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Sure, I agree with all of that. But spamming has to have a certain level of return in order to do it. There must be a tangible level of demand out there. Like I said in my first post, when I talk to people in other industries (medical, journalism, electrical engineering, etc), getting spammed by recruiters is utterly unheard of.

I only have anecdotal evidence, but so does every one else in this thread. Personally I have been receiving emails from the same recruiters in some instances for years. I'm not a stand out developer. I also know, again anecdotally, that when we open a developer rec at my current company, it can take a very long time to fill.

My gut says there is a shortage. How much of one is very hard to determine and how artificial the shortage is due to generally poor hiring practices, low salaries, or other factors is also hard to determine. But I find it very hard to swallow the idea there is no developer shortage at all, which is what sparked this thread.
> This is the train map for Washington DC. As you can see, it is an irrelevant little fart of a train system.

I used to live in Japan, now I live in Southern California near the Gold Line, which is the pride of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
The Gold line is approximately as long as the dinky little private Tawaramoto Line that cuts a triangle between JR Oji Stn and Kintetsu Tawaramoto Stn in Nara Prefecture. Except the Tawaramoto Line always ran at least four cars while MTA's Gold Line only runs that many during rush hour. LA's crown jewel Union Station is approximately the size of a mid-size suburban station in Japan.
It's incredibly sad.
I agree. Getting billing to work isn't the most important part. Get users first. If you don't have anybody using your stuff, having a store won't do any good. Once users complain that they can't pay you, you know you're on the right track.
Come on dude, I just want to enjoy my long weekend. Please stop bothering me by creating spurious issues on my GitHub repo.
We’re at what, one degree warmer than a century ago? I have trouble believing that’s causing any noticeable effect in terms of this disease.
Everyone may decide for themselves what 'the point' is, but I explicitly responded to the quote I included in my post.
Thanks for weighing in. I thought it was pretty silly that (for me) the answers were selections 2 and 4 straight through.
They've been playing with quick launch-to-dock launches lately, so I doubt they did it just for the video.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_MS-09

> NASA confirmed on June 28 that if Progress MS-09 launches on July 9, it will attempt a super fast-tracked rendezvous with the Station, docking to the ISS just 3 hours (2 orbits) after launch - making it the fastest orbital rendezvous ever-attempted with the Station.
I just bought a laptop on Wednesday via Lenovo's site. It was a disaster all around. Plenty of others have already mentioned how bad the UX and search are, but I had a bunch of technical problems as well.

* Zip Code field didn't work unless I disabled my browser plugins (which don't cause problems elsewhere).

* Terms & Conditions links went to the 404 page.

* You can't sign up for an account until after you complete a purchase, and the cart doesn't persist between browser sessions (which wouldn't have helped anyway, since it only worked in incognito mode).

* The post-purchase signup form was broken, so now the only way I can track my order is from the Order Status link in the receipt email, and that page is a static information page, not connected to an account, with no interactive tracking.

I'll also second what others have said about how they have way too many models and it's hard to figure out what to buy in the first place.

I still bought one, though, because they make solid machines and everything was 30-40% off.
I wonder if a kickstarter to create a new Lisp Machine could work.

I envision something like a Raspberry Pi, but with the hardware designed to run Lisp, and taking inspiration from the original Lisp Machines.
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Exactly what I came to the comments section to post. Huge pet peeve of mine is "articles" that are just a YouTube video with some redundant commentary underneath that offers zero value beyond the video itself.
Thanks for explaining your viewpoint - sounds like we have incredibly different definitions of the concept of "emotional labor". I have never experienced it as being manipulative, nor in support of a specific political ideology, and based on my understanding of this concept, these traits are completely orthogonal to the core message.

While I'm highly skeptical of the notion that this concept is inherently manipulative, I certainly understand that select people will use whatever tools they have at their disposal to affect manipulation. I'm fascinated that you have had this experience and I'd like to hear more about what brought you here.
Hi, I'm a Redux maintainer.

Could you clarify why you feel that redux-thunk is an "abomination"? What specific concerns do you have?

I wrote a post a while back that answered several concerns I'd seen expressed about using thunks [0], and my "Redux Fundamentals" workshop slides [1] have a section discussing why middleware like thunks are the right way to handle logic [2].

Also, what do you mean by "multiplexing models"?

[0] https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2017/01/idiomatic-redux-th...

[1] https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2018/06/redux-fundamentals...

[2] https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/presentations/workshops/re...
It is only a problem with current solar prices. With much cheaper solar one can produce, say, methanol and store enough of it to generate electricity for months. And that will be cheaper than burning natural gas.
That got me.
Syracuse isn't a suburb of NYC. The distance between those cities is like the distance between Chicago and Iowa City. Nobody commutes to Chicago from Iowa City.
Normal people don’t know the difference and even experienced people can be fooled.

Anecdote: I have an Ionic app that is used by 15,000 people daily. It looks like a native app. Nobody ever wrote me an email that the app is not native, not fast enough or anything else. Normal people want to get their shit done and move on.

Heck, one user apparently was a dev and came up with a suggestion (enable keyboard suggestions for text input fields) and he wrote me specifically which iOS UI element I should choose over some other element he thought I was using. I replied: thanks, but this is an Ionic app, it doesn’t use native iOS elements ;)

Native apps are totally overrated imho, unless you make heavy use of fine-grained input controls. Here, Ionic does have its limits. You can’t control the keyboard properly for example, unless you wire in some Cordova plugins.

Oh and JS doesn’t run in the background. This can cause issues if you do a lot of background processing.

But performance is not much of an issue anymore in 2018 and Ionic is the most polished web-based framework that is tough to distinguish from native apps.
Yeah but that’s not the case here though. The commentary is interesting IMO.
This tech will someday help turn the masses of heads down zombies staring at their phones into heads up zombies staring at their virtual screens, pointing and clicking with their brains. They'll be almost as zoned out as now but their posture will be better.
thank you for the insight and I couldn't agree more with your closing paragraph.

I've been thinking about trying flutter for a fun little side project; now I'm going to browse through open issues and see if anything seems like a showstopper. hope not because flutter seems neat and RN scares me.

https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues
Aren't those places that are already well-served by rail? Aren't these just the exceptions that prove the rule?
No, we knew it. The FBI has always had the ability to get data from communications companies for specific subscribers via a court order. This is as true for email and chat as it is for phones.
Just a random thought on the idea that there might be a limit function as it pertains to the desirablility of increased efficiency.

We have a 13 kW array. I make it a point to keep it cleen. However, this isn’t something one can expect to accomplish daily. At the very least it would waste a lot of water. As a result of this, my panels, on average, enjoy a combination of dust, leaves and, yes, bird poo, sometimes lots of it.

If we had 90% efficient panels the combination of dirt, dust and a determined flock of birds could take out 50% of my energy generation capacity. Having a less efficient system distributed across a larger area might actually be a better idea.
Just because it exists as an option does not mean that it works reliably.

Have you personally used hibernate mode more than a few times?

(I ask because if you have, then I'm willing to try it on my mini.)
That is sort of my point, though. We raise the standards for everything we do, from safety during construction, to safety during use (bicycle lanes, wider pedestrian sidewalks, earthquake resistence, etc). This all bumps the price up, and significantly so. Whether that is good or bad is a separate issue, but it's definitely a major factor in why we don't do more big infrastructure projects now.

Heck, I wonder if it would have been cheaper to build a more comparable direct replacement bridge for vehicle traffic, and then a completely separate walking/riding bridge. The new Sellwood bridge cost nearly three times what Tilikum Crossing did, and that has light rail and buses in addition to bikes & pedestrians.
Car manufacturers typically don't have that much flexibility in options really. If you're asking the question "what's the cheapest with features x,y,z" the answer is very likely the most expensive version, because one of your features happens to only be found in the most expensive version.

The next most likely response is that there is no model that fits your critera, because you're mixing high end features with low end features. If you want mag wheels but cloth seats from the manufacturer you are SOL. You want the high performance engine and the manual gearbox that isn't an option either, the manual gearbox is only for the poverty model with the 1970s engine that we still make but stopped improving 20 years ago. Also it has manual windows.
do you plan on open sourcing? what are your plans?
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On the contrary they seem to be the experts at "terrible".
Folks here are missing the fact that the rectifying diodes must operate in the THz region. The fact that NovaSolix has demonstrated Proof-of-Concept chips says they are able to build diodes that work at 100s of THz. That, alone, seems impressive to me. (example: green is 630 nm; f = c / lambda, that is, 476 THz)
Observed and documented behavior in chimpanzees or humans? So where's your observation based documentation that humans behave the same as chimpanzees?

Or is your point just baseless name calling and dehumanization: that you think the humans on HN behave like chimps, but you don't have any proof of that, just proof of how chimps behave?

If you just want to call people chimps, then just call people chimps and take your licks for that, but stop beating around the bushes like such a chimp.

Looks like you blew a seal!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9ETlTZoF1E
This is a treasure. Dipping back into C++ after a couple decades makes this document pretty much essential.
If I remember correctly, ISS makes a full circle of Earth every 90 minutes. Having planned the lift of with 45mins lag/difference would make it "so much" more difficult/challenging/risky to connect. And I guess every second counts when you're up there.

I've seen many videos of lift-offs etc (plus I'm huge Star Trek fan), but this one, made me hold my breath for a good 45 seconds (thank you yoga!)
OK sure, but would you consider merging one PR that explains that people should not expect PRs to get reviewed? I'm happy to do the work if you'll review and merge it.

That way we can avoid unfortunate incidents such as this in future.
Disclaimer, I'm not a C++ guy.

I agree that a truly solid package system, is inherently a good thing for any framework. But it has to be just that. Qt is severely lacking in that aspect; qpm isn't even close IMO.

Counter to your point though, just take a look at the ecosystem around NPM for instance. What a mess...

For a cross platform development framework, to truly shine, I need to be able to "trust", that my majority use case is covered within the framework itself, so I don't have to go package shopping and spend a lot of time on quality controlling vendored code.

For a mobile app framework, I want the most ubiquitous device capabilities covered. That means various hardware specific things, such as networking, gps, bluetooth and yes, the camera. Whatever is to be expected present on most devices.

So yeah, I guess it boils down to dependability and trust. Something which is implicit in the framework and core library for the most part.
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IDK about "safer", but they will be more numerous and harder to update. (It's not as simple as making sure your kernel is up-to-date.)
Don't expect much action on this at the Federal level. Here's the President's recent climate assessment: "Brutal and Extended Cold Blast could shatter ALL RECORDS - Whatever happened to Global Warming?" [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/10654002541519544...

Edit: this seems to be a controversial comment. It is getting a lot of down votes and a lot of up votes. I'm a bit confused by this. The report is a US government report, largely prepared by agencies that are under the Executive branch, and says that climate change is a big and growing problem.

It is the Executive branch that will handle any Federal action in response to this. The President is the head of the Executive, and will largely determine how the Federal government responds, either directly by executive orders and by setting White House policy, or indirectly through the President's choices of heads of the agencies.

That the President a mere two days before the report was released (and almost certainly having been told well in advance what was going to be in report) is implying that climate change is not happening is on-topic and relevant.
This is why I love gevent. Synchronous code becomes asynchronous automatically and it's rarely necessary to reason about the asynchronicity.
In this case, though, I don't mind because Phil Plait is a well known science communicator whose articles actually add useful context. I don't mind that his article is linked (although I did go straight to the video first, but I am not the target audience for the commentary).
Celcius.
Thanks! I have been looking for a reliable source, I'll check this out.
Existing coals pretty expensive these days, and that's not even counting its high costs for health and carbon. For example, Indiana is retiring tons of coal and replacing it with renewables to save money:

https://www.utilitydive.com/news/even-in-indiana-new-renewab...
Yep. We will need significant investment in not just emissions reduction but active negative emissions, on the order of significant percentages of global GDP, for a long time.

Think "all of the direct economic benefit of fossil fuels from all of human history but in reverse, plus inefficiency losses, in 1/4 the timespan"
Why are there only hashing algorithms for this? Doesn't that defeat the purpose entirely, since there is no potential to decrypt?
Can say the same about American automobile crashworthiness standards. American standards make cars few hundred kilograms heavier in exchange for few percents higher chance for one to survive a highway collision, but this itself makes almost every other collision case more lethal, simply because there are more potential collision megajoules on the road.
Backpacking is one example where you want lightweight solar power, but aircraft and balloons are a more extreme example. In such cases those stiff panels are a long way from what you want. Also, good luck averaging 30% effecency from a basic diesel generator for home use.

Without going to extreme: https://www.solbian.eu/en/4-flexible-solar-panels

That’s 130 W for 1.7kg. Your 8.3 KW would be 108kg which is 238 lb and thus less than the generator even excluding fuel.
Oops! I searched for the article, then picked one of the results. I didn't realize the one I linked wasn't the original because I only looked through it enough to make sure the right content was present.

Thanks for the correction!
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I have just completed the step 9 (last step) of my tutorial series for building a todo list dapp on ethereum.

In this step we mark tasks as done and keep the frontend and the smart contract in sync, without having to manually reload the page.

Post: https://eattheblocks.com/todo-list-ethereum-dapp-step9
Video: https://youtu.be/qVxEtDSuXoU
Ebook (2 bonus chapters on React & Drizzle integration with the Dapp):
https://eattheblocks.com/learn-to-build-an-ethereum-dapp-step-by-step-ebook-tutorial-for-beginners/
I agree, and I would not want to see regulation or laws that prevent labour access to other opportunities. But asking people to work overtime for specific reasons/period doesn't prevent them from looking for other opportunities. That seems like a straw man.
When the mental burden of integrating existing libraries, through tons of wrapping/boilerplating, such as it is with JNI, starts to overshadow rebuilding the same thing, at your current application layer, it's close to a zero value proposition.
Can you please tell me what are those different needs are?
It's rather sobering. It's also my impression that most people who "believe" in climate change haven't near come to grips with the scale and urgency of the problem.

I've been thinking of writing an essay along the lines of the world being "default dead". Basically, unless we come up with something to suck carbon from the air and replace our energy use, I believe we're sunk.

A lot of people seem to believe that if we just stopped or "reduced" we'd solve the problem. But if we continue for just a few years as normal, then even a total cessation of emissions wouldn't solve our predicament.

Reducing, eliminating: these are important things. But, we're basically dead by default, and need to do something more to actually reverse what we emitted.
If you visit London and wander around a station (metro or regional rail), it won't take you long to see a cleaner.

I used to live at the end of a line, and no matter the time of day there was very often a cleaner waiting by the frontmost door as the train pulled in. They could usually remove any litter before the train was due to leave, perhaps 5-8 minutes later.

The service is less frequent overnight (Friday and Saturday only), which leaves plenty of time to clean more thoroughly at the depot.

But I think that's a distraction. In comparison, NYC's subway looks dirty

a) by lack of maintenance. Some areas just need fresh paint.

b) by design. Bare concrete, unfinished, gloomy ceilings, yellow-ish lights, grey trains.

In other situations (shopping mall, fast food) Americans have remarked to me that Europe can seem clinical, due to the high temperature of the lighting. I think those places, and the NYC subway, look dingy. The same light could look cosy, but only in a café or bar.
I don't necessarily know if it's them being dumb. I've found that it's mostly "I don't do anything wrong, why should I care?" that gets bandied around as an excuse.
One thing that's different about Flutter is that we've deliberately focused on keeping the Flutter framework small. We write many of the plug-ins ourselves to the same standard as the core framework, but keeping them separate lets us iterate on them at a different cadence. See https://github.com/flutter/plugins for our plug-in repository.

(Disclosure: I'm a PM on the Flutter team.)
I can't speak for other people, and I didn't downvote you. But it sounds deliberately dishonest to pretend this is anti-terrorism when it's based on trivial misdemeanors like smoking.

Once you've established that you're not pursuing the truth your words are only poison/noise that harms the group of us who are trying very hard to figure out what is true.
> No, we just generate it all the time and it's 'used' straight away.

Right, and we vary how much we produce to match demand. We can't make it sunnier just because everyone has gone to put the kettle on at the same time.
Shouldn't the headline be "failure to provide clean water is turning dehydration into a deadly epidemic"?
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I imagine that the hard part is probably not making a lisp machine but making what made the lisp machines so special: it's software and tooling.

My understanding is that the tooling available on lisp machines was so good it made emacs look rigid and dumb. I'd imagine that reacreating such tooling would take more man hours that building the lisp machine and its kernel but I don't know.
Plug and Play Solar is one way to dramatically lower soft costs of residential pv installs. Fraunhofer is working on this [1] and there are already other 3rd party products on the market.

[1] https://www.cse.fraunhofer.org/pnp
You're really just talking about the differences in skill sets and interests between people who, in a bigger organization, would be sorted into the engineering team and the executive team. The "passionate about technology" people will end up in engineering. To the executive team, finding and serving the customer is the focus, while technologies (and engineers for that matter) are very much a cost that has to be justified.

But yeah they're different skill sets. The only time it's a problem is when they both have to reside in the same person, for example the solo app developer. You're trying to serve as both the engineering staff and the executive/management team, plus wearing several other hats as well.
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Andreas Olofsson and his team at Adapteva have demonstrated that it's possible for a small experienced team to design and launch a niche processor and a single-board computer board similar to the Raspberry Pi around it within a relatively small (less than 5 million USD) budget, and they even used Kickstarter to fund the later iterations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adapteva
This comic addresses a very real issue, but I feel it is more universal than the feminist angle would imply. This same drama unfolds anytime you have people cohabitating who have different tolerances / thresholds / standards for how and how often they expect cleanliness and tidyness issues to be handled. If those thresholds don’t match, and especially if one person is more conflict-averse than the other, typically one person will volunteer to suffer in silence, take most of the burden for themselves, bottle up resentment, and then explode in a “I always / you never” fight. Every male I know who has male roommates during college has their own version of this story.
There was this in 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8340283
What kind of a social/economic system makes us invest in this when there are billions of malnourished people willing to do something like this for close to free? Why is it that we focus so much on engineering when a lot of problems can potentially be solved using better social and political policies.
Seems like the trickier part here is the “well funded international team.” Classic HN to think another app is the secret sauce to solving this problem.
Nor do you need any libraries for navigation.
WSL is still missing a lot of stuff. For example, there's no straightforward way to mount NFS shares in the Linux environment. I'm not even sure if it's possible, last I checked I don't think it is. It's a huge issue for me since I connect to some NFS shares for development.

From my time with it, I ultimately concluded that I'd be better off just running Linux. If I had to use Windows, I'd setup a VM and avoid using WSL.