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Does anyone else find the internet market odd? Up until now net neutrality and other policies have given us the following:

1. Massive monopolies which essentially control 95% of all tech (google, facebook, amazon, microsoft, apple, etc)

2. An internet where every consumer assumes everything should be free.

3. An internet where there's only enough room for a handfull of players in each market globally i.e. if you have a "project-management app" there will not be a successfull one for each country much less hundreds for each country.

4. Huge barriers of entry for any new player into many of the markets (no one can even begin competing with google search for less than 20 million).

I think there's still a lot of potential to open up new markets with different policies that would make the internet a much better place for both consumers and entrepreneurs - especially the small guys. I'm just not 100% sure maintaining net-neutrality is the best way to help the little guy and bolster innovation. Anyone have any ideas how we could alleviate some of the above mentioned problems?

EDIT: another question :) If net-neutrality has absolutely nothing to do with the tech monopolies maintaining their power position then why do they all support it? [https://internetassociation.org/]
It costs a lot of money for ISPs to expand their areas of service. As such, they explicitly avoid expanding into areas where a competitor already exists (riskier rate of return).

To counter this, government at all levels have provided tax subsidies or outright payment to ISPs to expand into their localities. And regularly, the ISPs simply take the money and do nothing, relying on the fact that they are large enough that they can fight it out in court.

The end result is a nation of monopoly coverage.
For a different take: Management Consultant

Workday:

- 8 AM - Wake up, shower, shave, etc.

- 8:30-9 AM - Ride the subway in to the office

- 9-12 PM - Calls, meetings, data analysis, output
creation (primarily in word, powerpoint, and excel)

- 12-12:30 PM - Lunch (but this can shift around widely based on meetings)

- 12:30-7 PM - Calls, meetings, data analysis, output creation (primarily in word, powerpoint, and excel), usually with a half hour break at some point

- 7 PM - dinner is delivered to the office

- 7-~9PM - finish up work for the day

- 9-9:30 - head home

- 9:30-12PM - unwind (internet, side projects, video games, etc.)

It's hard to define an average day, as my end time can be 6 PM, 9 PM, or 1 AM, but 9 PM is probably close to average. The work that I do on a given day can also vary widely. I've got a light day today, hence the comment.
As a tourist in SF I got whitlow. I went to a medic. He looked at my finger and then gave me a box of antibiotics. Then his assistant asked for $300. I balked and they reduced to $200.

This sample of size 1 (one) is enough to tell me that something is off in the US.
My bet is that is because of observation biases. We don't know a lot about distant past, and may have lost some events that we'd call great extinctions if they were recent.
4.0 - 4.5 hours of commuting every day?

And I thought my 1.5 hours, 3 days per week was bad.

I do not envy you.
I don't understand why you're getting downvoted. This is a valid question and shouldn't be downvoted so others can learn from the discussion.
kops doesn't necessarily prefer debian - we support Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS/RHEL, CoreOS and Google's Container OS. One of the outputs of the Kubernetes-on-AWS efforts is an AMI that is "Kubernetes Optimized" - a 4.4 kernel, Docker pre-installed, lots of inodes etc. That AMI _is_ based on Debian, hence the suggestion is that if you don't otherwise care (and my hope is that eventually you won't), that you should probably just use that AMI. But if you do have a preference, by all means use your distro of choice.
And these are excellent reasons to avoid having children. It's a minefield fraught with peril, and is more likely to end up with a negative outcome than not. Modern society simply does not facilitate having children, and the standard two-adult nuclear family is like a 2-wheeled vehicle: fundamentally unstable and one wrong move ends in a crash.
123, 123, 123.

The thing Victorian teenage day dreams were made of.
If Your Saltshaker Doesn’t Have Bluetooth, Why Do You Even Use Salt?
For a side project, that's a fairly reasonable answer. For a business, rather scary.
In rural Texas I am lucky to have the one choice I have, and it's 12 Mbps ADSL+. Most out here can't get that.
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I also think there's something missing: quite a few of these cherry-pick their domains.

What I mean by this, is the Brett-Victor style interactive programming is always some kind of visual GUI/game/shape drawing program. The majority of computer programs will need plugins e.g. to generate output statistics/visualizations to effectively debug visually.
Common sense is often worth repeating.
Oh thanks for the tip. I work with CentOS regularly, but haven't worked on a Python project in that environment yet.
IANAL, but how can this be legal? Aren't they effectively agreeing not to compete? Surely this can't be right?
I ran cloc to get a better idea of the tech in this. Interesting.

Edit: I noticed a lot of Go, but only one live script in the repo. So I excluded the 'ThirdParty' folder, where some vendored libraries reside.
Edit2: That 90K SLOC single-file C goodness is a full SQLite release, which is not vendored in the ThirdParty folder, taken it out as well.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Language files blank comment code
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
C++ 127 4385 3960 54609
C/C++ Header 158 2960 4273 14301
Java 42 1599 1498 9539
CUDA 8 301 47 3125
CMake 36 377 967 2616
yacc 1 133 156 742
Maven 6 0 126 507
Go 1 72 12 491
Bourne Shell 5 72 43 369
Bourne Again Shell 3 38 0 208
lex 1 28 12 204
XML 1 12 12 182
Python 5 65 25 168
C# 1 12 11 112
JSON 1 0 0 73
SQL 3 0 0 25
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SUM: 399 10054 11142 87271
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Doesn't the article cover this? No one seems to be saying what I thought the article said, but I don't "know" pizza.

He broke the safety latch off his oven and put a piece of foil over the sensor, and runs his oven on Clean mode.
I'd like give an emphatic +1 to this. Starting ballroom in college was probably one of the best decisions I ever made.
I came to comment about that too. I use to drive 2 hours total a day. Absolutely terrible. I hope you can fix that in the near future!
TV won't go away; it is simply a legacy app that is being subsumed by the net.

People won't stop wanting to veg out, but delivery tech changes, new things become possible and older cash cows don't last forever. And similar to how the net enabled new voices in news, fiction, music, etc., TV will fragment as well.

Which is good, at least for me; I never watched TV much until relatively recently. People have always talked about shows, which I've ignored all my life. But some recent ones - mostly serials - have been remarkably appealing to me, and I'm watching more. Over the last year, I've even considered buying a real TV for the first time.

So like many other markets affected by the net, the total market grows, but fragments. Bet against "national moment" television and bet on niche plays.
Wichita is an order of magnitude smaller and more provincial than Hamburg though - even the Kansas City metro is.

The right comparison for Wichita is an equally provincial mid-sized town in Germany, say Halle an der Saale. And I'd wager rents get quite similar again, if not cheaper in Germany...
What is Docker and why is it so darn popular?
I know exactly what you're talking about. When I went to setup a payment arrangement for my son's delivery, the hospital acted like they didn't know what to do with me. I had to call and explain what I was even doing every time I tried to make a payment. Eventually I got with a representative who helped me figure it out, but I was left with the distinct impression that I was the only idiot in my county who pays for that.

In the midst of all this partisan debate about what will work best, I keep feeling like nothing can sustain a system that allows so much abuse.
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Plot twist: you're 21
How to plug the sinking ship
Are there common things you have seen happen that make a ship sink fast in terms of the quality of their software? What about common things orgs try to fix that don't actually solve the problem for customers? What happens when companies start to trend downward, lose customers, and the attitude begins to turn sour? Do you just jump ship. And if you don't, what sorts of problems do you look to first to solve the overall quality issue of software at your organization? Are there actually documented cases of companies trying to fix the problems and it just not fixing things and then they learned their lesson and posted what they should have done?
If every tool/thing I relied on costed $50/mo I wouldn't be able to afford my hobby. I would need to seek a cheaper - possibly free - alternative or give up the hobby.

Many people don't have $50/mo to spend on unprofitable hobby projects. There's nothing wrong with paying for hobbies, but most people's hobbies fall under (a) infrequent large purchases or (b) really cheap occasional costs.

Upgrading my computer falls under (a). It's expensive but I only do it once every 3-4 years. Buying new guitar strings for my guitar every so often falls under (b). It's cheap and while I should do it every-other-month I do it maybe twice a year.

If the cost of new guitar strings was equivalent to the cost of upgrading my computer - I'd give up playing guitar as the hobby would become too expensive.
Man, I think it'd be so cool if etiquette was a core class in grade school (perhaps stripped of some 1850s sensibilities).

Most of the upper-class people I know would sooner go to the club and dry-hump a stranger than throw a cocktail/dinner party (much less waltz). I'm all for having fun and using a salad fork to eat dessert, but I'd be interested to see the world with like 25% less depravity.
An average German employee works about 1.3k hours a year, in the US about 1.8k. There are some European countries where people work even longer on average. (Note that these numbers include all workers, so also part-time employees. There are also differences between countries on how they are exactly measured so comparisons should be taken with a grain of salt. But for a rough idea that should be enough).

Source: https://data.oecd.org/emp/hours-worked.htm
I can't edit my post anymore, but I would like to say thanks for all the comments. It was a bit off-topic, but I've wondered about this for some time. Will give it a try this summer.
> I think that's kind of the point!

No, my point is that you can't use a hard dataset to say what is possible on an easy dataset. 'Here is a dataset of images processed into static: a CNN gets 50% on gender; QED, detecting criminality, personality, gender, or anything else is impossible'. This is obviously fallacious, yet it is what OP is doing.

> The idea that any agent -- human or machine -- can know someone's gender, criminal convictions, or anything else about their background just from a photograph is fundamentally flawed.

This is quite absurd. You think you can't know something about someone's gender from a photograph? Wow.

Personally, I find it entirely possible that criminality could be predicted at above-chance levels based on photographs. Humans are not Cartesian machines, we are biological beings. Violent and antisocial behavior is heritable, detectable in GWAS, and has been linked to many biological traits such as gender, age, and testosterone - hey, you know what else testosterone affects? A lot of things, including facial appearance. Hm...

Of course, maybe it can't be. But it's going to take more than some canned history about phrenology, and misleadingly cited ML research, to convince me that it can't and the original paper was wrong.
I've seen "real scientists" be very anti-science too. Remember the hubbub about people complaining that other people were trying to reproduce their experiments?
Profession: Sales (software and hardware) at a massive IT conglomerate

Day consists of sitting at a desk waiting for a customer to ask for something.

Otherwise I play games and wait to get fired.

Collect random commission checks and salary whenever possible
When I started school, I misheard the hours as 2 days on, 5 days off. Come the Wednesday, I was rather put out (and remain so).
Employers are required to Grant an absolute minimum of 4 weeks of vacation per year.(20 days in 5 workday contracts and 24 in 6 workday contracts) It's generally more the further you get in your career.

I know a few people that aren't even in management yet with about 30 days (plus state holiday) and a 35 hours week.
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Can you elaborate on this? I'm not a member of Anonymous, but I've read the graphic novel version of _V For Vendetta_ as well as seen the film, and I didn't get that impression at all.
Note that spaced repetition is pretty easy to implement; if your notes are in J Random Format you'd need to munge them anyway.
Usually the shifts come when some mediums stop being saturated - Apple uses outdoor media in specific areas for example (something traditional for high end products, like Rolex, Aston Martin, etc).

I think that one of the main problems of TV is the cost of production is increasing, and they don't want to kill their margins. Even the live content is dropping it's quality - that's why sports are still kings of audiences.

Ad fraud, viewability and brand safety are defintly hot questions atm, but tools are already being set in place to help it (I don't think there's a definite solution) - some brands blew it out of proportion though, other brands are using this to drop down the costs.

But yeah, it's just another weapon - TV is definatly the heavy artillery.
Could not have said it better myself.
Running my own SaaS with 1 co-founder. Every day is different but in general:

- 9:00: Arrive at the office after a 50 minutes commute.

- Bookkeeping, coding, support, administration, legal and answering emails.

- 11:00: Go the gym.

- 13:00: Lunch.

- 14:00: Rocket League.

- 14:30: Same as #2.

- 16:10: Take the train home.

Even though the effective working hours in a normal day are few I do get a lot of stuff done during those. I'm also compensating for the occasional crunch periods where I work 12 hours a day and weekends.
This feels like one of those complaints only ever made because "others may find it objectionable". I've seen that sentiment ruin the best ideas with mediocracy. Maybe "Marketing Correctness" would be an appropriate term: "A creative idea that everyone thinks is extraordinarily good, but that nobody is willing to embrace because they expect others to complain".

I. e. what happens when you want to name an airline "Virgin", or a morning-after pill "Plan B" and aren't Richard Branson.
If you want to be incredibly vain, sure.

I think we'll see a huge backlash to artificial age reduction / life extension, much in the same way that plastic surgery / cosmetic enhancement is viewed as an indulgent activity.
Profession: IT-Auditor - full time, >10k employees

Workday:

- 6:30 Wake up & prepare myself

- 7:30 ~ 8:30 get to the office / client location

- 8:30 - 9:30 check latest mails, discuss the day with
colleagues

- 9:30-12 work/meetings/analysis/testings/documentation

- 12-1 lunch

- 1~7 work/meetings/analysis/testings/documentation

- 7-8 get home

- 8-8:30 eat

- 8:30-10 TV, Games, Books, Relax...

- 10 sleep and repeat
If you arent getting sat-sun off then i seriously doubt you have any stable 2day weekend. These are shift workers. By "colours" i mean that they are from a background where sat-sun weekends are a thing. Thier parents were not shift workers. They expect to have sundays off. Many, possibly most in many areas, no not have such expectations and envy those who do.
For the same reason the "free market" doesn't afford you competitive choice in power or gas delivery, sewer service, trash pickup, road paving outside your driveway...

Physical residential networks are, like all other civil infrastructure, natural monopolies. They don't work in a "free market" and never have. The insistence on the part of glibertarians that somehow this "regulation-free" mode will work for data when it hasn't for literally a century and a half of experience with other utilities is... frustrating.
It wasn't just the activeness that drove us apart; she turned into a raging right-winger.

The way I see it, people are going to change no matter what, so this idea that people need to "stick together" until they die is not only obsolete, but just plain wrong. Regular friends usually aren't life-long either, as interests change, people move, etc., so why do we expect romantic relationships to be permanent? It's crazy.
I'm just too hooked on the async.auto() pattern to give up callbacks. The ability to break a large flow down into functions and then use a dependency based structure to automatically execute the flow with the most optimal concurrency is incredible. And the resulting code is very clean, with each functional step in the flow living on the same indent level. Refactoring and adding new steps is very easy as you can just add a new dependency to one of the existing functions or add a new function that depends on one of the other functions.

https://caolan.github.io/async/docs.html#auto
CTO - 6 staff - Kathmandu

6AM - Wake up - read news / email / Facebook

6.30 - Exercise on exercise bike for 1 hour

8.45 - Office - check PRs, slack, Pivotal Tracker

9.45 - Standup meeting

1pm - Lunch

7pm - Dinner

7.30 - Back at office

10pm - Home - movie / reading / sleep

I have no commute; my office is right beside my house. The only meetings we have are remote (slack / skype) which happen every so often. All communication is through slack allowing employees to work from home whenever they need.

Most of my work is working on the product across multiple projects. Code review on PRs and ensuring that the services are working as expected. We're a small team, it's hard to hide / slack off.
Facts and up-to-date documentation, how novel.
I wasn't impressed with this article; it reads like fear mongering. More importantly, I don't think the fix is regulation, I think it's better privacy tech + increased competition via elimination of local monopolies. Do we really want to depend on government to enforce privacy on the Internet?
I think you misunderstood what they meant by TV.
It seems that a proper Kubernetes setup is the modern day equivalent to the proper email server setup of the 90's or the 00's :)
Collabora Online 2.1 released
Even with microservices, I wouldn't recommend changing languages between the bunch without a very good reason. You -will- build up infrastructure and packages that are language and stack specific: monitoring, logging, helpers, etc. that take a lot of time to reinvent.

If you're switching languages/stacks just for funsies, you're going to make services more difficult to maintain over time (and just generally slow down development)

As far as languages go, pick one. When you hit a problem that absolutely cannot be reasonably solved under the specifications you care about, consider a different one for that service. Apart from that, there's little value, and lots of overhead, in moving. Getting to write that one Haskell microservice is sure a romantic idea, until that employee leaves and nobody knows Haskell anymore, and suddenly the service is dysfunctional because dependencies have changed. (For non-mission-critical funsies, sure, use whatever, though non-mission-critical apps tend to have a knack for becoming very important for workflows, hah)
You don't understand why a talking point that's been attacked and discredited every single time it's been brought up, every single time net neutrality is rearing its head is downvoted?

Why don't you just honestly say: "stop downvoting" instead of feigning this absurd obtuseness.

There were 7 top level replies to the comment before you came along, hardly lacking discussion even with the downvotes.
Increasing this sample size to two:

One heated day I punched an object that ought not be punched. Little finger swelled up and didn't quite work correctly. A few hours later said finger was bandaged, and holding a bill for $3,400. No medication. Just looked at, x-ray'd, and bandaged into recovery position. $3,400. US. It would have been cheaper to fly back to the UK and have it looked at - three times over!
I guess its a passionate topic.
Net neutrality has nothing to do with why we have monopolies, and is something we absolutely need in response to those monopolies.
I see this a lot on Hacker News and I really don't understand why. Who cares if people "go to the club and dry-hump a stranger"? What if I like cocktail parties AND clubs? Where do I fall in your moral binary? Furthermore, what's wrong with your so-called depravity? You do realize that you just said you wanted manners without 1850s sensibilities and then proceeded to invoke those same 1850s sensibilities, right?

In other words, come down off your high horse; let people like what they like.
But does it interface with my smart toilet to adjust my electrolyte balance? Worth remembering the 1st smart device was arguably a coffeepot.
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>I don't think they'll forbid people to die. It will simply become optional.

You can't even euthanize yourself in most states. If you want to die, people consider you 'insane' and you get locked up at the govt's (and your) expense.

Life extension / artificial age reduction will purely be a benefit for the rich - the poor will just get injections so they live longer and work harder for their ageless overlords. It's not gonna be good.
Do you recommend a better Asciidoc to PDF tool chain without those limitations?
Please tell me how allowing ISPs to to steer consumers towards services owned by them via preferential treatment of their data helps small businesses.
This quote seems key: “Time is now currency: It is not passed but spent,” wrote historian E. P. Thompson.
Speed dating in the 19th century. :-)

One of the most interesting artifacts of the time is this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_card

Women had to keep a careful list of the men that they would dance with during that night, each lasting about five minutes.
> The order meant individuals were free to say, watch and make what they want online, without meddling or interference from Internet service providers.

> Without net neutrality, big companies could censor your voice and make it harder to speak up online.

Hmm, was it ever prohibited for e.g. some Twitter user to write your ISP an angry letter calling you a Nazi, so they shut your internet off to avoid the headache?

I've only heard about "net neutrality" in the context of bandwidth pricing. It's very different if companies are legally required to sell you internet(except maybe short of an actual crime).
There was extensive discussion about this in another thread, and the basic idea was that it doesn't matter if you carry dummy devices. They can just force you to login to your accounts.

At a minimum you'll need an email and facebook to appease them, likely. If you're targeted.
The internet is the greatest barrier-lowering device to starting a business ever conceived.

You can, using just your skills and barely any money, compete with google and facebook this afternoon! (google and amazon will even give you a month to try for free) Your chances at winning are pretty low, but eventually someone will do it.