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Not to mention that it's a common misconception in technology that a company creates value by shipping increasing complexity to the customer. I.e. "this is what we have built, this is how we know how to extend it with more features, now let's figure out how to sell that."

Starting with an idea and trying to market it is the opposite of what to do. Instead, figure out what problems your potential customers have (by talking to them!) and then set about solving those problems with as little technology and ceremony as possible.

Once you're done with that, your potential customers are practically already lined up, because they were the ones who ordered your solution in the first place.

Edit: The key thing is that in the initial exploration of the problem space, you are not selling anything. Those discussions are all about the potential customer. You have to put yourself into their minds and view yourself from the outside.

They will be really insecure. Both because they are not ready to buy something any time soon, and because they don't want to reveal sensitive information to an arbitrary third party.

You know that you care about them and their business deeply, so it's easy for you to assume that everything you say comes from a good place. They don't know that yet – and worse, they're used to awful salespeople that just want to trick them into buying more complexity – so they will interpret everything you say in the most dismissive way possible. You have to show that you're different and that you're not in it to sell stuff, but that you have a genuine interest in understanding their business, in which they are the expert.

This is seriously hard but something that can be practised.
That's my go-to audiobook player also. I have been using it for years and it never ceases to amaze me. The level of control you reach with it almost makes the audio part more paper like.
Thank you for the tip, I'll to code the algorithm to do it myself. That's great !

On an other note: a tip on iOS and MacOS, when you make a voice recording then you can edit it and activate a feature with the top left wand icon which is going to clear up the sound. When it's a voice recording it's pretty amazing how well it works, in particular to remove the echo.
Its like the playing records backward craze in the 80s and trying to hear as many satanic words as possible
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You’re throwing a lot of hand grenades over the wall but not backing them up with anything.

I can’t tell if it’s trolling, FUD or just ignorance blinded by arrogance.
I love Elixir but i will never advocate Dialyxir for somebody looking for static typing. It's super slow, it's not as powerful and rarely (but sometimes) it rejects programs that are valid.
But bad actors won't use memory-safe languages either ;) The purpose of the sandbox is to keep the damage contained, no matter if this damage was intended or not.
I work with developers and I sometimes joke with them claiming that they’re not “real” developers because they don’t know every function in the standard library and constantly have to look things up. This is such a nonsensical level of expectation on a developer (that they would know all functions by heart) and is also a really dangerous way to work, because it breeds complacency and, in time, deviations from the norm (because the norm changes).

There are many things that perhaps legitimately should make people feel like “impostors” even when they aren’t, but the need to use reference material definitely shouldn’t be one of them.

Unfortunately many people in our business still equate knowledge or competence with “knowing things by heart” which is really unfortunate, because I think at best it tells you very little about the person, and in the worst case you may be hiring someone that through arrogance will make mistakes because they don’t care about double checking crucial parts of their code because they too feel that they “should” know what’s going on.
Gleam[1] is a typed language on the BEAM. It's still in its early days, more so than Rust. May still be worth keeping an eye on. Nim[2] and Crystal[3] also exist. No idea what their web situation is like, but Nim has a JS compile target, that might be interesting.

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It's been obvious for a while that the US is primed for its own Cultural Revolution. It's why I ironically support the various West-Coast separatist movements, because the inevitable communist hell hole created would remind folks how bad life can be. Also ironically, Trump be the US' saving grace from all of this, at least for now.
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Only that they don't have to be Russian. One can be a westerner and still be able to think by itself.

PS: sometimes I'm a Chinese too.
There's no hypocrisy involved with Republicans since they didn't state that all allegations by women should be believed unconditionally. Again, see the Dem comments about Kavanaugh and why they didn't think they needed any evidence to label him a rapist.

As for the misconduct claims on Wikipedia, a lot of them look doubtful.
There is a precedent in the UK. ID cards were introduced during WWII and originally were used for four tasks. By the end of the war and afterwards the scope creep had increased to something like 37. Police were demanding to see Id when driving and it was one motorist (Harry Willcock) who refused and when it came to court the Judge agreed and ID cards were scrapped.

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Thank you! That sounds very manageable. One trick I learned working with non-volatile hazardous material is apiarist suits. They're cheap on Amazon and the screen is enough to remind me that I'm working with stuff that shouldn't touch my face without being suffocating in the California heat. Though I usually put on a pair of latex gloves instead of the apiarist gloves for better mobility and use a water proof phone for less awkward cleaning.

Are there any English language sites/communities dedicated to kintsugi that I should check out?
Counting down to the moment some unicorn SV startup does this, but with WiFi and cloud access =)
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I could have sworn I first read about punji sticks as a kid in the late 1970s when reading a book my grandparents had about WWII.

My memory was that it was an account by a soldier fighting in the Pacific Theater - I think in the Philippines, as resistance against the Japanese. I further seem to recall that it was the US soldiers who made the pit, but I'm less sure about that. And I think it was a Reader's Digest book.

But looking now, I can't find mention of it, other than this second-hand account at https://www.quora.com/What-was-hand-to-hand-combat-like-in-t... .

> My grandfather was a combat medic in the Pacific Theater ... He said his greatest worries about the Japanese wasn’t H2H, but was instead booby traps (punji sticks and trip-wires, in particular), ambushes, and deception. They were great at using every natural and terrain-based advantage, turning the long battles like Okinawa into a literal meat grinder.

Note that I can't find mention of those pits, including in text like "Okinawa - The Last Battle" at https://archive.org/stream/OkinawaTheLastBattle/OkinawaTheLa... which do mention booby traps.

Now, their use in WWII might have gone under a different name, so, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ?
It is usually very easy to tell drakes and ducks apart due to the very colorful plumage of males in many species of duck.

The problem being that drakes shed feathers a few times a year, and the drakes wear the same feathers as the ducks for at least some of the year. However, this is usually outside the mating season, and shouldn't really be a problem.
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' who want to make this a "thing" '

Clearly it is a thing, why pretend otherwise? If this were some extremely small minority, it would not have such widespread cultural influence now. It is a thing.
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Martin Kleppmann applies critical thinking to the claims of NoSQL marketing; I wish I was aware of his work at the time.

I always found it frustrating that the semantics of the word "Consistent" in ACID has nothing to do with the semantics of CAP "Consistency". ACID Consistency refers to integrity constraints while CAP Consistency seems to refer to Cache Coherence across nodes in a cluster. I was a little surprised that Kleppmann uses the idea of "Linearizability" to explain the discrepancy but it does clearly identify the same mistaken assumptions.

I was also frustrated with the NoSQL movement's focus on Partitioned clusters when my intuition was that it was a very rare failure mode. Perhaps we can now return to the metrics of data loss (RPO - Recovery Point Objective) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) since we seem no closer to fully transparent failure recovery.

Regardless, the goal was always to have available and scalable databases that operate on clusters of commodity cloud servers and all of the SQL, NoSQL, and NewSQL solutions have converged around that goal. The transition to cloud computing seems to have been more about NoRAID than NoSQL. Some technologies like LSM-Trees address important use-cases in commodity clusters so maybe we/I shouldn't focus on the truthiness of the original rhetoric.
I'm sure it's (as you say) exoticized or named because it's Japan. I mean over here we have similar things; we have shut-ins but we call them neckbeards, hoarders, recluses or just "people in their parents basement"; we have people that vanish but we've memed them with the "still waiting for dad to return from the gas station for cigarettes 15 years ago", we have "friends for hire" but they're called prostitutes or e-girls, and we have suicide but it's people jumping off bridges instead of hanging themselves in a bamboo forest.

A lot of Japanese things are romanticized by using their Japanese monikers but when you zoom out, it's the same problems, different setting.
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I wish I have seen your post few days ago.

I just finished mending something dear for my mum.

I practiced few techniques on a cheap mug. In order to try out how the end result would look like.

From the photos and scarce info I got something to get me going.

I really don't like how the 'craft' method looks like - cheap western approximation of Kintsugi.

I wanted to get the look of smooth gold surface merging two pieces seamlessly. But also I want the gold line to be visible.

I couldn't really find info on what materials to use to acheive the original Kintsugi look, so I bought few things and started experimenting.

When practicing I noticed that when crack is clean there is barely space for golden seam. Also its hard to align pieces perfectly smooth. So the first thing I did was to file down the cracked edge with diamond file, at angle to preserve lower layers that will make contact and help align the pieces. This makes the crack gap appear larger, it makes it look easier and better looking in my opinion.

I ended up clear quick epoxy, to bind the pieces together. I used small amounts of it. When it was set but not dry i used a scalpel to cut out excess and make a groove in the crack. Then clean up the surface and let it set overnight.

Next I used slow setting clear epoxy mixed 1:1 ish with golden pigment (It was pure titanium oxide). I tried multiple pigments and the pale yellow seems closest to the really gold look. I filled in the gaps carefully making sure its barely above surface of the crack.

After hour or so when the epoxy mixture was gooey I used flat piece of wood with wet paper tissue to even out the surface. I pushed the 'spillovers' into the grove (for cleanup) and move the excess along the surface of the crack.

When that was all done, I clean off the surface next to crack and applied real gold leaf (its not too expensive, mine costed me €3 in total). Gold leaf is pain and I wasted some in the beginning.

The end result looks nice though not as good as the original pictures.

Can you comment on my technique and maybe give some info on traditional materials? Maybe recommended readings?
You say that, but "just" paper is actually becoming pretty rare nowadays in a lot of households and offices.
Ah, I am not sure I did. I do however have a few contacts at CF, which I will use shortly as well. Thanks again for your input!
I get a weekly email with the response times for our plans. For the Pro tier the median response times for the last four weeks have been 31 minutes, 20 minutes, 17 minutes, 19 minutes.

So 8 days is a crazy outlier. Not sure what's happened but if you send me (jgc @ cloudflare DOT com) an email with the ticket # I'll ask the support team to investigate.
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Mallard drakes molt twice a year, taking on the brown plumage of the female sometime after the 5 month mating season.
why is this post not on front-page with 175 points in 1 hour whereas tons of post with barely any traction from 20 hours ago are still there?
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How many people are in your sales team?
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Absolutely not. Almost no one would.
Yes, like the divergence between South vs North Korea in just a few generations.
There are only colours, comrade. Whiteness is not acceptable. Sounds like you need further education.
There isn't, not along the axes GP is talking about. Which makes the "market data" irrelevant.
Sure - that's not the difficult part, in my book. (I use F#, where there's tuple destructuring syntax, so it's easy.) The hard parts are about making sure you can't reuse the token in the wrong context.
It's not a trivial task to implement. There are three stages:

- Speech-to-text. It has to be good, or the text you get back is unusable. Google's and Amazon's services for that will quickly become expensive for large volumes. And you need to mark text with time/position if you want ebook-to-audiobok sync.

- Diff algorithm between generated text and ebook text. Audiobooks are not produced from the same source material as ebooks, and they will have differences. On top of that you get errors and changes by narrators, and errors from speech-to-text. Not trivial if you want high fidelity.

- Figuring out the position in ebook from the diff. Relatively simple.

For ebook-to-audiobook you need to find the position in the speech-to-text conversion, and rewind to the time/position marking in that.

Storytel (disclaimer: I work at Storytel) has quite a few ebooks and audiobooks connected, but doesn't allow you to ingest your own ebooks and audiobooks.
Apple does something similar with their dylib cache but they sadly don't use content-addressable storage.
Thanks for getting in touch. That is indeed a huge discrepancy. Ok, despite saying I wouldn't, I will on this occasion let you know the ticket number, so that you can see your end what's happening. Thanks again.
Do you have significant experience with Java?

Because I shared your views until I started working with it at a good team :-)

As I continued writing botj Java as well as other projects on other stacks Java became less and less annoying until today it is one of my two favorites.
Currently we are a very small team. Only one person handles sales and marketing ( and social media ).
Lending is a business. Lenders defaulting on their loans is just business as usual. It's about as surprising as hearing that water is wet. You have to charge those who pay their loans back more if you want to break even. Shame doesn't compensate for the lost money. It's more of a revenge thing e.g. you borrow money from the mafia and they beat you up.

Riskier lenders are more likely to default so they get a higher interest rate to compensate for the risk. A lot of these people shouldn't be allowed to get a loan they can't pay back in the first place. If you are using an alternative form of collateral such as "social credit" then you are doing so with the intention of making it easier for people to get a loan even when it is certain they can't pay it back with money alone.

The shaming is no longer a result of personal failure. The shaming is now the cause of failure.

Think about it this way. The maximum amount of money you can pay back over 3 years is $3000 but you also have a reputation that is worth paying $500 for to preserve it. So the maximum you can borrow is $3500. The bank will accept the loan but you can't actually get the required amount. From a business perspective the bank is paying your debt in exchange for a very odd form of labor. It's just one step removed from indentured servitude.
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> understandably

That's far from understandable for the majority of commenters in this thread, myself included.
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It looks like they went for a cartoon aesthetic similar to Fairly Odd Parents & co.
Its a philosophy of repairing broken things and in doing so making them a better more interesting more unique and above all personal.

But some people will be satisfied living in plastic houses eating of plastic plates.
True, i hate it when someone thinks Marx wanted the real-world communism of the USSR, his ideas where in fact the opposite. The Communist Party of the USSR where nothing else then the Czarist regime under a different flag, now Russia is a 'Democracy' and again has a Czar.
You can see the same happening here, on HN: this post has been literally hidden from the main page - you won't find it among first 150 entries, despite having relatively high score and number of comments.

I guess moderators hope that if they pretend something does not exist, maybe it will go away.
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Exactly. For the past decade, we have been in a declining economy with no upward mobility for individuals.
So anyone who has money now already has an existing network of suppliers to keep their business running smoothly. They don't need new suppliers.
Those who have money by now don't need your expertise. If you don't have connections by now, you have no chance.

The game of capitalism is over and the results are in. If you're a billionaire, congrats, you won the game!
If you don't have your own successful business, you lost the game!
It's a little misleading to call them "Waitrose eggs". This brand is for sale in Tesco and Morrison's as well, for starters. Someone else did the same stunt of incubating and hatching this brand of duck egg bought from Sainsbury in July of this year.

* http://diazhub.com/australia/animal-lover-takes-home-2-60-bo...

And there was a teenage boy from Sutton Coldfield who did the same stunt back in February 2019.

* https://metro.co.uk/2019/02/19/teenage-boy-hatches-duck-egg-...