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I couldn't start anything from scratch so I bought the damn thing. That was my MBA. If I failed, I would consider it a sunk cost of education. People spend 100K on a good MBA. I spent less than that on the business I bought. Happily running it for 6+ years now with a bootstrapped team of 15 of us. Ok, some advice now:

There are 3 ways:

1. Join a startup and go from there. Learn how things work in the startup world. You are only 23. It wouldn't hurt to work for a startup for 2-3 years and you may get somewhere after that.

2. If you strongly believe in a specific idea, then try to execute on it now. Like you said, you don't have much to lose. What an awesome position to be in. However, you will most likely fail based on statistics and the fact that you don't know what you don't know yet. You are 23. You have to learn a lot of things in the world.

3. Buy an existing business like I did. This obviously requires capital but you could buy a small say 1K MRR SAAS product/side project. You will have some things already setup at a small scale and you can go from there. Very hard though for someone who has never run a business BUT frankly, this is one way to force yourself into it.Think of the capital/investment as the cost of an MBA.

I would say 1 is the easiest, 3 is easier relatively but needs capital and 2 is the hardest.

Also, don't beat yourself up for not being able to start. Instead, find out what you can do TODAY to get to that destination of doing your own thing. If that thing today means joining an existing startup, do it. If that thing today means hanging out with similar minded folks who are already doing this, do it. If that things today means learning how to code, do it. Do something TODAY. How do you eat an elephant ? One bite at a time. Surround yourself with people who are doing what you want to do. It is hard to find them but try. Good luck!!
The cases of backout that I saw were because they didn't like being on the same side of an issue with people they otherwise disagree with [1]. Nothing to do with the statement.

[1]: https://twitter.com/JennyBoylan/status/1280646004136697863 (Archive: http://archive.vn/7IYxP)
Look at EngageNY curriculum (which is really EL Education, Public Consulting Group, Eureka Math, Illustrative Math and a couple of other providers put together). It is pretty excellent, and free! You can also find curriculum from these individual providers separately.

Then, visit OpenUpResources. Same theme.

EdReports.org has curriculum reviewed to align with Common Core.

The above are mostly limited to ELA and Math, for Science, there is OpenSciEd, SCALE/SFUSD Middle School Curriculum, and Mystery Science, for Civics there is Annenberg Classroom, and rest of the social studies, I know some effort is going on, but can't quite remember where the curriculum might be.

The reason I know these is because I run opencurriculum.org (YC W14), and we are trying to bring this information under one roof.
I think they were asking for someone to expand the abbreviations and save others from having to dig for all the EY/RH people mentioned.

EY = Eliezer Yudkowsky, I don't immediately recognize an RH.

Edit: Ah, Robin Hanson, I guess?
I haven't seen LibreOffice in at least 5 years and haven't used it in at least 10. IMHO it's never been...good. It's the same situation as GIMP vs. Photoshop. I'd _much_ rather use Photoshop. Sometimes, you do get what you pay for.
You could consider pulling those changes. Each repo should contain just enough config to know how / where to fetch its config + whatever is unique to this repo.

You don't share any details about how you manage
configs currently but during your build process you can pull/import/load common configuration from a shared respository whether that's a git repo or etcd cluster or whatever fits your environment.
Is there a reason that the (lower?) courts would keep producing these rulings if the supreme Labour Court has already made the issue clear? Do the judges at those lower courts have reason to believe each case is meaningfully different?
There is absolutely no evidence of that, its users still love using it.
>As a creative leader I also required each person involved in the brainstorm to do individual work beforehand.

This is overlooked. There's an inherent assumption with brainstorming that you start from nothing and form ideas. The issue is that you need some context around what you're generating ideas for to shape them. It also helps to have time to shape these ideas before sharing them, even at the "first stage." This allows everyone time to form some early ideas and shape them in a way they can easily express them so others understand the vision and can iterate, mutate, etc. around a solid understanding around the shape of the context. You don't need weeks but at least an evening to casually/informally think over things is typically enough.

If you dont do this, you get some initial thoughts with a lack of any data and everyone asking lots of questions around context instead of forming ideas around the context. Essentially, you spend time finding the cursory data you need to have a proper brainstorming session. Then you get ideas that had no time to form. People can typically generate ideas and iterate out sets of bad ideas themselves. The remaining potentially good ideas are the ones perfect for a brainstorming session. From my experience, this is where valuable group brainstorming starts and takes on a life of its own.
I use a piece of black sticky note cut out to cover the camera. It doesn't interfere with the closing mechanism, it comes off clean, and it doesn't require trusting Apple.
I'm not a power user, but I've been using LibreOffice as a Word and Excel replacement for years. Lately both have been replaced by Google Docs, for better or worse.

I haven't touched MS Office in more than a decade, and I don't miss it.
> Do you genuinely rely on whole-program type inference?

I think their point is that they there were vanishingly few times where they were required to write explicit type annotations. As they say, mostly when dealing with data serialization. That doesn't say whether they wrote more, however.
Brainstorming is usually done in a pretty haphazard manner, so I'm not surprised by these results. Just getting minds in a room is not enough.

The hub-and-spoke model was used at AT&T labs, where individuals or small teams descend into "spokes" to do deep work, then return to a "hub" to synthesize results and plan future directions.

You also need solid leadership to provide direction and organization, although I suppose there's exceptions to that rule like Valve's holocracy. I'd be curious how something like the Manhattan Project was organized.
> Designed to protect your privacy, Mac notebooks have a camera indicator light to let you know when the camera is on. ...

The main problem with that isn't that it is possible to disable the LED. The problem is that the LED is like a smoke detector, when it alerts you it's already too late, you are on fire (or your photo/video has already been taken). An indicator LED doesn't protect your privacy, it only tells you when it has already been breached.
That's why I like the old Thinkpad with the physical cover and the LED
If the argument is that workers should be treated as employees because of the benefits given to employees (like health care), then you could apply that same argument here. The weird thing for me is to see politicians who advocate for universal health care also advocating for more workers being classified as employees. It seems like one of the big benefits of universal health care is that it decouples heath care and earning money, but I rarely see politicians making that argument.
Which part of my statement about being trained in the human psyche was incorrect? Also, I didn't ask about your credentials and they're irrelevant to whatever point you're trying to make. I have a graduate degree in math. Have we dispensed with the credentials now?
> let the compiler work out all types and put them in as module interface ... type annotations at abstraction boundaries

Right - that's not global type inference. It's intra-module type-inference.
How about you respect women in tech more and stop assuming they're so fragile that they need men to change an industry so they don't get their feelings hurt.

Women are people, they don't care.
It is pure ridiculousness indeed. Imagine holding people accountable for their actions... that would be personal responsibility and is 100% unacceptable to the current powers that be.
Almost all modern statically typed languages use the ideas first coherently described in the Damas-Hindley-Milner approach. The main reason we do not see more full type inference, is that full type inference becomes uncomputable pretty quickly, once you move to more expressive typing systems.
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Same. I find no problem with it at all.
I also explained how my expectations changed and how Libre's new pitch doesn't sound compelling with that context.

It would help if you expand on your anecdote why no office software of any kind has had an impact on your life in the past decade and what expectations you have for office software that could possibly help you.
Ninja, the biggest (English-language) video game streamer in the world, just posted yesterday that he's deleting TikTok for these concerns.

I'm not going to get into whether or not this actually makes sense, but he is a massive celebrity among young millennials/gen-z.
Alongside casual vs formal I think we see workwear and sportswear consistently evolve into fashionwear. I see the baseball cap as an example of that. Baseball caps were originally worn by players. I think the bucket hat is another example, traditionally worn by fishers and farmers. Both of these hats came in around 150 years ago.

Knit or woolly caps on the other hand have been used for over 1000 years. I think it's safe to think the knit hat will be around for many more generations
Are you suggesting life is supernaturally sustained?

No. I am simply suggesting that creating life (and intelligence) from inert materals may involve more than "just chemistry". In the same way that lead can not be turned into gold by "just chemistry".

I welcome knowledge and proof to the contrary but thus far, there is none.
They're different because the last ten percent of use cases are not encountered by the people who have the skills to edit the software.
They have $2.4B Revenue in 2019! Seems to be doing great in the HyperScaler Era. They have managed to increase their revenue despite market competition.

So they are still growing. And much bigger than I thought. I was expecting Rackspace to be running downhill.
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Now. It definitely wasn't always
You’re right. The government puts restrictions on businesses that give established entities a competitive advantage. The government could end non competes. Some have. I’m not for no government. I’m for government of, for and by the people. Corporations are not and never will be people. They are contracting entities.
> The fact that in 2020 you have to fill in a contact form to get a quote for a server price is ridiculous...I just browsed their site and could not find a single mention of pricing without providing them with my full contact information

ISP perspective here: This absolutely has to be intentional. There has been a race to the bottom in pricing for dedicated bare metal x86 servers for close to 20 years now, in the hosting company industry. Very likely they're not going after the market of people who want to pay $165/mo for a server, but some considerably higher amount. A lot of the lower end dedicated server hosters who put prices (anywhere from $39/mo to $200/mo) directly on their website with a shopping cart are not their competition.
LibreOffice is currently under the LGPLv3 and the MPLv2, not the GPL.

Further, the document refers to 'new products' that could be under the 'LibreOffice Enterprise' umbrella. Could any of these be proprietary? Do we have any assurances?
If you're using the Android MDM thing on a personal device it only wipes the work profile.
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All whilst being propped up for decades by the USA for geopolitical objectives??!

It's not an accident that one of the stupidest, most theocratic countries in the middle east receives the most weapons and support from the USA.

We don't want a strong middle east. This is why countries like Iran, Lebanon, Syria are labelled as "terrorist".
Wow, there is room for a 10x cost reduction in the US.
Girlfriend and you have children together? You should get married :)
It doesn't let you do declarative queries (read: SQL) and it's not relational.
Use a sticky piece of Post-It note instead.
Academia Twitter could be helpful, but you'll have to find the relevant hashtags to follow for each field. You might also actually want to reach out to journal publishers like Nature or Elsevier (blegh) to see if they'll write a short piece about you. The Scientist(https://www.the-scientist.com) also runs news-style articles about peer-reviewed research as well as happenings in life science, so that could be an avenue you could explore for promotion too.

Another thing you could possibly do is ORCID sign-in. If users want their real names associated with their accounts, they may as well have an easy way to link their site presence to their publications, giving them further credibility (and accountability).
I mean, you could argue that some complicated interfaces like VIM's modal editing are the pinnacle of productivity for power users.

But power users and ordinary user's needs are world's apart, and the office suites have to cater to both of them. Thus the deep divide.
The old testament says you need to do your business a quarter mile from camp. And bury it.
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People don't get what you think they deserve, they always get what they deserve, period.

People haven't worried about flu death rates or (insert other disease) death rates before. Why should I go out of my way to protect someone who won't protect themselves by staying home locked away from the world?

After I recovered from my COVID, why should I wear a mask if I'm COVID antibody positive? To make you feel better?
Sure, is my choice to boycott a company also an act of oppression?
They bought it after it had already established its market presence.

They have tried to launch at least 2 of their own, and both flopped hard.
But it's also a sign about Apple not doing a good wrt. making their premium products robust.

With many other Laptops in that price range you would either have to use a very fat cover or apply a amount of pressure which might damage your laptop anyway. I just tried it (carefully) with my laptop and the screen has enough "play"/"flex" to handle it just fine.

PS:
Fun fact as far as I remember a number of webcams with LED indicator allow (or did allow in the past) anyone using the camera
to switch off the indicator without stopping using the camera...
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agree that pulling the changes sounds ideal. I guess having the config live in it's own git repo that gets pulled by your build tool during the process might work?
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I agree. GUIs are hard!

On the other hand, it seems like Open Source has a lack of designers that are willing to contribute. For example, in Tantacrul's critique of MuseScore [0], there's issues highlighted that seem obvious in retrospect, but in Open Source projects, unless there's someone who drives the user experience, it's easy to miss all these small things that add up to signal (whether rightly or wrongly is besides the point) a lack of polish.

[0] https://youtube.com/watch?v=4hZxo96x48A
And so aphyr gets paid, for instance.
You may not even be able realistically to run a test case. The laws of life say your 10000 core compute job will fail non-deterministically only after a day or so. It would clearly be helpful to have at least some formal guarantees, such as liveness at some level.
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Yep. Calling people dicks is clearly not offensive. Anybody who thinks differently is totally a dick.

I am staring in disbelief.
Came here to make the exact same comment, agree completely!
I agree with everything you said. Can you comment on my question though?
This.

Also, kids stuck in pointless systems get bored and commit crimes.
Also IIRC you can't just log out of one account; signing out signs you out of all accounts. That makes it even less likely that I'd ever want to do that.
I’m an artist who works mostly digitally. When I am mixing colors I have the color dialog right there on the screen next to the art, with my changes being reflected live. How does this color work with the rest of the work? That’s what’s important.

The only reason traditional artists use a palette far away from their art for their paint is because that works in the physical world. Mixing my colors right next to my virtual canvas is a huge speed-up compared to painting a ton of thumbnails with different colors.
We process, merge and create PDF files. Sometimes large multi-GB PDF files. We try to adjust and optimize them in parallel, but often we also need to merge different files into one for further processing, for example printing or archival. We need a lot of ram and it takes a lot of time. The more CPU, the better.
It's harder to do over a text forum than in person, but it's not strictly impossible. The low hanging fruit is checking to see if a person is responding specifically to the arguments in your post, or just arguing against a strawman. You can take that a step further and try to determine if their response indicates they understood your argument. This is more error prone, but still a possible method of determining good faith.
If we had a million NASAs all over the country, they wouldn't all be paragons of professionalism.
Hey all. Can't believe the response this has gotten! Glad people are reading.

I wanted to address a few points that were coming up in comments:

* Yes, I failed to bundle the deps with the Deno deploy, causing a long cold-start time as it downloaded deps. I was not concerned about cold-start times. I knew that there were ways to optimize it. I decided not to, as it simplified the tests. I was very careful about making sure duration measurements were running on warm lambdas. I don't believe I covered it in the blog but I stop-watched the dynamodb calls and could see them running around 100-120ms each. I was satisfied that the values I was seeing was largely due to API calls to dynamodb, and not the deno runtime.

* In re: API gateway. Yes, the cold-starts are an issue that I believe could be resolved. But even then, the API calls to dynamodb are STILL substantially slower than Node and would be too slow, imo, to be worth putting behind API Gateway where low response times usually trump a lot of other concerns.

* I encourage anyone that wants to try this for themselves to check out the github repo linked in the article. It contains a CDK module you can easily run and recreate all of this in your own AWS account and see for yourself. If I was interpreting this data wrong, PLEASE tell me. The last thing I want to do is be spreading misinformation. If you find easy optimizations, I would love to see a PR and I'll update the blog with your contribution (with your approval).

Thank you all for reading this. This is the first time a blog post has ever made it on to hackernews (afaik). I'm stoked with all the interest, even if I believe some of it is because of misunderstandings because I explained the tests poorly.

-M
Humans have not found a more stable normative concept of capital allocation (property) than: "Who got here first."
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Maybe that's misguided and naive, but I pretty much trust my phone to protect me from bad actors taking over the camera; I'll have to trust the apps I use that have camera access to not spy on me, but those are few.

Until relatively recently, any userspace app on my computer could freely access the camera and microphone, including background processes and malware, so that feels a lot riskier. There seems to be a permission for this that must be granted in the newer macOS versions, but I assume there might be ways around that.
I think I've seen orchards that are also hay operations too.

I've mowed, raked, and baled a fair amount of hay over the years. This involves driving tractors and trucks around in fields pulling easily damaged implements in precise circles. Doing so in the presence of lots of mature trees seems a daunting task...
I'm hoping that more apps start accepting NFC security tokens for mobile apps. Apple says they added NFC FIDO-2 authentication support in iOS 13.3[0], but I have yet to see an app that allows me to authenticate that way.

[0]: https://www.macrumors.com/2019/11/12/ios-13-3-fido2-security...
But is my freedom to choose who I do business with not a fundamental part of capitalism? It's important to have that choice, don't you agree?
The LibreOffice project's imprimatur should be to stop existing. This isn't
facetious or snark. Make it a long-term goal—let's say 15 years.

The editing paradigm perpetuated by the legacy of MS Office is a dead end.
The web has its shortcomings, so it's easy to see why people opt for MS
Office-based workflows, but the end goal should be to wean businesses off
contemporary word processors and raise a generation of kids who aren't taught to
write essays in Microsoft Word or any other office suite that resembles the
ones we see today. A standardized "Markdown for the Web" (or AsciiDoc) with
native browser support would be a good 80/20 start and would move things out
of weird proprietary office formats and towards plain text. Users themselves
need not know the underlying file format is based on plain text, just like
most don't know that HTML is plain text—because they usually aren't even aware
of HTML in the first place. (Besides word processing, spreadsheets are a
whole other larger problem that can be handled once there's traction on this
front.)

Right now LibreOffice is aligned against this goal as a result of perverse
incentives to continue perpetuating the MS Office model of document
creation, editing, and (let's face it: email-based) distribution.

The failure of standards bodies and browser developers to address the real
needs of MS Office customers should not be discounted. Heck, even EPUB which
is largely (X)HTML isn't even really Web-native, and that's a total failure on
the part of browser makers.

It might be prudent for the commercial companies associated with LibreOffice
to stop thinking of themselves as vendors of an MS Office alternative and
start thinking of themselves as a group who can see where the puck should be,
and then move both the Web and businesses+classrooms there, too—and capitalize on being the first mover.

NB: Re-inventing the office suite as a web app (à la Google Docs) is not the
kind of thing I'm talking about.
Compared to the generic "woman at Google", I'd argue yes. But even if you disagree in that one case, that doesn't invalidate what I said. It allows upward facing action.