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This is the current pitch of mainstream culture, where voicing an opinion is the only thing that matters.

Why else would someone with "a 15-year-old business with a spotless track record" publish obviously controversial opinions for the world to see. She wants to matter. And now her opinions is on the first page of HN and I'm reading it. Congratulations Nancy, you are now a player in a game with no winners.
> it's a terrible strategy that only works because VCs hit a unicorn that wipes out all the mistakes every so often

The "only" part of that doesn't actually invalidate the fact that it works. What you said is: it's a terrible strategy that has worked extraordinarily well.

It's a great strategy that has been shown to work across five decades of tech upheavel, precisely because it does pay for itself over time and keeps generating returns for institutional money. That it works so well is why it has all kept getting bigger as the positive results roll forward. It also produced the greatest concentration of tech dominance and invention the world is likely to ever see in one place.
I haven't written Java since like java 5, but I believe java 8 has syntax for this as well:

`usersList.stream().forEach(someSet::add)`
It's true, it's awful over here. We all work for banks and write java. Probably best if you stay in SF.
I think you're being too dismissive of the value of setting expectations about how work is done. I'll try to make it relatable for software folks...

I've developed software in places where we:

* had coding style guides

* promoted many compiler Warnings to Errors

* worked off of Bug and Feature lists, not just going off coding

* had to document all changes (for the FDA) in a certain way

* were expected to keep Continuous Integration tests running

* were expected to write unit tests as much as possible, and have very high code coverage

* attempted to do Test-Driven Development for most work (because it was the best way to make sure our code was testable [see "Working Effectively With Legacy Code" by Michael C. Feathers for inspiration)

* had a strict process for handling customer feedback, to ensure we triaged it appropriately

* had to lock our workstations when we stepped away (Sarbanes–Oxley)

* had a code review process for submitting changes

* had a design review process for larger changes (especially including adopting new tools)

* used a very restricted set of programming languages for any new work, even for small tools and one-offs

* followed SCRUM (daily stand-ups, story points, etc.)

* used Objectives and Key Results to plan our work

* had a process to discuss changing any of these

* all used one tool to manage our calendar (even for personal time blocks that didn't impact anyone else)

* all used one messaging tool

Every single one of those is an example of being told how to do my work. And they all existed to set expectations about how I was supposed to interact with my teammates. Whose responsibility was it to do things, how do we keep track of the things, how do we make decisions, how do we stay out of each others' way, how do we avoid unnecessary interruptions.

I've heard someone express the phrase, "We don't do that here." What was meant by it is, don't get dragged down into a discussion about whether something is right or wrong. We have a culture. There are rules. We follow them. (And there's the door, if you don't like it.)
I use generic ambidextrous mice, but flip the left/right buttons so my index finder is always main-click and my middle finger is right-click.
My boss is in a different office in a different city anyway, so it doesn't matter much to him whether I'm in the local office or at home or wherever, as long as work gets done.

It helps that my company, SAP, has a strong home-office culture: A lot of employees are consultants, who spend most of Friday doing time-recording and other administrative activities, so Friday is traditionally home-office day (for those who want it). Last year, a new company policy was adopted that requires managers to provide an objective reason for why mobile work (such as home office) should not be allowed for their team members.
Native development is interesting to kernel developers much more so than the average server software developer.

Most server code is CPU architecture independent, and largely operating system independent. It's written in Python, Java, JavaScript, C#, PHP. Most of it is also already cross-developed on macOS or Windows, then deployed on Linux. The fact that all 3 run x86 doesn't make this much easier. Increasingly it's also targeting server-specialized hardware that isn't practical to carry with you (8 GPUs won't fit in a laptop, and Google won't even let buy their TPUs)

If CPU-native development is important, that's actually a good sign for ARM servers. Laptops and desktops are increasingly going to be ARM powered over the next few years.
That's a great point. I agree that this will sort of resolve itself, until MIT puts out some new Cat 8 ethernet or some major hardware jumps, the returns start plateauing quickly. When there's such a large barrier to entry, and with only a handful of HFT/DMMs moving the major volumes, that's somewhat of an systemic risk to the tune of a SysAdmin/DevOps guy screwing up a deployment, i.e. what took down Knight Capital
I agree with the first sentence, but would advise against holding your breath until they have fixed it.

s/threat/treat/, though.
It’s definitely a different kind of work.

In general, smartphone software is built to discourage creative work and focus on either reading or communicating.
Her examples of "innocent" people are the MAGA hat wearing kids who surrounded a Native American vet doing tomahawk chops and fake "Indian" chants and John Wayne, a self-avowed white supremacist.
It certainly is.

As shown with BLM, the MAGA-teens and now the Smolett-case, people will even manufacture things to be outraged about, just to justify their own virtue.

While I consider that scary enough by itself, what I fear even more are the (guaranteed to come) counter-reactions. It’s not going to be pretty.
I would say a revshare model. Someone puts their adsense account on your site for a month and you split what it makes.

Start small, be the reluctant buyer. You will be better off invoicing for services, like coding or writing.
Don't bots typically fake a windows/chrome user agent though? I guess there might be enough low effort bots that just throw up a default platform/curl user agent.
It's out of control largely because it's arguably what social media is best at facilitating.

Legitimate discussion and debate are drowned out by insane verbal "body-slams" on Twitter, because Twitter doesn't really exist to promote legitimate discussion. And with the endless amounts of content and data we consume daily, we place far more importance in services like Twitter to help us navigate the sea of noise instead of taking the time to dig deeper into issues.

It's far easier to just attack someone on Twitter if you disagree than it is to thoroughly debate why you disagree with them.

Ultimately, one gets the sense that there isn't enough time to have a complete and nuanced conversation about a controversial topic because there are so many other things vying for our attention.
I accomplished it by showing first, although that's probably not very helpful for your particular situation. But for anyone else:

I started as an employee of a contracting firm whose offices are all in different parts of the country from my now-employer. As a contractor, companies can be much more willing to not have you on site, especially if you aren't independent. Demonstrate enough value, and you may get a full-time offer, in which case it's a lot easier to leverage the fact that you've already proved your ability to work remote effectively.

The biggest benefit in this case was that I was able to negotiate salary as if I lived where the company is headquartered, resulting in an almost 2x increase over what I could negotiate where I am physically located.
> Finally, that the exit of 25,000 high paying jobs could be seen as some sort of victory is also alarming. NYC has really never recovered from the 2008 crash when ~500,000 well paying finance jobs were compressed/reduced/automated. NYC needs those jobs and the ecosystem they would create.

NYC unemployment is like 4%. I don't think it's in need.
Yeah, it's kinda nostalgic in that it reminds me of those hacker-ish designs of late '90-'00s. Cohesive, readable, not too much whitespace.
Exactly. Modern X86-64 chips got improved power saving, more cores to increase density at reduced power cost, much more powerful GPU for running compute.

Plus, server space buyers are conservative, they want support of a big company behind their hardware. Someone the size of Cisco, Dell or HP. Or hardware that is used by Google or Microsoft.

Combine that with anticompetitive long term agreements and you get the picture.

Somehow network routers have a variety of architectures inside and nobody has a problem - because they have a bunch of reputable companies behind each of them. (Variants of MIPS, ARM, ARM64 and x86 are in the wild.)
I also do a lot of "watercooler chit chat" over slack and, to a lesser extent, voice chat. I don't need to be in the same physical space as my coworkers to do that. I mean, before starting my career, most of my tech chit chat was online, since my offline friends at the time were typically not too interested in tech.

What I do find problematic is when the majority of a company is in the same physical space and only a few are remote, as then the remote people tend to lose out.
It is actually easy there, but you have to click on other languages.
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Why convince your boss? Ask if it would be alright to work remotely sometimes. If they say no, you look for a new job that does allow it.

No convincing needed.
Such a firewall could even have learned to block Linux user agents on its own. Similar to how some spam filters learn what email headers are associated with spammers. So if the firewall is seeing a lot of bad traffic with “X11; Linux” in their UA strings and little normal traffic with that in their UA strings then the firewall will take the presence of that as an indicator of possibly bad traffic.
I think concerned is a better way to frame it than outraged.
I just use incognito/private mode all the time for my browsing. Signing in each time is not really a big pain with password managers.
I picked that up from the linked thread: 'So they're sniffing for "X11; Linux"'

Maybe just an oversimplified explanation, and it cares only about "X11;" and "Linux", regardless of whether they are together or not.
> Why do you need to post publicly rather than marking it as unlisted and sharing the link with people you know and trust?

Important point, still kind of weird to me, even in this day and age of Facebook and social media in general, where everyone feels the need to share every intimate detail of their lives with strangers.

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IIRC RNA is made up mostly of the same nucleic acids as DNA. T (something something) is replaced by Uracil. The main difference is that DNA is double stranded whereas RNA is single stranded. Since mRNA uses three acids to represent one of the amino acids that make up the proteins it encodes, and there is a finite amount of amino acids, this means no new proteins are encoded if you add more "letters" to DNA/RNA.

Possibly the RNA could have some secondary function in the folding of the protein or as a complex inside it...

Edit: spelling
I 100% agree that it is somewhat unfair, but I don't think it is entirely so.

I had this on mind, for example, because a few weeks ago a co-worker had to leave work early one day because she had a terrible migraine that wouldn't go away. She was out of the office for the next few days and even went to a doctor because it just would not subside. What she eventually discovered is that she accidentally bought a decaf coffee. When she switched back to regular, the migraine completely subsided and she has been fine since.

Her experience really struck me. It's not really a subject I have ever thought about before, but I wonder how prevalent that level of addiction to caffeine really is.
> How is that addressed in Matrix?

Well that's quite easy, since hosting a server is a resource hog, most people are still on matrix.org, which gives it a special status in the ecosystem (even more special than jabber.org has been in the early 2000s fox XMPP). This allows them to "move fast and break stuff" on short notice (a few months), to bring the protocol forward and force people to upgrade. In the federated XMPP ecosystem, they essentially have to come to a community consensus between developers, servers operators and all other relevant actors to write a manifesto or a new spec that says "stop using $thing at $date".

In my opinion matrix, while being open-source, federated and easy to write clients for, is still a half-locked platform because essentially the matrix.org server is "too big to fail", and the matrix team is the only one who can e.g. offer consultancy over the protocol because nobody else can have a long-term view of its future evolutions (of course the matrix people are nice, and you can discuss with them, but that is still not a standards body).
> Collectors aren’t interested in the comfort or intentionality of some no-name assistant.

I view that as a problem. And it's not unique to the art world.

All else equal, we should favor buying products and services from employers who treat their employees well.

One could even argue we should be willing to pay a premium for it.
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That gets rid of some of the delta-v advantage though since it's in Mars' gravity well.

It could make sense if you can design a spacecraft that can use Mars' atmosphere to slow down (aerocapture) without going all the way to a landing.

Being able to use the atmosphere to slow down is why in some ways it's easier to land a heavy payload (like Curiosity) on Mars than on the Moon.
Your whole post missed the important part about what can get funded and where.

NYC is coming up, but the graveyard of quirky disruptors would still only be pursued in Silicon Valley. These non revenue generating companies acting as developer daycare need to be flipped from one portfolio to the next until you have a deal size big enough to matter, swap out the board and executive team and shop it to the public markets, ka-ching. New York VCs and other markets cant and wont chase developer daycare companies on a broad enough scale to grow these into deals.
It sounds like The "social justice" movement is made up of some pretty bad people burning innocents as "heretics". We really should do something about that, do you have any suggestions?
Not very useful metric for people living in, say, the Mediterranean.
From the first comment of TFA:

> If I lowercase the 'L' it fails

so no, not that specific casing.
First rule of business, don't get involved in politics which are regarded as "sensitive" subject matter and have no impact on your bottom line.
The students from Covington Catholic didn't "surround" anyone, Nathan Phillips approached them.
I know nothing about John Wayne, but the MAGA kids thing was basically a hoax. It's the definition of "fake news", a term I hate, but it applies there. It's a perfect example, and the fact that you still believe the completely baseless narrative highlights why.
I believe that tetrachromats see the same colors as everyone else, just with higher resolution. This was, at least, the conclusion of the experiment in the linked article that identified a functional tetrachromat.
I was just going by the post title; thanks for the correction. Also, I was mostly responding to the value/time efficiency part of your comment. By putting in nearly zero effort, you would get the gains of the total market.

While we're here, though, I'm genuinely curious: how accessible is HFT to the average retail investor, let alone those who aren't investing at all? Lastly, can HFT consistently beat a total stock market index like SPTMI year-over-year?
I think that there is an alternative and the likes of Rachel Andrews are speaking my language when it comes to document structure, no div soup and CSS grid for the layout.

At school or university you have options regarding who you are going to copy to get that assignment done. You can spend hours plagiarising with a lot of work put into rephrasing things slightly so that your work will pass as your own. Or you can spend a lot of time second guessing what everyone else is doing and emulating what you think the solution is. Or you can actually ignore what everyone else is doing and roll your own solution, learning the fundamentals, copying nobody. Then when done you can have a look around and see what you missed in the other ways the problem has been solved. By going original in your thinking you might have missed a trick or two. Or got something wrong. But, with a foundation of original work you can confidently patch up what you have got to be best in class, all defects removed.

I think the web is like that. Sometimes you look for a simple aide-memoire on Stack Overflow where once upon a time all the answers were seemingly brilliant. But then you realise that you have moved on from that, your own code is better, you aren't just copying and imitating, you have this understanding thing going on that is lacking in some of the other answers.

Then there is the hamster wheel of forever having to learn the latest and greatest, that panic and fear of the unknown latest framework. So another round of copying and imitation goes on, the mountain top of confidence and knowledge never reached as there is always another extra thing to add in to the build chain to make it better.

But then you realise you are working on a second rate website to sell hair care products to care bears. And it doesn't need the latest trends in visual design or the convoluted ways of cooking up yet more div soup that nobody is ever going to notice.

I beg to differ on your attitudes towards your staple diet of div soup. Concise, content first actual content is not the same thing as bullshit written by people that can't spell force fed into some content blocks that rightfully should only ever contain the lorem ipsum text the visual mockups demanded of them. It is time people started with the raw manuscript and got the copy right without applying a single style. When this is done styling with CSS grid and lovely HTML5 elements works beautifully. This is no marginal gain in bloat, it is a whole new world of maintainability and awesomeness. If you ain't doing it right you are doing it wrong and some mastery of CSS grid is needed, it ain't just something you sprinkle in div soup like it is a fifty bucks Wordpress theme.

Content is king and there isn't any div soup needed. Maybe a div for holding that Google ReCaptcha button but I am struggling for bona fide instead of lazy ignorant uses thereafter. You have got to get the document structure right, accessible and good for modern CSS.

Of course this falls apart if you need to support 32 bit iPads or that person struggling along with Internet Explorer 6.
Good to hear this, thanks for the answer!
Did you read the article? It wasn't the person with 15-year-old business publishing those opinions.
I finally found it. It's the "create an alternate desktop environment" part that I would say this falls under. Mostly because you have a desktop and they've created a new windowing environment that isn't native to iOS.

>> 2.5.8 Apps that create alternate desktop/home screen environments or simulate multi-app widget experiences will be rejected.

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/
I don’t use a network manager, and I don’t run a DE, I just have a simple window manager and the command line. Btw, I use Arch Linux which is of much higher quality than Ubuntu or whatever.
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>>more of an abstraction over hardware

Same can be said for jvm.
When we are talking about toxic, I think we all understood it meant behavior. And the point of community guidelines isn't to make it the community more inclusive, it's actually to make it more exclusive. Limiting speech and thoughts are exclusive behaviors, not inclusive ones. But I'm all for HN or any other platform having guidelines.

I studied philosophy in college so I don't need an explanation of what poisoning the well is. "Poisoning the well" itself is poisoning the well and I don't want to get into the intricacies of ad hominems and logical fallacies. Many times, people misunderstand logical fallacies and use logical fallacies themselves to stifle debate.

Also, Linus wasn't having an argument or a debate. He was giving his opinion. He is allowed to say someone's argument is stupid : "how stupid your argument is.". He didn't call people stupid, he called the argument stupid.

Finally, ad hominems may or may not stifle discussion from the passionless or people who don't care about the topic, but it never stifles discussion from passionate people or people who care about a topic. Every major debate - going back to religious debates or debates about science or debates about slavery or debates about civil rights or anything else was "passionate". Can you imagine these debates being shut down because that's not what "polite company discusses"?

And why would it matter whether you virtue signal anonymously or not? You are already anonymous as HN is thankfully an anonymous forum. One thing HN is fairly good about ( as far as I know ) is anonymity.

I don't believe in ad hominems or attacking people. But if people want to use harsh language to express ideas they are passionate about, I say go for it. The same goes for you. You seem passionate about the subject and I support your right to express it in whatever manner you choose. What I find ironic is that under the aegis of "inclusivity and encouraging discussion", you are advocating for exclusion and stifling Linux Torvalds' speech. But as they say, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Certainly, you can see that you are doing precisely what you claim Torvalds is doing - stifling speech ( or at least advocating for it ).
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I did this for 10 years, 2 years as a freelancer (barely getting by) and 8 years as an employee. The project has now completed its lifecycle.

You don't have to be a founder, you just need to be an expert. In terms of career development, I think the ROI is better on joining an existing project. But "progress depends on the unreasonable" and some people become founders nevertheless.
The rational move is to be active in the outrage culture and profit. She's a journalist so if she starts going all outrage and getting more readers, it's good for her.
The irony of this is that attitude has created pretty much zero startups that have transformed into sustainable, profitable, medium or large companies. While there have been a couple successful exits that later crashed and burned like Tumblr and Blue Apron, and a couple TBD like MongoDB and Jet (Wal-mart acquisition), many of the NYC startup IPOs and exits seem to be playing a game of hot potato by selling to the next sucker with completely veneer metrics. Having had an early stage startup in NYC, I would say there was way too much focus on "you need metric X to be Y right now" even if doing so was detrimental to getting something off the ground.

That said, NYC is a good environment for established tech companies opening large satellite offices like Facebook, Google, etc.
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