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I doubt that the frameworks (e.g., JavaFX) for creating a GUI in Java work fine on the BSDs.

Portable GUI code is harder than portable code without a GUI.
Ah! So given the language (explicitly using the word powerbox), it does seem a very good bet that whoever introduced this at Apple was at least aware of the work, and perhaps directly inspired by it.
Where I work, leadership and people skills are severely lacking amongst programmers, so just a modicum of both makes one stand out pretty easily.
What you are describing would be insanely hard to get right, but its exactly what we need.
Yeah, YouTube for instance is filled with examples of this, some of which become major success stories on the platform. In the gaming world alone, I can already think of people like pannenkoek2012 and Stryder7x, whose entire careers are basically built on glitches in Super Mario 64 and Paper Mario respectively.

And many outside that too. From medieval weaponry to chicken shop reviews, the internet has a fair people who make a living off all kinds of very specific subjects that most people wouldn't even think about.
Actually I'm wondering maybe the striving to best mentality is also in the genetics or early education. But I do agree that this mentality helps tremendously.
I think this is a serious issue for intelligent people.

The curriculum is tailored towards people of average intelligence, so if you are one, two, or three standard deviations above that, you won't be under pressure to develop a work ethic because you can get good grades without it.

Of course, if your intelligence is above average, then you probably are interested in a career that attracts other intelligent people.

And then you are in a serious trouble, because now you are in an environment where everyone is of similar intelligence, so you don't have your competitive advantage anymore, plus some people have a work ethic that you lack.

And even if you are still a standard deviation above most people, there are likely other people who are at the same level as you, and they might have a work ethic.

I think this is something that people who have intelligent children need to pay attention to.
> If you're bothering to include Linux in your list of Desktop platforms at all you may as well include the BSDs.

I guess, but the amount of people I know that use BSDs are even fewer than the amount that use Linux. Given that Linux is a hard enough sell to support for most apps I doubt that BSD support would be offered even if the framework supports it.

> Besides, Java works fine on BSDs. Why is it that when modern developers reinvent the wheel they so often manage to do it worse than the last time?

Speak for yourself, I would MUCH rather use an Electron app than a Java app. No need to make sure you have a proper JVM installed AND the apps don't look hideous like 99% of the Java apps I've ever used do.
trust fund kids with their MFAs playing at being bohemians, more likely. These days a lot of people who would have been bohemians are drawing porn of cartoon characters on Patreon to pay the bills. Art is a rich man's game now.
The IPO likely would have launched at somewhere between a $10B and $15B valuation. After kicking Neumann out and making some changes that look very sane on paper, the valuation has dropped to around $8B.

Not saying I'd ever want to work with Neumann, but arguably he wasn't the worst of the drag. He successfully got Son/SoftBank to believe WeWork was worth up to $47B, and got a ton of money while retaining control of the company.

I wonder if WeWork might have been better off (at least in the short/medium term) if Neumann had stayed on and they'd've gone through the IPO.
I guess people being at the 99 percentile of one specialized thing probably are better compensated (with respect to salary) than people being at 99 percentile of their array of skills. However, maybe for the latter, also compensation is an array consisting of work-life-balance elements like sports, free-time, hobbies, happiness on the job and family life aside from pure monetary compensation.
Google also stalking you on porn sites (Even in private browsing)
My wife and her brother made pretty decent money as 11-14 year olds delivering papers in their neighborhood. About 80% of houses got at least the Sunday edition.
Previously:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21327712

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21315699

Although unknown why they're labeled `[flagged]` :-(
we do this too at Taloflow.ai
we basically deliver a managed version of Grafana (rather than a proprietary UI) for our AWS cloud spend management tool. we work primarily with devs, and they tend to love and work with Grafana already, so this was a no brainer at our startup.
What kinds of things do you ask? I’ve interviewed and worked at FAANGs. I’ve done mostly coding and design interviews. I don’t doubt your ability but help me understand your model. Is it more open ended (tell me about your previous projects... candidate can speak to the problem domain, design, implementation choices, trade offs, or dive deeper into “Oh yeah we had to instrument events to feed into data processing pipelines for personalization...and XYZ failed so I had to do ABC.”) or is there something more critical?
The GP probably meant semi-automatic, which firearms are ubiquitous. It might have been better to offer that correction than a derailing argument which was itself somewhat inaccurate.
Microsoft is working on an API that will use the chromium that's part of their new version of edge. It's already available for use (of course right now you have to have the edge beta downloaded): https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/hosting/webv...
I didn't set the parameters of the question. I didn't consider investing the money either, proving that I was literally just responding to the scenario as presented. I chose San Fransisco, because it's close to home for posters here.
They were not same hackers and likely not even spiritual followers.
I don't think this will disrupt the market. Most business owners don't want to tinker with the code and also don't want to hunt through forums or find a developer to fix their software issues. They just want it to work and be able to get support.

This is why Amazon is so successful with the way they use open source. Most business owners probably don't even realize there is open source running their dashboard.

It could be successful if a large company took it and built an all-inclusive service around it. But then you would be back to what we have now with Amazon and Shopify.
I would disagree that modern hackers embrace racism and bigotry. I feel like that's more of the "unwashed masses" on the Internet.
I wasn't the best in HS, but I never had to study...ever. Got to college and nearly failed out my first semester while I taught myself how to study.
Hackers – Heroes of the Computer Revolution
>The speed problems and bloat issues of Electron is just shoddy programming on the maker’s part - Electron itself isn’t slow.

I doubt this is entirely true. VSCode is frequently cited as an example of a good, performant Electron application. Its performance is generally acceptable (I use it as my primary text editor), but it absolutely chugs sometimes. Sublime is light-years ahead in terms of performance.
The Times of Manhattan.
The funny thing is, if I remember his autobiographies correctly, he wouldn't let anyone else get away with that. I think he said that if he didn't understand something, he would always ask about it.
Oh, cool, we must work together.

I pushed my team hard to get some discipline around meeting agendas. It lasted for a week or two. I threatened to stop attending meetings otherwise. My Director told me to knock it off. So, the signal is clear, right? We're all just fucking around and playing pretend at being professionals.
You mean that you say "do they want some chocolate" when directly asking that single person if that single person wants chocolate?

I thought that "they" is too ne used instead of he or she (3rd person) - which I find useful to avoud he/she or (s)he

EDIT: I had an epiphany under the shower, sorry I misunderstood you and you probably meant that you now have to say "ask your friend Jane if they want chocolate"
>VS Code for ages didn't put titles on windows you minimized

The fact that they eventually put it there tells me that it wasn't a fault of Electron in the first place, but fault of the designers/devs. Electron allows you to do all those nice things you love if you want to, so I don't see how it is Electron's and not designers'/devs' fault.
This is an excellent summary of the situation, and reflects on my own career path. I moved from Austin to SF cuz I'm not-married and thus can keep my COL reasonably low while working on high impact, high visibility and frankly, high fun projects. But, its not a lifestyle I would want to keep when I will get married and have kids... a less demanding job + lower COL seems incredibly reasonable to me.
Apple wouldn't exist if not for Allen's original Blue Box Tone Generator. It's what funded them.
That's a tough one. Most people either don't understand or refuse to acknowledge that velocity is not a measure of how much you can accomplish. It's not a goal of work. It's a speed limit. The team's velocity signifies that its the maximum amount of work they can reasonably accomplish while adhering to certain quality standards. Organizations like to ignore this, because it makes them feel like they are making people more productive.

The question I ask when confronted with situations like this is, "Do you want to lessen the quality of the code base for increased productivity?" This honestly makes people a little upset, because they know the answer they want to say vs. the answer they should say. Once someone says no to this question, they open themselves up to negotiating over the amount of work to accomplish within a given period of time.
I believe mathematics as a field is really suffering because there is not much in the way of "Feynman"-style books. But people like John Baez and John Conway have countered this trend somewhat. You should definitely try reading anything by these two. Conway does tend to be a bit too brief at times.

And there's this book: "Conceptual mathematics" by Lawvere and Schanuel. It's unlike any other mathematics text I have found. Fundamental and easy to read: yes. Also leads up to some deep ideas in an intuitive way.
Good tech skills plus hate human interation. Or vice versa. Some people just have the innate to get good at both. I think if you want you can definitely train very hard to be OK for sth you hate but is it worth it?
Remote to my grandmother is what she uses to change channel. To us is a way of life. It means different things to different people. There's no appropriation being done here, nor do we plan to do so. We fundamentally respect what it means to be remote and we're only a way to improve it and make it more mainstream, nothing more.
On Gitlab telemetry and your privacy on the Web
I run two relay nodes. It is exactly as simple as running apt-get and editing the config.
you know some of us have to also make money to pay for being alive and it's hard to bootstrap an application if you have to pay $5,508 up front, per developer, and then again on an annual basis

Are you really surviving on $5,500 annually?
As a consumer, the biggest appeal of print newspaper advertising (as opposed to web, social media, etc) is legitimacy.

No fly-by-night scam operation will be able to afford a full page ad in a reputable magazine, and I hope newspapers also do due diligence on the advertisements they run, as their reputation (and possibly even legal liability, especially in certain fields like medicine, etc) is at stake.

This means I can be confident an ad in a magazine won't be an outright scam and I can somewhat trust it (sure, it's still trying to sell me something that I wouldn't have otherwise bought, but if it's relevant and I'm confident it's not a scam or low quality crap, then why not?).

The same does not apply to digital advertising where there's plenty of shit, no human actually reviews the ads and given the ads are very targeted there's little chance anyone else sees the ad (in a magazine, everyone sees it, so an expert in the field can speak up, unlike for a targeted ad where only the people in the targeting criteria - who often lack the knowledge to make an informed decision - see the ad).

The other advantage of the lack of tracking is that I get exposed to ads outside of my daily workflow. I work in IT, and if I were to browse without ad blockers (cancer blockers as I call them) I would just see IT or business-related ads all over the place. I don't want to see those - I already know what products I need for IT and have the knowledge & experience to do my own research. On the other hand, a print ad which knows nothing about me might show me an ad for cat food - I want that; I know nothing about the subject and am willing to trust the magazine's reputation behind it.
"The easiest way to be at the top of your field is to choose a very small field." - Simone Giertz, TED Talk, May 14, 2018 https://singjupost.com/why-you-should-make-useless-things-si...
I'm not going to lie, my parents pushed me really hard, which helps develop the mentality. (Probably too hard, but that's a different story)

But the great thing about the "striving to be best" mentality is you don't need anyone else to give it to you, and if you didn't get it as a kid it's never too late to start. You just need to be passionate about something and then be crazy enough to see how far you can go with it.
People will hack the sites that are proxied behind Tor .onion domains. Hacking a site is also a crime, so you won't find too many documents revealing how a crime network was exposed. Instead, they gather data from the hacked servers and hand it over as anonymous tips.

Tor is just a proxy. A fancy proxy that uses onion routing, but a proxy nonetheless. Think of it as a CDN that does not have to hand over customer details because they have plausible deniability about who you are. Unlike commercial CDN's however, Tor does not try to prevent hacking. That exercise is left to the people running the servers that Tor is routing to. As it turns out, some criminals may be lazy or inept.
Neither reality nor morality is defined by the law.

Observation of public space is not "abuse" in any way.
Learning skills often involves toy examples initially. If you're a programmer, was "Hello, world" your first program? Is there anything immediately useful in being able to generate that particular result?

Researching is a skill. Researching quickly, accurately, and effectively takes both knowing that this is possible and knowing how / where to go for information.

And no, I'm not saying that it's necessary to break up every last conversation on some point, or that all facts must be verified. But it's a useful practice and skill, there's a great deal of this that doesn't happen, and where a discussion does hinge on the ability to produce and verify facts, this can be quite useful.

I find discussions in which a point is both germane and verifiable but people actively avoid checking it to be ... rather disappointing. More frequently in professional, scientific, or political contexts, but all the same.
I was pretty good at Chess myself growing up, consistently got trophies in tournaments. Ranked in the top 5 nationally (within the US) for my age group, the trophy I earned for that was bigger than me (I was 12 at the time).

Still though being top 5 in the US for that age group dosent mean very much, the US is one country out of many others. On top of that as you stack against other ages especially say when I became an Adult there is no guarantee I would have even made it to the top 10000, never-mind the top 5, because far more Adults play chess.

I dont think the author is discouraging people from doing that if thats what they are passionate about.

Far more importantly I think he is giving "regular" people who arent gifted a path to massive success by being "pretty good" at a few different things. He is mathematically trying to prove that it will lead to great results, perhaps maybe even better results, than being the absolute best at one thing.

There are diminishing returns to pushing yourself if you arent gifted, you may try your heart out and never ever get to be the very best at Chess. Let's say you hypothetically committed large chunks of your life to it, dont have any other skills, and now are broke and cant live a good meaningful life because you dont earn much for being great at Chess, you only earn if you are the very best.

His path is safer for most of us.
Super nice! Congratulations on the launch. Looks like a lot of work.

It appears you're already on the hitlists of ad-blockers. So is Segment: They seem to be surviving just fine, regardless.

A few questions (honestly, you don't have to answer them all, esp publicly, if you don't feel like it):

1. Wouldn't a deployment of this on the first-party severs be more effective since it'd bypass the content blockers (server-side sdk)? Is it in the works?

2. What else are the existing customers / prospective customers asking for in terms of features?

3. What's the key functionality you ought to build next?

4. What was the most surprising thing abt how customers used your product?

5. Does it play nicely with other frameworks like Optimizely, Fastly, React, and so on... out of the box? Is the mutiny js-sdk a simple drop and forget? What's the catch?

6. Why the emphasis on B2B? I can't imagine why it wouldn't work for B2C (low-income vs high-income societies, artics vs tropics, europeans vs africans and so on)?

I really like the logo, the colours, and the super neat landing page.

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A few suggestions from the comfort of the armchair I'm sitting on at the altar of unsolicited feedback from a non-expert:

1. Are you using mutinyhq on mutinyhq.com? If not, you could do so, and link a demo that shows mutinyhq as it would appear to a SaaS employee to someone from the finance industry to someone from Vietnam? Like how you do currently for Brex, Segment, Amplitude, and Carta: I must point out that it take too many clicks to browse what those really powerful examples. I wonder if viewing those could be a tad more friction free like how Facebook lets you view your profile from different PoVs.

2. Above the fold one liner, Turn your website into your #1 growth channel doesn't convey enough: I wouldn't click on (CTA) request invite, tbh. I'd expect to learn more / see faq / view demo (a screencast / video, may be)?

3. Personally, to me, the section with "works with any tech stack", "B2B playbooks to up your game", "More leads, fewer dependencies", "Reclaim your website" is too handwavy without conveying much (except for, works with any tech stack). I think, you'd be better off highlighting the 30 playbooks instead. I went through the three playbooks linked from the front-page and they did far more than anything to convince me to sign-up.

4. I feel, because the final section ends with ...let our team walk you through tactics to increase your inbound leads by up to 50%, the CTA could be Schedule a meeting (with href-mailto / calendly link) and/or Talk to us now (directing to a whatsapp chat or some such for visitors from mobile web).

5. "User adds the Mutiny javascript to their website and defines their website conversion events in the Mutiny UI." This isn't anywhere on the landing page. I wish it was. Stripe.com is a good example which conveys how easy it is to accept payments. The same goes for the editor you've built. I'd, personally, be blown away if I could see a screencast of it in-use, than read a blob of text abt it.

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What a great product! All the best.
Geometric average returns for stocks are over 7%, and that accounts for inflation. The scenario presented to me included no investments, and a flat career.

I think the high cost of living in San Fransisco was a reasonable assumption for someone in the top 1% of income. I think the complete absence of investment in my analysis more than makes up for a flat career. It's not even clear that modeling a flat career growth increases the number, since income tends to peak around 48.
> Paul Erdős, one of the most prolific mathematicians in history, remained unconvinced until he was shown a computer simulation demonstrating the predicted result (Vazsonyi 1999).

this tidbit is pretty wild
I start pretty open ended, then ask specific questions about their choices. I almost always ask them to describe some of the schema of the db or how pieces of their project were communicating with each other... I also ask them what they like about their language of choice and why. I keep the questions specific to their projects and experience though.

I should add that I strongly favor candidate with open source experience, so most of the time I'll have also looked at their code myself and may have some questions about it.

The number one thing I look for is: can this person ship software? I'll ask a lot about the project lifecycle, what they did to get it across the finish line, how they supported and enhanced it... I try to do this in a non-leading way.
The best way to increase your odds of getting shot is to own a gun. Owning guns is dangerous. Occasionally for some people it will turn out to be a positive, but in general, owning a gun is a negative.
I don't think the original article was about not giving the best to achieve things, but more about diversifying skills to achieve a reasonably high level more efficiently compared to focusing on one skill.
Oh, I see. That line was used in the movie posters at the time.
Yep, true - it was based on manifesto :)
I think that's fair for trying to master physics or to become a physicist. But if you're looking for an intuitive understanding of the concepts or relearning it, which seems to be what the OP is looking for, Feynman-style seems like the optimal type of book.

I don't think Feynman's books are a replacement for a more traditional physics textbook as a student looking to pass a class, become a physicist, or a hobbyist trying to master it, but I do think they're pretty ideal for someone who wants to get much stronger grasp of the concepts than a layman without having to go through the struggle associated with solving problems they'll never actually apply.
I didn't know about the companion exercises. That's great.
I don't agree that it's right that they write him a big check, but I, too, have trouble feeling too angry at Neumann.

He played the game remarkably well: he managed to get a prominent investor to believe the company was worth a ton of money. The public markets disagreed quite vehemently on that value, and yet he still managed to retain a huge amount of leverage to the point where he's being paid quite a hefty sum to give up control.

It absolutely sucks that many of the regular rank-and-file are getting shafted, but that is one of the many risks you take on when you join a startup where you have a low salary, compensated by private-company stock options funny-money. If you (for example) have a family and no other source of income, you should not take that deal. If you take it anyway, and it blows up in your face, that's on you. Humans are unfortunately remarkably bad at risk assessment sometimes.
There's a bunch of Eigen analogues in Rust, which is slightly frustrating. ndarray is pretty great though
I can't count the number of times I've hit the Windows key, quickly typed in "Windows Update", hit enter, and was presented with a web search result for "Windows Update".

I'd wonder what MS is smoking, but I think I know. Windows is such a low priority to them these days that they put all their most inexperienced or terrible coders to work on it. That's why it's full of webdev-flavor awfulness.
A Data-Driven Reflection on 36 Years of Security and Privacy Research [pdf]