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And they wouldn't want to know what's really on them as well

I imagine with many tests, even at 0.1% eventually you'll get some false positive due to human error, or other things going wrong

It's still funny!

> If you are introduced to someone (a stranger), it is normal courtesy to shake hands with him/her (and that's it, no hugs, no kisses), as well, unless the other person is an old friend the normal shaking of hands is the normal means of greeting.

In northern Italy, most of the times. In southern Italy, kissing is much more common and it's often used even in formal environments. Shaking hands it's seen as polite but cold.

The stereotypical Italian is, for many reasons, the southern Italian, hence the kissing meme and other exaggerations that really do not apply to northern Italy.

It's widely known state of things because of the current situation (low interest rates for very long time, etc.). Infact, many financial institutions and experts have been of the idea that a major stock crisis was around the corner for a while.

You could argue that most would have disagreed, but at the end 2018 many stock crisis indicators, models and statistics started to turn red and indicate that a crash was close.

2019 had a couple of close calls like the Turkish lira crisis, but there was never widespread panic to feed a worldwide crash. Now there is.

Because writing documentation after the implementation is hard and error-prone.

I've found that writing the documentation before and using it as guide for developers works best.

Tech has become much more self-referential in the last years. Now we do tools that help build a system that can build an app to cash in minimal productivity gains

For performance context: nginx on a $5 DO droplet does 600 requests per second on static file.

Serving static files with Elixir/Phoenix has a performance of 300 requests per second.

Python+gunicorn serves about 100 requests per second of JSON from postgres data.

Before you get on a technical interview, an automated system, an HR person and a project manager (or similar) will have to pass on the application, which encourages putting buzzwords tech terms on a CV.

Sadly today fewer and fewer companies look at soft and engineering skills and prefer to hire people based on experience with specific tools.

Let's start a css-less tech trend, shall we? :)

I have a similar setup! I use Ansible to deploy though

Sounds like a lot of money for such a competitive market

In aviation, reducing fuel consumption has always been very important, since it's the most expensive part of flying.

The heavier a plane is, the more fuel it needs. But fuel has weight, too, which means you need even more fuel! Reducing fuel consumption translates to exponential operational savings.This is also why planes with batteries are problematic: batteries store much less energy per kg than fossil fuel. I doubt that the increased efficiency in going electric is going to offset the extra consumption due to the increased weight.

Even if they reduce emissions by 50% by 2050, flying will still produce ~5 more times CO2 than taking the train. And guess, what? The railway industry is also working to reduce emissions and with trains there's just so much more you can improve with much less investment.

By 2050, aviation might very well produce ~20 times the emissions of railways, even though it has halved its emissions.So, with our current knowledge, the best way to reduce aviation emissions is...taking the train.

I didn't say "may". I said they can because I took care to look at their benchmarks.

https://szibele.com/memory-footprint-of-gui-toolkits/chart.s...

Is that really a problem in the country of the Silicon Valley? Actually, that might be the only thing preventing this from happening.

These companies are losing customers. That is never good for business. Eventually, someone will take the matter into his own hand and start making 80s-like tractors, so these companies will lose even more customers. They could do the same, but at this point they lost the trust of their customers, so it will be very hard to gain them back.

Non-native apps can be as performant as native ones. I imagine they checked alternatives to Electron and figured a native app would allow them to have better OS integration.

That's exactly the point he's making. If you use a frontend js framework and you have to do SSR, then there's no longer any reason to use a JS frontend framework, because the reason they were made was to offload to clients the rendering, at the price of more complexity.

Back then, the cloud was not a thing yet, there was no Docker, no Kubernetes, no nice APIs to start instances, so it made sense to offload some computation to clients. Today, no longer.

I find it ironic and explicatory of the incompentency level we have reached in IT today.

Technologies used outside of their context and "developers" having to deal with complex problems they should not even have in the first place.

Further from the same article:

You don't have to live in a great city your whole life to benefit from it. The critical years seem to be the early and middle ones of your career. Clearly you don't have to grow up in a great city. Nor does it seem to matter if you go to college in one.

The Impressionists show the typical pattern: they were born all over France (Pissarro was born in the Carribbean) and died all over France, but what defined them were the years they spent together in Paris.

There's a good reason for that: US does not really need to put backdoors in software to spy. They have the largest tech companies under their legislation and can already force them to disclose information on users. Most companies won't argue and hand over things silently.

They have international agreements with a number of countries for surveillance.

This means that unless an app is completely hosted, in all parts from source code to production, in a privacy-friendly country, on servers provided by a privacy-friendly company and the app is made by a company in similar conditions, the US and EU have all they need.

Corporations have been using open source to exert technological dominance and push standards that favour their agenda for some time. It's proving so effective to have direct control on software and standards that more and more companies are engaging into this activity.

Certain tools come with telemetry that is used to track the users. On top of this, by making open source these corporations are seen as good for the community by naive engineers.

You can find here on HN articles that talk about how Google is using Chrome to bend the web to its will, how Visual Studio Code tracks its users and how Facebook uses its Android SDK to track smartphones. JetBrains declared they made Kotlin with the intent of gaining an edge on competition for Java IDEs (no spying intent declared or reported, but I want to highlight that even for a $300 million company technological domain is proving effective).

Tencent is merely doing what other corporations have been doing for decades.

Maybe media do not report on that because it's the obvious way to do it. I am doing the same for my own company.

Tech companies cluster in big cities, which are expensive. 50k in a small town is lots, 50k in London or Amsterdam is pocket money.

It's simple but effective.

The way it happens always: many people working to a solution, not agreeing on one and then comprising on something in the middle, even if it makes no sense.

You say you're copying Google and you use that to promote your product, it's very hard to believe you are privacy friendly.

You're also owned by a media company, that makes it even harder to believe that you're going to respect users privacy.

Add to that the tone of arrogance of articles such as "the world needs Cliqz", you can see why it's a no-no.

Every few days there is a post on HN trying so hard to convince the readers that Cliqz is the best, even though the articles read between the lines, that the Cliqz team does not have the capability to make its own search algo or make slightly more complicated queries.

I am experienced enough to know where this is coming from: managers that do not know what they are doing and engineers drunk from glory that do not see their own mistakes.

Please Cliqz hire a search engine expert. Hire great engineers, they are going to cost twice, but you're going to get a search engine that actually works.

Please, or the HN community will have to bash you every time you post an article.

For ages fascists have tried to propagate the idea that classics support their views; everyone dismissed them as preposterous.

Now, it's the left that says it, to promote the idea that they are just, and no one is else, ever, even 2000 years ago.

The price?