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Thats capitalism... And due to capitalism Amazon has launched on of the most efficient infrastructures in the world. Their warehouses and logistics systems are state of the art. Launching a Space Company is a GREAT THING. It puts pressure on SpaceX, as competition has proven over the years to be the father of invention and innovation. Of course with growth comes externalities such as a increase global footprint. However, these things are judged in a silo. Without Amazon, there would not only most likely be another "Amazon", but in the unlikely scenario that it is not aggregated long term with one centralized company, a vast meriad of mom and pop shops would have a much larger footprint and be much less efficient. I hate all the anti-corporate tendencies that have been prevailing on hacker news lately.
Meh. We only find children have attention issues because we have outsized expectations of them. My mother was a public school teacher and the truth is most teachers were simply too out of shape to keep up with the kids and so labeled them ADD. For the most part, if you acknowledge children are children, they seem a lot easier.

But I'm not going to try to convince you. The more people who dont want kids the more I can have!
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At one point, you have to stop "looking for the next magical/better thing".

You pick something mature enough, that works well, and you ignore new cool trends (anyway there will be cooler things soon enough).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecIWPzGEbFc

What I am trying to do with my framework, https://www.spincast.org , is to ignore new cool trends as much as possible and focus on real use cases. Comments welcome.
The term is the "narcissism of small differences," coined by Freud.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism_of_small_difference...
Google disabled backups for their Authenticator app so I don't think they will ever let you export the secrets.

I wrote an application to automate OTP secret extraction for just about every app out there after trying to migrate a few dozen tokens from Google Authenticator to AndOTP. You might find it useful: https://github.com/puddly/android-otp-extractor
There's no cryptographically secure way as far as I'm aware.
My former flatmate had some smart lights, and I wrote a little script that rigged them up to display the weather on a scale from deep blue to bright orange.

The city I live in has very erratic weather, and my apartment stays pretty temperate regardless of the outside weather. This makes it fairly easy to absent-mindedly dress inappropriately and end up sweating or shivering on the walk to work. I generally get in the habit of checking the weather, but after a week of warm weather it's easy to forget, and the weather here is such that it might suddenly drop 15 degrees from day to day. Having this information in bright visual form makes it easy to notice when the weather is suddenly unexpectedly hotter or colder: It took me about ten minutes to set up, and is a small improvement to my life that's tailored to exactly how I live it.

This, to me, is the advantage of the current era of smart home technology: incremental changes that can make little improvements to your day to day workflow. This thread is infested with an unfortunate combination of ignorance and lack of imagination (par for the course with HN...), where any evidence that smart devices don't fit into one commenter's workflow is evidence that it's useless for everyone (as the topvoted comment says, "smart people don't buy smart devices").
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Paying for software is good, actually.
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Isn't this why we have the W3C, so standards don't get made unless multiple people benefit? This seems like Microsoft with IE6 all over again.
You seem to be confusing how something might come to exist (Darwinian explanation of altruism) with why someone might choose to adhere to a philosophy. Personally, as far as I can tell, most people I know are both intrinsically good and also extrinsically good in that they have considered nihilism and rejected it in favor of, like, having any value system and preferences about how the world should be at all.
> a couple billion years

What good does an eclipse if the Sun is all around? Or rather, we can commemorate that we'll have half a day long solar eclipses all year long.
This is incorrect. There are lots of cases where profitable companies want to IPO. Specifically the public markets are where you go when you need to raise money at significant levels. Nowadays this happens less often as their are bigger and bigger private investors (so you can raise billions in private markets). However there is still a point at which you may need to go public for fundraising.

You are making a mistaken assumption that only unprofitable companies need to fundraise, there are lots of profitable companies that want to raise capital to fund future growth (and their current cash flows aren’t enough).

Also I am very surprised that you named Github as a well run private company. As far I know, they were definitely not profitable (their spend was crazy) which is part of the reason the board took the acquisition offer from Microsoft. I really don’t think they are a good example of a well run private company.

You are correct that only companies that want capital IPO but that is by definition as an IPO is a capital raise. I believe that direct listing is an exception to this.
No offense, but of course IPOs benefit unprofitable companies. The entire point of an IPO is to raise capital to invest back into the company. Why would you ever have an IPO if you didn't have a plan for that cash, and why would you have an IPO if you had all the cash you needed?
There are two types of eviction in England: section 8 (non-payment of rent) and section 21 (no blame).

There are strict protections around section 21 during the "fixed term" (normally 6 months to a year), but after that it's pretty easy to get tenants out even if they've done nothing wrong, and it's common to evict tenants, re-paint, then re-let the property at a big markup.

If you're a tenant in England it's probably a good idea to talk to the landlord each year about a small rent increase.
You are conveniently leaving out the fact that many liberal Democrats also don't want national ids because it might hurt illegal immigrants, prevent voter fraud, etc.

I can't help but cringe whenever politically motivated people throw around talking points they heard on their favorite disinformation cable network.

The reason why we don't have a proper national id card is primarily a result of state's rights vs fed rights and to prevent centralization of power. But centralization of power has happened regardless so I'm sure we'll be getting national id cards eventually.

Historically, it was the Democrats ( the party of the South ) who were anti-national id card. The republicans were the party of the northeast elites. So if you want to blame anyone, blame the democratic party because they are why we don't have a national id card system.
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>Why such a negative reaction?

I was just matching the tone of

>>Jesus Christ, HN commenters, can't you recognize the irony of [personal failing leading to not valuing the article as I did]
I'm confused by this comment. Is it the underwriter's job to intervene in the market after the initial sale? I thought they simply guaranteed that all the initial shares are sold.
Matt Levine seems pretty confident that the $48.77 price from private transactions is directly comparable to the $45 IPO price, and he knows his stuff, so I think it's safe to assume he's right.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-05-10/the-un...
Part of the way I remember the early Amazon is they were bootstrapped by the fact that web purchases were, for a time, exempted from state sales taxes.

Some of that history here it would seem:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sales_taxes_in_the_United_Stat...
What's wrong with it is that every spec will always be open to interpretation. You will interpret it as the minimum amount of functionality; the client will interpret it as the maximum. The only spec that isn't open to interpretation is the code itself. :)
> they keep pushing this "identity theft" narrative to make it seem like the unlucky victims of bank's incompetence have some sort of intrinsic involvement!

But how is it that it's not really a problem in Estonia, where we have strongly e-identity attached to a citizen. Or are you saying our banks, institutions, telecom and other companies are somehow more competent?

You also have SSNs which is a government-mandated ID system that keeps you as rows in a database. Stop the holier-than-thou please.
I'm not sure I disagree with you, but I think the counterpoint is worth stating: that a compiler is the beginning, not the end, of a productive software engineering toolkit, and that there is no software stack that has achieved perfect tooling—quite on the contrary, I think it might be fair to say that most languages lack a great deal of tooling.

There's every reason to think that software engineers and system administrators do their job much more quickly and correctly when they have the support of rich editor support, understandable compiler errors, usable interactive debuggers, profilers, dependency management that won't set your hair on fire, etc. For whatever reason, it seems like businesses often aren't interested or successful in creating these products, so frustrated developers step in to create the tools they dream of in their own work after too many days spent refactoring with regex.

It's possible that people might be drawn to tooling projects because of some kind of internalized revulsion in response to the social impact of their employer, but I think you'd expect to see developers working on tooling regardless of whether or not this is the case because of how a lot of development tooling just wouldn't exist if it weren't for individual FOSS contributors' efforts.
> It's relatively rare for a company to IPO without raising fresh capital for the company.

An IPO without raising new capital would make it more difficult to answer what every buyer should ask: "why are they so eager to sell?" It's a variation of plausible deniability.
> Unprofitable

I hear you, but...

Meh, they say invest in companies who make products you use. I use the shit out of Uber and I don't plan on stopping even if the price goes up a bit. Now, I'm upper middle class, and I understand this isn't everyone's mindset, so I have no idea how the rest of the world feels.

However, there are locatios, like my crappy hometown where I grew up not so fortunate circumstances, where hailing a cab simply wasn't an option. If you want to have fun at a bar, you're driving home drunk.

Bottom line, I believe in this product and I only see it growing in importance - regardless of who is at the helm. That's my gut feel, and that's why I bought in a little today.
I might be a wee bit biased because I work with Qt, but seriously, its breadth, quality, and documentation are why it's the quasi-standard for cross-platform UI programming. There is currently a discussion about the ownership model (I guess that is meant with "ancient paradigms") on the development mailing list. The ownership model isn't really among the top n problems during typical development in any case. There is also QML which is an extremely productive way to create hardware accelerated touch-friendly UIs. QML is widely used in embedded systems.
That “refugee” family could have moved to any European country without restriction. If the kids education is the main concern, Estonia or Finland could have been their main target: http://factsmaps.com/pisa-worldwide-ranking-average-score-of...

Calling any European state with “horrific” freedom is an exaggeration.
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After mastering a few skills, I can tell when I've mastered something when I hit that point where I feel like the more I learn, the less I know.

There's a Zen saying for that (I know via Shunryo Suzuki)... Before you start zen, mountains are mountains and rivers are rivers. But once you learn some zen, mountains are no longer mountains, and rivers are no longer rivers. When you master zen, mountains are just mountains and rivers are just rivers again.
>think of Facebook, which now has investor pressure to increase the price, which results in careless decisions about data handling, privacy etc

This doesn’t follow at all. Zuck still has control and they were careless before being public. I would suggest being public is the only thing that puts them in the spotlight for their shitty practices.
Amazon also built out a huge logistics infrastructure which they own and is hard to replicate (not just know-how, but warehouses and robots). Uber don't own the cars or employ the drivers, they have a phone app and a brand name.
I've had very extensive and very negative taxi experiences around the world. Uber is night and day from a UX perspective. Being able to see where the car is when it's on the way, pre-inputting your destination, paying through the app... The gig economy aspect was definitely revolutionary as well. It's essentially changing the nature of work (love it or hate it).

As much as I love Amazon and always have, in the early days it was "just" ordering books online. Yes, that was great and again the UX was great but it didn't seem as revolutionary as Uber.
Bookmarked for my next project. Thanks.
I found the article to be really meaningful. Me too, after the 2016 election I found I had to withdraw, because it became more obvious to me that there's something deeply sick about the relationship between the news media, "scaring people," and modern smartphones.

Since the news and social media apps are purposefully built to be addictive, you have to "save yourself from yourself." I now know a lot about filtering technologies for both my desktop and my mobile phone. I have always loved camping and being outdoors, but these days I feel it more as a need: just sitting in the sun and listening to the wind in the trees. That, and reading really good books.

I see her work here as similar to art movements like Dada: I don't know if the world has really "gone mad" but, as the collective behavior of humanity makes less sense, playful silliness might be the best way to express that you have free will, you love folks and want them to be happy, and that in certain ways, you refuse to engage & put more energy, into events and processes that are harmful.
I used Cinder on a couple of projects and it's great for what it is. It would be a solid start for making your own UI library, but that is a considerable task.
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Well, if it's actually possible to read what stars and their relative positions mean for specific people based on when/where they were born - to understand large holistic patterns - then perhaps there are market gurus who have developed the same knowledge, skill, understanding of the larger picture - an intuition developed perhaps trusting your feelings. And yes, the majority are weighted towards being "sheep" who are in the mode of being indoctrinated - following the crowd..
HEAD and the branch have separate reflogs. Each step of an interactive rebase adds a separate entry to HEAD's reflog, but the branch's reflog only ever gets a single new entry when the rebase is complete. So you can run e.g. `git log -g master` and skip the rebase intermediate steps.

It is rather unfortunate that there is no convenient documented shorthand for "show me the reflog of the current branch" (`git log -g` gives you HEAD's reflog). That said, after a bunch of experimentation, it seems like `git log -g '@{0}'` will give you the reflog for the current branch. Apparently this works because e.g. `git log -g '@{2}'` gives you the reflog for the current branch skipping the first 2 elements.
Spotify didn't IPO: they did a direct listing.
As somebody who isn't a vegan or even vegetarian, but eating a mostly-vegetarian and sometimes-vegan diet, living with a vegetarian and generally being in lots of vegan-friendly places offline, I don't think anything changed - your description still seems correct to me today.
Yeah, there is the legacy of the thousands of mature libraries, frameworks and development tools.

Legacy isn't always a bad thing.
Certainly Ms. "Multipass" fits the "born sexy yesterday" trope.
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I hope not given how poorly written the last season is. :p

If you have dragons, condemning a race of people to oblivion to stall for time seems like a war crime to me. Not to mention, a waste of the CGI budget.

Also, Jon should have pet the damn dog. That was monstrously bad writing. D&D should be tried for that. The poor dog fought the dead and Jon won’t even look at him before kicking him out of his stede. </3
Wouldn’t John Martyn have loved this Karmic rhythm guitar wheel hack?
Well if PR don’t get merged because the author plans on redoing that part of the lib or does not fit with their “vission” that pretty effectively kills the community help.
You are missing some documentation packages or they somehow went missing from the index. You can add them (.qch files) in the settings menu of Assistant.
Who says to invest in companies who's products you use? That does not seem like great advice. You should invest in companies who are undervalued by the market in your opinion, not just because you like the product but because you think they have a good business around it.
Doesn't work as in doesn't display? It is a developers page, so I'd imagine they're more concerned with desktop view.
Simply not true because humans can't process vegetation like cows can. It's why we feed animals vegetation and we eat the animals.

Also, even if what you said were true, that only applies to human raised livestock. Even under you assertion, eating wild animals ( elk, moose, bison, etc ) would cause far less animal harm than a vegan diet which destroys thousands of animals for each bowl of salad.

So I'm guessing every Vegan Society member is a hunter?
Yes, that's the norm with all clients. It's the idea behind spec work: sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn't. My advice is, again, look at it like karma.

If you get to a point where pre-sales work is grinding you down to the point where you need to do something about it, the right response is to raise your rates, so that the work that does close offsets the work you do on projects that don't. You should be constantly doing that anyways (it's hard! we're not awesome at it either, though we do try to do it once a year), so look at spec work as a forcing function.

That's another reason charging for nickel-and-dime rustproofing stuff like specs and proposals is bad business: it's way less valuable than actual delivery, and so charging for it makes it harder for you to set high rates.
Fortunately on Android you at least can install another browser - Firefox. Works great - well, most of the time... but using it for a day without extensions makes me appreciate it even more.

EDIT: and there is no reason to use a different browser on the phone and desktop, Firefox is available on desktop too. :P
No, it's a flaw in the scientific process.
Where do you get those TD ameritrade stats?
> The story we hear the most is of young CEOs.

The thing about this is that even pointing to someone that was a successful CEO at 26 doesn't tell you much about whether it's better to be a young founder. Someone that's a successful founder at 26 may well have been a successful founder at 56 but they didn't need to be a successful founder at that time. There are lots of reasons to not start a successful company in your youth, and those same people still have 30 or more years to do so.
According to the roadmap, Mono's JVM interop used for Xamarin Android will be making its way more directly into .NET Core and will light up on almost every platform, which would give .NET greater, direct access to the Java ecosystem as well.
Can you point out some big desktop projects made with QT that run on macOS and/or Windows?
What I'm saying is that an extremely competent company decided that an opportunity wasn't worth pursuing. Are you seriously arguing that you have better insight into how Amazon should run their business than they do? Despite the fact that you have no information about what their prospects were other than whatever tiny morsels were publicly known? Has it occurred to you that there is non-public information that is informing their decision?
What about Kotlin?
I imagine it’s to make the scale logarithmic like the Richter scale so that it’s easier to visualize and compare compression algorithms at vastly different magnitudes of efficiency.
Isn't this something already provided by libtask? Libtask was written by Russ Cox.
There seems to be alot of hate here that blue orgin is not 'shooting high enough'. This will get 'America' back to the moon and this is a great thing! Congrats to Blue Orgin team, and I wish them all the luck.
Pretty sure they're just pointing out the polished typography, padding, and alignment of MacOS, which is what the GP's comment was about.
That's my bad. Somehow an earlier draft of the post was used. The post was updated with working code. I guess that's what happens when you lose internet and push to a Github repo from your phone :P.
Feel free to meditate, I tried that too for some time. It didn't offer anything or really fill me up.

It wasn't until I met God that that I felt peace about all of this. You may not agree with everything the church says, I know I didn't, but God gives us a chance at eternal life. If you look at where we are going, that's the only chance we have.
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Yeah it's much better to list a dozen tools/frameworks that you must be expert at than just making it clear about the current requirements.
the reason not to hire junior employees isn't the money. It's they're net negative productivity for at least 6 months if you include the senior eng time spent helping them. It's a hard calculus, and I 100% understand why a company would choose never to do that.
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Please provide citations for that.
No, you don't need to reverse your opinion at all.

Personally, I voted you down because your opinion was stated in a sort of offhanded manner that does not do the subject justice.
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It's complicated, for sure, and will need changes in the infrastructure.

But it has some advantages as well. Imagine 10 000 000 cars with 50 kWh battry capacity each connected to the grid and letting 10% of their capacity to be used for balancing of the network. If the grid has excess power - charge to 100%. If the grid lacks power - discharge to 90%.

That's 50 GWh of balancing capacity.

It basically solves the problems with unpredictability of most of the renewable power sources.