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>From an effort-to-income perspective, macOS isn't worth it.

Apple has introduced Catalyst in Xcode -- this translates iOS apps to macOS, compile once and run on two platforms.

Mac App store has been notirous for not getting as much love as the iOS one but this change might reverse the direction as there will be a lot more apps coming for the Mac App Store now that they can leverage their iOS dev ecosystem.
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Not to mention that anything unpopular will be poorly distributed and harder to access than popular stuff... which kinda defeats the point really. YouTube loves popular stuff because it makes money.
selectively presented or staged for effect rather than representing the typical situations that actually occur in combat

Staged for effect? Typical combat? They're certainly selected for being dramatic or kinetic. As far as being staged, I'm not sure what you mean, perhaps you could clarify. I don't know what typical combat means either. "Typical" small arms engagements in Afghanistan vs. Iraq were quite different.
Apple won't court developers until they start losing apps.

I think we're in a very, very narrow window of time where Apple is not popular enough that dropping them means apps are severely limiting user reach, but is still trying to push itself as a platform where creative things can happen -- a tool for graphic professionals.

I'm cautiously supportive of this move, even though I use a Mac occasionally.
started clicking around and there it went 30 minutes of my time, increasing the lead time of the current task I'm working on. :)

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Let me just place this signpost in the bandwagon's way:

→» Users CAN run un-notarized apps if they WANT TO. «←

You just have to make us trust you as a developer.
Sometimes you'll have much more difficulty with certain items than others. No matter what you do, even after repeated attempts to learn, you just can't get them to stick.

These are "leeches". They burn productive study and review time.

I have a theory that these items have lower adjacency to past experience or knowledge and it's difficult to form mnemonics or other connections. Or they're less novel and don't cause our brain to take interest. That's where all of my leeches lie -- in the realm of things I don't particularly care about.

A good leech management algorithm will back-burner unproductive items so you can focus on the rest of the concept population. There are different types of leeches too -- things you don't get during introduction, or things that you can commit to short term memory but won't stick for long. A good algorithm will identify all of them and block them.
> I think we need a good YouTube alternative.

I said this about Twitter during the days of ubiquitous fail whale pages. The problems are branding and money. One needs to create a brand, and market it effectively. It needs funding to pay for hosting and traffic.

So how does one disrupt YouTube?
> How much should you have to pay for unlimited bandwidth, hosting, downloads, user ratings, reviews, feedback, crash logs, showing up in searches, the chance to get featured, and other features like CloudKit etc.?

As others have already pointed out, I'm talking about the fact that Apple charges $100/year to make your software runnable on a Mac, regardless of whether you want to use their app store.

> Where did you get that from?

From the blog post that we're all supposedly discussing: "The next reviewer saw the “blue screen of death” art and said that it conflicts with copyright (it’s Microsoft) as well as simulated error not being allowed. So I changed that too. After that it got arbitrarily rejected for another reason… so at this point I changed so much about the game that it wasn’t even my work anymore. It didn’t reflect any of the things that were important to my work. Simulated error, glitch art, brokeness, historic UI’s are deeply important to me because they reflect a computer history. None of that was allowed. I had to change my games."

> How is that different from Steam, Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony not allowing certain types of content on their platforms?

Steam is a free service that doesn't prevent me from running non-Steam software on my computer.

As for your other examples, I don't think it's different. I think restrictions on user freedom are made worse, not better, by the fact that lots of companies are engaging in them.
War being quick, cheap, with victory almost guaranteed has been the justification for every major conflict for hundreds of years. You never know when a "quick strike" will lead to a bloody destructive costly war that lasts a generation.
This is one of the areas where the system is heavily weighted against some female athletes. Phelps has a genetic thing that means his blood is more efficient at carrying oxygen and he is called lucky and lauded for his (still impressive) efforts anyway. A woman who naturally produces more testosterone than the normal range is either not permitted to compete or has to be "drugged down" to do so.
It blows my mind how much RenTech does with some ~300 employees. I recently had a phone screen with them (no offer otherwise I wouldn’t be writing this) and all of my communication was with this MIT math PhD. No HR, just the PhD.

Compare them with a Big N that has 10,000s of SWE’s. It’s a safe assumption that each engineer is individually less talented but even so, how do they iterate/experiment with such few employees?
I'm not sure "get better at handling interruptions" is possible. If I'm juggling a dozen ideas in my head and am interrupted, that tower is going to crumble regardless. If you're suggesting I rebuild my methods of developing from the ground up to avoid that mindset, that's a huge ask. I'm not convinced it's even possible. I'm able to muddle through a task with regular interruptions, but I'll be more likely to make mistakes and it will take longer. There's a world of difference between what I accomplish in an "office" day vs a "coding" day.

I think the article has it right. Dedicate some "office hours" to being interrupted, but recognize that some people are far more productive during long uninterrupted periods.
After the spamming-emotes-got-your-gmail-deleted controversy, which is absolutely outrageous and indefensible, I've heard a lot of people interested in doing this.

I'm also very close to making some sort of self-hosted Twitch type thing. A lot of streamers are getting caught up in Twitch's bullshit policies. Someone I follow wore their workout clothes on stream after they finished a workout and wanted to make their normal stream time. Twitch banned her for 30 days because that's supposedly inappropriate. I think it's time to cut them out of the loop and make streaming decentralized. The type of bandwidth and compute power you need to distribute 5Mbps video to a couple thousand viewers is easily in the reach of individuals now. (10Gbps connections to the Internet can be had on the order of $1000.)

All you need is some software to run it all and a standard way of paying the streamers across the decentralized network. Probably a good application for cryptocurrency. People are crazy about their favorite streamers, and would probably be willing to learn how to use something other than a credit card to subscribe. Emotes are already decentralized with things like BTTV and FFZ. So it could work. I just don't see how I would personally make any money, so I haven't pursued it much. But the days of requiring some megacorp like Google or Amazon to be able to distribute video are over -- this area is ripe for disruption.

But I think as much as content creators love to hate on their platform, they do love the free audience. A lot of people got their start when "the algorithm" finally recognized them, and they turned their hobby into a day job. I'm not sure it could ever work with a centralized gateway that collects metadata and suggests new creators to users. But maybe it's OK if we put the money and the servers in the hands of the creators, and let discovery be an additional bonus. And maybe running that could be profitable; you get a $1 commission for sending a new subscriber their way.

I dunno, just some random thoughts... but this all sounds more and more reasonable every day. People lost access to their email for chatting in a streamer's chat. That's CRAZY.
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> you need everyone operating on the same page

You're right that people need to be on the same page, but being on the same page should not be 5 scattered 15-minute meetings in a day on top of "Hey did you see my e-mail" and "Hey check this out" and "Hey where is that site you mentioned yesterday".

Real work gets done when people work undisturbed in blocks of time. Meetings should be scheduled such that engineers have large blocks of continuous time. Meetings should be focused on generating action items and establishing the prerequisites for those action items so that further ad hoc requests are minimized.

For example, you might find that 1pm is a good time for meetings because it accommodates all (early/late-shifted) commute schedules, is right after lunch which people need to take a break for anyway, and leaves a continuous block of work time after the meeting until the end of the day. The timing may differ in your work place but you should figure out what works best. Asking your engineers is a good first step.
The problem is response delay. If you need 10 rounds of back and forth to communicate something then your total time is 10*delay. Moreover, at some point people start to forget the context so the total time goes up even more and quality of responses goes down. If it takes 6 hours for a response then you can spend days waiting for a relatively simple point to be hashed out. Especially if there's multiple people whose input you need who are all working at different schedules.
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> for example, thinking of people as having mental health defects

I asked you how you would convince Trump, as an example of a specific individual we both "know". Your answer is to study someone else, to just assume I haven't thought or observed anything, and that I just declare people as evil or deficient because it's easier. I am not a "climate change enthusiast", my identity in this is zero. You might say I think I see the writing on the wall about forcing humanity through the eye of a needle into endless totalitarianism, and hey, I write a lot about that, but if all that just resolved itself, I would be so glad that I could just sing and hum and take nature photographs all day.

That not all of this is based on misunderstandings and able to be resolved peacefully is not a happy insight, but it's what my data points to, if you will. Just take the stories about (not always) elderly relatives being radicalized by some fake news on FB: these may be well meaning people, but they are in the clutches of not so benign people. Confront and overcome those, and then we'll see how much remaining confusion even exists.

Last but not least, if someone gives their child poison because they're either too ignorant or too evil to know better, do you a.) first try to convince them b.) take the child away by force, then explain to them why you did it? What if it is your child? Yes, it's not a clear cut imminent threat with climate change, but we'll get there. It's not just about the people who "have a right to arguments that are sweet to their gums to make them stop destroying our future voluntarily", it's also about the people after them.
> Note that RenTec also runs two other funds that are larger than the Medallion Fund, but both under perform the index.

Citations needed: last time I checked, their outside funds beat the index.

As for your conspiracy theory: their outside funds didn't exist until recently.
I saw other options, but I love how minimal this is. Really.
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It's a pretty meaningless piece of advice if you're not going to be able to pay your rent/mortgage this month because the funding has run out.
The book actually covers this. What they did is somewhat complex and involved obtaining leverage as much as the tax savings but basically they turned short-term capital gains into long-term gains. That saved something like $7bn, iirc, out of the $100bn in net profit they have generated...so it is not significant.
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People don't understand the point of competition is virtue, not winning.

Take the 'winning' mentality to its logical extreme of killing all the competition, and the absurdity of it all becomes obvious.
So, a mathematical/statistical tool which usefully describe a variety of phenomena. I have no issue with that kind of framing.
> I used to live about 1/2 hour away from the nearest branch (Sulzer)

There are 81 branch libraries and you can return a book to any of them (you also can have your book reservations delivered to any branch as well).

Sulzer has something like 5 branches within a 3 miles radius. As you get to the edges of the city, the number of nearby branches decreases (as you would expect). If you have no car and have to pay individually for bus rides, this starts to appear quite burdensome. Actually, having a car might not help so much because few branches have free parking lots.

I frequently drop books off for my kids because I work downtown and can head over at lunch (there is a place to get good cubano sandwiches across the street, so big bonus!). I doubt many people on the south and west sides have that luxury.
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"An account of the “epic human tragedy” that unfolded when Allied troops landed on the shores of Normandy on D-Day"

Stopped reading there. Google:
"By the end of the first day, none of the assault forces had secured their first-day objectives. Allied casualties on June 6 have been estimated at 10,000 killed, wounded, and missing in action: 6,603 Americans, 2,700 British, and 946 Canadians."

10k killed on your worst day? "an epic loss"?

The Soviet Union lost like 15k people. Per day. Over a week, a month, a year, in the end, over 5 years. It was a German-Russian war in Europe and the "Omaha Beach" looks more like a birthday party for children.
There is also a fork in active maintenance:
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It seems to me that Apple is shooting itself in the foot very hard with moves like this. At the end of the day, developers are creating value for your platform. If you treat them like shit, they will leave.

A lot of teenagers who are learning to program right now are definitely not going to be able to pay $100 a year to distribute toy programs they're making for fun. Heck, a lot of adults developers won't pay that. Apple has just made Linux significantly more appealing for all of these people.

I own a MacBook Air at home (and a Linux desktop). I know this will definitely motivate me to go back to a Linux laptop for my next purchase. This move isn't just hostile to users, it's hostile to developers, hostile to the people creating value for the platform.
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There is a gauntlet race somewhere in Appalachian US that only 20 or 30 have ever finished.

It's a 30 hour race through the woods if I recall correctly.

EDIT: I wasn't 100% correct, but this looks like what I was talking about: https://www.outsideonline.com/1924491/60-hours-hell-story-ba...

The actual count is 16 finishers and it is a 60 hour race so I am assuming it is done in legs.
It is probably not the most meaningful thing you can do unless you are positioned to get vendors to adopt your proposal. A proposal without adoption is just paper. I suspect that the largest relevant vendor will be very reluctant to take up any proposal in this direction, which will constrain the amount of impact your idea can have. This isn't a comment on the quality your idea of what HTTP/1.2 should be, just a comment on the likelihood of your ideas being congruent with what's important to Chromium's primary sponsor.
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> The reason why many managers fail to see and address this problem is that they are used to looking at communication and assume it's a good thing. Because they see activity. People are attending meetings, talking to each other, the online presence indicators are bright green. Clearly, a lot of work is happening!

Yes, this. And a similar problem occurs when manager-types try to come up with metrics to measure programmer productivity. Their yardsticks for what constitutes meaningful work, as a manager, cannot simply be translated over to makers.
Let's hope that if I view too many video's as a YouTube Premium subscriber I will at some point get ads. And not that all my Google accounts get terminated.
I mean, pivoting is a thing, it doesn't mean you gave up.
>Almost all competitive athletes at a high level use some type of steroids

Wow. Surprised someone's willing to "go there" so to speak.

Yeah, a lot of these athletes are doping. And, well, let's just say that I think Mary is putting forth a narrative that renders herself in the best light possible. Everyone knows what NOP is about vis-a-vis drug use. Mary knew too, which tells you a lot about her.

But I also think this can be a cautionary tale for young athletes. (Though I'm not naive. I realize that very few will pay it any heed in the run up to Olympic trials.)
Less competition is bad for the entire market, not just power users.
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yep, but you'd still not get much useful if each one is maxed out - maybe a little more?
As long as you're not driven by profit motive you can wait for the audience to find you.
Host it yourself. Back to how the internet was envisaged - a network of peers, not a network of clients and hubs.

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My team has offshore and onshore developers. We get all the downsides of a quirky rockstar who architects things in the middle of the night without any of the benefits of lots of work getting done.
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You need to find out the wavelength of the laser.
Once you know the wavelength you can design a reflective shell around the projectile. Certain ceramics with proper coating are really good in scattering energy and are extremely resistant to heat.
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Thanks for a detailed response, I know this is a sensitive topic.

I was more curious from a new athelete's standpoint. Say, I am 14 years old, and say I want to become a world class athelete. Objectively, how does a new young athelete know if they are being abused or just "working hard"? There is literally no way to know if some authoritative figure as Coach is telling me to do something I don't like.

The central question I have is how does a new comer sense and detect abuse so that they can take action?

There is a lot of bullshit in Sports and Nutrition fields of study - partially because the data just isn't there but also because the lack of scientific method employed by people in this industry. Try searching for help on the internet for a sports related topic and you'll get everything and anything from tabloids full of bogus claims to rarely an linked journal from Johns Hopkins.

Furthermore, we need to also think about this from a Coach's perspective. There are thousands if not hundreds of thousands of coaches around the world. What credentials and authority do they have to make their students do something, especially if there is not scientific or objective backing up the claims? On the other side, Coaches that are now in the business would be completely taken aback and question everything that they do to avoid potential unintended abuse.

I have empathy for abused athletes and it has no place in the society. Just that it is important to understand both sides of the coin and not be riled up by emotions.
>QUIC is a brand-new internet transport protocol

In 1979 QUIC was software (for IBM mainframes IIRC) that produced a printout of lines in lexicographic order with the twist that the words on the line were shifted to eliminate initial noise words. E.g., THE TWO TOWERS appeared in the printout as TWO TOWERS THE (and maybe also appeared as TOWERS THE TWO).
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> mid-five-figures in unit profit

Their most expensive product only costs $3,290.
Interesting to hear the tower recording if that ever happened
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It would seem that our soldiers current experience would be most like that of the British Army soldiers of the late-Victorian era from the Crimean War to the Boer War, when they were largely engaged in policing the colonies of the British Empire in mostly small scale and guerrilla engagements.

Is there a literature from ordinary British soldiers forming "the thin red line"?

Kipling is probably unreliable. "Then it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' Tommy, 'ow's yer soul? / But it's "Thin red line of 'eroes' when the drums begin to roll,"

https://www.poetryloverspage.com/poets/kipling/tommy.html

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, / And the women come out to cut up what remains, / Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains / An' go to your Gawd like a soldier.

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Sadly the internet is a highly privatized place. Entities like YouTube must curate their content at least to the degree that they do not violate law or fail to make a profit. It would be nice if we had the data equivalent of the post office. That is to say, a service that is completely content neutral and bears no legal liability for anything transmitted across it.
Each of those has fixed rules, and each took lots of effort from human researchers to hand-craft and hand-train the models. Not that it isn't impressive, but it's still fundamentally a different thing than general intelligence. I don't think it's just a matter of doing more of the same.