tmoaad

"THEY REVERSED THE POLARITY OF THE ADAPTER."

Is there anyone on the HN crowd that can chime in on how common this is?

Sent an email earlier in the day :), feel free to try and create an account with testamjad@nym.hush.com (Created this alias just for you)

Hi! Yes, attempting to create an account with my email results in an error telling me to contact support.

Support told me my provider isn't supported. I guess back to cloud9 it is.

P.S I also followed up via email.

For those that need an example, a great reminder is the target data mining story at https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targ...

I wouldn't hesitate to buy a intel-based mac (hell, I bought a new MBP 16" not but 3 months ago knowing about the ARM changes). My suggestion would be to hold off on any ARM based mac-purchases (with a carve out for those that only use their mac as a glorified chrome machine).

Apple gets many things right the first time around e.g many people ragged on Apple's FaceID but I think it's pretty successful in the /mobile facial recognition space/. We in the tech community are often reminded not to buy the first-generation of anything due to the inherit bugs/issues/stability so it's been very perplexing to me as to why people want to jump on being the first movers for ARM based macs. I understand that Apple has moved from PPC to Intel (and in under their two year goal) but that was a different Apple, different organization, and different leadership.

Archive link: http://archive.is/9Uakg

If employees choose to relocate but their presence is required on a regular basis (1 week per month or several weeks throughout the year), depending on your budget, it is reasonable to expect them to cover their own travel costs.

Really? If my employer started doing this, I would be looking for a new employer long before I'd start paying for my own travel costs.

On the paid front I do:

Down Dog / HIIT by the same company.

https://www.downdogapp.com/, $39.99/yr for random autogenerated workouts and yoga routines and other apps all included in the price.

On the free side:

The staggering amount of content on youtube. Search for HIIT and sort by recently uploaded. Fantastic high quality content and more variety then one person would ever need all for $0/yr.

The plot to spirit Ghosn out of Japan was one of the most brazen and well-orchestrated escape acts in recent history, involving a dizzying array of hotel meetups, bullet train travel, fake personas, and the chartering of a private jet.”

What a fascinating read that just makes you wonder how frequently acts like this occur in the background and doesn't get picked up in the news.

Archive link: https://archive.is/KmHGU

I have been dying for some keyboard recommendations. I'm using a corsair w/ blue keys but I feel like the activation force is becoming a bit too much for everyday continual use (my opinion).

http://archive.is/xOEF9

Engineers worked 24 hours a day for 15 days straight, executing over a thousand scripts and instructions — a 1,370 step process, according to NASA.

I have nothing but massive respect for the everyone involved to get to this point!

I've shortened the title just a bit due to the character limit.

72 hours of production downtime is /insane/ to think about and with such a brass attitude coming from the team as well.... I'd be inclined to go to the board and ask for additional funding to start a new team/begin knowledge transfer ASAP and start winding down the old team. I'd be curious to know why the CTO's isn't being grilled about the downtime and if they even have a CAPA process to prevent this from happening again?

Additionally, one of the commenters in the thread also points out just how important devops as a /culture/ is compared to just treating it as something to be bolted on at a later point in the organization life. I've worked with too many devs that seem to think their involvement ends when they throw the code over the proverbial "devops fence".

What a fantastic short story. Thanks for sharing!

Honestly, this raises a lot of questions in terms of profitability. They've attempted multiple different revenue streams (Nitro, Server Boosts, they even had a steam competitor at one point with a game store) and yet they haven't been able to generate 100m between their late-2018-but-really-2019 [0] round of 150m? I can't imagine that right now would be a great time to raise either.

0. https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/21/gaming-chat-startup-discor...

Agreed on all points here, especially the interoperability which brings the benefit of being able to use the massive amount of Java libraries.

Introspectively, I found that I could achieve a large portion of the Kotlin features with Java8+JavaRX+Lombok but I could see a very strong argument for "Why do I have to learn 3 technologies when I can get everything for free with Kotlin".

Additionally, Kotlin is highly recommended from the folks at Google with regards to Android.

I might go against the grain here, but if I've had nothing but pure bliss working in Java.

If you're just starting out, Head First Java is the way to go. Then expand your knowledge, look at things like Lombok, or go for one of the languages built on the JVM (Kotlin/Scala). Want insane performance out of the box? Look at Vert.X. There's a library for everything as the language has been around since '95.