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Slow-and-steady, carefully written software isn't tolerated within many product orgs these days.

Rapid iteration is driven by customers not actually knowing what they need. There are places where "slow and steady" development would work, but very often you'd just find out what the customer needs isn't what they've asked for over a much longer period. You'd end up throwing out a lot of the perfectly crafted artisanal code anyway just as you would in the rapid dev version. The main difference is that the customer would have run out of money by then, and failed, and you'd need a new job.
Companies don't give a shit about security until it's too late. Security is a complex beast and I have yet to meet a developer who understands it top to bottom (nor should they but I would expect even juniors to know they should not store creds in the git repo). It's an increasing specialist role that startups rarely hire for because they're focusing on survival and growth so it's to be expected this story will repeat ad nausea.
Yes, default rates are quite high in France, but there are also subsides : JEI (jeune entreprise innovante), CIR (credit impot recherche) and CII (crédit impot innovation) and surrely others that can give you back a huge part of the taxes you pay. It's a PITA to fill, it keeps civil servants busy but hey, it can bring you tax and cotisations sociales (retirement / health) very low !!
Same experience for my master's thesis.
From what a few of my colleagues told me: France is very racist. Apparently this is true in most of Europe. Everything looks okay on the surface but they are deep racial undertones. They tell me that believe it or not America is the one of the least racist countries. It does not mean there’s no racism in America just that it’s lesser.

It’s easy for immigrants to assimilate into society in America than most places in EU. Till that changes no matter how easy it is to get a startup visa it won’t make a difference.

I don’t know how true that is. Can someone with more experience please validate?
Did you become a big startup?
Ask HN: Where to find another technical cofounder to work with on a fun project?
I am currently brainstorming a TikTok competitor that is more Instagram-esque but without all the feature baggage that everyone complains about. It will also be "Western-friendly" of course. The hardest part, however, will be getting traction which would be partly by ruthlessly reaching out to TikTok creators and emphasizing its current political turbulence as justification for jumping ship to our product! Anyhow, I was wondering where I can find a technical cofounder who would be interested in something like this? The App won’t take that long to build but I would love to work with them on other aspects of the endeavour if they're passionate about it.
Spot on. I always used to get a certain company local to me flagged up by recruiters when I was job hunting. Every time they rejected my resume without interview because it did not have "Spring" on it.

Years later I worked at this place as a 3rd party contractor. What little bit of Spring I needed to know I picked up in the first few days. Their codebase and methodology was very poor and they were drowning because they only had one or two experienced people... but all the people they had had "Spring" on their resumes.
It's not DPI or PPI for me, the lack of a backlight and the finish on eInk seems to be the thing.

I'm not saying it's that way for everyone, but if I'm going to be reading for a while then my kindle paperwhite is much better for my eyes than any backlit screen I've used.
Real food chains are cyclic, a bit like in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Ilkla_Moor_Baht_%27at

Bad metaphorical usage of the term "food chain" is an example of "office speak". Personally, I don't much like it.
another os and locally installed solution: https://www.digikam.org/
yeah it seems one of the most common issue.. greedy upper hierarchy causing pain everywhere below

#revolution
If you let people set prices some will set absurdly high prices. For good user experience those get filtered out. What gets left is the system that we currently have which is in fact price that is set by drivers—just not explicitly. When there's more drivers in the area, prices drop, when there are few drivers, prices go up. That's how it works and it makes little sense to revise the UI to present nonsensical prices (we'd always pick the lowest price of a certain threshold of driver rating) for the user to choose from in a list just to fit some arbitrary definition of contractor drafted by some dumb politician or lawmaker.
Well, I know where it's coming from: a massive number of unemployed drivers, as rates are raised, reducing trips to the few that are profitable enough to pay for that (therefore also excluding lower-income users).

Maybe that's an acceptable trade-off, but we should be clear about it, not pretend we can just pump money from an empty well.
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Sketch and Figma are amazing for UI work in vector.
If you don't count Android, I'm not sure there are any? Most eink tablets have a user interface that is more similar to smartphones than computers. Thus, most people won't need to run GNU coreutils, Gnome, or other parts of an average Linux desktop. If you do count Android, there are several; my Onyx Boox for instance runs Android, and can thus use regular smartphone apps for e.g. file syncing.
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The unions you are referring to are almost universally for blue collar workers. Most professional athletes are members of unions. Most highly paid actors are members of a union. Neither of those groups have decreased individual leverage. It's unlikely that a union for highly paid white collar workers would closely resemble a union for blue collar workers.
What's illegal about it? FAA regulations?
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Yep same experience with a US company that had gone broke, publicly said so on their website, yet still had renewed a subscription I had with them after the public statement that they would no longer deliver anything.

Ended up with months of paperwork, claims from the other party that I ordered it myself (no idea where as the website to order was gone) including printouts of Stripe with my IP address which was supposed to prove their point.

Five or six mail forms to fill out (yes _mail_ not email) over the period of months with very strict deadlines.

They must have gathered the IP address from an earlier transaction a year before that. It also did not raise any flags that the transaction was exactly one year later on the minute.

An incredible waste of my time and if I had to go through all of that again I will just let it go.
I've seen it, back around 1999, possibly konqueror? Something that let you drag around toolbars and if you moved the address bar to the left/right side it would change the direction of writing.

Let's say that testing it briefly was enough. Editing tilted text works up to around 45 degrees, steeper than that is a strain.
So, I’m curious what this means. Isn’t a dogfight with guns in F-16s kinda a completely implausible combat scenario in a modern world? I’m certain that air-to-air drones are going to be a big part of future defence, but I’m curious to what extent they need to be much more than flying missile launchers. Anyone in the industry have any thoughts?
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Professional athlete unions are a strong counter example. Unions do what their members want them to do.
Exactly. There's no such thing as an average user: https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/01/16/when-us-air-...

If you design your thing for the average user, it won't work well for any user.
This is a bit concerning. I have a Max2 myself, and have been satisfied so far. But it cost a lot, and I don't use it that often, so I was hoping to get 5-6 years of use out of it for the device to be worth the investment...
Did you get any free reparation or replacement?
On the user side, there are security updates. Yes, you can refuse to install OS updates that patch vulnerabilities, but obviously that's a big problem for the user. And eventually the vendor stops providing security updates altogether for the hardware.

On the developer side, you can't really refuse to use the new versions, because they are required to support your software for the latest OS versions, which is where your customers will be. So if you don't, you lose your customers and go out of business, which is not much of a choice.

It's untrue that updates consist of nothing but new features.
Thanks for the article, it provides very good insights.

In the article, there are a couple of passes that mention “benchmarks” where Firefox was faster than Chrome. It sounds like those benchmarks, albeit I assume they were correct, were actually providing a distorted reality of what “fast” actually means, because I distinctly remember people (including myself) switching to Chrome in early days because it was simply objectively faster. It sounds like the existence of those benchmarks have had a net negative on Firefox: it provided a false confidence that the browser was “fast”, and possibly delayed the refactorings that eventually managed to really speed up Firefox again.

You mention that Chrome used “UX tricks” but I assume what this means is that Chrome developers were actually driven by more correct benchmarks: the ones that actually translate to a better experience for the end user.

Since I’m always intrigued by the topic of false benchmarking and how complex it is to do correct benchmarks that don’t fall into traps, I’d love to hear what those benchmarks you mention were measuring, and if you agree that they gave a false assurance to the Firefox team.
Chrome leaks 1 word searches in the address bar, yes.
Apple SSH privacy bug actively “exploited at large” still unpatched
A 2-year old #vulnerability still unpatched by #Apple has been used in SSH attacks for gaining full disk access on Macs.
I’m sorry but no: a 30k salary does not cost the company 80k! It costs around 41k, or 49k if you take into account employee taxes (here is a simulator from the French government: https://entreprise.pole-emploi.fr/cout-salarie/).

« Comité d’entreprise » are for 50+ employees and not 20.

What’s the use in throwing around fake numbers just to make your point?

Even if that sure must be a nice place to live, that is the first time I heard Sophia Antipolis being the « Silicon Valley of France » :) Yes France startup ecosystem is highly polarized around Paris. But hey, just like Silicon Valley right? That’s a very different problem.
Allow me a slight OT, I've just finished cleaning up a simple tool for syncing Zotero with your reMarkable and would love some feedback: https://github.com/martinosorb/zoteroRemarkable

Note that this is a fork of previous work from Oscar Morrison, no copyright infringement intended (I have contacted him).
Oh, man. I'm surprised that card works at all with that wiring. High speed single ended signaling does not do well off-board. Have you done any kind of integrity testing, like writing a GB to the disk and then reading the checksum?

If anyone is looking to do this mod, at least consider using a shielded ribbon cable like so:

https://www.amazon.com/LANMU-Extension-Flexible-Monoprice-Ra...
That's a bit misleading. It's like saying i can blow at a pressure of 16 psi in the void, but when I blow into a balloon whith the atmospheric pressure of the environnement, I can only reach 2 psi. The 16 psi is purely theorical.
This article does not inspire confidence in the matter (in particular the part covering the breaking change introduced in time while one could not decide on package version) but one would expect things to improve with time: https://fasterthanli.me/articles/i-want-off-mr-golangs-wild-...
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No need for reliability when there is 26 way failover...
That is absolutely true, and probably equally true for any other web application that was wasn't maintained for 10-15 years. But this is article is talking about the ability to run older applications, not about safety concerns about doing so.
I just wanted to point out that, while Rails is far from perfect, from a software-archeological perspective there's not really much ground to pick on it. The ruby gem ecosystem (again not perfect) is at least pretty stable in the sense that 10+ year old libraries are readily accessible (as they should be!).
Or it can do nothing of the sort, instead negotiating things like non-competes, options exercise window, etc. See screen writers or actors unions for examples.
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Am asian, born and grew up in Germany. Apart from the very, very occasional dickhead I don't think anyone's racist. Can't make a comparison to the US though.
> Most of them are more than skins. A browser is the interface and whole workflow, not just the way the website is displayed.

The user interface is just minor part of the browser.

Mozilla's mission is to "free the web". Something like that can't be done with slightly sleeker UI on top of monopolistic rendering engine. You need to have an influence on all levels.

> as MS recently found out

I've read it this week in some interview with the FF developers that ever since MS gave up on homegrown Edge engine and adopted Chromium/Blink their voice on the standards committee is weak and lacks clout.

No wonder. It's google who keeps strict control over chromium/blink. MS can discuss, propose, even send PRs, but it's google who will decide what gets in and what doesn't.

> They had no SERIOUS attempt. Well until now at least. They did some half-assed with pocket and now VPN-reselling, but never touched real business.

Well yeah. But it just sounds a bit simplistic to say "just earn that $500 million profits somewhere so you can sponsor your side project Firefox".
Solution found not to work.

Cost of living found to render savings unrealistic for many. Single accident, equipment failure, medical emergency or other such unforseeable found to wipe out meagre savings without warning. Precarious nature of employment market and inadequacy of social protections found to eradicate savings at horrific rate upon losing job, such that they become a countdown to destitution rather than a bridge.

Solution rejected; cannot be broadly implemented without other changes to the system. What else you got?
Ofcourse there are lots of other factors at play, nations with complete government run have all kinds of price controls on the product of health care that results in longer wait times than the US, and in many segments of care worse outcomes, and /or lower quality of care

For example in the US most hospital beds are semi private where only 1 other patent is in the room. Where in many government run hospitals in other nations they was a Ward system where 10,20 or more patents are all lined up in a row. This reduces costs but I prefer our semi private system

US also leads the world in medical research both in new technical, and in drug development largely this has a direct impact on our healthcare costs as well as unlike the rest of the world we do not have the same government mandated price controls. I wonder if US succumb to the pressure and does go full government run with the same price controls what that will do to the advancement of medicine in the world

If you look at a wide range of actual care standards such as Cancer Survivability Rates, Wait times for Specialists, Wait times for things like getting a Heart Stint the US leads the world in health care outcomes. I am sure you will point to the ever misunderstood Life Expectancy and /or infant mortality rates which ARE NOT a proper judge of the health system itself but commentary on other factors in society (such as lifestyle choices)

I believe the free market provides for the best outcomes for the most people, and I believe centrally planned systems be them economic or healthcare provide the worst outcomes. With the free market you may sometimes have breadlines but with centrally planned economies you may sometimes have bread.
No, for companies anything goes because copyright. They are in god mode, farming users.
An aggregate of the previous posts:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23205511

This gets posted very often.

...it has some interesting content, to be fair, but I think there not much left to rehash again.

It hasn’t changed since 2014.
China is building an alternative to GitHub called gitee – would you swap?
The bit I found interesting in this is how they compare and verify that two web pages rendered by different methods "match".

I wonder how you would do that? You can't hash the html. Do you take screenshots and compare?
RSS is basically a synonym for Atom at this point.
> that a malicious resolver could detect this

I assume the reason for changing from a 10 char random string to a 7-14 char random string was exactly because some ISP's were detecting it...
It looks like there's no risk from this now as there are no supernova candidates near enough to have that strong an effect. With stellar drift though. That could change in the course of tens or hundreds of millions of years with stellar drift.

What could we do to mitigate this though. Would enclosed habitats, greenhouses and pastures covered by UV blocking screens be enough to maintain habitability and a sustainable agriculture?
Shouldn't be a problem it the bowls remain dry at intervals before to be refilled.
In the US at least mortgage loans are not callable.
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> Separating security patches from feature updates is better but doesn't 100% guarantee there are no data-losing bugs.

It's a nice thought to separate "security" and "feature" updates, but I'm not sure if its realistically achievable.

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Looking at the bigger picture, I think the issue is that once developers/managers got into the habit of forcing updates on users, it became an excuse for skimping on QA/QC. "If there's any bugs, we can just fix them in the next release". But there's a huge difference between internally finding a bug, analyzing its potential impact, then deciding it isn't a blocker and expecting your users to find bugs for you.
Plenty of other artists will come and give you a concert and want a huge chunk of change for it

> can’t spend that kind of money

Right but this really really isn’t true
As an aside, I have seen magicians arguing that the teleportation effect presented in the prestige would be terrible to do on stage because there is only one logical explanation (you used a double) and thus no mystery.

Paradoxically, the fact that it is the only explanation is the thing that makes it a great effect in the Prestige...
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Yes, highly regulated access with lots of hoop jumping, that's what they said. And there exists a person who has jumped through all the hoops and has that access. And that hoop jumping person ran tcpdump on the root server.
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Google spent money to market Firefox as well. Back in 2005, they'd pay $1 commission per successful install of Firefox with the Google Toolbar included. I don't recall when they cancelled that offer, but it ran for years.
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There is no reason to use Atom. RSS has in practice some specifics like content:encoded and description that are strange at first look, but by now are solved in every reader. So why not just use the standard that works?
>>Why can’t pay taxes to an entity I prefer? Isn’t it a service?

No taxes are not a service. Taxes are a compulsory contribution to state revenue enforced by the threat of violence. One can not simply choose not to consume a service and thus not pay the "taxes" for that service.

The fact is that the government, like a mugger, says to a person: Your money, or your life. And many, if not most, taxes are paid under the compulsion of that threat.

The government does not, indeed, waylay a person in a lonely place, spring upon them from the road side, and, holding a pistol to his head, proceed to rifle his pockets. But the robbery is none the less a robbery on that account; and it is far more dastardly and shameful.

>>If everything is free market, why do we need government?

we do not need the modern "nanny state" central planning style of government, we need a basic frame work of law that is far far far more limited that what most consider the modern government to be and is based on lawful defense of life, liberty and property nothing more.

A person is composed of Life, faculties, & production aka individuality, liberty, & property

Each of us has a natural right to defend their person, their liberty, and their property. These are the three basic requirements of life, and the preservation of any one of them is completely dependent upon the preservation of the other two.

The law is the organization of the natural right of lawful defense. It is the substitution of a common force for individual forces. And this common force is to do only what the individual forces have a natural and lawful right to do: to protect persons, liberties, and properties; to maintain the right of each, and to cause justice to reign over us all.

Since an individual cannot lawfully use force against the person, liberty, or property of another individual, then the common force for the same reason cannot lawfully be used to destroy the person, liberty, or property of individuals or groups.

Governments that are granted more power / authority than the collective organization of lawful defense are unethical in their foundation and purpose
That's exactly what I want: an Emacs for the web. Or enough web-browsing capability built into Emacs to just browse every site in Emacs.

Seriously, though, I want the software I run to obey me, not someone else: not Microsoft, not Apple, not some government on the other side of the world — and not Mozilla. I want to be able to modify its functionality in a straightforward manner, in a reasonably-sane garbage-collected language (so, not C, not C++, not Java and not JavaScript).

I would like to be able to add pull data from sites I visit and plumb it through the rest of my system using something like Plan 9's plumber. I don't want a browser which says, 'sorry, I won't trust you to choose the extensions you like.'
I would suggest that you've had experiences with bad middle managers. I say this all the time, but I only began to appreciate middle management when I became a front-line manager. An effective middle manager makes a whole boat full of people feel secure and strategically focused. They figure out how to leverage the strengths of their front-line managers and senior-level ICs, and how to fill in gaps. They know how to manage upward towards the executive layer, to acquire resources and summarize a great deal of complexity.