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Here's my two cents

I haven't so much fallen out of love with coding, but fallen out of love of shiney new things. The last truly "new" thing I jumped on was C#. At the time C# was first released, I was also playing around with Smalltalk, and that actually destroyed me. I couldn't understand why people were excited about all these features in C# as they weren't new.

I became seriously disinterested in new tech, web 2,0, full stack bullshit.

Now I work in Delphi, and I actually love it. All the other guys in my team hate Delphi and would rather be working in whatever is the latest and greatest.

The problem with that is that everything just gets reinvented, and stuff that was old is new again, and the cycle repeats.

That's why I have fallen out of love - I've become a bitter old coder who just uses (and does) whatever requires the most minimal amount of work
I eat meat but my girlfriend is vegetarian, so I end up eating a lot of vegetarian meals. For some reason, the vast majority of fake meats turn me off. To me, it feels like I am eating spoiled meat. I much prefer vegetarian meals that don't attempt to seem like the real thing.

But if this leads to less total meat consumption for the population, I'm all for it.
> There were also some development effort to “easy” LaTeX typesettings (for instance ConTeXt) but they not became widespread as “WYSIWYM” editors such LyX or TeXMacs, IMVHO because they are in fact less flexible than plain LaTeX and plain LaTeX is easier enough, at least it’s give you a easy and simple “learning path”.

ConTeXt is a substantially different beast to LaTeX. It's not LaTeX, although there are some LaTeX-inspired packages and tools to help migrate. A lot of ConTeXt is now written in Lua, and the versions in TeXlive are now sufficiently up-to-date to work from the manuals.

ConTeXt takes the view that it will start with sensible defaults and allow nearly all to be customized. Modules tend to play nicely together in an orthogonal way, but a lot of documents can be written without importing any modules.

The one thing I wouldn't say about ConTeXt is it's easier – you probably won't find the answers on stackoverflow like for LaTeX. It's a much more complicated system and you need the reference manual. But if you know how you want the page laid out and don't want to have to hack away at a style file, then it's a very powerful tool for serious typesetting.
What's an A-10? Please tell me it's a sweet hackable truck!
I considered 80-10-10 over traditional 20% down as a way to lower my risk and leverage cheap interest rates.

Put the other 10% down in a diversified stock portfolio over 10 years would likely fetch > 4.5% apr.
This might be the greatest prison phone ever
A perfect example of the Blub Paradox wherein the author cannot realize the power of a tool superior to what they're used to, and dismisses it as useless because "I don't need those features".

http://wiki.c2.com/?BlubParadox
> Latex lets you write equations quickly.

This is often underestimated. It is possible to write complicated equations more quickly in LaTeX than in handwriting. I have done it.

However, to achieve this, there are provisos: 1) Macros already defined for commonly used structures; 2) Lots of repeated elements that can be copy-pasted; 3) Fast typer with a good text editor. 4) Keywords from amsmath, etc. committed to memory.
The message of encouragement is to the family, "you are not alone, and you should reach out to others to help." Regardless if it is easily treatable, or an aggressive terminal cancer.

When we went through the process, there was a huge support system for my wife. Basically everyone was telling us positive messages. Some of them were wrong, but this was intended to keep her spirits and hope up. It turns out that you heal better when you have hope.

Meanwhile, I had to calm the fears of our then 12 year old daughter, help her to understand what was occuring. Simultaneously, I had to do this for my wife. And her family, and my family. All while dealing with my own worries.

It's not just the patient you have to take care of. It's everyone.

This is why knowing that others have done this, and survived, is so very important. Knowing that you can talk to them, voice your fears that you dare not do in front of your loved ones ... you need this when you are going through this.

Cancer sucks, no matter which one you deal with. I keep getting back to xkcd, as Randall and his wife went through it. Part of his "you are not alone, and it helps you to talk about it" are his strips. All the cancer ones are online along with explanations[1]. I have some favorites, that help me during this process[2][3] and especially [4] which came out last year. Read #4's panel 19 and 20 explanation to understand why this encouragement is so important.

[1] https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Category:Cancer

[2] https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/931:_Lanes

[3] https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/881:_Probability

[4] https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1928:_Seven_Years
Word is fine if you really, really, know what you're doing with it. By that I mean understanding how to use styles for formatting, how to properly insert footnotes/figures/tables etc, and what the implications are if you don't.

When my wife wrote her doctorate she did none of those things, and I ended up spending the best part of two days laboriously going through the entire document to make it conform to the university's style guide for thesis being submitted. Thankfully she uses Scrivener for writing now which as near as possible enforces doing things the right way the first time.
And the reason Amazon will die is because "Prime" is no longer 2 day and most "Prime" returns aren't actually free. In fact there is a whole category of "Primes".. If Target or Walmart successfully execute on local delivery + free returns they could really give Amazon a run for its money.
> It's true that this extra-territorial scope is a bold move when it comes to international law

Not really. Foreign opponents (especially American opponents) of the law make a big deal out of it, but extraterritorial application of laws, especially to acts occurring outside of but having effect within the territorial boundaries of the State whose law is concerned, is in no way novel.
Time to incorporate a supply chain verification/hardware security firm named SETEC ASTRONOMY and see who gets the reference.
Can confirm. You are kinda forced into using their ROM.

I just want a good Android phone with at least some level of enhanced privacy. Its such a pity Copperhead went kinda weird.
Seems worth reminding ourselves of the old Ruby community motto: "Matz is nice, so we are nice."
Do social media bots have a right to free speech?
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and Wife MacKenzie Are Divorcing
It's possible, and this is just a suggestion in the nicest way possible, that he may be referring to his own face. That or he just made a word up. How intelligent!
Im not sure they tell you all the apps that are preinstalled per carrier before you buy a phone. Ive never seen a list. You're not wrong though.
Machine Learning Knowledge Graph: Organizing Concepts Related to ML and AI
What makes you think Match Group and Tinder are not already statistically matching people based on their algorithms? They are part of IAC and IAC is a giant publishing conglomerate based out of NYC.
> if you submit an article in Word, it seems quite likely it will be desk-rejected for being quackery, possibly without even being read.

I've never had to submit source files for review. Maybe it's different in your field? In my field (robotics) we submit PDFs for review, and only submit source for publication.
> * python 3 (without any library or optimization) was faster than compiled nim to count words on a moderately large text.

I'm sure many other commenters have singled out this comment, but do you have an example? I find this quite hard to believe. Surely this would have manifested elsewhere and people would have pointed it out ages ago? Nim compiles (or transpiles, if you prefer) to C/C++, after all.
That's odd. I'll get that fixed!
> A slowdown in China this big is actually huge news so I'm surprised so many people are missing the forest for the trees.

I don't think ppl are ignoring it. Appl cannot only be a 'good economy company'. Look at Xiaomi for example in your link, its winning international markets by making good affordable phones. Apple should adapt to the market conditions, like xiaomi did, and give ppl what they want in all economic circumstances. Pointing out that apple is( self-admittedly) a fair weather company is not missing forest for trees.

From your own link

> Samsung loses ground in global phone market as Chinese rivals gain share

> While Samsung still leads the world in smartphone sales, it’s being squeezed by Chinese handset makers like Huawei Technologies Co.

I think I missed it somewhere but where did samsung say that their slowdown is due to 'poor economic performance' of china?
It's deeper than transaction costs. CAP theorem, C being consistency, has many information processing frameworks as "not efficient" in that there is information asymmetry. Add on top this that market information is many times communicated over noisy channels, and that many channels don't have the bandwidth to communicate more than approximations.
Your answer is "not even wrong" -- it's overly pedantic terms which miss the point of my question.

Such as here:

> If you calculate out the geodesics, no; all the parts of Earth down to its individual molecules and below "want" to travel on geodesics sourced by the system and do so unless the stronger three forces interfere with that "want" (and in bulk Beiglböck and Dixon show that the Earth has a coordinate-independent centre-of-mass that does travel on a timelike geodesic, and you arrive at it by considering the vector position of each particle).

This is a very dressed up non-response, because my initial comment was about geodesics braiding around that central one, and the resulting complexity of the paths, emissions caused by that finer level of path resolution, etc.

Responding that you can calculate paths entirely misses the point.
There is also troff, docbook, and many others.
I'm maintaining some documents in VCS+CI. But it feels like writing code in a really bad programming language: can never get the tables, titles, whitespace and page breaks right. There is always some package that does the thing I want while breaking other thing I want.
> Word is fine if you really, really, know what you're doing with it.

I would submit that the same is true for LaTeX.
You aren't alone. You need to stay strong and positive for her, but you need to be able to talk with others who've tread this path before. Many have.
I think you're right that there probably is some variance among individuals in that some are more negatively impacted than others.

I think also "success" depends not only on individual performance, but also social connections. You can only get so far working on your own. At some point you need to be able to get along with other people, and alcohol does facilitate that to some extent.
I don't think anyone is questioning that it is platform censorship which any private business has a right to do in order to protect it's business.

The objection stems from the fact that censorship is always a dominant issue raised in discussions about platforms for sharing and, while it's important to keep it in mind if you're the type of person who might share controversial or objectionable content, that is type of sharing is the minority.

If we were in an oppressive regime like China where state mandated censorship is the norm, then it would be a much more pressing concern. But for most of us, we're not under an oppressive regime and decrying the platform for censorship is on par with complaining that reddit won't let you dox people or flicker banned you for posting kiddieporn.
One question I've always had is, how much larger would charging stations need to be compared to gas stations when everyone is driving electric cars? Would they be like little oasis on the long roads of the US where people would get coffee and chill as their car super-charges after a 4 hour run? Would we get economies based around people waiting for their car to charge? Reserved chargers for auto-club members? Hyundai owners?
It's a big autocannon with wings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Republic_A-10_Thunde...
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Apple is doing a lot better nowadays, but it's still not perfect though, for example: you can't delete iTunes on MacOS.
> Look at Xiaomi for example in your link, its winning international markets by making good affordable phones.

True, but that's why Samsung is hurt more than Apple.

> Apples should adapt to the market conditions and give ppl what they want in all economic circumstances.

There's a hole in their phone line-up about the size of an iPhone SE or iPhone 6. I think the new iPhones are great and there's something to be said to have premium and super premium tiers. Their Mac line-up used to be four different products as well divided in more or less the same way (pro / prosumer and desktop / portable) where in this case it should be premium / super premium and phablet / pocketable.

The pocketable premium phone doesn't exist anymore.
You do not know how CoinMarketCap (wrongly) calculates coin prices
There was a civilized time when universities hired typesetters to do this job properly.
Things have improved since 1989. Give it a shot again, you might be surprised!
With this many companies of questionable security owning the data I think it's safe to say that this data is getting leaked.
Sorry for the late reply.

Campaign financing is something that I agree with, if I can afford to help this candidate reach more voters, why not? There is nothing wrong in that. There is another, different discussion about what this money should be spent on, eg this candidate is great vs these other candidate is bad, but I don't see nothing wrong with giving money for a candidate campaign.

Lobbying is different, in most countries in the world this is called bribing, hence a factor in corruption.
I am not afraid. But I don't enjoy it either and I'd rather not do it. The same way you tell others "time to grow up" I can tell you "time to get civilized".
Context seems to risky to use, its being maintained by a tiny number of maintainers, as of sometime I go, (I think) the source repos were not available publicly. Also it is difficult to install, and hard to find documentation for.
Oh, so now strangers can claim their rights on my mailbox, good times. I'm happy I'm a private person (and that lawgivers decided to spare ordinary people for now).
Robotic dildo barred from CES, prompting sexism claims
FaceBook is scammy on many levels. Their ads business always reports very inflated numbers.

We spend $1000/mnth on FB ads. They show millions of impressions and 20k link clicks. However only 2k visits are shown by both google analytics and Mixpanel on the actual website.

It really seems like an empire that will crumble some day.
Bay Area realtors have been aggressively marketing to wealthy Chinese buyers for a while now. The Chinese government has started putting limits on American real estate investment. Given the scale of the high-end market, I’d think that’d be enough to have a measurable effect.

Edit: “Bay Area” not “Baby Area” :)
Yeah, I have no intent to try to list them all. It's better to point to RPGgeek.com[0], which lists nearly 10,000 RPGs. (Though that's counting different editions of the same game as separate games.)

[0] https://rpggeek.com/browse/rpg
Hi Dom96, thanks for answering point by point. Unfortunately I cannot answer all of these things since I got this impression about two years ago, and things might have changed or perhaps I got them wrong (as you say some of them are subjective).

For example, I cannot tell what compilation option I used but I remember I went for the max speed I could and that I used default Nim language constructs and default python constructs (no libs), the compilation was one of the most sold features so I believe I used the release mode and that there was a marginal difference in favouring of python (subsecond). Think However that python has also many optimizations for string manipulation and that under the cover all runtime objects are references whereas in compiled languages developers are naked in front of the CPU.

Knowing that you are core-dev I must say that building a language is very hard, and that by not bringing much to the state of the art and overselling too early it is easy to get compared and valued by subjective aspects or mere impressions. Heads up, keep it with the great work and do not take it personally, make the language shine in some unique aspect.

Also do not forget that my comment was just an unfavourable opinion based on some observations I made years ago; I could change my opinion on the language anytime and give it again a chance if it brings me any benefit for my development, or it is fun, or it has some solutions for the problems I need to solve.

Thanks for answering.
Sony Acquires Audio Engineering Firm Behind Multiformat Middleware Wwise
What do you mean? Julia is a general-purpose language too.
Quine for dummies: code snippet whose output is the same as its source code
The Orion ships as in the nuke powered theoretical ones or something else.
It is not just crapware, but adware too. When GDPR kicked in, I suddenly got a Foursquare consent dialog popping out of my standard Samsung Gallery app.

I still use that crap, unfortunately, but am looking for replacement for both mobile OS and smartphone (probably Fairphone with /e/ or LineageOS).
I read the ethics of liberty as well and came to the conclusion that the deduction of its ethical framework is flawed (though interesting nonetheless). Here's a link for those interested in my write-up: http://jcfrei.com/on-the-ethics-of-liberty/
I wouldn't worry too much about Microsoft apps.

Android itself and its integration with the Google ecosystem can also be considered malware or spyware ...
I've been interviewing several engineers over the last year, for the first time ever. It's _amazing_ how right you are.

I would look at a resume and think "wow this person is gonna be amazing". And then I would ask them very very basic questions, and they would get them wrong.

I still don't know what to make of it, because it doesn't make any sense to me.
> An investor in the audience stood up to tell me how full of shit I was: I had no idea just how complicated Uber’s app and infrastructure were, and there was no way a bunch of grubby drivers would ever be able to match its expert coding and administration.

Silicon Valley's technical skills and ethos are good at discovering disruptive business models. It is incredibly hard to pivot operations at scale until you get the market properly sorted out. Investors would love to believe that this also imploes a moat for replicating and administrating the system... but there is no reason one flows from the other.

Of course, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" - Upton Sinclair
Also have a look at DreamFactory (https://www.dreamfactory.com/), an open source API generation and management platform. DreamFactory includes connectors for 18 databases, numerous file systems, e-mail delivery, mobile notifications, and more. Also API key management, roles, limiting, and logging. shameless plug
WTF does it mean you are limited to Java? Java 8+ has pretty cool stuff around FP.
I am no cheerleader for capitalism, but for any business whose core offering is a marketplace (as with Uber/Lyft, who connect buyers of rides with sellers of rides), then building out that marketplace requires solving the chicken-and-egg problem, and typically that is done through advertising, marketing, pricing, customer loyalty, etc.

Much of that requires capital, and the asset you end up with after investing that capital is a large user/subscriber base, which can lead to other competitive advantages. It is true that having a large user/subscriber base does not imply technical excellence or innovation, but it is a business asset nonetheless.

But if that asset can be easily siphoned off, then there is less of an incentive to build it out to begin with.
Maybe. Cloud computing is doing a lot of heavy work and means we don’t need powerful devices locally. If we get away from cloud computing but still expect the same functionality from our devices then we will go back to “obsolete every 2-3 years”.
Not true. To even touch the surface of the Sun you need to subtract nearly all of the Earth's orbital velocity.

Parker Solar Probe, for example, did this with a series of gravity assists off of Venus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMNQeCWT09A
>[I] find Word more than sufficient.

Ugh, just...no.

(de gustibus et coloribus non disputandum)
"Anything you do for work eventually wears out and becomes "just work". That's why it's called "work"."

So true. As someone that likes to watch Twitch, it is not uncommon to see streamers abandoning a game they have streamed for years, even if it means taking a huge hit in terms of viewership.

Even playing a game can be work, if done for work.
> Where's the incentive for businesses to give you what you want, when you can instead just take what they offer?

This is a symptom of short-term thinking in corporate leadership. Apple didn't become such a valuable brand by filling their products with third-party shit in exchange for a few bucks.
Surely in your analogy you would need a trained hamster sitting on the ball of wool, spinning a ball of cotton, trying to hit you, rather than you trying to hit yourself?

I suspect the analogy might break down before we got anywhere useful though?
Just to advance my previous comment; right now the most interesting feature to me is the motif detection, however, the motif's are always incredibly short (or a fixed size?). Please excuse me ignorance in this regard, I'm not too versed in the algorithm. Is there any use cases where you have looked at longer motifs?
> True, but that's why Samsung is hurt more than Apple.

It should hurt apple too right? doesn't 'poor economic performance' mean ppl are buying cheaper phones(xiaomi) vs appl's expensive phones? Chinese didn't just stop buying phones( looking at those graphs) but just stopped buying expensive apple phones.

Apple blaming the economy is like farmer blaming the monsoon instead of admitting that he should've built a reservoir last year.
Interestingly, in India, Uber paid drivers upwards of $1700, in in the initial 1-2 years, as incentives to get them onto the platform. Drivers took loans and mortgages to buy cars which they couldn't pay after the incentives were taken off.

Lot of drivers went into debts and sold away their cars. The market has probably more stabilized now.

But inspite of all the talk of tech, we are still looking at these platforms taking 25%-30%.
Our roundup of 2018 might help get some context for this: https://javascriptweekly.com/issues/417
Nothing in our evolutionary history as social apes prepared us for that.
Too many secrets!
My experience is of course anecdotal, but that’s not how I feel about alcohol.

I got drunk twice in my life. Once intentionally to see what it was like, and once by accident (thought I was having a couple beers, turns out they all had double the usual alcohol content so I was having twice what I thought I was having). Both experiences made me feel so bad that they were sort of traumatizing.

I’m not talking about the hangover (though that was awful too). The feeling of being drunk feels terrible to me. I feel like I’m losing control of myself. My face feels numb. People say that’s how it is, and I don’t understand how they can look forward to that.
I do not go often for ad-hominem... but your nickname has "Nim" within it and python's IO and runtime is programmed in C which discredits nothing since we are not scoring anything, really