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Tesla is a unit of magnetic field strength. Hertz is a unit of frequency. Siemens is a measure of electric conductance. Try to find an SI unit that isn't also a company or product.

Trademarks aren't about owning a word, only about having exclusive use of it within a certain domain. If Instagram is successful, you will still be allowed to use the SI unit to quantify mass. You won't be able to market a competing product or service with the same name.
As far as I know, the "correct" approach is to act as if every object is deeply frozen (perhaps actively testing using Object.freeze... IMO https://github.com/ecomfe/babel-plugin-freeze-const has the right idea but is nothing more than an idea), and transform things into new objects functionally, using .map and friends.

The problem is that, while a lot of things can be expressed elegantly this way, sometimes the most maintainable thing, or the most efficient thing, is to have some side effects in a deep loop in a certain algorithm, and it's very difficult to do this with purely functional JS.

The real solution is to allow your const bindings to be mutated when you need to, and comment explicitly to make things perfectly clear!
In my lab we did exactly what you are referring to. The thing that doesn't get headlines are the many labs where they delete genes and things go completely haywire and they have no idea why.

To again use a programming analogy, it's like when you change a variable for the height of an image and then your page doesn't load. You know you did something, but your code is so tightly coupled that it's hard to discern what's going on.

That's my point. DNA is tightly coupled, so if your boss came up to you and asked you "What is the absolute minimum lines of code we can run this business on?" Then you would feel the same way that I did when reading this article!
If you launch new cars too quickly, they start blowing up. :)
I think the answer is that when Twitter IPO'd there were very clear expectations for the company to perform similar to its perceived contemporaries: Facebook and Google. If you look at the perpetually meteoric rise of GOOGL or FB, it's understandable why shareholders are disappointed -- Twitter burns a lot of capital.

So, if its growth has petered out and this is as much money as it can produce, it's understandable to me the line of thinking would then be to cut costs as much as possible so the profit margin can grow. 4k people makes sense when your company is adding value every day, but to these shareholders those aren't translating into results.

My $0.02 -- thoughts?

> Personally I dream of making a living establishing a patio11-type software business. Something where I can do a high quality job and own all of the decision-making.

I have that dream too, but when I have it I always wonder if given that situation I'd be able to stop myself from wanting my baby to keep growing, even if it meant giving up those decision-making abilities and taking on investors.
this is a dishonest portrayal of events. the arab fighters in afghanistan were not supported by the US and were an extremely marginal presence to begin with. you could make a case for elements of the taliban having links to US support years prior to its establishment, but not AQ affiliates.
If a that stock over time covers inflation and pays a dividend, absolutely.
"why do so many companies feel like they have to grow perpetually?"
-> Capitalism - growth, year over year, leads to higher stock price (market valuation) which in turn justifies higher payouts to ceo's, bonuses to employees... as growth == innovation

If you din't keep growing and managed to keep the business profitable (hit the ceiling), then you weren't 'innovating' and should be replaced ...

... that's the mindset. I don't agree with it.
As a strictly experimental project, i applaud this effort and i hope the author learned a lot about building a library. The web presentation is above average as far as library projects go.

As the library itself, i would't touch this with a 100 foot pole. Serializing logic shatters encapsulation as well as cohesion, both cornerstone object oriented principles. Also, when you serialize logic, you leave yourself handicapped to fix code bugs, as your code bugs are now data bugs by definition. Imagine solving an off-by-one style error in persisted JSON logic. Your choices would be regex (shiver) or a script to parse all json blocks and modify accordingly? Yikes.

As an experiment, this is quite nice. Perhaps too nice. Given the quality of presentation, i feel bad for the shops that decide to adopt this into production usage.
"try as I might I could not convince them that my using Google Sign-In does not link to Niantic or the Pokemon Company"

Seems they're getting stick on this point not that you're trying to use Google sign-in
I'm not sure how you would have gotten that impression with the 100% lack of ads. Aggressive adblockers, I can only hope. Either way, brand-name attraction is strong.

If you'd like to be a little more familiar with the situation, there's a write-up of the copyright situation here: http://blog.brentlaabs.com/2013/12/the-edge-of-creative-comm... with HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7749189 There's also the statement of why we forked: https://allthetropes.org/wiki/All_The_Tropes:Why_Fork_TV_Tro...
Maybe the loss of Twitter as a platform for social media self-promotion would be more significant than the direct effects of 2300 people suddenly on the job market?
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Initialized is venture capital without the attitude. Garry has been an incredible advisor to us ever since our first YC interview (he and Alexis were both there actually). Could not imagine a more down to earth, insightful and energetic group. Congrats!
Apparently founded in 1940: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MoneyGram
garry and alexis are two of the best in the valley! a big congrats for all your hard work :)
They must have offered a few versions of the Nomad, cuz mine was crap. And oh dear $deity, the software for loading it up from Windows had a terrible UI, no flexibility in organizing songs...

Good riddance.
Wait, you mean they're not talking about someone having been struck by a spacecraft for the second time?
Could you elaborate on your living conditions a little more? What is stopping you from gaining a place of residence?
I used to be concerned about that. Look at Japan. They are monetizing absolutely everything in sight and the currency barely moves. Apparently your 'cultural equity' in the face of global chaos counts for a lot more than anyone ever realized. Time will tell.
As a physician, I am blown away by the fact that almost no one is talking about the true problem: American health care is artificially hyper-inflated, expense-wise.

Sooooo much waste. Sooooo much inefficiency. The problem is the cost is too high! So why, oh why oh why, is NO ONE TALKING ABOUT FIXING THE ARTIFICIALLY HIGH PRICES?

Because those who make money off the system are controlling the narrative. They are more than happy to have the population "empowered" by increasing insurance coverage. More money for them. More reason and excuse to increase the costs even further.

There is zero reason why a doctor's visit can't cost $100. Maybe less. Break something and need a few x-rays? $100 each, max, including development and reading costs, everything. Need an appendix or tonsils removed? $500 would cover pretty much everything. Sure, such things aren't cheap, but they're survivable. But as soon as we somehow decided we needed "insurance" for such routine expenses, the costs shot up and never looked back. The actual consumers of health care never see the price tag, and - surprise, surprise - the costs have no real reason to stay held back. The systems have no incentive to stay efficient and accountable.
Rising land values don't produce taller buildings when landowners don't feel the pain of rising land values (see: Prop 13).

A very efficient tax is the land value tax: by untaxing the improvements on land and taxing the land values more heavily, you incentivize efficiency.
I understand, in general what you are saying, yet the links you're citing but you have yet to talk about mRNA. All of your links are from 1960/1970 concerning scientific politics before we established scientific fact like we have now.

I do not believe that you have reviewed my second link which takes you through how DNA goes to RNA then to protein. Yes it's mRNA, but mRNA is RNA.

The inheritable material from DNA is in the nucleotides on the inside of the double helix. Please review the Nature link to understand how DNA goes to RNA and then protein.
There is an old proverb my grandmother used to say: "My house is my castle, my cheap cotton silken, my wooden chair, made of gold". My take from that saying was that our current economics is all gold-backed economics, and that we express the value of something only in terms of how much we value gold. The moment you unlearn that gold is valuable, or has some innate intrinsic value is the moment you can replace gold with your own version of value. That is to say, the currency you use is the language you are speaking in your society. If nobody speaks your language, the task is on you to disseminate your language and propagate it, and this can be tough. This is where the 'hard work' ethic does apply. It's easy to talk gold; not so easy to convince us of silver being more valuable.

Some might argue that gold merely enables us to create these abstract forms of currencies, or in some cases, economies, in the first place, but actually they could form in pirate utopias that have little or no scaffolding at all, or exist cybernetically, for example, like Bitcoin or Ethereum. A bit of a chicken and egg situation, of course, where gold bootstraps /enables the other alternatives. But frankly I think we are left with no other choice. We either innovate our way out of gold backed economics (using gold) or we don't prosper and thrive.
the arab fighters in afghanistan were not supported by the US and were an extremely marginal presence to begin with.

You mean, until we sent the CIA in to train them, fund them, and arm them with Stinger missiles?
Congrats Garry, Alexis and team. Just to add another anecdote: We are backed by Initialized coming out of YC S16 batch. Incredibly awesome to work with such founder friendly investors. I'm sure the perspective that Garry/Alexis gained by going through YC themselves gives them this sort of empathy towards other founders.
Woops, typed text/html out of habit, meant text/plain. base64 -di works just fine too.
One simple answer to your question - speaking generally, as I know nothing about Twitter, specifically - is Twitter has yet to realize the expectations the _existing_ investors placed on it.

Real money was spent on real dreams, and the dreams failed to materialize. To give up on the BIG is to accept that their returns will fall sadly short.
What about repetitive tweets? I stopped following so many publications because they would post an article link, then repeatedly change the title or the catch and post the same link. Very frustrating.
Bringing down Twitter for part of the country for a few hours likely won't be enough. Unfortunately it will probably take people being physically hurt or shutting off most of the internet for days at a time.
How are they going to achieve that? Naval blockade? Shoot on site? Millions and millions of highly motivated people are going to overcame anything short of overwhelming violence.
I think there's a flaw in this want, which is that you don't know what "realistically designed" means. I've never been on a large space station, and aside from academic or artistic ventures, one has never been built.

The same is with wastewater treatment plants, etc. And, if you're targeting realism, size might be an issue.

That said, there are games that are thoughtful about this, such as doorkickers or heist.
There is value in twitter. Even the people who joke about twitter probably realise there is value in it.

There is still nothing that enables one to broadcast information and enable real time conversations better than twitter for companies, governments orgs or celebrities.

That twitter cannot extract value from these cash rich and price insensitive entities is a gigantic mystery.
Are they liable for those promises though? I am legitimately curious to know if they are contractually obligated to grow at a certain rate or be at certain valuation at this point in time.
Back in the mid 90's there were 2 rabbit holes I loved to visit. One of them was the Monty Python website :-)

The other one I haven't been able to track down. I'm hoping someone here can tell me what happened to it. It was an art site called "The Place" hosted by a university in Canada. It was a mixed media site with art, poetry and short stories. Does that ring a bell for anyone? I loved that site and wanted to visit it again many times. But "The Place" is a difficult term to search with these days.
Wow, who knew Trump had positions? Someone on his staff should tell him to talk about them rather than continuously drawing attention to attacks from his opponents that he should not even be mentioning. Well, actually let's not because he would not be a stable president for the US economy. Would be nice to have a president that didn't see business as an enemy and tax cuts as handouts for the wealthy though.
Something I've never been able to wrap my head around is how does Twitter make money? I mean real money. Not valuation of eyeballs, not VC cash, but honest to God profit? It has always baffled me and I wish I knew what the unicorns say to the VC's when (hopefully) someone asks this question.
If Twitter went under, modern TV journalism would have a seizure as their source of lazy reaction quotes disappears.
My point is that a relatively tiny number of people couldn't be stopped, and a much much larger number of people in Europe's case certainly won't be. As you say though, the upside is that most people are just... people; average people. The downside is that it appears Europe is in the process of swinging hard to the Right in denial of reality.
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That's why they introduced FortAwesome where you can just take the glyphs you want. Not free though.
Is there a security statement about this? I don't immediately see any dangerous operations, but code sharing should always be suspect. If this catches on, it won't be long before someone asks for something that would open vulnerabilities.

All that being said, this is a really interesting approach and having a language for shared, declarative logic is often useful.
The payload type field ends up just letting you do stuff like send RTP events (like DTMF tones) over RTP by sending a different payload type that the other end can interpret in a different way than as being part of your main audio stream. Either way tho, all the payload types that you should expect to see over the channel should be negotiated beforehand, using another protocol.

But no worries... there are a ton of moving parts in these protocols, and even though I've been working with them for a while, I still tend to forget details here and there, too.
Fabric fits in by providing twitter with a boat load of demographic and app usage data. They may still want that data for advertising purposes.

Having said that, I'm personally always wary about using an infrastructure piece for free. If my app relies on something, it's pretty important that it not easily go away. I can't count the HN threads of upset developers, frustrated about something being shuttered that was provided free.

Disclosure: I'm the co-founder of https://raygun.com which does mobile crash reporting, and more.
If you didn't want a to be mutated, you'd make it const in the beginning :)

Rust makes it much harder to make these kinds of erros by making variable ownership, reference lifetime, and const-by-default core to the language design. https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ownership.html ... You do end up spending a lot of time "fighting the compiler," even compared to template-heavy C++ codebases, but the systems you create are free from an entire class of errors.
Conversely, other platforms have already come along that target some of Twitter's use-cases and offered better UX and user engagement. I'm sure they, or a new player, could fill the void (successfully).

This is also less of a problem today (as opposed to years ago) when everyone with a meaningful social presence cross-posts or maintains a split presence on multiple platforms.
Not everyone is like a cannonball wanting to burn so hot as to melt themselves. I would also like a patio-11 type of software business; so you're not alone!

As far as twitter, they unfortunately took a bite of "poison apple" of public investment, and as such are beholden to investors, so must perform (and grow) to ever more higher levels. What would happen - i wonder - if twitter became private again, or better yet some sort of non-profit? What if their platform somehow became the genesis of the new, decentralized web somehow...In other words "phoenix" their way out of this mess by literally -reinventing themselves...If by "reinventing themselves", it might be really more of a major tweak to their operation mode. If twitter - the protocol - as opposed to twitter - the ad/communication platform - reinvented itself in that way, i think i might consider going back and using it; that is, if I'm able to retain control of my own content. Until then, I'll stick with matrix.org (specifically riot.im).

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you strike me as someone who's reasonable and willing to change their mind if they see a new angle.

So you seemed to be saying that the author wrote a whole article on how one can be much more persuasive by getting someone to agree to some general statement without actually expressing something particular about it -- without the author actually then doing so. :)

I mean, it would be like reading an article about how "short titles are better" so you agree with all of the points, then as a final check you scroll up to the top of the page and see that the article is titled "How shorter titles increase clickthrough rates, sharing rates, impact score, reading of the full article, and are basically better in every way -- according to research by Facebook." A long article about how short titles are better, but where the article itself doesn't have one.

That would be an example of an article not practicing what it preaches. How about our article? Do you think it does or doesn't "practice what it preaches"?

Does it try to "pre-suade" some measure of agreement? Does it start by talking about general statements, before it gets into its thesis? What do you think?
Regarding software, have you guys used Gust [1]?

[1] https://gust.com/investors
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Because society works better when it's growing. In a positive-sum game, coöperation is a winning strategy. In a zero-sum game, the only way to get ahead is by taking.
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Who does "they" refer to in your sentence? Twitter management? If so, then it's not about a contract but about what the owners of the company (the shareholders) have hired them to do.
I'm curious what was wrong with QNX the company, in terms of the practical ramifications of what you're describing.

I assume you were using QNX for the GC vehicle compo because of its RTOS qualities? In any case, that's awesome.

I thought Photon was pretty cool too, at least from a "oh hey these screenshots look awesome" perspective. I vaguely recall running it in a VM, once, so long ago I only hazily remember poking around the sidebar. Sadly it'll be somewhat challenging to do further academic research on that subject now, I wish the educational/noncommercial free options still existed there.

Also, I found (and bookmarked) this HN thread from some time ago that's got some QNX gems in it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4834334 (very curious about the modem)

And you're very sadly right about Apple, they're very unlikely to release the truly interesting bits of any projects like this.
SCP is an real mix between "Agents of SHIELD" type weirdness and the occasional truly disturbing nosleep material. I dig into it every now and then but usually stop when I read something I'd rather I hadn't.
> the downside is way worse.

Can you explain how the downside is way worse?

> A trap I can tell you about from recent experience. :)

If it's not too much to ask, please share your experience briefly. Like me, a lot of folks here would be interested to hear your thoughts on this topic.
At that point wouldn't bonds make more sense? Seems like the risk vs. reward balance is skewed the wrong way if you own a piece of stock that stays flat.
I suppose that depends whether you believe that was part of an intentional strategy at all. In any event, it certainly wasn't apparent at the time.
I don't disagree with you, but the reality of running an API service in the cloud means it's tough to support more than just your own clients if you don't have a large budget. And it's easier to coordinate breaking changes if you have control over both the client and server.
In Cambodia we have these "bird's eye chilis" [1] and they're included in many dishes. How do these compare to some of the other chili peppers and sauces discussed here? I do have a high tolerance for heat (it's no problem to eat 20-30 of these in a dish, or eat them raw) but I'm not sure I could characterize their taste in any meaningful way.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird%27s_eye_chili
As for the Java bashing in the beginning I'm not saying Java is anywhere near the expressive power of Haskell but many people think different things based on Java because of features they either don't know about, outdated libraries used, or experiences with older versions and codebases.

For example most don't know that Java actually does have macro like capabilities through APT (annotation processor that will work automagically I might add). Some might say ewww its not macros but then again annotation processing might just be 80/20 good enough (aka what OCaml learned with ppx vs camlp) and that Java now sort of has traits and that its code swapping is actually fairly good (jrebel). There are even sadly people that don't know Java has lambdas, and even some (usually C++ dudes) that don't know it has generics.
Most don't even know that you can combine interfaces with generic types as in: `<T extends Comparable & Serializable> void someFunc(T t)`.

Yes Java is not Rust, Haskell or even OCaml in expressiveness but it certainly is more powerful than Golang and definitely compiles fast (albeit starts up slow).

That being said OCaml is still my favorite. Compiles fast and easier for me to understand. Super mature and lots of companies use it.
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I agree if we're talking about serialising app logic, but I think this library is for when your data is a ruleset you want to save/execute, some kind of conditional tasker etc.
"Apple often doesn't invent the whole thing, but definitely puts a usable version on the market."

A common criticism of Apple is they just take technology that is most of the way there, then just make it usable. Of course, making it usable is often the hardest part and adds the most value for the consumer.
Selling display ads (ie. the same way Facebook and Google have done and succeeded)
Really? My crew use lampshading all the time.
This is perhaps the current best response to the question. The idea that twitter can exists as it currently does indefinitely is probably false. It will either grow or die when a competitor better exploits the ecological niche.
> I suspect lack of lane discipline to be the single biggest disadvantage US freeways have to American's.

I guess one of 'US' or 'American' is a typo, but (not being an international driver) I'm not sure which one ….
It is a peppercorn sized shell that is usually split open like pac-man. It gives food a strange numbing sensation.