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Being married to a woman with her own last name, and a stepdaughter with her own last name, I can tell you that none of what you describe is really a problem.

In fact, it’s worked well enough for us that if we were to have another child we’d consider giving him or her a different last name again instead of picking one of the three we already have.

Bose makes a product specifically for sleeping. I don’t have any experience with them myself.

https://www.bose.com/en_us/products/wellness/noise_masking_s...

I sign every message I send. I like that I can reasonably prove exactly what I did or did not write. Can’t remember encrypting any other than the occasional test message.

I gave up on Thunderbird with the release of 78. Previously Emigmail was just functional enough once I got its finicky settings all dialed in.

Now I’ve gone all in on [MailMate](https://freron.com/) on macOS. Out of the box PGP support was only one of many pleasantries I found when I first tried this a few weeks ago. It’s dramatically changed my idea of how well a GUI MUA can actually work. Money well spent!

And we have a word for it, clickbait. It’s okay that it exists. It’s also ok for us to call it out when we see it.

I'm curious what lists you're using that gets you to 500k blocked domains?

I’ve used this too, and for quite a long time. Very happy with it. State can be synchronized, which makes it easy to use across multiple devices.

I switched to this from my own algorithm which I mentioned here about a decade ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2431480

Fueled by cheap, even free, money. Defense, housing, education, healthcare. The market does work.

I have this at the bottom of my .zshrc just for this reason:

  # remove any .DS_Store files
  # (run in a subshell to suppress background job number info being printed)
  ( ag --hidden -u -l -g '\.DS_Store$' |xargs -n 1 rm -f & ) > /dev/null 2>&1

San Diego has plenty of tech future. Startup scene is rich.

Amazon is here now (Solana Beach; disclaimer I work there) - and hiring.

Google is coming.

This is really interesting! Is your curriculum open, by chance?

We use it at my company on a 3 node cluster running in AWS.

We host about 10 small apps/services in it. They vary from things that do (basically) a single simple API call to full Rails apps.

Experience has been very positive. We had our share of "pre 1.0" issues, to be sure. But, the team in #flynn (IRC) is incredibly responsive. It's been a pleasure watching the issues get resolved, merged, and deployed very rapidly.

Digging into the code too, it's easy to follow and feels quite nicely architected.

Aside from all of that, my team is thrilled to have its own little PaaS.

I use music (EDM, Ambient, etc.) that I really like to get myself into a zone.

After the productivity surge, I emotionally reward myself by thinking (unintentionally, actually) about how great it felt to be productive and how awesome the music was at helping me hone in on the work at hand.

I also recently started using https://www.brain.fm/ and alternate between it and music.

You said..

> Programmers who use hard tabs for indentation also use them for inner alignment, like this:

But note that OP said..

> > Tabs are for indentation, spaces for alignment.

The distinction is important. Programmers who use both can actually realize the best of both worlds. I know this is a religious topic, but I've seen it work very well. Hear me out.

I managed teams of game programmers for about 15 years. We used mostly C, C++, and later, C#. It took me some work to get everyone on the same page with this, but once we achieved it, everyone was happy.

The end result is that indentation and alignment worked for everyone on the team. It didn't matter what tab size each individual configured in their editor of choice, everything just worked.

Fans of Turbo Pascal, or more so Delphi, will be interested in Lazarus. http://www.lazarus-ide.org/

I know it's in progress. I'm anxiously waiting. If you tell me where I can send $ or BTC to help it go faster, I'll gladly oblige.

I'd pay good money for an iOS version. I'm limping along with Threema now (which, functionally, is really great!).

I'd pay even more good money for hosting to not be in Google's data centers.

That's not exactly a rational reason. You're really going to struggle to beat Google's uptime.

The reason I host my own mail because I want to own and control my data.

Waiting for Superman. Watch it.

You left out the part where you were swirling your wine in its glass and adjusting your top hat while angling your nose sharply toward the sky.

HN is a place where lots of launches happen. A place where open mindedness is a plus. Seriously.. if this is actually your attitude, you might miss some cool things. Take a step away from the hive mindset every now and then.

Satellite?

Have you seen "Waiting for Superman"? Is what you saw in that documentary the same in Finland?

> We rely on Google for a lot ...

Some of us do go out of our way to avoid relying on them for "a lot". I know we're a small minority, but to people like me, it's worth the effort.

The author ignores the power and idiocy of public unions in public education. Anyone interested in this topic should really watch the movie "Waiting for Superman".

phk is one of my personal heroes!

Wow! Great work!

Do you think C is a dialect of Assembly?

"learning Sinatra" - not much to it. Dive in!

I felt the same as you, until I actually decided I'd try it in a project just as an experiment. I will now never go back. Looking at it, "meh"; actually using it, "awesome!".

I'm afraid you give them far too much credit!

If we spent the same $/TWh on coal/oil safety as we do on nuclear, maybe this would look different. Obviously, coal and oil are simply used, abundant, and cheap.