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>... those jobs are gone now, but society didn't crumble.

Society where I live in California didn't, but the stories I read about Detroit and Baltimore make me wonder how society is doing in large parts of the country where manufacturing used to be a major employer.
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I like how they silently ignored Linux, even though it says it's cross platform and available anywhere.
Is mosh on top of screen or is screen on top of mosh? Serious question, since I share parent's love of mosh and frustration with the lack of scrollback.
For the most part, you need to represent value far in excess of the total lifetime cost, which includes half of the transition cost to the replacement.

Say your software is licensed at $10 per person using it per year. In addition to the $10, I need to consider the costs of installation, configuration, first level support, entitlement/license management, and what it will cost me to extract the data and munge it into a usable form when we decide in three years that your competitor does it better.

Now consider that most companies offer lousy support for their products, so I also have to do a test roll-out to a small number of people, manage that, and figure out if it will all be worthwhile.

If you discount based on quantity, can I roll the test group into the main group? If you price in chunks larger than per-user, do I fall between your levels in some disadvantageous way?

Is it any wonder that I vastly prefer standard-protocol based, open-source applications with healthy user communities? No, it is not.
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I was agreeing with you. I'm sorry, that was my fault. I misused the general "you".
That statement, along with the clueless repetition that "women are paid 70% of what men are paid" really turned me off from the piece.

I agree that racism and sexism are problems. I definitely try to not be racist and sexist myself. I even try to actively correct for my own unconscious bias.

But it's not my responsibility to fix sexism in the tech industry. I'd rather focus on some other problems which I think are more serious—global extreme poverty, for example—and that shouldn't be a moral failing on my part.
Sounds like some big performance improvements have been realized with the addition of Bolt.

From: https://dzone.com/articles/introducing-bolt-neo4js-upcoming-...

>DB: [...] What’s the expected performance of Bolt once released?
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>NS: Ultimately, we're aiming for the same order of magnitude performance as embedded. Although with a network stack in play too, that'll obviously be affected by the configuration of your infrastructure.
I love it too but I'll push a little on "sanest out-of-box" web framework. template/view rendering is a bit more complex than it needs to be. totally understand that it's a side effect of pattern matching but I'd appreciate a little less "magic" when it comes to matching views to render statements.

and not to throw yet another buzzword at this post but Phoenix is the best framework I've found yet for smaller networked services. so enjoyable to build with.
That's partly because nobody has tried very hard to write one piece of software that's good at landing planes and being the president. Why not just write two pieces of software? What business model would a combined piece of software enable?

Specialization of software is mostly a virtue.
>Please call the hotel and ask whether they will demand to see my passport

I've yet to stay in any hotel that wouldn't demand to see my passport. I think in many places they're required to by law.
Have you tried JuiceSSH by any chance?

Curious how the two compare.
Care to show some of these images? I do a search for Agra and all I see are nice images of the Taj Mahal and similarly nice architecture. A search for "Agra, India" shows some trash strewn on a beach/river-front, but no indication of a war zone or hell on earth.
It looks like they pulled their product claims directly out of Theranos.
> You could experience that right here in Switzerland.

lol
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On the other hand, it may no longer be called from every place where it should be. I've found that it's better to document what was wrong with the overall approach, scrape the dead code from the source base, and move on. Barnacles like these accumulate over time otherwise.
> Though it's much rarer, it is possible for a woman to rape a man.

Given that it is in response to a poster who clearly knew that (as indicated by the intention of revealing the female to be the perpetrator), in a thread in which (as far as I can see) no doubt about the possibility had been expressed, is this remark adding anything?
It is real - from wikipedia:

> On September 8, 2015, McAfee announced that he would seek the office of President of the United States in the 2016 presidential election, as the candidate of a newly formed political party called the Cyber Party
The first three are examples of government regulations explicitly favoring some groups over others.

That is fundamentally different from a society with legal equality for all individuals. Yes, some groups will be more popular than others. It's hard to see how that can ever be avoided.

Of course, if you are a slave, you do really need to deal with that situation as best as you can. Does anyone dispute that?
Thank you for reading past the sentence you decided to respond to.
> "Under Cook, Apple has iterated on faster/thinner/bigger/smaller/blingier, and there's been no significant original thinking."

This is lazy thinking, based on Jobs being an 'innovator' and Cook being focused on refinement. What exactly makes the iPad more innovative than, let's say, the Apple Watch?
Are there lots of females in the industry where you are? I wouldn't be surprised if there were way more than in west. It seems (from my limited outsider view) that communism/socialism was much more egalitarian regarding gender and some of that carries over post USSR.

Are there lots of ethnic minorities in the industry where you are?

Being a white male doesn't mean it was easy for you or you auto-success. It means it was easier for you compared to non-ethic majority, non-males.

source: I am 45 yr old white male
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JavaScript, for better or for worse, like it or not, is here to stay. There is a ton of resources, by a huge community, and large corporations being thrown at improving it. This author needs to get off his high horse.
NASA, PayPal, Uber, Facebook, Yahoo, Fitbit, Intuit are all using Node.js...guess they're all just niche too?
> I use v6 almost exclusively to get to all my servers.

I'm curious. Does any of your servers have only IPv6 address? That is, no IPv4-connectivity.
Rubber boots.
I haven't used FUSE SSHFS in around 8 years. I'm sure it has improved a lot since then. I could imagine it handling file listing and stat better than other network protocols (cd/ls over ssh works well over most WAN connections). It looks like it now caches directly contents too (https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs). It probably wasn't fair for me to include SSHFS in the list since I haven't used it in so long. I was troublesome when I used it.
> JavaScript is intrinsically a dysfunctional language. It has many more flaws than any other programming language in wide use. JavaScript is wholly unsuitable for serious software engineering, esp. at scale. When your application grows to tens of thousands of lines of code, it becomes much more difficult to maintain, much more difficult to ensure a specific level of quality.

Replace Javascript with PHP and you get the usual complaint people have about PHP (but there's still Facebook). Replace a few words and Javascript with Java and you get another common complaint, still, all these languages are in active use at various companies, so maybe they have their uses?
24 hour trucking is already possible. You just need two drivers. My sister was a 24 hour long haul trucker for a while, running routes from Virginia to Seattle nonstop with a partner driver. They'd work nonstop for three weeks, then take a week or two break, which is actually a pretty good schedule in some ways.
The CIA may be sickening, but at least they don't intentionally misinterpret headlines in order to segway into grandstanding.
AIUI the CIA is not supposed to operate domestically, so the comparison between the two is not exact (I don't believe the CIA would operate domestically the same way as the KGB did anyway, though, but the KGB was basically just helping to prop up an openly tyrannical state), but even if the KGB has the CIA beat on home turf, I think the CIA 'wins' abroad.

Even just taking the example in this thread, a monstrous program of 'black sites' set up around the world specifically to torture innocent people indefinitely, where is the KGB version?

Leaving aside any comparisons, if they're a distraction, why is an organization that does the terrible things the CIA has done throughout its history not only tolerated in a civilized democracy, but actually still viewed generally positively?
Maybe the feeds you're loading still include posts from 3 years ago? So the posts are still being loaded recently.
+2 - I feel like this is a (potentially intentional) blind spot for Dropbox and its ilk. I'm paying for 1 TB because I need that capacity, for my photo library, music, etc. - and I want to pay dropbox to make this work well with small fast SSDs. While there's various tricks you can employ to get this working, they're all a pain in one way or another.

"A user who wants to back up and sync lots of media, and selectively offload it onto cloud storage to save local disk space" is probably not such a rare animal. And if I'm not feeling charitable, I would guess that this isn't explicitly supported because if it was, many more Dropbox users would start eating a lot more of their quota than they currently do.
But there can be! Say, they entice customers to bid into a collective launch and then scheme you into all kind of price conditions depending on your load, service priority, or whatnot.

...actually, the more I think about it, this may be a business idea in itself, for the poor suckers who don't afford a solitary launch!
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I find sports are the best for meeting people and actually building a relationship. In my experience, floor hockey, slow pitch, hiking and cycling were good. Oddly, running groups were not. Also better results if it is a mix of men and women.

I think bringing a friend is essential. It reduces the awkward times when you don't know anybody. In addition, it doubles the chance of meeting people because your friend meets people too. A wing men are helpful :)

Art is solitary.

When I go to planned meetups for drinks, it is just small talk or ulterior motives (ie. they are looking for work).
Has anyone considered the flipside to this? Maybe a lot of unhappy people just assume they're "smart" instead of depressed or other mental illness, or are just asocial personality types. I've met more than a few mediocre people who have this attitude and engage in talk about "sheeple" and such, but they're not remotely exceptional intellectually. In fact, most of them are fairly average or perhaps do slightly better than average in one small area in their life and play that up as justification for their greatness.

I think its easy for the depressed or people who are just misanthropes to hide behind a "the world will never understand my genius" attitudes we see portrayed in the media. They see themselves as a John Nash or a misunderstood artist, when they're just, well, ordinary.

This isn't a hypothetical in my world. When we do hiring its hard to filter out the asocial smart guy from the asocial bullshitter for technical jobs, especially for entry-level. Shockingly, I find the asocial bullshitter personality is mostly unaware at how terrible he is for the job he's applying for. Maybe its Dunning-Kruger or just old fashioned arrogance, but it can be hard to spot. We have a bad hire like this and its incredible how much damage he has done to the department and how he's unwilling to accept that he's, at best, below average. Instead he engages in this "tech master" personality with non-technical staff that is bizarre to witness, especially when you listen in and hear that 50% of what he's saying is just completely and obviously wrong.
you know what? f... you people. I was hoping to know your opinions about technological choices and things you think would be relevant 20 years from now. And what do I get? 40 f...ing pages of gender and race inequality crap. The article is not about that, damn it!
> laughably misinformed and ignorant.

How many more decades should I live here before I'm no longer ignorant?
I think it's because generalized intelligence isn't a thing, and if you're an early reader, or an early computer user, so end up scoring far from the norm on early tests, the identity of being "smart" is assigned to you for life - and the only thing left for you to become is a disappointment. This leads to perfectionism, which is crippling.

http://www.hillaryrettig.com/perfectionism/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hillary-rettig/perfectionism-a...
It's shrinking (slightly) year-over-year because the iPhone 6 was a blockbuster--people were waiting for larger-screen iPhones and jumped to upgrade when the 6 came out. The 6 was also supply-constrained which pushed some of those sales into the year-ago quarter.
The 6s has done fine, but is not the anomaly that the 6 was. Wall Street will react violently to all this, but I think Apple and the iPhone business are still fundamentally healthy and sound.
I used Chez Scheme for many years and loved its lightning fast compile times. For example, I'm not aware of any other full-scale compiler that can compile itself as fast as Chez can.
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Small nit, but as hinted at by the other responses, humans didn't "invent" multiplication, they discovered it. In the same way we didn't "invent" the fact that the earth revolves around the sun, we discovered it.
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My ex uses GetAround here in San Francisco for her SmartCar.

Interestingly, the car has been stolen twice. I don't remember if it was stolen by GetAround users or not, but IIRC I don't think so. The car was recovered both times within a day or so thanks to the GPS unit that is installed in the vehicle.
There are tools and there are users of tools. Which is the computer? Which is the human?
(Cadence for those who don't know are basically the equivalent of SolidWorks for anything in EE. They are the only company (maybe Synopsis or Mentor, but I think there are a few holes here and there) on the planet that lets you go from designing something as simple and low level as an analog jellybean op-amp (with state of the art EM and S-param simulation) and verification, to RTL design (full power simulation and everything), to piecing together TSMC[edit: learn2proof-read, self]-based fab designs on their 28nm processes (ASICs or SoCs), to laying out boards at the Altium level. You're paying around 100k/yr/seat for all this but if you're actually using the whole feature set it's worth every cent.

Other than Solidworks (which has everything from industrial machining stock cold-rolled steel and the finite-element analysis of your components all the way to computational fluid dynamics of anything your engineering heart could desire) I've never seen a company cover such an industry so thoroughly, so well[1].)

[1] Maybeeee Adobe has equal coverage re: for vector work with Illustrator/image manipulation with PS/page layout and typesetting with PageMaker/Indesign and doing post on Video with After Effects and such. And I don't think anyone would disagree, the degree of complexity for this genre of software is on a different tier.

edit: Haha. Confused Cadence Design Systems with Cadence Research Systems. Thanks for correcting me. Mea culpa. Keeping this up just for continuity sake. Viva la Scheme though! Have an upvote, @beering ;)
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I think this is just one of the pitfalls that the author points out: it is not the sheer number of possibilities that defines the difficulty of a problem. He links to his previous blog post

http://mat.tepper.cmu.edu/blog/?p=6995

with a nice example: sorting.

“Sorting a bunch of numbers! Hoo-wee, that’s a hard one. If I had 1000 numbers, I would have to check all orderings of the numbers to find the sorted order. That is 1000999998…21 orders and that is more than the hairs on a Hobbit’s toes.”
The word "smart" appears in the title of the book being publicised, and in the title of the article, but appears nowhere else in the article. The comments here, and the title of the article, are quite misleading about the content of the article.

"Smart" has little or nothing to do with it. It so happens that whether you're smart or not is not a predictor of your happiness. The article might as well be called "Why so many people born on Tuesdays aren't happy."
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Agreed. The code I write with JOOQ is so much leaner, and easier to reason about than any ORM I've used. To me, JOOQ is a great example of what modern Java should look like.

My only complaint about JOOQ is that there isn't a .NET version.
2) sounds a lot like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depressive_realism which is still contested as a theory, but seems to fit experiences I've witnessed.
Fuel is half the price it was two years ago. So we should already be enjoying massive savings, right?
There are two kinds of programming languages: The ones people complain about and the ones no one uses.
It is available for free on his website. http://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm
Yup, just keep moving those goalposts.
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Also wondering this. Why not both?
Nokia has been around since 1867 and continues as a profitable company.
The same reason why PC sales are shrinking; the reasons for upgrading every year are much less compelling, and old phones are still pretty adequate.
By having your articles directly on your site, linked to via a "feed reader" that everyone already uses - twitter, facebook, reddit, etc.

I remember trying to get into RSS feeds a few years back. I passed them by - it was easier to just hit news.google.com or my multireddit or twitterfeed for news I was interested in. Sure, I didn't "get it," and yea fine I'm not the smartest guy ever, but I'm probably a good representation of the average net user - interested in efficient means at getting the news such as RSS, but also tremendously lazy. Why bother? I already have a twitter/reddit/gnews account.
> Specialization of software is mostly a virtue

And generalization of humans is mostly a virtue
> did those organizations, which people rightly consider to be bad, actually do anything worse than the CIA has been doing in the last 70 years?

Yes, they did.
I'm running Termux on a Pixel C and I love it. With the keyboard and all it's the Linux experience i wan't on the go. Local compiling works real nice for Go applications and smaller C++ and C stuff. Or Node.JS, Python and whatnot.

It's also available from F-Droid, though i recently became aware, that somehow I only had the ARM version and not AArch64, so keep that in mind. And it also works flawlessly on N.
>>And then when you get to your destination, manoeuvring a 50' trailer is no easy task, even for a trained driver like my dad.

My first airplane journey was fascinating. As some one who doesn't know how to drive a car, and is struggling trying to learn it, I was spell bound when I watched the pilot taxi the huge airplane to the terminal.

Well airplanes aren't even regular shaped and size of the human taxi'ing the plane to the plane is very small. Yet the pilot could precision park to the terminal.

The fact is no matter how hard it seems, if you've been doing it day in and out, it looks like just another job at the end.
Once the technology is built, it would make sense for the tech company to price their solution somewhere between $0 and whatever the status quo costs. Then they will want to sell as much of the tech as possible, so the pricing will be such that it is prioritized by the trucking companies.
Most of other comments are on the mark about Mix.

The other bit for me is Elixir's macro support. This lets you do really clean route matching in Phoenix. See http://www.phoenixframework.org/docs/routing for some examples.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11571640 and marked it off-topic.
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> Finally, I'll reference John Green and say that if you're doing something that multiple people tell you is offensive or bothersome: Stop doing it.

Does that include people telling you Social Justice rhetoric is offensive or bothersome?
My memory is failing me at 62 but back then the Ingres community was much more positive about the product than the Oracle community. At one point I was president of the North American Ingres User Group (Association, what did we cann it?). I had moved from using Oracle version 1.x to Ingres 1.x in the beginning because Oracle was so bad. I think that was about 1982 or 1983.

But the company (Relational Technology) just had no idea what they had and how to sell it.

I'm an Oracle customer today because my shop has a site license. I would use mysql for what I need an RDBMS for today (very light, low volume usage). Oracle is overkill for my work. But it is always available and there are advanced features should I need them.