My impression from reading HN is that innovators of various fields are celebrated. In a lot of cases, the innovators will only be relevant or interesting to a few.
This made me miss the Sharp Zaurus that I got a lot of use out of in the mid 90s.
It's interesting now to look back at that transitional time in computing where you had mini-laptop devices as well as handheld organizers like Palm, both to supplement a full-size PC. Now the smartphone is all of those things for many users.
Hong Kong is not China. It only takes a few weeks in each place to see. Was it wrong of the British to take HK as a colony at one time? Yes in the same way it was wrong of them to take eastern North America. Hong Kong—culturally, philosophically, politically, spiritually, virtually in every way—is not China and should not simply be “given” over to them by the rest of the world.
Rules of order can help. I have been in meetings where certain people essentially filibuster simply because their idea is not well liked but they think that by repeating themselves and talking endlessly, they will win everyone over. End result: it doesn’t work, wastes everyone’s time, and leaves the entire group tired and frustrated. Setting hard time limits for ideas, feedback, and open discussion can help curb this.
There is a good reason: many of the unusual forms are unused except as tricks and exploits. The whole internet uses IPv4 classless routing. There is no value in keeping pre-CIDR forms. Graybeards might object because they have been typing "127.1" for forty years. It's merely an old habit. Who is to say how big a reason is required to "never drop backwards compatibility"?
The title is unfortunately incorrect, changed by the submitter for larger impact. According to the article, some people were hired for $100/mo., and some people received $7/mo. - not the same people.
edit: title has been subsequently changed. Thanks mods!
During Pennsylvania's red phase, groceries and hardware stores were kept open (to name two examples). Mom and pop groceries and hardware stores were allowed to be open as was Walmart, which sells both. Pennsylvania has a lot of state-level corruption but that isn't it. The governor's overreach arguably prevented a lot of disease spread. Now tell me why the state run liquor stores were declared "essential."
Please use the original title rather than editorialize: Apple catches electronics recycler illegally reselling over 100,000 iPhones, iPads, Apple Watches
I read this and remembered a plan I had journaled when I was 30 years old. I was working in a stratified IT department that I liked pretty well and had mapped out a plan to be at director level by age 40. I left that organization at age 33, took a short term position and then one I liked even better, putting me in a lead role that could have led to something director-like. Then the company laid off most of my team and I took off. Now I am in an individual contributor position again and have just turned 40. Many times, life works against plans and it's better not to get too attached to them. Other things are accomplished in the meantime that may not look like much but in the bigger scheme, are quite meaningful.
OK, I did misunderstand. The numbers make more sense now. I believe step 3 "enroll, get that cheap insurance" should make this a little more clear. (It's not just the act of enrollment that gets you the insurance.)
I might be misunderstanding this chart, but it appears the author is saying that by enrolling for the minimum number of credits, you will receive the associated insurance for free. For at least one university listed -- Penn State -- that is not true. You must also purchase the insurance plan.
Near me, there is a bike shop owner with this same attitude, which is respectable. However, along with high prices, the shop’s service is slow and poor, their brand selection is unpopular, and their knowledge of current bike technology is low. Yet there are always old-timer cyclists in there shooting the breeze at all hours and they have been in business 40 years. I don’t get it.
Fine with me. I pay Amazon $129 per year for Prime service and if this is one of the ways they arrange it, great. What else comes by mail? Junk, or bills that are due in 3-4 weeks, or statements. First class mail was always kind of variable in delivery speed anyway.
This makes me sad because I'm sure I am doing about ten times as much work as you of a similar nature and getting paid one half of what you are. And there is not much either of us can do about it.
I understand the point being made here, but what are those affected supposed to take away? Cloudflare made a mistake that caused (x millions of dollars of lost online commerce revenues, y number of missed telehealth sessions, etc.) and since we do not punish mistakes, nothing was done. Sorry everyone!
Reparations would show an actual sense of responsibility. Firing someone would be appropriate if they were negligent. Other measures might be more appropriate. Is it enough that any time there's a Cloudflare incident, all we get are lengthy blog posts and sorries from Cloudflare?
NAT breaks certain things, and broken NAT breaks them further. The specific thing I can speak of is VoIP or more accurately SIP. SIP was designed for the public internet and so there are NAT workarounds, such as: if my interface has an RFC 1918 IP, I’ll use STUN along with certain SIP headers and tags to indicate I’m behind a NAT and need special treatment by the remote SIP agent. Using public IP space as NAT foils this logic entirely.
I'll acknowledge the psych aspect with a nod but otherwise want to move on and say this:
The value of truth is more important today than ever before, and modern society's interest in it seems to be lower than ever before.
That scares me, and I'm not willing to let truth be devalued. I will step on toes and be "right" if I am pushing truth, especially when pushing it on "deniers" and other politically- or otherwise-motivated falsehood peddlers.