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Op has 0 percent is how I read it. Op has options.

You are not a co founder, you are an employee. hint. founders get shares, employees get options.

you are now in the situation of whatever you can bargain for, you can get, whatever you can't bargain for, you don't get. Dealing with what you call a highly risk adverse person makes it hard to negotiate, because the most risk adverse action is bury the code and say goodbye (what they have proposed). It is likely you can change the action only by suggesting a less risky course of action.

I have been in a similar situation before, and tried to use Greed when only Fear was going to work. Many situations are like this. I now know more about sales now. I didn't get the source code (which I wrote and was useless to them) and it was probably for the best. If I didn't have the motivation to rewrite, i didn't have the motivation to start a company. Likewise, if you don't have the motivation to get new, fresh code written, you don't succeed either. There are many many ways to get code made, if you believe in this, find one. it will be the first of many trials.

Your credit score matters far less than you think.

Your credit score is maintained by a bunch of goons in a protection racket. 'Shame if anything would happen to that fine credit score, let me 'protect' it for you".

Unfortunately, there are few legal standards in this area. Any business can report that you have not paid something.

Write a letter to google's corporate address with all your evidence, enclose a literal paper check, keep a copy of everything. Point out in your cover letter that you are discharging your responsibilities especially regarding collections, and collections will be considered an illegal action. If it comes back and harms you, you have cause of action and documentation. Take whatever action is appropriate for harm (apparently arbitration can be really good for small cases like this, less hurdles, more getting the companies money).

And just don't get bent about it.

Redis loses data, it has to be a cache. And it range scans only on individual machines. Eg, it doesn't scale, you have to scale it.

Foundation is transactional correct on a cluster, and supports range scans.

It is a reasonable shorthand to say the only interesting transactions are multi row, and thus big table doesn't support transactions. More correctly, the only transactional guarantees are single row, sure. But saying it does support transactions is misleading.

Spoken as a guy whose database did not support multi row transactions and was always told that.

Why would it matter how they do it under the covers? You see correct transactions. The interesting tech in this space is aws redshift, in my testing a few years ago they dominated in price performance when you used the then new node types.

Bittorrent clients for windows and mac are generally malware infested pits of adware. Wherever i try to be virtuous and use one, i have to clean whatever i installed. I am sure i am not the only one.

Why not build your own install using the bittorrent libraries? The security model is more complicated, for one. If i was an architect and proposed that, i would have to understand the attack vectors and present why they are than the well known solution. And taking control of the software update channel is a massive risk.

Second, i have less control of the user experience. With http, i can pay for the right amount of bandwidth, or time on a cdn. If i implement bittorrent, i still have to have buy capacity, i just have a more complicated model for how much to buy.

Suggested updates can be spread over time - and need to be, for canary purposes. I think Android often pushes an app update over 4 or 5 days, by default? Steady state infra capacity, or even better, low priority which and be interrupted, is cheap.

Given the complexity and business risk (people can't download our software! Our binary got hijacked! Two code paths to test?) And the inexpensive nature of mirrors, and the competence of cdns, there are rarely causes where it would make sense.

Google maps results are on their way to death. I was recently doing a search having gone down to a three block area, did not show the result - Google pulled out a few blocks and showed a category result there. There was a higher ranking category result in the block i remembered, i had to remove my search term and zoom in!

The problem is not ads, it is not even capitalism, is the requirement of our western capitalism to require constant growth. Doing what Google did 5 years ago, with the profits of 5 of years ago, should have been fine - but the markets demand growth, so companies have to pull into unsustainable territory and that wrecks the company.

Boeing is a great modern example.

No one ever really expected much of reddit. It could just do its thing. But now, spun off, it will have to relentlessly seek growth, and the counter is ticking for its destruction.

While building all of airbnb is hard, let's look at a clone like outdoorsy, which is airbnb for rv's. It was very functional a year ago, and i doubt if it took a decent team more than a few months. The lore of how to build for scale is now far more widely known, and anyone doing dd on a codebase can figure out if scaling a monolith will require a full scorched earth or whether its has nice modularity allowing it to scale in flight, and/or get to fairly high scale with light application of autoscale shards and now commonplace cloud methodology.

The issue is brand and usability, and wordle has it. The method for social sharing is genius, i think. A great example of privacy by design (sharing is explicit and through an image not a share button going who knows where).

On the other side , not annoyed.

I transitioned from free gsuite to paid a few years ago. For my twelve (12) bucks a month, i get 2tb of storage, great mail services, all the docs i can write, etc.

When i compare to individual apps wanting $10 per month, this is probably my best monthly spend on my list. Fitness apps are the worst.

My main gripe is services that don't work with a paid account, like nest and home automation.

Yeah, and more importantly, was the equipment designed to exist with that much guard band? And isn't the cell equipment specified to throw off only a certain amount of harmonics, or whatever the out of band noise would be? This seems like without either a massive engineering mistake or a tempest in a teapot?

The only real question, imho, is why this wasn't understood when the frequency was auctioned. If we needed more guard band, we needed more guard band. If antennas point to the sky, don't use the close frequencies.

Any answers?

California state offices have term limits, i voted for them, and they are terrible. No one can make a living as a legislator, so we have beginners and they are getting steam rolled by lobbyists. There is now a revolving path of moving from one office to the next to make a living. It is crazy.

There is a critical element the post doesn't state: a successful small project has (has) very limited scope of customers and use patterns. That is where complexity in writing databases arises: limited scope databases are far easier.

Definition of arbitrary: 'based on random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason or system.' (Google)

Being first is not arbitrary. It is hard to achieve, and valuable. It is a reason.

There were networking systems before TCP and alongside TCP, TCP was clearly superior for a large number of reasons.

Given that everyone on hacker news's livelihood stems from the awesome of TCP (not an over statement), I propose a bit more respect.

I fought in the networking wars. Implemented a lot of protocols and a lot of protocol gateways. Calling the reason for TCP winning 'arbitrary' or even softening that to 'not based entirely on technical merit' does not do justice to the entire land war in Asia that happened between about '85 and '95. If anyone cares about that period, they can do some research, otherwise, I would propose not uttering unfounded opinions.

Maybe hard for surveillance though? A single railcar of liquid is 100 tons (I don't know if liquid methane is shipped, this is just a way to visualize - and this is a rough number. Methane is about 12 pct lighter than water.)

I wonder what the most likely reasons are. I might think a fracking based earthquake opening up an underground reservoir that feeds into a mine? But that is very speculative! I am assuming there are no chemical plants in the area.

I left out JavaScript. It is not a simple language, with it's service heritage. It is bound up in the node runtime in a way that doesn't really work right for data processing.

Another way to analyze the problem: what other language would it have been, given the moment ml hit?

You say compared to other scripting languages'. Let's list them.

Ruby: no numeric support Go: unnecessary typing, modest numeric support, shitty generics Bash: ha ha ha Scala, java, c, cpp: not a scripting language, complex Tcl, php: out of favor Rust: hadn't happened yet R: in memory bias, not as simple Other languages were obscure or owned by monoliths (kotlin, swift, c#)

Python also has multiple implementations, a minor thing, but not really. Pypy keeps cython on its toes.

C# really could be a contender. I am more productive in c# than any other language except python (although I think I will be more productive in rust)

Python is, almost unarguably, the easiest language to code in, right now, period. It has the greatest expressiveness and the simplest syntax. I use it for large scale open source art projects, and you can use it for ai.

Why are you asking?

Very nice to read a balanced paper, but a hospital might very well ( and, I think, illegally ) give some transplant people priority. Isn't that what happened to Steve jobs? No one is supposed to jump the queue, but he did. If 'queue jumping' is illegal, and happening at one hospital, I could imagine that as the kind of stunning bias shown in the data, and everyone involved would say it isn't happening

This post is quite nice in naming the people who did all the improvements. During this time, I was at a company trying to fit browser tech into consumer electronics, so we had to build the technology to run on actual inexpensive and cheap systems. Which became a core unmentioned technology, now called AJAX. Several engineers went to keyhole right at the time of the Google purchase, and did very well. Also remember Earth did little for Google, it was all maps - which had no flying demo, it was just 2d (ish) and useful.

The author states repeatedly that 'media' is trying to control 'us', but not what this media has to gain by mask wearing.

The more likely goal is to continue spending money (or eyeball time / clicks ) on media.

Yes, for profit media screams stupid headlines... For profit. business insider' as important media? Really?

There is no reason to reasonably and rationally discuss an issue raised by an article which takes this position... And does not discuss timing of vaccines, Delta variant, population skew, or the goal of preventing hospital overload.

I love the graph where the author says 'sure, maybe fewer people died, but...' . Classic.

'Mandatory medical treatment' sounds like a big deal, but the tragedy of the commons happens with every vaccine. No one benefits much from their own vaccination, we all benefit must from others'. Which is why vaccinations almost always have a requirement, or they don't work (cf flu, cf hpv).

When 1500 Americans are dying every day of a preventable disease, it is absolutely reasonable to take feasibility of enforcement into account. And enforcement has to be done where the greatest risk of spreading occurs. People might not like getting carded at a restaurant, but there is a point where lots of people are dying and it makes sense, right? We card for alcohol, we card for driving, and those we do every day.

I would think someone who tested positive should be able to get a ca state qr code. It seems the science supports that. Having each validator check that the test is the right test, and the doctor and hospital exist, seems not feasible, but getting a state qr code - then using that at the point of enforcement - seems practical.

One US carrier has global roaming data same as in county. Pre pandemic, it was super amazing.

Don't forget the lost business because you will force business travelers to check bags. Literally everyone would have to check a bag, so you can't charge extra for it. And, no mobile boarding passes. And no move to bring-your-own-screen entertainment.

'25mm'. If we are being that picky, my main dev board is the esp32picod4. It measures as 20mm longer than the tinypico and about 2mm wider, not 25mm. I just checked. the picod4 is $11, doesnt have any flash problems, is made by espressif who is worthy of support, has no battery connector or power module. The pico has more pins available. There is a place for the tinypico, and I think it is in wearables, but in most projects those 20mm are dwarfed by level shifters and power supply. Yes, I have tinypicos right here in my desk, they are nice.

The second core is not trivial to use, and espressif 's freertos port has real peculiarities in scheduler issues. Spoken as someone who resolved an issue with led buffering interacting with the network system on the esp32.

Since you are replying to my comment, the $11 espressif made dev boards flash perfectly every time. The 7 buck Amazon ones don't. The 2 dollar esp8266s don't, but that project we only needed one good flash, it was for real live art and we only had one shot.

I pointed all that out, thanks for pointing out it is 2.5cm instead of 1cm. Battery and size are where tinypico shines, and I mentioned the psram. If you are plugged in and 2.5 cm doesnt matter, I recommend espressif parts.

Esp32 is very common for led controls. Leds are usually plugged in. For those uses, tinypico buys me less than I hoped.

Look, I have some tinopico boards and like them, but let's be honest. The made-by-espressif esp32 devkit boards are 11 bucks bought from Mauser or Digikey and they are perfectly fine boards from a quality perspective. It is really the $7 (Amazon) to $4 (AliExpress) no name boards that get dodgy.

The benefit of the tinopico is build quality, physical size, more ram (4M instead of 1M if I remember), and battery life, and a three color led on the board instead of 1 color . For a small quantity home project where any of that matters, like a wearable, tinypico is good, if it is a plug in system where a centimeter doesn't matter, I chose espressif, who is the company who builds the chip and does the support (esp32.com) and open sources the dev environment.

In one project where we needed 100 controllers we ended up on esp8266. It was a few years ago ('19) when prices were a little higher. We bought them on AliExpress and had a high failure rate (50 pct?) And still did ok because they were 2 bucks each. After throwing away the doa ones, they were perfectly reliable. Project success, and 25 buck parts would have blown budget.