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I don't necessarily disagree with you that wealth is an important tool but that might have been better as a response to the top level comment rather than that comment chain.

That comment chain went as follows (I am quoting only part of the comments):

1) "Switzerland, most democratic country in the world, reminding people that it isn't just the authoritarians who know how to keep organised."

2) "Well, as a Swiss I can only state for the record that the government is not the enemy.
Essentially: The government is us. "

3) "It requires a multi-generational cultural conditioning to develop the civic mind that the Swiss have nurtured. It is also not clear how scalable it is ultimately."

4) your comment which was quoted the line above and discussed the role of Swiss wealth in being able to respond effective to a pandemic.

To me, your comment would have made more sense in reply to the first comment. The "It" from comment 3 that you responded to is the Swiss attitude towards the power of their government(s) and the placement of your comment might therefore lead people to think you meant that their wealth lead to that attitude rather than what you intended which was that their wealth would aid their ability to respond to an outbreak of disease.

On another note. While I do not think Swiss-style direct democracy gives a particular advantage in fighting pandemics (and has led to some not-great outcomes such as women in one canton not being able to vote until 1991), I do think that systems of government in which citizens have a high degree of trust are at an advantage. The Swiss do have a high regard for their system and they will do what they are told without resenting they system because they feel invested in it.
Get a job for a small company with no IT department doing some sort of office work or data entry. Automate parts of your job, or write reports for your boss.

Now your boss will ask you to write more reports for HIS boss, and suddenly you are employed as a programmer. If you like that job, keep it, or leave for somewhere else that will hire you with a more appropriate programmers salary.
This product is more for compliance (like PCI-DSS) than it is for “real” security.
The argument simply exposes the ridiculousness of the law.
I don't think I ever feel dissatisfied because of Ads. I'm pretty cool with what I have.

I am scared of losing my job though, because of a lapse in mental health or whatever. Not because my expectations are high, but because I'm afraid of having to sell my house in a hurry and move into a small apartment with my wife and my 3 children, as well as the feelings of failure and shame.
It wasn’t intended to be a shallow dismissal, I actually don’t know, that’s why I asked.
And noise is really not a problem, not just power I guess.
I was going to say the same thing - Sales Engineer at a B2B startup is probably the next best thing.
For example, there are a number of songs that include a rendition of Tom's Diner within a larger melody. Also popular to add to a song is the Arabian riff melody (which is so old it's not copyrightable, but you get my point) I don't know of any law suits around Tom's Diner song, but this is an example of the types of ridiculous lawsuits out there over copyright.
If you can get the hang of using templates in Zim, it can be used for more than just a wiki. One can create HTML pages or use them with a server side language like Python or PHP.

I have been using it as a CMS on and off to create websites and it just works. Really extensible piece of desktop software.
long engagement = good experience is an opinion, but I agree with you that its the wrong opinion. In my opinion less clicks = good experience
> If you're in the market for a Bootstrap Treeview you're likely already using Bootstrap and therefore jQuery.

Is that true if you are using it as part of a react or vue application? I know, for example, that bootstrap-vue replaces the jquery dependency with Vuejs[1]. I'd guess the react equivalent is similar.

[1]: https://bootstrap-vue.js.org/docs
Happy to see not another SASS Webapp but a simple and sustainable tool.

Would be great if there was a demo linked (even if the functionality seems really straight forward).

Does it support organizing the links in categories?
There still seems to be a market for repairing high end stuff. Shoe repair and clothing alteration stores haven't really gone anywhere
Anyone that inherits any sort of legacy MS Office workflow almost always needs to interact with VBA. Access, Excel, and Word workflows use it excessively as it's the only language you can use for manipulating things "inside" the file. Sure, you can use something like DAO/ADO/ODBC to perform CRUD type operations on the file from some other program. But if you want to, say, attach some code to an event in an Access form, you're stuck with VBA. So a tool like Rubberduck is useful to people developing for legacy Office related code, especially since VBE by default isn't super great. Access seems to be dying out but Excel is still flourishing.
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Amazon is low margin, Bezos could give up more wealth. Grocery stores are low margin, but I'm sure you could reduce the pay of Kroger's ceo. I'm trying to think of a company whose ceo makes millions that couldn't take similar steps to increase worker pay at the ceos expense and coming up with nothing.
Is this an alternative to wallabag with less features? Archiving links is fine , but what's of most interest is archiving the content isn't it? So this is an online bookmark manager? Sorry it's not clear for me I only know ot saves links in plaintext files, you can add them with a bookmark and you can password protect them.
I think that's pretty cool.
Basically, bookmarks?

I dream of a browser that would merge bookmarks + history into one, with full-text search.
But that farmer was putting all his eggs in one basket (excuse the pun), and, anyways, they aren’t going to realize long term gains in the egg market before the bank forecloses on their farm because they can’t make payments on the loan they used to buy those chickens in the first place.
> However, I don't think it's fair to vilify him in the present day and discredit the results.

I'm with you for the second part, I think the results can be looked at independently. However, I don't think one good deed should excuse past bad behavior and one should be careful about glorifying someone to the extent that we ignore their misdeeds.
And also the electricity cost over the lifetime (say 10 years 24/7) is quite substantial. It makes no difference for a powerful server but for a small low power thing it can be quite a chunk of the total cost.
> In some ways, that mindset comes from a place of privilege.

Would be hard pressed to do that as I don't come from a place of privilege. Check your assumptions.
It is from the courts' point of view.
Especially with Microsoft's creation of Blazor (leveraging WASM) and the .NET Jupyter notebooks, it seems like they'd be positioned to make .NET/C# accessible in the mobile and web platforms too.
Yes. Working more isn't what we should evaluate people on. It sets up perverse incentives that create long term damage by encouraging everyone to overwork.
Is there an advice organisation similar to the UK's citizen's advice organisation? I imagine that since the cost of living is so high in the netherlands what you're experiencing must not be an unheard of problem. maybe find the mayor's office (or regional equivalent) and politely ask for advice on where to get help?

Good luck, hope everythig works out.
I honestly think you're underestimating just how stubborn and short-sighted people are/can be.
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I work at a business that repairs cellphones. They told us that we're going to have trouble sourcing parts for repairs, and they gave us hand sanitizer bottles with the company logo on them. Did not inspire confidence.
. . .Ever since the seventeenth century, the celebrated “Galileo affair” has been one of the featured items on the list of dark moments in the history of Catholicis" . . . dark moments in the history of catholicism ? How about massive ingrained and institutionalized pedophilia ?
Yes, sales is a skill, and most tech companies only hire sales people with experience selling tech in the same sector their company is in.
It would be interesting to study what % of programmers agree with IP laws vs people in other fields.
E-bikes! They're amazing. Bicycle with small assist engine.

You start pedaling, and the bike engine helps you, so going up hills is easy.

Riding one feels like you have super-strength.
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IIRC, MS recently updated notepad to understand Unix line endings, although I'm not sure if it's live for most people.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/extended-eol-in-n...
Maybe we need an indie hacker to help them understand caching over at IndieHackers. :-)
> A lot of the high-performers left shortly after that

The article specified that "two senior Gravity employees also resigned in protest". Do you have a source for "a lot of the high performers" outside of those two?

It sounds to me like it worked out for the company, regardless of the CEO's personal goings-on. It's a win for the idea that if you pay all your employees reasonably, they won't just fall back and let the company crumble. I think it's really important to point and show that this initiative, which so many people derided as ridiculous and guaranteed to fail, actually worked.
I wonder if younger people understand "I pawned my Smith Corona" from Warren Zevon's "Carmelita." Or tubes glowing in the dark.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xeb0OI8wXN4
Similarly, I think Customer Success is also sales-related and often requires developer skills.
Am I the only one disappointed that the author was NOT referring to the PC game Carmageddon in the title.

Expected summary:
"Well, we were pleasantly surprised that shutting down the streets didn't lead to a rage-induced, car-killing-spree murder rampage."
According to all the data that I have direct access to, I am the center of the universe!
VBA is very annoying, and I wouldn't love it if I hadn't been forced to spend so much time in it creating custom functions before attempting larger scale applications.

Once you get used to classes/interfaces, however, the feeling is comparable to realizing the guitar you learned how to play on was terrible and had absurdly high action, and now that you're holding a mediocre to moderately good guitar, you can play a lot better than you thought.

I also think you have to accumulate a personal library of utility functions to make it tolerable (or sometimes even fun.) I've never noticed a real community with standards and norms around VBA, so you're on your own a lot.
Well, "throwaway92384", I am not assuming any such thing. I personally know a number of people who are or have been MPs in the UK and the Netherlands, senior civil servants as well as many people in leadership roles in the private sector. I don't think this makes me particularly special incidentally, the same thing is true for many people who are actively engaged in policymaking.

My comment is based on extensive professional and social interactions with other people in leadership roles. It is very frequently the case that such people, including government ministers simply don't have as much independent power of action as you think.

The original parent comment said that if things were really so bad, then something would be done with the implication that since not much is being done, things cannot be so bad. Since we are not mass-building PWRs and running five parallel crash fusion programmes, it must follow that someone has examined the evidence and decided that the problem of climate change is not so bad and therefore we are not doing those things.

The problem with this view is the assumption that there is a someone or a group of someones who sit back, review IPCC reports and then have the ability to collectively compel the political leaders of the world to act rationally. If there was such a group then their lack of action would indicate that they had made a rational decision not to act.

My point is that there are no such people. The powerless enjoy the fantasy of conspiracy because it means that all it would take to solve our problems is some kind of board room coup of the Majestic 12 standing committee.

The reality is that everyone in the system has to act within their roles in the system. Executives at oil companies will say that they wouldn't mind a carbon tax, as long as it was equally applied to all companies. That's logical as they would continue to have a level playing field with the other oil producers and it will take years for us to get off oil as a species anyway. Oh but they don't have the power to pass an oil tax, that's for government.

Politicians in smaller countries will say, they would love to pass such a tax but unfortunately it needs to be global or it will just erode their competitive advantage without reducing emissions. Only if large trading blocs like the EU and US united on enforcing such a system could it be done.

American politicians might say that they personally would love to but they'd need a majority in the Senate, the House, and the right person in the White House.

None of these people are being disingenuous, they all have an accurate view of the limits of their own power within the system. My point is that there is no "outside the system" which can update the system to work better for large collective action problems or force a solution. It's cogs in the machine all the way up. Even the power of Donald Trump, as leader of by far the world's most powerful nation has substantial limits to his freedom of action.
It doesn't invalidate your point that it would be beneficial did what he claims it did. It might invalidate your assertion that he was:

> Looking outside of him and caring for other people more than himself, sacrificing himself for others.
Sunk cost fallacy at work.
By that logic, you wouldn't be able to claim copyright on works that are distributed compressed or encrypted.
So basically, companies are supposed to reward people for being gregarious/outgoing/funny/popular on Slack, rather than for getting their work done?

Some of the most valuable team members just quietly get things done, without making a song and dance about it and drawing everyone's attention. Sucks to be them, I guess.
I'm no historian/economist/geographer, but isn't it sufficient to invoke having a huge empty continent with vegetation, climate and soil suitable for agriculture and human life activities in general, that only needed a bit of genocide to get rid of the low density previous occupants? N. hemisphere East-West wide continent and all that.
I’m all over using gomock to test my packages in isolation. I’ll just continue to do that with generated mocks instead of trying to monkeypatch a language that isn’t intended for that.

I’m curious about your motivation for writing this. Did it start out as something legitimate and morphed into a joke when you wanted to see how far you can push it? Or were you taking the piss the whole time?
Yes, usually they are called pre-sales tech, or solutions architect, integration consultant etc. Solution architect can also be an inside role too so you have to check how that JD is written.

Usually what you want to do is get in to one of the pre-sales teams so you are part of the sales process but can still stay technical. This will let you see the sales process and start developing new skills. This is usually focused on the enterprise market where the pricing justifies a more expensive sales process.

You can also do this at a startup but it won't teach you sales typically. Startups are learning how to sell themselves usually, so they don't have a mature sales process or people so if you are wanting to develop those skills go to one of the big consulting firms, or CRM companies etc.
Forgot to change account before complimenting yourself?
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So when will they generate all possible opening lines to stories (by which I mean 12 words or less of course, with no proper nouns) and copyright them?
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https://getmemex.com/ might be what you're looking for. I've tried to use it, but it somehow managed to destroy its database 3 or 4 times. After that I gave up and uninstalled the extension again.
Grow some plants or algae faster by shining extra grow lights on them, in addition to sunlight?
I know for a fact that detours is used by a lot of malware
Possibly the underground is used by a wider range of classes.

I bumped into John Bercow (Speaker) last year getting off the tube at Westminster not sure senior Politicians ride the subway to work.
Reminds me of an aside in Accelerando:

> His suitcase is full of noise, but what's coming out of the stereo is ragtime. Subtract entropy from a data stream – coincidentally uncompressing it – and what's left is information. With a capacity of about a trillion terabytes, the suitcase's holographic storage reservoir has enough capacity to hold every music, film, and video production of the twentieth century with room to spare. This is all stuff that is effectively out of copyright control, work-for-hire owned by bankrupt companies, released before the CCAA could make their media clampdown stick. Manfred is streaming the music through Annette's stereo – but keeping the noise it was convoluted with. High-grade entropy is valuable, too ...

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/acceler...
Just FYI, the version on Amazon is a draft preprint, and he's currently revising it towards the actual publication.

(But even the draft version is a fantastic read!)
I've considered taking pseudonymity one step further by moving it into the real world, and having one name for legal documents and another (or two) for personal use (think Earthsea rules). Seems to work for a few hackers I know, and the best part is that it doesn't require any legal name change rigamarole, since nobody can stop you from just start calling yourself whatever you want whenever you want.

For me anyway, it was quite surprisingly freeing to realize that there's no reason that the name on my birth certificate has to have anything to do with the name I choose to present to people.
The problem is the inconstitancy.

Why in some cases colour matter and in some case, it does not ? no judge will care about the "colour" of child porn. Yet, they will care about the "colour" of a song.
Historically I've always gone with Intel, but I've been wondering if new AMD CPUs would work well hypervisor hosts. A Ryzen Threadripper 3990x for example has 64 cores, 128 threads, and supports ECC RAM. Intel by comparison doesn't offer anything close to those numbers on a single CPU. So, does anyone have any thoughts as to why using the 3990x or some other similar AMD product wouldn't be a great idea compared to using some Intel solution? Is the, say, dual Xeon approach better in some way I don't know? I can't tell if Intel is actually better these days or if they just benefit from all the contracts they've been able to get with major manufacturers over time.
You are right. JK Rowling of harry potter comes to my mind when I read your comment ... In one of her commencement speeches she will draw attention to this exact same point ...
Back then you could still sell PCs as a small shop and make money. I had a guy buy an entire PC custom built just for that game. I remember him and this game very clearly because I was cycling, dislocated my kneecap, and had to go to the ER, so his delivery was delayed. I found him in my driveway when I got home from the ER. he looked at my leg in a brace and said, "Oh, I'm so glad you're actually hurt!" He though I was scamming him and waited for me to see if I was really injured.
It sounds like you might need a bit more help than just job suggestions. Does your city have any social services non-profits that help with job searching? I recommend going to one of those and even if they can't help with your exact issues, they might be able to refer you to people / organizations who can help, given more details of what you're dealing with.

If you're on HN, I'm guessing you have marketable skills, even if that means office admin work. So the challenge might be something other than your skill set. You say you haven't had a regular job in 8 years which makes me wonder if that's because the stuff that comes with regular jobs is particularly difficult for you (having to show up at x time, sit there for y hours, fitting into the culture of the office, etc)?
Yay for GitLab. Boo for no screenshot.
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I live in Berlin, which has a history of being both poor and having an extremely creative subculture.

It's interesting but sad watching that creativity vanish as the rents rise. There's more money here now, but less creativity.

I think this apparent contradiction is resolved by asking "who had the time to be creative?". When rents were low, artists could make ends meet and still have time to create. As rents are rising, the artists are pushed out, or forced to spend more time making money. The new tenants are people earning decent money, who again are either working too hard to create, or are not "artistic" in that sense (me included).

The old squats and communal housing are being redeveloped, the graffiti-covered walls are being repainted so the houses they cover keep their value. The focus moves from "poor but sexy" to "let's make lots of money". Everyone is richer, except the culture.
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That's going to be hard if he's literally off the grid.
I'm in my first year of freelancing and feel the same way, working alone feels so much more productive to me. No silly meetings or endless PR yak shaving and debates. I have coworkers in a small coworking space but I can go the whole day without being interrupted and get real work done.

Maybe I'll change after a few more years.
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Without being any kind of copyright expert, this argument doesn't make much sense. If you have the relevant indices into pi, I guess you could claim copyright. The index will be much larger than the original book though. Essentially you have a really bad compression algorithm. I'm not going to get very far claiming that because my decompression algorithm could output any sequence, all sequences are mine.
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Isn't it important to look for trends rather than standouts? Just because JK Rowling, who is an extraordinary success story, made it doesn't mean others will, because otherwise JK Rowling wouldn't be extraordinary.
Why would it not be a good thing? Every game involves people using public domain material and not paying the entity who would've owned it. Imagine if every game with dragons had to pay whomever currently held the IP for dragons, that wouldn't be good.
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Has anyone else seen an influx in Github spam to over the last 2 days? I've been getting a bunch of messages delivered to my inbox that would be caught in any spam filter.
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> It seems to me that an enumeration of possibilities might be creative, but there is no way an individual element of that enumeration can be considered creative.

What if the author was thinking about generating a specific, original melody when he hit "run"? He just wanted that melody and didn't care about the rest, but he was lazy and it was easier to find his melody among the rest of generated melodies instead of modifying the source code.

Can you deny that he created that melody?