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Related:

https://youtu.be/_ahvzDzKdB0?si=gBeFVZypCDLUoMNf

Very cool!

Neat!

Minor typo at the bottom:

s/wite/write

Of all the people in the world I can think of with the inability to think outside the box, Rich Hickey has to be at the bottom of the list :)

He's reading and commenting on a Hacker News post about jobs on the weekend. Seems like that answers at least part of your question.

It seems to me that a version of the Innovator's Dilemma might apply to software frameworks as well.

By the time a project gets large enough it starts optimizing for its major stakeholders. New use cases or new ways of rethinking common use cases come along, and the small libraries that approach it from scratch have a narrowly-defined advantage. If the advantage is significant enough (e. g. virtual dom for browser UI), then new frameworks start being written around them, bringing back some but not all of the features of the older frameworks.

At some point (different for each user/use case) the newer frameworks have enough functionality that people start considering them over the older ones for new projects. When enough of that happens, the older frameworks start looking like yesterday's software.

You're probably thinking of Magic Leap, which is a completely different company from Leap Motion.

Just wanted to say this was an awesome article. I have no immediate need to write a package manager, but it was a great overview of an interesting and tricky domain. Thanks!

That's where I thought they were heading when ChromeOS got support for running Android apks.

I tried this image:

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTY2MjQ2MzAwOF5BMl5Ban...

And it suggested Nick Offerman :)

Cool exploration though!

I believe there's an Anime series around this idea:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetes

"Riding this wave of virtual reality expansion, Rosedale’s new company, High Fidelity, is developing the successor to the Second Life experience."

See also: "minimalist web browser" and the history of Firefox :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox#History

Very cool announcement.

It strikes me that this is a pretty good insurance policy against a poor implementation of Hyperloop being used as an argument against its feasibility. SpaceX/Musk gets to put out a proof of concept track and pod without committing to building the full thing themselves.

They mentioned finger gesture detection (thumbs up, pointing, etc). Maybe that's part of it?

At this point, I just want one of these pay-with-your-phone solutions to win and be ubiquitous.

The current situation is almost comical. "Do you have Venmo? Haven't set that up yet, can you send over Paypal?. No, what about Square Wallet? Nope, what about Gmail?"

Nice!

I've thought about using a pattern generator to set the background image of my IDE/editor based on the current file name. It'd be fun to see if any side benefits come up, such as:

* Knowing immediately/intuitively if you've switched to the wrong file.

* Triggering the context/ideas you had when you last opened that particular file.

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Not sure exactly which way the author meant it, but the phrase "get people acclimatized to salaried work" could be interpreted as including society at large (both the owners/employers and the employees).

My guess is that the people describing it as 2D are focusing on different properties of 2-dimensional space than you are and would agree with you that stacking it would increase the height.

Kudos all around! To those within the government with the foresight to bet on Musk (or those like him) and to Musk for actually pulling off something great with the opportunity.

I think it was the era when we were young and learning about the U.S. in school :)

Presumably that having the resources (servers and infrastructure, devs, designers, researchers, business connections, data, etc) available at the parent company is a bigger incentive than running things yourself (even if you have the financial means to do so).

I think there's two aspects to this discussion that keep getting muddled together.

1. Were the individuals at the companies in question knowingly acting outside their own ethics or the ethics they portray themselves as having? Was there something "sinister" about this?

2. What harm did these actions cause and do we need to do something to prevent such kinds of harm in the future?

A lot of #1 sounds like execs trying to manage the relationships with the companies they worked with. It doesn't sound like there was a big taboo around these types of do-not-solicit agreements at that time, and with all the players aggressively trying to hire and hold onto experienced employees I can see how finding out that a partner company was targeting the employees you were trying to keep around could be interpreted as a hostile/unfriendly business move. The most damning thing I've come across regarding #1 was the email about taking the conversation offline to avoid a paper trail. Would love to read more about the context of that.

I wasn't sure about #2 at first, but after all the discussion I've been strongly persuaded that this is a net negative for the software industry. The lawsuits and public outcry will hopefully create a strong taboo against this sort of behavior in the future, in addition to clarifying the legal ramifications. Is there anything more that needs to be done here?

While the later is certainly much more questionable on the legality standpoint

The author of this post seems to have acknowledged that part was suspect.

Another interesting aspect to rapid growth is to note where the influx of new developers is coming from.

The need for developers is so strong that all the major tech companies are devoting resources to recruiting as soon as developers graduate.

That dynamic could account for a reasonably large part of the age imbalance in the industry. If there was a similar-sized pipeline of recently-trained developers with a more diverse age group than university students the story would likely be different.