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On a modern PC games use a small fraction of the CPU and the GPU is the bottleneck. The only applications that really strain the CPU (i.e. all cores) are trivially parallelizable ones like transcoding, compilation, test suites, etc.

For games specifically I'd prefer more work done on CPU and free up the GPU, provided the communication overhead isn't too much and latency doesn't become a problem.

Low power is less of a problem than thermal limiting for compute intensive work. I see about 90% variation in test times on my laptop for unit tests, for example.

So overall I see more application for this in apps than games, and only then when the tradeoffs are right. It's not a simple call.
I'm on AT&T, my girlfriend on Verizon, and the amount of areas where she can get coverage and I can't are large -- we had an hour and a half car ride recently where she had signal the whole way and I had no signal at all. Meanwhile, T-Mobile won't even let me activate a device with my phone number because they don't support this area.
> Have you seen a source that shows this to be true overall

If you look at their coverage map, they're lighting up 600 - 700 mhz spectrum all over the country. This is only within the last year though, and it only works if you have a phone that can take advantage of it. E.g. the iPhone 6s is the only iPhone that works with the new t-mobile spectrum. So yeah historically you're right, but I think that has changed within the last six months. And similarly it's going to change even more this spring after the next round of spectrum auctions.
Hi, I have not tried Polarr before.

It looks great, and i'll probably give it a go. However it doesnt improve my workflow - I still have to download my photos from Gmail (or random websites or whatever) and open them in Polarr.

Recall I'm looking for integration with a browser. If it was a Chrome extension, and I could right click on any image, on any webpage, and select 'Open with Polarr', that would be a great start.
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Yep, it's true. My company started a major python2.7 project in 2015.
My biggest complaint is regarding web sites/applications that basically ignore the existence of keyboards. Some of this comes from the UI toolkit that they're using, but it's pretty egregious. For just "brochure" web sites, it's not that big of a deal, but some are really, really bad about tabbing order, or tabbing at all, and certain controls don't work correctly without the mouse/touch.
There are people who make a career out of being an expert witness. For engineers it requires having a PE certificate at a minimum which is rare in most industries in the US. This allows the professional experts to command high fees.
that exact scenario happened to a good friend of mine. Automation took his specialty from a 6 figure income to $300/year in exactly five years. It took him 8 years to rebuild his business making custom tools.
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do you sleep during the day? When you sleep 4 hours for couple days straight do you wake up easily with no fuzzy head or anything like that?
I agree. I haven't met such extreme cases, but I've seen situations where the employee simply did not have the competence nor the will to acquire it. Lack of a given competence is tolerable, but not trying to address that limitation, for me, is a big issue. In such cases, employee protection will certainly result in rather perverse effects - not only for the employer, but for all the other employees (which will have to deal with less than acceptable output from the problematic one). Even socially, it grinds my gears to know that someone like that is employed when there are some many people which truly want to work.

That being said, the employer still has some protection. You can hire someone for 3 or 6 months and then decide not to renew his contract. You can also use the experimental period clause to void the contract in the first two weeks up to three months, according to the contract duration. The latter is sometimes abused here: hire someone with a long-duration contract and then, just before the experimental period ends, send him away.
This fails to explain the barrier to reviving that idea when the price of gas rises.
Or... Mounting root as btfs. :)
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It's sad that you need to justify using one of the most established and longest serving languages/platforms ever.
I wonder if this could partially be because some people write "Java Script?" Their ranking shows JavaScript declining, which seems unlikely.
Serious physics question here. So Maxwell showed that electromagnetic waves travel at the speed of light. But I don't believe he actually proved that light is electromagnetic waves. The question: Has anyone shown a model of light using Maxwells equations, that behaves in all the ways light does? That needs to include packets of energy like photons - can any form of soliton exist with Maxwell, and does it behave like a photon? Is there an actual model of light based on his work?
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There's a difference between a descriptive statement and a normative statement. "The tiger will bite you if you approach it" is a descriptive statement. "The tiger will bite you if you approach it, and rightfully so" is a normative statement.

All of the statements you quoted are descriptive statements. Just because someone makes a descriptive statement doesn't mean that they endorse the behavior in any way.
But that still doesn't answer the question, because it doesn't state anything about older men.

Yes, in 2012-2013 older women accounted for around half of long-term unemployed. Perhaps older men accounted for around half as well, which would show that the problem is primarily one of age?

And it doesn't need to be so extreme. For example, if older women are 50%, older men are 40%, and younger people are 10%, then age is still the main factor. It would also make sense to see women slightly higher than men, since at older ages, women start to significantly outnumber men.

But, on the other hand, if it's 50% older women, 10% older men, and 40% young people, then the article would be spot on.

It seems very odd that the article wouldn't just present those figures, so we could tell.

edit: In other responses, the proper data was found, and this is indeed an issue of age, for the most part, so sadly the article is misleading.
> in this day and age

The case is from 2004, which is not really this day and age in technological terms.
According to the BLS (which is the data they cite), the unemployment rates are [1]:

Women

25-54: 5.3%
50-54: 4.4%
55-59: 4.2%
60-64: 4.1%
65+ : 4.7%

Men

25-54: 5.2%
50-54: 4.3%
55-59: 4.4%
60-64: 4.6%
65+ : 4.6%

There doesn't seem to be much difference in the overall unemployment rate. However, maybe the unemployment is cycling between many different men for shorter periods of time. If women who were employed kept their jobs, it could lead to a stable set of women who are employed while the unemployed women are unemployed for longer - which is worse for those unemployed individuals than having the same number unemployed, but that unemployment cycling between individuals. For example, if we have 10 people and 2 are going to be unemployed, if Sara and Josh are just always unemployed, it sucks to be Sara or Josh. If everyone takes their turn and is unemployed 20% of the time, that sucks for everyone, but sucks substantially less.

But looking at the BLS long term unemployment statistics, that doesn't seem to be indicated more for women than men [2]. Looking at the rise in long term unemployment from 2008-2013:

Women

45-54: 222% (of 2008 long-term unemployment)
55-64: 284%

Men

45-54: 218%
55-64: 341%

It seems like the number of long-term unemployed has increased around the same over the period used by the article regardless of gender.

But what if the labor force participation rate dropped hugely for women and so they're not showing up as long-term unemployed since they aren't considered part of the labor force anymore? http://www.bls.gov/emp/ep_table_303.htm

I'm not going to copy all the data in from that link, but women 55+ increased participation by 14.4% from 2004-2014 while men 55+ increased participation by 6.25%. That's not something I want to draw a great conclusion from since women born closer to the present are more likely to have jobs than women born farther in the past (ie. a 55 year old in 2014 is more likely to have had a career than a 55 year old in 2004 because the past sucked and whatnot). Given that men 25-54 decreased participation by 2.5% while women 25-54 decreased participation by 1.9%, I think it's fair to say that the 14.4% increase isn't just due to more women 10 years ahead in time having careers.

I have to say, this just looks like shoddy reporting. Based on the numbers, the article seems more clickbait than reporting. It's crappy that some people who are skilled are having trouble finding jobs. We're talking about people's lives here and it sucks to be out of a livelihood. But the thesis of the article - that women over 50 are specifically having a problem - doesn't seem to be borne out by the numbers that they in fact cite. The numbers do show long term unemployment up for those over 50, but even there it's up similar amounts overall (total long-term unemployment for those 16 and over is 245% of 2008 levels). Eye-balling it, it doesn't look like there's a spared group besides 16-19 year olds.

Am I hugely missing something?

[1] http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat03.pdf

[2] http://www.bls.gov/bls/cps_fact_sheets/ltu_mock.htm
Let's guess: the gentleman is very capable, but most candidates are not. Any potential replacement hire would need a reference from a colleague whom you trust just because the pool is so awful, and even then the new guy would need extensive training to be up to snuff. Old guy can't leave because at any potential new place the people making the hiring decision don't trust your reference because they don't know you. Sounds all very familiar.
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Competition is good!

Let’s hope that soon every carrier provides this.
It could be about opportunity cost.

If they could make x guaranteed in a kitchen, but have a 20% chance of making 10x at another job (if/when they land it), then they should keep looking.

That said, at some point you just want income, so I get your point.
Capitalism has produced enough surplus food that even poor people can be fat, something unprecedented in the history of the human race.
As someone who has been in this position, as a matter of fact I do feel that I am too experienced for it. The years of college, 30 years of professional development experience, kinda makes you not want to start from the bottom again. Finally found a company that values my skills, but it took a few years (yeah years!).
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You wouldn't hire someone solely because of a nerdy hobby?
If you'd also like to respond to tweets and Facebook messages from Slack (and Skype), take a look at https://sameroom.io/attend
You're probably being downvoted because you come off as incredibly smug.
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Ah one of our core systems is in C++, though it is for video processing and needs to work with multiple platforms. I suppose nobody has questioned the C++ choice because its a more "typical" use-case
I see no reason not to attack the problem from both ends at once.
My father actually started his career as a math teacher, but he could also (obviously) teach chemistry. But private tutoring here is hell. Teachers are probably the most unemployed skilled professionals in Portugal. As you can imagine, one of the results (besides huge emigration) is a huge supply of private tutors and tutoring centres.

About your other question, they (both my parents) probably could live off € 700,00 per month. It doesn't sound like much, but with the wages here it's very hard to put aside enough money to keep you going for years without a job (even with the low-ish cost of life here)

Maybe I should give him a Breaking Bad box set :)
I love it! It's an interesting concept to build on. Battery is always a bummer...weight or run-time.
Have things changed since http://jlongster.com/Backend-Apps-with-Webpack--Part-I ? It sounded like there were a ton of workarounds to get Webpack working on the backend.
Can I dismiss it because it's like the 50th "modern MVC framework" to be made for Node.js? Are all the other ones so hopelessly broken that it required making an entirely new one?
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Sounds great! Shoot me an email if you launch it.

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And Windows 95 had no modern security checks in place, so good luck with Internet access. That stuff has performance costs. Also people seem to forget that we had to reboot those machines all the time due to crashes, more code that has performance hits. Yes there is definitely bloat but there is also a lot more going on underneath the seams than before.
Alright, you convinced me. Sounds very similar to my ongoing situation.

I've been taking clonidine and vitamin d for stress and anxiety and I'm really annoyed with the way doctors prescribe (wrote about this a couple hours ago in this thread -https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10824879)

Was it a drastic change, or something more subtle for you?
IMO French food is horrible, bordering on inedible.

Mexicans, Italians, and even Germans know how to cook. French people don't.

See how that works? You're assuming that your personal food prejudices and "what food is supposed to taste like" are identical.

They aren't.
Instead of working on software when you get home, how about zoning out to some TV or movies? I find that after an hour of TV, it is very easy to fall asleep.

I'd give this a try, because meds always have side effects.
Sounds very inspiring.

Any other good places to start learning about C++ 11/14 for complete beginners with JS and other programming languages?

I'm very much interested to create proof-of-concept for high performance SaaS services and play with C++ as it might be useful to build Node.js extension later.
A grand jury is different -- it's secret.

Once the opposing counsel opens the door to extemporaneous testimony, you're screwed as a witness, because the next question may not be 1+1=2, it may be something else.
Thank you for finding that.

It does look that the article has hugely overstated the issue. But there are still two interesting findings, that the article doesn't quite say properly because it hides the numbers, which is a shame:

* Older women's long-term unemployment is now on par with older men. The interesting thing is that earlier, it was much lower. Now, it has reached parity, and fairly quickly. So in terms of the change, there has been a significant change, but in terms of where things stand, this isn't a gender issue.

* The main issue is one of age - older people are at much higher risk of long-term unemployment. Looking at the long-term unemployed, we can see that they are becoming mostly older people. And because in the group of older people, women significantly outnumber men (because women live longer), the group of older women becomes significant.

In other words, older women are a very big proportion of the long-term unemployed not necessarily because of gender issues (which the article focuses on, like taking time off to care for children 20 years earlier - which seems like a stretch anyhow), but rather because older people are most of the long-term unemployed, and there are just a lot more older women than older men.
I like these "You CAN do X with Y!" types of posts - especially when it's not the same drum being banged over and over.

I think there's a really big part of this case study that isn't mentioned (perhaps because there is currently no data): bringing on more engineers. It really seems as if the number of C++ developers ready to be a part of the startup ecosystem is small. That is the impression that sites like HN leaves me with at least.
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From what I could gather from the multitude of articles that I read about the US job market following the 2008 economic crisis, I noticed an interesting trend or pattern where US workers are interested in getting jobs exclusively in the US and not anywhere else. I am not talking here about unskilled or low-skilled labor, I'm talking about individuals who possess marketable skill set who could prove beneficial for any business abroad and yet they limit their job search to their home country.

I couldn't find an explanation for this.

Is it the expected lower pay? Is it having to live in a foreign country and assimilating to other cultures? What's it exactly?

Because If were one of them, I'd take any reasonable job offer abroad than staying unemployed draining my savings and having wide gaps on my resume that would complicate the matter even further.
These were extreme cases we had in NL and PT. But also incompetence; that was an hiring snafu ofcourse but yes we had our fair share of people working hard during trial and then sitting back and basically drop the ball. No one was asking them to work like animals; 5-6 hrs a day. But we had many good experiences as well esp in Portugal. It is just the bad ones that make you scared...
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Disclaimer: I'm a physicist, but have been out of physics research for 20+ years.

The answer is No. The photon model doesn't come out of Maxwell's equations. You can tell, at a glance, by the absence of Planck's constant.

Digging just a bit deeper, there are some problems that can be solved using Maxwell's equations, but I don't know which of those problems already had adequate solutions before Maxwell. For instance the laws of reflection and refraction (e.g., Snell's Law) can be solved by applying Maxwell's equations at a surface boundary between two materials, but I believe they were empirically known already.

As for photons, it's actually the reverse of what you are asking for. Maxwell's equations come out of the photon model. The reason is that classical electromagnetic theory was already successful by the time that quantum mechanics emerged, so the corresponding QM theories were designed so that classical theory would be preserved as a limiting case. One of the tests of any candidate QM theory would have been: Does it preserve our existing observational evidence about the macroscopic world?
I'm more curious as to the decision not to stick with Rust. Sounds like there was a prototype. I'm guessing there were some libraries missing.

Would be cool to know more about that.
Microsoft has Direct2D https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd3...

Nvidia has it's nvPathRendering extension to OpenGL https://developer.nvidia.com/nv-path-rendering

I'm not aware of a fully portable equivalent to either of these two libs.
I suspected the situation you describe might be the case based on what we read here about Europe in the UK.

OK: my only other thought is perhaps a bit odd: are there other manufacturing/ science based companies that are closing down/disintegrating? If so some part time work staying with them until they close and managing all the health and safety, asset disposal and equipment sales might be viable.

I know a chap who did that in and around the Black Country (Midlands industrial belt near Birmingham and Wolverhampton) in the UK in the 80s when all the foundries were closing down and being sold to Bihar in India. I have no direct experience of that myself.
Are you implying that the media obfuscates reality with selective reporting to push a politically correct/leftist narrative that implicitly demonizes white men? Why, that's absurd! #BlackLivesMatter
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Nobody is doing cellular in 600mhz yet. The auction is this year (2016) and TMobile is expected to buy a lot because they couldn't get 700mhz nationwide
I agree with rubiquity - the article as written strongly suggests that users enable it in production. I'd amend it to be far clearer about what you mean. Directly from the second paragraph:

> The best part - rack-mini-profiler is designed to be run in production. Yeah!

Then later:

> rack-mini-profiler is designed to be used in production.
I assume all of these companies will be making RISC-V chips that are as closed and proprietary as anything else out there? That is what happened with the "open source Android" after all, once the OEMs got their hands on it.
Usually pg's essays are spot-on. But this one, I feel, is based on a false premise: People aren't upset about startup founders getting rich -- in fact, society loudly applauds it. What people are upset about is legacy capital growing and growing and growing while the poor and middle class stagnate or even contract.

On this subject, I always think about farms.

Back in the day, it took ~100 people to work a large farm. Now it takes one (or a few) guy(s) with some machinery. All those farm workers aren't now out on the beach somewhere -- they've migrated to the city to drive cabs, etc. The wealth generated by this astounding leap of productivity went entirely to the shareholders of the John Deere corporation. (edit: Yes, cheaper food benefits everyone. I meant the share of the revenue generated by the farm going to its workers, vendors and shareholders. And the farm owners obviously benefited, too. Farmhands? Not so much.)

And that was great! Good for those speculators and innovators!

What I think most have a problem with is 7 generations later, the John Deere family (<-- edit:metaphor) still controls all that capital and pays taxes at 15% on capital gains while losing count of how many homes they own.
It made a big difference for me. No, not subtle.
Programming - principles and practice using C++[1] should be appropriate for beginners. It's a long book at 1000+ pages, but it is designed for novices and explains subjects such as why one needs functions, how to handle errors, GUIs, testing, etc.

The C++ Programming language (4th ed)[2] is for experienced programmers. A tour of C++ is the short version of the former.[3]

[1]: http://www.stroustrup.com/programming.html

[2]: http://www.stroustrup.com/4th.html

[3]: http://www.stroustrup.com/Tour.html
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Starting startup with language X depends on how that language were used in industry, starting hardware startup with Python/Ruby is strange, but for web startup its totally fine. Now think about creating web site in C++ with average C++ developer.

There is also cost of talent, if you own expert C++ developer than probably writing web site in C++ can make sense, because you have a talent who can manage and fix every bug/feature. Finding professional Python/Ruby web site developers are easier than finding C++ web site developer.
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