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I have come to be against continuous delivery - in 'whole product terms' there are vast hidden expenses.

In particular - documentation and support.

Using complicated interfaces is very challenging sometimes, to the point of obscene - Google searches for help turn up a variety of outdated answers - and it's impossible to know what's what.

I'm using Facebook Ads right now quite a lot - it's complex system that just shifts like quicksand under your feet.

Users make incredible efforts to learn the product, only to have it shift away from them like a ghost.

Documentation may or may not be up to date.

Locations of things change.

And who can you ask? Where do you search for support? Facebook has never really provided me answers to many questions in their documentation.

Tiny example - an advisor used to know how to list people that have commented on a post, so that you could 'invite them to like your page'. But it's changed and now he can't find it. One small thing now that he doesn't know how to do, a tool list from his tool-chest.

And who really gains from all of this? Seriously? I don't think anyone.

Is that 'new feature' really that important? It needs to be rolled out 'now' instead of in a major/minor delivery?

These changes are seldom well communicated either.

I suggest the total opposite might be better: release major iterations every year, minor iterations quarterly, and patches as needed.

Every time there is a release - provide users friendly release notes - something they can read at a quick glance and get up to speed. A little 10 second video for every change: "Oh, now you can do XYZ like this"

This way - you have predictability and consistency so users can know how to 'keep up'.

Also - the ability to use the OLD interface where possible for at least 1 year, or something like that - that we users are not forced onto the quicksand.

"Ok it's Jan 1 - FB Ads 2019 is released in 1 month - let's go over the changes - Mary, you can be responsible for highlighting the major changes and communicating them to the rest of the team, and highlighting any risks for us"

Otherwise, you're trolling along, these companies make changes that could feasibly have major impact on your business and you're out to lunch.

Maybe internally continuous delivery could be a useful thing ... but for the world at large the downsides are real and the upsides are limited.
I don't think the problem is that we don't have enough buzzwords, but that the ones we already have are largely meaningless and pointless.
IMO the club is absolute junk, but is probably enough to deter mosy entry level kids who were taking cars to joyride in the 80s.
I think the answer is risk tolerance related for how much they would be sued without the testing. Many companies do risk analysis above and beyond what the minimal regulatory requirement if they feel it is more cost effective. That would be the number used in comparison.

That said the regulatory premium may still be the right thing to do given horrifying human costs and potential to leave everybody else holding the bag when they go bankrupt with expenses far beyond what they can pay. Even if you seize assets of the entire board in a criminal proceeding it is still possible to do more harm that can be repaired by the courts and thus make regulation the rational thing to do in addition to the right thing for a circumstance. Or the regulations could do more harm than good. In general regulations themselves aren't inherently good or evil but circumstantial.
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Sure, they are awesome languages.
We are talking about readability though, which unfortunately means your code has to be readable by "fresh out of school code monkeys" and not just experienced coders.
But at the same time, watering a lawn is incredibly wasteful of water, in a state that’s in a more or less perpetual drought at this point.

Long term you need regular controlled fires, and no one planting explosive trees (eucalyptus being a good Bay Area example of terrible ideas)
Wrong. Each of those hops is how many msec it took to go from point to point, sorry.
You, sir, are a God.
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Building a hardware product from scratch, getting it manufactured, and selling it.
Back in 2008 during the start of the economic downturn. I was fresh out of MBA studies, working as a management consultant.

I’d studied options and derivatives in my second year. From this, I further became interested in “real options”, which provides ways to value real decisions under conditions of uncertainty.

Anyway, we (as in the firm I worked for) were trying to figure out what was going with the economy, what it meant, and how we could make money off of it advising customers. So, we had a few group ideation meetings, stuff like that.

At this point in time in September-ish 2008, volatility in many prices for many basic things, like fuel, even some food like milk, started noticeably increasing. Like, fuel prices would go up and down $1 in a week.

I noticed, people started delaying purchases until they absolutely had no more time to delay. Like, car sales dramatically dropped. Many people stopped buying cars. Because, of the tangible levels of uncertainty they were beginning to feel.

One day, a connection just clicked with me, that option valuation theory could be really useful to help explain and predict, what was happening in the economy.

As volatility increases, option value increases. In the real world, volatility manifests itself as uncertainty. On a microeconomic level, the volatility linked uncertainty gave consumers and businesses a more valuable real option of postponement.

On a macroeconomic level, the individual decisions of consumers and businesses to postpone spending, contributed to a death spiral for the overall economy.

I’m no economist. But, I put these ideas together in a deck, centered around a pitch for 3M company, showed it to some directors. They loved it, formed a team around it, continued developing it, pitched to 3M, and it helped to sell millions in project work.

Meanwhile, after I had made the connection, it was really hard to stop thinking about it. It ties together a lot of branches, old schools of economics (which, by the way, you will be flayed for questioning) with finance (has a lot of assumptions built in, which you will also be flayed for questioning) with human behavior.

Continuing to think about these connections, led me to quit my job at the consulting firm, after I had made a good name for myself.

Ultimately led me to become an entrepreneur, to build a company more closely aligned with writing real options, which is what I feel like I do, every time we give a quote at BOM Quote Manufacturing.
I solved a performance bug that was probably going to cost my company the majority of our customers if we didn't sort it out as it made the app unusable. It had been going on for months. None of the dev team had any idea. APM was throwing out a bunch of red herrings. I haven't written a line of code in the app or a line of production Java (the codebase language) in my life. In the end I tracked it down to a single line of configuration code. Performance went from being atrocious to being one of the best performing apps I've ever seen.

This was not technically "hard" as in complicated but more so hard in the sense that it was very high stakes and the time pressure was high.
Yeah, I think I can cut through my steering wheel with a razor blade and a lot of time, or a pair of bolt cutters and a second or two.

Then just slide the Club off
Rain in California?
All Canadian airports have high AIFs (Toronto's is $25 for instance), and they are charged to everyone not just tourists.

It's more to do with how airports are structured and managed in Canada versus other countries. It's a user-pay model rather than having them subsidized by the government. In fact many actually pay ground rent to the federal government.
More they add things to firebase I am more confident that firebase gonna stay for longer.
I'm sure he learned much more useful stuff by coding up that monstrosity, and in the real world he can just google to look up those formulas he didn't memorize.

The fully elaborated version of the underlying principle is probably something like: "I have much better ways to spend my time than on memorizing formulas that I could easily look up later".
It looks like it was a Conference presentation -- perhaps it is in the proceedings. http://ccs2018.web.auth.gr/free-energy-principle-plays-doom-...
> when many people just a few years ago were still setting up systems in localtime when dual booting with Windows

I don't see what the user has to do with how time is internally kept on the system.
Admitting to significant academic fraud during a job interview is a very, very bad idea. Furthermore, I would question the ethics and morality of any company that said "Wow, you solved an incredibly tough problem in order to commit fraud. Boy, are we the place for you!"
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You have to take the slowing-down fuel with you on the speeding-up part of the trip though, which means it takes much more energy to speed up in the first place.
Ask HN: A way to quantify data and energy wasted on YouTube background music?
Why? GH already had 1M repositories when it raised its first round, were they not a startup before?
'Startup' is a noun. It's not "I want to start up something".

In reality, nobody is calling their new law firm a startup.

Nobody is referring to said law firms as startups.

Now - if it's a specialized kind of firm that sells services online, like a 'law marketplace' or something, maybe they will call it a startup.

Yes - the term startup is quite varied ...

However, the vast majority of business generally don't apply, so there is at least some kind of 'critical mass' to what we mean bu the word.

Generally 'a business' is not 'a startup'.
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Ah yes. Sorry this reply is so late.

My first php framework was something called php4gl back before ruby on rails was created. It used the command line to bake controllers and such. Just a private project never released. Lost the code now!

I also wrote another couple more php frameworks. I used one for all my personal side projects. And I wrote a couple for day jobs website over the years.

Actually it wasn't until Laravel came out that I was convinced NOT to write or use my own php framework ;)

So, now I've stopped writing php frameworks. But, I still write a CSS component framework from scratch for every project.

I wrote a really quirky javascript framework called Double Dollar that worked using a kernel pattern. Anyone I showed it to thought it was nuts. I abandoned it and now just use jquery for projects I work on like https://nugget.one

Probably the most sucessfull open source project I created was ezSQL. Wordpress ended up using it as their original database class and then as the API interface for their current wpdb database class. I think a lot of people probably curse me for that ;)
Bernard Williams said it would be similar if we divided cars into two classes: 4 wheel drive, and made in Japan.
What I mean is the use case where a user listens to music videos on their browser in the background. They are not on the tab or they do not have the window open. They are just looking for music. Aside from YouTube is there another way in the browser to listen to music?
> But it's the only way scientific discoveries ever get to patients, because universities don't make drugs.

Why not?

If there are so very few patients, a lab could easily produce enough for them.
Thats how business works in most of the major African countries I believe based on a few experiences there.
They wouldn’t actually say that of course. They would just think it.
Realize that, I was making a sarcastic joke. :)
What does my comment have to do with the Silicon Valley?

I'm not even in the Silicon Valley, nor is is the observation of the popular usage of a term 'arrogant'. It just 'is'.

Nobody is calling a regular roofing company a startup. If said roofing company is doing something entirely different, and probably growing at an accelerated pace ... like developing a new kind of integrated tile and application process ... then maybe people would refer to this as a startup.
Probably one of my harder ones was finding a memory leak in one of my servers. Didn't happen often, never in development and only leaked a fraction of a byte per request. Turns out it was a bug in the logger, where if on rolling the log and it couldn't open a new file, the logger would just queue up messages. Was a real pain to track down as we normally had plenty of disk for logs.
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Ironically, programs that one is likely to really miss in Unixes are probably closed-source. (I'm still mourning the absence of Totalcmd and Foobar2000.)
It's a blog entry with an anecdote that came from a write in in response to a story. You were expecting something else from a short blog post?
I think this comes from a misunderstanding of what philosophy is. Philosophy is not a science, and can never become one without threatening its current epistemic/ontological role -- objects like falsification, Quine's "best science", proof by contradiction, and argumentation from necessity exist as a substrate for scientific reasoning, and so repositioning them as objects of the science they support would involve circular reasoning[1].

Put another way: to "lift" philosophy into the domain of science would involve defining/formulating the guiding principles of sound/"good" science in their own terms.

(I was educated in the analytic tradition.)

[1]: It's worth noting that this only covers the philosophies of science and mathematics, not things like ethics, aesthetics, existence, &c. I think we can defend investigating the latter subjects as a consequence of science's inability to answer normative questions -- science can only tell us what is, not what ought to be.
Aeropress is awesome, I'm still using mine for 7 years with Able brewing's fine filter. You can make coffee for two by use more coffee ground and dilute with hot water.
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Sometimes selectively commenting stuff out really is the best way to figure out what is wrong.
Back in the 90s I had a club (a girlfriend bought it for me for Valentine’s Day, because it was red.) After a while I stopped locking it when I put it on, reasoning that if someone was determined enough to see it and still break into the car thinking they could get past it then there was no real point in actually locking it.
Spam filtering is alright (at least for me it's similar to Gmail), search has issues if you don't put the exact term I found, I don't like it that much. Fortunately, you can search with a lot of criteria and usually I find what I want.
Probably it's because this python implementation uses st.st_mtime (https://github.com/apenwarr/redo/blob/master/state.py#L314) which is a double and therefore is not precise to enough digits for maximum granularity.
Autonomous database from Oracle
Keep in mind the scarce few people that are actually affected by this disease. No doubt that this factored heavily into the high price.
Well depending on what is defined as "metaphysical" there is scant if any evidence. Scientists tend to dismiss things when there is no supporting evidence.
When you're younger, the problems are harder, and the success sweeter.

I earned my spurs (well, perhaps an enlisted stripe) back in the 1980's when I inherited a non-functional mess of an HP-85 Basic program to control an antenna test system. Many days in the Hanscom AFB RADC EE Propagation shack to get the RS-232 mag tape and IEEE HP-IB/GPIB/IEEE 488 custom hardware working. We kept bumping up against the HP-85's program storage capacity, so I had to remove most program comments, and actually shorten the variable names to get it all loaded into memory.

Then we got to fly that sucker on a pair of C-141B's from Wright Pat AFB, to Elmendorf AFB, then a flight over the North Pole, then to Thule AB, Greenland (9 days in November - do not recommend), then to RAF Lakenheath.

30 years on, I still make a living fixing crappy code.
Russians impersonating U.S. State Department aide in hacking campaign
Thanks! Literally had no idea
I once had to fix a rendering bug in the heart of Mozilla that prevented a XUL-based code editor from working properly on Linux - this was back in 2001. The bug was a one off error about eight layers deep in the XML layout system. It took me about two months of full time digging and nearly destroyed my life. But I found it!
Except as a result of the price tag, they priced themselves out of the market and any possibility of revenue. That is not a rational. And efficacy isn't really in question: Perfect cure or not, it has a vast increase in quality of life including the ability to have children, avoid pancreatitis, and enjoy alcoholic beverages to name a few. If insurance companies are covering replacement therapy to the tune of $300,000k/year, that would seem a pretty good sweet spot pricing that insurance companies would clamor to approve due to the savings over annual costs.
It doesn’t seem crazy to me that something that runs in kernel mode and uses kernel APIs should be in the kernel codebase. What are the downsides?
How Sheryl Sandberg Lost Her Feminist Street Cred
Unfortunately, this happens all the time, but not for the public good. Research universities use patent portfolios to increase their revenue by licensing inventions to companies that can manufacture the product.

For example in 2014 NYU earned $214M in IP licensing and nationally led the period from 2004-2010.
I think my GP has an objection to it being shared and being on top when there is nothing to learn from this in terms of ideas (which I share) and not to people hacking away.
Would you same the same thing about loops?

You can get away with just providing a 'while' loop (or maybe just goto and labels).

Most languages end up with a for and maybe a repeat-until syntax for the sake of natural looking constructs.
Bill Maher doesn't understand why people are mourning Stan Lee
And no one was willing to pay this much for the drug, but the inexplicably decided no revenue was better than lowering the price.
I've never heard of Pop OS, so I just read up on it a bit. Here's a nice rundown https://itsfoss.com/pop-os-linux-review/.
These attacks aren’t impractical at all. The very first announcement of spectre and meltdown came with trivial sample code.
It’s a twitter thread, it’s worth noting.
What is your target market? Why do they want it? Where are these people found? What are their concerns, criticisms or objections?
Yes and no. It’s authored by individuals in the broad analytic tradition, but:

1. A lot of people have an idea that “Analytic Philosophy” is a well defined school with some kind of shared theses and well-defined approach. That hasn’t been true for a long time, if it ever was. I’m not saying that there’s zero distinction between so-called analytic philosophy and any number of continental schools of thought, but if you think either side is homogenous, you’re wrong.

2. The SEP includes articles on non-analytic figures and movements by sympathetic authors. Those figures include historical philosophers, continental philosophers and non-Western philosophers.
Sounds like the club needs more "affordances" to help the user.

Maybe a sticker with ↑up↑ and ↓down↓ printed on it, in such a way that the text is upside down if the club is locked incorrectly.
So true. I think a startup should be what it literally denotes. A new business.
Just to comment on #4... I saw a housing development near Monterrey where the affordable housing is definitely not luxury marble. It actually looked like a 3 bedroom interior apartment. The townhouses on either side where way nicer but 2x the price.
*Itanium, and they would likely suffer from the same attacks (maybe not due to being a completely different architecture, but being from thw same company, not sure if there isn't crosspolination between the two), but dont think anyone has looked at them due to small market pressense.
No - retail space and housing have fixed supply. It's a finite resource, especially in historic city centres. Labour is also finite - would you want to live in a city where the only employment is in the hospitality sector?

Secondly - as I have already mentioned, tourists are price-insensitive, so businesses have no incentive to reduce prices by employing "economies of scale".
2017? Wow! My company shifted back in 2011!
Yeah, seems ripe for someone to pick this up and charge $100k a dose. Insurance companies would look at that as a deal compared to $300k/year for the alternative replacement therapy.
I did write that the parapets of London were just a detail, not the focus. I also mentioned that conurbations attract more people over time and land that was once sparsely populated soon gets crowded. In America this might seem unimaginable but if the internal combustion engine dies then so does American suburbia. Those 100ft exclusion zones are not going to last forever however you look at it. It could therefore be prudent to build your house so that if it goes up in flames it is not going to turn the whole town to ash, even if the whole town is not there yet.

My general point regarding the Great Fire of London being that fire prevention has been worked out a long time ago. Fire prevention with earthquakes is actually well worked out too. Despite American exceptionalism California is not special. Half of mankind lives in an earthquake zone. The reason for this is that the most fertile land happens to be in earthquake zones, you need some volcanic goodliness to make it so.

I accept the point made by the lumber lobby that wood is a great material for building houses. Wood can be marketed as fantastically earthquake proof if your quarterly sales matter more than the dreaded Spotted Owl. But is wood really what you want for a house that is an actual home? To last for generations? What if you live in Italy where earthquakes happen but there is no lumber lobby just up the road?

Time is money and convenience is king. It's the American Dream. There is no need to be encumbered by things like sensible building codes if there is no past and no imaginably sustainable future, just the urgent, dramatic now.

The culture of consumerism plays its part too. If you are a property speculator in a drought-stricken earthquake zone where fires ravage the countryside every single summer (unless it happens to be an el-Nino year when flooding takes over) then it could be hard to find a market for homes built to last for generations.

Why do that when you can flog a slapped together McMansion with double garage side portions for much more profit? It only has to last until the next boom/bust inflection, savings + loan scam or catastrophic 'act of god'. Hollywood's back lot sets are more substantial.

I very much like Californian vernacular architecture however I am far more likely to be taking pictures of the scenery rather than of any house when in California. The truly beautiful houses with character are outnumbered by seen-it-before identikit dwellings or those McMansions that have no taste whatsoever. I have actually got lost in several Californian built up areas due to the lack of unique landmarks. I haven't had that problem anywhere else, even Soviet era centrally planned housing can be navigated without feeling like you are stuck in some maze.

In summary, fires don't care if they are in California or anywhere else. The short-term-ist consumerist outlook that goes with the territory is the problem, not some unique combo of fires and earthquakes.