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Ask HN: What advice for someone who's learning to code only to start a business?
I've been programming for almost 2 years. I'm not really good at it, but I'd like to be. At the same time, I don't want to be a coder for much longer; I want to start and own my own business. I have never really worked in a real, big, coding team before.

I decided to learn to program as it would be great to be able to come up with a product myself instead of hiring somebody else to make something for me. I built something that made me money in my first year, but not too much, and I know it can be easy to come up with a simple MVP for an app.

Since this is probably a skill I'm going to abandon in the next few years, I wonder if there's any sort of advice for someone in my situation. What sort of thing should I learn so that I make my code more readable for future coders? Or am I even wrong in just learning for the sake of building an MVP and not depending on other people. How is coding going to help me be a better founder, a better boss, and to better set the vision?

I can easily picture myself writing code for another 2 years, in which point I will have hopefully started my thing.
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There are definitely bats that produce chirps (partially) in the human-audible range. You don't need above-average hearing to notice 15 kHz sounds, which appears to be the lower end listed in some source. Most echolocation happens way beyond human hearing range though.
COVID restrictions have been coercion just like drunk driving laws are coercion: rules that prevent innocent people from being hurt by reckless people’s bad decisions. A fundamental part of any civilized system is that bad behavior that is likely to hurt others is punished in order to try to deter that bad behavior. Reckless behavior during a worldwide deadly pandemic is similar to reckless behavior on the road.
It’s a koan about how to use heuristics, not a guide to running tours. Much like how Full Metal Jacket isn’t the same as being in the military.
That isn't a meaningful distinction. Both cases involve you typing in a number into a web form.
After working remote for ten+ years I disagree. There are things one can better understand about a person in a face to face meeting. When discussions become differently casual. Also some discussions are simpler in a completely informal circumstance ("random" meeting at the watercooler) than a virtual meeting of any kind.

Of course ymmv but blunt "None" isn't right.
Were you tested both times to confirm?
Cool thing about VR is when you move your head the position of the speaker stays exactly where it is in relative space thanks to motion tracking which lets you essentially turn towards people you wanna listen/talk to. At some point we need some sort of positional awareness in our headphones to add some resemblance of that.
Stop supporting a system you won't inherit.
The point is there is still an alternative. It's not quite the same as they act as publishers and distribution partners in gaming vs mobile devices. There should absolutely be more access to stores there too though, with Steam and Epic on Xbox or Playstation.

Why is this so controversial for you?
> When there’s a market with only two players where #1 has 75% of the market and #2 has 24%, describing #2 as being part of a monopoly is inaccurate.

It's very strange that you think worldwide market share has anything to do with market share in the US when it comes to antitrust laws in the US.

iOS has 60% of the market in the US[1], with Android taking the remainder. Apple and Google form an effective duopoly in the mobile OS, app distribution and app payment markets. They both form a mobile app distribution cartel that engages in price-fixing[2].

Again, your colloquial definition of monopoly doesn't matter when it comes to antitrust laws in the US. Please read this[3].

[1] https://www.pcmag.com/news/ios-more-popular-in-japan-and-us-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_fixing

[3] https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-a...
Hey I'm curious, if you don't mind sharing, how do you think you got it? Throughout this whole pandemic, I'm still kind of amazed how people are getting it
I agree with Justice Stevens that it's a violation of equal protection, and the state supreme court of Delaware recently did to when they struck down their version of Prop 13, but as you'll see in my Cornell link above the rest of the court upheld the law.
Congratulations on having now made a falsifiable prediction!

I will absolutely make sure to save this comment, and come back to you in a couple months.

I think that at least some, of Apple's decisions are illegally anti-competitive, and that the judge in the epic vs apple case, will at least partially rule against Apple, on some fronts.

And your position, is that you think that nothing at all that Apple is doing is illegal, and that no judge will rule against them, on anything at all.

We'll see who was right, in a couple months, and I can show you this comment then!

But in my opinion, that is a very strong statement that you seem to be making, where you think that absolutely nothing about Apple's practices are illegally anti-competitive.

We'll see if you are right! I think that the judge will rule, at least partially against Apple, on at least some counts, (although probably not on every single count).

> if they are, are these good laws anyway?

Anti-trust law? Yes, it has been around for decades, and is pretty uncontroversial. I don't think that most people support the Standard Oil railroad monopoly, for example.
Weirdly enough, Momento is a big hit with a good chunk of memory researchers, and had been used as a stimulus in memory experiments!

https://www.aalto.fi/en/news/film-memento-helped-uncover-how...
Looks like this uses https://github.com/cloudflare/boringtun, a userspace implementation of Wireguard written in Rust, and (I'm guessing) user IP:port is sent to third party at api.playit.gg.
Does building railroads through areas have the same/better environmental/socioeconomic impact as a pipeline?
I think what I was referring to, and the examples you're giving, are very different. The early advice against masks were the best advice public health could give, with the information that was available (even among experts) at the time. I would give the same advice as Fauci at the time. There are a bunch of factors to consider: behavioural (people having a false sense of security and taking greater exposure risks, or people not using masks properly and actually increasing their risk), medical (at the time, the benefits of non-N95 masks were not as clear as they are now) and system-level (supply chain issues were real, many countries had a really hard time getting procurement of basic PPE for hospitals... and you want to make sure you prioritize hospital workers over the general population)
That's cool! How high can you hear? I can't hear up to 20k anymore. Can you tell where high pitched sounds are coming from?
Why not make a blog post instead of an emoji-laden Twitter thread?
The "alternative way" is to install web apps... which is tied to webkit... which is a neutered browser technology that's purposely hamstrung as to not interfere with the app store.

Using the web apps as a defense only shows that you won't admit to the massive problems with it - from bluetooth restrictions to lack of hardware level driver support.

That isn't a realistic option... it's a deflection from the subpar user experience Apple supports to enforce their mafia level protection racket.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/6/22421912/iphone-web-app-pw...

Anyone who pushes Web Apps as a viable option is being disingenuous about what it provides or purposely ignorant.
ahhh, the benefits of being employeed by threat actor data funnels
Hahahaha you would be surprised my current employer is thinking of introducing 2FA and yeah every pass is stored in plain text. I've been trying to make them change this for years, also the passwords are limited to 20 chars yeah.... security is shit here
I'm running 11.4 on a MacBook Pro without a physical escape key, and the escape key remains present in the Touch Bar. I'm genuinely confused as to what the problem is.
You've got it exactly backwards. Density is cheaper and more sustainable than running miles and miles of brand new sewerage, roads etc into spread-out suburbs.

The big difference between Japanese and American cities is that Japan is built for trains, which scale up really well, and the US is built for cars, which don't.
Could always make the carbon tax revenue neutral. Then it mostly becomes a subsidy for the poor who aren't jumping on planes 10x/year.
So how does Apple limit anyone by offering their choice? Anyone who wants a phone environment where you can install any app and app store you want merely needs to buy and Android phone instead of an iPhone. And anyone who wants a phone environment where developers are far more restricted and are required to behave in certain ways can buy an iPhone instead of an Android. Seems to me everyone wins.
this is very non substantial, but it feels like we are starting the changing of the guard.
Yep, I’ve been referring to this as “work locally”, and I also feel this is an ideal balance, although it does limit your access to talent.
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You got that backwards, my friend
> Didn't customers pay a premium for Apple hardware because of the unified ecosystem and superior security to begin with

Not defending Apple, but offering forever-services for one-time fees is a great way to go out of business. I would not expect the App Store to be subsidized by hardware sales.

Also, assuming you accept the premise in the first place, it makes sense to charge the developer, who is the one generating work for reviewers.
That’s just ridiculous. Person wants to make money on Apple install user base which they were growing for years by investing billions and doesn’t want to pay fee for possibility to make business on platform in which they didn’t invest a penny.
If Marissa is in charge you will be looking for new work soon enough regardless if they move.
I think this only really works as long as your dumps fit on one machine.
As I said before, VSCode is a nice example to see Microsofts stance on open source. The source is available under MIT license. Microsoft provides a pre-build binary of this code under the VSCode brand withe extra tracking included. If you strip the tracking out and build that code like VSCodium does you may no longer use the add-on repositories of the VSCode branded version and have to use open-vsx.org. And the standard extensions made by Microsoft like the C/C++ extension may not be published by open-vsx.org. So alternate versions can not deliver the functionalities like integration with platformIO. See also https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cpptools/issues/6518

Microsoft wants people to write code for them for free. Not for other projects to build on that code.
https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/6/22421912/iphone-web-app-pw...

Anyone who pushes Web Apps as a viable option is being disingenuous about what it provides or purposely ignorant.
Just watch until many realize that WFH leads to people moving within the greater US and what timezone differences truly mean to your work-life balance.

Living in pacific time zone and dealing with Europe, East Coast and Asia just suuuuuuuuuuuuucks.
Unfortunately the .onion is currently timing out.

Love the haq!
https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/6/22421912/iphone-web-app-pw...
Not to the same extent as their hardware, which is best-in-the-industry as the A-series and M1 have proved.

This is some what Ive heard based on the teams in IS&T, and the fact that most of the most technically challenging software products, like the SDKs, OS, system apps effectively seem to have a 1 year release cycle.

Then again the place I work isn’t considered impressive in software at all so…
Actually the hackers tried very hard to hide their tracks by going through a mixer at least once (from what I've read). With enough effort and tracing you can still determine with pretty good accuracy where those bitcoins ended up though. It's not quite like looking up the blockchain.
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Getting trusted access to medical datasets is a huge issue, and so is getting clinicians to use the systems you've produced. Both of these problems are usually fixed with large amounts of funding.
I have a feeling Monero et similia will be banned together with encrypted messaging (encryption = terrorist).
We lose more freedom every year at the hands of governments, I don't see why this trend is bound to improve.

I think what you do is you flee the country and move somewhere smaller where you have greater freedom and a greater chance at influencing politics.

My granddad was putting bombs in nazi buildings, but I don't think it really helped. We needed the USA to come over and kill the bad guys.

I don't know who will come to save us this time.
Making the movement of oil more expensive makes oil more expensive, meaning oil will be purchased less, and alternative forms of energy will be purchased more, no?
The primary factor that defines compensation is competition; the market-clearing wage is a supply/demand thing - ask yourself whether junior developer productivity is that much higher now than a few years ago despite soaring pay.

Your value-added just represents a ceiling on how much its rational to pay you in some sort of vague career-adjusted terms; the vast majority of people don't even have jobs where that can be measured. Even those where it looks simple (say, sales) are actually much harder than you'd think.
Swift is nice but there are still too many holes that need to be filled for general purpose use.
There were stories of reinfection happening. Also variants. Also, every covid study of every kind is getting an enormous amount of attention and resources
I believe they do a key exchange through an encrypted iCloud connection. Then the actual data exchange is peer-to-peer.

I don’t believe airdrop is encrypted as you can airdrop to a stranger
It’s interesting, because I’m currently interviewing with them and I definitely am hearing a lot of expectations of coming to the office at least a couple days a week. Which is pretty much in line with what the expectations were pre pandemic.
fwiw, I was of the same opinion and update cadence, but then just installed Big Sur (from Mojave) and it's been totally fine. The only exception is that Omnifocus 2 bugs out a bit and shows a graphical artifact that they refuse to patch.
This is a dubious claim, and is a frequent anti-vaxx/vaccine-hesitancy talking point.

VAERS data needs to be interpreted with special care. It's not equivalent to a safety study with a proper experimental design. It has a whole lot of legal and administrative context to account for.
Looking any an ASCII chart, yep, that is the correct control code.

(That's old-school!)
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Do physical disks come with "you cant sell me at less" restrictions like Apple enforces? With "you can't use any payment store other than apple"?

The number of restrictions on top of Apples cut is what makes the difference. The mafia wishes they could enforce the same restrictions. Apple makes them look reasonable.
It would be interesting to hear how she wants to make money on Apple platform by not following the rules and not paying fees for access to Apple user base. It seems zoomers live in alternative version of Universe where everyone is owing them something.
The collateral the Federal government offers is the U.S. economy, which it can tax, and national assets, which it can lease or sell. From the perspective of international global finance, the U.S. Federal government is just another counterparty, albeit a very large one.

The fact that the government prints its own currency doesn't change things that much in the abstract. A dollar note is just that--a promissory note, a type of negotiable instrument like a corporate bond or personal check. The U.S. government can print more notes, but a corporation can print more bonds or a shopper sign a bunch of checks. The value isn't what's on the face, but what people will give you in exchange for it. In the case of the U.S., foreign parties are still eager, perhaps too eager, to exchange automobiles and semiconductors for U.S. notes. Ditto for U.S. bonds.
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neutralizing antibodies will give protection against cell entry to the degree they saturate the binding kinetics between receptor and ligand. non neutralizing does not mean ineffective, as ^any^ antibody is a lable that will provoke a complement based immune response, further leading to Tcell based production of antibodies that also include Ab that will bind to domains of spike that are essential to cell entry
Sorry, I guess the rationale here is more that DB schema changes (at least for most "basic" web applications) go through the same codebase as normal application changes, so it's in the same pipeline of changes as other changes.

By asking for changes to be done in a highly-available way, you reduce coordination efforts needed for release. "Our main branch is always deployable" is a great default! And while actualy DB schema changes aren't multiple times a day, even on a relatively small team simple DB changes come into the pipeline once a week? Most aren't backwards-incompatible, but the beauty of it is that we don't even have to consider that much, because of this strategy.

Maybe the "no downtime" stuff is unreasonable. In my case, we are a relatively small team servicing a good amount of customers (who do time-sensitive work), so the effort here is worth it. But if you can get away with it (with downtime windows being big enough to recover from issues), then it's definitely gonna be easier.
I see this post is getting flagged; IMHO personally, I learned something new from this post (that this typo is intentional) which I would not have learned otherwise.

Can we keep this post up with an edited title if necessary?
I think you've misread my comments.

I didn't predict anything. I asked if it had been found to be illegal. It hasn't. So I don't know how you're describing it as 'illegal'. Apple clearly believe it's legal, and no authority has given an opinion otherwise yet.

> And your position, is that you think ... that no judge will rule against them

Sorry I'm afraid you've misread again - I didn't say this anywhere. Where do you think I said what I think the outcome of any trial would be?

I'm giving my opinion (after being invited to) on the morality of Apple's actions. I'm not giving a legal opinion on the outcome of any trial. I even said 'if they are, are these good laws anyway?' which should have made that clear.
Given a large enough sample size, reinfections are pretty much guaranteed to happen. These are not incompatible with each other.
You have no idea what you're talking about. Towns in the boonies don't fund themselves the same way as cities, nor do they provide the same level of public utilities and services. Many small towns only provide electrical service and basic copper phone service--no water, sewer, high-speed internet, etc.
Apple limits everyone by not offering the choice in how their purchased hardware installs and runs their chosen software.

We really must steer away from this dystopian view of "choice" amongst trillion-dollar megacorps that control half of the ecosystem. Yes, there should be different rules when they get that big, like serving the user first.
Ah my apology I thought you were specifically talking about the northern resident credit. Wealth sharing between provinces is an extremely common habit world-wide, the US has loads of this and, most of the wealth sharing ends up coming from sources that aren't tied to natural resource exploitation like the financial markets in NYC. Quebec is a big beneficiary of these payments but Ontario and BC are both excluded from these benefits - losing the oil revenue likely means these payments (and nation wide standard of living) would suffer as a result but I don't think that's a surprise when it comes to considering any artificial economic action. We're talking trading some of our excess productive capacity for cleaner air or cleaner water or not being submerged due to global warming - free money won't ever emerge from regulation - but we might end up losing less "goodness" to externalities like pollution.

On the topic of BC's economy, it is unhealthy but the fact that BC's economy comes 17.4%[1] still only puts it 4.4% above Canada at large (13.01%)[2] - that compares to Alberta which derives 16.12% of it's economy from mineral/oil/gas extraction which is 7.9% above Canada at large (8.21%)[2].

BC absolutely has a real estate issue and it's quite concerning - but there is a lot more "natural" activity in that sector nation-wide compared with Alberta's oil dependency. I think it's also fair to view that while the 17.4% of BC's GDP covers pretty much all the economic activity related to real-estate the 16.12% in Alberta misses a lot of the knock-on benefits of the oil industry and dependent businesses... but that's an opinion.

1. (sourced 2018 - wikipedia) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/British_... I rounded up in the previous post

2. (sourced 2017 - wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Canada#Key_industri...

3. (sourced 2019 - statistica whatever that is) https://www.statista.com/statistics/608354/gdp-distribution-...
You know one way and doing anything different is difficult. It also will challenge you and make you a better manager and person. Do you really need a crutch like the white board? Do you really need that employee right beside you? Take all of that away and you can still be a good manager.
In terms of oil transport alone it's worse. Oil is spilled at a significantly higher rate when transported by rail.
>Linux is developer friendly but user experience is abysmal.

I am a new Mac user and I will mostly disagree with that. Perhaps some of it is just being used to a different model, but there are lots of things I find confusing and unintuitive about the Mac. Like why can't I tile windows? And maybe it's just me, but I am having difficulty getting the close buttons to show up in full screen and the same for my dock. I am also unclear why sometimes my dock gets covered and other times it doesn't.

Also, I'm pretty disappointed with the performance. It takes 5-10s to open the context menu when right clicking a file in Finder and the thing sounds like a jet engine anytime it sees any sort of load.
All of those are recurring fees.
> Now we have data for about 5 months on that.

What do you mean? Immunity of naturally infected individuals has been tracked far longer than five months, with both empirical evidence of lasting immunity along with obvious community evidence.

Do you know why the infection rate in San Francisco was so low? There was already a ton of natural immunity due to community spread. The majority of my office in downtown SF caught COVID in January 2020, which was confirmed by negative influenza A & B tests followed by positive antibody tests once they were made available.

What is particular disturbing to me is that, despite the fact that the CDC estimates total infections to be over a third of the U.S. population (and that estimate only accounts for February 2020 onward and doesn't include last two months), natural immunity is never, ever discussed by policy makers. Why? That's a massive amount of natural immunity that continues to be purposely ignored.