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As far as vs Go or Swift or Lisp, Rust is much "closer to the hardware"(as discussed in other threads nothing is really close to the hardware anymore) than the other languages, go and most lisps use GC which causes problems in many systems language situations, and last I heard swift still has lackluster cross platform support.

I don't really know anything about Oberon so can't speak to that.

P.S. Personally, all my hobby projects are in lisp. I write applications though, not system stuff.
You can buy a fairly low mileage used Nissan Leaf for approximately $10,000 right now. Look on Craigslist take your pick. For the life of me I cannot imagine why you wouldn't be able to buy the same cars for $5,000 five years from now.
It's important to clarify that these are brand-new students who have never coded anything at all in any language. I'm not teaching them Java; I'm teaching them how to code and Java happens to be the language.

That said, I only make them use Notepad for a day or two. My goal is that they understand that nothing magical is happening. Java is just text, which can be written with any suitable tool.

After the first couple of days we switch to Notepad++, which has syntax highlighting and auto-indent.

(We would use Sublime Text, but the district won't approve "shareware".)

I do have auto-completion turned off in Notepad++, though. In my experience that only produces beginners that don't actually learn the names of anything.

Auto-complete is super helpful once you have a few years of coding under your belt, but IMO it is inappropriate for honest-to-god beginners.
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Care to elaborate? You can depend on what you want to replace for bootstrapping. You can use tools written in it, compiled with it, or even hand-converted to assembly for first run. That it was a stepping stone doesn't undermine an argument to replace it in general or even say much about it. The common flaw in reasoning is that "If C was used at any point, then C is technically good, essential, or something similar." It can come down to something as simple as author's convenience, personal preference, or even timetable. Using vs replacing a C compiler fits into all three I imagine. :)
We scaled a 2 men (my partner and me) 15 year old profitable (no investors) company to 12 people and we never were in a market position to scale much more but we are good (much better than the average) hiring.

We started with a combination of a few developers (indeed we started with one!) and one QA or tester to check the work done by developers. Even if the developers are excellent, having QA in place unload work from the developers, increase the delivery quality, and save you a lot of time. I think this is a basic framework. Setup development, testing and/or staging, and production environments, so if you don't want to give a lot of control, at least you can deploy and configure stuff once it is working in the staging phase and be more confident about a new release or configuration.

We always hired for a 30-hour work week, obviously we want people who will stay until the critical problems are solved but we try to keep longer hours work at a bare minimum. Our first hires were oriented to some specific technology plus a flexibility to use technologies outside their comfort zone. For example, a C/C++ expert who could do part of the work in Visual Basic because it was the right technology for the project, or people who can move from Node to Python easily, and at the end of the day are not mad if they choose React or Angular.

Like everyone else, we want to hire the best and trustworthy professionals via people we already worked with. If we can't hire the best we look for people with an excellent predisposition, a more than average intelligence, and very good communication. Communication is key, if they found a problem that is really difficult to solve we want to know this as soon as possible and will discuss it with part of the team to help as a group. We don't like heroes who engage in very difficult problems without giving us a warning.

We have a few remote employees who really know how to work remotely. We would never start growing with remote employees, except if you know them very well and can be on-site too.

Beyond this, our hiring process is simple and mainly based on experience/work-portfolio. No puzzles.

Disclaimer: Since my business is not based in US there can be many differences in the way we handle similar issues.
I wouldn't think so. What they gain in wisdom they lose in baggage.

It's like the success rates of 2nd marriages are worse than 1st marriages. You would think that people would get smarter with their 2nd, but it's not the case.
That's the question: how is the location picked?

You roll a fair die, 1-6. It lands on 4 this time. Why 4, and not 5? How was the 4 chosen?
In classical mechanics, it's a horrendously complicated but fundamentally simple computation. In QM, no one knows.
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Nah, you were right.

But you can get enjoyment from reading hard/old things.

Driving to a great view might not be as enjoyable as hiking to an ok view.

But Philip K. Dick is crap. Not cool to say it. And like you say might have been great for his time, but try and read "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" it's plain awful.

But you can't tell me you wouldn't love to see a musket battle, some of the classics are still around because they were good.

OT: I find Ursula K. Le Guin work just ok. Very overrated. But it's not hard to read something like Earthsea and you can then say you've done it.
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I phrased that poorly, I didn't mean in this case. I'm thinking in general of study after study that shows most people can't tell the difference between red or white wine without the color as a guide.

Also, "Wine" to "Why am", classic autocorrect. I wonder how much longer we're all going to get to enjoy them?
Just saw a Buick commercial touting their in-car wifi and my first thought was, why is this something I want to pay extra for? Whatever crappy mobile network device it has is already older than my iPhone/Hotspot and I'm tied to whoever their provider is for however much they want to charge.

Let me run it in reverse. Let my connect my phone using my frequently updated hardware and the network that I want to use. I've got power so I don't care about the battery drain, and I gaurantee I will have a better speed/data cap/price relationship than whatever tiers they will have.

Better yet, instead of the crappy infotainment system make it Android and/or AirPlay capable and let the phone run the head unit and you just have a dumb display.
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I wish I had saved a link to it, but a study on affordability marked an average earning household of about $35k/yr as being able to afford an $8,000 car. In order to be able to afford the "average" $33,000 car took a $90k/yr income.
I'm echoing /u/bogomipz' request for elaboration. I rely heavily on docker-managed data volumes for data. The advice in these threads of comments is alarming. Should I conclude that hackernews devs don't understand docker-managed volumes, or is there some glaringly obvious downside that I'm failing to see?
Any business that has a long delay between collecting revenue and delivering product is vulnerable to this - it's one of the reasons, for instance, that life insurance is so highly regulated. Grey-market auto sales (eg of high-end sports cars that need to be imported & converted), real estate development (Galt's Gulch in Chile), and sales of silencers or other highly regulated firearms stuff (lots of paperwork to wait for) are other examples. Hell, even Kickstarters are notorious for this.

One problem is that it's really difficult to distinguish business incompetence from never intending to follow through, so often the guy pulling the scam won't be prosecuted and pops back up pulling the same scheme in a different market. It's totally legal to solicit orders and only then try to fulfil them, and depending on the market sometimes there is an issue actually getting the product.
Unions shot themselves in the foot here. Some of the new construction projects would have been run by union shops. Now, they won't happen at all. Net result: fewer union jobs than there could have been.

At some point, the unions will need to realize that stuff is going to get done with or without them. They can be part of the process, or not. If they are part of the process, they get some jobs out of it. This should have been a no-brainer.
I don't know exactly the area you're talking about, but 96th Street, Manhattan NY?

Probably lot more than you think[1].

[1] https://www.plugshare.com/
It's actually really dangerous to do that kind of driving without taking significant breaks on a regular basis. But, sure if you do this regularly enough you can't either rent a gas car or spend an extra hour or 2 then fine. However, nobody I knew has done a trip like that in the last decade.
Or a rating system like how Uber works. I mean the idea of getting into a car with a random stranger isn't that awesome of an idea and yet it works. Maybe like "Perv: 3 stars. Politics: 2 Stars." So that people who want to talk to perverts could find highly rated perverts easily. Otherwise, you just talk to people who want to chat about general things.
Impossible to read without subscribing. Incognito doesnt work. Clicking on google search link doesnt work.
>(Can you imagine how the world would work if this was the norm?)

Probably fine as long as there are no emergencies.
I couldn't agree more.

That's actually my biggest complaint with Java for true beginners; "hello word" has half a dozen concepts you can't omit but also can't even begin to explain.

I just get hand-wavy and say "it's a required heading that Java requires; I'll explain it later."
Hahaha...

Googles

Ok seriously, stop, I can only take so much of this whiplash. That's right up there with not wanting to breath the same air as the "Peasants".
However, a gasoline powered car also takes engine oil and transmission fluid if it's an automatic. It will also require regular servicing of the engine and eventual replacement of worn seals etc.

If the fuel cost per mile is the same the electric car could still be cheaper. I can't say how much though, because that depends on the servicing cost per year vs the battery replacement cost and that depends on your local service department.
Power cables.

I feel as though I've lost my mind over the course of a single, brief conversation online. This is the "golden umbrella stand" of the electronic world.
"Sooner" - I thought it would happen in 2012 when in Germany one of their largest energy provider "secretly" built a network of chargers which are more-less unused today.

Also, Lithium is a finite element, battery production causes quite a lot of environmental damage during extraction, manufacturing and disposal (of course not amortized to future necessary environmental cleanup, but who cares about a remote place in Zimbabwe?), all of them energetically demanding as well and the proposed scheme of paying $80/month flat fee for a battery swap as well as electricity costs might not come cheaper than fossil fuels...
They meant "it is not [JFK signage]" which is a pedantic attempt to deflect because they either have nothing to add or think it's fine and rather not defend it directly. The profile image is specifically related to JFK by image (which he sought and chose)...making it intentionally confusing or casually confusing because he rather use a clip of an image from a site dedicated to JFK airport, rather than make up his own MSpaint image. Indefensible is the correct term, if-and-only-if Twitter has decided that monikers don't mean anything unless they do. There have been similar fights in naming Guilds in WoW, AOL usernames, etc. It's to be expected and acting surprised is just noise.
>And then in May, she got laid off from her job. So she moved onto her boyfriend's sailboat.

We need to have a moratorium on these stories about these fake feel good financial stories.
Why I started learning emacs in 2016
Aside: I've read the first 100-200 pages of Ulysses seemingly once every year for the last fifteen years trying to "get it" and always end up giving up. (Same for Proust and Pynchon). If you can provide any guidance about what Joyce communicates to you, please do.

(Gabriel Garcia Marquez was also in that group for a number of years/readings, but I finally got over the hump and love that style now. To the point that he may be my favorite author. I think Günter Grass was my stepping stone there.)
A presentation of this work is available at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raPkxhHy5ro
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but look at the bright side, you get to sit at the front of the bus!
Get Last Modified Date of Raster Image, WMF to PDF and Webp Conversion Using Java
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Am I the only one that doesn't seem to get addicted to coffee? I can drink a cup and go right to bed. I love coffee and drink a cup a day, but can also stop without any ill effects. I don't think I've ever had a caffeine headache. I travel for work for a week or two at a time and have gone entire trips without any caffeine.
I think the young Le Guin just needed to build the mythology and cosmology to set up her fantasy world for the Earthsea stories. And hers isn't really so different from the cosmology/theology in some actual folklore. So she just set it up and went on telling the actual Sparrowhawk stories.

Then decades later she started to think of the implications of the chosen cosmology. They are cruel, but so are some of the actual folklore cosmologies. And then she invented this way to correct the cruel features in the fabric of her cosmology, and to write a very unique novel about it.

I don't see any hints in her pre-2001 Earthsea stories that she'd had intended this feature to be "fixed" later.
Is this a solution to the problem? Probably not.
> Her emphasis is not on technobabble or flashy new gadgets. Her style is ...anthropologic. Technology and space travel are there, but in the background.

That sounds like a general description of the "space opera" genre: more emphasis on numerous people and their complex interactions.
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Clicked on this expecting to see another millennial self entitled "why I left" rant, but found a well written, horrifying article on deception and underhanded shenanigans.

The CEO of this startup qualifies be listed under the other discussion on here about psychopaths running companies.
Clicking the Google search link is working for me. Did you install some privacy proxy that may be screwing with referrer headers?

Or is there some new requirement they're checking?
That's exactly what I meant, though. "YesNoModalPopup" is the name of a semantic behavioural contract, not a concrete implementation class whose name describes what you'll see. In instantiating a YesNoModalPopup, there would be required fields for button labels—even though those field-values will only be used on OSX.

With an abstract+declarative toolkit, you would still have to do just as much customization toward your use-case as you would if you were writing one view class for each GUI. You just get to skip the marginal cost of everything that's not that customization. You can have a single code path to create, and show, and receive input from, the instance of the pop-up abstraction.
I understand that you're joking, but my students deeply understand the fundamentals. They can code everything from scratch without having to Google anything or ever reference Stack Overflow.

My program is very strong. Some of my former students now write code for Microsoft, Google, Apple, Facebook and Dropbox. (Haven't gotten anyone hired at Amazon yet, though!)
Yes but for comparison you would need to code something in Go that's really complicated now. At the time being a Geocities user put you in an extremely rare cohort, which is of course why they originally sold for a billion bucks. Those of us who used it were extremely valuable users from a long term point of view. The first people on the internet who made their own websites AND linked all of the relevant stories everywhere else on the internet.
If you want to be pedantic, Caml was bootstrapped from Lisp, not C. Quoting from http://caml.inria.fr/about/history.en.html

"The first implementation of Caml appeared in 1987. This implementation compiled Caml down to LLM3, the virtual machine of the Le_Lisp system."
Maybe I should just learn Esperanto or some other more consistent language...
I had always assumed that electricity was far cheaper than gasoline

As you note, in many places electricity is far from cheap. Also you need to amortize the cost difference of a Tesla vs a conventional car. That's hard to justify as long as a Tesla costs in the neighborhood of $100,000.

But, perhaps generate that electricity on your rooftop! The utilities have lobbied effectively to lower the feed-in prices they must pay, so it may increasingly be cheaper to use that solar power yourself. I not up on the details, but perhaps this is one argument Musk is using to support Tesla's proposed acquisition of SolarCity?

many people, like my father, will choose to continue to drive gas-powered cars

I agree with you. I don't think the article made a very good case for electrics cars. The "gadget" market isn't that large for such an expensive item.

That said, I think I'd buy something like a Tesla once the pioneers have endured all the arrows in their backs and the bugs are worked out. So maybe 2025 might be the tipping point, as the article posits?
I can see where you're going but I don't think it's correct. There are clearly cases where an error will mess you up whether it goes as far as in C or not. Other times, the language or tooling prevents the error before runtime to ensure correctness. Are you aware of the benefits of Design-by-Contract (Ada/Eiffel), static proving (SPARK), or dependent types (ATS), though? The correctness criteria you can encode in them can straight-up prevent errors at interface or algorithmic expression levels. Three of these have been used for low-level code with two often in real-time and one for an 8-bitter. Depending on automation or interactive use involved, the errors caught at compile-time can increase pretty far past what a basic, low-level, type system can do.

So, we already know we can knock out extra classes of errors with such languages. It was proven in theory and in the field. Using or improving them is just good engineering. We can also make more languages in trial-and-error discovery process to see if we find more benefits. Exceeding C's benefits, though, is already empirically proven to be worthwhile whether it's a Myrddin, a SPARK, or an ATS.
Are we the only two people who know this??
Could reach out to local non-profits and offer to update their sites.
I've had a Leaf for going on a year now and one thing I love about it is that I never need to worry about the inconvenience of stopping at a gas station. :)

But I'm with you that I don't really see the point of public charging stations. All the places I drive during the day are within my ~100 mile range (putting a charger at a grocery store, as they mention in the article, makes little sense given that). If I needed to drive somewhere that was not in my range, I sure as heck wouldn't gamble on one of the few charger stations being available.
Arguably more embarrassing than auto correct, I was dictating it to my phone.
There are obviously different types of wine, like dry and sweet at the simplest extreme. Sure, color may be hard or impossible to taste (which should be obvious, right? you can't taste the difference between a yellow fruit and a red fruit, it doesn't classify that way), but there are still different flavors.
Maybe you're right? It has to be the right person/people. Also, combine pairing with an open office and now you have two people with double the chances of being interrupted. So it's circumstantial.
Popularize a corollary! Paying for something doesn't protect you from being monetized.

Or something like that.
How they did it: behind two of the biggest Super Bowl spots
The battery in a Tesla costs $12k-40k to replace, though it's under warranty for 8 years.
>free labour

I'm normally pretty sensitive to stuff like this as well, but I've signed up and transcribed a few pages so far. As a (very amateur) genealogist, I've benefited so, so much from digitized records, most of which I was only able to find because someone else transcribed them and made them searchable. I'd guess, especially given who's organizing this, that the results of this would be made available to the public. Either way, I haven't paid a dime to the transcribers of the countless documents I've accessed, this seems like a way of giving a little in return.
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Wouldn't the increase in demand for electricity also increase the price? Also, if the majority of consumers start switching to electric, I'm pretty sure the automobile and oil companies will respond. Not that that's a bad thing or anything.
If "Space opera" is about the great arches of (imagined) history, Le Guin's stories are more at a human level. Le Guin is not opera, she is chamber music.
If I'm understanding the article correctly this goes beyond not getting paid because the CEO is juggling accounts - the Wells Fargo thing is probably criminal.
The warranty on the battery pack is 60 months / 60,000 miles. A replacement battery costs $5,500 plus taxes and labor. I wonder how many on Craigslist don't want to write that check.
Where do students learn how to understand a problem, break it down into parts, document requirements, and plan development?
Happy user of DeployBot here. Does exactly what it's advertised it does.
Air? I wouldn't feed my grapes the swill you breathe:
http://www.carneroshills.com/about/terrior/

"The idea of terroir has a mystical aspect. However, salt water, tides, moist morning air, cool afternoon breezes, nightly fog, rolling hills, mineral soil and intense mid-day sunshine allow Carneros to be a truly unique appellation. Vineyards in close proximity to each other produce distinctly different wines, each a true expression of its terroir. And yet, there is always an overriding Carneros identity, a product largely of the dominating maritime climate."
I disagree. Fuel is only one part of a car's cost. The capital expense, maintenance and insurance are other costs.

You pay a really high premium for electrics. If you insist on buying a new car, the TCO of a Honda Fit or similar car will be lower than an electric, and you avoid whatever bullshit that you need to deal with from the vendor (i.e. Using the dealer for all repairs) and dealing with charging stations and carrying the various adapters.