ideas optimizes for truth, which may not be the case.

>Why must we enforce that it continues to see the light of day forever?

Either it lives in the shadows forever, or the light of day forever, but it never goes away. With each succeeding generation as history becomes more abstract, denialism and revisionism becomes easier to justify and accept.

After all, why are there more people who believe the Moon landing was a hoax, now, than believed it when the event was recent, living memory? Because it's no more real to modern people than fiction.

The same effect applies to the Holocaust. History becomes myth, myth becomes farce. We forget the lessons of the past and we're doomed to repeat them. The only thing the suppression of shitty ideas does is make the wheel turn faster.
Apple hints at plan to build a car as it rehires ex-Tesla engineering head
Thanks! (If you ever see them in a super pale pink shirt, check if they believe it's white and may've been ruined in the laundry. Been there, done that)
That's never the goal with securing a system, though. The goal is to mitigate risk to a level acceptable to the various stakeholders involved based on what said stakeholders value.
I have to agree. I’ve been able to keep my gym attendance regular by starting pretty slow and gradually building up to more intense workouts.

I honestly have done this for the endorphine boost, but overall I’ve lost just under 11kg in about 10 months and I’ve really started to notice my belly go down, and I can actually see muscle building now... which I’ll be honest and say surprised me (why I have no idea). This is great, but I did exercise to deal with some pretty appalling trauma I experienced - everything else is nice but for me, not essential.
> tools such as Mixpanel, Google Analytics, etc.

This is exactly the reason I use an adblocker - Google Analytics isn't a "tool," it is literal spyware.
I used to use ownCloud. Just curious - why is it not in your list of alternatives? Did the project die?
Yeah, I'm in the same boat as you, however I want to add a second graphics card since my monitor is 4k and my motherboard only has one full speed PCI express slot.

The only thing keeping me from pulling the trigger is the obscene memory pricing right now.
For everyone who's saying "if you need to write a real program, don't use Bash", you're not really addressing the issue. This is clearly an attempt to make a real language out of what you have in Bash. Repeating platitudes about real languages doesn't help. The question is, how well does this framework achieve that?

That said...I have my doubts: https://github.com/niieani/bash-oo-framework/issues/17
A Nuanced Take on Preventing Burnout
Support is where customers can get answers or really at-least a response from the company.

General populace is not Google's "customers" (in traditional senses - they're not the source of income stream) and it shows in how Google has setup their customer support structure.
> Explore a local ethnic grocery to try a variety of flavors, aromas and textures.

That won't scale.

I have a fine strategy for eating proper food: not leaving in the US.
Buying some amount of each stock once a year is probably not how you're going to be doing things if, for example, you want to keep your portfolio balanced to match your desired asset allocation. You'll probably need to make more trades than this.

You're also more vulnerable to losing a bit of money to the bid-ask spread than Vanguard or Fidelity are.
what is the verdict? i been just scrolling down to see which is best and cant find any.
> You do seem to agree that the severity & background behind offensiveness is complex and subjective. Banning is binary, and so it never maps fully accurately to such complexity, especially when similarly complex/subjective humans and weak AI systems are involved.

I do agree with that. It’s not so much a commentary on my part about banning, but moreso about how the service is being presented given that sentence and the context around it.

People shouldn’t be banned for absolutely any reason, but that doesn’t mean banning shouldn’t ever happen because “people will always find something offensive” (which is what seems to be implied by that particular footnote - though I could be wrong). The total relativism about speech and offensiveness is the thing with which I take issue.
Thanks for the tip, will update the language to clarify.
I had a career writing perl code for a few years too.

Believe it or not I also like shell for small tasks.

AWK was super powerful but I never had much use for it (preferred sed when I absolutely needed that kind of fuckery).
Man, I should really try to get that 13k € raise out of my employer! Just to point that average does not mean that every tech worker get that. And I'd bet that in Paris 56K$ is either very senior pay grade or management.

You can also add, among the benefits, the good network of public transport (even if some lines are overloaded).
Security expert says Apple should pay $2.5M to charity for his iOS bug reports
Agreed. But I'll take Paris over the valley any day.
#2, of course. Capitalism.

You want to bring the research to market, not help the mentally ill. You goal is profit.

For the 20 I have been “cared for” by people like you it took my own ingenuity and relentless pressure on a psychiatric system that thinks there is never a nutritional cause to mood disorders to have them test me for a biotinidase deficiency which turned up positive. My mood issues were cured by 15 grams of biotin a day.

Researched and doctors like you were so certain what caused my depression and anxiety you filled me with pills that rarely worked and diabled me with side effects. It took 15 years to even test me for a B12 or iron deficiency.

So sorry, but your study does not help the mentally ill. Maybe it helps people who are stressed from the everclenching fist of capitalism, but that’s about it.
Does it? It seems very experimental now. They even had to do work _just_ to get DOTA2 running

> The initial results were… slightly discouraging. For a while we weren’t able to get the game to start, due to our Metal backend was missing some required features, like compressed texture support
People think their passwords are too awesome for 2FA
Thanks! I had known (but forgotten) about the Cognitect one, but defn is new to me.

I also came across (not a Lisp-devoted series admittedly) but an episode of another podcast which focusses on Racket [https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2015/11/04/racket-with-...].

I haven't found any podcast series devoted to (Common) Lisp or Scheme so far though.
Well I for one will be taking the $0 per month that I spend on their free tier elsewhere
The original ML language (the one produced as part of the LCF theorem prover), did have a `where` clause that works like the one in Haskell. See here for example: https://github.com/theoremprover-museum/LCF77/blob/master/sr...

A brief skim over the revised definition of Standard ML indicates that it was abandoned at some point. I've no idea if Caml or OCaml kept it.

That said, I'm reasonably sure that the syntactic construct (insofar is it is used in programming languages) originated with the ISWIM introduced in this paper, which was rather influential in its day, perhaps especially in the functional programming community.
Wow, I misread the OPs comment as the LHC also and thought I was experiencing the mandela effect haha.
And there’s always rclone. Combine that with whatever encryption you want and you’re set.
In fairness its a different coloured bit with a giant bike on it. All behind a solid white line.
You apply to any american job like you are next to them. And once they get interested, you negociate.

You will have a way higher fail rate than usual. But they really, really need good devs, and they are getting more rare and expensive, so some agree.
> Is it really impossible though?

Yes, it really is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI
Yes, similarly, I was alarmed to read that qanon type groups gain traction on subreddits like /r/conspiracy. We have a chat channel at work where people post links from that subreddit and joke about it. It’s discomforting to realize we’ve been participating in misleading people by adding to view and subscriber counts.
Sadly the cost of making phone calls internationally or even locally isn't free. Our prices are amongst the lowest. We want to drive them down far lower once we hit volume and scale for market share rather than profit.

For example our biggest competitor in the UK charges 5.8p/min just for UK landlines. A call using your example of 9 participants for one hour would cost a whopping £31.32 and that assumes all UK participants. It would cost far north of that if the participants were US and India based.

Feel free to give us a spin - there's no credit card required or any kind of hard sell tactics - we even made it easy to delete your account too once you've used up your introductory credit :) We launched a few months ago and getting useful criticism at this early stage is invaluable.
No, he is saying that if you make 120k USD in SF, you can have the same quality of life with 60k euros in Paris, not that 120k$ == 60k euros.
Keyword for me is portable. The reason I (and I assume most people) use bash is that it's ubiquitous. This framework wouldn't be. Not that it's not impressive and looks fun to try out. But I can't see a lot of use for it in practical terms.
See original message from Dropbox support: https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Syncing-and-uploads/Linux-Dr...
"Illegal" is regime-specific. Discussing private property or opposing the dictator/emperor/king/president/pope in some countries has been punishable by death over the years.

"Deemed offensive" by the service gets us back to exactly the same situation with the major social platforms now, so it's legitimate concern.
Well, you'll need a bigger house to fit your bigger children.

Snark aside, I think that if more of the societal costs of owning a bigger house were priced in to having a bigger house, fewere people would want bigger houses. There's no reason we HAVE to live in a society fueled by consumerist real estate envy.

EDIT: Forgot a word
Technically possible, politically impossible in large part because there are just too many local jurisdictions with final say over the selection of vendors and their ballot machinery.
Plankalkül is what you get when you ask a mathematician to design a programming language for a system that won't exist for decades. In particular it wasn't hampered by the need to imput data via a typewriter-like device.
I deliberately delayed building my current desktop PC until Zen CPUs became available because I wanted to see if it was a reasonable alternative to Intel. And it was totally worth it. I got me a Ryzen 1700, so I have 8 cores, but at 65W it is not excessively energy-hungry. It purrs like a kitten and runs like cheetah.
This type of snarky dismissal gets pretty old.