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Idk about you but I know which lower cost of living I'd prefer to move to, and my break-even salary cut is 25%. I think I can negotiate it to 15-20% which would effectively be a raise.

My salary is how much money I'm willing to take to work for the company. If I can live somewhere cheaper, that number is lower.
I have a pretty large emacs config. I wrote it over 4 years.
I tend to figure out repetitive tasks on my workflow and code them to key bindings.
It saves time in the end and it is quite lazy.
I also get all crazy refactoring tasks at work, cause colleagues know I will write a little emacs script and have it done in no time. So 4 years of time "wasting" seem to be valuable for my employer and colleagues.

I use org cause I can write code in multiple languages as well as having my notes and thoughts on the process. Again colleagues like that I then share those as HTML. I like that is instant documentation.
Trello and family don't do that.
The meaning of words change over time. Always have and always will.
If we think of capitalism in the 18th century... it's worth remembering that this the canonical "Capitalism." That is, it is what Marx was describing (and deriding) as he popularised the concept of "capitalism." It's also the world of trade that Ricardo described, and his concepts are still at the core of trade economics today.

The Dutch British Empires started as companies. Nationally backed, but shareholder owned and employee run.

In any case, the lynchpin to all this trade had to be something that had value at home.. where the ships ultimately returned.

The Spanish and other empires before the Dutch & British sought gold directly. Steal it, Buy it, Mine it... Doesn't matter. This was, broadly "mercantilism." Get Gold. Bring it Home.

Adam Smith noted a century earlier that this wouldn't work. Gold has no inherent value. I think Smith was wrong on the margin, but right on the bigger point. The gold did have value. Kings could use it to raise armies, for example. The Spanish monarchy was always trying to fill its war chest. But, gold didn't fuel a trading cycle. Consumer goods & industrial materials did.

Anyway... my point is that whatever happened in between leaving London ports and returning, they were returning with goods... not gold. They may have been trading gunpowder for slaves, to be sold in the colonies and exchanged for cotton. They may have traded for spices in India. When the ships returned, they returned with goods. Tea & spices were luxury goods, that beneficiaries of the empire could enjoy. This is important, because it balanced consumption with revenue and created a cycle. Tea sippers had money because they owned shares. Revenue flowed to The Company from tea sipper. The Company used that revenue to keep bringing tea (also cotton & indigo for the mills and other luxury goods like spices). The market was secured (to an extent) by rising share values.

When a spanish ship returned with gold, someone had gold, probably the king, probably for war. When a British ship returned, someone paid gold for tea, to The Company, to fund more trade.
Health insurance can’t be provided as a job benefit in Switzerland, and premiums are paid post tax, so they don’t have this kind of problem.
DIBS! I called it! Dibs on this for robot voices! H.E.L.P.eR-style

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Unrelated, there are at least thirty-five Venture Bro.'s (so far.) I don't want to show my work here because it would be spoiler.

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Seriously though: this is how "droids"(tm)(R) should talk, no?

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Also unrelated, the only speech act of H.E.L.P.eR's that I can understand in the entire series is when he and Brock are discussing poetry and he asks Brock, "Maya Angelou?". That's it. :-)
The claim was that something which would take weeks in say Python would take minutes in Lisp. Then this flight search system is presented as evidence.

I just don't see how it is any form of evidence for that rather extraordinary claim? It just shows it is possible to write complex software in Lisp, but I wasn't disputing that. I'm disputing the claim of 100 x productivity.
It's outrageous, bordering on disingenuous, to compare anyone to Italy and Sweden and go, "See? Your health care infrastructure isn't so bad."

Sweden deliberately elected not to use their infrastructure. Italy was the first critical European outbreak and their difficulties were information most other nations had.

Why not look at South Korea or Mongolia? You know, actual success stories.
That was the first thing he asked about.
There are more programmers coding word processors now than ever before.
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We already have that, it's called Excel.
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Housing market and homelesness are two different things.

Places with less inflated housing prices had a 'homeless problem' as well until they made home a basic human right.

Hence empirically I doubt you can 'fix homelesness' by fixing the housing market. You can fix the housing market but will still have homeless problem - until you make home a human right.
Now that cuda support has been announced in WSL, it might well be the beginning of the year of the Linux desktop. Before the announcement I planned to have two separate machines: Linux workstation and Windows desktop. Now I’m seriously considering combining the two into a Windows/WSL workstation.
He probably meant Phoenix Elixir
If you want to hack on the calculator, the code is on github: https://github.com/shirriff/TICalculatorJSSimulator

As far as the architecture of the calculator, it's kind of amazing that they were able to build a calculator chip at all, given the state of IC technology. The architecture is highly tuned to calculators, rather than being general-purpose. For instance, a "digit scan" register cycles through 10 scan lines to illuminate each digit. At the same time, it scans 10 rows of the keyboard.

Another interesting thing about the calculator chip is it has 11-bit opcodes. Powers of two are so ingrained in us that it seems bizarre to have 11-bit opcodes. But old computers often had random word lengths. The calculator's instruction set is very low-level, more like microcode than a "real" instruction set.
Hadn't coded much in the 9 months I'd been off. Googled Java interview questions, practiced on the first few results.

Interview question was the first result... 7 years later.
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What makes you think she isn't working her ass off?
http://www.haskins.yale.edu/featured/sws/sws.html is a page the Haskins Lab folks have put up about this; unfortunately at some point they switched it to use Flash or something, so now it's unusable. The archived version at https://web.archive.org/web/20060828113107/www.haskins.yale.... directly links to AIFF files; by telling Firefox to open them with /usr/bin/play or /usr/bin/vlc I can hear them.

The original experiments were done in the 1970s, I think, and the papers on the page are I think from 1981–1994. It would have been interesting to see how things would have developed if this formant-centric viewpoint had become central to speech codec research in the 80s and 90s. In a sense LPC codecs like GSM RTE-LTP are formant-centric, since the linear prediction coefficients in some sense encode the formant structure of the speech, but (and I'm getting out my depth here) as I understand it the impulse response of the linear prediction filter is pretty broadband.

We really need a better medium than the current WWW for this kind of archival, because the researchers are going to retire or die, and then they will probably stop updating their pages, which will then apparently become inaccessible with modern browsers.
I'm curious why you think he does?

Im also curious why you think he didnt when i've seen that episode and he basically laughs in his face about it.

You got the timestamp for this where he just lets alex run his mouth with unsubstantiated bullshit?
> That said, I also think requiring it be "in process" is unnecessary.

No, this is important for integration. Integration is the main benefit you have while using emacs.

> One of the most powerful features of org is babel, which clearly pushes out the execution to the external tools.

Yes, but it has very limited interaction with them. The whole interface is in emacs. Emacs is doing many of this embedded fire n' forget-style interactions. That doesn't make them richful.
What a great article. In particular I like that in the middle it provides an excellent example of how Marxist theory and vocabulary is deeply steeped* in the Victorian capitalist vocabulary of the industrial revolution and how that model of thinking still affects us today. Specifically, on HN and the press in general, despite the discussion of “tech” business, the vast majority of businesses are mostly or completely low tech in their operation.

I have a quibble with the headline writer (which actually relates to the above): that capitalism didn’t arise without “factories”: as the article shows, the tea production process would have been perfectly clear to Adam Smith. It was simply low tech (and the article is quite clear about this). In addition, though “factory” today means manufacturing, in the early days of European empires, the “factory” was the warehouse where goods were stored and financed (factoring accounts receivable is still common today). The factories of the Bombay Presidency were the first effective toehold of British expansion into India. Over time value add (labor/processing) crept into those warehouses as the goods were already there, leading to today’s meaning. The author seems to understand this so it’s only whoever wrote the headline that I am criticizing.

* apologies for the accidental tea metaphor
> non-damaging protscan

Tell that to every corporation on Earth, especially to Banks, that "port scanning your perimeter is an innocent thing". Tell that your employer as well and do tell us what's your job status afterwards.

(I am not downvoting the utterly silly grey comments - I want them to be visible to a) ;)
As a counter to your points, I think no-code works best if your business's competitive advantage is the non-technical side of things, e.g services, network effects, people, non-software products, etc. An example of such a business would be say an art dealer who wants to build a customized painting browser app for their clients, or a developer specializing in eco friendly materials wanting to showcase their materials. In such cases, no-code helps immensely because you don't have to spend much on engineering and you can iterate quickly.

Ideally, no-code providers should provide a webhook and a REST interface, and just be the best at what they're doing, instead of being a one-stop shop that tries to cover every use case.

If you want to cover everybody's usecase, build a better Zapier instead.
I think what's being argued about here is mainly the different between polymerized resins and other natural products, and petroleum-derived polymers. Both are 'plastic' because 'plastic' is a term that derives from the nature of the product, not its idendity.
I'm not even American, but to give a counter example, Black Lives Matter is also a pretty benign sounding expression that received a lot of vitriol.

And even common words can get very negative associations over time. Sometimes language has to change because of that. It's a pity, especially if you like the specific term, but that's life.
I've worked with founders and they're great at getting stuff off the ground and have tremendous passion.

This is the 'honeymoon' phase.

However once things start picking up and the company is becoming less and less of a startup the they can be the greatest hindrance to achieving the 'next' level as an organization. They are usually set against formality and structure, which they perceive as as impediment to attaining their vision.

This is the 'old ball and chain' phase.

Of course, this is from my direct experience.
"My Documents" are called "Documents". You can also install your application into user directory, something like "C:\Users\Vladimir\AppData\Local\YourApplication", so no spaces necessary unless user name contains spaces (not sure if it's even possible).

I'm not claiming that spaces should not be supported, but you can live without them.
Not sure if this is actually a serious (but misguided) take, or just the kind of thing you have to write when you need to blog something but don't have a good idea this week?

Software is getting more complex, not less.

No-code, no matter how magically great, won't change the fact that you have to somehow understand and codify your requirements and figure out how to achieve them through available building-blocks. (A no-code solution is just a tradeoff in building blocks -- the more one does for you, the less flexible it becomes. The lack of flexibility has a cost: the degree to which one doesn't exactly fit your system, it pushes complexity elsewhere, blunting or even reversing the value.)

The longer-term effects of a remote-first world are a much more interesting topic, at least (though I think the author stiff completely whiffs. The ideas on why remote work will be bad for the employees are very weak.)
This is (i think) also happening with youtube. There were a bunch of funny political videos a couple of years ago (eg. "Trump insult compilaton" etc., from different independent individuals), and searching for those terms now just shows videos from CNN, BBC, ABC, CNBC, and other corporate media houses.
I was addressing your 'That is just an algorithm, isn't it?', in case you would be interested what that application is actually about.

There was no general claim of 100x productivity. The commenter wrote: "I had a lisp master that did teach me that what had taken me weeks in c, c++ and python code he could do it in lisp in minutes"

That was his personal impression, not a general claim. I can't also imagine how this could be a general claim.
Learning the abstractions that Excel uses, how to write formulas, and where to click, drag, and drop is programming.

Python is no harder if you spend as much time with it as the average Excel expert does in Excel.
> But how often do you really need a complete bespoke startup?

You don't always. But if you can identify software deficiencies and fix them, that is an advantage. You don't even have to be a "startup". I work for a company that has opened a wide variety of "lifestyle" businesses with the angle of "we can build simple software targeted towards our problem that makes us run more efficiently than the competitors". And it has worked pretty well, at least for the past 20 years or so.

But you need to include tech in the high level decision making process. Which means you need at least one person competent in both business and technology so that you can properly weigh business needs vs technical difficulty.
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It really depends on how you ask them the question:
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/how-many-c...

> When asked the single-question version, just 18 percent of U.S adults say humans have always existed in their present form, while 81 percent say humans have evolved over time.

For example, most of these folks wont say the Earth is 10,000 or 6,500 years old. When asked they'll say the planet is much older.
DRM and walled gardens are the obstacle to open source media players. See above re control.
20 years on MS Access has been one of the quickest lowest code way to build a functional application. What a mess everything is these days in comparison.
"black goo" is the standard organic chemistry term for the nasty crap at the bottom of your apparatus after doing a reaction.
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I think its a combination of a lot of things:

1) He is a good listener, that asks questions that non journalists would ask. Listen to Ezra Klein interview the same guest and you see the exact opposite type of interview. Klein comes off as more "intelligent" and more "informed", his questions are more journalist in nature, and he has usually read the book (opposite of Rogan). I like both Rogan and Klein, but I get the Rogan appeal, and I think Klein interviews can come off annoying sometimes (the 10th "That's a great question Ezra" is trite)

2) He is not a political partisan. It is refreshing to hear someone who is not "toeing the dem/rep line" (or is it towing). A lot of people in here are saying he is alt-right, which is a joke, he is not at all.

3) He has great guests for all walks of life

4) He comes off as a normal guy (but clearly is actually in the top 1% at this point)

5) He is a comedian, and does not care about political correctness and gives two shits about cancel culture
> It's not that long ago that a significant fraction of people worked on farms and did what they wanted.

Up until 1860 or so, most people across the world were working on farms. And most of those people were at best sharecroppers, if not serfs or slaves. Something tells me there wasn't a lot of freedom going around :-)
a single parent wouldn't be able to work in an office without childcare either, so working at home would not change that.
I thought customers say what corporations do by leaving. Certainly large platforms like Patreon have alternatives for customers looking for product that Patreon doesn’t sell.
Isn't that quite unethical? You are knowingly misleading a potential employer when you play games like that.
In cybersecurity, are we handing out safety goggles or Ray-Bans?
> This is the problem: people coming to the podcast expecting it to be some intellectual journalistic endeavor.

This misconception is furthered by some of his fanbase (who apparently have never experienced actual high-level intellectual dialogue). I have repeatedly seen discontented young men contrast Rogan to content for women and claim that the latter is just vacuous cosmetics talk and gossip, while "Rogan is all about deep stuff like philosophy".
Plus kubernetes / autoscaling on the backend.....
I'm a Windows guy, but after switching my newer Lenovo Flex 5 laptop to Linux Mint, I am amazed how well it functions. Everything just worked, even my touchscreen. The battery lasts a good 20-30% longer and the fan isn't running nearly as much. I still dual boot into Windows occasionally to do updates, but so far I am impressed how far desktop Linux has come.
This is a rather arrogant point of view. People other than software developers are able to solve problems just fine, and do so regularly. Also, it's not your job as a software developer to be a domain expert in all these other areas. It would serve you much better to recognize the expertise of others and learn from them.
The article being there is not a problem if this is a real thing, which I believe sometimes it is. The problem is, the article is written in a sloppy and definitely non-neutral tone. With its current state, it reads more like a rage post. It is hard to eliminate bias from these kinds of articles but it seems the author didn't even give the effort to do so.
At least the physics look better. Much of the current CGI looks weightless and frictionless, like walking in ice. I guess that it looks more real than CGI because is real and real forces act over the robots.
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Joe Rogan is successful across multiple domains. He's the UFC's main color commentator, a successful TV personality, a successful touring comedian, a state champion in martial arts, has a podcast worth $100 million etc. etc.
I know you've done galera in the past, but MySQL group replication would be a good one since it IS the defacto HA solution, unlike with Postgres.
So, how did you solve the organization problem? That has always been the biggest problem with confluence and wikis in general.

People actively dislike confluence. (And it's something that's stuck in my craw - how do we build documentation that's easy to organize? That's my quarantine project. :)
Brace yourself to feel a bit sad as chances are you've not done many or any of the things suggested here. Few people climb mountains and start companies at 16.

What is wrong with listing academic achievements?
Or with volunteering? "With the volunteering org I'm part of, we've helped X people to Y" etc.
IMO, it does not even have to be attributable solely to you, as many achievements require a team. If I was an employer, teamwork counts.
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how did the US, which didn't exist until 1776 AD, appropriate the soybean from china in 18 AD?

but yes, it's unclear if soybeans are still the top export from the US to china, but china is apparently still the top export destination for american soybeans.
Considering her surgeries, I'd say she's been working her ass on.
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Climate change is turning parts of Antarctica green
It might be some kind of system that tries to determine if the client is a ‘normal’ browser.
As a full time linux user I can't use OmniFocus anymore. But I tried it in the past, and to be honest, mastering it required no less time than I put into my unsophisticated org-mode setup.
I hope Twist takes off. I'd like to give it a go.

Forums are great for structured conversations, but poor for unstructured—and Slack is the opposite.
Counterpart is another great series by Starz. Too bad they canceled it just after two seasons. It's one of the best shows made in the last few years.
I used to help out a video rental store, which closed this month. I made them a mail-order rental catalogue (https://rent.leosvideos.ca/) and looked into this whole fiasco.

When you buy a DVD, you can rent it to others without a license. Physical ownership.

When you buy a digital file, you're not allowed to rent it out to others without a license. Digital non-ownership. But you have the bits - that's physical ownership.

People want "one place to rent movies" but that will never work. They'd be a middleman monopoly between you and the studios - and middleman monopolies always turn out bad.

In my opinion, there is a "free market" system that the invisible hand wants, which is a digital analogue of what we had with physical distribution, that reconciles the fact that a digital file really is a (virtual) physical object (on a hard drive), and nothing else will work:

You can rent your own digital files to one person at a time via streaming.

Result: There would be multiple online streaming rental stores that have huge catalogues of whatever you want.

Speculation: Everyone would just use those. Studios would raise the prices for digital files to $10k+ because they know it will be rented out. The total sales of units would amount to the high water mark of the number of people who want to watch a file at the same time.

We'd have a rich market where there are multiple players in each layer.
Or, the founders goals were fulfilled and the founder just loses interest in developing the organisation further. The organisation has different meaning for different people, the founder might be just totally disinterested in getting the company to the "next level".
She's not really working hard per se. Her net worth is a subject of frequent controversy, since much of her fame was inherited from the Kartrashian family.
I've tried org-mode a few times, but I just couldn't get over emacs and the mobile app situation.

For now I've settled on Apple Notes which works well with the iPad and pencil across all of my devices. I also use Drafts for longer form writing. The downside is that I'm trapped in Apple's ecosystem, but I'm already deeply there so I might as well embrace it.