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> "the accelerator occupies an ambiguous position within the continent’s startup ecosystem, at once bringing in necessary funding and attention..."

One of the biggest problems with startup ecosystems outside of SV is the perception that funding is a necessary step to start a disruptive high-growth company.

Talent and time are the only two things that founders really need and it's the main thing that early-stage investment buys anyway. There are lots of ways to collect and organize these two resources - heavy capital investment is just one of them.

In places where the cost of living is low and where there are talented people the investment models should look different to SV.

The very nature of innovation and disruption require new perspectives and ways of thinking. Global entrepreneurial communities could rise above and beyond SV if they stepped out of its shadow.
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Category Theory in Context is such a great book. Kudos to Dover’s Aurora publishing arm for a great, original book at such a great price. Always love dover and adding additional new contents to the back catalogue of reprints is amazing.

The book does constantly reference other branches of mathematics (algebra, topology, etc) for example. Probably not strictly necessary to have that background to follow the book, but helpful.
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The Dunning–Kruger effect basically. I think we overestimate our ability to judge who, besides us, is a good programmer as well.
I'd argue that this limitation is artificial as well. With some painting forgeries, you're getting down to the molecular or brushstroke level of differentiation. It's all about the value that we humans assign to what's considered "an original", and I think that's what's happening with NFTs today. Unlike tangible art, however, I think NFT art is much more volatile and prone to the Beanie Babies effect if its popularity wanes.
Nothing particularly unique about the software part. But the quoted text is interesting: that is kind of true about pro vs amateur tennis (or table tennis or badminton). Didn't quite notice it. Still, amateur tennis is funner when you play to win the point :D
>Most people in the white collar work force are older, have families and live in the burbs.

Maybe in USA, but my experience in multiple (>5) workspaces in Poland as 28 years old spftware engineer, is that people over 40 are maybe 5% of devs/tech leads.
You are forgetting that DRM stopped all that piracy that bankrupted the movie industry. That's also why there were so few movies released in the last 15 months or so.

It really debunks that myth that open source software could ever handle the strong encryption that's so desperately needed to protect new movies and TV shows from showing up on The Pirate Bay.

I for one welcome this cogent and secure technological response to a market issue.
Agreed - this article reads like a "get good" message to "amateurs". Which, sure, you should be striving for constant improvement - but if you work in an environment where sloppy/quick work is incentivized I would argue it's the responsibility of the "professional" to push back and set up an environment for success.

Blaming all your issues on more junior members of the team is a huge red flag, and this article doesn't really offer any insight into how to bridge the gap between "amateur" and "professional" (which, imo, falls on the senior members of the team).
> Also the automated security scans

Yes and no. At $WORK we started using a security scanner and I'm triaging the issues. It's definitely a box ticking thing. OTOH I'm finding real, concerning issues.
I will not 'train' anybody. If my wife or my child comes to me with something it's important. I'll put work down and continue when I speak to them and make sure all is ok.

Of course they do understand that 'daddy' is working and don't call out for me when on meetings but no special training needed in my opinion.
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And retalliation would be immediate and dooming.

Mutually assured destruction
Cool online knowledge base.
It's convenient to have tutorials on different nocode tools in one place.
I will be happy to add tutorials to your platform.
There's "dual boot" in mobile space https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GjXQFnMHGY :)
Facebook, Inc. vs. Duguid [pdf]
A person is a very complex, multi faceted system. If we don't like one particular aspect of that person, must we condemn everything that he does?
I'm not quite sure where it came from originally, I've seen it attributed to Feynman for sure. Michael Crichton described it as "Gell-Mann Amnesia" in a talk:

https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/
> Hwang and his private investment firm, Archegos Capital Management, are now at the center of one of the biggest margin calls of all time -- a multibillion-dollar fiasco involving secretive market bets that were dangerously leveraged and unwound in a blink.

> One part of Hwang’s portfolio, which has been traded in blocks since Friday by Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo & Co., was worth almost $40 billion last week. Bankers reckon that Archegos’s net capital -- essentially Hwang’s wealth -- had reached north of $10 billion. And as disposals keep emerging, estimates of his firm’s total positions keep climbing: tens of billions, $50 billion, even more than $100 billion.

> It evaporated in mere days.

This is the primary gist of the article. The future will tell
The fact that PHP was, in the era of shared hosting accounts, the default scripting language was like a slingshot maneuver around the sun. It's hard to understate the incredible momentum that surge of casual users brought to it that no other language received, and has sustained it over the long, painful modernization that was needed to make it relevant today. More than PHP, we're still using platforms that were begun in that era: WordPress, Drupal, etc. There's still Zencarts out there.

It's more remarkable that Python is still relevant, which is a testimony to the overall quality of its design and its usefulness in a large number of different areas. Had Python been only a web scripting language, it would have been eclipsed by PHP just like Perl.
I also love that feature. It's not inherently good or bad, just you clearly don't prefer it. I definitely prefer it to work intuitively like this.
It's also possible to try to strike a balance and to get it wrong. It is also possible to strike the right balance proportionally but be in a business environment where your best effort results in failure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4A-Ml8YHyM

"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life."
How to Apply Policies in Kubernetes Using Open Policy Agent (OPA) and Gatekeeper
Vala is really good language, if you target GObject/Gtk.
GNOME also uses Vala extensively.
Thanks for your obedience.
It's soo good. Yum!
The developer is super smart , it's Bootstrap Studio[0] rebranded as something new.

I remember Michael Seibel talking about YC company "launching multiple times" because you shouldn't be stopping until you find your product market fit.

This time it's seems like the right shot , but the pricing is quite high for what is it...

[0]https://bootstrapstudio.io/
Let's not even get into definitions of amateur and professional. Working with this guy? Hard pass.
In Hindi, we pronounce it as 'Cheen', with the 'ch' sound.
Exactly. Offices are much more distracting than my wife or child speaking to me occasionally when I am working at home.
Php is banned within many companies as too insecure of a platform to build anything on.
Dogmatic rules are for people that don’t know yet when to break the rules. Ironically, a lot of lead engineers I worked with don’t know that this is what dogmatic rules are for so they impose them to appear competent.
Are there any good resources for finding the 4G chip inside of modern cars and wrapping with a faraday cage?
1- You don't, but it's not a real problem since non-cryptocurrency payments are reversible and trackable, so scammers won't use them. They'll rather exploit analog ways to get money out of you, recent example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrKW58MS12g#t=7m18s

2- You don't, but sandboxing should be enough to isolate untrustworthy apps from OS-level APIs that could do what you're afraid of.
Ugh I know, and so many programming languages based on C as well! Ridiculous.

/s
like actual cisco-brand ones, or cisco compatible ones?

i checked my order history, it looks like ipolex and 10gtk 1000bT copper modules have had troubles in my mikrotik switches. the mikrotik brand works fine. and every 10G fiber module i've tried has worked (lots of fs.com, and i think 10gtek, and probably some other brand off amazon)
So, like HN.
I think there is room for a tool that is used for the same purpose as awk and Perl one-liners, but feels more familiar to 2020s programmers. Something that intentionally doesn't scale up to complex scripting, and is designed from the beginning to be relatively readable and learnable for people whose background doesn't already include the old-school command line text processing tools.
Aren't these top posts in the wrong thread?
No. You should use logging syntax[0] instead.

[0]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/logging.html
Samsung bought what was advertised as mobile handset business after CSR failed to spot that combo BT/Wifi chips were the future and threw away their lead. Qualcomm got the rest a few years later.

("what was advertised as" because there wasn't really a differentiation in the R&D bits, so there was a somewhat arbitrary split and hasty redacting of repos given to Samsung to avoid names of other customers in comments).

Samsung's phone division and electronic parts division aren't the same thing, so there was no guarantee that the phones would buy the Bluetooth/Wifi from their new acquisition, although I hear they did eventually.
It doesn't give you as much control as a Pinephone or a Purism smartphone, as it relies on a ton of proprietary blob that will never reach Linux mainline.
The Panama canal has some vertical portions, but the Suez has none.
I used to be on many mailing lists and noted the decline of traffic long before the announcement of Perl 6. While you could argue that everything that could be asked had been asked, I do not know if I buy that. Stack Overflow suggests that there's a baseline of questions out there because new people are always arriving; I would then expect that mailing list question rate to level off at some trickle, but it completely stopped in some groups.

Perl's readability is low, in my opinion, due to a few factors. First and most obvious is the reliance on, well, tons of symbols, resulting in the refrain "executable line noise." The second factor is the philosophy of there being more than one way to do it; this means that you have less local idiom in the language and so you have to spend more time guessing how this programmer did it. The third factor is what I would consider cultural: one-liners. The one-liner is an interesting exercise but it only proves how clever you are in writing the code for a very arbitrary restriction, the number of characters used, and the tradeoff is readability.

Another big arc would be CPAN. So many modules, each covering a different eighty percent of what you needed to do. And heaven help you if you were on Windows for some odd reason because many of those modules needed a compiler, or at least the ones I came across did. The standard library was simply too anemic, and so you were left trying to find just the right package and hope you could work around its shortcomings instead of doing something obvious and getting on with your day.

I do not buy into the network effect of the article. Perl was there before Python, and it was larger than Python for some time.

Culturally, it was a ticking time bomb, waiting to be supplanted by a language that was not a write-once, read-never design. In a similar sense, PHP's culture assured its fast adoption and rise, but also would bring it an ugly reputation, which it still struggles with -- perhaps now unfairly!
Did not know about this. Thanks!
The TDD advocates I have been exposed to are mostly cargo culting consultants and this alone makes me very sceptical. It has some good core ideas but I find that in practice it leads to unit tests that are highly coupled to implementation details. Quick to execute but almost worthless from a test perspective. Its best to throw them out after the inital implementation is done since the usually just become a burden to maintain. Black box at system boundaries are the only tests that bring value long term in my experience. I would really like to hear more details about projects that use TDD and how they use it a few years down the line. All I can find are toy examples..
I remember buying Comanche again years after it was released. But it was unplayable. The fuel depletion rate was somehow proportional to CPU speed, so on my (relatively) faster computer, the helicopter would run out of gas just a couple minutes into the level.
A good way in for the common HN reader is to start by considering that an obviously true thing could be false. Like, take the obviously true statement, "Courtroom judges are simply inept programmers who don't understand LISP." Now imagine it were false.

From there, wrong warp through all the consequences of that false conclusion. E.g., when a story on HN appears about a court ruling, don't do the right thing of immediately writing a screed from first principles about what the wrong LISP programmer should have ruled. Just sit there, looking at your hands, imagining them to be the hands of a judge in a far off land who, like you, also has hands, but somehow, some way, they are different hands than the ones you're looking at.

After seven years of this you'll begin to smell odors that remind you of the impetuousness of youth, and see scenes of lovers laughing as you stare longingly at words scrawled into a park bench.

Only then is it time to open a book of poetry and begin reading.

There's probably also some good poetry subreddits where you can get started.
Any sort of competitive game or sport at a high level devolves into "don't make any mistake" whether it be chess, football or anything in-between.
Mozart and Board Games
$500 to update the content of an email is downright robbery. Unless it's not actually "updating content" but is changing what side the images are on, tweaks layouts, adding a graph that wasn't there before, etc.
A special April 1st treat
You're apparently missing the origins of this whole thing. Shawyer has been soliciting investment for it since 2001, making very hyperbolic claims.

This was indeed snake oil from very the start. A couple of people at NASA EagleWorks got permission to use some of their time and facilities to investigate it as a personal project. They did an extremely lazy attempt to control for errors, published their result without review, and the hype exploded.

The whole saga is rather frustrating tbh. We knew what the definitive result was going to be 4 years ago. Getting some improved measurement technology is cool and all, but I don't think we had to go about it this way.
The paper this refers to was discussed yesterday[0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26629779
Being built right into the phone is a huge advantage! Even if you manage to get a perfect bluetooth connection (which, on Android, is a much bigger ask than many realize), and ignore the fact that you now have another separate device to charge - there's no beating this form factor. Your options are to use a horrible oversized clamshell design (eg [0]) that turns your phone into a tablet, or don't physically attach to your phone at all and end up being a 2nd device / accessory to carry around with you / manage / lose.

[0]https://www.amazon.com/BESTLIFE-Universal-Wireless-Bluetooth...
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Approaching this constructively - is it possible that this data is used for verification purposes? E.g. iOS will alert your iCloud account if it detects a new IMEI/phone number?

The claim of “20x more data” is a bit suspect as well. 20x the byte-level amount of data? Yes, the math checks out. 20x the data points? Likely not.
Why is turning off javascript silly?

Not that I personally disable all JS in my browser, but I'd say if your website can not be displayed without Javascript, then it is silly.
I grew up thinking "poetry" was synonymous with "perfect rhyme scheme" and was thus disappointed and disliked all poetry that didn't have a rhythm. It felt lazy and pretentious. It felt like people pointing at a pile of sticks randomly thrown on the ground and calling it "carefully arranged artwork" (complete miscategorization, and abuse of the word "poetry").

Now that I'm older, I think I overcame my narrow definition of poetry, and now just accept that just like in art, there are numerous styles, and it's OK not to like many of them. I like Poe's raven a lot. I don't get anything out of most poetry. I like haikus.

Just like romantic movies, there is nothing to "get" - for some people those movies don't do anything. It's not a deficiency.
Due to an extremely busy home-life, with a large family and many pets while juggling multiple contract clients - each with hours and hours of concalls/meetings, I rented a private/older office last July.

It has been worth every penny - it you are self-employed, I highly recommend doing so. My only regret, is not verifying the HVAC situation first... During summer months, I have a standalone AC unit, with window venting, and it cannot keep-up to our humid/hot days.
I don't know, but based on a gameplay video it looks more like vector graphics to me. The terrain silhouette seems to have straight lines.

I don't know how they pulled that terrain rendering off with 1994 hardware. The limited rendering distance probably helps.
How hard is it to emulate an iPhone or Android so you can do this on a computer? I would think it would be a lot easier to do this with one PC instead of hundreds of tethered phones.
Manage PHP and Valet from the macOS Status Bar
Software today is a complicated mess. On the consumer side, peoples minds are so fickle and they want the latest shiny object or app; on the software side, companies are constantly inventing new ways to do the same old thing; hardware is getting tossed in the dump, when it is actually still very viable.

It's fascinating to see what people are doing with old hardware like Commodore 64, because it's understandable and doesn't change at this point. If we can use hardware that is almost 50 years old, why are cycling through things so rapidly?
This is like with being a teenager - you simply don't realize just how dumb you sound.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%27s_laws_of_motion#Impo...

It is fascinating how such "fake news" grabs people attention, for extended periods of time. Fake news can last forever :)
It's amazing how this has stuck with me for like 30 years but I have trouble remembering birthdays. IDDQD, IDKFA, IDSPISPOPD