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> I think that Steam monoculture was quite healthy.

It wasn't healthy if you were a developer, and were forking over a monopolistic 'PC game tax' to Valve.

Or if you cared about discovery.

Or if you cared about curation (Steam is full of crap!), or approval of games (Steam won't approve my game!). (These are two extremes of the same problem, and many people have issue with Steam's handling of it - they either want it to be stricter, or less strict.)

Mind you, it's entirely possible that you were perfectly content with all of Steam's positions on this (As well as how capriciously they changed, year, over year... But if you claim that, you stretch my credulity.) However, if you were not 100% satisfied with the state of that storefront, its searchability, discoverability, recommendation engine, curation policies, and refund policies, then it would have been in your best interests, as a consumer, to have multiple competing storefronts.

GoG gave Steam a kick in the ass about a number of its consumer-unfriendly policies. Epic is giving Steam a kick in the ass about its market-gouging 30% tax. The Satan-spawn of Origin, UPlay, GFWL are giving Steam an example of how not to run a storefront. I don't even know what Twitch and Discord are doing.
My company is an example of this, and in a way that is quite different from that laid out in the article. We actually began with a Python implementation for our integration / API server. But this was well before asyncio and eventlet and kestral. It didn't scale well, and we quickly outgrew it.

We implemented its replacement in Elixir, a solution we are still running. It is written by a developer we still have, is well organized, follows proper functional paradigms, and fully leverages OTP/Genserver. It is resilient, and so far as the one two developers we have working in it at present, easy to maintain. We love it.

But we also are switching back to Python. The reason is simple: We only have two Elixir developers (really only 1.5), and we have far more work than they can complete. And when something breaks (usually because something changed in the various systems being integrated), we have one guy who can fix it, and get our production queues flowing again.

We have looked for more Elixir developers. They are rare beasts. But we have a lot of Python developers. And now that we have asyncio/eventlet/etc., the landscape has drastically changed. In Python, the various teams can create their own worker modules, and do so more efficiently because they know their own workloads far better.

Language diversity IS a problem when it impedes development and puts production at risk.
TBH, the only reason I'm upset is because I missed the chance to try it.
I get the sense that most adopted wlroots because Wayland is a complex protocol. There's no alternative to wlroots so part of the reason everybody uses it is because there's no choice if you don't want to start from nothing.
Isn't it part of the problem that left-leaning people consider themselves to have good intentions but consider right-leaning people to have bad intentions? Everyone is the hero of their own narrative.

While I would likely be more aligned politically with you than not, I also understand that there are many on the left that bring an aggression and intolerance to the policing of ideas and discussion that seems of little benefit to the world.

It seems to me we need more advocacy for self-reflection and less for people's individual belief systems.
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I use to work with a friend from high school on a lot of side projects. He was entrepreneur, and I was just a hacker. I'd generally share all my random ideas with him because I just wanted to talk through the idea with someone and he was generally the only person who would be interested at all in any of my ideas. However, he commonly would come back with a google search and saying "It's that just X". He was very focused on how can an idea be monetized, and all I cared about was how I could build it / how it works.

The flip side of that is as soon as I figured something out I moved on, which lead to many half baked projects that I never got to completion. Once I figured out how something worked or how to solve a problem I lost interest in the idea almost completely and moved onto the next thing.

I still haven't completely figured out how to frame thing in a way to avoid this. The best way I know how to do it is to over shoot the idea most of the time. The issue is this doesn't work very well when working within a team.
Step 1) fresh account with a catfish photo of Chinese girl starts following you. No photos yet.

Step 2) After a few months, every photo on the account is of questionable products.

I don't just follow anyone who starts following me now.
I think you are almost there in terms of being prepared; I'd recommend studying the following before tackling Lie groups (if you haven't yet):

-multivariate calculus (any text will do)

-differential geometry (Manfredo DoCarmo's diff. geom. in 3D)

-introduction to topology (Munkres)

Multivariate calculus gives you the language to tackle surfaces in terms of their shape, which is what differential geometry studies.

Topology gives you more language to study surfaces in terms of their structure, and shows you the connection between structure and algebra.

Lie Groups/Algebras connect the shape and algebra, and so need differential geometry, and benefit from understanding of topology.
His stance is literally that using a GUI is harder. That isn't a consequence, it's his core position.
You'd better not.
i came to a similar price point after experiencing an internet service that charged $1 per GB and i found it worth the price.
> Damore's memo did not allege that women at Google or any other company might be less suited

It did though. Damore hedges a bunch, but

>I’m simply stating that the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes and that these differences may explain why we don’t see equal representation of women in tech and leadership.

Can be reduced to

> I’m simply stating that the distribution of [...] abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes and that these differences may explain why we don’t see equal representation of women in tech and leadership.
There's a Kickstarter project for a magnetic compass and protractor set (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1285153000/magcon-the-m...) which looks pretty cool, backed, and shipping in August of this year.

I've seen no less than _FIFTY_ fake sites selling it "today" for the last six months on IG, using the same videos from the Kickstarter. Reporting does nothing. They're all also hugely pumped by bots (most have five digits of comments).
> In other words, we end up with an entropy gradient that points along the TIME axis because the volume of space expands along that axis.

That's a good insight, I hadn't thought of it that way.

> I guess another thing to remember is that TIME and space really are different things. For example, conservation of angular momentum means the universe has constant angular momentum at all times, but not necessarily in all directions of space.

Yes, I realize they are different, but I feel like the issue is more that don't understand the relationship between the special properties of TIME and those of time.
Good point about the users not evangelizing it. Besides being a great tool in and of itself, the community is incredibly helpful and encourage a "use the right tool for the job" philosophy that I found refreshing.
Which most housewives have.
> Right, you set origin to the branch you own

That's surely equivalently complicated as adding a second remote.

Almost every pull request I've made to a project on GitHub has started with a "git clone http://github.com/example/example.git", since they start with bringing down the source code and finding the bug in the project. Sometimes it's something I can fix, so I then need to fork the project on GitHub, add a remote (or replace origin with my fork's location), and make the commits.

That's not too difficult, but it's not easier than sending a diff to a mailing list. If any discussion is necessary, it's easier to keep track of that on GitHub. It's also much easier to see the patch 3 years later, if the maintainer wasn't interested — that's the big feature which makes GitHub (or its competitors) worthwhile to me.

(A long time ago I sent a patch to Git itself to the Git mailing list, and it was about 6 months before it was applied. However, it was applied, so they must have had some way of keeping track.)
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That's a good point. There are so many possible situations where a phone could be "safely" in use while the car is in motion, it would be really hard to use this information against the driver in almost any situation.
Yes, this is all true. However, it's also fair to say that a lot of "green" technologies have been oversold over the past decade or two, with their realistic environmental credentials at the time of use not necessarily living up to either their long-term potential or the hype in the promotional literature. Moreover, some (not all, of course) green advocacy groups are among the worst offenders when it comes to distorting science and cherry-picking evidence to build an argument around their preferred world view.

It is important that we look to the future, and it may be necessary to accept some compromises along the way as we transition to technologies and lifestyle choices that will be better in the long term. No-one is disputing this, at least not in this discussion that I can see. But I don't think this is a perfect-vs-good argument. It's more a good-vs-not-good-yet argument, and trying to move ahead with a technology on a large scale before it's ready isn't necessarily a good option at all. As ever, we should be guided on such matters by robust scientific evidence and strategic long-term planning as much as possible.
Those aren't literally guilds for their trades any more. They're charitable clubs with an historic name. Some try to support some charities that are related to their historic role, but most are focused on things like general education.
Everyone leaves out the fact that current EVs are heavier than their ICE competition. Since road wear is something like to the fourth power of axel weight, the road wear is going to be nearly 3x using a fleet of EVs. The extra concrete and energy needed to maintain roads will negate any saving unless the fleet is made lighter.
Its kinda misleading, there's still animal products in this because of how the food is prepared...
I guess GitHub right now is like Facebook was in 2012, everybody is on it, it's a super vibrant community, it's backed by a huge amount of money, it locks you in (at least with wiki, issues, URLs).

And a second guess is that it will also do what Facebook does, getting out of control by trying to monetize on its monopoly.

It's just so mega ironic that the whole Open Source movement collectively decided that for a little bit of convenience they're more than OK to let Microsoft host their stuff and to sacrifice so much freedom (and especially the URL which does the lock-in to GitHub).
For me, the primary reason to try fasting was to lose weight, or to say it it another way, to lose excess body fat. I was sold on trying fasting after I read Dr. Jason Fung's book called, "The Complete Guide to Fasting".

Over the years, I had my successes and failures trying to maintain a proper body weight with different diets. For me, I found that fasting was the easiest and simplest way to lose and now maintain my weight.
National Velvet was a movie released in 1944 starring a young Elizabeth Taylor and Mickey Rooney. It's about steeplechase, but it won two Oscars and is probably one of the biggest horse girl movies out there. Maybe it helped create the desire some.
There is a big difference between something that gives you pleasure and then create a bad habit and an actual addiction.

What you are doing is the equivalent of saying that it's fine to play video games late because "people are addicted to it". Most people aren't. They simply have deep rooted bad habits. Playing Flappy Bird every time you commute isn't an addiction. Wanting to finish your level before logging off isn't either.

An addiction is when your mind is always focused on the addictive behavior. You have an urge than can never be fulfilled. It's a shifting goalpost because your tolerance increases as you spent more and more time attempting to satisfy the urges. It gets so bad it takes over your life, become more important than your career and family.

Actual gambling, gaming & internet addictions are life breaking. People die from it [1][2][3]. Entire families get broken from addiction. People lose careers over it.

Don't throw the word around haphazardly.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2015/01/19/world/taiwan-gamer-death/inde...

[2] https://www.jacksonville.com/news/crime/2011-02-01/story/jac...

[3] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4137782.stm
Hi,

Could you please delete all my comments from the site?
You said "Either God exist or doesn’t."
This isn't necessarily true.
Depends on kind of business, profit level and size.

A small (sub $1m in annual revenue) services company will typically sell on some multiple of "seller discretionary earnings" - basically; how much cash can the owner operator take out in a year (including their own salary). A "typical" multiple would be 2-4x SDE.

A larger services company will typically sell on some multiple of EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization). The main way this differs from the above is that the owners/CEO salary is not included. Traditionally the multiples here has been 4-6x EBITDA (which is what a "value oriented" private equity fund will seek to pay), but recently there is so much dry powder in the private equity world that those multiple has been pushed up, particularly for technology companies. 6-10x is not unheard of, more is possible.

A product or software (especially SaaS) company might sell on a multiple of gross revenue instead of earnings. Depending on how profitable the company is, this may or may not be a higher value than the above EBITDA multiple. Above a certain size, I would expect a SaaS company to sell for at least 3-4x revenue, more if growth is strong, even more for larger businesses.

In general you'll see multiples go up for a) strategic fits for larger acquirers (eg they can sell your product to their existing customers) b) growth and c) larger revenue companies.

This latter point might be confusing - why would a larger company not only get a higher price because the earnings/revenue is higher, but also get a higher multiple of that revenue? This "multiple expansion" occurs because there are (lots) more available capital to buy larger companies. Smaller companies are riskier and also the transaction and other costs (operating, optimizing) are similar for a $100m vs a $10m deal. There is also more leverage available at better terms for buyers of large companies.
Starting ? China has always been a dictatorship. Now it's also a technologically driven one. Although you could say that materialistic ideologies have always been acutely aware of technical means. See Curzio Malaparte's Technique
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That's probably a good thing overall... I mean neutral reporting and titling of articles. Too much reporting has become editorialized.
The refrain of "but this was done in mice" is the most predictable and least useful feedback you can give someone about their scientific results.

Instead of thinking of the problem, let's start thinking of solutions. For example, can we genetically humanize mice or other mammalian models to more closely resemble human?

Presumably you are not suggesting experimenting on humans to answer basic science questions?
I was in a situation like this. Me and another junior developer had to work under a senior developer who repeatedly had to ask us for guidance, took all the credit for everything we did, and called us morons if we couldn't answer questions that he himself couldn't answer.

The other jr developer actually had a nervous breakdown due to the bullying and had to go on medical leave and the sr. developer eventually quit before he got exposed and went to another company doing the same thing (I know ppl there)

My advice in these situations is to stand up for yourself, DOCUMENT what you are doing and even any back and forth between you two (emails). If it's really bad maybe even set him up to fail by not bailing him out constantly. I was able to get the guy under control by threatening to not hold his hand on certain tasks that he had to complete under deadline, unless he changed his attitude
I've noticed that on a lot of these counterfeit ads, there's now a mess of comments: "Buy this same item cheaper on platform X! Lowest price ever!". Seems not all the counterfeiters want to spring for ads!
Wayland is a simple protocol. The complicated part is everything else, like graphics and input and X11 compatibility.
I was fortunate to go to Cal Poly (Pomona, not SLO) for college. You were allowed to take Equitation classes to satisfy your General Ed requirement. It's definitely a culture.
I assume exceptions, the Error/Either monad, and StatusOr.
Most bosses that retaliate do not view it as retaliation. I know that when I have acted immorally in my own past, I felt justified about it.

It is not true that he stated women are less suited to the job. It is possible that he was implying it. Firing him for something he did not say, but may have implied, is weak. Destroying a person's livelihood for an imagined offense WHILE the company releases a statement that they encourage widespread opinions is even weaker.
It's honest. It's transparent. It's trusting. And it's protected by the law and could easily accounted for during discovery for a lawsuit (not a lawyer, do not play one on tv either).
You’re never more than 150 miles from a Supercharger in the US, and it takes ~30 minutes to fully charge on road trips (which is a fair compromise for never going to the gas station day to day).
Bond was actually the inspiration!
We have an outward facing API that's happening within the next couple of months, but we already have a simple API that we use internally and would love to have you join on - email me at dan@handwrite.io
Dr. Jason Fung and others have written some very compelling arguments for the idea that hormonal imbalance driven by both caloric makeup (too many refined carbs) and too frequent eating (market-driven obsession with snacking) are the underlying hormonal cause of obesity. And yes, we're not all simple machines, "calories in calories out" does not explain the problem.
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It reflects on the suitability of Rust as a systems programming language.
That was exactly my experience too. Programming + standing was neigh impossible.
0 times harder is they bankrupt themselves.
Can you be more specific? Are you referring to cheese? Do they cook the burger in animal fat?
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If you go to 1:51 in the video, you can see the same code on what appears to be an engineer's screen. It seems like it would be a lot of effort (and questionable journalism) to fake that.
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Really not an issue once you learn how to ride and develop the right muscles. It's all in how you sit and learn to move with the horse rather than just reacting.

I admittedly did use a jock strap when I was first getting started, but within a few months I found that I was better off without it. Even riding bareback (Without a saddle) is completely doable once you have the right muscle stamina.
> Some martial arts have some application to self-defense, but I don't think that's the real distinction

Many of the martial artists whom I know began training for purposes of self-defense. Some began as adults, and some were placed in training by their parents after being bullied.

> cycling

That's totally out of the scope of this conversation; I made no claims as to the seriousness with which cycling ought to be treated. I think most sports are given too much credence.

>> It's also exercise

> Aren't those equally true of this hobbyhorse-dressage?

No, not from the gif of a "competition" at the top of the article. It does not appear to contain any serious exertion.

Most sports involve pushing yourself physically. This does not involve such exertion and improvement. If kids want to do it, that's fine (all though still weird as all getout). But I don't think them saying to not "say they are playing" because it "strips away what we've made" is really reasonable. Kids are playing dress-up; it's fine to remind them it's just dress-up. And it's ridiculous to compare it to real sports.
There is a very real scenario for many workers that comes down to this:

a) continue working this horrible job and survive

b) quit working this horrible job and (lose healthcare/don't pay bill xyz/starve/insert outcome here)

My argument is that if survival isn't tied to gainful employment, the nature of work and the market will shift.
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This story very quickly disappeared from the top of the HN front page.

A surge of down votes from bots or state actors? No idea, but it was very fast and that rings alarm bells.
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A Whopper contains mayonnaise, which is made from egg yolk. I assume that's what bifrost meant by "animal products".
Like it matters.
Nor does it help the obese people, of whom we have an increasing number. The causes of obesity are complicated, but at least some of it is due to poor-quality food.

We grow a lot of food, but a lot of the same thing: starch (maize, potatoes, wheat) and meat (beef, chicken, pork). Those were great when the problem was to few calories, but that stopped being the case a long time ago. We still eat as if we were starving.

It would be great if it were easier to encourage farmers to grow a variety of non-starchy vegetables -- including having quick-service restaurants that would serve them. That would take a pretty substantial reconfiguration of the American diet, but it would be better for us.
I like progressive. SJW is only used (in what I have seen) by those trying to diminish the value of the work and sacrifice that others have made. Attempting to lump someone in with a movement for easier criticism of their opinions is never done in good faith.
Hmm, can't see your email or your bio for some reason. Email me at dan@handwrite.io?
It's too big to paint all experiences with one brush.
Provided they didn't mention excluding users from the count I inferred that it was the average of the non-deleted accounts (scientific writing leans towards parsimony).
People like to make this claim because of their diversity efforts. But the fact is, it's the same stuff every other industry went through, including ones that skew conservative (like food service, oil/gas, and Real estate). They went through this stuff in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. It's just hitting the tech industry now.

Anyway, leadership at these places tend to support the status quo, and maybe pay lip-service to a few issues to protect the corporate image. They're arguably the real "centrists" which in the US means a socially-permissive capitalist.
I lost my brother-in-law a few years ago, and it was awkward and painful to continue seeing his name in places like Steam [You both play this game] and other media. I had a damn near heart attack when my father-in-law turned on his computer to collect some things before putting it away, and he auto-signed-in to every service we both used.

I think it will be intriguing to see if this new world of interconnectivity and constant reminders of those who are no longer with us will aid or hinder trauma recovery.
Sounds just like their full time maintainers got busy. May well be able to find another one, or even have a few folks fill in.

I'm actually going to check out perkeep when I get a chance and see if I can't help out some.