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of course it's a concern because kids don't know that there's going to be a big gap between what they create and what they envision so it's disheartening for them

Update:

Today 01/05 the account was finally reactivated with no explanation. I only ever received templated emails from their support department demanding “proof of all payments made in the last two months”. I repeatedly emailed that there have been no payments in the last two months only to receive the same email in reply. Then in a bizarre event I received an email this morning that the account was reactivated.

Funny how Brooks’ Law is still something people are learning: “ And counter-intuitively, adding more people to an early-stage project doesn't make it go faster.”

Shouldn't you feel "bad" for Meta then? They apparently both "picked the name out of the dictionary in an attempt to be trendy/minimalist" _and_ knew about Threads Software Limited before they put the name into use anyway.

Hear hear. I've been a Premium subscriber for awhile.

You're talking about this right?

I think CS curricula should have a class that focuses specifically on these issues, on the matter of how do you actually write software?

Are you really opposed to "a class" on writing software being included in CS curricula? CS courses have plenty of writing software.

The headline is dismal. Now writers can’t even be bothered to write what the improvement is? 40% of ______? “…Just trust us, 40% of something is ‘shaved’ …it’s good we promise.”

There is r/ExperiencedDevs but some people join with a definition of "experienced" as two or three years.

Doesn't that have the drawback, though, that you aren't able to share the playlist? My biggest complaint about Airplay (and also Bluetooth) is that someone might put their music on but when I want to put "my" music on I can't because they're paired to the given speakers.

The MPD approach is far better because each person's client view is a shared view of a single playlist. People can all add or update that playlist together.

Pareto's law really isn't a law.

No "law" of software or business is technically a law in the same rigorous sense that a scientific law is. But that's not why we call them laws and it would be nitpicking to call that out, besides entirely missing the point.

Also, it's actually the Pareto Principle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle) not "Pareto's Law" but that's also nitpicking.

Shout out for the open source option:

Snapcast - https://mjaggard.github.io/snapcast/

I'm unclear of the exact problem. Are you having a problem with powering two passive speakers from the same amplifier? Or you have two active speakers (each with its own internal amplifier and plug into the wall) and you have a problem with connecting a stereo music source to them?

MPD works great for non-tech-savvy friends over, you just need to install a web-based client and they can point their smartphone browser to it.

To make it even easier for friends and family, I set up a dynamic DNS with a friendly URL like myjukebox.duckdns.org that points to the 192.168.xxx.xxx address where this is hosted.

Mopidy (https://mopidy.com/) as the MPD server with Iris (https://mopidy.com/ext/iris/) as the client is a good setup for this.

Even the tech-illiterate can get along with it.

Donald Knuth was such a surprise!!

Another reason is that imperative languages are all that's necessary for many (maybe even the majority) of business use cases.

Really a lot of it boils down to if this else that, and little more.

And yet today we only have partially-OOP languages being mostly used in procedural ways.

why make a free DDNS service?

because we can, because before we started we couldn't, learning is fun

That last line about learning has the right spirit!

Taxes on cigarettes, in the US, at least, are not driven primarily by Christian moralists. I was part of a prominent US non-profit that is behind both higher cigarette taxes and laws that ban smoking in public areas. The motivation is health.

I detest this meme where supposedly every hour you have is translatable to money.

It isn't as if you can sell every hour of your time whenever you feel like it.

Yes, but a public good has costs whether or not you want to acknowledge them.

This is old news, right? Did they not change this yet?

This is like claiming David Beckham uses advanced physics to kick his free kick

David Beckham is in a highly-specialized field (professional soccer player) and this is about things everyday people use, so I guess I don't follow the analogy.

Totally! Reminds me of Foundation by Isaac Asimov where scientists turn into the equivalent of priests in some cultures.

The point of the question is that it's posed by the people who aren't going to go on to create weather reports, credit card payment systems, video games, etc.

I don't think so. If you're in high school and you ask this question, you surely do mean something like "what activity will I possibly doing in my future career that would require calculus" and in that case the answer that you may be a financial analyst, a meteorologist, an electrical engineer, etc. is right on. It's exactly what kids want to know.

But now there's this myth that "you won't ever use calculus in real life" which is totally wrong.

Correction: his tone is adjacent to personally attacking people who USE Java :P

Someone help me understand what I'm missing. It sounds like in this article Steve Yegge is describing a tool like Atlassian Fisheye or grepcode and talking about it like it doesn't exist. These tools are out there. I don't see what's missing.

I'm sad to see this because we literally do use calculus every day of our lives. We just don't often recognize it. The weather report is made using calculus. The calculation of the minimum payment on your credit card bill is made with calculus. Calculus is used in computer animation and video games. It's part of statistical analyses that affect government and financial institution decisions. It's used in manufacturing.

It's impossible to live a day in the modern world without calculus.

It's a huge missed opportunity to liken it to working out.

Yeah, Vancouver BC actually is creating policies like taxing unoccupied housing at a higher rate, instituting a tax on the sale of homes to foreign buyers, and further regulations around real estate "commoditization" and these are effective tools. I don't know why people say it's a difficult problem. Cities are actually just looking the other way.

Same here. Particularly the windowing. On a dual-screen setup, Zoom controls go off to other places and do not stay where they were left. I've had multiple experiences of not being able to find the Zoom buttons while I'm on a call.

Second, it drops you out of meetings sometimes while you are screen sharing, and gives you no way to know. It's sporadic on my machine whether the green highlight/frame shows up on screen sharing to indicate that the content is still being shared.

"You don't need" anything. You can walk to New York from San Francisco. But of course you'd rather fly. You may settle for driving.

The power of a concept isn't in the need but in how well it optimizes the process.

Did you mean, "...gets me downvoted. I give UP." ;)