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I can't help but worry about Hoefler&Co's subscription service, cloud.typography. Monotype use to offer an affordable subscription called the Monotype Library Subscription. I still have it since, fortunately, they continue to provide the service to those who had signed up. But they no longer offer new sign-ups.

cloud.typography is affordable for personal/solo developer use ($99/year). The cheapest Monotype subscription plan is $7.5k/year. I worry that Monotype will eventually shut down cloud.typography, which will be a real shame if they don't provide some kind of affordable/non-enterprise alternative. These are some beautiful fonts. I would hate to see them end up behind a big paywall that only businesses can afford.

I'm really hoping they bring back some form of the Monotype Library Subscription.
I'd argue even without them Ruby would be alive in the sense that the core language would get frequent updates.
Even Perl is still alive https://github.com/Perl/perl5, even in a healthier state than I would have thought.
Better keyboard? Seriously - you want to go there?

Trackpad is a no brainer...
This, right here, is the marketing spend. I work in a bank in Hong Kong and look at me hearing about his mini craps ahah
This has not been my experience at at; people assume saying .xyz is a joke and then act surprised when the URL doesn't work and you say "no really, it ends in .xyz".

Roll your eyes all you want, but get the dotcom.
> new PATH= editing dialog

But that one in Win 10 at least seems like an improvement
Erm, what? Firearms causing more deaths than drunk drivers seems like a very strong argument for tighter gun regulation to me.
I hope China succeeds.

For all this talk about climate change dangers, the West is taking the most suboptimal approach.
You should read the book The healthy programmer by Joe Kutner. There are a lot of resources and tips for living a much better healthy. https://pragprog.com/titles/jkthp/the-healthy-programmer/
the tape relay was one of the TRS-80s IIRC. You could toggle it back and forth fast enough to overheat it and get it stuck.
Welcome to end-stage capitalism, where discompassionate corporations throw human lives into meatgrinders to maximize profit while being worshipped more than God.
Ux is snake oil nonsense and has no place in software design. They create change for the sake of change and dumb everything down as if complexity were a sin.
How long did it take you to get competent enough with your stack in order to be able to actually execute and build these yourself? Did you learn these skills through prior employment, college or self-taught?
So I'll take it you didn't like 'At Worlds End'
I don't see how it would be a good long term financial strategy to keep asking people to upgrade, and how are those financials looking when there are free upgrade paths?

I don't think we need more Windows. It's "good enough" as it is. As was 10. I think we need more doors, ceilings and kitchen sinks

What if 11 is it for now, and going forward focus on creating a Windows Store that is filled to the rim with MS-quality software that rivals those of their competitors. What if there was a MS quality Photoshop light for cheap in the Windows store? Or tooling for pretty much anything you can imagine, some for free some with a cost.

I say don't focus on the next Windows, focus on making it silly to even consider buying a Mac, or other popular software from other companies.

Upgrades to the 11 is of course needed, but we are talking touchups not rewrites.

I have been using 11 for a while, and I'm very happy with it. It feels generally more snappy, and a lot of features I ended up not using before because they just didn't work well enough are now polished and I use them every day.
He said, she said...

Customers and employees who wanted to rely on those "statements of direction" should have asked for a hard contractual commitment...
Sounds like that company has (had?) a serious management culture problem. Without giving anything away, was it a large well-known company, a large obscure company, a small well-known company, etc.? Curious about what kind of company creates such an environment.
Murder clearance rate by police has more to do with murder rate.

You are much more likely to get away with murder in the US (where clearance rates are 60% at best) than you are in Japan or the UK (where clearance rates are above 90%).
Then my source was too old, they just talked about Adblue dosage. What you say does make sense so, since after the software update cars in Germany had less power then before. My take is that Adblue dosage was the main issue so.
Haha, perjury. A straightforward and somehow also mostly harmless case of it too! This take is off the rails. They did not lie on the notice. Mistakes of law aren’t perjury in any case. Mistakes of any kind are not perjury! The word perjury in the declaration doesn’t make every slip-up an imprisonable offence. People should be wary of using the term perjury without knowing what it means, because you will get laughed at.

The only thing that would prevent GitHub from having to take it down is its terms of service. If you accept that this person and their alt account are the same person, then as GitHub does not contract with @usernames but actual people, they gave GitHub a license to publish it on the web, revocable by actions by the controller of the alt account. Or however the terms of service lay this out. I don’t think you need DMCA to get this done, you can probably just show you are the account holder and revoke the license via email. DMCA takedown obviously implies this and has a process already.
Germany is doing a huge disservice to everyone by continuing to burn coal instead of keeping (to say nothing of expansion) their nuclear power stations. I understand knee-jerk reactions to huge events like Chernobyl, but they should not last this long.

I think French nuclear energy companies profited off that handsomely.
You do realize that people eat deer? And other livestock? Is it not a leading hypothesis that the origin of COVID-19 was an animal market? If it exists in the surrounding environment that's not "elimination". There will always be a risk of an outbreak.

How many people are eating raw deer? Do you have evidence of spread of covid-19 from deer to people?

> "It's impossible to contain, therefore we should approach it as a harm mitigation problem, rather than a candidate for 'elimination', through vaccination, not dystopian lockdowns and restrictions"

Why not both, (as long as you don't include the word 'dystopian' which is clearly just an emotional word). Vaccination and restrictions can work together to address the pandemic.

If you're implying mandatory vaccinations, sure. But when you've got a percentage of the population not willing to be vaccinated, if that percentage of the population is high enough to overwhelm our hospitals, restrictions make sense.
If you're not a criminal, it's actually very unlikely that any of those things will happen.

The majority of shootings (more than 60%) are suicides; these are both intentional and generally lawful. Evidence suggests that most of the rest (between 20% and 30% of all shootings) are criminal conflict -- a lot of people with criminal records shooting other people with criminal records. Here again, there is a lot more to the story than just owning a gun. Unintentional shootings are fairly unusual, less than 4% of all shooting deaths. This is in part why thinking about guns has to be very different from our thinking when it comes to "safety" issues, like car accidents (95% of traffic deaths are unintentional).

The lawful uses of guns are, in fact, much more common than killings. These include hunting and target practice. Most gun owners will never shoot another person but that doesn't mean they don't use their guns.
Also on Formula 1 and other race steering wheels, a 90 degree turn to one way is full lock, so as far as the wheels can turn. This is several circles of a normal wheel. That is to say, either the yoke needs to have more movement per degree, or it will lead to awkward hand over hand movements. Both are terribly unsafe.
It's a basic public health measure during emergence of a novel communicable disease. No one would question locking down a small town temporarily if it was airborne ebola. You can argue about severity and what is an appropriate response, but to just say lockdown is harmful and off the table no matter how severe and contagious seems insane and suicidal for a society.

I'm not responding to what Facebook is doing in the article or coronavirus lockdown response specificly, just your statement: 'Seriously, they're called "lockdowns," because they are the very opposite of things you want to normalize in a free society.'

In a free society you still can't drive on the wrong side of the road. You can't go into a business and fire off shots in random directions (maybe won't hit anyone, like you maybe won't infect anyone vulnerable or infect someone else who will go on to during a deadly outbreak).
US lawyer convicted over police fight warns others
It should be in Windows 2000's place. ME was a Windows 9x system, 2000 was part of the NT family.
I think Dr. Greger - pretty much all his stuff, including all the free youtubes - are the bee's knees.

in short, that's vegan, low/no-added sugar, low-fat, lots of exercise, supplements, etc.

regarding exercise, i'm worried about it now that i saw a UK info-sheet that directly linked sitting with cholesterol. not a US-centric you risk being suspected of being at risk if you sit a lot-type argument, but a _direct_ argument.

and that latest study that said, every thirty minutes, get up and walk around for at least 3 minutes, and that will help keep your blood sugar in check.

and, thankfully, it and various other sources i trust (like Greger) said, even if you don't hit the ideal diet/exercise/whatever -- doing something, _anything_, is better than nothing, possibly a lot better than nothing.

so that's cool.

fortunately, i think there is a positive feedback loop. prob is starting. :)

if you're normal weight and adult, you're a 1%er - the 1% of americans (if you're us-american) - that are not overweight+++, so, good for you.
This isn't the time and place for polite shallow mutterings either. We're not at the funeral here, or barging in on the bereaved. If we're going to have a discussion thread about his legacy, it should be a fair one.
A Beginner’s Guide to OCR APIs
I preferred Contagion from 2011.
Or they just work for the competition where they're allowed to design new things.
Before anything else, congratulations. I've been there as well and I know how hard is to deal with chargebacks. They can easily break the whole SaaS business model.
It's the culture. In a lot of places equity isn't understood or valued. Pretty common outside the Valley and maybe New York and Boston. In Michigan startups the top five people might have equity and that's it.

The exception is Ann Arbor where they understand and value equity. It's also where they have the strongest startup culture. But things are starting to change in Detroit.
Vista was fine, no idea what's all the hate about.
Instead of looking from tech perspective, i try to look from the solution perspective. I see what can be done in short period and i choose that. If i need to learn a new thing then i will learn or else i will use what i already know.
Just use the web app on desktop with a password manager.

Unlimited identities switchable with a few mouse clicks.
How so? Plenty of large companies still use Rails. Plenty of startups still use it. I remember when SPAs were all the rage, now every JS framework is doing SSR, just like Rails did/does. What full-stack framework is as complete *and* allows for the same speed of development?
Why? Money doesn’t magically solve all cultural problems.
So you mean that you would rather live now than in the 1930s?
> This is because Visual Studio debugger was always state of the art.

AFAICR Borland's IDEs had that before the turn of the century.
They do have valid links further down the homepage though. https://glass.photo/om/3lyGawR7MzJx2M46BMqpsV
I don't think my friends thought my job was better, despite my regularly selling it. I failed to get them over for a happy hour or tech talk, which would have been a better sell than just talking about comp.

Mailchimp was also super "artsy" (they hire artists to do murals), and my friends talked about how cool the founders were. This played the biggest role, I think. They had a mythos.
That would require really powerful industry, and political will. While the former may be more or less present, the latter is apparently concentrated on totally different issues.
Same here - writing code in assembly, on paper, then looking up the opcodes in the back of the orange manual.

Having to write out the bytes and using DATA to store them, and POKE to put them in-memory. Calculating the JMP offsets by hand, and taking the time to SAVE to cassette before running it for the first time.

I didn't write much assembly, but I spent a hell of a long time removing protection from Spectrum games, and patching the code to give me infinite lives/time.
A way to like pair programming instead of hate it
At least some business users love leaving greasy fingerprints all over their surfaces.

First pre used surface I got I practically had to sterilise.
I build everything myself. There are so many no code tools, out there. Start with them, so you to go live will be much shorter and you will be able to validate your idea in a short time.
We do not speak of Windows ME
Sure. But they'd be more honest removing it.
The proposal seems wrong, but the article is a bit off too.

> As Mises noted, capitalism suffocates without loopholes.

The definition of “loophole” here, though, is actual tax avoidance. Wrong tack to take. I’ve worked in small and marginal businesses, we paid the taxes. No sympathy here.

The article refers twice to the idea that the reporting will be on movements of $600 or more- is that right? A plain reading of the text (below) suggests that the account balance is of $600, and the movements will be of any size.

The text, which is short and could have been included, is:

> This proposal would create a comprehensive financial account information reporting regime. Financial institutions would report data on financial accounts in an information return. The annual return will report gross inflows and outflows with a breakdown for physical cash, transactions with a foreign account, and transfers to and from another account with the same owner. This requirement would apply to all business and personal accounts from financial institutions, including bank, loan, and investment accounts,2 with the exception of accounts below a low de minimis gross flow threshold of $600 or fair market value of $600.
Other accounts with characteristics similar to financial institution accounts will be covered under this information reporting regime. In particular, payment settlement entities would collect Taxpayer Identification Numbers (TINs) and file a revised Form 1099-K expanded to all payee accounts (subject to the same de minimis threshold), reporting not only gross receipts but also gross purchases, physical cash, as well as payments to and from foreign accounts, and transfer inflows and outflows.
Similar reporting requirements would apply to crypto asset exchanges and custodians.

> Separately, reporting requirements would apply in cases in which taxpayers buy crypto asset from one broker and then transfer the crypto assets to another broker, and businesses that receive crypto assets in transactions with a fair market value of more than $10,000 would have to report such transactions.

> The Secretary would be given broad authority to issue regulations necessary to implement this proposal.

The proposal would be effective for tax years beginning after December 31, 2022.
> she's on trial for defrauding investors.

didnt her company lie to patients as well who took those tests?
Ok, I will just use tarballs from Mozilla site.
It is too long ago to properly remember, but during this time when building my desktops I always insisted on getting NT and then Windows 2000 in place of the consumer versions. Had some funny discussions with shops when buying licenses.
The "smart money"?

Interesting turn of phrase, when we're talking about screwing with one of the most complex, dynamic systems in the world (us, and specifically immune response).

The smart money is probably insider information. Anyone else is guessing about how dice came up for a few million years worth of rolls.

(Edit: Enjoying the knee-jerk reaction that I'm anti-vax(?))
Around 12 failed validation
So you contract it out?
At the end of the day, technical solo founders need to have some idea of who is going to buy/use what they build and how they're going to get paid. The type of person you need follows from this.

Some businesses actually need sales more than they need marketing. While there's often a lot of overlap for many tech businesses, it's worth noting that the techniques mentioned in this post (blogging, posting on social media platforms, appearing on podcasts, etc.) don't work for all businesses.

The blog post doesn't reveal anything about how the marketing achievements translated to sales. Hypothetically, for all we know, a small number of customers could make up the majority of this startup's revenue and how they were acquired might have been totally random if not based on sales and marketing channels unrelated or only loosely related to these marketing achievements.
This isn't just partisan nonsense, it is worse than that. Trump has encouraged people to take the vaccine. He was recently panned at one of his events for recommending it. Meanwhile, the MSNBC pundit cited in the top of this article pooh-poohed the vaccine when it was being promoted by Trump.

It isn't just partisan nonsense, it is a myopic obsession with a single former politician.

https://twitter.com/joyannreid/status/1306762734076342273

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/22/donald-trump...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/03/16/its-...

https://www.yahoo.com/now/recommend-vaccine-donald-trump-023...
Elsewhere in this thread I’ve claimed people should use the web app with a password manager. Sometimes you’ll get a “new login detected” thing and be asked to authenticate your current ip address via email. That can be a headache when switching accounts but you can easily just use an email client which supports multiple email addresses without having to manually log in and out again.
I'm seeing a lot of old or simple sites on the front page today. Are y'all using that new search engine[0] and unearthing cool shit?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28550764
I quit my job and worked on these full time.
I don't think the financial incentives question was so much a sincere question as it was bringing up a concern about other influences on his position.

I think it's a valid one. Humans are really bad at fully separating and understanding our influences, never mind selectively ignoring some them.

Given the perception of many YouTubers as being more 'pure' ideological advocates, I think it's reasonable to bring up. Now to be fair, most any YouTuber that's likely to be a topic of discussion has almost certainly moved far past the point of actually being that 'pure' ideological advocate.
Alex Murdaugh investigations explained, murder and fraud for 111 years
Yes i have crossed $400/day, its been 4 years now.
That’s not really accurate. Celera ran in parallel to the HGP, and (at least for a while) generated superior results at 1/10th the cost.
Checked it out, looks good! Thanks!
It wasn't a knee-jerk reaction, at least not in proper context. German nuclear exit was organized in the 90-2000s, formally under the red-green Schröder government, then delayed under the conservative government afterwards (so called Ausstieg vom Ausstieg) and then again overturned after Fukushima.

It's largely a secular trend in most of the world as nuclear energy usage has continued to fall, mostly for financial reasons.
Well it sounds like comp wasn't as important to your friends at that time. If that's changed following Mailchimp's acquisition, that's on them, not Mailchimp.
Actually, the record shows that Microsoft did very much try to crush Borland. While Microsoft did initially offer QuickPascal and embraced it (had no choice because of Pascal's popularity), Borland crushed them with Turbo Pascal 5.5 (1989) that had their version of Apple's Object Pascal (created in 1986) extensions. From Turbo Pascal 5.5 and up, it was using Borland's version of Object Pascal.

Note, C++ took a bit to take off, so didn't start to go toe to toe with Pascal until around 1992. C++ didn't get ISO until 1998. C# didn't happen until 2000. So Borland and Pascal were a thorn to Microsoft for years, not to mention Java (1995) and Sun.

Borland was eventually forced to sue Microsoft for unfair competitive practices. Microsoft was arguably playing dirty, and hired away many of Borland's top engineers. This included the creator of Turbo Pascal, Anders Hejlsberg. Who then Microsoft had him create C#, along with other ex-Borland engineers. In addition, there was all kinds of allegations during the 90s about Microsoft blocking or hiding APIs from Borland and negatively affecting their software.
Horace and the Spiders, as well as Horace Goes Skiing are very much part of my early memories of computers.

I guess Dizzy comes close, but Horace was the first "character" I played, and looked out for.
preach

would love to send about 10,000 doctors to jail, about 30,000 pharmacists, and break the AMA all at the same time.
On the contrary, I like using OSS stuff that someone else has to maintain.
I think you're paraphrasing wrong. Preventing the additional loss of thousands of dollars of that year's income and livelihood (on top of the calves that were lost) with a gun is more accurate. And additional loss would have been impactful.
Cloudformation works but is bit of a hog: it moves slowly and sometimes if it breaks down the only recourse is to delete all stacks and try again.

Customers are often alpha-testers of new products without it being clearly specified that the products are alpha quality. Then again, everyone in the industry does something like this, but the contrast between some rock solid AWS services and some others is quite stark.

And it's expensive.

But other than the alpha products, generally it works very well and is highly reliable.
What if they went for a critical supplier or patent holder, instead?
I think my favourite Usenix paper is appropriate here:

"Basically, you’re either dealing with Mossad or not-Mossad. If your adversary is not-Mossad, then you’ll probably be fine if you pick a good password and don’t respond to emails from ChEaPestPAiNPi11s@virus-basket.biz.ru. If your adversary is the Mossad, YOU’RE GONNA DIE AND THERE’S NOTHING THAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT." -- https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1401_08-12_mickens.pdf

Good passwords and biometrics help if your adversary is not-Mossad.

Anybody who thinks biometrics or encryption or anything short of "Magical amulets? Fake your own death, move into a submarine?" is going to protect them again a nation state level adversary is kidding themselves.
Applications also have to listen for messages that indicate a dpi change (moving between screens) and recalculate and redraw everything for the new dpi. The legacy codebases which are easily retrofitted to do that are the stuff of myths and legends.
indeed. it was the major public opinion back then to get out asap. You can say, it had a democratic stance.
Was the arm wrestling in 'The Mitre' or 'The Baron of Beef'?
Cool, I did not know that! What/when is this patent?
Yes, I have been told that. Frankly I always forget to be quite so procedural about it, but I’m always polite and cooperative with police, and generally let them guide the interaction, so it has never been a problem.