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Side project creators, what payment service do you use to monetize your project?
E.g. Flattr, Patreon (I read the recent news about it), Gratipay (formerly Gittip), etc.?

Please mention pros and cons you see with any you use, also, what kind of side project do you use it/them for (e.g. ebook, print book, app, SaaS, etc.).
If there were less regulations you wouldn’t need to be a bank to do what a bank does. That was my point. Why so t we see the level of innovation we have in web in the financial sector? Operating a fintech company requires as much legal compliance as it does code and this protects incumbents and lets them extract rent from our society.

The GP seems to be saying “let’s regulate these rent seekers.” I’m saying “let’s stop paying rents in the first place.”
Some banks aren't doing this :p
Not just that. If I have to follow the link and log in, it's easier to go back and click spam.
I see quite the opposite. Everyone who as much as questions an over the top left wing stance is labeled as alt-right these days.
Working remotely and having more control over my schedule (they don't always come together) allowed me to work on my side project until it was making enough money to cover my living expenses.

The only problem is that now, after running my own business for a few years, I cannot phantom the idea of going back to a regular job. In that sense, my career as an employee is over.
Is that different from what a prescaler is?
Payments? Hello.
I honestly didn't know about "PING," thank you. I have no idea how I missed such a fundamental feature, even if it is relatively new.
> it's significantly easier to work with

Can you please elaborate?
> but a superior making an advance on their subordinate is pretty inappropriate even if the advance itself is tame.

My thoughts have tended to arrive at the same conclusion. But, this idea seems to be a lot less popular than I'd expect. While the problem might be abuse of power, the popular conversation at the moment, oddly, is not. I wish I understood better why that is.

I agree it is helpful that the contradictions (often around cultural image) get air time. I wonder if this kind of thing can lead the popular conversation to a point of discourse that confronts the similarities in so many of the outcries, such as abuse of power.
Well, PG is written by people who know what they're doing.
From the first link:

> 80% of effects come from 20% of causes and 80% of results come from 20% of effort.

that's precisely what I am saying and exactly the opposite of what the gp said.

the actual principle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle
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That's a good point, I hadn't thought of it that way.
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The code fragment

Box **myBoxes = malloc(10*sizeof(Box));
Box *myBox = malloc(sizeof(Box));
myBoxes[0] = myBox;

looks like it should have used 10 times the size of a Box pointer.
> Reality is harsh and that seems to have escaped many millennials.

I think part of the disillusionment was having grown up in the prosperous, peaceful '90s, that Boomers hyped up as the End of History. And then the western world became immersed in a seeming unending war, with the security state overreach accordingly, and then the bottom fell out of the economy after. Can you blame them for being pissed off that the promises of their childhood were a lie? At least previous generations that dealt with hardships were not lied to first.
Most of the time, Masters students pay their own tuition (unlike PhD students) so it is not hard to get into a Master's program in CS -- so long as you are not trying to get into Stanford, CMU, or something like that.
More personally, as a South Korean, America having such an opinion basically means my country is forced to "choose side"

China could make the the whole problem go away by withdrawing their support of Kim.

And remember that if it weren't for us, the entire peninsula would be "North Korea." Including your own home.

You're welcome.
Somehow you have confused an entire generation with the conservative stereotype of latte-sipping limousine liberals.
The noticeable career effect for me was (and is) severe job opportunities pool shrinkage. I can't mentally go back to 9-5 @office - that translates to ~95% of jobs off the table.
The thing that is wrong is compensation. It is much more lucrative to not be loyal. If you are loyal you are compensated with really slim raises, a lot of times single digit percentages.
It is a weird, but entirely correct, assumption that all markets operate in a legal framework and are thus regulated.

What does 'more banking regulation' or 'less banking regulation' even mean? If the government enacts 'more' legislation that ossifies the practices from before financial crisis, that clearly cannot be an improvement.

Talking about more or less regulation is just setting the government up to be manipulated by the highest bidder, who can specify what changes in a way that looks like 'more' or 'less' of something. The rules need to be changed to promote honesty and not create perverse incentives. This requires /different/ regulation, and to demand specific changes. Nobody agrees on what those changes should be afaik.
Foreign capital is betting the locals will never ever allow real estate prices to fall.
My kids are the same. They still want the various go jetters and paw patrol toys because that's the actual program.
On the audio samples pages, at the end, which one do you think is the human one?

https://google.github.io/tacotron/publications/tacotron2/ind...
Great point - most people are not aware that finding good personnel to hire is like diving for pearls.
We should be looking at where it's exacerbating inequality and come up with intelligent, data-driven solutions. Many people act as if the concept of any type of government regulation or non-market-driven solution is incapable of having a positive impact, but I have seen no compelling evidence to prove that. You can hand-pick any number of past bad regulations with negative outcomes, but for every one you show me I can show you a regulation we're deeply reliant on. Regulations are a tool, they can be designed well or poorly, and we can examine them analytically. Even if you truly believed that government intervention of any kind necessarily must introduce inefficiencies, I'd hope you'd agree that economic efficiency is not always the exclusive good that we should be aiming for. Ideally we want a balance of economic efficiency and the overall health, equality, and well-being of the populace. The argument that when the economy improves everyone does better is blatantly false, and we have data to indicate that. Moreover, economic inequality itself can destroy markets.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/8/8/16112368/pi...
You don't. You just pick the ones that are in a hiring freeze or actually see the value of what you can demonstrably deliver in a quick turnaround time
I like how you simultaneously blame them for spending too much money and for using cheap services too. And also blame them for relocating to place where the jobs are supposed to be.

I also like how everyone blames Millennials for lack of responsibility and then complains about them doing responsible choices - be it living cheap, postponing having children, having sex later and not dating enough, going less to restaurants, being overly focused on grades ... all real complains I have seen last weeks.

There is nothing hypocritical about demanding low wage workers protections, higher taxes for richer segments population, healthcare reform and the same social services other western countries have. You may disagree with those policies, but buying cheap toys at Walmart is in no way opposition to them.

Uber being artificially cheap is not Millenials doing.
Really? 5 years seems really long to me. A university is only 4 years.

Changing companies every few years helps to expand networks and learn new skills.
I don't mind it as "character in contemporary show eats Frosties cereal rather than shredies"

When Captain Kirk answers his Nokia phone while drinking his Budweiser, that's when I hate it.
Try asking directions in accented English in Paris.
I agree with your analysis and think we're very close to talking about the same thing. The difference between gen-x and millennials is that boomers told both groups the same lies, it's just that gen-x didn't believe them. Gen-x cynicism is a real thing.

We're back to my original point of millennials not being close enough to boomers to know that they were lying (or ill informed).
Thank you for that catch!
> Sea levels are projected to rise from 0.6 to 6 meters this century.

I think you mixed up the units, the article says

> 0.2 meters to 2.0 meters (0.66 to 6.6 feet)
If your environment is changing every few day, just do a snapshot when you think the new environment is better. Keep a few snapshots to be able to go back to a previous image - like after installing some wacky software. When you overwrite the image, it will revert to the previous state, that's guaranteed :-)

I also lack the context to recommend you a better solution. I do not like adding complexity unless it is needed. Hard drives are cheap. It may not worth the hassle to do something more complicated.

Honestly, if the above is sufficient, don't even bother with a VM at first. Just reboot to Linux when you need to go back to a given image. It will take a few minutes, half an hour top, and you're good to go.

A VM makes sense if you are short on space for the snapshot AND you would benefit from it -- like if you are doing half your work in Linux anyway, or if you have some specific security constraints. It could also be because you can't even tolerate the minutes it take to restore an image.

Setting a VM with GPU passthrough/eGPU/kvm/Windows hosts/etc. is very tricky, especially when performance matters. I can't point you to a training source because it depends so much on the situation -- and it's evolving quickly too.

If you want training or a dedicated solution, I offer results oriented consulting services. Let me know your email and we can discuss a solution more tailored to your specific situation - I will recommend a specific setup, get it running for you, and train you on how to use and change it, so that you don't end up needing me after that.
Has there been any external verification of Jai?
The simplest solution is to just tell the user that they need to replace the battery with a popup.

The fact that they didn't implement it and that doing so might benefit them financially obviously leads people to assume malicious intent.
At your age also had this fear that turned true much faster since i come from GREECE. The only way i manage it is by putting my expertise on personal projects and sell my services really really cheap.
Real example:
Currently i am developing a lean version of a product for 2000Euro that a US company sells for 15000$ (That is the most a local client offered to pay)
I invest my personal time with the hope that if works fine i could sell more of them for a decent profit.
can confirm this was exactly the "well actually" tone I was going for in my comment, nice one
Thanks for pointing that out, but on that same thread the next answer says:

> If there is a need for them, additional decimal places can be added with concensus of the network. This is why some refer to "infinite" divisibility, because we can select the level that we need as time goes on.

Because this 8 decimal place limit can be extended later, my hypothesis that Bitcoin's money supply is effectively infinite cannot be rejected.
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I wonder what your context is. I've reviewed many hundreds of resumes from a dozen industries in the USA. 5 years truly is a long time in a single role for any corporate work experience from the last 15 years.
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Gen X grew up during the Cold War, Reaganism, Thatcherism, Wall Street malfeasance, AIDS, the crack epidemic. This is a little biased generalization of the '80s, but I think overall you could say the '90s were much more hopeful and sunnier in comparison. It was easier to believe in lies back then. Could you blame them for believing in their helicopter parents with their self-esteem culture and dot-com money?
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Not really. Beware you can be easily replaced in your new company without any compensation. Risk is often not accounted for. If you're a twenty something it's ok, but imagine you're a parent of 3 and you have to switch jobs every two years: unbearable.
I am in a similar but but now in UK and US vernacular in think "guy" or "guys" is becoming less gendered especially amongst younger workers.
On the other hand the cans of beans that had the word "Heinz" blacked out in 70s BBC programs are really distracting.
and to be clear, what Apple has is the ISA license. Apple's ARM CPUs are not just the reference design from ARM. I'm not enough of a hardware person to know if they are modifying the design or have implemented the ISA from scratch, but their chips seem to be significantly faster than anyone else's so they're clearly doing something smart :)
The discussion thread you are responding to was about one of the founders starting "a alt-right white boy club".
This seems all over the place. You're marketing this to, what, people who have experience in C and want a better experience?

Why is there a readme link to download a .zip of the repo? I know how to clone.

Why is there a link to wikipedia's section on object orientation? I know that.

I don't understand the updates section. v3 parser implemented...okay? How is that better? What?

Then this big example which looks a lot like vanilla C. Is this the sum of what Nymph offers?

What I really want to know, and what is absent is:

* What does this give me that ordinary C doesn't?

* What are the longer-term goals of this project?

* Who is this intended for?

* How compatible will this be with ordinary C? Is there an interest in, say, gradual migration if this is to take off? What's the C <=> Nymph interop to look like?
there is a reason people are drafted into army when they are just basically overgrown boys with malleable brain/mentality.

I heard about one other aspect to Tiananmen - 20 years before Tiananmen the young generation back then perpetrated the Cultural Revolution with all the related mass crimes and violence, in particular against the representatives of the older generations. To them, now 40-50 years old, the students at Tiananmen looked like the start of possibly something similar to Cultural Revolution and having been perpetrators themselves, they were very afraid of such a new thing starting, especially with them now possibly being the target, and this is why the society was in general ok with the thing crushed mercilessly right at the beginning. Again, i'm not a China expert, just heard/read things along these lines, and being from USSR (where in particular young revolutionaries fervor had been a thing) find such situation and its explanation pretty plausible.
Has anyone thought about this in terms of a hype cycle [1]? Basically, the theory says that any new technology will be hyped at first and then falls into a state of disillusionment, where all the hopes of the first phase are shattered. Finally, when integration barriers etc are resolved the technology picks up.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle
And I've seen no compelling evidence that regulation adds anything to technological progress. In fact I've personally experienced quite the opposite. Have you ever worked on a global tech property? The EU and Germany in particular have some pretty onerous regulations regarding content that can be published (even on user generated content services). You will waste real man hours complying with these regulations. You'll also forgo legitimate innovation in favor of this mollycoddling busy work.

I don't want to ask permission from the state to build something and I surely don't want them involved with my endeavor once I get going.

You can experience these effects first hand if you try to build something innovative and it takes off.
previously discussed at [0].

Suggestions for the author:

Define the grammar in BNF and the semantics in prose.

Consider using a lexical scanner generator, a parser generator, and a string library.

Don't call strlen in a loop[1], many of your for loops are O(n^2) instead of O(n).

malloc returns uninitialized memory. Calling strcat on the return value of malloc[2] is a bug.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15045592

[1] https://github.com/roecrew/nymph/blob/master/nymph/helper_fu...

[2] https://github.com/roecrew/nymph/blob/master/nymph/nymph_pp....

Edited to add the last two sentences.
Tesla's giant battery bailed out a coal power station nearly 620 miles away
I know lazy developers. They would just copy and paste the api call three times. And if the api call really only needs to happen three times they might be lauded for taking a pragmatic approach rather than over engineering.
Recently I saw a question asking if there were any social impact projects going on that were using blockchain technologies.

I have no idea how blockchain technologies can apply to social impact projects; all I could come up with was verifying that my donated can of soup made it into the hands of Homeless Joe via a verifiable route, but I don't know how much I'd need that. I trust that the soup kitchen [or whatever] directly feeds people, and if I didn't I'd be volunteering up front as well or not even bother at all.

Perhaps again I just haven't applied my imagination to it.
Once there were coal miners. Today they are SW programmers. The INDUSTRY needs you!!!
> I've heard the same. I wasn't a fan of pgAdmin 3 either, so I've stuck with the psql command line.

In case you haven't heard of it, I highly highly recommend pgcli[1] if anyone reading this is doing the same as you and me but hasn't highly customized their psql shell yet. It's one of those tools I wish I had known about earlier.

1. https://www.pgcli.com/
Well, "profit sharing" literally describes all possible potential (good and bad) solutions to the problem. How do you determine what is a good vs bad solution?
I've said in quite a number of times, whenever any prediction of the magnitudes given, it behooves those making the such predictions to answer the energy equation first.

Until they do in any sort of reasonable way, all such predictions are completely bogus and do not do give those promulgating such predictions any veracity.

The politically correct dogma of anthropogenic climate change (ACC) has given rise to a situation where those who believe in climate change and who believe that it is mostly natural are classified as climate change deniers by ACC dogmatists and are classified by climate change deniers as climate change freaks.

Climate change is inevitable. However, we do not know what we can mitigate and what we have to endure. We need honest research and not this current politically correct based research being undertaken today.

It is an unfortunate reality that greed is a cause of many human and social related problems and that any natural climate change the planet is undergoing only enhances those human social problems.

If we continue on the politically correct bender of trying to lower CO2 levels without understanding the long term consequences, we are going to kill ourselves. Within very specific limits there is a broad range of CO2 levels (much higher than current levels) that would be highly beneficial to the planet and to us. This is based on evidence released in the last couple of years.

There is much to recommend not polluting our planet, but focussing of the furphy that is CO2 mitigation is wrong in oh so many ways.

We need to look at a holistic methodology to agriculture and manufacturing to ensure that these areas can be highly productive without the current attendant problems. There is more than enough capacity to feed and clothe the human population of this fair planet, but as people are, on the whole, greedy and self-serving, this is not going to happen any time soon.
So, this is my fault, for leaving in 2014?
Wet kitchens are a very sensible idea, for the kind of cooking that is done in them. Just hang around a hawker stir fry cart, and imagine 20 years of that smoke and oil mist raining down in your living room.
The problem with demanding better sourcing and information about this event is that has been brutally suppressed for thirty years. The attitude you espouse, while normally the correct one, here only serves the interests of the censors to suppress the truth.

The Chinese government should certainly be judged based on rumors such as these, until they open up their archives and allow free investigation of the events.
If this is what a consultant is I don't want to be one, or maybe this example is very particular to sales/marketing. Or maybe this same example can be applied to several domains meaning that as a consultant you can solve companies problems depending on your already established expertise.
"Why is there a readme link to download a .zip of the repo? I know how to clone."

- New users don't...

"Why is there a link to wikipedia's section on object orientation? I know that."

- Some people don't...

"What does this give me that ordinary C doesn't?"

- Simple Objects and function Overloading (it says this on the readme)

"What are the longer-term goals of this project?"

- Not entirely sure yet.

"Who is this intended for?"

- People who have interests in preprocessors and the C Language.

"How compatible will this be with ordinary C?"

- Very
> Yeah stubbing your toe is unpleasant but ultimately un harmful and does not last long.

As someone with ingrown toenails that has ended up at the podiatrist when I stubbed a toe badly enough, I respectfully disagree with your analogy. :)
Climate change is not the reason Jakarta is sinking. That is caused by the Jakartans themselves.
I blame them for not realizing their error and instead calling for state regulation and intervention. They'd probably get more support from gen x if they were listening to them instead of attacking their ideals (speaking in very broad generalities at this point).
I know enough to blame all the state's financial problems on it.
Building shells with a grain of salt
consultant that wanted to aim for the same as a 200k pa job would be charging around the $500 an hour rate to allow for down time holidays etc
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> There is a deep desire in the OO world to make custom, domain specific ontologies for every domain.

well, yes. A big selling point of OO was to allow big services company to have a crazy turnover, where everyone working on a codebase is fired and new hires can start being productive the next day on it. So everything has to be documented and named. Write the class you're assigned and don't do more ; you're just a microscopic cog in the machine.
Storm surges are more problematic than ocean level rises. Storm surges can be on the order of 10 to 20 metres. But still as per my comment above, energy equation please.
Super Mario Run, Pokemon GO, and Hearthstone are also made with Unity.
Agreed. They can have a $79 in-warranty battery replacement program but if no one knows about it, it does little good to point to its existence later.