Anon4Now

NadellaSoft?

Businesses that remain stagnant don't get shafted so much as outmaneuvered. Instead of investing and pivoting, they cling to the old business model. Short term, their decisions make financial sense, but long term, it's a death sentence.

Meanwhile, Amazon is looked at as the behemoth in the industry, yet it probably isn't thought of as an online book store / publisher by most people. I think of so many things before I get to, "Oh yeah, they also sell books."

The one piece of information that I wish the article had mentioned is the age demographics of avid book readers. My gut tells me the market has dropped significantly in the last ~25 years, but I'd like to see the data.

The Goldendale Observatory is a couple hours away, as well.

https://www.goldendaleobservatory.com/visit.html

Which lead me down this rabbit hole:

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2021/06/chile-nearly...

> GENEVA (7 June 2021) - UN human rights experts* said today they were deeply concerned by the continuous devastating impact on a local community of a dumping of toxic waste by a Swedish company in the northern Chilean city of Arica nearly 40 years ago.

> The toxic waste - which remains outdoors, uncovered and exposed to nature’s elements - poses a health and security risk given its high content of arsenic, including to drinking water systems.

> “The residents of Arica continue to suffer serious health problems caused by the waste dump,” the experts said. “The community has been denied access to justice for years, received little or no remediation, and even today those in need of medical care are ignored.

I feel so sorry for those people. That's just unconscionable.

You might want to display the timezone below the x axis.

Stephen Toub wrote a book-length blog post about all the performance improvements made in .NET 8 [1]. Add the option to compile to native.

[1] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/performance-improvemen...

You could try using Yandex instead of Google. They're more than happy to list free options on the first page of results.

I'm curious as to why the NSA still has http:// urls.

> Most complications arise either from: > You run your own business ...

Adding to this, even if you have a small side hustle with low overhead (no employees, few expenses, etc.), the labyrinthine process of filling out all the additional forms is just plain ridiculous.

Yes - especially for my state returns here in Oregon. I am due a refund. I received a letter stating that they made an adjustment. They still haven't sent the refund.

The older I get, the more I prefer hex. Using hexadecimal, I don't turn 40 until The Beatles start singing about me.

In Ben Franklin's autobiography, he described his journey from Philadelphia to Boston. It took two weeks by boat, traveling down the Delaware River and up the Atlantic coast. The shipped wrecked off the coast of Massachusetts, and he had to swim to shore. I guess the TSA lines don't seem so bad in comparison.

Bitter? No. Old? Getting there. Yelling at clouds? Not even once, even though live in Oregon.

What's my complaint? Not really a complaint but when you realize that National Geographic is owned by Disney and DreamWorks used to be under Disney's umbrella, it's not a big stretch that there may be people at DreamWorks who have connections at Disney and can get a story idea planted. I'm not even sure that's cynicism. I think it's just an understanding of how the world often works.

Maybe I've become too cynical, but with the movie The Last Voyage of the Demeter recently coming out, I can't help but think of Paul Graham's essay "Submarine".

I haven't created an installer for a Windows desktop app in over 5 years, but it was a common format for the embedded EULA. It's not as important these days, but there was a huge file size difference between an RTF created in Wordpad vs Word.

I thought they were a bit over the top, but what really caught my eye was how creepy looking that first llama is.

It's $66,745, ranging from $47k in Mississippi to $91k in New York:

https://www.nea.org/resource-library/educator-pay-and-studen...

The US median income for individuals is $54k, so your average teacher actually makes a decent income.

Yeah. Many database tables are too large for an in memory hash join.

My comment was a not very well fleshed out tangential remark on the value of practicing DS&A problems. I know a lot of devs hate Leetcode style interviews. I get it. It's not fun. But contrary to what some people say, I have run into a fair number of situations where the practice helped me implement more efficient solutions.

My problem was the state lines. My first guess was somewhere in West Virginia, which happened to be right, but being from the west coast, I had trouble eyeballing where to click for West Virginia.

The game is great, but I'm shouting to the wind about the decline in quality of online maps. For example, I can barely see roads on Google maps any more. The lines are faint and low contrast. Zooming in doesn't help because the font remains tiny. Map makers hate middle-aged people.

A couple things:

This is admittedly a bit pedantic, but in E.F. Codd's original paper, he defined "relation" as the relation between a tuple (table row) and an attribute (table column) in a single table - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relation_(database). I'm not sure of the author's intent, but the user table example (user, country_id ) might imply the relationship between the user table and the country table. It's a common misconception about what "relational" means, but tbh I'm fine with that since it makes more sense to the average developer.

If you ever need to join sets of data in code, don't use nested loops - O(n^2). Use a map / dictionary. It's one of the few things I picked up doing Leetcode problems that I've actually needed to apply irl.

You're right! I had the worst time parsing that sentence. I read it as a series that lacked an Oxford comma.

You might want to have someone proofread your site. Maybe hire a professional copywriter.

> Unlike FSBO websites with flat fee listings, no MSL listing or co-broke fees exist.

That's not a sentence, and the rest of that paragraph is pretty bad as well.

> About us

> PropBox is a company of humans with shared beliefs ...

That sounds great if your target market is Marianne Williamson, but I think most people would look at the About page to find out more about the owner(s) of your company and their experience in the real estate market. A home is the single biggest asset that most people own. Are they going to trust the sales process to a nameless, faceless URL with no discernible address or contact information?

Huffman co-founded Reddit with Alexis Ohanian. Aaron Swartz joined later when his company was acquired by Reddit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit#History

He's the only remaining co-founder.

Meanwhile, their valuation has gotten worse. In 2021 Fidelity invested $28.2M in Reddit and now values that investment at $16.6M - a 41% drop [1].

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/01/fidelity-reddit-valuation/

> it's still a flavour.

> it's not vanilla.

Hate to interrupt, but vanilla is a flavor. And it's a pretty good one, dammit!

Some companies are so profitable, they can hide layers and layers of managerial ineptitude. Think how great Google could be if they had cohesion and oversight.

My movie fantasy is to create canals into the Sahara, and use solar-powered water desalination plants to irrigate and re-forest the desert.

> no core

Except the docs, which still say core all over the place, including the url's. ;-)

I use it regularly. It seems fine to me, but I do wish it had copy and paste.