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Just an anecdote, but my dad learned SQL 10 years before retirement. It helped him do his work, which was not software development, without burdening the professional programmers.

Of course, there are plenty of free and slick GUIs offering the basics of Git. I'd like to see how this is better. Maybe customer service?
I can understand not hiring remote generalists into an office based company. The main value of a generalist is that they can spot opportunities that others can’t. To spot these opportunities they need a lot of exposure to various surfaces of the business which are often hard for remote employees to get.
See the Model 100. Gates wrote that system ROM. 8085 assembly language.

It is a nice system for the time.
No proprietary right in employee’s emails > http://employmentblog.practicallaw.com/who-owns-an-employees...
Do you think we could do anything to change the industry for the better?
Over the year I've used CVS, SVN, bazaar, Mercurial and Git.
Mercurial has always been the one I struggled the most with. It never clicked with me. Just to respond to some arguments I see floating around.

In my last team we switched from Hg to Git and absolutely everyone but the CTO felt more comfortable with it. including the data scientists.

To me, Mercurial UI might be friendlier than Git's but it's really a moot point if it does not fit with the way people actually think/work.

Also, I sincerely think Git was getting more popular _before_ Github. Granted, it massified the adoption.
Man, this was covered, in-depth, in the article. Not only the recession case but the fact that WeWork will likely just default on a lot of leases in the worst case scenario as the lease is signed by a independent corporation that has no assets for the landlord to seize. In addition, of course landlords would re-negotiate with WeWork, better to have some money than none.
Even with the recyclable cardboard, wasn't the sheer scale too much for cities to handle?
Azithromycin and doxycycline are completely different chemicals; the former is a macrolide, the latter is a tetracycline. Both are used for Lyme (and various other infections).
I respect the hell out of this author but this article to me fell a little short of his usual rigor/insight.

Two points I would’ve like to see him analyze given the AWS metaphor

1) gross margins - this article reports 15-20% not 30% AWS
https://news.crunchbase.com/news/gross-margins-wework-and-th...

Maybe AWS was able to improve GM over time and the author expects similar trend but he should explore this given the whole biz is built around variable income.

2) comparing the core competency between AWS and WeWork. He only gives this lip service and assumes the two are the same but I don’t agree.

I buy the argument that There’s core competencies in server management. In the old days servers were pretty basic - you buy, install, and turn on. Done. But then companies realized all that fixed supply was expensive so they made server supply dynamic, being able to dial up and down on short notice. That, plus integrations with lots of dev tools, necessitated a lot of software on top of the hardware. So now a company can invest precious engineers in managing that, or can use AWS or Google cloud, where the fixed costs of developing that software scale infinitely. Plus add on new requirements around security, etc and it’s a lot for a company to manage in house.

Compare this to office space. The fixed cost of lease is NOT scalable (only so many people you can fit in a building), and the core tasks of managing an office are...basically the same as they’ve always been. Sure you have some new design trends and IT requirements, but it’s slow moving. And who manages office space? HR and IT, which while valuable, aren’t forcing companies into trade offs between working on that or new product features / revenue driving opps.

I definitely agree wework is valuable for the flexibility. I just don’t really see mass adoption from large companies in the long term. Sure some large company may temporarily use them when they enter a new market but they will revert to managing themselves once they feel confident in signing their own lease.
Open fires are banned, but the automobile particulate mix (tire & brake wear + exhaust) and fuel-powered heating do generate a fine soot I find on my bicycle, though nowhere near as much as 30 years ago.

A quick wash and my Paris balcony tomatoes are safe and delicious !
Seems to be a really good solution, which is I am perplexed on what all the panic is about
A benefit no one has mentioned, afternoon delights with the wife.
> The real lesson is that once a technology looses, the people who invested in the looser will run around forever calling the looser better.

I can’t speak for all “the people”, but I disagree strongly. There are fine reasons for picking things other than git (I’ve used fossil since it’s near-inception); git’s dominance or fossil’s loss in the market does not make gits UI/UX superior. Thats like saying McDonalds is the height of cuisine, because “Billions and Billions Served”.
I actually had the chance to try out a prototype at Blackhat. I was actually able to have the USB-C portion recognized on my Android Phone (via the USB port), and it was recognized in Firefox and lsusb (though for some reason I was unable to register it, and I has the u2f enabled in about:config).

I am tempted to buy it to see if I could get it to work on my phone, I would much rather have the USB-C work on my phone than an NFC.
Deutsche Bank Technology Challenges Offer Lessons for Companies
After running late for your flight after a 30-minute security line only to have TSA confiscate your Fiji water bottle, you’ll now have to stop at a crowded water fountain to fill your own metal flask. Or buy an overpriced glass or aluminum bottle at the concession stand, paying another 10 cents for a bag. And your teeth will chatter if you drink through a paper straw. Of course you could risk dehydration instead: Men lose up to a half-gallon of water during a 10-hour flight. Oddly, you can still buy sugary drinks in plastic bottles at SFO; only healthy, calorie-free water is banned in plastic. You can’t make this stuff up.

What stands out about this tirade -- and why we need to call it a "tirade" -- is the complete absence of any mention of opposing factors. As in, you know -- the reasons why plastic bans are being proposed in the first place. Instead we are told that the idea of banning them just "brainless" lunacy that "you can't make up."

What a nice, simple world the author seems to live in.
You can't run an electric car on straight battery voltage, unless you want the car to go a single speed. So you have two choices: DC-AC conversion to run a 3-phase AC motor, or DC-DC conversion to run a DC motor at variable voltage. Either one is going to have similar losses with modern power electronics.
> The sad thing is that git requiere so much arcane usage that hg have spared me for so much time.

Like what? I've been using git for 5 years and I hardly ever stray from the set {push, pull, reset, checkout, rebase}. I use VSCode for staging, committing, diffing, etc. though, so that probably spares me some commands, but I rarely (if ever?) have had to do what I would consider an "arcane" command.

> Even MORE bizarre is why not improve the tools coping what is good from others AND cleaning the usage of them?

Git has improved over time. Why, in the latest release they improved UX for the "checkout" command. Before it could mean "switch branch" or "restore file" but now there are 2 explicit commands: "git switch" (for switching branches) and "git restore" (for restoring files).
All these years I been programming I thought I was at least a better scubadiver (non technical but since being 13 years old) assuming Linus doesn't even have time for sports, and then today I find out he is not only diving on mixed mixtures (technical deep dives) but also wrote a software that is 10 times better than anything out there related to diving. Sheesh.

Anyways, to make this post worthwile something: if you haven't tried yet, please take a scuba-dive dip. Only once with instructor. I have passed on this great sport to so many of my friends - there is only one outcome when you go take a breath underwater - you either hate it and never try again, or you will get addicted and open yourself up to a brand new world of adventures :)
You're arguing smoking marijuana (burning it and inhaling the byproducts) is less harmful than e-cigarettes.

I highly doubt that.
> Medium is making a place that rewards quality writing, tries to eliminate writing for the purpose of marketing, and is pouring money into authors and editors so that they can invest more quality into their articles.

As someone who by principle wont ever pay that subscription, my experience is quite the contrary having all those metrics you say, going to the shit, starting from quality content...

Maybe some great articles get hidden behind the paywall but mostly to me it seems all low-quality click-bait shit now, and on top of it they put the modals and stuff...
And the skills we're talking about aren't highly valued / recognized by their managers often.

Soft skills, no matter what the story line a company has, often are undervalued in my experience.
A year-old malicious remote code execution vulnerability discovered in Webmin
I like git’s architecture better — hg’s exposure of revision numbers needlessly tangles branches together and makes anything that creates throwaway commits messy.

But git’s user experience is IMO gratuitously awful. Trying to keep track of all the various things that checkout and reset do leads mainly to frustration at the design. And I see no reason that use
of the index should ever be required.
I've been using hg since 2012 on a few decent sized repositories, and it has never been anything other than immediate.
Managing people is the manager's job, not overhead.
Redesigning our systems to provide more control over Off-Facebook Activity
I did review two small libs I was pulling that had very few users (and froze the version) But that's just the thing - I will never be in a position to do that for more than a few libs - that's why the best I can do is rely on source enforcing good practices and community audits.
There are a few existing subs for beta reading

* /r/TheWritersLounge (they expect intermediate to advanced level writing though)

* /r/BetaReaderExchange (seems inactive though, last post 8 months back)

* /r/fantasywriters (specific for fantasy, I feel there might be other such specific subs too)
I wonder if this is true. My one startup experience sure involved the management spending a lot of time scouting, negotiating for and renovating space rather than doing things that actually made the company successful.

Is the WeWork moat as big as AWS, probably not, but dealing with local real estate regulations and contractors in hundreds of jurisdictions around the world is not nothing.
The article is unclear; it seems to imply these are only non-recyclable in the UK?

I've been recycling these in the US with no problems.
I doubt the initial attack was targetted. That would have been a brute force testing-known-passwords-against-similarly-named-accounts. Once a useful account was found it could well have been sold on the appropriate black market rather than the finder using it themselves.
But where does all the water go on the Asteroid belt ships? In the first season water is like a super precious commodity there, making a huge deal about tiny amounts. But a space ship is a closed system. The water doesn't leak into space. They're in space and somehow able to keep a breathable atmosphere, continuously cleaning and recycling the air. But with water this is somehow hard?

Regardless it's a pretty cool series :)
I'm not sure if we're actually debating anything at this point...

A cellular automaton or other grid simulation has modularity which means that the state space for one cell is relatively small. So, you might admit that the whole thing is doing computation without caring how the cell transition function is implemented?

But, lookup tables are at one extreme, and there are plenty of other design techniques for arbitrary functional computation that avoid conditional branching. At the digital design level, you can think of a continuum of logic gates where ROMs, mux/demux, or even ALU operations all have elements that can be seen as lookup-table or computation. The difference is in the observer's mental model, more so than in actual gate structures.

At the software level, many instructions can be used for demultiplexing. So, you can compute two different potential values, e.g. in separate registers, and select between results without branching. You could use a conditional-store instruction, or some kind of swizzle/pack instruction, but without any of that you could compute a binary test result, extend it to a whole register width, and use bitwise logical operations to combine both registers while effectively selecting one or the other. The essence of whether it is computation or conditional selection is in the eye of the beholder.

This is a common way to transform some code paths for vectorization, e.g. to generate one common SIMD instruction stream that has the effect of performing different optional computations in each lane, while actually running the same instructions on all lanes.
You’re working for a terrible boss if that’s their response. I’ve had good bosses say that in jest but they were never serious.
New habit- powerful habit tracking app
I'm glad the article takes time to explain the negatives as well. My SO works with kids on the spectrum. For every kid that has their city's entire transit system memorized, there are another 10 who will be unable to function for the rest of the day if their classmates do not exit the classroom for recess in the expected order.

The 'financial-math-numbers-wizard' is absolutely the very rare exception. For the vast majority it is an extreme struggle, for both the child and their family.
Oooor, you could just use Kotlin and Swift and be done with it.
Very informative & helpful article for someone in my family. this tech guy really did his homework, and has some interesting and unexpected details. Thanks!
> Everyone feels uncomfortable when a conversation goes off-script, but we as a society expect the 'abnormal' people to be the ones who bear the consequences of that discomfort whenever it arises.

There's a little more going on in the example, I think.

It's a common social technique among adults with authority to frame requests as a question-- "Could you please....?" or "Would you like to....?". This is gentler and shows a degree of deference and courtesy from the person with authority to the other person.

A blunt "no" effectively comes across as a rejection of that olive branch-- I think that's where the initial internal panic comes from. If you don't understand the employee's autism-- even after working out the problem in this case is a prioritization issue-- it creates a bit of an ongoing question about the employee and their willingness to be a cooperative member of the team.
> I don't see the targeting.

https://www.vox.com/2019/1/25/18194953/vape-juul-e-cigarette...

http://tobacco.stanford.edu/tobacco_main/publications/JUUL_M...

"Juul hired social media influencers — people with large followings on Instagram — to promote its products. It created hashtags — #juul, #juulvapor, #switchtojuul, #vaporized — that the influencers blasted out to their followings, often featuring images of young people Juuling, or doing tricks or jokes with their device."

Impossible to design a campaign like this without understanding how many millions of teenagers follow Instagram influencers.

> Is there a way to market to 18-year-olds while actively dis-marketing to 17-year-olds?

If there is not, then don't market to 18 year olds. Very easy decision.
TOTP, unlike a password, can't be brute-forced. If the secret is lost, its game over, but if the secret stays protected, you can't guess it because you can only test the codes, not the secret itself. Brute-force for TOTP would only be possible if you could test 2^6 OTPs in the 60-second window, which would be mitigated by rate-limiting.

So it really doesn't do any hard to have TOTP enabled as a fallback if you never store the key anywhere.
I’ve struggled with social interactions my whole life. Even now, at 45, they never feel natural or comfortable, and I dread them - but I figured long ago that if I’m smart enough to solve differential equations, program in assembler and speak Japanese, I’m also smart enough to figure out social interactions. So I just watch what other people do, and then do that. It always feels forced and artificial, but either nobody notices or they humor me.
The manager did not ask him to “please start X”

> The manager had asked him if he would like to complete a task that needed doing, and the young man simply said, “No.”
She even holds the record for longest run in a 24 hour period

It's time to give up on this throwaway account, you're just spewing garbage now. The 24 hour record is held by someone who has a penis attached to their body, and the women's record is not held by Courtney. And a woman didn't win the NYC Marathon in 2018. Three strikes...
It might, but most people would agree that causing cancer intentionally is immoral. So cognitive dissonance is a valid assumption.
Sometimes Airbnbs are cheaper priced than hotels in the same area. Also, they can provide a better experience. For example, I went on a trip to Pismo beach with roommates and we stayed in an Airbnb cottage on a hill, overlooking the whole area, with a fire pit.

No hotel would have been that fun to stay at for a trip. You go to Airbnb for a more "authentic" feel than the cookie-cutter, albeit convenient experience of a hotel.
>How can we - users, programmers, hackers - fight this?

Pardon the interruption -> close window.
Interestingly, the 100m record difference is about 10%, which is roughly the same as the gap in the ultramarathon records (and in the record mile time). So the difference is fairly consistent across distances.
A system to find inhibitors of Candidatus Liberibacter transcription regulators
Everything You Know About Latency Is Wrong (2015)
Yes. Tobacco is huge in India and a major public health issue.

The danger of Juul is really yet to be determined -- but odds are extremely high that the public damage is far less than tobacco. These recent reports of lung collapse in minors all results from crap low quality thc vaping products, not Juul or even ecigs.
Yep, that's why I'm trying to dig deeper in this as the HN doesn't seem to be convinced or didn't read the article :)
Git won because it's superior in a way that many programmers think doesn't matter: performance.

Git is incredibly fast. Many operations happen almost instantaneously even on large repositories. It's really nice. I've heard a lot of people talk about how they abandoned mercurial because it's slow. Some even switched to git from svn not because git's model is better but because svn is slower.

"Premature optimization is the root of all evil" is an old programming advice quote that is so horribly misunderstood that it's basically wrong. It means think about your problem at the high (algorithm and overall goal / design space) level before worrying about low-level optimizations. It does not mean that optimization is bad or that performance isn't important.

I made another comment recently on the same issue. I really wish that quote would die in favor of more substantial advice that won't be so misunderstood.
Disclaimer: I am not a doctor.

If you live in a lyme-tick area, you should have antibiotics on hand at all times.

If you find a tick that's already been on you long enough to cause a red irritation spot, the clock is ticking.

Any time spent on finding a doctor to see, waiting for test results, seeing if symptoms develop, etc. is wasted time.

The sooner you make your body an unfriendly environment to the bacteria, the less time they have to grow and spread.

This means not only antibiotics, but also not eating anything calorie dense, eating fresh garlic and other natural antibacterials, and getting a lot of sleep, when your immune system works best. If you are a weed smoker and it makes you crave food, it may help to take a tolerance break. Coffee will not help you in this situation.

This is a protocol I've learned about from several people for whom antibiotics do not work. I think there's a book about it.

Doctors have told me that a 3-day course is enough to prevent a system-wide infection if you catch it early. Once an infection settles in, a longer course is needed, typically 14 days, which will do major damage to your biome.
Yes, but there are people who take many times as much management oversight than others. Since a manager tends to be an expensive employee, an employee that takes a disproportionate share of a manager's time is disproportionally expensive compared to his peers.
Sublime + PlainTasks for to do.

Sublime for quick notes and drafts.

Workflowy for nested notes. Not as a todo list. It's a good way to nest notes in notes. For example, I made a list of tropes, categorized them by heroic vs villainous, male or female, personality, description, and so on. And added lots of notes and tags for each. This is a mess if you try to do it in Evernote, but perfect for Workflowy.

Google Assistant is awesome for a variety of tasks, mainly related to reminders and timers. Have to leave the house fourty minutes? "Okay Google, set a timer for forty minutes" No calculations needed.

I would like to see a complex note taking tool that just works. Evernote is a bloated mess. Notion is sluggish. One Note seems to require too much thought. I've been making do with small note takers but I still need something heavy duty.
> No company will bankrupt themselves by being more efficient, using more renewable, buying some batteries, EVs.

All those things cost money... More money than they are spending today. Even if they just replaced things as they retired, say a work vehicle -- there is still a non zero cost of owning two different types of vehicle.

> These are already good investments.

All the things you listed would normally be listed as a liability and deprecate fairly fast.

> exchange for buybacks and CEO compensation

This is such a small dent in the entire system that it would not make any difference if they spent all the excess cash on the problem. There was a article once about some big CEO of a airline getting some bonus of 12 million. Everybody was freaking out, and demanded it be given to the workers. I did the math on that one, it would have been about 19 cents a hour more for every worker (who were already making $12 + a hour, a 1.6% pay increase or less in most cases)

I am on your side, but just wanting it to happen and calling those who say the money math don't work as greedy is not going to solve the problem. I think people vastly under estimate how much it cost to run some of these large companies, and how thin the profit margin actually is. Paying even slightly more than your competitor can make our break you.
What about a Twilio virtual number? Isn't porting disabled for them?
The FAA waited for 2 catastrophic failures with the MAX before grounding all planes, risking the safety of thousands.
Yes, you can get a free one if you sign up to any OVH service, which includes their cheapest webmail. I needed an email on OVH for spam testing purposes and for peanuts I have one on my own .ovh domain which is kinda neat.
>Its also interesting that you say that immigrants in America are not like that at all? Because in my experience, at least in the black and hispanic communities

I guess you've never met anyone from Asia.
Absolutely - I have worked for a TON of terrible bosses.
As far as I am concerned, they are the majority.

I got this advice on how to handle prioritization early in my career and it made a lot of sense to me, so I tried it with every boss I had.

For maybe the first 10 years of working never had a boss who answered this question with anything but "figure it out yourself" or "that's your problem" or "both."