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> but also putting themselves in a place where they might have to go after people's salaries,

Disagree. Part of the term is that both parties will agree to a minimum salary that is not subject to dividends. So if you and the investor would have to agree in advance that founder salary will be $100k.

This clause protects them in the case, the founder decides to unilaterally pay themselves a $500k salary, but go back to the VC and say, "sorry, we had no profit this year. no dividend for you"
I was contractor for a while and never saw those $100-150/hr contracts. In my current company the contracting agency gets within that range but the contractors themselves see much less.
No, the BBC has an anti-Brexit agenda.
That's not my experience; plenty of productive artists (musicians, actors and photographers) among the smokers I know.
Thats an interesting point that doesn’t answer any of the questions the parent asked. :)

Perhaps you can answer this simpler one:

Netflix has been using clojure for a long time now; has that been a positive experience broadly speaking, that means clojure is still being used for new projects, or not?

Having a large successful project in clojure is lovely, but much of the community’s concern around it is that its hard to maintain, and falling in popularity, broadly speaking.

It would be very nice indeed to see those points addressed by a large scale user of clojure.
yeah those in the article seem a bit very light, but I don't think I've ever had more than 5% of my books in hardcover form and paperback has been the norm since the 80s...
The good to hear. I was kind of skeptical at first of it, and the name doesn't really help. But I liked their stated goals for it.
I have a 2018 butterfly keyboard and it's acceptable. Not as good as the pre-butterfly keyboards, but no sticking keys yet.
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I'm excited to give this database a try if I can find some free time.
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I think for reading fiction, ereaders are great, bascially because you read straight through and illustrations/ equations are not important.

I find for technical books, paper is far superior. The layout is much better for graphics/ equations, plus the traditional layout of a book (with some post it stickies) is optimized for easy navigation/ jumping back and forth.

One thing I miss about paper books is their three-dimensionality. If you are an experienced reader, knowing where you are in the thickness of a book is just as important for navigating the book as a whole as where you are in any given page. And I don't think the GUI bookmarks work quite as well as paper, personally.

Really, it is all about fractions of a second, but it adds up.

(Personally, I don't care about the aesthetics, feel and smell of the paper, blah blah, I just still think paper technical books win for .)
In theory, yes. I have thought about this as well.

At the same time, you need (a) the device where the account has already been set up and (b) the master password. I'm not exactly sure what an attacker might be able to do by changing the address, since by having both (a) and (b), he would already have access to your full account.
> Which means every time some one searches 'Python, the snake', that also gets counted as 'Python, the programming language'.

This is false.
How do you do health insurance?
That's GCP on preemptible nodes and you are correct.

Not a great deal.
They used to give out these things: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/One-QuickPAD-word-processor-H45-T... to students when I was in school for word processing. If I remember right it could display 2 lines of text on the screen at a time.
Our structure is 100% aligned with the founder. If they founder(s) take profits, we get a share of that. If it makes more sense to reinvest profits or if there currently aren't profits, we don't get paid and we do our best to help the founders in any way we can. We definitely would not be trying to go after salaries to increase profits (nor would we even have any mechanism to do so... no board seat or equity control).
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I don't know how expensive Sweeden is, but that $200k salary generally comes with rent of $2000-$3000 for a small one bedroom. Large swaths of Silicon Valley have average home prices well over $1 million USD.

And the tech sector here has excellent benefits relative to non-tech, but they still probably don't even come close to your country. 3-4 weeks paid vacation a year plus a few national holidays, 6-8 weeks paid parental leave. There are outliers that offer more, but generally aren't common.
Anecdotal but at my previous employer, women and some racial minorities were given a higher score during interviews because of their gender or race (this was explicit) and white men were de-prioritized. It was actually a disadvantage to be white.
It's not about shaming people. HN is full of West Coast FAANG SV employees who are outliers. It's easy for people to feel that their perfectly normal salaries are low.
Ask HN: Outsource cold email outreach list?
Received wisdom teaches us that cold emailing lots of potential customers is one of the best ways to get a b2b project off the ground. But I feel like building a 100 person email list is one of the tortures of the damned.

Has anyone tried outsourcing the dirty work of searching LinkedIn and Google for decision makers in your target market then tracking down their contact info? If so, can you suggest any strategies for success?

Note here that I'm excluding the higher value work of understanding the contacts needs and doing the actual personalized communication.
As a tech worker who started close to Cardiff i've slowly moved down the M4 as my career has progressed. Jobs over 60k are rare outside of London - > Bristol and all towns in between.
My contracting rate was double my hourly rate...
>a faulty understanding of the reason for certain online exceptions to the general traditional legal liability of publishers, which is not lack of responsibility (otherwise they would apply to publishers more generally)

Are you saying that they aren't exempted from responsibility because they are not responsible, but because it's better that they not be held responsible?

Why would they apply to publishers more generally if it was about lack of responsibility? If you recall the decisions about the Communications Decency Act, it states that - "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider."

This means that people that own or operate forums are not treated as publishers of the content on forums, and removes the responsibilities of being such a publisher. The act was passed in part because providers said it was injurious to force them to regulate all content - they shouldn't be responsible because they couldn't regulate content without massive cost.

Now you're saying that they should regulate all content - ok, but if that's the case then they should be treated as publishers of said content, since they can decide on a case-by-case basis what is and is not published on their platform.
Did you have any leverage with the counterparty?
Well I gave you an upvote, because it's true.
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Fort Lauderdale, FL

2011-2012 Intern test engineer at a small software shop, $15/hr

2013-2014 Full time test engineer at same small software shop. Starting $45k, ending $50k

2014-2018 Full time software engineer at a larger corporate place, starting 82k currently 105k

All of the above doing systems programming with c/c++ mostly and a drop of powershell and C#
Is this a trick question? If you are in the market for a smaller than 13” computer then that’s that.
In the article they say they are offering London salaries. Fine. But Cardiff is not the same as London!

London is huge comapred to Cardiff. Cardiff has about 500,000 people in its urban area compared to 10,000,000 in London, and Cardiff is about 30 square miles compared to almost 700 square miles for London [1]. As such London just has a lot more going on - theatre, museums, nightlife, restaurants, sports, shopping, meet-ups, career-possibilities, transport, galleries... you name it there is more of it in London, and its also generally all very good or even world-class quality. Sure Cardiff has some stuff going on and has its own cultural & social activities, but it is in no way even in the same league as London by any stretch.

As a result you're not going to lure someone to Cardiff by just matching London salaries - who would give up London to go to Cardiff to get the same salary but a culturally and socially moribund (by comparison) experience? You have to offer them something above and beyond. Not everyone likes hiking & nature, and I'd wager that most people in these salary ranges aren't that badly impacted by high property prices in London.

Perhaps offer salaries that are more than London and then see if the applications start rolling in?

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiff & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London
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I understand and I agree with you for the most part. My response was to the "It boggles my mind that salaries can be so much lower in parts of Europe" comment above me.

Software Engineers definitely get paid more in the US than in the EU. But some of the difference can be explained by it. Although I don't think software engineers in either country have much to complain about.

That being said, these perks that I listed go for everyone in the country, not just the top % of all working people. In one form or another this is paid for by people who can, like software engineers.

p.s. 4 weeks is the legal minimum amount of vacation days here. Most people have double that.
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What are the up-and-coming boards? Lainchan seemed ok for a while but users are exactly as you described. Also, it's pretty much dead.
This looks awesome. I'm continually surprised by the improvements made to VS Code. I love both Jupyter and VS Code, and having both merged seems great for my use case (and anyone else doing exploratory code).

Props!
I have the A485, Windows is oddly a shit show with drivers. But linux is great with Arch and proton gaming. With the fat battery, it has great battery to boot

I will say Ryzen APU is very janky. The new model should be coming soon. Though it took a year and half for the first mobile apus to become obtainable.
They just raised £15 million in series B, enough to pay those 100 engineers £100k each for... 1.5 years, assuming zero overhead and no other expenses?

Edit: also assuming no revenue, so I don't know. Is that normal startup math?

Double edit: Crunchbase revenue estimate is $20.9M.
It's a summary of three books and how they are showcasing a larger story of the tech industry under fire I guess.
The kind of product that needs a lot of bespoke customization for each customer.
I have also known a number of very bright, productive, motivated, successful scientists, engineers, and developers who consume cannabis.

Some have spoken highly of brainstorming while stoned, fleshing out the details and narrowing their scope and intentions as they sober up, while others say that it helps them concentrate by slowing down their racing thoughts.

And while I've known people who've used it to waste their lives away, that's true of so many things.
My experience totally reflects this. Most enterprise IT infrastructure is idle the majority of the time.

I'm running infrastructure for a SaaS app in k8s. I feel like I'm doing well sustaining >50% efficiency, i.e. all cores running >50% all the time and more than half the memory consumed for things that aren't page cache. Hard to get better efficiency without creating hot spots.
Nutrients don't give food taste though. Mostly acids and other non vital alkaloids and terpenes do..
To a lesser extent, that's part of what hospice / palliative care is. Not to the extent that it's purely recreational, but often involve continued use of opiods for pain management.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palliative_care#Physical_pain
It is, but harder to get in non-legal markets (most of the US right now). I work in the industry and the trend seems to be more towards purer concentrates like wax and oil - the margins on those are incredible
Traditional crystals come in what's referred to as a "hermetic metal can", i.e. a metal box soldered closed with leads going through glass seals. I don't know if that's good enough for Helium.

The sealing is mostly because of humidity. I wouldn't expect quartz crytals to be overly sensitive to some gas, since they're basically tuning forks; the crystal physically vibrates in a resonance mode caused by and inducing an electric current across the crystal.
Seems like your misreading me for some kind of pretentious father who has the answer to everything. Which I'm not, I just made choices. We should stop here.
When I was learning R a while ago I hacked on similar things [1]. I even took a shot at Linear Regression in Elixir [2]

[1] https://github.com/milosgajdos83/ml-examples/tree/master/rla...

[2] https://github.com/milosgajdos83/ml-examples/tree/master/eli...
more portability.
Terminal patients are often given lethal doses of morphine near the end.
If you read the article closely, it says that traffic was diverted via its PoP on the west coast (presumably in the US). The article isn't saying that there is a cable going out from Canada.
It's a spectrum and what's being advocated is using the right tool for the right job.

Rendering the marketing pages of the site -> HTML+CSS

Need to add the tiniest bit of interactivity -> jQuery

Have a "module" of functionality that -> SPA
While I can say I have the experience of not 'growing' at times (now), I would never say that's the weed's fault. Mostly because I've felt the exact same thing before ever smoking weed (I didn't smoke until my 30s). It's depression for me, and it's pervasive.

That said I can say that having depression (and a bit of PTSD) is way more of a hell without the weed to take my mind off it. And even if it's just playing a video game for 6 hours (rimworld is my current 2nd drug) that's far more active and engaging than my typical super depressed not leaving my bed state.

I also think bettering yourself and being a success isn't a one-size-fits-all package. I have a friend who smoked so much damn weed it's a wonder they have any brains left. They learned to play league of legends 10+ hours a day sometimes while high as a kite. They're now making multiple times the money streaming on twitch than they ever would've with any job they would be qualified for. They're the happiest they've ever been, met their SO through twitch, and are living the good life all by ignoring the advice being given here.
Those "cannabis activists" are most likely a (very vocal) minority... I don't know of anyone that _seriously_ hypes pot as a safe thing, and we have a lot of smokers here in Quebec (last official numbers were ~15% in 2015, pretty sure it's actually higher than that), so it's not hard to find one. There was probably "alcohol activists" back in prohibition, so I'd say this could also be a side-effect of its illegal status.

> There is a reason that under current law using/selling drugs is punished

There was also a law that prohibited alcohol for a time. I am also prohibited under Canadian law from pretending to practice witchcraft. Talking about differences, there is a big difference between legal and legitimate.
You and I have a very different idea of "TSA style." Prior the 9/11, there were essentially no restrictions on what you could carry onboard, and you weren't required to show ID. An associate of mine regularly carried his chainsaw on planes well after the 70s (needed for his occupation) - let me know how that goes today.
$2MM RSU over 4 years is $500k in stock compensation. That kind of comp is less about field and more about level. You're looking at an L7+ for that kind of comp at any of the big companies (maybe L8?). So Senior Staff/Principal Engineer type of deal.
This was the biggest pain point to me when looking for a new laptop. I wanted something where I could game after a day on the road lightly But no NVIDIA, It doesn't help AMD has subpar graphics performance per watt compared tt pascal.

I will say all my intel thinkpads were flawless with arch. My new a485(ryzen apu) is almost there
Good point - personally, I am skeptical whether weed increases creativity. I never experienced that. I just don't like the weed-bashing from the angle of the you-have-to-be-productive-dogma.
That is a complete red herring. No one on this thread said any of those things. I think the media and internet portrayal of China these days is fairly accurate: a country filled gleaming new cities and hordes of well-off people, and also one in which you can get executed for stealing, disappeared for practicing the wrong religion, and tortured (or worse) for speaking out against the government.

Also the fact that you seem to equate shopping with freedom strikes me as very American :-)
Yep, same thing happened to me. I was a computer operator for a small company that was trying to start a new line of business in the mid 90s. I was introduced as their "lead developer with 5+ years of experience". The "experience" was writing Applesoft Basic and Assembly language programs in middle school and high school and doing a contract for a college while I was in college writing HyperCard Stacks....

Now 20 years later, I'm introduced as the "Lead AWS Architect" because I have about a year of experience with AWS and three certs....
I love Elixir but it's worth noting that I'd be hard-pressed to recommend it for every project because of the performance and base OS integration characteristics of the BEAM. The BEAM is a truly amazing piece of software and I do think that Erlang and Elixir are the true microservices dream we all wanted, but the BEAM uses preemptive scheduling and doing things like spinning up a new OS process can be a lot more work in Erlang than you'd deal with in other languages
jahaja makes a completely unprovoked personal attack on me, linking to a totally unrelated thread and slandering me, but I am the problem for responding politely and without personal attacks? That seems odd. Are there some unwritten rules that maybe should be written? If I'm not allowed to discuss certain topics that's fine, but it helps if I know in advance what those are. It doesn't need to be an exhaustive list, even a "all posts must conform to current progressive ideology" or something would at least give us a good idea of what mustn't be spoken.
PostGIS user here -- this feature makes a big difference on common workloads for analysis (Ubuntu 1604, PG10).

a common case is a commmon table expression (CTE) as a filter with a spatial test on the result set e.g.

with tmpset as (<select on a common attribute>)
SELECT count(star), <spatial-test> from 2GB_table GROUP BY <spatial-test> order by count(star) asc;

example run:
gather Workers Planned: 12; Workers Launched 12
Parallel Seq Scan on 2GB_table

shared_mem, work_mem set to 8GB or so.. other details on request.
> how about you mind your own business and let others do the same.

said on a public forum in reply to a comment on
a public forum...¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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It's nice to see Wired still has their visual panache, but how do I get rid of the pop-up ad covering half the screen?
That, and the way what I'm reading keeps jumping around as images load in and f' up the layout.

Truly this is the progress we all hoped to see in computing in 2018.
A paper slave? Really?
Yes, it is perfectly normal for people to experiment with substances when they come of-age.

Chronic drug use is no joke, but at least half the people I know used psychedelics in their early 20's.

Most people drink, and most people have used cannabis at least once.

What isn't normal is demonizing all forms of substance use, without properly differentiating it from substance abuse.
And that's how your local newspaper serves you telephone numbers to ambulance chasers and medicare fraudsters.
It's $97,600 of tax-free income per year. You have to establish that you're not a US resident. The easy way to do this is to spend <33 days per year in the US. The slightly harder way is to establish a "bona fide residence" outside the US, which allows you to spend more than 33 days per year visiting the US, but requires that you sever more ties. In practice, it's not very hard to pull off, if you're genuinely not living in the US.

You can also write off some living expenses. It works out to approximately $125k/year that you can earn before you have to pay any tax. You still have to file a federal return, even if you don't owe. If you earn $150k/yr, you pay tax on the ~$25k, at the tax rate for your full salary bracket.

Source: Not a lawyer or accountant, but lived and worked overseas for three years, so have done all this.

https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/fore...
This was my thought too; even though the article is from a pro-Apple site, the author wasn't trying to make any excuses, he just laid out the facts. He didn't bother trying to address WHY one would try to raise ASP; margin is obviously one reason, but simply keeping up with inflation is another.
Not only is the emphasis on hard covers for new release - meaning you have to wait a bit to get a decent paperback - but the paperback sizes are always too huge to fit into a jacket pocket.
I am continually amazed at the cynical attempt by hiring managers to try to pretend that the laws of supply and demand shouldn't apply to non-exec level staff. If you can't hire the people you want for what you're offering that should be a signal to pay more, not to whine that you can't force your idea of a reasonable wage on others.
I evaluated this heavily but had to backoff because scale is limited to a single machine. Really eager for their clustering solution.
Four months is a very short time, but can feel very long. You need at least six months to really understand a complex codebase. I'm in a similar situation as you, our code is terrible and ugly but after digging deep I've started to see some of the reasons why the code is the way it is.
My approach has been to pick the most difficult problems that nobody else can fix, and fix them. It's painful but the payoff is pretty good.
Also Cardiff doesn't have London's high cost of living and ridiculous property prices. So if you get a London equivalent wage then you have a lot more disposable income if you live and work in Cardiff.
>feature which lets users auto-download config files into the application's directory

FWIW irssi has this feature today.

It’s not on by default, just like it wasn’t in mIRC 20 years ago.

I don’t think you’re making a very convincing case that mIRC was particularly bad.
I think one way of having a productive comparison is to use percentage points on wage increases; that way it doesnt matter location or currency, cost of living etc. as these can be reflected in base salary as a proxy.
You don't have to be a politically-focused website to be a political echo chamber. Clearly politics are a common discussion point on that forum.
Thank you!

I've actually started learning Squeak/Smalltalk recently, and the possibility of using actor model is a great additional motivator, since I'm interested in agent-oriented programming.
Thanks for the detail. I can clearly see the benefit of a couple orders of magnitude less latency.
Also assuming zero additional revenue.