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I just found peace in using debain with bootable btrfs snapshots
I am actually sympathetic here - one quirk of New York City is despite hosting some of the busiest airports in the country, there simply aren't any reasonable airport hotels.

There used to be many, but the City bought most of them outright and converted them into homeless shelters. The remainder serve as overflow, so you probably don't want to stay there either. The common wisdom in the frequent flyer community seems to be to just head to Manhattan, or go to Flushing - it's more fun that way anyways.

* The exception is probably the newly opened TWA hotel on JFK, which is really nice, albeit pricy
I'm boxing, a little caress but behind there is a hidden jab coming

It's indeed all rotten and rigged
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So your reason to avoid TypeScript is some very rarely encountered corner case? Talk about perfect being the enemy of the good.

No language is perfect. Your comment is absurd, and the citations are pedantic.
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Yes. If you look you will find published literature on the subject. The plots plotting SAT/ACT and IQ will have an obvious trend but be very noisy. Hence why they are poor IQ tests, you can have a decent guess at someone's IQ based on their test results but it's not ideal.
I've taken at least 5 over the course of my life. Possibly a 6th that I didn't know about (possibly age 5 or 6?), but I know of taking multiple between ages 9 through mid 30s.

Regardless of the test, the percentile numbers didn't change.

I've read people claim on and off for years that you can "study" for them and "improve" your scores, but that's not been my experience. Any variations you get might be slight, but you're extremely unlikely to get any statistical difference... unless....

I had a test at age 9 for a specific 'gifted' program starting in our school district. 2 months later, we moved districts, and I was given the exact same test again. I aced it, because I'd asked my parents some of the questions I didn't understand the first time. I 'confessed'(?) to the test giver in the second district that I'd already had these exact same questions 3 months earlier, which they noted. I'd already 'qualified' after the first test, so again, I don't think there was any significantly different outcome (I 'qualified' after the second test in the new district as well).
I would say yes.

The most common sense of "pattern" is a rule or structure that a person can perceive and use to anticipate how something will continue. The repetition of the same event or item is the most trivial kind of pattern, but it's still a pattern.
This is why I love going to the movies near a nice promenade. The quiet walk afterwards with my SO (who also easily gets lost in thought) is part of the experience.

We strolled down the Embarcadero after Dune - couldn't tell you what we talked about, but it was peaceful.
> They were fired for cause, namely, insubordination

The idea that you can order someone to perform a medical procedure because they work for you is disguisting.

Where does this end?
How is Stadia doing? Google Chrome apps? Google Chatbase? Google Poly? Google Loon? Google Fiber (where Google literally left a city’s streets in ruins https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/02/googl...), Google Fibrr TV,
The Vasa museum is awesome! And while we're talking about Nordic countries, the Fram museum in Oslo is amazing. Being able to walk on and through the actual boat that Roald Amundsen took to the Antarctic is kind of incredible.
I don't get how IP factors in here. As a non-pirate just distributing my cooking tutorial, I don't have to pay when I encode in HEVC.
In my experience, absolutely not. Unless sites like hotwire in which you don't know the name of the hotel until you pay.
> Hiring for a particular tool-chain or framework

Anecdata, but it wasn't helpful for my company to remove this boundary. I bought into the idea based on some other articles and threads posted here recently, but when we actually widened searches and removed the requirements from the postings, it didn't really move the needle.

I'm sure there's a group out there who isn't married to one stack, or is interested in learning a new one, but it was tough for me to feel like it was worth the added complexity of effectively screening and interviewing to accommodate it.

Is the suggested approach to focus sourcing on certain stacks but be open to interviewing promising applicants who don't use them? I suppose I could see that if your technical interviews can accommodate it without much rework.
Yes. Painful but informative.
Conveniently just a short walk from VASA as far as I know.
I have long wondered about this. Note that you also need to be able to normalize grades across students who went to the same school but had different teachers. I suspect the answer is that both normalizations are hard so admissions people don't bother.
I'm thinking the best thing to do is threshold the notifications to ~5 or above, so they're worth paying attention to, and a certain distance of course. Not an expert though. 5 is major enough to want to know isn't it?
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You should reread what I said.
What's wrong with SCSS modules? It has a lot of really useful functionality that frontend developers like me love.
> I understand that there are reasons for this, and I totally agree that the js/ts dependency situation is far from ideal, but it's still maddening to have so many different collection types, when js/ts just has an array that's not even an actual array, but it still works fine, and all the new stuff just gets added on top of it.

It "works fine" for basic cases but it doesn't give you anything like the same capabilities. JS/TS have no easy equivalent of array or stream, anything you could write in js/ts you could write in Java by only using ArrayList. Java's collections library is big and complex but almost everything that's in there is there because it has a use case, and while it's showing its age now it was well designed for its time.

> One of these days someone should invent a new programming language that finally gets all of this right once and for all, but I bet people will find ways to improve it again.

Your best hope is a language with Haskell-style typeclasses where you can not only add new implementations of existing interfaces, but also retrofit new interfaces onto existing implementations. No library is going to be perfect from day 1, and a big part of the reason why Java Stream is awkward is that it had to be retrofitted into the existing collection library.
marginally better than RN
TypeScript works well because they don’t worry about soundness and completeness. The type system isn’t trying to be perfect, just useful. This scares PL theorists, but I think it has been a very profitable corner of the design space to explore.

Variance rarely comes up in Kotlin because they don’t push immutability as much as Scala did. It’s like, there as an option but I’ve used it a total of two times in the last two years of full time Kotlin programming. Compared to typescript, Kotlin is fairly boring, but it is tooled well and is a vast improvement over Java.
I hope his problem gets solved but there is very little history of things like this ever getting fixed when it comes to YouTube. Also, all the overly loud noises and pop-up images are annoying to be honest.
That's actually an old and effective political strategy. Perhaps distasteful, but part of the game in the same sense that icing the kicker in football is part of the game (as consequence of the rules of time-outs).

I've even seen it used to good effect to strong-arm otherwise unreachable organizations when they choose to be anti-social. During the housing crash, one of the major non-profit universities a city panicked about its investments going shaky and abruptly decided to stop paying into some multi-decades-long standing donations that back-stopped some city services. The non-profit was paying into that donation pool because state law that had made sense in the 1900s and a lot less sense in 2000 made those non-profits non-taxable (but they had eaten up a significant percent of available real estate in the city center, none of which could generate tax revenue to pay for city services).

The city responded by preparing an ordnance that would tax out-of-town students directly.

The uni responded that this would be obviously illegal on its face as per state law.

The city responded that they believed the uni was presenting a reasonable legal theory that they were happy to debate back-and-forth in county, circuit, state, and appeals court for the next five years.

The university returned to the negotiating table and hammered out a new plan to pay a percentage of their former amount into the donation pool, preventing what would have otherwise been a heavy disruption in city services at a time when everyone was hurting from the housing crash.

Messy, but this kind of creation of leverage is what makes political systems operate at all at multiple scales of governance.
You just said it was for revenue to the city though.

I'm not really convinced about this new explanation either. I've seen little to no evidence that upsetting significant numbers of people factored into any other decisions around covid response, including the significant number who were upset by the creation of these double standards.

I'm going to have to stick with pure and simple corruption as the simplest and most likely explanation, unless there is some extraordinary evidence supporting some other less likely one.
All good advice. I’ve made a career out of never assuming the good fortune will last. Sometimes your standing is rooted high enough to be above the reorg; sometimes it ain’t.
I assume because googles numbers might be indicative of the wider online ad business which many users here are involved in while msfts are more about enterprise software which also means they’re more stable.
I would expect it to suppress the result for this particular search term, but not from ever showing up in the results?
Consumer apps are the ones that are killed off, not developer or B2B products.
Google Fiber isn't dead; they still regularly do advertisements in US markets. They just haven't grown as fast as Google had hoped.
> The question is whether Azure alone has overtaken AWS…

Not a very interesting question as the answer is, as it’s been for many years, “no.”

If Azure ever overtakes AWS that will be very noteworthy. But it’s pretty hard to compare revenue to revenue because of the way the companies report.
Just so I understand your first point – you're saying that Tik Tok appears to be more authentic because:

1. the format

2. it has a better, younger, denser, more curated pool of content creators

I agree that these are probably true points, but I'm not immediately convinced they're upstream of the feeling of "authenticity." It does seem interesting to me that that's something the "Surgers" called out

edit: formatting
Upgrading to a new JDK is significantly less work than upgrading all your tools to support a new language.
thats exactly what the court ruling explains
Totally not a pitbull problem… they are great houses pets
I’m curious to see which researcher will be the first to have an AI generate realistic 3D assets by understanding 3D natively.
you can pick your renderer for web --web-renderer html
The hotel cannot offer a cheaper public rate than Booking.com or Expedia, even though they take 15% or more. The hotel has to include other perks not available or limit the availability of the offer to members. The aggregators can run promotions that discount the rates, which the hotel still covers the difference.
>The intent is to gauge general mental ability, not rule following.

General mental ability as defined by sitting down and doing an arbitrary boring task, viz. following a rule that you don't see much point in but someone important told you to do.

The ability to do well on those tasks correlates much more strongly with:

>family income, socioeconomic status, school and occupational performance, military training assignments, law-abidingness, healthful habits, illness, and morality. In contrast, IQ is negatively correlated with welfare, psychopathology, crime, inattentiveness, boredom, delinquency, and poverty

than whatever intelligence is.

In short: IQ is a great tool to measure your ability to be a white collar drone.
You mean the framework that even Google doesn’t think is good enough for cross platform apps?

https://9to5google.com/2021/10/10/google-ios-apps-native/
I quit my last job due to a situation like this.

The person that built the entire application was very weak technically. I'm pretty sure the motivation for bringing me in was that I would "fix up" the entire mess. There was no documentation, no tests, and tons of code copy/pasted everywhere.

I spent a year trying to improve it, but for every thing I'd clean up, the original engineer would write twice as much new code without consulting me. I tried to get them to do architecture reviews and code reviews, but everything was always an emergency that needed to go live immediately.

If I ever thought about joining a startup that small again, I'd make sure I got to look at a representative chunk of their code base first. And if it looked like it needed a lot of work, I'd grill the existing engineers hard to make sure I can actually do what they want me to do.
Norton Commander. Still the best and most efficient way to access all your files.
Google search is becoming one of those dying malls
Waymo has taken a fair bit of external funding. Google could in theory cut them loose which would effectively kill them, but I'm not sure they could just shut it down.
Not so much. A company name, address and some people's names behind it tick most of the boxes.

A back story is even better.

This is a perfect example of the kind of page I'm talking about.
https://www.cadcode.com/content/about-us
I think the biggest reason is lack of hardware decoding, Lots of people have a device that can hardware decode H.265, which is extremely important for 4k content, my x230 really struggled with software 4k decoding of H.265, so I assume the same issue will happen with VP9 and AV1 especially with higher res content.
I think that's not the case in these specific examples I had in mind from history, but is a fair point in the general case.
Popularity is never a result of quality. In any area.

Sometimes it correlates, but mostly it's a matter of legacy, marketing and business decisions (that has nothing to do with dev. experience).
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If you liked dart back then, you absolutely should check it out again today. It's improved greatly and easily has the best developer experience of any language I've ever used. Not to mention one of the most rapidly improving.

Non-null by default was a massive change for Dart in terms of perf, and modern dart is quite a different (by very pleasant) beast than dart 1.x.
I had to deal with token ring way up until 2001 when even the most die hard nuts had to admit that you could buy a dozen ethernet cards for the cost of a single TR. IIRC the TR people tried to convince us that ATM was the future.
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Layout, rather than switch, I should have said.
I'm getting a bit tired of people on HN questioning the motives of other commenters. You don't have a mind reading machine, you are not a telepath or a wizard. If you think they are wrong then argue it, they could be mistaken, entirely right, entirely wrong, partly right/wrong… you could be wrong. There are so many possibilities but none of them include you being able to divine their intentions.
Hot take from someone with a decent amount of experience in this area, but half way across the world: Everything in this article is a terrible idea that only works when you're drowning in investor money.

If you try and apply articles like this outside of SV, you're going to be miserable.

The only point in this article I can't completely refute with my own experience is the one about funnel discipline, and really that one just boils down to "write stuff down" (still good advice, but hardly needs to be said).

Bad code spreads like cancer. 2-3 months is more than enough time to do serious damage. "Comfort in the false negative zone" is EXACTLY what you should be doing as a startup, your first bad hire will ruin you.

Even the framing at the start of the article (first 10-20 engineers) is wrong. The point of a startup is to create an environment where your devs can literally 20-100x the average dev at a big corp (10x is honestly too conservative with the rubbish I see in my day job). Each hire in that environment gets exponentially more difficult if you're doing it right. I think realistically the startup phase probably tops out at 5-10 devs, but it depends heavily on how many 'large modules' you can split your business up into. If you're operating more like 5 startups working together then maybe you can get into the 10s and 20s.

If you're hiring 10-20 devs to work on a single product, you're in no man's land. That's the point where you want to start converting to a business that relies on 1xers. To do that you need to scale up, and you can't do that unless you're already successful or you have boatloads of investor capital.

What these bozos call a "startup" in Silicon Valley is actually just medium/big business dev that doesn't make any money yet. You're welcome to try that approach if you have the investment to make it work, but as someone that's consulted for a bunch of companies doing exactly that and seen all of them spiraling rapidly down the drain, I'd advise against it.

This exact approach is why "99% of startups fail", it's just rolling a dice to try and skip the whole "building a sustainable business" phase and go straight to "billion dollar enterprise". That's totally fine if you understand exactly what's happening and what the trade off is. Not so fine if you don't understand and you're just following along with articles like this make it seem like generic good advice for all startups.
I’m waiting for recruitment departments for big companies to learn about moneyball.

Currently the approach is “well we lost someone with 10 years of experience _at our company_ I guess we’ll replace them with some with 10 years of experience elsewhere. Problem solved!”

But really, to bring the moneyball analogy, the guy who left was hitting .380, while the guy you brought in will maybe be a .300 hitter a few years from now once he ramps up closer to the level of the .380 hitter.

So what recruitment should be doing is figuring out how many individual people they actually need to bring in to replace their .380 hitter. That calculation should also inform how much they’re will to incentivize the .380 hitter to stay.

Thank you for bearing with my drawn-out analogy!
Oh, just wait until you start to work with cantankerous senior engineers.

I once worked with someone who convinced the boss to do a silent yoga retreat as a teambuilding exercise, with a plan to quit before it happened.
It still works though.
Completely reasonable to at least wait and see for stuff Google launches. Go has survived long enough to adopt. Flutter (the only reason to use Dart anymore) hasn't, and is exactly the sort of project they regularly kill off, or decide they got wrong and release Flutter 2 with no migration strategy.
Is it possible to DM on HN?
What do you think the browser paints on?

On a more serious note, the open web was killed when people decided to use the browser as an application platform instead of as a document delivery platform.

The open web was killed by many things:

- minification

- node_modules

- webpack

- wasm

- react

Painting on a canvas is the proper way to render application UI.
I meant revenue that went to businesses/people in the city, like the general ecosystem not just the government. And a large part of the backlash was from people whose jobs were eliminated until full scale entertainment came back. It was a big deal to tons of people.
They feel like a prisoners dilemma to me. Pensions are a relic unless you chose your career wisely and were lucky/related enough to get in. So I’m stuck with whatever crappy 401k my employer provides and I’m hoping that my paltry investments now will support me for 2-3 decades when I’m to infirm to labor? Mind you I’m doing this while paying my criminally expensive (20-40% gross pre tax) health insurance for the privilege of neglecting to get healthcare I desperately need because I can’t afford all the out of pocket expenses required to actually receive the care I need because my employer won’t pay me enough nor will they absorb these costs. Lastly, I’m doing all this while praying that our comatose government won’t completely fuck over even harder while I try to scrimp and save and suffer my bootstraps up to a more than barely surviving state of existence. If by some miracle I survive to retirement and have no 401k (and assuming it would’ve performed well) I’ll be stuck living in a disgusting sro for the destitute. So yeah, they’rea sham to distract us from the fact that social safety nets have evaporated to juice the economy while surpassing the cognitive abilities of an average person.
The task isn’t arbitrary. It’s designed to measure mental ability. And it’s not boring as it can be quite short. And the rules should be quite easy to understand as they involve things like “which shapes fit together.”

The test is not designed to be confusing or hard to understand.

I expect IQ is also correlated with being a white collar drone (pretty awesome) but it’s also correlated with whatever intelligence is, as imperfectly as we’ve defined it.
There are better languages with better ecosystems. Even the Android team picked Kotlin. It failed going into the realm of JavaScript (Typescript took that).

It's not that it's a terrible language. It isn't. There are just better languages that don't have the burden of Google who is notoriously flaky on supporting failed projects.

Flutter succeeded because the alternatives are worse and because of China which is its main source of traction.
Dart was initially targeted at web development. If you ask me, the initial benefits of Dart were surpassed by the JS ecosystem. TypeScript is fantastic, the npm ecosystem is rich and full featured and has deep network effects and all that tooling really started to get good and mature within a couple years of Dart launching (ES2015 another big improvement for JS). That left very few benefits for Dart over JS/TS.
Over ten years ago when I was in school my prof gave us a heads up that dart would be big and we should start learning it.
I'm really impressed how Microsoft improved Github in the past few years. Github was basically at a feature standstill, and had terrible availability after all of its internal scandals. That ended when Microsoft bought it and turned it into a powerhouse, and integrated everything together.

Microsoft from 20 years ago and Microsoft now seems like a completely different company.
Cute. Disclosure, I make the data (transcripts, test scores) flow to decision makers as part of my day job at a Big 10 University. We just went "test optional".

I view "test optional" as a signaling exercise. In brief, how closely can you read the instructions and infer what you are not being told? The key is "test optional". If you sit for the test, you get more than just admissions, as merit-based financial awards are unlocked. The University Admissions does not require a test, but many of the donor contracts that fund scholarships do require those tests.