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From the article:

“There were times when you’d be demoing [games] and nothing would be happening; you would just be rendering the video from the perspective of the Kinect on a big TV,” Skillman says. “And then kids would always charge it. That was weird. Kids would just charge the TV.”

That is so true.. I've seen little kids do that so many times. They're not sure what to do so they just decide they better run up to the TV.

Our family made a go of playing with Kinect (XBox One) but we gave up after not too long. All the games/controls were just too buggy overall.

Whatever the Dance game was.. that actually worked OK for the gameplay. Until our kid fell into a coffee table or kicked someone in the you know what. And the actual menus in that game were terrible... really hard to control and you'd give up and go looking for the controller.

Still.. I don't hate the Kinect. I really hate(d) Rock Band and the awful controllers that came with it. What a waste of money on XBox One. I spent more time on the phone with PDP Customer Support than I played the game.
Generating outcomes for the future. I still like my Mozilla Firefox browser more than anything I own. It's the best.
Not the person you're responding to, but my thoughts - Mozilla could be serving a role similar to academia in that doing work that's not profit based allows one to explore more widely. Those results can be shared with the community. Rust is an example and I imagine there are others.
I was trying to find an old article about someone who overclocked either a 486 or a Pentium to hell and gone [edit: with mineral oil and dry ice] so I could speculate on what sort of speed increase one could get from spending a ridiculous amount of time and effort on overclocking.

I didn't find any of what I was looking for, but I stumbled back onto the fact that Cray II's were cooled by running fluorinert over the components and that the NSA was one of their biggest customers at the time.

Whose to say they aren't still using fluorinert on servers?

But I've also heard rumors about TLAs getting access to pre-production versions of consumer chips (eg, when yields are still sad). And who knows what binning is going on at Intel. If I have a really good production run and I get 95 chips that have absolutely zero flaws, who do I sell them to? When you manufacture something you can't guarantee a certain yield to be above your wildest expectations, so would I even create a product number for the unicorns? Do I bin them with 'the best' chips even though I know they're better than the best?

Or do I just find someone with deep pockets who's happy to take whatever I've got, be it 3 or 300?
The person we're talking about is Mitchell Baker, who has spent over 20 years contributing to Mozilla, including years as a volunteer. She has been on Time's 100 most influential people list. She has directly authored many foundational pieces of Mozilla and (arguably) the internet. She is the founding CEO of the Mozilla Corporation, which pays her paycheck from its ~$500M in revenue. Mozilla Corp is the highly-profitable source of the $368 million in Foundation assets that parent cited.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchell_Baker

I understand why people are generally peeved about executive compensation, but this conversation is very rote and this is a particularly flamebait-y framing of it.
I'm average BMI, raised with western desks & toilets. I've got no problems getting the thighs parallel to the ground, for a typical exercise-squat.

But getting the rear any lower than the knees forces my heels off the ground, via ankle resistance (& pain-against-forcing). That puts me on my toes/forefoot/balls-of-foot. I can get quite low that way, but without heels-on-ground and butt-on-calves, the stance is effortful, and thus can't be held for long.

Earnest attempts to force heels-to-ground face resistance from ankle & knee/quadriceps-just-over-knee (but not hips), such that if heels do reach ground, ankle & knee can't flexion enough to keep my center-of-gravity forward, forcing a fall backwards.
> So can a Mozilla licensed browser, the licenses are very similar.

That's the point: competition is necessary. If Mozilla adopts Chromium, there's no competition anymore. Google can afford to make all the choices.

> [...]
> If there was a healthy ecosystem of Chromium-based browsers then one vendor not playing by the rules would have limited impact.

Unless that vendor is also behind ~100% of the development, in which case nobody else gets a meaningful say.
People don't realise that the moral high ground will flood at the same rate as everyone elses property when the sea rises.
I don't think anyone is going to pay $10 just to read that thread.
And wait until you discover the Eskimo languages does not, in fact, have hundreds of words for snow. It's a myth.

http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/~gpullum/EskimoHoax.pdf
> We never got to choose how our economic/productive output is valued or disposed of,

Bastiat said it long ago: men have the tendency to overvalue their own work and diminish the work of others. There is no better system known to man to solve that issue than the free exchange and refusal of services between them.

When someone says that a farmer that can produce food for a thousand people thanks to productivity gains should mean that people eat for free, does he mean the farmer should not get paid, or does he mean that there should be no farmer? Clearly the idea that because productivity is up there is free labor is a fallacy.
> Patreon taking a cut and not allowing adult content.

That's an issue with the payment manager, not the currency used for payment.

> Payment processing and facilitating has tangible expenses (cost) and payment processors do not want to get involved with any companies involved with sordid industries (higher fraud).

I agree completely.

> Patreon adopting crypto cuts out the middleman processor and solves both problems.

I disagree here. Presumably, the assessment that adult content is higher risk is valid, and Patreon would just assume that risk themselves if they didn't involve a third party payment processor, regardless of the currency used for payment.

Is your claim that fraud would be reduced because there's no real way to reverse a crypto transaction at the moment? If so, my stance is that accepting crypto would just open them up to other issues associated with fraud, and wouldn't be worth the effort.

> But crypto ia too user-unfriendly at the moment, so usage would be very limited.

I agree with this as well, which is another reason crypto isn't the solution here.
I always thought after a certain age humans dont need milk as we get the vitamins from our food.
French guy here.

There is a proverb in France that says that to live a happy life, you'd better keep a low profile (not literal translation which would more be to live a happy life, live hidden) "vivons heureux, vivons cachés".

So yes if you own nice things and show it publicly, you'll get annoying comments, have them damaged or stolen. And it is getting worse.

Unlike in Japan, I would not expect a lost wallet to be returned to its owner, never.
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Every sales person I've met knows never to check-in luggage, because it can range anywhere from 15 min to hours before you get bag back. It's just totally unreliable. A distribution of course, probably hanging closer to 15-30 min, but do enough flights and you'll always get bit by that tail..
To be clear, an investment is something that produces a return. Doing green tech at a lose isn't investing, it's just spending.
Yeah, with this idea, people would just clog up right outside the airplane door waiting for their family. Anyone trying to get through would get some angry looks for daring to push through.
What are you using that Edge doesn't support?

We treat Chrome/Safari/Edge/FF all as 1st class browsers and haven't had many problems (aside from Safari lacking U2F and exotic CSS props like motion-path).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Jante
IIRC there are still many large companies using Ruby/Rails still, they've just also diversified their tech stacks (as larger companies tend to do). AFAIK the list includes: GitHub (MS has a few Rails-based acquisitions now), Airbnb, Groupon, Square, Cookpad, Kickstarter, Hulu, etc..
is it just me or is the present tense in this article really distracting?
I will star this and I hope you continue working on it
Cpu usage of chrome is higher on chrome on mobile. Cpu affects battery life more than memory... so firefox is a good choice on mobile.
Superhot worked best of the three for me, but now I have played through... :-/
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There are some specialties that are actively pretty poor financial decisions. Family Medicine and Infectious Diseases are two of them.
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I was in the exact same position as you one year ago. Then I found Hasura (https://hasura.io) and built Nhost (https://nhost.io). While building Nhost I always had Google Firebase in mind regarding how good they are for the developer experience.
But they work on opposing theories.

You're attempting to enact slavery.
Thanks, that makes sense for that quality of apartment.

I'd rather be in SF (but understood).
My guess is that very few "global leaders" are scientists, so based on the headline alone I'm not sure why this survey matters.
> If there's anything they need to axe, it's the Gecko team. Just replace it with V8. The whole layout engine too--replace it with Blink. It is inevitable, so might as well get over with it now and save the wasted human effort and $$$.

And further contribute to the browser monoculture?

> I tried to use Firefox recently. It leaked 28 GiB of RAM on x86_64 GNU/Linux with no extensions except uBlock Origin. Happened a few times over the month whenever I visited JS-heavy websites.

And you've reported this, I assume?

> Never had that happen with Chromium, which runs through megs of JS like butter.

Really? I explicitly avoid Chrome on my computer because it can't handle the web without chewing through my RAM.

> Wouldn't it be nice if an experienced browser dev team maintained a privacy-oriented libre version of Chrome (without manifest v3, sync, and all that trash). Or should they keep doing what they've doing and make the best pro-privacy browser that no one ever uses except indirectly through Tor Browser.

I would like the experienced Mozilla team to continue to work on their pro-privacy browser than a decent number of people use.
They're exactly the same. They sell advertising space on their own websites and get attention by giving away free content and services. Publishers also buy each others tech and advertise on each others sites.

The business models are identical, just with vastly different scales.
@ptrott2017 - i'd love to speak with you about this. please ping me at chris at pathmind dot com if you're open to a conversation.
That's very true in Germany. They do have a lot of freedoms, but they aren't very creative as a society. They fall back on strong adherence to rules and their culture re-enforces it.

See this:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/expatlife/10599631/Why-the...
I don't want to second-guess the marketing team, as I clearly don't know all of the things I'd need to know to do that.

But let me second-guess the marketing team: wouldn't all that money be better spent marketing to potential customers rather than things like SXSW?
TypeScripts pragmatism is indeed its biggest strength. It is very simple to get started with converting a JS codebase into TS. This means there is a _real_ and _practical_ migration path for all the mountains of existing JS. I haven't used Elm but I would assume the cost to convert existing code is much more significant.

But TS then goes further and layers a lot of really nice features on top of the JS underpinnings. Being able to strongly type string-ly typed things are, again, such a useful feature to have for a codebase that interacts with JSON/JS.

All this said, in my experience `Record` is not very heavily used, but is really useful when you do need to reach for it.
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This will depend on the project, as TS can go from very loose to very strict depending on the settings. For a project with all strict settings turned on and casts minimized, then I find refactoring is an absolute breeze. I have successfully done huge refactors that completely worked without any (known) regressions as soon as all the tsc errors are resolved. And your editor combined with the language server drives a lot of the refactoring (similar to Java/C# as you alluded to) To me this is the real killer feature of TS over JS.
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I think Kinect would have been fine if they didn't bundle it with the XBox One.

As in, it would have been a solid niche input device, but most games don't need it or benefit greatly from it, so adding $100 to the price of the console made it bad business.

There is some amazing technology there, but as a gamer it didn't make me want it. It was like VR kinda still is - a very cool niche that hasn't caught on yet.

It's okay for niche products to exist and be profitable if you don't require them to sell millions of units.
I realize from the comments here that I wasn't as clear as I intended. I conflated "employed" with "employed in an integrated system with a health plan." Having an integrated insurance plan run by the provider in theory aligns incentives to keep patients healthy rather than fight over billing.
I don't think you need the sarcasm tag. Most people seem to use it as a drug to get them going in the morning and on through the day. I usually hear people complaining about how they wish they didn't need to drink so much to get through each day. Then again, I live in a region where it is cloudy much of the year, so it does seem to help with the lack of sunlight.
I think we agree in principle, just different understanding of how to count levels. Based on the article, a company with a boss and one employee is two levels ("With only two levels, a boss and those who report to the boss..."). So for 100,000 people, with average 10 employees per manager:

1 Big Boss (Level 1)

10 (Level 2)

100 (Level 3)

1000 (Level 4)

10000 (Level 5)

100000 (Level 6)

That's six levels. In practice, some people will have more than 10 and some less, but unless the people under you are doing menial work, I think 10 is probably middle of the road.
I stopped reading after the first sentence.
All of the Ricon talks by Basho have been lost to the sands of time for this very reason.
> Climate change is reversible in a couple hundred years

That's optimistic. Climate change is potentially reversible, but it would involve large-scale geoengineering or carbon capture that we don't have the technology for yet.

Developing and deploying that currently-nonexistent technology requires a stable, organized society. It's plausible that climate change could cause the breakdown of organized society before we're able to develop technology to reverse it.
Weird comment. I also lived there for many years. Odd that you feel the need to dispute my impression of a place. Says more about you than Toyota-shi.
But ultimately the same problems affect both algorithms in the same way. So the best case algorithm will be slower in the real world, but should still be faster than the other cases.
Mozilla is good at everything except making browsers. rr is the best debugger I've used. I wonder if there's a way for them to monetize Rust. It seems impossible to monetize a programming language without owning a platform e.g. Microsoft (*.NET), Apple (Swift), Borland (Delphi), JetBrains (Kotlin). FirefoxOS for mobile with Rust as the first-class citizen would have been huge for them. Maybe it's not too late. Take note Mozilla.

If there's anything they're going to be in the history books for, it's going to say Rust, not Firefox.
> The browser market in 2020 is 'good enough' for users and developers

Sadly, I agree.

I find it sad because I haven't personally found any modern browser that I'm happy using.
I wonder if they got less (if anything) from the settlement from the Yahoo (Oath) lawsuit than they'd been planning on.
They linked to one study. Here's the method they used:

"We recruited a random sample of Beijing residents age > or =60 years. Subjects answered questions on joint symptoms, and knee radiographs were obtained. Subjects were also asked to recall the average amount of time spent on squatting each day at youth (25 years or so)."

The full text of the paper is unavailable (404) so I can't say whether they controlled for factors such as family income, occupational history, weight issues etc. Relying on people in their 60s to remember how much they used to squat daily 30+ years ago doesn't seem like it will give necessarily accurate or reliable data (though I also can't think of other methods that don't involve time travel).

I think more studies, with better quality data, are needed to definitively state that prolonged squatting leads to knee issues. And in the Western world, many can't even do a full-depth squat, let alone prolonged squatting, so maybe start with that before worrying about knee issues.
I believe the correct title is "The Social Transformation of American Medicine".

Dry as hell, but an insightful book.
You are thinking of a single flight as disconnected from the entire ecosystem - in reality, the gate is occupied, the next flight can't board, cleanup can't take place and probably a half dozen other things I can't think up. And costs go up dramatically if things are already behind.

I'd say deplaning quickly is about as important as boarding.
I'm so sorry to hear that. I know that scenario too well, and I know the pain is unbearable. You learn to keep an impersonal distance with 90% of your patients, just put on a good show, but once in a while you connect, and you see it all over again with fresh eyes and it's so painful.

My interest is in chronic pain management, by way of psychiatry. I have very strong feelings about the way chronic pain is handled, or mishandled. The american approach to pain is incredibly ... uncomfortable with pain. There's an underlying guilt and discomfort that makes physicians very, very uncomfortable, in a way I think very few are willing to honestly admit or engage with. They turn their brains off when it comes to pain, the better to salve their hearts. When the drug companies pushed hard to market "pain as a vital sign," it gave physicians permission to just throw painkillers at patients to shut them up. Now the addiction crisis gives physicians license to just not throw painkillers at anyone. Either way, it's mindless, and patients suffer for it. Heck, even when physicians are thinking about it, the question is always about addiction, malingering, etc. This isn't helped by the fact that addiction and malingering are common, and addicts and malingerers also get sick and also have pain that requires training.

I don't have a good answer for that one. It's just another survival thing. We aren't robots; we can only do so much to retain our sanity in the face of pain. But I am more bothered by pain treated poorly than I am by the mere existence of pain itself. It helps that I'm chronically ill myself, have been in shoes few patients have ever been in, and can meet them heart-to-heart on the topic.

Psychiatry residency in the states is pretty merciful compared to others, either because psychiatrists better appreciate psychological distress in general, or because we're the ones our colleagues come to for help and we're loathe to inflict the same suffering on our trainees. It comes with a decent hit to your bottom line - you give up a fair chunk of income in exchange for retaining your sanity - but I am happy to be able to see my loved ones and remain a human being. I used to think I'd want to do critical care, but seeing how critcare fellowships ate alive people far more resilient than I am... thank goodness I didn't do that.
> and attacks on people's social connections, including noncombatants.

Oh you mean giving terrorists a taste of their own medicine?
I did a lot of trainings and some tutorials during my carrier and was rid of the "classical" presentation style of technical tutorials. I'm talking about:
- moving through the IDE
- talking 90% stuff that 99% of the audience already know
- and not provide a full working MVP or even a working example (beside the traditional customer management UI or todo app)

So wanted to try something else! Play around with presentation techniques.
What do you think guys, is this kind of Tutorial/Demo worth to continue optimising it? How important is it to add more detailed description on specific topics in the video?
What would you improve?
Would you even enjoy to view these kind of Videos or is it absolute time wasting?
The question would then be if marketing works on you. Do you know the brand of your clothes? Your computer?

Sometimes, brand and make/model are very tied together. As an example, I love cherry blue switches on my keyboards. Often, though, pants are pants.

And don't forget that advertising and marketing is a probabilities game. Nothing about an individual can really help understand the crowd. Even if the crowd is easy to control, at large.
I use a Linux desktop and I’m looking forward to using MS Edge there when it is released so I guess I don’t have that concern.

I’m already using it on my Mac.
One ideally longs things where demand will likely increase and short things where it will decrease.

Long Wind/Solar and everything around it for instance, short petrochemical companies

Obviously that’s public so it’s priced in so I wouldn’t expect major YoY returns. But You know, slightly beat the market returns probably.
Apple has also commissioned exclusives - Apple Arcade has over 100 exclusive games.
> Wouldn't doing a good job earn a good review?

If only life were that simple.
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i think vc/founders need to innovate on this topic to: provide better effort/reward incentives, and reduce risk for employees, giving that they have less voting control over equity.

Could be something like:

- companies keep lower number of employees, higher grants, but demand founder-like effort for early years

- early employees get substantial equity grants 5-10%, that must be sold to VCs on secondary offering at next rounds. In that case, employees could directly benefit from startup grows, while reducing risk compared to FAANg, and founder can keep their equity size. Yes, upside is limited, tax/legal work, but could be covered by new refreshment grants from employee pool

- YC creates/funds employee union-like organization, that funds/organize activities/benefits for early stage startups

- help legally with paying/hiring employees remote with equity package

also joining startup and buying out $$$$$ worth of stock options that could turn to 0 is a downside compared to stock grants from FAANg.
It's already expensive. The Entune head unit in my Corolla would cost me $1000 for an OEM replacement (they have a known touchscreen issue), but an aftermarket head unit with way more features may run me ~$400 including a mounting kit, and that's if I splurge on a nice one. I may give up a few features by switching, but certainly not $600 worth of features.
If deplaning could be 5% faster without any impact to other factors, it'd be done immediately by all airlines.

Just consider the knock-on effects in terms of flight on-time % for subsequent legs on a multi-leg flight.