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>Remove the rewards as they exist in our current system and doom civilisations to massive turmoil, marginalization and technological stasis.

This sounds awfully theological to me.

>You cannot flatten a society when inequality is the fabric of evolutionary forces, in essence subduing the genius workaholics to the same levels of award as the troglodytes.

I honestly have no idea where you get this idea from, and I've had to explain it so many times; it's a popular misconception about Communism but I simply have trouble understanding where it originates. If you don't mind me asking, where did you get this idea from? As far as I know, no Communist espouses it. For a counter to your point, take a look at Kropotkin's Mutual Aid: A Factor in Evolution[0] however your very premise is flawed; Communism does not mean the absolute equality of everyone, as even a child can see that people are different and have different strengths. Communism is merely a more equal system in which people receive the product of their labour in fully.

> To ignore the universe, filled with lesson upon lesson that all life is in constant competition to survive

This is a tired point, the fact that it is still trotted out reeks of naturalistic fallacy, and the idea that humans are no better than the universe, ignoring the fact that the forms of oppressive have changed but the relationships remain roughly the same. You seem to suggest that capitalism, or at least some class society, is necessary. I see no reason to believe this is true. You assume that these systems are natural, deriving right from the universe itself; again, you expound theology.

>that life feeds on life

This is a funny point because even though this is unavoidable, humans have created ways to minimise the extent to which this occurs, by consuming less life i.e vegetarianism. Do you see how this thinking can also apply to, say, capitalism? We may not eliminate certain pressures but we can certainly reduce them.

>build a society that does the opposite is to invite an end to all hope of prolonged interplanetary existence

Not really. I'd say that capitalism does this instead, and the reason is that within capitalism we could only hope to do that if it brings profit to the speculators. This idea that capitalism is a promoter of human progress is obviously false given the great amount of pollution, false science etc. which happens in the name of capital itself. If we can't even care for this planet, what makes you think that capitalism nurtures prolonged interplanetary existence? The very idea seems ridiculous to me.

In short, you've confused nature with a rather recent mode of production (which optimises for things that aren't natural at all) and used a theological argument to say that it must be this way or we'll be doomed to massive turmoil and never leaving planet Earth.

[0] https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-mutua...
I'm not sure it is.

http://securethegrid.com/2014/04/03/video-65/

He's been on this topic for some time. But cynicism is entirely understandable.

https://www.amazon.com/Dr.-Peter-Vincent-Pry/e/B00IUMVT0A
> I see them often as the conflict between local / global goals where the real problem is that each step in the escalation from peace to war is tragically rational - each decision is a lose-lose choice where one path is a guaranteed small loss but escalation offers a chance to win despite the possible apocalyptic outcome.

This sounds a lot like the dollar auction game [1], which is used to study the disconnect between individual actions being rational and a clearly undesirable outcome. Basically, the game is a variation of an all-pay auction in which only the top 2 bidders pay. A dollar is auctioned off in bids of some fixed increment. At each turn, winning the dollar is a preferable outcome to losing your previous bid. Even after the price goes over $1, winning the dollar represents a smaller loss. In that sense, the rational thing to do is bid indefinitely high. It's supposedly a common outcome with human bidders that the winning bid is over $2.

[1] (PDF) http://www.math.toronto.edu/mpugh/Teaching/Sci199_03/dollar_...
There's one under Stockholm in Sweden too - might not survive a direct hit, but would probably survive anything that the network connection survives...

https://www.bahnhof.net/page/datacenter-pionen
You can keep saying that but then people will keep using PHP
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I think it's a shame that the HN article title was changed from something which is clearly expounded by the video i.e Communism, and mentioned several times even with quotes by proto-Communists and Communists themselves, and the attack on private property. Copyright is merely used as an expemplary in the talk. Why was the title changed? Is it that Communism is seen as "click bait" or too radical for the HN audience that it must thus be tuned down to something with less flare?
i agree the ease od deployment was key and it still is to large degree but it along brought a huge problem with it, security.

you have to realize php is also incredibly insecure as well. chmod 777 on install instructions? on a shared webhost server? this really was and maybe still is the "thing".

the nature of being able to upload a php file to server on the public docroot makes the language always prone to hacks. sure there have been improvements with things like mod_suexec and fpms but this now makes things that usedto be easy now hard, ie htaccess and rewrite rules.
It used to be the other way round, companies like Adobe would pile on all sorts of shit to justify the cost of an upgrade.

Now the incentive is to keep the customer happy so they continue to subscribe. This could mean more bug fixes and less dubious features.
I've found the flipside of the subscription model; I'm actually able to use commercial software for free. Most subscription software has a free tier, and most of the time it's good enough for my needs.

In the few cases where it isn't, thanks to having some technical knowledge, I'm able to string some utilities or services together to accomplish what I need.
The headlined article is about Debian, and in Debian the field is not 8 characters wide.

* https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/manpages/utmpx.5.en.html
I think pretty much any Language is a pain to write GUIs in, a single property dialogue in photoshop is ~6k loc in C++...
If you're using Firefox, the "Reader View" button fixes many sites like this.
Why do you still work with it?
My bad, YAML is a data serialization language for programming language.

Complex configuration mean writing recipes in chef world, writing playbooks in Ansible, you often run into indentation issues or configuration issues. In my opinion I thought to overcome something like this you need to be dumb sometimes.

You would like to learn all the programming languages or any new that may come in future but not everyone. You don't wanna be too much skilled or learned to do automation. You can spend that time somewhere else maybe networking or security or architecture.
I'm not sure what to tell you, I'm not fabricating the fact there was very much a yearly subscription fee associated with the app (and prior to that a price to just download the app). I'm aware it didn't apply universally which is why I specifically said it varied depending on platform.

https://www.imore.com/whatsapp-moves-yearly-subscription-pay...
Dosen't seem like it. He seems to be in total control. It's not far fetched to think so. In any case, on what basis do you say that he is only a figurehead?
Employers and gatekeepers in general disagree.
For this reason I've been loving Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, the animated continuation of Mr. Rodger's Neighborhood. There are no villains or bad people, just friends making honest mistakes and learning how to deal with them.

When you feel so mad you want to roar, take a deep breath and count to four
Ontario has heavy credit card coverage as I understand it, and the city runs a charity that handles giving access to the bikeshare system for those who need help. The idea is that the charity will also absorb the liability of providing access to people are less traceable than credit card holders.
I've been contributing monthly to the EFF (and ACLU, among other organization) for years. And will also encourage others to do so! They're great organizations!

The issue is the EFF and ACLU aren't going to be able to get sweeping legislative changes themselves. We, the constituency, need to be very vocal action as well.

I just feel ignored and dismissed by my Congress Critters.
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zero-sadly...

So many people would review it for free. If you're experienced, you would ask those you trust. If you're new, go to a MeetUP.

There are too many SR devs available to mentor.
> all of its attention has gone into making the app as simple as possible to get started with

And they succeeded. I've been using it for years and the only new feature I remember is end to end encryption, despite they probably added new features. I don't care about status and stories, if they're still there they managed not to make them in the way of people that only want a SMS alternative. This is great design.

My only wish is that they stay using the very same chatbot backend of Messenger. WhatsApp is the only major chart platform without chatbots and given it's the number one in many countries, included mine, I'm a little tired to tell customers, yes but your customers will have to use Messenger or Telegram (which many people don't even know to exist.)
HMM and AHA JOIN THE RESISTANCE
If you read Wikipedia not the perfect source it says VP9 are not supported by iPhones in browser which leads me believe it isn't supported anywhere on the iPhone. One problem with supporting VP9 is that means you have to support 2 codecs which I could understand Apple not wanting to do. Link to Wikipedia article https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VP9
True, I'm just saying that in terms of fixed monthly payments renting may not make a huge difference compared to buying on credit. More than half of all used cars in the US are bought using some sort of financing as well.

But I do agree that there are important differences.
Begging for a few crumbs doesn't look like success to me.
I will say the obvious. History showed that whoever wanted to implement Communism ended up in a similar situation. Perhaps we should drop the game of empiricism and accept that Communism is very very hard to implement and no matter how much you tune the parameters most likely it will end up a freak Totalitarian setup. It just does not worth it.
I meant it more in the sense of how an old friend/rival could respectfully carry their casket to the grave, as opposed to the way Oracle desecrated and devoured the flesh of the corpse.
Meanwhile, my friend is being sued by a nutty old rich guy that thought my friend went out of their way to sabotage him. (They did no such thing, but when a "startup" goes wrong, people go crazy.)

More specifically, my friend entered into a contract to deliver X for the old guy. When X turned out not to resonate with customers, the old guy sued him. Nobody saw it coming. My friend will probably win, and he was very lucky that he was able to get a lawyer for free. But what a massive PITA.
There are more things to a job than just the language used. Company culture, work environment, work-life balance, and coworkers to name a couple.
Indeed. Please do both!

Microsoft has done this pretty well with Office. You can choose to get an Office 365 subscription or buy Office standalone.

(Office 365 pricing is also extremely good for what you get, compared to most software subscriptions.)
Rather spending time on showing your programming skills and technical skills to write a configuration file, spend that time elsewhere.
For the past 10 years, I only spent about 4 to 8 hours per week on entertainment - All the rest of my time was divided between work and sleep (I only sleep 5 hours per day on weekdays). Financially, I have nothing to show for it unfortunately so I really feel like I'm behind and that I've missed the boat on many things. What makes it particularly difficult is that I was working really hard the whole time - When I read articles about (comparatively) lazy people who feel that they are behind, it makes me upset because it reminds me that I should be feeling worse than I'm actually feeling - Because I actually tried and I could have been having fun or procrastinating instead - I would be happier overall because I could accept my predicament more easily (and my mind wouldn't be burdened with ambition).

If you're behind because you were lazy, you can laugh about it. If you're behind because the stars didn't line up for you (E.g. the carpet got pulled from underneath you several times) then it's hard to laugh about it.

In retrospect, being lazy isn't too bad.
Illumos is a great project and doesn't get nearly as much attention as it should.

I'm also glad that ZFS has managed to find its way to other operating systems. I've been a huge fan of it ever since it first arrived in Solaris.
We sell Solaris installation and support all the time, but only for running Oracle database installation.
It's not as simple as that. I had a C library using 64-bit time_t on 32-bit CPUs back in the early 1990s. 32-bit CPUs are not incapable of doing 64-bit arithmetic. You cannot infer the bitness of time_t from the bitness of the CPU.
[Hi from Argentina!]

This is an English speaking forum, so most post in other languages are ignored of flagged unless they are very interesting and there is no equivalent version in English.

I think you should at least translate the title in the HN post to English. Something like: 'Live Linux event "El Maratón Linuxero" [Spanish]'

This looks like a difficult content to be consumed by people that doesn't speak Spanish, because there is no autotranlation.

Anyway, autotranlation of the info in youtube:

> The Marathon Linuxero is a project created by podcasters and GNU/Linux listeners who want to perform a live event about Free Software applications and services. On Sunday, September 3 from 3:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. (Spanish time UTC + 2) we will offer 9 hours of broadcasts with Spanish speaking podcasters.

> Another aspect that we want to highlight is the collaboration of Spanish companies. Both PCUbuntu, Vant and Slimbook did not hesitate to support this project and join it by offering GNU/Linux products for draws that we will make the same day live.
> Any book where I felt the ideas are important, I decided to take notes. I write them on paper as I read, and later transcribe them to a blog so I can access them anywhere.

Derek Sivers 'Books I read' section is a fantastic example of that: https://sivers.org/book
A recent discussion of Pony, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14676505
Sticks aren't about belligerance. Sticks are about muscle. Dopping bombs. Freezing bank accounts.
Thinking that we are somehow special makes us feel better. The truth is that we are not.
Because Communism is cancer.
And one of the interesting questions for me is "where does 'cheap' come from"?

In the case of WhatsApp, it came from telco monopolies overcharging for a particular use of data. I'm certainly ok with that.

And I was initially excited about Airbnb, rideshare, etc, because some of the cheap comes from finding underutilized resources (an apartment that happened to be empty for a few weeks, people who were going somewhere anyhow) and putting them to work.

But I find the second-order effects fascinating. Certainly some of Airbnb and Uber's cheapness comes from dodging regulation and shifting costs onto other people.

"Privatize the gains, socialize the losses" is undeniably a lucrative business strategy, but it's not one I particularly want to celebrate.
Well, you claimed in the post I responded to a monthly subscription, not an annual one. What's a factor of twelve between friends?

My understanding is that the annual fee was essentially nonexistent, honored far more on the breach than in the observance, though all I know for sure is that they never charged me.
It seems to be happening in desktop as well, I was looking for some bookkeeping software and it has all shifted to subscriptions in the last couple of years.
> The North has previously claimed to have miniaturised a nuclear weapon

"The North" What is this game of thrones?
Your list is preposterous. Even if you take all your other items at face value, you make it sound like "circumventing cellphone texting charges" is breaking the law or something, as if ridiculous texting charges are set up for the good of anyone besides big telcos.
I believe "extra effort though" is entirely the point.
They might remove the drm as a final act of goodwill
You can't just slap the word "circumvent" onto a bunch of vastly different concepts and expect us to believe they are all similar.
I used to babysit (as a 25-30+ old adult) for a pre-teen (and later teenager) with autism (it was really more supervision, just in case, as he did fairly well most times). He had much of the same issues - calling a fried chicken leg a "drumstick" was completely off limits as he wouldn't know what I was talking about. I can imagine he had much of the same problem with such stories. This is probably a facet that is often overlooked.
Should we put the Federal Reserve in prison for printing money used in crime?
Apple has their own problems, but their business is to sell products, not to track you. Google tracks you aggressively and that is their business model.

Suggest reading Aral Balkan on this topic [1]

[1] - https://ar.al/notes/apple-vs-google-on-privacy-a-tale-of-abs...
ORA is the elephant's graveyard of software.

Once something gets bought by them, you know it is done. Slowly, but surely.

They perform a function akin to the maggots that destroy cadavers in nature. Part of the overall ecosystem.

ORA stopped being a tech co a while ago, now it is a finance play. Use cash to buy a business for its locked in customers, gut it to squeeze max money out of it until last customer is gone. Rinse, repeat.

Aurea does the same in mid-tier by the way.

The circle of life...
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As an aside, "I don't see X, therefore X is irrelevant/meaningless" is an argument whose relevance hinges on the speaker being all-seeing, all-knowing. That's always seemed an odd take to me. When somebody sees something that I don't, my goal is to see it.
Interesting! Over the last few years, as popularity has seemingly increased, I've noticed more and more the use of bots to speed up the checkout process and ensure that fans don't miss out on "drops".

Did you see any of this while you were working there, and did you work on anything to try and combat this? Very curious as to whether this is recognised and active measures are put in place to discourage the behaviour.
I suspect it doesn't include ChromeOS but does include the chrome android app. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

They've definitely been busy, somehow. And they've definitely added a few marginal features here and there in the last year (position:sticky, grids, css modules, headless snapshot rendering all come to mind for me). But 1.5 million code reviewed lines of programmer effort seems disproportionally expensive for what they've done.

How many startups could you start given 1000 google engineer-years of effort? 100? Don't get me wrong, I like webassembly. But the output of 100 new startups with world class engineering teams and 1 year of runway sounds much more interesting by every metric that I can think of.
"One Second After" is a story of a town struggling after EMP attack on the U.S. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4922079-one-second-after
In the end, the existence of the term "transpiler" has a negative effect on the perception that many developers have on the quality of languages that compile to JS.

Is this actually true? Have there been actual widespread complaints about, say, TypeScript's quality because CofeeScript was labeled similarly?
I find a much better strategy is to try not doing business with assholes. No amount of money will make you feel good about spending time with an asshole, and an asshole is likely the one you'll get sued by. Source: did business with one asshole, subcontracted some of the work to another asshole, got screwed by the former, and sued by the latter.
If I knew anything about kernel or operating design, I would try and port this over to the Nexus 6. Is the developing community for PostmarketOS amenable to newbies in that space?
The point of the quote is not about abstract methods and properties, it's about not giving a shit, and being proud of it.

If you really didn't already know about Rasmus Lerdorf's anti-intellectual attitude (who admits to being "really, really bad" and a "terrible coder", but still thinks he's "better than you"), then here are some more quotes:

There are people who actually like programming. I don't understand why they like programming.

I'm not a real programmer. I throw together things until it works then I move on. The real programmers will say "Yeah it works but you're leaking memory everywhere. Perhaps we should fix that." I’ll just restart Apache every 10 requests.

I do care about memory leaks but I still don't find programming enjoyable.

I don't know how to stop it, there was never any intent to write a programming language [...] I have absolutely no idea how to write a programming language, I just kept adding the next logical step on the way.

I was really, really bad at writing parsers. I still am really bad at writing parsers.

I really don't like programming. I built this tool to program less so that I could just reuse code.

I actually hate programming, but I love solving problems.

For all the folks getting excited about my quotes. Here is another - Yes, I am a terrible coder, but I am probably still better than you :)

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rasmus_Lerdorf
I've always thought of this as pud's greatest post. It's still a good read six years later.
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Pascal (Delphi, Lazarus) and Visual Basic are exact counter examples. They demonstrate how easy and convenient GUI development can be.
Yeah it doesn't matter what the stated intent is.

Let's overthrow the old government.

Now let's say the population is in charge but they don't actually vote... We'll just have to "represent" them, vigorously.

Now let's choose our leader according to who can murder their rivals the best.

...how can that turn out well?
I believe it is. Here's the picture he paints:

1. North Korea attacks other nations

2. Hero-Entrance 'MURICA

3. North Korea goes "OMG we didn't think this would happen"

4. NK falls apart and deploys secret kamikaze-style weapon to cause serious shit in the US

With the final assumption that everybody will be OK with this, and NK emerges as victors.

It just drives the picture that NK would be a serious thread to the US, and attempts to justify destroying other state's property ("shoot down those North Korean satellites") for "defense".
> "Privatize the gains, socialize the losses" is undeniably a lucrative business strategy, but it's not one I particularly want to celebrate.

This doesn't describe anything that AirBnB or Uber are doing.

Taxis were expensive and horrible because governments created artificial scarcity via taxi medallion systems. They were "socializing the gains", to build off your aphorism.

Uber re-privatized the gains by circumventing this ridiculous system, and we're all much better for it.

"Socializing the losses" refers to groups getting bailed out on taxpayer dime when they fail, and nothing even resembling that has happened with AirBnB or Uber.