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The take-away here is probably teaching kids from like grade 5 on and up on how to amortize loans and debt repayment. The math is useful and it'd be good to drill in to every kid out there.

That's rarely been my experience. In fact, documentation usually exists because code quality is poor and it needs to be explained.

Then don't use the project. Good lord... the sense of entitlement is over whelming!

"I shouldn't be forced to make a contribution to a project" OMG.

Anyways, the whole argument doesn't matter and is totally irrelevant. Serious teams/engineers will analyze the code, consider using it, and then assign developers to help out with documentation if it provides sufficient value proposition. And thus the cycle of OS improvement continues.

Yes, documentation would be nice, but code quality is 100x more important. 100 times out of 100 i'll pick the project with better code quality over better documentation.

BTW, clear, understandable code and APIs is an example of good code quality. And of course, well written unit/integration tests usually provide sufficient example code.

There’s a very good business in maintaining backwards compatibility. Any large enterprise is not going to buy from a company that they can’t rely on having a roadmap that will fix security issues but won’t break their deployed software.

What is a good source for authoritative content on controversial issues?

What possible benefit would accrue from doing something like that?

Yes, it just means it is working. There are a lot of anti-war people on Wikipedia. I am personally very very anti war, a pacifist even. But I appreciate the intellectual integrity of being challenged.

When I was first challenged with the arcane rules of Wikipedia I was a little frustrated. But then I realized I could just learn those arcane rules and use them myself. After that it was amazing how many of my edits were able to get through.

I don’t know about this but I have an interesting marketing idea. Pretend you’re making a lot of money and go around talking to a lot of different people who might be interested in your product and saying what a successful business it is.

Simple truth is that any successful business person does not go around talking about how much money they make unless they have to because it just encourages other businesses to copy their features.

Yeah, has anyone seen the recent dramatic acceleration in GPU/TPU/etc computation? [1][2] Cost per flop has significantly decreased.

The reality is that moores law has petered out, but we have algorithms now (deep learning) which are optimized for parallel execution.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOPS [2] https://aiimpacts.org/current-flops-prices/

I agree with number one. There aren’t many decisions anyone can make which are %100 guaranteed to improve your life. That is one of them.

One of mine was not worrying about what other people thought of me.

Well, it'll start sucking when they call back to cancel because the robot found a better appointment.

The problem is that computers will now be interacting with people and people will become unsure of whether they are taking to a computer or a person. It will create a bewildering world full of mistrust. I would argue that there should be a law proclaiming that computers must identify themselves.

50/50 ?

Should be like 10/10/90 .. 50/50 only makes sense if you are making enough to bootstrap.

He probably owns some root certs. Likely if he were to start exercising such authority without being an active developer, there would be a fork soon enough.

Isn't that what happened to emacs?

He chose donating because it’s a good thing. Reasonable amount of build failure is ok, just not excessively so.

News at a 11, Startup founder leaves a year or two after being acquired by much larger company. Say it ain't so.

It will also increase the value of your house. Fix rate debt is definetly your friend.

I'm assuming you're referring to the royal you here.

I suspect you're in favor of making all opiods legal as well?

How did larry niven and pournelle say it? Think of it as evolution in action..

Because it preys on kids.

So, like, pokemon card packs and lego packs and friends should be illegal too.

There are you tube videos my kids liked to watch of people just literally opening pokemon packs. I'd actually be OK with making this illegal.

Especially considered the frenzied buying and selling of pokemon cards at their school..

This is actually pretty huge. There is a very massive industry both virtual and non that relies on preying on kids and their gambling instinct.

Steam makes a lot of money on Counter Strike via this.

Or pretty excited depending on how they charge.

Doesn’t scale.

Alternatively, you have a good idea of what your mortality rate will be if a surgeon picks you for a case.

Ooh good tactic. Mention something like ‘Got all day and I’m not gonna hang up until we get this solved properly.

What's peculiar is that they don't use OPM for this. There are literally a million of these flippers out there. Why not just work with them to buy it and sell it, and Zillow gets a percentage for providing the lead? It's like zero risk for Zillow, all upside.

They must be making a lot of money from this if they're going it alone. The 7% drop is probably not because of riks here but because it signals lack of growth.

Brutalism was usually pretty functional. To compare mediocre web design to a widely respected (at least for the time) architectural movement is reaching.

Caltrain is sloooowwww, need high speed high density public transit that doesn’t add to rush hour congestion. Each stop should have a massive high rise with grocery, entertainment, etc.

Wrong advice. First live the life before doing it. Going to move somewhere? Rent first. Going to live a life with a lower living standard? Start living on a budget first. So when you are forced to do this, you and your family will be able to accept and adapt properly.