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There can be only one primary task.

When this happens, the question is, "what is worth what?"

You must pose it to them, or others will ask for and expect both. And where they lack knowledge, this must be escalated to someone who can make the call and account for said call; otherwise, you are already accountable for commitments made prior to their request.

Doing both is not realistic, because there can only be one primary task, and this is why you end up doing work off hours.

I would share more calendar details, put what the task is on the time block, and in general set up that question.

Others will attempt to schedule your time so they do not end up doing catch up work off hours too.

It is you or them, or something just is not as important as everyone thinks it is.

Which is it?

Also, make task switch time clear.

A 30 minute meeting in the middle of, say a 2 to 3 hour block of time, may actually cost all or reduce the effective time to a small fraction of what is allocated. One effective way to handle this is to ask how many more meetings can now be scheduled into this wasted block of time?

It can also mean moving that block slightly, allowing meetings at the very end of it, or before it starts. Either can be cheaper, with meetings at the end of it being cheapest generally.

Your whole pushback is centered on there can be only one primary task.

That is as real as it gets. Use it.
>that’s a feature, not a bug.

This! And I believe it's intentional. It's a common pattern actually: A site starts out and has a slight barrier to entry which keeps out the technologically illiterate and those with poor attention spans. The site gets good because all the contributors are, at the risk of sounding like a gate-keeping elitist here, high quality people because that slight barrier has selected for them. Then the site gets sold, bean counters and management want to increase users by enhancing usability and eliminating those barriers to entry, and quality goes downhill until the high quality people give up and find another hub to congregate. Wash, rinse, repeat. Case in point: Reddit. Only obscure niche subs are even tolerable for me anymore where nothing ever makes the front page and its just a bunch of knowledgeable enthusiasts.

I love to educate new people and welcome them into a community, but I really like the Buddhist monk or Navy Seal model. They only get in after they've proved they're sufficiently motivated to do their own work by waiting on the door step for 3 days, or going through intense training, etc. That's just the extreme. I've seen so many organizations or sites that have managed to maintain a quality environment by doing really simple things, like charge $1 for entry, require a credit card number with no charge made, require some contribution or a membership fee. Look at the difference between Costco and Walmart for another example where a membership fee that keeps out the riff raff has certainly played an important role.

The reality is, it's not always a design failure if your community fails to educate and cater to the lowest common denominator.

HN I think absolutely does this intentionally. I love that you have to get 500 karma in order to be eligible to downvote. It's a really smart tactic IMO. You have to really contribute something over a fair amount of time and thus gain a lot of situational awareness before you can start throwing around full voting privileges.
$5k is a high strike price, but this is the point of a commitment device.

By putting a cost on failure, you can sort between "I genuinely no longer want to do this" and "I'm getting akrasia because doing things is hard and quitting is easy".

If you've made the cost of walking away higher than the expected value of the commitment (five grand would be a lot of money to make on many books), you should have some strong, intrinsic reason for it.
In the simplest case, the service could shut itself down, and the supervising daemon / scheduler would restart it.

Supervisors like systemd also have a watchdog that will force-restart a service that hasn't checked in for some time.

For a service that manages its own network connection, implementing auto-reconnect can be a form of self-healing (and surprisingly hard to get right in all edge cases).

The key is, as Rachel wrote in the OP, to get a good signal. You need to be able to distinguish a working from a non-working service to implement reliable self-healing.
Please do. Apple's behavior is not acceptable.
Medallion also had a few external investors until 2010ish, who could be a source for some of the numbers. IIRC, Bill Ziemba published their returns in the mid 2000s sometime.

Also, what Princeton Alpha offshoots? IIRC, Princeton Alpha was a PDT spinoff that closed due to poor performance. Maybe you mean Princeton/Newport offshoots?
I'd like to point out that this isn't all trans women and some of us realize this takeover is absolutely insane. A lot of us want to blend into society and not cause any hardship to others, or any destruction of projects like this. Social Justice is going way too far.

Because of these grifters I don't even want to identify as transgender any longer.
That's an interesting perspective, I've found quite the opposite. I'm an experienced developer and I've dabbled with Max for Live but have not quite found it a joy to work with.

Having to do everything in a GUI is just really tough to do, so I give them props for how good it is, there's no other purely visual programming environment I've tried that is even this usable. I did find the discoverability surprisingly poor when starting out, but after a while I think I now understand the structure and what's possible. But my biggest complaint is it's just soooo slow to do basic things. You have to drag and drop every single little construct, instead of typing "if { } else { }" which takes maybe 5 seconds, you have to drag and arrange and connect like 6 different things which takes at least 20 seconds and a lot more focused dexterity. I also find the freeform spatial layout kind of stressful and dread changing anything, instead of going into a function and editing code or adding a couple of lines of new functionality, you have to drag everything everything else around the page to add space for the extra blocks you want to insert.

I don't want to undersell it, the libraries and building blocks you get in Max are amazing, and the ease of things like working with audio buffers make up for a lot of the painpoints. But I do wish there was a first-class way to connect things together with code instead of the current system, I think it would make iterating much faster and more enjoyable.
So, what you're saying, is that another business model is more what we need?

How do we get there? Assuming users still don't want to pay for cat videos.
Or just drop Apple and macOS. Even for an application like Krita, for creative people, macOS is a laughably small platform, with a very small user-base, bringing in next to nothing money-wise, nothing contribution-wise, and it tries to force everyone to use proprietary libraries like Metal, instead of properly supporting OpenGL and Vulkan.

From an effort-to-income perspective, macOS isn't worth it.
> But, how does one know if the coach is abusive or “that’s just how sports is, it’s hard and no replacement for hard work”?

Two comments -

First, althetes are already tough and demanding to themselves. The kinds of tough coaches that need atent the same kind of tough I'd need to get my unmotivated self moving. Equating these kinds of "tough" is inaccurate. They need coaches that have insight and cover their weaknesses, not assholes.

Second, I completely understand your logical approach - I've done it myself so many times. But I've started realizing that in doing so I'm supporting the status quo without evidence. I'm defending current injustices because of potential, hypothetical problems.

What IF "this lead to weaker coaches that don’t push the atheletes but now are afraid of abusing and crossing the line"? While that's not the ideal, that sounds better than inducing eating disorders that destroy quality of life (and potentially, the lives themselves). I dont think that's a risk - my first point covers that - but if that is a risk, it sounds worth the risk. Certainly better than accepting the status quo because change MIGHT not be better in every measure.
The biggest truth of modern war, at least from the US side, seems to be that there are massive differences in what the experience is like based on your job, where you're based, luck, etc.

I think people don't realize how extreme the two ends are. It can be surreal when the two experiences are in close proximity. I recall returning from a particularly nasty patrol where we were hit pretty hard and almost lost some guys. When trying to enter a dining facility on a big base some POG officer chewed us out for our messy uniforms. His uniform was neatly starched. I have no idea how he managed to do that, we were grateful for electricity and running water. I recall tanks/APCs pulled up in front of a convenience store on one camp, like taking the car up to CVS for some snacks.

I recall showing up to one large base to drop of a prisoner. We were particularly dirty and smelly. It had been a messy week out in our sector and there were perfumed young girls in PT uniform (shorts and t-shirt) wearing makeup and giggling and frolicking amongst the fast food joints. I could smell their perfume. They looked at us like Sasquatch had wandered in from the woods.

I knew guys that had our AO before us, and described a World War Z type battle with bad guys crawling over the walls. I remember our battles there, not seeming as bad, right after we left I heard how that same camp received a nasty VBIED attack. Years later I met some younger guys who'd been on that camp and they complained how boring it was.

Some people were mortared every night, some people spent their deployment missing family and bored to tears. Some people passed out candy, some put parts of their buddies into body bags. All within 20 or 30 miles from each other.
When I saw this acronym in the article I thought of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/linux-platforms/enter...
you might be surprised to find out their advisors are telling them to do this wacky stuff, to get press. (source: old friend works in Hollywood PR, its insane!)
A Surprising Finding on Paid Leave: ‘This Is Not the Way We Teach This’
First Google search result I get for “RHEL weapon”:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Red_Hat

And #7:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/10/the-n...

But #2-#6 are more what you'd probably expect.
You don’t have to keep paying $100/year. Once a thing is notarized, it’s notarized. Also, anyone can submit any software to notarization, it’s not proof of ownership or identity.
> At the same time, real work is not getting done. Meaningful work is usually done quietly and in solitude.

I don't really like this definition of meaningful work. Yes, there are some tasks that require focus and inventive mental work. But those aren't the only tasks a "maker" faces. And they aren't always the most important ones.
Clearly it is the manager's job to determine what work schedule works best for each of their subordinates. They might have preferences but let's be honest, people can't be trusted to set their own schedules otherwise they'll work too hard!
> How does that make any sense?

Again I'm having trouble figuring out what the "that" is that offends you. I'm guessing that you mean, "How does it make any sense to consider a chicken's life to have any value whatsoever?"

All I can say is, you may not think so, but lots of people do.

We're discussing a story in which some researchers found millions of ants that had fallen into a pit and were living only by cannibalizing their comrades who had starved to death, and responded by building them a "bridge" to allow them to escape. Why did they do that? Party to see what would happen; but partly because they felt bad for the ants and felt better when they helped them. I mean, not a huge amount. I'm sure the researchers wouldn't have intervened, or even felt that bad, if the ant nest had been destroyed to make way for a parking lot. But there's not a parking lot, and all it takes to help is standing up a wooden beam. Like, sure, why not help if it's so easy?

In response to this, someone asked how it was consistent to do this and yet continue eating meat. That person obviously cares enough about chickens to think they shouldn't be slaughtered, and to argue about it on Hacker News. In response, a bunch of other people, like myself, jumped in to explain why it's perfectly consistent to value ants enough to save them, but still eat chickens.

It was the person who cared about chickens being killed and eaten I was responding to. I was trying to show how trying to make the current system more humane would be better for chickens than eliminating chicken farms altogether.

I'm not going to cry for the grass and ants and crickets if they dig up a field to build a useful building. But I'd rather have grass and ants and crickets than an unused parking lot. And I'm not going to cry too badly if chickens go extinct; but all things being equal I'd rather have happy chickens than no chickens.

I mean yeah, if you don't give two figs about ants or chickens, then it doesn't matter one way or the other. But an awful lot of people do -- at least a little bit.
Developers have been worshiping mobile OSs for more than a decade. This is the endgame, and don't say we haven't been warned about it. We 've been burned by walled gardens way too many times to have an excuse. Phones are much less free platforms than desktops. If developers desert phones, people will follow.
> Due to zero-sum game

Wealth is not zero-sum, it's created. Real GDP (i.e. adjusted for inflation) in the world has increased from ~$3.4T to ~$110T since the 1900s.
Just as content creators are not obliged to host on YouTube.
The one thing that HTTP/2 gives me that I find useful is a clear indication when the server closed an idle connection, so that clients can tell if their request was likely seen or not when the connection is closed.
> For another thing, how about knowing approximately what the traffic is supposed to look like for that time of day, on that day of the week and/or year? Then, don't down-scale past that by default?
Your comment doesn't make any sense. Doubling the amount of trains don't change the trains themselves, unless you meant doubling the cars per train, which is a much bigger change that would usually require the reconstruction of the stations to handle the doubled length of the trains. That's a multi-year process per station.

In contrast, if you just want to double the frequency of trains, you just need to double the number of running trains. Doors/gates have nothing to do with that.
Microsoft Edge is coming to Linux. But will anybody use it?
Funny story? Not a funny story. We are not metric. We would be metric if you bought items in metric. We do not. Doesn't matter what the scientist use. It matters what milk and bread is sold in. We buy drinks in liters and gallons. Those are not metric.
Yeah but in this case imagine the first thing said in a feature threat model incorporating unverified user generated external data. In Boeing's case it was poor use of systems they controlled.
No, it isn't. It's pretty valuable for Apple as a precursor to forbidding things like non-webkit html renderers even for applications outside the app store, though.
> A lot of people here are fixating on the $100/year fee -- and don't get me wrong, that's a problem

How much should you have to pay for unlimited bandwidth, hosting, downloads, user ratings, reviews, feedback, crash logs, showing up in searches, the chance to get featured, and other features like CloudKit etc.?

> Apple is demanding what amounts to a non-trivial amount of creative control over the visual appearance of games

Where did you get that from?

How is that different from Steam, Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony not allowing certain types of content on their platforms? For example, you can't show explicit pornography in your game and expect it to be approved anywhere.

As for not allowing "blue screens of death, simulated error, glitch art, brokeness" that TFA complains about:

Have you seen those "YOUR PC IS INFECTED BY 42 VIRUSES!! CLICK HERE TO CLEAN SYSTEM32! PERMANENT HARD DISK DELETION IN 2 SECONDS!!!" ads?

What if apps start doing that for fun then charge in-app purchases to clean the in-game viruses?

Would you want the job of being an arbiter over whether something like that is malicious deception which preys upon user naïveté, or just a cute quirky joke?
Here's an experiment that might not be well known. They have a little incentive ecosystem and the vids are hosted on IPFS.

https://about.d.tube
Or, if you're a fan of the retro aesthetic, just develop "home-brew" games for old consoles, and distribute (sell?) them as ROMs.

Everything can run e.g. GBA ROMs: your phone, your tablet, your modern PC/Mac, your 20-year-old PC/Mac, your smart TV. Everything. They even run just fine in web browsers through WASM emulators. Web browsers on phones. It's kind of ridiculous.

Maybe, on Windows or whatever other arches you are a deft hand with, you can package in a cute little customized emulator to wrap the ROM. (Use a GPLed one; it won't be viral to your ROM.) But ensure you leave the ROM freestanding in a directory for people to use as they wish, rather than hiding it inside the executable. (And, maybe, offer a ROM-only version of the download as well.) If you stop maintaining your installer, the emulator might stop working, but the ROM itself never will.
If you knew someone was getting paid to open PRs on projects they normally wouldn’t, why would you keep following them?

The guy complaining that he “sent this in confidence” thereby outing himself is priceless.
Seconded.

The last time when I was forced to use a Mac laptop, I hated every minute of it... Not because it was smooth and worked well, but that I had less and less freedoms to manipulate the system.
An ant-eater! quick, save the children and move them to the secret bunker!. We'll rejoin you later in Helm's Deep!

Like that sounds much less depressing to me. Or think about it like Spartants. Most ants do not live very long lives in any case.

> "no queen to mate with"

Ant males would never mate in a dirty bunker when there is the entire sky for this kind of romantic bussiness
Over downtown near the waterfront during a farmers market, or food trucks?
Why do you believe it is hard to measure warming impact? Seems relatively straightforward to determine an estimate based on a CO2-ton equivalent.
Ok, can I use EIDAS? That is surely stronger than whatever identity validation Apple is doing. (I know for sure.) And it doesn't cost $100.
Some interesting ideas, worthy of consideration but not blind acceptance (they're ideas after all, not facts).

> This destructive process can even be considered a necessary prerequisite for ultimate understanding between men of all cultures, civilizations, races, and nations.

It can be considered a pre-requisite, but it can also be not considered that. The fact of the matter is, no one knows what path may yield greater harmony. There could be many that will do the trick, or none.

> This, of course, is a delusion; if the dimension of depth out of which modern science and technology have developed ever were destroyed, the probability is that the new unity of mankind could not even technically survive.

I don't see the logic in this, even though it seems to be supportive of my concerns.

> Everything then seems to depend upon the possibility of bringing the national pasts, in their original disparateness, into communication with each other as the only way to catch up with the global system of communication which covers the surface of the earth.

I very much prefer this approach, it would be nice to at least try it and see what happens.

> So, there's this tiny sliver of common ground we have, at least.

I suspect most people have much more common ground than it appears, that this isn't apparent may be due to the major shortcomings in our modes of thinking and communication.
Simons had other investment funds, but they were mainly focused on early stage, private tech companies.

He did have about 10 years worth of poor-to-decent results running other hedge funds before he found real success with RenTech. So it's not like this all came out of nowhere.
This is not about the macOS store, but about notarizing off-store apps.
>because our definition of success is that the founders get rich

The entire start-up industry is a get-rich-quick scheme and a cancer on society.
Launching a City-State Startup?
I agree with the post's view of maker time. I disagree with its ideas around manager's ideal schedule. My experiences as a manager were that the disruptions of hourly 'something new' were unhelpful for strategy development or even moving the tactical horizon to something past 'next week'. This resulted in my 'actual' work being done before anyone else arrived or after everyone else left. I have met very few managers who did not have similar concerns.
I develop about a half a dozen open source utilities, and own Macs. I read the writing on the wall and switched to Linux as my daily driver, because once you're locked in to a closed platform, it's easier to pay the toll than it is switch.

I've unfortunately come to the same conclusion.
They are not even talking about App Store. The change is that you now need $100/year even if you distribute outside the app store.
What I meant to say was “as convenience food” as in already cooked and not a salad. Plenty of good stuff in stores, but not a lot from the available quick food places