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Can you run SQL Server Management Studio with Windows Authentication? That's my hold up.

That said, what this dude is complaining about can be turned off in the main settings panel. If people can't figure that out they have no business in Linux.
Do what you are passionate about, despite the odds or what other people think about you. People will acknowledge your skill whether they see them or not. Stay hungry, and stay humble!
I like using session replays, maybe not for finding specific issues, but for understanding exactly how users browse the website, and which sections are confusing, which sections they skip, and which sections they focus on.
Firstly im not comparing myself to that guy, but you could say i have similar “odds” with starting companies and having them succeed, and I'm a solo developer.

Ive build close to 100 projects and companies that have generated over 1B in revenue combined with only one other person (the non-tech owner). I dont have a team, I just build alone on all these.

A few notes:

I have programmed for over 30,000 hours. 3x what people say the time is to mastery is

I look at things in a way that i haven’t really ever heard anyone else explain. I’m not sure if it’s unique but it IS the reason. Everything in my mind is a complex web of cause and effect down to the most nuanced level. In my mind it has a visual aspect even. You have causes (knobs and dials you can turn) to produce effects.

Part of meditation is that you can learn an idea more deeply (insight). This same idea sort of applies to what I said above. People miss the magnitude of this cause and effect statement. I’ve told many people and they’re like sure cool. In my mind this statement is like standing next to the tallest mountain. The magnitude and depth is profound. It’s of this magnitude because it means you are in direct control of your own outcomes. Anything you want, is a solvable puzzle. Literally. And the deeper level of insight you feel about this idea the more you are capable of.

Now for the actual process of how to navigate this cause and effect. My mind operates on a value formula. Every single decision, word, line of code, micro decision is basically a tradeoff decision. Not in terms of code performance but in terms of this cause and effect web, of EVERY action in physical reality. I have excellent ability to “project” causes outward and then find the “end result”, and essentially find the fastest path from A->B to get there. And this value formula always optimizes RESULTS over other things many other great programmers optimize for like knowledge. I just have a different style. So basically I'm always analyzing every single tradeoff as if I see “threads” of reality extending from every decision and what path I go down. As a simple example I might learn linear algebra and Bayesian statistics extremely intensely for 7 days to learn or build an algorithm, but then I hit a diminishing return where I will switch to something else knowing i can hire someone later to teach me and fill in gaps.

This is an extremely simple contrived example. In real life, instead of there being 2 variables there would be like 50.
OpenTDD is so great. I played the original when i was a kid. As a 35 yr adult i found OpenTDD and can i just say i love its multiplayer…
Don't confuse C and C++ because C99 covers a lot and it's 25 years old.
Absolutely correct. At a minimum you need:

- the vision of what you want to achieve

- the skill to achieve it

- the time to build it

I find that time is the most difficult problem to solve, especially since I had a family.
You can also use the outlook COM API and extract the data from the running outlook instance [1]. See [2] for a python example that extracts a '.ics' file.

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/vba/api/outlook.cal...

[2] https://github.com/TomSmeets/export-outlook-to-ics/blob/mast...
I'm pretty sure modern SNES flashcarts can do MSU1. The MiSTer FPGA can also support the MSU1.
I see no use case right now that would justify me buying one, apart from simple curiosity.

However I'm not assigning the device to the list of failed Apple projects just yet. It took time for the watch to find it's place, and it's doing really well. Hell, lots of people wrote off the iPhone when it was first released.

I can't see the VP being such a block buster, but I can imagine it finding it's niche over time. Killer apps can come from the users. And we're only at the first iteration so far, which is already a technical wonder regardless of if you can think of a use for it or not.
Just realized this article was written in 2015. Because I feel the biggest problem to overcome now is politics.

If we could magically rid the world of the toxic and addictive qualities of social media algorithms, (something technologists could do directly), and put more focus on fact finding and disseminating, it would have an impact.
What makes you say that these are all Stenbergs creations?

Could it be that these are just projects that use libcurl in some way?

I'm having trouble finding any sources that say that Daniel Stenberg actually worked on spotify, utorrent or openttd directly - just to test three of them.
Thanks for the feedback! We used the Three.js WebGL library and a custom-built game engine for the various interactions, pathfinding and game logic. We modeled the scenes in Blender and SideFX Houdini, and also baked lightmaps with Blender.
Reading through the comments, it seems a significant factor in success is perceived to be the availability of free time. This aligns with my own observations. However, as a father of young children, I wonder if there are examples of life plans that successfully combine family with exciting, successful software projects. I can only think of outstanding programmers who, during the prime of their creative work, were (apparently) free, unattached individuals without (forgive my blunt assumption) significant family ties. Am I mistaken? Are there counterexamples? In my experience, the most relevant skill one develops (and must develop) as a father is discipline and time management. Surely, that has to count for something, right?
Only works if you have a lot of funds or your funding model isn’t broken. Where I work it’s a big dance around funding IT to build or connect stuff for Ops/Engineering. Because it’s such a chore there are lots of alternatives (ticketing, middleware, event management/collection system etc.) or even shadow IT.
You mean businesses, not warlords.
I respect Guy Steel a lot but this argument is like complaining that

b = 1

doesn't compare b to 1 and return a boolean.

Lots of novice programmer think that's what equals should do based on familiarity with mathematics.

Using = for assignment doesn't help them solve problems either but it's what those with experience of programming generally expect.
You are so right. There are very few things I look forward to when thinking about eating out - french fries is one. I don't deep fry and air fry or baked at home does not compare to the real thing.

Steak is one where I've had better at a restaurant, but it was a $100/person type of place that work paid for. Mine at home is not quite there, but far above the average steak.

When I eat out now I'm hoping to find some combination of spices I don't use or some new idea to take home.
> Effort and consistency trumps all. Being a 10x developer has no effect whatsoever on what you can accomplish in work or in life.

Ehhh. There may be issues with the term 10x developer, but if you're using it then it literally means developers that are more productive than most other developers.
I get sad every time I see Susan's name. She died too soon.
Sounds like their ISP, Vodafone, is MITM-ing them. It's well-reported over the past many years that they do this, though whether its malicious or incompetent is unknown.
Fair enough. I lost track of the correct comment chain there.
The prometheus scrape format is widely supported by APM vendors.
Graceful is a misnomer, but there are better versions. If you are day, a database server, and you run out of memory and die horribly, availability for all clients is compromised. If you begin rejecting queries or connections until memory js available at least some availability is maintained.
Seems it's using LLMs (GPT4 in this case) to transcribe and summarise documents and draft notes, emails, etc.
Don't build one project. You'll be forever putting it off or finding excuses not to work on it.

Build two. Then you can procrastinate on each by working on the other.
If a man knows how to save the world from imminent asteroid impact, how much should he be paid?

If he does it without pay but asks afterwards for pay commensurate with delivered value, how much should he be paid?

Who pays it?
^ this but it’s very hard to keep that editor open all the time if you’re not “obsessed” with what you are doing.
The NYC MTA map is pretty geographic by metro map standards. There are some obvious distortions, like Manhattan being wider than it actually is and it's not actually vertical as noted before. It also includes a lot of surface street and neighbourhood references. Most metro maps just focus on station names.

Compared with something like the London Tube map or Paris Metro map it's extremely geographic.

https://new.mta.info/map/5256
Agreed. I've showed up nearly every saturday and sunday morning for the past decade, and I'm still working on the same stupid side project because I keep rethinking the fundamentals and going back to the drawing board. I'm finally nearing completion, but looking back, some time management and a clearer vision would have radically improved the outcome of my life thus far.
Wow, I have many osm 3D tools but nothing has come close the pretty-ness of that one!
Biological credentials could work even without revocation if you use a lot of them simultaneously.

It would be like asking for many usernames that are semi public instead of a username and password.

e.g. multiple fingerprints plus iris scan plus voice print plus facial scan.

So even if a few get stolen and successfully replicated somehow to fool the system into thinking it's a living person, it still won't be enough to steal the identity.
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This sounds like starting up in the USA becomes less viable. And this begs the question why VC is still focused on the USA. 2-3 million dollars in seed money allow me to scale much faster in Europe (and much much faster elsewhere), if only for the fact that the same money I have to pay for an entry level developer in the USA will get me a very senior developer in Europe. Or two, maybe three, juniors.... what do you think?
Total non sequitor, but the Apple TV + Home hub combo is really great. I love the privacy-by-design aspects, and that it works as a LAN device properly: totally unaffected when the network cuts out (which is frequently in my area).

The privacy invasion of literally every other tv-device / tv that isn't a DIY device is a total nightmare. I just want to sit down and watch a program without all my data going to 1000 different companies interested in profiling me. Have you seen what eg Samsung is doing with their TVs?? Or Roku? It's really nuts.

If you're already in the Apple walled garden, it's also really nice having good tv controls baked into your phone/watch/earbuds, seamless casting / display mirroring. I'm totally aware that you can get all of these setups without Apple hardware. But the integrated experience works really seamlessly.
Multi-lab test of facial feedback hypothesis by the Many Smiles Collaboration
Do you do this all in your head, or do you document it anywhere? How much time (or what percentage of the time) do you spend strategizing?
If you're looking for introductory material, I'd highly recommend Computer Systems, A Programmer's Perspective by Bryant and O'Hallaron: https://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/ It sounds like the material you're after would mostly be in chapters two or three through five depending on where you'd want to start. The second edition is much cheaper used and follows broadly the same path, though it does have x86-32 in the main text with -64 as an appendix ("web aside"); third swaps that.
A big part of my thirties has been making peace with the reality that I'm not that guy, and trying to balance that with still wanting to excel in the ways I can.

I don't have a better answer for you than the ones already posted here, but I am genuinely curious to read the responses to this.
Hello - I was one of the editors on this story. Here to say, thanks for reading and sharing your thoughts. It is indeed sad. We do hope our story revives some of the interest in these facilities that are ready-to-move in but empty. Maybe there are some Bangladeshi entrepreneurs or even a global company looking to build a remote workplace. These facilities could be a good place for them to put down their anchor!
It seems like an extremely straightforward term to me, describing corporations prioritising their own profit over customer experience. I’m a millennial and I’ve heard the term in use a lot longer than Gen Z have been around.
You forgot "give customer a meaningful discount for doing the labor of checkout."
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Read the post again.

These are Ludvig Strigeus's projects.
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I don't completely disagree with that, it's just that the ones who are really familiar with their tools will also iterate on half -baked ideas faster, because there are many things that come come up while on the chair.

And this is something that I actually intended to bring this point up in a thread I saw yesterday regarding thinking time and typing time but I procrastinated on it until today.

I follow the same principle whenever I type a reply. I'm not gonna pretend that the text I'm currently typing is a draft, but thinking about the things that are worth mentioning is something that I can afford after I started typing a response to your comment, if that makes sense.
> I stumbled upon Ludvig Strigeus while researching Daniel Stenberg

I believe the list is for Ludvig.
Change from healthcare to any industry and you'll often find the people picking the IT systems aren't the ones that use it, don't care about users concerns all that much and could likely be categorized as morons. This is mostly for large enterprises where IT is some department "over there" and organization size is > 1000 people.
What is so amazing about someone who throws themselves under the bus? Shouldn't a manager increase the probability of success?
You don't know if the GP tips or not. I along with some segment of consumers would be happy to pay the true cost of the service. Unfortunately in the last 5 years we are being bombarded everywhere with tips for what should be normal service. It is wildly frustrating.

On the flip side I would argue that if a single app is not paying well enough that a gig worker should try something else for work. Gig work like delivery is a commodity and not defensible. At some point gig workers should try something else if its not making them money.
Yes, this is one of the self-checkout offerings at Stop & Shop (US east coast) Bonus: You immediately know about pricing errors.
> what if it was dynamically scoped…. but statically typed…………..?

That's the right insight. Just give me implicit parameters (i.e. the statically typed versions of dynamic scoping). I'll build my own effect system, coroutines, exception and what not as needed.
Why not? You just have to use the time in the chair to sketch out a clear idea of how/what you are trying to build first.
Googled this guy to look into his background. Time-in-chair is definitely something he's got an edge on over the average person
“The primary cause of that is the burning of coal, natural gas, and petroleum in order to generate electricity and move vehicles around”

It was written almost 9 years ago and we’re almost in the same place.

Peak fossil fuels are expected in the next few years.

https://www.npr.org/2023/10/24/1207976763/global-shift-to-cl...
You didn't read the post... try again.
> Most of the general population have no idea what a normal distribution is.

They have an intuitive understanding of what an average is, though. And when provided a scale the vast majority of people assume that the average is in the middle. If some smart arse grading system is not intuitively understood by someone’s customers (and seriously, people have something like 10 seconds to make that choice), it’s not the users who are stupid.
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Thanks for the insights. It seems to me that this interesting explanation focuses primarily on the tactical level. On a strategic level: What drives you? That is, what criteria do you use to apply the thought process you described above?
Implementation of vision language model in a single file of PyTorch
I implemented a vision language model consisting of an image encoder, a multimodal projection module and a decoder language model in pure PyTorch. Think of this as a simplified version of what you see in GPT-4 or Claude 3 in terms of vision capabilities demonstrated by a language model. The name ‘seemore’ is my way of paying homage to Andrej Karpathy’s ‘makemore’ because here I use a character level autoregressive language model much like in his basic transformer implementation. seemore.py in the repo has the single file with everything in it.
I've been using a few NLP libs in ruby lately and it seems they're mostly all dead - at least the ones I've seen. I feel like everyone gave up and just moved on to python - or deep learning or something else more interesting.

Not saying they don't work, but if you click on a few from that last you'll mostly see last commit >5 years ago - in my experience.
I’m really not. A straw man is constructing a different argument that is easier to ‘beat’. I’m simply pointing out that the concept of outsourcing ‘lesser than’ jobs to Asia without considering that they will climb the value chain has an implied sense of intellectual superiority in it. I also point out the alternatives to that very point — capitalism tends away from long term investment and it’s possible that hindsight is retrofitting the argument of superiority. If you look at the British Empire though, there is historical precedent of arrogance and that arrogance persists without doubt in European culture. Just check out Musk and his great replacement theory views for a sense of how deeply race is ingrained into the economic psyche of significantly influential people. But, again, this is a point I’m making as a contributing factor — underestimating capabilities is not smart. Citations for your secret stealing points? But tbh it feels like this is a bot/troll engaging in Twitter-esq time sinking
Yes, I had that [1] in mind too when I saw this entry

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39962615
A sample of one isn't enough, and in any event their success is not reproducible. They had a major title in Half Life 2, convincing people to install Steam, but that was their last major title and it is not clear that they used this process at the time.

Going forward: Someone else created Counter Strike, someone else created DoTA, someone else created Portal, someone else created Team Fortress, someone else create Left 4 Dead. Valve took these projects on and polished them, but they didn't really create something new until Artifact - which failed in the market.

What you also don't see is all the unannounced projects that went nowhere, because that's what you get when people just get to play around on their own, indefinitely.
Yelp reworked its data streaming architecture by employing Apache Beam and Apache Flink. The company replaced a fragmented set of data pipelines for streaming transactional data into its analytical systems, like Amazon Redshift and in-house data lake, using Apache data streaming projects to create a unified and flexible solution.
> This is 100% unacceptable behavior of windows. You hmare looking at it from the wrong angle. This isn't a case of "Windows is broken because it crashes when the user does something and the work around is, 'dont do that's"

That isn’t remotely what I said though.

My point was: It’s both vendors fault.

If youd bothered to spend even 30 seconds longer to properly read my comment instead of knee jerk reacting to anything that’s even remotely sympathetic to evil Microsoft then you’d realise that I’m not letting MS off the hook for this. I’m just saying there’s enough blame to go round on this particular fault.
While I understand your point it seems to only focus on one side of things, a bit like trickle down economy.

Let's say the IT sector is completely automated. What would all those devs do? Now keep automating medicine, legal and everything else and ask what would those people do? What's remaining are probably manual labor jobs for which we don't need so many people.
Because if you ask the owners of most of these business, this was not the plan they had in mind.

Unintended consequences, it is one reason why business students study these cases, to hopefully not repeat them.

Try running a business with low margins and low skilled employees, you make choices or go out of business, some choices win, some don't.
To each their own.

Committed sitting in a chair works well. But it's not the only option. When my kid was born it completely destroyed the routine of long uninterrupted coding sessions. However it also made me realize that you can prototype and refactor in your head while pushing a stroller. Then you get back to the computer and just flush it all in its final form. The cherry on top is that, end to end, this takes less time than sitting in front of a machine and coding and re-coding.

But, again, this worked for me because of how I code. Sitting in chair worked for Blow because of how he codes. So YMMV.
> No I totally know it's in ascent, that's my point! Haha! :)

How do you "know" this? Show some proof! RSS has two well-known use cases: news and podcasts. It is fighting a pitched battle against players with deep pockets who want you to consume content where they can monetize it with ads.

Google Reader survived for as long as it did because such a service is incredibly cheap to run. Google only ended it to push people to Google+. Many of the various competing providers that popped up during that period are still around, but I would not say it is flourishing.

This is what Google thinks of RSS:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=R...

Note a rise and plateau centered around 2005 and a brief peak in 2013 (when Google killed Reeder).
Sometimes I investigate how costly to implement an undo function for a step too.
Notice in the advertisement where it says "Costain is Changing the Face of San Serriffe", what they are actually adding is a serif, to both cases.
You misread the OP.
Ive never really written it online, but I have spent dozens and dozens of hours trying to explain it to people on the phone.

I don't spend any conscious time strategizing, as if it's a separate thing. It happens 24/7 on autopilot where I cannot "turn it off".

Its more like putting on magic glasses which show you the future, as if you could see colored lines sweeping outward from your decisions... and you move your hand and the path arcs a different way where you can see how a decision affects a future outcome, kind of like a game of hot or cold.

It's not actually like that of course, but that's a good analogy. It's something that I cant UNSEE and therefor every action I take has this value formula calculation / cause effect projection "baked in" such that I dont have to "do" anything.
Apply that to a larger scope than writing a program.

Your family is something that you're trying to build. Put into that the time needed. If you wind up with not enough time for writing a program, that's fine. In the battle for time between your family and your program, the program should lose.

One of my biggest failures was focusing too much on my pet projects when I had small children.