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Because accreditation. Vanderbuilt U claimed 5,000 hours annually, at a cost of about $2.92 million, to report to its regional accreditor every year.
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SoftBank invests $2B into WeWork, increasing ownership stake
> If you get private insurance you pay extra to cover inner London hospitals unless you live there.

That's kind of the opposite of what I was saying anyway. It's fair enough if you are making a decision to go to a more expensive hospital for your own reasons.

Yeah, private healthcare in the UK is convenient but far from essential. Physiotherapy was actually exactly what came to mind, I believe it's one of those parts which are always chronically under-resourced.
Sometimes it is ok to acknowledge a great run instead of trying to figure out how to stop the disruption. I am not sure why a company has to exist forever.
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Hardware sales generate 80% of apples revenue. You can't combine all ads (google vs. other domains) and not combine different hardware types.
I get the same weird sense of perspective thinking about the number of microorganisms, cells, and atoms around me.
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interestingly - they are already integrating this into clothing. Specifically Levis jackets.

Source - A close friend of mine is on the Soli team.
The Mail Order American Dream: An Introductory Guide to Identifying Kit Houses
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You do realize that git itself is vendor independent, right?

One can, if one chooses, setup a git repository on a spare PC in ones basement and have a "git repository" into which one or more collaborators can "git push" and "git pull" to/from.

In the context of the original post, to which you asked "what is another remote", the second (or third, or fourth) 'remote' can be "any git repository to which the individual has access".

Having a second remote does not, in an of itself, require that that second remote be one of the proprietary git hosting systems, nor require that it be one of the semi-proprietary or open source hosting systems. It could just as well be plain git running in repository serving mode on an old PC.

See the documentation for the "git http-backend" and "git daemon" commands that are built into the git distribution.
My guess is that they got their lunch eaten by Wal-Mart and Target. Wal-Mart beat them on cost and margin.

And you can't operate a mega-chain on premium customer service since the average customer shops on price or convenience.

Department stores have been dying for a long time.
2k net is doable but rare and becoming rarer. I guess the average is around 3k net.
"The invention of the horse-drawn streetcar in 1853, followed by the electric streetcar in 1888, meant that middle-class families could now expand outwards into the first generation of suburbs, the streetcar suburbs.

Enter the kit house: a home you could order from a catalog, and have shipped via rail to your building site. Before kit houses, many homes were built from pattern books: collections of house plans with blueprints for skilled contractors and carpenters to follow.

The kit house, a product of mass-production took the pattern-book concept even further. For each kit house, every piece of lumber, siding, doors, windows, columns, etc. were produced to exact precision in a factory, numbered for easy assembly, and sent to the site by rail and delivered to the lot via cart or truck."
The people who are using the tech aren’t bothered by the first point.
I had a friend who worked at Kmart during the Sears transition and stayed until it closed a few years ago (or so). He worked there for maybe 12 years total, and maybe 7 of that as a manager.

The first week after he started there, he started to wonder how they could stay in business. He said most of his time (in the 12 years) was spent walking around, cleaning, organizing or just watching TV just because there wasn't anything else to do, and no one coming in.

For years, it was a ghosttown in there. I would go after work (5-6pm), and still not see a single other customer. I know it was a smaller Kmart, but they still had some new items show up, and always had some employees around. Must have made enough to cover most of it's expenses, or been too small for Sears to notice.

/just looked it up. That Kmart closed in Jan of 2017.
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Another risk I think is the automation of coding. It already happens all the time, and in principle coding should be the most automatable of anything. The only thing saving it is that it's very hard to automate the creation of good ideas or purposeful human intentions, which naturally inform most successful coding projects. There's also a bit of a conflict of interest, why would coders building automation systems want to automate themselves out of existence? I think these rationales protect software developers' job security for the near to mid-term future.

I'm also thinking that how people code could change drastically, but even so, that's less of a problem. Because the rules and logic of any programming language boil down to fundamental computer science principles which should remain constant despite the interface you're using to code, whether it's a keyboard and monitor or some kind of visual drag and drop thing or whatever someone comes up with.
Isn't warranty provided by the manufacturer and not the retailer, and hence better to buy big ticket items online (likely cheaper since there is no local retailers markup).

Even for clothes, yes offline stores do give us the ability to ability to try, but online offers more choices, colours, fabrics, sizes and brands than any one physical clothes store could possibly offer, so I do think online has an edge.
Any word in any language can be turned into an English word, simply by mispronouncing it.
It went out of business in 2000 so I guess any valuation over zero turned out to be too high?
An interesting article. One thing I like is that there's no "trickle-down" economics BS here, for decades it has been preached that tax cuts will increase the profits which will be reinvested for the benefit of larger social groups. When in fact we've seen an increase in corruption and social inequality. Here we have two models that are being compared not by who makes more, but who is more competent to actually reinvest and sustain long-term goals. As utopistic as it may sound, I would add the workers into the circle, an educated workforce is the only solid unit that can remain active in a recession caused by bad managers or greedy investors.
I also did hear American ads when listening to a foreign podcast in a non-English language.

It seems like the ads are added to the audio file at the start and the end of the podcast.

(I use Player FM)
I think there is a balance. It's always possible to argue that DO would have done better or worse with a polyrepo. However if you ignore evidence, then the theoretical arguments can get silly very quickly.
Mux is hiring a SRE to help build globally-distributed video infrastructure
You, are a genius. I didn't know sed could do such things, awesome!
They do ... That's how they know what each player have in his hands at poker tournament live feeds
We (2 of us, expected to grow to 4 quickly) toured WeWork, Spaces (Regus) and a few other one-off spots here in Orange County. Everyone was pretty pricey, like 2500/mo for 100 square feet. WeWork was definitely the worst and was the most overcrowded... but hey they have beer on tap! (sarcasm)

Ultimately we grabbed a lease on Pacific Coast Highway with a sweeping view of the ocean for less with about 3x the room in a freshly renovated building.

These coworking spaces are terrible.
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Profitability doesn't mean defensible though. What separates them from their competitors? That is the point I'm making, not that they are unprofitable.
That might work for physical product, but when you claim your software download is sold out, people tend to give you funny looks.

You can definitely put up a product page where users can enter an email address and start building up a mailing list, but obviously mailing list recipients are not guaranteed to pay you money.
Mandolin positions your finger such that the callouses form even further onto the fingerprint than with guitar. I gave up on TouchID with my left hand (thumb still worked, though), and FaceID was a nice upgrade.
I wondered whatever happened to Sears.
Yeah, but for a piece of software to acquire Linux support, you don’t need the majority of its developers to own a Linux workstation and want to use the software with it; you just need a non-negligible amount (i.e. enough developers with the spare man-hours to get the work done.)

Sometimes, in fact, it only takes one or two developers. I can’t think of a good Linux example here, but I know of a good few projects (Dolphin, for example) where the macOS target is supported entirely by the one or two developers on the team who use macOS.
> but at the end of the day, people opted for lower priced goods rather than the service that Sears offered, which I assume was partly due to the decent compensation they provided.

Huh? The parent commenter was just describing how poor the service was at Sears stores.
In an earlier era, Sears was the one with the technical chops.
One good middle ground option may be installing and running your language/framework locally but running supporting data services such as mysql, redis etc in docker containers.
Podcasts without chapter marks should be deleted.
This is sad for such a well-known brand. I have such fond memories of their Wishbook catalog that came out around the holidays every year. I would flip to the toys section and dream. My grandparents even had a years old Wishbook in our toy box at their house that me and my cousins would look at every time we went over there, Christmas or not.

But everything dies. It must. It has to in order to clear the way for something else that will advance the species. That's one of the many reasons why "Too Big To Fail" is such a bad idea. Sure, letting all the banks fail at once was probably not the best course of action. But we needed to take a good look at how to structure them so that their inevitable death wouldn't take out the whole system.

Sears dying, thankfully, won't do that at least. And if anybody has a mid-1970's Wishbook they want to part with, hit me up.
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To the OP on reddit - when it really mattered how come you did nothing?

I am glad I read this. More people need to be less naive about the way Silicon Valley really works.

We have this idealistic view of SV compared to the rest of the world.

SV has humans being nice to other humans.

SV has humans screwing over other humans.

Same as in every other part of the world.
You have to pay the market rate for the people you want. The point is that going above that rate probably won’t get anything more out of them other than maybe retention.
The submission has a Makefile that works fine for me. It needs several things defined by -D for configuration options for the emulator.

https://www.ioccc.org/2018/mills/
My guide to being GDPR compliant: don't do business in the EU.

Much simpler.
Yeah, I think you're completely on point. Sears has been on verge of folding for at least a decade, and they've done little to nothing to implement any innovation that would give them another swing. It left plenty of opportunity for smaller startups to swoop in and stay ahead of the market Sears lost out on.
Your debt is an asset, it'll just be sold to someone else.

Debt gets bought and sold all the time, you don't typically notice because you don't have to change who you're paying directly.
A response to some of the many arguments expressed in this thread:

"Then don't listen to it". Alternatively, I'll do what I do now, which is listen to it but skip the ads and wait for software that can automatically skip them to come around, which is the same thing I did for websites.

"That's selfish" Yes, just like the millions of people who use adblock software on their browser. Of course adblock software came after web browsers built in popup blockers in response to the X-10 Spycam being 50% of web advertising circa 2001-2003, so really you could argue the web browsers are selfish and we're all selfish if we don't turn off the popup blockers. Really, even if a website says "By using this website, we're going to install malware on your computer", you're selfish if you reject the malware. If selfish means that I make decisions that make things better for me at the expense of others, then yes, I am selfish when it comes to ads. I view ads as toxic and bad for my health, and I take measures to avoid them.

"But it'll lead to the collapse of podcast publishing". Maybe. Of course publishers repeatedly said adblocking would lead to the collapse of the web, and as best as I can tell mostly idiots doing a pivot to Facebook Video caused what collapse did occur (because, as selfish actors, they pursued a greater revenue stream at the expense of quality and integrity -- oops, turns out there's no money there because the numbers are all fake.), Adblocking also ushered in sustainable models for journalism, blogging, etc. Certainly all the websites I read have found alternate revenue models just fine. Maybe that's because the ones that didn't went under, but I apparently didn't notice.

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?

"Stop comparing podcasts to websites, podcast ads aren't as bad" Maybe, but you don't get to decide for me my threshold for ignoring or blocking ads. Ads weren't as bad when I started using AdBlock Plus in 2004, but they were bad enough for me to decide to use it. Others may have had their breaking point later because they are less sensitive to ads. Some people might still browse the web with ads on and claim they don't care. You do you.

The strange thing to me is people expressing that they'd rather block ads, but they're too noble to do so, so they get mad at others for blocking ads? Uh, okay?
I've been doing this startup thing alone for 1.5 years now.

It's fun to learn some business skills along the way.

It's more possible than ever to build great digital products with a tiny team (or even single person).

If you have a day job, then keep your day job. Start implementing your idea on the side. Do it for at least 1 year. Startup is a marathon. There are a lot of "over night" success stories from media that seek for clicks. But in reality, you'd need to wait for many years to see traction. Do the test drive for 1 year, and see if you still enjoy it.
Not sure if they are connected somehow, but a website with a very similar name http://levels.fyi with FAANG salaries information makes you quistion your choices about being an indie developer
ICU collations in PG are versioned, and ICU has support for accessing the different collation versions. So you might be stuck on an older collation version without explicit action, but it'll not yield wrong results.
Expect to get ads about HTC devices on your Firefox home page soon.
>The revenue stream won't remain intact. This lowers the effectiveness of ads in the long run, reducing the price of ads and reducing the revenue for content producers.

That would only be true if everybody hearing the ad responded to it. Obviously that doesn't happen, and there's an implicit assumption in advertising models that only some percentage of the listeners/viewers will respond to the ads. People blocking the ads are unlikely to respond anyway, so whether they block the ads or not doesn't make much difference in the long run.
Sure but either you are talking about a fixed normalization algorithm which is not locale aware, in which case it doesn't solve the locale-specific unique key issue, or it is locale-aware and hence suffers the same problem with time-varying behavior.
I think the suggestions were essentially not to conflate "moonshots" with innovations. If you are planning big things, you can't do that around scientific innovation. Those don't happen on schedule. Instead, big things are done by pushing the limits of what you know. Some innovations may come out of them, but they were not accounted for in the planning.

That is, it wasn't sneering at the attempt to build and create, per se. But it was saying that this is not at all the same as what the Apollo missions were. There are some hints at similarities, but by and large, they did go against much of the idea of incremental innovations.

So, are they impressive? Yes. Absolutely. Fun even. But if you are going to set your sights on something big, you will have to spend an absurd amount of money. Near bankrupting levels of it, for most people.

Similarly, if you want to succeed, you can't bank on innovations. Eventually, you'll fail to hit an innovation and will be in trouble. Instead, spend the effort to mitigate known failures and build towards milestones.
How does this work? I thought Bill Gates bought all the rights to digital representation of famous artworks.
> That's your interpretation but that's really a political view

Smith's concept of regalian functions is just as much a “political view”.

> and indeed the definition of that third duty is highly subjective.

So are the definition of what particular actions of sovereign are within the boundary of the what is essential within the other two (and all three expressly vary by context, including available physical and social technologies, as perusal of the relevant parts of the Wealth of Nations makes clear.)

> Note that my point wasn't to discuss regalian functions in general but to counter the argument that calling the British NHS 'socialist' was like calling the police or the army 'socialist'.

Which the reference to regalian functions fails to do: all fall within the broad ambit of what could be considered those functions, and whether the dpecifics of either do is debatable, and, in any case, whether or not a function is within the scope of regalian functions is irrelevant to whether or not it is socialist.
They really need a clause that’s something like “not to exceed 5% of revenue/market cap/net worth/something else”

You burn it into the ground and you get 5% of nothing.
You don't have to have superpowers.

You just have to have some product sense, some engineering chops, and the ability to take 6 months off (not everyone can afford this, and that sucks) to build the thing and see if you can get people to look at it and buy it.

You'll learn all the other stuff along the way (taxes, marketing, and eventually: hiring). Just give it a shot. If you run out of savings and have to go back to work, in interviews you'll get to say you "did a startup."

My company is bootstrapped. It isn't growing fast enough to fit PG's definition of a startup, but it's 5 years old and makes 7 figures.

Realizing after a few months that I didn't have to do a "startup" really helped. Whew, no more putzing with decks, trying to figure out how to get into an incubator, trying to raise funds, trying to convince one of my friends to quit their job and be my cofounder, "hustling", committing myself to never sleeping again. I could just focus on building a great product.

And I think my company worked because I was product focused. In the early days I just thought a lot about what the /best possible/ solution to the problem I was solving would look like, built what I saw, put it in front of friends (and eventually strangers from the internet), and made tweaks based on their feedback (and things they didn't say but that I noticed about how they used it).

This is contrary to the "sell first" idea--when I tried to cold pitch friends on my product idea they all said "eh, I don't think I'd really use it over the existing solutions." Those same friends asked me to comp their accounts a couple years later.

It worked for me. "Sell first" might be more important if you're selling to businesses? But like, getting the "x first" part wrong for a few months probably isn't going to kill you. Just start doing stuff. Wiggle around in your space until things start to catch.
But does the “enough money to live” include money to cover your future living expenses as well? As I was saying, I plan for a scenario in which I’ll be “forced into obsolescence” in my late 40s due to ageism, and won’t be able to claim any social security benefits due to the massive deficit in federal budget.

Hence, what I really strive to make now is actually 3-5X my cost of living expenses every year, so I can ensure a decent retirement down the road.

Based on that math, I really can't afford the luxury of taking a job that will just cover my yearly expenses. In my case, I really have to go for jobs where swes make $300-400k/yr, and I live pretty frugally myself (I spend 60k/y post tax in the Bay Area). I don’t think it’s safe to assume software engineering is a career that you can keep up until your 60s, unlike teachers for example, so you have to plan for it.

I’ve seen several people actually employ this logic and justify to themselves a 120k software job at a cool Bay Area startup, because it fully covers their living expenses in the Bay, despite not letting them save even one single dollar for retirement. I think that’s very irresponsible though, and they’re in for a sad surprise when they’ll discover in their late 40s that employers don’t consider them as hireable as they once were, and now they have to drive Uber to not become destitute (not that there’s anything wrong with that, but it’s hardly a great outcome).
but that's pretty true of all tech offices I've been to in the last few years. Even FAANG companies where they're paying their engineers a lot.

Over time, it seems like I'm getting less and less noise dampening... my last office, they had these little fabric cardboard deals they clipped to the edge of the desk... before that, I worked at smaller places, where there were a few people per office, and before that, I worked at a large place that gave us full cubes.

But at this office? nothing. nothing in between me and the person in the desk across from me. I had facilities put in a whiteboard between us, 'cause while I can wear hearing protection for noise; accidental eye contact is just not okay.

These aren't junior people, these aren't low-paid people; I don't think it's about saving money; or, cramming us in might be about saving money, but leaving out the partitions isn't. They give us really nice, expensive sit/stand desks that would demolish the cost of partitions.

(That said, most of the places I've worked at the very least had fabric coverings on the floor, and often those noise dampening ceiling hanging things... but I personally think that partitions are important, and those have gone the way of the dodo)
MS Google and FB also have much larger monorepos than a 10, 100 or 400 person company (which is a point TFA makes).

Also, if you want to make an atomic commit between two git repositories, it's possible to do it, but you are at some point no longer working with git, you are working with some VCS that is building on top of git.
It's all about real estate and moving tax writeoffs around.

Big box is all about "financial innovations" that juice up financial statements.

Sears owned everything and had to carry most of the costs. Big box retailers like WalMart own as as little as possible, there are a thousand LLCs, trusts, etc that hold the big fixed assets like stores, etc. None of the big retailers own much of anything.

Doing this allows them to operationalize most of their costs. Instead of depreciating a building over 30 years, they write-off all of the value of leasing the building from some other entity. (ie. Store #5622, LLC) It's also a big part of why strip malls have a short shelf life. A dead strip mall with a Tae Kwon Do studio is a depreciated asset that exists to lose money for someone to write off a profitable one.

It works well as long as they hit the growth targets. When these operators miss the mark, even for a short time, you end up with a RiteAid or Linens n Things scenario where the numbers don't add up, and everything goes "poof".