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The feeling I get from this page is that the branding seems a bit all over the place.

The acronym "pms" just reminds me of "pre menstrual syndrome", and "personal management system" is not a very memorable, original or catchy name.

The logo of the product looks a bit akward as it reminds of a car company logo, and doesnt really communicate anything related to a management system.

The page doesnt look very coherent, with cartoonish drawings, a unmatching color scheme, several typos, and a logo which doesnt fit with the general look neither.

I dont mean to tear down the page, but I hope this can help you to design it to give a better first impression.

Edit: typos
I don't know if you're trying to educate me, but you haven't. What would you say "the whole point" is here? And why bother pretending that Stallman's statement and the FSF's statement, issued thirty seconds later and containing many of the same instructions, should be considered separately, despite Stallman's statement not being issued on his own website, but that of the FSF?
Sadly that's pretty realistic as far as blockchain project author statements go.
With Digital Ocean and AWS Lightsail offering “App” platforms Heroku needs to bring greater value to compete. The pricing alone was enough for me to avoid even though my hopes about necessary scale never came to fruition.
Install the “I don’t care about cookies” extension and stop suffering :)
Why do I want my contracts publicly accessible on a blockchain? All else equal, I specifically don’t want that at all
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Why isn't there a Heroku knockoff that gains traction?

Can't someone support the Procfiles (if I recall correctly), undercut prices and still have plenty of room to be excellent?
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XACE doesn't solve it. As mentioned elsewhere, that's dependent on SELinux. The idea with Wayland is to make things more secure everywhere, and not just on systems that have a particular LSM.
Patronage is no longer the domain of the rich. When it is clear that it is optional to support an artist, some will do so for the personal satisfaction, some out of gratitude, and others for the social credit it brings.

A difference from old-fashioned patronage is that it's easier to lie -- you can pretend to support artists while secretly enjoying their music for free. Happily, it seems like only a minority of people are satisfied by that.
You shouldn’t have to, especially if you’re in the EU.
I for one am quite disappointed in this as my Harmony remote control has really worked well.

Are there any viable replacements out there at this time?
> Just as an example, have you heard of smart contracts?

Yes. They seem to be a solution looking for a problem. What problems can you imagine smart contracts solving?

> How can a globally spanning Turing complete computer help? I don't know, but we will see attempts.

So the answer is "nobody has thought of a single way this helps, after 10 years of thinking about it".

> But for fun's sake, go to https://coinmarketcap.com/ click a random currency and click source code / read the whitepaper.

OK The first one I clicked was Qtum: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/qtum/ . The whitepaper link goes to a 404.

The second one I clicked was VeChain. https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/vechain/ . It has no link to source code or a whitepaper.

The third one I clicked was Dash, which thankfully had a whitepaper. Let's check it out: https://github.com/dashpay/dash/wiki/Whitepaper

> Currently the Dash network has ~4,800 active masternodes [8]. By requiring 1,000DASH collateral to become an active masternode, we create a system in which no one can control the entire network of masternodes. For example, if someone wanted to control 50% of the masternode network, they would have to buy 4,800,000 DASH from the open market. This would raise the price substantially and it would become impossible to acquire the needed DASH.

Oh my god

> Bad actors could also run masternodes, but not provide any of the quality service that is required of the rest of the network. To reduce the possibility of people using the system to their advantage nodes must ping the rest of the network to ensure they remain active.

Oh my goddddd

Nobody making this has any clue about distributed systems, do they
Are you familiar with the concept of cold wallets held by exchanges? https://www.longhash.com/en/news/3257/A-New-Way-of-Measuring...
Second this. It feels like this term means more someone who is trying to build a business that's not necessarily a VC backed/growth business.

It's what others may call lifestyle business, or just small business.

??
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The slavish devotion to the state that permeates HN is physically nauseating. You are throwing pearls before Nazis.
Here's the challenge:

Let's say there is a business that is successful and generating $10B in revenue and $1B in profit and valued at $15B market cap.

Now you want to buy it.

Historically, you will have to pay something like a 40% premium to its market value in order to acquire it. So you will pay $21B ($15B * 1.4) to own this company.

If you "just do nothing," then the company will presumably still generate $10B in revenue and $1B in profit (and really still be "worth" $15B).

So, you paid $21B for something worth $15B, making the shareholders of the selling company very happy and the shareholders of your company sad.

As a CEO, this is a good way to lose your job.

Effectively, you are forced to present (and attempt to execute) a plan for how the combined business either generates more revenue or has lower costs than the two companies did separately in order to get your board's approval on behalf of your shareholders.
There isn't really much difference. It's about the same amount of work either way to ship an extension.

In Wayland, you make the extension, then you patch every compositor, every toolkit and every application.

In X11, you make the extension, then you patch the X server, Xlib, XCB, every window manager, every toolkit, and every application.
I wouldn't rely on that one. As cool as Filecoin is, LE can query who has a given file and chase them and their ISP until they no longer advertise that file. Without secrecy you can't have a censorship-free solution.
What happens today when some kids move road cones so they point to oncoming traffic as a prank? You can have a car react the same way I did in that situation - slow down, take in the entirety of the situation ("cones say X, but that leads you into oncoming traffic") and ask the operator for directions or maneuver accordingly.

Just because some Teslas are dumb enough to drive into barriers today doesn't mean we can't continue improving the technology.
I'm not sure how you figure that 400k/yr (dual-income) doesn't let you buy a 2m house, putting aside the question of why you'd want to - there are multiple listings under 1.5m in "safe neighborhoods" less than a 20 minute drive away from MTV, and yes, they have 2-car garages.

You're probably looking at a TCO of ~11k/month (mortgage, tax, & maintenance, and it's really more like 9.5-10k/mo after the mortgage interest tax deduction), which is arguably an unwisely large % of your ~20k post-tax take-home, assuming you're putting away a substantial amount into 401ks, but you're left with 9-10k/month, which means you can put easily waste whatever you want on luxury cars (as if you can't be "very comfortable" leasing a new Japanese sedan for under $300/month instead of lighting money on fire for the pleasure of driving less reliable vehicles).

But, I mean, you _could_ if you really wanted to. And still have enough money to travel internationally twice a year. And outsource whatever percentage of your cooking you want to takeout. I'm glad you agree that a full-time nanny would be stretching the definition of "very comfortable", and private schools seem superfluous if you're buying expensive real estate, since part of what it buys you is a spot in the local public school, and if you don't want that you can relatively trivially arbitrage it away by buying a cheaper house in a different zip code.

Is it possible that those people are making the arguably sensible decision to rent instead of buying, because the price to rent ratio in the Bay is truly absurd, and not everybody cares enough about "ownership" to spend an extra 20-30k/yr on it? That doesn't mean that they couldn't make the finances work if they had to, they just have... different priorities. Like putting an extra 20-30k/yr into the market.
If the next one is Jean or Ada we know they took it from a google search.
Because you trade and automate assets through contract logic. The benefits of contract composability on Ethereum mean that the velocity of money increases because now assets can be manipulated by logic without an intermediary. So if someone wants to borrow your asset, you can deposit it into a contract and now can lend it out peer to peer, and have interest acrue on an ongoing basis. Assets can be more easily "put to work". This is exactly what banks do with your money actually, only with Ethereum it's easier so liquidity / velocity is greater with assets because they can easily move around. It needs to have decentralized consensus because otherwise it's not credibly neutral.

If a law changes and affects an on-chain asset, then that logic will need to be reflected on-chain, otherwise the involved parties won't come to agreement in the real world. There are ways to make contracts upgradeable on Ethereum while still preventing someone from stealing funds, like through a multi sig wallet, perhaps with lawyers holding some of those keys. It all depends on how it's structured, but the benefits of using Ethereum (or something like it) are clear.
> That's literally what charging for the copies does, though. People just want something for nothing.

Charging for copies to cover effort sounds suspiciously like a leaky abstraction.
Did you try disabling Javascript? The page looks fine in text-only browser I use. Does need Javascript to convey the information. As users, we cannot control what web developers choose to do with websites, but we can control what software we use to make HTTP requests and read HTML.
in california, you have the right to opt-out of binding arbitration within a period of time after signing any agreement.
I think the real mistake there is that they waited until that high bar was hit before reaching out - if they'd started the conversation earlier they might have figured out what discounts they'd have to offer to keep the business, got them on a long term contract etc.

We used Heroku for years and were spending around $2k per month (having increased from $1K a few months before) when we migrated the last stuff to GKE and our spending dropped to nothing instantly. I was pretty surprised to have nobody at all reach out to us to see why our spending had changed... Now we spend 7 figures on GCP instead.

Heroku solved a lot of problems incredibly well but they seemed to lose any ambition to be more than a salesforce deployment platform a few years after the acquisition and as k8s and other solutions have gotten better they just don't have a super compelling proposition now. I still use them to spin up side projects though as they still provide the best completely out-of-the-box experience.
In my old league, you earned a "patch" if u picked up a 7-10. I've seen it done once over about 40 years. Our lane went nuts when the guy picked it up.
36-year-old Brooklyn artist made over $46000 in six weeks selling NFTs
Wow that’s cool. Thanks for sharing.
The difference between doing it and doing it well is huge, but not unsurmountable.

It's worth a shot!
oh Puh-lease....

we don't have to imagine it, this isn't new, this is the Status quo.

And we're all to enrolled/busy/tired to give a shit about it. just make the customizing changes and move on.
It is combination of no innovation and the pricing model. The pricing model only ever made sense for hosting RoR applications due to particular sub-optimal performance characteristics of RoR at the time. Ten years ago you could get one meaningful VM instance for the price of one dyno and host anything you want on that but you had to somehow make that work. Today the price of one heroku dyno buys you one or two VMs where you just deploy docker compose or whatever (as long as it does not involve etcd, because then you are outside of the "free/cheap VM instance" category) and are done with it.
If it’s so much easier to start a new company, market a new technology, and generate a new fortune, why is our reported GDP growth so anaemic?
This is just changing the default permissions on a home directory -not a more complicated encrypted/systemd setup I thought it would be.
Well they bought the place in 2005 for about 1/3 of what the current Redfin estimate is, so probably very little?

And even if that were not the case, with real estate climbing 8% or more per year, they are still in line for a huge payday if / when they choose to sell.
Another former Paddle customer: I agree with Mike here. Additionally, issuing anything other than the most trivial coupon was a huge hassle, to the point that it distracted from other work (small team).
only extension I have i uBO, I didn't see anything.
> It worked decently with thick-skinned, more-or-less autistic men who communicated relatively infrequently over email and had an understanding that they weren't beholden to anybody.

It didn't work well, but it worked, sorta--until it didn't (see: jwz and xemacs).

The difference wasn't the maintainers--the difference was the users. The "users" have gotten exponentially more numerous and steadily less competent. (I have an argument that so have the maintainers, but that's less easily argued while the drop in competence of users is horrifyingly easy to quantify.)

A lot of complaints on the old newsgroups were met with "Send a patch or shut the fuck up". Generally followed by: "Alright, here's your damn patch, asshole. Now fix it."

This moves things along in spite of the general hostility and roughly scales. But it requires that the users are somewhat on the level of the programming capability of the maintainer.

It also doesn't help in the modern world that if you are a maintainer, you are expected to be some infinite well of endless tact instead of being able to tell some dipshit with teenage social skills: "Look, I don't give one ounce of flying fuck about you and your opinion and you can fuck right off to whatever primordial ooze you just crawled out from. You are killfiled." Then you get the Twitterverse whining at you even if you aren't on Twitter.

AOL created "Eternal September."

Twitter managed to one down that and created "Eternal High School."

So, who's got dibs on "Eternal Middle School"? Twitch, maybe?

In general, while I happily released stuff as open source in the past, I wouldn't dream of releasing anything now even if you put me under duress. If I release something as open source now, I have to perceive the benefit to ME as being very high.
You can use zero knowledge proofs if you really want to conceal the information in a contract, but still prove to the world that you've fulfilled that contract. If you're using public Ethereum, then presumably you want your contract to be public.
Isn’t this what Windows has done by default for a while now? Every user’s home directory is private to that user.
So now you have code in Gorm generating DDL and JPA code? In terms of the compiled LOC, doesn’t this add even more code? Not to mention another dependency to maintain.

Anyway - I’m definitely not advocating for raw JDBC, there are lots of libraries you can use to reduce the complexity of the integration with the database, it’s just that JPA is not (IMO) one of them.

One thing I don’t understand about your comment it “the usual mess of writing down the column name four times with raw SQL” - when is this necessary? ’update table set column=? where key=?’ has no duplicate names. Can you give an example?

I’m intrigued by how your solution to JPA’s verbosity problem is to add another layer, while mine is to remove one!
> To log a static snapshot with equivalent interactive expansion capability, console.log() would have to do a general deep copy of your object

Not necessarily, and if it did I don't think it would address the actual problem.

console.log could do all the presentation work upfront, right then and there when you log, and provide a collapsed view of that. This would have to include detecting and cycling handles, as it would have to do for a deep copy as you mentioned. The cost would be wasting cycles on this work even if nobody looks at its result.

But where it gets dangerous is if there's any side effects in following the object tree. If visiting for logging e.g. creates nodes, or changes them, or whatever. Arguably "you get what you ask for", but this and the performance hit for generating log output before anyone really looks at it deeply, are probably the main reason things are as they are.
In practice I find UI built with Tailwind to be a lot more consistent because all the dimensions are built from standard values instead of custom dimensions for every css class. The bigger problem in my experience is that most designers are too lazy to set up a type and color scheme up front and just drag whatever looks good to them in their sketch/figma files.
Android Auto is pretty much that.
What does red apply to? The button color? The text color? Both (sounds useless)?

If you told me a button were red, I would assume the button is red and any decoration on it (e.g. text) isn't. Not sure if that's what happens here.
Dragon's actually been around since 1982 (39 years). Sad story about the founders, Janet and Jim Baker, though.

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/business/goldman-sachs-an...
> "At the same time I do think kids, hobbiests, small startups, and people who can’t afford expensive computers will make use of RISCV on commoditized programmable logic chips like FPGAs."

No, they won't. By definition, FPGAs always give you less performance per dollar than custom silicon. If they can't afford an expensive computer, then FPGAs and the tooling to use them is even more out of reach by a long way.
The US banned plants and spend billions and billions to enforce it. Not sure why crypto would be any different? It can even be checked same way. "Sir, show me your phone." "What is this app? You are arrested for suspicion of crypto possession"
Why is it good to remember that? Is it even true? How many generations does it take to become from some place?
Thanks! I have some servers/RPIs at offsite locations (read: I travel between my student dorm and my parent's, one of them has slow DSL and the other one synchronous gigabit) to which I don't have personal access to most of the time (my development server running pojde[1] for example). Using liwasc I can remotely turn them on in case I accidentally or intentionally turn them off (happened more than once) and check if the services on them are running properly using the periodic background scans. So the "lights off"-datacenter, basically - I just put liwasc on a RPI in the LAN, expose it to the net et voilà :)

[1] https://github.com/pojntfx/pojde
> It's about distribution channels.

This is the part that gets completely glossed over when talking about creative output. I’m not convinced that the difference between an artist who commands eight figures in annual revenue and one who commands five figures is a simple matter of talent or dedication to one’s craft. Pop superstars, in particular, are the product of a promotion and distribution machine without which the actual artist would probably enjoy only a small fraction of their reach and popularity.

As with most political slogans, “pay people for their work” is in fact an extremely nuanced idea in practice.
Or they may not be able to raise cash, or they may be a private company without access to the stock market, or they may have bylaws preventing such a thing.

Either way, the employee is not made worse off because the CEO collects a fat stack of options at the expense of the shareholder.
It's worse than that. There is an opt-out, but you have to scroll down on the full page modal, even though there's no indication that you can scroll. It's not incompetence; it's malice.
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It would seem like the attack vector for this technology is SUPER simple to pull off. How do you trust self-driving cars that use this in a world where graffiti exists?
> If the creator decides that their NFTs are important, they will have value

The reason artists who believe in the value of their own NFTs get paid more is because they're nominating themselves as NFT spokespeople and attracting the attention of marketplace investors with skin in the game.

If you're the CFO of one of these marketplaces and you're faced with a choice of which NFT to buy, do you choose the guy who just tweeted "trying out this NFT thing lol", or the guy who acts like he's the next Andy Warhol and constantly pushes the NFTs-have-value narrative?
> Every time I see the newest Rube Goldberg contraption for deploying code, my first thought is trying to figure out why they didn't do something simpler, like Heroku.

Same here. After dealing with complexity of building an app the last thing you want is more complexity. And this time of a kind you're not comfortable with.

Obviously a lot of people were ready to pay to Heroku to hide that kind of complexity from them.
Wouldn't super high resolution longitude/latitude coordination (measuring close to a feet) help this to do it without any external tool?
Buy a dozen pairs all the same. Any two socks will match.

Otherwise, you have to sort them. I usually use the random sort method.

I take a sock from the pile. Does it match any sock previously taken? If so pair them and remove from the play. If not place that sock on its own in the 'previously taken' array. Repeat till all socks taken from the pile. Any socks taken but unmatched can be kept till next time or perhaps thrown in the rubbish bin.

This method is easier to do in practice than on a computer.
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It is not "fucking ludicrous".

Both stock comp and cash comp are the same from the shareholders view. They are not the same from the employees view. A higher cash comp for CEOs may well result in lower employee pay, a higher stock comp will not.
Yes, that's what I tried switching to using (from uMatrix + 'simple mode' uBO for cosmetic stuff only before).

It's just not as granular - you lose the 'type of thing to allow/block' dimension from the uMatrix matrix.
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I am. What's your point?

If you don't think crypto, an anonymous unregulated security, is being manipulated by a small amount of people then I have a bridge to sell you.
On your wine cellar?
Yes, jealousy and envy that other people do in fact make more money than I do. This is not a real societal problem, it's a personal and human nature problem.
Wow! This guy must have been told he wasn't allowed to use goto anymore. The do-while block here is just a nameless replacement for the label.
> 5) Reusable launch technology. The world still doesn’t grok this. They will. It (long term) enables access to orbit comparable to really long distance airfare or air freight.

I worked at ULA for a year about five years ago. At that time they were arguing that it wasn't going to be cost effective. Back then though there may have been one or two SpaceX landings.

since I left I haven't kept up with this debate at all. Do you know if ULA changed their stance after all the successful launches?
That should be a great band name!

The NFTs
My argument eliminated the third option. It doesn't hold water.