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I occasionally hear this, but it's at least worth noting that there are people -- like me -- who ran BeOS full-time. I did for over a year. Gobe Productive was an AppleWorks-like office suite (by the original authors of AppleWorks, no less), Pe was a good BBEdit-ish code editor, the image editor e-Picture resembled Macromedia Fireworks... I could go on with many other apps. As subjective as it is, I preferred BeOS to Linux as a desktop OS at that time because the nascent app ecosystem was already nicer to use and, at least to me, more complete. (It's important to remember that "at that time" was 1999, which predates the first release of OpenOffice by over two years!)

In any case, NextStep didn't do anything in the short run for Apple -- it took dozens of engineers about four years to turn NextStep into OS X, and it's hard to believe that they couldn't have done the same thing with BeOS. Most of the reports I've read suggest BeOS was actually Apple's first choice, but Be, Inc. demanded what they considered an unreasonable price.

I think the biggest difference was vision: BeOS was shooting for the creative media market, while NeXT's biggest successes had come in very enterprise-ish verticals. BeOS was arguably a closer fit to the Mac's "prosumer and creative professional" vision; my unconfirmed, probably off-the-wall suspicion has always been that The Enterprise (tm) was closer to Gil Amelio's button-down, old school semiconductor industry heart. Buying NeXT clearly turned out to be great for Apple as a company -- just not for the reasons Amelio had in mind.
If you live in Canada or Quebec, it makes sense to learn French. Note that conversational French only uses half of the 14 or so verb tenses, and people expect you to use the correct grammar and gender.

If you plan to write French for a living, that will be tough for a non-native writer.

But if you live in the USA, Spanish is more useful and you'll have the opportunity to practise it.
This is amazing. Especially the fact that a PICO-8 game can own my brain this much.
You could just watch French TV, films or podcasts, there's more access to that material now than there ever has been.
I am a 50 year old dude. Used Java in 1998-2002, but more as a JSP writer than anything serious. Then none till 2016. Then job changed and now I was expected to know Java. Tried to learn in 2017. Did not work out. Tried to learn in 2018. Did not work out. Then I enrolled in a community college. My job changed again and now I was not expected to know java. But I spent the 6-9 months to complete the courses and came out with much better understanding.

Why did it not work in 2017 and 2018 despite motivation? Distractions. Some external, but mostly internal.

Why did it work in 2019 without motivation? Committed to put in that effort in a non-distracting environment. Well phones are everywhere to alert us, but the constant deadlines and exams keep you grounded.

I think we all have the same issues.And if you/we have a wandering personality (In 2020, we all do thanks to our devices and subscriptions), we need some external tools to keep keep us focussed.

Do find something similar. For myself, I am thinking of 3 months on, 3 months off kind of learning in a formal setting (need not be college) so as not to be overwhelmed.
This sounds like a trademark claim, not copyright. You can’t copyright 3 letters, can you? Even as a trademark claim it’s bonkers
It’s been obvious for years that the kids who are sitting silently through 3 hour weddings glued to their iPads are not developing any of the skills like creating fun, making friends, or being disciplined on proper conduct. It’s great for the parents though, but if you give a kid an iPad you should be aware that you’re damaging their brain, the same way that ice cream damages their health (that doesn’t mean kids should never have iPads or ice cream).
1. Capitalism does not succeed on its own. The success of the west is combining free markets, capitalism and shared values about individual rights and freedoms.
2. Sure blame America. Wait didn’t America send food aid to China when it descended into famine in the 20s?
3. It certainly hasn’t transitioned to a free society with shared values and an open free market system

Enjoy downvoting this
... then I probably shouldn't tell you about satisfactory.. add a dimension to your factory.
This is what I don't understand. Everyone runs around terrified of these smart speakers but have no problem talking around their phones which have mics, their computers which have mics, other devices which have mics, CCTV cameras which are ubiquitous, etc

Do people realistically think attackers are going to start burning zero days against these things to listen to the average Joe's kitchen conversations or bedroom chatter? What is the threat model here?
It's a typical side-effect of writing anything online. I've had this experience with nearly everything I've ever posted (also: a lot of great comments too). Whenever you want to share knowledge about X: out of the woodwork crawl out the little pests who have nothing to do except hold you to the highest level of scrutiny they can imagine, and they'll word it like they want to crucify you for the slightest infraction.

It doesn't mean anything except that there's a lot of people who are situationally deficit of social skills and anxiously trying to prove they're even smarter than the original poster.

My pet theory is that these jeklers want acceptance and a sense of community, but don't know how to do it.
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I am looking for cheap hosting provider for deploying django apps.
They’re supposed to sleep 12ish hours, give or take, until a later age than you’d think. Lots of people do put their kids down later and get them up just as early but it’s not clearly the better choice.
I think the important thing here is not many people have figured this out yet where it's a major problem on Reddit, one probably only a threat to smaller subreddits but certainly possible with individual posts on bigger ones. There's probably thousands of angry users getting banned every day with way too much time who would love to know this fact.

I was quite impressed by how clever the person was for figuring out how to take down an entire subreddit he didn't like, but the implications were quite scary and it made me realize how dangerous DMCA is. Especially in an age where political groups and sites like Twitter encourage outrage mobs looking for mob justice.

But I agree Reddit, Google, etc should be working towards solving this, through lobbying or whatnot. I haven't figured out a good solution I just know it's a massive problem.
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Boredom is not having anything interesting to do.

As a kid most of my best discoveries and creativity were during boredom, when I went out of my way to try something new (or old, that I had not tried before) or occupied myself with whatever was at hand.

As an adult, during boredom I just try to find some kind of social interaction or go to sleep.
Humanity comes from Africa. That's very settled.

China might be where the first civilization emerged though.
This was one of the reasons I moved to godot, among many, many others.
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Learning a second language is a goal for many people.

It’s pretty cool to learn a second language and travel. I learned Spanish and backpacked from Guatemala to Buenos Aires over 9 months. I spent the first 3 months learning Spanish in Guatemala.
It shows it’s own ads, not Reddit’s. you can pay a one-time fee to remove them as well.
Mac software the way the original author is talking about it is still basically running like 64-bit Intel Mac software, though, right? Catalina is a transition of sorts in that it's dropping all 32-bit compatibility, so that could be a footnote, but I think that's about it -- until-slash-if Macs make the oft-rumored transition to Apple-designed ARM CPUs.
In some sense, it’s unfair that everyone isn’t automatically expert at everything.

Getting good at managing your career isn’t very hard as things go. You can get substantial results by focusing on it for 1 hour per week over a year. And it’s not mainly that you’ll make more money — work will get more interesting and fun, and you’ll have more impact in thr world.
IANAL, so honest question - is that actually true? Is it legal to sell a license to a public domain work? Is it OK to fail to tell the person you're signing the contract with that they don't need it?

That's sort of like me selling you a driving license - when you already have one, and I don't actually have any authority to grant or rescind that permission either way. I mean; sure... you will have the permission after the sale, but it's at least a pretty dubious construction.
A provider like reddit, youtube, google, etc can't "push back" and not then themselves become party to the infringement. Don't blame them blame the law as written. Providers don't get to choose a side. Counter DMCA exists though so legitimate content can be restored pretty quickly with a counter claim
It's easier to find Java devs, but whenever I've been in contact with any they're also on average the lowest quality developers you can find. It's the language everybody learned at uni, so you get a lot of people that never did more than the bare minimum.
And OS X is portable. It’s already been ported from PPC to x86 and parts of it back and forth between ARM and x86.
Is this actually likely to happen, or a negotiating manoeuvre with Microsoft?
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After much consideration and time wasted, I conclude that you shouldn't waste your time on online reviews for booking appointment to a doctor or trust any of the dedicated apps like practo, medline, etc.

Google reviews, Justdial, Quora, reddit, youTube, curation websites, etc are worse.

Family position is a bit troubling so it wasn't useful as a lead.

Find a big hospital and hope it works out.
Did Germany try this unsuccessfully a few years back?
There are some good excerpts from Moral Mazes (book-length version) here: https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2019/05/30/quotes-from-moral-ma...
French isn't that hard. Lots of words are the same as English, grammar is a bit different but once you 'get' it, it's way more consistent than English which makes it easier for the most part.
I hope it would not. I'd rather spend my time becoming better and still have ability to choose good place, then learn how to act 'right' just to keep my job.
Lock-in on the cloud platform with >60% market share? I'm indifferent.

AWS is the VMWare of our age, you'll never get fired for suggesting it. There are workloads that are inappropriate for it (see: Dropbox) but those are few and far between.
Wow, really? I built an Oracle cluster on Compellent spindles and was pretty impressed with its tiering. Had no idea NetBSD was involved, very cool. I was actually using Force10 switches in the storage fabric IIRC.
Rule #1: Do not work at a company that can’t appreciate how good you are.
I have completely fazed out reddit from my daily browsing. Unless it is an obscere sub on a niche topic, the posts on there are gamed and manipulated to the front page.

That site has essentially turned into mainstream media with links curated by big companies and special interest groups, with the illusion of community curated content.

It's going to be a shit show this coming election with groups spending tens of millions of dollars on gaming that site
Aren't both of those examples special case of my definition though? "[i]t doesn't report on reality correctly, or [...] it sends [...] incorrect signals."

But what if the mind is reporting on reality correctly, and the signals it's sending are correct, it's just that we do not like them very much?

Can a signal be entirely correct, but destructive? If so, it just seems like a special case of the expression "the truth hurts". It's not my mind which is defect by informing me of the present state of affairs, it's the present state of affairs which are regrettable.
Couple remarks on the author's alleged "weaknesses":

>Understand strongly accented speech. I understand essentially all the “standard” French without subtitles, but very little of the Quebecois.

Most European French speakers have trouble understanding Québecois as well, especially if it delves into slang, so I wouldn't fret much. High level (and written) speech should be ok though.

>Understand very slang-heavy speech. I know a good chunk of argot but there are still plenty of informal vocab words and expressions I don’t know. Especially that damn verlan.

Again, seeing how most people over 35 don't understand any of that stuff either I wouldn't worry too much. Especially because this stuff evolves like crazy and new slang/verlan words keep popping up all the time. I'm in my late 20s and can already feel the divide in the slang I and friends in their early 20s use.

>Write error free text. I can get the message across pretty well without relying on a dictionary, but I often phrase things a bit unnaturally and make minor grammatical errors.

Like I and another poster said, most of the mistakes aren't really mistakes. Only the most extraordinary pedant would object to these.

>Quickly use less common verb tenses. While I know how to construct the past conditional and future perfect, I still can’t use them very fluidly.
>Recognize all the weird literary tenses. Imperfect subjunctive? Yuck.

Yeah no one uses these. In fact if you did attempt to use these in a normal conversation there's a good chance you wouldn't be understood. Even in writing, modern authors are more and more switching to present and past perfect. Even tenses like the future are getting increasingly uncommon, people instead use the present and rely on contextual clues or markers, like in German (" we'll meet tomorrow" -> "we meet tomorrow").

What I mean to say from all of this is that even native French speakers are not completely at ease with these pain points so it's no use worrying about them too much.
It's also open source, and the code is very readable / easy to hack on, even for someone like me who barely knows Java.
How do you make sure you do your best work without proper feedback?
> Counter DMCA exists though so legitimate content can be restored pretty quickly with a counter claim

When people get arrested after a false accusation, they shouldn't be happy just because they can prove their innocence in court later. Unjustified preemptive punishment should never happen in the first place. The accuser should have to prove beyond doubt that the accused is guilty in order to justify the intervention of any higher power. If they can't do it, absolutely nothing should happen.
There are many meta-studies demonstrating that repeatedly for the past 20 years. TV is bad for children. Video games are bad. Phones are bad, and tablets, and consoles, and computers. It's bad for their mood, their IQ, their sleep, it gives them obesity, ADHD, it's bad any way you look at it; it's even bad when the parents are watching the phone instead of interacting with their children...

Here's one meta study:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/article-abst...

"This study suggests that education and public health professionals should consider screen media use supervision and reduction as strategies to improve the academic success of children and adolescents."

here's another one:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263708644_Media_Use...

"Our results indicated a small significant relationship between media use and ADHD-related behaviors."
Again, I can't really blame the peasantry for it even if it impacts others. I feel like ultimately the responsibility for the externality lies with the trackers, not the people trying to avoid the tracking.

If the only way to drop out is by using these, they are gonna get used. Whose fault is that? I blame the people who made it the only way to drop out.
I've used k8s at various times since it's inception. I've yet to see a compelling argument for running your control plane on the same layer as your workloads. I have always found this to be a recipe of disaster when 'something' in your service dependency chain breaks.

Also not having load balancer support built in kills it for me. Yeah you can do metallb or nginx ingress but it means they punted one of the major components needed to make it, 'cloud agnostic.'

Meanwhile in AWS we have ECS which works out the box on fargate, their EC2 hosts, or your own EC2 hosts and on hardware I can easily get (and dev) on docker swarm.
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Captured and tagged. Thank you vm!

I have seen so many play-things in the note-space that I want to give just a few stats from my 6yo personal emacs setup:

I capture and refile into 14 .orgs indexed at varying depth using the agenda ag and helm for search as needed.

grep "\\" bmarks/*.org |wc etc say there are 5669 notes, 62652 lines 437644 words 3,663,683 bytes total.

since 3/14 I have annotated 111 pdfs, linked many more, captured 508 images. 300+ days logged before switching to a weekly format 201 weeks ago.

I can attest to the sentiment that there is actual communication going on between creator and such a system. :) a multi-media key takes me into capture and either a line-oriented popup for 'jots', a floating window or a full-screen distraction free mode where i can quickly see, that the great thing i discovered yesterday slipped from my mind 5 years ago.

The most important improvement to my note taking was realizing that, like Luhmann, I wasn't taking notes but curating an exo-brain.

I had seen emacs as a rinky-dink over-complicated under-documented religious thing -- and not as the low-stress 'does everything except long-lines really well and never crashes' thing that is now at the heart of my computing life. So.. to continue learning emacs for the next 30 years is definitely on my agenda because its worth it for the quality without a name .. absent elsewhere.

It was cool to see how his manual linking (not just tags) would force him to review the neighborhood he would place his cards in. I neglect that sometimes and so the epiphanies and understanding I get from integrating content have to sometimes wait a cycle or two or come when i check things in or close out the day.

Anyway? My point? Invest yourself into org-mode and take notes for a few years to learn how to take better notes while building something that can last you a whole life long. it worked for me. ty!
Good point - in my opinion, 1:1 is for employee, not for manager.
This is racism and irresponsible journalism “all but 3 deaths have been in China.”

There is a time lag! The disease doesn’t care if you are Chinese or white. No hospital system can handle the numbers that came first to China, and will soon come here.

Wapo downplaying the virus. Just like they’ve downplayed the threat of globalism. And those who have tried to sound the alarm or argued that we should, gasp, renegotiate trade and bring back some manufacturing, those people are slandered as xenophobic or economics dunces. “Any serious person knows we can’t bring manufacturing back.” “Protectionism is stupid, trade wars hurt us,etc...” And now they want to tell the American public, “no death outside China.” Blood on their hands!
Depends on the kid but my sample size of two says very bad. If they don’t get at least 12 hours they’re a mess the next day and it starts a horrible cycle of not enough rest leading to it being hard to sleep.
I also use moleskins and and there is another factor I have become more aware of lately; taking notes on paper seems more secure from prying eyes. So I sit down every so often and go through my moleskins to digitize notes I want in my system, but I have found on paper I speak more freely on topics because I'm not self-censoring as much, and therefore sometimes skip digitizing entire pages. This seems like an extremely powerful factor the more I dwell on it.

The downside is now I am developing a rather large paper notes collection that I don't want to burn.
> Hopefully countries will start banning facebook outright soon.

not gonna happen in the u.s. the u.s. government has 99% removed themselves from anti-trust deliberations. i suspect the government is deeply benefiting from facebook's data. in other words, they care about keeping it around.

and in many countries, facebook is the internet, consisting of both user facing applications and the backbone.
If you were to take a tdd style micro loop of red/green/refactor it is part of the feature. There is no untangling no separate estimation.
Munich successfully pivoted to Linux for over a decade, then Microsoft Germany moved their HQ to Munich no doubt greasing many wheels in the process and Munich switched back to Windows a year later IIRC.
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What do you mean? The CDC OSes actually ran on the PPs and for all intents and purposes managed the system. The two-headed video console was hardwired to a PP as well, and used to managed the system.
Ask HN: Are there any fair interview processes people have encountered?
We've seen lots of talk of the dystopian nature of interviewing for Software Engineering jobs.

So what interview processes actually seemed fair?

That is, in the real world, how does a hiring manager make a fair decision about an engineer in just a few hours time?
This is an interesting point because it could help explain why scientists enjoy programming, even when we sometimes do it to our own detriment. Nothing clarifies a quantitative thought process better than having to write it down in the form of code. And the code either runs or it doesn't, so you know that at least it has some level of self consistency before you walk away from it.
It’s still much tougher to come by that one might think. For one thing, European networks don’t care about distributing their content outside of Europe, even in exchange for actual money. For another, a huge proportion of the content is dubbed from English, which isn’t ideal. Even pirating the stuff’s pretty hard, since there’s (apparently) little interest in it.

Japanese may be a pain in the ass to learn but it’s hard not to be jealous of the resources and media available to Japanese learners, as someone learning most any other language (though, in the US at least, Spanish media’s pretty easy to get ahold of)
I don't know in which place of the world you live. Here in Germany, it is pretty easy: Whenever you have an issue with your health, you go to a general practitioner or the hospital. In any case, somebody with +10yrs of university education will help you and redirect you to specialists.

If you want to inform you yourself, forget about the internet. Go to a book shop and buy a book with good reputation (or from a publisher with good reputation).
Import focused labor arbitrage schemes that US multinationals have been pushing for the last 40 years break down when the flow of goods stops.

Critical industries need to be domestic because otherwise the country is left vulnerable in a crisis.
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They block it outbound, not inbound - email receiving should work fine in GCP. I believe that's the only mandatory firewall restriction, and even that one can have exceptions made for use cases such as your former employer, as the other reply to you said.

The point is to make sure that anything sending email from GCP has someone properly attending to it, so that GCP does not become a source of spam, rather than to prevent email service providers or the like from using GCP.

For many companies that aren't an email service provider, it's often a better use of IT funds to send via one anyway, given how much work is involved in maintaining security and deliverability of an outbound email server in 2020. Most of those support sending through ports that aren't 25, and Google has some nice free tier deals for GCP customers.
>Don't piss in the well

Is it a well, or is it a toilet with a surveillance system in it?
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