I'm so grateful that Uber exists, precisely for those places where those alternatives don't really exist, and so the choices are trying to bum a ride, or god forbid, driving drunk.
You could just not get drunk...
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Arizhel commented on Uber Posts $708M Loss as Finance Head Leaves wsj.com/articles/uber-pos... · Posted by u/praneshp
The problem comes in when people expect professional level music, but insist that musicians should all do it for love while also supporting themselves with a day job. Professional level anything takes significant time and effort. If it has value to others, people should not object to the person providing that value capturing some of it so they can keep a roof over their head.
Sometimes, the answers aren't as simple and easy as we wish they were.
Professional musicians these days earn their living by going on tour and selling concert tickets and merchandise (esp. T-shirts). The biggest ones are quite profitable, and the concert ticket prices I've seen lately are rather high ($50 to sit on the lawn, $200+ for seats, for one big concert in my area).
The problem is getting to that level where you have so many fans that you can fill an arena or even a smaller venue.
Arizhel commented on Interprocedural optimization in GCC kristerw.blogspot.com/201... · Posted by u/matt_d
Web browsers are astoundingly complicated. They generally contain multiple JIT compilers, a database engine, sophisticated rendering code for 2d and 3d graphics and fonts, video and audio codecs, support for a variety of network protocols, graphical debuggers and development tools... the list goes on. And they expose all this to arbitrary applications downloaded from the internet while attempting (and mostly succeeding) to maintain your security and privacy and remain backwards compatible with 20+ years of legacy content. At a target frame rate of 60 fps.
Browsers are, when you think about it, pretty damn amazing.
Taken as a whole, sure, but all those things you refer to in a browser are components, probably developed by different teams or even reused by entirely separate projects. By that measure, a modern Linux distribution is far more complicated than a web browser, since it includes a kernel, compilers, multiple web browsers, codecs, etc. The Firefox browser, for instance, I believe uses the SQLite database, so you can't claim that the Mozilla devs created that complexity, they just included it.
I think a compiler is different because you can't break it apart into separate projects like that. All the parts that go into a compiler are really only useful for that compiler, not as common pieces of "infrastructure" that can be used by many disparate larger projects.
Arizhel commented on Going for the 5 hour workday code.krister.ee/going-for... · Posted by u/kristerv
"Also, having a happy relationship and having kids are at odds with each other, so again you have to pick one. Either have kids and look forward to divorce and child support or at least a miserable marriage where you dread coming home from work, or find a partner who doesn't want kids and enjoy spending time with her."
That's a very dark line of thinking, and I'm sorry your life has led you to believe that is the case.
It's absolutely possible to have kids and a happy relationship, just as it's absolutely possible to not have kids and have a happy relationship, or have kids and a miserable relationship, or not have kids and have a miserable relationship.
Also, it's possible to have a middle-class lifestyle with kids; difficult, but possible. Living in the middle states of the US, with an in-demand skillset relative to the area you live in, and a semi-frugal mindset- it's absolutely possible. In San Francisco or DC? Not so much.
>It's absolutely possible to have kids and a happy relationship, just as...
Oh, I completely agree it's possible. Plenty of people do. But what are the odds that you'll achieve this? IMO, not very good. Considering the divorce rate, and how many kids grow up with divorced parents these days, I think the odds are actually against you. I think it makes perfect sense to avoid a situation that has a greater-than-50% chance of horrible failure (and given the struggles I see my single-parent friends going through, I don't think I'm exaggerating when I use the word 'horrible').
>Living in the middle states of the US, with an in-demand skillset relative to the area you live in, and a semi-frugal mindset- it's absolutely possible. In San Francisco or DC? Not so much.
Yeah, as with anything, YMMV. But if you're a software engineer or similar (as is probably rather common here), you're not going to do well in the middle states of the US; there just aren't many jobs there, and they don't pay that well, and you have the problem that if that job doesn't work out, you now have to pack up and move because that was the only such job within commutable distance. So we're mainly stuck in high cost-of-living locales (and to be honest, I've lived in both, and the lost CoL places have their own problems, such as lots of very conservative people and policies, making them not a lot of fun to live in).
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Arizhel commented on Going for the 5 hour workday code.krister.ee/going-for... · Posted by u/kristerv
Yes... I was trying to say, wouldn't it make more sense to work more right now so you can save for when you do have children. Because, like you said, you'll need the money more later than now, and you'll want to spend more time at home than you do now. i.e. if you're like most people, you'll be less excited to work, and will do it more out of necessity than desire. So why not plan accordingly.
It's not going to be enough, that's why. Sure, you can work more right now to try to save up money, but making 30% more money now isn't remotely enough to make up for how much those kids are going to cost.
On top of that, you have to remember that you can't have kids by yourself (at least not easily, if you're male): you need a willing partner. If you're working your ass off to save money for kids, that means you're either letting your relationship suffer because you're at work all the time, or you're missing out on opportunities to find a partner. And the older you get, the harder it is to find a good partner (really, you need to find her in college; if you haven't found her by age 25, you probably won't).
All in all, our society simply isn't set up to have an enjoyable middle-class lifestyle and have kids. You need to pick one or the other: either be poor and have kids and struggle financially, or enjoy a more financially comfortable lifestyle and forgo having kids. Also, having a happy relationship and having kids are at odds with each other, so again you have to pick one. Either have kids and look forward to divorce and child support or at least a miserable marriage where you dread coming home from work, or find a partner who doesn't want kids and enjoy spending time with her.
It's little wonder that the birth rates in developed nations have fallen so low.
This is the biggest cop-out of a reply. I hate it. OP has already stated:
>I pay them. My work pays them.
Github is raking in oodles of cash and they STILL can't keep their service up without going down, quoted from OP, "[e]very couple months".
It's not about "making a better one", nor is it about paying for the fancier/premium features; it's about the uninterrupted service, which Github keeps failing to provide.
I fail to see what the problem is. If you don't like their service, then switch to a competitor, or just set up your own git server. It's like this for any vendor: if you don't like the product or service you're getting, you can either bitch and complain endlessly, or you can look for alternatives. One of these choices is more productive than the other.
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That is mass production you are talking about. But there are a lot of people who build their own special purpose devices, and all the alpha/beta testing happens with manually soldered hardware, since prepping a machine for just 10 boards is way too expensive. For that reason even in production many of these devices are at least partly manually assembled to save money. We are talking 1000+ devices to make machine production profitable. Many devices don't have that many customers, at least until the next set of hardware is there.
>But there are a lot of people who build their own special purpose devices,
Those are called "hobbyists".
>and all the alpha/beta testing happens with manually soldered hardware, since prepping a machine for just 10 boards is way too expensive
This is absolutely wrong. You can't manually place BGAs with any accuracy. I work in an R&D environment; our electronics are custom-built in-house at very low volumes, and they do use machines even for a one-off. Some parts can be fixed manually if they didn't get reflowed right, but BGAs cannot.
Even if you're doing boards with nothing smaller than SOICs, even there it's simpler and easier to just get a Kapton stencil and use solder paste, though you can of course pick-and-place with tweezers.