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- Linux desktop market share is tiny. My own app supports Linux, but I'm 100% aware that I'm doing it at a loss in every possible way, it's a passion project. Bang for buck is terrible, so you need to justify as a labour of love.

- The amount of pain one needs to endure to get a Linux desktop to work as it should is huge, and there are several competing packaging providers with no clear winner, and all have very much hidden gotchas that they do a poor job of explaining ahead of time.

- Making a cross-platform Electron app that behaves well and up to to snuff on Windows, Mac and Linux is not even close to easy. The fact that JS theoretically works on all three platforms buys you way less than most people think.

Source: I'm making a cross platform Electron app that supports Linux.
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We've already asked you to stop posting unsubstantive comments to HN. This one breaks multiple site guidelines in addition, such as this one:

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>Or you’re NYC and already have an existing subway. But instead of 10s of millions it needs HUNDREDS of millions (or more) to ‘fix’, minimum.

Remind me how much money is in NYC?
Ah, that makes sense. I thought Chucklefish was the pseudonym for the developer. Today I learned.
How would you have price fixing and rationing? At most you could have that on the legal market, but the black market would never tolerate that, and it would only drive the (unofficial) price for women even higher.

Besides a great deal of the reasons the girls were aborted or killed were because in China a parent can count only on the support of their sons, not because Chinese parents don't love their daughters.
This seems to be a continuation of the Von-Neumann interpretation of QM this isn’t new: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann–Wigner_interpret...

The cutting edge of physics is often borderline metaphysical and well to a point nonsensical especially when you rely heavily on flawed thought expriements and unable to construct any good experimental ones.
No, it's an inference to the best explanation where for various reason it is thought that physics does not offer the best explanation. If the physical explanation is not even sufficient, then it cannot be the best explanation.

That's the gist of the argument. Of course, there is disagreement about what counts as a sufficient explanation or the best explanation at a time and others may disagree. It's philosophy of science, not science.
It's also exponentially harder to make a Linux port for a AAA game than for an Indie game, for many reasons. The most obvious ones being that most indie games are made with an off the shelf cross platform engine (Unity, unreal), and that AAA titles require a lot more hardware resources, and optimization of this usage is often platform specific (what helps OpenGL might not help DirectX, etc).
Extensive discussion a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18060543
I think a more insightful analysis than (the insufferable) Taleb's one is the "Winner takes it all" one:

> In our 1995 book, The Winner-Take-All Society, Philip Cook and I [=Herbert Frank] argued that top salaries have been growing sharply in virtually every labor market because of two factors – technological forces that greatly amplify small increments in performance and increased competition for the services of top performers.

That might combine with the "saliency" cognitive bias - it's easier to think of successful actors, writers, game authors, than of unsuccessful ones.

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2011/12/how_...
The article is about Cincinnati, not Silicon Valley. And clearly there is a problem in Cincinnati or steps to roll back mandatory parking minimums would not have been taken.
>> Does the world need any more games at this point?

It's like asking if the world needs another pop song or pizza joint. There's always room for the next great game and another good place to get a pie.
Maybe so, but could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News?
> how many hours you spent optimizing some C++ function

> You need a massive amount of top notch artwork, music, 3D modelling, shader effects, SFX, etc. to have a polished nice looking game.

Top notch in any field requires optimizing hidden, underlying dependencies to deliver the best output. Optimizing code is not sufficient but it is usually necessary, especially if others have already solved it, setting the standard of performance that players expect.

The way to avoid optimizing core library code is to use someone else's library and build on top of that. But you can only do that so much. This is just an insanely hard industry to get into.
Well that's unfortunate. I was hoping Rust could get a graphics library out of that.
Sure: https://play.rust-lang.org/?gist=1d5470a4649bb875581cc3dd9c5...
Can you give some context for an oblivious onlooker?
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All my notes are stored in Google Docs, but I sometimes worry that if it ever suddenly becomes deprecated or I'm locked/banned out of my account for whatever reason I'll lose many years of important knowledge. I wonder if I should copy/paste all my notes from Google Docs into plaintext files.
> The fastest code is the code that doesn't run at all.

I'm taken with Daniel Bernstein's observation that speed is totally unimportant for ~95% of the code generated. The reason being it the percentage of the time it runs is a small percentage of the total, or it runs hardly or not at all.

And I'll add that for most programs written, speed isn't important. Because the cost to run them is a small fraction of the cost to write and maintain them.

https://cr.yp.to/talks/2015.04.16/slides-djb-20150416-a4.pdf
I don’t know. I appreciate having a simple language that lets me get things done quickly and mostly stays out of my way. Not just the type system or even the runtime mind you, but the ecosystem and tooling as well.
I’m not sure if I’m reading you right. You seem to be saying some mental events don’t have physical causes, or maybe that some mental properties are not encoded physically.

In which case it sounds like there should be some mental events or experiences that are impervious to physical interference. So for example there is no conceivable physical intervention that could affect them. Do you believe there may be mental phenomena that are not causally related to physical processes in that way? It sounds like this should be testable.
Creating Linux threads is pretty fast.

You should be able to "just" create 1000 threads in "only" 2ms or less.
I'm really worried about the wholesale move to Typescript in so many projects. To me it's the new coffeescript combined with the verbosity of J2EE. Yes it's corporate sponsored, so hopefully will be maintained indefinitely - but I like JavaScript, and Typescript isn't JS.

What's worse is so many developers using their own slightly tweaked versions of JavaScript. I spent a solid day this week trying to get decorators and class fields to transpile reliably with as few dependencies as possible. It seems every project creates their own DSL that sorta-kinda is JS, then figures out a way to get it to compile and calls it a day. This sort of goes against the whole reason we have language standards in the first place.

Anyways, I admire Evan's desire to hold back on the need for decorators and class fields, but since he's developing the project in Typescript, I have little faith that any of the projects that use Vue will avoid them.
Plus some sort of vertical parking elevator starts to become much more reasonable. They already exist but when the whole thing is 100% automated including the car you could get more parking out of the vertical space then you do with a current garage.
Subsidizing the use of roads by letting people use them for free after spending a great deal of money on building and maintaining them is not "market-oriented". Charging people to use them is the closest you can get to market-oriented if you are already stuck with the roads. The most market-oriented solution would be not to build public roads in the first place, but it's too late for that.
If I could save the planet from climate change for a dollar, the nations of the world would be discussing how to divide that until it's too late.

There is a fixed sum of yearly Global GDP we'd need to spend to fix this. It may be unknown, but that doesn't make it less existent. Estimating it has been a whole area of work, but we haven't found a system to actually pay down that planetary tech-debt. Carbon Engineering can get a ton of carbon out of the atmosphere for roughly 100$. Driving down that price further while aggressively scaling the deployments of that technology would be one engineering solution.

But the political, economical and possibly even legal parts of this stay unsolved. Who's working on this, how are they even paid?
My father worked few times in voting stations in Belarus in the beginning of nineties. He was amazed how easy it would be to subvert the voting results. His observation was that especially late into counting everybody was tired and focused on the counts to the point that a person can walk to the table, grab some ballot papers and put some fake ones. I guess nowadays with video recording etc. it will be harder, but still.

What really makes the paper ballots secure is that counting fraud does not scale. It is impossible to do it on substantial number of voting stations with nobody noticing even in semifunctional democracy. With electronic voting scaling an exploit to all voting machines is straightforward.
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It's also immediately obvious that it's just an RPG Maker game with very little effort put in to conceal that fact. RPG Maker games generally don't do well, because 99% of them are garbage, and those that aren't go to great lengths to distinguish themselves visually, like Yume Nikki, and I don't know if that title ever was a commercial success.
The stain theory would depend on control and management.

That said, only a percentage of people would want to just discard the car they've spent considerable money on.

Self-driving fares can never be as cheap as regular driving seems. With regular driving, you are silently depreciating the value of your vehicle whereas a self-driving car would have to include depreciation in each ride.
Sometimes I wonder if that is the case.

I felt City of God occasionally seemed to have some sympathy for the subjects... but other times treated them like characters and video game NPCs...
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Just checked and no it does not seem that it does have public transport navigation. With that being said, you can select different transport types. Those are: Motorcycle, Private, Taxi.
Sometimes it's completely forbidden for zoning reasons.

Sometimes it's a regulatory risk. If the local residents decide they don't want a parking structure, they won't offer you a fair market price to stop it; they'll just try and get city officials to deny or obstruct all the permits you need. (And a large construction project needs a lot of permits in most jurisdictions.)

Sometimes it's just prohibitively expensive to convert. In order to tear down a typical commercial building, you'd have to either buy out everyone's leases or wait for up to a decade for them to expire. This imposes a huge deadweight cost that wouldn't be there if enough parking had been built in the first place.
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Making games is an incredibly risky business. Akin to starting a restaurant.

I personally dont think of it like a business at all. I think of it as a vocation. By choosing to make games, I consider myself to have chosen the life of an artist.. My goal right now is to make great games that I want to make, thats it.

I'm living off the savings from my last real job, and being extremely frugal. I moved out to the country, where everything is cheaper (rent massively so). If / when I run out of money I'll do some contracts, worst case scenario is get a fulltime job as an employee again.. But I am extremely happy with my life right now.
> Your attempt to walk back isn't credible.

I'm not walking back on anything, you claim you "disproved" my statement as false, I "proved" it to not be false, even if one wanted to play a stupid semantic game. I'd prefer we didn't play that game in the first place.

> Your immediately previous sentence that this sentence back up was "IP laws also support innovation." Tautologically, if your goal is public benefit then it belongs in the public domain, with no need for IP protection.

Of course my goal isn't "public benefit". Like I originally said, the point behind the statement is maintaining private investment. But my statement, as written, isn't wrong as you tried to show. My intention is entirely orthogonal to the statement being false, you're raising a false dichotomy. You failed at your nitpicking, that's all. Did I even think about all that when writing the sentence? Of course not, I didn't expect to end up debating someone who would resort to such primitive tactics.

You've weaseled away from the issue since the beginning, namely that private investments far exceed public investments and that without a way to protect that investment (i.e. through intellectual property), that money would disappear. If you want to argue that everything would be surely better if the government researched, developed and marketed novel drugs, then do that. Make a good case for it. Don't go about nitpicking casually written sentences, it's intellectually embarrassing. It just shows you're a waste of time to talk to.
I've found mkdocs to be fantastic for this, especially when paired with its material theme:

https://www.mkdocs.org/

https://github.com/squidfunk/mkdocs-material

There's a docker image that makes getting started with both quite easy:

https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/getting-started/...
I kinda like games like nethack and brogue but my only problem with them is since it's extremely easy to die, it emphasizes attention a bit too much imho. I'm not a very attentive person and when I play games I'd much rather it be a bit more relaxed. When I know that even if I play the game for a whole Saturday, one floating eye can just randomly kill me for no reason, it kinda demotivates me...
No, I have no idea. It's especially ridiculous since every unemployed person could be offered a job since digging trenches is something that everybody can do. It's a perfect economic stimulus for any country.
>>> "The Seattle bill required commercial and residential buildings to charge residents for parking only if they actually had a car."

They did this in my old hometown. (North Shore, Vancouver.) They allowed all sorts of condos to be built on the assumption that they would be rented by retired/rich people. Retired people don't drive. Rich people don't have jobs. So the buildings went ahead without associated infrastructure/transport improvements. Now the nurses coming to take care of the elderly residents have to part at the local mall (Park Royal) which is now debating payed parking. Visiting grandchildren (minivans) fight for street space. And the city is becoming grayer and grayer.

I've since moved out of vancouver, to a much younger and more vibrant city. I cannot remember the last time I paid for parking.
Here’s something that shits me up the wall. Here’s the patent:

- convert a 2D value into a single value

- divide that value up into 3 values

- there’s a 1-1 database of values that map a value to a word

Pretty much everyone on this site could come up with that concept given 15 minutes to think about the problem.

How is this patentable?
I disagree with your assertion Linux desktops are hard to set up.

You plug in your Ubuntu drive and install it, it detects your video card and install the drivers.

Everything just works, when people rag on Linux desktops they are talking about Linux from 6 years ago.

A ton of effort has been put into making the experience smooth and there are multiple projects to make it even more user friendly like elementary os and popos
> Core developers that created and grew the project should shift over time to almost exclusively a role of only offering advice on the core implementation and spending their time introducing newbies, patiently answering support questions, and creating tutorials.

At this point you need management and support staff. Trying to pound square peg developers into those round holes is rather hopeless, especially when it is free work not paid.
Anyone tried to make an apk with Remi via p4a?
Giving birth is painful, but plenty of women want to do so more than once, so I doubt that more than a few (if any) have PTSD.

As for what women wants, since we can both agree that they have agency, we can ask them. Or better yet, look in to the surveys done on just that subject[0], and conclude that women do not get as many kids as they want to, or expect to.

[0]: https://ifstudies.org/blog/how-many-kids-do-women-want
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How is a parking minimum artificial scarcity? If anything it seems like it's an artificial excess.
"Reproduction holiday". I can only assume you have never spent time around babies and small children. Holiday usually is the last word that springs to mind.
Right, so they are meta-phenomena. They are still entirely physical. The actual process occurring is physical, but there is information being processed and meaning in what’s happening that can be analysed independently of the physical substrate.
Interestingly, they seem to based some of their research on the leaked source code for a Broadcom driver, which has now been taken down. So much for reproducible research, I guess?
Not in most cases, but it is somewhat chip (and driver) dependent).

Miracast is another example of this - In most cases you can remain connected to your main network connection via Wi-Fi but also use Wi-Fi direct to run a casting session.
Ugh. This is the depressing side of the huge wave of indie dev / maker / game creators that has been on the rise in the past few years.

The creativity from everyone is great on the building side, but on the marketing and traction side, there can always be bad luck, like this example.

I think a lot of consumers are just fatigued from too many options - think about how much of instagram and facebook is ads vs what it used to be, even back in like 2010.
> With Visual Basic, you can readily write a quick script to calculate some calendar analytics with Outlook. To do the same with Google Calendar is a very laborious chore.

Google Calendar has a good API. The setup friction adds a notch of complexity relative to a VBA script, but I wouldn't call it "very laborious".
The article links to the article on the Western European marriage pattern, which gives as a major explanation the marriage rules instituted by the Roman Catholic church. But weirdly enough, the areas in Western Europe where the pattern does not hold (southern Spain and Italy, Ireland) are deeply Roman Catholic. Does anyone have an explanation for that?
The fact that money exists they are does not mean that it’s accessible. If it was there wouldn’t be new stories about how the subway system is about to fall apart every 12 months.

SV would have the best public transit on earth and wouldn’t have any homeless or housing problems.
Another good resource, documentation of ReasonML has been translated in few languages, German version here: https://reasonml.github.io/docs/de/what-and-why
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Yeah, it's like the equivalent of using the default in iMovie.
Very little thought given to art direction. Has the effect of making this seem like a Unity game, even though he built the engine from scratch. Seems like he played Axiom Verge, said "I could do that!" and then put his nose to the grindstone for three years without asking anybody else for input.
How are you using Org-mode on Android?

I'm using Orgzly, but it only supports a subset of real Org-mode.
It's a reprint of an article in PlosMed, where the context is obvious in the original but not here, so the title might need changing too.
It is obvious what finding a market in indie games means and that you can't imagine it shows that you aren't particularly creative. There are a couple of different approaches to finding a market. Find a game that is fun or popular but doesn't have a polished or commercial version and make that. Find a set of users that would like to play games but doesn't have many games that appeal directly to them and make a product for them. Find an old game or genre that hasn't had a release and make a game in that style. Release a lot of small experiments and prototypes, build a small audience around one of them and iterate, killing ones that don't catch on, etc. Finding product market fit with and indie game might not always be cheap or easy, but there are a variety of ways to do it and it's definitely not unimaginable.
That‘s why its usually recommended to fail fast. To not sink in too much without knowing whether there is any product-market fit.
Yes, and no. It depends a lot on the industry and the publication.

For example, if you're a consumer products magazine, you will probably want whatever VNR Procter & Gamble has for its latest dessert topping/floor wax. It would be massively simpler for P&G to provide a torrent link on its website that interested publications could just click.

Or, let's say you're a construction company that just built an awesome new bridge. A VNR with drone footage of the construction process on your website that could be downloaded via torrent with a click would be helpful for the TV stations in your market.

I sometimes work with real estate developers. At this time, they're all sending video, huge photos, and massive PDF books to print, TV, and web publishers via Dropbox. Some even use Flickr for press photos. Torrenting those would seem to be a better method.
It would be interesting to know if footprints of past conquests/empires are the reason for the line not correlating with today's borders. At least the two pockets on the south Iberian Peninsula and as well the southern Apennine Peninsula correlate with former Islamic Caliphates.

I wonder though why Ireland, Austria and Venice would be outside. In some respects all of them played central roles in European history (Ireland in Christianization).

EDIT: Just figured out, the drawing is off. If drawn correctly it would include Vienna and Venice.
Fantastic comment. Love the chess example. Thanks.
> We find that installing ad blocking extensions substantially increases both active time spent in the browser and the number of pages viewed. This empirical evidence supports the position of ad blocking supporters and refutes the claim that ad blocking will diminish user engagement with the Web.

This gives me echos of "thrift paradox" - kind of behavior which is great for you as long as most of the other folks behave otherwise. If a majority of users continue viewing ads and thus provide monetary returns for content creators, then the minority users of ad blockers get a better experience and hence they are more engaged with the web.

On the other hand, if everyone starts using ad blockers, then how are content creators going to survive? Probably, a bunch of copycats and click-baiters deserve to perish. But this can also have unintended consequences of niche blogs vanishing and/or paywalls going up and/or survival of only those with some benefactor (Washington Post) or cross-subsidizing business empire (Murdoch). Do we want that kind of future?