> They also need to keep detailed log books, plan out routes, pass inspections -- and know how to talk civilly and constructively to DOT inspectors. An eighth grade education will not get you there. Especially on the last part.
I don't think you need a high school or college education to learn how to talk civilly and constructively with authority; decent parents should be sufficient. Ignorance need not automatically mean petulance.
That depends on what you're trying to achieve: the bigger the goal you're striving for, the more people you'll need for it. Yes, technology is an amazing lever, but it's not infinitely long: 5 people aren't going to make the next smartphone, electric car or rocket.
Yeah, I'll agree as an American that $55 for code which can do primitive OCR is probably really, really cheap. Your client should have treated you better.
> The only thing you can—and should—do is be ruthless yourself. Negotiate for more confidently. Move on if you're undervalued.
Well, try not to think of it as being ruthless. Plenty of businesses do well by helping others do well, too. But, at the end of the day, you have bills to pay and a lifestyle to support: you have to preserve that.
> I hope this question is relevant enough to the thread to ask here: what language did the people of Turkey, and by extension most of the Turkic-speaking countries, speak before the Mongolian invasion?
The people of Anatolia spoke Greek before the Turks invaded.
> Similar to the differences between Olde English and today's English.
I think that you're thinking of the Modern English of Shakespeare's era or Middle English (e.g. 'Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote'), not Old English (e.g. 'Hwæt we Gar-dena in geardagum, þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon').
Middle English is very similar to Modern English, and can be read with relative ease. Old English has to be studied as a foreign language.
My understanding is that Church Slavonic is nearly indecipherable to someone who knows modern Russian, which would make Old English the correct comparison. However, I am not fluent in Russian and am relying on others' characterization.
OCS is not as completely foreign to Russian speakers as Old English is to English speakers; I would compare it more to Chaucer than to Beowulf, although whether you can understand a specific text depends very much on the subject and the context. Since Biblical quotes and expressions are so common, OCS terms may be familiar to even secular Russians.
Note, however, that OCS does not have an ancestral relationship to Russian - it is a Southern Slavic language, most similar to ancestors of today's Bulgarian. Old Russian texts (such as The Tale of Igor) are written in a different language - Old Russian (which existed long before the split into Russian, Ukrainian and so on, so the name "Old East Slavic" is sometimes used).
Which means there must be some sort of weighting system they use to determine if you are rate-limiting worthy.
It keeps happening to me, I have to email them and someone other than dang answers the email and apologises for the limit being applied, then gets rid of it. Of course, being in another time zone I find it takes quite a long time, and in fact the rate limit never seems to get removed even after a day.
For a very, very long time. I've asked dang to look into why it occurred to me, and his response is the following:
Since we've discussed these matters at length in the past, another lengthy discussion is unlikely to accomplish much.
The reasons are much the same as before, which means you have a bit of work to do to figure out what you need to do differently if you want to post freely to HN. Sending demanding emails is not doing that work. In fact it's a signal that you're not doing it. Sincere effort will go a much longer way.
Daniel
Here are the problematic posts:
- a comment where I say that we need to have civil discourse, after which dang tells me I'm trolling (which is truly remarkable...) - he then detached it from the thread and at this point I got rate limited https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12911140
Just before then I recall researching and posting a detailed comment on query tuning and analysis in database engines, and a number of other informative and well received comments.
When the mods here have got it in for you, they've got it in for you.
I generally feel my heart sink whenever I see dang or sctb post — it is almost always a negative contribution to the discussion, of the form 'we have detached this thread, because we don't like it, for opaque reasons.'
I like to hope that they're doing lots of good work in the backend of HN, but what I see on the frontend is almost uniformly negative.
In the long run, I think that's the right location for things like IoT devices: there's no reason for my thermostat to dial back to the cloud when it can just connect to my central computing unit in the closet, exactly like it connects to the central heating and air conditioning units in the closet. Normal people don't mess with HVAC, but they can if they want to (and it's remarkably simple!); likewise I don't imagine normal people would mess with their home system, but they'd be able to if they wished.
Yes, I use them. I prefer them to any online service because they are completely under my own control. I do wish that I could securely sync them, but ever since Firefox completely broke the security of their Sync system, there's nothing I can rely on to safely sync for me. It's not a huge deal
The old Firefox sync protocol used secure keys to encrypt user data; the new protocol uses one's Firefox account password to encrypt it. A memorable password is a low-entropy password, which means it is an insecure encryption key.
Mozilla's protocol purports not to reveal passwords to Mozilla itself, but the security of the system rests on Javascript files delivered from … Mozilla. They can, if they wish, target a user and serve him suborned Javascript which send the plaintext password back. Unlike a tampered build of Firefox itself, which might actually be noticed, this could be a one-shot attack.
Worse, not just Mozilla as an organisation can do this: it can be compelled to do so on behalf of any government which has the power to compel it (or those employees capable of targeting someone).
Curious how that's a security issue? Bookmarks are just public links, so there's no problem if someone sniffs them out, right?
Do you mean if a site stores cryptographic information in the url? Or is it the act of syncing with your local machine that introduces surfaces of attack on your local system?
Firefox Sync used to be protected with high-entropy keys; now it's protected by a (likely) low-entropy password. Moreover, even if one uses a high-entropy character sequence as a password, Mozilla are able to target one with malicious JavaScript and snarf that password at will.
I don't think you need a high school or college education to learn how to talk civilly and constructively with authority; decent parents should be sufficient. Ignorance need not automatically mean petulance.