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Absolutely agree! Doing this with dynamic languages are much harder. Unless, of course, one works on ASTs at run-time.
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I like Ferris and disagree with the article but she's right, he is bragging and name-dropping a lot. Must be a worthwhile marketing tactic if he's doing it so much..
Semi-related, I don’t understand how authors can pour so much work into a book and let it be published with a mediocre cover and backmatter. The old saying is just the opposite. A bad and cliche cover is the real death sentence for a book. And the summary on the back, that’s almost more important than the first chapter! Do authors and publishers really believe that smattering reviews on the backside would somehow impress a reader? “I love this book” says New York Times. Okay…? What’s the pull?

IMO the backside of the book should be written in the style of the novel rather than a marketing pitch. Let the reader get a glimpse of the story from the main character’s perspective in their own words.
Well they updated the icons, now they're more modern but worse ;) (but resizable)
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I don't think that applies here. My understanding was that in Bridgeman v. Corel, Corel wasn't using Bridgeman's images, but images taken by a different photographer of the exact same subject as the photos Bridgeman claimed copyright on.

In this case we're clearly talking about the exact same photo. Had someone from Capcom taken a picture of the exact same broken window as this photographer and used that photo instead then there wouldn't be a case.
This reminds me of how the developer of MINIX, Andrew S. Tanenbaum, found that Intel put his operating system on millions of machines only after reading about it in the media: "I guess that makes MINIX the most widely used computer operating system in the world, even more than Windows, Linux, or MacOS. And I didn't even know until I read a press report about it."

https://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/intel/
> Hungry starving sick people make the least effective revolutionaries.

This is clearly historically incorrect.

> Super-rich as a class exists because we let them exist, but there is a reason we let them exist…

What reason is that? They exist because they are powerful, thus hard to topple. That the SEC and FTC are so ineffective (and ridiculously small pieces of the puzzle) is evidence of that.
Heck, most UI elements aren't even resizable. A standard feature of "obsolete old" UIs is now nowhere to be found as I wrestle trying to fit all the text into sidebars.
>> "Somewhere I’ve read something in the lines of “I’m not five, I don’t have a favourite color”."

That comes off as combative and doesn't make any sense. There's no connection between getting older and losing the ability to have preferences. I answer hot pink because it's true, and because it surprises people who think they know everything about me based on outward appearance.
I'm a bit of a Disney geek, not for their content, but for their business history. I got reading a bio on Walt years ago and was astonished by how much Disney really is a "start up" in many of the ways we think of them today. Walt and his people were wildly inventive and incredibly driven. And that inventiveness, though not always perfect, is still very much within the company's DNA today. And I think it plays as much a role today in Disney's dominance as their IP.
Since we are talking notepad++, it takes up 11mb of disk space, the instance I have open here with 45 documents takes up 6.6mb of memory.

Winamp was already mentioned in another comment. While 160mb is "fine" on 16gb systems, it's still much more than similar apps used to take up and will not be much fun on a 4gb system, which is what many not so technical people still use daily.
> It’s just not realistic to have someone drive halfway around the planet. I get that he’s in a giant rover, and so can traverse across obstacles much larger than the robotic rovers could. But he certainly wouldn’t be doing that at 25 kph.

I'm interested to know why exactly this is the case. Would the vehicle tip over too often? Would the tires wear out? Would the engine break down? And if these problems exist, will they always necessarily be there or would it be possible to develop a rover that could indeed traverse half the planet?
You are seriously trying to claim George Washington was not a ruler? Sure he wasn't an absolute monarch and he did retire after 8 years. But he was president and the president is a ruler who has a lot in common with a constitutional monarch. One example, King George signed bills of Parliament into law, President Washington signed bills of Congress into law.
This has probably something to do with big tech companies putting out highly polished products for "free" while making money in no-so-obvious ways. People have been conditioned to expect high quality work for free.
I personally think it's most healthy to develop open-source software when you are the target user.

This way incentives align so that there's more intrinsic motivation to work on the software.
> Spotify is a music streaming service.

That being said, I stream Spotify music through foobar using an external plugin, mainly because it is so light. Yeah, it isn't perfect, but if there was a demand for a light app, it is perfectly possible.
> If all these people would have acceptable work conditions, we would have to pay way more for clothing, food, electronics... you name it.

Are you saying that would be bad?
I am using Office 2016 Professional (Microsoft does give it away at dirt cheap prices to many corporate employees). Desktop version installed using an .exe.
Is anyone actually advocating everybody have a 4-hour work week? Of course not. Tim Ferriss doesn't even specifically advocate a work week of 4 hours. The point is to delegate to the maximum so you can spend as much of your time doing what you choose - which can include working. Unfortunately there are always going to be jobs that need done and some of them suck. We should pay these people well and we should appreciate the work that they do.

Unless we completely change our economic systems some people are going to have easier lives than others. A medium article bitching about that isn't going to change it. There are people with much easier lives than the author - but the author also has a much more privileged life than most.

Reducing the worlds inequalities and problems to "millions of “enlightened” bros" and "fragile white males with degrees from Princeton, and podcasts selling high speed internet" is ridiculous.
Need to justify the time spent on it to management.
That’s a ridiculous stereotype. Regardless, how long do you think one can stay obese without food?
> Tons of people go through life without considering any alternatives to the path they are on, or developing the self-knowledge about what they actually want, which is a big reason so many people end up so unhappy.

This feels like an expression of the "just world" fallacy[1]. It's entirely possible that many of the people stuck in 50hr/week jobs did all of the things you list but didn't get the lucky breaks Tim did and so are still working 50hrs a week.

Consider an alternative reality where everybody read 4HWW, took that advice to heart and proceeded to apply it to their life. Would everyone be working 4hrs/week or would you still need some people to work those 40hr/wk jobs that keep the world running?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis
I'll graciously accept that as a good point. Thanks!
A lone developer can not maintain more than one or two open source projects at a time. I know for me, if I don't see any traction at all in the community once I get a project to some sort of MVP state, I will lose interest and move on. My github has many dead 1.0 projects :)
> it's not as profitable as providing it on a subscription (dare we say "rent")

Simple but excellent point. We should just start calling it what it is. xbox game pass, adobe software, it's all just renting. Subscriptions are supposed to be for access to new stuff, not continuing access to the existing stuff.
Maybe it is from all the years I have spent trying to trim my overly verbose writing, but "was to remember" grates on me as a needlessly inflated way of saying "remembered."
Supporters =/= voters

The supporters are the PACs and special interest lobbying groups exchanging funding for political achievements.

Voters are just the marginalized workers whose favor needs to be curried every so often to keep critical analysis of our sociopolitical economic reality in check.
"That said, I can’t agree with the author’s argument that we need to put a legal upper limit of 35 hour work weeks on everyone. That wouldn’t actually solve the problem of certain people abusing systems to work less than others. It would just require even more people to pick up the slack."

I think that's the key. If more people are required to pick up the slack, the supply of labor is reduced. That means that the pay for labor is increased. It also flows upwards. If a manager must only work 35 hours a week, it requires three managers to do the work of two, creating upward pressure. (Now, in practice, nobody is going to be able to stop the startup CEO from working more hours. It stops somewhere.)
> I've been close to burnout and letting it go at least twice

Why don't you? That's how you get people to step up.
>If it is, then you're admitting that you just don't care about the harm that could occur (and trying to minimize the responsibility you'd have by hand-waving the issue as being "other people")

No, to minimize harm is my eventual goal.

There are multiple way to achieve that.

You can try to by privacy or by fixing the actual issue.

I would much prefer the actual issue to be fixed.

When you fix the actual problem, the privacy become irrelevant.

>If it is not OK to destroy people's privacy in this situation, then your entire argument about how the coerced loss of privacy isn't a problem is contradictory

My argument is the loss of privacy by itself its not a problem.
Based on my visits to the USA, I think that’s mainly because Taco Bell and McD are cheaper than anything even vaguely healthy from any American supermarket.

(Regions visited: Central and North California, I-80 highway between SF and Salt Lake City, New York-Newark conurbation, Boston-Providence area)
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Unless you're talking about self publishing, most authors don't get a strong say in how the book looks. That's up to the publishers. And it's my understanding that publishers really do believe those pull quotes really do affect sales.
Your historical summary leaves out quite a bit of actual information in order to simplify and provide a one-sided explanation. Too bad I got sucked into arguing with you when you obviously have the founding fathers as part of your identity and aren't open to discussing it.
> I think GitHub should really have a way for users of your repository to somehow illustrate that they're using your project.

Well "stars" are kind of like that. Also the insights page tells you how many times your repo is being cloned per day, so that's one metric you can use to see how "used" your project is. You can also search GitHub for the name of your project and see how many other projects are cross referencing it.
Dear open source software maintainers,

Don't use only PayPal to accept donations. There are countries out there (i.e Turkey) that don't allow PayPal payments.

P.S: I'm not specifically addressing to Pedro Nauck.
You can clone the project from github and customized it as you like for your personal working.
#funfact: To implement an affordable UBI "paid" by VAT you need to increase the VAT so that its not anymore an affordable UBI.
Because the fine isn't the interesting part of this settlement, this is:

> "Google proposed commitments aimed at improving the interoperability of the Google Ad Manager services with third-party ad server and ad serving platform solutions," the watchdog said.
> the marginal hours between 50 and 55 may actually be negative.

It has in fact been proven to be negative:

https://igda.org/resources-archive/why-crunch-mode-doesnt-wo...

https://lifehacker.com/working-over-40-hours-a-week-makes-yo...
I recently heard Project Hail Mary mentioned. I didn't know Andy Weir wrote a third book until that moment. It's a great novel on par with The Martian, and after the success of The Martian, I'm surprised I didn't hear about Project Hail Mary sooner.

I use an adblocker and don't watch TV comercials. Does anyone know if Project Hail Mary was advertised? I guess that's one downside of not seeing ads.
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Amarok 1.4 was so good that I switched to linux for it, even bought a t-shirt. Amarok 2 was what made me leave. I've toyed a bit with quodlibet and clementine, but for me 1.4 was the peak music player.
I wonder how does this compile down to a non-existential instruction...

"To be or not to be"
Could we put Nobel laureates in scare quotes. The Nobel Prize in economics wasn't actually established by Alfred Nobel but instead Sweden's national bank trying to add credibility to their pseudoscience. The official title of the prize is the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

Even members of the Nobel family have come out and said the prize is bullshit.
I remember using and liking Winamp, but I didn't use it for anything other than playing music files. How was/is Winamp more capable than the Spotify app?
I'm not sure how I'm supposed to have any kind of sympathy for a manufacturer who wants to offer a worse product for more money. Especially when that directly translates to higher food costs for everyone.

I'm not saying communism is the answer, but a free market where your choices are a crappy "cheap" product or an acceptable product for twice the price isn't something to be proud of. Oh, the market will solve the problem. Well this is what the market has produced, so that means this is the best possible option. It's like some kind of religion. If this is what the market has decided, then it must be the best thing and we have no right to question it.
You surely are allowed to break it if you want at the cost of loosing the waranty. If you mean you want to be able to break it and still have the waranty then no.
The sweet spot for maximizing productive work done in a lifetime is no where near 11+ hour days 7 days a week.

It’s a common illusion that people are putting in those kinds of hours for decades, but the reality is people end up goofing off or burning out.
Or he's just been craving some greasy burgers recently. Jumping immediately to health issues is a bit much IMO
Wreck-it-Ralph kind of cheated, but... how many different styles of 3D animation did you see in that film alone? (Wreck-it-Ralph is sort of the "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" of this generation, so it makes sense. No one will say that Betty Boop has a similar drawing style to Woody Woodpecker, even if both are characters in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit")

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Thanos (Avengers: Endgame), Shrek, Davy Jones (Pirates of the Caribbean), the Na'vi (Avatar), Spiderman (Into the Spiderverse), and the recreation of Princess Leia (Rogue One) are all 3d animation. Would you argue that they're the same style?
They definitely did, since they promoted fish oil consumption in their healthy lifestyle propaganda ads since 1950s and maybe even earlier.
The nice thing about Altium is that they also cater to low profile customers, like me. I have been using it for 27 years, and if Autodesk buys it, it may turn to shit; probably some cloud BS, which is the way things are going.
Hungry starving sick people make the least effective revolutionaries.

Surely not. Starving people are desperate people, and desperate people are always dangerous.

Fed People with most of their basic needs met and a few luxuries make the least effective revolutionaries since they have little to gain and are terrified of losing the little they have.
One of these days, a startup will tackle this problem and offer paid support for any open source project.
I’ve recently started to use Autodesk’s Fusion 360. It’s an abomination!

It’s so user hostile and constantly getting in the way of getting work done. Years ago (2001 ish) when I first started to learn CAD I used PTC’s Pro/Desktop. It’s a simple package and not without its faults but when you consider the pace of technological development since then it’s appalling how much CAD has stepped backwards. Everything is clunky, cloud strangled, ribbon interface befuddled and runs like molasses.
"You get a bug report from somebody. You spend 3 hours debugging and coming up with a patch. You ask the user to test it out. The user never gets back to you."

Oh this reminds me I just fixed a users' code, added a bunch of documentation and a fully working example to my library last week. Let's see if they replied or closed the issue! opens github no new comments well I feel your pain.

What I ended up doing in two of my more "popular" libraries that got a lot of newbie questions is just close Github Issues. One is super-stable, and the other not but it's a beast and I know I'll never rewrite it from scratch as it deserves. Both are considered feature-complete by me though, so I closed the issues and I had a big drop on random free support questions while the PRs that come through are normally higher quality than the issues.
So you aren't allowed to be a minimalist once your bank account reaches a certain figure?
I'm assuming the $55.1bn is international, not just in France. What was its revenue in France? What would its profit look like if other nations fined it similarly?

We don't need a single nation to fine FAANG or others "once and for all" on behalf of all nations. We need every nation fining them over and over again for each offense.
But you could be working during that time, giving at least some stimulation and sense of accomplishment. Listening to someone drone on about nothing you care about only serves to remind you that you could instead be doing something productive with your time.
> our quite privileged lifestyles do have a concomitant cost for somebody who needs to service our day-to-day needs and wants.

But it stands to reasons that those who service our needs are doing so because it’s better for them than the alternative.
If there is a systemic problem which results in lack of viable alternatives then attack those systemic causes, but it’s not obvious to me how those of us who who benefit from these services are the main cause of this issue.
This seems tantamount to blaming Oscar Schindler for underpaying his Jewish factory workers rather than seeing the bigger picture in why those workers were happy to take low paying factory work.

You almost make it sound like the people who service our needs are forced to do so. It’s not like they’re giving up life of comfort and leisure because they’re forced to do our laundry.
Agreed. Joel Spolsky covered it in the article - https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2007/12/03/talk-at-yale-part-...

Quote from the article - "The old testers at Microsoft checked lots of things: they checked if fonts were consistent and legible, they checked that the location of controls on dialog boxes was reasonable and neatly aligned, they checked whether the screen flickered when you did things, they looked at how the UI flowed, they considered how easy the software was to use, how consistent the wording was, they worried about performance, they checked the spelling and grammar of all the error messages, and they spent a lot of time making sure that the user interface was consistent from one part of the product to another, because a consistent user interface is easier to use than an inconsistent one.".
Some people are just built that way. I imagine many people here on HN could cope with isolation pretty well (I know I can). I imagine that's something NASA would have screened for too in its Mars mission selection.
Isn't this the dream of automation, though? That all those shitty jobs are replaced by robots, and the humans are left with only the interesting, creative, ones?

Those old pictures of banks, where there were huge rooms full of 100's of clerks, all busy doing double-entry book-keeping. Now that's all done by computers and the clerks are doing something else, almost certainly something more interesting.

The problem, of course, is that the benefits of automation are accruing to the owners. If Amazon manages to replace all their warehouse staff with robots, then the benefits go to the Amazon shareholders. Which is OK, because the shareholders funded the creation of the robots. But as a society, we need to spread this more. We need UBI.
As this is a french fine, you probably should compare it to the french revenue (couldn't find it except an estimated $2bn in 2019) ?
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Of course not, but it's slightly ironic asking that question on HN where the only viable exit strategy for many startups is to get acquired.

It's also worth noting that Altium didn't say no. They said the offer wasn't high enough.
The author of the linked article seems to be confusing documentation with a tutorial. Their examples are firmly in the latter camp.

To your point - I would argue that passive voice is more appropriate for documentation, and active for tutorials.
> somebody who needs to service our day-to-day needs and wants

Someone chooses to provide a service.

> people who are used in low-wage countries

Where wages would be lower without manufacturing like shoe making.

> well-paid career in banking

Here's hoping software eats that part of the world earlier.
I learned about it via an ad on my Kindle lock screen. One of the only ads I can remember that led me to a purchase. Great book!
I'm genuinely surprised at how many people are in some way put off by the images. I wonder if there's a cultural thing about people who dislike dogs generally. These kind of comment streams are always a good reminder about how you can never anticipate other people's responses.
My only wish for a new Notepad++ release would be to handle multi-monitor high DPI properly.

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus/notepad-plus-plus/issue...
Also the cost of living and general social financial structure is raaaadically different in the $8 an hour country vs the $1.50 an hour country.
People are downvoting OP for this but they are not wrong. Article very clearly has the authors name on it and its posted on Medium where the author gets paid based on user interaction. They are very clearly attempting to leverage Tim Ferris' name for personal benefit. Nothing wrong with that but why downvote someone for pointing it out?
The increasing consolidation in the professional software market is concerning to say the least. I remember back in the day Macromedia made fine authoring software like Flash and Director, the best lightweight vector software Pagemaker and others. Since adobe gobbled them up they have a quasi Monopoly on design and publishing tooling. Everything became a slow, entangled, expensive mess now called "Creative Suite". Same with Autodesk and how they turned e.g Maya from one of the greatest software packages of all time into a bug-ridden shadow of its former self.
Tools like Blender and KiCad really get my hopes high that we have a century of industry standard open source software with good UX ahead of us. I would be much more to e.g pay 50 bucks a month to blender foundation than being a hostage of Creative Cloud.
I am very happy that Altium decided the way they did.
Disney was on the ropes several times. Hand-drawn animation is a hugely expensive hits business, and at the beginning there wasn't a library providing huge ongoing royalties to tide them through the gaps.