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A big problem with piracy is that piracy tech hasn't advanced in 2 decades, whereas the rest of the world has moved on. There are two major challenges. Due to DMCA, anonymity is a major obstacle for which there isn't a good solution yet. TOR, vpns etc. aren't well suited for content distribution. Second, the bittorrent model itself doesn't work very well for streaming.
Ok, what is the Commons he is talking about?
Drive failures are really rare until they happen when your data is personal experience of a few devices. When you worry about a data centre or n and or rather a lot of other systems with storage then you realise that it happens with monotonous regularity.

Now keeping a few short copies is also fine provided you don't make mistakes. Have you ever wanted to recover from a cock up you did six months ago or three years ago?

You do offsite (Tarsnap), so you have covered off local failures - cool.

Everyone's needs are different and the value they place on their data is different but I would respectfully suggest that you think really hard about how important some bits of your data are and protect them appropriately.

Fuck ups are hard to recover from 8)
I didn't make the 3% cut, and had a pretty awful experience going through the interview process at Toptal. I was given a Euler-project type of problem that I had to live-code under a (I believe) 20 or 30 minutes. After I didn't succeed the interviewer basically hung up on the Skype call, and I wasn't really given any further feedback after soliciting it, other than 'you're allowed to try again after 30 days'. The whole thing seemed a bit ridiculous, as they approached me specifically for my (10+ years) PHP experience. I was told there was a lot of demand for it by their customers.

The Euler problem seemed to have a pretty low bearing on what most PHP programmers would do, so it all seemed super unfair. Had the challenge been anything related to API's, architecture or scalability I'm sure I would have passed. But doing math related to primes simply is not something that I practically ever need in my work so I was fairly dusty.

I would absolutely not recommend interviewing with them. Prepare to be disrespected unless you tick their specific boxes unrelated to the work you'll actually be doing.
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I don't think it's common for programmers to have in depth opinions about type systems. And most of the ones who do may not really know what they're talking about.
It shows that even with huge inefficiencies web ads are making tons of money for all the major players both supply and demand (sorry bloggers). Amazon and Google are well aware of the problem and working on it to some extent but I guess there are bigger fish to fry in the meantime.
Do you off site them?
The slush pile or spending an ungodly amount of time in low end venues.
That's been around for decades. Electricity at peak hours is more expensive than at any other time, so anything to move demand from peak hours to off-peak hours is good. Laundry is especially bad because electric dryers are very energy intensive and people tend to run them in early evening hours after getting home from work, when electrical demand is at its peak.
This recent HN post could be useful to you: https://jaseemabid.github.io/2017/07/04/compiler.html

The "dragon" books is one of the classics. (Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools) ... linked to in another comment.
Perhaps that could be a feature? Everyone voting not just for their own self-interest, but for the things they think are important government features. Over the entire populace, it'll average out and their gaming won't amount to much.

The idea is that it's more "expressive" than one person = one vote. And it's more manageable than pure direct-democracy. Look, you could fiddle with things and have "minimum" amounts so that people can't completely break a government feature if they don't like it. E.g. 100% of people voting to have 0 military spending. But, if that were to happen, is that not a hint to politicians that none of the voting populace wants military spending?

To me it's another way to give more power to the individuals, rather than leaving it solely in the grasp of politicians.
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@jachee there were many issues with LPTHW, despite its cool branding. Here's a list compiled by some who had to repeatedly walk people who used it through the many problems it introduced to their learning process: https://sopython.com/wiki/LPTHW_Complaints

I hope you carry on with Python!
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> Starting July 8th, 2017 both my Python 2 and Python 3 books will be no longer free to read.

Now who's being petty? Sounds like you are retconning in a story about exclusively-commercial-book-titles-bring-maximum-community-benefit.

O'Reilly and other publishers have offered paper editions of freely-distributable books.
I don't know what else to say except, in unfortunate Reddit-style, "so much this."
What are some ways in which you can prevent this sort of real life tracking from happening or at least minimize it?
HTTP is a transfer protocol, not a semantic protocol. Email at least lets you identify the sender/receiver and other metadata and separate them from the message, HTTP is just "this is the filename, this is the data.." It's not much more than a TCP stream really.
Am I misunderstanding your point about the lender?

They obviously get paid a percentage of the loan value rather than the home's sale price, but presumably those are fairly well correlated.
I used to think the same but I've read recently the rationale as follows: apparently, you're most likely to buy a pool filter just after you bought one, because maybe the one you bought broke, or you don't like it, or whatever else, and you need a new one.

Not sure how much truth is there behind it, but maybe there's a bit. Obviously, it does not apply much to the cruise though.
I agree, we just ended up going with someone who specialized in the area instead of dealing with Redfin agent who said it would never sell.

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I can't manage to read this entire thing, not just because it is long, but because it is so sneering. Study after study after study indicates that diet, exercise and lifestyle have measurable impacts on morbidity and a long list of serious, often deadly, conditions. But if you actually try to advocate that people attend to their health first and foremost by eating right, exercising and making good lifestyle choices, you are some crazy weirdo?

I don't think it is any mystery at all that it is happening alongside so many people not having access to proper insurance, doctors, etc. If you can't afford to go to a doctor, then reading something for free on the internet and tweaking your diet in hopes of not needing a doctor makes all kinds of sense.
I just meant to include that as a real world example of the effects of upgrading from 2 to 3. But the blog post in question does date back to 2016 so I don't know how that's unfair :)
This is fascinating. Thank you!
Any chance your school makes its exercises available? I've been trying to go through CS:APP myself, but the exercises aren't included and I believe I'd need a .edu email address to get them.
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How do you get a mortgage without a lawyer? Our bank required the lawyer to do the title search, title settlement, and title recording - according to my closing disclosure, which I just consulted.
I've streamed myself programming on Twitch, and can echo some additional knowledge in addition to what's shared in the article:

Don't expect anyone from Twitch to randomly discover your stream and have any idea what you're doing. Programming anything that isn't a video game on Twitch will be totally unfamiliar to their primary demographics. That said, use Twitter or something else to BRING YOUR OWN AUDIENCE. Be prepared to stream for a few hours or else you will likely never build up traction in your chat.

As this post says, vocalizing your stream of consciousness is vital; think of it like pair programming with the chat. I try to engage the chat without getting totally nerd sniped and ending up off topic.

I think the best way to really kick the tires on Twitch programming content would be to stream podcasts and/or have a joint channel of shared programming content and have many different programmers participating either via a shared account or Twitch Teams[0].

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> Before my books there was this general belief in computing that only “special” people could learn to code, and that it was pointless to teach anyone who didn’t start when they were 12.

AFAICT, this is not only not all that true (teaching adults to code, and the belief that they could be successful, was not a novel when LPTHW was introduced, though some people certainly thought the way Shaw describes; I mean, schools have been taking people without programming backgrounds as CS majors forever, and there have been adult-targeted self-learning introductory resources, books and otherwise, for programming continuously since the 1980s, probably earlier), but LPTHW has not been associated with any substantial change in general attitudes on this point. While it wasn't then and isn't now then general attitude, people still—and AFAICT in roughly similar proportions—buy into the idea of the “from childhood” coder being inherently superior.
The majority successful authors don't get their first book published, or their second, or sell any copies of their third.

This is normal, please don't give up!
It's actually comparing 2.7.12 (2016) with 3.6 (2016).

Not that the release date has much to do with the benchmark, mind you...
Brightly lit streets, no traffic, clear lane markings. Does the system work without any of those three things?
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"you’re going to lose on all these patent claims ..." because Uber is no longer using them.

Waiting to be asked by the judge to drop them is the only valid political chess move they had. Withdrawing them without being asked would be worse, IMO. But the reason remains the same: Uber used to have them in their design/prototypes but they no longer do.
It is very light, but does have some nice bits on the pros and cons of certain compiler optimizations, memory handling, etc.
Zed, you deserve to get paid for the work you are doing, and I appreciate that you've given it way for so long. Just be up front about it, don't bring the PSF into this.

Just own it. That said, I wish you had given more notice than a day.
Oh yeah, I definitely know people do. There wouldn't be so much advertising out there if visitors didn't click them.

I'm just generally a little overly suspicious about ads because they can be 'phishy'. That and, like others have commented already, the ads i see are for things I recently bought so I have no need to buy them again soon.
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Supply is lagging because of zoning and NIMBYism, in large part. Demand has always moved around in the US, as industries and places come and go.
Awesome! LPTHW is my go to recommendation for introducing folks to programming and Python.

Also I really like his abrasive opinion writing style. It's very effective at getting people talking even if it is rather crude.
Sadly I think that often the publishers actually want it that way, i.e. the they do not want the data to be easily parsable...
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The real question isn't about "its new wealth;" it's about whether the city will build enough housing to keep housing costs somewhat reasonable by building more housing, and whether it can accelerate its subway / light rail schedule: http://jakeseliger.com/2015/09/24/do-millennials-have-a-futu... . The housing issue is key, as California's failure to build enough housing has led to seemingly relentlessly increasing housing costs: https://techcrunch.com/2014/04/14/sf-housing .
Many apps don't have paid versions, only ad-supported, and even more apps don't have open-source equivalents. I'm sure you're aware of this.
It's only a two-sided marketplace if you need drivers. If Google uses Waymo tech to remove drivers from the equation, there's only one side to the market that they have to consider, which makes it a much easier proposition to enter those markets. The legal/compliance issues are probably the bigger hurdle since they can't hide behind "independent contractors" the way Uber has.
It doesn't do that, though--OBS uses pretty well-understood levels of memory, compute, etc. that scale directly to what you're doing.
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Reading the article, I was a bit disappointed that people were trying to pull the book, but reading your comment I remembered how much I had to argue for Python 3 with a friend who was just starting to learn programming and was reading LPTHW because I had suggested it after hearing it is a good book.

The book apparently said that Python 3 sucks, that people shouldn't learn it, and that "if someone tells you to use Python 3, tell them you'll use it when all their code is in Python 3", which is just absurd. It was very harmful, because Python 3 is definitely where the community is, and 2's days are numbered.

That part may have been true back when it was written, but it's definitely not true today, and all it does is fan the flames of discord.
Please everyone put down their fists and let the war finish.

It's all good. We all agree to program with Python 3 and educate beginners on Python 3.

Just forget the past and move on - Zed is on the Python 3 boat now and that's all that matters.

Indeed it makes a great deal of sense to not just end the conflict but go the other way - the Python community should simply ignore the past and do everything it can to welcome and include and bring Zed into the Python 3 community, to the extent that he wants that.
I'm really inarticulate, so my biggest fear would be people not able to understand what I'm saying...
Crowd Supply[0] is one service that I know of. Mainly focused on crowd-sourced projects.

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I recently noticed a $20-30 charge each month from 'Amazon Web Services' on the credit card and vaguely recall signing up and trialing it one day (must have left a small instance running I guess too).

I had to cancel that credit card in the end as I couldn't get access to the account and their support is, as far as I can tell, automated email responses. I also had the threat to suspend my account over many days (to which I was responding, 'Yes, please do'), but they stubbornly just kept threatening instead of closing the account. The support person did not seem to respond to what I wrote in my replies at all, just pasted a stock response that didn't make sense in context.

They really cannot seem to handle their scale in terms of their customer support (and I wonder how many people are getting bitten for small chunks of cash).
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Yeah right. I think everybody's answer to that is: I'll believe it when I see it.

Pass the Turing test and maybe, just maybe a chat bit interface will make sense
Hardly matters since 2.7.xx are all maintenance releases and practically no features or performance improvements
>you kill the golden goose (private industry)

This is the fallacy of all fallacies and is purely circular. It is the golden goose only in a system that makes it so; the reasonableness of which is the very point we're discussing. If I were arguing in favor of communism, I would say that the state or the people are the golden goose. And, like you, I will have proved nothing.

>if you just give food, shoes, supplies, etc. to poor people everywhere, you screw with the local economy and destroy businesses

Again, you are begging the question. This problem only exists in your vaunted free market system. In fact, you are arguing against yourself and acknowledging that the system you favor creates a resource distribution model that is unjust and untenable.

>all of a sudden a million chickens are donated to everyone, that man can no longer sell chickens

Yes, another problem created by the artificial scarcity intrinsic to your beloved model. And, what if the resource is water or another essential resource that has been commoditized and made profitable? Do we withhold water and let people die to protect the free market? If so, then we have placed an ideology above human life itself, the absurdity and futility of which should require no explanation. You talk of freedom, but the most fundamental right a person has is the right to live. Starving to death is not freedom.

But, if you say that we should be humane and intervene in any way, then you have exposed a massive chink in the armor of your perfect market. Either the market itself must neccesarily be purposely impacted, or you are expecting NGOs or the state or others to marshal resources in order to mitigate the externalities created by the "free market". In so doing, you are subsidizing said market and it is no longer free. Its profit takers are indebted, but will never repay. Whether via taxation sheer lack, or otherwise, someone is counter-party to that debt but will never be made whole. So much for their freedom.

>The correct solution is to remove barriers to free enterprise, allow people to gain and re-invest their wealth

Always the fall-back: "we're just not doing it enough". It's not enough that massive deregulation has led us to the brink of disaster on more than one ocassion. It's not enough that even as corporate profits reached record-highs, wealth disparity grew and more people fell into poverty. It's not enough that automation has devalued the one commodity that the majority have to sell into the "free market" (their time). No, we simply need to make the market "more free" and that will fix everything.

This argument can be made ad nauseum by those who promote unfettered markets as the solution to all, because they know it is unreasonable that totally free markets will ever exist, owed to the tremendous human costs that would follow. Thus, there will never be (nor should there be) the political will to remove all restraints or stop subsidizing people who will die without those subsidies. So, the argument can ever be made that the problem is that markets are not free enough.
Awesome job with the extension! I think the idea has great potential.

Judging from my five minute test drive, you could probably increase adoption if you made it 'discoverable'. It's hard to determine what to do once it's installed. Turns out, you have to click the browser action to start listening for user input. After that, you have to refer to the website to find out what commands are available. It would be great if there were on-screen suggestions of commands to voice. Using it was really frustrating and unreliable until I read the instructions on the web store page to disable 'ambient noise reduction' on macs. Showing an 'instructions' page on installation would help a lot. An instructional video would be great too.

Other nitpicks:
* I couldn't get dictation to work.
* More tab manipulation commands would be nice
* I'm not a huge fan of the link hints placement and styling

I'm actually developing my own keybinding extension like Vimium/cVim/VimFx/Surfing Keys

https://github.com/lusakasa/saka-key

with the intent to use the codebase to later create a voice commands extension like yours.

After all the work I've put into my extension, I can see why only $10 in donations for your efforts is disheartening. Good luck!
My Arch and Gentoo installs have gone somewhat further than that 8)

Admittedly I'm not sure that you can consider one of them that went from i386 to amd64 as the same install simply because /var/lib/portage/world and /etc/portage/ (plus a few other bits) are the same. I still use it and it's on its fifth or sixth incarnation as my current laptop.

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>democratizing distribution among indie content producers

So I have this idea for a video/audio streaming website that operates like an open market. Website operator makes a cut for infrastructure costs. Other than that, the site runs pretty much on its own. No content deals, no drm, no geo restrictions, no ads. Some safeguards to limit abuse. A producer puts up content. Consumers consume content. Revenues are split between producers using some fair and transparent proportionality metric. Would there be any appetite for such a model ?
That's a good suggestion to look at the product first and see if I'll like it. I will look westward for those companies because I find more interesting software and other products there. Most of the startup ideas in my city, Chicago, hate to say it, sound mundane. Chicago is big, has many software jobs, but not much in the way of software startups or unicorns. It's not a tech center of USA and entrepreneurs built a different mindset I think. Some have even gone as far as saying, a company like Snapchat will never have grown as big as it did if it started in my city.

I'll probably not work for Google, not because I don't want to, but generally speaking any company that has been doing well for 10+ years hasn't given me any offers or rejects my resume.
+1 for jokes in code. I have a thesaurus plugin with an ASCII T-Rex in the source.
> Can anybody explain to me why, every time Zed Shaw writes something, flamewars emerge?

Because Zed Shaw often writes things that are both (deliberately, AFAICT) inflammatory and about something which has a large interested community.