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It's definitely a culture thing. I do freelance work so I've been part of 4-5 different companies in the past 2 years alone.

In one team with 8 team members at a midsize company consisting of mostly junior devs and the CTO being a scrum/agile supporter, we would have discussions constantly, and features development would be consensus-based and tasks would be broken into tiny parts. One of the juniors had complained that they have too many meetings and suggested a meeting to address this issue (oh, the irony).

In another team, we're 5 people, all seniors with different skill sets. We do some agile planning with a simple scrum board, but everyone trusts the others to do their job. There have been days where I was in the office with 2 other devs in the room and I spoke maybe 10 words (I mean that literally) in the whole work day.

It could also be a symptom of "nice guy syndrome". I used to be that person. People would not just ask me about project stuff, but maybe the printer is broken. Or WiFi is slow. Or coffee machine needs cleaning. I couldn't do project stuff anymore. With each passing project, I learn how to be less of "that nice guy" towards more of a "that expert guy who will help if it helps the team". And if it's a junior team and everyone keeps asking me tech stuff, I will talk to the tech lead and ask whether or not it would be more sensible to reduce the number of tickets assigned to me and use me more as a coach, doing small workshops and doing pair programming.
I have a feeling we're entering a job bubble, and possibly a recession... if it hits by November, I'm betting there will be another blue wave. Actually, that might happen regardless, but the blame will likely fall on the President, it usually does. Digital Ocean just announced layoffs, so it's possible a lot more might follow. I think a lot of VC bets like magic leap, and WeWork and Uber might go sour and hurt investments going into the 2020's.
I have seen nothing to suggest that the people who have lost their jobs weren't working hard enough or creating enough value. The comment above merely says the jobs they were doing are no longer considered strategically valuable, and that's no fault of their own.
Alternatively:

> “Reformed Last Thursdayism,” a.k.a. “Next Thursdayism”: the belief that the world will be created ex nihilo, complete with fossils and cosmic microwave background and other signs of apparent age, next Thursday, and that we currently inhabit the precomputation.

(https://a-point-in-tumblspace.tumblr.com/post/187371750052/)
While I agree I think that domestic printing is and should be increasingly obsolete so I opted for free tier printing specifically because I wanted a fallback (like keeping an old USB CD-ROM drive in case - like my canon camera firmware was not online and only on the CD they sent me).

If you are occasionally forced to send in a paper form or your flight carrier insists on a printed boarding pass etc. it doesn't make economic sense to keep a printer functional at normal cost.

I see HP free tier as a legacy support system.

Ideally I'd print nothing. It's maddening how much bureaucracy still requires printing.

But I agree that on devices that you depend on it is weird.

I live in Amsterdam and have a subscription bike (and I pay for the fact that I will always have a replacement bike if any issues come up)... but I guess I wouldn't like a situation where I couldn't buy (and repair) a regular bike.
It seems weird that you complain that the wealthy are under-taxed and then propose we switch from an income tax to a land tax which shifts a large portion of the tax burden from the rich to the middle class and poor.

Also the reason for the formation of most of the companies mentioned in the article is liability reduction more than tax reduction.
yeah , quotes are useful however, even decontextualized, to anchor an idea to a specific point of reference.its not just about authority
I've seen programming outsourced before (and I moved out of the US to Europe to get my start in software). However, what people without software experience are likely to miss is that programming is not really the problem in commercial software. Communicating the thing-to-be-made in a way that both management and the programmers are on the same page and keeping that communication open through development so that the right thing gets made is the real challenge (heck, doing this among managers is challenging enough).

Outsourcing can, in some cases, raise additional obstacles to this goal through differences in language and/or culture, and every mistake here adds additional cost to the project. This isn't insurmountable, but usually I don't see this even considered when the question of outsourcing comes up.

That, and the group we outsourced to happened to be in a part of the world that was in the middle of a literal civil war, so staff sometimes couldn't work because staying alive was more important. Being aware of the near-future geopolitical situation of your people is important anywhere, and just kind of happens by osmosis when you're working domestically.

I very much look forward to Neuralink, but as you point out on the following line, this will also not turn non-programmers into programmers because the main hurdle is not knowing the syntax, but formulating thought into a structure that's useful for computers, and it seems most non-programmers do not have the mindset for it. Programmers are people who turn ideas into formal logic. Although some things can be automated there, I personally think the future's still bright for developers with people skills, wherever they may be.
He gave a good talk about SystemD once too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_AIw9bGogo

edit: found a version with better camera angles
For some hobby stuff inkjet is just what you need. Not everything works with laser printers.
Since this is hackernews, maybe this is the right place for this question:

Yesterday evening, someone deleted two posts from my WordPress blog. I assume that it was a hacker who didn't appreciate my apostatic criticism of the scientific community.

The two posts (out of 160) included an early version of this one and another post that once circulated widely on Twitter (https://kirstenhacker.wordpress.com/2019/09/29/the-walrus-an...)

They included some of my sharper criticisms and they established my credibility as someone who studied these systems for years as a community insider.

I, of course, back up my work offline, and I immediately changed my WordPress password and disconnected my computer from the internet because I didn't know if they had just hacked my WordPress account or my computer. Yet, this morning, I am back online with my computer (I only have one) and am wondering what I should do. So far, I'm only planning to install windows updates and restart.
And California has some Republican districts. That doesn’t mean the people stereotyping California for being liberal are pretending they don’t exist.

Stereotypes are broad generalizations that are lucky if they are even accurate about the majority, let alone all of something.
My usual counter argument for "everything a file" is real time constraints. Playing audio or video (includes all games) is a soft real time task. The plan9 file API does not support that.
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>I don‘t understand why people keep buying these inkjet scam printers

>If I need to print photos, I go to a store with instant printing kiosks.

Your solution to inkjet printer ownership is... paying to use one.

"I don't get why people keep buying cars. When I need to use one, I just hail an Uber."
Life is not a game, stop trying to win it.

But I think you know that already.
Why not? Is it impossible to survive in a forest in the US through hunting and gathering? Because that's exactly how our ancestors lived long ago. The people living on $2 a day in the poorest parts of the world are essentially living on that level of wealth. They don't buy most of their goods, they make them.

Go check out primitive technology on YouTube and see the stuff he does in a forest. That kind of stuff is available almost anywhere with a temperate forest.

The cost of living is higher in the US because people expect better stuff and they've put a limit on how low the quality can go. Eg building permits and other housing regulations. All of that significantly increases the cost of housing, but it also makes your minimum housing much better than in poor parts of the world.
And if you can show traction that you're growing far faster than similar companies, it becomes much much easier to raise capital.

When we were starting Bounce, we noticed players in their local markets. We weren't impressed with the product or execution at the time. It's been really interesting to see the development and some of these players have done quite well.

It seems like most folks started with a slightly different idea but the market pulled everyone closer to the same thing.

I started Bounce out of a burning vision. You can read more about it here: https://medium.com/@codycandee/the-story-behind-bounce-21aea...
Ahh, the Ayn Rand reference. The most useless book ever written
So in 1988 the research was robust, plentiful, and clear. What happened since?

I went threw primary, secondary, and tertiary education between 1998 and 2018. If there was any use of spaced repetition in my education it was not apparent to me. It was never recommended to me as a study technique, even though 'flashcard study' was recommended often.

The 9 impediments discussed are not considered strong enough to be "discouraging", but 30 years later spaced repetition isn't part of standard western pedagogy and it has no significant mindshare. The only place it seems to have decent uptake amongst students is in Medical school.
Please think of the unintended consequences. There's even an ancient saying about them: "whom the gods want to punish, they grant [his/her] wishes".

I discovered a pub where people actually socialise. This being the internet, I'm not willing to say which one and where. The last thing it needs is getting flooded with more seekers than it can handle, and in the process losing its charm as the locals would be drowned out, eventually taking themselves elsewhere.

For those who think I'm being unnecessarily over-protective or snarky, I can only recommend to read this link: https://petapixel.com/2019/07/22/photographers-instagrammers... (as happens, it was on HN about 6 months ago).
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> More people are leaving California than moving in, evidence of the toll the state’s housing crisis is taking as the world’s fifth largest economy inches toward 40 million people. [1]

What is the myth again?

[1] https://ktla.com/2019/12/20/californias-population-stalls-at...
I wanted to start something like this many years ago (and I still cannot find anything like it in the cities I go to); I travel a lot for work and I want to leave a suitcase in every city I travel to every few months so I can just take my laptop on the plane. The places that exist only do 24-48 hours max or are very expensive (can rent an apartment for just a little more). So yeah, airbnb for luggage.
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I should clarify. It's in the contract you're meant to send them back to HP. They have a postage paid bag to return them in. That's true when they run out but also when you cancel.
That seems like a fair outcome to me.
How did the population go up by 2 million of people are leaving in droves ?
Exactly this, variable quality but it doesn't make usb fragile by design
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There are memory foam tips??? Link?
> Taxing savings encourages spending and helps the economy flow. When money is held outside of the economy it (say under your bed) it kills any benefit and creates depressions.

But that is a bad goal - we don't want to optimise economic flows, we want to optimise quality of life and standards of living.

The goal in this era of plenty shouldn't tend towards everyone teetering towards bankruptcy and wage slavery so that the politicians can talk about how the GDP is 2% higher. Everyone should have a reserve of real wealth in case they fall on hard times and the bigger the reserve the better as far as I'm concerned.

In my lifetime there have been a constant stream of inflationary collapses and a noticeable lack of problems caused by deflation. That theory is very popular with governments because it justifies the creation of money on a grand scale, but it has a certain lack of evidence. We've seen communism tried more often than deflation.
It's missing my personal favorite:

ngrok http file:///Users/alan/share
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Most hotels will happily store your luggage for you for a week or so too if you have little side-quests you don't want to take your full gear with you for.
> Bosnia, a country that does not even control its own airspace, pledges not to occupy the Moon and other celestial bodies.

The title of the linked article feels disrespectful to me. Good will is to be celebrated!
Very interesting idea. I am sad to say that the stores on our platform aren't excited when someone who appears homeless (smelly or dirty clothes) wants to use Bounce.
This is a weirdly hostile and unreasonable take. The maintainer was rejecting patches and ignoring bugs after advertising that patches were accepted and bug reports were desired. That at the very least makes the maintainer a liar. Additionally, the framework was advertised for general use that it was not suitable for given the soundness issues. Since when did lying to people, wasting their time, and being obstructive about their good-faith attempts to improve the project in the way the maintainer had already requested become admirable?
At this point, I would gladly zero out my student loans in exchange for my undergrad and grad schools disavowing me.
97% is also 3 failures out of every 100 attempts. In a lot of day to day experience I suspect humans do much better then this still.
Has anyone else noticed the fit seems to worsen over the first week or two? Mine were perfect when I bought them. Now they lose the seal after an hour of wear.
> There's countries with a healthy middle class, why isn't the US's thriving like theirs?

Someone tricked you. The US has one of the richest middle classes in the world. A CEO being paid obscenely has absolutely no impact on the middle class, it just makes a nice boogeyman for politicians.
If you like what they added, you can merge it into your version unless they chose an incompatible license for their work. (That's one reason the GPL is so important: it prevents such incompatible licensing.) So if the forks continue unmerged, it likely signals some kind of difference of opinion: perhaps over technical quality, perhaps over tradeoffs, perhaps over licensing. The humans frequently turn such differences of opinion into chimpanzee factional dominance games similar to football, but in principle there is no need for that. I don't know of any LuaJIT users denigrating the hygiene and ancestry of PUC-Lua users, for example, nor vice versa, but surely it has happened on one occasion or another.
Amazing. How did you discover it? Anything to be improved? EU coming soon for Bounce.
They are hard to find. Do you know some?

All I have is this thread: https://lobste.rs/s/fosip5/should_version_control_build_syst...
"You receive a package to your preferred postal address, that contains the new ink and a sealable, labeled, post-stamped bag in which you will put the old ones and send it back to HP."

People seem to be missing this part. It's like returning a rental car.

You are technically obliged to return the cartridges contractually I believe. The fact that they don't pursue you if you don't is at least a small positive.

I can see why some think it's a dark pattern, but it's usual in a rental type scenario to return the thing that was on loan to you
It is actually really cool to see all the local mom&pop options in each city. For storage and for delivery. We work with all the shops who are willing (and will uphold our high quality bar).
Struggling to see the connection. You won't see existing vehicle owners going to great lengths to push up the price of new vehicles.
Ask HN: What activities do you do with your 3 year old kids?
Without screen what activity do you do with 3 year olds to keep them engaged, preferably that improves cognition .
This is an odd assumption. Do you have an affiliation with this company? I notice you have a danish name (and it's the local danish company).
Do you really think California is the most business friendly state? What policies do you think make it so business friendly? Besides the weather.
How is paying 37% of the entire tax revenue “very low”? What percent of the country’s revenue is the 1% responsible for in France?
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No the solution is that inkjet is not needed except for a few rare moments where it delivers better results.

I have an oki laser colour printer, quality is on par with any inkjet I've seen except professional photo printers.
Fighting over "who gets to donate their time for free" is absurd. Unless you are one of those pretend open source companies that sell commercial versions and prevents certain cloud based usage.
If the economy permitted it, the dating market would reflect that and you'd more easily find someone at a young age.

Just like it used to be.
The tutorials are good, but I hope people realize many of them aren't written by employees.
I put up with crappy inkjets for years, but last year finally had enough and bought a Brother DCP-L2530DW, for only £135.

What a revelation! Cartridges that seem to last forever, it never jams, it doesn't take an eternity to start and stop, it doesn't waste ink on every startup, it doesn't need "realigned" or "unclogged" or "cleaned" 3 times every single time I just want to print something...

I'm never going back to inkjets. I encourage anyone who is still putting up with them to make the switch to a small laser printer.
I'm even more confused this morning, because the files were still missing from the WordPress editor this morning for the first hour, and now they are back. Does that mean that there is still a hacker in my computer or that the hacker undid the changes that he made to try to cover his tracks and the system was just slow to update?
Yes! This, layovers where you leave the airport, when you're coming into a city and don't have time to drop off your stuff...the list goes on! We seriously hear the craziest stories of how people use Bounce.
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> I wonder what an operating system for the 2020s would look like given the advances in technology and the lessons learned in the past decade.

While not perfect, with their own set of issues, macOS/iOS, Windows (with .NET/UWP) and Android are a couple of steps into that direction.

Interesting that you refer Plan 9, but fail to mention Inferno, which was the final vision from the same researchers.

Regarding UNIX, one thing that keeps being missed regarding NeXTSTEP and its derived OSes, and to go along your remark, it that for NeXT and Apple, UNIX wasn't never relevant.

The UNIX compatibility was just a means to bootstrap the OS and attack the UNIX workstation market, the Objective-C technology stack (now Swift as well) was/is where the real value of the OS was.

Anyone using macOS or nowadays WSL as UNIX replacement, is replicating the farmer's story from the talk.
While “mandatory” would be a stretch, I don’t think there’s anything unreasonable about expecting project owners not to overstate the maintenance level of their projects. Deliberately conveying a false impression to people is called lying, and it’s generally regarded as being bad.
Someone once explained to me that group slogans and mottos are often aspirational rather than descriptive or even prescriptive.

I wish I could say I’ve never forgotten that lesson, but the fact is I forget it quite often. I feel a little bit dumber every time mistake a value statement for actual values.
The first page I looked at shows exports of the US https://oec.world/en/visualize/tree_map/hs92/export/usa/all/...

It doesn't include software, so seemingly ignores the economic activity of some of the largest companies in the US. Does anyone know what's going on there? I guess software isn't visible at customs boarder checks, so isn't included.
No, its in addition. There are micro-clean environments inside the tools themselves. The wafer chamber is a couple of orders of magnitude clean. The plastic box that carries 15-20 wafers has to be specially made for cleanliness, each piece costing thousands of dollars. Entegris makes these boxes too [1].

[1] https://www.entegris.com/shop/en/USD/Products/Wafer-Handling...
Awesome to hear it worked out so well. Any feedback to make it better? At Bounce, we've worked really hard to create a beautiful, easy to use product, and a lot of locations to go with it. We now have the most in NYC. Can I convince you to try Bounce next time? Here's a discount code I just made for this threat: THANKSHN (10% off)
I think his point was that you're no longer creating value when your job is no longer considered valuable.
Yeah, really impressed with them myself. The noise cancellation is really impressive compared to my Bose QC20 (which I was very impressed with at the time, and I still hold on to as a really portable pair), music sounds amazing on them, and I can wear them all day without discomfort.

There are a couple of small things I’d change, primarily making it easier to connect/toggle between multiple Bluetooth devices (right now I either have to disconnect on the first device then connect on the second, or turn the headphones off and then on in pairing mode). Also it would be nice to have a clearer visual indication of whether they are on or not and what the battery level is - the battery life is great, but it’s quite easy to not realise they are low and/or leave them on by accident.

I’d highly recommend them anyway. Great for an office environment. Personally I did find a slight discomfort to the noise cancelling at first but very quickly adjusted, so this seems to be a very personal thing.
"Don't do it then" might be the most reasonable option,depending on the frequency of use.

If I had to buy a color printer for all the color printing I did during the last decade, it still would have cost me at least 10x more than paying through the nose for each printout - and that's for a cheap printer, never mind maintenance and the quality of the results.

In other words, ownership makes sense only from some level of usage.
Their sampling is biased, but DoorDash muddies their own claims by saying that pay is per "active hour". It's possible they're not counting time that drivers still need to allocate towards their work, making it inaccurate. I imagine you at least have to spend time pulled over to look at and accept an order (or break the law) so even that time getting in and out of traffic is probably not counted in "active hours". Imagine working retail and your employer only counting your time actually spent at the till when they say you're paid $20 an hour. You could be doing a whole lot more work than that but they don't consider it in that calculation.
Where have you needed this? Will add it to our expansion roadmap! Keep a look out for us next time. We're in 72 cities now and that number will at least double this year.