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It sounds like you were dealing with code written by physicists. Which probably means they were doing literally everything wrong. And there's a snowball's chance in hell you'd be able to convince them to rewrite it in rust, because "it's too hard". And even if you convinced their boss to force them to rewrite it in rust, everything would be in unsafe blocks. And they'd complain the language is too verbose because every function has to be cluttered with unsafe blocks. They wouldn't complain about the unnecessary indentation though, because all of their code either isn't indented or is nested off the right side of the screen.

Not that I'm bitter. (I'm bitter)

Academic code being shitty can't be fixed by inventing a better language.
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I can tell you for a fact that the person you're responding to isn't the only self made person in the US. Not everyone here is wealthy, but there is a lot of opportunity. I too am an immigrant and nothing was handed to me. I have been lucky in picking the right field, and finding good opportunities.
Disney did one thing well with Marvel: they kept out of it and let Marvelstudios do their thing.

Well they almost fucked up Guardians of the Galaxy 3 with the firing of Gunn.
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That is the hard part, but this is why it requires an inordinate amount of time combined with short term tactical work to keep things running.

Most work can fit within quarters and get executed quickly, but it takes something else to have long term vision.

The discovery process was paying attention and looking at what is actually the goal, and it generally requires the discipline to slow down and focus on the future without giving into the short term time sinks.

I had the benefit of 70-100 minutes per day of being stuck on a boat commuting for years to focus on discovery. The particular project that had a two year vision had about six months of shit to eat in office while thinking and planning on the commuter boat. It is amazing what one can accomplish by simply writing and the time to focus.
The emotions are being triggered by you making racist comments
India has something similar for driving licenses and many other documents: https://digilocker.gov.in/
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You're right, of course, that off-topic shallow dismissals are bad comments for HN.
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Most of that debt is owned by Americans, who incidentally also own 393.3 million firearms - twice as much as every police force and military in the world combined[0]. I shudder to imagine what 100 million pissed off gun owners would do when they find out that there's going to be a 50% haircut to their life savings.

[0] http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/fileadmin/docs/T-Briefing-Pap...
Why should the public profit from the successes undertaken by a self-selected few people? There's no inherent right of people to take other people's money and burn it to the ground in pursuit of some particular ideological end or material goal.

If you want to take from the winners then you need to cover the losers. Now we could have a nice balance (reasonable taxes spent well for the public good) where both sides benefit but if you want to go extreme at the top then don't expect everything to work out.

Either way, nobody has yet answered the question I've asked a dozen times: How does a govt poorly spending trillions get fixed by spending a few more billion?
The author made a video as well demonstrating the current state of it.

The video is linked to from the README but I'll put the link here also.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RENqPCwTdhw
That sounds like a relative of a rule of thumb I read once upon a time: projects slip by the units they're estimated in. N weeks slips by weeks, days and days, months, years, etc.
A 'negotiated agreement' between a company or state and a person that would starve if they don't accept the agreement is nothing more than coercion with a nice layer of paint.

Remember that we actually depend on some people literally not having a chance to eat unless they agree to collect our garbage, clean our floors etc.

Do you think that a cleaning person in a contract with Google or with the city of LA had any kind of real negotiation power?
> Async I/O gives awesome performance

No, it doesn't really. 'Async' is a strictly Python problem, due to the insanity of the GIL. Predictably, the Python solution to it is also insane.

Why you have to turn a sane language like Rust into an insane one by cargo-culting a solution to a non-problem is a mystery to me.

Oh well, good thing at least C++ hasn't dropped the ball.
Note that the statement is that the two people are identical other than their wealth, so that in this case the difference in probability is independent of how the original million was acquired. That's the point.
People find value in movie theaters even when the actual content is exactly the same as the DVD. People even get together to watch movies sometimes :)
Every phone, actually every solid, bends/breaks if given enough pressure. I can see the video of him bending the phone but I have no idea how much pressure he applied other than my seeing his thumbs shaking under the pressure. What would really be interesting would be for those reviewers to put all of the phones in a hydraulic press and measure how much force was needed to bend the phone.
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>what if Gordon Ramsey did code review

Just read the Linux or OpenBSD developer mailing lists. Linus puts the fear of God into Linux developers. Theo puts the fear of Theo into OpenBSD developers.
Budget monthly if you have that trouble, I run a monthly surplus without issues. $120 a year for news is not that much and is cheaper than paper newspapers used to be.

(Edit: obviously, yes, if you cant afford it don’t buy it. News is a luxury too, just a much cheaper one. The only things people actually need are food, transportation, housing, &c.)
That makes absolutely no sense. Chewing with dentures, especially dentures in colonial times, is painful and awkward as heck. George Washington had trouble with his teeth for well over 20 years. You really think people willingly went in for that trouble?
If they got 6 months it wouldn't make what Adam got less absurd.
The Last Jedi was clearly a polarizing film, and it's fine if you didn't like it, but I think it's worth keeping in mind that the movie...

* Has an 85/100 on Metacritic ("Universal Acclaim")

* Has a 91% score on Rotten Tomatoes

* Made $619M

So it was both a box office success and a critical success. Personally, I think it's far from an atrocious film. I think it's a flawed film, although my complaints have to do with structure and film mechanics, not story choices.
I used to use a pocket notebook which I still carry, to write myself to-do items. Now I just send myself a quick email with the to-do item as the subject.
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I’m trying to set this kind of thing up. Any guides you can share? Plex is all setup but all the other stuff (integrating torrenting safely) I’m having trouble with!
There is a French startup called Opuscope (Minsar) which is producing AR & VR experience with various museum. I don't know how they're advancing because the founder don't speak to me anymore but the company seems doing well.
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I use Dropbox text files or just save as email drafts when the same email is accessible on both devices.
Absolutely, like no question. Once the show's been automatically downloaded you can do whatever you want with it, and setting up Plex is a one-time-only thing. What happens when the content you're after gets sold to someone else or subsumed into another provider and you've got to jump to a new streaming service with different terms and conditions and content restrictions?

Piracy is simple.
Your comment may not have been intentionally trolling but its content was trollish and provoked predictable effects. Please don't post like that to HN, or like these follow-ups, which just keep the flamewar going.

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I think it depends on scale and the inertia involved, and my original point was that accurate estimation is possible.

There are many other challenges as you point out.

I am currently on year two of a five year project. The key (and part of the essential difficulty) is finding quarterly or six month valuable deliverables that help ease anxiety of everyone involved.

It is not easy, but it is possible.

While all this is going on, I'm also working on a design document for a potential 10 year project. I doubt that I will pull this one off since I'm having difficulty finding those quarterly deliverables, but I'll keep grinding away.
Yes and no. Without saying too much, I’ll say that you might be lacking information about the nature of the contracts that need to be signed and other internal dealings. Remember, this is coming from a Meetup employee. They were acquired and you don’t have all the information about what they might have gained/lost in that acquisition.

I’m not making any judgement calls here. However, I would caution jumping to any conclusions.
I didn't talk about redistribution. I'm describing how a system could work from the ground up with a market economy but without any capitalists. How to get there is another discussion that is far more thorny.

I wouldn't deny a starving person my food, though the reality is that I rarely come into contact with someone who is starving.

On the other hand, a lot of restaurants and super markets do regularly deny starving people food - they ask for money in place of common human decency.
Late to the party on this one, but I mostly agree with the OP regarding the magnitude of the evidence. Most of the comments here attempting to explain away the recent Navy reports as "experimental aircraft" are perhaps uninformed.

For instance, the Cdr. Fravor account published in the NYT a couple of years ago regarding the 2004 incident is extremely difficult to explain without considering otherwordly technology. For example, the instant acceleration/deceleration witnessed directly by several pilots and on multiple radar systems corresponds with exactly ZERO technology known to mankind. That type of acceleration has the same effect as smashing into a mountain at hyper-mach velocity. There is no mapping of the reported events to our current understanding of physics; it simply cannot be explained, so forget the idea that something we built could achieve those maneuvers.

Also the idea that Cdr. Fravor and other pilots who've come forward with their testimony are all lying or are somehow mistaking what they saw for atmospheric light tricks is ridiculous. Similarly, the Navy UFO cases that have more recently surfaced provide yet more of the same level of evidence -- Multiple pilots, multiple radar, infrared, and other tracking systems, etc. To put forward the idea that all these people are lying or are mentally unwell or are somehow sharing a group hallucination is to suggest a far more unlikely event than the ones they reported.
I thought WARN was 60 days.

https://www.doleta.gov/programs/factsht/WARN_Fact_Sheet_upda...
The "Solo" movie about Han Solo's origin story was pretty good. I think they should do another one like that but for Darth Vader. Show what he was like as a young man before turning to the dark side.
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What is an MVP?
Isn't it common for sales people to intentionally give a longer time frame than management specifies? I believe they try to buffer 20%+ rounding, unless there is an exact public release date. Though, I'm not in sales so I could be completely wrong.

In the consulting world there is the rule of three, where you multiply everything by three, not just how long it will take.
Please take this comment in good faith because I'm genuinely curious: why do you need a kube managed cluster of N nodes (an now 4x N) to host a static blog? I wonder what works goes on under the hood that this needs such scale.
I go to punk shows, so it's clearly different, but I don't know that I look at the stage during the concert at all. By the end of the show I know a bunch of people in the crowd but generally couldn't tell you what the bands looked like.
Minimum viable product.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_viable_product
The difference is that in an embedded context hopefully everything is written and tested all together by the same entity, rather than a mish-mash of high and low quality code held hostage by the weakest link.
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You can see some of the tests here in this OnePlus factory tour: https://youtu.be/ES-s9KQrUTY?t=768 To summarize, thermal stress test, 1-8m drop tests, tumbler test, and various functionality/endurance tests. The cracks shown in the video probably would happen with a drop test at the right angle, but perhaps someone missed them.

Overall it seems like Google spent most of its budget on developing the screen and camera, and less on usability or design. Zack's bend test with his massive hands is probably obscure enough that nobody involved with the design considered it. And with the release of the Pixel 3a a few months ago I'm guessing there was also a lot of management pressure, teams split up etc.
Yes, I'm quite offended a foreign newspaper tell us what we should do with our pieces of art in our museums. It just smells jealousy to be honest.
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Mine is to multiply by five. It’s pretty accurate.
As my colleague says: The time where you know the least about a project is when you start. This is also the time when your estimates are likely to be the worst.

When can you say with fairly good certainty how much longer it's likely to take? In my experience it's about 1/3 the way through the project. I'll give you my reasoning behind this number.

There is a model of software defect discovery called Littlewood's model. It basically says that the rate of software defect discovery is a random variable. As you discover more defects in the code, the number of defects that are left to discover diminish. Assuming you put in a constant effort to discover defects, your rate of discovery decreases. You can estimate the number of defects left in the software, by looking at the decrease in discovery rates over time. There are lots of scholarly articles on Littlewood's model, so I won't go into more detail than that. There are newer models too, but I always found Littewood's "good enough" for my purposes.

It occurred to me that requirement discovery might follow a similar curve. As time goes on and you understand more and more about what you need, the number of things to discover decreases. If you work on your project in a constant manner, the rate at which you discover new requirements will decrease over time. I took data for a number of project and the discovery rate curves were very similar to defect discovery rate curves.

The key is to look at the rate of change of discovery. Once it is tailing off, you can estimate the speed of the drop and get a good idea of how much work you have left to do. Each curve is different depending on a number of factors, but by the time you are about 1/3 the way through the curve, you have enough information to estimate the parameters.

Note: Littlewood's model doesn't actually hit zero, but you can set a threshold that is "close enough to zero". Where you place it will change the 1/3 figure, but I hope what I'm saying is understandable.
But you also don't want these stacks to be reinvented again and again like js frameworks. If it is working , don't change it unless you can bring it up to another level.
terry pratchett's discworld series had hydrophobic wizards raised on dehydrated water that were so hydrophobic that the air around them could displace large amounts of water allowing for water travel.
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How exactly do I write embedded code for a tiny chip on a different architecture with just 4K of RAM and no OS that uses the Win32 fibers?
Please avoid religious flamebait on HN.

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Although as others have posted, apparently the police are not allowed to touch the phone, but people are used to handing over the current plastic license so would likely hand over their phone unless instructed otherwise.

It was news to me that you can lock android and iOS to a certain app so that would be a good thing to do if your license is requested.
There absolutely is. It's called a microscopic particle. A simple Google search would have revealed this to you.

They vary greatly in size or quantity, from subatomic particles like the electron, to microscopic particles like atoms and molecules, to macroscopic particles like powders and other granular materials.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle
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Game engines absolutely not. They're almost all written in C++ with exceptions and RTTI disabled and no STL. Gamdev C++ can better be thought of as C+. It's kinda sorta not the same language.

However, a lot of game engines use GC languages to operate game logic. Lots of them use Lua, unity uses c#. The ubiquity of Lua in gamedev has resulted in luajit being shockingly good if you're pushing around a bunch of floats.
If I ran Disney I'd be up at 4 AM too. What a blast. Yeah some stress but some fun ass chess pieces to move everyday.
WeWork is likely worth closer to $0 than $8-10 billion (not just my opinion, Bill Ackman [1] is onboard with that valuation of both the equity and the debt). If SoftBank had a spine, they would've paid out reasonable severance to rank and file (which they have to do regardless), shown Neumann the door (and burn his equity down with no consulting fee to help pay off his credit lines to JPMorgan Chase, UBS Group and Credit Suisse Group), and spun the company down. You don't need to pay a fraud for control of a worthless company.

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2019/10/30/wework-cou...
The problem is that in many business domains, the absolute minimal viable product, or even a customer-worthy demo, is a 6 month long, 10-15 person project. If the market already has complete solutions available, releasing an app which does 5% of what other apps do + 1% that's different is simply not viable, and is likely to help you never get a second look.
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The thing about estimating is that you can't factor in the things you don't know:

- The tool you planned to use has a bug/defect that blocks you.

- The people who said they could give you some information you need, can't.

- You misunderstood or were misled as to the capabilities of a tool you need.

- The parts you need don't actually fit together as planned.

- The documentation you were relying on is wrong.

- A delivery you are relying on won't actually be ready on time.

- A process that's worked every time has an unhandled edge case that you're going to trigger in this project.

- A regression in a software package will block you because you can't use the previous version for other reasons.

The more moving parts there are, the more likely it is that one of the interface points between them will block or delay you in one of these ways, potentially for weeks, maybe even months.

So for any nontrivial project, you should expect a 2x-8x delivery inflation over your "safely padded" estimate. You have a 75% chance that you'll deliver within 2x of your padded estimate if you've made a good estimation, sliding to worse as the number of moving parts increases.
Quarterly planning is equally frustrating. I don't think we've ever had a quarter where we're on track three sprints in. Something always comes up, we pivot a bit, or our estimates were as uninformative as we all thought they were.
Probably not using green threads / async at all? That would require a number of stacks as well as a little runtime, which will quickly eat up your 4K.
Go sit next to him with a cup of coffee tomorrow morning, and fix the PRs right there. Say "Let's do some quick pair programming and close these lingering PRs real quick."

He should appreciate the initiative, and communication is much more effective and resonant in person.
I agree broadly with this however in many cases that I have been dealing with I don't think that there can be a type system that would be rich enough to encode the validation laws.

For example how would you encode "This purchase request must be made before the closing date for the purchase"?
I think you mean GeneralizedNewtypeDeriving, not DerivingVia. GND lets you pull instances through a newtype, trivially. DerivingVia lets you define your instance in terms of an instance on another newtype.
So a whole lot of nothing. They pulled a list and loaded an email campaign. I wonder who is actually paying up here. Nice to learn about some tools that I was not familiar with though.
Kleiber's Law
Counterpoint: their pipeline for capturing young talent flows as strong as ever. Spend five minutes watching any Disney Channel show and you can see some really strong acting.
Yes, and he in his last years would come back to it and retouch with a few strokes here and there, at least according to Isaacson’s biography. But Isaacson I think says it’s because Leonardo knew it was a good piece of painting and never really wanted to part ways with it.
> You really think people willingly went in for that trouble?

I have no trouble believing anyone went to any lengths to look good