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I don't know who/what "happymag" is (took too long to load so I gave up) or where they ranked yesterday but they're now the second result (after the link you posted) for BBC sound effects. The power of HN?

Judging by the date I guessed this has probably been submitted before, and it has, with similar discussion about the license/licence which renders it pretty much useless (something I've noticed before about the BBC when searching for free to use sound effects):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16864050

Particularly disappointing for an organization funded by the public to the tune of around five billion US dollars every year and when the sound effects themselves, while being interesting and potentially useful, are now ancient.

Edit: curious why this is downvoted. I thought it was interesting that being on HN might have such a drastic result on "SEO"; I posted a link to a previous discussion people might find interesting (it must be, since someone else also subsequently posted the same link); and I expressed the view that it's disappointing a very well funded public broadcaster couldn't release with fewer restrictions material that is ~35+ years old. Doesn't seem particularly controversial to me.
It's simple compared to other solutions I found when writing the article, in my opinion (while I wasn't the one who put "simple" in the title here, my original title is different).

Anyway, take a look at the "Instructions in Short" section (I just added a button at the article beginning to jump to that section). You only have to fill in a few blanks (probably just copying from a wg-quick file you already have), add a few lines to your docker-compose file and then run docker compose up.

I think that's somwhat simple enough for a non-trivial task. I might write a script to do that automatically in the future (somebody in the article's discussion asked for that, by the way).
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The author still wants Apple to ban software for everyone on the whole world - Americans, Indians, young people, old people just to conform to their ideas of what their children are supposed to consume. Whole world and everyone.

They're not calling for a separate play store, restricted subsection - but they want every single person to be limited so they don't have to be careful about what exactly their child might accidentally download.

This is the epitome of the worst "think of the children" argument.
Touching to see some sounds that have probably almost become extinct, like the sound of 8mm film projectors.
Always a good advice but I wouldn't worry about MSFT going after downloaders of Windows XP source code. If it was about Windows 10 or even Windows 7 then maybe, but I don't think they care much that this is out in the open.
If you want people to accept forced updates, just send the security fixes. Don't change the UI and don't mess with the users preferences, especially concerning privacy.
Telemetrics are frequently inaccurate, sometimes to the point they paint a picture are interpreted in a a way that’s the opposite of reality. Windows telemetry in particular is not nice because it’s not really possible to turn off on the lower editions and it also does not seem to translate to benefits–especially as around the time of its inclusion word got out that Microsoft was cutting a large portion of their QA team.
You can also use any bluetooth controller and Xbox One with Luna it says. And the Fire TV stick 4k is 25$ right now.

So it does seem there are lower entry options for TV use.
Welcome to the world of software development of opinionated als. Now, I have read anything from the maintainer so I am not sure if he/she fits the bill but I think entire SWE should consider this sort of behaviour as a problem and create systematics interventions to stop it.
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I'm a scrum master, but I'm happy to not do daily standups anymore. I prefer to work harder on todos and concepts and enabling teams to do their work written without talking.
That's probably an accurate take. I agree, your average internet user isn't likely to configure their devices to do such things. It will be the domain of techies, oddballs, and assorted edge-cases (eg: someone who wants to avoid the law, mob, stalker, etc).
I mean, he uses the term "OG Microsoft source code". He's just a kid.
They don't fire-and-forget for established products (desktop, laptop, server) but they really takes care about platform's evolving and sustainability, compared to AMD.

It seems that strangely they can't do that on newer field.
I have an .edu, is there a place that I can grab this?
The author has given an iPad to a one year old, and even taught them (read: nudged them into) getting adicted into phone games. This is terrible parenting.
Not a lawyer, but I do work with licensed content: In this case you would probable need to pay the licensing fee before turning on ads for any video using assets from this library.

But what if you do it by accident, forgetting that you’d used a licensed asset in this long-published video? Tough cookies.

If you’re going to publish a mix of commercial and non-commercial content, you’d best be using some sort of tagging system to keep track of which videos use assets from which libraries. Because if you mess up, it’s on you.

We frequently run into this issue when a vendor gets bought by another company who doesn’t want to renew their contract with us: At that point we have to use our tagging system to find any content using assets from that library and either pull it or find replacements from somewhere else.
Not enough bandwidth for video. So their various camera devices can't do much with it. Not even their new home security drone.[1]

[1] https://youtu.be/I71IBh3qHX0
Honest question: Would using Linux have been a better idea then? An old unpatched Win XP has tons of vulnerabilities but so does an unpatched 20 year old Linux Kernel.

Using Windows XP on those devices often gets very bad rep but is there a viable alternative for machines that are air gapped and technically won't be upgradable for several decades?
This doesn't have much to do with polarising tastes such as liquorice.
It probably still is, but I doubt that will really stop anyone here.
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This sounded like: we changed our routine and then had our most productive week ever. While I think there is a point to what they are saying, I wouldn't take the fact that they had a great week as proof of a better work methodology. If people had voted to have ice cream every morning they might also have had a really productive week because ice cream is fun and changing the routine is fun. But I wouldn't bet the farm on making a company more productive in the long run with ice cream breakfasts.
I have no reason to believe that the commenter misrepresented anything. It is entirely plausible. If their friend was a liquidity provider then the value of friend's airdropped tokens would have been much greater than mine.
Provide value of some sort? That's what most businesses actually do. Someone needs something and they provide it.
Much of the problem is memes shared by older people on Facebook who are 30+ years out of any kind of formal education, so even if we had an education magic wand the lead time is enormous, well into the "climate change has been decided one way or the other" era.

> Personal accountability?

What on earth does this look like? Going up to random punters buying the Sun, grabbing them by the lapels and asking "why are you reading this propaganda?"
Because someone else in the meeting might say "I'm working on X, I'm stuck and I need help" whereby you might say "Hey, I've worked on X before, chat me up after this meeting and I'll try and help out".
When AI goes wrong (transcript)
Pretty sure Governors delayed or not delayed executions over the phone at the eleventh hour pretty regularly if Hollywood has taught me anything.

But for some reason I also see this as different.
This sounds like a joke.
How much of the source code is carried over from release to release of Windows and how much is new?
> They literally had hundreds of servers
Woow. I remember when you could write the number of servers for India with few binary digits :)

I was familiarized with Foodpanda in the early days, and their first months with dev in Berlin. I was also quite familiarized with Rocket (worked there for a while on their core platforms - both ecommerce and marketplace), and while my opinion about their design (on ecommerce) is far from good,their code and procedures were at a level of maturity far more advanced than Foodpanda.

That is not necessarily a bad thing, in startups of this kind you need to be able to refocus priorities and quickly test new markets. With this comes pressure to implement changes and twisting the product to fit a different goal thought on the initial design. In the end, you usually work a PoC as a product for some years until you have a complete grasp of where your business fits. Some challenges may look unexpected (such as the street naming and numbering somewhere in South America, maybe Colombia?), some challenges can be a bit more predictable (such as an appropriate redis configuration), but these growth pains are expected. One way I've seen working quite well to avoid that feeling of "drifting around" product teams have during this trial periods is to have clear, in-person communication from the top down, and include the product teams in the refocus process, so everyone is on the same page, and the business can decide also based on other factors such as cost of implementation and time to market. And I've seen this on a Rocket venture :)
Is turtlespace planned to be open source? Wondering if possible to contribute. Its a very nice platform - congrats.
Don't worry, a manager's advantage is big enough to make a hour long standing up meeting...

Sincerely, someone who at some point decided to start stand ups early with unofficial goal of "finish before manager gets in"
I only watched the start, but he describes the curve as having number of deaths as the Y axis - every description of "flattening the curve" that I have seen has number of cases as the Y axis. The point being to stop the number of cases overwhelming healthcare so that more people die - not just to rearrange when people who were going to die anyway actually die.

I don't know if that is a mistake or intentionally misleading - I would hope the former.

Note: I'm from the UK.
You mean non-profits like Mozilla, where the CEO makes $2.5 million a year? Yeah, they should be able to pay for this just as any other company.
Warning Signs You're About to Be Laid-Off (2015) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10778321
Collecting sensitive information without violating privacy
Competitors will give someone a fake negative review... it happens all the time on Amazon
I personally tried to use Windows XP (for my Windows systems, which is mostly VMs nowadays) for as long as I could.

First, it was the first solid (in relative terms) consumer operating system from MS.

Second, it was lightweight (in relative terms) in terms of UX and, somewhat consequently, engineering. With Windows Vista (but in particular, Windows 8), MS started to add complexity on every layer.

Nowadays, I'm really afraid to update Windows. I don't know what new services and programs are going to be added. I don't know if the tweaks still work. I don't know if I'm imposed some new behavior. I don't know where certain settings (even entire setting domains) are going to be located, and how they're going to be named.

In a way, Windows XP is the Windows equivalent of the Linux XFCE/LXDE desktop environments.
That’s probably because the experts are focused on their current task at hand, and most easily recalled the few things that are relevant to the task.

Movies and stories don’t portray real life experience, as they cannot juggle all the relevant factors of an expertise without confusing the audience.

I don’t know about martial arts. But at least in the few professions I do understand, you cannot just do a few exercises diligently for ten years and come out a master.
I thought it was a badge, but then realised it had spikes. Unfortunately the unwanted guest in my Porcupine Tree fought back, and being that this happened on the 14th of February is how I ended up calling this My Bloody Valentine.
"Smart contracts" has always seem incredible dumb to me. Code that controls how money being transferred that cannot be updated or changed even if a bug is found.

Awesome design. It is like the opposite of what I would want to control my money in any transaction.
(Usually projects of this sort will make you guarantee that you have not been influenced by the closed-source code they are trying to clean room.)
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Under 25ms is less than current game consoles deliver. Most deliver around 100ms latencies.
I think you are misunderstanding OP. At least I assume that Zoho will not be able to change Google's policies, otherwise that would truly be outstanding customer service.
You should be able to create this by yourself. Beans are cheap.
Ask HN: As a medium sized company CEO (200 ppl), how do you choose your focus?
As a company CEO for SaaS there is always so much you can/should do in all different areas.
Product, Marketing, Finances, Recruiting.

How do you pick / sort most impactful activities throughout the day for your company?

I often feel overwhelmed in choosing my fights. Tips?
The standup is daily opportunity for the team together to coordinate itself and the its work. It is not a status update where the workers have to report to the boss. That is not what you should be doing.

> what if people are working on something for a bit longer than one day and got no news to tell or talk about?

They can just say that they are busy on it. But now the team can coordinate.

Maybe that feature is taking too long, and you should instead spend time on something more important.

Maybe Jerry says "hey, I'm finishing up on issue XYZ. Now I can go help you with that long task."

Maybe you are working on that long task, but hear that another team member has a problem which you know a lot about.

Maybe someone in the team is thinking of starting a new issue which is related to your long task, in which case some coordination may be needed.

Maybe someone thinks your long task is shouldn't be taking that long and they can afterwards help you out. It is easy to get stuff in a bog and not know it.

Scrum is meant to be a team sport where members are helping and supporting each other.
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Downloading it would probably not even be a crime, in the same way a journalist getting hold of confidential IP wouldn't be a crime either. They'll go after you only if parts of the code end up surfacing in competing products, or if you belong to the distribution chain that leaked it in the first place. Microsoft is traditionally pretty skilled at dealing with piracy and leaks in more sophisticated ways than "sue them all".
All Rocket ventures were designed to be sold. Most of them did poorly. There is a cost/benefit ratio at which it doesn't make sense to dump money on the business, but the business itself still has value, so selling is a good strategy to cut your losses and/or make some profit.
I work with a project that takes an hour to build because it’s thousands of C++ files. What would you suggest I do to improve my build times?
Thinking of dialup networking, I guess somewhere around 56 kilobits per second is certainly feasible? hehe :)
I don't know what country you are, but in both the countries I lived in, pharmacies are more reasonable, especially for adult buyers. They would usually ask if you have an old prescription (maybe dating back a year or two), or perhaps your old inhaler, and would generally agree to give you a new one.

Of course you'll pay the full price, no insurance, unless you have a valid prescription (generally a year old at most), but otherwise, the price isn't too steep (about 6€).
You can prevent it from seeding and delete the tracker after downloading. It's not nice to seeders but it's an option.
We have a weekly status meeting. Mostly it's about giving the boss an overview over workload and discuss prioritization of upcoming stuff, and that's usually the only time he'll actually manage me as such.

However it's also nice to discover if work done by other devs interact with what I might be working on. Maybe I'm working on changing some logic in a module, and some other dev is about to make an integration for a customer which will involve that module indirectly.

He might not be aware of this indirect dependency, so I can give him a heads-up and now we know we must keep in touch over this work.

It's also good in case someone else has any good ideas for solving an issue. Maybe someone knows of a tool or a service which can do the job. Maybe someone has experience on that sort of stuff, so the dev doing the work knows who to ask for advice.

This is the only regular internal meeting I have though. There might be a case-specific one or similar once or twice a month, the rest is just ad-hoc with 1-2 others as needed via Teams or dropping by the office (pre-pandemic).
Well it's true that bluetooth actually induces latency but in the case of audio there is a lot of codec encoding / decoding shenanigans that produces a significant part of the perceived audio lag, which does not occur on controller / mouse / keyboard
Exactly this.

I understand that some people like a whole book management suite. Particularly people who don't use much tech, so it's just their computer + their Kindle + their phone.

But others need something task-oriented. I don't just mean whiny software devs like myself, but students, researchers and - in general - people juggling more devices and document types. Such a user needs a bullshit-free way to view an .epub by double-clicking on it straight in their Dropbox folder. A "send to Kindle" under a right-click menu. A "Kindle sync" that works by having it mount itself as removable storage, so that you can simply copy files over, the same way you put your music on your Android phone.

(Hell, maybe even a dedicated app would be good - one that looks like an orthodox file manager[0], showing you your files on one side, Kindle on the other, and helpfully detecting when you upload the same file twice. But that app would be orthogonal to the concept of opening a book, and to the concept of managing a book library. And I'd still want the right-click context menu integration. Hell, Windows actually had a place for it since time immemorial - the "Send To" section of the context menu!)

--

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_manager#Orthodox_file_man... - i.e. Norton Commander, Total Commander and friends.
It's not news, and the HappyMag headline is very misleading.
I've worked in these Agile teams for my entire career so far. I have begun to believe that standups, in the way that most companies conduct them, are against the interest of most developers. It feels like I need to justify my position every day, and that I am only as good as my last feature. Sprints are basically scientifically optimised crunch. It is like the last stretch of a project every 2 weeks. Just put in the extra energy "for the sake of the sprint". Pull all-nighters, just so that you can be told in your planning meeting that we are "agile", and the requirements are changing again.

Disclaimer: These are subjective opinions, and I recognise that some developers thrive in this environment. Also, this is a comment on Agile in the wild, rather than in principle.
> the upload which you are also doing when using torrents.

Unless you set your seeding limits to 0kb. You take a hit in speed/availability (as more peers will likely not do business with you), but you also don't distribute anything.
No, it is an exceptionally poor comparison but your failure here is assuming that the person making this comment is acting in good faith. They are not. Downvote, ignore, and move on to discussions with people who are not political tools.
Would be interesting if it can actually be compiled into a usable ISO - possible implications for digital preservation.
This would be a great way to set up an IoT device. It is usually quite time consuming to initialize a new device - negotiating bluetooth, downloading the corresponding app, setting up Alexa integrations, etc. If I could just hold my phone playing a sound that tells the device my WiFi password, I could be up and running in a minute or less.
The Go os.File.ReadDir() proposal is broken
Not true.

A lot of customers judge their perception of the severeness of an issue based on the service dashboard. That's why the dashboard makes everything look more rosy than reality.

Every time it says "some customers may be experiencing elevated latency", it usually means "all customers are seeing all requests timeout, and the only ones who aren't are the ones not using the service right now".

Yes seriously - when they say "<5% of users are having trouble accessing Gmail" they are calculating that based on the percentage of all Gmail accounts which have seen an error. Obviously the vast majority of accounts are inactive at any one time, so aren't seeing anything...
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Except stand ups rarely come across as a way to ensure things are on track, and more as a way to CYA about things being on track, so that someone can place the blame on you about why you didn’t inform the team earlier on the day you realize things are not on track.
Racket is fun. You can indeed use it to write about any language you want, not limited to Lisp-alikes.

https://blind.guru/MarioLANG.html
How would you know? It's entirely possible that not using google is a fantastic choice.
Oh there's a lot of stuff like this floating around.

Important source code acquired and leaked by a script kiddie who has zero clue how valuable it is. Probably uploading and posting it to some small forum, where everybody else has even less clue.

Then it can take years until an actually knowledgeable person stumbles upon it and makes it known to the world.
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Unfortunately, Microsoft also has a trust problem with updates. Back in Windows XP era, there was no question about whether you wanted to upgrade to SP2 or not -- you'd maybe wait for a few days/weeks to make sure no major bugs were in, but there was no need to force anything.

Today, you might run an upgrade and reboot to find a more secure operating system -- or a full-screen Edge ad, with Edge being immediately auto-started afterwards and re-pinned on the taskbar. (Guess who had to drive across town in the middle of the Covid-19 lockdown because one of their parents had to teach an online class and couldn't open Firefox anymore. Yep.)

It's a hole that Microsoft dug themselves in, and long before Windows 10, and instead of doing anything to dig themselves out of it, they just dragged everyone else down.

It solves the problem -- nobody's claiming it doesn't -- but it's not something that should be defended for technical or usability reasons, it's the worst solution that happens to still work, more or less.
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This blog page, ostensibly just text and images, made 30 requests for javascript files, and several more to analytics. In all, it made 62 requests over 50 seconds, transferring 1.9Mb - for less than a thousand words of content. Why?
Do you need to recompile all multi-thousand files every time you make a change? Modularising the build would be my first step.