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That is not an excuse to don’t make the protocol network transparent.

If people can stream an HD game to their living room TV I don’t think a desktop application have to be much different.
Unlike with web advertising, you're still downloading the ad in this case, there's no way for the creator or the advertiser to tell that you blocked it after.

I've never bought anything from an ad, never intentionally clicked one or visited a link from a podcast ad. There's truly no difference for me. Their revenue stream will remain intact, the kind of people who do that will keep doing that.
In the early 2000s, my business classes were breaking down the inefficiencies of large scale brick and mortar businesses and forecasting their digital takeover.

The big surprise for me was how long so many of them have held on. It seems to be a slow die off rather than a mass extinction.
Whaat? How could this be? Did anyone see this coming? Nuts. Guess I'll have to shop at Service Merchandise from now on.

Serious note: Sad to see it go, but it failed to adapt.
> ML-family functional languages, which you seem a fan of, also trade performance for elegance, with few fortunate exceptions in case elegance goes far enough to allow extreme optimizations that recover whole-program performance despite widespread inefficiency "in the small".

I'm not convinced. Small-scale heavily-optimized microbenchmarks show C++ as at most a single-digit multiple faster than e.g. Haskell. I wouldn't expect you to achieve even that much over Rust. And like I said, I've yet to see such a performance advantage to C++ in a real-world scenario - quite the opposite. It's not always a tradeoff - sometimes one thing really is better than another thing.

> Significant bad parts of C++ have been deprecated or effectively replaced with something better; you just have to adopt the good way.

And ensure that all your libraries/tools/coworkers have adopted the good way, which you have no way of enforcing; at best you have ad-hoc linters that flag up some (but not all) bad practices.
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It is normal in Germany & even more so in the big cities like Berlin for people to rent their whole lives - there are a lot of tenants protections & rent control here that make that less risky.
The beautiful thing about electronics (and hydrolics) is their inherent 1 dimensionality (although you can create higher dimensional interconnections). Electrical components in particular can be spectacularly linear (capacitors and log-lin diodes) over 4-8 orders of magnitude.

The great thing about transistors is their localized non-liniarity (gain)... which was used to create simplified digital systems from analog circuits. This allowed fan-out and noise tolerance... which allowed more complex abstractions, processors and OSes to be built on top them.
One on one dedicated mentoring is very beneficial but not a requirement. You can also obtain mentorship/advice just by visiting various communities and asking questions online as well.

Over the past decades, many developers are self taught. And online communities and resources have only improved over time.
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I was at an interview for a job ad that had similar illogical requirements. When it was clear I wasn't getting the job for other reasons, I pointed out their error. They got all huffy. My doing that is a bad practice people-skill-wise, but it sure felt good getting deserving fools to eat their own cat-food.
To be fair, considering how much actual programming I did in a 3 year Bachelor's degree, 6 months of learning programming could be plenty significant.

Which isn't to say the non-programming stuff in my degree was irrelevant, but you don't need to spend 4 years full time studying to learn relevant skills for a junior web developer job, and you could easily learn them in less time outside of a degree.
No one is really interested in doing the work for you, but we're interested in helping you if you want to put in the work yourself. It's possible in theory and wouldn't even be terribly difficult.
I totally agree that market solutions aren't perfect. I alluded to some legal fixes in place, but there are of course many others, some of which address concerns you raised -- fitness for purpose, abuse of market power, varying levels of employee protection and representation depending on jurisdiction.

These things are clearly patches, though. The logic of the system is that companies operate on the behalf of their owners, with some sharp edges filed off to handle perverse incentives. I guess this organisation wasn't chosen for its competitive advantage (probably rather just a legal&historical accident) but it seems to be doing better than anything else we've tried -- worker co-ops, non-profits etc.
Or better yet, realizing spending $60k/year for three years on over-priced month to month office space is not always a better solution than signing an old-school lease.
Using it for several low to high traffic web apps. Using GKE, Storage, managed Postgres, Redis, Global Load Balancers, custom VPC networking with VPN to AWS and more. All managed via Terraform. Very capable and production ready in my experience.
Godwining this is super unhelpful. Maybe your wife's grandparents didn't experience anything negative but millions did.
Richard Turner, self-styled card mechanic, can count and manipulate cards with unbelievable precision by feel alone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwFIJyWKs1k

He also happens to be blind.
Well, back then the capital markets were all about value investing. And if someone in 1999 told you that a publicly traded company could run losses for 15 years straight and be 'successful', you'd have looked at him as though he were a fool.

'Valuation' these days seems to be less about determining the free cash flow of a company's operations. It's the promise of great innovation that's just around the corner. Or, more likely, it's the promise that a bigger company will acquire this company at a markup above whatever you paid.
Very cool. Two questions:

1. How do you plan to make money with this?

2. If the data is owned by me, is there also an easy way to get all my blog posts out of the system in a usable format (e.g. so I could put it on my own server later)?
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That's exactly the problem in our society right now. How am I supposed to prove this without building a prototype?

I don't have the resources to personally build one right now, and nobody else seems to care. Our entire society stands to benefit from this, yet I'm expected to complete this work alone?

I used to be altruistic and optimistic, now, not so much. I'm inclined to let the world rot while I take my sweet time. It's not like I have much choice in the matter anyway.
The reason ads for podcasts don't deserve blocking and are OK is that they are completely opt-in. You have to enter a code or go to a URL in order for the podcaster to get credit.
> For human interaction, voice is vastly preferable.

This is trivial or false. If you define "human interaction" as "the sorts of interactions where we'd rather talk" then sure, voice is preferable by definition. On the other hand, if you define it as "interaction between humans" then your own example shows that it depends entirely on the nature of the interaction. Sometimes we'd rather talk and sometimes we'd rather text.

I should have originally written "If voice was _always_ preferable to the output of a keyboard". I'm obviously not suggesting that there are no cases where voice is better than sms.

What I'm suggesting is that our existing text/chat messaging, CLIs, GUIs etc are much more than a crude approximation of moving things with one's hands (or speaking) which will be obviated by VR. They are, in the appropriate cases, _more_ easy and efficient than moving things with one's hands or speaking.
>All those cryptocurrency exchanges, they're the true winners of the nonsensical Bitcoin craze...

Absolutely! There are financial geniuses in the cryptocommodity game, but their business model has nothing at all to do with coin prices.
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Wikipedia provided this simple description, which would be nice to see on the RC post (but perhaps they assumed the only folks interested in an RC post would be folks familiar with the tool already):

Lazarus is a free cross-platform visual integrated development environment (IDE) for rapid application development (RAD) using the Free Pascal compiler.
How?

I've worked out of a WeWork and it's just an expensive shared-office space the same as any other.
> I now use it as a rebuttal to the stock assumption that Western-style democracy, capitalism, and individualism are the only route to prosperity.

There are many paths to prosperity. Are you suggesting it's preferable to forsake democracy, capitalism, and individualism and implement a system of governance that encourages mass murder [0], famine [1], human rights abuses [2], industrial espionage [3], unsafe goods [4], and scientific fraud [5]?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_China

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine

[2] https://www.amnestyusa.org/countries/china/

[3] https://www.newsweek.com/china-involved-90-percent-economic-...

[4] https://qz.com/1133484/buying-infant-milk-powder-is-still-a-...

[5] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/13/world/asia/china-science-...
The article was more of a timeline of how the author delved into programming using different stacks and frameworks, then (finding) realizing that there is little market for VueJS. Hence, the choice to move to React.

I think there was not even a hint of a compelling reason why moving away from VueJS was made.
People have been valuing them using the wrong metrics so far: "WeWork isn’t really a real estate company. It’s a state of consciousness, he argues, a generation of interconnected emotionally intelligent entrepreneurs." https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-04-27/wework...

Can't wait till SEC adds "state of consciousness" and "emotionally interconnect-ness" to quarterly reports.
Fascinating read. I never thought of Devsumer as a category until now. It explains the recent spike in interest in this space:

* Slack acquired Missions

* Trello acquired Butler

* GitHub launched Actions

* Zapier’s success ($35m ARR)

* The ridiculous numbers of Zapier clones out there
The bees would teach Thanos how stupid his idea was by surviving year after year, because cutting a population in half does almost nothing. This is one of the things that have irked me the most about the Avengers movies, they propagate his idea as somehow making any sense at all, when in fact it is doing a great disservice to the world by not teaching them about populations and use of resources. A reduction of the universe's population by half would be made up for quite quickly as if nothing had ever happened and billions or trillions slaughtered for nothing. In cancer treatment you usally need at least a log kill or preferably multiple log kills to affect change. A better snap of fingers would have probably been to teach the universe to use less and recycle more or teach how to use contraception.

https://www.endurocide.com/knowledge-base/blogs/log-reductio...

http://www.d.umn.edu/~jfitzake/Lectures/DMED/Antineoplastics...
Amazon also aggressively and effectively expanded from being "just" a bookstore to a cheap store that sells everything, and diversified even further by effectively creating the multi-billion dollar cloud computing market, which in turn created the hyperscaling startup boom. Amazon deserves that valuation for that (not so much for its extorsion of its employees though; you'd expect one of the highest valued companies of the world to pay its employees accordingly)
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Understood, so you know there was a reason for branching out into the blockchain space, as there's a real need for better langs there, and less competition, which leads to more visibility in an area that his hot technology. For the project to survive, we'll have to try a lot of things.
I'm with you on this one. Podcast ads usually are tasteful, non-invasive and moderately used.

The trouble with the rest of the online ad space is that they destroy performance and are VERY invasive.

Tracking and malware are serious issues as well but they're not the main reason for the vitriolic hate. Even if they didn't track you and were vetted flawlessly for malware, they would STILL be avoided like the plague by any user savvy enough to do it.

I wish websites would stop fucking around and realize that there is a limit to the amount of advertising we will tolerate. I like free stuff and I don't mind ads to fund it. But if the annoyance of the ads exceeds the entertainment from the content, you're shooting yourself in the leg.
If one has no prior porgramming experience, I would expect a minimum of 1500 - 2000 hours of work needed to learn the basics of the trade and find their first decent job. A small number will be able to do this on their own. The majority will benefit significantly from some structured teaching and mentorship.

I think there are many good jobs available in web development. But it will depend significantly on your location.
Different in such a way that people who pride themselves on binging on junk food because they're all grown up and you can't tell them what to do will be tricked into eating healthy anyway.
One could say
Uber a taxi car Company
Airbnb a hotel
Facebook selling private information
Google advertisement company
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> What could that wouldn't with a private platform?

Well, with a private company you don't have the one who makes and enforces the rules also running your social network.

And that's a very, very bad scenario. We'll be going back to the Pravda.
I want to use Wayland so bad, sadly I like millions of other people have an Nvidia graphics card so am stuck with X11 for the foreseeable future. Sadly this problem will be recognized as "wontfix" by both Wayland developers and Nvidia.
Perhaps it not comply to USA regulation but for my home I opt to design custom interior wall (simple commercial iron profile instead of classic plasterboard structure) and countertops with wood planks and joint covers (from nearest wood store) so I can open nearly anything and nearly anything look like reasonably well.

Interior walls are simply heavy cut-ed 60x30x1.5mm vertical beams with horizontal ligatures made of flat iron 40x2mm covered with "insulation scotch" for noise reduction purpose. Wood planks are coupled vertically three/four maximum in the garage with a simple bar to hang furniture as a horizontal joint. Skirting and ceiling joint covers permit insertion and remove thank to the interior "female side" of the last wood planks cut-ed out before mount.

It was far more complex than what I consider at start (and I still have to finish many parts) but IMO it's cheap, good-looking and comfortable enough to being worth it. With that any kind of implant can be accessed directly without brake anything and when it's time to repaint it can be done again in the garden/garage instead of cover up anything inside...
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> He said pseudonymous, not anonymous...

That's why I said it's dangerous: telling people a word which sounds like anonymous but actually means “irrepudiable proof of identity” is setting them up to make decisions under the belief that they are closer to anonymous than they actually are. Given how proponents like to proclaim benefits for people in countries with repressive governments, that's just irresponsible.

> It's censorship resistant in its use. It only becomes an issue in terms of actually cashing out -- but that's not necessarily required.

What does that even mean? A government can block it easily because the design requires you to be on the network and the lack of anonymity means that anyone who attempts to bypass those restrictions has valid reasons to fear reprisal.
"I am still quite bullish that a basked of cryptocurrencies will be worth in the trillions within the next 10 years. The primary short term driver for crypto value with be the generational replacement of gold as a store-of-value for a specific subset of the population. The longer term drivers of crypto value will be new forms of programable money and on-chain securities."

What subset of the population is going to replace gold with crypto? Because it won't be the entire generation burned by ICO scams and bullish investment into whitepapers they don't understand.
How much of Sears's demise was due to Walmart? It's not like retail completely died.

The home improvement chains hurt them too, once they started selling tools and appliances.

We bought everything at Sears in the 80's. Electronics (including computers), appliances, toys, clothes, tools, lawn and garden...

Was Sears too 'friendly' with their suppliers? When I worked at Sears at the end of the 1990's (the store was a ghost town then), many of the long-time employees were making pretty decent money. Way more than people at Best Buy, Target or Walmart made. Plus actual benefits. The must have had huge legacy costs, especially at the higher levels.
Web agency owner here.

There is a surplus of beginners due to a surge in tech bootcamps.

If you're in the bottom half of talent it's a race to the bottom of low cost.

If you're top 25-50%, you'll probably have consistent good paying work.

If you're top 25%+ you can make a great living.

Probably similar to any skill set.
Taxes, VAT, compliance are mundane.

Marketing/Selling, and building the right thing ... this is the hard part.

If you can do the later, most of the ops becomes ... just ops. It's just work. It can be done.
This is a concept car - which is fine, I was just confused to find only CGI renders and apparently one full-size mockup. I like concept cars, this just seemed to be presented as a working prototype.
I wonder if this will impact the small Sears Home Town stores. These are great and I'd hate to lose them.

http://www.searshometownstores.com/
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The thing about web development is that the definition of "web developer" can vary wildly. Web development is a big field and can include a wide range of skills. Making a static html info page is web development. Building a SPA with a database and auth and user uploads and deploying it on aws/azure and scaling for a million users, also web development.

If you are thinking along the lines of the first example, eg. the "I know html and css, I can build a website with pictures and operating hours for a mom and pop shop" developer, this market is shrinking with platforms like wix and squarespace where regular people can build these sites and maintain them easily and for cheap. Not to say you can't still make a living doing this, but it is something to be aware of if it is the route that you choose to take.

If you are thinking more about the second example, yes, there is a high demand (and rapidly growing market) for this kind of developer at startups and fortune 500s and everything in between.

Overall, the answer is yes, web development is still a growing field and it is absolutely a viable career choice, but it is important to keep learning and be aware of the market and adjust accordingly
I tried using a Regus space the other week. It didn't seem that much better than any other co-working space in regards to noise and bad manners?
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When I cook, I cook around my choice of meat. If I'm making something vegetarian I have a completely different mindset.

Compare the use of vegetables in American cuisine versus vegetarian Indian cuisine.
> 1. It's really hard to tell if any of the people writing blog posts about these things have ever experienced the larger scale monorepos or not for any length of time.

Isn't one of the points of this article that it's not necessarily important for your decision about repo structure how it feels like at "larger scale" (for sufficiently large larger scale) if that's not where you are, and that "Google does X" or "Twitter had problem Y" isn't necessarily relevant for others not hitting their scale? Is it still important to have experience with a scale you're never gonna hit to make a decision about it? Or should the label "monorepo" not be applied to smaller entities, since the term (as far as I know) originates with the large ones?
... and one may look no further than the fact that Chelsea Manning is free now to see that being in the public eye has a significant effect on the outcome, because were she not in the public eye, she'd very much still be in jail for espionage. On account of the espionage, which leaked documents adding fuel to the fire-piles that kindled into the political destabilization of several nations in the Middle East and North Africa and the deaths of thousands of people in civil wars, beginning with Libya.

She got off very easy for the deaths she (unintentionally) facilitated by deciding her conscience spoke more loudly than the expertise of thousands of State Department operatives trained to deal with delicate international political issues.
> no american cab company operates in 72 countries outside of america though

... while complaining about the big evil taxi cartels
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I really wouldn't call the Linux kernel a monorepo. Not compared to Microsoft keeping all of Windows in a single repo.

The problems start when you can't clone the repo within an hour or so, because git doesn't allow partial clones like SVN did.
Reading the tweet source of this one, interestingly the author left out " + Anti-fragile" after Independent in his version.
thegrid.io was (yet) another flame-out associated with the same line of thinking. The intricacies of performant web development are quite a bit more nuanced than a lot of people aiming to automate it would like to acknowledge.
Still would go there occasionally for clothes. Brick and mortar has been mostly replaced for me except for groceries (I'm aware there are services but I'm in a pretty rural area right now) and clothing where I still appreciate the benefit of trying them on before buying.
Am I reading correctly that Linux only has <300 commits per day? (<100K per year, 800K in histoy)

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commits/master?after=3bd6e...

That's a lot for a code base, but not a lot for a configuration base that has commits automatically generated by various tools.

Anyway, Linus advertised that git could apply 3 commits/sec in 2005:
https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitBenchmarks
What sort of moat does Uber have, though? Sure, it was a slight annoyance to sign up for lyft when they moved into the city my mom lives in, but that was ~5 minutes of annoyance and some phone data. I don't care at all about Uber, there's very little customer loyalty. How will they defend their valuation if the self driving project doesn't pan out?
If you were getting started today, would you choose the data science or web dev track if you were looking for most long-term career stability?
Biopharma: neuroinflammation, next-gen genetically engineered microbe / cell / gene therapies, gene therapy and cell therapy for neuro and autoimmune disease, small molecules targeting genetically defined neuro, cardiovascular and autoimmune disease, chemogenetics, programming languages for specific parts of the bio stack

$17B invested in bio startups in 2018, very little of it by traditional tech VCs

One $11B exit < 5 years from series a (Juno), one $9B exit ~4 years from series a (avexis), one $8b mkt cap ipo, one $8b exit from ~5 year old company to start 2019 (loxo), multiple smaller billion+ exits, ~50 vc backed IPOs

Several innovative companies launching their first drugs soon, potential to become standalone commercial companies: sage, agios, alnylam, Ionis / akcea, bluebird, ultragenyx, gw pharma