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Disclaimer: this is a somewhat personal-nuanced and anecdotal essay, so skip it if you prefer colder facts. You've been warned. ;)

Eastern European (Bulgarian) 36-year old programmer here, still living in Sofia (the capital).

We don't miss communism and socialism. At all. A good chunk of us around here are competitive and want to demonstrate skills for better money. There are frauds and freeloaders but hell, is there a community where there isn't?

I've witnessed the fall of our regime (1989) when I was 9. Later on the fall of the USSR followed. I didn't quite appreciate these events back then but the effect on the standard of living on the other hand was VERY visible.

It has been a very gradual process, but our country is bleeding brains, skills and money -- badly, and all the time. Quite frankly I don't think that the EU countries are so much better; what good is a triple salary if your rent and bills are triple the amount as well? The only real benefit I guess is to get a citizenship several years down the line and not be afraid that yet another shady government will appropriate all retirement funds and you'll be left with peanuts when you eventually grow old.

My mother lives with me and my girlfriend. Her pension is 60 euros. You read that correctly, it's not a typo. If it wasn't for me, she'd be yet another old woman with eyes full of tears, struggling not to die of cold on the street, and to have a few mouthfuls of bread a day. (Father died a long time ago, back in 2002)

We at Eastern Europe are diverse people. We don't frown upon at either situation -- living with or without parents, but for many people living in a bigger flat/house with the family is simply more convenient (my mother's cooking is absolutely fantastic and is easily worth €30 a meal, I am pretty sure of it!) and makes much more sense financially. It is what it is, we can't do much about it.

Long story short: I am now in ~ €20,000 debt and the thought of getting a mortgage is making me grind my teeth. As other posters said, we're not even close! My mother and father were working governmental jobs and they had an apartment fully paid for when they were at their ages of 40-42. Had two cars. And that was a backwater communistic/socialistic country, a mere satelite of the USSR. I can't imagine how much better many others had it really.

(The fact that I should probably look for a higher paid job since I am in demand is an irony that doesn't escape me, but that's a personal struggle interwoven with many other factors which I won't touch upon here.)

The article has struck many nerves in me. It's true not only in the USA.
This is true. What I find puzzling is that advertisements have most of the same issues but many people accept them. You could argue that people's acceptance of ads suggests they should accept micropayments, or people's rejection of micro payments suggests they should reject ads. But I put up with ads and haven't signed up for any micro payment schemes yet.
Why exactly would we want to do that? OpenJDK is already the main branch/upstream/however you want to name it, most people just don't use it for various reasons. Maybe this will change now, problem solved.
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mdo is one of the creators of bootstrap. I also feel it's probably time to move on from IE < 11, and possibly even then depending on your real needs. Even MS has worked pretty hard to get people off of IE and into Win10+Edge
That may be a decade from now or a century from now, but either way fusion power will have very little in common with the nuclear fission power that we have now. Different fuels, different waste products, different tech, different facilities. It's kind of pathetic, that today's nuclear technology attempts to bask in the PR glow of something that doesn't exist and which won't resemble it when it does exist. You don't hear solar advocates bragging about how great the Dyson sphere of solar-microwave satellites will be, five hundred years from now.
This is why Hillary lost, the common man has big problem with this, but it was not a priority for Hillary who took tons of money from the tax dodging oligarchs.

I vote for Hillary, but only reluctantly.
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In this example, the loop bound is from the lhs, so llvm can prove that it will never get out of bounds and elide the bound checks. But llvm can't be sure that the rhs has the same size, so it can't elide the bound checks for the rhs.

However, there's a trick. Take a look at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/commit/6a7bc47a8f1bf4441ca... where the Rust developers had the same issue, and managed to avoid the bound checks without having to use unsafe code. You have to somehow make the optimizer see that both sides have the same length, so it'll elide both bounds checks. A slice is actually a pair of a pointer to the first element, and the length. Their trick copies the length from one slice to the other (after a bound check, obviously), so the compiler is sure that the lengths are the same.
> Add on to this the customer support, marketing, warranties, legal expenses, returns and other typical overhead of production.

This is often why startups and SMEs can sell at lower cost too. The overheads are lower. I work for a medical devices company and our main competitor is more expensive than us and keeps having layoffs (or so it is rumoured). It's hard for them to cut prices for similar products when they have 10x the staff.
> Now that I know this tree exists, I have little doubt I'd die after a hike in the Caribbean.

It's really not that big a deal. On most islands they are clearly marked with a red band. Don't touch them, don't eat strange fruit off the ground, and don't stand under them in the rain and you'll be fine. Even if not marked, just don't go groping trees. Don't worry about breathing the air, that part is sensationalist bullshit.

What's more dangerous, as tour guides will be happy to tell you, are coconut palms: Falling coconuts are responsible for more deaths per year than shark attacks. (Although that says more about the rarity of shark attacks, I guess...)

Oh well, atlasobscura seems to need the clicks.
What is the Bart problem?
You were pointing out an uncomfortable truth.
Apparently you failed the scum detector. Good luck in your future encounters.
Do these issues effect clojure which use the jvm and can rely pretty heavily (depending on application/dev preference) on Java interop?
The relative bandwidth in ultasound is immense conpared to radar etc where a relatively narrow bandwidth is used. As an example one of our probes in university days was something like from 5 to 30MHz. Doesn't save much if we would mix it down that 5. Instead of 60MHz ADC we would need 50MHz. Not worth it.
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Life expectancy is way below 100 years currently. Even for people born now, it's probably only 100 years in some developed countries.
> Even after deploying for the Fukushima disaster, I am a fan of nuclear power.

I'm quite the opposite, I'm really affraid of this technology where everything could go wrong if your are not paying 100% attention to every single details. This is quite the opposite of the way our era works where everything most be done as quickly and cheaply as possible.

> But I have a hard time justifying new investment in an era where solar is competitively priced. The downside of solar is approximately 0 compared to the downside of a reactor accident.

Price is a really bad metric in this case, as long as people use most of their electricity by night or during winter (which is the case in most of Europe, and in the US for everybody living nothern than DC) your can't rely on solar as your main power source.

Solar only makes sense for regions where the biggest power consumer is air conditionning. For countries like Morroco, Saudi Arabia and maybe California, but don't expect solar to be relevant to supply Beijing, New York or Paris.

It will never happens until we make enormous breakthrough in electricity storage (which I bet we'll never do at this scale).

Their is no silver bullet, especially when we talk about renewable ressources, and the best energy is the energy we don't consume !
Humans mean probably "a member of primates" in this context. A lot of fruit plants coevolved with primates but following the other direction. We are big diseminators of seeds and an interesting target to atract and spoil.

Fruits designed for dinosaurs-birds and fruits designed for mammals are often very different in its chemical composition.
Its quite fun to imagine, how ultimately the urge to share your life with other ( all trillion $ semiconductor industry for what, sharing your cat pic ? ), has propagated whole era of advance semi conductor technology, which in turn have been primary cause of reduction in solar power price.
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I am wondering why python community focus seems to be shifting away from gevent and towards the asyncio framework.

Am I the only one who finds the programming style of using async/await inferior to that of gevent?
A law like that would effectively be the abolition of the rule of law itself. No self respecting constitution would allow it. It would be incompatible with most international treaties and a violation of human rights.

Laws are by definition different from ruling by decree on a case by case basis. If a government had the right to pass laws such as the one you suggest without limits, it would effectively expempt itself from complying with any law at all. All other laws would simply cease to exist.

It could for instance decide to give tax breaks to relatives of ministers or to anyone who bribes the prime minister or apply different tax rates depending on color of skin or slap punitive taxes on opposition media to destroy them.

If a majority in a country were to give its government such powers, say in a constitutional referendum, it would mean that democracy has been abolished.

Democracy is impossible without the rule of law, without minority rights, without human rights, without balance of power.
I found most articles on the subject very confusing. But from what I read, the commercial features in the Java SE download are behind a very obvious flag (UnlockCommercialFeatures), which should avoid accidentally using those features without knowing it.

The definition of "general purpose computing" is confusing to me, I've no idea where full computers/desktops that control specific devices would fall under this definition.
I think it's probably sensible to start after the industrial revolution.
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Everything gets built faster and more cheaply in China than in e.g. USA. Nuclear plants aren't special in that sense. There are trade-offs involved, and probably we could build stuff a bit faster here, but let's figure out how to build highways cheap and fast before blithely assuming we have the answer for cheap and fast nuclear plants.
Sure, but just as you demonstrate you have fewer distinct characters when you use diacritic than when you don't. And arguing whether Е and Ё are same character with diacritics, or just different letters that happen to have diacritics by the virtue of canonizing in alphabet is really splitting hairs. They serve same purpose, in the same circumstances, with the same visual arrangement. Quacks like a duck etc.
So, what does he think about Emacs?
But it's a private market? the only people who should be suffering are those who own generation equipment which can't keep up with the higher rate of change of dispatch. E.g. Steam turbine operators.

I think your point has some merit if the net effect is higher power prices overall. Unfortunately I don't have this information...

Either way, the reality is that renewable technology is making the slow-ramping generators uneconomical. Even if you remove wind-farms from the supply side of the equation you still have roof-top solar eating into the demand side and creating a daily demand profile which requires gas/liquid fuel generators to match.

I've seen a recent example of a cool summer day (Australian) where the daily demand minimum actually occurred at mid-day due to coincidence of maximum roof-top solar generation and low air-conditioning use! Under this kind of scenario your nuclear/coal steam turbine will be running at a horrible financial loss...
Of course sponge never does anything, he/she's got a guy for that!
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Because the act of writing a program is known as "coding".
Silly me, I thought it was results!
Just tested Firefox Nightly 53 with the three bookmarklets I use most often, they all work in 53. Therefore it must have been a bug with the 51 version.
I'm a bit sad for the dropping of IE 9 support, if only because it was the first IE that had a "fast" JS engine and didn't take forever to render our JS heavy site.
Pumped hydro seems simplest, and we often have the power plant already in place.

But temperature differential storage, pressure differential storage, and creating hydrogen all seems to scale better to me.
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Since everything else I've ever heard about BART is bad, I'm going to surmise that mobile connectivity while riding it is bad too.
Well put. I'm trying to imagine a hospital asking a third party to insure a homemade medical device. Would never happen.
> But, even if in the request/second area Python might be doing great now, won't there be problem down the line with the GIL?

Yes, you'll probably have to move the really work down to a cluster based job queue.
This seems like a huge cultural difference from the west. I personally can't imagine having lived with my parents into my 20s. The people I know who did are mostly far more dependent. I think this has a lot to do with our focus on individuality. I don't think I would have developed into the person I am today without having dealt with the hardships of making my own way in life as an independent person. I can absolutely see the financial and emotional benefits, but I would feel constantly stifled and unable to be my own person with that level of family intrusion in my life.
Yeah, but what does "CommercialFeatures" mean? How much do each use of each function costs you? If you are already paying for standard Java support, wouldn't you assume it includes these features?

Also, one particular company with tens of thousands of installations was hit by Oracle lawyers because a software they bought from third party had for some reason this flag enabled.
OK, so you walk in to a bar. The barman says, "£10 please, there's music playing that you've consumed".
You chose to walk in.
Unless they post a sign at the door, saying a concert is on and the price of entry then they're not (legally/morally) entitled to charge you.

The web equivalent is a paywall.

Now, bars put on free music. And you can go to them and not buy a drink regardless that the landlord puts on the music to get you to buy.

The landlord might get paid to have advertising up, like on a toilet vending machine. But me choosing not to look at it isn't morally wrong.

Arguably, even if I never buy a drink I can benefit the establishment socially.

The problem comes when the establishment not only needs pay the workers and buy the beer but also pay the breweries management and return dividend to share holders.

The web has moved to that stage where the capitalists have moved in - like large breweries owning pubs. Forums aren't run by the admins they're owned by media conglomerates, etc.. I'm really not sure it's made the web a better place.

Now, get off my lawn.
Consider my viewpoint as one in opposition to your own.

My personal experience—I've met people who are well read but don't read well, if you know what I mean. People who read Nietzcshe and think that they can get by with less sleep because they're übermensch. Yes, I've actually met two people who have come to that particular conclusion. I imagine that they eventually grew out of it, but was it reading, specifically that caused this, or just the general experience of life (of which reading is one part)?

If your attitude is that you are reading to challenge yourself with views that you disagree with, then you are going to find it easier to expand your mind. But that's not why everyone reads, not everything you read will expand your mind, and that kind of attitude will allow you to expand your mind in many other ways as well (besides reading).

I'm also not sold on the idea that youth are idealists in some kind of ideological sense. I feel that it comes across that way, but only because as I get older, I am a better judge of how I can actually change the world, and I might as well devote my resources to where I can make the biggest difference. In other words, we may become more or less idealist as we get older, but being pragmatic is literally a skill that requires experience to develop.

And if you doubt that you are still idealistic, remember that you are the one arguing that it's hard to "learn garbage" from reading—perhaps an ideological standpoint, from my perspective ;-)
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And since 1984, well before Perl was a thing, C coders have had their "International Obfuscated C Code Contest".
we not only need accelerated minimum wages consensus and field trials, but also defined way to remove wealth from the top few using such creative ways, that wealth still become desirable pursuit.
So will just searching for the email while you're logged in. I believe that's expected behaviour.
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> This is why Hillary lost, the common man has big problem with this, but it was not a priority for Hillary who took tons of money from the tax dodging oligarchs.

So the common man voted for a billionaire oligarch who publicly boasted that avoiding taxes made him smart?

The common man was taken for a sucker.
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What's wrong with regular Fukushima scale disasters? They're not very deadly. We already have frequent mining disasters in the coal industry and don't care about that. If anything, nuclear power needs less safety to reduce costs and become competitive.

For some reason people are still scared of radiation even after seeing how harmless Chernobyl turned out to be compared to predictions.
Agreed. They don't need to make it impossible, they just need to make it inconvenient enough so for most users, copying stuff out of DRM isn't worth the hassle.

This cuts both ways. It's more convenient to watch a movie from a file on a NAS than it is to watch a DVD, especially if the DVD has unskipable ads or is coded for the wrong region.
You can inject window.$ and window.jQuery via webpack directly, making the inclusion implicit... there's a minor amount of additional script added, and it makes it unavailable to attach to the actual window, but I find the DOM interfaces sufficient in the console anyway.
Avoiding an ongoing fork shows a great deal of maturity. Way better than merging a fork that's 5 years out.
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I think it's just lack of experience - specifically, experience dealing directly with users whose things aren't working right. It takes very little time in such a role to learn that, when someone is already annoyed because one of their tools is malfunctioning in a way that takes time away from things they actually care about, being cutesy about it helps nothing and nobody.
Has anybody dared to research if EPS8266 contains a backdoor? Its origin and mass deployment makes me more than nervous.
Funny thing is, it's 10 times harder to get the DRM'd version than the clean version.
I am a self taught Ruby/Rails developer who has recently started dipping my toes in the world of Elixir and Phoenix.

I am having a lot of fun as I find it to be a refreshing approach to web development.

Elixir's guide is quite exhaustive. You can easily start building a toy app over a weekend.

I have open sourced the source code for my blog/web-shop that I built using Elixir/Phoenix. I am not an Elixir expert and this is not the best written Elixir app, but if anyone wants to look at the code for a simple CMS and shop built with Elixir and Phoenix, here is the link - https://github.com/authentic-pixels/ex-shop.

Here is a link to the live website - https://www.authenticpixels.com/
typing an email address into facebook search will reveal facebook user. that is not a secret
You're not the only one. I too am fond of the implicit context switching that we can have with gevent.
While we'll have to agree to disagree about ownership of capital leading to increased inequality, I definitely agree with you when you say that you "do not think that the supply of skilled worker can adapt fast enough" to the demand. I think that while education is fundamental, even if it were always of a high quality and free, not everyone has the temperament or innate ability necessary to make the commitment to getting sufficiently qualified.
Deserts aren't defined by being a warm place they are defined by having little to no precipitation; some of the largest deserts on earth are in fact frozen wastelands.

P.S.
WUWT is a website that actively promotes climate change denial; so flagged for this very reason.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watts_Up_With_That
> It's more convenient to watch a movie from a file on a NAS than it is to watch a DVD, especially if the DVD has unskipable ads or is coded for the wrong region.

Absolutely. One of the reasons for Netflix success is that it is so simple to use compared to alternatives. Open, click, watch.
> The whole program could be a lie, cleverly calculated to mimic the one you really intended.

The standard has a similarly convoluted way of saying that, in a nutshell, C compilers are permitted all optimizations under the as-if rule. (§ 5.1.2.3)
My reading of the political argument is a bit different. Recent elections testify to a strengthening antipathy to expert authority. In an argument about nuclear power, the authoritarian experts are all going to be on one side. If the authoritarian experts happen to win, and then within a decade or two something awful happens as it inevitably will, that will just undermine those authoritarian experts even more. Then how will they convince the public to stop eating meat or whatever?
This comment makes me sad.

Children should be loved and cherished, not abandoned.
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Be careful about generalizing from your own experience. Only 0.4% of Brits own a second house, let several large holiday homes. While there were certainly some years of rapidly increasing consumer welfare, most of their gains were in stuff we take for granted today, not luxuries.
Regarding labels, whether one believes humans are innately good or evil I have found more telling than the more popular labels people like to assign to themselves.
>The downside of solar is approximately 0

Solar doesn't work at night, and suffers greatly on cloudy days.

How will baseline demand overnight be supplied with solar? How will people run their air conditioners and datacentres?
A bit off topic, but since I saw some complaints about DRM, Mozilla does distribute an "EME" free version of the browser also. This disables the plugin download and removes the checkbox altogether.

The only place I've ever found it was via the ftp (or http to the ftp site):

Example for the latest version as of this post: https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/50.1.0/ just look for the EME free folders.

Also the 'learn more page': https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-drm

edit: more about the subject - https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/05/reconciling-mozillas-missi...
Don't be naive. Governments and corporations will just devise laws that you HAVE TO buy these goods. How do you muster the money is, and always will be, your problem.

They'll find a way to make money, don't you worry about that at all. They'll sooner make you owe money by the mere fact you're born than to give up.