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> It's not reasonable to expect other software developers to refuse to raise rational points of inquiry that you've based your argument on because it may result in weakening your argument on the merits.

> I'm not saying any argument is weakened.

Let's be consistent.

> I want to be associated with a community of people who are looking for the truth, even if it leads them somewhere difficult, not protecting themselves at the expense of others

A few things:

1. Nobody here has said "don't talk about it, period". Even Software dev #2 from your example has further commented that the criticism is aimed at the forum rather than the topic, due to its high visibility among people who often create labor policies

2. What exactly is "difficult" about a truth backed by scientific data? Also, what in aetherson's original, entirely-opinion comment resembles truth? They themselves are admitting a dearth of data on the issue, then proceed to classify the 40-hour workweek as "wishful thinking" and "probably mostly untrue" - again, without any data to support. How is that a quest for truth again?

3. Who are these "others" you say we are protecting themselves at the expense of? I'm really having difficulty understanding how a plea for labor solidarity alienates anyone except those who profit from undervaluing labor - i.e. management and moneygrubbers.

>And I certainly don't want to be associated with a group that not only doesn't want the truth, but yells at anyone within that group who dares to challenge the consensus.

A few more things:

1. Please tell me what part of saying "I'm sad" and "please don't" in ThrustVectoring's original response is yelling, again?

2. I'm not sure where you live, but where I live class consciousness and work-life balance is decidedly not the consensus. The consensus is actually very clearly aligned with aetherson's claims - that "working lots of hours is totally fine probably don't worry about it", and that as long as you're getting yours everything is fine. It doesn't even seem to be the consensus in this very thread - so it might be prudent to examine why you feel attacked as a minority when you very clearly aren't holding a minority opinion.

3. You haven't actually engaged with any of the arguments here about labor solidarity, but have instead managed to make the conversation about how mean the big scary class-conscious consensus is to the little folk who dare to question whether working more hours in a week might be a good thing. I have a hard time taking this as a serious discussion if you won't grapple with the issues on a substantive level.

Associate with whatever group you like, but it is not the responsibility of people to make you comfortable with ideas you don't like. It's your job to figure out why they make you uncomfortable and investigate that anxiety - or not, you could just do what you did here and dismiss all discussion because people were being mean and "yelling".

Thanks for the chat.
> he only truly cares about himself

that's one hell of a claim
As I said, generics are missing, and the core team is working at them. But I really appreciate that they do not implement something like the Java generics.

If your code produces errors, you can of course add location information like stack traces, there is an API for that.

I have not benchmarked Go against Java explicitly, but I do benchmark against C and it compares very nicely in performance to C code, so for most tasks it should be as fast or faster than Java code. Go gives you more flexibility about memory layout (true value types), which keeps GC times down.

I am a programmer, with 20 years of Java on my belt and I quite love Go.
This obviously depends on the investor, but yes, in many cases, knowing that your money will at least keep its value (or increase with inflation) is sufficient.
There's a difference between respecting someone's ideological preference, and discouraging hate speech. I like to think of it like this: your liberties to express ideology end where someone else's human rights begin.

I would disagree with firing someone for saying that they liked Trump. I would agree with firing someone for making racist, sexist, or otherwise derogatory comments toward a co-worker. I think that's what GrubHub's CEO is getting at.
Data did not fail you. You purposely disregard the data that showed a different narrative from the narrative that you wanted to push. In an attempt to appear unbiased and to preserve your credibility, you're now pushing a new narrative, the narrative that data failed.

This is why Trump won. Because voters are tired of the constant media bullshit, like this.
The use of "deplorables" is presumably a reference to Clinton's remarks and it's really interesting you reference that here because her point of that comment is similar to yours in that you can't just lump all Trump supporters into the racist and xenophobic basket that many people did. I agree with you and I will gladly argue politely with people who are willing but I don't think it's unfair to criticize such damaging views in a presidential candidate.
Any plans/word on Ruby support?
Golang is far far inferior in many ways, for scientific programming. For starters, it doesn't have generics.
They are going to try and tie in AirBnB regulation with this as well (sort of). Since places wouldn't be considered occupied when you have 20 of them renting them out as full time AirBNBs.

To get around it you will need a business license for each unit, which is also taxed. Business license #'s must be displayed on the temporary rentals website under the listing. Business licenses can only be obtained with permission from your strata. They think they can free up another 2000+ rentals this way as well.

AirBNB is running an insane ad campaign here that mostly pisses off every Vancouverite I know in my echo chamber of EVERYONE UNDER 35.

I work at one of the big Universities here. It is crazy biking in the summer through affluent ghost neighborhoods. Lots of the older big houses that were tore down were rentals to like 6-8 students at a time, or had basement suites. Now they are empty boxy white McMansions.
I think it is the government to be blamed failed to give a proper direction of the hot money.
_.get() is the killer feature of lodash.
Care to share some batshit crazy development environments?
If the picture is accurate, it looks like they're mostly worried about single-family homes. The investment market mostly values properties based on how much money they can make, so it's far more rational. Single-family homes aren't part of the investment market, and only exist in a housing supply shortage due to restrictive zoning laws.

I don't know enough about Canada to say why they have restrictive zoning laws. In the US, it's mostly government-backed mortgage programs and covert racism.

I don't care how rich the Chinese are; those properties would be demolished, rebuilt as apartments, and rented if it were allowed. Because the value of the property is directly proportional to its expected profit. It's only when the government disconnects the two that you ignore the rental profit. The Chinese government's currency controls probably don't help, either: The Chinese are willing to lose money as long as it's free from their government's currency controls.

Does Canada offer government-backed loans that are available to foreigners?
People make similar claims about NYC, Mumbai, etc. The numbers just don't add up. There aren't that many rich Chinese people.

In any case, suppose you are right. Why not keep building homes and selling them to those dirty chinamen? They want to throw money at Canada, why not take as much of it as possible?

Oh right, exclusionary zoning. Which I'm sure is also somehow the fault of evil foreign scapegoats rather than nice white middle class Canadians.

Maybe you guys should build a wall, and make the Chinese pay for it. Make Canada Great Again!
That depends on the change and the tests. Ideally the changes to individual tests should be zero (for irrelevant tests) and changes to the test fixture should be minimal.

Having said that, unit tests in the wild have a tendency to be abominably written, so I'm not surprised a lot of people get frustrated changes the tests.
>it is notoriously difficult to pin down what Trump stands for...

>he only truly cares about himself and only thinks about what will benefit him... and his penchant for "clean" coal is crystal clear

Which is it? It's hard to pin down what he stands for, or is it crystal clear?
Forgive me for my skepticism, but "clean" coal is now the preferred nomenclature by most coal proponents, including those who have no intention of incurring a 30% efficiency tax on coal consumers. It is as meaningful as "natural" is on a food label.
Blaming oneself for the actions of others is no solution, either.
It would be interesting to see a brave employee reply-all along the lines of: "I voted for Trump, and if you fire me, I'll sue you."
A lot of Red Hat employees (and engineers) use them. At least some of the models are very well supported.
The benefit to competitors would be limited, since as soon as they created a product that sold in high volumes, they'd use up their subsidy too.
This looks awesome. We had a very similar competition[1] twice a year at my university (a group of students created games like this, presented an API to those interested, and an average of ~100 students hacked away at bots for 24 hours) and I loved it. Will definitely give this a shot.

Related: it seems the winning strategy here is to surround your opponents. Is there any possible way to come back from being surrounded?

[1] https://megaminerai.com/competition/
A government passes a law limiting the number of cars that can be sold. Manufacturers switch to exclusively luxury cars as they have much higher margins. Rich people buy them because they can afford them and need them. Everyone gets mad at the manufacturers and the rich people instead of the idiotic legislation. If we killed zoning laws, allowed modular housing and dorm housing, rents would drop very quickly.
I have one, it is incredibly thin and light, even an Air seems chunky in comparison. It's a very nice, general purpose, highly portable computer.
It is: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/11/10/boss-tells-pro-trump-em...
Possibly, but only easy to borrow money to buy homes...rather than build more homes, otherwise that'd drive prices down.
Namely the incompetence in other sectors.
I'd expect Open AI (7/8 authors affiliated) to have open-source code associated with their publications, but this paper doesn't seem to have any link to code and their github page doesn't seem to have a repo associated with the project.

I thought the point of Open AI was that they be open (from their front page: "we seek to broadcast our work to the world") so it would be good if they could release code associated with their experiments.
Not really. We all know it's easy to tamper with an electronic system, which is why we don't trust them.

It's a lot harder to tamper with a paper and pen system where many people are involved. To many people to rat you out, too many people to have to all do the right thing at the right time, etc.
A couple thoughts:

- How do we get broad, bi/cross/multi-partisan support?

- Is there any precedence for news articles having citations/eligible for peer-review (post-published, of course) similar to scientific papers?
That's like saying, if you're poor, you should buy more money.
I agree: these machine names are Apple ][, ][+, ][e, etc and the //c.
Based on Dublin's experience. I think that a tax on unused but already zoned residential land would be more effective than one on "empty" homes.

Though in both cities it is bad planning laws, outwards not upwards growth, NIMBYism and other problems that are more of an issue than the fairly limited supply of empty homes.
Yeah the cucumbers are an excellent example and within the EU, or at least Germany the most ridiculed one. People here don't care that much about the curvature. In fact imperfect vegetables are considered more organic by many people. On the other hand cucumbers with not so good curvature get thrown away, increasing food prices.

The thing is this: most laws were invented with good intentions and reasoning behind. But that doesn't mean they thought well enough about them.
I laughed my ass off :D
I've found bolt to be completely awesome. I've made 5 or 6 sites with it, made a couple utility extensions, and used the local extension system to do stuff like custom search, a basic shopping cart, and a custom data export feature. Aside from the technology stuff it's got a positive community, good documentation, and active user base on the forum and chat.
An Apple developer account costs $99/year.

The ethical problem on macOS is that Apple is imposing artificial technical barriers to push people to pay Apple what amounts to "protection" money.

On iOS, there is no reasonable way to bypass the app store for the vast majority of users.
This guy should have just sent this letter directly to Thiel. Would have been a much faster way to ask for a job.
This is a joke. There is definitely no extension cable.

https://9to5mac.com/community/does-the-late-2016-macbook-pro...
The problem is that there's no effective way with (currently constituted) zoning law to 'trade' the externalities of density. You can't compensate your neighbours for shadows or traffic or other impacts in exchange for being able to build larger. So the choice faced by most residents is:

1) Acquiesce to high-density development, and receive zero compensation, or

2) Fight high-density development, and probably get zoning laws imposed at minimal personal cost.

You can see why this setup incentivizes people to push hard for "static neighbourhood" zoning law.
Similar here. I have one for home, one for traveling with. When the travel one starts to get too worn out, I'll swap them.
Title is wrong. He defined several actions that Trump demonstrated as grounds for immediate termination. He informed all his employees that if they do not follow company hr policies they should resign.
The Ruby on Rails podcast recently had Mike Perham on as a guest [0], where they talked a bit more about Sidekiq for those who are interested.

0: http://5by5.tv/rubyonrails/222
I dunno, maybe cause re-writing a 10 year old working app in another platform is not something that is easily achievable or even desirable.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
Just because you can't give a $ amount for the costs saved by reducing complexity, doesn't mean it doesn't have value. Simple is good.
The two aren't mutually exclusive. One can be notoriously difficult to pin down in general and yet clear on a few things.
I really love sidekick and use it in several projects. It's one of those gems that just feel really well put together and complete. And once you add it, it opens up all of these possibilities that you might not have considered previously.

Huge props to the developer, and I'm glad that he's been able to make a living off of this.
>Well, gonna have to research how Obama and Bush did it.

They process them through detention centers.

> I had to apply for a Green Card

Citizens of Mexico are not eligible for the green card lottery, so there is no way they can just "apply" for a green card. They would have to come on some kind of visa first.

> You can also apply for any work related visas that you qualify for

Most people do not qualify for any such visas. Mexicans can get NAFTA visas if they have the right kind of job offer (until Trump does away with NAFTA, of course), but those are nonimmigrant visas, and almost certain to be denied to people who have family in the US, since this would be taken as indication of immigrant intent.

>Or, you can marry a U.S. citizen

Difficult when you are living in Mexico.
Before I go in, I will state that in 99% of the times I'm a TDD hater. Actually I don't even like writing tests after the fact because I just like to build and move on.

I could never understand why the ruby on rails tutorial insisted on walking newbies through TDD and skipped all chapters where they start talking about tests when I started learning rails. I still think it's a bad idea to make newbies do all the weird TDD stuff when they don't even know how to build something.

I'm so opinionated about this that most people around me know this. And in most cases it works without needing to write any tests. And even if something fails, I can quickly patch it. As long as I wrote the app in a nicely modular way, I've not had much problem.

That said, right now I'm working on writing a JS library. And believe it or not, I AM doing TDD right now. I can't believe it myself.

I think in cases where the logic involves a lot of intricate details, it's impossible for me to write something without writing tests. I'm not talking about simple web apps. I'm talking about stuff like: template engine, parser, etc.

My current setup: I write a test and document it before I write a function. That way I don't get carried away while implementing and know exactly what I'm trying to build. Then I write another function that utilizes that function I just wrote, and so forth. This way I know when the next function doesn't work for some reason I know exactly where something went wrong. Instead going back and debugging every single function used along the way, I know it's the most recent one that's causing the problem.

So my conclusion: you probably don't need to write tests for all your stuff, but there are indeed cases where you will NOT be able to proceed without writing tests.
I think you're missing the point. We all looked to Apple for technical, user-focused innovation.. now all we're getting is a good-looking and expensive things that's best sold in a jewelers shop.

I really can't see this working out for them in the long run. (In the short term, sure.)
A great intro or refresher for a surprisingly large array of languages and some concepts - https://learnxinyminutes.com/

A great start for the generalist software developer/engineer - http://matt.might.net/articles/what-cs-majors-should-know/
Give this a try: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=felixfbe...
Housing is a good investment because it's illegal to make more of it. This makes the price of existing stock go up.

If you legalized the production of housing that would no longer be true.
CNN and many of the other MSM has even tried to pass Trump's win off as uneducated white men and women, which couldn't be further from the truth.

If you look at polling data, there are consistent correlations between education level and stated voting intent. So while there are definitely a number of complex factors at play, but I wouldn't say that that statement "couldn't be further for the truth".

Before the election, everyone around me was saying that if Trump supporters protest the election results, it was hurting the Democratic process. Now that Trump won, there are protests everywhere (including those same people).

My read on the protests it that people are overwhelmingly protesting the hate, ignorance and general obnoxiousness behind the vote -- not the electoral vote itself.

And in particular, they're not employing birther-style denialist tactics against it (which you can be quite sure Trump's people would have done, had things either not gone his way).
Won't there be third party vendors selling these adapters for much less? If it's just for travel I won't mind using one that's not from Apple.
It will be very interesting to watch the country for next few years.

The biggest difference between Obama and Trump is that Obama was just working for some law firm and happened to be a senator from Illinois when his movement took off. He didn't have any strong grudges against people or companies more than me or you. Trump is different. He once purchased a property next to airport for the whole purpose of suing that airport for the noise levels. After he lost 2 times, he sold the property. This is someone that will go after you time and time just because he can shell out sometimes not his money to use court system against you. When he settles, he call it "winning", when others settle he call them "losing".

I don't see this administration having large scandals like Obama did where clearly his buddies are making billions of dollars either in solar or healthcare, etc. I think Trump will make some progress for USA with his business experience, but unless he can change 180 overnight (doubt), I'm sure we will see a few scandals where he uses his presidential position and/or government apparatus such as IRS/DEA/FBI to go after those selected few individuals/companies who he couldn't digest over the years... that I can bet on!
You're arguing that vastly increasing supply will not lower house prices?
Well, his arguments certainly do seem sound. I think it's more that he is prepared to consider things based on the evidence rather than on the "correct" way of thinking, which I think is admirable. If more people had done that, we probably wouldn't have had a Trump victory at all.
Zoning is just one cause of high housing prices. If zoning allowed for greater supply, we'd have lower housing prices. No argument from me there. But if we believe that housing isn't meant to be an empty investment that pushes out local residents, we should regulate uses of housing that don't actually put roofs over heads.

Honestly, if you take your (a) point seriously seriously, I think you have a moral prerogative to regulate the market in that way. It decreases demand and absolute prices, sure, but trying to accommodate both investment and residency is exactly what Vancouver's been doing for the last 20 years, and it's why we're where we are now. Our local GDP is largely based on real estate. It's not great.
Dam thanks for pointing this out, i never realised this! We might look to build it into our open source security app for journos and NGOs.
I am on the same boat as these people that can't afford a home with these property prices. But, I don't blame other people for having more than me. The concept of private property is that anyone can do whatever they want with their property.
Until Atom or VS handles autoclose tags the way Sublime does out of the box, I'll have a hard time moving over. Sublime beauty packages also work great with a simple command to keep all my code nice and tidy.
I understand the response, certainly. But I don't think it's going to make housing (rental or ownership) substantially more available or cheaper in Vancouver - it'll just shuffle a few people around. And rich people don't just evaporate because you limit housing supply; they can arbitrage their way around most of these limits pretty easily.
Yeah there's a good number of people who just don't want exception handling and stack unwinding code in their binaries. If Rust is going to be a usable systems language, it at least needs to placate the needs of systems developers.
Yeah, jruby+truffle could be pretty amazing for ruby performance.

However, having multiple ruby implementations is great too, and they probably would rather keep working on an independent implementation that they have full control over, and whose goals may not align perfectly with that of other implementations.
Of course, macOS has better battery management than recent versions of Windows, but a "barebones" install of Windows (drivers and the tools you use without a bunch of services that run all the time) does have good battery life.

I think Apple generally puts more watt-hours in their systems as well, but don't quote me on that. :-)
List of United States presidential elections by popular vote margin
> why not just fund/subsidize the research and development until it's actually competitive?

Because R&D isn't all that's needed. It takes time to grow an industry. It's one thing to project future economies of scale, quite another to demonstrate that those economies are already being realized.

IIRC, battery prices are on track to fall by another 50% by 2023 or so. That will be a game-changer, and there's no way it could have happened through R&D alone.