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The thing that ages software is changes. The irony with software is that the most successful pieces of software need to be changed frequently, because of changing requirements. It means that the software is very useful. The more useful it is, the faster it ages and the worse the code gets. The best written software that doesn't change means that its usefulness is very limited.

It is impossible to design software that can account for long term changes. It's 100% impossible. You need to design for the near future as best as you can, and realize that eventually you need to refactor.

So design your software with the best maintainability you can for the next few years and then try your best to refactor it as you go along with new changes, but don't beat yourself up with things like tech debt creep up.

Agreed. Saying "there is something" but not revealing what it is only keeps the consumers in the dark. The Chinese would go through their entire chain to make sure they hide their tracks again, etc, so it's not like opportunities like counter-surveillance will remain. It's literally stupid to say they can't reveal what it is because there's no benefit and only makes me think Homeland services are idiots.

Well, in Toronto, Canada you get taxed to death, but that's about it.

I find articles like this deeply disingenuous. The OP wants to basically find some problem that he doesn't know anything about, and apply whatever knowledge he has gained in hopes of building a "company" which appears to me is just a facade of a company until he can flip it to someone else who actually cares more.

The idea that someone with presumably no knowledge or even any passion can dip their toe into a problem space and try to create a "company" isn't very appealing to me at all. Everything about it feels so superficial and contrived with no passion.

Even the list he came up with is so low-hanging-fruit, it reads to me "I want something that is easy to build, easy to sell and makes me lots of money before I flip it to someone else, and then I can start the process again."

The lack of commitment and conviction screams to me that I shouldn't become a customer because he will abandon the project, and end it with another "Thanks for following me on my journey, I'm abandoning all my customers but join me on my next adventure soon!"

This attitude is completely naive. The idea we could dump all our garbage into the landfill with no loss is impossible. Better to never create it in the first place at the top of the funnel than try to deal with it at the bottom of the extremely leaky funnel.

Your argument is basically "it's too expensive". There will be more than enough incentive for someone to develop a cheap, recyclable but robust plastic that can be used for medical devices.

I'm completely okay with living in a world where there are less conveniences, but we're not poisoning ourselves to death as a planet. This is getting ridiculous. We need to make a stand somewhere and the time is now.

Having a ban will let companies get creative and build equally strong but recyclable plastics. Nothing is impossible, it's just expensive. And if we increase the costs on everything then it works to everyone's benefit.

No. Microplastics are everywhere in the environment. Our fish are eating this. It's getting into our food chain and we need to stop this. We are poisoning ourselves the same way the Romans poisoned themselves with lead pipes.

Yes, as usual those of us that told us the risk was low or non-existent were wrong again. How often do we have to be duped by so-called experts before we realize that the "experts" have actually no idea how to calculate risk, and that we can't rely on their "assurances"? It goes both ways, where scientists told us that salt and high fat diets were causing heart disease and now both of those have been walked back.

This is a good thing. I had no idea we weren't recycling our plastic and just shipping it across the world, only to get dumped in a forest or into the ocean.

We need to stop producing so much plastic. We need laws to standardize plastics so that only purely recyclable plastics exist and no more single-use plastics, or compostable containers. Anything else should be banned.

I don't care if it runs some companies out of business because the costs are too high. I would rather those companies fail than keep piling up with all this sickening useless and ultimately poisonous garbage from single-use plastics.

We should also make it illegal to ship our garbage outside of the country. That will force us to deal with our own problems.

gRPC is exactly like XDR and ONC-RPCs from the Unix days of the 90s, ex. NFS.

"Required" fields that are no longer required, and "optional" fields that are no longer optional are basically 6 of one and half a dozen of another.

I'm personally strongly in the "required" camp because at least the interface makes an attempt at giving clues to a user as to what fields are important. If everything is optional, there's no information being passed as to what is important anymore.

50% is not super conservative. My guess is 10% is closer to the actual number than 50%.

Read that more carefully. 4 Million accounts, not all are funded. How much are funded? We don't know because they didn't say. I have an unfunded Robinhood account for the stock quotes.

E-trade is a public company so all its numbers are GAAP. Their account numbers are funded. So it's not an apples to apples comparison. Plus they are profitable, so the valuation numbers make Robinhood look even worse.

They have very low cost of acquisition of customers. This is opposite to some brokerages like TDAmeritrade that recently pulled their marketing budgets because they saw literally no uptick from marketing spending.

But that's not enough to justify their valuations.

There is no way that Robinhood is worth this much money. I admire them, but $7 billion for 2 million customers is insane. I'm assuming they are targeting being the "Financial Amazon" for millenials, I'm just not convinced even if they achieved it it's worth this much. Stock trading is a dying business, and after the next stock market crash or recession, they will lose the majority of their customers. Moving into financial services might make sense, but I don't think these founders have the acumen to do this, as exhibited by their embarrassing attempt recently with their "checking and savings" account.

What Uber's IPO has shown is that VC funding is far too overly delusional. They buy their own bullshit about how growth trumps all but investors want profits and you won't see the real reaction until it starts trading for real, like Uber and Lyft. Until then, all you see is VCs talking their book and lazy tech writers repeating everything they say without actually thinking about it. So, sure some investors were stupid enough to invest $200M at $7B valuation, but I doubt Robinhood will grow into such lofty valuations that are reflected by the markets unless something drastically changes. 2M customers simply isn't enough.

Thank you for this. We hope to help with focus on mindfulness and meditation and what you describe sounds like what he needs. He needs to find peace internally but he's too young right now.

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It sounds like he either arrogantly or through mental illness drastically wore out his welcome. I'm leaning on his mental illness being the reason. If his safety were so important to him he wouldn't have bit the hand that fed him.

In an era of ultra-low unemployment rates, I don't see who this is protecting. If anything it's hurting US businesses by denying willing workers.

I mean, let's be honest here: is this really a surprise?

There's a business culture of dishonesty throughout the country that is unprecedented. Their food supply is poisoned by factories that simply don't care about life and only care about money. There have been articles about how cooking oil is recycled from waste, and how fish are fed feces instead of food and packed in ice from polluted waters. Fake milk, fake baby formula, fake eggs for crying out loud. They add poisonous chemicals to pass tests, but those chemicals killed hundreds of pets in the US. And when the FBI went to investigate, the factory has already been burned to the ground to eliminate evidence. My friend worked at Uber and she said that the amount of fraud perpetrated within China was staggering, more than any other country on a per capita basis.

There was an article on HN recently talking about how some Chinese products on Amazon have 40x the safe amount of lead and 30x the safe amount of cadmium in children's products. How does lead and cadmium get into a Spider-man pencil case for fuck's sake?

It's so bad that even Chinese citizens simply don't trust the products made in China. When Chinese citizens go abroad they buy things like baby formula because they know they can't trust Chinese baby formula. It's sickening. I'm teaching my children to completely stay away from cheap Chinese products because we seriously have no way to know if it's safe, and our government has cut funding time and time again so it doesn't have enough resources to test the goods coming in.

It's reprehensible.

San Francisco's budget for homeless is over $300 million per year. If you add the additional $300 million they got from their tax on companies, that's over $600 million per year.

Even at $300 million, we have no idea how that money is being spent. There are 7500 homeless people in San Francisco, and yet Market Street looks like something out of a 3rd world country.

San Francisco is mishandling the budget, plain and simple. They have more than enough money, and yet they are completely opaque and they have zero accountability.

This is the government that we want to give MORE money to, because somehow more money is the solution to this problem? Hell no. Hold the politicians accountable. Get a proper budget that will focus money on where it will most help and make people accountable. Fire those in charge and put people who are willing to help without wanting to suckle from the teat of public funding and taxation.

I like Go a lot, but the fact that Google doesn't use it extensively in their own environment makes me wonder why that is. It almost feels like a Trojan horse.

I've been involved in an industry (stock day trading) that is rife with "gurus" like Gary Vee. There are hundreds of gurus that talk with EXTREME confidence and tell you the ways of how to be successful. Gary Vee is exactly like these people. They talk with confidence about how their techniques will work, and they have fans and followers that believe everything they say hook, line, and sinker. And in fact, teaching how to trade is a much more lucrative business than actually trading for these "gurus".

Gary Vee is a successful businessman. He built upon an existing business and made it more successful, that's a great accomplishment. I wish I had 10% of his success. But he's not a guru, he is nowhere near elite. Plenty of people have done more impressive things than him but the memes around him being some sort of guru on being an entrepreneur are far more outsized than his actual success. But the way his followers treat him is completely disproportional to what his actual successes are.

Gary Vee is a snake oil salesman. He knows the right things to say and he's incredibly charismatic. But from a business point of view, his hustle-porn guru business is way more successful than anything he did previous to that. Sure he's a successful business person but he wasn't something special. It was his "motivational talks" that are his real claim to fame, so he's basically famous for being famous.

This is absolutely wrong.

I live in an "old" neighborhood where the houses are about 60 years old or more. The house prices have doubled in the last 6 years, and they are almost 2M. Old houses go up much faster because they are in much much better locations.

I recently was forced to upgrade by 2015 laptop at work because the battery life was finally short enough that I couldn't stand it. I hate dongles. The 2015 Macbook will stand as their last best laptop. Nothing about the 2018 laptop is better, it's only worse. I don't understand why they don't see this.

There should really be a huge multi-billion dollar class action lawsuit for their keyboards and fixability to wake them up. I'm so angry.

When in God's name will they get rid of TouchBar? I DESPISE IT. Why not add the function keys back and add the touch bar above it? I see that there's space above!

Am I the only one that feels this way?

To all those that say "build more housing" will solve all our problems, I don't think they've actually been looking at the housing markets.

All of the new housing in the Bay Area is at a premium price. All of it. There are tens of thousands of condos slated to be built in SF. They are all top of the end condos. They haven't and they won't dent the prices. Building more homes will just let more rich people move to the Bay Area and it will sustain prices.

Supply will increase at a much, much lower rate than demand when it comes to housing. Unless you literally create ghost cities like in China, you won't get the effect that you want.

The only way to curb prices is to reduce demand. Force Facebook, Google and Amazon to build outside of the Bay Area. I guarantee that will be the quickest way to curb demand and to throttle house prices. Have Google build in Kansas City instead of San Jose. Have Facebook build in Detroit. There's enough money to sustain an entire ecosystem and it will help increase house prices in other areas and dampen demand here.

I appreciate what you said, and I don't assume bad intent.

However, I would urge you to be careful with the words that you choose, especially when it comes to a topic like this. I have no doubt that your product will make those with dementia happy and having actual tangible photos is easy for anyone to use. Seeing photos of loved ones or just photos in general even if they don't recognize the people anymore. Anyone will get happy looking at a picture of beautiful child. We have an iPad for my mom just for that purpose and my siblings will go through pics with my mom all the time. She no longer recognizes my wife or my son (she confuses my son with me now all the time, and she talks to the iPad thinking that she is communicating with the person on the screen). But no doubt seeing those pictures makes her happy in that moment.

But dementia is an extremely cruel disease, worse than any other because it robs people of their humanity over many years and leaves families with huge bills and extreme guilt.

Photos won't help. Exercise doesn't help. Neither will omega fatty acids, various other pills or diets, 40 Hz light therapy, etc. It will continue to progress until the person is only alive in the clinical sense, but will be nothing like what their family remembers. Photos make people laugh and smile, but that's not help in any sense more than watching a funny tv show would help.

As someone who is dealing with a mother with actual dementia, the term "tool to fight dementia" is deeply misleading at best.

It's fine as a product, but it does nothing to "fight" dementia. It's a convenience and that's it.

"Fighting" implies that it has some therapeutic value that can stop or slow down the progression of the disease, and this does nothing. It's just an easy way to flip through pictures. After watching my mom go from a brilliant pharmacist to an incontinent, paranoid, angry stranger in the span of 6 years, I guarantee you there is absolutely nothing that flipping through a photobook will do that will do to fight dementia.

It's great for grandparents and older folks because it's familiar and convenient and easy to change. It's not a tool to fight dementia.