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Create, build, innovate, invent something spectacular that does not exists or that no one has really come close to perfecting.

To create, in part, requires an extreme level of introspection, going dark or time in the Lab, something that introverts are quite good at.

Let your works speak for themselves. This is what I have found to be the most powerful networking move an introvert can make.

This is also something that sales, marketing, branding and some investor types will never understand.

This is also something that the Google guys understood very well and they seem to be fairly well networked these days.
You also take a performance hit, which however subtle, can be hard to justify when making a relatively big 'upgrade'.
[1] You don't believe that there's a direct correlation between (I buy an iPod) -> (I buy even a fraction of my music that only plays on iPods) -> (I'm more likely to buy another iPod in the future)? I figured that business strategy was pretty self-evident when I said "first mover advantage," so didn't explicitly spell it out.

[2] "Apple would have loved to give away the music for free, they would have sold a lot more ipods." This is where we disagree. I believe that they would have sold fewer iPods, as the incentives for purchasing another iPod over the an alternative player in [1] would no longer be present.

Per that belief, I consider the statements "Apple didn't want DRM for altruistic reasons" and "Apple would have loved to give away the music for free, they would have sold a lot more ipods" to be equivalent. If you don't accept the premise that Fairplay was vendor lock-in (as both Realplayer and a few lawsuits alleged), then obviously that wouldn't be altruism.

"Apple fought tooth and nail to remove DRM" is a question of motive and effort. The fact is they eventually did away with DRM because the market dictated it. The question is whether they did away with it (a) as soon as possible, (b) purely as a market response, or (c) as late as possible.

The statement that "Apple didn't want DRM, the labels insisted on it" is largely irrelevant. What matters is whether they made financial gain from employing DRM, and, if so, whether that impacted their timeline and dedication to removing it.

"Why would Steve Jobs write a letter about DRM at all if Apple secretly wanted to keep DRM?" That's where I thought the timeline was interesting. To me, it wasn't that Steve Jobs wrote a letter about DRM, it's that Steve Jobs wrote a letter about DRM after the growth portion of music sales was finished.

*Again, if you don't feel Apple benefited financially from the vendor lock-in provided by Fairplay, all of this is a moot point as we're going to arrive at radically different conclusions anyway.
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I can very much relate to this. I'm 31 years old and have two kids, and my attitude was and is quite egalitarian.

Yet it's my wife who works part time, and I do full time. Mostly because my baseline salary is much higher than hers, and doing it the other way around would hurt our financial situation severely. And kids are expensive too.

I try to make it up by not working crazy hours, playing with / taking care of the kids (and laundry) when I get home etc., but it's tough. There's only so much energy left after an intense day of work (even if it's "just" eight hours), and between that and the kids, time and energy for anything else is very scarce. It leaves me with the feeling of living only for work and the family, not much left for myself.
But then how will you get motivated? Passion? That sounds like it takes time and effort to develop, when I need to be startup-ing!
Your work is incredible. Every time you post an update it's fascinating and humbling.

That being said, it's hard to be excited about the game, because there doesn't seem to be one. I'm looking forward to when you release the engine in a documented usable form so that people who are passionate about games--not game engines--will have a chance to use this amazing tech.

On the other hand, it seems like there's nothing you can't do, maybe you're also a genius game designer. Though I'd still like to see what other people can do with it.
relevant :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Management_of_Savagery

These people aren't "savages", their leaders are highly educated , they have a 'Nazi' like doctrine which is methodical and somehow 'rational' from an economic and political standpoint.

But as someone interested in old Egyptian mythology I wish the media stopped calling them ISIS.
>In fact, if more people actually internalized what computing freedom means, and what the technology landscape could one day look like, then GNU/Hurd would already be finished, it would look like Windows 10, and there would be far fewer proprietary software apologists on Hacker News, dismissing this post.

Not to be mean but have you tried even creating a toy kernel yourself with modern tools? Now imagine doing that in the 1980s when none of those tools existed (it's why bison exists for programming language construction and the like). It doesn't matter how many people you throw at a project if the scope of it is as generalized as an operating system tool kit and kernel then it's going to take a long time to build it and longer still to extend support for it to newer hardware (especially in light of how many modern motherboards and peripherals have blackboxed firmware that's patent encumbered). And that's just the technical limitations. When you factor in the problem of managing different groups, keeping them on target for features to be released and bugfixes, egos to be checked/soothed, and so forth then you got a problem that would make the creation of the US Constitution seem easy.

Ultimately, I think folks like you are the classic true believers that don't have much in the way of understanding people. You demand people to comply to your ideologies even if their lives are lessened by it. You demand that each person wears a hair shirt just for the sake of it. And that for me isn't something I can see working. Anarchists tried that crap in the 19th century and it failed terribly (and I'm an anarchist today). Purism is cute and it's nice when you write about in essays, but it's not how you get real people with irrational beliefs, subjective one-off experiences, and divergent goals to adopt and apply your ideology. You start on the basics and you yourself show others how that works out in those basic situations. Before you demand others to apply your specific approach to Free Software ask yourself if it actually adds immediate value their lives. If not then your approach fails to be useful or effective. And your purity for its own sake is a weak excuse for actual results. /rant
At least it isn't Cordyceps Fungus.
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The only thing that prevents reunification is the chaebols and politics.
And East germany did not have a shitload of minerals they could use / sell.

All true but South is already a regional military powerhouse with the troops from north and 40-60years of work they could really become as strong as the Empire of Japan was.
Is Small Basic a Microsoft Research project?
Extensive discussion of original letter: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9977836
Hey HN,

I made this chrome extension because I was tired of importing songs and only sometimes having Google give me the correct suggestion. The metadata comes from Spotify, which was the only reliable open source music API that doesn't require a developer key (so some artists, like Taylor Swift won't show have any results). Please let me know if you have any ideas for other improvements.

Hope you like it.
Rise? The original police forces were created and controlled by company towns.
Pretty much every city, that I've ever been to or lived in is "on the cusp" of a tech boom. SF is actually in a tech boom. I understand the holds ups especially with the housing prices, and what not. I think there are other alternatives like San Diego, and Seattle that aren't quite as saturated but still tech heavy. I'm not sure I would want to gamble with "This might be a tech hub in the future"
China has a billion people. A petition battle is not the way to go.
That draw distance is giving me Superman 64 flashbacks...

In all seriousness. Voxel tech is awesome and I can't wait to see some games implement it fully.
If you equate lobbying with corruption, which I kind of do then it's understandable.
The HN discussion of the letter itself can be found here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9977836
Our Amazon _POST_ORDER_FULFILLMENT_DATA_ feeds have started going through now so it must be nearly fixed!!! I thought I was going to have to tell all our customers they need to manually dispatch all their orders. Woo hoo!!!
I'm not sure why you are bringing Japan into this: Japan doesn't have any claim on the Spartly islands, and it would be completely ridiculous for them to make such a claim. If Japan gets involved it will be through an alliance with one (or several) of the countries with an actual stake in this, like the Philippines.

I know anti-Japanese propaganda is strong in China, but there is no need to invent conflicts that do not exist to fuel more hate.

EDIT: for that matter Korea doesn't have any stake in this either. I know there is an important territorial dispute between China and Japan (Senkaku islands), and minor conflicts between Japan/Korea and China/Korea. So a conflict around the Spartly islands could spill in this area, but I don't see it starting from Korea or Japan.
Have you ever looked up the definition of nitpick? I just did on a few different services. It's not flattering, and provides a good narrative for the downvotes.
Here's where I would download Ubuntu ISOs from, http://releases.ubuntu.com/ and these are the instructions I would use for verifying them, https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VerifyIsoHowto
Wasn't the % formatting missing from early versions of python3?
I had to deal with friends that were suddenly on yahoo and they didn't know why. So for a lot of people it was swapped out even if it was an accident.
There is also a MILSPEC for general quality control processes, though I can't find the particular document at the moment.

If you're one of the people in the thread describing this as too subjective or strict, the MILSPEC is probably more appropriate for your process.
Lots of languages, notably including Dart, compile to JS now. WebAssembly will support even more with high efficiency in the next year or two -- not in "20+ yrs".

Enough with pulling victim-faces! :-P.
Easier said than done and a bit short-sighted. I would argue that over the long run, the stress of having to track down and find new projects while maintaining a steady stream of income produces much higher stress levels than a 9-5 job. Some people can deal with that, others not so much. You will also have periods where you are flush with cash and periods where you may go months on end without income. Again, some people can handle this, others not so much. Are your hours really better when you factor in all of the business administration and marketing of yourself that you will need to do? Probably not. So, are you really ready? That's a much deeper question and not so easily answered.
Sartre said that the great philosophical question is, why is there something instead of nothing? (This does not mean, why is there something in philosophy. Why is there something in the real world? Why does anything physically exist?) If your philosophy doesn't explain the real world, it isn't much of a philosophy. But I don't think set theory can explain that.

Two other great philosophical questions are: Where do we humans find meaning? And, what is the basis for morals and ethics? How do we determine what actions are right and wrong? Set theory isn't going to answer those questions at all.
> Unlike the Russians, or the communists, or the terrorists, this time there's a true global threat.

Maybe you should talk to some older Polish, Czech or East-German people and tell them the USSR wasn't a real threat...
I just finished reading Godel's Proof (a non-textbook account of the proof recommended by Hofstader in GEB) and it was mind-blowing. I really recommend that and David Foster Wallace's Beyond Infinity. Beyond Infinity is great history of set theory and written in an exciting and fun style.

I came across the ideas the opposite way...I loved math as child and as engineer but I always felt like systems of rationalization had to be limited in some way. I think I started feeling this way when I'd get into debates with other students in school about arguments and we'd have equally rational but contradictory viewpoints.

Fast forward a few years later and I learn some genius had actually proved that we can't answer everything with these systems...or that there isn't a system that can say it all.
As I noted, the SFPD is 50+ times the size, and I'm interested in an actual metric, not anecdotes. I'm pretty suspicious of the contention that a private police force would be somehow immune to corruption - it certainly hasn't been the case with groups like Blackwater.
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Thanks - I agree with you on the game part, which is why I am buckling down on creating a simple game to ship within the next few months (this is outside of my long term goals for the game). I am open to suggestions as well as to what this should be - there is a thread on the forums about the prototype game and all ideas are welcome.

I really can't claim to be a good game designer yet. My primary goal really was to get this engine into other people's hands, and the only reason I am building a game is because I can't build a business off an engine alone, and I need to dogfood the engine to ensure necessary features. :)
Edit: Accepted, but does that mean you don't need https for your website?

Old text: "The hashes are also not under https domains. How do you know where they come from?"
tl;dr -- "Dart is good". A fine view, I agree on parts.

Your words do nothing to address the very real technical problems that kept DartVM out of Chrome.

Stop personalizing everything and study the link I cited.
By default, the installations of Chrome and Firefox do this. You choose to configure it otherwise, but this is their normal behaviour.
What U.S. had been done with Hawaii?
Entire mexico gulf?
starting Gulf War for owning red sea?
And Pacific Ocean becomes U.S. domestic lake?
who brought up the world tension?
This remove only merge commits, but the commits themself are from libav
the internet is an infinite amusement park, desperately plying you for pageviews
The phrase to google is "elective amputation".
I think that to make a kid interested in programming, instant visual feedback is important. That is, writing (simple) games is about the best start.

For little kids, MIT Scratch should be good.

Python + pygame, or Scheme/Racket with its simple game-development features, or even Javascript + any 2D or 3D visualization library should hook an older kid. All of these have simple and compact syntax (JS is worse in this regard, of course).
> I can only really speak to FedEx. I'm sure UPS, DHL, etc. offer similar options.

They do.
At my work in ad tech, we see about 1.5% instead of 2.5% for our publishers
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They can but I'm very wary of systems that don't have Bitcoin's closed loop of economic incentives for maintaining the blockchain.
You're being generous. China is annexing territory that belongs to Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines. The same thing that Russia is doing in Ukraine. It's an act of war, the issue is that the world is very afraid of China (both militarily and economically).
You can take as much holiday as you want, between contracts. I know a few who regularly head off for 1-3 months at a time, between working.
Saving you a click: "If you can exit a function early, you should."

which is fine if you don't have resources that need to be cleaned on exit and you can't keep them in objects that just fall off the stack.
I ran into a problem with the automation project I was working on when I tried using Selenium. I was trying to print (shipping labels from Amazon) and Selenium (at least Chrome webdriver) can't see the print dialog :( Any ideas?
You got a lot wrong.
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I agree with this sentiment. We don't need new, simpler languages to teach programming concepts; we just need a better approach to teaching. We don't skip teaching the English language to toddlers in favor of a simpler one. I learn "cat" before "encyclopedia" and "hungry" before "enlightened". Programming languages have similar levels of abstraction so one can start with basics and allow the growth/understanding/grok to come from exploring the depths of abstraction inherent within.

I think the intention here is to somehow reach a point where the understanding is complete. As if one can say "There, now I understand all of [insert programming language]." and tick off some item on their career progression or bucket list. It's simply not like that.
I related to much of what he was saying. Between the lines I felt what was going unsaid. So I brought experience and humanity to the discussion. I am not seeking validation.

> A leader has people skills above all else.

Leadership skills and interpersonal skills and management skills are completely separate. Amazing leaders/motivators who are downright shitty people are not uncommon in our industry.

This particular leader made the classic mistake of doing too much. "Nobody else wants to do it? Nobody wants to take responsibility for this? I will. I'll do it" is the definition of a bad manager. And admitting it in your farewell post doesn't demonstrate great people skills either.

Regardless, these people are all around us. And they deserve a beer and a mentor and some help. Next time you're looking for a project to contribute to, consider helping that guy.
Isn't that the point of the signature verification ?
Looking at that KQ2 screencap brought back found memories of playing it on my Tandy 1000SX. I think it supported TGA (Tandy Graphics Adapter) so the graphics looked better than standard PC CGA of the time.

I personally stopped playing video games when they got too realistic. I'm haven't thought much about why but off the top of my head more realistic games make me feel like I needed to take them more seriously which kind of defeats the purpose of playing a game for me.
You can play the 1983 King's Quest (in your browser!) here https://archive.org/details/a2_King_Quest_1983_Sierra_Save Unfortunately they don't have the others (or at least they're not up and running yet).
Haha - yeah it is pretty poor but I will fix it up a bit soon. I did get farther distances working "ok" but still need to work on optimizing it to load in data without lagging. Here is one shot with a farther view distance: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CJ83yn7UcAATnkU.png:large
I didn't follow the background of that fork. Will ffmpeg and libav be able to merge now? Was it a leader conflict or something else?
Whataboutism.

"Don't look at what we're doing over here, look at these other people over there."

It's equivalent to a direct admission that what China is doing is wrong and you know it. Presumably if you could actualy defend China's actions, you do so instead of changing the subject.
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I and my friends have purchased items at https://wrapbootstrap.com/ several times. If you have the skills, it might not be a bad way to go. Similarly, though some people will barf at this, you can still get a decent amount of money just doing a WordPress install with some customization for folks. I recently spoke with a designer who does a little bit of jQuery and JavaScript, and he mentioned that a lot of sub $1000 projects to local shops and things were done with WordPress templates, a few slight modifications, and that's it.
Well, opt-in immutable dict would be awesome. I've found that many times my usage of set and list is more appropriate as their immutable counterparts (frozenset, tuple). Lots of times I create sets or lists with the intention that they be immutable and it would be clearer if I could specify to future me/maintainers/extenders that this should remain as initialized.
How can $FTR pay more in dividends than it earns?
Not going to comment on his skills to lead such a community, which more than obviously are very very good, but for a project manager of 14 years he really writes like a newcomer.
With this change, is merging of the projects now a possibility?
Because Japan has a dispute with China on other islands. I never said they would try to claim the spartlys.

Heavy Japan alliance with Phillippines is unlikely (history, empire of japan, blah blah).

It's not about anti-japanese sentiment here but more like japanese fear of revenge from chinese and maybe the right time to make a point.

The more passive-aggressive China is the more likely it's that Korea and Japan will do something about it.
Heavy on the order and light on the progress
Well said.
Building something is easy enough; but to figure out if people want what is being built - that requires a lot of interaction which sometimes is beyond introverts. Of course, it's a different thing if one happens to build something which is then wanted by people.
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> If you don't like it, fork it and do your own.

The issue is the "you" implied there. So you fork it and start working on your own. What do the other contributors working on the previously-existing project do?

This seems to resolve itself when there's a clearly superior project and developers and distributions switch to the newer project.

However, if both projects continue to simultaneously develop...
> Leadership skills and interpersonal skills and management skills are completely separate.

No, they aren't. Leadership skills are a subset of interpersonal skills and management skills overlap interpersonal (especially the leadership subset) skills.

They are all different sets, but they aren't completely separate.
The US doesn't lay claim to the Pacific Ocean, and it has a right to transit its navy in open waters. It does not make a habit of navigating its navy into other nation's waters without their permission.

The US does not claim ownership over any part of the Gulf of Mexico that it doesn't blatantly have a right to, as this image makes very clear:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Te...

The southern tip of Texas across to the southern tip of Florida is extremely reasonable as a water claim.
After seeing a few of the comments from libav developers here and on IRC, you can see the bitterness is still alive. :-(
Definitely brought back memories to see that Sierra loading screen at the beginning of one of the play-through clips. I spent an embarrassing number of hours playing Lords of the Realm 2 and Civil War Generals on my first PC. Also Half-Life, which I believe Sierra published.

Damn, I would love to see Civil War Generals on GoG...
The hashes files are cryptographically signed with GPG. Using the web of trust, you can be sure the files were created by the developers.
This is interesting, I was under the impression that insider trading covered even things accidentally leaked from companies. Is that not the case? If someone used information hacked or found by another person would that fall under insider trading?
It really sounds like the fascist/autocratic states in Asia (Russia/China) with its economy failing, is slowly resorting to territorial aggression against neighboring countries in order to claim more resources. With Russia bumping against all of europe, and China bumping against Japan/Korea/Taiwan/Vietnam/Malaysia/Indonesia/Phillipines, this is boding ill for global stability.