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Of course there's a bubble, and of course it has to burst at some point. There are frankly a plethora of poorly conceived and poorly executed startups on the scene right now, with no hope of ever achieving financial sanity. Just as we saw in the late '90s with any crazy idea being given a ton of VC funding, regardless of whether they had a sane business plan, only to implode when things got tight.

Unfortunately, this time around the successes of the previous rounds actually made things worse, because they succeeded too much. VC funding is now, intentionally, a casino. The RoI you can get from growing a winner fast enough to dominate some new market so outclasses what you can earn back from helping a sensible startup grow at a reasonable level that most VCs concentrate their funding to match. It's all about disrupting and breakthroughs and growing fast. This ends up bringing a lot of "unicorns" into existence even if only a few of them are ultimately viable. It also leaves a lot of smaller, more sensible startup ideas in the dust. Silicon Valley is all about stuff that's "cool", not stuff that's challenging or valuable. Sadly, even this round of the bubble bursting is unlikely to change that.
When it's become so obvious that everyone is asking the question.
Would love an invite. Email address in my profile.
Ever since David Hume[1], a couple of hundred years ago (and arguably long before him), causality has been recognized to stand on very shaky philosophical grounds. It will be interesting to learn what statisticians can make of it. Even if there is in fact a firm mathematical foundation on which causality can rest, that in itself is problematic because mathematicians themselves have mostly given up trying to find foundations for mathematics.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hume
No. They hope to force people to turn off their ad blockers.
Not to mention they lose all the viral follow-on effects. If Jane never reads another article of theirs, then Jane never shares another article of theirs, and never refers a new reader or subscriber, and on goes the cascade multiplied by however many people stop reading. They end up cutting off their own oxygen.

The people commenting here that Wired doesn't need to care about ad-blocking readers, are entirely ignoring this critical element. It's a big component of how new people get introduced to Wired.
>This year India will be celebrating 70th Independence day, it is not infant democracy as it was in 60s or 70s, but it is about damn time, Indians owned up their own record of self governance and stop blaming the British. The act of blaming Population and British is getting stale and old.

Well, the British never really "left" (controlling politics and influencing the area) until several decades later -- not at the nominal "Independence" day.

>* but it is about damn time, Indians owned up their own record of self governance and stop blaming the British. The act of blaming Population and British is getting stale and old.*

That (doing their best) should happen whether they blame the British or not. The effects of the colonialism shouldn't be an excuse -- just a historical reality that is admitted.
I think my problem with the whole thing is that Zuckerberg isn't about freedom, he's about control.

I want the leader of our greatest social networking site in history to embrace the freedom for all.

He embraces leaders of China that continue to not only take the freedoms of everyday citizens away through mass surveillance, but of billionaires like himself:

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/01/07/another-chinese-billionaire-g...

He absolutely should not be a respected part of the tech industry.

The book that he wanted his employees to read was nothing but Chinese propaganda. He could at least pretend to be an intellectual, instead of a shill for the Chinese government.

Now onto his Mandarin: his intonation is sub-par and he mimics the hard r dialect of Beijing.
If that was the goal then they went about it in a piss-poor way. The problem is not the ads, the problem is the tracking.
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I visited a dozen+ countries in 4 continents last year - GMaps did a pretty decent (often great) job with public transit. In the cases where there was no/bad data, it usually had more to do with the transit authorities being jackasses than anything in Google's control (Melbourne in particular stuck out as being just terrible).
"ooh, let's go ninja and bend the fabric of time" pretty much sums it up perfectly, for me its not enough to spend time learning something. I have this useless obsession with doing it the best possible way and not getting started in a reasonable fashion.

Btw,your notes look fantastic. I also did 20% of the intro to marketing course(surprise!). But the reason I dropped out of that was I thought there would be some internet marketing involved but there was none. While on the topic, I do have a surprisingly good track record of completing moocs.

I would like to get in further touch with you and talk about this in detail. If you are interested let me know your email.

I can't post mine here since this is a throwaway/anonymous account.:)
General computer buying rule: always buy as much ram as you can afford even if it seems like an insane amount at the time! One thing that drives me nuts about phones and tablets. I want to pay more money for more, more ram. Nothing impacts your devices life span more than the amount of ram.
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May I get one? Email address in my profile.
Can someone explain why lambda expressions are being picked out?. I.e. why not say 'An expression is not necessarily a closure' as wouldn't this stuff apply to any old expressions, functions etc.

I am not a lisp person but thinking of this in terms of say C# or Haskell.
This is really the only interesting question regarding the CFO's resignation. The CFO isn't responsible for revenue growth, but would be on the hook for something like a bunch of previous quarters' botched taxes.

That said, it could just be that Krolik resigned to do something else. It's not like he was fired and kicked out of the office -- he's given notice, and they're looking for a replacement.
I subscribed to their iPad magazine publication for the last several years in an effort to support them. That weighs in at USD$25/year off memory (NB: non-US subscribers get screwed for print delivery), which I felt was fair given I minimially read the magazine itself and just browse their site sometimes, e.g. when an article is linked from here or I see one on Twitter.

I would've hoped there would be some acknowledgement for their magazine subscribers, both digital and print. Certainly for print, which costs significantly more, but even for magazine subscribers who've been around for a number of years.
Compared to what ad networks do I'd say no.

And this is where wired missed the boat here, the article should not have been titled 'how wired will deal with ad blocking' but it should have been 'how wired will deal with tracking'.
Ha! Totally agree. I do think rust has a lot of potential to take a big bite out of c/c++'s current share. But that's 10 years away, because evolution is slow.
Any invites left? Would love to have one. Email address in my profile.
They haven't found a killer app yet. This seems like a ripe moment for them to shine. I'd be all over micropayments like a cheap suit if it let me read any article on any service I wanted, ad-free.
I hope the advertisers realize that we have not even come close to hitting a critical mass of people that install adblockers in the first place. I am amazed by how many people don't run adblockers. I tell everyone I know to run them... Remember it is only 1 out of 5 right now... It will be much higher as the tech illiterate are taught how to install them.

The truth is, I can always just go outside. Go for a run, Go for a hike with my kids... collect some rocks, smash rocks looking for geodes, play catch, play hide and go-seek, cook, drink. All will be much better than me sitting on my computer reading articles on Wired.com
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Apple software was only good, or comparatively good in the era when Windows Software was absolutely crap. But that is no longer the case anymore. Windows Software still may not be as good, but the gap has definitely shrunken a lot. That is why it no longer feel good. And once you add the truly dreadful ones like iTunes which, again is the biggest pile of crap in Human computer history, and the services that is called iCloud lagging behind Google, Yahoo and even Microsoft.
I don't disagree with you; you certainly don't need wealth and fame to work on what you want, but it sure does enable you to do so.

From what I know about him, he was fortunate to land in a position where he could thrive. That's not to say he was fortunate in that it was all luck as he was very intelligent, but fortunate in the sense that the opportunity was there for him to take it.

> After I took the job at Softdisk, I was happy. I was programming, or reading about programming, or talking about programming, almost every waking hour. It turned out that a $27k salary was enough that I could buy all the books and pizza that I wanted, and I had nice enough computers at work that I didn't feel the need to own more myself (4mb 386-20!).

> I learned a huge amount in a short period of time, and that was probably a turning point for my personality. I could still clearly remember my state of mind when I viewed other people as being ignorant about various things, but after basically doubling my programming skills in the space of six months, I realized how relative it all was. That has been reinforced several additional times over the seven years since then.

taken from http://games.slashdot.org/story/99/10/15/1012230/john-carmac...

I will agree with you that one's mentality definitely has a very strong effect on one's own happiness. On the other hand, I really think that people can do so much more when they are put in an environment which supports their growth and personal goals than when they are doing something because it's what's required of them.

As for "The environment of getting to work on what he wants? Lots of people have that but still burn out, that can't be the only thing.", there's been previous research into causes of burnout already which you can read here: https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/pressure-proof/201308/s...
There were some plans for that it seems:

https://git.gnu.io/gnu/gnu-social/issues/18

Diaspora is already interoperable with Red Matrix. For better interoperaibility they need to finalize the API.

* https://wiki.diasporafoundation.org/Diaspora_API_proposal

* https://www.loomio.org/d/cedTCbsI/the-api-bounty-deliverable...
I don't think we are using the word 'need' in the same way.
Yup, which would in turn affect their advertising since advertisers generally sites with the most traffic.
May I get one? Email in my profile.
At least we get more concrete out of it..
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Computer vision has made great strides lately; human-level face and object recognition can run on a laptop's GPU in real time. Segmenting a rendered webpage, classifying regions as ad- or non-ad, and overwriting (in a way invisible to your canvas renderer the former, by comparison, is a walk in the park.

The client will always win. Browsers are user agents, not server agents.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C-2dKe9NjI
It implements the 2010 version of twitter, for once being outdated isn't much a regression.
> You'd like for this to optimize down to a function call, without saving any state from the outer scope. Don't know if Rust does this yet.

My (limited) understanding is that all bindings closed over by a closure are represented as anonymous struct passed to the function, if nothing is closed over that will be a unit struct which will of course be optimized to nothing.
First, Zenifits business model was novel for a double-ended marketplace... get suppliers (insurance companies, etc.) to sustain the business.

How do Zenifits compare to Paychex (the old standby of payroll processing) and Workly? What are folks using right now to expedite/automate employee provisioning (& termination) around HR things?
Here is an example of a Firefox bug report about H.264 color spaces looking different in Firefox compared to another video player. So these are real problems. :)

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1237562
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FB should have donated/bribed appropriate people in India https://twitter.com/rss_org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality_in_India
Ad Block Plus is my main ad blocker, but I had better check to see if the conflict is with another Chrome add-on.
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I've found recent versions of Firefox to be surprisingly much zippier than Chrome and w much lower memory usage as well (especially w uBlock Origin).
The last 2 versions are the worst for old systems. Before Yosemite beach ball was a rarity. Now its a daily occurrence.I have tested El Captiano on newer systems and its silky smooth. They are kind of forcing me to upgrade. But this experience has made be wary of buying Apple products.
A business has to make a profit...consumers prefer quality products...investors prefer businesses who are profitable and indicate the wherwithal to ensure future profitability...businesses that sell "entertainment" are vulnerable to reductions in consumer's discretionary spending...

These are old, old maxims...

I've often wondered what percentage of current Internet "businesses" offer consumers a product they could not live without...?
It's funny to see amongst all the stock market rout how companies that are (now) subservient to the markets have to react to a down market caused by other bullshit than journalism. The lesson here is Wired, stay true, don't fucking sell to Conde Nast and remain TRULY independent like real journalists should so you don't have to fucking suck dick for money when the big old bullshit tech bubble starts to burst.
Does closure compiler tree shake commonjs? If not, I'd rather stick with browserify than lose access to all of npm.
So, clearly, you instead just directly pay the authors/etc when you can, right?
Or does that all conveniently fall by the wayside in your crusade?
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The model I would like to see involves micro-payments. I would be willing to "tip" say $0.10 or $0.15 here and there to instantly unlock certain articles. I think if this were easy to do then wired and other websites like it would make a lot more money over all from it's content.

The problem though is that with today's credit card infrastructure the processing fees make this sort of thing unrealistic, and the emerging alternative (blockchain tech) is not yet widely enough accepted by consumers to be useful in this regard.

I think we'll get there eventually, and a new "culture of tipping" on the web may flourish in a way that is very healthy for the journalistic community as a whole. It could also mean that for instance a poor person in a remote part of the world could record a youtube video of some traditional folk art or dance and then upload it to multiple social platforms and receive material amounts of money from random visitors within the first few hours without first needing to "strike a deal with youtube" or anything like that.

This might reorient village life in some areas away from making trinkets to sell to western tourists and instead towards making traditional creative art to share with a global audience. This could in theory help counteract the "westernization effect" that global cultures have been experiencing.
Before the horde descends, I thought I might respond to the suggestion that RMS is anti-capitalist. This comes up frequently and is a bit of a red herring. I won't try to speak for him (he can obviously do that well enough himself), however I think it is worth considering the free software movement in today's reality.

Back when they only thing that described free software was the GNU manifesto, we still had the idea that writing software that enabled businesses was a good idea. It may be a consequence of free software that it will become difficult to charge money directly for software (as a product), but that shouldn't stop companies from making money.

Especially now when we see how open source software is almost taken for granted, we can see that companies flourish, not die. It is true that you practically can not charge money for a compiler any more, but are we worse off? No. We have different and arguably better business models for that kind of software -- and we haven't given up capitalism at all. My tools are dramatically better than they were 30 years ago (when I first started in this business). The cost has also dropped to nearly zero. We have become efficient.

It is true that the FSF considers software freedom a moral imperative. While it may be true that some kinds of software will be difficult to produce in this manner, we can see that there are several very large companies that thrive producing virtually every kind of software. Personally, I don't think there are many businesses that will be better off with our old software-as-a-product business models -- games being a probable exception. What we have now is better, more efficient, enabling for the general population -- and much better for businesses. I have a hard time seeing it from an "anti-capitalist" position. And, just from my personal perspective, I don't think RMS ever did either.
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It's an interesting take either way.

I can understand why they'd see it that way. But my preferred UX is exactly what you described. I want to find a review that looks like it may hit on what I want to read about specifically, and then exit out as needed.
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Also, apparently holding Magic: The Gathering tournaments where ante is allowed falls under RICO. Sponsoring underage gambling. I recall that being used as the reason why none of the major tournaments used the ante rule - they were all afraid of being prosecuted as racketeers.
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You are right, it is probably more of an issue with supporting mobile browsers and desktop browsers with the same game, but web game budgets not having really moved any since the Flash days to support two very different form factors. A project budget went quite a bit further towards making an awesome game, when we only had to support desktop browsers which for the most part, all had good Flash support.
The main difference between GitHub and GitLab is simply that GitLab actually puts the dev community first by really listening to their needs and taking quick action on those needs. GitHub may have more VC money but GitLab is rapidly winning the hearts and minds in this showdown.
> There is not one single global point of failure, which has other implications regarding things like censorship.

In other words it doesn't just ignore abuse and harrassment one of the biggest problems - maybe the biggest problem - twitter has a communications platform, it practically encourages it.
Instead of being written in Guile Scheme.
> And even GNU founder can be considered anti-capitalist.

You are mixing up anarchism with anti-capitalism.
No, that's wrong. It's correct if you add the requirement that you're omnidirectional but if you want to let go of that requirement then low power, high bandwidth and long distance can be there at the same time.
I suppose every operating system is going to have little problems like that, and if that's all there is, I can manage. It's just that I really liked OS X back in the Leopard and Snow Leopard days. I could almost describe it as a "magical" experience using them, but I'm worried that that magic's gone in these latest versions, as all this recent complaining seems to indicate.

Can you perhaps tell me how newer versions of OS X fare as a UNIX-based operating system for development, compared to Linux? I've heard that it's become more locked down. How about its app "ecosystem"? I remember that a lot of apps, by developers small and large, were of really high quality.
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Not only that but every site that has your payment information could be hacked and someone steals it along with your password, email, and other information.

I like reading sites that don't require a login unless you want to leave a comment. My account was hacked at the Harvard Business Review and I used to leave comments there. They redid their website and limit what you can read now.

Sorry to say websites are moving towards a subscription model and I don't read every article on a website to make it worth the money. Just articles I have an interest in reading. I don't mind ads as long as they aren't annoying. As long as they don't take up a lot of the screen or pop up windows or a new browsing window or pop up a notice to enter my email to subscribe to their newsletter. I want to just read an article with no annoying stuff. Clickbait articles that take up several pages turn me off. Video ads that autoplay turn me off. That is why I installed an ad blocker to get rid of annoying things. I don't mind non annoying ads like Adwords or the typical banner ad.
I use Google Contributor [1], which _effectively_ functions as an ad blocker, one that compensates website owners for the ads they're not displaying.

A different, but equivalent, way of looking at the product is that Google Contributor lets me essentially enter a op ad in the advertising auction for any web page I visit; if my bid wins, I see a placeholder instead of the ad. One nice side effect of this scheme is that the ads that do make it through are generally of high quality, since they're the ones for which some advertiser managed to outbid me.

[1] https://www.google.com/contributor/welcome/
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When they give me a way to, yes, I actually do. I pay for recurrent subscriptions, plural, to sites that offer and warrant it. At least one of them has been running for a decade or more.

Regardless, calling it a "crusade" is the same kind of argument-poisoning that the GP uses with his "people with morals" quip. If you can't have a discussion without resorting to that kind of rhetoric — term used very damned loosely — then, personally, I don't think you've got much of a point.
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The slogan "one obvious way to do it" applies to the design of the language itself. It means that in terms of language constructs, no value is placed on coming up with a creative profusion of operators and whatnot (as in Perl's "there's more than one way to do it.")

It doesn't mean that the language design is going to somehow ensure there's only one way (even only one idiomatic way) for users to implement any particular algorithm. It doesn't mean everyone has to use the same web framework. It's really not prescriptive, except for Python itself.
> if only to see how they implement this.

I use uBlock Origin. I went onto Wired to see how it worked. I must have viewed about 2 dozen articles, with no side effects. Either they haven't activated this yet, or it doesn't work.
That's not really a decision we can make on behalf of the rest of society, is it?
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Have you ever read anything by RMS on what he calls Service as a Software Substitute (SaaSS)? I can't think of many large businesses who aren't "guilty" of that.