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It's generally good advice to think twice before publishing anything under your real name that may affect your life and career.

However, just like most people that have suffered burn-out conclude that they should have gotten out much sooner, it's also wise to avoid any employer for which this is an issue.

Because that can mean only one of two things:

1) The employer in question is clueless about burn-out, which means they are clueless about many health issues affecting workers, which means their HR sucks, which in turn means they are the kind of employer that's likely to create detrimental working conditions leading to burn-out.

2) The employer in question is very well aware that they have an unhealthy work environment and, wrongly, believes they'll increase their odds if they sign someone who hasn't had a burn-out before.

If you've already been through a burn-out once, you know that unless your financial situation is really desperate (rare if you live in the kind of Western European country you refer to), you're better off being unemployed than working for such an employer.

Any mature, responsible employer knows that burn-out tends the to hit the hardest working, most engaged employees, and that the biggest risk factor of prolonged absence caused by burn-out is not recognizing the signs early. Anybody who's already been through that is actually a lower risk.
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It does not matter what platform you choose (web or mobile), bad developers develop bad software. For every horribly designed, slow, bloated website you find, you can likely find a similar horribly designed, slow, bloated native app. I'm sure you've heard of garbage in garbage out. I view development as a craft and like most crafts, not everyone has the same level of skill. This does not reflect on the platform people choose. It reflects on the people themselves, their time investment, work ethic, priorities, approach, methodologies, etc. Like with most crafts, there is usually more than one way to accomplish something; some more eloquent than others. At a very basic level, both web and native apps share many commonalities; some sort of UI being rendered and interactions with data via API calls. As long as you can reach your goal, does it really matter how you got there? How about this; the debate is ridiculous. They both rock (or suck depending on your perspective).
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No, its very probably not the same. The brain doesn't shut off when you go to sleep. It keeps going, it keeps doing it's stuff, messing with memories, thoughts, all the bodily functions and a whole extra stuff that we don't know too well, but which probably still makes you you.
Killing that brain and then simulating it somewhere else is not the same.
The quote mentions that people either work to make a living or to make a reason for living. My argument is that there is another reason which is quite common: to get a bigger piece of the pie. If you put in more hours on friday night because you want a raise then the reason is not that you want to pay your bills (you already do that), and it's not because you couldn't do anything else on friday night that would be reasonable in your eyes. It's because you want a bigger share for yourself.

So I'm not discussing about how to share the resources, but I want to say that's a reason for people to work. The question was more "Isn't that also a reason to work?" Sorry for not being clear enough.
This logic is flawed. Disabling back/forwards, copy/paste. and embedding video has nothing to so with a website being a single page app.
> In next decade or so, we should have all the power built in to standards that eliminates pretty much any advantage that native application can possibly have

Agreed. I was just watching this talk the other day called 'Making web apps appy' froom Chrome Dev Summit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbuLq4f6DGQ

It talks about a lot of new incoming features, like push notifications from the browser, adding icons to home screen directly, offline access, etc.
Every time there is any thread about anything remotely socially progressive you are there espousing your highly conservative viewpoint. This made me curious and I am really trying to understand what life experiences could have led you to have such views. I have a few questions that might help paint a clearer picture if you would be so kind? If you decide to answer please answer honestly.

Where did you grow up?
What were your parents jobs?
How much did your parents earn in yearly income?
Have you ever not eaten for multiple days on end because you couldn't afford to buy food?
What do you work as?
How much do you currently earn?
How do you personally calculate the cost and value of a good or service?
Do you understand the difference in the meaning of the words 'want' and 'need'?
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Remember Flash? Narrow the gap, add a bit of Steve Jobs and Boom! The web Won.

Look at a site like YouTube today. All the tooling we've created and all the progress of the open web platform that has made that site happen is incredible. If we've just given up 10 years ago, saying to ourselves that the web should only be for documents, then we would be missing out big time right now.

It’s not for every site to try and push the envelope. And mimicking native can often lead to bad results. But to go from that and say that we shouldn’t try. That’s just sad.
Most of the time is spent in the typechecker.
Yes its a pity they had to reinvent this.
What class of grammars does this support? How are ambiguities handled and reported?
Don't forget that you can specify related pages as <link rel="next/prev" /> and let the browser handle pagination.

I recall when I used Opera, you could scroll down, hit space, and it would go to the next page as long as the website provided that information (forum softwares often do.)
I'm guessing his point was that we're so accustomed to relatively comfortable living (especially here on HN), that we take valuable things for granted.

That leads to a sense of entitlement and confusion. We don't see how valuable the things we have are, so we end up thinking they should be "free", without realizing that nothing of value is actually free, because otherwise it wouldn't have value.

So if we experienced real hardship, our thinking would shift, and we'd appreciate valuable things more and we'd feel less entitled.

My point in another, heavily hissy-fit-downvoted message, was that everything of value costs something to produce, and therefore things can't just be handed out for free, because the things themselves are not actually free.

The same applies to "free money" in the form of Basic Income. People like to fantasize about not being personally responsible for their choices in life. Instead, they'd just get free money every month without having to work. "We have the technology!! Why aren't you giving me free stuff?! Damn capitalist oppressors!!"

People should think about how things work in the real world.
It's HTML and CSS holding 'web apps' back. It's like we're all trying to sharpen our pencils with spoons.

I think the future of remote web-like apps lies in something like QML[0]. A completely native UI with full access to the desktop widget suite can be downloaded in QML in a few kilobytes. Stick a browser like loader on the front of it, and provide a decent (seamless) asynchronous RPC, and you've got yourself a replacement.

[0] http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qmlapplications.html
But what if the browser is the OS?

There's still an extra layer, because the browser's API is far more complex and higher level than that of an OS.
It works in or out of the REPL (in fact, they document "MacroPy also works in the REPL"). It's just standard-ish in Python documentation to give examples formatted the way the REPL would display them.
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>> The instant you entered the black hole, reality would split in two.

Ah, I'd assumed this meant that "you" would split in two, both copies being "in the same universe". I don't know enough about the physics to know which is meant.
I just wanted to chime in quickly. I've found much of the advice given by patio11 to be plain wrong in my experience.

These conversations quickly fill up with Latin phrases barely copied out of wikipedia and I don't have the time or patience to discuss this with people I know nothing about.

Take this as you wish, most of the stuff he says is exactly what a person looking in would THINK, but it is not the truth.
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So what _is_ your criticism?

The grammar of the language has no relationship with compilation speed.

What did they "tack on way too much, too soon"?
Just a landing page with very little information asking for an email address? Maybe put up a demo
Also reading this. Great book.
Whenever I hear about HTTP compression I always think of Jeff Atwoods blog post:
http://blog.codinghorror.com/youre-reading-the-worlds-most-d...

Basically DEFLATE beats GZip because its faster at decompressing. Choosing a compression scheme should be about balancing the transmission time with the decompression time, compression time is the least important aspect of the problem since caching can help mitigate that problem.

Statements like "This algorithm compresses better than gzip/deflate, at the expense of slower compression. Decompression is much faster than compression." mean nothing because its not telling you if the decompression time on a mobile device is worse than if you had sent it without compression. Plus I'd be surprised if there was any algorithm that was slower to decompress than it is to compress.
Hi guys

I have a website that makes quiet some amount of money (at least according to my own criteria) and out of the blue I have been contacted by a so called buying/sellin sites company, named Hautesite, on behalf of a potential client interested in buying my website.

Ever heard of Hautesite? Their french website is http://www.hautesite.fr/, they say they are from the UK and are big in the UK (but no website to be found). I was wondering if it was a scam?

I even got into a Skype call with one of the employee who seemed very professional and so on...

But still... a buying and selling sits business with NO website in english, no social network, no presence on social media... I find it very strange.

Thanks in advance for your help :)

Nicolas.
I have, and I agree with what he said. One thing which isn't that great, are the plugins. I feel like there could be easier ways to access / write plugins. But overall, everything said was pretty spot on.
Yes squatting is absolutely incompatible with property rights. As are eminent domain and zoning.
There's an answer to your questions. It is documented here: http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/
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Or spin up an instance with the 'lazyness' region deactivated.
You're assuming the phrase "a sufficiently advanced AI" answers anything at all.

Presumably you're assuming if the information is there at all - if the necessary data hasn't been scrambled beyond the noise floor of the scrambling process - then there's something for magic (because you're really talking about magic here) to work with.

So, please (a) set out your claim with precision (b) back up your claim.

* What is the information you need to recover?

* To what degree is it scrambled?

* What of it is scrambled below the noise floor of the process?

* How do you know all this? (wrong answer: "here's a LessWrong/Alcor page." right answer: "here's something from a relevant neuroscientist.")

For comparison: even a nigh-magical superintelligent AI can't recover an ice sculpture from the bucket of water it's melted into. It is in fact possible to just lose information. So, since you're making this claim, I'd like you to quantify just what you think the damage actually is.
I read F# Weekly every week, just to keep in the loop about what's happening with F#:
https://sergeytihon.wordpress.com/category/f-weekly/

That's probably the only programming blog I regularly check, though I return to Open Mirage every now and again to see how they're getting on:
http://www.openmirage.org/
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That's just one UX issue among thousands.

I also mentioned the column width because this site has the obvious problem of long horizontal text, which is a no-no. People naturally read in chunks of 10-15 words scanning vertically. Long, horizontal text is easy to lose track of location.
> After 25 years, why do web designers need to create their own page transition mechanics for long-form articles

Why do you need page transitions for articles at all? The only reason I can think of is for more ad displays. Ok, if you have, say, a long manual with multiple chapters that would be several hundred pages when printed it can be nice to break it up, but that's probably not what you meant.

> photo galleries - after 25 years, why isn't there a standard user experience for viewing photos related to articles?

Because there's no one size fits all solution. Look into magazines, newspapers, etc. After a few centuries there is still no standard. Grouped, with captions, position, size, etc.

> why do we need to write CSS to create a basic readable document in the first place

You don't. Browsers can display semantic markup just fine without any CSS. The fact that you even ask this question is why you write CSS, because different people in different times expect different styling, and they don't think the default style is pretty. I agree that the default styles could be improved though after 20 years, but that could lead to breakage of current CSS styles, and why risk that if everybody uses CSS anyway?

And the fact that I wrote this comment is just another reason why you have to write CSS: because not everybody agrees on how the web should look.
I believe some fast food places have introduced apps through which you can send your drive through order in advance.

The drive through window with its crappy speaker and on-the-clock ordering experience is currently pretty poor.
I found a psichologist willing to help me for free until I can pay her (for "free" in the sense she is taking notes of the sessions to charge me later)

Unfortunately I have no close friends, and all my aquaintances are in similar positions, sometimes worse (the closes "Friend" I have right now, has the same problems as me, plus is married and have a kid, and his wife is also unemployed)

Also I am doing solo freelancing because is the only thing I could find to have any income, I am sending resumes for years now, without any success.

EDIT: I am also suspecting my main issue is psychiatric (I think I may have a real case of ADHD), but the psychiatrists I went so far were all obviously bad (For example one talked non-stop, don't allowed me to tell him my symptoms, and then told me I had some anxiety disease...)
Everywhere I've worked in this country, employers have done their best to keep the work environment as stress free as possible (because of the serious financial consequences I described), yet people still get burnout. Your body doesn't separate work-stress from private stress, and not all stress can be blamed on your employer. A perfectly fine 9 - 5 job can push you over your stress limits if it is combined with a bad social situation, such as caring for a sick relative.
This is an instance of Jevon's paradox (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox): making a process more efficient in terms of resource requirements (in this case labour), causes the process to become more profitable and grow, therefore using more rather than less of the resource.
Aren't neurons relatively sizable? I don't see why they would totally "decay" in a short time frame, but maybe it's because I'm ignorant.
Want Land Cruiser axles on a Land Rover or Jeep? Not a problem.

Err.

Well, it's not a problem in the sense that yes, it is possible. But it take choosing the exactly correct parts, custom machining and a fair bit of bodging stuff together (eg[1]).

And that's just axles, which aren't exactly the most difficult part of the drive train.

Having said that.. yes, it's quite possible to convert conventional cars to electric ones. See[2] for a place to start.

[1] http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/jeep-non-hardcore/622698-toyo...

[2] http://www.evmotors.com.au/services/quickguide.html
In theory, this might be true. In practice, I find that it is just an excuse to cut corners and ignore the problems.

I recently had to help somebody with their public library and a particularly magazine publisher for digital issues. They require a web app to read the issues. They were trying to use their Mac, but the site refused to load. The public library staff had no clue why it didn't work ("well, it works for us", and their attempts to contact the publisher was your stereotypical tech support horror story.) Long story short, their website doesn't work on all browsers. They implicitly know that it doesn't work in Safari because they apparently wrote a native app just for iOS. However, they have no native app for Mac and never bothered to fix their website.
This article digs on the flattened dependency model like it's a huge weakness of Bower, but this is the _entire point_ of Bower.

You include two models that both depend on two different versions of jQuery. NPM wouldn't complain at all, Browserify would happily package both dependencies up, and now your users are downloading jQuery twice to view your page.

Bower, conversely, raises a red flag right away, and lets you determine what should be done here in the event that the package definition doesn't contain enough info to sort this out automatically. Its goal is to make your client code as minimal as possible.

Feature, not bug.
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I am trying this for years.

I don't have a job for years because I could not find any. (not for lack of trying, I sent thousands of resumes, but went in total for about 10 interviews during my whole life)
From the bug at Bugzilla, I thought Brotli looked even more interesting since it balanced ratio (somewhere in between lzma and gzip) with speeds better than I thought LZMA did, at least with the importance of speed with web servers, and I think using the right tool for the job is a good idea here: https://github.com/google/brotli

An interesting idea though. With cached lzma files, it would be more of a pure win for lzma, but I wonder what the real world results/use would actually be and how much web hosts would generally enjoy this idea.
So basically 9,999 people are completely dependent on the work of one person for them to survive and prosper. Sounds really rosy, for everyone involved.
Translation:

Sillygoose should get whatever they want for playing the game of capitalism the luckiest and the best (but mostly the luckiest), and everybody else who is unluckier or less good should suffer, to provide for all of sillygoose's wants as cheaply as possible, rather than having their own basic needs met.
> Ok, if you have, say, a long manual with multiple chapters that would be several hundred pages when printed it can be nice to break it up, but that's probably not what you meant.

Actually yes this is the use-case I was referring to.

HTML has semantics to define sections, headers, etc.. but it doesn't manage them in any way.

If you write HTML that define sections, for example, it's no different than if you write HTML without sections.
>The web works best as a document platform.

This is only true if you constrain the "web" to mean the Tim Berners-Lee document-centric HTML and its http hyperlinks.

The "web" also means the whole internet stack, TCPIP, DNS routing, etc. In that case, the web is a foundational tool for anything that connects people or Internet Of Things. To say the "web works best as a document platform" is like saying "the electricity grid works best as a lightbulb platform." We've gotten past the historical motivations of a interconnected electricity and have done other things with it.

Do some "native" apps do nothing more than what a 100% static HTML could do? Yes, abuse of a Javascript widget framework does happen. However, the bad examples don't mean the "web" should be held back by the original visions of HTML or Hypercard. The Google maps app is not traditional HTML+CSS.

EDIT: The replies misunderstand my position. I'm not trying to redefine the traditional technical meaning of "web" and make you like it. I'm attempting to explain that "the web" has evolved and what it now means to the world out there. (E.g. see non-document usages like Dropbox, google maps, online Sudoku games, etc.)
> Every time there is any thread about anything remotely socially progressive you are there espousing your highly conservative viewpoint.

Oh? Well, from my point of view I'm espousing independent thinking. Questioning things is a sign of doing that.

> Where did you grow up? What were your parents jobs? How much did your parents earn in yearly income?

I grew up in Finland, in an upper-middle class family.

> Have you ever not eaten for multiple days on end because you couldn't afford to buy food? What do you work as?

Nope. A developer.

> How much do you currently earn?

Around three thousand euros per month, before taxes.

> How do you personally calculate the cost and value of a good or service?

I don't. Something either has value to me or it doesn't. If you've actually read my messages, you may have noticed me talking about how value is subjective. In a nutshell, Value is utility as a means towards an end.

For example, how do you "calculate" the value of something you don't want at all?

> Do you understand the difference in the meaning of the words 'want' and 'need'?

Sure.
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> they tend to break things like back/forwards

That's not a requirement for building a single page app, there have been ways of emulating history in spas for a while now.

> have text that can't be copied and pasted

What do you mean? SI'm not aware of any sites whose text 'can't' be copied unless they disabled right clicking.
are these jobs finances related?
We tried this idea, in America, at the Jamestown Colony. They initially established it in a "socialist" vein wherein everyone received an equal share of the proceeds (food, etc) regardless of their contributions to the colony. The colony barely survived because people lacked the incentive to work and produce because there was no advantage to them working more than their peers. Why should I work to produce an excess when Billy Bob sits on the dock all day and receives the same share I do. When they lifted the socialist mandate on redistribution, production at the colony skyrocketed because people were rewarded for their effort.

Everyone has to put a roof over their head and food in their belly. If we create a culture that tells people they don't have to work to receive those benefits, it will disicentivize people to actually work (why should they if their excess production goes to subsidizing non-producers who stare at the sky all day?) and engage in production activities. Supporting a society necessitates producers create more than what they need, but if you create a system that takes what it deems the excess from the producers without compensation or reward and doles it out, the producers will stop producing and we'll back at Jamestown all over again.
I've reflected upon this recently.

Wouldn't a traditional company also benefit from using the same or similar tools for managing work as software companies? (mostly a rethorical question)

A lot of white collar workplaces have their homebrew Excel workbooks to keep track of tasks and a lot of meetings that fill up everyone's time in order to organize activities, leaving little time for the actual work to be done.