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You'rewelcome. :)

You know one thing that's helped me live a more balanced life (I think) has been exploring the lessons of the tarot deck. I just pulled the 10 of wands, and thought of you.

This site has some good interpretations: http://learntarot.org/

It almost sounds like you're experiencing a kind of post-partum depression.

I would recommend that you not "quit", but rather "step back." If you've launched the project, and it's being used, then how much more do you really need to do?

You must have monitoring that you can check occasionally, so maybe you can just let the thing simmer[0] for a while. Take your mind off it, do some other stuff that you enjoy, then take a look at your logs in December. The watched pot and all that.

[0] https://chefmimiblog.com/a-basic-omelet/

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> Theoretically, half of everyone’s weekend could be half as crowded, two-thirds of the time.

Excellent analysis, and I particularly liked the above line.

The phrase, "The tyranny of the clock" kept springing to mind as I was reading, and I had forgotten that this is the title of a much older, and shorter, essay[0].

[0] http://www.spunk.org/texts/writers/woodcock/sp001734.html

If it's "overreaching", I'm pretty sure it's not "securing the nation."

Dragnet surveillance just makes me paranoid, and my intuition is that it stifles, rather than accelerates, innovation --- well, except for the cryptography aspect; there is plenty of movement towards resisting the surveillance state(s) on that front.

Your opinion could be summarized as, "it's a dirty job but someone's gotta do it" --- when in fact, no one has to do it. Doing so just leads to Cold War-style arms races.

One of my favorite quotes from a simpler time: "Gentlemen do not read each others' mail." -- Henry L. Stimson

If that's seriously canon, then your reward is "citation needed."

It's the first one.

Some people do. Check out the works of Victor Basili and Barry Boehm.

Highly recommend. I dabbled a bit and almost got a remote-control draw-bot working. Sometimes you gotta move the pan from the back-burner to the front-burner.

I like your ad-hoc verbal experimentation. It reminds me of a study awhile back, something about how we use rhythm in our communication to keep things flowing. Along with the subtle power dynamics of short and long responses, there seems to be a human need to have some minimum amount of communication in an interaction to keep us from perceiving it as unpleasant.

The Art of Peace by Morihei Ueshiba, translated by John Stevens

no, they didn't; but they did redefine the definition of teleportation.

> Teleportation is the theoretical transfer of matter or energy from one point to another without traversing the physical space between them. ... [1]

if they teleported anything, it was information, not matter or energy.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleportation

Actually, he was the first. In his speech at the Second Virginia Convention, he spoke the immortal words: "I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me voting dollars or give me death!"

I'm not horrified, as I've had similar thoughts to yours lately. I do think you might get a better response if you could extrapolate on your reasons for moving the logic into the database. Maybe a blog post?

Your argument that a schema w/ keys is already "business logic" could be refuted with the stance that the database is actually the "business model", and the logic is in how the rows and columns are updated, which takes place (and should) in the "application", not the "storage mechanism".

What I imagine is that because SQL was not originally conceived to be a turing complete language, the possibility of having your business logic in the database was simply not there.

The possibility now exists, and I've run into projects where stored procedures do a lot of heavy lifting, but I've never seen an example where stored procedures do all of it. After all, you wouldn't write your UI w/ a stored procedure.

thanks for posting the link. looking forward to the day when we can run post-2012 cpus knowing we'll be able to lock the backdoor.

Brings to mind a lyric:

My guard stood hard when abstract threats

Too noble to neglect

Deceived me into thinking

I had something to protect

Good and bad, I define these terms

Quite clear, no doubt, somehow.

Ah, but I was so much older then,

I'm younger than that now.

Have you seen the VoCore2? Ameridroid has them in stock.

https://vocore.io/v2.html

Is it true what vessenes said above about the Internet Archive receiving a dataset of book spines? And would it be possible for the IA to release that dataset publicly?

That's another good point. Then the only way I could see it working universally is if you assign a price to the water consumed, where it's costlier in CA than VA.

Then you can say that a single almond grown in CA uses $.001 H2O, but in VA it's $.0001 H2O, or something like that.

It's just a thought experiment, of course. But it seems like a worthwhile one, if only to introduce the idea of accountability for the cost of water consumption in various foods.

That's a good point. But I wouldn't classify the water usage label as "penalizing". It's more, um, informational. So if you're in CA, you might set an ideal "virtual water budget" for yourself (100 kl/mo for example), but if you're in VA, your ideal could be several times that.

It's interesting to think of the state of California as one ginormous mining-town. Only instead of some rare mineral that will one day be exhausted, it's the groundwater in the aquifer that underlies the entire valley.

The concept of virtual water may help us to treat this vital resource with more care. I'm imagining something like a nutrition label, where there's an estimate of how many liters/gallons of water is needed to grow the food.

A quick search turned up a food/water required table: https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2013/jan/10/how-mu...

Looks like we could do quite a bit to reduce our individual water usage by substituting a meal of cabbage and potatoes for a chicken dinner every so often...

The Platonic Solids: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic_solid

Too true. On the other hand, you can start out as an outsider, and end up an insider[0].

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph_the_Red-Nosed_Reindeer

I see a couple take-aways here. The first is that it hardly matters what the "real story" is (about an endeavor/person/etc), it's what the media reports the story as being --- and that's the story that is going to cause the most outrage/grief, and sell the most advertisements. So if the story is outrageous on the face of it, that story is most likely not the "real story".

The other is that if you're going to say/do anything substantial (these days/online), you're going to need very thick skin to withstand the barrage of verbal and textual hate that will be directed at you by "the internet".

i wouldn't be so sure. it might be me. we might need to have some sort of "fool-off" to determine the greatest fool.

Thanks for sharing this. It's an interesting trend that I was not aware of (but maybe intuited?). It does seem that, while on the one hand, upvotes are necessary for ranking crowdsourced content on HN and reddit, on the other hand, the voting on comments is responsible for the groupthink/hivemind/echo chamber that develops.

In terms of fostering discussion, the comment voting is a silent killer.

> who is the greatest fool here? Not sure if this is a rhetorical question or not; it does sound like one.

In the case of a single indie developer making an app for a single app store, it seems the developer is the greater fool, since they are turning their work into a commodity, when they should be turning their complement --- the app store --- into one.

Perhaps the route for the indie developer to actually see the financial reward is to make sure their app is available on every app store. ... or maybe they need to skip the app stores entirely to keep 100% of the sales.

How's it coming? Have you spent any time with any fellow (aspiring) hackers yet? :)

I think interactive storytelling is awesome. It's where the fun comes from in D&D, CYOA books, and many video games.

Also, Ayn Rand wrote a play, "Night of January 16th"[0], where the audience plays the role of the jury, deciding how the play ends. It's cool to see these ideas brought into the modern era.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_January_16th

Professor Hewitt, I am a big fan of your work, but I am struggling a bit with understanding this claim from another article you wrote in CACM[0]:

> Actor message passing machines can perform computations that a no lambda expression, nondeterministic Turing Machine, Simula-67 program, or pure Logic Program can implement.

You go on to quote [Plotkin 1976], but I just can't connect the dots. I don't doubt that the Actor Model is a more powerful abstraction than a Turing Machine, but I do wonder if it isn't possible for a Turing Machine to simulate the Actor Model, and thereby achieve the same power of expression.

I also know I'm in way over my head with the math, but if it's possible for you to come up with a proof that an undergraduate/high-school student could follow, that would surely help out a lot!

[0]https://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/231495-what-turing-and-...