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Interesting conversations people, I am around 15 years in marketing, worked in SaaS, B2B/B2C environments on the C-level in past few year (I guess I am experienced).

Now I work with open-source B2D company, when I am just entering into the world of developer marketing. And I can't emphasize enough how many times I heard - developers don't like marketing. My "developers" days finished back when I was writing lines of code on my Commodore C-64, so yeah, I am no developer.

But I think, that marketing has a bad rep, along with media, public relations (I know PR means something different here) and other stuff, like the rise of awful "influencer marketing" that I hate.

But one thing I learned all these years, working in different companies, markets, and even doing political campaigning. And that's my advice to you:
- be honest - if it is difficult, then tell us, people who are not psychopaths tend to help other people, like we are listening your struggles and want to help you
- be yourself - stupid I know, stupid expression by life coachers, but yeah, you are building something, but you are a person - so be yourself, and you will attract other people.
- and last - give something back, contribute

That's it.

And yeah, DevRel and Marketing should be like one, like a team.
Yet here we are on hacker news...
They are not primarily left. They are authoritarians foremost which use the names of Marx (very much not authoritarian) and Lenin (somewhat authoritarian) concatenated as Marxism-Leninism to justify very much authoritarian systems.
Doesn't need both engines to fly...
That's not a problem, just pay for the pollution either by renting from the carbon budget the planet can naturally handle or by renting from the decarbonization budget. Better yet your gas company should take care of it and just put it on the bill.

That would be the obvious market solution on a spaceship, but not on planet, even though a planet is a spaceship. This also means that there is barely any decarbonization innovation, because you can't do much from donations.

We need a market solution for pricing the externalities, no matter how painful it is.
No liberal democracy should have a Magnitsky Act
They will try to keep as much of their revenue as possible. Doesn't mean they will get it.
Private - or visibility scoping generally - is absolutely essential when you program in an environment with multiple teams.

In its absence other people take dependencies on internal details which makes code much harder to refactor later. Lack of scoping on visibility increases the surface area of your APIs and increases the likelihood of bugs. Lack of scoping of visibility on state means losing almost all control over preservation of invariants.
No, it is not cheap, generally.

Example:

Dendrite[0] was going to be a Rewrite of Synapse (which was a prototype which ended up going into production). The rewrite started more than 5 years ago, had lots of development breaks and it still is nowhere complete or close to replace a existing Synapse instance (which even today is ... Well ... suboptimal software).

The current plans are to support and use both servers long term, because Synapse is already too widespread.

I wouldn't call that cheap.

[0]: https://github.com/matrix-org/dendrite
That's a good complaint though. Abstraction can be a very good thing, making things that are difficult more accessible. But a level of abstraction that tries to hide the fact that lower levels actually exist creates confusion, widens the gap between people who know one level from the lower one, and leaches marketing language from the business world into common speak. When "Full Self Driving" doesn't mean what it literally means, and "Without JavaScript" means "With JavaScript", words become meaningless.

Maybe I'm reading too much into this and making a mountain out of a molehill, but like OP, that was the first thing that caught my eye.
It would come from renewable sources. With electrolysers getting cheap, this will pair very well with such intermittent sources.

Power-to-h2-to-power is much better than 30% efficient, btw.
It's nuts. It's deeply naive and utterly unworkable.
It also depends on whether those numbers include the whole mall or just the area within the shops themselves.

Because in the UK, there’s something that looks suspiciously like a giant American mall in the center of nearly every town. They just call it the High Street.

If you included all the sidewalks, road surface and parking for every downtown in the UK, you’d probably get a number that looks like the USA in the table above.
What an incredibly strange thing to say about an harmless prank that took place 30 to 40 years ago.
I'm given to understand it can be very helpful if you also have worms. It's good at fighting worms, that's what it is, and if you're comorbid with COVID and worms it makes pretty good sense :)

Beyond that, I suspect nah…
If we're interested in the viability of retail across nations, revenue/sqft & cost/sqft seem the two most relevant metrics. I.e. How affordable is a business' retail space?

This would have the side effect of including varying levels of foot traffic (in revenue) and real estate price (in cost), which seem the two biggest differentiators.
HTML5 has an XML serialization, so if you really must you can use XHTML5 today.

But I think for most people it is in general a bad idea. XHTML parsed as XML means that anything that mashes together strings to generate a webpage, like much of webdev, is prone to generating invalid XML due to bugs in the code, and this in turn leads to catastrophic failure where the page doesn’t just have errors but fails to render entirely. During the period where people were swayed by the XHTML proponents’ arguments it was commonplace for me to visit a website and see only an XML parsing error.

XHTML parsed according to custom rules that are forgiving for errors yet consistent and straightforward to implement would have been a good idea, but nobody implemented it to my knowledge. Luckily HTML5 does specify such a forgiving parsing system, where pretty much any random sequence of bytes can be parsed consistently.
> So if you're super-keen on food and trying to establish a career

IOW, you're trying to earn money. Sure, go ahead -- but then you get to pay the price. If the method you're trying to earn money by is going to involve playing along in the game of clickbait, then the price you get to pay is going to be, to be seen as a purveyor of clickbait. Which I, and I suspect quite a few others with me, see as distinctly less than honourable.

It's a free choice: Nobody is forcing anybody to "establish a career as a recipe creator or food photographer" on the ad-financed Internet. If they choose to play the clickbait clown/scum game, they're making themselves into -- so, in the end, are -- clickbait clown/scum. I sure didn't tell them to do that, so I'm perfectly free to see them as such for doing it.

They, OTOH, are perfectly free to try it some other way: publishing printed cookbooks in stead of Internet clickbait; or something adjacent, like run cooking classes, start a restaurant or catering business... Or to do something else altogether.

They could always go into the deeply honourable (/s) business of software engineering, which nowadays seems to consist to about 45% of running ad-spam networks, to about 45% of writing SEO crap to get your ads onto those networks, and about 10% other development... :-( What, me cynic? Bah, geroffmylawn!
> Play store have competition, btw: https://www.amazon.com/gp/mas/get-appstore/android.

Oh the illusion of choice. Nobody* is sideloading an appstore on their phone to have access to a new catalogue of apps.

What is beyond comprehension to me is why Apple doesn't take notice on google playbook and put the option to sideload apps/stores behind 20 menus deep and 5 warning screens. It would applacate a lot of people, keep nerds happy and 0.001% would do this.

* Outside technically inclined folks.
>>> Or do you have something to hide in the books?

Has a pretty clear meaning.

But okay. You want literal? At least one poster here has literally threatened to stalk me and beat my face in. Is that better?
> That's one of several critiques of the study; others include[] . . . that several of the study authors have either conflicts, bad reputations, or both.

That is not a valid critique of the study. It is a potentially valid reason to adjust your Bayesian priors applicable before reading the study, but is utterly nobprobative as to whether the science is sound.
This is two sentences of contentless vagueposting.

Not everything Elon Musk says is worthy of attention.
I think algae farms are actually CO2 limited. Even a corn field, in calm air and bright sunlight, runs out of CO2 in about five minutes. And plants like corn have all those leaves above the ground for lots of mass transfer.

(Transfer of turbulence to ground level may be a way wind turbines can increase agricultural yield, I think.)
So... someone wrote an article criticising it? That's not the same as banning it.
I don't understand why Americans are so against human scale housing: where there's retail on the bottom floors and apartments (condos) above. But also where the development is well connected to adjacent parcels and into an overall city general plan. Perhaps it's because they simply aren't aware a different pattern is available.
And a guy was fired in 2017 for reading the "not" annotated book...i would say it's a bit more then just copyright.
Funny, they used to tell me the same. Anecdote: one boss gave me some money so I could go out and 'buy some proper clothes'. I spent one part of it on a piece of software that I was saving up for, the rest on a white rental tuxedo. I wore the tux to work the next day and did absolutely nothing all day long (just like most of the rest of that particular IT department). At the end of the day I asked my boss if he wanted me to wear a suit again the next day. He was fine with jeans and t-shirts from then on. (I was with distance the most productive team member.) I have never worn a suit on any other occasion in my life and I still don't understand why people wear something that is extremely uncomfortable and takes way too long to put on (or take off) as well as specialized cleaning services.
That is one way of looking at it, the other is why force yourself to suffer if neither you nor anyone around you is at threat from the virus.

My threat model is different, everyone around me is healthy and young--with I myself being the only one with a chronic condition leaving me more vulnerable to Covid but still no that much--locking myself would be more unhealthy.

I don't see it as selfish, I'm not forcing anyone who is at risk to take the risks I am taking. They can stay at home for as long as they want, it is their life after all.
Given the nuclear bomb in China was helped by out-going chinese. Given china is a world power which is communist and totalitarian in nature.

Can China be treated by Soviet Union? Yes you can.

By allowing china playing the hand I can got yours but you cannot go to my market, even if you are not that political one should be very careful.

Bad to be racist. Sorry to lose the war yes war to communists and totalitarians. But with this, I still think USA will lose. The free world will lose.
Makes me wonder how efficient Xorg vs Wayland capture is on Arch btw
Some examples of high-level decisions:
- which web framework?
- which database? which ORM? which transaction isolation level by default?
- will this game/UI be multiplayer?
- what's our testing discipline?

You can't loosely couple around questions like these most of the time, at last not without excessive abstraction.

For "how do I structure this reasonably isolated 0-1kLOC component", I agree, easy to fix later if needed.
I mean what you do in these situations is just have NY times write an article like this on you that you can point to in job applications and any reputational damage is probably nullified.
I always thought the abundance of malls was by design of affluent suburban dwellings (unlike Europe where suburbs are usually mid-lower class dwellings), plus sprinkle of the old American entrepreneurship. That commerce is going virtual and suburbs failing was always my reasoning.
> It usually comes in two flavors - individual contribution as you doing something on your own time and equipment and official contributions when the company itself contributes to a project.

My understanding is that Apple's policy is highly unusual in that "individual contribution as you doing something on your own time and equipment" are pretty much not allowed at all.
Try running NetBSD. You don't have to marry it, just put it on a spare machine or even in a VM.

The thing about NetBSD (and I can vouch for OpenBSD being much the same) is that it's so stinking well documented, if you go in knowing C you can learn how to write a simple device driver using just the man pages as your guide. Section 9 of the manual in particular documents every kernel API and most if not all internal types.

It's a great OS to practice developing low-level code with. Linux is a bit harder.
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He made it not show the thing the salesperson needed it to show, which prevented the salesperson from doing his job.
"Would" :) Sure, let's bet our future on that.

Source for the "much better than 30%" efficient ? I want something that is deployed and in production. Not some kind of startup-that-will-change-everything tech.
Cite?

(That's a serious request, not a cynical one -- I'd like to see those updates)
> What makes me skeptical is that I'm not sure in what situation physically removing a bunch of books from the shelves would be cheaper/easier than retrieving records about them.

Schools don't buy individual books. They buy packages. Those packages are not itemised, and the receipts don't list which individual books you received, just the number of titles in what genres. The people sending the packages don't have that information either.

You make a purchase, and get a guarantee of N titles, in X genres. The warehouse pulls down N titles, in X genres, with varying numbers of each individual title, and then sends that out. The individual titles come from the publisher under wholesale costs, so individual purchases aren't tracked.

The exact costs are further complicated by other discounts that may be applied. Seasonal discounts for different genres, some places will give you discounts if you return covers of damaged books (as proof of destruction), etc.

The records requested may literally not exist, and require the school to compare when entries appeared in their tracking system, as compared to when a purchase was made and received, reverse-engineering those costs.
You can do that with X11, set the display of your desktop inside the docker container and playwright's browser will appear on your desktop.
Safari implements different behavior on desktop vs mobile. They support push notifications on desktop but not mobile, they support large offline storage on desktop but not mobile. What convincing argument exists for this dichotomy except that they want to force people to ship on mobile through the app store?
Then you capitalize on that.

I've worked booths. If something like this would happen to me I would definitely want to know more about that person, if only because he might be a potential recruit or a representative of an existing customer.
I know there was a widespread issue of counterfeit copies of "The Art of Electronics" to the point where the book's official website has a large warning on the front page.

Luckily you can return stuff to Amazon, but makes me think, does that mean someone else will have to deal with purchasing that book?
> Congratulations on being the exception that demonstrates why I said “most people”.

You said it would be a showstopper for most people, suggesting that a lack of if-statements is a fundamental problem that needs to be worked around.

I just showed that there exists serious, non-absurd arguments against if-statements, namely that they are strictly inferior to if-expressions, which again are strictly inferior to pattern matching, since they significantly reduces boolean blindness.

At some point (or rather for over a 1000 years) “most” people computed π by polygon approximation, but it turns out that method has severe limitations that more modern methods avoid. Should we still have chosen the method that “most” people were familiar with, over applying infinite series to the problem?
Not necessarily. It sounds like all of the things mentioned in the commit message are interconnected (updating build scripts and updating gitignore to remove the new build directories). It would be pointless to break these into separate commits, you can't revert just one without reverting the others.

The commit message is lazy, but breaking these into separate commits because of some "also" rule of thumb is just blindly following a rule for the sake of it.
Seems pretty fucking clear based on the message to me.
> is a subjective experience of the coder of "clean"

My subjective experience of grapefruits is that they are yucky. That tells others that I don't like grapefruits, but it tells them nothing about the grapefruit.

It tells them nothing about, what exactly in the interplay between the chemical composition of grapefruit juice, the genetic programming behind my tastebuds, and the personal experiences which shaped my individual perception of "tastyness vs. yuckyness", makes them "yucky" for me.
If those goods were produced by people paid fair wages and using materials sourced sustainably/ethically, sure.

So in practice, not very often
Well maybe the engineers should know how to sell the thing they're making? The salesperson's job is to sell, not to operate, and why should he know every last intricacy of the machine?

I don't know that a power cycle cleared the issue up, a reset definitely didn't. OP just said the salesperson power-cycled it, not that that fixed it.
Your outrage about his outrage about the original outrage is basically a glorious example of Poe's Law; I both love and hate it.
I agree with (1), but not (2). How many sales types are going to learn to operate a debugger?

Also, there's random passers by as in "one table over at Starbucks" and random passers by as in "took the trouble to come to a tech conference". It is true that the latter are more likely to take these things lightly.
URL Encoding works on bytes and does not concern itself with the character encoding of those bytes (except assuming that it is an ASCII superset) so this is only a limitation of the JS implementation.
Please. A powercycle fixed it and besides, if you don't want people to play with the gear then don't put it in the general public aisle. That's where people will mess with your gear as any trade show booth operator very well knows.

I worked in a computer store, the number of pranks that people got up to with the gear there was insane and some of them were quite a bit more harmful than this one. I really don't see the problem. As long as you can reboot the device no harm done. Once people start flashing your systems or rewriting boot loaders we're in different territory.
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When I lived in the US it was quite common to have retail space on the ground floor and apartments on the other floors.

At least for modern buildings.
This option is probably not open to early career scientists.
The problem with BankID is that for older accounts, there's no real guarantee you are who you claim to be.

I mean, sure, my bank in Norway has my account tied to a person number, but they don't actually know that when I log in with bankid that I really am the person associated with that person number. --Theoretically the post office was supposed to verify my identity before they gave me the packet containing the code brick, but they forgot to do so - this was over 10 years ago before they had to register the ID details.

So basically I have a highly trusted way of authenticating to financial and government services in Norway even though nobody actually knows that I am who I claimed to be when I opened the bank account, setup bankid, etc.
Nice to see them contribute to open source!
How do you know a powercycle fixed it?
Was there a book-burning you meant to link to? Because I just read an article about the exercise of free speech, wherein the twitterati criticized the words of a famous author. What "due process“ do you imagine the government requiring of critical writing?
God, just the frontpage of this site makes it look even more quacky. The call to urgency, the secret knowledge, the rant against Big Glass, the frankly cult-ish photo of this guy, etc...

And I wouldn't like to describe myself as "having really high bullshit meter", it makes one overconfident when you do fall for one. I'd rather think I try to avoid emotional arguments and contexts in which I would be vulnerable.
Headline is misleading, and should be corrected. Not being American I went to look for the context, and the issue is about selection of books for educational system. Not about banning. Whether it is a successful way to shape better students is a interesting question to discuss. But fact is that all taxpayer-funded education all over the world includes selection of books for pupils.
It's a fine short summary for how the game works. Assuming no edge cases exist based on a 10-word summary is not the original author's fault.