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I am curious as whether this will be relatively forgotten or it will become a manifestation of the streisand effect ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect ). With hordes of troll users streaming crap, just for fun and to fight against what they perceive to be a corporate overlord (twitch being owned by amazon).

What? Is he alt-right? I thought he's actually liberal leaning.

Many of his episodes is about drugs and his experiences with psychedelics, which would make most conservative folks suspicious. Can you post something that elaborates into those claims?

>what symbols you should put on a door to discourage someone in future to opening the door.

Vaguely reminds me a bit of the curses egyptians wrote in the entrances of the Pharaoh's tombs. Basically cursing trespassers for life. This is a realer version of that. Deeply interesting.

Additionally when people want to leave but an acquisition is in progress, they might want to wait and finish their role during due diligence and term setting, and leave on good terms afterwards, than a hasty leave that might raise red flags and endanger the process.

(not implying that this is what happened here, just adding a scenario where that happens)

Without knowing the actual logistics, just speaking as a user. I see bike sharing being somewhat popular where I currently live (SF -- mostly JUMP bikes. Not sure about GoBike, the bright red jump branding is too "eye-grabbing" to ignore). I have no idea if it can be profitable or not, but as an end user it is a nice option to have!

Maybe lyft wants to use it to strengthen their brand perception. They have bikes too = they are environmental friendly! Also play the marketing illusion that they are everywhere, as essentially people will be moving around the city riding lyft branded bikes.

I mostly agree with you, but this part is what sells it to me

"Turn your link in bio into an Insta website."

I could see that catching up, though it would still of course be a limited audience.

And also that they did such a nice job with the design and the branding. Would be easier to be more critical if it didn't look that nice.

Very well then. The robot is tracking a child with weapons drawn! Better? That was meant as a joke, it looks poor in taste because it is running after a child with the cannister of the cannon pointed towards the child. It even has "cannon cam" vision!! Without the cannon it's a great display of modern technology. With it, it looks kinda funny.

yes, there are many commercial toy robots with guns. And there are many gun toys and violent videogames etc etc.

But they are not educational. Educational + has a cannon. There is some cognitive dissonance right there. My opinion.

Zero anti-chinese sentiment from my part.

I was wondering if the culture there makes it more acceptable. I understand it is a poor question to ask, as it immediately sets the tone that China is doing something wrong. Perhaps I should have worded it better.

Bare with me for a second though. I grew up watching western spaghetti films, playing with bb guns and thinking of cowboys as heroes. I was born and raised in Europe, not in the US (just to see how much things changed in a few decades). And I would not want my kids to grow up like that. Back then, that was normal. Today, luckily is not.

In the past, having robots that fight each other was cool, because it was in the realm of fantasy. Now that drones and unmanned vehicles are a reality, and the next step is to make them AI and metadata fully powered. Having robots fight each other begins to feel poor in taste, because the jump from toy to war machine becomes blurry.

I was just wondering what the general sentiment and how the culture in China is in regards to the above. Zero anti-sentiment, except honest questions.

The fact that DJI releases an educational robot for kids that has a working cannon feels super icky from my western perspective. In China do they think it's a great idea? Is the culture gap that big, or is there another reason?

Also, how long until someone recreates the famous square scene with a lego character and 3 of these?

EDIT: This video from the promo page where it is hunting down a child - https://www1.djicdn.com/assets/uploads/v/1b34c0e069531a08639...

This would have been great without the cannon, with the cannon it feels... off.

For the same reason some people want to use Machine Learning to do code reviews, rather than.. you know, have the team pair program and review each other. Providing solutions to problems nobody had. And making new businesses out of old ideas. Kinda like "url shortener in php" -> "url shorterer in nodejs" -> "url shortener in golang" -> "url shortener in rust" -> "url shortener serverless with aws lambda" -> the cycle goes on. New stars for old ideas. Newtimers excited, oldtimers cynical alike.

We have the technology.

This would be very relevant if Valve made games. Valve doesn't make games, they make a game store. Their competition is more like gamestop and gog, than Capcom/Ubisoft/Acti-Blizzard/EA etc...

Maybe now that they are entering the VR market we might see some VR experiences from them again. I always wondered what the hundreds of engineers they employ do since it has been more than a decade since Portal, Left 4 Dead, Team Fortress etc came out.

EDIT: They didn't even bother to keep their source engine updated and appealing to use. Source 1 was used by many big titles back in the day. And Source 2 was was really really big among modders. Lost opportunities, but seeing how well Steam did, why would they bother.

I believe they could have eaten both Unity's (keep updating source engine) and Discord's (adding built-in chat/video to steam) lunch with ease, if they tried to do so back then.

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Blizzard is in a similar position. Starcraft 2 kinda failed to pick up as much steam as the first one did. Diablo 3 was... umm.. remember the real money auction house? And of course they kept milking WoW for as long as they could (predictable). What comes after? Oh right, licensing popular Chinese mobile games and rebranding them as "Diablo" to be released in the west. Mama Activision is making deals with companies like Fromsoft for being the distributor of refreshing games like Sekiro. It's all a big strategic play.

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I kinda envy and admire companies like Rockstar games. They enter a period of a 7 year silence, and come out of it releasing Red Dead Redemption 2, which for all the criticism it has gotten, is fantastic on all levels. Technical and artistic alike.

You think these schools and teachers want to educate kids? These people want to just get their salary at the end of the month and eliminate all potential liabilities that could get them in trouble.

They would ban eye contact and speaking to each other, if it would bring them more peace of mind and job security. Kinda like dictators do...

And image tags do not have pseudo selectors/elements.

We are on the quest to achieve mice immortality!

I bought and sold stock from a Marijuana ETF when they first got introduced. And 3 days later my bank called me and told me I cannot do it again. Of course I immediately tried doing it again after the call, but the online brokerage system would return an error. So, if I can't trade stock from weed-related business, but those tickers are listed and valid on NASDAQ (which is an american index), who can?

I do the same, unless I feel my life is in danger (reckless driving). Why punish someone who might be working for less than minimum wage?

And it never moved by a factor of even 0.01? Since they are probably doing some rounding, it never moved by 0.005? Maybe it did and by the time I checked it was back at 4.88.

It's interesting that many people in this thread report 4.88 though. I would assume Uber wants to obfuscate recent ratings (eg if you notice when your rating changed, you might pin point the driver and add a case against them if you 're vengeful enough). Maybe it's similar to the number 300 for youtube (where views stop being counted in realtime and they are being grouped + analyzed). Who knows.

I 'm also at 4.88! And has been there for 4 years, never went up or down (at least I haven't noticed it. I don't exactly sweat over it. Only checked when someone asks which is like once per year).

I can imagine 2 things. 1. Actual rating is way lower and uber is hiding it from us. 2. Their system is buggy.

Why use Machine Learning to identify kids? Simply ask "Identify the Karate Kid actor"

if they pick Jackie Chan over Pat Morita, you know they are a kid 100%.

I did not mean to offend you. And I am sorry I used that terminology. To me it felt odd that if you reach the front page suddenly eyes are looking at your history and everything you have done.

If you put yourself out there, suddenly eyes are watching everything. That seemed a bit scary (and again sorry for using emotional words), though of course makes sense why it happens.

But in general, I fully agree with you. There are many reasons to do it, and perhaps it's even helpful when something is not clear and you want to understand better where someone is coming from, as you said.

Apologies again.

I (not a mod, just your a regular HN user) think it's perfectly fine to post your own content. As long as you don't spam it, and you don't post over-flattering headlines for it. And definitely way better than posting your content under a guise of an "unafilliated" friend. It will reach the front page and stay here only if it's good, so who cares if it came straight from the wolf's mouth.

Also pretty creepy that people go down post comments history to check who it is and where you 're coming from. Eh.

Touché and well played.

I am on the camp that big rewrites are more often than not a mistake. The real reason behind most rewrites is that writing code is easier than reading code. A system has grown to be too complex to understand, and instead of taking the time to study and understand it, you start writing it from scratch instead. At some point you end up with a new system of perhaps comparable complexity as the original. You now understand that system better, but give it enough time you will get rusty, or new devs will join that do not understand it. Rinse and repeat.

Also many devs underestimate the reasons why code has ended up being smelly. Unaccounted edge cases, legacy system support, time constraints. Who says you won't hit time constraints during the rewrite too?

Of course there are many good reasons for a rewrite too. Being more experienced and a better dev today than you were yesterday when you wrote it, is a great way to clean up whatever amateur mistakes you might have created. Or perhaps the system is inefficient and now you know how to improve it. But incremental updates, and defining the critical code path and making sure that is as robust as possible (eg I am sure you can increase system performance by magnitudes by changing only 10% of the most-often run code), are great ways to start.

Good luck, and I am looking forward lessons learnt too!

I see two big issues.

The first one is about how well it is integrated in the show, or how "respectfully" it is done.

Let's say for example... Car brands are very welcome and a must in the Fast and Furious movies. It would be pretty silly if they had fake car brands in such a movie, and the presence of real car models can excite and make the enthousiasts nerd out more about them. Overall a victory for everyone involved.

But hearing how great of a family car a Volvo can be, in a movie about aliens... not so much.

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The second is about transparency. Assuming you do not like let's say Monsanto, or Scientology and you would like to avoid works that are funded by them. Product placement is a form of guerilla marketing, noone says who they took money from. So it lacks transparency and is disgenius to the consumers.

It's a bit like influencer marketing, when influencers "forget" to include the #sponsored hashtag.

User ksdale has left a very nice comment on the subject.

Everything in the new Jurassic Park movies is mercedes. Even the weird sphere-car thing is made by mercedes. There is also a prominently featured starbucks in the dinosaur park.

The movie is aware of how ridiculous is getting and a character says "Verizon Wireless presents The Indominus T-Rex!!!". I guess the writers took a jab at the producers and their deals.

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But the worst was in the recent Jim Jarmusch film, where Adam Driver says "You can order it and it will arrive with free 2 day shipping". In a Jim Jarmusch film, one of the most respected "underground" movie directors of our generation!!! But his movie was funded by amazon studios so.. no surprises there.

Someone should really make a "product placement in movies" hall of shame and get internet famous.

I am not saying cable is better. I am saying that netflix has a lot of hidden marketing in their shows (for adults, I don't have kids and I don' watch kids shows) that praising them for being ad-free is kinda disgenious.

In the end of the day I 'd rather get a big blinking "this is an ad" banner on my ads, rather than the characters smirking on camera while drinking from a nescafe cup while waiting for an uber to arrive. Maybe those are not actual ads and the show writers just added uber and nescafe for narrative purposes, I don't know, because it doesn't tell us.

Netflix puts the ads directly inside the shows they control themselves. This way no adblock can censor them, and Netflix can prance around pretending they are saints for not showing ads.

Example "Hey let's call an uber" says character A.

"I watched X on netflix yesterday" says character B.

I was mostly trying to make a civil snark. That the author of the artile seems to be making these comments as an "outsider" and has not actually used it in real life projects. Therefore I am a bit confused as to where they are coming from. As for me I 'll probably give react a try when it aligns with the tasks and scope of my work, nothing against it.

I don't know about you, but I don't use react because I don't know how to use it.

I think it would be more interesting to read about people who know how to use it, have used it, but now choose not to.

You are correct. There are many cases where fundraising for successful companies is needed. From liquidity, to gathering funds to fuel new ventures. Acquiring competitors, etc.

My assumption was that troubled ones also need it. So we should not be surprised that see so many controversial IPO listings recently.