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I only know what I see walking around the neighbourhoods I frequent: buildings (usually single-family dwellings, but sometimes low-rises) that have sat half-completed, with no active construction, for months or even years.

I’ve always assumed it was a result of either the development company or their general contractor going out of business / running out of budget before completion; and that, when construction resumes, it’s because the site has been liquidated and sold at auction to a new developer.

Other times, buildings (usually commercial) are left 90% finished for years at a time—clad and insulated, but not wired or finished inside. I assume this these buildings are actually as finished as they’re going to get, and are for sale, waiting for an initial owner to decide how they want to finish them (instead of having to rip out and redo the previous interior and exterior), and they just aren’t being publically advertised. They still look kind of like blighted abandoned buildings, though, and kind of destroy the character of a neighbourhood in a similar way to the half-built homes.
> To use it, you need a build system, and the language doesn't give you one; which is why there are many different systems, which you need to navigate somehow. Having to learn these build system (XML? custom Groovy implementation?) is what made me dislike Java

This sounds a bit out of date, as the vast majority of builds these days are Gradle, and those that aren't are probably 99% Maven.

However your point stands in that in both cases the build technologies are fairly arcane - few people who use them understand them well and they do form significant pain points whenever you need to go beyond the simple uses.
Is it unreasonable to think that some operations might be cheaper to compute by the converting the base and applying these types of tests?
Totally agreed. It is hard to explain to someone not from Zim just how things work in Zim. I tend to feel we are unique, not in the best possible way.
and the government collects that money? what do they do with it?
I know of Taleb, but haven't read him. I've read some of his essays, and he has good points to make. The name calling doesn't bother me (since he hasn't gored one of my sacred cows, not because I am especially enlightened)
Does anyone know why they used a dragster? Maybe cheaper to modify it to run for 5 miles than buying a sports car that can hit 180mph?
> It is well known that cults use a low-protein diet for indoctrination.

Okay, but this reads as non-sequiter because a lack of meat in a diet does not mean that the diet is one with low-protein consumption. Certainly if one is determined to be protein deficient then cutting out some food that is high in protein would be beneficial for their goal, but that's like saying if you don't use git you are managing a project wrong and aren't using version control. If you didn't want to use version control, then that would mean you wouldn't use git, but not using git doesn't mean you don't use VC.
I have never seen someone at the mountain bike park without a helmet. That would be just insane. Also most of the people taking on the tough trails have full face helemets.
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That's a pointless, loaded question.

HR and legal depts that don't want their company to be sued for violating Title VII will make sure that they aren't recruiting only from Barnard, unless they're some bona fide exception (e.g. hiring models for women's clothing). This idea that they need to recruit from men's only career fairs is your own.
Probably need a clean slipstream.
Dvorak. Even after more than a decade, it's the only current OS I can think of that doesn't have a Dvorak option -- and the only Apple OS since the 1980's that didn't.

There are third-party keyboards, but none of them are good. That's not the third-party developers' fault: the iOS keyboard API is so wimpy, developers literally cannot make a keyboard that works like the default ones.

I don't want to hunt and peck, so on iOS I mostly use the Japanese "flick" keyboard, which is much more logical, but doesn't offer English autocompletion, so it's just bad in a different way.

I really don't know why iOS doesn't support Dvorak.
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In my case it's not that I've gained fear, it's that self-preservation is now worth more, mostly because I've spent so much time filling this brain with things. I'm legitimately worth more now than I was in my daredevil days, so I expend more effort protecting myself.
I assume this is something else than the "far" pointers from the 16-bit days - what is the new application of fat C pointers at MS?
Right, but the topic here was Reddit’s actions with regards to certain subreddits, and why they can’t simply purge everybody that people wish they would.

It was also on-topic regarding what I replied to, so it was more than a little surprising to see it detached as off-topic. And I find it intellectually gratifying to analyze group dynamics.

Either way, it’s your site, your rules. There are better things to discuss.
Interestingly, I just checked their update history for iOS, and it seems the last real update was almost a year ago, and it was mostly bug fixes or other non-descriptive updates since then.
Living in PDFs? You just described my life. Also have been looking for Evernote replacement for years.

I will actively keep an eye on this. Thank you
Exactly! People repeat what he said like they are "words of wisdom", people committed suicide under his watch. Guy did not pay child-support for his daughter.
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Almost never lost their cool. Always seemed to know the direction we needed to go.
He took blame for every bad thing that our team did. He gave credit to the individual team members for every good thing he did.

He understood that the success of his team was his success, and didn't need the praise.
He actually cared about making money. (I'm amazed at how many bosses care about everything except making money, even at hedge funds.) He gave me total autonomy to build whatever I wanted as long as I made money.
Letting me get on with my job, no micro-managing; trust really.

Knowing they had my back if the shit hit the fan.

I've only experienced this once unfortunately.
For the same reason I alt-tab out of a game to check something.
How much are you willing to pay for a domain?

I have tried GoDaddy Domain Broker service twice in the past
https://au.godaddy.com/domains/domain-broker

One was successful and went perfect; other was a waste of time
Cosine: The exact moment Jeff Bezos decided not to become a physicist
Misleading right off the bat. “Linear” and “parametric” are orthogonal concepts. A parametric model can be linear or non-linear (I.e you can fit the parameters of a model f(x) = A * sin(w*x)). A non-parametric model can also be a linear combination of examples, or not.
That would be Todd Reichert going 89.59mph.

http://www.ihpva.org/hpvarecl.htm#nom01
I used to go that fast downhill before I started riding a motorcycle.

On a motorcycle I wore full armor.

Then I realized I would cycle at similar speeds wearing lycra. I don't anymore.
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I am unable to contact owner because whois information is fake phone numbers and address; there is also no contact information on their website. This is for a .com
The company only has 1000 shares, but because the lender effectively has a share and may not even know it was lent, investors hold 1001 shares. If a dividend is paid, the company pays 1000 dividends, and investors receive 1001 dividends. If the company goes bust, all 1001 shares have lost their value. If there's a shareholder lawsuit with a payout, there will be 1001 claims , although the company will only be willing to pay 1000, which can be a big mess for a court to figure out -- see some earlier articles from the same author as this.

In your case, we've jointly made a wager. I wouldn't be an investor in Apple, like I would be if I held shares, and would still be, if my shares were lent out.
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It is nice to know when there are traffic incidents ahead and sometimes it'll route around it for you. I like knowing my ETA also
Funny startup idea: buy a bunch of real estate in those areas, then rent out capsule homes for a hundred bucks a month. Stuff them into these overpriced homes and take a bunch of cash-strapped renters away from those that are pushing the rent up.

You’ll lose money on upkeep and taxes probably, but its still a fun idea.
See also:

> Wow! Jeff is talking about me. Amazingly he remembers interacting with me 34 years ago. What a memory! Also no Amazon if it weren’t for this, since he decided not to pursue physics!

https://twitter.com/yasantha62/status/1042052665893511168
They fought for me salary wise, allowed me to grow and learn. Did their best to insulate each of us from outside pressures/scrutiny.
Not my direct manager, but someone i worked with.

He approached problems from different angles than most. He understood what our business is and didnt get lost in details that didnt matter. Thanks to his decisions, efficiency on things he was involved improved significantly.

More importantly, he managed chaos. And he embraced it. From technical pov, he saw experiments as an opportunity, and set a goal to team to run as many as they can fit into cookie mods. This allowed team to learn what works and what doesnt, and gave them immediate feedback. Almost everyone else sees it only as a way to be conservative (slow roll out that is safe), this guy saw it as an opportunity.

I guess tl;dr; sees the bigger picture and doesnt get lost in details, embraces enthropy and sees it as an opportunity.
That's a nice idea, yes. If the happiness on non-work days is getting increasingly bigger compared to work days, at some point you should receive a bleep with "hey take some vacation will you?"
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What? No. Hashing a string involves extra pointer chasing and looping over a variable-length data structure, and that's on top of the collision-chain resolution the hash table itself has to do. In performance-sensitive code (like a dynamic language interpreter), it's far better to intern your strings and look them up by ID (i.e., pointer value) directly.
Why hire local accounting firm for small business
Recently I have registered my business in Singapore. Finding a good accounting firm for you in Singapore is very tedious task specially when you are a startup or small business.

You can find lots of blog who listed top accounting firm but these are top rated accounting firms are either beyond your budget or wont dedicate enough time to correct mistakes in your bookkeeping which cause mismatch in actual budget I/O total.

So, I started looking for the firm which I can afford and dedicate enough time to rectify errors in my balance sheet and file XBRL, GST, etc for my Company.

I had shortlisted 8 accounting firms who are affordable and experienced professionals. And finalized SBS Consulting Pte Ltd
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On a side note, how likely is it to encounter a good supervisor in your career?
The front chain isn't moving any faster or enduring any more intense forces than a normal bicycle drivetrain, so it can be replaced by an off the shelf road bike gear set. With a 30-speed drivetrain this could provide a low gear that's about the same as the high gear on a road bike, so it would probably be possible to get moving from a standstill. In the highest gear, you'd be able to go at least 160mph pedaling at the same cadence that was used to set this record. And that's just with the off the shelf components. A custom set of gears could probably stretch out the ratios enough to provide a high gear that's equivalent to the record-setting configuration.
Actually just remembered I have used it 3 times, 2 times successfully 1 time unsuccessful
I’ve read both. Just wanted to explain how notifications work.
The devil probably has enough advocates at this point and doesn't need your contribution.

But in general, there are classes of ads that you just can't target based on certain classes, period. Even if you hypothetically might have the ability to target a counterbalancing ad somewhere else. Facebook repeatedly has been in hot water over this, and both they and the people using their ad platform to do this stuff need to get more than a slap on the wrist, in order to deter others from trying the same in the future.
I think my comment was around the wrong way, I meant that evernote was horrible on windows - so much so that I just switched back to onenote out of frustration.

I do miss the desktop version of onenote as that had a lot more features that I was hoping to find on the windows 10 app version.
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Lambda integration like DynamoDB stream + Lambda trigger?
Does partial on-premise count?

In my previous work, some of our clients wanted to self-host our saas service. We allowed this by migrating our infrastructure on top of kubernetes (previously it was tightly coupled with aws). For some technical reasons, some of the services were still hosted, i.e. even for customers that had on-premise deployment, we provided access to our saas mobile-application build-service.
And maintaing the balance at those speeds. I can hardly control mine at 50 kmph downhill
Well, the goal is that developers implement this in a way so that it makes sense why notifications are split up.
Good for you and good luck!

just curious which Asian country?
Createspace authors get a discount and can drop ship bulk orders anywhere. The bookstores just have to purchase through him.
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Wow. It takes more than engineers to run a company. Unlike a lot of the engineering squad, marketers come up with the copy, art, offers, banner ads, ux, reporting, email marketing and more that convince strangers to become users and users to become customers. How does an engineering team prioritize what to work on based on feedback from tens of millions of users across every country on the globe and most hardware/software platforms. Are engineers suppose to recruit, train, pay, and manage themselves? Are customers suppose to support themselves? Or is a script going to take care of that?

B2C companies are hard, partially because it takes lots of C's to make the B viable, and working with C's is expensive.
You are right. Maybe Edison would be a better example.
For an open-source Evernote alternative, feel free to check out Standard Notes. It’s a cross platform notes app with sync and e2e encryption:

https://standardnotes.org

It’s a project I’ve been working on for a couple years, and has made its rounds on HN in the past. Thought I’d share again for anyone seeking alternatives.
Does this mean that any company that targets an ad to men / women only on social media platforms can be sued for discrimination?
This is exactly how my first and only car accident happened. I was driving and the car in front on the next lane randomly stopped on the road. I couldn't see there was a cyclist on the other side of the car. The old lady went for it despite me not slowing down, so I hit the brakes and got smacked from behind by another car.
He tore down barriers and made sure interactions with other parts of the organization or external parties were as frictionless as possible. He would take any non-technical chores off our plate where possible. He would give clear and frequent feedback, good and bad, and really cared about where I wanted to go with my career and what kind of projects I wanted to work on. He trusted me when I said I would do something and would just make sure everything was out of my way until I asked for help or deadlines were being missed.

He was a shield for those of us who worked for him.
I saw this created in another thread and it seems to accurately sum up the comments here:
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Funny thing: it's not illegal to only hire men. Just like Hooter's would never hire a (male) waiter.
The take down on abstraction and software engineers (by using Java as an example) is similar to saying "back in the day to find a prime number we would simply use a sieve, but today it is a tedium, what with all the pi's and e's and thetas that get in the way, and what are geometry and polynomials doing here, and what in the god's name is this i, I just want to count the prime numbers which are nice round whole numbers".

That's what happens when a topic grows from being a curiosity where dilettantes dabble into a proper field that is applied to solve problems. Granted, some of the developments can indeed be tedious and self indulgent, but otherwise this is the natural progression. Its sad and frustrating when people who ought to know better make such statements. Is it done to provoke a critical analysis, positive trolling if you will?

About the role of data scientist, I find it both amusing and disappointing that just about anyone with a three week MOOC gets to work in this field, who otherwise had never dealt with statistics before. I mean, statistics is a three year long grueling applied maths degree, and condensing it to three weeks is silly. It is actually in this way that it is similar to progamming job of the 90s (I don't know how it was in the 70's, I wasn't born yet). Just about anyone who could learn Java or VisualBasic, or the self taught cowboys who used C, ended up programming professionally. Actually it was not that bad, for coding is not as hard as its made to be, but that until they got sucker punched by the n squared complexity, to say the least, on a big data. Coding couldn't help them and they realized programming was more than learning to code and using some API's and system calls. (I was one of them in a way, when I started to code in C++ to model and simulate my mechanical engineering project, and it lead me to the path of enlightenment.) So, today's data scientists who are not bonafide statistics graduates or statisticians have it coming as well, whatever the analogue is, unless they are merely "data monkeys" in which case all is well and as expected.
The promise of cargo libraries supporting various chips and hardware would be a fantastic boon. Likely it’d significantly reduce security bugs and speed up dev time. Currently I’ve started using forth as a wrapper over embedded C libs so, well, I don’t have to write C daily.
Hey haolez, glad to hear you like PostgREST :)(I'm the current maintainer).

If you manage to open source your project please stop by our docs repo, would be great to have a real world PostGIS project in our ecosystem list.
I completely agree that some people pursuing FIRE can be too fanatical about chasing the pot of goal and only waiting until old age to "enjoy". I kind of skirt in the middle (i'm more of a FatFIRE) and think of FIRE more as a North Star. :)

I should mention that I do live in an expensive part of the world (think SF but not SF) and the bank account was just the liquid assets bit of the portfolio. Been on the FIRE journey for 10 years now so I have some illiquid assets (properties, stocks, etc) but I tend to not think of touching it ever.
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Agree to disagree! Maybe no one will buy them because the business plan is crap!
You're right. It's much more complex. Comparing happiness levels between work and non-work days was one way of trying to answer it. This method is still distorted by a lot of things, like you mention. I'm open for any different methods! If you have any ideas, I'd love to know :)

It takes me about 3 minutes every day to track happiness, and the advantages go much further than just the collection of data. It's also a moment of self-reflection and meditation in a way. It puts my mind at rest.
This is a really unproductive class of response to criticism.

It's unreasonable and pointlessly limiting to restrict criticism to people who can potentially replicate the results. Also the ad hominem aspect really sours the mood.
> Accelerating a pedal-powered bike by 135kph / 83mph is a stunning accomplishment. I am flabbergasted that you don't see that as something notable.

I just don't know either way. I would imagine it comes down to how much time or distance she had to accomplish that acceleration.

Because without significant wind resistance, and with appropriate gearing ratios on the bike, honestly I just don't know what else would be physically demanding.
> 1.) 40-60 percent of a [US] company’s supply chain moves out of China

especially highlighting the part that I added: US company.

Does anybody think this is a bad thing for China? I'd argue that this is one of China's core interest. China is now becoming a major sales power itself. It's not recognized for that yet, but especially in the mobile market it's far ahead of he western competitors, maybe also in IoT.

Actually one of the core Problems China is facing is that it can't BUY the stuff it wants to buy for its own production, like chips.

And what it needs to worry about is that through all the complex entanglement at one or two points its public image of the new super power might slip. And this image is very much needed for it's plans in Belt&Road as well as in Africa. So most of its concerns are not related to the US market.
> And maintaing the balance at those speeds. I can hardly control mine at 50 kmph downhill

Wouldn't balance actually be easier, due to the gyroscopic effect of how fast the wheels would be turning?
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The dependency thing worries me to a fair degree. Amazon has (or at least had when I was there) a build tool fairly similar to cargo. Libraries and software was imported in to the underlying repositories with a version associated. You put that in your list of dependencies and voila when you built your code everything got neatly combined and compiled as needed.

One routine source of pain was when one of your upstream dependencies changed its dependencies. That would happen quite routinely. All was fine, unless you actually had two packages that had dependencies on different versions of a library.

You could work around it by pinning the version of the dependency, but of course that's risky. You don't know if you're exposing yourself to bugs, because you're making software run with a dependency version it hasn't been tested against.

Pretty much every build file I ever saw in Amazon had at least a half dozen or more dependencies pinned. Every now and then you'd find you were getting a new dependency conflict, and that things had become an impossible knot to untangle. All you could do is unpin _everything_ and then figure out all the version pins you needed again from scratch.

I swear I would lose at least one to two days a quarter doing that. The development focussed teams would spend way more than that on fixing conflicts.

I started out with Rust just last weekend. Put a couple of dependencies in the Cargo.toml library and got stunned when it pulled in over 400 dependencies, a number of which I'd expect to have seen in the stdlib, not left to the vagaries of random people's implementations.
Docusign has been allowed to be used a notary in Washington; or at least Seattle for notary requirements around housing documents.

(Seattle law requires notarization on leases over 12 months).

There's a PGP short ID listed on the e-signed document, but it's not yours. There is no point where Docusign checks your ID.
You’ll know it when you’re best buddies...and you wouldn’t genuinely mind knowing their family and hang out with them...mutual respect to start!
Thanks for clarifying. I agree with you.