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Not sure I agree that it simulates being good at something. To make that point, you would have to agree on what a simulation is. Is it a non-physical game, so chess would be included, or would it be any game, which would mean football etc. are also included?

Or, perhaps more likely, the author is talking about computer games only. Let's assume that. That means that the only difference between a "simulated" game and a "real" game is that one is done on a computer of some sort.

I don't feel any different emotions when I play WoW than when I play chess or football with my friends. To me, they're the same thing, only experienced through different means. The only reason people don't play football for "hundreds or even thousands of hours" every year is because there's a physical limitation to it.

I can only make the assumption that the author of the article is making a jab at computers at it's core, and that's troubling because what would that mean for us developers? I see programming almost as a game, it releases the same kind of feelings of progress, completion and commitment as the author talks about in his article. Does that mean that being good at programming is just a simulation of being good at something?

I can just imagine; try contributor once, get drowned in invasive ads because you've already shown you're willing to pay for less ads.

Not sure I understand the point of this. Is it to lessen loads from the distributing servers or the actual broadcaster? I can't see how this would help a broadcaster at least.

That's an idea I've had for a long time actually, but never made anything of it. Running ads server-side, maybe especially that the server can preload ads so there is no overhead for the actual users in loading the ad. That seems like a good idea to me.

My worst memories of starting out with programming is doing a git merge or pull, then before the command was done, I'd start typing git push or... and then I got stuck in insert mode. This was after I had learned that :q och :wq! did the job, and I could not for the life of me figure out how to get out of insert mode.

Fun times.

Have you looked into Discord? Not sure about their Linux availability, but it can do all of the above, also voice channels. They don't have video/screen share right now but it's apparently something they're working on. It's also more free than Slack.

That might not be a good thing though, since it's unclear if $5 monthly will be able to support them over time.

But what would the day-to-day applications of this be? I mean, if you really needed a photo of a side of a house that is now torn down, or if you needed "virtual" access to an unmapped/photographed area, then sure. But the article is talking as if this is going to replace cameras for all scenarios, specially recreational (as that's the only thing focused on in the article).

I see no exciting uses of this technology for recreational purposes. You wouldn't be able to take a photograph of the Library of Alexandria because that existed before we started gathering the data. And taking synthesized photos of your trips would make no sense, why would you even take the picture at all in that case?

My point is that it's a bad article. Technology is cool though.

It'll probably work better than on mac though!

Just tried it out for a while right now. It seems to work reasonably well actually, but adding multiple books seems like a chore. Fictfact, as stated below seems to be better in this regard, and it appears you can also subsribe to authors/series there!

Actually, I had no idea this site even existed, but yeah I guess I do. It seems to do what I want it to, and I'll probably use it actually.

I still think I could improve on the interface and make it more to my taste though, so I'll continue on with my project.

As for why you were downvoted, your post comes off as moderately hostile/negative and would probably have been received better had you put it differently.

I'm using the google books api, then indexing my results in a database for referencing etc. It's working pretty well so far.

I'm an avid reader, and I can say that Kindle, Goodreads, Google Books all fill the use case of finding new books to read, but is very lacking in the tracking department. I've had some small plans of making an app/site that just focuses on the tracking part, making and managing a list of books to read/already read with local ratings. I also want the ability to subscribe to an author or a book series and be notified of new releases.

I haven't been able to find a good service that does this in a good way. I have a prototype working pretty good right now, the only problem is that the book databases I use isn't that good sadly.

Yup. All it takes is that someone starts the ball rolling making a serious effort, then everyone will follow suit and we might see a new "space age".

It's not real-time sync afaik, at least not when I used it in 2016, might have changed since though. You'd have to manually grab files you wanted to open/change and then manually update.

I think it says a lot that the only top 5 in the "Loved" tab that's also present on the whole "Wanted" tab is Swift. Not that I use Swift, but it's the one with a mainstream use case today pretty much. It will be interesting to see how it looks in 5 years.

Couldn't you just extend the React.Component class with whatever you need, and then use that instead of the base react class? Or am I misunderstanding what react is?

I mean, in a way it is. You're advocating for readability, yet use a color that many find directly hurts it. You use arbitrary icons and moving imagery, images that are impossible to scale up (and read). It's no surprise that people are wondering if you're ironic...

But that would likely be expensive enough to make the risk not worth it.

China is a good example of when a dictatorship(ish) can do good (more than a democracy regarding the same issue) when focused on the right thing

Yup, checking the source there's a cell component in addition to the sheet component, so it would just rerender that cell.

They could go the desktop CPU route, although that's likely not an option for Apple since that would require them to either use extreme throttling or beef up the cooling (meaning louder fans and probably a thicker case)

To be fair, the Zune was Steve Ballmers baby, I'm convinced Satya Nadella (I thought it was a woman for the first year or so) would make a better product in that regard.

This is really interesting! I've always wanted to get in to stuff like this, but I haven't been able to find any good resources for it, I'll definitely check this out over a weekend.

Yes, but we're not talking about that here. We're talking about the interconnectivity of the ancient world. That's something completely different.

I always get disappointed with articles about AI like this, the headline is sensationalised while the actual content is nothing like it.

Sure, it might technically be a true headline, but what actually happened isn't the first thing you'd think of when reading the headline.

Still cool, but not as cool as the headline makes it out to be.

See, for me it's the complete opposite, typing words unrelated to the actual code makes me lose part of my focus, whereas navigating the mouse or a dropdown list isn't requiring me to "create" words or strings in my mind.

Maybe that's just because I haven't gone through the learning curve, but I suspect the difference would be negligible.

[Edit] That's only for keybindings that force me to input string though, I vigorously use keybindings.

Yup. Although I'm not surprised. CIA are intelligence gatherers, we can't expect them to be completely original, or even a tiny bit original in anything.

Do you own these.. Or what?

That sounds horrible indeed, I think I would just walk out if I was faced with such an interview.

My point was that not having Emacs in Windows is a non problem because the editor market is oversaturated. It's not like the Adobe suite where any other product is almost a downgrade, so running a system that can't run Adobe products would be a liability.

Not being able to run Emacs as a reason not to use Windows is like saying; Damn! PulseAudio doesn't work on Windows, guess I'm back to Ubuntu.