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krob··on Letter from Tim Cook to Apple Investors
I full throatedly recommend authy.
krob··on People with Depression Use Language Differently
They're are clinics that administer mdma and psilocybin, they're know for basically resting the brains dopamine system https://medium.com/s/trips-worth-telling/i-reset-my-brain-wi...
krob··on Molten: A modern Python (3.6+) web framework
Does python 3.6 support type hinting? This reminds me of php 7+ with scalor types, and return types now. Didn't think python supported this.
krob··on Seattle judges throw out 15 years of marijuana convictions
Isn't this why companies incorporate in Delaware? Isn't it like $50k or something to file suite?
krob··on The sunk cost fallacy
My personal experience is that you can only determine whether or not project should be continually pursued is in hindsight. Knowing ahead of time, this decision is mostly based on dogged persistence and sometimes a little insanity.
krob··on Adding Mercurial support to Gitlab
Oh the irony, phabricator has had mercurial support since day one almost.
krob··on Ikarus electric “rocket” – Thrust-vectored flying ducted fan [video]
Wow, mind blown, your video link scares the shit out of me.
krob··on [dead]
Lets not forget swoole as well.
krob··on About 40% of economics experiments fail replication survey (2016)
Isn't that how you know something is based in science? commonality of people given the procedures to replicate, they come out with the same results consistently? so then this would mean non-scientific results. I guess they're not scientifically sound studies.
krob··on An effort to bring computer science to all US high schools
I think highschools need to identify kids early on in sort of like a speed dating process when they're younger. If they show interest in highschool have some ways for kids to start building background in say learning about hardware / electronics or software or just DIY building things (woodshop / welding / auto / construction / plumbing / electrical) (these are huge fields, and it's not like it's medically oriented or anything). I realize some schools had ROP for this stuff, but we need more participation by community colleges in life skills, even if highschool is more of a social gathering for people their age, you won't find a lot of highly specialized people teaching at high schools, because the background requirements are just too different. A CS Professor is more likely to be the strange highschool kid, who has an interest in teaching other people their craft, and may inspire others based on the way they got interested. I guess just a lot of PC (politically correct) things going on int he world, and people think that everyone who teaches younger people needs a specialization in educating younger people. That is not how the real world works. People learn from everyone they meet regardless of background.
krob··on Ask HN: Is the new MacBook Pro worth its value for a developer?
Yes, did that. Nothing showed up :/
krob··on Ask HN: Is the new MacBook Pro worth its value for a developer?
There is only 2 good reasons to buy a mac. Applications you use are Mac dependent, you need crazy long battery life. I haven't used a chrome book, I have heard they're pretty good. Considering those things, if you want to get power, buy a Dell Precision or an HP Zbook, or a Lenovo T series laptop. Dell Precision laptops are built like tanks, real workstation workhorses. Dell/Zbook/lenovo laptops will never give you fantastic battery life, but boy will they blow the doors performance-wise off anything apple has to offer you. If you do open source development, moving to kubuntu w/ plasma will feel quite comfortable for most people. Use Latte-Dock, boom, got your osx style doc, and it's fast. Font rendering on linux these days is insanely nice, fonts are bold, crisp. The only negative these days I say is go with AMD chips on the laptops since they have better support and don't have screen tearing like nvidia does atm due to lack of proper vsync support.

Vmware, so long as you run it on a non-ntfs partition will run insanely fast. I run windows 10 on vmware, and it runs fantastic.

My laptop is a Dell Precision 7510 w/ 64gb of ram, 512gb NVME Samsung Evo 950, + 2tb Samsung Evo 850, Quadro M2000M w/ Intel graphics. Runs beautifully on linux. Just don't expect to get fantastic battery life from it in linux as right now, that is the only thing that I think needs a lot of work. Windows got horrible battery life as well. I think Apple with osx has windows & linux beat on battery life.

Also.. with regard to keyboards, if you type fast, just say you're a touch typist, I'd say that Dell Precision & Lenovo keyboards are some of the best out there for typing for long time. If say you type 60wpm+ you'll enjoy them considerably. If you type for any duration on a mac, the tips of your fingers over time will start to feel a stabbing feeling, I don't get this with my dell. I do have a Late 2014 model mac laptop which I just replaced the keyboard, and I still have this problem with the laptop, something to do with short key travel.

krob··on Is Rails still relevant in 2018?
There is a better word for this.. People who use operator overloading are a bunch of shmucks (Stupid fools), as my Jewish grandfather would say :)
krob··on Cisco Said to Be Cited for Bias Against U.S. Workers
I've heard rumors that this is the same at the big O, and for years with the big blue too.
krob··on The amyloid hypothesis on trial
I've read some interesting news about how people giving people with Alzheimer given a regular dose of coconut oil, maybe due to also some findings about how this could be related to a type 3 diabetes, maybe the lack of ketones in the blood, maybe the brain needs alternative energy sources, or the fat provided by those foods provides a nutrient pathway that is currently dormant or unblocks the neuronal damage in their brain. I'm not any kind of expert, but I've been reading about people who gained some benefit / therapeutic value from doing that. Saw someone post this which was interesting, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24244584 so the claim is, maybe damaged metabolism using glucose, and the body needing to switch to ketone, but if someone has a compromised metabolism, say being insulin resistant, this practically shuts down ketone distribution, it also can be found to have heart implications for the future, but if the brain switches to needing fatty acids, and insulin prevents this, it might help understand how Alzheimer progresses and gets worse over time.
krob··on Ask HN: Got a CS degree, but I’m unable to be programmer. What can I do?
Op is currently stressed and also possibly burned out. I suspect he lost his enthusiasm for the field, if he's anything like myself it's only temporary and he just needs a break. If he's given assessments and he thinks their simple and he completes them, the fact is he stated himself he completed them. I suspect his enthusiasm is missing from this choice right now because he needs to explorer his industry more.
krob··on Do I need to pay for Java now?
I wonder how this is going to play with JetBrains. If they're going to say F java and focus on a different direction. This is a pretty big deal moving forward. Seems like the community will now need to focus a lot of effort into the open jdk. This effectively happened with mysql & oracle. This company likes acquiring open source tech and then turning it into a commercial tech.
krob··on China Begins Production Of x86 Processors Based On AMD's IP
This will definitely be part of the us Trade War going on.
krob··on Model predicts we're the only advanced civilization in the observable universe
How would someone living in the dark ages look for intelligent life if they can't imagine the existence of wireless communications beyond a mythical transference of thoughts from human to human. Most of this is theoretical, but all it proves is our lack of understanding is still ever present, and we're all still just a bunch of ignorant fools trying to make sense of it all. I think we should just focus our energy into bigger things, and allow the technological breakthroughs as they will come with time. We just have to put our focus on bigger better & more interesting pursuits and stop blowing people up. Stop destroying civilizations, and start to accept civilizations as they exist. The more we destroy ourselves the harder it becomes for us to overall advance enough people to create the ever necessary brain trust of the planet to build these new sophisticated technologies to maybe one day find a way to decode what was once maybe thought non-existent. Maybe neutrinos are already used to communicate from light-years away, we just don't have enough advanced technology to decode it. We're not there yet, maybe we need fusion technology before other technology makes more sense to us, maybe fusion technology is what brings us to insane speeds in space that we cannot replicate currently since we haven't mastered it yet.

Once again, we argue about the unknown, and only create factions of people hating on others who don't realize they're just ignorant.

krob··on “It’s Easier To Ask Forgiveness Than To Get Permission”
I think this was based on corporate policy and maybe due to the field you're in. It's also symptomatic of a rigid corporate structure that prevents employee initiative without the expressive permission of executives. If you're a large institution, especially a bank, and they have a lot of oversight & compliance concerns, then that explains your hesitation, if you don't have a lot of compliance concerns & regulatory issues, then this was a red-tape situation which was not warranted in your organization and very likely can lead to the end of a large company when flexibility is not possible. Companies like facebook internally with regard to features would not grow as it has, and to some degree even companies like google would not be where they are today either. To my understanding, many organizations grow beyond expectations when they don't have all the red-tape that other companies do. Valve for instance, they have a flat management structure and they're people innovate like crazy, and they hire people who are actively innovative, which often require initiative / independent thinkers.
krob··on GitLab sees huge spike in project imports
Did you use a script like this one? https://gist.github.com/JosephKu/7a151e737c0a2de3eb3a6ec3c26... that is mostly what I do. Works flawlessly for me every time.
krob··on GitLab sees huge spike in project imports
I highly recommend people consider self-hosting with phabricator. It's php-based, and if you have a ESXi or proxmox or digital ocean / linode instance, it's a very simple system to install & update, uses all the same LAMP stack everyone is used to, supports ssh/http based push/pull workflows, git,svn,mecurial repos, same type of authentication as github/gitlab/bitbucket, but biggest part of all, its PHP based, written to a very high standard through & through. Has the ability to scale insane amount of workers & cluster configurations. I've never had it once hiccup on me. Yes, if you import a project with hundred thousand+ commits, it will take a while to import, because it builds records for the entire commit history of the repo, it doesn't generate them the moment you view. So this will take time to back populate into the phabricator system, but once you have an imported repo, it has event system that is unlike any you may have ever used. It takes some time to get used to it, but organizations like CircleCI have a tutorial on how to integrate simple CI workflow using Harbomaster. https://circleci.com/docs/1.0/phabricator/ Also as of php7.x phabricator runs even faster than ever before. It also has it's own Trello Board style system, and it has a much more powerful issue system than gitlab/github. Tickets can have parent/children, and repos never specifically belong to any one project, but rather projects can have many repos. It also has integration with 2FA. It has a Question & Answers section, wiki, pre-code-commit audits. Lot of really big open source communities use it. A fairly large list of big companies using it are shown on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phabricator
krob··on Gitea: Open source, self-hosted GitHub alternative
I'm not a user of LFS, but I use phabricator and I find that it meets all my needs even on slower hardware, and it's pretty simple to debug. Has all your typical LAMP stack debuging techniques and when it breaks, it's pretty straight forward what needs to be fixed.
krob··on Show HN: A CSS Grid generator for building layouts faster
The css grid code this produces is pretty poor in my opinion. I thought it was going to use the names to define the area templates, which it did not. It uses an attribute and then defines the grids in a long-winded way. Yeah. I'll pass.
krob··on E-waste recycler loses appeal on computer restore disks, must serve prison term
Their objective and fiduciary responsibility is to their shareholders.
krob··on ‘E-waste’ activist gets 15 months in prison for selling Windows restore disks
This is Microsoft telling the public better not get clever with us or we'll get clever with throwing your aas in jail just to set an example for the next clever person. He was clever and got smashed like a bug by them.
krob··on Jeff Bezos reveals Amazon has 100M Prime members in shareholder letter
That's $99/yr @ 100M people, that's $9.9B/yr just in prime membership fees. Plus all their other stuff, that's a lot of money, 9.9 x 10^9 in dollar terms.
krob··on List of places to find remote jobs and freelancing projects
How do you save this list? I don't see a "copy" feature / save.
krob··on Ask HN: What stack should I use to build my basic web app as of 3/29/18
I feel it's important to throw Laravel + Vuejs into the mix. It's an extremely powerful framework on the LAMP side of things, fully PHP 7.2+ functional, and continues to improve w/ every major iteration from JWT, oauth2, queue workflows, console utility workflows, ORM, DBAL, Migrations, mutli-database support via PDO, blade templates. It's pretty hard to go wrong.
krob··on How and why we moved to Vue.js
Vue is the php of JS frameworks. Feeling a bit ironic for using it, I'm also a user of php, and it just feels right.
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