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He isn’t pushing human interaction. That is part of the job and problem solving. There was this story going around about what kind of developer you are: cowboy or farmer? Good devops people are plumbers.* Plumbers get stuff working by making sure all the disparate components of the the whole system work together. Human interactions are necessarily part of the whole system.

A solution can be technically fantastic, and yet people may not adopt it for one reason or another. You have to get buy-in from people.

I recently interviewed at a place where they vaguely know they needed devops but there wasn’t sufficient buy-in. I made the mistake of taking the interviews at face value. I should have been treating it as consultation from the get-go, drawing out any issues they might have (by starting with pain points), coming up with solutions. I didn’t realize I can be applying the same skills I have while working to at the very earliest stages.

If I were to build a consultation firm, I would sell organizations on the human interaction (because that is easier for people-managers to grasp; it is what they fo for their jobs). However, if I were hiring someone within my hypothetical consultation firm to do this kind of work, I would look at their problem solving mindset and people skills, at whatever experience level they are at.

*And it seems reading that Small Farmer Journal article about how to get started as a farmer with no money, real farmers have to problem solve too.
> The watchdog, Roscomnadzor, said Russia would consider it interference in its sovereign affairs and a hostile influence should Google fails to respond to the request.

Given how the Russians are obviously meddling in elections around the world using hacking and disinformation campaigns, I don't think they really have any leg to stand on here. Their acceptance of flagrantly violating laws in other countries means that really the US, through Google, should be trying to meddle inside Russia to advocate for opposition parties and Democratic/civil society institutions. If the West could effectively organize mass anti-Putin protests and scare him, it seems beneficial in a world where his meddling has gone relatively unanswered except for sanctions.

Especially if our answer was "we" will focus on disseminating accurate information and supporting free speech, countering both authoritarianism and disinformation campaigns, it would become a brighter line of differing world philosophies and give some moral foundation in its connection to Western liberalism. It would be meddling through its support of individual rights, free expression, freedom to assemble, supporting free elections. It's similar to giving political asylum to persecuted opposition leaders who stand for liberalism and democracy and then amplifying their message from exile.

We should enshrine this support of such rights into some NGOs and international treaties (many of which we already have) that Democratic societies could sign and then multinational corporations would have a standard of international law to follow. Then instead of corporations having to choose which laws to follow, they would have more clarity through following international law.

And obviously there is a massive slippery slope in everything I just proposed.

It's like how the Bretton Woods Conference after WWII established the World Bank and the IMF to push a western global paradigm for how we think economic development, which entrenched a markets based system over a communist system. I think developing some new organizations / treaties that then help align how all these multinationals and Western governments work together in an era of the internet to push for certain rights, would be a net positive, while fraught proposition.

Right now massive amounts of power are being consolidated into a handful of internet companies, and that power is being manipulated to sow discord and disinformation to the benefit mostly of authoritarian regimes. We could way more effectively use this power to fight those regimes and begin to play offense instead of only defense.
Or “a developer that does on-call”

I’m being facetious. Sysadmins always wrote scripts and developers always got called at home.
Black Hat publicly disavowed the talk. Tell us more about what Black Hat does and doesn't want to do?
Interesting this patent literally just expired today:
https://patents.google.com/patent/US5412296
Based Outlays of U.S. Corporations, we can see their at an all time high. But, the chart, as far as i know is not inflation adjusted, so it's likely not as steep as indicated.

honest question: does anyone have a reading on how sustainable this practice is? Surely, there must be some calculation you can do. Take the aggregate amount of capital (cash holdings) of all the companies and graph it, along with their ability to borrow more funds. If that graph is going super down and the cash outlay is going super up, then surely it means we're heading for a crash, right?
So the Germans took the case and created the Amiga 2000 (?)
Somewhat, but I also think it means there's a less of a boundary between the product development and the product deployment than in the past.
This is the thing I worry about -- my business requires a decent amount of air travel, and in general business travel is where you hear most of people bopping in and out of town in a single day, whereas vacationing is often for at least a few days.

No question that physical presence is huge, but that doesn't justify it from an environmental POV at all, esp. since most sales are about making owners/investors richer, not making the world a better place.

I think real creative thought about how business travel could reduce impact would be massively impactful. It would probably need regulation, because the sales team that tries to, say, do all meetings virtual will be whomped by the other team that shows up.
Instead, they might gravitate towards the organic growth / bootstrap / lifestyle business lifestyle, which is a distinction that the GP made.
If your own time is worth very little I suggest self hosting. It takes a few hours to setup.
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It’s called the law ;) I’m a EU user and article 5 and 6 of GDPR is pretty clear about this.
>Or more to the point: how many startups never happen because the right people are unable to manage the personal risk of leaving defined employment?

I'd argue this has more to do with the low salaries expected of startup founders more than anything. Hard to stomach them unless you've got significant savings already or no dependents.
To everyone in this thread: this is an article, not a question to HackerNews.
Here's one -

>"After reading the interview, I went back to my own conversation with Raptr CEO Dennis Fong, who reminded me there are a staggering 900 million PC gamers worldwide. Contrast that data with global consoles sales of, say, Nintendo's Wii, Microsoft's Xbox 360, and Sony's PlayStation 3: About 262 million units. Combined. Granted, that's according to VGChartz which isn't a perfectly reliable snapshot, but even with a considerable error rate that tells a compelling story. The most popular game console to date is the PlayStation, with estimated global sales of 157 million."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2014/04/28/as-gl...
This highlights one of the undermentioned issues of both international businesses of clashing sets of laws. It is surprising really that this is still done ad-hocly even after many years of international trade and shifting relationships between countries. It is flat out impossible to follow all sets of laws at once.

Even in a 'federate it out to one per country that follows its laws' would become rapidly problematic if linkage to the 'main' company. Google couldn't just set up say a Google-Iran following Iranian laws without violating sanctions.

I'm not sure if there either a 'good' universal answer or one which is widely liked. The easiest and most controlling would be a radical 'ban international business' - it would make the domains clearer but would be a bad idea. Extraterritorality would be a 'technical' solution but would also come with so many problems it isn't funny makes the previous bad idea look good in comparison.
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I definitely second this. Big box store bikes are generally very low quality, plus they’re assembled by people who work there, so they probably lack proper bike mechanic experience.

If you look closely you’ll see they may have the brakes incorrectly installed, the forks backwards, etc.
Probably involves a red pill.
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Sure! I agree that, if I saw your O side-by-side-with your 0, or even your 0 by itself, I would instantly understand. My point is just that, if I saw your O by itself and hadn't seen any of your handwriting before, I wouldn't know "aha, this is an O because it doesn't have a distinguishing mark", since I wouldn't know that your 0 does have a distinguishing mark.
Regenerative agriculture is another means with which to restore the land without pesticides or herbicides, with the additional benefit of sequestering nitrogen.
Pedal power ftw! If you enjoy your current bike, don't switch.

A good light bike can be quite a bit more enjoyable to ride than an eBike, I think eBikes really just enable super-commuting by bike for those of us with weak calves.
GP was referring to a distribution of "fixed charges", so it's not possible to transfer momentum to them.
For those who disagree with the position taken in the article: Out of curiosity, what would you do to deal with online child pornography instead?
> I do not assert superiority and I also don't make baseless assumptions about strangers on the internet.

> I am in management, possibly longer than you have held your career.

I'm afraid these two statements are not compatible.

When you said it was supremely adult to take criticism well, did you mean it? If so, try to take this criticism well: You were rude to the person who commented above me, and to the junior who thinks you're an asshole. You dismissed my comment as baseless, the parent commenter as inexperienced, and your junior dev as "profoundly sensitive". By your telling, your problem is being surrounded by idiots and weaklings, but from where I'm standing the real "bane of your career" is your attitude towards people you see as lesser than yourself.
If you know how to work on bikes, you can find some great ones secondhand. I got my girlfriend and old Bridgestone, and just had to give it a tune up, replace the dry rotted tires and brake pads, new cables and grips, and then put fenders and a rack on it.
This is why I don't buy certain types of refills where the refill is actually more expensive per unit of measure than what it is supposed to refill.
> Some monitor will compress 1-3 into a single Input Source option. Still, 3 presses? Why does literally NO ONE make a monitor with hardware input source buttons? WHY?

Because they want to use essentially the same chassis case when they have 2 inputs or 20, and they have dozens of models over the life of the tooling to support. It's much easier to swap out the die for the backplate or to use a snap in backplate than it is to have a variable number of buttons, knobs and dials. The zero-bezel design craze is what makes them really difficult to use because they're a line of tiny, poorly labelled buttons on the front, or an awkward line of buttons on the back with tactile bumps.
Another explanation for the name is that it uses a subset of the components of normal AMP, which are all prefixed with "amp-". Microsoft, Yahoo!, and Mail.ru are also moving forward with AMP4Email.
I've had to ask coworkers "was I talking out loud or are my thoughts just very noisy?" when in the middle of some intense problem solving.

It's normal I guess, or at least not pathological. I don't really care when it happens, its just my thoughts 'overflowing'.

The self loathing/vicious character might be some function of your self-image? Like others have said, cognitive behavioural therapy might be beneficial for you. it's very legit and mainstream, why not give it a try?
Oh, the website is back up. It's been down for months and the project seemed to have gone into stealth mode (or maybe died). Still no news for about three years though. Unsure why this is being posted now, unless I've missed some news.

Interesting project, if it is still alive.
I so wish I could meditate. I can still my thoughts for maybe one or two minutes before thoughts intrude and that makes me angry at myself at failing and I give up. I don't think I'm supposed to feel mentally exhausted by the attempt but it is exhausting.If you've not had this problem does this sound like a complaint you've heard before that's been resolved?
I never understood the principle of treating others as you want to be treated.

The way I want to be treated is going to be vastly different than the way others may want to be treated.

A simple example being feedback. I love harsh/super critical feedback where the person holds no punches back and which I can learn from. Another person may be terrified of this experience and would not enjoy it at all.
I've tried Dex and I really like the ability to run the apps on my phone on a PC (your data and credentials stay on your phone). This article is about not requiring a screen switch to your phone but using your phone apps within a window on your mac or windows session.
Ask HN: How do you balance having a personal and a work computer?
If you use your work computer as your personal computer as-well, which measures do you take into account to have a healthy separations of the two environments, if any?

And if you use two machines, one for work and one for personal use, which components (applications, config files, browser accounts, password managers etc) do you share between the two?

For security reasons, I guess most companies would ask you to not use your work machine for personal stuff. I'm afraid the reality is far less idealistic. Does your company have a policy on this at all? I wonder what the norm is.
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The only valid argument I've heard against DNS over HTTPS is that it makes it harder for institutions / companies to block other DNS servers than their own internal ones because they simply can't just drop port 53 traffic anymore. This was brought up to me in the context that many universities enforce their own DNS servers to help block malware from being able to phone home or filter access to malicious IPs in general.

I guess in theory, this could still be accomplished by filtering based on IP - a whole other cat and mouse game. Although, it's not like it wasn't a cat-and-mouse game before - you could bypass these blocks by running DNS on non-standard ports unless some form of DPI was being performed.
Very good point, but surely this problem is not without precedent? Disputes in international waters come to mind. Maybe there is a need for some kind on international convention governing these matters.
Agree. It is a mindset/lifestyle/approach.
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It's hard to run a service below 3 Euro/month with good (human) support, those who do often charge annual. We use https://runbox.com/price-plans/ and are very happy. There was a discount for pre-paying two years and in our monthly cost spreadsheet with 30+ SaaS it's the service costing us the least.

There's several previous 'alternatives to gmail' discussions, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17448108
Indeed. Facebook does this. It deanonymizes Facebook news feed visitors to every third party whose links appear on their news feed. You consider this a better approach? In addition to losing in privacy, it loses in speed because it doesn't prerender the page, and it doesn't know enough to load just the resources needed to render above the fold.
I have the same annoyance with my monitor, but to be fair it at least asks to switch if I plug in a new source.

The problem with these manufacturers is that they don't give a shit about UX. It would be trivial to implement 3 clicks on the menu button to switch inputs or long press to switch input immediately.
jesus. in the age of cloud computing you copy/paste keys around :( this is just sad and makes me believe that you'd have to be borderline insane to choose cisco for anything that is started from scratch today.
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If they are going to own mission critical software they need to have a UX budget. The buyer has to pay for UX or they shouldn't expect to get anything but afterthoughts. If fact one could argue that a UX package should be the spec in an RFP.

It would be VERY cheap to invest in training procurement teams in how to buy and own effective software, especially in light of the billions that get wasted when they can't articulate their needs to the point that a vendor can't be successful.

There isn't really room for iteration and continual feedback on a warship. It has to be done right the first time then maintain stability in every conceivable scenario and reduce the need for ongoing training after updates.
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meditation isnt about turning off your mind, its learning how to manage the flow of thoughts/feelings

training the mind to go to that place of calm management, and eventually being able to not quite turn off the unwanted thoughts but to shift the inner monologue
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This seems like a simpler route. Why not just a camera pointed at a test mark on the windshield that checks if it is visible through the glass?
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The verification question is somewhat handwaved in the linked article, but in fact we are now in a position to verify some of this stuff mechanically. Unsurprisingly, the "branding" techniques work, but in type systems that have any amount of subtyping the argument for why they work is subtle and they may not work in all cases.
It's the same with Free Will. Whether the universe has only deterministic laws, or a mix of deterministic and non-deterministic laws, Free Will doesn't follow: one way everything is predestined, while the other you don't truly have control of your actions, so neither way do you have full control of your actions. We already understand this now, and yet we carry on and pretend we have Free Will -- we have no real, appealing alternative.

It would be the same with proving that we live in a simulation, or that there is a god or gods, except as others have pointed out, we'd probably seek sandbox escapes.

Also, not every proof of being a simulation would necessarily be that. Any proof that our universe is a 4D projection of another with different dimensions might not include a proof of the direction of projection -- ours might be the true reality, and the other a projection of ours.
vicious asshole to me

What does that mean? Is it too annoying as a phenomenon, or does it confront/criticize you?

I don’t think I have an audial voice in my head, but when I think, something like silent voice tries to build itself there. It actually doesn’t help, only slows me down x10. Best productivity comes with the flow state for me (it also destroys my social abilities, but f* them anyway).
Wasn't it the labor movement that tied many of these benefits to employers? Pretty sure at least employer paid (and now, semi-paid) health insurance was won due to organized labor demanding it. At the time it was likely the right thing to do but now it does seem to create an extra entanglement.
you're put back to evaluation mode so that you can evaluate the choice you made when you picked them /s
>how many times have you or someone you know hesitated leaving a current employer due to benefits uncertainties?

Hopefully 0 times. Major changes in your life (like changing jobs, or moving cities, or making large purchases) always require some consideration.

>human ability is not really allocated all that well when you're bonded to an employer without cheaper switching costs.

You're overstating the case especially in market economies. If anything, the issue is more prevalent if your employer is the government, as the government tends to overpay for labour and is slow to adjust if conditions change (i.e. very hard to let people go for any reason).

Having said that, there are problems with movement being too liquid. That is, you lose institutional knowledge if your company (or government department) has a too high of a turn-over rate, which leads to lower quality products/services.

>how many startups never happen because the right people are unable to manage the personal risk of leaving defined employment?

And rightly so. Startups are an incredibly risky endeavour and they always will be. This is why founders tend to be younger, rather than older. If you have dependents and responsibilities you have to think twice about making a high risk bet. I don't know if you want to actually incentivize people to make more high-risk bets.
Looks like a pretty classic correlation != causation issue.

Yeah, may be true what they found. But may also be not very relevant. It absoltely doesn't say that getting an e-bike will make you exercise more.

Here's a theory what might be going on: E-Bikes are relatively expensive. So if you buy an E-Bike you're probably relatively determined to actually use it.
There are on the other hand plenty of people that own a cheap bike and use it very rarely.

There's no real reason not to do a proper study on the question: Take a reasonably large number of volunteers, randomly assign them to "we give you a fancy bike" or "we give you a fancy e-bike" group and then measure their exercise and health levels.
There are situations where doing such a randomized trial is unethical or pracitcally impossible. Here it really is not. If someone's doing a study with observational data where you could do a randomized trial you should be skeptical.
Though there's also the other side of the coin, people picking up a tech because they read about it, which ends up in the core business, without good rationale for the tech other than "i found it on the internet".

This blog post really reflected my background, with most of the tech used being the same. However, most of the experience is by cleaning stuff up. I see stuff being used too many times that are not performant, effective or incorrectly configured due to people not taking care of said tech.
Especially in the Javascript business. It is cleaning up tech debt that might not make cash in the short term, but many companies have it as a burden in one way of another and someone willingly to clean that mess up is very valueable, imho.
So this is the reason I have so much gray hair in my early thirties!
Where is this 1k/acre land in Canada? Is it in a place where you can do these following things? a) build a house b) buy it an acre at a time c) grow a reasonable crop d) be within reasonable distance to a city and the markets thereof

In Canada particularly, climate is an issue for growing crops. Wheat takes 100 days to mature. The growing season in the prairies is 110 days. If the climate drops 1 degree Celcius you lose 10 days off your growing season. If your growing season is delayed by cold or flooding, you don't get a crop that year. In the prairies it takes about 10 acres to sustain 1 cow year round. Throughout Canada there are all kinds of restrictions about how many houses and people you can have on your land. The concept of "starter house" and "starter farm" doesn't exist anymore. There is the nobility, and there are the serfs. We just don't call them that.
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