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I have only ever run into dealing with InfoSys' services (back in 2011 or so they provided the entire media / marketing / advertising tech stack for Diageo, called Neo at the time).

Complete black-box. Impossible to work with. Impossible to get documentation. We literally had to debug via crash reports delivered to us every 24h. Of course it was ALWAYS their machine images somehow differing from their environments, so our tests passed locally and then failed in their black box.

Horrific performance problems (think services locking up at 200 concurrent connections...for mobile apps, when advertising-apps were still a thing. Released across virtually all pubs in a whole country. You can imagine how that went).

Of course they would continuously blame all their issues on the company I worked for at the time. And Diageo even fought tooth and nail to defend them.
We had to waste an insane amount of resources just proving to them that their system sucked. Easily one of the worst examples of a company wasting huge amounts of money, thinking that outsourcing would save them money. It's so stupid.
Wow, I didn't think that people actually use on-site-translation.

I know that translation became a lot better (using deepl [0] personally, check it out if you haven't heard of it!) in recent years, but on-site-translation always seemed quite goofy to me.

I wonder if this caters more to a broader (elder) audience, making Firefox more attractive to less tech-affine folks? Seems like a critical feature for "your grantparents computer", doesn't it?

[0] https://www.deepl.com/translator
It facilitates interoperability between content providers and user agents to convey and display encrypted media (without the need for one company to own both sides if that pipe, like in the Flash era). Much as OAuth2 facilitates authorization handshakes between services owned by different companies.
> In all seriousness, older people are more opposed to UI and other types of change.

It's not that. We just have more experience of Change, and know that Change Without Purpose rarely provides any benefit.
Imagine the noise if this becomes common.
Sorry your math adds up to 250 not 833 x-rays.

Importantly - each year simple, normal living exposes you to 3.5 mSv (see the same chart), so you only get 1.5 mSv to "allocate" to other exposures.

In other words you only get 75 chest x-rays per year.

By FAA rates of exposure on trans-pacific flights, you should take max 5-6 of those legs per year.
Yeah I'm a younger generation and I believe macOS and Apple's software in general has gotten worse and worse.

I've wasted hours this week wrestling with issues in Xcode 11 and the command line tools because of bugs in Apple's code.

The bluetooth on my MBP2015 constantly drops, requiring a full restart in order to work again. Apps run slow whenever I have multiple monitors attached.

And don't get me started on the MBP2018 hardware, that damn keyboard keeps sticking.

I am not impressed with Apple's recent offerings.
Ah makes sense you want to be fast then! Thanks for your answer
You're likely being downvoted because the US does not respect international rules.
I can't help but notice the bias people from the west tend to have against Indian outsourcing companies. They have issues and downsides, sure. Major long term downsides, as an Indian programmer (not working for any of these companies), I agree (just like outsourcing to ANY company, be it American e.g. Cognizant).

Comments talking about Infosys/TCS, not being a brand: programmers are not Infosys' customers, in fact it's quite the opposite of that. Infosys' services replace programmers for their customers, who are non-technical managers who want to abstract the IT part of their projects and not be taken for a ride by technical people (not saying that all of them do, but a lot of times engineering department heads demand HUGE budgets to just become more important) and managers feel that a dependency like that makes it necessary for them to be obedient.

Just because they have downsides, does not mean that they are not brands. Infosys has innovation labs in universities all around the world. They award the Infosys prize to the tune of $6.5M to scientists for research. TCS is a strategic partner for projects like the British Rail Network.

I actually view Indian outsourcing firms to be firms that trade human hours, which turns out, are a lot cheaper in India. Maybe POTUS should actually impose duties on importing software too.

Update:

I also agree with fellow developers on the fact that these outsourcing cos. produce bad code and documentation and usually result in a net loss for organisations where technology is in inherent competitive advantage.

However, these downsides are not because of the lack of skill. It's because of the nature of project based model that outsourcing firms follow. If anyone is to blame, it's the myopic or misconstrued managers who employ them for projects where outsourcing is not the solution.

However, there are many applications where outsourcing firms do just fine. And hiring a separate engineering department could be a risky alternative.
Preferences aside, a phone call is much more practical.

Via web..

* Ordering could easily fuck up somehow. Eg. Send multiple identical pizzas cus you pressed the button multiple times, cus the 1st time u pressed it nothing happened. I read about this actually happening recently.

* You dont get confirmation from a human.

* You cant ask questions and get answers from a human.

* You could only order what the app allows and nothing else.

* You'll probably need to register / login, forget your password, reset it, etc. etc. It will take a lot longer.

The big problem with customer service nowadays is thats it's impossible to get hold of a human you can tell your problem to, and who will hopefully deal with it (eg. google)
at first i found it odd you would dismiss trotsky's intellect (a task traditionally carried out by marxists) on the basis of his economics, but now it's obvious that "inflammatory classist conspiracy theories, hate propaganda against the properties classes, and Marxist quack economics" was just you repeating yourself three time.

i thought there might be something particular about your intense reaction to trotsky's name, but your account of marx's political economy is so broken (e.g. for marx profit and surplus value are two very separate categories, and in marx's analysis employers indeed do not attain labor power below its true value) that there can't be any foundation on which you could legitimately criticize trotsky's intellectual work. this makes sense because you also just admitted to not actually knowing anything about what trotsky might have written.
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i've just tried it out and am positively blown away by the quality of translation.
WeWork postponed thousands of layoffs because it can't afford to pay severance
There is thing to say for simplicity.

At varsity we had the misfortune to using Sperry 1100 Univac system ... all I can remember it sure had a lot of "@" in it's JCL to get anything done.

Third year we got a NCR "Tower" Unix system ... what a joy in comparison.
All the Google ML experts in the world don't matter if Google translate isn't staffed(no idea if it is or it isn't). It's quite possible that deepl has more engineers and ML experts working on the problem than Google does. Google's deep pockets and easily transferrable roster does have the ability to let it play catch-up very quick though, if anyone with influence thinks deepl has gotten too far ahead.
> Now in hindsight, what we don't have evolutionary genetic tolerance for is microwave radiation.

Nor would such a thing be possible unless we could somehow drastically reduce our water content.

But speaking of miscalculation, mentioning Mars before starting to go on about tinfoil hoodies is, well, there's a lot of actually definitely dangerous radiation on Mars and a whole lot more on the way there.

One last note, higher speed or bandwidth has not scaled linearly (or really at all, outside early 3g?) with antenna power.

But if you do want to shield your house, most telcos offer seamless wifi calling these days. Then again wifi runs on the same freq as microwave ovens.
> The price the employer gets for the product of my labor is the value the employer is getting for it.

This is demonstrably untrue. Your employer almost necessarily needs to profit from hiring you. If they hire you at 30$, they may make 40$. So, the value they are provided in hiring you is roughly 40$. The price they pay is 30$.

Edit: this was likely a bad example because people are going to fly off the rails thinking I'm advocating for the LTV, but the point I'm trying to show is this: the employer is willing to pay the price of 30$ because they value the employee's work higher than the cost of the currency. So, to state it again, the price is 30$, but the value is > 30$.

This isn't even a marxist critique. This is mainstream economics saying that value and price are distinct.

> There is no grand con in the free market exchange process. No exploitation that Marxists uncovered that condemns all employers as exploiters who deserve to have their property seized.

I don't care. I'm just hoping that you can use basic economic terminology correct before calling others quacks.
If anyone has that itch they can turn to Obduction and Quern : Undying thoughts, both recent and both very good.
On the flip side to that, with {earbuds} becoming nearly ubiquitous (Samsung Buds, etc), wearing an actual hearing aid hardly makes you stand out anymore.
China has more 'unicorn' startups than the US
Literally any creepy bank will be better than SVB, no?
I’m pissed because I can’t create a /logs folder anymore :/
I think that all the "hidden in the cloud" services like what Google Photos does, translations, well basically every service Google has, must go "edge computing" in the next years. The hardware side is already powerful enough, even in cheap Android smartphones, we just miss a better, dedicated software.
Basically an Android phone without many Google Services, although there are some, like Google identity & authentication, which useful and online by their nature and you cannot get rid of them easily. And Google Services come as a pack...
UTC is enough for everyone right?
There's a couple ways to look at this.
On one hand, there's an anonymous website and hundreds of Twitter bots pushing a story that is demonstratively false (just check public records).

Then, on the other hand, you have Mozilla and the EU (which has access to all European corporate records) vouching for Proton (since they partially fund Proton). We also operate in a highly transparent way, so all information debunking this is actually in public record, details here: https://protonvpn.com/blog/is-protonvpn-trustworthy/

Proton definitely has an office and subsidiary in Vilnius, it's not a secret because it's on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/BxMz62oHb6K/ The office is inside a 30 storey building, so it is not surprising the address is shared with quite a few other companies. But that doesn't mean Proton on a whole is based in Vilnius.

The people spreading the false information are also falsely implying that Proton's subsidiary controls the Swiss parent company, which is never the case as it's always the other way around (parent controls the subsidiary). And its super easy to disprove because unlike most companies in the VPN space, the directors of Proton's Swiss parent company are in public record, and are all well known people who have been in the public eye for years (e.g. at TED: https://www.ted.com/talks/andy_yen_think_your_email_s_privat...)
> and possibly even better

It is better.

Google is now just a sluggish tech bully and only shows world-beating performance through acquisitions (such as, sadly, their acquisition of DeepMind).

The Google of 1999 - that a lot of us thrilled to - is long dead.
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The demise of Docker and the rise of Kubernetes
I had a friend working in Indonesia in the 90s, on Sumbawa. He mentioned how the locals had DVD players, but they had skipped ever having VCRs. I wonder what it looks for them now. Are they all on streaming services, or do they still use 90s era DVD players. I wonder what Estonia will look like in 20 years.
When Mozilla rejected it from being distributed on AMO years ago because it included Google and Microsoft translation libraries externally, they said it could be distributed as a side load, just not on AMO. It hasn’t been updated in a year. The policy position changed yesterday.
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Same here. It’s pretty shameful how the richest company on the planet cannot be bothered to spend a little money on supporting backward compatibility, while everybody else does just fine. Even not-for-profit Linux projects do. This decision simply cannot be justified.

It’s extremely disappointing. Apple just ensured my next machine will run Windows.
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If even a quarter of this went down as described in the article this is seriously fucked up beyond measure.
the possibility of the Vision Fund selling WeWork to Softbank proper.

I suppose it’s theoretically possible but Vision Fund invested $10.5Bn in WeWork expecting a multiple of that back for Vision Fund investors. Where will SoftBank get that kind of money?
What you find is if you spin up 1000 of these $5 hosts (ie, $5000 per month which is pretty) and try to egress 1PB per month you can't. Either they disconnect you, the systems can't actually handle it or some other gimmick.

One thing folks like about AWS - you can actually know what you will be paying and there is no fake / hidden limits.

That's my somewhat outdated experience wasting a TON of time on this idea ages ago.
Damn, whatever you think of his politics, I respect a man who is that introspective!
If you get that transaction you probably prefer the value rather than the debt. Value is free to move, debt is an agreement between 2 parties. If you get paid with debt it means you get nothing but someone owes you something now. This someone is usually your bank. You can cash out that debt at any time and that gives the feeling that there is value stored at the bank. But that's not really the case everyone knows that it would not work if a lot people would want their debt payed back.

Instead of cashing the debt out you can just send that debt to someone else. This is called transaction but as you already know there is nothing to move. It just adjust balances of debt. You tell the bank that a part of what they owe you should now be owed by someone else. If its someone is using the same bank then this is super simple. If he is form another bank the 2 Banks must work together to update the balances over 2 systems. If the 2 Banks do not have any relationship with each-other then they need to find corresponding banks and create a chain of trusted relationships to move that debt around. This is why Tx from account to account of the same banks is super simple fast and cheap/free but the further you go the longer it takes and the more Banks in between want some kind of fee for the service. It comes to the point where you simply can't make a transaction anymore because either the fees are way to high or there just isn't a bank to bank to bank chain that could move the debt. Or of course there are billions of people who do not have a bank. There are payment companies who fill in that gap where you can input a bank transaction (debt) and they deliver cash etc. It's sill expensive and slow in most cases and it absolutely does not work with small value(debt) Tx. There is no way to send 1USD from USA to Mexico for an acceptable fee and in an acceptable time.

If you could send value instead you could avoid literally all these problems. Value is value everywhere it doesn't matter where you send it from and where you send it to. There is no need for cooperating banks. It's like if you could pay cash but globally (without the different currencies of course because value is currency independent). Imagine if value would be represented by gold.
I buy gold worth 1 USD and send it anywhere in the world and the person who gets it sells it for his local currency.
Now replace the gold with crypto because gold can not be send over the internet but cryptos can. Everywhere, very fast/cheap (not with BTC) and without any chain of trusted entities in between the endpoints.

It's also final unlike debt Tx which can be reversed by the banks and payment provider in between. Which is bad for the endpoints but also for the corresponding bank chains since they all have to take the risk of reversed Tx which leads to higher fees.
But that doesn't mean that they do any more damage to the environment in their production. If they last just as long then they are no worse than the $100 shoes.
How is it possible there is not yet a huge mob gathering near the court and threatening to burn everything. Because, this is literally revolting. How many people support that? And how many people are disgusted by that? Would nobody regret doing nothing?
> It's quite possible that deepl has more engineers and ML experts working on the problem than Google does.

According to this article, they had 22 employees at launch and back then it was already lauded as quite good: https://www.gruenderszene.de/allgemein/deepl-maschineller-ue...
I use on-site machine translation a lot. In fact, I even use that for languages I do understand---at the reduced rate though, alleviating my mental overhead. Of course, you always have to understand that the machine translation can go off and both the common sense and the domain knowledge (including even the tiniest bit of knowledge about the source language) are important.
If you bothered to look at the facts you would see that more people voted in Catalonia's referendum of independence that for a general election. In Catalonia, we are all willing to do another referendum, a legal one, but we all know that Spain will never allow it because the Yes would win again. Catalonia is forced to be under spanish rule and they will do anything to keep it this way: jailing catalan politicians, beating protesters, making up stories a la Goebbels, torturing people or killing activists.
Check a few comments down, its discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21321598
As someone living in Japan without a deep grasp of Kanji characters, I use on-site translations 10s of times per day.
Hey, cool company!
> and all the old tech is mostly still there

Only as ghost towns

> ways isn't less more?

Err, no. Have you used facebook groups, the social groups that we are supposed to use today? Crippled intentionally, abysmally few options, impossible to discover. These are platforms for users who don't care about discourse, they want to come and shout, and shout often, to beat the algorithms. Yesterday's content is already lost. Compare that with even yahoo groups.

> prefer forums with millions

No! But that's what facebook is, what reddit is. Eternal september comes too soon

> for quite a while I used Matrix and

I wish matrix would catch on

> One size fits all doesn't scale.

Exactly . We have one size for everything today: platforms for billions. But it's a bad fit for niche, weird communities.
Uber and Lyft are loss making experiments. Whereas Infosys and TCS are profitable corporations, responsibly hiring hundreds of thousands of people (which they do not plan to fire impulsively like Uber), bringing in huge volumes of trade revenue to India for over a decade.

Uber and Lyft use contract workers, rather than getting people on their payroll. Infosys and TCS hire freshers on bonds at salaries that are not very high, but hire thousands every year on their payroll in a country where IT engineering programs have near 100% placements. If those engineers want to work for themselves or other non-corporates, no one is stopping them.
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Yep, though I wouldn't personally put the Wall Street Journal on the same level as qz.

That they (WSJ) published Erdogan's piece is (to me) perplexing, but for completely different reasons.

This one on qz.com seems, at least to me, nothing different from the several "puff" articles we have read in the last few years about the digital "revolution" in Estonia (and e-residency, etc.), but till now they were all or almost all by either enthusiasts/futurists/thintankers or by people directly or indirectly involved in the program at a much lower level than the President.

Personally I always had the feeling that these pieces are not entirely unlike the good ol' gnome business plan:

1) get digital in Estonia (id, residency, etc.)

2) ?

3) profit

No doubts that there may be a number of non-Estonians that may benefit from the one or the other provisions of the program, but all in all they should be a niche of "digital nomads" and/or "digital only" very small firms.
So what does this mean for an every day consumer? I had been debating using the 30-day money back guarantee as I realised I didn't use it as much as I thought I would. I want to stay protected on public Wifi. Added anonymity occasionally would be good too, as well as accessing US Netflix from here in the UK.

Now my 30 days is up. What would be the best course of action? Should I email and say that I'm not comfortable being their customer any more, and asked to be reimbursed? Carry on, for my use case? I'd never connected to a Finnish server.
I saw a documentary a while ago about the poor Bangladesh factory workers who were doing the ripping, scraping, bleaching and staining on a daily basis.

They were completely, utterly dumbfounded on why one would destroy brand new clothing like that, and no amount of explaining could make them see why these crazy Westerners would prefer wearing shabby clothes.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21321598
Facebook has outlasted everyone else working on VR, so now they get to own that platform. They were sad they didn't get an app store monopoly like Google and Apple, and now they have one. Better luck with AR I guess, where our best hope is that at least the current tech oligarchs compete for it rather than just allowing one of them to take it like they let Facebook take VR.
Yeah - they have been through that with online gaming and seem to be heroically oblivious to the concept that it isn't addiction but escaping their excessive control any way they can. Because any answer which isn't more control over the youth is unacceptable and you are childish or otherwise a bad person for thinking otherwise. Because it is outside the norm they don't need to justify anything or listen. That isn't just a South Korea thing unfortunately.
9/11 had nothing causal to do with it. I suspect it's just a prominent negative event in history that became associated with all sorts of negative things going on in the same era. Also people's memories aren't exactly perfect, especially when it comes to precisely ordering and absolutely placing the distant past on a timeline.
Did you know that today is “ Smart is Cool Day”?
If you have the IQ of a genius, today is the day to show it off and be proud of it! Know someone who is really smart or a bit nerdy? Be sure to tell them of this holiday and make the day special for them :)
Disclaimer: Absolute layman here, but afaict they just mixed the low volume parts higher, so of course you can hear them better. Unless you can't hear those parts at all in the uncompressed version, I see no reason to worry.
This is like Steve Jobs announcing that iPhone runs OS X in the very first iPhone keynote.
I don't believe you can have 50 people producing knowledge and checking in code that nobody ever looks at or reviews, writing documentation that all 50 are expected to know, and have even a good portion of that 50 people understand it well.

I also think that if you have developers working for a week without anyone who knows what they're doing you have a management problem.

We might be talking past each other, and I might not understand exactly what you're saying.
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