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Knowing nearly nothing about military culture in the US, let alone other countries, it would be interesting to hear a similarly well thought-out argument from the Egyptian side. I'm sure through their eyes our military culture must seem inferior. Otherwise they would have changed?
It would be great if they could publish the live subtitles they produced for all the talks too, so they could be read as (close enough) transcripts.
It would discourage innovation for a lot of reasons, and one is that high earners would move to other countries.
I'm not at all familiar with Python enough to know the answer to this question -- why are there no unit tests for Pymux?
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DEFCON,and CCC are the best imo
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Not as much an actual language/dev conference, but I'm excited to go to Microconf, billed as "The Conference for Self Funded Startups."

http://microconf.com
CCC for sure. There is no other conference like it.
Most wealth doesn't come from "wages" or salaries. It comes from inheritance and increasing value of assets.

Many high profile CEO's are worth tens / hundreds of millions but take $1 salaries.
> First, Google and Apple have nothing to do with personal wealth, they are corporations.

When Steve Jobs returned to Apple, he made it far more productive, and he was personally paid to do so. If his personal wealth was capped he may not have found it worthwhile to do this work that he was clearly exceptionally qualified for.

> Maybe these are people who would be innovative no matter what and our system happens to reward that with riches.

You can only believe this if you believe that people (or just "innovative people") are not even slightly motivated by money, which is clearly absurd. I certainly believe that people are motivated by many things besides money, however at the end of the day money is what gets you many of the things you want. I know that I personally am much happier to work hard when I know I will be amply rewarded.
Haha. You got to read up a bit more. Islam didn't spread peacefully precisely. "Just farmers".
I liked how you undermined your own argument. If we truly are back where we started then we just do it again, and continue with the money being given to people who then spend it.
Can't quite remember what I paid for shipping, taxes etc but I just tried adding one to my cart and it was only $6.22 shipping to the UK now.
fasm has pretty powerful macros that could do something like this though at that point why are you using an assembler directly?
Lanyrd seems like a great resource. Bookmarked !
Doom's done it - https://freedoom.github.io/
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There is no chicken and egg problem for most workloads. Processors are quite good at handling correctly predicted branches, and overflow checks will be correctly predicted for basically all reasonable code. In the case where the branch is incorrectly predicted (because of an overflow), you likely don't care about performance anyway.

See http://danluu.com/integer-overflow/ for a quick and dirty benchmark (which shows a penalty of less than 1% for a randomly selected integer heavy workload, when using proper compiler support -- unfortunately, most people implement this incorrectly), or try it yourself.

People often overestimate the cost of overflow checking by running a microbenchmark that consists of a loop over some additions. You'll see a noticeable slowdown in that case, but it turns out there aren't many real workloads that closely resemble doing nothing but looping over addition, and the workloads with similar characteristics are mostly in code where people don't care about security anyway.
Lots of languages transparently promote to bignuns of various sorts when integer overflow occurs, clang and gcc expose builtins for checking overflow, etc. The only part here that is missing is the implementation of traps.
Anybody know of a Command And Conquer: Red Alert clone, that supports online play? Really missing that game.
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Bigger tanks also flex more. So they need something that won't fatigue as quickly. If it spends its life bouncing down roads, plastic will begin to show cracks at flex points long before steal.
I have no idea who "they" or "our" refers to, or what "sudden jump" you're talking about.
Here's a gathering that nobody has mentioned: Porcupine Festival in New Hampshire. It's not a "developer conference" per se, but there are very solid tech talks there. It probably has a more dense schedule of events than a typical tech conference, but it has a lot of material that might be considered "off topic" at a tech conference, such as political theory, practical tips for living freely (gardening, handing police encounters, etc), and, of course, a giant bonfire.

There are also really wonderful tech talks, and this has pretty much become the focus of the event. In addition to dev talks - which range in topic from crypto to mesh networking to solar power monitoring - there's also material on 3D printing, drones, beer brewing automation, high-tech gunsmithing, and radio communication.

There's also a beer exchange cum key-signing party which has become a hillariously awesome tradition.

It's great fun and a great place to learn things you didn't know you wanted to learn.

Other than Porcupine Festival, I'll also echo other people's suggestion to attend PyCon. It's more of a cultural event than a dev conference per se, but it's a really great gathering. And being in Portland, it's surely going to be quite a party.
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>>whatever mixed system the U.S. has certainly doesn't feel like freedom.

As some one from India, who knows US quite closely(Through work and visits). I can tell you US is the most free and meritorious society in the world currently. By and large anybody can do anything they want in the US. However the keyword there is 'wanting'. Its not going to be easy. Its a bit like saying you could be your class topper in school/college if the examination was a little easier.

>> I'd like to try something new because it's not working.

You only feel that way because you haven't seen anything worse.
Some of the sources used in this article are not at all of the quality I have come to expect from the NY Times. Sources like the Daily Mail and "www.searchautoparts.com".
An infinite canvas library that I can use in my drawing application prototypes. It's working already, performance is good, only misses the ability to sync with a server now.
I don't remember all of the issues I had with IdeaVim, but remapping the leader key was one (though I understand this has been fixed), issues with key mapping and the Dvorak keyboard layout, relative line numbering, etc. There were several other issues with key combinations I like using in Vim that didn't work in IdeaVim, but it has been a while and I don't remember what they were.

The Dvorak issue was specific to the JDK on OS X, according to JetBrains. Perhaps this is also fixed, now that they don't require Java 6. I don't know.
See the board post in my parent comment for a comparison to fasm 1 by the author.
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If you set a maximum wage like that, a lot of what is good in society would not happen because people would not be able to amass capital.

For example, you would not have a SpaceX or a Tesla. You would not have Y Combinator as it exists today. You would not even have the video game that I am about to release next month.

Yes, there are a lot of jerks who amass capital and do nothing with it or who do irresponsible things. But you also have people who use it to work very hard to make positive change in the world, and even if those people are in the minority, their impact is very large.
Problems with this:

1. "wage" is ambiguous to the point of useless given: executive compensation isn't solely in the form of salaries, a complex tax code, and wealth begets wealth (it's relatively easy to maintain wealth once you're able to reap more from safe investments than it takes you to live).

2. even if #1 could be solved with some complex formula, it's very easy to argue a maximum imposes a hard limit on how much work a person is willing to do. Elon Musk could surely easily hit the limit without all of his current ventures. What would be the incentive for him to continue to innovate once he's reached the limit?

3. estates are the extreme problem for 1 & 2: if they're counted against maximum wages than recipients of large estates likely have no incentive to ever work. If they're not counted then maximum wages are severely limited in its ability to affect change.

Perhaps a complex enough formula exists to make maximum wages work, but given how easily gamed our complex tax code is in the US, I can't imagine it's feasible.
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>while this report by the OECD found that “income inequality has a sizable and statistically significant negative impact on growth.

Actually it doesn't do this. It shows that income inequality is associated with lower economic growth. Mixing correlation and causation.
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That's addressing the wrong side of the equation. The problem is phrased as "income inequality", but that's not the actual problem that needs solving (it doesn't necessarily hurt someone for one person to have a billion dollars, unless they use that money to influence policy in ways that harm others). The actual problem, as I see it, or, at least the variable that needs adjusting is the other side. The problem is that the middle class is nearly extinct in the US, huge swaths of people will never know a life free of debt, home ownership is a fantasy from another era, and rents are being driven up through a variety of circumstances mostly outside the control of the people those rising rents most impact. So, adjusting the other side of the equation (how many people are living in poverty or debt) is the one that minimizes harm.

Almost nobody who is poor wants to limit how much money someone can make; it's an irrelevant detail...most poor folks just want an opportunity to escape being poor, themselves. Capping wages does nothing to solve that problem.

pg, despite being a very bright and extremely sincere and decent person, is living in a world quite far removed from most American's reality and gets a lot of things wrong (sometimes hilariously so), based on that disconnect. But, a maximum wage is a ridiculous rebuttal, IMHO.
Yes. My point is to consider what is actually required before making complex structures. It is often perfectly acceptable to combine two existing types and handle what few interactions they actually have.
Totally agreed. "Pick two" is a good archetype from which one can direct the decision-making process of those "above" one's self in an organization.
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They are, but we need a floor.

The guy who takes care of your shit, garbage, makes your sammich, serves up your cup 'o joe, may not have the talent you and others have. But, those basic labors are necessary labors. They vary. We might not need our coffee served up, but we are more likely to need janitorial and sanitary services.

Do you want to do those things yourself and spend that talent inefficiently? Of course not, and it's awful nice to have them done for you, and you can take that time and put your talent to great uses that may benefit everyone.

Those people need to make enough to get by. Or are we to punish them for losing the genetic lottery?

That's what this discussion is all about.
That’s not a very nice thing to say.
Although PG makes a few turns of phrase, one of which is quoted in OP, that implies a straw-man who wants to end all economic inequality, he also talks several times about tackling the effects of economic inequality. The footnote in OP referring to studies that cover the negative effects on economic inequality supports rather than disproves PG's stance on this: economic inequality has multiple negative effects.

One of PG's core arguments is that while the inequality is caused by a lot of factors, a big one of which is the snowball effect of capital, when all those factors are removed, the wealth creation aspect will still remain. He explicitly says that attacking the non-virtuous feedback loops that increase economic inequality is desirable for him, he's just interested in targeting those as well as specific negative effects (e.g. poverty) rather than have the conversation framed around "economic inequality".
Gratuitous plug, but I've been maintaining a haphazard list of conferences at my Indie Conference [1] site. It focuses on bootstrapped / indie developers & digital nomad types, but there's lots of developer conferences listed there.

If you're an iOS nerd, you might like these conferences:

Yosemite (March, USA): http://cocoaconf.com/yosemite/

NSNorth (April, Canada): http://nsnorth.ca

UIKonf (May, Germany): http://www.uikonf.com

360iDev (August, USA): http://360idev.com

iOS Dev UK (September, Wales): http://www.iosdevuk.com

Release Notes (September, USA): http://releasenotes.tv/conference/

Cocoa Love (October, USA): http://cocoalove.org

[1] http://www.indieconference.com/
Which is why no one is going to use it.
> If it was for coastal destruction why not drop it to the bottom and then swim away and let it detonate in safety.

For that matter, why even be tactical about it? Just drop it off a cargo ship into the bay and let it sink under 20 feet of mud, then if war ever comes, detonate it remotely. (How you say? Obviously, signal it seismically from the other side of the planet...)
I'm aware of the mechanics, I am questioning the reasoning behind introduction of a special class of income. What's the economical argument against letting them earn minimum wage and tips?
Creator here. The lack of architectural direction is very much intentional. I'm a strong believer that those decisions will vary from project to project and developer to developer. My goal was to provide the least obtrusive set of tools as possible.

I do have some plans to create a boilerplate toolkit that includes some of the architectural patterns I use often. Hopefully that helps guide developers who are less experienced with building large modular systems.
Can someone explain the advantage of RISC-V vs. other open source architectures (e.g. OpenSPARC?).

Are there legal issues that make it more favourable?
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If they want to move, let them. The opportunities for making money would still be present.

There's a bizarre notion going around that protecting the economy requires protecting the rich. However if you look at it, it doesn't make any sense. The strength of an actor in the economic system is directly related to their participation in that system. The rich are where they are because they hoard more of their wealth. Hoarded wealth slows down an economy. The rich are poor economic actors, let them hoard their money elsewhere.
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> "Single-point failures in applications can corrupt the registry, frequently making the entire operating system unusable and requiring a reinstall."

> Cygwin ... is the first thing many Unix hackers install on such Windows systems as they are compelled by circumstances to make use of.

> The intended audience for the NT operating systems is primarily nontechnical end users, implying a very low tolerance for interface complexity.

Things were pretty poisonous i 2003 I guess, I would suggest readers in 2015 bear this in mind. Just think if there was a world where you could use Unix and Windows and Max OS without having to feel bad...
Hi, I'm a Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley on the RISC-V team. Happy to answer any questions about the RISC-V ISA or Rocket, our open-source reference implementation.

Since there's always confusion about it, I'll start off by clarifying the difference between the two. RISC-V is an open-source ISA standard. Rocket is an implementation of this ISA which also happens to be open source. We do not intend for the ISA to be tied to a single reference implementation. The intention for RISC-V is to enable many different implementations (whether open-source or proprietary). These different implementations can all run an open-source software ecosystem, which currently consists of a GNU toolchain, LLVM, and Linux kernel port.
The introduction to SSE is not bad http://flatassembler.net/docs.php?article=manual#2.1.15
PolyConf maybe? http://polyconf.com/

I've heard very good reviews about previous editions.
I wonder if you and I are working on the same thing. ;)

I'm building infrastructure that I'm hoping will be needed to complete the Stockfighter trading puzzles.

(Hoping, because it's entirely possible that I will be lied too far less than the documentation leads me to believe, and I won't need all of this sanity checking.)
LambdaConf in Boulder was fantastic last year. Covers all manner of functional programming topics. 3 days in late May.

http://lambdaconf.us/
Inheritance is a separate issue, but one that you're right to raise. However, there's no reason you can't do both (set a maximum wage and set limits on inheritance).
You might also have space colonization or a world without cars?
From my point of view, it doesn't really matters a resume should be a single page or couple. But the thing that matters is how you market yourself.

A resume is a very similar to a marketing brochure. Imagine the scenario when you get a brochure from second's car dealer and from BMW dealer. The purpose of both are same, sell the car. Take the second's car dealers brochure, It contains a lot of offer banner, a list of cars based on price range and more. But when you get a BMW brochure, even you can't afford the vehicle but still you admire, re-re-read the brochure, keep it in a good place etc. Why because of its presentation. The presentation creates a storytelling mode which increase the interest of the viewer as he turns each page.

Coming back to the resume, you can apply the same rule. Remove the constraint of pages and start thinking from a different perspective of how to sell yourself?. Give more focus to you strengths and the thinks you have done which make you stand apart from the other candidates. A lot of people use different ways to achieve this like improving the layout, visuals, Typography.

A resume filtering is the first process. There your resume should come in a different category. By looking into the resume, the interviewer should feel promising, trustworthy and creativity. A couple of years before I experimented this same technique of shifting my typical resume to another marketing brochure. And it worked. When I appeared for the interviews, the first thing the interviewer said was my resume looks different from all other resumes that we got, It's interesting and nice. now I am more eager to know about you. Same scenario happens to me three times after that.

This experience taught me a lot of lesson's regarding marketing, psychology and design. Now happy to shared it.

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Yes, it does support true color. It's disabled by default, because not all terminals support it, but if you want 24bit, do:

pymux --truecolor
I don't think the GP's suggestion is smart or good either, but I don't see how it would fail to allow for capital accrual.

It's not like you have to pay yourself all your earnings in wages as the owner of a business.
do you have the source for alexa in the browser on github ? that one was a very cool hack!
Why does everyone concentrate on fucking cars? Cars are not the problem, the 15 biggest ships cause more pollution than ALL cars worldwide ([0]).

The problems are ships (which burn stuff that's essentially waste and generally have no form of emissions treatments [1]), locomotives (these burn diesel, but again, the vast fleet of old diesel locos doesn't carry any adequate filters [2]), wood furnaces (in poor countries, where anything that burns is used to heat and cook [3]), and factories where no money is available to get their emissions under control ([3]).

Also, to clarify, I'm not after greenhouse gases, but after the stuff that actually kills people. Greenhouse emissions are nasty but as others have noted, agriculture is to blame here and not cars or anything else.

[0]: http://www.gizmag.com/shipping-pollution/11526/

[1]: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_oil#Environmental_issues

[2]: http://www.russfrei-fuers-klima.de/themen/schienenverkehr/ (german unfortunately)

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Eastern_China_smog#Causes (though I have to admit, it's coal, not wood, but the result is the same)
patio11's one is way better written though.
Ok. So three points remain:

* how do I know that the calculations aren't actually optimized away in all that code I can't understand? E.g. what happens if you make f0() return the means array instead of being a void function?

* Given the same number of lines (or characters), are you sure you can't write equally fast Python code?

* I tested the Fortran version on a slightly slower computer (got 14.7 msec on the Python version). Fortran runs at 0.7 μs, i.e. > 55x faster than D, with less code that's more readable to boot.
AWS re:Invent is rad.

The sheer size of vendors and attendees is staggering. They keynotes are polished and generally reveal exciting things. The tech talks are numerous and sorted into 100, 200, 300 and 400 tracks based on how technical they are.

If you're building stuff on or for AWS you won't go home without learning something new.
Because they discriminate based on political beliefs completely unrelated to the conference. For shame.
The Moto X and its successors have had this feature for a while. Your phone can be sitting on the other side of the room, completely off, and you can say a certain catch phrase to activate Google Now.
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I wonder what Google, HP, and Oracle are planning to do with RISC-V. Will RISC-V-based chips be able to compete with Intel in the server market?

Incidentally, I think the first consumer devices to adopt RISC-V will be home wireless routers, because the stock firmwares for those are closed, so they'll just need to be recompiled with a new toolchain. And those devices don't need a GPU.
If we set a maximum wage, driven people would simply move to another country. There is plenty of evidence for that as well. The Beatles, for example, came to America to avoid the grievous taxes being levied in England. U.S. companies locate offices in more tax-friendly locales all the time too.
Thanks for the feedback. I'll see what I can do to make the purpose of the project a little more clear.
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