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The idea of "service to common men" goes back to antiquity. Mahayana Buddhists modeled their bodhisattvas after Brahmana priests in order to justify why peasants must pay taxes to monasteries, or why a monastery owns all the land. Catholic Church is famous for its middleman's role between men and god, where one could buy release from one's own sins. Actually, all organised religions degrade to this or that form of bargain with help of authorized servants of the common folk.

Governments just have reused this thousands years old meme that they are necessary public servants, that without them whole world would collapse the very next day they stopped performing their rituals.

We are not even speaking here about primitive authoritarian governments which have nothing but self-preservation and continuous increase of power and wealth in their agenda.
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One of the worst design decisions of Unix to fundamentally separate the source from the binaries. And Debian and those of their ilk had to make it worse with that -dev package nonsense.
I don't think parent is suggesting we should replace the state with religious institutions. He refers to those past institutions as "bloated, inefficient and corrupted".

His point, I believe, is that governments are largely selfish institutions and this is important to understand the decline in public trust. If the main interest of the government is self preservation - by any means necessary - their actions do not necessarily reflect public interest.

Governments only have to care about the public enough to prevent revolts and, in the case of democracies, to secure a reelection. Thanks to modern advertising, they don't even have to do that much - they often get away with just pretending. It is natural that, over time, trust in government will erode.
Dude i get fatigued by games, u have a point, but there is just less fatigue not 0 fatigue.
That means the build system has access to all source code of all binaries compiled against it. That is doable within projects (make dependencies), and within centralized open-source distributions such as Debian (through archive rebuild triggers).

But it is impossible in general.
> So, some corrupt officials, a polygamist, a wanted official seeking asylum in a foreign consulate, and restaurants reusing cooking oil too much is an example of "unreality"?...

Your blasé phrasing strips away all the context. If Donald Trump was to be outed as a practising Muslim today, it would be unreal (to me a least), but one could equally say: "bah, hypocrite politicians are everywhere" - it still wouldn't make it any less "unreal", in context.

> Corrupt politicians? We have Presidents and PMs, senators and MPs openly retiring and joining the boards of companies they helped during their political career.

None of your corrupt politicians have been discovered with $31 million of cold, hard cash stashed at their lake houses. Seeing a fork-lift hauling 300kg of $100 notes on live TV would be 'unreal'. What's unreal is not the corruption, per se, but the context around it.
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If the SNP wouldn't value friendship within the Union now would be a great time to negotiate with English companies to move to Scotland assuming that Scotland secedes. I'd imagine the transition from England to an independent Scotland in the EU is even easier than to, say, Éire.
Ermm.. I always thought while it read fine, it also assumes that you'll eventually find a way to make those things scale.(be it automation, guided voice faq ? etc..). Doing things that don't scale is a good way a to corner portions of a market with big and established players, but not enough. aka necessary but not sufficient.
Where are you at in Puerto Rico?
I am in San Juan, and have a laptop I can give you.
Would be happy to help a fellow-geek.
As the level of players gets better and better the game gets more dangerous. Rugby is a good example of this, over the past couple of years there have been multiple deaths because IMO the players are too big and too skilled. I watched a pro game from the 70s on YouTube between the two best rugby teams (NZ and Australia) and the level of play was shockingly bad, to the point that even an amateur club team now would have a good chance of beating them.
Ceiling cat called. He wants his Prescott back. He is threatening to switch to AMD's FX-9590 unless Intel comes up with a warmer processor a.s.a.p.
Reformat it and put an emulation-focussed distro on it.

You could then practice your hardware modification skills and fit it into a different box.
But humans mostly want to be part of some group, and that's the problem with the current trend of ultra-individualism: people will be much easier to influence by dangerous groups that fill their need for belonging. If there were a stronger sense of community in the first place, instead of the strong emphasis on the autonomous, self-sufficient and competing individual, one could wonder if radical religious or ultranationist groups would be as significant.
The real difference is that a lot of those corporate lawyers and investment bankers make 3-10x the salary of SV engineer (multiple $ million per year).
Agreed. Ruby just hasn't developed the culture of compatibility that's mostly adhered to e.g. in Qt/KDE land where I lived for a long time.

Related: I'd like it very much if compatibility was enforced automatically. For example, if I publish version 1.2 of my library to $repository, then $repository checks if 1.2 passes the 1.2 tests (of course), and also if it passes the 1.1 and 1.0 tests. If any of these tests fail, then release should be downright refused unless you upload it as 2.0.

And of course, once you have that, you can think of any check you like. In C++, you can pretty reliably detect code changes that change your ABI in backwards-compatible or -incompatible ways, so you could allow backwards-incompatible changes only in major and backwards-compatible changes only in minor releases.
Interesting with the new FreePascal and Lazarus foundation, which was just started a week ago, to support development of it as an alternative to Delphi [1] (Source [2])

[1] http://foundation.freepascal.org

[2] https://plus.google.com/105481197125997414290/posts/FnLvMteQ...
> Also, companies are scared of the mere possibility of their programmers leaving.

Have they ever considered that programmers might be less likely to leave if they got a decent salary?

I've got to say, much of this sounds familiar. In Netherland, I used to hear companies complain that it was so hard to find technical people (programming and otherwise). At the same time, the jobs I saw didn't really pay all that much. The solution is simple: pay better, and people will come.

The problem is that in Netherland, management is/was seen as better, more important, higher status and deserving of better pay than programming. So for a programmer to move on beyond a certain point, he'd have to go into management. If programming jobs were seen as equal to management (in status and pay), programmers would have no reason to switch. Netherland is very much a management-oriented culture, for some reason.

Another is education. Politicians always kept talking about the knowledge economy, while at the same time cutting costs for education, and there was not a particular stimulus for technical education. And students are more likely to choose something management-related when they think there's more money there.

I'm talking somewhat in the past tense, because it feels to me like things have changed. I made enormous jumps in income over the past couple of years (could be because of the switch to freelancing and mostly working for banks since then), and the management-over-tech attitude seems to have diminished a bit (though that could be because of Scrum, which emphasizes empowered development teams and makes management somewhat redundant at times). I don't have any recent data on this, though. Maybe it's just my personal situation that has gotten better.
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I know, that's why I added the smiley.
This coincides with a podcast interview I listened to with a renowned CPA. He said that the existing tax code in the U.S. is set almost entirely to incentivize growth, entrepreneurship, and investment. So, the tax code is full of all kinds of breaks for employers, job creators, investors, owners of assets, etc. The tax rate on most long-term capital gains is significantly less than income tax. Salaried individuals be damned. When Warren Buffett claims, as he has in the past, that he pays a lower tax rate than most of his employees, he's not exaggerating.

This tax strategy aggressively pursued during the Reagan administration, supported during the Clinton administration, and maintained during the Bush and Obama administrations relies on the assumption that growth among the asset-holders translates into more jobs and better pay for everyone ("trickle-down economics"). This assumption seems asinine now because of course the wealthy are going to save whatever profit they make. That's how the wealthy get wealthy in the first place! The Great Recession has only exposed this more. Employers realized "Actually, I didn't need those positions anyway." Other employers realized "There's enough demand for jobs here, so I don't actually have to increase salary that much." Property values may have collapsed during the Great Recession but a lot of long-term property owners realized "People still need a roof over their heads. Demand for rent is at an all-time high. I have no incentive to lower rent."

Consequently, wealth inequality grows. Wages stagnate. Homeownership stagnates. Rent rises with inflation. The percentage of 25- to 34-year-olds living at home with their parents is the highest it's been in nearly a century. The young and educated see the situation, realize that they have no power over an establishment bending to the whims of the upper-class and corporations, and grow more and more apathetic. The old and uneducated are fed populist nonsense and anti-immigration scapegoating, thinking that driving out the brown people will get them the jobs and pay that employers have no interest in giving them. Trust is an emotion. A belief. What makes you less likely to trust others? Insecurity. And why wouldn't people be insecure in this economic environment?

(I realize that this is a very U.S.-centric comment and I apologize to any other nationalities for whom this does not describe the political environment.)
I'm not well-versed in EU politics but I find some parts of what you say surprising. After Brexit, there were reports of racist signs some idiots had put up. These weren't against syrian refugees, but rather against a particular former eastern bloc country.
I think governments are still more trustworthy than businesses, though.

At least with governments you get to pretend that you elect people into office who have your interests at heart.
This is just a quick writeup how larger coworking with open space didn't work for us. Ignore the 2nd part of the article as it is relevant only to locals.
>Let me give you one example: the murder rate in the US is the lowest its been since 1963. The way the media directs the publics attention and magnifies the coverage of the violence that does happen makes the public think that there's a huge terrorism, crime and gun violence crisis.

Yep, this is true. However mass shootings over the same period of time have been going up. Compared to the rest of the industrialized western world, we do have a gun violence crisis. Considering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-r..., the US is sitting between Uruguay and Montenegro with a rate of 10.54 per 100,000. Whether or not it's been falling since 1963 (and I know it has been) it's still at an appalling place and we deserve better. Not to privilege the West over everywhere else but we are closer to most other so-called "Western countries" culturally speaking than countries that are not traditionally part of the West. Within that framework, Finland has the next-highest rate, and it's at 3.25 per 100,000 (i.e. about three times less).
Translation of the very pertinent first comment of the article:

No one can deny the role of this political giant in this epic battle, but it would be very improper to speak of victory so far. 25 years later, Maastricht has not kept its promises, and Rocard still openly confessed it a few months ago, stating that they had "missed the boat" in Europe. Somewhat paradoxical given that it is nevertheless his government and his buddies who sold us the baby ...

Beyond this basic finding it's especially pertinent that TAFTA Treaty is being negotiated in secret with the US, which is very worrisome. As Mr Asselineau (UPR) in his youtube videos, our former allies want Europe in their pockets, to face the other 2 major blocs. This is all the more urgent and decisive for them to submit and satisfy the European nations, with NATO on the military side, and Europe for the civilian side, the Chinese are trying to win points quickly, and everyone already knows that China will concentrate a very large part of global production in the next 20 years, which will not help at all our economies, artificially abused ...

Forced sale in stores, mobile, cloud and its derivatives, are only the top of the iceberg for Washington, Europe MUST become an American colony and controlled subject in itself. Just observe the successive zeal, and still more evident of our elites since the 80s!

Between $ ironing ticket which runs idle since the end of the gold parity / dollard, and an abysmal debt, it increasingly relegates Americans in the background, the Treaty TAFTA is even more dangerous for us Europeans, it may lead us to the bottom with our former ally of 39-45. When Mr. Pierre Sprey, father of the F16 and A10, openly calls the last lighning F35 II "Turkey" (Turkey), one realizes that even in their own defense, and despite defense budgets in hundreds of billions of $ (!), the americans are completely off track!

Finally, when I read the obstacle course that Mr. Mamère's has to simply follow to access a part of the ongoing negotiations TAFTA (cf. https://lesmoutonsenrages.fr/2016/06/26/les-incroyables-prec... for example), and with reports that are apparently not the same on both sides of the Atlantic, there are many more battles ahead, and not just in IT.
We can certainly recognize Mr Rocard for having a rare piece of political courage, that became sporadic in our elites. The fact remains that software patents as the rest will eventually be back on the table, and there is absolutely no doubt. In politics, there is never victory: just battles won in their time ...
Bryson made the same point about anti-immigration forces in the USA (and the same applies elsewhere, like Australia where I live).

"Immigration was just fine for my grandparents, but now it's about time it stopped."
When is the right time to adopt Swift 3?
You can hope, but does Trump and brexit look different? And if so, does it look better?
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I think that is a good idea when looking at new technology in general. However in this case

1) switching databases is a lot of hassle especially without an ORM. Why choose wrong from the start?

2) Mongo not scaling well and being a poor choice is documented across thousands of articles all over the net. At some point it may be worth accepting "hey maybe the entire world isn't stupid and this tech really does suck."

I could see your point if somehow Mongo provided massive time savings, but I am very doubtful.
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Agree with this. When I managed my finances with Microsoft Money I felt in control of everything - the temptation was to spend too much time managing it.

I've never found a application / app / web site which works so well for me.
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I think public education could be enough here. Obviously, a campaign to reduce beef consumption would be far more successful than one to reduce or eliminate meat consumption. I eat meat and like it. I'd struggle to cut out all of it, but I could easily see myself making beef a thing to have at restaurants or special occasions only. More than happy to stick with chicken, pork and lamb (which I think is far more popular in Australia than the US?).
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I find it hard to believe Japanese engineers don't leave Japan because of the language. Perhaps most of them simply don't want to leave their country?
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That is a big assumption. They would still need to get a work visa and have the desire to leave. There is a lot of culture at play as well, which would still be there if everyone in Japan was a native English speaker. English is certainly a valuable skill for traveling and moving abroad, but I hardly see Japanese people as trapped in their own country. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan there are 1.3 million Japanese citizens living abroad.

Unfortunately I could only find statistics information in Japanese.

http://www.mofa.go.jp/mofaj/toko/page22_000043.html

http://www.mofa.go.jp/mofaj/files/000162700.pdf (page 11)
Your armchair psychology is cute but I'm just pissed at what I view as half a century or more of deregulation and tax cuts geared towards big businesses and the wealthy and privileged, always at the expense of the poorest in society.
Not such a clever headline; the only people who say 'purposely' are toddlers and Americans.
Curiosity in general is probably a fundamental part of human nature.

But you have to make a call at what point you stop trying to understand everything about everything. Thomas Young, the early 19th Century scientist has been famously described as "The Last Man Who Knew Everything" - the sum of human knowledge moves on so vastly that it is simply physically impossible to have an in-depth knowledge of every possible subject.

I don't think he's saying that he knows absolutely nothing about these subject (I'm sure he's probably got a rough idea that the oil probably came in a big oil tanker for example).

But there's over 5 billion articles on Wikipedia, and at some point you've got to decide that you haven't got time to understand how the Four Hu (to take the first random topic I found) came about because you're spending time thinking about how AI works or whatever.
I think your comment assumes a cohesive government policy that simply doesn't exist.

> They've ... still complained about the
> "fascist EU" taking away their
> "sovereignty".

There is no "they". There are leaders of political parties beholden to factions in their parties, only. For every nutcase UK politician and voter who calls the EU facist, there's a French one, a Dutch one, and a German one saying the same thing. Voter skepticism in the UK is probably higher than in the other major EU countries but only by a fraction. Don't assume the margin in the Netherlands or France would be massively that different, and those are countries which already have the Euro.

> UKIP was the logical consequence

UKIP is the logical consequence to the UK lacking a real far-right party. The right-wing parties on the continent are far scarier, and generally have higher support.

> In the wake of the referendum the entire
> UK government has committed to following
> through. The result has been communicated
> as "a democratic decision", not as a
> tentative opinion poll to aide in decision
> making. Nobody has invoked Article 50 yet
> but everything in how the UK has handled
> this says "we're going to leave".

You are reading different papers to me.

> What the UK apparently didn't expect is
> that the EU's reaction can be summarised
> as "Good riddance; don't let the door hit
> you on the way out".

No, that's exactly what Cameron said would happen - that we'd have to trigger Article 50 the next day.
I think this is truer than most people realise.

We often modify our speech for the audience - put someone in a party situation where they are the odd one out and it will be harder for them to follow along.
Not everyone likes to be in control. Many people want the fb algorithms to show them the articles they might like. With RSS this same people experience the paralysis of choice, they're better off if fb decides for them what they "want" to see. Besides, if they get incorrect suggestions that have something to complain about. One should not underestimate the willingness of a general person to find something to complain about.

It gives you this kind of entertainment:
> Facebook’s Algorithm is Like the Mafia
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhbEUKHsGi4)
Calculating the mean of a list of numbers
There's no way for me to click on an actor's name and see all the films he's been in

Wow. I forgot you used to be able to do this in Netflix. Back in try days when they were slinging DVDs. This also worked on the Apple TV. But I. Don't have an ATV so I'm not able to verify its still that way.

I'm using Netflix on a PS3. It's pretty but functionally useless.
I don't think its so much people skills to manage engineers, more like people skills to talk to the managers above (i.e./ CEO). I think this, too, would be an interesting topic to delve deeper into.
Check out nim:
http://nim-by-example.github.io/
Loads blazing fast... Nicee! :D
Nigel Farage had lunch with Rupert Murdoch. 18 hours later, he quit UKIP
It seems to be mostly focused on building a desktop or buying a ready-made laptop. What I'm actually hoping for is the ability to upgrade my old 2011 Macbook Pro. I don't think Apple is ever going to make a Macbook that good, but I'd really like some more memory and a more powerful processor. I suspect that means a new motherboard.

Is there such a thing as a mobile, macbook-compatible motherboard that you can buy? Or is that a really ridiculous thing to ask? I rather suspect the latter actually.
I think generalizing in either direction is a waste of time. Surely where you live won't have that much effect on whether you've decided to work overtime or not.

Though I suppose it's more popular to start a business in some locations than in others.
Solutions to some various Linux problems
Why do you want closures for the web code? What do they add? What is hard to do without them?
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"One of the problems underlying all this is not immigration per-se, but the rapid and unbounded expansion of the EU to include countries with a huge range of incomes and costs-of-life."

The theory is that by including these countries in the Union their conditions eventually will improve (through EU funding and access to the single market) to a point that people won't have any reason to emigrate, basically removing the root cause of immigration.

It makes a lot of sense, but it is in the best of case a long and difficult process, and people facing loss of jobs and diminishing wealth will see solutions like "let's build a wall", or "let's get out of the EU" as appealing, it's human nature.

Maybe instead of going "all in, all the way" with the single market and free movement (that personally I have thoroughly enjoyed and consider it a huge net positive), the EU should have made the process more gradual.
Everyone looks happy and goofy in their pictures, which is a good look imo.
Good lord, seeing the downvotes! I wish I could upvote x1000
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