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Agree and disagree. Monetization is on one axis, passion is on another.

I think if you start off just making something for yourself, it may be hard to monetize it, because it's only optimized for how you do things. On the other hand, if you do something only for monetization, it's super easy to get demoralized and just stop. Furthermore, monetization isn't an easy to thing to optimize for - it's very hard to see where the sweetspot is.

But if you can find a right balance between creating something that you find a lot of interest in, and that a lot of other people would value, you can find a great balance of personal satisfaction and something sustainable.
Somebody posted [Stagit](https://git.codemadness.org/stagit/) to HN a while ago, which seems to fit your description.
Indeed, the responsibility belongs to the company that is providing the proprietary software/product. Otherwise it would send the message that good documentation shouldn't be provided because the "community" will handle it for free.
Build two bases?
The Arch wiki is great for dealing with common problems in popular software. Other stuff tends to be about as outdated and incomplete as the average "how to" blog post. It's a good resource to have, but it's not the same thing as having well-documented software.
I don't think that would really work. When you dive a lot into loneliness, you begin to create your own world with your own habits and not so usual interests. Been there myself, now having actually somehow connections to such communities, I realize how hard it is to find common ground, to actually integrate and eventually form friendships.

The article suggests some points how to transform yourself, so connections form automatically. Of course you must have some day to day interaction with other people.
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I find Dolphin to have every possible feature I could ever want under Linux, I feel pretty confident in saying that it can be configured to work exactly how you want it to under Linux.
Blood in my stool was my sign. By that point it was already at stage 2. My family has no history as far as I know.
I don't see how.
Its like trying to losing weight by just eat less. Sure, technically you are correct but damn hard to do.
I wonder if he's thinking of building a space gun.
Eventually our microbial biomes will merge with any ecosystem or planet we visit. It's virtually guaranteed. This shouldn't stand in the way of our visiting, we should simply be prepared for intermixture.
> They aim to have no impact at the surface by digging just about 20 feet (6 meters) in the ground.

Is 20 feet enough? I would imagine that a lot more depth would be required to support the above-ground structures.
turbulence on lawnmower planes is a lot of fun!
This alleged assumption that in fact I did not make would contradict the principle above. If the market were always and everywhere at every instant of time efficiently allocated, there would be no valid complaints.
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This is a 'reboot' of something that was done is 2006. but with the internet being what it is today... thought we'd have a bash at giving it a try now. Users will have a choice of dares to attempt, once done, videos will submitted to us for moderation and then posted to FB, website and youtube. The two videos with the most likes and views each month will receive cash prizes (currently £2000 shared).
And Mike Cohn's SPIDR tips for splitting stories:

- https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DBuzze5XsAA2Zbt.jpg:large
I don't know what icebraining is talking about becaue AFAIK there aren't widely used languages with unique types, except perhaps Rust.
Does it matter? I think there will be enough qualified candidates who know, understand and are willing to take the risk.
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I would like to see a side project finance checklist.
That wouldn't necessarily be a surprising figure. I might even be tempted to assign a similar probability to finding life elsewhere in the Solar System.
20+ years ago the majority of the world had little to no understanding of the internet. People with technical backgrounds may have had theoretical ideas about how connecting the world online would radically change it. But it was exactly a "solution in search of a problem" in the same vein as decentralized computing through blockchain technology is today. A world where the digital world was as critical as the real one seemed ridiculous on its face back then.
There have been quite a few studies showing that alcohol helps with creativity, presumably because we don't shoot down novel ideas so quickly.

But most development is not creative. I worked from a co-working space that had free beers available on Friday afternoons, I tried having a beer and working and it was a total waste of time.
Even a 8080 would be problematic, given near and far segments and the memory tricks we used to do to fit everything into the available memory.

Then it also depends on the IO and video architecture. The PC ones were a bit of a pain.
I really need to do a full writeup on my understanding of my experiences, especially relating to this question I ask people.

As an interesting side note, wheat is connected to childhood ear infections.

I wrote a reply where I suggested people look into Auditory Integration Training for either themselves or their children who they said had certain autistic characteristics. Here's the thread for that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13657725 - and in particular someone asked to hear about my own experience with it, to which I replied here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13657973
Apple has always been vague and stingy with the documentation; despite the author mentioning this,

In the days of classic Mac OS, when print publishing was growing as a result of Macs, Apple published an exemplary series of books under the banner Inside Macintosh

I have read the Inside Macintosh books but they still felt somewhat incomplete and superficial (although they're definitely a little prettier) compared to what I'd consider close to a "gold standard" for documentation, the IBM PC/AT Technical Reference and the same one for MS/PC-DOS.

I suppose it had a lot to do with the general attitude of Apple's culture, summarised in the famous phrase "it just works". The notion that systems should be designed to be so easy to use and obvious as to require no documentation, has resulted in a lack of documentation even for those cases which are not easy to use nor obvious.
They could solve the problem, but they are not doing it. Trying to force their hand by public shaming may work, but I don’t think it will. Volunteering the effort seems like a pragmatic approach. I would love to have a place where I could send a PR to fix a documentation shortcoming. Adding requests to Radar is futile.
And yet Apple does not contribute to homebrew at all. The one project that makes osx usable for developers.
Probably easier to read the memory to determine the game state.
> i'm sure there are some people are responsible enough to never incur a finance charge from a credit card by always paying their monthly balance. I've never actually met one of those people.

...until today!

Hi! I'm "magnetic" - nice to meet you!

It's not as uncommon as you think: many tools allow you to not miss payments nowadays, from email/SMS/push notification reminders to automatic payments.

If you have the money to afford what you buy on the CC, there is really no reason you should be paying any fees, unless you are sloppy with finances.

I believe you when you say you're hit with charges, but I also think you are the reason for it. Sorry! (nothing personal)
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Only the marketing part of this "side" project feel like more than a full project to me.
> "Audio has "just worked" for years now, thanks to PulseAudio."

For your use cases perhaps, but it's not suitable for all use cases in the same way CoreAudio on OSX is. Music production is a key weak point, which is why JACK and PulseAudio are both required to have what CoreAudio offers out of the box.
I'm just being charitable and assuming Apple knows what it is doing - e.g. assuming "malice" instead of stupidity.

For example, macOS is themeable under the hood. Nearly all Cocoa controls are defined as vector graphics in an "art file", rather than hardcoded in the library. This was probably not done with themability in mind, but is just a side effect of good engineering. I bet there was a meeting where the engineers said "we have this great feature where we can change the theme of all Cocoa apps", and it was decided to not expose that feature for reasons like "brand recognition" and having all macs look alike for support reasons. I'm pretty confident that happened because Microsoft did the same and locked down themes with Windows XP (and somebody stated their reasoning), and also the GNOME project removed theming from the main UI and crammed it into a scary "tweak" tool (one dev said basically that theming is not a desired feature for them).

Similar logic applies to other things, like the kernel interface.

I fully understand why they come to such decisions - but I as a user and developer (and interested in "hacky" things) would love these things to be documented.

I don't think the status it is hurting their bottom-line, or the quality of mac apps (yet). Cocoa stuff seems to be documented decently enough. But I agree, they have to be careful if they don't want to fall behind.
My goal with the list was to make something exhaustive. Your job as the project owner is to cull it down to the most important items based on your target market and goals.

Making the list was easy. Prioritizing it and executing are what makes or breaks your project.
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If you can ssh into the remote box, you can edit files there via Tramp, even via sudo - C-x C-f /ssh:user@host|sudo:otheruser@host:/path/to/file, it'll prompt as needed for whatever credentials are required.

Still worth knowing the basics of vi, but Tramp has made it vanishingly rare at this point that I ever have to edit anything outside my main local Emacs session, which is nice.
Why there isnt a search engine that can be integrated as plugin to your web app?
A search product that can be installed as part of the stack which will give keep crawling and indexing the db it is exposed to with a interface where users can query for data from the db. Ex: If StackOverflow decides to install this and give it access to their db, the product will crawl the whole db, index it and SO can start using this as their search functionality on the site.
Yeah, making an NES game is on my bucket list. I'm very new at (complex) programming, but I think I might just do it in assembly. If you're going to run a marathon, why not actually do a triathlon?
With similar budgets, half a dozen used Precision hexacore Xeon boxes is within the realm of possibility. That's more cores and threads and memory bandwidth to throw at workloads that significantly benefit from multi-threading. Of course the premise is that most of the benefits from multi-threading come from software rather than hardware.

From a systems perspective, there is a more robust pipeline of replacement parts for the used boxes relative to the latest retail Threadripper motherboards. More boxes means it is possible to stay up with a hardware failure (which is to say that scaling out instead of scaling up means a partial hardware failures versus total hardware failures).

There's no free lunch of course. All those 1100w power supplies are going to equate to higher operating costs. And if first cost is no object then four or five Threadripper boxes will outperform the older hardware. Likewise if having the latest and greatest is part of the problem being solved.

YMMV.
Too bad you can't remove or disable the spying microservices
No segments in the 8080:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_8080#Programming_model
I've seen a lot of freelance design services going this direction lately:
https://designpickle.com is one example
> - It appears to be designed to keep you away from the system HD. More and more so with every release. I want to look at my filesystem, it it's entirety, easily and without using "go".

One "pro tip" is use "Cmd + Up arrow" to navigate one level above current folder.

Also, Finder creates ".DS_Store" files in each folder, which remembers current folder display. If you want to enforce say "List files" view everywhere, you will also need to nuke these from your system.

There is Path Finder, which is a good software (Shareware) that has a more traditional take on file explorer software, which might be good to check out if you are coming from Windows or Linux.

Myself, I'm just giving Finder a second chance, after having used Path Finder for a couple of years. It is well worth learning some of the key combos for better use.

Here is some more:

In finder, or in a "Open file" dialog, you can type "Shift + Cmd + G" to get a "Go to folder" dialog.

In finder, or in the "Open file" dialog, you can type "Shift + Cmd + ." to toggle "Show hidden files" (.dot files).
To clarify: SimAntics, the behavior tree visual programming language actually existed before Will wrote the "Soul of the Sims".

SimAntics was used in SimCopter for controlling the little Sims with simpler souls who walked around the city, for dispatching the police, firemen and medics who picked up injured Sims and brought them back to the helicopter, as well for implementing the notorious gay easter-egg with a bug that caused hundreds of shirtless "himbos" in fluorescent fog-piercing speedos (using the same special render as runway lights) to swarm all over the city hugging and kissing on Friday the 13th!

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4mh7Pc5MSI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozL3LtSsYd8
>"Given any activity, it's inevitable that one individual is more suited to the purpose than the other. With a significant gap, I don't see how a pairing won't just become mentoring. While it's great that knowledge will be shared, I'm uncertain how we could prevent a significant productivity drop of the dominant partner."

Individual "productivity" - at the expense of the organization - is pointless.

Focusing on the individual too much puts certain folks into positions of "unfireability" - which means when they inevitably leave, they'll leave hole that'll take several people to fill (which they'll probably brag about at their next job, "yeah, my last company had to hire 3 people to do my job").

The lack of focus on mentoring (whether through "pair programming" or other avenues) in most businesses leads to major disruptions whenever "important" people are unavailable. I wrote about that aspect of career growth over 9 years ago (https://antipaucity.com/2008/05/08/queuing-the-next-generati...) - and, if anything, it's only become more true in the intervening near-decade: most companies continue to prevent (actively or inactively) "junior" folks ("junior" as in "not yet experienced in XZY" - which may, or may not, correlate to age) from becoming "senior" without making them do it all themselves.

By a "lines of code per hour" or other similar pointless metric, pair programming (and mentoring in general) is not "efficient". But by the metrics of "less buggy code written", "better understanding of the code by more people", "more resilient organization to personnel disruption", etc, pair programming and mentoring have payoffs that far outweigh any perceived, simplistic, selfish view of "but he could do it better by himself".
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15002905
I find that hard to believe. DDG just redirects you to Google, it doesn't do anything fancier.
Well, you have convinced me. We should immediately switch back to a pre-agricultural, nomadic, very low technological, hunter gatherer society. I nominate you as the first headman.

The change will, of course, result in the near immediate death of, say, half of the people currently alive, including me. You get to explain to them what is going on (extra points for ending your speech with a dismissive "But, well, there you are."), but you also get to choose who is a "healthy person" and who is a "clone of an alienated person".

Go for it!
I'd say it ties up with Apple's focus on being a consumer electronics manufacturer. Apple and Sony have more in common than Apple and Dell.
> "Players occasionally need to abandon long term strategy in favor of short-term success."

That reminds me in a way of this article: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/28/opinion/28radosh.html

"Like cinema, games will need to embrace the dynamics of failure, tragedy, comedy and romance. They will need to stop pandering to the player’s desire for mastery in favor of enhancing the player’s emotional and intellectual life."

It's true, games often cater to this expectation of gradual, linear improvement without major setbacks. One thing that is nice about the Sims is that it allows for a longer developing series of ups and downs. It's kind of like feature movies (linear games) vs the more recent TV series in that regard.
>At the moment the left is more of a threat

Nazis are literally holding rallies in downtown Charlottesville with torches and yelling kill jews. One just ran over people counter-demonstrating in the streets. But yea it's the left who are a threat.

We have a president who refuses to condemn white nationalism. He has repeatedly issued calls to violence and wants to rough up journalists. But yes, it is the left who are endangering our free speech.

A close advisor to the president, Gorka, wore a Hungarian nationalist pin to Trump's inauguration - this group were nazi collaborators. He says that the bombing of a Minnesota mosque could've been a "false flag" and he has refused to condemn white nationalists. But yea it's the left who are a threat to our wellbeing.
What about payed arbitrators? The bad incentives i can imagine are less bad than the current system. E.g. for a DMCA dispute, each party could give YT maybe $5 to have a look at the case, winner will get his share back. If the case isn't obvious both get it back and a court has to decide. Non-payment means yielding. For YT vs user, YT would only pay in case their algorithm is wrong. Those cases would need some 3rd party arbitrator, thou...
The question wasn't about reality, but about quantum physics as a formal system, which is very much a formal mathematical system that can exist separate of hypothesis testing and whatnot. The point is that as soon as we have any finte definition of a model for reality, incompleteness kicks in.
Yes you can. Try it out.

Windows has better keyboard accessibility than any other desktop OS.
Following a chain of links and a google search, I landed at this podcast episode which I really liked: http://talkingcode.com/podcast/episode-14-jeff-patton/

It's an interview with Jeff Patton, who seems to be a pretty well-known name when it come to user stories and story mapping, and I really enjoyed his take on this matter.
Law school answer: if Musk is on the board of Tesla and wants a deal to happen with BoringCo, but also has an interest in BoringCo, Musk discloses the conflict, recuses himself from the vote, and a + b plus x + y + z have to approve the deal.

Conflicts of interest are common for board members -- you choose board members for their connections. So it's not surprising for a board member to bring up an opportunity that is advantageous to the company, but where they also have some personal interest on the outcome.

That's a problem, though, because there are divergent interests: Musk should rationally vote his 80% in favor of the deal even if it decreases the value of the company, as long as it increases the combined value of his share in the two companies. If he did that, a+b would have a winning shareholder lawsuit, because it violates a board member's duty of loyalty to put personal interests above the interests of the company.

So we neutralize that possibility by disclosing everything and allowing the non-conflicted members to vote on the deal. If both sides approve it, we can assume that it individually increases the value of both companies, Musk has done his job as a well-connected board member, and no one has a legal claim based on the conflict of interest.
I'm not talking about perfection, I'm talking about not being covered in blood and shit so much of the time is all, about not being scared and driven.

> You state the decoupling of psychological problems with some other undefined idealized personhood.

Can you rephrase that? English isn't my first language, and "stating decoupling of" doesn't parse at all for me. It's like there's a sentence fragment missing.

I can't easily define personhood. I know I'm one, that other people are, and I even know animals I recognize as persons, too. With super small animals and plants it gets tricky, but I don't need to fully define first for it to exist, there is something there. Any theory is an abstraction that never fully matches a reality which would remain unchanged if that theory didn't exist. Any intelligence we see and can make theories about results from actual living entitites. There is absolutely no reason to outright assume it can make sense in a vacuum. What would the AGI be intelligent for? Why wouldn't it just calculate whether the heat death of the universe will happen, and shut off if it comes to the conclusion it will? Nothing it would do would make a difference then. Humans are different, more irrational if you will. I don't believe immortality will ever be achieved, I don't even find it desirable, and still I get out of bed in the morning. Everyone I love will die, and everything I do will turn to dust. I still love and make things.

So, what would that "spark" be for AGI? I just had the dumbest association, in the movie "The Fifth Element" there is this scene where the [I forgot what the name of her role was, the female protagonist anyway] is taking in all the atrocities of humanity and gets kind of frustrated, and doesn't feel like saving them or something like that. Then Bruce Willis kisses her and it's alright. As I said, it's dumb, but still, if all we give an AI is problems, why would it come up with solutions, and not more problems?

> I would argue, and the science generally agrees, that those "psychological problems" however defined are the other edge on the sword of intelligence and relative autonomy.

Obviously a piece of rock doesn't have any of the problems or joys we do, but that doesn't just mean anything and everything just "goes with the territory".

> If we make the progress we want I expect heavy opposition.

And you're just going to steamroll over it? Fantastic. You'll go to the friendly baker next and they'll happily sell you bread because they don't know. And you can't face them one on one, so you have to "achieve significant powers" in the shadows. And you're still not seeing the woods for all the trees. No, it's their fault for not understanding what you're not even telling them.
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> "we're all gonna freeze to death" from the 70s

This is pop science in two ways:

* In that these were science articles knocked up to interest an audience in magazines like Newsweek with little to no scientific backing, and very few research publications. And only a handful of them at that.

* In that you have picked up this factoid, and passed it on, without checking its validity.
Maybe not 100% related to original story, but have you seen the article of Ryan Clark about marketing your indie game? It's by far the best one I came across with the best info as far as I know.

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/RyanClark/20150917/253842/Wha...
I'm guessing that's the reason they are doing a moon mission. Have to give them hope, have to jump start the economy. Can't saw trousers for eternity, can they?

Educated people will continue fleeing if nothing is done to keep them in. You cannot solve homelessness by giving out houses, jobs are the biggest help.