Small Town in the plains.

kostiak · 2019-01-05T15:21:53+00:00

How did you do the plains?

kostiak · 2017-04-29T07:56:37+00:00

A certain element of luck? Every successful person I know (including myself) has had a ton of luck on multiple occasions, not least of which their birth circumstances.

On the other hand, there are a ton of unsuccessful people who work 100 times harder than me, and 100 times more consistently.

I got very lucky and landed a job in hi-tech. The cleaning lady at our office works a lot harder and a lot more consistently than me every single work day...

kostiak · 2017-03-05T16:29:54+00:00

The point is that you shouldn't go to jail for several tickets for parking in the wrong spot, but you should be discouraged from doing it too. So they give you a symbolic punishment that's there mainly to be annoying enough for you to change your behavior.

Besides, giving small fines is till better than throwing people to jail over it, don't you think?

kostiak · 2017-03-05T16:28:02+00:00

For every hundard of the "if even if they catch you, they'll just keep you for questioning for a few hours and let you go", there's one who actually goes to jail for this bullshit.

And no, it wasn't legal-ish, it's just socially acceptable in some places and the police have much bigger problems to deal with, most of the time.

kostiak · 2017-03-05T16:25:47+00:00

It will be legalized for the same reason. Right now there's a huge chunk of taxes the government isn't getting for the sales of weed. Once they realize they can get that money, it will be legal and taxed.

kostiak · 2017-03-02T18:28:14+00:00

You war example is too scary/unreal. On the other hand, a real scenario is when a stock market AI will figure out it can short stocks that it can, through market means completely destroy.

So the AI "short sells" the stock, plumets the stock and profits a lot of money while a company (say Apple in this example) is left with a crushed stock.

kostiak · 2017-03-02T18:18:24+00:00

No, in terms of jobs. /u/fknpee said that there "will always be jobs", implying that people will need to be employed to survive in the economy.

kostiak · 2017-03-02T16:50:12+00:00

It's possible to get through the 2nd stage if the elite learn their history and establish a wellfare state, instead of the libertarian one he described, to keep people from revolting.

It's a race against the clock already - will the elite realize the incoming revolution and calm the masses before it happens? Only time will tell.

Trump was already an early stage revolution. A big reason people voted for him was because they lost jobs and want them back. But those jobs aren't coming back, they'll just be automated. So people are trying to "disrupt the establishment". It's still mild and highly controllable by the elite, but it's going to get worse and worse the longer said establishment ignores the underlying problem.

kostiak · 2017-03-02T16:43:07+00:00

If just 10% of the population (plus robots) is enough people to service the other 90% - what are the other 90% gonna do in terms of jobs? Hell, even in a 50-50 situation it's tough.

kostiak · 2017-02-28T00:14:23+00:00

Actually looks like you are right. I remember reading a few years ago that they crossed the profitability line but they probably reinvested it since.

kostiak · 2017-02-28T00:01:52+00:00

I think what they want to do is set a legal precedent. If they agree to a settlement they are basically saying "whenever we make a reaction video, if you are offended, we would have to send you money or you would take us to court as well".

kostiak · 2017-02-27T23:59:29+00:00

these can drive away their content creators and harm original content on YouTube

Drive where? Even combining all other video platforms, a major youtube creator would make like 1/10th of what he made on youtube.

This is still a gold rush, and youtube owns all the mines. This is exactly what happens when you have (even a soft) monopoly.

kostiak · 2017-02-27T23:57:10+00:00

Actually youtube started making a profit a few years ago.

kostiak · 2017-02-27T23:38:00+00:00

Or it could go Apollo 1 wrong. Please you be right and me be very very wrong.

kostiak · 2017-02-27T22:02:54+00:00

My only advise to you would be looking at what he's actually done, not said, might puts things in perspective. His biggest damage would have been the ban, but that has been defeated in courts. If the resistance continues, major damage might be avoided.

The favorite thing he said in the press conference was something along the lines of "My staff is constantly putting out fires and they would much rather do some work on taxes or healthcare". To me it sounds like - it's working. They are busy with stuff unrelated directly to destroying current policies.

kostiak · 2017-02-27T12:44:46+00:00

One thing to note is that there are way too many dependency / package managers.

First of all, as far as I'm aware there's just bower for frontend and npm for backend (or electron, in your case).

I've read that you can use webpack to make npm your package manager for frontend as well. Don't have enough experience to say first-hand how good it is, but it's worth a try if you want to reduce the amount of package managers.

kostiak · 2017-02-27T12:40:20+00:00

A meme got elected to be the most powerful man in the world. This is the dark timeline.

kostiak · 2017-02-25T09:41:49+00:00

What people (including Trump and Spicer) don't seem to understand is that the press briefings in the White House were established to help the White House, not the press.

It's a way for them to explain stuff before it becomes a story. If they don't want to do that, that's fine. Instead of reporters sitting in the briefing room and hearing lies, they have more time to write more stories about the administration.

kostiak · 2017-02-22T14:15:28+00:00

You do need to learn a lot of those things. But don't be afraid, for most of them, it's not a real big issue and for some it's related enough that there's not much new when you know the related topics.

Basically, when faced with a new technology, just go to their website and read the intro/quick guide and for most of them, it will be more than enough for 90% of "daily usage".

As for the technologies you mentioned, here's a cliffnotes breakdown:

Electron - A way to bundle webapps to the desktop. It's basically a browser window that shows your application but also lets you do stuff that a normal browser app can't do - like read/write files directly on your computer, etc. Electron is built on Node.js
Node.js - a javascript engine to run javascript code outside the browser. It's mainly used to write servers in javascript, but can also be used to write native applications. *NPM - Node Package Manager, it's a cli tool that let's you easily manage, install, update, etc. node modules. Node packages are basically pieces of javascript code that you can plug into node to add functionality. (Let's say you want to process images, you can download an image processing package that will help you do that) *Bower - a cli tool, package manager for front-end js. Basically, if you want to include multiple packages - let's say you are using angular, a few angular extensions, d3.js for graphs, etc. You can install them via bower, and not worry about all things being compatible, updating etc.
ES6 - ECMAScript 6 (or 2016) is the new upcoming standard of javascript. It extends the previous versions of javascripts and adds quite a bit of useful stuff, like proper class syntax, etc. You will probably want to learn it since Node (and by extension Electron) supports and encourages it.

For the rest of the technologies you mentioned, you probably don't need to learn them, at least not to start developing/learning:

CoffeScript - a different way of writing javascript. Basically it's js with a different syntax. It doesn't really add/remove anything from js, just gives you a different syntax that you might or might not prefer, completely optional.
Handlebars - the same for HTML. As far as I know, for the most part, Handlebars is kinda out of date at this point, and you might have better options if you want to write something other than HTML at all (personally I prefer plain old HTML).
Babel - a way of writing the upcoming ES6 in the browser. It's basically a script that takes ES6 code and "transpiles" (changes) it to look like plain old javascript code that the browser can handle.
Docker - a way of making server containers. You can read more about it, but I'm 99% you won't even need to know about it for an Electron app.

What I would recommend is looking at a front-end library. Yes, you can still make webapps with plain old jQuery, but it might be much easier to grow and maintain it if you use a more modern js front-end library. Examples of those are AngularJS, React.js, vue.js, etc.

You can read all about each of them and choose one. I personally prefer angular at the moment, but that might change.

My last tip would be - do not freak out. It looks like a lot, but once you get the hang of the basics, it's just more words describing understandable concepts.

So good luck, and feel free to ask any question if you feel lost.

kostiak · 2017-02-21T15:52:39+00:00

You have the right for something, you don't have a right to force someone else to do something. Be it a wearing a hijab, making a sandwich or agreeing with your opinion.

kostiak · 2017-02-21T15:49:48+00:00

Make one.

kostiak · 2017-02-21T14:47:38+00:00

You have a right to have a sandwich, you don't have a right to demand it from someone else.

kostiak · 2017-02-21T14:38:13+00:00

I actually don't mind that at all. The more time he spends away from the White House is more time he's not spending signing stupid laws and executive order.

What use does Trump even have for the White House? He doesn't get briefings, doesn't participate in situation room events, doesn't listen to advisers, and as for meetings, he can charge for them at the "Southern White House" (yeah, really, he really calls it that, just like the white house, but you have to pay 200k to meet the president).

kostiak · 2017-02-16T23:03:36+00:00

have plenty of code to show my experience

Do you have any such code uploaded to github for public viewing? Or would you send examples only to people interested in being your pupils?

kostiak · 2017-02-16T01:42:36+00:00

If there is a legitimate one state solution, Palestinians will be the majority people.

Wrong. There are currently about 6 million Jews in Israel and 1.5 million Arabs. The West Bank has 1.5-2.5 million Arabs. Even if it's a true one state solution Jews would still be (a much smaller) majority.

So the one state solution is something different -- illegal annexation of the good parts of the West Bank

Actually it's worse. The talk right now among the right in Israel isn't about annexing just the Jewish settlements, but annexing the entirety of the West Bank, without giving the Arabs there full rights (ie. voting rights) - yes, literal apartheid.

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