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I think the usual term is "innovation tokens", from the "choose boring technology" post at https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology. It's definitely very helpful in preventing projects from choosing all the shiny new tech at once while not preventing any all innovation at all. Some of the shiny tech is actually worthwhile, after all.
See, if instead of this sarcastic quip you had bothered to come up with an insightful comment I might have had a chance to understand what you're trying to say.

Is it really all that unreasonable, as a consumer, to favor certain monetization schemes over others?
Console manufacturers make money through licensing fees paid by game developers. The consoles themselves are usually sold at or below cost.
> No activation was not removed, a license is still required.

This was even explicitly stated in the linked article, but for some reason people keep asserting in this thread that it was a cracked version of windows.

Am I missing something, or are people just making big assumptions and not reading the article?
I've been trying other non-roman dice:

Indian four-sided dice:

https://averweij.web.cern.ch/averweij/india.htm

Two-sided dice (cowry shells) for Indian Pachisi- they are terrible!

https://joyofplaying.wordpress.com/play-by-rules/164-2/

More binary dice for the Royal Game of Ur:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZskjLq040I
I’m writing a novel. I’ve been at it since 2016, partly because project planning is just as hard outside of software and partly because I have a full-time job too. Based on what people like Charlie Stross blog about, and based on the few sales estimates I can find, even if I reach the heady highs of ranking 214th biggest SciFi writer by sales, I will make less than $40k in lifetime sales for four year’s work.

As income goes, this is a lottery.
This is a great way of thinking about technical decision-making. I'm most familiar with this idea through the framing of "innovation tokens" from the essay "Choose Boring Technology" [1].

[1] http://boringtechnology.club
I find this fascinating, as my experience is the opposite. I have hundreds of connections, mostly people I've met throughout my career. And yet, it has never actually delivered anything of value to me. A few potential freelancing gigs which didn't pan out. A lot of random encounters from people I would never want to work with.

By contrast, StackOverflow and Twitter have given me some really great work opportunities.
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I had the same problem with devs who always want to use the newest stuff as with devs who use the same tech for over a decade because they don't want or can learn something new.
I feel like this blog post is written towards people who shouldn't be making these decisions. I think the people making decisions like this should be in a senior, experienced position.
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It's a winner takes all niche. Either you reach a point of scale or never see a break even.

Takeaway wiped out the competition in EU and it was a billion € marketing budgets battle.
I think Drew is referring to composition in terms of API end-user code, not sr.ht code, e.g. making it possible for the user write a single GQL query that combines data from multiple sr.ht services.
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Show HN: PodBinge – Listen through podcast backlogs like an audiobook
Tax optimization - easier to funnel out money if all your subsidiaries are lending IP belonging to the same company in the Cayman Islands. Bigger the market, more "lending" from the tax-free IP holder, and less taxes payed on both sides of the Pond.
This is what I don't get. As soon as I started reading about all the unfair business practices by delivery companies, I just started picking up my food. Gets me out of the house, removes the middle man, supports local business while cutting out the larger business that funnels wealth to the top echelons. What's not to love?

If it's hot outside or whatever, it's still a small price to pay for doing the right thing.

Are United Statesians addicted to convenience?
It's not a problem for devs so much as users. If I'm not maintaining my software it's probably because I can't afford it, but the people that use it still want it installed.
Hey HN, creator here. Near the end of 2019 I got the idea to listen through the backlog of some of my favorite long-running shows that had been going since 2010. It was possible, but not easy in most podcast clients I found, and none made it especially easy to just keep listening without manually downloading episodes or gave me an idea of my progress.

Podbinge is best suited for when you want to listen through a podcast from start to finish. Audio dramas like "The Program" make this feel like your listening to an audiobook, where long running comedy series like My Brother, My Brother and Me can give you a tour of the pop culture of the moment and catch you up with the in-jokes with rest of the fandom.

This is my first top-to-bottom made and released product, so feedback is very much welcome and appreciated. There's no revenue generating functionality yet, but I'm looking at adding support for binging multiple podcasts at once and interweaving episodes chronologically as a premium feature. Let me know what you think!
If there's no expectation of anyone contributing back, it makes sense.

OTOH I wonder how Vue.js, Cocos2D, echarts, etc even survive in this circumstances — these seem to have some contributors beside the original authors.
> There are "executive directors" that have management responsibility, eg the CEO and "non-executive directors" that do not. In the US, often the CEO and the President of the board are the same person, but that's less common elsewhere and is considered a flaw in corporate governance.

Older and bigger companies tend to have the CEO and President be different people (T-Mobile, IBM, etc.)

Usually, when the company is smaller, they are the same person.

Whether they are the same or separate people does not really matter very much in practice, since the board will often reset both roles at the same time in any circumstance where they do not like management.
These aboriginals have a right to trade their land for money. The government has no right to stand in the way of that (nor do the people for that matter).

And how many people do you know who are interested enough to go and visit these potential 'world heritage' sites? We've got hundreds if not thousands of them in the Pilbara, and yet it isn't a tourist destination. I'd hazard that up until the mines got involved literally nobody knew or cared how long they'd been there. They aren't remotely important world heritage. They showcase nothing about the world except that humans have been a species for some time now. There is no heritage here that anyone cares enough about to go and look at, outside of maybe making a political point (and even then, the Pilbara is a long way to go for a protest). Australia is festooned with ancient Aboriginal sites. I've never seen a mine that doesn't have Aboriginal sites within the perimeter.

The papers are wildly underestimating how common 'aboriginal sites' are.
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Has this been posted to LinkedIn yet?
Since this is the second time you’ve posted basically the same same comment in response to one of mine, I’ll just copy paste what I said last time. Perhaps you’ll respond to it this time?

> Whether or not you think the existing copyright laws have exceeded their purpose is a completely different discussion, and one that is not at all related to this particular topic at all. Because the Internet Archive did not only violate copyright for content benefiting from whatever your opinion of excessive copyright is, they violated it for all the content they had.

> No. Laws can change unilaterally and society does not owe them anything.

Technically this is correct. The state is generally able to set whatever laws it likes. It was be a bit difficult in the USA as copyright is enshrined in the constitution. But there are examples in history of governments stripping all sorts of property rights from their citizens. It tends to go quite poorly though, for many reasons, but at least in part because people in that situation tend to view the government as stealing from them.

If the government sets the law in such a way that people who do X will be entitled to Y, then people who did X would be rightly upset if the government summarily decided they were no longer entitled to Y. The only thing that would seperate such a scenario from legally actionable fraud is sovereign immunity.

Most of the anti-copyright comments I’ve seen in this tread seem to really just be thinly veiled anti-private-property comments. So why not just come out and state your case if that’s what you’re getting at?
Ahem, "one time cost"
No. A board that collectively shirks its responsibilities to the stakeholders needs to be replaced. It’s not like no one could have predicted this was a possibility- and even their board did too, but they gambled that it was worth it.

What that tells you is that their board does not place the sustainability and long-term availability of the archive over all other metrics and I think that’s a fundamental issue that can’t be corrected. If growth, popularity, increasing in scope, etc are more important to the archive’s board than the guaranteed existence of the content they’ve curated ten, twenty, or a hundred years from now then they are not worthy protectors of it. The archive’s worth isn’t the data they have today, it’s the fact that they promised to safekeep it for the years to come. If they can’t be trusted to do that and place that over everything else, then they are failing what the whole world has been sharing data and making donations in the name of.
Best comment on this thread. Thank you for perfectly expressing my own feelings as well.
I don't think you can just blame developers. There is a real fear in the industry of missing out and being left behind, and that if you don't keep your resume filled with the latest buzzwords you will become unemployable. Because recruiters ignore Github and side projects, the only way you can keep that resume up to date is by either applying for jobs using <shiny new tech> or by forcing it into your work projects, whether it makes sense or not.

So yeah, magpie developers are a thing, but it's not just superficial developers, but superficial recruiters and companies as well.
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At least it still avoids all the other problems, not to mention the domain squatting, misrepresentation of search results, and of course the upcharge on your end and the downcharge on the restaurant's end.
The reality of crime rates in America are also harsher in America than in other countries.

It's not as if these laws arise in a vacuum.
Instead of following them, add them to a list. This way, you only get their tweets without any retweets or likes. Personally I find the retweets and likes helpful as it expands my network to follow people that the people I follow also follow.
Not for land taxes at least not in the US, if you do not pay your land taxes, the bill goes up for auction, someone pays it and you owe that person interest and principle. If you do not pay it for a certain amount of years, they can call for an auction of the asset and they are the first guarantee of settlement for their principle and interest. Then mortgage, then mechanics lien, etc. etc.
Agreed.

People on the prudent/cautious camp are missing that lockdowns are really last-resort, expensive controls at the bottom of the pyramid, used when better controls fail.

We can't just netflix and chill for the next two years. But we can't just pretend nothing is wrong either!
> But if a candidate is motivated to take a job because they get to use shiny new technology, i would suggest that they are not, in fact, a good candidate.

In my experience the tech stack is good indicator of how technology is viewed at a company. Java and C# shops I have encountered are very process driven, bureaucratic firms. In my experience they are management focused as opposed to tech focused. Where firms that use Python, Node, Haskell, Rust, Go, etc tend to be more tech forward. The reason I want to use "shiny new technology" is because I want to work at the latter as opposed to the former, I'd be happy to write C or PHP even at a tech focused firm but I rarely see jobs like that advertised.
I really, really want to double down on this, because it's not expressed often enough or nearly well enough.

There is a huge contingent of devs (I work in the consulting space, maybe this isn't everywhere) who have this idea that 'upskilling' is all about using new libraries in some toy project to familiarise themselves with the API of the library. They finish a project using React, then ask to be put on a Vue or Angular one next so they can 'widen their skillset'.

You can pretty much split learning up into three kinds: Learning how to solve new problems, learning how to solve the same problems in a different way, or learning how to solve the same problems in the same way, but with a different representation.

Learning the API of new libraries is almost always the latter, and people constantly mistake it for the second one and think they're making progress. Worse, people do this shit long before they've exhausted their options for the first kind of learning (which is the best).

React, Angular and Vue all do the same thing. They all do it roughly in the same way. Even when libraries do things a different way, learning the API is often still the 3rd kind of learning unless the library's abstraction is leaky as shit and you have to learn all the intricacies of their approach anyway.

Focusing on the wrong kind of learning makes a worse dev than you otherwise would have been. I've worked with a handful of great devs, and a fuckton of devs that know 20x as many libraries but churn out nothing but overengineered unmaintainable shit.

If you want to distinguish yourself from the crowd, learn a boring technology in an area that you're not as proficient in. Don't chase the fancy shit just to build stuff you could already fucking build in half as many lines of code.
> But after I opened one, it really helped my career. I found my last two jobs through it.

Selection bias. You may very well have found the same exact, or even better, jobs outside of LI.
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I've talked to people who run restaurants and in their words uber eats is not worth it economically. They just do it, barely breaking even, as a marketing thing, hoping people will like the food and go to the real place.
> usable only for internal projects where you have full control of who has access to your system, and can't bring it down because you forgot an authorization on a field somewhere or a protection against unlimited nested queries.

As someone who is building a public facing GraphQL API, I would disagree with this. Directives make it easy to add policies to types and fields in the schema itself, making it amenable to easy review.

A restful API also has the problem that if you want fine grained auth, you'll need to remember to add the policy to each controller or endpoint, so not that different.

The typed nature of GraphQL offers a way of extending and enriching behavior of your API in a very neat, cross cutting way.

For example we recently built a filtering system that introspected over collection types at startup to generate filter input types. We then built middleware that converted filter inputs into query plans for evaluation.

I previously worked at another company that offers a public REST API for public transport. Public transport info is quite a rich interconnected data set. Despite efforts to ensure that filtering was fairly generic, there was a lot of adhoc code that needed to be written to handle filtering. The code grew exponentially more complex as more filters were added. Maybe this system could have been architected in a better way, but the nature of REST doesn't make that exactly easy to do.

Bottom line is that I feel for public APIs, that there is a lot of demand for flexibility, and eventually a public facing RESTful API will grow to match or even exceed that of a GraphQL API in complexity.
This works on a surprisingly large number of chips.
You need 35$m to beat the best Stockfish engine which can work on a small computer. Who won?
> because you still need that base-load, for evenings, night, and cloudy days.

If you are claiming that one needs base load power plants, ones that operate at very high capacity factor, that's wrong. A combination of intermittent power plants, and dispatchable power plants (including possibly storage) to fill in the gaps, would work just fine. There is no need for a steady demand to be supplied by power plants individually producing steady output. Base load supply can be synthesized from non-base load components.

> 20 years away in perpetuity..just like cold fusion.

Solar is already being installed at the many GW scale. Equating that to cold fusion is the height of dishonesty.
Some people don't believe it when I say this, but when I unfollowed lots of people, after some time Facebook just automatically re-follows a few.

It has happened multiple times. I explicitly unfollow someone, never interact with them in any way, and then they again pop up in my feed after two weeks. Somehow if you follow too few people, Facebook just picks some more people for you to follow without ever asking you or telling you.
I'm sure there are a lot of folks here who are either living, or have been to Seattle/Cap Hill.

Politics aside for a moment, this is the pinnacle of Cap Hill IMO. Good on them, as long as they stay safe and try not to get too culty.
Are you making a semantic argument about his attempted murder?

Does that really sound logical to you?
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Looks like you need to grab the build artifacts from their CI/CD system.

https://ci.appveyor.com/project/ellson/graphviz-pl238/builds...

Not something I would trust out of the blue, but that's the best I see off of https://graphviz.org/download/
Not to mention array_reverse (or is it reverse_array, I forget) which returns a new array leaving the original intact, whereas the sort functions return 1 and operate on the original array in place.

Also, why is it array_reverse, but rsort? I dunno.
So my question: will Trump
quickly and lethally invoke the Insurrection act? Will the Joint Chiefs comply or create a constitutional crisis?

If this isn’t shut down quickly, I predict we see a national movement like this by Juneteenth.
I've had the same experience. What could help is a constraints-driven drawing, i.e. we could split the drawing space into an invisible grid and say that these nodes must be in cell 1, those nodes in cell 2 and so on.
> He got the job because he is friends with powerful people.

> The only reason his race is coming into play is that people realize that this self selection of white men will continue as long as the decision makers are white and chose to hire people from their own limited social circle, peer group, college, previous employer etc.

It feels like you need to make up your mind whether he has been hired because he's part of "the circle" or whether that circle is the evil white patriarchy that excludes people like him and Ellen Pao.
For maven, to push artifacts via the correct mvn deploy:deploy-file requires a S3 wagon (transport layer) software to actually make the S3 calls. For bigger orgs, having everyone use a wagon is a non-starter.

All I'm seeing this does is give the proper http endpoints so you dont need the wagon. Is it worth ~2x the price, no, but it's better than the other enterprise-y solutions.
> How about a rule where employees of a company automatically paid dividends before shareholders are.

Wages...?
This convinced me the issue is not with people, it's with the system. If the author chose Markdown for their blog and yet can't seem to spare a single minute to read up on how it works, then I guess we can't expect people on HN, stackoverflow, etc. to learn it either. Input whitespace (including newlines) does not translate 1:1 to output whitespace in Markdown and this mistake happens a lot in comments here, on stackexchange sites, etc. https://dro.pm/a.png

More on topic, I find it a bit disheartening that people are discouraged from picking a niche library and are instead supposed to look at GitHub's star system. So if it's not on GitHub or if my users don't star it enough, you shouldn't consider it for use in production? Shouldn't the documentation, code quality, open issues / maintainer responsiveness to issues, etc. speak for itself?
I'm not sure what you're suggesting about military "rules of engagement", but military personnel always have the right to defend themselves, including with deadly force, if they are attacked.

I suspect you're missing something here or not communicating what you're trying to say very well -- military personnel aren't going to sit around and do nothing if they're being shot at, they're going to return fire, call for artillery on the source of the shooting, call for aircraft support to bomb the source of the shooting, call for a QRF team to help them destroy the source of the shooting, etc.

Even "peacekeeping" forces are going to return fire if fired upon.
A related discussion here was the cofounder of Scribd talking about how Rails was a fantastic decision but he wouldn't have picked it for a new startup at the end of 2015: https://jaredfriedman.wordpress.com/2015/09/15/why-i-wouldnt...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10236210
I didn't understand the reference. I looked it up and may have found it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magpie#Cultural_references

> In European culture, the magpie is reputed to collect shiny objects, often in fiction things like wedding rings or other valuable or significant objects (often causing consternation at the disappearance, and false accusation of humans in the plot of the story); the most well-known example probably being Rossini's opera "La Gazza Ladra" (The Thieving Magpie). Recent research [8] has shown that there is little truth in the legend, and that magpies - like many animals - are actually unsettled by shiny, blue, or otherwise unusual objects.
Smart TVs are cheaper, not more expensive. You didn’t pay for those features—you saved money by having them foisted on you.
I stand behind Internet Archive on this. It was the right opportunity to try and push our freedoms forward. Internet Archive is political by design, it's very existence is merely tolerated by the Intellectual Property Feudalists. It was the good fight to fight.
I mostly do Easy Apply as a market/sanity check every now and then.

I can do 10 applications in 10 seconds for various tiers of jobs and various jobs in different locations and get an idea of what kind of interviews I can get going forward.

But yeah, I don’t get more interviews. I just get to lazily spam.
> LinkedIn is the only social media that has had a positive impact on my career.

It looks as if the site is beneficial when used strictly for professional contact(s), it's working as expected most of the time. The marketing side, which is part of its business model, is annoying. Groups used to provide valuable and interesting information in some professional fields. Now, not so much. When everyone tries to push their agenda all of the time, it is just noise. Despite this, some people are still surprisingly listening and engaging, so it still works from a marketing standpoint.

> I never scroll through the news feed.

That's the way to use it.