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- You can pair program.
- That's the issue with metaphors, they are always different. Try steelmanning the issue and see what you think. I'm not here to prove a point, and I hope you're not either. I'm here to learn.
And what I'm learning is, artists are happy.
- So the artist simply accepts the AI generated wooden house. Might it be possible that he does not?
Furthermore, before AI, artists also used assets that came from other creators, accepting them wholesale. No intention, then?
The issue I see here is that we're judging the tool, not the artist.
It reminds me so much of the digital photography backlash. But here we are.
- With tools like this, the artist is not removed from the art. He just has more leverage.
I would argue the opposite even: this is more personal, as a singular artist can now do more by himself, without relying on others to do the parts that he couldn't do before.
- Like?
- Classic commoditize the complement, well done on SpaceX's side:
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/
- Every time a state tries to regulate, it loses to the states that promote instead. Seems to be a better evolutionary strategy.
- It has already started:
https://zerolang.ai/zero-graph v1 origin source-text module "hello" hash "graph:a7f7e6899a73f3b4" node #decl_ad8d9028 Function name:"main" type:"Void" public:true fallible:true node #param_4610ae76 Param name:"world" type:"World" node #expr_c403020c MethodCall name:"write" type:"Void" node #expr_653eeb6e Literal type:"String" value:"hello from zero\n" edge #expr_c403020c arg #expr_653eeb6e order:0 - I choose positivity, because it allows me to live a happy life.
Regarding Starlink, I like it because it gives people free internet in flights. It gives a friend the possibility to stay in a rural home while being able to work. It gives tens of thousands access to information when there are catastrophes like the Venezuela earthquake.
It makes people being able to live a happy(er) life.
- Very happy to have helped you with this :)
Venkatesh Rao is an amazing writer as well, I invite you to read some other of his posts. One of my personal favourites: Text is All You Need.
https://contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/text-is-all-you-need
- Loving this, not loving the negativeness in this thread.
I wonder what the negativists will say about Reflect Orbital, which uses their Eärendil space mirror to light the world.
- Exactly. Elon Musk does things for (1) fun (2) revenue in order to fuel his real mission: derisk humanity by conquering Mars.
- I like him! :D
- >Nobody will ever need more than 640k of RAM
- Absolutely. Degrowith is the guilt-fueled poverty mind virus.
Abundance, friends. Nothing stops us.
- Related, amazing read about Meccano teaching you reality-based work, in contrast with Lego:
https://contraptions.venkateshrao.com/p/truth-in-inconvenien...
- For a moment I thought this was a nature-inspired introduction to Quantum Computation and Quantum Information[1]
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Computation_and_Quantu...
- That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.
- They call it the programmer's dozen, 9 bits for a byte
- That's how Steve Irwin died.
- I've yet to have one single problem after running Firefox as my main driver for ~3 months. Only 2 webpages have made me quickly open Chrome instead to check them out, and the content wasn't worth engaging for long.
It puzzles me how more programmers don't switch to a real open source browser not controlled by an advertising giant which will use their overwhelming monopolistic force to steer the way browsers work so that it benefits its bottom line.
Vote with your feet, use Firefox.
- They taught me in school to think about preconditions, invariant and postconditions for loops. Then I switched to only using functional affordances like .map() and .each(). I am much happier now.
- Non-paywalled: https://archive.is/Ain92
- It’s the principle. When they’ve shown they’ll jank one extension because it doesn’t align with their business model, they’ve shown they’ll jank any extension in the future as they see fit.
I’m voting with my feet.
- I did, a few months ago when they disabled uBlock on my Chrome.
The experience has been a delight. It runs smoothly, I can customize it more than Chrome (compact mode being one example [1]), and with the official iCloud Passwords extension I get to use the same password manager I use on my iPhone.
I don’t think I’ll ever go back. Best part being, if I need something that Chrome provides and Firefox doesn’t, I can potentially implement it myself, and contribute to a proper open source project while I’m at it.
1: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/compact-mode-workaround...
- This would mean that short term tasks, the bulk of what knowledge workers do nowadays, forgo learning on the job.
- Remove the </satire> and you have a viral X post in your hands. People will believe and act on this analysis. Future think thanks will be based on it. The revolution of the machines is nigh.
- Previous discussion (flagged): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31051354
- Great read on Meccano vs Lego:
>I’ve come up with a theory connecting three big zeitgeist things: the end of the zero-interest world, the ongoing AI panic, and the meaning crisis. I think it also connects all three to the climate crisis, but I’ll leave that topic aside for this essay since it’s too big.
- The advanced trick is to grab the post-it stack with one hand, and with the other grab the top post-it and apply force in parallel to the stack, from top to bottom of the post-it. This way the post-it remains uncurled.
- The green and red post-its have the same orientation, the adhesive is on the top for both. So when you peel the green one off, you're peeling the adhesive right-to-left across it, whereas when you peel the red one off, you're peeling it from bottom to top almost all at once.
- It's there, 5th row from the bottom, 3rd column :-)
- I love this <3
- I read a tweet saying: if you want to test whether your service has real engagement, log out everybody and check how many of them log back in. This can be seen as a practical test of it.
- I lived in Spain for most of my life, and plenty of people drink milk in various forms: by itself, with chocolate or other flavourings, with cereals, muesli, etc. Supermarkets have huge shelfs for many brands of milk, and they're sold mainly in 6-packs.
- I saw that map some time ago together with the one here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactase_persistence. However, after having lived in Southeast Asia for a while, I can attest that either the theory is quite wrong, or many many people drink milk with tea and coffee and then have a bad time in the bathroom daily.
- I think this is due to the extent of the maintenance efforts by the team that develops the app, not due to the gems themselves. A monolithic app means that no code is legacy code: a conscious, gardening-like effort needs to be continuously done to keep interfaces standardised, modules documented, code clean, and critical components (like user management) top-notch with focused testing and code quality metrics. I've worked in different teams on 5+ year codebases that hold up to this day by being disciplined on this terms and never buckling down on complexity.
What I've also seen is that a team with plenty of churn or no time for maintenance will have exactly the problems you describe. As knowledgeable people leave the team, the old code becomes "legacy", new people come and partially refactor it, maybe adding some new gem and planning to migrate the entire codebase later on to it (which is very hard to make it happen). Stakeholders' pressure will force the team to focus on delivering features and only tackling debt when it gets to an unattainable state, and then is when consultants are called. I think this is why many freelancers suffer the worst of Rails (or any other framework) if they don't usually work with greenfield projects.
- I can’t find it now, but DHH wrote somewhere about optimising for engagement vs action. The idea behind Basecamp is to be a service that helps you manage a project in a faster and easier way, not a service that makes you stay "engaged" while not pushing the project forward. Having more engagement means it’s doing the opposite of of what it's meant to.
This can easily apply for many other services. The purpose of an email client is to surface the important information (filtering and maybe inbox zero?) and let the user act on it (reply and write with the write context). The purpose of a dating website is to find a match and create a connection. The purpose of a social network, on the other hand, is much more debatable.
- Following Rubocop's Ruby Style Guide [1] to the dot helps a lot with this, and it's quite easy to enforce using the rubocop gem + a GitHub action
- I would love to find an MVC framework with the extense library support of Rails but for Javascript. Being able to simply `gem 'devise'` and have full authentication at your hands (including views, email templates, etc) is a godsend.
At many places where I've worked at this paradigm is exactly what is needed, but people know and want to use JS. If we choose to go that way then, we need to write a lot of glue code and think about setting up architecture standards, folder and naming conventions, ORM support, authentication, job queues, etc; all of this comes by default with Rails and makes life so much easier.
Lately some options seem to be gaining steam:
* RedwoodJS [1]: by Tom Preston-Werner (founder of Github), comes with React and GraphQL baked in, pretty new project though
* Next.js [2]: brings a lot of nice conventions to the frontend, but still some things missing on the backend side
* SailsJS [3]: similar to Rails, but small community
* Strapi [4], hapi [5] et al: plenty of backend functionality, but frontend agnostic.
Has anybody had experience with any of these (or others) and can report back?
[1] - https://redwoodjs.com/
[2] - https://nextjs.org/
[3] - https://sailsjs.com/
[4] - https://strapi.io/
[5] - https://hapi.dev/
- Stack Overflow Trends seems to be pointing in the same direction: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=react-native%...
- This reminds me of The Swarm [1], a fiction book that starts with freak events happening around the world's oceans. The first of them is about a species of marine worms that, together with bacteria, destabilise the methane clathrate in the continental shelf. This causes the continental slope to collapse, creating a tsunami that hits the North Sea's coasts and kills millions.
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Swarm_(Sch%C3%A4tzing_nove...
- This comment gives me https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 vibes.
- When you say "foveated compression" do you mean >Apple will liberally use an already-known VR technique that involves using eye-tracking to render objects in the user's periphery at a lower fidelity than what the user is focusing on. ?
- Don't forget foone: https://twitter.com/Foone
>Hardware / software necromancer, collector of Weird Stuff, maker of Death Generators. (they/them)
Their threads about obscure hardware are always a joy to read.
- >The quote, "If citizens just blindly follow their party without thinking much about it..." sets of my BS detector, because it's one of those pat statements that (other) people are predictably dumb or gullible.
Smart people don’t think others are stupid: https://rochemamabolo.com/2015/06/21/smart-people-dont-think...
- Beautiful homepage, great app UX so far. Will give it a try on my next call. Thanks a lot OP!
- >Singapore’s parliamentary political system has been dominated by the ruling People’s Action Party (PAP) and the family of current prime minister Lee Hsien Loong since 1959. The electoral and legal framework that the PAP has constructed allows for some political pluralism, but it constrains the growth of credible opposition parties and limits freedoms of expression, assembly, and association.
https://freedomhouse.org/country/singapore/freedom-world/202...
- But they're doing a similar thing with Justice League: The Snyder Cut right now though. I wonder why then?
- Maybe the author's first language is not English?
- Obesity?
- I think that the difference is that someone can have a similar experience to Gmail by using their own mail server and any mail client. The same cannot be said about Uber, for example.
- gatekeeper much
- This is starting to happen in the EU already: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49281111
- Very relevant film about the topic: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5688932/
- Why not both?
- Capitalism.
- And then people complain when these things happen: https://www.dw.com/en/coal-protests-in-germany-climate-activ...
- All that is good, but are the doing it regardless of how hard it is? Seems that almost none of them are.
- Do you have data to support that statement?
- In a Vox doc I just saw about HK they mention it is only 3% of China's economy.
- Amazing, down to the point explanation. Thanks a lot!
- Exactly. We should treat animals much better than we do now.
- In Barcelona, capital of Catalunya, most of what you'll hear is Spanish, not Catalan. That does happen in some smaller cities or towns, though.
- can you elaborate?
- s/sh*t/stuff
- He said that the cart page of the software website was blank, the last version of the software was from 2012 and the web page was last updated in 2014, so he had no other option.
- FWIW, here's my referral link:
https://earn.com/mparramon/referral/?a=hh0mawk3ieu17brs
I've earned around 0.0060 BTC so far (~$50), mostly through airdrop offers —without taking into account the airdropped crypto itself.
- Looks like an amazing project! I've been a serial interviewee lots of times during my career, and having had this some time ago would have helped tons. I wrote an article exactly about this, hope it helps you!: http://www.developingandstuff.com/2016/01/10-questions-to-ma...
- 1. Renewable energy
- guifi.net is already doing it in Catalonia and other parts of Europe:
- The adoptive parents genuinely love the child, they are not getting paid to pretend they do.
- I stopped using the mouse for this reason. Here's how I did it: http://www.developingandstuff.com/2015/01/no-mouse.html
- Why is there no mention of Smalltalk on the page?
- I wrote a post about setting up Atom for web development around a year ago:
http://www.developingandstuff.com/2015/04/setting-up-atom-fo...
after using it for around a year.
I think what's more important about Atom's speed is not the speed itself, but the rate at which it increases. Atom was slow 2 years ago, became faster 1 year ago, and today is faster than that. On the other hand, Sublime Text, on a similarly specced computer (of a colleague), today, seems much slower, for example, when doing a project-wide search.
- "Robots will soon begin taking human jobs in places like retail stores, fast food restaurants, construction sites and transportation. The key technology that will fuel the transition is inexpensive computer vision systems, and the number of human jobs at risk numbers in the tens of millions. More than half of the jobs in the United States could be eliminated."
http://www.amazon.es/Manna-Visions-Humanitys-Future-English-...
- Feedback from Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4daew9/why_i_w...
- Yeah, that app is decommissioned. I'll update that working app soon, thanks for reminding me about it! :)
- Exactly.
- Looks like they added just that on this release:
>Untitled documents in a project are now serialized and restored.
- I've been using it as my main editor for a couple years now, and yes, it's getting better with every release.
- If you're thinking on taking the plunge from Sublime Text, here are some setup notes aimed at web developers: http://www.developingandstuff.com/2015/04/setting-up-atom-fo...
- For some more down-to earth lessons from freelancing, check my post on the topic:
http://www.developingandrails.com/2015/06/freelancing-with-f...
- I wrote a small guide to set up Atom for web development:
www.developingandstuff.com/2015/04/setting-up-atom-for-rails-development.html
- This is a case of Something.js if I've ever seen one:
- Wrote a blog post about exactly this problem: optimizing interviews for fancy algorithm solving, when the position's daily work is nothing like that:
http://www.developingandstuff.com/2015/05/why-i-dont-do-codi...
- Here's how you can get your data out of Wunderlist, in case you're thinking on migrating:
http://www.developingandstuff.com/2015/03/export-list-from-w...
- This reminds me of my 0 to web developer guide:
www.developingandrails.com/2015/01/crash-course-on-modern-web-development.html
- If you're going to let the haters stop you from sharing, then they've won. I systematically ignore non-constructive criticism on what I write, and work hard (moderation, deletion, etc) to get rid of it.
- Just found out about www.wallpapered.com, pretty relevant to this article.
- I like the Ztory one, but I think it should state more about the product:
- You can also try ditching the mouse/trackpad altogether, here's how I did it:
- Something.js strikes again!
- Why was it pulled before release?
- I use Time Out for OS X, works like a charm:
- > Update: I've reproduced the Ruby benchmarks with RACK_ENV=production variable and saw more than 5x performance increase.
- Reminds me of https://datacoup.com/
- "Today, proletarianized white-collar workers are required to work 50-60 hours a week."
This sounds barbaric to the ears of an European salaryman.
- "Any sufficiently complicated company w/o management contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of management" https://twitter.com/wycats/status/368752712894017536
- It actually got better for me after the 2nd week.
- Don't you ever wash your hair, at least with baking soda + vinegar?
- My main benefit is not needing to wash my hair every day anymore. Before, if I spent more than 24 hours without washing it, it would be full of grease. Now, it lasts in a decent state for about a week.
- Here you go :) http://www.developingandstuff.com/2015/02/no-poo.html
- Sarcastic?
- I'm preparing a post about it, will be up tonight if everything goes well :)
- Thanks!!
- Where can I buy a poster of it that ships to Spain?
- The most shocking part is that the Twitter CFO only has 13k followers.
- * Switched to washing my hair once a week after 45 days of not washing it, no 'poo style. Before this, if I didn't wash it every day, I'd have a head of grease in 30 hours.
* Hit 60K pageviews on http://www.developingandstuff.com for the second month in a row; started splitting posts by content into several thematic blogs.
* Restarted playing the bass, seriously considering getting Rocksmith after trying it out at a friend's house.
* Got my first sale on fiverr: https://www.fiverr.com/mparramon/
- I'm about to buy a Gameboy Pocket just due to this post. http://www.developingandstuff.com/2015/02/lets-play-some-gam...
- Another reference: I'm getting about $30/month for 60K pageviews/month to www.developingandstuff.com – definitely not serious cash, just a nice incentive.
- Discussion on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/TrueReddit/comments/2teai9/i_paid_25...
- Ruby. It feels like telling the computer what I want to do, instead of piping my orders through some arcane syntax like most other languages.
- Try http://inbound.org/ :)
- For Barcelona salaries, taxis are expensive, and can't compete with public transport. Uber, on the other hand, hits the sweet spot, with fares that are it competitive with metro or bus if you're sharing the ride with friends.
One trip from Gràcia to Barceloneta, 5km:
* Metro: 22 minutes, 1,03€ (with a T-10 card, which is the most expensive integrated transport option)
* Taxi: 15 minutes, 8-9€
* Uber: 15 minutes, 4-5€
Also, Barcelona cab drivers are known for driving you around if you look like a tourist. Uber drivers will never do that, since you rate them after the trip.
- Is there a better platform-independent option?
- The question is, is it less secure than current offerings (Transmission, uTorrent, qbittorrent…)?
- He's a man: http://alexpotato.com/career/about.pl
- This is already happening in Spain, I guess you'll be happy about it: http://www.elmundo.es/cataluna/2014/10/21/544633e8268e3ed87e...
- Is it available for Atom?
- Thanks a lot for your thorough answer! Do you work with customers outside of the US?
- Thanks! We're not using Stripe though, do you know of any solutions that do not depend on it?
- I tried this about a year ago and blogged my results:
http://www.developingandstuff.com/2013/09/50-days-of-scienti...
- Mine was, but the password there is more than 4 years old, I have changed it several times since then. Makes me think that this leak is just a collection of old leaks out together.
- By the way, if you want to disable the popup for special characters in Mac OS X, here's how: http://www.developingandstuff.com/2014/06/disable-long-press...
- it looks really nice! is there a way to see the source code on github or similar?
- you're right! resubmited: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6451599
- Update: It's been 3 days since I started doing 2 sets, so 14 minutes total. I think I'm seeing some improvements. I'll put up some pictures about a week from now.
- Bear in mind the first pic is of day 5.
Now I'm doing 2 sets a day, so 14 minutes. I'll update you on the status soon.
- I have been doing martial arts for about 6 years with different teachers. I think they have taught me how to work out properly. What I've seen is that exercising gets you diminished benefits as training tome increases. For now, 7 minutes a day is just fine.
- No dietary changes. I weight myself every day at the same hour after the workout, so fluctuations should be minimized.
My muscles have got used to the workout by now, but the first week was hard.
I am going to try 2 sets every day from tomorrow on, back to back. Due to the way the exercises are ordered, by the time I'm done with the first set, whatever is needed to start the second is ready to go.
I'll check my blog updated with the results, wish me luck :)
- Try it out yourself and let us know ;)
- It really feels in my body like running + weightlifting for about an hour and a half. That is what I was doing about a year ago to get the same results I am getting today.
- It is amazing. I am getting better results with 7 minutes a day than when I was training for 3 hours a week. It's like a caffeine boost in the morning, and lasts for at least 12 hours.
- I'll see if I can find some pictures of last winter, when I weighted 73kg, and felt like a sloth.
- Follow this repo for more info: https://github.com/mparramont/nprogress
Also, I'll be documenting the process here: http://developingandstuff.blogspot.fr/2013/08/nprogress-no-j...
As preparation for a talk: https://twitter.com/mparramon/status/369945214494191616
- I'm thinking on forking this to remove the jQuery dependency. Would somebody be interested in this?
- The name is the best part of it. People like globins.
- Update: I switched to ruby-2.0.0-head, and got a 131% improvement from the base case.
- Because that economy-burger you talk about will not taste like meat. Artificial-meat will, sooner or later.
- tell the creator: https://twitter.com/ajimix
- Update for however is still reading: today I got the first two paying users :D Thanks a lot for your support! (PRs, suggestions and comments).
- Actually, someone just added refresh button functionality and some padding through a Pull Request :D It'll be up on the Play Store ASAP.
- Both good ideas, added to my todo list, thanks.
- Didn't think about that, thanks! I'll consider removing it from there.
- This is the MVP. Really minimum, in this case.
- shitheads?
- I wrote the post thinking about the not-so-expert users, it may be some help for them :)
- Another alternative is blacklisting sites via your hosts file, which means it applies to all applications and not only the browser. Also, it works in any UNIX-based OS: http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
- It should appear here soon: https://github.com/b4winckler/macvim
- http://adblockplus.org/en/features :
"Adblock Plus will always block annoying ads. Still, many websites rely on advertising revenues so we want to encourage websites to use plain and unobtrusive advertising instead of flashy banners. That's why the Adblock Plus community has established strict guidelines to identify acceptable ads, and Adblock Plus allows these out of the box. You can always disable this feature if you want to block all ads."
Could this be related?
Link to the guidelines: http://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads#criteria
Edit: I just contacted Till Faida about this, will keep this post updated.
- I'm only getting Felix the Cat and Popeye, is that all there is here?
- That was very clarifying, thanks!
- So how is this different from Flattr (http://flattr.com/), apart from recurring instead of one-time payments?