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What else is interesting is that if you are willing to migrate to a tablet based workflow then you can get tools very, very close to par with the Adobe suite for less than $100 - and that's a one time buy, not a subscription. If you're not married to open source, of course.

Spend another hundred or so on an Apple pencil and some font licenses and you are flying.

Do you expect a once in a decade (and by some measurements, once in a lifetime) crash to happen twice in the same year, or several years from now? I don't doubt there will be a second wave - the US is by most accounts still mired in the first wave, but I suspect most people probably missed the boat on the "bottoming out" event. Stranger stuff has happened though. Interesting take.

Now I do agree wholeheartedly, but the First Rule of youtube-dl is: You Do Not talk about youtube-dl.

H1N1 in 2009-10 is best estimated to have killed somewhere from 200k to over half a million people - without the widespread global mitigation measures we are witnessing today. So, hard to say now if it will be a death toll that hasn't been seen in a lifetime.

Have been following this library for years. Love it. Favourite projects were some personal desktop apps I did with it in Electron to mangle samples in cool ways for my own music projects.

I still cant bring myself to purchase a Lenovo product because of this, despite the generally favourable reviews I see on HN regarding the ThinkPads. Its just such a revolting decision to me to do that to a paying customer.

I may just put my money where my mouth is and start the break up with Google too, as painful as that will be. I just dont feel like I align with these fucking companies at all anymore.

I suppose the main snag will be pointers. The approach that worked for me was the holistic approach of using C as a way of controlling the machine's memory itself.

In my view, C really only makes sense in the context of manipulating data in and out of the heap and the stack. So once you're past basic syntax, I guess start there: the heap and the stack. When you grasp that, I feel like you can stand on solid fundamentals on how computers work going forward.

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I've been dabbling recently, and as I've said before I'm quite put off by the limitations of Ethereum. As it stands now, it's main use case appears to be the development of new cryptocoins, perhaps voting applications..? And yet, every now and then you come across a nugget of true insight when working with the Ethereum protocol, for instance the gas payments to nodes to run code effectively should stop DDoS attacks since it would require vast sums of money to disrupt the network. It remains to be seen how valid this idea is in practice, but you could look at ideas like that and say, "Yeah, that seems like a step forward."

Anyways, if Ethereum really will become Web 3.0, then comparatively speaking I'd say we're not even in the 56k modem era yet.

Looks like people have already started buying the dip.

I've found the recent discussions around BTC and cryptocoins on this forum incredibly illuminating, from both the bulls and the bears.

I'm beginning to think perhaps there's no point in discussing the fundamental financial flaws of cryptos, or their lack of inherent value. I'm beginning to think their main utility in is meeting a human need that's existed since antiquity - the need to gamble.

As long as a solvent exchange remains, and another ready to come along when it fails, there will always be large numbers of folks entering the casino.

Perhaps the only thing that can stop it now is strict government regulation.

I recently got pretty pumped about exploring developing for the Ethereum network and spent an entire weekend reading everything I could about the protocol, the development ecosystem, language and anything else I could find - blog posts, tutorials, experiences from other developers.

I came away with my initial enthusiasm completely dashed. I can't for the life of me imagine why any sane developer would ever want to work within the constraints of Ethereum. It just doesn't seem to me anywhere near ready for any kind of serious development, or even trivial development for that matter.

I'd love to hear rebuttals to this. Is anyone out there doing anything interesting with this platform?

I very much doubt this is the case. In 2011, over half a million businesses were started each month in the U.S. in addition to the 23 million small businesses that were already around. Seems unlikely to assume these were all from well to do folks with a strong safety net.

Source: http://censtats.census.gov/cgi-bin/nonemployer/nonsect.pl

Could you imagine if Bitcoin was the catalyst for the next economic recession? That would certainly be out of left field.

My guess is the price would fall quite a bit, since the value of BTC currently is largely speculative. Like stocks, there would be a frenzy to turn these risky investments into cash ASAP.

Stranger stuff has happened though. Maybe the value would hold, and BTC really does become the "new gold".

I agree. I wonder how many people are in this same boat. Judging by the strength of this particular marketing push, I'm guessing it's a lot. I've had an Android phone for years now and it's getting a tad too creepy - which is a shame, because I much prefer Google's services to Apple's.

How is it even possible to not run in this fashion? I mean, the way you described it, is what running is right? I can't even picture someone running and landing on the heel or back of their foot. That would resemble some kind of bizarre speed-marching technique. I've never seen anyone in my life run like that.

I'd imagine the purpose here would fall under general deterrence. By bringing down a harsh sentence here, you'd hope that future parents would take extra care to prevent such things from happening in the future. There is doubt just how effective general deterrence is in reducing criminal behaviour (see Death Penalty), but I'll admit it does call into question the utility of destroying a man's life that in all likelihood has already been irreparably altered. One thing is for certain, this guy was criminally negligent to highest degree (causing death), and it's unlikely a functioning criminal justice system is going to let someone walk away from that.

This IPO is getting absolutely torched, and for good reason. However, there is a TON of money in foodie culture and food fandom. There's a reason half of your relatives watch the Food Network non-stop.

Perhaps once this IPO brings in much needed capital, Blue Apron can start bringing aboard celebrity chefs in promotional deals. Get Gordon Ramsay or Bobby Flay to contribute a recipe, ingredients and a couple YouTube videos and you might have something people will pay for. I'm sure they've thought of this already.

My own feeling is that we're now smack dab in the middle of two tech hype cycles, and yeah - it does seem kind of boring right now to be honest.

We've probably hit and passed peak web/app/social but the horizon technologies seem still very immature, with relatively high barriers to experimentation.

I've found this is reflected in my own experience perusing HN. In the past I found something on the first page almost every single day that blew my hair back. Now I'm mostly like "Oh, some ancient civilization used scorpion venom to make birthday cakes..." or "Oh, this React library hit version 8.5.2...guess I'll go...make a CRUD app now?"

I don't think my experience says anything about HN though - this community is as good as ever. I'm probably just getting old. One thing I know for sure is that there's a ton of opportunity out there for those with a prepared mind and enthusiasm for technology.

This isn't meant as an Ad hominem, but do your team members ever show any disdain towards having to tolerate working with a person who leaves work early because they ate too much? Are you the boss? Genuine curiosity here.

>> "there are effectively no barriers to entry."

IMO, this will work against you in the long run. I suppose it allows you to test out ideas easily. Profit will be very hard to come by though.

>> There are some larger trends I believe that renders the idea of apps as products useless but that's for another topic.

I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts on this point. May as well expound on it right here.

It's also worth noting that Italians experience some of the lowest heart disease rates in the world - one of the major killers in North America. If you want to live long, I guess live like the Italians?

My completely unsubstantiated theory behind this goes like this:

1) A diet rich in (non-animal) oils, i.e. Olive oil

2) Live in a sunny, but not oppressively warm, country.

3) Give family time and traditions far more priority than career ambitions.

I'm putting the final touches on a desktop app that will take audio files and chop and recombine them into entirely new sound libraries. The end product has been promising. But since a lot of it is node.js code calling GPL-licensed binaries, it's difficult to see how I could ever monetize it.

Nonetheless, I think it's some of the coolest tech I've ever built.

This has to be an April Fools gag, right? They can't be serious, can they? I couldn't even get past the halfway point of the page before literally choking on marketing drivel. What in holy hell does this product do?

I've heard this argument and I think it's a fallacy. I think the point is that automation will indeed "break" the economy in a drastic fashion. Money and consumers is just an efficient abstraction - what's really happening is that two parties are exchanging value (i.e. trading). If the middle/consumer class bottoms out, and automation renders their labour valueless, the owners of the automated, robotic outfits simply need to trade within themselves to keep their endeavours worthwhile. Of course, I suppose I'm taking things to overly simple, probably dystopian logical extremes here.

Nevertheless, the guy in charge of the fully robotic organic farm only needs to trade with the guy with the fleet of robotic mechanics and both parties have realized a profit. There was no need for a bunch of consumers and their cash to make this transaction.

I was literally just about to launch a consumer facing app on Digital Ocean this month...was I being incredibly naive?

The rocket ship rise of real estate in the GTA and indeed the entire Golden Horseshoe has certainly been bizarre to witness. I live in Hamilton and commute into the GTA for work. We bought our modest 3 bedroom townhome here in 2015. About four months ago our neighbour (who had a basically identical home) sold their unit for 100k higher than we paid. This week, a comparable home was listed for about 180k higher than we paid. So, in under 2 years, the current market value of our house would have seem to appreciated by almost 200k. This is a solid hour commute (by car) from the Toronto core.

So yeah, I'm not too sure whether to be extremely happy or extremely worried..

It's hard for me to see a scenario where a Calexit doesn't mark the end of American hegemony and quite likely the United States itself. A successful Calexit would without doubt lead to a New York exit. Now there's no way Texas is sticking around. And the Carolinas and Florida want to make a go of it too, etc. Once the pillars have fallen, the house collapses. Isn't that basically how all great empires slowly crumble?

So the stakes do seem quite a bit higher than outlined in this article and others I've read like it.

It does seem like an interesting edge to explore doesn't it? ML techniques combined with spectral analysis could yield some interesting outcomes. The datasets wouldn't be too hard to find either - most people have pretty extensive digital music libraries.