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> At the same time, each language is a barrier between people, one that prevents ideas to be shared and stories to be told. The fewer such barriers we have, the easier it becomes to understand others. Literally.

This is an easy opinion to harbor when you speak a language whose future is pretty much secure.

Imagine if you woke up one day and you were the last person who knew a word of English. All the English-language music you've ever heard, all the books and movies, etc., are now totally incomprehensible to everyone you'll ever meet. All copies of them, and indeed, all English text except for whatever's in your pockets, is gone. All the place names you know are removed from the map. All English words borrowed by other languages are gone. Every native English speaker (aside from you) has disappeared, and their very names are unpronounceable to the world's remaining population. Maybe even the Latin alphabet is gone.

You get to keep all your memories, but naturally nobody shares them or has reason to believe they actually happened. Most people don't care to hear about them. If they do, they see them as a curiosity, a museum piece to be put in a display case, not something with the slightest relevance to their own lives.

You can't even tell English-language jokes anymore. They aren't funny in translation.

Of course this leaves you isolated. And of course there's a solution anyone can offer you: Forget about English. Adopt a whole new life where you're a normal person who speaks a normal language that other normal people understand. Your identity as an English speaker is entertaining for about five minutes, but ultimately an inconvenience to society. Hurry up and let it go.

If this sounds harsher than what you were trying to say, perhaps you've underestimated what a language is to the people who speak it. It's more than just a list of words.
What a trainwreck. Is this actually common? Obviously only one viewpoint but i was in cringe from day1. Buzzwords. No product. No customers. CTO not attending meetings. What?
I mean, people have been dumping lye on bodies for a long time. That's all they're doing, but to a gooey extreme.
> lingering issues with UI scaling and tiny text.

I'm on a Mac. What are these "issues" you speak about? What third-world computer are you using that can't do text right in 2017?
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When friends talk about their new phone costing say €250 I promptly reply: "What? Only 250? You forgot to add the smartphone tax, didn't you?". Now this usually drags immediately their attention, so I can continue: "You should have considered the replacement of a new screen almost every year and a new battery replacement service after 2 or 3 years. ...this is going to cost you over twice that figure if you keep it for say 5 years", while a dumb phone will probably need just one easily replaceable €25 battery after some years.
The interesting thing about this video is that Steve Jobs was bragging about the fact that Apple managed to make a smaller laptop, with longer battery life, while making a lot of things (56k modem, ethernet, vga, 2 usb ports, firewire) built-in.

Which is basically the opposite of what Apple does today.
Compared to German, very much so. In German, you can read a word and know how it is pronounced, and hear a word and know how it's written. I'm not in love with the five noun declensions or the grammatical genders that aren't derived from the word itself, but I'll take them over a language that's a big ball of stolen words.

I'd prefer something more regular over both of those, though, perhaps Spanish. I've also heard that Korean, Arabic and Japanese are super regular.
Yes. And when an airline crash occurs, we don't just say, "it's because the pilot is a horrible person", or worse, "all pilots are horrible people." We analyze what went wrong and what we can do better, then we engineer the system to accommodate human weakness and prevent damage from human error.

It's easy to be an armchair pilot, but usually crashes are caused by more complex issues.
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Vet here. So much of this rings true to me.

1) Back in 2006 I was single and in a college town wearing a USMC hoodie. I was chatting up these girls at a bar and they asked me what college I was at. I was totally miffed. Did they not know we were at war? Did what I was doing matter at all? And then after an awkward pause, I made an excuse and left their table. It was like we were different species living in different worlds.

2) I'm coming around to the notion that the draft could be a good thing because it forces people to think really hard before attacking someone else when your own butt is at risk.

I'm 34 and I've seen two of my friends buried already. I really hope they are the last for awhile, but I still have friends deploying to these pointless wars in the Middle East today. Nobody cares enough to vote along those lines, and so my friends will keep deploying, because hey it's a job and it pays middle class income.

People shrug and say "they're volunteers" but if you look at their other opportunities out of high school, it's more like a targeted draft of the poor.
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Also, don't run ads (at least not without protection).
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Some interesting limitations here, but overall great work. The output is only 256x256, which doesn't seem useful in the short run. It would be interesting to see if there was another deep learning network that could fill in the pixels and net a higher resolution. It also looks like it uses models specifically trained for that given category (i.e. birds, flowers). I wonder how it would fair trying to visualize a distinct animal / flower that we only have a written description of.
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The only thing truly insane about English is its writing system. Grammatically, it's one of the simplest Indo-European languages; the only thing hard about it is the inconsistent remnants of the Germanic ablaut system for verb conjugation (i.e., all of the "irregular" verbs).
As far as I remember, as soon as it was hacked they removed OtherOS, not the other way around. This was like version 3.50 or something? Long time ago.
I learned a bit Japanese and it was very regular, but your have to learn 3 alphabets. The first one, hiragana, is only for small "filler" words, the second one, katakana, is for foreign words that got somehow included into Japanese and the third one, kanji, has thousands of "letters" each for one word. While the first two are rather easy to learn, you can't read or write anything meaningful without kanjis.

Many of my friends started studying Japanology and switched to Koreanology because it was easier :D
> For now... Also for now.

Why else would you learn a language? You wouldn't learn it for the past and you wouldn't learn it for the future. English is widely spoken right now, and so is useful to know.

> I'm trying to avoid being snarky at the false dichotomy.

I suppose I could have been more clear. Part of the utility of English is that it's spoken by the Western superpower, the US. By speaking English, that makes your country's economy interact with the US's economy easier. You could learn other superpowers' languages as well like China's and Russia's, but for other Germanic languages, it's much easier to learn English than Russian or Mandarin.
I think the idea of going 100% or subscribing to label scares off a lot of people. Just reducing meat consumption has an impact. See my comment above.
I'm with you. "Beautiful" has become a dominant end-goal, promoted by plenty of software/services as a focal part of the product.

It's hard to articulate why this feels objectionable. Perhaps I'm suspicious that emphasising beauty over functionality will lead to dumbed-down products that don't interest me. Perhaps I'm irked that beauty is valued by customers above functionality/reliability/etc, or that the sales/marketing teams feel that's so.

Do resources spent on beauty detract from resources expended on improved functionality, reliability, usability, security...?

Perhaps I'm concerned with the continuing march of users who can barely operate their many very expensive devices, and the security and support risks that come with this.

Then again... who am I to turn back the tide. Perhaps the role of the software developer is to predict "under the hood" problems that come from an emphasis of beauty, and fix them before they happen, to ensure the buttery-smooth experience users expect.
Ok! Are you saying Google has more power than our Government?
Yeah I thought I was doing alright dual adblock and virtual box.
Not at all common. Few startups typically get accepted into the program if they're in that much of a pre-development state.

Unfortunately YC and Silicon Valley is still rife with buzzwords over content. Many of the YC alumni parties are full of founders proudly professing their YC failures.

CTO (myself) couldn't attend as it was made clear that YCombinator wouldn't allow anyone who wasn't there during the interview stage to attend the YC meetings. That alone was a huge issue. As for the interview itself, I simply couldn't attend; it was impossible for me to fly out on that date, and no other interview slots were available by then.

That's not to say it doesn't happen. There were other startups in S17 that had no product, but they had customers who were already signed up. It seems every batch gets larger, but the quality of much of those batches seems to decrease.

The desire to get into YCombinator seems to push founders to make mistakes and rush ideas along that simply aren't ready.

As the author, cringing seems the correct response to what was happening.

As far as buzzwords go, it often became a running joke in the house. Every week we'd be told to add another buzzword to the pile, with each buzzword having a perceived value impact on the startup for VCs and investors. That is relatively normal among startups, and something I was fairly determined to avoid during development.
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Industrial design is all about the interplay of functional components with aesthetics. Think how the iPhone home button is a functional component, but there's visual design work that went into that specific shape and it's a part of the look.

Similarly, there are a lot of ways to put antennae on a router, and this company chose one particular way that would have one particular (hideous) look.
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I find it creepy, especially putting the resulting fluid somewhere it might leak into the water table.

Yuck!
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People and cops are not "good" or "bad".

People who work in retail who grow to hate customers are not bad. Most probably want to yell at or strangle certain customers but they don't.

Giving people power without accountability is the problem.
Most people only know Michael McGinnis's work from the Perplexus line of toys, but he's spent years honing his prototypes and creating grand "Superplexus" sculptures on commission. I think this is a really interesting case study of iterating on a base idea for a very long time, as well as the perfect synergy of mathematics, art, and gameplay.

(Incidentally, I got a chance to play with one of the big ones at the Solano Stroll in Berkeley a few years back, and it was simply incredible!)
I think you may be misunderstanding my point (it's not clear if you are an expert in this area; I have more than a passing knowledge of DNA). In every area I have worked in, Sanger sequencing is considered gold standard and is used whenver the results are being used for medical purposes. That includes genotyping as well as verifying the results of WGS>

It's considered a critical QC step.

Throughput doesn't matter if you have false-positive or false negative errors that cause erroneous medical decisions.
I assumed that was implied for every HN reader. But even though I have noscript and ublock with a lot of things blocked you never have 100% coverage.
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That is not a fair statement of what he said - you assume that the culture has not had a long time to preserve its cultural knowledge and that a dying culture produces much (after all it is dying for a reason) and you assume that the person can only speak the dying language.

And even then everybody would try convince that person to translate his culture into the new language or at least to codify the original language so that it isn't lost.

But the real solution would have to start doing those things decades ago.
So, there is the State Department's classification of languages by how easy they are to learn for English speakers, which shows a wide variation.

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:Language_Learning_Di...

Of course, this classification is explicitly meant for native English speakers and includes the degree of relatedness to English as a contributing factor. I don't know if someone has done research about the average difficulty of each language as L2 considered across everyone in the world, but clearly there will be some that are easier and harder on average, considering factors such as unusual phonemes, non-alphabetic writing systems, irregular orthography, irregular inflections, presence or absence of inflections, similarity of sentence structure to most common sentence structures, and so on.

Chinese probably has advantages as L2 due to the lack of inflections but disadvantages due to the extremely difficult writing system and (maybe?) tones -- just because I think most languages worldwide are not tonal. English has advantages due to the alphabetic writing system and disadvantages due to irregular verbs, irregular orthography, and some relatively unusual phonemes.

Also, a lot of non-Chinese speakers already speak languages that are related to Chinese and/or share part of their writing system with Chinese, while a lot of non-English speakers already speak languages that are related to English and/or share part of their writing system with English.

Anyway, we need to look into this a lot more before just saying that one language is a clear winner, but the idea is not at all meaningless and should in principle have an answer. Although clearly there will be some people who will be at a huge advantage or a huge disadvantage in learning any given L2, which is, again, a big part of what the State Department ranking is showing (not just the inherent ease or difficulty of learning each of these languages in the abstract).
Yeah, they were the "it" thing for some period of time and created a sense of excitement that is palpable even now. Apple certainly held that baton for a while.

Google might be able to do it, but I don't think they're going to do it by imitating Olivetti style. Some incidental "homages" incarnated in a few design elements, sure, but there's a lot more to creating "object appeal" than reviving the past.

It's why the "new" VW Beetle was a breath of fresh air and got people excited. On the other hand, the Chrysler PT cruiser-- not so much. Design is a fickle, complicated thing.
Heh, I thought you were addressing a much more abstract consideration about the global average difficulty of learning languages based on both their relatedness to other languages and their internal complexities are irregularities (see my reply elsewhere in the thread). I didn't realize you were actually thinking more about economic and political considerations.

Edit: I feel like many people do learn languages "for the past" or "for the future". For example, many people study ancient languages partly to learn about ancient cultures and ancient history, while many Mandarin learners in the U.S. through the 1990s and 2000s said one motivation was that "China is going to be more important in the future" or something to that effect.
People claim to run noscript but every page calls js from 10 different domains. How on earth do you navigate what to let through and what to block? And at some point, to me, it’s just too many mouse clicks!
I like cemeteries.

They're a neat mix of history, nature, and art. They're often isolated, beautiful, and quiet. Important people get monuments in public squares; all but the most poor throughout US history get a small plot and a little headstone. It's fun to think about people who otherwise have been completely forgotten: the eras they lived in, the family members they're buried with, the countries where they came from, their accomplishments in life, and sometimes the sacrifices they made for me. They're no dumber than any other monument you see to anyone anywhere else, except these are the monuments for the 99%, figuratively speaking.

Visiting a cemetery also reminds me that I'm mortal and one day my fate will be the same.

There's an extremely fair case to be made against cemeteries from environmental and/or space concerns, and you can accomplish a lot of the above goals in other ways. However, the dismissal of a very human desire to remember and/or be remembered deserved a response.
Thank you! I think you have a great product in the making. It just isn't for me right now.
It is good that someone wrote this. It is embarrassing how bad Python's native performance is.
The title seems fine to me. I knew Linux ransomware was a theoretical possibility, but I didn't know it was out there in the world. Or, as they say, "in the wild".
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You learn with the time and also sometimes when its not so obvious, what to activate and what not, I just close the tab and don't bother with the content.
> Usually this idea of one language to rule them all, seems to keep coming up from cultures not able to bother to learn anything else other than English.

That's not the case in my experience. The drive for the "international auxiliary language" movement, one global language for communication, largely arose from Europe, particularly Eastern Europe. Esperanto was created by a Pole, Volapük a German, the first Interlingua an Italian, the second Interlingua a German who emigrated to the US.
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> Why does what the cop said matter?

One reason is that the police department thought it mattered.
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And then those people go and throw theor brand new phones right into giant sturdy cases. Maybe it's time to ignore the voices that pretend people want shiny when really that's what the bloggers want to crow about.
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The trip is less than 2 miles and takes 18 minutes?

https://www.londondrum.com/transport/train-journey.php?from=...

It’s hard to compare but the maglev seems to operate much quicker:
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2017-06/15/content_297514...

“The maglev line will have eight stations stretching over 10.2 kilometers and will run at a maximum speed of 100 kilometers per hour. The whole journey will take about 20 minutes, including the time for passengers to get on and off”
There is absolutely nothing wrong with you varying your medication in order to manage side effects. That's a very good reason. However, parent said:

> and failing that they come off them because they're so ashamed of being mentally ill from all those condescending and "well-meaning" (read: superior) people telling them what to do and how defective they are all the time that they want to prove they can handle it.

Which is a really bad reason.
Why all the defeatism?

Expressing frustration at the status quo is one thing, but I don't see how expressing a negative attitude toward incremental progress can be seen as more helpful than holding your tongue.
Good for you, but AGPL is basically a nonstarter for me.
Sorry if I wasn't clear enough, I meant - why would one choose a maglev for low-speed transportation, rather than a non-maglev vehicle that runs on rails? (Fill in whatever terms you want in your mind, light rail, subway, tube, underground, tram, streetcar, EMU, I don't care.)
This is a simplistic and false as the narrative you are attacking.
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Thank you for a very authentic and pleasant contribution to the conversation. It's not often that we see hidden nuggets of history shared like this.

But I have to admit that I'm having trouble understanding the last line. The author begins by extolling the quiet beauty of Washington state, continues by thanking god that she can be a part of it, then asks for the benefits of new growth (a "flowering of colonies"). But then it concludes with "I beg you...that it draws them not". This seems to contradict the previous part. Or is she hoping that they are not drawn to the jungle country, so "the rich bit of earth" can remain untouched?
English has never been shy to import words. And I would argue that 'barn raising' is an example of something similar (that is, it is implicit that the barn raising requires the neighbors help and happens in the community).

I do not know Norweigian well enough, but in Denmark we have 'so' (meaning sow), which is not quite the same as 'slut' (it is basically the same as 'bitch') but in something that is only used against women. 'svin' (pig) would be a non-gendered insult. I guess the closest thing to slut would be 'luder' (lit whore), also a gendered insult.
My goal is to become a fossil - literally - and take a message to the future with me. I'd need to be buried in soil likely to become sedimentary rock, something like a bog, or maybe a muddy river delta. For my message, I'd take something like a wooden abacus or astrolabe, something that will petrify like my mortal remains. I know, the chances are missions to one my fossil will ever be found, and we can only imagine by whom or what. But what a story that fossil will tell!
In addition to the use of opaque pointer type, the PDF adds pointers and function pointers to struct only for the sake of "object oriented". They waste space and again obfuscate code.

The PDF represents a bad practice we should stop populating. I have only seen such coding style once and the developer said it was just a toy project he himself wouldn't use in practice.
Hard to give you advice without knowing a bit more about your situation.

This could either be a nightmare, with your requests ignored, the company too busy to respond to reasonable concerns, no one to help you in your career and the company in general being a mess.

Or it could be a chance for you to get expertise in managing up, carve our your own area of excellence, and professionalize the software development process at the company.

Do you have a clear set of personal goals? Do you have a clear set of goals at this company? What does success look like for you and them?
Yeah indeed, for contract customers, better go with something you're confident everybody will already know, since other people will have to manage it when you won't be there anymore.

In a previous startup I was CTO and founder for, I used a gentoo and managed everything possible by myself. This was not especially costly in time because I was already used to it and efficient, and we managed that way to stay for 3 years with 70€/mo in infrastructure cost. This has its advantages too :)