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> (RSS is, like, objectively the best way to follow multiple webcomics. I don't understand why it's not more popular.)

The core feature of RSS is that it takes content and moves it from a site the publisher controls and into one the reader controls. This is immensely valuable to readers! It's perhaps less valuable to publishers, however.

Many publishers invest significantly in adding value to and gaining value from their websites. Advertisements, links to other sites, merchandise sales, etc. Almost all of those vanish when you feed only the core content to readers through RSS.

With all that in mind, publishers have ample reason to not invest in RSS. The economics of it are not kind to them.
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Oh, come on. It's a fitness tracking app. If you misuse it, I think that's more a reflection of your own personal demons.
Early employees get fucked over by later hires in terms of both salary and equity.
Amount of websites that offer RSS != Amount of users who still use RSS
If the government regulates them to be larger, the. The prices will simply go up.
I completely agree.

Calling an idea dumb is candid, I'd consider it a breath of fresh air from corporate speak. I left my prior position for similar concerns, specifically 'Architects' who I'd called out (and rather abruptly so) when they quoted AWS as being 'not redundant and only have one DataCentre'.

We're not talking a conversation from 10 years ago either. This was June last year!

Comments or statements like that need to be shouted out of the room.

I feel there's a finesse to be drawn and understood here.

If some one states, AWS is single site and no one else in the room challenges the stupidity of the claim. Some one ought to. That guys/girl is a fucking idiot.

But some one who perhaps needs to be coaxed or massaged into a different angle because their code base will grow 90% in size? Depending on the context that might be for the best. Or it might not be.

Coming back to my earlier analogy. Hammers and scalpels are both honest. Different tools for different needs.
Ah. Didn't think of that.

Edit: And I didn't see Animats' comment that EM radiation was delayed ~2 seconds. But also that the speed difference was very small.
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On the same front-page on HN for me right now is:

"Time Magazine Sold to Marc Benioff for $190M"

It is a shame that the difference here is so big. Many people would rather pay $3 for a cup of coffee multiple times a day, than pay a fraction of that for valuable content.

Edit to clarify:

I understand that consumer products are different than content and that news is not a direct competitor to coffee products. What I mean is that news companies are struggling to get enough out of the advertisement model whereas nobody expects to get coffee for free/less in exchange for advertisements on their cups.
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Apparently you've mistyped the name - the curve is named after a Russian-Israeli mathematician Viktor Zalgaller.
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Oh how I'd love to have Quartz/Aqua/Finder on top of Linux.
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One of my friend named her daughter Nana (seven in Japanese) 20 years ago and when daughter was 6+, they got a dog so named him Seven.
And also easy to want now, but difficult to continuously keep wanting in the future. Kind of like going to the pub for just one pint.
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I never saw social networks as a replacement to RSS/Atom feeds.
Feeds were about checking news/articles directly from a client, whereas social networks are about sharing a link.
System Thinking and look at what Human Factors and Cognitive Systems Engineering does.

It is always applicable and it will be useful in any role.
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Other than my own list of unread bookmarks, Google Readers signal to noise ratio (as a platform) was second to none. The feeds I followed would post 95% worthwhile content. A blog post is like a dinner speech, don't want to miss it. In social media the dinner speech is also available, only sandwiched somewhere between all the small talk and pleasantries. I never found a replacement, and quite a few people I followed cut down on blogging.
The consequences would be terrible! We would have to wait 18 months between each iteration of Iphone instead of 12. Amazon would deliver at day+2. Uber Eats would answer: "No slave available. Sorry, you will have to cook".

Simply unacceptable !!!

Now go back to work 5 days a week!
2 for the kids, 3 for the parents. ;)
Can you give one or two examples of him being "set off by randos who only want to contribute"? I can't say I remember that at all.
What are Larry Page and Sergey Brin's reputation in this regard?

Since we're talking about the open source world, how about Guido van Rossum?

Paul Graham seems like he's probably a direct yet civil guy.
http://paulgraham.com/safe.html

Elon Musk isn't abusive. He extremely driven and demanding but that's not the same as abusive.

I could expand the list quite a bit if you want but do you really believe it'd be a challenge for me to list important leaders who aren't assholes? BTW, I don't know these people so I might get it wrong regarding some of the people I'd list.
AFAIK, Labcorp and Quest don't provide public facing APIs. EMR vendors do provide Lab APIs (with user approval): Epic, Allscripts, drChrono, etc. They use a framework called FHIR. You can go to the EMR vendor websites and find out how to gain access to these APIs. It's time consuming but not difficult.
Sometimes you hate something thinking you are no good and it is boring. Then you learn a key bit or just your lifestyle changes and it becomes your favorite thing. Happened to me multiple times.

Example: I hated hated hated css. After being forced to solve enough issues, I suddenly started to like it. I am still not good at it, but I find it fun now.
Ah yes, domestic Indian airlines is a true adventure. Whatever visions you have about the crowded Indian second class bus, take that and put it in a place where you can’t escape for multiple hours. Stinky food, screaming kids, arguing with the stewardess and all sorts of other hilariousness and hijinks ensue
Just to clarify, I'm definitely not trying to suggest that this is the only reason you should be respectful. This is more a message about people within tech, who are numerous, that get frustrated with working with other people due to actual or perceived incompetence. The parent comment mentioned the 'it's ok to be an asshole if you're right' myth, which is particularly prominent in software projects or in tech related discussions. I would deduce that the only reason that smart, capable people do not invest the time or the energy into moderating their tone and choosing their words is because they don't see value in it. My point is that there is empirical value in it even if you're purely seeing it as a means to an ends.

Absolutely the rest of us who are just nice and pleasant as part of our day to day should continue to do so, we just need to remember that their isn't really a justification for ad hominem attacks as part of professional discourse.
I don't enjoy being an arsehole.

No, that's not entirely true. Sometimes I do. I take pride in my work, I take pride in where I've come. If some one comes out and says something that's so moronic that it makes me cringe, I consider it my civil and/or professional duty to bring this around. How I bring this around depends on many factors.

I replied to one of your other comments about an 'Architect' who claimed AWS was single site. Those type of comments... I will never harbor. This particular gentlemen needs euthanising and forced into retirement. He and his cronies will single handedly destroy the company I left but, after 4.5 of years of fighting them. I gave up and quit. I can't fix stupid. And his bosses couldn't see through their bullshit. My mental health deserves better.

I'd consider those arguments described above and opinions like that to be up there with fucking anti-vaccers and (I hate to say it... contentiously) global-warming deniers.

But there's a nuance there. I can't go around talking to people like they don't know what they're talking about all of the time. I could be wrong. I have been. Even when I was absolutely certain I was correct. Even if it's not that binary and there's something in the grey between what they're saying and I'm saying. You can be delicate sometimes. Sometimes you need to be. Sometimes you need to be a hammer and destroy some one with words. Sometimes you need to be a feather duster. Or a scalpel. And sometimes you need to shut the fuck up and quit.

Edit: I'm speaking here amongst like minded people and the comment about euthanasia was entirely sarcastic for the sake of humour. In the context of this conversation I'd never say this to anyone. I however, did quote Full Metal Jacket ("What is your major malfunction, numbnuts?") and expresses my shock and embarrassment that we both represent the same company.

It's evident I'm still figuring out the syntax around the word 'tact'.
Well formed feeds have unique id's per item, that stay the same even with title or order or timestamp changing.
I wish you all the best. It might be difficult if you are to set a precedent in your company.
As somebody who has devoted six years of his life to building a web-based music notation rendering engine, I salute you!

I make Soundslice (https://www.soundslice.com/), which syncs music notation and real performance audio/video.

I've seen several "alternate" or "simplified" music notations come and go. While I applaud experimentation, I've gotta be honest: if you do the work of learning to read traditional music notation instead of inventing a new notation, many more doors will be opened to you.

You'll be able to jump in and read hundreds of years' worth of music, you'll be able to communicate better with fellow musicians, and it'll help develop your music theory knowledge.

I say all of this as somebody who began as an amateur guitarist, reading only ASCII tabs. I know what it's like on both sides of the notational divide. :-)
People value living their own lives over reading about other people living their lives
Ideally the skills would be ones that have been stable to human thinkers and craftspeople for centuries, rather than skills associated with transient technology.

This increases the chance of said skills contributing to the pursuit of a wide range of future passions.
You're in the minority but you're not the only one. You can see the sentiment expressed about Rust community a lot. Super nice - don't ever say anything that may upset someone - kind of atmosphere is off-putting to many. I for one wouldn't want to work in such environment but I would love to work with Linus.

The problem is that people who prefer direct non-bs communication are also usually more emotionally mature and better at adjusting to others. They will keep quiet or look to move somewhere else but will rarely complain. Meanwhile easily upset and less stable people complain more readily and usually louder to force others to adopt their preferred style of communication (which often comes down to "don't criticize me and use the kind of language I prefer")
We don't stop Americans from visiting our country

You're sure of this? Have you actually checked?

Heck, for one example, the UK has banned an American radio talkhosr just for his commentary, with no criminal charges on either side of the pond. A nation is entitled to choose its guests (aside from diplomats).
> How do you guys stay sane in tech?

Recognize that the work life is not the ends, but the means. You're selling your time in exchange for money which then allows you to pursue your personal goals.

Also, enter a state of mind where you watch office politics from the sidelines without getting personally invested in it. Maintain a metaphorical "strategic popcorn reserve".
I'm with you but you can't say you would have used an iPhone if it had a jack yet a Mac pro or laptop won't cut it for processing power.
They allow you to store the (encrypted) data in your own Dropbox if you're concerned about the 1Password cloud.
Before settling on a checklist, I've used and not regretted doing workflow process mapping, as SIPOC as possible, to identify unneeded, repeated, out-of-order steps and manual/waiting points.

As a visual, it's pretty easy for all to follow. If short on decoration, it can also be put up as a poster on the wall.
I disagree - I think if you described this to a layman they would always be more interested in optimising for the worst case. For example if I had an algorithm that on average will get me out in 1 mile but in the worst case might take me 100 miles then that's not very useful if I was trying to decide how much supplies to take.

The concept of an arithmetic mean is quite artificial - there's other ways you could define "average" such as the median.

Also, in my experience, optimising for the average case is often the easier problem to solve.
Interesting. And I've recently moved to FreeBSD and let it imitate a Mac with Xfce, and I have graphics, Wi-Fi, black jack and hookers [1]. I never thought this level of imitation would be possible in the free world.

[1] http://trafyx.com/?p=2551
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They have some. I use RSS to get Matt Levine's column, for example.

Link: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/rss/contributors/matt-levine....
I would be curious to know experiences of people who actually did it and what use they made of this time. Spent with family? Personal growth? Making money through freelancing or side projects?
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If they say no then I'll probably move on as the commute is a killer.

I imagine that will motivate them to say yes. If not, no loss!
> To a person, the most successful people in any field, are obsessively focused on whatever they are successful at. It's impossible to be at the absolute top of your field without obsessive, driven, focus, aka "passion."

Neither is true. The best in field are spending a lot of time with what they do, but they are not necessary single minded obsessive. They are driven and focused, but not necessary obsessive.

To be top of anything competitive, you need in no particular order: hard work, right genetics, right environment. All three are necessary. Enjoyment helps with motivation, but absolute top is not distinguished by more love for activity. They are distinguished by pragmatical differences.
> Why are tech billionaires buying up these companies?

Because, as core actors of the tech wave, they'd feel responsible for killing them if they didn't.
Maybe by quantifying the cost with a concrete example.

Take a particular convoluted piece of code from your codebase, preferably having a bug in it that exists in your issue tracker.

Show your manager this code, by scrolling through it (he/she does not have to understand it). Now you say: "We have this bug in this code, which cost me 4 hrs to solve. I had to debug, consult team members, etc. Now had we refactored this code before, the bug would already be eliminated and never reached the customer. Here I have the refactored code, which took me 2 hrs to create. Looks much cleaner, right? Even if the bug had remained in this code, I would have found and fixed it within an hour, and so would the next guy without having to bother other team members. When I refactored I even found yet another bug in the original code that hadn't been detected yet."

Refactoring turned out to be cheaper in any way, and avoids the hit to customer satisfaction if it goes into production.
Operating system packaging: RPM, pkgsrc, ... You'll always come back to it as being your primary building and delivery block and it will provide huge benefits in terms of simplicity. You'll be running circles around everyone else in terms of delivery, simplicity and robustness. The learning curve is steep but well worth it, and it never stops paying dividends.
I start to see how this works. There is a third party, but they intervene at signing time and not at validation time.

In detail: You create a hash of your executable and send it to the third party, the TSS. They sign the hash, and never even need to see the actual executable. As long as the end user trusts the third party's cert, the TSS can guarantee the executable existed in its current shape on the date you claim it existed. A kind of notary service.

For who wants to know more: Here is a Java article detailling how this works for Java, and what happens if the TSS cert itself expires

https://blogs.oracle.com/java-platform-group/signed-code-nee...

And wikipedia is interesting too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_timestamping
Did ex-Microsoft people join the Google Plus team?
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Reminds me of the “white suit consultant”: someone once told me that he wanted to be such a master in his skill that he could come visit clients the way he liked, like in a completely white suit with a white hat...
Missing some important discussion topics such as PubSubHubub and WebSub. As the Web-based ad industry continues to crumble under the ideal of privacy as a basic human right my vision brings Web feeds back into the limelight but not as a metadata description frameworks but as monetized content upgrades.
I agree, I don't know where this idea that RSS died is coming from. RSS seems to be doing just fine. I use Feedly to subscribe to dozens of feeds. Before that I used Google Reader. I subscribe to more feeds now than I did then.
> there is nothing stopping the Bitcoin network, for instance, from deciding it wants to inflate after it has mined all the coins

But at least it would be up to a community of users, rather than government decree. I doubt any of the crypto communities would decide to have ~10% long term inflation like USD.

> The fact that the vast majority of mining is controlled by a handful of Chinese companies and that this is seen as preferable to The Fed for deciding whether or not to inflate seems crazy to me.

Also a fair point against Bitcoin, but I think the future is PoS.

> No, because anyone who wants to make a serious business out of these will be required to become a Money Services Business, and have a Know Your Customer (KYC) process. As I mentioned in my previous posts: we've thought about this problem before, we don't want money floating around that isn't easily traceable, and so we already have laws governing this stuff.

Right, I'm not saying that ZEC will let people get around KYC controls etc. Businesses will need to apply the same processes when accepting a large ZEC deposit or a large suitcase of cash. I'm just saying that crypto privacy can be as good as cash.

> If a currency is truly deflationary consumers wont want to spend it

I doubt low-inflation currencies would actually change spending/hoarding behavior significantly. People who want to hoard wealth can do so already, with gold, land, TIPS, etc.

There would be a shift in the assets used for savings, from gold etc. to crypto, but that doesn't mean less economic activity. Currency that's "locked up" in long term savings just doesn't affect the economy (unless there's some reason to believe that velocity will change). For some evidence look at M2 supply, M2 velocity and the CPI.
Several?
Snowden is brought into association with Assange and Greenwald, a lot of the instances you are talking about mentioned in the article are not related to Snowden but to Wikileaks etc.
I don’t know any instance where Snowden was in direct support or defended Putin (even from the article). The only “Support” from Snowden was showing up in a TV show with Putin asking him 2 questions.

Still my question holds: when did Snowden defend Putin? (and can you get a source interview or statement directly from Snowden … not associations over actions of 3rd parties).
You can have that with ArmA or Squad (the later to a lesser extend).

At least in two ArmA games I've had to lie down in the dirt for an hour and when it was time to move in, most of the enemies had been bombed out by air support already (who also bombed out a few of our own squads because aiming bombs is for losers). Of course once it's your turn for action it can get quite hectic too.
Good to see fitness stuff getting mentioned. His channel is pretty good. This guy is a PhD in relevant field and he has been working with professional athletes for years. Combination of his experience and theoretical background simply makes his channel invaluable. And I wonder if he has trouble washing out pen marks he draws on his body whenever he explains how muscle fibers look on his arm and how that's related with different forms and movement he designed -- well I mean most mark pens I used in my college stink like bad alcohol mixed with muddy paint so, good luck with washing that out :-p

And I also wanna recommend fitnessfaq(https://www.youtube.com/user/FitnessFAQs)

Its' more of a bodyweight training focused fitness channel. Bodyweight training is arguably more difficult to progress (or unnatural? or inconsistent I would say? I mean you can't simply increment weight without changing your form like you can do when you progress with barbell/dumbell, you may have to adjust your form a little bit, can't think about right word for this) and yet more effective in training conditioning, mobility, skill (mainly because almost all bodyweight exercises involve more muscle groups/joints/body parts simultaneously, while, many weight training exercises using barbell/dumbbell as resistant instead of bodyweight, usually involve much fewer muscles joints and body parts) But not the case if we are talking about barbell trainings like squat and deadlift, these are as good as bodyweight training in terms of whole body involvement in my opinion. Actually I am doing bodyweight training for majority part of my body but squat and deadlift for my leg(dumbbell not barbell, well because I am too lazy to go to gym, I prefer exercising home, I would recommend using barbell though)

But with all those pros and cons of bodyweight training and non bodyweight trainng, both are good for your body, good to get you in shape and to look nice and to lose weight and to get stronger and all sort of things you can expect from arnold swarchenegger.
Wasn’t this discussed intensively just recently?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17884299
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If the "economic" publishers all agree to be monetized and harvested by Facebook and Google, this could be a self-correcting dynamic.

The only people left using RSS will be the classic web of independent readers and writers, who are still free to donate directly to each other with only a payment processor as middleparty.