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It's hard to take a post like this seriously with so many spelling errors.

This was a nice read and a good introduction to text processing with unix commands.

I agree with the other user re python usage - that you may as well use it for the whole task if you're going to use it at all - but I don't think it's a major flaw. It worked for you right? I would suggest naming the python file a bit more descriptively though.

Interesting to read the other suggestions about dealing with this without python.

What a great example of someone so quick to hear themselves talk that they don't even realise it's a joke.

Ah yes, in fact, why don't we go one step further and add a new button for every letter!

Yeah. I need to call my dad.

Well maybe another Mozilla? The point is the ecosystem needs variety and there are people who could afford to create that.

How many billionaires have made their fortunes through the web? Surely some of them care enough about preventing a monoculture to foot the bill for an independent browser development team - if not for profit, for the greater good. Consider it philanthropy.

Agreed - a well mixed track will use stereo panning as an artistic feature. These tracks, at least in my opinion are gimmicky at best and actively detract from the original at worst.

I don't know. But medium do a terrible job at sharing their own content between users.

Ah ok. Fair enough. I don't think medium works for that.

>That being said, I would be interested in how you reached the conclusion that people are more trusting of medium articles?

Really just from my own experience. I've been writing and posting content for a few years and usually I get more clicks and comments when using the medium domain. (not always but noticeably more often)

This topic comes up fairly often. I think about it a lot - as a Medium user and as a person who has managed multiple wordpress blogs.

##Here's my thoughts on why Medium is so popular:

1. It's easy. We are all techies here. We often underestimate the weight of this.

2. It looks better than your average blog theme. (With 0 effort)

3. It promises the opportunity to access a larger audience. (Even if it does not deliver on that promise)

4. It provides an endorphin rush though likes/claps and the analytics/view counts.

##What the average blogger doesn't care about:

1. Effort Overhead. Managing a web server, buying a domain, configuring a wordpress blog, updating wordpress, choosing a theme, deleting spam comments etc.

2. Content ownership. Most people don't think about it that much.

3. RSS feeds. I'm willing to bet >80% of bloggers have no idea that people still use RSS (or even what it is at this stage)

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I don't think Medium is perfect, but I also don't think any of the alternatives are good enough either.

Are you referring to platform generated content? The thing is, Medium doesn't do very well at that either.

I have a medium blog. I've had a few posts got >10k reads within a month. Almost none of those reads came from Medium itself, but rather from the various outlets that have linked to my post, and Google.

The only reason I currently use Medium is that people are more likely to open a Medium url when it shows up in link aggregators. People trust the familiar url far more than www.mypersonalblog.me - and it'll never get blacklisted / shadowbanned on reddit.

Oh, and claps. I like the claps.

Staten Island could be seen as between two ends of the Hudson.

I have also been here too many times to count.

My take on it is that it's not a failure as long as you've learned something.

In my case, for the first number of projects I built that nobody bought/wanted, I didn't learn to find the market first (sadly), but I did learn a huge amount about how to build things.

Now I can build better things faster - but I'm actively learning to find the market.

That is what the article is about.

As far as I know, there are a few of these already in existence.

IMO, the two main challenges are subscribing to content and discovering new content, the icing on the cake is interaction.

Atom/RSS already "fixed" the issue of subscribing to a blog.

Board like HN and reddit have now "fixed" the issue of discovery (to an extent).

Disqus, reddit, HN all provide interaction methods - the key would be reducing them to one feed so you could comment to all formats and reply seamlessly.

Also, the website linked in the repo seems to be down.

It's an interesting game we are playing.

Take websites as an example. We have to build websites using CSS and HTML and JS because that is what works in browsers. But browsers have to build DOMs, layout engines and JS engines this way because that's the way we write code. It's nobody's fault. It's evolution with a bad fitness function.

We need a new start. A new paradigm.

Yeah, it was interesting for about 20 seconds and then I got to the first code block and my brow furrowed.

A couple weeks ago I was asked to meet with two actuaries. Their company (a big one, I'm working for them on contract) is trying to promote the use of Machine Learning and when they heard I had just completed post-grad in ML, they were eager to pick my brains.

In a 60 minute meeting, we spent 5 minutes discussing how ML worked and 55 minutes going in circles. They had lots of data, but no problems to solve. And there are only so many ways to explain that a large dataset is not equivalent to a business problem.

I'll be sending this on to them.

I imagine the first step would be to use standard marine anti-foul paint on the exchangers. But that only works for a few months at best.

After that, I'm not so sure. Perhaps a slow, continuous movement of an exchange surface past a hard surface would do the trick. When this stuff is young, it's easily wiped away, but once it's there for a while you get real problems.

Just submitted my PhD in ML (waiting to defend) and started working as a contractor in an exciting enough arm of a boring enough company.

So far it's all boring CRUD - but there may be interesting problems to solve as our team and product grows. I'm trying to position myself as the guy to tackle these interesting problems by taking a proactive role in planning and project management, without cornering myself as an irreplaceable part of the boring part of the business.

I have a very similar experience. My parents weren't heavily into music, but my mother always played a Simon and Garfunkel tape in the car which lead me to the rest of Simon's discography once I was old enough to find it.

My peers - and bandmates - didn't share my appreciation. I vividly remember an argument with my high-school band that ended in a dog rough performance of Sweet Child of Mine at a school talent show which included a broken guitar string during a solo, inaudible vocals, and off beat drum fills.

Later in my music career, musician friends came to understand the beauty of his songwriting and musicianship. It was really great to finally share my affection for those songs.

Simon influenced my own songwriting more than any other artist.

Following on from the recent discussion [0,1] on zero-width characters and how they might be used to fingerprint messages.

chpmrc built an extension [2] to detect these characters, but as some people mentioned, the way the extension worked was less than ideal.

I decided to build a better version that works in the background and alerts the user if they have selected text containing these zero-width characters, showing a notification that allows you to copy a clean version, and a version with zero-width characters replaced by emojis.

I also wrote a blog post about it [3].

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16749422

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16754987

[2] - https://github.com/chpmrc/zero-width-chrome-extension

[3] - https://medium.com/@aidobreen/hidden-text-fingerprints-and-h...

I’ve just finished a 4 year PhD, working alone. Now, I’m building my company building software, but I’m currently a one man show, and again, working alone.

Do you reckon 3 people in a mob is more productive in the short term than 3 people working independently?

I wonder if 3 people who typically work independently could time-share each other to work on projects in a mob.

I would say that "blockchain", as a concept, isn't a suitable category, in the same way that "mobile application" or "website" isn't.

Blockchain is a tool. The applications are varied. There are potential applications for blockchain technologies in each of the rfs categories.

Never read the book(s?) and I don't know the characters, nor the author, but that article was really engaging to read.

As an Irish citizen, I feel embarrassed by the way we have dealt with Apple (and other behemoth corps). We simultaneously gave these organisations "free parking" and a "get out of jail free card".

I don't blame Apple for taking advantage though. I would.

I also got thinking about them in the last month or so. I thought it might be fun/interesting to put one together today for the sake of nostalgia.