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> How is optimized production different from efficiency?

Erm, this is a well known general trade off. Driving 55mph vs 80mph on the highway - the former uses less fuel for the same distance, the latter gets you further in the same amount of time.

> How is growth unsustainable?

If something is growing, eventually it becomes constrained by some sort of limit. If the expectation is that it is continually growing, hitting a limit means that it has "failed". Both of these general juxtapositions are quite common, so your picking apart of them seems quite defensive rather than understanding.

> Keynesianism has nothing to do with private debt or private spending habits, nor weekly work hours ... I don't know why Keynes would have anything to do with this.

Which is it - are you sure Keynesianism has nothing to do with them, or do you not know?

When interest rates are low (or nonexistant, like the past 6 years), people are discouraged from saving in cash. If they have a significant surplus, they budget month to month and put the surplus into opaque long-term "investments" (retirement fund at the wall st casino, etc). They don't perceive the cash value and treat the account like a lock box, so they base their spending power on monthly income rather than savings. Their utility curve remains fixed (they need that monthly income), giving them less bargaining power with employers so their wages remain low.

> An economy without growth is by definition zero-sum ... that someone must lose for another to gain?

Zero-sum is an awfully strong term, given that we're talking about production rates. Durable goods stick around - if a person receives 1 house/yr for a single year, and then someone else receives that 1 house/yr instead, are you really going to characterize this as "zero-sum" ?

In general, it seems that you're conflating production with the integral of production. This is a general theme of Keynesianism, given that it is explicitly about maximizing output by maximizing work. Given that the major economic phenomenon of our time is robots taking over historically human work, we should probably rethink this goal.

My point regarding deflation is that what happens in the tech sector is just a more pronounced version of what should be happening everywhere. Prices may rise in the short term (eg a discontinuity from depleting a source of a natural resource), but in general market competition should cause all prices to be trending down in the long term.
Uber competitors didn't exist in Europe before Uber did. You are talking about actual "sharing economy" like the french carsharing service but thats a very different thing.

Airbnb didn't really exist either you are talking about things like Novosol that functioned as a middle man apartment renter.
>With python, there is tons of libraries such as Numpy and Scipy for scientific computing,

I do remember early on when this wasn't the case. Especially when comparing it to Matlab or R. I was discouraged by one professor from learning it. But time has proved otherwise. Julia will likely be the same.
Reminds me of the hackathons where "BizDev's" show up and expect to find someone to create their app.
This is only enabled in incognito mode? Is there a way to (about:config?) to switch it on all the time?
Which begs the question, when people are willing to commit their children to this kind of super-intensive training regimen at such an early age, why on Earth are they doing it for games or music and not something (if you will excuse a crass way of saying it) useful?

Imagine a physicist or mathematician or engineer tutored in their discipline from age five! And imagine if those were as common as the little kids one sees dutifully going to piano practice every afternoon. The world would look very different.
How is it cross-site if the cookie is first-party?
I have no knowledge here, but it seems like even if you're going on a suicide mission, you might want a plan B. If there's some reason they decide to postpone, he might need the passport.
If someone is able to build with a tool something that a developer would build with code, they are practically a developer (especially if the market starts to identify them as such). Your hiring needs and classic dictionary definitions notwithstanding. Could it be that programming is being commoditized and we don't want to accept it?
The article gives one point of view. The argument seem to imply that, this free internet is worse than no internet at all. I am not sure I buy into that yet.
What I do think will be great is if the Govt of India and internet.org can quickly iterate over this plan, see what is working and what is not working and come up with regulations.

Mr. Mahesh made a comment about something that Comcast wanted to do was outlawed - which is essentially regulations. I think if India can quickly iterate and regulate with this new internet.org, that might be the solution to the problem.
I seriously doubt that there is one that works well for C++ development. Even if there was it would only work with thier own server and I wouldn't have control over updates. I simply want more control over the tools I'm relying on than what they'd provide.
A degree carries much weight in London. Developers with negligible coding skills and a degree sail past those with skills and experience but no degree. It's quite bizarre. I guess the companies who hire that way don't know any different, and no one can be accused of taking a silly risk if something doesn't pan out.
It it is not about a dedicated site for libraries, but more because CRAN is huge and covers most data analytics needs.
So this is what Steve Ballmer meant all along
How many genders? Do the genders follow some logic? (all things are neutral for example?)

Do they decline depending on the case?

So, probably harder than English
It's not enough to compare to the past and present. It's necessary to consider the future. Giving people free Facebook and calling it "internet" might make them a little better off now, but at the expense of the long term. It creates a path dependence issue where the better future of full access to the Internet is less likely to be obtained. This cripples their potential, and hurts others already on the Internet who could benefit from communicating with these newcomers.

Consider a utilitarian analogy. Suppose people need to see a benefit of 10 "units" before they are motivated to do something to obtain the benefit. Free Facebook might have a benefit of 6 units, which prevents people from reaching the activation energy to seek out the 15 units of benefit from true Internet access.
So, someone who is studying compsci and maintaining an FLOSS project would be at the top of your list?

Well, sadly that doesn’t help finding a student job that I can do in parallel to studying :/
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I find it fascinating how obsessed people are with titles.

Edit: I code, but I honestly couldn't care less what someone else calls themselves. If I'm interviewing them, they'd have to prove their abilities in the relevant code right then.

If we're just having a conversation, most disciplines are different enough that you have to explain many things from the bottom up anyway.

Backend developers lead entirely different lives from frontend developers, and both lead entirely different lives from low level developers. Game developers or data science devs similarly work nothing like anyone else. So why does it matter that someone calls themselves a Wordpress Developer?
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Hmm. Does that mean anyone who makes a spreadsheet is a developer? What about photoshop users?
That's debatable. I have to think of situations like one I saw in the news recently where some hero decided he should shoot an unarmed robber in the mall. I think there would be far more situations like this if everyone was packing. People aren't always very rational and if every time a major conflict breaks out the guns come out you are going to have a far bigger issue than the occasional terrorist attack. I'm not saying I don't agree that well trained individuals shouldn't be able to carry and provide safety to everyone around them, but I don't think the grand majority of the populous would be willing to put in the time to have this kind of training. Even if everyone has a gun, handling a terrorist in a crowded space can be a very tricky ordeal and you could easily have people killing each other with crossfire if everyone is trying to take them out.
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Taxis. When I hop into a German cab and want to be driven home, it always costs me the same amount (plus/minus variable waiting times), cab drivers generally don't fuck you over with the routes, the cabs are in perfect technological and optical conditions (BOTH are mandated and controlled by the government)...
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What is the advantage of targeting go for a new language project? Could you explain about why this made sense for your project?
> Whell I'm bad at playing politics. I don't see why teamwork should be important for an open source project.

Well, mostly because you often get issues where you, as a team, have to make a decision.

Do we decide to support this specific feature, even if it increases our maintenance cost by a lot?

> I'm pretty curious if there actually are open source projects that are in need of beginners.

There are many projects. A good way to start is by trying to fix some tiny things that annoy you personally, use your changes yourself, and try to get them merged. This is useful as (a) probably others had the same issues, and (b) you have already tested the changes somewhat by that point.
I kind of agree with Zaidf, in countries like India it might not come as quickly as you think. But I think FB and Indian Govt should be given a chance to iterate over this plan, see what works and what doesn't and then regulate again. Iterate and regulate...
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Do you know how much effort/time it would take to spin up a "play.kashmir", similar to "play.golang"? If it is minimal, it could be one of those items that really lowers the barrier to entry into the language.
Oi! it's fixed. :)
Spreadsheets, and Excel in particular is a type of gateway drug for people to become developers. First they put in a few numbers and see things happen and before long they are writing small scripts in Excel to automate. At some point they could at least be called an Excel developer.
Those who title-inflate do so at their own peril; doing so selects for employers that have poor ability to hire competent people.
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The OP's sentiment runs the risk of alienating people who would potentially be interested in pursuing a more "traditional" software engineering or development career. I am not sure that is ultimately a good thing.

I guess as a technical community, there are at least two forces at work here:
1) The community wants to be as inclusive as possible - get as many people to code as possible, because it is good for everyone to be able to contribute, even if it is using a higher-level tool/abstraction that does much of what we would do writing code by hand manually; and/or
2) The community wants to distinguish itself clearly based on skill-level at some level of core competency or abstraction.
This reminds me of Australia's startup scene too: it's become something of a "game" with accelerators, advisors, incubators and even stranger things, often lead by people whose business experience (let alone tech startup experience) would be politely described as thin.

It's definitely a case of form without content, and no-one should be surprised if the results from such an ecosystem are less than stellar.
1. Uber competitors existed – although those were usually financed by the Taxi companies.

2. AirBnB competitors existed in the way that you could rent your apartment to others via such services. Renting out private apartments was standard for decades and centuries even.
> the same position every group who wants to wipe out another groups claims.

I have no clue where you read that I want to "wipe them out".

That's interesting. If you read my other comments you'll see I have zero interest in wiping them out. For some reason people like to read "kill them all" when someone says we need to deal with them once and for all.

I don't want to kill them, I want to never have them be a part of our world by means of segregation. Total segregation. They obviously hate the western way of life. OK, well, wish granted!

In other words, give them a place to live where they can live by whatever rules they care to live by and be as crazy as they want to be. They --the crazy's-- don't get to live in Paris, New York, Munich or Tokyo. The get to live in their own little part of the world and we sever all contact with them --in or out-- for 200 years. They don't get to benefit from anything the western world and cultures they so despise has to offer and we don't buy anything from them, including their oil. Closed borders, have a great time with your crazy ideology, live long and prosper. Done.

I don't want to kill them. We don't need to. I want to give them exactly what they want: A place and the isolation to live by their rules. We just need them to not be a part of our society in any way.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10568450
I can relate to this. A few years ago, as a young student that have invested time to learn PHP, MySQL and the inner workings of WordPress Themes and Plugins I found that people who didn't even know HTML where filling the local freelance market with prices I can't beat.

I ended-up offering higher prices for custom solutions (that took me more and more time) finally it reached the point where the highest price I could ask for (as a 20y/o student) wasn't worth the time invested in each project, and I quit freelancing.
It's only on in private browsing by default. You can switch it on all the time by setting privacy.trackingprotection.enabled to true in about:config.
This is a context thing. As OP depicts, in this context developer means someone who codes. A WordPress "developer" may call herself a "developer" just fine in the right context, but when used in places where the OP is coming from, the word does not contain the expected information.
> Most homogeneous groups in history seem to either arise from a founder effect or maintain their homogeneity through dehumanizing tribalism and Incredible Violence.

Or isolationism. Like how Japan essentially kept its borders closed for centuries.
depends, you can do some powerful things in spreadsheets

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocnliT7iHtI

You can also script photoshop, so if you are actually "developing" for photoshop then I would say yes although that would be certainly an unconventional way to join the trade.
The members of the finance department at my work are definitely programmers. Their spreadsheets define exceptionally complex functionality and they even work a bit in VBA. When Excel is no longer powerful enough they write a little bit of SQL and run it through a Data Connector. Dismissing what they do as "not programming" is incorrect. We call programmers who only know how to glue vendor APIs together "developers", so we should extend the same professional courtesy to people doing a similar level of programming.
Frequently modifying or cancelling 10b5-1 plans is itself usually forbidden under insider-trading policies, precisely for this reason.
The one that he'll buy with the money he makes when he sells his Facebook stock? Let's just say it's a really nice one.
I've heard professors suggest it before so it's always possible that they find out about it that way. It's probably also helps that the default $EDITOR for many systems is vi, so students using the terminal or ssh might turn to nano as an alternative.
Related and recently posted to HN: "Designing for Productive Failure in Mathematical Problem Solving"

http://www.manukapur.com/wp40/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Cog... (PDF)
My (vague) understanding of the phenomenon being discussed is that it was discovered that, in some of the proteins involved in photosynthesis, the electrons were passed around via multiple, quantum-entangled pathways. This allows (supposedly!) better energy transmission than classical physics would.
(I assume you're Benedikt.)

This is beautiful work. Especially the write-up. I think we all understand the urge to code, but your desire to take the next step and describe what you've done is fantastic. Thanks for the gift.

This reminds me of those optics tables you see in museums, in the hands-on section for kids. Where they'll have a table with a rectangular inset, and in it will be light sources and prismatic pieces of Plexiglas that you can move around. You see the light tracing paths and scattering.

I've played with these setups and find them disappointing. If these museums instead had tables with touch displays, they could run software like yours. Of course they could also run other apps and anything that runs on a phone, so maybe that ruins the whole "this is special because it's in a museum" feel.
You can't terminate or amend (or even start) a plan without a cooling off period. So any information you'd like to act on will likely be priced in by the time you can take any legal action. Also, you can't have two plans. A modification requires a suspension of all trading.
Now it is easy to try ATS online as Xi (ATS creator) has added compilation to js capability (the compilers also run in js via Emscripten).
Other than that, they're different things. It's like the difference between lxc and lxd.

See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrHW7Vvbie4 for a demo of what lxd can do. Maybe that will clear it up for you.
I've long considered London to be nothing more than a giant PR exercise. Of course the prime minister is an ex-PR guy, so a connection wouldn't be surprising. I'm not sure it delivers on the image it projects in any respect. Except the new trains that have started on some lines - nice to have room to breathe when you're stuck on a track waiting for a signal failure. Even the new double decker busses with the aero fronts. What's the real difference? Nothing. In fact the new appearance doesn't even last beyond the front of the bus which is what people see when it approaches - the rear of the busses is unchanged. So we don't have impressive new busses, we have busses that look, upon first glance, from a specific angle, as though they are. Everything is careful illusion. People buy into perception. Look! We have silicon roundabout! Seriously?
Of course the community wants to be inclusive as possible, even if it means appropriating titles they have no business associating with.

Like a former salesperson at a startup with a few months of fumbling around with jquery documentation who calls himself an "engineer."
One more thought - I am not sure we want to go down this route, but organizing into professional trade organizations (I hesitate to call it a union) could provide for "licensed/certified" software engineers/etc. to help distinguish.

I know we have plenty of professional certifications, but I don't know of one as general as this which exists yet and has any true merit. I think the IEEE was working on something like this.
Unfortunately, in medium to large organizations titles matter for responsibility and compensation, much in the same way what school someone graduated from matters.
Nah, come on, ne is obviously better! :-P
Yeah, exactly. "It just needs implementation. I'm an idea man."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkGMY63FF3Q
Which web IDE would you recommend?
Taxi companies are regulated which means there was there is a limit to how many taxi drivers are allowed. Uber doesn't have such a limit and is thus undermining the market. Uber is planning on replacing all drivers with automated cars, how many taxi companies you think are working on that right now?

What you are talking about is car-sharing which is something Uber also does but not what they do mostly.

With regards to Airbnb. If airbnb ish companies existed before why didn't they then outcompete airbnb? Why is Airbnb fighting fights and not European rentals.

Anyway we are getting away from the main point which is that american companies dare take up a fight with legislation very few european companies if any do that. Because of reasons I mention in the essay. Tesla, LendingClub, KickStarter and so many others have had to find ways through the legislation system.

US companies just have a better culture for challenging incumbents and legislation. A much richer culture for lobbying and so on.
On HN you don't down vote when you disagree. You put a coherent argument forward to say why you disagree.
Actually, I think the main page is directed toward those scientific users who create their own custom projects and/or libraries. This also goes back to your earlier point in that early in a language evolution you need more library and package creators so you can have a broad ecosystem for the more day to day programmers. One example of this need, is the creator of the fftw library (a cornerstone fft implementation in C) wrote several popular packages for Julia. I think there's a talk he gave at the 2014 JuliaCon.

In this regard, multiple dispatch is actually a huge selling point! I've written in Fortran 90 code, C, Python, and enjoyed most of those languages. There is something unique about being able to pull up the source code for almost every operator/function in the language, implemented in that language. Fortran has this, but is much more statically oriented and difficult for quick scripting. Python, well I'm hopeful pypy keeps building momentum. Or perhaps Pyrhon ported to web assembly, in more pure Python.
> If I were to make a judgement from looking at that.

I'm reading anyway

> You were not motivated enough to finish school.

You might not know what the school system is like in france, and you don't know me either, so don't jump to conclusions.

> on how other employers might view you

You seem like a PR person, and I don't really like it. I has its importance, but I don't think it matters to me or should matter to my existence.

> You can give an employer too much of an intimate view

I got nothing to hide, I like to be honest. Points up for creepiness. If an employer wants to be politically correct, it's his problem.
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It's just a matter of misconfigured terminal databases. I wrote some years ago a Linux Mini-HOWTO about it, I wonder where it is now...
great read but lots of inaccuracies.
>If someone is able to build with a tool something that a developer would build with code

If they could actually do this, yes it would. But they can't actually build something that a developer would build with code. If someone can't code at all, they can use WordPress to build a very small subset of what a developer can build with code.

A person who spend 30 seconds setting up a blog on tumblr is able to build something that a developer would build with code, but again it's just a small subset.

Now if that subset is all you need then it's fine to hire WordPress admin instead of a developer. But the term "developer" has a current meaning, and that meaning is analogous to "programmer".

That being said, language changes, and developer could become another meaningless job title like engineer (in some countries), and people will have to use another term for someone who can code.

There are ways to prevent this, in some jurisdictions they limit the use of titles like Engineer.
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title is only important if recognized by a client. Clients have no clue of underlying technology for the website or application they need, in most cases. But they often know 'WordPress' or 'Drupal'. You want a client? You have to call yourself 'WordPress Developer'. Never seen a client for website or application, who wanted to be aware of C++ or assembly skills of potential contractor.
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