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Hrmn. I suspect many rich people were born that way, and paid no income taxes in utero.

Scene on radio, men, #7.

This was a fantastic book, and the first thing I thought of when seeing the article.

It'd be interesting to know, say, what percentage of software developers work on programs that have less than a million users.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if it's the majority. For every big-ticket software offering there's going to at least be things the user never interacts with, like a build system and a test suite and a bug tracking system and whatever else. And there's just so much software everywhere, most of which we never see. Every small business has its little web site. Who knows how much software there is powering this or that device or process at random factories, laboratories, and offices.

The Debian popularity contest looks like it has a big long tail of relatively unpopular packages [1]. It looks like the app store has 2 million apps, only 2857 (.14%) have more than a million dollars of annual revenue. These are of course incomplete and flawed and do not really directly address the question. I don't really know how to research this in a thorough way.

[1] https://popcon.debian.org/by_inst [2] https://expandedramblings.com/index.php/itunes-app-store-sta...

Any processor in any product you have has bugs.

For instance, according to Intel's own documentation[1] there are 137 errata for "8th and 9th Gen Core" processors, including unpredictable behavior, hangs, security key exposure, etc.

It just has to be good enough to sell to folks.

[1] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/proces...

> Most people can't afford to do effectively anything other than go to work and flop on the couch.

You're definitely right about this for folks who are barely scraping by, working multiple jobs, etc.

But for folks in IT, taking the time to read and comment on HN... we make the time for what we choose to make the time for.

Even without building some kind of product to sell, it's a way to get personal visibility and build your career.

Cameras in public, theft-prone areas hardly seem like a privacy invasion.

Surely a man who is successful in his career can support his children in many ways. This is undoubtedly important to many men.

But most men who strive for promotions surely have many reasons other than their children. Who doesn't want {appreciation, autonomy, status, money, ...} just for the sake of their own ego, identity, power, etc.?

I want to agree with you, insofar as that being outraged over what appears to be a more precise weapon makes very little sense.

On the other hand, it still seems horrible to kill people by remote control. Supposing it becomes possible to very, very precisely kill exactly who you want, from far away, with no judicial process, etc., is this good?

War should be painful for both sides, because if it is not, what stops us from engaging in it?

It would look bad-ass in that phanta black.

If you want a TV, is there any alternative? We got a new TV last year and I (joe shmoe average user) didn't see any that weren't smart.

Sure. But an awful lot of folks don't have a hundred web servers. If you're running something simple, you can pretty much use whatever you want.

Sure. Sadly my company's code base, and the vendor's tool that it extends, are not so well documented. A statically typed language gives just you so much more sanity checking -- sometimes even without having to compile anything, what with these fancy IDEs.

> Everything is a string is a great way to reduce the mental load about typing.

I feel almost the exact opposite way...

Everything is a string means I have to "know" whether any given function takes {a single element, a list of elements, a glob, a list of globs, ???}.

When I inevitably mess it up, I don't get any help at all from the language. In the best case, I'll hit a run-time error and figure it out. In the worst case, my program will just do some random thing that isn't what I wanted, and I'll get to debug it.

Now I am really jealous, and want a hex version that introduces underscores for every group of four...

Yup. My copy of "sudo" has 23 documented command line switches, 15 documented environment variables that influence various behaviors, plugins(!), and can also use a configuration file for setting up paths, debugging tools, etc. Do one thing well, indeed.

It would be great to add links to "RealmDB" and "GraphQL" for the uninitiated. (I have no idea what this project is about.)

Thanks, looks great. I need to get this hooked into Emacs!

Yes, exactly. It points out phrases like "frequent and productive collaboration with," which would be better as "worked with," or "highly efficient execution," which could be simplified to "fast."

MS's backwards compatibility is definitely great. It's probably also a big opportunity cost and a hindrance to them developing new things. Tradeoffs everywhere.

This is actually really useful. I just ran this as a sanity check on a long document I wrote, and it pointed out a bunch of lousy writing. Even better, it seems you can use it with the Hemingway App (http://www.hemingwayapp.com/) as you're writing...

On desktop, if you hover over the "bullshit", it shows you what word was replaced. May not work on mobile, I guess.

Thanks!

What actually happened in the interview? Is there somewhere we can watch it?

Er, what? The harasser is aggressive and bitter? They harass people in real life? It sounds like they have some problems. Maybe they can go work on themselves and come back to the community when they're ready to be civil.

We wouldn't tolerate sexual harassment, etc., in the workplace or in civil society. I don't see why we wouldn't expect a basic level of decorum in respectable online communities.

I suppose you could interpret it that way. It reads to me more like a statement of values, going forward.

This is a really good point. Not sure I'm in favor of UBI when there is so much work we could be doing to fix the mess we've made.

From a corporate perspective, I think you're absolutely right, this kind of thing will never be profitable.

From a state perspective, being reliant on other countries for your electronic may seem like such a threat to your ability to remain sovereign that it's worth developing your own, even if you are generations behind the latest and greatest.

I suspect Americans think trains are an awful experience not because of the trains, but because there will be other people on the trains. It's one part "don't make me interact with a human," and one part "white people don't ride busses."

It might also be one more part actually creepy people, but I bet most folks don't get that far into their evaluation.