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I, like you, was an experienced developer before I ever used Max, but unlike you, I found Max a pleasure to work in and have always wished I could use something like it for my day to day work. I mean, yes, Max had (maybe still does, been some years) some major limitations that prevented it from being used as a general purpose language and yes, some things are simply easier to express in text, but I loved working in Max. I loved not having to name things until I was done experimenting and knew exactly what it did, I loved visually connecting things together. I'm a heavy user of boxes and lines, usually on paper, to help me think through complex problems and I found that in Max, I could do most of my thinking directly in code, rather than having to doodle on paper.

Yes, Max has (had?) a ton of limitations and gotchas, but I don't feel that they're something that couldn't be fixed. Some day, I'd like to try make something Max-like but with what I saw as problems "fixed", but I've never had the time to do it.

> I also find the freeform spatial layout kind of stressful

For me it was the opposite. I found it liberating. I did make very heavy use of abstracting things into smaller components and making sure my visual code didn't look like spaghetti. I loved how clear the flow of my code became.
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I don't know if that was the case with this guy, just that the schedule OP described is the kind of schedule that a bipolar person might end up with. But the main point is that building a work culture that can handle this kind of schedule from people who really need it (for whatever reason) is a good thing, and there are good reasons beyond mere convenience that a person would work a schedule like this.
I think this is just like those “we reserve the right to refuse service to anyone” signs you see at B&M businesses sometimes. Sure, it’s stating the obvious, but it gives the business owner something to point at when they want to boot someone.
What's wrong with a sports bra? If a woman can go outside and run in public while wearing one, why can't she wear one on a Twitch stream?
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A go (囲碁, not ~lang) master once taught me how to get my subconscious to reveal moves it knew were bad. We played a quick game, cleared the board, and then played the same game over again. The moves I remembered immediately were the right ones. The moves where I hesitated were the wrong ones. He was easily 20 stones better than me but my subconscious knew, at least, every time I made a mistake against him, even in complex situations.

Repetition is under-appreciated today. I think it's something we lost when we gave up typewriters. I'm not saying we should go back to ink and paper in all cases but I do think there is an aspect we're missing out on, like someone whose fitness deteriorates when they start driving everywhere, or who doesn't know where anything is now that they have a GPS-enabled smartphone.
I thought it was more or less axiomatic that sex and death are the two main drivers of all human culture. (Because evolution.)
Because to do creative (product: code/design) work I have to really get uninterrupted streaks of work.

But to do sales, talking to users, I have to do it on the manager's schedule, with the typical slots within a day calendar schedule.
I intend this as a nudge for you to introspect, not as a criticism. I've shared your perspective before, and have found much more satisfaction in looking at my own behavior to understand what of my experiences were true facts, and what were stories that I told myself.

For me, the reality was that my ego needed the boost from my perceived superiority. I had little else in my life that I Was proud of. Looking back, I understand how my behavior was an expression of a great deal of talent plus insecurity.

I've spent a lot of time working on myself, and my career and life satisfaction are significantly higher because of it.
This.

"Manager time" and a set workday are there for reasons. There is no one so brilliant that they don't need to collaborate and in order to collaborate everybody needs to be following the same book of rules.

> I often think about how I could have better allowed his brilliance while not alienating the rest of his team, but in the end I failed.

Expect your brilliant engineer to be in the office during core business hours, and if he can't brook that schedule, fire him.
They do, if you want to skip ads.
Forget the nazi shit for a minute: I doubt a youtube competitor upstart could get away with the sort of flagrant widespread copyright violation that was once common on youtube. Youtube itself got away with that for a few years, but can that stunt be replicated? I doubt it.
Like I said, if the point is just winning the whole thing is absurd. And yes, people can do something for whatever reason they choose. But, if the reason they choose is at odds with the reason the thing exists, then they undermine the thing's existence. At best they are ignorant. At worst they are actively trying to destroy that in which they are participating.
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It's really interesting looking at the evolution and interplay between social network and real life trends around this topic:

1. It's cool to take photos and apply filters (Instagram 1.0)

1a. It's not cool to take photos and apply filters (Cameras get better, filters are over-used)

2. It's cool to take videos and use AR filters (Snapchat/Instagram evolved)

2a. It's not cool to take videos and use AR filters (filters are over-used)

3. It's cool to decorate real world to look like a filter, take unfiltered photos (2d cafes)
Nobody is ever going to get away with the massive open copyright infringement that was so important to the growth of YouTube the first go round.
Implemented notarization for Corona SDK without any problems. Honestly, no idea what the fuss is about.
No, enterprise grade means they have a sales team that can take people out to lunch, and find round about ways to give kickbacks to decision makers. Being kludgy and outmoded is a common side effect, but not a requirement.
Each Burke as a fore and aft mounting point for a point defense system. Flight I and Flight II ships have a 20mm Phalanx system mounted there. Flight IIA ships (which the Dewey is one of) were originally built without point defense guns because they were fitted with the Evolved Sea Sparrow point defense missile system (carried in the vertical launch cells), but the Navy later decided to retrofit a Phalanx turret onto the aft mounting point of the Flight IIA ships. I have no idea why they only felt the need to have the gun on the stern arc.

Presumably if a point defense laser reaches operational status it would be fitted to both PD mounting points.
FWIW in Germany we have PostIdent, which consists of taking a printout to the local post office, showing your ID card and then having the clerk fill out and sign the printout and send it to the organisation you're trying to authenticate with. This is typically done for age restrictions in online delivery services (e.g. being able to order goods marked as 18+ on Amazon -- not signing up for porn sites or stuff like that), for example.

The ID card technically comes with a PIN and there were supposed to be special readers that could be used with a handful of authorized online services to verify your identity but as far as I can tell not much came from that as end users would have needed to buy special hardware and services interested in using that would have required special licensing or something.

That said, SMS is less secure than e-mail, so this seems like an odd choice these days (much like magnetic stripes rather than chip and pin).
Even if you can easily afford it, the pay-to-publish model should be setting off warning bells. Vanity publishing has been a real thing for a very long time, and normally isn't something that people consciously want to be doing.
If you are poor you probably aren't going to start with a Mac.
I'm paying for YouTube premium / YouTube Red to avoid the YouTube inserted ads. I'd much rather pay YouTube and the content producers than watch ads.

I wish this also meant that it avoided the content producer in-video ads. It would be nice if there was a way for content producers to have their own inserted ads (that could be avoided by paying them), so they would stop having in-video ads.
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I don't know who dhh is or if that's even relevant here, but I will say I thought his comments on Twitter were needlessly inflammatory and designed to assemble "Twitter warriors" rather than to actually fix the problem or help his wife.

Calling the card "fucking sexist" doesn't help this situation and it's likely both he and his wife got credit limits that were far above what they needed. The whole situation could have been done in a classy way and still lead to a resolution for his wife.
Are they recovering the fairing again?
> they probably can fit their entirely library in a single server's RAM.

You either vastly underestimate the size of their library, or vastly overestimate the maximum amount of RAM a single server can hold.
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But how would the situation have been different if he'd been underperforming despite working the correct hours? I don't think that would change things, except that it might make it harder to fire him.
Yeah, but what does that have to do with trading? When you create something that physically benefits people/the world, you usually extract your own value (profit) by providing even more value and selling it. When you trade like this, what net value are you providing? It seems like they are just extracting value.

Also, if all the smart minds were doing advanced trading in 1900, would the GDP have risen as much? Instead people were creating aircraft, fighting disease, creating the internet, etc.
Just ignore these people, don't voluntarily enable them to insult/offend you with their zealous idiocy.

I feel like we used to be better at this. There's so much stupidity from the vocal minority getting air time and unwarranted attention now with social media, it's diminished everyone's ability to differentiate the signal from the noise.
> How hard exactly is it to use Firefox instead of Chrome?

I don't understand, you're saying these discussions are useless because anyone can switch to Firefox anytime? But why would anyone decide to switch to Firefox if it weren't for these discussions. This is not something users can experience directly (like bad UX), clearly they need some level of understanding.

And Google taking full control on yet another thing on the web, does sound like a slippery slope to me.
I feel like I'm currently living in a gray area between those two alternatives. I'm US as the lead architect for this project. I've written much of the code, made most of the architectural decisions, and all PRs go through me. The curveball in my situation is that all of my engineer teammates are offshore of varying levels of quality. I don't really have a choice to cut all the fat because I work at a consulting firm but on a unique project where it's a joint ownership between my consulting firm and a client. The project behaves more like long-term internal project work but its the client paying us and our bills. We're incentivized to keep these green offshore guys on the payroll even though their contributions are pretty small. For whatever reason, even though the client knows they submit low-quality work, the client still wants them on the project. We've tried over and over to push the devs critical thinking skills to the level where they can take a prototype and not royally fuck it up, but they just can't seem to meaningfully push through and take ownership of a prototype. It's weird, because I do end up architecting and developing in isolation (which is sweet, honestly) but stakeholders are somehow happy enough with our throughput that they won't shell out for more US senior engineers. I guess the upshot here is that a team is only as flexible and scalable enough as the average level of talent on the team.
Obviously there is a limit to how many apps you can lose without people abandoning your platform. Windows Phone failed largely for that reason, and Mac has historically suffered for its lack of game support. People don't just blindly buy devices, there is a threshold where they care about support.

And also obviously, if literally only one app moved off of Mac, nothing would happen.

So what's the threshold? If Blender stopped supporting Mac, would anyone here reconsider using them as a development platform? If Photoshop dropped Mac, would anyone here notice or make a purchasing decision based on that?

Is it significant that Photoshop is being shipped for iOS now -- do we expect that professionals will take the platform more seriously because of that?
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What if it’s a photo of a montage of collage or authentic images?

It’s artistic manipulation but it’s not fakery.

Maybe they’ll have s table with the hash of all verified images and anything not in there gets auto tagged as unverified/fake.

I think it’s s losing proposition, but let’s see what comes of it. Of course the downside is this benefits incumbents and harms challengers.
There are plenty of mature text-based options for music programming. For example SuperCollider (which also serves as a sound engine for many other front-end languages), Faust, ChucK, RTcmix, Csound (one of the oldest and still widely used & developed), HMSL, Hiroki Nishino's forthcoming microsound-oriented LC language, Paul Batchelor's stack-based Sporth... and on and on. Not to mention many options for using your general purpose language of choice with a music synthesis library, I'm the author of one for python called pippi. Paul Batchelor's C-based SoundPipe library is meant to be embedded. (I'm using parts of it in pippi.)

And so on!

(FWIW Max also has many text-based options like the lower level embedded gen language, and many bridges to higher-level languages like javascript, python, lua for programming at control rate...)
Here are the other sides of that coin, to balance out your utopian vision of management:

- Who has the unchecked authority to blame others for their mistakes?

- Who will take direct credit for the work of others?

- Who's going to write a bad performance review of someone they don't like that much?

It goes both ways!
The Internet Archive seems to manage it. It just focuses on video downloads, as opposed to the VOD with real-time streaming that YT does.

Of course monetization by video creators is left to out-of-band mechanisms, such as crowdfunding via the likes of Kickstarter and Patreon.
You could theoretically have done any of those things, but it really would have sucked.
Not this time, apparently the weather was too bad for the ships to go out.
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An ad to prop up big pharma by suggesting that people cut their opioid use by 75%?

Lets assume that this is an ad to prop up big pharma. Something between 1 of the 2 following extremes happens.

1. Every opioid user takes up meditation, and is able to reduce their opioid use by 75%. This would generally be considered a very good thing, even though it would cost big pharma 75% of their opioid profits.

2. The woman in the article is the only person in the world with this reported success, nothing changes.

Are you suggesting that forces at play are hoping that the second happens, yet all the lawsuits and criminal investigations against opioid manufacturers and distributors will go away, in part due to articles like this, despite the lack of change in numbers?
They do. I pay $10/mo for YouTube Premium and it literally pays for itself because otherwise I’d be watching at least an hour of unskippable ads per month.
Sure, but that's the story for most artists. Doesn't mean everyone's work should be showcased at The Louvre.
I have spent the last 6 years of my life working at ISPs. I know how much this stuff costs. I also moderate several Twitch streams.

I'm happy to give you a phone number to call to get your 10Gbps transit circuit set up at that price, even though I don't work there anymore.
I wonder if youtube-dl works on that network.
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I sometimes pay YouTube $11.99 a month for premium. It replaces the need for an alternative music streaming service, for one thing.
The other night I had my first real case of heartburn due to a poor choice of meal. Unfortunately I had no medication on hand so I just tossed and turned on the bed. I was trying my best to alleviate the pain so I could sleep. I tried to focus away from the pain and for moments it felt like the pain dulled down. I was pondering if this is something that those skilled at mediating can do by reducing the pain just by the mind.
So then why this whole issue related to women? Mary's opinion is that more women on Alberto's team would have been good without any explanation to why. This is an issue with Coaches. In my opinion, if Alberto was a woman, she'd be equally be deluded by her past success, having trained world class athletes and having the prestige of the top program at Nike.

Instead of focusing on the issue at hand, broad strokes across the women's movement do not help (in fact that masks the truth). The issue here is specific knowledge that the coach needs to train a woman. There are male gynecologists and urologists, so this is not an issue with Alberto's sexual orientation or his team mates. This was a good ol' boys club of high profile coaches and teams, when they're given large number of resources (Nike), they'll do anything and everything to be successful.
What about the idea that technology can bring about a post-historical techno-utopia where war would be obsolete?

I mean, technology is a general amplifier, we should choose what to amplify.
I’m curious; that offline model, does it map space as well as their new top of the line models?
Funny, I have polar opposite opinions about those examples. I hate loud music in bars because I love to have deep random conversarions, but the last thing I want in the gym is someone talking to me.
Is it? The reply seems to nail it down.
And at the same time GIMP still not migrated to GTK3...
This might be an unpopular opinion but I always edit while writing my first draft. This is how I've written 250+ technical blog posts and over a million words worth of course notes.

I basically write a couple of sentences or paragraphs, stop, review, reword things if needed, change things around and move on. Then at the very end I'll give it all a final reordering / fixing until I'm happy with it.

I feel like I can't progress to the next chunk of an article until the prior section is 95% edited because what I write next depends on what was previously written.

Does anyone else work like that?
They wanted to, but that was aborted apparently, as per https://twitter.com/SpaceXFleet/status/1193853341475979266 via https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/du07rt/rspacex_star...
Funny, I've invested in a start-up that makes food packs based on that book. They're doing very well, can just about manage their growth.
There are two different groups of anti-war people: 1. People love peace and don't want war, but also they don't understand sometime war might be necessary 2. People who knew that specific war (Iraq war) would have very severe calculable and incalculable consequences that eventually hurt US.

Which group did you belong to?

As contrast let me tell you that they're also 2 groups of people outside of the US who supported the war: 1. Those shares the "values/belief" with US and saw the war would spread democracy and more importantly would deter dictator countries like China, and 2. Those who already knew the action would fail to prove democracy can be applied to any country, would weaken US so the world would be more balanced. History proved the 2nd group are correct.
The Barkley Marathons. It's a 60 hour race of 5 laps through an unmarked course in a Tennessee state park: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barkley_Marathons

There is a good documentary about it called "The Barkley Marathons: The Race that Eats its Young" currently available on Amazon Prime streaming. There are also some smaller pieces on YouTube about some other years.
> Yes. The fairly rigorous requirements from "serverless cloud" are what originally drove us to design a new runtime model, and that new runtime model then drove us to design a new language.

I'm really curious to hear what you saw was missing in Kotlin for serverless cloud that made you go "We need a new language".

I'm trying to be objective here but after having read all the blog entries and the documentation of the language, not only do I see hardly anything that XTC brings that doesn't already exist in Kotlin and Ceylon, and even less so what makes XTC more appropriate for serverless cloud computing than these languages.

Besides, I also think a language priding itself on being designed for serverless computing is going to miss out on a huge chunk of cloud computing: the "serverful" part, which is essential and complementary.