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The headline and first few paragraphs are a disaster, because they set up everyone to get fighty about "savers". On closer inspection:

It says institutional investors such as pension funds, insurance companies and mutual funds, along with the sovereign wealth funds of oil-rich nations and central banks, hold around $100 trillion in assets under management.

This huge sum compares to US GDP of around $18 trillion and the total market value of US-listed companies in 2015 of $19 trillion (which today is more like $25 trillion).

Hyper-concentration of wealth is what's choking off the economy. An economy where most of the returns flow to the 0.01% is unsustainable.
Well, they still destroy unapproved drugs at the border and raid places like whole milk producers and nutritional supplement makers. It's not exactly "caveat emptor" over at the FDA.

My point is really that, if somebody's solution to the problem of people overdosing on drugs is to ban them or prohibit access, then they're defacto acquiescing to the tools that make the War on Drugs possible. People seem to expect drugs they don't like to just "go away", without any of the nasty raiding and shooting.
> Why do you say "bizarre meme"?

the bizarre meme is that they are 'replacements' for promises, they are really intended for (as you rightly put it) push streams which is a different, though occasionally overlapping, use case then promises.
Quinn Dunki did something like that when building her "Veronica" 68k computer. IIRC the VGA output remains AVR-based. Seems like a good way to go, provided you don't get bogged down in timing constraints.

If you just need to test a unit (and don't need full functionality), a nice logic analyzer works well... I have an HP 16700A with pattern generator, which I can use to simulate just about anything (more or less.. sometimes it's a bit cumbersome to use.)
In react native, NetInfo has an api to detect network changes and I use that to stop all my setIntervals and start again with a different set of args, including wait time before calling again.
> if your lambda function returns an object literal than you need to wrap it in a statement block with a return statement

Or you can just parenthesise the object literal:

>>> (x => ({ x }))(23)
Object { x=23 }

The grammatical ambiguity is unfortunate, sure, but the simplest work-around isn't so bad.
He mentioned he knows it isn't healthy.

Personally, I'm not a huge fan of the start up world these days, due to a lot of clashing ego's. But I can respect Jason for telling it straight.

I don't think anything should be "shamed", just because it's not something you agree with. Allow people to operate however they want, it's a free country after all.
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I think there are a large number of people that simply want a different mix of prohibition and enforcement than we have today.

It doesn't take a whole lot of doublethink to want laws around marijuana relaxed while at the same time preferring to keep the FDA.
I think you might have the idea that "Quality" is some sort of nitpicking, ambiguous goal. At most places I've worked, it just means well thought out, tested, architected code that follows best practices.
News reports the maximum possible sentence for a crime, whereas the crime would be sentenced under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, so 10 years max is often 1 year for a first time offender.

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

Edit: Also see https://popehat.com/2013/02/05/crime-whale-sushi-sentence-el...
> artificially low interest rates

I'm pretty sure this is market forces. Glut of savings --> low rates. Sure there are local exceptions and regulatory impacts, but those generally can't stand against the tide, so I'd say it's 95% natural.

> inflation of money supply

Depends on the currency, but in the case of USD, increasing the supply is necessary to avoid deflation, which would seem superficially good for savers, but would be disastrous for economic productivity.

> high taxes on earned income

???

> subsidies to speculators (housing subsidies)

I don't know much about this one, but I think most subsidies are homestead-y (to owner-occupiers and first-time buyers).
I am very happy with Go, but I love having Crystal and Rust around to keep up innovation for modern, compiled languages. Looks easy enough to jump between the three (though Crystal isn't quite ready on the lib front).

A unicode core, useful core packages (MIME, ECC/RSA, Templates, etc...), and easy parallelism are so nice coming from 90's scripting land.

Oh, and I love Go's err bubbling (keeps libs from dropping important messages) after years of Exception catching.
All central banks continuously print money because they consider their currency "too strong" and say this will hurt exports.

At some point the exchange rate falls and suddenly no one is happy with it either. Recent examples are China, GB, Brazil, Venezuela.

The truth is - as with your comment - a surging/falling exchange rate is neither good nor bad. It has positive and negative effects and things will balance out.

Or to say it differently:

An exchange rate is never low, nor is it high, it is precisely where it should be. - Gandalf the Grey
Private pensions also tie you directly to private finances, and market results decades in the future. You're also gambling that the money won't be stolen by the institutions or suffer a collapse in value - banking on a TBTF bailout in the future.

(Overstated slightly, but there is a role for both private and state pensions in a sensible system!)
In fairness, while Observables look similar to Promises and while it seems that a Promise could inherit from an Observable (like the Single type is doing in RxJava), this is one of those real-world cases of inheritance gone terribly wrong.

The fact of the matter is Observables get used for different use-cases than Promises. And for the use-cases for which Promises end up being used Observables are broken.

For example Observable's flatMap operation is most likely not memory safe and so it cannot be used in a "tail recursion". This is because we have to wait on the "onComplete" event in order for resources to be de-allocated and that cannot happen before the last Observable emitted by the last "onNext" signals its own "onComplete". But tail-recursion is a primary use-case for a Promise type and so its "flatMap" needs to be memory safe.

I've thought long and hard about it btw, I even have a library that implements both a lazy Task abstraction and the Observable pattern: https://monix.io

I love observables obviously, but Observable isn't a substitute for a Promise and I hope we don't go down that road.
I probably should clarify. I mean when consensus is a group that is making decisions with a potential financial impact to their employer.

Google cancelled a proposal because reasons, which will be found out in January apparently.
> So they really want people to stop saving for their pensions?

I would stop immediately if I could. I am, however, required by law to save for a pension I will never receive.

The retirement age has already been raised to 67 where I live and is now linked to life expectancy. The second someone finds a cure for old age my retirement will be cancelled. Even if they don't, by the time I'm 67 the pension age will be >70.
I've worked on Kanban agile teams that don't do estimates, and I strongly prefer it.

I think it's still critical to demonstrate incremental value, but there's a deadline oriented culture at some places that just ends up hurting the business by causing people to make the wrong trade offs and short term thinking. Not so bad in some contexts, but terrible in others.
It's not that good ideas are getting harder to find, it's that poorly-funded good ideas can't compete against well-funded bad ideas.

Investors are more interested in funding terrible ideas from people they know than great ideas from people they don't know.

The market is monopolized on every side and good ideas can't compete against sheer capital.
The way to handle this case is to use Promise.race with 2 promises. The first promise is your logic. The second promise is rejected after a timeout. For more detail read the section "never calling the callback" from "you don't know js" book on "async" in chapter 3
https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS/blob/master/async...
Seems slick. Does it work with my current domain?
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Implemented? I don't think it implements tree, so much as inherits from tree.
Server push in HTTP/2 can force files to load in the right order.
See https://gist.github.com/spalladino/10c829db3191a89a8ba73bb00...

We'll probably build it into a more stable shard eventually, but at least we know it's doable
How do YOU interpret his quote?
Between Surescripts providing centralized medication history, and statewide controlled substance prescription registries, doctors can no longer claim ignorance when dealing with drug-seeking patients. But those sources of information were spotty and incomplete up to a few years ago.
No, people are just too attached to good ideas requiring an acquisition and/or lots of cash. Some ideas might not have a cash or business value. I hope we're not training the next generation to attach money and ideas too much.
You turn left by getting in front of the row of stopped cars, e.g. [1] in Amsterdam shows such an intersection.

This is a common pattern in The Netherlands, and the one I personally prefer to what you describe, since aside from a full roundabout it offers the best trade-off between safety and commute speed while on a bicycle.

Granted, my experience of The Netherlands is biased towards central Amsterdam, since it's the only place I've lived, but there's plenty of places there where car & bicycle traffic is mixed. It seems fine to me to mix car & bicycle traffic as long as you force the road speed down, or ensure that the bicycles have priority e.g. on left turns.

1. https://goo.gl/D3jAeF
Depression is a vague overly-general term so it differs from person to person. There isn't going to be a "true unique cause". In some instances it's just a result of chemical imbalances rather than emotional conditioning from the parents. Thus you cannot brush depression of as being environmental.
> A low pound is good for British exports and tourism to the UK

Tourism perhaps, not that good for exports when we have to import all the stuff we use to make the exports and/or most of your exports are service based.
I'd suspect that a Phd in computer science would probably have a skill set that is attractive to a fair number of employers. I suspect that the knowledge, skills, and abilities that would be necessary for obtaining a Phd in the area you mention would also be attractive.

I suspect that supply outstrips demand in academia as it does in pretty much every doctoral field. In industry there are people who work on compilers at many companies. In terms of new programming languages, there is and there isn't. There is lots of normal line of business work that benefits or would benefit from domain specific languages. On the other hand, Google's got Brian Kernighan if they need a new major language.
> I've been there, there is nothing you can do in this case.

You can leave. You can become the contractor that doesn't care but racks in €1000 a day.

There are always options.
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I rely right now on GitLab for political reasons.

How much in US jurisdiction are they? I do not live in USA and don't want to have anything with that country, specially don't want its long arm of IP law anywhere near me.
German here: the state pension system has become a joke. None of my friends below 35 actually believe they can rely on it for something that comes close to a livable retirement, and even people already on the state pension system feel cheated for various reasons. The only people with okay pensions are politicians and civil servants, who fall under a completely different system.

The Tax-Burden on the other hand has been growing and growing, leading to a lot of braindrain and tax evasion.
I don't remember which paper was which. I think my year ended up doing more courses than they'd originally planned because of a miscommunication between the departments about what was going to be covered where? I did an ML course, a Java course, Operating Systems, and part of Data Structures & Algorithms before I looked through the notes and decided I knew it all (and I think I also glanced over notes for a discrete maths course earlier in the year?). Certainly when comparing notes with full ("50%") compsci friends I remember Digital Electronics was the only obvious thing I was missing.

Come to think about it I do remember talking about a friend's question on sorting algorithms in an exam that I hadn't done myself. So possibly Data Structures & Algorithms wasn't on the exam for me? Afraid it was too long ago to remember exactly.
From the video:

> One peak is the mountain of debt ... that is casting its shadow over the whole world ... We all recognize the mountain of debt.

> But few people recognize its twin: A mountain of idle cash, belonging to rich savers and corporations, too terrified to invest it into the productive activities that can generate the incomes from which you can extinguish the mountain of debt, and which can produce all those things that humanity desperately needs, like green energy ...

> Now, let me give you two numbers ...
There is also Cache-Control: immutable [1] which prevents browsers requesting the given file even when the site is refreshed. It's experimental though.

[1]: http://bitsup.blogspot.de/2016/05/cache-control-immutable.ht...
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Your opinion is wrong, because it's off-context.

Google, in this context, is the developer of one of the main implementations. It is also many other things, which do not matter. You might equally well say "what happens when the consensys is a six-letter word". You're being downvoted for dragging in irrelevant and inflammatory rubbish.

I don't know, but I wouldn't be surprised if the C++ committee has a similar consensus goal, possibly informal, and that gcc has an effective veto. It's a major implementation. Is that bad? No?
Sometimes I think there will be movies like 'Blow' in 20 years that will be about the wild west times of prescription drugs, and the kingpins who had houses filled with money from the proceeds.
There are plenty of snake oil manufacturers who manage to operate within the boundaries of the law. Those don't get raided.

The milk salesman wasn't raided for selling whole milk. He was raided for selling unpasteurized milk... Across state lines.

Generally speaking, clearing the bar for FDA tolerance of nutritional supplements is quite easy. They don't care that your product works, only that you don't put actively dangerous things in it. It's caveat emptor for efficiency, but not for safety - which is a pretty reasonable place to draw the line.
I mean, I don't know what those numbers are. But when people give a per capita value for something that occurs over time, nearly always, that value is per annum. But here it wasn't, it was over several years.

It'd be like saying "the per capita income of New York State is $185,688!" When that's actually the per capita income over six years.
It nicely contrasts with picture of letting agencies that have hundreds of properties in each of TOP50 cities and take +70% of minimum wage for single bed.
No, not usable in real life. Old-school PHP bloat that will slow down your site. Bonus: breaks occasionally on updates. Developers not willing to learn techniques needed for a quick logger with minimal impact. Run away from people using this with high traffic sites in a still-2005-PHP-mindset.
I'd be surprised if more than 5% (probably even less) of the population should be on heavy painkillers at any given time. I don't know statistics from other countries but we're talking about pills that are being used to treat severe pain, not just a headache.
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>QE is a form of negative interest rates

Incorrect. This kind of thinking is what gets central banks throwing money at problems, expecting results, and seeing none. QE is literally buying bonds.

QE is fiscal policy; rate increases/decreases are monetary policies.

Didn't read the rest of your post. I'm sure you have a point. But the above misconception is troublesome and dangerous if pushed upward into policy.
I would focus on finding friends first. it's a lot easier to find a buddy than a girl. check out meetup.com and find interesting things to go to. once you find someone to hang out with it's easier to meet other people.
Lots of folks making half a million a year...
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A cause isn't necessarily environmental, it can be, and even if it is "a result of chemical imbalances", there's still a cause, and if we could find the causes for the multiple forms of mental illnesses wouldn't that be good?
Looks cool, unfortunately like many of these UI frameworks, the more advanced functionality has been left out so far. Compared to http://semantic-ui.com/modules/dropdown.html which has searching and filtering etc.

Hard to move to anything this unless it's the most basic of applications.
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The article highlights the Oracle flavor of this functionality, but similar windowing operations are available in PostgreSQL[1] and SQL Server[2]. Edit to add that I have no idea if JOOQ supports windowing functions in non-Oracle systems.

1: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/functions-win...

2: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189461.aspx
Yes, because I'd like to get a self-driving car from a company that is known to support legalized backdoors.
technically, saving is saving whether you're rich or poor or whether or not the assets are held by a custodian. the article doesn't make the distinction.

as far as wealth concentration, it certainly is happening. what's scary is: whether or not it's sustainable remains to be seen. what will society look like if it is?
> I've seen so many horrible managers in this industry and they always get away with it by blaming the engineers.

Same. Been there, seen that. Seen good managers, seen bad managers, seen place without managers.

I don't understand why there are managers in this industry.
The 6 year scope is in the sentence immediately before, and it is clear that it means per capita over all the shipments (it says so!) and not per year/unit of time.
I don't know whether civil engineers can make accurate estimates. I focus on my own craft's problems. I suppose they too can make inaccurate estimates just as anybody else. However, delivery dates and deadlines are somewhat removed from estimates: they are the subject of a compromise between a client and a supplier whose relationship with the actual engineers is also a bit detached.

To keep myself from rambling, I'll say this: making accurate estimates and connecting them to timely delivery are two huge, but different, problems.
Firstly, savings are not currency although they are used interchangeably with the assumption that currency is safe. This is not guaranteed to hold. Secondly, with rehypothecation the same currency is counted at least 9 times (M2 money supply). I'd contest that it's 50 to 100 times due mechanisms to get around the 10% reserve requirement - but this is difficult to explain. Thirdly, the increase in savings is dwarfed by speculation that the savings is backing and the resulting mix or risk reward when combined is still speculation. As in this is not unencumbered savings. And finally, the wikipedia link has a long list of references from people who are wrong about everything.
While this is useful to have, I would argue that layout should be left to css frameworks (material css in this case) and components only used for functional parts of the app.

No one is forcing us to make everything a component. What would be a benefit of having a footer or header a component for example?
As an American in their late 20s I don't know anybody who thinks they'll see a dime out of social security. We know we're paying into it to keep current retirees alive and we know that just won't happen for us.
Okay, but what I'm saying is that once the tools are in place to ban various substances for personal consumption, and make those bans stick through enforcement, then that's all the tools you need for a War on Drugs. I mean, at that point, it's just "ban this thing, and not that thing, because it's what I want."

What takes doublethink is imagining that, once these powers are in place, they won't be used against one's preferred substances.
For me it is interesting to see that new ideas may be harder to find. My experience is that there are lots of great ideas that are just lying around, unused. In some of our work we are taking scientific or technical discoveries from the early 1900s and implementing them in new ways, in combination with mobile phones, for example, to make breakthroughs in possible uses.

We are building new water quality tests that makes the phone a "mobile lab" using quite old science and targeting it at a huge market, the two billion people that drink unsafe water. It isn't your normal Silicon Valley play, as it requires quite a different set of resources to implement well. But the impact can be massive.
Adding to rawnlq's comments:

Disk access (reads and writes) still happen in chunks, even with SSDs. It's much more efficient to write entire chunks of data out than to write a few hundred bytes over a dozen different chunks.

The requirements for writing out a B-Trees to disk is in line with writing out chunks of data, which makes them very popular (and performant) with database implementations.

And this doesn't cover how performant CPUs are at performing operations over a contiguous list of data. The complexity may be O(n), but the implementation introduces a fractional constant which can outperform a O(log(n)) algorithm which involves cache misses.
Ultimately, doctors follow the instructions and prescribing guidelines from the pharmaceutical companies.
Can anybody estimate roughly how big can this end up physically, and how fast it can get in clock Hz or (better?) ops Hz? Also, how many discrete components it might take?
There's nothing in either example that is intrinsically functional or imperative, they're just different syntax.
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