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I had an ASUS N66U for over five years. It was released in 2011 [0] and I got rid of it last year for a mesh system. But looking at Asus’ support page, it still gets firmware updates [1] with the most recent in June.

Most reputable vendors put out firmware updates for a long time. Routers should not be disposable consumer devices, I think.

I have this belief both from a security standpoint (frequent updates are important) but also as someone who supports quite a few family members. Switching out routers over the phone is not easy for an 80 year old.

[0] https://wikidevi.com/wiki/ASUS_RT-N66U

[1] https://www.asus.com/us/Networking/RTN66U/HelpDesk_BIOS/
Oracle is slashing positions in a lot of their sales divisions. There was a large layoff this spring/summer, and from what I can tell from contacts that were there, anyone who can is jumping ship to AWS or other competitors, and poaching as many of their old customers with them as they can.
Anyone can read The Millionaire Next Door...
Philanthrophic Capitalism, Gates Foundation, Vaccines and the Indian Government
That's true. I use as many default options I can. But there are good points in the article
Will be interesting to see whether Amazon can make their insight into a service. Countless companies would be glad about a migration path from Oracle to AWS's solutions.
I've heard that Google is bad at dog fooding their own cloud infrastructure and even that Borg is still dominant over Kubernetes in their internal infra but don't have any insider knowledge. If true this is one thing that Amazon is vastly superior than Google at.
Mozilla Sponsored Solo's FIDO2 Certification
wasn't Larry Ellison last year who was bragging that the whole of Amazon/AWS runs on Oracle?
It is my understanding that out of respect for the original establishment of the prize, they haven't amended it as an "official" prize, but have essentially fully adopted it - it's just a matter of economics not being much of a discipline when the prize was originally established, no?
As someone who has only somewhat recently started using D, I would love to see this language succeed. It's been such a pleasure to use.. scope guards, string mixin, inline json & std.json. It's been so useful for the code I write at work. Much love for D

The one thing I would add to this list is documentation! There is a lot of good documentation available, but not for everything you would expect. For example, I had a hard time figuring out the behavior of sub-packages within a dub package. Some more explicit documentation on this subject would have been appreciated.
Five game design flaws of Quidditch
Or the modern equivalent -- a Kindle tablet.

If you have Amazon Prime they even give you a selection for free and then theres Kindle Unlimited, a subscription that lets you rent a ton more books.
At least in azure, the "platform" that azure runs on doesn't have anything like a managed sql database or a distributed queue service. It's strictly a compute platform. I'd imagine GP is suggesting that only the things that absolutely must run on internal-only infra do so and the rest like YouTube or Gmail run purely on top of GCP (which only happens to be on top of internal infra)
8 years ago, Canada was not even in the radar. Today, it is plan B for Indian tech professionals in the US and quickly becoming plan A for Indian students applying to study abroad. As the ecosystem improves, future inflow of talent will tilt towards Canada. Change takes time.
It's understandable that the PSF wouldn't endorse a maintainer.

They can't stop someone from releasing something that runs just like Python 2 and has a different name.
I detest the fact that Google bought Nest. Now I have the pleasure of logging into a convoluted Google UX instead of the familiar Nest UX.

And here we have another intrusion of Google into our home. It's clear Google has no respect for anyone's privacy and is now a part of the problem.
Hacker News gets some of the smartest people willing to jump into a comment section, but its also full of uninformed idiots talking out of their ass and trying to sound authoritative. I won’t defend them, but complaining about something someone else posted in another thread isn’t gonna get you too much sympathy either.
I don’t think I’d ever add a box to my home network that sniffed all traffic and sent it to Google, even if they paid me. Even if it had the functions of a Star Trek replicator.

I’m worried enough now that my Nest is doing bad things, but I can set that up on its own network that only it has access to. Giving Google such access to my home network is scary.
Taplytics (YC W14) is hiring all engineering roles in Toronto
True. I need mesh WiFi for my home because it's very long, and I have been waiting for like two years for mesh devices with 802.11ax to come out, as I want the best possible speed and coverage and don't want to spend hundreds of euros in devices that will be obsolete in a few years. And at the moment, nothing seems to have been released, just announcements for the future...

At the end I may run out of patience and just look for something second hand.
You may never see Studio Ghibli’s movies on streaming services
There is always some bullshit moral outrage used as the excuse to make laws that are really there to protect existing institutions of power.
The analogy that I find helpful is that an MBA is to the business world the same thing that design patterns are to coding.

Neither are an answer to all things, both can be used in the wrong places, but both give you a toolkit that saves you from re-inventing wheels if you first recognize that you are in a scenario where these tools will help.

Odds are, an MBA will help you less getting a small company going, but more when you are re-organizing larger companies, or integrating organizations after a merger/acquisition.
Swiss babes
You must have missed the Amazon Corretto announcement— there’s an Amazon JDK now.
> "The rise of the MBA has seen the downfall of quality."

specious and unsupported statement. what "quality" are you talking about? what "downfall" has there been? when, how and why did "it" rise in the first place?

you're making a fundamental attribution error (a topic taught in an MBA program, no less) by hinting at structural issues that are much wider and far-reaching than a simple graduate degree.

make a reasoned point rather than trotting out a trite boogeyman.
In 2001/2003, I led a small team at an agency that converted Kraftfoods and 50+ brands from 25+ ATG Dynamo web/app CMS servers + 20+ Oracle servers to .NET 1.0 CMS on 3 web servers, 3 app servers and 3 Microsoft SQL Servers.

Even then Oracle tools were horrible for developers and still are. The only reason they had that many databases was Oracle's business is licensing, massive, expensive licenses, and their sales pushed them sold through upper management. Those days are almost over, developers choose the tech, the cloud is here. Without Tom [1], Oracle was basically not even a great developer community, all documentation was bad and the Java interfaces on the tools / management studio were horrendous. Oracle is fast but for most things on the web caching comes into play heavily and other databases are good enough. Oracle is good for large datasets/reporting, cursors are extremely fast when Oracle is tuned, the problem is it is like vehicle that needs tuning and optimization all the time or it drives bad. The cost and upkeep make Oracle mostly overkill and too painful.

Ellison laughed at the cloud like Ballmer laughed at the iPhone. That was a major error. But ultimately Ellison is an engineer that forgot to make sure developers like to use the product. That will ultimately be their fatal flaw as now the developers choose the tools not what is sold in above them.

All other platforms are developer centric and cloud first now. Oracle the all seeing one says the end is nigh for Oracle the database. No new projects will be using it without force. Too bad Oracle also owns MySQL, Java etc. I really wish someone else had bought Sun.

[1] https://asktom.oracle.com
Are you in a $3000 Macbook or on a $500 Windows PC? Linux? Power user maybe? And so on...
The DDB query language is one of the largest warts on the face of AWS. “Select From Where” is a solved problem!
Not sure how much sarcasm is built into your statement but as a long time user & supporter of Postgres I have to disagree. Postgres is fantastic at many things but there are times when it's not the best choice. An example would be high-scale OLAP. I've tried to use PG for those cases but ingesting thousands+ of events per second into PG and then trying to perform rollups on them in an online capacity (near real-time availability) requires a TON of extra legwork to get it going and near continuous maintenance thereafter. Other purpose-built DB's for OLAP such as Druid, Clickhouse, etc are much better suited for this type of use-case. The main advantage these systems have over Postgres is their column-oriented nature vs. row-oriented of PG and other RDMS.
I'm convinced that housing cooperatives are going to become more mainstream for exactly this reason. I know other millennials who would do a co-op in a heartbeat The biggest hurdles are setting up the legal terms and the fact that financing is much harder than for single family homes (no FHA loans).
All polar molecules will react to all EM fields. (did you know you can bend a water stream with a magnet?).

The wavelength of microwave ovens is even longer, at 6.66cm. And yet that's the rotational resonant frequency of water. Weird, huh? By the way, you can confirm this with a single slice of cheese with the turnplate removed and then calculate the speed of light from the burn marks on that cheese being 3.33cm apart :)

The only question is whether that reaction at any given frequency has any impact on the larger system those molecules are part of.

The answer is scientists aren't sure because they haven't had a chance to experiment much, and you and I are sure as shit not qualified to comment on it.

I'm not going to don a tinfoil hat over 5g rollouts, but this cavalier attitude of just expecting everything to be fine without any meaningful testing is just as bad if not worse than the conspiracy theories.
Thanks for that perspective and honesty. There is really something rather immoral and quite clearly evil going on in the tech sector. Regardless of where one is from, I don't think it is all that difficult to understand that, it is utterly immoral and depraved to replace the indigenous population with foreign national "talent" out of a sheer profit greed and to compensate for utter failure of leadership and governance with the extraction of human resources from foreign societies, which, btw are thereby also sabotaged.

Just think about that; would anyone here, even the most tech sector Kool-Aid drinking fan, support the ethnic replacement at the highest and most well paid levels of society, e.g., in Japanese by Chinese, in India by Nigerians, in Peru by Indians, etc. and yet so many here are ardent supporters of that very genocidal ethnic replacement going on in the USA in particular.
A per-person charge makes free/volunteer-organized events largely a non-starter. Any charge is a huge friction for people signing up for something. And unless it's a corporate sponsored event (and often even then), the $5 or so per person who actually ends up attending is significant.

Probably people/companies will just depend on word of mouth and other channels to promote events and not depend on discovery through a specific service.
Stroustrup is the beloved creator of C++, but C++ is decidedly not governed by a benevolent dictator; a very large and active Committee guides its future: https://isocpp.org/std/the-committee
Fast Non-Standard Data Structures for Python
I mean, Kodak literally made the first digital camera as well.
Reading tech books requires that you frequently stop and think, and work problems or write code. This slows the read speed significantly.

At slowest, reading math can take 30 minutes or more per page. Likewise, if you intend to ace an exam in molecular biology or physics or medicine, you'll be taking notes and re-reading often.

In fact, few substantial nonfiction books can be read quickly. I suspect that only popular nonfiction fare can (like political screeds or one-concept wonders).
There is no fundamental difference between the workflow of a catalog based operation and a website based operation. In 1995 there were no "modern eCommerce operations" so any difference wouldn't have mattered anyone. Sears had as much experience doing direct to consumer sales as anyone could have possibly had at that time.
He often uses Java as a means of making that statement somewhat true.
One of Linux's most important commands had a glaring security flaw
I actually find this isn’t my experience in NYC, admittedly I actively avoid such talks and go straight to collective hack nights or special interests (Eg. Postgres devs or similar niches).
> Windows is way WAY more customizable than Gnome 3.

What? Last time I've tried it I couldn't even set CAPSLOCK for layout switching. Even Gnome is WAY more customizable than that nonsense.
Anyone know why they changed it so that you now need a router + repeater, rather than every point being a router and repeater like Google Wifi was? That was much simpler - all units interchangeable. Cost reduction maybe?
Thanks for that recommendation!
The video strikes me as an epic troll:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yBP5gnnZi4&feature=youtu.be
I’m interested in seeing how much they try to milk Java in the next 10 years. I can see them getting desperate enough to really bring the hammer down on licensing, killing off openjdk, and making life miserable for everyone in the process.
> I don't know what kind of reasoning you applied here.

He's a but-for cause thereof, white wage-slave retard.
The preceding post is using tort-law causation logic obviously, fucking moron.

>DUURRR I DONT KNOW WHAT I DONT KNOW BUT I KNOW EVERYTHING!!!!
-t. white fuck.
> China does have a long history of invading other countries, but they try to suppress knowledge of it.

China doesn't invade other countries, it just discovers inseparable parts of China.
The word “emoji” does not come from “emotion”, unlike “emoticon”.
REF:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrzMYL901AQ
Note that you can see exactly what is contained in the telemetry ping by going to about:telemetry.
If provisioning and maintaining MS SQL Server is more of a happy path for your IT department, that's not a bad choice either.
We received an email on Oct 11 to schedule a video call with our team. We had scheduled it for today 9:30am and got an email earlier this morning that it was canceled and to select another time.
"Do people know about CMD+Tilde to switch windows within an app? CMD+Tab to the App and Tilde to the Window?"

I am perfectly happy with the default behavior of CMD+TAB for switching between apps - mainly because, as in every other DE, CMD+TAB has a memory and will allow you to toggle immediately between "last used". So, no matter what order the app-stack is in, you can switch to some app with CMD+TAB and then rapidly switch back and forth.

BUT, CMD+` has no such memory. You cannot switch to a different window of an app and then rapid-fire CMD+` back and forth.

Put simply: the behavior of CMD+` and CMD+TAB are different, but shouldn't be.

This has been the case since forever (in my case, Leopard) and it makes me wonder what people who actually work at Apple are doing with their computers that they did not hate-fix this 11 years ago.
Even if you have tracking protection enabled you can still turn DNT off by toggling "privacy.donottrackheader.enabled" in about:config.
I believe 2to3 hasn't been the entirely recommended way for a while - modernize
(dual compatibility via the six module) and futurize (more magic to make as many python3 idioms work in 2 as possible) let you move towards python 3 without breaking compatibility from python 2, and give you ways of working in both versions at once - 2to3 isn't even mentioned on https://docs.python.org/3/howto/pyporting.html.

That said, syntax conversion is usually only a small part of the problem - unicode handling can be more problematic, especially if you've never spent much time thinking about or working with encoding/decoding.

It's definitely _much_ easier if you have a good grasp of both versions of the language and the changes that were made, and it isn't helped by the pervasive myth that "It's just brackets on print statements".

We recently converted a ~900kloc open source codebase to dual python 2/3 with many scattered interested parties and approached it in roughly a phased way - Using CI to prevent backsliding of syntax converted portions of the codebase and getting the tests running (and failing) in python3 early were crucial. (To add to this - a very _early_ step was getting the future imports in place - every file had future absolute_import, division imported at a very early stage. For division, you can also start python2 with -Qnew and it'll force all division to "modern" style).
It's not obvious to me that downward social mobility and upward social mobility are the same things. Lamenting the fact that Michael Dell's son "just hasn't become poor like me yet" sounds like sour grapes. This mindset that in order for people like me to make it people at the top have to fall only makes sense if you consider the economy a fixed-sized pie. It's obviously not.
No doubt inequality is an issue, but this seems pretty harsh on Zach Dell. His ventures failed... most do. So he tried something else and got what sounds like a pretty reasonable job... 22 year old analyst at a big Corp... not that crazy. I know a few ex-founders who have gone to companies after their ventures failed (and they aren't heirs to bns). the tone of the article sounds like they want to see him go to debtors prison!

also... yes... top schools are pandering to the rich. but how else do they offer scholarships? American gov't stays out of this (mostly), so it's up to the schools to make ends meet. the schools want to pay for many families, but to do so they need donors. I actually think that's better than only letting rich people attend (and not having scholarships). it's not a final solution, but in the big picture, it's a step forward.
What does PD mean, as you use it there?
That, and Oracle's legendary shitty business tactics, probably pushed AWS to make this a higher priority, and stick it in oracle's face with videos of oracle shutdown parties and blog posts.

Take that, Larry Ellison.
Right. Merchandise distribution, stockkeeping, delivery, returns, direct marketing...all these things needed to be invented from scratch by Jeff Bezos in the late '90s so that Amazon could be a success.

Likewise, I saw an actual, functioning prototype digital camera, which connected to a computer via serial...at the Kodak lab in Rochester where it was developed in the late 80s. It was never developed into a product, not because it was beyond them technically but because it didn't use film, which was what the company was all about selling.
It's probably easier applying to a company in the EU, if you google "EU blue card program", for IT jobs, if you have a university degree and a job offer from a company, you'll get a residency permit (what you're calling a work visa).

If you really want to move to Switzerland, be a taxpayer for 7 years in Germany, learn German, stay out of trouble and unemployment, and you can apply to be a German citizen. After that, moving to Switzerland is easy: show the authorities your job contract with a Swiss company, they're obliged to give you a residency permit (at least that's the arrangement they have with the EU at the moment)
Adriaan

Did you ever compare traffic results between GA and Simpleanalytics?

I know that many times GA has a difficult time recognizing traffic from Reddit and HN so it shows it only as direct.

I have Jetpack on a few of my sites and it shows completely different results than GA, mainly because I think GA can filter by default bots traffic which is kinda common on bookmark sites (when a post becomes viral)

Will try your tool... looks great
its me!

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I've been spending time learning AVR microcontrollers. Are you saying that learning ARM would be a better use of my time?
A BGA can be replaced with a freaking heat gun from Home Depot and some solder braid and some flux.

Source: I used to repair cable boxes for CTDI. While everyone else is using their Metcal station and wasting 5 minutes, I've got the BGA off, board deballed, and a new BGA package installed and ready for PKI in less than 45 seconds with a heat gun.
Is there a standard data format for recipes? That sounds interesting.
As someone who has never used or worked with Oracle DBs, can someone explain why migrating to another technology is so difficult?

With all the database engines available, is there really not another one that can match Oracle without massive customizations?
It's already used in imports as well! It was the better choice, I don't know which arguments convinced them otherwise
Ask HN: Forum to hire someone for a small ComplexPortraits.jl project?
Do you know any forums where people post one-off coding gigs? I'm looking for someone with experience using the math viz package ComplexPortraits.jl to help me generate a few images for a professional project.
In what way is it happening with student loans that the parents didn't co-sign on, i.e. debt that the parents explicitly took on?
> I think this is just rose tinted glasses.

To some degree yes, but the feeling of belonging to niche forum in the 90's and 00's, really had a different feeling today's sub-reddit, discord, slack communities.

> The internet was a lot smaller place in the past and by every measure there is orders of magnitude

This is very good point, and maybe what I'm mostly uncomfortable with. I'm uncomfortable using large web sites (like YouTube or Reddit) for community building. This could be tied to certain personality types, or lacking from something emotionally for me, but that may be what causes the feeling of missing those sites.
Is it possible your surety was incorrect?

I guess I’m somewhat confused because there was an earlier claim that one had no idea why anyone would be frustrated, but clearly you seem to have a good idea of why someone would seemingly refuse help.
Yea, this one is really annoying... required a lot of rewriting of code to make some old code work with 3.7.
You can... it just means modifying the PCB for the controls extensively. I had a friend who did this on a Subaru once. Was a huge PITA.
Suing the government is very hard [0].

There are many flaws in the US Tort system, but it at least incentivizes law firms to create class action suits to fix stuff like this article describes when private entities are the ones doing the behavior we want to change.

When it’s the government, these types of class action suits are rare, I think.

A better attempted solution would be to write to congresspeople.

Cynically, I would try to find some globocorp that could benefit from having this function privatized. At least then there would be a regulator and two different orgs to argue.

[0] https://www.wikihow.com/Sue-the-Federal-Government
> Postgres is fantastic at many things but there are times when it's not the best choice.

To be fair, that would be the 5% :).
I don't really have a lot of trust with Google to deliver a great consumer product in this area. I switched from Alexa to Google Home and just because I'm a GSuite customer, I have lost the ability to access my calendar or set reminders. It's like they just wanted to tick a few boxes to show a cool concept, then forgot to make a well rounded product out of it.
Sorry people but Switzerland is boring and hard to integrate! It's nice for specific types of people who enjoy elitism and time-boxing. I will be always surprised by how fast people vanish once the stores are closed...early in the afternoon.