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I understand that Jon Skeet was just doing a quick "brain dump" of his thoughts on Stackoverflow triggered by Rob Conery's tweet but his comments about "low quality" questions don't seem to actually address what Rob was complaining about. (Because Rob wasn't the one asking the "low quality" questions.)

I wish I could see the actual comments from others that irritated Rob but it seems like I can't find his SO profile. (Did Rob Conery delete his SO profile?[1])

Even if Jon Skeet's essay doesn't apply to RC, I think his assessment of "low quality" questions needs more dissection and it is missing a key psychology. He writes:

>This is a low-quality question, in my view. (I’ll talk more about that later.)

>[...]

>– but I think it’s important to accept that there are such things as low-quality questions,

Yes, Jon is correct that low-quality questions are a real problem but he's missing why they persist... the "askers" don't know enough to run their question through a self-diagnostic test to determine they are asking a low quality question. To beginners, it's a "high quality" question by one criteria: "I don't know the answer."

If they knew the answer -- they wouldn't be asking it! <-- That is the psychology that's very difficult to solve.

The SO experts want interesting and high quality questions to answer. If no questions were filtered out (closed), there would be too much crap to wade through and the site becomes a waste of their volunteer time. On the other hand, the beginners want their questions answered. Their questions being closed is a "toxic" environment and "unwelcoming."

I've given a lot of thought about what the optimal Q&A website would look like and I've determined you always have an unresolved tension between naive beginners and experts.

I would challenge anybody to come up with a Q&A system that filters questions in a way that the majority of askers who got their questions closed/deleted will agree that it was "fair".

To get a usable site, you have to favor the answerers over the askers because the experts are the ones contributing the valuable content.

[1] https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:YFH2o5...
I still get tired of the shoes, they still smell, fashion keeps on changing and 10 year old shoes are not the same as new shoes, no matter how good they are.

Most shoes last for years, even cheap ones. I still put them in thr cellar after 2-3 years.

Those shoes would be good as my only shoes in a Mad Max world. Mmmm ... not even, I would prefer trekking shoes.
The default on EU imports is customs duty. Certain countries (iirc Switserland, Norway and a few others) have trade agreements that waive the fees both ways.

I assume at time of brexit UK will have such a treaty, but it isn't guaranteed.
How do we measure struggle here?

Looking at data for the small town I grew up in (current population: 1,200), it has grown by nearly 20% in the last five years. Compared to the nearest major city (~150 miles away), the median household income is 16% higher and the median individual income is 32% higher. The unemployment rate is 22% lower. None of that seems to indicate struggle to me, and anecdotally being able to get back and visit time to time, it doesn't feel like it is struggling. Booming seems more appropriate.

What may be notable is that the largest employer in town is a tech company who seems to have done quite well for itself, now employing about 150 people. I would suggest the town is doing well because of this company and the spinoffs that have come from it's success. That suggests to me that it may simply be that success begets success. Cities boom because they have have preexisting success stories to build from, small towns not necessarily.
I have noticed a great overlap between crypto-fundamentalists and conspiracy theorists.
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Is it your view that all politicians roughly speak the same amount of lies vs. truth? That Trump's message is the same as Obama's message which is the same as any other political message?
300 million people, $19 Trillion economy, $4 TRILLION budget and we cannot pay $10 million a year ($100m for 10 yrs) for an independent study for something that affects the lives of maybe 100 million Americans. Something wrong?
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The answer seems to be to use Chrome. Other browsers get the paywall.
I can agree with that from the perspective of a single front-end. If I were building multiple front-ends for different platforms, I’m less sure.

I do think that developers who have previously only worked with web tech have a distorted idea about native platforms though. I spent my whole career working on the web, intimidated by the complexity of native apps. It turned out that native UI toolkits really are very well suited to building native UIs with minimal effort!
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The point is to compare the experience of collaborating deeply with someone who is physically present vs. someone who isn't, not the organizational dynamics of a partial-remote team. I don't think it's terribly controversial that collaborating in person is much, much easier. It might be rational to make a conscious tradeoff to optimize for labor and real estate costs vs. collaboration efficiency, especially if you only need to coordinate your separate tasks vs. genuinely work together on the same design and problem-solving activities. But it's entirely unsurprising to me that innovation is more likely to come from collocated teams.
This has the exact opposite effect. It bolsters the tech companies in their negotiations against ISPs.
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Can I share my low-quality disappointment that the primary article image is a 1.1MB PNG of (I assume) Tim Berners-Lee. No wonder it loaded slowly.
Self driving cars because of DARPA? Hmmmm. Interesting. Gotta read up on that.

May I ask name of the Genesis project for self driving cars?
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> You basically asked how to architecture a security aspect of your software. And you asked for other people's experiences to boot, instead of a canonical solution.

That's exactly what I want to discuss on SO.

Most SO questions/answers are things that could easily be googled/RTFM with 5 minutes worth of effort. Seasoned developers/architects don't need that, and to be frank, it's pretty low-hanging fruit and not super valuable.

What is valuable are opinions, experiences, perspectives on trade-offs and engineering considerations. These are, of course, highly personal and subjective. But that's why it's so important - it's this kind of experience that people pay high salaries for, not answer to specific code one-liners.

If SO isn't willing to provide that kind of discussion, they're going to very susceptible to someone who starts up a competing platform to do so.
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One thing that stands out compared with other modern painters of similar subject matter is the general blurriness of his paintings. I was a little surprised with that.
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Agreed.

Do you or someone else have a good idea on where to incorporate? I'm a EU citizen finishing my software based service, and while I can comply with all the EU rules after having cash flow, while bootstrapping I just can't take that risk alone.

Are there any good resources to read up on these things? Books, blogs? What kind of lawyer should one consult in the country where you incorporate?

Would opening a Delaware LLC be possible/preferable for a non-US-citizen? Or are we talking carribean
A generator may have multiple yields, if you call next(), then it comes from that call to the last yield call - based on the current execution context. The yield waits that the execution comes back to it.

The idea of function calls is much simpler - no yield magic necessary.
I happen to have a SO profile that tries to capture the essence of what Jon wrote.

When I "do" respond to posts asking the "asker" to elaborate on that question with more details, I imagine the asker visiting my profile and, probably squishing my avatar with bare hands...

If there are people out there that feel that way I am sorry...I am only trying to help.

But that is the problem. There is frustration on the asker's part. Always. There is also frustration on the "answerers" part too. But this is a perennial problem. And its not going to go away soon.

But at least the stuff Jon mentions in points...for both "askers" and "answerers"...they help. They are like commandments. Abide by them.
Are you talking about fillings? Confusing to link to a generic article about mercury if so.
I used to feel the same way, especially as a VIM user. Why is every IDE worse than VIM, and why do I have to learn a new IDE for Python, C++, PHP, and Java?

Enter the Jetbrains IDE. The same basic program for almost every programming language and a terrific VIM plugin to boot. It's on the order of $100 per year. Well worth the cost, and the only non-FOSS code on my computer other than the MP3 codecs.

I usually don't use the built-in Git commands in PyCharm, but I do use the built-in terminal to perform Git operations. The only Git work I do with the IDE directly is resolve merge conflicts, because that specific tool is terrific.
Doesn't look like it from the Github repo. The code has no imports of any view frameworks other than bootstrap and jquery. Looks like he wanted to get to business as soon as possible!
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Ask HN: Why didn't no company gave free hosting for hosting your live projects?
We have Github/Gitlab etc where you can host code for free but there almost no free webhostings that offer you to use their service to host your project for free. Why didn't anyone work in this area?
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Though to be fair, the latest EU standards demand diesels have ‘Ad blu’ tanks that add Urea to the catalytic converts, mitigating most NOx emissions. So at least we are doing something about it.
I keep a Google Drive for that.
There's still communities for niches. Subreddits, Facebook groups, forums, Slack instances etc.
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> Profits are always shifted legally

That is highly debatable. Companies and wealthy individuals obtain "legal opinions" from lawyers stating that these schemes are legal, but that is just cover from criminal prosecution.

Any government can declare any of these schemes invalid at will and impose any tax they want. Taxation at this level is a complicated business though. These corporations are larger than most of the world's governments and their owners are permanent not elected.
I think this is often the perception - and I understand why, because I shared it for a very long time - but I don’t think it’s true.

Building a simple UI for multiple platforms may be somewhat more time consuming than a single cross-platform Electron implementation. This will scale with the complexity of the UI.

This particular application has about the simplest UI imaginable. Consume some keystrokes, render some rows of text. Implementing this is any native UI platform will not be hard - but it will reduce the memory footprint, rendering time, and application bundle size.

Native UI frameworks are actually really good at rendering simple applications on their platforms. There’s usually plenty of documentation and good development tools. Building an application using one of them is definitely different from web tech - but I don’t think it qualifies as hard. And I reckon it would be useful for more of us to experience as many different platforms as possible - it’s a great way to learn!
What drives me nuts are askers who either never choose a correct answer, or choose an incorrect answer (which also gets upvotes) so the first correct answer is buried 3-4 deep.

So many times I have read the most-voted and accepted answer thinking, “this is completely wrong”
The application we are talking about literally is nothing more than a text entry and a list of styled text labels to display the results.
Perhaps this is a good reason for a stronger social safety net.

In other words, while on the one hand it is important to eliminate jobs that produce zero or negative value, or even ones that offer value lower than their total economic costs (which includes opportunity costs--ie children who learn more effectively by another teacher, or on their own), on the other hand it is very difficult to tell people they should be losing their job. One way to fix that is perhaps to entitle everyone to basic needs.
> That's exactly what I want to discuss on SO.

Is discuss the keyword here? Because a back-and-forth is not exactly what the Q&A format enables.
Experience? I would much rather have the freedom, and reliability of a native platform than to deal with HTML’s limitations, poor performance, and having to worry about the „optimal rendering path” that’s basically black magick you have little control over.

HTML breaks in ways you won’t predict. Some things you’ll have to hack together so hard you’ll want to take a shower afterward. And it’s only a matter of time untill that piles up enough to justify using native UI from the start.
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But if you want to understand it, I think appeals to German essentialism would be among the worst ways.
> If SO isn't willing to provide that kind of discussion, they're going to very susceptible to someone who starts up a competing platform to do so.

Isn't that kinda what hackernews is? The breadth of discussion here is far more varied than hackernews. I'd also think a place like lobste.rs or maybe an architecture specific slack would be a good spot for this.

I personally think it is fine for SO to set boundaries of what is acceptable discussion, and at the same time it is ok for you to be frustrated with that and think of other places to ask your (very valid) question.
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> It cares about consumption, which there will be more of if things can be produced most efficiently.

This is part of the problem. Production doesn't occur in a vacuum, and the most efficient methods of production are often either terrible for the workers, terrible for the environment, or terrible for society.

Pure, unfettered globalization would be ideal if the goal was production and wealth generation maximization because it maximizes the labor pool and capital allocation efficiency, but those shouldn't be the only things that governments and economists worry about.
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It is written in the article that the author had experiences with electron.

> they chose the worst of all worlds, both development and user.

to me this looks needlessly inflammatory, the whole point of the post is "hey, electron has a bad name for both lags and high memory and CPU usage, but with rust i was able to get its benefits without its common drawbacks". If you think this is so ridiculous i think some more explanations are needed.
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I doubt vectorization (automatic or not) was relevant during Turbo Pascal's era.
I think I'd argue there is no difference other than possibly as some kind of economic signal which I try and avoid.
Can he please be upbeat on the 30th birthday of the web?

Tim Berners-Lee, Alan Kay, (and to a lesser extent) Richard Stallman do a lot of messaging that is "this is not what I had in mind." It's good but it might be interesting to see each of them talk about what we've gotten right for a change.
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In Portuguese version of SO, most of the questions are very basic programming and smell as course homework that the student is asking SO to answer. Whoever does this kind of question is not simply naive: he is lazy and gives the profession a bad name. No point in being helpful and forthcoming.
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>Profits are always shifted legally.

That doesn't mean it isn't a problem.
It sounds like one generated by an SEO-bot too... Tell-tale: it keeps repeating his name, because sentences that refer to him with "he" do not make good search result snippets.
That's definitely not true. Travel to some country on the other side of the world and you can appreciate for yourself that, subcultures aside, there is a large body of shared cultural beliefs and practices that most of us more or less share.
"Feligen, the only veterinary vaccine tested, proved to be the only sample free from inorganic contamination"

This isn't making me feel too great...smh

On the plus side, the cited paper [1] on probiotics is new information for me. I might try some more probiotics and see how they affect my mood.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27756430/ (Microbiota and neurologic diseases: potential effects of probiotics.)
At least then third-party DRM services, which could in theory work on any platform, would be viable.

With this "plugin interface" the DRM only has to come from the OS vendor. This is why you're now starting to see certain Netflix resolutions only working on certain browser. The browser vendors have already started abusing the real power of DRM: control over competition.
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That's also what I thought. This is a dissertation on multilayer perceptrons using backprop over Clifford type neurons by Sven Buchholz: https://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/inf/Sommer/doc/Dissertati...
> Technically a plugin interface was defined as a web standard, what it connected to didn't necessarily have to contain DRM

> Of course in practice it was designed for DRM (and makes little sense outside of that)

So "WELL ACKCHYUALLY" but in defense of DRM?

Perhaps if the veneer of legitimacy is so transparently thin that you can't even be bothered to defend it yourself, you could just not grant it that legitimacy. The academic points really don't matter compared to the fact that you are defending stuff that is hurting us.

LPT: the cause that you are exercising your debate skills in favor of actually does matter, all causes are not actually equal.
I'd like to see various serverless providers adopting this interface (Service Workers) as well. Currently AWS Lambda needs some mapping in API Gateway and a handier function. Google Cloud Functions use express-like interface and so forth.
Perhaps but there are issues with that. Users downloading a random app for every other site they visit is not a good habit to promote.

Secondly it would be very hard to convince the likes of Google and MS that DRM doesn't belong in the browser, especially because the industry wants it. The inconvenience of separate apps is precisely what would make them look for alternatives.
How would you know if there were counterexamples? By definition they would not be telling you about it.
So if he builds a big one can he knock down bridges?
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The rich are keeping that money in their own circles, thus only funding the things they themselves care about. They are big time tax dodgers, because they don't want to accidentally fund something that benefits the poor.
I know what your saying about tone. But a retort like that in the building trades is pretty gentle.
I live in the Northeast and most Christians won't really bring it up unless they know you pretty well (frankly I'm the same because I'm not that interested in having to defend myself or being treated like a hick).
Most applications I have tried feel slow as well; especially when running for a while.
I respectfully disagree with him about regulation.

If open technology failed by becoming closed, it should be another open technology that defeats it, not some government.

Instead if regulating old tech, they should come up with ways to encourage implementation of open and decentralized technologies.

This pendulum swing between centralization and decentralization is almost a given and I'm sure it will happen in one way or another if history is any evidence. It sucks that the world works the way it does, but this frustration is exactly what will spur innovation.

Trying to solve this with regulation will do more harm than good because it will only slow down the potential innovation that will inevitably come as the frustration intensifies. It will come naturally because people become fed up with all the bullshit in the world.
Cities are the future for the foreseeable future. Beyond benefits in information exchange they are also much more efficient in terms of energy usage and hence a great way to reduce energy consumption until we’ve finally solved our energy-related issues
Which are often immediately sold to the general public in a used book sale.
The reason I didn't recommend Illustrator is that, like Phostoshop, it is powerful and rich in features but also has a clunky and clumsy interface. It is not as optimised or streamlined for UI design as newer apps such as Sketch or Affinity Designer (IMO).

Illustrator is subscription-based too, unlike Sketch and Affinity Designer. For example, purchasing Sketch gets you one year of updates, but if you don't upgrade or renew after a year you can keep using the version of the app you downloaded. This is different from Adobe's subscription model where the moment you stop paying your monthly or yearly subscription fee, the app stops working.
That’s the point though: when StackOverflow was born, people used forums to discuss such things. And forums had this annoying property of you having to scroll past a dozen opinions, off topic dicussion, and other rubbish to find the answer.

The whole philosophy of StackOverflow was that it wasn’t about sharing opinions, discussions, etc. - it was about questions that have an answer.

Jon’s post points out this difference: that some askers want to ask a question, but haven’t taken the time to understand what makes StackOverflow different to the discussion forums of old.
The DRM is not a web standard. Thinking about it, it might actually be better if it was. An open DRM scheme could be reviewed by independent security researchers and open source cross platform implementations could be created.
> I hope as you progress through your career you learn to be more respectful of diverse ideas. I'm a software engineer, I have to have discussions with designers and business people who also sometimes ask for things that just aren't reasonably doable given time and budget constraints. It's our job as professionals to explain this using a tone and words that educates others on what the technical constraints are.

Funny. I inferred the tone as having levity. One, or both, of us is projecting.
That might be caused by GC, which is ultimately caused by memory usage and the runtime attempting to reduce that.
The impact of globalization against rural communities is one of the biggest reasons why there is the anti-globalization push. Sure, local makers may not be as nice as a large company, but when items are shipped from overseas instead, jobs and manufacturing are no longer pushed to rural areas anymore, leading to big cities being the only areas to grow.
If you don't use something that often then it turns out that buying a fancy one was money wasted. When I buy power tools I usually go for the cheapskate version and figure if it breaks I'll buy a better one next time.
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