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Story about my SAAS made it to the front page ~3 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16616991 . Back than the project was making some pocket money. I've received a lot of valuable insights in the comments. It allowed me refine the features and business model, to a much more profitable format. Right now this project is my main source of income and it allowed me to quit my job to focus on pursuing other challenges.

BTW I use this magic link https://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=100 to filter out less valuable stories that "growth hackers" push to the frontpage. Since I've started using it, browsing HN has become much more pleasant.
I think it’s less about the platform and more about the size of the code to index. Text editors are about as fast in a repo with 30,000 files as in a repo with 3. IDEs can take a few minutes to do the indexing necessary to support their code intelligence on bigger repos.
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As an aside, Google themselves use base64 images quite heavily. They are the kings of inlining.
This was the author's estate, not a publisher, and they made a request that was apparently granted. You're correct that due to First Sale Doctrine that by law the request didn't have to be granted, but Amazon and Ebay are free to make their own decisions.

As for your second statement, I don't understand it. What freedoms have been lost by this action? There was no change in law. And you can still go sell or buy the book on your own.
I don't know if it's written up anywhere like that, sorry.

The very brief section on mathematical purity of Joy in the Wikipedia article describes it but in (IMO) an unhelpful way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_(programming_language)#Mat...

> In Joy, the meaning function is a homomorphism from the syntactic monoid onto the semantic monoid. That is, the syntactic relation of concatenation of symbols maps directly onto the semantic relation of composition of functions. It is a homomorphism rather than an isomorphism, because it is onto but not one-to-one; that is, no symbol has more than one meaning, but some sequences of symbols have the same meaning (e.g. "dup +" and "2 *").

> Joy is a concatenative programming language: "The concatenation of two programs denotes the composition of the functions denoted by the two programs".[2]

[2] "Mathematical foundations of Joy" by Manfred von Thun https://web.archive.org/web/20111007025556/http://www.latrob...
When I started my PhD my supervisor said to me "Welcome to the faculty, see you in 3 years when you submit". They kept that promise.
I'd call them purely mathematical constructs that arise from the need of modern QM theories to mediate all interactions with particles.
> The Mac Mini M1 maxes out at 16GiB of RAM

...and that tight coupling between RAM and CPU must be a big part of its performance.

I wouldn't really be surprised if they went for a somewhat lazy architecture for the stationary/pro segment that simply (well, "simply", it won't be easy, just maybe less hard than a properly scaled up M1, perhaps much less hard) put n of those units on a shared carrier board with lots of memory slots that would either serve as slower RAM, relegating those 16 GB to an awesome "L4 cache" or maybe even just as one big volatile SSD swapspace.

A "lazy architecture" might appear a bit out of character for Apple, but that pro segment must be so far from their core focus that this approach could work out really well. A conventional strategy whati new tech gets introduced in the pro segment and then trickles down until it eventually appears on the iPhone wouldn't really cut it because the phone is their unquestioned flagship and a "pro board" could make trickling up so easy that they might theoretically even make those things end-user upgradeable.
Of course it is.

55+ is at 38%

20+ is at 69%

18% of the pop is 65 and older

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SPPOP65UPTOZSUSA
The right they contractually set with the buyer. Secondary market prices exploding compared to first sale prices isn't exactly uncommon in the art world, so why artists would be interested in this is fairly obvious. (To a degree it can also help keep first sale prices lower, it somewhat discourages quick speculation resales (which many in the art world think is a good thing), and lets the artist participate in later value growth of their work which given that the value is due to their work many people would say is fair, and thus they agree to such contracts)
Someone got a correct diagnosis based on something I read on HN, his brother was the diagnosed with the same diagnosis.

Good for both of them.
Thank you for pointing it out. The picture is so incredibly unhelpful as they have it in the article.
That doesn't say he didn't pay. I would assume payment is upfront.
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Absolutely!

That's the genius of the Agile Methodology. Per the Zeroth Law of True Agility [0], we're both utterly correct. With no contradiction.

[0] The Agile Methodology is to argue about the Agile Methodology.
Because Google has set things be up so that they have no legal responsibility & even if they do it's an enormous legal mountain to climb to a) prove it and b) get any kind of reasonable recompense out of them.

Currently they have all the benefits of their monopoly with none of the responsibility which is exactly the way they like it.
Where is the proof that this was a Chinese hacking group? I certainly don't trust Microsoft to provide it. In fact, it's very concerning that Microsoft seems to be in some quasi-governmental role in this. It's literally a giant security hole in their software, why should we trust what they say?

The White House acting as a PR unit for MS (or is it vice versa?) is a serious problem.
There’s no good solution.

If you punish the schools that will lead to closures and overcrowding. If you punish parents, that leads to CPS involvement and increased homelessness.
> He unequivocally said, yes. He was willing to forgo their market.

US is a corporate republic. The republic that founders dreamed of has waned and frailed from generations of corporate sellout political, legal, media, and business conglomerate establishments. Shareholders will come first and will continue to do so. With 33 trillion dollars debt there is not really any other option left now other than to continue to sail the sinking ship the same way.

> We'll see how Biden handles this. I'm sure it's a tough call.

He won't. He is just the face of the same old thinking that brought us here. Just like all of his predecessors in last 40 years.
How common are programming languages designed with base languages other than english? This is the first one i’ve seen.
The difference is that computers can commit crimes thousands of times per second.
> Is that enough for you? If not, how many are enough?

I do not know, I am interested in the real size of the potential problem.

Every change of leadership in a big corporation carries a risk of someone leaving, if not immediately, then within a few months. People who are universally liked rarely get into CEO positions. (High agreeableness makes it really hard to execute painful decisions.)

Of course, if 1 person leaves, it is not dramatic. If half of the staff leaves, it is dramatic. But how many are enough? You probably cannot answer the question any more than I do, it is the same question like "how many sand particles you need to call it a heap".

Mozilla made their choice. They have a CEO that offends no one and a market share under 1 per cent. Perhaps they would have the same market share under Eich. Perhaps not. I think that Eich was more passionate about the product than current leadership and that it would have made some difference. Individual programmers are, to some degree, fungible; Mozilla ecosystem is one of a kind.
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Probably something something along the lines of "private company and they can do whatever they want".
I'd be surprised if no one has done this already, but someone needs to write an article that literally enumerates out the first dozen terms of the perturbation expansion for a scattering matrix along with the Feynman diagram for each term.

That should very clearly explain what "virtual" particles are.
Yet, it was a big success in that substantial cash was diverted to places where it would not otherwise have been. Not a penny of it evaporated; all went into waiting pockets.
This reads to me more like parquet.
According to my Firefox, the JPEG file I just tried came from googleusercontent. But you're right, it's not per-user.
As someone else mentioned, I avoid anything political unless I'm purposely diving in for entertainment. The tech comments are normally high quality, and tend to force me to think about my opinions. Also, while everywhere has some level of group think, the tech comments tend to be pretty balanced.

I've developed a bit of timer in my head. If I feel like I've perused HN too long or catch myself just refreshing the home page, I close the tab and move on.

Finally, and this isn't HN specific, I never start my day by checking sites. I always do a solid 2-3 hours of work (sometimes 'deep'), before anything else.

EDIT

Other thing, is don't argue on the internet or HN. I'll share my opinion and/or respond a bit, but if someone really wants to argue, I let them have it and move on. Takes too much time, and doesn't gain anything once I'm ok with my position. I mentioned the other day in another HN post that I had stopped going to FB for this exact reason. Zero helpful information, and it just led to arguments which take too much time and accomplish nothing.
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I appreciate this but in the context of this discussion when a PhD asks “is it better in industry” they do not mean going to work at a meat packing plant.

Your larger point is true though and it would be great for there to be equity and dignity for all people of all professions!
That's amazing. Thank you for writing all of that.
You're right, but pilots are highly trained and must maintain their training/skills. On the other hand, it's possible to get a driver's license without any formal training (in many Western countries at least) and then buy a "self driving" car without any training on how to use it.

Because of that divide, I think there should at least be an online training curriculum and test before your car will unlock autopilot mode.
Democratic societies try to limit this problem by establishing some semireliable channels to remedy injustice, though.
CTO roles are not as rigid or well-defined as one would assume: https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2007/07/the_different_c...
It is Standford’s obligation under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. No US health insurance provides this coverage. People in the US can typically only get Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) coverage, which is similar, through Medicaid, which would be the closest to what you describe. In fact, there are some people who must be on Medicaid for life, even though they can work full time, because they may have quadriplegia (which cerebral palsy can occasionally be, on a functional level), for example, and need a care attendant. This is an extremely problematic issue for these people, due to always having to meet the requirements to stay on Medicaid. But, Medicaid does not cover scribes in school, nor does any US health insurance.

Personally, my heart was set on Stanford for graduate school for a masters in electrical engineering, in my early 20s. I have multiple disabilities, but specifically my most disabling impairments are two rare immune-mediated neurological diseases affecting my peripheral nervous system, which are in pharmaceutical remission. Even though my GPA was very competitive for admission, after reading Stanford’s “policies”, I knew I could be totally screwed from a disability standpoint, compared to many other US schools where I could be successful at. I personally think Stanford is the worst of the elite institutions when it comes to disability matters.

But, stuff like this is why I am in graduate school abroad in Europe (I have legal authorization to work in both the US and EU).
> Based on what the article says, it sounds like the Google auto-blocking was correct.

Even it is correct, we can't assume it will be always correct.

> As always with Google, the real issue here is their awful communication and slow responses to people who can't find a way to go outside the normal channels.

Real problem is their slow repsponse can kill business (or may be people). If they are yielding this much power, there must be atleast some paid support service. I guess, it is time, all govs should look into this and regulate FAANG.
Because we're arrogant. We thought that if we go down the road we went down, they'd naturally settle into their proper place as manufactory for the West without wanting a seat at the table.

Now they're a global power and, gasp, they act like one. Nobody could have seen this coming.
Apple has been removing expansion slots for 10 years. I wouldn’t hold your breath for the mythical priced like a dell with user upgradable parts but running OSX without hackintosh.
> Almost all team members have used Eclipse / VSCode and atleast for Java, after they used IntelliJ, they haven't gone back to either.

I was also using it because my team was using it and it holds value to share a screen and watch the same thing or when debugging an issue replicating the same exact steps, having different tools can make it harder.

My point is that when you have a stable setup any setup is good if it's good for you, Intellij is better on some things but worse on other that I personally value more

the git integration for example, which works backwards compared to how git works: stage/commit/push

in Intellij I am presented with all the tracked files already staged, the commit message box is already filled with the last one, files are showed as a tree instead of the classic list with paths and I have to look for untracked files that are collapsed by default.

Magit is much simpler and intuitive IMO.

> I've had to do invalidate cache and restart about 2 times in last two years so while it is not a great use of my time when I have to do it, its not a big bother considering it is rare for me.

I wish it was like that for me.

Or probably I am simply doing something wrong but no amount of Google fu helped me to avoid the issue, the only thing that works is pushing the damned "invalidate and restart" button (and sometimes running mvn idea:idea from the command line, but I gather it is obsolete and not actively supported anymore)
From the outside syslinux doesn't look very active. Over 2 years since the last commit?

https://repo.or.cz/syslinux.git/shortlog
No; as far as I can tell, they're just trolling.
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Where's Flexport when you need them? Weren't they supposed to disrupt this space?
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> if it served to entrench and not upend the existing class system, was the computer revolution a revolution at all?

No, engineers don't care about such things as class, and simply do as they are told by their superiors as long as the task is technically interesting. Therefore, there was no revolution in this sense.
I use both. IntelliJ being a paid personal subscription. I like both. But VsCode excels in their remote editing capabilities. Sometimes I work on code that will only compile on a Linux and I am on a Mac. It is not just remote debugging - the whole environment including language server works flawlessly via remote while making you feel like local development.

It is good for two good IDEs to survive. I don’t want one of them to win. There is room for two.

I only wish the opensource development model of plugins (for both IntelliJ and VsCode) doesn’t come to bite us one day with a rogue developer inserting malware. The whole review/reputation system should be like Apple App Store
> He won't. He is just the face of the same old thinking that brought us here. Just like all of his predecessors in last 40 years.

And it's a good thing. Only Trump was bold enough to entertain the idea of a commercial war with China.

I live in the US, but I don't want that. I want peace and freedom. China and the US are natural allies given the complementarity of the industries.

Let's make peace not war.
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Anyone who thinks this is the functioning of a "normal" internet is mistaken. This is a symptom of a decades-in-the-making problem. It strongly appears those in charge of legislation are not technically minded and have no idea "how" the internet works. Or they do and they have data-sharing agreements with all the 'big tech' software and are okay to "appear" to legislate but cannot actually change anything substantial in fear of retaliation (losing access to all that juicy data they collect). Imagine the power Google wields in this scenario, to me they are more scary than any drug cartel boss. I genuinely can't see how this isn't akin to a Coup d'état of the internet as a means of transmitting information. We cannot shut down these tentacles because of how deeply ingrained they are (remember when FB's SDK was having issues? Hundreds of third parties apps just broke).

Google should have been regulated years ago, instead, they have been allowed to snap up every smaller company to solidify their position in the market and ensure they and only they are allowed positions of power, control and authority.

If Google dislikes you (or their baseless algorithms that are detached from reality) then you are toast. How long before Google's algorithm results in an actual human death? Doesn't seem totally far fetched and entirely plausible.

Yet, you let this happen, or rather, it seems this isn't concerning enough for it to warrant a massive protest, after all, Big Tech controls protest online and can just shut it down. Amazon seems to have been mightily effective at stopping any "union" movement, so we know the censor machines are fine tuned and ready to fire at any moment.

We need to be talking about this daily, in needs to be front and center for weeks and weeks, and we need to demand accountability. We are ruled and governed not by elected officials but by faceless, nameless and non-human machines. They do not Think. They do not Talk. They do not care.

Yet this thread will disappear in a few short hours, and this will be just another episode of the weekly "Google's systems are out of control and one developer got caught out, too bad I hope they are okay".

This is happening to thousands of others undoubtedly that do not make hackernews or have the resources/energy to fix it.

We should demand better.
What is the tort?

Mcdonald's burned off a woman's labia after burning the flesh of several people with coffee tens of degrees hotter than is safe, and then refused to simply pay her medical bills, prompting a lawsuit.

Has Google burned your labia?
This may not be exactly what you are asking for ... but a search on Amazon for "bluetooth transmitter 2 devices" turns up several devices. I'm using it with a TV, but I don't see why the transmitter couldn't be plugged into the audio out on a laptop to send the audio to two devices.
I have a 27" iMac and a 13" MacBook Pro, both of which are about 5 years old. I'm definitely holding on to see what comes down the road with Apple Silicon. I really don't like the idea of getting another iMac; it seems such a waste given that there is absolutely nothing wrong with my current display but the computer itself is getting long in the tooth for photo and video work.
I really don't see #2 being feasible. What about networking over phone lines? Or hacker groups just physically being moved outside the border?
You have to get things started though. What would be a good estimate of the #of people that actually own gold in their portfolio, considering most people have a 401k or some other retirement plan? 1%? 5%? How do you get the ball rolling on that? Because the vast majority will have to go about life using some other medium of exchange to get things done. Gold isn't going to get there very easily when there's only a few dozen people in town that have any, and it's in a commodities account that may also be part of the collapsing financial infrastructure.
I would say that out of 12 bosses or grandbosses I've had who significantly influenced my job, 8 were actively good, 1 was pretty neutral, and 3 were really bad (and caused me to leave those companies.)
Which one do you like?
They do matter because they decrease signal:noise, lower the quality of conversation, and reinforce a troubling assumption that expertise brings nothing to the table.
A secret set of rules, a single party that is the judge, jury and executioner, an opaque resolution process that involves backchannels rather than merit, and no oversight ? Is that really something to accept as inevitable ?
That idea lived on as the Votomatic punch card voting system, which was responsible for the 2000 Florida election mess.[1]

[1] http://www.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/11/15/jackson.pu...
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So it's ok to ban someone's account (which can be tied to any number of different services thanks to OAuth) but not tell them specifically why? Sorry, but I reject that as being necessary such that we hear about things like this on a quite regular basis.
> China is a hostile nation

I really have no idea where this narrative comes from. Chinese government is evil, hostile, and cruel even to (some of) their own citizens. However, China as a nation are people - just like you and me. Why should we treat them as "hostile"? It makes no sense at all. This kind of crooked reasoning and blurred thinking is one of the main causes of all wars in the history of mankind.
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Maybe we should play the propaganda game too? Block most services and traffic but selectively allow things through that have propaganda value.

Given the amount of suspicious Chinese devices and traffic, you'd imagine we should be doing something though?
The lesson that saas is about sales and marketing is a tough one. People buy all sorts of stuff, good and bad. I would guess your issue may be about marketing and not features.
Yeah, I typically don't close my REPL unless I reboot. Which happens maybe once or twice a month max.
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The pro-sumer play sort of relies on them plausibly having a reputation for creating things for actual professionals. Over time, as that residual reputation burns off, seems like it may become less effective.
Do you just print out everything you want to read from the web?
I think your answer begins with the site's full name: Hacker News Network (HNN). It's not about hacking, per se. It's about aggregating news and tech articles and occasional solicitations from YC's startups that are likely of interest to developers and other tech folk, originally those in the San Francisco area startup community where its owner YCombinator (YC) is based (a startup incubator).

I think HNN's original intent was to help startup staff to make connections with potential partners and domain subject matter experts (which can be difficult if you're new to an industry, as many at startups are). In time, the site has evolved, broadening its agenda and its geography as its participants grew and diversified.

The conversations that ensue are echoes of participants who have trod the path described in each article, or more typically, have insights or opinions. If you find that amusing or edifying, you'll stay. If you don't, you'll leave. Apparently you don't.