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Just like OP, I build small sites for clients. I'm looking to stay relevant by getting into eCommerce. I've been building Shopify stores and apps in my spare time. What software does eCommerce generally use?

Do you think eCommerce dev jobs will still exist 10 years from now?

Thanks for any advice!
As with my rules and non-rules, it's ultimately a question of a court battle.

Particularly in the case of restaurants and businesses choosing not to provide service to homosexuals, it depends on the state. But it also still depends on the courts to enforce or clarify rules.

Unfortunately what this all means is that unless someone is looking for a potentially lengthy and costly legal fight, the rules don't matter.

The flipside of this is that even if there are rules, a motivated litigant can make it not worth the opponent's time or money to fight.

In this specific case, the best way to get "justice" would be to push a publicity campaign to make the restaurant feel pressure and change its ways. But that too requires effort and time to do, and success is iffy. Keep in mind that it's NYC, and there are more diners than good restaurants usually. So if she gets angry, and even if she gets a few thousand other people angry, that restaurant still probably won't suffer.
I agree. I didn't mean to imply it's a GOOD feature, just that it's not an exploit of any kind.

The ability to set your outgoing number is very useful for a number of reasons, but only being able to do it from a list of numbers you've verified you have ownership of would go a long way. They could even do something similar to how SSL providers do domain verification.
The taste or lack thereof depends entirely on what you’re used to. I drink semi-skimmed 1.5% milk; 0% milk tastes really bland and ~3% milk is way too sweet and rich-tasting. But IME it doesn’t take long for your taste to adjust to either lower or higher fat content. Anyway, to me it makes perfect sense to separate the cream for other uses (what would be the alternative of selling the skimmed milk? Just throwing it away?)
Indeed, but Germany unfortunately relies on coal for a large chunk (around 40% [1]) of its electricity production, and it's phasing out nuclear.

[1]: https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/indicators/overview-...
I think web-design in the SMB market is completely commoditized between website builders and even CSS toolkits like Bootstrap lowering the barrier to entry. I barely know CSS and will just buy a $20 design from wrapbootstrap and the client doesn't care.

Anything related to web-design should be a side-effect of the true product you're selling, which in your case should be web-based software application development (IMO).

My opinion:

#1) Get really good at a web-framework. Doesn't matter which, but something like laravel would be a great choice. Learn MySql/MSSQL to go with it.

#2) Market yourself as a specialized consultant and bill $100 hr+. I don't know what market you're in, but if this is a big leap for you then work up to it. The kind of clients you want to work with will pay this without blinking. Sometimes they won't even know about the bill because it goes straight to AP. blah blah blah patio11.

#3) Never say you do web-design. Say, 'I convert your MS Access application that runs a critical component of your business (barely) into a multi-user/role, always-online, accessible-from-home web-application. Along the way we're also going to streamline this to make your company more money. It will pay for itself. That will be $30k.'
Cards: https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?page_id=3592
So there's been no diversion or modification of water upstream during the last century?

A search for say, "Rhine river water diverted" returns interesting stuff to read...
The way I see it, there are several reasons for such an interview process:

1) [Leverage]. The interviewer can negotiate down salary expectations based on
the performance of the interview. You can ramp up requirements until
the candidate breaks. Then, you get the upper hand in the negotiation process.

2) [Responsibility]. Nobody wants to take responsibility for the bad decision.
In the formalized interview you can blame the metric. If the metric
is external (Google/Facebook/Amazon do it), then there is nobody to
assign the blame, so, no responsibility gets redistributed.

3) [Effort]. Treating people as they are different is hard.
Reading their CV or learning more about their projects requires time
effort and expertise in the field. This is expensive.
Much easier is assessing people through a generic process.

4) [Loyality]. Someone, who spends their free time for a year preparing for
the interview is bound to be more loyal than somebody who prepares only
for a week.

5) [Initiation]. People who go through a difficult initiation process tend to value
their group more. That builds tightly knit teams.

Overall, I think that the process is difficult, somewhat irrational and inhumane. But I have no idea how to really fix it.
Governance isn't static yes, but that doesn't excuse just voting until you like the result.
That reminds me of the http://www.q3rt.de/ project. I wish someone tried to port that one to rtx.
> We got permission from our suspect before we released this site and they have allowed to use their name and release the data that we had about them.

Looking forward to your response!
No. But writing this article likely accomplishes what she hoped to accomplish faster and cheaper (in opportunity cost) than filing a lawsuit.
>if your computer is breached

>if that [one] website is breached

>if one [any] website is breached

Not one of those things is like the others.
It was all going ok until "These events aren’t article worthy." :)

They are worth us reading and thinking about, because it helps remind us that while our assumptions allow us to operate fairly efficiently as humans in a complex world, they also need to be tested periodically - especially where our assumptions can negatively affect others.
Liverpool target announces he is signing for Manchester United?
> So what happens when a significantly large percentage of 'standard' passwords are disallowed and your average Joe just can't be bothered to create another one?

This type of question should always be asked with an "XKCD What If?" or "Back of the envelope" calculation attached so that when responding people can respond to your numbers rather than a vague intuition like "large percentage of standard passwords".

This way when doing the calculation you sometimes go "Oh, I see now" and then you don't have to post the question at all because you learned something on your own just like if you are wondering what a "password" is and then check a dictionary you don't have to ask "What's a password?"

What's a "significantly large percentage?" Let's suppose it's 10%. If 10% of these "standard passwords" are disallowed, and a user is only willing to try twice before giving up then that means 1% of users picking random "standard passwords" can't sign up, which we could argue is a noticeable problem for your site.

Next we need to ask ourselves what's a "standard password"? Do we just mean "a password from the top 100 most common passwords list?". If so game over, we've decided by policy to have users with bad passwords that will be guessed, their accounts will constantly get broken into, and I guess now we need to figure out why our service is "compelling" enough that you want to pay for it anyway despite the constant break-ins.

So let's suppose we have a broader definition of "standard password". Maybe it's 8 characters chosen from A-Z. That sounds like a "standard" password my mother would choose. That's over 200 billion "standard passwords". Troy's service blacklists, wait for it... 500 million passwords.

Let's guesstimate that the list grows by half that amount every single year - meaning 250 million new unique passwords are revealed by idiots every single year. We should hit that concerning 10% rate no sooner than... 78 years from now. If in that time we cannot come up with anything better than "try to memorise a unique password eight letters long" then that's a far more serious technical failure.

The real problem is that people think they must be the only person in the entire world to have chosen "iluvlucy". That's a "standard password" by our definition above, but it's also ludicrously obvious. Pwned Passwords lets us distinguish "iluvlucy" from "xlvghydm" not by some crappy heuristic that would also catch other things but by the fact that lots of people already used it and had the password revealed.
So beautifully put.

I noticed this after learning Japanese and then listening to how Asians talk about other Asians and then checked what the other sides were saying and I was like... Oh man... this is vicious. Then I noticed the same thing in other countries that share borders, there are cases where they are sworn enemies or have bad blood because of beefs going back hundreds of thousands of years. It's amazing.
Some people (myself included) just prefer the taste of skim milk. I know it’s not healthier - compared to whole milk, it doesn’t fill you up but it has the same amount of sugar and almost the same amount of calories - but I still enjoy it more.
Johann Sebastian Bach most probably never said these words.

Of course, there is no absolute recording of the death of Bach, so no certitude. The witnesses were few, and the Cantor was not very famous at this time, so there was no reason for anyone to produce a detailed account of the episode. Even a single account by a family member would not prove much. So when JS Bach's popularity started to grew, a century later, there was room for imagination. There are many apocryphal texts around Bach, including the Little Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach… written in the 1920s.

Jesus of Nazareth's final quote shows a similar situation. He became much more famous after his death, and most of the texts we have about him were written decades later. Yet the Gospel all describe the scene of his death. So what were his last words? It depends on the Gospel. There are 3 very different accounts, with only Mark and Matthew agreeing.
> In the third world we have actual cases of families forcing daughters to stay home or worse, get married at 17.

Uh... This happens in the US too.

https://www.pri.org/stories/2015-12-29/us-has-forced-child-m...
There are two questions that need to be addressed here. One, whether the web design business model can be sustainable in the long run, and secondly what a freelance developer can do.

The problem with the web design business is that a big percentage of the job that needs to be done is ad hoc which makes it unaffordable in the long term. There are too many hidden costs in communication and negotiations not to mention that nine out of 10 times the client isn't exactly sure what he wants. This is why most shops try to build their own CMS so they can commoditize the building process and start charging for software licensing instead of design.

So what could you do as a solo developer? My advice is twofold. Either try and build a service and not just building websites (for example a Facebook scheduler), or enhance your skill set with some consulting. Don't just build websites, build experiences. Make the client feel like you're the guy to help him take advantage of the whole "Internet" thing. That may include social media moderation and whatnot.

Another very lucrative niche is building themes for WordPress sites. You build a very good theme for various devices and you charge a fee which includes support and updates. There are people out there who are killing it with this model (I know a guy who makes €12k/monthly from building themes). Of course it requires good design skills but perhaps you could team-up with a designer.

My two cents.
Maybe your mom saw the email, thought it's for her for whatever reason, and hit "Confirm E-Mail"?
Yeah, this is closer to my experience. I never reached two packs a day, but would hit 1.5 in the summer months no problem. It was wake up, smoke, make coffee, smoke, have a quick bite, smoke, get a shower, smoke, walk to work, three smokes. Easily seven before I got to the office, then it was out every 45 mins, three over lunch, three on the way home, and then basically chain all evening.

I started Juul in late 2017, was off smoking completely by April 2018 (3 pods a day) and quit Juul cold turkey January 1st, 2019. I’d tried to quit millions of times over 10 years, but Juul made it easy.
NPM Enterprise
That sounds like a very neat CTF. I'll search but do you know if anyone wrote about it or documented it?
I think it can certainly be made transparent. A small tag for a reason like the [flagged] wouldn't be that hard to do for moderator nerfs.

btw: I just noticed I don't read the names when reading comments.
do you comment every day with consistency around 4am? the point is with enough data you establish a pattern and ignore outliers. the time series graph is indicative of an EST/CST sleep schedule.
Because of the possibility of punitive damages it would be a really bad idea to do such a calculation, or at least leave any paper trail.
For decades, she was told she was ‘just anxious.’ a midair incident changes that
The article starts out in the present tense, which might give a false impression that this is happening right now. In Cologne, where I live, the Rhine river actually just recovered from a minor flood as you can see on this chart:

https://www.elwis.de/DE/dynamisch/gewaesserkunde/wasserstaen...

(Everything above 4.5m is considered a flood)

One side effect of the low water that isn't mentioned in the article is that it exposed multiple bombs and grenades from the second world war.
Yes, there would be a IO load.

Tradeoffs, as always.

For some applications, I want low latency and high throughput. For others, I want security.
Also you can't just ask someone "are you a sex worker?" and get a straight answer as you'll notice people who indeed are the thing you accuse them of feign incredulity as a tactic to camouflage themselves and make you doubt yourself.

I noticed this watching a lot of those hidden camera shows with dodgy repair men. They know they are indeed crooked but get all in your face "are you accusing me of being a liar? That's outrageous!".

Life is impossible.
I mostly like the more mature hn audience better than reddit, even for non-technical stuff. But yes, it's a fair thing to say this is not the right platform for it.
IBM shutting Watson Workspace on February 28th
Experience counts for nothing?

If you agree that experience counts for something, how do you find the equilibrium between experience and cognitive decline? Do you purport to know this without evidence? How can you make these claims?
PostgreSQL is the DBMS of the Year 2018
It’s the card itself fairly similar to how controllers work in HDD/SSDs basically they abstract the physical storage medium which allows them to use a wide range of flash memory on the backend while maintianing compatibility with the SD format.

While you can achieve the same abstraction in hardware it’s much easier and cheaper to simply pick a small micro controller and do all the black magic you need in software especially since the flash on some of these cards can be really really bad as it’s often the lowest grade flash or worse recycled memory that ends up being used which means you end up with chips that are 50-80% defected so the controller ensures that these sectors/cells aren’t used.
We used Lucene (open source) in our information retrieval course and tokenizing (w/ removing stop words etc.) is one of the things it does. If you just want to experiment, that's also another option to look at if you like!
But there is no data that shows women or south asian workers are less productive.

However, there is data for age, so much that in many countries there is mandatory driving test with ever shorter intervals as you grow older. This isn't discrimination or a risk factor that jumps overnight once you pass certain age, it is simply decline of cognitive and physical capacity as we age.

I am not saying people should be fired because of their age, but if people who are subject to firing happen to be mostly aged, what is the solution?
Ah but with Bayes Rule if you don't know the statistics you take the starting prior as 50/50 in which case "she might be or she might not".
2018 was exceptional, the rain was not enough. There's a great episode of Quarks about this. Absolutely recommended if you speak German (unfortunately no translation seems to be available).
I don't know about that, the UK has a completely online supermarket that ships out of a giant warehouse. Amazon can easily do the same in major metros.
Processing Large Files in Java
There's a fundamental question to ask - am I adding value?

If you're a low-skilled web developer who can knock together a reasonable website using something like Wordpress, you probably aren't offering a service that is usefully better than Squarespace or Wix. You might still pick up some work from businesses that just can't be bothered to do it themselves, but you'll be continually squeezed on your rates.

If you understand online marketing and can help businesses increase their sales, you're in a good position. Some small businesses just want a pretty website or a cool app for the sake of vanity, but most would prefer to make more money. If you know a reasonable amount about UX and SEO and direct marketing, you can justify a decent daily rate.

Basic stuff like "you haven't updated the menu on your website since 2015" or "Google Maps is directing people to the wrong side of your building" can make a meaningful difference to someone's bottom line. I've spoken to a lot of small business owners who were surprised to learn that an email newsletter subscriber is usually several orders of magnitude more valuable than a Twitter follower. It's not rocket science, but it's worth paying for. Squarespace can commoditise the technical function of web design, but they can't commoditise marketing consultancy.
>One can still be healthy eating no vegetables and just meat.

Haha wow. Citation absolutely needed.
As a woman who frequently eats alone in restaurants, I can tell you it is fairly aberrant behavior. Men eat alone. Old men frequently eat alone. Women are almost always with someone, whether children, gal pals or a romantic interest.

I only noticed that it's odd and began paying attention to other women in eating establishments because I was getting weird reactions from people.

/Anecdata to feed your hypothetical algorithm
More consistently than I'd certainly like. I've been told by concerned friends that I have issues with my sleep schedule; the most recent was something along the lines of "why is that when I check Hacker News in the morning I keep finding your comments made three hours ago".
GraalVM native image inside the docker container – does it make sense?
Wow. I wonder if my mental image of an RTOS on the devices is correct? I would've imagined there's some sort of firmware inside any device that communicates with a host, but when I hear RTOS I think of something fairly generic that would be deployed across a range of device types (like a Linux system but real time) rather than specialized firmware... is that accurate?
We could easily define a time system that is simply "number of seconds since 00:00:00 January 1, 1970" (other than epoch being different, we have this with GPS and TAI time, but the network effects for UTC are strong) and used that as our base time system. Leap seconds could then be added at higher layers simmilar to how leap hours are. Instead evryone has to deal with leap seconds weather they care about the orientation of Earth or not.

Also, at least for computer applications, a variable lenfth second is easier to deal with than a leap second.
Learn about Neural Networks and Backpropagation
Clients don’t see nor will they pay for the difference between Squarespce fast and Gatsby fast.
What another shitty title. "Turning data against itself". It doesn't make me want to click the link at all. I did though and, while blinded by the terrible layout, it seems like they're showing off some of the techniques used to mess with AI systems.
Yeah that was me. And I think you're totally blind to the way that scientific studies only provide additional proof to things that we think we know intuitively. Where do you think a hypothesis comes from? Observation.

Also, the amount of science that gets turned over due to conflation for example. A disease looked like one thing but turned out to be many things that looked similar (cancer). Science is constantly evolving, it's never fixed and finished. Please don't use existing science as a weapon to beat others over the head.

Also, applying your personal observations about people being right and wrong to someone you don't even know. Doctors and scientists aren't a priest class, they've just learned and had more experience than most, and typically only in their own specialties. They are often wrong, being human. And the best ones admit that there is a LOT they don't know.

Also, assuming you know much, or anything, about a topic you probably don't. Don't you think GP has spent more time than your cursory Google search? That you'd act otherwise is illuminating. What exactly do you think qualifies you to disagree here? OP is providing anecdotes, but you're providing... nothing.

Regardless of any of the above, please don't dismiss other people's experiences just because they fall outside some canonical realm (and I'm sorry if this sounds hypocritical after a somewhat rude post) because that's how science turns into religion.
I don't know about your town, but in Cologne there were massive investments in flood protection after the heavy floods in the 90s. I've been living in Cologne for about 10 years, and almost every year the water gets so high that temporary dams are set up. There are a couple of houses outside the protection area and those have been flooded and reachable only by boat or planks on multiple occasions.
This is how woman start getting serious for such silly issues.

The problem with citizens of developed countries or those with rich background is, they haven't seen how real problems look like.

They usually cry for very silly things.

Things cannot be perfect.

The more woman ask for equality, the more alone they are going to end up, because men feel fearful even for approaching, who knowns what kind of mentality the other person have.
But with Pwned Passwords after that last attempt it just works. Because your scenario is imaginary and you haven't actually checked these were all backlisted. Whether the user will remember they picked "monkey123fuckyou!!" is a good question, but it's a markedly better password than "monkey".
The reason things like leaded fuel, cigarettes, DDT, CFCs (freon), and countless other conspiracies were so egregious is because 'influencers' were able to convince authoritative figures and the media to conspire in misleading the public. People, as in unaffiliated individuals, ought be free to believe whatever they want to. The problem is when authoritative figures are saying things they don't actually believe, generally because of some sort of a kickback. There have been a handful of instances there such as with 'Willie' Wei-Hock Soon, but for the most part everything has been, more or less, on the up and up - at least so far as we know for certain as of today. However, the media and authoritative figures are predominately in favor of AGW. Thus the conspiracy, if one were to exist, would be these individuals stating things they felt to be either untrue, or not as strongly supported as claimed.