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Not to argue with the BBC, but this statement is just factually incorrect. Desert sand is not suitable for concrete because it is poorly graded and is all essentially the same size. Concrete mixes call for sands of various grain sizes, and so to use desert sand you would need to mix in these other sizes of sand.

I have seen this rumor repeated often and I think it is journalists trying to explain something they don't understand in a way that seems intuitive.
Happy to chat, first initial + last name at google.

I think the answer is, know exactly how you want to exit before you start and plan for that. Realize also that is 180 degrees polar opposite of how the major VC's want you to approach it - so if you wanted institutional money from Sequoia etc... they won't invest if they know that is the case. There are a lot of good reasons why they take that approach, power law and all.

The reality is, your best case scenario is most likely an acquisition. Which might be exactly what you want, and if so absolutely go for it, but you need to really understand how and why and when the companies you are targeting do their acquisitions. This is incredibly hard to do if you haven't gone through multiple acquisition Due Diligence processes before, but I know of people who have repeatedly done this, so it can be done.

As to the other points, there are too many variables to say whether those are good ideas or not, totally depends on what you're trying to do.
Extreme as compared to collecting the fat from roasting.
We do 500k€ of positive cashflow per month, despite the fact that we recruit as fast as we can (350 people recruited in 2019). We have an average growth of 71% per year, over the past ten years. (64% in 2019)

We have never been hype, but kept focusing on building a great product. Today, there is no competitor anymore that matches Odoo, for the scope and price. We have millions of users, and have a serious impact on SMEs using Odoo.

I don't think b2b software on a slow and complex market ever get momentum. (E.g. over the past 15 years, Salesforce growth has always been below 70%. But if you consistently grow above 30%, it gets huge)
I have bad dreams about this very thing, I cant even read the article
Reminds me of how the Zune amused French-Canadians.
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Just to get feedback on our early stage project, what do folks here think about a similar launcher but for saas apps and on can run on any website?

Project: Navigator - https://navigator.bytebeacon.com

We're still building the backend, but playing with the widget should give you an idea of what the tool can do. It 's not meant to complete with desktop based launchers like the one mentioned in the thread so far.
Common trope against libertarians, a super lazy no-thought argument. Feudalism is owning people which is clearly unethical.

I'm not against government, I'm pro-freedom with a government that does the minimum possible to ensure a non-coercive society. Liberals take the absolute craziest position and say, "Durr that's what libertarians believe!"

Completely ridiculous
> The paper also suggests a potential change to regulation—making individuals within a company responsible for what goes wrong within that company’s IT systems. “When you personally are liable, and you can be made bankrupt or sent to prison, it changes [the situation] a great deal, including the amount of attention paid to it,” Warren says. “You treat it very seriously, because it’s your personal wealth and your personal liberty at stake.”

Being sent to prison for buggy code... that's quite extreme. Are people even fired for buggy code? If we want to get more extreme than firing, how about losing 1 year's compensation in addition to being fired.
Perhaps, but they also have APIs for song data and user listening preferences. It's actually pretty impressive how accessible their platform is to developers.

[1] https://developer.spotify.com/discover/#recommendations
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So then what options would minors that have addictions to cigarettes have for getting off of them?
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> 40 years of crap on top of crap

It's all new.

> wouldn't need thousands of engineers to spin up instances

If thousands of engineers had to worry about deploys, that'd be a problem. The deploy team is small. K8S makes this dead simple.

> Over 1e2 times if the solution is in software

That's ridiculous. Where did you get those figures?

> 1e5 times if it's an fpga. Around 1e8 if you do it in silicon

If you're writing code for FGPAs or burning it to silicon, you're far removed from application server development. That would move at a glacial pace.

> bloated horror

Our containers are thin.

> Has nothing to do with k8s.

You're just hating on k8s at this point.

> Like everything else you listed there this is a hardware improvement.

Kubernetes. :P

Honestly there's been a metric ton of software improvements. Literally everywhere.

Git, modern kernels, Rust, Paxos (popularized in the 90s), LLVM, modern game engines, tmux, Wikis, bittorrent, blockchain, protobufs, gRPC, Bazel, Redis, modern PL idioms, futures, TOTP, U2F, Markdown, RSS/Atom, so many algorithms, seam carving...
Looks like the previous thread turned into a shitshow though, maybe this one will be better.
The books assume FTL travel as a precondition of human colonisation of other worlds.
Bitrix24 has been pretty successful going against Odoo, though Bitrix24 is not an ERP system per say - https://www.bitrix24.com/tools/ . The hybrid approach (Bitrix24 is free in cloud, source code is available to commercial users) seems to work great with businesses that have a limited budget. Open source products are great but unless you are a techie yourself, high labor costs make deployment too expensive oftentimes. This is especially true for smaller project with small or no budget.
This ought to be an object lesson in not cheaping out on hiring good developers and architects to run sensitive projects like this.

Alas instead it's seen as an opportunity to push the risk on to developers.

With this kind of response and IR35 coming up I can foresee more TSBs happening.
Not OP but I've been thinking about this as cofounder of a "hard tech" company. If we live long enough that we're in a position to hire real talent we can't compete on total yearly comp. The business just won't be able to afford a 500k a year engineer for years.

However right now FAANG companies generally do not offer either the following:

- Reduced work weeks

- Remote work

I've talked to several staff and principle engineers who've told me that for the right company they'd take a massive paycut to work remotely 3-4 days a week. I've had the opportunity to work a 3 day week while making enough to support myself and I have to say, it's incredibly freeing. I don't think this is a sensible offering for anything below a Staff engineer, but it could be a promising path to get truly top talent.
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Yes, they don't use green. Or infrared, beyond 700nm. I don't know if they reflect the IR like they do the green.

Conversion efficiency of the part they do use can't be more than a few percent, so they probably radiate in IR. Converting IR radiating from plants, as suggested in TFA, thus seems like a good idea.
Last time I went to Slovenia I got strep throat. I went to the public doctor, on a Sunday, waited about 25 minutes and got a throat swab and a prescription for $14. And I was a tourist!
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Thanks for clarifying this! Was holidaying hard
I use right shift as the Control key on my KeyOne. The Key2 has the quick-switch key in place of right shift, so the extra options were moved to the currency key.
No, Odoo is not going into that direction. We invest more and more in the community version.

Here is a blog that explains the right balance between Odoo Community and Odoo Enterprise: https://www.odoo.com/blog/odoo-news-5/post/odoo-community-en...
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Perhaps flogging would achieve the same goal while being financially neutral.
Seems he’s doing ok, even without your writing advice...
Awesome post! Also this is where nailing PMF is so
Important too before hiring
Nicotine is a stimulant, so some people enjoy it. Nicotine by itself isn't really too much of a health concern from my understanding, especially when compared to alcohol. So I really don't get why there's such a fuss about banning vaping entirely, or putting it on a prescription-only state.
Thank you. Every time I see a fusion article - and it’s always a breathless “just around the corner” puff piece - I scan it to see if they’ve solved neutron embrittlement, or even come close. So far, no one has.
It's fun to watch the Bay losing its startup spirit and becoming a land of mega corporates. It might resemble Atlanta in 20-30 years. There are so many other places where joining a startup is the best option you have (excluding remote gigs). I guess most startups will become remote-first and lure people who care either about the team or the problem being solved. Building a startup employer brand will be of paramount importance.
this. i jumped from 10 to 12 and ton of features from accounting is missing.

they really push you towards enterprise.
Agreed, if you're living in SF or NYC I don't see the point in working at a startup unless you're just really passionate/optimistic about the work/company or are getting some other perks you wouldn't get at a FAANG.

Personally I work for startups, but only because they let me work remotely, something I wouldn't be able to do at any FAANG. I would only go back to an office job to work at a FAANG, since compared to a startup the money, "exit ops", work life balance, and job security are probably going to be way better.

If startups want to be more competitive and have access to more talent, then they'd be wise to open to hiring remote workers. Otherwise they're going to struggle to compete with FAANG type companies. Remote is the one perk that FAANG companies don't offer, and unfortunately probably won't for the foreseeable future short of some serious cultural change.
I'm non payed enough to be legally liable for the code I do at my job.

...and moreover, what about the usage of third party software? (worse if it's free software...)
IMHO it is unreasonable to expect these sorts of things to be possible to do using a big bang approach. The complexity exceeds cognitive capabilities and disaster strikes. Therefore, it is not optimal to see these projects as data migration but functionality migration ones. You move some customers to another set of functionality. Thus, my recommended tool is to use none
And NYC. Finance IT management jobs at the senior levels pay a solid 3-500, senior devs 200+, with some sort of bonus structure being common. Then there are increasingly tech companies (something that used be pretty rare even 10 years ago), and for the tired, there are university and hospital IT jobs.

However, rent is through the roof, on par with San Francisco. And a city with its own set of challenges.

From what I hear and read, Seattle seems like one of the best bangs for the buck. As for myself, the lack of sunlight would make me want to live in London (at least I can fly two hours and see the Sun).
Odoo is not comparable to SAP or Oracle. We focus mostly on SMEs, with an approach "per app" rather than an ERP.

What we do is more comparable to building an open source WIX, Trello, Slack, Pipedrive, ... I would never do something else :)
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No side was specified. There's typically no shortage of untrue words on either side of any divide.
That Warren would fit USSR nomenclature perfectly.
I read somewhere recently that the melting of ice in Greenland is exposing vast quantities of sand. I am not sure if this will make a difference as transporting the sand would then be a problem.
i don't believe you, after removing much core features from v12 you are removing payroll from v13.

every of those decisions are speaking against what you just said.
I'm willing to bet that free access to this research has saved lives. It has certainly improved mine.

This article reads like the first step in a character assassination attempt. I don't like it.
Or a law is passed / directive issued. See the cryptography restriction in the 90s and the recent lotus notes backdoor story here.
Even the old stories about the blackberry messaging keys requirements in various countries
> "Perhaps the easiest way to avoid outages is to simply to make fewer changes."

The exact opposite is true. When a process happens infrequently, it's more likely that the people involved will make mistakes and overlook steps. The correct answer is to make changes more often, and to develop robust processes and automation around those changes.
It seems like the primary issue is the lack of a single human account manager maintaining consistent communication while your cash is held in reserve.

Perhaps the law should change to require interest paid for funds held in reserve accounts. This could prevent conflict-of-interest between fraud prevention and holding money to collect interest. Perhaps Stripe should offer interest and push for this law change since it will further contrast them with PayPal as the good guys.

I had a similar experience with PayPal reserves and enjoyed poor communication and arbitrary reserve extensions after a six figure spike in sales. I complained to the state banking authority when they deducted refunds out of my bank account instead of from their held reserves — PayPal was clearly in the wrong and they corrected it after numerous phone calls, while still holding our funds in reserve. The CA banking regulators proved incompetent.
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AMD is a fabless semiconductors company. They are more akin to low-level software than to the majority of hardware companies.
Christ - Jesus of Nazareth, held by Christians to be the fulfillment of prophecies in the Old Testament regarding the eventual coming of a Messiah.

Mass - Mass is the main eucharistic liturgical service in many forms of Western Christianity.

Christmas.

Furthermore, the top comment was mentioning Christian Christmas activities, ignoring the derailment of the discussion into secularity, the answer is most likely a plain yes.

Furthermore, I’m willing to bet that (especially in a large city) there are already Facebook events that are not related to religion that give you something do for Christmas.
Don't do migration in one go. Do it gradually. Make sure you can run both systems at the same time. It will take longer than you thought doing it in one go would take, but less time than actually doing it in one go and fixing all the problems.
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In a situation in which the consequences are so grave, you end up never vouching for the software as fit for purpose. Rather you claim best efforts to ensure fitness, and what you do vouch for is the testing you performed. If people at the top end of the pay scale signed off on your test plan, and you fully completed all testing successfully, it’s very difficult to find you blameworthy.
It's a bit glib, because data varies so much, but my personal favourite data migration tool is Perl.

I've migrated a lot of "stuff" from one place to another, from filesystems, to databases, to backups, and there is usually some perl running in the background.

Of course the scale is very different. The biggest thing I've personally migrated was in the low Tb of data. Certainly nothing so large/necessary as banking stuff.
Such a move would cause a dramatic shift, but not a good one: it would cause the best and most experienced people to leave for less risky work.

It’s like any contract negotiation, you’re always able to push for more favorable terms, but eventually you’re just weeding out people who aren’t smart enough to walk away.
Neither https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/prudential... nor https://www.fca.org.uk/publication/consultation/cp19-32.pdf seem to contain phrases that actually say what's quoted in the article. The closest I can see is that these documents suggest that senior management is supposed to be aware of what they are responsible and accountable for. Putting blame on the other end of the chain would be counterproductive anyway. There's pretty much no way the root cause of such a large scale failure would be in some minor technical role.
I can assure you no educated immigrant wants to live uninsured in the US.
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I think you are implicitly referring to change size too here: smaller changes are better. Can probably be included in "robust processes".
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Three AoA sensors is still not enough to generate a confident consensus to allow an autopilot system capable of crashing the plane to function

On Lufthansa 1829, two of the three AOA sensors on an A321 erroneously agreed, causing a system similar to MCAS to kick in[1]

The sensors can fail due to being frozen, or also be damaged by birds traveling in flocks

[1] Third bullet point under the A321 heading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incident...
yeah, this is obscene. Too many people participate in such systems, and placing blame on anyone is impossible.

Also, that's the whole reason LLCs exist as one of the pillars of our economy. Having so much risk would make any endeavor so risky as to not be worth it.
> One area where China clearly has an advantage is massive investment in time and budget and respect for education and scholarship that pervades its culture, from individual, family, friends, up to the highest level of society.

My experience is that Chinese have a respect for the record that claims you are educated. Actual education or achievement is irrelevant.

My favorite example of this is a Chinese friend who cashed out of a startup for $22 million but is still a failure because he didn't get a college degree.
> The fact that the Laffer curve[1] is a thing leads me to believe that government will continue to tax until the maximum taxation is achieved, or beyond.

Isn't that circular reasoning? Afaik, the Laffer curve just is a concept that discribes where the maximum tax revenue is (i.e. neither at 0% nor at 100% tax)
That said, as an operator of a number of fairly large kubernetes clusters (100-500 nodes), I might prefer java's memory tuneability to Go's garbage collector simply not caring about the max memory a system can offer.

At scale, we need to heavily oversize the kubernetes masters to deal with the spikiness of go memory consumption. It's possible for a kube apiserver to average 2GB of memory use and then jump to 18GB after suddenly handling more requests than usual and get OOM-killed. I'd much rather it simply slow down a bit than behave so erratically.

This is a common thing across all Go programs that handle data: since Go's garbage collector doesn't try to keep memory use within some upper bound, if you allocate and throw away a bunch of objects you'll quickly run out of memory on any low-memory system or container even though there's a ton of memory ready to be reclaimed.

Even a major library like the official AWS SDK's S3 client had this wrong as recently as 2017 (solution was to use sync.pool to avoid throwing away buffers): https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/pull/1784

Python should perform much better from a memory perspective in these situations: its weakness would be the deserialized size that objects blow up to in memory, but its use would be bounded. Java would also handle this pretty effortlessly, though with a high enough rate of garbage production might hit a few short GC pauses that last far less time than a process restart.

Really wish go were better about this. Imagine that a simple Go cronjob that uploads a backup to s3 at under a
160MB/sec could risk you OOM killing your server if you don't set cgroup memory caps on all your go processes.
And then who was really responsible for that bug? The engineer who didn't care to write tests? The QA person who didn't ensure it worked? Or the manager who pushed their workforce to the brink? As we have seen with Volkswagen, it is the bottom of the chain which tends to be blamed.
I'm going to be cynical and say, maybe >32 was the cut-off point in the OP's message.

"OK, Boomer."

There's something to be said about assuming a that very large volume of mostly-anonymous messages on the Internet can be deteremined by the OP to be old. That sounds like ... something a young person might say.
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Yes absolutely, but the degree to which these are addictive is not the same for each, so how much action you take towards them must be on a case by case basis.
Overall work culture needs a massive thrust to change from a face to face politicking culture to an efficient, asynchronous, remote culture, especially in these times of extreme weather, considering more than a few workplaces had to switch to remote due to weather exigencies (but they promptly switched back when employee pushback relaxed).
You surely don't know much about Mercurial.

"purge" has NOTHING to do with commits. "purge" only removes file not tracked by Mercurial.

"graft" replaced "transplant".

"graft" copies commits while "rebase" moves commits.

These commands all have very clear purposes, unlike those in Git.

It's just that you haven't really bothered to spend a few minutes on learning them.
Not really, no. Unlike a software company it still costs them a significant amount of cold hard cash to produce each unit they sell. Captial intensive AF, especially at 7nm. They don't have to build their own fabs, but they DO have to pay for those fabs to be built, one way or another. Being fabless doesn't free you from that.
What about all the skilled software engineers that DON'T want to live in SF.
Several terabytes a day, but it varies, hence why I love the auto-scaling.
Don't worry, there aren't any interesting details in it.
You don't have true open borders in Europe. You need an EU passport, which is kind of the hard part. Try letting in anyone from any country with no restrictions and see how you get on. I'm not saying it won't work, just don't pretend like your borders are truly open.
Previous discussion, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14831794
Spotify curated playlists are often dynamic - they will often get updated or completely redone every once in a while. I guess that can be a feature but it is not how I listen to music.

If I find a playlist I like, either from spotify or somewhere else, I make sure to make a local copy of that playlist in my account to make sure it doesn't change. Because when you add such a playlist you don't copy it, you subscribe to it.

(Ctrl+a to select all songs, ctrl+c, make new playlist, ctrl+v. Might be an even easier and more direct way but I don't have spptify in front of me).
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The argument isn't that we shouldn't colonize other planets because it's expensive, it's that we shouldn't colonize other planets because it's Pareto inferior to making orbital habitats.
100% - what I always do is start the new logic/system so it processes in parallel with the old one and at the same time backfill the old data into the new system. When everything is proven working, feature flag to switch the new system as the main one, old one keeps running. After a period of quarantine, switch off the old system.

I don't understand the requirement of doing the "nuclear button" migration, except maybe a shortsighted way of trying to save costs.
I don’t do any of the things you describe.