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I cut my teeth on VB classic, as I'm sure a lot of folks my age did. I was learning C/C++ concurrently, got through the basics, and of course hurried to GUI programming since that's what I made. It's been 20 something years, but I remember it being something like 31 lines of code to just get an empty window in Windows. With VB it was basically zero effort. I wish WYSIWYG IDEs for both desktop programming AND html (remember frontpage, or hotdog?) would make a comeback in a big way. To this day I shy away from GUI programming because of how tedious it is.
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Unmentioned here as far as I can see is their attitude to worker’s rights. That’s massively off-putting for me.
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The fish rots from the head.

Someone needs to analyze Sears' management behavior for the last few decades.

I am pretty sure some interesting patterns of ignorance and incompetence will emerge.
The big gain I see is enabling more controls on smaller devices. Right now physical size is a hard limitation on the number of different control interfaces (buttons or screens or, for future devices with Soli or it's kin on board, gestures), with Soli though the whole volume above the object becomes interface space and the limit is the number of gestures that can be recognized.
^ that my guy!

Very good point about the "sell first" idea. It's important to try to de-risk ideas as much as possible, and to some extent it's doable for B2B startups, but you really can never completely de-risk a startup concept without actually building a product or service and making it succeed.
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Not everywhere. In the UK that would be Argos or Littlewoods. I've only heard of Sears in passing on American TV shows.
New documents link Huawei to suspected front companies in Iran, Syria
LinkedIn doesn’t publish anything about their anti-spam techniques. This was published by a third party, because it was a client-side feature that third parties could discover. Most of LinkedIn’s anti-bot logic is on the backend and completely opaque.
Executives see a million trends come and go. Thay pay lip service so they don't sound outdated, but they have too many friends that drank the kool-aid and went down in flames on fads they came and went.

And then just one more in the pile with this "online" thing. And like all the others, it came and went.... oh wait... it came and stayed? It came and grew!? It came and destroyed !?? Well I guess you can't call them all.
I agree. IMO, using an adblock is not very different from online piracy. The consumer is robbing the content creator of any kind of profit from their creative work. What is so hard about manually skipping the first 1 minute of the podcast? Or turning down the volume for a while?

If we all start using audio adblockers, advertisers will then develop adblock detectors for podcasts. Then, it is likely we will get completely unskippable ads.

The only moral options are to
1) Power through the ads (or fast forward through them) so that you may listen to the podcast for free
2) Become a premium user to skip the ads (unfortunately this isn't always an option)
3) Don't listen to the podcast
> "That's selfish" Yes, just like the millions of people who use adblock software on their browser.

Yes, that's exactly correct! Just like them, you are selfish. Just because "millions of people" do something doesn't make it morally right.

> Adblocking also ushered in sustainable models for journalism, blogging, etc.

This would be news to most working journalists, of which there are a lot fewer now than there used to be (see http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/07/30/newsroom-emp...). Even high quality publications like the New York Times have been struggling for a decade-plus now to figure out a way just to break even online. The ones that have done best are the ones that have put up paywalls, which is kind of ironic when you realize that the only thing HN readers hate more than seeing an ad is hitting a paywall.

The only other model that has proved sustainable is selling the publication to become the personal toy of some billionaire, which is fine as long as you're OK with all the news you get being subject to the whims of a few billionaires.

> If podcasting collapses and goes back to the dark ages of being a non-commercial hobby medium like it was three years ago, like, okay?

At least you're honest about your entitlement to stuff you love being more important to you than whether or not the people who make that stuff can make a living at it. So there's that.
Change title please and add "in the USA"
More precisely, Qt 1.0 was released in 1996, QML 1 in 2009. Current versions are Qt 5(.12) and QML 2.
Electron was first released in 2013.
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I joined a startup a few years ago and I did see this in action. The founder was such a believer in his vision he would go to whatever door he managed to get through and was selling them his mock-ups. He is not technical but he has go a good eye to UI and also had great idea. When I joined him (I'm technical with no eye to UI and not very good at human relations) he already had customers aligned (no product yet) and also won 4 desks in local incubator (big brand's incubator...) I found this astonishing and to date I am under impression trying to learn from him where I lack.
Habit is a really powerful thing when applied over the course of our lives and the truth is that people tend to follow habits most at the start of their days. If there is something you want to do every day (read, work, exercise, relax) do it in your morning and it will become a habit.
Anecdotally, I've seen a significant perception shift regarding Amazon over the last year, even among my non-techie friends. When this group of friends starts talking about these things I know it's moving beyond the Hacker News crowd to the general public.

It used to be the place where you could get anything for a good price in 2 days and trust the quality.

Now the selection is getting iffy in favor of house brands, Prime has a ton of strings attached (add-on, pantry, now) if it's offered at all, Amazon delivery is awful, the prices aren't nearly as good as they used to be, reviews are mostly fake, and you have to work to avoid knockoffs.

Most people I know have dropped Prime and significantly reduced their orders. They haven't stopped entirely, but it seems to be more of a "Wal-Mart" in their minds - a quick and easy necessary evil, not something they particularly enjoy.

It probably doesn't signify their decline yet, but it certainly seems to be a new stage in their lifecycle.
Being of Indian descent, I might be biased. But Indian cuisine is the only cuisine I'm aware of where being vegetarian isn't a compromise in the creativity, quality, and sheer flavors available to you.

For other cuisines, where centuries of culinary creativity mostly went towards making meat, this is the only viable approach to weaning us off growing animals for meaty foods.
We could say the same for other big box retailers. I don’t know any that even comes close to te amazon experience, short of Yodobashi.con in Japan.

I think it requires something very special for an organization to accept to canibalize itself. Apple is the only exemple that I would see at a behemoth scale.
That sounds like you're thinking of Jacquard [0] not Soli which was a woven cloth interface.

https://atap.google.com/jacquard/
any reason to think google doesn't sell your data
Sure, it just got easier.

It became something people who attended a 3 month code-camp can do without prior knowledge.
Not sure I agree. Most revolutionary ideas are unappealing when first presented. The world thought Walt Disney was crazy for making a feature cartoon (Snow White) that went on to be one of the most profitable movies in history. Even after that, they thought he was nuts for starting a theme park.

Henry Ford once quipped, "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said, 'A faster horse.'"
Is it just me or is this article also paywalled for you when you click web => WSJ article? If so, is there another way to read it other than paying for a subscription? I don't read the WSJ often enough to justify subscribing.
True, but that's only because it's a really good power source. For instance, it's also what allows us to have working devices outside our solar system, and for similar reasons.

Any really good power source will have this problem, as will a great many other technologies, should we have them.
Maybe I should try again, I am not looking to hire or be hired so not really sure if there is a point anymore
As a hiring manager, my experience has been that the average unsolicited resume belongs to someone who can't implement fizzbuzz. (this has a lot to do with the population that spams resumes though i believe)

My experience has also been that most raw junior candidates need significant handholding to implement anything into a typical production system at first, and that the learning curve from there varies greatly.

What do you think?
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I’ve always wondered how employers treat an older person changing careers? Do you get an internship along with the young people? Is that wierd? Will they be uncomfortable asking a 45 year old professional to do low status jobs?

And then are entry level jobs open to older adults?

How would you design your resume? Leave your past career off?
That definitely works for me. I’ve tried to work on side projects after my daily job but I often got home drained and with zero will to code anything. Since then I started moving this time into my mornings, before work. It definitely feels short and like you’re on a time constrain more than the evenings, but I’ve made progress on my projects like this, bit by bit.
It’s astounding to me that you mock efforts to replicate meat when the “simpler solutions” is to just tell people to eat veg cuisines and this give up the meat-based cuisines they’ve lived with. And then in the next sentence, you oppose veganism because it’s apparently wrong to give up cuisines you’ve lived with.
I echo that.

Guess they lacked the super power of respectful human conversation.
You are missing the point of that list, I think..

I believe it's a new way or thinking- people are realizing more and more that this old "american dream" where you somehow have millions and millions of dollars and 'power' is just silly. That's not the reality for almost all people. And it shouldn't be the goal!

Maybe you work hard and get lucky? Ok great. But most people can work as hard as they want and still be just "ok".

So.. instead of going after wealth or being in authority, how about we just live happy lives and try to do awesome things?

We have so much more (cheap) technology these days, that it makes it even easier to accomplish.

People are realizing that if they have the flexibility to work from home, work on somewhat their own schedule, get to be creative while doing it and not bugged by annoying bosses/shit.. how can you get much more happy than that? Yeah, you don't have infinite money, but you probably have enough to buy a 70" TV, gaming computer, virtual reality etc.

I have a lot of this, actually.. more responsibility than I would like with young kids; but aside from that.. for me working at home and being able to be a creative developer is my dream life. I could be making a ton more money, but then I have to commute.. be away from family.. not work on my own schedule etc.

I know plenty of people who have a lot more money. And they are miserable as fuck. Money and power doesn't give you as much happiness as you would like to believe.
what an odd question. Ping pong is the only sport I can think of off the top of my head that I wouldn't be absolutely terrified of a professional athlete blasting a ball/puck/thing at me and even then just because i'm not terrified, that ball would still hurt pretty good
If you are motivated to do the math, I'd definitely do the math/stats MS. You can learn the current tech in your spare time or on the job, particularly with all of the good online courses.

Having a BS CmpE + "practical-oriented MS", you will be directly competing against a large number of software engineers who learn data science online or in bootcamps. I believe a stats-oriented MS would definitely make you stand out from this group. As you say, self-learners often struggle with the math and stats parts.
Isn't Nano far better in terms of "One CPU- One vote"? The transactions are voted on by nodes, which are free/cheap to run.
Not listening to the ads is so far from stealing, I am almost not sure if you're serious. It's my right to decide whether to rewind a minute, to lower the volume, to skip a whole boring episode etc'. It's also my right to process the content with an app that modifies it, for my own use.
Actually, there is not a simple correlation between just one of your costs and total sales. In retail, for example, location cannot be ignored. Likewise, there is an awful lot of work that has to go into being the low-cost leader.

Amazon and WalMart are good examples of this. They don't just cut one cost and wait for the money to flow in. They build their entire business around leveraging low-cost, in ways that are extraordinarily difficult to copy.

It's not as simple as, "Pay less wages, cut prices by a few cents, but keep doing everything else the same," any more than running a fast food restaurant is about buying cheaper ingredients and "passing the savings along to diners."
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> I no longer believe this.

You should try interviewing "software engineers" that claim to have 10 years of experience architecting and coding in various languages and cannot write a function that doubles the value of each number in an array.
this sounds like a very bad idea, yes if it could be kept secure in fidelity, good but left open to manipulation editing and censorship bad very bad!
i view LOC as the pulse and collective memory of our nation. The LOC is one of the many checks and balances that make it possible for the people to recognize and deal with an unjust government or sociopathic president that managed to trick itself into office.
why would the physical library be kept in existence if everyone accesses remotely by browser? why would the public require physical access if they have an online reading room.
How would the public know they are reading from the LOC and not some heavily manipulated proxy?
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Eddie Lampard's ego tour was the real nail in what could maybe have been a salvaged niche success story.
900 hours. That's my rule. It takes 900 hours of concentrated effort in brainstorming, building, tweaking, disillusionment, trashing it all, starting over, brainstorming some more, building, tweaking, demoing, networking and THEN selling before you'll even have the faintest idea as whether this can be a viable company. Put in the time and you'll see.
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WSJ removed Google users' access to articles, so the web link doesn't work for them anymore.

Now the only way to view a WSJ article for free is if you're referred through Facebook, I believe.
I just want to thank you for your perspective.

I'd also add that "junior" can mean very different things for different companies. A junior engineer at Google could very well be "mid level" or even "senior" at a different company. Maybe even a CTO at a startup.

The industry is still relatively new and I think we're still in the early stages of grappling with how to best match programming expertise with company needs.
For an example the calculated UNISA fees for COS3711 Advanced Programming (Part of the Math & Comp Science program), when you include the 'Foreign Country Levy' is total 4110rand, which is $300usd. There's prob other smaller fees, like exam fees.

UNISA accreditation, seems they let their DETC (US National) accreditation lapse in 2004 but they're still accredited under commonwealth/UN IHU https://iaci-canada.com/accreditation which they claim qualifies as recognized by the US Dept. of Education though I have no idea how accreditation in the US works, so I would look into this more.
You know how artists will use a bunch of plates (or other objects) to make a giant version of the Mona Lisa or something like that to make a photographic mosaic? It's like that. Each line makes sense, but you've got to have some real vision to make this happen, and it's really difficult (nearly impossible) to see the big picture by just looking at a small part.
For me, they’ve “fixed” that. I finally got their amazon couriers blacklisted, so they are shipping usps.

But, if i order from an account without prime, they wait 11 days to ship, thus giving me 12 day delivery (just within their promised 2 weeks). If i order from an account with prime, it alternates between next day and two days.

Editing to add:

Last order without prime, Dec 28. “Shipped” yesterday (usps shows it arriving to them at 4:35 this morning from amazon, out for delivery today).
So my question is how can we run CI on Fargate?

Is there anyway to launch containers running concurrent CI for my team?
Sure, you can do whatever you like with it. I am genuinely happy and proud of using Gitlab, I have grown as an engineer with Gitlab, and I feel like Gitlab has grown with me too. I hope you guys enjoy the work you do, because I enjoy your work and I can pursue my projects thanks to you guys' efforts. Keep up the good work!
So we should be contrarian, and move back to value investing again?

I wonder how these profitless companies will fare when the next recession arrives.
I don't have a clue about VR stuff, and this is the first time I'm hearing about "Firefox Reality". Why do you need a special browser? What's different about this one?
Unlike other groceries, Costco isn't that reliant on low-margin, zero-margin, or loss-leader groceries (e.g. produce). They keep their costs down by having a limited selection and large, sparsely located warehouses in relatively inexpensive areas rather than traditional retail locations. Selling larger sizes and quantities of product helps to more quickly cancel out their fixed costs. They also sell much higher margin products alongside their groceries, such as electronics and appliances.
I should note the dev of Overcast has his own podcast, which is replete with TONS of ads! I don't want to listen to these ads at all. I guess may as well add this feed to the training set.
I was referring to its reputation 30+ years ago.
Thomas Edison was a solo founder. So was Edwin Land (Polaroid). You could make the case that Thomas Watson Sr. (IBM) was also a solo founder, and they all did just fine. :-)
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Yeah, this happens in writing too. Steven Pinker has a great name for it: "self-conscious style" (in the book The Sense of Style). That's where you insert yourself into the text in a way that's irrelevant to the subject matter.

He instead advocates that you write in "classic style", which is basically talking about X, as you say. There is something in the world, and I am going to show it through words.

He also talks about the "academic style" of writing, and has some funny examples of it. One big part of that is obscuring the prose so that you can never be proven wrong.
You can also get the $120 membership that gives you a percentage back. If you shop there regularly the membership becomes effectively free. But this doesn't help someone living paycheck to paycheck. Where the hell are they going to find an extra $120?
Really? PostgreSQL can use an index created with an older version of ICU? I didn't know that.

Edit: The docs say indices need to be rebuilt when ICU version changes: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/sql-altercollation.html

ICU offers a way to detect the collation version has changed, but I thought there was no way to access older collation versions.
The barrier to access for many people's location data is simply effort. If you want it you can probably find someplace to buy it. We need new ways to get control of our digital shadow.
I love the idea of a WYSIWYG IDE that's integrated with the language like this, or like VB used to be, but personally I just can't stomach the whole "have to learn yet another language to use it" problem. From what little I've played with Lazarus and FPC it seems really nice though, and I might make use of it for some smaller projects at work in the near future. I'm sick of trying to make web apps and all the ridiculous nonsense with that process.

One wonders why we don't have a more generic form of this sort of thing. And no, I don't mean the various "GUI builders" that are out there that produce code you then have to merge with your program, or an XML descriptor that you have to parse with your program, because those are still specific to having bindings for your chosen language.

There really isn't a reason I can think of that I shouldn't be able to throw together a GUI in a WYSIWYG editor and maybe define some basic behavior, then give it one or more programs it should run in the background and pass messages back and forth. Or even let me just tie events to a command pipeline and dump the result into another widget, basically just letting a GUI be part of the composable toolset following the UNIX philosophy.
The web links work for me when you copy them to an Incognito tab.
The work will be there either way. So I can choose to work first and come home worn out from that and then try to do things I care about, or instead to do things I care about first, that don't wear me out, and carry a sense of satisfaction and accomplishment with me to work.

And, I mean, I'm not trying to finish a story before work - not from scratch, certainly. My current story is around 20k words right now, and it's somewhere between a quarter and a third done. I wouldn't get it done in one day if I had every minute to myself! And it'd be no good if I did. But if I can add a few hundred words, or a few dozen that cover a point that's been giving me trouble, or just a few pages of notes in my diary on where the plot's going to go at a given point - and I can do that in a morning - then that's enough.

I think that distinction between finishing and doing might make a difference here - if I thought about it in terms of the former, it'd only frustrate me because I'd run out of time. Thinking about it in the latter terms makes it a question of deciding and finding out how much progress I'll make today.

I don't know if that's how it works out for everyone, and it's anyone's guess whether it'll still work the same for me once I get an elliptical trainer into my apartment and start going ham on that every day. But this is how it's worked for me, thus far.
Also, a lot of time finding the explanation that makes things obvious requires getting a lot of specific things into memory, where you can make the connections and see the common threads.
Hey Mathieu,

Cool project :) I've been experimenting with building similar little tools for myself using our product Clay: http://clay.run (you can think of it as essentially an integrated version of some of the tools you're using like IFTTT & Spreadsheets), that will hopefully eventually make building tools like this a lot simpler. We're early on and the onboarding isn't great right now (improved one coming soon), but would love any feedback you might have!
> Space concerns are pretty minor, it really doesn't take much compared to current human land use.

Well, sure. But in absolute terms that's still a pretty large space which we can't just allocate near every city. By contrast, current power plants are the size of a large apartment block, which we can allocate, even inside the cities.

And if we build that solar infrastructure away from cities where land is available and cheap, then we need to connect it and we need to build the grid to support that, which also isn't cheap, and has other problems.