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My grandmother and grandfather lived through Japanese colonization and the Korean War. My grandfather pulled all his teeth out (except 4) to escape fighting for the Japanese army. By today's American standards, they grew up in extreme poverty while by Korean standards for the time, they lived well middle class.

My grandparents raised me and throughout my childhood, I was chided for using too much toilet paper, leaving the refrigerator open too long, etc. They were also hoarders like collecting tons of paper napkins, salt/ketchup packets, forks, etc. Even to this day, I can't throw out ketchup packets I'll never use. I loved helping my grandpa pick up plastic bottles and cans until my mother told me it was shameful and I became embarrassed.

My grandpa cannot speak and write English well despite living in NYC for over 20 years. He didn't work much. However he was able to give $10k to each of his grandchildren. I don't know how he had the money considering how frugal he was and how poor he seemed! He picked weeds off the streets to turn them into Korean rice cakes or pickled them into Korean side dishes or made his own fruit wine. That's how frugal he is.

However, when my grandmother passed away my grandfather shared his biggest regrets with me and they have stayed with me to this day. My grandfather is the most stoic man I know. I've known him for 20+ years and I have rarely seen him upset.

His biggest regret was that he didn't take care of his wife better. He said he wished he could have bought a nice home for them to retire and die in instead of the senior apartment they rented. He also said he wished he could have seen his son again before he passed away in an auto accident- and that he missed his son every day. That not being able to support and see her son before he passed was my grandmother's biggest regret. It had been 30+ years.

When my grandmother passed away, my multimillionaire uncle despaired that he had been a terrible son, and that he wished he could have spent more time with his mom. When my grandmother passed away, I had been building my own business and I wish I could have been a better granddaughter.

Despite my uncle's millions and his kind heart, he seems a little alone and sad, with an adult son who never leaves his room, and he is still always working. I also know another multimillionaire who started as a pizza delivery boy. He has everything he could possibly want except adult children who have no motivations in life.

I don't know if this helps at all but what I've taken away is that you need to cover your basic needs but don't sacrifice things that are important to you for money. My relatives sacrificed their health and their relationships. I hope to never repeat their mistakes.

Money or greed has caused much sorrow in my life, in those of the people I love, whether friends and family. People need to chill and focus less on $ if they can. I feel like I've seen both sides and they can be equally dark.
>Insofar as millennials are still materialistic, I'd categorize it more as conspicuous consumption of "experiences." So rather than buying fancy things to announce how rich you are, you just post instagram pics of yourself in fancy places

Agreed. Drinking the fairest trade coffee and the most micro brew beer has replaced having a massive TV and high end clothes.
Kurzgesagt had a nice video on plastics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS7IzU2VJIQ

it is a scary situation!
Flight physics don't scale down (or up) well. It's the predominant reason small airplane and quad models have enormously unscalable performance characteristics and abilities.

Making it bigger doesn't "just work"... same for the inverse.
Remember the days when we all thought everything was deterministic?
Banksy: How Love is in the Bin's shredding did not go to plan
“There’s more in the making”–Apple announces October 30 event
It does autovectorize quite often.
Small nit: Intel desktop and workstation processors (Core i5/i7, Xeon E3, Xeon W) do not have DDIO.
It is subsidized through a number of different ways, but nationwide postage also shouldn't be a profit center, given how much other economic activity it fosters.
Given that I still sometimes have trouble pairing my phone to my car, or my headphones to my phone, I think we're a long way from ubiquitous vehicle-vehicle communication that is reliable and secure enough to replace traffic lights.

It seems the safer solution is to let the cars still vote but keep the traffic lights and let them have the final say over who gets the green.

Traffic lights have fail-safes designed to make it impossible for both directions getting the green at the same time, an autonomous voting system among cars has fewer assurances of avoiding that state, even moreso if there's a malicious hacker in the mix that set up a bogus transponder at the intersection.
> Anyway, the reason I didn't translate them is partly because there's a lot of nuances in the language and any attempt to translate them would inherently require some level of interpretation and potentially cause misunderstanding.

Welcome to translation?
Yup. I figure that anything I need to return / repair has at least $40-50 in overhead. The current shipping situation amplifies however good/bad the deal you got was.
I don't know why, but this feels a lot more scarey than seeing dinosaur footprints. Definitely makes me feel more like "prey".
Dropbox does this for their Windows client, I think.
For the janitor, sure. And, yes, non-competes are beyond ridiculous for janitors, fast-food workers, and the like. For senior people? It's actually a pretty small industry. If an employer actually cares, they can find out pretty quickly where an ex-employee has landed especially if they're in a visible externally-facing role.

As you say, under most circumstances most companies don't actually care even if they have some boilerplate non-compete clause. But some do, especially in places where close client relationships are important or where it's a senior person moving to a direct competitor.
The advice I've given to younger generalists like me is to force yourself to become an expert on something. That's what people are used to seeing when they are hiring. Pick something long-lasting like databases or search or machine learning.
If they don't like you, they won't buy. Sure there are exceptions but it's an excellent rule of thumb.

Look at Trump: hate him or love him virtually every person he meets face to face comments on how warm, interested and compassionate he comes across as. BS or not... that's the way most perceive him.

Oh yeah, and this Is a hard and fast rule. The instant that they say yes; Stop selling. You never know if that one more thing you consider to be a benefit will backfire and make them decide not to purchase.
I was refuting the statement about older people potentially not "keeping relevant" in tech. My example was an early 20s person who was also not relevant in tech, despite not being "old".

Not keeping relevant is not a problem related to age was the point I was trying to make, but actually applies to all ages equally.
Very interesting. Any ideas on how to quantify productivity of the meetings? Insights into efficiency of a meeting would be helpful as well.
I find London to have the same problems in terms of being full of chain stores and losing the kinds of character that the author describes.
Is there a hard ceiling for salaries for developers? Does one need to move into management/consulting/something in order for ones salary to keep increasing?

Lately I've been feeling like I've hit my ceiling and I need to start investigating where to go from here but that may just be my perception/pessimism.
Granted, I oversimplified. On the other hand it’s not even exactly clear as to when early humans figured out the causation between sex and pregnancy. But my point was more about an evolutionary drive for not having children when resources are scarce. That’s group selection, something whose mere existence is rather controversial. On the other hand, kin selection has probably played a part in prehistoric human communities, so I guess it’s complicated.
If you were eating iron bolts with every salted meal I think you would find that it is not so harmless after all.
You are awesome, and brave!
How recent? Steel is doing very well right now. They are hiring. Your source even shows this, not that your source is at all trustworthy.

1990 is a long time ago.

Steel is far from the only kind of manufacturing. Even if steel mill jobs all disappeared, overall manufacturing could be doing well. I'm not even 100% sure that steel should be lumped in with manufacturing; it's kind of like the final step of mining.

Process enhancements and technology face declining benefits. At some point, you've automated everything that makes sense to automate.

The jobs are going to stick around for 10 years unless we go back to a policy of purposely regulating American industry out of existence.
I didn't ask for this. If society collapsed and I became a sustenance farmer or hunter gatherer, that'd be alright by me.

I agree with the rule of law and I'll do what I'm legally obligated to do, however, every chance I get I'm going to vote in favor of returning to the pre-history status quo of all-against-all.
If we're leaving then leaving a thriving environment would be low on the priority list for anyone. Really the ultimate tragedy of the commons if you think about it... if the problem is so bad that our survival is reduced to zero, then it follows that there is no possible way to make our last act as a species to correct the garden to be some definition of "thriving". The fact is, something will thrive, it just won't be us, no matter what we do. Even nuclear winter will leave survivors that will adapt to the new wasteland.
Hi there - co-founder and CEO of Helm here. It covers domain registrations, DNS records, the security gateway with a static IP that works around residential ISP limitations and storage for offsite encrypted backups. None of these would be able to run on the device itself.
More resources on DOD (Data Oriented Design):

https://github.com/dbartolini/data-oriented-design
Not OP, but I will offer my thoughts.

Linux is terribly balkanized what with all the competing distros. There are no standards. This is one reason why Linux has not taken off on the desktop outside of tech circles.

systemd. It violates almost every *nix tenet out there, especially "a program should do one thing well". It's has a few benefits, but the negatives outweigh these, namely more and more programs outside of the base system now require systemd. This should never be. I and millions of others agree that an init system should be able to be tweaked as text files. Not happening now. The logs are stored as binaries when they should be plain text. Debugging is more difficult. A program should do one thing well. Full stop. There is always BSD and Slackware, and I don't think Slackware will adopt systemd, as their user base doesn't want it. Slackware is the oldest currently-developed Linux distro out there and the vast majority of users want it to remain true to its roots while still advancing.
Well, if you're good, there's a good chance they will hire you and convert you to H-1B. But you need to have work experience. You can work up to 20 hours/week on campus on F-1, so go talk to your IT department, explain you want to work.
Joseph E. Stiglitz: A Rigged Economy
Alls I want in the world is TFIDF or BM25 in Postgres Text Search
I thinks its a greyscale and have always been. Silly things like floppy (that noone uses) on fbsd used to attach with [GIANT LOCKED] for the longest time (if not still) but it doesn't matter. You would not call fbsd still under GL just because 1.44MB floppy drivers don't get any attention. So its not a binary on-or-off on any OS, its a process of unlocking one part at a time, out of hundreds, thousands of small subsystems and drivers without causing races. OpenBSD is most certainly behind, but there is no nice line over which you can say "Ah, now its not GL anymore", since there will be some part somewhere for some arch where you don't care that still retains the lock, and there were parts from day #1 that was completely unlocked on obsd like the syscall getpid() in all its triviality and race-free-ness.
> Political philosophy is not a protected status

It's not federally protected; state laws vary.
And then there's those of us where the metric is invalid anyway because we checked them out from the library instead, having a different set of books every week.
It's in all our interest to have better codecs, but not at any cost. Only if you are serving billions of videos a day does it make sense to freely contribute improvements to codecs.
> recognized minority-category people

That was the term!
I remember flying successful loops with a Barnaby back in my childhood; sadly, it looks like his book (How To Make and Fly Paper Airplanes, Ralph S. Barnaby) may be out of print.

I'm sure there are many newer books and designs these days, but that was the one I knew and loved.
There was a windows “app” called The Greatest Paper Airplanes. Anyone remember that?
CLI is like speech. Therefore, I don't get for why people think it isn't a friendly human computer interface since it is so close to the original human-human interface. And just like with speech, things can be ambiguous and easily mistook. The way we've dealt with speaking is just learning to speak clearer, not by turning everything we say into a movie.
How is it not a double sided blade.

Better surveillance would catch and/or possibly stop car thieves, bike thieves, muggers, vandals, robberies, some rapes, life threatening drivers, hit and run drivers, bad cops.

I get that there's no magic wand to make sure the tech is only used for good but that's true of pretty much everything. Knives can be used to cut food or to stab people.
That would be 119 m on each side... yeah, that's a little cramped.

I copied that totally not critically from the article. I'm beginning to believe that this article may be missing some important information.
> It’s just a matter of priorities

Yes, and goals. OpenBSD is much more conservative with regard to features, and focuses on security, and that results in a more secure system overall. If you need to eek out every last percent of performance, use something else. If you want to worry less about security on a system that is fairly exposed (e.g. a firewall), then it can be an extremely good fit. For example, here's a comparison of security advisories for the main OpenBSD, FreeBSD and Linux projects (that is, not separated and exported items like OpenSSH).[1][2] While I'm sure these lists have their problems, they are interesting. Specifically, the number of exploits column...

1: https://www.cvedetails.com/product/7/Freebsd-Freebsd.html?ve...

2: https://www.cvedetails.com/product/163/Openbsd-Openbsd.html?...

3: https://www.cvedetails.com/product/47/Linux-Linux-Kernel.htm...
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They also don't seem to care about other road users. The time cycles are a feature, not a bug, because you can't use technology to speed up how quickly an old grandma with a walker walks across the street. Grade separating roads and pedestrians is very costly, and more importantly, not desirable, because humans are much less able to deal with grade changes than cars, and because underpasses and overpasses remove people from the 'eyes and ears' of the street and create crevices for crime.
We did the same in elementary school. The winning plane was essentially a dart hurled at a 45 degree angle. It didn't fly per se, but did get launched pretty far.
Upcase is one of the main learning resources I used to take my development to the next level! I'm excited to see it be available for everyone!
I recently interviewed with a "large SF based social network" and their COL equivalent salary for what I make here in Salt Lake City would have been like taking a 50% pay cut!
Yes, I oversimplified. But see my reply to a sibling post.
Why does that point follow? Do you feel your literacy, numeracy, and technical skills are lower than the average population?
My point I was trying to make was that not staying relevant in tech is not unique to "old" people.

The early 20s person who went deep with angular 1 may not have "kept relevant", but that is no reason to outright reject them (or someone 30-40 years their senior) on its own. I am sure they (and "old" people) would easily be able to get up to speed.

As you said, programming has largely remained unchanged at a fundamental level.
The corollary being that sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice.
The guide they're describing is for playing a pro-social game where everybody is trying to score points for the common good (i.e to save/better lives). In a competitive environment that is zero-sum in the short term has different rules.
I do like the DC area but we have kids living in the Bay Area and my wife doesn't want to move away from them. If there is some way to work with you with that constraint I'd be interested.
Money is most definitely not the only thing employees care about.

When you're picking a job you care about location, stability, company culture, hours, vacation policy, etc.

I know plenty of people who have taken lesser paying jobs for a large variety of reasons and morality is definitely one of them.
If you're against the death penalty then it's a bit hard to justify working a court job that puts people on death row.

You, personally, may only be focused on your pay but that doesn't mean the vast majority of people are.

Glassdoor certainly hints that this is not true for most people. [1][2]

[1] https://www.glassdoor.com/blog/salary-happiness-research/

[2] https://www.glassdoor.com/research/more-money-change-value-a...
hard to argue with keeping it simple
In my personal experience, it was certainly a problem for a while when lists like SORBS and their notoriously hostile de-listing procedures were all over the place. Listed an entire IP block assigned to a data center I had hardware in as "residential" and it took weeks to get it addressed.

And more recently, I'm still unable to send email to Verizon.net email addresses from a VPS because they too insist it's in a residential IP block. (it's not.)

For the first few weeks I had a VPS and moved a small business to it, sending anything to Gmail was a hassle as it was all automatically going to the spam folder. The typical responses from others was "find a new provider" even though checking blacklists showed the one I chose was just fine.

I too have run mail servers, and have seen enough to realize that it's definitely not a myth. It's just that there are enough spammers making a mess of things for the rest of us, which is unfortunate.
I've been using a terminal since the Minix days.

I honestly had never heard of the Ctrl-D escape sequence until a few weeks ago. So having common exit/quit commands makes life a lot easier at least for some of us.
>Why do you feel libraries which don't "accomodate" you, personally, also don't deserve to serve the rest of the community?

My general view is that People can do what they want as long as they don't involve me. I have no problem with libraries, I just don't like them enough to want to pay for them and whenever the issue comes up, I'm going to vote to free myself from the burden of supporting things I don't want to support. If libraries become a place that's interesting to me, my personal feelings might change.

Also, I'm sympathetic to kids having access to books. Whenever I'm done with my books, I bring them to my neighborhood park's lending library. It's supported by people in the neighborhood and people can exchange books. It's a practical, low cost solution. Though sometimes my books upset my neighbors, but I don't see how "The Concept of the Political" is any more controversial than say "the Life and Narrative of Frederick Douglass"
"Rock or stone is a natural substance, a solid aggregate of one or more minerals or mineraloids"

Yeah sure.
How to Set Up a Node Back End with Hapi.js for a React Web App
I had this sitting in my .bash_profile for a while. I removed it after I realized it was adding like 2 seconds of lag before my terminal finished loading.
Many people have attempted, but its still and unsolved problem with fluid physics.
One thing that I'm surprised this doesn't cover, especially since it's so C++-centric, is that modern C++ OOP is much more defined by lifetime/scope management than anything else. What defines something as an object is the fact that it doesn't exist until it is constructed, and doesn't exist after it gets destructed (which is the case even for fundamental types, with the exception of char/std::byte, btw).

Hot take: RAII has basically taken over everything else as far as structural design foundation goes. Type erasure and encapsulation still play a role, but it's not nearly as fundamental anymore.
In some ways that is true, and in others that is not the case. For JSON support, PG really did lead the way as far as RDBMS' go. Things like range types are something I wish MSSQL supported when I used it at my day job.
Looking for a developer who speaks C
UnNamedCo. | Toronto, ON | Developer/Contractor | Onsite, very short

Micro start-up looking for a C-capable developer to run through some code over a couple of days to help us understand the syntax.

We're C-incapable and we are looking at potentially leveraging portions of an opensource package that is approximately 2500-lines of code. We'd like someone to walk through the source-code with us so that we can better understand what each field does/mean, and what dependencies may exist.

Ideally, the contractor would be onsite for a few days to work with one of our techs.

A solid understanding of Networking and Wide-Area-Networks is required.

If you're interested, please email me (founder) at cameron@ccmarketinggroup.ca and let's go from there.
That's trivial compared to the expectation of buying a new car, a $40k wedding, and getting a mortgage immediately after undergrad.
Ask HN: How do you keep open source project deliveries on time?
Projects developers by volunteers and corporate backed developers that have different delivery timescales and requirements from a project, how do you build a roadmap you can stick to?
net send * stop picking your nose
Not for me. I had a small claims case in San Francisco with a court date set about a month from when I first filed, and the entire thing was resolved in less than a year.
>You can have either Windows Defender or a hangup-free Windows Explorer, but not both

replace defender with a faster alternative - https://www.bitdefender.com/solutions/free.html
There should be a market for people like us. My personal network is not large enough to build a practice around. Have you had any ideas on this?
You know about clicking on the [-] next to the offending top-level comment, right? Seems it solves that problem.
Paying rent is for suckers.