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by api 9y ago
Hmm... yes I can see that perspective from long-time residents. Thing is I grew up in the Midwest in the 90s-2000s and SF always felt like a global mega-city in my mind up there with New York and London. That's how I always pictured it
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by api 9y ago
I had a room like that in the 90s with early PC gear, modems, and electronics.
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by api 9y ago
LA/OC and SF are global mega-cities full of people who seem to want to live in small towns in the country, yet choose to live in global mega-cities. It's weird.
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by api 9y ago
The West Coast has the worst case of this disease but it's a widespread problem especially in cities. Look at house prices vs. median income across the country. Normal is considered 3-4X. 5X is considered high. Today above 5X is the no
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by api 9y ago
One of the things that bothers me about the ICO world is that even those ICOs that are not scams seem to mostly be trying to boil the ocean. I see a ton of massively over-specced ICO projects with huge road maps about how they are going to
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by api 9y ago
You're right about my first statement. Was a bit of a thinko in that it's talking more about the conditions that lead people to choose Electron in general than responding to Qt specifically. As others have pointed out in this th
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by api 9y ago
I totally agree. Modern UIs with support for themes, complex interactions, multiple screen and pixel formats, and every language spoken by Homo Sapiens since Gobekli Tepi was built are large and complex. It's not avoidable. That is the
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by api 9y ago
Ask yourself why more people don't use Qt: (1) With web technologies you can write once and run everywhere including mobile to some extent. Writing a UI multiple times is monumentally expensive. Even huge companies don't like to d
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by api 9y ago
Every recent new app I can remember installing in the last year is Electron. Native UI is dead. It's more work and all it really buys you is the privilege of being tied forever to one platform or having to code your UI multiple times.
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by api 9y ago
Rents are set by market supply and demand, not arbitrarily.
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by api 9y ago
Personally I think we should just go for the first one, which is why I didn't mention anything else. Proposition 13 limits should be for owner occupied residences only. This would go a long way to fixing the financialization of real es
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by api 9y ago
> Eventually the only people left in the Bay Area will be executives and really high-paid lawyers. I don't think that's sustainable. This is called working your way so far up the supply chain that you pop off the top and fall o
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by api 9y ago
Innovation is expensive. All innovative efforts burn tons of cash until they don't. Nothing new is ever profitable until it reaches a certain critical mass of optimization and adoption. Arguments of this form amount to arguments that w
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by api 9y ago
At this point I'm strongly in favor of the nuclear option: a state-level proposition to implement uniform pro-density zoning reforms. It should also include at least a selective repeal of proposition 13 for non-occupant residences and
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by api 9y ago
GitHub seems active. Lack of a big community can be explained by the language's role as a domain specific embedded language and it simplicity.
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by api 9y ago
> It’s an odd place. This is the most bullish thing you can say. An odd place is special vs. the rest of generica.
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by api 9y ago
This is wrong. It isn't (usually) about inlining. It's about avoiding system dependencies and complicated builds, which makes it an ugly hack to work around the sad state of C/C++ system dependency/package management.
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by api 9y ago
Total grandstanding. The block chain is from everywhere. Nobody even knows where Satoshi, its inventor, is actually from though US, EU, or Japan seem most likely.
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by api 9y ago
The last part about value for customers is optional for as long as there are deeper pocketed investors. Given the concentration of wealth at the top that might be a long long time. I also edited my comment to mention user monetization, whic
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by api 9y ago
Your last paragraph is no longer really correct. The largest rewards have for some time been going to equity plays and financial schemes. You don't build a company for customers but for the next round of investors, and your product is
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by api 9y ago
Good, and thanks for correcting, but he poor compared to Zuckerberg. All the latter did was riff successfully on the already established social media concept and then sell out his user base more brazenly than competitors.
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by api 9y ago
Yes, but I don't think it is intended to be used to build huge systems.
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by api 9y ago
You don't even need such extreme cases. Companies that are insanely successful are generally not the ones that innovate the most and rarely are they founded by inventors. Not only is Tim Berners-Lee not rich but Netscape failed too. Me
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by api 9y ago
I don't think democracy is about increasing intelligence so much as resilience and escaping from failure modes. It provides a way to get rid of bad leadership, and it makes certain that huge issues are hard to ignore. In a pure autocra
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by api 9y ago
Found this while looking for good embeddable languages and it looks almost too good to be true: fast, relatively modern, secure, potentially concurrent, lightweight, ... seems like it's got everything but a pony.
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The Wren Programming Language(github.com)
164 points by api 9y ago|30 comments
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by api 9y ago
Housing can go down too. It's gone up for a long time because of incredibly low interest rates, foreign buyers, etc., but there have been very long stretches of time in the past where it went down and it may easily happen again. All ki
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by api 9y ago
The market may be saturated. There are lots of cities already and many of them have affordable homes. Why found a new city when you could move to Cincinnati, Lexington, Pittsburgh, or Cleveland? If you want really cheap housing you could mo
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by api 9y ago
This is why I don't take the CPI seriously as a meaningful measure of inflation "on the ground." A key inflation metric that misses the major expenses of most people is IMHO borderline fraudulent. From what I've seen inf
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by api 9y ago
If the Flynn effect is real there should be a right skew and vice versa. A skewed distribution is what directional selection or any other directional population shift looks like.

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