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> I remember having to use BlueJ at University... I found that it makes programming so much harder. New window for every file, no ctrl+click following references, no auto-formatter, no easy sidebar tree of files...

There's something to be said for a very minimal "just get shit done" code editor. I think Thonny[1] falls perfectly in this line though in terms of useful features vs IDE-completeness. It has most of the quality of life improvements you're talking about here but is otherwise an advanced text editor with code highlighting.

I used to nearly exclusively write my code that way actually, using EditPlus and then later Notepad++, both with plugins for syntax and formatting. I found it to be surprisingly productive. Then again, I suspect there's a large overlap between people who are like me and will find it productive and those who like all those distraction-free writing applications out there.

> I ended up using vscode and just copying the files into BlueJ before submitting my assignments.

This I'm curious about. Why would you need to do this? Does BlueJ do something specific with the application that VSCode can't?

[1]: https://thonny.org/
This is probably good for Figma competitors, because Adobe will crapify it just like they did a long time ago with their own products.

Well deserved lesson for those that decided to support a cloud product instead of an offline tool.
It was photopea.com, but he went to a subscription model too. Free with ads, but they're pretty distracting to me.

Affinity products are decent, but they're not free, it's a one time purchase.

There's Krita, which is good, but I really want something that mirrors the traditional tool layout of Photoshop. Both affinity and Krita do their own thing which is tough when you've been using Photoshop for 25 years.
Can confirm. We use sentence-level transformer embeddings for (vector) search, clustering, and classification tasks. As an old school ML guy I've been amazed at how robust they are to typos, slang, punctuation, etc.

However, I'm sure there are still applications where you don't have access to a robust embedding for your domain but can apply other techniques to deal with that domain's noise.
I dislike Adobe as much as the next person, but I think there isn't a person on earth that wouldn't take this deal. If I had a product like Figma, I'd sell it in a microsecond for what Adobe offered.
Are there any examples when an acquisition actually led to improved value for the users rather than ruined or straight killed the product?
I feel you on this. I live in the 3rd world (Turkiye) and have been itching to buy a motorcycle lately. The $26k BMW 1250RT I want costs $35k here, and another $20k in taxes.
Last weekend a high school sophomore told me his class was using Java with BlueJ. He'd never heard the term "object-oriented," which I thought was interesting. He said the previous year his class had covered some Python. Using Java in high school didn't sound very motivating, but then, my earliest memories of doing programming in school involve the gym teacher instructing me to type mysterious stuff like "GOTO 40" until finally a bunch of flashing lines appeared on my monitor...so maybe I should be envious.
Ideally they made their site responsive and respected the prefers-color-scheme CSS media query. Having people share m.wikipedia.org links is annoying enough and there is no reason for it at all.
I have a software engineering, sysadmin, and security background with 20 years of experience and I turn down opportunities of 250k+ frequently as I run my own company now which affords me more control of my time.

I have no degree and am no influencer or genius. I just never stop learning so I can be the one bringing new ideas to the meeting.

Your aversion to learning new things every 2 years sounds like a limiter. Even 2 years is too slow for this industry and probably why you feel capped.

I am no workaholic, averaging 35h weeks, but I try to learn a new skillset every month or so. If there is a gap I identify at an employer or client that will make me learn a new programming language, infra stack, or new vulnerability discovery technique, my hand always goes up first.

People are willing to pay more to those willing to run ahead into the dark and document a path for everyone else once they figure it out.

I know others who are more do-what-they-are-asked personalities, who work a lot more hours, but being simply experienced and reliable has earned them 50k+/year bumps every time they change jobs with good referrals and open source projects people can reference.
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Location: Delaware, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Prefer not to.

Technologies: Go, C++, Python

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rdrsss/

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Software engineer for over 10 years. Generalist programmer, I've worked across many different domains. Love to keep things varied and try new things. I've worked mostly in the games industry doing backend work, lib integration, tools, etc... I'm looking for something different (not games), I love backend and application programming, open to something new. Interested in doing something with rust.
That’s so uncompetitive
(types www.sketch.com into browser)
Technology Partner Model for Startups?
We're creating a platform for tech entrepreneurs to share in underlying resources and collaborate to reduce technology costs and hurdles.

So it's access to a brilliant dev team, but beyond that we're aiming to help with product management, helping founders to consistently implement all the stuff we've learned from YC and other places, automating and simplifying administrative processes, and infrastructure support. The idea is to get the hairy stuff taken care of by the underlying collective, so founders can focus on the important stuff and launch ideas faster and more cost effectively.

I'm curious to hear input from the community about this approach.

Is this a need you guys have also experienced on the journey?

And what do you guys feel about partnering with a technology team versus a 100% in-house team? I'm wondering if the majority of founders in this community would be nervous about a model like that, or if its merit outweighs the desire to keep things in-house?

Would appreciate your thoughts / feedback.
We used this in school. If I remember correctly one of the intro CS courses was taught by Jennifer Blue and in the catalog it showed up as being taught by “Blue J”. Very fitting.
Being inside IR35 I now take home less pay, have less flexibility, and I pay less tax (because rates have gone down across the board without the upward pressure that existed in the old system). Who wins? Only my employer.
“I don’t care about cookies“ web extension acquired by Avast
Could you point me at some of those records?
Hard to implement a democracy without any authority to prove that I'm 1 person with 1 vote and not 100 people with 100 votes.
Except children in traditional societies demonstrably cry less and are happier (both parents and children). Anybody who has spent time living in traditional societies vs living in the West see the differences - chiefly, the sheer anxiety that western children are introduced to from the first day they step foot in the world.
People are attached to places they grew up, it's their home. Also poor people don't have much mobility. I remember when the war just started and one of the first shocking videos was of a mother with two sons and a dog shelled basically live stream on CNN. The father went at that time to DNR to help his sick mother. He did it out of his choice but he probably wasn't a separatist.
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> I understand why they are being made, but it's getting a bit tiring to see these on the front page so frequently.

It's getting a bit tiring to see that these large corporations still can't figure it out on how to treat your user base regarding de-platforming.
This article is interesting not just because the particular businesses it explores via stories, but because of its broader message to entrepreneurs about the importance of understanding your customers' business models if you want to succeed. Many engineering-focused founders struggle with this part. If you want to actually sell the thing you built (food ordering kiosks in the author's case), you have to align the value proposition with the customer's business model and incentives. This business model and incentive structure might not be what you initially think.
And you need to factor in that Danish people do not need to pay for health services.

$50k after tax in Denmark needs to pay for fewer expenses than $50k after tax in USA.

So it is not a valid comparison to just compare income tax and VAT.

In this case Denmark ends up not being more expensive for a nice middle class life. It's just that ill-informed people thinks otherwise. Quality of life in Denmark is higher: https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/rankings/quality-...
Totally agree I don’t get why antitrust gave the okay to this…
I heard exactly the same said about AWS in 2009, now almost every major bank uses it. Once something is shown to be more efficient those banks are going to have to adopt it or justify their inneficiency to their shareholders.
Github. Apple buying Workflow to build it into the OS as Shortcuts.
On the flipside, this opens up the space for a new upstart with an innovative take on design tooling, just like how Figma came up.
You mean by shutting down nuclear plans and calling natural gas "green"?
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There is a rentable book from archive.org -- https://archive.org/details/taligentsguideto0000unse
What do you mean? Both FLAC and WavPack claim to be patent-free.
They literally did the same thing with dreamweaver as well. And now dreamweaver is a fast growing business in the form of Webflow.

It’s the same story over and over again. Adobe acquires and then stifles innovation. 10 years later we realize what we were missing out on when a challenger eventually gets big enough—-until Adobe kills that company too.

I’d bet a nice chunk of money that Webflow is next.
Top G style.
> Like many of you, I grew up using Adobe software and it was a critical part of my personal creative journey. It is an incredible opportunity and honor to help Adobe build the next generation of creative tools. Especially in a time when AI-generated models make us question the role of human creativity, this opportunity is also a huge responsibility.

Is AI generated design really much of a thing?

That’s a very strange little comment about AI models tacked on the end. I suppose stable diffusion has been very visible lately, but for a heavily manicured corporate blog, it’s an odd touch.
And here I was, having a good day, when you had to remind me of EA's atrocities...

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The moose test is not on rails.
The extreme cold temperatures of -55°F and colder are never recorded at sea level. You only get those kinds of temperatures at elevation. The ice in that video is no colder than 32°F, as the freezing temperature of water is the same as the melting temperature of ice. So a submarine breaking through the ice would never experience temperatures 32° below the freezing temperatures of water, let alone 132° below freezing temperatures.
Yes, unfortunately you're right. Ibram X. Kendi has been biting his tongue.
Gah, I love Figma. Heres to hoping it doesn’t go downhill.

$20B price is interesting, Canva was valued at $25B recently and does way less.
So your boss wants to give you a $1000 raise, but you don't want it, because you'll only get the $400 and the rest is just tax? At no point will taking the $400 impact what you're already making or how it's taxed. Even the Danish government isn't stupid enough to implement a system where your existing income is reduced, because you get a raise.

Again I see the point if you're offered or able to get some kind of benefits or vacation time instead. That may easily be of greater value to you. That's just not often an option.

Edit: If it helps: A progressive tax is what the US have. India may as well, that I don't know.
Ohhhh okay. So it’s just a flag describing expectations about an object. And as a Symbol it doesn’t interfere with any other part of the object such as properties or iteration.
I thought this was going to be about that butt-ugly Twitter blue, as seen in every crap Bootstrap site on the net.
The company is Autodesk, the product is Autocad.
Interesting. In Java, there’s random.nextInt(max). Curious if that takes this into account.
It looks like the new Blockchain is quite centralized. 45% of blocks are mined by just two addresses:
https://twitter.com/santimentfeed/status/1570339602346684416...
Feels uncessary. Figma could have IPO with no issue. They are well ahead of Adobe. Very dissapointed by this to be honest. Their Monoply continues.
> There's always idiot drivers and bikers and every now and then someone gets hurt or killed.

Consider, how safe will be world with self-driving bikes of 5 level!

Unfortunately, even cars still does not reach 3 level, but why we should bother such tiny nuances..
$20 billion dollars for Figma? What the actual f...?
Yes, good point. I still believe that net-net you're going to get better results on typos with a keyword-based search, but I didn't mean to imply that vector searching won't handle typos at all.
More fiber and less umlauts for breakfast 'll fix that.
Same here. This is going to do tangible damage to my daily life as someone who opens Figma daily. I also spend time hunting rogue Adobe spyware processes in activity monitor daily. Adobe destroys everything they touch and Figma was finally innovating despite them. I hope we get real anti trust laws someday.
The original comment is the kind of comment that just derails actual conversation about the topic. Try to stay on topic.
Maybe you can assist him to redirect his path.
There's a recent comment of mine someplace about how much I miss the _genius_ of Fireworks as a combined pixel/vector art tool that saved everything to standard PNG files - which anyone could read since the additional data was inserted using PNG tags.

That and it being very fast and effective for Web design (miles ahead of Photoshop at the time).
Why should they? Acquisition today means: you have managed to become a threat to us, so we buy you so that this threat disappears.

I just hope Adobe doesn't buy Affinity.
I apologize in advance for breaking the usual rules of HN when it comes to quality of discussion.

Fuck.
>Automated enforcement is evil and must be banned

Aren't the only people able to enforce the banning of automated enforcement, politicians, the very people that want the blocking done in the first place?
Github gained actions, sponsors etc. and keeps getting more new features.
Whatsapp got E2E chats and group video calls and handles communications for a huge amount of people.
Being able to give out $100k+ RSUs probably had something to do with record breaking profits and growth quarter after quarter for 10+ years. The government reducing the purchasing power of the currency is certainly needed for the nominal figures, but so are the stellar bottom lines relative to other businesses.
I actually think we need new antitrust laws that are a bit more proactive when it comes to super-massive companies like Adobe. Such companies have learned to be much more cunning when it comes to get around existing laws, and plus they have much more money than ever.
Especially since the carbon emissions of Ethereum were a product of Ethereum's existence in the first place, hence an entirely self-made problem, produced by the very people developing and pushing the platform.

It's a lot like someone being an active part of a group of gangsters taking hostages, then turning around and helping the police freeing them, only to then brag about how proud he/she is of having a role in freeing those poor innocent people.
Used Patagonia gear for kids (if you can afford it) is incredible. You know they’ll be dry and comfortable, it wears remarkably well, and it has resale value. All of my kids have cycled through Patagonia garments and each garment was sold eventually, bringing the cost of ownership well below what we’d pay if we bought them worse gear new.

It’s unfortunate that price prevents people from wanting or being able to invest in quality clothing that can last. If something is well made it seems like it can outlast cheaper garments several times over, and the environmental cost is reduced dramatically. Most garments like this really do cost a lot though; my nano puff hoody was around $350 CAD, for example. You can get stuff that looks the same for $50-$100. If I hadn’t experienced how nice it is first hand, I’d likely assume the nano is a waste of money and go with something cheaper too. Then of course at times in my life I couldn’t spend that much if I wanted to.

We have a bit of a crisis regardless. The garment industry is like a massive conveyor belt into landfills.
Do those banks use AWS now? Did they fight it with many justifications of why bare metal is better and cheaper and more efficient before finally realising it's holding them back? Because that's what happened in every company I worked in and that same thing is going to happen to every company working in finance.

In a capitalistic world efficiency comes before pride or your shareholders replace you.
I think Github has held up pretty well.
So as soon as you were paying back into your country you decided enough is enough and moved to a country with much higher social inequality?

Okay good for you but a weird brag.

One of my main reason not to go to USA is exactly that. I don't want to earn lots of money while my country people have to go to a Sporthall to get their teeth fixed once a year because you need to be special to go to a dentist.
Wow. Gocardless has over five years of engineering invested in scaling Postgres, and it was a on going development to enable them to "work with it safely"? At what point did operating safety concerns arise? I'm absolutely no fan of Oracle business practices, but this sounds like a story that sales can dine on for years, notwithstanding my private conviction that I could negotiate Exadata for less than the gross salaries excluding employer contributions.
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Ah, Fireworks, Dreamweaver, Geocities. I miss the days when the Internet was full of magic and wonders, and not dumpster fires.
That's kind of a funny take considering it was Chouinard's own choices that made him a billionaire, no?

He very easily could have given equity away to the employees and spread it around. Or had exceedingly generous profit sharing.

But he didn't. He ended up with all the equity at the end, and thus the billionaire.
Big win for the Figma team. Big loss for consumers who have benefitted from the competitive market. I really hope this incentives Krita, Ink, Gimp or other OSS to focus more on UI design features.

I think there is a value for Adobe to add Figma to CC, Photoshop can fully focus on photo manipulation while Figma (perhaps merged with XD?) will be target UI designers.
That depends on your definition of "mastered" we certainly know how to make them but I don't think there's ever been an example that wasn't cumbersome, fragile, or both.
Ah come on...

You can get a good stable salary in Amsterdam and have a great life...
He's not saying it is "carbon-negative" --- he's saying it is more efficient and avoids a megaton of carbon that would otherwise have been released.
That just moves the bias to other numbers.

In the example of reducing a byte-sized random value modulo 107, the bias is that 0 can be generated by three different possible inputs (0, 107 and 214), while 42 can only be generated by two (42 and 149; 256 is just out of range), so 0 ends up being 50% more common than 42 in the long run.

With your proposed scheme, 0 can be generated by three possible inputs again (0, 1 and 2), while 1 can only be generated by two (3 and 4), so 0 ends up being 50% more common than 1 in the long run.
IMO, Skype was on the way out either way. The P2P model it used only really made sense on desktop computers running most of the day with unmetered cable broadband, which is a very limited market, vs. the increasing percentage of mobile (and laptop, and desktop-but-4G/5G-connected) users that were a net negative on Skype's resources.

So Skype was looking at a major rewrite, and building up massive server infrastructure, both of which needed lots and lots of cashflow that Skype's business model just couldn't generate.

I doubt any other company taking over Skype could've avoided ruining it.
You cannot easily make payments to or from certain places, or based on certain activities, with the dominant payment technologies.

Yes, this is due to regulations, but it's also due to the centralized nature of the technology which requires permission to use.

Even when more regulation is forced onto cryptocurrencies, the architecture will always be permissionless, as it's a decentralized network. That is a fundamental difference.
I'm dismayed by this acquisition but glad to see the near-universal dislike towards Adobe in this thread. How can a $150B+ company exist with this much disdain for its business practices and products? I'm guessing Adobe's primary customer base is large corporations who don't care rather than individual users?
What about under 1 year? Facing the same issue
I have the very same problem. It seems that my IP @ home was somehow flagged and I was unable to access Discord without giving them phone number.

I will never give my phone to Discord/Twitter etc - just a matter of principle.
After the Target breach, the laws were finally changed and chip and signature was rolled out.

The deal with processors is this:

if you use chip + PIN or sig and there is fraud, it's on the processor (Visa/Mastercard, etc)

if you use swipe, it's on the retailer directly.
It's just a recoining of "Rest and vest" right?
Blogpost from figma: https://www.figma.com/blog/a-new-collaboration-with-adobe/
> My understanding is that it's dangerous and few want to do it.

Yeah this is the part everyone is ignoring in the conversation. Many highly compensated physical labor jobs are highly compensated because of the associated risk. While being a developer (with exceptions) doesn't expose you to any physical risk.
Please stop breaking the site rules by incorrecting assuming malice when incompetence is sufficient.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's just because other people are there and it's a trend. That is why most people do things.
It depends on what you want out of life.

They now have cachet/reputation, and deeper pockets, and can easily start up and get funding for anything they might want to do.

Just making a slow, healthy profit with a company might not be enough for them.
That's kind of the point. ME/CFS is poorly understood and likely has many causes not directly stemming from viral illnesses. If it existed prior to Covid in seemingly large numbers, it seems pretty likely that people with pre-existing ME/CFS have now decided it's Long Covid, or that the same poorly defined causes have now impacted more people.
Affinity has a suite that is pretty nice (not affiliated with them, just like the tools and didn’t want to pay a subscription for my rather occassional use).
Let me present my 2-year-old's second favourite music, after Van Halen - Jump :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8ccGjar4Es
It’s not free, but Sketch is a fantastic (also MacOS native) alternative.
I was against copilot until I tried it.

It’s not always on target, but it’s usually pretty close and the suggestions are good.

No, it doesn’t write all of the code for me. But it does rapidly construct even quite complicated if/else statements that I was going to write anyways, just from knowing where I’m typing. Quite a great tool.
I have zero doubt that it does. This is extremely high visibility code that has been around for decades.

And I also have zero doubts that there are a bunch of reimplementations that don't, from assclowns who don't trust libraries on general principle.