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Ask HN: Is it time to quit tech industry?
I've been programming for 25 years (since I was a kid) and worked in industry as a SWE for 13 years. The more I advance in my career and get exposed to more technologies and teams, the less interested I am in continuing.

I have taken some time off work recently to travel and unwind. Felt great at the end. Then I returned to work and quickly felt terrible: stress, insomnia, hard to keep up with everything.

I don't care anymore for all the constant keeping up with new developments, team project schedules, new technologies (never did actually), the lack of creativity and open-ended thinking, the lack of time to explore the world.

I have given a shot to working with talented world-class engineers, to learning new technologies, to developing on different tech stacks. I just don't see the value in that beyond the paycheck.

Is it time to quit tech?
all but the largest or most stubborn companies run their own datacenters are coming to a close

You're right about the stubborn part, but not necessarily largest. Many IT leaders at companies of all sizes have their political capital tied up in the data center. What you're talking about doing (with cloud adoption) is outsourcing 90% of what they control. For them it's existential, uptime and agility be damned.

Serverless is even worse for them, as far as IT fiefdoms are concerned.
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Yes, what I'd like to see is a new Apple Silicon eGPU. Based on the Blackmagic design, but smaller, fanless and graphics power to compete with nvidia.

Why fuss over driver compatibility if the performance on Apple's graphics cards blows away the competition?
Hmmmm maybe you're thinking of entscheidungsproblem.js? This is a fork of that.
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“ And Epic isn't asking for a benefit for themselves”

False: Epic wants to pay less commission themselves, and to be able to take a cut of other developers work.

One big difference between Apple and Epic is that Epic didn’t do any work to create the platform.

As to those smaller developers. Apple just cut the commission for them in half. A lower level than Epic was promising. Apple seems to care about the smaller developers.

Epic is not fighting for anyone but themselves.

Let’s note that more than half of Epic’s profits belong to just one man.
It’s unclear if the writer actually watched “Street Food” before lumping it into the Ambient category. On the surface, it’s beautiful cinematography of interesting cities and food, but the actual content goes deep into peoples’ personal struggles and what drives an entrepreneur to persevere against all odds. A couple of episodes nearly brought me to tears.
Conflating an organisation with an adjective is a fascinating category error and not one I'd previously considered working into my offerings of puns and satire. No doubt Tom Lehrer was already aware of the possibilities. Thanks for bringing this novelty to my attention!
git does perform delta compression. From what I can gather, git's storage engine uses conventional compression (zlib), deduplication (exactly identical files need not be stored twice) and delta compression (between similar files).

The question was does git's implementation store - in full - every version of a tracked file? The answer is that it doesn't. git has a sophisticated storage engine precisely to avoid the inefficiencies of the naive approach.
As the charts compare Intel based Macs vs the new M1 chip, they would be comparing CPU performance.
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Ok, so I could mark everything as "brand-dark" and then change the definition of that in the CSS? Mmm. Ok. How about layout and sizing? A lot of that looks a lot more defined - I'll pick a random example from their own homepage then: "border-b border-gray-200 py-6 flex items-center justify-between mb-16 sm:mb-20 -mx-4 px-4 sm:mx-0 sm:px-0" - if I wanted to change my approach to centring, justification, and sizing, it still seems like a lot of search and replace...

(I think I understand that the approach is that I'd then change what those definitions mean centrally - but that won't help me if I decide that two properties which are currently different should be the same, or vice versa).
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I think Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, and Google would also be considered iOS developers, since they publish apps on the App Store. So in terms of market value, Epic is definitely not the biggest player in the Apple ecosystem.

Although, if we're going by how popular the apps are on the store...I could see how Epic would be considered a heavyweight on the App Store.
My point was that the submitted article was weak evidence. That is not the same from saying their conclusions are wrong. It very well may be the case that Vitamin D supplementation is effective against COIVD-19. But the submitted article is not strong evidence for that.

As I pointed out elsewhere, a measured take: https://www.devaboone.com/post/vitamin-d-and-covid
That is very strange claim. D614G is a mutation in the spike protein, and also there is a document ed case of very rapid mutation of the spike in an immuncompromised patient.
This appears to be complementary to their other TLS fingerprinting project, JA3. Where JARM quickly scans servers for TLS configuration, JA3 sniffs network traffic to fingerprint client/server TLS handshakes.

I wonder what research is happening at Salesforce to create these byproducts.
Most books on deep learning are too new or have too popular a style to be included in uni libraries. By the time they do appear, the examples no longer work because the tools have evolved.

The same goes for recent books on applied machine learning or recent tools or libraries intended for professional practitioners. I think libraries are reluctant to buy books they think will go out of date quickly.
It’s not about being sloppy. It’s about ego and hubris.

Just want to add: I work with (ex-)FAANG folks on a daily basis, too. Not all of them have egos bigger than their britches. But the ones who think “this industry just needs better software, and I can write it” sure as hell do.
I just wanted to point out that Facebook doesn't pay based on cost of living, but cost of labor. They will pay as much as it takes to hire the best in a given location, but not a penny more. So the article is attacking a strawman.
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As usual, the uncrippled "workstation" version will have ECC and the crippled "consumer" version won't.
I guess you're referring to the sham McCarrick report?

Getting thrown under the bus by the crowd who wrote it is a sure sign of sainthood.
One might also remember that the Black woman who posted about it on Twitter also got fired by her employer. "Woke politics" are an easy target for free-floating anxiety, but the real concern for 99% of us is that we have virtually no rights at work.
Well presumably the apple machine would be much cheaper, given the price points people are talking about the M1 coming in at.
(i work at aws)

fwiw, a quick google search for `s3 price reduction` yields one from 2016: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-storage-update-s3-glaci...

there's also one-zone s3 storage options which are cheaper as well
At least for the actual audio, I understand that podcasters get grumpy when people cache that server-side, because they depend on server logs to get viewership numbers for advertisers, so if a popular client downloads the audio once and distributes it to all their customers, they can't make money off any of those customers.
I started my kids on an app called Simply Piano, and am trying it out myself. I loved music my whole life but never wanted to take piano lessons; now I do, so I'm trying it out.

Give it a shot!
It is very unusual. Most parents will find out during pregnancy, immediately after birth, or within a few weeks of birth.

In our case, somehow none of the health professionals noticed or said anything (yep, we seriously found out later that at least 3 of them suspected and said nothing - because it "wasn't within their remit"). Typical Down's facial features are not quite as prominent in our daughter, and developmentally, for a long time she tended to match her peers, or only lag behind a little. But coming on for 2 years, she still wasn't walking and her speech was lagging being, and we went to see a paediatrician - he recognised it immediately, and told us without even waiting on karyotyping. It was something of a shock :)
I see some light in this new situation though. My kid has had to remote into his classroom during the March lockdown, and again recently. It seems to work just fine. The teacher can still check on his progress, but when he's at home there's no commute and he can spend his free time as he likes. Meals can also be taken in front of the screen. Slow at eating lunch? Keep eating.

At the same time, he has an actual school that he can go back to next week, and he can catch up with friends again.

This sort of flexible schooling could be the thing for the future.
Pay-per-use is just the simplest and most straightforward and possibly fairest way to couple the value your API gives someone with the amount they pay in return.

Or, from the eyes of the user, they get full access to the API yet don't have to pay much if their project gets no traction.

The downside is that users can lie, but it's mainly just low-end users who would lie. Pay-per-user licenses are similar: a startup or a hackathon is most likely to share the license between a few people while larger companies are going to be honest because (1) they can afford it and (2) they don't want trouble at scale.

So you can ignore most abuse.

The problem with other payment structures for ListenNotes is that it's a relatively small database. You can clone the whole thing trivially. It doesn't even mirror/host the audio feeds. Its only value is that it put in the work of structuring and normalizing the metadata.

If you built a business on top of ListenNotes, you'd save more and more money as you grow bigger and bigger if you were simply cloning the whole thing with your own crawler. So the more value you would get from ListenNotes, the less you're actually paying them. Or ListenNotes would have to price their per-call fee so high that they could somehow capture a fair price for that value yet shut out smaller users.

Turns out "courtesy agreements" generally do work at scale as larger companies become less and less likely to lie just like they become less and less likely to pirate Photoshop.

> have a lower entry point than the $100pcm that's a flat-fee for some but not all extra features, showing images at all (and not in free), for example.

The downside of this is that now you limit what people can build on cheaper tiers. In fact maybe they can't even build their compelling product without whatever content you're paywalling behind tiers they can't afford on day 1, while the goal is to let someone build anything they want on day 1 so that they are a large end-user on day 1000.

After all, the ideal isn't that you scale value with your customer's income but rather you scale in price as they convert value into income. It, of course, is all just trade-offs.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Slippy_Map

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Deploying_your_own_Slipp...

https://switch2osm.org/serving-tiles/

It's small enough that I have a self hosted test tile server in my home office with about 8TB of storage, on a WD hard drive that was shucked out of a USB3 enclosure.

https://medium.com/gowombat/self-hosted-open-source-cheap-al...
The issue is that once the damage is done, it very quickly loses what impact it had as a tool. If a person has been in a corporate or even personal environment where NVC was abused, -any- use of it might cause someone to put their 'shields up'
Headache from milk can come from the Vitamine A. You do need to drink about 2L of milk a day. I know this anecdotally, I head lots of headaches around the age of 21 :)
All these hip, cool EMRs always show a glamour of a patient. I have yet to see a medical practice or health care facility that has a photo studio as a side business!
Do you have a bunch of textbooks that you would recommend reading? :)
I seem to remember that they install Superfish only on their consumer laptops, not the professional ones (i.e. Thinkpads).

I have switched from Dell XPS's to Lenova X1's (A couple of X1 Carbon's for Linux and one X1 Extreme for Windows.) I'm not knocking Dells. They are great too.
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> The "average citizen" can not be trusted to vote in their own interest or in the interest of the future generations.

Maybe not, but in a democratic system the right to choose trumps any ideas about what you or some elitist group thinks is best for future generations.

Are you advocating for undemocratic system?
When I google "white wine and beer new orleans" I get this blog post as the top result:

http://psycho-gourmet.blogspot.com/2014/06/boozing-with-brod...

which suggests that besides one line in a movie, this isn't a thing that exists in reality. So... what else should be returned? Other websites that describe how this combination doesn't exist?
It's not the hill I'm going to die on, but I've referred to this email a lot: I'd love for people to stop using acronyms.

A somewhat related pet peeve: generic "descriptive" names of projects, which often end up being acronymised eventually too. They're either too generic to be informative, or tend to become inaccurate as requirements change. Additionally, by some kind of regression to the mean they all start to look alike.

If there's not a logical short name that applies, then just think of some random name that you think sounds funny, or fits some category that you use for all your products (a coworker of mine suggested French cheeses). Still give as little information about what they are as the "generic" names, but at least they're easily distinguishable and easy to pronounce.

(This, too, is not a hill I'll die on, but I'd love to wave a magic wand that would convince everyone of this.)
There is a difference between science and "corporate science". "Corporate science" once said tobacco was healthy for you - doctor recommended cigarettes.

Also science can be corruptible as well. It was once scientific fact that non-whites were inferior to whites. The "father of gynecology" experimented on black women because it was scientific knowledge that black women don't feel pain.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/james-mari...

It was once "science" to cure sick people with leeches. It was once science to give "misbehaving" women hysterectomies or lobotomies. One of the most famous ones being rosemary kennedy.

> If scientists gain new insights, it just means the proces is working.

I guess the victims of mengele and U-731 appreciate your confidence in the "process".

For someone so critical of religion, you have an almost blind and zealous and unquestioning faith in the "scientific process".

When money, corporations and politics are involved, you should be skeptical. Even if it is "science". And pfizer and these companies aren't in the business of science, they are in the business of making money.
You make components as usual, but you style with those utility classes. Those utility classes are configurable in one theme file where you can set what "text-4xl" is or how much space "mt-10" is.
If you were instead given a specifc design by a designer, would you be able to use Tailwind only or would there be custom CSS mixed in there to finess it to match the designs?
I love the trailer! The part about dark mode was blazing.
Not for long.

The EU is finally on the path to banning unpaid internships. https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/european-parl...

In the next few weeks the Council will likely separately adopt a rule that will shortly ban unpaid internships too.

So this is all coming to an end thankfully!
Even if you want to argue they saved next to nothing (which is silly to say, $75m is $75m).. they also have CONTROL over what they are doing and are not dependent on other services. That is a huge advantage.

So even if it were a wash financially, it's still a huge plus.
> Blocklist is actually a better name IMO, and I've seen it used in places, and an easy enough change.

You should try to avoid using "Blocklist" in most code IMO, it's ambiguous in a number of contexts as the word block itself is ambiguous and can mean very multiple different things such as blockchain blocks or data/filesystem blocks which would be something very different from the intended definition of a disallow rule.
Blue Button technically is an industry-wide standard though its origins were indeed in the government. I've seen it supported in a couple of the private healthcare systems I've used (though I haven't ever used the resulting data download unfortunately!).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Button
Input methods are additive to the user experience. No one is proposing that you use touch exclusively on your laptop. It becomes of of multiple input methods, with keyboard, mouse/trackpad, voice, that are appropriate for different use cases and different times. It is about options and flexibility.

I frequently use an iPad on a keyboard stand. I frequently switch controls depending on what I’m doing. Sometimes just to induce variety to help avoid RSI.
I too use DDG, but usually the results are meh. But compared to Google (now) it is waaay better.

I still miss the "old days" Google though :(
EMR is just an automated way of deploying open source components (Hadoop and co.) - there's some glue code there but the equivalent "open" version is probably the Hortonworks stuff (now owned by Cloudera): https://github.com/hortonworks
Yes, if it's not componentized into a smaller chunk, find and replace works fine. The beauty of Tailwind is though, if you change that, you know exactly what the consequence is since every utility is so highly targeted.

You absolutely do skip between lots of HTML/JSX/VUE files, but that's true of any project. The point of tailwind is to keep you in the view layer of your project and not jumping between more than a browser and one tab in a code editor when building your UI.
Your post would be better without the snark and cult comment...but:

1. The Ohio class subs are quite old and no one knows with any real certainty that they remain untrackable. It's entirely possible they are being tracked through some unknown mechanism like new classes of drones, sensors, info leaks, spies, etc.

And your response proves my point: everyone is banking on the Ohio class subs as the trump card. But if they're wrong, we're in a very precarious situation. Hence the need to revamp and expand the other legs of the triad.

2. SpaceX had "no competency" in creating rockets and spaceships until they did. And now they're objectively better than most governments at it. Creating a reentry vehicle that launches on one of their existing platforms doesn't seem implausible, at all. This is probably easier than most of their previous work.

Unlike the legacy U.S. defense companies, SpaceX delivers on a budget and time scale that makes choosing them the obvious option. But it probably makes sense to have another company also work on improving the nuclear response.
Oh. I'm surprised that makes a difference.
The story: https://techcrunch.com/2013/03/21/a-dongle-joke-that-spirale...
Pixels have always had their uses, but I moved from em to pixels even for sizes that would ideally scale with text in order to be able to get things to align to whole vertical pixels (and horizontal ones, when not centered).
> This study is clearly not a fishing expedition because vitamin D has been a topic of interest in coronavirus disease for months now with multiple studies conducted.

That others have studied something does not preclude these researchers from "fishing" their data looking for a correlation. Since we don't know what process they used, we can't say. When considering the other weaknesses (such as the small number of "comparators"), it furthers my consideration of this study being weak evidence.
We is engineers who work in datacenters. Colocation datacenters have existed for several decades and remote hands working there would probably not see much difference between getting a call/fax/email/app telling them to do a break fix order. Having worked in dozens of datacenters over the past two decades is that there will always be newer semi-technical workers there doing break fix. A lot of those people would consider those jobs dead ends too and so this cloud datacenter thing is nothing new, its just on a much larger scale. The datacenter operators don't have to keep working there to level up their careers but working in a datacenter gives familiarity and the confidence to try more technical roles later.
> I would be shocked if this happened, since Apple has no ecosystem of game developers whatsoever.

Apple is one of the biggest publishers in the market, with over $8bn revenue from games
> Also, one of the first rules of parenting is, never show any sign of weakness in public, or you will be attacked ruthlessly. It's a variant on the old saying, "Never let them see you sweat."

I agree with everything you say except for this. We have friends (2 kids now) where mom is like that. On first glance all is perfect, she is perfect mom that manages to do so many things, all is great etc. Apart from actual reality once you know them better and you know where to look. At the end they are no better than rest of us, in some aspects far from it (this kind of behavior stems from some deeper issue(s), which tend to manifest in various ways). And all this charade starts to look pathetic pretty quickly.

Be honest, open, laugh at your fails, we all went through it, its normal. It will get you further with almost everybody including yourself. Definitely with me.

/ If I misunderstood what you meant then sorry for the preaching.
I reach for my contacts app once maybe twice a week. It’s all messenger, WhatsApp and LinkedIn.

Interesting to see if they can somehow make the digital contact book relevant again.
13 years is a good stint. I don't know where in the industry you worked, but you could try a different segment.

If you did adtech, work in web consulting.

If you worked at a consulting shop, apply at product companies.

If you worked at a bigco, work at a startup.

If you worked in gaming, work at an ecommerce company.

Also, realize that there are a lot of related occupations: tech trainer, product manager, devops consultant, etc. These all may be worth looking at to refresh your joy around the work. (I wrote about this here: https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/2020/10/05/how-to-make-a-... )

I took a sabbatical myself early in my career and found myself pulled back into tech (reading tech articles for fun, for example). That was my clue that I enjoyed it enough to return--if I'm reading about it for fun, must like it.

So, what are you reading for fun?
Apple Arcade is where Apple is effectively acting as a _publisher_. It has nothing that I'd have thought of as a AAA game; it mostly seems to be stuff from established indie devs.

There are plenty of other games on the App Store, tho.