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> Well, sure. Hand-written assembly is also identical to compiled code

I mean when you convert the template<type> statement to the #define statement with the hypothetical preprocessor, it would be the same as if you had written the same code using #defines originally. They are functionally interchangable. If this satisfies generics in your mind (I don't think this describes you, for what it is worth), then standard C macros are more than sufficient to cover all the cases you would want, albeit less pleasant to type.

> I don't think macros are a satisfactory replacement for generics, no. I don't know how I seemed "excited" about it.

Consider your previous post misinterpreted then. It read to me like you thought the hypothetical code was theoretically different and solved problems with the previously provided macro, even though it was the exact same macro in both cases. The only difference was the slightly different syntax. Which, I might add, anyone can fairly easily add something similar to their Go code if they really wanted to.
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> the first real question to be asked really is, why does everyone need to commute to the same place in the same time?

Schools (K-12) are one of the biggest drivers of why at the same time. Schools start and end at specific times. This (usually) requires one adult to be around to drop them off and pick them up at school or the bus stop, especially K to at least early middle school. Because of this a lot of people in (sub)urban areas leave from home and from work around the same time. The difference in traffic congestion is drastic when you compare summer to the school year in larger cities with no meaningful mass transit.
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I read somewhere on wikipedia that Japan did some research on nuclear weaponry but concluded it's not feasible.
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Or even the word socialism
Former railroad tracks. Duh.

Land ownership often reflects where railroad tracks were. When the tracks are removed, that doesn't mean that the land becomes part of the neighboring lots.
6 Challenges for Startups in South East Asia
Programmers are worth $0 because programming isn't a job. It's not even a skill; rather, it's more of an active literacy.

Asking how much you should pay a programmer is like asking how much you should pay a telephone user, or how much you should pay a pencil user.
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As I understand it, the goals are to provoke overreaction and sharpen the conflict. And so to radicalize supporters, and build support among potential allies. Except for the violence aspect, the strategy is not all that different from nonviolent resistance.
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Not many of the issues with the shuttle were related to the electronics, which (in general) worked okay. They also didn't weigh all that much, so your "savings" wouldn't be worth it.
I'd like to buy a copy because so many pages are missing in this PDF
A Retrospective – Responsive Design
After reading the article, I can't see how this discovery cast doubt on Adolf Hitler suicide story.
The skull fragment may tot belong to Hitler, but that has nothing to do with the possibility that Hitler committed suicide.
It only shows that the soviets were wrong to think that the skull fragment come from Hitler.
The death rate due to mass shootings in the US is much lower [1] than the death rate due to homicide, so I was trying (unclearly) to imply that since the latter is so low as to not be worth worrying about when deciding whether or not to work in the US, then the former must also not be worth worrying about.

[1] By one or two orders of magnitude, depending on whose definition of"mass shooting" you use [2]. Mother Jones maintains a list, and theirs says that there have been 4 mass shootings so far this year, with 37 deaths. The Mass Shooting Tracker says 353 so far, with 462 killed.

[2] http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-san-bernardino-mass-shoo...
Or a wanker.
Technical writers, human language translators, lawyers, and many other professions are primarily about "active literacy" as much or moreso than software developers.

Do you feel they are all worth $0 too, or just programmers?
At one point in history, knowing how to use a typewriter was itself a marketable skill, because few actually had access to one and knew how to use it. These days, most people in the developed world know how to type, but still only a small portion know how to write programs. Saying that this is worthless is silly at best; someone is willing to pay someone else to turn their ideas into code, so it must be worth something.
If you need someone with programming skills and are willing to pay them, and someone with those skills will work for that amount, that's the price of a programmer. Asserting that the skill is worthless doesn't make sense as long as people will pay for it.

Even if you just consider it a form of literacy, scribes absolutely were paid to do their work before literacy was as widespread
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New open-source license plate reader software lets you make your own “hot list”
You will still need to compile to ES5 to support older browsers.
The screenplay for The Hunger Games has value. A shopping list also has value. However, their values are very different.

Sure, each was created by a pencil user. But they don't actually have anything in common, so asking how much money pencil users 'should' make doesn't even make sense as a question.
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I have insider info that BP developed a yeast strain that was gangbusters at digesting cellulosic feedstock into glucose, but the program got killed when they shut down their san diego operations earlier this year.
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People don't pay for "programmers" they pay for people to make products.
Killing unarmed people is orthogonal to masculinity.

In general, I think more sympathy with these mass murderers, from those not directly affected, would be a better idea than labeling them as "evil".

While I would not make the same decisions, it's important to realize that the refusal to understand a person's POV contributes towards isolation. That's an important component we don't recognize.
Only if you are forced to define your "code points" as UTF-8. Maybe due to some dependencies. But it is usually the opposite, dependencies tend to limit you to ASCII if they ever.
I see what you mean. 38.0.5 was a special marketing release to promote Pocket and new Hello features. You can see on Mozilla ftp server that the version numbers of the 38.0 patch releases jump from 38.0.1 to 38.0.5 (leaving room for any emergency patch releases of 38.0.1):

https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/

38.0 was released on 2015-05-12. 38.0.5 then sat in the Beta channel for two weeks of testing and then it was released on 2015-06-02:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease/Calendar#Past_branch_d...
> Programmers are worth $0 because programming isn't a job.

Programming absolutely is a job. Its a thing people pay people to do for them.

> It's not even a skill;

Its absolutely a skill.

> rather, it's more of an active literacy.

Literacy is a skill. It becomes less of a notable skill when its common enough (near universal) in society, fading into the background. But programming absolutely isn't that common of a skill.

> Asking how much you should pay a programmer is like asking how much you should pay a telephone user, or how much you should pay a pencil user.

You might have a case if you were talking about a "computer user" rather than a "programmer", but as it is, that's just silly.
For years, from one job in the bay area to the next I worked on products that never made any money and ended up being canceled. Even when I worked on a project that ended up making money I spent a year working on a version that was rebooted from scratch before customers ever saw it.

At a couple of startups that never took of afterward I could clearly see the impact that code I wrote was making on sales and value. It wasn't very much.

I'm not sure why people pay me so much, but I'm glad they do because I get to do what I love (programming, not not shipping), and I get to live off of that at the now rare and fading middle class standard of living.
Oh, whoops! I mistyped. Didn't mean to mention LLVM.

That ARM64 stuff is pretty messed up though.
Those of us on Apple platforms have been using modules for a while now.

They help a ton because an imported module has a pre-baked interface, not a huge set of header files that get copied and pasted (from the compiler's point of view). You cant break the module's header with a funky macro either.
As always, prices are determined by supply and demand.

A price is too high if the buyer can find the same thing (another programmer considered to be an equal hire, in this case; people are not commodities so this can be difficult to evaluate with absolute accuracy) for less. A price is too low if the buyer cannot find the same thing for even an equal amount.

The price is just right, at that moment in time, if there is a mutual agreement between a buyer and a seller.
Nobody cares about your political motives; kindly stop ransacking the web accounts of people more intelligent than yourself.

This man, "yanazendo," has hacked the Gmail account of some guy, and is now sending idiotic messages harassing people.
naming is important, specially if you want to associate something with something else, for this case: islam with violent crazy people who kill everyone, so ISIS/ISIL will associate these crazy nuts with Islam.
it is like calling Americans, Western Christian Gun Owners or WCGO. do you still think it doesn't matter what do you name it?
Not sure if trolling or not.

Anything has value as long as someone is willing to pay for that. Simple as that.

Is a Van Gogh painting worth 50-100 million dollars? It is if someone pays that much for it.

Nothing more. Nothing less.

If you think programmers are worth $0, then that's your prerogative.

However you must surely be typing these comments in a computer programmed by yourself, using an OS and reading it in a browser you wrote from scratch, otherwise why pay money (that ultimately will arrive at the pockets of the programmers) for something that is worth $0?
Article is from 2006 (or 2002? there are two dates). Is "Lights Out" lighting still used today?
Can confirm this. Using latest Chrome.
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Location: Chicago
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Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: R, Tableau, SPSS, SQL, PHP, Adobe Analytics, Google Analytics + APIs
Résumé/CV: on request
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I'm a digital marketing strategist with a strong focus on data analytics and paid media optimization. I'm also very interested in growth and b2c/b2b customer acquisition strategies and conversion rate optimization. I'm currently working for a big agency in downtown Chicago but I'd need a new visa beginning 07/15.

I have a tech/dev background, very much interested in moving back to a startup. Expertise is mostly in travel, ecommerce and automotive.

email: b297py@gmail.com
Which problem is solved by this (in Python)? ;-)

try:input()
except Exception as e: print e.offset
People write a lot about how much programmers should make. I think there's a couple of sides to the discussion which the author mixes together instead of separating out by stakeholder. (i.e. he discusses opportunity costs for all stakeholders instead of discussing a specific stakeholder then talking about her opportunity cost). Someone could probably come up with a pretty robust framework or model for individual companies and individual programmers and look at how those interactions play out over a repeated game.

But there's a pretty simple rule in a competitive market: prices are set by the next highest bidder.
If I've got five years' experience writing, say, front-end JavaScript, I can reasonably call myself a programmer. A company that wants to develop software in C for embedded microcontrollers might reasonably advertise for a programmer. But my value to that company is approximately $0, because I can't (in a reasonable time frame) do the things they want done.
Most of us who read Hacker News already know this, but it is important to keep publishing and reinforcing the message for everyone else!
in fact here's one I just stumbled on: https://www.google.com/maps/@33.8424464,-118.0499788,14z

See that giant diagonal from the top left to the bottom right that spans the length of the map?
This was discussed:

> The implications are clear: Owning books in the home is one of the best things you can do for your children academically. It helps, of course, if parents are reading to their children and reading themselves, not simply buying books by the yard as décor.

> “It is a big question of whether it’s the books themselves or the parental scholarly culture that matters — we’re guessing it’s somewhere in between,” said Mariah Evans, one of the study’s authors and an associate professor of sociology at the University of Nevada, Reno. “The books partly reflect intelligence.”
Iran calls Afghani,Iraqi and Syrians brothers and sister in distress too. still UNCHR should shows how many are displaced and where moved, regardless of what hosted country is calling them. visit UNCHR, I am wondering why there is no report yet for 2014 and 2015?
18 million was the estimated population for North America alone. So, yes, the population drop has been in the millions. the Trail of Tears alone would cover half the 30k. U of OK did a lot of the research.
Copying the 2002 strategies of Anonymous doesn't make you a hacker; it makes you a loser. Stop using hashtags; this isn't Twitter. It's clear you love being addressed as a terrorist organization, but you're just some script kiddie in a basement who's about to have his internet unplugged.
How did this guy get into YC with his startup? Hands down troll of the year with this comment.
Lakka is based on OpenELEC. Does this mean that it should make as good a media player as OpenELEC?
Mathematics of PCA
It's still bad for you, at least according to the references cited in this Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatrical_smoke_and_fog#Adver...
I think you have a specific framework for viewing things, but you are being deliberately obscure rather than just elucidating your thoughts, and so I think the downvotes are just. What would happen if you exercised clarity? Bad things?

You are saying that a pencil user isn't worth anything, but you also recognize that a pencil user can write a script. You feel that it is the script which has value, and not the pencil user. So I suppose you're saying the programmer isn't worth anything, but the program is worth something.

That's one lens to view things, but it's also a gimped on its own. One should have multiple lens.
And then there's the rest of L.A., which is a mess even without former train tracks. The first thing you notice in L.A. is that none of the streets go anywhere. You're driving along, and you won't go more than three blocks or so on any given street until... there's a house or school in front of you. It's pathetic.

Then you have a city like Chicago, with a very sensible layout... but destroyed by NIMBY assholes and the aldermen who pander to them by ruining streets with "speedbumps."
Come on, don't feed the troll
Spanish galleon may contain biggest treasure haul ever found on seabed
I think a lot of wars, murders, suicides, as well as a great many companies, inventions, organisations, movements happened at least partially to avoid embarrassment.

In such cases, people prefer terms like "honour", "principle", "fear of failure", "perseverance", etc.
Why did I just implement this in Swift?
https://github.com/harlanhaskins/Base65536.swift
I completely agree with you! I have tasted the Tesla fruit and have absolutely no desire to have anything to do with an ICE car ever again. I'm a long time Porsche lover and I used to dream of owning a 911 in the flesh. Now, not so much. In fact, on the same day that I drove the Tesla I visited a Porsche/Audi dealership and found myself not even caring about their cars at all. I found them bulky, small, and uncomfortable. It was truly a sad day for me, until the Tesla guy said "You wanna drive one?" That changed my life. :)
I had something similar - I learnt a bunch of spanish when I was in high school, then moved to india and learnt a bunch of hindi. And when I tried speaking spanish again after learning all that hindi, I found I couldn't articulate in spanish, only in hindi. I would think of something in spanish, and then out of my mouth would come hindi. It was funny and puzzling at the same time
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Does anyone know of some resources for implementing PCA? I need it for some research regarding graphics.
Yay I cant wait to test this out
Genetic engineering of humans will be a public issue much bigger to our grandchildren than what the environment is currently for us.
The same objection applies to translators -- which is why people talk about the languages one is literate in for both professions when hiring.

But it's not like there's much dispute that being a translator is a job.
Getting into YC doesn't guarantee someone isn't a douchebag.
Google and Facebook are factor-11 dollar values (11-zero decimals, aka, hundreds of billions of dollars). The typical programmer will make a 6-zero revenue in his life time. You can create 11-digit value, only if you pick the subject by yourself. A non-programmer has never in history been able to pick an 11-digit subject. Only programmers can create half a trillion dollars in value.
"We kill people based on metadata." - former head of the National Security Agency Gen. Michael Hayden

“metadata absolutely tells you everything about somebody’s life. If you have enough metadata, you don’t really need content.” - NSA General Counsel Stewart Baker
> Bars and pubs were more attractive when they were filled with smoke...

A while back, I had occasion to re-visit Alabama to see friends and family. At that time in Alabama, bars and pubs are free to choose whether or not they prohibited indoor smoking. (I've no idea what current regulations are regarding the same.)

In bars that permitted indoor smoking, the atmosphere was a horrible eye irritant. My clothing reeked for a week, or until I washed it -whichever came first-.

Back in my college days, I didn't see what the big deal was. Then, I moved out to a place that prohibited smoking in indoor public places. It took that change of perspective to understand how much nicer I find an environment that is not saturated in tobacco smoke.

YMMV, of course, but I expect that I'm far from the only one who holds this opinion.
18 million is the max with other estimates being much lower. That's certainly not a fact. And the only source for deaths on the trail of tears is the US government which gives 4000.
For example, here's something pointless I threw together combining d3-shape, d3-scale and react-motion: https://jsbin.com/mehata/edit?js,output
Not just Unit 731, but a lot of America's rocketry experience was imported wholesale from Nazi Germany. We are talking 1500 scientists, technicians and engineers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip) including Wernher Von Braun, the designer of the V2. Indeed , Von Braun had been advocating space flight since the very beginning- all the evidence suggests that his tryst with the Nazi weapons program, was merely in order to further his ambitions for human space flight.

Where would America be in the space race, had they not done this? I think in hindsight, it was a pretty clever decision - these people were probably the most valuable war bounty America got out of the whole deal.
I'm not convinced that the traditional automaker can even produce a solid electric car. All attempts so far have been very lackluster and not something that I would purchase. Tesla came to the table with something completely new and different; they are not a car company that is pivoting, they are a technology company making cars.

Competition is a great thing and I'm looking forward to the benefits it brings (lower price, faster innovation, etc.) but I'm just not sure that Ford, Toyota, BMW, Porsche, etc. will be the ones that provide it. I think we might be looking at a sea change, like 100 years ago when all the carriage coach manufacturers tried to make cars. They will try, but the new upstarts will beat the pants off of them.
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> A non-programmer has never in history been able to pick an 11-digit subject.

Yeah, no:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Oil
People don't pay for people to make products, they pay for people to make them money.

People don't pay for people to them to make money, they pay for people to build wealth.

People don't... wait I have to throw up. Will be back.
All of this assumes that you will work for someone else who will monetize the platform that you build. That's not how you create Google or Facebook valuations. The first rule is that you must decide by yourself what platform to build. Someone without hands-on knowledge of what exactly technology allows to build, cannot do that properly. The second rule is that you must monetize the platform by yourself. If you break these rules, you will never make serious money.
Zesty (YC W14) is hiring a Director of Marketing to make humanity healthier
I've seen two competing philosophies of how to determine pay.

First, you can find a large pool of candidates, learn the typical wages in your market, and make offers pegged to the average (with some offset). You will learn what fraction of your offers are likely to be accepted (maybe shoot for 60%), and adjust accordingly. This works if you want to hire a dozen or more people over the course of some months.

Alternatively, ignore price, look for candidates, and when you find the right one, open a negotiation where you determine what price they are willing to take. If you need to hire a small number of specialists, this may be the best way.

I have also experienced failed recruitment schemes, such as ignoring price until the end but then pitching a "fixed budget" (which sometimes means "political limitations").

You can choose which method to use every time you hire. Great candidates may also be choosing, and you know which model they will cater to.
That's precisely it. And it's been the same reason for the last few decades. The level of security in software won't change significantly until the cost of writing insecure software exceed the costs of writing secure software.
The labor market for programers in the tech industry has two features (anecdotally observed) that are interesting to me:

1. Labor does not receive (or insist on) percent-of-value or percent-of-transaction compensation. This is in contrast to some other professional disciplines (e.g., salespeople often get paid on a percentage or commission, bankers often take a % cut, pe / vc / hf has 2% and 20%, real estate is on a %, lawyers may get paid on a % ("contingent fees"), etc.)

2. Initial salaries are good, but there is wage stagnation. Just-out-of-college salaries for programming are often better than virtually everything else (notably, banking and consulting); but after ten years, the opposite is relationship is reversed (considerably so). The difference between a newgrad salary and a 10-yearer salary for tech-industry programmers is often (in my anecdotal experience) less than 2x. In contrast, 5x or more is not unusual in other fields.
Ask HN: Some interesting that could be written on C++
I would like to develop an open source cross-platform application on C++ that could improve my CV and skills and would be helpful for lots of people. Something like BitTorrent or Blockchain client, but not this cases.

Any suggestions?
Thanks for putting the source up [0]. I need to work with leaflet.js and mapbox so this will be a useful reference.

[0]https://github.com/baudday/crimestream