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I was wondering the same thing, so I read his book "On Writing" a few weeks ago. I figured there might be some good take-aways for writing software since there seems to be some skill overlap.

Here are my (crappy) notes:

* The golden rule: read a lot, write a lot.

* Have a place for only writing and concentrating. Do nothing else there.

* Everyone has an innate talent ceiling. A good writer won't progress beyond being a merely good writer.

* Story > plot. Stories can 'write themselves,' it's hard to plan up front.

* He doesn't write for symbolism or metaphor directly, but may notice it as he's writing and fold some in.

* Let the first draft age for a while before revisiting. His ideal time is 6 weeks.

* "Kill your darlings." Aka be willing let a concept go even if it seems great.

* Have an ideal audience in mind when writing. He says that his is 1 person - his wife. He says it should be 1 person.

* 2nd draft = 1st draft - 10%

* He's not a fan of adverbs

* Research is inevitable for backstory. He wanted to write a story that took place in a specific location, so he went there to see how it was so he wouldn't get things too wrong. He doesn't worry about it too much though, unlike a writer like Tom Clancy.

* He writes because he likes to, ostensibly not for money or anything else

* He gets a TON of angry letters and criticisms, particularly for his use of vulgarity.

* A lot of characters are based on people or stereotypes he encountered in his working class upbringing.

One thing that struck me is how much he reads. He had a list of suggested books to read in the back page, and there were probably hundreds

Obviously not all of the points apply to all types of writing, his list is very King-centric. If you've ever read him then the points will make more sense in context. For example, story > plot is definitely a "king-ism" since his stories are off the cuff and meandering. I couldn't even get through half of the Dark Tower series since it seemed like the plot wasn't going anywhere. In any case, I don't think you'll get very far writing software without identifying some of the "plot" up front.
> With crypto, there's arguably an unlimited supply at zero cost.

I like that one. Makes it seem like its a perpetual motion machine and we all know how that ends.
The plaintiff (librarian) has a write up here - https://medium.com/@jessamyn/equifax-statement-for-small-cla... and interestingly says they probably would have been better off if they had paid for credit monitoring and then asking for those dollars back.

I do pay for that ... hmmm ...
> Hopefully your misunderstanding has been clarified now?

I would like to know the use cases to lumping them together in this study/report?

From reading the nature article it doesn't seem like the point of the study was to support a lawsuit - so what purpose does using the legal definition have?
It is kind of disturbing that apparently a huge number of people installed these Docker containers and did not care to notice that they were using 100% CPU on all available cores, 24x7.
But it's claimed that it's not really a peg system at all - that Tether were fraudulently created while claiming they were pegged.
I have four devices on my account and I can back them all up with the 5GB free account. It doesn’t back up your apps - just your data
It's on https://wallaby-demo.herokuapp.com/admin/pictures now, you can check out the demo repo at https://github.com/tian-im/wallaby_demo/
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So, you're saying there are numbers that we can't write down because we don't have enough integers to specify them?
Yes please. Apple's good reasons for lightning are mostly solved by type-c. It isn't perfect, but it will do.
Their competition is literally every office building on the market...

Meanwhile, Uber and Lyft have been shut out of Europe and Asia, and at best might become the major (but not sole) player in the car service market.
> Couldn't Google do this even with net neutrality?

Sure, but it is clearly not within Google's business interests to reduce their customer base arbitrarily. Cutting off access from specific ISPs would basically be a nuclear option for them.
google "cryptocurrency tumbling". There are grey and black market services that will take a incoming input of a bitcoin transfer, keep some percentage, commingle it with a large number of other BTC, and attempt to obfuscate the output.
Ron Paul, for example.
Because this is about learning programming with a language, here is a shameless plug for learning with D: http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/index.html
It's not quite as simple as that. Around here, clans have ownership of stories and artifacts. But not all stories are held privately. Some are very public, and are published in books and are regularly rewritten, retold, and reillustrated. But some are quite private. It's up to each clan how closely to hold its stories.

Many of us have this structure in our own families. When I was younger I heard some stories about certain family members that I was free to tell anyone. I can tell you that I was born in Guam because my father was in the Navy and he and my mom were stationed there when I was born. But there are other stories in our family that it would be quite disrespectful for me to share in public.

With Native groups from southeast Alaska, these ownership issues have been much more formalized, over a much longer time period, than what I saw in my family.
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Agreed. I heard millennials (mainly) looking at the desolate financial future that awaits them and deciding to roll the dice and throw what little cash they had into Bitcoin.

Sad on many levels.
That’s true, but I’m not sure what it adds to bring up a much smaller-scale problem, although very real, in response. It’s like I said:

“The coal industry is a huge polluter and we’re finally thinking about how to end it.”

And you replied:

“The good news is that we’re also starting to acknowledge that the beekeeping industry creates pollution, too.”
I would be interested to see a histogram of the number of books read total, per person. I bet there would be interesting correlates in that kind of data.

I think it's mostly bimodal. Either you read obsessively, or you barely read at all.
Google actually already has something like this in place for YouTube.

Not specific to net neutrality (or lack thereof), but if they detect that your access to YouTube is slow due to network congestion on your local ISP, there's a popup that essentially names and shames your ISP by redirecting you to this:

https://www.google.com/get/videoqualityreport/
> Three states will get us better infrastructure, better education and lower taxes

Note that “us” in this case refers to different states: the state containing SF will get better infrastructure and education (because of both priorities and money, and, in the case of education, even if it maintains statewide equal per-pupil funding, it won't be equalized with as many poorer regions.)

The bright red state that doesn't have SF or LA in it will get lower taxes, at least in the near term, but not better infrastructure or education (safety net programs with federal, state economy driven funding, will get bigger subsidies, though.)

The one with LA will probably see the least political change, because LA already dominates the unified state.
> On Android (at least, on my device) the USB port is always charging-only. For data transfer you must always unlock the phone and accept a notification for MTP/PTP mode.

Well this is obviously an exploit, not a feature. You have to unlock and specifically trust a computer if you plug your phone into one.

The situation on Android isn't as cut and dry as you make it, you can for example plug USB headphones in and they will work without unlocking the device.
This is something I'm trying to solve, starting with Australia.[0] I'm building the service that I wish existed when I needed a mental health professional, something I can send friends and colleagues to.

It does a lot of what you suggest. I've started from a position of "so you know you want a psychologist" because otherwise the scope is just overwhelming.

Like people have found, fit is the most difficult thing. I think we can improve this with data. But until someone's figured it out, I recommend always calling a therapist on the phone and talking to them a bit, before committing to a session. The phone is scary, but a bad intro call is much less draining and expensive than a bad session.

We're working on enabling online appointment scheduling for the reasons you say, but getting a uniform booking interface for thousands of individual psychologists turns out to be a huge task.

If people wanted to have a look around we have a test link [1] so the human clinical staff know that you don't need help.

[0] https://mindfit.org.au
[1] https://mindfit.org.au/demo
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Loading and Reading OpenStreetMap XML File Format inside .NET Apps
Very unlikely. The key issue here is that traps aren't handled until a long way down the pipeline.

But it's a (relatively) simple OS fix.
All the new compression methods use them. Also windows Subsystem for Linux.
Uber may be overvalued but they are viable on some level - so they won't go out of business, just investors will get hit.

Tesla needs cash, and if they can't get it, they could fail. Or be massively downsized.

WW needs cash badly, if they don't raise ... it will crash.
Is there a definitive writeup of what the fuck is wrong with Gladwell('s writing)?
And there is litterally no equivalent to dplyr and ggplot2 in Python. Those alone can make a huge difference in how many lines you need to write to do something.
I don't see any reason the two are mutually exclusive.

It's quite possible (some) people have a (")real(") economic need for a magical fountain of fake dollars.

I put the scare-quotes in parentheses because by real I mean a manic need, in the sense of mania - an excessive enthusiasm or desire; an obsession.
Libraries were computerized long ago. Why would you have a stereotype of "a short old computer illiterate lady"?
I see this sentiment quite often on hackernews. Despite having more than enough, we are just bitter than we don't have more and it's blinding us from enjoying what we have. Immigrants are just the scapegoats.
Micro ISPs have been gone for 10 years I think. They only exist in rural areas and such.

Now we have 3 major ISPs and they all offer similar services.
I noticed those last few months that the update cycle of Framer was slower, all while they recruited strong developers. I supposed something big was brewing and I wasn’t wrong. Can’t wait to see Framer take on the current product designers quintessentials problems with the tools available to them.
I know the Arm A-53 isn't cutting edge fast, but hardly one tenth. Seeing as the A-53 is unaffected by both Meltdown and Spectre, my assumption was that it didn't use speculative execution.
So happy to see a well-illustrated book endure the test of time. I still look for old texts on science, physics, chemistry ... even (especially?) electronics.
Very true. In our case, we resolve queries against some pretty old legacy SOAP/XML services, so topics like selectively loading fields from databases and dataloaders don’t enter into our equations.

I thinks it important to remember that GraphQL should form a very thin layer of an application stack. I gave a 4 hour intro lesson at my employer and the bulk of it was not GraphQL, but how we resolve GraphQL against our specific backend data sources.
I had a big crisis years ago and thought I need professional help. Finding that help was almost more depressing than the depression I already had. One thing I have learned is that if you have any doubts about the person you are working with, keep looking until you find someone you really trust and get along with. When I looked I was already in a bad situation and had several disappointments that only took me down even more.

I think there are a lot of not very good mental health professionals out there and even among the good ones a lot of them won't be a fit for your personality.
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I think a combination of the 2 is warranted. I'd hate to see it entirely controlled by the government because they tend to be more likely to install backdoors while private companies would push back to protect their users.

With 5G networks I would think there is a lot less digging up streets so municipal plans are more feasible.
I don't think that it is for situations were you have a database and are deciding to get rid of it but it could be useful if you starting something but for whatever reason a DB isn't possible and you might be new to Javascript. A version of the panadas Comparison with SQL doc for pure Javascript? Also pretty simple association of map-reduce to SQL I haven't seen before in Hadoop explanations.
I know that. I was talking about council tax, not property tax. So we said the same thing. Sorry I didn’t make that clear.

The problem is that the bands are updated
every couple of decades and are not aligned with rental prices. Two properties renting in the same price range could be in different council tax bands.

This pricing mechanism separates what should be a bidirectional market (tenant and owner) into a tridirectional market (tenant, owner and government). An extra entity means more transaction costs which result in friction. Friction in a market has bad downstream effects, so you don’t want to introduce friction into the real estate market.

Either the tenant should pay a tax based on the rental price, and/or the owner should pay a tax based on the property value. I just don’t see why it makes sense to have the tenant pay a tax based on the property value, in which he has no stake.
Well pip install library needs root, which you probably don't have. So now you have to teach them about making, and acitvating, virtual environments.

Also, they can't easily search through the packages in a nice GUI and just click on the one they want to install.
That's great for you, but most people have enough photos and videos that 5GB isn't enough for a single device, let alone four. For a similar reason this is why many people complained that Apple continued to ship 32GB phones for so long, it's just too small for most people.
Note that the majority of states have no such laws, including the largest. Additionally, only a fraction of the state laws impose more the perfunctory barriers to municipal broadband: https://www.google.com/amp/s/motherboard.vice.com/amp/en_us/.... For example, Washington is on that list of 20. But the only requirement there is that municipalities have to be “code cities” (basically, be big enough to use its own municipal laws and codes). Pennsylvania is also included, and there a city only needs to prepare a proposal to its incumbent, which the incumbent has 60 days to accept or reject (in which case the city can go build its own). The Utah law implements exactly the system folks on HN espouse, where the government builds the system but a private company must be the one to sell service directly to consumers.

Putting up these laws as a reason for the limited deployment of municipal broadband is misleading. Most stages have no legal barriers, and for most of the states that do, the barriers aren’t really significant. They don’t explain why New York, LA, San Francisco, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston, Seattle, etc., don’t build their own municipal systems.
Wouldn't a "quantum internet" have more stable latency? I generally notice that my latency fluctuates between 50ms and 100ms. I attribute this to the other users on my ISP's network, all the routers/switches/etc between me and the server I'm connecting to, and the load the server is under. I assume that the first two things (users and equipment) would be mitigated by using entanglement to communicate. Can someone tell me why this line of reasoning might be wrong?
I'm sorry that happened. For clarity, was it related to this specifically? I'd like to look into what went wrong there.
At the 2021 $15 min wage, it would've hiked the cost of a part time worker working 29 hours a work by 2.2%. (29 hours is the limit before one qualifies for employer health insurance under federal law, and IIRC neither Seattle nor Washington have any stricter laws.) So you'd be severely dis-incentivizing part time hiring.

.9% is not a trivial tax increase. If sales taxes went up by .9%, that would be an undue burden on the poor. And a flat $500 head tax is more regressive than even a flat percentage tax on sales; making it only apply to the top X companies doesn't stop it from being regressive.
They are used extensively in SQL server, as well as Windows itself. It's a pretty fundamental part of the NTFS design and you can't just drop it.

ADS underpins pretty much every FS operation on windows, including listing directories. MacOS has something similar.
> is usually broken on many systems that I've been an admin on. Also, good luck getting pip working properly on Windows.

I appreciate your point, but your experiences with pip + Python sound unusual and does not track with mine. I manage Windows and Linux machines with the Anaconda distribution, and pip works almost all the time. I don't think that argument should be deployed in this context.
I think it's the same general principle of how a propane-powered fridge in an RV works. It's much less efficient in terms of Wh or kJ consumed for a given amount of cooling than a modern high efficiency fridge of the same size running off 110-240VAC, but also does not require any form of grid power.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy1W-uWvR9U
I find such practices so helpful I call them sidchas -- for self-imposed daily challenging helpful activities -- to distinguish them from mere habits, like brushing teeth or reading the news.

I find that having a few sidchas one of the most important life practices and that naming things makes them easier to instantiate.
>I'd be shocked if there wasn't already an existing capability to detect bad guys through walls in a CQB environment.

Existing and exist in a state you can deploy are two totally different things that often happen many years apart. Usually something exists as an impractical wish list item for a long time before some other development pushes it into the realm of being practical to use.
Interactive games? As opposed to non-interactive games?

(I guess the distinction matters if you consider a pre-set Game of Life a game)

Or is it about interactive video, the thing that we had (and nobody wanted) in the 90's?
Yes! People ask me what the best R programming book I’ve ever read is, and I like to say “How to Design Programs.”

I keep thinking someday I’ll try and build some of the missing stats infrastructure in Racket. The problem at present is time and that this stuff is real work!
I hadn't heard the postulate "one being that the more one writes, the less remarkable one’s work is apt to be" before. I suppose that outside the world of the literary criticism, there's a bit of an opposite feeling: If you're great, you probably have a reasonably large body of work.

A while back, a friend and I both bought a copy of the complete works of Lovecraft; a single volume. It's a pretty thick book, but I was surprised it was just one book. For all the influence he had, all the diverse tales of horror, it all fit in one volume... with a reasonably large font-size at that. I remarked to my friend about this. Call him influential, but I'm not sure I'd call Lovecraft "prolific".
I'm curious how Comcast has access to $65B in cash? Do they actually have this they can pull on, or does some investment firm find a deal like this?
Seems like an updated ARG
The documentation varies a lot by the package. Some libraries have excellent help files, while others are poorly written. At best, its inconsistent.
Facebook and Google have to install servers in Vietnam from early 2019
Interesting that wireless services was left out of the conversation. Given it's massive growth in urban areas, and the fact, there are many options for most populations. Video is hardly a high bandwidth use case. Cultivation of victims.
even when she was mod at metafilter and writing books and things, she always presented herself 100% as a librarian, though. jessamyn.com starts off with "Hi, I'm Jessamyn./ I am a Vermont librarian." She owns librarian.net.
The Fox cable/broadcast networks aren't part of this deal. They aren't being sold.
It can help. I'd argue that the US-Saudi deal [1] was in part facilitated by the US being able to offer the Saudi regime military supplies and protection. The military is arguably not the dominant factor, but that is a very debatable point. It is certainly a factor.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2016-05-30/the-untol...
expectation that the universe should be teeming with >intelligent life<.

It's only a paradox if you're capable of entertaining such an expectation. Based on my life experience, I'd estimate the probability is about the same as finding a bottle of my favorite drink sitting on the doorstep.
AFAIK the Windows subsystem for Linux only uses extended attributes, not alternate data streams.

But yes, :WofCompressedData is used for the (awesome) transparent read-only LZX compression.
Rarely contain interesting stuff, like parts of AES keys.
That's fine on one condition. If you get the wrong answer, you just get 0 and no feedback.

With a library and language I know, I can look though, advise on what went wrong and see how close you got. If I have to start supporting every language in the world, that's simply not reasonable.
but is the same not true of trading USD for EUR? If I want $1000 of EUR, I don't care whether that is 1 EUR, 100, or .01. The value is in the ecosystem.

Bitcoin is still at the beginning of the beginning of any sort of ecosystem. Everyone expects way more from it than is possible. It is/will deliver on the things it is designed to.

You're correct that I don't care about the value of 1 BTC (or 1 EUR) unless I can sell it, but you imply only selling it for USD again. When it is widespread enough to be a currency, you can 'sell' it for goods and services.
And pip s upgrade process for packages is almost non existent, while R supports that very, very easily.
There is no market for sewer service—most everywhere, the government runs the service and sets rates in response to voter pressure. My point is that the same voters who vote to keep lead water pipes and overflowing sewers, because they want to minimize their water and sewer bills, will not vote to deploy cheap fiber everywhere (or not set rates high enough to continue to maintain and upgrade it). For most people, especially the older people who disproportionately vote, a 25 mbps connection is fast enough, and they’d rather have cheaper service than better service.
Comcast shouldn't be getting anything. Media and the tubes that carry it should remain separate.
My company is pretty corporate. They have some limited seating in a we work building. Employees that perform very highly have a chance to get a seat in the we work building.

It may be a small perk, but the extra hours / effort people put in to get / retain their spot more than pays for what we spend on the seats.

If this easily re-createable environment was the norm, it wouldnt motivate internally. If the company only created it for a snall portion of the company, employees would resent leadership.

It's been a very effective business investment for the company i work at.
Thanks for the tip to this, never really explored the console API deeper than log. This is actually very useful