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an old family friend is the King's Architect in Morocco, he has always spoken very highly of the king and his understanding of Morocco straddling two worlds. he really is an interesting man but on the other hand so enigmatic that he doesn't get the praise of say Jordan's very charismatic king.
of all the world's leaders he has escaped public definition more than almost anyone. i look forward to a day where his reign is open to examination.
i assume this choice was a very weighted one for him.
The whole idea of "buying a community" shows that they didn't have a clue what they were doing. Or didn't care.
I think not clearly understanding the tradeoffs was a huge factor here, but I would go one step deeper into that decision-making process.

One thing that could happen when making a decision like ObjC vs Swift is that the decision makers can think they have performed a sober risk/benefit analysis, but failed to dig deep enough to uncover show stoppers. So they may have looked at developer productivity with Swift and took a cursory look at build times for a small pilot, but failed to look deep enough to find some of the crippling shortcomings.

Related to the first point, a lot of the time with a new technology, the show stopper bugs/shortcomings/issues haven't been discovered yet. If you're choosing a battle-tested technology, most of the nasty edge cases and limitations have been discovered at some point. But with something new, there's a lot more uncertainty with what you'll run into once you put it into production.

That risk of surprises is higher with some new tools and technologies than others. But it's a big wildcard when you're betting your billion dollar business on it. Maybe that bet pays off, but you need to do some sober analysis on that risk of unknown unknowns and have some idea of how and when you'd make the decision to cut your losses.
No, Instagram had a thriving mobile user base. Facebook was getting demolished by Twitter in this area at the time. FB knew the future was mobile
I would never get that thing because of facebook
Curious, what is an io party game?
I don't see why it would be a reason not to use it. Just don't set it as your default SMS app.
Delayed reply, but no, TPM is a specific international standard:

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

iPhones, iPads, etc. do use a similar concept though.
So you think you know Git?
They only have to publish the code to their customers, not to anyone else.

Terminating a contract when a customer redistributes the code seems to be a violation of the GPL to me, but I'm not a lawyer.
Originally, Sol offered open core with a premium "cult" option, but the support was nonexistent and eventually most of the customers cancelled.
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You might want to watch this for inspiration: Short Hike Post-mortem (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW8gWgpptI8) about single developer struggles. Of course, this is one of successful stories, so your mileage might (and will) vary.
Give yourself tight deadlines and see if you can stick to them. Do not be afraid to bail out early, if you see that game development is not working out.
I'd suggest keeping your daily job until you at least have minimal working prototype of your game and get positive feedback.

As for games on mobile platforms, be prepared if you will create something new and unique - it will have dozen of clones on day three after launch.
I think "needs strict static type systems" is a hypothesis but one with certainly many anecdotal examples to refute it. Most of the studies that have been done (and admittedly these studies are extremely difficult to do well) show lower or similar bug counts in dynamic languages vs static languages.

If you've built large scale system with statically type checked languages that solve all these problems, I assume you never had any bugs right? Never needed to write any unit tests?
I mean, Uber has had a huge number of people working on it too, with the incentive that they are paid to do a good job. Regardless of the eventual outcome, I have no misconceptions that Uber doesn't have some engineers who are extraordinary talented. And, the project is newer, too, with fewer guarantees on stability and fewer users to boot. I think it's a valid comparison to make at least–they are both huge, complex projects with a massive number of people working on them. Tech debt is inevitable, but I still think it is valid to call it out when it occurs and not try to excuse it with "but our app is super complicated, you can't possibly understand how complicated it is".
I think music is different.

Each band has a different flavor and style. You need to have different projects and bands to get different styles. You are usually waiting around for other people too. Getting the drummer to show up for rehearsals is hard enough, let alone full album products. ;)

This isn't the case with Saas apps or software.
That's the exact same feeling I get too. If I'm a mom/pop shop online, why can't I get a k8s cluster w/just 1 machine for $5/month? I mean the big three (4 w DO) can all get you a bare machine for $5/mo that can run Docker. Why not give the k8s management side for free for those people?
The solution is very simple, but is not technical: make advertising targeted with personal data illegal.
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Yea, this type of image recording has huge compromises but I personally find it really cool.
Could it be listed "hourly" and you're charged "daily"? Add in VAT (equal to 25% in some countries) and you match the 30 times higher than expected charge.
Well thanks for the interesting background info on some of these points, but what is your conclusion here?

I readily admit that I just brainstormed to support my initial association, so not all points are going to hold their water. But you seem to agree to a direct relationship of free market and feudalistic traits, so do you actually agree, but wanted to introduce nuance?
Why not release the Swift app version as an additional app, e.g. "Uber Next" while keeping the original version alive until all problems are fixed?

This story screams of so many self-made issues.
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Well, we already have Google fiber and Google phone service. So there are some utilities you can get banned from because of happy birthday playing in the background of a YouTube video or something...
I always got the impression that the reason InGaAs is never used outside of RF applications is due to it having a higher production cost than silicon based semiconductors. Has this research actually moved the needle on that cost?
No, I was just looking a step ahead. The only thing your original comment added was an appeal to destructive penny pinching that often accompanies popular fiscal conservatism.

For context I'm personally against wasting money. But kneecapping an organization by tightening its purse strings such that it can't fulfill its function is itself a larger waste of money.
When your site or app goes offline it can be handy if you have ops people who understand your setup.
I'd like to see someone with more legal knowhow chip in but I'm fairly sure the fact that the app store does restrict apps to be the most compelling legal case for its existence?

If it literally blocked nothing then Apple can't say that the app store is part of the ecosystem that makes it unique. If it has a high bar for restrictions, it can successfully argue to avoid spamware and other bad quality apps Apple is going the work for the user to make the phone experience worthwhile.
You can get places nearly that cheap without leaving the US even, you just have to be willing to be in a cheap state.
If anything, I'd say that Clojure discourages the creation of DSLs through macros compared to most other Lisps, and encourages the use of plain data and functions first.
It's a terrible plan, which is why you must do it.
That could be, but it is different enough that if they didn't make strong efforts to produce it in quantity they wouldn't be able to exercise that contingency. Thus I expect someplace in China is a factory that can make it. It might or not have all the machines set in place, but it would be close enough that they can start them in a month (including the entire supply chain). China is pretty good at manufacturing, so I don't think they would screw this up.
There's nothing to stop them, no. But that wouldn't change that they have to make the sources available to their customers -and it takes one customer to get the source and provide it for a fork.
Extremely technically, the only GCP product that had this feature was App Engine Standard v1, but looks like it's deprecated as of the end of 2019 (https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/managing-costs#chang...)
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You'll only know if you can succeed if you try.

Even if you do succeed, expect growth to take 1000x more energy/focus/time than you realize. How will you get your game to stand out? Organic growth is like planting a seed. It grows slowly. But within a couple of years you'll have a tree.

When I launched my side project I had this dream of hundreds of people signing up within the first days/weeks. In reality, 1 person did. Who cancelled a few days later. However I'm now 3+ years into it and it provides for me and my loved ones.

Also... be prepared for a lot of mental games. Thoughts like "what am I doing?", "you're going to fail", etc. Being on your own takes a mental toughness I never imagined.
If you're mom/pop online shop and just need 1 machine you don't need k8s. KISS principle applies.
Just call them and ask them if you are insterested. As I said multiple times there's no studies about supplements on human patients, as the numbers are already tight for studies were only MDMA is administered and setting up a week long followup trial with supplements and placebo is impossible with their current resources.

I read your studies and as other three other comments here say I don't really understand how they say supplements are necessary. They are old, on very simplified models that are no longer used in modern psychiatric or neuroscience research, and about brain chemistry effects on rats and not psychological effects on humans. There are a lot of studies with MDMA on humans now, and they point in a different direction. The type of research you are pointing to is what was used as an excuse among the scientific community for making it illegal in the first place.

Also I don't dispute it's neurotoxic, as most data points say it is. I'm just saying that the supplementation doesn't really help with that. Yeah they help with neurogenesis and so does meditation, eating healthy, learning a musical instrument, sleeping well, getting sunlight, etc... That doesn't mean it will "cancel out" or help with MDMA neurotoxicity particularly.

You are spreading new age pseudo-religious unverified magic cures for MDMA side-effects only that it's in the form of capsules instead of lifestyle changes. That's not bad, but it's what you are doing.
> You learn dedication at university.

Everyone I know, including myself, who came to software engineering outside of the standard academic route needed to make a huge commitment. Pretty much everyone who goes down this path faces a large cost in terms of the time commitment required to learn a new discipline, the price of training materials (boot camps, online courses, etc), and the opportunity cost of leaving an existing job to take a chance on a new entry level one.

I personally switched to software development from a decent but mind-numbing career. The first couple years were really rough as I lived off of dwindling savings trying to learn and pick up enough entry level work to get by.

Going the computer science degree > intern or entry level position > good engineering job route is both difficult and full of valuable experiences, but it's also the most cookie cutter approach with the clearest guardrails.

The notion that only the most dedicated people can make it through the experience of a comp sci college course in their early 20s is hogwash in my opinion. I have a 4 year degree in an different field and that was a MUCH easier path than breaking into the software dev business with a self taught and boot camp background.
Curious if you've ever heard of any scenarios that could cause long-term hormonal changes? I'm thinking of a Peter Attia podcast where he (anecdotally) noticed that after women have their third child (or so), there's a marked change in their ability for their body to bounce back.
This premise assumes a building full of vacuum tubes and the punch cards are two different things.

One immutable set of toggles, and then an infinite variety of suggested settings for those.

It's not clear to me that's as true any more, when, randomly for instance, HEVC is in chips, or iPhones include an ASIC that's actually an FPGA.

This seems to require a new principle, that a device maker may decide how far up the stack their logic goes, regardless of the form in which that logic is represented.

As a check and balance on this, perhaps device makers do not get to retroactively (for a given device) take back intentional open parts of that waterline, as we've seen console makers do with what were deliberate and marketed capabilities, sometimes long after release.
The VCs and founders still have plenty of their shares to cash in.
Having done exactly this, I say have a blast and enjoy the freedom to create, but be prepared to re-enter the industry because that’s almost certainly what you’ll have to do.

I put my time working on my game on my resume, and it did help me get good jobs in gaming and VR, that I probably wouldn’t have landed otherwise.
There is a clear reason - to make them uncomfortable. Nobody forced them to work there, and it is obvious to everyone what kind of future they are building there. If you exchange your soul for a good paycheck, this is just what you get.

The alternative is "Oh, you work at Schutzstaffel? That's cool!". That he has done is morally correct.
This story at Uber is a fascinating example of the growing pains involved with transitioning to a new language.

LinkedIn adopted Swift back in 1.2. I would love to read some war stories of how things there have progressed over the years.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9waDi787uo (14:15-15:30, 39:26-40:37)

At an interview with them a few years ago, I was told they had been moving towards rewriting the app in Objective-C.
"For the Airbnbs, ramen profitability was $4000 a month: $3500 for rent, and $500 for food."

As a silicon valley outsider, blood drained from my face after reading this. Do you have to starve or raise money only to pay rent? I have a profitable business and it scares me to apply to YC after reading this.
I think combination of JUCE/IntelliJ pricing and Unreal Engine model would be a sweet spot:

1) Personal License - free if <50k annual revenue

2) Startup License - keep current price (500usd/month) but

a) allow 1 month subscription commitment instead of paying 1 year upfront

b) when subscription not get extended you should still be allowed to distribute product that is not updated

c) if you payed for 1-2 years of subscriptions and cancelled subscription after 1-2+ year, you should be able to keep using the version of Qt the moment when you first signed for .

3) allow Startup to choose another licensing option. Instead of paying upfront licensing fee, just allow paying annually 5% of revenue from products that keep using Qt.
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We're in healthcare.

We have web,app, and even game dev. Personally I work in Data Engineering/Machine Learning/Applied Stats space with some app dev work as well. I'm learning to wear a lot of hats as we segment into small groups and it effectively feels like a bunch of different startups in a "closed" economy of the company.
1 dollar a month is the dream for me. I could finally pay for several of those domain names I keep holding on to!
Love the keyboard, but I see it also overrides the numberpad keyboard, which I do not prefer. I wish there was a way to tell it to override my default keyboard, but keep my default numberpad keyboard.
Haha I would love to and it seems like a really great language/community/ecosystem. I'm just a part-time developer though, so my "coding time" is extremely limited and mainly just around scratching an itch as quickly as possible. I'm confident Elixir/Phoenix would give me that speed and comfort too, but I already know Rails and the time I would spend learning Elixir/Phoenix just to get access to LiveView would be better spent just learning Javascript and moving on.

I wish I had a use case where Elixir's concurrency model makes the initial lift worth it, but my work doesn't even require me to learn how to make Ruby scale past a $5 DigitalOcean droplet.
Because that's more the realm of:

https://www.digitalocean.com/products/kubernetes/

https://www.scaleway.com/en/kubernetes-kapsule/

IaaS model is more 'everything is chargeable in small units', a free control plane doesn't really gel with that IMO, and also they have some huge users that it'd cost a lot to run the control plane for, pushing up the price of what you connect to it (or something must give) and making more PaaS-style like DO & Scaleway anyway.
> But something surprising happened: they enjoyed having those first three guests staying with them. And the guests enjoyed it too. Both they and the guests had done it because they were in a sense forced to, and yet they’d all had a great experience… That experience was why the Airbnbs didn’t give up.

It seems safe to say that the majority of Airbnb use now is not a delightful experience of being hosted in someone else's home, but whole-apartment/house rentals or other circumstances with not much interaction between host and guest, feeling very business-like. No? I don't it's common to especially enjoy it as an experience anymore, it's just a way to make money or a way to find a nice place to stay at a good price.

If that delightful hosting experience is what inspired them to keep going... it's still not what the company mostly ended up providing to the world. If we were to weigh the pro- and anti-social aspects of airbnb, that pleasant human relationship between host and guest would barely weigh on the scale, because it's mostly not what happens there anymore. The founders don't seem that concerned about that though, do they?

So what do we take from all that? It seems odd to me to highlight that aspect of the founders initial motivation without even mentioning whether that's what the company actually does now.
See also: Running Amazon Linux 2 as a virtual machine on premises

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Speaking from many, many years of experience:

Cash is king. Nothing is more important than cash flow. A runway is not a development budget -- it is a loan in the form of opportunity cost. Always look for income at all times. And never, ever borrow money for the project.

Regarding people, keep active contacts with other people. Do not shelter behind closed doors. The world moves quickly, and if your team withdraws into its own bubble for 12 months, when you emerge you will find the world to be very different.

Regarding tech, Unity will work better than Unreal because a small team needs to reduce technical overhead as much as possible.

Regarding gameplay, favor simplicity over complexity.

Regarding art, maintain a cohesive and unique style across all elements of design.

Regarding players, start looking for them from day 1. It takes a long time and a lot of work to build a following. And remember, the players are not your customers -- they are your new boss.
This gets into the long history of the GPL versus the LGPL and lots of legal battles in the text of those licenses and in the interpretation of the text in those licenses about the differences between types of "distribution" ("mere aggregation" versus "linking" versus "bundling" versus "inclusion"). In all but the "mere aggregation" case, the GPL is considered to be viral, and the LGPL relaxes that in some more "linking"/"bundling" scenarios.

The AGPL to do its work has to close the "mere aggregation" "hole" in at least some cases, which alone makes it "more viral" on the spectrum of GPL licenses. That's before you get into problems with how the APGL defines "some cases", in that it doesn't do a great job so no one knows exactly how viral it is because it will take court cases to sort out its bad wording on the subject.

(For instances: 1) The AGPL is intended to expand to include "running it in a SaaS environment" yet the way it (doesn't) define "SaaS environment" is so poor it could mean running it anywhere. 2) The AGPL was written by a PHP company and so a lot of the definitions, distinctions, and clauses from the GPL regarding the differences between binary and source distributions were struck out. Because most of the known legal definitions on "mere aggregation" with regards to the GPL hinge on those distinctions we have fewer and fewer ideas of what "mere aggregation" means with respect to the AGPL, and it again possibly implies that the AGPL's virality is potentially unbounded, that their "some cases" is intentionally or accidentally written as "all cases".)
Friction and convenience. Always assume the user will not take the desired action because it most closely models reality.
Make peace with the fact that "you're making a game". I did this a while back, but the thought of "you're not working, you're building some stupid game no one will play, you should be working" made me quit and get a job. So, this is my advice for you: make peace with the fact that you're building a game.
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You offer no guarantees. I'm sick of gambling and I don't trust you. I don't care about gambling. I just want to conserve water and distribute it efficiently. That's what I care about. I don't need to be tied up in the stock market in order to do that. Just shut your dumb mouth and go read about what Bechtel did to Bolivia. That's what happens when you start screwing around with water and treating it like it's some stupid useless commodity like onions.

You know nothing about the real world clearly. Real life rarely lines up with these abstract economic simulations you read in your textbooks. You're like a Christian, conflating scripture with facts. Put down your finance textbook and maybe take a look out in the real world. And stop gaslighting everyone. You have no idea how much that pisses me off. If I could reach through this screen, grab your shoulders and shake you I would.
I could do it if I didn’t have a family, I used to commute 2 hours each way so considering getting a part time job for the commute time I am now at home for - if it wouldn’t cause a divorce I’d get two jobs or work on a side project for that time.

You need to take time off though at weekends etc if you are doing it longer term.

(Note this isn’t a recommendation)

Also note that I don’t care for tv or gaming so don’t have those time black holes.
I can understand Snowflake, Zoom etc. They benefited from things going remote and more software eating the world.

AirBnB didn't benefit in any way. It just seems insane that we will see such a pop in their stock price.

Or am I missing something here? Does remote work means more business for AirBnB properties in the future?