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As someone who cares more about adventure than $$$ and just founded my own NGO, mad respect.

2014: -$10k - Founded a startup.

2015: $35k - Moved to SV, raised a small seed.

2016: $54k - Running my startup in SV.

2017: $60k - Remote contracting from Scotland.

2018: $25k - Remote contracting. Founded an NGO in Europe, almost all of my contracting money goes to supporting my work with that.

2019: $20k - Remote contracting + full time on my NGO. Living in Serbia to stay close to the action.
It's a well acknowledged fact that 90% of professional pilots online have only piloted their computer desk. The other 10% may never have piloted the aircraft in question or are 'shooting the shit' rather than presenting their professional opinion.
"it would be hard to work with a company that cooperates with its national secret service. "

Doesn't every telecom company cooperate with its home government? I see a lot of doubt cast towards Huawei's behavior, but how about some evidence?
As soon as you install some apps, your iPhone is tracking you as well. The recent stories about FourSquare have made me realize that things are much worse than I previously thought.
Or even worse, they might use the time off to teach them about their beliefs about vaccines
Thinking about it some more, maybe in a mass produced ICE AWD can indeed be a cheaper add-on. Something like a Subaru that does AWD for all cars. I was thinking more of the direct Tesla competitors that tend to charge quite a bit for AWD as an extra. But it's hard to compare from the outside as adding AWD to a car is often associated with different trim levels too.

Someone like Sandy Munro that does detailed costing would be able to answer this definitively for a few models. But it will most likely depend on the actual implementation to see what ends up cheaper. According to Munro Tesla has a big advantage in the cost, weight and performance of the motors right now compared to other EVs so that might be enough to tip the scale. I'd love actual data though.
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Ash HN: Given the salary of a developer, how can a side project be worth it?
Disclaimer, this is a real first world-problem. As a JavaScript contractor in the UK, I can easily make 500£+ a day, full time, minus taxes. My goal was to reimburse my student loans (done) and start putting money aside for making my own startup. But the more I stay in this business, the more I make money, and the more it's hard to even imagine a startup that comes close to that opportunity cost.

Even for a side project, it would simply be more profitable if I just spent time finding higher paying customers for my JavaScript skills.

It sort of feels like a trap. Anyone got a story of how they went through that?
I did the "go above and beyond" at my last employer, to the point where I was doing the job of two people (because they were too cheap to hire a more junior engineer to take some of the load off).

Bonus scheme axed, pay cuts across the board, and constant whining about how we "took longer and did a worse job".

The only thing I regret is that I hung on for three years hoping things would get better (they never did).
Point of contrast:

I'm Chris from Airwindows. I develop audio software and in recent years, give all of it away for free and as MIT-licensed open source. I've recently been cited by name in the New York Times in an op-ed about a subject I pioneered. I've recently worked out a method for dithering to floating point mantissas and released the code under Unlicense (public domain) after refining and improving the code in public discussion with Alexey Lukin of iZotope. This is the (very much a game of diminishing returns, mind you) cutting edge of digital audio R&D and I got the last word: mind you, I had to, because I release open source and Lukin's suggestions though brief were not being accompanied by licensing, making verbatim use of his code legally problematic. Because of what I do for a living and the knock-on effect of people reusing my code in the expectation that they can do that safely, I'm compelled to take that very seriously.

I make $15,204 a year.

I think there is no correlation between capital and any kind of merit, value, or even basic function. At this point, nothing you do no matter how useful or significant will change your financial position so it becomes an entirely separate issue from 'what work can you do' or 'what do you love'. I expect to die, not soon thank goodness, from issues related to poverty.

Until that time, I get to be Chris from Airwindows, and I'll be able to continue to do these things I care about. On the other hand, if I hadn't scratched my way up to $15,204 by now I never would, and I'd be trying to do the same work (as I'd have many of the same thoughts and ideas) out of a shopping cart and dying much sooner still.

The really interesting thing is how most of my Patreon (that's the mechanism, while it lasts: then I die) is composed of people in roughly my wealth position. It appears there is a class interest: if you as a very wealthy open source advocate can use my code (as the 'idea making' class) you'll do so happily, but as soon as you learn I make $15,204 a year, this becomes a compelling argument for not sending any of your wealth out of your class into a lower, less worthy class that should not have wealth. That's how it works out in practice. I think the mental model there is, if my financial position had merit, it would have far more money, therefore giving it more money would only lead to things like me making physical stuff and giving it away (or distributing it at cost to other poor people) thus wasting it or actively sabotaging the wealthier class by giving resources to a poor class.

And this would indeed be what I would do :D

And so these discussions must be viewed in terms of class interests, sometimes quite consciously expressed.

(note: Vermont resident, not a metro area)
> “Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.” - Dalai Lama

I like the quote but sorry the Dalai Lama never said it:
http://thedamienzone.com/2011/10/12/dalai-lama-quote-on-face...
I was educated in one of the bluest and most authoritarian states in the country (not that those two are necessarily related though the link seems to be getting stronger over time though that might just be caused by increasing extremism and authoritarianism in general). My brother got his education in a purple state that is probably one of the most anti-authoritarian in the US, maybe second to Alaska.

My issue is not so much with the typical left-ish ideology determining what we did and didn't focus our coverage on. My complaint is with the all that coverage having undertone of government doing no wrong, ever. I believe this to be somewhat particular to the state I grew up in, not necessarily left wing ideology (of the time).

We covered civil rights yet it was covered as though government was some savior implementing reform over the objection of backwards southerners. We got to see videos from the period but none of them had police dogs attacking protestors. We covered the civil war but not the failure of reconstruction. We discussed Jim Crow not in that context but in the context of the interwar period. I don't recall the KKK even being mentioned in discussion of the 1800s. The trail of tears, the Indian wars. That was all blamed on settlers encroaching on Indian land never any government involvement other than "protecting settlers". I never heard of Custer, Sitting bull, Wounded knee, etc was skipped. Discussion of the post-civil war US was all about industrialization.

It definitely goes both ways. I'm not sure "progressive" whitewashing of the past is any better or worse than "conservative" (in quotes because who knows what these words mean anymore) whitewashing but they're both not good. I wouldn't even say the particular whitewashing my education was subject to followed and particular mainstream ideology, it just religiously avoided mentioning anything that would lead one to one being skeptical of government.

I simply meant to expand on the GP's point that education does in fact have a large impact on ideology but that effect is delayed until that group start voting en-masse.
> Kids take social cues from their peers, not their parents

Which makes our current system of isolating children by age group and then leaving them virtually un-attended look somewhat insane.
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> Apple does not pay out their developers until 30 days after the end of the month

30 days payment terms is fairly standard, no?

I usually don't get paid until 20 days after I issue an invoice.
>Apart from Lightning, which was created when no better alternative existed

They could have easily went with USB-C.
Because that one large country happens to be where the company is located? It is normal for US-based companies to use the measurement system the US uses. I don't know what you were expecting.
I didn't say to throw people into jail. Just to regulate them better(i.e sell highly addictive games only to people over 18) just like smoking is now regulated in the European Union.
I don't think watching TV is as addictive as pc/video games.
How? I use Netflix on my iPad all the time and not once has Apple tried to stop me.
> install it on your own iDevice, you have to pay a yearly subscription fee.

Not true anymore [1]

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43932076/how-to-build-ap...
And those natural gas plants produce less emissions than coal.
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All my personal projects are just me. When I contribute to open source projects I use whatever they use, which is usually git. At work, even though I am usually the only programmer on my programming projects, I use TFS because that's the company's process.
Maybe they are diversifying into government now.
Sorry I forgot to reply but thanks for the recommendation, I bought it, it is exactly what I was looking for.
MS tools are not free for commercial as any certification required to sign (was discussed in HN as few weeks ago) apps and installers. 99$/year for that is a better porposal than the one in MS.
I mostly stayed away from Gamergate but the little I did see of it convinced me that both sides were awful and that staying away was the only sane choice.
I think sometimes people assume that x amount of lobbying dollars = y influence, but it's not a linear equation at all. At the end of the day, it is still people you are dealing with, and sometimes people can happily take your money, make you believe they are going to do what they said, and then not do it.

Source: family members are lobbyists.
VW Group has a vast number of SUVs models - must be nearly 20? (Skoda, Seat, VW, Audi, Porsche, Lamborghini and Bentley all have SUV models).
There’s a decent chance it wasn’t a bot. I have about a hundred pages on my Wikipedia watch list, and I get emails everytime a change is made to them. I check each one for whether it is a good change or not. An unfortunately high percentage are not (and by not good change, I mean unambiguous things like typing random gibberish).
Just add a #sfw tag to your posts. Supposedly that bypasses the scanner.
From my experience, having less information on a landing page increases the email capture rate. Keep it simple with a single message all above the fold and it can improve the conversion rate by over 50%.

At the same time, it doesn't make a difference either way in actual sales. At least nothing big enough that can be measured with significance.

In the end, landing page optimization matters less than most people expect. It is better to work on other parts of the website.
I agree with this, "There is a world of difference between being an investor of a startup and having your money/property with a company."

I also believe the punishment is what Mark has gone through since 2014 when MtGox officially went down. From what I have heard Mark has suffered enough, and I hope he can turn his life around
Is this Wagner's fault?
There’s a thread of truth in what you’re saying, but it unravels on close inspection.

Proprietary cables are hardly new, and to be fair those cables and connectors are usually way better than the standard stuff. Firewire and thunderbolt were actually released as open standards and saw decent adoption. Lightning is far superior to Micro-USB. Just listen to the wailing and gnashing of teeth by Macbook owners having to give up proprietary MagSafe for USB-C charging on their laptops.

XCode is free and has been for ages. To this day you can develop whatever you like for the Mac and not pay Apple a penny. You don’t even have to use XCode to do it. It’s even free for iPhone development for your own device now, though you have to pay a fee to publish stuff. I’m not sure what you comment about emulators is about to be honest, The iOS emulator for the Mac is free.

Yes they want their cut from Spotify. I don’t understand the Apple exceptionalism about this though. Nobody rages on HN about Sony’s monopoly over games development for the PlayStation, or Microsoft for XBOX, or Nintendo for the Switch, but for some reason Apple which came to this business model two generations late is the root of all evil. It really is kind of weird how that works. Maybe if their iconic image was a cute little plumber instead of a half eaten fruit, everyone would say 'Aww how cute' and give them a pass.
Bootstrapping a company is gambling. If you don't enjoy the game and don't want to lose money, what's the point?

It's normal and rational to prefer high, steady pay over a miniscule chance at being fantastically wealthy, especially when founding a company often destroys your life for 3+ years.

If you like your life, don't worry about side projects.
Vaccination isnt 100% effective. When people talk about herd immunity, the "free riders" it tolerates should be are those that were vaccinated yet it didn't take. If one of them gets sick, the disease wont be able to transmit to the others because of those that are immune. Adding other non-vaccinated people to the mix increases the odds that these vaccinated-but-vulnerable people will be at risk as the disease is able to find enough transmission to stay viable.
Right but it doesn't matter if they are bad drivers. They are still liable for damages and any accidents they cause. If you get in a wreck/get a ticket in a ZipCar, it is still your insurance that goes up, and points on your license, and you have to pay the ticket.
I wonder when people will start quoting "Modi Kaka's New India" for seg-faults and stack-overflows...
I look at numbers like this and think... where did I go wrong?

I must have gone seriously, seriously wrong...
Ah sorry if it came out that way, it is I that am no longer in D.C.
It surprises me that so many here are praising or even envying inuit parents and their their child raising habits when suicide rates, depression and substance abuse amongs inuits and their children are so high?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/inuit-suicidal-thoughts...

Maybe NPRs staff should have look at their own article.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/04/21/4748479...

I wish we'd stop fetishizing cultures and start giving people a more realistic and broad perspective of cultures, even if it doesn't align with our agenda. The grass isn't always greener on the side.

Also, we have been teaching kids to "control their anger" for decades now. I wonder if that has anything to do with the rising suicide rates in the US.
You're making a strong point here, which is that every real world analogy of pointers breaks down since everything is data. But I'm still not sold on the idea that pointers are intrinsically a "make it or break it" topic for people to learn.

In fact, I'm resistant to that sort of conclusion in general. I don't really think there are things that people of average intelligence can't learn, given enough time and pedagogy. And I say that as someone with a background in mathematics, which is one area most typically associated with people "not getting it."

If people don't learn pointers, it could be because they're not sufficiently motivated or don't have it presented to them the right way. It could be that the overuse of analogies does them a disservice, and they really just need to pick up a book. Whatever the case may be, I'd hesitate to say it can't be learned by any population of people.
I understand why they did this. If someone disagrees and thinks it's "biased" to do this, they need to either present their alternative to keeping spam and edit wars in check, or have their 'bias' criticism summarily dismissed.
Three problems with this:

1. You still have to fight with borrow checking in Rust as in C++, it’s just not automated. You have to consider moves and copies, borrowed references, etc. As the author points out, if you’re used to writing C or C++, it’s going to take a while before responding to the borrow checker is second nature. The point is that the borrow checker is a computer and doesn’t make mistakes the same way a human does, and that’s value added not detracted.

2. Having the benifit of actually having a package manager, Rust is much easier to download and use dependencies with. That said, I agree with the general premise of not using Rust if you have an immediate business need and it’s missing a core library. My issue is that it should be fairly apparent before you start a project what dependencies you need, so a rewrite back to C++ seems odd. Also, Rust is an open source ecosystem, and people using it should feel compelled to consider writing the missing pieces they need for the benifit of the community. It’s also odd to say that Rust doesn’t have what you need, it sounds like there are C libraries that already do what you want, and Rust can wrap C.

3. If something is written in C and you don’t have time to replace it, just wrap it in unsafe and make a safe interface over it. Rust is exceedingly good at interfacing with C, so any library you can use in C can potentially be used in Rust.
Right there with you. I’m doing pretty decent, making 85k but straight out of college. At a nice start up in a big city. But 800k at Netflix? Good god.. I should mention I’m ‘straight out of college’ at 27, so that’s contributing, too.
Notice I didn't give any examples with my wife in the article :)

Thanks for the comment!
Suicide is a big sin in Buddhism and will give you a bad rebirth. I wonder if it's the trauma from the civil war.
> This is Apple exploiting a very lucrative market position, one that they did invest quite a lot of money in – and took quite a gamble – to create.

What's wrong with that?
USB-C spec was finalised two years after Lighting shipped.
Wow, well then 90k Euro in France is no where close to 400k, much less 180k US.
Something is amiss here - these so called 'lone wolfs' or 'not-a-member-of-any-organization' are surprisingly well-armed, well-trained and all 'declare' they are 'acting alone'.

Is this some sort of tactic to throw off any suspicion about a global, Terrorist organization targeting Muslims?

Seems like terms such as 'acting alone', 'gunman', 'supremacist organization' are being used by these individuals (and maybe media?) to throw off the spotlight on such terrorist organization(s).
Exactly. And also, even if you somehow recognized that "you need to use a DP solution here", it's not as easy as "read up on it" (like GP says). DP is not a trick that you can just learn once and then apply everywhere. It's not a npm package that you can install that solves your problem for you.
You're saying that a company can't be sustainable if its spending exceeds revenue, but there are plenty of institutions that do exactly that and are based on the same premise as what we know about Telegram's funding. A single (or multiple) large donor(s) can potentially donate enough money to make a thing sustainable without relying on much if any revenue. There are examples of that in the real world.
"Yeah, Sri Lanka for me personally is a sobering reminder that even culture/philosophy considered very peaceful can engage in worst atrocities when pushed enough"

Same for Cambodia with the Khmer Rouge.
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I was able to access it in Gujarat just fine when I visited a month ago.
>The borrow checker creates a new paradigm entirely

I don't think this can be emphasized enough. You can get deceivingly far in rust with an OOP style, only to come to the disheartening conclusion that it's impossible to do what you want with the architecture you spent months of work setting up.

For example, how would you architect a simple single threaded emulator? The CPU is an object, RAM is an object, easy enough. Okay, the CPU needs mutable access to RAM at all times, so we'll make the CPU own the RAM, sure why not? Okay now we want to implement a graphics device that can mutably access RAM, so we just...put the ram out on it's own and make it a Rc<RefCell<T>>?!? Now it takes three lines of code to unwrap all the smart pointers to write a single byte of memory?!? And it's slower because we have to pay for runtime borrow checking!

I went down exactly this road. I still use rust and love many things about it, but I've come to the conclusion that writing typical single threaded object oriented code in rust only looks like it works; it's an awful idea in practice.

I think the reason C++ people have so much trouble with rust is the syntax makes it easy to do the things you've always done, but the mysterious borrowchecker tells you no later on.
A great many of our problems in tech are the result of "...we follow the lead of large tech companies...but unfortunately they have very different problems than we do."

Imagine if we built single-family houses based on what made sense for skyscrapers. Or if we built subcompact cars based on a shrunk-down version of semi-tractor trailers. They would not be efficient, or even effective.

But, if your aspiration is to get a job at a skyscraper-builder, then it MIGHT be what makes sense to do. "Have you used appropriate-only-for-largest-websites technology X?" "Why yes I have." The same incentives probably apply to the tech management, btw. We have an incentives problem.
Speaking for myself, I was the person Joel described except that I didn't switch majors. The pointer wall first struck at the tail end of my HS years and then crushed me early on my Freshman year of college. It took me a couple of years but I finally wrapped my head around pointers. It could be that I really do fall into your half-way camp, but I don't think that's the case.

I was a terrible student more interested in playing games than doing any actual work, so that I'm sure was a large part in the problem being "years" instead of "months", but either way it was something I learned and not something I was just born with.

I do agree that for any person there will be things that they get right away and things that they'll never get. But I think those vary more than people realize.
I as a customer don't want your app from outside the App Store, from where I know I can get apps that protect my privacy and information.