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That middle ground would be something like price regulation. Instead of just imposing quotas or forbidding imports of specific goods, require the imported goods to be sold at the market rate of the locally produced good.

It would allow imports to prevent shortages in the market without killing the local producers because there is no reason to stop buying from local producers if the imported goods cannot be sold at a price lower than what the local producers are willing to bear. Distributors would continue buying local, while also adding some imports as a cushion against production fluctuations.

Tax the difference between the local market price and the lower imported good price, when the imports are cheaper. Don't tax when the import is at the same cost/more expensive.
Please, you have Gtk2 skins category just below the Gtk3 skins category.
I don't agree with Piketty, but do note that he's looking at things from a mainly European perspective. Europe probably has a lot more old money + there is still some (very) wealthy aristocracy around.

I in fact personally know a family that still owns land they somehow acquired in the 1700s. But they're not the billionaires or hundred millionaires that roam todays capitalistic system.

They're.. well off? I would call it FU money, but given they (sort of) have to pass it down the generations for forever, they definitely spend a lot less of it and enjoy it less.
If you can get your hands on some Lars Molin films I can warmly recomend them. Usualy small comedic dramas in rural settings.
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I've upvoted you, because I think we need more e-mail clients. Actually, I was thinking about creating one myself as well.
I'm not a game programmer, but I've got plenty of experience with parallel programming.

The answer is that either message passing or shared memory can be slower or faster. The architecture of your program probably matters more, though obviously some problems lend themselves more to a shared memory solution and some more to a message passing approach (and many benefit from hybrid solutions).

The main cost factor for message passing approaches is communication overhead. The main cost factors for shared memory are contention and fighting the memory hierarchy (keep in mind that even with shared memory, inter-thread communication will generally have to move data through the expensive parts of the memory hierarchy). Your goal in either case will be to architect your solution to minimize the overhead that you are dealing with.

Also, you're starting to hit physics issues once you want to do shared memory past maybe 16 cores or so. Thermal issues, obviously, but also memory bandwidth and such. And the solutions to these can have an economic impact where choosing a more distributed approach can simply be cheaper. When you're dealing with thousands of concurrent processes (as some Erlang applications do), then a pure shared memory solution is usually right out (though various hybrid approaches can still have advantages over a pure message passing system).
I love to geek out on this sort of stuff. Data Structures for Text Sequences by Charles Crowley [1] is a great read. I would also recommend checking out the Vis editor [2]. It's an interesting Vi like editor that uses the piece chain as its data structure and supports Sam's structural regular expressions.

[1] https://www.cs.unm.edu/~crowley/papers/sds.pdf

[2] https://github.com/martanne/vis
I never have dismissed the MS crowd, in fact I was part of it for years. Interestingly enough there's a lot of Excel-Macro wizardry in aerospace too.

Thanks for sharing your memories. Having known some people on the business side of PWC I'm not surprised, but I am amused.
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> Sooner or latter someone else would have come to the same conclusion

Indeed, at the same time as Larry Page was thinking about PageRank, Li Yanhong created and patented RankDex (a very similar page ranking algorithm) over in New Jersey - and built Baidu out of it.
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That's very generous of you thank you. But when I checked by chat I didn't see it. It's my first time using Keybase desktop app, which I downloaded to read your chat. When I opened the app, there's nothing there. Unsure what went wrong.
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Isn't this true of gnu/Linux as well though? A lot of patches are drivers and fixes? For example, one could argue trim for solid state storage is a driver issue?
The article "forgets" that the pool of gifted children is much smaller than the general population. Of course, when you have a group of x people, and another group of λx people, you need to check whether you are getting the desired outcome from the two groups on a ration 1:λ and not on a 1:1 ratio.

The article is missing this point.
Gotta admit that since the PHP ~6 days they made more than impressive efforts in many domains.
To mitigate the likeliness of damage during transit, it's recommened to use ECC memory with ZFS. I had FreeNAS running on a system with a faulty memory module. ZFS correctly discovered damage in random files I just transferred over. Luckily, it wasn't too late to replace the bad module and repeat the transfer.

Lessons learned:

- Run MemTest86 on hardware before using it as storage

- Use an FS that does checksums

Unfortunately, the latter doesn't seem to apply to APFS.
tmutil verifychecksums should already do this.
> China has ghost cities which they won't populate: the people for whom they were built can't afford to live there

The cities aren't empty because of economics. This is not a big secret. They were built as part of a social plan, along with a nice boost to the economy since they are their own raw material supplier (steel in the US almost exclusively comes from China). The Chinese "ghost cities" are a complete nonsequitor in regards financial planning.
Thanks for saying that. I really enjoyed seeing emails come through the first time I wrote a client for it as well.

This show hn no 1 spot has cursed me tho. Because I spent the day working on "improving" this "stupid idea"...it just felt tiring. I guess because I realize I don't really care about it and also because I don't think it can make money, and even if it does...not much.

I'm reflecting that it is really only worth it putting time into the ideas that matter. I have a bunch of ideas that I've spent so much more time thinking about than this. I think it really works for me to put the time into those, even tho they take longer than this "quick idea".

All the love has been encouraging tho. It's pretty cool to see "real people" using your stuff. But if it's not the idea you care about, I find that coolness quickly fades! Thanks
As founder of several companies myself I always recommend people NOT to start startups. I will help or mentor them if they are really interested. Really interested people will do it anyway.

It looks today like everybody and their dog have to make a company, but first you need to have a very strong conviction that the world needs something that you provide. Starting a company is going to be very hard at first, specially when you are trained by school that effort always rewards you with results and you need a very strong force behind you to be able to face the difficulties.

The great shock is for great students that are used to have good grades or have a great job but in real startup life they struggle. In a company they will succeed but on their own they will depress and enter a death spiral. It is hard for them, for their partners, for their parents, even for their mentors.

You need a totally different set of skills than in a normal job, like the ability to manage yourself, manage risks, made decisions,make investments, choose your people, understand markets, creativity or selling yourself in front of others.
I went through pretty much the situation he describes: had developed videogames since I was 15, but while at university I joined the bank entity of a huge corp. I knew I wanted to do games, graphics and related stuff for the rest of my life, so after 9 months I had cold feet, got the show, accepted the offer and stayed three more years.

One of the best decisions of my life.

I learned tons of stuff that I wouldn't have learned going straight back into games. Not about COBOL or accounting, but about leadership, management and understanding the balance between business and technical needs.
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I'm using it to source and sometimes to talk to my users (from my personal account) on days when I don't feel like going out.
Most people in my country (Vietnam) use it to sell stuffs, sort of like how they'd using Craigslist. They particularly abuse the livestream feature to showcase their products... sort of a fascinating behavior in my opinion.
None of us uses it to have "meaningful connection with one's acquaintance"... because we all know that can only happen in the offline world.
I see two problems with this.

1. You're defining "gifted" in a much narrower way than the article's arguments. Being a high achiever in math doesn't really encapsulate the meaning the article assigns when it creates a gifted vs. creative dichotomy.

2. It's pretty pointless to talk about the achievement of one group without comparing it to your control group. Do you think 10% of the general public is tenured at a top-50 university or a CEO of a Fortune 500 company? What about 10% of the creatives the article lauds? You know, without seatbelts there's only around 25 deaths per billion vehicle miles in the US. Nevermind that seatbelts cut that rate in half. . .
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He said repetitive jobs will be done better by machines in the next 10 years. Which is slightly different to your quote.
If it's anything like systems I'm familiar with, it is a ledger: if two things happen at exactly the same time, one happens a nanosecond later.
In my opinion, it is great having people trying to "memorize" those questions. If they understand them, it would be like one half of formal computer science studies. What is a shame is people graduated from Computer Science university courses not remembering a clue about algorithms, because they "memorized" just to pass the exam. BTW, some of the interviews may be are too much hard, requiring being a Donald Knuth, having a "intelligence" index of 160, and being a nice team player (if you target very smart people you'll deal with crazy jerks most of the time -until those jerks become tamed, somehow-). Super-smart people should target working for the NASA or similar, not for writing APIs in Python 50 hours a week with just 3 week per year holidays.

Anyway, algorithms matter.
You'd be surprised to know Chrome synchronises your history to their browsers, and that part is closed source.
Well, the question is posed by a powerful VC to a "prospective employee". This is the equivalent of "what do you want to do when you grow up, Timmy?".

Also bear in mind that the post was written in 2009. My feeling is that startups have lost a lot of allure since then and are now increasingly viewed as sweatshops where grunts work for illusory payout whereas a job at megacorp with great pay and low stress is considered a sane choice.
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I don't particularly like this kind of blog posts, for multiple reasons. First, they tell people what to do.

Second, the argument is backed up by a false analogy. The whole reason that hill climbing works, is that computers are fast. If it takes 5+ years to 'climb a hill', starting at some random point costs a lot more. Actually, it is not even clear how 'starting over at a random point' translates to real life.

Third: The point (I would say is "Try something else once in a while" - and I mostly agree with this) could be captured in a single line. The blog post is basically the blog-equivalent of a motivational picture.
Obviously, having a professional librarian working on archiving data, code, and articles is ideal. However, I've found that the public facing side of journals experience bit rot even faster than most of the older blogs. Of course, there are exceptions, and even the most public figures can decide to delete everything, code included (e.g. _why)

Gwern has tackled link rot[0] in an exhaustive way, and may give you a starting point from where to continue.

[0]: https://www.gwern.net/Archiving%20URLs
Do you really ? AFAIK no one went to prison, those banks still exist today and still operate in the same way.

In the best case scenario they are given a fine that's a fraction of the profit they made doing this. So the incentive is to keep at it unfazed and pay fines.
Perl is WAY better for shell-scripty stuff. It also has yearly releases and backwards compatibility is much better than for PHP. I think YOUR perception of Perl is what is outdated here.

And come on, for "job control" type scripts you should be fired for using PHP over Bash. Most things can be done in 1/10th of the LOC and OOP etc won't matter when your Bash script is one file and 150LOC instead of 5-10 files, objects an methods that are called just one time etc, 1000+LOC PHP.
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To put that in perspective (thanks to another comment), there have only ever been 8 Nobel Prize winners from India.
> A clipboard means I take some text from a buffer and write it out? Really? A pair of scissors means I copy text into a buffer? A sheet of paper is a file? Why?

I don't think either of these are as bad as you make them out to be. No one thinks in terms of buffers. With a scissor you can cut away stuff (and put it somewhere else) so it makes sense. A sheet of paper is where you write or draw things, so it makes sense.

Clipboard, well they are portable and you can make notes on them and then write them down somewhere else. Kinda-ish makes sense.

Floppy maybe doesn't make sense unless you know what it is.
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I think the more general principle is that by default all social systems strive towards stability and predictability, even the most chaotic and ground breaking startups. Occasionally we - individuals, teams, organizations - try to fool ourselves into thinking otherwise but the truly anti-fragile and chaos embracing social systems are incredibly rare and very far apart.
wireframe resize and move is the easy answer for reducing application resize events and display server spamming. This is a core problem I've always had with enlightenment window manager, it forces opaque resize/move no matter what which murders remote display usage.
And why is there a single point of failure? Because there is a hard cap on imports. No cap -> no shortage, just as much as no typhoon -> no shortage.
OT - why do you consider ECMO a "wild thing"? I ask since our daughter was born with CDH and ECMO came up in the discussions at the time (she didn't need it, luckily). Ireland doesn't have one to date AFAIK.
What sort of therapy? Like did you do CBT, or something more standard?
You mean Genetic Programming or Genetic Algorithms? Because they're not the same. The former is what happens when you apply the latter to optimize an abstract syntax tree :).
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Disks have their own block checksumming so they can catch errors.
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No, fortunately, never had to.
Relatively few filesystems offer thorough data checksumming. Hardly any offer erasure coding. RAID at the filesystem layer is a bit more common, but also more inconvenient. Doing erasure coding at the file archive level rather than in the filesystem gives you the freedom to move your archives onto standard everyday filesystems and devices without silently losing the protection.
Despite hosting this strategic military installation,
Qatar is not always a strong Western ally. Qatar has
allowed the Afghan Taliban to set up a political office
inside the country and has close ties to Iran, including a
shared natural gas field. According to leaked documents
published in The New York Times, Qatar's record of
counter-terrorism efforts was the "worst in the region".
The cable suggested that Qatar's security service was
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for appearing to be aligned with the U.S. and provoking
reprisals".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar#Foreign_relations
Of course it is. Drivers will be the majority of the work in any OS that is not locked onto a very limited set of hardware.
This is the reason I avoid startup products as much as I can. Because like you say, their primary goal is the exit. Which is usually the opposite of what the copy says on their website ("we care about the product!"), and it's totally the opposite of what I want as a customer. I'm not looking for companies who try to cheat me into becoming their customer by promising great future, only to bail out at earliest convenient moment.
"Why can... "

Uh, shouldn't that be "How can... "?
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Seems to me, most of these entrepreneurs could do with a bit more of yawning in their faces in order to come back down to earth.

Don't get me wrong, many good things come out of silicon valley, and it's sometimes hard to judge the worth of an idea. But there's undeniably a lot of half-hearted bullcrap whose sole purpose is to make a quick buck.

And on a personal level, the ideas are not the only things that are full of hot air.
I think this is the case with both Windows and the Linux base distros. It's a necessity when you need to support a wide array of hardware, but might be different with Apple's ecosystem.
I have no idea why it's so meritorious. I know people who are published, and don't even know what the paper their name is on is about, both at the outset and twilight of academic careers.

I also know a guy who published preliminary results and musings on his blog, and was then refused publication because it was "unoriginal".

Journal editors seem to not be familiar with the subject matter either, given what does and doesn't get published - why only ever positive results?

Unless scientific publication changes completely science as we know it will die. It is already becoming vanity, egoism, orthodoxy. Why publish? So you can get better pay later in the private sector.
Totally this. I'm ready to work 24/7 when I feel I'm on the right hill :).
You could still use Photoshop though, just because Sketch is popular doesn't mean PS won't work. That being said, Sketch is super easy to use.
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Could this be applied to cosmological images from large telescopes.
PHP in itself perhaps but I have seen major efforts being put into 5.3 -> 5.6 and 5.6 -> 7.x.

One thing that broke badly was phpunit and related libs for mocking etc.

This was a very vanilla PHP project by the way, no frameworks etc.
Several things in this article resonated with me. One of the great things about our industry is that most of us do have a choice, as long as you're willing to leave some money on the table. Advertising, finance or commerce will always pay more than advancing the state of science, or other noble goals.

What happened to the idea of building great stuff that people are happy to pay for?

I'm very happily doing this now, making developer tools. My users are very happy to pay for the software I build, and I find building it very satisfying. I'm lucky, but it's not like I'm some super-developer - I'm good at what I do, but so are most people here. I'm lucky with my circumstances, but I think I'd be doing something like this even if my circumstances were different.

Since I've lately been more concerned than previously about climate change, I'm now investigating how I can help with that, despite having no background in physical sciences. In my case, tooling for scientists is an obvious option, but Bret has more ideas: http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange.
This repo implies the Vivaldi source can be compiled:

https://github.com/ograycode/vivaldi-source
Words are a thing, actions are another that speak much louder.

The words are a mix of propaganda, historical but now obsolete, projected image, biased self-perception and even party true but only when applied to the US not to the rest of the world.

Other countries also engage in a similar propaganda, but only a few have the nuisance potential of the US, such as China.
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Just check your disk's SMART indicators for unrecoverable errors. Drives are using pretty high quality checksums on data at rest; the chance of corruption silently slipping past both the BCH and LDPC codes used by a typical modern SSD is far smaller than the chance of your non-ECC RAM getting corrupted by cosmic rays.
> Is there any scenario where an email client would be necessary - i.e. a browser based solution will not work?

Here's one: multiple email accounts that you need to check on a regular basis. I would lose my mind if I had to track my emails across three different web interfaces.
I feel like legislatures will eventually learn to propose and 'bring close to the floor' all kinds of stuff that aggressive businesses wouldn't like, just so that they increase lobbying efforts.
How did you get into erlang, like in project wise?

Because I played around with rabbitmq plugins, a nehe opengl examples port and some erlang notepad someone implemented. I also own both o'reilly hard copies.

But other then that I don't really have a project I can see myself use erlang for(one man shop).
CEO Quote from the above link.
"In addition, all of our UI code (included in normal packages) is written in plain, readable text. This means that all parts of Vivaldi are full audit-able and open from that perspective." So in other words. No that code is NOT open source. And he can stuck his "open from that perspective." BS up his ass. I am not gonna use stuff from people who do crap like this.

AFAIK the Wikipedia page for Vivaldi says its proprietary for a reason. And I don't think that reason is because of a windows installer. They release their code they build on top of chromium as open source BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO. But they build looks like they build other stuff that is "open" but not open source. At least this is what I have got from my quick look at it. This seems to follow a Opera and Chrome tradition. Even Chrome is not open source. Its 99% Chromium +1% Google crap on top of it. I am very opposed to this kind of stuff and for Opera and Vivaldi thats not just 1%.

Happy to get corrected of better educated on this.
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> Depends what he/she does with the money

No, it doesn't. Justifying the choice is good after it turns out good as some sort of moral strategy. The choice (of how to use absurd wealth) is now subject to not-society. So any benefit is accidental, at best. It can easily be lit on fire and that is just as bad because society gets no say in it.
"The London newspapers were actively misrepresenting something to their own public."

Well, yes. This has been true for decades. In the UK, you choose a newspaper that panders to your prejudices and class status. Everyone is at least somewhat aware that the news varies by paper. (They're often less aware that the news varies by edition; the Scottish editions of the Mail, Express etc will usually have a different headline.)

Awareness of this goes back to at least the 80s, it's one of Bernard Wooley's jokes in Yes, Minister.

The idea of a single, unified society with a single, unified view even of what actually happened seems a long way away.
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