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Been playing this since I found it and really learning SQL which I've avoided until now. Noticed you did a UI update today. Any way to contact you for feedback?

I immediately recognized this as a nice scaffolding to start the automation process of a slog task. There's lots of things that are difficult to fully automate. But breaking it down into step by step functions, you can identify and automate the low hanging fruit.

Then maybe you could request some help with the ones that are a stretch for you to automate yourself.

Very fair and thoughtful counterpoint. I think I may have been imagining that 'smart aleck private trying to get one over on the brute drill sergeant' trope.

Totally agree that tactical communication requires brevity and clarity.

If gesturing is a more effective way of speaking, then it make sense for the power structure to take it away from the subordinates. If a private could convince his superior to believe something or do something then it upsets the hierarchy. Maybe there's unscientific words like hypnosis or mesmerization you could attach to this idea of gesturing with speaking.

In D&D, there's somatic, verbal, and material components to spell casting. Somatic components are the precise hand movements to aid in spell casting. That fictional idea/meme had to have been generated by some real-world phenomena, no?

Edit to expand: I also think this may be why even beyond the military there seems to be a widespread stigma against gesturing while speaking. Not that a majority of people look down on it, but that some significant percentage tend to do so at least.

It might seem unfair to some parties to have these extra gestures "used" on them to convince them of things that go beyond what the words they use actually mean. I know personally, I much much prefer to read what politicians said, via a transcript, rather than watch them speak. Their body language + gestures + tones can really change perceptions so significantly that I don't want to let myself be preventably persuaded by otherwise disagreeable positions.

On the ring map, with default settings, just stopping traffic with the traffic light for a second produces the dreaded rubber-band effect propagating forever around the circle. Fun simulator!

You left out the phrase "in my opinion" from your very strong opinion statement that alcoholism is not a disease. You could qualify your opinion, such as "in my professional opinion as a psychologist", or "in my layperson opinion through my experience with people who believe they are alcoholics". Or even better perhaps "in my opinion as someone who thought I was addicted, I solved my problem this way...".

Try harder.

A YC (2015 I think) backed company did just this. Collated Backpage ads to assist Law Enforcement in tracking down child sex slaves. At the time they were called Rescue Forensics and were acquired a year or so ago.

Link to the launch page: https://madeby.google.com/home/

Sometimes I get the vibe that it's a weird self-fulfilling prophesy of terrible SERPs. You reward freshness too much, so then people play that game. But you also punish duplicate content at the same time so the best content, if it already exists but is not fresh, naturally has to fall off.

I think you might be more accurate to say 'dead among highly innovative startups and tech giants'. You are probably totally correct long term on the dying, but it's going to be a few decades before Fortune 1000 and especially healthcare conglomerates move everything away from private cloud virtualization. Inflection points aside, that massive change takes a long time to be realized.

Your original comment makes it seem like it's all passé and old hat. It's going to be part of business in general for a long time and someone is going to have to work on it and develop it until it's gone.

My guess is that they would sue the Post Office if a postal worker ran them down too.

I have seen this at my jobs. Usually the titles are defined by HR so they can set the pay range to some sort of industry standard for that title. They often do not reflect the type of work being done to a highly specific degree. Some places are probably great at this classification of employees, but I've yet to see it personally.

I really enjoyed your overall Linux Performance Tool talk: http://youtu.be/SN7Z0eCn0VY

Thanks for sharing your expertise with performance monitoring. Releasing Atlas is adding tons of value to what I've already seen.

Interesting analysis. I could see Dogecoin becoming the Whuffie of Doctorow's Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom.

The currency of karma. The tipping currency of the internet. The post-work currency?

Two weeks is a lifetime compared to vaporware.

It's interesting engineering that should keep improving as photovoltaics and batteries improve. A fleet of these sun chasing giant satellites that don't need to come down(but can if necessary)? It's like a Dyson swarm, except on a lot more manageable altitude.

I see a little trigger on the back on the right. I'm sure there's one on the left, too.

Sure there are info product salesmen out there but you're missing the forest for the trees. I really think this PIH stuff boils down to familiar ideas like a MVP challenge. Build a product(SaaS usually) that people will pay $99 for and that you purposefully do not add features to. You support it a few hours a week, hopefully 10 or less and you make some income by solving a particular business problem. Then you make another, and another. Hopefully you can make enough to eat and travel if you choose, which would put you above the poverty line. I think MVPs can be done during hobby time if you aren't trying to 'build a startup'. I don't think the expectation should be to replace your $70k income with one MVP to be honest.

He's not ignorant of his base by any stretch of the imagination, but I think it's still safe to say he and his father were libertarian freedom fighter hipsters, way before it was cool.

Dual 22 inch monitors vs a 27 inch makes it less annoying.

You would be surprised at how many nobodies still refer to it by the old name. It's also much funnier to say outloud.

I'd assume it's probably easier to iterate and test without worrying if your ridiculously expensive robot is going to fall on it's face. Even something small like friction with the clothes or binding of cloth in a servo/joint could cause it to fall, I suppose.

I'm sure they wanted their proof of concept out just to be the first robot with clothes, but just didn't want to risk damage.

Even if he's only a little rich as some say he is, a bit of money could put together a ragtag team of outsourcers. Anything's possible I guess. 16 year old dev managing some extra help? Why not?

It's an interesting question, and I'm really just an arm-chair SEO when it comes to the world of extreme money keywords. What I do know from experience is that there are a lot of these extremely profitable keywords. With a little research you can figure out what the top 10-100 keywords are, by traffic, in the world or just in the USA.

Some are totally 100% owned by big corporations who get the majority of the hits for that term and expanded phrases. Some might say that's legitimate because that big corp is the best result for that word. But there are plenty of other keywords that are owned by (formerly) regular webmasters who are now on top and fighting to keep it that way, with a sizable incentive to do so. These keywords are highly competitive and those webmasters will do anything it takes to keep the payday rolling in.

Why do you say over the next year? You can see all the changes Google has made over the last ~8 years and say the same thing each time an update came out. Black hatters seem to find the constant adapting part of thrill of the chase. The chase of money from Google rankings really. If they can make money, why would they stop? I see Cutt's job as making it just difficult enough to catch the black hatters, but easy enough to celebrate and promote the best knowledge and content. It's an ever changing game.

Unless no one ever hears about your life changing stuff. Telling Google what you think your service or product is about via SEO ultimately tells the users who find the search result. THEN you win the game.

In your example, I see it like this: Google sees those links and gives low page rank but quantity helps too. So if you're getting a bunch of links on social media, it follows that eventually people will blog about it (crawlable content) and link back to the site. Sure it may be a crappy blogger blog but it's legit and Google does count that. Over time a ton of non-spam PR0 backlinks can and will help rank for search terms. Of course, getting some big PageRank links will help a lot more and if you have any say in the matter, can help with what keyword you rank for.

In my opinion this really is the easiest way for quality content to rank and I highly recommend it. However, and not to downplay how nice this must be for your sister, but these are relatively obscure terms that don't get many hits. If you are trying to rank on some of the hottest money making keywords on the web, the type with a 6 to 7 figure payday, then you are on a totally different level of difficulty. Orders of magnitude different. Old domains with old content are heavily weighted. New guys have little to no chance. Only extreme viral content can achieve that and hope to be white hat. It looks effortless in the wild but in practice you have a lot of work to do to link-bait and that's still hit and miss. That's why a lot of "SEOs" turn to black hat, and churn and chew up the search engines to scrape whatever they can.

Ya you could easily do that and get blacklisted by Google and most USA search engines. Make the text the same color as the background, really tiny in the corner somewhere and spam it up. Though you could simply edit your robots.txt if you don't want to appear on the search engines. At least the ones who respect that. If a link to the site is found by a spider, the cat is out of the bag so to speak. Nothing can put it back in the box.

Then I beat it not 5 seconds later. facepalm

You mean totally unwinnable I'm so mad right now I can't see straight level 9?