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There is so much that is wrong with this.

Follow this advise only if you are currently employed and your employment is extremely safe because your employer is deemed essential or because they are financial strong in the current economy. For everybody else very carefully consider why an employer should hire you when the current economy is failing, programmers generally are very expensive and add very little value to the employer's revenue, and why you are a better value than the other 1000 developers that were just laid off. The economy is never going to be the same and the common suspicion moving forward is that software hiring/practice will also change to compensate.

The article opens with having kids and so they cannot work more than 8 hours a day in a specified time slot. This is an absence of ambition and nothing else. Work-life balance takes some figuring out, which isn't avoidance. I have two white-collar careers in unrelated industries and kids. I have time for both jobs, coding on the side, spending time with my kids, helping my wife prepare dinner, and so forth. I am not unique with this regard.

The bit about How to do Javascript is really bad advise. This is largely the story of my career in the corporate world as a JavaScript developer. The employer is mostly a Java shop because Java developers are easy to find since they are effectively mass-produced by universities. The Java developers have absolutely no idea what to do with any aspect of web technologies aside from Spring MVC. JavaScript is required by the business, so the Java developer fake it until they make it. They still have no idea what they are doing then give up and require a framework. Epic fail. Any other industry would call that an ethics violation, negligence, and that path would land you in a law suit or possibly in jail depending upon the product/industry.

> So we went with vanilla JQuery.

That makes me cry. The programming section is followed by a section on testing that almost makes me angry. Many of the use cases provided for writing tests explicitly mention low confidence on the part of the developer. Horrible advice. The things to test are features and use cases. The software does all that it promises or it doesn't and there should be enough automation to prove that. How you go about that depends upon the product.

The security speaks like somebody who has absolutely no idea what security is. When you have absolutely no idea what security is or why the company would spend so much money on it I too would think everything about it is draconian and worthless. So many software developers seem to think they are well versed in security despite having no such experience, education, practice, interest, or credibility and I have never understood why.
You are cherry-picking.
They might be rude and hurt some people's feelings, but they're not pretending to represent expertise one does not have so they're nothing to do with DKE.
Your comment makes me want to finally sit down and read Iain Banks. Because apparently they solved that in the fictional, post-scarcity world of the Culture.

I don't believe that suffering is a requirement for enjoyment. Some level of discomfort when you're not having fun, yes - something that pushes you to descent the gradient. An occasional pain even, maybe. But not suffering.
> Being a multiplier is not about just being technically proficient. It's about enabling your whole team to be more productive, and help getting to the right decisions, instead of decisions that might cost your team or coworkers huge amounts of extra work long term.

Thank you for this comment! I'll keep this in mind as I progress through my career. It's nice to know that it isn't just about being technical.
Coronavirus: Police issue almost 9k fines for lockdown breaches in England
For irrationals, the problem with infinite sequence of digit 9 does not occur. So for any given irrational (given its definition), any digit is determined by this definition, because any irrational number can be approximated with arbitrary precision by a rational number (which has unique decimal expansion). If you think otherwise, where is the problem?

This is not affected by the fact that irrationals cannot be counted. Given the irrational, a rational close enough exists which has the same decimal expansion for the first n digits, for any n.
RESP3 is a strict superset of RESP2! You can just add to your implementation and end with RESP3 finally :-) It means also that a RESP3 parser can parse any RESP2 reply without issues, in case you use it against a RESP2 server.
It's time we start asking the hard questions about Covid-19
The hatred against PHP seems to be coming from the people that only know the old days of the language and haven't checked it recently. I'd say PHP is quite relevant for any kind of web-apps these days; the language has evolved greatly in many fields, you have a huge community and there are tons of libraries to get anything done. Especially with Laravel, you can get a fully-functioning web application with a full auth flow in a few minutes.

There are places where you might want to think twice about using PHP; especially with cloud-native stuff, I see that there are many libraries that do not really consider supporting PHP, which might make it troublesome sometimes depending on the environment you will use it. However, if there is a need to develop a web app as quickly as possible, I have personally never seen anything beat PHP.
Now I'm somewhat curious whether you don't consider misinformation to have played a role in those elections or whether you don't consider the U.S. an example of western education.
I can't agree. I turn 50 this year and it's easier than ever to get a new gig. If anything I've noticed a bias in my favor where I would be viewed as a stabilizing force on the team.
I make it a habit of trying not to be dishonest. :)
The people's policy project has a pretty decent writeup of some fairly straightforward changes we could make to increase leisure time here in the states: https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/projects/the-leisure-ag...

The changes we need aren't that big, we just need to advocate for them.
Please forgive my ignorance - why is this being down-voted (rhetorical)?

Shouldn't this be discussed, at least? In preparation of the various scenarios.

Wouldn't it make sense with everyone stuck at home and bored, "things" might happen? In a few years we might refer to children born in 2021 as "Corona/Covid Kids", no?

And with a population "boom", pressures on the planet may increase? Perhaps. People may become desperate for the "good old days", and/or won't care so much about the planet because they are desperate to survive financially at any cost [to the planet]...?

Perhaps not - if society becomes more conservative relative to "dirty" energy usage (oil, plastics, etc)...? And beings to enjoy, and appreciate things like working from home, cleaner air, etc...

[edit]: I should say that the "boom" may be tiny, if so none of this may matter.
“So yes, it does feel to me that here in the U.S., being busy is a defense mechanism - because it's a good excuse for procrastinating on what really matters.“

I tend to agree. Saying “I am so busy” is the socially acceptable excuse for a lot of things.
That's "how it works", not "what it can be used for". Regular websites can be designed to handle high traffic. Regular websites can make backups.

What new thing does ipfs make possible that would make users install the software to use it?
But the goal is to raise funds. Doing a traditional securities offering in the Seychelles doesn't raise funds for your blockchain project. A token offering raises funds, from a global pool of investors, without any legal resource for the investors.

Like I said, this is an absurd amount of trust, and reputation is everything. It's simply a different model.
Isn't this something like a stylistic editorial decision? Basically it could be either way depending on what the author/publisher/editor wants.

On a lot of pages links are hidden as plain text and only show up if someone hovers over them. (Great? Confusing? Bad UX? Sure, but still a choice.)

At the same time someone else might just use underlining, but no different color. And someone might just want to use a symbol.
The first real low-code solution was a spreadsheet. Spreadsheets were what drove businesses to buy PCs in the early 80s.

In the 90s, CASE (computer-automated software engineering) was a big thing. Powerbuilder was huge. Novell had one where you could draw a flowchart and fill in dialogs to make client-server apps... UI builders became common as language vendors added graphical IDEs to their game.

In the 00's we had a lot of visual development tools for websites. Dreamweaver, FrontPage, etc...

In the 10's we had Zapier, IFTT and Yahoo's pipes.

Lots of successful products and fortunes made with No Code and low code.
For 99% of people life had very few surprises. Like today's life in lesser developed, agrarian societies, days go by very slowly.
I lived in NYC for 11 years and I felt trapped. I moved to a rural area and I’m done. Your opinions change as you age.
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After spending 2 years driving through Latin America, and three years driving around Africa to the most remote places I could reach[1], I wholeheartedly agree.

I honestly feel that the majority of people in Western countries don't know day to day happiness.

[1] https://youtube.com/theroadchoseme
Some companies are definitely friendlier to older and longer-tenured employees than others. I've been at my current employer for quite a while and even I was a bit surprised at the number of 20 year anniversaries shown at a recent meeting.
Sure, just have every person stream the meeting on twitch and use a multi-stream client. All the privacy and security of Zoom.
>>The workers (many of whom have just entered the workforce, myself included at the time) apply for all the available jobs in their area and hope that at least one hires them

The workers could work for themselves, hawking products on the sidewalk, or going door-to-door offering to do odd jobs.

The jobs being offered provide a better path forward for them, which is why they apply for them rather than being self-employed.

>>their reliance on the workers' desperation means they all push the limits to see how much they can get out of workers for how little in return.

All employers try to maximize how much they get for what they pay. The wage level makes no difference to the employers' basic objective.

But what the employer offers has to be worth more to the worker than what the worker gives up, or the worker won't work for them. There is no exception to this fact in any mutually agreed employment contract.

>>There's nothing particularly noteworthy about any given employer.

You said they're in a race to the bottom, so there must be differences between them.
U.S. Personal Spending Plummeted by a Record 7.5% in March
Yeah, it was basically a hack to extend the character repertoire in the time of 8-bit character sets. The kind of shenanigans Unicode was designed to replace.

You still see this kind of mischief when Outlook users type a smiley, and it is rendered as a "J" with the wingdings font. Readers of the mail where styling is stripped or who haven't the font installed just sees a confusing "J".
That sounds like an issue that could be solved by updating the renderer's gtld list with the various new ones that have been coming out instead of adding invisible meta characters.

Phones already do it for .com, .gov, etc, but our cutesy .sh, .dev, .rocks, .xyz, etc will take a bit to catch up.
> But a lot of people will go hungry.

Will they? Honest question. How much of the labor share is human versus automation in 2020?
It’s absolutely true that as a tech worker, I’m blessed that I can work from home. I’m thankful for that.

But you’re missing the point. Sending back my barista to Starbucks isn’t going to help said barista if I am unwilling to go to said coffee shop and spend money. The economy cannot start back up again until people start spending money again; my barista won’t spend money until they’re financially secure, and I won’t spend money on my barista until I feel that doing so won’t endanger my health.

Keep in mind that restaurant bookings were down 50% by mid March according to OpenTable. This is before most states had stay at home orders in place. A non-trivial portion of the economic collapse has been caused by entirely voluntary behavior, which is very hard to reverse.

I do however agree on recreation; governments should find a way to open up public spaces while preserving distance. I personally suspect that opening parks but constraining parking might do the trick, but I’m sure there are some weird caveats to that.
Maybe, the following research papers from germany's top expect on Sars-Cov-II are interesting to you:
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2196-x?utm_source...
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-020-0695-z

and his latest article, on Twitter yesterday:
https://zoonosen.charite.de/fileadmin/user_upload/microsites...

He is also doing a podcast with already 37 episodes about Covid-19, but it is only available in German. But the German transcripts contain links to articles he discusses. And those are articles he deems good enough to discuss them in public, even though they are often just preprints. https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/info/Coronavirus-Update-Die-P...
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Holy crap, this brings me back. I'll setup a Windows XP image with Macromedia stuff and indulge myself in amazing nostalgia. Thank you for the ticket.
Agreed. For the non-technical world forced into video-conferencing due to the pandemic, Zoom _is_ video-conferencing. It's the most well-known product to the general public, and therefore the one you use to make relevant jokes right now.
Could you keep your blood pressure at a normal level
FWIW, I agree with your "transient product fatigue" sentiment, but had to downvote anyway because this only ever goes back and forth with defense/attack with little convergence.

I suspect only the tech crowd notices this and the general public just gobble everything up, though. We can all just think quietly "ok another experiment, no thanks" and watch where the chips fall in 6 months.
OP here. People losing their jobs during this pandemic is a tragedy, but the article is about making time for the things that truly matter in life. Seems like I didn't manage to convey that well.

Anecdotal but many people in my family don't have jobs and are still too busy to spend time with their parents, siblings, etc. who would love to support them.
Written in Python2.7 which had its end of life in January
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Show HN: Music sharing site that allows listeners to support artists
Numbers get big really fast. They quickly grow to proportions that practically mean nothing to us.

A million seconds is 11.5 days from now.
A billion seconds is 31 years, 8 months, and 15 days from now.
A trillion seconds is 31,709 years from now.
Article states 4s activity followed by 45s seated rest, repeated 5 times. So you're actually occupied with the workout task for 4m+05s every hour, even though only 20s of that is sprinting.
... or Wire or Jitsi or Signal or Jami or one of a dozen others. Heck, even WhatsApp and Microsoft Teams are preferable to these two.

But yeah let's single out the only alternative that's actually worse and give that as counter-example.
Do you mean Wordpress.org?

Self-hosted Wordpress requires a lot of setup for non-technical users. They need to:

- select a web host and set up an account

- use cPanel or some other tool with an ancient, confusing GUI to install WP on the server

- set up their MySQL and WP login passwords. Which in addition to the web host account, means they need to have 3 sets of logins to do one thing.

and that's not even mentioning the security or functionality issues they may face if they don't set up backups, or decide to fill the site with plugins to accomplish basic functionality that WP doesn't provide.
Yeah, that's absolutely what I'm looking for! Any particular articles or other links you'd recommend?
Hey HN

I listen to a lot of music from small and independent artists. People who just do music for the fun and love of it.

I have always wished there was a simple way for me to show my appreciation for their work and support their projects. Sure I can buy their digital music (which I do!) but I was hoping to support them in a more personal way.

That's why I created SoundRat. On SoundRat anyone can upload their own music and let their fans listen to it without requiring listeners to have an account or pay for something up front. Fans can stand out and support their favorite artists through payments. When sending a payment they can attach a personal message to the artist and supporters get some "perks" such as being able to download songs and get access to lyrics.

I was planning to highlight some more artists and add a couple more feature before announcing the website. However, seeing as Spotify recently announced their way of letting fans support artists (US & UK only) I thought I shouldn't wait longer.

Let's be upfront about the most important points of the terms and conditions:

- Artists own their music. I only need the right to host the music.

- SoundRat takes 6% on all payments. This is used to pay for the servers. I believe this is a fair number

I have been working on SoundRat for the past few months and doing it learned a lot from audio encoding to payment integration (It is way easier to accept payments than processing payouts to users!)

I hope to offer artists a different way of sharing their music and connect with their fans.

Let me know what you think!
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In Sweden known as "Valborgsmässoafton", or simply "Valborg".
Happy Valborg!
Not limited to TVs. Appliance repair in general has been replaced with disposable appliances.

Human rights violations in countries like China is to blame for reducing the value of skilled labor.
"When the Apple II was being done, I helped them. I mean, I actually loaned them my oscilloscope, I had a 465 Tektronix scope, which I still have, and they designed the Apple II with it. I designed Pong with it."

Damn, that scope is a serious piece of history.
Except I actually could build StackOverflow in a day. Less than that actually, just need some fiber and coffee.
I'm 7 pounds into the "Covid 15" despite daily exercise. I may give this a try and see if I see results
I feel you, what I do is use chromium specifically for that and nothing else.
Interesting that you didn't face the Zoom issues I did though. I wonder what gives.
Yes, namely this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope
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Removing or dramatically reducing the two greatest factors in surface temperature and snow pack accumulation will prove scientifically interesting.

It should reinforce or repudiate the assumptions underlying our climate models - which have chosen to basically ignore these 2 factors.

I predict, in the next 6-12 months, that statistically significant deviations in predicted vs. actual temperatures and snow accumulation will appear, repudiating this assumption that ignoring these factors was scientifically sound.
American taxpayers invest their 401k money into american stock market, and they vote with their money for such companies. I'm against bailouts on libertarian principles, but if you're going to do bailouts at all, I don't see any reason why you wouldn't bailout these companies.

(And, every time bailouts are mentioned, I have to notice that it's not free money, it's loans, with interests, and 2008 bailout have actually made money for american taxpayers in the end. May be not as much money as other investments would, but it also had a nice side effect of saving american (and probably world) economy from even worse disaster).

Edit: OK, I was wroung about free money, by bad. But when the 2008 bailour is mentioned, I feel that most people discussing it still think of it as some sort of handout.
Have you tried consulting gig?
FWIW, Conan has come under some heat in the past for his Clueless Gamer skits, which were often "sponsored" by videogame companies looking for coverage:

https://kotaku.com/conan-obrien-video-game-salesman-17420912...
so seems, like I'm not the only one finding the Zoom experience lacking: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23012749

And yeah, it's quite funny, how noone proposting has a measured opinion, it's always: Zoom's by far the best...
(and being in education, it seems like around 50% of my course participants are joining Zoom on mobile, because it won't work on their computer...)

As for alternatives: all are sh* in one way or another (try Jitsi with Chrome please, then it works great!, I know of a local LUG which outright bans non-Blink on their instance....). I use it now, because admininstration says it's fine (and discord is equally horrible from a privacy standpoint)
It doesn’t seem like Facebook stockholders should be complaining.
Right, that's my point. Which makes me think this is really a sick joke by some disgruntled engineer.

Out of all of the 48 major keys each with 16 possible modifier key combinations, how on earth did they settle on the one keystroke within a thumbnail of closing the application.

It's not just rude. It's an F-you to the user.
Well if this were sports and people had fixed time commitment contracts that makes sense. But for at-will employment, they're likely to move on once they're not desperate. You want a good fit, not a bargain.
Gotta lean in more, what a rookie!
That's 1,208 per million. The actual number of deaths is 41 as of today.
“Don’t explain with malice what can be explained with stupidity “.
He might well say that the problem is that it is not growing fast enough and that concerns about the federal debt or climate change are morally indefensible. (An example of this: the coronavirus crisis has exposed the scleroticism and poverty of the present, and the extent to which the 'unseen' has been sacrificed by regulators and how other less important issues have distracted from important things like pandemic prevention.)

If you take Ramsey's ideas about intertemporal consumption and the bliss point seriously and you try to do an empirical calculation, it generally implies that the utilitarian thing is to have savings/investment rates anywhere up to 98% (!!!) vs the current savings rate of ~0%: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ramsey-economics/#NumeEst... See also 'turnpike theory' which builds on Ramsey and also finds that generally, the optimal thing is to grow as fast as possible to hit the limits as quickly as possible and only then start consuming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnpike_theory