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I think TIOBE is a good indication and so are the number of GitHub projects that exist and are being created with these languages. Also, I keep hearing this talk about a new Microsoft. Where's their support for the #1 language in the world in their IDE?

As for Microsoft's cash reserves, I heard it was close to 90 Billion with over 90% of that overseas. Google, on the other hand, has about 64 Billion and only 60% overseas.
I LOVE that Paul Graham posted this just a day after posting Mark Twain's "corn-pone opinions" with no sense of irony or self awareness.

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"You tell me whar a man gits his corn pone, en I'll tell you what his 'pinions is."...

The black philosopher's idea was that a man is not independent, and cannot afford views which might interfere with his bread and butter. If he would prosper, he must train with the majority; in matters of large moment, like politics and religion, he must think and feel with the bulk of his neighbors, or suffer damage in his social standing and in his business prosperities."""

This billionaire's opinion of wealth inequality, his own part in it, and the straw men he battles are the very essence of corn-pone based thinking that Twain is speaking to.

Graham's (toxic and highly biased) opinion about wealth inequality is a condition of how he gets his corn-pone every day. To him, however, this corn-pone opinion becomes the very essence of rational thinking amongst himself and his peers (like Marc Andreesen and his periodic twitterisms).
Zuckerberg isn't really engaging in charity. Its basically buying political influence is one of his stated goals.

I'm not sure why people keeping thinking he is engaging in charitable activity when what he really said he was engaging in investment & nonprofit activity.
I don't have any benchmarks to share, but I think it's safe to assume that Red will be faster than Python, as it's designed to be statically compiled.
No one doubs the performance of C++. What I would really like to see is arguments about speed of development, ease of testing, etc. This articles argues alot about language features or libraries, but what about the bigger picture? It is not enough for the HTTP server be fast. It also needs to do REST API, auth, etc. How does that compare to for example node/js.
The point is that Bob's Bearing and Brass Knob Corporation, even though they did contribute some parts to the submarine (a) probably failed shortly thereafter and (b) probably wholeheartedly intended to become the next General Electric.
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You do if it causes language development to stagnate.
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Hi bnb, it hurts to see the word "stole" and judgement passed so hastily, so I thought I'd take a quick second to reply.

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In an optimized system the bottleneck will be I/O. However elements like serialization, many function calls, and extraneous memory copies chips away at performance to the point it matters and its difficult to address these problems directly in languages outside of C/C++.

Today you can get 15MB/s to S3. A not uncommon mysql node might do 10MB/s. Good luck trying to push that throughput with python or Ruby on a single process through a http response. Much faster I/O exists with sequential HD, SSD, and RAM based I/O. Most networks are built with 1Gbit Ethernet allowing 100MB/s that won't get saturated in the slower languages without going parallel which can increase total system complexity and lines of code.
Its more like, with 2gb ram and 2.0ghz cpu, how many requests can you handle? Its not surprising language like C++ would win.
Exclusions certainly make things work better from the point of view of the excluders.

Slavery, for example, worked wonderfully for the slavers. When we abolished slavery but kept former slaves from full participation in society, they mostly ended up as underpaid servants and laborers. Women restricted from earning a living on their own still had to survive somehow. Which in the 50s often meant attaching themselves to men and providing them with a lot of unpaid support.
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The larger image preview is still moderately sized (it loads the original image but in a smaller frame), so most users probably click through to the original page (since most users aren't savvy enough to right-click and go to the image directly, or mouse over to the "view image" button).
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Indeed, the given strawman alternative languages (Ruby and Python) are far, far worse for productivity. Python changes are totally unreviewable since one cannot in any way reason about the correctness of a function call without reading the definition of the function itself, and all the functions to which it passes the arguments, all the way down, which of course takes forever. At least with C++ you can reason that if a change compiles it has not made any dramatically stupid type errors. You still need to think about whether any unnecessary temporaries or copies were made, or questionable assignments, but you need only think about that one level deep. Is seems to me far more dangerous to suggest writing new code in Python.
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I would posit that the extreme levels of economic inequality we see today is actually putting downward pressure on economic growth.
This is a disingenuous rebuttal. The difference in wealth between someone worth $45B, and two people each worth $1 million and -$1million respectively, is identical. The millionaire is worth less than 0.01% of the first. If this were a card game, the millionaire could go piss himself.

If it were possible to put $45B into a typical savings account earning 1% interest per year, that $45B person will make more money doing nothing in 1 day than the millionaire is worth. The thing is, it's not possible to do that. It's actually difficult to make only $1 million per day off $45B in assets. You'd have to give away huge chunks of assets to avoid making $4+ million per day.

The problem is hoarding. It's no longer enough to go back to a 94% income rate for the top bracket like we used to have for ~30 years expressly to prevent this amount of hoarding.
Counter-point: wealthy bankers and hedge fund managers caused the 2009 financial collapse and none of them went to jail because it's not feasible for politicians to go after their campaign contributors.
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Most of the extreme wealth comes from rent seeking.
The article is reasonable in the scope it addresses. It's ok for some to be richer than others. We get it.
Where it's not fair is that the system is rigged (as other commenters have said). I'm very surprised it's missing from the article.

Maybe, the author should talk about inequality of taxation and the good old Dutch Sandwich. No, the top 1% don't play fair or even remotely pay fair taxes. Pick the top 100 on NASDAQ. I'll almost guarantee they pay less than 10% tax.

If you addressed taxation, you'd eliminate almost all valid criticisms. There'd still be outsourcing, legal system bias (eg. White collar crime such as the GFC where there was little or no accountability) and monopolistic issues, but tax was meant to be the great liberator.

I'm curious why the author skipped the Dutch Sandwich and tax rate paid by the top 1%.
> If they had a 99% marginal tax rate once they have assets of $500M (on any form of gaining wealth), would we have a weaker Microsoft or Facebook or Google doing less good for the world because they wouldn't be working as hard? Would the good done to people on the lower end of the scale not outweigh any possible harm here? That seems hard to imagine.

Maybe you're imagining it on the wrong time scale.

If you say Larry Page can "only" make an effective maximum of $500M, that isn't going to stop him founding Google, but what does it do once he actually has $500M? He owns shares in his company that have grown to be worth $40B so then he owes the government ~$39.5B in taxes. So he effectively has to sell his company to pay his taxes. (And if he doesn't have to pay the tax until he sells the shares then he never will and your tax plan fails.)

Before the tax he was going to keep most of the shares and thereby have control of the company. The primary difference caused is therefore that more large corporations will be publicly rather than privately controlled. So the assumption has to be that that will somehow lead to higher incomes and standard of living for the middle class.

But that doesn't make any sense. Publicly traded companies have no soul. The CEO's job in a publicly traded company is "maximize shareholder value" and that means grinding competitors' bones into dusty by squeezing every cent out of your customers, suppliers and employees. The people being squeezed are the middle class.

At least if the company is controlled by a human person you can have Henry Ford saying his employees should get paid enough to afford his products. A company's owner is the only one who is authorized to decide that there is something more important than shareholder value.

The problem with today's economy is that that isn't happening often enough, in large part because too many major companies are publicly traded. But you're proposing something that would make it effectively impossible to happen at all.
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This article just made me realize that me, my wife, and my mother are all now unemployed and over 35. It does contradict the current economic wisdom doesn't it? Luckily I've got plenty of savings and always lived beneath my means.

In my own case I find companies want to play games in interviews and are not particularly interested in hiring, even though I've twenty years experience in the tech industry and am an "expert" in Python and Javascript. Being interested in fitness also, I'm often in better shape than the pudgy, pale, late-twenties types I have to interview with, haha.
In the case of minimum wage, they would indeed be forced to pay more, rendering the need for welfare to those same people unnecessary, thus shifting the cost from the state/government to the employer.

That is in effect wealth distribution, which again closes the big income inequality. (That's the intended effect anyway.)
Author here: My father and ex husband were both career military. I was married long enough to still be entitled to medical coverage through the military system. We briefly dealt with insurance and copays and all that when he was a recruiter stationed someplace without a military base. Other than that, I have had an experience of medical care closer to what many Europeans experience. I would be all for the US finding some means to institute government paid universal coverage. But I think that health insurance is too entrenched in the system for such hopes to be realistic any time soon. I think that is why the ACA chose the unfortunate path it chose: the transition directly from what we had before Obamacare to a European style solution is too harsh to be politically viable.

Maybe someday the US will get on board with providing a better solution. In the mean time, direct primary care is a legal loophole in the ACA that cuts out the middleman. Perhaps if it grows enough, we can eventually move towards something more civilized.

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Every business endeavor has associated risks, which can be mitigated in a variety of ways for a variety of costs.

Offloading the responsibility for continuation of your business to Linode (or any other data center provider) is unfair. A history of uptime, verbal promises, or fancy SLA terms should never be interpreted to mean that disasters won't happen. A ten day long DDOS is a disaster and in this case a man-made disaster.

Using Linode (or another provider) instead of building your own data center is more cost effective, but it means you are no longer in direct control of your infrastructure (decreased costs, increased risk).

Designing your application to span multiple availability zones (data centers) can mitigate single points of failure within a single vendor but is more expensive than operating in a single zone.

Designing your application to span multiple vendors can mitigate single vendor failures (or changes in offerings from a single vendor) but is even more expensive.

And still there are ways to mitigate these costs, business interruption insurance can help cover the costs for moving to a new data center or vendor in case of a disaster (such as hiring staff, overtime, etc.). Lost profits can be covered by business interruption insurance also.

Of course it is expensive to operate any business in a hostile environment. A seaside restaurant better be prepared to weather a hurricane. I wonder how much money has been spent on security cameras, guards, metal detectors, and so on since 9/11? The increasing occurrence of targeted DDOS (and other types) of attacks is the physical equivalent of an increasingly hostile environment and is going to be associated with higher costs.

In the longer term, I think we need to find ways to get law enforcement better suited to deal with these problems but ultimately I think we'll need to radically change the way we handle network operations and the technical foundations of the network such as content centric networking (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_centric_networking)
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The philanthropy point is not to be missed.

The perception of Silicon Valley super rich people by the rest of the USA is that they are more stingy with their wealth than respected entrepreneurs in other industries. SV super rich are perceived to punt forever: "If I invest my $100M rather than donate it, then I can grow it to $500M and donate half of that, $250M! See, everybody wins." But then they never do end up actually donating the money (except for Marc Benioff, who "gets it", and who I don't believe would write such an out of touch article as Graham's).

So the SV super rich wind up resented by the public and then run PR like this article.
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Having worked in identity management, I suspect that some of the benefits are oversold. The chain of identity proofing for a traditional driver's license involves both "who is the person who holds this document?", "how do I know the document is trustworthy?" (i.e., not a forgery), and to a lesser extent "is the information on this document accurate?".

It's hard to imagine how a bar or venue would be able to rely on an electronic record of a license displayed on a device that is not under the venue's control. Physical driver's licenses have anti-counterfeiting measures such as holograms or secondary shadow photos of the bearer that require more than just a good laser printer to fake. It would be trivial to write an app that faked all the functionality of a license that I show the bouncer on my phone, so they would be unable to rely on it to answer "is the information being displayed [age, name] accurate?" without some sort of additional transaction with the central license database to verify the license. Such an additional transaction would add a lot of friction to the simple act of flashing a license at a bouncer or bartender, with all sorts of potential for outages (see, e.g., Virginia's IT outages since they outsourced the state IT en toto to Northrop--DMV's unavailable for days at a time). If you owned a business, would you allow your ability to even be open on any given day dependent on whether your state was managing their data access well enough to be available (and with low enough latency to the transaction not to interfere with running your business)? That's just one slice of business, and I haven't even gone into potential issues of the data trail such transactions would create, or the heightened damage identity theft would pose, or the immaturity and blindspots in government identity management policy development.

I think governments should absolutely be exploring ways to make data like identity-proofing via driver's licenses widely accessible via services for use by citizens and businesses, but even there I'm a bit skeptical as most organizations are horrible at controlling access to sensitive information even at the internal level, much less making it available via an API. TSA PreCheck (the vendor's relevant experience) is such a different beast in it's use case from a broad credential like a driver's license that it's hard not to expect gaping security and policy issues to emerge as they start to roll these out.

I geek out about identity tech, use 2FA wherever I can, do this professionally, and am currently wrestling with a couple of Yubikeys for even more 2FA fun, but I can't imagine opting in to an electronic driver's license, and if anyone asked me I'd vehemently advise against it.
Looking forward to the suggested answer.

Guess I would delete all issues except for the most critical bugs and any remaining critical mvp features, and then I would say that from that point on you can't add any feature requests without completing something - that is you can only add a feature ticket after completing a bug or other feature ticket.... for sprints I'd say 3 to 1 bug to feature ratio and no more than 1 feature at a time in progress / in sprint at any time.

Then if normalcy returns I'd ease up. I'd also make sure there's one lead dev in charge long term on the project instead of just having whoever has "some time to do it."

Not sure if this is ideal, which is why I'm looking forward to your answer.
"That shit" could be interpreted this way: Having "obscene" wealth accumulate with one or a few persons means the decision-making about using that wealth becomes idiosyncratic and volatile at worst, generally misdirected at best. In market-fundamentalist terminology, huge actors cannot result in optimal results. Markets work best with broadly-held wealth and millions or billions of small bets, lowering the criticality of market failure.
Let's start with the Koch brothers, who will spend $889 million this year to sway the election.
beagle3 argued that in a world without welfare, Wal-Mart would have to pay more or their employees would be unable to work due to lack of basic necessities. I was only arguing against that assertion.
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One C++ advantage is, at 40X the horsepower, they didn't have to deal with scaling configuration right away. They can put that off, and deal with proving their product instead.
That article, and really, almost every post here, don't make a damned bit of difference once the tipping point is reached and the 99% get fed up enough to do something about their situation. They're not going to try and create start-ups, either.

We let the inequality keep growing and someday you are going to see people lined up against walls and shot. Don't think history won't repeat itself.
> So, if economic inequality were substantially reduced, would there still be startups?

There would be - but as the article points out correctly elsewhere, they would be in other countries.

> I believe another piece of common advice in this field is that you should only do a startup if you want to change the world, not just to get rich...

Nobody does it just to get rich, but (as the article also points out...) few founders would go through that pain if there wasn't a chance to get rich. I can assure you from personal experience that working 100 hours/week as a founder is much less attractive if you can live very comfortably from exit money for the rest of your life, no matter how great your ideas are.
> You can't end economic inequality without preventing people from getting rich, and you can't do that without preventing them from starting startups.

And "startups are good" is supposed to be so axiomatic that the discussion ends there.

Here's what you're supposed to think:

1. Startups are good (duh)

2. Startups cause inequality

3. Inequality is actually good.

QED!

There is this idea out there, and it's especially dominant in SV, that the appropriate expression of creativity is in the scramble to get rich. Like if we didn't incentivize the creation of new ideas with massive wealth no one would ever do it. And it's very much related to that Randian superman narrative you have there.
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That still sounds like the pie fallacy. The idea is that wealth is not a global conserved quantity, but can be created by individuals. One need not "enlarge the pie" globally so that the poor can have more of it. It's more like the rich create more of it and the poor create/obtain less of it.
Happy people don't leave a restaurant they love.

Happy people don't leave a pair of jeans they love.

Happy people don't leave a city they love.

Happy people don't leave a way of being they love.

Wait a minute, is he saying that happy people are averse to change? And that change is bad.

I can't believe this got so many up votes and comments. The premise is that if you are happy then you don't like change.

The only relations a happy person won't leave are those which continuously both challenge them and nourish them, and that's deacribing a vested familial relationship, not a f*cking job.
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