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Ask HN: Google Drive/Office 365 alternatives
My partner runs a small charity in the UK whose office infrastructure is based on Google Drive. (Sheets, spreadsheets, email, etc). Her trustees are advising that since Google cannot guarantee that her data is being stored in the UK (apparently?), they need to migrate. Like seemingly every organisation these days, they're looking at MS Office 365. But having a partner with GNU and emacs stickers all over their laptop, she's wondering what alternatives are out there. It'd need to be low (or better no) maintenance, comparable in cost to Office 365 and quality too. It could be web-hosted or based on Next/OwnCloud or something, as long as it works without a load of pain points. Oh and UK-hosted too. I assume others here must have thought this through already, so thought I'd ask the hivemind!
> Fun Fact: the word for "capital" derives from "cattle"

"cheptel" (french) / cattle / capital seem to derive from "caput" / "capita" latin for head(s)
> Free range is definitely not what a person would think of free range.

Yup, it's a scam. Deceptive marketing.

What people think of as free range they'll find if they buy "pastured eggs" (in Australia at least).
An erlang BitTorrent client exists: https://github.com/jlouis/etorrent
Compare the colors: http://davidjohnstone.net/pages/lch-lab-colour-gradient-pick...

Doesn't the one with 54 chromacity appear much brighter to you than the one with a chomacity of 30?
And thus you invented government. As soon as you have an independent third party deciding who is right, that's your judicial branch. And then you will need the police to enforce the decisions of that judge/referee.

And then when you start having insane judges who rule that raping a child is perfectly fine, you will want to stop it, and thus you will invent your standardized laws.
Hey, how do you study Danish in England? Need it for my kid.
I think minecraft got succesful because of youtibe videos explaining it.
> Our farmers work hard to ensure ducks and drakes are separated correctly. As a result of this difficulty in sexing, a male white-feathered duck may very occasionally be left with a group of females, although, these instances are extremely rare.

I assumed that the issue was with the scale of duck farming; small independent farmers do not have the scale to separate the male(s). If true, a rogue drake is a more interesting scenario that can be considered an unintentional experiment in (un)natural selection.
There are no strict definitions, different companies do it differently, have different requirements and role descriptions. Usually the path is junior -> no prefix -> senior -> staff/lead -> principal (some companies have only the first 3/4, then only management above).

One good source I found is gov.uk site: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/software-developer
I've heard the reasoning, it just sounds like utter nonsense.

> when there isn't those built hierarchies bad/selfish people don't amass power

This is where the reasoning falls apart. What stops them from amassing power?

The responses to this question always sound really convoluted and 'reach-y', ala, "people just won't, like, do that, maaaan!" or "others will stop them, in a completely non-hierarchal way without any explicit use of force".

There are TONS of situations in real life where people are nominally equal, but in practice hideously unequal. The way anarchists talk just reminds me of what some feminist movements discovered in the twentieth century: removing explicit power structures and hierarchies didn't put everyone on equal terms, it just made the power differences less transparent and regulatable.

Of course, anarchists are free to say whatever they want: the very fact that there basically haven't been any state-equivalent anarchist communities existing for a long time in recent memory means they're free to theorycraft to their heart's content. You don't have to grapple with any flaws if your system doesn't actually exist.
At my work the guy who wrote pretty much all of the code can fix stuff far faster than me. But then it's not documented, not tested and he is really unhelpful at explaining it to others. Is that really a 10x engineer, when the fact others have difficult is down to the way he works?
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The first chapter is on Egan's site: https://www.gregegan.net/DIASPORA/01/Orphanogenesis.html
In regular 2D games most pixels are simply drawn, based on a sprite or texture. Think Super Mario, each block of ground is a sprite, each coin box is a sprite.

The sprites might be drawn based on more or less involved simulation, think the mushrooms that move and change direction when they hit an obstacle. But the pixels making up the mushroom is just drawn based on the mushrooms location, same as always.

In Noita you can think of each pixel on screen as being a 1x1 sprite. Each one simulated.
Certain aspects of nature can be modeled extremely well with simple formulae.

Orbits are damn close to perfect ellipses.

Likewise, human perception of color luminance could be represented by a simple model where cross-human perceptual variation results in a damn close to perfect sphere.

Just like the actual orbital parameters for a given body are described by a few constants derived from observation, the actual human perceptual parameters (such as the constants in the CIE model) are likewise derived through observation.
But then the Horse kicks into the wrong direction.
I’ve never been in your exact position and won’t claim to be an expert but I have a fair bit of sales experience and a few close friends who’ve started their own businesses. One thing that stood out to me is that if I were to stumble across your website I’d have no idea what you’re actually providing or looking to provide. It could easily be my personal lack of healthcare industry knowledge and not an issue for your target market. My advice would be not to try and rethink the strategy that seems I see as “if you have a tech need in the medical field, we can handle it” and create something specific. Find a specific problem, create something that solves it, and sell that. Once you have customers for that you can move on to try and grow your business with them. The other big thing is with a field with such sensitive data as the medical field, you need to establish some level of trust and a relationship before a business like a hospital is going to take a gamble like that.
Funnily, the reverse is not true:

You can write the worst code, build the worst apps, and design the most terrible UX, but if you can market your business and sell to people you can still make money.
4thbase.io seems available....
I've seen people post photos of these kind of messages along with their 5-star reviews. Once I actually bothered to report it to Amazon (I was about to buy the damn thing until I noticed the image.)

The customer support person seemed genuinely confused - the conversation went back and forth a few times; "We can see that you haven't bought this product", "No, but I'm reporting a problem", "We cannot give you a refund if you didn't purchase it", "I don't want a refund, but this is apparently against your seller ToS", etc. I gave up.

These days I won't buy anything from 3rd-party sellers, and I ignore all 5-star reviews.
It must be a language thing but the oxymoron of "smaller town" strikes me as a very odd thing to say. I'm sure you use it to mean "smaller city" because according wikipedia a town has a population of around 5000 people. So when people think of a smaller town they may think of a place with a few hundred people.

Now lets cut to the chase. With the exception of the top 40 cities in Germany every other city has a population of less than 200k people. Unless you go to those 40 places which represent roughly 25% of the population the rest of Germany is nothing but "small cities".
Deterministic, as in "situation normal, everything is broken"?
I have not been able to find a community. In larger cities you may be able to find a teacher. I found individuals who helped me and a person in Boston. Japanese swords use urushi so you may find some resources among those groups who build those.
I should clarify: by "thing" I mean "see this is why the [minority] are anti american. lets punish them for not being grateful"

I strongly suspect that this decision was not made by someone from the affected minority, so it seems unfair for them to shoulder the blame.
No, it takes the majority to constantly validate these intentional or maybe ignorant dickheads.

A few complaints should not be able to make a university give in/up. They do so because there is a big group amplifying the outrage.
Thinking of Powerline or PoE!
Ask HN: Where are the wholesome jobs in IT? (e.g. like Emergency Responders)
As a kid, I wanted to be an ambulance driver or a AAA Roadside Assistance. I grew up around computers and became a Software Engineer instead. I'm okay at it and it pays the bills.

I have no idea if it was car accident I had last year (I got away okay with some physiotherapy) or being "stuck" working from home due to the pandemic, but it got me thinking I wanted to do more with my life.

I brainstormed with the idea to apply at the local emergency services (ambulance) with the intention to work there one day in the week (I would even consider volunteering). But they had stacks of applicants already waiting to help (even for next year). I honestly was pretty saddened by it and now I'm a bit clueless.. I've worked in home automation, apps and e-commerce, but those industries are failing to fill a void in me for a long time now. Its starting to bring me down more and more going into my 30s; I don't want to important, but I want to be significant.

I've browsed through YCs Startup Jobs eager to find a wholesome Job but I haven't found yet. Is there such a thing? Where can one find one?
This mirrors some other Debian/Ubuntu package names where:

- "Good" plugins/codecs are ones that are freely distributable, FOSS and well maintained.

- "Bad" are ones that are not up to par quality wise (messy code, no code reviews, no documentation, ugly hacks, etc.)

- "Ugly" are the ones that might not be legally distributable in some world countries due to patents or licenses.
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Both parties were getting out of the TPP, because a deal was made that helped the rich but ‘hurt’ China.
You should ask for referrals and you should also ask if you can use them as a case study for your website. After referrals and case studies you should probably divide your time between sales calls, cold emails and content marketing, i.e. white papers on technical topics, blog posts, short videos on your topic of expertise. Better badly produced videos that a potential customer can find than planned well produced ones they can’t find. If you’re confident enough in your skills as a trainer giving classes/courses in person is a wonderful way to build a name and helps a great deal with the book. It is very good to have a book you authored on the topic, even if it is a slim book. Slim books can be the basis for expensive courses, which both make money and serve as advertising.
The overlap between K8s and BEAM is a good question. Even amongst experienced BEAM (especially Erlang) programmers, there's a lot of conflicting information.
From my limited understanding, Kubernetes is comparatively complicated, and can hamstring BEAM instances with port restrictions.

On the other hand, there's a rarely documented soft limit on communication between BEAM nodes (informally, circa 70 units, IIRC). Above this limit, you have to make plans based on sub-clusters of nodes, though I have certainly not worked at that level of complexity.

Would be interesting to hear what other people think about this specific subject.
Your views of a “spectator sport” might be skewed by Nascar or other good for tv Americanized sports with plenty of scoring and announcer drama. On-TV cycling is a “hang” and on the side of the road even more.
We can go back and forth about this, but political feelings aside, although Taiwan acts like an independent state and has its own government, no important independent state treats it like an independent state, including the US. Donald Trump is the first president in four decades to even send a cabinet-level official to Taiwan when Alex Azar went to visit last month. It is what it is. Whether you like it or not, no important country has official diplomatic relations with Taiwan because they've all agreed to the One China policy. It is partially because of this One China policy that Taiwan's economy has deteriorated so much, they are not on equal footing with other countries in being able to develop trade agreements with other nations. China has them boxed in.
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This is good advice. When you are just two people doing consulting services then you need to do your own sales probably starting with a bunch of cold calls.
You'll have to check with their support about how the location is selected, but https://zoho.eu exists and I'm happy with their services.

I'd check the specific requirements though. Even DPA doesn't really require hosting in the UK, but UK or country with matching privacy requirements, which in most cases means whole EU is ok.
It's easy to become a senior software engineer, anyone can do it with these simple steps:

1. Open an index.html, include a javascript file and write an alert or console log.

2. Create your own company.

3. Title yourself as a senior software engineer.

Joke aside, during my career I've met several senior software engineers that are anything but and several "normal devs" that are a lot better than most people who have the senior title, even in the same organisation.

I don't think titles has anything to do with knowledge, rather it does have a lot more to do with whatever position you're given and that position could be given to you for a number of reasons. This is what has lead me to my belief that titles are unnecessary cruft that takes focus away from other more meaningful endeavors.
> We’re mad that they keep trying to rule over us.

Pot, meet kettle [not you specifically, but what you refer to as hinterland-dwellers]. Backing up Thomas's point, in another comment, about Illinois regulating handguns: Here in Texas, the rural-dominated (GOP) state government is all about "local control" — until it comes to our big cities' doing things that they don't like, such as enacting plastic-bag bans, installing red-light cameras, banning fracking within city limits, or, most recently, imposing COVID-19-related mandates. The attitude seems to be, "You're not the boss of us — but we get to tell you what to do whenever we wish."
Educated Millennials are triggered by communism due to the horror it spread in terms of body count.
Where does one draw the line between magic and a lack of user understanding? I never got this argument. Isn't magic you as a user not understanding how it works? I mean, classes in c are pretty magic, the this pointer is magic. Type checking, loops, trampoline jumps. A car is pretty much magic yet people use it every day.

Is it magic when it does something convenient for you based on conventions without you writing the steps? As long as 'magic' is clearly explained in the docs I don't see how it's different from a layer of abstraction like a compiler or a car.
Soldering those is forbidden here nowadays. Has to be crimped with a metal jacket around the ends.
Which means that table turning is not a universal solution to the problem. It might work, it might not.
There are pretty solid legal requirements for describing an egg as "free range" within the EU (or UK), which are clear on things like the stocking density, access to outdoor space etc.

I don't think there is any reasonable basis for your view that this is "nothing more than branding".
Ahhh, I stand corrected :)

Sometimes Foone's threads go on so long that twitter UI just gives up on linking them, or so it seems.
How to get clients.

Or put another way, how to have a business.

The hardest question of all.

As Paul Graham says sell something people want.
Well, it does.

If you can warranty high availability (by other means) then you can focus on consistency.

It also says that you should design your data so that becoming partitioned is not a problem.
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I've edited my message, the European standard is not that bad actually, 4 square meter per hen of external space.

Australian regulations seem to be a joke though.
I use a combination of Sleep as Android, Tasker, and my Pebble smartwatch to detect roughly when I fall asleep and issue a system-wide media pause signal.
Like how Open "Telecom" Platform can't make calls to your mobile or doesn't support 5G?
XD ;p
That doesn't sound right to me. Note that four-force is a generic concept not limited to electromagnetism. Current is the source term of Maxwell's equations, which connect it to the potential via the d'Alembert operator.
While it’s not impossible. I find it hard to believe anyone could become senior (in terms of actual skill) in two years.
Bear in mind that there is massive variation globally. US "free range" is pretty much a scam, yes; EU rules are pretty clear.
That is an option, but that person could walk away at any moment and you'd be left with no one in the business who has relationships with the companies or people that you build things for. That represents a high level of risk. Ideally you need someone at a founder level who will maintain those relationships. For most tech startups that means one or more of the technical people is going to have to take a step back from technical work and move more in to marketing and networking.

When I hear founders talk about starting companies so they can "give up the 9-5 grind" and "spend more time coding and less time in 'pointless' meetings" I hear alarm bells. Someone in the business has to actively enjoy meeting customers and discussing what they need for any tech company to succeed.
Climate also reflects on the level of available grass that the herders had to take into account when deciding where to move. Europe receives smaller quantities of precipitation as one goes from west to east, and then Europe's lush vegetation transitions into steppes and harsher climate beyond Volga region (Europe-Asia border). It must have been a tough call to decide to go eastward, and from what history tells us, that herders chose to migrate westward, not the other way around.
I still remember when Red Faction: Guerilla was hyped up as an amazing feat because it had destructible environment and they promised you could use physics and destruction to pass missions in unusual ways. Sadly, it turned out to be, as it usually is, severely limited by the technical side of things.
Hey there, just giving food for thought - the closest i've worked with healthcare marketing was media buying for big pharma.

This is your website claim.

>Reimagining Healthcare & Digitizing Businesses

>Comprehensive Healthcare Solutions and Integrations with FHIR, HL7 and SMART Digitizing Businesses through Cloud, Mobile, and Automation.

But since you have this insight from your customers:

>The clients we started with are online nutritionist and dietitian providers. The had to integrate with FHIR to get referrals from other medical practitioners.

Wouldn't it be better to point that you're helping healthcare businesses get more referrals by making them integrated with standards?

Something like:

>We will help your healthcare business generate more referrals

>By setting you up to standard integrations - FHIR, HL7 and SMART - and make you more effective with Automation, Cloud and Mobile.

This was just something I thought quickly, the point is to show how you've added value to other businesses. This is closer to their reality, just like you, they might be struggling to get referrals and their lack of integrations could be costing them business.

Good luck :)
Are Haskell selling points being slowly but surely acquired by rival languages?
So is the only way for two-player to... you know
If I start my own company, I’ll be the Supreme and Exalted Overlord. Not something silly like a senior dev.
I was a bit worried about the title saying "Senior Software Engineer" because this may trigger people.

But, surprised that all the discussions are about this, instead of the content.
Junior/No-prefix: In their first job. You will routinely get promoted from junior to "normal" whilst remaining at the company.

Senior: Second or third job change.

Staff: That one person who has been at the company forever.

Principal: We're an enormous engineering org and need to have a treadmill so we don't lose our people but can't just give them payrises. Most titles also have multiple levels.
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I wonder whether this would've had the same effect if he had said it in a classroom instead of an online video lecture.
Only if the code interpreting the color change is reliable.
Are there any NCS-based web tools for generating such a palette? The "official" tool is... bad.
Yep... I didn't mean so much "it's been associated with certain people" as it's been demonized from the start.

I think there's a difference between honest people saying honest things - even if those things are incorrect or not fully justified - and people with a history of dog-whistling and flat-out repugnant behaviour using it as a get-out-of-jail-free card.

And there is language on both sides that get this treatment - for example "gaslighting" or "racist", both can be used by vile individuals who would use their power to divert from lies and bad behaviour. But if the term has a good head-start, before its more controversial uses, it's more likely to have benevolent connotations in people's heads, and is less likely to be labelled a "hate-word" from the start.

So while I think that cancel-culture may make a genuine point, unfortunately that word was saddled with baggage from the start, and may never mean what you want it to mean again. As is often the case, we need not just better words, but words with a better history.
> so now if your first name server ever fails to resolve, it will switch the second and not switch back (unless it also fails)

Exactly as it should.

> This causes all sorts of issues with private DNS servers on lans, VPCs, and VPNs where you want a failover to a public DNS while resolving.

This is broken; you should have per-interface defined DNS. For internal lans, vpns et cetera you can define which zones these DNS servers handle. For public resolvers (designated with handling the ~. zone), just having multiple entries provides the fallback you want.
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If you don't want to pay $12 for a GUI nor use Docker:

1. This tool can be used to extract your encryption keys: https://github.com/inAudible-NG/audible-activator

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Tbh, I feel comfortable writing Elixir and dealing with OTP. But while I find Plug and Ecto to be very interesting projects, I've not touched Phoenix at all. I just didn't feel the need.
This person has been promote one level up from the new grad level. Not exactly what I would describe as senior
I'll be honest, these kind of "thinkpieces" are usually full of generic bullshit but this one was actually interesting. So if you're like me, don't let the title put you off and read it.
No one knows what the skill threshold is anyway, so it's all made up depending on who you can convince.
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