jabbernotty

They just asked a question. There is no need to be snarky, and your suggestion wouldn't even have answered their question.

Again, I can't reach the article. I end up at "China manufacturing shrinks in May, leaving policymakers with few good options", just as happened with the previous qz link

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5756176

When I visit the URL, I appear to be reaching a different article, titled "China manufacturing shrinks in May, leaving policymakers with few good options"

What gives?

Edit: I end up on

the-steve-jobs-emails-that-show-how-to-win-a-hard-nosed-negotiation/#87589/china-manufacturing-contracts-in-may-leaving-policymakers-with-few-good-options/

I'm browsing with IE9, I assume the JS is borked.

What people are now realizing is that MongoDB is not a one-size-fits-all technology.

Just a quick note -- if you don't want to make an exception for the certificate, you can go to the page over http.

Considering that you fell ill, it doesn't seem right to say that you blew it.

Having looked at superspeedyservers.com I'm left thinking mainly two things, which I put down in short here:

The business side may be lacking some things. For example: There are many competitors in this space. What is the added value to a customer? The stated goal ('serve the big data market ... process big data workloads') seems ill defined. Leaving the business side for a moment. How well is the technical side thought through? Which technical problems would these servers solve? I thought the problems would be lying in people's (sometimes mediocre or badly-suited) software stack or algorithms.

Note that though I am a software engineer, I'm not an expert on any kind of large-scale systems, nor am I a founder of anything.

It is for html. It is called Htmlify.

I don't see why you feel a need to call it useless, just because it doesn't apply to markdown.

Be sure to ask those that have at one point communicated with you, why they lost interest.

Too convenient, certainly! Payments even occur when the customer doesn't want them to.

The actual weather report function is interesting. But even more interesting I found the bit about the “international gravity formula”, I hadn't heard of it.

I'd be interested to know how they decide on the actual temperature, which they base on the battery temperature sensors.

But there IS good reason for disabling things like js. Disabling makes sense for both security and privacy reasons, and yes, costs. The most publicized example of the latter is cheaper airline tickets.

Yes, 'crowd-sourced data' can also be expressed as 'user-generated data'.

Something along the lines of 'One week of user-generated weather reports' seems like a pretty clear title to me.

Required for this page, yes.

But, necessary? Only for interactive visualizations and content updates.

> But I still personally feel flat when the knowledge gains associated with a Spike aren't as frequent. How have other developers and math-types dealt with that disappointing feeling of a plateau? Besides just changing jobs entirely, I mean.

I'm not entirely sure if I understand you, but it sounds like we are thinking about the same thing.

I've started a job working with C# about 8 months ago. It is a comfortable language to work with. But this job, it's problems (the ones we solve) and C# haven't really exposed me to anything new, which leaves me feeling unfulfilled.

Is that what you are talking about?

Thank you, both.

I would like to read this, but the site is being blocked by websense. Could someone put it on pastebin, or something like that?

> you have to pay ~600€/month for mandatory health insurance

This seems surprisingly high, I'm more used to a base cost of +-110€ (in the Netherlands).

A cached version:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http%3...

Does advice like this apply in some way to personal/career development?

I would like to break in to a particular technical field. I believe that to work in that field, I'll need to demonstrate some measure of experience in that field. To that end, I'll need to build. This feels like a 'build first, sell later' kind of approach.

Or should I tip the scale toward 'selling' myself on the basis of my other useful experience, and build my expertise on the job?

Off topic: The <div id="content"> has a fixed width, a left:50% and a margin-left:50%, making it difficult to read on smaller screens. In my case, that is my screen divided in half. It is also difficult to adjust with dev tools (I sometimes have to do this for readability).

( The post is something I'm very interested in, but I haven't had time to read it yet :P )

I totally agree. Though I haven't read the article yet :)

I can't even get anything to show after enabling it for that page.

I'm not sure if it's gone or if I'm failing at something :)

> credit cards came out way ahead on conversions (this was for a B2B app)

Was this with American businesses?

I'm asking because I find the use of credit cards to be somewhat rare in the most of Europe. I may be mistaken though. I'm wondering if this is likely to hold for Europe.

> extreme prison terms

How about reasonable prison terms?

That could end up being no time at all.

Please give some reasoning along with your claim.

In what way do they suck, in which cases? Do they really need to stop being used?

I'm not just being pedantic. I just haven't had any problems with the concept of passwords as a security measure. Many implementations are flawed, but that is a different manner.

You don't run any commands on your VM? Such as compiling/restarting an application?

With 'malicious adverts' I mean malware being spread via advertisement systems. These tend to use JS, Flash, Java and such.

> Who does this and why?

I'm one of them. I do this because of malicious adverts and because of tracking systems. These cost privacy, but also real money (a well-publicized exampple is ordering airline tickets)

> Do you like browsing the web where 80% of website's functionality is broken because you think its a good idea to browse with JavaScript disabled. Makes no sense.

I agree, it wouldn't make sense if people liked broken websites, and I'm pretty sure that they don't. But I think what you mean is that I should enable JS because it is in wide use. For me, that is not a good enough reason.

As a former web application developer, I do believe that most of those websites could do fine without JS!

Sometimes, you just aren't having a perfect view on what you are doing, and what you should be doing.

It is OK if you are sometimes not sure about something, or if you find that you have focused on the wrong thing. It doesn't follow that you should find a different job.

It does mean that you are capable of self reflection. It probably means that you are learning.

> I don’t hide any Facebook content from visitors who aren’t friends, because I don’t trust Facebook to keep my information private anyways. I’m sure I'm not the only one.

You don't trust Facebook to keep your information private, and your response is to share the content you add with the world?

That confuses me.