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Electric sheep?

And that is the funniest thing I've read for a long time.

I have lots of iOS games where the IAPs are shared with my family. I believe the developers have a choice of whether the IAP is long term or temorary. EG the "restore purchases" button you often see to use it on a new phone.

> If you hype it, they will hate it.

This. People really seem to struggle to learn that if you massively hype something in advance, a lot of people are going to be disappointed. Even if it's good, but just not as good as they were expecting, they will feel disappointment.

It's been advertised on the front page of the App Store for over a month, which is more promotion then I've ever seen Apple do for a game, but although this game is good, it doesn't feel good enough to be the most promoted game in iOS history.

I have a lot of doubt about a time library that defaults to UTC at all.

Having spent a lot of time dealing with timezones, I have a strong feeling that naive should be the default unless explicitly given a timezone, and your code should blow up when it is given them (or possibly gracefully fail).

Admittedly I haven't had a chance to play with maya as I haven't been able to get it to install.

Which of those do your non-seniors not have to have?

Are your ordinary developers unable "to write modular, well-tested, and maintainable code"?

https://antrix.net/static/pages/python-for-java/online/ seemed quite good, but I didn't go into it in any depth because I already know Python.

I doubt there is any 100% reliable way, or any way that works for everyone (cause people are different), so it's partly a case of finding out what works for you.

A useful discovery for me was that emotion is a greater driving force that rationality. Rather than making a list of all the reasons that exercise will be good for you, spend time visualising exactly how wonderful you will feel (in as much detail as possible) when you are fit, and spend time visualising how bad you will feel if you don't get fit.

It might not work for you, but if it does it can be very powerful.

Do you have any evidence that all habit methods are bogus? It's quite a big claim to make, so would imagine you'd have something strong to back it up.

Also, do you have any evidence that there are "no shortcuts or hacks for motivation"? I'd be quite surprised if that were true, because motivational speakers seem to be get people motivated in a very short space of time, so I would expect there to be some shortcuts.

You're not allowed to do jokes on HN. You have to save those for Reddit.

It's a bit weird for an interview titled "How to Master an Accent" to start with the quote:

> “For me it’s not an accent. I know people who do brilliant accents. But I don’t know how to do that.”

> Those who started back in python1/2 are the ones with problems moving to python3, while young people who started with python 3.x are already running 3.5/3.6.

I'm not sure this argument works in your favour. You appear to be saying that the people who like Python 3 are those who have no experience of anything else, whereas the people who have experienced other things are reluctant to use it. You'd have to give at least a little credence to the worries of the experienced people.

> Not nice.

100% agree. It reminds me of the "yes, and" rather than "yes, but" thing from improv and stuff like that.

If what you've done helps a single person (and it did me), then it is valid. It might not be perfect, and it might not be right for everyone, but it was useful and worth putting the effort into (and this was. Thank you for it).

As part of the target audience (I didn't previously understand matrix multiplication, but now I do), you are definitely wrong. This does help the target audience understand what is going on.

I think your core fallacy is that all people need to be taught in the same way, and that there is one correct way to teach people. The videos you link to may work for some people, but not for others. This explanation may work for some people, but not others. It turns out not everything works for all people.

> the goal is simply universal interoperability

No, the goal is that "GNU Emacs should never offer people a practical reason to use some other system instead of GNU".

Universal interoperability is just a side effect.

That's an interesting point, but my reading of that is that Google would be fine. They can't accidentally delete your data, but they can do it deliberately.

> What a bunch of scammers. Not only did they deprive people that actually wanted the phones for their personal use, but they also engaged in a coordinated effort to profit from them.

That's pretty harsh. They weren't depriving anyone of anything. Selling the phone on means that someone who wants one for personal use, gets one. And there's nothing inherently immoral about coordinated efforts to make a profit. That's what businesses are after all.

I'm not judging anyone. I'm not anti-religion, but I do think his point that religion is harmless and "what is there to be afraid of" is naive at best.

It has been quite common when wanting to use a dictionary as a cache or counter such as a function cache or to count how many times a function is called with certain arguments. If the values of the arguments aren't hashable it doesn't work.

> What are you afraid of? Christmas? Accidentally going to mass?

Bombing abortion clinics? Protestors holding signs saying "God hates fags". Systemic child abuse?

> I'm a Python programmer. I fully expect dict keys to be able to be arbitrary objects.

I'm a Python programmer too, and I also fully expect dict keys to be able to be arbitary objects, and I get really frustrated with the fact that they can't be arbitary objects. They have to be hashable objects, and the hash function refuses to hash certain objects that it has decided aren't allowed.

This is utterly brilliant! Thank you.

I've been looking like this for quite a while. I'm still looking through it all, but I don't suppose you have a solution for setting System Preferences, particularly Trackpad settings and remapping the Caps Lock key to Ctrl?

Making something illegal is not regulating a market. It is completely ignoring a market. I'm pretty certain that most people who are in favour of legalised prostitution are in favour of heavy regulation, which should help to stamp out human trafficking.

Note that I'm not myself in favour of legalised prostitution, I just think your argument is a bad one.

I find it amazing that all restaurants open a fresh bottle of wine at your table, and never seem to offer a decanted bottle.

If I trust you to make my food in secret, out of sight, I trust you to open my wine in secret, out of sight.

  > > “She is a treacherous, lying, murderous woman that could care less of our rights and our constitution."

  > Basically, that statement about Hillary is 100% correct.

Okay, I'll bite on this. I accept that all politicians have lied (as has everyone else), so she's a lier.

I'd be genuinely interested to see any evidence that points to treachery, murder, or her not caring about rights or the constitution.

I'm not looking for 100% evidence here, just any evidence that strongly points in that direction. (With citations to other sources, obviously. Just saying she has killed people doesn't count).

I know what you mean. The irony is just too much.

I find all comment sections are easier to read if you imagine that everyone is being ironic and mocking the type of person that would actually have those beliefs.

There is a dichotomy on the internet between those who believe that the most emotionally powerful argument wins, and those who believe that if you use emotion in an argument you can be automatically discounted.

The two sides find it very hard to discuss things, and I think there is a natural tendancy for any discussion forum to gravaitate towards the emotive. Those that like unemotive discussion tend to withdraw once people start shouting, or they join in the shouting. Possibly because it's very easy to turn a rational discussion into an emotive one, but very hard to go from emotive to rational.

It reminds me of the opposite of evaporation, whereby the hotter the discussion gets, the less likely cold agents are to contribute, thereby increasing the heat of the discussion.

He hasn't suggested deleting anything. He just suggested waiting before adding it.

I wonder if it will be able to cope with case-sensitive filesystems? I still haven't got to play one on my Mac because they've never supported case-sensitivity.

I agree. GitLab's reputation has taken a pretty big hit in my opinion. I kind of expected GitHub's reaction, but had hoped for something better from GitLab (if nothing else, just to differentiate themselves from their opposition).

Given that they both offer to host web sites, then they are both (to some extent) publishing platforms.

https://pages.github.com/ https://pages.gitlab.io/