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> This really seems like a matter of the OP not knowing what they're missing and then flaunting that ignorance.

In fact, I added that I never used Dropbox to give context on my perspective. I am not sure that qualifies as 'flaunting that ignorance'.

Regarding the delta-sync feature: That is, in fact, a feature neither Nextcloud nor Owncloud posses at the moment. On the other hand, it would not be that beneficial to my use-cases since I rarely have large files within my synced folders and most of the time I have a GBit connection to my Nextcloud. So I guess I am missing not that much (at least with my current usage pattern).

Granted, for some use-cases, it is essential and bringing such a feature to all major platforms is not a trivial task. Yet I still wonder if protecting the implementation is necessary since the comments in the Nextcloud issue suggest that the primary problem the availability of the developer is (who might have an easier job if he could take a look at the Dropbox code, but ultimately he would have to write an implementation that integrates with his project).

And ultimately I wonder what makes people decide which service they want to use. For many people, it sure is the little friction you encounter during the setup of Dropbox. For me, it is not that much about the features of the client software but about the features of the larger system. Being able to host my own server is essential to me. Having an open source implementation is a nice add-on, which I value and made use of already. AFAIK those features are not available with Dropbox I seriously doubt my previous comment qualifies as flaunting ignorance.
Doesn't matter, listening to their lawyers doesn't make it right. Lawyers exist to protect their clients from legal exposure, not to provide a moral compass.

If Google's goal is truly to create a safer work environment for everyone, then this is a no-brainer. They had zero problems giving a known-harasser millions to walk away quietly but now they're fighting to avoid responsibility for cases already in the system. Reeks of hypocrisy.
My understanding of the social context was that his views were extreme even for his era. Eg, I gave two examples of his authors who were less extreme than he was.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 prohibited racial discrimination in voting. Blacks could and did certainly vote long before then. Blacks, for example, voted immediately after the Civil War. It wasn't until the end of the Reconstruction Era and the repeal of most of the Enforcement Acts that blacks were deliberately disenfranchised by state governments run by racist whites.
> there’s no difference between ridiculously shitty code that works, and beautiful, well-organized code that works.

Unfortunately that's not true. If "shitty code that works" requires three days to be understood in order to make a small change that became a delivery issue and three days in a problem that can be solved in one hour are $$ that somebody is paying. In addition "shitty code that works" most of the time has scalability and performance issues sooner or later you need to address if you don't want it to implode.

> where would you like to go from there?

I can also keep staying in this position, I just don't like to have a manager that I'm not even proud of. And, by the way, I'd like to be in a position where decision making is more stronger also in a business perspective. There are a lot of ridiculous choices that some people makes that are not very effective in some ways let alone make data driven choices. As the organisations today claims to be "agile", most of the time they're not at all. They just use a new word but act as old school (long feedback-loop just to give you an example)
The nvidia shield has a similar function
Agreed, it seemed a trivial quantity for such a large animal.
>So if we're throwing away cultural norms on what we consider valuable, such as human life, why even care about nature? Our species? Other species? The planet?

We have no issue eradicating mold that enters our homes, bacterial infections, viruses but people don't hesitate to create 800,000 something tons of plastic a day that mostly ends up in the trash, we don't mind pumping 40 gigatons of carbon in the atmosphere, we don't mind over fishing, depleting soil, throwing out food that we couldn't be bothered to eat, buying electronics designed to be thrown away after 1-3 years, etc.

We're already wiping out billions of people. We're just making it slow and painful. Cancer rates are increasing decade after decade, climate change is a very real thing that is going to start getting noticeably worse, we're one decent crop failure away from sparking a regional or even world war.

I'm not advocating we gather up 9 out of every 10 people and euthanize them, but it would be more humane than the myriad of slow and miserable deaths we are setting ourselves up for.

The next several decades are going to be quite interesting, and almost certainly not in a good way.

As a species, we have to wake up. We have to get the majority to not only acknowledge the issues we immediately face but to actually try and work on slowing and ultimately reversing them.

We have freemium apps raking in millions and millions of dollars a day but we''re painfully under-funding attempts at renewable energy and carbon sequestration and sustainable manufacturing.
If it cheers you up, the void doesn't care. None of this matters on cosmic scales. Or, depending on your philosophy of choice, you'll get a chance to go ahead and do this again eventually.

-your friendly neighborhood Nihilist.
I lost a batch on MtGox but it looks like I might get something back.

I'm quite grateful the trustee sold off a few hundred million dollars worth at around $12k. At least there are some funds available to pay out to creditors.
"No End in Sight" stupid title for a chart which has nearly recovered (thanks to manipulators but still).
It's the association Attac : https://france.attac.org/agenda/article/proces-d-une-militan...

They often do this kind of operations. See there recent operation about Apple not paying taxes : https://www.macg.co/aapl/2018/11/attac-redecore-lapple-store...

Attac means: Association pour la taxation des transactions financières et pour l'action citoyenne (Association for the taxation of financial transaction and for citizen/civil action)
While I understand the comparison you're trying to make, I'm not sure weight is the best estimation here. A whale can be heavier without being larger. While the whale may weigh 1000x more, it appears to be only around 10x as big (sperm whales are 40 feet long, and somewhat wider than humans).

If you take a look at the picture in the article, and analyze what it had ingested: "115 drinking cups, four plastic bottles, 25 plastic bags and two flip-flops," it seems much less trivial than a teenager ingesting a teaspoon.

A better comparison would be that, size-wise, it is the same as a teenager ingesting 2.5 plastic bags, 15 drinking cups; that alone seems like enough to cause serious health issues.
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93% of plastic polluting the world's oceans comes from 10 rivers.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stemming-the-plas...

Yangtze - East China Sea (Asia)

Indus - Arabian Sea (Asia)

Yellow River - Yellow Sea (Asia)

Hai He - Yellow Sea (Asia)

Nile - Mediterranean (Africa)

Ganges - Bay of Bengal (Asia)

Pearl River - South China Sea (Asia)

Amur - Sea of Okhotsk (Asia)

Niger - Gulf of Guinea (Africa)

Mekong - South China Sea (Asia)
While Hasura is a 'BaaS' (in the sense that it can be directly exposed to frontend applications), it absolutely does not come with the limitations that you have mentioned. Hasura is not an 'either or' solution like Graphcool or Parse or AppSync. Hasura is designed to scale with the complex requirements of a project over time and to get out of the developer's way when they need more power.

One of the main reasons why this is possible with Hasura and not possible with say Graphcool is the abstraction which Hasura provides. Hasura is not a black box which lets you do CRUD operations. It is a tool that adds powerful GraphQL APIs on top of Postgres, i.e, it works with any Postgres database, existing or new, no restrictions whatsoever. This means you are free to write your own code (and encouraged to) which speaks to Postgres directly with your favorite ORM and expose these APIs with "schema stitching" alongside Hasura.

Hasura therefore lessens the work of a GraphQL backend developer: use Hasura's GraphQL APIs when they fit your bill and write your own custom logic when needed as you would have done without Hasura.

In fact Hasura is a superset of Prisma when it comes to Postgres, you can also use Hasura as an ORM if you want to.

Disclosure: I work at Hasura on graphql-engine
Well, of course. It’s only fair. You can’t change a rule then go back and hold prior behaviors accountable according to the new rule. It’s just common decency.
I can understand resenting the generals and politicians that sent men to misery and death, but the men on the ground, the generals, the politicians and the general population all play key roles in any conflict and it is important that the perspective of each be documented in order to gain a true understanding of events. This site happens to document the perspective of the generals involved in this battle. Other sources document the other perspectives.
I think it easily falls under the same umbrella.

Financial privacy, especially from the state, is the ultimate form of privacy.

There's a reason we have had bank secrecy [0] a long time before anything like the modern Internet-based privacy movements, with their much more expanded definitions, came along. Heck, some countries based a whole lot of their appeal on the strength of said bank secrecy laws, like Switzerland.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_secrecy
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I toiled like you seem to be for a long time, cleaning up technical debt, and writing well-architected (but very time-consuming) code. I learned a few things (things I have to remind myself of often, when I too feel the anger rising at people who don't place the same priority on those things):

The business is almost never paying to you clean up technical debt. They are paying you to generate revenue (or save costs). Period. It could be the best architected system in the world, but if it takes 4x as long to build, and the "quick and dirty" version can ship and generate revenue earlier, then that is the way the business will want to go (even with an elevated error/loss rate). My takeaway: If you do not intimately understand exactly how what you do each day makes the business more money, or saves the business more money, then you need to pause and figure that out.

Nobody gets credit for building a system that never goes down. It does not speak for itself (much as I would like it to). As others have pointed out, it's critical to communicate the value (see point above) of what you are doing, and communicate it to the people who matter.

Dealing with Humans (incompetent and otherwise) is actually what most of us get paid for (or at least it's a big share of why we get paid). Dealing with bureaucracy, red tape, incompetence, things taking too long, etc... Sometimes I wonder why I have to wait for others who are slow, don't they realize how much money is being wasted?! But it's true, the human component of our jobs is the main reason why we haven't already been replaced by others/computers. Relationships trump even adding business value (point 1 above): if you are difficult to work with, but add value, you will still be marginalized (or even let go). However on the flip side, if you are great to get along with but do little-to-nothing, you may not thrive, but you will survive.
The thing is that while it is a flaw for FOSS it is one for closed source and can even be worse there. Look at just car manufacturers and their measured to make error codes opaque. It is less prime when they sell software but upselling is always a thing for capitalism. Bad incentives effect everyone unfortunately. I mean this not as whataboutism but as a question of how it may be overcome?

I believe FLOSS ideally bypasses it via doing things for the sake of software or the task - minimizing trouble for the sake of making it easier on themselves but that has its own limitations and requirements including motivation. There isn't any open source turbotax equivalent for one as far as I know.
I've heard this but I haven't heard why this is. Do you know if this is deliberate or just falls out of the implementation? I wonder if they'd consider an explicit syntax to have them inlined. I love CTEs for organizations, would love to not think about them affecting performance someday.
We've settled on a shallow conception of democracy. And that's dangerous –Tim Wu
What sharing a below market salary with a future employer gets you is a slightly higher but still probably below market salary. If market is $150k and you make $100k, they know you will be happy to get $115k. Never name a number despite what feel good stories with no basis in reality may tell you to do.
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Can't say I'm surprised. Tumblr has been so full of (non child) pornographic and outright weird material that it was due to attract this sort of folk as well. It really detracts from the platform for the rest of us, who just want to use it as a micro-blogging platform sitting between Twitter and Medium (where strangely, Tumblr has been horrible in finding its position).

Either Yahoo should clamp down and meanwhile give the platform a solid update -- otherwise they'll probably shut it down sometime in the future. I can image the cost of running it must be pretty high.
I was thinking something similar while reading the blog post: the UNIX philosophy is to do one thing, do it well, and stop there. As you say, none of those things lend themselves to monetization if the source code is available for free and anyone can contribute to it or customize/fork it. You can't keep the software "on point" because anyone is free to add something completely unrelated to its core functionality. And, if you try to keep control of the situation, the person(s) can simply fork the project and spread FUD until your project is "persona non grata", so your ability to keep control of the software is only as good as your perceived standing in the community.

However, I could be missing something here in terms of licensing: can anyone stipulate how the various FOSS licenses could help with this situation ?
Found this pretty interesting read through when installing a new mouse at work. Not bluetooth, not wifi. Master Master setup. AES Encryption. well read the pdf!
I think clavalle's point above is critical. Your good deeds, prowess, etc., have little chance of being noticed absent a willingness on your part to blow your own horn, loud. Now that he is your manager and you are subordinate, any attempt to coerce him to change will only evolve into a wasteful power struggle you can't win. If you are indeed so valuable to the outfit (and thus to him as well), then leverage this value to promote yourself, not necessarily at his expense, but to benefit of all. But -- life lesson: you won't get noticed by dint of talent alone (such notice requires unusually observant managerial staff, often lacking). He is not the solution to your problem: you are.
Proprietary software developers "love FOSS" when they can build their products on it. But, if users desire those same freedoms, they're suddenly fundamentalists or zealots.
Jonathan Nelson, Managing Director HACK Fund discussed this on last week's sharespost webinar. The slides and replay should be up soon if you check their site. Discussion was titled 'State of Crypto Markets and Regulation: USA vs. the World – SharesPost Expert Series'
> Here’s how I think about it: you may feel free to criticize, this is meant to get people thinking, not as an implementable policy.

> Draw a control volume around your business or product. If, during the creation, use, or disposal of your product or business, mass or energy crosses this boundary, you should be required to provide for any negative externalities caused by this material or energy.

> Of course, as usual with this approach, the magic is all in the drawing of the boundary, but hear me out.

> Under this framework, it may be a bit easier to see clearly what externalities we might wish to price. I sincerely believe that if we now shrink from this present task of properly pricing and managing these costs, human society will perish from this earth.

Not all negative externalities demand restitution. If you make a better widget, another firm may lose market share and their stakeholders would be harmed. This obviously shouldn't require restitution.

Also, it's very hard to measure both positive and negative externalities.
But what could we have done about it? It's unfair to be liked by fools. The core idea is still interesting to experiment and explore but now it's tainted by greed.
Exactly, because everyone failed to monetize it.

JetBrains sells developer tools, a very niche market, specially when a large majority of FOSS is allergic to paying for tooling.

In fact I would bet a large percentage of those Linux users are using Android Studio or Community variants.

It would be very interesting to know how many of those users has JetBrains actually managed to monetize on.
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Well, for one thing, the dropbox client has never seen fit to randomly delete my local folders, which is kind of a bad thing for a sync client to do.

As in, failing at the one thing the app is supposed to be doing...
Love this comment left on the post by Peter Shor (of Shor's algorithm--the algorithm that kicked off the quantum computing frenzy). I assume it's him and not an imposter.

"It's not just that scientists don't want to move their butts, although that's undoubtedly part of it. It's also that they can't. In today's university funding system, you need grants (well, maybe you don't truly need them once you have tenure, but they're very nice to have).

So who decides which people get the grants? It's their peers, who are all working on exactly the same things that everybody is working on. And if you submit a proposal that says "I'm going to go off and work on this crazy idea, and maybe there's a one in a thousand chance that I'll discover some of the secrets of the universe, and a 99.9% chance that I'll come up with bubkes," you get turned down.

But if a thousand really smart people did this, maybe we'd actually have a chance of making some progress. (Assuming they really did have promising crazy ideas, and weren't abusing the system. Of course, what would actually happen is that the new system would be abused and we wouldn't be any better off than we are now.)

So the only advice I have is that more physicists need to not worry about grants, and go hide in their attics and work on new and crazy theories, the way Andrew Wiles worked on Fermat's Last Theorem."

(new comment right below)

"Let me make an addendum to my previous comment, that I was too modest to put into it. This is roughly how I discovered the quantum factoring algorithm. I didn't tell anybody I was working on it until I had figured it out. And although it didn't take years of solitary toil in my attic (the way that Fermat's Last Theorem did), I thought about it on and off for maybe a year, and worked on it moderately hard for a month or two when I saw that it actually might work.

So, people, go hide in your attics!"
One of the results of "loss of god / religion" (I'm not religious, just saying) is that humans have replaced those myths with "science and nature".

So, its perfectly congruent for true believers to advocate the death of billions if their god is being threatened. No different then fire and brimstone of old testament.

Strangely many such people are proclaimed atheist who don't recognize they have just selected a different mythological system to follow.
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I planned a road trip from SF to LA on next week but I heard the wildfire is quite bad in LA county now. Is it still safe to go for the trip?
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For IO intensive transaction processing with high security and low downtime requirements these systems are quite sweet.

IBM sells it with moniker "Pervasive Encryption" but if you look under the hood, it is actually impressive and very detailed.

Build in security at the hardware level. Especially the Crypto Express6S card. There is hardware acceleration for everything cryptography (including SHA-3 and SHAKE), tamper sensing, true random number generation. Encrypted paging in z/vm, etc. SSL/TLS can run fast. Security auditing is not an afterthought.

Of course you can add all this in special cards for x86 server racks but the cost is probably the same with lower IO throughput and less integration. Getting the same uptime in production would be significantly more expensive if not impossible.
Ha! Fair enough. Lessee if I can edit...
Are you sure we're getting a complete story here? The OP is what writers call an "unreliable narrator". We're seeing this through his very emotional lens.

It's quite possible the other person did a lot of the "people" work that enabled the code to be written and distributed. In that case, it's a "we", not an "I", and focusing entirely on "I wrote the code", ignoring how it fit into the organization, is dismissing someone else's well-deserved credit.
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Thanks for these answers - super interesting and helpful. Much appreciated!
"Telling people to become unstoppable helps them succeed in starting businesses," on the other hand, is a testable hypothesis, as is "people who believe they are unstoppable are more likely to start a successful business", and that's how interpreted the comments in this thread.
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React related conferences, fair enough.

I don't follow React development.
I don’t know who to root for between the people who don’t care bitcoin is a massive waste in power but engage with it anyhow because I enjoy the hypocrisy and sight of their surface level convictions - or - the people who want tech to crash and people to be burned by that.

I guess the latter as future techs could be made less wasteful.
This is of course only your side of the story but it sounds like he's way better at office politics and elbow tactics than you are. When you were at same level in the org I would have just cut him off from the critical information flow and communicate directly to the superiors. Now that he's your superior you cutting him off can backfire where you're the one causing the trouble and not being a "team player". Anyway, you can bet that he'll continue to take the credit of the work that his team will be doing, fast forward 10 years and he's probably a C level exec while you're still a SWE. Just the way the world works.

My advice is to a) leave asap, b) simply ignore him as much as possible while you're stuck there.
>AT 10k+ I was once again reminded the universe hates me.

Why? You'd have sold them at 150.
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Oh, I never said I _enjoyed_ X forwarding, or even use it frequently. My point was just that remote access in a similar way to a shell is possible with a GUI, and could be made even better if X had a means of not having to draw everything but left it up to the toolkit on the other end.

But yes, in general, a shell is just much better:)
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