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Ask HN: Apple Watch App Developer (UK) Demand?
I want to write an open-source iOS app that I’ll submit to the App Store to get my iOS Developer career back on track after 3 years away.

Is there much demand out there for Apple Watch App Developers? I figured I may as well learn something new to me during the process and get something impressive on my CV. Can’t seem to find any Apple Watch related development jobs in a casual UK job search. Does anyone know or have any data to suggest how much of a demand there is out there for this skill?
Blockchain technology could actually make Internet voting security worse
“Darwin” does not include a lick of UI or common framework code. It’s appproximately equivalent to gnu/linux or a bsd: x11 is the only option.
Definitely should find some, even ask them. Thanks !

A content plan ? A plan for the blog's content or do the posts themselves lack structure ?
Honestly though, how many non- technical people do you know who run any form of Linux? Steve Jobs came along and gobbled up that market 15 years ago.
In the case of chemically treated pallets quite simply yes.
Much younger than the examples in the article, but rather a lot of Beowulf seems to describe real events. I think the Finnburgh Episode, told as a story inside the story, even gets the names right of the actual people involved.
Yeah, I missed that part.
32 bit apps were deprecated in iOS 10 and support was completely removed in 11.
This is very probably because you have

url: "pkg+http://pkg.freebsd.org/${ABI}/latest",

in your configuration file instead of (say)

url: "pkg+http://pkg.freebsd.org/${ABI}/release_3",
Author here.

Keep in mind Shopify does scale horizontally in terms of servers. They are just scaling a monolithic application.

Those 600k shop owners results in Shopify's platform handling over 80,000 requests per second according to stats that are publicly available[0].

It's one of the largest scale Rails apps in production.

[0]: https://twitter.com/dhh/status/885776244532551680
In theory, translating an interface-based monolith to a SOA should be straightforward - drop-in some replacement classes for your services and you're good to go.

In practice, it's not as simple as that. Serialization across service boundaries requires a bit of thought - invoking a method via a local call stack can accidentally cause a blowout on an SOA service buffer. Network timeouts suddenly become a thing. Latency might be an issue.

Of course, these aren't critical obstacles, and I agree that the architecture should look very similar, no matter whether it's a monolith or microservice. But designing one from the ground up would look a bit different.
> Is there a name for this type of fatigue (or perception thereof)?

I think of it as lack of motivation combined with low-grade frustration from not being allowed to shift to something worthwhile. Paul Buchheit is obviously a self-winding guy. But put him in a context where he's expected to do things he doesn't care about and is forbidden to do things he does care about and all the air goes out of him. That's certainly what it's like for me.

Companies should learn a lesson from this. When I'm managing I work hard to build close-knit, cross-functional teams that score well on Pink's Autonomy/Mastery/Purpose triad. Purpose is the foundation: you have to give the team something meaningful to do and then connect them to that meaning. Autonomy comes next: you give them broad long-term goals and near-term milestones and turn them loose. They should always feel independent but accountable. Mastery comes from letting them meet and overcome challenges, learning as they go, but it doesn't hurt to support them by providing them coaching, access to experts, and any training they ask for.

Buchheit is clearly exceptional, but I think everybody benefits from environments that support his approach to the world. Every child is curious and exploratory. Many have that beaten out of them by industrial-model education and top-down corporate workplaces. But I don't think it's ever truly gone, and I think businesses really benefit if they deeply engage their staff.
I spun up a new Ubuntu Desktop VM on my work machine and then went home and updated my personal laptop. Love the new look and have had no issues so far.
What makes developers bad at business
And one more reason:

Line-dried clothes and beddings smell wonderful (even if you use detergents and softeners that don't contain perfume) after hanging out to dry.
Fasting is very relevant here because it puts the body deeper into repair and maintenance mode. My guess is is periodic fasting plus a modest regimen of longterm repair supplements would be the optimum strategy.
And just like that, the just world fallacy kicks in :)

I certainly don't think it's a bad thing to make your teammates look good, but in general it's more effective to give the lion's share of the credit to the boss rather than them. And credit is a limited resource.

I say that like it's a bad thing because it kind of is.

I believe there are some companies where coworkers rather than management decide promotions and this tactic would not work but they are few and far between.
Or you just configure your power button to shut down the computer.
"Although the evidence is sparse, I feel that you shouldn't start with microservices unless you have reasonable experience of building a microservices system in the team."

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/MonolithFirst.html
> Can someone help me understand why computer scientists call themselves engineers in the US?

Someone with a Bachelors (or less) who builds systems by writing code is not a computer scientist. That is a less appropriate title than engineer.

> Here that would be so totally illegal if you are not a member of the order which requires an engineering diploma.

Yes, we know Canada is almost uniquely psychotic about this. I, personally, think it is ridiculous, and I state this as someone who holds an accredited engineering degree (EE) and originally considered pursuing licensure.

That said, I do think software engineering is in dire need of some actual engineering discipline. This industry also is in dire need of title bifurcation; calling everyone "software engineer" regardless of what they actually do, just because they touch code, is ridiculous.
Doing your civic duty one line of code at a time
Some Amazon teams have multiple services of varying sizes. What Amazon and similar companies get right is by (generally) insisting on good engineering/business/regulatory reasons for splitting out services.
The actions of those people are romanticised and from those actions is constructed a metaphorical figure that resembles, but does not equal the actual man. You need the man in order to have a story and you need the story in order to convey the message. The idealised romantic Gandhi is a tool with which to illustrate the moral, and an ideal for which to strive. Of course you shouldn't mirror Gandhi in all matters, but his idealised version is still a good example to follow.

Were Gandhi's actions so abhorrent as to make it good to tear down the morals of social justice his activism taught us? Is he such a monster that you would destroy your own culture and society by denying them the good examples he set with the other part of his life? In a way you're cutting off your nose to spite someone else's face. What Gandhi did is done and whoever can claim damages that should be repaid can claim them via court. But the man is dead now and putting him on trial is a disservice to his memory and to our culture.
Those would be good points if you can back them up with a source. But even the video I was responding to showed the prices as $1.63 for a 1oz package, not "pennies" as you say. A 2oz package costs $1.96, and a 4lb package costs $21.15 which is higher than the US cost of $7.15. So it would be far cheaper for them to bundle the 1oz packages into a 4lb package and pay the higher rate. So I think you'd be better off questioning the source of your information.
That sounds very interesting. Would you happen to have any pointers (i.e. books, links etc.) for anyone interested in learning more?
Depends how you do it. Having a sane communication model/interface between the services allows you to test it in two ways:
1) You test the internal structure with unit tests
2) You test changes to the API contract with E2E tests
Both are fairly straightforward once you set it up properly.

Same goes for the monolith, assuming you do your work on following somethink like the SOLID principle, it is easy to test piece by piece. The only thing here is that the interface contracts are internal to the codebase vs external to other codebases. (You might argue the last point actually forces you to write a more coherent API contract in both situations)
If you're on a government website giving feedback that it's boring you really need to evaluate your priorities. It's a website for utility.
"Land of the free where you can shoot a person that enters your garden but you can't dry out your clothes there because it's unsightly."

Freedom encompasses freedom of association, where you may voluntarily agree to additional restrictions as part of such an association. The definition of freedom you seem to be using is incoherent. You can't have both the "freedom" to enter into a voluntary contract and also the "freedom" to violate the contract at will. The two are contradictory.
So, I think I was misunderstood here... I only piped up because the GP explicitly said "US" in relation to a failing US based company. Saying that Samsung fills that gap makes no sense, regardless of where the phones are manufactured.
Ubiquitous? Hardly. I grew up in England (in a comfortably-off middle-class home), and didn't live in a house with a dryer until I was around 50.
This business card-sized Japanese phone bucks the giant-phone trend
From wikipedia[0]:
A billion is a number with two distinct definitions:

1,000,000,000, i.e. one thousand million, or 109 (ten to the ninth power), as defined on the short scale. This is now the meaning in both British and American English.

Historically, in British English, 1,000,000,000,000, i.e. one million million, or 1012 (ten to the twelfth power), as defined on the long scale. This is one thousand times larger than the short scale billion, and equivalent to the short scale trillion.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion
A PHP 7.1+ implementation of GraphQL
Congratulations to the postgres team. How do you create such a high quality product when you have to understand the code written by so many people? I take a long time to understand what someone else has written.
I stumbled two weeks ago across her through following picture.
https://goo.gl/images/EhsqdP

Totally flashed me
Stretching out on one's back or side or stomach is something mot folks take for granted. We are in relatively safe, warm, and dry conditions. Trying to find those good conditions when you are homeless can be a bit more of a challenge, at least if you don't have a car. Even with a car, most folks are crunched up in the seats to some degree.
> 1. "Our knowledge is the cheapest thing to us" seems way off

Maybe something more like "Our knowledge costs us nothing to share"?
The “things” in the Internet of Things (IoT) can get personal [pdf]
The main userbase of https://passthroughpo.st are Linux users first, thus need access to the host as well.
While passing a full controller would indeed be the most reliable way (if your controller doesn't have reset bugs and if you have enough controllers available), it isn't always the most practical way.
That does not seem to work according to ssllabs browser test.
That last asterisk is a plus, not a minus, of text chat for many of us.
Cancer is something you may want to keep secret without being shameful.
In privacy discussions, such examples are rare.

Yet, those examples are useful because they prevent people dismissing the arguments because `people shouldn't be doing that anyway`.
That is, no-one wants to keep people from going to cancer-related websites. This is very different from e.g. porn or STDs. I guess perhaps the exception are the nut-cases that believe people getting cancer `deserve it` because otherwise it wouldn't be part of gods plan. But luckily very few people consider those opinions relevant.
Not really any books - I think I'm going to have to write one! My approach comes from a variety of different sources - mostly in-person coaching from practitioners.

But you're welcome to email me (address in profile) and I can send you some links and suggestions.
I had a job in a company obsessed with DLT. I didn’t see anything useful. In fact I’d go as far to suggest that the only use of a blockchain is in cryptocurrency. What have you seen which suggests otherwise?
Most Debian packages are years behind the current stable release. This debate is as old as Ubuntu itself. It is the very reason Ubuntu exists. Stable, free, current: pick any two
Using Ubuntu in our development and production environment. It's rock solid. However might switch to Kubuntu as it appears to have better HiDPI support through plasma compared to gnome.
I personally want to give folks proper housing. Minimally a room with a private bath and lockable door with shared kitchen spaces (if one is single) or proper housing for a family.

But if a dry and possibly secure pod was what I had available, I'd take it. If I had the choice of one that allowed me to move around more and stretch out, I'd take it. If I had the choice of indoor plumbing, heat, and so on, I'd take it.
Ask HN: People who gave up on the YC/startup dream, what happened?
Without linking comments, I saw comments from more than 6 years ago where regular HNers applied to YC unsuccessfully. There was a lot of the youthful optimism and hustle in those comments that I see in myself now but many of those people are now either employed or contracting/consulting. This is in no way meant to look down on them or imply that a regular 9-5 is inferior to being a startup founder. It's just that it sucks when something that you really hoped would work out, didn't come to pass. I'm starting to realise that I may be another person who goes the same way. YC and startups may not work out for me. So how did you come to terms with the fact that the YC dream will never come to pass? How has your mentality regarding YC/startups changed over the years? What advice do you have for people who are in the position that you were in, a few years ago?
Other areas of IT around the UK gov are learning from the success of gov.uk. DHSC just set out its vision for digital future of healthcare for the NHS, and it looks very promising:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-future-of-hea...
He was one violent dude, always trying to capture my cities. And God help you if he got nukes.
I use Mint, Ubuntu based, no issues whatsoever. Great modern desktop with cinnamon and a devteam that respects their users.
Exotic Matter Made in Space Could Boost the Hunt for Gravitational Waves
"All floors are surfaced with cork tile that provides a warm, clean and comfortable footing"

I bought a second hand home, which had cork. It's warm, yes. And maybe comfortable. But it is not clean. Cork is very porous and once a speck of dust finds its way into the material, it's difficult to pull it out. Drop some one on the floor and you might be able to clean most of it, but some of it will stay there, forever.

Stick to wood. Maybe a bit less warm that cork, but much cleaner and equally comfortable.
If you suspect that a crime was committed, I encourage you to contact the appropriate law enforcement agency. Until then, you’re welcome to stand aside while others hold themselves accountable to their respective systems of values. You call it stealing, I call it using imaginary property. I don’t force you to participate in my heists & capers, and you can’t force me to pay for imaginary things. Everything’s good in the world.
Due to climate change Winter ticks are killing moose at a truly alarming rate
Ad-blockers from the point of view of UK copyright would seem to be tortuous copyright infringement (unauthorised modification and/or unauthorised creation ofa derivative). I can't see schools here using them because of the legal risk.
hedera hashgraph papers and founder talks (you should find them on youtube) made me realize some real people were working on solving real world issues, and not just scam people.
While not defending the choice of voice for this particular thing, voice over the internet seems 'solved' for general purposes. People use Skype or similar for business all the time, and gamers have been using teamspeak or ventrilo for 'mission critical' things for a decade. Any laptop on a non-terrible internet connection should be a usable endpoint for VOIP comms.
>Down here in real world land, I would be fired for voluntarily leaving my shift at any time.

Not in the "real world land". Just in the part of real world that you've managed to negotiate for yourself.

Others are more (and others less) lucky.
How do you feel about suggestions that people should ad-block your site?
I don't, but my wife currently, and ~1 kid on average. It's a germ breeding ground :)
Oh I see. Would you recommend against using a KVM+VT-d macOS install as primary desktop/workstation?

I'd probably put passthrough on USB and use a USB-dac for audio and add some decent bluetooth hardware for handoff, keyboard, mouse/touchpad, etc.
I'd really like to have zvols underneat passed to the macOS-machine, I suppose I would have to use a HFS-sparseimage or similar for primary OS disk, but it would be nice to mount the zvols directly via OpenZFS for additional partitions. I would love to leverage LZ4 for document storage etc.
Bots on the blocks
I have ADD (diagnosed) and this happens to me every day at work. Around three o'clock in the afternoon I get so sleepy I start to literally fall asleep at my desk, but if I go home I'm immediately refreshed and back to full capacity for another eight hours.
I don't have evidence the Ancient Greek gods were/are not real. I do believe they are real in a sense. At least in collective unconscious, they will influence humankind.
Show HN: Satoshi NakaBoto – A bot to reply FAQ about Bitcoin
>What job wouldn't fire you for leaving in the middle of the day?

Many. Especially smaller shops in laxer countries.
My Approach to Solving (Almost) Any Machine Learning Problem
Sure. I just like Erlang in particular and thought it approximated the table format pretty well.
I actually started the routine because we had a lot of black mold in the air (everytime food spoiled somewhere hidden [which happens a lot with kids], it went all black immediately), which seems to be gone now—spoiled food does not go black anymore. Since black mold (aflatoxin) can cause liver cancer and other bad diseases, I'd rather keep that down and risk allergies.
I would recommend Manjaro. Arch based, updates come after two weeks of testing by the developers. It is even possible to install on f2fs. Never broke for me.
> Besides that, solving technical problems is possible if there is the will to do it.

Right now, the problem is that it breaks either the web or the browser.

The alternative currently being pursued by Mozilla (and the W3C) is WebPayments, which should pave the way for websites paid for by micropayments, rather than ads.
$2.5M CFTC penalty for Bitcoin trading strategy operating as ponzi scheme
Google Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:xut4LgT...
Perhaps the old binary still runs on an equally outdated deployment of iOS. I remember resisting the 6 to 7 upgrade for as long as I could, but an unexpected iPhone replacement under AppleCare has foiled my plans to remain on my favorite version of the OS.
Definitely better than in Sweden, where there is no central site similar to gov.uk to begin with. Many individual government agencies have pretty good sites though, and most are actually available at least partly in English. https://www.skatteverket.se/ (tax agency) and https://polisen.se/ (police) are two examples.
Is it? To me the situation in question seems like the complete opposite of stressful
Umm - yes.

EOL is a clearly defined term and its date has also been set for ages now.

Just because something has gone EOL doesn't mean it's no longer in use though. To make the most obvious example: Every company i've ever worked for used servers for years and even decade(s) after the EOL date had passed.
One of Norman Davies' (one of my favorite popular history authors) pet peeves is the trend to refer to areas and cultures by their modern equivalents.

Sure, it's convenient and gives a reference point, but Davies' thing is that it's a bit misleading to do so. Back on track, this was NOT an Indian civilization tens of thousands of years ago. This might be a precursor to the Dravidian peoples, but this was a civilization that existed where India WOULD be.
I don't see how Ubuntu is any less complicated than say, Fedora. I also really don't like their use of CLAs and their attempt to use their desktop presence to push Ubuntu-specific technologies like Mir, Unity, and Snap.
"Move fast and expect broken things"?
I think you can determine if they are evasive and dismissive without needing hard questions. Ask about their history. Ask them about their leadership style. Ask them how they resolve conflict in their organization.

If they have good answers to those questions that don't feel like canned responses, then go dig deeper. Ask their employees about their leadership style - do the answers match? Does their resume and google-stalking match their story of their history? Ask the team about organizational conflict resolution. You should get similar responses.

Also, think about whether they talked to you like a leader. I've had interviews when I really enjoyed talking to the potential boss, and it felt friendly, and those turned out to be sub-optimal leaders. But the good leaders I've worked for interviewed in a way where I was comfortable, but challenged by the questions, and they stayed focused. They didn't chit-chat or make friends (at least not beyond just a few quick minutes as we got started), they drove towards getting the answers they needed to see if I was right for the job, and they gave me opportunities to ask questions back.
That's a very shortsighted view, children are (solely economically speaking here) an investment in the future. Their lack of present day economic contributions is not entirely relevant. In addition children have utility effects other than monetary, many parents report increased purpose, fulfillment, and joy from raising children.
Willing to bet you that it's less than 50% of total shops, therefore less than the word "many".