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Using the C locale certainly helps, but do watch out: you still need to normalize. That means you still need something like ICU.
I imported a 20 year old SVN monorepo to git with 100s of thousands of commits and tens of thousands of branches/tags and it was under 10GB. Removing a few large .tgz files that were inadvertently committed brought it down to 5 GB.

Linux has 25Mloc and ~800k commits; I think the pack is on the order of 2GB?

I don't doubt that 40GB nightmarish monorepos exist, I'm just wondering how and why.
And let's not forget boo.com ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boo.com
I'm not staying it's the problem; for something as systemically wrong as the US healthcare system there isn't just one thing wrong.

I'm merely debunking your assertion that insurance companies don't have a financial incentive to keep costs high.
Wow, that's flabbergasting.

Exactly the type of lack of conversational etiquette I've encountered.
LinkedIn's reputation isn't so great. Primarily because they harvest user mailboxes, and spam endlessly about Mirimir (for example) inviting recipients to join their associate at LinkedIn. And it's not just annoying. Sometimes it hurts people's careers.
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Yes. That's what they did. They couldn't address the due process claim because it was poorly argued at first instance and the 'proper' formulation was not addressed as it was not raised earlier. Then they went off and used all the same administrative law principles under different names in the 1A analysis after concluding that a facebook page could be a public forum.
What is the point of Kenmore now? They were never their own product, just a re-badged Amana, Whirlpool, or GE (variously) appliances.
Exactly. The service currently provided by Uber is very much a commodity, both for drivers and riders.
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I heard on a podcast this morning an ad stating 'Buy Craftsman tools at Lowes' and was like "Wow. Just wow." and yesterday I saw where Macy's is closing a store here in Indy and K-mart is also continuing to close stores.

I remember when malls had pet stores and arcades and Service Merchandise (oh man, entering stuff you wanted to buy into those terminals haha) now you buy everything from Walmart and from the comfort of your couch on Amazon.
I don't know any front end frameworks either. I know Javascript, Bootstrap, and HandleBarsJs for template and I have done web pages knowing only those.

But no one would ever hire me as a "front end developer" or a "full stack developer" without knowing one.
I think part of the point is that you pay more money to attract different people who will perform better, or to encourage people to stay at the job longer (and thus get better at it).
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>We have messed up this planet to the point of no return (almost), opportunities are dwindling by the day, there are crowds everywhere fighting for meager resources...

Jesus Christ, only someone in a developed country brainwashed by liberal propaganda could believe this. Try going somewhere poor and dirty with far less opportunity, and see if people think this way. I swear there must be something in our goddamn water.

>Does having kids suddenly make one happy? I see so many parents stressed all the time, simply trying to provide for their kids. How do you explain that?

Probably because they are physically unhealthy. Developed worlds are physically unhealthy, I can't think of any better explanation. I see families with more kids and less money all over the world who are way happier (and technically speaking, more successful from an evolutionary standpoint). Sure having kids is a stressor but so is everything meaningful that requires human activity. The difference is that healthy humans seek it out and derive long term happiness (not pleasure or euphoria) from it. And they can handle it sustainably.

Sentiments like these really make me believe more and more that there is some kind of dysgenic sickness in the West.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-01-08/wework...

"In addition to the corporate finance weirdness: “Going forward, the company will no longer be called WeWork but rather The We Company.” (“The switch is not a legal name change,” okay.) And: “Rather than just renting desks, the company aims to encompass all aspects of people’s lives, in both physical and digital worlds,” which is—and I have spent years writing about the financial and tech industries and do not say this lightly—the very worst corporate slogan I have ever heard.

Me: What does your company do?

We: We encompass all aspects of your life, in both physical and digital worlds.

Me: Wait that’s terrifying.

We: We’re like Facebook, only you also live here.

Me: Who did you say you are again?

We: We are We.

The new company will be divided into several main business units: WeWork, WeLive, WeGrow, WeHarvest and WeFeast, wait no only the first three of those are real, but I am looking forward to when they start a line of industrial-chic funeral homes, WeDie. (Free beer at the wake!) Seriously WeGrow (real!) is “a still evolving business that currently includes an elementary school and a coding academy.” And WeWhatever’s founders once (in 2009!) “mapped out plans for everything from WeSleep to WeSail to WeBank.” I can’t keep up with this."
Solo founder here. You have to have a growth mindset. It is your oxygen.

I was speaking to an entrepreneur today, trying to learn about his industry and sell him marketing services. The guy kept coming up with reasons not to grow. Even when I asked him, what if you had 20 more customers willing to spend $15K (his dream cust), he said he would have problems fulfilling those customers.

This guy does not have a growth mindset. Maybe that's by choice; maybe he is happy with the current revenue, which is fine.

But as a new entrepreneur, a growth mindset is essential. The best way I know to overcome this is to have a coach or even better a coach who has already built that kind of business you are trying to build.
Hang on a sec, I'll move my EU-based company's entirely EU customer base as well as all of our EU citizen staff and EU-based suppliers... oh wait.
Why would they deal with HTC and not just Steam in general.

I have had Vive since day 1. I am never touching anything HTC again. I'm happy enough with the device and technology I have- but the HTC software is horrendous and there's no place for it. I've heard just horror story after horror story of HTC customer service / repair, wanting $200 for a new controller etc.

Vive Pro is a complete joke, in price.

HTC hasn't done anything positive since the release of the original vive.
> 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

I actually found that quite relieving from reading all the IndieHackers interviews: Many were already at it for several years and had minimal revenue for a looong time. And only after years of consistent work they got to 5k, 10k or 50k monthly revenue.
> There's huge swathes of evidence.

I'm still waiting to see any on point.

> Read any decent economic history of the Soviet Union, or Maoist China.

Which would be relevant if I was asking for evidence that Leninist vanguardism and it's derivatives were adequate systems to overcome the disadvantages poorly developed economies engaging in large scale geopolitical conflicts with advanced industrial powers face. Or if I was asking about evidence about the utility of top-down state central planning.

But labor cooperatives don't require a state featuring Leninist vanguardism or top-down central planning, and in fact are a well-known practice in modern Western mixed economies like those in North America and Western Europe, and there are a lot of well-established observed differences between labor coops and classical capital-rents-labor firms within such systems, but I can't see any evidence that a higher failure rate for coops is one of them.
I don't really see how Microsoft was out commoditized on the phone. It seems like the causes for Microsoft's loss were more straightforward, it was late to the party, it was hampered by an existing product that wasn't great, and they mismanaged the hell out of the app store.
As it grows larger, the "Amazon marketplace" is getting more and more filled with garbage knockoff products and fake reviews. There may eventually come a tipping point where they lose user trust.
On the Books We Choose and Those We Don’t
Stanley now owns the Craftsman label (along with Porter Cable, Irwin, DeWalt, and others). Recent reports state that it will now be marketing Craftsman tools at Lowe's. When I was building up my tool kit, Craftsman hand tools were all that I'd buy. Other than some sockets, I haven't bought any more tools in years since the one's I own are working as well as the day I bought them.
While this is generally true, imagine if Sears had honestly realized their competitors potential and tried to compete. They had the country covered in stores and could have easily cut shipping times down by shipping from the nearest one.

Their stores were also a hodgepodge of junk all randomly mixed, and they never made their store a desirable place to stroll.
Can I ask an honest question respectfully? I don’t have a company or a startup. But I’ve always wanted to start one. So I’m always curious when I see a response like yours.

How do you sell first? There isn’t a product to show. How do you find Customers? Is it the philosophy that the customer doesn’t know better and you have to tell them what they need, all the while understanding what your capabilities are. Like undersell and overdeliver? I’m genuinely curious how you go about selling first.
I did say "original C declaration syntax forms needs to be deprecated and only the newly invented syntax forms should be used". So the new invented syntax alone is complete (you can express anything with &, (args)->ret and [count]type).
> Lampert actively accelerated it's downfall to enormous personal gain.

What exactly did he gain? His hedge fund invested hundreds of millions of dollars in Sears, and it's not even clear that they broke even. Meanwhile, stocks were on their longest rally in history.
What happens on iPhones doesn't stay there, contrary to Apple's 'clever' CES ad
That kind of experience breeds complacency. As noted elsewhere, they weren't prepared to offer delivery times that were competitive.
IBM use ICU for DB2 collation.
It have versioned collation that do bug-to-bug backward compatibly.
> but they were right about Pets.com
> WebVan is another such example.

Timing was wrong, too early.
Chewey sold for 3 billion in late 2017 to petsmart, a less online savvy box store https://www.recode.net/2017/12/6/16681040/ryan-cohen-chewy-r...
look for college course syllabus
it is a list of a ratified college lesson plan
if you see anything you dont understand , find somwhere too learn about it.
That is partially true, but it’s flooded with people who cannot code.

I no longer believe this.

I think “people who cannot code” is a myth perpetuated by those who gain something out of it. People who’s business or job is to filter candidates, people who’s business is to sell their own “improved” version of training, people in need of an ego boost and actually, mainly by people who just repeat it cause they heard it somewhere. I’m off that train.

But, then again, I just might be old and wrong.

I literally know 100 companies that will hire you today. As a self-taught engineer you have to convince them of that, which mostly means a solid portfolio, but there is insane demand.

I’d like to test that.

That’s my homesite: https://www.ronilan.com

I’m in the market.

Thanks,

Ron
That is an amazing and amazingly amusing comment thread that I’m going to add to my favorites. It shouldn’t have been flag-killed IMHO. The user attempted to produce a counter-proof — it’s just that he was hilariously wrong.
Nice product but it may have been better to release this as a opensource product because there will always be a fear that if your company goes bottoms-up, those companies who used your platform will be left high and dry.
Except if everyone did it, pretty much every podcast would have to shut down.
Thanks for staying away! If you’re not interested in caring about our privacy and personal data concerns, you‘re very welcome to shove your products up to where the sun doesn’t shine...
> GDPR.EU is a website operated by Proton Technologies AG, which is co-funded by Project REP-791727-1 of the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union. This is not an official EU Commission or Government resource. The europa.eu webpage concerning GDPR can be found here. Nothing found in this portal constitutes legal advice.
Sounds about right. Also, this was an above-stove unit, limiting possible choices. Probably could have more easily found a standalone unit that worked.
>Firstly, wishing to see how library changes will cause issues in downstream consumers is often a sign of very deep problems, because the library designer should be free to make changes or enhancements as they deem necessary to solve the problems they need to solve, which may require validating new changes don’t introduce unexpected problems for consumers, but, critically, also may not involve that, and in fact the usual case should be that it doesn’t involve that.

One of my pet peeves is when another developer tells me something "should" happen. I know library changes should not cause unexpected problems. The question is does that library change cause unexpected problems. Which is one of the benefits of a monorepo. You can make a library change and with at least some level of backing say that it doesn't break anything.

>Instead, it’s up to consumers to consume versioned artifacts of the library (more on this in a moment), so that consumers are totally in control of “opting in” to new changes. If the consumer doesn’t want to opt in, they should not be forced to (e.g. in monorepos where a successful merge of library X is a silent, de facto upgrade for all consumers required to consume library X from the same commit, etc.)

>Instead, the consumer should be the one creating an experimental branch with the intended version upgrade, and running it through the consumer’s validation tests to see if opting to upgrade the version will work.

The problem is that in an enterprise you will have many things that aren't under active development. So if you rely on consumers to pin a version and then upgrade you might end up with dozens of different versions of a library out there. And then what happens if you find a security issue or something else that forces everyone to upgrade to the latest version? Suddenly you have a bunch of applications that no one has touched for a while that all need to be upgraded.
Pay operators for the location
Pay operators to auto-rotate your number every so often
It's free real estate!
And it's basically just the beginning too.

Deepmind has also been creating landscapes, portraits and animals (the tennis ball, the horror of the tennis ball!!!) https://venturebeat.com/2018/10/02/deepmind-ai-can-generate-...
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So the whole mechanism to these bonuses is for the banks/investors to keep the executives around long enough to not lose the institutional knowledge and to keep the company heading in a general direction during the bankruptcy chartering.
If the politician did the block silently via client-side (drop instead of reject) we would probably never have heard of this story.
Sway should have all the benefits that come with being a Wayland compositor, like security and less screen tearing. It's also got a few extra features. Here's a few that I find neat:

Window drag-and-drop (a bit janky still, but functional)

Including other files in the config file (this is important for my idiosyncratic usage)

Input/output configuration. Since Sway doesn't have Xorg running, it's responsible for configuring keyboard/mouse/monitors. This is well documented and very simple to do for simple use cases (and more complex use cases can be supported via IPC). I much prefer this to the clusterfuck you get with X.

You also lose a couple features from i3 though:

Layout save/restore (this feature won't be ported, but it's possible to achieve the same effect using IPC).

Tools like xbindkeys, xdotool don't work. If you find some unusual case where you can't set up a keybinding in the sway config, you're out of luck. This is the cost of Wayland's security advantages.
Your favorites are publically shared: https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=yitchelle

It’s upvotes that are private to each user.
Used to work here, and yea they definitely know they are a monopoly. Acquiring apartments.com with all their commercial real estate data was really smart. Their tech department was too corporate for me though.
That's a good question. It's impossible to prove that anything besides math itself is absolutely true but we can say that for all known knowledge what is in this paper is true and secure. Unless some new discovery is made the papers show that proof of stake has similar mathematical security properties as proof of work.
I wonder if any of those companies had access to, and sold, roaming European users location data. The GDPR may possibly be weaponized if it was the case...
Even with a SaaS product, unless it's really really cheap, many customer will want to talk with you on the phone or in a video call. It happened to me a lot.
Hmm are you sure? I thought they were just using hole cams still. Little cameras built into the rail or into the table that players just showed their hands to while playing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hole_cam
> What separates them from their competitors?

Scale. One can reliably get an Uber almost anywhere. That makes it attractive to travelling businesspeople and jet setters, two price insensitive customer segments that Uber almost singularly dominates.

Network effects. Ubers are almost always among the fastest transportation options in most cities.

Breadth. I never use Uber Eats, but apparently it’s doing quite well.

(I don’t know if the above gets me to $70bn. It does, however, point to a gargantuan business.)
Incorrect. If I thought earlier posters were intent on engaging sincerely I would continue, but evidence here and previously suggests they are employing derailing tactics masquerading as reasonable argument.
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This should be the top comment. Lampert's mismanagement has been thoroughly described, e.g. the Slate Money podcast from 20th October gives an overview.
> “The allegation here would violate our contract and Privacy Policy,” an AT&T spokesperson told Motherboard in an email.

That pretty much sums up how much carriers care about this. But it is nice to see Senator Ron Wyden is still doing good work, almost restores my faith in politics.
Amazon was also overvalued in 1999. It took almost a decade to get back to its dotcom valuation. Amazon of 1999 and 2009 were two very different companies.
AI technology can identify genetic diseases by looking at your face, study says
so if I understand this correctly, if it can pass through many materials then does that include clothing? so a passive the target system by which you can determine what they have hidden on their person? what is the range?

set it recognize certain shapes, walk past a sensor laden wall, and have it high light in bright green images objects of interest like total recall?
Tangential, but I can’t find a definition for gos online, is that an abbreviation for something?
Prosperity often comes from family/connections, and hard work definitely doesn’t guarantee prosperity.
An Overview of the CALM Theorem
TIL I learned that contrary to Apple's own statements, it is more diversified than its primary competitors like Google and MS.

Oh wait, no I didn't. Because of those 3, Apple is the least diversified company, and it's major revenue source is driven by a single line of products (the iPhone) which drives nearly every one of its other major revenue sources (i.e., the App Store). The double-whammy effect is part of why investors are so concerned: users not buying new iPhones means that users are also buying fewer apps in the App Store.
This sounds awfully similar to the demise of some retailers in Europe. E.g. Dutch chain V&D recently went out business in the Netherlands after many attempts to reboot. Several chains in Germany have also been declining for some years. There are not a lot of retail chains left that are doing great.

This stuff always seems to involve hedge funds sucking struggling companies dry until there's nothing left.

It's one of those things that's legal but maybe should be bit less easy to get away with. Deliberately destroying a company for short term gains for investors, sounds a bit fraudulent/dodgy to me at least.
When someone posts a quote or motto that sounds hypocritical it’s a good bet that it’s an aspirational quote.

I think it says something that he felt the need to put a quote like this on his fridge at 50 years old. But maybe he’s becoming self aware. Next Bill Gates transformation perhaps?

(It’s also pretty common in this age group for people to seek community and worry about their legacy)
> “One of my pet peeves is when another developer tells me something "should" happen.”

Exactly, like when someone tells you that you should upgrade your dependency simply because some new code was merged.

> “So if you rely on consumers to pin a version and then upgrade you might end up with dozens of different versions of a library out there.”

The same thing happens in a monorepo, usually with dozens of incompatible legacy bundles of feature flags / toggles.
If you released this as a node.js type app which can be run directly on the user's desktop and accessible via the browser for some setup functions and via an editor like VSCode etc for the source code editing, this could be a great product.
> But does the “enough money to live” include money to cover your future living expenses as well?

I've covered that through savings over the decades. But, honestly, I don't expect that I'll ever retire anyway.

> I plan for a scenario in which I’ll be “forced into obsolescence” in my late 40s due to ageism

That's not inevitable. I'm in my 50s and am in as much demand as I ever have been. The key (at any age) is that you have to keep your skillset up to date.

Not all companies want experienced people, but companies who strongly prefer younger employees do so because they know they can take advantage of them, and so aren't the sorts of companies I'd be willing to work for anyway.

> In my case, I really have to go for jobs where swes make $300-400k/yr.

Yow! You must live in an area with an insane cost of living! If that were me, I'd move to somewhere more reasonable. Software engineering jobs are everywhere.