sklivvz1971

He clearly lacks depth if he doesn't know how JavaScript works...

Most of the questionnaire is (in my humble opinion) absolutely bad, as it focuses on stuff that you either know on the top of your head or you don't.

I'm sorry, but I'd rather hire someone that can't describe all the nitty gritties of `float`, but that can think properly.

Questions that can be looked up on Stack Overflow in 2 minutes are absolutely useless in hiring someone. They just favor people that have better memory.

Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5387052

Big mistake that everyone makes: cryptocurrencies are not currencies. They can be used as currencies, but they are fundamentally commodities.

Once you understand that, you can start making meaningful comparisons with other scarce commodities.

A large portion of the laid off workers were from the EU, under EU law.

The disadvantage is morale. It's much easier for the company to regain momentum if the chord is cut cleanly and swiftly.

That said, I'm not sure if it's true or effective, but having worked at Stack Overflow for years I'm pretty sure this was done to spare overall misery.

All that stuff doesn't really matter... If you have 3 months notice, it only means they'll come up to you and offer you to pay you those three months and you don't have to show up at all. And you sign a contract that prevents you from suing.

Most worker rights, in the end, become a matter of how much money they'll pay you to leave if they want you to leave.

Yes, one could--theoretically--fight back and not accept the money, but that only means you'd be a pariah in the company. What's the point of staying if the company wants you to leave and offers you a package? Take the money and get a new job in a couple weeks...

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So sorry to hear this. My thoughts to everyone, it is a very difficult day.

The cost of making music is nowadays the cost of the time of the artists.

Recording can be done essentially for free (less than 10,000$). In fact many artists chose to have a studio at home and do away with that cost entirely.

As a lot of artists effectively work for free: the cost is zero.

In fact, the expectation nowadays, in many cases I've personally heard from them, is that new artists proposing themselves to a label are expected to come with a full master of their debut, self paid.

When one produces goods (e.g. pizza) there are two costs:

- pay-once costs (the cost of the oven)

- pay-per costs (the cost of the dough)

Competition and economic law tells us that the price of a pizza will drop to the pay-per (marginal) cost once the pay-once (fixed) cost is repaid.

Copyright law was introduced to let companies recover fixed costs by giving them a monopoly and preventing competition. The problem is that this law failed on many levels:

* the length of the monopoly far exceeds its needs: recording an album does not need millions as 50 years ago. It needs thousands.

* there is no real incentive to cut down fixed costs. The reason the prices of production dropped is simply the advent of digital recording. Pro audio analog tools are still incredibly expensive.

* it set up a specific, adapted business model which is not necessarily a good one, the one of rock stars, which privileges few "winners" giving them huge resources and exploits the majority of other artists by giving them essentially nothing.

If you want to know what would happen to software if getting a copy is free, well, essentially we are very close to it. Google is not really protected by copyright law when thinking about its search engine business. They are protected by the control of deep know how and the cost of building such a system. Google's search engine is its team, not its source code.

Yes I would.

In a world where copying music is essentially free (not 0.99$ as you say), you are free to sell copies for whatever amount. Good luck with that. Perhaps by adding side value it'll work.

Video games are a good example of something that works: the marginal cost, and actual copy-proof value of many games are updates and content. See World of Warcraft. Pay to play.

At least you are paying for something that actually costs money (again: a download is essentially free to the seller).

The problem is that when you talk about "piracy" it's already a totally forgone conclusion that you are biased.

People compose music. Should they be compensated every time the music is played? There's no clear "yes" answer here--the counterpoint being that otherwise no one would compose music is disproven by hundreds of years of wonderful music still performed today.

People record music and codify this in a big number (a wav file). Should they be paid every time such a number is put in a particular software? Should the number be kept secret so they can be paid by people that want to know it? Of course not, and this is ridiculous. When there were actual (plastic) records, there was an industry whose job was to produce this special plastic. Their business was plastic. They got a license to print special plastic and then sell it. Of course the "designer" of the special plastic wanted a bit of the sale. But now, this industry is only in the business of keeping numbers secret. And this is not a viable business, and we should not support them.

There's an obviously failing business with little to no added value: that of big record companies and rock stars. They were viable propositions when printing records was expensive (high marginal cost business). Now the cost of music distribution is effectively zero (zero marginal cost business). Why should they insist they are allowed to maintain their business model?

If making pizza becomes essentially free, why would we pass laws that prevent people from getting free pizzas? It's absurd.

Seems more of a rant on marketing and dark patterns, but somehow blames Booking.com for things that happens everywhere in the industry.

An author is defined as someone that authors something and not someone that makes money out of something.

When the market can't compensate authorship per copy this does not mean the author cannot exist, but that authors will be compensated differently.

Do you seriously think that people would stop making music because they can't become millionaires? There's tons of people making a living playing on YouTube, filling the niche, and living off endorsments and side-selling of merch or lessons.

It costs much more money to produce the electricity they use!

"It costs nearly nothing to a company working with electric power distribution to serve an additional client in comparison to their fixed costs."

I beg to differ. The infrastructure is only part of the cost (the fixed part). The fuel needed to produce the electricity (or the electricity itself) is the variable part. As a consumer I pay much more for the variable part then for the fixed part, therefore what you say can't be correct.

The problem is that people who are drawn to F# tend to be a certain kind of people: generally stronger in CS, but also more prone to think that changing programming language is a solution to a wide variety of problems.

Many people are not like that, and stuff like a small community, worse tools and toolkits and less programmer availability are actually a huge deal, capable of tanking a good project, whereas having a 10% better language isn't a huge gain.

It's that simple.

Hogwash:

1. Go read the linked article: http://ftp.iza.org/dp8129.pdf

2. It's about munition line workers in 1920 UK during the war.

3. The blog post claims generality based on this.

DMCA applies to first parties and to anything which could be defined as "encryption".

This should apply to state-of-the-art encryption and only to third parties.

I tried to put my own website but it says url invalid... something must be broken (for repro: http://sklivvz.com/)

I like the point the author makes about the incredible intolerance there is against different points of view online, usually from both sides of the spectrum.

For example, it's impossible to talk about women's rights without having people take extreme sides are reject any form of intelligent communication.

Unfortunately this has been leaking more and more towards real life. People in large part repeat slogans and take predefined stances instead of using their own heads.

This case is no different: the world is not divided in good, left leaning, progressive people and bad, right leaning, conservative people.

A more realistic spectrum is bigots, people who think religiously about things and don't accept uncertainty to people that embrace reasonable change and diversity of opinion. People that accept that art expresses emotions and people that don't accept art that does not conform to their philosophy (remember the Talibans defacing the Buddhas in Afghanistan?)

I've literally copied half my post from Wikipedia, and the rest from the actual law I linked.

Besides Italian, there are 12 officially recognized languages (Albanian, Catalan, German, Greek, Slovene, Croatian, French, Franco-Provençal, Friulian, Ladin, Occitan and Sardinian), four of which are co-official languages (French in Val d'Aosta, Ladin and German in South Tyrol and Slovene in Friuli).

Officially recognized languages can be taught in schools for example, along with Italian. Co-official languages enjoy equal status with Italian, all road signs are bilingual, all official state material is bilinugal, etc.

Besides there are many other dozens beyond the official languages, to get an idea of how crazy this is Italy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Italy

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy#Languages, http://www.parlamento.it/parlam/leggi/99482l.htm

> Help a tourist out, they'd do the same for you in their home.

Gracefully accepting corrections when your language is incorrect are part of receiving help.

If I were to write these posts in broken Itanglish do you really think native speakers would not correct me? Would it be acceptable to call them "narrow minded"?

I'm all for helping but please stop assuming that a US-centric point of view and language are the default for everything. For most people on the internet, neither assumptions hold.

You can do whatever you want, I am merely pointing out how that looks to us :-)

Yep, the article should be explicit about that. Calling American-Italian food "Italian" is incorrect, but also incredibly parochial.

Yes, people are not really aware how ignorant and arrogant they look when they use the wrong Italian words to describe Italian food :-)

* cantucci NOT biscotti

* salame NOT salami or pepperoni

* zucchine NOT zucchini

* melanzane alla parmigiana, NOT parmigiana

etc. etc. etc.

I never spoke about persecution, and having lived half my life abroad (France, Singapore, Portugal and UK) I know pretty well multiple cuisines and I do appreciate them. I did not post the above lacking understanding of how different cuisines have different stories to tell. However I do feel that your comment is just a dismissal based on a partial understanding of my previous post.

Italy is particularly interesting for being regional and so is India, for example. Chinese cuisine I would not even call regional so far apart are the different cooking styles.

French cuisine is also regional but way more uniform than Italian cooking.

Keep in mind that Italy has not been a united country for long at all, and for example people from different regions speak different languages (there are 4 official languages in Italy, but probably at least a dozen spoken recognized languages such as Friulano, Sardo, etc.). Many of our grandparents (if not parents) did not speak Italian as a first language, that came about starting from the 50's with national television and internal migration.

So you can imagine that traditions and cooking are completely different from place to place. For the same reason there are hundreds of types of pasta for example.

It seems more a well researched article on whatever Italian bakery is available abroad, but certainly not a realistic description of Italian food variety.

Being Italian, it's always a bit funny to see Italian food being described from outside. The article is missing some important points about Italian bakery. In Italy you can find "panifici", which sell both savoury and sweet baked products, from pizza to bread to biscotti and other sweet non-refrigerated cakes. You can also find "pasticcerie", which sell only sweet products, both baked, frozen and semifrozen, from cakes to pastries to meringata. Finally you can find "gelaterie" which sell mostly ice-cream based product, but also other frozen and semi-frozen products. The selection given, thus, is misleading because it's leaving out a huge selection of similar products which are majorly important in Italian cuisine, starting with gelato based treats.

Furthermore, Italian cuisine is strongly regional. Bakery in Naples is completely different from bakery in Genoa or Venice. The article presents a subset of items from some of these regions, but is in no way a complete or realistic description of what one can find in Italian bakeries. Some examples here (this is really a tiny subset!): http://www.dissapore.com/grande-notizia/i-migliori-pani-ital...

I understand the article doesn't claim completeness, but they are presenting a glass of water and calling it a sea.