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I think the way out of this is a basic income guarantee. When a basic income is provided without requiring labor and this basic income meets the needs of an individual the cost of human labor will increase (the cost of everything will increase probably). This system assumes there is enough wealth around for the government to distribute enough to everyone.
This is Paul Krugman's take on it:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/14/opinion/krugman-sympathy-f...
> Lots of people lost money. Maybe it was done on purpose? The models I mean. Cause I bet someone made a fortune. Someone short-selling the game?
The considerable amount of collusion required across fifa, the teams and players, multiple publishing industries, organizations, countries and cultures to have sports betting and publications like fivethirtyeight make shit up (to the point that they created a very detailed scoring system for their predictions, all for the purpose of lying about a lop sided 7-1 game) would have to be considerably large.
I think the the better, and frankly incredibly blindingly obvious, way to look at this is that this was just an unusual game that nobody expected and you can maybe take a break today from being suspicious about the whole world being manipulated by a nefarious few who conspire to create every fucking notable turn in history to screw you or someone else over.
I guess the major benefit is for people who do not actually have alzheimers being falsely diagnosed, but early detection doesn't help in any way for people who do have it, right? I'm not sure I'd want to know until it was unavoidable.
These may be reasons why you cannot sell lower than $99 but they are not reasons why someone should pay so much. The stated plan to keep updating the app reveals a fear that they are not creating enough value despite the cost to develop. The plan to update is also a shitty thing to say as this is no guarantee and light on specifics about what the updates will feature. $100 for an opaque primise that more is to come is a shit sandwhich usually served with a nice heap of disappointment. xscope 4's price of $50 is another one of these niche narrow doodads that while clearly provide value do so at questionable prices and the user has no idea when they will have to pay for a new version. Apple's lack of an upgrade price sucks but that's not the users fault but they are the ones that get the shit end of the deal with limited time price reductions that you have to know about.
I've only ever heard good things about C#. I believe C# has first class anonymous functions, makes async operations easy, and a combination of VisualStudio and JetBrains resharper you have a pretty amazing development environment. I haven't programmed much with C#, but like I said I've only heard good things.
I like Wells Fargo ATM machines, the thing you insert the card into is a transparent green glowing device and all the ATMS look the same and have touch screens. It's easier to tell if someone put a skimmer on them. I do not use non-Wells Fargo ATM machines. I only wish I had the option to type the password on the big touch screen and not the number pad.
Eh, I don't think Techcrunch is so bad. They don't usually have link baity titles like wired, they genuinely try to do a good job reporting on new startups and many yc companies get an initial post on TC which gives them that first boost of users. A Techcrunch article and Techcrunch coverage is like one of the biggest boosts from getting into YC.
I quite like fish and have been using it painlessly for nearly 6 months now. I wish fish included an actual programming language that could replace bash scripts, but the sane advice from fish devs is to use a real programming language instead of bash or another shell script. Other than that I've become quite dependent on the nice autocomplete and suggestions from fish. It just works and I never have to deal with any problems once you get over the initial learning curve bump which isn't that big.
While I can admire your stance, I think it is naive and doesn't reflect reality. Look at how weev's statements on reddit were used against him at his trial. Also if you look at the people involved in NinjaVideo, an illicit online streaming site, you will find that prosecutors also used their online statements against them. Employers will use your online statements to create a profile of you that influences their decision to hire you or not. There's no way I'm using my real name to say I like the idea of a guaranteed basic income or that I like Hillary Clinton for office, because America is polarized. We do not live in a police state, but your statements can haunt you in many ways. They can hurt you at criminal trials, civil trials (like a divorce), they can hurt you with employers and potential employers, they can hurt your academic career (finding a school), they can hurt your family.
I am not proud of my opinions, I think I'm probably mistaken about most of the opinions I have, and I think this because of past experience and bad opinions that I now regret expressing.
A big suggestion missing here is a CS degree. I like Steve Yegge's take on it[1]:
> The best tip is: go get a computer science degree. The more computer science you have, the better. You don't have to have a CS degree, but it helps. It doesn't have to be an advanced degree, but that helps too.
My own take on it is that most programming languages are like cars and the skill of driving computer science: if you can drive one car, you can learn to drive the other and with programming if you can program in one language you can probably program in the other. Knowing the fundamentals about computers, how information is represented as bits, how they store and process information, how they communicate over networks, how you can use them to solve problems like sorting, cache invalidation, etc is really important stuff that is orthogonal to learning a programming language. Personally if I am using programming language X at my job, and you have 0 experience with it, but are a good programmer, I may not give a shit and hire you anyways.
[1] http://steve-yegge.blogspot.de/2008/03/get-that-job-at-googl...
It's not the NSA_SUSPICIOUN_INT rising I worry about. I am certain that individual monitoring of the average hobo like your or me (I don't know maybe you're actually a TOR dev or something) isn't happing, BUT someday you may become an interest to the police for something and THEN they look at your posting history and THEN they will find your possibly less sensitive comments on how you hated such and such and put some horrible out of context quote in big print on a poster at your trial when the prosecutor makes his case for why you should be in jail for the rest of your life for something you may or may not have actually done.
And so I use anonymous accounts to post things other than nice happy words relevant to my job so they don't show up in search results. I create new accounts and stuff. I can be pretty opinionated and I don't want the average person googling my very googlable name and seeing my stupid uninformed opinions and using that to misinterpret me or something.
This is awesome and probably took considerable work. There is no plugin system for Xcode, which has always bugged me. Why would Apple not make Xcode officially extensible. Xcode plugins make Xcode unstable and break when Xcode is updated.
I don't think this qualifies as a separate distro unless you also think Kubuntu and Xubuntu are separate distros. They are just Ubuntu with different packages for the UI preinstalled. You can probably install them side by side and switch to one or the other.
> "What would you say separates the strongest and the weakest members of your team?"
It's easy to reply to this phrasing with a canned answer and very little though. "Experience, skill, and a positive attitude." If someone gave this answer to you and you're the candidate asking the question it is basically 0 information.
I think the better way to ask this question is to ask
"Has anyone been recently let go and why? Has anyone been let go or put on a performance improvement plan for not being a good enough engineer? What are specific reasons why you think they were maybe not good enough? What is your policy when programmers make big mistakes?"
I'm not sure I would ask these questions, but I still think it's a better form of phrasing. You want to know what they think makes a bad engineer.
Nay, the big companies that care a lot about these languages own them through and through. Look at Adobe's attempt at converging ActionScript and JavaScript in the abandoned ECMAScript 4th edition:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript#ECMAScript.2C_4th_E...
I think Microsoft was key in killing this. With respect to Dart, Google will have the ability to control Dart's future as long as it wants to and if it somehow lost control of the ability to shape the spec it will just do its own thing anyway, just like they have with Blink and standards (directoryReader comes to mind).
I'm not making the case it won't be available as torrents, I just think there's no compelling reason to torrent it if you have a Netflix account, and in fact you might even get an account to support that kind of entertainment. There are no ads, it's available online in the entire season for easy streaming. Outside the US yeah, torrents will happen for sure.
> [* Dearest Netflix: Want to make up for missing this one? You could always bring back Firefly and/or Pushing Daisies... Please?]
Netflix might be able to make a space based sci-fi show, the Netflix audience is probably young enough and won't torrent the show since it will be on Netflix commercial free all at once. There hasn't been one of these kind of sci-fi shows since SG-U was canceled. Firefly, SG, I don't care, can we just have something? :(
I think the point of Quora was just to get engagement up with whatever it took to keep people posting and upvoting. It was addicting, but forget getting answers to questions unless you were one of the sites better known users. Quora is the Zynga of the Q&A format, and created about as much value.
I think scales of magnitude are informative. The difference between 100 and 200 lines or 10,000 and 20,000 are probably not useful, but you can get an idea of the scale of a project when you compare orders of magnitude. At the smallest scale, the recent ray caster was an example where the amount of code mattered a great deal.
I'm sorry for your tough week. Not to pile on the negativity, it was an innovative product, and none of this is your fault, but it probably doesn't make sense to resell copyrighted content.
As for not being done, your CEO, Kanojia, said:
"If it’s a total straight-up loss, then it’s dead. We’re done,"
Was that a bluff?
1.3 million is a really tiny number. Why is it so small? The city of Tucson, Arizona has about 1 million people and it's in the middle of an uninhabitable desert.
I've read about studies where just seeing someone else smile and be happy makes others who see it also happier. Like a happy person gets on a bus full of less than happy people and the entire bus ends up happier. I don't think this is really that new, except maybe to the degree it scales the distribution. I imagine words create a smaller impact than a face to face encounter, but I'll leave that to a study to figure out.
You can just pretty much replace everything in Android. Replace home screen, the app selector, the lockscreen. Get those with less or no animation.
Yeah setting up fuzzy finding on emacs is a huge pain. It's not a hard problem to solve, so maybe if I end up making more use of evil I'll try and write something although elisp is not fun. I currently use helm, ido and projectile and it only kind of works as good as cntrlP or command+T on textmate or sublime text.
What I said wasn't harsh, it just wasn't apparently enough genuflection and awe to appease the people that happened to be interested enough to check the comments on this link. I care about as much as I did yesterday, which is not nothing. You and everyone else who demands more will just have to deal with it.
Looks like this comment of mine was irrevocably wrong and completely irredeemable. No apology is possible and I'm sorry for my very existence. Go social voting sites! Go internet culture! Yay.
These kinds of ray casters are really cool, but at this point in time I don't care about how small the code base is, just make a really cool ray caster in JavaScript and don't worry about how big the code is (within reasonable limits)! I just want an awesome JavaScript ray caster library to be honest. :)
This reminds me of Atwood's Discourse. I don't know if there's anything broken with old forums. They don't have the whizbang features, but it's nice to not load a gimmicky JavaScript UI that adds no value to what is essentially a way to post and read messages.
I own a Kindle Fire HDX, which is a nice tablet, but really the only reason I own it instead of a regular Android tablet is because Amazon Video is not available on Android. Given that I don't care about video for a tiny phone screen, my answer is a definitive no.
The dynamic perspective feature seems like weird UI gimmick. I don't really like head tracking features. I turned that off in my Galaxy S5.
Taking a picture of a product is a cool idea, but there's no reason they can't also put that on other phones.
Also Amazon never updates their hardware to new versions of the software. I owned the original Kindle Fire and it never got any of the HD or HDX software changes, nothing. Nobody has beaten Apple in this regard, but Android isn't as bad as Amazon's forked version.
Finally, the Amazon app store is kind of a desert.
I just don't get what they were thinking with this thing. It seems dead on arrival.