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In the last few years I repeated the same cycle: register, start of use, enjoy, invite my family, get the announcement that it has been bought, export my data when they announce they shutting down, rinse and repeat.

The first one was google reader. One day it was shut down and however I could exported my feeds, I was following a few people and read some really amazing article at least once a week which I could not find by myself. Also people I was following started to use 3 different platforms each with limited set of funcionality.

I've been using an email client which was bought and killed by google. Online diary app I used is gone now. My todo app was bought and "integrated" into their product by Microsoft. (However, Kudos at the same time, I still can open the doc files I created in 99). Calendar app gone.

About 90% of the mobile apps I bought on my iPhone 3G is not usable anymore (some of my favourite games gone forever).

Even some of the software I bought for my business (and paid double price for the business license) is now gone or not usable because of lack of upgrades (I would have been happy to pay for the upgrade license).

I'm really, really tired of the fact, that no matter if it is a website, a mobile app and from time to time, I need to do another cycle of exporting, finding a new tool for the same task, setup, import, etc.

I'm privileged, because I can setup my own hosted tools for myself and my family, and my current job is also consist a serious amount of "tinkering". I would be seriously be happy to pay if I don't have to do the same cycle again and again and again and wasting my time doing instead of spending my time away from the keyboard. Currently there is no startup which can be trusted that they will be around in a year.

So whenever anybody is asking to invest time and effort to start using their product, which has no clear plan about their revenue streams nothing about how they going to sustain their business is a huge red blinking no. When I hear the expression serial entrepreneur (I throw up in my mouth), it says to me, stay away.

(And lets forget about privacy, because that is another massive can of dragon sized worms)

Edit: business stuff added
Pretty sure google pays them for search
If my Michelin alternative Yalp became influential and I allowed restaurants to bubble up to the top based on money, am I engaging in racketeering?
PowerShell begs to differ.
The ecosystem is incredibly insecure, despite what Apple's marketing department wants you to think. More than anything I'm surprised at how often their advertising talking points are parroted in tech circles, like here on HN.. in any thread hinting at Google vs Apple you're bound to find a long comment chain about how Apple is "secure" and "privacy oriented" and "cares about their users". Not that Google is any better, but it makes me wonder whether it's just astroturfing or if their marketing is actually working.
Probably want to goto https://winebottler.kronenberg.org/ or some similar site for that information.
This will probably be the safest plane to fly on, considering the amount of scrutiny the FAA is now applying.
And awk doesn't offers cut's column range selection ;)
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> I would much rather deal with ownerhip and related issues than deal with dynamic typing fallout.

Those two things aren't connected. You can avoid both of them by using one of the many statically typed languages with a GC. It might be the case that Rust has other advantages over those languages that make power-assisted manual memory management a cost worth bearing, but it is still a cost. The amount of successful web backends written in Python/Ruby shows that performance demands on a typical web app are nowhere near high enough to justify doing away with the GC.
I totally agree with you, even though what we are all heading towards is nothing but the total eradication of actual diversity, especially in Europe, pretty much on the American model that totally destroyed all unique characters of the American people of the various American states over the last 70+ years.

But the "Germany is a very new country" trope/propaganda is not accurate, as is rather easily identified by simply thinking about it for oneself for just a few minutes.

It's like saying the USA is a young country since Alaska joining the Union in 1959, when the current USA was created. Or that the USA has only existed since the Civil War that essentially ended the very core characteristics of the USA that was from then on basically just the USA in nominal (name only) manner, essentially totally void of its core characteristics. It's very much like when a corporation keeps the brand name, but the business becomes a totally different and even inverse of what people believe it still is. KMart/Sears comes to mind, a company that used to operate a retail giant, which was turned into a kind of private equity, real estate holding con job company that did not at all care about performing its core purpose of operating retail outlets.
Apple has done a great job convincing otherwise "progressive" people that one of the world's richest companies is the underdog who's fighting for you!
Then later in that section:

> we believe the issue of advertising causes enough mixed incentives that it is crucial to have a competitive search engine that is transparent

This change seems to go directly against their belief that it's crucial for search engines to be transparent. After the change, it's way less transparent, or "easy to perceive or detect", that an ad is an ad.
There are 3 types of bookmarks:

1) Read-later

Something interesting you want to read. Items in this category should be automatically removed after a certain period of time, so it doesn't get out of hand. New RSS feed items would also fit into this category.

2) Save-for-later

Something you're sure will be useful down the road. This should be retrieved first and foremost using a powerful full-text search engine. Minimal tagging can also be very helpful. Lastly, it's critical these items are archived by the bookmark manager so you always have the content even if the website shuts down.

3) Todo

Something you need to take action on. For example, buy this product, try this new open-source library, install an app, etc. These should have optional reminders to alert you at a certain day or time.

Currently my system is a terrible mess: I email myself for read-later and todo but put save-for-later in Pocket. This is very frustrating because there's tons of bookmark manager options but none support all 3 types, most have terrible search, are slow, and don't have full-text search or archival.

So last year I started building what's going to be the Superhuman of Bookmark Managers:

https://AcornBookmarks.com

It will be 100% open-source and available as a hosted service.

I'm focusing on the fundamentals: speed, performance, robustness. I'm using PouchDB, so all your data is 100% offline which makes it very, very fast. Of course, it'll support all 3 bookmark types, have full-text search and archival. It'll run on all browsers and platforms, including mobile apps built in react-native. It's UI is going to be fun, geeky, and beautiful sci-fi with multiple light/dark color themes.

If this sounds interesting, sign-up on the site — I'd love to chat with you about this.
How does Pinboard compare with Pocket? Pocket appears to be integrated into Firefox.
> Germany is a rich country of poor people

I suspect something similar happens across the border in Switzerland. I visited the French part of it a couple of times about 3 years ago and I was surprised how crowded the second-hand clothes stores in downtown Lausanne were (and the fact that there were any SH stores in that area at all). Also, looking at the prices in there and unless there’s some hidden UBI system up and running of which I’m unaware of I can’t imagine how come a low-middle class Swiss family can afford to live there. I do understand that wages correlate somehow with the cost of living, but I imagine that if you happen to fall between the cracks (you’re unemployed or you have landed a bad-paying job) then things are not that easy.
I don't know what you're talking about, Comcast has had amazing support the last few months in my area. We even had a rep come to our house, and leave a handwritten note on the door when we didn't answer, asking if we had any questions or concerns and to give them a call if there was anything they could do for us.

... I'm sure this has nothing to do with the city fiber to the home buildout that is going on in our neighborhood... ;-)
The problem is that Rust doesn't solve C++'s problems (my top two: language complexity and build time), it just brings fewer of them with it. I think that C still rules the embedded space, but those that switch to C++ might not do it because they love its (and Rust's) approach so much as they need to do things that C does badly (partial evaluation and polymorphism). There are other languages out there that address those concerns without C++'s or Rust's complexity.
Your post resonates with me greatly - often I'll find myself making up _new_ side projects to take the place of the things that actually need to get done.

How do you push yourself to get the right things done now, that is, until you get rich enough to do otherwise?
That sounds pretty worrying, as I often respect his commentary and journalism. Can you link to or quote where he claimed what you're saying he did about Russian interference?
All of which are either garbage or data collecting nightmares. The web was fine before Google even existed. They built a better search engine that peaked around 2004 and then went downhill.
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I think you forgot a link..

https://www.gq.com/story/alex-honnold-great-indoors
Does POSIX forbid extensions? That would be terrible.
espescially those who actually did build the web with human prosperity in mind
Does everything look like an ad, or do ads look like legitimate results. I feel like this is a crucial distinction.
I think one of the best trick is to split out the work into super small pieces of meaningful work. And treat that as the work it self. Most times it’s because there is no fun in looking at the huge task and getting stuck On where to start. This is why working at a corporation is easier, there are leads and managers Already divided up the work for you to do.
1. Lower your expectations. Don't think about starting a business. Think about starting a small project on the side. You have to make time for it. If you don't, you don't want it bad enough.

2. Being an entrepreneur is a marathon, not a sprint. Won't happen overnight and certainly there is no magic wand or guarantees. You have to be willing to lose it all at some point.

3. How bad is your itch ? You said "I don't see myself as a good employee". Ok that sounds awesome. But how bad do you want this ? Everyone at some point in their life get fed up with jobs/corporate life and think about starting their own thing. But do you really have the will and determination to go through with it ? Stars will never align perfectly. You have to want this bad, real bad.

4. Imagine yourself on your death bed. Would you regret not trying to do your own thing ? If yes, then you gotta do it. If no, then may be you are just a wantrapreneur and nothing wrong with it.

Ok, now some real steps to take. You either start a side project OR you go join a small company where you get to wear many hats and learn how business really works. But you have to sacrifice something TODAY. So what is it that you are willing to sacrifice TODAY ?
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Wine-5.0...
Here is a partial list of fixed games.
I didn't say that Rust was entirely academic, I said most uses of Rust were academic.
The web is better in some technical aspects, certainly, but much worse regarding privacy, mass surveillance and data collection.
While I agree that the silent failures and "opaqueness" can be off-putting, once you understand the tool and how to implement it in your workflow it is wonderfully efficient. Aside from being syntactically terse I haven't found any compelling reasons not to use it.
Hmm. I'm sure this question will induce a flamewar of practical "#NeverAwk"-ers fighting toolbelt bloat, versus tech-hoarding AWK apologists arguing against throwing something out given if fills <niche>.

Here's the thing: these arguments all too commonly focus on subjective notions of "simplicity", and toy examples divorced from actual common practise, and or solid comparable benchmarks.

Show me a range of practical examples, for each competing env (awk, sed, perl, python, ruby, maybe bash).

Include:

- time it takes to teach a total novice (the time it takes to learn whatever is needed that example, not the entire language)

- how easy it is to recall said knowledge at a later date

- how fast example is multiplied by how much you are likely to use it = actual time saved in terms of execution. for small, fast examples the difference is irrelevant, a 10x speedup that is 0.1s vs 0.01s is meaningless.

- how extendable an example is. Hence the original example should include a series of extensions to the original task, to demonstrate how flexible / composable they are: e.g. task 1) count lines in a file; task 2) count lines in a file, then add 42 to it;

I suspect awk falls behind in practicality vs perl (which can do simple one-liners, but also more complicated constructs), but perhaps has a hidden virtue wrt speed in more expensive tasks, ala https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17135841 or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20293579
I've definitely looked up plane models, I've looked at airline records. Just this month I re-booked to asia via South Korea instead of Qatar because my flight went over Iran or near the border on the flight maps and the assassination was <24 hours old. I ended up in a middle seat trans pacific instead, but I don't regret that decision in hindsight at all.
You clearly do not understand "the French" and you should be careful making those claims anywhere you go in France to any actual native European french people outside of Paris. Every single people native to every single region will despise you for making such vile claims.
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Surely we can infer that jerf would just say that it's bizarre for the POSIX specification to not include any easy way to get columns.
I feel the same thing Valakas is describing. Which of the "you"'s is remembering the next time, "yeah but 30 minutes that's not how it went last time"?

(also, I don't think body-you would say "we have a lot to do today"?)
Its homepage is an excellent demo of the software itself: https://tiddlywiki.com/
And yet, they are observably evil.
That only explains a small portion of the problems. The reality is that there are governments in the EU that are even more incompetent than Germany's and it hurts them more than some little currency problem. Austerity isn't solution but telling them to stop spending their money carelessly is a step in the right direction.
> The only reason I can think of any expat thinking about Germany as the Promised Land is self-delusion.

It happens a lot in Romania and I suspect in other Eastern-European countries too.
Something I've noticed over the years is that the people who say that reading code is harder than writing code are people who have been writing code for a long time and are paid to write code.

I think the truth is that it's actually a different skill, and one that's much harder to pickup because when you write code, there's a very quick feedback loop telling you that you're wrong, but you can read code, think it does something different than it does and never ever learn you were wrong.
Yes, i'm also talking about laptops here, not just desktops.

If you can go by with 150% this isn't HiDPI (and on most laptops 150% for 1080p is too big anyway, at least on Windows, you want something around 125%). HiDPI is something that you need at least 200%, like Apple's 2560x1600 at 13" where anything less is unusable. Using 100% scaling on a laptop at 1080p is perfectly fine (this is my laptop configuration and how i use it).

Remember that "HiDPI" was the generic term that was used in place of Apple's trademarked "Retina" and what is i am talking about.

The entire discussion is about why HiDPI isn't supported and the answer is simply that few people need it (as shown by the stats i linked above and below) and fewer are in a position to implement it.
I'm not actually convinced unit testing is all that valuable, unless the unit under test has a very clear input -> output transformation (like algorithms, string utilities, etc). If it doesn't (and most units don't), unit tests just encumber you.
I think the truth of the dumbfucks argument is too painful for some people especially seeing how things are the same given recent developments. As an engineer I would be deeply ashamed if I were still working for Facebook.
The sentence of mine that you selectively quoted starts with "If you ignore the shrill media and look at the actual investigative work going on,"
That’s exactly what they do for iCloud Keychain and Health data right now, so I don’t understand why they don’t do it for messages by default.
Again, you are misrepresenting. I am a strong believer in free speech. I don't know if it was you that flagged the post but I would much prefer to see a counter argument and rebuttal from you. Instead we get a casual and patronizing comment. Hacker News is usually great for reasoned argument and debate. It's sad to see this sort of glib fly by behaviour
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This is the perfect opportunity for a new wikiHow article!
What's incredible to me is how this could be allowed to happen. Are the higher echelons of these industries staffed by charlatans? Has something changed in the engineering culture? Did greed override diligence and if so, how was this allowed to happen when the consequences can be so catastrophic both to passengers and to the company? It just doesn't make sense to me how, with such high stakes, a company could manage to let things go so awry. Seems to me like the entire management team for years should have the entirety of their assets seized, as I assume they were very well rewarded for presiding over failure.
Are there ways other than ice to increase the albedo of our North/South poles? How do we keep those regions from warming?
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I reject that entirely - we're talking about giving people access to a selling platform, not a social website which depends on maximum user growth and minimal barrier to participation.

Amazon has prioritized growing the number of sellers, but they're in complete control of who they allow to sell on their platform, and what they require from sellers prior to beginning. You seem to be accepting, uncritically, the argument of "platforms" everywhere who don't want to be held responsible for what their "users" do. I don't agree with that perspective generally, and I think it's especially silly with respect to a web commerce company like Amazon.
Yes, absolutely. This is absolutely how ~~we~~ many (most?) of us used to scrap web pages in the Dark Ages.
> unless you need high speed backups, I would not worry about SSD

They're cheap enough now and my space needs are small enough that I think the tradeoff is worth it: I don't have to worry about jostling them if I move, for example.

> I would get several external USB3 drives and label them by day or week. Then alternate external drives to back up to.

That's a neat idea. It does mean more hardware and would make it tricker to do things like network syncing, which I was interested in setting up, but it would take care of both the reliability issue and rudimentary versioning in one stroke. I'll give it consideration.
Just like Facebook introducing the "big coloured square with text on" statuses - users give their attention to big coloured squares with text on them, and thus the adverts they were previously accustomed to scrolling right past.
Yes, I too have built a subconcious habit of flicking the scroll wheel on my mouse twice after clicking enter on my search phrase. I just want to get past the 4 ads, the pack of local listings that I don't need, and the carousel of Google Shopping results, so that I can see the organic search results.

Of course if you scroll down too far, Google jams another 2-4 ads at the bottom of the search results before you can click the link to the next page.

Finding organic search results on a google page is becoming similar to playing a game of "Where's Waldo" (Or "Where's Wally" for non-US friends). There's stuff jammed on the top, on the sides, on the bottom. Looking at the real results is like looking through two slats on a fence. It gets very frustrating.
none of the above. but i will try to implement them soon
Talk about dogfooding!
When you try to bookmark a page, it shows recommended tags based on the other users' tags. So I can safely answer yes.
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No, see, that was the internet, not the web.
In my opinion, the results on DDG et al are a matter of users being trained by Google knowing too much about them. If you search "Django" on Google and get relevant results, it's because Google knows you. On DDG you need to search "Django framework".
I know there are workarounds. I’d just prefer not to do something that Apple doesn’t support in this instance.

I fixed the problem for now. I have some older devices I don’t care about the backups for any longer.
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I like DDG, but have been using Ecosia for the past 6 months or so. I like that I've contributed to planting 25 trees (by the averages) just in my normal course of searching.
He has husband and 4 kids in Brazil. Not easy to move when you have roots in a place.
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> If you're 'speaking truth to power' only when it suits your already formed opinion, then you're not really speaking truth.

So truth now has another filter. Only what padseeker thinks is fairly presented? /snark

Truth can be communicated many different ways. The interpretation of that truth as non-truth or overvaluing the information or failing to hear out other aspects (because it's presented a specific way) is a failure of the recipient, not the sender. Truth is truth, even if you don't like how it was presented.
Exactly, that's why IT salaries(especially contract rates) are higher in UK than in Germany. UK values knowledge work more.
Would restarting Chernobyl make it the safest NPP considering the amount of scrutiny that it would be put through?

Maybe we should look into re-introducing Windows Vista, considering the scrutiny that it would require it must be the safest and most stable OS ever.
1.5oz (45mL) vodka, 0.5oz (15mL) triple sec (Cointreau, dry curaçao, whatever), 1.0oz (30mL) cranberry juice, 0.5 (15mL, about one lime) lime juice. Shake with ice, serve in chilled cocktail glass, and garnish with lime wheel.

It should be pink and slightly cloudy, not completely clear. Use pure cranberry juice instead of “cranberry juice cocktail”—which is really more like an apple juice with cranberries added to it, rather than straight cranberry juice. If you are not used to real cranberry juice, you may be pleasantly surprised—or you may completely hate it. Real cranberry juice is often sold in glass jars and requires shaking before you pour.

Experiment with the amount of cranberry juice, lime juice, and triple sec to adjust taste. The triple sec is sweet and offsets the tartness of the cranberry juice and lime juice. I prefer a more tart version, so I use more lime juice.