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There should be some type of domain rotation (or you can test spoofing, just to see if spammers use the same anti-spoof software everyone else does), just like how spammers do so.

As an aside, kudos for using gitlab instead of github.

I know we're all experiencing blockchain fatigue, but for once, I actually know what the tokens will be used for (beyond the usual snake-oil that other ICOs sell). For reference:

Some of the target usages for the token holders, will include:

- voting rights: influence the Red roadmap, vote for features and issue tickets.

- tipping: useful chat posts, code contributions, learning materials providers, etc.

- intra-community cryptoeconomics (or rather tokenomics): selling/buying services from other community members (coding tasks, consulting, learning help, bug fixing, decentralized gaming, etc.)

- paid Dapps, or in-app purchases.

In addition to that, the foundation will hold a significant amount of RCT, which will be used for rewarding:

- code contributions

- Red-related online learning or presenting materials (blog, documentations, etc.)

- promotional actions (presenting Red at a conference)

- any other actions that will help spread Red and make the community grow up.

I'm not sure I personally agree with turning the org into a "dapp", unless language-design remains with the core designers of the language and doesn't become influenced by decentralized decisions. edit: It looks like "voting rights" may actually impact this

There is always an issue with OSS projects struggling for funding. Regardless of how flawed the idea may be, at least they are trying to find a model to sustain themselves. It certainly trumps the model of depending on big-tech-company-X giving you handouts for your SSL library.

This question is in relation to 2 types of foreigners:

1) Regular foreigners (eg. from Western Europe, etc.)

2) Marginalized foreigners (eg. Muslims, Russians, etc.)

To further expand on what I mean by "outlook": Are foreigners welcome in the US in this political climate? Can foreigners expect extra/excessive bureaucracy (especially type 2) foreigners) from authorities? Does YC play a role in assisting type 2) foreigners who may experience 'issues'?

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

> DAB is more efficient in its use of spectrum than analogue FM radio, and thus may offer more radio services for the same given bandwidth. DAB is more robust with regard to noise and multipath fading for mobile listening,[3] since DAB reception quality first degrades rapidly when the signal strength falls below a critical threshold, whereas FM reception quality degrades slowly with the decreasing signal.

https://flynn.io/

Does this give insight into the fact that under certain circumstances, we are post-dotcom (as a critical tool for branding)?

Their regular domain is quite long too: https://www.cardsagainsthumanity.com/

(and is definitely not as friendly to the eyes as something like: cah.[trendy-extension])

Also, how is this different to: https://wiki.debian.org/RISC-V ?

The problem with the DN lifestyle is that everyone marketing it hard has a vested interest (they run some product/service tied to the DN lifestyle).

For everyone else that wants to get their feet wet in this type of living, they soon realize that things get expensive really quickly (this applies to everywhere except South East Asia).

You just need to account for plane tickets, visas and short-term rent alone to see how it is expensive.

Also, the article conflates "work from home" with "digital nomad", which aren't exactly the same thing.

I kind of feel that even in tech, you would come across as unprepared or "lazy" for not having slides/PowerPoint

- Competition for each position is fierce. Especially for the SF-type jobs where the salaries are so astronomical compared to your remote area (like Greece, India, Thailand, etc.). You may have some (or even a lot) of experience in some tech, but so would the other 50-500 applications for that position. This puts the ball in the court of the employer, because they use stupid filters like "the right fit" - which most of the time equates to finding the person they can extract the most value from per-dollar (or the 1 who kills their wannabe-Google interview process the best)

- As someone reading your blog post, even I did not make it past your full email text. It's just too long for HR to even bother. A shorter, concise, "get in your face" email sometimes works better

- HR filters are the worst way to get remote positions. You said you have friends working for remote-first companies like Github and Automattic - that should have been your first method of entry to go direct to the team itself and not need to get through HR first - if you're a great programmer and your friends know it, they will gladly recommend you

I recall .blog being purchased by Automattic for 15-20M (that being just 1 example).

ICANN is to tech what the SEC is to finance: A corporate revolving-door where you join to do your corporate-masters bidding and then move back to your 7-figure job.

This is the same company that fought against US legislature (SOPA or whatever it was called) but created its own non-neutral internet.org for the third-world.

The only race that these giant advertising media/companies are in is the race for: total-observation

and unlike the evil government from 1984 , these leech-like data-harvesting entities are celebrated by their peers for re-inventing MySpace and IRC over and over again.

https://alternativeto.net/software/mozilla-thunderbird/?lice...

You must also keep in mind that desktop mail-clients make the (otherwise) complicated PGP-encryption of emails a bit more user-friendly.

Then you see all those shitty ads for:

- finding a russian bride

- getting rich through some millionaires secret

- anti-aging remedies

- adware

and you realize that the ad-model only benefits Google and the peddlers pushing the dodgy adverts. Everyone else is losing.

People keep saying that "journalism is dying", but this industry and its ad-model isn't very "old" in historical terms. For every Business Insider that dies, the world will carry on. For quality journalism (an oxymoron of sorts) and news that matters to people and their circumstances, I assume people will keep forking out money (like they do for The Economist).

If someone smarter than myself can elaborate, how is Googles business-model for ads on 3rd-party websites sustainable for the long-term?

IIRC, doesn't github have some trademarks on their designs or something? If so, please be weary of this (and their lawyers) OP

The question I have to ask is:

What makes you think your European competitor company won't start doing the data-harvesting and privacy-invading methods that their US counterparts do ?

Your answer might be: European laws and regulation

But then, just like in the US with GooFace, your European competitor will setup their lobby groups and get their preferred candidates into Europe-governance

Is Systemd being coded with the same level of 'care' as OpenSSL was before being pwned?

- Free phone operating system

They don't have the for-profit nature of both Mozilla and Canonical and perhaps supporting the FSF over either of those 2 (Mozillas failed FFOS and no availability of the UbuntuOS mobile devices) will ensure a stable OS that isn't Google-ware.

PS. I know Mozilla isn't for-profit, but they abandoned FFOS just like a for-profit would

The timestamp on some of the photos shows: 2012

- What market is this language addressing? (ie. where should I "be using it"?)

- What is the bus-factor?

- How difficult is/was it to write/design your own programming language?

However, 2 improvements that could be made are:

1) being able to write the code as normal (if instead of IF, else instead of ELSE) and then using something like:

zu.fmt

To format the code (best of both worlds?)

2) Dropping the ending-brace. It will just lead to many errors that could otherwise be avoided

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Also, if you are interested in a similar language, maybe Nim might be worth a look:

http://nim-lang.org/

I know it's the butt of many jokes (together with Cobol and Assembly - especially in the context "really hard to learn/use languages) but just scrolling through the github repo (frontpage), the code doesn't seem that intimidating (or any less confusing than Go would seem for someone unfamiliar with its nuances).

2) What makes Fortran so much 'faster' at computation than C?

C is the go-to for any low-level performance, but in terms of computation, Fortran seems to do better (or so we're told). Is/Was Fortran a better-designed language, that allowed it to perform better than C at computation?

1) their security isn't good just because of their scale/size (that begins to seem more and more like a false-assumption nowadays)

2) migrating your email to a new provider is quite difficult (consider that the average person will have just 1 - or 2 - email accounts and they link EVERYTHING to it)

3) the price of ads/convenience is no longer worth it. I'm assuming at least a sizable minority of internet users are using ad-blockers these days. They can't get your eyeballs, so they package and sell your data. Granted, you can probably now get the same (raw) data on the black market by paying a fraction in bitcoin and you'll get to see those billions of emails telling people someone attacked their farm in farmville from 2009

Lastly (and I really hope this happens), Yahoo implodes/collapses (cause the average Joe won't migrate willingly) and leaves a vacuum for their 500+ million email users. Hopefully the smaller providers (Proton, Migadu, Posteo, Tuta, etc.) get at least 10% of these users and the email-cartel is broken (somewhat).

Smart coders design elegant solutions that don't require frantic typing (and the same would apply to elegant hack-scripts).

Seeing an online gamer crank at WASD is more in-line with "hack faster by typing more".

Surely, at least 1 Intel staffer reads HN and they must have discussed this internally.

Unless they just brush this off as negligible (a couple thousand paranoid/"extremist" users) ?

But...

Who buys these products? Why does a toaster need to be connected to the internet and synced with your "smart"phone? What exactly can you achieve having this feature?

Systemd is the new vim vs. emacs

The road to the GNU/Linux unification, was forged by the great wizard of Torvalds. Torvalds powerful use of the: fuck this code is ugly, fix your fucking mistakes, don't break shit via the kernel ... kept the flame of the kernel burning

Meanwhile, across the lake from Linux Use-Land, in the industrial city of Enterpriseyness, a small section of Linux Use-Land citizens formed their RedHat, to show the world how amazing life across the lake is.

They initially served Linux use-land as respected/renowned citizens, but eventually the cities 'hungry' citizens, known as "shareholders" and "government" consumed the Hat.

Beyond consumption, a brainwash-attack was launched by the dirty robber-baron known as "MicroSoft", in which RedHat was tortured into the philosophy of "embrace, extend, extinguish".

RedHat knew that Torvalds was growing weak, as his "Linux Foundation" depended on Enterpriseyness for money. Together, a task-team from Enterpriseyness set out to explore infiltration of Linux Use-Land. This task-team included: NSA, CIA, GCHQ, MicroSoft, Google, Facebook, Cisco, et. al (from the leaked documents of Enterpriseyness arch-enemy: WikiLeaks, a non-redacted version also showed RedHat to be in this task-team).

Enterpriseyness started their exploration via the Gospel of Hacker News. This Gospel was a powerful driver of the future, as reaching the "front page" of said Gospel would ensure eternal bliss and success (and entry into tech-heaven: Silicon Valley). A popular fable was the "Docker", in which this whale-hunting organization showed that with enough good words from the Gospel, hijacking PID1 was plausible.

As such, the CIA activated their sleeper-cell in the Linux Use-Land, known only as "Poettering" in leaked-documents and the trojan-horse called "systemd" was born. The systemd is now being built to consume Linux Use-Land and create a new colony for Enterpriseyness.

PS. This is fiction + written for humour :)