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I think your main choice is primarily just condenser vs dynamic -- for budget, that means something like a Blue Snowball vs an AT2005 (similar to the Shure you mentioned).

And that's ultimately a question these days mainly of aesthetics -- how do you want your voice to sound? I personally prefer the condenser for being a bit more "full-range" (brighter, more sensitive = more realistic) but plenty prefer the dynamic precisely for being less sensitive so it picks up less background noise.
In some countries you can get temporary licenses for running GSM networks during events like concerts, especially in remote locations.
Not subject matter expert but few that come to mind: memory can become a bottleneck, reading sequential data instead of jumping pointers/reading useless data and trashing caches gives much better throughout, compression applied to columnar data is more efficient and can give a throughput boost when memory bw becomes a bottleneck on systems with high number of CPUs.
There is no doubt that a bunch of the general commands are really poorly named, or mixed together. `git checkout branch` means switch to a branch - that's fine. But `git checkout filename` means "undo changes to the file". What? That's totally insane.

`git branch new-branch-name` means create a new branch. Great, but it doesn't check out the branch, which you want like 99.9% of the time. If you want to do that, you use `git checkout -b new-branch-name`. Yes, a third separate use for git checkout.

Why not (e.g.) `git branch -c new-branch-name` with a config option to make `-c` the default if you want it?

If you rebase and push, it tells you to do a `git pull` to "fix" it, when in every workflow I've ever done, you want to add a `-f` and push away, just be aware that you are intentionally overwriting the remote branch.
I see a neat GUI application that looks straight-outta-92, though the author describes it as "modern."

At this point, I read "modern" in an application's description as a subtle way of saying "not old and busted like all of the shitty competing projects."
I started to draw in ms paint during meetings and got pretty good in it last year :)
Personally, I think bookcases look fine as a backdrop. I tidied mine up a little bit but otherwise it's just what's in the background from the external webcam on my desktop system. The only "stage management" I've done is that I draped a fabric print wall hanging over some ugly metal file cabinets. I thought of getting a background Japanese screen sort of thing early on but it would be perpetually in the way.
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Have you read about other famous startup founders that left high-paying jobs? Examples:

- Jeff Bezos quits prestigious job at David Shaw hedge fund to start Amazon

- Jensen Huang at age 30 quits his director job at LSI Logic to start NVIDIA

- Eric Yuan quits his VP of Engineering job at Cisco to start Zoom

Is your conviction for "building something of my own" as compelling as theirs? Is your software idea so motivational that you're also willing to work 90-hour weeks including weekends every week to help get the business going?

At the risk of an HN forum like this doing armchair psychology on your level of commitment... the following quote from your other reply is a red flag: "My biggest dilemma is financial outcomes. With my job, I have a guaranteed path for good financial outcomes..."

For many successful founders, their biggest dilemma was not starting the business to build their idea instead of worrying about a comfortable salaried job paying better in the future. In other words, a startup founder is a little it irrational in choosing to build a startup because statistically, the expected financial outcome is likely failure and bankruptcy. The irrational startup founder doesn't care because must build his software idea to see if it works.
This is true, and it wouldn't suggest anything is amiss.

In the US for example, there's a lot of factors in increasing labor supply: (1) From 1955 to today, women have gone from 36% labor force participation to 59%. (2) The percent of immigrants in the US in the 1950s to 1970s was less than 50% of what it is today.

When the labor supply grows, it'll push downward on wages as the equilibrium price shifts.

America's a country designed to be optimized for freedom, which includes women having the ability to participate in equal numbers to men in the workforce if desired, and immigrants having the ability to come and build their lives here if desired. That will lower wages, which is just one part of the picture in terms of economics and policy.
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Of course, we have focus preferences.
But management can also make replying to any Slack DM mandatory as well. This is bad management, not Slack's fault, right?

After all, I'd like to be in one conversation, rather than be chatting to 5 different people simultaneously over a long time and get constant notifications.

With Noor, you jump in, get it done and get out (if it's for a task). But with Slack, you have to keep a chat thread open in your head for a long time, and get constant notifications, or get dragged into multiple chats at once. So which is worse?

Noor is also much better than the office, since in the office you have to respond to a shoulder tap, but in Noor it's just one click to go to focus mode, or go to a room, so people know you're talking, or just ignore nudges.
You can't say those interactions in the office were all bad, because it's clear there is something special about collaborating in an office. Remove office distractions, but keep the collaboration. Sounds like Noor.
A mesh VPN, or kinda a mesh TOR really.
Maybe somebody who has a habit of using --force when pushing. A major downside of rebase-centric workflows is that it teaches you to ignore the safety rails when pushing, or when deleting branches.
> Once you pass your 20s, your exposure to strangers diminishes greatly

Could it be, at least partly, caused by having to commute to the office? When you work from home, it becomes so much easier to pick up a hobby and meet new people.
Assuming a finite universe, I'll just use 100% of the possible memory for my program. Now you can't run my program and count the steps.
This article is talking about electronics and integrated digital-mechanical systems, but right now there is also a big financial premium on ownership in real estate as well. Not sure if these are linked, but I wonder if long term low inflation and interest rates makes subscription revenue more attractive than in a more volatile environment. Seems like
probably.
The solution in my opinion is to do away with college athletic scholarships and preferred admission for athletes. Let school's field their sports teams from their normal student bodies and ensure that those teams are truly amateur and the participants really are "student-athletes". Let the NBA and the NFL field their own semi-professional minor leagues like baseball does. If these schools have to start paying their football and basketball players (and lets be perfectly clear, that's what this is about), it will be the absolute death of virtually every other men's sport at the college level, and will likely only leave enough women's sports to offset the football team due to Title IX. I won't even get into the ridiculous hypocrisy of our institutions of higher learning pouring billions of dollars into a sport that is proven to cause brain damage, while cutting other sports that don't. That is not at all what college athletics should be about, it should be about extracurricular opportunities for real students. I think the Division 3 model (no sports scholarships/no backdoor admissions) has been much more successful and has provided many more opportunities for students (men and women) to compete in a wider variety of sports. I say this as someone who was a college athlete on scholarship years ago and still coaches high school.
Just because its easy/tempting to lie doesn't mean they are lying.
Because, for example, the things that make retros pointless and wasteful (write down stuff and never consider it again) can challenge fundamentally the follow through ability of the department/manager/team members.
I don't know the difference between the 2, but I think testing is extremely important. I personally believe one should just follow one style, and keep it consistent. And only change it if it's very important.

Otherwise, everything else is mental masturbation, and the time is better spend shipping, and satisfying customers. One could argue all day about what testing style is best.
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Yeah, I think the above comment's thinking is pretty unproductive. If you "just" skip all of the meetings you don't personally find value in, you're depriving everyone in those meetings any nuggets of value _you_ could add. You'll be quickly labeled a loner/difficult team member/etc. Nobody wins if you "just" skip all the things you don't want to do.

Also it's worth noting that the gripe wasn't about meetings, but about meetings that don't translate well to remote, which I think is a totally different class of problem than attendance and meeting misuse. If those meetings added value when they were in-person, totally skipping them is a big mistake. The "work" so to speak is adapting meetings that added value in person, to continue to add value while done remotely. This obviously isn't just "Use the exact same format, but have it via Zoom", but more thought needs to go into it I think.

Or just the general acceptance that for some people, some things will just never be good unless they're in person.
So a comment about my imagination is justified, because in the past someone other than me was wrong about something completely different?
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I mean, what are you supposed to do when you work in Irvine and are starting a family? The rent starts at 3500 dollars, so you'd need a family income of at least 100 kUSD. This is madness.
Huge income tax evasion and money laundering. On a massive scale like we don't have today. It would be harder to detect
Of all the times to be name dropping Google execs, responding to an article about Google execs is one of them.
> So my question is: why do people subject themselves to this?

People, as a rule, do not make all of their choices from first principles. When you wake up in the morning hungry, you don't wander out to the back yard and begin conducting methodical experiments to determine which plants growing there are safely edible.

We rely on culture to give us default answers to most of life's questions. If not answers, culture will at least winnow down our choices to a few and nudge towards the safest options. We lean on this so heavily that we can't even perceive ourselves doing it. It's as if the options not handed to us by our culture don't even exist.

We pick up culture from our parents and peer group. It changes all the time, but relatively slowly. If you're roughly the age of a Gen-xer, then you're the offspring of Boomers. That generation grew up in a world of post-WWII economic prosperity surrounded by colleges flush with cash from the GI Bill.

Boomers were raised in an era of optimism to believe in following their dreams. They experienced a reality where they could easily afford to go to college for whatever struck their fancy. When they got out, well-paid jobs were ripe for the picking regardless of education.

They passed all of that onto their children as a cultural assumption that college is always good, you should follow your passions, and that it will work out economically. Then corporations destroyed the labor movement, economic inequality skyrocketed, and government funding of education withered and died. Unfortunately, our prevailing culture was slow to get that memo.

TL;DR: We tacitly assume it's safe to do what worked for our parents even when we don't live in the same world they did.
The browser should be a secure app to begin with, without making any automatic external requests (if anything, theses can make it less secure). Almost every other application behaves in this way.

Besides, malicious URLs directory and content blocking hardly qualify as 'security’ features.

Telemetry can be useful, and totally feel free to have as much of it as you want, as long as users opt-in into it. You seem to be making a lot of choices on the behalf of the user, when your default setup has whopping 70 requests “home".

There is a way to achieve everything you want, and for a privacy respecting product (or one claiming to be one) these choices absolutely need to be users' and not yours (by the very definition of the term privacy)
Delivering completed work seems a clear form of communication to me. It has the added benefit of being hard to argue with.
As someone who went through a tonne of so-called medical experts for a chronic condition I can say that, based on my experience, most people involved in medicine are incompetent. lol.

You just have to bounce around until you hit someone who actually knows what they’re talking about.
Why do you think the parts spec'd for this use case are available? The humble STM32 microcontroller has ONE YEAR lead times right now. If you're launching a hardware product right now, the supply chain dictates the design, not the other way around.
I had to do it for work for a tool to interact with remotely hosted containers.

Tip for anyone trying to do this in Go, look at Docker CLI's code for all the knobs you need to turn to have an actually interactive terminal, for example, setting raw mode on the terminal, handling terminal resizes, and other things across platforms.
> The thermostat is set to 78 not 86 or something.

Evidently you are not enrolled in the "smart thermostat" program described in the article, which allows the utility company to remotely raise your thermostat setting regardless of what you set it to. They apparently did that without any regard to the impact it would have on comfort and health.
The root cause is not house prices. The root cause is automation/technology/outsourcing causing income/wealth gaps to increase, and concentrating the geographic locales where the probability of one moving up on the socioeconomic ladder is sufficient, resulting in very high demand for land in fewer areas.

This is then coupled with restrictions on land use for those limited areas that are in high demand (sometimes because of the quality of life enabled by the restrictions on land use).

Otherwise, there are very large swaths of the US with reasonable land prices. But they come with tradeoffs, so addressing house prices itself is not good solution. Addressing the tradeoffs themselves is a long term solution.
What really needs to die is lectures themselves. They are a TERRIBLE method of creating learning. However they are very good at creating the perception of learning. That contradiction is not surprising, it speaks to how we actually learn, by engaging with our reflection and metacognition about attempts at things that end in errors.
Not an employer, but I think I wouldn't hire people I can't trust anyway. We should care about delivery, not hours
I'd be willing to flex a little and work a little longer to get more done short term for a cause, but if that became the new norm then I've just taken a pay cut and that's not an ok approach to it. A manager can always keep asking for more. That sounds like greed and costly employee turnover.
> Teachers learning OBS will be as much of a game changer as teachers moving from overheads to powerpoint, I think.

Just an anecdote but as a chemistry student I remembered lessons taught from an overhead far better than those from powerpoint. There was a stark contrast between the lower division organic chemistry series whose instructors used overheads, and the upper division organic chemistry mechanisms class whose teacher used slides. Those slides were mostly bullets and diagrams, sometimes with crude animations which were meant to indicate nucleophilic attack or whatever. Just watching the lecturer draw diagrams and arrows and listening to them talk was far more helpful, for me.

The lightbox seems much more overhead like in presentation. I dig it, and I hope today's college students learn well from it.
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When I was getting my office video properly set up I thought about more deliberately putting some other objects there and so forth. But the thing is that it's my office bookcase and I'd have ended up having to pile a bunch of books in the floor in another room. So I decided it wasn't worth it.
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There is a large graveyard of "simple git tools", many of them portray themselves as happy GUIs that prevent you from learning git...

None of them works. At some point you will be told to fix the problem by hand.
I've lived in Silicon Valley for over 2 decades as well. Until iPhone, Apple was not prestigious at all. I still remember Brass Ring hiring conventions where the Apple hiring booth was completely empty. In fact, until recently, all I've heard is that Apple underpays engineers compared to most other companies. The fact that the stock as gone up ~300x in the last 8 years changed that equation, so everyone shuts up now, but it has historically never been prestigious. I've in fact never heard of Apple being prestigious unless you worked in design, or worked on the iPhone.
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That is also a good idea, but I would prefer if patent trolls don't even try to go to court.

Sadly with many countries law system even if you are in the right they opponent still can drive you to ruine before they lose.

So the penalties (for trolling company and lawyer) must be to a point that they won't want to risk abusing the patent system.
I used to want to work at Apple until I got to know people who work there. Very heavy secrecy + burnout culture, plus weird things like some projects get free meals where others don't.
I mean the way to export an arbitrary image in an open format, not JPEG XL support yet.
Everything worked fine but I was stuck in application development when I wanted to be a research scientist (IE I wanted somebody else to build product so i could do the research on top of it). During that time, I managed to make a team member unhappy with my criticism of their work, and that led to an HR interaction where transfers into all the research parts of the company were blocked.

In the case above, it was really about a pivot of Google Cloud Genomics- my market research suggested that people wanted to store large amounts of BAM files cheaply and access them via an API, when they really wanted Spark for Genomics. I brought that up with our leadership and they declined to make that pivot early.

Here's what the Cloud Genomics product eventually evolved into, which actually is pretty good: https://verily.com/solutions/terra/
(I was the person who set up the original Google/Broad relationship that led to all of this).
I'm pretty sure if this was a comment on HN it wouldn't meet the guideline standards, one snarky comment after another, "Stupid Reasons", "Sounds like you hire clowns".... The only reason this flies is that at this moment in time, it is the popular opinion. There is absolutely no empathy for any dissent for any reason and if you can't acknowledge the validity of any tradeoffs, I can't take you seriously. If this level of spin is necessary for getting your point across, you might want to reconsider your whole viewpoint.
Unless every person in the poll lives in California or New York I don’t think that’s entirely accurate. I was born and raised in California and moved to Nashville TN three years ago. I bought a house last year at the height of covid (thanks fed) and my biggest debt is not the mortgage, car payment, health insurance, food and entertainment, streaming subscriptions it’s by far taxes. Want to close the wealth gap? Then politicians should lower and more importantly simplify taxes. Close the loop hole for crypto wash sales, back door conversions, real estate tricks and implement a basic flat tax. Wishful thinking, this ain’t gonna happen. It’s easier for people to blame housing costs or wealthy people instead.
Ironically, a failure to learn from history is often what leads to large-scale failures to provide for those other priorities.
Just delete the bits you don't want and `git add`

It helps a lot to set:

git config --global merge.conflictstyle diff3

then you can see the before as well as the 2 changes you are trying to resolve.
Entrepreneurship is a... special kind of mindset. You have to basically trick yourself into believing that you unconditionally love a project that will hurt like nothing else ever has. Most people don't come out the other side the same, so you should be wary of throwing away a comfortable position.
> It's signalling working as intended from the perspective of people who think they can tell everything they need to know about someone by how they dress.

Everything? No. It's a somewhat noisy signal. It is a signal, though, and absolutely does carry useful information. For instance, the poorly-dressed are one of, or some combination of: poor; ignorant of fashion; aware of fashion, but nonetheless not putting effort into it despite knowing its benefits; or are deliberately choosing not to dress well. The well-dressed are one of, or some combination of, the opposites of those. Clearly, then, you can tell some things about people from how they dress, or at least narrow down the possibilities.

Someone choosing to communicate deliberately over that signaling channel, or deliberately trying not to is, itself, information, as is someone trying to but missing their intended message, or someone plainly not understanding that it's a method of communication, or communicating with a message tuned for the wrong audience. This is how you end up with things like computer-nerd "uniforms"—they must make it clear they're trying to be non-conformist, as that's the signal they want to send, distinct from "I'm very poor", "my background is, in fact, low-class, and so my attitudes continue to follow", or "I don't know how to dress well even if I wanted to".

Every time you correctly identify a geek from across a room, or out on a trail, or on the street, based solely on how they're dressed and how they carry themselves, that's fashion-as-signal working very well. Does that mean you can so-identify every geek? Of course not. Does that mean there's no information available in fashion? Of course not. Are the geeks who choose to make it very obvious they're a geek sending a signal you're intended to receive? Oh my god, yes. And the ways they choose to make it clear further refine that message.
I would find an attorney that is willing to send a letter that states:

"Thank you for your correspondence, I regret to inform you that you are mistaken in your understanding of my software. The methods of data transfer and QR code analysis are in no way covered by your patent. Even if my software was infringing on this patent, I think that your patent should be invalidated by prior art. Please see Patents, X,Y,Z as evidence of that." It doesn't matter what X,Y and Z are, you are just making them waste time on technical work.

Basically you are saying. Lets go to court and let a judge look at all these detailed technical things and let the Judge decide if I owe anything or if you should have this patent at all.
> I have an intense drive, wanted to work at Google more than anything, and exploited the internal structure of the company to maximize my power

> at that point Google politics and personalities intervened and I was kicked out of the cool kid's club.

It sounds like a power struggle gone the other way from reading this. And it certainly doesn't seem like either of the sides are more noble than the other.

But props for you for doing what you loved best, if only one day any of these can be decoupled from politics.