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This is great news! I was really excited about Perl 6, until I realized it was a different language, and it never quite jelled into a usable thing. So I kept using Perl 5. I write mostly modern Perl code, so this is exactly what I wanted.

I learned Perl back in the late 90's when it was the best way to do web programming. As a C programmer, it was a breath of fresh air. It was a higher-level C for me and
I used it for prototyping all kinds of things before writing the production level C code. Nowadays, I still use it for system maintenance and prototyping. It's a great language and very powerful tool.
You shouldn't write an article telling people not to use Python if you don't really understand Python in the first place. Lists are called Lists in Python because they are just that: lists of varying and dynamic length of heterogeneous datatypes. If you want an array with a homogeneous datatype packed efficiently sequentially in memory Python also has that: a=array('i').
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I have yet to have an issue with a counterfeit - my main problem are the pages and pages of crappy listings. I was trying to find a child's bike helmet the other day, and it's hundreds of brands I have never heard of, with no safety information, and all look virtually indistinguishable from each other except for weird logos plastered on them. (Kamugo? Galf? LERUJIFL? Turboske? OUWOER? LANOVAGEAR?)

I ended up driving to Wal-Mart for a Bell helmet that cost the same.
I am in agreement with you as a general principle. In this particular case though, one of the ideas that executive came up with were straight of a spy fiction 'Body of lies'. I guess what I am saying is we should not dismiss cultural impact.
If you are looking for decent paying jobs then Java is probably one of best languages to choose. The JVM eco system is huge and tools are less to none. There are some comments mentioning web development, I would say that is not Java’s strongest area. There are 10x(just a guess) more backend work API, integration etc done in Java today. From what I see there still lot of new Java work being done, while the share has come down recently it is still quite large.

At least in finance domain Java has a quite a large presence and it is growing
How do you know the author is a native speaker?
What always confused me was that "its" is meant to denote possession.
For example, I find this to be more consistent.

Bob's purpose
vs.
It's purpose

For consistency, shouldn't we use:
Bobs purpose
I do not know how this is perceived in the US but for us, Europeans, BLM, main is the new master and other similar things seem to be all over the place.

Everywhere, including HN.

I do not mind, the tech scene is understandibly americanized but telling that the discussions are hidden is simply not true.

(to be clear, I am just piggy backing on your quote to not repeat it, I agree with what you say)
>is it really that controversial to think that hoarding all that wealth

This premise is false, American billionaires do not hoard wealth, rather they invest it in companies.

Bill Gates sells Microsoft shares every year to fund his charitable foundation. He is effectively allocating capital away from Microsoft and towards world health. It is a misconception that these billionaires are like scrooge mcduck hoarding money in their vaults.
I like my beard though, and I'm not bending over backwards to conform to some security agent's bigoted views. Fuck 'em. My mom called me frantically when I was in college once and told me to shave my beard because she didn't want me to be targeted (I'm brown) -- I didn't do it then, and I'm sure as hell not doing it now.
They mention aws library support as another major concern too.
Microsoft can do a much better job than Amazon if they created a competing product. They might take the quicker route and buy AirTable maybe?

I can foresee Microsoft and other bigger players entering the no code market seriously in the near future (though one can say Microsoft already has power apps etc).
I dont see a problem with this as part of MFA, but here in the US our fifth amendment protections are pretty lax, and only cover passwords (sometimes). If the police wanted to force your fingerprint or face ID to log into a website (say, maybe a protest message board), they can do it just the same as they can force your blood draw during a DUI with a warrant from a judge.
Google has 118,899 employees.

IBM has 352,600 which is about 3x the number of employees that Google has.
The author is not a native speaker.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaclav_Smil

As a native speaker, it bothers me quite a bit.
Thanks for noticing, I have been noticing the same thing. Trying to figure out why, usually it works just fine in FF as well.
It's called Power Apps https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/
Totally gonna use that for marketing purposes :D
This is almost always a mistake in muscle memory error than the author literally not understanding "its" vs "it's".

It's a typo. The author goes on to use "its" correctly the rest of the post.

As a grammar nazi myself, being a typo nazi annoys me. It's as useful to the discussion as getting on your case for using the U+2019 quotation mark instead of an apostrophe in your contraction of "they’re" and "it’s" in your comment.
Get a consensus from Engineers if they need another person (any role - Engineer, PM, Architect, Mgr) added to the team. Do not open the position until all Engineers vote a Yes.
AdoptOpenJDK provides builds for JMC now https://adoptopenjdk.net/jmc.html

New versions of VisualVM can also open flight recorder files
What kind of prose are you writing if your language's default character set doesn't suffice?
There are so many non-native speakers of english (owing to it being the current international language) I don't even bother correcting grammar anymore in code comments in pull requests anymore. Unless it's like, user facing or something. But anyways, all the better I suppose to focus on content.
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I'm gonna be the web guy... have we given up on the web completely? Why not improve the signup/payments experience using Web APIs? Why not integrate safari more closely to what is required with these App Clips?

It seems the only real reason that Apple isn't doing this is because it wants people to build for their App Store so they have control and possible revenue stream.

From a dev perspective this feels like a lock-in: yet another platform to support
You're also looking at a scan of a small print out with poor contrast and brightness. There's probably a lot more detail there at full resolution, brightened up to show the face, and then enhanced contrast that the computer is seeing.
So, it's more than retool?
> You wouldn't have run Windows 95 on your circa 1987 Tandy

Windows 95 (formally) did run on a PC that has an Intel 80386DX CPU of any speed and 4 MB of system RAM:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Windows_95&oldid=962821687#System_requirements

The 80386DX CPU was launched in October 1985:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Intel_80386&oldid=952503560
So there was a bump in tax basis to FMV that essentially creates a tax free capital gain for the beneficiary?
It's advertising, but perfectly legitimate in the context. Many people in this thread are probably looking for an alternative now, so they might well be happy to see this mention.

Besides that it's also a personal story "I've been working on a competitor for a while and this is weirdly nicely timed".

A few months ago burtonator was under almost every article advertising his project ("Javascript? During the development of Polar Bookshelf (getpolarized.io) I have used Javascript!"), which I personally found a lot more annoying.

In the sea of close to 100% of pointless ads you quickly forget that they are actually supposed to make you aware of something you want. For many people in this thread that has probably succeeded.
>users on certain subreddits were exposed to users and their views from other subreddits thanks to brigading.

Brigading has been rightly against the rules of Reddit forever, that's a hostile action, rare, quickly punished and not significant.

Also, critically, it applies the same way to completely separate websites as well. Redditors could brigade HN or vice versa.

On Reddit, nobody gets exposed to content they didn't subscribe to.

>I don't have to read any thread I don't want to on HN

True, though you still have to see it, so in the interests of time at the least it's good to have a filter.

>we could argue that HN shouldn't censor anything, but if we let people tag threads and comments with labels like "white supremacy" or "SJW raving," then everyone can filter what they don't want to see, so what's the problem?

That's a great idea! We could do a curator system where anyone can sign up to be a curator to tag things with their own personal tags. Then you can just find a curator who matches your wishes and we're golden.
I don't live in London. I live in a region without pervasive surveillance. It sounds terrible and I'm sorry you have to deal with it. This applies both in the literal and figurative sense.

Don't live in metaphorical London. You don't have to. It's your choice. You don't need to call in people who threaten to use physical force to get their way. Just take responsibility and move.
The author is very naive on what Google Analytics does:

> That doesn't mean there might not be cookies set on google-analytics.com. I would imagine there are some that are used for debugging and monitoring purposes, for example.

Google links GA data to their DoubleClick and Adwords cookies. So it's not just "debugging", they're collecting data and using it to create audiences in Adwords and the DoubleClick products. As a user it's only available if you pay for Analytics 360, but Google gets the data either way even if you don't get to use it.
It still works in the latest macOS too. I end up accidentally hitting in on my work machine in slack all the time.
Absolutely, but this wasn't one of those cases. The fact check of the article in question [1] was highly technical, including both things that are clearly differences of opinion ("focuses only on specific lines of evidence", "misses vital context") and factual claims that require a high degree of scientific knowledge to evaluate.

[1] https://climatefeedback.org/evaluation/washington-examiner-o...
These are excellent options for alternatives to Google Analytics.
I agree that's bad, and license plate readers come with their own set of problems.

But being biased by the skin color of the driver is (AFAIK) not one of them. Which is exactly the problem with vision systems applied to humans, at least the ones we've seen deployed so far.

If a system discriminates against a specific population, that's very different from (indiscriminately) being unreliable.
The copied brand owner would likely be very interested. That's direct harm to the brand.
Chapo Trap House episode about the White Fragility book.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23612140.
> Having an electricity interruption of more than a handful of hours can cause the aluminum in-process to solidify, causing tens of millions of dollars in damage to the smelter and requiring months to fix.

-When touring an aluminum melting plant in Norway (which exists only because of cheap, reliable hydropower - the bauxite is shipped in from Australia, mostly), I was told the last-ditch measure to avoid such a situation was a metric shitload of gravity-fed kerosene burners with redundant fuel supplies located at the critical (that is, hard and expensive to replace) parts of the line.

They really, really didn't want to look at a solidified production line.
It's said to be smaller than the new SE and just a couple of millimeters bigger than the original SE.

>the 5.4-inch iPhone won’t be much bigger than the original (2016) 4-inch iPhone SE 131 x 64 mm (5.15 x 2.51-inches)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2020/05/07/apple-ip...
>Buying something is the same as making it yourself right?

No.

And I didn't claim anything of the sort.
WAI is a great example on the sort of compat/interop interfaces that are more common and easier to rollout in Haskell than in non-(typed functional) languages.

https://github.com/yesodweb/wai
Pretty sure this is the one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dL28N5yPmQ (October 2018)
What this article doesn't understand is that some people like myself would like to have fresh vegetables that are bred for nutrition and taste, not something that's been bred for maximum shelf life.

From big Agg, When those big optimized over fertilized tasteless tomatoes arrive, I'm not excited.

But, those local farmers markets sometimes come up with superior tasting products. I once tasted an early girl tomato from a local farmers market and it tasted like nothing else.

some people want quality of quantity.

Besides when it comes to freesh produce there's not much choice right now. I mean, we have gazillion different varieties of frozen stuff in the freezers, but only 1 kind of cucumber to choose from,etc.
We've merged those. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23612140 is the thread.
I can only remember the rule by remembering that “its”, “his”, and “hers” are pronouns and none have apostrophes.
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Evil, unholy technology!!!1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_Air
Democrats impeached a President over something they didn't really believe was true.
I think it's worth reflecting on it the profession is burning you out or if a switch in jobs could help. I myself have felt this burnout but reinvigorated by a new role.
Apple supports WebAuthn on iOS/iPadOS as well (since iOS/iPadOS 13) so presumably FaceID part is referring to iOS/iPadOS.
People liked React better.
As an aside: I've been reading the AWS blog posts from Jeff Barr, but ignoring the Amazon Polly audio conversions. I actually listened to it today, and not only is it not terrible, but there's a moment (around 1:05 in or so) where you can actually hear an inhalation! I know @jeffbarr is sometimes in these threads: is that a standard feature of AWS Polly, or is there some preprocessing that is generating SSML to control cadence, and if so how do we get our hands on THAT?
Not sure that level of snark is appropriate for HN. Not that I explicitly disagree with you, of course. It's just we gotta have a higher bar around here. I'd love to see substantial elaboration on the topic that adds to the discussion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Comments should be more thoughtful and substantive, not less.

> Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.
Unfortunately, no. TypeORM is as good as it gets in Nodejs ecosystem. Also if you choose it, read this pinned issue first: https://github.com/typeorm/typeorm/issues/3267
fwiw, one of our core principals is around being transparent where we can. If there are shenanigans going on, those are very unwelcome, especially the higher up you go in the org. Do some managers try to get individual metrics? I'm sure it is possible. But when managers have done similar side stepping of the intent of our values, the hammer comes down pretty hard on them.

When it comes to reviews and such, it is more predicated on how well you've supported business goals, how well the team did so too, and some peer feedback. Managers are working with us daily, so it would be odd for the manager to not have direct knowledge on what the individual contributors do well or areas that are in need of improvement.
So you are comparing Android vs iOS. You cannot see how that is Apples Vs Oranges? Just because something is based on Android doesn't make Everything Android vs iOS a direct comparison. Try Google Phones Vs Apple phones or Huawei vs Apple.
Well, it's not a well defined term, that's part of the problem. I think it's worth the effort to challenge the language used to describe class and power, though, because the terminology omits the existence of the elite. I've addressed that elsewhere in the thread so won't rehash it again here, but it has revealed to me some of the weird psychological barriers in place preventing the rehabilitation of the language we use. For one, the middle doesn't want admit to themselves how far they truly are from actual power and prefer to think of themselves as high or near-high. Second, the shear exponential scale of the power disparity between the middle and high is hard to comprehend.
It may have been happening more frequently but the overwhelming reason for such things is randomness. It's just also the most boring reason.
If you live alone, "follow the rules" means "do not come within six feet of another human being any time in the next several years." That is a heavier psychological burden than most people will ever carry in their lives. It doesn't serve anyone to trivialize it.
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Before calling the AG on this, how do you make sure that fake is fake in the first place?

The major hurdle is that you do not even know and cannot know. Maybe the product is actually legit and the visual difference comes from temperature or whatever, and the rash appeared for a different reason. One avenue may be to contact the manufacturer with the lot number.

If you try a new product and baby develops rashes or allergies, you know not to buy this product again. With Amazon you can't even conclude anything about the official product because you might have used a knockoff.

You can just conclude to stay away from Amazon for baby care products.
I think you are right. You show some of my coworkers GUI built with Qt and they will eww all over it.

edit: But this.. it is polished.
I haven't moved beyond Google yet (I want to, though, who is hiring... :-) ), but yes, to be honest, better code cleanliness, testing, style conformity, and good code review ability are the major things I've learned in the 8 years I've been there. Most other skills one picks up at Google are not transferrable outside of Google.
Is this really no code? Those formulas they are using look quite a bit like code to me and GUI builders and templates are also nothing new.
Yes. And that is okay for the vast majority of consumers as well.

Are there compelling PWAs on other platforms that are killer apps? Somehow Apple always gets called out here (despite being one of the first to support PWAs and to enable advanced functionality), yet the average Android user I suspect has approximately zero PWAs installed. The average Windows user - Zero. The average Linux user - Zero.

Make some killer PWAs that people cry for and the user base will demand it. But as is it seems to be mostly dreaming and imagination that Apple is the boogieman.
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> What does this mean exactly?

"Hey you, lost the game, eh? Well, motherfucker, you better bend over and get ready to take it from <person>, you fucking loser, eh?" (Laughter)

I mean, maybe that's just joking around and having fun, but clearly not everyone there felt that way.
If you’re thinking of trying it, I recommend having soft targets for scenes or chapters. Some kind of direction. Also it takes a bit of time for the engine to start running. At first it’s kind of weird and you’ll be prompting yourself with like “what’s next what’s next” anxiety but if you tough it out for about 15 minutes then the dream logic kicks in. All these cool things float up from the subconscious. Lots of typos,too.
Also if your a monopoly you have to be careful about winning other markets.
Anecdotal evidence but my ex boyfriend was an HVAC technician and frequently serviced suburban households. He was always stunned at how cold most customers wanted their homes in the summer. "theyre like chubby little eskimos in front of the TV" he used to chuckle, and most would ardently refuse energy saving ideas like acclimating to 75 degrees in the home, installing ceiling fans, or opening windows instead of running the HVAC system. Most people would just run the system constantly until the blower died or the compressor burned up every six or seven years.

Summertime is supposed to get a little warm :).
By the time Carlos Ghosn was smuggled out of Japan, he had been gone from Renault/Nissan for almost a year. So it's not like this was organized by a team at Nissan working under Ghosn.
> slow and stale nature of web standards organisations

If there's one thing I've never heard the web platform accused of being, it's "slow and stale".

The web platform has plenty of features for doing this kind of thing. It already partly serves this use-case, in practice. There are two reasons Clips will have an advantage:

- Apple has done a lot to hamper Progressive Web Apps on its devices because they have a stake in platform lock-in.

- The web, at least on mobile, is still never quite as good an experience as a native app. There are lots of fingers that can be pointed at different parties for why this is, but speaking as a web developer, I will readily admit that it's just not quite the same on some subconscious level.
> Characters: Doctor Muñoz: A Spanish physician of "striking intelligence and superior blood and breeding"

I can't believe I glossed over how racist Lovecraft was when I read this in my teens.
there is SO much stuff that safari doesn't block.

Get firefox + umatrix and just see how much stuff goes on.
Well, your idea was that they were acting erratically and irrationally, my proposition is that they may just be putting on a show. Neither alternative is particularly flattering.
You mean like the government that wants to outlaw end to end encryption, run by President who threaten to “shut down Twitter” because he said something they don’t like.
>Ultimately the level of detail you're describing is not feasible with the aesthetic the designer was going for. //

Absolutely. Appreciate your comments ... maybe when the kids leave home I'll get around to putting my money where my mouth is.
Thus the embarrassment of Perl 6 is erased from history.
Yes, Android has had it for years.

The difference is that Apple will actually ship it, it will work and provide benefit.
Sadly, no. A lot of the available 'nice' containers require host access that isn't available on Fargate. The ones people tend to use on Fargate are pure user-space versions that don't work as well as others. We have evaluated a bunch of finds from blogs and public repositories but they all lack one way or another.

Most of our setups use OpenVPN via OpnSense on AWS, second most popular option is OpenVPN-AS with a paid license, third is AWS OpenVPN, because of the price tag.

A few test setups rely on a small EC2 instance per group (t3.small for example) with a single container and it's a bit quirky to automate, especially on large user groups.

This is our main issue with WG in production so far: while the technology seems totally fine, it's not at a point where you can smoothly roll out a 'service' and get going, there are too many hoops to jump through and too many duct-tape constructions to make it integrate. (somewhat ironic, considering OpenVPN)
> It seems the only real reason that Apple isn't doing this is because it wants people to build for their App Store so they have control and possible revenue stream.

You say it incredulously as if that’s not a valid reason. Of course that’s the reason. Money is the reason why most companies do things.