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>> ergo it cannot just be about transporting people from A to B if the pilot has no need himself to go from point A to point B.

Is that true even if there is no money involved? If your friend needs a ride from A to B and you were looking for an excuse to go flying that should be alright assuming you're not compensated for it. Or is that not right? Your parents are in another state and want to come visit, so you go pick them up via plane. That's certainly alright. I've never heard of it being an issue unless money was involved or a business trip.
IMNAT [I'm not a typographer.] I think that the vertical lines are too thin.

Is it possible to create a gif with the text? Can you add some adjustments for the speed, and the time between letter?
What is going to happen with WHOIS and GDPR?
[Citation-needed].
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> But a flawed language cannot be made non-flawed while keeping backwards compatibility

Sure it can. Just introduce new syntax and discourage use of old syntax, ideally with tooling. For example, `var` is disallowed by any popular lint config, and for most practical purposes, it doesn't exist in JS anymore. The execution environment will still handle it, but it's not an available option when writing code in any professional or non-professional project I work on (because it won't pass lint).

Plenty of languages do this: Java raw types, Python old-style classes, goto in lots of languages. Python actually did a breaking change to remove old features, and it's a good example of how breaking changes can cause much more trouble than you might expect.
this is a very insightful article! i have worked quite a bit with bpms'es, apache camel and such and experienced the inflexibility, brittleness myself..

so any larger application can become very easily 'overengineered' and of less value to the bricoleur.

there are some good examples of bricolage systems mentioned here, like unix shell commands etc.

but in a more application design-specific context targeted to 'normal' (non-technical) users i was wondering if flow-based programming (e.g. noflojs.org) could offer a better balance between well-engineered small (maybe even tiny) building blocks and bricolaging them based on personal preferences (e.g. visually) to bigger, useful apps.

flow-based programming had a good uptake initially, but i'm not hearing much about it of late..

any opinions or experiences?
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I find that tradeshows and conferences are good for this. Just be honest and upfront with people what your intent is. And stay out of the way if one of their customers show up.
Sequel: small and very easy to grok, used it on several small projects. Things get tricky if you try to scale it, so best for projects which are, by their nature, limited in scope.
This is an extremely interesting project, but when I logged in I found it difficult to find someone to interact with.

It might be that I joined a pub with very little traffic, I haven't spent much time on it and I plan to have another look when I have some free time.
Because you might not fit in "culturally". Which is BS. I've noticed that going to work for many, primarily younger, people is more a social thing than a professional one. I see lots of time spent talking about and focusing on what people did in the 16 or so hours since they last saw each other at work. Mondays are the worst as sometimes an hour or more is blown catching up on what everyone did over the weekend. People and teams are lacking direction and focus. These younger teams need stronger leaders able to focus and re focus the culture and discussions on achieving organizational goals. These "work is social" folks fear those who might make them look bad by focusing on Getting Shit Done rather than focusing on people's personal lives. This isn't to say we shouldn't care about people and their lives outside of work, we should be empathetic, but it shouldn't be what the team gels around.
I have this notion that in time, as people's general comfort level interacting with computers and advanced computing platforms like Python become rote. That computer interfaces will be more REPL like, and less application, or GUI like. That the principle of general computing will be applicable at interaction level, not application level, if you will.

Future users may consider today's restrictive GUI interfaces as quaint anachronism of the stupid ages.
Hourly timmers completly removes this problem.

For example in upwork, when you activate desktop app's hourly timer it takes screenshots at random times and sends them to upwork server(so client can review your work).

That way freelancer will stick to work.

This has really boosted my own performance
I have played the same mind game. Literally nothing would change for me if facebook/twitter/instagram/snapchat ceased to exist now. Whatsapp I use but with friends who I have other contact info, like a phone number...
Google on the other hand is immensely useful.

It still amazes me that there are so many billions of advertising dollars to prop up something as useless as facebook and their snowflake-innovator-genius engineers with over 100k salaries.
Looks like we're in agreement on the fundamentals :-)

My point here is that renewable energy has an ecologic footprint that goes beyond the ostensible animal deaths caused by the blades of wind turbines. It is a zero sum game, and it is disruptive in ways we can't all anticipate (especially in an economic growth context).

Whether or not other organisms are conscious is not very relevant to our survival. What's relevant is how useful they are to environmental stability.

Also re. taking care, nature is generally brutal. Few wild organisms die of old age, sipping mojitos on the beach.

Starvation, injury, disease or being eaten is the norm, and that chaos is part of what makes ecosystems resilient (within bounds that we're currently breaking).
“A decade ago” is more than “3-6 years” of experience - is that your argument? Because he doesn’t have 3-6 years experience working woth others, or realizing that the problems he’s solved were solved decades ago and those solutions can be found in the right places, or living with the reality that out in the workforce he’s most likely not the brilliant unique snowflake his family thinks he is.
> Not saying that that means you're wrong.

Your statement presumes that the typical conception of "free will" does indeed exist and that this is a universally held position. As a counterpoint, determinism has many backers.

A typical (grossly simplified) physicalist response to your claim is that the illusion of "choice" is really the result of complex processes playing out.
Well, how about this then:

class ExampleClass {
example() { console.log(this.v); }
}

Called as such:

const e = new ExampleClass();
e.example.apply({ v: 'One' });
e.example.apply({ v: 'Two' });
You mean a single point of failure central database? How much uptime do you expect for such a database? 99.9%?
Where is this database located? In US while I do payments in Australia?

I think you are seriously underestimating the complexity of a decent payment system.
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The onboarding process seems indirect. It involves visiting the website. Using a phone. And then, I don't know what. But those complications are not a reason for optimism.

I say this because that's as much feedback on the project as I can offer. Since I am not likely to be user or customer, I checked it out only to provide you with feedback in the spirit of "Show HN". The more your "Show HN" shows the easier it is for people to provide feedback.

My intuition is that the more your "Show HN" shows, the more likely potential users/customers are to consider your project. I could be wrong. Requiring a text message to see more is an unexpected requirement when it comes to apps.

Good luck.
I think it is valuable to keep a decent profile before you need/want to use it. That is if you hope to use it in the future.
The business of society is ensuring that nobody else f$%^s with my business - not telling me what to do with it. The only gray area is when I'm doing something that affects others.
Is this class implemented in Solidity?
agree with you.. isn't this interpersonal computing part of the vision for The Decentralized Web and current decentralization efforts (or vice versa)?
> An idea I've had on 10x developers... in the long term they steer the code base...

Agreed. And on the flip side, you can have -10x developers that make all the wrong choices, like inventing and entrenching their own language or crappy framework for reasons of boredom or ego.

I suspect that junior developers are less likely to be net-negative to that degree. Perhaps it's one unarticulated reason employers tend to prefer inexperienced engineers. If the employer can't tell the difference between a 10X and a -10X developer (the guy pitching the UML-based python code generator or the guy who really likes cucumber?), it's typically easier to hire smart people who are still learning and trust your existing technical leaders can get value out of them.
Reminds me of the Scan Processor Studies by Woody Vasulka & Brian O'Reilly. https://vimeo.com/7517418

Really eerie stuff.
This is really just an ad. You have to give an email address to learn about "peak moments" which takes you to a video promoting a $27 journaling course
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Not so sure. People who've been living here often can't just go back to where they come from. They wouldn't have moved to the UK if the situation in their countries was better.

The effect so far of Brexit is to stop the flood of newcomers, not making establishing people leave. It's good as a developer, less competitors for the same amount of jobs.
And sometimes they invent a framework that hits all the right design points, but junior engineers can't read a book about them or take a class about them, so don't understand and badmouth them as crappy and a result of boredom or ego.

Its hard to invent something, and have it get no traction because nobody else wants to move forward.

I've been at two startups that had frameworks that solved all the problems in the product space, efficiently and nearly perfectly. And failed because as the company grew, new Engineers all clamored for something simpler or something they already knew. They outnumbered the designer with their voices and management steered the company off the rails. It's tragic.
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given your interest for cryptocurrencies, shouldn't you make this a decentralized app.. or is it?

but then it would be like Mastodon and already exists :)
> Julia Lovell, a British historian, makes a similar point. In her book “The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China”, she says the move into opium by British traders was not, as claimed by many Chinese historians, a deliberate conspiracy to make narcotic slaves of the Chinese. “It was a greedy, pragmatic response to a decline in sales of other British imports,” she writes.

Is there a name for this fallacy? It seems to come up a lot. I.e., when someone takes an action that has enormous and predictable negative effects for someone else and a comparatively tiny positive effect for themselves, they then argue along the lines that "I was motivated by my gain, not by your loss (even though I knew it would result from my action), so you have no right to complain!"

In this case, it can be both a "deliberate conspiracy" and a "pragmatic response". They deliberately conspired to hurt the Chinese for profit, judging their suffering to be a less important consideration than their own profits.
"...such a statistical association is, well, meaningless..."

Good point, but it's even worse than meaningless. It's stereotype-reinforcing. That particular inference, that the role in society is such-and-such, so presume that the subject is male, is to be fought at every turn.

I would much prefer the awkwardness of "he/she" when the machine is uncertain rather than some "this is just the way things are" presumption.
Compared to ES5->ES6, I think these yearly bite-sized updates have indeed made it slow down and be much more manageable
Lisp is a family of languages, there hasn't been a single Lisp language since the 1960s. The different dialects of Lisp add new features.
Well, it is a number adp.com (site which helps to manage your retirement/payroll data) tells me.
I'm sorry but you're an idiot. If you haven't got a license to drive a car you shouldn't be driving on the road without close supervision by qualified driver, much less taking paying passengers.

Qualified drivers are dangerous. Unqualified unsupervised drivers are a lethality to everyone.
I'm a fan of a market with competition, the CPU market has not had a lot of that the past years, so I support AMD right.

Also, Threadripper is the best choice for price/performance, also easier to build a quiet single "cpu" machine, than a dual setup.
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Not CS but any study of limits in math, perhaps with differential equations. And it’s a useful term generally, much more likely to come up in conversation than “subtrahend” or “mantissa” but not nearly as much as “tangent.”
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A plane without a qualified pilot is ipso facto unsafe.
That problem I worked on all day? I'm still trying to solve it when I'm cooking, showering, washing dishes, etc. I'll solve it before I get to the office tomorrow. How should I track all that time?
The really crazy thing is how I found out about it. A friend in Austin's friend who I don't know was apparently at that restaurant in Shenzhen, ~10 miles north of where I live in Hong Kong, traveling on business, saw the menu, recognized my name from somewhere, told the friend in Austin who then passed on the message and pic to me. Small world.

China's a big country - makes me wonder what other menus I'm on!
But be honest, language has this odd 'gender' thing going on. Orthogonal to any interests about equality of the sexes. Not saying its right or helpful, but its there and a responsible translation algorithm has to take it into account.
Ha! That's a great idea!
Plus I'd argue that more vacation time would mean each employee has a more even spread of the workload. You depend less on individuals, and more on the team.
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Freelance is a desperate student who is working for free to create his portfolio.

You want to call yourself a "contractor", or better "a "consultant"
> The TapJets case hasn't even gone to court and the FAA has already punished them and issued a public statement before TapJets was even able to argue their case. They are guilty until proven innocent.

They are the regulator. They have the power to put in place temporary measures. Much like police can confiscate your driving license.

Sorry but I don't want my house squashed by a TapJet plane because the pilot got ill and the student pilot had no clue how to land the plane.
This analysis sounds correct to me. A credit "freeze" is governed by law and clearly outlines who is responsible if credit information is provided to agencies while the account is "frozen": the credit agency. It is not an agreement between the account holder and the credit agency; it's a protection dictated by the law. Lastly, since it is not a contractual agreement, you may sue the credit agency if the freeze is violated. While it's not clear on Equifax's website, I would strongly suspect that any violation of a "lock" is subject to arbitration.

Consumer Reports provides a sum-up of what they believe the differences actually are. I would say the very fact that Equifax is being so hazy on the differences is proof enough that the "freeze" is the way to go.

https://www.consumerreports.org/credit-bureaus/why-credit-fr...

This bit from the article strikes me as odd. They wonder if the credit agency will market more aggressively to people who opt for the credit lock, something that freezes do not allow. From the article:

"However, Consumers Union doesn’t recommend paying for credit monitoring. “What it does, consumers can usually do for free,” Tetreault says.

Plus, with a credit freeze you won’t be targeted by ads.

“These services may allow the credit reporting agency to market to consumers more aggressively for products that they may not need and/or shouldn’t pay for,” Tetreault says.
No idea. Ha!
Good point, but I tend to believe that no one kind of user interface can ever be complete, so the best kinds of programs will support multiple interfaces that can be used with people with varying levels of skills and familiarity, to accomplish the program's tasks. Point and click GUIs will always have their place for those who have very little or no familiarity with software concepts.
By adjusting your pay rate.

As a society, we agree on pay for hours. We pay more for folks who bring more, better solutions during those hours. How they do that is beyond the employment agreement's scope.

Short of being a contractor with a fixed-price-on-delivery contract, we'll have to be content with that.
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Well, my thought is that, on average, learning people have less organizational impact than experienced people, both in a positive and a negative direction. You get the risk more concentrated in super-senior engineers. Hiring a dozen net-uninformed college grads would do the trick, too, though.
This seems like an example of letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. Translation without any loss of veracity is extremely difficult, even for human translators, and failure to clear that bar doesn't constitute nonsense. If instead we consider that I don't know a single word of greek, nor even read the alphabet, I can put that text into Google translate, and with a minimum of contextual knowledge of Vassiliki and perhaps Maria, I can get perhaps 80% of the meaning of the paragraph with zero effort. Same deal for the sentence with the teacher; the number of situations where the gender of the teacher is the pivotal point of meaning in the sentence would be very low.

That's huge, it's leaps and bounds beyond what I could even begin to achieve without months of training before. I have literally read and made basic sense of signs, posters and menus in greek without even being able to read the alphabet. How is this not substantial progress on "the actual problem of translation"?
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But it costs money to go to the doctor now and it doesn't end up looking anything like this.
We were going that route, and then I'd say Windows' and Mac's market acceptance proved otherwise.

I think the argument might there for interfaces to scale more fluidly from GUI to text (e.g. every GUI command is text mapped and shows you). But the on ramp to text is too difficult for new users...
The problem is that not all humans are decent. The more of them you hire, the more likely one of them is the asshole who will take advantage of flexibility and ruin it for the rest.
Most, if not all, of Eric Elliot's writing is just an advertisement for himself. Notice also how most of the references he links are his own articles.
“Chomsky might win...with Norvig”

...better to see Schank over Cherniak
Cops won’t need a warrant to pull the data off an autonomous car
Nonsense. Point and click is useful for anyone who uses a tool infrequently and wants to make progress without resorting to a manual. Honestly the average app is not so complex its fundamentals cannot be represented as point-and-click. Its partly ego that keeps people on command lines. As expressed in that comment, which has a vibe of chest-beating.
Mopeds with people riding with flip flops or sandals. Shutter.
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This is more or less the ongoing wider state of 3D software. There’s a pile of exceptions to every rule around each corner. If anything, coding has become less important as better software design evolves.
It may seem pointless, but trading like this is actually incredibly useful. It (mostly) removes emotion from the equation, thus lowering the chances of market shocks and decreasing volatility.
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Its the medium-experience Engineers that pose the risk then, of having enough knowledge to talk, but not enough experience to appreciate the fine points of what they're talking about. They fool management with plausible but wrong arguments. In my experience anyway.

And today, the demographic may be skewed toward just that group.
...and the drivers. With ICE cars a lot of it is fake, the engine note comes through the stereo and only one of those big fat exhaust pipes is connected up, the rest mere decoration.

So what if we add in a manual style gear box and fake clutch pedal to an all electric car so that any of the old-fashioned petrol cars can be simulated? With active suspension the full stall experience can be added too. Even the handbrake could be faked for 'handbrake turns'.

For a 'track day' you could choose between many retro 'super-cars' and 'drive' them without the inconvenience of having to get in them or pay the repair bill for crashing the original 'antique'.

In reality, whilst the 'driver' is having great fun thinking he is experiencing what grand-dad's noisy car was like, the car can be driving itself, much like how a horse gives the impression that steering input is needed but is okay on autopilot.
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Thank you very much for sharing those results!
I think about this from time to time, it's sort of the difference between using the computer and using an application.
I posit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suppressed_correlative - tries to redefine a correlative (one of two mutually exclusive options) so that one alternative encompasses the other, i.e. making one alternative impossible
Agreed. I edited my comment to add what I think would be a reasonable way to handle it. "he/she" is just silly for humans to say, but is seems appropriate when the text is coming from a machine and there is uncertainty.
I can’t think of a succinctly named fallacy, but the phrase “you can’t make an omelette without breaking some eggs” comes to mind.

If no one comes up with anything let’s call it “omelette making”.
It also distributes people through the airport to avoid localized crowding.