envsubst

This is PR.

> Harvard could charge $500K per year

They do, they just price discriminate.

> Rich people tend not to loudly enjoy the show, so the atmosphere isn't there

Citation needed.

Rich people are the main audience at all organized events of all kinds. Do you think you can take you and your kids to an NFL game if you're poor? The main attendees of Taylor swift? Women in late 20s - mid 30s working corporate jobs.

> It seems like engineering guidelines, if composed carefully, would help solve at least some of these problems.

That's now how this works. It's hard to know how to design programs, it comes from experience, you are paying your engineers to apply that expertise. There isn't a formula for all problems.

Every large software company I have worked at simply accepts this, and allows engineers to do solve the problem the way they want, while requiring interfaces between teams/software to work properly.

Besides that, there are a few approaches you can take to share knowledge: 1. Limit the number of technologies used in your stack. You just listed 4 languages that all fill a similar role. If that was 1 that would reduce a lot of the cognitive load. 2. Cross pollinate engineers so that they get to work on all parts of the code.

Engineers especially are some of the most persuadable people I know, they just respond to different kinds of marketing than most people.

I think academics have a weird susceptibly to grifting because they feel morally reassured that other people should listen to them.

I am so confused why HN is so tolerant of startup grifting, but dismisses cryptocurrency as an absolute evil. Are concepts like proof of work not even interesting?

I would rather have fast and cheap online payments than a chat bot I have to twist around until I can talk to customer service.

> deregulation lead to the consolidation of airlines

Explain. I see a handful of identical mega corps with a government protected monopoly (regulations + access to airports). Hasn't regulation increased consolidation to share the cost of compliance?

Like the pork barrel shops in the airport, why is this a private business at all?

Automation + human judgement. It works for iOS.

A 15 minute human review process that checks if it:

- is copy pasted from another source or the internet

- respects copyright

- is written in the language it says it is

In graduate school nobody can understand each other's papers, so the colleges set up a massive list of formatting guidelines. The idea being the focus on formatting means you at least had to spend a minimum amount of effort.

> hire US workers outside of sheer competency

It's not a competency it's a network effect.

> Yet we're not seeing Samsung massively moving institutional operations to US centers for instance.

Samsung probably has great trust developed among its senior management.

I agree.

> You certainly don’t want to ruin a $1MM contract for your firm but pressing too hard.

Only in the west would you get any push back at all. The auditor would feel some duty to bring up an issue even if it reflected poorly on the company and even their own managers.

I agree they likely wouldn't push an issue beyond its welcome, but this particular value is unheard of in many parts of the world.

> western companies are bound by stronger ethics

I wouldn't say people in the west are "better people in their hearts" but they absolutely follow more strict norms regarding honesty and theft. This is one of the main reasons why companies pay a premium for workers in the west when they could hire from other places.

One example: accounting scandals in the US are rare. I don't think anyone trusts accounting figures for public companies from India or china.

> in which case I'd like to see some evidence.

The alternative to trust is enforcement. The evidence you are looking for is the prevalence of the latter principle in systems that deal with things of value.

Yes.

I expect that the comment above describing jobs in finance as a "waste of life", with no other content is also unacceptable.

> Risk has a particular meaning in investment

Risk in finance definitely takes on more meaning than the narrow definition in modern portfolio theory (stddev of price).

You can specify which variable names are valid, reducing the likelihood of a collision.

it's a crazy concept, but people are willing to learn to use a new tool for their hobby project.

Instead of `m4` or `sed` find and replace, the author should try `envsubst`. It's a program that replaces bash style variable references (for example `$TITLE`) with their value in the environment.

    export CURRENT="..."
    cat page.html | envsubt