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The idea that Netflix could tell the movie and TV industries what to do is laughable and woefully ignorant of how those industries work.

Why do you think Netflix et al invests so much in original content ? Because they have zero leverage and are beholden to the whims of Hollywood.
USPS only forwards the mail for one year after notification. After that any mail that is still marked for that address will be delivered there. Ideally you would have notified all relevant parties at that point.

Also a lot of junk mail will be addressed to the name "or current resident"
Things don't have to be fully automated to mean big changes. The factory that makes Ikea bookcases employs twice the number of people it did in the 1980s but they make 37x as many bookcases [1]

We're looking at a similar situation in the programming, ops, and IT support areas.

A friend of mine Tweeted this the other night: "I'm sleepless so I just created a voice-based health tracker using Google Assistant in about 20 minutes that took me wks to write 3 yrs ago." [2]

I've heard numerous anecdotes of "A Zapier account and 20 minutes of fiddling with things just replaced a SAAS app/consultant, etc. we were paying for."

This is what automation looks like: the top 10% in a profession doing 100x the work previously done. To date the appetite for more and more software development (eating the world) has sufficed, but there is no guarantee that will always be the case.

1 - http://www.bbc.com/news/business-38747485

2 - https://twitter.com/Raelshark/status/843776684407111680
This is super interesting!

I had always assumed coffee was made via liophilization at scale, any insight on why it's not?

On the subject of extraction, how are you measuring yield? What are the main differences in the 40% coffee yield you're leaving on the table?
Satisfaction Guaranteed section typo: "If your are ever unsatisfied, we are unsatisfied and will work to remedy the situation."

your -> you
> If it was up to Netflix, they would just release their shows DRM-free on Netflix for any platform.

That is SO UNTRUE. Netflix would never want their content to be distributed by anyone other than them, which is the point of DRM; absolute control over distribution, not copy protection.

If Netflix was against DRM, then why release their first party content DRM ensnared?
Sometimes the market speaks REALLY clearly!

(1) I, too, would love to try it out.

This does mean that if it is not much better than my Keurig (wasteful) single use, I may not re-up. Would be interested to see.

(2) Also, would be great if the trial packets were available someplace that already had my credit card (like Amazon).

(3) Do you have half-cafs?
This is standard Microsoft practice. Working here for more than 10 years.
There was a time when people bought software in boxes.
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My company (GoCardless) does pretty much this except:

1) There is first a very short phone chat with one of our recruiters to see what sort of role within our team you're interested in, let you ask questions, and to make sure you're clear on the scope of the take home challenge.

2) For the first technical interview, we have you talk through your approach to the take home challenge. Not everyone has publicly available code that they can walk through and not everyone's publicly-available projects are good for a discussion with any given one of our engineers. The pair programming interview is also on a challenge that we've standardised and calibrated with the team.
> The consequences are nonexistent to negligible at best.

Not in all cases. I work for a company that has a Facebook app at its core, and while we'd love to use a service like this to post to Instagram, it'd risk Facebook shutting our main app's access to the Facebook API down.
Maybe sending those crash reports might help you to get them fixed, pretty sure next release (early April) would get fixed. Or if you use insiders build, could get fixed sooner.
If "it's gotta be cool", then getting in bed with an organization as shady as LinkedIn was... maybe not the most productive way to go about it. "Reputations are stubbornly difficult to dislodge," indeed - but acquiring LinkedIn only strengthens the old, bad, monopolistic-bully reputation Microsoft is supposedly trying to shed.
> What's terrible is Netflix could have used it's considerable influence to tell _that_ _Industry_ that we won't walk this walk anymore.

Why do you assume they didn't? And if they did and the industry said no, what should they have done? Walk away, lose access to all its content, see a large part of their subscriber base move to different services that do support DRM and therefor get the content and eventually have to start firing employees as their income drops?

Just about any streaming service has this exact same problem. They don't love DRM nor want to support it, it's annoying and cumbersome. But it's how you get access to the content. And unless you can survive purely on your own content you don't really have the option to walk away over your ideals.

If you want DRM out of the system, convince the content/rights holders that DRM isn't in their best interests, i.e they can make more money without it or at the very least won't lose money over not having it. If you're hoping that somehow a significant enough size of the population will boycott it for the industry to change, based on the ideals of the open web and open access, you'll be waiting a long time.
But you spent a lot of money last year on consultants that hyped you up on the creative and innovative energy that open plans bring and your CFO made a nice spreadsheet on how much you save on office furniture versus the cost of a new yacht. Who are you going to believe, your sunk cost friends or your ongoing cost employees that should be much more grateful to even have a job in this economy?~
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How many people can describe an algorithm properly in English? Probably the same set of people that can program a computer.
I get the desire for recurring revenue, but I really want to buy and try once; pledging easy cancellation near your call to action would really massage a lot of the complaints in here.
I agree with the author, but their refutation of Musk's argument takes the wrong tack.

Musk's argument = The time needed to create a simulation indistiguishable from reality << age of universe; The time needed for intelligent life to evolve << age of universe; ergo, an intelligent species emerged before homo sapiens somewhere in the (real) universe AND created a simulated universe indistiguishable from the real one.

The author tries to refute this logic by pointing out the flaws with simulated anything, but that doesn't refute the logic of Musk's reasoning. To Musk, the implementation details were long ago worked out.

Problem is, Musk never PROVED anything. His assertion rests upon two axioms.

The fact that we went from pong to COD in 40 years does not mean that in 40 (or 40 million) years hence we'll have a sim universe or even a sim galaxy - more likely, we'll have a really bloody COD BO 40000000.

The fact that Earth went from molten blob to pretty decent place to live in 4 billion years does not mean that 8 billion years ago some other molten blob became something Earth-like in 4 billion years, which by then had a sapient species creating alien Pong, COD, or Madden 50K: The Concussion Continues.
>They discover that avoiding gluten

no thats not what they discover, they discover foods that lack something, that sometimes correlates with foods lacking gluten ...

how many people eat pure gluten, by itself, as a control. no they eat complex foods that have many molecules in them.

I am saying, semantically, calling "wheat free" "gluten free" when its something else in the wheat, is to misidentify the problem.
I've been a subscriber for Sudden Coffee since Christmas and I love it. The coffee is definitely as good the corner cafe here in San Francisco. I love it because it takes me 1/10 the time to make a great cup of coffee in the morning. I just upped my subscription so I can get more every month. On top of that the customer service has been top notch so far with Kalle himself answering my questions.

My initial worry was that it was too pricey but they released this blog post which I found enlightening: https://blog.suddencoffee.com/transparent-pricing-what-goes-...
Having been programming for a long time, automation has been talked about for a long time and never really happened. We have had CASE tools, RAD tools and so on, but users demand for new features and capabilities increases at the same rate as developer tool productivity increases meaning the developers are still required.
Despite being among the top 10 percentile of fastest growing economies, India remains home to the largest hungry and undernourished population in the world. Almost 200 million people sleep hungry every night and around 7000 die of hunger everyday.

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Don't take me badly, Gitlab is the best thing around. We've tested many solutions... (too many)

It's just that I really want to quit using trac, who is slow and not integrated with the rest of the infrastructure.
What about the environmental impact of printing all those useless letters and flyers?

Couldn't that material be better put to use elsewhere?
I feel that you are mischaracterizing us.

Anybody who wants to learn Lojban can start with https://mw.lojban.org/papri/la_karda and come to #ckule on Freenode IRC. It takes a weekend to learn surface syntax and 2 to 3 months to get conversant.
Has anyone noticed a huge influx of ads when using Instagram? Admittedly I'm an infrequent user but as I use Facebook less I find that time being spent on IG.

One technique that has worked for me to reduce the number of ads I see is to report every single one as "I find this offensive". Do that enough times and you won't see an ad for a long time.
If you hate junk mail, you'll LOVE this trick!

If a piece of junk mail has a postage-paid return envelope included, take everything else, stuff it in there, and mail the whole thing back.

Doesn't pay your utility bill, but feels oh so righteous :)
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Great name!
Ubuntu created it by default.
I like it better than Via, personally. I used to use Via before I drank Sudden.
> Now, the same thing is happening again, except that Mozilla is on board with it.

Mozilla doesn't have as much leverage now that a large part of "the community" has abandoned Firefox for Chrome. If you care about these issues, stop and consider the effect of your choice in user agent.

> It's only a matter of time until Firefox is just a wrapper for webkit

It will be a very cold day in hell before this happens. Mozilla is only investing more in its browser engine tech with Quantum and Servo.
The major EME providers are PlayReady, which is Microsoft, and Widevine, which is Google.

You've already given those two companies pretty broad permission to run binaries on your computer (unless you use Firefox on Linux) so I'm not sure what the incremental security issue really is.
I started working with Jon in Jan 2016, and we did over 20 releases in 2016. You can check out my activity on the forum and the packages repo on GitHub to see some of the public activity. I also tend to hang out on IRC and the Discord server.

Sublime Text has now existed as publicly available for nine years now. In general I think the track record for continued development and improvements is fairly evident if you look.
A friend (really!) subscribed to this so that he could be sure that his wife wasn't tossing some of his mail. Trust but verify.
Todays dynamically typed languages are already too ambiguous for most people to write correct software without tests, how should this get any better with using English? :D
It would take a lot less training however, if 'programming in English' was widely available.
IMO, devops is a special kind of sysadmin, one where you get rid of the sysadmin and tell the developer to do it.
Who is to say that God and the sim operators aren't one and the same?
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I agree 100% that it is way too hard to climb the mountains of knowledge, that it could be much easier, and that there is little incentive and cultural support in academia to work on these topics. Time and time again I see examples of where outcomes are not limited by the existing knowledge, but by the accessibility of said knowledge. I would gladly devote most of my time to distilling knowledge if I saw a viable career path for it.

Over the last years, I gave a lot of thought to the topic of conveying information. I see research as the process in which knowledge is created. This knowledge then has to be “encoded” in a format that allows for the transmission to other people. This encoding can be optimized in different ways. Research articles have the advantage that they are close to “lossless” in that they are supposed to contain all information necessary to build up that knowledge. This makes them well suited for archival, especially as they can be stored as a stack of paper.

However, research articles are often not optimized for building up that knowledge in an efficient way. I believe that the “encoding” optimized for learning & understanding should be more like a progressive image codec, in that it provides a comprehensive view as soon as possible, filling in further details along the way. This also makes it possible to stop whenever you have reached the level of detail that is relevant to you. The challenge in creating these encodings is to extract the information that provides the most clear & useful picture as soon as possible. I like the word “to distill” for that process, as it is really about extracting the essence of a body of information.

Doing this work for research articles is how I understand the goal of distill.pub, which seems extremely valuable to me. However, I think this is just the first step. What is the most useful distillation of all of deep neural networks? Of all of machine learning? Of all of computer science? As others mentioned, there are some forms of publications (review articles, textbooks) that do part of this distillation process, but they only cover part of the spectrum. Preciously few textbook contain a well thought-out summary of their contents and not just an introduction. In my experience, often the least amount of thought is given to the highest level of abstraction (e.g. what is the essence of mathematics?), even though they are the most fundamental ones.

It would be great if there was more focus on extracting useful understanding from the ocean of knowledge we already have (useful both in the sense of being applicable on its own as well as being a solid foundation to build more knowledge on). It looks like distill.pub is a step in that direction, and I really hope it will bring more attention and recognition to this kind of work.
I also created a simple game that I can play in the terminal, but hell, I will not do the graphic design, I don't know yet how to do the graphical interface. And nothing about mobile platforms. It looks like its easier to do game development in a team.
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Wait, who is forcing Netflix to use DRM for Netflix-produced content?
Keep selling subscriptions...to corporate clients, to whom you can give volume discounts.

You can sell a shit-ton of this (if it's great) at half the price. But almost $2.50 per cup is more than Nespresso, and the customers willing to spend that month-in and month-out are already going to have Nespresso, etc.
> If you're convinced this is the price you're going to enter a position at, you're able to do so;

This is a prime examply of why to give the advice to never use a market order. This is exactly the type of situation where a limit order is the right choice rather than a market order, as with the market order you don't know that this is the price you'll enter the position at.

If you enter a market order based on that thinking, you risk losing a lot of money, because you are making an unjustified assumption that the price can't/won't move all that much before it is filled.

It's unlikely you're looking at the market price and think "if I place that market order now, I might end up selling at 30% below that/buying at 30% above that". But that can happen. On crypto exchanges, not only can it happen, but e.g. on smaller exchanges trading lesser coins against BTC it's not at all unusual for it to happen (e.g. you have have coins fluctuating up and down between 3-4 satoshi).

Saying you should never do it is hyperbole, but the cases where there is a good reason to not enter a limit order instead are exceedingly few. Most of the times when people use market orders it tends to be lack of a trading strategy or lacking tools (panicked issuing of market order to account for lack of having suitable orders in place to protect you) or lack of understanding of the risk.

I'd argue that the vast majority of the time, if you find yourself thinking you need a market order, maybe you do need it then and there in an urgent rush, but if so you should treat it as a warning sign that you may be doing something wrong (e.g. you don't have the right tools or strategy in place to protect you against risks) and re-evaluate what you're doing.
A penny wise and a pound foolish.
IMO every company's approach to the problem is completely wrong! You don't try to offer online the same items that local stores sell off the shelf. Instead, treat the online outlet as an interactive test-market.

Walmart and Amazon are both in a great position to do this! Setup an online store that allows established customers to suggest items that they are unable to find on local store shelves. Allow them to also flag other submitted items as interesting. You have a curation staff that fleshes out submissions with images and descriptions before they go live. The company's merchandiser evaluates the balance between interest in an item and the difficulty of its procurement. To aid in appropriate pricing, perhaps the system also requires submissions to include a reference to the most similar item that is already stocked on store shelves. Because the company is offering exclusive access to the items the profit margins can be kept high.

From what I've experienced product selection in US stores is in general far better than even the same store in Canada (including Walmart), but there might still be a few items not stocked in local stores that people will pay a premium for!
> The same exact things were said of the Italians, Jews, Poles, Irish and many others that poured into the US.

First off, they were right about all these groups in one way or another. Italians were responsible for a huge and disproportionate fraction of east coast crime for decades, Jews are represented in politics at around an order of magnitude higher than their fraction of the population, polish communities (just like Poland) have huge problems with crime and drug abuse, and Irish communities are still getting over problems with poverty, alcoholism, and church abuses. The complaints levied against these groups were entirely correct, and these groups did culturally subsume large areas, as predicted. I say this as a descendent of 3 of those 4 groups.

Second off, you can't really compare hyper-indoctrinated muslims to the Italians. Catholicism is positively benign compared to any of the popular Islamic sects. Just because something vaguely similar happened before doesn't mean it's going to happen exactly the same way again.

> Entirely inexplicably, the country thrived and continues to do so.

Compared to what? I suspect if the Irish hadn't shitted up the east coast for decades America could be a lot farther ahead. (Again, saying this as someone who is substantially Irish.) Yes, we turned out OK, and the shitty culture that Irish and Polish people brought over with them has mostly been diluted to impotency, but who knows what the damage was, or how it's going to go down with an even shittier and more viral culture. At least the Irish didn't make a habit of stoning people to death.
"I don't know if I'm just looking too far into your comment, but I don't see why you're blaming Netflix (or it seems you are) or how you got to them being the bad guys for this? They're not the ones that make the content. If it was up to Netflix, they would just release their shows DRM-free on Netflix for any platform. Unfortunately, that's not how things work and they have to bow to the demands of the content distributors (not creators, like some people have stated in other comments)."

We did a book study on a book called Clean Code where I work, and I reminded of a similar situation that the book explains when describing why we all write dirty and bad code.

Why do we write bad code? Because our stakeholders and our product owners require it. Well, they push deadlines and expectations on us that mean we have to cut corners to make their promises become reality within the unrealistic time provided.

But if you ask the stakeholder why they pust that on you, the stakeholder will say "well, it's the client". Or they'll say "marketing made a promise to the client".

It's always upstream. There's always an upstream concern.

In the book they talk about making a stand, as a developer. That you have a responsibility to explain to your stakeholders and the people above you that doing something the RIGHT way is worth it. That you are the subject matter expert, that it is your responsibility to raise these concerns and thus your responsibility to write good code.

Netflix can pass the buck. "We do what we have to".

But they have a responsibility as one of the premiere web companies to do more than pass the buck.

A Good Internet doesn't happen accidentally, and it doesn't happen when stakeholders pass the buck. It happens when people make a stand for what's right and operate according to their values.

So yes, it is Netflix's responsibility not to bend Mozilla into accepting a Studio's IP demands, but to bend the Studio into accepting humanity's internet demands.

Why do we assume that Netflix can persuade Mozilla, but not a rightsholder?
The OP is using the phrase "open web" in the standard way.
I completely understand and sympathize with your point, however this:

"If you use a slightly niche OS (say, OpenBSD on ARM)"

Is rather hilarious - calling OpenBSD on ARM a 'slightly niche' OS in the context of 'operating systems people use to watch video on the web' is rather ambitious, don't you think? OpenBSD on ARM would have to increase it's user base in this arena by a couple orders of magnitude to elevate itself to 'slightly niche'....
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In The Practice of Programming Kernighan and Pike say that one should estimate how much time can be saved over the expected runs of the program and allocate no more than that much time to optimization.

If you're doing something once or once per year that takes 45 seconds rather than 30 then don't bother. If you're doing it once every hour, that's six minutes a day, 365 days a year. If it's on a minutely cron on a hundred systems, that's 144,000 seconds a day. If a few hours of time can save you 144,000 seconds of runtime every day, that's a clear winner assuming other higher priority things are done. If it's run minutely by thousands of customers on hundreds of thousands of servers...