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Adobe Earnings Review: Spotless, Stock Is a Strong Buy
This sounds a lot like book publishing
Kind of hard to cover it all, as it's sort of spread across many subjects, some of it is specific to a technology and some is more general. We really need a Wiki for it all. I tried to start one but it proved difficult to find other people who were interested. Here's some of the content: https://github.com/peterwwillis/devopsyoga-content/

This DevOps word soup will help point you towards good practices:

Infrastructure as Code. Immutable Infrastructure. Continuous Integration. Continuous Delivery. Test Driven Development. Blue/Green and Canary deployments. Cattle not Pets. Dead Cat syndrome. Not Invented Here syndrome. The Three Ways (Systems Thinking, Amplifying Feedback Loops, Continuous Learning and Experimentation). The Four Areas (Extend Delivery to Production, Extend Operation to Project, Embed Project(Dev) into Operations, Embed Production(Ops) into Project). CALMS. Andon cords. Autonomation. Value Stream Mapping. Shift Left. The Twelve-Factor App. Performance & Stress Testing. Quality Gates. Chaos Engineering. Idempotent & Atomic Deployments. Service Mesh. Distributed Tracing. Ephemeral credentials & secrets management.

Then again, a lot of best practices have no buzzword.

I don't know if "Simplified Engineering" has its own buzzword, but that's a best practice: use the least complex solution that meets your product's needs and also ensures other best practices. A Kubernetes cluster that isn't well managed may be much worse for security & reliability than running an app in a Docker container on a single pre-baked VPS. Static websites are more reliable than dynamic ones. And a static website served via S3 static site hosting is even more reliable [assuming it's not in us-east-1!].
I use the native Apple Shortcuts app to get my health data from my watch (calories burned, steps, etc.) and send it to my personal db for a dashboard
Housing prices are set on the margin. 20k to 40k units coming online for sale immediately would have a material impact on prices.
Except Google has 4 million customers. If 1% of their customers made a 75k mistake, they make 3 billion dollars.
>Equating a one or no child policy with "family planning" is extremely disingenuous.

meh, not really. The OP may have worded it bluntly but the distribution of free contraceptives, access to birth control is just the 'nudging' version of the same thing. I always find it a little bit hilarious how you can reframe population politics in terms of some technocratic wonk policy or language and then it's total cool, whereas just doing a one-child policy is evil despite having virtually the same goal
The rich and powerful have lost their moral compass, yes. The way to fix it is for the state to partly seize their wealth and partly deficit spend, and transfer all of it to the poor.
Is there a way to sort this by votes? I must be missing it.
Accuweather and the rest have been lobbying to hobble NOAA and NWS for decades

So of course it’s corporate bureaucracy. Like with the Post Office, corporate stooges are given control and run it like shit to have something to complain about.
In the US at least if you are not treating it to drinkable the epa will stop you. Though where the epa tests is important, some times that means after it percolate through soil.
I thought it required a hacksaw and a bad drug habit. Impressive they got under a Prius, usually they go for small SUVs for the high clearance.
Greenpeace at it again!
The number of customers who chose an iPhone because it only lets them buy apps from Apple is a tiny fraction of the number of people who bought the device as a fashion accessory. What a strange thing to want. It makes little sense to think that Apple is catering to the tiny former group instead of simply extracting as much money as it can out of the latter group.
Blaming Apple is provably not true. Adobe claimed that they could get Flash working on the first Apple iPhone in 2007. When Adobe finally bought Flash to Android, it required 1GB of RAM and a 1Ghz CPU. Even then it ran badly and drained the battery.

The first iPhone had 128MB RAM and 400Mhz CPU. The first iPhone that met those specs came out in 2011.

One of the biggest knocks against the iPad in 2010 was that you couldn’t view the “real Internet” without Flash. Adobe promised Flash on the Motorola Xoom that came out a year later. Adobe was late leaving the Xoom in the unenviable position that you couldn’t view its Flash based home page on the device.
There is something about the bias of this article that bugs me. It feels like it is trying to rewrite history to suit its narrative.

It implies that developers used to be able to create whatever programs they wanted thanks to Cydia prior to the App Store. This was never the case, the Cydia ecosystem was based on unintended buggy behavior.

In the beginning Apple was clear that there were no native apps, only web apps or whatever they called them. They eventually reversed course and implemented the App Store for native apps but was that because of Cydia? That's just speculation.

Personally I always speculated that they weren't ready and in classic Apple fashion pretended the idea of native apps was stupid until they were ready.

Should Apple be forced to support other app stores or side loading? I don't know. I do feel like there are good arguments for it but they should be allowed to stand on there own merit without skewing the narrative.
In e-text, jumping down to read a footnote, then back up again is a hilarious anachronism that gets old really fast. Ted Nelson groan.

The tack that Wikipedia has taken ... hover over the note# and a floating box reveals the note (and any links) ... IMO is state-of-the-art. I hate wasting time making stuff 'pretty print' - time that could have been much better spent improving the content instead of mere aesthetics.

While the world catches up with WPedia, this 'details' method has a lot going for it.
Here's another way to look at it.

Is there any way to be really successful without being some kind of disingenuous sociopath or at least blithely unaware of the broader context of your success and the suffering it's built on?

No, not really. And if that makes somebody bitter, then I think that makes them sane.

This is story is the perfect example of the above. PG is selling us same old story that these two made it through hard work and attitude, while they really made it by opening up residential housing to rent-seeking speculators to use as hotels.
Nothing in that link seems to indicate it was “extremely bad”. Just seems like your typical not enough pork/special interest support red team versus blue team nonsense.

OSHA regulations and “census worker relief” need to be tied into this specific funding bill? Really?
> Is it necessary that data modeling flexibility must decline as an application matures and scales, though?

Yeah, this is a valuable question, and I agree its not an obvious answer. The tricky part is that at enough scale, humans are really the bottleneck. Teams step on each others toes, abuse schemas, add data to a schema "because", etc, etc. Its possible that to best manage the humans, de-normalization and relying on replicated data stores with slightly different views of the data is simplest.

Add again if "overly flexible" is a long term product requirement, I'd argue you're going to eventually need full text search with all the power of Lucene (I'm betting its on your roadmap).

If Fauna perfectly addresses this problem domain, its likely quite helpful, but this article did not convince me it'll always be cheaper / better than DynamoDB + ElasticSearch for the complex usecases. That said, I look forward to the day I'm proved wrong :)
‘Dune’ Director Denis Villeneuve Blasts HBO Max Deal
There really should be some kind of federated crawler + search platform. There's no reason why it should be reasonable that a private company (Google) succeeds in attaining its goal of organizing all the world's public information. Unfortunately it's very hard for me to see a revolution in people's choice of search engine..
Made an update and now the expiration time of all certificates in the certificate chain is checked.

Thanks!
Sure, right, yes! They also should provide us key for the apartment where money are stored.

I don't believe Apple will ever give up their infinite and effectively zero-cost source of free dough. They badly need it to justify their senseless valuation, not to mention growth.
“Old RHN was as dead as a doornail.

Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that RHN was as dead as a doornail.”

With apologies to Charles Dickens[0].

[0] https://www.gutenberg.org/files/46/46-h/46-h.htm
Eh, It's the original source. I tried Googling around and couldn't find a better source.

Probably why I haven't heard about it. Rebel News reporting is a no-go zone for the Canadian media.

The Globe and Mail reporting on it was far more mild and less revealing, considering China has two Canadians locked up for years while they invited PLA to train with our troops. Nor did include the original source material: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-global-affa...

Makes you wonder if we'd ever have found out about this otherwise.
https://blog.malwarebytes.com/mac/2019/08/unprecedented-new-....

https://www.cnet.com/news/google-researcher-demonstrates-iph...
Nothing to do with legality: as I said, christian values at high levels. I mean, contraception, and gay and interracial marriage are legal, but Christians in the US still fight it tooth and nail, like: refusing to hand out marriage certificates, or refusing to fund the pill but fund viagra, or closing down health clinics for women. I mean this can't be your first rodeo, right?
It's the latter. From the article:

"Other states are high or low for various reasons: the outliers Maryland and Virginia, for example, both have dramatically higher Federal spending per capita than the average state, as they are near the physical headquarters for most of the Federal government and have significantly disproportionate Federal spending for procurement and Federal wages."

So, while Virginia is a relatively high-income state and contributes a lot of Federal income tax, they also have a lot of Federal employees, grants, contracts, etc.

(I was surprised at first too)
> Wish people would add in parens the meaning of the acronym they use at the first occurence

I find that style utterly patronizing. For uncommon abbreviations it would be better to introduce them in parenthesis after their meaning is spelled out on first use. The reader gains by looking-up common abbreviations.

nature publishes research papers. Those tend to address primarily fellow researchers familiar with the terms.
The problem with this though is it opens a vector for exploitation: users could just use the grace period to store data for free for a period of time. This can quickly become a heavy financial burden if enough people do it.

You could factor that into the price, but then you're potentially making the price point even more unattractive to users than it already is, and users that are responsible with their budgets would be subsidizing those that aren't. Not a very workable solution.

I'd say a good solution is giving customers the option to stop accruing more storage capacity, and to have a max deadline accounted for in their budget to store data (basically each customer decides whether or not to pay for a grace period).
I use the following in Bash.

function notifyme() {
MSG=${1:-'Terminal is done'}
TITLE=${2:-"Done!"}
osascript -e "display notification \"${MSG}\" with title \"${TITLE}\""
}

I use it like:

bin/start-unit-tests; notifyme
Having been on exactly the hourly pay schedule you mention, I still kind of hated the “what is your time worth” question because I could never justify things like cooking my own food so I should order 100% of meals delivered and work 12 hour days never leaving the office.
Ask HN: How did Apple manage to create such a better chip than Intel?
The recent Apple M1 chip is faster and more efficient than the equivalent intel chips. Can someone with a better understanding of chip design explain to me:

1/ What specific design choices make the M1 so much better than the equivalent intel chips ? It looks like there are a bunch of changes -- 5nm silicon, single memory pool, a combination of high efficiency and high power cores. Can someone explain to me how each of these changes helps apple achieve the gains it did ? Are these breakthrough architectural changes in chip design or have these been discussed before?

2/ How did apple manage to create this when intel has been making chips for decades and that is the singular focus of the company ? Is it the fact that Mac OS could be better optimized for the M1 chips ? Given the design changes that doesn't seem like the only reason.
Says the guy who has been caught lying many times after he finally found a single time that I lied. Sure, buddy.
Usually it happens at the geographic fringes of civilization where cisterns/tanks get filled from municipal water supplies. Not people running a hose to their house.

But there’s also a lot of truck-delivered water used in construction/dust control.

No shortage of reports/charges: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=fire+hydrant+water+theft
RHEL has accreditations baked in (or easy enough to flip a switch) that some industries, such as payment processing and government, require.

These accreditations can be had on other systems to some degree but RHEL is the defacto in these realms.
When I started this I was too dumb to know better. It was incredibly difficult and all of the money I raised on Kickstarter went down the drain due to bad suppliers and inexperience. Without the upfront investment of many people, I probably would have been put off; as getting production lines up and running, mold costs, etc. are in the 5 figures. Once you have a bit of a backing though, you can afford to make some investments that may or not pan out. For example the glass I prototype needs molds made just to see if the idea in my head will work, each of which is a few thousand bucks. A lot of times, they don't pan out and the mold is trashed. But when it does work out, it makes up for all of the failures. Happy to answer any specific questions if you want to reach out via email (in profile).
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Any plans to bring this to Cloud Foundry?
Rely on games is always not that easy as you can imagine, but I will also say good luck to your adventures! Don't forget, there are a ton of youtube videos talking indie game making and alike, I am pretty sure you can learn many valuable tips from them!
Yeah, I do this for quite a few things. It works pretty well. In my mind that was implicit in the fourth point, but I didn’t spell it out.
> Around the end of the year, a bomb was defused outside the office of San Francisco’s chief health officer, Dr. William C. Hassler.

Not 2020, surprisingly. 1918. Idiots have been getting upset about mask mandates for a while.
The HBC has been coasting on it's reputation as "Canada's oldest corporation" for too long.

The selection is poor, everything is overpriced, and store layouts haven't changed since the 50s.

Remember that scene in Queen's Gambit where Harmon buys a dress at the department store? That's basically HBC except they've given HBC a new coat of paint and proclaimed it ready for the 21st century.

HBC was one of the prime places to do a wedding registry. They had nearly all the stereotypical registry items, but you had to go in and scan them. I tried using their online backend to add to a registry, and it is firmly stuck in the 90s, stopped working, and nobody bothered to fix it.

They do this weird thing where there are multiple counters scattered throughout the store, manned with helpful ladies to answer questions and ring out purchases, except they're always unmanned, except one (on the other side of the store you're standing in), and that one counter has 5 people in line, some who wish to do returns, which take extra time.

Their policy seems to be to sell their HBC card at every chance, and if someone decides to sign up, you will be stuck in line while they fill out the entire form. Remember, there's only one till open, and because they ask about the card right before payment, the session cannot be put on hold, in order to ring someone else in.

When I worked at Zellers in 2005, they had an ancient text-based GUI for their POS. It's fast if you know what you're doing, but nobody at HBC seems to know how to use it. Oh, and HBC still uses this system in 2020. Want to see a piece of history? Check it out.

I can't wait for HBC to die. It should've gone instead of Zellers. All this they're doing to try and defer rent payments is just the death throes of a once great corporation that decided they had it all figured out, and that nothing ever needed to change.

There's one nice thing about HBC, which is that they make nice mugs, I guess.
I'd like to know this too.
Why would an investor pay money for hudson's e-commerce bet (keeping in mind that their investment will grow proportionally to hudson's overall growth not the growth of their e-commerce division) versus just investing in a pure e-commerce company?
This definitely rings true in my experience, but I have to wonder what a better system would be for Google. Their leadership just isn't top down which means rewards have to hit some kind of decentralised target, launches being the most impactful.
> They are literally what your talking about.

No. The second link isn’t something 99.9% of the general public will directly access. So in terms of directly communicating with the public without intermediaries it’s again useless to 99.9% of the population. The first link is useable but hardly designed to maximize views by the general public.

This isn’t some major expense, even 3% of their budget spent on communicating with the general public would easily cover several clean apps etc. Instead, it’s clear their largely a giant subsidy for private profit. Other government agencies charge for this kind of large scale data access by private companies to lower costs to taxpayers by removing subsidies.
If there's ever been a case against using GCP or AWS this is it. You better understand those systems or you will be in for the shock of your life when you get hit with this sort of crazy billing. I got $3,000 AWS credit and was terrified of running experiments in case I made a mistake. It should not be hard to set hard billing limits, these companies know how to set hard CPU limits, why can't they do that with billing?
Canonical has microk8s, which you can install as a snap package. Super simple and works great.
That’s where experience comes in. We should know that certain domains (e.g., Kubernetes configs) are going to get unruly fast and we oughtn’t waste time with YAML. I don’t think this will be a controversial opinion in a few years time.
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Thoughts on `git bundle`?
I hope this doesn’t work and kills millions of Americans...
Changing CentOS in Mid-Stream
I've been taking the lead on using Cypress on our small team, and it's been a delight so far.
Thanks Obama Administration.
Also keen on a link!
GPS fixes improve over time as the ephemeris gets downloaded and updated so what he claims makes sense. A full ephemeris takes 30 seconds to broadcast from each satellite.
You are pretty reductive in your description of homeless people. Sure, some people end up in that situation because of mental illness or move to these areas after already becoming homeless, but that is not the majority of homeless people.

>L.A.H.S.A.’s 2019 homeless count found that 64 percent of the 58,936 Los Angeles County residents experiencing homelessness had lived in the city for more than 10 years. Less than a fifth (18 percent) said they had lived out of state before becoming homeless.

>More than half of the people surveyed in Los Angeles cited economic hardship as the primary reason that they fell into homelessness.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/06/us/homeless-population.ht...
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I’ve seen many rewrite stories go well. I’ve seen many go south. This just seems like awful management and not spending time early de-risking things.

That being said it’s a common problem in growth startup. Prioritization is hard. Too many engineers doesn’t mean problems get solved. They need to be able to talk to each other and execute with what’s essential to users.

Growth is a curse and a blessing.
My one complaint about how the EU have handled negotiations is that they didn't realise (or didn't advertise enough) from the start that No Deal was always the UK's intended goal.

The first clue was that the Tory party seemed to have been hijacked by Brextremists supporting the Singapore-on-Thames deregulation model for Britain's future, who were only held back by the fact that they lacked the support of even most of their own MPs to openly push for this. This explains Theresa May's insistence that "No Deal is better than a bad deal" and her unwillingness to compromise with other parties to get a deal done without the votes of the ERG.

It became undeniable, though, when suddenly Boris managed to unite his party and pass the Withdrawal Agreement through parliament, without any shouts of "Betrayal!" from the ERG. The only reason for them holding their tongue was no doubt a promise made to them behind the scenes (perhaps by the master strategist Dominic Cummings) that the agreement was just for show, so that the UK could cross the Rubicon and deliver Brexit, with the apparent safety of a "transition period" to finalise the "oven-ready" deal, but actually with the full intention of, at the last minute, pulling the "bait and switch" to get the No Deal outcome which never would have made it through parliament.
I think it turned out like this because supply control used to come from the time/resource limitation of making physical goods. If you wanted your product to be rarer/higher priced, even on the second-hand market, you needed to produce less of that item. With the computing age, putting software on disks is cheap and sending software via the internet is effectively free, and reproducing that software for free to send to anyone who wants it is both free and easy (less so now with blu-ray DRM but it still happens).
More likely they were scared out of their mind and frantically trying to do anything and everything they could to handle the situation.