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Always think of tools in terms of your company's long term goals.

A free tool that doesn't offer possibilities to scale or won't remain cost-effective at scale or doesn't offer features to migrate to other tools can easily cost more than going with something that looks expensive or less appealing right now.

Also, evaluate tools in terms of their familiarity to developers, sales and customers in your domain.
If you are unhappy with the quality of your food, you don't tip your server?

Here's how that results in a lose-lose for both you and the server.

Normally, if your food does not meet expectations, the best recourse is to let the server know what the problem is. The server can then either have the kitchen resolve the problem or talk to a manager, who can intervene to make things right. The end result is that you end up with food that meets expectations, or perhaps get a portion of the meal comped, and you walk out satisfied.

By being passive aggressive and expressing your displeasure with a zero tip, you don't give the restaurant an opportunity to make things right, so you walk out unsatisfied.

You also punish the wrong person, because it's not the server who is preparing the food. And keep in mind that the server is working a low-paying, often high-stress job, and your withholding of a tip might hit hard.

And perhaps the reason why you've been accosted by servers is that nobody knows the reason why you're refusing to tip unless you tell them. If someone works hard but you stiff them because you didn't like the texture of your burger and didn't bother to raise the issue during your meal, it's not unreasonable for them to assume you thought there was something wrong with their service.
This is useless because of external backups, and not desirable because of things like posts becoming evidence of criminality.
Money is really good at masking systemic problems (like government run by idiots, corruption, etc) because you can just throw money at wherever the problem rears it's head.

I don't know if Chicago is more corrupt or they're just less able/willing to put up an expensive front of propriety. Everyone loves to cite the number of politicians that get prosecuted or go to jail for corruption. To me that says the corruption doesn't run very deep.
It begins with experts being blamed by politicians for daring to know things incompatible with a particular world view. When opinion gets more important than fact, democracy becomes populism and in the limit, authoritarianism.
In China the purpose of infrastructure projects is to get infrastructure.

In the US the purpose of infrastructure projects is to enrich everyone associated with the project.
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This is a result of LEAs not adjusting to the modern world. Policing city streets and physical locations is nothing like policing technology. LEAs don't see a difference between a lock on a door and a cryptographic lock on a cellphone. They can get a warrant to unlock the door, or worse just kick it in. Even if they did get a warrant to unlock a phone, if there is no key they cannot "kick" the door in (unless the use some other exploits), so they are demanding a key to every lock.
So there are Geeks, Nerds, Programmers now too?

Why not capitalize every Noun like in German
Thanks for the great comment. I don't think we're in disagreement. Government-mandated disorganized workplaces are still disorganized... I wonder about the thought experiment for such an environment though. Tragedy has a cruel way of striking from multiple vectors. You might have a critical issue that demands immediate deployment of a fix, but just before then you learned that the only named person who can legally sign-off on the deployment was involved in a fire and is dead/missing. I suspect the decision would get escalated to someone who might not have the legal authority that the dead person had, but who has enough business authority to make the call on whether the financial damage to the company from not rolling out the fix now will exceed the fine the government will impose for not following the regulation + any potential negligence lawsuit costs if the not-fully-approved fix causes even more issues.

You're right I haven't been directly exposed to such regulations (our emergency releases also require sign-off from management but there are multiple people who can approve and different people for different stages) and I don't ever intend to be. Even for something much lighter. At my current job I refused a request from my boss/boss's boss to go through the process of obtaining a Public Trust Position which would be necessary if I needed to debug my team's product for one of our government customers. Fortunately I didn't have to quit over it, and I still got promoted later. Other people on other teams just went along with it. So I guess I'd amend my thinking (aided by your comments on lots of the regulation in finance being self-requested) that for people who get themselves into a position where it's "not possible" to go 100% on vacation, regardless of the level of dysfunction at the org, many of them generally don't mind it. If they did, they could switch jobs, and anyone concerned about accepting such a deal should weigh that instead of imagining that there's nothing to be done.
It's not that simple. In addition to that effect, you also have the dynamic that people can undertip [1] some amount without consequence. Meaning that price + customary tip will actually have to be higher than the average untipped price, since it doesn't have to make up for the defectors.

[1] specifically, that means tipping under the average and/or in accordance with a lower scale or tougher standards than is generally expected.
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An elegant solution would be not having that problem in the first place.
Misleading title. Should be "Don't put your work's MDM on your personal phone".
This is not exactly accurate.

Most places in the US require businesses to "make up" the delta between minimum wage and what the employee receives through wage+tips. Seattle just codified this more clearly by having a "minimum wage" and a separate (higher) "minimum compensation". So while wait staff have a minimum compensation of $15/hr, that number is inclusive of tips they receive. Their minimum wage (what the business has to pay regardless of tip) is lower at $12/hr.

People may have considered no longer tipping because of the publicity behind the new-to-them-but-not-actually-new concept of minimum compensation but it's effectively the same system at a higher number.
> Content should be separated from presentation.

Not necessarily. There are times where text should not be wrapped (code snippets, error messages, or log output), but if text is softwrapped, then there's no way to prevent that text from getting wrapped unless you use some time of mark up like HTML or markdown. This requires that the client supports that type of markup which isn't always the case.

There is an RFC[1] that describes the format=flowed option in the MIME headers that addresses the wrapping issue (where text that should be soft-wrapped should have trailing whitespace at the end of each line). That would work with email clients that support that feature and will still appear to be hard-wrapped to email clients that do not. So, unlike HTML or markdown, we don't require those who use clients that only support plain text to update their clients to support a new feature. We can use that feature in clients that support it and have a sensible fallback for clients that do not.

[1] https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3676.txt
To be fair Gove would say that. It's like BJ is unlikely to say that the people want a competent PM that makes well thought out decisions, and has tamed hair.
If there was an accident and the cops ask you "why did you break suddenly?" and you say something reasonable that's not "to commit insurance fraud" you probably won't be at fault. It's the responsibility of the person behind you to keep a safe following distance.
I think everything you're saying is reasonable, but I think we just have to agree to disagree since there is no evidence either way.
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The experts often have already done that work already, often that's how they became an expert.
I know, he is amazing.
Wow there is so much more there than I realized at first. I probably should have realized that any communication system would have layers, and when you're restricted to a subset of visual signals there would be all sorts of intricacies. The dual-language comment also lines up with a lot of what I've read this morning on the topic, in that many folks who use ASL full time have commented that written English can almost feel like a second language to them.

Seriously though, thank you very much for sharing your perspective on this. It's awesome to ask a question (in an area where I have no domain knowledge) and get such a high quality responses.
It's always been possible, and frequent. People have had innumerable conversations relevant to criminal intent, and refused to divulge information on them. The founders were certainly aware of that when the Fifth Amendment was added to the constitution.

It was the development of telephone communication, and warrants for wiretapping, that first made such private communications accessible to the government.
Congratulations, that flashing title with UNREAD MESSAGE is new most annoying thing on the internet. You reinvented the blink tag I hope you're all proud.
More 'made using primate genes.' There are many perfectly good brains that could be made out of meat, they just need to have certain bits about social hierarchy from our primate past removed or tweaked.
For me it's not about the screen width. It's simply unergonomic to read wide lines of text. Ever wondered why book pages are vertically-oriented? I don't want my eyes to run a marathon from left to right with each line of text.
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I believe the "delete" option is for a new file that has never been saved, the thinking being if you are going to leave an empty file by choosing "don't save", the better choice is to just delete the file ... I guess?
I would say that the birthday card example is a read once message example, and not something that's going to be discussed at length like a patch on a development mailing list.
It is just a quote from Pascal's Thoughts so more like haiku or ad hoc observation then a commandment.

You don't need to sit 24 hours alone in an empty room - you just should be able to - this is my interpretation.

It is like '- Master, how long should I meditate? - 20 minutes is enough. - But I don't have time for that. - If you don't have time then meditate for one hour.'
That's hardly the takeaway from this article. In Turkey the state took jobs and freedom of mobility away from those with ideologies that the regime did not favor.

This article says nothing about persecution from the academic establishment to which you refer.
But this is the thing that Lean Startup was built to solve.

I keep talking to indie game devs about Lean, basically telling them to identify the core hook in their game and develop a minimal version of this that they can test on an audience with, and then grow from there. I point to Minecraft, that did exactly this.

They never get it. They always think the game has to be complete and perfect before anyone will like it. They never playtest until they're waaaaay down the line with the game, and then usually get defensive if the testers don't like it or understand it.

It's exactly the same as startup. Build an MVP, get it in front of people, adapt it using their feedback, and you have a better chance of building something that people want. Time for the games industry to start doing the same.
1) I don't know whether NY is any more corrupt than other states, I'd imagine other states that are largely controlled by party machines have similar levels of corruption. If you look at historical political machines (Tammany Hall, Kansas City), it seems that there used to be more corruption.

2) While many districts are controlled by local party machines, they are not invincible. It's still possible to get on a democratic primary ballot without the support of Dem machine, you just need to get the required number of signatures by registered Dems and file the paperwork (funnily enough, in some areas the local Rep party will help with this. NY's rule allowing candidates to run on multiple parties helps with this).
I simply don't understand tipping before service. I have had multiple occasions where the delivery is either delayed, food items missing, delivery guy calling me and asking me to walk up to him/her because he/she doesn't want to deal with parking etc. But, still expected norm is to pay a tip in advance and hope for good service. And, in case you had a bad experience, well you rewarded the service with a tip in advance anyway.
Strong encryption absolutely impedes investigations. And, what indication is there that the primary purpose of mass surveillance is blackmail?
just log out and wipe your cookies/localstorage.
A question was asked, a response was given. Why do you need to be snarky with the GP?
I once asked a deaf programmer how technical concepts were communicated. He explained that most non-practitioners would use finger-spelling but that a parlance among deaf programmers existed to convey a variety of technical terms. I vividly recall the sign for "Port Scanning" made by tracing an oblong ellipse oriented upwards with your index finger and then "pushing" that finger through the imaginary figure 3-4 times from the top going downwards.

I imagine a similar set of signs arising in different disciplines.
So because of that, we should just blindly accept that the work conditions are extremely shitty, because "well it was their fault for trying to follow their dreams!"

I wish people didn't think like this
Intellectuals should stop sharing their knowledge/skills with obscurantists. They should allow obscurantists to fail or at least to make obscurantists to depend on intellectuals. The motto should be "first control then money gaining or sharing"
Wow, that shot of Jupiter looks amazing. I had no idea that it was feasible/practical to make graphics/games in Python.

Is it becoming a thing to develop games in Python, or is it mostly just hobbyists?
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"why is American infrastructure so bad?" has been a topic I am curious about. The above article does not answer the question.

I'd prefer not to care about American infrastructure costs. Unfortunately, I occasionally have to leave my house, and the consequences of bad infrastructure stare me in the face: people living in their cars, traffic jams.

The best attempt to actually answer the question I've seen has been "Pedestrian Observations" blog. Their take on the same GAO report is:

[New Report on Construction Costs Misses the Mark](https://pedestrianobservations.com/2019/07/22/new-report-on-...)

"The GAO report is out now, and unfortunately it is a total miss, for essentially the same reason the RPA’s report was a miss: it did not go outside the American (and to some extent rest-of-Anglosphere) comfort zone"
Yeah, thanks, since you likely encountered these scenarios I guess we're just looking at it from very different viewpoints and some of mine might be lost in translation.

Luckily the number of times I've had to invent signing schemes or even integrate SAML is limited. :)
> Both Spanish and English have a fair bit of influence from Latin and from languages that were influenced by Latin.

I think you're missing the point. OP claimed that English is the language of science in most other languages. The parent showed, using an example from Spanish, that the actual language of science in most languages is Latin.

It is neither here nor there whether or not the language is latin-derived. And regardless, it's not possible to distinguish whether or not it is 'English' or 'Latin' from examples from non-latin-derived languages because English-speaking scientific establishments, up until the 1800s (and even to this day in some fields like botany, etc.) uses Latin nomenclature in scientific work. Most of the examples that you can find, the examples in the foreign language, English, and Latin are all going to match (I believe the exception is Medical German -- practitioners in Germany have to learn both the German and Latin versions) and it is difficult to prove without specific work into the foreign etymology, that in that case the foreign language is following Latin and not English!

In case I haven't made myself clear, it's trivial to take your Swahili question to demonstrate the point. According to Google Translate (I couldn't find a Wiktionary entry for it) in Swahili it is "asidi deoxyribonucleic". Now, is this because it follows the English form or the Latin form? You can't know without doing some digging into the Swahili Etymology.
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I am Deaf myself. It really depends. One of the problems of transcribing stuff is that some nuances are lost. Ask yourself: how is the experience between being there yourself or reading a transcript online?

So, usually for social sciences it is a lot better to have a Signed Language interpreter. For hard science it depends on the lecturer. If I have someone droning on, a transcript would be easier on my nerves. If I however have a really good lecturer, a Signed Language is better in catching what is said.

You need to consider that lectures are only one part of what you use to study. Also very important are books and self-study. In this light transcripts are just something like a book and we all know that it is not a good idea to learn from books only.
I believe you would. Anyone would. Body didn't just stop working when you run faster or longer, body gradually develops pain. When you start to feel it, it feels not as a pain, but as a discomfort, which gradually becomes stronger, then it becomes pain, then it grows to an unbearable level. If your running/walking abilities were lower than they are, you would walk slower, to keep the same level of discomfort.

> Lots of animals can walk long distances just fine.

Not like humans. Humans walk faster than most of animals. As I understand it, it is due to aerobic ability mostly, human could absorb more of oxygen per minute and use it to oxidize glucose or fats to get ATP to power muscles. Other animals could absorb less oxygen per minute, so their body could output less power for a long time. Horse have 1 hp, but for relatively short amount of time. Then it needs to rest. Human could catch up with a horse before it managed to process all the lactic acid accumulated while horse moved (it needs oxygen to process lactic acid into ATP). This way human could outrun (or even outwalk) horse. (Maybe not the modern human with a car spending most of his day in a chair, but modern human have a car, so he could move faster than horse and for longer distances. So it does not counts.)

Though maybe it is not just aerobic ability, I think. Horse eats plants with a limited density of energy, it increases mass of horse, making it less energy efficient than human who eats foods with higher Kcal/gramm.
Yeah, you really have to be a high-skilled h@x0r to write a plain text mail. /s
You say you "worked in restaurants for years". If a customer stiffed you on a tip would that encourage YOU to give them better service next time they come in?
> You say that as if it already happening makes it okay.

I'm not saying "it's okay". It is what it is. I'm saying we're applying a double standard. It's like complaining about lighting a match in the middle of a wildfire.

> Because if the FTC cracks down on them then it sets a precedent to crack down on the credit agencies.

That makes no sense me. They can crack down on Libra for any number of reasons. They're clearly okay with what the credit bureaus are doing right now, why wait for Facebook to come along and do the same?
Thanks for the comment! That's 100% true—that's why we added the entry level pricing as well as the link to the pricing page for further evaluation. As a bootstrapped company, at Canny, we're a big fan of (high-quality) free options at least to start out with, when you really just need the basics. We have had to upgrade/change a few times when the free tier doesn't cut it anymore as we grow, but they did for enough time to save us some money when it was extremely important to.
Partially agree. I have no inclination to work for IBM or corporate software. Just wanna work for a startup where I can crack non PC jokes. Where the company hires for competence and not because they wanna show off that they hire 50% women.

I think the Valley was like this 10 years ago.
Collections are still very appealing as Spotify doesn't have large enough catalog to cover my normal playlist, let alone my extended collection.
I agree that taking the lane can be difficult and I can only imagine in USA how much harder this is. Here in the UK the number of times I've had people squeeze by me at speed, rather then waiting to overtake safely - but I do find it happened far far less once I got out the gutter and into the road.
I agree this is potentially relevant, thanks!
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In the same way that private verbal communications are protected by the fifth amendment -- we cannot force people to testify against themselves about possibly incriminating things.

This is a slippery slope.
Which then means why redo the work when you can call the expert and get things pre-digested for you.
I'm not even arguing with you, let alone constructing a straw man to argue with. I'm simply explaining why an explanation that justifies a belief is appropriate here. I don't care what you believe, I care why you believe it.
It's even a problem with allies as well as adversaries; countries can potentially get around their own legal limitations by agreeing to spy on one another, and where needed to build a case, covering their tracks via parallel construction. Whether officially or unofficially, any backdoor keys would leak almost immediately.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
The interviewee conflates so many ideas that their argument loses cohesion. Add to that numerous factual errors and odd interpretations (the 2nd Amendment prohibits nuclear weapons?) that the article ends up just being a wandering rant.
Neat idea for showing off your design chops. I don’t use Twitter so I don’t have much feedback, other than your ad blocking code being brittle [1].

[1] https://github.com/thomaswangio/minimal-twitter/blob/e076507...
I agree but it doesn’t matter. It’s about eighteen billion times easier to shame a shitty company into confirming to cultural norms than it is to get hundreds of millions of people to change those norms.
Ask HN: How to Sell a Side Project?
Hello HN! Writing from a Throwaway account.

I have an unreleased side project that I want to sell. It is in Amazon affiliates space which targets a niche audience (HN users, to be precise). I was working on it for quite some time but never got around to launching it. Since I'm working on my SAAS right now, I don't really want to spend time on it.

Tech stack is Python/Flask/SQLite with vanilla HTML/CSS on the frontend. It is not resource heavy, and will easily run on a cheapest VPS instance. You could also deploy it to Heroku but it will cost a bit more ($7 for a hobby dyno and $9 for a hobby Postgres database). The codebase is ready to be deployed straight away.

I think this project has potential to gross low-to-mid 4 figures (in USD) for its entire existence.

How do I go about selling it? I really want someone to pick up this project, launch it and make some money off of it, rather than seeing it gathering dust in obscurity...

You can contact me at sellingwebsite@protonmail.com