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The phenomenon of people pulling in and trying to explain problems from outside their specialty occurs in every discipline and is a part of normal scientific work. Usually the overwhelming majority of these attempts fail, but they are useful nonetheless because in failing they help to define the limits of the specialty. Ironically, you're complaint that they do this witout considering "if the concept is valid for the domain" is unanswerable until an attempt is made and its claims critiqued.

That aside, you raised good questions. I think would be useful if you turned your list of critical questions into a template for criticising instances of analogous reasoning anywhere. It would help greatly in evaluating these attempts.
people only use paypal because vendors accept paypal.

you wouldn't have a paypal account otherwise.

and outside of the usa, most bank systems have ways to forward money based on other records. I've implemented a few in south American countries where by accepting CC from one operator you also get an optional printable invoice (boleto) that can be paid on the bank (online or not) and it transfer same day to your account.
Sure, but Patreon is for a small group of people. Meaning, the mass audience goes there because a small group of creators told them that's how they can support them.

If that small group of creators finds a better alternative, and tells their audience to support them at the alternative rather than Patreon, they will go there.

SubscribeStar was enjoying a good amount of success as a Patreon alternative once a few users who got banned move to it, (but then PayPal cut SubscribeStar off).

Only time can tell.
Domain expertise is not wasted time. It makes the difference between a useful application and a pile of code. Developers should not assume they know more about a business domain than the people working in it.
I don’t think Diablo is emotional in that way. But besides that, I don’t think real time gameplay is a good driver of emotional impact anyway. Inevitably there are random variables that will screw in a way to take away agency.

Good emotional impact comes as a result of making choices for some trade off of greed, virtue, practicality, risk, etc.
The words 'oligopoly', 'cartel', and 'syndicate' are more appropriate.
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When you make such extraordinary subjective claims, please also bother write a small blurb as to what you found so enthralling about it. Because from I read, people are calling out this book out for its terrible bloopers and the author not doing his homework on facts.
>Developer centralization is another important point. BTC arguably fails at this when a small group, combined with extensive propaganda campaigns, artificially constrains Bitcoin's throughput. There are no valid arguments against raising the blocksize to 2MB for example.

If a handful of people could effectively destroy a “currency” at any point... it’s not decentralized in any sense of the word that is important for trustworthyness or longevity.

A government could crash its own money, but there is a strong incentive to not do that. Bitcoin or Eth has nothing tied to it, it’s entitely at the whim of some programmers who as I understand it, aren’t economics experts.

That’s the point I made above. You want to say the blockchain and hashing is decentralized, great. But when people use that word, they’re talking about (imo) how it’s “safe” to put money into because “no one owns the crypto coin” and if anyone still believes that latter part, well, they probably aren’t paying attention.
The Alan Kay talk sounds interesting; do you have a link to it?
It’s kind of scary that Dan Abramov doesn’t know about ML languages or typescript... I hope that he is just being humble, because otherwise I wonder if it was a complete lie when Facebook said that they were pushing on ReasonML instead of react.js. I know that he was not initially involved and that the first prototype used ocaml as a primary language before falling back to JavaScript.
I really appreciate Dan work and his multiple and very helpful posts, but as someone that enjoys functional languages and hopes to see a full featured ML react, or at least a full support for typescript, I really hope that Dan can see the advantages in the “functional way” given that he is now one of the main actors.
Wouldn't holding project files in an ext partition fix this? Or is that not supported yet?
Or he edited it out because after reflection he realised t didn’t add anything useful? That often happens to me — I write something more snarky than I meant to and only realise after the fact and then edit my comment to remove it. My intent, when I do this, is not one of malice.
I often use screen within tmux as it's easier with ctrl A and ctrl B than double of those.
you still need a 3rd party to realistically convert USD into BTC.

at this point, might as well trade in casino chips.

(see gnu taller for a less cassino-like alternative to payments)
As much as we discuss Uber and self driving cars and the gig econony, it's also about hacking in the sense of driving taxis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_taxicab_operation#In_w...

https://smallbusiness.co.uk/hack-cabs-organic-car-service-25...
I suppose it’s the tone and the comment about “growing up in a rationality loving western tradition of thought”.

Maybe I’m paranoid, but in experience what comes next is typically some mystic mumbo-jumbo or talk about things we “just can’t understand” etc. then usually the speaker is religious.

I’d be happy to be wrong. The religion argument is just boring.
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That's gonna get down voted to hell here if not removed.

Hn hates Bitcoin as we are vested in the system, Bitcoin is anti-establishment. We are the ones with power to lose, fuck Bitcoin!
Thanks for your answer, byoung2. I have been working remotely a similar number of years so I hope I can sort that filter.

Thanks too for the tip as I have not considered it. I did not know about gotomeeting. I am going to install and test after I click the reply button.

I share the "being a remote-first company" screener too and I expect to dodge that "bullet" :). I have the concept of what kind of company I want to join very clear... what really worries me is passing their filters. I have no problem with the initial screening in my country... but this is the first time that I face global competition!
When people say that doing X has "negative value", they usually mean that it has negative value compared to not doing X, not compared to some imaginary solution that doesn't exist in reality.
In the UK we mostly use debit cards these days, although the term ‘credit card’ seems to generally include debit cards. I haven’t had a credit card for almost a decade. Everytime an online store says credit cards only, it’s taken my debit card.
This is a talk given at EuroBSDcon 2018 in Bucharest, Romania

https://2018.eurobsdcon.org/talks-speakers/#ToddMortimer

Slides: http://www.openbsd.org/papers/eurobsdcon2018-rop.pdf

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17246537

Thanks to Tom Smyth for recording!
Bitcoin needs to die asap!
...how do you get bitcoin without some kind of a third party?
I don't think so, but for zero-cost logging you just need the conditional for your branch to be constexpr. If the branch is known not to be taken at compile time, the compiler can just throw it away.

Something like:

void MyDebugLog(text) {
if (<constepxr check if logging enabled>) {
// actually log...
}
}
Mathematics and physics are fields where reason works pretty well (in most cases). Nobody would argue against that. But they are the exception, not the rule.

Also for example, mathematics and physics are usually fields that rarely have direct applications and most of the time they provide tools for other fields. What if the physics and maths we have now, or the way we frame the problems these fields should solve, are biased? What if this bias is preventing the creation of useful tools for other fields?

The problem is that we must acknowledge the impossibility to "think outside of the box" of reason. By doing so we open ourselves to a wider spectrum of possible discoveries and constructions, even within science and engineering. What exists might not be biased in itself, but the fact that we reached some results instead of others is dependant on cultural biases that exist outside the field itself and inside the individuals and organizations pursuing science and engineering.
Meanwhile, whenever the subject comes up in San Francisco, everyone trots out the excuse that "families with children need the city to be car-friendly".

(I've never met a kid who didn't love riding buses and trains.)
I had a huge series of fights when I was 13 with my mom/stepdad, as I told them I wasn't doing the chores as they didn't pay enough versus money I was making online. If you pay someone for chores it becomes less about their contribution to the family, and more something you pay someone for... which I think in hindsight was a huge mistake on their part.

Chores should be part of being in the family. Money should be tied to something else I think.
>When this boom ends, the 40+ should expect to be the first cut. Again. Just like in 1992, 2001, 2008, ...

Whether the older or the younger ones get cut first can vary, based on various factors, and probably will vary in future too.

In 2001 downturn (which was due to the dot-com bust and post 9/11), I've read that a lot of younger ones were cut first. That was reportedly because they had only one or so skill, e.g. Java (during the boom, cos. were hiring and sending to the US, people who had a few weeks of Java on their resume, they were that desperate for people), while older people often had a good mix of skills (e.g. some language, some DB, some OS, some libs, s/w engg. skills, etc., so it was higher VFM (Value For Money) to retain them), so were fired less and later. In the dot-com boom that just preceded the bust (read up on the details somewhere or ask those who know, those who don't know about it, the factors involved are too long to describe in a comment here), dotcos were flush with funds from VCs and even Wall Street types, and were throwing money at employees left and right. I've even heard that BMWs were on offer as a joining bonus (in the US, SF Bay Area). I myself (was in India) got some crazy high offers (e.g. had some years' experience in projects and with skills in a mix of in-demand technologies, did not consider myself experienced enough to be a CTO, but got an offer for that role from a Mumbai dotco for a giant sum), but did not take it seriously (although I'll admit I was tempted and considered it a bit) and did not go for it, thankfully, as it later turned out. A junior guy I knew casually around that time, quit his fairly good job to join one of those frothy (literally in a sense, in this case, called (no comment) freshlimesoda.com). I think the excesses on this front (as exemplified by that name and business plan - remember Yo (later), anyone?) were even more in India then, than they were in the US (from what I could gather).

Conversely, in a previous (less-publicized bust), I was working as a Unix system engineer in a large national-level hardware+software company in India, and was quite junior. Soon after I joined, there was an industry "shakeout" (term used then) and several mid-level people were let go (both in India and the US, probably, in the industry as a whole). We juniors were mostly spared, though, except for the bottom of the barrel, who were sacked.
Seems that the reviewer himself, S. J. Snyder, attributes a number of errors just based on his interpretative ideological slant.
Not an etymologist, but I think they still have a common ancestor (proto Indo-European?). Lots of words in Latin with p have an equivalent with f in the Germanic languages:

Pater - father

Pes - foot

Primus - first

Note the English word is not necessarily the closest to the Latin one.

P and f are also considered the same sound in a few word distance metrics such as Soundex for the very same reason.
This is disgusting. I’m not condemning you for finding a gap in the market — that’s totally fair play. But the fact that this can exist and that we have a culture of celebrity in software development at all (especially in such a dishonest way) is just disgusting.
No, tech is not easy. I dont think I’ve met a software engineer in my entire 20 year career who would characterize programming as “easy”. I don’t think of law, medicine, and architecture as easy either. I’m sure I could have been an architect, if I spent years learning it like I did programming. But that doesn’t make it easy.

Software engineers command huge salaries because it’s not easy. Just because anyone can learn anything doesn’t make everything is easy.

I don’t understand why tech celebrates amateurism and ignorance... We don’t all know everything but we shouldn’t wear our ignorance like a badge of honor either.
Hmm. That’s a really cool idea. I like the notion that the state of the game is driven purely by who is alive, and maybe, who they have relationships with. You, as the player, get to make no choices. A simple narrative justification would be that they just make decisions democratically, and each character has predetermined (and fairly predictable) views. So if you want to force a choice, your only option is to allow some people to die before the ballot is cast.
By MIT scheme, do you mean MIT/GNU scheme? A few schemes implement their debuggers in terms of call/cc (or delimited counterparts) and exceptional conditions like errors or breaks hand control to a new 'depth' of REPL where anything in the environment can be inspected (or redefined) in-context before possibly trying to continue or doing any unwinding. If your scheme has no debugging apparatus, it shouldn't be too hard to implement something a little more useful than sprinkling in print statements. Even without wading into continuations, implementing a macro that does tracing should be possible.
"so long as I approve of what they are spending their money on"

Is it their money or yours? You are welcome to not give them control over money, but they won't learn anything about controlling their spending.

"Each month, they will accrue a little bit of interest which, for the amount children will realistically make, is no big hit to my wallet."

This is also interesting. There's two aspects to saving: saving for big purchases, and saving for a rainy day. Interest is not really relevant to the first, and the latter is hopefully not part of childhood.
Non of you are right. Go ethereum (geth), the official client is written in Golang
By defending their freedom of speech, I am defending my freedom of speech. I may not care about theirs, but I care about mine.

And for you to not be worried about this being used against you... you just said that these people are in power. That means that they at least have the capability of using it against you in the near future.
You could argue that Akalabeth was the original FPS!
You can do the same thing using an HTML canvas element:

http://slicker.me/javascript/fire/fire.htm

(not mine)

There are similar demos out there using particle effects.
If by "media" you include Facebook, I would say yes, we do.
To be clear, to my knowledge, this is not Amazon’s policy. Their policies are clearly laid out here: https://sellercentral.amazon.com/gp/help/external/help.html?...
> I find it difficult to use logic when a) you don't really know all the premises that you're starting from and b) you have a material / emotional / ideological / or identity-driven stake in the outcome.

Does it being difficult mean that other approaches are better? Point b is basically saying you have a vested interest (emotionally) in it (the topic, whatever it may be) being a certain way. Foregoing rationality and logic in favour of something else isn’t going to get you better results. Most often, it means you will instead argue based on feelings and emotion. Better would be to find a way to take a step back and re-evaluate your stance.

As for point a, the only solution I can see to that is to seek more information.
Who's forbidding anyone to "think outside the box of reason"?

It's rather the opposite here; some are trying to forbid reason to stray outside the box they believe it belongs in. The possibility that reason might explain mental processes appears to be so threatening that many people are attacking this video for daring to try.

And not with any specific objection, but simply with attacks on reason itself.
the single promise of the project maybe? to enable transactions or way to fund distributed projects from direct sales to things as IPFS.

it's at most a hacker toy platform.
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Hum... Do you have any actual solution? One that does solve carbon emissions, can be deployed in reasonable time, and does not involve people getting poorer?

The most pragmatic thing to do is to improve solar generation and all kinds of storage. Those can actually solve the problem. Nuclear can't be here on time (nor on budget), and everything else just won't happen.

We could have avoided a lot of problems on the last few decades if the nuclear countries decided to push for safer reactors with no proliferation problems. They didn't. They all kept going for more weapons. Now we have to live with those problems, and the nuclear economical window passed away, it does not make sense anymore.
If the payment processors are really who is behind the Patreon/SubscribeStar debacle, which certainly seems to be the case, then short of bitcoin, which is a horrible solution, how can a Patreon competitor do any better?
Current status: https://c3subtitles.de/talk/1016/
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I'm surprised nobody created a Crypto-Jeopardy yet.
To start off that’s ableist. And reeks of privilege (can he afford to live a biking distance to work?)

But that doesn’t matter - someone unilaterally changes something and everyone else is supposed to get with the program or find a hole to die in.
That excludes the regular person part.
the alternative to reason is not religion. It can be empathy, emotion, spirituality. You can call it mumbo jumbo if you want to, but it's an integral part of how humans experience themselves, the others and the world.
I know these books are great but do you know any book which is shorter read, sitting around 1000 pages each those are quite heavy reads
I work for UPS as software developer and surprisingly, I work for the department that is responsible for parsing addresses and matching them with actual physical addresses. We cover US, CA & EU (incl. UK).
In our department, we have a guy whose entire career at UPS is nothing but maintaining library that parses addresses. It is very hard to get things right, unless you maintain that library all the time.
Genuinely wish you good luck !
'They' isn't used as a singular pronoun in many style guides, including the New Yorker's but nice try.
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Not true.

While Lisbon has a big chunk of the jobs, other cities also have plenty of opportunities. YMMV of course.

I work remotely, so I’m outside the local job market, but I still get plenty of offers for local companies in my mid sized city.
Well when you have to dodge an unfit person going up a hill you notice.

I’m all for bike lanes. And bicycle licenses. Can’t go up the 80 percentile hill in your town at 20 mph? You fail.
> Children naturally want to help at a very early age

As a kid I didn't "want to help" at any age, let alone "naturally", and nevertheless I turned out to be a relatively well functioning adult when it comes to keeping my current house in order. What's with this mantra of "we need to make our children slaves in order to..."? I don't know what the ends are, to be honest. Feels quite alienating.

Anyway, I will be forever grateful to my parents for letting me spend my childhood playing and reading the books that I wanted instead of doing menial work.
Both parents were teachers and spoke strongly against the profession when they retired 15 years ago. My exit/retirement strategy from this IT circus was always teaching but I guess I could revisit that for midnight shift as a DC tech somewhere.
It may be a good idea to provide range of fixed templates for standard messages and send just selective message Id along with recipient name over the network.
Wow, things have changed since I got out of school (HS grad 2000).

I remember being drowned in homework. And after getting out, I heard my former teachers complain just how much work they had to put in to keep up. (I did a stint substituting not long after.)

My question fell on deaf ears: why assign so much homework, if it reflects back on you x $number_of_students ? And homework also tends to select for families that can help with the homework load (moderately high income, free time, stable family, 9-5 jobs). If your kids and their parents fall outside that, they're probably going to do badly.

But still, there's technological ways to reduce your own personal load. Every hour past 40/week is billable free time. And unless it's a significantly rare event, you probably shouldn't be doing this, or negotiate for more money reflecting your higher workload.

You could also potentially get rid of homework completely. The students are already spending 8 hours in classes. And if 5 teachers add their hour in, that's a 13 hour day for students. Pretty sure that's not deemed as healthy with regards to sleep. But from the article, it appears the 'better' answer is that teachers and instructors are leaving in droves.
I don't get why it is so difficult to check this. At this point there is probably a good amount of people that has been exclusively vaping for the past 10 or 20 years, after decades of smoking. The statistics for lung cancer and other smoke-related illnesses 10 or 20 years after quitting smoking completely should be already well known. It should be enough to compare the two to understand the difference in harm between smoking and vaping?
It's about a third of the way (at least) toward a solution for 'Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other social media'. If it isn't scratching part of your itch, then Twitter can be ignored. This is a good thing. A Twitter scraper has independent requirements from a Facebook scraper and it is good engineering to decouple them. It's also good for legal reasons. We don't want a violation of Facebook's terms of service to interfere with our Twitter scraper. More importantly, from a business perspective, we don't want our Twitter focused customers to suffer for issues caused by our Facebook scraper. We don't want our app store rating to be dragged down if Facebook breaks or because our "other social media" doesn't include MyNewSocialApp and that upsets the developers of MyNewSocialApp. And of course four $0.99 apps is better than one $0.99 app. Later we can sell the wrapper around integration for $9.99 if we ever get there.

Or to put it another way, Unix philosophy.
At least they didn't say "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Then they'd have two problems.

http://regex.info/blog/2006-09-15/247
I don't think it's reasonable for you that have an accurate memory of how things were when you were 10 years old.

That memory may impact how you are now, but it's probably not how things were.