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I don’t think 1995 was the peak of the dot-com boom. It was just starting out then, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble

The peak came in 2000, just before the bust (gradual rise, hard fall).

I went to grad school after graduating in 1998, I was lucky enough to miss both recessions (I was in China in 2008). Now I’m jobless during a boom :). But I guess, as always, the best way to protect yourself is to be at the top of the tech curve (this is a double edge sword if you specialize in something that isn’t currently hot).
Even Tor isn't great for plaintext HTTP, as it requires you to put an anonymous, unaccountable middleman (the exit node) between you and the internet. The fact that that middleman doesn't know your real IP address is little comfort when they can read and modify all data you send over their connection.

Granted, it's not too bad for Tor browser, where all browsing sessions are strictly anonymized and JavaScript access is heavily restricted so MITM attackers are limited in what they can do provided you never transmit anything sensitive or download any files over plaintext, but for general purpose browsing I definitely wouldn't recommend it (even ignoring the performance issues).
When the pieces are isolated, integration becomes a big portion of the development work.

It's one of the reasons that Rails makes so many choices/opinions for the developer upfront.

DHH discusses the costs of integration in this interview.
https://devchat.tv/ruby-rogues/rr-428-arming-the-rebels-with...
The recent deaths come from vaping THC, not nicotine [1]. Vaping THC is a mostly unregulated industry because cannabis is illegal at the federal level. Most reports call it "vaping related deaths" which is misleading because it's not the substance most people are vaping, the cause of the deaths is mostly unregulated THC vapes.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/health/vaping/indiana-reports-its-fi...
He's a role model in many ways, this is one.
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From your complaint of deep comparisons in hooks, you should not be doing deep comparisons though which is the point of immutability in checking refs which is the whole craze of redux but craze meaning warranted in this case. In plain classes with redux, you usually check against a simple property or ref change anyway.
"Sound does not play after network transitions from satellite to hard-wired"
Liveblog: All the News from Apple's September Event
I was sure this would be about cybersex on messenger. Oh, hey there kettle!
This seems like clickbait - not a bond expert but was only at or above bar in the days following the IPO announcement, and prior to that was well below the level it is shown in this article.
Yes. It’s a pretty common conflict of interest between the manager of the fund (which has a strong incentive to raise new fund while they can as quickly as possible so will want to prop up any losers until the current round of fundraising is complete) and the investors in the fund (who may or may not also be invested in the manager itself).
Parent comment is a bit terse so let me explain a tiny bit more. While the 2008 financial crisis itself was precipitated by real estate mortgage shenanigans, as the dust was settling and thereafter, it became very difficult to secure funding, at least compared to before. Banks, under renewed scrutiny by regulators, became so risk adverse that the fed's lowered interest rates, which made money "cheaper", were nigh unwilling to lend money to all but the strongest borrowers. But then the strongest borrowers needed cash the least.

It's that wave of cheap money that we're riding, with banks having satisfied regulators and new regulations enacted in the wake of 2008, that has led us to where we are today. Companies with invented valuation and unconvincing financials going public, or trying to, in WeWork's case.
I wonder to what degree weaponized propaganda is aimed at liberalism and its component beliefs directly. Perhaps this could explain to some extent the speed of dissolution? Or has it always been this way?
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> I would argue [...] are the cause

There is a problem in thinking any one thing is "the cause". It's a multi-faceted problem of many self-reinforcing causes. The comment above talking about "shifting the culture to make it that much more acceptable" is a nod to the subtlety of what contributes to this.

All parties, employers and employees both, need to see how they do this.
I am waiting for Cambridge Analytica 2.0 that purely targets and triggers billionaires.
Let's see how well banning red meat and cars would go over.

Vapes are an easy target right now. Heart disease and auto accidents are some of the greatest threats to the average American, but you'll never hear a politician going after those.
A lot of the deforestation is caused not by landowners who are engaged in agriculture, but as a result of land speculators letting good land sit idle, and forcing impoverished homesteaders into the rainforest where they engage in clearcutting out of desperation.

There is likely an "environmental kuznets curve" where developing countries cause an environmental burden as they develop up until a certain point, after which further gains in general wealth begin to improve the environment. It is only when people are wealthy that they start to be willing to do things like reduce pollution.

Wealth in general is the key to solving our environmental issues. It encourages sustainable fertility rates, and makes people rich enough so that they don't have to resort to desperate measures like using fire for clear-cutting.
demarq, I agree with you in 100% and would only add that Appwrite was designed for scale. But as you mentioned, Appwrite out-of-the-box setup should be more than enough for any product at the start of its way.
> It's also in their interest to keep the product in snazzy packaging with candy flavors that appeal to younger consumers.

It's also no coincidence that the same industry has been smacked down for the same behavior in the past. Eternal vigilance is required to make these companies behave themselves.
FWIW, I think that if 3 had the ability to run 2 code (on a per-module basis, say) the whole mess would have been avoided.

Honestly, I'm not so much a Python 3 hater, as a lover of stability. To me the idea of Python 2 being stable for the foreseeable future is exciting because it means I can concentrate on improving the tooling (e.g. tools like PySonar and Snakefood and such. I would add MyPy but of course they will be chasing Python 3 now.)

> Do you think a project such as Bladders would have been still possible had this happened?

Maybe... You can run C code from decades ago. That's pretty awesome. I guess it would depend (in this hypothetical) on whether the 3 interpreter was ever going to drop support for 2 code.
It might, but it might cause some headaches with our local fiscal agency.

Also, their (estonian) corporate taxes are higher than ours.
Kuma means vagina in Swahili, vagina.io is kinda funny.
Saying that if people had a choice they'd go to college or get a job as a software developer is quite an assumption. There's nothing wrong with wanting to go to do something like a trade school. I've got some younger cousins that are earning the same amount as apprentice electricians as my wife with a masters degree.
A warning for using the Amazon visa: their record retention is horrible. I had to call in and talk to someone for them to send me a paper statement for charges from the previous year when doing taxes. Their export for current records is also terrible last I checked. It's basically terrible for any sort of accounting.

As a small business owner, it wasted hours of my life for no good reason.
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I love this website so much (quantamagazine.org). The design is great and the articles are amazing.
Hah, yes, good to know it at least wasn't the writer's fault for the headline.

As for who calls out the falsehood, I was thinking more in the vein of "all else being equal", but I suppose you're right and all else wouldn't be equal between the various news sources.
That first link feels like clickbait. Also, why not just link to the Medium post that the PDF is derived from? [1]

This feels like spam.

1: https://hackernoon.com/how-to-find-your-next-remote-freelanc...
> A charitable interpretation is that it's better to ask someone about an aspect of themselves they control over one that was a product of purely random chance.

There is a lot of random chance involved though. Fall out of the right womb and its much easier to land a high status career for some reason.
Not on the side of Corporate America but curious how you would respond.

As markets get more mature, it becomes difficult for companies to maintain employees if their salary level to contribution rate drops. Is the assumption that employees will absolutely be valuable to a company's strategic goals? How can a company practically care for an employee for life?
This is amazing! It makes Reddit much more fun, especially with the other random people floating around.
The IP mismatch (unencrypted requests going through CF, encrypted through the user's connection directly) seems like it could cause trouble, though maybe in the real world most websites wouldn't care?
The idea that the rich and powerful breed are at another level than the commoners, and we can never aspire to the genius behind their choices, is not a new talking point but maybe one of the oldest.
I think this is the point:

>There is a popular and persistent image of college admissions in which diversity-obsessed universities are using affirmative action to deny spaces to academically talented affluent students while admitting low-income students with lower ability in their place. Boeckenstedt says the opposite is closer to the truth.
I'm watching the livestream from Apple's website and following this liveblog. Interestingly, Ars is able to get photos up before they hit the "live" stream. I wonder what the latency is — must be at least 30 seconds, based on the text update differential.
Breathing too hard would also end the oxygen supply eventually, but trying to make any one factor the cause for the end seems to be a waste. You might as well be trying to find which one reason is responsible for the collapse of Rome. Or maybe you find that one thing about the USA that makes it intolerable in your opinion, but it will always pale to the multicausal.
2/3 of Americans get the RDA of Vitamin D. Picking a specific outlier case for your control group wouldn't make a lot of sense for a scientific study (not to mention, as others have pointed out in this thread, would be difficult or unethical.) If you are a vegan living in a low-sunlight location, look into supplementation.
Impressive and terrible at the same time.
Page not found? Is it just me or is this for everyone?
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Yes for some roles but in fairness their is a reason they want less experienced. Everything from low pay to fear of someone smarter.
I am seeing too many redirects.
What do you mean “society” benefits from people having secure jobs? The people with the jobs are the only ones that benefit.

But that’s only as long as companies have customers.
Y'all emailed me without me giving you my email address. Please don't do that
> From my understanding, many of the flavored juices contain Vitamin E

That is incorrect; specifically the "many" part. Vitamin E Acetate was found is black market(illegal) THC cartridges in the midwest. Vitmain E acetate is used in THC oils to increase potency. Legitimate THC oil producers in legal states do not use Vitmain E Acetate in their oils.

Nicotine juices are a completely different industry.There would be no reason for Nicotine juice producers to use Vitamin E acetate.

I understand why you would be misinformed though, because the articles on the subject have been very reactionary and exaggerated in order to stir up media frenzy and drive views and clicks.
Similar experience here. 25 years at a "job for life" and he got a carriage clock. A couple of years later we move to the other side of the UK. A couple of years later they shut down that office making dad redundant.

I am under no illusions about any company I might work for, no matter what size or how much I like the individuals I work with or for.
> they've been pretty silent on the bug that someone else filed about this

Hi ori_b, do you have a link to an issue for this? Happy to bring this up to the team for prioritization.
The problem I have with ZH is that it's always pessimistic, regardless of whether or not pessimism is warranted or logical.
>if I look back at my youth, I wonder how we all survived

Many people didn't, which is why so many regulations exist now.
I don't quite get the obsession with the order of hooks... You call all the hooks in your component function and don't optionally do so. In the end, if you're optionally calling different hooks differently in the same component, you're probably doing something wrong, and/or they should be separate components.
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1:1s are not micromanagement at all. They're just a regular opportunity for you to have guaranteed, uninterrupted face time with your manager. I'd go further and say that a manager who can't spend even 30 minutes a week with a direct report listening to their thoughts and concerns really has no business being a people manager.
It really is a net though; there are a lot of holes in it that are easier to fall through than you think. I've been caught by the net once, but in another situation I've fallen through it, and it's really hard to get back up from that.
...and bear in Japanese, I reckon. I guess every short word means something in at least one language!
Yes, the employee. Why do you think it's shady? In my years of working in and around people with the same setup I've never heard of any complaints, and I know most of the other large consulting companies do it the same way.

AFAIK the thought behind it is that not every expense on the card is for work - as a consultant, I travel every week and I put all kinds of expenses on the card (not all of which are strictly "for work" or allowed to be reimbursed by the company). This way, my company still pays the bill for whatever expenses I mark as reimbursable, but the company doesn't have to worry about being on the hook for when I use my card to buy a pair of pants.

To me, it's basically the same as having a personal CC and my company reimburses me for the expenses - except in this case, it's a lot easier for my company to pay part of the bill directly (instead of me being an intermediary) and I also don't have to worry about hitting a credit limit.
Uber / Lyft already have really strong incentives/disincentives to discourage driving for two companies at once. I can't remember the last time my driver had both apps open on separate phones.

Also, a minimum wage per hour is going to probably be much better than driving for both companies in practice, since you'll still be getting paid even if Lyft alone dispatches fewer rides. You're even saving money there since that idle time isn't burning up gas.
> It's like fighting Christianity's Devil by making a blood pact with Ialchtaluogoloth, Inscrutable Lord of the Slime Pits From Beyond the Dead Stars. At least Lucifer can appreciate a finely tailored suit.

This is an excellent paragraph and I bet I would enjoy reading more of what you write. If you happen to blog, would you mind emailing me a link? My email address is in my profile.
Well you can get justice if its citizen vs. citizen. If its you vs. the government or big corp that's a whole different story; If your opponent has virtually unlimited money and for then the whole process is "work time" and for you its your spare time...yeah thats going to be hard.
Walmart was a choice at some point in history. And even if it's not Walmart, everyone in the chain of buying and selling is going to have to justify their decisions to a boss or a budget.

You can zoom out of the Walmart vs local store picture, and imagine you're in charge of decision making at a large manufacturing company, and your competitor has moved their production to a country with cheaper labor. Is your company going to be able to sell your products at a higher price if you choose to use more expensive labor? Are you going to be able to convince customers that their decisions now will cause income instability for their children and children's children, and that they should spend $x more on your product because of it?
> requiring third parties to agree in advance to a strong set of data-handling and privacy rules

Aka the Facebook model.. tldr: "developer, click here to promise to behave". Aka the "click here if you are 18 or older" model. Thanks Zuck, for giving us Cambridge Analytica.

What a bunch of effing liars. "We promise we keep your data secure" is yet another meaningless statement...
Coming from the FP world, hooks are a terror because they break all the nice rules functions are supposed to uphold. Hook components don't necessarily return the same value when given the same arguments, making them impure (stateful). The benefit of function components IMO has always been that you can use the function scope as a container for pure, stateless rendering logic. With the introduction of hooks I can no longer ensure that.
I need your (kind) appreciations to improve my work. Thanks.
Most people who vape here in southern California don't use Juuls, or Blus or whatever, they use box mods with tank atomizers and juices that come in bottles made by smaller privately owned companies.
> This illusion has been shattered first by the employers (outsourcing, at-will employment, gig economy), and now the employees (ghosting, switching firms without notice).

This wasn't an illusion, companies actually did take care of employees and had pensions and full-time jobs and retraining and stuff.

Also, ghosting and employees bouncing is a symptom of the employers not providing any loyalty to their employees. Boomers and GenX stayed for 30 years when they had pensions, Millenials would too.
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My grocery store keeps single bottles of Seagrams Escapes (the brightly colored, fruity flavored wine coolers) in a big bin right by the register like its just another soda. I've never had one but I'm sure kids would think they taste great and don't taste even a little like alcohol.
As long as the investor can make money by selling to the greater fool it's all good. I think that's the current strategy with the companies that keep losing money. Pump up validation and then dump it on the public markets.
BNSF leads the charge on testing battery electric locomotive
Well, this is certainly depressing.
> The moral issue arose only with the phenomenon of "coordination," that is, not with fear-inspired hypocrisy, but with this very early eagerness not to miss the train of History, with this, as it were, honest overnight change of opinion that befell a great majority of public figures in all walks of life and all ramifications of culture, accompanied, as it was, by an incredible ease with which life long friendships were broken and discarded. In brief, what disturbed us was the behavior not of our enemies but of our friends, who had done nothing to bring this situation about. They were not responsible for the Nazis, they were only impressed by the Nazi success and unable to pit their own judgment against the verdict of History, as they read it. Without taking into account the almost universal breakdown, not of personal responsibility, but of personal judgment in the early stages of the Nazi regime, it is impossible to understand what actually happened.

-- Hannah Arendt, "Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship"

https://grattoncourses.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/arendt-pe...
same, and I don't have kids yet.
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The major difference between Brex/Stripe card and typical business cards on the market whether or not there's a personal guarantee.
That's a good point. There are certainly some warts in 2 that are fixed in 3. Cheers!
Where is the parent's responsibility in this? As a childless adult, why do I lose out because they want a nanny state? I love my candy flavored vape juice and I, as an adult, accept whatever issues come with it. The same with alcohol, smoking cigarettes, etc.
> Look, real ballerinas are totally hardcore badass atheletes

Yes.

> who could easily kick all our flabby nerd asses while standing on one toe

For the most part, no, though if both parties have to try to stand one toe during the exercise, maybe.

> But how many professional software developers will really want to self-identify as “ballerinas” when discussing between themselves, never mind pitching to board rooms?

Uh, I don't usually identify, or want to identify, as name of tool when doing any of those things, whether the tool is Python, Ruby, C#, Docker, etc. Why would my lack of desire to do so when the tool is Ballerina be differentiating?

Identifying as user-of-toolname is different than identifying as toolname (and I actually prefer to minimize the former, too: when I'm dancing—contemporary or, less often these days, ballroom/swing, not classical ballet—I don't identify as a user of a particular brand of shoe, either.)
Speak for yourself. I don't feel like I find any significant meaning in my job, it's just what I do because I need money.
Yup, it will. It is only a matter of time. Have to expect as much and plan accordingly. That's reality in this day and age.
Sagas are nice to read but hard to test. IMO simpler async functions are enough. Is there any benefit to sagas that I don't see?
This is a terrible conclusion you've drawn here.

Think about the benefits of saving money, it creates opportunity for growth.

Side note, mom and pop shops made more profit than Walmart. That money is not shared with employees, it makes the family wealthy.
I wonder why companies prefer to use a corporate credit card over debit cards (which are very easy to get)? Do they just like having the line of credit? Is it really worth the extra complication/hassle/thing to worry about just to push off payments by ~15 days (Stripe seems to require that the balance be paid off each month)? I also wonder how that is enforced (by reducing credit limits as a company's bank balance starts to decrease, or by charging interest, or by just eating the defaults)?

Or is it about managing/reporting expenses better across groups an organization? Or do companies just like the rewards?

I understand that interchange fees are higher for credit cards - so are corporate credit cards basically a way to extract additional fees from merchants and distribute them in the form of rewards/cash back to the cardholders?
Companies often sell services to each other, too. So what you think is a redundant connection may just be a link on the same fiber, resold.
Port scanning is a real and established thing that anyone who is even thinking of security has known about normally for decades, but port scans don't tell everyone what your whole stack consists of. Maybe you'd like to share why sharing your stack with everyone is a good idea? I'd really like to know. Thank you.
Cashier arrested for using photographic memory to steal 1300 credit cards' info
Is that true for your region?
How does the card validation work? Do most payment processors accept it?
Anyone would be drawn by "easy money" if they were swimming in debt.
That very framework is what makes offshoring to countries without that framework so much cheaper and so much more lucrative.

Labor laws and environmental controls would have to be implemented globally, but then we're talking about going to war and taking over other countries.
In practice they just won't drive for two companies. With minimum wage / employee status that won't hurt them at all. In practice, Uber and Lyft already don't want you keeping both apps open - they encourage you to only keep their app open with incentives.