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If you were around 20 years ago, or more like 25 years ago, you might remember any number of micro-payments platforms that are no nowhere to be seen. Believing that most of these ICO's will lead to failures is more akin to believing that most of those would fail than it is to having believed e-commerce overall was set to fail.

A lot of people will lose a lot of money, and some will come out of it with huge profits. The problem is we don't reliably know which will fail and which will succeed.
Tulips aren't bitcoins, It's tangible beauty!
To me the optimum would be two part time jobs. Two days a week doing job A, other two days doing B and three days off. Eggs in different baskets.

For companies it's often said that you should never rely on single customer. But it makes sense for companies to force employees to rely on single customer simply by buying all of their excess time.
This isn't a thank you though, this is a polite way to ask you to do some work. A thank you is a thank you, and nothing else, it doesn't come with demands.
Could you explain your first sentence? The acronyms are a bit dense.

Edit: UDF is user defined functions. What's LPT?
Legit ICOs work the same way. They have a solid product to support.
ME was some kind of weird hybrid as best i recall. No that i dealt with it much beyond trying to rescue some failing installs.The main thing i recall was that it booted all the way to the UI layer before getting scandisk going...
>I will say that when it comes to Linux laptops, having all the components work correctly with Linux (and it be stable!) is probably the hard thing to make.

Not really that hard in 2017, just go all Intel (CPU/GPU/WiFi/etc), and you're pretty much set.
Ask HN: Why there is a number(1,2,..) in front of each link?
https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/19640/how-to-se...

Hah wow you weren't kidding. Amateur hour.

To add to your list: no checksum for addresses. If you typo the recipient address, the client will happily render your ether unspendable.
Please don't feel disheartened by those types of issues. They seem to pop up on all kinds of projects after some threshold of popularity.

I haven't originated any popular repos myself, but of the few I have contributed to, these types of issues can be quite common. One of the projects is a math library and a swear 1/2 issues are people discovering for the first time how floating point math behaves and complaining profusely that it's the authors fault.

If you can gain some contributors to help you do the weeding in your issues list it can help with your sanity greatly.

This is one feature that I wish hosting platforms like github/gitlab etc had to help authors and maintainers: ability to grant issue management permissions (separately from full repo access).
Interesting. Looking at the proposal it seems specific to main() and not any void returning function, by automatically picking an exit status. I suppose I worry the construct has a lack of control (log diagnostics, exit status, cleaning, etc) when bailing and can’t handle eg continue, break too.
Thank you for this! I'm trying to get deeper into open source audio software and programming, looking forward to spending some time with this on the weekend.
The historical norm is that a successful empire is very profitable. If you have to spend money maintaining it, you're doing it wrong.

In other words: the US is not an empire. It's something that needs a different term.
TJ Hollowaychuck the author of express.js had the opposite opinion.

https://medium.com/@tjholowaychuk/farewell-node-js-4ba9e7f3e...
There are plenty of other cryptos http://vectorspace.ai
...before the grammar police.
Classics at prestigious universities—and especially, I would think, at Cambridge—is a major that tends to attract people that, for class and other reasons, have strong employment prospects independent of educational choices. So, sure, its unsurprising that it correlates with good employability, but I'm somewhat suspicious of claims that it produces that employability.
the author has clearly been taken advantage of by her work as many people have been both in the software industry and outside of it. The biggest problem, is our need for money. If we only needed 1/3 as much money to live, then you wouldn't need to work nearly as much. You could work for 5 years and then take several years off. And, if everyone else did the same, the labor supply would shrink to amount that forces employers to treat labor with more respect. At that point, I don't think they'll mind you have a 3 year gap, as long as your skills are up to date.

But, reducing your need for money to 1/3 is hard, partly due to our financial decisions: but this part can be changed. It's pretty easy to cut spending on the frivolous parts. The hardest part is taxes. In the US, on average, 1/3 of every dollar you earn gets taken by the Gov and it's much much more than that if you're in an expensive area like the bay area. If you find this surprising, take a good look at gov spend of GDP.

Housing cost is probably the next biggest area that's hard to reduce, mainly due to laws that prevent land supply and zoning from increasing and lots of other political factors.

Anyways, I think it's not reasonable to expect everyone's work to be fun 100% of the time. We just have to expect that some of the work will be interesting and some of it won't and reduce the total amount of work done in a lifetime accordingly.
I guess you don’t remember internet explorer.
If you use an IDE like Visual Studio Code or Webstorm, and not a text editor like Sublime, then it autocompletes default exports perfectly fine. Just stop writing code in a text editor like Sublime/Vim/Emacs/Atom/etc.
But they were not scarse neither hard to mine
Add another 'one': one point in time.

What I mean is that Excel is essentially a write-only language. It's very quick to prototype something for a semi-technical person, but auditing / code-reviewing an Excel sheet later is essentially impossible. The ubiquitous manual loop unrolling doesn't help readability either.
You and me both, bud. I really fear for our country. I used to be proud to be an American, these days I'm ashamed.

I'm half Dutch and went back to the Netherlands with my family this summer and it was so frigging pleasant. The discourse was sane, they actually work together to fix stuff. As painful as it is to form a government there sometimes, I much prefer their system to ours. We look pretty crazy from the inside, we look bat shit crazy from the outside.
Cachet is mature, self hosted and open source.
https://cachethq.io/
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Chattanooga's super-fast publicly owned internet

http://money.cnn.com/2014/05/20/technology/innovation/chatta...
Your internet will not be affected for exactly as long as it takes local providers to see the proof of concept and financial benefits and lobby your government to pass similar regulation, their efforts now bolstered by the ability to point to the US as a “successful” forerunner.
How do you think we used to create portable software across 8 bit and 16 bit platforms?

Most of it actually written in Assembly.
This is pretty awesome. I had recently bought the moog model 15 app, and had a desire for something like vcv but I didn’t know it was out there.

I’d been playing with the idea of making physical control plates that would interface the a sonicpi via osc.

I hadn’t decided on how routing would work. I mean patch cords are nice and satisfying to plug in, but they get in the way too.
I'm really going to have to ask for an example of this. Other than SWT I've not seen it done well.
If only they would have simply written "gamma ray" instead of γ-ray, but I suppose there are the bandwidth savings to consider...
I don't think that was what he was referring to
Is there any way to know which transactions are for goods and services and which are for speculation? That is a necessary number to interpret this headline.
Another "old programmer" here:

* trust your instinct and join company with non toxic environment
As unfair & objectionable as those things might be, quite a lot of companies seem to manage to pay their execs excessive salaries, provide golden parachutes, and pay out dividends without requiring government bailout.
It was just my knee-jerk reaction to the insightless french-bashing comment. I don't have a strong opinion on the matter. Mall culture was never as prevalent in Europe as it is in the US so it's hard to compare directly.
I'll go with OnePlus 5T most likely it will get LineageOS port and I planing to use it with microG(open replacement for google services)
>You can only expect to be taken seriously for requests like that if you have been diagnosed with a medical condition

If their default setup is bad (crappy chairs, etc), and they have the attitude you mentioned, do not work there.

For me, it would be a condition of employment to get me a proper chair and desk.
> Banks create money out of thin air.

The ability of banks to leverage deposits into fractional debt is restricted by the size of their deposit base and the need for fiat assets to earn competitive rates of return. This is not a "one way street".

Once people start shifting capital to crypto, banks will sell assets to cover withdrawals, and the cycle to which you refer starts to spin in reverse as the worsening terms-of-trade for fiat/crypto exchanges triggers a fall in the real value of assets in terms of fiat. In short, we are going to get more inflation as crypto spreads because there is less stuff being sold for fiat and more stuff being sold for crypto or held because people don't want to trade it for something likely to lose value.

At that point banks will have to raise interest rates to ensure they are not lending at a loss. Higher rates will weaken borrowing and push more borrowers into bankruptcy, at which point your expansionary cycle reverses until enough loans are written-off and the debt overhang is reduced and/or inflation eats up the implicit increase in the money supply relative to actual underlying GDP.
Office, Photoshop.
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It's also an alpha language, but it seems like they're planning on using M:N threading (like Go/Erlang).
I'm not sure why not. Seems like exactly the sort of unlikely event that I'd want my insurance to cover. Isn't the whole point of insurance that they make me whole, and use their ample legal department to pursue the responsible parties to recover those costs (if such parties exist, in this case the city)?
The dude had $2,000 in savings and was like, "yup this should be plenty." Post-mortem complete.
It’s interesting how divisive Go’s type system is. For some people it’s the main reason they use it, for others it’s a fatal handicap.

FWIW I predominantly use PHP, so I have no dog in this fight.
Perhaps http://voidtools.com/support/everything/ would interest you, I now use it all the time and my mind is blown by the fact that NTFS and (ReFS) has these features but Microsoft doesn't expose a nice GUI for them... I seriously consider looking into replacing my start menu with something that'd be much more fit for me personally, scriptable in Lua and query from everything daemon instead but I have no idea how feasible or easy that'd be but classic shell is a thing so it's clearly technically possible (I think, unless it's a dirty hack).

Another fix could be putting a shortcut to the exe (named what you want) into C:\Users\YOUR-USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs, for me these seem foolproof.

However I'm similarly flabbergasted with what's going on in the start menu search (which I assume is part of Cortana since this is where her blue ring appears after clicking the home shaped icon): I type in 'downloa' and I get option to search the web (in Bing in Edge of course, despite my default being Firefox + Google) and/or 'Download maps for offline use', 'Delete downloaded maps', 'Windows Defender settings', 'Windows Defender security center' (all are built in Windows things) and after few seconds (and my Windows is on an SSD) it seems to catch up and detect the Downloads folder (that comes standard with English Windows install and isn't in any deep or hidden spot...). I add one more letter and get 'download' and the same happens but Edge online search is available only for a split second.

And then the finale: having 'downloads' (or 'Downloads', not that Windows is sensitive even if NTFS deep down can supposedly be set to be) in there looks like this: https://imgur.com/a/Jlhno I have no idea WTF just happened to have the actual Downloads folder as third result after Microsoft Store (?!) and online search with Bing in Edge (sigh...) and hidden in a sub-menu after looking for literally 'downloads'.

Another funny thing is that for me searching for 'Notepad' matches Notepad++ first and Windows built-in Notepad second. I'm not exactly unhappy about this one but it's weird, it might be heuristics but then why doesn't it work heuristically for the 'downloads' search and gives me the store I never used instead of the folder I access daily?
On a side note, tidwall (Josh) is one of the primary reasons why I want to give Go a go. I love https://github.com/tidwall/tile38.
Ah so you take your phone out of your pocket to check the time? Like a pocket watch! Cool, now if only there was something you could keep on your wrist that told time.. Would be so much more convenient!
OK, let's accept, for the sake of argument, that Bitcoin-as-open-source-money is a valid analogy. How does the history of open-source things disabuse the notion that what is happening now is a speculative bubble? Where else can you find an example where the benefits of open source have led to this sort of explosive growth in valuations?
Argumentum by verbosity [1] is a fallacy. So is argumentum via comment history [2]. Maybe you noticed my account is 10x older than yours and couldn’t call me a shill? Perhaps you should lurk a bit longer instead of using the downvote button as a disagree button like it is on the site you came from. You’ll notice even my heavily downvoted posts in this emotional and poltical thread aren’t hidden because I have a long history of discussing things in good faith on this forum. Believe it or not, it is possible to disagree about whether the FCC can make ISPs Title II by fiat.

EDIT: I do not claim everything I say is right. But I will stand the courage of my convictions and am happy to be proven wrong. So far this thread is a total disaster of emotional pleas, doomsday predictions, and bad reddit-like behavior (such as yours).

[1] https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Gish_Gallop

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
In the United States there are often deals where certain services used on certain networks do not count against mobile data caps. For example, DirectTV Now app does not count against an AT&T datacap.
As did Ryan Dahl, the creator of node.js

https://www.mappingthejourney.com/single-post/2017/08/31/epi...
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I wonder if it's due to how open source software is sometimes marketed to users? If you have a professional-looking website saying it's easy to use and better than the rest, and people try it out and it's not completely wonderful, they're going to complain, because it didn't meet expectations.

Perhaps deliberately modest marketing would work better at attracting the right kind of users?
You can in many cases.
Source, for those wondering: https://reason.com/archives/2017/04/26/fcc-ajit-pai-net-neut...
It's just asking if many 3 term clauses ANDed together are true for a given input set, so you'd give the inputs to spend it to your wallet. Automatic bounties on optimization (sub)problems, yep.

For various reasons, you probably want to use arithmetic and string operations for encoding certain problens. You could do it in bit operations, but efficiency.

I can't take credit for it -- it's one of those things that was floating around as a usage early on, but the features were killed.
Curious, what are you coding Solidity for?
If you're into consensus algorithms take a look at Algorand:

https://people.csail.mit.edu/nickolai/papers/gilad-algorand-...

It has some novel approaches to node / data agreement.

Also take a look at the many projects Hyperledger projects. Hyperledger is incubated by The Linux Foundation.
Their attitude towards open source development is that of purely technical curiosity and experimentation.
Brian Behlendorf is directing the project so it's in good hands.
He speaks about this attitude here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr4Hb0jb0lo
the media belittled Occupy as being directionless

Was it not? I called it so from the start; they had a list of something like 29 totally unrelated demands, and never managed to narrow it down.
Not at all, because HTML, CSS and JavaScript are a poor man's UI with the lowest common denominator of OS features.
Thanks for the feedback. There is currently a hard limit in place where a user can't count a star towards the constellation based achievement system unless it grows for a minimum of one hour to prevent unethical star farming. Do you think that's sufficient?
Eric Schmidt: People want dish-washing robots more than any other kind
Some combination of things like Python and SQLite would probably go a long way?
I agree. Sometimes, I explain that the feature request can be implemented, but not for free. I flag such issues with the "needs sponsoring" tag.
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He's the Billy bush of tech.
A heads up? Don't take a cabinet making workshop with an instructor passionate about what you can do with a plank of Birds Eye Maple, a router and a piece of sandpaper.

You may never look at another Javascript framework again. So DON'T take that class. You may do something crazy like quit your day job and make wooden bowls all day. And have way too much fun.

You don't want to have way too much fun. And don't get me started on glassblowing!

You can do pretty well on Etsy, and code on the side. And keep that grad degree in CompSci as Plan B. :-)
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To be fair accounting is supposed to use specialized software, not excel to do the actual accounting. Software that could absolutely be web based.

The problem I suppose is more hardware issues like printers, card readers and a lot of third party professional software that just doesn't have drivers for linux.
I studied with these guys:

https://www.theverge.com/2014/1/4/5273474/google-acquires-bi...

They did exactly what you did after graduating and their company got acquired (acqui-hired) by Google. Timely was the number one alarm clock app at the time. It was buttery smooth and beautiful but beyond that didn’t even any special functionality.

So, don’t take the parent comment too seriously!
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As someone who has worked with ETH, I tend to disagree. If there are issues with Ethereum, they mostly stem from it being ahead of other blockchains in terms of features. With that I mean that other blockchains don't have these issues because they don't offer the features in the first place.

Is it then a good idea to have these features at all if they introduce new risks? I believe so, they enable many interesting projects that are hard to develop on other blockchains. The growth of Ethereum is an attestation to this. As a consequence, many skilled developers are now creating solutions to the (relatively minor) remaining issues.

For bigger issues, like privacy and scalability, no-one has a good answer yet. The Ethereum community is working on promising solutions (Casper, Plasma, zkSNARKs, eWasm).
One can see parallels between Excel and Unix command line scripting here.
I will try a summary translation for you (I can't claim to be perfect, it is more union-speak than Italian :-) ):

The issues that the unions are complaining about are:

* Need for increased wages: the current wages follow the minimum required by the CCNL (national collective contract)[], but working condition are worse than usual: pauseless working shifts, higher productivity required, night shifts spread all year long with 6 days working week in during high peak perios (e.g. Christmas).
No productivity bonuses for event such as Christmas or Black Friday.
* No ability to balance work life and personal life.

The unions say that they are going on strike since for more that one years they have tried to address those issues with Amazon but the latter always delayed any kind of action.

[*] CCNL is a contract that is agreed between unions and employers at the national level to guarantee a baseline for all employees in a given sector.
> it seems the number of channels was exponential to the number of users in a room

I do not see this in the code linked to from the article.
If someone believes that the earth is flat then he automatically believes that all the pilots in the world know it (and never speak about it). That is illiteracy to say the least.

You certainly don't believe everything you read, but well established knowledge from centuries ago isn't something some lunatic came up with.

So if someone dismisses gravity as a hoax, are we to support him because he is a critical thinker and start jumping off cliffs trying to fly?
A good distinction to make, 68% of the value is going through the mixers. I saw a calculation that it's only about 17% of the actual number of transactions.
This reminds me of apps published by ShaoKan Pi. Particularly, SleepTown.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/sleeptown/id1210251567?mt=8

Can't wait to try it on iOS because I love idle-growth apps like this. Might be worth looking into how Sleeptown/Forest implement features you're interested in.
Yes, but note my "wide acceptance of" weasel phrase. My impression is that the Joule only started being used widely in the 70s.

I did try to find out when it was defined but failed, so thanks for digging that fact up!
It's clear this is going to be the epicenter of the next asset bubble, but people need something exciting to live for, even if it is a lie.
Still makes for a fascinating read... Plus eventually we'd be able to run ml on the articles to reach a concensus maybe xD
It's going to depend on how the response is worded.

I wouldn't want to assume that someone asking for a feature is willing to pay for it. I also wouldn't want to make an offer unless I'm serious about doing it if they say yes.

But, if you are doing contract work, letting people know it's an option seems like a good thing?
> you can't just take a sample of whatever and deconstruct and reconstruct it at will

This is fairly generally true in science. Deconstructionism was a fever dream.
I you whitelist tags and then whitelist attributes and then whitelist attribute values and for attributes that have values with its own structure, like style whitelist allowed things in that structure, you should be fine.

But it's hard to restrain yourself from doing: allow any (possibly except some) at any stage of whitelisting.

Even to a point of not allowing string of any characters as attribute value.