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Great response!

I always suspected that the motivation for writing tutorials was to showcase the skillset and, of course, the more ... the better. Hence the cramming in of as many technologies as possible into a single solution.
They bear the cost to build the infrastructure, but their cost to deliver data is negligible. As long as their infrastructure can handle the maximum capacity spikes, they're basically printing money.
> It seems clear to me that Popperian falsification is indeed the only way to separate the wheat from the chaff in theoryspace, however, generating theories generally requires inductive reasoning.

A report analyzed the entries to Nature one year and found that very, very few of the papers actually met Popper's criteria for falsifiable hypotheses, and in fact most of the papers started out with an exploratory aim and documented their findings. This means that to adopt the Popperian idea that only falsifiable claims are science means we must reject good science. One must also consider what opportunities are being missed if we were to force good science to adopt strictly falsifiable hypotheses before research commences - this would mean that every exploratory paper would need to be redefined (or rather, firstly defined) as a falsifiable hypothesis... in an attempt to please Popperians.

It is also a stretch to say that science must be empirical or carried out in a particular way to which falsifiability is congenial. There are good arguments that even philosophy[1] or mathematics can be considered sciences, and indeed they were (see Wissenschaft in Kant and Hegel for instance).

Furthermore, it's been argued that Popper's theory of falsification actually includes bad science (pseudoscience). From SEP[0]:

>Strictly speaking, his criterion excludes the possibility that there can be a pseudoscientific claim that is refutable. According to Larry Laudan (1983, 121), it “has the untoward consequence of countenancing as ‘scientific’ every crank claim which makes ascertainably false assertions”. Astrology, rightly taken by Popper as an unusually clear example of a pseudoscience, has in fact been tested and thoroughly refuted (Culver and Ianna 1988; Carlson 1985). Similarly, the major threats to the scientific status of psychoanalysis, another of his major targets, do not come from claims that it is untestable but from claims that it has been tested and failed the tests.

[0] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pseudo-science/#KarPop

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20170621073301/http://www.philos...
I wouldn't say it's easier to write Forth than C, but it's definitely more suited to resource-limited 8-bit systems with very little RAM.

IMHO Forth is more like an even more reduced Lisp, a "reverse Lisp" if you want, because of Forth's stack architecture (instead of (+ 1 2) in Lisp to add the number 1 and 2, you would write "2 1 +" in Forth, this puts the numbers 2 and 1 on the "stack", and then executes the word "+", which takes the topmost 2 numbers from the stack, adds them, and puts the result back on the stack.

So you get many advantages of Lisp (building complex programs incrementally from very simple building blocks), but in a much more reduced package which can even run on 8-bit computers with just a few KB of memory.
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Slack alternatives for collaboration 2019
My impression is that the "water cooler" effect is still very important for Netflix. "Hey, have you seen that new X show on Netflix with actress Y? Oh, you don't have Netflix? Let me send you an invite!"
https://github.com/gpcimino/pypelines
I think you are confusing „The Art of War“ with „The War of Art“. I‘ve partially read both and the second one is purely motivational and not much else.
>I doubt the majority of people have only a phone.

Well only in the context of US, EU, Canada, AUS, and the like. Or if you consider China, India to be a poor 3rd world country.

There are more people using their Smartphone as their only computer devices in China / SEA than the whole of US and EU population combined. There are elderly who never had a computer in their life are now using Smartphone as their first "computer". You will be surprised how many people can't double click a mouse, and moving mouse cursor around is a daunting task. And how using iPhone is 10x more intuitive.
"One finger even or my nose if I have to. A double click does it. A GUI where I can see all the options, select them, apply and run. So...human."

Blech. Do you remember when games like Leisure Suit Larry went from text input to "click the right pixel"? All sorts of exploration and hilarity was lost.

You can see all the options because there aren't as many.
I got this one: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jellyphone/atom-world-s...

It is not "elegant" by any stretch of the imagination, but it is extremely small. Like you, I want something that is very small in my pocket and not distracting me from real life.
Isn’t the real problem that it’s just getting warmer and warmer? These bouts are getting pretty frequent I reckon
Infinite growth is unnatural after all. On a side note, it's fascinating hearing investors worry about Apple's growth slowing (possibly declining even) while throwing around figures in the tens, if not hundreds of billions
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The notion that this is somehow better on Windows is, from my experience, false. In fact if say the GUI freezes on Linux, which doesn't happen often with open-source GPU drivers for Intel/AMD, then I still at least have the option to switch to tty and restart the display server. On Windows the option seems to be a hard reset pretty much.

There's also many occasions where some .exe has simply "stopped working", or some system process takes over the CPU, with me none the wiser. If I install a 3rd party driver, there's some chance Windows will at some point attempt to replace it with an inferior version from its own driver database.

Then there's the whole update situation, which effectively takes control away from you, the computer owner, not to mention it could delete user data.

And yet, despite OS updates being forced upon you, application installation and updating is often still mostly an annoyingly manual process of browsing to some site, doing some sanity checks to make sure the site's legit, which your 'average user' is not doing, downloading the .exe and trying to avoid accidentally agreeing to have some toolbar installed in the process.

Add to that the telemetry, ads, nagging to use Edge before you switch etc. and am pretty sure that's not even most of it, as I luckily don't have to use Windows often.
>>if two tracks are possible to reach the same food source, the shortest one will be covered by more ants at the same time than the long track;

Can Ants tell time?
Do veterinarians always perform the actual euthanasia? Can't they tell their clients : "I'll give you the seringe, I'll show you how to do it, but you will do it" ?

If not, considering that indeed veterinarians probably chose that line of work because they love animals, making them kill animals on a regular basis has to be kind of a death by a thousand cuts.
The tradition of the camp-fire faces that of the pyramid.
You might like this tiny rugged phone: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jellyphone/atom-world-s...

I got it off the kickstarter, but I think you can buy it retail now.
Yeah they were super expensive at MSRP. They did get heavily discounted after launch though, unlike today's Apple products. And the software available for Macs was really what allowed them to price the way they did.
Love it. Their ongoing IKEA collaboration is definitely rubbing off. (downside: you pretty much get one shot folding the sheet metal the right way). Flat packed DIY build is great. Compatible with Eurorack, and the OP-Z is getting a CV/gate module.

Now that Teenage has 2 products out there that are designed with modular expansion in mind, it will be exciting to see how they update them over the years.
Very sad. I jumped into the Gentoo wagon for similar reasons. And it's been working flawlessly for me since then.
It’s still much easier to figure out which episode you last watched.
>Again, if this were true, the best founders would be data scientists. But they're not. They are visionaries.

[citation needed]
But pathogens have a selective pressure to game the host immune system in spreading them further
Will those "good players" be able to compete? And will they even get funding if it's required to start their business?

Unless you force everybody to not just dump toxic chemicals into the river, the company that doesn't will have to charge a lot more, and customers will go with those that do (if they live far enough from the river, or upstream from the dump site).
Other component-oriented frameworks:
http://tapestry.apache.org/component-reference.html Java

https://github.com/jeluard/lucuma Clojure

https://github.com/greencatsoft/scales Scala
Chrome is #1 because of Google’s enormous marketing blitz for it, including advertising it directly on google.com.
None of the cars produced by other auto companies are even close to Tesla Model 3. In fact I claim they are at least 6 years behind. Tesla is moving faster than any other auto company. Tesla literally is forcing auto industries to change their strategy. Tesla may go bankrupt sometime in future, but it has irreversibly changed the course of history.
Vue is simple and progressive - ie you can use it when you want to and use plain JS etc when you don’t.

If you like “pythonic” simplicity, use Vue.
"Python, not scratch." But explained without using jargon for those who aren't jargon fluent.

I'd love to see anyone make a better fit of it than they did from the perspective of their target audience. It's not obvious to me how to do it but someone may have good ideas.
> (i.e. every word definition defines a function, and every use of the word inside the definition is a call to the corresponding function)

Yeah, which supposedly brings one of the big downsides of Forth, which is that one easily ends up with a program that has been refactored too aggressively into smaller words.
From the point of end user yes, but the original JSCPP project allows custom classes and members to be available via include.
I think one problem with jquery is that it tightly couples your classes and IDs, and your layout, which your logic.

Simple example: your new dev changes layout or an ID or classname, and some code somewhere that relied on it via jquery breaks.
In terms of profitibility the beatles catologue continues to grow in value as the songs can be found everywhere from commericials to chants used in rallys. The height of beatlemania in the press will never be seen again but they are changing into folklore and will be recelebrated as legend after they all pass.
I've witnessed how one person who couldn't keep it together harmed a family two generations down the line. Life is hard and if you can give your kids a decent childhood, you've done your bit.
Explanations based on evolutionary psychology tend to neglect the social or psychological adaptations that are responsible for complex society. The validity of the claim that we would be happier as hunter gatherers, for example, is really difficult to assess from the perspective of someone embedded in modern human society. The high level of interdependence (sometimes called organic solidarity) changes everything.

The tendency of evolutionary psychology to assert that life is governed by primal instincts established in harsher times isn't politically neutral.
Your comment reminded me of oraguy comment about oracle db

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18442637
Falsehoods programmers believe about time (2017)
>people are going to watch TV no matter what

Well, not really. Obviously people already watch TV, but netflix is much more addictive, by design, and that's not a good thing.

People are going to gamble no matter what, yet modern slots are many times more addictive, else the companies wouldn't research and develop them.

>Better Netflix than competitors, no?

Why?
Does international traffic and satellites factor in to this? Or is very little traffic (by number of bits) international due to CDNs these days?
On Linux Mint 19 with xfce desktop icons are absolutely no issue whatsoever. But who needs them anyway?

- [Super Key]
- First three letters of the program name
- [Enter]

Boom!

Much faster.
Oh, I misunderstood what your summary was. I thought you said that the reason myths don’t take hold is that the learning style doesn’t match the myth busting style. Never mind then!
constructive resolution tip tip: next time avoid criticizing the meta
It's not solely about syntax.

Have you tried using Make on Windows? I know, I also prefer Unix-like systems over Windows (and I barely use Windows these days anymore), but for those that need Windows support, it's a miserable experience trying to use tools that barely work there.

Checksum based (instead of timestamp based) up-to-date resolution is also nice. Etc, etc.

In short, I don't think Task is perfect (far from it), but we desperately need better alternatives to Make.
My mother worked in hospice for a few years and a patient who she had known previously who was dying of bone cancer just broke her.

Bone cancer is particularly painful, and it gets to the point where a dose of opioids strong enough to provide pain relief would completely suppress breathing.

When the patient is weeping and begging to be allowed to die, it's just too much for a compassionate human being to stand.
Glossy screens can be great in the correct lighting. A few point sources of light that are not directly behind the viewer are great, and you can benefit from the increased contrast that foregoing the matte layer gets you.

However, in a situation where you have ambient light from everywhere, like an open office with many windows, glossy screens are insanely distracting. I much prefer the matte screens for that. Yes things on the screen can be harder to read, but way better compared to the "looking into a mirror" effect of a glossy screen.
Um, how do they know what their customers do when they're not watching Netflix..?
ASP.NET has changed to stay modern. Microsoft didn't just get a hair up their ass and decide to reinvent the wheel. If anything the TWO major changes in the last TWO decades (forms to MVC and MVC to Core MVC) have been reactions to popular development trends of their day and changes in computing environments.

Meanwhile front-end has been changing continuously without adding much benefit.
I think we have a different definition of 'pristine'.
Not necessarily, but I don't think anyone (even Marxists) are arguing that she is.
You’ll get to a point where the Netflix staff would have to down tools and watch Netflix all day to get get the last bit of growth! I guess that’s after they’ve convinced all mothers to stick their newborns in front of Netflix.
aaaand its gone (at least online)
That guide is way too long and convoluted to successfully win over any regular Joe or average Amanda.

For example the recommendation to learn about partitioning and stuff is "funny". Just install Linux Mint 19, accept the suggested partitions and be done already.
Because for many, Netflix subscription is a shared good. E.g. I pay for the highest plan, and let my wife, my mom & my siblings use it. I'm not going to ask all of them every month if they're using it; I just pay $15 and everyone can watch whenever they feel like it.

There's a lot to be said for reliability factor too. I could pay for just the middle tier and handle occasional collisions (more people wanting to watch at the same time than the service tier allows). But it's easier to fork out extra $5 and avoid the issue altogether.
I think Mark (Sherlock, League of Gentlemen, Doctor Who) Gatiss put it quite well - http://thebarofgold.tumblr.com/post/100646665073/gatissed-i-...

The problem with this stuff is it's all very amusing and cute until you end up with people that irrational making decisions about millions of people's lives.
Tho Minecraft was something like the "proto Fortnite".

All the casual gamers I know spend their time on Minecraft, at least until Fortnite came around, then they've pretty much all transitioned to Fortnite, with Minecraft now being the "if Fortnite doesn't work" replacement.
Seems like they submittet proof that they used the trademark in marketing materials, but no independent proof that they actually managed to sell even a single BigMac commercially.
Apparently the one downside of Borg is that it has to walk the whole filesystem for backups, rather than picking up changes: https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/issues/325

According to a more up to date comparison[1] (recommends Arq), Borg is also slow because it processes sequentially.

[1]: https://www.lullabot.com/articles/backup-strategies-for-2018
Importing anything into a project, no matter how small, creates a new dependency.

Any additional dependency introduces, among other costs:

* a potential point of failure

* a potential source of security vulnerabilities

* a potential legal liability and maybe some licensing constraints, and

* an additional aspect that needs to be maintained indefinitely and understood by any future developers.

Accepting all of this just to save a few minutes writing a simple function and maybe a test or two doesn’t scale very well. At best, it is replacing a superficial problem with a deep set of extra and ongoing responsibilities.

This is before we consider the time required to find and evaluate a suitable package, and even then, there is no guarantee that some random small NPM package from a source you’ve never heard of will be any better than what you’d have written yourself if you’re a halfway decent programmer.
You’re only seeing part of the picture there. Hardware is approximately a one time cost, if you ignore upgrades and maintenance, and electricity is a consideration, but the other part is bandwidth to get data to that port.

ISPs also need a way to get your packets off their network and across to other people’s networks, which are possibly on the other side of the globe. A lot of this is done via peering agreements with other providers, where both parties will agree to connect their networks at a common data centre without charging for data going across that link, but there will still be some data that needs to go across transit providers - these are the companies providing things like transatlantic fibre, or interconnects between different parts of the US. They charge for a pre-agreed amount of bandwidth, and when you burst above that it gets expensive.

These agreements are the core of the net neutrality debate. Traditionally peering agreements would see both parties having a roughly equal amount of traffic going back and forth, however in a world with services like Netflix what you see is a huge amount of bandwidth being used on side of the link. This is why ISPs think Netflix and co should have to pick up the cost of those links.

I don’t agree with that stance since the reason ISPs have customers is often the ability to access those services. However, it’s not quite as clear cut as people make out.
Alternative mix-up: maybe you're thinking of Andrei Alexandrescu, who worked on D while at Facebook? Names don't match but it's [programming language guy] at Facebook.
> I still often use rake, even tho it does make some golang people vomit

LOL.

I love both Go and Ruby. Each of them shines on different scenarios.
"if you program and want any longevity to your work, make a game. all else recycles, but people rewrite architectures to keep games alive."

Why The Lucky Stiff
The problem with software is it’s too effective! Do you need 500 developers hand writing Linux kernels so you can run computers? Nope just one CD needs to be posted.

Maybe the way we can help is keep building the services we build. If you contribute to wordpress you can help people in these countries,
Indirectly, communicate.

Even working at Google providing free gmail,
Facebook etc is helpful. Indirectly. Offering free plans of software as a service is another thing.
I’m fairly new to web dev and using Vue.

Web dev is a complete mess, it’s true.

I also think the direction of travel is good from what I’ve seen, we’re making progress in improving it. For example, introducing types, getting away from hacks like bootstrap etc.

What I do find infuriating is that it seems most of the problems are not new and already well solved. Ultimately it looks like web dev is going to be quite similar to Android/iOS/Java Applet dev, which themselves are not particularly innovative (XML layout, MVC-variant style). Package management has been done a gazillion times but we have yet another tool, etc.

Anyone understand exactly how we got here?

I’d also be interested if more experienced people have a good idea what the endgame is, where this is all headed.
If anyone is interested in this, I strongly recommend Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, although I'm sure pretty much all geeks over a certain age have already read it. Religion, memetics, hackers, and the human mind are all tied up in a really good sci-fi book.
Was looking for that, too. Seems like they just removed the SE from the German store at all. Or did I look at the wrong place? :-D
The independent kind. Like said many times by others here, a news article fron those years would have sufficed.
>Installing a program (not from the Ubuntu Software Center) and getting a launcher icon took way too much time and Googling.

I don't understand this. You can open the "App Store" and search and download programs. If, for some inexplicable reason, you don't want to use the Software Center, you can open a terminal and type "apt install [name]".

Surely this is easier than installing a program on Windows. What exactly is your issue?
Also, the closest competitors (the Chevy Bolt and the BMW i3) just plain look weird. It seems like every company but Tesla insists on the footgun of "unique" styling for electrics.
The irony that the article isn't available in the EU because of data/privacy laws that time.com obviously thinks is too restricted so they decided to block the EU.
I love that it exists, but I don't think I'll buy one. The processor having half the power of my 2016 mid-range phone is concerning me a little, especially for the price.

I hope they keep developing because I really do want a linux phone, but with enough power to emulate Android somehow (just can't go around it for some things).

Again though, congratulations for making it this far. The Librem 5 will probably be the standard hacker-phone for a few years.
Really? I had a windows phone from WP7 up to one of the last released and one of the reasons was that most apps were fast, snappy and started pretty quickly, while android phones in the same price range (about 50$) seemed to struggle with basic stuff.

Of course there were exceptions, but IMO that wasn't the major problem.
Valve and gog.com usually don't release sales data, but Google surely knows.