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Renouncing islamic faith is cause to be sentenced to death by said islamic court. No loophole there.
> The "suffering" has honestly been overblown by jokes about not being able to quit on one side and the mythologizing of the leet ninja 10x programmer who is only bound by his typing speed and can't waste time reaching for the mouse, on the other side.

You're neglecting the folks who use keyboard editors (and fancy keyboards) to reduce the incidence of RSI.

If I can accomplish the same tasks in four keystrokes (~1s) as it would take me in a dozen clicks and 15 seconds of mousing, then poorly designed programs forcing me to use the mouse to interact are causing an order of magnitude more strain than those designed for keyboard interaction.

(This is less an issue in text-editors, and more an issue in everything else user-facing.)
4 Different Perspectives to Solve Problems
I think the problem this is trying to solve is a poorly defined interface from the backend. It's not to everyone's taste but openapi/swagger solves that problem. The hypothetical conversation around the missing property is resolved simply by specifying what the API returns - if it's not in the spec then it's not going to come back.

Alternatively, it speaks of a dysfunctional dynamic between front-end and back-end developers, but no amount of technical solution fixes that.
Usually for MPs and councillors, but yes probably less than what you vote for. But couldn't you count at least president within hours? And then go back on a priority schedule? Doesn't seem to need computers.
"Share all as web page" feature in OneTab is beautiful. Maybe you can gather some ideas from that to make your product even better1
I have seen it on both sides.

Prima donna users who demand their problems be fixed yesterday, working for big corporations, said corporations having no intent whatsoever to sponsor the fix.

...And prima donna maintainers who somehow make themselves into bottlenecks around anything going on in their projects and then complaining about burnout.

The problem with entitled users is well-studied and well-known. Basically, the less a user pays for the goods, the more entitled they tend to feel.

The problem with entitled maintainers is this: while everything is good, they tend to ride on the wave of a successful project, though they might not be its sole author. Still, they enjoy the credit. They brag in blogs and READMEs about big name companies using the project, millions of downloads.

However, when proverbial shit hits the fan, the prima donna maintainers try to dodge any social responsibility by hiding behind excuses such as "I don't understand your use case, ergo it cannot exist", "It's open source so go fix it yourself" (but a PR that does just that will spend years in limbo), "it's open source so you're owed nothing, stop complaining", and finally, in their blogs: "I'm so tired and overworked, it's so thankless".

I don't know what is the true motivation of those people to get into maintainership in the first place. Maybe they unconsciously seek fame and recognition? Maybe, they do it consciously? I don't know, really. To me, it does look like it.

But there is also this thing about maintainership: if you do embark this burden for a project that a lot of things/companies/people happen to depend on, and you advertise the project as such, you implicitly tell you are responsible and trustworthy; if you reject an issue/PR on a whim that "you're owed nothing", you implicitly tell that you are not trustworthy on account of not giving a fuck. Personally, I'm ok with both as long as the maintainers are upfront with it.

Just fucking write upfront that you're not interested in contributions and that your software is a piece of art, not a tool. Or write upfront that contributions are welcome, but also be diligent about them, and also don't burst in tears because you broke things in a major release and people pointed it out to you.
Of course. Given the times, this in particular:

https://vimeo.com/120831063

Now I wonder what effect ARHGAP11B would have on a shark:

https://youtu.be/oSz9MDN-iac?t=71
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The number 1 thing for ALL these countries is access to resources that they don't have. The most important among them is oil. The only way to buy oil is dollars. That's the reason their economy is set up to export to America.

The minute oil producers start accepting other currencies (which is what trade blocs such as this could accomplish) or they reduce their dependence on oil (which is what Chinese companies are offering for cheap), these countries will not even try to export to North America because population-wise, America can never have as many consumers as Asia and Africa.

Our wealth in America is only because we are the reserve currency. We are not producing goods and services of the future any longer.
> Let's see how long it takes before the monetization of the new "iTunes VLC" kicks in.

Boy does that sound entitled. What's wrong with monetizing a software that devs put so much effort in and that has been supported by donations and purposefully has no ads?
Did you try CoQ10 supplements? I added some after the first bout of muscle pain and it tempered it (not completely).
Saying "windows is worse" doesn't really mean Apple is fine here. This isn't a post about how a forced Windows update is bricking Microsoft-built hardware with no guaranteed rollback or recovery path.

This is a post about how a major software update from a vendor is breaking their own hardware, and from a company that prides itself on not needing to be a computer expert to use their products.
Being surrounded by any one group in a foreign place could be a bit alarming, whether these are Roma in Bulgaria, Blacks in inner cities, or Whites in some rural town, or Arabs in Marseille.
With Biden elected I’ll be interested in seeing if the USA rejoins the TPP agreement. It was negotiated under Obama and Biden was a supporter at the time.

Of course Congress is the tricky part. Trump pulled the USA out as he was essentially a Democrat in terms of trade protectionism - a very odd position for a Republican. Congress is split but I could see the Republican Senate passing it. The question is will enough a Democrats in the House agree to it? Likely a very divisive issue between the Liberal (maybe yes) and Progressive (no) sides.
I recommend having a look at mpv. It plays files, supports all the container formats and codecs you are likely to come across both for audio and video.

I sometimes reach for VLC still, but mpv is and has been my go to player for most casual video playback for years now.

The UI pretty much consists of video playback plus an auto-hiding timeline overlay. On the timeline overlay you can also select which subtitle to show as well as turn subtitles on/off.

You can install it on macOS with

brew cask install mpv

assuming you have Homebrew installed
I was painfully shy and started my own business. There is a lot of value in the startup experience even if he does not stay in the startup world.

How did I do it? I had small goals each day and each week and focused on those goals rather than the outcome. It is the outcome that creates angst for the introverted.

I had my own business for 3 years. The first year was painful the 2nd 2 years were productive.

When I went back to traditional employment I had a confidence that I would not have had if I stayed on a traditional business path.
> if you are surrounded by a group …

It really depends. I've been in that situation in open air markets, at fairs etc and no, definitely not in trouble. Walk into a ghetto? Maybe.
I don’t see that takeaway at all. He didn’t fail because of lack of money. His life is not worse due to spending his savings. He still has a highly valuable skill set and can easily replace that with 1-3 years of working at a company.

If he has $500k, spent $20k living cheaply for a year, I’d bet he would be in a similar position that he is in now and choose to re-enter the workforce after a year of failure.
You are miscategorizing my comment. From my first post:

>Obviously the UK would need to improve in the meantime, but they would basically have 30 years to get their EV infrastructure into the position it works for every car owner.

I acknowledge it needs to improve. However conversion of infrastructure doesn't need to be completed by 2030. A gradual increase in infrastructure over the next 20-30 years can get the job done and is eminently doable.
First, Elon Musk has already been dismissive of COVID-19 safeguards and outright ignored previous shutdown orders calling them fascist and threatened to leave California because of them. He has frequently tweeted multiple debunked claims and theories.

He said in his latest tweet that something extremely bogus is going on with testing, but the FDA has already admitted to the challenges with the rapid antigen tests. Therefore nothing bogus was happening, just issues that were already publicly known, however Musk has made it clear that he is against precautions so it benefits him to spread confusion and doubts about the virus and testing because he doesn't want to lose any profits from the impact caused by shutdowns.
I don't know, there's just not that many configurations of mac hardware in the world. Bricking a hackintosh sure, bricking a MBP?
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You should check out the How I Built This podcast, it has an episode about Method. Great story.
> At least here in Spain that is because most of the Eastern Europeans we get are Roma.

While Roma might be highly visible to you because some beg in the streets or appear in crime reportage, Roma are still only a minority of the Eastern European immigrants in Spain. They are a minority even of the Balkan countries’ immigrants in Spain. You just don’t notice all those ethnic Romanians from Romania who don’t look particularly exotic, and who are quietly working hard in some industry outside the public eye (i.e. agriculture, or taking care of the elderly, or even the IT sector).
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The west wing should have had a map nerd on their writing staff. It's hard to believe a group of 4300 cartographers would come together and choose Gall-Peters over Robinson, Winkel-Tripel, or Kavraisky 7 as a replacement for Mercator. /s
> We are not producing goods and services of the future any longer.

Not sure what you are talking about here.

Majority of globally successful companies still come from the US and that isn't changing anytime soon.
>I think you might be confusing the Linux distribution with the desktop environment.

I'm definitely not ;). Please reread my comment. If you know the answer to the question, please let me know.
I knew Alaska was big, but holy crap! If you move the continental US from the southern most Alaska Islands to the top, it stretches nearly the entire east coast.
I finally think I found a fix for this, toggle off and back on the Calculator service in System Prefs > Spotlight.
Contrary to some other HNers, my opinion is that you clearly lacked a social network that would have given you momentum and clear goals. You worked alone, you did not build the product for one specific client and you did not succeed in building relationships with potential clients.

Sure, social anxiety might be part of the reason. But I think the biggest contributor to your lack of success was that you did not have a team around you to build the product. With a team, I'm sure you would have found it much more acceptable to cold email people and just feel no shame basically promoting the product.

But that's one part of the whole picture. Sometimes, I guess, you just have to admit that people don't want to buy your product. Maybe it's because you don't know how to market it or maybe it just doesn't provide that much value.

I wish José best of luck to future endeavors and I recommend getting to know other start-up oriented people. Possibly salespersons. To start your next project. Don't get discouraged, that's my advice. With the right people in your team, I'm positive you can succeed.
What's the Future of Credit Scores?
Every time i tried gin i ended up just using the standard lib handlers and gorilla mux and some middlewares. Am i missing out on something? I've been doing it for years now
You must have had a very different experience if you think 'MySpace looked way more attractive compared to FB'.... MySpace pages were ugly as hell, with tiled backgrounds, autoplay music, and mismatched themes. Facebook was CLEAN, and everyone's page looked uniform and consistently styled. This lack of customization, I think, is what made it become so popular. That, and the feed; myspace never had the concept of taking posts from all your friends and putting them into a list that you could scroll through. You had to visit each page to see what was on it, and that meant seeing the horrible styling and autoplay music.
When I was 13 I had a paper route. It was almost all modern except three or four households that still used the collection model. The paper company would take their subscriptions out of my pay and send me to collect and keep it and any tips. I decided it was easier to just take the pay cut than knock on those doors.

The whole concept still makes me intensely anxious and I would sooner quit a job than begin dealing with customers directly.

But I'm hella good at my job and I'm quite comfortable not being that kind of person. As you said it's not for everyone.
People think AI is going to be silicon based. No, it's going to be genetically engineered primate brains.
In fact China and Australia already had a bilateral FTA between them that came into force in 2015. Pieces of paper are meaningless to the CCP.
LiPo is a type of Li-ion battery and they have much the same safety characteristics. Lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4) batteries are much safer, they don't tend to run away.
i think i’m in a very similar situation, thanks for putting it into words. i’m not doing great but it’s ok. it doesn’t feel good, but it doesn’t feel bad either
America has a bigger economy than China, and the EU was (pre-Brexit) roughly equal to China.

To the extent that I expect China to dominate the global economy for the next century or so, it is because I expect others to choose to fight amongst themselves instead of choosing to build and grow, and not because of China itself.
You can't see it as this person from Facebook being unaware of the OP's tool and, just by coincidence, implementing a tool with the same name. They knew of the tool and actively used it.

I think it's clear their intent was to reproduce the tool at Facebook and then cast a shadow over the old tool, discouraging its use.

To me, that feels malicious.
> But their culture is just nothing about that.

And then you go on to describe the effects of poverty, not culture. Sounds to me like they need economic opportunity, not further isolation.
It's exactly what the JVM does, it's called Class Hierarchy Analysis (CHA). The VM checks if a method is actually overridden or not.

When a new class is loaded, the analysis checks which codes are no longer valid and mark them for deoptimization.
Problem is that adding those who have never had statins would be unethical. You don't give medication to those who don't need it, and you don't withhold it from those who don't. This was done on those who needed it but found the side effects too bad, which makes it ethical to study.
Properties in modern languages?

They made their debut in Eiffel and Delphi, so 90's post modern.
What does this mean in practice? They will not have tariffs on everything/some things? Does this cap tariffs? Does this uncap capital flows, especially crossing the mainland China border? Does this cap FX exchange rates? Does this make establishing cross-border corporate structures easier? Is there protection for cross-border trade routes for physical goods? Is there deregulation in terms of online services (things like "we'll let you store our data")? Is there agreement on "quality of goods" for things like food or pharmaceuticals? etc.

The article explains nothing, other than saying "yeah they agreed on something".
No doubt about this, when I reached that part of the article I was startled with that relatively low amount of savings and the courage on starting a venture like that... It can not be understated on how having enough money saved up really helps not only enduring periods with no money but also a much lower anxiety associated with that (you need to be in a good mental shape in order to do things after all).
I tend to have a similar mindset - I have an allergy to groupthink, and when I see groups of people saying false things, even if I generally normally agree with the spirit of the group, I have to at least 'fact check' with a response. But in this strange new bifurcated reality, you get pinned as 'Other' as in, I must be the 'Other side' and thus subject to to some sort of retaliation.

I don't get 'banned' but I get downvoted - as I did on this thread with no real explanation.

I have absolutely no problem with "Fact checking" because at least it shows the original thing. I have a big problem with shadow banning, deleting and outright banning. The latter is censorship.
Honest question here: how many races and questions do you vote on at once in the UK?

This year, my ballot had about a dozen individual races (including two state referendums and an advisory question) to vote on, and this is probably about or below the US median ballot complexity each presidential election.
>The people deeply involved in vaccine development are talking about Spring and Summer of 2021 for a return to normalcy

Any update on this figure? I'm seeing a lotta different stances
Hand counting is how we do it in the U.K.

It’s not actually that hard at all, including validation, through simple physical processes (that are incredibly tried and tested!). Write the contents of the vote totals on the outside of the box containing the ballots (total must reconcile to number of ballots placed in), then total all the box totals at the end for a single constituency. Constituencies then report back.

We get results back within a day and the validity has never been seriously questioned. The process can easily scale linearly too.
Thanks for the clarification, this is essentially what I was querying!
"Is it right to create something that may be similar to us and then not even give it a chance to live?" If trying to be "good" doesn't this thought come off as really selfish? Just because something is more similar to us it should have more right to live? These thoughts are just basic survivalist instincts wrapped in nice 21st century "morals". We will do whatever the hell we want in the end and maybe we eradicate ourselves in the end before something else does
Eiffel was one of the first languages to introduce it that way.
I was responding to the parent comment saying it would have been an amazing achievement. I haven't passed any judgement on the code, and I never stated it was beginner level.

> It is 250 lines because I was experienced enough to implement it in 250 lines

If you had written a clever algorithm I would agree, but the code seems pretty straightforward. I'm not really sure how being inexperienced would make someone unable to implement this.

Yes, there's some knowledge required to do what you have done but given that the implementation seems relatively straightforwards and it doesn't seem to have much substance (Only 250 LOC + you said you wrote it in 1 day) I would _personally_ not classify this as a project.

I think you are reading too much into an offhand comment.
Isn't this old news? There is a growing body of evidence that the virus was already spreading throughout Europe in winter 2019.

Here's a paper suggesting that

> SARS-CoV-2 was already spreading in France in late December 2019

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09248...
Under the Donald Trump administration, the US receded from its position of total global hegemony. This backtrack has massively hurt the United States.
You have a list of AGPL-licensed software here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_software_under_the_GNU...

The list is not at all up to date, and very incomplete, but it's better than nothing. You can see that there's quite a few well-known infrastructure projects there.
I know - the irony! Perhaps the only reason that the US has so many millennials is that so many people come to the US undocumented, skirting the dumpster-fire immigration and visa system. Without those millennials, the US would be in the same pickle.
macOS Big Sur update is bricking some older MacBook Pros
I'm really sorry for your situation, this year's been truly awful for me as well. Take solace on the fact that you're not the only one hurting.
All rdbms have similar issues with built-in functions. Plus you can easily create pathological queries that do the same.
Remember what DNC did to Bernie?

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/23/us/politics/dnc-emails-sa...
To the extent he is speaking only for himself and not making any kind of larger point, I'm not sure why it's on the front page of Hacker News.

To the extent he's making a point such as "I gained nothing from this experience" or that he's asking for advice or thoughts, I think some of the thoughts -- such as working toward your strengths rather than through your weaknesses -- are interesting.
What they really want to useis Firebase and the like, which is fine for some. For others disregard this advice.
I don't know where you are getting your numbers, but they are orders of magnitude wrong. The Koch brothers also spend about $200million/year. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/27/koch-brothers-network-to-spe...
I'm seeing a lot of criticism along the lines of "the trade-offs are not worth it in <context>" or "the article didn't address every detail". Well, yeah -- no advice is universal, and this blog post isn't a 500 page reference book. I think it would be more productive to help the author articulate the trade-offs and forces pushing for and against this architecture.

FWIW, Reviewable (https://reviewable.io) follows roughly this design and, after 6 years, it's still a fine system to develop in. It runs on top of Firebase RTDB which takes care of the security rules; if anything, I feel better having all the security rules articulated in one central location (the schema) rather than spread throughout the backend. Communication between client and backend also flows through the database (with very few exceptions), which lets the backend get away with an easy to scale queue-based design.

There are downsides, of course. As many posters alluded to, changing the schema gets tricky. It basically must remain backwards compatible for at least a few releases so as not to inconvenience the users, and some kinds of changes are just not feasible. And yeah, how the client wants to fetch data does affect the schema as well, though in practice I haven't found the impact to be too bad. Also, Reviewable has only one (browser) client, so I don't need to worry about duplicating logic -- I probably wouldn't pick this architecture if multiple clients were a requirement. Putting much of the business logic in a client-side model layer integrated with the database structure actually works out really nicely, though I still struggle with how to efficiently share some of the logic with server-side code.

Overall, I'm satisfied with how things worked out and would definitely consider using a similar architecture again in the right circumstances. The article is right on the money that if you're just getting started on your MVP it's worth thinking about a thin- or no-backend approach.
They were "global" before the last 4 years. That won't last without constant nurturing.

You should look at China's stock market and what they are able to achieve without printing trillions like the US just did. And we are still not out of covid.
We already have those, they're called "parachutes". They're easier to operate, safer and don't require power.
Funny :)

I hope someone comes here to argue that Vitalik is right against me.
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