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An approach I took in your situation was to actually sign up to the forums, I became moderator there and then didn't allow anyone to share my stuff! The flip side though is you still have to allow people to share other peoples stuff so morally it's a grey area. Whatever you choose though, good luck!

Piracy is a huge issue, one way around it, although too late for you now, is to only sell an online hosted version of your software, they can't crack what they don't have access too.

Have you got a forum to engage your customers with directly? Most times (and this is a huge generalisation) but these consumers aren't 'evil', they just either have no money or don't know any better.

If you can engage with them and get them to like you it'll make them more disinclined to pirate you, you could also give away a 'lite' version, there's no need to pirate your software if they get it for free, then concentrate on adding more features to the regular priced one for them to upgrade too eventually.

There's no real technical solution to piracy, it's always going to be a human issue so needs to be looked at from that perspective.

I think the number one factor in success for something like that is community. If you have a bunch of people loyal to you and your service you can't really go wrong.

The portal system looks an awful lot like Stargates. I traded in my copy though, I don't know if it's worth getting again for this?

Why do uneducated people persist in perpetuating this nonsense? As a simple counter point: 'Human subcortical brain asymmetries in 15,847 people worldwide reveal effects of age and sex' ( https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11682-016-9629-... )

Sexual dimorphism is a well known biological fact. Men and women are functionally and structurally different, whether that's caused solely by genetics or by culture or a combination doesn't really change anything.

That does not mean either is inferior or superior, just different. Why can't people get that? People are different but all should be treated equally.

What a bunch of nonsense. You could have entire countries boycott Google and it wouldn't bother them, much less an unorganized internet rabble.

With Google I've found it impossible to turn off the 'safesearch' and also the results I get are incredibly irrelevant to what I'm actually looking for. DDG solves both those for me, Bing isn't bad either.

>'It's just so much fun to use'

Given that one of the criteria the VPNs were measured on was 'fun' makes me inclined to dismiss the whole thing.

VPNs are to stop the secret police from coming and killing your family and taking you away, 'fun' is coding, not playing with your life.

>'No written language was ever devised in sub-Saharan Africa prior to outside influences.'

Is just plain wrong, see ( https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1nz7k6/were_... ) also it depends on what you mean by language, Genevieve Petzinger has shown a fully formed written cave art language going back since man (or woman) first started drawing in caves.

'It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.' - Aristotle

I can't imagine been so insecure in my beliefs that I'd actively refuse to engage with opposing viewpoints, in case I got 'polluted'!

So limit contributions to active valid accounts (minimum membership time / minimum karma level etc), again from a software point of view that's beyond simple. Whether it's the right thing or not for HN is another matter.

Investing in everything but the people who work there.

Probably a stupid suggestion but ask some of your friends if your website is reachable, it's probably fine for you because you're the developer. But it looks like there's some issue you're not aware of.

There's also 'no such thing' as SQ (spiritual quotient) and no such thing as VQ (varna quotient) although both have been around and in use longer than our (western) civilisation.

Sure there is. You've just not seen it on HN yet.

^This. The universe expanded faster than light, that's why we still can't see everything, so saying things like 'the communication speed is too slow to permit evolution' is just wrong, it also doesn't take into account things like time doesn't actually exist, it's just a biological construct.

The whole article is predicated upon a bunch of faulty assumptions, it's like it was written by a simple minded child.

This sounds a lot deeper than just being bored as a developer, maybe see a counsellor? They'll be in a better position to help you than any of us.

He could tell you, but then he'd have to kill you!

Nice work! Just an observation the layout is very crowded, maybe have an option for a HN style or Reddit style, just smaller text lists with a lot smaller font size.

>'calculus at age 8 is unusual.'

It is, but it shouldn't be. I taught my niece calculus, programming, foreign languages (mostly swear words, her mom got mad!) She was like a sponge and just soaked it all up, I made it fun and she loved it.

I think all kids have that potential but the education system lets them down, class sizes are too big and can only go as far as the curriculum or slowest kid there.

You have to ask yourself, why do you want to change? Unless you're freelancing/working for yourself, being a cog in someone else's machine will be just as much a soul drain as what you're doing now. Changing careers is a huge step for anyone, you won't be a manager anymore, you'll be entry level, entry level at 30 years of age. Competing with fresh grads.

If it's something you want to do, I'd get upto speed then take an extended vacation from your current job and try it out. Don't quit your current job and leave yourself a way back in.

The danger with that is you educate yourself out of a job.

Skip your dinner break, no-one needs an hour, have a sandwich. Get home for 3, have a power nap, till 3.30/4 you'll be fine for the rest of the day.

Eh, not at all.

Related: 'Unexpected mutations after CRISPR–Cas9 editing in vivo' http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v14/n6/full/nmeth.4293.h...

That author was me with bitcoin, I perhaps understood it on a technical level better than my friends, but I thought it was silly, they didn't and now they're bitcoin millionaires.

Just set up virtual hosts. One for each app?

It depends on what you mean by survival, also classifying them as 'algorithms' is incredibly lazy thinking, doing that confuses the basic issue because you start to attribute properties of algorithms to emotions etc.

A good read on it is 'Why we cooperate' https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/why-we-cooperate by Tomasello, he comes at it from an anthropological perspective, a quick example is 'guilt', guilt is an emotion that allows other members of our tribe to see that we're sorry and to forgive us, if the tribe doesn't forgive then you're exiled and die. So your survival in that context is dependent on emotional responses etc, but reproduction certainly isn't dependent on emotions.

In the 19th century industrialists used to build towns for their workers[1]. This seems like the 21st century equivalent.

I find the whole idea abhorrent, people would be working then handing their wage back to their employer for their food, rent, utilities etc. It seems very dystopian.

[1] Saltaire is one example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saltaire

Exactly. How many untold stories are there where they 'quit their jobs, remortgaged their houses' and now they live in a cardboard box under a bridge and their kids have been taken into care.

Passion is a fantastic asset but a lot of these people confuse it with stupidity.