Readit News101km commented on SoftBank Finds Limits to Its Love for WeWork as Investors Push Back wsj.com/articles/softbank... · Posted by u/pl0x
For a pinch of irony the founder is Israeli:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Neumannhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOb_ogQJWeI
tl;dw - "As of 2 years ago 98% only young entrepreneurs, as of today 30% of all of our members are enterprise, corporate America.
23% of all Fortune 500 companies are already in WeWork.
..If they want a satellite office they'll just put it in a WeWork, if they are looking for an HQ or they want to redo their HQ they'll ask us to do it.
And today we don't even take the space - we will redesign the space, build it, deploy our technology which is called WeOS and took a long time to create and put our community managers in there.
I would love to do it for city hall, in fact if any mayors are listening: we.co/mayors"
101km commented on GoAWK: an AWK interpreter written in Go benhoyt.com/writings/goaw... · Posted by u/f2f
While I'm cool with writing other language processors in a new language (Lisp written in Cobol anyone?) I'm missing the value of this past the bragging rights.
There was a similar article about writing the LuaVM in Go, to package it in bigger Go applications. I've done lots of C based systems and bolted Lua on, so the Go version makes sense.
But is imbedding Awk into a program that gets done on a regular basis?
I believe in this instance it is the author wanting to level up on AWK and Go. The value is learning and fun.
An AWK interpreter written in Go is unlikely to be an improvement, except, well here is another blog post you might be interested in that has a similar sense of adventurous tinkering (it's about improving on grep): https://ridiculousfish.com/blog/posts/old-age-and-treachery....
That's from 2006 and the tl;dr was graybeards did things a certain way for a reason. And yet nowadays with have things like rg (and ag and a bunch of others).
101km commented on Show HN: StyleURL – Edit CSS via Chrome Devtools and turn the diff into a gist styleurl.app... · Posted by u/firloop
I know you can have a workspace and edit local files via Chrome, but is there really no simple way to "close the loop" and sync the devtools changes to a local file?
This extension is a nice step in that direction but still involves copy/paste and editing.
101km commented on iTerm2 has a new drawing engine that uses Metal 2 gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm... · Posted by u/CharlesW
> Agreed on using standard terminal. I’d like if someone could explain what utility they get out of iTerm (or any other non-builtin terminal).
For me it's simply that I couldn't get custom colors (e.g., the Solarized Dark theme) to display correctly with built-in Terminal. I haven't tried in 5+ years though -- maybe it's fixed now, and/or maybe I was doing something wrong at the time. But iTerm "just worked", and I never noticed performance issues so once I switched I never looked back. shrug
That is actually fixed now.
101km commented on “POSIX advisory locks are broken by design” sqlite.org/src/artifact/c... · Posted by u/okket
Yes. And there is code in the SQLite source tree (currently on a branch) that supports OFD locks. The problem we have is that SQLite is so widely deployed and is in so many systems and on so many platforms, that we have to continue to support Posix Advisory Locks (PAL) for the foreseeable future, for compatibility. It will be great if someday we can remove the PAL code. But for now, it has to stay in the tree.
Ah, darn, I'm a few hours late so you will probably miss it but I wanted to ask for a long time:
Sounds like a lot of stuff like this has accumulated. Your dedication to backwards compatibility (and testing) is always very impressive, but don't you ever get the urge to do a parallel "SQLite Next" effort as it were? Kind of like python had the 2/3 years.
"...I'm assuming you must be a pro-Castro cuban or something..."
???
Guy? What? I'm just a farm boy from small town Wisconsin. But I have been to Cuba. A lot. And not only recently now that everything is different, I was there during the special period even. I'm only relating what I saw.
Crippling poverty. Everywhere.
"Militarily Industrialized". Give me a break. What "industry"? Don't get me wrong. No one starves in Cuba. (Even during the Special Period.) But people were hungry, and I don't think anyone would go to Cuba and conclude that they have loads of industry under the control of their army. (In fact, you'd have been hard pressed to show "loads of industry" at all.)
Again, yeah, yeah, all of this is changing. Constitution reforms, North Cuba Basin, Yada yada yada. But that place has been poverty personified for a very long time. And there was no "industry" to be found.
And what is it with you and this phantom army of yours? The Cuban Army is a joke. The only thing the Cuban military has is smart guys. That's it. They're not gonna be out repelling any invasions anytime soon. The cops on their streets are what you should really be worried about. (Don't commit a crime, because the Castros run things down there. That's free advice.)
Finally, you're the one on here talking like some propaganda minister for who knows who. Not me.
Oh yeah... also... living on 12 dollars a month SUCKS. So if I sound a little angry, it's because seeing so many good people living that experience still gets under my skin.
I've spent ~1 month tramping all over Cuba. This is absolutely spot on.
101km commented on Geosharded Recommendations with Hilbert Curve at Tinder tech.gotinder.com/geoshar... · Posted by u/realfun
Sometimes it feels like Groundhog Day, behold:
https://medium.com/@buckhx/unwinding-uber-s-most-efficient-s...
tl;dr - S2 is a good library.
There's also a joke in here somewhere about bikeshedding and yak shaving.
101km commented on Linux touchpad like a Macbook: goal worth pursuing? williambharding.com/blog/... · Posted by u/macco
How frequently are you traveling? And is it usually for extended periods of time? I'm curious for more details, if you can share.
I'd also like to know more about your config restoration process. Is it literally just running your script? What other things does it do?
My process is fairly streamlined as is, with most things except software installs done automatically. But I'm always on the lookout for improvements.
Continuously the last two years, 30+ countries. :)
What kind of details are you looking for? I unbox at the Apple store and:
- Temporarily turn off Spotlight & Time Machine (Permanently) because it helpfully tries to index everything and tinker with a handful of system preferences while a memorized curl|bash runs
Mostly appearance related. This can also be automated but doesn't seem worth it as it only takes a minute. I don't use iCloud.
- Selective sync with Dropbox (which was just installed for me), mostly for the 1Password folder, while the rest of the script runs. Read HN or better yet about the new surroundings.
- Manually run software update and reboot into my now familiar machine
- Turn spotlight back on
I do forget to remap the esc key each time I do this, or the name of the thingie that helps you do that, that's about the only noticeable difference between old and new machines.
Some parts of San Francisco are very dirty and the homeless issue is not exaggerated. Everybody knows about the Tenderloin at night.
With that being said, I drove across the US two years ago and if you keep your eyes open you realize it is all over - Portland and Seattle are no better, just less talked about.
My rent is $1300, I live with one roommate on Russian Hill. I'm flexible and lucky so this is not representative. A girl I know who works at Google lives in inner Richmond (arguably a less desirable area) by herself and pays nearly triple for some reason.
It is hard to find a proper gym for less than a Benjamin and food is above average for an American city but hilariously expensive. Good way to gauge is pick some fast food chain and compare, Dennys is x2 here than the rest of the country.
All in all this place isn't the shiny happy city you'd imagine from watching Full House or or the counter culture epicenter of hippie times gone by. It doesn't suck, I'd definitely visit for a week or two if you have never been, and there's a lot of history here but in the end it is no longer a very remarkable place to live.