My hot take - this isn’t that much different than English speakers not being able to write in cursive anymore. It’s just not something that’s as practiced as much now that we have digital input methods.
Readit Newsclarle commented on COBOL has been “dead” for so long, my grandpa wrote about it wumpus-cave.net/post/2024... · Posted by u/hardburn
In case anyone is interested...
The SO Developer Surveys give some info on the job market for COBOL as it appears on the average salary versus years-of-experience graphs, which I like as there's as many stories or reasons as you can think of to explain them.
In 2023 there were 222 respondents who averaged 19 years of experience, and an average salary of $75,500. In 2024 the exact number of respondents is not shown, but likely similar based on the color code of the point, but the average experience had dropped to 17 years.
Elsewhere in the graph my favourite open question is: how come the over 2000 respondents mentioning Swift average over 11 years experience in a language that's only been public for 10 years?
2024 https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/work#salary-comp-total-...
2023 https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/?utm_source=so-owned&ut...
iOS development has been around for quite some time now. Most senior iOS and Cocoa developers probably started with Objective-C before slowly migrating codebases over to Swift.
clarle commented on A/B testing mistakes I learned the hard way newsletter.posthog.com/p/... · Posted by u/Lior539
#2 is a slippery slope if you don't do it properly.
You might look end up looking at lots of different slices of your data, and you might come to the conclusion, "Oh, it looks like France is statistically significant negative on our new signup flow changes".
It's important to make sure you have a hypothesis for the given slice before you start the experiment and not just hunt for outliers after the fact, or otherwise you're just p-hacking [1].
clarle commented on EA is prototyping in-game ads even as we speak theverge.com/2024/5/10/24... · Posted by u/leotravis10
Anarchy Online did this before…18 years ago.
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/game-platforms/funcom-massive-...
clarle commented on Varda Capsule Reentry – Five Minutes from LEO to Earth [video] youtube.com/watch?v=qw4Ds... · Posted by u/enderfusion
I have a friend who's at Varda. They manufacture space drugs. SPACE DRUGS!!
https://www.healio.com/news/infectious-disease/20240222/hiv-...
Out of curiosity, what's the benefit of pharmaceuticals manufacturing in space?
Is there a benefit to manufacturing drugs in low gravity environments, or is it more of an experiment to see if it's feasible, in a future where more people might be living in space?
I loved Legends of Runeterra, but I knew the writing was on the wall from the very start.
Bummer considering it was one of the best F2P online TCGs out there (and that was probably also the problem, it's such great value for the F2P playerbase and didn't go as hard on monetization other than cosmetics).
LoR State of the Game Update for those that care:
https://playruneterra.com/en-us/news/game-updates/state-of-t...
One of the things that makes me sad about this is that Sergei and Larry seem so checked out. They were mostly gone when I was there, but I've always gotten the feeling that Google was like grad school because Larry and Sergei wanted it that way.
I get that they've made a ton of money, but it also seems like they really wanted to spend their lives making awesome stuff and doing things like scanning books and making them free. And it feels a bit like the market forces took Google away from them. They put Sundar and a bunch of other McKinsey alums in charge. And McKinsey is, from what I can tell, basically the opposite of grad school.
Whenever I did see Larry or Sergei make an appearance they always looked a little dead inside and like they were just going through the motions.
And from what I can tell, the original sin was taking VC funding. Once they took VC funding, they had limited actual control over what happened to their company. So while they talked in 2004 about not wanting to be a conventional company, and while they warned in 1998 that ad-driven search engines were biased against their users, they still had limited ability to be unconventional in any way that was unattractive to investors. And that includes, in a sense, just being too different. A large company will eventually need to be run by professional management, and professional managers need a thing that looks and drives like a conventional company.
I don't think it's VC funding as much as being a public company, and being beholden to quarterly earnings. That's the cycle for most "revolutionary" tech companies that end up needing to keep revenue growth going each quarter.
For what it's worth, I don't think it's wrong or bad, but just the way corporations work.
I am curious if any businesses operating with the ‘pay Apple their cut’ on outside sales actually do?
Does Apple have the manpower to chase every developer for that fee? Do they really expect to collect it or is it more of a threat?
Any HN people with first hand knowledge of a business paying that fee?
It is more for the other bigger corporations that will have more to lose, and will be flagged via outside auditors, that will pay it accurately.
clarle commented on Ibogaine banishes PTSD, small study finds nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/gmays
I'm not opposed to psychedelics in any way (in fact very supportive), but not having a control group seems non-scientific to me.
Maybe this is the scientific method hardliner / rationalist in me, but to me, without a control group and proper statistical controls, there's no difference between this and say, alternative medicine, such as homeopathy or acupuncture, where people claim there are benefits without a true comparison.
Probably more understandable for Meta, since they've been leaving the B2B space since Workplace has been sunset. Amazon losing out on this is pretty rough for AWS though.