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I could not agree more. I fit very much in the "I'll just write the solution myself" camp, but as a product manager at a company that sells enterprise low-code software, you've hit the nail on the head for why people buy these solutions.

Orgs don't buy these solutions because they believe the end result is somehow better than a pro dev team and a proper software project. They buy these solutions because they can't afford to put their pro devs on some use cases, or just simply don't have that kind of staffing on hand.

As an organization grows, the more "spreadsheet apps" there are, the messier things get. It's harder for teams to collaborate with each other. It's harder to replicate success across teams. Pretty soon, everything is SharePoint+Spreadsheet hell.

Even if these low code platforms only provide one thing: a central data store - they've helped immensely. But interestingly (and again, I'm a bit biased due to my role/employer), people can actually make some pretty useful/functional apps.

Often these are apps that would have never been turned into an app otherwise. But the underlying business process benefits greatly.

I've also seen (a small percentage) of these simple apps become full-blown apps managed by dedicated dev teams over time. The problem was validated, and the value realized was so great, that the problem finally got the time of day and a "proper" solution was implemented.

These things can't/won't replace "real" developers any time soon. But they do provide a path to a very under-served segment of knowledge workers.

Personally, I think Microsoft could KILL if they made Excel more robust. I'm not talking MS Access here - I'm talking about a modern, cloud-native app dev platform that is centered on Excel. They already enjoy ubiquity, and they could change the game.

There's a reason that the onboarding experience for most low-code platforms is "Choose a spreadsheet to get started".
It's not that unreasonable. When I am on the road, it can be days between sitting at a desktop. If I can do something on my mobile, I'll do it, or try.

I don't get involved in ad buys.
Microsoft patches one of the most severe bugs ever reported to the company
> Initiated a PayPal chargeback process - PayPal responded: "we’ve determined there was no unauthorized use"

Yep. This is why I avoid PayPal like the plague. I've never heard good things about them.
Whistleblower: Mass Hysterectomies at ICE Facility
I have been using repl.it to teach coding to some high school students. Here is some feedback

1. It would be great if you gave a shell level access to the teacher/paid accounts to manage shared REPLs. When there are 100s of shared URLs to deal with, the UI is very limited to search and find repls.

2. While I understand the need to simplify UI, it is not clear why "Python" REPL comes with a folder view to the left by "Python + PyGames" one doesn't. Similarly shell is only accessible in certain types of REPLs. I understand there some key combination to start shell, but only works some of the time.

3. I had a case of one REPL running an infinite loop - none of us could do anything to terminate it.

4. Once we wrote some code that generated a file. It took us several refresh/logout sequences to make it visible in the file manager - clear support for such use-cases would be helpful.
I just cover it in Legos.
Hi! Thanks for your feedback. I think the Org mailing list has a pretty good record of both useful and polite conversations.

I don't know if the tone of conversations is different on mailing lists vs. web UIs like issues, PRs or code reviews.

As I said in another reply, I guess we can somehow reconcile both worlds by allowing PRs to be sent as patches to a mailing list - I guess https://sr.ht could support something like this (if it does not already).

The thing with the whole "entry barrier" point of people who want Org-mode development to happen on Git(Lab|Hub) is that they miss the point: I don't want more contributions, I want more engaged contributors, more committed support of any kind.

I find emails to be more engaging than emojis on a web interface - and I use both on a daily basis, so perhaps I don't deserve my #okboomer yet :)
"A programming language is a vocabulary and set of grammatical rules for instructing a computer or computing device to perform specific tasks."

A programming langauge is not inherently a programming language due to features it contains but due to it being used to program. A program is "a series of coded software instructions to control the operation of a computer or other machine."

In this way, a PDF file embodies a program that performs specific tasks. A PDF file does not contain a general purpose programming language, but it does contain the page description language of the output format that describes what is to be imaged. Then, the PDF program is given to an interpreter that displays the output.

This is the same as a simple program in turtle graphics to display a rectangle, even if no other language feature was used. In such a case, one would say that rectangle was programmed. We would not use the word program in connection with that turtle graphics program, if the rectangle description were not sent to an interpreter that displayed the rectangle.
I swear that, at one point, the Cygnet was included "free" with the purchase of another Aston, maybe the V12 Vanquish or DBS, in an effort to improve the company's emissions average. I remember this being in the news back when the Cygnet was released, but I can't find any references to this anywhere.
A ROM being "rooted" in the Android context has a very specific meaning: Namely, apps can simply request root access and, boom!, they will have it after the mere tap of a button. (It should be obvious that for security reasons this is not something that should be available to everyone and their grandpa.)

So no, I don't see a contradiction here. For instance, I'm running LineageOS on my one phone and stock Android without GApps on my other, so in both cases I'd say I have full control over what's running on my phone. But neither of my phones is rooted.
Betteridge's law of headlines[0] strikes again!

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
Not blaming you at all, but a good tip is to look at the number of “likes” a page has and see if it sounds reasonable. Definitely not foolproof though.
Ah, I wasn’t aware of that distinction.
I’ve introduced REPL.it into my new job as a teacher, this year.

It is utterly transformative.

Multiplayer, in a COVID classroom, means I can easily help any pupil without having to PPE-up and break into their bubble. At the start of every class I post a google quiz whose sole question is “what is your REPL multiplayer link for this class?”.

I haven’t used many of the other school features for REPL.it. I can think of a few I’d love to see.

Packages are so easy to install. A pupil today told me they’d not really had any luck with their coursework because they couldn’t install textract. A few clicks and they had a poetry enabled repl with textract read to go.

REPL.it has brought about a quantum leap in the way we are working with pupils. It is the epitome of how frictionlessness can make an enormous difference.
The end goal is to move the IDE and all development tooling to the cloud (similar to what GitHub Codespaces is trying to do). All editor defaults, build tools, linting, environment best practices, etc will be provided for you without all the ceremony of setting it up. This will make it easier for new team members to be productive from day 1 and it will allow you to have multiple development environments for each branch of work.

The realization is that if you control the development environment, by introducing seamless integrations with your hosting through things like easy-to-use databases (i.e. vendor lock-in), you also have control over the hosting of applications. That's a pretty lucrative business as we've seen with AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.

Also, there's a trend towards low code/no code, so everything is becoming tiny microservices integrated with other SaaS solutions. Something like Repl.it can help you with the "last mile" of development work when you need build something lightweight and quick.
Paper would be my candidate. Being able to store huge amounts of information in thousands of books in a room transformed human societies much more than antibiotics did.

How the humans invented something so incredibly useful? Most probably after watching "useless" social wasps to mash bark to make its nests.
Founder of RudderStack here. Totally agree that data warehouse is messy but marketing systems are way more messier. In my previous startup, we did a bunch of Marketo implementation and issues I ran into

1) generating a simple report (like how many people came to your website and then opened your emails in last 1 yr) used to take for ever. Storing data was costly.

2) You could not generate complicated reports, say combining marketing + product data (e.g. number of people who came through campaign X and did used the product)

3) You were stuck with their not-so-great UI.

4) Analytics is one use case. Segmentation is another. If you want to create a segment of users (e.g. customers using the free tier of your product and have become active in last 7 days) and sync that segment to multiple destinations like email, salesforce etc, there is not a great way to do that from all the marketing systems.

On the other hand, if you can get all the data in your warehouse, you can use the best of breed tools for storage (Snowflake etc), Visualization (Looker/ChartIO/Tableau) and so on.

But you would need a product like Segment, RudderStack (and now Grouparoo) to get the data into the warehouse and sync it from warehouse back to different destinations.
What will happen to prices of scarce resources (e.g. single family homes) when everyone's spending power goes up by the same amount?
Those multiple levels have proved very powerful. When the big earthquakes hit Japan industry all over the world was quickly able to figure out parts of the supply chain was most critical, vs what could be sourced elsewhere. (as I recall all the pure silicon for chips is made in Japan, so those factories were given all the electricity needed, while other factories that had competition elsewhere had to wait to get the limited power left). Companies that had their suppliers traced out that far were able to work stay in production much longer than those that didn't find out until months latter when things got through all the levels.
Every now and then I catch myself not doing this but by and large I always type out URLs for ads/emailed links by hand. It takes out a lot of the attack surface for me, and it looks like in this case it would have worked.
Unrelated, but it's also an alternative access to YouTube:

https://invidio.us/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exorbitant_privilege "In France, it was called "America's exorbitant privilege"[2] as it resulted in an "asymmetric financial system" where foreigners "see themselves supporting American living standards and subsidizing American multinationals". As American economist Barry Eichengreen summarized: "It costs only a few cents for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to produce a $100 bill, but other countries had to pony up $100 of actual goods in order to obtain one.""
That happened in the midst of Brexit and it feels like it was over before it began for the public.

It’s relatively dismissive of the past to imply that it was not a lamented loss at the time, but it was a loss we learned of after the fact- not before it.

This is the earliest indication I can find:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12112850

That was the same day the acquisition completed.
If the cofounder of ARM wanted it to stay a British owned company, why did they let it go public in the first place? And then did they make the same case when it was bought by Softbank?

"If you do not make Arm a British owned company again with a Golden Share for national economic security, history will remember you as the person who, when the chips are down, failed to act in the national interest."

And then they blame this on the Prime Minister?
Unusual Features of the SARS-CoV-2 Genome
Further up someone says a private investor should have done due diligence. My point is before it went public, Nikola was private, and someone should have done the DD.
That is the point of problem #1: if you are an average joe, not tightly connected to certain areas, where money is usually found, then this severely limits your potential scope.
I used to live in the UK, and as a messy teenager my room wasn't the neatest...
Apple takes it more seriously than the Windows teams do, sure.

That's not to say Apple is perfect. Their "root"/"" login bypass zero-day was absolutely unacceptable, even compared with Microsoft's problems.

Other than that, I'd trust an Apple device over a windows device any day of the week.
Exactly, do something as long as you enjoy it. Once you get bored of it put it away for a while. I have many many projects some of which may never get finished but once in a while I enjoy working on them.
What pain points would it have saved to write the scientific paper in org-mode? Usually there's a dozen dirty little corners where you want fine-grained control and the org-mode-to-latex converter isn't giving you that by default.

I once wrote a short report that I (probably) could also have written in (any equivalent of) Word or LyX/TeXmacs, or some random WISYWIG editor. Very little finetuning of the layout required or necessary, people still liked it better than plaintext (it had some headlines and tables and stuff, but nothing too fancy). So, nice output yes but be careful if what you need is actual LaTeX document preparation.
It took me a moment to realise that this was a play of words on "Nvidia".
If you can network it, the obvious next step is to make a spec racing series and now you've got great marketing for Aston Martin and COVID-friendly entertainment that can be streamed or aired on cable channels.
The traditional relational model is very focused on mutable data and normalization. Different types would be categorized in separate columns. So this idea would run counter to "best practice" and need something foundational behind it, which would be just enough out of scope for a traditionally typed relational datastore.
Maybe this is just another way of saying the underlying theories are different, or covering different areas of computation and storage.
So the prevailing wisdom is to not expose type complexity explicitly to clients, but just export the inherent problem implicitly.
I thought about the same thing.

I see the point if there is a market but the brand is strong and there will be people who will buy that (not me).
Great product, couldn't resist sharing on Twitter
https://twitter.com/shacrw_/status/1305602760491053057
Right, but when you're shorting this stock you're assigning a deadline to this prediction. And a pretty aggressive one - I assume your expiration is before the election, otherwise you're essentially buying election IV.
I really wish they'd merge their Clojure pull request

The performance of that REPL really bombed maybe a year ago now I've had to stop using it or recommending it
Precisely. The moment that happened, the basis of ARMs business model was to generate returns for SoftBank. Nothing else.
The idea that these regions may contain life (and the observations that suggest this) predate those probes.

That doesn’t rule out a ‘contamination’. But considering this is just another observation in a long line of interesting data I think makes it less likely.
This article rings true to me.

In particular I've noticed a steady stream of woke articles being pushed my way despite me having little interest in that sort of thing.

These things are supposed to be fed by our preferences, but while I'm happy to read across the board brow-wise, most of my reading is of the deeper articles and yet genuinely intellectual essays are rarely offered up.

It's frustrating as a reader, and interesting to hear about it from the view of the writer.
I'm not sure how overlays are exposed in the Quadro drivers. Here's an old Nvidia doc talking about it: https://web.archive.org/web/20180926212259/https://www.nvidi...

I guess it's possible that their overlay support is limited and not fully equivalent to more modern overlays. It's tough to tell for sure from that description. But even if so, the price discrimination aspect may still have stopped them from wanting to implement a more capable feature and expose it in the GeForce drivers.

Edit: This documentation suggests it's limited to 16 bit color and 1 bit transparency. http://http.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/100.14.19/...
Fighter pilot says UFO he chased in 2004 committed 'act of war'
I wondered the same thing. Isn't it already a Japanese company now via Softbank? Can the UK actually halt this transaction in any way?
Wonder what would have been the headline if it were Trump's campaign app
>And pardon me for saying this, but part of me is ever so slightly disappointed Covid-19 is not a lot more deadly. I am a terrible person.

I suspect that if it was a lot more deadly, it would have triggered a stronger government response (at least in the U.S.) and ultimately killed fewer people.

Then again, I've repeatedly underestimated just how incompetent this administration could be.
Nice! I recently wrote a blog article about home-hosting on a RPI4 using kubernetes (https://kubesail.com/blog/k3s-raspberry-pi).

Such a bright future in home-hosting - really looking forward to seeing the movement grow! The https://www.linuxserver.io/ community is pretty great re: home-hosting apps as well.
For what I understand in the docs, in postgres at least, VARCHAR and TEXT are the same thing, and CHAR actually has the performance hit.
Me too! (You might also appreciate the FX show "The Americans" that's set in that era and area. One of the kids on that show had the exact same Star Wars blanket as I did!)

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-STAR-WARS-Blanket-Throw-197...

The "Life in the Universe" exhibit was on the first floor of the West wing, from July 1, 1976 through March 1, 1979:

https://www.si.edu/exhibitions/life-universe-event-exhib-346...

It also featured the original "Powers of Ten" movie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0

And they had a cool interactive "Pick-a-Star" display that let you press buttons to select hypothetical planetary systems and extraterrestrial life forms:

https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/museums-smiths...

Did you ever see the "Person to Person" Telephone Exhibit in the History and Technology museum? My mom was a docent at the Electricity Discovery Corner, right next to that. So we'd go to the museums every Saturday!

https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_sic_955

More photos of the "Life in the Universe" exhibit (it was cool and dark and really great place to hang out if you were stoned):

https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/museums-smiths...

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I think you are correct. I do everything personal in org-mode, but I switch to manual if the doc ends up being shared. Heck, I even elect to use google doc if I have at least one collaborator.
The poor coding is one thing, but it's javascript's fault that layers of complexity inherently result in performance losses beyond those caused by leaky abstractions.
evil mode in emacs and you can have both and more.
I think that’s probably reasonable. Fortunately, AUCTEX mode works well for latex so the main loss is org’s document structure management and maybe syntax. I don’t know if there’s a way to get that in AUCTEX
If you want an 8800 you can use to measure things, check out the Digirule 2. An entire 8800. In a ruler.
I also recall a science fiction take on the theme. It was a short story by Stanisław Lem. There's this mad scientist named Decantor, who killed / immortalized his wife by copying her mind onto an indestructible crystal.

The consciousness persists and the mind keeps on thinking, and it can't die - it's virtually immortal. That's the extra twist here. So, it's capable of surviving for millions of years, likely outliving all life on the planet etc., but at the same time deprived of all senses and cut off from the external world. Even an escape into insanity is impossible (since, I assume, there's no biochemistry that could get out of balance).

The horrified narrator considers it as the worst torment imaginable, whereas Decantor can't see it, as immortality - he points out - has always been humanity's most profound longing.
I didn't notice it the first time I looked either :-(

Bad spelling and grammar used to be a great indicator of something being amiss, but the volume of it in legit business these days has made me so desensitized that I didn't even blink at this one.
This is awesome, although I'm not a fan of the mirrors. Why didn't you take out the other door?
Ask HN: What's the easiest way to code one app and export to iOS and Android?
I don't really get the point. Money is found everywhere, people are always willing to pay money to improve their life. Also, does it matter if it's B2B or B2C if it can be successful and earn you a living with the same amount of effort?
Aren't those small mistakes on purpose? To ensnare users who miss obvious signs of fraud? I know that's a proven tactic for phishing/email scams.
I was actually wondering if ARM would have been harder to sell under the EU market rule... We'll never know, I guess.
Were they public or private at the time?

(Because if they were public, that would be a problem...)
https://bradsprojects.com/digirule2/
Windows 1.0 was released in 1987. Powershell didn't exist until 2006 after Microsoft had promoted a succession of other tech for 19 years including building their own development tools designed to make building guis easy.

It would also be hard for anyone to mistake powershell or a replacement for existing tools.
Two things surprised me here:

1. What does HR know about running an agile IT department? Why would they second-guess your decision on who to hire?

2. One of HR's biggest responsibilities is to protect the company from lawsuits. If HR itself has a bias against older employees, that would indicate that they're not even qualified to perform their own job, let alone tell the IT department how to do theirs.
One thing to watch out for when doing something like this is that the Raspberry Pi will by default put your file system on the SD card it boots from. SD cards aren't meant to support a lot of write/erase cycles, so it's easy to end up with a corrupt SD card after a few months to a year depending on what you're doing on your Pi.

A workaround that can save you some headaches here is to only boot from the SD card (which means you're effectively only ever reading from the card), and then mount a filesystem on an external SSD drive. There are a couple of good guides here [1] [2].

[1]: https://www.stewright.me/2019/10/run-raspbian-from-a-usb-or-...

[2]: https://www.pragmaticlinux.com/2020/08/move-the-raspberry-pi...