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If this general issue interests you, pensiontsunami.com is a great aggregation of stories about it.

Long story short: defined benefit pensions are the biggest financial catastrophe in history, with the worst cases exacerbated by self-dealing between government employees and elected officials.
Author of crass here.

I wouldn't recommend doing what the author suggests. crass doesn't squeak out extra bytes when you reprocess because it already does this for you.

If you combine multiple minifiers, the bugs in one minifier can end up being amplified by the others. For instance, one minifier might not consider !important when moving around CSS. Another minifier might then take that output and perform an optimization that's no longer just unsafe, but now incorrect. It might even delete rulesets that it believes are not used, ruining your stylesheet.

There are suites that test the correctness of minifieres, and many don't do great. CSS still "works" when the syntax is invalid, so invalid stylesheets result in undefined results when you minify. Between bugs and undefined behavior, I wouldn't recommend mixing and matching just to save one or two TCP packets, especially with gzip/brotli on the wire.
Investing in foreign markets would diversify the investment so SS has lower risk if the economy tanks.
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"Take on this massive debt or you'll die" isn't coercive force?

No, I wouldn't force a doctor to work for free at gunpoint. That's why even single-payer systems pay doctors to willingly work within national healthcare systems.

The rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness have substantially more historical support here in the US than your asserted right not to be taxed for anything.
Anecdotal evidence matches this up pretty closely. Better programmers tend to work more, it's just a fact of life.
Funny enough, I agree with both you and the person you're arguing against. I agree that the wage gap (as defined by the difference in how much men and women earn when working in the same position with the same skills) is probably pretty close to 6%. [0] I also agree that there is a big problem currently.

In my opinion, the problem is twofold. First of all, this gap - whatever you think it is, 6% or 9% or 21% - it is a problem. Most Americans live pretty close to financial ruin, like it or not. 76% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck [1] and 63% of Americans are one missed paycheck away from the streets [2]. A 6% pay gap is about two paychecks. Even though it may not seem like much to a HN reader with significant savings or a safety net, this small gap spread across the whole population actually causes problems.

The second part of the problem is societal: women are discouraged from pursuing higher-paying jobs by society. This isn't the fault of the women themselves, or the people doing the hiring, but sexism and biases hidden everywhere. In my opinion, this is the best support for affirmative action: more women doing a certain job translates to more women interested in that career.

These two things combined are a double whammy that currently mean that less women work and women who do work are not always financially secure - and that's the big problem here. If you're a woman from an upper class background and have been encouraged by those around you, you may never experience any of these problems, and that's great. But if you're an average American woman, these things have a very real impact on your life.

This also explains the giant gulfs of opinion I see here on HN. Most people here are relatively wealthy - remember, if you earn more than 36k a year, you earn more than most working Americans. $70k/yr means you earn more than 75% of American workers. I'd bet the vast majority of US programmers on here earn above 70k/yr. It's easy to get caught in a bubble and say 'well the women around me seem to have no problems!' and forget about the majority of the country. At the same time, if you live in a low-income area, those two "missed" paychecks might be absolutely killer.

[0] I have a personal, unfounded feeling that it's closer to 10% - maybe 8-9% if I had to guess.

[1] http://money.cnn.com/2013/06/24/pf/emergency-savings/

[2] http://www.marketwatch.com/story/most-americans-are-one-payc...
see what i'm saying?
I'm a parent of two small daughters. Now I'm still able to program once or twice a week for maybe 30 minutes.

But I definitely don't have time to do one commit a day :(.

Back in college or highschool, I used to pull a full weekend worth of programming, meaning starting saturday at 8am, finishing sunday at 10pm. I was able to build very cool projects in just a weekend. Now if I estimate maybe the 1 hour I have per week, the same project just takes me months...

I still do cool projects, VR video games, cool websites. It's just taking a lot of time.
This project for example took me 4 years (lol): http://traveler208.com/

But you know what, looking back at what I have of my life, I cherish much more the time I spent with the family at the lake, or the time I spent with my wife. The time where I programmed a platform that used only free servers all over the internet to combine a 7TB bandwidth in a month for a P2P service was cool, but it's not as good.
According to the link below, Attice's going rate is ~$24.

More seriously, I agree with your sentiment. There is something oddly comforting, seeing just how prosaic the graffiti of ancient civilizations are.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-value-of-1-Roman-Sesterces...
I wonder what the impacts of (re|)minification is on actual network performance.

For example: consider a minified file x. X is likely getting gzipped when served. Is the reminified version smaller than the original? Same size? Bigger?

You might expect the obvious answer, but did anyone do the actual measurements?
It should be comforting, though, that so far they have always turned eventually - as the evidence for Watergate became overwhelming, the public made it clear there were some lines that could not be crossed.

Nixon did not really do anything that previous presidents hadn't done. Those lines had already been crossed plenty of times. See It Didn't Start With Watergate -- https://archive.org/details/LaskyVictorItDidntStartWithWater... Or read Robert Caro's biography of Lyndon Johson and read about all the blatantly illegal things Johnson did. Also -- the flip side of the Nixon story is that the FBI and perhaps CIA almost certainly got away with breaking the law and illegal wire taps -- https://www.stratfor.com/weekly/death-deep-throat-and-crisis... Should we be comforted if the unelected branches of government can break the law to expose the elected branches?
Is calorie counting really necessary though? Unless you cook every meal yourself, your count is always going to be off by a significant amount which seems to defeat the purpose of counting in the first place.

Surely it would be better to just eat your fruit and veggies, and avoid excessive cheese burgers and thickshakes.
Basically a textbook reason for having abortion services available for all...
Snowden coordinated with Greenwald et al. for years on their "drips and drabs" strategy. Rightly so! The point of leaking is to have a political effect. Those effects are multiplied when leaks are well-timed. I'm glad, because had the leaks that have many people most upset not been so effective, USA would probably be at war in Syria right now.

https://theintercept.com/2016/05/16/the-intercept-is-broaden...
And @supports, and vendor prefixes, and animations, and print styles, and IE hacks...
Thanks for the read, I'm glad you are in a great relationship. ..Why mention the first woman though? She doesn't seem to have help you with programming...
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The birth rates in Western countries have been plummeting for the last 40 years. In fact, birth rates globally are declining almost everywhere except in countries that are still too poor to provide things like welfare. The data does not support your position.
Not all flight plans can lead to a recoverable rocket. GTO and polar orbits can't land back. This means there will be unrecoverable rockets from time to time.

But your question still applies to recoverable flight plans. How many do they need to cover all those?
I used to work as a welder in a shipyard. Deep in the hold, ribs never to be seen- dicks everywhere. It was almost poetic.
> most likely what will happen is people will just leave CA

Could you please inform our population here about that?

Republicans keep promising that people will flee the Blue states due to various policies; somehow it never seems to happen.

Could you let us know what we're doing wrong? We'd really like to send some of these folks to Red states to help balance out the voting.

Thanks bunches.
I very much doubt 17% before gzip on a already minimized css file would make any meaningful difference, to anyone. Check out the compression example on https://css-tricks.com/the-difference-between-minification-a...
If that's true, why does any single doctor in the entire country take Medicare patients then?
I might want to read an article about a language that is fast in principle due to its specification. But the question that actually matters to me is: do actual implementations of a language's specification exist, that I can use, that are fast? The answer is yes for JS.

Whatever flaws JS clearly has, speed is not one of them. All the widely used implementations of the language are fast compared to similar languages.

I'm unsure why you think it matters that this speed came about due to hundreds of thousands of hours of work spent on optimizing various compiles and interpreters. I never see anyone saying "Boy SQL sure is fast, but only because so many intelligent people spent their careers making it fast, so it doesn't count."

Remember, this little argument started because someone described JavaScript as slow. That claim is incredibly disingenuous. No, JavaScript's speed isn't directly linked to the language spec but...who cares?
Pay as you go pensions are automatically adjusted for inflation and provide larger benefit the longer you live. While mathematically the seem like a poor deal, money has diminishing marginal utility, so knowing you will get X can be worth more than having a 90% chance of getting 10x.
Nope! Physicians either have to be a part of the public system 100% or 0%. No doing both.

As a result, there are very few private options for healthcare in Canada.
Yeah, right. Try living off water like that for a few months (or years). And then report back to us.
I'd like to know this too. I see no mention of Linux in the article or the product page[1] (which ars doesn't seem to link to in the article, only link to other articles they've written about dell stuff, which seem like common practice these days. What happened to organic linking?)

[1]http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-9365-2-in-1-laptop/...
It's still growing and changing pretty quickly. Even if it was going to be standardized, it's too early now.
I don't buy it. If that's true, how come all of the top results I get are slow, heavy bloated sites, yet small, simple, fast sites are ~10 pages deep?
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That is a sticking point for me. Alternative AMP caches (with alternative UX, e.g. Ampersand generally keeps users on your site when they bounce) go some way towards solving this, but they're not (yet?) first-class ecosystem citizens:

> But these are just guidelines, and Google can’t guarantee they’re behaving well, so they’re not first-class citizens.

> I’d love for this to be something you could statically verify, just like AMP HTML, so that anybody could add a Cache to the ecosystem and get a lightning bolt on Google search results and Cloudflare links and Twitter Moments™, but I’m pretty sure this reduces to the Halting Problem.
I don't recall this particular rule. Not saying that you are not correct, but sources would be helpful. I wouldn't be surprised if that were there, there are all sorts of silly rules for visas, specially work-related ones.

Now, even if it's not illegal, I'd say it's _unwise_. Leave the protesting to US citizens, as they are afforded more protections.
I don't think so. See his code:

http.ServeFile(w, r, "static/"+r.URL.Path)
>the problem is a student could reasonably ask "why would you do it this way"? - i.e. this kind of algorithm seems like a better candidate for iteration

Fantastic question. And a point I would respond with is that if you were to actually get up and walk to the front of the cinema counting rows as you go, you would realise that in doing so you would have walked forwards one row and then performed exactly the same action that the person in front of you would have done had they tried to count their row. So even this "iterative" procedure parallels recursion.

Perhaps a problem that seems harder to convert to iteration is that of evaluating arbitrary arithmetic expressions. In order to evaluate a binary expression, you evaluate its two parts (recursively) and then perform the binary operator on the two operands. In order to evaluate a numeric literal, you simply take its value. So (1 + (2 * 3)) involves evaluating 1 to itself, (2 * 3) to 6, and then finally (1 + 6) to 7.
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Good examples, but none of that is anything that I want. I'd much prefer small, simple, static pages to any of that. Additionally, they will load faster, and be easier to read. Those things are just trimming pages down to what Google wants, not users.
Cooperation is mediocrity? That's a pretty shitty outlook on life, and definitely not one borne out in either the human or animal worlds.
They are also known to have used F#, and even provided a testimonial to this effect: http://fsharp.org/testimonials/. Can't say if it's still used, though. That's two recent high-profile acquisitions (with Jet.com) for F# shops.

> At Kaggle we initially chose F# for our core data analysis algorithms because of its expressiveness. We’ve been so happy with the choice that we’ve found ourselves moving more and more of our application out of C# and into F#. The F# code is consistently shorter, easier to read, easier to refactor, and, because of the strong typing, contains far fewer bugs.

> As our data analysis tools have developed, we’ve seen domain-specific constructs emerge very naturally; as our codebase gets larger, we become more productive.

> The fact that F# targets the CLR was also critical - even though we have a large existing code base in C#, getting started with F# was an easy decision because we knew we could use new modules right away.
If you are not getting interviews there is something wrong with your resume. Why don't you share it with us so we can comment.
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OK, we replaced the baity title with representative language from the article. If someone suggests a better (more accurate and neutral) title we can change it again.
For now.

AMP is a PROXY/MITM service, with all the perks that come from being such a service. There is nothing stopping google ,or whatever company owns them after they become a Yahoo!, from changing their "policy" to better be aligned with their interests.
Except that the lawmakers in Washington actually wrote the laws to forbid the government from negotiating for special rates for Medicare and Medicaid, unlike the UK or Canada. Which is why drugs there, for example, are so much cheaper than in the U.S.
Sure, speed should be a ranking factor, but I'd much rather have a slow site that's relevant than a fast one that isn't.
This is an argument that I have yet to see being addressed to my satisfaction.

If recent raises / salaries in the tech industry outside of Silicon Valley are any guide, companies love to save money on salaries. So I honestly have no idea why all the men I work with haven't been replaced by women being paid 95% or whatever the claimed pay gap is. And remember, this is in the US, where you can legally be let go because your boss doesn't like the color of your shoes.
By default, only US citizens and Permanent Residents(green card) are authorized to work for any employer without any sponsorship. So when companies ask this, it means they want to know if you are one of the 2 or not. Anyone else requires a work authorization like an EAD or some form of work visa.
It seems to be about Python 2. Too bad it's not about 3.
There are software companies composed of all men (or 95% men if we want to be a bit more relaxed). Successful ones - as in making profit.

Where are all-women (or 95% women) companies? If you can get away with paying them less, where are all the capitalists exploiting the market inefficiency and getting rich in the process?

Hell, nowadays companies like Starbucks[0] routinely put social causes first, profits second. So where are these companies?

[0] https://www.starbucks.com/blog/an-open-letter-from-howard-sc...
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How about a relevant page that is fast. We can have the best of both worlds.
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Every brand goes through this cycle, although they don't all end up cannibalizing their original high-end products. You start by making gear out of the best available materials and with high-quality construction. You sell direct to the customer and have minimal marketing spend. It's expensive because of the materials that, in the modern era, are engineered synthetics you have licence from textile companies like Gore, Schoeller, Polartec, PrimaLoft, etc. and the low volume, but at least you don't have retailers and middlemen taking a cut of your revenue. Your gear becomes more popular, starts to get mindshare within the climbing, hiking, skiing, etc. communities. But at certain point, you've sold every climber a great jacket that stands up to years of abuse.

Now you have two options. First, you can start making more types of items. You go from hard shells to insulated jackets to footwear to tents to sleeping bags. You sell the guy who already likes your jacket a few pairs of gloves, pants, etc. But that also scales up your costs, because you've got to sink time and money into designing these new items and learning to properly use new materials.

So how do you make more money? You increase your addressable market by putting your brand on down-market items. You don't need to do any R&D, you just replace the top quality materials in your existing products with cheaper alternatives and outsource the manufacturing to Bangladesh. To reduce prices, you stop doing quality control. Not only are you cutting your retail price of a jacket maybe from $700 to $200, your actual revenue is now going from $700 to maybe $50 because you're selling at Walmart, Target, etc., but your volume goes from thousands to millions. You still sell your original high-quality products, but they aren't making nearly as much money as the cheap stuff anymore.

At some point the original owners of the company exit, sell it to a larger company or hedge fund, and the cycle accelerates further. They get rid of the high-end products and axe the R&D team, seeing it as a cost centre.

It's an unavoidable part of trying to sustain your growth curve. Some companies have resisted it and simply stayed small and high-quality, but it takes a special type of founder. A good example is Western Mountaineering, which continues to make top-quality low-volume down products and refuses to branch out into selling everything and the kitchen sink with their name on it.

http://www.westernmountaineering.com/about/
I lived in the US for almost a decade, so I've experienced both systems.

My point is that the US system has problems and the Canadian system has problems. Hell, the Canadian Supreme Court ruled that healthcare wait times combined with a ban on private care violated the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms[1].

There are numerous examples of Canadians either suffering in pain or heading to the US for surgery due to wait times.[2]

Bennett was referred for surgery on her right hip in November of 2013 and said she’s been told she won’t get in until early in 2016. She said her joint has deteriorated so much she is unable to work or even function without strong narcotic painkillers.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaoulli_v_Quebec_(AG)
[2]http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/patients-live...
The Ackermann function I personally find better for recursion since you can't implement it trivially with iteration--it's not primitive recursive. The downside is that it's double-recursive (which can be problematic if you're trying to teach the concept in assembly), and it's not particularly clear why such a function should exist (although one can point out that it's basically a generalization of addition/multiplication/exponentation/tetration to arbitrary degrees).
you nailed the top two deal-breakers in my eyes, too.
Wow, somehow I expected something complex.

Thanks a lot!
GTO and polar orbits can still land, they just use the barge ("Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship") instead of returning to the launch site.

There are launches which don't have enough margin to land at all. The upcoming EchoStar 23 launch is one of these. This is a GTO launch of a really heavy satellite, so getting it up there requires using the fuel the rocket would need to land.

However, this is rare, and it's likely that this will only happen a few more times at most
Yikes! 11K lines is a lot. I guess my conclusion is the same as last time: human brains are good at parsing very elaborate languages. People like all that subtle "expressiveness".

I think my bash parser is pretty complete, and it's about 4K lines in Python now, including the lexer. Changing it to the lossless syntax tree vs AST blew it up by a few hundred lines.

However, it does more than the 6K lines in bash's parse.y, because it parses in a single pass. Bash does more parsing in the 9700 line file subst.c, so it's hard to count.

But yeah I'm about to write my Oil parser now, as opposed to the OSH parser... I really want to avoid writing another 4K lines of code!!! That might be the most practical way though. :-(

http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2017/02/05.html
> If you're home alone with a kid, you shouldn't be taking conference calls

Right, so only people in two-caregiver households get to work from home. Got it.

Everybody up and down this thread who is assuming that there even is another caregiver needs to check their privilege.

I am not a parent myself, but I have been on conference calls where a colleague tried to keep a child out of their home office for a few minutes (like, for the part of the call when it was their turn to give an update) and it blew up in their face. Just let the kid sit in your lap already, it's fine.
#84 I am basing on Dijkstra's statement here that "from a microsecond to a half an hour of computing time confronts us… with the ratio of 10^9"

See here: http://infiniteundo.com/post/117192619718

"Time grain" seems like the wrong word here I will replace it with something more specific. Thank you for pointing this out and if you still dispute my math I would consider it helpful to hear why :)
As somebody who has implemented AMP for a major newspaper, these are in fact things that publishers want.