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>> Take a moment to imagine a few of the things you could do better if you had 100% reliable hosting that was safe and private.

Literally nothing more.. its why it doesnt work financially. The idea is cool though indeed
Cool! If I were more bored, I'd be interested to see how correlated these two data points are: GDP per capita, number of countries that allow no visa or visa on arrival

Just playing with the input, I suspect there would be a strong correlation.
This article feels odd. I'm not sure what's going on here, because it sounds a bit like the "Iraq may be able to beat USA" worries that I heard in 2003, before the Shock and Awe thing happened. Except it's the other way around. It's not whistling past their grave. I don't know what to make of this.
Ask HN: What ergonomic solutions are you using?
I'm at the point in my career where I am starting to feel ergonomic pain from keyboard use - my left forearm has this weird tingly sensation. There's an overwhelming amount of products and information out there about ergonomics, and I'm not sure where to start. What do you do or use to prevent or treat pain related to computer use?
This is not a new phenomenon though. It has existed since liberal democracies formed. Think of the robber barons and yellow journalism in the 19th century.

If your society allows a minority of people to amass great power or wealth - whether through monarchy, fascism, socialist bureaucracy, or representative democracy and capitalist accumulation - you will find those people abusing their power.
Do people still stand around outside or do they utilize the new clocks for advice on train arrivals?
Electron for a system tray icon and a single page of UI...

It used to be that multiple video games and applications would fit in less than what this app consumes in terms of RAM.
I find it curious that if you add up the very first column of figures in the article -- cost in current dollars -- you find that it comes to way over 40 billion dollars, not 30.

Points taken about industrial might, and Germany's increasing industrial output throughout the war, despite all the (apparently ineffectual) bombing, though. Maybe leave off the sums?
I still think the Zune is a superior product. Great build quality, software layout was great and I think most people that put them side by side would agree. But network effects are very strong.
> So if a m^3 of sun core was moved to a powerplant it would generate a lot more energy.

Would it? Or would it expand into basically normal hydrogen and helium?
Nuclear tech is not even a century old. The idea that we can't do any better in a thousand or a million years seems so improbable to me that I can't take it seriously. There is some kind of extrange pessimism around that mindset: that we will be extinct much sooner, or that the Sun will die and thus Humanity, as if there's no obvious way to escape that apocalypsis.
There are services that incorporate P2P (e.g., Spotify, and you can find others if you do some research). If you're writing closed-source software that operates on content that belongs to you (or that you've legally licensed) there's nothing preventing you from using peer-to-peer technologies in your stuff.

I can't believe that Netflix didn't seriously consider P2P. I imagine they didn't do it because there are issues with consuming limited upload bandwidth that doesn't belong to NF, and having poor control over the resulting complicated network flows and the ultimate customer experience (think about what your first customer service action for a customer having video quality issues would be).

No doubt there are many managers and system engineers who shy away from P2P because it's associated with bad actors. But there are sound reliability engineering and customer-facing reasons not to use it, too.
Do you have automation for building / testing both locally and in CI/CD?
Only two requests: favicon and html page itself. No front-end framework, no tracking. The only JS is the 10 lines necessary for the buttons in the upper right corner.
It is counter-intuitive but 90% drops in the price of a cryptocurrency don't result in that cryptocurrency dying. What kills a cryptocurrency is exchanges delisting it and/or having no developers. Price decreases are unlikely to directly cause either of these to happen to Ethereum.
A 32 bit DAC is just a full on scam.
If someone has a reason for this rule, feel free to chime in. I believe it was an implicit way to tell us to do overtime off the books.

Most of the issues, that took more than one day, couldn't realistically be completed in one day. Waiting on other parties, too many issues at once, low priority, etc.

Occasionally, a ticket about something non-urgent, with no follow up from the business users, would get dredged up from the past to finally get worked on again. But I would attribute that to generally cleaning up unresolved ticket, rather than a benefit of the rule.
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Not more dubious than traditionally funded tech ventures we've all worked at till our 1 year cliff.

Just more liquid!

So therefore I'm not sure why an article that mentions 2 downsizing companies, and 2 discontinued companies, amongst 1,180, is treated as validation amongst the hackernews crowd.

I think its really strange how separately this particular buzzword sector is treated here.
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Presuming you are letting Jira decide there is a logical link, I suppose. You don't have to, do you? I must admit I haven't used it an awful lot, but maybe this is one of those traps that you use the functionality because it is there, even if it is not useful.

In this example you could for instance create 'Airport' as an task and just write on it that you are going to aim for a dirt strip first and are going to start a separate task for this.

This is the power and weakness of Trello, there is no link! Except of course you can create a new board called 'dirt-strip'
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Why stop at college students? Interracial marriages between Asians and whites in the US are about 80% Asian female / white male and 20% the other way around. There is no group that preferentially marries Asian men over Asian women, so again Asian guys are screwed.
Besides cowing the USSR, I think that a valid war aim was fully cowing Japan.

One of the lessons of WWI was that military victory wasn't enough, too many Germans could tell themselves afterwards that they were stabbed in the back, etc. If the goal was to defeat Japanese fascism, then it was important that no Japanese could believe such things afterwards. And for this, a shocking weapon (one plane, one city) was effective in a way that (say) a starvation blockade would not have been.
This is the whole premise of the China Hustle: https://www.thechinahustlefilm.com/
Are they miles ahead? My impression of Chinese biology isn't that it's super advanced - I mean, it's another subject, but consider the recent headlines about the CRISPR baby. Ask any biologist about that experiment, and they'll tell you it's not only the ethics that are seriously bizarre, but just the idea that you should use something like CRISPR on a baby at this stage in the technology's development. It's mad science, but it's not likely good science.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10566776
> You can give the semantics of everything that happens in a safe d-t language in terms of church encoded tag-value pairs and yet the programmer can't break the abstraction because abstraction-breaking operations are syntactically unavailable.

This strikes me as just a Turing tarpit argument. Sure you can represent and enforce semantics syntactically, and you can probably also do this via automatic translations in many or most cases. Why is this compelling? And what does this have to do with types?

The definition of type system I gave is, "a syntactic method for enforcing levels of abstraction in programs". Ergo, not all syntactic methods qualify as a type system, but a specific kind of syntactic method classify type systems. Why do you think your translation qualifies?
I think most were designed to create a profit for at least one party...
it’s called mid market
To be fair, Ukraine has the same unilateral visa-free regime for EU (plus some other countries) citizens. But it's not as arbitrary. If you are a citizen of one of the countries you can enter through any legal port of entry.

Edit. I keep forgetting that Ukraine now does have visa free travel with Schengen states.
I didn't say anything of the sort. In fact, I said the opposite: I specifically imputed good faith to both sides and called it a disagreement. The departed principal believes their work to have been instrumental; the remaining team believes otherwise. Without vesting, the lone departed can kill the deal.

The "10 years later" example was not made up. Like I said, I've been a party to a "didn't think we needed vesting" scenario, and it's a mistake I won't make again.

I 100% believe you successfully managed a company that was built on handshakes. Like I said, you got lucky (if you'd prefer the alternate framing, say instead "we didn't get unlucky"). I have trouble understanding why you'd leave something like this up to chance; companies are (in most cases) many years worth of dedicated enterprise from multiple people, and deserve a few hours of de-risking by spelling the arrangement amongst principles out in writing.

I'm hardly alone in the belief that founders should vest; you yourself called it a "default"; I quoted Spolsky on it below; and it is, all else aside, certainly a norm in the US. I'm still waiting to hear why you wouldn't do this. Because it helps investors "steal the company" from you? If you raise VC, this debate is especially irrelevant, because while I believe you took funding for one or both of the companies you sold (as I believe all the experiences you relate), I do not believe you could today raise a round from an actual VC firm without taking on a vesting schedule.
Holy cow, didn't we learn from "Secrets of Nimh"? This kind of hubris leads to the downfall of mankind.
but Uber might be able to ride (haha) it out with revenue from its non-US markets

Does Uber operate in any markets that wouldn't be catastrophically affected by a crash of the US economy?
Provided you could keep the plasma contained in magnetic fields, it would certainly generate plenty of free neutrons to provide heat for substantial power generation.
How would you maintain access to your entire library across multiple devices in the 00’s?
I think you need better software developers or a better system if for a person in your team, fluent with the object model and the systems downstream, takes 3 weeks to import data from an excel sheet honestly...
I'd go so far as to say that, when I'm wearing my project manager hat, our tool (which isn't Jira, but is similar) actively wants to make things worse. When I'm wearing my product manager hat, it's simply a disaster.

Sticking everything in a ticketing system makes keeping a project organized more difficult for the same reason that owning lots of stuff makes keeping your house organized more difficult. There's only so many random odds and ends a person can be expected to keep neatly arranged. Especially if keeping them arranged is tangential to their actual job.

I got a lot more effective at my PM responsibilities, with a lot less time spent doing it, after I laid some ground rules limiting the use of ticketing system on my project. One of the main rules was, if nobody needs to be actively thinking about it right now, it doesn't get a ticket.
No, it should refer to Asian Americans
Whose point?
I have the exact same headphones, and while I don't have the 'exploding' sound when listening on the phone, I do have the constant hissing and it is driving me insane!
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especially when the analytical solution is so hard to write that it requires approximations. I always wondered why we spend so much time learning analytical analysis when, once faced with real problems, we have to shortcut it in various, empirical approximations...
Yes and China is closely watching domestic events in Taiwan as well, which does have major impacts on the relation between them, and also on the sentiment of people on both sides.
Yay, another Jira bashing article that completely misunderstands Jira.

Jira actually does a better job of helping bottom-level workers see the big picture than any other tool in its class, because every issue can be linked to any other issue, not just the Epic that the issue belongs to in the hierarchy but issues in completely separate projects belonging to completely separate teams. It's quite easy and supported in Jira to link bug issues to the customer support issues where customers describe, in their own words, what triggered the bug for them. Jira issues also support rich text in the default Description field to write the prose that the author so desperately wants.

Jira is just a tool. If your organization is broken, then Jira won't fix your organization. If people in your organization don't buy in, then the tool won't help them. The comments field that helps people see exactly all of the updates regarding any piece of work - whether that is a small piece of work on the bottom or an Epic - is completely worthless if people still email everybody else. The Assignee field is completely worthless if your organization never assigns issues to people, and it's even more worthless if your organization wants multiple people to be responsible for an issue, which is an organizational antipattern. If you host Jira on-prem and don't give it enough resources, or do stupid shit like putting the Lucene indexes on networked storage (if I had a dime for every enterprise infrastructure team which only offered a single class of networked storage...), then you will have a Bad Time.

It's a controversial tool because it's Conway's Law made visceral. If your organization is dysfunctional then your Jira instance will be dysfunctional. If your organization Gets Shit Done™ then Jira will help you organise and get even more shit done. I'm not sure it's fair to criticize Atlassian for failing to fix the majority of dysfunctional organizations out there.
Yeah running it on premise should be faster.
Can you help me understand why you would want a company structure that was designed not to survive the departure of a founder?
Yeah it's onprem
I agree that cash is better for anonymous transactions ... Sometimes. But I don't follow that credit cards are more anonymous that Bitcoin.

You generally have to give up your ssn and lots of private data to get a credit card. Your name is tied to it.

Cash is great, but does require you or someone to physically deliver it.

But crypto can be laundered through a mixing service over a tor connection and when done properly and carefully, would be essentially untraceable.
Thanks! we've switched to that from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulimov_dog.
same for me. ~7s load times on a 100 Mbs connection with a new macbook pro are a daily encounter.
JIRA could work better in this situation if it allowed for deeper nesting of tickets. You could still capture the larger user story and then subdivide below that level into smaller stories and then features with tasks.
>I'm not sure it's fair to criticize Atlassian for failing to fix the majority of dysfunctional organizations out there.

when JIRA is marketed by Atlassian as the tool that will make your dysfunctional organization functional, then yes, it definitely is fair
Public transport will always be a loss business if you want to serve all areas and not just the rich. Private companies are always going to try to make as much profit as possible, this includes profit over safety if they can get away with it.

What we need is a reorganization of the public transport sector with competent long term planning and the funds to achieve it.

But as long as corruption, incompetence, cronyism and a complete lack of the public willing to pay for it. It won't happen.
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Check out Uniqlo!

I have extreme aversion toward advertising a brand on my body. Uniqlo has nice basic clothes with zero logos on them.
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I think the trick here is that the resistors are much more precise than two batteries of unknown origin will be at providing a symmetric supply voltage without further stabilization. So they serve as a 50/50 voltage divider whatever the input voltage is, 7+9 or 6+8 on half full (or half empty, depending on your mental make-up) batteries, it would still work just fine.

Binding the central line between the two 9V batteries to GND would give you the situation you describe, indeed you could then drop the resistors but now you have a fairly high risk of ending up with an asymmetric supply voltage, which means one side will clip earlier than the other.
The company's response to this report: https://www.ajot.com/news/yangtze-river-port-and-logistics-l...

It's very vague and to me it doesn't inspire any confidence at all.
There's also a strategic purpose: it's easier to hire ICBM designers if designing ICBMs isn't the sole career path for them.
> Also, there is a trend to have a physical board with tickets, as well as a trello board.

Oh no! This sounds like a horrible idea! Two sources of truth, everybody trying to avoid the work of syncing them. Eek.

> The problem with trello is linking tickets intelligently is hard.

One way is to break any sizeable task onto it's own board. Just note on the card that it has been moved to a board of it's own. There is a logical team>board structure for this. Then you have a master board with the main building blocks on it, and then sub boards with tasks/stories on them. It is no panacea, but it can work
YouTube channel of a guy recreating the mechanism:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZioPDnFPNsHnyxfygxA0...
In 2006, during my second of many trips to China, I had the chance to have dinner with a banker in Beijing. A quintessential 洋鬼子, I was stunned to learn at the time that many of the loans being underwritten were based on valueless collateral and I expected the correction and liquidation of the century to occur any day. Almost 13 years later and I am still waiting for the correction. I know its coming, and I know it will be epic, but I can't tell you when. I view recent disappearances in China and various crackdowns on dissent as indicators the time is near.
They don’t realize.
>We're not just talking about the US government that will have access to keys.

Well I doubt the $insert_country would want to share their keys with others. Why would they? It'd make far more sense to send in encrypted message and get decrypted message back.

>The US government has shown itself to be perfectly capable of losing secrets.

But not even remotely comparable secrets. We're essentially talking about a physical item here, not a secret you can lose without losing possession of that item.

>Some proposals for encryption backdoors allow for access by law enforcement at almost any level, down to local sheriff / police

This may present logistical challenges for handling decryption requests, but I don't see it as a huge issue for keeping the keys from leaking.

Obviously I'm not actually advocating this, I just think that you're making some rather dishonest arguments here.
I feel as though our notion of government is outdated. How can this honeypot of corruption ever work in our best interests? I like what Martin Luther King Jr said - his people should work to run their local economies. Rather than begging an elite to help us, we work for collective wealth and take care of each other. MLK also advocated for government programs that would help his people, but this was seen as only part of the fight in addition to direct acquisition of power within his followers’ communities. Today I hear people begging and pleading for some politician to solve our problems, but I believe we must solve them ourselves directly, not indirectly through government. Unfortunately most of my fellow leftists can only see how to solve problems using some theoretical “caring” government. I don’t expect to encounter such a government in my life time.
This. Setting up Jira invariably meant searching internet for me. I have seldom worked with less intuitive UI (Outlook comes to mind, but it is a much smaller app). In light of this article - is it because noone had a clear vision of the app and they all just implemented tickets?
Play store isn't part of AOSP.
Maybe, but I just don't understand how a politician can come up with a plan like this:

"Hey, you know what, why don't we make everything more expensive, so that we can do more than everybody else in solving a problem that is global, is caused mostly by other people, and doesn't really affect us that much yet?"

I mean, there are things you do because you have to do them, because they're the right thing: and yet maybe they're not what excites you most. Especially when you're trying to sell the idea to a continent that has much more serious, immediate, specific problems: increasing divide between rich and poor regions, excessive regulation, corruption, falling economic competitiveness, negligible political weight on a global scale, etc. To me, the fact that a problem so vast and abstract is put in front of others, so obvious and compelling, is already the sign of a serious departure from reality.
With Microsoft, I'd say it depends wildly on the team. I've known .NET to be rock solid stable. Similar for Visual Studio - most Visual Studio bugs I've experienced turned out to be ones that JetBrains was injecting through the plugin API. Office, too, is a pretty well-turned piece of software, especially considering its size and age.

It's largely the Windows team that has a hard time getting its act together.
What's interesting about brands like MVMT and Daniel Wellington in particular is that it's not like they ever produced actual 'quality' stuff. Unlike a lot of the brands in the article, where the 'premium mediocre' stuff is a kind of brand dilution from prohibitively expensive luxury stuff, MVMT and DW somehow managed to bootstrap the illusion of being quality without ever having had to put up the work for it. I guess it's made possible by some combination of what traditionally makes for a quality watch being somewhat opaque to a non-geek consumer (not that it's hard, it's just not something most people feel like spending time learning about), and the traditional definition of quality of watches moving away from functional timekeeping and towards fashion accessory (you can see this with Rolex too, as they start to move up-market).

This in contrast to TAG Heuer, which is much closer I think to the article's subject. Before TAG bought them, Heuer produced a number of absolute classics (such as the Monaco you mention) that they're only just getting back around to continuing now, with the current theme of vintage styling being hip again (something I am, don't get me wrong, grateful for!). But to your point, for a while, TAG tried to get by on brand alone, and sold a lot of relatively low-quality stuff at almost-luxury prices.

There is a possible means, however, by which this kind of process drives the genuine premium market. Some set of customers who buy a DW are gonna wear it and love it for a week, and then start to get pissed off as they find out that the cheap plating rubs off, or the applied indicies aren't applied so well and are rattling around under the crystal now, or that it loses 30 seconds a day. They'll start learning about actual quality differentiators, maybe geek out a bit if they are that type, be bothered they blew $300 on a $5 watch, but maybe next time around they buy a Tissot, or a Seiko. And then an Omega after that. And it's possible I guess that the number of people who go through this process is larger than if there were no such 'premium mediocre' market at all?
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