peterbraden

When they remove headphone jacks and innovate with weird shaped screens, then there's no real surprise that their sales are down.

How would an amateur bring this to the attention of the big telescopes so quickly? Are there alert mailing lists with people screening them?

Simplenote / github

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Takedown notice will follow...

One problem with interfaces like this is that they are an abjection of ownership. The situation probably doesn't warrant a dedicated designer, and the developer who make it, probably thought 'I'm not a designer, that will do'.

The amount of times I've heard 'Just add a button to do it' from 'backend developers'..

The point is, software is there to serve a user, and if you can't envisage the user using the software, then you don't understand the requirements. It's not a design question.

Too much responsibility is deferred as 'design' when it's actually a fundamental part of solving the problem at hand.

Not that design isn't also important, but the perception that usability == design needs to change.

I need to improve the write up, but I'm coming to the end of my current iteration of a genetic algorithm to evolve the Mona Lisa from polygons.

This year I reimplemented it in rust and did some low level optimization to make it fast.

https://github.com/peterbraden/genetic-lisa

They take credit card for bitcoin purchases.

Hard to believe that they are sincere in their desire for responsibility, like a booze company telling you to drink responsibly.

They're really not doing much. I just let my premium membership lapse because they have so few extra features.

Trying to make a facebook news feed doesn't do anything with their current data which is their strength.

I really wish they'd up their game.

Thanks for giving it a shot. There needs to be better options to fund open source. I signed up for Code Sponsor last week, sad it's shutting already.

Dodge vs Ford Motor co. : "A business corporation is organized and carried on primarily for the profit of the stockholders"

The general reading of the fiduciary duty to shareholders is that directors of corporations are bound to promote the value of the corporation for the benefit of the shareholders.

Oh yes, I have this issue. It also makes doing a presentation from the laptop impossible as the projector would keep disconnecting.

Anaethem was incredible, but since then I haven't enjoyed his stuff as much, but based on his earlier work he's still one of my favorite authors

But the essential points aren't the point,in that case you're better off going to an encyclopedia. There's a place for long form content that can't be summarized to a lazy TLDR.

Jupyter is already huge in the research world. Your use case isn't representative of the world.

I agree. This is a user-hostile trend that needs to stop. I really hope the phone does terribly so the company realizes that they need to listen to their users.

The undocumented Google finance API was also turned off this month after many years.

There's a severe dearth of good, free, market data API's.

$100 an hour is incredibly low for a short term expert contract

It's an unstructured format, that's the point.

You can't edit a protobufs in an editor.

This was the original version of this that inspired windy.com

While I agree that non-blocking isn't a panacea, I think that your attitude that it was an unnecessary experiment is a little dismissive.

The fact is that green threads aren't a panacea either, and exploring the callback based pattern led to some really interesting development, evidenced by the explosion of javascript on the server .

At the time that node took off, a huge amount of server code was python with the GIL, and there needed to be something to shake up the status quo.

And I'll clarify, in today's world code has severe moral repercussions, especially in the fields of AI and vision. Why shouldn't we have more discussions over ways that we can add caveats and nuances to the licenses in order to distance our consciences from repercussions.

Why should the open source philosophy trump any other moral objections?

I have a makefile that sets up a brand new computer with the software I need. It means I can be up and running on a new machine in a few minutes.

This didn't use to be the case, I remember a single line of Django orm causing several hundred db requests, but maybe they improved it.

The potential for compromise

They're all quite different. Canvas is raster based, SVG is vector, and WebGL is a totally different approach tailored to hardware acceleration (and still paints into a canvas, so it's raster ultimately).

Aurora was his worst book, IMHO, and definitely shouldn't dissuade you from his other work.

I read it already and really enjoyed it. It's a mixture of the quiet descriptiveness of the science in the capital series with the forward thinking genius of his earlier scifi, interspersed with some serious nerding out over the economy and it's role in the world. Thumbs up.

Actually, in many Western countries there is, much of Europe for example. Sustainable demographics are why there are subsidies for having children in Italy for example.

And yet words are the only way you can describe how you disagree with it. Try.