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RT is hardly an independent news organisation. And how many of those are 'near' Russian borders, which is not the same as actually being inside NATO airspace... as you well know.

Indeed. It happens very often that Russia causes such violations: https://news.err.ee/1608255123/nato-planes-scrambled-eight-t...

I was (initially) forced to learn piano from the age of 5... but, by God, was I glad that my parents did this. The article covers pretty much exactly what I - and my teachers - worked out over a number of years. And the basic approach works for any instrument. It's a real boon coming to other instruments - electric bass is my main instrument now - with a grounding in not only music theory but also the 'how to' learn pieces / parts / songs.

"...create something which is horribly mutated, fucked up genetically, and experiences only pain for its entire life."

'God' does this all the time already. Friends of mine recently had a baby girl; she is missing part of one of her chromosomes. The family is very religious, and is being torn apart trying to understand how their 'loving God' could have done such a thing. So this 'morality' you speak of is making a tragic and difficult event far worse.

You are also neglecting the 'unnatural' processes that allow many worthy people have children via IVF.

'Natural' science and medicine had it's place back in medieval times, but not now. Same goes for religion.

Many Australians became such after migrating from war-torn countries or - like myself - are children of such immigrants (my mother and her grandparents are Estonian, and left Estonia during the Russian invasion of Estonia during WWII). You are correct that Australia hasn't suffered an 'invasion' (putting aside, yes, the invasion of Aboriginal Australia), but I do believe there are many current-day Australians who have a very good idea what a 'real war' can do to you, your loved ones and society in general.

Ironically, considering the amount of sentiment being displayed here, Ken M is quoted as saying "I was appalled by the Yahoo comment section. It was such a toxic, shitty space." in this interview:

https://redditblog.com/2015/10/03/ken-m-interview-internet-t...

With the linked example, there is no successful 'company', just someone lying.

How is this example not simply fraudulent / lying?

https://www.growthunt.com/record/rec2WipWzOnr06ODF/getting- 400-signups-with-a-video-of-a-product-that-didn-t-exist

... leading to:

https://www.lunadio.com/blog/i-got-400-signups-with-a-video-...

"Hi, we created plugin for generating ads in Photoshop" ... after faking a video to make it look like this what had been done.

If this is the kind of crap that goes on to 'create a business', damn glad I'm not involved with it.

Very well worth the read, a summary can't do justice to the author's work.

Agreed, looks terrific. I found one small spelling error - "Digital recipets" - when I was looking through the page.

From the article: "It often takes many months for high Vitamin D levels to drop, and it took six months for Shannon’s level to fall into the 50s."

I don't think a journal will help in these circumstances, the time lapse between cause and effect is just too long. Getting tested is cheap and easy (and here I'm thinking of people who are deficient in vitamin D, if the results are too low then it seems that taking a supplement would be a good idea).

Ditto for the same person and similar reasons (code signing and notarization).

Simply - I can't afford it! :)

> And I have a "suspicion" assigning full copyright to your partner, of the code you wrote, may have something to do with it.

My problem is with wishing I had more certainty and, yes, compensation, related to a possible sale of the company. The code is not of use to me outside of the company itself, and from a developer satisfaction point of view I've enjoyed crafting and developing it; it's something I'm proud of, but it doesn't mean I need or want to own it. I think developers need to be good at 'letting go' their children.

Thanks for the recommendation, and information, I've got that book on my Kindle now for tonight's reading.

Thanks. My partner is one of the most decent, calm and hard-working people that I know. We have a good relationship, and perhaps I'm over-worrying about these matters.

Thanks for the detailed and helpful reply, much food for thought!

Thanks, that does indeed appear to be the consensus here, and it's already on my action plan of what to do before talking to my partner about things.

> How hard would it be to replace you?

It wouldn't be easy, I don't believe, and I'm generally quite negative about my own development abilities and values.

One point I couldn't fit into my original post is that I do have what I believe to be a good relationship with my business partner, but I feel he's disconnected from what valuable and capable developers make outside of his business. Also, he may well not be able to sell the business at all, and in that case he's suggested I could take over as manager (for higher pay), however I would be living with the potential sale hanging over my head, and not knowing whether this better-paid role would ever eventuate.

> this sounds like low maintenance software that the business owner can continue to sell for quite a long while without any ongoing engineering.

That's probably a fair statement, although there are normally updates we put out a few times a year due to changing business parameters in our market, and once every year we do a major release with new features.

Thanks for the reply. It's perhaps a sign of my confusion that I'm posting here on HN, however I figured there's a bunch of pretty smart and caring people who also wouldn't hesitate to provide direct and useful advice (and from the responses I've seen I'm not wrong about this).

Regarding the 'soft' side of the business, what I couldn't fit into the original post due to maximum length is that I've been the driver behind improvements to sales and marketing - 2 new company websites, I do all the SEO, and I've suggested strategies like blogging etc in terms of getting new eyeballs to the product.

Thanks. All copyright is clearly assigned to my partner, it's written into our agreements. I don't have a problem with this at all.

> I really don't get this disconnect between people wanting to always hide behind a keyboard or smart phone when it comes to food.

I don't want to 'hide', but my social anxiety makes phone conversations with people I don't know a harrowing experience; to make it bearable I need to work through a mental image of how a 'successful' call might go, from greeting through hanging-up, with some variations of what might happen in-between.

For a medical test related call I can force myself to go through with it, but to order food, when I can find something else that I like and that I can order via an app - I will avoid calling. I know this is quite an odd excuse, however did want to note that I at least want the personal phone contact, but can't deal with the unpredictability / stress involved that well.

Great to read about someone in a similar situation to me. I work as the developer and maintainer of a niche-market financial / real-estate application. This application has been developed and supported since the late 80s, first being done in Turbo Pascal, then Delphi, and then under my stewardship we moved to C#. I refactored the calculation and report production code into a library, and since that time we've built a Mac version and Web version, all utilising the same 'core' library. This means that for critical calculations and data output we - my business partner, who is the 'domain brains', and I - can do all the hard work on the Windows version (with which we are most familiar and comfortable, and IMO VS on Windows is still miles ahead of VS on Mac), and then 'just' do the GUI work for the other versions.

We did look at doing exactly as you said, i.e. using a web view within Windows and Mac, however I couldn't really get things working well enough at the time (as TBH I am bit of a noob WRT web development, and just pick things up as necessary as we go along).

For our market, there is strong demand for the desktop versions, and this is even with a subscription model; people get access to the most recent major and minor versions of the software as well as phone and email support while under subscription. When their sub runs out they are entitled to minor version updates, but nothing else. My biz partner is very good with people and very knowledgeable in the domain we operate, so this kind of arrangement suits everybody. Oh, and I get to work remote, and have done with him for ~15 years. The current situation really makes one appreciate fortunate arrangements such as this.

This is well-written article discussing Bruce Pascoe's book "Dark Emu", issues surrounding his Aboriginal heritage and how he's been criticised by certain right-wingers in Australia: https://www.themonthly.com.au/blog/russell-marks/2020/05/202...

(Pascoe is the farmer in the linked article).

That is exactly what is happening in this case; the author is a lecturer at a South Australian educational institution, and the book is a textbook for one of the courses there. I'm looking into studying Australian Aboriginal / Indigenous history, and thought I'd better get acquainted with some of the source material.

If you are interested in an alternate legal / law view I can't recommend this book enough: https://www.amazon.com.au/Aboriginal-Peoples-Colonialism-Int...

The author is aboriginal; reading it completely changed my view on colonialism and the rule of law in Australia (speaking as a white person born in Australia to one immigrant and one 'local' parent).

One place I worked - the main electricity supply and management company for a certain state and certain country - I didn't have admin rights to my own machine, and had to put in a (paper) request for any software that I needed to install to do my job (as the image started as the same image used by someone who would only need Word, email etc). I didn't know exactly what tools I needed, so it took - seriously! - some few weeks before I could actually do any work.

My job was supporting, enhancing and debugging internal tools used by engineers. Upon arrival I was handed a USB key with ZIP files of the source. There was no source control. I initiated a request and the political process necessary to 'allow' me to use source control and setup an SVN (this was quite a while ago) server. I quit in disgust a year later, and the first meeting to discuss whether I should be allowed to use SVN or not was scheduled for the day after my departure. My last work action there was to leave a note on my desk advising my replacement where the most recent ZIP files of source were stored.

None of the above was explained to me before I was employed, and I've since learned not to assume, and explicitly ask "Do you use source code control?" and other basic questions at interview / contract negotiation stages.

Native English speaker here. I had never come across this usage of the word 'creative' before, and even knowing it's meaning now still find it odd and grating in the article. I'm not in advertising though (thank goodness).

This is definitely the case in Tallinn, Estonia - home of Starship - yet they only seem to cover a small area of the city. I had assumed that there still always was a human following each 'bot around.

Here's the English version: https://news.err.ee/1070009/starship-technologies-makes-redu...

I live in Tallinn, but haven't once seen a Starship bot, guess I'm in an area not covered yet (Sikupilli).