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This is simply not true. IP is a vital and important part of business that protects entrepreneurs the most. Sure there is a huge raft of reforms that need to be untaken and software patents have questionable utility but we shouldn't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

I still look back to the Dyson lawsuit with Hoover as example of why we need patents and IP protection:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1368860/Dyson-cleans-...
> Then learn node.

or don't bother, because its javascript.
Even if that's the case, is that a bad thing? Should we not have the freedom to spend our own time as we please in a post-scarcity society?
I've been on a widebody caught in an A380 wake before. Some seriously violent turbulence for a few seconds, and the pilot came on afterwards to tell us what happened.
You can't deny that the morepigs young are opting for are highly degenerate.
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Are games really that relevant here? I'd suggest it might be more relevant that they haven't interacted with women enough. If that's the case, then that's the issue. To say something is a timesink is different from saying it warps wordviews strongly in and of itself.
They can push for reform _and_ provide legal protection like this. They're not mutually exclusive.

I'm assuming by IV you mean Intellectual Ventures..? Are they tied to Microsoft? I thought they had _sued_ Microsoft..?
There is a difference between only using them defensively, and using them for protection racket. As far as I know, MS still do the later (especially with Android).

They also like standards poisoning with their patents, and then collecting money from everyone who is forced to use that. Example - exFAT widely used on SD cards. Why didn't everyone use some free filesystem? Because MS.
Are you sure they haven't?
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You can allocate more space than you might need to avoid resizing. It's not uncommon for Java programmers to pass a size when initializing empty array lists, knowing they will be filled.
I really dislike the romanticizing of employment as "solving problems." The effect of employment is that somebody's problems get solved, but as the employee, they aren't my problems, and subjectively it feels like mostly solving a lot of meta-problems like how to follow somebody else's process and get along with all kinds of coworkers. If employment felt like object-level problem solving, I'd be employed.
I've been wondered exactly this about the He filled drives. Should I just assume that after 4 years the drive is not going to work? 8 years? I am aware that in 4 years modern drives of the same cost will be at least 4x the capacity, but still it's my data on the drive that I care about.
Good! Those metrics are important to some, but not to others.
Because technology give us massive leverage. The economic opportunities aren't going away, and to the extent that we still need labor, compensation will adapt to what makes it worth an individual's time.
I am 99.99% sure you are telling the truth. It's that last 0.01% that gets ya.
Spot on. I've got a good job and it has gotten me almost nowhere. Land prices have outrun wage gains. No point working. If I didn't have kids I'd drop out.

Landlords, banks and boomers are disgusting.
Nice work. And yet google images still has horribly compressed low resolution thumbnails...
What are your favorite or most-used shortcuts?
Oops. I tend not to watch much video. There's no sound on this VM host. Because there's too much risk of compartment leakage, with so many family smartphones lying about :(
its been submitted to a message board for comments, did you expect everything to be positive ?

GIT commit message are hardly significant, unless you are doing some form of automated release notes - and then you just follow whatever convention is required.
I'm proud of you, bro.
Nobody, not a single company, is using D-Wave in production for anything. It's not a useful machine, it doesn't do anything you can't do with a much cheaper regular computer.

Aaron knows what he's talking about, the criticism is not 'sour grapes'.
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>Game designers often deploy a technique called “dynamic difficulty adjustment”. In many games, the software assesses a player’s skill and rebalances various attributes of the game accordingly, to keep the game fun and manageable for those of less ability. Gamers early in their careers, or who are simply struggling to pick up the skills necessary to succeed, are given a helping hand; their world might be more generously strewn with useful power-ups, for instance. As players advance, these helping hands are withdrawn.

This sounds really silly, but I honestly consider being thrown into the deep-end when learning how to play Tribes 1 (I started playing in 1999) and DOTA (started 2004) as a child greatly benefited my overall mindset and attitude as I grew older.

I think I qualify as a videogame addict. I've probably spent more than 1/3 of my waking hours since I was nine years old gaming. I'm approaching 5000 hours on DOTA2 alone since 2011, though I've played significantly less games in general within the past three years due to finally being employed. Programming feels just as good, and I get paid on top of it.

I think my social development was stunted, but I feel like I'm mostly normal now as an adult. I really don't have any regrets, and I plan to give my kids completely unrestricted access to their own computer and the internet as soon as they want it, barring any laws or regulations that prevent me from doing so legally.
How many of those use the D-WAVE machine in production?

Zero.

Everyone are just trying to work out if they can use it for something - anything. So far the answer is NO.
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> They were all bullshit, and they all ended in settlements of ~$10,000 (cheaper to settle).

You are part of the problem. NEVER settle with a patent troll. I've had plenty of these assholes come after me and nothing ever stuck, on top of that I've helped others defend against the trolls with a 100% success rate when and if they stuck to the end.

Yes, it can cost you money, but this real life prisoners dilemma can only be won if we stick together. And MS is playing both ends against the middle here, to their own advantage of course.
That's fine, the young men will much prefer sex robots anyway. Relationship dynamics, freed of men needing human women to fulfil their sexual urges, are gonna get weird.
> and starting your career in your 20s without an inherently marketable skill is terrifying for most people

Not as terrifying as starting your career in your 40s without an inherently marketable skill because 20s and 30s were spent playing video games...
And a lot of brawndo
So true. Full stack is understanding the layers of a modern web stack like basic webserver/port binding knowledge, basic unix skills, http, DNS, rest, serving apis, consuming apis, using queues for background jobs, database schema, avoiding n+1 queries, authentication mechanisms for browsers and clients, email (dkim+spf), serving assets, handling browser caching issues, the list goes on... an SPA with react is really just touching the surface.
I think if it wasn't possible to easy and irreversably delete FreeCiv savegames I'd be homeless.
>Men seem more likely to do this than women because of the societal pressures on them to get a job and run the rat race of dating and climbing a nonexistent corporate ladder.

Women also have more options.
Just to be clear, I'm actually designing this system with New Zealand in mind, which has a very socialised healthcare system. I've got no idea how to help the american healthcare system
Or... like how insurance companies offer insurance if the mob burns your house down and will prosecute the culprits on your behalf.
Exactly. People who believe in IP make those who thought the earth was flat look like geniuses. Strip the license out, use the code as you please. If anyone sues, we crowd-fund hitmen to take care of the fascist slimes.

The IP fallacy is intrinsically linked to the State fallacy. Look fellas; if all men are born with equal rights, then how do you fit the 'ruling class' into it? If anyone claims to own you or the ideas which are happening to you, slay him.
“Buy American” needs a filter button on all e-commerce sites
When I was working on something I thought I had to work on, I used an app called Freedom to block the web. When I dropped the thing I thought I had to work on, and started working on something I really wanted to work on, then I didn't need external help.
> What are your 100 hour time savers?

`perl`
You're horribly mistaken, likely because you haven't spent time in communities that aren't hostile to women. It's really hard to know whether your community is hostile to women unless you're a woman. A lot of guys just don't understand how much harassment a typical woman experiences, and when they hear it criticized basically fall back on "well I don't see it" and conclude it must not be happening rather than trying to collect more information.
How does a UBI prevent this? The people described in the article don't seem to want more money. They want to play video games. Giving them enough money to live off of would allow them to do exactly that while producing nothing of benefit to society. Right now, at least, some of them seem marginally productive (contractors, the cashier, etc).

Utility, as a function of money, generally has a negative second derivative - think Utility(income)=log(income) rather than Utility(income) = income. Utility'(0) > Utility'(UBI), so the UBI is still a massive work disincentive regardless of marginal tax rates.

A better solution is work incentives - EITC, Basic Job (UBI but only if you do government work), that kind of thing.
6 hours of running around a fantasy world, rescuing damsels in distress who fall out of their dresses and embrace you.

Or 10 minutes watching real people having sex, knowing those people use aliases so that after the camera shuts down and the paper towels come out, they can go and live their own real lives.

That's the difference I see.
Another non-biased reference here: http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/starting/which-python...
> Many jobs do not provide (marginal utility > income) to society, and many even produce negative marginal utility.

What are some examples of this? Why are people paying those workers?
It's true. The average and mundane company I work for has been sued more than once using patents from the late 90's/early 2000's. The patents are extremely broad and don't describe anything unique. I've spent months on this kind of crap, rather than engineering and developing things of value.

I can understand how this type of indemnification could appeal to businesses, especially ones that have had to spend money on lawyers and tie up critical resources dealing with law suits.
you really are
And how many of those boomers have themselves slipped into the alternate realities of drugs and alcohol? If you are going to distract yourself, videogames are better than drinking. The remark in the OP about the father having to change a baby while playing a game is telling. That father could put his gaming on pause. A generation ago, how many fathers in similar situations were catatonic with a bottle in one hand? Rather than being down at the local watering hole, the traditional place for forgetting life problems, this father was at home. That's progress.
I keep hearing that term lately...but nobody can explain to me how post scarcity is even possible
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The "no jobs post" rule also applies to YC startups. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9987226
I completely agree with the sentiment, but isn't your own comment being dishonest? There's plenty of land in the United States, and plenty of cities that have hardly been met with the "hoarding" you mention.

That being said, living in Boston, MA, I totally feel what you're saying (literally, most of the houses here are expensive, even in crappy areas).
Well it is for my office / man cave. I have a 19" telco rack in the corner that has as switch, the mini and a box running proxmox running VMs (minecraft server, work testing VMs, etc.). My startup buys from IxSystems for all or our stuff so I hope to get a good discount. My current 4 bay I have had for 4 years and it just works. Also the support from IxSystems has been great. I have spent so much of my life build data centers and networks, et.al. that just paying for something that works has a great deal of appeal. In 1998-2001 the rack has a ton of systems, switches and routers, now I guess I would just trade $ to spend time with the family. If I am going to build anything it will be a new Ryzen gaming setup.
I wonder if people still voluntarily move from Perl to Ruby, other than for financial reasons. I had to dive into Python and Ruby for my dissertation. I didn't like Python, but I completely understood how it would be possible to. Ruby just felt like a less predictable Perl with more immature tooling.
> Are they tied to Microsoft?

http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Intellectual_Ventures

http://techrights.org/2014/12/16/trolling-not-working-out/
Thanks, but I think video games can be, at minimum, an equally-valid pursuit in one's life (i.e. something to be proud of). My reasons for a change were external pressures.
Don't explicitly go looking for open source projects to contribute to. That never worked for me at least.

Instead, let them come to you. Just do whatever coding you'd otherwise do, for fun or pay, and focus on that. But, while doing it, see if you notice something that annoys you about some library.

Any behavior you have to work around, or just a nice to have feature. Or even any time you wonder how a feature of a library you use is implemented (maybe the documentation is vague), jump in and read the source. And now you have an open source project to contribute to, almost as if by accident.

(You could do this for any tool or platform you use too, but libraries are nice for this IMHO because sometimes they're small, and they're in the same programming language you're already used to. Jumping into, say, your operating system can be much more intimidating than into a library you already use in a language you already know that really just does one small specialized thing)
>I feel like I'm starting to sound like a shill in this thread... I don't work for MS, don't use Azure, and am generally considered an "Apple fan boy."

Apple is no better on IP issues. Being a fan of theirs does not bolster the credibility of one's opinion on Microsoft, pro or con.
Some gaming communities are hostile to noobs. Some are hostile to women. Some are both. I'm surprised anyone is willing to make the claim that there is no hostility towards women in videogame communities!
You realize the difference here is insurance companies don't go around lighting fire to houses, whereas Microsoft goes around suing companies for patent violations (the thing they are supposedly indemnifying you from) and funding noxious patent trolls.
I buy candy. Then I don't eat the candy until I have completed all important tasks I have to do.
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Well, PHI protection (HIPAA) is actually a good thing and doesn't really prevent researchers from accessing data as long as PHI is stripped (de-identified dataset). Now getting that de-identified data is not always easy...
Yeah amazon cloud drive is pretty popular on /r/DataHoarder/, quite a few people have 10TB+ on it, some even a lot more.

Personally I have close to 7TB of backups and personal video footage stored, everything encrypted, never had any issues.

However there's always the danger of them pulling a onedrive at some point in the future and reverting from unlimited back to something like 1TB if people actually use it.
It was just a stand-alone application fully-coded in VB.
What's the site? I'd be interested to take a look to see how the SEO is.
> 0) Guile is a GNU project

Honest question: How does that help nowadays? Certainly in the early 90s, browsing the GNU ftp site was terrific for discovery, and in the 80s, GNU tapes were even more powerful, but nowadays, GNU seems to be irrelevant for discovery. I can't think of a single software project in the last 20 years that I've discovered through its GNU association. Similarly, GNU used to be important as an infrastructure provider for open source software, but nowadays is one hosting option among many, and not a particularly attractive one.

GNU has never helped much in developing software, the individual projects always stood and fell with their maintainers. So it seems to me that nowadays people put their projects under the GNU umbrella mainly because they buy into a particular worldview of how software should be licensed.
If people do not find this world worthwhile they will make one up.
I have no degree. Personal projects played a huge part in helping me get jobs at Microsoft and Electronic Arts. Also, I'm very sure I'd be a shit programmer if I hadn't put tens of thousands of hours in at home.
I'm with you, to some degree. By "solving problems" I was referring to the parent comment's phrase "provided we're able to keep the scarcity problem solved", which I read as "let (vague, unidentified) them solve the scarcity problem while I play video games".
Made up? Can you explain? I ask because I'm professionally working on a project which uses those results and I've often wondered about their validity. I know there are...Issues with them in various ways, but what are you aware of?
That is how you got alt-right. Bad job market and on the other hand portrayed as oppressor and reminded to check your own privilege. Video game is just the surface of the underlying illness. It is cheap(per hour), and accessible source of pleasure.
I wanted to learn Rust but didn't have a good project in mind. So I solved a bunch of interview problems: https://github.com/brianquinlan/learn-rust

Solving those problems gave me a reason to touch lots of parts of the language and was also intellectually interesting. See, for example: https://github.com/brianquinlan/learn-rust/tree/master/i18n
We got pinged by our CEO to reduce our AWS bill which was $8k at the time. After a bit of work, we got it down by a little over a grand. One lunch, he said "guys, what are you doing about that bill?"... "What, we got it down by over a grand!"... "Yeah, but the exchange rate has gone the other way..."

Gotta love the Australian dollar. The Australian economy is solid - about to set a world record for longest continuing period without recession, including the GFC years - but the AUD swings around like a mad animal.
Aviation uses feet... and centigrade. The standard lapse rate that pilots use in the troposphere is -2C/1000'.
What is the labor market, if not an interminable, poorly designed MMORPG?

Most of us will be alive by the time there's enough economic incentive for all the things humanity needs, with only a token labor force. Many of the world's richest countries are already there, at least when it comes to their own citizens.

In the future (i.e. the present, in the software world), to the extent that employers need workers, they going to have to compete for them with high salaries and copious perks. We'll largely conquer poverty, and we'll have a very large lower-middle class working part-time, a smallish upper-middle class of knowledge workers, and tiny class of ultrawealthy capitalists.
99% of VBA is used in Excel. The others are just an aberration as far as the indexers are concerned.
They also have the useful stuff, like property that was reasonably priced at the time of purchase.
Just out of curiosity, what do you suggest instead?
It doesn't seem like he's implying it's not hostile to women. Rather, it's hostile in general. Which is bad, but not merely because you're women. Though that happens as well in some community.
One of the kinks is the longevity guarantee -- we kinda-sorta guarantee that Tier 1 platforms will "never" go away, but we can't as easily do that for a community thing. AIUI Tier 1 is something permanent that you can rely on always existing in the future.
> Men seem more likely to do this than women because of the societal pressures on them to get a job and run the rat race of dating and climbing a nonexistent corporate ladder.

And perhaps because "taking care of themselves" pressure on women is much, much higher.
I don't believe in the idea that the video game itself is the source of the negative influence rather than the community surrounding it.

Video games from the pre-internet era was just as marketed towards the males as the it is right now, but the toxicity level is higher than ever in today's "community" focused gaming.

Overwatch is a good example of this. I applaud the developers for making such a diverse and stereotype-defying world and rosters. It is a game that includes lesbian characters, an autistic character, a beautiful Iraqi city thats not war-torn, and a futuristic African city thats not a slum. But even all that doesn't stop the player base from being toxic and harass other players for whatever reason.
I think you might be worrying about the wrong thing.

Young men have much healthier views on gender equality than when I was young.

The trend I see is young men not putting in the effort to form romantic relationships and young women, rather than adjust their standards or put more effort in, trying to compete for the few guys who do measure up.

I would be much more worried that my daughter was going to end up very lonely.
Maybe it's not losing curiosity, but changes in priorities.

IME: I had much more time available to spend learning tools like that. Now that I work, have a family, etc, I don't have as much time to spend.
I don't mean to derail because I think you have a valid point, but I believe alcoholism is still a way worse problem today. If I'm remembering correctly, it's something like the same number of people die due to alcohol every year in the US as shoot themselves death (~30k)... and that's just fatalities; if we're talking family problems it's way higher.
I personally recommend Rails. Still the best, after all these years.
Every job I've worked in my adult life has involved being judged by standards the boomers doing the judging could never live up to, and then covering for their incompetence with technical skills(because I'm young, so I can just do that stuff). It would be such a sad joke if it weren't for the fact that they squat in every opportunity young people have for their futures (real estate, higher positions, etc) while the young themselves drown in debt and exploitation.
Yeah, there's definitely a lot of truth in that. Still, the bit about the guy who went to law school and decided not to practice, opting instead to play video games, and for whom finances were no biggie because parents... Jiminy Christmas, WTF is up with that.
It depends entirely on the SAAS. A non-programmer friend of mine paid peanuts to an off-shore programmer to build an über simple slack-clone with Firebase + Angular + Phonegap. He has two paying customers so far. Will this scale? Probably not but if he reaches 20 customers he'll have the money for the rockstars.

This friend is a sales ninja, the tech is not an obstacle for him.
Interesting. For conversation sake if I were to build a service directly competing with an exisiting Azure service offering am i protected from microsoft itself?