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Don't worry about what's "obsolete". Worry about what you can use to achieve your goals. If you want to build webapps on an AS/400 using RPG/IV, then go for it. This industry is already way too "fad driven" where everybody is walking around thinking that only the latest, shiniest, newest, cutting-edge, "whatever" matters.

That's not to say that some tech doesn't have more merits than others, but you don't necessarily have to worry about always using "the cool thing of the day".

All of that said, I primarily use Groovy + Grails, Postgresql, Bootstrap, and jQuery for building webapps. For backend microservices I mostly use Java with Spring Boot.

Yes, there are "sexier" things out there, but this stack lets me accomplish my goals, and I know it well and am very productive with it. And for me, that's what matters most.

Tired of being that guy who has ideas but can't make them a reality.

If there's a stack you already know well, I'd say stick with it. If not, I'd suggest picking basically anything reasonably modern/mainstream for webapps. So, probably not actually RPG/IV, or assembly, etc., but anything that's used in this domain, and where there is plenty of documentation, community, etc. to support you. Use PHP, Python/Flask, Java/Play, Scala/Play, Node.js, Ruby/Rails, Groovy/Grails, Drupal, Joomla, etc.
There are some very good cheese makers in the States (e.g. Prairie Fruit). But of course they have enough decency not to call their stuff "Parmesan" when it isn't.
I'd love to think so, but its unrealistic to think India will suddenly mature or that global oppinions of it will change.

Ridiculous court cases caused by the religious anti-hate speech laws have prevented basic health and safety concerns from being addressed: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech_laws_in_India

Nevermind the severe pollution of the Ganges (a sacred river) that has gone unmitigated. Its hard to build when the underlying infrastructure delivers dirty water, unreliable power and poor transport infrastructure.

There is vast potential in India, but short of a miracle the pervasive corruption will continue to stunt societal development :c
> like "lying (not volunteering incriminating evidence) to an investigator"

This is literally the purpose of the 5th amendment. If you get asked a question where the answer would incriminate you, you are well within your rights to refuse to answer the question. Taking the path of deliberately attempt to mislead investigators is most certainly a crime and it should be.
That website called me a loser because I write code.
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The author covers pipe and cigar smoking too.
From the employee's side, there's too much risk and uncertainty around PTO when leaving a job. It's easier to just take a vacation before putting in your notice than to haggle with your employer after the fact, when you have no leverage. This is especially true with companies that offer "unlimited vacation" in which PTO does not accrue.
You mean they enroll in the US military? /sarcasm
I went through the Shopify app store to find app categories with lots of negative reviews. This suggested to me that there was unmet demand. I then reached out to some shop owners to ask what they needed and used the insights from those conversations to design a better solution than the competition.

It is a pretty simple straightforward approach but just takes time and discipline to grind through the process.
I'm not sure if I'd call it simple, but the product itself is fairly straightforward (at least to me :). I run a SaaS product called browserless (https://browserless.io). Goal here was to make it really simple to run headless browser work in a production environment, without worrying about all the provisioning and maintenance.

However, like anything simple on the exterior, there's still layers of complexity behind it. How do you charge users? Where do you host? How do you acquire users? How do you interact with customers?

Don't mean to be cynical, but even $500/mo is going to have some cost and time complexity. Best of luck!
I am still waiting for a good micropayments platform to allow me to support arbitrary web sites with relatively low-friction (and high-privacy) small payments to consume their content. I would happily pay $0.25 or thereabouts to read articles on some of the sites I consider to be good content creators.

That said, I have somewhat high expectations. E.g., I would hope that such a platform doesn't take too large a cut (e.g., Apple app-store sized cut) because that's offensive to both readers and creators.
From a branding perspective, that seems like it would be doomed to failure. They can capture some of the younger demographic but completely alienate anyone who already who already pays for the news. For example, I personally find Buzzfeed News articles to be more sensationalist than most reputable newspapers, but that's probably because I subconsciously am more skeptical of anything that comes out of buzzfeed.
Despite what the US government might think, the fact that such an article exists (reliably sourced or not) is absolutely a validation of the technology behind cryptocurrency.
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Compute has been growing exponentially. We might be closer to AGI than we think
I don't think they're _unimportant_ questions. For just one example, how much money you demand for yourself is directly related to how you value yourself, your value to the company and the value of your work. If you go into those negotiations thinking you're a glorified macro, you're not likely to aim high for what you deserve. If this problem is widespread enough, you have a consistent cultural downward pressure on wages (like basically every other industry suffers).

The _only_ reason developers make as much as they do is that a critical mass of them understands how valuable and difficult their work is, how much their work allows the company to grow and profit, and they ask for what they deserve. If we lose that, we're fucked.
Wow. I work from home in Van Nuys - that's worth driving over sometime.
https://contentfly.co/
I actually think we need curation a great deal nowadays - there is definitely a market for it, if nothing else. The massive amount of chaff 'content' is hard to wade through. Your second paragraph is dead on, though.
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loving this new Civilization 6 expansion, cool mechanics
Do you have any suggestions? Are there any reputable sources remaining? Not sure I could trust any single source ever again. Not enough to pay for it anyways.
I think you are missing the fact that these numbers seem so wildly skewed because the "crackdown on internal combustion" is working. The regulatory efforts around curbing automobile pollution have had a massively positive impact on air quality in the past several decades. The ratio here is 1000000:1 largely because of those regulations.
BelGioioso is absolutely an American brand [1]. It was admittedly founded by an Italian immigrant and run by "Italian master cheesemakers", but all cheese production happens in Wisconsin, using American dairy and workers.

[1] https://www.belgioioso.com/Secret
Liquidity preferences are also critical in allowing companies to grant employee stock options at valuations substantially below what the Series A investors pay. If liquidity preference disappear, the IRS will likely take a much closer look at low strike prices on options.
And remove/edit the vesting schedule. A vesting schedule of this sort may be reasonable for YC, but is unreasonable in some other cases. Many founds have already invested their life savings (and more) and years of work without pay. They should not lose their existing shares.
It's both. Unless we plan to stop, by force if necessary, the rest achieving a developed life.

If 1m have profligate Western lifestyle, the planet and climate would cope just fine.

If 7bn desire and are advertised at to desire a profligate Western lifestyle, then the climate is going to break long before all get there.
Network Next is a company working on this, not just for critical applications but also games:

https://networknext.com/concept/
I would be very much interested if working on a cruise ship for a season (9 months) would decrease my life expectancy.
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I'm not sure why you framed this as an us-vs-them fight.

Hypothetically, each investor has some internal valuation for your startup, and is willing to take <x> risk. Giving those investors preferred shares reduces that risk, which means you can theoretically get more money while giving up less of the company. Obviously you trade that for the downsides of having preferred shareholders, but that's a choice for the founders.
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Not to me. I think the distinction between these titles are silly. Part of programming is architecting applications. There really isn't a way out of it unless you've just been maintaining and patching up existing code your entire life.
Facebook's usage of it is very specific, but as you mentioned, Chris Mason (who used to also work at Oracle on their BTRFS team before Oracle dumped BTRFS) is there in-house to make sure it is smooth.

However, I'm pretty sure if I boiled the commit history down for the kernel, most of Facebook's commits would be Flashcache, and not BTRFS.

What I forgot, though, is SuSE supports it as their enterprise FS of choice, which is maybe more important than Facebook.
Dark matter is a supersolid that fills 'empty' space, strongly interacts with ordinary matter and is displaced by ordinary matter. What is referred to geometrically as curved spacetime physically exists in nature as the state of displacement of the supersolid dark matter. The state of displacement of the supersolid dark matter is gravity.

The supersolid dark matter displaced by a galaxy pushes back, causing the stars in the outer arms of the galaxy to orbit the galactic center at the rate in which they do.

Displaced supersolid dark matter is curved spacetime.

The reason for the mistaken notion the galaxy is missing dark matter is that the galaxy is so diffuse that it doesn't displace the supersolid dark matter outward and away from it to the degree that the dark matter is able to push back and cause the stars far away from the galactic center to speed up.

It's not that there is no dark matter connected to and neighboring the visible matter. It's that the galaxy has not coalesced enough to displace the supersolid dark matter to such an extent that it forms a halo around the galaxy.

A galaxy's halo is not a clump of dark matter traveling with the galaxy. A galaxy's halo is displaced supersolid dark matter.
Did you mean to say "just under $1000/month"? It seems kind of strange to claim that you make under an amount, because technically $0/month is under $1000, and "actively losing money" also counts. Just curious.
Where's the feature that prevents Amazon from stealing your core business?
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I agree wholeheartedly with your points.

Responsible, experienced engineers should teach newcomers that experiencing self-doubt is part of the process in maturing. I had the fortune to work under a mentor in my original position in this company that wasn't afraid to pull his assigns in to help solve problems he was working on.

Seeing that people of his caliber still acknowledge the value of second opinions and eyes really helped me understand that this business is not about the individual bodies entombed in cube walls, but a complex effort of many teammates.

After I embraced that, I learned where I could, and contributed where I could, and I personally feel much more productive as a member of my new team because of that. Do I still feel like I don't know things? Definitely. I also know that it's a big field and we all won't know everything.

My next goal is to find my way to a leadership position so I can perpetuate this kind of mentality downwards.
> It is implied here that the product must have issues which are so complicated that you need experts to solve them.

No it isn't. It's orthogonal. If there aren't any issues requiring experts, that's great. If there are issues that require experts, there better be some experts available.

> I think it's often the case that hype is not correlated with quality...

Hype isn't the same as popularity. Hype helps popularity. I'm not saying you should jump on the hype train right away. Let the hype do its job, wait for some critical mass to form.
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>>why there's not protection for this.

Because the people who own companies have a lot more power and influence than the people that work for them, and the politicians write laws that reflect this.
What yak shaving does it reduce/eliminate? Am I currently having to do that kind of yak shaving?

There's way more tech out there than I have time to learn. If it doesn't make some of my problems go away, then I don't have time for it...

... unless my employer pays for me to learn it.
It's probably worth clarifying why it's obvious that he was an adherent of George Daniels. In his book, and in every interview I've seen of him, he speaks at length about the value of a watch maker being able to make every component in a watch. Listening to him talk about how he learned every aspect of the trade in his is fascinating.
I see the scenario playing out like this. Majority of nations declare the new Iranian crypto illegal, thus anyone mining it is guilty of sanction violations. They then crack down on all people mining it. They should be able to locate the majority of those computers relatively quickly. Most countries would quickly follow suit as they don't want the US to accuse them of sanction violations. Then the only people mining and maintaining the block chain reside in Iran. The new crypto currency is effectively dead at that point.
5% rain doesn't mean 5% less crops. It's a nonlinear relationship that could mean 1% less crops or 90% less crops.
Interesting you bring this up.
Regardless of the provenance of packages and facility for installation you seem to be hinting that there should be a
method to install specific service/feature sets to a system
securely and without systems access.

I designed such a system which runs with appropriate permissions to a task, is modular, and accomplishes the provisioning via 'job' files submitted to a service
endpoint. A user could describe the software they want installed. The SA performs due diligence on vetting software
and designs a standard install module then generates a skeleton jobfile and provides it to the requesting user to fill in necessary details and submit. Wash , rinse, repeat.
Does the Pentagon "fear this", or more likely "yay this"?
There is no guarantee that Moore's Law will be true in 10 or 20 years from now
Interesting example you chose there. While Elixir doesn't have a "when to use/not to use", it mentions its ties to Erlang quite clearly, and Erlang has this http://erlang.org/faq/introduction.html, specifically section 1.4, "What sort of problems is Erlang not particularly suitable for?"

Relatedly, while I wouldn't use either for many types of ML...I wouldn't use Python either. The only benefit to using Python in this space is it has libraries bound atop C/C++ implementations. Erlang/Elixir doesn't, that I know of, but that doesn't prevent it from being done if someone wanted to. In terms of actually building something from the ground up...well, it depends. It isn't fast...but it does make the concurrency part easy to model ( https://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Neuroevolution-Through-Erlan... for instance), and for learning/prototyping that might be what you're prioritizing for. Certainly, Erlang/Elixir have seen use in high speed trading and ad bidding platforms, things known for needing low latency.
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You make a lot of trade-offs by picking either Canvas or the DOM to render your web app. If you do pick the DOM you will probably abstract out all the DOM operations anyway. But if you pick the Canvas you have to implement everything yourself. With DOM you can do very nice stuff using CSS. The browser (DOM) comes with everything you need "out of the box", but interacting with the DOM, and make it do stuff that are not specified - it will be very "hacky", and you have to deal with different browsers (mobile browsers) working differently.
I love how fun his former title of Director of Quizzes sounds, but it's so sad to read his reflection that a random user in Michigan has been producing free content that has driven so much traffic to Buzzfeed that he's redundant.
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I think OP pretty clearly states that both the two-week notice requirement and the unused vacation time payout were in the employee handbook, rather than in the employment contract. Employees probably just had to sign a form indicating they've read and understood the handbook.

If both provisions were in the contract, then what you're stating would suggest that the company could not refuse to pay for the unused vacation time, either. But, again, that doesn't appear to be the case here.
There's no such thing as "standard". "This is a standard contract" is something lawyers say to get you to agree to things you may not have otherwise agreed to.

I'm not saying this flippantly. I've negotiated many contracts over the decades and I've heard "this is standard" dozens of times, but it's always negotiable.

Note, I'm not saying the agreement presented is fair or not. That's situational. Just that "it's standard" is irrelevant.
We've avoided that conversation for two hundred years, why is it ahead of us now? If anything, blind patriotism makes it easier to ignore.
Yes! IMO, it starts making more sense when you start to see why and how delusional cultural beliefs are actually evolutionarily adaptive for the species, and you can start looking for the neurological structures of belief and consciousness. Never before in history has philosophy of mind been supported by detailed neural imaging technologies and computational neural simulacra.

I’ve been digging Ecclesiastes lately, except the “nothing makes sense” refrain transforms to “actually, with understanding of modern neuroscience and AI, everything makes perfect sense.” https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes+1&...

(And, of course, “God” translates to “the machine that is the universe” and/or “the character in this fairytale that humans told each other well before the Enlightenment.”)
who is it? i don't see an author listed on the page.
This concept seems like it may have application in the understanding of superconductivity.
My understanding is that the market for most landing page sites (which is what Draftss is targeting here) is not tech founders or companies like what most HN folks are doing, but things like people putting on lots of webinars, real estate folks, small mom and pop places that are moving around as "pop up shops", etc.
Some places "grant" you your PTO instead and you don't accrue it. They have vague terminology around this and state they don't pay you off when you leave. This happened to me in Utah. Fool me once...
It is a pesky little fact that all the climate models have thus far been wrong and there is still no scientific proof that CO2 drives temperatures.

The best research on the table at the moment shows we may be facing a super maunder minimum and possible mini ice age. This research will pan out or not in the next 2-5 years as it is actually falsifiable.

No falsifiable claim = no science
Any language standardisation process is full of politics.
Pet peeve of mine: You should never take a raw screenshot of a Word doc, with its red and blue underlines, cursor, etc. Convert it to a PDF first or find a way to turn off the highlighting+cursor.
Are there cowork spaces that have "quiet" floors/areas? It seems a lot of these places could learn from a basic university library space.
> Unlock the best of Startup Jobs Toronto when you create an account.

Classic email address capture. We wont spam you, promise.
It's a great use-case for Cryptocurrencies: low transaction fees to send micro-amounts of goods across the network.

That seems like part of what Brave is trying to do with the BAT: Use BAT split among websites based on the amount of time you spend on each site.

I'd rather see a self contained library that allows websites to easily insert a button which lets you tip 0.02c or whatever to them with a single click. No idea what you'd need to do to create something like that, but it seems like a really compelling way to get people to spend on sites they like. A tiny amount of pennies sent via crypto with the press of a single button could be a sizable stream when you've got scale to it.
I think the tragedy here, is that people need to view themselves as "programmers" (by which I assume they mean software engineers) to feel valuable. It's like a paramedic / EMT arguing that they are "surgeons" because they perform some surgical procedures in the course of their work; that the bulk of surgery is cutting and stitching. The reality is that there is more to being a surgical doctor than performing surgery, yet a paramedic is still saving lives.

Rather than everyone trying to put themselves in the "programmer" box, and everyone saying "anyone is a programmer". Maybe the technicians need to see / be shown how vital what they do is to the business.
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> How can it be too many people when a person in one country uses 20x as many resources as a person in another?

A non-uniform distribution of resource use and overpopulation are not mutually exclusive, both occur simultaneously.
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Downvoted for what should be a very obvious observation.

Start with one $500 / month business. Next month do another $500 / month business.

Rinse, lather, repeat.

After 10 months, it's $5000 / month.

After 36 months it's over $15,000 / month.
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Well, some countries are lucky enough to own land apt for large-scale agriculture and agroindustry: Argentina, Canada, Russia, others are not: Jordania, Yemen, Libia... So, having large populations in these less fortunate countries is not sustainable at all, and this regardless of how selfish are those 20xconsumption countries
7.5+ billion people and counting, some of which enjoy the highest standard of living our species has ever known. Those that don't enjoy that standard of living want it, drawing down from a pool of finite resources.

Now throw in the ramifications of climate change like drinking water shortages, food and resource scarcity, and migrations from coastal cities - the opportunity for conflict will only rise amongst people and nations.

My concern is that this can lead to large scale nuclear war. Yes I'm aware of MAD, but that doesn't protect us from everything. Look at Vasili Arkhipov, Stanislav Petrov, Boris Yeltsin and the Norwegian Rocket Incident. They are just a small number of publicly known incidents where large scale nuclear war was almost triggered due to computer glitches and/or miscommunication. The proliferation of nuclear weapons adds additional challenges in maintaining the peace and we must also deal with existing nuclear actors experiencing wide swings in political leadership - like what has happened with the US presidency.

We live in interesting times.
Are you saying hipsters or creative people are communist? Or are you saying working-class people are communist? Neither is even remotely true in my (anecdotal) experience. Do you have anything to back that up?