henvic

> It is the necessary role of government to occasionally step in and break up such companies, to forcibly reintroduce competition. That's the form of regulation that we need right now. Break these megacorporations up.

What you're mentioning is both unjust and unproductive if the company grows thanks to satisfying customers.

It's also a recipe for disaster:

Trying to break down megacorporations usually ends up creating even bigger megacorporations. You try to do so, and what you end up with is lobby groups, even more powerful conglomerate/holdings well established somewhere they can do it with advantages over the regular Mom and Pop stores that don't have access to this level of economies of scale and so on.

I bet there is a market for creating vending machines out of UK's phone boxes, and/or perhaps ship them as decoration items all over the world.

In London, they could even be set up to sell miniature phone boxes in the most central locations.

Guess what... The more regulation, the harder it is to compete against too-big-to-fail well stablished corporations.

It's like no one here ever heard what regulatory capture or lobby is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture

Google is right in this case, but people will fail to recognize it, and ask for more state overreach that will end up making it harder to have multiple options in the future.

Who exactly has the time to read your comment.

Have you even tried reading something from The New Yorker, The Atlantic, etc.? While their articles are usually huge, they usually provide insightful content. Try it.

I recall when this idea of "organic" started (at least for me / in my life) seeing my chemistry teachers at high-school go crazy about how organic means 'that it's made out of carbon'.

Of course, turns out organic means it comes from the farming techniques they use. And of course, it's mostly a marketing strategy.

s/fired me/fired him lol

He put it together by writing a script.

Mostly just a bit of 'bro culture'. I also was told they were worried I'd 'rob their code' as I was using my personal computer instead of a company-provided one.

This guy told me the owners were worried because I could just take the code home (of course, I wouldn't delete/create the repo when arriving/leaving each day lol).

I don't know if it was really the startup founders' concerns or his paranoia, though.

After I left, I returned 6 months later to say hi (the founders discovered I was in town and asked me to go there, to their new office). So I went there, hoping this guy wasn't there, and guess what? They fired me about 2 months later after I left.

They played a trick on me, asking me what I thought about him once I came to the office. Only then, after I've politely tried to avoid shaming him while saying our working >style< was very different, I was told that they let him go.

I burst out in a laugh, finally telling them openly that they did the right thing. Then, they asked me why I didn't let them know about it.

I was just too naive, thinking they'd just outright reject my opinion and decided just leaving was the better thing to do for my mental health. I was wrong: honest criticism seemed welcome by them.

Just leave. It's the professional thing to do, if you can sustain yourself.

In 2012 I've left my hometown and went to the other side of my country to work at a startup. Within 20 days I left because the situation was critical. I was already feeling like I should leave on the second week, but decided to wait just to break-even from my moving expenses.

It was e-commerce startup where the team lead / project manager was actually the only backend engineer.

One of the problems I had was that it was impossible to work with him.

He despised git, so we used svn. Fine. It was in the early days of git, I could understand that. He didn't write proper svn messages (but garbage like... always 'ghnwerigkelrwn'), and told me I shouldn't care about it. Ugh... Okay, I think I can try to change this situation.

Then on my first days of work I noticed that something was very wrong with the repo. Turns out the guy configured his Eclipse IDE to commit to SVN any time he saved any change.

And he'd just type random keys out of boredom in any part of the system (PHP, which is an interpreted language) and break things wildly.

For those that doesn't know: SVN is a centralized versioning system. It's not like git, where you push things 'later'. When you commit, it's sent to a central server.

They didn't even try to hide the fact that they're stuck in the 90s.

If you're interest in this subject, I recommend Austin Meyer's documentary The Patent Scam (https://www.thepatentscam.com/).

* Austin Meyer is the creator of X-Plane / Laminar Research.

Performance-wise is much better. Animations are smooth, and even AirPlay seems to work better.

Safari is also slightly better, although she dislikes the new way it organizes tabs.

That said, the thing she told me she liked the most, feature-wise related to her daily workflow, is the new Shortcuts app.

I've kind of indirect experience: my girlfriend is an iOS developer, and has been using it on her only Mac for a while.

In the beginning it was awful for her. A lot of failures. However, after a couple of months it became quite stable, and she stopped complaining. The only thing that was kind of a nightmare was Xcode.

I'm updating it, and if I were you, I'd update right away too. There are many improvements.

Finally! :)

This happening organically is way better than any state-sponsored policy down the throats of everyone (which includes policies that end up making most traffic to become by cars instead of smaller vehicles or public transit, of course).

"The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is a 1998 United States copyright law."

Last time I checked the Netherlands was a different country. lol

By the way: https://www.websiteplanet.com/blog/dmca-ignored-countries/

Unfortunately, most of traditional media is both really intertwined with government actors, and mostly interested in matters of politics, instead of sciences, technology, and more meaningful and informative things.

News is, unfortunately, mostly propaganda and de facto marketing & public relations of government officials instead of about interesting topics you can learn from.

Now, if I repeat what you told us, someone might say:

"My friend told he read somewhere that someone read somewhere that a lot of these attacks are orchestrated by Russians because the Russian authorities will turn a blind eye as long as such attacks don't hit domestic targets."

How rumors becomes "real"... :)

Not necessarily, but to be honest I haven't seen a single cryptocurrency that made sense so far.

I wrote about how misleading the crypto ecosystem is a while ago here: https://henvic.dev/posts/bitcoin/

I'd say keeping an eye in the issue tracker https://golang.org/issues + golang-nuts mailing list https://groups.google.com/g/golang-nuts?pli=1 might be a good start.

I wrote an article about where to find Go-related content a while ago: https://henvic.dev/posts/go/

This is why https://play.golang.org/ has a simple layout with no highlight syntax :)

* based on Acme http://acme.cat-v.org/

I've previously used Medium to post articles I wrote, and decided to move my blog to Hugo about two years ago, and I definitely love it.

Indeed: 0.

For anyone interested in this topic, I recommend the book Do Business WITHOUT Intellectual Property by the patent attorney Stephen Kinsella.

https://www.stephankinsella.com/wp-content/uploads/publicati...

There's no good ORM.

You assumed the risk of causing more harm than you wanted the very moment you pulled the trigger.

Did you pull the trigger by accident? You assumed the risk the moment you decided to cock the gun.

Did you cock the gun by accident? You assumed the risk the moment you decided to engage.

All that said, I don't believe in punitive justice. For me, justice should be reparative.

It's great if he has recovered and been pardoned by the victim.

I also don't think isolating someone as much is good either.

However, I can understand how you might want to isolate someone who does such wicked action. It's a shame nothing else was done during incarceration, though.

Thankfully death penalty wasn't applied. We can't trust the state to decide who lives or dies.

Not only are there too many victims of wrongful convictions, but the cost of a single miscarriage of justice is unbearable.

> Because when a community decides to provides services to a people it must now have standards to decide who to provide services too. There are only 2 possible ways to solve this.

So, if you're a spoiled brat lucky to be born in a developed country with socialist tendencies, you're fine. However, suppose you're unlucky and were born in a poor country and now want to migrate somewhere to improve your quality of life. In that case, spoiled brats will do everything they can (including kidnapping you if you try) to stop you from doing so because you're the wrong race|social group|whatever.

You hold such awful vision and wonder if I am being sarcastic? What the heck. If you want to provide services to people, do it with proper and just means. Not by sacking people and pretending you want to give back to them whatever you deem essential services.

> This is a consequence of the state's monopoly on violence. By joining a society you voluntarily give up power to the government in exchange for services and protections.

No. I never did so. You were brainwashed with this stupid idea.

> Wars occur as a consequence of this exchange of power when states look out for their own interests, which include the interests of its people.

No. You're being incredibly silly. How come it was in the German people's interest to do what they did? How come is in North Korea's people's interest to do what they do? How come is in US citizens interest to invade other country and spend a trillion doing war overseas? Sure, some people will benefit from such arrangements. However, most everyone loses.

Besides, you demonstrate a lack of knowledge regarding the positive aspects foreigners usually bring to a territory. For example, most of them come in peace, and the net result is positive. I'm sorry you don't get something as basic as that.

> I'm not sure if you are aware of the other functions that states provide but some of the functions you may find beneficial are ways to resolve conflict without violence, protections to people, and a standard of living. These are again, enforced with violence. Seeing as you moved from Brazil to the Netherlands I'm sure you are aware of the benefits you are granted.

I'd be a fool if I believed in your stupid idea that I benefit from having most of my paycheck extorted from me here or most of my consumer power extorted from me back when I lived in Brazil.

No, most of my money I (or anyone else for that matter) pay doesn't come back as nice services from the public sector but go to harmful programs, intrinsically evil agendas, are used without any accountability, and so on. If I get back 5% in good services that I really need or want, I'd be surprised.

The poorest ones are even more negatively impacted than me by the state, and you probably believe that they get a lot of benefits. Your ideas about what the states do are incredibly out of sync with reality.

> (shouldn't that be a government choice?).

Why? Just why? Why the hell can't I be free to move freely to a place where other people accept me? Why is it that a parasitic entity (the state) has to say whether they allow me in or not? Why should I be barred to enter a continental region of the world without convincing a bunch of bureaucrats that I'll be there just for a few days?

> Privatisation is also taking over police departments, prisons, bus services, etc. I don't trust that the shareholders' best interests are the same as the needs of the people.

And you trust state actors responsible for most murders in history (example: compare how many hundreds of millions were murdered in wars vs. by private actors in the last century), how come?

> War helps private companies, at the expense of governments & property. I'm not hopeful for peace in the next 50 years.

No. It's not at the expense of governments. This is pure brainwash propaganda. Governments, or states, are responsible for most of the destructive behavior we see in human history. They're not victims but perpetrators of wars. It's silly to think otherwise. You're not hopeful "for peace in the next 50 years" because of your prejudices and misconceptions.

Society has never been so peaceful as today. Thanks to the private sector, communication is more and more accessible to everyone. Some day (not sure if 50 years or 500), poverty will be over, except due to acts of state-sponsored terrorism, and people will be able to denounce it whenever it happens and on a global scale. This is starting to happen today already.

Most private entities (companies or the third sector) do good for the people and benefit nothing from the misery caused by state actors and their wars. Just a thin fraction, such as defense contractors, does.

There is no such thing as a "corporate drone".

On the other hand there is such a thing as a statist parasite (think politicians, bureaucrats, crony capitalists, etc.), and hobos with a belief they're superior to others and love to do virtue signaling as making a life decision to live until the end of their lives supported by others, directly or indirectly, is something very, very wise.

There's a huge lack of admiration for entrepreneurs. In special, for the successful ones. Some people just hate them.