dgudkov

I didn't say "just". Find a partner to marry is not a simple task. However, having it as a goal changes the perspective and the way to assess potential partners, their preferences and values, and, by the way, own preferences and values.

Yes, that's very close to what I meant.

Get married. People are not designed to be alone.

Ditto. That's why I sold my car after starting WFH. It became annoying to occasionally try to remember if I collected my car from that parking lot 2 weeks ago.

That's a good problem to solve, but I wish it would be solved using standards, not with yet another service. Anyway, good luck to the founders!

Of course CS jobs will exist. Who else will be fixing the bugs the AI generates?

> It's the never-ending game of get the maximum bag

Yeah, it's an ages old game. It's called capitalism.

>No need to be exposed to clickbait, scams, or excessively ad-heavy results.

Not yet. But it will be monetized eventually, of course. Most probably through ads. And, as we know very well, big tech corps simply are not able to do monetization in an ethical way.

If you don't trust your government, what makes you think that your money will keep its value over time regardless of government actions? A reckless government can destruct not only the retirement system, but the monetary system as well. A few populist decisions about inflation and your savings go to the waste bin forever.

>I really, really hate what Duolingo has become.

And here is the main driving cause of the change as stated by the author: "By mid-2018, daily active users (DAU) were growing at a single-digit rate year-over-year, which was troubling, given the explosive growth the company had seen in the past. This was a problem for a startup with investors anxious to see fast monetization growth."

Inno Setup uses Pascal for scripted installations and is rather popular.

What do you mean by writeback functions?

"It's free and it always will be" disappears together with zero-interest rates.

People are living with it until they stumble when an innocent expression

   (a + b) >= c 

suddenly fails to work. For instance, in Excel the expression

   A1-B1-C1 >= 0

returns FALSE when A1=2.03, B1=0.03, and C1=2. Such an expression can be used for instance to filter records that fall within a certain range, and that filter would produce wrong results.

Both Excel and Google Sheets return FALSE for this expression:

    2.03 - 2 - 0.03 = 0

The vast majority of data transformation and BI tools (Power BI, PowerQuery, Tableau, etc.) return FALSE for this expression:

    0.1 + 0.2 = 0.3

That's because they use floats instead of decimals and that introduces subtle errors in data. These errors usually never get noticed because everyone doesn't expect errors in basic math. It's a mystery to me why most commercial software intended for business and financial calculations don't use fixed point decimals. My post about this: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7028101...

PS. If you design software that works with money amounts, always use fixed point decimals. Don't use floats, it's just wrong!

>Was work socialization even that good?

It doesn't really matter. It was OK for some, useless for others. People still don't have a choice. It's just a different lack of choice.

Debates about WFH seem redundant at this point. There is not much value in endless anecdote-driven BTO vs WFH holywars. By now, it's obvious that WFH is good for some people and bad for others. Companies should do what that can to offer the desirable type of work to the employees who should have a choice. That's it. End of story. Back to work.

Not plans yet. Still figuring out how to make money on Stable Diffusion.

Small databases aren't popular because Excel spreadsheets already occupy that niche. A small database doesn't have to be normalized. Because it's small, it can be denormalized into a flat table that can be conveniently handled in Excel.

I think you underestimate $28.83 billion.

Tried to configure 2FA on PayPal. Adding only 1 authenticator app is allowed (why not more?). Failed to recognize Yubikey in Firefox.

It's a leading payment processor. They have lots of money and developers. The state of things is pity.

>It's like email.

Not really. Email providers don't associate with any interest/affiliation. Almost all Mastodon instances do.

Enterprise rates are usually negotiated individually with each customer and therefore not published. Enterprise sales are a different world.

What I read is she would have much less pressure if she didn't take VC money.

The new Prius (2023) is anything but ugly.

Without strong supporting facts for viability of that "some other substitute" it sounds like "Full self-driving is just around the corner".

>A full transition to electric vehicles is not viable with current technologies.

So maybe, just maybe, Toyota wasn't that wrong by not going full gung-ho about EVs.

The world has been on the bull run powered by QE and zero rates for 13 years or more, then the fun ended, and suddenly it's all the disasters in the world that will inevitably lead to a recession.

When did the economists forget the term "market correction"?

Data visualization. I had many years of experience with data analytics, but only when I read "Now you see it" by Stephen Few I started understanding how data visualization is linked to the way the human eye and brain work.

It's a very correct article. But here is a question: I run a software company and we're ready to pay for the FOSS we use in our product. Is there a convenient standard way to pay all the 50+ maintainers without having to spend years drafting individual contracts with each of them from a clean slate?

I'm afraid the author has a very wrong attitude for entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship is not about following someone's advice mechanically or a guaranteed get rich schema. It's about building competence and understanding something about the target market better than anyone else. The author didn't mention what kind of competence s/he has got from all those attempts, so I suppose it has never been the goal. The competence may or may not lead to a commercially successful enterprise. But even in the case of failure, the explanation should still be based on competence, e.g. "I understood that the product didn't provide much value to the target audience because of X, and also the audience turned out to be Y, and the competition was Z. So while I learned about the market a lot, I couldn't offer anything that would provide so much value that the target audience would be ready to pay for with amounts sufficient to maintain developing the product".

If the postmortem is "I tried to follow what influencers said, but it didn't work, so I'm tired, I give up" then, well, no surprise here.

And yes, startups are hard. Very hard.