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I'm sure real-time rendering will be useful in a variety of use cases. However, one of the main reasons I use LaTeX (when I did) was because it allowed me to separate creation of the content from worrying about the format. This meant I could switch between author and designer without my (feeble) focus being distracted by an image jumping around or an equation overflowing. Indeed I actually found 'compiling' a LaTeX document quite exciting as I anticipated how it might look.

I can't recall who said it (may have been Bart Simpson) but I've always liked the phrase.

_"To truly innovate, one must be prepared to seek forgiveness not permission."_

Back and yet gone too. HN effect in full effect.

I recall the first time I encountered a 'Defender' machine. Up until then the machines had basically all been Space Invader or PacMan derivatives. I must have been 11 or 12 years old and it totally blew me away both virtually - it repeatedly kicked my arse as it took 10p after 10p (British btw) and I was only lasting about 20 seconds each game as I grappled with the controls - and also physically - the noise of the thing was epic! Also getting the high score on Phoenix ranks close to the birth of my children as a life moment. (Obviously I'll deny that if they ask).

As a computer nerd the 1980's was a great time to come of age - ignoring the twin threats of imminent nuclear war and AIDS. A generation saw the home computer become a reality. Particularly in the UK where, thanks to people like Sir Clive, Curry, Furber, Wilson, Hauser as well as the good old BBC, for a couple of years it seemed all to be happening on the doorstep. I felt a similar thrill years later at University when I got into BBS's and using fidonet to send electronic messages that got anywhere in the world within 24 hours.

OK, you kids get off my lawn.

You don't go to jail for not building one.

I much prefer the poem analogy. My favourite code almost appears to dance around in my mind.

'cum louder' was once spotted on a CV under the education section. Damn that spell checker... I hope.

This is another big selling point for automated vehicles. Why park your car in an expensive car park when you can just send it home - many journeys are round 5 miles in the UK (https://www.licencebureau.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/road-use-...). Even better send the thing off to earn money as a taxi (I'm sure Uber are thinking this) or on some errands (bye, bye home delivery, hello home collection).

Oh the irony.

> Facebook has zero incentive to do this voluntarily

I think the parent was suggesting some level of intervention and imposition. However, given the worldwide reach, which organisation could do this? I can't see how single nation government would be effective.

I wonder if Facebook could begin by unlocking data a fixed period after it has been posted? Assuming the value to Facebook of a posting erodes over time.

> The world was divided into order and chaos not good and evil.

What an interesting point.

I've heard this called imperative programming with classes.

Interesting thoughts. I guess as always with life, everything becomes a negotiation between what you want and what you must concede to get it.

Often this concession is a resource exchange - you pay, they provide - but one that has few other expectations upon you. For instance when I buy some breakfast cereal I don't have to prove I have bowls, spoons and milk. Market forces dictate that the widest market is desired and this is the one that expects the least from it's customer. The store just wants to sell cereal. However, for some things I might want, I have to demonstrate my suitability to society. It might be dangerous to sell guns as widely as cereal or fiscally irresponsible to sell houses to unknown parties. The management of your suitability for various things is often held by other, trusted structures within society - government records etc. Thus the task left to the individual is to prove their identity so that these 'suitabilities' can be attributed to the person present and to connect appropriate 'suitabilities' stored in disparate structures e.g. bank account and gun license. Therefore, the key questions as we journey through this technological transformation are 1) can I pay and 2) can I prove my identity?

To my mind this is why the mobile phone is such an iconic piece of technology as it looks like it is becoming the preferred mechanism for a person to answer both. However, in answer to your question I think what you may begin to experience is inconvenience more than exclusion.

I don't think it does. For instance I notice The Handmaids Tale - what I'd regard as a science fiction - is currently number 3 in their 'Most Popular Sci-Fi' list between Alien: Covenant at 2 and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 at 4 - both films I'd place firmly in the Sci-Fi category. [http://www.imdb.com/search/title?genres=sci_fi&explore=genre...].

In the film industry there seems to be a differentiation between things labelled SciFi (spaceships fighting, laser guns, squids in outer space) and Science Fiction (fictional science enabling the plot).

I, for one, have always preferred all of my `figs` at the end of the document anyway. ;)

A technique often employed by my children. To which my regular response is "Looks like you need more practise."

> the current representation of senior female engineers both at Facebook and across the industry is nowhere near where it needs to be.

So is the story really that the n is too small for this story?

Unless my google-fu has let me down, the father is Perry Hughes a music agent who used to represent Salford born pop-operatic tenor Russell Watson (British mums love 'im). Sounds as if the pair had an acrimonious split and according to this article (http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/local-news/watso...) Russell had to pay out big.

So I'm guessing Perry has a few connections and can get some PR when he wants. Perhaps 'selling one of the family homes' doesn't provide the same punchy headline.

Which is one reason why email is still such a key collaboration tool.

Don't be too alarmed there are 3/4 classes of device all with differing risk profiles. Patient safety include things like protecting patient information so even systems used to transfer medical records can be regarded as a medical device. Not sure I'd want a pace maker updating online though...

Probably a better thing to do would be to download one of the many excellent open source libraries and explore how they work. You can then even contribute back. Many open source projects would really benefit from new users contributing to documentation for a start.

At least the wife will find that one plausible.

I find jrnl (http://jrnl.sh/) fits this a most other uses I have of text capture at the command line.

...and a new branch of adult entertainment is born.

> Startups are only for people who are under ~25 (maybe 30), have no families, are willing to spend all their waking hours pursuing someone else's dream, and think they're going to make bank doing it and are willing to take that gamble.

OR those over 55 whose kids have left school, have mostly paid off their debts, already achieved a few things and have the experience, strength of character and financial stability to look their 23 year old CEO in the eye and say "sorry, I'm busy this weekend" when necessary.

Rapid exit focused startups are no place for those in their 30's and 40's. I say this as someone who spent their 30's and 40's in startups but survived.

For comparison, what do Google et. al. pay in the UK?

I work in a small medtech in Manchester UK (like a scaled down Boston!) and simply currency adjusting these numbers would make for attractive offers here. For example I've a PhD in computer vision, 20 years building and selling medical device approved imaging software in the EU & US and have yet to be offered anything close to $100K (yes dollars) and options that would impact on anything I do. I'm good at what I do too. I just think the UK investment attitude is totally different.

The irony.

I'm not sure what we (bioxydyn) have done constitutes a microservice but we have split different parts of our business logic into separate executables that communicate using HTTP and a central data store. Our product is a data processing pipeline and we took this approach for several reasons which I may have missed in my skim read of the article. Firstly different parts of the pipeline have different resource requirements and would thus be hosted on different hardware configurations. Also parts of our pipeline lend themselves to different designs and languages (some Java, some C++) decisions which are also influenced by the availability of third-party libraries. Finally, by designing the overall system as a set of coordinated individual services we allow greater flexibility in our deployment model; allowing us to cope with some unknowns around scaling and regulations in different environments.

Similar here. I use 2 boards, Todo and Objectives. Todo has several lists; Done <Month>, Waiting For, Now, Next & Backlog. Cards moves right to left and each month I archive the done list and create a new one. Things in Waiting For are suspended. Objectives has 12 lists one for each month. I review Objectives every week or so and see if I need to add more stuff to my Todo backlog. Cards in Todo are constantly in motion.

I really appreciate the visual focus of Trello as I'm a visual thinker - I really wanted to like taskwarrior and todo.txt (or just vim and a text file) but I'm just more effective with Trello. The clutter free interface and wide app availability is a real help too. There are a number of nice Stylish mods that can help tweek the experience too.

Pro tip: The tools only help solve the problem. Regular review is the only way to keep the work flowing in the direction of your goals. If you don't do this your work will be dominated by the tasks you get from others.