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I don't think I am. I've spent a ton of time in the community, I've owned a bunch of different currencies, and I've spent a lot of time thinking about the implications of the technology. The ideas are fun, but they aren't new, and we can reason about why they still wont work.

One reason cryptocurrency "wont work" (admittedly vague term, but I'm happy to shoot down any definition of "work" you have because I think they are truly useless outside of a tiny portion of people with very specific needs) is simple specialization of labor: people do not want to be engaged in the process of running a currency or a government, which is why, among many other reasons, banks and representative governments exist. And you see this pattern already repeated with crypto where any meaningfully large currency has extremely concentrated ownership. This is just swapping one set of large, monolithic bankers for another one.

Another reason cryptocurrency "wont work" is that everything it depends on is completely derivative of political and technical systems that are designed to prevent decentralized control. The internet exists on networks owned by companies like Verizon, on computers owned by Amazon, and is regulated by the US government. If cryptocurrency was going to be truly revolutionary in anyway the US federal government (and others) already have multiple built in kill switches for it. Sure you can cold store your hashes (even though we all know most people just have Coinbase wallets), but the utility of the network is trivial to compromise or destroy for a state level actor. And as an aside: most crypto is actually regressive from a privacy/personal liberty standpoint when compared with cash, or even the current banking system in many ways.

One more reason crypto "wont work" is that I just haven't heard a single use case for it. The classic "remittances" use case makes no sense because you still have to change the crypto for real currency, which is where the cost is, (yes, only until the currency is meaningfully bootstrapped, let me know when that happens). You don't pay Western Union 15% to flip bits in their servers, you pay them 15% because they put a guy with a gun next to the actual money in the relatively less safe country you are sending money to.

I will remind you that Lehman Brothers was worth about $70B at its peak, in a highly regulated market. $100B is big but far stranger things have happened than an unregulated public market being wrong about things this size. The incentives to pump something like this up are massive, and the market is irrational in the short and medium term. There are a LOT of really rich people out there who feel like if they hadn't missed "the internet" they could be even richer, and we managed to convince them crypto might be the next internet. To your point: that in and of itself, from a sociological perspective, is fascinating.

I do have strong opinions, but they are held loosely and they are ones I hope to be wrong about, so I'm open to discussion.
>> Pretty much everyone can solve it, but I’m not just looking for them to solve it. ... Almost no one passes.

Sounds like a not-great process IMO. You're expecting them to understand a lot of what makes you tick and what you personally consider 'maintainable' based on a 1 minute problem description.

My opinions on what makes code maintainable have evolved and fluctuated (based on most irritating current problem) significantly over time.
You also need to account for CO2.
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Reminds me of The Onion sketch : Ultra-Realistic Modern Warfare Game Features Awaiting Orders, Repairing Trucks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuTkgi7scKo
Actually he's not planning on being involved editorially.

> He said in a statement that "Lynne and I will take on no operational responsibility for Time, and look only to be the stewards of this historic and iconic brand."

-- https://money.cnn.com/2018/09/16/media/tech-ceos-buying-news...
It's really a matter of experience (and sometimes lots of brute force); it's not easy to explain but I am able to make a reasonable guess at identifying ARM, MIPS, and x86, and Z80 by looking at the "texture" of the bytes as displayed in a hexdump or ASCII. Basically, stare at enough binaries for long enough and it tends to come naturally, just like people are usually able to tell apart human languages even if they don't actually know them.
> Ironic that you complained about lack of data and then launched into an anecdote.

I would see it more as an application of Popper's falsification principle.
I agree it's mostly pointless to argue one way or another what Linux would be in a hypothetical timeline in which Linus was less rude/brash. But it seems ironic to bring up Jobs as a counter-example, because he most definitely was known to be an asshole who said and did things far more reprehensible than what Linus has been accused of. But Jobs has no shortage of first-hand witnesses who testify that his force of personality (e.g. the reality distortion field) was pivotal to Apple's success. I'm a Church of Woz worshipper myself, but it seems clear he would not have (reluctantly) agreed to quit his anonymous HP engineering job to join Apple, had Jobs not literally thrown a crying tantrum (and IIRC from one of his biographers, he did this in Woz's own home).
So sad to see an article written about Damascus steel origin without the origin being mentioned. The origin of Damascus steel was India where it was called Ukku. Wootz is derived from Ukku.
> Too many software engineers get into a mindset of “just make it work.” For me, making it work is only half the battle.

I had a conversation with a mentor talking about hiring. He said that he typically saw two types of engineers:

Those who can start something.

And.

Those who can finish something.

The former can tackle problems that seem to have no solution, start from scratch and build something that just works. They are energized by greenfield development and close consultation with customers/users.

The latter can work within larger organizations, know about idiom for the technologies used, think about the right level of abstraction, and provide polish for the codebase.

Teams typically need both kinds of engineers.

I found out what kind of engineer I am years ago. That's led to roles that make me happy.

Agree that fp and oop are good investments.
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But is it a kick ass wheel?

Imagine if the only programming language available was C and all you wanted to be was an amateur script kiddie. It is nice to have beginner friendly languages we can start people off in, allow them to build real solutions in, but then slowly shift them out of into more nuanced code once they are ready.

Tab solves part of that problem for entry level guitarists, but there is a bit of a void in the staff.

I'm not saying that I don't like the staff - as someone who is literate, I agree, it works. I'm just saying that a simpler notation with a smoother learning curve might serve as an easier entry point for beginners who can make the jump to the full-on staff when they are ready.

(I'm not saying I like OP's project either, I think that's missed the mark too.)
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Blame dumb call center metrics, intentional disconnects like that keep the average wait time down which allows bad call centers to look better in reports.
My post argues that a binary distinction between proprietary and open source is harmful. Those terms are both political and contested within the community. I am contesting them, and I'm not alone.

You might like to argue that your binary distinction is best. That's fine. But you're going to have to argue.

> The benefits of being open-source ought to accrue only to software that is open-source.

I would say that benefits ought to accrue to software according the benefit it brings. There is a lot of value in publishing source, even without an OSI- or FSF-approved license. That value ought to be recognized, not lumped in with software without public source. As I wrote in the post: "Publishing code alone brings many of the benefits currently imputed exclusively to open source under licenses like MIT and BSD."

> None of those cases are relevant to this discussion.

Vernor was decided _after_ enactment of 17 USC 117, addresses it directly, and cites the MAI Trio extensively. If you don't want to read the opinion, here's the EFF writeup:

https://www.eff.org/cases/vernor-v-autodesk

They quote the holding, where the court uses the exact phrase "use restrictions".

If you want to argue that public licenses can't enforce use restrictions because they aren't written directly to the 17 USC 106 rights, and that incidental, inevitable exercise of at least the exclusive reproduction right doesn't count under 17 USC 117, you have to deal with the "owner" language there, and the clear deviation from the CONTU Report. And Vernor.

As for the CC-NC licenses, the parties in Great Minds didn't dispute that the use was noncommercial. IIRC, they clashed on another part of the license, namely whether the noncommercial user could have a third party exercise its license on its behalf.

Here's English coverage of a German court enforcing a CC-NC license in a pretty far reaching way:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140326/11405526695/germa...
The Zuckerberg for president talk was before the Cambridge Analytica thing blew up. HN has been critical of FB for a very long time, but it was only then that Zuckerberg's public image really took a beating.

Bezos has a much lower public profile. Apparently he's a libertarian. It's easy to portray him as everything that is wrong with American economic life — he's an ultra-rich man running an extremely successful company, while paying countless workers barely enough to live — so it's hard to see him as a viable candidate.
Dave's World of Fun Stuff is ostensibly guitar setup & repair. In actuality it's much more (and much more fun.)

I don't even own a guitar and I enjoy watching. Dave always cares about his work, and takes the time to do it right. The fun comes from when he gets pissed-off at some sloppy half-assed repair or manufacturing.

There's also a good bit of innuendo and word-play. Looking down the truss-rod hole, Dave's says (with a perfectly straight face) "I don't think anyone else has ever been in there." Turning the rod: "Oh yeah. That's tight."
I have an impossible to prove theory that the rise of boys named Aiden coincides with thst being the name of Carrie Bradshaw's nice guy boyfriend on sex in the city. Girls that watched in their teens and early 20s liked him and when they had sons of their own the name was on the short list.
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Dude, I possible working with HTS before you were born.
I just checked: On my iOS phone the Facebook App (Version 189.0) is 315MB. Plus 111MB of stored local data.
USA isn't Poland. Trump says dumb things, some BS, and is boorish but isn't Hitler nor anywhere close to it.

"The press and journalists" should realize when you push click bait then you give room for Trump and others like him to call you fake news, because sometimes you are

Enough of these scare mongering articles.
That is not actually an explanation; you can only apply regression to the mean if you know what the mean is. The explanation I give correctly predicts that replicated experiments will see their effect sizes decline. Saying "regression to the mean" does not.

(It is quite possible to interpret this as regression driven by the p-value threshold, but if you do that, you're relying on the explanation I gave.)
Brian Douglas' Control System Lectures: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq0imsn84ShAe9PBOFnoIrg
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> But Bezos would be more successful I'd think if he wanted to run.

The left hates him because of the way he runs Amazon, the right hates him because he owns a media outlet that isn't Fox News style right-wing propaganda.

And the center effectively doesn't exist; political opinion is distributed closer to bimodally than unimodally.

So, I don't think Bezos would do nearly as well running for office as influencing behind the scenes. Zuck was probably better off, in terms of electoral politics, before Cambridge Analytica, now he's in a pretty similar place.
I recently built a new OPML set of feeds from scratch, in different areas like Linux, ham radio, science, general news, and shopping/deals. Easily 95% of these sites offered RSS or Atom feeds. The main offenders were national news sites, for which there were plenty of alternatives.

Only a couple are available yet annoying, like the forum at eham.net, which offers a feed that essentially gets you unsorted forum replies mixed in with new topics. So every day's updates are full of "Re:" entries. Anyway that's been the only speed bump so far. I was surprised.

Also, since I monitor niche subreddits on Reddit, their generalized feed availability means I can automatically get amazingly wide access to a variety of niche topics (e.g. shorthand writing).

Part of my experiment was aimed at figuring out whether RSS is useful to me. It really is, though careful culling of unwanted or unneeded feeds is important. It's kind of like maintaining a plain-HTML links page. Still valuable in its simplicity, but also requiring ongoing refinements to continue to be useful.
Personally, and maybe I’m in the minority when thinking this, but I can’t stand working with polite people.

They not only slow down the progress of a project by often causing unneeded busywork, from simply not halting bad ideas, they often slow my learning progress down by not telling me I’m wrong.

If you see something stupid, call it out. If I’m doing something stupid or say something wrong, call me out!

There’s obviously a happy medium somewhere in there, and Linus isn’t it, but I would much prefer working with a Linus than someone polite. From the history I’ve read, he’s not holding grudges, or necessarily attacking people, he’s attacking dumb approaches and ideas, which happen to be authored by people. At least that’s how I’ve always interpreted his rants.
I still use RSS to power my little podcast syndication platform.

While I was building it I did notice it had become harder to find a poscasts RSS feed but they definitely all still used it. I suspect it is used more as a business to business/platform to platform transport these days.

Certainly beats building thirty API integrations for people who want to roll their own syndication for their podcast.
While true, groundbreaking should usually mean "order(s) of magnitude" improvement.

It would have been more adequate if, say, the drone could last a day. Which would roughly be a 10x improvement.
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He should only be angry at those who should know better. He often is set off by randos who only want to contribute.

So 2D is still too simple. It is like a horseshoe, one can be so abusive that the project fails because of it.
You can see a response I've just posted on Vernor and Deutschlandradio. You may also wish to peruse common proprietary license forms, as I mention in Free to Take Freedom Post.

I won't be providing you any further comments. If you have need of specific guidance in this legal area, please seek your own legal counsel.
The title article is missing "and re-rise". I use it regularly and I am happy how it gets the job done : no social stuff, no ads.
Error handling in SQL Server, how hard can it be? Quite hard as it turns out ...
Could you give an example of a simplified version of a real world problem?
A sphere has surface area and volume. I didn’t claim or imply that I thought area meant volume. It does not have area and the formula for the surface area of a sphere is not pi r^2. I mentioned this in my original post. Then there is the remark that whatshisface made: A = pi r^2, the area of a sphere in three dimensions. That is wrong and most likely a mistake.

When talking about dropping a constant factor are you referring to the 1/r^2 part or dropping a 4 in the statement A=pi r^2. Because if the latter then why keep pi? That’s a constant.
Poor service though is more about lack of resources than the complexity of the tax code.
I'm curious what you, or anyone else, thinks could be improved without just being different.

I've seen suggestions such as ditching accidentals and just giving every note their own line or space, but that would make it much harder to recognize common chords or shapes in different keys.

Really the problem is the piano layout itself. It's designed to make playing C major easy and everything else hard (though many experienced players would say they prefer a scale with lots of black keys such as B major because those are easier to hit accuratley).

Of course there's already an answer to that, the Janko keyboard[1], which has been available for well over 100 years. It has a regular layout for easy transposition, and allows each hand to reach a wider range of notes without large jumps. Perhaps music notation would have evolved differently if this type of keyboard had been prominent.

Alas we got what we got, and have a massive catalog of music designed for it, and already experienced piano players certainly are not going to try to help change that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jank%C3%B3_keyboard
Relevant wikipedia articles:

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Polish_Air_Force_Tu-154_c...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_and_state_funeral_of_Lec...
yep RSS sure isn't the most user friendly solution, and i guess it's always been the problem #1 with RSS.
But it's getting better, or at least not worse?, there's now many good web-based RSS readers that do a great job at helping people find and subscribe to sources but it's still not facebook-easy.
Agree. If there's a successful IPO, almost everyone with ISOs leave as soon as they hit their cliff. Any reups are simply competitive with recruiting offers.
This is my best 'first day at work' story.

There was this company that really badly needed some ops help as they had some major projects on the go and really needed some help. Alas, my girlfriend was extremely pregnant, so I kept pushing my start date back and back. Meanwhile, my child just flat out refused to be born. We went to the hospital several times, but whenever we got there, the contractions would flat out stop.

Eventually, I had to start. A couple of hours in, I was setting up my dev environment with some serious first day jitters, and I got a phone call. I remember standing up, putting my hands over my mouth and not being able to move.

I was completely screwed and couldn't figure out what the heck to do. My boss had to tell me to go, get in my car and go. And, I drove at speeds so obscene that they likely would have lead to my arrest.

Eighteen hours later, my daughter was born.
It has become rather embarrassing to be a tax-paying US citizen.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17995934, not sure how it got through the filters.
Yup - that's the downside to any formula. I think it's more important, therefore, to understand the reasoning behind the formula so that you can play things a little more "authentically" and fluidly.
He's not really a scientist - at least one as theory heavy as the names above.

However, his work with linux and git is at least comparable to that of other big scientific names known more for their engineering impact - like Van Leeuwenhoek. I'd also say the impact of Linus is greater, in part because of his insistence on making Linux GPL early on, rather than the secretive approach taken by someone like Van Leeuwenhoek.
He's into a low-carb diet.
> I interview a lot of job candidates and I give them a very simple problem. Pretty much everyone can solve it, but I’m not just looking for them to solve it. I’m looking for them to find the right abstraction—one that will make it easy to extend the problem and for junior devs to look at the solution function and understand exactly what it’s doing. Almost no one passes.

In other words, you're setting those people up to fail who are providing a straightforward solution to a made-up problem. The "right abstraction" often is no abstraction whatsoever. If "almost nobody passes", the problem is you. You're an "overengineer". These candidates are dodging a bullet with you.
I experienced this first hand. I was at a founder’s second company, after the first one had a successful exit. The second company was in a similar space.

There were a lot of things that we got ridiculous pushback on, justified as “at company X-1 we only needed 2 salespeople. We don’t need more than that at company X”. There seemed to be a lot of things where it seemed like he thought he’d figured out “the formula” when it was really just a lucky break. I didn’t stay long. 10 years later, they did have an exit, but it was on a dramatically longer timeframe than the first company had, and I suspect a lot of that had to do with bad choices that had worked out at the previous company.
Make that shit Free Software as fast as possible.
How are you interpreting that tweet? I see it as the creator's tweet as being facetious, if ungracious? Seems she's pointing out -- again, perhaps ungraciously -- how anyone in the Linux community who was anti-CoC now has to accept that a CoC is part of Linux.

I'd like to think ideally she could come off as less snarky, perhaps. You don't actually believe she's referring to an actual conspiracy, right? Usually infiltrators, even the most gloaty of ones, don't call attention to their current effort to infiltrate something.
AIUI, the dupe detector takes into account whether or not the submission has gained traction. If a submission only has a few comments, a subsequent re-submission may not be considered a dupe.
Stuff that the creator/producer wants syndicated will probably have an RSS feed still. As social media platforms benefit from content lock in as opposed to syndication, the publisher (the platform) has no incentive to offer RSS.

I am not particularly bothered by the lack of RSS on social platforms.
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Interesting. I'm trying to picture that, but I'm not sure if I can. To me, that sounds more like how people arrive at a position rather than the position itself. Or, how someone comes to the content of their opinion as opposed to where on the spectrum that opinion might be.
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I personally know more than one person who has worked in the cage, they are paid above minimum wage. It's not a great salary or anything, but it's not minimum wage or below. The $30,000/year that a sibling comment says sounds right. The BLS considers them "financial clerks" and doesn't break out casino employees separately[1].

[1] https://www.bls.gov/ooh/office-and-administrative-support/mo...