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There is the matter that, even if these Trump supporters provided facts you wouldn't believe those facts anyway. You would attribute the facts they provided to different causes and interpret them in your own way to suit your world view. It's really a waste of time talking to each other. I've spent plenty of time arguing with people on the left. Facts and figures and citations stored on my phone (TO SHOW PEOPLE IRL) and all for nothing. Complete waste of time. The only thing that made a difference was arguing with a liberal friend about diversity. I was able to point out that he lives in the whitest building in the whitest part of the city. So harping on about diversity is hypocritical because when he had time to put his money where his mouth is he did the opposite (he is white). That was the only thing that even made him pause to think for a second. In my experience, no amount of facts, no amount of well meaning discussion has any point. Nobody on the left will agree with you, they won't see your point, they willfully choose to misunderstand your points, they misrepresent your arguments when they repeat them back to you. It is a futile waste of time to talk to each other. The issue will eventually be decided the way all such fundamental irreconcilable disagreements are decided, might will make right in the end.
> So, isn't it just.. Ionic 2? or maybe Ionic 2.0?

Final is how they signify a version is ready for production and they'll stop modifying it. Up until now they've have 6 upgrades as Ionic 2.0.0-alpha, then 11 as Ionic 2.0.0-beta, 6 as release candidate, and finally, Ionic 2.0.0.
Well at the very least it seems like they'd have as much loyalty for their new job and be willing to stay an extra week for you too.
I would counter it with facts that the weakening of the democratic process has been done by elected officials.

Electoral college rules in fact subtly break democracy even now.
Wanted to vote, say, Bernie Sanders? Tough luck.
There are 15 other developers, so what's the problem? I assume you gave 2 weeks notice and such. Whoever pushed the date back should have considered you, assuming you are an important part of the project. Not your problem. Go.
As a most definitely non-gifted student, I wonder what the impact of removing gifted students from the school? I've seen gifted students help others succeed through tutoring or even by providing a role model for others to look up to.

I believe having a gifted student in a regular school benefits the entire school and may help them in learning other, more social skills.
In my experience learning is not a "one size fits all" product product, or even fits most. I'd really like to see schools have more resources and expertise to address different kids learning styles and aptitudes as I have yet to see a single style of teaching that works for all kids. Ideally they wouldn't have to go to different schools as I think it is good socially to learn to interact with all different types of people from an early age.
You are wrong. I have few mobile apps, made with Ionic and Ionic 2, some have been used on warehouse as part of huge WMS (to scan items and manage whole business process of warehouse worker), some were apps for business as part of CRM (with geolocation, maps and handwritten signatures). And every time product owners were very satisfied with the result and with speed of development.

Ionic 1 had too hacky API and not great performance, but Ionic 2 is much more mature in both of these fields.
I wonder if he knows something that would be embarrassing for the Kremlin and criminal for the POTUS.
This is just my perspective. I've been in (increasingly) challenging engineering leadership roles over the past 5 or so years.

When I first started, I felt exactly like you do. That my job was to enable and empower my engineering team to build awesome product and that all the "management" stuff was a huge waste of time.

I received some advice from my boss that I was missing 50% of the job. You're being paid and expected to do the engineering leadership side on top of being the interface with the company for progress and business objectives. Any talented engineer with a modicum of people skills can usually do a halfway decent job of leading a small team to build a product, but it takes some business acumen to understand how your team fits into the bigger operating environment of your business.

That was the skill they expected you to bring to the table, and you not only despised it, you blew up at them in a meeting.

Granted, that company may very well have had a terrible meeting process and been looking at all the wrong KPIs for how things should work. But knowing how to positively influence that process inside the environment and doing so in a political way that preserves culture and existing team dynamics is crucial.

I hope you give that type of role another shot. The world needs better engineering leaders that can help businesses understand the value of a strong engineering culture.
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When I worked outside of SV, I saw the same thing. Several engineers went off to schools nearby to get MBAs just so their careers could improve.

Once in SV though... I rarely see this. When you get an MBA, it's a huge signal to an employer that you accomplished something, and no amount of bad management can ignore that you were issued an MBA. I think job hopping in SV can accomplish the same type of signal.
Funny that you think CA and NY are so entitled. I don't have a map handy, are MI and PA in the south too now?
You're right that legal expertise is essential to drafting bills. But you don't need to be a lawyer--you can also hire one. Legislators have lots of expert resources available to help with drafting including the offices of legislative counsel[1] and professional staffers and committee aides.

[1] Example from the House of Representatives: https://legcounsel.house.gov/HOLC/Before_Drafting/Ghost_Writ...
I've used Jenkins in the past and Bamboo right now without any issues for CI and a little bit of CD through custom scripts. Granted this has worked well for under 30 engineers, so i'm not sure how bigger teams do things.
Definitely. While at times it feels like the Java Community Process moves at a snails pace, the maintainers of Java have done an incredibly good job modernizing Java and addressing its flaws over the years, while all the time maintaining backwards compatibility and, most importantly, keeping a single unified developer community.

When you look at how dominant languages like Perl and even Python have stumbled between version changes, it underscores how much of an accomplishment this really is.
Growing up a lot of my friends went to a "gifted and talented" science magnet school, while I got left behind at a "normal" public school.

Now that we're all adults, I've out achieved all of them in terms of science/tech aptitude/contribution.

"Gifted and Talented" is a trophy label for suburban parents. That's it.
How is this different from any other language? Let's face it, every language is just a Taco Bell menu item (1), choosing from them same dozen or so ingredients.

[1]: http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/Taco-Bell-programmin...
Java dev here, excluding legacy code, very little reason.

I find clojure a significantly better language, and theres always kotlin / scala if static typing is your thang.

People tend to conflate the not-so-nice java language with the good parts (libraries and JVM). The performance of the JVM and the same massive ecosystem of existing libraries are available in clojure, scala and kotlin.
Have you ever been inside a school? The stupid kids don't gather around to bask in the glow of the gifted kids. They DO gather around them and call them 'faggot' and trip them in the hallway, especially if they are smart but not athletic.
> Apache Arrow (also cache aware, much more cross platform)

kdb+ is available for raspberry pi, is that cross platform enough?

https://kx.com/2016/06/08/kx-releases-raspberry-pi-build-wit...
I choose my words carefully. I even emphasized specific words to attempt to make my point more clear. Then you ignored all that.

I wasn't trying to imply that the White House could be trusted in all things, but that there was some level of truth you could probably assume, especially about things that were already known or weren't worth lying about. What we have now is an example of disputing obvious facts, and over something inconsequential, as issues the White House responds to about go. This is clearly different than what we could expect before, even if we couldn't always expect for an entirely honest answer before.
Trump won due to resentment in Rust Belt states, where manufacturing jobs have declined. But immigration isn't the cause of those job losses. Automation has cost far more jobs.

A connection is seen between outsourcing and free trade deals, and that's a much better target. Now, it's arguable that free trade deals are economically beneficial, but they look bad. Trump gets that, and Democrats fell down in that regard.

But the anti-immigration scapegoating? That's not causality, that's scapegoating. Immigration is not the cause of the woes of the Rust Belt, but it gives them something to blame, and a populist leader can exploit that.
> Can't it be a mixture of private enterprises replacing some equivalent public institutions from the Swiss setup?

In short: no. Private institutions always just want to maximize profit, there has to be enough of the ideal of working for the common good.
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It's flipkart.
That's a failure of the school administration and disciplinary processes, and separating kids from each other based on perceived or measured intelligence is not going to solve it. Bullies are going to find a target whether there's a geek there or not. This is an argument for strict enforcement of anti-bullying policies, not isolating groups of kids from each other.

As someone who has been bullied in the past, I never thought the solution was avoidance. Our schools have to improve on all counts. Segregating students on any criteria is the opposite of the solution.
Please don't post this low grade garbage information here.
it seems that living in an apartment would be safer than a stand alone house. at least in the apartment even if you dont know your neighbors there may be some sense of community -- if we protect the apartment then we all have some safety. also surface area wise, an apartment has many more people to defend than a standalone house. personally if i were going to route of the people in the article, id get a boat and live on the coast.
It is my opinion that one's time is better spent preventing the collapse of civilization than preparing for it.
Can you shed a little more light on what it's like joining one of these communities for the first time? As someone who's always heard of these programming communities, and been interesting, I've hesitated to join one largely due to misunderstanding their utility / purpose. What does one DO at a meetup, for example?
Hey, just curious where you live? My consulting company does product management consulting, and I get feeds on PM jobs automagically. Anyway, here in the greater Toronto area, there are junior(ish) marketing positions labelled as "Product Manager" fairly regularly.
Right, but aren't the groupings supposed to be called Erudite, Abnegation, Amity, Dauntless and other silly names like that. Intellectual, social, creative and physical sound so bland. :)

Seriously though: I'm not against separate classes but dislike the idea of separate schools. Mostly because of where the best teachers, and budget, will be and what effect that will have on the less fortunate.
>someone reasonably talented with decent math fundamentals can catch up with the state of the art in 6-12 months.

Being able to parrot what is known, is far far far different from being able to ask what comes next.

I am talking about the training it takes to develop a critical and creative mind that can ask and answer novel questions.
I think most people (even introverts like me) do want to talk to more random people, they just want a small level of vetting to weed out the complete crazies.
50%. I have periodic stress - approaching major releases, major changes in staffing (up or down), but my day-to-day stress level isn't very high.

I also work a reasonable schedule, generally 40-45 hours/week, rarely more than that, and maybe 2-3 weekends in 15 years at my employer. Good vacation policy, flexible daily schedule, and a short commute as well.
What's the equivalent for desktop site development?
I mean I suppose that's true but that's a terribly weak argument. You could say the same thing about Signal which is considered one of the most secure messaging applications on the market at the moment. It's pretty trivial to monitor network traffic to see that the unencrypted data never leaves your own device
If you're taking the time to build a tunnel, might as well put a subway in it. Come to NYC (or London or Paris or ....) and Chicago and see real subways are a much better use of building tunnels. If NYC, Boston, DC, SF, Philly, all have subways, why not LA?

It is a much greener solution than using electric autos which after all, must be charged with electric power which is often carbon-based.

Subways are also far faster than using automobiles during much of the day but especially during Rush hour. Much of the NYC subway system is powered by Hydro Quebec. As stated earlier, much of even electric autos are charged by electric power generated with carbon-based fuels (e.g., natural gas).

Building a subway in LA would have a much lower carbon footprint than building a tunnel for cars.

Trump comes from NYC, and while he probably doesn't take the subway, he might likely understand the importance of them.
I used to be a "Java hater" when I didn't understand the real purpose of the language or didn't even write in it. I was pretty young and it was cool to hate it.

but nowadays, I think having a common runtime plus a language that can exploit that is quite nice. having written some java lately, it was a refreshing break from the brutalism of C.

looking forward to whatever they bring to the table!

EDIT: java without any IDEs is also very usable. my workflow from small C projects didn't change. I don't bother with Eclipse, I just do all my work in my terminal.
The quote: "There is no arguing with the barrel of a gun" springs to mind here. Money means nothing if you don't have the ability to protect it. Interestingly, regulations and the spaghetti mess that is the banking system kinda serve as a means of protection; only certain clerks know the safe pathway in the network of laws and files that otherwise hide dragons of fines and the dreaded lawyers.
Obama may have sounded like he was an outsider in his first presidential race, but he's proven otherwise repeatedly over the years even during his first term. To be fair, Sanders would have probably been the same had he been elected.

Trump was the only major party choice in the last election though other choices of change were Gary Johnson and Jill Stein. To be clear, I am not advocating anyone; I'm just differentiating candidates who will uphold the status quo and others who won't.
Hah! Caltrans couldn't even get the 710 extension tunnel beyond environmental studies and it had the support of most of the east side of metropolitan Los Angeles! A town of fewer than 30,000 people has been fighting progress on that freeway since the 1960s [1] and in the last few years Caltrans, finally admitting defeat, began selling off all the homes it bought along the planned route. If a few upper-middle class lawyers with a single town's annual budget can fight off one of the busiest freeway extensions in decades, Elon Musk has no hope for getting permits for a much bigger tunnel project.

Judges are the ones who decide final right of way, not Presidents.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_710#The_South_Pasad...
I don't know why you've been downvoted, since IMO you raise a valid point.

I've known a few prepper types. They had plans for escape rooms, a significant cache of weapons, some ammo, and a few MREs in the closet.

Nobody had more than maybe a few liters of water per person in the home, and when I asked about an escape plan (e.g. there's a fire, get out and meet at John's house on the next street over) they looked at me like I was insane. Oh, and of course they're all in fairly bad shape.

In my opinion, most of the "prepper" stuff is about fantasy role playing. I see it as related to the "middle aged man porn" we see lately in the form of the Taken franchise of movies. It perhaps it gives a feeling of smug satisfaction in a chaotic life. You're angry that you were cut off in traffic on your way to a job that might have layoffs tomorrow, but at least you can tell yourself that when the apocalypse comes, you'll succeed while that jerk will be fodder. Sort of a tough guy variant of the classic "ass pennies" comedy sketch.
Not to mention leading to a culture in which displaying genuine creativity and strong opinions will quickly destroy your social and career prospects.

This is changing for the better with the younger generations, however.
There are endless presentations at Java ONE, Jax, Devoxx, NDC, Java Zone, FOSDEM, Skills Matter.

They aren't that hard to find.
> > "I couldn't care less"

> WHAT definition? Where does it come from? Says who?

The literal meaning of the words. If you couldn't care less, your caring is at zero. If you could care less you must currently care more than zero.

But that's not even really our point...

Rather than playing this silly game where you declare the majority view (Yay 51%) correct, why not just avoid things that people use incorrectly? Why go our of your way to join them? Most everyone who'd use the incorrect form would understand the correct form, so you're not even making yourself more understandable to them.

Why are you so fixated on "Begs the Question" that you don't use any other combination of words from the entire language to describe that phenomenon? The odds that you independently arrived at this phrase are infinitesimal.
It's pretty crazy. I'm a Canadian and went to public schools through school, now I'm doing my PhD. When I'm at summer schools or conferences with Americans, it's like half of those students had only ever interacted with other people in gifted programs at private schools.
But if the export markets were as rich as Switzerland, they would buy even more luxury watches. So I don't see how your point makes sense.

The Swiss model does seem to scale. The population has scaled from 6.2 million in 1970 to about 8.2 million today. GDP per capita also went up significantly during this time, and outpaced GDP per capita growth in the USA.

You can find a lot of people who write off the Swiss example by just handwaving and saying things like "well it's all stolen money". But the Swiss economy is diversified. The entire financial sector including insurance and pensions is about 10% of the GDP. Private banking is far from the entire financial sector. And in recent years the Swiss have started to give other governments lots of surveillance data on their citizens. You can't get numbered accounts for many many years now, and since FATCA Americans trigger so much reporting that they're being turned away from banks due to the compliance overheads alone. EU governments have benefited from Swiss cooperation too. Still, Switzerland hasn't got poorer since these changes came in.

I suspect the reason so many people ignore Switzerland and fail to learn lessons from it is because one of the most obvious and important causes of Swiss wealth is their rather unique system of government. Lots of people in America in the UK are doubting democracy entirely right now. I see totalitarian worldviews put forward quite openly all over the place in these days. The Swiss have a very weak federal government, a rapidly rotating presidency and a vast number of referendums. It leads to a very stable sort of society with few political issues compared to other western countries. Compare to other parts of the world where often apparent stability comes from simply ignoring political problems in the hope that they'll go away, instead of addressing them early.
If I use a normal keyboard, even on my 12" Macbook, I never need to look at the keyboard, but with the touch bar, I simply cannot press the esc key, i put my finger there, touch it, and sometimes nothing happens, its like it doesn't register that you press it, or maybe im touching it wrong.

Regardless I feel like I'm trying to re-learn to type.

I'm moving to a Dell XPS 15 tho. Done with Apple if this is the direction they are going.
Why aren't citizens doing the jobs that immigrants do? That's a more rational question.

Hiring immigrants isn't necessarily cheaper or easier. It's something employers do because they can't fill those jobs otherwise.
The loss of the electric grid would throw us back to the 19th century but without 19th century technology. There would be mass starvation and disease.
Are you certain it is only a week?
There are no valid conclusions to be had there. I'm old enough to remember the "this is your brain on drugs" ad's from the 80's, these "studies" are all of a piece with that nonsense.
It seems like the JVM is here to stay in the same way that COBOL is here to stay. It has become a server-specialized system with a level of overhead that kills it in resource constrained environments. There is room for improvement, no doubt, but it's pretty hard to beat the resource demands of AOT compiled code with a good optimizer and potential PGO.

Go, Swift, Vala, Nim, and Rust are just the start of a trend...it seems most new languages are eschewing the VM model. And many existing VM/JIT languages are moving there: Dart, Julia, Scala, and even the .NET languages are all moving towards AOT capabilities.
32 bit. Please be serious. You know full well that for all non-toy work kdb is exhorbitantly expensive.
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What is a DataGrid? A Table? I seriously don't know that
It'd be nice to think that's the case!

On the other hand, they may be getting cold feet about leaving all their old colleagues and friends behind and about to accept a generous counteroffer that they haven't yet had time to formalize.

Or perhaps they remembered they really hate PHP. Or the state they'd be moving to. Or gotten a last minute job offer from someone else that they like way better. Or...
FasTrak is a flaming pile of shit. Washington state hasn't implemented the same program but it's merely a sticker, whereas California's is a big ass puck on your windshield that you have to open/close or set a switch depending on passengers. It's a major fucking distraction and is somewhat illegally using your windshield space.
Using JVM without Java, is like being on UNIX and not using C.

Sure there are lots of goodies on user space, but there isn't any way around it, when you want to extract all juice from the platform.
Right but it was still contained to a country or region. People in Mexico we not affected by World War I/II that required a bunker and ammunition.
Yet another reason to concentrate those smarter kids so that the people with the most potential don't have it wasted by being forced to go to a school with a failed administration.

In a perfect world we would make all our schools great, but I think you'll find that this is harder to actually do than it is to say, and in the meantime it is very easy to get great teachers to work with gifted students.
Yeah, it's a great solution if you don't value your privacy. /s
I program in a lot of other languages and Java always looks like 120% boilerplate to me. I am not sure yet how well the REPL can handle that.