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Apart from what you're not looking for, your question is very light on details.

There are numerous cars from about a decade (+/-) ago, that would satisfy these requirements broadly. However, you don't say whether you're looking for an SUV, sedan, runabout, etc.

Price range, brand preference, location also play a role.

Given the geographical size of Australia and states, and relative isolation of major centres from each other, and tendency of certain jobs to be more prevalent in certain states (mining in WA/Qld, defence in NSW/Vic/SA, etc), you will have to be a lot more specific. Relative pay and living costs also differ likewise between parts of the country.

Perhaps try looking at https://www.seek.com.au/, https://www.indeed.com.au/, etc.

Looks awesome, but I put my name on the build-to-order notification list /months/ ago, and am still waiting to be contacted. Does anyone know how regularly they actually ship?

The title in the article (and subsequently on HN) seems to be terribly misleading. It's not a police station - it's a co-operation centre.

This seems super awesome and useful, under the assumption they ship. I have not tried anything else on the site, but put my name down on the waiting list for a pinebook around 6 months ago, and have yet to hear anything...

The Circle? A heavily underrated book, I think.

True, but good comprehension requires half a word ;-)

Having acquaintances and friends among all three, and being one of the three myself, it varies a lot, based on any number of factors (what type of each, government/private, exactly how long you've been working, country, specialisation, salary structure, etc).

Best guess based on anecdata, however, suggests doctor, even factoring in length of studies, community service/internship, etc - they really start ramping up quickly once you're all qualified, and especially if you keep on advancing your career.

The article mentions the boondoggle with the census, but left out the equally/worse mismanaged saga with Queensland Health (which put IBM on a ban list of sorts for Queensland government projects). This is interesting, to say the least.

I've heard of this in other posts before, but can not personally say I've ever encountered this. I've searched domains on numerous occasions, gotten sidetracked, and when I returned a few weeks later to actually register them, they were still available.

Now, if you wanted to talk about getting spammed/scammed after registering a domain with Godaddy...

But the PM is likely to be changed halfway through the term anyway (along with his/her ministers), so this really doesn't make much of a difference either way :-/

Every time this topic comes up, I think of Nosedive (Black Mirror S3E1 [1]), and wonder how anyone can think this will end well.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosedive_(Black_Mirror)

This has been going on for almost 2 weeks now, and has spread to bananas, apples and pears (according to reports). One kid has been arrested for copycatting the original thing. There is a $100k reward being offered for information on the original offense/sabotage. Millions in strawberries have been dumped, because people either refuse to sell or buy them. A bit of a bizarre situation...

I think GPs point was that it requires a full system/machine onto which you can install it, be it VM or bare metal (which doesn't look too involved, based on the documentation[1]), but that it won't work as/in a container.

GP: Could you post some information on the issues with containers?

[1] https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/stable/production/install.ht...

I've recently reconnected with some friends, by way of a slack channel. The channel is exclusively meant for idle chat, and even there, if I ignore it for a day, I come back to 200+ unread messages, including actually mildly important stuff that I missed lost in the noise (friend being in an accident). I can totally see how Zulip's approach can fix this...

Regarding electron/react native - no worse than Slack, I guess (as far as resource usage, etc goes).

In all fairness, the author did specifically say the target platforms for the article are Windows, OSX and Linux.

Agreed that portability beyond these platforms is a different story altogether.

Currently there are supposed to be ones for all the 'major' events in Melbourne. It's quite surprising what you can do with 1ft resolution on a building that big :)

And a press release from the Premier's office:

https://www.premier.vic.gov.au/shining-a-light-on-flinders-s...

How about some more details about your project? I dare say you'd find a target audience of >1 here.

I can't find the links right now, but is this the same typewriter that was ripped quite badly in the media some months ago (I believe it was on kickstarter, or similar)?

What language/stack/field are you in?

Any particular reason you prefer open source (considering Jetbrains' tools aren't)?

What's your preferred platform?

Duplicate? [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17006503

I understand the physical/shipping portion of the ban, and why people would be redirected to amazon.com.au. Something that is substantially less clear, is how this impacts digital items, like Kindle books:

  - Can I still buy those from amazon.com, or will I need to get them from amazon.com.au?
  - If I need to buy from amazon.com.au, will that be subject to the same substantially reduced variety/options available?

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Joplin[0] yet. Markdown support, great synchronization (for the supported options), cross platform support (albeit with Electron), and mobile support.

It doesn't do calendar integration (which probably makes it slightly off-topic), but for a lot of the other items mentioned in general note taking posts below, it works fantastically well.

[0] https://joplin.cozic.net/

I just added my name to the BTO list. How long did you have to wait before they contacted you (and then before it shipped)? I can't seem to find anything about that on their site...

It's a niche area, but Simon Newton of ola (Open Lighting Architecture) - https://github.com/nomis52

This seems interesting, but what technology are they planning on using, and how does it compare with other projects around the world? This comes up every now and again it seems, and then dies away again (eg PBMR - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble_bed_modular_reactor).

I know this is (becoming) an (even more) niche industry, but does anyone know of add-ons, plugins, or dedicated supplemental tools for more mainstream development tools (GitLab, Jira, etc) that caters for embedded development?

Do you mean formal documentation, or all documentation (including sources like stackoverflow, blog posts, etc)?

I haven't used Java in a while, but my experience lately with Python docs (both formal and informal) has been fantastic. This applies not just to the core language and libraries, but also various third party libraries and frameworks.

It depends...did you approach them, or was it a cold call for something you may not need?

For the first:

- Do your research

- Know what you need (vs what you might want)

- Know what you can pay (conservatively, and at a maximum)

- Don't be afraid to say no

- Don't be afraid to ask questions

- Never feel pressured into a transaction - go away and think/process things

For the second:

- Don't be afraid to immediately tell them you're not interested (in fact, you should do this by default if it's something you don't need)

- Know your finances, so that you're aware of what you can and can't afford (this might be impetus to cut off the call sooner rather than later)

- If it's something you may need, or have looked at, the points above apply

An interesting thing I've discovered (anecdata) - salespeople are wary of engineers, because we rarely take something at face value. If you are one, make sure they know this early on (either state it, or make sure they know you know something about the domain). In the past it's done two things for me:

- The sales person is less likely to make wild claims, and will be more careful to make statements that can be backed up

- Often, they become less pushy, because they know they will have to work for the sale (rather than rely on emotion and ignorance)

One last comment: don't mistake courtesy for friendliness. Sales people are there to do a job. They are not your friends (you don't owe them anything), and it's the exception to the rule that they will have your best interests at heart. Keep this in mind while you're talking to them.