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Having joined in that discussion where it became clear that you didn't even know the meaning of the word immigrant, you didn't listen to what we said and now you're projecting your own prejudices on other people.

And falling back on calling everyone a racist again.

Which is precisely what this article says doesn't work.
There is no good or bad answer. Here is how I'd pick a language:

Swift
- Do I want to attract young developers in a near future? Do I value awesome user interface over app stability?

Objective-c
- Am I looking to collaborate with Sr. developers? Do I need tones of support and documentation on the Web?

Other than that, it really doesn't matter even in 2017.
You sound like a pretty angry person. We really are all stronger together ;).

Instead of digging your heels in the ground why not stop for a minute and listen to those you disagree with and attempt to find an acceptable middle ground?

The future of this country is not a zero sum game.
While it's true that you can reach out and have a meal, share a laugh, with a Trump supporter, I don't think that will do anything lasting or good. Trump supporters are, in my personal experience, willfully ignorant. They make general statements (particularly about the poor state of the US and Obama's failure) and cannot back them up with supporting facts. They get indignant and threatened when asked for facts. They ignore evidence of his lack of personal values.

Yet the doom that faces America is very real, and this is really the cause of their emotions. Intuitively they know we can't consume so much without producing it. If we offshore production, we must eventually offshore consumption. Chinese workers earning $5 a day, Chinese factories paying no attention to the environment or workers rights, this is really the ONLY problem we need to address. And the liberal elites don't care, because they don't make money making things, and never did.

Are you a liberal elite wanting to heal the divide? Build a factory in the USA. A real, physical factory that builds real, physical things. And if you do the math and realize you can't do that and compete with China, then fight like hell to punish Chinese producers for playing the game by unfair rules (e.g. impose tariffs to at least bring the price up to what it would be if they paid their people a living wage, benefits, and protected the environment).
The Republican party politicians rejected Trump. Voters in the primaries elected him as their candidate. Many Republicans wanted to pick someone else but were worried that it would destroy their party by failing to listen to voters.

You cannot paint all members of either party with a broad brush as you're doing. Believe it or not we are a diverse country & so are our politicians that are forced to join one party or the other. Many flip flop.

It appears that many Republicans are learning to work with Trump instead of fight against him. That (compromise) is a skill that makes a good politician by the way. It's something everyone should start trying to do. Trump is a person who has changed his views & party often. You can persuade Trump.

Extremism helped create Trump & win him the election. That is what this type of thinking is furthering. It is much more dangerous & long term than Trump.

- Obligatory I didn't vote for Trump and am not a member of either party -
This article is worth keeping in mind to avoid frustration when arguing with someone who won't accept basic facts. It's best to walk away from willful ignorance.
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You could also have a look at ArangoDB. Open-source with Apache2, Cpp-based and some neat features like Foxx framework. It's open-source with Apache2 license and I have to say their support is pretty impressive. Worth giving it a spin.
>It's also been shown that the President has less affect on the economy than people's perception would have them to believe.

You're thinking pre-Trumponomics. The president causes billions of dollars to disappear into thin air with 140 characters. He has a real and measurable impact on the economy, for good or bad.

>It takes a long time for economies to correct to a President's actions- on the order of years. It's better to judge a President's effect on the economy at the end of their tenure than at the beginning.

I'm not certain you completed your statement... The OP was about "experts" being unable to time the market. If it takes years for the market to correct, even if the underlying assumption about a market crash is correct, you have to time it properly. Otherwise you'll take years of loses to make the same off the crash as someone who placed their bets moments before the crash.
Comparisons between the US and European countries are often useless. Either they pick a rich European country that has restricted immigration for a long time, or they say "Western Europe" while ignoring many of the countries in Western Europe that have some real challenges (like unemployment).

Germany or the UK might be reasonable comparison points. Not perfect, of course (still huge differences), but it's much more likely that there is a real lesson somewhere.
> And I would think that if you're OK with multi-track education, it would seem like having a separate school for gifted students is just an extension of that.

I think this is a big leap. I went to a large public high school (~2500 students total) with 3 tracks for each subject. I was in the highest track the whole time, but I would not support physically segregating students like me into a separate school. There are a number of benefits to keeping people in the same school:

1. It's socially beneficial to have high school friends who are different than you are. Many of my best friends were not in my classes but we hung out at lunch time and in after school activities. I think we learned a lot of intangible things from each other.

2. Parental involvement. Parents of kids who are high achievers are more likely to want to see the school go in the right direction. Having involved parents keeps the whole school administration on their toes and brings the general standard of the school up for everyone. If the high achievers had their own school the other students would have fewer advocates.

When American schools were racially desegregated we saw gains across the board:
https://tcf.org/content/facts/the-benefits-of-socioeconomica...

While separating gifted students is not the same as separating by race, I think a lot of lessons can be learned from that previous experience.
Not strictly true, or he wouldn't be working with Elon Mask, for example. [1] However what's certain is that he wants to achieve US independence from Middle Eastern oil so as to stop enriching Saudi princes.

[1] http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/new...
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What an incredible journey it's been.
As a non-EU/Swiss citizen you can only be employed in Switzerland if the company can demonstrate that no suitable EU/Swiss candidates could be found for the job role.

Exactly how this works I am not too sure, but anecdotally it is very difficult unless you are in top-management or a highly specialised field.
@jonathanstrange - I disagree. Being able to control your own wealth is akin to retaining the fruits of your labor, which is the guiding principal of John Locke's labor theory of property. Not being able to control it is merely a variant on slavery - they may not be forcing you to work, but society must produce to survive and if they can take whatever they want whenever they want, you are not free under any reasonable definition.

Also, please consider the original coinage act of 1792. It carried a penalty of death (yes, death) for anyone caught debasing the currency. Why? Because debasing the currency was considered equivalent to the crime of counterfeit. And debasing the currency was effectively theft from literally every single person in the country through reduced value and less purchasing power via inflation. Counterfeit, debasement, and inflation were considered hidden taxes because they achieve the same goal.

Later coinage acts removed this penalty, which is why (in part) we have the problems we have today. We are approaching 20 trillion in debt. That was money that was spent that debased our currency and drastically reduced our purchasing power. Make no mistake, we are not truly free anymore because we do not enjoy this basic human right.

This is not to say "taxes are evil" or anything like that. But deficit spending through unbacked credit is theft. If the money were actually taxed instead of issued as unbacked credit, the value of the USD would not erode.
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Unheated Marijuana doesn't have psychoactive effects. And like another poster said, the effects don't work through digestion without it binding to a fat. So just eating plain buds, even if they've been decarbed won't do much of anything.

Edit: Found a study [0] that references the 3g/kg figure. That LD50 is for pure THC, not pure cannabis.

"Lethal toxicity is reportedly rare with the THC LD50 = 3000 mg/kg in dogs.[2, 13] Both dogs that died in this study likely ingested significantly lower doses than the LD50 of THC; however, it is also possible that these dogs were more sensitive to THC or THC butter contains additional compounds that can be fatal in dogs."

[0] http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1476-4431.2012....
Why would one define private methods on interfaces? Is it intended to be depended by abstract classes?
It comes from the government (so it's wealth redistribution to parents), I'm sure on the details, I'm not Finnish, I just googled for some details [0]. I believe that in Germany you get 1 year, to be divided as seen fit between the two parents, that also sounds nice.

[0] http://www.inhabitots.com/finlands-family-benefits-prove-why...
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The pipeline will create jobs and decrease fuel costs (pro business and worker). Freezing federal hiring will decrease the tax and regulatory load shouldered by everyone (pro business and worker). The ACA was shown to have been sold to the workers based upon lies regarding costs and access to their doctors. It's imploding under its own weight.

Further, if the ACA benefits anyone, it benefits people who don't work but receive subsidies. So getting rid of it is a decided plus for workers.
I bet this will be in Silicon Valley (the TV show).
> Whether it's worth the damage done to the poor

Like what? If anything, more jobs instead of more and more social programs would do a lot to actually get people to a decent livelihood...
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I'm always afraid of investing a lot of time into this type of frameworks and then having the rug pulled from under me. Most of the time I spent learning angular ended up being a waste of time and I'm still scarred from then.

Also that logo looks familiar?
I deeply dislike the fundamental premise of this post: that other people are puzzles to be solved, with the reward for solving them being getting a particular behavior out of them. People are not puzzles, and sex is not a reward for puzzle-solving Extra Smart Boys.

The whole idea is so, so icky.
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I think the question was what happens to the students who are not labeled as 'bright'? How does their being cast off to a "lower" school affect society in the long run.
Well, if dull rock can't be exploited, maybe we should be putting dull rock in PID1?
What this one person does, particularly trump, is not indicative of the whole party. Republicans have a long history of being categorically against climate change, against civil rights, pro religion, against the separation of church/state and in general not big on silly little things like evidence or human compassion.

Trump is a special case in so many ways. Few of the republicans in power wanted him and he pretty much stole the the republican candidacy.
Yeah, his whole argument can be boiled down to, "No but seriously they're racist you should ignore them."
>> What should programmers who enjoy working with more powerful abstractions do?

Work on teams where the lowest common denominator is higher.
Suddenly, the school for gifted kids is inundated with new students.
You last paragraph, but for a few words would be the exact same thing I expect to hear from a climate change "skeptic"
Realistically, society can make a comeback from pretty much any conceivable catastrophy. Similarly to the situation in communist countries, where important things were scarce and money was worthless, surviving would depend on cooperation and mutual trust, not on defending your bunker and playing out a Mad Max movie.

While self-defense has its place I wonder which attitude would prevail.
But what if local communities place more value on preserving their culture as it has been than their finances? Are their wishes just to be ignored?
Yes, private on interfaces is there to make using default easier.
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I'll excuse all his technical and business misdeeds from 20-30 years ago if he cures malaria. Or even if he scrapes a double-digit percentage gain against the disease. The world has much bigger problems than some dickhead breaking a standard to get a leg-up on his competition. Or buying a competitor and preventing some bullshit technology from budding as early as it otherwise would have.
See what happened with the OP. They pushed back one week, and are now close to doing it again. As mentioned above there's scope for this to continue indefinitely until the new employer puts their foot down.
To me, doing this pro bono is the way to go. This makes it crystal clear to your old employer that you are doing it as a favor, not obligation or commitment. Then you can also pull out at any time. You are just being nice (which tends to pay benefits eventually in some unpredictable ways), not trying to earn some extra cash. In fact I doubt many companies would take you up on that offer at all.

IMO consulting for your old employer might upset your new employer ("whom would he support if both of us need him at the same time?). Taking a few calls pro bono, even at work time (which is not pro bono now, your new employer is effectively paying for it) is usually just fine with new employer. This shows you as a responsible person that is unlikely to burn bridges changing jobs, valuable member of the team (your old employer values you enough to ask for your advice, etc.).

My 2c.
It will go down. After that, it will go up again. Then down again. Then up again. Ad nauseum. The market fluctuates. If you want to put money away for the long-term, it makes sense to have some in it. For the short-term, not so much. This is all pretty standard stuff.
He's already threatened businesses with penalties if they build plants outside the US. He's going after free trade agreements that help a lot of companies build products more cheaply and access overseas markets. Sure, protectionism may help some businesses avoid competition for a while, but it can't help them in the long run as they become obsolete. This kind of interference in the free market makes it hard to call him pro-business.
Being the humblest billionaire has to be like being the shortest person on the basketball team.

I agree that Gates seems decent and grounded. But humble? The man is trying to eradicate malaria, and that's just one of many high-profile activities carried out by a foundation with his name on it.

(Note, this isn't a criticism. I don't see any reason he ought to be humble.)
saosebastiao says:> "...we're kinda seeing a (IBM-centric) revolution in Symbolic AI and Logic Programming with Watson/UIMA."

Are we?

Watson appears to be a framework for applications using classical GOFAI techniques, so I would hesitate to term it "revolutionary". AFAICT its emergence is due to faster von Neumann hardware, not new algorithms. Not that NNs couldn't be rolled into the mix, too, of course.

I believe the current interest in NNs is an AI diversion, something to do until a breakthrough occurs. Now we find that bees can read faces, pull strings to get nectar, count, etc. So what? Are we closer to something that can navigate the world, solve problems like we do, using language to explain how it was done and answer questions?

IOW I await the first version of the Odyssey written by an AI, once it's excursions are complete (Kindle version: a Google car describing the perils of it's cross-country trip from NY to LA).
It's not that uncommon to include "company holidays" in "paid days off". Denmark has that as well, I get 5 weeks of vacation, and 5 days of vacation/days-off. My employer is free to "spend" the 5 days for me.
I think the parent means : Would a Switzerland with the same ratio of different job be able to survive if the Switzerland population was let's say 2 billion people. (or are they relying on France, Germany and other neighbors to sustain their current model for instance)
Yeah, that describes me better than I could!
In Manhattan they almost never tear down, but rather do extreme gut renovations on the framework of older buildings. As a result additional units don't get added (by building up for example), the existing units are just upgraded.

The reason for this is new buildings have to follow modern regulations which drops the usable square footage of properties considerably (for example, having the building X feet back from the street etc). In Manhattan where every square foot counts this is of course unacceptable. Old buildings are grandfathered into older, less restrictive, regulations.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/05/19/upshot/forty-...
If you can define private methods on an interface then you can refactor common code out of default methods on that interface without exposing it to any other class.
"We all know if men marched with dicks on ther heads in washington they would be laughed and imo rightfully so."

And there would be cries about vulgarity and "what about the children?!" along with it.
> That makes absolutely no sense.

People starve to death because we find protecting property rights more important than letting them eat. How does it not make sense?

I am not saying that reducing enforcement of property rights does not negatively affect the owner. I am saying that there are plenty of cases where property rights reduces the ability of others to make us of it.

This makes it a tradeoff, not something worthy of absolutes.

> That's like saying preventing people from feasting on your flesh makes them all poorer.

And of course it would - if they enjoy human flesh and were denied it, they would certainly be poorer for it - but we thankfully value your right to keep your own flesh higher than someone elses abiltiy to be able to feast on it.

Liberty is not some absolute - pretty much every one us would agree that directly harming someone infringes more on their liberty than outlawing it would.

It's not a zero sum game - a lot of our laws centre around reducing our liberty in ways that increases it more in other ways: Making violent crime illegal and backing it up with the willingness to deprive those using violence of liberty is a restriction on all of us, and certainly even more so of those we justifiably lock up for our protection. But one that simultaneously increases our overall liberty by constraining a tool of oppression.

> I'm using an extreme example to demonstrate the absurdity of the argument that enforcing exclusive control over abundant and practically free natural resources

If something is abundant, then the argument doesn't apply. That is the entire point: It applies to scarcity. If something is abundant then everyone who wants it can have access.

But land is one such thing that is distinctly scarce. Suitable farmland even more so.

> deprives others of their rights.

If you starve to death because you can not afford food, much less land to grow a crop, nor afford to move anywhere else, you might think otherwise.

That is not really a hypothetical example. E.g. during the Great Famine in Ireland, Irish food exports increased while hundreds of thousands starved to death because their crops had failed and they could not afford to buy the plentiful amounts of food being exported from the island.

They were deprived of their right to life because others property rights were given precedence - to the extent of the UK giving military escorts to ships exporting food.

Were those who died not deprived?
Agreed.

What happens if we get rid of the Republican party? Those same groups will coalesce as factions within the Democratic party and politics will just be more obscured. The single-party South didn't do anyone favors.

I think people are of the mindset that the Democratic party doesn't share a lot of the same issues. The Clinton coalition worked because it was full of conservative Democrats. As an example, how's this for mixing religion and politics?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5NsrSPMGnc
"java" and "cool" in the same sentence doesn't compute for me. I die a little inside every time I'm forced to launch eclipse and work with The Old Stuff.

Actually after working with java from 97-07, I was so sick of it I started the process of changing careers and study medicine. Just imagine: solve people, not code!

Looking back, the main problem was probably Spring, Glassfish, IOC, XML, Maven and numerous other "EE" things that java-people assumed were a must 10 years ago.

I hear people these days do write fun, lightweight microservices that launches in seconds in java, but I'm scarred for life. Never again. Life is too short and there are tons of fun programming languages that are commercially viable.

(I never started medicine, programming is amazingly creative, just not java)
At below: Wasteful? That is a strange state of mind to me. One works to be able to live and hopefully in a fulfilling position. But my most valuable moments are experienced at home, or on vacation, with my family. If you have enough money to live, eat and do fun things, why work more? That seems like wastefulness regarding life.
I find it curious that people prepare for a "Doomsday" scenario. I can fathom a localized catastrophe like an earthquake, or extreme weather, or even a horrible bomb attack. But the extreme examples seem more related to our entertainment consumption than based on a real reality.

I feel like we're more likely to die from old age than anything from space or zombies. Maybe I just can't do the level of paranoia that some people take on. It seems an unnecessary waste of your brain space to always be on alert.

or maybe i'll just be the first to die. shrug
All lots of fun, but kdb has an eye watering cost of 200k dollars per year per server.

Here's hoping some combo of Apache Arrow (also cache aware, much more language stack flexibilty), Aerospike (lua built in), Impala, and others, can finally take on this overpriced product, which has had a lack of serious competitors for 20 years, owing to its (price inelastic) finance client base.
As an example: Something that used to drive me bats was being asked to do something I clearly knew was wrong for the project/company. Before, I would fight hard to make my point. Now, I try to illustrate my point the best I can, then I just do as told. (I bill by the hour anyways)

On a previous project I actually told a non-technical owner: "What you are asking me to do is basically to hit your finger with a hammer.. That said, it is YOUR finger and YOUR hammer.. so say so and I will do" (it actually worked!)
Oh, great! 200 nearly naked people, each with stern looks of disapproval!
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Okay, that was a good read.

Also the 2nd very solid Matt Levine article I've read in this thread, I think I detect a pattern.
I mean, with AI we end up with utopia for everyone forever OR a mass extinction event. Seeing I'm going to die anyways, I'll take those odds.