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The EU's negotiating position is exactly as weak as it thinks it is and that is why it has to be so hard on us (Britain).

The only negotiating position weaker is Britain's.
> 7 a.m. Wake up. 8 a.m. Refuse several job offers from Google, Facebook, Oracle, HP and other tech giants. 9 a.m. Write some code that wipes 100 jobs by making people less useful. Noon Free food. 1-3 p.m. Wipe even more jobs. 5 p.m. Meet with investors that are dying to invest in anything that you touch. 7 p.m. Dinner at the Ritz-Carlton. 10 p.m. - Comment on some company blog. Post goes viral and the company becomes an overnight success.

I laughed out loud when reading this one, then I got silent as I realised how accurate this is compared to my current situation, and I don't even live in Silicon Valley...
One aspect overlooked is that social media interactions are largely faceless and very often completely anonymous. The "other" is just an avatar voicing an opinion on the screen that either fits with ours or not. This greatly exacerbates the filter bubble.

Compare this with interactions between live people standing next to each other. Twice as much communication is available via non-verbal cues, and we get a much better sense of who they are and where they're coming from.
I do. I don't use CGI, though. As I find the embedded web server is more reliable. However, changing between CGI, FastCGI amd embedded server is a matter of changing a single uses clause entry.

It's applicable for both the preshipped fpWeb and Brook, which is my choice of web framework due to its simpler and shorter hand coding.
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Anecdotally, more difficult mental work causes me to mentally fatigue faster which feels like good evidence against the claim
> Insisting on article 50 being invoked before starting negotiations will trigger a massive amount of economic uncertainty

Then invoke the article 50 so the conversations can start. The ones triggering a massive amount of economic uncertainty are the ones that doesn't want to invoke the Article 50

As I said, some of you think that not giving all that UK wants is being vindictive.
The trouble with putting all "immigration" into a single category is that it conflates so many different things.

International visas are currently not harmonised. The UK is and has been free to run a regime that is as liberal or as hostile as it wants. Non-EU migration is not the fault of the EU.

Intra-EU migration is tied (politically) to the single market. The EU is currently making this clear to Switzerland. The cost of stopping intra-EU migration is leaving the single market, which is potentially a huge cost.

And then there's the real problem: a lot of people who the public considers to be "immigrants" are actually local nationals with nonwhite skin. All of the Bataclan killers were French nationals! There's no immigration policy that could have made a difference here without also having a time machine.

Once you realise that people complaining about "immigrants" also mean "non-white local nationals", suddenly there's no solution. Then you realise that people promising a solution are at the top of the slippery slope leading to the Final Solution, the very thing the EU was set up to prevent ever happening again.

And that's why MP Jo Cox was murdered a few days before the vote.
Would love to hear a reply to this since this is your biggest likely competitor.
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Especially as the Vietnam War made drafts unpalatable.
Ok, First of all, I feel like "around the world" is stretching it a bit much for the purposes of the article. Secondly, I don't think you can explain the core reasons for this without talking about a specific country, because despite the similarities of even, say, the US and the U.K., the underlying causalities are much different. Thirdly, it is ominous when the author talks about the media consuming educated group, because the main thing being ignored in that front is the fact that operation mockingbird never went away and (the US at least) has turned propaganda into an invasive art. People are dangerous when they are easily propagandized, but especially moreso when they don't even realize it. Of course that's why in politics the 50-80 year olds are the primary target. Because they vote and they consume the bullshit off $TVStation with little incredulity. This is also why the Internet is under increasing threat from the supranational oligarchy, because the anarchistic freedom of thought it encourages is dangerous to them.

I could tell you about where this trend is going, but that would involve conspiracy theory and nasty confrontation of facts that most people don't want to do to be honest. As for why "the people" are trusting "the government" less, I think while much of it is the natural reaction to a government with corruption run amok, I have a sneaking suspicion that at least some of the increased distrust for government is a deliberate play by the supranational oligarchy vying to undermine the only thing that truly has any reigns around its neck, and that's government.

The other main factor is the lack of the rule of law. I think the lack of it has always been there, with varying degrees by subject of course, but now people find out about the true extent of the corruption and lack of rule of law via the Internet and I think it's breeding revolutionary attitudes.

When everyone sees stuff like bankers do obviously illegal, immoral, and amoral stuff, then get paid for it, and then get no legal repercussions, the rest of us are slowly gonna start saying "fuck it", and abandoning faith in institutions.
"Vote against their own interests" is one of those terms that I can't stand hearing, because it assumes whoever says it knows what's best for everyone else.
Although your front-end is a bit buggy, I did like the initiative.

All the luck for you guys.
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"Consequently, it was actually easier to do most low-level DOS hackery in Pascal rather than C."

I remember downloading source code in the mid 90s of various DOS graphics effects from the demoscene, and being surprised how much of it was in Pascal. And also frustrated, because I'd gone with Turbo C++ instead & had to try porting the code across myself.
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I never need a closure. You need a shift in thinking, closures are much heavier than ordinary procedures, at least in Golang (yes, this is a real world experience).

Delphi has closures, FPC is on development, but in the end I won't use it much. I need performance and maintainability, closures are against those two.
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The important bit from that page is:

"I am on-call about 10 days per quarter, usually 3 shifts of 3-4 days each. I am paid extra for my on-call (after-hours) work, but not at my full hourly salary because I only work when there are problems after hours (e.g. on weekends or late at night.)".

Note that depending on the exact team, Software Engineers at Google may also be part of an on-call rotation.
The French Front National has seen a pretty dramatic increase in votership over the last years as well.
> English is not French. There is no official version of it.

There isn't really an official version of French either:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgiNoNqYXMA

Or rather, both English and French have prestige dialects. If you want to adhere to high social standing, you try to emulate the speech of BBC or CNN reporters, or you try to follow the constraints of l'Academie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prestige_%28sociolinguistics%2...

I like that in Spanish the corresponding Royal Spanish Academy has gotten a bit laxer in recent years and rather than trying to tell people all around the Spanish world how to talk, they just document variations in their official dictionary. To do this, they are aided by other Spanish academies around the world, including the US Spanish Academy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Spanish_Languag...

They still publish articles on how to spell, but I find that more tolerable, as spelling is artificial but speech is natural.
But look at eg Cornwall, who voted to leave and then realised it would mean losing a bunch of EU funding.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/brexit-cornwa...

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/26/cornwall-fea...
I think that was the point of the original article - the mistrust of "authority" following the financial crisis is leading to irrational behaviour such as blind faith in charismatic leaders (who are typically reactionary rather than progressive). Based on historical precedents (e.g. the swing to political extremes following the Great Depression) I don't think this is "positive trend" for a brighter better future, but I hope I'm wrong.
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> there definitely is a populist shift in progress

Is it that difficult to believe that a large part of the population is not interested in multiculturalism, unrestrained immigration, Islam, etc? I think until this concept cannot be fathomed and taken seriously you will see a continued shift towards so called "populist" thinking. There _must_ be a shift towards a more moderate politics. It is too far to the left and it's too liberal for the vast majority of people in those countries. You can argue against this ad nauseum, however at the the end of the day it's a democracy and the majority will steer the direction they want their politics to go. The current liberal parties need to wake up and realise they're pushing a form of politics that is out of touch with the masses. And every time people say Trump supports are "stupid" and "racist" and "backwards" you are just going to make them push even harder, because you refuse to acknowledge their very real grievances.
As a government organization, not a private company, we can't respond to RFPs. No one is really sure where this claim that we help write and then respond to rfps comes from, but it's not true.

*I work for 18F.
The same question could be asked about virtually any training course.
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Populism is up essentially all over Europe.

Timbro (neoliberal think-tank) Authoritarian Populism Index 2016 http://timbro.se/sites/timbro.se/files/files/reports/4_rappo... (pdf)
I've been in leadership positions in self-sustaining, non-Federal IT service delivery orgs.

Government uses contractors for lots of reasons -- many of which are more about shifting risk/accountability.

Operating in a unionized environment is challenging because of the inability to fire, but that's more a leadership issue than a cost issue. For most of the infrastructure services we built, during the growth phase, we'd be 25% FTE cost (including benefits), 25% contractor cost, and 50% hardware and software, with the mix depending on the service. Software projects had more contractor cost, and some specific, high skill infrastructure areas had more contractor cost.

The key to a sustainable service is distinguishing build/grow from operate. When the service is in a operate/steady state phase, the government employee staff should be running it 100%, and bringing in SME contractors as needed. That's how you operate effectively.

As you do this stuff, you build a cadre of smart employees who develop the ability to build more and be flexible. You never run out of projects. By owning the services and processes, you save money unless you're totally inept.
The statistics I've seen in the US are that about 1/3 of people would prefer living in city centers, 1/3 would prefer suburbia, and 1/3 don't care. And currently 80% of people live in suburbia because city centers are expensive. Apartments and suburban houses aren't the same but our tax and regulatory structure is strongly pushing people towards the later even if that's not what they want.
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Brings to mind the claim that we have X hours of focused mental effort we can spend each day. Go beyond that and we start dropping back to fight or flight instincts etc.
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In some countries there are many more rules about working time.

For example, in the EU it's not permitted to work more than 48 hours per week on average. As far as I know, that includes "on call" time.

http://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=706&langId=en&intP...
To get trust you need transparency. And by transparency I don't access to information but to information in the form of knowledge. We to to upgrade government to the digital age to do so.
This doesn't happen. Not really sure where the source claim comes from, but we don't respond to RFPs

*i work at 18F.
The book It's Even Worse Than It Looks is a great resource for understanding this phenomenon in the United States. The authors are longtime congressional staffers who are horrified at the institution's decline.

They argue that the US Congress really isn't working well, degrading the performance of the entire US government, and the primary cause of this dysfunction is a deliberate campaign by the Republican party, starting with Newt Gingrich in the mid 1990s.

I remember learning about the Contract With America is school, but I had no idea it was so insidious. The GOP intentionally broke congress to get people angry about crappy government, under the theory that they, as the party of small government, they would make relative gains.

This has now baked for 20 years, and has been pretty effective. This is why you see Republicans stonewalling things they should logically support, like nominees they explicitly praise as qualified, Obamacare's extensive market mechanics, etc. It's also why Congress can't pass laws even when thr majority of the population supports them, and real crises like the Debt Ceiling debacle.

Institutions are critically important. We have to fix this before we can fix anything else.
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To refer to these variations as a "mistake" is the problem.

The English I am using to write this comment would be incomprehensible to my great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparents.

The version we are using here is acceptable because it is the form that those in power have accepted. To assume a variation is incorrect because the elites have rejected usage of that version makes the argument extremely political.

Perhaps we should just accept it is an evolving language and vernaculars, dialects and variations are perfectly fine. If it is useful to a community to teach one of those in their schools rather than RP/Queen's English/Standard English, to decry that and insist it is wrong is to make a political argument about the right to identity as a community.
It apparently came to them when they acquired the Duck Corporation[0], but I think it seems slightly naïve to assume no malice in setting up the redirect. Google own many many domains that do not redirect to google.com or similar.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_Corporation
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I’ve had a passion for politics, history, and programming since the age of 12 growing up in a suburb of Chicago. During my freshman year, I developed an interest in software. A couple of apps and hackathons (programming competitions) later, I was working on my own startups when I made the leap to drop out of high school to become a software engineer at a venture-backed tech startup.

While working there I learned that PGP encryption was the tool used by Edward Snowden to securely send messages to journalists. The immense value of encryption as a core component of our free society became clear to me. Amongst fellow coders, I had no trouble using command-line encryption to communicate. But my friends who didn’t code couldn’t easily do the same since they don’t know how to use the command-line. Given how important encryption is, I decided to build a first-rate encryption tool that could be used by anyone on any website, regardless of background.
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Lets say you have a JSON:

{
"items": [
{
"foo": "foo bar",
"bar": {
"desc": "some really long data",
"other": "lots more data"
}
},
{
"foo": "not foobar",
"bar": {
"desc": "some really long data",
"other": "lots more data"
}
}]
}

Where 'bar' is usually the same in every item. Is there a system of compressing json to use pointers or something so the 'bar' objects aren't repeated and only use a reference to the data?
I once had to call the help desk for a US government system. They were actually surprisingly responsive and helpful, on a weekend even. After speaking a bit of technical jargon the person on the other end of the line understood that I wasn't an idiot and did indeed have a real issue. I asked if anyone else had such a problem with the system and the response was:

"Sir, this is a government IT system and it works about as well as you'd expect a government IT system to work." We both laughed. I'm happy the people at 18F are making progress in changing the validity of that stereotype.
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> I'll try to ignore your ad-hominen. I have lived through a bunch of the history you are claiming I don't know anything about.

Why do you believe that your alleged personal experience is a good economy theory?

Let's first put some names in your "explanations". The "reserva de mercado" was a economic strategy used by the Militares in the Dictactorship time. So of course, this was not a good strategy, mainly because it was focused on industries belonging to the bourgeoisie and elite, not in things like food and familiar agriculture. After the end of the military dictatorship, anoter right-wing party took power, beginning with Fernando Collor and finishing with Fernando Henrique Cardoso, they lowered all taxes, spent ALL our reserves buying US goodies and the last one, FHC, requested 3 IMF bailouts. Lefting all national industry broken. This only started to change in recent times.

But now explain to me how the "end of protectionism" (that never protected brazilians, only the elite) and the sequential neoliberalism made Brazil a great country?
In a realistic scenario, de-regulated zoning around San Francisco would benefit developers and lenders while worsening the financial burden of the middle class.

If zoning were de-regulated around San Francisco, I doubt that many of you would pay much less than what you'd pay now for housing, assuming you're not making less than the AMI.

San Francisco had an Area Median Income in 2014 of $83,222. Those who make below this qualify for affordable housing. If you want to imagine what kind of housing policy the bay area would implement, look to what the DelBlasio administration is doing [1]. In 2015, the AMI for a family of four in New York City was $86,300. According to the DelBlasio administration's plan, "there will be affordable housing available for each level of income from “Extremely Low Income” to “Middle Income.” The middle group, “Low Income” will benefit the most, receiving nearly 60 percent of the 200,000 projected units. Each of the other levels of income will receive eight to 12 percent of the units."

So, given that you wouldn't qualify for affordable housing, you'll end up buying new property at market-driven prices. If developers were to flood the market with thousands of additional units, how would that affect prices? If you were a developer, wouldn't you try to maximize profit for your investors? With that given, developers would collude. They'd roll out new, optimally priced units over time. They'll make excuses to policymakers as to why projects are delayed.

Today, the middle class can't even get a chance to buy something that it can't afford. With de-regulated housing, the former constraint is lifted and new homeowners will be heavily debt-burdened with super-jumbo non-conforming mortgages. However, you'll have somewhere to live.

[1] http://www.amny.com/real-estate/affordable-housing-in-new-yo...
The "custom runtimes" link is broken at https://askmacgyver.com/algorithm-developers
Stuff going on with the Australian federal election last weekend (2016-07-02) is pretty interesting, too. [0] [1] We’re still not sure who is going to be running the country yet.

Almost a quarter of the votes went to minor parties and independents, which is the highest on record I believe. Derryn Hinch (aka “the human headline”) is now a senator, along with Pauline Hanson, who I imagine campaigned on building a wall along the Australian/Mexican border.

Most people are interpreting it as an indication that we’re sick of all the narcissistic bullshit from the two major parties. Of course they don’t see it that way.

[0] For the uninitiated, Australia has compulsory voting, and a two-party preferred system, so the lion share of voters usually vote for either Labor or the Coalition (Liberal), with a smattering to minor parties and independents.

[1] http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-03/election-results-histo...
I think the problem is the flimsy line between dialect and language. I remember getting into an argument years ago about this, that dialects can be so thick that you might as well as be listening to someone speaking another language.

A friend argued that it's still the same language, so you can understand what others are saying even with a different dialect. Please. The average person can't understand all of Scouse, AAVE, Southern American, Geordie, cockney, Hiberno‐English, etc. I still find myself rewinding dialogue in shows like Peaky Blinders.

The only reason people have a problem with AAVE is some sort of racial pretentiousness. Even the use of the phrase "Standard English" in this article is pretentious. Standard to whom? Brits certainly have a different perspective of what "Standard English" is from Americans.
Yes, indeed, turns out BI just cherry-picked the worst part.
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The important question is, has the quantity of housing gone up as quickly as the city's population? As with most things if there's a something preventing enough stuff from being built it will be the rich who get it. Also, I'd really like to see the numbers on vacancy percentage in your city. I'd be willing to be that they aren't actually very far out of line with normal rates.