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Agreed. Recently, Netflix reminded me why ultimately, torrents are simply superior.

You see, I initially subscribed to Netflix because it had most of Star Trek on it - all the TV shows + many (I think most) of the movies. The ability to watch an episode every now and then was what kept me subscribed even through the periods I couldn't find anything else interesting there. Now, recently came a time I actually wanted to watch a Star Trek movie I loved ("Generations"). I looked for it, but it was nowhere to be found. Just gone. So was "First Contact". So were all the others (except the bastardizations of JJ Abrams). This prompted me to ask, what other (non-Trek) movies and series I loved and even watched on Netflix are still available? Turns out, the list of movies and series has been gradually decreasing behind my back. A lot of the interesting things I watched on Netflix, that I used as an argument to recommend Netflix to friends, are simply gone.

Torrents cause a PITA with storage management, but have this one lovely feature - once a file is on your hard drive, it stays there. And this generalizes to SaaS vs. local software and files, too.
It's nice that employees have a choice, but presumably some of them did choose to take stock (it would be pretty bad if none of them did), and they will see a reduction in their comp as a result of this plunge.

Furthermore, the link you provided also states that since 2015, there's a compensation factor that is non-voluntary and pegged to the price of the stock, so everyone will see a reduction, though some more than others.
"Undercutting competitors" and "buying market share" is literally what defines competition. And this is phenomenally good both for the consumer and for the companies that are able to slim themselves down enough to succeed.

Comcast, for instance, isn't really a monopoly. There are numerous other big players in that industry. But the thing is that instead of "undercutting competitors" and "buying market share" the competitors all agree to cooperate and split up the market. The result is when you buy something from Amazon, you're hitting quite close to the wholesale cost of that item. And when you pay your high speed internet bill to Comcast, what you're paying is some large multiple of the real cost of service.
It's the difference between equities and junk bonds (which is what most crypto is). So you can't currently do stuff like this:

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Might be worth raising an issue for some docs on this. https://github.com/parcel-bundler/parcel/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%...
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IMO, the fact that 1726 modules is a “reasonable” number for a web app is a clear indication that there is something seriously wrong with this process.
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I've used used Parcel for a few projects this year and really enjoyed it for the most part. I've found it's basically effortless for building static projects, but its lack of documentation can be frustrating when errors pop up (e.g. I was stuck on an older version for a while due to some issue with a newer release) and I still haven't quite figured out the best pattern for extracting the hashed bundle names for use in other places.

That being said, Webpack 4 (released months ago) shipped with a similar zero config option, so I'll likely go back to it for future projects.
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I try to avoid using webpack, because it looks over overcomplicated. So I would prefer a tool like this. Do stuff automatically and dig deeper if you need some custom option. Nice job! Well done!
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Oh no! One language has a build process and toolchain... We should clearly throw everything else out and just use this one hammer for everything! /s

Believe it or not, some people have problems in domains with contexts that have nothing to do with yours and the things they come up with are equally valid solutions.
Containment, which is somewhat of a practical limit, and somewhat fundamental.

Now I'm no fusion expert, and frankly neither is any human since we can barely get tiny amounts of hydrogen to fuse at all. But point being, I'm not a physicist, I'm in software. So take my understanding with a grain of salt.

However, while we theoretically can fuse arbitrary elements (and add neutrons for heavier elements so they don't instantly decay), I'm pretty sure there's no known, theoretical, or speculated material or process that can contain and capture the results of fusing some elements to, say, uranium. The extraordinary energy levels required pretty much means you need a supernova. And I'm not one to suggest that in the future we'll magically be able to engineer something to contain supernovae. Quite the opposite, I'm comfortable saying no civilization will ever do this no matter how many quintillion years they try.

All this being said, there is definitely an inflection point where it costs orders of magnitude less energy to mine an element and rocket it to a destination than to fuse it on demand.

Sometimes people complain that this takes time and we need the thing now, but that's fine. Once you set up the supply line, all that really matters is throughout and interruptions, since arbitrary latency can be overcome by a continuous stream of material floating to you. I mean, sure, it'll cost latency to ramp up or down the stream, but if engineering is One Thing, it's trade offs. Reality's a bitch like that.
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What Mr Houston came up with was the idea for Dropbox - remote storage that users can access online wherever they may be. Within two weeks he had created the prototype, and come up with the name.

Funny. I (and I guess countless people before) would have come up with a remote login via dyndns to my home computer or using ftp to some server. The idea of dropbox seems so obvious in hindsight but we were all blind.
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Stop confusing batteries with wind/solar prices. Until the battery problem is fixed, overbuilding doesn't do jack because you have nowhere to store the bursts.

Stop talking about wind and solar prices and just look at the price of batteries. They aren't on the trajectory you are projecting. It's hard enough to get them cost competitive for a single house, let alone industries with massive 24/7 consumption (e.g. electric mine shovels).
Is something really wrong with WebPack? Didn’t we decide that we want more modularity and plugins, instead of “zero configuration” solutions that lock you into a few technologies? What about the next hip new frameworks that release in the future? Will they just be piled into parcel, or will they add a plugin system? This seems like an unsustainable model.
Another idea might be that modern medicine is in fact extending life, but other modern things like cars, cigarettes, junk food, etc. are simultaneously decreasing life span.

So, I bet if you introduced modern medicine as the only change to an agrarian society you'd see an increase in life expectancy.
I've read this before but this is the first time I noticed that Krugman wrote the paper in 1978 and the references include a paper about faster-than-light travel written by him, published 1987.
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A 9:1 ratio of fuel to mass doesn't sound particularly bad. Are there known theoretical limits to extracting the full E=mc^2 worth of energy from an object?
Congrats to the Parcel team! Really great work. Having used Parcel in personal projects for the past year, it really is a great user experience.

Despite what people says in the comments, Parcel has its (great) value. The ability to import a rust file directly and have it compiled to a web assembly module for example, is a great piece of engineering and exceeded my expectations for web build tools. Parcel also hits the sweet spot where it's both zero-config, and easy to customize if you find the need.

Honestly? Parcel has a better experience than your C++ build tools. Be it CMake, Ninja, or whatever build tools people use in 2018.
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I ask cause ignorance. So, thanks.

But motivated by the fact that I always thought Bitcoin being so scarce, if mass adopted, some sort of Bitcoin lending scheme named as some new thing, would be created
How about some love for their marketing guy who made it all happen?

Jeff probably said "make it rain, let's see if your hordes can take down Amazon.com," and this guy basically accepted, and succeeded at, the challenge.
> 1. The existing tool is way too complicated to configure and slow. Let me introduce a new, zero-configuration, blazing fast tool

sounds like progress / innovation to me?
I've seen several (recently too) new idea's or projects floated here that got heaps of very positive feedback.

I think your premise is flawed.
You mean iterating on something, sorta the entire conceptual model behind the scientific method of experimentation?
A bar raiser is typically someone in the interview loop for a candidate that is not from the same team and therefore more objective about whether the candidate is truly 'better' than most people on the team (raises the bar). Although good in theory- its not actually practical to find every single new person better than the current employees but it helps keep things in perspective and is a deterrent to bringing in weak buddies.

Its true Amazon has some great engineers but is not a very engineering centric. I remember a senior engineer in Retail once comparing it to a plumbing system kept together with bandages.
Not to mention that transporters (disassembler/reassemblers) are (a) murder machines, and (b) cloning machines.
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You're punishing the wrong people, why is that difficult to understand?

The companies that operate grids are not the free riders. By having idiotic legislation that allows solar owners to free ride the grid, you only punished the utility company. Sometimes they own power plants, sometimes they don't.
Has anyone tried a screen lock data wipe app? Put in the special pin or pattern on the lock screen and it deletes sensitive files. You can easily restore from the cloud later.
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Why not? If stars can do it, why not a sufficiently advanced civilization?
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This is fine argument. Although I work primarily in JS, I don’t think that this is the tool for any job. There are lot of nice tools in JS out there. While using single tool written in JS it might be not looks slow, but when you must use multiple of them in day to day work it start be a problem.
To sum up: I don’t think JS was designed to build such tools. Although it is very nice language to write in, it is not so efficient in runtime.
You clearly did not read the article I linked to.
Regardless of your outcome, I really admire your effort. I run a professional services firm in Shanghai, China and am trying to create some microservices as lead generators in my free time using R/Shiny/Plumber, etc. Both good for work and my own education efforts. It is a tremendous challenge depending on domain.
> You could create an exact atomic replica of the Mona Lisa, but it still wouldn't be THE Mona Lisa that Da Vinci sat in front of and painted with his own hands.

Actually, it would. That is the definition of "exact atomic replica".

Did you read the article I linked to?
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> something being an original definitely has an unambiguous meaning to most people

That's only because of current limitations of our technology. Did you read the article I linked to?
It started with "Another major factor contributing is children are very expensive and smart children are much more expensive to raise than the average child."

In that context, my response that "The cost of smart child here is merely function of correlation with parent." is valid.
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Sending light across interstellar distances is not a trivial affair. No light source is perfectly collimated; per wikipedia [1] "The divergence of high-quality laser beams is commonly less than 1 milliradian, and can be much less for large-diameter beams". Not clear how "much less" is (and I couldn't find other sources), but let's say it's 2-3 more orders of magnitude. That would make it about 1 arc second (~5 microradians). The closest star is at a distance of about one parsec, which means that two photons starting here and having an angle of 1 arc second between them end up at a distance of 1 AU (astronomical unit ~ 150 MM km) between them. Assuming you can make an antenna the size of Jupiter at the target, for every photon that passes through that antenna you need to send 1 million photons. Every order of magnitude lower in the size of the antenna requires you to send two orders of magnitude more photons. In other words, an antenna 1% the size of Jupiter requires you to send 10 billion photons for each photon received.

You can get around that by setting up a system of relays, but you will end up needing lots of relays, and that's a complex infrastructure you need to maintain.

In any case, even after we master inter-stellar travel, don't think we'll have channels of communication of terabytes/second, every byte will be expensive to send across.

Sending information in the quantities needed to 3d-print stuff at atomic level will most likely be prohibitively expensive; remember 1 gram of hydrogen contains 10^23 atoms, while one terabyte only contains 10^12 bytes. If a little latency is acceptable, it will always be many times cheaper to just send the stuff you need rather than the information to 3d-print it at atomic level.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collimated_light
If you do absolutely zero instruction optimization or re-ordering. Literally mapping the BNF grammar to a syntax tree capable of simple syntactic reduction... I would be surprised if it did not lag behind disk read speeds.

Traversing that tree to remove unambiguous dead branches seems pretty clear. Perhaps if you get into a tricky manipulation between strings and syntax you could add a little runtime...
I think this is a great exaggeration of the "javascript build tools are hard to config" meme, and it honestly is obsolete. Maybe the meme was relevant two years ago, but every since (1) create-react-app and (2) webpack 3, the configuration story has greatly improved.

With Webpack 4 and Parcel especially, these tool are both zero config and configurable. Your point 1 and 3 are actually not mutually exclusive, and repeating the meme just sounds like you're perhaps out of the loop for a bit.

While the Javascript developer experience truly was horrible a few years back, it has dramatically become better. Try it, and you might be pleasantly surprised :)
No, you can do this with an antimatter rocket.

Good luck capturing and containing antimatter and feeding/containing the explosion though. It's going to be practically impossible to get a 90% fuel ratio from an antimatter reactor, since literally 45% of your ship will be antimatter, by mass.
That’s an immature perspective. Actually, that’s not the most important litmus test; it’s whether you trust them completely to make good decisions with your life, kids if present and all your worldly life in their hands should you be incapacitated and that they can keep things together. Being insanely happy or at least content is a bonus.. but their job isn’t to make you happy, that’s your job. Another common antipattern: NRE lasts a year or two, so those new turnips expecting infatuation to sustain things and be “totally perfect” after their giant wedding is also a recipe for disaster.
Gulp has/had the right approach. There's only so much flexibility and complexity configuration format can support without becoming strange copy-pasted incantations that can only be reasonably expressed and clearly visualized through code. And they've proven that, eating Grunt's lunch, but then they blew it with never-ending alpha and general stewardship fail.

And with regards to Parcel vs Webpack, it's not (at least not yet) even a competition since webpack 4 is basically zero-configuration and is so much more advanced tool at all levels.
> Sending light across interstellar distances is not a trivial affair.

I never said it was. But it's a hell of a lot easier (to say nothing of faster and more efficient) than sending matter.
Nowadays every media company wants their own streaming service. That means Netflix has to scramble for content. And when starting out they were careful in selecting projects. But once they got a taste for success they have been green-lighting projects left and right. But, they are not going to select winners every time. Stuff like Bright, the Will Smith movie, relied solely on the star power.

It will be interesting to see if Netflix imposes some kind quality bar to ensure things don't go even worse.
> I'm pretty sure there's no known, theoretical, or speculated material or process that can contain and capture the results of fusing some elements to, say, uranium.

Producing heavy elements in a lab is most certainly possible right now. You don’t need a supernova, just a particle accelerator. Many elements heavier than uranium have been created artificially this way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transuranium_element
It is not a question of C++ being better than JavaScript or vice-versa in some esoteric sense.

Compiling code from C++ to WASM is counter-productive if the native JavaScript is fine. It's just that native languages seem to perform quite a bit better in the domains of graph construction, graph optimization, and even basic string manipulation.
That is so true!

Netflix has so many Indian language movies, and yet it is so difficult to search content just by the language or sub-region (South Indian)
I didn't downvote you, but maybe easing off on the conspiratorial tone of the comment would help. Nevertheless, complaining about downvotes is against HN's guidelines; you're better off to think about how you could make the same point in a way that's more palatable to people (i.e., makes them think).
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> data seems to rule all there

Data is only part of the equation. The other part is what you look at, and yet another is what you aim for. The data might tell them that bilingual users are not being properly accommodated by the service (or may not tell that - after all, in what way are you giving this feedback that would also show up on Netflix's surveillance panels?) - but then the business people will say that already subscribed users are less important than getting new subscriptions, and this problem will have to wait.

EDIT:

> Their UX has been on a steady decline for me

Agreed. It's less clear, and it seems to be optimized for Internet equivalent of channel hopping. For people who know exactly what they're searching for, Netflix becomes more and more difficult to use.

Also - and this really annoys me - their UI changes tend to make the interface heavier each iteration. It's not a problem when I use it on my desktop, but then sometimes I'd like to watch a movie on a tablet (e.g. when in a hotel), and then I have to face the absolutely ridiculous situation, in which a full-HD movie seems to cause smaller load on my device than the interface to select what to watch.
If you do absolutely zero instruction optimization or re-ordering, JavaScript takes 0 seconds to compile, and you can use almost-complete feature set of ES6. /s

Come on man, that's beyond the point. Just because JavaScript needs to be compiled, doesn't mean it has a worse experience than compiling C++.
I love that Parcel is out, even if yes it is another bundle, because it helps highlight the major problem with bundlers right now: they (but especially WebPack) are a meta-platform over the web unto themselves and they encourage use of features that are not supported by the web platform, in a way that's not easily transformed into what the web platform does currently, or will realistically, support, creating lock-in.

Just as we're getting to the point where many of these tools should be optional because we have great modern JS and modules support in browsers, and many projects are already written in supposedly standard modules, many are blocked from actually shipping code that runs un-built on the browser because of bundler features like importing images, CSS, etc.
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I had the same Dropbox slowness. On Google drive I see speeds around 400 megabits over my gigabit fiber.
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