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Software Architecture is different than being a Software Architect...

I always relate my processes to home building, especially when i am speaking with non-technical people. For every project I work on there are numerous roles where technical skills and understanding are not required (e.g. accounting, schedule management, and sometimes the entire client side does not know email from a toaster oven.

As a Solutions Architect, I often design Software Architecture, but I also design developer workflows and host infrastructure, set up a test environment and work on the more technical aspects of the project schedule, coordinating materials with clients that will go into the home building project, solving problems and constraints as they arise, all without having to deal with budget issues beyond not exceeding cost. So in this case, relating the situation to home building, Here I work as a General Contractor on the home building process - managing plumbers, electricians, carpenters, etc...

As a Software Architect, I create all of the diagrams for the software's design, usually in conjunction with devs, but a lot of the time all on my own. At this point I mostly make critical decisions about what framework is used after finding what dev talent is available and conducting interviews if the team is not already assembled. Then I usually set up project management tools and documentation tools, attend requirement gathering meetings, and actively contribute to development and code reviews, while also contributing to pretty much every other aspect of the project that involves technical detail, like the schedule's design, prototypes and demos, and resolving security issues in conjunction with DevOPS teams. So in this case, relating the situation to home building, Here I work as a home architect would. I regularly create "floor plans" and diagrams to drive techs in finishing the project, while actively working with groups to ensure quality and resolve issues based on my designs...

The Software Architect role has grown a lot and will keep going. I remember when employers used to squeeze this role out of me as an underpaid dev... But Architects are now considered essential to pretty much all high value projects because they dramatically improve quality and organization while keeping things on schedule.

Lastly, the Software Architecture consists of the documentation that comes out of planning, requirements, and design sessions for the project. The way an application is designed, the requirements from the customer that are incorporated, the way deployments are being made for updates, all of the things that involve a system's design and maintenance become the Software Architecture. Relating this to home building, it is just like the architecture of a home, the framing, plumbing, the window locations, etc... The architecture here serves as "blueprints" for the development process, and the home can be built with substituted materials while are equivalent to changing platforms, APIs, or even languages altogether just like a bathroom tile can be changed without changing overall functionality of the bathroom.
>but the law is written to allow tax evasion.

Avoidance. There's no natural tax system so suggesting the law is setup to allow tax evasion is illogical.
>Residential gig pipes are not uncommon anymore

I'm not convinced here in the US, although maybe it is slightly more common in those who download lots of games or updates
It's worth noting that an FBI investigation found no evidence that the IRS was targeting conservative groups, and that the apology was issued by the Trump Administration, who might have a vested interest in making the IRS look bad.

"In January 2014, James Comey, who at the time was the FBI director, told Fox News that its investigation had found no evidence so far warranting the filing of federal criminal charges in connection with the controversy, as it had not found any evidence of "enemy hunting", and that the investigation continued. On October 23, 2015, the Justice Department declared that no criminal charges would be filed. On September 8, 2017, the Trump Justice Department declined to reopen the criminal investigation into Lois Lerner, a central figure in the controversy.[1]

In late September 2017, an exhaustive report by the Treasury Department's inspector general found that from 2004 to 2013, the IRS used both conservative and liberal keywords to choose targets for further scrutiny."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRS_targeting_controversy
You gotta love M$ these days!
You can use Yubico Authenticator for TOTP, "but" that only supports up to 32 slots.
If you have a choice between doing the right thing, and the wrong thing, and you choose to do the wrong thing, you've chosen poorly.

I'm increasing not a fan of naked individual initiative as the sole response to abuses of power; that itself is and long has been a tool of power, to skirt its own responsibilities. Annie Leonard's essay on the "Crying Indian" anti-littering (that is: pro-disposable packaging) advertising campaign is a key case in point: http://www.pfree.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Moving-fro... (PDF)

But raising awareness and consciousness can help us get to a collective action promoting the common weal, which is the goal here.
It is not an idiom. Idiom conveys a meaning even if not literal. "How are you" plays a social role, but doesn't have any meaning. There is a linguistic construct called "phatic expression" and it seems much more accurate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phatic_expression
NEAT seems like one of one of the more underappreciated determinant of weight. I remember when Google Fit ranked a user's pedometer activity along a histogram of the city average and being blown away at the variety in how much and how little people moved. Or the difference between big east vs west coast cities, or suburbs or cottage country. My friend went from fit highschool jock to borderline obese after quitting sports for school while retaining athlete diet, then promptly trimmed up after a summer working in the kitchen where his pedometer regularly passed 60k per day. Figetters burn dramatically more calories as well. On the other hand, there's also a surprising amount of high BMI postal workers and warehouse fulfillment workers. Whereas I rarely see large food delivery bikers or kitchen workers.
It's public, all you have to do is contribute. No one is excluded, you just have to lift your hand and open the gate to the park.
But 1:18 is far far away from any professional result. That’s actually confirming what I said. I’m friends with two people who can beat that (1:16, 1:15). They have day jobs.

That race just wasn’t that competitive, even if it had 20k runners.
> It isn't crappy, it was necessary.

You've explained why it was necessary to give access and rights to build. It doesn't explain why that included secondary rights (i.e. the ability to monetize other uses of the land) exclusively, or perpetually, Which is what I think the poster you replied to was trying to say.

It may be true that the deals couldn't be made another way, but it certainly isn't obviously true.
You could find physical places where things seemed to change drastically one hour to the next, for example my dog. You can also find things in economics that don't change, like the laws of supply and demand in a true commodity market. Supply and demand in a true commodity market is a pretty narrow situation, but the early history of physics is full of narrow theories like Kepler's laws and the precursors to PV=nRT.

If you went back 400 years and demanded that physicists explain my dog's behaviors, you would probably get some answers that sounded OK (kind of like Aristotle's attempts at physics) and maybe even were convincing to people of the time, but they wouldn't have much truth value. Present day economics has a few equivalents to Boyle's gas law, many equivalents to ancient Greek physics, and no equivalents to atomic theory.
Bill needs to stop drinking so much coffee. The guy is waving his arms around like a maniac.
Just more anecdotes: I accidentally filled up a 2tb btrfs filesystem on ssd with a buggy backup script. I deleted the stuff that shouldn't be there, ran a few recommended incantations, and was back to normal in about ten minutes. It was much less of a big deal than I expected based on what I'd read.
In so many ways, your direct management team influences heavily your quality of life at work.

If you're not tight with your manager (or whoever else is a strong dotted-line with power over your employment situation) then it's time to move (or at least make your discomfort known).
Not directly what you're talking about, but related: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1122431284452761600?lang=en
The IRS sees maximum revenue at the point where everyone is paying their taxes as specified in the IRC. Anything short of that, people are evading taxes, intentionally or unintentionally. You are in fact arguing that the state shouldn't necessarily collect all it's owed. I doubt that attitude would get you far in the Accounts Receivable department at any business.

It's different with police officers because the number of crimes is un-countable [1] and if you point the police at anyone they'll find crimes. The same isn't really true of a W-2 employee with a 401(k). The taxes due are by definition countable and the compliance process is largely automated. You are just responsible for truing it up at the end of the year.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304319804576389...
I probably should have mentioned that as well, yes.

You had the choice to interpret charitably yourself, however ;-)

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Also, musk could totally have learned that strategy when he was in bschool, and chesky could totally have gotten the idea from a friend. Those are hardly implausible situations.
Note that the Yubikey only supports up to 32 TOTP.
Possibly true for those, but Microsoft's CDN was incredible back in the Zune heydays. Only thing able to even remotely saturate a connection
Yeah, that will work out as well as "Compatibility Mode" in previous versions. What you'll really get is a whole different browser that has to be tested against with it's own unique bugs to work around.
Not a problem with the article but when it lists the various past contenders, MIPS (with many times the lifetime installed base of, say SPARC, and still in active production) doesn't get a mention. MIPS's IS has also been recently open sourced. It's a cautionary tale.

I don't see the point of this effort for IBM. These things need communities, and POWER simply doesn't have the community; as a proprietary architecture for so long that nobody really decided to buy POWER but rather they wanted some device/ecosystem/price point and POWER was how IBM could deliver it.

The article mentions RISC-V, which still has a nascent ecosystem and no significant design wins (yet!!). But if you want to design a chip with it you can find designers with some experience with it, people developing some IP you might want to use, etc. Even that has more momentum.
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That’s how I read it in the context of your premise. You seemed to be mocking the notion that Craigslist was a vital part of their success. I am not sure how else to interpret “....Hell, do you even think that freeriding off of Craigslist was their reason for success?”
I just want to avoid technology becoming the boogeyman to normal people that don't necessary understand this kind of thing. Then again, I suppose the odds of a normie going to FSF is probably moderately low.

They aren't wrong. I would just appreciate a bit more finesse in their wording.
Isn’t that awkward though? I type H and U with the same finger. So now this involves some strange wrist / arm rotation - or changing the way I type.
>> Does anyone know what the teleportation glitch is right at Lunar capture?

Not sure! Author of this tool is here: https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=20324.msg1...

He might visit HN if notices traffic from here :)
IEEE 754 found harmful.
I'm surprised myself. But I guess it's right in the target group.

"Do things that don't scale" is good advice, I agree. But maybe the reality is more "Do ALSO things that don't scale", and then it becomes much more obvious and irrelevant, doesn't it?
Funny that you mention crypto (I assume that's what you're derisively referring to).

Did you know that the ominous, threatening letters sent out by the IRS to crypto traders was an indiscriminate shotgun blast of mailings sent to every Coinbase customer with an account value over a certain threshold? Did you know that the IRS wanted personal info on every single Coinbase customer until that was ruled unlawful?

So yes, thousands of presumably innocent people who "followed proper accounting practices and who reported their income correctly" were harassed by a letter from a tax agency insinuating that they had misreported crypto earnings.
On my Galaxy S9+, I have 4 buttons: power, vol up/down and a stupid useless bixby button. Ignoring how to put it into 'password' mode, each of these buttons is effectively a bit. I assume you need at least 1 key to register an input (otherwise wait for a pause which I won't consider), so you get 15 possibilities. I think you could make a reasonably strong password using 4-8 chords (15^4-15^8 possibilities). Anyways, it's certainly better than those swipe passwords with an effective length of 9 Cr 4 == 128 which are readily seen and copied by nearby people.
The complexity is by design because congress for over 100 years has been creating laws one by one to give preferential treatment to various groups that they want to favor at the expense of others.

The consequence is that for anything moderately or more complex there is actually no correct answer on what your tax liability is. What is the value of an intangible asset? How do you define novelty for the R&D tax credit? There are thousands of intersecting rules that change your liability and many of those are up to interpretation.
Oh, look. It's the bigger penis argument all over again.
Agreed, clarification needed. I meant "many/most", but made the sentence read as if I meant "everyone".
The wikipedia article says it's commonly formulated as 80:20, so that's where I'm getting my info. You're saying it covers every nice Pareto ratio, which is very different. Because 90:25 is much better than 80:20 but they are part of the same phenomenon. Well, you can call everything a Pareto phenomenon then and what's the point if everything fits in this universalish category? How can I explain the value of 90:25 without invoking Pareto and having it constantly diluted to 80:20?
Even she wouldn't be stupid enough to try that.
The scope of any given human experience reaches far beyond that of direct visual/tactile interactions.

For instance, how is Prime 2-day shipping not considered part of the purchasing experience?
They need to de-emphasize the blue checkmark. The eye is drawn towards it, and it lends tweets a false sense of authority. I'm not sure what a good solution is, as it is necessary to differentiate authentic accounts from fake ones, even for people who are not super-famous.
Things may very well be different this time, but there aren't many examples of government backed internet investments working since the 80's.
Having an RV set up for remote work where we can leave home for days, weeks, or months has actually prepared me for outages better than most. The entirety of the RV can run on propane and battery, and I have both solar and generators to recharge the battery bank. Depending on the season, the propane I have on hand can last from 14 days to upwards of months while the generator gas I have on hand can handle about a week of full-time running. Because of where I like to visit, I also carry two cellular hotspots and a satellite internet option and can typically get internet access where others can't.

A few years back, prior to owning the RV, we had a windstorm come through about ten days before Thanksgiving. Power to most of the area was knocked out as the weaker trees fell and wiped out much of the powerline infrastructure (I recorded gusts around 75 mph before my weather station actually broke). As is normal that time of year, temperatures were in the 20ºF range, which meant finding alternate heating methods at the very least. We were very underprepared for it, losing much of the food in the fridge/freezer, and the house got very cold.

All local generators and gas cans sold out very, very quickly, but I found one on Amazon that could be shipped to my door overnight for $50 extra. It arrived on the second day (of seven) of the outage, and I wired the furnace, fridge, and one multipurpose outlet into it. We struggled with just the one 5 gallon gas can, though, needing a daily trip to the gas station to refill. Had they not had power, it would've been worse.

In the end, it was much like camping without adequate preparation. The first couple days were novel and amusing, but by the end, it was just a daily routine of ensuring we stayed warm enough and no damage was done (e.g., pipes freezing).
A horrendous abomination of scraping, fake browsers, storing your credentials, probably. Probably also grab your transaction data while there. This seems to be par for the course for US accounts, unfortunately.

See:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20135693
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20134031
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20133882
IBM targets both markets. The two variations of POWER9 are literally called scale-up (uses buffered memory) and scale-out (regular DDR4 DIMMs). (Now there's a third one for huge I/O needs…)

The scale-out POWER9 scales down to 4-core.
It's a business degree. The undergrad wharton degree just happens to be called a B.S. in economics, but there's only a few economists classes in it, it's entirely a business degree with business concentrations and so on. I think he concentrated (like a major) in entrepreneurship but I might be wrong on that.
It already has a small and growing ecosystem. I agree there are no RISC-V barn burners but there are already more people with RISC-V design experience than there are for POWER.

I think all the major non-IBM POWER folks are at Apple these days and you know which architecture they are working on!
I hacked my parents, my neighbor, and my school too at age 12
> How do you prove you're not giving away secrets in some secret way when the clue is some random events in life that have little behind them other than happenstance.

Isn't this the entire foundation of the fundamental right of innocent until proven guilty? Of course in practice it isn't so simple. In an extreme condition that is extremely unlikely, you could be found guilty exactaly for that reason perhaps. At what point statistically is it on the wrong side of "reasonable doubt"?
If a person's job is to assign tasks to the workers and that person don't keep track of the current assigned tasks the worker has and keep assigning tasks without priority, a person is incompetent. If a person don't have the information of the assigned tasks of the workers. the entire work place is incompetent. Either way, just quit is the best course of action since allowing the existence of incompetent manager or lack of tracking in the work place is usually cannot be changed easily. Unless there exists a huge reward for fixing the root issue, a hired worker should just switch the employee.
>It's the AMD GPU that remains essentially useless, as of 2019

I guess more important question... Whyyyyyyyyyyyyy
Reminds me of the book "Good To Great". The author took a bunch of successful companies, and found patterns that they all had in common. But just because all these companies did X, didn't mean that made them successful. It could've been because of survivorship bias. So yes, most business/startup advice is curve overfitting, imo.
> I'm surprised this blog post made the first page of HN given its lack of sources or analysis.

Sometimes people will upvote articles not for the quality but for the discussion they will trigger.
I think having lots of data points is the only way to give proper advice about Startups. YC has given outstanding startup advice from a specific SV perspective.

I've been running a UI/UX design firm for the last 10 years, working with small unknown bootstrapping founders, up to well funded and awesome companies founded by super stars like Elon Musk and others. Though this was never my intent, over the years we've collected so many datapoints that alongside our design work we tend to advice and steer the companies we work with into directions we think the company should go. All backed by real examples from previous experiences. Being in positions where you work with a lot of companies over a longer period of time, I think, is the best way form thoughtful startup advice.
Fair enough, but one doesn't need to have a modern car, and even if you do, one model is enough: you just buy that one.
Speaking to the business model, in my midwestern city a few coworking spaces popped up only to go broke within a few years. The only one to last is funded by VCs and mostly as their incubator. That VC one is thriving because the rents are heavily subsidized. If they ever rose prices, I doubt their membership would have any problems getting up and leaving as they don't have ties there by the nature of "coworking." It's the Uber/Lyft problem-- easy to switch between 2 competitors offering a commodity service. Good luck ever becoming more than marginally profitable. Heck, they're a real estate business, and they can't take advantage of deductions as effectively as LLCs or individuals can. As this realm matures, and they spend money and effort vetting markets, enterprising partnerships can swoop in offering localized services for cheaper.
Is it? You have another 5 dollar price increase but your service level is still "good enough" according to the article. Certainly not worth doing anything about it.
>(I suspect some people working remotely do goof off, but I suspect those people are not super useful sitting in the office either).

I've thought about this a lot, and for me, as a remote working, I believe I have about the same amount of productivity as in the office. But instead of water cooler talk and socialization, I find I'm able to take care of chores and keep my affairs in order so that my free time is more free. It makes me much happier to work remote, simply because when I socialize in the office and commute, I find I have no energy to keep my affairs in order.
If it's of any help, "//" is "floor division", not "division".
Venture capital cash is pouring into podcast companies
> It's pretty widely accepted that nutrition trumps exercise in weight loss.

I've lost and kept off about half my bodyweight, so I feel entitled to the opinion that that's horseshit dreamed up by marketing to tell people what they want to hear. There is one definitive way to lose weight, time tested and provably infallible: consume fewer calories than you expend.

Now certainly there are some factors involved in both sides of that equation that can be adjusted by what you eat, but take it from a food addict that weight loss is most definitely more about how much you eat.
CGP Grey's "This Video Will Make You Angry"[1] makes this point well. Opposing ideas will generate a lot of discussion/activity but mostly within the opposed groups instead of between them. That further drives polarization as the opposed groups mostly believe their own caricatures of the other group (which further disincentives cross-group discussion).

[1] https://youtu.be/rE3j_RHkqJc
> - They describe Google's demonstrated ability to remove malware from user's devices as a "backdoor"

It is a backdoor... They can install or remove any apps on my device without my authorization and I cannot disable "that feature" even if I know about it. So it's almost like a rootkit.