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> Parents should be paid to be parents.

A parent is wealthy beyond money. Besides, we get tax breaks and if you're not a decent earner you get free things for being a parent.

And I guess when I say it's not that hard - what I mean is that yeah there's effort involved, often time a lot. But it is made out to be this impossible thing. It's not. You figure it out and before you know it the really hard days are over.

So yeah it's work but that shouldn't dissuade anyone from having kids. Anything good takes effort.
No, I just have a big config file and edit it directly. I don't have a lengthy build pipeline, so changes take place virtually immediately.
A Letter to Devs: What to Expect from Product Managers
Yes just like the design of car infotainment systems -- looking good resulted in the touch screen era. Luckily we're finally realizing our mistake and a few automakers are putting old school knobs back in.
The third source is still wrong, as Planck certainly would not agree that he used the photon argument to make a prediction. He tried to explain the experimental data on blackbody radiation, which manifested the spectral peak, and an agreement with the Rayleigh-Jeans and Wien laws in the two frequency limits. Thus not a prediction, but an explanation of the observed thing.

And he did not believe in photons, he interpreted his work in terms of classical EM radiation obeying some entropy condition, and quanta of energy that he used were considered either a math trick to make calculations with that entropy, or a condition on the emission process only in his later theories. He never assumed or believed that EM radiation consists of quanta.
If their Civic's brakes were poorly designed or implemented, then yes, Honda should be liable. Then we get into the definition of 'poorly' - in what distance and time should the car stop? - and then we need some sophisticated regulation.
I just take a break when I get tired. The break is as long as I feel like it.
I thought this was ridiculous as an interview screening process. However, since you shared the test, I took it and I’m not sure it’s too unreasonable. I felt like it’s determination of me as a mentor was quite accurate.
Opponents of gun control in the US sometimes talk about "hoplophobia", defined as an irrational fear of firearms; while this originally struck me as a fanciful way of mocking one's political oponents, watching UK culture spend the last few years developing a debilitating, unreasonable paranoia over knives makes me think there may be something to the idea.
Do they want to do business in CA? I think so.
If you add trump + putin = bromance...
> I am asking myself, what would I need to hear and get from a past generation to convince me to complete a project they began?

„It‘s emitting lethal doses of radiation for the next 100k years.“
Have you tried Pomodoro yourself and found issues with it?
Yeah Zigbee routers need to be on all the time, if you turn them off, other devices will start to form connections with other mesh nodes and will fail unexpected when you flip the switch back on.
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We probably had similar rigorous educations at that level. In SE we
studied things like the '87 Wall St. crash versus Therac-25. The
questions I remember were always around what "could or should" have
been known, and crucially... when. Sometimes there's just no basis
for making a "calculated risk" within a window.

The difference then, morally, is whether the harms are sudden and
catastrophic or accumulating, ongoing, repairable and so on. And what
action is taken.

There's a lot about FB you say that I cannot agree with. I think
Zuckerberg as a person was and remains naive. To be fair I don't think
he ever could have foreseen/calculated the societal impact of social
media. But as a company I think FB understood exactly what was
happening and had hired minds politically and sociologically smart
enough to see the unfolding "catastrophe" (Roger McNamee's words) -
but they chose to cover it up and steer the course anyway.

That's the kind of recklessness I am talking about. That's not like
Y2K or Mariner-I or any of those very costly outcome could have been
prevented by a more thoughtful singular decision early in development.
I think an analogy could be made that you’re walking into a market hall because they promoted it. The stall owners will be paying to be part of that.
It’s not that you’re property of the market hall, but you’re on their property and they will want to be paid.
I have dimmer switches, and I only have Zigbee.

Candeo are pretty reliable.
I signed up for Nextdoor after buying my house, but stopped checking it after a while as 95% of it seemed to be this kind of stuff. Paranoid people, peeping out their windows, scared of everyone and everything that walks by.

It’s made me worried to simply stop in front of a random house while in my car to take care of something before a long drive, or even taking walks. I always expect the cops to show up over nothing after reading how suspicious people think everything is.

They did show up for my friend’s dad. He was in town for her wedding and couldn’t sleep, so he went for a walk around the block in the middle of the night. It was a very safe area. Before long he was confronted by a cop shining a flashlight into his eyes who started to question him. Thankfully there wasn’t an incident, as he gave the cop quite a bit of attitude.
Monster! You’ll have to pry my 0-indexing from my cold dead hands.
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Exactly. AMD stock was like 2 dollars just eight years ago. They didn't have any money and, amusingly, it was their GPU business that kept them going on life support.

Their leadership seems quite a bit more competent than random forum commenters give them credit for. I guess what they need, marketing wise, is a few successful halo GPU launches. They haven't done that in a while. Lisa acknowledged this years ago. It's marketing 101. I guess these things are easier said than done.
Let's say a subscription costs $10. Why not charge $14.29 through app store and $10 through online registration? With both logins acceptable in the login form... If Apple users want to pay more for the privilege of paying through Apple, why not let them?
The market didn’t change instantly, and if we’re to believe there is significant demand one of the many models which did not switch first would have sold better.

> Replaceable batteries and lack of SD card slots is essential deliberately shortening the life of phones to get people to upgrade sooner.

Phone batteries are replaceable, but most people do not want to do it themselves so they go to the mall and pay someone else $50 - it’s still much cheaper than a new phone. The flip side, of course, is that sealed phones are far more durable so instead of the over-simplified narrative about planned obsolescence we have a more nuanced trade off where something adds desirable traits (smaller, cheaper, waterproof, more durable) at the expense of a feature few buyers used. I wouldn’t fault you for being on the other side of that decision but I just don’t think there are that many people who look for that when phone shopping. An iPhone easily lasts 5 years and is probably getting replaced for something like a broken screen, not a battery.

SD cards are similar: yes, the extra storage is nice if you don’t use cloud storage but most people do, and those people avoid the data loss which many SD card users have been hit by and have smaller, more durable phones in exchange. Again, I think both preferences are reasonable but one of them is a niche.
In this thought experiment the domestic candidates aren't putting up with it, which is the only reason why the offshore ones are even candidates.
I was on deconz, but eventually migrated to Z2M due to compatibility issues with some devices. It’s a far better experience to be honest. Haven’t looked back!
Indeed, while it might not work in all cases you'd probably save enough time/money to make up for those cases where it didn't work out. I've often seen jobs posted that stay open for 6 months or more because some hiring manager and their team can't make up their minds on who to hire. Meanwhile, the project they want to bring someone in to work on languishes, or people who are already stretched thin burn out and go elsewhere. There's such an emphasis now on hiring the perfect candidate that it's the enemy of actually getting things done.
Which is exactly what happened in industries such as textiles, appliance production etc. The garments made 100 years ago were higher quality than the ones made today, but significantly more expensive. No reason to think that coding (or writing) will be immune to these pressures.
The difference is taxes are set and disbursed democratically. Apple taxes are whatever they want them to be and are disbursed according to their board.

Heck they could introduce a tax on Amazon deliveries when Amazon is installed through the Apple App Store and nobody would be able to do anything about it. Except the EU that is.
> At least Microsoft can't ever ban you from selling Windows apps

True; but that also means third parties can lose even more when MS pulls the rug out from under them. The developer of the third party keyboard app you refer to said, according to the article you referenced, that they lost a year of revenue. Some third party Windows devs were forced into bankruptcy.
I tend to think the addition of Juneteenth as a federal holiday a few years ago improved American life just a little bit, and adding more would do the same. The day after the Super Bowl is a natural one to add.
> A cartel sets prices, and is one of the many ways markets are unfree.

That's true, but cartels can't enforce this. New or external firms can compete with the cartel. If a cartel reduces production or raises prices then it incentivizes competitors to meet the market demand with lower prices. The only way the cartel can exclude new firms is by controlling the entirety of some resource or enforcing the cartel usually in the form of lobbying for regulations.
Nice analogy. The problem is, that ExamplePrint is the only shop the author can use to reach his customers. There is also PrintExample (Android), but it's customer base has zero overlap with ExamplePrint. Therefore the author has no choice but to use ExamplePrint's service.
It doesn't last that long. Been there, done that. But yeah it's work, of course it is. What I'm saying is it isn't as difficult as it is made out to be - that is it's made out to be this impossible thing. But yeah they break your back sometimes and emotionally it can be daunting. But those very difficult early days end pretty fast.

What we did is mom pumped and put milk in bottles. She's go to be at like 7PM after a feeding off the tap and I'd take over and stay up until 2 or 3 to feed baby and change diapers every 2 or so hours. Then she'd be back at it in the early morning hours.

It only lasts a bit.
Nice work on this! I love that it has a lightweight backlog built in and that I can describe what my current task is.

One small feedback- the motion design is waaay too much. You should consider dialing it back 2-3x.
When I entered the engineering workforce in the late 00s I felt like I was on a team of experts, myself excluded since I was fresh out of school. We were building some complex systems but we had a bunch of people that really knew what they were doing.

Fast forward to today, I'm in a different part of the industry, we're building things that aren't quite as complex but they take longer to finish and the experience is very frustrating. I feel like I'm working in teams where many people don't really know what they were doing but we keep getting pushed for higher story point "velocity" and whatnot. Quality is suffering, tech debt is piling up. This whole thing feels broken.
>I wonder if anyone ever has problems following it

Pomo is best for people who have trouble staying on-task. You see the countdown in the corner of your screen and focusing isnt so bad because you have a specific end-time. But, in my experience it only works well if you are the sort who doesn't get a lot of interruptions.

I use a printout system (Emergent Task Planner) plus Clockify to help track the real time spent on each task. It works ok and my time is billable so accurate timekeeping is a must.

https://davidseah.com/node/the-emergent-task-planner/

eta: i also keep an analog clock on my desk. I didn't bookmark it but sometime ago I read a piece on here about how digital clocks aren't good for measuring the passage of time and I think there really is something to it.
> I explained you why it's false.

No, you explained that Apple has done the same thing. That doesn't mean MS didn't do what I said or that it didn't have a huge impact on third party Windows devs.
Webpack -- instead of writing code to do what you want, install and configure a series of plugins, and then maybe chain more plugin-plugins to fix shortcomings with the original plugins.

Also, enjoy updating to a new version every few years that is completely non-backwards compatible yet never fully finished because every plugin is a separately versioned project. The never-ending update treadmill keeps you sharp!
What counts as an alternative ?

Does Seah's Emergent Task Planning [0] count ? It involves choosing a couple of tasks for the day, blocking them out, but allowing and recording interruptions.

[0] https://davidseah.com/node/the-emergent-task-planner/

Does Allen's Getting Things Done count ? It involves sorting work at milestones (weekly, monthly), and doing each for some reasonable amount of time, chosen by the doer. Anything that takes five minutes or less, should be done immediately.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36139432

Does the Montessori method of teaching [2] count ? It seems to involve the student learner engaging with a single chosen subject for several hours at a time.

[2] https://montessorifortoday.com/what-is-the-montessori-teachi...

Do the dicta 'do something until you are bored', 'perservere until you are exhausted', and 'multitasking is okay' count ?

I am of the impression that productivity strategies are just frameworks for thought. Each, with or without a formal Author's name attached, is just somewhere on the spectrum/surface of counting some work as more or less worthy of focus with heuristics for 'focus can last a some amount of time'.
Not sure if you are being literal with your numbers, but selling 1000 Teslas in a month in Korea has been achieved multiple times. Go look at the stats.
No, I was taught this at least twice before social media became a thing.
Snark and sarcasm aren't going to make your point, and aren't really welcome on HN.
I use Hubitat but everything is Z-wave except for one Alexa-only bulb, which was a gift so I can't get rid of it.

What I've learned is that smart wall switches of all types are still too failure-prone for me. Now I'm converting back to standard wall switches with Z-wave relays wired in behind them. I don't like the extra lag they have, but I do like that standard wall switches last forever compared to smart wall switches.

If anyone knows how to reduce the lag, I'm all ears. The switch operates the relay which sends its signal to the hub, which then sends a signal back for the light to turn on. This process introduces a noticeable time delay between the switch closing and the light coming on.
The world isn't as rational as your blog tries to make it. Some people (not me) are fine with taking the risk, or have additional aces up their sleeves.

Corruption works thanks to information asymmetry. In other cases, this is (sadly) just standard operating procedure.
I know that Lina doesn't like a lot of the attention HN sends her way so it may be better if you don't link her socials here.
> otherwise they’d bottle that chemical process and make a zillion selling it.

Oh they do- ask anyone in recovery from opioids.
> Our legal system, like our society, places great emphasis on the value of equality.

Is this satire? Must be satire, right?
>but the notch has to be the dumbest design decision in the history of laptops

The virtual escape key on the touch bar, all while Apple was pushing their laptops as developer friendly, is magnitudes worse
There's a market for everything...
It also says something that most of local newspaper websites already disabled their comments section few years back because of this exact reason. That's what at least happened to the few I was visiting. It was really bad though. Made you wonder that those are just regular folks walking the same sidewalks as myself and in their past time they just go on and express fantasies of violence under some "grassroots" politics column.
The notch is what it is: a compromise between webcam quality, branding, and thin bezels. But it’s hard to argue but that Apple’s software integration with it is mediocre at best. None of the extra space is usable except by anything but the awkwardly tall menu bar and the status items or menu extras it holds, and the system not being aware of the notch —sometimes— like letting status items pile up underneath, or being able to put the mouse pointer underneath it but not when a mouse button is held down (this behavior was removed in a late version of Ventura), or putting the picture-in-picture window partially underneath the menu bar (like it expects only a regular-sized menu bar to be there)… is symptomatic of a larger quality and integration problem at Apple, I think.
Apple does not allow different pricing
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> Ask your local candidates for Congress if they'll support removing patentability for software. That's how you solve this problem.

That's not how any of this works. You don't think some people have already "asked their local candidates for Congress" about this? Surely you have personally done that? If you have, then how come the problem still exists? Clearly your action of "asking your local candidate for Congress" did not solve the problem...
Yes, if the Civic had a feature that made it easier to hit you, or lacked a reasonable feature that would have prevented it from hitting you.

We have a long history of legally targeting companies that produce products targeted at criminal activity or implied criminal activity.
Businesses threaten this, but if they really want no regulation there are countries that have none at all. It turns out that a well-regulated market is a better place to do business. It also attracts smart, talented people who want to live in the best living environment - schools, roads, culture; a place filled with people who want to build a great community - not the best environment for the billionaire founder who cares only for themself and their estate.

Much more wealth is generated, many more industries have been born and thrived, in places like CA and NY than in less-regulated, lower-wage, no/low-tax states. The correlation looks very strong by the eyeball method.
This sounds like hell for ICs.

They might play along, but internally I guarantee some of them are miserable.
Yes, it is insane how these things work. We bought a 60s house which presumably had bad wiring. The sellers elected to use "smart bulbs" and "smart switches" for everything to probably save money on the rewiring cost.

The thing you never realize, is that for each extra communication protocol and endpoint you add, you need to then troubleshoot across all the permutations.

So, if you are only using a wire to connect to another wire, there is only one path that can fail, the wire between them. Electricians are good at troubleshooting that.

If you add a wifi access point, and a smart bulb router (or whatever the fuck it is) and then you add a wifi extender, when things fail, which path did it take when it failed, or when it worked? The permutations you need to troubleshoot are suddenly an N^4 problem. Get your graph theory textbooks out and study up on the traveling salesman problem.

That's why we have had electricians come by who cannot figure out why when we push the wifi light dimmer button in one bedroom, that the other bedroom lights turn off. It just started happening a few months back. It's absolutely maddening.

All these smart devices are awful. As a related aside, our Amazon Ring devices no longer allow you to connect to their wifi with the Amazon Ring app, and we have a bunch of cameras that are dead once the power goes off. Used to be you could just join their temp wifi connection, register the device on the home wifi, and go. They turned that off. Now, they all say you need to get the QR code, but we cannot find that on the devices, so they are bricked. I'm sure this is because probably someone found an open wifi Ring camera, added it using their phone when they walked by, and spied on the family. But, I don't really care, I just know cameras are sitting there unusable by me, until some hacker walks by and figures out how to register them. I won't be spending anymore money on Amazon cameras, but I'm sure Amazon would be happy to have me just buy new ones.
Seems akin to a tall building being more durable if it can flex a little in the wind.
Yes, but a Dyson sphere, even around a red dwarf, would be far more luminous in the infrared than a brown dwarf. It would also have a different spectrographic signature, and importantly its heat distribution would appear artificial.
I specifically sharpen straight razors! (Or I used to - I'm a beardie-weirdie now). I'm not up to grinding out a nick, but I have a coticule and I can use it. I used to know a barber who could do a good job of razor-repair.

You're right, sharpening kitchen knives is much easier.
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> There's going to be at least some implication for local wildlife, but is it worse than the impacts of fossil fuels?

For that matter, how does it compare to the local impact of other watercraft?
It might not be historically accurate, but it’s easy and valuable to learn
I think incident.io have done a really great job of putting "product engineer" really front and centre of their recruitment process, and have a bunch of awesome folks / talent there (many hired from GoCardless, my former employer).

On the specialist vs generalist question, I'm curious if OP has opinions on how to pick from amongst the many specialists to go deep in? Product Managers? FE? BE? Subject matter experts? etc
Is there a chance anything that us paid attention to grows in size.

Would anyone be willing to go to an older laptop without it?

Assuming not, what are the options? External displays?

I find I usually look at the content on the screen not the webcam or the notch, but it could be different for others