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https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2020-03/DEA_GOV_DIR-...

You are listening to dishonest and misinformed sources.

edit: https://twitter.com/StatesTrust/status/1663571416472510464

atruston Things Unix can do atomically (2010)

Got it. Now it makes more sense to me. Now I know people tend to talk about atomicity when it comes to low-level-ish things. But say I create some sort of a web service with a bunch of business logic. Does it worth to follow this principle in that case? For instance, client sends an API request (let's say "Add user to friends"), is it even possible to apply atomicity for these type of things?

Edit: Thanks everyone for taking time to explain it to me.

atruston Things Unix can do atomically (2010)

In a few simple words, can someone explain what does "atomically" mean? I personally used this term when talking about some Redis operations, but never knew the real gist of the word and concepts behind it. I have a very brief understanding of the term and if I'd have to explain it to a person, I'd say it's "the operation that does not have any side effects when performing its unit of work". Is my understanding even close to what atomic operation really is?

atruston An Old Idea, Revived: Starve Cancer to Death

It's obvious that the author doesn't know all the details and you keep asking all of these questions over and over again, making yourself look like a troll.

I have a feeling that the _magical_ Peruvian cure is based on eating blister beetles, which is a popular treatment in Chinese medicine. Apparently, chemicals these bugs make could be beneficial in treating certain kinds of cancer. There are a few researches going on on that front.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24733674

http://www.academia.edu/1279793/Antitumor_Activity_of_Mylabr...

atruston Email copy from great companies

I'd love to see an option to see the original design of all the mails.

atruston Perl 6 is fun

I wouldn't say so:

https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%22use+v6%3B%22&t...

atruston Perl 6 is fun

Of course one can have any extension. Not that it's a bad thing to use .p6. I was just trying to make it clear for myself to understand how beneficial the new extension is. Part of that lies in "marketing" the language. Old school engineers may still want to use .pl, whereas newbies will follow the documentation and have their files prefixed with .p6. My worry is that such behavior may lead to a confusion in Open Source world and push away newcomers from using the language.

I've been following the journey for, more or less, the past 10 years. I hope that whoever spent those 15 years on developing Perl 6, will reap the rewards.

atruston Perl 6 is fun

Understood. Thanks! I might have confused .p6 with .pl6. Thanks for the clarification on that.

atruston Perl 6 is fun

I loved Perl 5. Now when Perl 6 is out, I'm a bit confused about versioning. As far as I understand, perl 6 files are of .pl6 extension. Why would that be different from regular .pl, giving that it's just a new version of a language? I mean, I have never seen things like .js5, .php6, etc. Next, is `use v6;` mandatory? Quite confusing. Am I allowed to do `use v2;`?

atruston Study: Staying off Facebook can make you happier

I wonder, how many people shared it on Facebook?

atruston How I ended up with so much Hacker News karma (2012)

what is your most upvoted comment?

atruston Ask HN: Where can I find high quality writing services?

Well. I'm not kidding at all. I read a bunch of reviews as for the Elance/Odesk/Upwork/Etc. Most of what I heard is "stay away from them if you are looking for something really good". I also found a couple companies that do (as per reviews) a relatively good job. But the prices are crazy ($300-500 per article). Some other companies say "30$ for 1000 words article". So I was a bit confused about all of these costs.

atruston BMW i8 in WebGL

Well done. This one reminds me http://helloracer.com/webgl/.

atruston Ask HN: Getting users to use the product, overcoming obscurity

I'm not considering myself an expert, but the front page doesn't look interesting to me. Maybe in your case it would make more sense to learn from front pages, similar to Expedia/Kayak. At the very least, A/B test it.

atruston What If You Used iOS 9's Low Power Mode All the Time?

I use Low Power Mode all the time since the iOS 9 update. It does work well.

atruston Ask HN: It is difficult to find a company to sponsor a visa for a junior dev?

I did it the other way around. I started to work as a freelancer for quite a large company. After a while, they offered me a full-time job under the J-1 visa. During the J-1, they applied for an H1-B for me. My H1-B application failed in the first year, so they had to extend J-1 (6 months is the maximum allowed extension). They applied for another H1-B and I finally got it. My J-1 expiration time was somewhere in August, so I had to go back to my home country. I had one month and half to get an H1-B stamping and during this period I worked remotely. I got back to US in the early of October, but now with an H1-B stamping.

P.S. The reason they made me a J-1 visa initially is because it was the fastest way to get me to US.

atruston A Mail from Paymentwall CEO to Employees

This is exactly where the HN submission links to.

atruston A Mail from Paymentwall CEO to Employees

A few quotes by Honor Gunday (according to comments from ain.ua):

"I like to fire people, to break them. Then when they are broken its much easier to brainwash them into corporate culture."

"It's very bad when people leave the company by their decision because it's uncontrolled process. It's much better to fire them in advance even if they work hard. This way you take control."

"Ukrainians are lazy and narrow minded", "Indians are liars", "Vietnamese are dog eaters", "Philippinos are passive and not pushy"

"Duty trip is a priviledge even if you go to a distant country for a long period, live in the local office, work 24/7 and are not paid per diems"

"We are not paying high salaries because we provide extra stuff: food, office dog, etc"

"You should not have a personal life separate from your work life. Your work is your life."

"We should fire the cat because it is not entertaining employess, not performing well enough - she is sleeping all day".

"I am cooler than my friends because I am richer than all of them".

"We don't need a QA/tester - do you need a mommy to clean up your code?"

"All those who left the company - regardless by their decision or we fired them - are fcking losers."

"All those Ukrainian companies, except for Paymentwall, are crappy companies."

"This dog is smarter than you."

"I don't want to hire experienced people, because they ask a higher salary. Let's go to that student career fair."

"We need to find ways how to smuggle that office furniture into the country in order not to pay custom taxes."

atruston Star Wars’ adorable, impossible droid is real: Our impressions

Searching for BB-8 on Apple's website results to an XML Akamai Player beacon config.

atruston Cracking a 250-Year-Old Code to Reveal a Secret Society (2012)

Here is the English version of Copiale cipher in PDF:

http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~bea/copiale/copiale-translation.pd...

atruston I just lost my fifth job in six years

Sex is a great "cure". Do you have a girlfriend? If you don't, then try to find one. Sex with different partners could even work better, but not everyone finds it appealing to them. Forget about work, forget about programming, forget about business. Go enjoy great sex.

atruston Ask HN: What would you like to see in the Golang course?

Mobile apps are part of the plan. Not sure about the state of gomobile, but afaik it's still experimental.

gui - this is an interesting one. Thanks! I'll try to cover it.

atruston Ask HN: What would you like to see in the Golang course?

The course will contain "Web Development with Go", which will cover databases as much as possible.

APIs - very good point. Thanks. I haven't thought about it, but will definitely add an APIs chapter.

As for the c), this one probably requires picking some good use case with further implementation/explanation. Thanks for the food for thought.

atruston Ask HN: How many of you wish to quit a job to build a startup?

atrust15 @ gmail.com

atruston Ask HN: How many of you wish to quit a job to build a startup?

same here, send me an email if you are interested to chat atrust15 at gmail.com

atruston Ask HN: How many of you wish to quit a job to build a startup?

shoot me an email if you want to chat a little bit more atrust15 at gmail.com

atruston Ask HN: How many of you wish to quit a job to build a startup?

Where are you from?

atruston Ask HN: How many of you wish to quit a job to build a startup?

Have you thought about side project?

atruston Ask HN: How many of you wish to quit a job to build a startup?

What kind of things? Mind to share?

atruston Ask HN: Help me make a decision

One important thing I would also add here. Think about your daily work in both companies: how valuable it is, how does it impact the company in general.

Right now I work in a huge corporation. The work I do is not THAT important. I mean, it's important, but if I ever decide to leave, that will not affect the company a lot. They will find another engineer and that's it. Such model is good for business, I guess. But, it's important that every employee feel how valuable they are. Not just feel, they should exactly know, that the work they do does really-really matter to a company. This is just imho.