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What else is interesting is that if you are willing to migrate to a tablet based workflow then you can get tools very, very close to par with the Adobe suite for less than $100 - and that's a one time buy, not a subscription. If you're not married to open source, of course.

Spend another hundred or so on an Apple pencil and some font licenses and you are flying.

Do you expect a once in a decade (and by some measurements, once in a lifetime) crash to happen twice in the same year, or several years from now? I don't doubt there will be a second wave - the US is by most accounts still mired in the first wave, but I suspect most people probably missed the boat on the "bottoming out" event. Stranger stuff has happened though. Interesting take.

Now I do agree wholeheartedly, but the First Rule of youtube-dl is: You Do Not talk about youtube-dl.

H1N1 in 2009-10 is best estimated to have killed somewhere from 200k to over half a million people - without the widespread global mitigation measures we are witnessing today. So, hard to say now if it will be a death toll that hasn't been seen in a lifetime.

Have been following this library for years. Love it. Favourite projects were some personal desktop apps I did with it in Electron to mangle samples in cool ways for my own music projects.

I still cant bring myself to purchase a Lenovo product because of this, despite the generally favourable reviews I see on HN regarding the ThinkPads. Its just such a revolting decision to me to do that to a paying customer.

I may just put my money where my mouth is and start the break up with Google too, as painful as that will be. I just dont feel like I align with these fucking companies at all anymore.

I suppose the main snag will be pointers. The approach that worked for me was the holistic approach of using C as a way of controlling the machine's memory itself.

In my view, C really only makes sense in the context of manipulating data in and out of the heap and the stack. So once you're past basic syntax, I guess start there: the heap and the stack. When you grasp that, I feel like you can stand on solid fundamentals on how computers work going forward.

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I've been dabbling recently, and as I've said before I'm quite put off by the limitations of Ethereum. As it stands now, it's main use case appears to be the development of new cryptocoins, perhaps voting applications..? And yet, every now and then you come across a nugget of true insight when working with the Ethereum protocol, for instance the gas payments to nodes to run code effectively should stop DDoS attacks since it would require vast sums of money to disrupt the network. It remains to be seen how valid this idea is in practice, but you could look at ideas like that and say, "Yeah, that seems like a step forward."

Anyways, if Ethereum really will become Web 3.0, then comparatively speaking I'd say we're not even in the 56k modem era yet.

Looks like people have already started buying the dip.

I've found the recent discussions around BTC and cryptocoins on this forum incredibly illuminating, from both the bulls and the bears.

I'm beginning to think perhaps there's no point in discussing the fundamental financial flaws of cryptos, or their lack of inherent value. I'm beginning to think their main utility in is meeting a human need that's existed since antiquity - the need to gamble.

As long as a solvent exchange remains, and another ready to come along when it fails, there will always be large numbers of folks entering the casino.

Perhaps the only thing that can stop it now is strict government regulation.

I recently got pretty pumped about exploring developing for the Ethereum network and spent an entire weekend reading everything I could about the protocol, the development ecosystem, language and anything else I could find - blog posts, tutorials, experiences from other developers.

I came away with my initial enthusiasm completely dashed. I can't for the life of me imagine why any sane developer would ever want to work within the constraints of Ethereum. It just doesn't seem to me anywhere near ready for any kind of serious development, or even trivial development for that matter.

I'd love to hear rebuttals to this. Is anyone out there doing anything interesting with this platform?

Could you imagine if Bitcoin was the catalyst for the next economic recession? That would certainly be out of left field.

My guess is the price would fall quite a bit, since the value of BTC currently is largely speculative. Like stocks, there would be a frenzy to turn these risky investments into cash ASAP.

Stranger stuff has happened though. Maybe the value would hold, and BTC really does become the "new gold".

I agree. I wonder how many people are in this same boat. Judging by the strength of this particular marketing push, I'm guessing it's a lot. I've had an Android phone for years now and it's getting a tad too creepy - which is a shame, because I much prefer Google's services to Apple's.