maker1138

Looks like there needs to be March for Engineers on Beaverton OR.

Wow. Just watched the BioRing campaign video. How could anyone think that was real?

I didn't see anything in the manual about streams. If they do, I'm sure they'll be fine as long as you don't cross them.

I'm surprised at how many people are responding negatively to software that improves user experience.

Suppose we had started out with the command UI that gitless has and someone came along and tried to sell us the current git cli UI. It would be completely ridiculed.

The only thing possibly questionable about the gitless interface is that it does away with staging. However, you can always fall back to git for staging functionality if you like, and use gitless for most other commands. I think it is a win.

They are not paying $250k per employee. You have to factor in payroll taxes, paying accountants to keep books and CPAs to do taxes, benefits, and a multitude of other regulation-imposed payroll costs.

All of this is to support salaries of around $125k - $150k.

The same goes for pretty much any employer. If a fast food restaurant hires someone at $8/hr, it actually costs them around $16/hr to hire the employee.

In a free market Let's Encrypt could probably cut its expenses to close to half what it's at now.

It's amazing how many people didn't actually read all 4 parts of the article.

His argument has nothing to do with caching or prefetching, etc.

First, it's about random access. You can't prefetch a random fetch!

Second, he's measuring time, a perfectly valid thing to do. And the reality is when you lay your memory cells out in 2 dimensions it takes order of sqrt(n) time to fetch a random memory cell value, where n is the number of memory cells you're using.

Third, it turns out order of sqrt(n) time is the best you can do even if you had the best technology in the universe.

How would increased taxes and mandatory benefits reduce the cost of employees?

Increased employee costs make an employer less likely to take risks and produce pressure to hire less workers. Then a few workers gain at the expense of others not having a job at all. Why do you hate workers?

This is why there needs to be less taxes and mandatory benefits. Counter-intuitively, these things work together to reduce the number of jobs and reduce worker flexibility and happiness.

The solution to the problem is not preventing people from communicating securely.

Programming is done in code for the same reason mathematics is done in notation, for specificity.

Doing programming in plain English would be just as cumbersome as doing math in plain English.

I don't think anyone can quite fully imagine the nightmare of trying to program in a recursively enumerable language[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chomsky_hierarchy

I don't buy it. Another study showed a net loss:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140416/04183626928/paten...

It's humorous that they trot out the definition of innovation: "make changes in something established, especially by introducing new methods, ideas or products" A patent explicitly forbids you to make changes on something already established. Want to make an innovation on a processor that already exists? Sorry, patent! You'll have to wait nearly 2 decades to make your innovation.

Plus it just doesn't pass the smell test. They're basically claiming that if companies spent billions of more dollars on innovation instead of patent litigation we would have less innovation!?

The j-core open processor and RISC-V instruction set are only possible because of patents that expired. Imagine what web development would be like if someone had patented using xmlhttprequest to update the DOM and info in the DOM. Would innovation have increased or lagged?

Patents quite literally create monopolies. If monopolies are so good, why does anti-trust exist? I think it's quite obvious that patents stifle innovation. Oh yes, they may provide a legal method for people to rent-seek, and make lots of money through extraction, but they definitely slow the rate of innovation.

If only people learned history. Look at the comprehensive list of hyperinflations in modern history. Every single one happened under leftist rule of the country [1]. Look at Venezuela, Cuba or any other very leftist state. There's always a rich elite, and a poor underclass.

If only people would learn that its socialistic policies that make the rich richer and the poor poorer! Capitalism (voluntary trade and respect for private property) has always improved everyone's lives. What we need is a transition to more capitalism not less of it. If we keep implementing leftist policies that sound nice (like min wage, 'free' education, 'free' healthcare, etc) we'll end up poor like all the other socialist countries before us. It's time to actually have compassion on the poor and create opportunities through capitalism.

[1] http://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/hanke-k...

After all human history where jocks ruled the earth, they're now upset that nerds are becoming important?

In Japanese, the word for filler is "Naruto".

The biggest problem is intellectual property. Copyright lasts life + 70 years and patents last 20 years. That's a long time to have a legal monopoly on something, and is partly why companies are so big and can behave so badly.

Innovation comes through competition, not monopoly. Ideally, we'd eliminate patents and copyrights altogether, but as a compromise, I think having terms of 3 years, with no renewals, is fair. That way a business can capitalize on what it creates and get a 3 year head start on competition, but you still get competition fairly soon which benefits consumers.

Someone said something that I disagree with! The horror! The outrage! It should be illegal!

That's one of the biggest problems with society today. People need to learn to grow up.

voluntary exchange is not the problem with society. involuntary exchange on the other hand...

Git is to GitHub as JavaScript is to Java. Though their names are similar they are very different things.

This is a terrible idea. Something similar to it has been tried dozens of time in the past with disastrous results.

http://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/working...

Hong Kong has become a Special Administrative Region of China and has it's own justice, education, and political system (mostly). I think it would be a great idea to have several of these regions across the us to "beta test" different policies to see whether they would be good or bad. Changing a policy or law of an entire nation is hard and risky; trying these things out in special regions, where you have a known trial period, would allow much faster innovation in the political space.

One of the best ways to increase prosperity for everyone is to make living more efficient/affordable. Look at the average American budget from 2013[0]. The top of the list is housing. Figure out how to make housing cheaper and more resource efficient and you could lower both housing cost and utility cost, potentially saving people hundreds of billions of dollars per year.

Other top items would be transportation and taxes. A $10k safe and energy efficient vehicle would be a great first step.

Though it may be unpopular in some circles, the fact is taxation is one of the least efficient ways of allocating capital. You have administration costs, fraud, waste, and abuse. If we lower the cost of living for everyone, we can lower taxes as well and allow that capital to be invested more efficiently.

[0] http://www.valuepenguin.com/average-household-budget

I've been a huge Apple fan, but they've been constantly pushing me away with both their hardware and software.

Now that we have so many pixels to push, graphics acceleration has become a key part of the computer, and apple's offerings are anemic at best on mbp.

OS X has also become much more "walled garden"-like and fisher price feeling. With every release they become less developer friendly.

I'm moving to Linux as much as I can and when I finally had to get new hardware, I got the top of the line Inspiron 7559 and replaced the hd with an ssd. It's better than any mbp hardware you can buy today (with the exception of the trackpad. Apple cannot be beat with that!) at half the cost!

http://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/productdetails/inspiron-15-75...

Developers are why Apple was successful in the first place, I hope they start making serious tools again instead of toys.

If they had given you a bigger raise they would be creating income inequality /sarc

I found his note at the end most interesting and mirrors my observations since. Governmental standards are making our children math-illiterate. There should be a myriad of different schools with different specialties. There should be schools for the learning impaired as well as the gifted. If every school was private it would allow experimentation with every form of teaching and promote innovation and effective methods to be discovered and thrive. One size fits all education works as well for education as it does for clothes.

I'm curious as to why anyone would think economics could only be zero sum. How would they explain going from mud huts to skyscrapers and animals to aircraft? Such a "simulation" would not account for this obvious reality.

I have a dream where people are judged by the content of their character instead of the color of their skin.

Seriously. I'm tired of these people focusing only on skin color. Why don't we let it go, forget about skin color, and live together.