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I can't stop imagining that he thinks that something like React is better than Ember in all situations

Can you elaborate on this? I'm unfamiliar with Tom Dale and Ember so I'm admittedly ignorant, but it's not clear to me why he would think "something like React is better than Ember in all situations".
Not the OP but I think the era of zero-interest money is behind us (even Germany posted a 1.7% YOY inflation rate, with people asking for the ECB to stop its bond-buying program as early as March), which means less money to throw at projects that don't have some strong fundamentals behind them.
To be fair, for the intended target - i.e. media creators, you can stick the dial over the existing controls that are most likely taking up screen real estate anyway.

If you're not using keyboard input as much, I can definitely see the utility of the dial. I've got one of those Palette Gear setups above my keyboard that I've integrated with IntelliJ for some common tasks, works pretty well.
I am emphatically not blaming it on her gender rather a school policy that pushes unprepared students through a system to satisfy a vision of what things should be like. If you read the former you need to go back and read my post more carefully.
It's committee of people from all over the company that don't know the person in question. The candidate prepares a document that shows their contributions with some quantifiable metrics.

There has been research that showed that this kind of decision process decreases bias.
IANAPhysicist, but the analogy I use for my relatives is that electronic->quantum is similar to the jump from clock-work->electronic.

Most concepts carry over, but some just don't make sense anymore, and a lot of effort must be invested into fundamentally new click-clack (or zip-zap) arrangements to get things done. A large part of the "intelligence" in the final system is actually latent in its structure.
Your GIN (Government Issued Number), be it an SSN, SIN, or anything else.

At least, as far as the one most easy to use against you.
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I think here we have the "my tooling/programming language is the best, in every situation everytime".

I could be wrong.
Edit: typos
It's reasonable to remove apps for "fake news" sites.
As a linux user I use, Resilio Sync (formely Bittorrent Sync) with a VPS on serverhub.com . I pay $15 a year per 125 GB. It might not be as good as dropbox but the price worth it. I can even store the files encrypted. (I am not affiliated with neither Resilio sync or serverhub, just a happy user)
You're reaching here with the Wordpress example (.org isn't even applicable to this discussion -- it's an open-source CMS). Wordpress.com is a hosting platform. Just because as a subset of the options you can make a blog (vs. an ecommerce site, a portfolio, a landing page, etc.) doesn't make it Medium's competitor.

Visit their homepage. Do you see a content aggregator or something closer to Squarespace?
Remember all the people that made fun of "don't be evil" as a motto? This is what happens when you're motto is just, "how much is evil and its cheap evil sweatshop labor contributing to the bottom line today?"

(Also, touchbar = Darth Vader. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NCm_-GZ-Dc )
Which common C compiler has a production quality implementation of array bounds checking?

Before you say Address Sanitizer you should be aware that its authors intended it as a debugging tool and recommend against using it in production as it introduces new attack surface, as described in the "Address Sanitizer local root" mail.

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q1/363
Instagram had around ~50 million users and 13 employees when it was acquired by Facebook.
am german, i also don't mind using a pay toilet, because they are mostly super, super clean. Sometimes they are really expensive (it's like parking space), but mostly they take a few cents and you really get something in return.
I have no useful advice to offer for your troubling situation, but I wanted to comment and say that the NYTimes article you linked to is scary and fascinating. I know you weren't sharing it out of interest but out of illustration of your predicament. Still, thank you for sharing nonetheless.
The "networked" part is pretty important. Medium makes it easy to post and makes your posts look nice, but it also helps build an audience. If you manage to make it on the leaderboard it can have a pretty massive impact on traffic. Look at this list of publications and their follower counts (https://toppub.xyz/). Now the numbers aren't very impressive from the POV of the NYT or even something like Daring Fireball, but there are some good editors who have amassed impressive followings in short order. I'm not convinced that Medium will live up to it's valuation, but saying it's just Blogger 2.0 is like saying Twitter is just a 140 character Blogger.
Check out the FBI file:

https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/fbi...

The sheer amount of black ink, rubric, marginalia, stampage, redaction, etc, is a reminder of how deeply dysfunctional (and even hellish) bureaucracies can be. It may not have been possible for the FBI to stop investigating Feynman without orders from the top.
While this comment has some decent points, it's really only looking at the problem from a surface level and from a very narrow view of the proposition. For starters, I'm sure you do know someone that would be happier if they got a pay cut as long as that cut came with reduced hours. I, for one, would happily take a pay cut proportional to hours worked if I knew I got an extra day off every week because the money I lost would be gained right back from the childcare and other expenses that I pay just so that I can work that additional day. It also takes the costs away from other things that are normally associated with working. If you hadn't gone 0 to 60 with the hostility, you could probably have a conversation about this. Unfortunately, I think your oversimplification combined with your attitude killed it.
> bowing to Chinese dictatorship, so sad

Not really. NYT has solidly established themselves as a fake news site. It's very reasonable to protect the public from such propaganda sites that post fake news, do you not agree?
1: Trust: Google is primarily in the business of search, and Google Drive is one of many other products that Google has. The company has a history of deleting or ignoring products that are not performing, or even that are performing but not core. Meanwhile Google's core business or searching anything and everything makes their motivations for GDrive suspect. I moved my email from Google long ago for similar reasons.

2: Salience: Dropbox is in the business of providing the Dropbox service - and everything else is non-core. So if I pay for my service at Dropbox I would expect to be more important to them than to Google, who make far more income from advertisers. Meanwhile Google is famous for being hard to do business with for customers of all levels.

3: Simplicty: Dropbox just works, and very elegantly. It's the product of choice for a very large number of people and SMEs and getting it working outside of a corporate network is easy. Meanwhile Google products (and Hangouts is the worst here) are often inaccessibly appalling to operate for people who are not deliberately immersed in the Google ecosystem.

It's not perfect. I would like to see a far higher standard of security from Dropbox, and wish they had not wasted so much effort on non-core functions like photos. This trend appears to be getting worse - with the article stating "Dropbox intends to offer software that businesspeople use for hours each day to create content and get work done."
With the wealth of data that Facebook has on you, I'm confident they could figure out your name even if they didn't enforce a real name policy.

> Nobody is pretending.

Just because some people are willing to still troll under their real names does not mean it doesn't have a substantive impact on people's behavior.

Heck, I personally have seen the difference in my own activity on Reddit (where I'm anonymous) and HN (where I'm not). I definitely hold myself to a higher standard here, even when arguments get heated, because this is part of my professional profile (and Reddit is not).
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Minflux: nanometer resolution imaging and tracking of fluorescent molecules
I read Parfit's book Reasons and Persons for a Philosophy class a number of years ago. One large section of the book addressed that age-old question: If you get into a Star Trek transporter, do you actually get transported somewhere else? Or do you die, and a new person is created at the destination who is deluded into thinking that they are you?

The book was very interesting. I'm not sure that I agree with his conclusion, however, which was (1) Yes, you die. (2) So what?

(I.e., there being someone else who is just like you is just as good as not dying.)

From my point of view, if the result is just as good as not dying, then that's what I meant by not dying. But I'm sure I'd have to write just as much as Parfit did to make that claim credible to philosophers.
Doesnt everybody mostly think this about their school ? No one wants to be known for graduating from the school that pumps out frauds.

Thats why alot of companies prefers ivy leagues, mit, other top schools etc.
> Google built blogger to the point where it killed every other blogging platform...

No they didn't. Wordpress powers some absurd number of all websites (25%-ish). Tumblr is still fairly popular. And Medium of course. What google did do is effectively kill off RSS readers, but that's a different story.
> LinkedIn has bet big on Ember.

I like how as technologists we talk about "betting" on things. As if technology choices are like gambles.
Great idea. I wish it was free or a demo was available. Any alternatives?
Having typed arrays without efficient functions over them would be rather pointless.
> So I think a hotel probably can ban guests from operating a wireless AP, but jamming such activity using active measures is going too far.

Exactly. It's the jamming which is illegal, not the ban.
Sure, just like signing up for a 30 day trial of Netflix and then ripping all the content to bit torrent.

While I'm sure it's a concern I don't think Netflix looking to change their model over it. Good actors still outnumber bad actors.
damn that looks fun. as if I didn't already have enough things I want to learn...
Cyberwar for Sale – leaked documents shed light on a shadowy global industry
Yeah, all of this I agree with. I don't think quality of social interaction depends on identifiability, although FB certainly leveraged its real-name policy as a quality signal from the outset - it made the platform seem more official/professional to the initial target demo.
I know, but i figure people will read his comments first and then see this.
> I'd like a programming language that is statically compiled, with good performance, garbage collection, and decent support for abstraction.

Well if you really are tired of "better C" (in varying guises) then pull the fire alarm and go off-piste with OCaml or Haskell
Working part time contributes to the gender pay gap, so it probably has economic effects as well.
> If you're willing to break the social norm, why not go all the way and be free?

Because Linux is only free if your time is worthless is still about as true today as ever before.

Oh sure, I can use most of my hardware without too many issues. It took me hours to configure my monitor because of some issue with EDID, but I'm willing to count that as an outlier.

The problem is I get Ubuntu working and then I still have to deal with fucking Unity.

OSX works out of the box with the hardware, and the OS is just a much more pleasant desktop experience while being a good enough OS to get work done (vs windows being more difficult).
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2797454?hl=en
Well, maybe there's nothing wrong with being the best or the most popular one of them? What do people expect Medium to do, cure cancer?

It's a blogging platform. A good one. Someone wanted to make it, and he built it, and now it's successful.

Maybe it didn't revolutionize the way we make toasts, but it's a solid incremental improvement over the alternatives. So was facebook, so was iphone, so were most of the other things people have made.
Lots of flagged comments, I suppose because of short quips related to the sleazy things LinkedIn has done in the past.

I'm sure he's not unaware of those things. I wonder if he's thinking he may be able to influence them? Discourage dark patterns? Discourage the current mobile experience that's broken unless you download the app and/or log in?
We need specialists too. We need the folks who can tune x86 assembly better than -gcc 03. We need people who can write segfault free C++ code, and we need people to fix the Rust borrow checker bugs http://blog.ezyang.com/2013/12/two-bugs-in-the-borrow-checke...

There are plenty of available consumer of good tools, with more coming into the market every day. We need more specialists. Every person has the same capacity, the same brain, the same capability to become an Einstein, a Hoare, a Dijkstra, a whatever modern Comp Sci figure or AI leader you admire these days.
It matches my freshman experience, most of those people drop out though, so it got better.
> allocation of income is shifted downwards, so the allocation of production shifts accordingly

Your explanation makes a lot of sense. It points to the lack of distribution of income as the culprit behind hunger and poverty. But it also narrows the premise in which UBI works: 1) when money is not printed artificially to fulfill UBI, and 2) when financial energy is taken away from more affluent portions of the economy.

This seems like adding another element of fragility vulnerable to manipulation in an already complex economic system.
Aren't they?

If there are two competing technologies, generally one will dominate, or more likely: both will be replaced by something new. You have to gamble that the technology you pick will stay relevant for long enough to be worth it.
Seems like part of the problem is that he insists that the museum be located some of most highly prized real estate in the entire world. Of course it would be hard to get it built on Crissy Field! Duh. Why not Columbus Circle NYC or Trafalgar Square or the Champs Elysee? Kind of stupid to even ask.

I think it would be a great museum for undeveloped land in Tacoma or Oakland, though.
The internet started in 1969 and the Chinese Communist Party forced the legitimate government to retreat to Taipei in 1949.

So China has been fact checking for twenty years longer than the internet has existed.
Really?! I recall reading something I could not find saying rail was far in away the most efficient.

I'd think the drag of ships in water vs rail in air would also be far, far greater, but I've never taking fluid mechanics and trains do move a lot faster.

Then again one ship can carry as much as 50 trains or so?
My daughter also spent months using one when she was 7-8, not so long ago!
VCs don't get to take their profits until after the company exits. If they invest at a high valuation and then it IPOs at some lower price, there is no gain and the VC gets zero carry.
It's true, but moving our huge codebase to Python 3 is a big undertaking. We're making progress towards it by using Python 3 constructs for new files, etc. For my personal projects I'm already in the process of moving over.
I'm the wrong side of the ocean to pop in, but now I'm picturing it as Magrathea from hitchhikers.
What is an example use for this chip on its own? Can it be made to run on low enough power to run on a battery?
It's long past time to end the scourge to democracy that is these fake news sites. It is responsible and reasonable for states to ban them. An act of responsible public service that no reasonable person could disagree with.
If there is just one toilet, then yes those scenarios are the worst case to the idea.

So if a toilet needs a queue, then the first in-first out method should be used to prevent someone from bumping the queue and prevent over excessive wait times for someone who can't pay.

Also if they want to pay for the toilet, they can always pay for who is in front of them.

To enforce such rules is always a problem, but so are all rules in our society.
Agreed. The process is spontaneous and natural. But it can be and usually is damaged, that is confined to smaller and smaller areas of one's life or worldview.
Another innovation was popularizing the "2 minute read"- those estimates put the reader at the forefront - we value your time
I gave up and just started using AWS S3 directly. I use a few GB, pay a few pennies for storage, a few more pennies for bandwidth if I'm moving stuff around, and that's it. I've never paid more than $10/month, and it's usually under $1/month.
Either the white player would win in 100% of matches, or the black player would win 100% of matches.

Go rules prevent draws by giving Black a non-integer score bonus (this is called Komi, http://senseis.xmp.net/?Komi); By definition of "perfect play", a Black perfect player either always wins games, or a White perfect player always beats him.
Is there a typo here? Why would he think React is better than Ember?

In any case, I think it's most likely that A) they are throwing a boatload of money at him, more than he could probably get anywhere else and B) giving him full autonomy to continue his desired work in a context where he has direct access to a lot of the hairiest problems.

Open source work is not known to be the most lucrative, so opportunities like this are very attractive, I really can't fault him for it.
Well trucks are awfully inefficient.
Strong players dont play "trap moves"
And even what I assumed to be the beginnings of an attack or probe turned out to be a false positive.
What makes the ecosystem so unfriendly to languages that link to C easily, either way?
Atom 1.12.8
Funny, Denver recently created a whole museum for the Clyfford Still collection. The work was given to any city who would put up the funds for the museum itself. This seems like a better deal (I'm not a fan of Clyfford Still, so I'm less than enthusiastic over the museum)

You could start it off as a touring exhibit, like they're doing for the Star Wars costumes (currently at the Denver Art Museum). This also worked for the controversial Bible Museum, which is is now (privately) in D.C.

One of the problems of this idea may be, what do you do about new exhibits?

Maybe all those comic books are just... junk and don't need a permanent place to be displayed in an expensive city. Maybe things like the Rockwell paintings can go to the Rockwell Museum that already exists. Or at least the majority of the collection can be easily digitized, and available to all via The Internet Archive. How about $1.5 billion to TIA, as well as all these "artifacts"

How about, sell off all the originals, and give the money to charity.
Given the fact of uncertainty about the future, investing in anything (e.g., building applications using a particular framework) is a gamble. Granted, the ability to re-write is a good hedge, but you're still hedging a bet.
You probably know to ask yourself “What do I want?” Here’s a way better question
What if we had this:

(defun foo (a0 a1 &curry a2 a3 &optional a4 ... &rest r) ...)

The &curry keyword would specify that if this fun is called with fewer than four args, it returns a function. If called with fewer than two, an error is signaled; two are required. If more than four are passed, they satisfy the optionals.

Thus (foo 1 2 3) would return a (lambda (&curry a3 &optional ...) ...).

The main disadvantage is that currying macros do this statically, purely at the call site's compile time, without cooperation from the callee.

Of course, this proposal can cheerfully coexist with currying macros.

In a Lisp dialect which can express multiple function signatures, things are more general; you can do the above yourself. You can make your three-arg function have zero, one and two-arg cases which curry.

For that matter, we can do it like this:

(defun foo (a0 a1 &optional (a2 :curry) (a3 :curry) a4 ...)
;; handle a2 or a3 being :curry by returning lambda)

I'm well aware of presence-indicating arguments: (a2 default-val a2-present-p). With this simple :curry convention, we could simplify a semi-automatic implementation. It has a notational advantage.
Give your Python function a {web,CLI} hug
It sure feels like you are arguing a strawman here.

From reading the comments, its seems alot of people want to help but have legitimate, well reasoned and valid concerns.
Some people are talking about charge for premium content. Others are talking about WordPress and Blogger. Am I missing something, or is the text just like @ev want to go in the opposite direction?

And making money from opposing models would act as an anchor, preventing from following the direction they believe.

[i]So, we are shifting our resources and attention to defining a new model for writers and creators to be rewarded, based on the value they’re creating for people. And toward building a transformational product for curious humans who want to get smarter about the world every day.[/i]

He wants to give great rewards to people who create great content. It's not just about views, numbers of followers, or how many people shared the content. It is about how this content impacts other people's lives and how positive it could be to have your brand or signature supporting the creator.

I personally think it's kind of hard to achieve this on a big scale. It is the opposite of the most successful program on the internet. Google AdWords.

But will change a lot of concepts if he succeed
Uh, what? Claiming that your [1] is in any way a specification for the language is utterly absurd. It's far too vague. (Compare to even an IETF RFC, and you'll see what I mean. If you want to compare to a real language spec, compare to ISO C++.)
What you describe is an explorer.
I'd be very surprised if Dropbox manages to IPO at $10B valuation. The growth simply isn't there. They're big on platforms and markets with no growth but they're getting killed in growth markets. E.g. my cloud storage startup Degoo recently surpassed Dropbox on the Android grossing rank in India (http://imgur.com/HsII1KK) and we're only 5 people.
A CRUD app that limits me to 140 characters. Outside of celebrities and SV dorks who even cares right? Nice innovation morons. Then you realized you got more than 50% of your news from Twitter.

Can I ask how many long form publications you've read lately on Medium? For me it's a lot. To be so dismissive of a product that's quietly made its way pretty deeply into your life is strange.
What these unrelated services did doesn't refute the point that a small team can put together a blogging service. Most components you need even already exist as pre-packaged FOSS. On top of it, one company on your list had a complex product that was built by a hand-full of college students in its early days. The Instagram company they bought also had just 13 employees.
Ads are a serious problem, and they're failing. However, the standard alternative (people paying directly) has serious problems of its own. Basically people pay for what they want to hear. Woodward and Bernstein wouldn't have survived that model.