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I'm self-taught, been doing this since I was 13.

As far as how I am as a programmer, the way I turned out was rigid in my design patterns, but with I'm told unusually readable code. My biggest sin is a lack of comments and documentation. I have a set of axioms/constructs that I use over and over again to build software in many languages.

It's just dumb shit that I use like reaching for legos off the shelf. E.g. a class object owns a thread that is joined in the destructor for that object, lots of singletons, uniform indent/variable name style (Allman + PascalCase), lots of jump tables and hash maps, etc.

So far in my career it hasn't been much of a limitation, but I suspect that I'll eventually run into an employer that needs me to be a bit more flexible. As far as competency, I can create pretty much anything except math-heavy stuff like 3D engines, crypto or compression algorithms, stuff like that. I'm awful at math, and that's one of my bigger regrets.
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Elon takes a private jet to work.
Why did you choose Django for your last one? What's your setbacks/difficulty compared to Rails?
Could there be a bias from the fact that not everyone makes babies during a pandemic? Maybe there is only a subset of the whole population that is represented in the parents of the kids.
Do you leverage types on the FE from Graphene/GraphQL?
I turn existing websites into apps at https://webtoapp.design

I went with Flask (python) + Bootstrap for my website.

The apps are created in Flutter, which was a great choice looking back on it. This allows me to have 1 codebase for both Android & iOS apps (most customers want both).
If developing an app for just Android would be 100% effort, developing an app for Android and iOS with Flutter is around 130% effort I'd say. Those additional 30% mostly come from inconsistencies in Flutter between Android & iOS and from desired differences between the platforms, e.g. Material vs Cupertino design.

I developed native Android apps before and now I'd even use Flutter if I wanted to just create an ordinary Android app. It's just so much nicer to use in my opinion.

Summary: Flutter was a great choice, Flask is fine too, nothing to complain about there.
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> I doubt AI will ever handle winter situations without help.

Sure it will, at least eventually. However, I suspect the humans at the time won’t like the answer: that it’s not always safe to drive in these conditions, and then the car refusing to drive autonomously, even if it is technically capable of navigating the route. It may deem the risk of getting stuck, etc. to be too high. Or you may need to accept a report to your insurance company that you’ve opted to override the safety warnings, etc.
I'll jump on this completely out of context and say that if I'm ever forced to work with another human being permanently glued to my side, watching my every move, and requiring constant maintenance in terms of explanation and synchronized breaks, I'll happily resign on the spot. Programming is an intensely internal task, usually performed by introverted people. Forcing them into this kind of setup should be counted as torture.

Before you disagree, consider how many other professions have pair-working in any shape or form. Is there any pair-management going on? How about pair-assembly line working? Yes, multiple people work on an assembly line - but they are performing different tasks, not just checking up on each other in real time, 8 hours per day! People work in teams, I get that, and it requires interaction between team members. But name me one team where there are two people permanently assigned to literally the same task, with no goals other than 'improving efficiency'. It's just amazing that anyone would put up with that.
Personally I think comparisons are useful not for the framework itself but the ecosystem. Available libraries, resources for common scaling/implementation problems, available consultants, etc.
I can understand that Go has a GC so it (might) be slower. But wouldn't Rust and Zig have about the same performance?
I loved this site in my student days, but i really wish they'd change the background color!

Just make it #ffffff and it looks loads better!
I was quite specific in my idea. $60-80 billion worth, without ousting the Taliban. That's different to the current state of affairs, which is a much smaller number than that, and which involved military intervention.
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The simple solution therefore is just don't connect it to the internet, which is still viable (even though Amazon wants to co-opt everyone's devices for their IoT network).

Don't plug an ethernet cable into it, don't give it your wifi network passcode.
But it is not training material that tries to convey "focus on the product".

It's literally communication guidelines of a profit oriented company dominating it's market in a monopolistic way that says "avoid talking about market or market share, this is bad"

The only way to have a "charitable" interpretation of this is to partake in their game, imho.
If you look at who innovates in the "hardware" space, it's often not US companies. I mean worldwide manufacturing is build around machines build and designed in Germany for example. I think what SC is particularly good at is growing very quickly to immense scale, because there is so much money floating around. That is also the reason why they put this into software, because the risks and timescales are much shorter.
In hardware you likely have to put in years of R&D before you might see a RoI. In software that goes much quicker and because evaluation is based on "reach" you don't really need to make a profit, you just need to develop enough reach that someone else will pay you back your investment. Often much of the startup scene especially in software seems like a giant ponzi scheme, i.e. you never actually need to make a profitable business, it's always just about selling to the next investor at a higher price (see Uber for example).
I'm not sure what the current situation is, but at least a few years ago my experience with both Nvidia and AMD was that when upgrading past a certain driver version, fps would tend to decrease again.
That's what's referred to as "paste" in the US, Canada and most of Europe.
That's very true. Asymmetric cryptography is a lot less intuitive, and it's hard to come up with a decent GUI for that kind of functionality. Keybase and keys.pub have probably done the best job.
New Flask 2.0 supports async views and handlers though they admit it's not as performant as async-first frameworks

But I agree largely that Flask is now a thing of the past. If you want to very quickly bring a small API server or a simple view page up then it's fine. For almost anything more complex, it's a huge pain. The ecosystem is extremely fragmented and lots of vital plugins for core systems like caching, auth and such aren't maintained anymore. For someone starting a new project, even if it's a very small web server I'd prefer FastAPI
Ok, here's a few real example where I had only partial (but 100% correct) information had a hard time finding the right answer:

1. There's a shell (program) which feature a built-in file manager inspider by ranger, I forgot its name: try to find it. Answer: [1]

2. There's a particular gas that can (temporarily) kill a smartphone, but you forgot which. Find the article about this. Answer: [2]

3. There's a blog post (well-known if you're into networking) that argues IPv6 was meant to replace MAC addresses. Answer: [3]

[1]: https://elv.sh/

[2]: https://www.ifixit.com/News/11986/iphones-are-allergic-to-he...

[3]: https://apenwarr.ca/log/?m=201708#10
Unfortunately they may have trouble getting employment to have any income to not pay taxes on, and a long list of other problems.
It seems like there is no agreement on if inodes should be unique or not, or what information is required to uniquely identify a file or directory. It does not surprise me that Linux is looking for a solution while this problem is open.
you can handle the load or not, right? A built in maintenance window is super nice, but servers crash all the time. So, that's a problem, or you've got a system in place. if you can handle failover, you've got free maintenance windows anyway, so it seems not any more difficult?
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> We didn't win against communism with bombs, we won against communism with widespread increase of wealth. We had more wealth, more rights, more freedom, a better life.

Didn't this backfire with China? I mean, yes, it's moving away from communism, but it doesn't look like human rights are necessarily getting better.
Ask HN: What do you hate about current form builders, whats your pain points?
What do you hate about current web form builders, like google forms etc?

Whats the main pain points you have with them?

Whats your biggest time waster with them?
Did you take a look at Shapr3D?
Huh? Any evidence that you can’t build a career while having boundaries?
To document a decades long political career properly I think you'd need something the length of a book at least. Wikipedia gives you a handful of paragraphs, probably written by somebody who only skimmed a few books at best.
If it has almost nothing to do with him, then a headline about him - even Steve Jobs couldn't hire them - is the sort of veneration GP is talking about.
Would be an interesting situation if someone bricked a large chunk of internet connected TV's. It would possibly drive the mainstream population towards greater internet security.

(generous assumption?)
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It is a matter of taste. You can get used to it.

Both Lua and Ruby are optimized for aesthetically pleasing syntax that is easy to parse for humans, even for people new to programming. I think "end" works better for that goal than curly braces which most people don't even know how to type and that are rarely used in English outside programming.

Personally I vastly prefer keywords to special characters. My brain has more trouble parsing symbols than words. I have real trouble reading mathematical notation but if I see an algorithm written out with words I am able to grok it quite easily. I think lot's of people are the other way round, not sure . Might be because I was a heavy reader in my youth.

That said I switch between C-like and Lua/Ruby style syntaxes back and forth all the time and it is really not an issue.
>If the end result is the same, does it matter? It doesn't seem like keeping those details secret slowed those other nations down by much.

For nations, no. For non nation-states, yes. As I said, Al-Qaeda, ISIS, and other groups can build an atomic weapon if they can get enriched uranium. Building a hydrogen weapon is much more difficult in terms of obtaining components and knowing what to do with them. The builders need some level of theoretical understanding of how the weapon works.
https://recordwise.ch - helping founders incorporate in Switzerland:

- Django/Python

- SQLite

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- Bootstrap4

- jQuery

- Sentry for error tracking

- Stripe for payments

- EmailOctopus for newsletter

- SendGrid for transactional emails

- NameCheap for the domain

- Linode for hosting

Running costs are USD 7/month for Linode + USD 15/year for the domain. SendGrid is currently free through the Twilio Startup Program.

Why did I choose it?

I am a lawyer and startet to learn how to code from scratch.

Python was being recommended because it is easy to learn. So I chose that.

Further, there are many Python/Django tutorials available online and I was always able to find my answers online. That definitely helped me to keep going and not give up.
Yes, it was my favorite for a while. But recently I switched to GraphCMS for more basic data structure and I love it. Especially the UI.

I think what the market is missing is a sort of locally run CMS that is file based with Sqlite and managed completely with Git. Something that can can be moved around with project easily and have great version control.

Let's say you have a /content folder in your project that is it's own separate git repo, and there you have .md or .txt or sqlite files, and your assets, and there's a browser based client to manage it that runs locally.
How long did you spend on the Droste effect on your homepage? :D
Ask HN: Help on finding a deal for transitioning a tech team?
Dear HN Community, I would like to ask you opinion or advice on following situation:

The parties:

Tech company: We are a development company with two offices, one in central europe and one in eastern europe

Startup: A startup founded by two non-tech founders from the finance industry

Initial Agreement:

Roughly 5-6 years ago we (tech company) agreed to build and launch a first version of the product (a trading platform) for the startup and maintain it for 4 years. Tech company would put together a dedicated team needed to build and maintain this platform. Startup would cover the basic cost of the development team (salaries, insurance, office, ...) without any markup. For that, the we (tech company) received 10% in equity pre-funding.

Situation now:

The platform has been successfully launched and maintained for 4 years. The platform went through several iterations of improvements and new features.

There has been a seed funding round at a ~15 Mio evaluation leaving the two founders of startup at ~51% of shares and us with around 7.5% after dilution.

The dedicated tech team (hired by tech company) consists now of a CTO (which is "our CTO", e.g. the CTO of tech company) and 4 fulltime Software Engineers.

Startup is ramen profitable now with a revenue of 0.5 Mio USD in the first half of 2021. Expected growth of revenue +50% in 2nd half to 0.75 Mio USD in H2.

The problem:

The initial contract is expiring basically now. For several reasons it makes sense to transition the tech team (CTO and 4 SW Engineers) from tech company to startup, main reasons being that startup should not be "depending" on tech company, the startup should have its own CTO and tech team (important to future investors) and the startup does not further need to proxy "access permission" to sensitive data from customers to tech company.

We all agree its the best way forward to make this transition of the tech team and that tech company offers managerial support for this transition for the next ~2 years by founding a legal entity in eastern europe (as subsidiary of startup), finding an office space, transition the team, possibly hire new team members and see that things go "smooth".

What we cannot agree on is what a "new deal" could look like or what principles to apply here.

Any inputs, opinion or advice are very welcome. Thank you.
How does this compare to JQ?

Aside for that it appears to support more formats (CSV [which has partial JQ support], and TSV), of course.

I find it very helpful when people compare their new toy or service with what is already pretty well known.
If apple allowed other stores on their phones you could still buy exclusively from apple. All your applications to could have a "verified by apple" sticker.

Nothing prevents apple from providing the exact same experience and still have a setting in the phone that allow third party markets from installing their applications. It would be just like the app store in windows.
Also, if we want to end world hunger we will need to figure out how to build a highly efficient means of distributing perishable goods. Selling off all of Jeff Bezos' assets and then trying to use the proceeds to do that seems highly wasteful.
It could be the causality runs backwards: historically stable countries have never felt the need to overthrow their ceremonial head of state.
How is it Orwellian?

>"Orwellian" is an adjective describing a situation, idea, or societal condition that George Orwell identified as being destructive to the welfare of a free and open society. It denotes an attitude and a brutal policy of draconian control by propaganda, surveillance, disinformation, denial of truth (doublethink), and manipulation of the past, including the "unperson"—a person whose past existence is expunged from the public record and memory, practiced by modern repressive governments.

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Stop overusing terms you don't understand
I also swore to never buy Samsung, after they messed up the Samsung Galaxy Tab S3. But then, I bought the S7, because they made a lot of improvements.

In the end, I'm happy with the purchase, because I got it at a massive discount. However, I am still weary of Samsung devices in general.

Also, the iPad just didn't do it for me. I prefer the S-Pen to the Apple Pencil.
Thank you for the feedback! I'll go ahead and reword that.
The free market means that renters looking for a place to live have to compete with vacationers and business travelers willing to pay hotel nightly prices.
There was a recent Hindi/Bollywood movie on the same subject showcasing the plight of the living dead. Kaagaz (Hindi for Paper): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaagaz
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I recommend trying out VSCode. Just to see if it is a useful alternative. It also supports all languages and has a huge plug-in community.
He's mindset is like the 60s...oh you are black..sorry i don't serve you coffee, your not even allowed to sit in that coffee-shop. And what's even worse he thinks he that's something good, history repeats itself again and again.
> are these space programs really profitable for the billionaires in question?

They aren't. We have currently two billionaire hobby space programs. One is a pure hobby and doesn't do actual space yet (suborbital hops != orbit). The other one exists solely to open Mars for regular access and eventual colonization, in the process also opening up near-Earth space for general exploration and exploitation. If it succeeds, it'll create an unprecedented amount of lasting value for humanity in general.

Really, complaining about billionaire space is one of the dumbest part of the current zeitgeist.
As someone recently having gone through that: The cancellation experience is bad, but nothing compared to the experience of then deinstalling Adobe CC. After some fixing I did get my machine to at least boot without throwing error messages, but I still see Adobe stuff hanging around my system. Ugh.
For scale, you only need 75 of these 16MW turbines to replace one nuclear power plant (1200MW). Crazy.

EDIT: Taking operational capacity (26% for wind, 86% for nuclear) into account, you arrive at about 250 to replace one nuclear plant. Still insane.

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I see you were not part of the "old internet".
Could be useful to know that if you work at the Midway Journal you will be expected to work weekends unpaid (and get fired if you don't).
This very concept is well explored by Mariana Mazzucato's Entrepreneurial State[1]:

> the United States' economic success is a result of public and state funded investments in innovation and technology, rather than a result of the small state, free market doctrine that often receives credit for the country's strong economy.

I really liked this Freakonomics episode[2] if you're more the podcast kind of person.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Entrepreneurial_State

[2]https://freakonomics.com/podcast/mariana-mazzucato/
> To be clear the "gotcha"s as referred to in the comments above aren't "bits of the written law one might find surprising or overreaching" they are attempts at circumventing the meaning of the law by taking it absurdly literally (as in my stop sign example in my sibling comment) and hoping to use that narrow interpretation as legal reasoning instead of paying attention to the actual intent of said law.

The point I'm making is that lawmakers themselves used a similar absurd literality ("actually your computer makes a copy in ram to run a program") in writing this law.

> As I said the law as written doesn't singularly hinge on the process of loading a program into RAM to allow the requiring license to use software anyways, the software can require those additional terms as part of the installation onto the computer's storage which is clearly a copying process.

Software doesn't inherently require installation, but if it does, it doesn't have to be permanent. I can make a temporary installation in RAM.

> Similarly with the point on music, what makes you think it isn't licensed to a copyright holder? Because it doesn't prompt you when you hit play? CDs give unlimited private playback and backup rights

The copyright law does not make personal playback of music an exclusive right of the rightsholder. It's not the CD giving me any rights, it's that the copyright law never took these rights away from me in the first place. That is why you don't need a license to listen to music that you own a legally obtained copy of. They never applied the absurd technicality of temporary copies to music.
They’ve got the same hardware as regular TVs, the Gigabyte Aorus FO48U is the exact same as the LG CX series, but without all the smarts.

Obviously, they cost quite a bit more (almost double), because modern TVs are ~40-60% subsidized by ads and tracking.
>the right to protest.

There are two problems here: first, there never was a right to protest, formally. The UK has no constitution, so any such right would need to be inferred from precedent.

Second, the UK has no strong practice of allowing protests, especially on very contentious issues.

The UK system is deeply and fundamentally undemocratic, because it was founded before the idea of a constitution was really a thing, and there have been no revolutions since, so it has essentially developed as an oligarchy which has slowly incorporated democratic elements when put under intense pressure (e.g the Chartist movement, the suffragettes, etc). All of these movements were violent, and the members were subject to extreme state violence.

The UK is a liberal democracy today essentially because it became impossible for the state to contain the labour movement without democratizing - and the result is a bunch of systems (FPTP, the cabinet, etc) that are a compromise between an essentially undemocratic state and a society that's basically democratic in mentality.
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How do you know this? I use VSCode mostly for C++.