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In B2B lower price only matters when low price is an issue. Stability and the soft costs of business process change are often bigger considerations.

Low cost is often a red flag for both. Tomorrow's price is independent of today's price. And a low cost provider is more likely to go out of business (or raise prices).

Sure, a service costing $1,000,000/month might warrant change from a similar service at $2,000,000/month. But even $100/month versus $1000/month probably isn't worth it for any business where $10,000/year is smaller than rounding error in the annual report.

The exception is when the two services are fungible in the sense that the effort required for switching is mostly adding a new vendor to accounts payable. Where the vast bulk of the work associated with change is in the accounting department and not in operations.

Generally, a better product should usually be higher priced. Part of it is signaling a sustainable business model. A "Going Out of Business Sale" is a consumer product strategy. Part of it is a feedback loop to delivering value. Higher prices require justification. Part of it is filtering out customers who want you to compete with free.

Or to put it another way, if low price doesn't work, get rid of it.

Good luck.
I've been avoiding starting a project myself which will require SFTP. Passing text files around via SFTP is how a lot of the world works. It's still painful to implement this, and makes the transfer of data slow (polling for new files to process etc). This introduces a big delay in any data feedback cycles. Managing users with system accounts is painful too.

This project looks to alleviate a lot of these problems.

It'd be great to be able to register webhooks so that it could send events to external systems. Ideally I'd like to know when a file is created/deleted etc without having to walk directories on the sftp server on a regular basis.
Nit.

Hard Brexit is moving further away from Europe compared to a soft Brexit which would be something like Norway or closer.

What Teresa May was offering was a hard Brexit.

What Boris is proposing is a no deal Brexit

https://fullfact.org/europe/what-is-hard-brexit/
> C++ developer is somewhat comfortable with traditional concurrency toolkit like threads.

As somebody who has used threads a lot and written code in kernel mode etc. something about this scratches me the wrong way.

The traditional concurrency toolkit has some issues. Being experienced with them can make you somewhat jaded against them. In particular, the standard way to solve problems in that mode of thinking is to introduce locks, and experienced people know all the problems that locks have, and that the "solution" is harmful in the extreme.

So it is acceptable for such a programmer to want more options, standardized. I would even argue that this is more important than introducing std::mutex, std::thread, or std::atomic, because you can say that in the pre-C++11 era nonportable interfaces like pthreads or win32 were already working OK for people that chose to use them.
I think the effort to say "look, this guy wasn't evil, he was doing what he thought was right" is totally off course.

Almost no one is intentionally evil. Most people somehow or another justify whatever they are doing as right. I'd imagine most low level nazi party members thought they were making a hard decision to do what was right.

He did what he thought was right and luckily he got killed as opposed to surviving to make contact causing serious damage to the tribe.

He is the embodiment of evil to me, not because he wanted to be evil but because he was too stupid or intellectually dishonest to realize that what he thought was right was deeply damaging to other people. In this sense he puts himself in the company of most horrendous people in history.
Nobody is fretting about “the good kind” of stress, doesn’t really seem like a useful distinction here
The confusion stems from the fact that most people perceive it as a "measure of economic development", while in fact it's political cold war terminology:

First world = US + close allies
Second world = USSR + close allies
Third world = Everybody else
The Matrix must have over shadowed The Thirteenth Floor [1], a remake of that show released the same year. I never heard of it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thirteenth_Floor
VCs aren't going to invest in a product because some top 10 list on a website says so. They probably consider all the projects individually and choose the ones that are the most likely to succeed.

Did you sign a contract with any guarantees? Read the legalize? I bet you it's all in there.
Use the cortana bar to search for control panel settings in Windows 10.

The UX for system settings is still like barf, arbitrarily choosing between two UIs depending on the setting is some shit that wouldn't even fly in desktop Linux in 2019, and was an artifact of the Win8pocalypse which Microsoft later walked back. But searching for settings is still possible.
Yes, there is already a "split roll" initiative on the 2020 ballot. But I guess my point is tautological: those things which are not impossible are being attempted; most of the things are considered impossible.
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I was stressed out for almost five years, due to work and personal tragedies. I was sad and lost my personality. What helped me get back was exercise and meditation. Exercise made me relaxed, and meditation improved my sleep. It was hard, since being depressed means you have no interest to exercise or meditate either.
No one was harmed by any of the things that the author is complaining about.
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Unless you have competitors and they offer (niche) features that you suddenly want as well.
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It’s a fairly major point of contention, and we may not keep it. Note that it’s not a stable feature yet. As pointed out below, it’s this way because it’s basically a convenience into LLVM.
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There are three main hormone replacement pills, depending on your therapy: Estradiol, Premarin, Estratab.

If you look at pictures they come in all kinds of colors depending on dosage

https://www.drugs.com/estradiol-images.html

https://www.drugs.com/premarin-images.html

https://www.drugs.com/estratab-images.html

including blue and red
I laughed at this, so I hope it was intended to be sarcastic.

I know how to do those things, but even so, the thought of doing all that just to get a little side project online gives me a sense of dread. It’s not what I would call fun.
Warm water for sponge electrodes? I can’t imagine water being helpful for gel electrodes.
It depends; Rust is more concise than many languages, but it’s not always that concise. They are in this case because they’re only used once, below the match statement, and are abbreviated forms of the things they’re being assigned to.

Type variables and lifetime names are often only one letter, though.
Frankly, I could never trust the motives behind anyone who made this sort of thing without the most intense scrutiny.

Maybe in the early stages when no one really knows any better, but as things get refined, I have severe doubts that "little tweaks" here and there would not be attempted in search of ways to engineer people\brain matter that agrees with you (the maker/auditor)'s sensibilities.

In fact, scratch that, this reeks of the idea of nerve stapling in the early stages. Hard pass.

Sometimes, it just isn't worth opening the box. Hate coming off as a Luddite, but I've read enough to know where this type of thing inevitably strays into.
Being able to spend the maximum time possible with the ones I love.

This means optimizing my work time so that I make as much as possible, in as little time as possible, and then get back to spending time with my loved ones.

The time horizon is a little tricky: if you optimize for the next 30 days, then you could just quit your job, and spend those 30 days with your loved ones. You might be in a world of hurt after those 30 days, though.

If you optimize for your entire life, you might be tempted to work your tail off for a dozen years, hoping that you can squirrel away enough capital quickly to let you retire altogether with financial security. However, things happen over time - both to you and to your loved ones - and you need to enjoy the time with them while you're all still able to do the things you enjoy. (I've had members of my family become suddenly unable to travel or even leave the house.)
You would think so, no? Yet, the entire US population seems to be fine with the notion that tips go to the restaurant, not the waiter.

Even in this Reservoir Dogs scene, the guy who brings forward the logical arguments is presented as a self-serving asshole who doesn't want to pay tips ( sum is ridiculously small - just 1$; and he wants to tip zero, despite ok service; the rule in most of the world is that you tip something - but far less than 20% - unless you had really bad service). So this entire sketch serves as a way to mock even the logical arguments against the tipping culture in US (what about the McDonalds workers? Is their work any easier? And why - WHY IN THE WORLD - are the restaurants allowed to dip into funds that are specifically designated as "tip, for the waiter"? At the very least, pay them minimum wage PLUS all the tips that they get - there shouldn't even exist a legal option to not do that!)
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Yes, just like how it is possible to firewall a TCP connection.

https://www.cru-inc.com/products/wiebetech/usb-datadiode/
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I'm personally not balding (yet) but did a lot of research before jumping on finasteride as a preventative measure.

A lot of negative feedback is usually coming from individuals that are suffering from hair loss and are no longer able to use these products to recover from their hair loss situation because they missed the train.

Be careful to who you listen online; they usually don't have your best interest in mind when it comes to things like this.
It seems to be following the same path as ECT, LENS, TMS, etc, electric or magnetic stimulation showing improvements in memory, and cognition, especially in those with deficiencies from issues such as severe depression, bipolar, ADD/ADHD, schizophrenia, PTSD, and I want to say TMS helps with autism symptoms too?

In any case, it's purpose is mainly for those with disorders, although I'm sure we'll see plenty of people sell it as a nootropic.

It's worth noting that these improvements from current therapies I mentioned seem to mostly benefit those with disorders and not neurotypical people (don't expect a 40% improvement if you're normal. But if you can't get out of your home because of depression then yeah it might be a bigger improvement)
This is disappointing if true. I found Pioneer to be very helpful with motivation. I am working on a project right now and submitting updates.
It depends.

If you're fully on a professional pipeline (all professional tooling for 3d work), Cryengine can deliver breathtaking stuff. If you're a little more open source geared, Epic is a little better than Unity. Unity behaves like a framework where you buy the rest of the features from the Unity Store.
The article also mentions that he immunized himself against a dozen diseases -- probably in addition to the vaccines that most Americans get in their childhood -- and quarantined himself for a while, too. He was definitely aware of the risk and tried to minimize it. Not sure whether that was enough, though. If the North Sentinelese have been isolated since the end of the last ice age, they could be vulnerable to something that outsiders don't even care about, like our normal gut flora.
I agree with you and wish this was far more common. JetBrains is one company that does it well. They let you download previous versions or upgrade to the latest version if you have an active subscription. If your subscription lapses you can still download older versions of the software from the time you had an active subscription.

I've done both, kept the latest version or rolled back to previous versions when I didn't like the latest changes. So, it's certainly doable, and I wish more companies offered this.
The problem is that fonts (like tunes) can carry their own context with them. But people are very sensitive to music and very insensitive to fonts.

E.g. it is more likely to get an funeral invitation in Comic Sans than to hear the musical equivalent of Comic Sans on a funeral (assuming both was selected by a relative).

People are extremely careless in their use of fonts and don’t think about the additional context their font choice carries to anybody reading. A bit like people who write with capslock on and don’t even think about how this changes how their message is perceived on the other end.

And Comic Sans is the cristalization of that phenomena, precisely because it is so recognizeable: nobody cares if you write all lowercase after all.
What makes this so dramatic is the fact that in the concerto they played first, the pianist is supposed to enter dramatically in the second measure.

The pianist had less than a second to figure out that the orchestra was playing Rachmaninoff instead of Tchaikovsky, and make his big entrance. He didn't react quickly enough, and he missed his entrance. This may have cost him the prize. Afterwards, the organizers offered to let the pianist repeat his performance, but he was too upset to do so.

If it had been the other way around, and the pianist had been expecting Rachmaninoff but the orchestra had played Tchaikovsky first, it would not have been as serious. In Tchaikovsky's first piano concerto, there's a long introduction by the orchestra before the piano enters.
> At best you have someone who is basically an idiot savant. At worst, you have someone who has forgotten basic life functions, but handles being a soldier like the best of them.

From both an industrial and military perspective, this seems like a feature, not a bug.

In fact, it really brings to mind a similar fictional concept, stylized Focus, from Vernon Vinge's Deepness in the Sky. Here, Vinge describes how teams of these "idiot savants", specialized in a certain area, are led by neurotypical managers who direct their output toward broader strategic goals.

If this was repeatably and broadly applicable in human learning, I could definitely imagine this achieving widespread usage, especially in developing countries willing to exchange personal well-being for collective (familial or societal) success.
Yes, very much I would love this. I don't care if it opens slowly, just make it as quiet as possible.

I'd also like exterior blinds that can be lowered to reflect away or otherwise counter the effects of direct sun in summer.
> t doesn't have to do with being stabbed by a tripod, it has to do with a human taking up way more space than they should be

That was not the argument that was put forth.

> does tripping + trains sound like a good idea?

Yes, I've often seen people trip and fly 6 metres through the air in front of a train.

> The better take is, if you don't like the rules you can simply leave.

That's just a silly discussion stopper. As I already said in my previous comment, there are many more possible options than a "strict rule of no tripods". These kind of sites exist for people to enjoy their hobby and heritage, and the smart and empathic course of action is to enable that for as many people as possible, and if that includes tripods, then so be it, and that should be accommodated as best as possible. "Strictly no tripods", finger-wagging, and rulebook-thumping is unconstructive at best.
Well, the point is that what they claim on their website is very deceiving, especially for people outside of SV. I believed them, and I bet other people did. The post aims to explain how it really works.
It definitely depends on druid-shell, but we're also thinking about being a good guest (ie for VST and the like). But honestly our focus is full desktop apps right now.
Sorry I should've explained, warm water helps remove the gel afterwards.

If you ever have a sleep study for example they place them all over your head and it's a little messy, warm water lets it wash right out.
> regardless of how much better it is.

No, the simple truth is it's not better if users hate it. It means it failed to account for existing users and their use cases.
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From their FAQ :

> How will you select the winners?

The final step in the tournament has our experts providing a final review on the top applications, based on leaderboard rankings. After their votes have been applied to the leaderboard, we select the top-scoring players as Pioneers. We're experimenting with the number of winners per-week, so cohorts will vary in size.

So, yes, the leaderboard is manually updated following the "experts" recommandations. It's in the FAQ.
Thank you, glad to hear you enjoy it
If I was a cynic I'd say they seem to be remarkably efficient at doing the things we don't want and much less so the things we do.
> By your logic, you should also avoid Debian then

It's true, I was looking at Debian testing & sid as possibilities but apparently they can't handle mass rebuilds very well and the recommended workaround is to just not update. So rolling distros only for me. (current NixOS)
In that linked comment:

> 2.1) I want to ship something that looks the same on Windows / Linux / MacOS

As a user: No no no, please, no.

I want apps to fit the look, feel, and idioms of the OS I'm currently in, not "look the same" on every OS.

For example. macOS in particular has many builtin features that work in all apps with standard controls. Like text-to-speech, or converting selected text into all-caps, lowercase, or capitalized. Or custom services/scripts built in Automator.

I may not always use these little tricks all the time, but when they fail to work in some app, it immediately feels lower quality, suspicious, and/or suggests a lazy developer.

It's not pleasant to use something that ignores the special features of a platform in favor of the lowest common denominator.
Brutal. Can it really be classified as evil without intention to do harm, though? It seems to me that true evil can only be if the actor knows and intends harm. Classifying ignorance as evil seems disingenuous - ignorance can be not only a symptom of laziness or some other self-imposed decision but also a result of circumstances out of ones control. Being a victim of circumstance does not IMO precipitate being evil.
Programs that manipulate binary files are common vectors for attacks. A malformed file can trick even well-written and well-tested parsers into executing code that they shouldn't, or corrupting aspects of the user's environment.

For example, cvedetails.com, some random website I found from Googling, lists 13 vulnerabilities for Photoshop and 31 for Libreoffice in the last few years.
If you look at the last image in the post, you will see that "expert" votes have little correlation with points.
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I definitely don't want some kind of career progression standard that is shared across companies.

Please work for the government if you crave this much structure.
At least trigraphs have been removed from C++17, so they do what they can to remove ugly constructs within reason for backwards compatibility.
If you use AWS, there's a managed S3 SFTP service. Solves the availability and notification problems.

They way overcharge though. ($300/month)
It depends on whether you have the technical prowess of Jonathan Blow or not? He was able to create game aspects in custom engines that would have been impossible otherwise. E.g. low level sound control in Braid, some amazing use of lighting and reflection in The Witness.
I trust a rational, profit motivated actor much more than one intended to promote an ideology, a personality cult, family and friends of insiders, etc. Personal relationships depend on complicated and fickle social systems such as liking, jealousy, status, piety, taste, sexual attraction, gender roles, etc. Keep that shit out of the food supply. You eat because you provide value to your neighbors, not because the right people on your local committee get good vibes from hanging out. Economic systems should not resemble college fraternities. That’s been tried, and it’s a thousand times worse.
Maybe they're trying for a different audience. If you're one of the greedy slimeballs, finding out that being trustworthy rather than a slimeball can pay might change you a bit. At least, it might change your external behavior in a positive direction.
I find it highly ironic to point out that it was actually Scotland that took over ruling England (James I and all that). It's not our fault he didn't like Edinburgh and decided to move down South.
Because in many cases this is not possible. For example when Twitter added polls no other client than the default one was able to display them. If they kept some older version around they would not have feature parity. Then they introduced threads, these would look weird. Now imagine if they introduced nesting, the database model could change in a way that all older versions would require a substantial update. Maintaining an older version may very well mean maintaining two products and two synced versions of the database. Now you have doubled your engineering cost.
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It was obvious that tattooing was undergoing a change: it was becoming professional and increasingly skilled. The increasing skill of it appalled me, for what should not be done at all is all the worse for being done well.

Well, fuck you too, friend!

We've found ink on the bodies of priests, shamans, warriors and kings going back as far as there have been humans. Both sexes. Nearly any culture you'd care to name.

Why the visceral hate?
Congratulations on launching! I had a similar feeling that there is a missing tool, which will allow to code and see data at the same time. I have started doing some sketches of the app very similar to yours.

In my opinion Spreadsheets and Jupyter have many advantages and disadvantages - by combining both, there can be a nice tool for data science.

It will be nice to add more examples to your app.
That's a great observation. I've had similar thoughts about Windows 8/10 changes and the reaction of their long term users. Incremental does seem to be the best way. People also tolerate dramatic changes well if there's an option to revert to the old ways.

Which is something Microsoft used to do well. Almost every big user-facing change, like the Aero desktop, could be reverted back to "Classic" if the user wanted. Or a feature considered obnoxious could be disabled. Either via the Control Panel, or via a group policy. It's difficult to hate a new feature or UI change if you can simply turn it off. But, with 8 and 10, they switched to a much more restrictive attitude and their reputation took a considerable hit.

This is something Apple is doing well with iOS. Obviously, 6->7 was a disruptive (and controversial) transition. But since then, their incremental approach seems to have worked very well.
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Not open source, sadly.
font editor you say?

hmm, strikes me as a good use of time!

hi ^)^