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I worked for 2 hours this past weekend because doing so would save about a weeks worth of work due to various reasons.

I will also leave work early to pick up a few things on my daughter's birthday later this month.

I think this is reasonable. I don't know if it's the sort of thing the author is talking about, but I think my work/life balance is fine.
> I'm not sure why HN has it in for asexuals, but God damn guys, can't you ease up on us?

Complaining about the erasure of asexual people as you use "guys" to erase non-men is an unfortunate combo.
Yeah, a lot of startups are under resourced in terms of people though. Maybe nobody is threatening you, but as you settle into the role you kind of realize that working a bit more could actually be the difference success and failure.

I do agree that it's better if you're making that call on your own. If management is trying to squeeze you like this by threatening to fire you, it's usually an empty/foolish threat. Hiring a proper replacement takes time.
Full support to Epic! Time to bring some balance. Would also love to have Apple allow api access to PWAs, they are hindering progress of PWAs just because of the App Store money.

Would love to hear Tim Apple's opinion on this stuff, on being in this position. I remember quite fondly how he berated Facebook and Zuck personally, by saying he as a CEO would never be in such a situation regarding media scrutiny and regulatory issues.

Oh how the tables turn..
As a dev, I do not like Apple an ounce more than Facebook.
So kudos to Tim Sweeney..
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I still don't see a way to resolve the problem that software isn't fungible and so multiple app stores are only good for publisher choice but not user choice.

Without the requirement that all apps able to be purchased on all stores at similar prices and still under Apple's review process then apps will flock to the store that makes them the most money and fewest rules and users will have no choice but to acquire that app via that store. If I have to go to X store for an app I need I don't really have my choice of store.

Do gamers like the current culture of having to have Origin, Steam, UPlay, Epic, GOGs, Blizzard Store, for no other reason than large middlemen playing Civ with marketshare and exclusives?

I think if this issue was solved we would see less people desiring Apple to have such tight control over their ecosystem because it would mean that for users that like Apple's store opening up isn't a strict downgrade for them.
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I've been thinking a lot about this recently and it's led to a few personal realizations about my identity of being a "night-owl". I also greatly value night-time, and it took me a while to realize why.

If I had to to try to summarize the core, it would be that I've been conditioned through school/society/work over decades that the morning is for fulfilling responsibilities to others. Only when school/work/chores are done, could I exercise any autonomy to do whatever I wanted (seeing friends/playing videogames/programming/night-life/etc..). Naturally, I ended up with at _least_ a moderate pavlovian response to the end of the workday.

The one thing I absolutely couldn't shake was that by the end of my workday, my "fulfilling responsibilities" energy felt completely drained -- leaving me in a cycle of "wake up, immediately go to work, finish work exhausted, veg out on whatever interest my brain has until very late and go to sleep anywhere from 12AM-2AM" with little time to maintain _my_ life up to the standards I set for myself.

I also interpreted threads like this one in the way you do:

> Should I really give that up so I can be more productive at my day job?

No, absolutely not unless that is a personal goal of yours! Maybe this isn't true for you or others, but I _do_ feel recharged in the morning. In a very general sense, there is somewhat of a clean slate mentally in the morning that my wife and I call the "good brain". Anxieties that I fell to sleep with are often resolved, pessimism might be reframed into cautious optimism, that tricky programming (or interpersonal!) problem has had some fog clear out of the way, etc...

This led me to realize that my sleep schedule _was already_ optimized for my employer's benefit. Get out of bed, and take that fresh "good brain" to work and drain it. The way out of this for me was to slowly transition into earlier mornings to get a few hours of orientation in the morning where I can use my fresh energy to do something valuable _for me_ instead of the company I am working for.

Nowadays I'm up at 4-5AM without an alarm clock which leaves me 2-4 hours to get ready and do the things I feel I need to do. The head-start feels really nice.
>(heard instances of cloudfare being petitioned to take down content which is literally internet plumbing)

It's not, it's a private company. Most internet infrastructure is private companies offering their services under arbitrary terms, because that's the only possible way to have such an infrastructure without government controlling or regulating the internet, which we don't want.

And petitioning is free speech - people have the right to petition anyone about anything. There's nothing to be "relatively concerned" about here, except maybe the lack of competition in the DDoS space, but that's a free market issue, not a free speech issue. If too many people think Cloudflare has stepped out of line, someone will create an alternative, just as alternative right-wing platforms like Gab and Parler were created by people unsatisfied with mainstream social media.
> Or Linux for that matter.

Or even macOS.
Most of the tech industry in fact came out of that government funded research. I bet half of the people working for In-Q-Tel [1][2] and similar gov VC funded companies don't even understand that relationship. I should add that even if a company is not listed, it does not mean some of the VC funding did not come from one of the gov VC's.

[1] - https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/in-q-tel/recent_inve...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel [note] not every company is listed
That is a great image conveying this concept.

But if you started from the image, and asked people to generate a sentence from it, you would get a lot of variation from the quoted sentence.
There are no good guys here. Apple wants to tax everyone in the world 30% for almost every software transaction while Epic wants to bring more loot box gambling to iOS and keep all the money.
A trilemma.
SVG is XML, which I'd say counts as text.
I've worked as a freelancer, founder, and employee (for start-ups, scale-ups and now FAANG).

The one constant has been my daily exercise session, whether that has been a workout, yoga session or swim. My daily schedule (pre-Covid) usually involves 45 mins at home checking email/chat and addressing anything urgent and modifying my to-do list for the day. Then it's to the gym for 90 minutes, and in the office by 10:30am. It's what I need to do and it keeps me sane.

Building a startup in my early 20's was easily the most stressful period of my life. Going for a swim each day was probably the single most important thing that got me through it in one piece.

I have a lot of respect for what the author has accomplished; building one of the top tech products and brands in America is ridiculously hard. However, this article shows a lack of empathy for how people work and what they need.
This article annoys me whenever it reappears because it just isn’t clear on what it means by ‘text’.

Sometimes it seems to mean ‘the English language’ or ‘language’ more broadly. Other times it seems to mean ‘strings of ASCII encoded Latin letters’. Sometimes it seems to mean ‘pictures of arrangements of letter like symbols’. In general it just amounts to ‘linear streams of data’.

Sure, if you define text that broadly, it covers a lot of things that are great.

But it’s a definition that’s so broad it defies its own terms. Text, defined that way, encompasses SVG files. Or even base64 encoded PNG files if you want. So that Twitter logo can be unambiguously shared through ‘text’ too. Look - here’s a tweet-sized version: https://twitter.com/bbcmicrobot/status/1237867433064464394?s...

But there’s a weird cultural bias built in to the assertion that all those things are ‘just text’. Sure, for someone who uses a US keyboard to type Latin alphabet characters left to right, base64 encoded binary, svg, or BBC BASIC, is ‘just text’. But that’s not exactly a universal perspective.

In the limit, this amounts to ‘always bet on data transmission and storage’.

A lot of the listed benefits of text are only realizable when the text is coupled with a specific ‘interpreter’ - be that an SVG renderer, a BBC micro, or a human who speaks English.

Doing stuff with text with computers is hard! Lexers, parsers and tokenizers are probably the most common sources of security bugs in history. And if the text is natural language, we still don’t have reliable computer tools for dealing with it - understanding or generating.

So I just guess I don’t really know what the point of this piece is. Data is all there is. Linear streams of data are often a thing. Because of the history of computing, western language character sets and conventions are often used to capture them in the same format as we use for written language.
I’m not here to argue about a hypothetical utopia where nobody on the planet has to make terrible choices to protect their life. I’m just providing a commentary on the state of the world we do live in. Obviously this hypothetical utopia (or any step in that direction) would be superior to what we have now.
Game development is known for being a death march burnout culture.
> in this industry there are 100 who perfectly know what they are doing and happy to play the sexual favor game.

Do they 'know', or have they just come to accept this level of violence and danger becuase of their gender?

> The only part where you are right is that it should be made more public, so that "innocent" (not like amber heard) girls would not get so surprised then.

Ah jeez, speculating about Amber's innocence is just tabloid celebrity gawking at this point. Have you met her or heard her story in person? No.
I got a little from the Bitcoin Faucet too. The wallet is long since lost...let alone the password.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26155350
In German states, the citizen initiative process is to propose a law that can be voted on by the people if enough signatures have been collected. In some states, even changes to the constitution are possible this way. The federal and European government are quite undemocratic in that regard.
Well, I disagree.

It matters a lot, because who the hell knows what else is going on those contracts. It's not like any pharmaceutical company was gonna sit this one out.

Some of these companies were into shady shit in the past, and while they are playing a role in this pandemic, I'd be way more comfortable know exactly what they are getting out of this and at what cost to the tax payers.
I agree the expectation should be made clear but it's not obvious why it has to be at the level of the post. I try to look for indications in the resume for the type of cultural alignment and set expectations the first time we talk in an interview, and don't necessarily feel that any further "warnings" need to be given.
TBH I wouldn't be at all surprised if Microsoft is gearing up for this fight with Sony, given that every Xbox Series does in fact allow sideloading once placed into the included-and-supported developer mode.
This country politicizes everything, rather than dealing with it, because you have some people who have financial interests that make money off the existing situation. For many, it is part of a belief system, rather than dealing with it from policy and engineering perspectives.

We don't deal with school shooting massacres here right after they occur. We don't deal with them after they happen.

What stopped school shootings? Not having children in schools.

You just had a group of militias, white supremacists et al, invade a branch of government, terrorize they staff, representatives and security--and nothing comes of it in terms of accountability and responsibility by Trump.

You have those on the political right saying nothing big happened. You have people whining why is the national guard still there?

As a nation, we don't prioritize efficiency, competence and reaction time.
We don't want to measure and improve our infrastructure and policies.
Yet Instagram is flourishing.
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> the "text-only browser"-argument

That's a bit short-minded, don't you think? Or is this some kind of troll meme at this point? Anyway, I don't expect you to have some off-spec working TLS/TCP/IP/ARP/ETH implementation purely based on text, yet alone are connected to the internet via some text-only telegraphy station utilizing those things. Pretty sure your output device (read as: screen) has some sort of analog/digital signaling as well that's not ASCII encoded. There are sure some pesky non-text technologies involved ...
You're cherry picking a single point in time that happens to work with one stock (one might also argue the move to electric vehicles is actually a world changing event ala bitcoin).

What about November 2018 or November 2017? Like I said, Bitcoin has consistently been up in the long term for the past decade.
I don't understand why managers cannot fulfill both roles though? The job of management isn't hard (I'm doing it). Outside of the project management responsibilities, there is a lot of time doing nothing. If I wasn't coding, as a manager, 80% of the time I would sit around doing nothing.

I strongly believe that managers should be able to fulfill both roles but maybe it's just because I've been burned by so many managers in the past.
The ERCOT website say they "manage the flow of electric power to more than 26 million Texas customers -- representing about 90 percent of the state’s electric load. As the independent system operator for the region, ERCOT schedules power on an electric grid that connects more than 46,500 miles of transmission lines"

This makes it seem like they would have at least some influence on the rolling outages, no?
> Did I write anything that downplays your partner's problems?

Yes, here are some examples:

> Perfume sensitivity is something different. People develop emotional habits of reacting with fear when smelling perfume.

> I am quite certain that your partner's perfume sensitivity and skin allergies are different biological processes. Allergies are a very specific process involving histamines and leading to inflammation. Nobody has demonstrated that process happening because of perfume in the air.

You don't know anything about my partner's allergies and yet you're certain in your diagnosis.

Here are some facts:

* Contact dermatitis is the second most common allergic reaction.

* Fragrance chemicals are the leading cause for contact allergies.

* Airborne accute contact dermatitis has been studied extensively.

I'm not sure how you've come to the conclusions you have but you're outright dismissing decades of scientific research and concluding that my partner's allergies are psycho-somatic.

You're in league with new age medicine like healing crystals and tinctures.

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/cf8f/f7d8b5cb3f8c279b2d877a...

https://link.springer.com/article/10.2165/00128071-200304110...

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1600-0536....
Good point. Would love to hear the Apple fanatics on HN defend this. So much for respecting privacy...
The spec. doesn’t cover this case explicitly, but the general gist of RFC 2616 is very much on the side of “don’t reload things”:

> History mechanisms and caches are different. In particular history mechanisms SHOULD NOT try to show a semantically transparent view of the current state of a resource. Rather, a history mechanism is meant to show exactly what the user saw at the time when the resource was retrieved.

— https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-13.13

If a web application depends on the browser reloading the page when the user presses the back button, then I think it’s fair to call that a bug in the web application. It is “trying to show a semantically transparent view of the current state of the resource”, which is explicitly called out as incorrect behaviour by the spec.
I doubt it, since I believe recognition and impact on outcomes are highly relevant to someone feeling motivated to go above and beyond in a corporation. When a team scales, the hierarchy becomes dithered and camaraderie decreases overall, resulting in the "mission" meaning different things to different people. This ultimately results in an 80% of people who do as much work as they need to so they don't get fired, a 10% on one end that does a crapton of work, and 10% who work as little as possible. Even the former 10% can only work so hard before their performance is perceived as a threat to the rest of the team whom simply can't keep up their pace.
> If it was supporting pure research - finding great researchers and freeing them from the grant treadmill - I'd be supportive, but this doesn't sound like that.

Same here. I am all for more research but we want more transparency, not less.

> Ministers will announce plans tomorrow for an £800 million scientific research agency legally entitled to invest in projects that are likely to fail and which will be exempted from freedom of information laws.

This makes no sense to me. Why would they need to be exempt from freedom of information?

> It will be exempt from rules designed to prevent taxpayers’ money from being invested in projects with little chance of success. Ministers hope that the agency, to be set up next year, will produce next-generation technology.

This I completely support. From what I understand, the COVID vaccine wouldn't be here if it wasn't for some scientists working on some seemingly dead-end path for years.

Overall, I don't understand this initiative at all. The last thing I'd want is pulling funding away form fundamental research and putting it in some Instagram clone. I'd even be OK if this money went to some kind of James Bond/Quartermaster/DARPA thing instead.
A manager is only a role model if the promotion structure is Engineer->Manager. At most modern tech companies that is not the main promotion structure. It's Engineer->Senior Engineer->Staff Engineer->Etc. Engineering management is a different path you can choose just like you can become a product manager but it is not the expected path.
Yeah I'd love to see an update on this benchmark re: network syscall performance: http://bulk.fefe.de/scalability/. FreeBSD has very good results in some of those, but even then Linux was showing some truly impressive strengths of its own. And which kernel has gotten even more attention since then, and become even more (that is to say, completely) dominant in the Top 500? (happens to matter for me, even though it's a strong data point anyway).

I will say that performance aside, the UX of BSD firewalls is SO nice. Clear configuration files, features exposed simply, just wonderful.
> .onion addresses and bitcoin addresses are secure and decentralized but not human-meaningful

I thought that's why you burned some CPU hunting for 'vanity' addresses[1]?

[1]: https://opensource.com/article/19/8/how-create-vanity-tor-on...
That is ironic because this entire web site consists of what appears to be like-minded people constantly patting each other on the back because they're so awesome; meanwhile they leave a lot to be desired, and the person you're criticizing so staunchly isn't necessarily one those persons... This website has turned into a hangout for "brogrammers", that's why I almost never participate here any more. Now I'll end up writing even less, I think.
> I want to shift the dynamics of the system for everyone. Systems change, not personal change.

We can agree here!
Can you explain the strawman you believe the parent is presenting? What is the original argument, and what is the misrepresentation?
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The current UK government has a blacklist of left wing journalists who they won’t respond to freedom of information act requests and they are fighting a culture war about bullshit while Dominic Cummings has the gall to claim his friends happen to be the only marketing company in the UK who are trustworthy!
yup yup yup. we're back in the era where large, hand-wavy criticisms get sent up w/o any understanding of the previous proof of concepts btc has gone through that quite exactly address the claims. it's getting to a similar point as if "the internet, won't work, too slow" criticisms were just thrown around and given credence after ebay was in operations for a few years.
The same people that go for an 11 AM yoga class will stay working until 11 PM because they can and are encouraged to.

Second, and another commenter points this out, the desirability of anyone that lands a job at a FAANG means they get away with it. They have Made It, they are the 1% in their field, and they can go anywhere else outside of SF (internationally if need be) and instantly be hired as CTO of any company. Generally speaking. And of course switch to the other FAANG, possibly getting even better compensation and perks and a better 11am yoga teacher.
If you want a lifting body with a high AOA reentry, maneuverable approach, and runway landing, then the physics probably dictates everyone converging on similar shapes. Also in this group: Buran, Shuttle, and X37.
Sounds exorbitant tbh. After they're seven or eight it's not clear why they need constant direct supervision (as opposed to being in another room minding ones business). What are we afraid of?
Zoom is the solution nobody asked for, to a problem that doesn’t exist
> CONLEY: [...] It wasn't down in the low 80s or anything.

I read this last part in several ways:

1. He is telling the truth: he wants to assure reporters that T’s oxygen level didn’t reach critical levels

2. He is telling a lie: he already mentioned that the oxygen level was below 94. Why mentioning the low 80s?

3. He is just nervous or tired, and he doesn’t want to have his words twisted
Yes, I think as a way of vendoring external dependencies they are ok. That's about the only use case that makes sense to me. The friction they cause isn't worth it otherwise.
Do you not realize that utility providers outage maps are updated based on crowdsourced information from customers?

And as I mentioned in my comment, utility providers do not consider blackouts due to capacity constraints to be “outages”, and thus are not reporting them as outages on their outage maps, which means this website does not have the correct information on blackouts. They are tracking outages only if the outage is due to something like a downed power line. Please attempt to read the full comment and understand it before replying.
kevin spacey said this in the first season of house of cards.
> make design decisions about the actual system your team is building?

that would simply fall into the realm of senior.

> And collaborate with other teams on integration between systems.

That might be senior as well. Depends on how much work you need to impose on the other team, I suppose, and/or the scale of the integration.
D has literally just gained 3 new staff paid for by the community (including myself).

And a single developer can't change the language. There are millions and millions of lines of D in production, and we have testcases and bug tracking going back a decade or two now - you can't break stuff by yourself.
It's been going on for a lot more than just a few hours.
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