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I'm really confused here. Are you really advocating that PyPi performs some kind of magic on the thousands and thousands of packages that are uploaded to ensure that all their unit tests pass, including testing the type annotations? Can you please give me an example of another languages packaging site with a non-trivial amount of packages that does this, or at least explain why this isn't the developers responsibility?

All you seem to be saying is that "Code should be tested before being uploaded to PyPi", and somehow that equates to type annotations being bad? Again, it's up to the developer to ensure his tests pass (by using a ci, or running tests locally, or even making a blood sacrifice to Cthulhu), and yes this should include a linter to ensure type annotations are correct if they are using them.
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C and JavaScript are suitable for very different tasks, and thus for different clients.
In part the de-mutualisation was driven by the short term gains that could be realised if it happened (at the expense of the long term customers). This led to people signing up as customers, purely so they could vote for this to happen and receive a windfall, so you're right, though it sounds like you thought it was a small number of decision makers at the top, rather than an insurgency of outsiders taking advantage of the co-operative model's democratic structure.
I would say both are beyond the threshold of horrifying. For someone to say these don't exist anymore is mind boggling.
And thanks to mass media it feels like only yesterday...
I like this. I use Ruby as a scripting language more often than Python and I would be happy to see similar additions to Ruby to improve code readability and IDE support (although RubyMine) does an awesome job of warning of possible code problems just using code inspection).

I sometimes wish that one programming language would work for all of my requirements but I keep needing: scripting languages for quickly getting stuff done; practical languages like Clojure and Java, and type strict languages like Haskell (that I would like to use more, but development takes longer).

Looking ahead a few years, the ideal for me would be a loose scripting language that had awesome static analysis tools. So, for example, I would get the safety of Haskell when hacking in Ruby.
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Chinese characters are not 'hieroglyphs.'
A lot of the transformation was caused by those who moved to building societies with the intention of changing them to banks and cashing in on the windfall. They were known as carpetbaggers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpetbagger#United_Kingdom
I think there is. But it could be a gut feeling.

If I look at actual sit in office jobs.. I see something like

Java > PHP > .NET > Node > Ruby...

but if I look for online jobs, I see something like

Ruby > Node > <sharp dropoff> > Java??

Sure it changes by area for the local job breakdown.. but while trying to find a remote job, I sometimes regret being a Java/Scala guy instead of a Ruby guy. (But when my code doesn't take 300 servers to run on due to Ruby perf, I am sure that regret will soon fade).
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It is misleading if you examine the search results.
At first there are only 5 positions concerned on C++ as a primary language, other just mention C++ as an additional skill. The other three contain Visual Studio in description of the job which means that they are looking for Windows developers, and I not interested in development for Windows.

So there is actually no jobs on stackoverflow careers which satisfy the requirements I mentioned in the question.
Thanks for the feedback. I've updated the post
"they should move to Firefox or Chrome because their browser is not safe anymore..."

You are assuming that they have a choice. A large chunk of them most likely don't.
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Luxury items also have more "features." My $1,000 suit fits much better and looks a lot nicer than my $100 suit. My expensive luggage takes abuse easily without losing its great looks.
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Interesting, then, that Amazon is so eager to go to war over TV (by refusing any sales of chromecast or Apple TV). This could end up just being another Fire Phone style blunder, but Bezos' strategy points to a decent counter argument - content is actually becoming king, just in a different form than the console makers have long envisioned. Instead of big budget first person shooters, long form serialized storytelling is increasingly capturing the popular imagination. If Google or Apple decide to draw battle lines here and build studios, Evans argument could look shortsighted pretty quickly.

I think he also underestimates the ability of software to enhance what he dismisses as "linear programming" (sports, live events, etc). Fantasy sports are a rudimentary example - tech and 24/7 access to stats allows fanatics to build a deep, addictive experience on top of the game. Imagine this built into TV apps that can automatically cut between pivotal games across the NFL. American Idol is an antique now, but it's not hard to imagine new popular programming that could handle viewer feedback in far more sophisticated ways than "dial in to vote".
I've been freelancing for quite a while and I think you can find some projects that you can do in C++. I don't think it's easy to find remote work in, specifically, C++ for several reasons:

1 - Companies want cheap productivity developers (yeah :S), it's very common that they force you to use some hype productive new framework/language regardless of what you think about it.

2 - If a company is going to invest in system level development, it's very hard to find another new decent C++ remote programmer. This is a very critical point. If you fire a javascript/python developer you can find another on in a matter of hours.

3 - If a company needs stuff in C++, probably the company is scaling and needs to recode some components. Usually they have the budget to hire decent C++ developers non remote.

4 - Myths like "C++ is for genius", "You can't be productive in C++", etc.

5 - C++ is not trending these days and it impacts the hiring and/or project stack decisions.

6 - Most remote projects are easy shit, you'll be amazed by the quality of projects and, sometimes, the freelancers hired themselves. Most of the time the projects don't need a fast runtime but new managers.

7 - Agile methodology is often used as an excuse to change the requirements every 2 weeks or so, it's not rare to find such management. You need to have the right tools and community to survive such environments. C++ was my 3rd language but I never used it during freelancing/remote work. Today I feel very comfortable using node because I know this kind of stuff happens, and when it does, it's much better to have things like NPM and a big community just to remain sane and keep up with deadlines.

Keep in my that these "reasons" are based on my personal experience as a freelancer. It's possible to find some remote work for C++ but you'll find to try much harder than, for example,a node/python developer. Try to focus on areas where C++ is critical. If you contribute to well know C++ open source projects, it's just a matter of time to get noticed and hired remotely.
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Then conversely, what is it that makes a political or gossip article off-topic? Many such articles are just as fascinating, just as curiosity-satisfying, as this one. (To my mind objectivity and generality is what separates intellectual curiosity from the regular kind; if not that, then what?)
George Orwell noted in 1984 that to really control a population, you control their language - eliminate the words that describe the behaviors and views you disagree with.

Economically, businesses provide "words", degrees of freedom that people exercise when they spend or act. Banking is ugly because there are some "words" we don't want people to use, like derivatives, or over-leveraging. But the banks themselves then use this safety mechanism to eliminate or weaken the words that would threaten them, like cooperative banks.

In the end, it boils down to Congress. The Executive has a lot to say about it too. Perhaps as technology improves we can install a Panopticon in Wall Street and Washington, reducing the cost and risk of regulatory enforcement. And if they protest we can say: well, what do you have to hide?
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$15 million seems excessive. But that's the American dream.
The UK is also a slightly dodgy example because the Cooperative Bank managed to implode in spectacular fashion mainly because the board didn't have many people with any idea about finance, and their Chief Executive, who had a politcial background, ended up being arrested after being caught by the papers trying to buy drugs.
There are some really good examples of building societies over here, Nationwide seems to consistently do retail banking very well. But they are not a panacea.
I updated the post with a link :-) thanks for the feedback!
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I say we stay on DST, then apply DST again and stay on it, then apply DST again and stay on the result, and so on.

Think of all the energy we'll save!
The thing that I remind myself is that you can receive a phone call and get bad news. This will put your body into shock, a physical response such as low blood pressure or high heart rate. Not everything needs a physical impact to have a physical response.
I bank with SF Fire Credit Union. They offer services to any SF resident. They gave me a line of credit, offer mortgages, online banking, free checking and saving, reimbursement for ATM fees. In other words, there is no reason to prefer Bank of America to them. So why does much of SF still use Darth Vader's bank?

Americans have no one to blame but themselves. When I tell people they should divest their savings from BoA, a bank which was directly responsible for massive fraud that caused the housing bubble, they look at me blank eyed and move on. These people have power because we gave it to them.
There are several online banks in Europe that don't have branches.
Interesting looking product - Not really obvious that you entertain remote workers from your website however, you may want to specifically state that.

(Offtopic - do you support non Intel platforms?)
> In fact, ARM may be the dominant processor architecture in the next 10 years.

Are you claiming it isn't dominant now? What kind of chip is in all those set-top boxes people use these days? How about mice?
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> Axel Springer’s boss, Matthias Döpfner, said recently that on the website of Bild, the group’s biggest title, the proportion of readers using ad-blockers fell from around a quarter to less than one in ten when it started forcing them to choose between viewing ads or paying for the articles.

Interesting data point.
As far as I can tell this information is specific to Github and development on Github.

Why is CONTRIBUTING.md important? Its just another file for someone to read alongside COPYING, INSTALL, README, TODO, and perhaps what's in the doc/ directory. And why markdown?

Organising and comments are good but people have been trying to get devs to do that for decades and we're still mentioning it.

"Add an up-for-grabs label" to what? Where? How will people see this?

Adding a githook might be useful on a remote repository but I don't want to run a full test suite every time I commit, ammend a commit, rebase, or otherwise trigger it.

What's NPM? Why would anyone use it over a makefile?

I would extend my first comment and say this is for javascript projects which use Github and only Github.
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Thanks.

re: "those days" — FWIW, those days are still ongoing. The latest OpenVMS release shipped out in June 2015, and the native port to x86-64 is underway.
The number of US credit unions thrown around is a fairly misleading. The majority of decreases in this number are mergers, not CUs being "shut down". A more useful number may be the total number of US credit union members over the same period of time.

The credit union that disappears form the official count usually doesn't see much more than a name change, and adding new services & members. This usually results in better service for both original CUs members; a combination of branch locations, ATMs, and services from both of the original CUs.

I've also never heard of "force them to merge their assets into bigger credit unions". Would be very interesting to hear more specifics about this, if it actually means something more than 'hassle them so much that they find a larger CU to merge into, on their own, just to escape'.
Pretty sure even most people with CS degrees could not configure Linux. It's pretty specialized knowledge as far as I can tell.
I don't really buy that because its possible that the guide causes people to have high expectations and when they don't have a good experience they might blame circumstance or their own taste rather than the restaurant because the authoritative book couldn't be wrong could it? I was also reading in another article posted in the comments about how receiving a star can be life-changing to restaurants and it forces them to maintain the same level of quality, so the award causes positive feedback.
I guess I missed some of it, here's an updated one with the full image: http://paste.click/DsPuSL
In my experience, raising an issue is followed by "okay, so fix it.", which reduces to a previously noted problem.
Search for Basic Structures of Matter - Supergravitation Unified Theory then, its by Dr. Stoyan Sarg

QM is a theory. There are facts and theories and they should not be confused. Who we think the universe is governed is based on theories that are derived from facts. But for nearly all facts, you can find different explanations. It is not that the BSM-SG theory will not provide you with equations that are similar to QM equations, but then they differ in the interpretation for example.

Compare the Atlas of BSM-SG model with what QM provides and you will see, that the angles of the BSM-SG model are much more precise what complex chemical structures look like.

Then, you have many different theories in condensed matter physics, there are models that have no free electrons at all, and they work for their field also extremely well.

i know the spdf hybridisation model, had it @university, still it's a theory not a fact.
Hmm...i like it.
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You're ignoring a very important part of the story: credit unions, unlike banks, are tax-exempt: http://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Document... (see page 2). Those "mutuality" restrictions you note are the trade-off for tax-exempt status. Otherwise, the regulations applicable to credit unions and banks are more or less the same (see pages 1-2).
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Ask HN: Is it possible to find work from home job on Linux/Windows?
Hello, i'm looking for a remote position on Linux or Windows. Is it possible to find a work from home in this field? Thanks.
Thanks, I'll look into it.
"very silly. In fact if you do this, I think you're vapid and I lose respect for you."

You fit Oscar Wilde's definition of a cynic: "a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing".

There's room between Darlington's cynic and Graham's sentimentalist. You may be missing something in being so dismissive.
If your startup cannot afford GitHub i suggest you sell the Ping Pong table
You aren't thinking outside the box, you're just spewing pseudo science about things you don't understand because the real science makes you feel uncomfortable.
>> In fact, if you do this I think you're vapid and lose respect for you.

To springboard off of this comment - you're entitled to this opinion, but why do you feel that way? Perhaps you can be convinced that not everyone who enjoys veblen goods is vapid.

I wear a $3000 watch every day. It's mechanical one that is, from a purely objective time-keeping perspective, inferior to a $50 quartz watch.

But I love watches. This particular watch is made by Nomos Glashutte, a very small watch company that makes minimalist watches with completely in-house designed movements. They manufacture not only most of their watch parts, but also most of the tools required to make those parts.

When I wear this watch I like to gaze at its movement sometimes and hear it ticking away, thinking about the fact that some watchmaker in Glashutte trained for years to make this by hand and finally did so. I also get a lot of satisfaction from winding it by hand.

Finally, though it is an expensive watch, I don't wear it for recognition. It is of a much higher quality from a horological perspective than most other watches in this category (in-house movement, consistent industry awards, beautiful design), but it is simple. It's not gaudy and does not broadcast a name brand that is instantly recognizable, like Rolex or Tag Heuer.

For the same reasons I also love A. Lange & Sohne and Glashutte Original. I encourage you to check out a video with John Mayer on Hodinkee where he talks about his experience of watch collecting - yes he has the token Rolex in his collection, but he also has many that are not instantly recognizable and it would appear that he genuinely loves each of them for explicable reasons.

Now, I can't talk at the same length about a Hermès tie, but I could probably speak at some length about a made-to-measure custom suit versus a bespoke suit, and talk about the differences between Brooks Brothers, Brioni, Canali or Ford (all different "tiers" of suits). It is much easier to enjoy a suit when it fits you extraordinarily well, is made of a very comfortable fabric and has a level of quality to be both attractive and reliable. Further, the experience of going to a tailor is an altogether different one than buying "off the rack." I think this is what the author means by products inspiring a certain "feeling"...it might not be vapid elitism, it might just be affection for hand-made, well-fitting and attractive items for both form and function. In short, it can be art.

I think you might feel that people who enjoy these sorts of things are more like yourself if you gave them a chance to explain their passion.
"software generally should be seen as a lever to solutions that are much more meaningful to customers"

I always assumed that software developers were underpaid relative to the value they create. Now, I worry that it's the designers, more than the developers, who are underpaid and underappreciated.
It's a good first step though. This means that websites can start telling users "we don't support this browser because Microsoft doesn't", etc., and they will die off quicker.
The pedant, polemicist, anal retentive in me would argue that losing just two letters is more economical than scraping a whole word and then inserting a new one in its place but that's just me and my multiple personalities.
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If money doesn't buy happiness, you're not spending it right (and a Lamborghini is probably not the most effective way).

There are certainly diminishing returns, and it's much easier to appreciate a modest amount of money when you have the experience of living on less. And the security of having a large number in your bank account probably matters much less to the kind of person who starts their own business in the first place rather than working for someone else (ironically enough).

But if you spend it intelligently, and don't make the mistake of sacrificing quality of life for it, having more money genuinely can make life significantly more fun.
And how much did overall traffic rise or fall as a result?

That is, how many visitors, forced to unblock but having other alternative sites, will go elsewhere?
I'd ask the same question but with Java. Virtually all the remote jobs I see are Python/Rails/Javascript and maybe PHP.
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Fun talk and really great book. Telling the story from Sega NA's perspective changes it from a history book filled with facts to a underdog story where you can watch as Sega rises to overcome the giant only to come crashing back down. Out of the books I read in the last three years it was in my list of top five and I hope the film comes out just as good.

The movie is in post-production so I was hoping that there would be some questions and discussions about that in the talk, but alas there was not.

The comment about the console wars being similar to Game of Thrones was interesting. Nintendo the reigning king that gets to write the rules however they want and meanwhile you have Sega and Sony both trying to get leftover scraps while at the same time when the stars aligned they each were happy to try to dethrone the king.
@0xexplorer is absolutely correct with both of those suggestions. You need to know where you account is being logged in from (if someone is trying) and setting up 2-factor auth won't allow someone with just the password in.
Change your account password before switching to 2-factor auth. When you do, be sure you first have a q-code reader and google authenticator on your phone. This way you can turn on their code generator as part of the process. Unless you like texts of course, but its up to you.
The "banks writing the laws" narrative is misplaced in this context. Credit unions are tax-exempt. If you remove the mutuality restrictions applicable to them, they would not be "compet[ing] on honest terms" with commercial banks--they would have a major competitive advantage on the basis of their tax status.
Your question is rather poor on data: it essentially says "I'm looking for work" and nothing else. What are your skills? What sort of work are you looking for? Etc.
Axel Springer is not the only publisher that’s taking a confrontational approach to dealing with ad blockers, The FT recently reported. U.K. newspaper City AM banned ad blockers from its website; U.K. broadcasters ITV and Channel 4 have now done the same; and the Washington Post redirects readers to a subscription page, or asks them to sign up to newsletters, or disable their ad-blocking software. Even Yahoo has gotten in on the action, blocking users from their email when they have AdBlock running.

This goes right to the heart of the issue so I felt it was worth highlighting: Who cares if they lock out their content? There are literally millions of news sources on the Internet, all (hilariously) copying each other's posts on what's trending in news, with often amusing (or horrifying) results when the stories are wrong. Oh, I can't read this story on Yahoo? Well I guess I'll just have to pick from the ten thousand freaking other copies of the same information available elsewhere.

We have TOO. MANY. NEWS. WEBSITES. The ad space isn't worth shit because the same ads are being pushed on millions of pages many times over, and the public is so desensitized to them at this point that the click rate is dropping like a safe.

If you work for one of these publishers, get a new job. Fast.
“A Trip to the ‘Caliphate’: Oppressive Justice Under ISIS,” by Omar Al-Wardi
Some soldiers in WWII would go blind temporarily from high anxiety. There are different forms of blindness, some are biological and others are psychological.