I like Taleb's philosophy that he unlike most successful people, downplays the role of hard work and rationality for success and attributes most things to what we call luck and chance. Being a wall street trader, short seller, etc... may require this kind of mentality since all rules and conventions are broken every day and having a 160-IQ in this arena will be even more harmful than useful if you use logic and science for every decision. However, I don't really understand his disdain for academia and theoretical knowledge, his philosophy won't get him anywhere where strict and disciplined logic is needed, the kind of logic that actually advanced the civilization not the one he used to make money off his bets from pointless stock charts
2018 is too late already, Quora and many others came in a time when making a post viral on Facebook and Twitter was way much easier in late 2000s and early 2010s and almost for free, exploiting Google search engine was also much easier back then. Now the internet is popularity contest business, pay for exposure or see your products die.
But what if this was his sole vision for Quora in the first place? It doesn't require a genius to know that everybody who worked in the new era of social media (mid to late 2000s) understood that you could create an empire from your users' free labor while doing literally nothing. Quora was built as such, Quora was made so that one website contains questions and answers about everything and exploit search engines and SEO to become one of the most popular websites for a long time.
Pathetic. You rarely see an authentic answer in Quora these days. It's all self-promotion, direct and indirect advertising, fake wisdom and "life hacks".
Yeah, I should definitely trust your broken website that can be made in 30 minutes with 24 blocked ad and tracking scripts and promoted on the fakest online community aka ProductHunt. Sounds very legit to me. This is exactly the type of bullshit that shouldn't be promoted on SHOW HN
This. It's funny that the West is blaming Iran 24/7 for terrorism while 3/4 of terrorist attacks are just Sunni against Shia mainly in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and the other 1/4 is Sunni against non-muslims.
It seems people keep complaining that Google is "evil" but they forgot that until only a couple of decades ago, the business world was ruled by oil, banking and finance ultra selfish assholes who had no shame to bring their own countries and even the world if possible to its knees to make profits.
Yet I'd choose Google over Facebook, Apple, Microsoft or Amazon every time if I have to. Even though monopoly is always worse than competition, Google has managed to advance the web experience using Chrome/Chromium (e.g. V8, pushing HTTPS, supporting the latest CSS and JS features, GQUIC, WebP)
just another clickbaity blog post with no substance for the sake of self marketing.. I really don't understand why HN of all communities still falls for such baits
I love your website by the way. If I want to read 1984 on EPUB I will just download it from Guttenberg or something but if I am reading it in browser I will certainly use your service. I really don't know what all that negative feedback is about. Of course, that doesn't mean we should turn into a producthunt-like shilling party with fake positive comments, you guys need to criticize without passing negative feelings to the authors. It's really depressing to work months on something and then when you show it to people they start complaining about things that aren't in your product's scope in the first place.
See my other reply below under this comment tree, I also tried flatbuffers and it was extremely inefficient compared to protobuf but I don't have numbers currently for it
No way that msgpack can produce more compact messages than protobuf, it is schemaless and stores the element names inside the message. Here is a simple benchmark I have of an array of objects where each {id: int,x: int,y: int,rot: float}. An array of 20 elements with random values of such object would take in JSON 804 bytes, in mpack 538 bytes and in protobuf3 only 304 bytes, of course this changes if you put other values but as you see for this case protobuf is almost 60% of msgpack message size and it's around the same ration even if you make the array length 200 instead of 20.
Yet protobuf is probably the most compact, efficient and performant serialization method especially when saving bandwidth is important. I experimented with protofbuf, flatbuffers and messagepack and always found protobuf messages the most compact by a noticeable margin