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I don't think JavaScript is the problem. It's not the best language, but by far it's also not the worst, and there are lots of alternative tools that keep you from having to touch it. Use Opal, or Coffees riot, or ClosureScript, or Elm, or whatever else is out there; there are dozens.

What is much more concerning is the dogmatic, hyper reliance on all-encompassing frameworks, with a commensurate scrabbling for these frameworks to only be made by large corporations. It used to be that you could start a side project on your own, working at a small company, with a decent work-life balance, and grow it into a jQuery or Underscore or Prototype.js and people would even thank you for it. Now, you get people questioning whether or not you should even be allowed to exist if you aren't an official project from Mozilla, Google, or Facebook.

Just because a large corporatiom makes a thing doesn't mean it's particularly good. We've all been complaining about how Google's brain-teaser style job interviews are only effective at keeping good programmers who aren't also autodidacts out of the company. Yet out of the other corner of our mouths, we assume anything they make is great just by virtue of them "only hiring the best". I'm sorry, Angular is a pile of garbage. And I mean the rewrite that was supposed to fix all the problems of the first version. Their official documentation's setup instructions are to clone an example repo and delete the parts you don't want. This isn't just unprofessional, it's infantilising. Or the alternative is to install yet another CLI tool for what should just be a front-end library. Every single place they use decorators--which are an experimental feature in TypeScript, so Google is building a core feature on unfinalized syntax--they could have been done with superclasses instead and just kept the whole project to one paradigm. But OOP isn't sexy anymore, and you can't get overqualified PhDs to work on business issues unless there is something to overcomplicate in there. They claim you can't get the live-reloading development server to work on Windows because of something Microsoft supposedly did to block it in January. That's funny. I have no problems with my build and dev tools, and I'm running on top of the same, exact Node ecosystem. But they don't actually explain anything or link to any issue, so there is no telling what they mean.

Don't be afraid to "reinvent the wheel", and stop complaining when others do. This search for "the one, true wheel" is what is killing us. Quit trying to take jobs with companies that expect you to know React and Ember. You don't have to learn everything that is out there, and you can stay on one thing for a while. Or you can even make your own things. Your worth as a developer is not in the tools you know today, it's in your ability to learn and solve problems.
> Apologies if this is a stupid question

It's not, and I think we all know that ;-)

> aren't all systems fundamentally axiomatic?

Both yes and no (and others). That fact that "one could always argue..." exists (as I mention in another comment), gives us the ability to say "no". And we could digress ad nauseam with these kinds meta-statements. It comes down to the economics of your decision whether or not to continue attending any given statement. That said, here is my reasoning for shying away from the given acceptance of Mathematics and axiomatic systems in general (bear in mind I used to be a math dude...800 math SAT, 36 math ACT, 5th place in state math tourney (1st place team), 0 days of homework)

Consider the wikipedia definition of axiom:

> An axiom or postulate is a statement that is taken to be true, to serve as a premise or starting point for further reasoning and arguments. The word comes from the Greek axíōma (ἀξίωμα) 'that which is thought worthy or fit' or 'that which commends itself as evident.'

With that in mind, consider this: Once I recognize that I have produced a false statement (made a mistake), then thereafter I have a non-zero probability that any statement I make is also false. This includes any statements that I make that make other statements, i.e. systems. So any axiomatic system, wherein there is at least one statement that is "taken to be true", is built on a foundation of hubris - right from the start.

So I personally have been on a long journey, where presently I am now working on the ibGib library which turns state into Goedelian numbers (content-addressable hashes of merkle trees/forests), essentially black-boxing "things" into a universe-sized fundamentally interconnected nodal network.
I am genuinely interested to hear about any postcolonial country that is doing well without a much larger benefactor behind it. I am not disagreeing with you on the past mistakes and missteps of intervention and sub-optimal appropriation, but blaming the colonials has not really helped anywhere, especially not Africa.

I take it you are opposed to the Monroe Doctrine. Do you think Spain, France, England, and the Netherlands would have just left Central America to their own devices? I am not making a lesser of two evils argument. Indeed, ascribing morality to the interactions of nation-states is silly IMO, but weak states are always going to be manipulated by stronger states.
Liebniz is talking about two objects which exist in different places but are otherwise identical. His argument, if I read it right, is "god would have no reason to pick one to move here and the other there, and because there are reasons for things, that cannot be; therefore each thing is intrinsically unique". Which is nonsense.
I think I tend to agree here. I've taught a few terms of the Python courses through @codeclub to primary school children in the UK (aged 10-11) using IDLE and it works well. It's also worth considering that IDLE is a relatively lightweight install and on the network at the school that I teach at, everything is extremely locked down and installing anything causes an amount of pain. That said I think I'll still investigate.....
An argument for immigration based on ethics seems to be interesting to discuss in theory, but is so far removed from the major ethical concerns regarding US behavior that it seems like a joke to argue for libertarian immigration policy reform on this basis.

Active invasion, murder, genocide and sabotage are ethical concerns that immediately out-shadow ethical considerations of immigration. It's a bit like complaining about animal rights in DPRK.
Hostility? There was nothing even remotely hostile in anything I wrote.
Well, there's also petroleum coke, though you're broadly correct.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum_coke
It seems to me that the suckers are all the people who were too "terrified" to invest over the past 10 years.
I'm really talking about retail savings accounts: most banks in the UK pay give 2%-3% on deposits up to a cap, with no interest paid on funds deposited above the cap. However, it's often possible to get around the cap by opening multiple accounts. You can stash amounts into the mid tens of thousands like this, but for higher values it gets a bit trickier.

These are retail products. It's true that an increase in the yield on government bonds would move the exchange rate, but the kind of institutional investors that move money in enough bulk to affect an exchange rate have little interest in retail deposit accounts.
That isn't really an answer to the question OP was raising, although I do sympathise with you. Having said that, Paypal is known to be very evil, and because of this I do expect people whom are still using Paypal consider this behaviour a calculated risk, rather than a surprise.
Sounds harsh, but knowing that Germans tend to be direct I wouldn't read too much into it. Also depends on the role. Universities teach programming from an angle which optimizes computation time over human time, even though that's rarely what industrial programming is about. For example, just recently I asked my professor can I reuse code which would achieve the required behavior in one line over creating a completely new approach. The professor asked me why would I want to do it inefficiently. I asked isnt it efficient to do it in one line rather than reimplementing the functionality. He said that you are technically wrong, but proceeded to show me how to do it nonetheless.

In addition, the programming languages used to teach things are old. We are still given examples in Fortran and C is taught on freshman courses.

The academic world is vastly different. For that reason, if I would personally apply for a software engineer role which is about web application development and I would be said that I need a degree for that, it would raise a red flag for me.
Am I missing something, or does this have nothing to do with NVIDIA's CUDA cores. GPGPU might be a little overkill for text-editing, but it'd be pretty cool.
Isn't it feasible for container ships to go electric ? They have such massive surface areas for batteries. I thought of solar but then the container loading/unloading aspects will become quite cumbersome, unless you could somehow put solar panels on individual container roofs and load those on the top. A logistical nightmare nonetheless.

A crude search yields this about Emma Maersk, one of the largest container ships.

She is powered by a Wärtsilä-Sulzer 14RTFLEX96-C engine, the world's largest single diesel unit, weighing 2,300 tonnes and capable of 81 MW (109,000 hp) when burning 14,000 litres (3,600 US gal)[31] of heavy fuel oil per hour. At economical speed, fuel consumption is 0.260 bs/hp·hour (1,660 gal/hour).[32] She has features to lower environmental damage, including exhaust heat recovery and cogeneration.[33] Some of the exhaust gases are returned to the engine to improve economy and lower emissions,[34] and some are passed through a steam generator which then powers a Peter Brotherhood steam turbine and electrical generators. This creates an electrical output of 8.5 MW,[35] equivalent to about 12% of the main engine power output. Some of this steam is used directly as shipboard heat.[36] Five diesel generators together produce 20.8 MW,[35] giving a total electric output of 29 MW.[26] Two 9 MW electric motors augment the power on the main propeller shaft

So you need about 285 Tesla Models P100D motors to power a ship of this size. Doable I guess. Again, I'm no expert on shipping.
Why do you care that these companies go out of business?

The answer is that you care because you need all the stuff you consume that comes from across the oceans.

You care because you complain if the stuff you buy is more expensive, penalizing companies that use cleaner shipping nethods.

You care because (I think) you are not the one committing your money to create a less contaminating medium of transportation.

At the end of the day, you care that these ships are operational because it's better for you and you don't care about the damage for the future of others.

you above is not just you but all of us.
Now we're making progress: I don't.

Over the last couple years, I've started mentally putting a "P(BULLSHIT)" next to every source I read. The estimate keeps growing.

While you might want to make this an ad hominem attack, all I can say is that my probability estimates are pretty darn bipartisan.
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> "Sarah Sherburn-Zimmer, executive director of the Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco, said housing problems have arisen because occupants leave buildings being converted to communal homes and cannot afford to move back in or the space is no longer suitable for them."

This is incorrect. The reason is because of zoning density restrictions which causes market inefficiency in this case a politically induced scarcity which is a form of rent-seeking.

These zoning laws that create artificial scarcity benefit the wealthy landowners to the detriment of those who rent or want to buy into the housing market.

Economists discuss this. See Tim Harford's book, "The Undercover Economist" or read Harvard Economist Edward Glaeser for starters.

David Ricard was the first to see "rent-seeking" and he joined parliament to help to overturn the "Corn Laws" in 1848.

These zoning laws are simply another way of the wealthy to unfairly get more wealth from others instead of wealth creation through good ideas.

With all of the wealthy company owners in SV and SF, I'm surprise they don't lobby to overturn these repressive zoning laws.
Similarly, I've found that getting people to learn how to use vim's movement keys is much easier once I persuade them to add

inoremap <Left> <NOP>
inoremap <Right> <NOP>
inoremap <Up> <NOP>
inoremap <Down> <NOP>

to their .vimrc
I don't quite understand the sentiment. There is no word proposing bailing out banks or shipping companies in the article. Instead, an arrangement is proposed where multiple charterers would share the cost of upgrading the ship over more than one contract period. Such arrangement would logically seem preferable over the insolvency of any party, which causes wider mayhem.
We won't solve global warming by finding the hypocrites. We'll solve it by knowing the problems and resolving them (or, if we don't want to work 1 problem after 1 problem, imposing taxes on petroleum usage or gas emissions, but history shows that such laws never get through).
Trump, with NASA, has a new rocket and spaceship. Where’s he going to go?
>If you're going to ask this question, then you might want also ask how would they had fared had Cuba and USSR succeeded in those places

Better? Cuba, considering the embargo that fucked them twice over, is better off compared to most of the hell-holes intervention created in Latin America.

Even as a dictatorship it's much more benign compared to people like Pinochet that was supported, put in place, and much beloved by the US.
I agree with all of that. Whether or not we are in a time of war/threat seems to be at the heart of the current immigration debate.
>It was sold on the promise of reuse but accomplishes it at the expense of understandability and maintainability.

I have never dealt with code in practice that was less maintainable and understandable because of OO. Do you have a specific example?
Do more than post it on HN.

Get a lawyer and get it resolved privately.

Otherwise, publish this on a website and promote it on twitter etc. to have them reach out to you.

Do you live in a state that allows one-party consent recording of conversations? You can sue them in your state. Too late now for the recordings, however.

* Look for other similar cases. Here is how one Redditor got $70k handled:*

Been a member with paypal for over 10 years now, done hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of transfers with them.

Recently launched a new product at a fantastic price point as a pre-order. Put it up on our website, did a big marketing campaign, sold around $65k in product (The remainder was money I kept in there because I used a Paypal debit card regularly).

They locked the funds mid last week, saying that i needed to provide invoices and the like. I did, then they requested more invoices and business information, which I sent them.

Now I got a email this morning stating that the money will be locked for 180 days. No way to appeal, nothing.

Our pre-order was quite short term, the customers will have all their products in their hands within two weeks or so, i have almost no product complaints and have delt with disputes typically within 24 hours of notification.

I'm at a loss. They just about ruined my company. We've done our best to offer what our buyers want at low prices, and doing pre-orders is usually the best for everyone because it allows us to buy in bulk from our wholesalers.

Will likely be calling a lawyer later today.

Edit : I ended up tweeting the president of paypal. He responded by escalating the issue w/ another paypal department. However one of the individuals who retweeted my status was subject today to a 'random account limitation and verification'. Odd, hunh?

Edit #2 - Thanks reddit and those out there. I got a call from a higher up at paypal just now and spent 12-13 minutes on the phone with them. We are working towards resolving this, and I feel there is at least some sufficient progress towards a quality resolution. Thanks for your help all :)

Edit #3 12/5/2013 - We just got in plenty of the pre-order products, ahead of schedule and should be getting out something like $25k-$30k of products in the mail to our buyers by the end of business today (Some went out yesterday). It will be very interesting to see how paypal responds to this.

Edit - #4 12/11/2013 - We had 72k, refunded the remainder, one guy had an order of around 7k and found our story on reddit, felt bad for us and ended up just wiring money to our business account so he could secure his place in line for pre-order. This took our account balance down to 65k or so.
"The Night Ocean" (http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/no.aspx) is rather haunting, as is "Till A' The Seas" (http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/tas.aspx).
Yes!

A useful tool for writing OCaml in Vim is Merlin [0].

Facebook uses OCaml as well [1] [2] [3]

A great tutorial is [4]

[0] https://github.com/ocaml/merlin

[1] https://github.com/facebook/reason

[2] https://github.com/facebook/flow/

[3] https://github.com/facebook/infer

[4] http://realworldocaml.org/
To best honest it sounds more like CFS than autoimmunity. The article says that it turned out not to be thyroid, and the autoimmune diagnosis was just presumed. Generally when you have those symptoms it is termed CFS, but people don't like CFS because they incorrectly think it means "all in your head" or "you're not really ill".

CFS tends to be triggered by stress (as it was in this case), and sufferers tend to lead stressful lives (being an editor of New Yorker is definitely stressful). The things that worked for her -- alternative therapies, living a healthier and less stressful life -- typically help with CFS.

From having CFS myself and recovering, it seems to be caused by a state of persistent burnout caused by chronic stress. It's usually multiple stressors that build up and cause the brain to shut down the energy supply. It's not caused by a moral failing or laziness. I see it as similar to the central governor that limits athletic performance. You have no control over it, other than to change your lifestyle and hope that your brain recognises that there is no longer any chronic negative stress.
I wonder if you could/should include the cost of the lawyer in the amount you demand from them... this seems like the sort of case that fee shifting was designed for after all.
It's really not that hard to understand how these notes convert and how much you are diluting if you spend just a few minutes modeling it out with https://angelcalc.com

Of course it's still possible to get more dilution than expected if you raise at unrealistically high caps (or uncapped!) and convert at a lower valuation down the road, but even that is probably less painful than a conventional down round.
Love this description, 'very fast idiot' is poignant and accurate. May have to steal that one from you.

In a similar vein, my mom and dad forked into different paths but are both intelligent in very different ways. The intelligence that allows him to speak five languages fluently, though, is something that's really far from my mom's aptitude with Fortran and laser physics, or my own with the "very fast idiots" (as you say) that I work with.
90% of everything.

https://www.worldcat.org/title/inside-shipping-the-invisible...
There should not be a statue of limitations.

Americans act as is 20 years even is ancient history.

Even after 100 or 150 years, a huge damage can still resonate to a country.
So, do you think our current right-wing government will ban gay marriage?
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To reach financial independence you need 25x your annual spending. Then you invest it to earn over 7% and have a SWR (safe withdrawal rate) of 4%. The extra 3% should cover inflation. So you can enjoy the same lifestyle 'forever'. So if you can live on 80K yr (6.6K/mo) you are all set on the luxury part.

Put the money 90% in VOO and 10% in BND (like Warren Buffett tells his heirs). Or get fancier as you learn how to invest.

More (read the sidebar on right):
https://www.reddit.com/r/financialindependence/

'participate greatly in local business' Your time and energy are probably the best thing you can give.
Remittances are huge, hence the suggestion to halt/tax them was such a blow to Mexico: millions of households suddenly unable to pay rent/utilities -- it'd be a cascading nightmare.

So the answer is to let X% of the population in so 5X% can receive foreign money but still be subjected to a broken environment?
And that guns make people safer.
Transnational jurisdictions.
I could potentially see where they are coming from : they have processed quite some chargebacks and/or refunds for you.

The revenue seems to be winding down and they may want to keep enough in the account to process future chargebacks and or refunds.

And to repeat the question from jasode: what kind of products do you sell?
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"I think it would be a mistake to further dial up tensions with them..."

100% agreement on that point.
Libertarians also have a lot of internal divisions. Noam Chomsky, for example, is a "libertarian socialist" and gets along as well with the Cato Institute as a Trump supporter at a BLM rally.
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>I've been following Madeline Sumption on Twitter for a while. I think she has a political motivation and I don't consider the Migration Observatory to be a valid source. Sorry.

I don't know them, but I'll take your word for it. However, will point out that it is in no way worse than the source you provided (no source)

How about Migration Watch?

https://www.migrationwatchuk.org/statistics-population-count...

Compared to the total non-UK born population, Pakistan + Bangladesh are a tiny blip.

Another source:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/general-election-2015/politi...

More from the ONS:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign-born_population_of_the...
IEEE 754 is a standard, and it requires a specific, bitwise-reproducible, answer for the computation in question. I'm the author of most of the floating-point tests in WebAssembly's conformance testsuite, which tests such things in practice across several hardware platforms.

One of the half-truths in the presentation (in the intro) is that IEEE 754 is a mixture of requirements and recommendations. IEEE 754 does have both requirements and recommendations, however what the presentation doesn't say is that, within a given format like double precision (aka binary64), the basic operations like add, subtract, multiply, divide, squareRoot, etc.) have exactly one possible result for any given input (except that NaNs may have some implementation-defined bits, though this is usually unimportant).
Everything but the last paragraph, just like the movie.
The current narrative of misinformation as a news item is a new thing, which arrived in our world during the recent US election process. The issue gets my suspicion-radar bleeping. The whole narrative smells funny to me.

It's not really a global issue, it's a current affairs issue and one particular to a specific geography. And its not really an internet issue I think but a human one.

What I find interesting is that Trump is adopting the narrative that emerged to criticise him, to criticise media bias in general. That's interesting because political bias and misinformation can be separated - actual wrong reporting of facts vs bias of interpretation, but they can be argued to produce the same effect.