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Maybe there's a reason people still use everyday, extend, follow, contribute? Maybe..

Dunno if Ruby locked my mind into a certain mode, but I've never felt good doing anything with python :( 2 different projects I tried participating with a lot of years in between, still felt the same. Granted, I can't say I've really studied it properly.

I always think about how game programming must be so much more hardcore than business stuff in general.. Even the menu interfaces are all so custom & etc while in web & business it takes us so much even for generic stuff lol but then again in general the teams are much more specialized and probably better staffed in qty

I'll definitely be trying this one out <3 Thanks for this work

It's FOSS though, if devs swarm it with contributions anything is possible ;P

I know it may sound harsh, but have you tried thinking about it rather than looking for a dismissal or deflection? Of course the media edits stuffs, editting is literally taking a cut of things, there are a hundred million threads buried underneath editting all the time, that's why we should always seek to dig a little more. This though is indeed a large story, climate change is being felt all over the world, bolsonaro's behavior(infantile at times, bordering insane others) and direct attacks(both verbal and as official policy) on science, environmental, indigenous concerns, the fires, the data, images, its all there. It's only been 6 months and this is indeed an international crisis, 3.5 years of this ahead and it could close the coffin on trying to manage the climate problem, if you forgot,according to science we're already missing the mark pretty bad. Try to dismiss it whatever, we could be setting up for hell on earth. Its too easy to freestyle justifications adhoc, too bad it's not actual rationality. This is not left/right dialectic, it is insanity.

You take comments like "the media worldwide is leftist" seriously? These are mostly not bad supporting arguments, not enough to conclude this is just a big misreading of the presidents funny style. Shit is going down and that's a fact, of course you should be worried. "It just means you are still sane"

So you mean not working at all?

If this seems like random shit rules to you, make sure to check out this amazing video about Kriegsspiel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-seIA9tukDs

Seriously awesome information based system design way before computers, it seems like such an advanced game/simulator. One of the things I'm most interested in is how sophisticated past humans could get with their tech & circunstances they had at their time, this is one of those to me.

So awesome, thanks

OTOH, one can argue that one who's critical is also the most helpful or caring lol.

My comments that expose some 'against the system' stuff always end up getting downvoted tho(actually, at first they get some ups, but then are slowly shot down), so my view always was a "techie" thing... Ppl that would like some adjustments but most aren't radicals.

Another possibility is since here there's more informed ppl from very different places, a lot will make sure to point out weird stuff in American debate, since we all end up getting exposed to it but from a different vantage point.

I side with Taleb on the matter, the problem is that economists and economic arguments do not model reality nearly as much as they want it to, it gives an illusion of wisdom because the simple model seems coherent, it fails, they refuse to accept it, but still they enjoy trust and influence even though being wrong, catastrophically wrong, multiple times, and they remain at it, it's a kind of modern astrology, modern sophistry, etc(specially if you link that an illusion of knowledge will stand in front of a real one). Then everybody pays for it. In my mind the class of the economist is of the dark priest.

Btw it was economically rational for Germany to want to get strong expansionist & 'warry' since the Versailles Agreement probably meant they'd be made into a 3rd world or colonized country forever wouldn't they act upon it(there's a theory ww1 & 2 were actually the same ww). At the beginning of it too, if I'm not mistaken, their first aggressive actions were done on hoping to be able to keep the war localized as much as possible, that other countries would not want to pay the economic cost of chiming in(think Russia-Crimeia?), they didn't set out to start a World War, it just spun out of control. So obviously the categorization you made of "european supremacy" is void, since in the context it was irrelevant, they just saw themselves independently and seeking their own rational, economic, social, interests.

IMO wealth & power comes as much from brains as it does from nature/ground/territory, same as it ever was. One is dependent on the other. Also, wars are absolutely ingrained in how USA became the richest country in the world, undeniably, and lot only back then in WW2.

Also this:

`A 1910 best-selling book, The Great Illusion, used economic arguments to demonstrate that territorial conquest had become unprofitable, and therefore global capitalism had removed the risk of major wars. This view, broadly analogous to the modern factoid that there has never been a war between two countries with a MacDonald’s outlet, became so well established that, less than a year before the Great War broke out, the Economist reassured its readers with an editorial titled “War Becomes Impossible in Civilized World.”`

http://blogs.reuters.com/anatole-kaletsky/2014/06/27/world-w...

I think it's cool but I'd be totally self-aware and fearful or making the idiot post in the thread for HN to judge :p

Given socialism = European social-democracy, in which the economic system is capitalist. It doesn't make sense, except for the guy who's very above the water(or very ideologically inclined), to be against worker rights, vacations, maternal leave, public health system, not having tonnes of people living in misery and in general trying to prevent economic power to takeover democratic power... So, anyway... If you strip the charged ideological rhetoric & all the fear and uncertainty and get back looking at reality as it is. It's painfully obvious the American system could use some reform. I don't think much is gonna happen though, not without insane levels of friction, economic and real power just have a lot of weight and a lot of cards to play(a problem that could be mitigated with more actual democracy, but TBH I think it's a lost cause & pure idealism to talk in this terms).

That's interesting.. Well I've been thinking of how well would they work along with a rich domain model and high level programming in general.. The book also has a chapter on systems of state machines, one of the suggested approaches was of an hierarchical model in which the lower stms input the higher ones only through their states.. Was the project you talked about embedded sw? BTW UML is also criticized by the book I mentioned, so hopefully it's not the UML trap again :P

Has anyone also read this book: https://www.amazon.com/Modeling-Software-Finite-State-Machin... ? I've actually stopped at 56% or so when it starts plugging their proprietary solution as mentioned in one of the reviews, the previous part being the theory of it, I very much enjoyed it though.

I had not learned about automata theory and electric engineering formal methods before, so I'm still trying to piece it together, seeing if I can fit this to my work and such, seemed very promising and kind of a "missing piece" in the puzzle to me. In that it seems to really allow to better model system behavior in a way that potentially could bind it to a spec, give new tools for seeing blindspots, etc, at the same being abstract enough that you could capture much with actions, control values, conditions and states.

Philosophically I'm a bit of an anarchist and a stoic. I think firstly it's a choice we make when we try to expand your awareness to a point where maybe we're "seeing" bigger movements happening in the world that are ugly and despairing to us, at the same time, when it comes down to it, this clash is more like "do I wanna be unaware of ugly truths or do I prefer to take in all that and keep working do be able to see it better, maybe act on something?".

I think studying history is very sobering because you see how much of the ugly stuff, injustices, have been present all along(also how many heroes there's always been, going against that). It's also entertaining as fuck as well as educational and makes you think about all kinds of different things.

Some bad things you just gotta be patient and let them consume themselves, e.g.: new-right obscurantism, leaders, it's just something that can't be sustained, it eventually drops because it's rotten... Other stuff have different qualities that make them stay. Anarchism is an example of this to me.

I've also stopped identifying myself with the whole. Some people are like "oh why are we like this" as if everything must move together as a single unit, as if we and the actual rulers are the same, fuck that. Everyone can act wherever they are and tip things, there's a lot of stuff that can be done(I think it's amazing really how many counter-economic things are possible, planting, cooking, for example), it only does not seem so when people think like the whole must move together in perfect harmony.

I've quit my bullshit job at the start of the year, some friends of mine, one of which is also somewhat anarchic and a damn genius engineer started a startup that's related to electric vehicles, I'm working there. I think a lot about "direct economic action" and such, doing stuff that'll let people own their lives again etc, we frequently talk about ideas like that.

On the inwards part, I do yoga, I skateboard, calisthenics. Well my suggestion is to just take care of the body and mind, practice sports, be strong, get to the level your body was designed to work on, if your body is weak you feel weak and vice-versa. The same for the mind, I'm listening to "the mind illuminated", about meditation, I'm always reading and studying interesting stuff on philosophy, history, religion. Seek nature, immerse in nature, remote areas where people live peacefully without anxiety, all that artificial stuff we try to feed on are shit, we've always had it in ourselves, I think, a healthy mind and a healthy body is not so complicated. Also as you see deep into ugly stuff, you can also look deep into beautiful stuff, music, exercising, sex, hashish, all good things! Skateboarding, for example, is awesome because it's so damn impossible, all the physics and coordination and balance involved, fuck, it shouldn't even exist, but it do!

Stoicism is also great because it's a very solid mindset, an antique philosophical mindset. If you want to put weight on this side and perspective of things, then prepare, work for it, pick fights, act etc, then it starts feeling like a big adventure. You have to make the choice sometime, I've made mine to make my own path and say it screw it to the linkedin, corporate drones running exclusively the mainstream program. I want to walk my own path and have good laughs at the blind idiots banging their heads. And I'm actually currently in a cool startup, I'm still a damn good software guy with a big project on my lap, plenty others to pursue then(secret tip: I remain interested and sharp because I don't learn, think, reflect on Software and other large things for them, I do it for myself, to be able to materialize the stuff I wanna do, to be capable of seeing what stuff stuff actually is, etc. Never had a problem getting a job, most I actually despise, the damned souls over there still love me anyway), so, I have purpose.

2 downvotes why? I made my point and I stand to it. The signs are fucking everywhere.

Is it just me or each day the more it seems the western world is viciously cycling on a downward spiral?

Actually there's literally infinite alternatives. Simple logic.

It already is a multi billion dollar business. And cyberpunkish dystopia stuff like "poor get old & decrepit while rich extends youth" already exists in several ways(health, food, in US "legal roiding"... Same shit as it's always been.

There's "exercise" and then there's physicality appreciation. I'm very easily bored and the best cure I found yet is to skateboard, this after programming, philosophy, history.. What a boring study.

Seen a lot of comments trying justify it, so check this which is where the pic comes from: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/revolut-trade-unions-labour-...

They were using hiring process for free unpaid work to reach those sweet KPIs... much worse.

Each applicant was expected to bring 200 new paying customers to go to the next phase. Any problem yet?

BTW https://www.wired.co.uk/article/revolut-trade-unions-labour-...

They were using hiring process for unpaid work.

Some countries have laws for that tho, which were implemented precisely so that all business are not allowed to think themselves as so "special" that they can set any rules whatsoever, they've done it in the past and it was ugly. If I make a mining startup can I say it's not a normal job, this you go back home once a week, work 14hrs day and can bring your child as a mini-employee?

I'd be curious as to what work laws in UK says.

I think thats a toxic article

I even had in mind writing a post about this... Diagrams in code have so much potential to explain things better, and taking this kind of thing OUT of the code always ruin it(I much prefer code w/ TODOs & comments all around than code that is just code with zero human context), maintaining a little explanatory diagram is so much easier than trying to have drawings elsewhere where they'll get outdated, I think it should be encouraged. As I mentioned in some replies here, as a Vim user is quite seamless to do this with DrawIt plugin, this is one I've done just for the hell of it:

edit.: No way I can make it keep format here lol https://github.com/salgadobreno/dme/blob/master/README.md

And DrawIt for Vim

I use DrawIt plugin in Vim... As much as that looks beautiful, why would you open a GUI window to draw plain text? No need(although of course it doesn't look as slick).

A little one I done with it: https://github.com/salgadobreno/dme/blob/master/README.md

Abusing unicode chars, I've done some pretty interesting mock-ups...