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I started software dev in the mid-2010s, and had never heard of Borland, until I heard a former colleague mention it having great built-in debugging tools and that they missed it.

Same colleague had some vocal criticism of `gdb` as a debugging tool, and the state of Linux-based debugging tools as a whole, with claims that "Borland's were much better, and Visual Studio (not VS Code) being one of the few development environments with a quality debugger".

I'm not sure how fair that assessment is, I've found `gdb` to be a helpful tool, though I've never used Visual Studio.
Can you elaborate? Does this mean that your landlord reduces your rent each year?
Crypto is a taxable asset. Trading crypto is a taxable event. Anytime you create a taxable event information is supposed to be collected and sent to the IRS. If you win a car from a contest or money from hitting a jackpot at a casino that is also the case. Crypto isn't some magical thing that is above the law.
Privacy

Everyone is tracking me, monitoring everything I see and do online, feeding the giant "personalized advertisement" machine and all the other trolls mooching off its edges (identity thieves, scammers, etc.); I'm going to extreme lengths of un-googling my Chromium and Android and un-Microsofting my Windows, pi-holing my network and uBlock-ing on top, but I feel it's all for naught, an exhausting losing battle.

I empathize with your thought of just doing a "Stardew Valley" and dropping all this shit to go live on a farm somewhere, but I'm a cog in the machine now and have to live it through :(
Light switches.

I like the old kind. There's a position for off and and a position for on. Maybe a slider for a dimmer.

But now in my bedroom, the brightness is adjusted by holding down a single button. The intensity follows a slow triangle wave. You release the button at the desired time. That means if you just want the dimmest possible setting, you have to stand there for ~10 seconds and be subjected to the highest intensity brightness in the meantime.
Thank you!! I did my undergrad thesis around CORBA (showing my age…) and you are spot on that the whole world proceeded to pile on a whole lot of work in order to make everything run over http.
Well that sucks.

Also a strange quote from BT since they don't actually have a mobile network.
For Tailwind in particular, it’s easier to understand the benefit if you consider the three main problems it solves:

1. Naming things “semantically” is a giant pain. Sure “user-card” is easy enough, but when you have to start giving names to all the little bits of the user card it quickly becomes absurd. Yeah you can use child selectors and stuff to ease that a little but then you’re basically re-writing your HTML in CSS. Tailwind’s approach is to say “have a UserCard.{html,vue,js} component and move on”.

2. Most codebases have multiple people working on them, and those people are often not CSS experts. It is very common to end up with giant stylesheets that only grow with time, because people are too scared to ever remove or change things in case it breaks something seemingly unrelated. Utility frameworks (and other modern approaches like styled components) keep the styles directly attached to the HTML being styled. You can make any change you like, safe in the knowledge that you are only affecting the thing in front of you.

3. It pushes you into a design system. Sure this is achievable through Sass/CSS variables, but for Tailwind it’s right there with a sensible default out of the box, and easily configured if you need something different.

I think the important thing is, Tailwind doesn’t enable you to do anything you can’t do by writing well structured CSS, because ultimately it is just CSS. However, people aren’t perfect, and I believe that Tailwind does a genuinely good job of helping people avoid common footguns.

If your team is largely composed of CSS wizards who are fine to carry on as normal, that’s great, you probably won’t get much out of Tailwind. But for a lot of us, the price of remembering some (very consistent, to be fair) shorthand class names is well worth not wasting hours battling the cascade and suchlike.
This is why cryptocurrency was invented. Satoshi even signed a statement about government bailouts in the first bitcoin transaction.

The truth is that the game is rigged. Like entropy, government power always increases over a long enough timeframe. Anytime the spotlight is shined on government they manipulate the game or blame corporations. Then they introduce regulation to "protect" citizens but these regulations add up to just keeping big business entrenched.
These concerns: 1) high housing prices of new housing, and 2) non-resident investor ownership of housing, 3) housing costs eating up all the incomes of those with less income, all result from the same cause: too little housing and intense opposition to more housing from those who financially benefit from the shortage. So there's a great solution to stop all these problems: legalize more housing to be built, but with some caveats. We should make the approval process more clear and with less bribery and discretion, and it can happen faster so that there's not a multi year delay between securing financing and actual start of construction, in which time costs change and financing options may expire.

Those who are hardest hit by housing shortages are those with the least. And those who benefit the most are those with the most skin in the financial land-ownership game. And when those new luxury apartments are stopped, that isn't turn hurts those with the lowest incomes the most, because rather than the high incomes financing new building, those high incomes chase whatever else housing they can find, which raises prices all over, in addition to kicking out those with lower incomes in a game of musical chairs. And since in a market economy, if we only trickle out a tiny supply of new housing, that newest supply will only go to those high incomes, since newer housing is generally far more desirable than old housing that is worn down. So complaining about the high cost of new construction, without complaining about the ever rising cost of the existing housing stock, is tremendously damaging to housing affordability.

I also favor a controversial option, but I think that there should be state- or federal-level agencies that build housing countercyclicallt, to ensure that when there's a construction downturn, that labor can continue to be employed, and the workforce remains steady, competent, and capable. The boom bust cycle for construction drives up construction prices significantly by labor shortages followed by labor shrinkage, which is hell on labor's personal lives too.
I’ve been hearing people call this a soft default.
Ask HN: What things has tech made significantly better in your life?
Sounds lame I know, but really (for when I want an overview or maybe to pass time): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerging_technologies and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerging_technologies#See_also ?
from wikipedia, "On May 7, 2008 Borland Software Corporation announced that its software development tools division, CodeGear, was to be sold to Embarcadero Technologies for an expected $23 million price and $7 million in CodeGear accounts receivables retained by Borland.[5] The acquisition closed on June 30, 2008 for approximately $24.5 million.[6]"
Swing-A-Way can opener.
They're commonwealth countries so that has an impact, but yes USA is hard to get into.
Mouse bite may have infected Taiwan lab worker with Covid
That's my only option at this point. Funny thing I learnt Coinbase before and after IPO - now you can NOT contact them at all! The only "support" ticket they offer you to submit is with "Coinbase Earn" product. No more help and their email says their FAQ answers all my questions. What a bunch of bullshit. I still remember Brian Armstrong pitching Coinbase idea here on HN in look for startup partner in hopes to change the world and give everyone option to use their money with zero fees. It was supposed to be an alternative to PayPal and true Credit Card killer! How much greed in hopes for more and more profits changes a single humanbeing, so sad. Nothing will change (for better) within our own civilization if we continue to allow greed to lower our standards. Nothing.
Probably most people, I am questionable :)
Factually not true. I suggest you grab a copy of "In Search of Stupidity by Merrill Chapman":

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Search-Stupidity-Twenty-Marketing-D...

Most of these companies from the 80's and 90's foot gunned themselves into oblivion or were bought by companies that ruined their products.
I think many of us here struggle with this. Some may not even be aware or ashamed to admit, it's a problem.

I can only imagine the vicious circle of decreasing attention span it creates.
That's not it. There are meaningful differences. Which party represents the oil industry? Which party represents Hollywood? It's not the same party.

The real problem is, which party represents the finance industry? Both of them. Which party is the party of small business? Neither of them. Strong antitrust enforcement? Reducing the scope of wasteful bureaucracy, as distinct from regulatory capture? It's not on the ballot.

How do we fix it? Maybe start here:

https://www.starvoting.us/
We replaced a president that made mean tweets with one that has directly affected our lives via increased inflation and gas prices, to name a few. Crazy times.
Is there a list of this stuff.. presorted to remove the crackpottery?

I have no mental facilities that aid me in filtering anything out of this, but I wish I did. It looks like a blur of thermodynamics violating attention bait. :O
And we need to reverse the cultural shift of "healthy at any size." It is literally killing people.
I am sure you can find lots of uncritical middle-aged folks, but media savviness strikes me as a ways from critical thinking mastery. Partly I don't think there's much institutional enthusiasm for introducing a principle like "cui bono?" or the Hegelian dialectic to high schoolers, so if they absorb them it happens in college (but it'd be great if it was sooner!)
This is why I love Reddit and Wikipedia. You can make an account, but you don’t have to. Compared to say Pinterest, where content can’t really be accessed at all unless you make an account.
I think this idiot is saying artists should work for free so game publishers can make more money in the same way that thousands (millions?) of devs donate their time to make VCs richer by working on open source projects. No thanks. Need to eat. If you want to use my assets so you can make money selling your game then you can pay me.
I went to a funeral for a Jehovah's Witnesses once. The priest came and talked to me and my 2 atheist friends afterwards. He asked if we were baptized. And then said how in his church they wait until people are older to decide for themselves. We all nodded in agreement, sounded sensible. But in hindsight he was just canvasing us. Prompt some critical thinking and plant an idea that people will lazily agree with. Total bs of course as to an atheist a baptised baby is exactly the same as an unbaptised one!
It's unfortunate that propublica puts out in depth research.... over incendiary clickbaity content.

If they put half the effort into investigating topics hidden in the shadows, i bet they would find Ghislaine-level revelations that would really make society better off.

Instead they choose -like with this article- to coat the morality of accounting (in this case, expenses) behind some kind of nefarious activity, when in reality accounting rules are amoral because they are the same for everyone.

But saying "the activity was inmoral, spilling oil is horrible, and the fine was too small!! " is not clickbaity enough it seems.
The problem with this logic is that although I see all these Coke, etc., ads, is that (a) I rarely drink soda, and (b) when I do it's almost always the cheap store brand. The same goes for most grocery items that aren't produce or meat.
I almost never buy the branded products unless I know it's better. e.g., Cascade dishwasher detergent is noticeably superior to the store brand.
Generally they can barely support one. Also while everyone thinks of Nova and Masterpiece Theater a lot of local PBS content is cheap talking head shows or at least it was historically.
If the value of the dollar is at risk then preparing financially means getting out of the dollar by getting some assets that are not priced in dollars or physical assets that have intrinsic value.

I am leaning more heavily on physical assets as even foreign stocks will suffer to some extent in the event of a dollar crisis. With USD as the current global reserve it's failure will ripple through financial markets and economies around the world.

The best thing you can do is learn how these kinds of things have played out in the past and make a plan to "weather the storm" as it were. I have really been enjoying stories of living through high inflation in other countries on https://www.youtube.com/c/StarPathAcademy. Not saying that is where we are certainly headed but all of the indicators are the same as other high/hyper-inflation periods in history.
My attention is constantly under siege and I have trouble sitting down and just reading a book or watching the kids without stopping every few minutes to check my phone.
Do you think this is just momentum from US justice system or maybe someone or some group is inflicting pressure for this to happen?
There is speculation and excess in many markets. Pointing at an asset and calling it over valued, lacking intrinsic value is pretty devoid of meaning if you don’t have skin in the game.
I think you might be spending too much time in echo chambers. The hype probably underestimates the impact the tech will have (it is near impossible to predict higher order effects) and there's been an incredible amount of progress over the last few years.
A firewall rule to block DNS requests? Or one to block LDAP requests?
Truly enjoying the "this is overblown" vs "this Justin.tv thing is about to steamroll them" comments.
Can you run a small business on this, indefinitey, for free?
"sound guy" is always the most underrated role, yet they can be more specialized than doctors. there's a group that specializes in recording cars. they'll place mics all over a car to get the perfect recordings. ask those guys to mic up a person for a quick interview, and they'll become so offended at your request and refuse. some people speicialize in music instruments and within intstruments you get people that specialize in drums, horns, etc. dialog people are all over in their skills too (booth, on-set, wireless, boom, etc).

Now, getting into SFX, folley, and other stuff gets just as crazy too. Some people record actual sounds, some bang out noises on synths (meant in a polite term of endearment), etc.

of course, just like in any industry, some just show up long enough to collect a pay check and and fiddle with knobs while baked.
Having been reading about money for the past few years, I have no reason to believe Friedman here.

The neoclassical economists have been very very very wrong about inflation.

For basics, not distinguishing between cost-push and demand-pull is a pretty basic error.
I'd agree that it was one of their design goals, but I wouldn't go as far as to say that it makes the language "readable and usable." That depends on what your values are.

Go's philosophy (which clearly flows from its creators being C-enthusiasts) is that the only thing that matters for reading, writing, and understanding a program is what it concretely does, i.e. what structures are created, where values are stored, how computations are performed etc. If that's also your philosophy, then of course it's going to jive with you.

But plenty of people also have different philosophies. Maybe you think the main thing that's important in crafting programs is developing a rich domain vocabulary that expresses concepts and how they interact. Maybe you think that what's important is formal proof of both logical and concrete correctness. In those cases, Go's rigorous opposition to abstraction (coming from its philosophy that what's important is concrete operations) will probably irritate and slow you down.

I couldn't say exactly why it got popular. I'd guess that some significant segment of programmers also share its philosophy, but I have no evidence to back that up. Certainly any reasonably uncontroversial language with a large suite of libraries backed by Google is bound to have some level of popularity.
I think tech makes relationships much harder, I think Chris Rock has a bit on how it was easier for his parents to be married for 30 years than it was for him to be married for 3.

It's not just between you and your partner, it's now between you, them, their 300 Facebook friends.

I screwed up one early relationship since I was so afraid she'd post the wrong thing on Facebook.

In terms of meeting people, I only do it the old fashioned way. When you date a real person who you meet as a member of a community, your much less likely to act like a sociopath.

It's also less stressful. I actually meet more people now, while spending vastly less time on dating.

I will say for me social media was outright damaging. I'd waste 20 hours a week on FB, and various dating apps. Doesn't do anything for you at the end of the day, life is too short to waste it behind a tiny screen. However, Facebook messenger has been very useful when meeting people abroad.

PS: If your not happy with the people your meeting , try moving. America has hundreds of cities, many of which have distinct cultures. Someone who's miserable in say San Jose, might very happy in Atlanta.

Find your niche, don't fall for the lie that you can make it anywhere.
For example...

The median salary for software developers in 2019 in the US was $107,000, with 50% between $82,000 and $136,000. The mean salary in California was $134,000 and the mean in San Francisco was $145,000. (https://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/software-develope...)

The median household income in the US in 2019 was $69,560 with a 90% confidence interval of <$1000. The "median earnings of all workers aged 15 and over with earnings" in 2019 was $42,065. (FWIW, the median household income for black people in 2020 was $46,000, and for Asian people was $95,000.) The median household income of those with no college education was $47,000, some college was $64,000, and at least a bachelors degree was $107,000. (https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2021/demo/p60-27...)

(The median household income in California in 2019 was $78,000.)

The median salary for software developers individually in 2019 therefore puts them in the highest 40% of households. (In 2019, 1/5th of households made less than $28,000, 2/5 made less than $54,000, 3/5 made less than $86,000, and 4/5 made less than $143,000. 95% made less than $270,000.)

For many of the people frequenting HN, this is your mileage in the act of varying.
Because we hit max depth, I'll respond to your bizarre fever dream about the Millennium Challenge and some hypothetical war with China. The only things that matters in a war between nuclear states is that both sides view it as too terrible to entertain. Nuclear subs mean that the US always has the option to deal a killing blow even if everything else fails. And if it comes to that, nothing else matters anyway, so why worry about it?

They can go on fancifully pretending to plan for 500 years from now, and we'll continue to innovate, live well by comparison, and at the end of the day there's relatively little reason for us to have a major conflict.
Effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccines against the Omicron (B.1.1.529) variant
Ah, but one of the reasons they became anti-vaxxers is they believe vaccines are hurting/killing people who take them, and thus being in the vaxx-all-the-time camp could also literally kill people. Or at least is not necessarily the safest tribe to be a part of.

Now, you may feel that's a ridiculous belief. But your belief it's ridiculous comes mostly from your own intuitions about the trustworthiness of institutions, perhaps some personal experience or intuited cost/benefit ratios, etc. It's not something that can be portably summed up in a neat box labelled "facts".
There are two kinds of inflation

1) Increase in prices because of increase in money supply

2) Increase in prices because of supply shocks (weather, strikes, supply chain, disruption) or unusual spiky demand.

Core CPI is an attempt to measure (1) to ensure the money supply, which the fed controls is at balance (with their other mandate of full employment).

It's a hard problem because there are lot of nuances and still we want to measure the same thing for a fair MoM or YoY comparison.
It was most likely from the great and idiosyncratic Martin Seymour Smith. I used to spend hours combing through his masterpiece, which was an encyclopedia of 20th century literature which he produced single-handedly.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Disagree. We have regulations for noise levels emitting from people’s private property, for example, for the sake of public interest.
Yet JetBrains survives.
Have you read the article slowly, out loud, or otherwise?

> It may be surprising that the costs of cleaning up an environmental disaster are tax-deductible. But such write-offs are legal, qualifying as “ordinary and necessary” business expenses. By contrast, fines and penalties are not deductible. Oil giant BP was able to deduct most of the settlement it reached with the government over the Deepwater Horizon spill because much of it went to address the environmental calamity, rather than to penalties for wrongdoing.

You have offered no argument on one of the central questions at play, and are just condescendingly stating mechanisms that are already stated within the article, which crucially, also contains an actual argument and justification.
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