ben_jones

When Star Citizen is released

“You can build it, but will hundreds of millions of users come instantaneously in desired markets and earn billions in high margin ways with minimal support costs and in a way that is preferred by the majority shareholder?”

Success exists outside the success criteria of Google and Meta.

I sympathize a lot with the licensing story of Caddy. /u/mholt has been a very active maintainer and participant in the larger Go community and has every right to create a commercial side to the project and receive compensation for their work.

But licensing is hard. AWS abused the leniency of Elasticsearch's original OSS license, so now the industry is set back 10 years with new entrants trying to find the balance between inviting community participation and getting gob smacked by big corporate interests.

Im not saying Elastic.co is an angel but its a lesson OSS projects have to take to heart, unfortunately. Thanks Amazon.

> I'd place this at roughly at 0.01% chance for any major exchange or fund

Over 0.01% of major exchanges and funds have been hacked or scammed this month.

> both via traditional support channels and other escalation methods

I wish our industry could just be honest that many meaningful escalations have to happen via discriminatory back-channeling, contacting friends, family, former co-workers, ANYONE who might have an in with the organization.

Its discriminatory because if you don't know someone you can be SOL.

Just like the Uber credit card. They've removed every benefit and re-issued a vanilla master card.

Its a company you can't trust.

We talk about leading by example but this is actual leadership by example.

I continue to see these Ads as front-page above-the-fold content on Youtube after turning ad customization settings off.

It has been over 3 weeks since the original Vice article.

Modern libertarianism in a nutshell:

I have the right to maximize my short-term gains, but if the consequences catch up to me, I will demand subsidies and bailouts from the same society I totally don't participate in.

You have to remember that vans drive around these cities collecting and maintaining these scattered scooters.

There is a large auto footprint for each scooter that needs to be serviced, as well as for the people servicing them.

I'd counter its not "committees of experts" but "committees of stakeholders and powerbrokers" with equally misaligned incentives not worth replicating.

Its really hard to express the business logic of financial institutions. Doesn't matter the language or tooling. Its just really hard.

Ultimately these bugs can all be resolved with little to no damage.

Oh and nobody really shares their implementations, partly because they are so internal facing you can't really abstract it out, but also because its a competitive advantage.

Im sorry I couldn't get past a hypothetical Org allowing a single developer to yolo-yeet bespoke languages, frameworks, tooling, into internal-critical-business-project after internal-critical-business-project.

If your Org behaves like the above you could have the best Rails-Closure framework in the world but you're still destined for implosion.

For all we know the sites have better internationalizations and cater to audiences invisible from a US-based perspective.

There's two revelations here:

* big companies have entire teams (internal and consultants) advising them on large changes in the name of productivity, cost reduction, whatever. These teams contrive metrics, KPI, and correlations, between what they do and the success of the business. These teams are paid bonuses, promotions, etc., based on these metrics they themselves contrive.

* small companies blindly do what the big companies do because surely these big companies know what they're doing

And everyone suffers. Except the people who implement this stuff. They probably have celebrations.

> "do it for the lulz" argument seems like one of the last best guesses available

Or Musk is, was, and always will be, a financier, and is doing all this because at some point it made sense to his broader financial plans - dumping Tesla stock near its peak and minimizing the fallback.

Then there was you know, an economic collapse, shortly after this started going into motion. Maybe, I don't know, the financial collapse had some impact on the cost/benefit and changed the course?

Why do people always throw out the simplest most obvious solution in favor of conspiracy and cult-of-personality worship ("do it for the lulz")?

1) Musk wanted to offload Tesla (which he himself said was overvalued). Twitter was as good a reason as any to do so.

2) Economic collapse made the deal unfeasible.

3) When you owe the bank a billion dollars its the banks problem, Musk knows the deal is worthless and is more then happy to let the courts settle it to optimize his personal costs.

> gone to the length

Right there. Because typing 20 lines of source code should not be an argument for weakening your model layer. Re-use would be great if types were identical between actions, but in the real-world they're not and they accrue subtle differences over time.

Am I right to call out most of this problem is caused by incessantly reusing types (because defining an additional type for i.e. CREATE vs PUT actions is soooo hard.

> configuring vpc

What advances in Serverless platforms like AWS Lambda prevent the need for configuring VPCs?

A lot of these rate limits would have been designed off the rubble of the Cambridge Analytica scandals, and would've been designed to prevent a lot of analysis.

I still find it dubious that they couldn't long poll sufficient samples. I'd love to see the raw feedback of Musk's "Data Experts" versus whatever awful telephone game it became through several layers of Executives and Lawyers. I wonder if Musk just has a nepotistic data team next to him.

Seems like a manic episode enabled by yes-men.

You didn't know SQLite cures cancer?

And that's WITH lockdowns and a way fewer people on the streets in 2020. Of course 2021 would be higher with vaccinations.

What are some examples of well-written decentralized exchanges?

"these other people are acting shitty so its totally ok for us to do it" - quick way to identify ass holes. We shouldn't always race to the bottom under the guise of "we have to do it to stay competitive". You don't have to do it, you're just an ass hole.

- not talking about gp specifically. Just folks who make those sorts of decisions off such busted premises.

Normally the cost of cognitive dissonance in tech is $200k/yr. Pay that and you will have a line out your door and around the block of engineers who want to work for you, no matter what you do.

Fortunately Facebook pays for the Cognitive Dissonance Deluxe package which is about $250k-$400k year. They've got plenty of padding to mislead their employees right to their face.

The system no longer provides FB the same value it previously did. So they're taking it down, now that they've collected billions of images. Will they be deleting the trained models too? All artifacts and inferences? Hell no.

The whole Meta thing is just a 1-2 year distraction to keep the stock price up while Facebook figures out its real existential problems. Maybe it sells some more VR units great, but it keeps Facebook at the forefront of "hard technical innovation" "new age social media" and has other tech giants rushing to "keep up".

Solid distraction, 7/10.

My parents took out a home equity loan in 2013 and are still buried by it, any recommendations here for how they can best service or refinance the loan?

I've found several "subtle" benefits from hooks in the way they can influence more idiomatic code structure, for example "code smell" becomes more intense and dictates more actions because when a function is > 100 lines of code it sticks out like a sore thumb. It's also influenced us to put more business logic into redux where (arguably) it belongs.