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The reason it caused a problem is because Netflix wasn't loading more than a frame worth of data at a time. That's a strategy that makes sense for a game streaming app like Stadia or Steam Link where every frame of latency matters, but for a movie/TV streaming app it really doesn't.

The point is that there was never any good reason to make the Netflix app so timing-dependent. Had Netflix not done this they wouldn't have even noticed.

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That said, if a company was releasing an Android 5.0 powered device in late 2017 when Android 8.0 had already been released I can't help but say they brought this on themselves by being idiotically out of date. There's no excuse for launching a device with an OS three years and three versions out of date.

Everybody in this story is doing really dumb things.
I'm really curious about when that changed as a norm

The Commodore 64 didn't have one in the box, but IIRC, it was part of the Programmer's Reference Guide. That would have been about 1983ish.

That was the last one I ever saw.
Indeed, speaking from personal experience the stereotype is a pretty false one. Then again maybe I’m just not hanging out in the circles where stereotypical incels hang out.

I think the best description I’ve read here is https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/31/radicalizing-the-roman...
Your ability to play the piano is more likely to be of use in social situations throughout your life as opposed to your Counter-Strike skills.

That isn’t to say that getting good at CS is inherently worse. But that as you age and your priorities shift I think piano is something you are more likely to value.
I don't think the raspberry pi qualifies as an iot device.

It has no built-in storage and you cannot remotely access raspbian unless you modify the image to write 'ssh' in the root folder.

(I don't think pxe qualifies either)
My idea at the time was to add a morse code key (a rocker switch, one side was dit the other dah) so you could send messages privately while in a meeting.

Another idea is to make a walkie-talkie mode, where you could communicate with nearby cell phones without needing a cell tower.
Hugo Chavez hacked our election from the grave. Oh and he also manufactured millions of paper ballots that match the electionic tabulation almost perfectly.

The deep state is deeper than we thought!
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> The crowded urban spaces you prefer are largely dependent on rural areas for their food.

Most farming in the US is done by the same kind of bigcorp groups that do everything else, with a tiny number of well-educated employees mixed with mass seasonal agricultural labor (who usually aren't even citizens in the first place). It happens in rural locations because that's where land is cheap, not because it's actually being primarily operated by some idealized urban farmer.
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This also seems like an odd mindset. Can’t you have a good economy without overpopulating an area? A saying I grew up with - The frog does not drink up the pond in which it lives.
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That depends on the dynamic of the company; for some of the ones I've been in, making the PMs do support would have the desired effect, as the devs don't necessarily get to manage the schedule.
is one of many factors
> "Um, better sound quality?"

> Eric just couldn't believe those responses.

If only a phone could be invented that had sound quality as good as we had in the 90s. I can barely understand people anymore. I'm not losing my hearing in my old age. (much) In person is fine. Other recordings are fine. Even video conferences are fine. But phone calls sound unaccountably terrible.
I’m not so sure. Most malware I find on friend/family windows computers is installed by the user, and Linux gives you a lot more rope... At least windows has defender. The reason Linux systems that are given to family members don’t generally get malware is because those family members lack the technical ability to successfully install any new software on the machine.
DASH is right there, underneath HLS. You didn't read far enough.
That's difficult for people with poor science educations to fully grasp. For example, they might think that the moon's surface itself could reflect the laser light, etc...

Not to mention that unmanned probes could also have placed reflectors without humans ever being sent to the Moon!
Context: I am the founder/sales-rep for Proxycurl and we provide a Linkedin API for product teams.

In a previous post, I talked about how I built an email list of decision makers for venture-capital funded companies. With that, I got in a conversation with a company that is in the business of providing senior software engineers to SMBs.

Particularly, SMBs located in the US, Canada and some European countries that are looking to hire software engineers.

It happens that
1. I have Crunchbase Pro subscription, so I can export a list of companies that are small/medium sized based in revenue and/or funding information
2. Dogfooding our own API, I am able to fetch Job Listings of these companies on Linkedin.

The customer wanted an updated stream of such companies every two weeks. But before he can commit to such a deal, he wanted to know what he will be getting if he paid. (Fair enough). Unfortunately, that means I had to get dirty and write some code. I decided to go above and beyond in hopes of closing a recurring deal. A deal would amount to a few hundred dollars every month.

With a little of coding, I managed to get these results:

> Out of 1000 Series A/B/C companies based in the US that I had exported from Crunchbase Pro, I found 286 companies that were actively hiring software engineers. Not bad. A 28% hit rate of prospect companies.

Unfortunately, I did not close the deal. (Not sure why, he did not reply to my emails). So I decided to share the code that I wrote so if you're doing sales and you're tech-savvy, these might be helpful.
Good point. Will work on including some screenshots and better explanation of what it does, plus add more login options. It's still a work in progress, so lots to improve upon. It may have been a bit early to post on HN, but I like the honest feedback so far.
I am wondering if people going to Texas are aware that the state attorney general filed a lawsuit to the Supreme Court arguing that democratic elections be overturned and Trump appointed king.
> Not all suffered the same slavery we know today.

What is the "slavery we know today"?

Do you mean "American slavery as we understand it today", or "Slavery in the current day"? If the former, then how is the passage you quoted different from our understanding of American slavery? Do you mean to say it was better, worse, or in some other way different?
> It is not clear the FTC has this kind of authority to essentially demand "what are your trade secrets and future business plans?"

They do seem to have the legal authority to make life very difficult for and potentially restrict entire actions of these companies. I imagine that if you refused to answer, and that your right to do so was likely to be upheld, that they'd just do what they were going to do before they asked the questions.

Picture this like a chance to talk your way out of trouble. Saying the minimum probably won't be enough.
This is like 1000th article about people leaving Bay Area tech. I get it. Let's check back in a year.
Yup, point taken.
Xcode used to allow plugins but then disabled them in favor of relatively useless Source Editor extensions which offers nowhere near the capability required to build something like R#.

A stand-alone IDE like AppCode is the way forward, JetBrains usually take a while to get their new IDE's up to speed and catch up with the latest language & platform features, but afterwards is able to add a tonne of smarts and maintain feature parity fairly quickly as they've done with Rider which offers a much nicer & faster UX than VS.NET/R#.
When I was young and bumming around Europe on an Inter-rail pass I took night trains all the time in order to avoid hotels. I would just find an empty cabin, lie down on the floor with my feet against the door and use my backpack for a pillow.
This is growing tedious. We're just going around in circles now.

If you didn't imply "Mueller can't be trusted" what did you mean by this comment where you said "Here's Mueller lying to the world": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25381931?

On the other hand, if you agree that Mueller can be trusted please refer to my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25377886 I showed how Mueller disagreed in very strong terms about "no collusion" as a conclusion. And how "no collusion" was the lie (Barr's summary letter) spread widely before the truth (the actual report) could come out.

You're either a troll arguing in bad faith. In which case, I hope you find better things to do with your life. Or you can't see the logical fallacies in your own worldview, which is a sure sign of being brainwashed by your news sources. In that case, I hope you are able to see the truth one day.
I've seen squirrels bait cats and other animals in a playful fashion, facing downwards on a tree doing the undulating tail thing. Maybe rats are smarter, but squirrels are pretty playful and charismatic.
> I'm intrigued by the concept of an all beef diet, sounds too good to be true!

Yeah, let's all do that and see how many degrees we can tickle out of this whole climate change thing by 2050.
I suggest having a “front page”, something akin to Reddit.com/r/all, so I can get an idea of what the community as a whole thinks is a good note etc
This doesn’t sound like a good incident response plan to me at all, precisely because it provides a very clear incentive to not activate it. If you have to be so sure that you’re having a serious incident that you’re prepared to put a stop to all operations in the organization, then you can be pretty sure that plan is never going to be used.

You’re not going to turn the business off because somebody’s inbox got compromised, or because there’s some unexplained event in the SIEM, and those are the sort of events you’re actually going to have to respond to.
and pigeons?
I think you two are saying two different things. Population in California actually went up. But the growth rate was lower than previous years.
Note the post was written in January 2020.
No, they really don't. The "better" the cigar, the more disagreeable the smell of the smoke. And I say that as a (cigarette and pipe) smoker (and real snuff user) for more than forty years.
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Public transit in Austin is laughably bad unless you're on a small set of travel paths, mostly to the university and a narrow part of the city center.

As an example it takes about 20 minutes to drive from my house to the airport, and 3 hours to get there by bus, not counting the walk to the bus stop. The light rail line goes nowhere near the majority of the city.

If we're doing any sort of event downtown or ACL or whatever, I rent a condo nearby instead of dealing with taxis or busses despite only living 15 minutes from the city center and very much "in Austin."

Nobody deals with publix transit if they can afford not to.
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I overinterpreted your response to the previous commenter and jumped the gun a bit. Sorry for the exaggerated rhetoric, it wasn't needed and may not have been correctly aimed (at you).

But, to your points, there are historical forces that bring people good/bad fortune - including racism in America. How do you decide which ones are worthy of ex post facto adjustment on a society-wide level? How do you balance and justify that to the orthogonal part of your population; the part that had no role in the history but would still be impacted by the expenditure of communal resources? Keeping in mind here, the wider the net you cast for who need adjustment, the bigger the impact on the orthogonal population.
While I completely agree with the premise, I see several obstacles:

1. How would you change culture on such a massive scale?

2. Given the poor state of a social safety net in the US, economic problems can very well be a real strain on a relationship, causing practical problems that might not otherwise crop up, killing relationships that might’ve otherwise survived. I think providing a better social safety net would go a long way towards helping solve this problem

3. Money is already generally not a thing shown on Tinder profiles, and yet the Tinder Gino coefficient is much worse than most real-life countries
Yeah, I was pretty shocked to see that some amoeba just solved P=NP, and that it wasn’t even on the front page of HN.
Only things comperable is an orgasm to be honest. But the satisfaction of Juan deags persist for longer.
Happy to see the Dubsmash founders take a huge deal, they've started pretty small back then!
They are the real winners from the deal
In the defense of the "spin off a REIT" crowd, a business with cash flow problems is making uneconomic use of commercially zoned land by keeping restauraunts nobody owns on it, and could make more money by either selling or renting the land to a more profitable competitor.

My personal retort to that would be some long-winded complaint about how America's cities deliberately mismanage land to inflate it's value, but radical political explanations don't make businesses profitable. If the land is going to be ridiculously expensive, you might as well try to make something off of it, eh?

That doesn't excuse the fact that most restauraunt REITs are nearly-transparent scams for well-connected shareholders to siphon off land from valuable businesses, though.
Charlotte's family weren't the well known field slaves or house slaves. They were tenants, renting their own lives from their legal owner for $2/week.
Can we compare regulations on the following things between Texas and California ?
- Marijuana
- Abortion
- LGBT rights
- Car dealership
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> Most farming in the US is done by the same kind of bigcorp groups that do everything else, with a tiny number of well-educated employees mixed with mass seasonal agricultural labor (who usually aren't even citizens in the first place).

It depends on how you measure "most" but a lot of food is produced on farms owned by large agriculture companies. The food is grown by farmers who live in the rural areas. The farming itself doesn't occur in a vacuum, the entire economy of the rural area is mostly built around supporting the farming activity.

> tiny number of well-educated employees

Some have a b.s. in agriculture. I'm not sure what you mean by "tiny number" except that there are a lot of non-farmers living like sardines in urban areas.

> It happens in rural locations because that's where land is cheap, not because it's actually being primarily operated by some idealized urban farmer.

I'm not sure this is relevant, the cities where people live on welfare or develop marketing programs from cubicles are dependent on people in rural areas growing their food.
It’s not that. It’s that these arguments are old and had a thousand times. I’m tired of it too. It’s the same people coming in and frequently it’s a lot of people who have never even lived in California or the Bay Area.

These threads bring out some awfully unproductive discussion on HN that is mostly a whine fest. And it’s all sides that whine and it’s old. It’s awfully old.
I think this is a good argument for developers spending at least some time working on customer service

My company does this. (Or at least, did before the pandemic.)

My job is to build web sites. My company is in healthcare. that means this web dev has been literally hands-on with actual customers. Actual patients. And their children.

It really changes your view once you're back in the office in front of a keyboard. You start to think about what you design and build in a different way. You start to remember that the people using your web site aren't on the latest whiz-bank iPhone 16. They're on a craptastic pre-paid piece of garbage that they bought at 7-Eleven and share with other members of their family. A phone you and I would use as a weekend burner is all the internet access some people will ever have.
Why not everyone?
> social media sites targeting the alt-right

Parler's front page makes no mention of this. Pls source.

Or, do you just mean that they take the people who get kicked off of twitter? Because then, yeah - if you kick people off one place they'll tend to be found somewhere else.
I'm sure executing people you preprofile as having potential to commit crime would also reduce crime.

For that matter executing the entire population would be the most effective crime prevention strategy of all time.

We don't and should not do all the things that "reduce crime".
I have a nerdy friend with a pretty slim frame who works out a lot but still can’t get stereotypically buff. (Not that I’m saying he needs to do that, just that he can’t.)

Still couldn’t get laid to save his life. Beating out “the average overweight guy” is far from enough, especially if you’re in nerdy circles.
I’m sure there was at least one engineer that was like this is a bad idea and everyone laughed at them. Having a discussion about bad security practices doesn’t change anything. Companies just don’t care about security. It’s why we see major companies hacked time and time again. Even if the team agreed it was an issue, a project manager is never going prioritize security work over new features.
> Half a full bodied can knock you like drinking 2 IPA beers. You can get tipsy from smoking a cigar.

Back when I used to smoke, I tried cigars a few times. They tasted good, but they'd make me sick even before I could finish one. I'd end up nauseous and laying on the floor trying to force myself not to throw up for about an hour. They would seriously fuck me up, and there's a reason I mostly just stuck to kreteks until I quit.
You still didn't answer why that's the case. If Texas has the answer I'm sure California would love to hear it.
Well, if they did Apple could respond with a few short pages (targeting: none, ads: none, etc.) of info compared to the terabytes the social companies would need.
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I was about to use JSON schemas but didn't know how to implement it in a generic way.

Thanks for Quart, I'll use it soon.

Is there a way to export the schemas for external use ?
I like that idea. I do need to improve the whole onboarding process.
You can just read the conclusion.
I would say that there's a difference between bean counting and an MBA. Unfortunately, most MBAs focus on finance and not strategy and that's the problem.

Caveat: I have a MBA and my focus was not on finance.
What is a thing but a name? To really name something you have to know what it is, and that is harder than you think.
I am very disappointed by this as well. I am worried ReScript may have killed the momentum ReasonML had been gaining.

This is how I understand this:

1996 - OCaml is born.
2016 - ReasonML, an alternative syntax that compiles to OCaml, is launched by Facebook.
2016 - A couple of months later, BuckleScript, an OCaml -> JS compiler is launched.
201X - Collaboration happens, BuckleScript couples tightly to ReasonML.
2020 - BuckleScript forks the ReasonML syntax and rebrands the compiler and the new syntax together under ReScript.
2020 - ReasonML still exists?

Ok, fine. What is not clear to me is how the Facebook team behind ReasonML fits into ReScript. Are they aligned on the direction to take this community? What is the future of ReasonML?

What was the goal? If it was to ease adoption by newcomers, as a newcomer, it has made this more difficult. As someone VERY EAGER to enter this family of languages today, I ended up giving up on all of that and decided to just learn OCaml.

Now I'm dealing with Dune, Esy, OPAM, two competing async libraries and a community that is split between Jane Street libraries and the others.. but I really, really like OCaml!
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Devs too good to shadow the support personnel, which are the frontline of the product they build, aren’t welcome on my team. We build high quality products, and we do that by caring about the customer experience. Both support and consumers are our customer.
“Three striking characteristics of the report are how, like Trump, it acknowledges that globalization is not working in favor of Americans; how the foreign policy team must coordinate with the domestic policy team and the economic team to align U.S. policy; and how the U.S. should strive to build a new political consensus around a foreign policy that works better for America's middle class.”
> wasn't loading more than a frame worth of data at a time

So the real question should be, does Netflix have a valid reason for only delivering a single frame of video and audio at a time? Is it bad software design, or good software design for an unknown problem (to us)?

I've seen plenty of things that looked stupid out of context, then made sense later on after understanding why the "stupid" things was done in the first place.
Agreed. And a big part of this is a person’s definition of perfect weather.

I’m in SoCal just coastal enough to not get very high highs, but lows rarely pass 55. But, if SF was exactly the same price, I’d prefer that weather by quite a bit (even though anywhere SF to TJ is leagues “better” - by my definition - than the weather of the state I moved from).

I just love that cozy but not-too-chilly climate of SF, ah. Perfect thinking/studying/hiking/reading weather for my tastes.
> That's knowing better but making a conscious decision to embrace evil because it makes your life easier.

The average middle/upper class person today is the same, living on the fruit of foreign slave and subsistence laborers for clothing, food, and toys, and eating from the suffering of factory animals.
Of course. It's from a book called "Perfume: The Story of a Murderer", the whole book is about smells/odors/fragrances of all kinds.

It's a great read.
> In the past people thought that the only method to address economical inequality was to redistribute wealth forcefully.

I still don’t see a peaceful alternative. The wealth gap is growing inexorably year after year, decade after decade, and the richest of the rich certainly aren’t voluntarily tripping over themselves to redistribute the gains.
Why would they want to sell it. They could license access to it for recurring revenue, like other Big Tech companies.

The most important control that customers should seek is not control over the sale/transfer of data, it is control over how the data may be used, by anyone. For example, if the data comes with terms that say it cannot be used for advertising purposes, then what are the chances anyone can sell it to advertisers.

The "We do not/will not sell your data" line is a deliberate red herring, of no more value than "We take security very seriously".

(Great comment, BTW.)
Oh wow, I personally know someone who joined the dev pubs team to work on this documentation. I think a big factor in the improvements was their hiring practices. Traditionally Apple has required that employees be on-site. Their dev pubs team is a notable exception and a signify part of that team is remote.
> This billion dollar company

Did not know this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD_Projekt

By September 2017, it was the largest publicly traded video game company in Poland, worth about US$2.3 billion,[7] and by May 2020, had reached a valuation of US$8.1 billion, making it the largest video game industry company in Europe ahead of Ubisoft.[8]

Number of employees: 1,111 (2019)
It's very hard to assess automatically (and therefore cheaply) since "engineering skill" is largely qualitative rather than quantitative.