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I think you possess a fundamental misunderstanding of why this is happening.

> If management consistently can't find a way to make that level of revenue without spending far more each year then yes it's not a real business.

Could Twitter fire most of its developers and sustainably turn a profit? Yes, it absolutely could. Hell, I could do that. "Sales people, keep doing the same thing. All this other expensive overhead is gone." But instead the executives choose to invest the company's would-be profits (and a little more) back into the company, in hopes that they will be even bigger later on. And they're still growing (at a rate faster than expenses are), even beating analyst expectations to this point. The stock drops because analysts are concerned this won't continue to be the case (Wall Street is weird).

In a very real way, the only time big tech companies start turning a profit is if they think they are reaching the peak of the revenue they could generate. Until then, it's time for growth. That growth is still very valuable, they're just hot taking profits yet. http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2014/9/4/why-amazon-has-n...

Hence, if you're looking at every company to determine if it is profitable or not, you probably come away with a very misleading, "The world is doomed" view of the economy. Companies aren't taking their chips down yet, because they're still confident they'll grow.

It seems counter-intuitive, I know, but that's the reality of how companies act, in order to maximize the profits long-term.
Perhaps this will point you in the right direction: http://www.decalage.info/en/python/py2exe
Argh hate to fess this up but I think some of those features might be locked into MS stack. Just tried on my 2013 version on python and peek wasn't working. Will try 2015 later to see, but I'm not hopeful.
I am truly sorry, but I see this as sad. People thinking of supplements healthier than whole foods, and actually claiming and defending it.

First of all, what kind of macronutrients you need and how much, may depend on yours and your ancestors habitat. Paul Chek claims this, and says some are protein types, some are carb types. We all know some people who are more tolerable to carbohydrates.

Second of all, all these values depends on 'some' research (which I am sure almost none of us read them thoroughly), and 'some' baseline 'requirements'.

People claimed cholesterol was bad, some still do, and now they say no no, it is ok and good. People sad yolk is bad, now they say it is good. You get my point. This product is based on the 'realities' of today, but it is shown as a 'great' replacement, where I think 'any' replacement is not and cannot be as good as the original.

I really believe Soylent may be a key to solve hunger in some very poor countries, but right now it is just being marketed as a supplement/replacement.

I also did not like the marketing approach, such as

>>"Soylent 2.0 frees customers from crowded lunch lines at fast food restaurants and ends feelings of mid-morning hunger after inadequate breakfasts".

So this is an alternative to a fast-food, as I see it. No offense, but I would rather see true information about nutrition and eating, than a replacement for the wrongs we do. Just my 2 cents.
>Second, tools like Emscripten will be able to emit both asm.js and WebAssembly, so that those users don't need to even care about what their compiler is producing (and those users are the great majority of people using asm.js on the web).

The problem is around the API. I know you do your best to provide a platform similar to native (with fopen(), sockets, SDL...) but I wonder if it is not simpler to do that with a VM (a kind of kernel for emscripten) ?

From time to time, I look at qemu source code to find a solution. Originally, Fabrice Bellard did a standalone libqemu but it was removed. There is the SPLICE protocol too for the graphics or even VNC.

I'm thinking of a layer that do not rely on the DOM or emscripten JS pragmas. Thus we could have a world of lightweight linux/bsd distros for the web.

PS: I've seen your work on musl and signals.
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Can you explain in more detail why the contribution wouldn't be proportional to the value of the credits?
JS used to be a language that was easy to understand. Once you grasped the concept of how object references and scopes were handled (which everyone could who invested a few days in understanding the language and read the specs), you were able to understand any of the user-land implementations. Now there are popping up more and more essentially parallel paradigms, mainly to pull some of the user-land implementations back into the language. As a side effect, the language eventually becomes more and more complex, and, as more concepts are integrated, it becomes less obvious, on what kind of tradition a new feature builds. (E.g., there are now two notions of scopes and two notions of object construction and inheritance — and I'm quite confident that we'll see some new features borrowing from both.) As in CISC vs RISC, there are valid arguments on both sides. But there's a lot of cultural change involved, when venturing from a quite spartanic but powerful definition of the language to a multiple concepts definition. Ironically, it will be the user-land implementations, again, that will force everyone into the new notion of the language and there will be no option of avoiding the migration (like sticking to C and avoiding C++, as some have preferred to do in the past). Libraries will be still with us, but it will be more difficult to understand what's really going on, and eventually, the dependency on them will grow. Still, opinions are opinions and there are probably more than two on it as far as developers are concerned.

But there's another side to it: JS is essentially a language to write code to be run on a foreign machine with quite a vague permission to do so. There's an interest in understanding what some piece of code is actually doing, in order to evaluate, whether the permission should actually be granted or not. (E.g., I might prefer not to use a WebApp, if I find me tracked in a way that doesn't conclude with the nature and value of the service. Even, if a free service, the price might be too high. Or, I could find me integrated into some kind of ad-hoc P2P network [WebRTC] that is far exceeding my planned investment in resources and which's use might not converge with my intentions.) The actual chance of doing so correlates with the learning curve of the language used. IMHO this is quite a strong argument for using a language that is both high level (as opposed to Emscripten + ASM) and of a quite scarce formal definition.
Having grown up with this whole "step backwards" that we took when the PC hit the scene, the most interesting aspect of this demo has been the understanding that some people just don't get why it is so freakin' AMAZING that they were able to coax such art out of this severely limited hardware. CGA was never supposed to be able to produce such complex and beautiful images - take a look at the screenshots here:

https://www.google.at/search?q=cga+graphics&tbm=isch

.. and what do you see? Mostly Cyan/Magenta graphics, which was 'the norm' for that era. It took another few years before we got EGA - and then, finally VGA - graphics, which we've all become very accustomed to in this day and age.

But seeing 16 - and then 256 colors - being produced by a CGA is truly a feat of technical wonder. For anyone who doesn't get why this demo is so important, you have to understand: we never, ever thought such capabilities were possible with CGA hardware.
C++ isn't terribly large. The current language, i.e. the standard excluding the standard library, is about ~700 pages. Smaller than Java. The standard library, as of C++14, is also tiny (but growing rapidly)

Imho, the perception of C++ as a large language comes principally from the high combinatorial complexity of its feature-set. It is very much a toolbox language. C++ advocates have only just recently started preaching a collective 'Pythonic' or 'Rubyist' way ("modern C++"). It is, however, still very much a broad church, with less philosophical baggage than many other languages. Strong and differing opinions on the committee seem to keep a single dictatorial programming style from emerging.

Tbh, I don't know what the author is worried about. Does Javascript have an overriding mindset/philosophy that is being eroded? Is that the concern? Other concerns about implementations not keeping up don't seem well-founded.
They could recoup $600M pretty easily.... in employee salaries alone if they relocated out of San Francisco.
I am giving Microsoft some room for redemption for many mistakes made in the Ballmer era.

This support for Python in VS may be a step in that direction.
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> By that argument, you lose energy when gasoline evaporates during transportation.

Please show me where gasoline is being shipped in open vessels for that argument to hold water. Oil tankers? Sealed. Tanker trucks? Sealed. Your car's gas tank? Sealed.

http://www.caranddriver.com/features/high-tech-fuel-tanks
While I agree that this popup is poorly timed, and also agree that they are pretty annoying in general, there are plenty of case studies out there about people getting big conversion boosts with these kinds of things when implemented correctly.

That doesn't necessarily make them a good idea, since annoying many of your users or going against your principles may not be worth the boost, but you should be careful about assuming your own ux preferences will lead to the best conversion rate--unfortunately, the data will often prove you wrong.
Sure, but also a relic of the time of its inception. The usefulness of the limit was technical and is now cultural.

People very often work around it by creating a string of tweets to build long(er) form posts. It's mostly arbitrary right now and people who wish to use the service for longer content have to do so in a stupid way.

It's not as though there's an actual limit, it's just an extra step to take if you wish to produce more verbose content.
It seems the judicial system in France could learn something from Colombia:

"Seeking to balance the right to clarify the record and the right to freedom of expression, the [highest Constitutional Court in Colombia] held that the newspaper was not required to remove the article. The court did require the newspaper to update the published information and use “robots.txt” and “metatags” to prevent the indexing of the content by Google due to the particularly serious nature of the crime and the severe personal consequences for Gloria."
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I wonder how much of it is due to scale. If they were to make and sell, say 10% of what their other car models sell, then what is the cost per car?

I'd like to see the data points at certain % to see if it's a limited quantity problem or something specific to electric cars where he'll always lose money.
The YC you know created a new model for funding early stage startups. The YC I joined is creating a new model for innovation.

If I had to guess, the original focused on software whereas the new YC will be open to more long term, hardware-oriented companies. But it's not entirely clear.
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A lovely piece especially the art. I found it to be a heart-warming tale of imprisonment and a unique perspective on how the web has evolved, but it's mostly rhetoric and wrong in my opinion.

The web he speaks about isn't the web, it's a continent on the vast plane that is the web we love and cherrish today. Social media is massive, no doubt, but it's not the web! It's an active, overused, mind-numbing part of it, but it's still not the web.

The web is surely something very different from its origin, but it's still there in all its ugly glory.

One aspect of the article I did like and agree with was its take on hyperlinks. I think they have certainly lost value in general, especially considering the power of search engines and their tendency away from pure link-hungry spiders to vast machine learning behemoths.

Time will tell of course. I think we have lost some of the "cafe" oriented aspects to blogging and the like to social media, but the wonderful thing about the web is that you don't have to conform. At least for now.
The internet is already censored worldwide. We censor copyrighted works, pornography (< 18 y), libel, etc.
1. "Sergio Marchionne had a funny thing to say about the $32,500 battery-powered Fiat 500e that his company markets in California as “eco-chic.” “I hope you don’t buy it,” he told his audience at a think tank in Washington in May 2014. He said he loses $14,000 on every 500e he sells and only produces the cars because state rules re­quire it. Marchionne, who took over the bailed-out Chrysler in 2009 to form Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, warned that if all he could sell were electric vehicles, he would be right back looking for another govern­ment rescue."

In order to meet the fuel economy standards, car companies have been building cars that nobody actually buys to bring up their averages. Unfortunately, this means that the cost of all their other cars must also go up.

2. Thanks to the slew of environmental mandates, Californians are now paying $1.11 more for gas on average than the national average.

Also,
"Over the past three years, electric rates in California rose by 2.18 cents per kilowatt-hour—about four times the rate nationally—as more solar and wind power has come online. Meanwhile, nuclear plants, which generate cheaper electricity, have been decommissioned, and hydropower has flagged because of the drought."[0]

So, the environmentalists and leadership in CA oppose fossil fuels, oppose nuclear, and actively work with their vast legal resources to sue hydroelectric dams out of existence to preserve the habitats of bait fish.[1] For the time being, they are ok with solar and wind power, but what happens when they realize that it takes actual mining and lots of high-torque, powerful diesel trucks to extract the stuff from Mother Earth?[2] Not to mention the processing/manufacturing.

3. Fossil fuels have been a boon to human life and have raised our standard of living and life expectantly immensely, and should not be dismissed so lightly. You can burn a bunch of stuff for energy (peanuts, wood, animal dung, whale oil) but there's a reason that fossil fuels have had such longevity in their usage---they have high potential energy, good portability, are ubiquitous, and they're cheap! The positive effects far outweigh the adverse effects, especially when you can start using things like catalytic converters to make their emissions less harmful.

[0] http://www.wsj.com/articles/sky-high-california-gas-prices-h...
[1] http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2015-2-march-april/green-li...
[2] http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/aug/07/china-rar...
The activation algorithm is more complex than just being tied to a specific configuration. It's weighted, meaning it's tolerant to one or two peripheral components being swapped out (non-boot hdd, ram, gfx, sound) but typically not the motherboard. Why? Because to Windows, this looks like someone cloned the HDD and put it into another machine. It can't tell either way.
One thing I've noticed with celebrity accounts: an increasing amount of tweets is just a link to a new instagram post.

A tweet gets maybe a few likes and retweets, but the linked instagram post has 500 likes & 25 comments within 30 minutes. That's quite alarming!

e.g: https://twitter.com/taylorswift13/status/626084866631667712 18k likes on twitter, 866k likes on instagram.

let these numbers do the talking.
You're right. I have AA turned off on my machine, and use fonts that just look good without it.
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I've never understood why some people dislike antialiased text rendering so much. Aliased text is obviously inferior to my eyes - all the spurious 90-degree angles add meaningless noise to the character forms, as though the font is decorated with a lot of extra fuzz. Antialiasing smooths all this cruft away, leaving the character shape more clearly defined. And yet there are people who dislike this look enough to disable it and work around it, describing it as "blurry", though my experience is that it's less blurry. I really wonder what it is about their experience which differs so greatly from mine.
If anyone is on shaky moral ground here, it's sites that are tracking visitors and selling information about them to unknown third parties with unknown goals. That's awfully near CFAA territory, as I see it. Also, dishonest contracts are invalid and unenforceable.
Unfortunately you have to know every feature to read or troubleshoot.

Someone claiming to never be mystified by an obscure incantation of c++ either is lying or hasn't looked very much. I suppose something had to be invented to make bad perl look crystal clear. Insert bad joke here about not needing a contest to have a obfuscated c++ competition.
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Regarding worker protection: Lets take the case of a simple roadside flea market. The property owner sets up a situation where workers can sell goods at a table, and connect with customers. But the people running the individual tables may sit there all day and only make a few bucks. So is it the venue owner's responsibility to make sure that everyone that he rents a table to is getting minimum wage? I think that is what Uber et al. are arguing, is that their duties end at connecting individual sellers with individual buyers.

That's one of the side effects of strong worker protection laws -- if applied too far, then they have the effect of causing some work to just not exist, even if there are people that really want to do that work. Of course, the flip side of this is that it can prevent a tragedy of the commons situation, in which workers desperate for income will get into a competitive race to the bottom.
There's something so wrong about this. Microsoft should address this issue fast.
I do realize that and am fairly familiar with how the cycle works, largely fueled by pay-day loans.

Is your hypothesis that the higher income, even if temporary, may afford significant relief from this?
I agree with the first sentence but the last part seems incomplete. Were you thinking of the difficulties bridging old and new code running in the same app? I like the idea of an opt-in "use modern" to avoid breaking old code but that would get tedious if you needed to call between old and new code in the same app.
I'm guessing there was a reason they all up and left. And quite frankly, it's not my fault that you have a bunch of people who want to leave. The stability of your business is not my problem.
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