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Rich old men hugging their toys. It's a shame they're given any press time at all.
>Because Trump is the boss.

Democratic countries have representatives, not bosses. This includes for the civil service.
I could be wrong but I was under the impression that the four major JVM gc's all had a stop the world phase and while multi-processing is implementation specific I'm not aware of a robust pre-emptive multiprocessing model built for the JVM. If you have robust examples that are contrary to this I'd be interested in hearing about them.
Congrats Ryan! Glad to see another face from OP in the Bay Area
Switzerland is very much worse than a lot of other country in that regard. It might happen in other countries as well, but its very much the majority in Switzerland.
Unavoidably, but is "becoming a manager" the only definition of "moving up?"
Seems like in this case, how the company originally presents what you're getting matters. So, as you point out here, qualifying the # of days off w/ days that are set [that count as part of that allotment] would set expectations accordingly. Otherwise, still a good deal, but employees would feel misled if they want to use it other parts of the year.
I lamented Biden's failure to get into the race, hypothesizing that a Trump v Biden showdown would be every comedian's fondest desire.

Turns out Trump by himself is sufficient. Bozo-in-chief.
In my experience, all you have to do is (passably) speak swiss german to be accepted by the locals. A lot of Germans live here 10+ years without speaking swiss german and I notice some distaste from the Swiss since a Swiss guy will feel like it's rude if he doesn't speak high german with a German, and many really don't like speaking high german.

There's definitely other forms of xenophobia here, though. There are a lot of negative stereotypes about some of the refugees that have come to Switzerland over the years, and many Swiss I talk to dislike the idea of refugees coming to Switzerland and choosing not to work (being unable to work is a different story).
Off-Topic: Is that photo real? It looks computer-generated to me.
Electron + React + Material-UI is a great start...

https://github.com/chentsulin/electron-react-boilerplate

https://github.com/callemall/material-ui
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Today they are. In 1990, it was a very different picture.
Serious question: is the whole deal with the Python GIL solvable if some BigCo decides to throw a ton of money and engineers at it? Like Google with V8, for instance. Or is it a truly hard problem that will take something special to solve?
Oh man! Okay that's definitely on us--we are trying to through a design update to fix that up.

But here's the 411

We charge only for technicians and the admin users-so that means you can add as many people to your group that submit requests (ie. hey the HVAC system just went down). We've got a free trial which is based on usage (first 25 work orders are free).

Sorry if that's not as clear as it should be and thanks for your input!
I'm suggesting that having–constructing a vision of "the end of all things" (or "practically the end..."), and then living–preparing according to that vision, seems to be something human persons are wont to do, whether they are religious or areligious.

In the Christian vision, the important thing is to prepare by living a life in correspondence with the double-precept of charity, "love God, love your neighbor" ~ cf. Matthew 22:35-40, Matthew 25:31-46 and the preceding text, to the beginning of chapter 24; also Romans 2:1-11. Jesus describes "the end" in a manner that is quite frightening (earthquakes, wars, famines, lots of suffering), but it's clear that those who are well-prepared will be able to rejoice when all is said and done.
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This all seems a bit sensationalist. Mozilla tried a few other things, mostly didn't work out, maybe a bit distracted from Firefox. The decline from 2010 was about Chrome, not neglect (& maybe mobile, where they lacked a device).

I wouldn't say Firefox was leading the way or the biggest innovator in the last few years, but for me it's kept up-to-date enough not to feel at all neglected.
It's something employers do because they can't fill those jobs... [at the slave wage offered]

That last part is rarely, if ever, mentioned when the "locals won't do these jobs" nonsense gets trotted out.
Because the negative effects are always mentioned around cannabis as justification to keep it highly illegal. If we apply the same standards, then alcohol would be prohibited, and we all know that doesn't work.
They do. Dishwashing pays well above minimum wage in Minneapolis, for unskilled labor. They struggle to find staff.
This point needs to get more attention, anyone who is boiling this down to a simple black/white situation is oversimplifying the issue.

Determining the value in integrating "gifted" kids with "non-gifted" kids is in effect the same argument that is held with regard to determining the affect that charter schools have on our school system, simply change the modifier from gifted/non-gifted to interested/uninterested in school and we are having the same debate.

There are pros and cons to both models and people have to admit to both sides of it, otherwise they are being disingenuous with their analysis.
Not the person you're responding to but being convinced that modern civilization is doomed - even if you're convinced it'll collapse during your own lifetime - doesn't preclude you from enjoying all of its benefits (like the Internet). If anything, it makes you more likely to enjoy them "while they last".
If there was ever a use for [insert favorite crypto currency here] gaining adoption, the killer feature is that payments can't be halted or frozen to accounts.

It sounds like they got hit by people who were unaware of what FetLife is following due diligence in processing card transactions. As far as I can discern, it's just a social network with a darker focus, which led to an overreaction from a card network.
> Being rich does not mean your kid is smart

But it does mean you can pay to get them tutored to jump through hoops, and generally push them harder. There's a very strong relationship between wealth and elite college admission for example. Which is down to culture and opportunity as much as gifts and talents.

If being selective means controlling for socioeconomic background when assessing potential - then I'd be more of a cheerleader for it.
It is funny that the ones accusing Russia are the same who were in Maidan Square, haranguing the crowds to revolt against Yanukovich ( the democratically elected president ). So meddling is good in one direction and wrong in the other?
> Even if you were to create a special "school for smart people only" and magically teleport all geeks there, I wouldn't be sure it would eliminate the problem of geeks being bullied.

First, note that the standard the school has to meet isn't "no bullying", but rather "significantly less bullying". I presume this is what you mean.

Anyway: What is your evidence for this claim? Have you ever spent time in such a school and compared it to a regular school?

Data point of N=1. I went to a special "school for smart people only". There was dramatically less bullying than the regular-people school I came from.

But anyway the researchers are providing actual scientific evidence of this effect, and you appear to be arguing against it using, apparently, intuition based on no evidence whatsoever. "Yes, these experts say X, but that sounds unbelievable to me; therefore they must be wrong."

Surely you do not endorse this sort of reasoning.
Thanks! If you are who I think you are, it's been a while! :)
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Not an expert but this is the system in general

The Swiss system is somewhat fixed prices (TarMED etc) for care provided. This changes every so often. However, hospitals and doctors do charge for extras not related to primary care e.g. private hospital room, choice of Dr and hospitals.

Secondly, insurers are not allowed to dispute charges by doctors for primary care (things covered under LaMAL). In the US medical staff spends a lot of time talking to insurers before starting treatment about payment, this practically does not happen here. A doctor prescribes or does, the insurer pays no discussion (or very, very rarely). Insurers thus compete by getting the best customers and extra's for those with money, as well as reducing their own costs.

Also every one is insured, you can choose your own insurer if you don't one is picked at random for you. Every year you can change insurance (cancel in November to change in new year). For tourists or the first 3 months that you live here the state covers.

Each Kanton/State has at least one public hospital, if you don't have extra insurance this is where you will be treated. To a good standard just nothing experimental. These hospitals are very focussed on their costs. i.e. they will schedule similar operations on the same day. As a patient you will get whatever dr is assigned to the operation. If you have expensive insurance you can ask for a specialist. This costs extra!

Of course there are many private hospitals in CH, however they compete for the rich patients who can pay for the luxury. These hospitals actively move care to the public ones when they can get away with it.
“A group of centi-millionaires and a couple of billionaires were working through end-of-America scenarios and talking about what they’d do. Most said they’ll fire up their planes and take their families to Western ranches or homes in other countries.” One of the guests was skeptical, Dugger said. “He leaned forward and asked, ‘Are you taking your pilot’s family, too? And what about the maintenance guys? If revolutionaries are kicking in doors, how many of the people in your life will you have to take with you?’ The questioning continued. In the end, most agreed they couldn’t run.”

This is a great point and I think we can even add more to it: Will your pilot even wait for you? I guess he/she will just put his/her family on your plane and take off without you!
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> The idea that we are supposed to teach each other is science fiction

In a thread filled with anecdotes, and people who consider themselves experts on school because they went to one, the idea that you criticize is just about the only one with basis in research. Teaching the material is an effective way to gain insight on a subject.

> We don't gain anything by throttling the motivation of gifted kids

This keeps surfacing every time someone brings up education. Probably because it is so easy to argue against. The thing is, nobody wants to do that. The question at hand here is what makes for a better education for gifted children. That's not as clear cut as one might think.
Related: is there a decent FF extension to stop all JS activity in firefox in background tabs?

I really don't want any JS to be running in background. This includes WebWorkers and ServiceWorkers.
This only flattens one level. Consider the following snippets:

; CHICKEN Scheme
#;1> (flatten '((1 2 3) ((4 5) 6) (7 (8) (((((9))))))))
(1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9)
#;2> (apply append '((1 2 3) ((4 5) 6) (7 (8) (((((9))))))))
(1 2 3 (4 5) 6 7 (8) (((((9))))))

vs.

# Python 3
>>> sum([[1,2,3], [[4,5],6], [7, [8], [[[[[9]]]]]]], [])
[1, 2, 3, [4, 5], 6, 7, [8], [[[[[9]]]]]]

There's a big difference here. Flattening a list to just the elements inside isn't terribly hard, especially in a language like Scheme with tail-recursion, but flatten is definitely something that should be in the standard library. The "flatten" you propose is really just appending the elements of the first level of the list.
the poor state of e10s feels like neglect to me
I'm not picturing post-scarcity or a hyper centralized form of automation. It's a possible path for automation to reach a point where it becomes feasible to allow semi-skilled folks in suburban or rural areas to run a farm, manufacturing plant, energy, mining or foresting outfit of their own for low startup and maintenance costs. Especially if human-level AI and human-level dextrous robotics does not exist yet.

Laborers would have a role to play with exoskeletons, being the eyes on the ground, and directing the robotic labor. Technicians would maintain the systems, and managers would organize logistics and resources. And as long as there is industry, there will be all the other types of supplementary businesses and jobs that come with a town.
After disabling a couple old add-ons that were blocking Firefox's multiprocess architecture (Electrolysis), Firefox now feels as fast as Chrome for me.
You need to look at your future more with the new employer than your old employer.
There are also palm trees in the Italian part of Switzerland, around Lake Lugano. Nice weather.
... then you come out of your bunker yelling "A Lannister always pays his debts! A Lannister always pays his debts!"
Probably you were wrong about who coined the term “bug”. It was in the late 1800
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I don't believe I ever mentioned ionic v2... I don't doubt v2 brought many improvements. However you just can't beat the power of not operating in a Webview.
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It's more useful than graduating high school and then having to go through two years of mediocre undergraduate courses, no?

What did you find non-useful about it? Did you end up having to take just as much undergraduate coursework to make up for some perceived deficiency?

I'm genuinely curious.
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What's the problem with e10s?
> and many Swiss I talk to dislike the idea of refugees coming to Switzerland and choosing not to work

I'm sorry, but who actually likes that idea?
The problem here is that there are two different typical definitions of "far-right", possibly even three.

* Minarcho-capitalist, "Snow Crash"-style. Absolutely minimal government, only contracts and property titles being enforced. On everything else, you're free-to-starve.

* Religious dominionism, Mike Pence style. "Electrocute the gay away". Scary and weird. Kinda like a Middle Eastern country.

* So-called "right-wing populism", aka fascism. Trump's typical style. Very nationalistic, often claiming to adopt left-wing economic policies like industrial management and regional equalization while actually installing policies more similar to the minarcho-capitalists, but with more corruption. Dog-whistles to religion but no real religiosity. Military parades in the streets, Orwellian blatant lies, etc. Cult of leadership.
Are you sure about that? Federal taxes in Switzerland are peanuts. And depending on which Canton/Gemeinde you live in, taxes could be MUCH lower than what you would pay in the USA.
What's wrong with e10s?
Preserving a distinctly Swiss culture and society is what allows them to remain successful.
Significant controlled influence on the world at large that leads back to a detectable benefit you? Not a chance. The probability of societal meltdown is small, but it's larger than any of our individual impacts. Heck, just the risk of meltdown through accidental nuclear war (easily 0.1%/century, and arguably at least 10 or 100 times that) is already large enough.

This is a question of altruism, or of whether all of these possibilities are too small to be worth spending spending time on.
>I wish that we could just drop the Dow entirely and focus on the more modern indices like the S&P.

I don't get it. Is someone forcing "us" to use the DOW in some manner? It is what it is, use the information how you choose.

This reminds me of people who complain about how the BLS calculates specific measures of inflation or unemployment. They list their methodology. Either you find the information important and useful, or you can choose to ignore it. We don't have to "drop" anything.
My first "real" job out of university had this. Every time I looked at how much PTO I had, I had to remember that it was dupe because I had to knock off Federal holidays in order to calculate how much PTO I could actually use whenever I wanted.
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"the foundation of fear, especially such that motivates policy, should be based on odds."

That is a fair point and a rational reason. However, it's convenient to say "We've always had guns, the chance of randomly getting shot in the street is low, therefore we should keep them."

What is the chance of randomly getting shot if guns were never legal in the first place (e.g. an American in which no 2nd amendment was present)? What will the chance be of randomly getting shot if guns are made illegal tomorrow? Lower? Higher? Maybe we could look at other countries and see how they compare. If your logic is policy should be related to odds, I think you may have just argued that guns should in fact be illegal based on homicide rates in other developed countries, for example - http://www.humanosphere.org/science/2016/06/visualizing-gun-...
Yes -- unlimited vacation is a perk of flexibility rather than number of days off.

Since you're responsible for getting your work done, you can take any manner of time off provided that the results hold up.
This past year, I prolly tallied anywhere from 4-6 weeks off, technically speaking. Unplugged though, a handful of days at most. (Otherwise, mostly on vacay but maybe a few hrs worth of work a day sprinkled in morning / evening.)

Because I own my area of work + results though, during decent chunks of this time I still answer emails when I can, try to unblock people etc. So it means that I get to travel more and see other places, or work in other offices (would say 'remote' here but some are in places like NYC & Seattle so hardly remote in that sense of the word!)

Then, when I am around town in San Francisco, I make a point to check in with people in person, often through the evenings. And work part of the time on Sat/Sun to unblock people if I need to review or provide someone else the context to do so.

For my role I have made this work and love it, but this unlimited option is not for everyone. And there is a cap to how much you can realistically be away and still get things done.
OK, let me just respond with my experience because it might be helpful to you or someone else.

1. Agreed 100%, I also cannot work from home. Especially with a toddler running around. I need to physically separate myself, so I rent an office space that's a 10 minute walk away (I'm in NYC). It worked out really nicely.

2. This might be the case if you're the odd one out. I can see how that would be isolating. Look for companies that have a remote culture, eg 50% or more of the employees are remote. I wouldn't want to be the guy working remotely as an exception.

Also, I have tried the "working out of a coffee shop" thing and couldn't stand it. It's very uncomfortable. I felt like a freeloader and I need a large, permanent workspace.
Maybe the direction taken is not what some users wanted, but Firefox development is not stagnant. In general, it feels that there is little more to offer in the browser space, but that is not only Firefox. ¿What are the big new features (from all vendors) in the last few years?
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I think the point is that there's a wide range of styles that are readable, but the condition for readability is also related to the skills of the coder to clarify. And that range is ample but also finite.
Not just scientists. Engineers should to, and for the same reason

If you're a civil engineer, chemical engineer, electrical engineer, or a software engineer, you can find far too many examples of Republican politicians offering rhetoric and policies that are directly at odds with the domain knowledge of your profession.

We can't let this continue.
We need more sex positivity in this world. While I agree that some of the contents of Fetlife was objectionable from a legal standpoint the owners did a good job at getting rid of those things.

I think the objection today has mostly to do with the fact that they want to tell us what we do in our bedrooms.
why use the cloud though? just build on premise and use existing MDM, or App Store
Appreciate the feedback, thank you.

I had a pretty good idea on what was expected of me even back then. Truth be told, I would have cultivated the more business-oriented skills with time if the management environment wasn't so full of self-congratulatory practices and people patting themselves on the back -- while all of them know perfectly well they contributed no more than $500 to their employer's bottom line at the end of the month.

I plan on doing a small business of mine so I have no choice -- I will learn everything necessary from this point of view with time.

But in that particular environment I didn't care about helping those people at all. They were all there because the job was stable, well-paid and expected almost nothing of them. The CEO was an idiot who bought a very cheap "success lingo" all the time. These people didn't want any changes; that meant they had to work more which was the exact thing they were strongly against (and were sabotaging everyone who tried to introduce a more positive change like myself and one girl who was leading team of designers and frontenders).

Thank you for your kind words. Even being strongly dismissive of my own abilities (which IMO is important if one wants to always evolve and improve himself) I believe I would indeed be a valuable addition to a managerial roster but quite frankly, I don't want to be involved in politics and fighting with people who despise change.
Or in the case of skilled labor, locals can't do those jobs.

Is the reason there are so many immigrants in IT because the job doesn't pay well enough?
Thanks for the explanation.

I think higher-kinded types is one of those things that make me not like Scala. I cannot think about an use case, but there should be few.

> Only if you control the classes involved

You see it like a problem, I see it like a good practice. You should do whatever you want with code that wasn't meant for something else. There were a long discussion in the kotlin forums about this.

> real-world Java codebases end up full of proxying/bytecode-manipulation/reflection controlled by annotations and/or (in older codebases) XML

I see this in Python, Ruby and other languages. Real-world codebases are similar.

It is clear we think different and we are not going to agree, but I liked the conversation and I learnt new things on the way. Thanks
The problem with Darwinism is that it's a theory presented as fact. And they've been caught faking evidence to support it so many times by now that nothing that comes out of that camp is credible any more. The reason they've been pushing Darwinism down our throats for so long was to get everyone on board with Social Darwinism, survival of the most ruthless bullies; the opposite of human behavior.
So, does this have any ramifications on the Megaupload case?
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I see it the other way around. I think Facebook and Twitter's goals are to disrupt that kind of chaos with their "trending" section. While these platforms can be used to mobilize, they can pinpoint exact location of unrest and try to prevent that kind of stuff from happening.
But this just highlights the case with JavaScript even more. In JavaScript nobody is tied to any framework, and they can easily leave for another browser at any time. Heck, with jQuery, it doesn't even matter if you're writing ECMAScript 3 or 6, everything still pretty much works the same out of the box.

At the end of the day there's a lot to be said about the transition from 2 to 3, but I think in general the Python community got off easy compared to some of the breaking changes in other language communities.