Holy hell. How do you have a life-threatening disease that puts at you risk of germ infection, costs $250,000 a year to treat AND manage to survive homelessness? Tragic. I'm sorry you don't live in a country with real health care.
Holy hell why did I get flagged? She wrote a huge blog post about needing help and isn't getting it?
Since you've resumed posting flamebait, we've banned you again. Could you please not create accounts to break HN's guidelines with? You're welcome here otherwise; you've posted some quite good comments and I appreciate those, as I'm sure many readers have.
"I'm sorry you don't live in a country with real health care" broke this guideline: "Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."
I was reacting more to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23180680 from earlier in the day. But actually I think I overreacted here. You shouldn't have added the flamey swipe about countries and health care, but the intention of your comment was clearly to express support to someone, and I should have weighted that more. Sorry! I've unbanned your account.
Responding to customer sales inquiries. I'm a hacker, not a salesperson, but working for startup means I have to switch hats and give a pitch 30% of my week. Why is it a waste? Because I suck at it. My company doesn't have real salespeople so we all pick up the slack. I realize it translates into putting food on my table, but I'm so bad at it that I consider it a waste.
I remember being exposed to LISP in the late 80's after coming from Pascal and COBOL in my CS101 (C was a 200-level class.) It was such a complete mindf*ck. After learning procedural language patterns, switching to LISP uprooted everything, and in some cases the patterns were already burned in. In hindsight, I think it makes more sense to learn LISP first, and THEN procedural languages since the latter is a subset of LISP. When C++ appeared, my first thought was, "Hey, someone made C kinda act like LISP/CLOS."
> What else are you supposed to do with the money? Keep it in cash?
Yes. That's where my RIA has 33% of my assets now, we moved them in 2019. We will be "piecing back into" the market over the next 12 months. I'm 50 and have a 30 year investment horizon. I've been investing since I was 21. I've been through two massive drops in the market that took years to recover. Don't panic. Valuations will correct themselves and fundamentals will continue to hold until the next bubble. I think that is model we're facing at the upper limit of an exponential.
> Is this all gonna crumble like a Ponzi scheme?
It has to stay alive so that the rich can get richer. Remember the players in the Panama Papers? There's an entire society that runs the planet. And this isn't a conspiracy, it's out in the open! Look at the Carlyle Group: it is an investing firm funded by people liek MBS (The Saudi), the Clintons, the Bushes, and many other politically-culturally diametrically opposed clients. It's no mystery that rich world leaders who go to war with each other give their money to the same investors.
You know that there are investments only available to people with $5, $10, or $100 million more in holdings? There are entire class of investment devices that you and I will never see. It takes tens of millions to even play in hedge funds. The "real" markets are for the 0.1%. Those will continue to feed off the other markets, which they need to distance themselves from the pack. (Look at wealth distribution over the past 50 years.) But these top tier funds require us schlubs to hand them money while we scrape by with 5-8% yearly returns. They will keep the dials set just right so that we'll have a reasonable retirement while they own the planet (Larry Ellison owns a Hawaiian island. Techbros are buying up New Zealand [Theil]. Think about what happens when trillionaires start to buy entire countries.
Yeah, the market will survive and make sure the upper middle class continues to invest, otherwise there won't be a wealth generating machine for the 0.1-0.01%. As for people who can't afford to even put money in a 401k? Well, we know what one political party things about those people.
After working int he world of CAD tools for decades, I cannot tell you the number of times I've seen a younger engineer try to write a CSV parser only to fall into a circular hacking deathspiral.
You can't just use regex/split to handle CSV, unless you have significant field cleaning BEFORE converting to csv.
In reality you need lexical analysis and grammatical rules to parse any string of symbols. This is often always overlooked by naive implementations.
I take issue with OP's claim that RFC4180 is not well-defined, but almost all of the cases the OP listed are literally in the spec.
Wait, this isn't TCP, this is protocol level above TCP, right? TCP doesn't shape traffic by itself through rate limiting and congestion analysis, does it? I thought the layer above it used TCP to send/receive the buffer size, and that has nothing to do with TCP.
You are wrong! Obviously the application layer on top of TCP could be the bottleneck, but TCP itself has mechanisms to ensure traffic is flowing as fast and as smoothly as possible. Look up "TCP Flow control" and "TCP Congestion Control"
I convinced a bunch of friends to use WL a few years ago and now they're mad at ME for the acquisition! Not really mad, but despondent and looking for alternatives. I migrated to Apple's todo list app (which has +ves and -ves), but it was funny getting a bunch of texts within a week blaming me for getting them hooked on WunderList!
Holy hell why did I get flagged? She wrote a huge blog post about needing help and isn't getting it?