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My experience is that the self-publishing business is a _business_ that generates money from publishing and marketing books. If you decide to self-publish and self-market, all you are doing is skipping the publishing step of recruiting an author, and substituting the step of writing one or more books yourself.

The key insight here is that it is a business, and the actual writing of the book is incidental to the success of the business. I repeat, incidental. The main drivers of the publishing business is marketing to acquire more customers, and finding ways to build additional revenue streams to generate value from each customer.

If you don't care to know what LTVs and conversion rates are, you will not be happy running a publishing business regardless of who wrote the book(s) you are publishing.

The other road forward is to have a publishing hobby. Some hobbies make token amounts of money. I know two brothers who buy collectible corvettes, fix them up, drive them for exactly one Summer, and then sell them.

The money they make seems like a nice side-business, until you listen to them tote up the hours and expenses and tax implications. They would make way more money selling almost anything else part-time. And that is my personal experience with my own writing hobby.

The money sounds nice until you actually look at it as a business, and then you start asking why I am on Hacker News writing this comment when I should be curating my email list. The "problem," of course, is that writing is my hobby, not curating email lists.

So I believe you need to decide whether you have a business or a hobby. If it's a business, then you have to put 80% of your work into the activities that produce 80% of the revenue. And that is not writing, in my experience or observation.

Whereas with a hobby, you put 80% of your work into the activities that produce 80% of the happy juice in your brain. If writing does that for you, you can write and make a little something on the side that will pay for some discretionary lifestyle purchases. In my own case, that's things like a 1950s-era Rietveld Crate Chair.

Blatant Endorsement:

FYI, I publish with LeanPub http://leanpub.com, because it generates the maximum revenue for the small scale of my writing hobby, and its "lean" approach helps me maximize my contact with my readers as part of the writing process. Since writing is my hobby, that's a win for me.

They also help people with a writing business in some amazing ways, like their tools for creating courses, which helps generate more revenue from existing content, and the ways they help you build a mailing list so you can develop other revenue streams from your existing readers. If you want to build a business, they help you build your business.
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It is by Philz alone I set my mind in motion.
A good way to image this is, in 1969 for the moon landing they had to code the timestamps in negative. Of course it’s a joke but it tells a lot about how far that time was.
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Or he might like this, reorganised for his reading pleasure: https://paulross.github.io/pprune-concorde/docs/index.html
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Why I do what I do?
I'm curious what you mean. Is the problem that it is a constant function, or that you are asking them to ignore parameters? Or is that missing the point, still?
It's a classic chicken-and-egg problem. WordPress supports ancient versions of PHP because they want to be deployable on as many web hosts as possible, including ones that only provide ancient versions of PHP. And web hosts provide ancient versions of PHP because their customers (lots of which are WordPress users) don't demand they provide more recent ones.

It would be a huge help to the overall PHP ecosystem if WordPress started required PHP 7, as this would cut the knot and give those slow-moving Web hosts a reason to upgrade. But requiring PHP 7 would be a much smaller help to WordPress itself, as there's nothing in PHP 7 that WP really needs to do what it does, and dropping PHP 5 support would mean creating a non-trivial number of people for whom WordPress no longer "just works." (As the article notes, PHP 5.2 users only account for around 4% of the overall PHP audience, but the overall PHP audience is huge and 4% of "huge" still equals "a lot.")

So to a degree, asking WordPress to drop support for PHP 5 is asking them to take one for the team. It would be nice if they would, but I can understand why they wouldn't want to.
Hell, on this board itself, there are many people who will flat out say, "Hunger is not a problem in the US," when talking about people losing jobs.
Dislike of the EU != "gobshite."

I never said that it does.
> "Now, if you’re really going to speak Millennial, ritual has to be fundamentally subjective in the sense that it has to be intensely personally meaningful and relevant. As soon as it speaks to my truth, that’s authenticity—that’s how we define authenticity now"

... This is how venture capitalists spend their money.
It is "verboten" (lol) on the left because it has nothing to do with your skin color, and it has everything to do with the enviroment you grow up in.
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Your commit-messages are _not_ a changelog
I am not familiar with Erlang, so please forgive my ignorance in advance.

Is Erlang an abstraction on top of Core Erlang? I ask because the later is far more verbose than the former. Is there a performance or extensible benefit to this more verbose and precise form that I am not aware of?
I guess my question is: Can we still use it without Azure?
One big source of secular ritual is the military. And there's nothing more pragmatic and practical-minded than a military, so the fact they have so much ritual there really says something.
It's easy for Uber to point to this video to say: "Look know dark it was! If it was you driving, you'd be in the same problem we are in!"

Look how much time has passed to learn of the fact that it was Uber's sloppy programming at fault in this tragedy.

The good news for Uber is that this comes out far after the event when people are in general less likely to care, or even remember the details of the accident.
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> That's less than 5% improvement year-to-year

The aerospace industry isn't advancing anywhere near that fast. Most of the low-hanging fruit was picked over 50 years ago.

Case in point: The Pratt & Whitney PW1000G is a geared turbofan engine. From demonstrated prototype (1993), to flight testing (2008) to production (2016), it took _23_years_ to develop this engine. Efficiency improvement over baseline: 15-18%. That's quite a bit less than 1% y/y improvement.
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I think that's covered in the "despised and disrespected" part.
> “A function is like a machine where you put something in one end and something comes out the other end. For example, maybe you put a number in, and the number that is one bigger comes out. So if you put in three, four comes out, or if you put in six, seven comes out.”

Examples are such a useful tool to explain complex subjects and make them approachable.
Did aristocrats in the middle ages ascribe their position in society to their individual actions or to their being born into aristocracy?
May I mention to you that I differ from your interpretation?

> Objectively the real world is just what it is, one. No things at all. These are just models. The underlying world is still what it is. One.

What is the answer of 1+1?
WordPress and other large, popular projects got where they were by meeting their users where the users already are.

If I have to convince my webhost to install PHP 7 or I can't run your software, I'm not going to run your software. If I have to convince my webhost to install PHP 7 or I can't upgrade your software, I'm going to run the shitty old version until it gets hacked into a distribution site and the bandwidth use gets high enough for me to notice and turn the whole site off.

I'm not familiar enough with PHP these days to know, but if upgrading to PHP 7 is going to break the shitty old version, that's a problem too. (I think PHP has tended to be pretty good about not breaking things on upgrades though)
I suppose that was my perspective. We can wash our Boston terrier when she gets grubby, and she lets us cut her nails. She doesn't need any other grooming. She also practically trained herself too, and happily sleeps in her cage (or "den") while we're not at home during the day.

So sure, even living in the Bay Area, we're probably on the low end of average maintenance. But I also know a huge number of Midwest outdoor dogs that eat Ol' Roy food and don't see a vet unless they get something contagious. I'm sure you can spend $30K on a dog, but I've seen evidence that you can spend a fifth of that and still have a happy, healthy dog.
To folks who are complaining the trade-off between it's price and what it does offer: this dog is more about a robotic toy with animatronics similar to that of spot-mini than a cloud powered AI (i.e. siri/cortana/google). You are buying an AI powered hollywood level animatronic toy for 2 grands, I wouldn't say this is too expensive.
It's fun to talk to kids! Many of them are way more curious than most people are.
This yearly rate calculation assumes you spend 100% of your working hours on-contract, which is definitely not the case.
I had a project on my living room ceiling for a good while. If you stuff the LED strips into PEX tubing (common white plastic plumbing) you get a decently diffuse LED "stick".

I took 8 of these modules, about a meter long each, and hung them from the ceiling in a semi random pattern, mapped them to a 2D plane in software, and used MIDI data from Ableton live to trigger light patterns that would be played across the LED array. Decent party trick.

It unfortunately was mostly destroyed when someone fiddled with the variable voltage supply it was hooked up to in an attempt to turn it off post-party. Word to the wise: if there are knobs on equipment at a party (mixer, lighting, etc), people will inevitably fiddle with them. Design for this.
Well, any "next-gen, hyperscale AI system" at the level of Microsoft is going to be part hardware, part software, part infrastructure; the scale is simply too large these days to short-change any one of these and remain competitive.

Microsoft's network and the decoupling of the FPGA from the host machine are major aspects of Brainwave's success for them, but any successful project like this, even with different specific choices -- is going to largely be sustained off "boring" things like a solid networking backbone. Plus there are other concerns at this scale, like power usage, so just thinking of it in terms networking is misleading...

Microsoft has had major success with Brainwave and they seem committed to it, but overall the field is advancing pretty rapidly and there will be lots of competitors (not just FPGAs) in this space. And their needs and use cases are unique, so drawing generalized conclusions is a little tough.

(As a disclosure, I work on DNNs-on-FPGAs for $WORK, but am speaking generally.)
Dad of 8 here. It makes life so sweet when we acknowledge the child's capacities. Notice it didn't take that much patience...it's almost just a matter of creatively overcoming a language barrier.
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One of the great things about GDPR is that this sort of thing will be flatly illegal. Want to use my IP address to look up information about me? Great, so long as you ask for, and get, my explicit consent.
beautiful read, thank you. Does anyone collect these educational inspirational stories?
These past few months, me and a friend have teamed up as a developer and a designer with the goal of building a subscription manager that does the basics really well. That involves creating custom or popular subscriptions, sorting your expenses and multi currency support. We have an upcoming roadmap of features which includes detailed expense tracking and much more. The app is free to download, however here are a couple of premium promo codes for those that are interested.

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Checked two at random and they were empty:

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https://github.com/OpenGenus/cosmos/tree/master/code/randomi...

Smells like a scam, or somethin'.
Is this actual medicine or blogger stuff? I don't mean to be dismissive but most people I've seen talk about "microbiome" "gut" etc. seem somewhat quacklike
no doubt, the caterpillar drive was revolutionary and big source of fear in the West.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_October_(fictional_submari...
Well, you could be starting today ;)
>> Considering the lifecycle of a car vs an Android device, they better just build in a touch screen w/ a HDMI + USB connection, and let the compute brains get swapped out inexpensively ...

> This is literally what Android Auto and CarPlay are.

Except less open and less standards compliant?
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it is for people where the antibiotic havent been effective, which accounts for almost a third of all lyme cases.
Agreed, this was not smooth at all, and using a touchpad seems to make it worse.
The child was stuck on the intuition that the argument must change in some way (i.e. that the function was linearly typed).
It could also be that you write off the cost of the book-writing as an expense in an experience-establishment communications effort. Like building up your professional resume. In effect you are giving time and maybe a little money to be able to say "I'm an author who has published N books on this subject." That's part of the equation, if not the whole equation, for many people.
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Yes it's possible to think of it that way and it makes sense now! However, they should explicitly mention it in their license terms that the updates are provided on trial basis and valid for a year and those updates can be purchased as a version upgrade at the end of the year.
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A function with a linear type uses it's parameters exactly once. The concept of "linear type" doesn't relate to a the concept of "linear function" except in an abstract mathematical way.
This brings me back to ~20 years ago when my dad was explaining me Bresenham's circle drawing algorithm. I was 8 at the time I think.
Have you looked at Rosetta code before? I think OP has a pretty good point bringing it up..

http://rosettacode.org/
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In 50s cars were 15mpg in average. Today’s top tier mpg cars are over 120mpg. Order of magnitude. They are also safer, quieter, faster, cheaper in maintenance, etc.

Technology does enable 10x improvements over half a century sometimes.
Space elevators will be wonderful... if they are feasible. We have yet to identify a material with sufficient tensile strength to construct a space elevator, and may never do so.
And yet a number of "First/Business Class Only" airlines have failed.
Monetary inflation is not the only source of inflation. There is also cost inflation. If renters suddenly have additional disposable income, landlords will raise the rent to absorb the additional disposable income. And the same with housing buyers and sellers. Unless there is a mass migration from urban to rural areas, there will be a cost inflation that exactly equals the additional disposable income.

Cost of living adjustments will just make things worse. Annual increases in the basic income adjusted to inflation will cause an inflationary spiral and eventually hyperinflation. This is not a minor concern.
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When my son was around five or six, I did a similar exercise to explain the difference between prime and composite numbers.

I told him that a number X is composite if you can fit X apples into buckets and end up with the same number of apples in each bucket.

I drew 6 apples and asked whether they could be divided into buckets with an equal number of apples in each. It was immediately obvious that they could. My son circled one group of three apples, then another group of three apples.

Then I drew 7 apples. He realized that you couldn't divide 7 apples into baskets and have each basket contain the same number of apples.

Voila! A prime number.

Then we started talking about the frequency with which prime numbers occur on the number line, how important they are to fields such as cryptography, and the existence of dense Bragg peaks among primes in judiciously chosen intervals. By the end of the conversation, he had discovered a new recursive prime generator and submitted a paper on it to arXiv. Who knew?!?
Feels like a lot of projection. At some point in there lives people realize that there are “groups” who seem similar. Often by dress, and attitude. Not all of these groups are conscious of the conformity.

Once you can see a group the question will come up “Am I part of that group?” Or “Do I want to be?” And sometimes the group will reject your attempts to join. How you deal with those situations seems to have an outsized effect on your life.

The author clearly sees the groups and recognizes that they have existed for a long time, and then attacks them for their shallowness. Why? For lulz? Because they want to belong but can’t? They seem to reject the idea that groups serve a purpose other than snobbery. At the end of the article I was left with a sense the author was offended but not entirely sure what they were offended by.
> No municipality in the country should allow Uber to test on their streets after they killed someone

This is pitchfork mentality.

Many industries have to deal with unintentional deaths. Car manufacturers sometimes have to deal with deaths resulting from hardware failure. Food companies sometimes have to deal with recalls due to food poisoning deaths. If the response to a death is to ban all further production work, eventually nothing is ever going to get done because it's inherently impossible to be perfect all the time.

It sucks that it had to come to someone's death, but the rest of the statement said:

> we have brought on former NTSB Chair Christopher Hart to advise us on our overall safety culture

so it sounds like Uber is at least trying in earnest to put the house in order.
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Trains are weird because trains are also, at least in my experience, actively more comfortable and pleasant, regardless of speed issues.
As a parent, I agree. One should not shy away from talking about "advanced" topics. Kids are naturally curious and bright and I think we should encourage their desire to learn and understand complex things.

I worry that if you try to dumb down things for kids, they might become interested in dumb things. :)

Also, as the OP mentions, it can be a fun "pedagogical challenge" to try to explain free theorems or turing completeness or MySQL sharding to a young child. And you may find a clever way to describe it, that they can easily understand, which is satisfying for both of you.
Actually, this is not the first job I've had where people pass out regularly. I sympathize with my bosses a little bit because big corps make it hard to get rid of people - I assume to avoid liability issues. But I do feel that it is the bosses job to keep them out of the way.

I've been on some pretty bad teams and management just tells the lead to task them and deal with it. I once was in a meeting with our manager and the whole team minus the sleeper in which he told all of us (the lead and all junior devs) that it is our responsibility to the team to motivate mr. sleepy. Aside from dead weight, he was also rude and not personable. But I would be too if I had to sleep through the day to get a paycheck.

It's not so much imposter syndrome as it is my unwillingless to let go of good money for a sane workplace. I'm fairly confident I could get a job in a reasonable work environment with legit devs, but i would have to cut my salary by 1/3 or 1/4. And getting paid less to do work - even if it makes me happy to feel productive doesn't seem like a wise choice, on paper at least.
Well, this does not give the correct picture on the ground. Flipkart is bigger than amazon here. They have fashion portal called https://myntra.com and new fintech play called PhonePe. They are biggest player in fashion and white goods including smartphones. And smartphones are huge in India. A big percentage (I don't know the split) of smartphones sold in India gets sold online and majority (50+%) on Flipkart.

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/small-biz/startups/batt...
Fatalities seems like a pretty low bar to measure failures by... I would prefer to measure reliability by reported accidents per 100k miles. This stat seems to be 183 per million miles in 2009, compared to 1.13 for fatalities per million miles. So quite enough to shave 7 9's down to 5ish...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_ideas

wash your hands.
That's not the difference between the two comments. The positive comment claimed that GMail's filtering was good because they can do it at scale with ML. Yours and the comment I was responding to just assert that it's still bad.

Maybe it is, but no amount of people showing up in the thread asserting that it sucks will make for interesting reading. What would make them interesting is an educated guess about why it's bad.
$125 an hour isn't crazy. I billed that doing some consulting for a company in Memphis maybe five years ago, and that was a no negotiation involved arrangement. I'd worked there before, so they knew me. I threw a number out there and they pretty much went, "alright, sounds reasonable enough".
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Is there a TL/DL for that segment? Going backpacking this weekend and this whole forum has me worried...
Do you publish on Amazon? If not, you are leaving a lot of money (relative to leanpub sales) on the table.
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Related, "Math from Three to Seven" by Alexander Zvonkin[1] is an excellent book on discussing math with young kids.

[1] https://bookstore.ams.org/mcl-5/
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The F-Droid Twitter feed had existed for several years and was always tiny. It became a mirror instead once the Mastodon account got vastly more popular.
Ah ok. They were showing people putting on what looked like moon suits and going into a chamber. I imagine that's for smaller scale welds. But I imagine pumping argon under pressure to displace oxygen in some areas would work as well. Then ventilate properly as it would settle and well ... suffocate people.
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lol, is this some elaborate troll?
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I can confirm from experience that if you apply too much voltage it takes on that “never going to work again” smell :-)
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