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What the heck is “National Landing”? I’ve lived in this area for over a decade and that’s the first time I’ve heard the name.
Modern torpedoes are quite impressive, do damage via cavitation. Not sure how detectable they are.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_48_torpedo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV8MF-440xg
> Maybe having the machine just switch on to BASIC alone was enough to get people involved.

Reminds me of this recent conversation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18228740

Personally, while I think the power on to BASIC definitely was compelling at the time, and it lead to many years of hacking fun for me too in the 80s, I don’t think it can work anymore. It wasn’t just having BASIC, it was having BASIC and also having nothing else to do, except maybe a couple of crappy games that were either too hard or too boring after a few minutes. Today, there’s a vast ocean of amazing choice, and kids don’t have the patience for something like a BASIC terminal. I’ve tried and tried with my kids, and they can’t bring themselves to choose programming or playing in a text shell, even though they’re super interested in the ideas and want to learn to make games.
there are only 4 review total: they are 2 from Indiegogo backers, 2 from Giveaways in 2017 & 2018. I asked them to write a review of their personal experience from using the RBT Rebel. A couple of backers recently have tried but told us it's not permitted to write up reviews on Amazon anymore. You can look up who these people are, they're not fakes.
I know people keep saying this, but resizing the browser is not really a viable solution with today's messed up web. Sure, I can resize the browser for this blog using full width lines but then I have to resize my browser again for another website because the other website chooses to waste half of the horizontal real estate with meaningless stuff. As a user, I can't keep resizing the browser for every site I visit.
Knew that they wouldn't pick Toronto - Trump would have blown a gasket
I've always felt that ability to accept that I'm wrong was essential to being any good at what I do ("write software") because of course the machine is (almost without exception) right and so almost always when I do something and it doesn't work that's because I got something wrong. I thought the variable was named something else, I thought the content type defaults to XML, I thought the input value is never zero, I thought that tiny change didn't need me to re-run the unit tests...

I find that being constantly confronted by the fact that I'm wrong in what I do for a living (and a hobby) sets me up to handle the same elsewhere in a more healthy way.

Example: I really like the intuitive explanation of what's actually going on with digital audio in Xiph's "Digital Show and Tell" and I often cite that when other people don't seem to understand - but this isn't because it was always obvious to me that's how it works. On the contrary, I find their explanation compelling because it directly confronts a common misunderstanding I had when I was younger. This misunderstanding was resolved by a friend & ex-colleague showing me more or less what Monty shows in the video (but with whatever gear he happened to have in his flat). Just like the video, he showed me that what I had believed was defied by the observable facts, and voilà my eyes were opened.
And it keeps on ignoring the "don't ask me about Chrome / Safari again" toggle...
"By the way you're a good looking group. Thank you for taking care of yourselves. Last week I spoke to a group that was butt ugly and it was really difficult. Speaker's burden, so... thanks for taking care of yourselves" Now THAT is a technique haha.

This guy's so amped up and excited about this stuff it's amazing - even if you are not interested in steam heat, you are now!

EDIT: This presentation is also great - similar, but more history: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkgM0qCy5o4
> My landlord and the owner of the company I work for both came to the US from Iran

For one example of success there are 100s if not 1000s of examples where they failed and relied on government handouts.

Also, how did "diversity visa" help in this case? Those guys succeeded because they were smart and hardworking. Clearly their country of origin did not make them successful.
Well, Apple did miss iPhone sales this past quarter and the quarter before (and maybe the quarter in between)...so it's not exactly chicken little. They have beaten their EPS target, and we have been in a strong bull market so the stock has shrugged it off.
It's sad that most of the comments seem to suggest that while it is not ideal, this is indeed the rule and either the links should be opened in safari or this is nothing new. That such a common functionality isn't allowed on ios while showing arbitrary enforcement is a real travesty. I'm surprised how tepid most of the comments are.
Totally agree.

I'm pro-Remain but it still disturbs me that it never gives any kind of an airing to a pro-Brexit voice.
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Don't point them to, INCLUDE.

#1 rule of dealing with bureaucrats: They are lazier than you can possibly imagine. Indulge them.
"If you see something that's old and it's been there for a long time and it's working, don't laugh at it."
I read your title a little differently. I have to say as we age it becomes harder to do entrepreneur stuff. Once you start a family and have more than one kid, you literally are strapped for time.

Take advantage of every minute you have if you really want it.
Medium also liberates writers from social stuff. It has claps, comments, etc, but also when you share a Medium article on Twitter or Facebook you have all the meta-tags to make it look good.

Also, no infrastructure headaches either.
You can make good use of the startup people by making them repeat the success in new markets. Sacking them is such a waste of talent.
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You don’t even need an onion article for the US:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/21/business/preg...
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Thank you for teaching us a valuable lesson. And thank you for bringing "civilization" to India. We have learnt our lessons well from our white Masters. We Indian slaves are forever in your debt. I am sure there will be more lessons to learn.. for all of us..
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My question is, why do we need a React/Redux for PWAs all the time? It is slow on cellular data, freezes phones without the latest Chrome, all in all feels laggy compared to a native app.

The thing is you can easily add "Progressiveness" to your website with Service workers and using open source libraries to add instant on-page navigation without repaint.

The only place I find an SPA is appropriate is anywhere else but e-commerce websites, which is one of the main target of Google's PWA initiative, to build a collective resistance to Amazon, which has one of the highest converting pages.

Your conversion rates will naturally go up when people are able to checkout quickly with minimal cognitive load, this does not mean that a React app is appropriate or feasible, especially when e-commerce businesses that rely on older phones, when smartphones are approaching 1000 USD
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It doesn't sound obvious or universally true to me. For example: what if the expensive product is of only 1% better quality than the cheap product? Will people who use the expensive product not think that they are paying too much for too little gain, and switch to the cheaper product?
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Does anyone have any more information on what sort of structure, organization cultural things can be put in place to help a company function fully remote?
Could be from mismanagement of the company that runs the billboards. People don't just call in and ask (usually) and want to buy a spot...you have a sales team and they go out and sell them spots.
One hopes the edit button will not work if someone has already liked the tweet. Or else editing will reset the likes and retweets to zero.
Doubtful. I for one am less likely to click medium links because I know they'll be more bloated on average than the average person's self-hosted blog.
At least for me and some other people, medium.com is a negative signal of quality. Medium is full of low-quality and marketing articles, I'll associate your links with that, and me only seeing "medium.com" on e.g. HN means you don't have a chance of establishing a "brand" I trust by recognizing your domain as "good" after a few articles.

EDIT: adressing your edit, do you have any evidence they wouldn't be if they weren't on medium.com?
GitLab actually has their entire handbook open: https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/
Sure, less desirable, but you you can buy n humidifiers
"National Landing is the newly defined interconnected and walkable neighborhood that encompasses Crystal City, the eastern portion of Pentagon City and the northern portion of Potomac Yard. "

https://nationallanding.com/
Why not change the title to something like "internet vulnerability blocked access to Google"?
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I doubt that has any value. People blindly click things mostly based on the headline and the fact that it has been upvoted.
I think that when you suppress freedom systematically, stuff find other ways to come out, and it comes out ugly. (Like when you suppress healthy sexuality).

That explains the weird stuff floating around Vietnam social media (which is a smaller scale version).
Sorry, I'm not letting you get away with an illogical argument here. There's nothing hypocritical about the authors of web.dev making an auditing tool because some other people who work for the same company work on site that (may) do badly.

In fact, it wouldn't be hypocritical even if the authors of web.dev themselves worked on a site that did badly.

It is, after all, a tool. It's not a declaration of superior intellect. It's not an article of condescension. It's a tool.
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More to the point, it's practically impossible to judge a font's mood from the list of glyphs instead of a sample text. A related gripe is that Google Fonts only allows to see a short line of a custom text—I usually go to other sites just because of this misfeature.
"it is wholly irrelevant"

Nonsense. It seems like the developer was willing to make any changes Apple wished in order to conform to their policies. His impediment was that he could not figure out what those changes were.

If very similar app X is ok, and my app is not, then asking what the crucial difference is, is a very apt question which may lead directly to the specific issue.

If we cant be sensible, ask sensible questions and have a sensible conversation about an issue with another human, in order to try and resolve a problem in good faith, then I guess we should all just go stick our heads in buckets of water.
Have you considered seeking therapy to work on your fears?
> To aid reproducibility, we open source our entire approach.

Probably because it's a draft but I was not able to find any source code (looked up the authors github repos and websites)

Also the end of the conclusion is pretty interesting:

> Our future work will focus on combining reverse
DNS hostname information with WHOIS databases and network
delay to form a geolocation database across the entire IP space
Eh.

I have a 40in monitor, a 13in monitor, and a 7in monitor.

It's impossible for a site developer to know how much space to allocate to their page.

On the 40in screen it would be asinine for me to maximise it, for example.

It's completely unsurprising to me that I can resize the window into a state where the website becomes silly. I just don't do that.

Resizing a window is trivial, it's not that you can't, it's that you won't.

edit: Obviously I know what responsive design is. I'm on Hacker News. The author hasn't done it (probably because they have better things to do), you have a trivial option to work around it.

The contrast to be drawn is with a site like Medium that deliberately goes out of its' way to be annoying and harder to use for some vague profitability goal.
Google is still trying to convince everyone that web apps don't suck
This is a really bad idea. These platforms like Apple and Google control large online ecosystems, and they're known to permaban people across the board when they step out of line. There are dozens of stories about Google basically terminating all relationships with someone (including their Gmail, Drive content, etc.) over Play Store dev account hijinks.

I presume the author of the article has an iPhone. If he intends to be able to use an iPhone, screwing around with making Apple accounts that pretend to be different people to sneak an app past the reviews is not a good decision. The developer could find themselves unable to use any Apple account or service.
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It's not just you. Apparently they decided to create a new name for this announcement.

https://www.washingtonian.com/2018/11/13/did-amazon-just-ren...
Often mentioned on HN, Jonathan Haidt's The Righteous Mind (https://www.amazon.com/Righteous-Mind-Divided-Politics-Relig...) is a worthy read. Briefly: Almost everyone comes up with the conclusion first, and rationale later. The former drives the latter. He gives examples from studies where people gave responses similar to what this paper has: Very poor reasons, and occasionally nonsensical ones.

This is true for pretty much everyone - don't go and count yourself as the exception. The more intelligent you are, the more refined your reasoning, but there's evidence to show that intelligence will not lower the bias. Counterarguments from others as intelligent or more intelligent will. One of the curses of being more intelligent is that if you hold a biased view, you usually need someone as smart as you to change your mind. The smarter you get, the fewer people there are who can help remove your bias.

Some people are more objective than others, but often only in a limited domain - not in their whole lives.

>However, 20 per cent of justifications were subjective and involved making a reference to one’s cultural identity, personal experience.

The book also touches on this. In my personal experience, fact based reasoning is rarer than this. There are many reasons people believe something. Attempting to discern the Truth is usually in the minority. It is to be expected that all the other reasons will be more prevalent - they simply have more utility than merely gaining knowledge. It shouldn't surprise people that factual reasoning is rare - it has little utility in most spheres of life. Much less than social cohesion and tribalism does.

Consider the issue of intelligence, and its spread across various groups (usually race and gender). It's very common to find a very well educated person insist that everyone is born equally with the same mental/intelligence potential, and differences exist merely in the extent they foster it. When asked for their rationale/evidence, the answer is usually a variant of "I choose to believe it" (usually for ideological or cultural reasons). I'm not referring only to ordinary folks, but also to university academics, etc.

(I'm not saying that they are factually wrong - merely the reasons they believe it are not based on any facts).

>whether they agreed with the scientific consensus on climate change, vaccines, genetically modified (GMO) foods and evolution

Two of those items (vaccines and GMO foods) touch on a strongly cultural force on purity. The book shows that a lot of people value purity (likely a genetic trait). They associate food consumption not just with physical health, but also mental/spiritual health. So they are quite sensitive to "unnatural" or foreign agents going into their bodies.
Kind of, mostly because I don't trust the media to differentiate between rogue actors doing some port sniffing and targeted state-sponsored hacking.

For example, I'm fairly convinced most fake news is about making a quick buck, not about actually influencing the illection.
Even my google autocomplete couldn’t figure out out after I had typed “National Landi”. It seems this is some made up term to encompass a couple of areas of different towns. More here: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bizjournals.com/washington/...
After Mongols were gone, Europeans were simply the best at organizing large scale, multi-year wars. Big war is all about logistics. Troops need to be fed constantly.

By the rate of death per 100,000 people Thirty Year's War was as violent as the two world wars. source: https://slides.ourworldindata.org/war-and-violence/#/6

Thirty Year's War was basically Europeans being religious nuts and solving the issue by fighting until exhaustion. The original reason for the continuous war was long forgotten when everyone was done. In the end Europeans just agreed to hate each others religion and just fight the normal amount.
Wouldn't you call two new offices that are smaller than the headquarters "satellite offices"?

It really does feel like Amazon successfully played a lot of municipalities against each other to try and extract the biggest concessions, knowing all along that it didn't make sense to try and hire 50000 people in a decade in any one location.

I know that's how the game is played, but it's still feels a little disingenuous.
Here's the thing: your browser has a handy tool to increase/decrease font size. Usually it will also scale the images in sensible ways. And it's available via keyboard shortcuts, so it's easy to zoom in/out.

Also this format works great with the browser's "Reader" function.
Tax kickbacks of $48k/job in NY and $22k/job in VA wth average salary of $150k/yr. Also $325mil in NY and $23mil in VA for just occupying the space. All well below the projected billions in direct investment and tax amounts.

Not sure whether worth it or not, but it's all around economic growth which I see as a good thing in general. We can argue about public funds and growing pains, but this problem is better than the opposite problem. If you are in the area and oppose along with the majority of your peers, say so at the polls. But I wouldn't be surprised to find that, outside of pro-tax/anti-big-corp circles, this is gleefully welcomed.
Ok, so Amazon is trying to declare these three areas to be one big neighborhood with a fancy new name. They certainly don’t think small! I don’t like the name but otherwise they make it sound pretty good.
I have found Reddit to be a very hostile place to post content. You post your blog post. Regardless of how much hard work you put into your content, the first few comments on Reddit are going to be a snarky one that attacks some trivial point and adds nothing to the discussion. I don't know why people do that.

HN, on the other hand, feels like a more matured community. Any other such matured communities where one can feel comfortable about posting their blog posts?
The front-and-center 'voiced by AWS Polly' dogfooding is great but it sure does sound like crap. Ironically it struggles to pronounce the word Milan.
Yeah but maybe (cannot be sure on this) other people are sharing the links because they browse Medium
How would you feel if clicking a weblink or hitting submit took 10 seconds?
I took piano in college...and failed to learn it. Because I failed to practice, the root cause of which (in my mind) was the utterly uninteresting and unfamiliar drills.

Now drills are going to be boring, but when there wasn't a single piece I recognized, your 10th time through "Turkey in the hay" is both uninteresting and hard to know how your screwing up. I made more progress when I spent two weeks on my own trying moonlight sonata.

I dont recommend that piece to start with, and I do recommend a diversity to practice on, but finding tunes at a suitable difficulty that you KNOW can make a big difference - hearing what's wrong, getting a thrill when it sounds close enough to recognizable - these were completely missing in my class, and while I likely still wouldn't have put in enough practice time (dating had more thrills) it would have been much easier.

I've been kicking around the idea of taking it up again for 20 years, and this is the one change I would make.
I wrote my backend blog code mainly so I could have a step above a static site gen, but allow for future expansion in weird ways if i want to do that.
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I think you're hitting on part of the real pleasure of software development here. Software is the real world. You can't negotiate, you can't beg, you can't bully, you can't do any of those human interactions to make it work. If the code doesn't work, the problem is almost certainly between the keyboard and the chair. As such, it's very rewarding when we get it right. We're displaying mastery over our environment.

The book Shop Class as Soulcraft, by Matthew B. Crawford, goes into this extensively. He's talking about more physical labor, but I find the substance applies to software as well. (And although I love the book, you can save a lot of time by googling his original essay, which is a much shorter and more concise read.) Crawford argues that labor against physical reality, as opposed to human interaction, drives both intellect and morality. It's a key to living an ethical life.
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It would be the same logic if Hitler’s dog loved him for being a Nazi (killing Jews, conquering Europe), rather than because of petting and food and playtime.
We lost the bidding war. Seeing what concessions the other cities coughed up ... I'm maybe glad we didn't "win".
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As some anecdotal evidence, I get about half of my Medium views from people browsing the Medium app/feed. That's definitely been the number one reason I've stayed on the platform.

Perhaps someone should develop a platform that creates the same discoverability, but while allowing people to retain control of the content?
I am happy to share feedback with the Polly team! Can you be more specific about what you believe sounds bad?
> Long Island City is a mixed-use community where arts and industry intersect

It's mostly empty warehouses, housing projects, and luxury condos. There's very little in terms of culture or even basic needs, like grocery stores.

> Long Island City has some of the best transit access in New York City, with 8 subway lines, 13 bus lines, commuter rail, a bike-sharing service, and ferries serving the area

Realistically it's the densely overcrowded 7 train, getting worse each year, with no relief in sight. Once the L shuts down in 2019 the G will be absolutely overrun.

> and LaGuardia and JFK airports are in close proximity

Getting to LGA involves taking a train to a bus, by car it's a breeze, JFK is an hour away by train.
I have been working hard on debunking belief-systems that are in science itself and in its communities.

A lot of science is based on procedures and theories that automatically create certain results. As long people do not see this, it makes no sense comparing one belief-system versus another.
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