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>"yet he's somehow been able to parlay his way into positions of influence by guilt tripping white liberals into giving him power".

So this is what HN has deteriorated into? Really? Might want to check your blood pressure cause all that salt can't be good for you.
May be in reading it wrong, but that page contains another video, couple example snapshots and "why we built this". I still have no idea what all the fuzz is about, and I'm not wasting my time on videos.
Thanks, I understand and agree with what you're saying.

I'm a relatively experienced software engineer (9 years) and I'm not tied to one particular language or one type of work.

My question should have been clearer, more like 'C++ needs a lot of investment of time to be good at, before I sink in that time, what do professional C++ engineers feel about the language and are they trying to run away from it.'

I'm already up and running in C++ (a few projects) and have done C projects at work, but there is a huge jump, IMHO, in taking up a job that requires full time C++ knowledge and understanding from where I stand.
No, it is in fact (and you should treat this as an honor) the worst advice I've ever been given on Hacker News.
Depends. Europe is not a single country, it's impossible to answer this question. (unless in the case where you can in every country, but I wouldn't know).
Most western countries have double taxation treaties with the USA, but there is often a period where you have to temporarily pay the taxes in both places and then get a refund on the US portion, which can be very expensive if poorly timed.
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Perhaps coding boot camps are the problem, and not the accessibility of learning to program? Not that I'm arguing bootcamps are bad, however there is a lot of junk out there.

* with that said General Assembly I hear is pretty good, and there is a reason why a lot of companies let their employees go to some of their Bootcamps. The rest, I can't speak for, even on a incidental level.
Switching to USB-C on the iPhone would have been a hugely shitty decision given their ultimate goal is clearly to build a phone without any ports at all within a few years.

Consider what would happen in that case: right now there are hundreds of millions of iPhone accessories out there that rely on the Lightning port - everything from headphones to cars to health devices and more. If Apple removed the Lightning port all of those accessories would become obsolete overnight and people would be up in arms about it (just look at the removal of the headphone jack and the storm in a teacup that became.) Manufacturers would bring out USB-C accessories for the iPhone, people would buy them to replace their Lightning accessories, the furore would die down and things would go back to normal, and then boom - Apple removes the USB-C port too.

In the space of a few years they'd have fucked over hundreds of millions of people who wasted money on replacing their accessories and the outrage would be overwhelming. People would be accusing Apple of doing it on purpose just to sell more accessories (which is what they're accusing Apple of right now because of the aforementioned removal of the headphone jack) when in reality Apple has been telegraphing the transition to wireless for a while now.
It does not so much address the issues as it glosses over them. For example, it assumes that past battery performance trends can be extrapolated, but the battery-makers, -engineers and -chemists themselves do not expect this. Nor does the article attempt to address the noise problem.
That 'unpleasantness' is due to a part of yourself recognizing some truth and being uncomfortable with what the mirror projected back. It's normal, all of us experience it. It's very useful to analyze why something makes us feel this way and better understand ourselves.
It seems nice, but the actual disassembler doesn't seem to work here:

http://xem.github.io/minix86/decompiler.html

is there any specific browser or OS requisite?

The "choose file" button works, but then nothing happens, and all the "built-in" examples buttons do nothing.
My company is 100% remote. And I recall very clearly in the interview process one of the most important traits to succeed - Be self-aware.

Everyone is different. Every new remote worker figures out what they need to do to make it work for themselves. And we do not all do the same things. But we all know ourselves well enough to try things, see how it works for ourselves, and figure out what changes we need to make it work. Of course, we also talk to each other, give suggestions, etc. But ultimately, to succeed on your own, you have to proactively care for your own mental health. And self-awareness is vital to doing so.
So is there any reason in particular that the thought of eating something containing shark fin "disgusted" you, but all of the other animal parts on the menu were just fine?

The level of hypocrisy in this thread is incredible. Save the elephants, save the sharks, save the whales; I guess because we think those animals are coolest/cutest they get a pass. Guess what other animals are smart? Pigs. They can do math and make good pets and we mow them down by the millions. How about cows? They are sacred in some countries, I bet someone from India would be "disgusted" that they sell dead cow in American restaurants!
> With the emdrive, folks are saying If this works, it's by some model we do not yet understand.

A summary of the parent article is "The experimenters did not do the obvious control experiments [e.g. testing under a null load], thus there are currently no results at all."
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What company is it? I am making a list of remote jobs that I can apply to.
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Fair point. However not every setting has very good internet. It might be slow or not reliable, strategies to mitigate that would be very interesting to me.
Absolutely no problem. I try at all times to take the best interpretation of people's comments. I can see your POV.
Not only was it not a mistake, ten years from now people will refer to the outrage over the removal of the headphone jack in the same way we currently refer to the outrage over the removal of the floppy drive.
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I understood that the OP mostly meant design as in aesthetics:

They're always some sort of plastic, feel flimsy and bendy, have grills and screw holes and uneven surfaces and stickers everywhere.

The "flimsy and bendy" feel is more than just aesthetics, but owning two generations of the Carbon, it really doesn't apply to it. For the second gen. the term "brick shithouse" comes to mind. The fourth gen. has more plastic on the lid (which though feels "smooth as a baby's butt" according to a colleague) but its innards are tough as nails and knowing that's enough for me.

In any case, like I say what I need from a computer is performance: fast processor, as much RAM as you can fit on a laptop and plenty of storage. If I really cared about durability and toughness that much, I'd get a Toughbook [1].

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[1] http://business.panasonic.co.uk/computer-product/products-an...

I've come very clost to buying one, several times. I just like the idea of a computer I can take with me on the beach and use to browse the 'nets while lying on an inflatable mattress in the sea. That'd be cool and it'd border on "design" trumping specs even in my book. On the other hand, I'd look a bit of a pillock so I've never gotten round to it.
I was in San Francisco when this deal was announced, and I still remember all my supposedly "tech startup savvy" friends mocking Zuckerberg for buying a company with no revenue for a billion dollars. And yes, this group even included a Harvard MBA grad pursuing a career in entrepreneurship. It's no coincidence that this was the same group of people who also mocked Facebook's IPO valuation of ~$70B as proof that we were in a bubble. If there's one thing I learned from that experience, it's that people have no idea how to appraise high-growth high-potential ventures.
>If we ever decriminalize Marijuana

I would expand that and decriminalize almost all forms of drug use (not selling/distribution). The number of people incarcerated for drug use is much higher than just those there on drug charges. A fair amount of property and public order laws are broken by drug users as well.

Getting them into a real treatment plan, with real job placement, housing assistance, etc, would stem more of that crime than throwing them in jail/prison.
This is spot on. Being able to express ideas without jargon is to me a sign of mastery. You've learned the subject so well you can convey it in layman terms. I learned the most out of computer science from talks given by such people.

I feel like its the exact same with the Agile crowd and their daily stand-ups, burn-down charts, velocity and other forms of cargo cult management. I haven't seen anyone explaining all of it without massive jargon.

Another form would be this trend of adding "awesome" to everything, ie.: "build something awesome!" While the jargon isn't advanced its still the very same lack of scientific integrity.
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Similarly, in even earlier eras, tools like HyperCard on the Mac and Visual Basic on Windows democratized software creation, letting regular individuals or casual business users create useful apps to meet their needs. During development, Gomix was even called “HyperDev”, as a nod to this history — and its early-90s aesthetic subtly nods to that heritage, too.

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The only unexpected "results" happened in experiments with a lack of controls, so while nothing can be ruled out, it would not be surprising if all the data so far is explained by well known forces (like flow in the liquid supply lines.). It's on the previous experimenters to do proper controls.
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>If you pluck Aboriginal crime out of Canadian crime stats, the numbers start to look like those of Northern Europe.

Do you believe Northern Europe does not have minorities with higher crime rates?
What countries? My experiences are excellent in Netherlands & Spain public healthcare. I hear people complain about NHS a lot but never used it so no idea.
This is a really great talk. I have worked on a gameboy emulator in the past in Nim,[1] sadly I didn't get enough time to finish it.

The amount of features offered by the Gameboy does seem rather overwhelming after watching this video.

1 - https://github.com/dom96/gbemulator
Interesting critique, but you close by recommending your own (supposedly superior) brand of management training and provide a convenient link--all of which is packaged in a blog post that you posted on HN.

I should have known better. As soon as I read your advertisement I felt like I had been had, like this was all an elaborate rouse to sell hr management services.

Bummer
> It's like most people never get friends outside of work.

I don't think it's friends. It's the large number of causal acquaintances that most jobs deliver.
This is fantastic! I wish this existed back when I did my emulator-baked remakes experiment [1]. May use this as the foundation for the next iteration!

[1] http://gabrielgambetta.com/remakes.html
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I am wondering why people think nations have ever stopped attempting to influence others ?

Covert hacking happens everywhere.

The US openly bribes other nations or sends troops to motivate them to change.
I can only speak for the countries I know about which are Germany, Poland and France. But generally I think these properties hold across Europe as a whole, at least from collegues or friends from other countries whom I've talked to, this might not be the case though so check it out for yourself. So heres the gist of it.

You will have a much lower standard of living by most monetary measures. Taxes are higher than in the US and regulations/beurocracy is more extensive. Everything is "smaller" from cars, houses, and land to meals. Energy costs - especially transportation costs - are much higher almost everywhere, which forces you to try to keep your energy consumption low compared to how you would live in the US. There is virtually one sport everywhere and its soccer, so facilities/clubs/organizations for any other sport are far behind US standards. For instance, you will not be able to find anything resembling a YMCA where you can workout with weights, play basketball and racketball and go swimming all for some monthly membership.
People all live much closer together, so you won't be able to find a place thats even a little "off the grid" this can be good or bad just depends on what you prefer.

On the more positive side, you will have "free" healthcare, but the quality will vary drastically from country to country. In Poland its disastrous for instance whereas in Germany its pretty nice and will cover just about all your health costs and the quality is high as well. France is closer to the Germany side of things but I'd say the overall quality is a bit lower. Also you will rarely if ever work more than 40 hours a week and you'll also get 30 paid vacation days a year from most employers. In Germany, sick days don't count against your vacation days so it all compounds to a pretty big chunk of leisure time.
Additionally, there's all kinds of various social welfare programs that will take care of you should you become unemployed or disabled etc. these are extensive and well-funded in Germany and France much less so in Poland.

I'm an expat and have lived/worked in Germany for the past 9 years, basically my entire 20s and working life except for freelance web work I did while getting my undergrad in the US.
The regulations required to make flying cars work at scale would be the end of recreational flying as we know it. Fortunately, it's not going to happen anytime soon.
Many possibilities of what went wrong are well-explained in the parent article, drawing on experience of other scientists that make low-force measurements. (E.g. forces on rig due to electrical current flow, or liquid flow.)

Unfortunately it seems likely we won't learn much by finding the possible sources of error - the sources are already well understood by people doing low force experiments.
Maybe unpleasant because it struck a nerve?
I am yet to see a game where the healer cannot heal himself.
Thanks! What can you tell me about the interview process?
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> Disclosing the corruption of one political party is compromising democracy?

The press reports say they had emails from both parties. They chose not to release the ones from the party whose candidate said he cares less about NATO.

I don't think that's a coincidence and I don't believe for a minute there isn't dirt in the GOP emails.
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I'm not going to pick on you specifically here, but this is a great place for me to highlight something.

I think folks in tech (and society at large, frankly) have a bit of a fundamental misunderstanding of what comprises discrimination and sexism. The systematic disenfranchisement of a gender/race/ethnicity whatever term you want to use, often is not remedied without some kind of equality of status, that's what 'retweeting only women' is doing. Its giving equality of status to women that they likely would not usually have. Fundamentally I think its hard for a lot of folks to grasp this, even those who have historically been discriminated against when it comes to something they don't understand, part of that is human nature, but over and over again actual psychological studies and sociology studies show again and again that when you give people equality of status only then do things change. [0][1][2][3]

As far as Pax goes, CTO of a growing (and arguably large at the time even) should have known better, and frankly, his comments, joke or not, were inexcusable. I also don't care what people may say about what people say in private, because that is something I cannot react to, because I'm not party to that conversation, but this took place on a public forum, and it was in very poor taste at a minimum, and given an executive at a company, likely someone with such poor taste on a public forum as such I can't imagine was doing much for bettering workplace standards. This may be complete conjecture which I acknowledge. With that said, in my experience dealing with people who tend to act the same way in a public forum, in private they're more often than not just as inexcusable.

[0] http://commons.emich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1408&co...
[1] http://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/organization/our-...
[2] http://www.forbes.com/sites/ruchikatulshyan/2015/01/30/racia...
[3] http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2016/02/10/business-...
Although the demand for web programming is there, it doesn't mean that the compensation for that is equally following that demand .
What you say is correct. All things have variations.
The Athens flat for 100 euro (though I highly doubt the price you cite) has it's equivalence somewhere in cheap cities of the US

I never said that healthcare was "bad", only that it has its problems.

Please note that I didn't say that Europe is worse, just that you'll be worse financially, which I didn't see you disproving.
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That's pretty much it, yeah - as well as collating common tools + providing some basic templates for creating projects (getting to hello world requires a lot of boilerplate initialization).
Well, in theory what you say seems to make sense. In reality things do not look like this. And it isn't like I can articulate perfectly why it is so.

As for programming tiny devices, no, C++ (or even C) doesn't seem to be the right language to do that because people who should know better routinely do very stupid things in those languages for embedded applications. And it isn't just because they are some cash-strapped amateur: car-manufacturers and name-brand manufacturers of appliances have been shown to not know how to do this. Which tells me that they need languages that can help them do the right thing. Or rather: force them to address typical classes of problems or help them address these.

I even saw a discussion about heap-fragmentation on an embedded system where you shouldn't be allocating memory at all -- which is not only doing the wrong thing, but doing the wrong thing badly. Sure, people should know better, but they don't.

I've spent much of the past two years with my nose in embedded code and if you think the average fullstack programmer produces terrible code, much embedded code is often the stuff of nightmares.

If we are to limit the discussion to larger systems, the number of things where you'd need to use C++ for performance or efficiency has shrunk down a lot. In my experience, the vast majority of performance issues come from bad design, lack of measurement, sloppiness and ignorance about algorithmic complexity rather than the ability to squeeze performance out of hardware. Sure, you can, and should, write extremely performance sensitive libraries that cling to the metal where appropriate, but this still leaves a lot you really should do in languages that provide higher productivity, security and clarity.
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>> So many of my engineering friends think this way. Too many. In fact, most of Sweden thinks this way about cars, and most of Germany thinks this way about clothes.

Are we talking cars and clothes now? I'm Greek and I don't drive, but I certainly like my Italian fashion as much as the next fashion victim. Brains just don't come into it. But a computer is a computer and a coat is a coat- you can't think the same way about both.

Even so, in fashion too there's a lot to be said about building stuff to last, even as you make them look and feel good. Terry Pratchett has a bit about this in a couple of the Discworld novels, where he notes how cheap shoes end up being more expensive because you have to buy a new pair every year whereas expensive ones are made to last for decades, so you may pay a premium once, but it turns out cheaper on the long run (and I think he goes on to comment how this is another way rich people keep their money etc).

I think you'll find that the most highly valued (and therefore, most expensive) fashion tends to be made according to this ideal, of beauty that lasts.
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> it's merely generally harder and for less money.

My experience has been the opposite in terms of difficulty. In most EU countries the market of software engineers who can also speak the native country's language is really small so its way easier to stand out from the crowd. In the US, you have to compete in a 350 million+ population pool plus global candidates who have studied English their whole lives. In any given EU country the candidate pool is a fraction the size and of those the one's who can communicate fluently in the native language is a fraction of that fraction.
This.

Somewhere there was drawn a line - education for work, and education for science.

Nearly everyone think both are the same. Leading to thinking publish or perish being ok even if it's shit work.
It's a list of names and burial sites. I don't see why the hell anybody would think this is useful. The op's website has information about politicians.