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> Here in the Netherlands it’s just one broadband provider per location

No it isn't. I live in the Netherlands and I can choose from 13 different ISP's on fiber alone. Add to that cable (Ziggo) and another dozen or so ISP's on DSL.

Not sure where you live in NL but in most places there is a LOT of choice. Even my parents who live in the middle of nowhere have several options including cable and fiber.
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Most of their users only have one account at most, because they only work for one company. I think the multiple account feature is relatively neglected.
what's wrong with the old school static website? maybe with some fancy backend for contributors but that's it right?
Really curious how self-publishers market their material. Do you actively advertise?
Right, but similar interventions are also completely unthinkable today. Which is why Stockholm have some of the most expensive property in Europe.
Nope. Just eating dead animals is. Stop doing that.
You make it sound like the plane has some kind of agency. Though a plane is very complicated, the treacherous MCAS system is actually very simple.
Companies always pay when it hurts them not to.

When running a service business the best decision I made was using a factoring service from Welles Fargo.

Big company might specify NET180 on a big contract and still not have remitted payment 200 days in. If you are a small company your recourse is to sue.

If you have a big bank handling accounts receivable they call on day 181 and tell the company that their credit rating is taking a hit for not making payment on time.

Payment gets made. Big companies like good credit ratings, they don’t like paying more to borrow money.

Seems like there is a market opportunity for artists to have a financial partner handle collections on their behalf.
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Probably because in general they are a code smell. They are anti-OO.
Some kind of software controlled drone/robot should do it, since there are 2 parts, software and hardware.
What if they are phases of evolution? A small team that can speak a lightweight language can quickly change velocity (speed and direction), iterating until a PoC is a useful system. Once the interfaces and the protocols fall into place, calcify or harden the design by converting to something more static, more literal.

Imagine going from something like lisp to Ada? Or lisp to Rust? Write quick prototypes in lisp, solve the hard problems of understanding the domain, then convert portions that require correctness to a language that is amenable to correctness checking (property testing, model checking, etc).

I think gradual typing [0] (not Gradual Typing) or language embedding [1] are steps in that direction. In a way, lisp can be thought of as a CASE tool for bootstrapping new systems.

The great thing about language platforms (JVM, Beam, Graal, Wasm, Racket) is that many languages can easily exist in the same system so that in many cases, code can be converted on a function by function basis.

[0] http://mypy-lang.org

[1] http://terralang.org
The term pattern is not dependent on things being proven through formal processes and anti-patterns are not defined as things that are not patterns.

Anti-patterns can be patterns that have been proven through formal processes and the most successful of them tend to be.
Mosquito-killing spider juice offers malaria hope
BMW helped design this hydrogen-powered flying thing
Recent discussion :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19970922

Personally I don't see a reason not to do it, as it is done for Chinese and Korean names. Japanese name order in foreign media is the outlier.

Nobody in Western media writes or says Jinping Xi.
Most people who find out their kid has an ear infection will take them to the doctor and demand antibiotics. Even if it’s viral.
Engines were mounted to make a stable configuration inherently unstable in not so uncommon circumstances. The pitch was used to control the the most critical axis of the plane - something done normally with the rudder. This gave an automated system the authority to override the pilot with a wide margin. The behavior of the plane differs wildly from the old 737 as soon as the surprising narrow corridor of normal flight situation is exceeded.
I find the whole discussion about null safety completely negligible.

Since when are nulls the biggest problem for developers? Null pointer exceptions are by far some the simplest problems to avoid and/or solve.

There are more serious arguments that can be made in favor of Kotlin.
It's a sad state of reality, because it drives down the quality of software to the common denominator of fresh junior devs, which is not much.

Another view of this would be: progress in this industry is made by those who succeed while sticking to their guns and not optimizing their infrastructure for the available worker pool.
There’s only one case where properties may be useful - GUI forms mapped to domain-like model. In practically any other case it’s violation of one or more OO design principles. In Java you can live without them with a life full of joy.
Saw it as well as I follow the subreddit. Not sure whether people here will like it but I did — definitely it's about the little things since designers geek over these small details.

Nonetheless I loved the typography as well (and the show)
Hearing lots of people mention blockchain technologies as a solution here.

Enter Passport by Mycelia[0]

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[0]http://myceliaformusic.org/
Wow, that definition is counter-intuitive. Ive expected the false-positive-rate to be the number of false positives divided by the number of all positives. Isn't it how "rates" are usually defined? No wonder everybody is confused.
Secondary problem with small cities is that while there may be a CNC opening today, if that company goes bust you’re stuck.
So in other words: you don't know.
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Re-engineering the rudder may also have helped avoiding employing pitch control (with it's inherent delay and hard to undo actions). But that would have made it obvious that this is a different plane...
There's probably a better way but I would put a window in each half using winkey+arrows and then drag the center divider to resize them both at once.
I don't understand this philosophy. If monopolies don't harm the customer, why bother having a market at all?

You could argue that freedom requires private property and only a market economy is compatible with private property. But "A planned economy is more efficient but I don't support it because I support private property rights" is a pretty uncommon stance.
Is this the book you are recommending? http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/book/
It is normal?
Having that work is specific to Japan. If there is a single example of someone managing to do that successfully, especially with multiple companies, I would like to hear about it. Transit/retail or rail plus property is used in other places, like Hong Kong, but with government owned operators.

https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/capital-projects-and-inf...
Slack has been mostly bottom up sales, not top down, in my experience.
Clojure is marketed as a very fast language (bunch of clever optimisation gets done because data structures are immutable). If the gains were from switching to Java they'd probably have said so less ambiguously.

Surely what they mean is they've rewritten it to be faster, and switched to Java at the same time because they want to open up the contributor pool.
What I get though is that ICEs might be subject to more stringent regulation at least for charging in the future.

At least in EU, cars with a compressed fuel tank (hydrogen, GPL or methane) cannot be parked in a closed or underground parking lot for one safety reason: risk of explosion. The risk is pretty low, and if you have such a tank you're also subjected to scheduled regular inspections and replacement of the tank, but you still cannot park underground. Not many people are aware or respect this limit, thanks to the fact that it's not easy to distinguish a car which has a dual fuel option.

Now imagine a lithium fire in a garage (maybe... your garage?).
See my response inspired by your comment and agumonkey here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20074532

I am drawn to the idea of scalable languages or languages with zero friction for interop.

This thread on Pallene is interesting https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18038619
I apologise in advance that this comment has nothing to do with the posted
article, and is instead to do with the use of HN.

After dang's comment on the latest Assange thread to make the first page on
HN, I am trying to decide whether the posted article is one that stimulates
intellectual curiosity, or indignation and repetition.

I think the answer is - probably the latter. We're not likely to learn much
new knowledge from it and it's more likely to generate forceful arguments than
productive conversation.

Are postings like this welcome on HN or merely tolerated? I assumed, because
politically controversial posts frequently make it to the first page, that
they are acceptable and welcome. I am not so sure anymore.

I believe that an active mind is a politically engaged mind - but perhaps HN
is just not the right place for political conversation. I enjoy the civility
and dignity of the best threads on HN- and I have to admit that the majority
of them are not political. It's hard to have a level-headed, sober discussion
on political matters, when everyone who has political views tends to have
_strong_ political views (I sure do).

So I don't know. Maybe posting stuff like this on HN is not such a good idea
after all?

(With apologies to jerry2 who posted this article)
I'm inclined to agree for the most part, but it's important to remember that imposing your own experience on others ("astounded", "never the same as real world relationships", "hardly seems") is not just presumptuous and somewhat myopic, but also real shitty to hear for people who feel like they're not 'doing it right' just because they're different.

There's a long history of people choosing to live solitary lives, and as far as I can tell there's no good reason to assume that they made the wrong choice. Sure, most people might need real social contact, but humans are a varied bunch. Let's accept or maybe even celebrate this, even while still keeping in mind that the more 'deviant' a behavior is, the higher the chance is that it's unhealthy.

I'd never recommend a random person shut themselves in and replace real human contact with a digital version, because on average, it's probably not a good thing. But I try my best to also not impose what is 'normal' on them, because for all I know they're one of the odd ones out.

(I am one of those odd ones, to an extent, and trying to conform to the 'healthy mean' has had some bad consequences.)
> Couldn't you argue that it shows a certain arrogance and non-results oriented "falling in love with ideals and tools" detachment from reality to use Clojure instead of good ol' Java?

Since when trying to do better than using a tool designed for mass-producing software with dumb and cheap labor is "falling in love with ideals and tools"? It's kind of like saying that using an excavator over a bunch of people with shovels is "falling in love with ideals and tools". No, it just allows a single person to get more work done faster and better.

Our industry is weird. When recruiting, companies claim they want "the best of the best" and will often test you on ridiculous stuff. But when it comes to actual work, on industry scale, learning, growing professionally, and doing things in a clean and efficient way is frowned upon. Best take the weakest tool available and compensate for its shortcomings with third party services.
Aren't they in different leagues though?

Google has global impact, whereas Comcast (etc) are mostly US?
Is this true or false? I don't understand the downvotes.
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Which laptop are you using for Ubuntu? Are you happy with it?
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Such an ownership model is certainly not suitable for the examples you bring up. One simple modification that might work for the pro athlete case is that the athlete always owns 70% of the company, and the rest of the team get ownership based on time spent. Or you could even allocate percentage ownerships to each division of the company. The PR team gets 15% divided amongst themselves based on time spent, the health team gets 10% etc, where the percentages are based on some notion of the value generation by each team.

The proposed model, I think is best of large companies with lots of workers - say a factory, where most people bring in roughly equal amounts of value. The high value people could negotiate earning ownership at 5x or 10x the base rate, for example.

The big point is that there is a massive space of possible ownership models and exploring them is a very interesting exercise. In fact, experimenting with such models is an excellent way of exploring and understanding how much value different people in a company bring and what they are worth.
How confident is everyone on all the other changes to the 737?

They’ve found the MCAS issues, but with a procedure this lax I’d expect several other issues to have gotten through.
Hmmm

Dragging the center divider doesn’t work in my use case (detached eclipse console window on one side) I have to resize both windows manually

to be clear: it works as expected with two browser windows, it’s the type of window eclipse creates when you detach a view that windows doesn’t seem to like
That's very rare in the Netherlands, because phone and fiber network owners are both forced to let many others on their network. And in at least 2/3rd of the country you can also choose cable instead of DSL.
I'm much more familiar with the term pdns being used to refer to powerdns so reading this got slightly confusing :)
We should do not say. As the author writes "You can help by doing wonderful things, and simply moving the needle in whatever you do in life to make the World a better place."
Where in NL? Because I am in a small village and there are multiple options even there. Even in the tiny village in Spain I live part of the year we have multiple choices.

Although for both countries I now just use mobile data. Depends on your usage, but for me (dev, netflix, youtube) it is more than enough. I have an unlimited EU package stuck on a SIM which I put in a Glocalme. Works well.
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I love seeing multiple translations of this great man's words. My translation by, Martin Hammond:

"Either the compulsion of destiny and an order allowing no deviation, or a providence open to prayer, or a random welter without direction. Now if undeviating compulsion, why resist it? If providence admitting the placation of prayer, make yourself worthy of divine assistance. If an ungoverned welter, be glad that in such a maelstrom you have within yourself a directing mind of your own: if the flood carries you a way, let it take your flesh, your breath, all else - but it will not carry away your mind.

I particularly like Hammond's recurring use of the phrase "directing mind", which is, to me, is very important to Stoicism.
TL;DR specifically about the font:

> essentially they created a font, as far as I understand. And the font was kind of inspired by Cyrillic fonts. And there’s a number of Cyrillic fonts that came out of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union had their own state-run typography department and they did create a number of fonts, including something called – well, it’s referred to as Poor Man’s Futura. There’s a bunch of them. Anyway, the point is rather than font out and dork out, what we went for was that. Essentially an English font that conveyed the truth of what Soviet fonts looked like at the time.

They’ve got weird kerning. Some of the numbers are slightly bizarre for us. And then we messed around with the color a little bit and we fuzzed some of the edges just to make it feel like it was part of 1986.

https://www.reddit.com/r/graphic_design/comments/burcqg/abso...

segment from the podcast is at 55m 37s:

http://scriptnotes.net/401-you-got-verve
> When it's extremely difficult, if not practically impossible to escape a private company from extracting/exploiting profit from unwilling persons at scale.

I'm not sure that would fit the current anti-trust legal definition (as in: not a lawyer so don't know answer - not that I think it doesn't fit). Equally, I'm not sure it fits under the more general principles of anti-competitive practices. They - I believe - presume willingness on the part of the consumer to access products or services, but where supply is unfairly limited.

Notwithstanding all that, your statement is an excellent principle and very neatly articulates the problem. I don't know what rule of law it would come under, but it's a succinct illustration.
So could Faraday clothing be a new thing then? Outfits that blocks the scanners in public, and gives of a "generic" shape. I wonder how long it would take for it to be outlawed?
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I love the CLI example! Probably the best way I've seen that presented (hint, mouseover to copy/paste.)
Do you have plans to add support for more languages besides JavaScript and Rust down the line, e.g. Python?
Kivy 1.11 released – Python 2 deprecated
I seem to recall from the film the “Shawshank Redemption”:

Red:
That tall drink of water with the silver spoon up his ass.
Now I love him even more.
In the US, the cable tv market is subject to the exact same local monopolies as the isp market; in fact, they are often the same company.
At another point you just accept you'll have to hire people who don't fit the classic job requirement of "X years experience in Lang" and hire people who don't know Lang at all but want to learn. A growing Clojure shop in Seattle seems to be having success with this, onboarding the language is a small fraction of overall onboarding.

On the more meta level it's weird what people expect devs to learn on the job or know up front. Companies expect employees to keep up with the latest nonsense in web dev, but can't pick up a new straightforward language? Unless maybe another Algol like Go or TypeScript? This Steve Yegge quote captures some of it:

"For some reason, programmers love to learn new stuff, as long as it's not syntax."
This can happen in orgs that do project-oriented development pursuing business objectives. Maybe one team of devs madly tries to ship some new functionality to hit a deadline. If it is not possible for the organisation to get those teams to prioritise fixing the stuff they already shipped, maybe another team with different priorities gets created to do it.

This is probably a symptom of incentives not being structured appropriately, or orgs that only believe in the existence of projects, not the existence of products or systems that need to be maintained.
OK, if RMS approves it, it's not an abuse, who am I to argue? Still, the goal of open-source, copyleft and permissive flavours alike, is to "get programs freed", not to establish a fairer distribution of the cash flow. So when someone introduces a new superrestrictive license and starts selling exceptions right away, their earnesty can naturally be questioned.
There’s a seismic shift going on in voting in the UK. The traditional two parties are falling to bits - the old and uneducated are voting for Farage, the young and educated are voting for Lib Dem and Green, leaving the current bug parties - the ones of Thatcher and Blair - 4th or even 5th in the polls.

It is hard to separate the youth vote - when it bothers to turn up, from the educated vote, as the majority of people with degrees are under 40
I remember a long time ago reading a comment about business schools basically teaching the same: you have a large company which is inefficient, so new management comes in and decides to split it into multiple companies that do different things;
then at some point, each minor company is inefficient, so they merge with other companies to achieve scale benefits. Repeat forever.
Regardless, how is breaking up Google going to stop such tracking?

I've asked this question twice now. We can't just break up companies because they collect data. That's not anti-trust.
Amazon could face heightened antitrust scrutiny
Most likely, something is occasionally going wrong with the whole "Super" part of supercharging. Quick-charging a lithium battery is a lot more fiddly than just slowly feeding it a trickle of charge, and the Superchargers push the "quick" aspect to the extreme, since it's one of the most problematic parts of EV use.
Counter point, though not for Netherlands.

I'm a big "ISP enthusiast", so it pains me to see that in my home country, Serbia, Telekom Srbija owns EVERY SINGLE phone line in the country, so any and all DSL goes through them.

You can buy DSL from someone else, but it stills goes through their infrastructure, the "virtual" ISP just buys DSL access from Telekom.

Not even actual line access, just routing. You still HAVE to pay for a LANDLINE to Telekom directly, which is 5€ per month.

All other ISPs are either mobile broadband, WISP, or one single CDMA ISP that offers 128/32 Kbps Internet.

Cable ISPs have hidden non-compete contracts so if you have SBB (owned by United Group), you don't have Radijus Vektor, Kopernikus, Masko, etc., because of the non-compete.

By the way, main 2 plays on fixed broadband access are Telekom Srbija (Supernova, which owns almost all cable providers that aren't owned by SBB, mts (for ADSL and fiber)) and United Group (SBB and Beogrid, and others via Cable).

Orion Telekom does fiber in a few % of apartment buildings in Belgrade and Novi Sad, Exe Net in Niš and Leskovac, and that is basically it.

DSL is mostly up to 10/1 Mbps, a number of lucky people have 20/4 Mbps (upload is usually cut back to 2 Mbps) with VDSL, and a really tiny percentage have 50/8 Mbps VDSL and an even smaller number of people have 100+ Mbps with FTTH.

Mobile broadband is limited to up to 200 GB with Vip mobile, and that is a fixed wireless package which is limited to one location. Their speeds are terrible in most urban areas, and it's mostly 800 MHz with 15 MHz channel in rural areas. 4G+ is rare.

WISP (Fixed wireless over 802.11n or ac standard) is apsolutely atrocious, as is everywhere else in the world, with speeds reaching up to 20 Mbps except on dedicated links, mostly 10/2 Mbps for most users.

CDMA deserves no mention, being literally unusuable, and only marginally better than dial-up.

Fiber is extremely rare. Speeds are good, the most affordable ISP is Orion Telekom, but if you want TV, their TV offer is very poor (slow and low quality rebranded wholesale Android STB with a really bad Wowza headend which is overloaded and has poor bitrate leading to abysmal picture quality).

Given that Fiber is not available to most people, DSL being slow and unreliable (up to 10 Mbps), CDMA useless, mobile broadband expensive and limited (often not available due to overloading of cell towers), the only actual posibility for (good) Internet for most people is Cable. And that is a shared medium that is oversold and bundled with CATV.