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> I would say tracking conversions is the most important part. There’s always a lot of attention on targeting because it’s user-facing, creepy, and strikes a nerve with the HN crowd.

It doesn't help that people try to sell conversion as something that benefits the ad viewer because if it increases sales, it must also be good for the people doing the buying or something like that. That argument of "better ads" then gets easily misunderstood as targeting but it is only indirectly about that.
while agreeing that software got worse, especially websites.

opera did gracefully open 100+ tabs in 2005 on a dualcore with a gig of ram.

the key was and is: disable javascript
$5M/hour can pay for a lot of engineers. So as you say - with such assumptions - you can and should pay for both up-front design, QA and people on-call, otherwise you only have your self to blame for the loss.
Indeed.com lists 690 cobol job ads for the whole of USA. 36,600 java ads.
If Apple were to release low level documentation and source code for hardware it considers obsolete to help developers support it, it would not effect their business other than getting a lot of goodwill.
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> Having a row of identical keys would make such a jump virtually impossible to get right.

You could color each octave in a different color. Would make the jump much easier than now, while at the same time preserve the similarity of chords.
Never mind that Lithium is not a rare earth element, nor are cobalt, manganese, or any of the other key components of a lithium-ion battery.
It's extremely uncommon though, pretty sure nothing I've installed does it.
a less clean solution is also to buy controller extension cords (which are usually cheap even for older systems) and chopping off the end.
> I will not take a pay cut to work on COBOL for a bank.

You're probably just not the right type of personality. It seems that COBOL programmers have nice, slow paced, easy and safe jobs. That could be why there's so little hiring for COBOL programmers. Once you get someone, they stay put for decades until they retire. I'm sure there are plenty of programmers out there ready to drop the stressful sleepless start-up jobs and settle into something easy and 9-5, but perhaps don't know how to get from A to B.
Having said that, ancient code was usually written with a great deal more discipline than modern code, and I believe this stems from the division of labor between Programmer and Analyst, which no longer exists.

Shotgun compiling wasn’t a thing and programs were planned on paper (flowcharts) before any code was written.

Modern day programmers scoff as they crank out another web app which will be thrown out and totally rewritten in the fashionable framework of the day in less than a year.
I simply found that GIMP produced very good results when dithering to 4bit grayscale (I'm converting images to be displayed on an e-ink display).

I'm sure I could get any other lib to produce the same results, but only after an hour of tweaking. That is what I ended up doing after all, because learning how to automate GIMP was harder.
Is this still really true? Most trading shops use C++ and a ton of banks use Java. This article provides no evidence that COBOL is still the dominant language.
In principle, I like it. A lingering question, however: how would this work from a search engine indexing standpoint?
My old iPad Air still might have the nicest screen I own across all devices, and great battery life ~7 years later. But it's feeling sluggish and is no longer supported. It's a real shame I can't run Linux on it or at least use it as a portable monitor for my Android phone.
I have nostalgic memories of using GIMP.

It's interesting to learn that we are now age mates
> they ration by need, not the ability to pay

I guess my gf will have to attempt suicide to get help then... maybe if she succeed, she won't be a burden on the system !
They don't seem mutually exclusive. iPad could be exactly the same for people who want that but still open for people who don't. I assume you're not suggesting people buy Apple stuff because they know others can't play with it, like some weird jealous children?
Maintaining and understanding legacy codebases is often something given to outsourcing companies too.

As it requires a deep understanding of how the monolith works and its connections to other applications, it usually needs to be done in conjunction with the support team which may be outsourced too.
Book:

Biochemical Pathways: An Atlas of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology:

https://www.amazon.com/Biochemical-Pathways-Biochemistry-Mol...
It seems like I know less about this than you, but: aren't most players with smaller hands effectively playing larger chords one key at a time, just doing it very fast so it's nearly the same?

I assumed that was just the common practice with people playing pieces their hands were not large enough to play, and that this is completely fine in a competition setting.
I always thought that MVP by definition must be a complete product, but existence of articles like yours and Intercom’s Cupcake approach[0] makes me wonder what exactly do some companies out there consider as MVP. Some sort of incomplete prototype?

[0] A great read too: https://www.intercom.com/blog/start-with-a-cupcake/
Pretty much the same idea I used on https://www.vankeekenpodologie.nl . Too bad google doesn't recognize the individual pages.
Which VPS provider is that?

We send mail from a Linode VPS in Frankfurt, which works fine most of the time but a couple of times a year Microsoft puts us on a blacklist, most likely because of a neighbouring IP sending spam.
started kick-boxing at 39. have been practicing for 3 years now. fantastic experience.
In this case yes, the owner was living in the building, but the empty unit thing applies for other units too. You'll get the highest price with a completely empty building. Especially if it falls under the exemptions for condo conversion.
Yes you can. I've done a lot of photo editing in Krita. My cameras output 12-bit raw images, which for a long time GIMP could only work with by truncating to 8-bit. Krita has been able to work with higher bit depths for a long time.

People do photo editing in Krita just like people do painting in Photoshop. Both tools can do both, as can GIMP, it's just that most of Krita's new features of the last few years have been focused on painting.
I did this very long ago. It's possible but the documentation was nearly non-existant, it took me a long time to figure it out.
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I would like to remind everyone that you can pay Apple just under $50 in order to receive direct support from a software engineer.

https://developer.apple.com/support/technical/
Creating an open source desktop app tends to require a different set of skills than what most open source developers have, and getting top notch UX designers and product managers to work on an open source project. When open source developers work on servers, networking, frameworks, etc - they can do top notch work and be their own PMs, it's much much harder for desktop software.
Since when is business reduced to doctors offices ?
I'm generally for eating your own dogfood, but if we are to play devils advocate for a moment. If everyone is responsible for maintaining their own features, could it incentive you to not ship any features at all?
You are right. Their web design is even worse.
Half of the time when arguments against JWT are made is because they are not using it correctly, think it is supposed to do something when they are not meant to do that thing, or are quick to dismiss JWT without being able to point to an alternative that solves their stated deficiencies. Your journey for evaluating if JWT fits your use case should start here: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7519
> Initially, EVs were exempted from taxes to create incentive to use them more. Now that it is pretty clear EVs took off and will be widespread no matter what, some countries start to remove those exemptions to ensure continuing revenue stream.

I suspect that EVs weren't exempted by design, but just slipped through the gap. Australian road tax is applied to petrol/gasoline/diesel. The number of EVs hasn't warranted changing this formula (the alternative being a tax on kms traveled). In Australia, EVs still haven't taken off (as there haven't been any incentives to buy them; in fact as they tend to be expensive, they often fall under the luxury car category and get taxed even more), so there are still very, very few on the road. It's very slowly changing, and this change is definitely looking into the next decade more that the next year, but still strikes me as odd timing - just when momentum is building to EVs, this will dull that momentum (at least without an incentive to _purchase_ an EV.
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Since when is infrastructure the only metric of technological advancement ? Thats only one of the things you can do with money.
Aye. Glad for the Reader Mode in Firefox.
Most things I need, I need because I chose to need them.
Backlinks have meaning but it defiantly isn't the only factor these days. In fact, I have pages on Google's top 10 that don't have a single backlinks. Here are a few things that matter:

1. How competitive is the keyword you are after. If you are targeting "long-tail" keywords - you should rank faster.

E-A-T:

2. The writer's Expertise in the domain (i.e. an MD will have better chances to rank in relevant medical search queries.

3. Authoritativeness is about the writers and the website’s reputations. If the writer and/or website have good reputations and have backlinks from relevant high-quality websites, they have authority.

4. The writer's and website's Trustworthiness - We trust the things we see. If there is no about page or no information about the writer, they are less trustworthy. If the content itself doesn’t include links to relevant sources, we tend not to trust it.

You can read more about E-A-T here - https://www.spectroomz.com/seo-eat-checker

5. User intent - does your article answer users' real intent? Type a certain search query on Google and see that the results are different than the exact keyword you entered. They have additions. These additions in the results are users real intent. Google knows where users who entered search query X ended their search and return those results eventually, even if they include additional keywords and are different from your original query.

6. Does your article have relevant outgoing links? Do you link to reliable sources?

7. Are the backlinks you get from reliable RELEVANT websites?

8. Is your content long-form or short form?

9. How people interact with your page - do they end the search there (great) or move to other sites? What's your bounce rate like? How is your CTR?

10. Is your search query YMYL related (Your Money Your Life)? If you'd want to rank for the "Covid Symptoms" phrase because you want to sell masks on your new Shopify store, I wouldn't bet on you getting to Google first page. This search query is "your life" related and Google gives significant emphasise on the site's reliability regardless of how many backlinks you have. You'd see MayoClinic there, WebMD, .Gov, Healthline and more.

There are many more factors, but I can tell you that while RELEVANT backlinks are important, especially from authoritative sites, it's not the only factor and I even don't treat it as the main factor.

Hope that helps!
Yes, it's copied, and it doesn't acknowledge that the ideas came from your article (even though it attributes the drawings to you with a "Source" link).

I think you should submit your article to HN as well.
Good, so (in Europe):

1) get a job in Switzerland (if you want to stay in EU/Euro countries Germany or Denmark)

2) relocate (with the same wage) in Palermo or Tenerife

3) profit

seriously, I am taking Palermo and Tenerife as examples of places where the climate is so much better than northern/continental Europe and - generally speaking - the cost of life is a fraction.

But you don't need this spreadsheet to intuitively know this, and the data - since it is an average - cannot be really-really accurate (IMHO), maybe it can be useful within a same country.
No, different testing strategy.
See https://github.com/rurban/dieharder/issues/6

You could remove outliers which occur statistically with a certain chance, cry out at the first encounter, or check weak results again with different seeds to resolve potential ambiguities in bad p-values.

With my fixes dieharder finds the same flaws as PractRand and TestU01, just faster. PractRand is still better though.

The cited crypto generators are not statistically better, as they fail much more tests then expected. They are just more secure. More secure does not mean that it is better per se.
The link goes directly to a login page, with no other information. Perhaps you could like to something specific or informative, or alter the title to explain what this is?
So you refute an argument based on a few exceptions ?
Then just fix the rent between tenants. Say: If the last guy paid 2000 you get to ask 2200. If you don't find anyone within a week 2150. -50 for every next week.
There's really no reason to be so negative in the opening of your comment, it would read much differently without it and probably wouldn't be flagged.

That said, you're probably wrong in the same way that saying "anyone can be a great basketball player even if they're short, here's [insert example player who was short], if he can do it anyone can".

That's wrong in a few ways:

1. It's only talking about whether someone "can" be a great player, not how hard it is (much much harder for someone short).

2. It ignores the fact that there are probably other genetic advantages that a short player has, and that "make up" for the height, but are still rare in combination.

3. Even with that, I highly doubt someone can be the greatest basketball player of all time while being relatively short. It's just not possible today.

The situation with piano is the same, except it seems that, unlike in basketball, there's actually something to be done about this. What's the downside?
Dude, there’s literally no rename/move in the official S3 specification, you are going to need to do a PUT object operation which is going to be as fast as a PUT operation is. If you judge a fish for its ability to fly it will feel stupid.
Funny, I haven't noticed that (because I'm logged in).

https://rebrickable.com/
99% of profits, obviously, but you've forgotten what thread we're in. This is a thread about Linux and software freedom. For that, market share is way more important than profit share.
Even if the app was perfect, I would not use it (less suported platforms, waste space, gathers more data, etc).
To be honest, Ecto is not an ORM, it's a query builder with superpowers. More so Elixir is a functional language and technically the O in ORM is missing. I love Ecto, I've never seen something as easy to use and maintain but it's not something Java folks would call an ORM.
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Slightly O/T but have F/OSS graphic apps gotten worse over time? Sitting in front of Inkscape on Ubuntu 20.04 and the thing crashes, wouldn't display guides, wouldn't snap, is overloaded with controls to leave a poststamp-sized canvas for your actual work on a notebook, has miniscule icons not really helpful for revealing functionality, and even lacks icons for basic actions so you're basically clicking on black borders to hope to get some actions back. Guess I have to manually calculate and edit SVGs when I just wanted to construct really simple tangents and typographic Bezier curves. Or is it Ubuntu 20.04 and gnome which just suck? It has recently improved a little bit at least, but is bordering on the unusable for me. What is the recommendation for a Linux workstation OS that is at least designed to run the precious few graphic apps we have? I used to run FreeBSD in the 2000s, so that is an option, too, in the hope that FreeBSD will priorize support for running actual X11 apps rather than grand plans for tablet UIs from early 2010s left in a state of neither here nor there.
> Too bad google doesn't recognize the individual pages.

Not a bug, but a feature.
Exactly. This is why I'm wary of all these arguments for opening up the iPhone. There is large value (in the form of security and minimum quality bar in app review) in the closed ecosystem.

If you don't like it, it's never been easier to build a replacement, or install a dev certificate on your iPhone and load whatever you want.
The whole field of engineering is about solving real, immediate tasks that users have. What you're describing is politics.
I love creating nearly everything with rails, however i agree picking and cleaning an foreign codebase has always been a pain when i didnt know the team/dev follows a very similar pattern
think this is an important reminder about what an extraordinary accident PCs were in their standardization and openness.

You have it backwards. Around the time, everything was open and well documented and hackable. PC, Amiga, ST, Archimedes... It was Macintosh that was uniquely closed.
Not to derail this conversation, but I'm really curious: what ease is there in halving/doubling in the imperial system?
If you're building a new podcast app, all you need is one feature that makes people love your app. People often use apps that have far fewer features than their competitor but do one thing very well. In this sense, I think the "love" part is even more useful to focus you in developing something unique about your app that will help you build a user base even if you don't have all the bells and whistles.
"gimp
in British English

NOUN slang
1. US and Canadian offensive

a physically disabled person, esp one who has difficulty walking

2. a sexual fetishist who likes to be dominated and who dresses in a leather or rubber body suit with mask, zips, and chains

Collins English Dictionary. "

Gimp badly needs help from people with expertise in UI, UX and naming.
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Good question. I’m wondering if my online experiences have changed my expectations and readiness for print.

30 years ago, I’d luxuriate in a copy of Foreign Affairs, The Economist, New Yorker, Interview, NME. Each of those publications gave me subject depth I couldn’t get anywhere else, and the long form articles would provide background and context. They were another world. All I had to do was pay the cover price and find somewhere comfortable to sit without interruption.

What’s different now is I can get all the background and context I need for subjects about which I am naive online through search and Wikipedia. I don’t have to wait for next months periodical to satisfy a curiosity in a subject. So what I want from periodicals has changed. I’m just understanding this more clearly as I respond to your question.

With a magazine, I can’t search, so I want a different experience. I want what I can’t get online for free - inside information, deep subject specialty, skilful curation. The Atlantic often has that, but the curation isn’t assisted by bland typography and illustrations. New Yorker is better that way. I can tell which articles to read without trawling through 500 words.
Private Eye. Probably only of interest to those in the UK (Ireland has The Phoenix, which appears superficially similar at least).

As far as I'm aware it's the only widely distributed investigative journalism magazine. You get to read about some scandals months or years before they break in the news, plenty never make it of course.

There are a number of regular features but the one on the state of national health by M.D. has been by far and a way the most insightful thing I've read on the state of various countries under covid. This includes how the govt. has cocked up, and frequent admissions of how covid confounded the assumptions of the medical community.

It's also got a good line in satire, reviews, absurdity and cartoons. It can be a bit of a slog to read, especially if you go page by page, but that's probably more a reflection of the value of the content than the quality of the prose.
Wow, this came out of nowhere for me
What if things don’t go wrong?

One way that it is better is that it might be a better abstraction. If so, it would be possible to implement just these methods to target an in-memory or on-disk store without the SQL — and get a dramatic performance improvement.

But because data management requires a lot of disciplines and it is easier to test “is this is a better abstraction?” if by creating these kinds of abstractions on abstractions.

Some of them will evolve into “noSQL” but most fail because SQL has a first-movers advantage and they aren’t enough better to warrant further investment. Better may be possible but too few people can afford the luxury of exploring language design — and those that can are scared off easily; People who make bad investments worry about their fellow human and try to prevent them from making the same mistake; and so you worry about what happens when it goes wrong, which is why I say, “what if it doesn’t?”
It's worth noting when doing this it registers each anchor in the browser history. If you want to avoid this, checkbox hacking with the :checked selector is an option.
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That's the most dumb shit I've ever heard. Applications aren't Santa Claus, believing in them working won't make them work.

There's a huge disparity between things like RF propagation, people choosing not to use them, people with broken phones, people forgetting their phones at home, people who have old/unsupported phones, population density, false positives, false negatives etc.

And the best you can come out with is "it's white people's fault".
I found out most people confound familiarity and "intuitiveness" when trying to teach Emacs.
They would say it was not intuitive because common key shortcuts were not default.
I would try to explain, to no avail I must say, that it is rather intuitive since, once you understand the basics, everything follows quite logically and key bindings are customizable.
Not related to actual Non-JavaScript/JavaScript-Free showcase, but may be interesting for js-users.
Totally agree.

But the best part of the story, which I wasn't aware of until recently, is this: when they organized the concert, they actually brought the wrong piano, and instead of a performance-ready piano, they brought a piano that was very bad ("The instrument was tinny and thin in the upper registers and weak in the bass register, and the pedals did not work properly" per Wikipedia).

When Jarrett arrived and tried the piano a few hours before the concert, he almost refused to play. There were other terrible circumstances (he had barely slept in a few days, because of mixups hadn't eaten properly, etc). In the end he was convinced to go on, and played differently than he was used to to try and get the most out of the piano.

What followed is widely hailed as a masterpiece, and remains his most popular work.
I'd forgotten about Edge, I had a subscription for years. I only picked up a copy to occupy me during a flight but I was stunned to find it actually talking seriously about interesting stuff!

I was pretty young and probably impressionable, but the difference between EDGE and the likes of PC Gamer/Zone/Format was remarkable. Hence this remark.
It's interesting that you mentioned alps but don't consider migadu an option. Mind elaborating why?
> If you want to avoid this, checkbox hacking with the :checked selector is an option.

Any Screenshots/Tutorial?
It's a long term pattern that keeps playing out to say "Richard Stallman was quite correct <insert topic here>, as much as I dislike the guy."

Maybe we should pay more attention to what he says!
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