jamesgreenleaf

How rude it is for eight billion other souls to go on existing, and without even giving such basic consideration as to notify me of their doings. /s

The old trajectory was affected, but the new trajectory was effected.

https://xkcd.com/326/

The check-in or the egg?

"The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies."

> That’s what should matter. That’s the whole point of programming. The point of programming is to create software that delivers value to the users.

She's right.

A good programmer makes computers do good, useful things for people.

You could be a wizard at programming, and work to serve ads, or sell lootboxes, or skim pennies off high-frequency trades, but that wouldn't make you good.

> All meritocratic platforms are winner-take-all, with the top 1% of performers collecting a vastly disproportionate share of rewards.

Even if you simulate an economy where every participant starts out with the same amount of money, and all trades are completely random, over enough trades the participants' wealth will still end up in a power-law distribution.

What are the titles of those books?

> if you’re not thinking about monetisation during your creative process, you’re a “fucking idiot.”

This is why Poe's work is not enjoyable. Knowing he died penniless makes all his creativity worthless. Likewise William Blake - what a fool, laboring upward into futurity! /s

It's funny you should ask. You see, the three of them walk into a bar...

Good idea. But now I'm imagining devs as sommeliers, picking out floral notes and hints of oak.

Now you're making sense.

I'm becoming convinced that using the phrase "code smell" might as well be a "smell" itself. Maybe it's just me, but I've only heard the phrase used as a rhetorical mask for a developer to express some individual preference as though it were an objective fact.

Those studies seem to point out the differences between virtual and brick-and-mortar charter schools. It's not surprising to me that virtualized classrooms have worse outcomes. We're all very aware now of the limitations of video chat.

Well, I don't personally identify with either side of the political divide, but it seems like increasing the quality of educational outcomes for our nation's children should be a primary concern with basic bipartisan agreement. Wishful thinking perhaps.

If the reason is that students are being homeschooled or going to private schools, then this seems like great news. It's well known that the public school system in the US is just not up to snuff. Not all public schools are bad, but on average their outcomes are worse than the alternatives.

There was a guy named John Taylor Gatto who wrote on this subject in some depth, after teaching in the NY public school system for decades, and being named NYC's "teacher of the year" a few times. He has some great talks on youtube, and a few books out if you're interested in the subject.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Taylor_Gatto

This seems very similar to Workflowy, which is meant as a compliment.

Scriptability is a huge feature here, and something that WF users have been asking about for a long time.

If you could offer this on multiple devices & OSes, and provide a sync feature, then I'd be very interested in switching.

I use privacy.com for things like this. Make as many CCs as you want with whatever limits you want.

Just send ether to the genesis address 0x0. God only knows the private key.

"You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveller."

I like that on the steam page for Dwarf Fortress it states:

    Release Date:  time is subjective

If Factorio took place on Earth, that would be pretty dark. But, remember the backstory is that you've crash-landed your spaceship on an alien world filled with giant hostile insects who will attack you when you get too close, even if you build nothing and never pollute. Hardly a paradise!

I love this and I'm going to use it for fancy comments in code and in the browser console. It'd be really cool if you could integrate something like http://www.figlet.org/ for inserting ASCII text art.

I wish I had known about this tool when I was building this little browser game https://replit.com/@aMoniker/Gush because all the levels & game objects are generated from multiline strings of ascii symbols, and it just took too long to do manually.

> This is not to say that I have any animosity towards the game’s creator. Given such a large price tag, it’s hard to imagine not accepting a buyout offer. But I resent that we live in a system where any independent creativity is exploited for financial gain.

That's sort of the trade, isn't it? If independent creativity is regularly exploited for profit, that means people are always incentivized to create more. Would they really create as much in a system that offered few or no incentives?

Good point. Spotify uses the term "monthly listeners" and it seems like they do mean unique individuals. That number is 6M for Young, but they don't reveal what it is for Rogan. He's claimed that he gets 200M monthly downloads, so the number of actual listeners is probably smaller.

Did anyone expect a different outcome? Rogan supposedly pulls in 200M monthly listeners while Young's spotify page says he gets 6M per month.

I imagine Young's manager/label tried their best to talk him down, if this wasn't a stunt for some other purpose.

There's another one that could be added to the OP's site. The internet decided to call it Linux and not GNU/Linux.

Similar to how the term "podcast" became part of the language even though almost nobody uses an iPod to listen to them anymore.

I'm no expert on this, but from what I've seen, most NFTs are as simple as an incremented ID field mapped to your wallet address and stored in a smart contract. You (usually) don't buy any rights to the image in the first place, and what the ID represents is not guaranteed to persist by any part of the agreement. So, if the author kept the copyright to the images I suppose they could sell it and then prevent the NFT owner from displaying the image itself. Seems like a fast way to burn your reputation as an artist or developer.

I would guess that most popular projects license their images under creative commons, and encourage people to copy and share them, so that the original authors can't just overwrite them, since there would be lots of backups and a social consensus as to what each ID represents.

I don't know if there is one yet, but I wouldn't be surprised if a successful accelerator DAO emerges.

People here always say the value of YC is in the network, and that may translate well to a decentralized model.

And hledger is based on the original https://www.ledger-cli.org/ which is also a great option for CLI accounting.