Sometimes I get shocked by these numbers and it reminds me how little I know about business. Like if you showed me the wikipedia page for Zapier and asked me give it some value, I would be way off. Or if you pitched the business idea to me, I would tell you do something better with your time.
Readit Newssuperbcarrot commented on Zapier reached a $5B valuation with $1.3M of funding forbes.com/sites/alexkonr... · Posted by u/gmays
> thank you AWS, Azure, GCP...
This might be your answer. She can look for ways to transition to being a cloud engineer. There is a lot of complexity there and plenty of work to be done for the foreseeable future. As a DBA she should find that switch easier to make than moving to data science.
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superbcarrot commented on Emacs org-mode examples and cookbook (2017) ehneilsen.net/notebook/or... · Posted by u/ddtaylor
> admit to myself that I'm not a real man
Note, many emacs users aren't men at all.
I know. It's a figure of speech, not a reference to the demographics of emacs users.
superbcarrot commented on UK 'Right to repair' law to come in this summer bbc.co.uk/news/business-5... · Posted by u/djaychela
Wonder if this includes a right to repair/replace software running on a device.
How could it possibly? Is there a way to do this without requiring all open-source software?
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superbcarrot commented on Emacs org-mode examples and cookbook (2017) ehneilsen.net/notebook/or... · Posted by u/ddtaylor
I use org-mode all the time and do a lot of plotting with Python and matplotlib and for some reason the snippet
#+BEGIN_SRC python :var fname="delseepy.png" :var delsee=delsee :results file
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
x, y, z = zip(\*delsee)
fig = plt.figure()
axes = fig.add_subplot(1,1,1)
axes.plot(y, z, marker='o')
fig.savefig(fname)
return fname
#+END_SRC
This has been my limited experience with everything related to Emacs - fragmented tutorials on how to do x that work with someone's specific setup. And when you start looking around for fixes you get solutions for "this is how I do this with Prelude", "this is built-in", "my customized Spacemacs setup..." and at that point I throw my hands in the air, admit to myself that I'm not a real man and go back to VSCode.
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superbcarrot commented on Ask HN: Those who quit their jobs to travel the world, how did it go? · Posted by u/cercatrova
> Try to stay in one place for a few months, minimum.
I second this. 2 months is the minimum amount of time per country, and 2 weeks per city if you expect to get anything more than a handful of good meals and a couple adventures out of a place. My better memories were all from places I stayed for over 2 months, and all have more to do with people I met than the place itself.
> My better memories were all from places I stayed for over 2 months, and all have more to do with people I met than the place itself.
How did you go about meeting people in the first place?
It will be around for a long time. This shouldn't be a reason not to pick up C++.
> I‘m currently part of a team that needs help with C++ development.
That might be a good sign that you should pick it up but the details matter a lot. Getting to the point where you're productive with C++ in an existing codebase takes a while even for people who are experienced with the language let alone someone who is just learning it. So I would invest the time to learn C++ for work only if it's a long-term project where you'll have the necessary support from the rest of the team and from your engineering management. You need to establish the expectation that you can't just jump in and immediately make meaningful contributions. If it's a case of "this old C++ repo runs a critical piece of our product and we need a person to make some changes and maintain it", then stay as far away as possible.