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It's best in class for digital illustration work. My partner uses her iPad Pro (along with Procreate) exclusively for her art, and the simplification of the workflow combined with the form factor are impossible to beat. Similar Wacom products require a computer, are more expensive, not as responsive, and not mobile. The Microsoft Surface does not perform as well, and does not have the same killer apps which make illustration so easy on the iPad Pro.
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It doesn't help that many distros don't add sbin to the path of normal users.
My take away from this is either:

1. Start a go-fund-me to get a VB.net team started.

2. Start work on an open source VB.net to F# transpiler.
Does “proper” in your mind mean “it looks exactly like the desktop version, even if the UI wouldn’t make sense on the platform”?
Nope, that's exactly what I wanted to hear before buying. Rather than just saying they improved it, they explicitly pointed out it has the keyboard you want from the 16" MBP.

>MacBook Air now features the new Magic Keyboard, first seen on the 16-inch MacBook Pro.

That saved me from having to google "hey, is the 'new magic keyboard' the thing in the 16" MBP that I've been waiting for in the Air and 13" MBP, or is it something else entirely".
> "This time however, consumer demand is going to be probably the highest it's ever been the moment the quarantines are lifted."

With the huge number of small businesses collapsing, it seems unlikely that the immense numbers of newly unemployed (likely including myself) are going to be have any spare cash to drive demand when the quarantines are lifted.
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I don’t see it on the list…
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Because we have models that have been tested, and we have evidence from hundred of countries for around 100 years.

Your question seems to imply that around every corner there are likely dragons. There are not. Mankind has extensive experience with central banking at this point, including this case and beyond.

There have effectively been zero reserve requirements for a long time. Go read on the difference between endogenous and exogenous money creation, and the resulting literature. Your understanding is far outdated, as the world has moved effectively to endogenous money over the past 40 years, as can be seen in the literature on the topic.
I fully agree with ESC, as that's a universal key and used very often, but the other ones are more specific and having them be adaptable always made sense. Now that they returned the ESC key, that part is solved.
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It means that the FDA will make an exception for unapproved drugs if the other option is to just let the person die or suffer needlessly. For example, it is usually used in cases where the patient will die anyways and they need something to keep them comfortable. (palliative care) This is how a lot of cancer patients got exceptions for marijuana use before medical legalization.
Why? Shouldn't the truth be known? Wouldn't it be wise to know actual stats vs/ trying to hide the truth in order to propagate undue panic? Then discuss it, and options, as how to move forward with correct information vs/ guesses and/or rumors?

It's sad that this report was downvoted on a site (HN) that is supposed to be so analytical.
> The Fed and other central banks have almost total control over nominal inflation because they control the printing presses.

Not quite true. Every bank can print money (well, the modern day equivalent of increasing a digital number somewhere), and does so when they make loans.
There are other people who operate that way. But lots of them use AWS or some other provider for that instead of local resources.
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My Mac Mini home server cost was zero. I retire my old Minis for these functions, I run an IRC server on my 2009 Core 2 Duo Mini and idle power is about the same there.
I wouldn't. Coal ash takes up an enormous amount of space, and it can blow around too. Nuclear waste takes up a relatively small volume.
Yep but our directory APIs are a lot simpler than SCIM. Plus we normalize user attributes across non-SCIM directories like G Suite and Azure.

WorkOS also has webhooks, which makes integrating a breeze: https://docs.workos.com/directory-sync/webhooks
>mandatory unpaid leave

What does this mean, precisely? How is it different from firing staff?
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You're mixing together a bunch of different issues. On some of them we don't even disagree. But they are different issues. And the issue of "sovereignty" is precisely the tribalistic attitude I was talking about.
I’m about to leave my extremely safe job for a tiny startup. I have to put in notice by the end of the week.

The startup seems to still want to hire me and is showing no signs of pulling the offer. I think they planned on getting more funding at the end of the year.

I’m at a loss for what to do. I’m excited about the opportunity but am not sure that now is the right time to leave. I plan on calling and asking for more information about the financials and/or maybe asking for a start date push back.
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This makes sense and sounds like an empathetic approach. Even if it wouldn't be an adjustment to remote-first teams, it should be assumed this is an adjustment to many others, and that new problems will be uncovered especially for critical services. It's also nice to have a constant in a sea of change.
Very poor choice to invest in gold if you're waiting for society to collapse. Looters won't give a shit that you have gold, they'll kill you, rape/kill your wife and children, steal whatever food/portable munitions you have, and leave the gold because it's too heavy.
People in this thread are comparing the iPad Pro to a laptop. I would like to get one just to serve as a powerful consumption machine. Websites will load faster with the powerful CPU. It has a great screen and a pencil for occasional doodling. Yes, I know it's expensive, but iPads also last a long time so it's a good deal.
I don't know if it will help others, but a few viewpoints that have (perhaps strangely) helped me:

1. Strictly limiting my social media consumption. Lots of people are stress posting as their own coping mechanism and if you consume it all day it inevitably takes an emotional toll.

2. This is a once-in-a-generation event. It's ok if things get cancelled or pushed back. It's nobody's fault. Everyone will understand and do the best they can.

3. You aren't in control of the national/global situation. Despite all the armchair epidemiologists on this site, the reality is the vast majority of us are simply riding it out. Embracing a lack of agency can be freeing (for me, at least).

4. Aside from the disease itself, I don't think there's a realistic scenario where livelihood itself is in danger. Supply chains for staple items are in fine shape (shortages are a result of short-term panic buying.) Lots of people are going to get laid off, but unemployment exists and even the GOP seem eager to provide enough aid to pull people through.

5. Everything is going to change, and that's ok. It's mostly scary because we don't know what the new normal will look like. But whatever that is, normality _will_ return, and though it isn't a universal law, humanity tends to do a pretty good job of righting itself after adversity. If anything, our periods of societal decline tend to come from too much stability and rot from within, rather than external hardship.
Right but im in 100% in agreement with your statements. The "real" problems are in the social -political -economic realm. NOT actually that we need significant new technological developments. Thats why I disagree that it is a " It's nothing but a technology problem."
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The toilet seats have adjustable nozzles, and even can be set to spray in a pattern to get everywhere. You still need to be in the right position but it's not so difficult.
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> Chernobyl was bad, but it could have been much worse.

How much worse could it possibly have gotten?!

> But people don't actually die because there's ash in the air or mercury in tuna fish.

Just because it doesn’t go out and visibly stab them to death doesn’t mean people don’t die from them.
The risk of malicious compliance is a tremendous motivator in ensuring that the government upholds their end of a fair and equitable deal in times of crisis.

And I know this sounds toxic in times of crisis but it's important that the government maintain some semblance of fair dealing in these times otherwise their proclivity to do otherwise may increase.
You may be able to argue burn-in issues (I'm not sure if any are permanent, but they can definitely last quite a few black/white cycles), but that's about it AFAICT...
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I do. We build a desktop app used by businesses around the world, including some mentioned regularly on hacker news :)

At the time we stared (1999), vb seemed like a great choice for desktop apps: It had a ton of built-in controls for building UIs, it was quick and easy to do so, and there were tons of dlls and ocxes we could tap into from a ton of different vendors.

The vb language was also appealing on a larger scale because you could take existing knowledge to other areas of the windows ecosystem: excel\outlook automation, classic asp if you need web stuff, windows automation\administration, and ie scripting.

MSDN was also an incredible learning resource

I attended a few small group sessions with microsoft in the early days of .net and we were planing on migrating ~100k lines based on what we were being shown. It looked awesome.

I managed to get hold of an early beta version and did the obligatory "hello world" and was gut punched. It took a few seconds to load took like 20ish mb of ram.

It seems laughable by today's standards, but in 2000 our target customers were still clinging to win98 and the pc's generally had garbage specs. IT people were livid we were wasting 4mb of their ram to run the vb6 version of our app. We lost sales and spent hours on the phone justifying our ram usage (fun times). A 5x increase in ram was completely unacceptable so we put it on hold in hopes that the release would improve things.

Things didn't improve so we put the plans on hold in hopes that vb7 would get released or they would reduce the runtime requirements.

Then something really strange happened: We almost lost a sale because the IT guy thought we were using .net and he refused to install the .net framework because it "used too much disk". I had to take 2 meetings with this guy and was literally screaming into the "WE DONT FUCKING USE THE .NET FRAMEWORK, DONT FUCKING INSTALL IT, WE DONT USE IT". And this wasn't the only incident. I'd get pulled into calls and would have to talk irate IT guys down from the ledge and assure them that no .net framework was required to run our program.

Today, things are much different, no one cares about using gigs of ram or hundreds of gigs of disk space. But there is a new set of problems trying to explain how a desktop app works to someone who only knows how to admin web apps.

And the .net framework eventually become ubiquitous via windows updates and other, more critical software, starting to require it. But the early days were really, really odd (at least for us and our customers).

We aren't complete luddites though. We do utilize some .net (asp.net\vb.net) on the server side for a few tools. We have a mobile app (xamarin\c#) that has some companion features, raspberry pi (python) for some "smart" displays, Arduino, and have started to look at blazor to the replace the desktop app.

I might still recommend vb6 for a desktop app with the caveat that it is a pain in the ass to install on later versions of windows.

tldr: vb6 mostly just works and is a great tool for desktop apps
That's what a shrinking population and economy does to an area.
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and remove the comment about sneaking an easter egg in to drupal core. If I were looking to hire a web developer I wouldn't want a sneaky one.
Each upgrade after 11 has had good reasons to upgrade.

More and more Java source language features that make your life easier by small incremental bits in each upgrade.
Are you able to provide any evidence for your claim? You would know that how?
Government is giving the businesses free money. And the newly unemployed are going to benefit from (1) free money from unemployment insurance, and (2) nowhere to spend it in the next few weeks, which means (3) lots of money to spend.
Probably yes, most likely for small companies.

Prepare for the worst.
I'm sorry, but this is just wrong: inflation was high but fluctuated a lot and by no way you can say it was “increasing”. You're rewriting history in favor of your political bias.

Inflation in the 70s (chart): https://inflationdata.com/articles/wp-content/uploads/2014/0...
I can second that - I'm not actively looking to move, but I get recruiters who contact me, and always tell them politely what it would take to inspire me to consider a move, which amounts to an above-market raise. A year ago, they at least would entertain my requirements and push a bit, maybe ask the hiring manager if the salary could go higher. Recently, though, I get quick replies of 'Nope, we're not a match'.
Not the OP and I like your profile page. If you do find you want to mess with your profile page I personally had good luck with this theme:
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I didn’t make it nor am I affiliated with it - but it was a quick and easy way of generating a polished freelancer page for myself.

Good ways to find gigs as a freelancer are toptal, moonlight, yunojuno, bark, stack overflow (get a good score by answering questions).

Bit of advice a friend gave and I have yet to try out: If you want to find local clients go to meetups, networking stuff where you would likely be the only software developer and people will likely be interested (obviously one for after this crisis has passed).

Good luck!
I, along with many people I know, love the scissor keyboard.
My entire department got laid off. While some people are local, I was here on the work visa, and I was six months away from getting PR allowing free market access.

Now No one is hiring, people are retracting job offers and cancelling interviews at the last minute with no definite timeline.

Interviewing for bigN takes a lot of prep, and there is really no time, midst whatever little interviews I have lined up. This is so exhausting.

If anyone is hiring in EMEA, Canada (but would need visa sponsorship) I’m open to conversation.

6 years of work exp as backend/devops engineer. Skilled in Java, Golang, php. Worked on distributed systems, reservoir sampling on petabytes of data, Cassandra & Elasticsearch, timeseries analysis.

Thank you.
I imagine they feel pretty good considering the type of money they make
You are not the only one. I can see a few around me, and there aren't that many developers here :)

Personally, I think every balanced marker (parenthesis, block beginning/termination, brackets) adds a maintainabiliy cost and is better replaced by some unbalanced alternative (on the case of blocks, semantic whitespace is the current winner). The largest the thing inside the markers, the higher the cost.
It is highly unlikely that this will happen. Temporary layoffs are extremely likely, and extremely good, because they result in high unemployment claims (which the federal gov't is now funding even more), and will mean the businesses survive to rehire them. Nothing fundamental has changed about what people would like to do. These measures are temporary. That's my opinon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pump_and_dump - would be my suspicion.
You certainly can't tell people not to be upset! Every death is tragedy; people have a right to be upset even about rarer causes of death that are harder to mitigate. (From personal experience, I can tell you that anyone who's seen an alcoholic family member die learns to sympathize with the Prohibitionists.)

But it's not a betrayal to acknowledge their pain while recognizing nothing feasible can be done.
I'm fairly certain they can do it immediately if they want, the reason they don't is it will cause their stock price to fall. Why spend your own money when you can just wait for the government to bail you out?
Hopefully after this settles down a bit there will be a boom in remote work positions as so many companies will now be both setup for it and seen that it is effective.
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I've had to deal with a codebase that's part VB.Net and part C# for the last 6 years.

I don't really feel any pain switching between them, apart from VB.net is a bit annoyingly verbose and I always forget how to do linq lambda functions in it.

One tip I would add is that you can change the colour of the matching {} when you're in a block scope. VS actually highlights the opening and closing of the block. Usually not much of a problem due to auto-indenting, it can help a lot with complex code.

For some idiotic reason the default is a very light grey, but if you make it darker or a different colour, picking out ending } or starting { becomes trivial.
Scholarly publications on the web.
If you wouldn't buy it you should probably sell it is my motto. The gov't wouldn't pay retail for one of these companies, so they should probably sell it at that price. But if they believe the long term fundamentals are good, they might buy at a distressed price. That's my working theory anyway.
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Yes. On a H1B, you might have 60 days to find a new employer or change your visa status. https://www.murthy.com/2017/03/06/grace-period-nonimmigrant-...
sounds like they will be prioritizing security issues.

Less change for the sake of change is a good thin IMO
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The Remarkable (the older one that I have; not sure on the newer one) has two "off" modes: an "inactive" kind of mode, where it has just deactivated the screen from lack of use, and a "sleep/power-off" mode, where it's actually either gone to sleep or been powered off by the user or a low battery.

In the first mode, it comes back in about 1 second. It's enough that there's a bit of a lag and I don't like it if it happens right in the middle of something, but I haven't run into this very much.

In the second, it takes a few seconds to spin up, so I got into the habit of doing that before a meeting or whatever started. It takes about as much time to get it started up and navigate to the appropriate file as it would to fish a binder out of my bag and open it up to a blank page.
People are running VMs on their laptops so they can test things in an environment similar to production without having to run extra servers for every developer/sysadmin to test with.

Sure, but that immediately raises the next question of why those VMs are so big...
> It seems rather vacuous to claim something as more necessary than something else.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs

Read that page a moment and I think you might realize degrees of need isn't such a vacuous idea.
> 60-70% drop in hires compared to our original (pre-COVID) projections for the month

what was your original projection
We're not hiring, but I would encourage you to add at least one backend language to your repetoire, and some ops (like basic AWS, Docker, etc). Flexibility is what will make you valuable, and tbh, in a downturn I think front-ends will be deprioritized.
> How is it different from firing staff?

Staff are still on the books so that the business doesn't have to go through all the paperwork of firing (and possibly re-hiring when business resumes).
This is really good news. When will this be available to all users?
I ended up buying a MBP and just recycled the MB through apples program.
To be completely honest, they should describe the keyboard as "a lot less bad than the previous keyboards, but not quite as good as the ones before them".
> Always been a fan of Khan Academy, I'll try to step up the monthly donations I've been making.

Thank you!

Prior familiarity with Go is not required, and Python experience is still particularly valuable because we still have vastly more Python than Go.
Be careful. Considering recent developments, it is absolutely not strange at all to reevaluate or ask for more time.
(Cloud Run PM here)

Cloud Run automatically scales your container image to thousands of container instances ("servers") if needed, maybe you mean "scales to many regions"?
Sometimes latency issues. I work from home office.
They're going to be saving up that unemployment insurance to pay their bills when the time limit runs out and their free time will be spent looking for work ... and most likely not finding any. Hiring is unlikely to rebound for 6+ months; too many businesses have collapsed already or will collapse soon before any government intervention occurs.
We always consider the needs of developers, but we also tend to ask a lot of them (new perf, security, capabilities etc etc) in more normal situations, but I'd add this is a highented situation for all users and develers where everyone is requiring information and access to services like never before it makes sense to be very prudent in all of our rollouts.

Whilst I love NFC API, it's not critical at this moment where as ensure there are no (or as rew as possible) regressions is.

Wrapping up, it's a massive mix of needs right now from our own teams and users alike.
Two tricks we should all be adopting:
1) Bidet
2) Wet toilet paper

Cleans much better. And less abrasive.

But yeah, two squares isn't really realistic.
Yeah, unfortunate for us that you're stuck in Sweden, but I hope you're able to find a good next project!
Some have a line that you can run to the sink's hot water line, if that's close enough to your toilet.
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> What will get me more bang out of the processor, the "super" architecture of Zen 2, or the coveted AVX512?

Bychance, have you seen the article from puget systems on how to use MKL with Ryzen[1]? It explores some of the different trade-offs between AMD and Intel for numeric computing.

[1] https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/hpc/How-To-Use-MKL-with-AM...
I’m pretty sure that will trigger reviewed-and-submitted code audits for any role that handles PII. Don’t want the HN-reading public to get the wrong impression.
You can also donate blood, "American Red Cross faces 'severe blood shortage' as cancellations increase due to coronavirus": https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/american-red-cross-faces-sev...

You can still donate while on most medications, which is something I didn't know.
It costs you nothing to sideload an app (other than time), but it costs money to make a company. Not a fitting analogy.
Are you running a non-default resolution?
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This is the counterpart of the original thread "Ask HN: Have you been laid off?" . So that we have a balanced view, since if your question is biased, you will only get biased answers, which will lead to panic unnecessarily.
Unfortunately, no. Just what's listed on the site.