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Data Skeptic : Especially all the episodes of Kyle explaining a concept to Linda. I've learned lots of great concepts from those episodes. https://dataskeptic.com/

CoRecursive : Long form interviews around a particular topic per episode, with a focus on programming languages and functional programming. This is my podcast. http://corecursive.com

For finding podcasts, that is tricky. One tip I have is to use https://www.listennotes.com/ to search for a subject. I recently a book by Adam Grant, as was able to easily find all the podcast interviews he had done by searching for him on listen notes. I may not subscribe to all of them, but its great if I want to do a deep dive on someone who is doing the interview rounds.
2018 XPS 13 Developer’s Edition–Have it your way on “just works” Linux laptop
I have zero issues with the native cmd.exe.

However, I have changed the following:

* Set the default font to Droid Sans Mono (Slashed) [1]

* Set the scroll back to 9000 lines, and the default width/height to 132x50.

* Used ANSI to colour code the prompt.

* created a small tool called su.exe that re-launches cmd.exe as Administrator (it can't be done inline unfortunately)

And then I use openSSH (the Windows 10 bundled version) to remote to linux boxes.

It's all fine. I really don't understand the hate.

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[1] my own edited copy of Droid Sans Mono where the Zero has a 'slash' added.
It's more like a "Windows Subsystem for Linux Applications"
Most of Control Panel, such as the network configuration (I realise this isn't a snapin, sorry)

A quick check shows the availability of "connect to another computer" is a bit random; I can do it in services.msc and taskschd.msc but not in diskmgmt.msc . Maybe that's why I've never found it before.
Thank you for sharing your experience and recommendations! Definitely going to check out The Great CEO Within.

How much time would you say you spend on consulting vs. product, per week, and how do you find your clients?

I tried consulting for a little, with the same goal of wanting to work with and learn from lots of different companies while working on my own product on the side, and found myself struggling to dedicate time to my product, with finding clients taking up a lot of my time (outside of working for my clients). Granted I was in very different circumstances than you--not nearly as much as 5-6 years of expenses saved up, I'm also pretty inexperienced, hey I'm young so yolo--but I'm still interested in hearing what's worked for you!
Right now Mozilla is in a deal with Google.

If Firefox numbers drop below a threshold, we can only pray, Google doesn't alter the deal any further.

Not to mention Google gets carte blanche to basically control Web Standards as they see fit, since they are the only implementer (that counts).

- Don't want PNaCl? Too bad.

- Dart on the Web? You can't remove it even if you want it. Oh and you better support it, cause if your browser doesn't have feature parity with Chrome, you are doomed.

- Rust in browser? You can only dream.

- Browsers that use more GPU and SIMD? Too much of a hassle.
From those I remembered to log on goodreads...

1) Art of Unix programming - amazing book, lots of "ah-ha" moments. Enlightening is the word I suppose.

2) Mythical man month - very uneven. Some chapters are insightful, some are hopelessly outdated. It's short though so it's not too hard to finish.

3) Flowers for Algernon - meh

4) Fermat's Enigma by Simon Singh - fun pop sci, enjoyed it

5) Whatever and Elementary Particles by Houellebecq - really liked them (especially Whatever), but I'm not sure I would recommend them since they're so... dark
Well, according to some research flashing lights are more likely to be noticed:

https://www.lrc.rpi.edu/resources/pdf/iesna01a.pdf

> Flashing lights will be perceived as having higher brightness than steady-burning lights, up to a flash frequency of about 15 flashes per second. Such brightness enhancement can aid in conspicuity, and several rear lighting systems have been designed to have a flash rate between 5 and 9 flashes per second in order to maximize their perceived brightness.

I think deep down we all know this anyway, which is why we want flashing lights if we are on a bike amongst traffic. Why on earth would emergency vehicles and maintenance vehicles use flashing lights if they were equally effective to steady lighting?

Your daughter's bike would be far more noticeable with flashing lights.
> IMHO this is not rational on the part of web developers

It's quite rational.

> If they've forgotten the lessons of IE-6 they need to have a refresher and stick to standards.

I think you have an unreasonable view of what “the lessons of IE-6” for web developers are.
I know that, i've tried it and its really laggy. It might as well not be there at all.
While not about software engineering, I find Reply All to be one of the most interesting podcasts out there because it deals with the intersection of technology and society. While it’s more geared toward the layperson, listening to it really helps you understand how everyone around perceives various pieces of technology.
Surveillance libs in common smartphone apps collected data of 200M+ Americans
Why would it be my employers obligation to pay me what I think I need because I want luxuries (like a $1600 apartment by myself)?

The typical HN reply may be trying to help figure out a problem like “if I only have X dollars how can I maximize.”

Reality is that unskilled labor doesn’t get everything they want. Fortunately, they get everything they need. A better example would be healthcare, but I think Amazon’s fulfillment center workers have pretty good insurance.
If you live in USA and are going to take a big loan to pay for your education in University, remember that you must pay it back later, so pick some subject that makes sense financially. Probably CS is fine, but do your own research. (This is not financial advise.)
Everyone in the union decides that it is in their best interest to use collective bargaining. And hearing the stories from the bottom 30% of the American workforce I can't say that they are wrong.
I've been in this since Netware for MSDOS. Your last point is valid in most circumstances but the issues are technical and not with staffing or skill level. I'll outline some of the technical issues I have, with my skill set which covers large scale deployments:

1. Remote management is totally unreliable. If I point DSC at 20 nodes via WinRM, 25% of the time it will fail on one of the nodes.

2. Everything takes glacial amounts of time to happen, from deployment and provisioning to simple cases like restarting processes. This is because Windows is simply so damn large.

3. There are so many edge cases and bits of tribal knowledge dotted all over stackoverflow which is sometimes the only way of finding out what the hell is going on, it's impossible to cover all of them through automation and nigh on impossible to document the rationale behind them.

4. Literally everything is stateful and state is difficult to synchronise and reload.

5. The disparity between major platform releases makes it extremely difficult to develop automation that isn't brittle and can span major windows versions. And because everything has all of the other concerns from coupling to bugs it's impossible to chop big chunks of your infrastructure over to new windows server versions. So you end up in permanent migration mode.

6. The sheer amount of bugs in some of the larger products like SCCM and SCVMM are just unbearable. SCVMM client for linux is a pile of shit and I'm being polite there.

All of these cost immense amount of wall clock time and staff attention which far outweighs the cost benefit of using the platform to start with at least from an application server business.

On the desktop, things are slightly better as it's the least bad desktop platform for corporates but that's changing. Even Microsoft know that which is why they are forcing people down the cloud route and selling subscriptions.
> extinguish

Oh how I'd wish, in this case.
Interview with Jeremias Grenzebach, CEO of Dentacoin Blockchain Solution
Data in Product Management – The Good and the Bad
The colleges should have to carry insurance sufficient to cover the liability of failure.
I find it funny that the others here assume the problem is with the builders and not with #1.

Good leadership requires that you come to terms with shortcomings, both your own and those of other people.
>The company is cutting down on cost by playing prospect theory-based games with their employees' salary.

I suppose we cant expect Amazon workers to go into excel and calculate their yearly earnings from prizes?

If they did this, its a non issue.

But I suppose we can't expect Amazon workers to do this... correct?

>The whole system reeks of commoditization of labor

You say this like its a bad thing. If you can turn labor into something an unskilled/uneducated worker can do, humanity is more productive. This is the goal of creating processes.
i disagree. in my opinion we don't need more browsers. what we need is a single browser/platform where companies and individuals can compete while developing various features.

think of it like this: instead of a browser vendor implementing a feature and then the rest playing catch-up, that same feature will now be available for most users, no matter who has developed it.

edit: spelling
> Yet another dead open sourced project from Microsoft. Maybe if they opened it BEFORE happy end Edge now be real/not paper rival for Chrome/Firefox.

You may wish to click the link.
There was no ability to tell who'd even seen the key. A colleague of mine 'got it', and when it was shown he had it, there was a "WTF? You're not supposed to have that? Where'd you get it?". It was checked in to version control. It was just in a project that only a few people were assigned to, but there was no restriction on who could view those projects.
It's a very well written book. It's obvious that Thomas Sowell skews libertarian but he doesn't brow beat you over the head with it. The focus of the book is more to provide the analytical framework for you to make your own judgements as to how things operate in an economy. Once you ready the Sowell book make sure you read "How Markets Fail" which takes a slanted, oppositional view to deregulation.
> Not to mention Google gets carte blanche to basically control Web Standards as they see fit, since they are the only implementer.

Even if Firefox disappeared, Apple is still around.
You’re quite right about a moral obligation, I agree with that. But the obligation is not to provide a middle class lifestyle. The obligation is for basic needs and opportunity.

Society does provide homes, thankfully, in the US. But we don’t provide them to individuals making $40k/year.
> Most doctors know very little about what food does to the body.

This is bullshit. "Most doctors" know very little about the electromechanical processes involved in a keystroke but they still know it results in a letter appearing on the screen.

A doctor's job is to keep you alive and to a lesser extent, healthy. They are not in the fitness businesses but they sure know that fit people have less health problems. Problems that they ultimately get stuck treating.

Do they know the chemical processes at work (in detail) in the brain when you eat something? Probably not... Not unless they're a gastroenterologist/neurologist. But do they know that eating loads of sugar every day can lead to Type II diabetes? They sure do! I'd even go so far as to say, "Doctors know quite a lot more than most people" about such things!

They also know loads of things about salt! Ask any psychiatrist about the effects of high salt intake on various mental conditions (and their respective treatments). Ask any pediatrician what would happen if you fed a tablespoon of salt to a baby. Ask a dermatologist about salt in general (wow, take a seat and be prepared for a lecture).
What is stopping Google from rejecting the pull request?
>> Our main path business path gets about 60,000 reqs min. For that, sure AWS Lambda would never compete.

I'm curious about this statement because I'm currently working on a project where the intent is to port a legacy app to AWS Lambda. The legacy app is currently distributed across 96 VMs and handles ~ 50K reqs/min during normal times but can run into ~ 3M reqs/min during high demand.

Are you saying AWS Lambda can not scale to handle this type of demand and if so can you point me to some resources/references that explain this?

For the record, I'm not the one that came up with the architecture.
This is good, but it bugs me that the "perfectly ordered" calendar doesn't have the worst score. Maybe consider the calendars tiled on an infinite grid? That way 5 will be one right and one down from 4, instead of four left and one down. Maybe even shift the next line up, so 4 is next to 5...
NYC minimum wage is <=$15, depending on the employer and area.

https://www.ny.gov/new-york-states-minimum-wage/new-york-sta...
https://indiehackers.com is a community for solo entrepreneurs that I've found helpful and interesting. They also organize meetups in different cities. I hope it grows because there are a lot of solo entrepreneurs like us out there!
queues please! :)
Any job that pays you enough to live, but not enough to get to a better place in the long run, is a dead end. When technology takes these jobs, lives will be ruined. Many people would be better off finding something new now rather than later.
Paleotronic’s 12 Years of Retro-Christmas Year Six: 1985
Wow... I really like the streak concept and private stuff with streak public. I will give it a try.
I don't understand the Firefox trend. It was good years ago. It's time to move on. Having one rendering engine is much better than having a lot of disparate features splitted across various engines.
This year, I discovered Agatha Christie. A few years back, when I was temporarily advised bed rest for a month, my sis loaned me a collection of Hercule Poirot short stories.

I was always a Sherlock Holmes fan and really enjoyed the logical detective work. Hercule Poirot felt like just like a pretentious quirky old man, making denouements based on evidence that is flimsy and tenuous at best.

This year, I came across the novels, and boy are they different! The novels give more space for characters to develop and for us to observe the proceedings and deduce clues. Each book felt more like a Whodunit game wrought as a novel. I tried to play detective as the story proceeded. Often the ending was radically different from what I expected, a few were a letdown and a bit lacking in proper evidence. But always, there are entertaining and I had so much fun and I was even right once or twice.

Of course they were written a long time back, but I am happy to discover them now.

If HN community can give me point to even better literature in the same vein, it would be heaven!
Individual employees have a power of moving to another employer.

There are professions when skill transfer is problematic, like a railroad engineer, but warehouse worker is not one of them.

It is indeed not frictionless and requires some effort, but it's certainly doable.
> That is _not_ a solution, and this is an incredibly naive and classist take on why people people work in unskilled positions.

Care to elaborate? Many of us held minimum wage positions for some period of time before gathering the skills / tools / time to move on to something better.

> A society absolutely does have a moral obligation to its citizenry, otherwise what is the point of it?

A citizenry has moral obligations to its society. Demanding handouts for minimal contribution does not create a strong society.

> A man must bend his knee to the oligarchs and the state and get crumbs in return? This is what I meant by classist conspiracy theories and capitalist bootlicking. HN needs to wake the fuck up.

I can hurl insults and straw-man opposing views, too. I don't think it benefits anyone, though.
New York City is an expensive place for a warehouse. I believe it only exists so Amazon can offer same day delivery to millions of people. I have no idea how valuable that is to Amazon, but it’s apparently valuable enough that they already accept incredibly high costs. They may just accept the union as one of those costs.

But I understand that it’s possible to put a passage in the employee handbook that “if you belong to a union, the following does not apply to you; check your union agreement for details,” and to offer some benefits, such as profit-sharing, only to nonunion employees. Since labor law is complex, I don’t know what limits exist on that approach.
I’m really interested in what you think the job of market systems is. And to whom they are trying to serve.

It seems odd that capitalism would have such a duty to humanity because it’s like saying “art has failed humanity.” Or “this screwdriver has failed breakfast.”
> I think you have an unreasonable view of what “the lessons of IE-6” for web developers are.

I agree with the OP. Perhaps you can elaborate on why you think we both have unreasonable views.
The time scale for human experience is around a second or so to 100 years, which makes sense for what we experience, but I also don't understand what past and future mean in the diagram, the vertical axis seems to mean time duration rather than a time in past or future...
Having many engines implement the same spec means they can keep each other in check. Monopoly means complacency.
Show HN: HMAC Express Middleware
I read long ago that a famous american cardiologist simply asserted that high salt intake leads to high blood pressure, and that it has been known as a fact since then.

Regrettably I can't find the source.
I think this might actually be something positive in the long term: Google will control less of Chromium.

(Still, it would have been nice if Microsoft would have chosen Gecko instead...)
Sounds like an employment attorney's dream.
Between September and October I put down my usual collection of science fiction and cookbooks to read books from female authors. I strongly recommend each:

1. Pride and Prejudiced by Jane Austen

2. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

3. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

edit: line breaks
Working is a series of tricks that I would never do unless I got a bunch of treats.

And a raffle is literally a form of income since it has value and is taxed as income. Perhaps you mean getting a raffle ticket and losing isn’t income.
Apparently you don't remember the Internet Explorer 6 years.
Congresswoman to Google CEO: Why when I search ‘idiot’ do I get pictures of Trum
Consider the lobster - David f. Wallace (good)

Brief Interview with Hideous Men - David f Wallace (better)

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep -Philip K. Dick (better than I expected)

A Scanner Darkly - Philip K. Dick (even better)

The Goal, It's Not Luck, Critical Chain - Goldratt (OK, easy read)

The Phoenix Project - (bad prose, not inspired)

Grimus - Rushdie - (Amazing)

Autobiography of Mark Twain ( oscillating between amazing to boring, worth the effort)

Foundation (the whole series) - Asimov - (ok)

The Blank Slate - Steven Pinker - (Interesting, good read).
The long term results finally catching up to the short term thinking?

Wonder if whoever did the initial short term "lets outsource it!" thinking had moved on by the stage the lawsuit happened?
Ok, so use ‘whois mydomain.tld’ to check availability, then google “.tld price” or “otherdomain.tld price” to check the cost without identifying your domain.
im old enough to remember the browser wars, and this just feels like another crack at the same pinata...Microsoft ultimately refuses to give customers a choice in the matter of browsers and is simply reskinning a copy of chrome out of desperation to keep customers clicking through their product, not googles.

I expect microsoft to release their rebuild of Edge, which will override all user preferences for chrome, advertise itself on the lock screen, and come bolted on with a ton of features and extensions no one asked for because Redmond couldnt help themselves.
> One of the things that attracts me to Serverless is not paying anything (or vey little) until a project is properly off the ground.

I guess it's not quite nothing, but can't you just buy a cheap $5 (or even $2.50) VM, and run all of your small projects off of the same one.

The cost is pretty small, and you don't have to worry about how your going to migrate your code off the serverless platform later.
This refers to NYT article [0] "Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret"

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/10/business/loca...
Show HN: Wangll, a private log book for your team (beta)
SPIRAL: Extreme Performance Portability (IEEE 2018 Preprint) [pdf]
Cool to see an economics book on your list. I think it's a highly underrated subject among the tech community. I started to lightly teach myself economics this year. It was a real sobering experience learning how incredibly stupid I was towards economics and how complex it is. But even after just learning a little, it's amazing to see how that ignorance is a fear mongering tool in the media.
Always the bridesmaid, never the bride.
Having managed desktop windows deployments, I sort of agree. They work pretty well up to a point and that point stops when you have to introduce change control. Eventually all the little hacks, GPO scripts and stuff piles up and up and up and then there's a task like "migrate one AD node to 2016" and this turns into a 2 month project unpicking all the hell.

That is what every single Windows environment I've seen turns into, including the SCCM powered and Microsoft direct consultancy managed ones.
I don't see why, I switched from DO to Vultr and then to Hetzner because the price was 4-5 times higher. Maybe it is a bit more reliable, but when I can get five servers for the price of one, I can add a lot of redundancy...
Bumblebees bearing IoT backpacks act as a living data collection platform
looks similar to server side blazor (razor components) added to asp .net core 3.0
https://codedaze.io/introduction-to-server-side-blazor-aka-r...
Having a monopoly is hardly a positive thing unless you are the monopolist.
> pressured to perform tricks in exchange of a treat.

You've just described my whole life...
Making a URL shortener on Ethereum
I have read about a problem on some mac laptops where turning off the hardware acceleration for rendering leads to significant increases in responsiveness. Turn that off under settings and see what happens.
What's the point of adding a sentence or two to a commit message? I only include a keyword and the issue number, e.g. "Closed #41" or "Fixed #41". This will link the commit to the GitHub issue, which will allow any users to see all the details they need about what was involved in the commit message.
> then take the wealth generated and redistribute it to the population

i assume you mean the shareholder population?
I’m confused as to how a prize to the highest performer is undignified. This is precisely the model they want to encourage. It’s not literally a single prize, but there are multiple prizes.

Imagine the olympics where there is no gold, silver, bronze. Is it undignified to award the highest performers?

A method that awarded everyone would not lead to productivity gains desired since it skips the competition and motivation. This only applies to manual labor and not to many other careers.

Competition is not undignified or wrong if it is fair and structured properly.

Overworking is optional. It’s something I used to be into when I was young, but not now.

It’s tyrannical if all weee forced to work harder, even if age prevented it.
Tech Blurbs: Microsoft Bugs, CyberCrooks Gain Ground, Routers Targeted and More
Exactly what happened to me. I'm still wary of coming back...
> Even if Firefox disappeared, Apple is still around.

Apple cares about web in the same way Windows cared about web. They want to move you to their native silo apps (for windows it was Windows application).

I.e. Apple wants to rename your Web Browser to App Store. It's already in some regards, the new IE.