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Just because the government-- which has spent $8T over the past several years -- spends some money on "technology", mostly aimed at better killing people overseas, does not mean that the government is the reason that we have iPads, etc. SpaceX in fact, shows how inefficient it is-- instead of spending $1B (at least) per launch of the "reusable" space shuttle, SpaceX is able to put things in orbit an order of magnitude cheaper.

If a thief steals your car and gives you a bicycle, should you thank the theif for giving you the gift of transportation, or recognize that you would have been better off in the first place if you could have kept the car?

This is the problem with all these "government made the internet" type claims-- they ignore that the government spends orders of magnitude more, and produces remarkably little ($8T during the Obama presidency, for instance. The entire national debt accumulated to the Reagan era-- widely criticized for his profligate spending-- was only $4T.)

Not in my experience. I once helped build a team of Elixir developers. There were few people who knew elixir at the time. That simple filter ended up getting us a really great team-- much better than interviewing a bunch of applicants from with other language backgrounds-- the people who wanted to learn elixir, knew it, or were interested in it, were much better than average.

In fact, that's the only effective filter I've found for interviewing.

Yes, I've gotten requests for follow up questions, links to other bugs that mine was a duplicate of, and indications of when a particular bug would be fixed. In one case I was "doing it wrong" and I got a pointer on how to do it right.

This comment reinforces my perception that erlang is less popular than it should be because engineers are not as strong as they should be.

The advantages of erlang, over basically every other language, make the "cost" of learning the syntax very low relative to the value of the erlang language.

If you think of yourself as a good engineer, you shouldn't be following the crowd of blubs who use languages simply because they don't tax their brain to learn them.

Personally, I use Couchbase for this kind of stuff. Make a Membase (memcached) bucket and all the data is in RAM. Its easy to persist of course, by putting data in a Couchbase bucket as well.

Tomcat could have a bug change under you as well. I don't see how its different. Maybe more stable? Boring?

Sure there is that, but nothing fundamental about Dokku is different-- its just newer.

Don't be silly- Apple gives Xcode away for free, it is not bloated nor complex, nor particularly proprietary (who do you think made LLVM?) and you don't need to seek anyone's approval to upload your software to github or to run it on your own device. You can write Arm assembly on your laptop and run it on your iPhone even easier than you can on an rPi.

You are really wasting time hating on Apple and spinning them (i you really are an apple device owner) since Apple is the one who broke open the mobile device so you could run software with out permission (Before you had to get AT&T for Verizons permission to put code on your phone) and who made high quality development tools and platforms available for free.

Apple is the one who shipped the Apple 1 with BASIC... and they haven't stopped.

I grew up before the generation of kids who booted into basic-- I started programming with a soldering iron. I designed my first computer. Then I designed a video card for it. Then I had to write a BIOS for it.

Here's the reality though, Hypercard was a failure. People didn't use BASIC on the Apple II. some did, sure, but most didn't.

Most people are not programmers and not programming inclined. Apple gives away the tools you need to build software for your iPad or iPHone-- in the form of Xcode which is FREE FOR EVERYONE to use. It's one of the best tools out there-- when Microsoft was still charging thousands a year, Apple put theirs out for free (and of course, these days Linux and GCC and Ruby on Rails and the whole programming tradition of open source puts even more tools in people's hands.)

But heres the thing. Most people don't care. It's never been a better time to be a programmer.

But the vast majority of people don't want to be.

More than that I've noticed about 30 years of consistent and regular fluff pieces to glamorize people such as Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos. One of the notable exceptions is Steve Jobs who stopped giving interviews to these kinds of reporters in the 1980s, and also stopped getting covers around that time (after that, if he's on a cover he's holding a new product.)

One observable consequence of this is that Steve Jobs who gave us so much is widely reviled, while Bill Gates who destroyed the packaged software industry, almost killed the internet and went so far as to have schools raided by SWAT to make them buy windows licenses for their computers (computers that were Macs, by the way, back when Macs ran PowerPC and couldn't run windows anyway)... is widely regarded as a humanitarian[1]. Jeff Bezos (whom I've known personally) is widely regarded as a Tech guy (despite being really just a pointy haired boss.)

There's a reason these guys spend money on PR-- the PR becomes the public perception.

[1] I've been in the room when both Steve Jobs and Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos lost their cool (three separate occasions, fortunately I was not the target.) Steve was quietly upset "how are we going to fix this?" and "we're never going to let this happen again, are we?" with all the weight those comments imply. Bezos and Gates both lit into the person with a clear intention to make their victims feel like nothing (both in different ways brought up the victims family as well.) I worked at Amazon and Microsoft, but not Apple.

This article seems to miss the point. Not that Unikernels seem useful for running in VMs, not on bare metal. Thus you get the isolation of a true VM with a container like performance & resource usage.

Love the idea! Alas it appears that there have been no go, elixir or "golang" projects posted, or in your index. (or maybe search isn't working.)

Debt collection agencies have not legal right/power to collect debts under the FDCPA. All someone has to do (if they are savvy enough to know this) is send you a cease and desist. Virtually every debt collection agency out there knows this and simply ignores the c&D until the victim, er, target gets a lawyer. But in doing so, they incur statutory fines of $1,000 per incident in many cases.

Are you simply going after the people who don't know they don't owe you money because they don't have a contractual relationship with you?

Especially after climate gate where it was revealed that a warming factor was applied to the raw data, forcing a hockey stick....

I'm interested in something like this, but for a different application.

I want to mix up stuff like beard oil or vape juice. Interested in delivering between 0.1ml and 10ml of solution (Eg: 0.1ml of 100mg/ml nicotine, 10ml or vegetable glycerine, or 0.5ml of an essential oil, 10ml of hemp seed oil.)

I never could find a reliable way to deliver small amounts of fluid repeatedly.

In this type of work its the same fluid going to each place so you don't have contamination. I would to produce an arbitrary mix from, say, 40 containers of different fluids.

Would love any suggestions.

I looked at peristaltic pumps and all that, never could find a cost effective solution--- closest I came was syringes attached to linear actuators, and maybe an optical system to observe the position of the syringe to ensure it was the correct distance. OR possibly a squeezing assembly with disposable plastic pipettes, but that seemed imprecise.

I put the idea on the back burner as a result.

Seems like this is an opportunity for a tor like network over a webRTC peer to peer network, maybe? (Dunno maybe that's a bad idea for some reason...)

One of the challenges is that the entire industry is following what people want-- so for instance, Apple rather than being mildly sweet and small and a little ugly are now huge, bright red, and super sweet. They've been bred to have more carbs!

For me, I love BBQ. I love Mexican. I hate cooking, so getting a crockpot and cooking mexican dishes (eg: chicken, taco seasoning, salsa and a little bit of peppers, plus 6 hours and you've got great tasting shredded chicken).... I don't feel like I've given up much. It does take a week or two to transition, though, and control over your diet (eating out is tough unless you go to BBQ restaurants.)

There are diet specific versions of soylent, now: https://www.thebairs.net/product-category/ketochow/

here is the recipe: https://diy.soylent.com/recipes/keto-chow-104-master-rich-ch...

Its true that its hard not to sound like an evangelist when you've lost weight-- but it's not pseudo science when there are studies that support the hypothesis (of course a lot of diets are fad diets and are pseudo science). The thing is its hard to tell the pseudo science from the real science.

Personally, in my experiment, I'm going to try adding Keto Chow to my diet over the next couple of months and see how I feel about it.

Low carb for 8 months, so I think I'm beyond the short term measure. My bloodwork is better now than before. I can't imagine what nutrition I'm being deficient in, and the things that are potential issues I already take supplements (and since there's not a lot of risk in vitamins I take more than I probably need and for more types of vitamins than I need.)

Of course this is anecdote and it gets to the key problem the article is addressing-- there's no controlled group of statistically significant size who are all eating the same diet for decades.

When I hit my target weight I'll go into a maintenance mode anyway hat will include more carbs. I've done this twice- once when I was moving and once over christmas where I didn't want to be on the diet and increased carbs. I was able to keep my weight relatively flat.

But there are studies where people do this diet-- not just the scores of anecdotes on reddit/r/keto- but actual studies. And of course self reporting is not ideal, but I saw a meta study of a variety of diets that seemed to indicate the more low carb/high fat you went the more effective you were (there is a spectrum- keto, zero-carb, atkins, protien power, pescatarian diets, etc.)

The practical thing is, this diet not only caused me to lose weight ,but totally changed my relationship with food-- I'm not longer hungry. I eat as much as I want so long as I keep carbs under 20 a day (and really I usually hit less than 10 known carbs, often zero known carbs, but carbs slip in to all kinds of things, like cheese which should be no carbs has some, etc.) Sometimes I forget to eat meals. When I go off the diet and eat carbs, I find myself hungry soon after eating.

This change in my relationship with food and no longer being hungry indicates to me that part of the cause of my previous over eating is the carbs causing hunger. This points to it not being me starving myself, but an orientation towards food, or types of food.

Which I think is hormonal. Since many people report similar effects, and it is reproducible, there's room for real science there.

The only proof I have is an anecdote but it is consistent with my research-- and I've lost 100 pounds in 8 months as a result.

The biggest problem is we have rejected science from food to begin with. We have government spending billions pushing a diet designed to create obesity (which is very high in carbs, effectively sugar, and low in fat.)

Likely there are at least two types of people biochemically- those who are insulin sensitive and those who are insulin resistant.

The insulin sensitive tend to not be fat and if they are fat its because they are really over eating. These people are the ones who end up thinking that fat people are lazy, or who think that "You should just eat less sugar" (not realizing that carbs are effectively sugar) or "calories in < calories out".

The insulin resistant people tend to be the fat ones. And for them a diet low in carbs is effective. I've seen a lot of studies and this is consistent in all of them.

Personally, I finally found out about the effect insulin plays on the creation and storage of energy in fat cells.

Government has been pushing a high carb diet for decades and as at the same time we have an obesity epidemic. Instead of recognizing the problem (correlation is not causation but you can't claim they have caused obesity to go down) they are going to war against fats. Transfats being banned is junk science (I eat a lot of them and my blood work is great, and getting better, not worse) and their use in the food system is because of government going to war on "Saturated" fats in the first place.

The war on Fat is the cause of obesity, in my opinion, because it is political, and not scientific, and ignores the insulin sensitivity issue.

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I'm slow banned because this site is not tolerant of diversity, so I can't reply to Max below. (And so I'm off to do something fun. Caio!)

Here's the reply I tried to give him:

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Fish oil is trans fats. I'm taking trans fats supplements!

I think the larger issue is that people are looking at things way too simplistically ("trans fats bad because more of them means problem x") and not controlling for other things-- eg: there's a huge difference between eating a pure meat and vegetable diet (And consequently a lot of fat) and eating a lot of fats in the presence of a lot of carbs. Those anti-trans fats studies did not control for carbs (as far as I can tell).

This is why the blood work of people on keto disproves the "trans fats bad" hypothesis.

And also "trans fats" are a government propaganda boogeyman-- how many people take fish oil supplements and also oppose trans fats, do you think?

I can't do two experiments on myself at once. Since things are going in the right direction now, I want to enhance my weight loss.

I love the idea of developers working on code, and not infrastructure, and so I love open source projects that solve this problem (by automating infrastructure).

But I will never support anything that locks me into a particular vendor.

There are many reasons, from geopolitical to economic, that any open source infrastructure effort should be vendor neutral.

If they are wise, that is literally what they will do. It won't undo the fork, though, the fork is really in the blockchain (as he's using the term fork) rather than in the source code.

For some period of time there will be two versions of bitcoin running on the machines that mine, and it will take some time for them to switch over-- but since Classic is doing the switch with major support now, the transition should be smooth.

Bitcoin the protocol can and is run by a wide variety of software... the blockchain is a consensus agreement of that software. Basically its an agreement on protocol based on the rules in the software.

For most of its history, that software has been based on Bitcoin Core. That may change in the future to Bitcoin Classic, or both may be running at the same time with different variances, but supporting effectively the same protocol.

Nobody wants %50 of the network to be running software incompatible with the other %50.

I switched back to sublime when I found that atom was corrupting my files, by inserting different characters than the ones I was typing. I've seen this issue pop up several times, and when it does I stop using atom for several months.

This time around I discovered that sublime really is a lot faster than atom, and has better go support. Who cares if it never gets updated. :-)

I really would like to embedded atom as an online code editor... it seems like a no brainer given that its written in Javascript. But it seems there's no project to do this (hope I'm wrong!)

FWIW, I could never find any indication of an interest in this on the atom.io site, and googling "embed atom" and the like produce a lot of pages about Intels Atom CPU.

Without probably cause, demanding ID is not just a right the police have (in the sense of fundamental human rights, I'm not talking about case law here.) Demanding ID without probable cause (or more strictly, a warrant) is a violation of fourth amendments rights, and would make the cop who did it, if armed, a felon under USC 18-242.

There's a saying about how bad the german cops got in the nazi era that you may have heard "papers please"-- this is literally asking for someone's id, usually without cause.

It's a sign of a police state-- a classic one.

Also, where are the police not too violent?

No, seriously. Someone should make a map that graphs these incidents... like a crime heatmap.

The purpose is to create evidence to support their affirmative defense that the victim was resisting arrest.

Pretty much the definition of pre-meditation and also the very definition of corruption.

Good developers aren't trained, they are self taught. This can be on the job. I would be happy to pay people who aren't quite yet developers $30k as the article suggests, and then mentor them.

I spent much of the past year helping interns who were college students, some of them freshman, learn a new programming language. I think that isn't ideal for a variety of reasons, but instead of hiring one junior person at $90, hiring 3 near programmers at $30k could work well. (Though that last bit is a dichotomy-- it wouldn't be either or, it would be both-- if there are good people, hire them, whether they can code or not.)

His concrete examples are of problems, but not of "those who control bitcoin preventing it from growing". The block size debate is ongoing and the work on it is widespread. Just a few days ago Bitcoin Classic was announced with wide miner support.

Bitcoin doesn't move fast and break things-- and that's one of its strengths, not a weakness.

Also, its inherently democratic- those with the hashing power , and thus the most on the line, determine its future. IT's in their best interests to find solutions-- in a considered way.

I don't see that this system has broken down at this point.

IT's not unfavorable to introduce a feature at the OS level and then release it to developers when its stable and ready for prime time.

The brightness control that apps have now is a result of exactly this kind of process.

Only thing "unfavorable" about the way Apple acts exists in the perception of people who already have an axe to grind.

There is no negative light here... this is a capability/feature that makes sense at the OS level. On desktops you have access to the deepest parts of the system, but on mobile, things need to be more secure.

Apple's done nothing wrong, and given Apple's history of implementing these kinds of features, then opening them up to developers in the next release, being polite when asking them to open them up is appropriate.

For instance, it used to be that only Apple apps could control the brightness of the screen. Apple opened that up to all apps several years ago, and now many apps use it.

Apple's just introduced new technology that would be useful for this app developer, and in a way, they are effectively enabling this kind of app-- and when they open it up in the next release (possibly iOS 10, since this is a feature introduced in the iOS 9.3 interim release) it will be stable and usable more broadly.

The combative attitude many on HN have towards apple is more about being in the Google camp and seeing them as the enemy, than about Apple doing wrong by anyone (Yeas yeas, I know they take %30 of transactions, but that's an improvement over the %80 that previous generations of mobile software developers had to give up.. and other stores take a similar cut. etc.)