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>"If you can't sell that, then you are either not solving the right problem"

Interesting. When I act as a client and looking to buy me some software the first things I am looking for:

1) Does it have perpetual license for at least the version I am about to buy.

2) Can it work offline?

Answer either of 2 no and I am not buying it. Well this of course excludes things like Netflix. The product I make offers either either perpetual license or subscriptions so the customer gets to choose. So far perpetual license revenue exceeds that of subscriptions.
> Furthermore, many of the people who say they hate advertising also hate PR and other sort of marketing campaigns. So presumably their theory is that people should build something and just hope people will discover them somehow.

Could it be that people simply don't like being interrupted and having their time wasted, whether it's by ads, marketing or PR? Just because you have a business to grow shouldn't give you the right to waste my time.
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These are not fair comparisons. Eminem and the Avengers have already established identities. Music cannot even compare to movies due to the sheer quantity of modern musicians. There are plenty of fantastic (IMO) bands out there that release music without advertising and they get nowhere.

As for movies, Avengers got to where they are today through lots and lots of advertising.
Tie-dye T-shirts and VW buses are associated with the hippie subculture in the US. A group of people much more likely to listen to Bob Dylan or Creedence Clearwater Revival than to Streisand.

Likewise, the sort of people associated with Streisand concerts -- mainly well-to-do, cosmopolitan, white (especially, but not exclusively, Jewish) women -- would not trust a shaggy man with a rusting VW bus with their money, let alone be interested in his handmade wares when there are perfectly good boutiques on Fifth Avenue (or Rodeo Drive) to patronize if they are in need of clothing.

OP was trying to imply that the people who still use Java have fundamentally different tastes than dynamic-language programmers, and so evangelizing Clojure to them would be a fundamental mismatch in tastes, like a hippie trying to sell to upscale white women.
That is inevitable since 99% of crypto sites are scams...
Some defects can be tolerated and DIY’d away, but roofing, plumbing and foundations are something you really don’t want to discover later.
that's one way to paint a picture - with facts, actually. However, as parent said: There's another picture. Mandated 20 days/year holidays (in big companies it's often 30 days), overtime has to be paid (these are things that came to pass due to pressure from unions!), healthcare for everyone, rent prices that are not horrendous (and a lot of social housing), a taxation system that is friendly to people with low income, unemployment benefits, minimum wage (9€/h) etc. There's a reason so many people look up to Germany, even in Europe. Your opinion is definitely more fringe. btw. I'm German.
Not predictions but hopes:

1. ARM laptops will become mainstream.
2. Major brands will release their phones / tablets with reflective displays
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Google ads are just links to sites, there’s absolutely no malware.
Hard to believe there was a day that you had to pay cold hard cash to receive world class university instruction. Open courses I believe are responsible for the rate of innovation we see today in all areas of science and technology. You can really teach yourself anything these days if you can pay your Internet bill.
I agree, however from my experiences with lifetime checkers in VC++, it will still take a couple of more years to make it work properly and hardware memory tagging as being pushed by Oracle, Microsoft, Apple, Google and ARM is still a couple of years away to be deployed everywhere.
Short answer: hiding questionable (not necessarily illegal) activities.
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this confirms the previous post if you subscribe to the idea that the purpose of advertising is to waste oxygen
Looking at the progress of Rust/WinRT, and C++ renaissance thanks to GPGPU computing and mobile OSes stack, that is still a couple of decades away.

And then there are the whole LLVM and GCC based eco-systems.
Thanks, makes sense then :-)
I don't think we should be surprised to find doctorates in all walks of life. ~1-2% of Americans have a Ph.D.[0], yet ~1-2% of Americans are not academics. We've all probably been handed our change and receipt by an expert in Anglo-Saxon astrolinguistics at some point or another.

[0] https://www.reference.com/world-view/percentage-americans-ph...
Would it be linoleum ?

Get it ? Coleseum - Linoleum :)
Great post - but they are 'not the good old days' today in terms of affordability in most places.

Gentrification is not so bad, but hypergentrification is.

There is a new form of 'Globalist/Consumerist' gentrification and suburban building that is straight up 'bad' - there is no local anything, just miles of materially 'ok' people working for large corps, driving the same cars.

There are no accents, cuisine, no weird characters, no un-PC opinions, and there's nowhere to walk.

There is a huge missing ingredient in 'urban planning' that we have not put our finger on, and it's related to commodification of culture, particularly in North America.

The Europeans (and others) haven't so much 'figured it out' so much as 'already had it' and are careful to adapt new-tech, even tossing it in retrospect (dumping cars downtown).

Finally: Montreal. It's fairly affordable (super cheap in USD), authentic, cool, there is more going on here in the summer than any American city except NY (even LA) and that's saying a lot. Quebec speaks French and is protected from a lot of the US culture wars as there's no hyper-scrutiny of some things here.

There are many interesting places in the US as well, but probably not so many big ones.
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Agreed. Along with the LinkedIn messages with my name or my companies name on some piece of paper some random person is holding at whatever company bought a list with me on it.
I think what people mean when they say REPL-driven is to have a headless REPL that one never actually interacts with directly, but rather sends it snippets of code for evaluation directly from one's editor. Typing code into a shell prompt is excruciating by comparison.

I think this is a huge barrier of entry to languages like Clojure. The syntax and dynamic nature of the language really lend themselves to an extremely interactive and productive workflow, but that is a hard thing to communicate. It seems most people think that when Clojure programmers refer to the joy of the REPL they imagine writing code into Python or Ruby's REPLs (e.g. https://repl.it/languages/python3), but that is about as far from what is meant as is possible. I mean, who would enjoy programming in an environment that deleted your work every time you finished a line of code?
>We have to have systems in place which have such monetary/time losses factored in.

Sure, everyone agrees with that. Can you propose a model that will work?
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Ratio can't be negative, but ROI can. Positive ROI is the percentage of the ratio being 1 or higher. Negative ROI is the percentage of the ratio being less than 1.

Or, from a "common sense" perspective, if I spent $1000 on advertising, and earned $100 in revenue from that investment, my ROI is definitely negative.
One interesting heuristic for promoting engineers or making "more-senior" hires for me has been:

1. Curiosity and interest in new tech, so they are keeping abreast of developments and can think of modern best practices where useful.

2. Ability to ignore the new/sexy bits when it comes to implementation decisions, because the trade-off for stability/speed to implement is necessary in a growing company.
Typical hacker news answer, There's always someone to come along and have the exact opposite opinion. :) But seriously, I can understand the preference for offline, non-subscription software, it's often cheaper and it's often faster. Non subscription doesn't provide for a steady revenue stream for the developer, however.
The problem is that it is no longer true with online ads. The barrier to entry in online ads is non-existent and thus seeing an ad for a product should not be considered a trust signal (if anything, it should be the opposite) unlike on TV or print where the price of such ads works as an effective filter.
... but not as fast as C++/g++ ?
Could I easily look up a name for a given phone number with this book?

Or did I have to go through the whole book to find a match?
> In fact, management didn't exist before the US invented it.

Wow. Just wow.
Heh. Just today, FB served me an ad claiming to be Macy's and talking about their closeout specials, accompanied by dozens of mourning comments. It was all phony.
You joke but I would be most happy if all my web needs could be served on .onion addresses
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I don't get it, if anyone gets it and is boring, I could use some explanation.
Advertising that does not actually reach the claimed consumer, by definition, cannot possibly work.
No, there is satisfaction in improving a skill. I enjoyed getting faster at end of night audits at my job in high school. I absolutely did not enjoy the audits themselves.
A similar thing happened to one of my favorite actresses, Fan Bingbing. Here is a good article with background: https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/03/the-untold-stor...
Anybody knows if those are sold online? I would grow them and feed them all the stuff i get in the mail!
Note note how the word "legal" comes back again there. It doesn't mean "legal" as opposed to illegal. It means "for the purpose of settling things within the legal system".

Anyway, that treasury.gov link is actually a good reference for the original point I was trying to make about the introduction section of the paper: it explains that companies are not obliged to accept legal tender for normal payments.
Of course. It was called the greypages.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_telephone_directory

In old movies you sometimes see people ask the operator to do a reverse search as well so I assume it wasn't a big deal.
How much of that 2000 hour was spent on the core experience, the meetings screen? How much of the work that wasn’t spent on the meetings screen had to be reworked due to changes with the meeting screen? How many times has the meetings screen been shown to prospective customers?
Your opinion on something doesn’t mean much when confronted with real world experiences from the biggest studios.
Finally the site's name makes sense
Most of the procrastination is on Wednesday. Do you work on weekends and take a day off on Wednesdays?
Very cool!

If you want casual people to use this, I would look into simplifying the setup. Either by providing compiled binaries instead of having to set up go, rust etc oneself. Or by containerizing something.
Peak deaths in Sweden from COVID this year are about the same as from Swine Flu in 2009:

https://swprs.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/sweden-monthly-...

Also the population would have been younger, with fewer vitamin-D deficient migrants.

It would have been explained as a very bad flu season.
Honestly I have no idea. You can try it yourself, or put it through godbolt:

https://gist.github.com/ityonemo/f34e0d3b4891f481863980a3142...

Note it could also be platform dependent. I'll give it a whirl on my own (new) machine.
Sharp rocks go back 2 million :)
It's a container. The point of Docker is to contain and encapsulate. Lock down Docker.

Maybe not a bad practice, but it should be redundant.
Heavy use of linked lists is one reason for why commercial C code often is slow. While there are some exceptions linked lists are slower than arrays for most things. Linked lists are easy to implement in C and therefore used a lot.
What sort of gaming-related workload do you think an FPGA would be suitable for? I don't know much about the gaming world, but isn't the majority of the computational workload graphics-rendering related, in which case, the GPU architecture is the best candidate to iterate on?
Please note that the [1] NIH, for e.g., does fund speculative/exploratory research. You will not however, get unlimited funding. So if you fail to show at-least something you probably wont get renewed. There isn't a perfect funding model that also prevents wastage.

[1]

https://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/funding_program.htm
Really neat timeline. What type of software is this running?
SRT seems like an overly complicated solution that has already been solved by KCP protocol.
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My prof showed a slideshow in class that included the band diagram photo, which definitely piqued my interest. I think its just an old school informative website on semiconductor physics with a Britney Spears theme, which back in the day must have been a great idea.
I must say, I tried rewatching the first season but stopped when police who visited a suspected rape just told the purported victim to shut up and do what a woman has to do, basically. Sketchy and beyond. A farce compared with 'The Wire'. Try 'The Corner' instead.
I am enjoying seeing this coming to light more and more. Paid Ads with FB and Google used to actually be really good, they worked really well but since the influx of Drop shippers, algo updates and everything else in between they have both got really expensive and drive far fewer results.

I mentioned in another post on HN about Googles Quality Score of your ad based on 0-10 scale. There is no clear way to fix the issue, you just have to read Google's Docs and figure it out. In the mean time, you will be charged extra of the low-quality ad but it will be shown still. Now you are spending money, changing a headline here, changing a bit of text there and still you get 4/10 score.

PPC has become nothing more than gambling with it almost feeling like 'If I just change one more headline I might get rich' - this is what it has felt like to me for a long time now.
I get it that the right to privacy has not been such a priority in the past, especially outside Europe, but there's nothing wrong in trying to strengthen it.

What was maybe fine a couple decades ago is no longer fine in a world where anyone from any jurisdiction in the world can abuse your privacy for fun and profit.
Yes but if we are being pedantic no. Of course the language does still greatly lean into the null terminated string concept.

You get a null terminated char array but the length is actually available since arrays (as long as they haven't decayed into pointers) can still share their length at compile time.
capitalism? what?

i suppose under a communist system we would all be using ECC?
bigger reason than Alibaba's market control is the fact that the Chinese government is absolutely allergic to unsecured debt. China over the last few years has desperately attempted, and with some sucess, cleaned up parts of its financial sector because the government fears few things more than a financial crisis, it's something they learned when they came out ahead in 2008/2009.

relevant read:
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2020/11/china-takes-step-aga...
>now that would be the average life expectancy at that time

Taking infant mortality into account. Life expectancy at 25 would be much higher (e.g. if you've made it to 25, you'd be statistically expected to make it to 50-60 or so).

"However, when infant mortality is factored out, life expectancy is doubled to the late-50s. If a Roman survived infancy to their mid-teens, they could, on average, expect near six decades of life"

In general, child mortality ignored, life expenctacy hasn't changed that much through the millenia. Modern sanitary practices and quality of life (running water, etc.) and to a much lesser degree modern medicine gave us around 15-20 years more.
You had to use an adblocker because advertisers went crazy with tracking and a lot of shady stuff.

If you've been on various internet marketing forums, you will see that this is just a group of people who weren't smart enough to land a wall street jobs but morally unhinged enough to defraud businesses.

I am already hearing about law firms sending out letters and emails to people who bought Google or Facebook ads in the past 10 years.

With the new USGOV administration hawkish towards social media/tech (essentially ad revenue dependent cmopanies) and now seeing class action lawsuit against ad tech companies, my popcorn is being prepared in the microwave.

People have no idea how lucrative ad click fraud is in the botnet market. It used to be that botnet operators DDOS for hire or install Dutch spyware toolbars, now with headless browsers and fingerprinting evasion it has become impossible to distinguish real ad impressions from fake ones.

Your only tool to fight these fraudsters are statistics but over the past 10 years the "bad guys" (I don't know who is more evil, the people defrauding businesses legally or illegally) finally figured it out. They know if they are too greedy they will be caught so they now play the long milk game.

It is incredibly lucrative. A single botnet victim can yield upwards of $2~4 in ad revenues from a variety of ad networks.

It is IMPOSSIBLE to distinguish real from fraud ad clicks/impressions since the introduction of headless browsers and fingerprint evasion

Somehow web scrapers/botnet operators have found the sweet spot. This is just like how the American Cosa Nostra working with Russian criminal groups were able to siphon off crude oil from the USGOV in the 80s.

I miss the 90s when everything was more simpler and secure as a result. You can't hack an HTML document.
This is your idea of contributing to a conversation?
Sometimes I add bullet point “what” notes if it’s a long function and not clear from the code, eg high level descriptions of blocks of math code within a function.
The worst kind. These ones will outright share (and profit from) your social profile data to advertisers.
I like the information about plugins, yet miss stuff like Obsidian Publish. I've written a more scatterbrained and comprehensive blog post about Obsidian: https://niklasblog.com/?p=25043
It needs to be said that life expectancy wasn't great for Roman emperors, either :D
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I am working on adding more metrics, like stale PRs. Maybe I will incorporate response time if it is feasible. Thanks for feedback!
PPC you only pay if the user actually engaged with the ad

Who defines that "engagement" legitimately occurred? The ad network.

Example: TVguide.com/listings. On most devices, I get a nondismissable audio ad when I'm looking at telecast schedules. I kill the audio immediately.

I never experience the bulk of the ad, and even if I can identify the product being advertised, I'll form a strongly negative impression of them.

I don't count this as "engagement", but it's charged as that.
a Docker-Compose recipe would be very welcome.
HTTP video streams are split into segments and those segments are delivered whole. Larger segments are easier to cache and scale to bigger number of viewers. The other factor is that youtube and twitch spend more CPU time on compression to achieve lower bitrates.
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This list also includes Dr Brian Cox, who was in Dare and the live line-up of D:Ream (with such hits as 'Things can only get better').

And is a well published Physicist, broadcaster and educator.[1]

Also Brian May is deeply into Victorian Stereoscopy and has published books and movie (and takes stereoscopic images with his special selfy stick). He's part of the London Stereoscopic Society, I watched him present his film at a film festival.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Cox_(physicist)
Bohemians must be peripatetic. Just when you have a nest all set up in the wainscoting, it's time to scurry along to the next:

“We must be as stealthy as rats in the wainscoting of their society. It was easier in the old days, of course, and society had more rats when the rules were looser, just as old wooden buildings have more rats than concrete buildings. But there are rats in the building now as well. Now that society is all ferrocrete and stainless steel there are fewer gaps in the joints. It takes a very smart rat indeed to find these openings. Only a stainless steel rat can be at home in this environment...”
For ex. I can literally type the short url in a browser when using a different device. It's convenient uses cannot be understated.
It's a bit like getting fired from a job (w/o recognition) or rejected at an interview, and then proceeding to do exceedingly well in life. Happens very rarely, but you do tend to hear about the famous cases. Good for that person, but I don't believe in karma.
What is the better quality? 720p BluRay or 1080p Amazon Video streaming?
It’s like giving $100 to two hobos to fight.

In fact, it is exactly this, with a higher prize, and on TV. The family father who is hiding his frostbites on his feet from the doctor, accepting to be voluntarily handicapped for life (or dead right there) in hope his children will survive, he’s not free to work. Plus you don’t organize hobos to fight just for the show. You can get hurt in military or in oil, but at least you are being useful to something. Being a gladiator to willing die on the TV arena, 1500 years after the Romans quit doing it, we can’t let that happen.
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https://is.gd is the best url shortened I know of. Straight to the point, fast, light, no snooping or tracking.
My favorite healthcare "cringe shirt" is this one: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0928/7420/products/t-shirt...

I am humble, so humble! My humility is even written on my shirt! Also, there are some badass mock angel wings drawn on my back, in case you had been forgotten of my magnanimity.
Hamming's lectures are great in highlighting the challenges young scientists face and the importance of political acuity
That means you have zero loyalty among your consumers. Don't you see that as a problem?
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The exclusivity contracts are what some consider to be rent seeking. I don't know if this is the correct term, but I do believe they are anti-capitalist and shouldn't be allowed in a capitalist economy. If freedom of choice is so important, than large businesses shouldn't be able to use their ability to corner the market to force you into exclusivity agreements.
This is planned and will hopefully be coming soon :)
We don't know how effective the vaccines will be, and we have no data on long-term immunity. Its a bit early to celebrate :)
>Y'all know we used to publish everybody's phone number in a book along with their address and then distribute copies to every household, right?

And we didn't use to tie second-factor authentication into SMS messages to your phone number.
You might be surprised about how much code underpinning our society has no tests at all, how many huge companies place no value on test coverage.

And it all mostly works just fine. It might be even the right decision some times to not spend time in tests!
"Don't bite the hand that feeds you", it certainly sounds true in China.

And after watching that interview with Elon, he certainly doesn't seem that bright.
But the byproduct is CO2, so without some math we don’t know if it’s better than burning and/or burying the foam
That case sounds like a bug/algorithm issue with address lookup software. If the OSM data is correct, then it would make the same mistake with any other correct map data source, right?

But in this case, it sounds like the issue is that a private driveway is mis-labelled as a public route. This sort of thing is trivial to fix in OSM.
He was a very public figure.