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> You're talking about software you run locally on your desktop -- that's something quite different.

> > and a wide variety of server software & daemons

Mind, I don't hate Java or anything, I'm just saying, I've been hearing folks tell me it's definitely fast & nimble while watching it not actually be fast or nimble for north of two decades. I don't know where theory and practice diverge, but with significant frequency when it comes to Java, they very noticeably do, and always have. And no, not just on desktop applications, but sure, exceptionally so there.

And god, I'd hope it'd do better than any scripting language whatsoever by practically any performance measure. If not, what's the point? Those are basically never reasonably fast at real work unless they're just tying together C libraries that're doing the heavy lifting.

As for the reference, yes, there are always benchmarks, always papers, always articles, always folks who'll patiently explain why Java must, certainly, be incredibly speedy. Seriously, 20+ years of reading that. Meanwhile when I use Java software it's usually not half as impressive on the performance and respectfulness to hardware fronts as those imply it must be. Again, I am not sure why this is, but it's been so consistently true for so long across so many types of Java program I've used that I don't think I've just managed to somehow use every single one of the worst-written Java programs in existence, or something.
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30x30 would fit comfortably in those cases, so put it on a riser card and only suffer an extra couple of inches of thickness.

Of course the manufacturing price would suffer. I don't see someone making an LSI populated PCB for $25
Also in press freedom and other civil liberties it is easily comparable to European countries, which is fantastic.

There are some social issues where the US remains conservative like attitudes toward nudity and sex as well as religiosity and church attendance and child punishment. There are more displays of nationalism like school children daily saying the pledge etc. More significant issues include the death penalty and mass incarceration. But in fiscal issues, the US is much more conservatives. Even the party on the "left" houses Bloomberg, Bezos and Soros.

Consumer protection is unimaginably weak by European standards as are protections for employees. All the "liberal" media outlets have a center-right market focus. The WSJ is well to the right of Bloomberg Media and the Economist which themselves are firmly free market. Calls for nationalization of industries that Europeans long ago switched to non-profit are unheard of in the States.

Even universal healthcare, which is universally supported by European parties and much of the third world is a non-starter for Republicans and under endless debate by Democrats. Government sponsored housing is no longer even discussed and structures are even demolished. Likewise support for adequate pensions as well as food and housing for the indigent: "Welfare reform" which was a reduction in the social safety net, was embraced by B Clinton who is considered by many in the US to be an extreme liberal.
My experience in brave ads is that I had to opt in to them. I knew how they work (I knew, you, website creator, did not create the notification). I didn't keep the ads on for long as I found them annoying, but i don't feel like brave was forcing me to use them anyway...
It is more than just the age of tailoring vs undergarment making that is the problem. If tailoring was the only issue, we would just tailor women's undergarments and declare success. The real issue is that women's bodies are far more variable than men's bodies. Most garment designing software gets around this by fitting exactly the hardest part of the body and then scaling everything else. Bras are one of the more difficult parts of the body to fit although the hip area (pants) are also difficult to fit for the female form.

Pants actually illustrates the problem in a way that everyone (men as well as women) would understand. You can't just take a few measurements and expect success. You have to know how the measurement is distributed. Is the added inches on the stomach? Is it on the hips? Is it on the posterior? I won't go into the many crotch measurements - but they are also important.
The points you mention against biking to work in my opinion as someone that bikes to work don’t hold. The only problems are too big distances and cultural acceptance which would also lead to more infrastructure like showers at work.
Brave is not even a browser, it is just a rebranded Chrome that advertises itself to users as a "browser" while its main publicity is nothing but an unhinged attack on the very same company that built the browser it's rebranding. On the other hand Firefox IS A browser and Mozilla is a non-profit.
Gerrymandering isn't really the issue. Even in a gerrymandered district, the representative is generally going to do what the majority of people in the district want. If you can convince the majority of the people in the majority of districts, you can get something done.

The biggest "problem" is that neither party is predicted to control the House, Senate and Presidency all at once any time soon, so it almost inherently has to be bipartisan. But the prevailing spirit is not exactly cooperation and good faith, on either side.
We think we invented startups and startup mentality but you can read about how someone like Heinz hustled and did things others didn’t; preservative free ketchup, clear pickled goods. Sounds trivial to us today but in context these ideas were pretty revolutionary.
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Do everything with no framework. Vanilla JS, basic Rails, Basic PHP. Whatever you know the best, use it and build it. Don't get distracted by features. Until you have a working system, you don't need to refactor. Start with one tiny bit and move on from there.
> I feel like I'm behind 'bootcamp grads' because they can actually push deploy real code.

Probably you need to redefine what MVP means. Start with like a hello world app in Vue, and get it deployed to the point that you can show your friends. You want to build a feedback loop as quick as possible, and many tutorials skip that. So get to where you can build deploy and test ASAP, even if the features aren't really there.

Trying to include too many APIs up front is going to lead to a combinatorial explosion of problems. Learn VUE first (maybe a blog project or todo list or whatever is the popular tutorial project these days), then set about learning the Spotify API once you have a chance of knowing whether any given problem you encounter is the fault of spotify, the api, or vue =)
Why do you get bored and quit ?

Start there.
HN still has a general pro-civil liberties, anti-surveillance tech vibe. Snowden was praised here, Palantir denounced. In this past year this stance has led to a rise of anti-China posts. But I'd also characterize HN as getting increasingly more skeptical of libertarian/classical liberal/neoliberal economics as well, and so would have a dim view of utopian seasteading libertarians.
Disclaimer: not associated with brave in any way.

Facts:

1. Brave's tracking degree is little to none, compared to Google/Microsoft(edge).

2. Brave is the only browser that splits ad revenue with the user, and pays creators a higher percentage, compared to the AdSenses of the world. On top of that, brave ads aren't distracting, are generally of high quality and non intrusive to the browsing experience.

I've personally earned more than $50 in aggregate this year using brave, and tipped a 100% of that to sites and content I consume often. Both the creators and I are happy costumers of brave.
That's the expectation with live musicals and part of the reason why people go see them in the first place - it's a unique, evolving experience.

Movies shouldn't be that way - they should have ISBN numbers or something - if you want to re-make it, you shouldn't just be able to erase the original.

We're going to wind up in some terrible place where if you pre-order your movie ticket you can see the Target special edition of Avengers Endgame 8 that is only available in theaters for two weeks before it switches to some other version. Maybe we'll get to the point where movie theaters will just perpetually have the same film on roll and update it every couple of months with the latest patches like an MMO. Remember, your Avengers and Superman subscriptions are different.

This sure makes me feel crotchety.
> to perfect execution

Their retail business is pretty far from perfect. Just a few days ago I got my first obviously fake product that was "sold by Amazon".
Sad to see this downvoted. Balmer moved MS into the cloud defeating IBM and into hardware over Gates' objections. He was imperfect and underrated. Microsoft under Nadella is built on Ballmer's shoulders.
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Plenty of people defer to social parables like Atlas Shrugged or Animal Farm.
And if you're humble then you won't be perceived as confident.

"If you can't tell me why you are better than all of the other 100 applicants, then fuck you. No hire."

Maybe the head of talent and I just have a different idea of what arrogance is.
Maker here. A while ago I wanted to find a journal app that would allow me to type my thoughts and ideas into a stream as if chatting or tweeting. I couldn't find anything. Most current journaling apps are either bloated with irrelevant features or require too much efforts like notifications, answering random questions, multiple taps, too much whitespaces, or forcing you to come up with a title. So I decided to create it using React Native, and V1 was published last year, and had gained a small user base.

ZenJournal 2.0 offers a few unique features other than a single-stream focused interface where you can open and type:

- Unified search and type: you can type '?' into the log entry point and start searching.
- Discreet Mode: you can double tap your logs and it can obfuscate everything so you can comfortably journal in public spaces or show off your past efforts.
- Pull to graph: you can pull from your stream to see a heatmap of your past 100 days.
- Hashtag auto-suggestion. Organize everything using #hashtags and tap to search.

V2 was just made available on iOS App Store today, with Android coming in the following months. Let me know if you have suggestions and feedback. Thank you!
Nice, now we will have distracted drivers watching videos.
Kill me now; before all my bugs are worked out...
True. But most targets give up well before it comes to that.
Apparently the reviews were embargoed so they really were written independently.
Last I checked, Chrome/Chromium didn't have hardware video decoding on Linux by default either.

Has this changed?
Idea for a next project: an fpga that runs Linux, on a business card.
"Use a unique user agent string ..."

Is that really the best option: blocking based on UA header

What do users think about websites that try to tell them what browser to run. There are sites like this one giving "advice" on which browser to use (https://theprivacyguide1.github.io/browsers.html), sites that display messages that tell the user to switch browsers and sites that try to block the user's choice of browser by reading User-Agent headers. Headers are trivial to add/delete/modify

All in the name of online advertising. It is a shame this is what the www (and now the "browser") has become. A medium for delivering ads.
> but every time I start I get overwhelmed with what stack I should use, and how to actually get a ‘real’ application out.

Just start.

If the stack is your problem, just pick one. Any will do. Then just slowly start working towards your goal. There's no shortcut.

And this danger of getting stuck can come up again and again. For example you might be worried that the architecture you chose is bad, and you spend a lot of time making it perfect (which is impossible). Realize that the important thing is creating something, so you should ruthlessly push forward.
a lot of old games rely on clock timing to do game timing.
Modern generations less so, but still people rely on fixed clocks
That’s fair. Too late to edit but skepticism would indeed target the intended sentiment more precisely.

I’d hesitate to suggest that leakers aren’t playing the same game. Requiring leakers to be entirely pure in motive and innocent in expectation would be a false and unfair standard.
Get. Your laws. Out. Of. My. Body.
A local Amazon delivery driver was just found to have been taking the photos then swiping the package. The only reason he was caught was someones Ring doorbell. If anything the package photos are to help Amazon refute claims.

I don't know the pay structure for Amazon drivers, but I would not be surprised that we are giving up "trustworthy" drivers for the cheapest option Amazon can provide at scale. I've heard working at UPS as a driver is a great job long-term for some people perhaps leading to more integrity, but I'm just speculating. Maybe I'm wrong but I trust UPS or FedEx with my packages more than Amazon or their flex drivers.
Is there any other plausible explanation?
The New York Times routinely hides facts and generally ignores relevant viewpoints and context when covering substantial topics.

To pick a random example Injust noticed the other day: how often has the New York Times parroted the Democratic talking point that “Medicare is prohibited by law from negotiating drug prices.” It’s a point that is not only misleading but completely non-sensical. (Medicare doesn’t directly provide prescription drug coverage. Prescription drug coverage is offered by private supplemental plans under Part D, which do negotiate drug prices.) I’m constantly running into stuff like that, where journalists unthinkingly repeat talking points that turn out to be misleading upon deeper inspection.

To use another example, the Washington Post recently had to issue a correction in an article that falsely claimed that education spending in the US has decreased over the last several decades.

Perhaps worse still is the narrative and lack of context. How often did the New York Times mention that Trump’s corporate tax cut would bring us in line with countries like Sweden, France, Canada, and Germany? How often do articles about Warren’s wealth tax proposal mention that Sweden and France recently abandoned theirs? How often do they mention that the biggest difference between taxes in the US and in Europe are not lower taxes on the rich, but vastly lower taxes on the middle class? Does New York Times coverage of education ever mention that school choice, including public funding of religious schools, is common in Europe? Does it ever mention that we spend more than almost any other OECD country per capita on K-12 education? Does it ever mention that abortion is legal to 22 weeks in Georgia but only 14 weeks in France and 12 in Germany? Did the New York Times ever put Trump’s
“anti-Muslim rhetoric” in context by pointing out that Islamic head coverings are illegal in many European countries? (By contrast, when the international context advances its political agenda, the Times happily provides it. How often does the Times invoke the fact that developed European countries all have universal healthcare coverage, or stronger gun control? Apparently, the views of people on the other side of the pond are highly relevant in deciding what kind of health care system to have, but not in deciding what kind of tax system we should have to pay for it.)
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YouTube removes cryptocurrency videos for policy violations
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You could sail to the bay of pirates. There are many merchants there with goods from far-off places; mayhap you will find what you seek.
What Happens When the Internet Gets Less American?
>Either way, what way do you propose that normal citizens get the investigative information needed to participate in a democracy if we don't have journalism?

I think there isn't one, but I also think that average citizens are already not getting the information needed to participate in a democracy from journalists. Almost any politically important issue is inundated with political advocacy that's masquerading as journalism. That isn't to say that there aren't journalists who don't do this, but rather that as an industry, journalism seems to push a lot of questionable content.

There isn't an alternative to journalism, which is why we should be skeptical of it. Regulatory capture happens in the government. A similar problem can appear in journalism, where a journalism organizations can be "caught" by those looking to control the narrative.

I like the way Reuters does things. They seem to be much less biased than almost any of the generally well-known publications. Even then, they might change in the future.
Completely agree.

Your only goal is build then launch. Be 100% focused on this.

Reading and learning will be required, but should be set against a specific task that is part of your product launch goal. You only need to research as much as is necessary to achieve the next task (that gets you closer to launch). Then you move on. Your code doesn't need to be a masterpiece. It just needs to work. You don't know which idea will be a winner, yet, so save the really hard work for the idea that sticks.
Yeah. They are.

I made a comment a while ago about how when IE6 was destroying computers (~2003) I charged a lot of money to fix people computers unless they switched to Firefox. But if they used FF I would help for free. That was the beauty of my plan. I didn't care about money I just hated fixing my families computers. And using FF solved nearly all my problems.

And then a guy said he would go as far as putting the IE icon on FF so people wouldn't have to really do anything different. Ideally they just wouldn't notice.

So now that there is a stupid token I wonder how many installs of brave are actually legit. Seems trivial to just install it on families computers and fake it as Chrome and use your account to collect the tokens.
I am pretty sure McAfee lived in Belize, another English speaking country.
Most of these don't have two sides that are 30cm. The only reason the Apple ][ does is the expansions slots.
Real original smear there - "Brave will get desperate, and start pushing NSFW, and edgy ads."

I like this fake alternate strawnan universe where actual dildos head Brave, where last ditch efforts to save a silicon valley VC funded startup is to push wherever it is you dream they'll push. Because burning everything to the ground is par-for-the-course, for both VCs and entrepreneurs in the valley?

Or - this is classic FUD-ing, backed by exactly zero evidence
>Don't bother with Arduino

I wouldn't say that. Yes the Arduino "libraries" abstract away a lot of the complexities and hinder true understanding. However for a beginner it is a perfect platform simply because of the huge community i.e. tutorials, code and projects. Once they gain confidence from using this, they can move on to "traditional embedded development" by learning to program the underlying AVR directly i.e. use the toolchains installed by the IDE, delete bootloader and upload your program using the ISP interface (see the book; "Make: AVR Programming"). This gives you the best of both worlds using the same development platform. Another advantage is that many other MCU families also provide a "Arduino-like" interface (eg. Energia for MSP430) and thus all the skills learnt on one can be transferred to another.
They're simply ignoring massive rates of fraud in their store so they can profit from it, and have been for... what, over half of their existence, at this point? ("oh but we're trying, no really we are, but it's just soooooo hard" uh how about you shut off the features that enable massive amounts of fraud until you can fix it, then, and if you can't fix it I guess you'll have to leave them off? Oh, right, you're making mountains of money from it, I forgot)

I frankly can't believe the way the operate is anywhere near legal.
Is Social CRM Dead?
IANA graph theorist, but I don't think it works like that. Sounds like his graph G (with ~4^100 nodes, from which the 4^10000 node exponential graph and the counter-exemplary tensor product itself derive) is a bespoke construction. I don't think it's possible in practice to just drop nodes from it and test whether the condition holds for the new tensor product. There are 4^100 ways to remove r = 1 node from an n = 4^100 node graph. Increase r and the number of combinations you'd need to test shoots through the roof. Without some way to shave off (the vast majority of) candidates, the possible solution space seems way too big for brute force search.

Someone with real expertise, please tell me if I'm wrong.
Speculation Abounds Regarding YouTube's Removal of Crypto Content
I wonder if Snowden could have been OK in Cuba, Guyana or Venezuela.
> How do you beat Amazon.com?

Trustworthy product reviews, higher quality products, fewer/zero counterfeits, reliable shipping (based on arrival), and/or secure and convenient pickup at more accessible locations.

Subscription services (StitchFix, BarkBox, etc) and manufacturer direct (Drop.com, there are others) seem to be doing fine without 2day shipping on every product in existence. Probably because their customers are getting good products delivered reliably.
My very limited understanding is that some interstitial language data is used to map between languages, but they are often somewhat "polluted" by the idioms or idiosyncrasies of whichever language you first start with to build it up.

I seem to recall, for example, google translate having difficulty with the word "plane" between two non-english languages, accidentally confusing the word with two meanings from English. This was, iirc, because the internal representation of the words were originally generated by an English dataset, and so airplane in one non-english language became to level wood with a planer in the other non-english language (or something to that effect).

Mandarin / Chinese has a comparatively simpler grammar (no verb conjugation) and no phonetic alphabet with arbitrarily varying phonetic rules, it is also chock full of idioms and homophobes. There is a lot that can be done, but the 80 / 20 rule is in full effect.
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Basically you're an entitled millennial loser. Fuck off out of this profession you lazy little child .
1. Think of a highly desirable role.

2. Visit the website of a company that you would like to work for.

3. Look for a role similar to your highly desirable role.

4. Read the requirements for that job.

5. Learn the skills / technologies listed as requirements for that job.

You don't even need to apply for that job, and you can do this as many times as you want.
The thought of Big Data watching our every move is a bit unnerving
Yes, "signifier" is the right term, thank you.
Yeah the prices were crazy! My first was a 10Mhz AMD 286 clone with 1mb and a 40mb HDD. I recall it being $2600 with a 13” SVGA monitor.
I just ported my 3D engine to Raspberry, the latest (4) has a new, really good GPU! I'm looking forward to something like the compute module for the Raspberry 4 because then the mods community will port it to their handhelds, only problem is power, it uses ~5W so you need a huge battery!