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I don't know why the European tech sector lags the US's. I've heard the larger domestic market, runaway network effects in Silicon Valley, and it's status at a favorite country to emigrate to as explanations.

But, having founded two (small) software companies in Europe, I can assure you I have not once felt any significant impact of regulation. Stuff like GDPR is a nuance at best, employment, tax, data protection, and obviously anti-trust law all have exemptions for smaller companies, etc.

If you start a gas fracking business or want to clone people you'll run into trouble rather quickly. But putting X people in a room and building software requires negligible amounts of paperwork.
That's my point. Banning flavoring probably won't lead to as many using cigarettes.
Fantastic! Simple concept, but the effect is amazing. I felt like I was in a museum, except I was browsing reddit. This gives me a lot of really fun ideas regarding the future of the internet! I keep wondering where VR is going to go!
Poor people don't choose to not support their communities. They've been put in a position to be forced to "choose" between supporting their local store vs having a warm, safe(ish) place to sleep for their families.
Historically, labor unions.
CSS Secrets: Better Solutions to Everyday Web Design Problems (written by Lea Verou) covers a variety of interesting techniques along these lines.
I don't have kids of my own but my SO's sister has twin boys, aged 5 months.

Reading this article was tough. What if one of her sons doesn't wake up one day? What if something happens to both of them?

She and her husband have busy careers, and while I won't share this article with them (it'll probably be a sore spot) I'm hoping that they'll make enough time for their kids.
yeah, the latest update would allow you to check out the project detail but requires you to signup if you want to participate. There is also an about page. ;)
The past two companies I've worked for had nearly as many interns as FTEs on some teams. My current company has about 1/8th of the building dedicated to engineering intern cubes, and they are packed in like sardines too.

When speaking with former colleagues, the topic of interns often comes up. I had drinks with some last week who mentioned her team had so many interns that some FTEs needed to double-up to manage them all.

It could be regional. When I was coming up, internships were rarely a thing. I was never one and hadn't even seen an CS intern until a few years back. Seeing companies go from 0% to 40% of engineering staff as interns over the course of four years is pretty striking.
If you consider serious allegations of ethnic cleansing to be flamebait, you're the exact phenomenon that enables it.

Secondly, if you think this doesn't play into international perception of India at the moment, I'm not sure what would be on topic.
This seems kinda blog spammy from my read of it.

If you want 1-1 advice read the short book one minute manager.
Direct Apple stream URL if anyone is interested: https://apple-events.akamaized.net/hls/live/681800-b/0208kmk...

Also on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=996wliAI_y4
Is LIGO About to Destroy the Mass Gap Theory (Neutron Stars and Black Holes)
You don't go to 0k/month. For as much as people like to hate on the American safety net, it does exist.
I think you might be assuming I think more highly of the American government.
> From our point of view, a card where we could use our USD and EUR balance to make USD/EUR payments would be one of the biggest pulls if possible. I think recurring USD charges for UK based businesses are probably quite prevalent.

> I don't think many UK startups realise how much they lose out on being charged in GBP on these transactions (especially with debit cards). There's likely an opportunity here to educate UK businesses and use that to promote this sort of card.

That's what we use Transferwise and their Borderless Account for.

The challenger banks have similar offerings, with multi-currency accounts behind them. We don't have enough in other currencies to need that (yet, it's on my TODO list) . Not being stung for foreign currency transaction fees is why we put all non-GBP expenditure through Transferwise
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Hi - we've been discussing how to better anchor these on quantitative data, rather than the subjective opinion of GitLab PM's.

You can see some of the discussion here (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/Product/issues/323) which continued to some degree here (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/Product/issues/386).

If you have feedback on some other metrics to use, please contribute! I don't think we've landed on the right formula just yet. But directionally, we'd like these to be based on user outcomes rather than our own opinion.
Reminds me of the old "if I wasn't taxed then I could give to charity!"
https://reqloot.com - an online cryptocurrency game that is close to generating that per month. ~100-150 daily active players.
Surely it's the nicotine that people are addicted to, not the flavor. That's just my assumption though, I've never gotten myself addicted to any of that shit; one taste of a cigarette was all I needed to know.
Now now ... they are a big investor in Softbank ... who is going to fund the next WeWork scam ???.
And how did the DARE program work out?
The spending controls look attractive to me. I have an org that might be a good candidate, as we have several teams that need to manage expenses. Historically, we've used business pre-paid debit cards to control maximum spending, with individual authorizations managing how much folks can spend. It's okay, but it doesn't scale well.

Regarding the controls on the Stripe cards, do they have a concept for Roles? I'd like to be able to say "Managers have a monthly/yearly spending authority up to X, and Directors have a spending authority up to Y", and as we onboard new folks, to put them into a role to manage that quickly and easily.
This is insane! You could kind of see Epic ripping this off and browsing a Reddit museum with your Fortnite character. It reminds me of Playstation Home too.. but the fact it's so easy to jump in really alters how this could work.
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If the author is reading this, I'm so sorry for your loss. I can't imagine the devastation you must have felt and must continue to feel.

It's important that you take care of yourself though. As someone who works in mental health, I've seen how these events sometimes have a way of affecting your mental state in a gradual and cascading manner. Please stay cognizant of you and your family's mental health in this difficult time.
> ...I blame Corporate America for.

> Once the trust is gone, it takes a long time to rebuild...

Go deeper. What can we do as technologists to protect the economy from untrusty "corporate Americans"?

Why would corporate Americans be so untrusty? >> I speculate it's inculcated in colleges, anti-ethical scientific approaches to management, insufficiently modeling reality, providing a sense of "distance" for those who would join higher levels of management resulting in a lack of feeling for the suffering they might inflict through their quest for optimizing the business. >> As a technologist we can take away the scientific management aspect from the humans, effectively replacing senior management with robots, restricing the humans to being human, and promoting into senior management individuals with good people skills, with the hopeful side-effect of normalizing wages to reflect the cost-savings of a true scientific management of the business.

Why is there even a need for trust of corporate Americans? >> I speculate there is no need and that obstruction of progress by senior management and colleges where these subjects are ingrained into young minds is more the culprit. Centralization of power may be seen as efficient. It's also "one size fits all" and actually inefficient; no-one at the top can synthesize all the feedback from all reports in a reliably timely fashion. >> As technologists we can help corporations model and encode their businesses, feeding that data into a system that aids in machine- or human-based decision making.
FWIW, asking someone where they're from can have really negative connotations. It sounds like "you're not one of us" to a lot of people. In the US it's an ideal not to judge someone by where they're from (sadly many do just that), but rather accept that they're here now and that's the important part. So while it can make for good conversation to learn more about a person's background, the topic is often avoided at first to avoid insinuating that the questioner is prejudiced against certain backgrounds. If more people actually held to that ideal, this probably wouldn't be as necessary, but there it is.
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No

Unless you are in a trade or union, you're competing against the rest of the world. I don't think setting a precedent for working less has any positive benefits long term.

This has a lot of nuance, since not all companies are ran in the same way, but trying to optimize for efficiency and reducing the number of people hired makes more sense to me.
Also not that far removed from the same sort of behaviour; Joe McCarthy.
But it will lead to more using cigarettes. If it’s any more than the 20:1 safety difference then it’s still a net loss.
thanks for pointing that out. It's fixed now.
There is a wide gap between war and staunch ally.

Like, we could stop supporting their genocide in Yemen. Could stop selling weapons to them period. Could stop buying their oil. Could start putting out sanctions. Could actually demand some accountability for their role in 9/11.

Whole spectrum between what we have now and outright war.
> nothing you said really highlights why python2 is better than python3.

I never said that. In fact, I admit that in some ways 3 is better than 2. However, that 2 is static (unchanging) while 3 is being actively changed means that, as time goes on, the cost of using 2 will decrease while the cost of using 3 will increase.

> Also, you're definitely not fucked with more than 100k LOC of Python, if the devs know what they're doing. Unit/regression/integration tests, type hinting, and a modular design goes a very long way

I was engaging in a bit of rhetorical flourish there. I know it can be done, but it's not Python's "sweet spot". For large projects, Java or Haskell or even Ada are preferable IMHO. And I say this as a Python partisan.

Cheers!
I agree, don’t limit yourself to a language since sometimes there are certain ones that fit the job. I started off with Java and love it, but haven’t used it in a while since new job and project requires go.
It pains me to see PhDs from all spheres of engineering and beyond getting funneled into a few companies, drawn by the easy money (for people not in the know, you can easily start your post-PhD career at a big corp with a salary of above 300K USD per year, and that is if you don't negotiate strongly), doing some variation of gradient descent and creating products that are absolutely immoral.
Really looking forward to trying this out. I get K8s is the bees knees and everything but we have an ECS history that will take time to migrate to K8s. I'm glad to see a modern service mesh not just targeting the collective
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RIP Four Loko
If everyone stood up maybe we could have some sort of organized labor...wait, that's the ticket, a union! (Seriously, I think that's more in line with what's needed, otherwise you become the squeaky wheel most likely to be replaced when belt tightening comes.)
The idea being that free taxi service might provide incentive to some people who weren't previously driving.

Why bike when there's a free convenient taxi? Even those who drive might take more trips into town if they don't have to worry about driving in traffic and parking.
Right, what lobbying group paid their bribes this year.

Ah, military contractors are well up to date. Okay, lets toss them a few billion in Saudi weapons contracts.

How did I do?
I don't think the conclusion is that far off, actually. Ask Americans why they are so afraid of things like single payer and you'll see how quickly they place a dollar value on human life. Most especially the lives of people different from them.
Well, they have the money to pay someone for support / back-porting security patches. I wonder what system they are running Python on as Red Hat is ok for a while.

This actually brings an interesting question on what other languages / systems they have used in the past and does Python represent a new lifetime concern given some of the older platforms.
I basically agree, but there are some people fighting the good fight against Node's awful ecosystem.

- Parcel is like if Webpack were a build system and not a programming language to create a build system with.
- Vue has good set of solutions. Nuxt is a nice version of "here's what you're probably going to want, already glued together."
- If Deno ever becomes a thing, it will be cool.

It feels like maybe if we're lucky, in five years, there will be an ecosystem for modern JS that doesn't suck.
It was widely believed for literally years until the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committee hearing in 2018 where Zuck called it a 'conspiracy theory'. Since then it has been dismissed as such. My question is - if I personally observed it before I even heard about this 'theory', and thousands of others around the world also observed the same thing, why are we dismissing it as a 'conspiracy theory'? Just because Zuck labelled it as such? Why are we trusting him to tell us the truth again?
Meh, she got a pretty thankless job, at an especially thankless moment, and it's hard to judge without having a comparison.

And the decision we're applauding here was her's. So she does seem to be off to a good start.
> The point is that it is nice they fulfilled that promise.

In a free society, I'd have asked for for MBS' life under retributive justice. I wouldn't want him killed, just would want a much fairer diya (double digit share of Aramco?).

The Wikipedia article says https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diya_(Islam)

> It only applies when victim's family want to compromise with the guilty party; otherwise qisas applies.
I think I read a John Grisham book that had something like this in it.... they had to find and destroy a file or something, but this is exactly how I pictured it.
Probably this:

https://imgur.com/a/6NJsTmh
Yeah, looks like project looking glass for the desktop ca. forever ago. The future is here?
Walmart isn't really an example of choice.

I've traveled the Midwest and great plains extensively every year since 2009, and have watched it slowly destroy small town life. The locals fought back as much as they could, but saving an extra $50 a week ended up being too alluring, and local businesses died. I've talked to quite a few people that lament how it turned out but are completely resigned to how it happened and that it won't change.
Also, it is in Big Tobacco's best interest to make vaping as difficult as possible

Not true. Big Tobacco owns (partially or outright) most of the big players in the vaping industry. Vuse is owned by Reynolds, Vype is owned by BAT, and Altria has a massive stake in Juul.

It's in Big Tobacco's interest to ensure vaping is easy and viewed as an alternative to cigarettes. It's also in their interest to keep the product in snazzy packaging with candy flavors that appeal to younger consumers.
Hi Vekker, In a nutshell, I can say that Appwrite was designed for scale. It uses common MariaDB and Redis containers as storage engines and should support basic clustering out of the box, no hidden magic.

Same goes for backups. All you need is to backup the MariaDB databases and the Appwrite storage folder, just like you would with any basic app architecture. We took great length to have the most simple setup possible.

I do plan to release some tutorials covering our architecture and design decision. In the meantime, you can check our stack on StackShare (https://stackshare.io/appwrite/appwrite) and learn more about how we generate docs and SDKs (https://medium.com/@eldadfux/how-we-integrated-our-docs-and-...).
I thought it was a web page template? Why would it need a back-end?
Don’t forget onions. As an adult I also don’t like things that are enjoyable.
it's basically a charge card.
I hope they are able to release a preview of Flutter on desktop early next year. C-interop for Dart sounds great and might be able to compensate the somewhat lacking native Dart ecosystem.
> The lack of trust on both sides engenders the feeling that any promotion is unlikely and every position uncertain, so folks always have one foot out the door

It's not just lack of trust, it's also due to the flattening of organizations necessitated by more collaborative work styles than we had decades ago.
Could you elaborate? Rendering perf is pretty much the least of my concerns, even on my apps which support IE10. Most "perf" problems I find are related to fetching and appropriately caching data.
I believe a bulk of that tax on the federal level goes to funding health insurance for children: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigarette_taxes_in_the_United_...

State level taxes of course depend on the state.
real nice; I love how we see other people.
Weren't those only regarding THC cartridges?
This actually looks really promising for the future :)

We've been on a move from bare metal to kubernetes, but it's a long-time work in progress (as it has to be when you have over a hundred Microservices).

A few months ago I've been evaluating service mesh solutions, and nothing is simultaneously mature and works on mixed bare-metal and k8s environments. With existing routing logic and stuff like that. That's why we ended up using envoy with a custom control plane. This project however, may become a possible good alternative in the future.
The Trump admin has been doing that stuff from day one with the "alternative facts" thing. I can't keep up with every unpresidential move these guys make. On the plus side, I did just see Trump just fired Bolton which makes war feel a bit less likely.
Moving from the legacy checkout to elements was complex since you do not mention in the docs that validation checks no longer get checked on the client and instead have to happen on the sever.
Really hoping to see an updated iPhone SE. Tried other iphones but nothing beats SE so far..
China’s “Sharp Eyes” rural surveillance program
>wow I got downvoted for being in favour of GDPR!?

Absolutely, yes. Remember, this site is chock full of people in adtech, and the GDPR works directly against their employers' goals. Remember the old saying: "It is very difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on him not understanding it." On top of that, software people in the US skew disproportionately libertarian, and they think that any law curtailing business behavior, no matter how abhorrent, is bad and that we should rely on "the invisible hand" to regulate everything.
I'm divorced, with one young boy that I split time with my ex. Were this to happen to me, I am really not sure a mental health professional could help.

This quote FTA may have just changed my life:

"I’m guessing you have 1:1 meetings on the books with a lot of people you work with. Do you have them regularly scheduled with your kids? If there’s any lesson to take away from this, it’s to remind others (and myself) not to miss out on the things that matter."
It's almost as though...we as a society continually assess whether the harm from some activity exceeds benefit, and react accordingly?

Or maybe we're starting to expect that people building things have responsibility to foresee potential harms arising from their use, whether or not part of the intended use case, and to build in an equitable way?

After all, if "inadvertently deepens abject poverty" is a possible outcome of a tool you're building, maybe the problem is with the design and not the people using it.
Pandoc is pretty great.
Also, even when you give the keyboard network access, when you enter a password, iOS switches to the native keyboard. Apps can also force iOS to only use the native keyboard.

iOS really doesn’t trust third party keyboards.
And how did banning marijuana work out?
As a perennial squeaky wheel who happens to work too much, I think you're on to something.
The entire cc industry is addicted to the processing fees and everyone else pays for it with higher prices.
Who is the guarantor? The employee? That seems like a very shady thing to do given every expense put on that card is for work.
I think that’s some truth to your statement about growth, but also would like to point out that most IPOs we see where growth at all costs are tech or primarily tech companies and WeWork isn’t. At all.

Outside tech, growth has rarely been the kind of Play you make at a great loss, and most ventures need some sort of grounding in reality.

Show me a tech IPO that seeks revenue and then we can debate a change in the markets.
Of course it does today. If you fast forward a few years and include this new stripe card it may not and as they own both ends of the transaction they could start to offer better features on transactions that don’t leave their network, incentivising both sides to use it.
+1 for your advice and your opinions on Yoga. I always thought it was for hippy/new age types. It wasn't till I tried it myself that my opions completely changed. As I mentioned elsewhere in this thread it's the best exercise I've found for my back pain and I've tried allsorts.
If anyone reading this has achy joints, bones, muscles, etc, give it a go. There are thousands of videos on Youtube . Some of the instructors are a little cringe worthy with what they say - but the exercise is solid.
I have a friend who's the same age as me (nearly 40) who teaches and trains in BJJ. He frequently fights people half his age (and wins) and he tells me the Yoga really helps him in that sport.
If anyone reading this is wondering where to start I can recommend this channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/lesleyfightmaster/playlists
Is worth keeping in mind that Khashoggi was being heavily critical of Trump before being killed, that the Whitehouse was warned in advance that he was going to be killed, and that they then didn't pass on this information to Khashoggi, before finally coming out with the rather chilling - 'It's in Turkey and it's not a citizen, as I understand it' - after he was killed.

The whole thing fucking stinks.

edit - I am not alledging here that the Whitehouse was behind it, just that they didn't seem to mind and apparently knew in advance. - https://observer.com/2018/10/nsa-source-white-house-knew-jam...
Ask HN: How do you keep your programming motivation up?
When I graduated Uni few years back i was very interested and excited about programming and would constantly work on side projects. Now after having worked for a few companies, it almost completely killed my motivation and interest in programming. Working on boring, crappy projects for a living is just killing me, and you never know until you get on the job. How do you deal with this?
It is a situation that snowballs, but even originally when foreign goods started coming in, people didn't consciously choose to not support their community. They were just doing what consumers do, which is choose to purchase at the best (lowest) price they could find.

But due to information asymmetry and limited ability to analyze and understand the consequences of each and every purchase, there was only one inevitable outcome, assuming goods and services are allowed to be transported between borders.
How do I change the Mac address on Windows XP with my handphone?
who has an application or something?
Hi Mike,

I'm Ivan from Qroom LLC. I would like to present you to Carlos Azuaje from our team, who has a long experience working as front-end developer.

His Linkedin is https://linkedin.com/in/carlos-azuaje-559a33125/

If you're interested, please let me know to ivan@qroom.biz

Regards