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I believe getting enough people to donate on a regular basis requires two things: a certain amount of customers have to be real fans of your product, and they have to be aware that the product ceases to exist if nobody donates.

Both aspects are a challenge for software: most people see software as a mere tool, and most people don't see the need for updates (and in fact see them as annoyance).

That's why a twitch streamers or youtube creator can easily get decent amounts of donations while donation buttons in software go completely ignored in almost all cases.

Open source is the one existing model in software development where donations work with some consitency (though donations are mostly in terms of development time, and some widely-used projects still go completely ignored).

For closed source there's are a few working examples with passionate fanbases (mostly games), but for the most part we haven't figured out how to do this well yet.
Exactly. It probably means that in 1-5 years, the C# experience on Linux is going to go way downhill. Extend embrace extinguish.
Another twist to this is that the hypothetical burden is not being born by Apple, it's being born by Apple shareholders. I might personally own 1 Apple share, so it's not a huge burden to me if the company loses $50B in revenue and the value of that share goes down 10%. But what about some individual who has invested $1M of her own money, her entire life's savings, in Apple shares and is about to retire and pay the bills by selling shares over time? I would speculate there would be hundreds of thousands of share holders (millions?) who would be burdened as a result of that hypothetical loss of $50B in revenue.
Ok, we won't merge them.
Here's the link to where he talks about AMD on that stream https://youtu.be/lThX7UovKCc?t=34m
Not who you were replying to, but I don't add people that I don't know to my network, and I still get spammed by recruiters constantly.
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This has been coming for a long while. Lots of synergy. I'm not so interested in the client aspect, which is where I suspect Microsoft will gain most, but more in the synergy / potential convergence of Mono / CoreCLR.

Good luck and well done to Miguel et al.
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@j2kun: Just curious, any chance you'd do an explainer on the Curry-Howard equivalence[1] sometime? Forgive me if you already have, but a search didn't turn anything up. Seems pretty relevant to math ∩ programming and also of interest to a lot of generalists.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry%E2%80%93Howard_correspon...
.io is more expensive right now because it is fashionable for tech startups
Disappointing that engadget mention AT&T but not Sonic. I got my fiber install 7 weeks ago in Outer Sunset and it's been flawless.
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Thanks. We changed the URL to that from http://www.engadget.com/2016/02/24/google-fiber-san-francisc....
They can refuse to provide a signed driver for the platform, but like you said it is unclear how far they will go.

Still better than Chrome endig support for Windows Vista this upcoming April...
You haven't given an examples of what you are talking about so I'm not sure you should switch on the self righteousness just yet.

Glamorizing historical figures is ridiculous and if you look at the replies, no one thinks the current system is perfect or even close. Even so, the amount of decentralization and the relative success of that structure in government was an enormous leap from the state of governments at the time.
I'm not sure if you can say that most people have moved to Amazon and Facebook. The majority of their customers didn't move there because they started there. Amazon and Facebook were the first things they used on the internet.

There are so many more people and companies on the internet now than there were 15 years ago. There are probably more people running custom sites and shopping at sites other than Amazon than their were back then.
I wonder when/if they will announce pricing changes. I would love to use Xamarin but the current licensing fees (2 developers across iOS/Mac/Android) of $6k/year are a total non-starter. If it gets rolled into MSDN or BizSpark I would pretty much jump on it immediately. The current alternative of writing C++ that runs across iOS/Mac/Android/Windows is a massive headache.
Say goodbye to this product in a few years.

Resistance is futile
can you provide a link showing how to use these things? (Openwrt...etc) I want to but networking is such a dark place for me.
I didn't make the original statement. Someone else wrote the grandparent post.
how is this simplier than email and markdown?
I don't think a service like this is targeting hackers who can easily replicate what this service is providing in an hour or two. Not everyone has the time/skill/resources/desire to find a free script, modify the logic, modify the "theme" to something that looks halfway presentable, etc. Some people will find a service like this entirely worth it – and that's who it's targeted to.
Well they did fire all their technical writers; they kinda had to stop writing those updates when there was no one to write them.
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Yeah, it doesn't have debugging (of C# on Mac and Linux). I think the GP is referring to Xamarin Studio, which is an ok IDE, but pales in comparison to VS.
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My understanding is that Apple's issue was with dynamic runtimes and that Xamarin developed a statically compiled Mono runtime to comply with Apple's guidelines. The ground between definitions of "static/dynamic" eventually was sorted out.
I'm not sure people don't care about aesthetics. Every website I've seen is one massive image with infinite scroll. I don't think that yields the best conversion optimization but maybe that's just me
>You can't just open a new company in another country and expect to start moving your revenue to it, it just doesn't work like that.

It kind of does work like that? Granted, it depends on how you structure it.

I confess I'm not privy to how taxes work in the UK, and that further I'm not an accountant but: I too am responsible for a US and non US corp. You may have to declare your US corp as an asset in the UK, for all I know.

That said, if you have a US legal entity that is booking revenue then HMRC doesn't have any jurisdiction. That USCorp pays US corporate taxes just like any other.

If you move any of the US income to your UKCorp or your UK resident person then the Crown will happily takes its cut.
Indeed, it seems software is getting more and more specialized, with more and more programmers needed in smaller and smaller areas. I know a guy who makes a good living programming specialized mining tools. I didn't even know such a profession existed before meeting him.
I think the reasoning was to add missing features, mainly HA, which moosefs did not have at the time and currently provides it in its paid version.

One thing I never understood though is why when forking they decided to rewrite everything in C++. Wouldn't be better to just write it from scratch?
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For those of us who live fairly far away from our most excellent friends, yes, I need video games to play with them. I look forward to my weekly game sessions to drink a beer and hang out with them. Even something as simple as a board game is well suited to a video game with voice chat, and those often are primarily and only built/tested/supported on Windows, making fpgaminer's notes very welcome.
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Ha! It's nothing like Visual Studio. GIMP is closer to Photoshop than Emacs + GUD/GDB is to Visual Studio.

However, I do use Emacs with GUD and it works okay. If you are addicted to VI-style editing (like myself), you can use viper.

You'll want to add some keybinding to your .emacs. The following are the VS6 bindings I use:

;; Add VisualStudio-style debugging keys

;; Add convenient "until" command to gdb mode (swiped off the web)

(add-hook `gdb-mode-hook

(lambda ()

(gud-def gud-until "until %f:%l" "C-u" "Execute until current line.")))

;; Add a "jump" command (supposed to have been included in gud.el)

(add-hook `gdb-mode-hook

(lambda ()

(gud-def gud-jump "tbreak %f:%l\njump %f:%l" "\C-j" "Relocate next instruction to line at point in source buffer.")))

(global-set-key [f9] 'gud-break)

(global-set-key [f11] 'gud-step)

(global-set-key [f10] 'gud-next)

(global-set-key [f5] 'gud-cont)

(global-set-key [\S-f11] 'gud-finish)

(global-set-key [\C-f10] 'gud-until)

(global-set-key [\C-\S-f10] 'gud-jump) ; Equivalent to VC's Set Next Statement
source: https://twitter.com/waxpancake/status/702578926707544065
I tested ad using betterpro.net versus a specific .com name and the .com got way better CPC. Not saying that's always the case but just giving you my experience.
You named 4 out of 5 companies that everyone should avoid for privacy reasons. Add Amazon (no email for now, but...) and you'll have the full stack.
Who do you think makes the internet possible to begin with? Competing entities? Or people working together?

I want one currency and one universal language too.

That probably sounds radical to a lot of people but really, look at your life - do you want parents competing to raise you properly or do you want them working together?

Why do we have the same parents our whole lives? Because it works well that way.

Competition as a means of arriving at the best solution to complex problems is an unfortunate artifact that'll be looked upon as barbaric not too long from now.

Working together works much better in my experience.
I'm very excited about this! Can't wait to see the first movie https://thevrcinema.com/
They're giving over the information to a third party, which usually destroys any 4th amendment rights.

The fact that the third party was actually three different parties who only got a piece (or six, when using hidden services) doesn't seem like it would change the law.

If I split data into 6 pieces and handed it to 6 different people, the government can take those 6 pieces and put them together without violating my rights. I don't see why Tor would be any different.

In fact, this particular vulnerability IIRC involved the researchers acting as both the exit node and the guard node, and finding a way to pass a message between the two so they'd notice when they're in the same circuit. That seems even better legally than my analogy above. They didn't need to take any data, the victims connected to them and gave them the info.
I haven't seen much on the ad data side of this.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but if a publisher switches to AMP, then all of their ad serving data (and by extension impression data for all of their visitors that Google is able to identify) becomes Google's data essentially. Whereas before, if a publisher wasn't running DFP, AdSense, or GA, then Google was essentially blind to their ad data.

So does this or does this not give Google that level of visibility into the ad layer of a site? If so, that is a MAJOR strategic competitive data advantage once lots of sites switch over, which they will be encouraged to do due to higher mobile ranking as a result of getting their site's sped up.
Even in the US, Amazon still controls less than 40% of e-commerce spending. Outside the US, it's even less.
Why would they do that?
VS Code was created to do something with the Monaco editor developed in typescript for their cloud offering. Same for CoreCLR, the slow and memory hungry runtime of Xamarin wasn't a treat to MS, .Net was approaching irrelevancy without a Linux presence in cloud offerings.
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No, avoiding the need to disclose one's IP address is the entire point of Tor! Yes, the Tor project does warn about ways in which this could fail. It does this in the tone of a lock-maker warning about power drills.
Thanks for that. I had no idea things were connected in that way.
I look forward to that. However, after 20 years of bad behavior, it's not unfair to be guarded for a long time after that. Does cancer relapse? Does alcoholism relapse? How about the politics of Russia? How long did democracy last? I applaud your efforts. The road is yet long.
Thank you both, I did not know, looks like you already get it through DreamSpark that was really fast (in the case of Student).
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Right, proportional in the sense that for both n! and n^n, the fastest-growing component is ~n^n. (I was curious in the context of which grew faster for larger values of n in the big O notation).
I would disagree that Austin is all that affordable any more.

I can't comment on the venture scene here as my projects are boot-strapping right now.
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Apple is the market leader, which means they have the most to lose with Xamarin commoditizing the different mobile devices. MS, as the clear loser, has by far the most to gain.

Which is why I expect MS to make Xamarin available for free, and push it quite heavily.
I don't think Donny has a monopoly, among politicians, on "massive ego". As for his nationalism, I won't be surprised when he declines to build mile one of the Great Wall of Arizona. After all, he'll point out, net undocumented Mexican immigration has been negative for years. This will be the big scandal of his third year in office, that he decided to spend all those billions of dollars on more plausibly useful public infrastructure, built in more politically valuable Congressional districts. (Also, public employee pension funds.) Obama still hasn't mothballed the running joke on the taxpayers that is Guantanamo Bay, and that was nearly as important to his supporters when he was running the first time. It will take a stronger person than Donny to ignore the personal surveillance dossiers that land on his desk the day after inauguration.
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This really doesn't change anything.
At my company we call this role "UI Development." A UI developer is expected to be good at all aspects of development that are required to implement the user interface, including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and server-side templating languages.

The JavaScript skills in question include the ability to write clean code, write unit tests and use client-side frameworks like Angular or React.

Having an eye for design and usability is a plus, but not the focus.
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Okay but what publisher isn't using DFP, AdSense, or GA. Have you seen the media sites being targeted here? Take any one and watch the dozen or more 3rd party domains it hits. Their data goes everywhere already, including to Google.
How is this going to effect pricing?
Congrats on Sonic Fiber! FWIW I tried their DSL service in sunset (they sublease from AT&T) - speed was unreliable even with dual lines, HOWEVER hands down the best customer service experience I've had and not just with a internet/telephone company. I talked to Nick from Sonic who really knew what he was doing as we tried troubleshooting and agreed within 10 minutes that my location was simply too far to get good connection. They cancelled the line and refunded 100% of the costs with zero hassle. I can't wait to get Sonic Fiber, hopefully they start installing on east of 22nd Ave soon.
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> very website I've seen is one massive image with
> infinite scroll. I don't think that yields the
> best conversion optimization

I've wondered that a lot, looking at some company's website, barely understanding what the product is, and asking myself, "Have they ever made a single sale or generated a single lead based on this website? What exactly is the purpose of this website?"
Startups have a hard time hiring because they'll only hire ~28 year old white/Asian males with a carefully selected group of 20 resume buzzwords, that can code on a whiteboard with a gun to their head. Not surprisingly that niche is tapped.
I still can think of a lot more types of business that need websites to maintain a minimum level of apparent professionalism than need a Facebook (or Amazon) account at all. Sure, 80% of them could knock something very serviceable together with Squarespace or the right template so the designer might be a luxury, but the individual web presence still is.
Yikes! As long as it has some parameters about human safety being more important than batteries or fuel, then by all means...
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So the information was obtained by subpoena from a university research program that is federally funded.

Thinking back to the HeartBleed incident, does this set a precedent for the government to subpoena information related to private keys that may have been exposed due to a software vulnerability and recorded as part of a federally funded university security research lab investigation into said vulnerability? Given that HeartBleed was so public, the likelihood of private keys and certificates not being revoked is pretty low. But what about the next major software vulnerability that doesn't have the same publicity?

Or extrapolating even further, what about DNA that may be collected and kept by entities receiving federal funding. Say healthcare funding? Does that entitle the government to access?
I would assume so. The most perplexing part of the story is that he didn't inquire with the hacker as to what methods were used.
That doesn't appear to use homomorphic encryption though
40% of ecommerce spending is a staggeringly high percentage. There are very few large industries where a single player controls 40% of the market.

For comparison, Wal-Mart, the largest US brick and mortar retailer, has about 11% market share.[1]

1 - http://www.scdigest.com/assets/newsviews/13-07-26-1.php?cid=...
Related: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/05/140508133157.h...
Austinite here too.

I agree the funding infrastructure in Austin is lacking. I think that's a function of time though, not of interest/capability. We'll need more and more diverse funding sources to get 'there'.

Generally, the way startup ecosystems go - people make a big exit, fund locally. We're still riding the first bubble (Baer et al, Trilogy etc). There's a good book on this too.

Of course, that diversification is happening naturally, but yeah, we lack the funding infrastructure of a lot of other cities, and acknowledging that fact, and making that fact explicit, and not denying it ("Look we have customer service shops of big companies!") or a slight of hand ("SV has something different to offer, we're unique!") would be a giant step forward.

Austin's not there (yet).

(Also, it's hilarious how CPG is huge in Austin thanks to Deep Eddy, Rhythm, and SKU but it's not as sexy famous as even the enterprise software stuff.)
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I personally don't buy this argument. It's the same argument that a writing code in a higher level language. Once we have this HLL we don't need as many programmers because the language does all the heavy lifting. But what we've seen is a shift into different kinds of work. People adapt and get different skills.
For additional takes on this, there was some discussion of this result yesterday, based on a post of a direct link to the paper: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11159526
Their pricing looks very good. But very small companies may also want to look into SIMPLE IRAs. They are less flexible in terms of employer contribution options (basically 3% match to a max of $12.5k or 2% unconditional to a max of $5,300) and have lower employee contribution limits ($12.5k) but involve far less paperwork and tend to have considerably lower fees.
They're competing with other 401k plans that do the same, but charge a much bigger percentage, and mutual/index funds do, in general, charge a percentage of the funds under management. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

However, you're right that costs are less-than-proportional to funds under management, so they usually offer to lower the percentage as you invest more, cf. Vanguard admiral-class shares: https://investor.vanguard.com/mutual-funds/admiral-shares
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It's an 8kB async-loaded JS script, and then it posts a small (1kB) amount of data back to my servers. Overhead should be tiny, and it's async so it won't block page rendering.
I'm getting the same performance as with my previous router. Using just one device at a time. Probably not appropriate for an office, though.
This was the last straw for me. My current chipset doesn't support the VT-D stuff, so it's an excuse to shop around for an upgrade. Figure I get a board that supports the integrated graphics, run Linux on that, and then pass through my GTX980 to a VM.
From Tor's front page:

What is Tor?

Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against traffic analysis, a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security.

So, if the users of a service whose explicit mission statement is to provide anonymity and privacy apparently do not have "reasonable expectation of privacy," who does? Are they going to argue next that the private owner of a wifi-capable laptop has no expectation of privacy in their own home because the webcam could be conceivably hacked and remotely activated?
Not really. People will develop on this platform in order to share code between iOS and android.

However it also makes it easy to add windows phone.
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Data capture is the issue. I have tried ledger but always go back to other apps because they can automatically capture all the data from my credit card, brokerage, etc.
It's another example of the hollowed out middle that was mentioned upthread. It's much easier than it used to be for someone with a modicum of talent and interest to take an SLR and produce competent photos of weddings and events--and to set themselves up online to run a small weekend side business.

Some will be better than others certainly. And we can probably stipulate that most won't be as good as someone who does this as a full-time profession. But, guess what. They're in a position to earn some extra spending money on weekends while undercutting anyone who has to make a living at it. And many will produce results that are quite competent. Competence at a relatively low price is good value for a lot of young couples without much money. (I shot a couple weddings myself when I was in school--back in the film days.)

Then on the other end you've got photographers with distinctive styles who deliver something special. They'll often be in great demand and command large premiums.
I think this is kinda poorly written and it needlessly focuses on the financial industry.

But, it's a good article about an important topic:

> A robotic system may actually be constituted by an algorithmic 'mind' that coordinates a 'body' of people, like Uber drivers acting out the will of their invisible algo-boss.

It seems to me that this is what "software is eating the world" really means.
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That was very well put, great stuff :)
"These are getting formed in Delaware, but I believe if you operate in another state you have to register and may be subject to their taxes."

I think the Delaware corp is a fine idea and a good choice here, but combining that with a Silicon Valley Bank bank account gives me pause ...

California really goes after state tax revenue, and I worry that a corporate entity that has no presence in California, and is not a CA corp has created an opening with a SVB bank account to allow CA FTB right in ... and they are aggressive.

I would feel more comfortable if the bank account was also in Delaware...