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> Adobe has a relatively large and rather competent team of developers working on it

This sounds a lot like Lightroom, which naturally raises the question of when it's put into maintenance mode and the good developers are moved onto other projects. I uses Lightroom a few times when it was released and then tried it again when Flickr did that promotional pricing deal and it was amazing how slow and buggy it had become by then — literally unusable on a Mac which Aperture ran great on.

The sales process I got while cancelling the yearly subscription for something which didn't work also means that having Adobe in the name is an automatic deal-breaker for any purchase.
I'm a kid of the '80s from fellow Socialist country Romania and this photo: https://i.imgur.com/LFWANdK.jpg could have as well been shot in my country back then.

Also, the image of the old Polish peasant lady crying just outside Auschwitz is really, really powerful: https://i.imgur.com/uqTGzLO.jpg . Her headscarf (we call it "basma" here in Romania) is almost identical to what my both grandmas used to wear.
Is Tesla really on the "for flexing it" side of luxury? I'm in Argentina and never met anyone who owns or drives one, let alone get into one save for on a trip and it was in a showroom. I was under the impression it's the kind of luxury were your money is worth because no one else does an EV that's as comfortable, dependable, fast and with good range.

I mean it's luxurious as eating wagyu beef is, there's a barrier to entry but not as artificial as in for example buying Gucci loafers, and if you really want the taste/experience you have to cough up the money.
From an economics point of view, an unnecessary job is inefficient not because it gives people money (they can spend it efficiently on themselves), but because it wastes people's time when they could be doing something else. (Not to mention other wasted resources.)

Social security is efficient because it doesn't have this problem.
THANK YOU for pointing that out. I've also become extremely frustrated at the way the Google Maps UI has evolved. I also had no idea that 'globe' was toggleable. Particularly because there's a "3d" toggle over on the other side of the screen, which just does a silly rotation rather than actually toggle the map between flat/globe...
You have to much faith in those processes. Organizations in government budgets' are based on last year's budget. If the OU spends last year's budget or more, their budget is increased (because they account for inflation). If they spend less, their budget is decreased. So there is a built in incentive to spend money, and anyone can find ways to justify spending money to improve their OU. GAOs merely verify the paperwork is in order.

Don't misunderstand me. This isn't an argument against government; it's an argument against this budgeting model. There has to be a way they to structure private sector budgeting efficiency into public organizations.
Assuming you use Sketch and that you renew your license yearly, why do you prefer a yearly subscription vs a monthly subscription?
How many of those are buzzwords and how many of them are concrete descriptions of technology? Virtualization, containers, and microservices at least have commonly-accepted definitions and examples of those technologies are widely used, standardized, and work well at scale.

VMs, now containers, and what they imply for technology are more important than yet another godforsaken chat protocol - YMMV.
It a very nice project.

I really like how it grew to encompass any language with AOT/JIT compilers, as long as anyone is willing to support the language related tooling.
Haha! Like Disney channel! But, spoiler alert, eventually they get a tablet and discover of adults with silly voices unwrapping kids’ toys on YouTube. There’s not even a cartoon to watch. It’s all infomercial...
pretty depressing that you're better off buying politicians rather than actually building a good business if you want to get rich
There are several billion people on this planet. If we push out the asshole savants, then there will be room for the respectful savants who have been there all along.

There are too many well-educated, compassionate, clever people out there for “nobody else can do it but this specific abusive asshole” to stand up as an argument.
Its not only advertisers buying your data. I had a boss who paid a subscription to a service that monitors as much of your internet activity as possible. He got alerts everytime i and other colleages did anything public. He bought it cause he was paranoid, or a voyer. Stuff that you do that is public, is more than just a facebook post, it is slso a google+, steam, wordpress, gravatar, linkedin, discuss, readdit, and loads more. The more you can link up a particular person, the more you can track across domains, the more its worth, even to the person being tracked. Think credit scoring companies who sell there tracking back to you and also to banks. Your governments pay billions to security contractors to collect your data.
Newsagencies that suggest your data is only valuable to adveriserz are engaging in distraction.
I think that, depending on culture, people like you are actually in the majority. How vast that majority is, is still very relevant to government efficiency however. Regulations on spending can also be quite successful in nudging people in the right direction.

All in all, it's IMO a very undifferentiated, ultra-libertarian point of view that Friedman's quote is displaying. I'd rather have somewhat inefficient government services than private monopolies, wherever market forces are not strong enough to create good competition. That applies to things like health care, the electrical grid, drinking water and a reasonable social safety net.
The definition (calling those unit vectors which are members of the standard basis “standard unit vectors”) sounds perfectly reasonable to me.

You haven’t given any good reason why you think it’s “completely bogus” or “plain wrong”.
That's fair. What I really want to know is how systemd-nspawn compares to LXC.

Reading further, I see that LXD uses liblxc for container management. This comment about LXD using lxc command naming also was helpful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18672510
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AOL will always be priceless in my opinion. It helped shape and spawn tens of thousands of IT people and programmers. Anyone from back in the days of AOL 2.5 or 3.0 that used 1IM punters, cchats, <M><, scrolling on internals, etc. will know what I mean. The internet was a wild and amazing place back then.
Because private charities rely on someone making an affirmative choice to give them money. In theory, if they are corrupt or incompetent enough the flow of money dries up.

If the government is corrupt or incompetent, people get angry at them and then ... nothing changes. The flow of money isn't stopping, in fact the most likely outcome is their budgets keep going up year after year.
They could of probably have bought out MySpace at its prime even.
I have paying for Google Drive/One for a year now and having tried Dropbox and Amazon Cloud, GDrive is the easiest for my family. It is seamless for us to back up all camera and phone pictures from both Android and iOS and is much faster and less buggy than Amazon.

I do agree with people's reservations about privacy and longevity with Google, their products don't seem to last for long!
The initial payment of ~$2000/recruit sounded reasonable, and then you realize that the total expenditure was for $40,000/recruit. Even if Accenture Federal Services delivered, is that price tag an accurate reflection of the true value of recruiting agents? What part of the recruitment process could warrant such a high price?
For me, Pinterest works exactly how I want it to - as a store for inspiration images. I use it heavily for storing concept art to later draw inspiration from when doing game design, digital art, or screen-printing designs. Granted, I don't find the search helpful at all and the embedded pins are terribly irreverent and annoying.

If you are a Pinterest user and are interested in a large collection of fantasy/cyberpunk artwork, you can see how I use it here (registration required of course):

https://pinterest.com/thehideoutgames/
I'm the same way, most of the time. But I think many (most?) people are not. Also, even if they are, it's really hard to visualize large sums of money, so spending $1B on something is really hard to reason about.

But I think it makes sense in general. If I were to buy something with someone else's money for someone else, I honestly wouldn't care too much about either the cost or the gift, I'd get the thing that seemed reasonable to both parties. For example, if I bought gift for someone who performed a service for my company, using my company's money, I would not be very cost conscious, and I'd only put minimal effort in (after all, it's just a task I need to complete). I don't want to be stingy (we want the person to like us), but I also don't want to get flak from accounting.
You're right. UDP connection won't work.
Even after reading this, I do think Musk genuinely, truly wants to change humanity for the better and believes that that's what he's doing. And I think he actually is to a large extent. But stuff like the examples in this article and his social media behavior show he has no problem regularly being an abusive, cruel, immature, rageful, narcissistic, despotic asshole to individual people to get there - even to the people who've sacrificed and contributed so much to help him get there.

I don't think he should be written off entirely, but he has a lot of learning and growing to do.
Ok, but we're talking about F# here, which always can, because intellisense is coming from the compiler.

You're only missing type signatures when you have a type error (which will be telling you the types involved anyway...)
> And let’s not forget he killed himself before any kind of sentence was given. For all we know he could have been found innocent.

He was hounded to death by a prosecutor. The fact that the prosecutor lied to him is hardly a defense.
Sign in with a new account, and every course is $11.
I'm not sure I understand. It reads like you're blaming a suicide victim for dying before he received a verdict instead of the people who put him in that position, but I'd rather not assume your intention.
That’s true about the buyers, but go read Elon’s grand plan. He has no interest in making luxury cars, but you can’t launch a mass market cheap car from nothing. He has gone from a 250k roadster, to a 100k luxury sedan, to a 55k fully loaded sedan, and soon to a 35k sedan. As soon as he can drop it further, he will. And in 20 years, the car transportation landscape will have been transformed.

This is the typical cycle for a new good. You could have said that the first cell phone, which cost a fortune, or the first smartphone, were each luxury goods for wealthy people to show off. Which was true, but now years later, all that money drove innovation to the point where nearly the entire world has one, interconnecting humanity to a much greater degree than before.
id probably consider that to be murder as well but there are two concessions that have to be made:

1.) we are making that evaluation within the context of modern society where the ownership of slaves is generally seen as inhumane and atrocious, and that people are not property. the context in antebellum society was extremely different and as such one could make the claim that during such times, that wouldn't have been considered murder by a majority of (slave owning) individuals.

2.) another element of the definition of murder is generally the existence of malicious intent. i would say that it's fair to see the taking of life of slaves as something that generally was done with malicious intent, that is to say as an authoritarian method of controlling the rest of the slaves by using the killed slaves to show them who is in control. of course, again, this is being framed within the context of modern society, but I think this argument could be much more easily applied in a manner that is independent of the general values of the time, because im pretty sure that malice as a concept has remained a lot more consistent that what is lawful, over time.
Prof. Boyd is a great teacher! I highly recommend his course on linear dynamical systems [0] and convex optimization [1] too.

The former is beginner stuff, and while convex optimization is more advanced, both are very engaging and clearly explained, with lots of anecdotes and practical examples!

[0] https://see.stanford.edu/Course/EE263

[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3940DD956CDF0622
Jobs kind of had a point. Americans appear to have a tolerance for filth and grime in the workplace that people from other developed countries do not. I'm to understand that German auto mechanics, for instance, keep their workplaces spotlessly clean in contrast to the "grease monkeys" that prevail in the USA. And Jobs had always wanted to bring the same style and refinement from the best European product design studios to his own products...
Chris Niedenthal's photographs documenting communist period in Soviet Bloc
Please stop this. "Casual user", "average user", "normal user", it's all just so much bullshit people tell themselves to feel superior. Stop creating this strawman and using it as an excuse for why things have to keep sucking!
Java: ship the AOT compiled binary, when the company is willing to pay for a 3rd party JDK.
Hoping that the London skies are sufficiently clear to get a couple on a long exposure tonight.
Prosecutors gonna prosecute. A university should protect its members. Not anymore though. Universities are part of the behemoth now.
I'm always curious about what the largest magnitude of a UI codebase someone has maintained when they make comments like this.
I had an individual Photoshop subscription that kept climbing in cost due to unfavorable dollar exchange rates. One day I audited my account and realized I was paying nearly INR 10k/year (>$120/year) for a tool I barely used, but stuck around with because I was just too comfortable with the UI.

Ditched my subscription and started using PhotoPea.com. Same UI, no costs. For my lightweight use, it's perfect.
A long while ago I was in an interview where the interviewer retold a story about a white (yes, skin color was relevant) adventuring motorcyclist in Africa. Anyways, he was driving by himself in southern Africa in Namibia or so. Then outside a village the motorcycle broke down and he got into a horrible accident that broke his leg.

The villagers came and saw that he was wounded. So they started to take pieces of his packing, of his motorcycle and even his expensive wrist watch. He laid there in pain outside the village for several hours as none of the natives helped him. Until another white motorcyclist came and helped him up on his bike and drove him to a hospital. The end.

To this date I have nfc why he told me this story or why he thought it was relevant in a developer interview. Fairly sure it was an elaborate test though with only bad answers possible.
But you'd also find people would be willing to lend you actual money using your stock as collateral. And if the stock tanks and you default on the loan, it's often the lender that gets screwed.

The nominal interest depends entirely on their faith in you and their estimates of future value.

There are various standard scams associated with games like this.

To keep it simple it's true that stock isn't money. But it's unbelievably easy to turn stock into money without necessarily having to sell it, or without being forced to modify the market rate with a giant stock dump.
I disagree. I don't drink, and therefore as an advertisement this would be completely undesirable for me to read yet I still found it quite an interesting idea and story.
True, but you're not taking into account the government budgeting model. Organizations in government budgets' are based on last year's budget. If the OU spends last year's budget or more, their budget is increased (because they account for inflation). If they spend less, their budget is decreased. In other words, there is a built in incentive to spend money, and anyone can find ways to justify spending money "to improve their OU". GAOs merely verify the paperwork is in order.

Don't misunderstand me. This isn't an argument against government; it's an argument against this budgeting model. There has to be a way they to structure private sector budgeting efficiency into public organizations.
The majority of gifts, and thus their aggregate, are worth less than their cost to the receiver.

This is because if the receiver can afford it and thought it was good, he would already have it. Because he doesn't, getting it as a gift is worse than getting money.

Alternative economic interpretation: if you gave someone the choice between item X and money worth X, the gift is good only if the recipient would choose item. If they were to choose the money, then they are always short-changed.

Gifting is economically inefficient.
Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time.
I'm not defending the government (since controlled buys are entrapment in my book and should be illegal) with Popcorn but there's a pretty big difference here.

Aaron Swartz = a very questionable "breaking and entering" charge and some computer "crimes". Otherwise, publicly, an extremely upstanding member of society.

Popcorn Sutton = very very very openly an illegal distiller, and seller, of untested/unreglated alcohol that he self-documented via video and distributed the video as well as a self-published manual. Had multiple arrests and convictions over the years for the alcohol production, drug charges, assault with a deadly weapon. He was then arrested for trying to sell to an undercover officer while illegally possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Popcorn illegally distilled alcohol for at LEAST 35 years.
Ouch. That really sucks. They also had soooo many services its hard to keep up when you rarely go on their site to begin with. Like years ago you could watch some shows off their site. I found out through a college professor. I never bothered trying to watch anything off their site though. I dont know what the answer should of been for them but 8k employees sounds crazy. Tumblr was a decent investment but I suppose without properly putting ads on it, it really didnt return much.

Yahoo had everything from an IM service, mail, hosting, groups, fantasy sports stuff, Geocities once the defacto free site host of the internet, their own web browser at one point iirc and loads more.
I’ll ignore the greentext style intro.

I suspect that the truth of the matter is that conscientiousness varies across the human population and that the best analysis takes into account this fact.

To ignore rational self interest is naive and plainly wrong- but it is also wrong to ignore the impact of high conscientiousness on decision-making. I say this without condoning or condemning either configuration.
Feels like a lot of that stark difference in that first pair was due to particularly present weather in the modern one vs a cloudy/grey day in the old one.
+1. Always wanted to learn to Ski not having been exposed to snow early on but was told that Snowboarding is easier than Skiing for absolute beginners. Perhaps this time i can actually get some proper lessons. Timing couldn't be perfect!. Thanks.
Why? The subscription model made their software much cheaper. CS used to cost something like 3.5k, now it's 720 a year including all updates. Sounds OK to me....
Relive the good ole days in the AOL Proggies FB group :) https://www.facebook.com/groups/297526060414740/
Creating a Geocoder Service Using DreamFactory and the Google Maps Geocoding API
Wow, thank you so much for your feedback!
Thankfully at least bmj still has a real website. Most of the elsevier journals have moved on to a 'web app' design for journal articles and IEEEXplore has as well. These load and display absolutely no article information until you successfully run all of their third party code (only works in latest Chrome and FF). That means you can't even get the DOI from the page for sci-hub. All you get is the crappy little 'loading' spinners.
Imagine a dark twist, where the people who are walking by the tents in that picture, actually live in those tents! The smiling guy with the phone just got out of his tent and is heading to his workplace at a tech startup.
We had the right to leave a job long before at-will employment laws were in vogue.
I love the dimensions and color data you see when you hover over the main CTA on their homepage. Brilliant design
The Decline of American Peyote
IIRC The stated goal of our (Sweden) armed forces is something like the ability to defend 1-2 regions for a single week if we are faced with an invasion.

Our defence budget is 1% of GDP because we are betting on the US (and a few others) continuing to spend as it does, and that it will be in their national interest to help us if the time comes.

If the US slashed its defence budget to a 'reasonable' level, we would have to increase ours in turn to the best of our abilities. If the US brought theirs down all the way to 1%, the only people laughing would be the PLA and Putin himself.
Those investors were most likely paying your friend's salary. Also, don't forget the massive data breaches Yahoo! has had. They are a huge net negative on the internet.
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Ah, I hadnt even thought about that all this time. Buy a failing top web service just to write it off at the end of the year.
Airtable is around $10/person/month. I wouldn't consider that a fortune.
The most appropriate word I think is "corporate welfare"
That's all well and good, but the examples you gave are problems of scale and economics, not invention. XMPP works as well as you want it to, and clients are on all the platforms, but Apple users want to use iMessage. That's not a problem that any kind of invention can solve.

The buzzwords themselves are references to incremental improvements in the state of the tech ecosystem that allow more powerful solutions for all. An app we all have on our devices right now, Slack, was once buzzword soup. Now it's an actual solution used by businesses the world over. It's not perfect, but it works better for our collective needs than IRC ever did.

What's going to replace the Slack's of today's tech world? I dunno, but I bet they'll be built on buzzwords.
Linear algebra is probably my favorite part of math from a practicality standpoint. I'm not in a math heavy field, but knowing how to use matrices to solve optimization problems has been very helpful.