Entangled

Yeah right, after five years? Do you think they returned the money? What if most advertisers were one off shots to hit the jackpot on a new startup and failed within six months? Who did they give the money back? Their own pockets?

Come on, PR may say "oh no, we give that money to charity" while texting from a yacht in the middle of the caribbean.

Around the same time I created a web page just for currency exchange in my country, a kind of fire and forget page that had like a thousand visitors a day, nothing big. I swear to god that I've never ever clicked an ad on that page which I seldom visited, once a month I checked my winnings and they were adding up like $5 a month on average...

Then all of a sudden bam!, unplugged without any reason, they stole my money and never gave any chance to appeal. Sent an email that got an automated response, sent another one got the same automated response, then gave up.

They served all the ads, they got all the money from advertisers, they pocketed it all including my goddamn money.

Plain thievery if you ask me, no matter how you dress it with all the PR in the world.

Should I try El Capitan first or go right to Sierra if I decide to update?

Trimming the 10% at the top and the bottom on a yearly basis would provide a better outcome according to game theory.

Firefox 48 says it can not update on my computer any longer.

Like?

Yes, I have five browsers installed, Safari, Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Tor and none is getting any more updates.

Hey, these pages open fine in my old browser and that's cool enough for me. As for the pattern… I need the help of some AI for I am slow at pattern recognition :D

I have a MacBook Air 2011 with Lion and Safari 6. Today Google released Meet and I can't even know what's that about, their web page won't even show me a welcome page showcasing the features with some cool pics or something, instead I get a blank page saying I am not welcome.

Sadly that same experience has been happening lately in every major website I visit, like Twitter, Facebook, Gmail, Medium. Sometimes I go to the Develop menu and change my user agent to Safari 7 and now they let me in, WTF? Am I welcome or not?

Some people would say I should upgrade my OS, and even if I would like to do that, my laptop only has 2GB RAM so it would be almost impossible to even open notepad without making it crawl to a halt, while right now from start up to the web it takes less than five seconds. So no, that's not an option, much less buying a new computer.

I am not saying the world should stop progress to accommodate our needs, or that everybody should feel compassionate for poor, insane and plain dumb people like me, I just say it is hard to accept that a perfectly fine computer no longer has access to the modern internet.

We're being phased out, and that's definitely a sad feeling.

Yes, mathematics is just an unidirectional arrow of opinionated integers.

And 42.

Have access to a world of information?

This would be intended for the 6 billion thirld-worders like me that don't have access to the internet, not for the one billion that can afford a $1000 iMac.

Plug it to any TV via HDMI, attach a keyboard with trackpad and there you have it, instant knowledge at your fingertips. You can't imagine how much I have learned about carpentry, electric motors, water wells, metal foundries, solar, agriculture, stuff that is really life saving in less developed countries like mine. I dug my own water well watching videos from youtube using a 2" PVC pipe and a hose and found water just ten feet under the ground so never again will suffer a drought like past years.

Youtube, Wikipedia and sites like Khan Academy are a godsend and if only more people in the world could have access to them imagine all the knowledge and productivity that could exponentially grow from that.

The more people has access to information the better the whole world will be. And while the Raspberry Zero W is cool for playing and automating stuff, it is not enough for providing internet access to a third-worlder like me. Just upgrade it a little more and sell it for a little more and let people do the rest. America can continue enjoying their expensive toys while we catch up and help you build better toys.

And Swift.

Put one ad at the top. Serve one billion a day.

You can't just turn a business around from your core competency, which in the case of Twitter is short bursts of emotions. You can't turn it into a Medium or Facebook, you'll fail miserably.

The languages have advanced in so many directions, I just took a look at old foxpro code and it was damn ugly, all caps and ENDIF ENDFOR everywhere. That's ugliness if I've seen it.

Now tools, they were unbeatable in their simplicity and effectiveness as you say. A data browser is the most powerful UI and the ability to connect it with a data source by its cursor name can't get any simpler. Try doing that even in Swift and it is a rain dance of sorcery to make it work.

A data source to a report, bam! As simple as that. A data source to a table, bam! to a form, bam! to any UI control, bam! That was productivity if I've ever seen it.

I, for one, welcome the $99 soapbar computer war that's about to unleash.

It is unbelievable how Apple is missing this train. They could put 100 million soapbars in all homes in the world without even making a dent in their main products. All aluminum case, just like an Apple TV.

I miss Visual FoxPro. I have never been more productive in my whole life. Of course compared to today's languages that's an abomination to say, but the tools, the data browser and the sql embedded in the language made it shine on its own merits.

I, as an independent coder, enjoy my 90 hour work week.

And I am in my 50s.

No it won't in the long run as we know it. The most important political aspect of individuals will be their cloaking abilities in order to avoid plunder from government. Once AI and technology allow individuals to produce and exchange with invisible currencies and without any political intervention or regulation then no matter how politicians morph they won't be able to "see" us.

Of course democracy will morph too towards trust networks where privacy, anonymity and invisibility will be key factors in collective decision making. Market forces at their best.

I am a big follower of Bruno Frey and his political theories for liberty, one of the modern panarchists.

Swift. For the next 5-10 years.

SQL. For the next 100.

Logic. Forever.

Not bad, a better font and a fix in markdown for fenced code and good to go:

https://txt.fyi/+/39c4f224/

Also, a way to make ninja edits with a cookie for 24 hrs.

Monkey is such a nice language, clean and syntactically lovable. I wonder if the same theory can be applied to make a space indented language like python or nim, I'd like to make one.

And Murray Rothbard.

Speech as in content, not as in airwaves. You can not trespass on my property (body or house) with your airwaves the same way you can't not with light or matter. The quantity allowed is proportional to the force and resources necessary to defend such property from invasion.

Easy.

Absolute free speech in public property. Absolute owner control in private property. However you define property is irrelevant to the universal principle it holds.

I love Swift and I don't care if they break it everyday. I'll patch everything that needs to be patched while having fun building apps for all devices in the world, desktop, mobile, server, watch, tv, IoT, embedded, etc. Naysayers will naysay, just stay away and let us code.

Swift is a beautiful language and it gets better by the day.

Ok, so I write a bash script then create an alias for it like alias hello="bash hello.sh"

Something like that? I found some nice bash tutorials that'll keep me busy for the weekend. Thanks.

Edit: Ok, apparently alias hello is not needed since hello.sh can be run directly with just the name, I was having permission problems and couldn't make it run, but now with just $ hello I can see the output. I'm loving it!

A locked room with adjustable light and a 27" iMac with internet connection.

Nothing else, not even food.

Exactly for cases like this I came up with DataText, a simple text format for tables with an editor just like an excel sheet.

https://github.com/kuyawa/DataText

30 other languages but that's irrelevant to the joy of learning something new and applying such knowledge.

Hey that's cool stuff. For a total ignorant like me, where should I go to learn the basics of automating some tasks like I'd like to type $ ipaddress and get the local ip address instead of $ ipconfig getifaddr en0. Is that bash? How is that called? How do I make "programs" to automate tasks and run them from terminal with a single customized word like dbstart dbstop?

Thanks for the pointers.