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Can you share what you found limiting with nuxtjs routing? Genuinely curious.
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Do you have integration tests to ensure your applications do all the things it claims to do and that dependencies don't break those things? If dependency health isn't a part of your product testing bad things can happen.

Another thing to consider is that maybe you might not need a given dependency. Sometimes it is faster to include a bunch of dependencies at the beginning of a project just to produce something functional in the shortest time. As a product matures there is a lot of opportunity to clean up the code and slowly refactor the code to not need certain dependencies.
In Finnish, 'ymmärtää' is an old word for 'to encircle', 'to encompass', 'to surround'.
Still don't get it. Next.js gives you a vendor lock-in and its features are easily avail w/o Next (eg. automatic code-splitting, this is standard stuff in CRA, why the fuss?). If your business is about SEO then React is the wrong choice anyway. In my understanding SEO is about hundred-thousands or even millions landing pages, keyword management, content spinning, ultra fast loads, AMP, etc. This is really not the field of React or SPAs and you can tweak them as much as you want. React is great to build eg stateful SaaS, interactive stuff, dashboard, nice shop check-outs.

That they rewrite Next doesn't sound more convincing. And why do I need to sign-in on the learn page on Nextjs?

Sorry, not convinced. If you want some brute-force SEO, I'll write you anything in express/pug/style in one afternoon (with millions of landing pages, sitemap generation and smart routing, all comes out of the box with express), without all the baggage React brings along. Nothing against React, it's still one of the best SPA libs there but SSR, no way.

Maybe, I am still missing something but Next.js feels just like content marketing from its company Zeit trying to promote their commercial stuff.

Edit: guys, pls don't downvote if you disagree, downvoting is if comments don't add anything substantial to the discussion. I understand that Zeit is happy about the free promotion for Next on HN and doesn't like such comments but pls stay professional if people question your product without downvoting.
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Here's a presentation they did to the Skift travel conference a few months ago, which explains it well:

https://vimeo.com/296887680
Hmm, regardless of whether that works, that makes me wonder if it would work for the vicious cycle that is "popular things getting more popular because they are already popular".

It would probably lead to some interesting delayed feedback effects where things that are nearly popular get recommended, push out the popular, then the displaced stuff gets pushed into the nearly popular zone, etc. Perhaps some popularity + cooldown system would work.

Of course, all of this goes against the short-term incentives of maximizing engagement, so there's no way YouTube will ever implement this (even though it would probably greatly improve diversification of content).
I don't think MSDOS did the following aspect of
zozbot123's post:

> In fact, you could even generalize this, by asking the user to introduce some specific media (identified by label) when some mountpoint is accessed, even if no operations were actually in progress.

In MSDOS the paths were like "A:FOO.TXT" as far as I remember. That means you had no facility, as a program, to request the user insert a particular disk identified by a particular label.

For example, on RISC OS (but not on MSDOS) you could implement a program to copy files between two disks by simply reading from the disk with the source label and writing to the disk with the destination label. Even on a machine with a single disk drive. The OS would request the user insert the source and destination disks as appropriate.
This is why the suggestion to create language/tooling neutral intermediate representation, based on FIRRTL[1].

[1] https://github.com/SymbiFlow/ideas/issues/19
Yet they didn't have them. Fallible humans didn't see the missing coverage. If they had that hindsight, they could have just not written the bugs at all.
The fsync() function shall request that all data for the open file descriptor named by fildes is to be transferred to
the storage device associated with the file described by fildes. The nature of the transfer is implementation-defined.
The fsync() function shall not return until the system has completed that action or until an error is detected.

All of the data was transferred to the device. The device may have failed to persist some or all of what was transferred, but it all got transferred.

There's no mention of the OS retrying, or leaving the system in a state that a subsequent fsync can retry from where it left off. So you can't assume anything along those lines.
Not surprising and not only China. Problem is people are just replacing their iPhones less often.
Perhaps the idea is that once they start school, they have access to school books etc.
I did freelance work for about 2 years and I didn't feel at all like the author.

To me associating time with money was helpful, but I wasn't thinking on it 24/7. I know that when I feel tired, the most productive thing to do is have some leisure time or simply go to sleep.

To me having a price tag on my
time was helpful deciding what was worth waiting for. Trivial things like waiting for a bus or taking taxi, cooking vs take out, etc.

I guess it mostly depends on your priorities and how much money you make. People living on the day or the week maybe don't have the luxury to relax
When Maplins was just a Southampton mail order outfit advertised in the back of electronics magazines, Tandy (Radio Shack) was very much a thing in the UK. The shops were always Tandy, the products always Radio Shack prepacked from the US. They spread pretty wide as even small towns often had a shop.

It was the place to buy a pack of 3 resistors, or 2 spade connectors or fuses for your car for 10 to 50 times a reasonable price. It was an OK place to buy books though, as we still had the net book agreement so UK books had the price pre-printed. The US Radio Shack branded books they carried were much more expensive, and always shrink wrapped.

Maplins when they arrived were super cheap by comparison. RS and Farnell had minimum orders and needed a business account.
3x optical zoom. And I think each have different characteristics like one is normal, one is wide-angle and one is telephoto.
Your approach also helps to illuminate the day to day spending and associated habits. Rather than thinking in terms of a monthly paycheck, I can think in terms of, "How much money did I spend today and how much did I make?".
Your story presumes (in a somewhat horrifying way to me personally) that someone should choose to value financial outcomes in a case like this. I don’t see why that needs to be the case. The millions of dollars in your story seem like a bad thing to me, particularly given how they underscore the cumulative inequity and total lack of consequence inherent to the system. I don’t believe it would be morally acceptable to value that more highly than expressing visible signals that may help others avoid the people you’re dealing with in the first place.

If some shitheads get rich, who cares? I certainly don’t want to help them get rich. If I get rich doing that, I’ve failed.

And of course this is all to say nothing of the extreme selection bias inherent to your perspective. For every story like yours (essentially winning the lottery) there are ten thousand people who swallowed their pride, ate shit at work with a smile, did whatever was asked of them, and got absolutely no financial reward for it at all.
Now that China profits have dried up, Apple will turn its attention to India.

But they've really missed a trick with their retail strategy in India. They've partnered with local retailers to run "Apple stores". These stores are nowhere near the smooth, beautiful experience of a regular Apple Store.

It feels preposterous to walk into a shoddily built store selling a phone for $1200 when you can walk next door to a Samsung or OnePlus outlet and get a similarly capable phone for half the price

Apple needs to bump up its quality game. They've been losing market share here in India and for all purposes, this country is a lost cause to them. I wouldn't be a very happy Apple shareholder right now
I have a few issues with YouTube that I don’t have with other things computer/screen time related.
1) I can’t police what they are watching easily. I’m not saying I want to have them be completely sheltered, but since any knucklehead out there can make content, they usually do...
2) I don’t have the same problem with my son spending 2 hours playing super Mario maker(a favorite of his) or to a lesser extent fortnite or other games

What clouds this somewhat is that he spends about half the time on YouTube watching videos about his favorite games, where he learns more about them. There is just an addictive quality that I don’t like about YouTube.
My father (accidentally) taught me to read by reading for me when I was little. At the age of 5 I one day asked him to please turn the page, even though he had just started the page. I had already read it and wanted to continue on the next page. That's the day he stopped reading for me, I continued by myself after that. I learned to read by watching what he was reading.

As to 'there is some evidence it might help' (with reading), there's the other, very important part: Being read to turns on your inner movie, your ability to imagine. I still remember the children's hour on Saturday afternoon radio when I was little. The stories unfolded in my brain, and it's true that radio (and books) come with much better pictures than TV, but you need to practice from an early age in order to develop the best of that ability. Thus: Read to children. I applaud Dolly Parton's Imagination Library program. I had no idea she was doing that.
Tbh I would have been fired the next day.

P.S: Using HN at my office. Was looking at career pages of other software companies a while ago.
https://deusex.fandom.com/wiki/Neuropozyne
I used to dream of owning an iPhone.

Now that I can actually afford it, I look at my OnePlus 5T and wonder why I would ever want "more phone" than it
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https://github.com/malmaud/TensorFlow.jl/blob/master/docs/sr...
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isn't that because of local laws they can't open stores directly? India has a ton of weird rules and super regulated.
After freelancing for a few years, I decided that it was not making me happier, since:

- It is not possible to create significant wealth by freelancing

- I work on things I do not care. I want to think/spend time on important things

- Chasing down payments is stressful

- Finding new clients requires some effort

Therefore, I decided that it would be much healthier for me to get a job that pays well and not work as a freelancer.
Your comment sounds awfully like colonial revisionism
If you can convincingly support how misguided "Apartheid state" is then yes, I would agree. Unfortunately Israeli policy does seem to support the definition.
Apple has been trying in India for years without any success.

Their share has actually decreased over the last year.
In that case, I would politely thank you for the chance to interview and decline to speak further with you, because it would be clear I would not be empowered to get my job done in the face of all the time-waster politics to lobby for projects or quarterly goals, etc. I would feel, “why have they hired an expert like me if they don’t plan to trust my advice on what action to take?”
I don't buy the vendor lock-in argument here. The vast majority of your code will have nothing Next-related in it, this is a sharp contrast to a lot of the other options out there. Your page entry points will have getInitialProps, but that's actually a pretty decent pattern I'd probably choose to keep even if I moved away from Next.

The reason we actually went with Next is because it's relatively easy to drop if our needs diverge.
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It's also arguably even better for evaluating whether it's worth trying to spent time trying to get a $20 discount...
We badly need to move towards more sustainable farming practises. Pesticides are not the only problem, topsoil erosion is another. The question is: how do we create incentives for farmers to improve their practices in the race-to-the-bottom food economy?
> Tensorflow API doesn't suddenly give it a bunch of libraries for statistics, comp. vision, modeling, visualisation, etc. that Python/R/Julia coughMATLABcough have.

Actually in this case it does. Swift for Tensorflow includes python interop out of the box: https://www.tensorflow.org/swift/api_docs/Global-Variables#/...

The supported use-case would be to do your ML work in Swift, and then call numby etc. from Python.
The way to get around this, until (or if) this is ever fixed, is to first switch to a different numbered workspace than your primary then open the fullscreen app there. If you need to look something up without quitting the app you can then just use whatever keyboard shortcut you’ve assigned to your primary to switch.
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Effective tech innovations for e-retailers: how to make it to the top
As pointed out by the other commenters you need a slightly different approach to search terms since they don't build a profile of what is and isn't relevant to you.

That said, it's definitely a lot better than a few years ago. I'm the same in having tried it back then and I couldn't get many useful results. I've been using it for half a year again now and only occasionally do I use the "!g"-bang to revert to a Google search.
They had to rebrand as Tandy as in UK if you said RS you meant RS Components - basically the biggest electronics supplier in the country.

at my first job the electronics shop had a standing account so if you needed anything electronic you just got it added to that's weeks order
The "good part" of Rust compared to its closest alternatives is the machine model, which is straight C. You can even directly transpile C into Unsafe Rust.
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Yeah, exactly. Maybe we could all just stop spending less money, then we'd have more time. There's a well known correlation between people who make more money, tend to feel the need to spend it[1].

1. https://www.quora.com/Do-most-people-spend-more-when-they-ma...
"People who attach dollar signs to their time — or “value time like money” — tend to be overwhelmingly less happy than those who don’t, because their nonworking hours suddenly seem less important. “Free” time gets tainted with guilt because there’s a cost associated with it."

Of course this comes from a psychology department, where people get accredited to start their own state-licensed soma dispensaries.

Is the purpose of life really to "be happy"?

When I have worked, and have charged for my time--regardless of the billing unit--I may not have been happy while doing the work, but have--far more often than not--been very proud of the result. Value was created for both the customer and myself, and the experience from each project is ammo in the clip toward the next win. And even when the result has been disappointing--still even more ammo in the clip.

Or, I could get my "happy" from Netflix and quartely trips to Disney World, then visit the psychiatrist to get my Zoloft prescription to deaden that inner-voice mocking me for wasting the hours that we only get so many of.
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"Automagical" solutions tend to work until they don't. I would much rather have my solution be provably correct at compilation time than to depend on high-overhead runtime systems.
Its also why the mothership Games Workshop in Nottingham has such a nice café/bar.

They also did a nice GW branded bitter
> Next.js [...] loads a little faster

IDK, my dockerized express site loads much faster. At 20ms without network time (and this w/o caching). My real React SPA give you instant (0ms) page loads.

Nextjs.org initial load is at 580ms and the doc came at whopping 1.38sec (oh yeah) and page loads are not instantly... this thing doesn't make sense (for my use cases). If the only thing I know is React and JSX, then maybe but routing with express is much easier.

=> you want make serious money with SEO => get some real SSR environment

=> you want a great SPA, buttersmooth, interactive, maintainable code => React or other popular SPA libs
No, it's not complicated at all. Just sell "standby" tickets and "guaranteed seat" tickets.

The problem is that right now every ticket is effectively a standby ticket, and this is buried in the fine print.
It actually works really well for render workloads like server-side rendering too, the reason for this is that rendering can be quite expensive and blocks the thread. With Serverless you're able to scale the renderer to infinite instances.

The cold-boot problem is an interesting one, it's heavily correlated to the serverless function size, this is why we implemented a complete output target for serverless, to output the smallest possible function that is completely standalone, no dependencies. This makes cold-boot considerably faster. For example on https://next-news.now.sh/ it's hard to tell the difference between cold-boot and warm functions.
Ask HN: Is it important that the company you work for has a vision?
Hi,

it is a while that I am thinking about my job. I am a software engineer in a big corporate, and more often I start to think: do really my have a purpose? Would be it more satisfactory maybe work still as dev but for a no profit association or a company with a more important purpose like "cure cancer" or help the society?
Is it just me having these thoughts?
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Can you elaborate on the games and their processes (what was your magnus opus)

-15 year old kid from Romania who's childhood was flash games.
So the tutorial requires me to login with github? Sorry, not gonna happen.
Discounts/ loyalty cards need to be treated the same. Some aren't even worth finding in your wallet for the measly discounts they give. Many just exist to prevent you comparing prices elsewhere.
In the aftermath of the killing of Google+, I've been thinking that if I ever started a social network, one of my main advertising features would be that you would always be able to get all of your information out, and set up shop elsewhere. Ideally, the code base would be open source, so they can just deploy their own server, upload their data, and continue like nothing changed.

Of course the real lock-in with social networks is the connections with other people there, which is why everybody is staying on Facebook despite its universally agreed awfulness. To fight that, you need something like Hubzilla's nomadic identity.
That is correct (causing or facilitating, in this case).

The (I think most common) word for 'understand' in Japanese translates to something like 'it resolved for me'.
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This is why I don't pay much attention to small discounts, especially when it requires handing over your PII. Also, a half day's work for a custom keycap set is a no-brainer. :)
My initial thought is that if you worry about losing money on a micro level you aren’t charging enough for your time. I actually feel like I can work about 50% time and be just fine.
"magyarázni" is actually to "explain", though it does seem to share a common root with Magyar, the word we use for our people. The word understand would be "érteni", and I'm not sure it has any interesting roots other than "ér" meaning vein or stream (potentially, did you get its meaning / source?)

I too have wondered about the flavor and basic influence these kind of things must have on those who use the language. I suspect the effect is small, but there, although this particular example might be spurious.
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Who would buy a previous generation iPhone when they can buy a modern Android generation phone for the half the price?
> and I just can't get them.

Why can't you just pay $15 for them?
A great deal of those died due to a famine. If one compares China’s development with India’s you see that over 100 million extra Indians have died since 1947 due to worse medical outcomes. (Amyarta Sen)
> It is not possible to create significant wealth by freelancing

You aren’t charging enough.
Note that these pages are not serving dynamic data - unless I'm mistaken, they are an example of Next.js static export
As you or probably know, the best way is to really write a bunch of code. I've read a few lisp books and get the point of many topics and am even comfortable with a good bit of the language, but I don't fully grok it, because I don't have a good use case to try things out on.
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Of course there is a lock-in. Every lib you use locks you in. You don't know how many libs don't play well together. The more code and libs you add to your app the more complexity.

It's not hard to write code, it's hard to keep code complexity low and maintainable and IDK if Next.js helps here.
That only works in countries that are contract driven, in those where pre-pay rules, not so much.
I went from hourly, to per project, to weekly billings. When I charged hourly I ended up working A LOT more than 9-5. Per project work was good but I ended up losing a lot of prospects in the quote. Since many of my projects ran into the 20-40k range, my closing rate was 1/10 (already pre-screened, what I deemed as high quality prospects). This made me feel like crap. Instead of per project, I decided to increase the rate, so now a project may be 30-50k+, figure out how many weeks it may take me to complete it (rough idea, but this is not important) and then divide into a weekly rate. What ended up happening is me tripling my hourly rate and invoicing weekly. This was game changing for closing leads, now my rate is probably 8/10. You get all the benefits of having to work a lot less but charging a lot more. I will be honest, some days I feel like shit (who doesn't) and I don't work at all. I don't feel bad because on the days that I feel fantastic I get into the zone and knock out a TON of work and usually get ahead. Client sees progress weekly and they are happy. It helps them that they don't have to pay a ton of money in 2-3 payments and can spread it over the course of months.

In terms of happiness, freelancing definitely comes in flavors. There is the grunt work, the highly paid freelancer, the consultant and the product-based business until you go full startup or large company. I have seen all tiers. Currently I am a step short of having my own product while I figure out what that will be. You definitely need business acumen and people skills to succeed in the consultant stage. For product business you gotta go a step beyond that and either do really well as a consultant to bootstrap, or just work your ass off to get it going. My advice for anyone in freelancing now, who does not have people skills and gets latched onto hourly work, you may want to reconsider your choices. Freelancing can be highly stressful and demoralizing, unless you take the steps to go into consulting or beyond. It's a ladder, just like your corporate gig, you gotta do the work to move up or suffer where you are stuck.
As a teenager I did that too, I always replied (the equivalent in my langague of) "what?" to whatever was said. Just a reflex. Then my aunt pointed it out to me, and I was able to stop doing that. Good thing.
Reputation is everything.