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I think PG underestimated how thoroughly the intellectual basis of his argument would be missed once he uttered the words "I've been helping to increase economic inequality."
Most of the critiques of PG accuse him of not caring about poor people. And yet his essay specifically attacks poverty and lack of social mobility:

I have to agree with you. I am actually surprised PG tried to even write a second essay to explain the first one and some people still didn't understand it and it led me to this conclusion and points me to Dale Carnegie's " You can't win an argument"..

Nine times out of ten, an argument ends with each of the contestants more firmly convinced than ever that he is absolutely right.

You can’t win an argument. You can’t because if you lose it, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it. Why? Well, suppose you triumph over the other man and shoot his argument full of holes and prove that he is non compos mentis. Then what? You will feel fine. But what about him? You have made him feel inferior. You have hurt his pride. He will resent your triumph. And -

"A man convinced against his will

"Is of the same opinion still."
I can confirm, I'd place much more value (including monitary- and career- value) on the connections made with people sharing the experience of being an irresponsible young person than I would the connections made during study/projects/"networking" etc. This isn't to say that A) these groups didn't overlap significantly or B) I wish I'd gotten blackout drunk more often; but the social aspect of being forced into close quarters living your life for a few years with peers in your age group is as least of equal value to the "education" part.

I've tried to say it in many different ways, but I'll try again: being "graded" constantly and basing huge path-driving decisions on those grades are a huge detriment to people and to society. I and many others would have had a much better, more rewarding, and more valuable experience if the point of Univerity wasn't gathering a dozen metrics a week for several years in a row in order to get a piece of paper.
Why in the world are you _hostile_ to the kind of accomplishments he's describing? Are you from pre-colonization India? 13th-century Europe? Christopher Columbus called, we don't despise upward social mobility anymore!
Btw, sovereign[1] project has wallabag included in the package.

1) https://github.com/sovereign/sovereign
Playing with code is a great way to learn things! I mean, yeah, don't check in your experiments, but the notion that you're going to gain more from reading a book compared to actual usage... I don't know, it probably depends on the person, but either way is a totally viable way to learn things.
Next Facebook? Nope.
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Exactly. What people need to understand here is that pg isn't an actual prophet. He is insightful in many ways sure, particularly about entrepreneurship and SV culture but that's about it.
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Haven't seen any indication. Likely still too early.
That would be true if computers ran only one unikernel at a time, but you need to protect each unikernel from each other
lol! All good, just amusing to see you doing this, almost like it's muscle-memory.
Bigger margins on hardware for sure.
>CD Projekt was accused of abusive work conditions for Witcher 3

Yeah, I though about that when I played it: "Is CDP really this much bigger than Bethesda? Probably not..."

I'm still disappointed about having my suspicion confirmed.

But to add to the discussion: Funcom (of Norway) was often in trouble with the labor regulator for "mattress-in-office" working conditions, even though they had massive goodwill due to being the only big Norwegian studio at the time. I suspect the only reason I haven't heard something bad about Red Thread Games is because they're too small to be noticed.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/ recent updated their site layout. I wonder where they got that from.
A lack of arbitrary precision makes GPUs unsuitable for deeper Mandelbrot zoom levels, so "solved" is overstating it.
As a JS lover, it makes me sad how convoluted the tool chain has become in recent years. All the devs who use these tools keep telling themselves and anyone who will listen how simple and efficient their stack is - despite relying on 5-8 different libraries, frameworks, patterns, etc.
It may be just that stage in developer's life ;). A mark of a youngster.

I remember when I was 3-4 years into programming, I used to rant about style and best practices too. I now look back at it as evidence of my lack of experience (writing tone, especially, is a good indicator of it), but I did learn hell of a lot by writing those walls of text. There's something about writing things down in a coherent form that solidifies thoughts.
Well, unless you count the hypervisor context switch, which you do.
Why would anyone waste time calculating this? You may be curious, but you're not living to satisfy useless curiosity.
Great insights
Just imagine the increments of time...years, decades, centuries, or more that likely passed between the individual advances in technique demonstrated...

Fascinating...thanks for posting.
Sure statutes and the USC are easier on Google. In fact I have never used Lexis or Westlaw to look those up. I disagree about articles, you can certainly find legal articles on google on various topics, but the results are a shadow of Westlaw and Lexis.

But try search for a case on Google - not by citation, not by case style - by natural language or connectors like Lexis or Westlaw. Results are worse than useless, because you just lost time. Any startup could do case law search 10 times better than Google, but they could never compete in the market because lawyers were trained on Lexis and/or Westlaw are entrenched in law schools training the next generation of lawyers.
Agreed. People are downvoting my other comments in this thread too -- on a visceral level, people seem to really want to believe that PG doesn't care about poor people.
I've bought this when I had an iPod Touch from the app store. It is 2600 and Arcade games that are emulated. It was difficult to play with a touch screen. It should be much better with a joystick or joypad.
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> In both cases the fact that people believe it will happen increases the likelihood they are correct.

More like the people that want it to happen have enough collective influence to buy off Congress to make it happen so long as there isn't a pesky POTUS with an itchy veto pen finger.
we have an increasing amount of evidence that yes, they are overvalued.

Look at two things: long delays IPO-ing, and very poor performance of the 2015 cohort of tech IPOs. It's hard to avoid suspecting that companies would IPO if they could, and a large part of the reason they haven't is having to release to the public audited financial reports conforming to GAAP standards.
Gawrsh, Mickey.... nyuk!

We could just call it the Firm Death Clock :) Doesn't scan as well, does it?
It was but more from various forums and programming languages lol...
Well, that's part of the point, the invisibility.

Like, for example, there are those studies that show how people with names that sound traditionally black don't get called for job interviews nearly as often. Take the name off the resume and they get called with parity to traditionally white-sounding names.

Or, for another example, it used to be that orchestral auditions were conducted where you could see the player as they played. Orchestras of the period were heavily male-dominated. After they switched to blind auditions--that is, the player plays behind a partition, so you can't see whether they're male or female--suddenly a lot more women started getting hired for orchestral musician positions. The gender balance has begun approaching parity, when the listeners can't see who's playing.

You're right that generic white guy is "invisible," but another way to look at it is, we're the standard. We fit the type everyone wants already. We don't stand out, because we're basically the accepted definition of an acceptable person. We are who you hire, put in your tv shows, give housing loans to, etc.
Under that definition, every business one starts is a hobby. I'd put it more that if you intend to make money off of it, even if you don't, it's not a hobby. (Note that the IRS uses such a rule.)
I'm a she, btw.
Computers do run only one unikernel at a time. It's just that sometimes they are virtual computers. Remember that virtualization is increasingly hardware-assisted, and the software parts are mature. So for many use cases it's reasonable to separate concerns and just assume that VMs are just a special type of computer.

For the remaining use cases where hypervisors are not secure enough, use physical computers instead.

For the remaining use cases where the overhead of 1 hypervisor per physical computer is not acceptable, build unikernels against a bare metal target instead. (the tooling for this still has ways to go).

If for your use cass hypervisors are not secure enough, 1 hypervisor per physical machine is too much overhead, and the tooling for bare metal targets is not adequate, then unikernels are not a good solution for your use case.
Highly unlikely, producing a phone is very different to producing a car. Car manufacturing line is extremely automated. It is highly likely that Apple will built its plant in US.
That's a separate problem, because if you are not doing something, you're still in the same boat.
Well, in Australia's case, they probably consider American backdoors the lesser of two evils.
Zynga

And I would personally argue for Microsoft's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish program
There's a trap hidden there as well, one I realized only recently - you not just realize how little you know, you are also increasingly unable to discern the importance of it.

Say you want to make a homepage. You've learned of Node.js, you've discovered Chef and Ansible, you've heard of Docker and Redis, you've seen Heroku and DigitalOcean. Where should you put it? Which tool should you use for automation? Is Grunt enough, or do you need Gulp? Which Yeoman generator should you use? Is LESS better than Sass?

The answer it: it doesn't matter, ignore that stuff. Grab a random hosting (or VPS, if you know your way around Linux), hand-write some HTML and CSS, sprinkle with JS and that's it. You don't need IT infrastructure management, you don't need build tools, you don't need any stack. Just make that homepage, maintain it for a while, and notice which parts are the most annoying. Then think about how you could make those pain points disappear. Then see if any of those cool tools can help. It's much easier to understand them if you know what problem they're actually solving.
Well hopefully your VMs are at least as well isolated as a linux process is.
Some people need to hear it spelled out that "Failure to hit a milestone for the company will mean you are forced to go to people who you consider friends and say 'I'm sorry. You're an excellent engineer and have done everything we've asked of you. No company could have asked for better. We appreciate the long nights and sacrificed weekends. We hope you will think of these years fondly. You're fired. Your last check will be paid immediately; there will be no more checks. I hate doing this. But that doesn't change the math: you're still fired. Nothing either of us hope or say can change the fact that you're fired, over what is potentially a screwup out of anyone's control but, since I am a responsible businessman, I'm going to own the fact that no one is firing you but me.'"

It's easy in the intoxicating aroma of the Valley, particularly when you're a first time founder who quite recently had a million dollars in the bank, to imagine that your second million dollars will come as easily as the first did. But the first was raised on dreams, and when you're coming up to your A round you have to replace dreams with metrics. If you don't have the metrics, you will not be offered an A round. This means hard choices which all suck.

Founders need to be told this early and often. Running out of money kills companies; practically speaking only running out of money or running out of will to continue can kill a company. That will not be a pleasant experience under any circumstances. Do not run out of money.
I'm kinda glad I left frontend dev just as JQuery peaked lol
Source code: https://github.com/bigardone/phoenix-trello

Live demo: https://phoenix-trello.herokuapp.com/

part 2:
https://blog.diacode.com/trello-clone-with-phoenix-and-react...

part 3:
https://blog.diacode.com/trello-clone-with-phoenix-and-react...

part 4:
https://blog.diacode.com/trello-clone-with-phoenix-and-react...

part 5:
https://blog.diacode.com/trello-clone-with-phoenix-and-react...

part 6:
coming soon
There's actually several others. "Free the Law" is not even the first Ivy League entry in this space. Cornell has the Legal Information Institute (https://www.law.cornell.edu/) which is entirely free.

In the for-profit space, FindLaw has been around forever.

There's still nothing yet that really competes with Westlaw or LexisNexis for professionals though. It's not simply a matter of indexing all the decisions and adding a few hyperlinks. The stuff they are redacting for copyright reasons is stuff that you want when you are doing real research.
> Never a good sign of someone like this leaving the company, regardless of the reason.

I wouldn't necessarily read more into it. The article states that this person was with Apple for 16 years and worked on iPhones/iPods before the car project. 16 years is a long time, so it could legitimately be personal reasons.

I'd feel differently if this was someone they poached from Tesla or Detroit specifically to run the car project. But, an insider who had car experience prior to Apple (at Ford) who was already with Apple when the car project started... it could be anything.
Moreover, being aware of the pain points lets you actually understand what various popular tools are about. You can then start incorporating them into your projects because you know what problems they're solving. It's easier to understand the value of, say, Docker if you had to develop your project on three different machines and went through setting up the environment and dependencies on each of them.
YEs, sometimes I wonder why UniKnernel isn't called the resurrection of DOS.
That doesn't make it any less ridiculous.
Ravellaw (https://www.ravellaw.com/) has built interesting knowledge graph visualization tool for the court cases.

https://vimeo.com/127559698

So one truly fascinating aspect of legal practice is that we tend to operate in the gray areas. However, the traditional way of researching case law – reviewing a list of cases returned based on your query – does little to help you sort through the mess.

With data visualization, you not only see the cases, but you see the relationship between cases, and how the cases work together.
Among the most significant benefits, the data visualization elements of Ravel Law will help you narrow your research to the most relevant cases more quickly, while also helping you find those cases and arguments that, for whatever reason, didn’t rank in the top of your search.

http://www.thecyberadvocate.com/2015/09/30/data-visualizatio...

The value in this appears to relate concepts from one case to others through the visuals on the graph. The larger the circle, the more important the case will be. Lines connect one circle to another circle and it’s very easy to see which major cases are connected to other major cases. This is like a citator on steroids in my opinion as one can get to this point with a simple search. That means multiple steps in developing the analysis that finds the value and use of related cases. The snippets help immensely in determining which related cases are of value.

http://llb2.com/2014/02/04/a-very-brief-look-at-ravel-law/
> Why did aliens wait for us to develop advanced technology before manifesting themselves, and why did they stop now that smartphones and google-earth are common-place things?

The Prime Directive? :D
I try (not always successfully) the philosophy that any day you can wake up, put yo feets on the ground and get up, is a good day.
Or they could be so far away that we never got a signal from them yet.

I can see how hard it is for life to survive and see that Mars and Venus are two examples of the planet going the wrong way to not support life. That not having enough greenhouse gas to keep warm or having too much of it can kill off life.

I then remembered that the Earth is in-between ice ages.
http://www.astrobio.net/topic/solar-system/earth/swinging-be...

That the Earth has gone through climate changes over time, and right now as we burn fossil fuels we are changing the Earth and making things worse for us.

If aliens existed they might have had an ice age were they died or they burned fossil fuels until they made their planet inhabitable for them as well.

We need to focus on our planet and making sure we don't wipe ourselves out.
As soon as one reads "1.5 million atmospheres" one realizes this is clickbaity science.

Is this cool, in the geekiest way possible? Yeah.

Is it "near room temperature"? Hell, it's not only not even temperate, it's not even arctic.

And only when the pressure is well beyond Venusian.
> If they did I think the author would have a different take on learning and experimenting all in one go instead of segmenting things the way he did.

A little surprising given that the author seems to have experience with Clojure. Lisps have a line between learning and experimenting quite blurred as well, though Clojure is probably not as far into this as Common Lisp or Scheme.
Video is popular nowadays not because that's what users want but because that's what generates more ad revenue for media. There are certain cases where video storytelling is better than textual/visual storytelling but very rarely so. In case you have forgotten, there's this thing called "TV" that has been in the video space long before Internet came along. That didn't mean NYT had to turn themselves into CNN. I would never visit a NYT article if they start autoplaying videos on their website, for the same reason I never visit college humor anymore (they used to be a nice fun site but at certain point they started only serving videos, and nobody has time for videos)
Who is in charge of ES6 design? Is awful.
I'm too tired to look it up right now (I'm in DC, check the news), but I believe the WebVR implementations are trying to remove triple-buffering, because entire frames of latency are bad news. I don't want to put words in Brandon Jones' mouth, but I seem to remember him talking about having it implemented in Chrome, which came part-and-parcel with unhinging requestAnimationFrame from the "default" refresh rate of 60hz and using the actual, target display's refresh rate. Mozilla apparently has some hurdles to get over before it's able to do this, so Firefox is lagging in a pure performance standpoint (though it is slightly more stable).
Perhaps I misunderstood you. When you said "Induction defines that line" I thought that meant you believed that the problem of induction had been solved. Not necessarily by you, but if you were claiming it had been solved I was just asking what you thought the solution was.

But I'm still confused then, if you concede that the problem of induction hasn't been solved, then why do you find the Popper/Deutsch solution to it (or, if you prefer, end-run around it) so unappealing? Do you prefer a world where this problem remains unsolved?
Was the WM store really that different from the iOS store? I seem to recall there was a verification and certification process (and it cost a lot more than $99/year)
Meanwhile, the stock market has been giving returns of 20% per year for the last couple of years. It's been crazy. And corporate bonds typically yield 5%. Savers don't need to care about what the interest rate is. The people who care are the people who lend to invest, for whom low interest rates means increasingly risky stuff is profitable.
I have no idea what I'm doing but I'm writing about what makes a good programmer.
In my case it was a phase. In time it switched into "oh shit oh shit I couldn't code my way out of a paper bag if my life depended on it", and then it stabilized.
>There's a strong thread of meritocracy in the tech community, but there is no such thing. When you choose the clearly better developer over the other, you're often choosing the one who had better resources growing up, not just natural ability.

You're using an overly restrictive definition of "merit". When you hire the best person for the job you're hiring based on merit. How they got there isn't really that important from your perspective as an employer. That's a meritocracy.
> you're basically invisible.

That's the point - being invisible is a privileged state. Black people are not invisible the US, where some people (not all) will inevitably treat them with suspicion (or worse).
What would Aaron say?
You need pre-internet cases from the era before courts had websites. Also, court rules generally require citation formats that use page numbers from the official reporters. In the past, the West has actually unsuccessfully tried to claim copyright to its page numbers (West Publishing Co. v. Mead Data Central, 799 F.2d 1219).

There is a lot of other editorial content that actual legal researchers really kind of need, but which they are going to redact because it isn't part of the reported decisions and is owned by the publisher. (Things like unofficial syllabi, indexed lists of holdings, subject matter, etc.)
The most basic is, of course, printf debugging to a console or logging service. You could also connect over a network socket and inspect the current state of the unikernel, or do any sort of debugging things. This sounds the same as remote debugging now, the only difference is that the debugger agent would have to be implemented as a library (or hypervisor feature) rather than as a separate process. Erlang is supposedly fancy enough that you can do this sort of stuff with just the builtin tools.

It also seems like you could debug the unikernel like any other process if you run it as a VM on your machine. Except of course you can run any, say, x64 unikernel, instead of only programs built for your OS.
>Ultimately, pick whatever view of time suits you best. Whereas Graham’s essay exhorts us to do what matters to avoid FOMO — Fear of Missing Out — personally, FOBB — Fear of Being Bored — is a much more effective motive for me.<

Personally, as I grow older I notice that FOMO rarely influences my choices...FOBB still beckons to me occasionally...primarily to treat the internet as a "salon", in the most liberal sense--a place to meet and greet, dismiss, or engage, a wide variety of ideas and opinions...a chance to, rather inexpensively, strike off into the unknown for an hour or so...as if on a walk, that will eventually lead me home with a few tales to tell of my adventures...
I've known deca-millionaire trust fund kids who ended up broke (or dead).

I've known immigrants who started with nothing and ended up fantastically independently wealthy.

And the vast, vast majority of people who settle somewhere near the middle.

What nobody teaches you is: it's all about luck.

Below that, the fine print: the harder you work and the more you sacrifice, the luckier you will get.

''If only'' works both ways. If only - then I would have been successful in some way. If only - then I wouldn't have met the partner who I fell in love with. It works both ways but people tend to overweight the negative (regret) and underweight the positive (gratitude). All you can do (young, old, or in between) is get up every day, be realistic about where you are and where you want to be, and keep moving forward.
Don't worry. So will every other company.
Seriously, 12 months of runway! That's like right after a fundraise.