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Delegate - Hire some competent people to take over sales, product and engineering management.

Depression - Examine heirarchy of needs: Sufficient exercise, sleep, nutrition, social interaction and maybe medication if CBT doesnt work. Feeling not depressed is like a release from constant internal judgement, cloud of doom, negativity spectacles. For some people, it's only temporary, situational and existential to change one's agenda; for others, there is a genetic component which causes permanent, unrelenting major depression which is unlikely to be addressed without finding a suitable medication.

Transistion to a social venture - Setup a school or hospital in Botswana or Somaliland, or join the Peace Corps. There is plent of work that needs doing. Teach, mentor and/or build something that builds people ready for tomorrow.

For first time purchases, there's the FHA program.

Also, it maybe cheaper to rent than to buy.

Or move to a more affordable area with a much shorter commute. Some people commute for hours just to say they own a home while they spend much more of their lives and more money driving for hours.

Next, some people just say "fuck it," buy a Sprinter or GMC Savannah and convert it to a commute vehicle / stealth RV. No rent, no mortgage and not piling on more debt to be a servant to for the next 15 to 30 years.

Inflation is the friend of the debtor, deflation and hyperinflation are the enemies.

Also consider property taxes of the future: they may greatly increase depending on political and economic conditions, especially if a "Greece" national, state, county or city debt default situation comes to pass, or expenditures like another large war occurs.

Finally, if a local housing market changes significantly it is possible to go underwater, even without climate change. In which case, people get trapped and may lose their homes. There are also legal, quasilegal and extralegal foreclosure risks which can wipe away equity.

https://www.trulia.com/rent_vs_buy/

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-cal...

It's an oversimplification.

According to climate models, much arable farmland will be destroyed by climate change. There will be increasing pressure for protein and calories from all sources. Perhaps whales could be domesticated. If not, rapid changes in ocean energy absorption and chemistry threaten the entire food chain.

Another long-term consideration is industrial protein manufacturing to skip the risks and mess of CAFOs in Brazil and Texas, and fish feeding operations like the horrible fish farms throughout the world from Thailand to Norway. It maybe possible to greatly reduce the risk of a global pandemic if animals and people aren't kept in excesssively close proximity.

Megafauna doesn't have much hope in the Holocene extinction event. One only need to look at the odd survival of avocados which were likely to have died out as humans likely killed their primary seed distribution omni or herbivores. There is little causal data, but it's a contributing factor.

Holocene extinction will likely continue until the entire planet collapses, humans die out or kill everything that isn't or cannot be domesticated. There is simply too much energy already absorbed forcing climate change to be reversed even by redirecting all GDP into geoengineering... Greenland and Antarctica will melt over a thousand years, sea levels will rise 100 m (~300 ft).

It's an incomplete charade. Feel free to wear noise-canceling headphones, sunglasses and a hat and close the door, the needy jerks will still suckle attention for their time-sucking, futility from all directions... the Mormons, Amway distributors, recruiters, parties, the help me move a couch, help me do this and that, on and on.

It's better to be a "grayman:" blend-in by being as boring, generic and forgetable as possible. Disappear, not seek to social climb, because that will only attract different sorts of "stalkers" whom also will have demands.

The most common annoyance is the social ritual demand of being in a coffee shop and some fool asks others to watch their computer. Refuse by saying "No I may have to leave soon. Invest in a laptop lock."

Oops, hit logout on that throwaway account. Bye-bye, religious flame wars. ;)

Support is what it is, and it's a two-way street.

Most engineers usually don't have customer support or sales experience, and so don't have the experience to triage and communicate pro-socially. (I sold software as a high-school job and also had my own consultancy at 17.) It's important to push outside one's comfort-zone when young (or old) to acquire skills that will be vital later on.

Post the policies, requirments and desires in contributing.md promenently. (I think a CoC is redundant and tyrannical SJWing.) Setting expectations and not making promises is important.

Finally, there is a cost to FOSS on both supply and demand sides. I just had some company fork the repo of a project I fixed, make a pointless PR and then offer no contributions in a grsec-theft-style way.

PS: Subversion has a great talk about defending the community.

A bowser isn't a Sun box. In the real world, browsers and computers restart occasionally. Also, opening a new tab in FF hangs everything for several seconds whereas in Chrome and Safari it's still responsive. It's like FF is doing everything on the main event queue synchronously.

Numbers. Even with a top-tier SSD and 16 GiB of fast RAM starting cold (with minimal, necessary plugins):

FF: 25s

Safari: 13s

Chrome: 8s

Without plugins, hot restart (absolutely worthless):

FF: 5s

Safari: 3s

Chrome: 2s

Using FF UX is like replacing an SSD with an HDD.

FF has a nice mission, but it doesn't matter if it's not better than the others, which includes both being usable and fast, in addition to privacy and security.

Conclusion: FF is nice in theory, but not currently usable in practice unless you enjoy wasting your time.

If he was going to invest millions in this project, you'd think he'd at least look into safety certifications, insurance, engineering design review, etc. first to make sure it was both safe and met annoying clipboard auditor's regulatory requirements?

Firefox on macOS takes an order of magnitude longer to start or do anything than Chromium (Chrome, Opera) or Safari.

Because "old" is "bad." Throw away everything that makes people happy and start with reinventing the wheel. Also, corporations are slow, unresponsive and inconsiderate because incompetent people can hide and also bureaucracy.

Hard work, being good does rarely equates with reward... those are worker-bee values. Gotta do those and assure minimizing getting screwed... that's capitalist values.

Still points to a MBP.

Untrue and misleading. The more important GWP half-life (neither concentration lifetime nor concentration half-life) is on the order of 50 years.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zuRBO1uTI70/T8A40kdMWBI/AAAAAAAAC9...

Another bigger problem, raised by VICE reporting, is tundra thawing, leading to ground collapsing 10-30 meters into huge sinkholes. Appearently, one of the possible solutions is replacing tundra forests with grasslands by megafauna and macrofauna grazing, including, potentially, cloned mammoths, because grassland freezes harder in the winter and keeps the permafrost froze during the summer months.

Crying "rape" based on no evidence greater than gossip would be pretty scummy.

There are enough rich people in the world whom have inherited wealth but don't understand the mechanics of its acquisition, amplification and retainment.

Good frickin' luck. If Concorde couldn't survive even without accidents... it might not be a viable business. Aerion has immense resources, talent and connections and is still slowly chugging along on allegedly building the AS2, an expensive, supersonic business jet.

Might want to consider the feasibility of the real economics of jet fuel per passenger/cargo before raising a bunch of money to ignite. And also disappointing investors and losing their confidence when they ask for $5 billion more to continue development and are turned down.

There is no reason to assume human programmers are somehow special apart from all other disciplines and tasks, except maybe to delude oneself with a false sense of (job) security.

Computers using AI, deep learning and natural language processing will eventually be able to program themselves. This is the next, big revolution that is inevitable.

Sorry, wrong. Deep learning can and will take over everything, given enough computing power and profit motive.

http://www.ted.com/talks/jeremy_howard_the_wonderful_and_ter...

Eventually (30-150 years), there will be AI pottery artists selling kitsch, easily-offended toasters and corporations without wetware upper management.

Is Sudden a California CFO? Are there food safety and facility standards, licensure, insurance and documentation requirements to setting up a food processing operation?

http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/Documents/fdbCFOfaqs.pdf

Hard is good when something can be patented, kept secret, heavily regulated or otherwise defended.

Mr. Wonderful and Mr. Coffee will knock this off in μseconds if there's any traction.

Gotta move to a subscriber / donation / ads freemium model.

Remove ads once user tips/pays more than $X in a given month (ie let X = $9).

Maybe have a alternative platform for content creators' own walled gardens subscriber model to monetize exclusive content.

Some posts won't monetize well because of advertiser objections, but it's still worth keeping controversial content and letting people tip toward it. If we always kowtow to advertisers, mainstream media is the result.

Finally, generously rev share with content producers, to encourage them to make great content, say 50/50.

Then git also needs to change, but the process as above for github and others is still correct.

0. Upgrade to SHA3/Keccak, eventually make SHA1 a read-only legacy feature.

1. Upgrade signing to sign blobs and sign signatures for non-blobs instead of signing refs.

You missed the boat. Mobile revenue edge out desktop revenue in 2016, and it's concave down... which means dying. Desktops continue to die back to a new equilibrium because they're less portable and less practical than a device that can go almost anywhere but a Dave Chappelle show. They won't go away completely but their importance is greatly and permanently diminished to the point of irrelevance for most average people, hence again why PC makers are struggling. Everyone these days has a smartphone but not everyone has or needs a desktop. That's a fact of life as technologies change. Old PC homebrewers and $10k rig gamers will continue to tout their resistance to getting a cell phone and the superiority of their own, particular religion.

Why the down vote? It was a rumor that proved basically correct, as usual.

The P100 has much better double-precision performance, but it's single-precision perf doesn't justify the cost in most instances.

The DGX1 (w 8 P100's) is another example of an overpriced, turnkey money extraction "solution."

Also worth noting it's hard to get a Ti non-founder edition, which has a hefty premium on it for the privilege of being first. The regular 1080 non-FE cards are probably the best bang/buck right now.

Folking doing ML/AI/DL, or any HPC really, gotta profile their apps to find bottlenecks and root out resource waste: single prec math? ram? algorithm complexity? storage iops? network latency? etc. because throwing money at a problem is no substitute for having a clue how to use money, time and electricity wisely.

Without a sample list of email addresses, it's a bluff. That "womans iCloud account" is probably someone they know.

Apple needs a radically new, practical product, either of the better (ie Project Titan, Viv-like, Zeiss smartglasses) or new category defining type, not for profitability reasons but for strategic/goodwill ones.

"Health Watch" that takes my temperature, checks blood-sugar, cortisol & blood pressure might be good too.

Hassling visitors arbitrarily, haphazardly and somewhat discriminatorily makes a country less cool and more autocratic. And talent, capital and tax revenue finds other places to which to flock.

Trump will flip-flop on this mercurially 7x before breakfast while watching the "PDB" on TV (aka Fox and Friends).