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As someone who also started in the 90's I think I understand what you mean. It used to be: write HTML -> upload via FTP -> done.

Therefore I think you should start with PHP. Write PHP -> upload -> done.

If PHP is unpopular advice, maybe this is even more unpopular: you might want to check out the ProcessWire CMS. Yes, this is a CMS, but since the front-end and back-end are separated it can be used as framework for a lot of things. It has a lot of (free) addons, like support for Twig, making developing even complex systems very simple.

And ofcourse you can use frameworks like Symfony and Laravel.

But to get rid of the rocket science I believe PHP is the way to go because it makes deployments so much easier.

And if the time comes your product is a success you can always hire rocket scientists who can help you to move on.

Yes I am.

Is AMP popular in the US only? (I am from the Netherlands)

As far as I know I have never seen an AMP website. I use DDG as search engine but !g a lot, so I assume I should have stumbled upon an AMP site at least once.

But maybe it is also browser related? When I go to amp.cnn.com I get redirected to editions.cnn.com in Firefox.

If this will be discussed on HN I hope people won't discuss what Trump posted but how Twitter handles this. In my opinion this is way better than YouTube where posts get deleted and it becomes impossible to discuss them.

> different teams thinking for a long time is absolutely no guarantee of a successful outcome

Of course it is no guarantee for success. But an outsider has absolutely no clue about what was discussed and what the politics were. So I think it is naive to make comments like "this is never going to work", or "removing the headphone jack will bring Apple down".

You have got a good point but I doubt it is true because a lot of Germans were against Hitler.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_resistance_to_Nazism

Aren't there universal measurements for leaders/counties?

For example the Bible has a lot of wisdom like: 'If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.' This was already written some 2000 years ago and has been proven true over time.

So I would argue you could measure the amount of unity a leader tries to create.

Today information is so easy to get that a lot of people think they know everything about every subject. But, like you said, reading the rules of the game does not mean you know how to play.

When a company like Netflix launches a new product it is possible they thought about this with different teams for a long time. Then it's very naive to comment on the internet to say they are wrong and made a stupid mistake.

True, but you can't get lucky when you keep sitting on your couch.

I think the success of Slack is that it's so easy to set up a team. It feels like Trello: you are up and running in a minute. As a freelancer I got a list of Slack teams and it is just very easy to switch.

But like you said: that's about it. It is slow, the text input box is horrible and most of the time you loose track of conversations.

What I lately notice is that teams start to use WhatsApp groups as Slack replacement. To me that shows that Slack is just a messenger.

My experience so far with functional languages (as an OOP-er):

* After a whole evening studying I am able to subtract 1 from 5.

* After spending hours checking what is wrong it just does not compile.

* After the hello world part there are no libraries that can be used for web development.

* Lack of good documentation.

* Lack of good tutorials.

But lately I discovered Elixir and I believe this could be a language that would change my mind about functional programming. Phoenix looks great and LiveView matches .NET Blazor (which I use a lot).

But then there is still the question: why even bother using a functional language? Because I have little experience in functional languages this is hard to answer for me.

Edit: "After a whole evening studying I am able to subtract 1 from 5." I should have formulated this different. What I meant was: sometimes you follow a very long tutorial about a functional language. You will learn a lot about the syntax but in the end when you try to use it, you will only get to the basics of writing a function that subtracts x from y.

The Xpeng P7 also has a 220V output.

I guess this can be useful for a lot of things.

https://en.xiaopeng.com/p7/configuration.html

(Also a great looking car imho)

People focus too much on your water analogy.

But it is true: if there was a plate that could move like a square it would not mean all air in the front and back of it would also move like it.

The air compression would move like a sine instead of a square.

I believe Blender also uses this denoiser. It is great! Especially for preview renders. The results are comparible to renders which take around 3 times longer.

Some days ago I checked https://opendata.blender.org/ and noticed that the RTX 2060, RTX 2060 Super and RTX 2070 are all equal when it comes to performance in the Blender benchmark.

Also the RTX 2070 Super might be the cheapest performance card at the moment.

Charts like these can save you a lot of money. But it will depend on the usage of course.

(Easy) Cross platform publishing.

I upgraded from 8 to 16GB. But I'm in the process of ordering a new desktop that will have 32GB.

Spotify and Slack are not problematic as individual programs but since I have a lot of other programs open they are the ones that take up more memory than they should. I mean: Spotify is just a music player. Why does it need 250MB RAM?

There seems to be more going on here.

The Tesla California plant has a very bad record when it comes to safety issues. California helped Tesla by looking the other way because they knew the company was starting and that they are very valuable for California.

And then Elon called them fascist because he could not open up the factory due to the virus. Of course officials then would like to approve the safety standards before opening up the factory again.

On the other hand nothing is going on here. The county already wanted to open up the businesses.

Elon lost a lot respect in all this. Maybe he has a lot on his mind like becoming a father again, the virus, selling all his properties, wanting to go to mars earlier than possible, his brain implant project, and so on. To me he sounds a little exhausted. In the latest Joe Rogan he also looks very tired and dim.

I recently had to upgrade my RAM because I have Spotify and Slack open all the time. Today RAM is cheap but it is crazy those programs take up so much resources.

Another program I use a lot is Blender (3D software). Compared to Spotify and Slack it is a crazy complicated program with loads of complicated functionalities. But it starts in a blink and only uses resources when it needs to (calculations and your 3D model).

So I absolutely agree with you.

I also think it has to do with the fact that older programmers now more about the cost of resources than younger programmers do. We used computers without harddisk and KBs of RAM. I always have this in my mind while programming.

The younger programmers may be right that resources don't matter much because they are cheap and available. But now I had to upgrade my RAM.

I believe everybody knew there was not going to be a mountain. But people are curious creatures. The main question became: can it be done?

It is interesting a lot of money was put into the project while most people knew there would never be a mountain. But they learned so much from it. So I think you can't say it was a waste of time and money.

But for the coming years I still believe the Netherlands (lower countries) will remain flat.

For all citywalkers: check how the sidewalk slopes to move rainwater to the street.

I was always walking on the right side of the city roads. This resulted in pain in my right leg because most weight was put on that side.

The solution was simple: also walk on the left side of the road. I never thought of this before.

Maybe it's also because some software sounds dull and old fashioned so people don't talk much about it.

I am into ERP, WMS, TMS and BI software. You don't hear much about this on HN but worldwide it's huge because it is what logistics run on.

Most of the time it's also old software and I believe there is a lot of money to be made. For example machine learning can be used to estimate goods that have to be purchased to keep optimal stock.

Thinking about a Mac Pro market I came to the conclusion [1] it might be for the audio market. If this is true I can imagine that Logic is still important for Apple.

[1] Lack of Nvidia support means 3D/CAD and video/FX users will choose other brands.

Not exactly. In cities more towers are placed together to give better coverage (for 5G this is a must). Triangulation can then be as accurate as 30 meters.

If you then have a dataset of lets say 100 points around a location you can estimate the exact location even better.

This is what always bothers me in movies. There is a secret meeting. Everybody pulls out their sim because they don't want their location to be known.

Well.. no, you already revealed where you were going.

Without premium support they will be cheaper.

Note that they don't have brakes. There are reports of Mac Pros wandering around on floors that are not completely level [1].

[1] https://twitter.com/MKBHD/status/1232708514625310721

Edit: it looks like they are mounted with pins that are almost the same size as normal wheels. So I guess you can also go for $2 wheels available at your local hardware store.

I can't find it right now but I read it also had to do with the fact that they violated safety laws multiple times.

Better wellbeing is so important. Less health cost, less safety service costs (police for example), better performing people, less sick people at work, and so on.

It is unfortunate most countries today are reigned by short term money while happy people means long term profit.

Ah wow, I never heard of this. Just installed PlantUML into Jetbrain's Rider and it works great.