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Write it in Haskell, if it compiles, it will be correct.

Or "write it" in Java, there already is a framework to solve your very problem, all you need to do is to configure it in X.. ehm, YAML.

Or just do it all in the frontend, if there is a bug, worst case, user can always reload the page and start over.

Also, never write any specification or documentation. That way, the program is guaranteed to do exactly what it does.
This is so cringey. Please don't behave as this would suggest. In technical and scientific areas as most of our HN friends are likely to be, seeking status, measuring status, cultivating and being concerned with it is just a negative. It's true that there is status, but that status should be honestly earned and it's definitely not a game to "play".

This is a constant source of miscommunication between the social and political factions inside and outside of work vs. the hard-core engineer technocrats. The people-people think that we make decisions and take actions, or have opinions because we are playing the game - and we're not playing it right! Or worse are playing with the wrong team. Backing the wrong horse, refusing to "play along", etc. Troublemakers!

But see it's just that we're not playing a game. We actually did the research and just honestly think that thing X is not the best thing (even though it's the bosses bosses pet project). We're independently and internally motivated, and don't give a jot what others think (so we think).

Conversely we often think the lovely people-people are idiots because they pick the wrong solutions, don't back doing it "the right way", etc. Because we sometimes don't understand that they are playing a game. This means we underestimate them and their motives, as well as misunderstand the invisible rules and potential consequences.

The best engineering cultures are those that keep and encourage those like-minded, non-game-playing folks together and happy and far, far away from those politics and games. They need savy honest management to insulate them from that stuff and to translate between the cultures. And to weed out fakers who are trying to play games amongst those naive to it.
i had an nginx "bug" where it was serving an old version of a file. i deleted the file and hard refreshed and it still served it up happily. turns out i had static gzip compression enabled and never deleted the corresponding gz file
It’s become noticeably horrible lately. Half my search results these days are bot sites, just entire sites of copied material or material generated by neural nets that is completely worthless.

I don’t know what’s going on at Google but the search engine quality has dropped off a cliff in the past 6 months.
I know people and it’s already in shut down mode. Do you really think they designed their infra to be that vulnerable?

It’s time to make a point and turn the community against the agitators. They destroyed good jobs.
I don't recall Carlin ever playing up self-pity. That's the part, for me, that's hard to watch.

It's the even less funny cousin of cringe comedy, imho.
Oh ya, sorry, it's not an organisation haha. I didn't "join" anything. I'm able to intellectually agree with people on some topics and disagree with them on other topics and be able to call it a day. Me agreeing with people on certain topics doesn't automatically mean I agree with them on everything. For example, I am left wing and there are many people and things on the left that I disagree with. Likewise for people on the right. But I get your point, I think that's a totally fair concern.
No, the molecular machinery of cells uses energy level differences that are far above the thermal energy level at body temperature, which allows them to actually make changes to things irreversibly. Enzymes are a great example of this.

Try to use microwaves to move ions from one side of a container of salt solution to the other and then get back to me on the ability of microwaves to control ion movement. Hint: you basically can't without obscene levels of radiation. The thermal "pressure" due to the diffusion of ions is enormous.

For a sense of scale, the thermal velocity of water molecules at room temperature is about 500m/s. The drift velocity(average movement of charge carriers, i.e. coherent current) of typical electric currents is on the order of 1mm/s.
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Excel tables are so amazing. They solve so many problems.
Also worth watching Dunkey's Elden Ring review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1H4o4FW-wA
You got me, sport
Thanks for expressing your opinion, appreciate it! I met many more locals that supported it than not, but yes I also empathise deeply for those affected, I can definetly agree that wasn't the most fun for some of them (but it would have been if they had come down, we had free food for all and hockey games!) I think you may misunderstand the full extent of what was being protested.
Another good reason to throw this license in the trash and just use the older, better named 0BSD license that is shorter and has the same effect.
Just to say, understanding the complexity of the topic they are discussing, this is one of the finest pieces of writing I have ever read. If you can express this issue clearly, you can express anything clearly, imo.
Most people are just doing the job for a few weeks for extra cash. It’s not a career. That’s the benefit to most people. This union is a joke.
What license is the MIT license itself released under? Can licenses be copied and modified willy-nilly or do you need to license a license?
I really wish it would warn you with a y/n prompt before doing this. Same with `git checkout` when overwriting unsaved files. You should need a `--force` option to bypass the prompt. Or it could simply refuse to make the change without `--force`.
Not a chance. Plenty of cases of people being kicked out of open source projects from formal CoC decisions to hostile forks to "X was being an asshole so we banned them from the issue tracker/mailing list"
If this is any indication, the US is certainly not winning that race:

https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Economy/Micr...

I'm looking for a better source still, so if you find one please post it here.

EDIT: I found this. Numbers are a bit old (2007), but it shows self-employment rate per capita on page 4, which is exactly the metric we're interested in discussing.

https://www.cepr.net/documents/publications/small-business-2...

So, based on those two sources, your assertion seems straight up incorrect.
No, the discrete logarithm problem and the prime factoring problem are very similar and are both solved by Shor's algorithm. I suspect they might actually be equivalent, in a weird way.
I agree. So, the question is if you want lower spending etc, who do you vote for?

It’s not obvious. Take a corporate tax loophole, is that spending and or a form of economic control? Foreign ownership of US companies compounds this, is it giving money to foreigners or good economic policy etc.
I’ve never encountered such a good explanation of why privileged people should care about the concept of privilege but here it is. This is the Rosetta for those who want it. It’s exactly the same thing.
I went back recently to morrowind, I shouldn't have. It looked like someone threw mud in my eyes. I got sad about it and started to install the HD textures but it felt forced and I had this feeling like the time I opened my Christmas presents early and had to fake being surprised about all my new socks and sweaters.
That would be a good critique if it was was happening, but they gracefully transitioned from a JSON file(!) backend to etcd, and gracefully transitioned from etcd to sqlite. I'd say they're going to gracefully transition from sqlite, but I think the think people don't have their heads around is that it's possible they'll never need to do that, because of The Unreasonable Effectiveness of SQLite.
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I chuckled when I read the bit about calling Superpath a lifestyle business to mask insecurity about not having raised money. Not raising money is something to be celebrated, not something to try to hide.

Nine years ago, today, my co-founder and I started Aha!, and we recently announced that we passed $100M in annual recurring revenue. We did that without raising any money by focused on building exactly what customers want, and doing it as efficiently as we possibly could. Admittedly we were fortunate to have great product-market fit from the very beginning. But bootstrapping is one of the things that made us successful: we were maniacally focussed on what customers needed, rather than what story would be most effective at raising money. You might think that those are the same thing, but in my experience they are not.

We are celebrating bootstrapping at https://www.bootstrap.company/.
This is along the lines of my thinking.

I don't think any of those "case studies" prove anything about whether or not the NSA can break RSA. But if they alone could break ECC and not RSA, they would certainly push for ECC.

Because if they were just worried that other groups could break RSA, then presumably they would be happy to provide a demonstration or show evidence for such attacks.
In my experience the average C++ programmer (not concurrency expert) writing multithreaded code does not know how to properly use mutexes and atomics to guard against shared access. Sometimes they don't know they need mutexes (https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard/issues/362), or lock the wrong mutex (https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/pull/10540), or only lock on writes but not reads, or the set of possible states is a confusing muddled mess that neither the author nor readers understand (https://github.com/thestk/rtaudio/issues/337#issuecomment-99...). Rust's &/&mut system and mutexes are a forcing function that naturally results in cleaner code (cpal's ALSA code (https://github.com/RustAudio/cpal/blob/master/src/host/alsa/...) is beautiful and statically marks state as thread-local or shared, RtAudio's code is an entangled mess with data races).
Apparently? Here's an article titled "Milk, a symbol of neo-Nazi hate" published "August 31, 2017" (not April 1):

https://theconversation.com/milk-a-symbol-of-neo-nazi-hate-8...
I am always comparing software engineering to art, and it’s always shocking that other engineers find this a strange concept. It’s very much a creative field
Not at all… wtf
it's not consistently referred to as "IQ" or intellligence, typically the measurement is called "g" or "g factor" or "general mental ability" and over the last couple of decades the meta-analyses just keeps pointing towards g being the single best predictor of performance.
I'm Canadian, and feel I have a pretty good grasp of what was being protested.
I have been called a racist for voicing my opposition to efforts to repeal constitutional prohibitions against racism. These lunatics somehow make up definitions that absolve themselves of their racism and condemn the anti-racists.

These racist maniacs would absolutely have me censored and punished for my views, and their putrid racist ideology is infecting academia, entertainment, "news", politics, and even the law. So no you certainly can't rely on "reasonableness" or the social standard of the day to bound the limits of speech.
This is just another group that's using a "common" definition of freedom of speech and a legal definition of freedom so speech in the same context so as to be technically telling the truth, but actually propagandizing.
Would Bitcoin exchanges be more willing to operate accounts for these stores than credit card companies?
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Except it's accurate. Most conservatives are fair-weather individualists who only care about "liberty" in loose terms as long as the liberty that they believe is being affected is their own.

We had to drag conservatives kicking and screaming over the past 30 years to allow gays to have the right to marry and openly serve in the military, just like we had to drag them kicking and screaming 60 years ago to allow minorities the right to vote, or allow mixed-race couples to marry.

No conservatives lost liberty in any of those instances. They lost their "special" status, which is what they're really worried about and why the populist rhetoric resonates so strongly with them.
And the reason we have words is so that you can be told that you're confusing function with design/intent.
You can do some wild ~metaprogramming stuff with aliases.
No, because no one will use it.
That's good, so you went down to the protests too? What did you think after talking to a few of the protestors?
> My perspective is that atheism is not a lack of worship, but a lack of faith.

Can you define what you mean by "faith"?

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z4wKCsD59Q

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_4PSgFjtvI

> Faith requires you suspend critical thinking on a predetermined set of claims.

People like Thomas Aquinas would disagree.

* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35592365-five-proofs-of-...

* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6963088-aquinas

* https://tofspot.blogspot.com/2014/07/first-way-some-backgrou...
Works for Boeing.
It's a joke, but I sometimes honestly wonder why no one has made a game based on OpenMW. Then I remember that making a game engine is no longer the bottleneck, as Unity and Unreal are essentially free.
What is the recommended latest equivalent of that document?
It was kind of an impossible task for Forbidden West to replicate the experience of Zero Dawn.. to me the magic of the first game was entirely based around the discovery of why the world became the way it did. The mystery of the second game is not about the state of the world, but instead one cliffhanger aspect from the last game (what caused Hades to go rogue?).

But I’m in complete agreement about with the OP about the “overpolished” aspect of Forbidden West.. just check out the Horizon subreddit right now. They just released a patch that nerfed the legendary weapons in the game. There was no real reason to do that. They didn’t feel horribly broken (especially for how much grinding it takes to upgrade them and how expensive their ammo is to craft). And come on: it’s a single player game. No idea what’s going on at that studio right now.. maybe gearing up for DLC.
I want you to be right, I really do. The problem as far as I can see it is that Amazon can simply shift the work load away from that facility and then close it, and open a new one somewhere else. Unions no longer have the protections they need. Technically, Amazon could simply shut down that facility for 1 year and 1 day, and then reopen it and the Union will no longer exist. I have serious doubts about whether Amazon cares about the negative press they would get for doing exactly that.
lol, i think that's why i failed my first interview or two. dressed down for my last one and got hired no problem
So many companies are so unbelievably dysfunctional... I know amazing devs who slog through years of frustrating, uninspiring jobs. There are also just bad fits. Good person, good company, just the wrong match

Maybe make a written list of things that you liked vs didn't like about these companies? It took me a while to realize I didn't actually want the stress and chaos of a young company that isn't making a profit yet

I'm familiar with the crash of self-loathing and frustration after thinking that finally this job might be a good fit and then it isn't. It sounds like you're really feeling powerless right now so blaming yourself. What helped me in those times was a lot of patience with a long, long job search while getting my positive emotions from stuff outside work for a while. Like, still doing great focused work at work, but checking out deep in my soul and getting super oriented around personal life and hobbies every other moment of the day. Escapist, maybe, but it's surprisingly sustainable for the searches I had to do which have lasted months or years

I found my current job, which is great, through a former colleague I trusted who was already working there and said it was a great place to work. Right signs supporting that recommendation appeared while talking explicitly about healthy versus unhealthy work environments and best work practices during the course of the interview. I felt super lucky that everything happened to work out.

I think you should always be trying to iteratively improve the environment especially as a manager but if you start to go beyond frustration into feeling that something is hopeless or broken about the situation that's a sign it's time to move on. You should never feel doomed at work

I'm sorry it's so hard right now. You sound like you've been thoughtful about this, it may just be a long season of job hopping in your life right now. Best of luck
The MIT-2 License:

Like the MIT license but you must put 2 instances somewhere in your attribution. It is per-license, so the whoever includes your work in their own project must put 4 instances, and so on.
People are sometimes less likely to recognize your true gifts if you don’t socialize well. Silicon Valley is probably an exception where people on the spectrum are stereotyped somewhat positively.
Neither side can really claim it, but both will half heartedly do so.
Trust in stablecoins can be broken by the actions of any one stablecoin.

Trusting a specific stable coin can be independent of all other stable coins.
Ppl keeping repeating that Scott Adams intersection tip as if it's useful or clever , and it's not. Being mediocre at two things and combining them just makes you mediocre. The third skill that results from the combination of two skills still has its own learning curve and hierarchy. Things don't just get easier. It just means you're just playing a different game that has different challenges.
The issue is that RSA isn't backdorable, while elliptic curves are. Even if we trust the author, it's better not to trust anyone.
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I'd quit too but keep working on my side projects. in between vacations
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The 'Office Space' scenario might be more interesting/fun, keep working and ignore the BS, worst case you get fired and at least you learn you were right to follow the rules, best case you get to keep the good (actually writing code) and lose the bad. Normally you can never find out where the line is without crossing it.
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I don't know about you, but I played Zelda games for a story told through a world not a world with no story. The fact that what makes Zelda games Zelda games is an afterthought was series ruining for me. I have no desire to go back to Skyward Sword after playing BOTW, it sucked all wind from my sails
> make a point and turn the community against the agitators.

Time and time again this is the proven strategy.
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> As the largest democracy project in the world.

By what metric is EU the largest?
> Democratically run unions give employees real negotiating power over what it means to go to work day to day.

I've been part of a few and this has never been the case in my experience.
I felt BotW had some great ideas, but it didn’t feel as monumental as Ocarina of Time was back in the day. My main criticisms would be that the 4/5 main dungeons were pretty underwhelming, and the puzzle chambers got tedious.

For all its flaws, Elden Ring is packed with “oh wow” moments as you unlock new areas. And the design of the “dungeons” is inspired, they’re so intricate and rich, yet never so lengthy that they outstay their welcome. The main gripe I have with the game is that a number of the enemies and bosses stray from being fun challenges into just being frustrating. I’d have preferred if they’d made the game just a bit smaller and focused on making each boss encounter as memorable as those on the critical questlines.
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MacOS built-in shortcuts are cool I guess, but when it comes to positioning windows, no way should you limit yourself to left and right. My preferred tool is "Divvy", which isn't auto-tiling per se but has really granular and straightfwd "set it and forget it" config. I've got muscle memory for sizing and positioning windows across displays in horizontal and vertical halves and fullscreen. Piece o cake, no brainer.
> It's funny, Nick Maggiulli doesn't allow comments but vectors people to https://twitter.com/dollarsanddata

Why is that "funny"? Running a decent commenting system on the modern Internet is not easy, especially if you're not a coder/techie. The dude already has full time job.
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Super comprehensive post. Much better than my comment!
There are tangible costs to crayon licenses, long before cases reach court. The more convoluted and amateurish the drafting, the more unclear the meaning and the more that lawyers make advising clients what to do about them.

Sticking it to users who care about compliance is part of the appeal of licenses like the WTFPL, but it's ironic that the money flows to lawyers.

When the ASF finally banned the JSON license for use in dependencies, the legal cost of figuring out compliance was one of the motivations cited by the people who proposed the ban.