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+1. People seem to have forgotten the impact of VB apps. I would go so far as to say VB was world changing. Suddenly everyone could create professional-looking apps in whatever domain their business needed.

The fact that VB apps had all kinds of DLL hell and security issues cant entirely be laid at the feet of the non professional VB devs of the era, but its cast a pall over what was in some sense a golden age of productivity.
A straightforward "product" is a fairly comprehensive solution that does what it says on the tin, and gives enough people their money's worth to be viable as is without an actual necessity for any ongoing support or maintenance in the simplest of cases.

Such a product can well be developed on a project basis and with successful completion the development can then halt altogether and those resources redeployed in a subsequent project which can actually be completely unrelated to the first.

But the simplest of cases is not what is usually found.

At the other end of the spectrum the hardware area has some good examples where sometimes the physical hardware "product" purchased and delivered amounts to a much less significant contribution to the Total Cost of Ownership when it comes to the product aquisition itself. Some products just by nature or design whether because of complexity, or maybe just defects, aren't really that useful without essential ongoing factory support and maintenance which ends up costing much more than the purchase price of the "product" initially. Sometimes even a hardware purchase is just the ticket in the door for the manufacturer to provide more profitable follow-up services, resulting in more steady cash flow for years to come.

Things can get a bit nebulous when the product doesn't really have a tin to say everything you need to know before buying it, but it's definitely possible and sometimes the only acceptable thing, for the most suitable software product to be the one that requires no ongoing support or maintenance.

Unlike hardware there's nothing physical to wear out or replace. So there'e even more chance with software to come up with a clean separation between those projects which are best brought to successful completion, resulting in a product that can stand on its own, versus having the project itself be the actual "product" and having that be never-ending.

What the author's saying is everything should be never-ending which is ruling out some of the most effective solutions to some of the most important probems.
The company doesn’t care about the non-monetary perks.

They do care about making sure they reach the volume commitment on the bulk airfare and hotel rooms they have prepaid for in order to receive a large discount.

Prepayment that only works for the airlines and hotels if they’re not simultaneously discounting this large corporate customer’s rates AND paying fringe benefits to the end user.

And since they can’t tell you to not travel, this is generally why large company CFOs have policies in place that mandate these categories of spend are done via their travel agency, which was dominated by Concur prior to the SAP acquisition.
What tasks is it really good for?
Can't read it (broke), but I doubt that a world war will happen. I get the feeling that articles like this serve to justify violence to prevent a world war in the future - it seems to me to be part of the narrative of "XYZ is trying to start a world war, so we will fuck them up before they get to it". Incredibly flawed, in my opinion.
Randy Pausch was a computer scientist.
> Another tip is to train wide grip lat pull downs at a gym then do your pull ups with wide grip since it uses more back

This is a common misconception. Close grip allows for greater range of motion in the lats. Think about it, wide grips are harder to do than close grip and if you were recruiting more back muscle compared to biceps that wouldn't be the case since your back is far stronger.

This applies to all back exercises. Wide grip will hit different muscles (so bodybuilders still utilize it) but close grip overall will hit the most back muscles with the greatest ROM.
Oracle's SPARC servers are still manufactured and sold.
I disagree.

I manage a multi-million security tools and services budget for a Fortune 20.

MY ADVICE:
Focus on go-to-market strategy and value proposition before figuring out security.

REASONS:

1. We dodge salespeople like the plague. There’s a reason enterprise sales timelines are 18 months. If we don’t want you first, then expect to chase us for a year plus trying to convince us.

2. Enterprises of a decent size usually have a vendor/supplier/third party risk program. If your service is identified as low risk, then we may have little to no requirements for you. Everyone doesn’t need to provide a SOC2 Type II, align with NIST or certify ISO.

3. Mine your network for prospective enterprise design partners and build something that meets their needs. As your product grows in risk, they’ll let you know what you need to have in order to win or keep their business.

ADVICE:

- Focusing in security before you have a product is a direct route to failure.

- Providing a service that doesn’t require handling sensitive enterprise data means less requirements and quicker onboarding
From friends I've had who have made the jump, learn a game engine (unity / unreal / etc), make some small games (can be for a game jam or whatever) to put on a portfolio and mass apply to lots of different companies of many sizes. You may have to take a job title hit (i.e going from senior -> junior) / large pay cut.
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We get that comparison a lot, which is fair considering OnlyFans is what comes to mind when you think “exclusive content” for a lot of folks.

We’ve been in conversation with > 150 local creators and the requirement isn’t just another paywalled Instagram. What about the ability to book a 1-on-1 consultation with a French tutor, along with integrated video calls on the same platform? What about the ability to sell courses? As it stands today, each requirement calls for adding another platform/tool to your dashboard, which in turn piles on its own fixed costs. In time, we plan to cater to a few select feature sets and do it well, all with simple, transparent pricing.

If OnlyFans/Patreon exist, what’s our value add? From what I can tell, neither of those platforms allow payments apart from Credit Cards (for context, fewer than 3% Indians have a Credit Card), neither caters to the language barrier and neither has regional pricing ($5/mo is a lot here!). Above all, their revenue cut is higher than it needs to be (18% for Patreon, 20% for OnlyFans).

We’ve been hard at work on developing these, so the marketing website has been a bit neglected. We should have an improved version up soon, that explains what we focus on a lot better.
The logic of a progressive tax is that tax is supporting the system that we all exist in and benefit from. I pay less tax than someone who makes more than me because they are extracting more wealth from the system than I am.

Yes, the brackets are arbitrary. But if everything is working in a democracy, then it should be set by the majority to follow the curve of what the majority of people make in some reasonable way. But, it’s not in america, because money is speech apparently so rich people buy votes and keep their progressive taxes lower than they would otherwise be.
Sort of. Kids in the US can get a job and buy their own phone as young as 14.
I think your experience is a bit of an aberration. I’ve much more frequently witnessed purges of the middle management layer. So much so that I thought it was a meme? Office Space “I talk to the engineers so the customers don’t have to”.

I’m curious as to what kind of business this company was in.
You are speaking as a non-wealthy person.

If I have significant sums of equities, I can sell half on Dec 31 and half on Jan 1 to avoid a new bracket. I try to avoid speaking much about my situation, but my tax advisors and I use every trick in the book to play all the games available, of which this is but one.

My issue is not that I have dedicated a lot of time and money to avoid taxes, but really that the tax rules are so arbitrary and stupid to begin with.
Well before you earn your PhD I would expect you to be able to make other types of chemicals which are not illegal, even though they may be equally as toxic and only about 10X less profitable.

But you could sell more than 10X as many kilos of legitimate materials and not be limited to only a clandestine supply chain, so the financial upside alone is way better by comparison.

Criminal organizations are limited to the clandestine activities and prefer them anyway, you've got to figure they're making lots more money per kilo, but sometimes I would think they might only be coming out ahead by not paying any taxes. I do think they spend a lot of money on "insurance" but it's not going to legitimate insurance companies either.

As a professional you'll never need to stoop that low, and they'll never be able to reach as high as your actual baseline.
If they are going to so flagrantly ignore the spirit of the law, why not go all the way in? Instead of 90k to 900k, they should just write minimum wage to 1 trillion dollars. It would be more honest to their intent that way.
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This.

In the US, maximum allowable per diem rates vary by location and are set by the Internal Revenue Service.

https://www.gsa.gov/perdiem
CSS lengths in Gecko are limited to 17,895,697 pixels (2010)
It is also ridiculous that we now "know" so much about viruses that I have to type out that much crap in order to just say "influenza virus kicks your ass way harder than the common cold".
If it actually takes you a single machine to run this, you don't really need an advertising network to fund it. Out of 5M users (let alone the theoretical 300M) there will be enough people who'd be happy to pay for verification or an exclusive badge on their profile.

> How are your 1,000 engineers going to push their code to production on one machine?

That might actually be the reason why Twitter barely keeps afloat. 1k engineers for a product that's already built and hasn't fundamentally changed nor evolved in years makes me wonder what business value those engineers actually provide.
Ask HN: Plans for Weathering the Tech Recession?
Regardless of whether we end up being a technical recession or not, tech companies are clearly shedding jobs. It seems to be messed up with all the big names announcing layoffs or hiring freezes. Apart from startups, who is hiring in tech?

I read anecdotally that consulting firms are hiring. Seems yucky but a job's a job.

Any sectors that are immune? layoffs.fyi paints a scary picture.
Oh yeah, you're right!
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Isn’t a hashtag just another kind of user account — an account from which anyone can post?

The data structures for the @BeefWellington timeline of tweets and the one for the #BeefWellington timeline of tweets could look roughly the same.
Is anyone aware of an organization that lobbies against the non-resident tax filing requirement for US Citizens and/or FATCA? The burden placed on expats is extreme and I'd like to donate to help fix this, however unlikely.
I too had the exact same experience on the same versions. And I wonder quite often if programming used to be more fun simply because I was younger and more open-minded, or if it really has gotten worse due to modern tooling and languages. I don’t enjoy it anymore.
Your advocacy for a wealth tax on unrealized capital gains is compelling. Let us adopt that.
I feel like the logic here is that if companies behave badly enough competitors will emerge and kill the bad company. This school of thought was first pioneered by Robert Bork in the 70s along with the “consumer welfare standard” that hey if you can’t prove it’s hurting consumers then who cares. This is the dominant view of establishment antitrust lawyers to this day and why American industries from chocolate to diapers to national defense are concentrated.

The reality is that if the owners do what they want they will buy competitors, rent seek and not innovate. If the government seeks to meddle they will buy lobbyists. Additionally firms that have their market cornered will squeeze workers and their vendors. Finally close ties between concentrated industry and the government leads to more authoritarian rule.
With RAII, it is trivial to move things from stack to heap, or to a member of something that might be on the stack or heap or in a container, without changing any of the code that implements the object. Most usually you don't need to declare or define any constructors, assignment operators, or a destructor; the compiler provides them, and guarantees they are correct. (Sometimes you provide one constructor as a convenience for users.)

It has been many years since I found a use for an abstract virtual base class.

Literally millions of people understand it all, and use it every day with no difficulty. You don't need to invent difficulties, or waste days "proofing" code that may be written exactly once and never touched again.
15 miles from downtown, anyone know where? Must be either near Manor, Bastrop or Dale.
It is trivial compared to the task of translating a user query into search results.

It's akin to saying the magic behind OpenGPT is the dataset.
I believe that's still the case: https://stackexchange.com/performance

9 web servers to serve the entire network. I wish more developers were aware of just how performant modern (non-cloud) hardware is.
But it can enhance them https://chatgpt4google.com
Talk about doing things that don’t scale.
> Without managers, productivity soared.

So, the revenue that year increased dramatically? How many new clients your company acquired?
If Twitter's data can fit on one machine, then the data of 99.99% of companies can. Not every product needs a billion users with Gigabytes of storage each. The assumption that if your startup's tech isn't scalable enough to become the next Google then it's the wrong tech is hilarious nonsense driven largely by ego fantasies.
To add more to your point, if one has unknowingly US citizenship (through parents at birth or something) && a local citizenship (where one is living, like India, Canada, UAE, anywhere), that host country is not going to give same protections as compared to somebody with "only" US citizen. For example , US citizen having Iranian Passport in Iran are simply Iranian citizens in Iran Government eyes. (Replace Iran with any country). US citizen working/visiting in Canada, but having no Canadian citizenship, can go ask US embassy in Canada for help.
Am I missing something? There is a 30 year waitlist, but they make a loss on every croquette sold because they refuse to raise the price?
For Python, I'd encourage you to look at the BeeWare suite. BeeWare allows you to write GUI's once and build for desktop and mobile (and eventually, web, again). It's still writing a GUI instead of working visually, but for basic to intermediate apps, you don't have to get into the nitty gritty of UI design, know anything about Qt (wooooo), and build a nice, capable GUI app.

https://beeware.org/
Same, the legwork of "working hard" on a problem for me these days is just making sure I have all the information I need to stew over. I write up a factfinding doc of points in the codebase that I think are relevant, any context that's relevant, and symptoms of the bug. I never used to write it down but I work across a bunch of projects now so I can sometimes have the bug de-prioritised in my brain.
If you're a small team running this and can actually deliver it with a single machine (or two), just charging a few bucks a month for verification should net enough money to run it and provide a decent living (and out of 300M users, there will be people who would pay).
Apple Docs: to save it as a file you need to email it to yourself
> Well first of all, my point was that over the last decade Google has likely paid more individuals 7 figures than JS or Citadel has

No, they granted stock initially and set aside those shares for the employee. The market paid the employees the gain between the initial grant price and the sell.

> This is only equivalent if you ignore downside risk, which in the case of an average young professional with no significant assets could ruin you. The RSUs give you significant upside over 4 years with absolutely zero risk.

You didn’t understand the example. The person taking the loan gets $300k/year cash and the Googler gets $180k/year. Setting aside $120k/year for the loan makes the risk the same so you won’t be “ruined”. Google failing in either scenario means they each have $180k in annual cash leftover.
That’s quite a large number especially considering Americans have one of the lowest emigration rates of any country. I think one reason it’s “low” is many destinations Americans permanently move to allow dual citizenship and Americans don’t deal with the hassle of renouncing when they can generally just ignore taxes and for the most part have no problems. Or the process of renouncing is such a pain in the ass they prefer to get a long term residence visa for their new country that doesn’t allow dual citizenship and just accept that America makes leaving difficult as a form of punishment and just not bother with the insane process at all.

If it were free and doable with a single signed page, a passport to hand over, and proof of new citizenship, I think numbers would be way higher.
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Only if they used a byte value to store repetition/days count, which is unlikely.
That benefit comes up only if you are not a citizen of host country. If you are a citizen of host country, most of the times US embassies can't help, even if you hold US citizenship.

India specifically prohibits holding two or more, and expect its citizens to renounce Indian one in 6 months or less from acquiring other one. No repercussions as long as you don't go to India or deal with Indian Embassy (which almost every ex Indian has to, family, relatives, stuff in India). Although one can get an equivalent of green card (OCI) without requirements of residency.
A wealth tax! Even France tried and abandoned that! Do you have any idea the side effects that would cause? Suddenly I would be a pauper, how simple this would be.
Should read "former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan". I think many people will recognize Greenspan by name.
A business created by a US citizen does not need to pay US taxes. If by doing business you mean just having a job... sure I guess. If the taxes are significantly lower there?
Sure, but...how did they get this old software to be able to view it? At some point, that software is not going to be in whatever the equivalent of GitHub is, and the only version of it is on this ancient storage format that the silly people of 2000s used called a "d'elle tea".
We're building that!

https://www.abstracloud.com/

Abstra cloud is a platform for shipping apps using Python without making any HTML

The main abstraction is the "forms" which output "typeform-like apps" from simple code commands

We are launching a "drag n drop" GUI builder soon for dashboards and more complex apps next week
The intent of this law was to prevent wealthy individuals from avoiding taxes through offshore accounts. I'm sure there are dozens of threads on HN lamenting this very practice.
I'm aware of that. Does this change anything about what I said? No.
A MacBook is my main development computer but is because is the one the company I work for gave me, they didn't let me pick or anything, I would have never picked it over a Windows alternative, still I like to talk about the things and dislike and the few I like about it. In general good idea to not in mediately assume that just because you are an user of something you were the one that bought it or chose it.
From my (shallow) understaning, Bitcoin does not offer full anonymity ?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-21/crypto-tr...
It's marketing, done well.
When we looked into it, it was hard to find a simple API that a USA company can use to allow monthly subscription payments with Monero, similar to how Stripe enables fiat subscriptions.
> They claim for things they lost the receipt for and then they try and pressure some accounts clerk into forcing it through.

If you lose a receipt, or aren't given one at all, for a reimbursable expense, should your employer just tell you that you're out the money for it?
Domain experts are focused on their domain. Becoming a beginner again is a recipe for radically reduced productivity. The people eager to learn a new language on the job are generally those who have not invested much in anything.
> It really felt, if you were there, like an invasion: nobody coming in had any context of what was already there, they just took and took and all they could offer was software expertise and money. The city lapped it up.

Story as old as time. There were people 30 years ago who wanted to keep out the people you're celebrating as the old-timers. If the older-old timers had their way your preferred old-timers would never have been allowed to move there. And there were even older-than-the-older-old timers who wanted to keep out the older-old-timers. And on and on and on.

Cities change. It's natural. You'll like some changes and hate others, but that's what comes with freedom of movement and, well, freedom more generally. At one time Midtown Manhattan was a forest. Then it was farmland. Then a semi-rural village. Eventually, rich New Yorkers started building Mansions up 5th Avenue. But they did this in the old days before powerful people could block change and even they couldn't stop the walk-ups that replaced their estates. Then those walk-ups were mostly lost to taller buildings. And then even taller ones. And now here come the super-tall skinnies that every New Yorker loves to hate.

At every step there were constituencies opposed to the changes, people who thought the newcomers didn't properly understand the true spirit of Midtown Manhattan. And maybe they were right. But on it goes.

As much as you might not like the changes, the alternatives are far worse. Internal migration controls? Way worse. Refusing to build any new housing to spite the newcomers? Just ends up hurting everyone.

You want to live in Seattle and so do lots of other people. And in a free country their claim on the city is equal to yours. They are full citizens the day they move in. They don't have to pass any kind of Authentic Seattleite test. Because what it means to be an Authentic Seattleite will change, too. That's just life in a free society.
Sounds like it's basically a loss leader for their main business, which is selling Kobe beef.
> Ah i3. With the sole exception of vi, no other software is so fully embedded in my muscle memory.

Ironic, given that the default i3 configuration uses jkl; instead of hjkl for direction.
True. Everything has up & downside. The downside of Indian Citizenship is you can't have two citizenships. (Although OCI card gives you almost every right except voting, gov jobs etc).
Why can’t you have a Roth IRA? Japanese taxes?
I disagree. It can certainly be creepy but cross generational friendships are not inherently creepy or bad. Meeting people where they socialize is a key part of friendship.
What do you mean with persistent workspaces?
And they limit the number made each day. If the numbers given in the article are accurate, they're losing about $450 per day on ingredients for this loss-leader -- and for that price, they've bought fame around the world.
- Best of all options

- … if more are needed, the pen and especially the keyboard are genius.

- I have grown more distrustful of what Google actually does than what Apple might

That all said, I can’t think of other devices that are so intentionally limited as the iPad(Pro) really is. Maybe a powerful sports car with a governor in it? Most devices are designed to meet a certain usage profile, but the iPad is unique in that there is so much left on the table in so many ways. I would be overjoyed if I knew one day I could load up an actual OS on to this amazing thing.