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David Graeber is one of those guys who finds a nugget of truth and surrounds it with mountains of convenient and crowd pleasing BS. Everyone loves to hear that their "real jobs" are being cut while the boss that "does nothing" gets to stay, and nobody wants to be told that the "people who make things" are being rapidly replaced by a single "creative" and machines. Of course, all of this "progress" ends up generating a lot of paperwork so we end up with "pointless" corporate lawyers (who, in the article, had a very interesting life and is probably paid quite handsomely) who bitch about not having a philosophically interesting career as if that's some sort of inalienable right.

The true "pointless jobs" are the thought leaders who try to warp political and economic philosophy to their own solipsistic psychological needs by pandering to the baser wants and desires of their audience. Most else is a circumstance of market inefficiencies or people not actually being worth the salary they used to be paid.
I am Chris Wilcox, one of the developers on Python Tools for Visual Studio. I am happy you have tried the product and glad you took the time to provide some feedback. We have some pretty decent GitHub support built in to Visual Studio and our tooling. With Visual Studio 2015 we also have a nifty 'Open in Visual Studio' button added to all GitHub pages.

As for the other things they aren't complete yet but they are definitely very valid suggestions. If you would file issues on http://github.com/Microsoft/PTVS we can track them and hopefully keep you posted on the progress to getting them into the product.
I don't see anything wrong with a mindfulness reminder, but it doesn't take a screen attached to my arm to remind me to stand up and walk away from technology. The guys at Digital Detox recommend you keep screens and devices out of the bedroom for this reason, and to use an old fashioned alarm clock to remind you to do X at a certain time.
I was curious how much radionuclides are in the water. Apparently, "nuclear plants typically release between a few curies and one thousand curies per year of tritium in liquid effluents; releases of mixed fission and activation products are much smaller (in the range from 0.001 to 0.01 curies per year)."[1] For comparison, it seems a glowing tritium keyring contains 0.4 curies.[2]
One thousand curies would be 0.104 grams of tritium.

Also, there is an online database for this! [3] E.g., if I read it correctly, in 2008, Indian Point 1,2 released 0.09 Ci of liquid effluvents. (No tritium in the table?)

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK201991/
[2] http://depletedcranium.com/my-attempt-to-import-tritium-key-...
[3] http://www.reirs.com/effluent/EDB_Main.asp?l=n
A lot of Americans probably are used to spelling it Columbia because there are tons of towns/cities/roads named Columbus or Columbia here. That would unfortunately render your website idea mostly incorrect - for most Americans "Columbia" is the correct spelling of what they are trying to spell. It's really only the country and some towns in Latin America that spell it with an O.

(The reflex spelling probably comes from the fact that most English speakers are primarily familiar with the English spelling of Christopher Columbus)
* If JavaScript is really “the assembly language of the web”, then why does it need all these high-level features?*

Someone should introduce this dude to the novel concepts of "figures of speech" and "metaphors" as he's completely clueless losing the plot.
I came here to say the same thing :).

It's easy to make the argument for switching from vim/sublime + ipdb to a real IDE, but that argument falls apart when you compare a windows-only, good-luck-trying-to-download-it-without-a-windows-account IDE.
Wow, you opened a lot of boxes. Lipkis is actually much more than a guy that planted a bunch of trees. His organization, and a couple of others like FOLAR (https://folar.org), have been changing the way the city of LA approaches storm water.

As a nearby comment mentions, building regulations had been designed to convey rain water to the sea as fast as possible, due to a justified fear of floods. At the micro level, this means diverting rain water to concrete channels (e.g., streets or drainage channels). For instance, when I put in a building in my back yard, I had to install a pump to pump the water from a tank filled by the rooftop gutter into the street, rather than letting it soak in to my yard.

Now, multiply that by millions, and you can see we're wasting a lot of water.

Changing the whole conception of storm water ("collect and dispose of" -> "disperse and soak in") involves changing building codes and city/county/state infrastructure practices.

Because ground water is all externalities, there is no ready market solution.
I didn't know you could NFS over SSH... interesting... Just need a solution for my windows desktop.

https://gist.github.com/proudlygeek/5721498
That kind of assumes that we'll be at these interest rates forever, though.
Why would I want to run a browser that hurt me to benefit other people?
Fair point, but there are some trends in technology that it doesn't take into account.

As technology becomes more centralized, the computing power of your phone or laptop becomes much less important than the power of Google's and Amazon's data centers. Your devices essentially become clients for computation done in the cloud.

Technological advancements generally don't require increases in the client's computing power anymore.
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Many "bullshit jobs" in finance exist only because of legal quirks, and could be eliminated by minor regulatory changes. Finance has about 5% of US jobs. Manufacturing has 7%. We need to get finance down and manufacturing up.

It would be straightforward to downsize the insurance industry. Insurance is complicated because insurance companies want it complicated so they don't have to compete on price. Much to the annoyance of the insurance industry, Medicare supplement policies are limited to 10 standard options, A through N. (There used to be more). So comparing companies means looking at a table of prices vs standard forms. If that was extended to other types of policies, the insurance industry's marketing operations would be much smaller.

Finance could be downsized by imposing a Tobin tax on financial transactions. One takes effect on January 1, 2016 in the European Union. It's 0.1% on most transactions, and 0.01% on derivatives transactions. That's enough to kill the high frequency trading industry and downsize derivatives trading by 90%, based on Sweden's experience.

The excess labor can be reassigned to more productive jobs in the lower levels.
Automation and labour is a question we have a history of being repetitively wrong about. So, its worth treading lightly.

First of all, we use the word “automation” which already implies replicating people. We could just as easily use “tools.” There is a lot of grey area between automation and tools and economically the two are fungible anyway. If we think of new tools being invented, we think of people’s productive capacities being enhanced rather than replaced. Is a combine harvester a tool or automation?

“There is no fundamental economic law that guarantees every adult will be able to earn a living solely on the basis of sound mind and good character.”

I think this is a good thing to be pondering. Our modern economy, our political philosophies and I think most of our ideas of how society works kind of assume that every adult with decent character is be able to earn a living. This is why living wage debates get people so fired up. The rug gets pulled out from under all our political ideas if this doesn’t hold more or less true.

Overall, I think this paper goes down the right track. Historically, demand for stuff has been remarkably elastic. We can consume a lot of stuff. Automation is essentially tools for producing more. We have good historical examples of the workforce becoming more sophisticated to take advantage of these tools and continue being useful.

I do think it could be dangerous relying on the historical analogy, because as the quote above suggests the is no rule in economics that makes this necessary.

I do see a couple of avenues to worry about.

(1) One is the vaguely Marxist one: labour & capital. Automation is capital. It accumulates in ways that concentrate wealth. If the 99% thing we are seeing now is indicative of a long term trend dictated by technological progress… Marxist conflict dynamics may well play out in some way. Growing wealth gaps create social-political instability that’s hard to avoid.

(2) The pace of change. Technological progression’s effect on everyday life is moving very fast. The digital divide thing is real, way more than it was ten years ago. I recently spoke to a woman (about 40) who has never really had a computer that couldn’t get up to speed in hospitality work because she couldn’t leaner the software and its quirks fast enough. Workforce skills keeping up with technological progress is part of the process. But historically, this has been something schools could lead because the pace of change was generational. These days the rate of change is revolutionizing occupations much quicker. That could leave a lot of people behind.

I think demand elasticity will hold We can keep consuming more. I think the problem is in the workforce’s ability to keep up. There are plenty of potential jobs today, if the skills were available. I think if we got a 100% increase in the number of skilled programmers of the caliber that Google and FB are fighting over, the economy would absorb them pretty easily. Same for a lot of professions. The problem is that the skill sets required keep getting more sophisticated. That means inflexible labour markets.
Oh, someone using GitHub issues as a blog. What a special snowflake!
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And then you're right back into the great micropayments hole. No one has "figured this out", in part because of the real-world payment logistics, and and I'll pose another part: because it's a bad idea from a UX standpoint.

Having to make a decision about whether to tip/donate to what would rapidly become nearly every site on the Internet would be a terrible user experience. "Decision energy" (aka willpower) is a scarce human resource; this would be an unparalleled waste of it.

I wish there were a great alternative to ads as well, but I believe action-required micropayments will always be a non-starter. The best we've got so far are tools like Patreon and Bountysource's similar system. These can be viewed as a kind of "preaggregated micropayments", which eliminate per-click decision making via a user-configurable subscription.

> the browser might "protect" monetized pages in some way

It's already possible to disable copy on web pages. Some blog themes do this, and I wish browsers would just unimplement it entirely. This is right up there with lame DRM schemes, in that view source (or else curl) are still going to work. Likewise, bots will be completely unaffected. Such an approach merely annoys users with legitimate needs (e.g. who must to look up a word or phrase), but will have zero impact on content piracy.
At first thought it mean that it was going to be a company with a ".io" domain name...
Given that any resouce you can think of is bounded, no, it is impossible.
Google somehow manages to escape their own browser settings. I set the Chrome flag to 'Do not track', but when I go to their site settings I have to additionally disable tracking.
With AA text on a normal-DPI LCD screen, it never feels like I'm focussed on the screen properly. With no hard edges and no sharp corners, my eyes can't seem to find the right setting. Whatever I do, it just always feels slightly wrong. Blurry edges just don't make me think that something is smooth - they make me think I haven't focussed properly. Drives me nuts.

I wouldn't mind so much, but over time people seem to keep taking the option of a pixelly display away, and when anybody complains, they're told they don't know what they're seeing through their own eyes.

Fortunately, AA text + retina display, I like, because the pixels are too small for the blurriness to be visible, and things look sharp again. So roll on more of that please. (High-DPI, I mean. Not AA. We have more than enough AA to be getting on with.)
What are the natural limits? Do you mean natural resources?
Don't forget the only documentation is a printout someone remembered they had in a drawer.
I remember moving to a new office building in a new city a few years ago and puzzling where to find the recycle bins for the complex. I started asking around and I think I ended up calling the city and discovering that the city murfed[0] all its collected trash.

Ever since then I assumed all recycle bins were just a courtesy interface like the close door button on an elevator and that because everyone does such a crappy job sorting their own trash (I know I do), it all went into the same truck and ended up at a MRF.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materials_recovery_facility
You may not have to choose. Xamarin?
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We're not satisfied yet. That's why the CARB exists, to keep working the problem.
And here's me still trying to figure out what the hell it's good for ...
In Portland, OR the recycling pamphlet provided by the city specifically requests that caps be removed from plastic and glass bottles before recycling.

I still see plenty of caps on plastic bottles in the bins, so at least here it's a case of "doing it wrong".
This would have been great during my grad school compilers class.
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There's a third one, in which I believe - that bullshit jobs provide negative value by using up natural resources and man hours that could be put to a better use.

A typical example would be political campaigns and/or advertising in highly competitive sectors - all work done there serves only to cancel out the work done by other people, thus creating a negative feedback loop that can consume infinite amount of resources for little marginal gain. Think about how much time, paper, paint and fuel is wasted printing leaflets and billboards and notice that if everyone collectively agreed not to do this, the results would be the same.
Not currently, that is what this case is about.
@levelsio built 12 startups in 12 months as a one-man show AFAIK. Here is his website: https://levels.io
Amusement and surprise are in fact different emotions.

In general the utility of SJW as a label is strongly attached to the fact that the community in which the label originated is not one people wish to be associated with.
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VS Code is much closer to sublime/textmate/atom than it is full Visual Studio... It's actually kind of nice to work with, but is emphatically NOT VS.
Go also has a precise garbage collector, by the way.
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Will you allow custom domains? Do you allow SSL?
I can buy both yours and TeMPOraL's [0] argument, which I think are roughly saying the same thing. Thanks for the well-reasoned response.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10000123
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We're small startup building a whiteboxed dispatch system to sell initially to taxi firms, we are a distributed company and work 100% remotely, 95% of costs are wages, we have no VC funding and pay our own way via revenue. We offer a paid trial month. As for the product we've found "market-fit" and we're now iterating towards a robust scalable finish.

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I personally would like to work with someone who employs TDD pragmatically and writes clean maintainable code. Who is widely read, possessing a depth of experience and able to bring ideas to the table. Experience building, operating & testing distributed systems would be a massive plus.

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Heh... it orginated as a self-label on tumblr. When their toxic behavior became well known it became an insult.
Yes, for example. Any resource you can think of.

Be creative: unbounded exponential growth would mean, for instance, that at some point in the future the global yearly energy consumption would be higher than what E=mc^2 suggests for m=mass of the earth.
I know he emphasized biotech in the blog post, but I got the impression that he would assist general startups that incorporate some kind of hardware in their product. So it could be biotech or something like Anki or the Myo armband by Thalmic.
I tried, but it said the post was too long. Even the above post was significantly shortened to get it to work.
Natural resources, Earth's capacity to sustain our growth, and later on, speed of light (unless we break the FTL, there's only so fast we can expand our economy). Every exponential growth in physical world (as opposed to mathematical theory) has a limit at some point.
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We're looking for an experienced Javascript developer who is very skilled with PhantomJs/CasperJS(preferably) for creating and maintaining a web scrapper.

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By Javascript, do you mean node.js?

Interesting about your Redis issue. I've found it to be reliable. Could you email me? (check profile) I'll try to help troubleshooting. The job sounds interesting, but troubleshooting is more fun. :)
Repute is what people think of you in the aggregate. It doesn't make sense (at least to me) to say "beyond repute." On the other hand to say that something is "beyond reproach" is a standard phrase indicating that no reasonable person can find anything to disapprove about the thing. Perhaps you're thinking of "beyond dispute."
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What about "GDP is detached from the production of hard physical goods and services that satisfy human needs."???

I won't go as far as to claim that Economy is a pseudo science, but like many other disciplines it uses words that are already in use by the general population and redefines them to mean technical concepts. The end result is that economist can make statements that are technically true but that end up conveying a completely different message when listened by a lay person.

In this case, when an economist talks about "productivity", it has a very specific concept in mind. One that has more to do with ROI than with the manufacturing of any thing of value at all. Of course, both concepts are not completely detached from each other (it would be useless to grab a concept to mean something random instead), but they are not 100% aligned either, and this results in misunderstanding, if not actual misleading. By example, when some troubled company talks about "increasing employee productivity", naive employees expect some sort of training program to help them be more effective at their jobs. What they get is a pink slip instead; if productivity is ROI, you can lay off half of your people and use the company's momentum to keep turning 80% of the income, so on paper it will look like you are having better ROI (even if the cuts get too deep and are damaging the long term viability of the business).
We have a rockstar programmer.

No, really. He put out CDs and all. Technically he's a former rockstar I guess, but close enough. He rocks.

We still lack a ninja. We have been unable to find one who could do low-level programming and get a US (not Japanese!) security clearance. So far we've had to settle for Nerf dart skills, which really isn't up to ninja standards.
American is unambiguous in English because in the English speaking world there is no continent called America and no one uses the term American to mean they are from the western hemisphere (in English that is).

>Googling around shows I'm certainly not the only person using the term "USian".

You're not, but nearly everyone using it is doing so out of some desire to avoid a non existent controversy. It's also used so rarely that you'll often run into people who've never heard the term.

In addition, it's very difficult to pronounce and will therefore likely never be widely adopted. Do you say "you-es-ians" when speaking?

It's a very similar situation to Australia. There is more than one country that is part of the Australian continent, yet people from the Commonwealth of Australia unambiguously refer to themselves as Australian.