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I don't think CSS has anything to do with art, you usually have the design done already, you just need to put it together in a way that browsers can read, so it's just good ol' programming. Thing is that it's very easy to do a little things and tweaks in css, copy & paste snippets, so people jump to conclusions about css being easy - but then you discover that to really master css it requires a lot of lateral thinking and being able to look at the design and "see the matrix" behind it. It's like trying to figure out haskell and you come from C, you need some time for your brain to rewire how you think of problems. IMHO emphasis should be especially at a lot of learning by doing it, because experience is everything with css. So just give yourself some time, work on it and you'll figure it out...
Investors don't vest and (to a first approximation) can't be fired. (They can constructively "quit", by refusing to answer your emails, but they keep all their equity and you keep all their money.)

The question of whether they "legally receive the shares right away" can be a bit more nuanced, particularly in e.g. a transaction for a SAFE or convertible note.
A hilarious rap about how neglected CSS can be: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yXJ4t6Ax1U
Ya. If you are blowing up and VCs are knocking down the door to throw money at you, you can write your own ticket. Look at Zuckerberg who was able to do many rounds of funding while maintaining total board voting control.
I don't mind. There are probably more fascinating or relevant life stories than mine but here it goes :

I should mention that I am trying to sum up as best as I can but I don't want to give the impression that I am resentful against my parents. They did what they thought was best.

I was raised in the countryside. My parents were able to have me avoid going to the nearest school (IIRC one the main teacher was alcoholic) and make me go to one slightly farther (30 minutes by foot).

My mom was a stay at home mom, driving me to school and picking me up for lunch.. I believe it lasted until the end of high school ?

So no kids my age near our house, going anywhere was virtually impossible with pretty dangerous roads all around the house and an overprotective mom, not a lot of time spent socializing at school either.

I do have one sister, but she is a compulsive liar and thief. I am not sure what the medical term would be for her condition would be, if any. I have even caught her lying even about stuff that made no sense to lie about since it was completely uninteresting and did not give her anything to lie about it .. She has also has the need to make everything about herself (except taking responsibility for literally anything). So we are not close at all, and she is one of the reasons why I went far from home as soon as I could.

Oh, I also did not have regular access to a TV while growing up. If I remember correctly I could watch it during the weekends ? I never had one in my room, or a computer for that matter. We did have one family computer I ended up spending a lot of time on. Not on programming though, I only started learning that in my early 20s.

I do remember being extremely bored at school .. I learned my 2 first languages in a large by myself, by reading books. So I don't have a good grasp of tenses. My accent is also pretty terrible in languages I have learned by reading.

I don't think I am near 'genius level' intellect (whatever that means) by any mean, but I could have surely used a different learning structure.. I mostly remember reading tons of books, both at home and at school and half assing everything until after high school.

Soo, as an adult, I believe I am reasonably well adjusted ?
I can be emotionally distant though. Something my girlfriends have often had issues with. Not in a toxic masculinity way of 'men don't cry', but more that it is often pretty hard to know what is on my mind.
I can easily spend lots of time alone too.. I need to make a conscious effort in order to involve myself in group activities and making new friends can be very hard (especially now that I have moved from Europe to San Francisco).

How I am as an adult is an extension of how I was as a kid. It is very hard to distinguish nature and nurture. I do make lots of efforts to correct course on the parts of my personality that I don't know and I think I am becoming less and less socially awkward as time goes on .. It is hard to self evaluate yourself on this though.
No.

Every single time someone gets up and walks around, they are in my line of sight, and the movement distracts me. When people argue or cough or speak, it is distracting. All of that takes me out of Raphael's 'sleeping while being awake' that is when I write my best code.

The alternative is to face away from everyone else, meaning my monitor is visible to everything, which causes my brain to flip out a little bit and makes me feel like I'm being watched over, which isn't good for concentration either.

At my last job, we had a room with desks set up with monitors, and I would usually hide away there -- at least on the days I didn't work from home. Unfortunately I think my manager would look around and assume that I simply was working from home. In my opinion being present at the office is an ancillary issue that is orthogonal to what the company actually wants from me, which is effective communication and well-written code and documentation with good task-execution.
There is a reason why that issue with IIFEs can be hit, and it's because you've omitted some semicolons - granted they are the sort that most people omit.

Since everything in js is a statement the correct semi-colon syntax for the above is

function hasSemicolons() {
console.log('hello world');
};

(function() {
console.log('this is broken, JS will call hasSemicolons()');
})();
What do you mean? They're mostly a retailer aren't they?
Gee I can't imagine why the snapchat ethos of burying undocumented but core features deep within the app until they are unlocked by an errant gesture wouldn't be more popular? Time and time again, I question why I would want to be told how to use an app when I could have so much fun making a game of discovery out of it. Really it's probably for the best that these things are provided only to the most prolific and zealous users though. Maybe some day I will be lucky enough to fall on the right side of the A/B testing line and get the good stuff.
Don't worry, they have tons of old stock to sell..
Bad reviews aren't their problem now, it's that people won't pay an extra $400 for incrementally better performance and a missing-in-action feature set.
I am not getting anything out of building my own pipeline. I am using Pytorch. Do you know something similiar to Google ML Engine for Pytorch where I can upload my model and it will provide an api for inference?
I held the same belief for a long time, but now I think that CSS isn't particularly in general, but can be very hard if a few core concepts are missing.

The main thing that personally made it really hard for me is that I totally forgot about the first thing you learn in CSS: _Cascading_ - Coming from saner languages, the concept that what is written at the bottom of the file has more meaning than what's at the top of the file, or even worse that the file that is included later in the HTML has more meaning (without much scoping, and sometimes unintuitive specificity of selectors), seemed bonkers to me (and still does to some degree). Once I internalized that, that solved 50% of my CSS problems.

Apart from my anecdotal stupidity, one of the best resources I found was "Learn CSS Layout the pedantic way"[0].

[0] http://book.mixu.net/css/
More importantly, remove all of the many loopholes that are used by the very wealthy to prevent themselves from paying tax at all. I would greatly be in favor of a flat tax for everyone earning $30K and above.
Yeah I'm cool with pilot programs.

Just not sure what it tells us if the parent company ... isn't solvent longer term and not sure if that is or isn't the case.
You shouldn’t have to be a power user in order to use an application. There are no clues what do other than trial and error
Or sweaty, depending on your fitness level.
Surely the cost per wafer is more or less the same no matter where you catch it, since you'll end up with a bubble in your manufacturing pipeline of one unit?
Founders vest, VCs dont.
So essentially, we've downsized the busses running through suburbia with much smaller, more flexible vehicles. Seeing this as a failure of public transport is a bit short sighted, if anything I think this is a good evolution. Busses are only more efficient when ridership is medium-high. Busses are not commodity in the way cars are, some places have pretty damn old busses, which spews large amounts of diesel particles.
This is excellent! Thanks for allowing me to play with it!

Did you publish any papers on how you approach intelligent code completion at Kite (the parts you can make public or just rough areas I should look into? I understand you have many emerging competitors). Thanks!
Graft is a funny word. It seems to come from horticulture and means "to join or unite". Then it's used as a synonym for work, especially hard work, which doesn't have an obvious relation to the horticultural use. Then there's the corruption meaning, which is a metaphor of how a parasite forms a union with its host, I presume. So if you're being metaphoric, "graft" can be used for a harmonic union and an abusive union. There aren't a lot of words like that, I think.
> This is actually pretty simple, once you understand how "block" elements work.

I disagree -- in this and every case where someone has told me that something is simple once you understand the fundamentals. Understanding how a tool works is completely different from understanding how to use it to accomplish a particular goal. One's a deconstructive process, and the other is a constructive process.
Except only recently we have seen an instance of access to an API being removed that has broken the build of ZoL, while this one is at worst case a performance regression it does show that the mainline kernel is very much able to breaking ZoL with an API change.

The last paragraph is pretty telling too.

https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=154714516832389
"If you want more of something, subsidize it; if you want less of something, tax it."

If you raise taxes on capital gains you'll get less investment. Maybe that's a good thing.

Either way, I'm in favor of tax simplification in all of its forms; Tax law is like that spaghetti legacy codebase that is just dying for a refactor/rewrite.
Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist, Brad Feld.
> Is CSS an "art" thing?

Certainly![0]

> Is it common for other developers to have issues with it?

Boy howdy it is! Like eight years of discussion[1] on vertically centering text in a div. It's all siegeworks-engineering[2] anyway, so no surprise that we ended up here.

I think at one point in time, poor Doug Crockford suggested actual versioning for things like javascript and CSS. The children shivered as though they had been visited by a ghost! And after brushing the chill aside, returned to our great undertaking of cramming as many different languages into a .js file as humanly possible.

[0] https://www.widewalls.ch/andy-warhol-piss-paintings/

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2939914/how-do-i-vertica...

[2] http://2ality.com/2011/03/javascript-how-it-all-began.html
I used to feel that way until smartphones and laptops became common. Now I'd rather poke at my phone on a bus than sit in traffic in a car.
While its true that this tool can be used for such purposes, the title of the linked article is explicitly targeted: "Cleanup Twitter for the 2020 Elections".
Taxes raise revenue to pay for things, but we've been debt financing on the strength and stability of the country forever, and unlike the oft-cited comparisons to individual households, it doesn't seem like there will be any serious collections from our debt holders both foreign and domestic any time soon. The US deficit in 2019 is going to come pretty close to $1 trillion, but the general outlook seems fine, bond yields are low, etc.

Is there even an incentive at that point to find ways to earn more revenue?
They've posted a whole bunch of Knuth videos on their channel in the past couple of weeks [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/stanfordonline/videos
VRChat usage grows strongly, from 6-8K to 10K+ peak CCU; MAU probably 100-250K
CSS is not hard. Design is hard. Putting a technical barrier between yourself and a decent design makes designing a little harder. But CSS is just obscuring a really tough problem. One thing that makes CSS seem tough is its incompatibility with the design process. A "simple" design change can mean many many lines of CSS or CSS that is simply incompatible with existing CSS/HTML structure. The best CSS writers I've known all have backgrounds in design/art. It's a long term play, but I'd say invest in learning to design. Forget about CSS for a while.
Yeah, I'm British and I thought I knew most Americanism's, but I didn't know this one!
So what if my VPN keeps logs?
This wouldn't bring in too much money and it would just discourage long term investment. The last thing we need is more short term thinking.
That would reduce the capital for companies and / or make it more expensive - know what happens when companies run out of capital "workers" get made redundant.

I don't mean to be harsh but your user name indicates you haven't actually entered the work force yet.
Interesting, I'm Australian and I understood it in the American sense. Haven't ever heard the British meaning used.
It's not necessary for me to own the pipeline. I am just looking for a scalable service where I can upload my model and it will provide me with API for inference which I can use on my website. Have you used any managed services like Algorithmia or Microsoft Azure ML? Do you know any other services I can look into?
Like I said, they do not consider it a crime. Lying to the banks was means to an end--doing business with Iran. Like if you deal drugs, you will also evade taxes.
A layout engine and design are two entirely different concepts.

CSS has nothing to do with design. It is the tool used to implement the design and there are loads of other layout tools out there that don't have CSS's infuriating quirks. On the flip side, they usually have steep learning curves because they are strict.

For a long time, until less than a decade ago, designers knew nothing about CSS. They'd do a design in pictures and their design would be implemented by a programmer.

Some (unlucky) programmers entire job was turning PSDs into HTML and CSS.
Yep, it’s not like that PTO expense isnt an easy thing to calculate into your companies finances.

This is clearly a business trying to extend their runway ever so slightly at the expense of the employee.
Please do not criticize the Gam-i-fied(TM) UI. Discovering core features is so fun! Here is a trophy for your unwavering loyalty!
You're making it sound like this is only of benefit to the city. This makes things more space efficient and for those who might struggle with the expenses of a private car, is gold.
> But the 2017 tax cut legislation reduced the tax rate on corporate profits to 21 percent, from 35 percent. So if taxes on capital gains and dividends were raised by those 14 percentage points, we capitalists would be no worse off — and American companies would still be more competitive globally, the theory behind reducing the corporate tax rate.

Right. So when someone gives a handout to big corporations then we should squeeze the last drop of blood from pension funds and small investors? Brilliant idea for reducing income inequality!

I don't expect wealthy investors to rely on dividend stocks too much. Those are the scraps left from common people after the vultures have already picked the carcass clean.

Also, dividend stocks might be "safe"-er than some other stocks but it's still a relatively risky investment (the markets are crazy). If dividend taxes were 40% percent I would simply not bother. Too risky!

Here's an idea for making life easier for a lot of people:
MAKE RENT DEDUCIBLE FROM SALARY BEFORE TAX
As anything, CSS requires practice. Imagine writing Haskell after having experience only with Python or C — you will probably expect it to be different — and difficult. You will probably want to read a book or two about Haskell, going from the first principles to real-world programs. Starting directly with real-world problems in Haskell will probably leave you frustrated and confused.

Perhaps you were never interested in CSS, and never gave it much thought; but it too has its own basic principles, after learning which it will be easy to say, like you want: "hey, CSS, this is the parent div, and all child divs must obey its size".
This is amazing! I'm doing a deep dive into the code now to see how the extensibility is done.

Some folks here might be interested in Stencila Sheets too (https://stenci.la/blog/2017-08-features-stencila-sheets/, https://stenci.la/blog/introducing-sheets/), https://github.com/stencila/stencila/tree/develop/src/sheet. It's a web-based spreadsheets where cells can execute other programming languages, such as R or Python.

Disclaimer: I know the authors. Even so, it's very interesting tech.
How did you learn how to create this app? I work best with tutorials or books or videos that go through how to build an entire app. Learning individual components is fine but learning how to integrate them is the tough part.
“If we all reacted the same way, we'd be predictable, and there's always more than one way to view a situation... It's simple: overspecialize, and you breed in weakness. It's slow death.”
If Trump's policy on putting tariff gets the support of the politicians elected after him, I guess tariffs will only follow wherever the production shifts to. This is not about only China (for now), this is about breaking the back of competition. Isn't it?
I agree with the sentiment here but would be interested to see what portion of US tax revenue is coming from the same people who are benefiting from the discounted rate for investment earnings. Basically, is the "subsidy" essentially coming from the beneficiaries and ultimately just undermining the progressive tax structure rather than the poor paying to subsidize lower tax rates for the investments of the rich.
Or at a minimum, increase the "long-term capital gains" holding period from 1 year to somewhere around 3 to 5 years. This maintains the lower rate for people genuinely investing for retirement.
I like CSS - it took some time to learn but in the end it's incredibly powerful.
Maybe, but these days you have programming languages/libraries with minimal documentation and underspecced parameters/returns, you have to hunt for examples of use on StackOverflow/Github/etc. and many frameworks/tasks have annoying boilerplates everybody has to type all the time.

Moreover, there are common errors you can avoid if their ranking algorithm discourages code reported/identified as bad.
You've raised millions and you're spitballing monetization ideas on an internet forum?

Look, I'm all for second chances here. The past behavior of this company doesn't concern me as much as the pretty clear lack of strategy around how you plan to make money.

So this is what I've gathered so far (and correct me if I'm wrong on any of this):

- free product (based on the website)

- no serious mention of enterprise pricing or support (based again on the website)

- a promise in your TOS not to collect sensitive data (which almost all companies tend to modify, let's be honest)

- solicitation of monetization ideas on an internet forum by the CEO, having raised millions from VCs

This sounds like a product I'd stay away from if I cared about data collection.

Can you quantify how much money you're saving developers or companies who use this?
I only know about the Google one. Looks like they have added support for scikit-learn, XGBoost, Keras, and TensorFlow (in-beta). So, you might be able to just use it by porting some of your stuff. I'd just run through the examples to see if it'll work for what you want.
I like working from home too. When I absolutely need some fresh air and a change of scenery, I walk to the library through a wooded park behind my neighborhood.

Sometimes, I use a thing called a 'car' and drive to a coffee shop to work. That's only if I am really feeling frisky though and want to get a nice dinner before or after.

The things that really help me:

- Quality wireless headphones
- Putting phone on airplane mode
- A moleskin, Sharpie pens, post-its
- Deleting Facebook, not posting Stories anywhere.
- Only going on Reddit, HN, Twitter for breaks/stuck.
- Drinks lot of water and herbal tea, one cup of coffee.
- Meditate. Write. Breathe. Laugh. Nothing is that serious.
- Take time away for relationships. They are important. lol.
- Not eating too much food, drinking a few times a month, not smoking at all.
I'm not an economist.

I understand the theory that capital gains being taxed at a lower rate is that we want to encourage investment - putting capital where it will grow more jobs/more needs being met by companies.

I also understand the theory that this is nice in theory but isn't describing the actual results.

And while I _believe_ that's a problem, what I don't have is an understanding of the data. Like with HFT, I can react with my gut, but I'd be happier if I could understand a bit more about whether the system is working or not, and if not, where does it bend? What's the equivalent of the Laffer Curve for capital gains?

Are there any explanations that aren't overly preachy of one way or another that can explain to someone without the econ background?
Companies do not create jobs. Consumer demand for products and services creates jobs. As long as the tax structure nourishes a strong middle class we will be a prosperous and stable society, and capital will flow just fine.
I'm still surprised people think their snaps can't be scraped and saved forever.
What makes you think the optimal holding period is around 3 to 5 years?
I always end up having problems using css to do layout, like you mention that it's often a pain to center things. I prefer tables for a lot of things that I'm not "supposed" to use table for because the css methods don't work the same in various browsers, or at all in older ones.

css for markup works fine for me.

A humorous experience for me is when I look up some css concept I can't remember the details and find sites and blogs by css gurus about it, but their site is a total mess, unreadible, with for example letters as large as the screen, all readible text in a div that is off screen, etc, and turns out their blog only renders properly at all when viewed in Chrome. Seems there's lots of css experts that advocate for weird features which only work in one browser.
Genuine question, as I am not well versed in finance:

What else would those with capital do other than invest? That is, it seems like investment is clearly better than holding cash, regardless of the tax rate (with some caveats, e.g. not being in a deflationary economic state).
So tax the poor, and subsidize the rich?
Every once in awhile, one hears about some accident like this one at a single, physical factory, followed by a laundry list of tech companies that are adversely effected. It powerfully demonstrates how awfully centralized microchip production is; individual plants can account for substantial fractions (or even majorities) of entire product categories, which means that individual incidents can have outsized effects. I don't know if that sort of risk has been fully internalized by the tech sector.

For that matter, how specialized is the market for whichever high-purity chemicals were behind this incident? What portion of the semiconductor industry was purchasing from the same supplier? We may not have heard the last of this.