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Wow...I think you just discovered a hole in Apple's draconian app store policies. They don't let you link to your website from your app if the site has a way to buy a subscription without paying the Apple tax. But what if you sell ad space in your app through an intermediary, and then turn around and bid on ads for users that have your app installed? You might be able to get them to notice you and sign up on the web instead of through the app.

Genius.

(I'm only being half-facetious)

There are many options, as evidenced by the replies here. I've used Zoho for a few years now, no issues.

Yes, exactly. It happens to you whether you are aware of it or not, although it is typically celebrated. Think of it like becoming 18 in the US - one day you wake up and you're old enough to buy cigarettes and are generally responsible for your actions. That's what bar/bat mitzvah are.

Honest question, I'm not a lawyer: is this bill actually unconstitutional? The government is not trying to limit the rights of individuals here, as far as I can tell parents and children are allowed to own and read whatever they want under this bill. Instead one arm of the government seeks to restrict another arm of the government (schools) by requiring it honor the wishes of (the most extreme of) the populace.

Edit: never mind, the article says the bill would apply to private schools as well, so I can see that not holding up. I wonder if the idea is to start with overreach and then when the backlash starts they can "compromise" by letting private schools teach what they want.

I derive a small amount of pleasure from clicking the little x every few days. I have no idea if it does anything, and I imagine at some point they'll just decide I've accepted anyway but I have no intention of agreeing willingly. I like to think that somewhere in Facebook's offices there's a dashboard that shows acceptance rate and I'm doing my part to keep that small % of resistance alive.

I also stopped sharing my contacts with whatsapp around the time the whole fiasco started.

> She and I agree that everything past a senior engineer is political

At the big tech company I work at, we're often told that even even senior is primarily a non-technical designation. Technical expertise and independence is expected of the level below senior, and in order to make the jump to senior you need to demonstrate leadership and other for skills - influencing others, project management, coordinating between teams, etc. Principal is a level above that that is kind of the same but more.

All this to say: every company is different.

Just to be clear: the idea that Torah study leads women to promiscuity is not an invention of the GP (and may not be an opinion shared by them either). GP is quoting the Talmud.

<talmud>

The Mishna (Sotah 3.4) cites two Tannaitic opinions - the first says that a man is obligated to teach his daughter Torah so that she can understand the impact of the Sotah waters, the second counters that anyone who teaches his daughter Torah has taught her promiscuity.

The Gemara (Sotah 21b) clarifies that women who study Torah can become "clever" or "sneaky". Rashi (ibid, 11th century) explains that understanding the laws and loopholes enables them to hide their promiscuity and get away with things they wouldn't otherwise get away with.

For context the Mishna also comments that women are given to promiscuity by their nature, to the point where they would prefer promiscuity and a little wealth to a lot of wealth without promiscuity.

</talmud>

A few points from me:

* The context here is not studying theology at all, but legal topics, which is what most of the Talmud consists of. Only a small portion of the Talmud is theology, religion, and philosophy

* The Talmud is an anthology of many different opinions and ideas, often conflicting one another. There are passages in the Talmud that can be interpreted in a feminist light, but this is clearly not one of them. There is a lot of literature around this passage, and no small amount of controversy, but for the context of this thread - contemporary Haredi communities have interpreted this as forbidding women from studying the legal discourse aspects of the Torah while permitting the "lighter" topics, including theology. Other communities and movements interpret this differently or ignore it completely.

* My experience is that although the text cites promiscuity as the reason for the prohibition, that's not really what people think it's about, at least not today. If you ask most Haredi men why their wives are not allowed to study Talmud, I don't think they'll cite the promiscuity risk. Certainly not if you ask the women. Instead you'll probably get an explanation about gender roles, domains of authority, perhaps some narrative about men's brains and women's brains, maybe something about tradition, or just a shrug. If they're particularly learned they'll quote you this Talmud passage.

If you mean that in your opinion (or according to your interpretation of Jewish law) they are permitted to...well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.

If you mean that they believe themselves to be permitted to, this is definitely not the case. Talmud (ie Mishna/Gemara) outside of "agadata" is considered off-limits to women by all Haredi communities I'm aware of. In the past all Torah study was considered forbidden, but in the last few hundred years leniencies were found to enable some amount of Jewish religious education for girls. This was quite an innovation and was not taken lightly. Today, in some communities the original texts are all forbidden, but in most the Written Law (Tanach) is permitted why the Oral Law (Talmud) is not. Halacha (practical law) is usually allowed, as is theology, philosophy and ethics (Mussar, Chassidus, Rambam's "Shmoneh Prakim", etc)

Bottom line: women don't use scholarly jargon because they are intentionally and expressly excluded from such activities.

Scrolled all the way down until I found this example, you saved me a top-level comment.

Similarly, in yeshiva communities in the US men and women typically pronounce certain Hebrew vowels differently. I'm not sure what the historical context here is, but this always fascinated me. In any case, women and men speak in noticeably different ways about religious concepts, to the point where adopting the opposite gender's pronunciation stands out as "weird".

In addition to pronunciation differences, using more Aramaic and certain Yiddish phrases is male-coded in this community.

> What I want, is button, when I press that, "The Almighty Algorithm" will analyse the sound, the beats per second, the vocals, the instruments, the lyrics, anything that affect the sound and locate other songs with similar profiles. Bonus points for letting me input stuff like: higher tempo, less bagpipes, the singer has a high pitch voice which hurt my ears.

This might be possible in theory but part of the issue is that the algorithms input parameters are not the same from person to person. The parameters you described are mostly technical attributes of the sound, but what about cultural/political affiliation? Do you care if the lyrics are in a different language (some people do, some people don't). Do you care if there is a political or religious message (and are you particular about which religion or political tribe)? Can Spotify take that into account somehow? Maybe, but it seems very difficult to tailor that to the user.

Speaking personally, music is more than just an aural experience for me. At times it's about connecting with my social group, or cultural traditions, or a spiritual experience. At other times it's just the music. When I listen to mainstream stuff, Spotify is ok. When I get deeper into edge-case territory, Spotify doesn't really know what I'm looking for and often makes suggestions that appear to demonstrate a shallow understanding the cultural meaning of the music I'm listening to.

They're working on it. Excavation is indeed a pain, there's a lot of extra traffic recently due to the construction, and people complain about the noise too. But it's happening.

I don't expect it to help much with the Shabbat issue, but politics are hard to predict so we'll see.

There was a stabbing at the Jerusalem parade in 2015. I don't recall one ever happening in Tel Aviv but I might be mistaken. The two cities are separated by a distance of 65 kilometers, 5-10 degrees Celsius, and 200 years of cultural change.

Found the backend dev.

Really, this is very dependent on the kind of software you work in and what the focus of that software is. There's a wide world of software out there, with all different kinds of priorities and challenges.

We don't all do it for urgent fixes... where I work, I couldn't do it even if I wanted to. I don't have access. I suppose there's someone somewhere who does have access to the containers running my code but I'm not sure who to ask and it would be easier to just merge a PR and then click the release button in the devops UI than to change code in prod.

Maybe, but then they're also morons in addition to pervs. The bullet points make absolutely no sense, the conclusion has to be that no one bothered to read the CV passed some automated buzzword scanning and perhaps a quick look at the company names.

I mean... the very first bullet says she built something using React for AI on blockchain. She was also the "team coffee maker - ensured team of 6 was fully caffeinated with Antarctican coffee beans ground to 14 nm particles".

Come on. Even pervs can tell this is a joke.

How? My understanding was that the four strings formed a natural key, and so wouldn't the index just be the size of the table? What do you gain from that? I'm a database noob so please enlighten me.

I thought the benefit here was that each of the four tables was much smaller (the original table was potentially the Cartesian join of all four mini tables) so fewer string comparisons were done.

I would have considered hashing the values in those four columns. Not sure how it would compare but if the string comparisons are the issue it might eliminate the problem without creating extra tables with indexes that need to be scanned. I wonder how that would compare.

> I still have not agreed to the terms of use since I continue to be able to opt out and am amused by FB basically chickening out requiring their users to actually agree. The normal course of action would be to eventually block access to the app. That hasn't happened.

Me too. Every couple of weeks they show me a popup asking me to accept the new terms and I just click the x and continue about my day. At first they were threatening me that I'd lose access to the app by some date but that date passed months ago and I still have access. I'm amused because I feel like I called their bluff and it turns out they're not as confident as they make themselves out to be. One day they'll probably block me but until then...shrug.

> One other thing is, when referring to a mixed group of people, you use a masculine form of plural, same as "latinos". It REALLY doesn't matter and it only bothers people who don't speak gendered languages.

This is the traditional rule in Hebrew as well and it most certainly bothers people. Lately I've seen a lot of writing and occasionally even speech that attempts to be gender neutral by using the Hebrew equivalent of "he/she" or "he or she" and sometimes "she or he". Hebrew has a lot more gender than English, so it's pervasive.

For example, at work I might get an email that starts: Dear employees (female suffix) and employees (male suffix)...

P.S. This trend is often associated with a certain popular feminist politician and has been the subject of jokes in political comedy, eg: https://youtu.be/cu3E9Nf_Z6w

Give the devs some credit - maybe they know about this and are not closing the loophole because they want it to stay open? The majority of readers won't take advantage of it and those who will likely wouldn't have paid anyway.

Some meta feedback to the OP: please test your site on mobile. I wanted to read what you wrote but got tired of scrolling endlessly to the right in the block quotes so I gave up.

Instead of just telling the parent that they're doing something can wrong in a condescending way, can you explain what it is they should do differently? At least a link to an article that explains this?

There's another weasel phrase in there: "Or more" (Switching to Geico could save you 15% _or more_)

So it could save you nothing, or it could save you 15%, or even more. Basically we have no idea what it'll save you, if anything.

My yeshiva experience was a lot less exciting because we were based in middle of nowhere with nothing to do (by design). That didn't stop me from spending a lot of time in the beis medrash talking with my chavrusa about philosophy, theology, religion, or just nonsense. Anything but actually learning what I was supposed to. Eventually I lost all my chavrusas as they broke up with me for being a deadbeat. This is the yeshiva equivalent of being a terrible romantic partner and eventually running out of people in town to date.

Also, I don't know why people make yeshivos in the old city. It's a terrible place to be if you want the young men to actually focus on learning.

I am particularly appreciative of the blog author's transliteration of the phrase, respecting the Hebrew (technically Aramaic in this case) pronunciation of his yeshivish background and not choosing to "modernize" for a broader audience.

I am curious how common the "ay" is these days as opposed to "oy" - I don't know if I've heard it in a long time. Which part of Europe does it come from, and which yeshivos and communities are still doing it? Anyone know? In general, I'm fascinated by the different ways the language evolved before Ben Yehuda's revival and standardization and I find it frustrating that in some corners of the Jewish world a conscious decision was made to abandon this natural fragmentation in favor of a standard.

I don't know much about Ireland, maybe it's not that sensitive an issue there. So how about this: what's the correct flag to show for Arabic in Israel?

Last time I fiddled with some automated kiosk at Ben Gurion airport I noticed they used a Jordanian flag for Arabic. That's an interesting choice, because if I had to guess most of the people choosing Arabic at that kiosk would not choose that as their flag.

I'd rather not link my HN profile to github which uses my real name. I went to you profile to see how I could send it to you directly but...there's no email listed on your site or github and I can't message you on Twitter (I guess that's a setting?)

Anyway, while it's FOSS it's not really packaged for easy reuse. You'd need to set up a server and configure it. It might be good as inspiration or as a starting point for your own project though, so you're still interested I can log in to LinkedIn later and message you there.

This is the philosophy behind the FOSS app I developed for my own system. The way it works is that I track the big stuff and ignore the little stuff. Periodically (typically every month but it doesn't have to be) I enter the current balances of my bank accounts.

I have a report that does how much money I spent per period that is unaccounted for, that's money that got spend on "miscellaneous". As long as that number is beneath some threshold that I consider acceptable I let it be. If it's high, I might look back and try to determine where my money went and make adjustments.

The guiding principle behind this approach is resilience to laziness. It's not an all or nothing system, instead it gives me whatever I give it. If I am busy and don't enter as many transactions, no worries - I'll just have more in the miscellaneous category. If I don't track my balances every month, the period will be longer. But the system always "balances".

The system also serves as a log for bigger purchases. When did I buy that fridge? How much did I pay? What is the exact model number of that piece of equipment in case I need to buy it again? I can search my transaction log.

My anecdata are somewhat counter to this.

I got my first part-time tech support job during college via a connection. My aunt was a white collar professional, she ran the fundraising for a non-profit with an annual budget in the millions of dollars. Some software they used for managing donations was developed by a small local company, and she recommended I apply for work there because she was always in touch with their support and thought I could do the job. So I wrote a cover letter and name dropped my aunt's name, who they knew as a client. They interviewed me and hired me. I don't know how much my aunt helped but I can grant that this connection was a privilege many don't have.

After that, the rest of my jobs were without any connection. In the winter of my senior year at college I started applying to big companies through their websites. A big insurance company responded and flew me in for an interview. I was thrilled by this chance, I had never been treated so well. The recruiter told me to save receipts for food and taxis etc, I was so unused to this that I don't think u ever submitted them, I couldn't believe they'd pay for all that. Anyway they hired me.

After that my LinkedIn profile did most of the work. I responded to recruiter spam and got interviews.

One job-hop was driven by a semi-connection: I was moving cities and wanted to find a new job, so I went to a bunch of tech meetups. One was a python meetup, which has nothing to do with my tech stack and I know very little python. At the end, I approached one of the lecturers and told him that while I didn't understand anything he talked about, I got his joke and I thought they were funny. He said that he and some friends were going for drinks, would I like to join? "Sure." So we sat and talked, at the end he asked if I'm looking for a job, I said yes, he told me to send him my CV which I did. Then nothing... then a week later he responds telling me he posted on a forum for veterans of a particular military unit he was in, where he wrote that he thought I was a good candidate. Then suddenly my phone started ringing...I had interviewsin the new city and ultimately offers.

Bottom line: there are multiple ways to success. Good fortune is a common thread though, you do need luck and serendipity, and professional family connections certainly don't hurt.

>It’s not being discriminated against based on some protected class. Being vaccinated is a choice, unlike skin color.

Religion is a choice and is also a protected class, so those are not mutually exclusive categories.

This is really cool, thanks for pointing me to that. I'm still probably going to migrate to postgres because I'd like the functions to exist in the db and not just in code, so I can use them in ad-hoc queries.

But this is worth considering as an option.