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Sorry for getting all political on this but we need to stop associating success only with financial wealth.

He is successful at amassing billions of dollars. From my point of view, his success in the grand scheme of things is below zero. His actions have degraded quality of life and hurt future generations.

Well if we didn't have an economy that makes us replace everything every year (an exaggeration but you get the point), we wouldn't care about the expensiveness.

We already have good enough technology that a phone should last us 10 years at least without having issues with the performance. The only problem is having replaceable batteries.

We need to move back towards things that last and backwards compatibility. Then it would make sense to pay $1000 or even $2000 on a phone, since you know it works perfectly and it'll last you 10-20 years.

So she lived in a nursing home for 10 years but still didn't let the guy live in the apartment? I know she had the right to it but come on...

> he outlawed private ownership of gold

So if you buy gold in the US, you are actually renting it from the government or something?

I've seen this in an older version of NFS on PC. I can't remember which one it was (I think Underground?). The way they always caught up with me when they were behind was insane.

I actually tried a bit to look back and see it happen beacuse, I was wondering, do they just teleport or actually drive at like 800km/h.

I dunno, I'd see it as the opposite. The bigger the scale the more cost effective it is to have more redundancy. I can't remember the last time Google search wasn't working or saw news about it being down.

The fact that github keeps going down while being a huge business shows they still need to work on having more redundancy, something that's expected of big services like theirs.

I was thinking the same thing. We need a permission system for websites. Preferably useable on a per-domain basis so I can disable those APIs on adnetworks' domains.

> Minimum requirement: Eligible to work in the United States

Damn

Hey, just FYI your links are broken - instead of http://www.sixtostart.com/onetoread/2016/senior-android-deve... (which works) they are http://www.sixtostart.com/onetoread/2016/senior-android-deve....

By looking at that I'm thinking that maybe their spamming is the reason for the limit in the first place.

Exactly the problem the author is writing about: because of the way the system works - people are striving to make money, not value.

We could create a political body that is outside any of the countries. Everyone that agrees to be part of it will have to respect its decisions.

Once this is setup the world will be united. We can then call it the United Countries or something like that. It's going to be great!

Or 15MB out of those 18MB are the 100 ad libraries bundled in that serve weird/dubious ads at best.

> "Church of the Byte Savers"

I like that. I see people preaching how we've become accustomed to large drive space and fast internet and we're just wasting it all out of laziness.

Kind of like the post Muad'dib Fremen that got soft on water discipline.

I've been working as a programmer for more than 6 years now.

I still think my best work is a graphical library I built in 9th grade in assembly to use with my Pascal programs in MSDOS.

  mov ax, 13h
  int 10h      ;SCREEN 13 rules!!!

Or maybe they did start with the engineers. Maybe they already have some pretty cool technologies but they realised they don't know how to sell it all so they're looking for business people (yes, yes, very wishful thinking).

I've seen that before and I am so disappointed in the slow motion part. I wish I could see those bullets going one behind the other in a perfect 8 pattern.

I think it's a matter of taste or what you're used to. I find the first two examples clearer than the map/filter ones.

Are map and filter more concise? Yeah but only in this case. If you would need to do some processing, they would get messy fast because of a lambda.

They're pretty big in asian markets. When I was in Tokyo everything was set with yahoo as the homepage for some reason.

> After a certain number of orders I'm beating the system, and that's fun.

That's only true if you would have bought those items anyway. If you wouldn't have then the system is beating you.

You don't need to defend it, you know. That was the point the poster was making - that just because he had a subpar experience he shouldn't judge the whole country by it.

> You learn about Dijkstra, Turing, Fermat and Leibniz, but not Popescu or Iliescu

Andrei Alexandrescu pops into my head and I'm sure I could find a few more if I thought about it.

> And within those that do use it, the vast majority are on Facebook and Youtube

As opposed to the west where everyone is using the Internet for maximizing their productivity.

> There is a lot of impostors in our universities and plagiarism is high. The dean of the Technical University of Cluj plagiarized courses from Berkeley and presents them as his own.

That is true, I've also been at UT, hehe.

Overall I kinda agree with you though. We are poor and the government won't or can't help us increase innovation rate. The talent is here though, anyone looking to create products does have a good opportunity if they choose to start a business here. In the process the native folk might learn a thing or two about what it takes to create a product and sell it.

Static hosting for $5 a month seems too high. If it would be $1 I might use it. But for $10 a month you can get a good VPS that you can use for any hosting needs (including a gitlab/gogs/whatever instance and a demo of your project (if it's on the web)).

Sigh, found one with 128GB RAM for $390. I say great, I might actually think about this. Then I look at shipping cost - $2000...

I'm also thinking that in the case of rule 2 or 3 you could also have an oscillation that has a frequency close to or equal to the acquisition frequency.

The sound is broken on my machine and disabling it from the options somehow makes it sound even louder.

shadow codec - the 'shadow' is either the large approximated image or the small one that only shows the details. Probably the small one :D

This looks interesting, I feel it has a lot of potential.

It will be useful with a standard library or a way to link easily to 'outside' functions without having to create (insert?) them in each cat that uses them.

Lossy video compression currently does that - it creates key frames at regular intervals and all the frames between (i-frames) are based on the previous key frame. Some codecs have i-frames depend on multiple previous frames.

E.g. a 320x240 video has 3 seconds at 25fps, i.e. 75 frames and key frames are created each second. Frame sizes will then be something like:

  20kB 2kB 3kB 1kB 2kB [20 more frames] 22kB 2kB 1kB 2kB [...]

Now, this technique might be good when compressing images - have a large image that roughly approximates the original and then a smaller one reducing the errors. Or even better, multiple smaller images that correct local errors?

I suggest we create a startup immediately. Someone might already have a cool video explaining how their compression algorithm is going to change the web and the world.

edit: others already thought of this: https://sonnati.wordpress.com/2010/10/19/h-264-for-image-com...

I suspect there's a default 'javascript required' message in a file that's included with all pages.