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> Except there exist a set of people who enjoy the camaraderie of talking shit with their colleagues in the office while they go about their worker bee lives.

We are working through this right now. Our current office lease is up and the new space is not done yet. We let people also be fully remote, so we decided to go fully remote until the other space is completed. Quite a few people are very unhappy about even this short couple months of being forced remote.
You're actually describing what Rust is doing, more than anything. Swift has a lot more in common with Objective-C than C++, even though it does move away from the most challenging parts of Objective-C itself.
There is Drip which belongs to Kickstarter which is a Public-benefit corporation. They generated a lot of buzz about a year ago but I've never heard of them since then - not sure if they are going anywhere.
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"Dictator's handbook" by Alastair Smith and Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and "Coup d'Etat" by Edward Luttwak. I read them both around the same time, in this order. It changed the way I look at politics in the world. In particular it completely changed the way I perceive a so called "Revolution" that happened in my country when I was a teenager (in 1989, the fell of communism). I had some hunches it was actually a coup, but was never sure. After reading "Coup d'Etat", I know it was indeed a coup (among others, it was listed as such in an appendix).
This brings to mind that recently someone posted in my city's subreddit questions about their visit and where they could park their van. The comments were outrageously unwelcoming and basically forced this person to consider the next city along their trip as the place they should stop. I think what works in one part of the nation doesn't necessarily translate to all of it.
Online cbts like that are mostly honor system and there’s a zillion ways to get around then.
Lot's of people are basically asking why Patreon ever needed $60m VC money and why couldn't it have just emerged into a sustainable little platform for creators. I think the answer is here:

>The new capital will go towards hiring to expand its 80 person team and scaling up growth by recruiting more creators including videographers, political pundits, game developers, illustrators, musicians, and comedians.

Patreon was doing a Netflix. Patreon is a platform and it needs content on it's platform to draw people in. So it used the $60m to bribe creators to sign up. Without that $60m someone else could very easily have created the same platform, bought all the big content creators and squished Patreon over night. It was about establishing their network effect.

Now they've effectively done that, they're the defacto place for this. So now they need to extract value from the position they're in. It makes perfect sense to me. It's not great for consumers - it's basically buying a network effect driven monopoly, but isn't that basically 80% of what silicon valley is doing today?
"An aged man is but a paltry thing"
Glad to see them doing well. Working for a company that legally cannot use services that are not self-hosted can be quite a challenge and Mattermost really is a godsend in that regard.
When you feel that way, it's because your blood sugar is low - your body i quite literally out of fuel. Once you adapt to not constantly providing an easy source of carbohydrates, it will activate other metabolic pathways. That's when you can go for an extended period without food.

If you want a softer landing, I recommend the 16+8 fasting for a week before diving into multi day fasting. You eat at the latest at 20 (8pm), and not until 12 (12am) the next day. It will take some adapting, but it's better than the headache inducing "withdrawals" you'll feel jumping headfirst into 36h fasting.
That's why you bring a small shovel.
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What is the purpose of having this message be via dozens of tweets? Am I the only one that finds this extremely obnoxious? Just write a blog post and summarize it in one tweet.

In any case: the Patreon model seems doomed in the long run, regardless. At some point content hosters themselves (YouTube, Instagram, etc.) will introduce a similar payment support system. Just like Instagram ate Vine’s lunch and entire raison d’être. At that point, exactly what benefits or advantages does Patreon offer?
There was a short-lived TV series with the same name and concept (perhaps based on the movie?) that was actually pretty funny at times.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1593756/
The advantage of pinging IPs is that you don’t have to have a working DNS setup to test your connection. If DNS does work, then your connection probably works, too.
In the UK, at least, you can serve yourself with the app - pick up your item, scan the barcode, pay with Apple Pay, and you're done. Might have to show the on-phone receipt to the door people too but I've only been asked once. Maybe this is why the Quick Checkout counter has gone?

https://www.howtogeek.com/338754/how-to-buy-stuff-at-the-app...
I don't think there's a definition like that anywhere. Only if you define 'amateur' as some who doesn't really know the trade. We should remember that 'amateur' actually means "lover of", i.e. that an amateur is simply someone doing it because they love to (as opposed to "just" because they're paid to do it). It doesn't say anything about the level.
Except that he has been consistently successful over a very long period, unlike, say a Paulson who one could claim got lucky in 2008.
> and some even play music

Sorry to be harsh but if you are unable to have a conversation in a coffee shop its unlikely you will make a good developer, regardless of how well you can code.

You don't have to be a loud-mouthed extrovert or "heart-and-soul-of-the-party" type but social skills are necessary for most dev jobs.
EVE. Not sure where the "EvE" usage originated, although there is a running joke that it's "Everyone vs Everyone". Also not sure why it's all-caps.

However, generally the name originates in the game's backstory with the "EVE Gate" which was a now-expired wormhole that appeared somewhere in Earth's proximity and lead to "New Eden" which is the cluster where the game takes place.
The thread's title points to a CNBC story by Brandon Gomez. However, the journalism is very light and is missing a lot of context about what CEO Jack Conte is talking about.

However, a better story that Dan Olson linked to (scroll down his twitter feed) is the September 2017 announcement of the $60 million round by Jack Conte himself[0]. In that blog, JC laid out in more detail the new products Patreon was trying to build to increase revenue. Excerpt of the bullet points:

1. Business Infrastructure - Think of this as the back office — the tools, workflows, dashboards, and information that you need to get your business cranking. [...] analytics [...] financials [...]

2. Rewards to Energize Patrons
This is everything you need to entice and keep your patrons, [...] Actual goods, whether digital or physical, like a signed poster or an extra episode [...]

Patreon doesn't want to be just a simple "paypal/stripe" payment middleman that takes a 5% cut of subscribers payments. As a rough analogy, they also want to be a "SalesforceCRM/QuickenAccounting" backoffice and a "Amazon/WooCommerce" for merchandise -- for their creators.
JC is hoping that creators will give up more than 5% (e.g. maybe 30% cut) to pay for those services.

So when people ask "what does Patreon need all that VC money for?", JC basically told you. The question remains if the creators are willing to pay for those extra "value-added" services to manage the creators' backoffice + storefront. (Examples of those "new features".[1])

I think we can assume that the bullet points laid out in JC's blog post roughly match the Powerpoint slides he showed to the VCs to convince them to invest more money. In fact, if you look at their Crunchbase profile[2], you'll notice that in the 3 rounds A & B & C, he had the same VCs repeatedly investing more money: Thrive Captial and Index Ventures in 3 of the rounds. And StartX and Accomplice in 2 out of 3 rounds.

Not only did JC convince a VC to invest more money, he convinced the same VCs multiple times.

Both JC and the investors did not think of Patreon's business as a "simply take 5% cut of payments and that's all we do forever". Maybe they will be proven wrong in expanding the Patreon platform ambitions but I think we can at least see why the $100 million investment doesn't look "illogical" to them.

[0] https://patreonhq.com/new-round-funding-816d5a592477

[1] https://blog.patreon.com/new-membership-features

[2] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/patreon#section-fund...
It isn't a question of patents, it's a question of licensing. VP9 and AV1 patents are licensed under royalty-free terms and free for all use-cases. Royalty-free formats are better for the health of the internet and the computing industry generally. I'll always use royalty-free formats where I can. It's just simpler.
I feel the same way. I spent a good amount of time playing some online games throughout my youth, I still remember playing StarCraft and StarCraft: Brood War. So much fun. Now I don't have time for the free re-make either sadly, or SC2. Becoming an adult sucks. :)

It's either spend the little free time I have coding and sharpening my skills, or goofing off in a virtual reality. To be fair I do play games now and then, but it's not the same as when I was 17 and out of high school.
It's not learned. It happens because other children are cruel, we do not prioritize healthy environment for them, and because there is an enormous pressure from social media from a young age.
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Surprised that 4.2.2.x (Level3) is not on the list --- it's also unfiltered DNS, and run by a company that focuses only on networking.
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Unnecessary fix: check prices in a private browsing window before buying in another.
There is such a thing as information, knowledge, wisdom and finally free will.

Warren Buffet is Warren Buffet because of the way he consumed the information available to him, interpreted it and finally reacted to it.

Certainly, Warren does not control the many factors in the environments he found himself in, factors that was favorable for him to get to where he is today and factors that were obstacles to him. But his chosen actions are his, the paths he took, the burdens, the risks, and the responsibilities.

I would perhaps think of him as wise, not a genius or any such worship nonsense.
> [agile] teams

yes please. git makes merges hard, and rebases are just too hard when you want to maintain a few different releases. without losing too many QALYs. (with git we [would] need to maintain a lot of branches, just to be able to have clean merge requests at the end for each big feature coming up for a release)
People like him, are made by many, many random acts, and of course dedication, around 10.000 hours is need it for be an expert in any field, any. What if "grandfather who was a grocer" was a plumber instead?

I Strongly recommend this book: Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell.

He studies outliers, their family, culture, timing. One of many fun facts is that almost every pro-hockey player in Canada is born in the early's month jan, feb, mar.

Why? they compete versus small children when their are kids, and those months of strength give them advantage, which sent them into better teams, with better coaches and so on..
Information arbitrage is also a factor. Here's an interesting case study using the Jan 3rd $75B Celgene acquisition 'Generating Alpha from Information Arbitrage in the Financial Markets with NLP Datasets: 水涨船高' https://hackernoon.com/profiting-from-information-arbitrage-...
But a great test for “am I getting out to the net” that’s ok to have a low specificity.

So it is not smart to make a lot of decisions based on “ping 1.1” timing out, it is so quick it’s a good first step in trying to debug a network issue.
> It’s amazing to me that it’s not a thing to sleep in your car.

Wait until you hear about beds!
If this works, who will run all the money laundering?

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> Literally the cubicles from Office Space?

I worked in the high cubicles like that once and they were not that bad. A full wrap around desk allowed me to have a PC, Sparc Station, and some test servers in my space. It was fairly quiet, but someone could get your attention by calling your name.
Walter Lippmann warned about a century ago, in his seminal “Liberty and the News.” "Men who have lost their grip upon the relevant facts of their environment are the inevitable victims of agitation and propaganda. The quack, the charlatan, the jingo . . . can flourish only where the audience is deprived of independent access to information"

I no longer agree with this, personally. Politics is not a truth-seeking exercise. It's no science, law or even journalism. It's an allegiance & authority forming exercise. Part of that is forming a supporting narrative but this is more an output than an input. Truth may inform or that narrative, but only somewhat, and so do other things.

You can almost define a "political issue" as one where identity & allegiance shapes opinions more than fact. Imagine most any conflict. Russians & Ukrainians. Israelis and Palestinians, etc. Most people's political position is dictated by their national identity. No facts will convince most Russian nationalists that Ukraine has a moral right to crimea.

When a question is political enough, facts are subservient to opinion. People will engage with facts that support their opinion, not the other way.

In fact, even the terms "facts," "opinion," or "truth" are somewhat misleading. The operative concepts in politics are "identity," "allegiance" and feelings.

(1)identity in this sense: http://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html
The key to me, it seems, would be to evaluate his decision making process as opposed to merely examining the outcome. If the stated rationale used at the outset is validated (repeatedly), then it stands to reason his success is due to more than simply being lucky.

I'm not very familiar with Warren Buffet or the world he operates in, but my understanding is that he does not in fact take particularly risky stakes and explicitly stays away from verticals he's not familiar with. Hence my personal opinion would be that how he "thinks and acts" has directly contributed to his success - but happy to be proven wrong.
One of the greatest things about Warren Buffet is that he wants to share with everybody the techniques for accumulating wealth.

YouTube is loaded with videos in which Buffet explains clearly how to get rich slowly but surely.

He's even got a cartoon series for kids, the Secret Millionaire's Club. (http://www.smckids.com/)

Buffet has figured out how to reliably win the game, he wants everybody to have that ability. He's a good guy.
You are technically correct BUT when founders see that they get better ROI via the investor model, rather than 'sustainable development', it's technically rational to do just that. All it means is that there are probably millions of retirees who'll get stuck with all those losses, because the investment model depends on the greater fool theory, and if I understand how IPOs work, those are mostly retirement funds.
I think it's the modern equivalent of pithy sound bites - it lets people retweet (eg quote) particular parts without any particular effort and allows for infintely scalable promotion of the poster.

That, and blogs are so last-month maaaaaan. Medium's dead, long live twitter.
I think you're projecting. The whole point is reminding yourself that your firewall probably isn't as secure as you think it is, just like everything else in your network. This practice doesn't mean ignoring the simple things, it just means thinking about security holistically, and more importantly: in the context of actually getting crap done. Regardless, anyone who thinks keeping their stuff up to date is some kind of panacea is a fool.
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There are rumours abound that the founder might not be quite as dead as his widow claims. https://futurism.com/growing-suspicion-crypto-ceo-faked-deat...
You can also ping 16843009 and 16777217 -- perhaps less memorable, but if your dot key is broken…
I can't find the quote, but Buffett himself addresses this somewhere by saying that while you can get very lucky in finance, if the lucky ones all come from a particular city (Omaha) with a particular philosophy, something might be up.
Here's another website related to this topic: https://www.mylittlebehemoth.com
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Great, except that we have gone so test crazy 5 year olds are getting homework in the UK and being trained for exams.
You are better off using traceroute to one of these addresses, you should at least get some route outside of your own network.
This concept is essentially the reason why “being able to quickly google the answers to questions” is inferior to “learning, knowing and remembering the answer.” The former treats a piece of information as an independent, context-free item, while the latter allows you to “digest” the information and understand the answer at a deeper level, to the point where it changes the types of questions you ask.

Unfortunately our society doesn’t seem to recognize this and actively encourages not learning certain facts because they are easily googleable.
Only non-cached requests go to a third party. And I don’t think there’s an easy way to prevent this unless you get a hold of all the zone files and copy in bulk.

What’s nice about pi-hole is that you get one request to sites like google.com until the record expires in the cache. If you use 8.8.8.8 as your dns you might end up requesting the same domain name a bunch of times depending on how your client caches and the caching is at 8.8.8.8. So dns will see lots of requests to the same domain.
> most tasks where you have < 1mil rows of data

Now that's quite a generalization... most tasks? If all you're doing is a=b+c then perhaps. I work in HFT and even for trivial data exploration I would never even consider touching Excel; why would I? Even if it's just 100 rows. No thanks. Once you're comfortable with Python / its scientific stack, the exploratory part of data analysis becomes fast and trivial.

What I would like to see is notebooks becoming more IDE-like. This is already happening gradually, e.g. with JupyterLab replacing Jupyter notebooks ([1])

[1] https://jupyterlab.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
The problem with these sort of predictions is that they never include falsifiable criteria, which would render the entire analysis false depending on the outcome. Here's a sample quote:

"It's not going to die overnight, Patreon will still be here in 2020, it'll just be, you know, worse to actually use."

Of course it will be "worse", users tend to complain about every single product change that ever happened. No objective criteria of the worsening are provided. This is the author backtracking: "oh, contrary to what I said in the first tweet, it's not like it would die or anything, but it'll be like "worse", y'know?".
A loss of healthy boundaries. My employer is not a parent, and even if it were, I'm beyond the age where that level of input from a parent is healthy.
Or to put it another way, San Diego property-holders now have more control over what they do with their property than San Diego elected officials.
Not true. You can remain profitable forever, without growing your revenue. For example, a business with 10 million in revenues and 9 million in expenses can exist 'forever'. They don't need to grow their revenue. Of course, if your revenue is not growing, it's a bad sign.
Humans don't make good farm animals. We take years to fully develop and over a decade to reach puberty (almost two decades if you want safer pregnancies). We're omnivorous so feeding us will be more expensive (probably enriched corn/soy based meals) and over many more years. We're also not that big even if we were bred for size -- keeping stocky bulky humans with a good meat to fat ratio, discarding slender ones and fattier ones (unfortunately the same features that made my yoruba ancestors the stallions of the slave trade, would probably make us the wagyu of the Zondor haute cuisine).

The Zondors must really like the taste of human meat if they think it's worth it.

It also wouldn't work because if you have enough humans in one place under harsh conditions, rest assured a rebellion is in order.
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As a native Chinese, I can say with confidence that Xi sounds closer to "she" than "see".
How can outline legally host another website's content?
> Investors are a liability, not a feature.

It isn't fair to make a post identifying a misused phrase, but then turn around and call investors a liability. Investors are a key part of the process.

While I personally agree with you on what a sustainable business model should mean, investors hold the opinion that actually matters (much like a judge's opinion of what is reasonable is more important than the average armchair expert). Someone has to decide what "sustainable" means, and it is best that the person who decides is the one who stumped up the money.
A thought experiment: Say I have a database with 1024 e-mail addresses. I split them in two groups. I send an e-mail to 512 of them saying "tomorrow, IBM is going to go up". To the other 512, I send an e-mail saying "tomorrow, IBM is going to go down". The next day, IBM is up, and I discard from my database the 512 people to whom I've just sent an incorrect stock tip. Then I repeat. I send an e-mail to 256 people saying "tomorrow, Microsoft is going to go up", and so forth. ...at the end of the process I have someone who I've just sent 10 correct stock tips to. -- From the point of view of that person, I have been CONSISTENTLY successful. So that doesn't really mean anything.

Also: There is a saying: You only have to get rich once. It is much easier, if you come into money at one point in your life, to hold on to it, than it is to repeatedly go from zero to hero, since capital has a tendency to create more capital, and a lack of capital has a tendency to prevent you from accumulating any.

I know it goes against the mindset of the American entrepreneurially-minded crowd here. But it's a thought.
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It's not just YouTube. Netflix uses VP9:

https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/more-efficient-mobile-en...

https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/performance-comparison-o...

Twitch uses VP9:

https://blog.twitch.tv/how-does-vp9-deliver-value-for-twitch...

Both Twitch and Netflix will use AV1 in the future.
IP addresses are fundamentally 32 bit numbers. The a.b.c.d format is just for ease of use on humans and as the tip in the sidebar shows has its own shortcuts. But there are several formats that most operating systems support such as decimal, binary, hex, octal:

https://www.abuseipdb.com/tools/ip-address-converter?ip=1.1....
How do you know it's "proper news"?
"The Javascript framework that you worked on 5 years ago is now obsolete"

to be replaced with

"The autosar framework that you worked on 5 years ago is now obsolete"

for automotive at least.
Thanks, I just made an account and will keep an eye on it. Looks small but great and it's sponsored by my favorite password manager "Bitwarden".
Didn't know this was the lingo. Apparently there are related terms that go with it like "egg", "egg-hunt", "omelette", etc. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shellcode