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by price 4y ago
That's not true. The median annual pay for a software engineer in the US is a bit under $100k. (The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes good data on this.) That means most people doing software development in the US are making und
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by price 4y ago
The blog post you are writing comments about is literally about working to get the law changed. Courts apply the existing law. The existing law puts very few constraints on big companies using their power. That is exactly why Mozilla is urg
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by price 5y ago
Looks to be this: https://zaplib.com/docs/zapium.html > Zapium is the native, cross-platform Zaplib runtime. It converts Zaplib web apps to desktop apps, where the Rust code runs natively, not via WebAssembly. >
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by price 5y ago
In short: after Mozilla cheerily announced it's accepting cryptocurrency donations with BitPay, jwz tweeted about it with his unique style of entertaining vitriol: https://mobile.twitter.com/jwz/status/1478022
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by price 5y ago
> ABS is banned in Formula 1. That should tell you everything you need to know about whether humans brake as well as a computer Not at all. It tells you something about whether Formula 1 drivers brake as well as a computer. Most huma
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by price 5y ago
This is not the case for Ubuntu -- it's always supported upgrading from one release to the next, and that is the normal and expected thing to do. The same is true for Debian, Fedora, and... well, every Linux distro I've ever known
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by price 5y ago
Then don't. If you aren't willing to interact with people as humans, that doesn't give you the right to treat them as tools. The people who are interested in talking about some game mod don't owe you the ability to quick
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by price 5y ago
"Reply all" is the best single answer, but it also varies between lists -- on some lists, the norm is that you reply only to the list and don't CC the sender. For example this is the norm on many Debian mailing lists. Or at
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by price 5y ago
That's not an offer to give ground to them in any material way. The next sentence says "the PostgreSQL Core Team and PGCAC will pursue all options until" the land-grabbing group surrenders all their land-grab claims. That&#x2
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by price 5y ago
> after work hours > during sleeping hours There's an important difference there. I think the GP wants their phone to keep working when they're off work -- including giving them notifications in other apps, for personal conv
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by price 6y ago
Dropbox hasn't been involved with Zulip since 2016. Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23864140 They acquired the original Zulip startup in 2014. Then they open-sourced the code, and Zulip s
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by price 6y ago
> There are studies that school districts that dropped sports have better academic outcomes: [link] I don't see such a study described in that article. After not finding it, I searched for "study", "studies", and
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by price 6y ago
> I'm not a fan of having dedicated "gifted" schools at any level. I attended a small magnet middle school that was ranked as the best public school in the state, but it was still the most toxic experience of my educationa
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by price 6y ago
> > but in the US you need an entrance exam to keep the jocks out > This comment is unnecessarily and rudely exclusive. Indeed. It's also completely wrong about TJ, just as it is about the school you went to. From my experienc
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by price 6y ago
On some more digging through history, it looks like the change in behavior for byte strings was intentional: https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/6ccd3f2dbcb98b33a71... Author: Guido van Rossum <guido@
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by price 6y ago
You'll be glad to hear that Python did stop doing this: Python 3 has never behaved this way, and its `lower` and `upper` methods have always been independent of your locale or anything else from your system. The workaround in the OP wa
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by price 6y ago
FTR, Python does not in fact do this. Python 2 did have this locale-dependent behavior, but Python 3 has never behaved this way. The workaround in the OP is, thankfully, quite obsolete. If you call a case-related method like `lower` on a Py
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by price 6y ago
For that I guess it comes down to whether the features you're relying on are purely optimizations (like partial indexes, fancy GIST index types, etc.), or go to the semantics of how the code behaves (like triggers). I think for us it&#
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by price 6y ago
It's not really about what Django supports, but about what all the databases you're using support. If you run it in testing with SQLite, you are not going to have the same set of features for indexing, transactions, and so on as y
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by price 6y ago
I'm thinking especially of the use case of sharing for people who have not been accumulating dotfiles forever and haven't set up some kind of way to manage their dotfiles in version control. (Heck, I don't myself have a syste
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by price 6y ago
In the context of this post, an important thing to add is that threads in Zulip also have just a single level of hierarchy - it's not at all like the tree structure here on HN, or on Reddit. We've felt that single level is the rig
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by price 6y ago
(Before using this for real, I'd certainly want to be able to track the exact version I'm getting of a dependency, with a hash, in a "lockfile" sort of file that I can keep in version control. That's not mentioned i
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by price 6y ago
Exciting idea! For me the application of this that I'm most interested in personally is for dotfiles, configuring the interactive shell. I have a fair amount of useful stuff in my own bashrc that I've developed over the years, whi
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by price 6y ago
Thanks for that link! I had not known that story - but in retrospect I know I've seen references to it a number of times. The story is so wild that... I always assumed it was a fictional trope, and didn't think to look for a real
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by price 6y ago
Dropbox is not involved with Zulip. I'm not sure we've ever posted a good canonical write-up of that story, but here's a version I wrote a couple of years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17629329
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by price 6y ago
The story says right up front in the subhed that the flooding didn't reach the seeds. But the quotes make it pretty clear that what did happen was out of spec. For something that's meant to survive any catastrophe that might happe
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by price 6y ago
Take a look at the partners named at the bottom. From GitHub's perspective, this is in part a PR stunt. But the Internet Archive, and Software Heritage, are quite serious. The people in those organizations are there for the mission, an
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by price 6y ago
The parent is referring to when Google pulled out of China in 2010, after having actually operated a google.cn for several years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aurora
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by price 6y ago
Encryption won't do you any good - encrypted messages can be forged. But let's say you meant a signature or other form of authentication. That still does you no good if you're, say, a server getting data from a client. Very f
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by price 6y ago
Like hyperpape said, virtually none. And this point is the biggest reason why. The article is, after all, about reasons not to use pickle. :-)

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