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Ask HN: Best long-term and marketable web stack for freelance contract devs?
I feel like I don't get enough time to deep-dive into one specific programming language / framework, since as a freelance I feel I need to learn 4 or 6 or 10 languages / frameworks and need to keep up-to-date on all of them.

I want to invest the next years learning a few carefully selected languages / frameworks in more depth, without worrying too much about breaking changes in the underlying software, so that (optionally) I can easily pick up other languages / frameworks on-demand, since I understand the underlying concepts better.

Do you have any go-to web dev languages / tools / frameworks that you feel will be a good investment of your time in the long-term?

Here's some stuff I like: Python / Flask, PostgreSQL, AWS (incl. ElasticBeanstalk) / Netlify, Mithril.js, npm / Makefile / Parcel.js. (Currently I use a lot of PHP / Laravel / Symfony, Vue / Angular in addition to the previously mentioned.) Still undecided on Docker, but I do use it quite regularly, but also still use Vagrant as well.

(Re: My background: Freelance web developer / software architect in Western Europe, mostly working with agencies and SMEs; I've been doing this for about 10 years, 6 of them full-time, but have been developing websites or doing IT admin work on the side for about 20 years.)
I'm interested in quite a few of your positions. Is it ok to apply for more than 1, or is it possible to talk to to a recruiter first to understand things in detail? Also do you provide relocation? At the moment I'm based in SG, and would require visa assistance.
Why milk comes in bags in parts of Canada
Ya, I also assumed, hoped?, the 80s quirkiness (weird news, dr demento, archie mcphees, zines, and other earnest trivias) would have flourished. Making the jump from BBSes to the web.

Instead we got ad funded autobot outrage factories.
How can I be underestimating when it's a fact that there is a shortage of nurses, and hence nurse unions have decent sway.
> 10. Still no hoverboards

But they exist right now! Just not for the average consumer. https://m.youtube.com/results?search_query=flying+hoverboard...

Same with jetpacks (Gravity Industries will sell you a jet engine based jetpack for ~400k)
On macOS Catalina seems to to work ok.

Just set

gfx.webrender.all to true

in about:config.

Restart.

You can verify it is enabled in about:support

https://twitter.com/moo9000/status/1213064185963335680
When there is a monopoly, more densely populated areas cross subsidise more sparsely populated areas. If there isn't a monopoly then companies are incentivised to pick and choose whos mail to carry making it more expensive for everyone else.
It's not a new decade. The start of the decade is in 2021. This is just the start of the twenties.
I live in vim, write mostly python, and don't need function keys. An iPad gives me a range of vim ports, shells, python environment and one really good gift client.

Also the Smart Keyboard is simply the best shape for typing on a seat-back tray table.
Fuji GFX 100 Raws? Because that's what I meant :D
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Instead of writing final papers, I let students choose a creative project
This one also surprised me. Are school shootings up? Or is the media peddling violent news more aggressively?
'7. Containerization is adopted by companies that are a bit behind the curve.'

I think there will be plenty of legacy stacks to look after, but I wonder if 'Serverless' products won't just kill off containerisation by 2025.
I recommend a MBA if you're using it as a development machine, not for photography! :)
Brings back memories of playing Novalogic Comanche with a Logitech WingMan Extreme. It was an amazing experience at the time. That game was really far ahead of its time.

I really like the animations that illustrate how the algorithms render the final result.
Cripes does anybody remember Google People
Yeah, if he's so bored, why can't he do drugs and have unprotected sex like the teenagers of his parents' generation?
> What services do you receive that is worth 1.25 million?

And what do you produce alone that is worth 2.5 million?
> Humans can't survive without property in nature

This is a loaded statement. Humans can absolutely survive without property, they did so for hundreds of thousands of years before the concept of property was defined.

What is speech that harasses covered under, if not hate speech? I would argue that the only reason why hate speech came into being was because so many harmful remarks didn't qualify as harassment in the same courts you question the fairness of.

Let me be clear and say that I don't doubt that any of these things are tough to define once you really start looking at possible edge cases. My problem with your statements are more about how you think things are black and white, but hate speech is all grey. If I sing lyrics of a very violent song directly at a passer-by in the street, is that not threatening? Do you think that action should fall under harassment?

> Courts, judges, and juries do not seem to make the process fair.

If you don't trust courts, judges and juries (and I'm not saying I do), then you really can't rely on them, nor politicians, either to define what is lawful and what is not, and that includes theft, murder or whatever other offenses.
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Does anyone know why this post is flagged? Or why similar stories have been removed, etc?

Is it that it's off-topic?

Edit: It seems every post remaining on this story has been flagged. I imagine it's 'off-topic' but curious why other off-topic stuff hasn't warranted such a strong reaction?
Based on this

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1025681

it seems things change much less than expected.

Probably Climate Change will turn out to be solvable by a combination of more efficient energy production, less consumption, net negative greenhouse gas emissions and conservative geo-engineering (algae, reflecting surfaces like solar panels everywhere etc.) Either a completely new or re-invented gadget or platform will arrive that integrates nicely with all the stuff we already have. I bet it'll be something about communication. (Nice add-on to the hundreds of messengers, social networks, communication gadgets that are already there...)

I think everything else will stay pretty much the same. People will still drive cars, wait in traffic jams and be upset about everyday politics. The rise of the extreme right will turn out to be a non-issue, since history has never been documented and reflected as well as in the last hundreds of years.

Developments in technology, politics, economy and society will bring more wealth to a larger amount of people. Especially in African Countries there will be an economy comparable in wealth to that of today's South-East Asia. That will come along with improved telecommunication and transport infrastructure throughout the continent.
> 9. [...] Fires in Australasia become a huge problem. [...]

Well, Australia maybe. I think it's unlikely we'll see the same level of problem in New Zealand (or New Guinea or Pacific islands, which are sometimes counted as in Australasia).
There has been some progress on that front. For index size there is a new rebuild command in PG12 which works concurrently. There is also pluggable storage now, which enables much more efficient row deletion. I can’t find a link to the new storage format, but here is the announcement for 12 https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1943/
Yup any company I've ever been at has also had a similar policy about speaking publicly
If you want to be a millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.

- Richard Branson
Me too, I spent countless hours playing flight sims since the 48K days, including Comanche.
I wonder if we really have to wait a full generation with the "new conditions" (such as national healthcare) already in place for the bickering to taper off. That is, the discussion about how much downtrodden-ness is OK as long as shareholders get increasing value.

I mean, at one point for the hospitals to continue to operate at ever more profits you basically have to stop curing people and make them come back. You can combat that with more choices, but nobody is breaking up the banks, so why would they break up the big hospitals?

https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XZHRqu2UjeE/U7LUMgY49HI/AAAAAAAAP...
A Startup Lost More Than 80% of Its Value
The twenties are a decade.
1. Bitcoin will remain largely as it is today - a niche "currency" not used by many people due to it remaining difficult to use, impossible to insure, and prone to large swings in value.

2. Computer assistance will help aid drivers with incremental advances on what they do today - by 2030 most new cars will be able to parallel park for you, as an example, but full self-driving, if available to consumers, will be limited to limited access roads such as highways.

3. AWS and Azure will still be the dominant cloud providers. Google will reduce investment in GCP and it will fall further behind.

4. IBM's purchase of RedHat won't pay off. Over the next 10 years they'll shed 100k employees or more.

5. We'll see fewer streaming service providers by the end of the decade. Amazon may sell off their video service and will be picked up by either NBCUniversal or ViacomCBS. Whoever doesn't get them will at least try for some sort of merger with Netflix.

6. Amazon will release another phone to try and challenge Apple and Google once again.

7. Salesforce will most likely buy Slack. The other most likely bidders I see are IBM, Cisco, and Dell.

Other things that I think are very obvious or already starting:

* TV and movie piracy will increase significantly due to subscription fatigue.

* Libra won't have launched.

* Cloud gaming is 50/50 as to whether or not it will be like VR/AR is today. I actually think it has a better chance of success in parts of Europe and Asia - think Scandinavia, South Korea, and Japan, than in the US. The major internet providers in the US are not interested in providing the quality of service needed for cloud gaming to succeed. Starlink won't offer enough bandwidth to disrupt this space either, although it may see significant adoption in rural areas if enough satellites are launched.
"12. Joe Rogan will host a presidential debate."

Won't be surprised if he ends up securing an official interview with Trump.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-wing_market_anarchism
It would still be more now than if the reactors had not been shut down right?

I guess I should not throw stones since both countries I live in are worse than this. Specifically they dig out more and more coal every year without stopping.
A progressive political wave will lead to eminent domain of private golf courses and their conversion into public housing and public parks
> China has rich tradition of vegetarian cuisine due to Buddhism

This is less and less true. Chinese meat consumption increased nearly 3-fold in the 1990-2013 period (from 25kg/y/cap to 62kg/y/cap). Meanwhile, meat consumption in the EU during the same period has started reducing from 85kg/y/cap to 81kg/y/cap. The trends have been continuing since 2013.

Of course, the USA is off the charts, at 115kg/y/cap, but the meat obsession there is totally unsustainable, unhealthy and insane IMO.

Source: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/meat-consumption-vs-gdp-p...
I read a bit more and it seems some models has encryption mode (by default using an empty string for a password it seems.) There exist at least two projects to get data from those MyBooks so I'll try those if the simple version doesn't work.
Having used resque how production workloads I wouldn't want to use Redis as a job queue. It works fine for small workloads but doesn't have many resiliency capabilities and doesn't scale well (cluster mode drops support for some set operations so probably can't use that). Replication is async and it's largely single threaded so then you get this SPOF bottleneck in the middle of a distributed work system
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> There's no such thing as hate speech.

There most certainly is, you just don't like any of the definitions of it.

You're also confusing dealing with personal psychological problems and causing duress to another person based on your own fears and biases.
I'm curious, since it doesn't match my experience: where in Western society have you lived, if you'd be OK with sharing?
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The VIDC provided a configurable framebuffer (with choices for resolution and color depth), plus a single "mouse pointer" sprite. Audio was just PCM channels. The Amiga custom hardware did a whole lot more than that.
“Doctor Zhivago” as CIA Secret Weapon (2014)
ePub on Kindles? When did that happen? Or is the author missing a step?

Or is the AZW/KFX format similar enough to HTML that - like with ePub - a generic HTML file will get you almost everything you need (plus some metadata and a simple conversion)?
funny they didn't seem to talk a lot about the cloud in these predictions, or did i miss anything?
It does. But the language is nice enough to be stand alone and in my opinion, in the long run I think there's no reason to involve legacy js and hopefully we could get a wasm compile target :-)
1) A new energy source solves the energy problem and Oil becomes worthless overnight.

2) ICE cars deprecate 50% every year and EV's sales eclipse ICE.

3) Self driving is solved mid way through the decade and human driving is banned as accident's drop to almost zero.

4) Google announces that their AI system has gained consciousness.

5) Facebook is bought by a Chinese company for a few billion after its active user base collapses.

6) Twitter posts are doubled to 560 and tweets can be edited and versioned.

7) Hackernews allows inline images to be posted.

8) All major tech companies adopt ES-10 (Javascript) as their programming language for all development after major improvements in performance add safety.

9) Netflix and Disney merge to become the biggest media giant ever.

10) Tesla/SpaceX merge to become the first $10 trillion dollar company.
>No matter how many people say "but a well regulated mandatory multi-payer type of system is working in Germany" or "nationalized medicine is working in Canada" it's all just ignored and the argument continues anew.

Practically nobody is saying that a single payer system or tightly regulated multi-payer system hasn't worked anywhere (we all know Canada exists) or can't work in the US.

Everyone is arguing about the specific implementation because those are the details that make or break it. Anything would work on paper. Even free market with some good regulations to promote competition would probably work. It's the specific details of actually implementing something that works (and the ability of the people who would be doing the implementing to get those details right and not be corrupted by existing interests) that everyone is arguing over.

Everyone with a brain realizes that when it comes to big systems involving lots of moving parts the fine tuning is what makes or breaks them. Look at all the various social services programs that were kneecapped over the years because someone came along and made a few small changes or some key feature was compromised out of existence. Everyone is bickering over every detail because every detail has the ability to cause massive amounts of hardship when applied at a societal level if said detail is done wrong.

Simply put, healthcare is a hard issue because the stakes are so high that nobody is apathetic about it making compromise and consensus hard to reach.
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Right, but because the traffic will all be autonomous vehicles, that will be totally safe.
Well, a MacBook lacks touch and cannot detach the keyboard. That is the nice thing about this accessory, that it converts your tablet into a laptop, you still can use it as a tablet though. But you already name the important difference, why a MacBook (and yes, the 12" was a really nice form factor) is better for many tasks: because of the software limitations of the iPad, but they are completely artificial. One could have an iPad as usefull as a Mac if Apple allowed it.

And yes, at least I would hope that if Apple offers an ARM based Mac, it would be close to that MacBook. Though the new Air isn't that much larger.
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> Cannabis will be legalised federally in the [...] UK

Are you implying that the UK will rejoin the EU, which by then has become a superstate, or that it will have become a territory of the US?
> useful

Indeed - non-relativistic quantum mechanics does explain the double-slit experiment and does not use the notion of a field.
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Pharma exec says he had 'moral requirement' to raise drug price 400%
But making people angry doesn't imply that you're doing something important though.
Sounds like an area for Vision Fund to extend the We brand into. Fits their model well.
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1. Utility-scale battery storage switches to a technology that is unsuited to consumer battery storage. For example, the batteries might only operate at high temperatures. They could be based on sodium.

2. The USA will dominate soccer.

3. Immigrants will cause a civil war or revolution in a European country. There will be genocide.

4. Car communication will be hacked, again, but this time it won't be for cautious fun. One day during rush hour, all cars of a particular manufacturer will suddenly accelerate. They may even aim for other cars. Roads everywhere will be blocked with so many burning wreaks that emergency services simply can't go anywhere.

5. We will find the cause for the loss of masculinity that has occurred over the past century. (reduced Sertoli cell number, reduced sperm count, reduced testosterone level, reduced anogenital distance, etc.) Fixing this will require the elimination of a large class of chemicals that is in all sorts of products, so there will be heavy lobbying effort to avoid banning anything and to avoid liability.

6. Pain medication based on psychoactive compounds found in M. speciosa will be in FDA trials.

7. GMO animals, modified to avoid organ mismatch, will be used to grow organs for humans. They will be universal donors. Immunosuppression will not be required.

8. Some organs will be grown from induced stem cells in a 3D-printed shape.
What was good about that post? It sounded like gross generalizations and deep seated resentment, with not a touch of “honesty”.
Yep, don’t think anyone would have cared if they just spoke about climate change. Attacking your employer publicly in any context is a dumb move. Even in legit whistle blowing cases they will find a way to get you out.
You got the willpower to launch 10 things? Teach me, master.

How do you choose what to launch?

Do you think it's a market fit problem?

Have much have you tried to promote your products?

And to answer your question listen to HIBT (podcast), the last episode was amazing (salad chick). And if you want to read, I personally love masters of doom, that book is fuel for me.
Sweden had a "letter monopoly" up until 1993 - https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postlagen
Hey Till, nice to see you here on hn! =)
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It should be noted that the word "libertarian" was originally invented by left libertarians of the most extreme variety (anarcho-communists, who deny private property altogether) to describe themselves. From there, it quickly became a catch-all self-identification for pretty much everybody on the anarchist and minarchist left, covering anarcho-socialists, mutualists etc. There was no "right libertarian" as a commonly understood term until the 1950s.
ISO 8601 would like a word with you:

https://www.iso.org/obp/ui#iso:std:iso:8601:-1:ed-1:v1:en
I'd put money on Tesla being bought by another manufacturer, possibly Ford or FIAT.
If syntax doesn't matter at all, then why haven't more people switched to [insert name of esoteric programming language]? Programming is indeed about design and structure, so why create tools that gratuitously distract programmers from design and structure?
The 20 lines mentioned in the headline refer to the render algorithm itself, not including all the code for map loading, input handling, line drawing and html/css. Basically the lines 51 to 71 in your code.
> 3-Month Battery Life Per Charge * *

But... there's no * * footnote.
The pattern is evident, and it becomes more clear if you look at individuals' comment histories.
Interesting... Around here if divers are working off a line, they're tagged in with a short lead to the mainline. The lead will have carabiners on either end that are either factory stitched in place, or clipped into a figure-eight. Those aren't meant to be under any tension though, they're just for maintaining orientation.

If a diver is attached to an actual haul line (not common, but happens in swift-water recuse scenarios), then they're going to be clipped in via a carabiner, which is tied on with a double-loop figure-eight. The double-loop figure-eight is the standard "if your life is gonna depend on it" knot around here.

(I am not a rescue diver, but do support dive operations from time to time)
Don't worry, the anti-alcohol policy is coming. DNA screening sometime in your future. It might be illegal now, but that will change. DNA machine learning algos probably already built by health insurance companies.
I support gun control but do not support the censorship in emojis. So I don't know about that.
I'm old enough to remember when this was exactly how email was used. (but using a normal email client).

It was acceptable to send one-word email replies, and there were email chains of hundreds of emails (I was the guy who tended to "snip" them after 20 or replies).

Now email seems to have taken over from where snail mail was: bills, newsletters, and formal communication. Chat is now the norm.

Though I do notice a generational divide: one of my co-founders is in his 60's, and will phone randomly (which is now considered rude), another is a bit younger and prefers email to messaging, but will message to ask if it's OK to call. My younger colleagues send formal email replies, and use Whatsapp/Keybase for all other communication. I vetoed using Slack in the organisation completely ;)

I wonder if in another 30 years, chat apps will be the formal channel, and something else will have taken over for just chatting.
Calm down, it's a bit of fun.
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I am not fully convinced.

That cohesive team, why would it make money for the old company and its investors? That signing bonus can be split entirely among themselves.

Non-competes are not allowed in California. And in any other location, the team can wait it out because the company most likely ceases existing.
>I view the cost of a daily standup as very small (they should be only a few minutes long!) so while some would call the benefits modest, I think the "time spent vs. value obtained" ratio is still very good.

My problem with a morning standup is that it completely destroys my productivity if I come in early and really get cracking on a problem, then have to stop and task-switch. I'd much rather make it optionally asynchronous.
VW already seem to be betting the company on electric, they have been investing vast amounts of money in it.
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Try listening to cognitive behavior therapy audio books while under the influence.
I can't go too far into a chapter without pausing and losing myself in contemplation. Listening while under the influence is a great way to trigger introspection.
Away.

(Or less snarkily, https://twitter.com/iquilezles/status/1212377355349417986)
Yeah, but you’d want to open Notepad first.
What makes you think they are?