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At first most of your users tend to be fairly advanced. After all, they've even managed to somehow find the obscure thing you've made. This is the most rewarding time for an open source project as many of the issues are real and the quality of bug reports and feedback is extremely high. Over time, as the project gains popularity, many of these issues will either have been solved, or have become easily googlable. Therefore you'll rarely hear from the advanced, intelligent portion of your users, although it's also certainly possible that they've already moved on to shinier things.

In the end, you tend to have a noticeable, vocal portion of users whom I'd generously call "social developers," who are bad at figuring things out by themselves and/or prefer asking things from another person to save a few minutes of their own time. Many of these users are very draining to deal with.
It turned out to be a misconception because computers are astronomically easier to use now. If you had to ever configure a config.sys entry for a specific game you know what I mean.
On that note, what language(s) are SpaceX, Tesla built on?

Job postings I see a mix of C# and golang. I cannot believe either a Model X or a rocket is rockin C#...
The problem with the Hyper-loop and Elon Musk in general, isn't that Elon Musk is wrong or that the Hyper-loop won't work. The problem is that he engages in a nepotistic political-industrial complex. That is, he subsidizes his risk for the benefit of the shareholders and himself at the expense of the taxpayer. The same tax payers who are often in a state of financial uncertainty and destitution of education. The same tax payers who know if they get sick, they won't be able to pay for it.

The result of this political-industrial complex, at least in this case, is a large benefit to the upper class (not that I'm a classist) who can afford a foray into the city for brunch at the cost of the livelihood of everyone less financially fortunate and vigilant. It is often the case, and continues to be so, that the political-industrial complex taxes everyone for the benefit of the wealthiest.
"what's the keyboard shortcut on a Mac to go to the beginning of your current line? Ah trick question, it's different for every god damned application!"

I haven't seen any macOS applications that don't accept Ctrl-A (or any other Emacs-style shortcuts, while we're at it). Maybe I just haven't looked hard enough.
He's writing this to people like you.

As far as I was able to read, not a single mention that Musk has been able to take two or three other previously considered impossible tasks and bring them to completion. Call me a fanboy if you will, but at least my fanboyism is evidence-based.

It's not personal. Musk is not anyone's personal juvenile delinquent (cable TV edit). Why do you care so much whether a single billionaire is validated or not? Why is every time there is an article like this, there's half a dozen Musk fans complaining that someone dare challenge the great Musk?

The fact that we've lost faith in humanity's ability to improve things by taking on large, ambitious projects, even if some, even if most, will fail, saddens me every day. It doesn't prevent me from trying to make the world a better place though, and I hope nobody else was discouraged by low-quality, knee-jerk thinking like this, either.

No, there are simpler questions, like why build inefficient systems like Hyperloops and car sleds when we have tech that works at scale already for the former and we have solutions to the latter that don't require right of way under the most expensive real-estate in the world to build transport systems for transport systems (that Musk just happens to be selling), and will make our urban centers car based for the forseable future when we could be going the other direction?

It's good to praise vision and have heroes but one of the constants of history is that heroes fail (because they're people) and that rate increases as they get further and further outside their original domain. We should be thankful for the visionaries but the way of refining their visions is criticism, not bristling when someone dare do that.

Napoleon ruled the world right up until he didn't.
There's a wonderful parody of the style that explains how to make ice cubes

https://gfycat.com/HonorableThankfulHeron
Geez, that's a pretty restrictive rule. M$ is for folks who remember just how many people got sued by Microsoft back in the day. No matter how tame they seem today, they have been positively aggressive in the past. It ultimately hurt them as much as it hurt the community, but they conducted themselves poorly.

As for those other things, those are matters of personal distraction. It may not seem acceptable to have a computer or an internet connection at the desk, but that's a matter of self-discipline. Everyone talking all the time around you is something you can't overcome simply by disciplining yourself.
You wrote unqlite also? And the embedded redis variant vedis? Whow! Huge props.

Just one typo in the ph7 readme: powerfull is too german
I truly yearn for the day when I can pay rent with my GitHub street cred.

Makes me think, there was that old Y Combinator experiment of letting HN posters vote for funding in a small funding round. Combine that notion with a karma-weighted transparent proposal voting fund ("DAO" style) and something interesting might happen?
Yes, but it creates huge economic positive impacts

1. You can live in a less expensive area, (i.e. miles away), and work in a major center. This makes both possible of talent being able to live cheaper, and be able to work where they want (less geographical restrictions), which unlocks greater efficiency of the work place.

2. The alternative? Most people living with few tens of miles of workplaces, prices of living raise up of these hubs, you end up with both more expensive workforce, and less flexibility, and some people just decide to leave. The only winners in this scenario are current landlords.

Right now SF is experiencing scenario #2.

Basically once you have super fast transportation, it relieves pressure to housing prices on the work hubs/city centers, and the values of homes where the high speed train/hyperloop/whatever stops increase to match the new accessibility.

Real Scenarios: You can comfortably live in Baltimore or Philadelphia (2hrs of driving currently) and be able to work in NYC if this commute was cut to 40mins or less.

It is a win win scenario, as all these cities become part of one single hub.
>Musk has been able to take two or three other previously considered impossible tasks and bring them to completion

Such as? SpaceX and their reusable rockets might be the closest thing I guess. Tesla and his solar company use pretty conventional technology, on the other hand. He is willing to invest a lot of money, that's true. But when talking about the Hyperloop, it's hardly just his money that's at stake if government is supposed to be involved.

>What's that network you're using to blast this tripe straight to my eyeballs right now?

A network that evolved from humble origins decades ago. Maybe if Musk financed a hyperloop prototype in the desert for a decade and showed its economic viability, then you can make that comparison. But who knows, maybe that's what he plans to do with the government approval he's supposedly gotten - good for him then, hopefully it works.
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Nobody is deriding the format. I think the clichés deserve to be made fun of it a teensy bit[0], but otherwise I agree it's a wonderful innovation, making good use of the possibilities modern media provide. Kinda like explorable explanations[1].

But the medium isn't being criticised, it's the way it is used. And sure, even that can be explained in the context of everything being optimised for drawing attention these days, but that doesn't make it right.

There is nothing about video-based recipes that fundamentally goes against healthy recipes.

[0] https://gfycat.com/HonorableThankfulHeron

[1] http://explorabl.es/
China would lose in either outcome, a more or less "civil" collapse of the NK government and existing infrastructure would result in millions of refugees spilling into China which will cost them billions if not trillions.

It would also tie Chinese forces in the region and force them to deal with the problem nearly exclusively since China is not likely to accept a any international troops on it's border, since it would likely be composed of majority NATO or Indian troops or a healthy mix of both.
There is no need to cry about this. Casper has been migrated to Ghost 1.0 as well.

You basically have two option now: https://github.com/TryGhost/Casper/commits/master

Have fun :-p
Why lose flexibility and switch to medium in the first place?
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Geoff would be spot on.
Why would it seem logical that smoking marijuana would cause lung cancer? That seems like an overly simplified model for cancer.

Anyway, there is no data showing smoking marijuana causes lung cancer (rather, there is no high quality data. I'm sure some NIDA-funding scientists have found otherwise, but it's not considered correct).

The NSF review concluded that, at most, smoking marijuana causes respiratory problems, but not lung cancer. The only type of cancer positively associated with marijuana smoking was a form of prostate cancer, which happens to be easily treated.
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I don't understand why people write programming blogs on Medium. I think that managing a live website with its own server (rather than only working on other people's projects) is a very important skill.

If you don't want to manage WordPress, try a static site generator like Metalsmith: https://github.com/segmentio/metalsmith

Deploy on Digital Ocean or Linode for $5/month. Free hosting options include Github Pages and Netlify.
I agree their pricing decisions were not in line with their users. Soundcloud Go was poorly positioned, and their original premium tiers did not provide enough benefit for what they cost.

SoundCloud is far from 'failed' the service is still the go-to website for new music and I do not see a replacement at this time.
Could care less about challenging Musk's reputation, that's his problem. It's the fallacies of argument. Good engineers are awash in self doubt and questioning.
You're taking that too literally.

You can't pay rent in likes and retweets, but you can pay rent in dollars earned by you getting your company likes and retweets. More and more companies are hiring "social media experts" (often interns, if my anecdotal observations are anything to go by) for exactly this reason.
Probably is the whole point: there has not been many thankful moments, it was usually demands for more stuff being given away for free.
> Yes, but that doesn't mean they're necessarily excluding the Russia hypothesis. It could very well mean they're just extending and updating it. Or maybe they are scrapping it - us outsiders have no way of knowing.

No we're keeping an open mind on that.

Okay here's this Rep. Will Hurd, R-Texas (mentioned in the article) was doing the rooms at BHDC yesterday. General Hayden also.
Maybe let's first specify what we are talking about. With trusting trust I mean a chicken and egg problem: To verify a computer you need another computer you trust. But then, how would you verify the other computer?

How would this be possible to solve? Exactly how you bootstrap building complex CPU's from scratch or a big factory in Factorio. You start from first principles and build a very simple computer you can verify without another computer. This guy is the root of the bootstrapping process. Then you build another computer that is too fast to check manually and make the first one check this one. Now, you already have a verified computer that you can only check with other computers.

The basic idea is clear to me, but the specific steps are not. I guess one would need a simple language for the root of the bootstrap process and write a compiler or interpreter for another more complex language in it. Then, use the second compiler/interpreter to build a compiler/interpreter for a yet more powerful language (maybe that's already C), which we run on the next node. Using this process you can end up with a verified computer that can compile stuff, or what not.

Since we would probably not be able to build a machine sufficiently fast for our needs, we need to use commercial and maybe backdoored computers. How do we protect against these? You get at least two different machines (at least different ISA) from different manufactures from different countries. Note, that it would not be a problem if they are backdoored. You must only ensure that they don't have identical backdoors.

Now you create a verified program for each of the possibly backdoored computers and make sure that they know of each other, they must be unconnected. Their output goes into a simple verifieable machine that does only bit for bit checking. If a backdoor is trigged, then the output of the two machines won't be identical anymore.

In this setuo one would need to generate random numbers on some trusted device and feed the same stream into both machines. Also, the operating system must be completely deterministic in it's behaviour. That is surely possible, but no one I know of is.

Then, you have a verified setup that does exactly what is written in the source and any backdoor in the system itself will be detected.

I'm convinced that the process above is doable for individual developers. But creating and engineering all the steps is a lot of work.

I hope some day the community or maybe even governments will have created a manual "Creating trustable trust" where all the steps are worked out.
I never thought people would be working full time on emulator projects. I guess I really underestimated the amount of work going there.
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Probably not on the rocket itself, but C# is a very common language for ancillary testing tools in the industrial automation world. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of their test infrastructure is written in C#.
We build open source tools for processing spreadsheet data (https://github.com/sheetjs/js-xlsx is our largest and most popular open source project). Our open source tools have been used by government agencies, S&P 500/Dow companies, and startups alike. We've found people have taken the library, removed header comments, and sold as-is. Some startups have taken our web demo http://oss.sheetjs.com/, replaced the name with their own, and tried to use that to raise money. But those aren't really regrettable -- it's written off as "shameless people are shameless".

The truth is, you can never really know what would have happened if you didn't open source in the first place. Would an open source alternative emerge? Would people pay for your project or would it die in relative obscurity? That's unknowable.

If there's any regret, it's probably the amount of time spent doing support work for the open source libraries. It's not particularly interesting (usually pertaining to something in the README), time consuming (everyone seems to have their own secret project that they don't want to discuss, so you have to draw out the underlying issue slowly), and uncompensated.
Any PostGIS support?
This is written by someone who's never lived in LA. "Trains that run on the tracks" is a joke in a region with virtually zero effective public transport.
Random array generation with redis
Periodic off-site replication with FreeBSD, duplicacy and B2
And when those responding to those arguments say stuff like "my faith is more evidence based than yours", the rebuttal is just as fallacious. It's turning into "X must be right because they are X", which isn't any better.
"They ran their business into the ground, but they did it with such great tech!"
I accept the point.
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Static sites are different. That sounds like a much better model for hosting. It doesn't matter if the servers get destroyed if there is little to clean up.
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For us it was not really an insult. It was poking fun at us but it was not meant in a bad way. Not to say it could not be meant as one though.
> Tesla and his solar company use pretty conventional technology

The technology might be conventional, but having useful Electric cars on the road was looking like impossible task back in the days before Tesla roadster
Transcompile is very old term in computing, at least the 80s, specifically referring to compiling from one language, to another high level language.

CoffeeScript simply made the shortened term more popular, but the use of a more specific term is nothing to get irritated about.
There are several things I don't like, but this one is the worst:

'no _ in ident names'

It has been shown that for better readability, _ style is better than camel case (we are used to reading words separated by white space, which _ essentially is). Whether you want to believe this or not, enforcing camel case at programming language level is a bad idea.
Maybe a solution is to add some lines of code with special keywords to get your project blocked by the great firewall?
I first heard about Tasty 3 days ago, since then, I've seen it mentioned in various forms over 20 times.

What the heck. Big content marketing push?
I haven't written more online, sorry. Happy to chat though especially if you have a parenting dilemma. You can reach me through our family website tocci.xyz

We do have an idea for a YouTube channel where we film our attempts to fix up our house. Any interest in that?

Thank you for your kind words.
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Farming and ranching. Case closed.

Also, the rural population has quite a different culture than what you are used to. They don't _crave_ internet. Some of them likely ask the same thing about your culture. Why do you like living so close to each other? Everything is so fast and overwhelming.
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It's impossible to entirely prevent hacking. I'm sure that there are people who have worked out a good hosting model, but I did not find it to be worth the time.
Or even $2,5 Vultr if you are on a budget.
"I am still not clear how a pod that can carry max 12 people can compete with trains that can carry hundreds."

Max persons per trip seems a metric of little relevance, if a pod is much faster and can make many more trips within the same time period. In any case, that would point to how the pod could compete: carry just as many people each day, but each person would reach his/her destination much faster than if they used the train. (Wouldn't even need to carry as many people, if each person were motivated to pay more to reach destination in much shorter time.)
As an aside, how many people use the Tokyo Bay Aqua Line every day?
I bought a Tandy at thirteen (made the money washing dishes) and taught myself basic. Many years later i was working for a company addicted to Excel and moved them to MS Access and PostgreSQL. Within a year I was a full time programmer and have been ever since.
Another free option: gitlab pages with built in ci configurations for a bunch of different static generators. All you have to do is commit for updates.
I think a consistent history-rewind button for every app, would take a lot of anxiety about breaking software out of this and allow for people to experiment. Oh, you rearranged every single button in excell outside the screen- history button takes you back to the start of this.

After all, we do that too with git and containers.
Probably the usual - it was new cool and convenient.
> why build inefficient systems like Hyperloops and car sleds when we have tech that works at scale already

You mean like why build inefficient electric cars when we had a proved combustion engine that worked at scale before?
Could you expand on that?

China's laws implement the Berne Convention, making copyright automatic.

Open source licenses usually provide conditional exceptions to that automatic and internationally accepted copyright.

So if they don't believe in open source licenses, or whatever, "all rights reserved" is logically the default fallback.

That obviously doesn't marry with what you said. China is famously awful at upholding IP laws they're party to, but I think that's all this is here. It's still against the law there, but nobody cares if it's not hurting China.
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Lately we've been bringing version control solutions to SCM and it's pretty cool. Just a couple weeks ago we started experimenting with mapping. We could really use a break-out product. Our clients love us but we've had trouble carving off a feature set that would be viable as a stand-alone program.
But it's not the same sort of skill as, say, doing low-level graphics programming, or database query optimization. Just because you're a programmer doesn't mean you're a web developer.

It's like saying that it doesn't make sense for a carpenter to live in a house they didn't build, or for a heart surgeon not to pull out his own wisdom teeth.
> If I could get to hong kong in 15 minutes, I might go there this afternoon for some dumplings.

And that's a good thing, because it increases the amount of demand available to businesses. The more potential customers you have, the more product you can make to sell to that market, and the more product you can make, the better your economies of scale.

The large population of New York is what allows it to offer so many niche and specialty stores, which would otherwise struggle to stay in business.
Not at all nonsense. Living in China for a decade+ 'buying a ticket'? What? Really?
I'd recommend following Miles Brundage on Twitter, dude goes through a mind boggling number of papers and uncovers loads of hidden gems.
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Does it though?

I'd like this to be true, but in practice it seems like most people (me included) strongly prefer hearing songs they already know most of the time, enjoy songs more with repetition, at least up to a point, and are more than willing to learn to like almost anything with high enough production value.

Some people are music snobs as a hobby and most go on discovery quests from time to time, but it honestly seems like most people most of the time want music they don't have to think too much about or devote too much attention to. Indie-only channels can't really deliver that.
They negotiate with very few artists and their managers directly. The reason is that there are very few artists who have that kind of control of their content.

AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, the Beatles and Taylor Swift come to mind, but there are very few artists who have a say in whether or not their catalog can or can not be streamed. Those artists made wise business decisions at some point and/or were able to throw their weight around. Here are some notable hold outs as of 2016 anyway:

https://consequenceofsound.net/2016/02/which-artists-are-sti...

Using Pink Floyd as an example, the decision was there's and not their record label EMI:

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/pink-floyd-catalog-ar...