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I enjoyed that story; my father could have written it, although at a large railroad as the setting. As per the very end of the story, lets just say it was into the 00s before we ran out of what seemed to be an infinite supply of bookmarks and art project stock paper.

I distinctly remember as a kid watching the first star trek movie on TV on a VCR tape and making a shoebox sized model "Enterprise" out of many used punch cards and about a roll of scotch tape, although that was hardly the only art project or whatever using punch cards.

I would say by the 90s the very concept of a punch card had pretty much disappeared from the general public conscious and general public people were mystified what my bookmarks were, what is that peculiar artifact I'm using as a bookmark?
Yeah, all the people I know who have a pixel (three) spend a lot of their time in linux. I think that the pixel is better conceived of as a really, really nice linux laptop rather than a netbook. That said, the market there is probably really small.

Of course, the pixel is also just an excuse to push parts and system manufacturers so that high-quality screens, keyboards and touchpads may trickle down into the regular chromebook market.
What the heck is this!!
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Isn't this guy severely mentally ill and previously shadowbanned for posting long racist rants? Any money given to him should go toward psychiatric help. Also, TempleOS deserves to be in the Museum of Modern Art? Give me a fucking break.
> Give them room to express their views, even if you think they're wrong, because this is something they are often denied the right to do.

Everyone should have a platform to safely express their opinions, but if their opinions are incorrect then they should be challenged and debated. Statements shouldn't be protected from scrutiny just because they are being uttered by a woman or a minority.
TOS: http://fixedroute.com/tos.html
Some people will be more likely to buy a more expensive product, even if the price/value ratio is inferior than a cheaper alternative, merely because they want something better, and can afford the trade-off.

Not everyone needs native software. I work in an office in which over half the employees use Chromebooks because they don't have any requirements beyond web-based applications and the Google ecosystem.

Don't underestimate the value of 'incredibly simple', 'virus-free', and 'always up-to-date'. These factors may be worth much more to another sector of the market than to you.
obi-nine you appear to be hellbanned - by default no one can see your posts.
I have thought this recently. The people who get richest often are the ones fucking up things.

The oil industry for example is making a mess of the environment, but many people rich. Like wise the guy who invented tetra packs is rich, but what a waste - a plastic carton for every litre of milk? Better off when we were recycling glass.
Nope: a statically-typed subset of Python that compiles to JavaScript and C#
Nice. I was half considering doing it myself, but it looks like it's already done :)

I'm considering using this to redesign the UI on one of my products. Hiring a designer is a huge pain, but this is a viable alternative.
TempleOS is impressive. The only thing I could say after watching the youtube presentations was "wow". I see great value in it, at least as a teaching tool - a bit like Minix.

But there's more to it. Another potential use would be for hardware intensive tasks, when you want to squeeze the last bit of juice you have. Maybe for nodes doing distributed computation where GPU are not the solution, to remove the cruft of a full OS. The compiler would have to be quite optimized too, and some network features would be needed. Then there are some scaling issues, but still, if TempleOS could be say 10 to 20% more efficient than a standard Linux, there could be a usecase. Even for a smaller percentage, I believe some guys in finance would like that advantage for high-frequency trading.

I will follow your progress with great interest. Best of luck!
I read Ruby 3.0 is coming in earlier then expected. Likely with concurrency, some sort of types, JIT or AOT for easier deployment.

But Just when should we expect Ruby 3.0? 2020?
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Strangely even technically competent managers seem to favor presence and subservience over actual results, at least for lower-level engineers at bigger companies. Thankfully at least the senior engineers will be in your corner if you know what you're doing.

It's also common to see brilliant engineers "broken" after going through job after job with the same ridiculous politics and the meaninglessness of exerting anything but the minimal effort.
My bit of feedback would be that having the annotation dialog cover any part of the code at all is going to create a lot of frustration. Omniref's side-by-side approach is much easier to read.
Have you tried making the operating systems then use in the movies?

It looks like the classic hacker's OS.

Maybe you could sell forks of it to hollywood.
Well unlike insurance premiums, we don't get a choice in paying taxes. And the poor who don't have the money to pay taxes are still covered. So while what you say is true in one respect, its not really the same.

And it has been well documented that the American system is very inefficient compared to Europes.
You're confusing lobbying with political activity. Greenpeace's power comes through citizens, advertising, and information, not lobbyists. They have 250,000 members in the US and are widely known and quoted. But last year they spent only $30k on lobbying out of the $3.2 billion spent, or less than 0.001% of the total.

Source: http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/
I would if I could structure the 30 hours myself. For example, I would rather have 2.5 12-hour days or 3 10-hour days than 5 6-hour days.
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Some people have broken legs. Some people have diabetes. Some people have cancer. Terry has a mental disadvantage. Come off your throwaway and say this if you really want to rip on Terry.

Terry, ignore the hate as you've done in this thread so far. There will be a lot of naysayers, and that's okay. You're an incredible, incredible talent.
No. 2nd coming is intense.
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Like someone else has said in this thread. YC accepts non profits.
a number of historically productive geniuses had schizophrenia, as well as other mental illnesses.
"...this experiment owes its intellectual roots to the industrial organization of cereal baron W.K. Kellogg, who replaced the rotating eight-hour shift schedule at his plant in Michigan with six-hours periods, resulting in an explosion in hiring and lowered production costs."

In Sweden, this is a no-brainer. In the US, for salaried workers, it's an interesting possibility. For factory workers? They were probably only paid for 6 hours, given a 36 hour work week to avoid "full time" status so paying for benefits could be avoided, etc.

I wouldn't be so fast to praise US businesses for lowering hours in the work week - there was an explosion of this practice after the ACA passed, so employers could avoid paying for healthcare.
There are also nice antifiltering tools, that map any string onto a string that should look exactly the same, but is composed of different ascii characters, would be nice if you had one.
It would have to be a state-of-the-art code diff tool. I've never used a diff tool that can accurately track a line of code through big refactoring changes. They are really only good for small incremental localized changes.

I think that says more about the weakness of mainstream diff tools than it says about the problem. I don't really know how difficult it is, but I'm guessing just a slight amount of semantic understanding would get you way beyond the quality of current diff tools. Kind of sad that nobody is doing it. I use Perforce every day on a really large, old code base, and it's depressing how awful the differ and "blame" tool are. Especially because those tools's usefulness seems to increase in proportion to the size and age of the code base. I guess programmers are masochists; we really haven't put that much effort into our own tools...
I've said it before and this review really cements my view - this laptop would be absolutely perfect for me if it had more storage.
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Having inspiration, whether from any ideal or from God, is what makes one burn the midnight oil, and design something out of the ordinary.

It increases not just efficiency but something else harder to define, something that could be said to be beauty. It makes the result stand out as a something special, where all the parts have a purpose and are arranged in just the right way. Read http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/djb to get a better idea of this something:

djb’s programs are some of the greatest works of beauty to be comprehended by the human mind. As with great art, the outline of the code is somehow visually pleasing — there is balance and rhythm and meter that rivals even the best typography. As with great poetry, every character counts — every single one is there because it needs to be. But these programs are not just for being seen or read — like a graceful dancer, they move! And not just as a single dancer either, but a whole choreographed number — processes splitting and moving and recombining at great speeds, around and around again.

But, unlike a dance, this movement has a purpose. They accomplish things that need accomplishing — they find your websites, they ferry your email from place to place. In the most fantastic movies, the routing and sorting of the post office is imagined as a giant endless choreographed dance number.
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>"I'm curious, have you ever lived in a country without strong centralized law enforcement? I have. It sucks."

Did that country also have laws against carrying firearms? How about laws that prevent individuals from defending themselves? E.g. Castle-doctrine, self-defense, private security firms, etc. You may hail it as proof that without a state, safety is not ensured. But I see it as an unfortunate limbo position where there is no protection provided by the state to the inhabitants, and there are also legal/state obstacles in place to prevent private individuals from performing that function.

I live in a country that is in the top 40 on the list of per-capita murder rates in the world. Probably much higher up on the list if you take into account violent crimes, etc. South Africa. It also has a huge industry for security services provided by private companies. Not only that, but a huge population of the country has opted to live in little "security" estates that have controlled access, private security guards, security cameras, electric fences, etc. Neighborhoods that spend large amounts of money on aiding the police in securing their neighborhood using cameras, volunteer patrols, paid private security company patrols, etc. In order to take private security any further, laws need to be removed because they are not being implemented effectively (like the rest of the country, but that's a separate debate). E.g. neighborhoods can't currently cordon off access to their streets, even if they had permission from all the land owners in the neighborhood. This is also the main reason why so many are moving to security estates, because they're huge chunks of private land and as such bypass those rules.

>"Even if 90% of people don't use violence, that just creates an enormous incentive for the other 10% of people to do so. And those 10%, organized into gangs, can terrorize the other 90%."

One of us is right in this regard. Perhaps it's also some sort of gray area where everything except X, Y, Z can be provided for privately without the need for a state. But would you at least concede that we can never know the true point in this spectrum without testing it? I.e. By slowly allowing private companies/individuals to take over safety/security. Note, removing state protection/security services in one go would be disastrous, I would never advocate it as I think it would cause total violent anarchy overnight.
Personally I'd be bored out of my mind. I already can't wait to get back to work every monday.
I find it fascinating that the judge won't allow any discussion in regards to Pao or her husband's finances, which would fairly bring into question why she filed the suit.
> then this analogy might be slightly more relevant

Agreed, football is worse: we actively encourage and reward modern day gladiatorial combat such that otherwise brilliant people feel the need to participate. NFL players publishing papers and having successful academic careers afterwards are not the norm.
And yet...I want one.
It is a red flag, but they may be in a hurry to get someone on board or maybe misspoke about first to say yes is in.

If you think you can learn, level up your skills there and the compensation is satisfactory I would lean toward accepting.

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. Don't let an opportunity slip by. You can always give it a go, see how you like it, learn and add to your resume. Then if it's not working out you can look for a new position.
Your company could also create UIs in computer games like in Deux Ex or system shock.

Or what about repackaging it as a Retro Game Engine, to compete with Unity or Unreal but on the other end of the spectrum.

Think of GOG.com using it instead of DOSbox for games made for it.
Yes, I am sure there are.

Worth noting, my girlfriend is a Neurologist. She and her colleagues say if you have anything serious wrong with you, go to the public healthcare system. You will probably have to wait longer, but you will get the treatment the doctors want you to have.

When the same doctors have to deal with private patients (many doctors have both private and public patients here) then its basically a battle with the insurance companies trying to justify why they should pay for the better drugs.

So you have doctors time being wasted on bureaucracy and form filling on one side (they would rather be treating patients), an insurance company person wasting time on the other side. Doctors time isn't cheap. I doubt actuaries are either. It seems blatantly obvious to me that the system without that aspect to it is way superior.
He is: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=losethos
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Transit culture? Is that the idiotic 'I love sitting 3 hours a day in a bus going up and down 101 from my home to my employer in the South Bay and back'?
> There are several opinions that I know can't be voiced here.

Well now I'm quite curious. Care to make a throwaway account and voice one?
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I don't think people understand that non-profits too need profits, they just don't take all of it home.
I've heard this argument several times before, but I've never understood the reasoning behind it. No matter how you look at it, a basic income is redistribution of wealth. If we finance a basic income by just printing money, then yes it would be inflationary, and the value of the basic income, along with the currency as a whole, would depreciate. But it certainly wouldn't be eliminated, and wealth would have been redistributed.

Printing money isn't the only way to finance a basic income, however. A much more sane approach is through effectivization, by eliminating bullshit jobs and (most) existing means-tested benefits, as well as increased taxation. There's nothing inflationary about this approach.
Funny how you tell him to ignore the hate when he's usually the one spouting it himself.

Why is everyone encouraging this guy? I get that TempleOS is certainly a great achievement for a single programmer, but imagine what Terry could accomplish after getting treatment. We should not be treating his mental illness as if it doesn't exist.
I would argue that many managers may not trust that every employee would be more productive remotely. I can tell you from my personal experience that many people are less productive from home - whether there are more distractions, it's easier to be lazy, etc... I don't know.

If I'm paying for a person's productive power, working from home even part time is ok only if that person is equally or more productive at home as they are at work (on average). If their remote productivity is weak, then I would most certainly value their physical presence.

(Not everyone who fits this bill needs to be fired, either. It takes a certain amount of personal discipline to work remotely, and not everyone has that ability. That doesn't always mean the person isn't a valuable team member.)
What's wrong with the bus system in Vancouver? It's extensive and the buses are nice and run on schedule. And you can hop on the Skytrain after a bus ride without having to pay an additional fare.
Perl is rarely the best tool.
As an aside around dealing with properties that don't exist yet, I have found the following pattern very useful. It greatly reduces the number of checks I have to do in an if statement and has made my code more maintainable by reducing the amount of boilerplate code I need to write inside of functions.

http://adripofjavascript.com/blog/drips/making-deep-property...
Applications and Demos don't count.
Point out someone's rabid racism? Get downvoted. Stay classy, Hacker News!
Kudos to this article for pointing out the problem: absentee foreign investors, often laundering dirty money. Real estate in the most desirable cities is becoming the 21st century's Nazi Gold: stolen wealth that is parked in another country, and with too many third-party beneficiaries who refuse to do the right thing.

Here's another factor that doesn't get much play: price inelasticity. Consider the 1970s oil crises. A 5% drop in supply availability would cause prices to go up 4-5 times. People can look at the statistics and say, "This only effects 10% of property, so it's not a big deal." Wrong. A small amount of supply destruction or removal can have a huge effect on the price. Why do you think De Beers sits on vaults of unused diamonds?

Inelasticity has an interesting effect of creating a lot of fake wealth, which is why so many people are complicit in the crime: Baby Boomer NIMBYs in California who don't give a damn either way about Chinese corruption or money laundering, but who become financially vested in blocking any positive change that might threaten property values by increasing supply (i.e. letting the market do what it's fucking supposed to do).

Too many people are afraid to appear politically incorrect by blaming overseas malefactors. First, it's not just "the Chinese". It's corrupt officials and criminals from all over the world: including some from rich European countries like Italy and France. You don't see them in the SF or Vancouver market, but you have a lot of European drug kingpins buying in Manhattan. Second: these people are the exact opposite of the traditional immigrants that made (and are continuing to make) the U.S. and Canada great. The traditional immigrants were and are trying to get away from poverty, oppression, and a lack of opportunity. They were trying to escape the flaws of other (often corrupt and failing) societies. We welcomed them with open arms, as we should, even though many of them had nothing in terms of economic wealth. These new buyers are the opposite, because they often don't live here (and won't, unless they get caught stealing from their home countries and have to escape) and because they are just trying to park their ill-gotten assets somewhere. Instead of trying to escape from corrupt societies, they're people who actively profit from overseas corruption and our using our real estate to launder their loot.
Previous discussions on this topic have involved debate on whether or not Terry Davis is racist, the defence being that his use of the word "nigger" is an (extremely) unfortunate side-effect of a schizophrenic condition. I don't pretend to have an in-depth understanding of schizophrenia so, although I'm dubious, I'm minded to give Terry the benefit of the doubt. However, Terry, you could resolve this once and for all by clearly explaining to us whether or not this is the case.
My only question: can you physically have a 512Gb ssd inside that thing? Anything else is irrelevant to me. The previous Chromebook pixel had the mini PCIe port used by the WWAN modem wired with only the USB lines, meaning you couldn't do that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0_u8bjQFzg

I won't buy a chromebook pixel until I can at least get a decent storage. It doesn't have to be sold with this storage. The motherboard just needs the right tracks to the mini PCIe and mSATA support so that I can do it. Google might have saved 2 cents, but won't be getting a dollar from me and other people from this thread who say "this laptop would be absolutely perfect for me if it had more storage"
At the very least, it skews peoples' motivations for work. I.e. Do nothing and get 1500, or work as a low-wage say woodcutter/garbage man, and get 1600. You're effectively doing a shitty 9-5 job so you can get 100 (or whatever $X) more than the guy next door doing nothing all day.

People say that's liberating and "equality" for all, buy I say it's completely the opposite and directly unfair to a lot of people.

And now that I re-read your post about it being an inflationary scenario, it makes more sense. All of a sudden, you have a reduction in individuals willing to do hard/hateful labor for a small amount more than basic income. This reduces their supply, and thus the salaries go up. Essentially, it sounds like it would make 1500 the new 0 as you put it. Not sure where to follow that train of thought further, though.

Anyone care to continue it from there?
Correctness is indeed important, which is why I wrote 'for the purposes of this discussion.' The topic of the original article is what Java does, and additional capabilities in C++ are not pertinent. Dlubarov posited that the author has sown confusion by using the term 'reference' in a C++-specific way, but I believe that confusion arises from a misreading of the article.
> I think you need to add a little more empathetic wiggle room for things you may not understand entirely.

You may be right that victims of trauma are not entirely understood. Even so, you seem to be suggesting that society _should_ "avoid provocative subjects entirely" and "pursue ignorance", as the parent puts it, to avoid upsetting victims of trauma. In the end, is that a strategy that will actually help any of us?
I would be really interesting in getting a list of common problem or category of problem that people usually implement in "common" languages but that would benefit highly from being written using Prolog.

I did learn prolog during my engineer degree but we never went further than the "school" exercises of finding if Mary is a member of the family of Bob or not.

I then later played, while still being a student (i.e still playing with things for intellectual fun rather than actual real life/business problem solving) a bit with Flora2 http://flora.sourceforge.net/ that seams to me like a hackier but stronger variant of Prolog (the object-like syntax and the possibility to pass rule has parameter to other rule).

At the opposite I learned also about functional programming, and until last year I was also wondering the same until it became clear to me with javascript (for the 'no class', function as parameter) and Rust (for the immutable by default part). Ohhhhh suddenly all these for loop to create an other list of the same size, all these for loop to arrive to one result, all these for loop to get a subset of the list, all these for loop to find one specific value, ALL gones and replaced by primitives.

All of that to say I really hope I'm missing something with Prolog that can elevate my thinking.