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Most of my posts get flagged. Not trolling, but I could see how it would seem that way to the extremely confused.
Ask HN: Double down on business skills, or supplement biz skills w technical?
Hi everyone, seeking some advice - newbie here so if this doesn't belong here please tell me to delete.
29 yo. College background: Quantitative Econ and Finance. Work background: Was a finance bro for a few years (wall street) then joined the startup world as an employee (operator) and really learned the business / commercial skills (think biz-dev/marketing/ops.. did almost every division that is non-technical).

Looking to build something of my own in the future, but I'm in no rush and I have a very long-term view of things in that I want to achieve true mastery in this field. I have been thinking to supplement my business skills with engineering skills - to do a bootcamp and work as a SWE for 2-5 years. Rationale: this will make me a good engineer and will allow me to learn and earn at the same time, while being able to build my own projects in evenings/weekends and upskilling, and adding the technical skills to my skill-stack which already consists of the business side of things.

I may be wrong but I have this vision for being a 'full stack operator' - not that I'll ever be as good of a coder as the person doing it since their teenage years, but just to be able to build mvp / communicate with engineers / have technical awareness etc, I think it will go a long way if I'm planning to be in this industry for several decades to come (hopefully). I have the business skills but I'm thinking of getting the technical skills too. Of course I know many people who only have business skills and build successful companies, and I know it's not a requirement. However, I have an admiration for the very few who can build and can sell and have a long-termist view on things (think Bezos).

There is the classic debate of specialisation vs generalisation, however I wouldn't call this generalisation given that it's in the same field of building technology companies and will solidify my overall skillset. However, turning 30 soon and as Bill Gates once said: I'd rather teach an engineer marketing than teach a marketer engineering. As age goes up, some say focus and energy goes down, but I'm not sure this applies to someone in early 30s of their career.

Any thoughts / advice would be sincerely appreciated. Stick to doubling down on my business skills, or supplement the business skills with technical skills? Thanks so much to all.
They announced the whole thing back on Monday, though. If they were trying to hide it, the initial announcement would have been buried. Burying the "huh, we didn't expect this backlash" comment makes no sense.
If we're gonna learn a stack of key combo shortcuts, why not go with a editor that was designed with that in mind (i.e. key combos organized into a hierarchy rather than a huge flat mess)?
Gary Tan: Robots Can See – They Can Even Paint My Nails (7 M Video)
> giving 3 false information in a single sentence is quite a feat.

I'm with macintux. I think that was rather rude. Nor do I think macintux was patronizing.
Is installing an editor really such a hardship?
The hashes on device are encrypted. iPhone users do not have access to the unencrypted version.
this is less true these days w/ slim docker images that don't include any editors by default
Perhaps, but you can see it with your own eyes. I hate generalizations as much as the next guy...but look at the change milenials ushered in. When I was a kid, it was unheard of for companies to have 'missions', nobody cared about recycling or the climate, etc.

As much flak as they get, I think milenials and whatever the gen after them are seem to be way more caring of others than the generations that preceded them.

I'm something like a xenial, so I don't group myself in well with them even.
Locking cockpit doors and having the awareness that hijacking isn’t a (mostly) nonviolent stunt is sound security, not theater.

TSA (Thousands Standing Around) is much more effective as a jobs program than a security program in my estimation.
Google Infringed on Sonos Patents, Judge Says
I'm in Canada, but have been applying to some U.S based positions. The availability of jobs focussed on React and the availability of people for those positions is the issue, not the problem, because of the reduction of the hiring process down into whoever will spend x time doing a test, and then simply who did it fastest or best. So the question is not wjether it's a marketable skill, but is it worth attempting to fight up that kind of a stream.

I think part of this is exactly why I can apply to U.S jobs. Now that arguably everyone in the world can apply to every job in the world, the situation seems untenable unless you have a spotless and thorough record.
The same key can be copied over to any number of repos you want, unless I'm missing something from the GitHub docs
It's a sad state of affairs indeed.

The lesson here is that you cannot help a Middle-east Muslim country to democracy, it is an impossible task.

Even Turkey seems to be heading in the wrong direction these years.
The side effects of HCQ were very overstated. The first study [1] that was pushed by the media to discredit Trump saying HCQ might be dangerous to the heart was later retracted [2] because the authors refused to share its data. The best metaanalysis today shows HCQ works to treat COVID if used early and is safe at the right doses [3].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/22/health/malaria-drug-trump...

[2] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

[3] https://hcqmeta.com/
> And people who worked with NCMEC's database said it contains non CSAM images.

Where did you see that? I tried to find more info about it, but I didn't find anything.
If these devices are encrypted, physical destruction is less of an imperative. There's no excuse for not encrypting all data at rest these days.
You are free to continue ignoring the objective reality that Trump's policies had an objectively positive impact. Feel free to "cherry pick" some negative Trump impacts that weren't wholly manufactured by the swamp.
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the public was brainwashed and outright fed misinformation by the government who wanted to invade

sounds like victim blaming the public
> The problem with trust and credibility is that once it’s lost, it’s very hard to gain back. Even if the broken clock is right twice a day, it’s still broken.

If that's the case, then the previous administration's opponents ought to look in the mirror, because they were the first anti-vaxxers, the first covid deniers (pelosi's statements that people should not be afraid of covid in late jan/early feb in chinatown, despite having access to the same intelligence as trump), and Dr Fauci lying to the US congress about gain of function research.

Honestly, given what's happened in the last two years on both sides, it should come as no surprise that no one trusts the federal government.
> We also did educate a lot of people there

We also "canoed" a lot people there.
I fully agree to an extent. Some APIs (e.g. Android) are huge and a pain to type in Java without some sort of completion. Maybe I'm just lazy or used to C, but Java makes having an IDE almost essential.
I suspect the number of troops needed to keep a facility secure depends not only on the size of the facility but also on the scale of the threat.
The issue is the revenue cut MS wants for sales through their app store and companies losing near total control over the distribution of their software.

Yes, getting their software into the MS store would be easy. Revenue and control aren't things they'd want to give up. Even if they simply raised their prices, at some point they'd say, "Hey, we can distribute this on Linux instead and keep the 5/10/30% cut MS is taking." (See Fortnite as an early example)

Even if they gave up no revenue, what company would say "Sure!" to MS saying, "Would you mind giving us tons of control over your software distribution?" I don't see what the companies would have to gain on that.
Of course they were. They state the human leaders were gods and immortals, yet why are they writing these things on their burial chambers?
That is basically how a fact check works if the claim is true but you want to debunk it anyway. Talk about something related that is directionally opposite to the claim, then give the ˋmisleadingˋ verdict.
> Salesforce, for a couple of years - in spite of the name, it's not all that "sales" focused; it's actually more a "VB for web-based enterprise applications" with a sales instantiation implemented in it.

You know, this is the first time anybody has ever been able to explain to me what Salesforce actually does.
depending how you're doing it, it's actually quite difficult to properly drill a hard drive.
My thought when I saw the name: alicorncloud - alicloud - alibaba cloud
>"any group thinking about attacking the US on it's homeland will have to contemplate a 20+ year conflict afterwards."

I don't know how true this is, but I heard that Bin Laden's goal was to get the US mired in an extremely expensive and prolonged war of attrition. It's the same strategy that helped bring down the Soviet Union. It makes sense, at face value, to get a vastly more powerful adversary bogged down in such a war.

>"Maybe I'm just searching for the silver lining..."

I feel you. It's pretty disheartening.
Upsides to unshipping: The art of removing features and products
They probably meant snobbery that vim is superior because it's more capable, not because it's more ubiquitous. Nano is also very widely installed, so the latter point isn't even particularly true.
Unfortunately, we’re so far down the path that I no longer have a choice.

I’m starting graduate school in the fall. A few weeks ago, I went in to pick up my new college ID card. The security guard would not let me into the building until I downloaded an app called “Everbridge” on my phone and used it to answer a series of health screening questions (ie, have you tested positive for COVID in the past 14 days).

The app was for iOS and Android. There was no web version. There was no option to fill out a paper form. I was not warned in advanced. But I guess it wasn’t a problem for anyone (including me), because who the heck doesn’t have a smartphone? It’s like having a wallet now—an expected requirement for modern life, even in situations when an analog solution could have worked just as well.
> When you really look at it, no major act of terrorism of the same scale was going to happen anyways

Why this is the case was a full court press on AQ across the globe by IC, and toppling the safety net in AFG was a (the) critical part of that occurring. It’s a fairly lengthy operation to succinctly cite, but starting with the CIA’a CTC activities between ‘97 and ‘03 will cover it.

It’s also important to keep in context that after the Embassy bombings in Tanzania/Kenya in ‘98 (200 dead) another attack of the same scale was never going to happen again. And after the USS Cole (17 KIA plus a decommissioned Naval Destroyer), another attack at that scale was deemed unlikely. 9/11 happened, and… all sourcing to a serious inability to directly target or gain Intel on AQ, which operated freely in AFG.

So, the initial invasion was critical in that narrow sense. AQ was toppled and never recovered globally. Should we have stayed, or instead given it to a United Front or heavily empowered/armed/funded Karzai? To your point - probably the latter was a good option, 20 years and a lot of dead Americans later.

Edit - downvote for over-acronym use makes sense, another user helpfully linked acronym <>wiki articles. That said, the above is well known history, but happened a very long time ago to a niche area of national security. If people are curious on “what the hell happened to Afghanistan for 20 years,” it’s important to know this part.
As a French, the company was vastly different to what I was used to. But not only that: when travelling to Schaumburg I was staying in the Embassy Suites on the other side of the road and I remember, jetlagged, waiting for 6 am for the breakfast to be served.

There was also a big mall a bit south (I forgot the name) , very much different from the ones we had at home (staring with the fact that you drove around the mall, and not walked inside.

Good memories.
This is close enough but the big difference between an adda and a salon is that the salon is still a commercial establishment.

Adda is such gatherings anywhere. On the streets, rooftops, temples, parks, local tea stall, something called as a clubhouse (yes physical clubhouses without pay for play).

A friend's favorite adda was a fuckin commuter train. People would text each other to catch the same train and just chat for 40-50 mins of the journey.
Oh no oh no oh no...everybody run for the hills! Nothing like this has ever happened before, what'll we do?!

Smh...lemme know when winter comes and they predict we're headed for an ice age...again.
I think I'm getting enough of these editor posts. It's just a tool and I'd rather see more language war posts.
i spent a good long time writing code in emacs but our current project uses an IDE, and I found I could be pretty productive in it and learned to leverage its advantages. But I could not live without a solid text editor, and still use emacs for texty stuff, like config and log files and such (even though in theory i could do that in the IDE as well)

But as a result, a lot of the cool stuff I had set up in emacs never gets used anymore. not even sure how to run many of the .el's anymore i have in my .emacs tbh. I could probably get by just fine with nano but run full emacs just out of habit.
We’ve been nation building in Afghanistan for 20 years. It didn’t work and we’ve failed to train a military capable of holding the country even after dumping hundreds of billions of dollars into it.
It seems my basic fear of anyone slapping on a white hat and saying that they are one of the good guys is once again vindicated.
Destroying the encryption key for a harddrive takes less than a second. Are disks really not fully encrypted when they store sensitive information?
I have said it many times already: stop uploading your apps to the Play Store.

It's a shitty product developed by a shitty company.

It takes a mandatory 30% share of all of your payments for offering you a shitty service with no human support.

It has opaque and inconsistent removal practices completely managed by algorithms, and violating any of the many unwritten rules can result in the output of your hard work disappearing overnight, and what's worse is that often there's no human to validate these decisions and the reasons for removal aren't

F-Droid is the way to go if you build FOSS apps. Real humans are behind he keyboard to validate your app and answer your questions, the store sits completely outside of the money cycle, your source code is protected by the right licenses, and apps don't get banned just for linking a URL to their website.
They have no reason to lock it down.

While competition focuses on locking down, DRM, anti-piracy, etc, Valve just focuses on selling in-game hats.

In more seriousness: They also have good synergy with the Linux ecosystem, and locking out kind ends up working both ways.
I’d be surprised if they didn’t have a bulk eraser on site.
I was never privy to the true details but I suspect that they are making good use of torx screwdrivers and abrasives (wire brush, sandpaper, etc) right about now. It's slower but they have a fairly good amount of time to deal with it.

If they have time they're wiping things first.

You can also just burn them. It's not the Taliban they're worried about, it's the Russian and Chinese spies who will sneak in and pocket stuff, but that's mostly dealt with with policies that keep the kind of info those people would want off of hard drives in an unrelated nation.
I doubt it. The Taliban would be wise to just wait until the evac completes and US troops leave.
Over those 20 years, the total US GDP was $300T [1], so $2T = 0.67% to move a war off our soil.

[1] source: St Louis Fed: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GDP
The thing about that “snobbery and gate keeping” is that it’s not at all that.

Maybe not everyone’s experience mimics mine but I felt like people looked down at me a bit when I was 16 for using nano on the command line.

But, and here’s the kicker, if I hadnt been pushed into vim I would not be nearly as productive now.

There have been countless times in my career as a sysadmin/devops/SRE where I’ve been stuck with horrible latency to machines half a world away (or, a few miles away but the network is crappy) and being able to send just a few keystrokes and get a lot of power out of it is helpful.

That’s not counting all the “repeat” patterns or complex search and replace.

I remember still when I got my first job as a junior sysadmin, I spent a really long time logging in to each machine, updating a config file, logging out then going to the next one.

I didn’t need to be told that “ssh and nano is fine”, I needed to be told “there are better tools that you should invest in learning, because they will repay you back thousandfold”.

What I thought were people looking down on me were in fact people looking at me with hopeless pity, because I fought the idea of learning vim.
"Racism" is an outdated concept and should be relegated to the dustbin of history.

What it is we're discussing is bigotry. And it should be called out for what it is: hateful prejudice for no real reason at all other than the anger and hatred of those who practice it.
> For starters... any group thinking about attacking the US on it's homeland will have to contemplate a 20+ year conflict afterwards.

The US didn't invade Saudi Arabia.
> as the name implies can only be used to select emojis

It has a tab for emojis, a tab for "kamoji" (emoticons), and a tab for what looks like a decent chunk of the non-asian symbols in the unicode basic multilingual plane. ©™⇈⇊⇄↹

I don't know about everyone else, but in my copy of Windows 10, Win+. opens a small window attached to the text box I'm typing into. I can then type the name of the symbol I'm looking for, hit enter, and the symbol is inserted into the text box. Escape closes the box, so I don't even have to touch my mouse.

https://i.imgur.com/FsDc7F9.png

To be clear, it is somewhat more disruptive, but requires no prior knowledge of anything except how to open it. There's room for both methods.
To me, programming is a mental task that requires overview and easy text manipulation.

Most IDEs get in the way of me effectively navigating the code as it was originally organized, while still maintaing my overview. "Big" IDEs that clearly sacrifice text area for widgets, or shift text around to pop up distracting inline "help" are the worst offenders. I'm looking at you, Visual Studio.

Common IDE tools like ho-to-definition usually leads to poor understanding of the code structure (and in turn doesn't train for good structures). My best anology being navigating by gut vs. being told where to go by an app - you never learn the route and scenery if you're always busy following the route instructions. And if you never start navigating by gut, you never learn to find your way in general.

I always get frustrated by how slow go-to-definition users are compared to those that just... Open the file in the tree that would logically contain that part.

This is just one example of course - another is that IDE are usually not very versatile when writing in many languages. Also, a good text editor can have IDE-like features in a non-intrusive way, but the difference between "IDE" and "enhanced text editor" would to me be the intrusiveness.
I can't help but feel that if we didn't also go into Iraq at roughly the same time there may have been more resources which could have drastically changed the outcome.
That's not really easy...
How does that stop a FISA subpoena with a gag order? The system exists that any secret government order can exploit.
There's been plenty, there's been exactly zero evidence though that it was from bats and wet markets. And if it were from bats or other animals, why did fouchi want to collect even more animals that are already being experimented on an increase the rate of already dangerous research?
In Japanese you can use the word "enbug", as an antonym for "debug".
I'd assume that all the computers/hard drives have FDE on them, so wiping the headers/keys would suffice to make the entire disk unreadable.
Freedom always requires enforcement. How else does one protect it if not through some kind of force.
I was wondering why Windows doesn't come with a built in compose implementation. There doesn't seem to be a reason, just something that exists outside of the folklore of Microsoft/Windows [1].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key
This is what happens when there is no leadership in the white house...we left without any negotiations...such stupidity deserves swift justice.
Cynically? The executive branch got a bunch of new powers in the Patriot act, Halliburton shares soared for a few years, and the only people who were punished were a handful of traditional republicans associated with the Bush administration not already retired before isolationists like Trump took over the party. The main architects all did very well.

I can only hope that the next generation learned not to trust government as quickly, but Vietnam wasn't that long ago so I don't know how realistic that hope is.
Woodfield Mall

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodfield_Mall
for me personally I noticed that using an IDE started to replace my memory in a way and I didn't like it. I noticed that when I program in languages with an IDE environment (Java in my case) I only really slowly picked up what functions were available in a libraries and I started to really dislike this reliance on constantly looking up things.

When I just program without autocomplete or for that matter constantly googling I actually paid way more attention to 'where things are'.

In python I pretty much know what every string method is. In some languages I used IDEs for I was still scrolling through the completions because I somehow never picked anything up.
Well, the US seems hellbent on shipping one journalist who broke no law in US to their torture chambers. Until that's sorted out you just can't claim moral superiority.
The security is defense in depth. There are now:

- Background checks cross-references with photo ID before flying (e.g. the do not fly list)

- Enhanced security screening (there’s YouTube footage of a totally incompetent pat down of one of the 9-11 hijackers)

- Locked and strengthened cockpit doors

- A chance of an Air Marshal on a flight

- The knowledge that passengers will fight back

- Strict no-fly zones around sensitive areas like DC
no, it's often finding out the hard way that you have made a mess and it would be really nice to get back to the working state of an hour ago
Oh, I hadn't realized it also got sold off.

Let's see, what all was sold off:

computer division, analog ICs (Onsemi), digitial ICs (Freescale, NXP), base stations (as mentioned), mobile phones (Motorola Mobility, Google, Lenovo). What did I miss?

It is funny that the Motorola as we knew it is gone, but many of the pieces remain. And others were able to make money using those pieces.

To this day I still fail to understand the corporate strategy behind all that.
You forgot the who

- Whose fault is it that those points were not clearly communicated?

- Who wrote the perceptual hash matching code?

- Who is allowed to audit the code, the review system, and the hash database?

- Who updates this code?

- Who decides if your phone OS is updated?

- Who decides the iCloud upload defaults?

- Who decides if you are reported?

- Who asked for this feature?
That CVE is not a link to anything relevant to the question.
Were you aware of that when you posted it?
This article just says "iCloud," not specifically Photos. My understanding is that they previously scanned iCloud Mail, but not iCloud Photos. I don't have a link handy unfortunately, and don't have time to dig it up again.