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Just watched that. I had no idea Prince of Persia was not a hit when it was first released. Did poorly on Apple II because the market was dying, did poorly on PC because it was a conversion and retailers looked at the poor Apple II sales and assumed it would have poor sales, and then finally on the Mac it came out just as there was enough Mac sales to have customers wanting good software.

Once again it seems that releasing on the right platform at the right time is super important for success.

What does everyone think is the right platform right now (or emerging within the next couple of years), especially for an Indie title? People don't seem to play web games much anymore, Steam is flooded with junk, Mobile seems to be totally saturated, Nintendo Switch seems promising right now but it's starting to go down the same road as Steam. VR seems to be slow to get moving (and looks like it might remain a niche for several more years, at least). Are there any good options to get in at the right time like he did?
Nit: Finnish rock band Hurriganes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurriganes

Finns often confuse c, g and q (none of which feature in native Finnish words) and the band name itself reflects that! (And while they probably didn't consider this back in the 1970s, it's also good SEO.)
> I know multiple people who reported their expiring passport as stolen, just to be able to keep it

Eh, you want to watch out doing that - some countries get real suspect if you have ever reported a passport stolen in the past.
Can someone please explain what the advantage of running a snapshot service via GCF would be vs. AppEngine Standard (w/ node)?
> Recent polls have come in around 70-80% of Taiwanese people believing they are 'taiwanese' and in no way associated with China.

Ask any Taiwanese person who is their people's greatest hero.

Or ask them who is their people's greatest poet or artist.

I guarantee 99% of them would name someone that was born (and died centuries ago) in China.

I think the biggest irony surrounding the "Taiwanese" identity is that the real Taiwanese, i.e. the Aboriginals, actually prefer the KMT over the DPP [1].

1. The KMT is the party that is more sympathetic to China and leans towards reunification. The DPP, the current party in control of the presidency, is pro-independence.
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It works and quite well, it's been pretty much set-and-forget for me for quite some months now.
Many years ago (1970s) I used very expensive but very accurate HP spectrum analyzer. It would take in a signal and present the spectrum on a screen. I studied the manual and found that it used a 1-bit(!) A/D. When averaging over many samples the resolution would build up.
> Why is it made to be like that?

The history of tar is quite long, but the short version is that it was first released as part of 7th edition Unix. It was a successor to tp[1] which was introduced in 4th edition Unix, which was a successor to tap[2] which was released in 1st edition Unix. In 1st edition Unix (as far as I could tell from looking through the man pages), no command had '-abc'-style flag support at all (so tap's semantics made sense). I imagine that quite a few users did something like 'alias tap=tp' and 'alias tp=tar' when upgrading, and so CLI backwards compatibility was required. As a result, everyone learned to use tar that way and it stuck.

[1]: http://man.cat-v.org/unix-6th/1/tp
[2]: http://man.cat-v.org/unix-1st/1/tap
Hold on, maybe I'm missing something from my understanding of the process of an experiment, but I thought the process (cutting out some non-relevant steps) was hypothesis -> Experiment -> Conclusion.

If nobody has done number 2 since, how can it be valid for everyone to arrive at a conclusion despite there being no experiment?
Sorry I don't have a source, but what I really meant by that was: when you hear the stories of engineers getting "screwed out of options" it always boils down to things like liquidation preferences and taxes and things like that that are built into the stock agreement. You also very rarely hear these stories in places that are doing super well, it's places that are failing and the company is being chopped up for scraps that things like liquidation preferences really even become a serious problem for employees anyway. The real problem is usually just that the business doesn't do well.

I'm sure there are exceptions and places where people disagree about the terms of the actual agreement but by and large these stories are "a thing that felt really low chance happened and the stock agreement had a clause for that and that sucks for me." Truly shitty situations, but ones that you can factor into your risk model when deciding whether or not to accept the offer. Part of the deal of having ownership in the business is taking the responsibility of that risk on. Not everyone wants that which is why a higher salary at a more stable big company makes more sense for some people.

Also, I think the perverse incentives thing is real, but again I want to reiterate: the cool thing about stock options is that they allow you to have a small (but often significant) amount of ownership in the means of production. But that also means increased responsibility, which includes the responsibility to understand the value of the options agreements you sign. If you need to hire a lawyer to explain the agreement, or you need more information on the business, cap table etc., in order to fairly value the options in the offer those are all fair questions to ask. Additionally the way companies respond to your request for such information will tell you everything you need to know about how they truly feel about employee ownership.
As a child in primary school (in Lesotho, southern Africa): when a teacher left the classroom everyone was supposed to silently complete work. To enforce this, one student would be appointed "name taker". This person would write down the names of anyone who spoke while the teacher was out. Punishment for being on the list was often physical.

One day I was made the name taker while the teacher was out. Most kids stayed quiet, but two other segments emerged: the scycophants and the outlaws.

The sycophants would attempt to "help" me identify noise makers by pointing them out. In exchange they would hope to be safe from the list, and would use that immunity/privilege to lord over other kids.

The outlaws were kids who, once they were added to the list, talked and joked freely, knowing that they were doomed anyway. They felt they were fearless, and they goaded others to join them.

I've always remembered this experience, for how quickly a group of children organized themselves into social dynamics that echoed human systems more generally.
> It's theoretically optimal not to give the first number.

Only if you ignore transaction costs of the interview process. Unless you feel you can get their numbers before you start, it may be worth the time savings to give up some potential future leverage.
Second that. There was a program on svt play a couple of years ago in the series ”hitlåtens historia” where the band talked a lot about the song.
Looks like browser events 'offline' and 'online': https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/NavigatorOn...
One thing I hate about man pages is that there are not enough examples. Sometimes feature is explained on five pages while simple one line example would explained it instantly. And at the end there should be 2-3 pages of examples at least, maybe even more.
Rebol and Mathematica/Wolfram Language are two other that come to mind. Albeit Wolfram is kind of a Lisp. Possibly also Lua and its tables concept.
I'm thinking the healed piercing thing is what it is. Basically he has something akin to a fistula (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fistula) from repeatedly poking the same spot, but the outside heals over so you can't see the hole.
The Stanford Prison experiment goes far beyond the replication crisis. It was a non scientific "experiment" with doctored results. The fact that it was actually taught in the academic field is unbelievable.
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It also benefits the tipped worker because they get to see more of that portion of their paycheck. Sales tax is never paid on tips and Income tax is rarely, if ever, paid either.

It's just a tax exemption that we've encoded into social behaviour.
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Medicine is a tricky area (it is close to religion in this aspect).
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$2.13/hr was what I was paid as a waiter 20 years ago, and was terrible back then - it amazes me that this number is still the same.
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Why feel guilty about it at all? Up here in Canada we have had pin validated transactions for a long time now, and the terminals have had tip prompts at least since we switched to chip and pin. It is just a reflex now when ordering at a counter to select "$ tip" and hit enter for zero tip. Annoying, but when every place seems to do it, it is easy to get over the feelings of manipulation and guilt.
In the context of the article (CA and SF in particular), there is no tipped minimum wage. If your wage is minimum you make minimum, and that minimum is higher than most. If you make tips, they go on top.
The intermarriage rate between Mainland Chinese and Taiwanese is extremely high. Something like 80% of all international marriages in Taiwan are with Mainland Chinese.

There are also a ton of Taiwanese that are studying and working in China. China recently passed a law that lets Taiwanese have the same access to benefits as locals, e.g. healthcare, schools for kids, buying property, etc.

I wouldn't be surprised if within a few generations, every Taiwanese has a direct connection with Mainland China again, either through a spouse, friends, or through work.

When that time comes, I can see reunification happen naturally.

And for those people who think 1 country, 2 systems is bad because of Hong Kong, take a look at Macau. They are in a similar situation, but there are no protests there at all due to all the economic benefits they got.

So if China can do that to Taiwan, I think they will be accepted with open arms.
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This seems to understate the deception of the study. Many of the individuals involved in the study have spoke of it. You can find plenty of quotes on the Wiki page [1] and many others elsewhere as well. Everybody was coached on their roles, and even the prisoners also saw it as a sort of improv scenario.

The individual who was famously filmed 'breaking down' claiming "Jesus Christ, I'm burning up inside!" and "I can't stand another night! I just can't take it anymore!" has been framed as an example of a mental collapse from the study. The individual himself however has stated that he thought he would have been allowed to continues his studies as a prisoner - but that was not the case. So he faked a mental collapse to get out of the experiment early (after 36 hours) and get back to his studies.

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As an aside this experiment shows how absolutely crucial objective third parties replicating even keystone studies from reputable institutions is. The one thing that's completely clear is that Zimbardo had predetermined his conclusion and he was going to do anything to get it. That he resorted to something like this (while claiming it was all organic) is far more egregious than an researcher p-hacking or even just outright faking results. That there's no major system for replication means much of what we know about social and even physiological (clinical studies have shown major issues with reproducibility) science could be completely wrong.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment#Cri...
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What incentive is there for you to take names properly, instead of using the power to compel others - talking or not - to do as you wish?
The author mentions that another blogger, Jim Randell, found the same error in 2015 when translating the tables to Python: https://enigmaticcode.wordpress.com/tag/bernoulli-numbers/

It's also debated whether these were bugs from Ada or transcription errors. But, yes, it does seem like an interesting milestone
As an employer you are supposed to pay your share of FICA and unemployment taxes on tips earned by employees as well as withhold income tax on them.

Frequently it seems tips go under the radar and end up as unreported income, at least for cash tips, but all it would take is the IRS cracking down on restaurants and that would quickly end.
What is the source of the income ? I mean what is the business model.
I was never able to sleep on my back. I usually slept face-down with me head tilted a bit. I didn't know why. I now know I had sleep apnea my whole life. I started using a cpap about 15 years ago and I can now sleep any way I want.
The Analytical Engine was Turing complete so loops and conditionals would have been possible, but Babbage didn't get near building it.

The London Science Museum built a fully working Difference Engine, to Victorian tolerances so it could have actually worked.

I heard of a project to build a modern working replica but I don't know if anything ever came of it.
So a service provider behaves in a way you disagree with and you decide to break the law and torrent copyrighted material?
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I think the reason meds are expensive are completely different why doctors or hospitals are expensive in the states. While all of those things happen because the system has no desire to be cheap and free market forces do not happen they are all different and need to be fixed individually.
Yeah, even if it was "wrong" (really, it's a stretch to call it wrong), though ok, Baby was usually used when you were referring to the person directly, or using a term like "my baby". It's a much smaller poetic licence than what happens in a lot of lyrics composed by native speakers.
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I graduated last month with a bachelor's degree in computer science, and now I'm looking for a job. I've had some experience with Java and Android(and some other technologies as well), but I really have no idea about how professionals work on their projects.
How should I hunt a job for the position of a software developer, and what should I be expecting from my first job? How difficult will it be for me to get a job as someone who doesn't have any professional experience.
There is a Cochrane review [1] on the health effects of reducing time spent sitting at work that came out two years ago, which laid out the truth in no uncertain terms:

"The quality of evidence is low to very low for most interventions, mainly because of limitations in study protocols and small sample sizes."

And still people keep doing shit like this, performing studies with fifteen people??

[1] https://www.cochrane.org/CD010912/OCCHEALTH_workplace-interv...
Agreed, I don't care what their reasons are. It still amounts to a secret, extra charge that you did not know about until after the bill was received. If this happened to me, and it was not clearly posted on the menu that a fee would be added, I would absolutely refuse to pay it.
I know people who are considered technical by shared non-technical friends - and I think they even are, to some extent. Still, some of those are still very inexperienced and I certainly wouldn't trust them to be able to properly vet new developers yet on their own.

I think to some extent, it's a matter of being lucky picking the right person to vet, since you can't vet that person yourself.
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I was just coerced.

I spent a decent amount of money to get my car detailed, and was presented with a Square app prompting for a tip. I did tip because it felt like not doing so was somehow improper. After thinking about it, I will not do this again.
Like I said, there have been similar court rulings in US. Look up Stephen Cavanaugh for one example.

So, yes, it does apply in US as well - you have freedom of religion, but it has to be an "actual religion", whatever that means. Things might have been different if the Constitution just spoke of freedom of consciousness or some such; but we have what we have.

This, by the way, is one of the reason why the Satanic Temple has been a lot more successful with its lawsuits so far (e.g. https://religiousreproductiverights.com/lawsuit-status/lawsu... - but also numerous cases where a mere threat of a lawsuit causes the local government to change its tune) - because it tries to present itself in a way that makes it clear that trolling isn't the only thing it is about.
I find that this is something openBSD gets /really/ right. In general the man pages in BSD are phenomenal.

What happened to ‘info’ pages. I hated it, but wasn’t that supposed to address these kinds of issues with examples?
It's actually terrible for your butt (or at least your gluteus muscles, especially the gluteus medius).

When you sit all day these muscles get inhibited/weak. When they're weak, you're more likely to have lower back pain. I sit a lot so I try to counteract that (as best as can be done) with some targeted glute med stuff after work.

Check out http://posturedirect.com/is-sitting-destroying-your-butt-mus... for some more detail.
>if you make tips, they go on top

You mean they go under the table.
No need for the ‘z’ :)
As someone that doesn't really understand any of that, where should I begin to inform myself?

I get the basics of equity, but don't really know how funding rounds affects it, dilution or even what a cap table is.
If you’re using a GNU system now you might be surprised by the quality of the BSD man pages, and documentation in general. Concise but still comprehensive, and plenty of examples. The tools (like man) aren’t really the problem here, the documentation itself is. (But it helps that the BSD folks show a bit more restraint wrt adding command line options.)
I would be skeptical, but open, so long as it is frequently renegotiated. Dev salaries have gone up incredibly over time, and new technologies come in all the time. After new technologies/niches come in, their value changes over time. A specialist in neural networks pre-2010 vs post-2012 would have quite different market rates. It wouldn't be enough that most of us on average are better off today. It would be important that most of us on average will be better off today and in 15 years, which seems to require frequent renegotiation in a fast moving sector like this.
Indirectly then, or, the publicly facing servers are crucial enough.

It is information leakage, not the end of the world but it can potentially be helpful for an attacker.
I'd say, yes. The honest price you're paying is price + tip. If the default tip is such a large percentage the pricing is dishonest.
It's easy to be dismissive from today's perspective, but I think it adequately conveys the algorithm. As I don't think Babbage ever published an instruction set I'm not sure it could have gone a lot further.
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As a point of information: there is no reduced minimum wage for tipped workers in California.

Wait staff etc must still receive full minimum wage in addition to any tips they receive.
I think the problem that most people have with Apple quality control is that the company has quite a lot of surplus cash and they don't appear to be using it to make their products better. If we could see that Apple recognized that a product had fundamental design problems and used their massive resources to correct it more people would be willing to give them a break.

Saying that "Apple is engaged in a huge ongoing long project to make their stuff better" doesn't really comfort me much. Especially as they just recently were dubbed the first Trillion dollar company. If some smaller systems manufacture (i.e. System76) had a problem with one of their designs and said that they were working to correct it, most people would give them to benefit of the doubt and cheer them on.

The other problem in my eyes is that Apple seems to be deaf to the users of it's product. I understand not listening to every single thing that the users complain about (8 cores vs 16 cores, etc.) but some things are fundamental. Things like making the MBP a desktop replacement, hence we really don't need it to be the thinnest & lightest laptop ever. We want a whole lot of things like a great keyboard and massive battery and if that makes the laptop thick and heavy then so be it.
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Depends what you mean by 'alternative'.

You are always free to install manpages, however only one manpage per name IIRC.

In this case, I'd just namespace it so you avoid any conflicts.

i.e.

man git

And

man um.git

So both are preserved.
These rules can always be broken, however.

Money can always be found with the right person inside saying "I want this person on the team ASAP"
:D I never thought about it, but now that you say it:

Why are there no scriptreplay/asciinema 'videos' available within normal man pages? I mean yes, just a few more basic examples would certainly help more, but for some more complicated commands a video might help too.
I didn't tip my hairdresser for ~25 years. They are charging me for a haircut, and that's all they give me. What am I tipping for? It's always the same haircut as well, he/she never "goes out of their way" to cut my hair.

Then I learned that it's pretty much expected, so I tip "normally" now, but feel weird about it.
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A lot of people make a big deal about the less biodegradable wet wipes (people carry with them, and use instead of toilet paper) and disinfecting towelettes (used for killing germs on hard countertops and metal/plastic/wood/tile surfaces) but it’s interesting to see that 90% of the mass is fat and or derivatives of fat as when converted to harded soap precipitates.

There’s a lot of junk people flush, that aren’t intended to pass down drains and sit in pipes or receive sewage processing. Are wet wipes and disposable germ cleansing antiseptic towels and products like daipers and condoms as big a deal as people make them out to be?
We use GCP heavily. It's really great.

Latency between Google Cloud Functions and other GCP products improved significantly in the past week, as did start up and execution time.

However we only use GCFs for background tasks and not for any web API/micro services, etc. Still too much latency for that use case.
The minimum wage in San Francisco is $15 per hour. That's including tipped work: if you don't make that amount from wages and tips you're supposed to be paid extra.
It is only split between the workers not managers or owners. And since they don't really do anything for your tip anyway, seems fine to split it amongst the workers.

As for taxes... Only if it's reported. If you tipped in cash, you can be fairly certain that it will not get reported.
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In Sweden there was a radio program where you could call in and report what misunderstandings you or a friend had of songs and they would riducule you no end. There are a lot of weird misunderstandings thanks to just not listening properly or the vocals being very unclear. Or just pronounced strange so they fit into the melody.
He's saying the truth of the conclusion is independent of the means used to demonstrate it.

This is correct, but a rather confused observation.

Since the question isnt whether the conclusions is true or not, but whether we are justified in believing it is true.

And we are not justified. The experiment engineered its results; and no subsequent experiment has demonstrated the conclusion. So if it is true, we have not yet discovered that it is.
Sweet, a guide! I always end up rolling my own thread pool / manager. I wish something like the parallel gem for Ruby existed in pyland...