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Late, but thank you for sharing that. I participated and enjoyed the old community a lot, and was a big proponent of UBNT gear for many years. Seeing the downward spiral commence from the outside has been a real downer and I wondered what was going on internally. I figured it had to be something at the management level, but I'm bummed to have it confirmed nonetheless. Appreciate all the hard work you folks put in over the years, it was fantastic kit and a really promising overall solution. I wish there was something comparable, or that maybe Robert Para would finally step down/get pushed out.
Agreed. Many in the West were introduced to Mishima by Paul Schrader's film, which masterfully realizes that moment of epiphany inside the temple ;)

Soundtrack by Philip Glass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9rB33JnvyM
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> I believe it should be his right to just simply say my product is not for blind people, and dedicate no resources to servicing this hypothetical user base.

Fortunately, in America we don't believe discrimination is acceptable, and we've codified that principle in the law.
I have as well.
Ok, after I noticed that the URL of the git repo is at the top of the page (somehow I managed to overlook it), I tried "go get git.sr.ht/~eliasnaur/gio", only to find out that wasn't correct, because the project uses a "vanity URL", so apparently I have to use "go get gioui.org/gio" or something like that. My point was that even if it's pretty straightforward for a reasonably experienced Go developer, it doesn't hurt to mention it...
I don't get why everyone here seems to be assuming that a side project = coding...
Set merge.conflictstyle=diff3!!!! The default merge style is utterly useless, I have no idea why it is the default. diff3 gives you three pieces of information: the status before at the common ancestor; the status on the current branch; and the status on the to-be-merged branch. You can then understand what changes were made on each branch, and decide how to merge them intelligently. Without that common ancestor, it's way way harder to understand what you're looking at.
>As crazy as it may seem to us, they're overwhelmingly supportive of their government.

And North Korean's overwhelmingly praise the "Supreme Leader" with tears in their eyes. Ever see old video of Hitler addressing the masses? The people seem overwhelmingly supportive.
What's your Twitter handle so I can unblock. And thanks for being so reasonable about it.
I managed a side project over the pregnancy, birth and to age 4 of my twin girls and full time job. I dropped down to 15 mins a day, but a tiny amount of forward progress aggregated over years can achieve a lot. And actually, I got so good at context switching by having clear todos, that those 15 minutes I got were worth a good 15 mins. You get to spend the rest of the day mulling about how to use those 15 mins that the quality was surprisingly high and going down the wrong path was rare. I had to save refactors for Christmas though.
Cancel culture is becoming universal. Violations of political correctness can cause cancellation of TV shows, loss of jobs, and now banning from video game competitions. It is interesting that these days this is primarily a tool of the left end of the political spectrum even though in the past, book burnings, etc. were seen as a conservative tactic. However, cancel responses are becoming so common that I would not be surprised if conservatives start doing it too, if they haven't already.
>Even more rude.

Rude to whom? Styles? UX? I'm pretty sure even the graphic/UX designers involved (if any) would agree.
Is Winnie the Pooh not Western media?

Of course Western media is part of Chinese counter-culture. We live in a global society. The interesting question is how large a part - and which media?
>Then we have to boycott Hearthstone

You mean Blizzard?
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It's not privilege. It's a right the country has fought and died for for over 200 years. It's a principle the country was founded on.

"Privilege" has lost all meaning in today's world. It's just a word to throw around to slow how "woke" you are.

Calling our rights "privilege" is throwing out the struggle and sacrifice of everyone that fought for those rights.

You may have been Lucky to have been born in the US, but not Privileged
in the UK you can go to jail for making funny videos of your dog doing the heil salute.
I think it's best to be concerned with the effect your marginal donation would have.

If they already have so much money that they buy $0.07 packets for everybody that needs them, then your additional donation won't pay for any additional packets, and you can leave it out of your analysis. Donating won't affect the packets.

But if they don't have enough money to vaccinate everyone, and they're putting as much money into that as they can, then the effect of donating $50 is that three more children are vaccinated.

On the third hand, if they already have enough funding for everything they want to do then your donation is not useful, even if they have low administrative overhead. It won't lead to any extra packets or vaccinations compared to if you didn't donate.

Administrative overhead is good to take into account - if it's very high then something fishy could be going on - but the main thing is the effect of your donation.
It's not actually one of the Nobel prizes as set up by Alfred Nobel. The full name is the "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel".

It was set up by the Swedish central bank to free ride on the good reputation of the actual prizes. Their motivation was to push economic policies beneficial to themselves (mainly promoting the political independence of central banks in the beginning).
I've never been able to get into side projects, but I have recently taken up contributing to open source projects. It was accidental, but I ended up making my first ever real contribution to an open source project after patching a driver to work with some hardware I was too lazy / cheap to replace. I'm in the process of moving, but I think afterwards I'm going to ramp up my work because that was the first time I generally enjoyed programming in years and it could also have a good impact on my career. I don't have any real friends or family right now so I have plenty of free time.
THIS 100%!
Born and raised right across The River from Lula. I remember when Walmart was just Walmart--the Supercenters with groceries didn't exist yet--and there were many more grocery stores. Some regional chains and some mom-and-pop type places with charge accounts. There was a liquor store/grocery not far from my childhood home where my family had a charge account. My mom would charge to the account to get cash sometimes, and we had a good relationship with the owners. Then Walmart opened the Supercenter on the other side of town.

The groceries and "main street businesses" shuttered one-by-one as the Supercenter's bargain-basement prices claimed more business, despite the absence of public transportation in that little Delta town. Today the options are Walmart, the last regional-chain grocery store in the shopping center next to Walmart, or the dollar stores that regularly sprout up along the main thoroughfares in the area. The latter only carry freezer items, canned goods, milk and eggs--no fresh produce, except for the bananas, apples, and oranges next to the register if you're lucky.

The place continues to be a food desert, but this article really hits home. I've been to 50% of the places mentioned, and many more besides. The best fried chicken is always found in gas stations.
> I really think with a proper full time job working long hours its unrealistic to spend much time on any side project. Its much healthier to try to spend time with friends and family, or hobbies. If you have young children there is little chance.

I hear this comment every time this topic comes up, and quite honestly, it is BS. If you're in the minority of people who are spending every waking hour productively, maybe this is true. But for the majority, it certainly isn't. I know plenty of people who spend >10-20 hours every week on:

- Watching TV

- Surfing the web

- Playing games

- Watching sports

- Going camping/hiking etc

- Weekend trips

- Fishing

- etc etc etc

When someone suggests hiking, reading and meditation as a good way to spend your free time, everyone nods along and talks about how wonderful it is. But when someone talks about building a side-project, suddenly everyone has twin babies and elderly parents with dementia who are taking up every waking minute.

There's nothing wrong with any of the other alternatives listed above. If you're burnt out from coding, go ahead and do whatever gives you happiness and satisfaction. But please acknowledge that building side-projects is eminently realistic, and for some people, will give far more happiness and satisfaction than binging netflix.
Yeah, this breeds insecurity among those who don't yet have a strong enough base to believe in themselves and their abilities, and even more FOMO isn't really something to be encouraged.
People matter, compare vs the oil rich Gulf states.
Interestingly, I find the same to be true about people who complain about Android here on HN. And I feel it is for the same reason as you've mentioned. I cannot count the number of times I've had to laugh in pain at the shocking ignorance displayed by a large number of users when talking about Android and other associated Google products.
The same is true of mainstream browsers. Would you not bother testing in even a single browser just because there are too many options?
There are many options mentioned already and one I haven't seen so far is https://www.ssdnodes.com/ been using it for some time, fares well.
I wonder if a career in software engineering is the difference between a functional computer addict and nonfuctional addict. It really gives a new perspective to the concept of developers jamming out in a hackathon for 24+ hours while sleeping under desks and trying to stay in a flow stats as long as possible
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That would go down as the single dumbest reason of civilization collapse, surely?
It’s only obvious when the article gets read, and in my experience many people who vote don’t bother to read
American video games? What about American companies that have factories there or other presence there? Hello Apple! Hello Tesla! Hello Google.

Blizzard has been bending over backwards for some time with regards to China but this is the first time I remember them taking action against someone who does not work for them.

the simple matter is, you cannot pick and choose, all the companies must be shamed into not bending to China's censorship because it won't be long before such actions suddenly show in law; not that some of the speech regulations in the EU aren't close as it is with regards to what you can and cannot say with regards to religions
While I fully support the freedom of the press to report this, I really wish they would show responsibility and not. I can't really find any societal value in giving people like this notoriety. I would far rather their name be buried and no one ever speak it.
Give me a break. When companies censor speech HN likes, it's all about how we have to boycott companies to preserve our society. When it's speech HN doesn't like, it's all about how censorship is actually good and that companies are just "showing people the door" via their freedom of association.

People around here need to make up their minds. If you want to object to censorship, great. But if you do, you need to do it as a general principle, and that means tolerating speech you don't like too. You don't get to just lean on freedom of speech selectively.

The hypocrisy of supporting corporate censorship against things you like and opposing it against things you don't --- well, it's breathtaking.
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So the new Music app is scriptable, is what you're saying? And the rest of Apple's own?
> It's really hard to tell the difference between what is genuinely offensive and what is not.

Calling for liberation of any territory is genuinely offensive to the government from which one is calling for it to be liberated, and to people who support that government (and often to those who support the territorial integrity of the relevant state event if they don't strongly support the government in question.)
Ask HN: Develop a mobile or web app for starting a business?
I have a few ideas in either space, but I'm wondering which one would be better, in general, to base a 1 man business out of? Which out of the two would be most likely to allow me support myself just by the project?
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>Then you'll never get new services. You'll bow to your Microsoft overlords and take what Github gives you, and be thankful for it.

Well, that escalated quickly.

Or, you know, we'll leverage the commonality as long as it suits us, and jump ship when it doesn't. Like we did with Sourceforge itself, and like people did with common once dominant and good to use because of network effects projects...

How about that? As if we have agency, and are not just mindless automata, that just because we chose an option are forced to live with it forever...

>Github is proprietary and profit driven.

Both are acceptable, even in polite society...
But do the new apps publish usable verb dictionaries for that?
Cancel culture is about _using_ censorship to limit free speech, which blizzard purposefully participated in on behalf of China, so we want to stop that limiting and encourage free speech, or at least not immediately ban someone for a year and 0 their prize money.

One fights for censorship, the other fights for freedom. I uninstalled hearthstone, which is the last activision blizzard product I used.
> I generally advise people to not get upset about things they don't understand and don't care to understand.

I wouldn't say I don't care to understand. In fact quite the opposite. If someone can explain to me how this process should work for applications that distribute to, let's say, 10 different operating systems I'd be all ears.

But what fears and hysterias are you talking about? I quote Apple's own developer material, and complain about what it says. I don't want to deal with Xcode to package apps for macOS, sorry. And I find it somewhat oppressive to force communication upstream to Apple in order to run applications smoothly on their OS.
It's really unfortunate that the HN crowd is siding with them, as if they are championing the rights of disabled people. It's all about money.

I'm sorry you got burned, but this is not the best way to make your point.
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So, assuming you're early career, I get the idea that you are anxious about your CV and your job security, and you want to build up something of a portfolio that you can show publicly.

Me, I'm mid career, and wish I hadn't focused so much on doing more programming in my off time. Most of the side projects I worked on never really came to any sort of long-term fruition, and I'm not even sure that they were that helpful in my career. What really helped was being able to demonstrate domain expertise, and I built that up by becoming less focused on programming, and spending more of my work time just talking to people and understanding their business.

There are two big problems with just working on raw programming skills: First, if all you are is a programmer, then you're fungible. The only programming skills that aren't particularly fungible are skills in entrenched-but-uncool languages like COBOL and RPG. The cools ones are cheap; anyone who can stick to a MOOC can build up a portfolio of side projects on popular technologies. On the other hand, domain expertise is very difficult to replace. The resources to build it up typically aren't publicly available, so they're less common.

And there are plenty of side projects you can work on that give your brain a break, or at least a change of pace, while still looking good on your CV and opening up job opportunities you might not otherwise have. Lately, for me, it's been learning languages. It's a lot easier to fit into a life, because you can do it while commuting or doing housework. Having a business proficiency can definitely open doors. And, once you get past the beginner stage (which is best undertaken as a solitary pursuit), it's a _great_ social activity.
Ask HN: Best Website for Procrastination
What your best productivity killer? What make you a compulsive consumer? Where do you like to waste your time on the Internet?

One rule only: it shouldn't be reddit, HN, Facebook, Instagram or Twitter.
Thanks a lot for posting! Even though I had actually planned to post it later myself ;-) Happy to see my project finally live on hacker news!

n8n is a free node-based "Open Source" (Apache 2.0 with Commons Clause) Workflow Automation Tool. It can be self-hosted, easily extended, and so also used with internal tools.
Currently, there is no hosted version yet but you can sign up on the website if you are interested to get informed once it is ready.

I created it initially because I realized that every time I wrote a script to automate a small task it took me a very long time. Depending on the task it normally involved: reading documentation, writing code, committing to Github, deploying on a server, error reporting, SSL, make sure it restarts on a crash, and so on. So even very small tasks took at least half a day or day till everything was up and running properly. Existing Open Source solutions were not up to the task and also commercial ones like Zapier did not work for various reasons. Some being that they do not work well with in-house tools or complicated tasks and it gets expensive quite fast, ...

So hope n8n is as helpful for other people as it is for me. Also, all help with further improving the project and create more integrations is very welcome!

The project website with the nodes which exist and example workflows:

https://n8n.io

You can find the source code on Github:
https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n

The whole project is written in TypeScript and uses Vue for the frontend. So it should be easily extendable for everybody with web development experience.

If you have any problems, questions or need an integration which does not exist yet you can post it to the forum:
http://community.n8n.io

Documentation can be found here:
https://docs.n8n.io

Your feedback is highly appreciated!

Thanks a lot!!

UPDATE:

[Sorry are unable to answer any questions right now as it always displays me that I am posting to fast. Will answer as soon as HN allows me!]
There are very solid reasons for seeing marriage as a life-long commitment between a man and a woman for the purpose of providing a stable home for the children that they conceive that has nothing to do with hating gays. This is something humans have understood for thousands of years, but only in my lifetime we seem to have forgotten.
It's also interesting to me that you understand this kind of discussion to be taking place instead of, rather than alongside, that about "what [you'd] call the "real criminals" (rapists, abusive partners, abusive bosses etc)".

Wherever do you come by that idea? It's certainly an odd one. In any case, we're not talking about those people here; those conversations are taking place, even now, elsewhere, and thanks to the Internet, you can find them if you so choose. This conversation is about Richard Stallman, and the fashion in which much of his recent behavior (and not so recent, I gather) has affected both people involved with and adjacent to the GNU project, and the prospects of that project itself. Please don't use matters irrelevant to the topic at hand to try to steer this conversation away from its purpose.
Ask HN: How to Generate Side Income?
I have free time which I just spend surfing YouTube, Facebook, and watching videos. I need to turn this fun time into money time.

What are ways I could turn my time into money?

Thanks
Building a side project is work, spending time with family, camping, going on trips isn't.

It's not so much that we can't accept that some people enjoy working, it's that they're screwing their health. There is no free lunch, staring at monitors for years on end will take its toll.

Gaming and watching TV aren't healthy for computer workers either.
> In the real world, watching our action would be akin to constant dissociation. Instead, we feel things, we say things to ourselves, and eventually we come upon subject matter and then to the scenes.

I think that's why writing "I felt scared" is usually fine. But 'show, don't tell' is more about avoiding things like "she felt scared".
> Is this hubris uniquely American?

Probably not, but evidence does point towards a general attitude of "surely everyone wants to be like us, we are the best country in the world afterall"
I'm also doing that. I know lots of people using their games. Liberal folks that will mind this.
>Which makes me believe we need some kind of trusted "morality authority", which would process information similar to this and make informed decisions who to boycott, how and when. Less informed would be able to make an impact without having to do research (which not everyone would do equally well)

You do realize how hilarious that is juxtaposed to the Chinese government, which is literally a 'morality authority,' right?
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Comedy faces a greater threat from the "woke" #metoo crowd at colleges and online than any profit seeking corporate entity.
Lots of good advice.

>Specialize.

This is one of the tensions I've always needed to deal with. My inclination (for a different type of consulting) has always been to lean towards being something of a generalist but I've always had to temper that with being legitimately expert on a relatively small subset of technology and the market.

One recent example I've discussed with someone I know is that it's probably better to be an expert on AWS (or even AWS billing, for example) than "expert" on public cloud platforms generally.

>Get your name out

Especially at the beginning--but really in general--expect to spend quite a bit of time that isn't "on the clock." Beware of doing too much free work (like keynoting events) just for the "exposure," much less pay for your own T&E to do so. But you're going to have to invest time in getting known and just word of mouth is likely not enough.
The people who regard 1950s Hollywood as an example of malfeasance are the same people who are currently doing the exact same thing to the text industry with the polarity reversed. They have no moral standing whatsoever to complain. If this weren't my industry, the hypocrisy would be hilarious.

As long as you get people fired from their jobs for having the wrong opinions about social issues in the US, you have no right to demand that companies not censor what the Chinese censors dislike. Now do you realize the value of free speech as a general principle?
All moral/ethical debate is of this form, at least for a broad-enough definition of "rights". Since moral debate does seem to exist in the real-world, the argument that it cannot would seem to be quite wrong. And in fact moral debate might even be strategically useful, if only as a way of searching for shared Schelling points (i.e. focal/coordination points) that can be more easily defended even in a stricter 'political' sense.
This is a great Scissor Statement!