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>Without those beliefs, we've got some much harder questions to answer. Personally, I think precosity can be cultivated and refined into something great

Very much so, and sometimes ascribing genius is just shorthand for "I don't plan to try".

More insidious is "talent", also held to be an intrinsic quality. But it turns out that "talent" is a trap for those who are talented.

Talent is a trap: I came across this when watching a digital painting video, the host was relating how some of the people in art school were obviously talented and some were just slugging it out like he was. He noticed over time that the talented ones were more likely to give up at some point, and the sloggers were more likely to keep going and become successful making art a profession.

The problem is that the talented are characterized by things seeming to come easily, but it's not an infinite ability and sooner or later they come up against some technique or assignment that is a problem and that will take real patience and work to get through. That comes as a real shock that can shake your confidence in your "talent", which was an illusion anyway.

The sloggers have the advantage of always having to work hard to make progress, so everything is a struggle and the only surprises are when something goes easily. Those kind of expectations set you up better for success in a profession, which is just hard work in the end.
When I was in my early twenties, hungry and looking to prove myself, it was fun for me to stay up all night programming, put in wild hours to get stuff done, lose myself in overly ambitious projects etc. At some point I realized I kept hitting a wall (which was just actually me burning out, but I didn't recognize it at the time) and finding it basically impossible to care or get even the simplest things done for weeks at a time.

My overall productivity was extremely bursty then–herculean efforts followed by barely anything at all. Now, years later, I'm much more defensive of my time, it's far easier to maintain a consistent flow of good work, and I no longer wake up in the middle of the night having had a bad dream about my code crashing.
I read an interesting book (somewhere in my library if you're interested) that took a different view on work ; one of the preliminary discussions was about the famed ethymology of the word "travail". The author made it go back to the immobilization of a horse in a cage when changing its horseshoes, or the immobilization of a woman in her "travail" of giving birth. It's the fact that we are taken by a task, preventing us to do anything else on a whim. In that much more neutral sense, you can view work as anything you choose to be busy with.
"I'm curious, do you think the whole idea of a market-based solution is bad, or do you just think that actual real-world implementations have been lacking so far?'

My theory is that the people push for market based solutions the most are usually the same people that are against regulations and taxes so whatever they come up with will usually be very weak. They certainly won't support taxation of carbon emissions to the degree that's necessary for real behavior.
Be nice. Work hard.
The US Dollar reserve currency/petro dollar is the biggest weapon in the US arsenal, and the US has by far the largest army on the planet to enforce with
https://www.amazon.com/New-Confessions-Economic-Hit-Man/dp/1...
The thing you know will always seem simpler than the thing you don't, but I think it's simply a convention versus configuration argument and where you want the abstactions.

Personally, I've used both, but many of the traditional stacks are manually configured blobs with abstactions in the wrong place and I'm happy that your average sysadmin no longer needs to build these.
The expansion of space is always faster than the speed of light if you pick any two points far enough apart from each other, at least as long as space is expanding and the universe is infinite. Or if the universe is finite, some time after the bang there will be points which separate faster than the speed of light from each other. These points aren't moving, of course.
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This article mentions a Jeff Bezos' big mandate with six points. For an insight on the "slowness", note that we are looking at only a technical strategy, a part of something bigger related to a particular enterprise. I have seen very similar technical mandates in many large enterprises and this is not a full picture to move on. The ability to move rapidly enough comes not from having this mandate over another. I don't know the inner workings at Amazon, but if this is a technical mandate for the enterprise, the glory of Jeff Bezos is that he has a personal vision and ability to execute and orchestrate it across business units and acquisitions, have in place the right team who understand it to move forward with it. Not many organizations have the right leadership to actually implement a technical strategy like the one, that's the truth. This is an issue that I have been seeing too often unfortunately.
What I can see happening sometimes is that the author doesn't have a page, but the page on the science clearly cites the person that ended up winning the Nobel.

In this case, the Wikipedia article on chirped pulse amplification has cited Donna Strickland as a co-inventor since 2008 (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chirped_pulse_amp...).

For phage displays, George P. Smith is not mentioned but at least cited as far back as 2008 (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Phage_display&old...). By 2012, George P. Smith is directly mentioned. (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Phage_display&old...)
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You’re describing a role model, not a leader. You’re not a leader for those other families. You may be a good role model.

A more appropriate equivalent would be standing for mayor of your town and saying you will be a good leader, but you will be putting your family’s interests ahead of everyone else.
Technically a human on a bicycle is a "polluting vehicle." It releases a steady stream of carbon dioxide and occasional bursts of methane, a particularly potent greenhouse gas.
Very nostalgic. I find it a bit much when the author says 8MB is 'only $50'. In the US maybe, could be double that in other countries. I was always drooling over the prices in US MacWorld. But also, $50 was worth a lot more back then. You youngsters with 64GB RAM and 8GB GPUs don't know how good you have it.

Shoutout to Stacker, which did transparent disk compression in DOS, copied by MSFT as DiskDoubler. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stac_Electronics
From Design to Front-end
After 16 years on MacBook Pros (and PowerBooks before that), I bought a Surface Book 2 earlier this year because the 2016 MBP 15" was such a lemon for me.

Like others have said, the Surface Book hardware is what I wish the 2016 MBP had been. I'm perfectly happy with the OS as well. Haven't seen BSODs or forced bloatware. My new work-provided MacBook Pro is more fickle with occasional wakeup problems. Battery life on the Surface Book 2 feels on par or better than the MBP.

The Linux subsystem works well enough for me. Today you can run unmodified Ubuntu binaries on Windows with zero effort -- this has been pretty mind-blowing because my mental image of Windows is mostly from XP and before.

But as some others also mentioned, Win32 terminal options are not that great. Terminals are still stuck in the old Windows days: tiny toolbars, lots of options in endless GUI menus, weird usability howlers hiding in the corners. The feel of running those Linux binaries isn't 100% up there with a Mac, even though I prefer Linux to Darwin. Here's a business opportunity for someone — a Windows terminal for us Mac refugees?
Sorry, fully automatic farms require villagers. :P https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Tutorials/Crop_farming#Fully...
I feel like Kubernetes solves a lot of problems.

I don't feel like any of them have to do with personal hosting/blogs.

If you really want to go simple/cheap for that, why not eschewing compute entirely and go serverless/static?
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If you can, find a copy of "A Philosophy of Software Design", and read the whole thing.

It'll give you a lot of higher level things to think about as you're diving deep into your first tech stack.
I agree on that point! But I think robot consciousness is a really long way off.
Really? Did you check the "Enable 3D acceleration" checkbox in Virtual Box?
Being in crypto I have created my own signals to differentiate signal from noise.

One of the most exciting things are the sheer activity in Ethereum ecosystem. I use Gitcoin [1] (which is a crypto based bounty app built on Ethereum itself) where I look at the kind of issues for which projects are issuing bounties. I presume that if you are issuing a bounty on an issue then that is a demonstrated preference (rather than mere stated preference) about what you are doing.

Then I use AngelList's [2] job search, if a project is hiring (and also for what) it indicates and demonstrates their claim backed by action. Like from this I learned about FOAM [3] trying to build a secure GPS (which is basically a cryptographic signing wireless beacon which would sign your request, thereby demonstrating that you were at a certain physical location) by hiring an electronics engineer.

The only problem with these signals is that if they become too popular then people might start faking it, though the gitcoin one is hard to fake. If you are a developer, then you can always look at their codebase to see how much of real work is actually going into it.

1. https://gitcoin.co/explorer
2. https://angel.co/
3. https://foam.space/
It still feels like you’re keeping it in the lane, just doesn’t feel like it takes as much force as it might otherwise. The curves may seem gentler.

Like many of these it requires active input. It will turn itself off (with a nice audible and flashing warning) if you don’t keep doing your part. You’re not going to get more than 30-45s of ‘I don’t have to do anything’ before it turns off and it’s all on you again.
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There's really 3 things going on, none of which have anything to do with the military.

1) convenient defaults. People trade in dollars for the same reason they speak English - because it's mutually convenient between two different countries with their own language and currency. This is partly due to sheer size and partly due to successful cultural export.

2) clearing and settlment. This is not well developed globally, so in practice a lot of smaller countries, foreign banks, and multinationals keep US bank accounts so they can more easily handle payments. This system plays by US rules, which is why the EU is constructing a parallel one to trade with Iran.

3) "eurodollars". I don't fully understand this aspect but apparently this market is coming under regulatory pressure.
Jabotinaky is from one faction, not the ruling one for the first 30 years or so of Israel’s history. Many disagreed with him even back then.

After the Oslo accords, for a while, the Palestinian population had prosperity and there was a mutually agreed path forward. There were dissenting voices on both sides. Those in Israel assisinated PM Rabin. Those in the Gazan side elected Hamas democratically (and then lost the ability to vote ... happens when you vote for a non Democratic Party and they win). It is easy to lay all blame at Israel for being a military power. But the Palestinian side deserves a lot of the blame.

Also, don’t poke a military power if you don’t want to be bombed. “Civillian population” doesn’t build attack tunnels, rocket factories, train commandos, etc. I don’t blame them for trying, but that comes with consequences like getting bombed. Hamas is not wearing uniforms but they are guerilla / army. Not civillian.
Any reason no love for Boston?
I find that WSL requires a ton of hacks and workarounds to emulate a real Unix system. For example, I need to run Docker containers.

To do that, I install docker in WSL, then I have to run a Go binary I compiled as root, that lets WSL talk to Windows pipes, which then talks to Docker for Windows.

WSL makes using Windows somewhat tolerable, but it's not even close to having a regular old Unix.
They probably need a critical mass of employers and candidates.
People still ride horses for fun. Fossil fuel cars will be around for a lot longer after the ban on sales is in place even if people are just driving them around for kicks (...assuming they are not totally banned from running entirely eventually due to emissions - I cant see that happening for a while though)
Ask HN: How often do you think about runtime / space complexity during your job?
Additionally, what sorts of products and problems are you working on?
The US has been free to curtail it's military spending any time it wants. The American cross to bear is apparently that they just can't help themselves in wanting to help everybody else. Just like your healthcare system which is "providing cheap drugs to the world which is why we can't improve it for our own citizens". While you know, you also manage to spend more per capita then any other nation on the planet despite a complete lack of coverage for your citizens.

On the back of threatening NATO, the US approved the largest increase in defense spending ever. To what end? Who are your enemies in a world where you apparently don't plan to commit to NATO and are going to reduce foreign imperialist activity?
I used a Surface Book 2 for about an year and my experience was not great. Three main issues ruined my experience of what seemed like pretty solid hardware:

- Almost every time my Surface failed to wake up from sleep and I had to force restart it.

- Erratic Wifi problems. Windows 10 would fail to connect to Wifi sometimes after a restart and I had to disable and re-enable adapter every time.

- External Display always seemed to hazy and had scaling issues. I have to admit I never tried hard enough to see if it needed a special display driver my external Samsung curved monitor.
Is a tax a subsidy if you personally find it too low?

I find it completely worthwhile "subsidizing" personal vehicles. Everything else just feels oppressive in comparison (barring scenarios like bicycling being faster than the gridlock in Manhattan). Quality of life seems much better to me not being forced into transit or having to bike everywhere, so it makes sense to me for the government to invest in it.

How big was that car you rented? Can you remember the make/model? I went from a tiny car I had to lower myself down to get into (98 Ford Escort ZX2) to a Jeep Grand Cherokee and the handling is just as good if not better and the ride is smoother all around. Feels much nicer having the extra space too, and not having to contort myself to get in.
I'm not sure why anyone would think a tweet that included "considering" would constitute a "deal".

The tweet came from IR, not the board. The board had been apprised of his considerations.
> it seems to me that if you tax emissions strongly and uniformly enough, then at some point it has to have an impact.

One way to look at that is that you're saying any market-based solution strong enough to be effective is indistinguishable from an outright ban.

We could, for example, discourage smoking by putting a $500 tax on each pack of cigarettes. But at that point, you may as well stop pretending and ban it outright.

Another way to look at it is that bans are fair because they apply to all people equally. Taxes unfairly punish the poor who have less discretionary income. (A $100 tax on cigarettes would drive most of the working and middle classes to quit, but there are certainly a number of rich folks who would keep on lighting up because $100 means little to them.)
This might be true but what does it matter?

It would in theory be totally possible with enough work to make Ubuntu run on the FreeBSD kernel, does that mean FreeBSD is Linux?
I've been running the same non-BigOEM Win7 laptop at home for nearly 7 years now. Don't think I've seen a single BSOD in all that time. Windows/PC definitely has its annoyances, but I think this one is Of The Past now.

The 2007-vintage MBP that preceded it suffered DVD drive failure, incurable sleep mode apnea, and at one point a meltdown that needed a complete motherboard replacement. Maybe I was just unlucky, but I was not at all inclined to try another one.
Learn how the debugger works for whatever language you use. You will be very tempted to just use logs as it's way easier and debuggers seem intimidating, but take a day out of your schedule to learn the debugger. When you really have no clue what's going on in your code there's no substitute for being able to stop your program mid run and inspect it's state interactively.
> Why sad? I think it's great. It's awesome that folks can stay where their families are, where they want to live, and participate in this awesome industry.

In my case, the problem is needing to move away from where my friends & family are, because the bay area has gotten too expensive due mostly to the lack of housing. Given a choice, I'd rather be here.
Okay, that would explain why I always see folks walking between meetings with their laptops open here on campus.

But seriously? Hasn't MSFT had enough years and developers to figure this out?!
Some companies do try, they end up building higher level languages / code generation tools that still require programmers.

One such tool is very popular here in South America:

https://www.genexus.com/en/global/products/genexus

GeneXus™ streamlines application development by automatically generating everything from databases to code, frontend to backend, and server-side to client-side services. It’s not magic — just a smarter way to create smart technology.

It ends up being a kind of DSL.
what are you talking about dude, could you point to something on the arxiv?
I know almost nothing about this topic. I have only really built container images with Dockerfiles. How would you introduce buildpacks to me?
Perhaps, though testosterone doesn't really start to fall off dramatically until after middle age. In my own experience most people seem to have mellowed out significantly by the time they get into their 40s. Not everyone, of course, e.g. my 70 year old next door neighbor didn't evolve into a lovable old grandpa, he became a grumpy old man.
Rejecting the deal proved not to be "nuts". Financial regulators aren't that dangerous. Musk wasn't that crazy as proved out. etc.
I'm still a junior dev, but the difference between my successful and unsuccessful peers are their tenacity and curiosity. Don't be afraid to ask questions, put in the work to try the debugging yourself, stick with the problems you encounter. But ask tones of questions, as there are often more experienced devs who'd love to help!
Unfortunately, production of cars (and consumerism in general) is extremely bad for carbon emissions and for the environment. Carbon emissions from the production of 1 car generally rival the lifetime emissions from the tailpipe [1]. If you have no choice but to replace an old car for new then sure, get a more efficient one. If you're replacing cars every 3 years like an average westerner, given the age of cars I see on the road, you are doing extreme harm. Old cars that are running should be incentivized to continue to be on the road, barring any other pollutant or smog issues.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/green-living-blog/20...
I really don't understand modern web development. If people would build websites without shit, they wouldn't need stuff like this.
Matt Might.
Going the other way (Win10 on osx via VMWare) was horrible. Completely unusable. Windows was so slow I just couldn't get anything done.
I personally never liked these. I’m not sure why, but I find them awkward and clunky for some reason.
Which would you say you're happier with?
Buildpacks focus on turning sourcecode into a runnable container. Essentially you just throw code at it and It Just Works.

I think the Onsi Haiku is still the best description:

Here is my source code.
Run it on the cloud for me.
I do not care how.

Heroku invented this, it's been picked up by lots of other groups (including for Cloud Foundry -- I've worked on buildpacks for Pivotal in that regard).

> (1) VMWare images (2) Docker images

You have to build these yourselves. The boundary is your CI system, Dockerfile etc -- which you have to maintain. Buildpacks provide a curated, managed, easily upgraded system that does this for you.

> (3) Debian packages?

These are, in some sense, on the far side of where Buildpacks sit. But also slightly different. A debian package is intended to land in a pluripotent environment, possibly under direct human supervision. A Buildpack is meant to build completely self-contained runnable images, starting from sourcecode.
Raise your hand if you've ever created an insert/update database trigger that explodes when that it sees that one bad value you've been investigating, just so you'll have a traceback that points to the offending code.

(Hopefully only in your development environment.)
The whole POINT of manual mode is (quite possibly) the car’s interpretation of the situation is wrong and CAN’T be safely followed.

If you add safety measures to manual (possible outcome of GP’s comment) then you’re back at not having a manual safety override.
Notable in this context meaning notable to the general public. But wikipedia isn't for original research, and so it needs some external institution to validate notability to the general public. A Nobel prize is one such mechanism.
I'm glad you mentioned this. I've recently gotten into analog stereo. I've fixed up a few receivers, which has involved deciphering schematics, testing circuitry and soldering. Very rewarding when it works! I've rehabbed some speakers and turntables, too. I'm a long way from understanding much of anything in depth, but it is a nice off-screen, hands-on hobby. Thanks for the book recommendations below.
Isn't fraud if the IRS okayed it.
Will be interesting to see how this changes if the Trump-Russia shenanigans is successful, or not if security services, rank and order have a handle on it.

Edit: A downvote? It won't be interesting? Go away shallow negativity..

Edit: -4 points. Hello darkness, my old friend..
Sorry, I should've put it in layman's terms.

> Again, I profoundly disagree. Capitalism is a historically specific configuration of social, economic and legal arrangements.

You are just talking about scales here. What I mean is that we basically have two different ways of subsisting: by working individually and trading or by working collectively and be part of a social welfare system. There is no proven third option were a huge chunk of a population's society didn't need to work for it to work. Might happen in the future, but I don't think so.
A charging station is probably cheaper than a gas station to build.