BREAD, not CRUD - <AUTHOR> http://paul-m-jones.com/?p=291

<comment><USER2> Well I like CRUD because it reminds of the word Crude, something simple primitive, something in its basice form, just like a primitive CRUD web application, a very basic one!

</comment><comment><USER3> Interesting.

Browse, Read, Edit, Add, Delete

It'd be nice if REST actually used those verbs rather than:

GET, PUT, POST, DELETE

<comment><USER4> You can always define your own HTTP methods and use other verbs.

Apache Script directive: <http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_actions.html#script>

Depending on browser and javascript framework support (guh, as always), you can then use whatever method you want in Ajax calls (first argument to XMLHttpRequest.open, or jquery's $.ajax.type).

</comment></comment><comment><USER5> a) it sounds better

b) Browsing is a very important web function

<comment><USER6> Regarding b): shouldn't we be concerned that the original 4 functions apply to a single record at a time, when the new addition of "browse" seems to apply to a collection of records?

<comment><USER7> A collection of records can itself be a record. Browse is just Read for a set of records.

Gah, I hate this suggestion.

<comment><USER5> Isn't what happens when we're dealing with collections relevant to the user in the current session where a lot of the meat of an application is? Isn't that a major place where the rubber meets the road?

REST is dandy. But I'd like to have an equally simple and elegant framework for dealing with heterogeneous collections over high latency networks.</comment></comment></comment></comment>


Billion-Dollar Facebook Investor Tells Mark Zuckerberg to Quit as Chairman - <AUTHOR> https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-quit-investor-scott-stringer-a8286451.html <comment><USER2> I think the author really underestimates how hard it is to stay relevant as a social network while trends and attitudes shift. So far Facebook's continued success has been pretty impressive. Some examples of great moves: Adopting oAuth to make Facebook the backbone of auth on the web, buying instagram when it was small, moving the company to be mobile first, buying whatsapp and making messenger a world class experience and now integrating the best features of Snap to counter that threat. The focus on messaging was especially brilliant given the current trend that people are moving away from social to a more messaging focused experience.

It's pretty amazing strategy regardless of how you feel about Facebook's recent issues. I would wager that >99% of CEOs would have failed to spot those trends in time and stay relevant.

<comment><USER3> Majority of CEOs are older too. I wonder how much this influences a persons ability to pivot. When certain things work well for you for 20+ years. It can be hard to change when those very fundamental things need changing. Whereas a younger ceo might be more willing to experiment (and possibly fail)

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> Save you the click - it's the comptroller of NYC who represents a pension fund. Not sure whether he qualifies as an "investor".

<comment><USER5> Why would he not qualify as an investor?

<comment><USER6> Not his money.

<comment><USER7> That disqualifies every institutional investor from being called an investor

<comment><USER8> Unless they are officially speaking on behalf of the fund... yep.

It doesn't appear that this guy was speaking on behalf of the pension fund, just personally, so really he isn't an investor.

<comment><USER7> I don't know about that. Institutional investors have a raft of obligations to their clients, including not doing things like intentionally making their investment go down in value. This is a complicated topic, hence why securities law is a thing, but I wouldn't dismiss something an institutional investor says just because they're not speaking officially. It's still their career, investment track record, and client obligations on the line.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER9> >We're not trying to harm Facebook, we're trying to make it a stronger company.

Ha. That's a statement and a half. Does answering to shareholders make your company stronger? Lots would argue that too many shareholders focus on short term growth over long term strategy.

<comment><USER10> > Lots would argue that too many shareholders focus on short term growth over > long term strategy.

Large public pension funds are, however, _not_ the kind of shareholders at which that criticism is usually directed.

</comment></comment><comment><USER11> I think the bigger story here is the NYC Pension fund holding $895 _million_ in FB stock.

[http://www.pionline.com/article/20180330/ONLINE/180339994/ny...](http://www.pionline.com/article/20180330/ONLINE/180339994/nyc- comptroller-calls-on-facebook-to-improve-transparency-accountability)

<comment><USER10> The NYC pension funds total nearly $200 billion.

[https://comptroller.nyc.gov/services/financial- matters/pensi...](https://comptroller.nyc.gov/services/financial- matters/pension/asset-allocation/)

</comment></comment><comment><USER12> Parts of yesterday's Zuckerberg interview [0] highlighted and commented by Matt Levine today [1]:

 _Zuckerberg: You mentioned our governance. One of the things that I feel really lucky we have is this company structure where, at the end of the day, it's a controlled company. We are not at the whims of short-term shareholders. We can really design these products and decisions with what is going to be in the best interest of the community over time.

Klein: That is one of the ways Facebook is different, but I can imagine reading it both ways. On the one hand, your control of voting shares makes you more insulated from short-term pressures of the market. On the other hand, you have a lot more personal power. There's no quadrennial election for CEO of Facebook. And that's a normal way that democratic governments ensure accountability. Do you think that governance structure makes you, in some cases, less accountable?

Zuckerberg: I certainly think that's a fair question. My goal here is to create a governance structure around the content and the community that reflects more what people in the community want than what short-term-oriented shareholders might want. And if we do that well, then I think that could really break ground on governance for an internet community. But if we don't do it well, then I think we'll fail to handle a lot of the issues that are coming up._

[0]: [https://www.vox.com/2018/4/2/17185052/mark-zuckerberg- facebo...](https://www.vox.com/2018/4/2/17185052/mark-zuckerberg-facebook- interview-fake-news-bots-cambridge)

[1]: [https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-04-03/it-s- just...](https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-04-03/it-s-just-another- day-at-the-office-for-spotify)

<comment><USER13> These responses are quite revealing. Control is with Zuckerberg who has the best interest of the community in mind (right, giving liberal access to data and allow microtargeting to an extent that baffles everyone). It also raises the serious question whether Zuckerberg truly understands governance.

</comment></comment><comment><USER14> Question for anyone who knows the answer. Is there any legal way to force a majority controlling shareholder to do anything? I've read about Larry Page and Sergey Brin regularly ignoring shareholder requests to relinquish some of there powers over Google.

<comment><USER15> Nothing they can do. Facebook stock is separated into "has 10 votes" and "has 1 vote". Mark owns the majority of the "has 10 votes" stock. He can literally do anything he wants with Facebook and there is nothing anyone else can do about it.

<comment><USER16> There are always limits. Every state has minority shareholder rights, even if the barrier to raising a claim is high.

The other, maybe obvious, area where the majority shareholder's authority is with regard to illegal acts. This is grayer than it seems in complex regulatory environments.

The practical approach is to get New York or California state legislatures to pass strict privacy controls. (I will then get a cheap post office box in that state and "move" my account under those restrictions on any platform that has much of my data.)

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER17> That's it for me, I'm off Facebook. This is one area where I see the importance of decentralisation - giving this much data to one company is dangerous. I'm part of the crypto-space and having a look there are quite a few competitors to facebook close to launching (sociall.io, indorse.io, steemit). Hopefully one of these will take down facebook. Data being owned by each individual will ensure a catastrophe like this one will never occurs again.

</comment><comment><USER18> I don't disagree. I think Zuck is the face of the Facebook brand, but I don't think he's the right guy to run a company of this size. He was instrumental in two great acquisitions: WhatsApp and Instagram.

Other than that, many of his initiatives are nearly complete failures: Internet.org, Facebook drone internet, Oculus, Portal, Facebook Phone, the developer program, the cloning of Snapchat, his own national press tour, etc.

Not to mention, he's had numerous serious public-facing, brand-devaluing flubs that are literally too innumerable to list here.

For some reason, he doesn't surround himself with the best people anymore. I think because he's surrounded by an army of comms/PR people rather than actual scientists and engineers at this point.

<comment><USER19> If you're not failing occasionally or perhaps regularly, you're likely not often attempting anything difficult.

Amazon & Bezos, as one example, has failed at several very prominent efforts over the years, from competing with eBay in auctions, to competing with Google in traditional search, to the Amazon phone.

Companies should not succeed at every venture. Not only is it impossible, it's undesirable for them to succeed like that. By that standard there has never been a successful company, because nobody has managed to own everything yet.

The measure is overall value creation by the business for shareholders. Facebook is one of the greatest success stories in world business history by any reasonable measure of value creation, both in regards to its profit levels and balance sheet value increases. And they've done that in a shorter amount of time than any other company before them, with perhaps only Google a close second.

FB net tangible assets have increased from $41 billion to ~$58 billion in the last year, that's twice the net tangible assets of Microsoft. Not only does Facebook have a healthier balance sheet than Microsoft, they're going to catch them on quarterly profits within about ~18 months. Microsoft is 42 years old, Facebook is 15 years old. Facebook's net tangible assets match that of Walmart.

Here's what the balance sheets of other blue chips look like:

Coca Cola: zero net tangible assets

McDonald's: negative $5.6 billion

Oracle: negative $1.5 billion

Netflix: negative $6.7 billion

Starbucks: positive $831k

Comcast: negative $46 billion

Boeing: negative $7.7 billion

GE: negative $40 billion

AT&T: negative $78 billion

Verizon: negative $84 billion

Procter & Gamble: negative $15 billion

IBM: negative $22 billion

Pfizer: negative $33 billion

Johnson & Johnson: negative $25 billion

Lockheed: negative $15 billion

Home Depot: negative $821k

3M: negative $1.8 billion

Delta Airlines: negative $731k

UPS: negative $4.8 billion

PepsiCo: negative $17 billion

Walgreens: negative $590k

<comment><USER20> Where are you getting this data from? None of it matches anything I'm seeing or is even close...

Additionally, without knowing what is listed as a tangible asset there is very little way to compare them to businesses in completely different markets/industries.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><AUTHOR> From my personal thoughts, Zuckerberg acting like a dictator.

It's shameful seeing how they started to infect the art of creativity.

Everything good comes with ethics, clearly @facebook @WhatsApp @instagram are not.

</comment><comment><USER21> Zuckerberg controls the voting stock. He's not going anywhere unless he wants to go. He's one of the few CEO's that has that much control over his company.

</comment><comment><USER22> Yeah Mark's getting older, and we all know young people are just smarter. Time to shake things up. /s

</comment><comment><USER23> Sharks smell blood in the water.

</comment><comment><USER24> Regardless of who's giving the advice, it's actually good advice. The guy has completely lost touch with reality. His comments on Apple and Tim Cook (who has never attacked Facebook directly, just replied to a specific question) show that he's also losing the needed institutional composure his position requires. Personally I thing his argument (we profile you for advertising 'cause that's the only way to give a service to poor people as well) is utter BS.

<comment><USER25> It's interesting Zuckerberg called Cook's comments glib... right before claiming that Facebook is free because it cares about poor people.

Zuckerberg clearly won the glib prize in this exchange.

</comment></comment><comment><USER26> "Muzard warned that Zuckerberg is personally vulnerable if the "crisis of confidence lingers on. He might find it hard to hold on if shareholders start getting out. Things can happen very quickly. His equivalent at Uber did not survive a series of crises, and because _Zuckerberg personifies Facebook there is no real fall guy to take the bullet for him_."

He is therefore taking a big gamble by agreeing to testify before the US Congress, even if Facebook has also ramped up its lobbying of politicians.

...

"He must also have the right physical posture and tone of voice. Even with the best preparation, it will be a physically and emotionally exhausting," he predicted."

Source:

[https://www.fin24.com/Tech/Companies/facebook-gets-thumbs- do...](https://www.fin24.com/Tech/Companies/facebook-gets-thumbs-down-for- handling-of-data-scandal-20180401)

</comment><comment><USER27> Personally, I think it's unwise to bet against Zuckerberg, and here's why I think so. He has struggled with the Peter Principle, and IMHO beat it, which I gotta say is not an easy feat. But he also bet big on things most wouldn't.

FB has gone though crazy struggles before, but if my understanding of both PG and YC is correct, you bet on the people, not the product. I have a feeling that if FB Inc has to reinvent itself, it will manage to do so.</comment>


Quit Exaggerating On Your Skill Set - <AUTHOR> http://www.codesqueeze.com/quit-exaggerating-on-your-skill-set/ <comment><USER4> How about "we" quit exaggerating our skillset when "you" quit exaggerating job requirements.

Let's do a random test, shall we? Here is the very first job on Dice.com in New York metro area.

Skills required:

        - Systems Development
        - Systems Analysis & Design
        - Systems Operations & Support
        - Knowledge of Cisco LAN/WAN infrastructure
        - Knowledge of data center infrastructure
        - Knowledge of Windows systems environment
        - Knowledge of Network Appliance
        - Knowledge of Brocade SAN infrastructure
        - Strong understanding of Oracle (both 10g and 11g)
        - Strong understanding of DB2
        - SQL Server 2005
        - Experience in logical and physical design of RDBMS
        - Strong understanding of .net technologies
        - COBOL/Mainframe programming
        - Expertise in desktop software
        - 270 Terminal Emulation
        - <USER2>
        - <USER3>
        - Experience in implementing IT Service Level Agreements
        - Experience in team management
        - Experience in change and asset management
        - WMS including Medicaid, SSI, and/or Food Stamps issuance
        - Collaborative skills
        - Conflict resolution skills
        - SDLC Project Management
        - Commitment to public service

Salary range? $50,000 to $135,000 tops (again, this is in New York where a small home barely suitable for two adults with one child will run around $800,000 plus $1,500/month in maintenance and real estate taxes).

And hey - you know what I "chuckle out loud" about? When pretentious blog authors talk about themselves in 3rd person:

<http://www.codesqueeze.com/about/>

<comment><USER5> Personally, I got burned listing far too many skills on my resume without quantifying my experience. After that, I got rid of anything that I didn't have strong experience and I think that helped the credibility of my resume.

<comment><USER4> That's a very reasonable assumption but you don't _know_ that. A more realistic scenario is that your new, pared down resume lost major points as far as making it through the headhunters' and HR's dumb keyword filtering software, lost minor points as far as impressing generalist managers, and gained minor points as far as impressing technical managers.

I'd say when you tally it all, you get more points than you lose by listing non-core skills. Technical managers are usually the very last in the process and if your resume gets rejected upstream, you don't get to impress or un- impress them at all. Personally, I have never had anyone question my non-core skills. People usually look at several most recent projects to get an idea of your actual strengths.

<comment><USER6> I customize my resume for each job. If the company is small, I submit a tight, super-honest resume, and omit the buzzword-bingo.

If submitting to Inittech Corporation, I submit a keyword-optimized resume guaranteed to please the screening software (then swear never to do that again...)

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER7> Quit pigeonholing programmers...

No, I am not an expert in all the things I have put into my skills section. However, I have enough experience with them to know that I can deal with them like an expert in no time (< 1 week).

In fact, I don't think there are "experts" for programming skills. These days, the job mostly requires digesting lots of documentation fast, for new libraries, new languages, new tools, whatever. It is unlikely even for an expert to be confronted with exactly the same problems as in the last job, even with the same underlying technolgies. So focussing too much on the skills section is counterproductive for employers.

<comment><USER8> Hear hear. I picked up PHP again this past weekend after laying dormant on it for the last year or so. Yeah, I was rusty for the first hour or so, but within a few hours I was as strong as I had ever been and cranking out code like mad.

I have TONS of languages and skills that have been put to the side and unused for some time simply due to the lack of need, but that doesn't mean I can't restore my former competency within _hours_ of jumping feet-first back into that pool. I haven't written C++ for months now, but give me a few hours in front of a terminal with an interesting problem and it'll all come back.

And you know what, if I'm applying for a job with VB.NET, and having not worked with it for a while, you can bet your ass that I would have taken the time to refresh my skills before I step into that interview. The author is complaining about a non-issue.

</comment></comment><comment><USER9> My advice is to put a keywords section at the bottom of the résumé so that it will getthrough the keywords searches but only brag about your highly competent skills in the body and/or skills summary.

Either that or here's a really novel idea: Attend and present at local networking events. Find your next cofounder or job there.

</comment><comment><USER10> I put together a simple resume website experimenting with ways to add context to skills on resumes. I list a number of projects, and when you hover over each project then the corresponding skills in a word cloud change color and enlarge. In my mind it does a much better job than a paper resume as clarifying which skills are actually in active use and which are paper skills.

My example is at <http://willarson.com/> , but its simple to make your own ( [http://lethain.com/entry/2008/oct/18/r-i-p-your-resume- site-...](http://lethain.com/entry/2008/oct/18/r-i-p-your-resume-site-to- awesome/) ).

<comment><USER11> I like it a lot, but maybe you could have a dedicated area for the job descriptions on the right side, just above the keywords? Right now, it is very difficult to scroll through the list of technologies used because the location of each job title moves back and forth while moving the mouse down.

<comment><USER10> Good point. I think I'd considered that at some point but lost track of the idea somewhere before implementation. :)

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER12> One way around this is to include the technologies used along with each project on the resume. That way, a prospective interviewer can cross-reference your skills list with the particular project and see if it was 10 years ago, or if you only had a cursory role in the project.

You _need_ to include all those skills, because so much headhunting is done by automatic keyword searches. I usually include anything where I would be comfortable writing code of that technology on the whiteboard with minimal reference support. I've dropped some skills over time (eg. Perl, which I last used when I was 19), but I try to keep everything that I wouldn't mind taking a job in. Otherwise, your resume will tend to get dropped on the floor of HR's automated screening machines.

</comment><comment><USER13> My last/current resume has a skill matrix of sorts. Along the top I have "experienced, intermidiate, begginer" and along the left side I have categories like "Software Development, databases" etc. I think it looks nice and gets the point across.

</comment><comment><USER14> I disagree with the article where it says: _Tools and languages are like foreign languages - if you don't use it, you lose it._

You don't lose it, you just get rusty. I haven't coded in C, C++ or Smalltalk in years. If I started again, it would take me a few days to get up to speed. But after then I'd be just as productive as I was.

<comment><USER12> I've been surprised how quickly it comes back. When I was working with a YC company this summer, I had to do some PHP. I was up and running in about an hour and a half - everything was familiar, I knew where to go to find API calls, and I wasn't all that much slower than when I was doing PHP daily. And I hadn't written anything in PHP for about 3 years before then, and had been actively trying to forget the language.

</comment></comment><comment><USER15> I used to list every single thing I ever used on my list of skills when I first started looking for a job since I didn't really know what I wanted to do so I thought I'd be safe and list everything. Since then however I've gotten a very clear picture of what kind of jobs I want and started to remove things that would likely lead to a flood of calls from recruiters about jobs that I'm not at all interested in.

But I still see the raw list of skills as nothing more than SEO optimization for keyword searches on job sites. I'd expect any competent hiring manager to skip right past that and focus on the specific details that I mention for each of my past positions.

</comment><comment><USER16> The word "Familiarity" is a joke; what does that mean anyway?

I once interviewed a guy who had HTTP on his resume. Just for kicks I asked him to name 3 HTTP verbs. He could only name GET and POST. I know that's petty, but if a candidate is going to list something on their resume, they better know what the hell they're talking about.

The most atrocious phone interview I conducted, I could hear the guy Googling the answers to some of the questions I asked. Towards the end I asked what his experience was with DOA web-services. He of course responded that he knew all about them and was very "familiar" with them. I quickly ended the interview and said, "thanks, but no thanks."

</comment><comment><USER17> Quit depending on your resume and start a business :)

</comment><comment><USER18> The long list of skills is a symptom of a much larger problem. Too many companies are just clueless about hiring technical staff.

These things don't work: using HR, resume databases, keyword searches, creating an overlong and too detailed list of requirements and then treating them as a checklist.

Yet, this is the approach taken by far too many companies. The result, of course, is a stack of resumes a mile high that each contain a list of as many buzzwords and skills as possible. How do companies expect to find a good match in all that?

The way out is simple. Create a simple resume, with a small focused set of "skills". Leave out anything that's irrelevant to what you actually want to do. Then send it to a small handful of companies that run reasonable adverts. There may be fewer such opportunities, but I think a focused approach works better in the long run.

</comment><comment><USER19> good advice (well, I think so) but then, I've been doing this for some time. I use xmlresume and use the skilllevel=tag. (which reminds me, I should probably update my resume.) <http://xmlresume.sourceforge.net/>

</comment><comment><USER20> My last resume just put dates (years) next to all buzzwords.</comment>


Being overweight 'reduces dementia risk' - <AUTHOR> http://www.bbc.com/news/health-32233571 <comment><USER2> Controlling for age and lifespan? It's possible that being overweight reduces dementia risk because you die earlier, and hence don't get to old age when dementia is really prevalent.</comment>


Classic Game Postmortem: Loom [video] - <AUTHOR> http://gdcvault.com/play/1021862/Classic-Game-Postmortem

<comment><USER2> Awesome postmortem for an awesome game. This game has so big place in my memories. For anybody making games, this is worth watching.

<comment><USER3> I was a huge fan of Loom too. There really aren't that many original and creative worlds in games and Loom definitely had one. Planescape Torment is another good example.

<comment><USER4> I haven't really played video games much the last couple of years, which in part is due to hardware, but when I listen to coworkers talk about the video games they play, I have no desire to do anything about my hardware situation.

I have the feeling that in video games, like in big blockbuster movies, the trend appears to be replacing substance with special effects / fancy graphics and recycling the same old ideas over and over. (I am probably overgeneralizing somewhat, but I do so to make a point. If there have been any games lately that really disprove my point, I would very much like to hear about them!)

<comment><USER5> I'm in the same boat as you, I have very little interest in modern games, certainly not the big blockbuster stuff anyway (sequels and FPSes, very little else). However, I have seen some promising games from indie developers. Haven't played it yet, but would like to play Journey...

[http://thatgamecompany.com/games/journey/](http://thatgamecompany.com/games/journey/)

<comment><USER4> Indie developers have a hard time, I think, competing with the level of "bling" big companies can afford, but at the same time they have the freedom to try out things large companies would not touch with a ten-mile pole, which is promising. Minecraft blew my mind, even though I stopped playing it much after I got scared of how addictive it is (on the other hand, "it is pretty addictive" is probably the highest praise one can give a game).

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER6> I loved this game. There was an excellent moment where you heard a song used to twist something. There was a bridge in the sky twisted around a mountain, playing that same song backwards changed the shape of the bridge and let you travel into the distance.

</comment><comment><USER7> [http://www.gog.com/game/loom](http://www.gog.com/game/loom)

<comment><USER8> It's also available on Steam.

[http://store.steampowered.com/app/32340/](http://store.steampowered.com/app/32340/)

</comment></comment><comment><USER9> Amazing. Both for the historical (technical) value and for remembering the game.

I wonder if the low-res versions of the images (I mean, 4-color/16-color versions) were generated from high-version or if it was a painstakingly redrawing/redithering.

<comment><USER10> The 16-colour versions were the originals. The 256-colour versions came later... he actually mentions this in the video. The 4-colour version was probably generated programmatically.

</comment></comment><comment><USER11> Passion at its finest. Moriarty takes great pride, rightly so, and this comes across. Inspiring to say the least.

I loved this game, and also have many fond memories. The post mortem was excellent from every aspect.

The Zork series, Wishbringer, Enchanter, Sorcerer, Spellbreaker, Trinity, and others all had a profound effect on me growing up, playing them with my brother and friends. It was great to see some of those mentioned and visualized during the post-mortem.

</comment><comment><USER12> Loom was the one game I never purchased that captured my imagination from the game mag descriptions back when it first came out. It's awesome to have finally been able to "play" it and see what it was all about.

</comment><comment><USER13> Loved the game! Played it again just a few years ago in an emulator. P.s. Am I the only one who have trouble hearing the audio?

</comment><comment><USER14> I would totally help crowdfund an HD remake.</comment>


Where Does Watson Go From Here? First Stop: Healthcare - <AUTHOR> http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/02/17/where-does-watson-go-from-here-first-stop-healthcare/

<comment><USER2> Article is right, but for the wrong reasons.

Watson would be a fun toy for helping doctors diagnosis mystery illnesses.

But the amount of money that Watson could recover in insurance and medicare fraud would absolutely dwarf what he won on Jeopardy...</comment>


The uncomfortable racial preferences revealed by online dating - <AUTHOR> http://qz.com/149342/the-uncomfortable-racial-preferences-revealed-by-online-dating/

<comment><USER2> I'm happily married and never used online dating, so can only guess at the various factors skewing this data.

\- Given that this is a simple yes/no question (would you respond vs not), its not clear whether this preference is for casual flings or long term relationships (there have been studies that show women prefer hot men for flings and bores for family/stability) OTOH, I don't know if that study was really valid

\- I imagine I would use an online dating site if my local network doesn't have any leads for me. If my local network is racially homogenous (possibly true for larger america vs metros), I would look for other races to experiment/or meet different people

There have been similar results posted by okcupid[1], so there definitely seems to be some truth to what these guys are reporting.

[1]- [http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/your-race-affects- whether-...](http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/your-race-affects-whether- people-write-you-back/)</comment>


Average 10-year-old has eaten 18 years' worth of sugar - <AUTHOR> https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/jan/02/average-10-year-old-18-years-worth-of-sugar-public-health-england <comment><USER2> All this money, time and effort in an attempt to market _new low sugar cereals_ , these are the same company's who: 1. Have been marketing their product as part of a balanced breakfast for decades, and 2. Continued increasing the amount of sugar while actively lobbying against any attempts to regulate marketing their sugary products to kids.

Here is an idea...get rid of the sugary cereals and sugary milk entirely and feed your kids bacon and eggs for breakfast, with water.

<comment><USER3> I love the idea of having bacon and eggs for breakfast in the morning. The reality is though that bacon and eggs take time and effort while pouring a bowl of cereal is quick and easy.

<comment><USER4> Take a whole package of bacon, put it on a cookie sheet. Bake 15 minutes in the oven at 350 degrees to your liking. Remove, Drain/cool. Place bacon in freezer.

Take eggs. Boil in water. Place in refrigerator.

Voila, you now have bacon and eggs in the morning for multiple days with zero effort.

Another easy one - McDonald's style Egg McMuffin:

You've got your frozen English muffins because you're lazy and don't want to deal with moldy bread. Throw one in the microwave for 30 seconds. Remove and place in toaster to toast. In the meantime crack an egg into a cereal bowl and microwave to poach. I think that's 30 seconds? Now your egg and muffin are done, add cheese and ham or that frozen bacon from the above, microwave to melt the cheese and such.

Not the healthiest stuff out there but it's by no means difficult. I think many people wanting to transition from buying pre-made food to making actual food need to do so in baby steps.

<comment><USER5> Reheated boiled eggs? Wtf...

<comment><USER4> I didn't say _reheated_ hard boiled eggs. You just keep it in the fridge and eat it cold.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER6> I wonder if we're approaching the point of recognizing sugar addiction as a real thing.

Just watch a number of children and you'll see, even from a young age, a wide variety of reactions to sugar.

For example, one I cna think of has always (and continues to be) "sensible" with sugar. Like if she has a soda, she'll stop when she's had enough. If there are chocolates there she'll have one or two.

One of her sisters just can't help herself. She literally can't stop eating any chocolates that are available. If she gets a soda, she'll literally inhale it and then try and drink her sisters' sodas.

Having seen this from such a young age I can't help but think that there's just luck involved here as in some people have a genetic predisposition to what I can only call sugar addiction.

What probably mitigated this in the past was that foods were lower sugar and sugary food and drinks were less available to many people. Like I'm just comparing what I had in the house growing up compared to what I see in pantries now.

But yes, cereal is pretty much universally terrible but it is convenient.

<comment><USER7> It's interesting that you attribute a difference among sisters to genes. Sisters are similar genetically, but cannot occupy the same social space. They cannot occupy the same material space.

My explanation for the difference you observed is that siblings somewhat have non-overlapping coping strategies. If one gets angry, the other is being yelled at. If one eats more than their share, the other eats less. If one is asking people to leave them alone, the other is being left alone.

This creates major difference in subjective experience and coping strategies just by virtue of being socially juxtaposed.

<comment><USER6> So what I think you're referring to is something I might otherwise call the Pauli Exclusion Principle for Children (or PEPC) for short.

Just like fermions, children it seems can't occupy the same state. This means that if one child is the "good one", a sibling won't be. They'll find their own niche. They could be the clown, or the athlete or the bookworm or whatever.

So if I read your comment correctly, you're essentially saying something similar with coping strategies. I can't and don't disagree with that idea but it's not mutually exclusive with genetic predisposition either. Just imagine two sisters do have a genetic predisposition to "sugar addiction". It doesn't mean they'll both become sugar addicts.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER8> One thing I have been working on recently is cooking, especially from scratch and attempting to keep it healthy. One big thing I have noticed is that a lot of food (once cooked) has a very short shelf life (usually days), and if you have something with few ingredients, it requires quality ingredients.

For prepackaged/premade foods, one would want food to stay good for longer than days once cooked/made, so it can be transported to a store, kept at a store for a while, purchased, stored at a home until eaten. Or even at a restaurant/fast food place, the same thing applies. A lot of those places have a significant amount of premade food.

Applying that same concept for profit, if the food is to be cost effective, lesser quality ingredients are needed.

It seems that to have the food be cheap and stay good for a while, this is what happens.

<comment><USER9> Kudos for focusing on cooking. It really changed my life when i started focusing on things like making bread, growing my own vegetables (at least to supplement store-bought), and learning the science and history behind foods/meals. I lost about 10 pounds just by learning how to cook and gaining an understanding of portion control and managing salt/nutrition levels. Also, I'm pretty confident my daycare-enrolled kids are less sick than their classmates who eat out one or more meals daily or are reliant on the bag of chicken nuggets and yellow-weird mac and cheese.

check out these youtube channels for some motivation (which i've picked up here on HN): [https://www.youtube.com/user/BrothersGreenEats](https://www.youtube.com/user/BrothersGreenEats), [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPzFLpOblZEaIx2lpym1l1A](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPzFLpOblZEaIx2lpym1l1A). Also, I recently fell upon Alton Brown's new Good Eats Reboot... good stuff.

<comment><USER8> I will have to look at them, thank you! I have been going through the Good Eats, and I like them. Something else I found that has been amazing is that there are a few cooking lecture series from the Great Courses. They are expensive at full retail, but it is possible to get sales on them. I cannot recommend those enough.

I have also been going to my local library, and they have been indispensable for finding gems of cookbooks and find books on how to cook. I can basically try out a few recipes and see if I like them or not.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER10> Very grateful to my parents for not allowing me sugar added foods when I was a kid, even though I thought it was so lame and had the worst packed lunch out of my friends. I actually ended up being 300lbs in my late teens early 20s because all I did was IRC all day. That said, it didn't take much effort to get to the 150/160 I am today. I'm not sure if it's correlated but coincidently I can't stand anything sweet as an adult.

<comment><USER11> > 300lbs...it didn't take much effort to get to the 150/160

Uh, holy crap. Good job. How did you do it?

What are some lunch ideas from your parents for my kids? Serious question lol.

Since tree nuts and things aren't allowed I find nearly all the options in the "kids lunches" section of the store are all carb/sugar heavy, everything from the yogurts -> granola bars -> fruit. About the fattiest/healthiest thing I can think of are milk (still a lot of sugar but better than juice), cheese strings, or I make these celery + cream cheese things (instead of peanut butter, lol). I also found they like a tomato + mini bocconcini salad but by the time they go to eat it the salt has already "liquified" much of the cut tomatoes.

<comment><USER10> I grew up in rural Scotland. Mum got up at 5am and made herself coffee and two, stilton, cucumber and tomato ham sandwich for my sister and I. No pudding, maaaaaayyybbbeee we'd get carrots and broccoli with mayo as a side if we were lucky. We got on the bus at 7am. Amazingly I _still_ got fat because I was sedentary.

<comment><USER11> > coffee and two, stilton, cucumber and tomato ham sandwich

To me that actually sounds like a fucking delicious lunch, were I to pack that for myself lol.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment> cirrus-clouds For some global context, this article from 2015 shows sugar consumption across the globe. The data comes from market research company Euromonitor:

[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/02/05/where...](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/02/05/where- people-around-the-world-eat-the-most-sugar-and-fat/)

Countries with high sugar consumption levels include the US, Germany, Netherlands, Ireland, Australia, Belgium and the UK.

A more recently published report (some of which uses 2008 data) looks at the consumption of "ultra-processed" foods in 19 countries in Europe. "Ultra- processed" refers to food made in a factory with industrial ingredients and additives invented by food technologists: salty snacks, sugary cereals, industrially-made bread, desserts, ready-meals, reconstituted meats, and sweetened soft drinks

The top European countries for consuming "ultra-processed" foods are: UK, Germany, Ireland and Belgium:

[https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/feb/02/ultra- proces...](https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/feb/02/ultra-processed- products-now-half-of-all-uk-family-food-purchases)

</comment><comment><USER12> This is an overly dramatic way of saying that the average 10 year old has consumed 1.8 times the current sugar recommendation.

Average 51-year-old has read 4 years' worth of books

<comment><USER13> If you look at the longer trend lines you find the "average 10 year old" is consuming over 30% more sugar that one 30 years ago.

That's significant.

</comment></comment><comment><USER14> Based on the current guidelines, how many years worth of sugar would the average 10-year old from 30 years ago have consumed?</comment>


Inducing People's Employers to Fire Them Should Be a Civil Wrong - <AUTHOR> https://quillette.com/2018/07/28/inducing-peoples-employers-to-fire-them-should-be-a-civil-wrong/ <comment><USER2> Freedom of speech is important. Freedom of association is important. As long as we respect both we won't interfere with people freely speaking to other people's employers or employers choosing to disassociate themselves from employees as a result. Sure free speech and association can have negative consequences, they just tend to be less negative than prohibited or compulsory speech or association.

<comment><USER3> I'm not so sure. If an employer wants to disassociate from Islam and fires all muslims, why do we cover that under religious discrimination?

Why not stop discrimination over all ideologies? Maybe somebody will start a religion for Nazism.

<comment><USER4> Are you genuinely asking for an entry-level explanation of why most modern societies disapprove of discrimination on a few specific characteristics but do not generally consider "ideology" one of them? (I can provide one, but don't want to explain something basic if it's not actually at issue here.)

<comment><USER5> I'm not the poster you're responding to, and I like to think I have a reasonably good understanding of why modern societies don't discriminate on characteristics which a person can't change, and while I personally find it unethical to discriminate against someone based on their religious views, I have a hard time discerning why religion should get that protection while "ideology" shouldn't? As a non religious person I find religion both fairly ideological and something that a person can readily change, at least in a free society.

I've looked through your profile and you always seem to provide good explanations so I'd love to hear your thoughts. I hope you can believe me that this is a question asked in good faith.

<comment><USER6> For the sake of productive discussion, let's narrow 'modern societies' to the United States since 1964 (when Title VII of the Civil Rights Act was passed). In 1965, the Supreme court held (in United States v. Seeger) that:

'The test of religious belief [...] is whether it is a sincere and meaningful belief occupying in the life of its possessor a place parallel to that filled by the God of those admittedly qualified for the exemption.'

So a non-religious person like yourself _can_ have their 'ideology' legally protected from discrimination, as long as it passes the same 'sincere and meaningful' test that other protected religious beliefs do.

So the key to answering your good-faith question is in the definition/scope of 'religious' belief. A 'religious' belief (in this narrow context of US Title VII law) must meet a higher standard than a more general 'ideological' belief in that it must be both _sincere_ and _meaningful_ , and I would argue that a sincere belief meeting this higher standard is, by definition, _not_ 'something that a person can readily change'.

<comment><USER7> But why can't I make religious jokes at my workplace, if my ideology requires fighting religion, and the most acceptable place for it is lunches at work?

<comment><USER6> Religious accommodations are not required by law if the employer can demonstrate that granting them would impose an 'undue hardship' on the conduct of the employer's business, which in this case would be liability for claims of religious harassment.

<comment><USER7> Stumbling by prayer rooms in tech companies is an insult on my world view, but I doubt courts would let me call it harassment.

Not to mention me having to pay for them indirectly.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER8> I'm sympathetic to the example and idea, I guess I feel like it ... depends on the situation.

Let's say you're running a coffee shop. One of your servers posts a lot of racist stuff about minorities on twitter and it comes to light.

You want your shop to feel welcoming to all customers, keeping that person on is clearly untenable, potentially even a risk for the business to survive.

Granted the article at the end does take a more measured approach compared to the title that seems a bit absolute.

<comment><USER9> Is it really?

If nobody coming to the shop feels threatened, if the server's attitude towards the customers is not racist, if nothing that the server is doing in their private life is affecting your business, should you really be bothered?

Because, it feels to me, that once we give in to our imagined fears, we are only a few steps away from becoming what we feared.

</comment></comment><comment> gator-io Still can't believe Brendan Eich was hounded out of Mozilla.

<comment><USER8> That's where IMO things get complicated.

Mozilla presumably has or would have gay employees. Meanwhile here is a guy running the company supporting a cause to limit a specific group of employee's rights to marry.

That's no small thing, it's not some generic labor dispute, it's a very specific action that is specifically targeting a group of employees legal rights regarding marriage.

I think there is a legit leadership problem there.

<comment><USER10> By that logic should leadership fire those who support gun control? They are, after all, removing (what to some) seems a constitutional right.

I'm not against gun control, but the argument here isn't a slippery slope one. This is very close to believing or not in gay rights.

<comment><USER4> I think that if you donate to pro-gun-control causes and a significant number of your employees own guns that you wish to ban ownership of and find it personally important to own those guns, you might be a poor choice of CEO.

(Gun control isn't quite analogous here for a few reasons, one major one being that employers care a lot about who you marry, for insurance and family-leave reasons, and employers tend to care little about what guns you own. But if you can construct some situation where, I dunno, you interrogate employees about their guns or they want to open-carry at work, it's a little closer.)

Remember that nobody cared about Eich's views when he was CTO. He could have remained CTO for years, and the question of his suitability as chief _executive_ wouldn't have arisen.

<comment><USER11> > employers care a lot about who you marry, for insurance and family-leave > reasons

Employers don't care _who_ you marry; they care _if_ you marry. Although, those matters are related.

Similarly, employers doesn't care if you or others own a gun; they care if you are alive and healthy. And those matters are related. [Insert debate here about the direction of that relationship.]

<comment><USER4> > _Employers don 't care_ who _you marry; they care_ if _you marry. Although, > those matters are related._

Sure. And if you are married to someone of the same gender, you reach the situation where the question of if you are married has different answers to different people.

Or more precisely, your employer doesn't care if you are married, either; many states had processes for extending insurance benefits to either registered domestic partners or unregistered people that you just state an intention to live with long-term in a marriage-like way. Your employer cares that the social good promoted by insuring a family and not just the individual employee is a) actually being used when appropriate and b) not being used contrary to their wishes when not. If the employee's and employer's idea of social good and social ill are at odds, the employee should think twice about whether this employer is a good long-term (or even short-term) place for them.

The fact that this question arises with a significant number of Mozilla employees made Mozilla and Eich a poor match.

<comment><USER11> > the question of if you are married has different answers to different > people.

No one has a different answer to this question.

This isn't baptism. If one group could have one answer and another group could have a different answer, there would have no need for Prop 8, et al. The conflict arose because there is only one answer to which people have entered into a state-administered legal contract.

<comment><USER4> OK, fine, let's be even more pedantic. The question is whether you _should_ be able to get or remain married to someone. The purpose of Prop 8 is to make things that were previously recognized as legal marriages no longer legal marriages. If you're in one of the affected marriages and your CEO is trying to cause your marriage to become invalid, you may not share long-term goals.

(I can't tell, are you disagreeing with my point or just picking at the words I'm using to make it?)

<comment><USER11> > trying to cause your marriage to become invalid

FYI, the validity of existing marriages was never really on the table.

> I can't tell, are you disagreeing with my point

I'm disagreeing with "gun control isn't quite analogous here for a few reasons".

What if a leader opposed gun rights, thus removing employees' ability to protect themselves? Or what if a leader supported gun rights, thus making employees' communities more violent?

What if a leader opposed abortion rights, thus imposing an inappropriate level of control on women and their bodies? What if a leader supported abortion rights, thus showing a fundamental disregard for human life?

What if a leader supported minimum wage, thus showing a poor grasp of economics? What if a leader opposed minimum wage, thus hurting his employees financially?

What if a leader wanted increased defense spending, thus recklessly endangering the well-being of the world? What if a leader wanted decreased defense spending, thus recklessly endangering the well-being of the world?

What if a leader has Communist sympathies?

Or let's bring it back to marriage: What if a leader supported rights to polygamist marriage? What if a leader opposed rights to polygamist marriage?

The usual response to this is "Well, _OBVIOUSLY_ X is the right thing." Despite the fact that the country at large does _not_ have anything resembling consensus on these issues. (Just as the supposed "obvious" answer to Prop 8 was evidently very non-obvious to most Californians in 2008.)

<comment><USER4> I am distinctly not claiming "Obviously X is the right thing." I am claiming that if a leader believes that obviously X is the right thing, and a significant number of employees believe that obviously !X is the right thing, and the issue is likely to affect the productivity or long-term happiness of employees, the leader is a poor choice. This claim does not in any way express an opinion on which of the two groups is right. (Also, the poor choice may still be the best of the available choices.)

<comment><USER11> In that case, I suppose I don't see that as a surprising or really even noteworthy occurrence.

Statistically speaking, it is very likely that a CEO's political views are at odds with half of his employees.

<comment><USER4> I didn't say it was surprising or noteworthy. Brendan Eich is one of literally billions of people who are ill-suited to be CEO of Mozilla.

<comment><USER11> > I didn't say it was surprising or noteworthy

I don't think it's noteworthy that a CEO doesn't vote the same way as some employees; I think it's notable that a CEO was fired for it. How many companies have done that?

> billions of people who are ill-suited to be CEO of Mozilla.

 _Specifically_ (and this is really important -- you can't leave this out) because of their political affiliation.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER12> What we need is stronger rights for the worker. At the moment the employer holds all of the cards and enjoys the fact that we can be let go for silly social riots like this.

<comment><USER13> I debated this with a co-worker the other day. His opinion was that no matter what the reason for firing an employee, the employer can always justify it by citing performance or budgetary concerns. So the protections would be rendered useless.

How's it work in Norway? They usually do a good job of making Americans look silly when we say "that can't work because..."

<comment><USER14> _...citing performance or budgetary concerns..._

In the UK, where I ran a business and employed people, you need a small mountain of paperwork, collected over a fair period of time, to show that you tried in good faith to remedy the situation with the employee (in case of performance). Budgetary concerns also carry a heavy burden of proof. It really is a difficult and time-consuming path. Most medium and large companies choose to bypass the whole thing and offer a "compromise agreement", essentially "we give you x months pay right now if you sign this agreement where we mutually agree not to sue, or talk bad against eachother, and you GTFO right now".

There is a significant risk of something called "constructive dismissal" meaning you made it unreasonably hard for someone to be effective in their workplace, that is decided by an employment tribunal. As an employer, the system is undoubtedly a burden, but as a human, I always found I could live with it. I had one instance where it was open-and-shut grounds for instant dismissal, and I _still_ had to spend 4 months going through the process to ensure I was fully covered and not liable to some tribunal action. That sucked, but in the end there are many large firms that will fuck over employees without a second thought (USA style), and employees need protection from that.

<comment><USER15> Although employees don't get those protections if they've been working for the company for less than 2 years (unless the firing is discriminatory as defined in the Equality Act), and bringing a case to Employment Tribunal is fantastically expensive and thus not common.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER16> This mostly comes down to employment being too important and an unbalanced relationship between the employee and the employer. If the relationship was more balanced, "you said something questionable on Twitter" just wouldn't really be that compelling.

<comment><USER17> I think this is an effect, but not a solution. The harder answer is we treat others the way we would want to be treated if the roles were reversed.

<comment><USER16> I'm not sure how "we should treat others better" can be implemented in practice? That seems to be in the same bucket as "people should be smarter".

<comment><USER18> > I'm not sure how "we should treat others better" can be implemented in > practice?

This is an honest question from you, but to some it might seem like a no- brainer. I think a lot of it has to with personality types.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER17> Indeed. I think harassing people because you disagree with their political, religious, favorite flavor of skittle, etc is nasty. We need to have some class as the entire country is running towards identity politics like it's a good thing.

<comment><USER19> Unfortunately, in-group preference is like a primal instinct. People will pretty much always (sub)consciously treat you differently if you are different. This is why I prefer not to work for companies where everyone is "like family". They tout a "strong company culture" but, to me, it sounds more like "if you aren't one of us, we'll find a way to fire you".

<comment><USER8> I agree. It is human nature / instinct to get all tribal and such.

Someone had a great quote that I'm going to screw up big time here, but it was something like, "Every civilization is invaded by barbarians, they're called children."

Now as a parent it is amusing, but I belive the quote really was intended to note how children aren't born making good decisions or making decisions that support a community or civilization. Rather they must be taught to resist the negative instincts in order to maintain society.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER20> > There's another issue here, too. Why do employers not stand up for an > employee in the face of mob pressure? My own theory is that it comes down to > "corporate branding" and the way in which an individual's "personal brand" > is thought to mesh with the employer's "corporate brand."

This is the key point in the article IMO. Companies could shrug off these online mobs with a simple "none of our business" (and they have done so plenty in the past). Nowadays, however, every company is working its way into completely unrelated social causes simply for marketing, and employees must bear that burden whether they like it or not.

</comment><comment><USER21> On the one hand people have a right to free speech, on the other hand, they should not leverage their jobs or positions when making controversial comments so as to associate their employer with those words.

Of course, this position is frustrated by there not being a clear cut distinction between work persona and private persona.

Ideally, with a platform like Twitter, you'd have two personas, one tied to your employer or professional life, one tied to your private persona... For example, Rosanne or the people in the article.

<comment><USER22> Some people do separate their personal and work lives/personas. They are still at risk when malicious actors work to "doxx" them and force that connection to be made in the public space despite the honest attempt to compartmentalize.

<comment><USER21> This is true. But I mean it should br sicially acceptable to have at least the two. That's not to say people should not push back on odiousness, but the pushback should happen on the account conducting the odiousness; hopefully with some community policing. In other words there should be some modearation, even if by a sympathetic group to ensure it does not become too extreme.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER23> Democracy is a function of many variables. "An average high intelligence of population" and "high tolerance for seemingly outrageous ideas" are important ones. Humans have rigid belief-systems (comfort zone) and show very little capacity to step out of it.

In the current form of democracy, freedom of expression exists only when it is convenient for masses or when the elites need to push an agenda.

</comment><comment><USER24> People like to go for the jugular when topics like these are best tread delicately.

I'm sure the reporter in the sorry feels passionately about his position but if you use strong right/wrong language someone will probably end up feeling offended and get defensive.

<comment><USER25> > _Hitler as an example in an argument about a modern day political debate._

Huh? What would this prove? Doesn't this happen already? Are you not aware of Godwin's law?

</comment></comment><comment><USER26> If someone isn't ready to face the consequences of being of shunned professionally or socially, all they need to do is stop being a terrible person.

[https://xkcd.com/1357/](https://xkcd.com/1357/) sums it up quite well.

<comment><USER27> Attacks may and have been fabricated out of the blue.

"When a Stranger Decides to Destroy Your Life"

[https://gizmodo.com/when-a-stranger-decides-to-destroy- your-...](https://gizmodo.com/when-a-stranger-decides-to-destroy-your- life-1827546385)

<comment><USER15> But that is already a civil wrong, and would be covered by defamation law.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER4> Glad to see Quillette come out against free speech.</comment>


Show HN:Limit CPU, IO, Network in Java - <AUTHOR> https://github.com/haosdent/jcgroup jcgroup is a cgroup wrapper on JVM. You could use this library to limit the CPU shares, Disk I/O speed, Network bandwidth and etc of a thread. <comment><AUTHOR> Introduction page: [http://haosdent.github.io/jcgroup](http://haosdent.github.io/jcgroup)</comment>


Cryptocurrency dashboard for traders and investors - <AUTHOR> https://coinloop.io <comment><USER2> Thanks, I was looking for a version of blockfolio for desktop. AI signals are a nice added bonus as well.</comment>


Underpaid at work? Here's how to play salary catch-up - <AUTHOR> https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/underpaid-work-heres-how-play-salary-catch-up-abhigyan-chand <comment><AUTHOR> Quit and move on</comment>


The annoying state of Internet subscriptions - <AUTHOR> https://blog.vrypan.net/2016/01/20/the-annoying-state-of-internet-subscriptions/ <comment><USER2> Would love to see "subscribe" options that were accompanied by at least 10 enforced heuristic parameters...</comment>


Any cool startups hiring? - <AUTHOR>

Hey! I am young, ambitious, crazy, and I have had experience working for a few startups doing marketing, sales and some product management. I can also code front-end and design as well but I enjoy doing more of the business/marketing side of things.
I consider myself an out of the box thinker and love talking to people. I am 18 but don't let my age scare you, it just means I am more optimistic and move and think quicker.
My email address is in my profile.
Thanks for reading! <comment><USER2> If you haven't already you should check out the Who's Hiring threads (latest: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4463689>).

Also check out AngelList (<https://angel.co/>) and HN Jobs (<http://news.ycombinator.com/jobs>).

Finally, having a link to a blog / personal page / LinkedIn never hurts either.

P.S. Email addresses are private in profiles, you'll need to add it to your "About" section.

</comment><comment><USER3> Stick around for another ~week or so (Oct 1) and you'll see the monthly Who's Hiring thread.</comment>


Network Analysis of Third Party Tracking - <AUTHOR> http://research.microsoft.com/apps/mobile/publication.aspx?id=201586

<comment><AUTHOR> If a user clicks on one of the top ten search results for a variety of terms, there is 99.5% chance that they will become tracked by all top 10 trackers within 30 clicks.</comment>


Show HN: Pickle – a smarter address book for you and your startup - <AUTHOR> https://picklecrm.com/ <comment><USER2> Tough space but making CRM easier is a problem for someone to try and solve. Every time I bring up a team I tell them "I hate Salesforce more than all of you, but you already know how to use it so barring a better solution we are using that."

As an aside, I would very much enjoy tools (including a CRM) that allow me to switch accounts/companies quickly. I have 4 companies at the moment and use no CRM, Streak, Prosperworks, and Prospereorks. It's a gnarly way to go through life.

</comment><comment><USER3> There are tons of CRMs out there — what makes Pickle different? Your homepage doesn't really tell me.

Also, some product screenshots might go a long way to inspiring interest — I'm not going to sign up just to check out your design.

<comment><AUTHOR> So in my last company, we tried so many different CRMs. Salesforce, Salesforce IQ, Close.io, Pipedrive, and more. What we discovered that none of them allowed us to work the way that we wanted. Integrating with some of their APIs was more work than we wanted to do, they were expensive, and entirely closed source.

Pickle is designed to help you stay lean, allows you to create multiple projects (so you can use it at home, work, side projects, etc) with one login.

For example: People are using it to manage guest lists, for an event/wedding/party, using it to be transparent with their clients (see: [https://picklecrm.com/home-buying-timeline.html](https://picklecrm.com/home- buying-timeline.html)), to manage personal affairs at home like they children's clubs and groups.

You're definitely right: we should add more screenshots!</comment></comment>


Reaching $10k monthly revenue with WakaTime, my SaaS side project - <AUTHOR> https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/wakatime <comment><USER2> I must voice concerns regarding this product. Just took a look at the Notepad++ plugin ([https://github.com/wakatime/notepadpp- wakatime](https://github.com/wakatime/notepadpp-wakatime)), because this is something I know a lot about. To begin with, it sends filenames to the mother ship instead of just the programming language. I would consider filenames to be sensitive information giving a very good idea of the project you are working on...

Also problematic is the fact that plugin is doing almost nothing; instead it downloads Python from the official place, downloads a whole Python project (called CLI) and executes it. Also, there's an automatic update mechanism in place which updates the CLI every now and then. It sounds as a recipe for a disaster waiting to happen.

 _Edit_ :

I guess what I've said applies to every software with an auto-update function and that's of course quite the norm today. As ztratar pointed out, the usage of SSL provides a decent level of security. I still would wish for the user to be notified in some fashion. Also, from what I understand, the WakaTime CLI seems to have an option to hide filenames, it's just not changeable from the Notepad++ plugin.

<comment><USER3> What if you opened John_Doe_health_information.txt - would something like this be a HIPPA violation?

<comment><USER4> With that filename in majority of cases you're violating HIPAA even within your internal network. The thought processes usually goes, does every person that potentially sees that file name require to know the patients first and last name? Also, even those that do require it should only be accessing it on an as-needed basis (eg. at the time of claim submission, etc) which means it shouldn't be floating around on your filesystem.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> Congrats on this, loved the quote.

>> The best startup book is one you never open because you're too busy marketing and building your product

<comment><USER6> While that makes for a great anecdote, there are action-oriented people should not be heeding that advice. An appropriate balance between rational ignorance and analysis paralysis must be struck. Otherwise, it's left to others to deal with your predisposition towards an extreme.

<comment><USER7> It can also be taken as you will read what you need to when you need to be solving it - instead of reading in advance.

<comment><USER8> Lean learning. Just-in-time education.

<comment><USER9> Lazy learning. Information is getting as it needed

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER10> A user emailed to tell us that the ownership of this project and this story of its founding are disputed and there's a legal process going on. A quick check shows a bit of supporting evidence for this, so I think it's best if we bury this post for now. We have no way to tell who's right, and it doesn't seem fair for HN to implicitly take a side by featuring one side of the story.

Incidentally, we invited this submission as a repost of [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15546345](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15546345). We do that when we run across a good submission that didn't get much attention the first time around, and we think the community might find it interesting. We wouldn't have done that if we'd known the story was disputed. The principle remains the same, though, so if any of you know of a good submission that fell through the cracks, please email us at email@example.com and we'll consider putting it in the queue.

<comment><AUTHOR> I've emailed about this, but can respond here too. I'm the sole-founder of WakaTime and there is no ongoing legal dispute.

Priyanka Sharma and I worked on a massage on-demand startup which didn't take off. We decided to see if investors would be interested in my WakaTime project, and Priyanka asked to be listed on the WakaTime "About" page to build her confidence when talking to potential investors. I also agreed to pitch WakaTime on TechCrunch with her, although they listed her incorrectly as CEO! She was CEO of the massage startup, Kneady, but never WakaTime!

It's unfortunate that Priyanka Sharma now uses the WakaTime TechCrunch article to charge early-stage startups for advice through Heavybit. It's also unfortunate if HN caves to her threats of ownership without asking for any proof. If she was a founder of WakaTime, she should be able to produce a stock purchase or other agreement, or even documentation about an "ongoing legal dispute". I've already reached out to HN via email offering proof of ownership, so hopefully HN unburies this post.

<comment><USER11> This response is fishy as hell. I don't know what Priyanka's title was at WakaTime but I viewed her as the public face of the company, as judged by the dozens of emails I have from WakaTime that all came from her, her activity in the Slack, her blog posts which were removed from the WakaTime blog, etc.

Here's one example of an email from Priyanka on behalf of WakaTime:

[https://i.imgur.com/PYHuc8s.png](https://i.imgur.com/PYHuc8s.png)

And the removal of her blog posts:

[https://github.com/wakatime/wakatime- blog/commit/5d671e9aab6...](https://github.com/wakatime/wakatime- blog/commit/5d671e9aab64e712fed73c3c1a994b555539d663)

Edit:

And an interesting Twitter thread:

[https://twitter.com/downey/status/861908826223759360](https://twitter.com/downey/status/861908826223759360)

This makes me want to stop paying for WakaTime.

<comment><AUTHOR> > Here's one example of an email from Priyanka on behalf of WakaTime

At the time I was happy when she said she would send the newsletter emails for me, but now I see she just wanted people to think she was the public face for WakaTime to further a tech founder persona. Yea I made a mistake letting her send newsletters on behalf of WakaTime, but that doesn't mean she can claim to have built WakaTime.

> This response is fishy as hell.

I didn't raise a fuss when I should have because I didn't want to cause her trouble, but then she demanded a large sum of money from me in exchange for giving me WakaTime... when she never owned WakaTime. That's what I consider fishey.

<comment><USER11> Are you saying she didn't write the content of the newsletters, or moderate the Slack, or write those blog posts? I don't think anyone is contending that she wrote the code but I know my own interest in WakaTime would have waned without the community and the newsletters.

I am still unsatisfied with your version of events because it seems to discount that Priyanka did any work at all.

<comment><USER12> Her first blog post was on: 2014-12-16

Her last blog post was on: 2015-03-31

This doesn't look like an sophisticated engagement.

<comment><USER11> Here's a Google Trends chart for 'WakaTime':

[https://i.imgur.com/VHeJPYY.png](https://i.imgur.com/VHeJPYY.png)

That first spike is December 2014. Interesting timing!

The last Slack notification email I have from her is from 10/26/2015\. Why is it so hard to believe that she did a year or so's worth of work for WakaTime? Why are her contributions to be valued less because they aren't code?

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER13> Is it me or is it nuts to be paying $1,600 a month on servers when you have just over 1000 users? Seems like something that could be run on a $50-$100 VPS.

<comment><USER14> That's the number of users who are paying. He mentions that he has over 100K total users.

That raises an issue with this sort of model that I've never really understood: if only ~1% of users are paying, it seems like very small changes in conversion rate could make or break the business. Suppose the conversion rate goes down by just 0.3%. That would be a 30% reduction in revenue while you still have to run the infrastructure to support all the free users who didn't convert. Would the business still be financially viable? What's the best way to manage that risk?

<comment><USER15> That's not a real risk. That's an outcome. A risk is something that LED to that drop in conversion. It could be a competitor coming in with the same feature set, or something else. But a drop in conversion is not a risk, it's an outcome.

<comment><USER16> The risk part is the small margin that means you can't survive small bumps that lead to a drop in conversion.

<comment><USER15> as the person who responded above me noted, that's not a small margin at all. That's a huge relative change.

<comment><USER16> I'm not talking about the previous posters 30% drop being a small margin. I'm saying that 1% paying customers is a risk and it's likely to get lower than that, the more exposure it gets.

<comment><USER15> First, why is 1% paying customers a risk? That's actually a fairly average/normal conversion rate for a freemium product. Trello, I wager gets way less than that.

Second, why is it likely to get lower the more exposure it gets?

<comment><USER16> I'm not an expert. I've never ran a SaaS business with a freemium model (I have ran SaaS businesses with other pricing models).

But, everything I've ever read on the subject indicates 1% is either bare minimum or too low. [1,2]

>Second, why is it likely to get lower the more exposure it gets?

In my experience the more hype you get, the lower your conversion rate all other things being equal (in my case conversion rate after free trial, vs freemium) because people who had to search you out to find you are more likely to convert than people who are just checking out the hottest new thing they saw on HN.

That's obviously not always true, and it may not be true in their case, but if I were the CEO, I'd be very focused on increasing my conversion rate.

1\. [https://hbr.org/2014/05/making-freemium- work](https://hbr.org/2014/05/making-freemium-work) 2\. [https://techcrunch.com/2012/11/04/should-your-startup-go- fre...](https://techcrunch.com/2012/11/04/should-your-startup-go-freemium/)

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER17> As a webdev, a significant portion of my time is spent in the browser's devtools - debugging or styling components. That would be a great addition to the product.

<comment><USER18> There are extensions for chrome and I'm pretty sure you can whitelist sites, is that sufficient enough?

</comment></comment><comment><USER19> Friendly suggestion: make the pricing easier to find.

Right now, the only link is in small print at the very bottom of the home page.

<comment><USER20> that is on purpose. first to hook you up = to sell you the product by letting it try it for free and to convince you that the product is worth to pay, then later ask you for money. nothing wrong with this, but personally i like to know the price upfront too. or at least a price range

</comment></comment><comment><USER21> Wakatime's HN launch: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6046227](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6046227)

<comment><USER22> I love how so many of the top comments are people telling him to make changes and that this isn't what they want. 100k users later...

<comment><USER23> Oh Ycombinator, such a bastion of encouragement you can be. Check out the top comment dropbox received when it debut on Ycombinator.

            "...you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem."

[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224)

<comment><USER24> It's nothing new, that's how we get cute quotes, such as:

* the one misattributed to Bill Gates, about 640k of RAM being enough for everyone

* the one by Thomas Watson about the worldwide computer market needing only 5 computers

* or more recently, the Commander Taco quote about the iPod: "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."

Hindsight is funny :)

Edit: Oh, and I have to tell BrandonM, if he's still around: in no way is your solution trivial for non-developers, even 10+ years after your comment :)

<comment><USER25> > * the one by Thomas Watson about the worldwide computer market needing only > 5 computers

The interesting thing is, the context of that quote is building-sized computers being accessed by terminals over the phone network.

Fast forward to 2017 and we have terminals (smartphones) accessing building- sized computers (datacentres) over the (wireless) phone network.

We can be more charitable by treating all of a company's datacentres as one big, distributed computer. In which case, what's the world market? It's easy to pick 5 that cover a big chunk of it; e.g. Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft and Amazon :)

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER26> Be careful what you measure, because you will get more of it. I don't think # of seconds editing a file is a good proxy for measuring bug free and understandable code. But if you want more # of seconds with files open and being edit, this is your tool it seems.

Am I missing something about this product in that it measures anything related to code quality?

If a company relies heavily this tool to measure its devs productivity, that would be a red flag about what developer attributes the company rewards. I guess it could be combined with other measures, but the leaderboard and gamification will incentivize behavior not closely tied to getting things done, in my opinion.

And, yes, the success is inspiring and despite my negativity I'd be curious to hear how the tool has been used to improve a team's productivity. I spent some time on the product's web page, but it doesn't really address how time spent in a file relates to productivity.

<comment><USER27> My read is that this isn't a productivity tool at all. It's a way to capture who to bill for your work (Billable vs. overhead time).

"generate and send PDF invoices pre-filled with your coding activity." is in the future roadmap. And the pain of keeping track of billable hours is what drove him to write it to start with.

Keeping track by program used is a nice-to-have, because then someone on the team could notice "hey we spend a lot more time with tool X then makes sense, maybe there's a way to improve that?"

<comment><USER28> > _" generate and send PDF invoices pre-filled with your coding activity." is > in the future roadmap._

I love the guy's success but man do I hate this idea. I'm billing for more than time in vim. If you're my client and I'm answering an email from you, I'm billing you for that. If we're on the phone, the clock is running. If we're on a Hangout, you're paying.

Could you imagine if your employer only paid you for time spent in an editor?

<comment><AUTHOR> This is solved with good UI, where you see the time you were coding as a starting point then add any non coding time before sending the invoice.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER29> This seems like it would really help solve my time tracking needs at work, but having this sending that data to their servers makes it a non starter. Time tracking is my #1 pain point at work right now and would signup today and pay if an offline version was made available.

<comment><USER30> That's what people have said about passwords with password managers, private keys with keybase, their servers and legal documents with AWS and docusign, their banking with online banking, etc etc. The list goes on and on.

This kind of thing doesn't stop people. I think it just means you end up with fewer good products to use.

<comment><USER29> It literally just did stop me from using this product... Just because some people choose to trust some companies with some of their data, doesn't mean that it isn't a valid issue.

<comment><USER30> > This kind of thing doesn't stop people. I think it just means you end up > with fewer good products to use.

To be more clear. This won't stop the vast majority of people. They want to use good products. If it's good, they will use it.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER31> "Growing by word of mouth has worked great." <\-- That's the dream right there.

</comment><comment><USER32> Installed the plugin after I saw the Indie Hacker interview. Really like the product so far! It integrates very smoothly and I like the fact that you don't have to login to use the product. Recommended!

</comment><comment><USER33> Congratulations. I'm not sure if the actual author is on this thread or this was posted by someone else but maybe someone can answer...

One problem I have bootstrapping my SaaS is that I have no money to market. I can tweet and do direct marketing but that is slow and time consuming. Any recommendations from the crew on HN with how I can market to a large audience without needing a huge budget to spend on Adwords and things like that?

<comment><USER34> Affiliate marketing might work, depending on your SaaS. e.g. this is what drove convertkit to 600k MRR

> Once we hit about $20,000 MRR (through direct sales and word-of-mouth) we > added an affiliate program. That worked exceptionally well because bloggers > — our target market — are used to using affiliate programs to generate > revenue. Also, if a small business owner loves your product they might tell > 2-3 friends. But if a blogger loves your product, they'll tell 20,000 > readers! So we had a very natural distribution path built in.

> We decided to pay a 30% recurring commission each month, rather than a large > upfront commission, mainly because we didn't have any cash and couldn't > cashflow anything up front. That turned out to be a great decision since > many bloggers want a predictable, recurring income source.

> Later on we started doing webinars with our affiliate partners as a way to > help them drive more sales. This not only grew our email list significantly > (up to 50,000 subscribers in a year), but also drove a ton of new revenue. > Today we pay out just over 10% of our revenue each month to our affiliates."

<comment><USER33> Thank you for the suggestion.

> "Once we hit about $20,000 MRR"

Interesting. I wonder why the $20k MRR... I have $50 MRR (dollars... not thousands). But I don't see anything about affiliate marketing that would prohibit starting early.

<comment><USER35> This is going to be dependent on a few factors (market, product, etc.) but I'd rather be an affiliate for a product with a proven track record of conversions unless I really love a product and just want to promote it. If I know a product already has a high conversion rate and $20k+ MRR then I feel better about the prospects of sending 20k people there and getting a hefty percentage than I would about a new product bringing in $50. Maybe my thinking is wrong though.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER36> Huh. I remember a couple years ago I was at a hackathon when some guy just came up to me and some friends, handed us stickers with this logo while mumbling a few words, and walked away. I don't remember that person actually pitching anything and I'm not sure if it was Alan or someone he hired to give out stickers.

<comment><AUTHOR> That was me o_O

</comment></comment><comment><USER37> It is funny to see this post. I started to use this product three days ago. A friend told me about it (word of mouth). It is great. I use RescueTime since 2013, but the WakaTime product has complementary features.

</comment><comment><USER38> What a great success story. All the best. Motivational for me personally as well.

</comment><comment><USER39> > I don't use paid advertising, because past Facebook ads resulted in mostly > fake signups that never installed a plugin.

Is this still generally true in 2017?

<comment><USER40> Don't know for the market in general, but the efficiency of Facebook ads seems to be slowing a lot for us.

</comment></comment><comment><USER41> I thought Wakatime was originally a 2 person startup?

</comment><comment><USER42> Infrastructure cost is quite high, almost on the same level as Pied-Piper wonder how much time before something better or even free appears.

Also if any dev is reading, a good addition will be able to run this on my own premises, this is some information valuable for project leads but its hard to justify monthly cost for something you usually take for granted.

<comment><AUTHOR> > its hard to justify monthly cost for something you usually take for granted

That's the hardest part about products for devs, we understand how things work and therefore obviously we shouldn't pay for something we could build ourselves.

</comment></comment><comment><USER43> I love wakatime...

I'm currently writing an integration (beta) that will take your wakatime history (heartbeats), and convert it into billable hours (15 minute chunks)... it is available for free at: [http://itimetrack.com](http://itimetrack.com)

Congrats to Alan!!!

</comment><comment><USER44> Problem with productivity is that at some moment it becomes a zero sum game. e.g: let us say you code 18 hours a day. you are eating into your sleep, your physical well being and eventually you will end up producing less... if not in the short term, in the long term.

</comment><comment><USER45> One thing missing from the post was when the founder quit their job to work on this full-time (or if they've even done that yet?) Also they didn't mention if they were still a solo founder and developer.

<comment><AUTHOR> Sorry, forgot to mention that. Im the sole founder and I didn't quit my job for it... So it's been a side project alongside my day job.

<comment><USER45> Whoa, that's surprising! Could I ask, what is your day job at the moment? There wasn't any current company listed in your LinkedIn profile.

Just asking because it must be an awesome place to work if you're still there!

<comment><AUTHOR> I built WakaTime when working as a dev at WhiteHat Security, and through the years I've worked at Prezi, contracting independently.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER46> I've heard of Wakatime but never signed up for it until now, after reading the post. Vim plugin installed, and trying things out, but so far it's great. I really like the dashboard and the metrics.

</comment><comment><USER47> Does anybody has any experience with the mentioned nephoscale.com?

<comment><AUTHOR> It's great if you want a lot of VMs or a lot of network io. It's basically a cheaper ec2.

</comment></comment><comment><USER48> Been using your tool almost since day one. It's lightweight and simple enough to provide me with exactly the metrics I need. Keep up the good job!

</comment><comment><USER49> Does this tool upload my code to a server to analyze?

<comment><USER50> No it doesn't, and the tool integrations are open source.

[https://github.com/wakatime](https://github.com/wakatime)

</comment></comment><comment><USER51> Why this needs a lot of plugins, while RescueTime do that with a single app?

</comment><comment><USER52> Congrats on the success Alan!

</comment><comment><USER53> What would be your conversion (for the 100k users) at $1 a month ?

<comment><AUTHOR> Probably the same conversation rate because I increased the price from $5 to $9 and there was no change in conversion rate. So just less revenue.

</comment></comment><comment><USER54> To waka or not to waka That is the question</comment>


Universities that train U.S. teachers get mediocre marks in ratings - <AUTHOR> http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/university-programs-that-train-us-teachers-get-mediocre-marks-in-first-ever-ratings/2013/06/17/ab99d64a-d75b-11e2-a016-92547bf094cc_story.html

<comment><USER2> Programs to "prepare the nation's K-12 teachers" are probably terrible at doing that because it is not their purpose.

The purpose of teacher qualifications is to lend status to the profession, and to serve as arbitrary yardsticks for promotion.

[http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2010/10/pdf/teacher_e...](http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2010/10/pdf/teacher_effectiveness.pdf) "traditional measures of teacher qualifications, such as completion of a preparation program, number of degrees, or years of experience... [serve as] the basis for making decisions about hiring, tenure, licensing, compensation, and selection for leadership roles... current measures for evaluating teachers are not often linked to their capacity to teach"

If ability to teach is not relevant to teachers' career prospects, there is probably not much pressure on universities to offer training that improves it.

<comment><USER3> This is why I thought the AFT's suggestion on a rigorous exam was ludicrous too. Does passing the bar make lawyers better law teachers?

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> From the Post article:

"The National Council on Teacher Quality analyzed admissions standards and inspected syllabuses, textbooks and course requirements and rated 1,430 programs on a scale of zero to four stars. The organization did not visit the schools or interview students and faculty."

How seriously would the newspapers take a restaurant guide built with a similar approach? "We haven't been there, but the menu looks good, and their vegetable supplier is OK." It is also hard to take seriously a study that doesn't look at the work of the graduates.

</comment><comment><USER5> Around 45% of new teachers leave the profession within 5 years. Is a degree in education (or a post-bac year in California) worth the time and money invested? What other professions have similar turnover rates?

[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/27/world/americas/27iht- teac...](https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/27/world/americas/27iht- teachers.1.7266988.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0)

[http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/03/08/high- teacher...](http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/03/08/high-teacher- turnover-rates-are-a-big-problem-for-americas-public-schools/)

</comment><comment><USER6> I am in California, and my understanding is that teachers-in-training normally put in a certain number of hours of time in an actual classroom before they earn their teaching credential. Perhaps teachers in other states have a different experience, but I think California does a reasonable job with preparing teachers.

Still, if a teacher does their classroom training in an affluent neighborhood but then take a teaching job in a low income school, I would not be surprised that their be an adjustment period. But preparing the teachers for local issues seems best handled by the school district.

<comment><USER7> I'm not in the US, but a (fairly long) while ago when my mother decided she wanted to be a teacher, being a primary school (first four years here) either required a university degree and some fairly serious examination, or enrolling in a special high school. They did have pedagogy classes (4 hrs/week, I think?) and 1 or 2 additional hours of psychology compared to other high school programs, but this was otherwise a regular high school and at the wonderful age of 18, you were a primary school teacher.

My mother later decided she also wants a degree in Psychology (she got back to school for her BSc and an MSc -- quite bravo for someone who was, at that point, in her forties), but she often tells me how much of what she learned was in the job, not in school. It helped that she had to put on several hundreds of hours of supervised teaching.

On the other hand, she reckons that she was doing it wrong in many aspects that did not have directly to with pedagogy. She has now come to realize that for long time -- her first ten, fifteen years on the job even! -- the way she handled a lot of aspects involved in working with kids outside the matter of teaching them this concept or that method were wrong.

Unfortunately, no amount of study can prepare you for that. Having a well- paid, secure job, a safe family life and a frustration-free existence is even more important. A lot of her colleagues (she doesn't live in quite the most pleasant place of this world, albeit it's in the better half) vent a lot of anger and misery on the kids they teach, wrecking generation after generation. I'm actually one of their byproducts -- I passionately hated going to school, and the whole thing was so stinky that even my parents, while not actively encouraging me to skip classes, were at least not making it harder.</comment></comment>


Terminalizer to record your terminal and generate animated gif images - <AUTHOR> https://github.com/faressoft/terminalizer <comment><USER2> Really cool !</comment>


Tumblr Sold to Automattic - <AUTHOR> https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/aug/12/verizon-tumblr-sale-automattic <comment><USER2> In the article it says that some sources say that they sold it for less than $3 million, compared to what they bought it for it's quite low. Wonder what are the reasons for the selling. There's also more info here: [https://www.wsj.com/articles/verizon-to-sell-tumblr-to- wordp...](https://www.wsj.com/articles/verizon-to-sell-tumblr-to-wordpress- owner-11565640000)</comment>