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Breaking hard loads weight onto the front tyres, which changes handling in every car ever. My car breaking (unexpectedly) when I'm maneuvering (eg around an object) means I have no idea who is responsible for the outcome. My decision was overridden by the car.
I've learned much too late in my career that competent software engineering is completely orthogonal to creating a successful(from a market perspective) software product.
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Go to Beijing. Go to one of the two best universities. Go to the residential area. Connect to wifi. Go to google.com. This worked at least 6 months ago and a student active confirmed that its how it has always been.
I listened to an interview with Goodenough last month. Pretty interesting story. https://cen.acs.org/people/profiles/Podcast-97-lithium-ion-b...
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How many anti-government protests have you seen in China?
What about browser addons like Dark Reader? Would that make more sense than relying on thousands of sites to have a reliable dark mode (when the vast majority won't support any kind of dark mode anyway)?
>Yes the player broke tournament rules and yes you can argue that he should be banned on that basis alone.

The rule in question is

>Engaging in any act that, in Blizzard’s sole discretion, brings you into public disrepute, offends a portion or group of the public, or otherwise damages Blizzard image

Which is so open ended that it's impossible to not break it if you have an opinion and are speaking to a global audience. You could go up on stage and say "It's bad to murder people for being gay" and a portion or group of the public in some other countries would get offended about it.

But Blizzard wouldn't be banning people and taking their prize money for that. 100% this is about Tencent and Blizzard's access to the Chinese market.
Don't laugh at this suggestion.
Gif / visual representation of the paper should also be published.
You need plumbing, not a pile of clever rust code.

TL;DR Pay someone who knows how to work with baremetal servers, convert your $100k/mo AWS bill to $20k/mo infrastructure geek bill + < $10k/mo infrastructure bill.

It will give you a longer runway.
Yes this is how it works. Its not only VPN software, but also wifi that circumvents part of the wall.
I did start working out more. I had to in order to work off the excess energy I suddenly had. But I wasn’t completely sedentary prior to starting Keto. I trained for and ran 5K’s but always felt so sluggish both physically and mentally. So while I’ll grant that the mental gains are influenced by my physical activity, it’s clear to me that the lions share of it comes from my nutritional changes. That was the main reason for starting Keto in the first place; I felt my mental acuity dramatically decreasing and nothing else I was doing seemed to help. The weight loss was icing in the cake, no pun intended.
Erm teslas are taxed in the eu. Not to mention conspiracy theories around how “bad electric” cars are.
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How do you deal with a toxic client?
Client is a quite large multiregional company, strategically important for my business. I’m a small startup with a deep domain knowledge for the project they are interested in.

The problem is: they can’t plan their requests more than one week in advance (and they always change something during the week), they can’t formalize or document anything. Everything is urgent. Some employees use conflicts and accusations to reach their goals and get their requests prioritised. There is no planning on their side. Obsession for some features comes and goes.

They rarely open to advices, on one skype call after I tried to clarify what they want and raise concerns, I’ve been told “We are here not to discuss, but to inform you about our decision. We need this to be done precisely as we want.” Their request would result in a very ineffective process for them (in this particular case they would have to deal with duplicate data later). They lacked the knowledge of how their own system worked, but they neither wanted to ask nor listen to any advice.

Their corporate mantra can be summarized as: I know everything (even if I don't), everyone else around me (subordinates, top managers, contractors) is an idiot.

I allowed them to behave like that in the beginning, I didn’t set the right boundaries because I was too interested in the project, now I have to deal with consequences. Large portion of this is my fault.

I tried to hire (twice) an external professional project manager to act as a proxy between them and me. I hoped it would make the collaboration less personal, less emotional, more formal. That didn’t work.

Now I’m burnt out, ready for one last try to get the process formalized (planning ahead, detailed specs, sticking to plan, minimum interactions, etc). I hope to solve it and move on without burning the bridges.

Have you been in a situation like that? How do you structure your collaboration with client to prevent this from happening?

Thanks
This might help https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21194003
This is a social media app, so I can't charge money for it. My hope would be for funding or a buyout. Otherwise it will be shut down.
Why is this the most sophisticated “phishing” attempt if they’ve already hacked your bank account?
So in a sense we agree right?
Yea unfortunately it's pretty low key. The bipartisan support has been seen more in some actions by congress against China.

It's still not as big of a focus of attention to the general public as are other issues, and it could potentially become ignored. Sometimes, I wonder if these politicians even know enough political science or have enough awareness of the global landscape to understand the threat.

One of the most disappointing moment was when Joe Biden said that China was not competition, echoing the previous U.S. excuse for inaction from before. I think he backpeddled on that statement after backlash, but I'm not sure.
I agree - I was just trying to be kind. LOL!
I don’t care about Hong Kong. It’s their business to deal with. Some people can influence, not him. So the guy lives in US and “spoke out” to his audience to lose “an ability to do business in China”, yeah sure. I don’t see how this makes me a hypocrite though.
Post could profit from a rename since it's about the KeY project and the current title is only a tagline that's not expanded on further.
The approach seemed reasonable enough until I hit that point.
> Yes, and as I already wrote: "Apple has done that for both platforms."

Yes I saw it the first time. They certainly did it. But we're talking about how well they did it, aren't we? Usability and polish?

> I'm not particularly fond of Snow Leopard over other releases, nor I see much "regression since then".

You clearly aren't and clearly don't, but quite a few macOS users are, and do.

Here's a sampling of regressions for your perusal:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/11/macos...
https://furbo.org/2015/05/05/discoveryd-clusterfuck/

> Uglier is pretty subjective if not downright wrong.

If you like the new looks, good for you I guess.

> Slower is easy: it's 100% wrong. In fact, can you show any number of it?

I don't have any numbers. What I do have, is the experience running these successive releases on the same laptop. And it has definitely not been positive.
In my time in academia, I actually saw the opposite. Advisors were actually teaching students to write passive voice jargon laden drivel. A lot of academics have been trained to think that difficult to understand is an indicator of profundity, and there's a toxic culture of trying to look smarter and more sophisticated than your peers.
This seems like a big problem, since my bank's SMS codes don't specify why they are sending it:

"This is a verification code from [bank]. Enter online at prompt or in password field w/in 30 minutes."

Nowhere does it mention the purpose, or to NOT read the code over the phone under any circumstances.
Did the West make that bet? Or did the businesses of the West see a big market and ultimately a big, inexpensive supply chain?
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How on Earth does this remotely look like "PHP 15 years ago" to you?
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I hope that Artifact isn't abandoned by Valve and they spend time to update (refactor?) the game to make it more enjoyable. I never even had the chance to play because the narrative surrounding the game was so murky and then everything fell apart.

I was and still am excited to play it but not until it's ready. On the other hand Valve's team making Underlords is doing a very good job. Valve still has passion and talent.
You can see here

https://projects.newsday.com/databases/long-island/census-la...

the number of people in the US Census with that surname.
Hi Hacker News,

We are a couple of Xooglers who worked in Google Research now working on making a better multi city travel planner / travel search engine called Preso Trip.

Live site:
https://www.prestotrip.com/?source=hn

The blog post describes the details of what motivated us to work on this problem and the approach we are taking to find great prices for multi city deals.

Video demo: https://youtu.be/9ggFSjKAMIA

Product Hunt entry:
https://www.producthunt.com/posts/presto-trip
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To me, the biggest red flag is asking for any identifying info in a conversation they initiated, especially without them initially providing some sort of privledged information to you first.

Unfortunately, some banks do this. (I'm looking at you, U.S. Bank.)

It's like someone calling me and then asking me who they're speaking to. Really? You called me! (Assuming they're not returning a missed call, of course.)

If (someone claiming to be) a bank calls/texts you, (and it's not immediately after a declined transaction) you always hang up and call the number you already have for the bank.

Even if it is after a declined transaction, you still don't provide any info. If they ask if you attempted a $101.89 purchase at "big box store," you should simply respond yes/no, and provide no other info.

If you didn't attempt that transaction, they especially don't need to confirm any other info.
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> Could I put it on a corporate card as an LLC and do my best to make it work?

Nobody is going to give a line of credit to a brand new company (LLC or not) without a personal guarantee from the owner.

> All that said, I'm almost certain that a successful demo at scale with the Internet thrown at it will get me money.

I would not rack up $100k of personal debt to get to a demo.

But maybe don't listen to me, I'm a 40 year old programmer with a few failed attempts at bootstrapping behind me. Quite possibly at least one of those died due to being capital starved :)
And as someone that consulted for large government organization, the key will be emailed to anyone who needs access. I had access to ssh keys from the project owner for a government contract and the person did not even ask me to delete the keys after the project was over.
While I agree with you that it seems like they make some serious engineering mistakes, it was a successful MVP in that it told there there was sufficient demand to justify a rewrite for the cloud.
Hi, I checked my math and found it completely unsound. It will still have to be very, very close to criticality, though with a bit lower critical mass.

It will also require regulation over the years as Cf burns out, and u238 fast fission products themselves product less neutrons than fission products of thermal neutron reactors.
> Calais-Dover is also a good example of how train is faster than ship (30 minutes vs 1h30), even in this instance of a very straight route for the ships.

Do Calais-Dover ferries sell things on board? I imagine that the ferries in the Baltic Sea have no incentive to cut journey times, because so much of their profits come from getting people to eat, drink, and buy booze on board. Passengers need time to wander through the onboard shops and restaurants.
I don't think that's true. It's saying that you're going to make as many changes as you reasonably can in your life. Perfect is the enemy of good. (And only a sith deals in absolutes!)
I might be missing something but doesn't that still depend on swap space and having a swapfile and virtual memory set up?

I'm fine with having a swapfile but I don't want it used for anything other than Suspend-to-disk. i.e. I don't want the SSD being hit with multiple writes caused by VM.
I don't think your problem is unique. I have a few ideas that if I could only get substantial funding for just might work. That said:

>Could I put it on a corporate card as an LLC and do my best to make it work? Then fold without harm or fowl if it doesn't? Is that unethical?

Any bank worth their salt won't simply hand over a huge line of credit for an idea. Banks are risk averse, that's why VC exists. But hey, if you are honest with your plan and they give you money, this is the route.
The stand as outlined above is the middle way: I.e. neither belief nor non-belief. Beliefs are useful models but are only models after all.
Many people say open source but mean free software; there's not much software that is the former but not the latter. The success of free software is in the fact that for many developers, it is the default license; most developers will prefer free software, all else considered equal. This was not always the case.

Free software is absolutely ubiquitous, has only grown for decades and has had no major schisms. That makes it a very effective ideology.

>would Stallman still work with me?

Yes. Stallman works with many people who disagree with many of his pet peeves.
The article goes on and on but says nothing insightful. Just Wikipedia-like facts, strung together for the purpose of who knows. Be warned or be content that you're not the only one with that feeling.
Yeah, there is: speed. I work on software for inland cargo shipping, and the major factor there is speed and inflexibility of destinations. Trains, at least for cargo, are easily faster by a factor of two, if not faster. Going from the port of Rotterdam to Groningen (north of NL) takes about 24 hours by barge, but will take only around 8 hours by cargo train. By passenger train similar distances will take around 4 to 5 hours.

Usually this is not too big of an issue when transporting cheap bulk goods, but especially food and other perishables (flowers!) are difficult when it comes to transportation over water.

It's quite curious how the Europe is the only place with real inland shipping networks over water, other regions do not even come close in terms of amount of cargo transported, even though the natural resources are often there. The rest of the world pretty much relies on trains and trucks to transport cargo. There is quite some room for disruption here, but it's a hard an capital intensive market to break into.

EDIT: To come back to your point about people, they often value time quite highly. Not very many people take a ship to travel the world anymore, even though there is a lot of the earth reachable by the sea. Natural resources is only one part of the equation, and usually the trade-off is between time and money.
In my experience Berlin has much better air quality than London.
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Fuck Chinese government.

Support freedom for Hong Kong, and Taiwain.
The developer - the individual contributor - rarely gets to decide what the “right work” is in any large organization.
I'd say the latter, and "the bet" was used as an after the fact excuse.
Even without the free trial, how on earth can you burn $100 in cloud resources in a month if you plan to resell it for $10?
I've been playing magic for more than 20 years, I played a lot of Hearthstone when it first came out and I've played hundreds of hours of Elder Scrolls Legends (which I liked a lot more than Hearthstone, but nowhere near as much as Magic).

I really wanted to be drawn in by Artifact, but every time I read about the basic concepts, the rules or strategies it never sounded fun and appealing. So, in the end I didn't buy it.
I approach driving as full focus activity at all times, never trust the other participants in their actions and reaction time, and I am cautiousy trusting that the system that my volvo has will try to prevent harm if all else fails. Their approach and mission statement around safety are very no non-sense, and the Pilot assist system manages to avoid being hyped as a revolutionary but it has just the right features to help me on long commutes. If their software development pipeline is half as refined as their overall engineering, I trust to recommend them.
Facebook would be the major counterexample for your hypothesis.
Your comment is even cuter.
It's not the swapfile that's the issue it's having the swapfile also be used for virtual memory.

If it was only used for suspend that would be fine because it would only be written to when you suspend the laptop, which in the grand scheme of things is pretty rare compared to writes caused by virtual memory swapping.
Also, a lot of peer reviewers have been trained this way, so even if DO make a paper more readable, you might be endangering it from getting published at all.
People investing in things can yield higher effective returns because the private equity funds are also tax shelters. In the most simple scheme, your billion dollars of income in an S&P 500 ETF will generate $20M of taxable dividends. Wrapping it in the fund can be used to make that a long term capital gain, and the partnership structure has other positive taxation features. (Like avoiding gift or estate taxes)

In general, if you see some complex/bullshit sounding financial vehicle that doesn't make sense to you, it likely exists to avoid taxation.
The first $5250/yr of employer paid educational benefits should be non-taxable to you.
It's mostly an attitude held by more casual players who don't want to spend money buying specific cards to play along with the current metagame. They see netdecking as either paying to win, which in some sense it is, in Magic: the Gathering at least, or just 'cheating' when someone assembles a deck from a list they found online.

People who play magic more competitively definitely do not have this attitude and spend a lot of time experimenting with the meta, and reading about it and the deck archetypes for the format(s) they play in. Including tournament winning deck-lists.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Goodenough

Last name became a necessity when governments introduced personal taxation(the Poll Tax).
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I think you are over confident on the "public face" of your app, and not the "private side" of it. You are saying it would be great and people would talk about it because it is really cool.

I am not saying that's not true - but that isn't enough to make it a product (or being bought out). Some of the most popular products out there aren't hard to do. The complicated part is how to scale them to be as fast with that many users and don't lose money. Twitter? It could be done in a few months (I am not saying it is a weekend project), but that doesn't mean you have Twitter. The hard part of Twitter is not tweet, publish, have followers, is doing in almost realm time with that amount of data. You could say almost the same for YouTube (Upload and play video? Easy. Do it for millions of video at the same time... oops!).

Try to optimize your backend, so it doesn't cost much money. If not, you have just something that does something nice but it doens't do it well. Many people can do that. The secret of success is doing great things without consume many resources.
> I'm looking at product management jobs or software engineering jobs.

Suggest looking instead for the person you can best help. Think Founders/COO's of early-stage firms.

Try to connect with that individual. Linkedin is good for this. They'll likely relate to your story.
Also maybe a less predictable otp
I tend to think that, worst of all, the West saw an inexhaustible supply chain.

Nobody was thinking about what to do next after all that money filled the coffers of a political establishment not under any pressure to liberalize.
Especially since those savings are not subject to taxation!
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Trying to wrap my head around this: someone needs to make money from it, or what would they be buying out? So why not you?

If you need funding, then you have to build a compelling case sans demo. It's not unheard of.
> But I'm not sure what `M-C-j` is

Meta-Control-j

Basically hold down the 'Alt' and 'Control' keys and then press 'j'.

If you don't want to have to toggle it every time you launch gdb, then you can create a ~/.inputrc file with the following contents:

$if gdb
set editing-mode vi
$endif

If you want vi bindings in every program that uses GNU Readline (Bash, etc.), then you can leave off the $if/$endif part.

For colors - GDB 8.3 added source code syntax highlighting, but it was just released this year and may not be the version on your Linux distribution.
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> I'm writing it in Rust, so it's relatively fast. But throwing thousands of people at it will still require extreme scale.

Do some maths.

Get one (1) small EC2 instance on the free tier. Deploy the test version there. Keep adding test clients until the thing is maxed out (presumably on CPU for your application?). That gives you a ceiling for "peak usage". You may find this is surprisingly high.

Come up with a ballpark figure for how many client requests a normal user will make in a day.

You can now start producing cost numbers for using various solutions, from AWS to dedicated hosting. If you don't have deep pockets, do not choose an option which can incur unlimited bills.

Before you can even think of selling it to someone, you need to have a compelling revenue story. Not actual revenue, but a convincing path to revenue. These days that's usually advertising. Can you bung some ads in there from Google to cover startup costs?

Which would you rather have, the system page you in the middle of the night to add more instances manually, or the system do it on your behalf without regard to cost?
Does Guix use the Linux kernel or Hurd? In any case, I can understand kernel growth. There are a lot of new drivers, new and old architectures (386 machines were supported in Linux until a few years back; and there's still a fork that does), all the new file systems, all the new networking and cgroup isolation. You can build a minimal kernel without a lot of that stuff, and it will still run on older embedded hardware. But just having a large kernel source and large default kernels/initrds isn't bloat so much as supporting a lot of hardware possibilities.
or maybe flies simply do not like the smell of paint and went to bite the ones without paint.
Maybe if you paint all cows they continue biting the same, since they will rather bite cows with paint smell instead of dying of starvation
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Because everyone running the exact same meta is a very boring game. Instead of each game being it's own unique battle, it's the same battle ad infinitum.
For entry level (probably for interns, maybe for new grads), it makes some sense. But asking any American developer with >= 1 year of experience to do this would be kind of crazy.
Same exact thing happened to me. They claimed to be from PayPal.
About half way through the ordeal I caught wind of it thankfully.