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> The whole point of using Mac hardware is to get Mac software along with it and be able to concentrate on actual work instead of endless fiddling with the system to get it to work.

To some, the point of using a Mac is to be able to develop and test software for Mac hardware using Apple's frameworks, and having to spend 3x the price tag just to get the hardware is something that makes little to no sense.

I mean, where on earth does it make sense to spend over 2k€ for a desktop computer just because you want to have more than 8GB of RAM?
Kickstarter was founded as a public benefit corporation, so they've always been friendly towards social consciousness. Are there any other tech companies that are PBCs or worker co-ops?
Recently bought my first home without an agent on either side.

If you were able to take away the complexities of applying for a mortgage, then the transaction would be as follows: buyer and seller sign a purchase contract(which defines what is being sold, for how much, and under what circumstances), establish escrow, have the property officially assessed for value (for tax purposes), have a title agent validate that the deed to the property is legally the seller's to sell, and finally file the deed with the local recorder's office.

You can pay a lawyer to draft the purchase agreement for you or write one yourself.

To me, its the closing costs and lending instruments that need an overhaul -- but yeah, get rid of the realtors too.
Latency: Project Stream has been in beta since January, and there are a lot of testimonials out there. Other than fighting games and fast pace shooters, the latency seems to be imperceptible, assuming a good connection.

Target audience: Probably people who used to own consoles/gaming rigs, but no longer do for a variety of reasons. The fact that you can play anywhere and on any device (chromecast, phone, laptop), makes it competitive with devices such as Nintendo Switch of Nvidia Shield.
It's one of those things that's fine for many games (especially games were you use a controller) such as rocket league, single player games, etc.

The moment we're talking about CSGO or any decently fast paced shooter and it's a no-go for sure.
The line you quoted isn't discussion, it is stating results. In the article and the paper there is discussion about the differences in education between countries. For example...

(From the article)

> CS departments and CS education in general have a longer history and are much more established in the United States than in China or India especially.

> A lot more is spent per student in the U.S. than in the other three countries.

(From the paper)

> United States have likely similar math and science levels as students in Russia (Implying the difference in CS scores comes from somewhere else)

But the line you quoted was the only "discussion" on the differences in gender in the article. I think there has to be at least something to discuss.Why is the gender gap smallest in China? Why is there a gap at all for people sitting in the same classes? Are there any other metrics (like age?) that had similar differences? Did the size of the gap change when looking at elite institutions?

To be completely fair, there was some discussion in the last paragraph in the paper, but the only hint at what might be causing the difference was that the women in CS aren't high achieving enough. I wouldn't count that as in depth discussion on the cause.

> The gender gap in skills does indicate that more effort is needed to attract higher-achieving female students into CS [...]

Just putting a chart at stating results the end of a paper and an article isn't a discussion. There is a gap between genders about half as large as the gap between countries. Having questions about that doesn't imply a narrative.
Absolutely terrible on the xbox. It seems like the trailers they shove down my throat are playing at explosion-level volume rather than voice-level volume; back to the blaring TV ad problem again. I have to frantically hit the search bar just to have a few moments to take a deep breath and actually think about what I want to watch.
Imagine simply moving all hardware support issues "in-house" or at least trading in all of the pimply teenagers with hardware issues for a single team of engineers working for one of the smartest companies in the world.

The vast majority of your support department can be let go.
It isn't linear, they could have spent less to have a more usable service. Just look at the self inflicted mess that is AirBNB, the front end basically crashes if you type too fast on a slow connection.

The complaint is about forced inefficiencies that Patreon then foists onto its customers. They are balancing their books by upping their fees, not streamlining their business and they can only do this (in the short term) because they have a fairly captive audience.

We are about to see a whole sea of Patreon competitors.
Video files (even live stream HTTP based protocols like HLS) can be cached very easily on CDN infrastructure.

However, a gaming session means to have a dedicated daemon running for you somewhere. I doubt this can be deployed anywhere on the spot, but perhaps they have some amazing technology for that.
I have a strong sense of morality and fairness and want to do the right thing, which is why I love Uber (and Lyft, et al).

A single entity managed to smash apart the corrupt, racist and unaccountable taxi cartels in thousands of cities. No more taxis refusing to pick up dark skinned riders, no more taxis refusing to drive to neighborhoods where those same people live. No more apathetic dispatchers who don't care that the taxi driver was drunk or the car was being driven by someone other than the license holder. No more exploitative cartels bidding up taxi medallions and forcing low-skilled immigrants to work 14 hour days while preventing competition.

Ride sharing apps have fundamentally made the world a better place, especially for women and people of color. I feel far safer taking an Uber in an unfamiliar city than I ever did with the luck of a taxi, both in terms of physical safety and in terms of getting scammed.
The industrialized countries are poor in a special, curious sense: The people are so eager to get financial security that motherhood is neglected. Or, when wives have to go to work for financial security, the country is still poor. In a sense, living in some of the tropical countries is better if only because can get by without heating oil in the winter or an expensive car.

Yes, Black-Scholes etc. have been important, were for a while via "covered call options", or as in the E. Thorpe, Beat the Street -- essentially the same as what Black-Scholes did the math for with a Brownian motion assumption, etc.

I got an interview at Morgan-Stanley, gave a little lecture on my recent work in anomaly detection, indicated that I wanted to work in developing applied math, algorithms, and software for automated trading, but was ignored. They just wanted people to hack code for back office record keeping. The money making was elsewhere in the company and was based on more traditional ideas, e.g., investment banking.

For automated trading, listen to a James Simons remark: Someone walks in and is just convinced that they should short GM and go long the German Mark or some such. Well, that's more traditional stock picking or hedge fund portfolio management, and Simons made clear that his group, no way, would ever do such a thing. Instead, each buy/sell decision was from some data, ideas, analysis, and software already thoroughly tested; when that software said buy/sell, there wasn't much doubt. Well, that's what Simons did. Don't expect many other people on Wall Street ever to have done such a thing -- it's a lot easier to have a gut feel to short GM and go long the Mark.

Lawyers have learned: A working lawyer reports only to another lawyer. Well, math guys need such a rule, but outside of academics and some national security shops, there are nearly no math guys to report to. So, my desire to do applied math, software, etc. for automated trading was just ignored. Once I was invited to lunch in lower Manhattan for a guy claiming to be recruiting for Goldman-Sachs .... There just is no respect for a mathematician on Wall Street, no matter what Obama said.

Other than James Simons, not clear that math made much money for anyone on Wall Street.
Has being in the news as an organizer significantly harmed your job search?
No, because it's random and mostly wrong ramblings.

> Everyone hated Microsoft for selling software.

Not really. They hated it for abusing their monopoly, and for selling a crappy (at the time at least) desktop OS.

> Everyone hated Microsoft for requiring the world value software monetarily.

Not really. Some believed software must be free as in beer and speech, most didn't care. They certainly didn't hate MS for it.

>The nerds hated microsoft for making them pay for an operating system.

Not really. They hated MS for monopoly abuse, a bad OS, too many viruses and security holes, few ways to look under the hood, and fucking forever with IE 6.

>The nerds got their way. They got free everything.

They just got the server. And a lot of the enterprise server is still MS. The desktop is still 90% MS and 10% macOS (with some insignificant Linux percentage). As for mobile it's 40% iOS and 60% Android, which technically it's still OSS, but not in any sense that matters besides the license (nobody cares much, and it's not developed by some community bazaar style, Google calls all the shots, and the good stuff -google apps- are not Open Source).

>And now the OSS worlds is a convoluted mess.

Not really.

>It costs way more to make Ruby on Rails work than just installing IIS and writing some C#.

Yeah, no. If anything RoR is famous for its ease of development. And it costs nothing (besides programmers, which you need in any case), which is why cash-strapped startups prefer RoR and other FOSS solutions over MS.

>Now those who said Microsoft was bullying them are the bullies.

Non sequitur.

>OSS has become more expensive than the Microsoft equivalent.

Non sequitur. OSS is as free as ever (and better than ever).

>No one wants to pay for code at all anymore.

Less want to pay for code, though billions still buy software and pay for services.
From the looks of the Twitter thread pointed out by @ 0xDEFC0DE, looks like the ransonmware was spread by Active Directory group policies, probably by organized crime, as opposed to a random drive-by download infiltrating an entire organization.
$1,500 is pretty good for India. Bangalore is a good choice. Outdoor Activity is pretty accessible .. 3-6 hrs drives. The city is pretty crowded. But, English and vibrant software crowd can make it a good choice.
Let the market decides it.

I would definitely try this on some quirky little games that I love to watch the streamers play, but too lazy to download. If the play could start in minutes, I would try it.
As others have noted, this is because of governments telling developers they can't build, not a lack of developers wanting to build.

And there are other substitute products. You only need one great job at a time, and there are plenty of other markets in the US where one can make a living that under any other circumstances would get everyone telling you to count your blessings and stop whining so much about how you're only upper middle class. There's startup hubs, industry hubs, places that may not be anything in particular but still have plenty of jobs of various types, things closer to nature, places with decent weather (even if SV is the epitome of weather for some people), all sorts of other choices.

Really, if you don't want to "work for a startup" (including starting one), and even then, a rather particular sort of startup, you don't need to be in Silicon Valley. It's an option, yes, and I'm neither surprised some people choose it nor particularly criticizing them. But it's not the only option.
I have long thought crowdfunding is ripe for disruption. We should not need a middleman to send people money over the internet. It can be accomplished via a smart contract and creator listings could be self-hosted (think openbazaar). It could also fix the censorship issue inherit to these platforms.

With Patreon raising prices and now this, maybe someone will crowdfund an alternative.
Embarrassed to say that my wife and I were duped into purchasing tickets to the show. We had thought it would be a highly choreographed, theatrical re-enactment of significant events in pre-Mao China, and had not done any research on it.

Instead, it was horribly amateurish propaganda (the entire "set" was a projected CG image). Heavy-handed plays for sympathy and the demonization of the Chinese state culminated in a spiritual Armageddon where a Christ-like deity leads his followers out of a world-consuming conflagration.

The audience lapped it up (this was Arizona, by the way). There were no misgivings or complaints voiced as we shuffled out of the theater. We felt suckered, and, to this day, share knowing looks of sheepishness and incredulity when we see billboards around the country advertising the show.
You already cant pirate current generation of console games.
So if they succeed, does that mean nobody can work for Kickstarter unless they are part of the union?
Thanks for explaining your experience!

There's a lot of us out here who are curious how this thing works and the design tradeoffs.
Check out reddit.com/r/financialindependence. Plenty of people on the FIRE path with kids.
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That doesn't make much sense. If you buy a 2070 now in a few years the successor 2170 (or whatever) will be more powerful than the current 2080ti and cheaper.

Unless you have unlimited budget I find that buying cheaper cards more often will give you better average performance.
4% is a fairly risky withdrawal rate at such a young age. But also being so young, I'd imagine one or both of them will get the itch to do something that earns more money at some point in the next few decades.
Yeah, that settles the Unicorn vs. buy comparison but is Unicorn better than Bird/Lime in that case?
When I've described my experience with American unions it I hear a lot for Europeans who report their unions are far different than my experience.

The American union tradition / behavior seems quite different than what I hear about elsewhere.

I'm interested in the European systems, but very very wary of the US systems. Too many US unions are really just bureaucracies on their own, emphasize seniority for pay, advancement, and etc, and seem to limit options for workers in terms of flexibility. And to some extent american unions become their own bureaucracy serving the folks embedded in that bureaucracy. Granted for some jobs that probabbly is ok, but for technical things, I'm very wary about flexibility and etc.

My experience with American unions has been highly disappointing and I'm skeptical about their ability to handle a more technical / fast changing world.
Maybe its ok for some infractions to be automated but for things with huge penalties like life-time ban of developer or removing an app that took months of work... there should be a panel of real humans or some kind of human process.
This just made me wonder: what if all of the major OSS companies joined forces, started a new cloud company whose purpose was to send revenue back to all of its underlying OSS projects. Each then promotes that cloud as its #1 recommended cloud, and use their collective visibility to grow that into a contender? One can dream...
I think if we added them up, probably the majority of Google products have failed, no? It’s unusual.
The iPhone search has been driving me crazy as well. Another one that always gets me is pressing a number in the recent calls list just after another call was ended.
Came up at GDC last year.[1] There's Game Workers Unite, but they haven't accomplished much.[2] The biggest success remains The Animation Guild, IATSE local 839.[3] They represent most of the Hollywood studio animators. Much of what their members do is very similar to what game industry employees do.

But they get overtime. From the IATSE contract with Disney:

"... all time worked in excess of eight (8) hours per day or forty (40) hours per week shall be paid at one and one-half (1½) times the hourly rate provided herein for such employee’s classification. Except as otherwise herein provided: Time worked on the employee’s sixth (6th) workday of the workweek shall be paid at one and one-half (1 ½) times the hourly rate provided herein for such employee’s classification. Time worked on the employee’s seventh (7th) workday of the workweek shall be paid at two (2) times the hourly rate provided herein for such employee’s classification."

"Crunch time" gets very expensive for employers.

[1] https://www.polygon.com/2018/3/22/17149822/gdc-2018-igda-rou...
[2] https://www.gameworkersunite.org/
[3] https://animationguild.org/
Only knowing the undergrad version of those topics would not count as knowing them "well" by any reasonable metric.
Poorly spending money is not a good justification for getting more money.
Fair point, although this doesn't need to be implemented in the application code itself. In reality it should be implemented by an HTTP library like this, and any general purpose HTTP library ought to implement HTTP 2 anyway. So it could end up being that by consistently using HTTP 2 across the whole stack, you end up with less complexity. Plus you get the potential performance gains, even if small.
This doesn't offer anything more compelling over using Steam? Excuse me?

At this point I see comments like yours in here (from "games industry" insiders) and I see horse breeders decrying the car. "It takes gas instead of grass, it'll never work!"

Please.
Early on there was a doge marketplace. I participated...right before it was overrun by people selling hacked porn sites...
5-MEO is a powerful drug that will induce seizures at high dosage (exceeding 20mg is not recommended if you aren't well acquainted with DMT style experiences).

Whereas N-N-DMT is like the eastern god (veiled, mysterious, enchanting), 5-MEO is like the western god of Abraham, a blinding flash of light smacking you across the face with righteous fury. N-N can be dosed pretty freely, but 5-MEO is dangerous if dosed inaccurately.

As compared to LSD, the DMT tryptamines are short lasting. LSD only has visual hallucinations at dosages greater than 200mcg and the visual hallucinations are actually quite mild for most people (basically it looks kinda like someone dripped a solution of oil and water onto your eyeball so you get some thin rainbow like effects that trace in lines, or some effect of lines 'breathing'). This is not like the DMT hallucination. Even at very low doses, DMT can provide complete visual cortex replacement even with open eyes. It is not uncommon to see your entire field of view replaced with complex scenes on N-N. On 5-MEO you are just overwhelmed with light.

It is surreal.

I actually don't think there's a lot to be gained from DMT beyond accepting that you understand consciousness less than you think you do and that the level to which our narratives of reality are hallucinations is quite deep. It's easy to believe that we are the only thing that is real and all other things are just our hallucinations (but that narrative really isn't helpful if you're trying to do literally anything that requires more than self, which, let's be real anything beyond masturbation requires interaction beyond the self).

In short, low dosage of LSD is more profound than DMT by a long short, but high dose LSD is deeply confusing. I think a small dose of DMT in either 5-MEO or N-N form is fun, but not profound. If you've never done any kind of psychedelic before, a high dose of MDMA will help you learn more about yourself and your interactions with others than the stronger psychedelics.

Source: 500+ LSD experiences, 300+ DMT experiences, 1500+ hallucinogenic experiences.
This is speculative, but I think you have a real advantage being in a niche community. You say users seem appreciative of your efforts -- let them know who they're appreciating and exactly how they can best show their appreciation! I think a Wikipedia-style open letter or banner as another commenter suggested could really serve you well. If you let your community know, honest and ugly, that you can't continue to do this without support, you might get more traction.
What if the problem with open-source not making money isn't the open-source part, but the money part?

Our current economic system focuses on money as a medium of "equivalent exchange", as in there's no free lunch and a dollar you spend on buying a piece of butter necessarily means you can't spend that same dollar on a gun (same thing for the butter merchant). This exchange is based on a contractual agreement that binds for a finite time, and stuff that happens outside that window is necessarily considered an "externality". In other words, money facilitates a social interaction that prioritizes focus on the costs/benefits of individual(s) involved while de-prioritizing the costs/benefits of the collective at large.

But contributing to open-source is not that sort of social interaction, instead, it's one that prioritizes contributing to the collective over individual gain - i.e. a social interaction that focuses on externalities instead of on contractual time-based exchange. Money, with its focus on being loosely "conserved" (e.g. you can't double-spend the same dollar), is simply not a good medium for encouraging cooperation and discouraging free-riding to open-source (and other public-goods)

In traditional villages, public-goods contributions were facilitated with some combination of reputation and gossip. Later, cities and states managed to come up with taxation, courts, and prison when reputation and gossip failed to scale. But the super-connected capitalist "globopolis" of today demands a new form of organizing cooperation and eliminating free-riding when it comes to public goods.

To properly solve the problem of the economics of open-source, we need to solve this more general organization problem.
Vulkan Best Practices for Mobile Developers
The PS4 is running on FreeBSD and yet, this doesn't seem to have change anything for FreeBSD gaming.
Throw the word blockchain in there and you’ll have a winner :)
There must be serious network effects, if nobody has risen to eat their lunch.

YouTuberLaw was working on a complaint to the FTC. There was allegedly some sort of collusion against their competitor SubscribeStar during a recent controversy, where SubscribeStar suddenly lost their payment processing.

During that event, people were trying to unsubscribe so they could delete their accounts, but Patreon was removing the pages with the unsubscribe control! (Looked like incompetence, not malice to me.) Based on what I've seen Jack Conte and other Patreon people say online, I don't think the officers of the company have very good control over what employees are actually doing. They actively contradict each other at times.
I haven't written C in a bit, so I'm a little confused about the second part of that snippet; is `setalarm` a macro? It doesn't look like a function declaration, as there's no return type, and the presence of `int n;` after `setalarm(n)` makes it seem like it would be shadowing `n` if `n` were a parameter rather than an argument (not to mention the fact that `int n;` is outside of the braces. Given that `setalarm` doesn't seem to be declared/defined anywhere in that file, can anyone who's a bit more familiar with the codebase point out to me what's going on here?
“Apply,”.... is now making Macs wonder what “Apple,” thinks of this?
How does it improve latency? The device it is connected to is already internet connected and there is no meaningful latency between the controller and the device. So how does the on-board wifi help?

Adding wifi to a device for no reason is horrible, I don't suppose it needs explaining.
what are the pros/cons of unionizing? I dont know jack about this