hubert123

> The whole concept of "Lebensraum" seems like insanity today

More room = more people = more power is insane to you?

I'm tired of people saying that they are tired of it. It's one freaking day of the year on the internet. You know, you could just work today and not visit too many websites and you'd never know if there were a "lot" of April 1st stuff. I don't care for these april pranks at all, but to complain about it is just next level.

I don't see how you come up with this stuff. Codeplex was simply uglier than Github, that's it. Both graphical design wise and interaction design wise.

Alex Jones is basically a journalist that mostly does opinion pieces. There is nothing wrong with that. If I were you, I would use the word "fact" a little less confidently, facts are only facts until disproven and they are always tied to other facts which can in turn be disproven.

or maybe the russian narrative happens to be right. I know, UNTHINKABLE! How can russians ever be right on any topic on anything?

"we kind of laughed at it"

The lazy traditional mass media thinks it can just ignore any nefarious angle or pretend that it doesn't exist and that it cannot exist. The best example is the Sandy Hook conspiracy. I have no stake in this game, but I'm as interested as anybody to hear both sides and it turns out that CNN will not ever provide the other side of the story while infowars will. It's that easy: Infowars does its actual journalistic job and questions everything. That's what CNN is supposed to be doing. That's what the are all supposed to be doing as journalists, you should be JUMPING at the option of Sandy Hook being a false flag. If it isnt, that's even better. But I want to hear all angles about it. There is no value in being blindly trusting of the government. I'm not an american but I'm pretty sure that one core value is to distrust the government, to be ready for it to turn evil. I listen to Alex Jones for many hours every week and he is definitely hyperbolic (which can be funny and this is often the goal -partly) and he sometimes gets things wrong too. But he provides much more value than reading the equivalent of a machine generated press release on CNN.com.

web browsing was slow and laggy, navigating maps was slow and laggy and unintuitive

I plan to never switch away from my iPhone 5S unless it breaks for some reason. It's a phone, why would I need anything new on my phone? I consider it pretty much perfect and it only gets better because now the value is so little, I dont have to be so scared anymore that it will be stolen.

Would really be nice if it could offer generic linux binaries... this ubuntu only development approach is quite aggravating. I don't mind a big download, why not just bundle your LLVM changes and package it all in a single download?

Regarding systemd: I guess I like the systemctl commandline interface, I wasnt around for the alternatives. (if there were any?) I like that part of systemd. I like the fairly easy to write service files. I'm not sure how it relates to booting an OS though.

Regarding programming languages: I think we absolutely need better programming languages, they are all still a joke to me. Rust sounded like the perfect language but then we all know what happened, same as c++. Personally I'm always surprised when somebody makes a new language and doesn't include a debugger or intellisense. It must be only me but it just shows a general disrespect or unawareness for me, the user you want to attract. You actually expect me to be productive with your language without them? C'mon.

> Essentially, people who write code are just glorified digital welders

Yep, that's actually what I think as well. Most programmers just don't think about the higher end goal, usability in the greater context of the OS or interaction design, simplicity, or even whether alternatives exist. They just see a job to do and they do it - often badly actually.

Honestly, it's not just about software development though but that's what I know best. E.g the first Apple iPhone comes to mind: Finally a product that was truly just good. In basically every single way, designed for the user. It was beautiful. Github comes to mind, it just worked. Immediately and it solved a need. Before we had sourceforge. Facebook was similar in my opinion, although the situation is more complex there.

> What should have been done - whip the developers into submission, force them to create a backward-compatible framework that supports everything, and make backend changes that do not affect the user in any way. That's how product-driven development is done

Haha, somebody speaks from experience. Yeah that's actually how it is done in enterprise development in my limited experience. You just have to be backwards compatible, end of story. Don't care how it's done, just do it.

> Why did smartphones succeed? Because they allowed a common person to do the same things they did on the PC cheaper and faster

Yep, and also because it allowed the common person to be connected while not having to sit hunched over at a PC. The internet and the PC are clearly great things but people want to live their lives and be connected. With smartphones they get to have both. Personally I will never agree with these weird "wow look at how sad all those people are, staring at their smartphones". I remind myself of the pictures of people in the 1900s where everyone at the train station was hunched over their newspapers.

This is what I mean when I tend to say that all scientific papers should have a minimal reproducable working sample with instructions attached. Lets say I am interested in dam building with turbines and all its glory: One would assume that this is really complex cross cutting tech, but I still firmly believe that if you cant show me how to build a tiny sample dam that powers my mobile phone or my computer, you havent done your part to make your theory sufficiently reproduceable.

Just another generic complaint about Go's lack of bloat. It's all completely naive, never understanding why Go doesnt want generics beyond a simple "b-b-but look, the pattern matching of Rust is simple too!" No it isnt simple just because you say it is. It is the opposite of simple. I've read the Rust docs on it several times and I still dont have a clear mental picture of how to read a match statement out loud. "match result with Some(number) .. then do..? But match HOW?" I've been thinking of a clearer syntax/naming for match and in my humble opinion it should literally just be called 'if' and any inconsistency that doesnt align with that be removed from the language. Calling 'match' match is haskell programmers gone wild. Programmers in the real world dont have a clue how to read 'match'

Could you add a simple description of the practical usecase for the lessons? I know what "image recognition" is useful for. I have no idea whether I need to or want to learn "CNN", "overfitting" "embedding" "NLP" or "RNN". I am interested mostly in image recognition and text classification.

I had the same experience with ansible. It also wraps the responses in some ultra verbose json. I really just want to see the remote commands being executed, if you return them wrapped in some kind of format then you need to provide a gui for it. Otherwise it's all worse than before.

Apparently these people think it makes it "simpler". Well I'm sorry but me looking up how to format things with yaml and no autoformat and no intellisense just isnt good and doesnt make things simple. Even xml with a backing xsd would be better than that, but that's apparently not cool enough anymore.

So why isn't it also a replacement for ansible? I dont understand this artificially limited scope. You set machines up, why not also set up their software and repos?

I have just determined that you are mentally incapacitated by my very own definition and judgement. Sorry. Now extrapolate that to the general population.

Do you support a hard limit on money spent? I would like to be able to say 30 bucks a month max or something

Poor people dont pay a lot of anything in taxes, so essentially what you propose is yet another tax increase for the middle class.

Still dont get it at all. I installed VS2017 today, dotnet --version = 1.0.0

I go to the dotnet core website, download a new sdk and install. dotnet --version = 1.0.1

Oh and the file is called "dotnet-1.1.1-sdk-win-x64.exe" Notice yet another version number.

Same thing on Linux. tar.gz has 1.1.1 in the name, installed version is 1.0.1

Sorry to be so blunt but I dont care about another flexbox that much. What they should have done is to implement the shadowdom. Instead we have to wait another half year for them to get to parity with Chrome.

Nope, he is very naive. He calls [cyber] war "ridiculous".There is nothing ridiculous about wanting to be ahead of rivaling countries and having backdoors into their software and computers. What is however ridiculous is the attitude that we should all hug each other and make the bad people go away with love and prayer.

It looks good, but no word on performance numbers or debugger or IDE.

It has nothing to do with risk taking, quite the opposite. This is all pop culture. Going to the doctor is a risk. You cannot and dont want to take that risk if you have to go to work. Most of the time if you dont have an issue that's stopping you from working, it's not an important issue worth risking work over. To call men who dont want to go to the doctor basically "emotional pansies" is a very.. i dont know, maybe a very uninformed way to look at it.

I still dont understand: Can this be a general purpose replacement for javascript or not? Because if it is then every language, even Dart and typescript, should switch to producing webassembly. Right?

> At what point does the tracking of individuals cross privacy lines and become oppressive? Scraping internet browsing habits? Automated traffic cameras? Mandatory facial screening?

that's a "strawman" as well. Every law is oppression, the real question is what degree of oppression is justified for the good of society

Stop policing people's words, what about your tone in all this? "here is a lesson in tone for you" is not exactly nice tone either but since you are the police it doesnt matter right?

I was recently looking for desktop email clients and there is literally not a single free alternative? Cant be that awful if it's the only one.

There were plenty of other reasons to be afraid before, the random gun crime, police state, lack of healthcare and the TSA cancer machines / groping being the main ones. Being legally disinvited is only a fear if it's financially a hit to have to fly back from their airport.

facts do change our minds, otherwise we'd all be dead and eaten by lions. what these journalists dont understand is that when something happens in the other room and i dont see it, it's not a fact for me as it is to you