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Maybe I'm wrong, but a 10% to 20% failure rate could be pretty good. A lot of projects were never going to be successful no matter who tried to implement them. If you please everyone, you're probably doing easy work.
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For me, celerity of access makes my note taking possible. Mouse over a hot zone and the editor slides out. Mouse away, and it hides.

I used to use SideNote, but that was abandoned.
I'm currently using SideWriter, but it's a little flaky.

I hope to start learning swift soon so I can develop my own with some extra features, mainly markdown and either tabs/multiple hot zones.

My memory is horrible, so I need to write down what I did/thought before it vanishes. Mostly comes in handy when I have to justify to HR why they need to give me a raise.
Which is why this isn't as simple as a direct Ponzi scheme where actual cash payments are passed around (and why I never actually called it one).

It's more like a MLM where sellers are buying their own product for resale with the expectation of future returns.

This breaks the normal dynamic of a Ponzi scheme since there's latent inventory lying around that can be bought, sold, or held until another sucker comes along. And that delays the crash.

Of course, the big difference is a normal MLM at least offers a product with some nominal base value, whereas the base value of Bitcoin is precisely zero.
This article links to another one of their articles that talks about another marketing step waymo took in the last week, the partnership with a number of organizations to help shoe where self driving cars can help various people in our society.

https://letstalkselfdriving.com
Couldn't agree more. The data structures class I'm taking currently (which is unfortunately a prerequisite for most other CS classes) is simply a bunch of trivial programming exercises that take almost no effort to do. While I understand that everyone has different preferences and is at different levels of comfort with the concepts, I feel that a proof-based class would be much more fun.
> I agree it's probably a bad idea to post it publicly.

This. I completely agree with you here. I would take it a large step further and say it was a despicable idea, particularly in the manner it was published as "Best decision ever". Yes, letting the guy go was a good decision and a good correction to a big, expensive, problem. Best decision? Far from it. It was a correction to a massive failure that amounts to paying a few hundred grand, letting a problem fester too long and finally stepping in and "starting over".

Worse, though, is that they've maligned someone in the process. Yes, "Rick" was anonymous ... except to Rick, Rick's family and friends, and probably prospective employers who will know where Rick last worked, who will know he was "let go" from his last job, and who will hit up Google, happen upon this post, bin his resume and pat themselves on the back for dodging a bullet.

Never mind that they've presented exactly one side of a complicated story with all of the biases that come into that. Never mind that a large number of the comments here are from people who correctly suspect that maybe there's something about this organization that caused this massive failure to happen and that those things, whatever they are, might have contributed to Rick failing in his position. And never mind that Rick, now that he's had a bit of an opportunity to reflect, has (hopefully) figured out some of the things he should have done differently and has (hopefully) made positive life changes that will likely cause him to be a fine employee in the future. Or the fact that he might just have not been a terribly good fit there in the first place and could thrive very well elsewhere. The person landing on this post, using basic deductive skills to decide "Candidate X is Rick", will pat themselves on the back for avoiding hiring the developer equivalent of a BOFH. Of course, this company will inevitably lay some other male employee someone off in the future for reasons that are not the employee's fault, and now they might be assumed to be "Rick". There was a small benefit to the world-at-large for them having written this, but it came with huge downsides in the manner in which they've shared.

They could have written the piece as an argument with hypothetical components strewn throughout in more of a philosophical manner including no anecdotal stories about former employees and provided the same benefits, but without the myriad of downsides. It might not have been as interesting of a read, or reached as large of an audience, but then is the conclusion they've drawn really all that mind-blowing? The story, summed up, amounts to "We spent a large amount of money on someone and after two years of continuing to spend that money, we realized that we would have been better off if we had just decided to not work on that project and had, instead, turned that money into cash and flushed it all down the toilet[0]. So we stopped spending that money. Best. Decision. Evar. /s"

[0] Because every once in a while the toilet will plug, and some of that money will come back up.
> Domesticated dogs adjust quite readily to a pack pecking order. Wolves will with a lot of training, but they never stop trying for the top spot. It's a constant battle.

This makes sense, and it makes me wonder if an even more 'subservient' human creature should be, or is being (unintentionally) created. Individually, the wolf is greater than the dog. However, a pack of dogs could easily take down a wolf. Wolves are to dogs as the Heroes[0] are to us.
Collectivization is not a strategy for 100 years but for 10,000 years. Are we today just going through the painful process of a genetic local anesthesia towards domestication?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_Heroic_Age
When I job hunt, I usually have 2-3 resumes and template cover letters for front end / full stack / software engineer. They highlight professional experiences most appropriate whichever role they're for.
I don't know much about Woz, but I do know he lives in the Bay Area and this company is headquartered in Arizona. I hope it goes well!
Sure, but why would zero be the proper number to start counting at outside of zero-based programming languages?

Everyone starts counting objects at 1. Zero means an absence of objects to count or list. I count that there are 7 cars in the lot. The first one is 1. If there were 0 cars, I would not have any to enumerate over. If I make a list, I always number the first one as 1 (or A). If there was nothing on my list, I would have nothing (0) to number.

Word processors start list numbering at 1. Printers number the first page as 1. Kids are taught to count starting with one, using one finger. I feel like this is only an argument because we have zero-based indexing in mainstream programming languages, although maybe there are some mathematicians who think otherwise?
Yep sounds like what I witnessed. I didn’t mean to come off like I never saw flooding. Mostly roads, ditches and park floods. Which I didn’t see as much a risk as rarely a home would flood (to my knowledge). It was more just an inconvenience of living in that area. Again I didn’t understand the need of 20 ft mounds. The juxtaposition of all the development behind the dam and the heaviest of rains (pre Harvey) not creating much flooding in a relative sense is what never made sense to me.
> I think this comes down to a particular design decision of the GBA homebrew SDK (https://github.com/devkitPro/libgba) to not be ABI-compatible with the official SDK.

I think it comes down to the fact of SDK libraries being statically, and inextricably, linked into the ROM.

> [about DF2:JK] I would say that this is open-source, yes.

I'd say it isn't. First, the license is just as closed as the rest of the code. Second, it's not "the game" unless there's an engine to pair the data+code elements with. And since there's no open engine to go with the closed-but-readable code, I wouldn't use the words "open source" with any part of it.

> So this is at least open-source code now, no?

If an open engine is available, then the combination of the open game logic and open game engine would be open. Otherwise you could say "An Open engine for X" or...well, a nicely-packaged way to describe open game assets on a closed engine would be called "a mod for X" or a "total conversion", I suppose.

> But does that make the .wad file itself less open as a product?

The .wad itself could be open, but it's not "a game". It's a set of game assets. Pair it with an engine, and it's a game. Pair it with a different engine, and the same assets might be a significantly different game. The whole wad+engine game couldn't be open until at least late 1997 when the Doom source was released.

> But with C#, you don't expect that; you just expect to receive the binary containing the individual business logic, and then use the runtime library you have available (Microsoft's on Windows; Mono everywhere else) to run it.

Right. C#, Java, etc are expected to have an external, completely separate runtime as a dependency. When there isn't an open runtime available, it's the situation that used to be called something like "the Java trap".
> I think you agree with me- the comment I replied to appears to conflate concurrency and asynchrony. The article is about async. I’m saying use async when talking about async.

I'm not sure we do. The comment you replies to does not conflate those. "You can have concurrency as in async Javascript" is exactly correct: an example of concurrency is async in Javascript. People don't say "an example of asynchronicity" because that's not what they want to talk about. You can't really change the word unless you change the topic they are trying to talk about.

> And I avoid using concurrent if I can. It does not have a strict CS definition

It very much does. It means an operation overlapping in time with another one, i.e. one beginning before the other one ends. The colloquial definition is irrelevant in a technical context. It's like suggesting scientists stop using the word "theory" on the grounds that laymen don't use it properly. No, people should just use the right word in the right context.
I guess it depends on how you define "pet". You can keep wolves as companion animals, but it requires a very different skill set compared to domesticated dogs.
I watched this video and liked it. It seems like people on this thread are looking for tips and tricks but they are talking more about the long game, which I like.

And it's ironic that they mentioned the toxic culture of HN and there are some pretty negative comments here.

Though I would like to know if there are any free tools that let you know the point in the page where someone dropped off, or if those are all premium products.
There is one tiny little mention of Waymo in there but that's clearly the main push for Google in robotics now, and if that's where those robotics aquihires went maybe that's what they wanted.
Idle games are usually not optimized for performance. It's running bigint style operations in a tight loop. Mobile phones are not what you should be playing these games on.
There are plenty of geniuses throughout history who were asseholes but still brilliant. EQ and IQ are not highly correlated at all.
This is great. Not sure if this is the first app or not, but this has been needed. I'm hyped. About to try it.
ammonium nitrate for instance is frequently (typically?) manufactured as a petrochemical
It got shot rather than alternatives because the humans in charge were hillbillies, per the beginning of the story? Sucks all around, though, regardless.
> has earned a terrible reputation for selling reviews

IGN editorial is separated from the rest of the company like just about every other media outlet and those extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. One or two anonymous allegations does not a "reputation" make. When someone puts their name to it and brings evidence to back it up, we'll talk. As-is, this is just a meme among the angrier gamer community.

(n.b.: I don't read IGN or care about the company, but I do care about mendacity a little bit.)
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No, zero is the right number to start an offset, not an enumeration. No one starts counting from zero in real life.
Used vimwiki for a while until I accidentally deleted few top level file with lots of file links and now it is almost impossible to get it all organized again without going through very file. Tried some DIY versions with markdown files in directory structure, but the solution isn't too good.
This was a major improvement of micro USB over mini-USB; the retention-clips on the male connector are sacrificial; this is why micro-USB cables die regularly, but micro-USB jacks rarely do. I don't have any USB-c devices yet, so I don't know how those will fare.
I've beaten this. It's a silly, insightful, weird, and repetitive cautionary tale. Without spoiling too much, the ending leaves you with a terrible sense of emptiness, but is still quite satisfying.
If some told me they got the "0th place trophy", I would take that to be a colorful way of saying they didn't win anything, as 0 means nothing, or the absence of trophies, in this case.
I definitely agree, the single window mode is way better.
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Eventually you end up in a self-replication phase. Replicas are sometimes imperfect, so you have to defend yourself from rogue-rogue AIs.

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Judging by the cars some Chinese students drive, it appears it's very easy for them to buy anything. McLarens, Maseratis, Ferraris, top-end models from BMW, Mercedes, Porche and Audi are not uncommon around campus and it's always a Chinese kid at the wheel.
Yes. But no one knew they would intentionally flood this area as a plan to save the inner city. In hindsight makes total sense they would and that it was designed just that way.
I doubt it.

Slavery, including slavery where attempts to breed slaves for particular traits has existed in various forms, and there doesn’t appear to be a situation like dogs where people live to serve.

Our social conditioning is strong enough that I would guess that it slows down genetic changes. Why bother with eugenics when marketing works just fine?
And subsidized!
This is certainly why I enjoyed Calculus and Physics. :-)
It will also be lighter and thinner.

Try replacing "suboptimal" with "Pareto optimal" in your everyday life. It made a positive difference for me.
Having literally spent all day fighting R, I’m looking forward to getting back on the Julia side of things. Time to port more code.
It would be nice if we had some standardized iconography for the cables (xAmps, thunderbolt/non-thunderbolt, &c.). There are really only a few useful permutations of cables.

Devices are a bit more complicated, but I'm hoping that the Hub situation will sort itself out (early in the days of USB 1.1, I remember plenty of devices that wouldn't work with hubs, or only with certain hubs).
I agree, a lot of the performance problems have to with allocation in any language, gc'd or not. I still can't believe people making the same argument against gc'd languages even when highly performant jvm exists.
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The new FF quantum just looks so cool. I know I shouldn't. I know I really shouldn't, but I'm reaching for it often, before having to stop myself. I think I'm in danger of breaking my chrome-sober streak. Please help. How do I avoid getting sucked in by the new completely rewritten from the ground up Firefox?
I enjoyed my Data Structures class quite a bit because the "thinking to programming" ratio was very high. More time thinking, less time working through the mechanics of the languages involved.
You can share bandwidth among the ports. The default option for 8 ports would use 4 PCIe lanes for each pair of ports. But even full bandwidth for all ports is 32 lanes, not too hard to do.
Here we see an example of people who discovered the web long after high speed internet was commonplace, and they think it's "hip" to force everyone back into the dark ages when visiting their site.

That isn't a website, it's a text file. What's worse, it's not served as a plain text file.

A real minimalist coffee shop website would be something like a single column with a few photos of the interior of the cafe (which is what customers are going to care about), maybe a photo of a fancy latte in a mug, and some decent sized and centered text with the address. Lots of white space between elements, and responsive for all screen sizes.

"Sorry we're not interested in website design services", it says at the bottom of their "website". Well I hate to break it to you guys but you seriously need it. If I were comparing two coffee shops on google maps, I would pick one that shows me photos of the shop over that Too Cool For The Web nonsense.
> "Passengers cannot select a destination outside of our approved geography, and our software will not create a route that travels outside of a geo-fenced area, which has been mapped in detail," Waymo says. The Information reported earlier this month that Waymo's cars will initially be made available in the area of Chandler, a Phoenix suburb.

I saw one of their minivans a week or two ago. Chandler is mostly "new" construction - New strip malls, newish neighborhoods with nice sidewalks, etc. It's also relatively well-to-do. Average incomes are much higher than in Mesa, which is just to the north.

Phoenix (other side of the Salt River) has nice areas, and it has ghettos. I wonder where the geofence's lines are drawn. Certainly they'd include ASU/Tempe...

I wonder how these would work for passengers who need to get their illegal plant products, dealers of which don't always live in neighborhoods with nice sidewalks. Mostly those passengers didn't tell me what they were actually doing, but sometimes I figured it out.
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The other one was making it the same width as an 8P8C modular jack. The number of times I've put a USB-A connector in the Ethernet jack when reaching blindly behind my computer...
a (imo sketchy) media company that reviews games will now own a retail outlet that sells them. i wonder how that will impact their behavior.
Simply tranquilize it, with a dart if necessary, and snip snip.
Sounds like USB-C needs to standardise.
You get my upvote for your last two paragraphs, and because you shouldn't be voted to oblivion simply for disagreement.

As for your comment further up the chain: No, pitbulls are not sweet. Pitbulls are unpredictable monsters. Where I live, they are prohibited, and for good reason.
This thing reminded of a sketch I saw sometime ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg
Unfortunately there's a large number of business owners who think it's better to just have a facebook page. They think they're using facebook to promote their business, when really they're using their business to promote facebook.

A sucker is born every day.
Yeah, the full-size DP is one of the nicest display connectors and mini-DP is one of the worst, though mini-DVI was nearly as bad, I've never seen it on a non-mac, but mini-DP is everywhere.
If the people kidnaped and tortured by the Bush regime weren't Islamic extremists hell bent on destroying America when they were caputred, they certainly are now.
One of the best set of science fiction novels I’ve read. I’m always surprised at how few sci-fi loving friends haven’t heard of the Hyperion Cantos. It should be required reading.

Apparently it’s being made into a movie. All four books squeezed into a feature length film.
What’s the saying? When millionaires argue with billionaires it’s hard to care?
Does this mean flux is a passion project only? No business model or revenue stream for it? Or are you trying to keep quiet on it. I know you have had great success before so that makes me wonder even more.
They do. I have had some real close encounters. That's why drivers need their focus on the road ahead at all times, all the time. Not on phones or radios or views or passengers. On the road.
Cables are limited by both current and voltage. The thickness of the copper limits the current, and the thickness of the insulation limits the voltage. 20A is a massive amount of current and won't be easily carried by anything flexible (the wires in the wall of your house are only rated for 15A, and they are quite bulky). 20V on the other hand isn't that high and needs very little insulation.
Yeah I would rather have a php based webapp that I can download and install on my own server, than any sort of SaaS thing. I hate SaaS, I think it's a kind of gamble, I am gambling that the people providing that service will be successful and operational until I quit using it.

But in the real world that isn't always the case.

However with a localized application that I can download, install, and run without any reliance on "the mothership", if the developers should go belly up (obviously nobody wants that), I can at least continue to use the software for a length of time while searching for a suitable replacement.

That's just one example. There's other things, such as data security, short term outages, and so on. In general SaaS has always been a terrible idea. It's good for corporations, but it sucks for users, and computing is about what's good for the users.
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I was asked something like this in Amazon SE interview - find something without using loops, the answer was to use recursion. Sigh.
Im thinking the next big thing like the smartphone will be a shift towards what we see in this Magic Leap video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmdXJy_IdNw yet you don't have to wear a headset to experience/interact with it.

Also mix in digital voice assistants, which voice assistants should now be showing me things on all my screens and the walls around me. LIke Alexa show the traffic or weather and boom it appears on the walls around you (an idea i was working on but its too big of an idea with a small team & no money).
As with many things, the line is blurry. I think governments really start to take shape once you get past Dunbar's number [0]. When people no longer know everybody, they need to rely on rules and designated authority figures to settle disputes. I don't know of any way around that.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number
A committee goes into a room to design a single vehicle that will do all jobs, it will carry heavy loads, it will commute to work, it will fly between airports, it will work on the watar and below the water. Such is the challenge facing these guys.

Is it surprising that it doesn't work well? Not really. The compromises are pretty extensive. And between the users demanding thin phones and rugged connectors, its really really hard to do that with anything other than perhaps titanium.

I have a bunch of computers, my oldest was built in 1968 the latest was built last year. Invariably the port complexity goes up with the older computers, and connector reliability also goes up. I've got AUI cables for Ethernet that work as well today as they did in 1984 when they were all the rage. I've got 50 pin SCSI-1 and 36 pin Centronics printer cables that are reliable and functional. I've got computers with 3 of the four USB 2.0 connections on them unusable either due to fusing issues or mechanical strain. I've got a phone handset (my developer's version of a Nexus 1) with a micro USB connection that won't hold the connector in the plug.

I guess the bottom line is that we can make really reliable and ugly connectors.
This is confirmation bias epitomized. Rich people mean? Or do rich people simply have a different view of the world than not-rich people? My kids think I am mean. They are not rich by comparison. The differences in our behaviors are the major reasons for our differences in incomes.
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