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How So? I mean, NightOwl doesn't have an arrangement with your ISP, they have an arrangement with you.

I'm not sure your ISP is going to delete your account because you didn't know some app was doing something shady. If the standard is every app user has to know what each app does under the hood, then there's going to be a lot of people who won't be able to match that standard.

I don't have a twitter account, so you'll probably want to post this somewhere else.

I don't think the law suit has started yet.

Is it too late to get Bill Gates or the reanimated corpse of Steve Jobs to enter the fray?

My completely uninformed opinion is Zuck looks kinda ripped. Even though Musk is heavier and taller, I think Zuck could take him. But Newsweek, that bastion of factual reporting on objective reality, says London bookies are giving Musk better odds:

https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-mark-zuckerberg-cage-figh...

Letters like this aren't delivered under oath and don't cost much. They can blather as much as they want and try to re-frame the story from "Elon Musk destroyed Twitter" to "Elon Musk was rescuing Twitter until Zucc hired traitorous IP thieves and they destroyed Twitter."

So... if you work for Twitter and then go work somewhere else, Twitter will sue your new employer? That's a stellar recruiting strategy.

I think Mr. Musk should lay off the cannabis for a day or two.

This would be very cool if it worked with Lynx or EWW and when you click on a story it took you to that story instead of some other page on forth.news.

Um... it went from around $25k to around $30k in the middle of June where it's sort of hovered over the last couple of weeks. Then it falls from about $31.1k to $30.9k and some dude says "It's at a 14 month high because of this thing that just happened!"

Okaaaaaaay.

You can actually go to public trading data and verify this. But I guess if you've been mainlining blockchain hype, you're not really that hip to consensus reality.

Sad. I remember when Fortune was a real news source.

So... what? There's another sunken cold-war era submarine we want to retrieve?

That's just what they want you to believe.

Can someone ask Canonical to reboot their server that serves out metadata about which file is in which package? Or is this their response to the Red Hat / Centos kerfuffle? Or were we supposed to use the debian site? It's entirely possible I missed the memo about Canonical EoL'ing support for parts of Ubuntu, but resources that used to work are throwing 500s at the moment.

That's actually exactly what battery backups do.

The link you provided links to a series of pages about (mostly) Python, some SQL and a touch of scheme. Interestingly, it doesn't talk about using scheme as a programming language as much as using python to create interpreters which interpret a small subset of scheme.

I think most people would look at that corpus and say "that's a Python text."

It's research that's so valued they don't have a battery backup and don't page a grad student or two when the power goes off in the middle of the night. It's so important they don't explain the problem to people who have access to the lab saying "hey. look at this sign over here."

or you could just use m-expressions. just an idea. you know. use the tools provided by the language.

Kris Jenkins wrote this page about functional programming, which is the best quick explanation of why functional programming languages matter: http://blog.jenkster.com/2015/12/what-is-functional-programm...

And then you mix that with Larry Wall's famous quote: "Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy."

So you mix these two references together and you get the idea that maybe Lisp and Scheme and ML make functional programming easy. Python, on the other hand, makes it easy to avoid the key feature of Lisp: separating concerns and managing complexity.

This doesn't mean Python is a bad language, and it doesn't mean you can't use python to craft programs in a functional style. But it's A LOT easier in Python for an inexperienced programmer to do things that Lisp and Scheme are trying to force you to avoid (by exposing unnecessary state to a function, conflating concerns and avoiding abstractions for manipulating complexity.)

I think this is why Scheme was originally chosen for SICP over contemporary languages like C or Modula-{2|3} or Bliss. It's simultaneously good for CS pedagogy and a small team can build decent, extendible, testable and debuggable programs with it.

yes. but that's the python book.

I've been doing something like this about 33% of the time for the last couple decades. The Agile guys glommed on to time-boxing and called it "sprints" but seemed to think time-boxing is only effective at multi-week scale.

A couple jobs back we experimented with coordinating our time-boxes (gang scheduling) when we were working in the same code base. We would do four 45 minute chunks, then spend 5 minutes emailing / slacking each other and 10 minutes to play beer-pong (actually it was set aside for chatting if we needed to chat.)

The rest of the day was spent sorta however you thought you might need to spend it.

Sometimes we would do it all day long. Some days we wouldn't do it at all. But a lot of us got into the habit of picking a small bit of work, doing it, then seeing where you are in the overall process. It also helped us avoid rabbit-holes. Our dev culture evolved to this place where people waited until the top of the hour to chat with co-workers unless it was an emergency. That was pretty cool 'cause you had a reasonable expectation of getting 45-55 minutes of uninterrupted coding time.

I definitely recommend recruiting co-workers to try it if you're working with other people in the same code base.

I used to work at Linden Lab, makers of Second Life back in the day. We were the poster-child for "look how cool the metaverse is" hype in the 2000s. We spent a lot of time and effort with IBM to push the idea of how the metaverse is useful for business meetings.

Even we didn't tell people they had to strap a thing to their head that made them nauseous.

About 15% of the people I know who bought an Oculus say they still use it for gaming. 85% say their Oculus is in a box in the back of the closet. I literally know no-one who owns a Hololens, Magic Leap or Google Glass device, despite having shared office space with their developers over the last decade. Sure... plenty of prototypes, but no devices which have been bought through consumer retail.

I've had nothing but troubles with Google Search. They keep emailing me to tell me I have problems and they won't index my pages. When I look at the specifics, it's clear they're looking at the last version of my page that was hosted by Google Sites and are ignoring the current version hosted on a mix of GitHub and CloudFront. Even after deleting my Google Sites sites 8 years ago, they're still refusing to look at anything other than the stale cache they keep around for unknown reasons.

I think it boils down to "you're not Amazon or Facebook or the NYT, we don't care."

And soon it will require an Outlook or Live account, no doubt.

It seemed like they were doing better when they were running leenucks servers in Azure. But you can't upload images on LinkedIn with firefox (at least on leenucks.) And there were some UI weirdness on GitHub, so yeah... Playing dirty is in their genome. And I was just getting to the point where I liked C#.

Yeah. I'm more or less off the web completely. Except HN, to which I am addicted.

Never change, kid.

Though to be fair, it's not in Germany's financial best interest to exchange Euros for Dollars.

Because that's the purpose of Experian, to spread your identifying information as far and wide as possible so they can later charge you money to repair your bad credit.

It's sort of like the US Courts are there to demonstrate how rich people need never fear the outcomes of their actions. And secondarily something about crime and tort.

Your local county elections department is there to reinforce the narrative that "democracy" means voting every four years. (Every two years if you're especially committed.)

I'm not sure that article addressed the assertion in the title: how is media killing technological progress? I would have called it "The Media Still Exists" or "Media Is Still Not Your Friend." I would agree with both assertions and they would both be closer to the content of the article.

How's the frame-rate?