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More important than aesthetics, competence and the code itself?

What if the user does not care "who" the author is, other than to identify what he has written?

For example, I have no idea "who" Arthur Whitney is, but I will not hesitate to spend time learning any software he writes. His work speaks for itself.

Same for djb.

In the context of how I choose software, personality is irrelevant.

I am unlikely to ever interact with these authors.

If people in forums and committees put these authors down or criticize their work then that tells me something about the people in forums and committees.

I am not sure I understand what bothers them about the few people who have rare ability to "push the envelope" in software and share their work over the internet, but I am aware that it bothers some people.
iMessage almost does this if the recipient turns on "Message Receipt" - you get sent to server, and then received by the person.

I fully understand in a privacy conscious scenario wanting to have the option to opt out of the second step.
One nice thing about the Python REPL IPython is the ability to turn the ephemeral session into a file which contains every command in the session like a history file by just typing %logstart. Most of my projects start this way.
Ok a fan was ridiculous, but I didn't mean to diffuse gaseous products; just tap into the heat to activate some endothermic reaction around the system to, well, delay or dampen the process.

Thanks nonetheless for the return
Luckily the text was archived.

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>I don't know, sounds like it's just not as awesome for you, but probably is that awesome to all those famous people saying it is.

Like our pg? Who loves Lisp to death, and made his first major app (a web page store generator, if I recall) in Lisp? But then after selling it to Yahoo -- ported it to another language (Python?) so that other developers could actually modify it?

It's not "lowest common denominator" to expect a language to stay within certain bounds of flexibility. If every single project has so many macros that it's effectively a DSL that no other programmer anywhere understands, then you've created a software package that becomes instantly unmaintainable if the wrong people get hit by a bus.

In college, by the time I picked up Lisp, I had already used:

* Assembly Language
* Basic
* Pascal
* Forth
* C++
* Recursion

And I'd already worked on video games professionally (in 1987, in a project for Lucasfilm Games, before they became LucasArts).

Java and C# had yet to be invented. At the time, there weren't libraries and documentation to speak of in any Lisp, so that's something. It was Common Lisp (as well as "elisp" on the Atari ST, which of course was completely incompatible...).

Since then, I've used tail calls (in Lua, and soon coming to JavaScript), collection mappings, pure functions, higher order functions, and all that, in many other languages. I just still hate Lisp, and while I have no problem understanding how to use Lisp, I don't see the advantage of using it over using other languages, and in particular I am finding static types to be critical in large system architecture, which are completely lacking in Clojure and other Lisps.
> Europeans understandably do not prefer to pay for the hotel stay at the time of booking.

I do not understand the obviousness of "understandably". Seems like a likely culture difference. Explain?
So everybody goes back to growing it surreptitiously.
Except the don't as they recently pulled their only electric vehicle (B-Class) and haven't exactly shown any interest in pursuing this technology in cars.

Their narrative is that nobody showed any interest when the thruth is that they had only lackluster PR and of course it wasn't a great value compared to a Tesla for instance.

The state of affairs when it comes to electric cars in car country Germany is a very sad one. Everybody keeps reiterating how we're not ready yet (not enough stations, battery production and demand, etc.) when Scandinavia is doing just fine. And their car industry is probably just a fraction of ours.
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Tic Tac Toe ? :-)
I even think it's gonna help Musk ventures. Now Tesla is not the odd one trying this weird E thing.
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Probably everyone reading this (including you) already know that, but my OC forces me to specify, that C64 had MOS 6510, which was an improved version of 6502.
Shouldn't SVG be compressed in the same way as other text contents like HTML and JS? Woff opts out of this behavior, but it's standard with all web servers.
I am not convinced that immutability matters; this seems like a bias. After all the original REPL, and the name itself, was in Lisp (note that the first Lisp implementations were not interactive, but it was the first interactive language) and Lisp doesn't have immutable data structures.

(READ, EVAL, and PRINT are all old Lisp primitives, and the REPL was literally implemented with them. There's also a complex macro called LOOP but it was added much later, and is not integral to the language)
No one thinks Travis has a chance at gaining back control?
Yes they are.
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Tesla actually underhypes the Powerwall 2. It's better than most people realize. See: capabilities of the backup gateway. It islands existing grid tie solar systems and allows these systems to generate electricity for household loads and/or Powerwall charging during grid failures. Usually grid tie solar systems are disabled during grid failures to prevent them from exporting electricity to the grid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxAbd-kanI8

Tesla mentions this capability, but most people shopping for energy storage don't realize what it would cost to do this with gear from other manufacturers (SMA for example). Some storage providers don't offer any backup capability at all. Enphase is the saddest example of this. Enphase tried to convince customers that they shouldn't demand backup capabilities from their solar energy storage systems, and Tesla is actually towing a Tiny house around Australia that uses Enphase microinverters with a Powerwall 2 offgrid. Enphase's own AC Battery provide no backup capability at all or a way to run off grid.

I sell solar power systems in New Zealand and the Powerwall 2 makes every other storage solution look stupid at the moment when considering price per warranted kW/h and features. I can't sell my customers a Powerwall 2 yet, but I advise against buying systems that I can sell them from Panasonic, LG, Sonnen, Enphase, etc. The whole storage industry needs to understand that the Powerwall 2 is real (get over the shock) and that if they don't cut their prices roughly in half---look at Aquion.

https://cleantechnica.com/2017/03/15/aquion-energy-files-cha...

Nice battery. Too expensive.
Developed, yes, but in general, your build system bundles it all up into one javascript file which is sent to the browser. Even if you don't bundle the javascript, all the code has to be sent to the browser anyways, just over multiple HTTP requests instead of one.
I think their point was that engineering is the process of finding the most efficient way to accomplish a given goal given the whole of science and technology with which to accomplish it. In this way, a purely mechanical watch attempting such complex calculations is suboptimal. As such, it's existence is a form of art -- it is engineering only in the sense that the restrictions imposed are themselves non-optimal (for instance, the requirement that purely mechanical mechanisms be used). Something at the pinnacle of engineering would seek to optimise not only the solution, but also the requirements.
Great list. I hear you re subscriptions but people who are new to (I.e. don’t own) many of the apps you mention...

Paw, iStat Menus, Ulysses, Gemini, 2Do and quite a few more

Can get fully working copies on Setapp for a really low monthly price. Setapp is a heavily curated subscription app bundle from the MacPaw folks. People cd save a bunch of money and also have access to a large number of useful apps that once in a while are ideal to do a job but that you wouldn’t purchase for one-off use.

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Nope, when STP will blew up, not being able to cool its reactors.
The whole area will be flooded, dirting their cooling water.
https://www.reddit.com/r/houston/comments/6wepsx/please_keep...
Even if this was less expensive, could store more energy I would still purchase the home battery from Tesla if I had to make the descision.

It's so obvious that this would probably never happen without Elon and Tesla leading the way. So sad to see so many large companies with so much potential just being copycats.
There are two ways of looking at logic, roughly speaking:

- Logic as a game (as in a set of rules). E.g., in that regard pure math is a game, formal systems are a game, even programming and CS is a game.

- Logic as an applied discipline used to formalize rational discourse, to arrive at a set of conclusive facts, with sound and valid reasoning, given a problem (which could be a problem in the real world) and a set of assumptions.

Part of my frustration with logicians is that they almost exclusively treat logic as belonging to the first case, and hate it when you ask them about the second case.

I am interested in logic partly because it's an aspect of the foundation of pure mathematics, but around the time I started learning logic, that was the least of my concerns. Instead, I was highly motivated by the need to have a formal system in place which I could rely on while arguing about philosophical issues, and especially topics related to religion vs atheism, because the arguments I would hear from the other side could safely be described as "stupid reasoning".

However, when I started taking logic seriously, I realized that, not only do the fundamental rules of logic sound stupider (hint: material implication) than the logic I was hearing from my opponents, but logicians have no interest in helping the logic student connect the formal ideas to real world problems.

When 99.999% of logicians, no matter how experienced they are, tell me to treat logic as a game, and nothing but a game, what I hear is this: I don't know how to apply logic to philosophical discourse and real world problems, and I am content with my state of knowledge, therefore you should be happy treating logic as just a game too and stop asking any deeper questions, or trying to connect it to philosophy and rational discourse.
I love older uk shows and finding legitimate streaming content is endlessly frustrating. It might be a niche market but the promise of the Internet was it was supposed to address the long tail. So much is sitting on the shelves due to lazy rights holders or only has limited geographical distribution.
The electric B class was a cooperation with Tesla wasn't it? As Tesla becomes a more serious competitor I can see why they'd want to curtail that to focus on their own technology.

People lap up this narrative about Tesla beating all the traditional companies but the bottom line is they're tiny and loosing money, while the others are making it.
Weird that Sketch gets the "I'm not a fan of subscription pricing" warning when it's not a subscription. Buying it only gives you a year of updates instead of until the next major feature/version bump, sure, but you're free to stop paying and keep using the version you have.

The actual forced subscriptions like Ulysses and You Need A Budget somehow get a free pass though?
Note that Textual is free. Codeux sells signed binaries.

https://github.com/Codeux-Software/Textual
You're right. Didn't read your comment thoroughly. I guess I don't understand the general sentiment of why it is important that the actual show is as green as possible.

To me it just underscores the disparity between the feel-good green energy and the actual carbon footprint people generate. For example, it's a lot more "green" to not own a car than to own a Tesla.

I wish they kept racing a purely fun driver-focused endeavor and got rid of most of the electronics and hybrid tech.

And for those who love the tech maybe have a separate competition of self-driving electric vehicles.
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I too found that I needed to see the keys. But while there are glove startups, and Leap Motion hand tracking can be usable, it's much easier to just see the keyboard.

I use camera-passthrough AR on a Vive, with a ducktaped-on camera. The Vive's own camera is too low resolution (it's both fisheye, and bandwidth limited to 6?? x 4?? pixels). Other people have mounted a camera above the keyboard, and inserted only the keyboard image into their otherwise VR environment.

Another option is to get an AR HMD. There's Hololens. And a "like Google Cardboard, but for AR" kickstarter? I've not been following the area.

I've heard, but not tried, that one can make some use of seeing down past your nose on the Rift.

So I've not found keyboard use a problem. But the low angular resolution has been.

I get something like 40 lines of readable text without having to move my head. The Rift/Vive panels are low-resolution per eye, and are PenTile (so it's really even less), and you're only able to use the center third or half. That's not much realestate. But, if you're ok with that, you can do RDP... there are youtube videos. I've heard people who commonly work in small terminal windows can be happy.

The new Windows VR HMDs (available now as developer versions) are said to be higher resolution, with perhaps poorer optics, but I've not tried them yet.

AR HMD's have narrower fields of view, and thus higher angular resolution. So Hololens et al might be an alternative, but I've not tried that.

Depending on your constraints, another option might a projector - projecting on a ceiling, wall, or suspended screen.
There is some survivorship bias here, right? Only successful companies would allow their founder to continue leading them.
The cores are individually slow and non-parallel code will not be fast, but the Airmont architecture it's based on is an out-of-order core, so it's not that bad as earlier versions of the Phi, plus it has up to 16GB of very fast HMC memory near the cores, helping make up for the slow cores with less costly cache misses than an ordinary Xeon. It also has four threads per core without the penalties of earlier Phis. Single-thread stages will suffer but that may end up being compensated by ridiculously parallel compilation stages.

But yes. The Phi is designed to shine with code that uses its AVX512 units. Compiling the Linux kernel is a "create misuse" of its technology. One I'd like to try one day ;-)
I used to be like this... crazy about dotfiles, backgrounds, shortcuts, apps, etc. Eventually, I learned that I'm better off with the standard setup and little customization. No fancy aliases, no recorded dotfiles, no crazy editor configuration, nothing. If I get a new computer or am using someone else's even, it's easy for me to install what I need as I need it and get going out of the box.
> Want to support your site using ads? Why not use display ads? Sell space next to high quality content to advertisers with relevant products.

The hard part is that most sites don't have high quality content, and there are no relevant products..

I can see why people want to damage these sites.
I saw him recently. He is using a ThinkPad these days, probably one of those refurbed and reflashed ones with a free BIOS.
I still run qmail (in addition to postfix and opensmtpd) for one thing: ezmlm-idx.

Is there something I can replace ezmlm-idx with, that would seamlessly import all the lists, subscribers and archives?
Really? I find that the noise bothers me. And even if I do manage to fall asleep with a fan on, it'll wake me up later at night and I'll have to get up to turn it off anyway.
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I have a 'smart' TV running Android that has a mips processor.
There are several browser extensions available which activate the links.
E.g. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/text-link/ikfmghnm...

Mobile is harder to solve. Haven't found a good solution yet. I guess we'll have to write an extra Textnet browser .
This probably has something to do with their desire for IPO. However I don't even know how it will look like when Uber finally opens up their books. I'm only one data point but I get over half the invoices wrongly calculated by Uber since flat fare system started (down to the tax calculation), mostly in my favour, but still.

Again, I'm only one data point, but my usage of Expedia has exponentially fallen since the aforementioned CEO took over. This obviously not a decision to make Uber a better service. This is a bid to sell Uber to a bigger fool on the wall street.

I have no confidence in Travis-less Uber. The war with private car ownership is over. Private cars won.
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And I get down voted for that? I need to rethink if I want to be here.

If you had 10,000 karma at HN, could you trade those in at Starbucks for a free latte? No?

How about 1,000,000 karma? Could you trade those in at Delta for a free flight to Tahiti? No?

You can't take karma too seriously. Sometimes I've said something that I thought was adding to the conversation and I've been voted down a lot for it. Other times I've said something quick and flippant and earned some unexpected karma.

It's just HN fun points. Don't take the downvotes too seriously. I try not to.

But I have had 'dang' chastise me a few times, and I do try to pay attention to that, because he attempts to set the tone here. So if you avoid his wrath, you're cool.
I have never used a Lisp Machine so forgive my naivety but I saw the demo and you seem to be referring to the ability of displaying images inline in a buffer. Emacs can definitely do that, I have used Emacs IPython Notebook[1] which is a REPL supporting this. I could fire up a jupyter notebook and use pillow[2] to recreate the image manipulation part of the demo.

[1] -- (https://github.com/millejoh/emacs-ipython-notebook/blob/mast...)
[2] -- (https://python-pillow.org/)
Well, you collect more and more tools to simplify your life and solve repetitive tasks during years of usage. Sooner or later it's going to be a looong list of utilities.
Also, turns out that https://insomnia.rest is a pretty good client for the Textnet and it automatically enables links!
This'll probably kill the site for a bit from the load, but http://oldservers.ddns.net/index.html
It isn't. You're disregarding corporate tax. The unearned income tax is levied on after-tax profits of the corporation that pays the dividends.

Suppose yo're a dentist. You have your own little dentist company, your assistant/s is/are employees of that. Now you have to choose how to pay yourself: Pay yourself a salary (which you set in December) or take the profit?

If you do the former, you'll pay regular income tax. If you do the latter, the company will pay corporate tax on the profits, pay you a dividend and then you pay unearned income tax. One of the goals of a modern tax system is that your after-tax income should be roughly the same in both cases. Motivated by fairness, by a desire that tax rules shouldn't motivate business decisions, or both.
People just look in the wrong places.

Sure, your 3DVR games suck at the moment and the hardware of the high end devices is much too expensive.

But many people are rather okay with watching VR videos with Google Cardboard like constructs.
I confirm. I grew up near the Atlantic Ocean, in an area of high current. It is something that was taught to us as teenagers.
Sorry for the people who lost their money. I've backed quite a few KS projects as well, but have stopped doing that mostly now. Just because there seems to be bit more of these sketchy projects and from all the projects I've backed I can say that I am "only" properly satisfied with half of them.

Of all the Kickstarters I've done been only been "scammed" once. That was some mobile game that never got the Android version they promised. Or actually they did release it as a free pay-to-win game years later, but had already counted it as a loss.
Have had couple of very disappointing hardware projects, but at least I got the product. Oh and there are still couple of games in "production" that should have been released years ago.
Maybe if the definition of "disrupt" is limited to swooping in, ignoring regulations, and ending up like Uber, at the top of a $50 billion industry only because the existing businesses were too successful at making the rules for themselves. Regulatory capture of taxi commissions lead to stagnation in the industry (and credit card machines that were always mysteriously broken).

However, the linked article discusses taking 20 hours to go from London to Sydney as this huge improvement over the status quo by shaving off 4 hours.

I mean, yeah, 20 hours and no layover is better than 24 hours with a stop, but the "disruption" there is to make a jet that goes twice as fast, and take 10 hours to get there instead of 20. That also (issue of sonic boom over land aside) makes it a 3 hour flight from LA to NYC, or 3.5 hours from NYC to London, or 45 mins SFO to LAX, if that's even enough time to get up to speed.

SpaceX has managed to "disrupt" rockets, lowering launch costs by $300 million/launch, with an architecture the incumbents had rejected with reusable 1st-stage on the launch vehicle, and for cheaper than the space shuttle cost (with the benefit of some advancements in technology since 1972). Their Series A round was $20M.

Reporting that the CIA spent an estimated $3.7 billion to develop the engines for what's still the fastest airplane ever at the height of the cold war era, is an interesting fact to mention because the SR-71 is a fascinating airplane, but hardly relevant to Boom's possible cost, since they're not bankrolled by a government who is fighting the cold war against the USSR. Tantalizingly though, the SR-71's reputed top speed was Mach 3.5. At that speed, Sydney to London would take less than 6 hours!
So what? Some of us enjoy configuring and tinkering during our breaks.
I'm with you, it seems like confused macho posturing from people who seem to have little comprehension that they have responsibilities beyond their immediate desire for excitement, I have no statistics but I'm going good to guess it's a predominantly male sport, the mother's, fathers family and friends and responders they leave behind might have expected more, just because you can does not mean you should.
>moved to it from Textexpander as I am not fond of subscription models for software (...) 1Password my password manager of choice

I have bad news for you...

(Switching over to something else myself)
They still have to hire the best and brightest from SV and others to remain successful. So it matters what those people think.
Why not get the best of both worlds? Spend time tinkering to find force multipliers, then throw those dotfiles or Brewfile or installation scripts into a git repo and it's all a `git clone` away.

What works for you certainly works for you, of course; it's just worth noting that there exists a very productive middle ground in which one can use tools without spending an unproductive amount of time on hyperconfiguration.
Glad to be of some assistance. Please note that the aggregation (in the diff, to reduce extraneous noise from deaggregated announcements) may have introduced some artifacts -- but on the whole it should be accurate (assuming lookups were comprehensive, and that no google AS transits for third party networks). Would appreciate any feedback as to the methods. Cheers.