Adam's rise signals the start of the Apocalypse. Even his name is an affront, and a sardonic reference to the Alpha (Book of Genesis) and Omega (We).
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The rationale for my recommendation is largely captured in other comments so I'll be brief: Winter is coming (macroeconomically). And it sounds like cocalc lacks: a strong balance sheet, a scalable sales model, and a story that would interest outside investors. As such, I personally would view the company as lifestyle/earnings supplementation and not core sustenance. It is also synergistic with your day job.
Here's a simpler and less mystical theory. These programming systems are fundamentally image-based, and much of their leverage comes from the coder's ability to leverage all aspects of the meta-system. However, the more the core image is evolved the easier it is for a team to get out of sync. This is the ultimate namespace clash.
A slew of other highly-productive languages share this feature, e.g., APL and Forth.
I would draw the opposite conclusion from your statement. "Dozens" is not a big number compared to the universe of software-based companies. Up that number by three orders of magnitude and I'm sold.
Of course you can. This is America and anybody can sue anybody for anything (with few exceptions).
Winning the suit is another matter. Unless you have smoking-gun evidence of discrimination or some such, I'd say the case would be DOA.
Of course, the costs of the suit would likely be prohibitive as well. I don't think that many lawyers would take a case like this on contingency. Maybe pro bono.
But more importantly I think that articles such as this deflect from the real abuse-of-power that Google wields and that's in advertising. Google can and has shut down whole businesses by withholding access to its ad platforms. I'm not sure that Google has ever hurt anybody by denying access to Chrome.
Is there any evidence that I'm wrong?
Best. Comment. Of. 2018.
Especially since "these people" include some ostensibly smart cookies.
I conjecture that these people were/are trying to elevate BC to the level of adtech (Google).
Perhaps we have averted another black hole for the greatest minds of a generation.
I would make the same claim about players kneeling during the Anthem in an NFL game. To me, that stage (field) is a workplace and neither owned nor managed by the players. They have no right to kneel there.
In both cases, the protesters have every right to leave the platform and start their own. Of course, various extra-legal downsides may ensue from hard-edged prohibitions by the owners -- not the least of which is alienation of the workforce and/or customers.
IANAL but I wonder though at what point the policing content provider loses any Safe Harbor protections that it may have held. For example, would the portal become liable for some criminal activity that they miss?
What is a cryptonetwork and how does it lead to open source data? Wait...lemme guess...a blockchain! I wish that people would be more precise with language. Here's a news flash: crypto already runs the world. And blockchain runs almost nothing. This wholesale substitution of "crypto" for "blockchain" is disingenuous at best and self-serving at worst. It reminds me of substituting "climate change" for "global warming" (or for "pollute less").
> "...regulators...are taking actions to slow the decentralization sector down..."
I thought that regulators were taking actions to slow the centralized sector down (through antitrust, privacy provisions, etc.). Wouldn't this provide fertile ground for the (undefined) decentralization sector. Oh wait, you mean the blockchain sector? And ICOs?
This whole blog post makes me uneasy. The inaccuracies and omissions are one thing, but the fact that VCs now have the power, wealth, and inclination to become lobbyists for failing investment theses by "...spending a lot of time with public servants of all kinds, educating them, imploring them, and desperately trying to get them to understand where we are, why it is an important moment, and why we need to this new technology to succeed..." makes me ill.
These attempts to tilt the regulatory playing field are the stuff that undoes free markets.
No, your logic would only hold for a public company with shares priced by a liquid market.
For a startup, percent ownership of fully-diluted shares is the key metric. (Other secondary factors, e.g. liquidation preference are also relevant.)
The strike price of the options is derived from the price that the most recent lead investor paid for the last shares purchased. This is not a market price -- the underlying value of the shares is often less.
But the options are effectively worthless until they are vested and a liquidation event, usually an IPO or acquisition, occurs.
This statement is imprecise. Most of the bad effects are as a result of Facebook gaming its own system on behalf of both advertisers and valuation-driving metrics (growth, engagement, etc.). A Facebook that just allows people to connect is fairly benign. A Facebook that differentially exposes metadata and drives user attention in return for money is inherently dangerous. Positive feedback loops are mathematically unstable in dynamic systems.
As in most language learning, one starts with a small number (20?) of words and expands from there. APL also requires the neophyte to develop a mind mapping from abstract symbol to function. This may double initial learning time but I don't think that it's much worse than that. Mnemonics exist for many of the symbols.
But more fundamental is learning to map the problem space into an array formulation. This, not symbol application, is where a white board may come in handy.
Dyalog provides a free web-based tutorial that is quite comprehensive. [1] I daresay that spending a couple of hours with this tool will give you a great taste for APL. Spend a couple of days and you'll be quite proficient in both array-think and APL semantics.
Other useful tools include the wiki [2], a cloud server [3], and a neat examples wiki [4]. BTW, the "library of useful components" that the OP desires exists both as a compilation of useful idioms (code fragments) [5].
[1] https://tutorial.dyalog.com/ [2] https://aplwiki.com/ [3] http://www.aplcloud.com/ [4] http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/50/ [5] https://aplwiki.com/FinnAplIdiomLibrary
As to the language itself, as a casual programmer I very much like it. Its use is clear, it's well documented, and it's self-contained (and thus easily installed).
A WCF can be implemented anywhere along the chain from web site (content) to browser. Most commonly, it is a part of a DNS service or a firewall/router.
Think of a WCF as a gun pointed at unwanted web content (porn, hate, gambling, etc.). Like a gun, the WCF needs bullets and a shooter.
The most commonly used "bullets" for the WCF are publicly-available blacklists of sites, categorized by content type. Most commonly, these lists are community-driven and then triaged by admins. So it's easy for a site like TorrentFreak to make it onto one or more of these lists. It takes work to then get off the list, but it's doable.
Lastly, the "shooter" in this analogy is any entity -- ISP, wifi vendor, hotel, etc. -- that thinks it's a good policy to filter the web. You can see where a hotel may filter to reduce bandwidth consumption and/or reduce complaints from parents.
Historically, WCFs have been deployed on corporate LANs, in schools, and in homes. But we are seeing increasing deployment in public-facing networks -- even at the national level. And this smacks of censorship.
I hope that I didn't stretch my weapon analogy too far and good luck to TF in getting off the lists. (The Wikipedia entry for "breast" has the same challenge.)
As in blockchain?
(1) https://www.tonymacx86.com/ (has hw suggestions) (2) https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/ (3) https://www.reddit.com/r/hackintosh/comments/68p1e2/rambling... (old but lauded)
The space has made rapid progress in the last few years.
How about no adjective?
This is often for tax reasons -- specifically, whether VAT can be waived.