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For many corporate client system developments this is my experience too. Producing the actual LOCs is not the primary cost; it's requirement gathering, figuring out how to plug in the new component into an existing system etc. As an example of the first, you might be digitizing a cross-department workflow. Your job now basically becomes to interview stakeholders from each dept and have them commit to a single online workflow. An example of the second is you might want postgre for your backend, but the client might want a single stop db on whatever they're using today.

Then there are challenges around integrating with existing APIs, workflows etc.

Let's not forget feature creep. Sometimes the client might not be able to visualize the final UX in its entirety (often simply because multiple people are involved),and therefore, they might only begin realizing its impact as and when parts of the new system becomes available.

Essentially, you are not paid to build an isolated system, but to understand well and play nicely with the larger context - human and technological - within which your system must live.
Studies show the rich are more like to be dishonest - it’s literally been studied and proven lol
Looks like your elderly parent home is fine. Just share the 30A 240V line between the stove and the car charger. You have hardware to share the load automatically, my not so young boss has that. And most EVs will charge at 32A max on 240V so you don't really need to get more amps.
Please point out the irony. If this op-ed were published in the Rupert Murdoch's NY Post or read on Fox News, it might be ironic, but in the NY Times by Shoshana Zuboff, it is serious analysis. If you find it interesting, read her book.

For those who do not remember 11th grade English:

If something is ironic it's unexpected, often in an amusing way. If you're the world chess champion, it would be pretty ironic if you lost a match to someone who just learned to play yesterday. Ironic is the adjective for the noun irony. In contemporary speech, when we call something ironic, we often mean sarcastic. [From www.vocabulary.com]
> (2) a key use case for federated messaging platforms is to evade censorship

For some people (although maybe comparatively few) it's primarily about building a more robust Internet that works also if centralized service(s) disappear
Now you're telling me Pandits went from 40% in 1970 to 5% before 1990? Did Dogras in Jammu become Pandits now? Are you talking about Ladakh being hived off?
The term Nazi here is just a placeholder for a set of policies you have.

Not calling by what it is doesn't do much positive to the merit of the policies themselves.

You don't have to prove anything to us. You just have to ensure you don't meet the same fate as Nazis.

For starters pay less attention to what you are called, and more attention to what you are.
It seems to be much easier to attack a reputation than to fix it.

Like if enough women accuse Bill Cosby of something, then the court of public opinion will say he’s guilty. (I understand that in a real court he was convicted by a jury based on his own deposition from 2005 though). But on the Web, what does it cost people to just make stuff up and use botnets or GPT?
What you think and what is are two totally different things lol
Consumer Reports in a recent issue highlighted that Tesla's have pretty low reliability (meaning they end up needing more service or have more defects than the average car).

I don't know if it's brand specific or what, but that might factor into maintenance costs also
I just experienced something similar with Accenture. They were hired by the state of Bavaria in Germany to build an appointment management system for Covid vaccines. They didn't get it done in time and then it sucked so badly that the doctors didn't want to use it.

They now use my tiny little business's [1] solution instead. I've been on the market since 2014 and they found me through my web site. They called on a Friday "we need the system on Monday". Signed the contract in the evening, set everything up over the weekend, and now they're loving it. Sometimes, I think these big organizations are just so overloaded with bureaucracy and politics that a little guy like me can compete on pure product quality.

[1]: https://www.indiehackers.com/interview/terminerinnerung-56e9...
Wish GPUs came with upgradable RAM slots like SODIMMs in laptops
So sometimes the courts are corrupt and dancing to the tune of the industrialist or it’s the beacon of justice, when convenient? Sometimes in the same argument? I do agree though that clause was asinine.

Even if reliance gets to benefit, is the farmer being harmed for it? Poor farmer has a lot to gain from this bill. They get supply of funds right from by muting seeds and fertilisers to having assured income. Just paint the “industrialist” as the monster and destroy away?

What exactly are the demands of this protest? They seem to have changed a lot from the start. What about protesting when something actually has gone wrong and you can actually point to a loss?
its war against billionaire hedge funds.
When thinking of Apple, I wonder..

Was the Apple II for beginners? School children?

Was the original Macintosh easier for beginners to use than other computers?

Was the Apple Quicktime Pro one of the first digital cameras that anyone could relatively pick up and start using?

Was the iPod the first digital music player that just worked to buy and download music from end to end?

Was iPhone.. despite arriving as a smartphone a decade after Palm, etc, was the first usable smartphone for the masses?

Was iPad the first tablet that also just worked? Seems like anyone who can't use a laptop can use their finger on an iPad.

How about that AppleTV? Can anyone use it? It's easier than my AndroidTV.

What about that Apple watch, how many people who were new to wearables had it as their first? Seems popular with the masses.

Experts are usually the few, not the masses.

There's no doubt apple charges a premium. Their devices on average last 4-6 years, longer than the Android I'm typing this on.

Rather than being first, they do try to get it right for the masses. I'm not a happy Apple user, or fan with the keyboard fiasco. Apple's history though remains what it is.. easier to adopt by beginners.
Why not live somewhere where you can enjoy your life, and fly down to visit your parents? Flights to Florida are dirt cheap from the northeast or Spirit hubs (like $30-$120 round trip, you can't even drive to NYC from DC for that).

Even if you're socially withdrawn (hell, I am) you can get so much more out of life even on your own in a place where there's nature, culture, diversity, nice people. Where you don't have to drive four hours to get to another large metro area. And that's just one area of the U.S.

It's a big world out there. Moving to Florida is like throwing the world away. You only get one life, don't waste it.
Attracting polarized views doesn't mean the topic isn't appropriate. The discourse doesn't set the value of the topic.
this is a pretty hot take. it's a powerful one for sure, but the most unifying force has to be tribal affiliation or familial bonds or something.
I'd never in a million years argue that Deloitte did an awesome job on a large government contract, but it's mind-boggling to watch the regular ritual of HN posters blithely insist that anything more over $20K and a pile of pizzas for government infrastructure is a scam.
Now think of the problem in reverse, from the government's side. Why are they contracting it out when all of the most difficult aspects involve integrating with government systems, policies and personnel - things that government already knows how to do?

"Because we don't have the expertise to do software development."

The comments in this thread, which I fully agree with by the way, just cement my belief that if government wants to deliver high-quality IT projects they need to start developing the expertise to do it in-house.
I'm not sure how it works but xmpp with the conversations client has that feature. After sending a message you can edit it to anything or nothing. I don't know of other clients that support that, and obviously someone could have a client that doesn't support it and then they will still see your message. But I think that is the closest you'll get.
Your additional suggestion that corruption in modern democracies is somehow comparable to the representation afforded to feudal peasants is only very slightly less laughably ridiculous than the parent comment about economic inequality.
I look forward to the "Gulmarg Quiet Zone" around the observatory there so rest of Kashmir can have 4G again.
Your experience does not invalidate systemic racism.
Exactly! That feeling of improving society would go a long way toward balancing out the pain of working on legacy systems
They care because Wall St. fucked over the entire planet in 2008 and these guys are sat around, bored, probably with an extra stimulus lying around, and have been told they can destroy a few hedge funds via GME.

I don't know how realistic that is, but the message is certainly powerful.
The OP needs to hire you.

And maybe you'll accept raw diamonds as a payment?
> I never heard a low-paid worker throw this argument. It always comes from people who have better jobs and more stable income

I grew up in dirt poor family of 6 in a post civil war country and my mother is a nurse - I'm very familiar with the realities of these jobs. I just know for a fact that if a nurse would start making 2x her salary a lot of people would suddenly not have access to assisted care. It's a shitty situation - but supply of cheap labor solves the problems of poor people - if you can't see that you're out of touch.

Rich and well off people will always have access - they already pay more anyway for quality.
If you’re someone outside India, please write to your representatives (or organize something) on matters like Internet access being cut off. We live in an age where this can be a matter of life and death.

It is standard practice in India to cut off Internet access in places where there are riots or riots expected to happen or for some nebulous “national security” concern. In fact, India tops the list of countries with the most Internet shutdowns in the last few years (you can check this out online).

In one state (where wired broadband penetration is quite low), mobile Internet access was disabled for several months even during the pandemic!

The government and its law enforcement agencies do not know of other ways to handle these and resort to more of a “control and crush” mode.

Maybe certain circumstances lead to certain decisions. What’s more shocking is that there’s no transparency on why access is blocked, who got it done, when the block will be lifted (and for what reasons). A democracy cannot thrive when the ruling powers along with law enforcement hold everything as a secret and don’t appreciate questions from the citizens.

It’s sad to see India becoming more closed and authoritarian.

Internet Freedom Foundation (https://internetfreedom.in) fights for digital rights in India. Follow and support it.
> Agriculture employs about half of India's 1.3 billion population

I am not familiar with politics in India, so my question is: how does the BJP manage to push laws that (seem to) adversly affect the interest of half of the population? Isn't that political suicide for the BJP?
very insightful. the secret is that everything just gets worse every decade
My recollection of prior HN discussions is that a large part of it was that it involved interfacing to systems in a large number of agencies or departments. Most of those systems were old systems, independently developed systems, that had not been designed to have APIs for other agencies to use (or had not been designed to have APIs at all).

I think it might also have had to interface to state systems in the states that were not running their own ACA exchanges, and to the systems of numerous insurance companies.
The problem is that money is a vital piece of the technology.

In traditional cryptogrqphy, an attacker needs exponentially more resources then the honest parties. With crypto, all an attacker needs is about as much resources as the honest actor. The theory being that anyone with those resources would gain even more by behaving honestly.

Without the money portion of this, the security guarentees here are just not viable.
Haha, have heard of that principle but not what it was called.
I agree with this historically, being in the WSB old-timer club myself.

But there's about 5 million new people subscribed to that sub in the last couple weeks, and I don't believe they all know holding GME is gambling.
True. It's quite telling that as soon as it was morning in India this post fell off the top page.
Inflation is the best tool to create inequality - rich people are always closest to the money source.
The governemnt is making large scale detention centers though.
Sorry no, largest producer of wheat is Madhya Pradesh and not Punjab. Punjab has the richest farmers though.
It makes me wonder what the heck they do at their day jobs. Requirements gathering is the impossible part.
The Canadian government paid Deloitte $16M for exactly the same thing, with a deadline of January 31 to get it running.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/ottawa-gives-accounting-firm...

One of the factors cited in awarding the contract was Deloitte's "experience" doing the same thing in the USA.

http://www.canadian-accountant.com/content/business/why-delo...
It will be when a lot of the mob wake up after losing a few thousand or more $$ then get laughed at in the same forum.
Sometimes it might be possible to get agreement by posing your question in the form of a land mine. If you already know your audience's stock response, you could try to align your position with that. You might find them agreeing with you before they even realize what they said. If they hadn't considered the question much before, there's a chance they'll stick with it too.
I don’t think it’s being oblivious.

It’s being removed enough to forget the painful parts, but being aware enough at the time of the good parts.

The painful parts decay faster than the good part memories, but schooling pain lasts forever! So the crossover seems to be in people’s early 20s

Being objective about your personal history is really hard - but it drives a lot of decisions today, so it’s good to at least revisit those “good times” to put them into the relevant context (too few people do this!)
Just fyi- I think you mean rivalrousness, not scarcity, they're not exactly the same, and edge cases where they are similar but one is mistreated as the other have historically had serious consequences.
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They counter for it pulling on religion and hyper-nationalistic views like banning beef, uniform civil laws (even though almost each religion has their own including Hindus).
D-Bus is a special case because the protocol is not particularly complicated and the proxy can be used by any sandbox to implement various types of filtering on any other service that uses D-Bus. That's one of those things where if your application uses D-Bus to communicate with a service, you might just end up getting sandboxing support there "for free."

Pulseaudio is not getting much work these days, I believe the work currently is happening in Pipewire, which was built to have a fine-grained permission system that can work with any sandbox and is backwards-compatible with Pulseaudio.

I'm not sure how your IRC bouncer would work there, but presumably if you sandboxed that, it only needs to talk to the IRC socket and nothing else. For other obscure servers that have no concept of security, I'm not sure what can be done about that if nobody wants to modify them or replace them. You might just have to accept that they will need to run at elevated privileges and can clobber your system or home directory.
Yes, that is what I would expect.
Ha, I'm currently a federal government program manager, so I am thinking about it from the government's side right now.

I've also been a consultant cog in a mega-corp and run my own small consulting business, so I've seen it from both sides.

Tech folks underestimate non tech challenges (basically anything outside of their domain), and clients don't actually know what they want. It's an age old problem in lots of industries.
I would have chosen user authentication as an example. Better have a team looking over this stuff than to write this up on you own except you know exactly what you are doing. Might end somewhere with you users passwords public readable in an elastic bean stack...
Poor is a loose term.

Someone working basic job in a nursing home isn't necessarily poor - in the sense they can afford some standard of living on their income. If you add the option for them to receive 1/2 or even 1/3 of income but have to do nothing - now doing the job they would do previously to avoid poverty would probably take more money to do. And the people who get screwed are the ones who were barely able to afford their services before.

Every job I needed to do in my early life sucked and I would do none of them if someone gave me 1/3 of the income and stay at home with my parents and play video games and code for leasure. I would probably never even take that level of job (factory line work, industrial work, farm work, entry level sales shit). Multiply that by a huge fraction of the population and you seriously destabilise the economy.

Some jobs can be outsourced (like manufacturing) so it's not that big of a deal - but some jobs like for eg. elderly care, etc. are labor intensive and not easily outsourced. And everyone needs them.
Exactly. The UK in-housed their entire website IT team, and it's one of the best set of government websites I've seen worldwide, UX-wise and performance-wise.
If you are really serious about reducing your carbon footprint, don't have children or pets.
Sources, sources and not your disgustingly twisted propaganda. Who is wishing Sikh killings? God stop it.
Yes, you can use software copyright to prohibit object-only releases, but that doesn't necessarily mean that software copyright is helping. In fact, once software copyright became the norm, there was a huge disincentive to publish source. After all, why would you do that when you can withhold the source to prevent unauthorized modification of your work? Effectively, using a compiler is the software equivalent of encoding your movie with DRM.

Furthermore, copyright has to go beyond mere reproduction rights, because it's designed to cover creative works. The most lucrative part of copyright is not the monopoly over publication, but the monopoly over sequels. Disney is a multi-billion-dollar corporation not because it happens to own a bunch of old movies and comic books from the 60s, but because it has a monopoly over making sequels and remakes of that material. This is perfectly reasonable for creative works. However, it breaks down completely for software, because software is a mixed work of function and creativity that does not stand on it's own like a book or a movie can.

There's already precedent for how you handle these sorts of mixed function works: you give them a sui generis right. Around the same time software copyright was asserting itself, Intel and several other chip manufacturers lobbied Congress for copyright over IC designs. Congress instead decided to instead create an entirely separate monopoly regime for chips that only lasts 10 years and has explicit exceptions for reverse-engineering. That's what they should have done for software: give it 10 years of protection against duplication, require source code disclosure as a rights formality, and publish that source at the end of the protection term. It would work more like a patent, albeit without the terrible problems most software patents have.
Generally, it's much better for the government to outsource. More competency and reduce corruption.

I came from a country where government tries to do all these things in house. It was bad. Paying premium isn't a big problem.
If it were only $55M in puts, they would not have needed the bailout. What people in the know think is that they sold calls to finance the puts to achieve a net-zero position... which would be an unlimited-risk synthetic short position.
I don’t know. I keep seeing this argument. I’ve been developing on the Django stack for the past 10+ years. I have fixed many bugs if mine and of others. It has been extremely rare, if at all, that they were bugs caused by an incorrect type. The closest I can think of is a typo in a method or class name, but is it really a bug if you catch it instantly? These are just not the types of bugs that end up creeping into the code.

In the meantime Django provides productivity like you can’t get many other places. It’s just a pleasure to work with and aside from a couple of setting-related places it’s code is a pleasure to read.
> most missteps happen early, dooming projects before anyone sits down to code

This one is more insightful (in the big non-tech enterprise / government spaces). Because the takeaway for most HN developers who flip between projects should be: (1) learn how to recognize one of these projects & (2) stay away / find a new job when you do.

You'll save years of your work.
There was a time when people did click a download link. Installing APKs are easier than fiddling with most app settings. Think of how Fortnite was distributed via APK when Epic was big enough to tell people how to do it.

I don't deny the utility of app stores. My point was about the freedom of platform at a capability level.
Installed it in the second quarter of 2020 but I just checked my isos folder and it looks like I have ubuntu server 19.10. Good to see python 2 finally kicked out.
Not that tightly linked. Whilst the Element client does offer Matrix.org as a signup/login as the first page you see, you're also just one single click from signup/login to any of the other servers. Nothing about that page really feels locked or branded to matrix.org.

I don't see how that makes Element responsible for matrix.org content. Thunderbird offers getting an email address via gandi.net in their new account page. Does that mean that Mozilla is suddenly responsible for all emails (like spam) coming out of gandi?
I think he may have meant you can't get the drives, not the drivers. Samsung, Kioxia, etc. enterprise NVMe SSDs work fine with standard Linux NVMe drivers and I don't think they offer custom NVMe drivers except possibly for Windows. The problem is that their enterprise drives mostly aren't sold at retail. If you aren't buying them as part of a big B2B deal, you simply can't acquire the hardware.
Sorry, but you don't understand how stock buybacks work.

The purpose of a stock buyback is to reward shareholders by increasing stock price. The increase is caused because of the reduction in float. Each share represents more of the company after the buyback than before. [1] If that wasn't true, then the share price wouldn't increase, and there would be no reason to do a buyback.

The bought back shares could be kept by the company as treasury stock, but the company can't vote treasure stock or pay dividends. [2] The outstanding shares represent 100% ownership of the company.

So to say that stock buybacks make companies less "beholden to shareholders" compared to dividends is just wrong. Dividends and stock buybacks are exactly equivalent except for tax treatment (and possibly market pressure).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Share_repurchase
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasury_stock
Does Yelp actually ever say "pay us and we'll remove reviews"? Also reviews for a person are a little different than reviews for a business.