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> What happens when technology progresses to the point where they can't be productive at all?

If nobody can ever improve on anything, either everything is free or we're all dead, and in neither case do you need a job in the first place.

Just having a lot of manufacturing robots does not mean there is nothing to do!
a) Where did I say that women aren't experiencing harassment on some gaming communities? In fact, I explicitly acknowledged it. Your post is kind of pointless virtue signaling or something.

b) I just pointed out that it's just generally not about your gender. It doesn't matter if you're a man or woman: every newcomer gets harassed in really rough ways using the most biting insults available. A fat guy will get the obvious insults. An ugly guy will get obvious insults. A young kid who has a high pitched voice because he hasn't hit puberty yet will get obvious insults. A gay man will get obvious insults. So will a black guy or an arab. Or a christian. They'll use any facts they know about you. And guess what, women are treated equally here as well and will get insulted. Not saying it's right, but it's what actually happens to everybody. Gamers are treating women equally, I thought that's what women wanted?

c) The only difference is that when a woman gets harassed, most of civil society is sympathetic about it by default and she'll get a horde of white knights expressing sympathy. When a man gets his feelings hurt, he's portrayed as weak for showing emotion. Maybe this is part of the reason that some men are seeking an escape from society?

d) It's really hard to know whether your community is hostile to men unless you're a man. A lot of women just don't understand how much harassment a typical man experiences, and when they hear it criticized basically fall back on "well I don't see it" and conclude it must not be happening rather than trying to collect more information. (2 of us can play this game)

e) While this is a fascinating discussion that I'd love to have, this point about sex and male/female relationships is 100 times more important than debating about harassment to women gamers for the hundredth time. Things like family and relationships are important motivating factors to men, and when social reforms (some people call that progress, some don't) remove or lower that factor for ~80% of men, civilization will also decline.
So many questions. Like, what if Microsoft is the one suing you?
> No

> Google, Amazon and Microsoft should
> push for patent reform

As a paying customer, I'd much rather they took advantage of the fact that these aren't mutually exclusive.
Invent it where they kind find real sexism? Sure, they do that all the time.
I dropped out and retired at 31 to a third world country. I'm going to study whatever I'm interested in while the economy sorts itself out. I may never re-enter the job maket. I'm ok with that. I'm not rich but it's really cheap here. I don't want to be forced into a rental market or stock market. The jobs don't pay enough and the margins are too thin. The risk is too high and all of my statistical modeling is telling me that the debt fueled market ends in tears. Good luck with that. Count me out. Don't blame me if you can't find someone to help you build software.
Little bit difficult to spend time with loved ones in Korea if I'm in SF, or the converse. I have money, but plane tickets ain't cheap
> where the boomers and elites have horded everything and fucked future generations

Sorry, but this is just bullshit.

But if it makes you feel better, it's normal to think this, every generation blames the previous.

(And the older generation thinks the latest is lazy)
i had no idea who SCO was, so i looked it up.

> What really surprises me is that so many people are immediately willing to forget that this is the company that bankrolled SCO in their lawsuit.

> But just a few short years later...

as far as i can tell, that happened 14 years ago. that's a little longer than a few years.
So you want to turn all those unemployed dudes who eat cheeseburgers and play video games all day into your domestic servants, but pay them the same amount of money they're receiving as part of their benefits right now? Do you have any idea how angry they'd be if that happened? It would make la Terreur look like an episode of Teletubbies.
Labeling something as "legacy" is a lame basis for criticism. Customers don't care about the age of a product's code base. What matters is price, functionality, and support. If you want a non-legacy EMR just for the sake of novelty then there are plenty of options available. But they aren't necessarily any better.
The Remote Work Revolution
But you get some points for being mature because you're no longer the type to get drunk on weeknights and call in sick to work. This isn't always deserved though.
I understand, and to be fair, half the reason this frustrates me is because I wish I could be using literally any other language. Regardless, I'm often looking up classes that a) don't exist in Excel, and b) don't exist in the version of VBA used in the linked page. It's extremely confusing to click on a link and not having a single reference to the class you are trying to look up.

Furthermore, VBA <> VB. I wish I could just tell Google to stop showing me answers for VB6. It would be fantastic if I could use VB. My problems would basically solve themselves, but I'm not using VB, I'm using VBA.
The point wasn't to establish IP credibility, it was to establish myself as "not a shill for Microsoft." Every F100 company has done bad things with patents.

How's this: I've been a student of patent law since the late 90s. I've read "The Economic Structure of Intellectual Property Law" cover to cover. The patent system is a huge fucking mess and we need reform. I used to have pretty idealistic opinions about how to handle patent trolls until I started dealing with the ugly and expensive process of defending a suit. Until reform happens, businesses need to do what they can to survive. This helps.
whats the best country to retire in the way you have?
"Longer path" has no bearing on reality. A flat plate can generate plenty of lift even with both sides the same. It's also hard to define "path," as the air starts convecting well ahead of the wing in subsonic flow.
Ok, I'll bite - I thought this was an article about C++.
> According to Wikipedia they've actually _sued_ Microsoft.

That is not what I read there. What it says is they raised money from Microsoft, that's something else than suing Microsoft.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_Ventures

Can you point out the exact paragraph that you feel describes IV suing Microsoft?
I'm in rual Panama. It's probably the best for tax and lifestyle reasons.
Not at all. I must admit I found the actual topic pleasantly humorous after expecting to read about Tor exploits/bugs.
AKA internet addiction
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3480687/
And then rig the game to keep said stuff (e.g. Prop 13).
Of course it is. If you know the problem space very well and are able to conceive and sell a good solution, the code behind it matters very little.
The lawsuit only wrapped up last year :-P
do you need a job in the first place

The real reason people need jobs, as evident by the number of able-bodied people who don't work at all, is for acquiring status. UBI (nor any other welfare measure) will not solve this problem.
Sure, but it's a chicken and egg problem, unfortunately. Besides, there are other cheap cities that are way cheaper that have software jobs -- Salt Lake City, Dallas, Nashville, etc. It's not adtech, but hey...
A bunch of people at Segment have looked into it. We manage our infrastructure with Terraform and operationally IMO Kubernetes introduces too much complexity compared with ECS and Terraform.

ECS is pretty dead simple (just run an agent on the host) and while it doesn't offer nearly the same feature set, it's really good operationally.

Some people here are tinkering with it for some non-core services.
>Rather than dump on somebody else's predictions, I'd encourage other people to make their own and stake something on it. Put some skin in the same. Where do you think we'll be in 2029? Why?

Have you considered that some people think it's stupid to make predictions like this so they wouldn't want to make their own predictions?

It's like telling people criticizing numerologists to perform better numerology to prove something.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13890954 and marked it off-topic.
I was always curious about 2nd life but never tried it and I'm not sure why. What year was your store's peak revenue? Where do you think most 2nd lifers went? Is there a viable successor these days, maybe in its early stages?
I don't want to get too deep into apologism here, but that's a common complaint by back-end guys who don't like the front-end. Rails is the solution for the solo developer or small team, the "magic" really helps in these scenarios.

If your project is big enough to require the skills of an experienced back-end guy, then you're so far past the learning stage that you might as well be in your rocking chair screaming at the neighbor kids.
Propagate tags to secondary resources, like EBS volumes. Separate out production from your dev environment-- preferably with a second AWS account with consolidated billing. Buy in to something like Terraform or CloudFormation for building the non-instance parts of your stack.

As you grow, start adding project tags to things. Automatically tag resources with the IAM user who creates them. Have an "untagged resources report" that goes out on a schedule.

Build with an eye towards "when someone freaks out in a year about the bill, what questions will they have, and how can I best position Future Me to answer them?"
It's even better when they don't like the fact that you are doing the job in a way they can't understand. I swear some people think they are paying you to suffer, and if you do something in a way that doesn't require enough suffering they feel ripped off.
It seems like there's a limit to growth and Japan were just the first ones to hit the limit. Everyone else has just cheated the limit with "artificial growth" via immigration.
Unfortunately in the US it is the opposite. The government often forces you (or at least tries to force you) to not delete it incase they want it later. Especially if you are an Internet Service Provider.
I see some minor differences between Vacuum cleaners and software.
> And I'm freaking out about having to share a planet with these people.

Then don't. Isolate yourself in a place where everybody shares your views and there's no disagreement. Sounds like a boring way to live, but if you're that scared of the opinions of others, reality has harsh surprises in store for you.

Gamergate (which is a vague term) also has connotations of a social backlash against progressivism and political correctness, which I wholeheartedly endorse.

Sometime you just want to blow things up, and not every game without a female or minority or gay role model is sending a bad message.
How much did you save before you retired?
I feel like the Boomers were pretty happy with the Greatest. You know, defeating genocide, sowing the seeds for a decades long wave of economic expansion, technological advancement, and peace (albeit by not managing to swap nukes with the Soviets).
Those who can, do. Those who can't, leech.
Yeah, you do. You can't rely on your employer to continuously retrain you through your whole career. Show me an engineer with 10+ years of experience who refuses to ever learn anything away from work, and I'll show you somebody working on old tech.
All of these answers are too simplistic. There's no single answer in what to learn to become a software engineer. If you have no development background, learning javascript, node, react is a way to start down the path then build your skills as you progress.

Personally, I recommend learning domain modeling and understanding entity relationships, primary and foreign keys then SQL. Great foundation for engineers at most companies.
> They are also coming of age in an economy which increasingly doesn't need them. Their job—and therefore romantic—prospects are poor.

> Narcissists, of course, do not blame themselves for their problems. Those are the fault of others.

I find this juxtaposition rather funny.

What I find really odd is that you seem much more concerned about the results of this rather than what caused this trend in the first place.
Do you know what a sad cliche this nonsense is? You're just repeating the same tired, red-pill gamergate nonsense.
It's not just video games either. Add Netflix and social media, and soon, VR, to the equation, and it's pretty clear that the game of life offers insufficient rewards relative to one's efforts. I don't believe we ended up here due to some grand conspiracy, but I do think that the top 1% have gotten so skilled at trapping wealth and therefore opportunity that it's really screwing over everyone else. Even as a relatively successful adult who doesn't game (no time for it, and I avoid things I know are addictive) I felt the game is rigged. Most of us have gotten to the point that we literally never expect to retire (though we will literally run into some physical constraints at some point when our bodies and minds begin to fail us). So we grind through work, pay our bills, and hope to God we don't get cancer or Alzheimer's. When life seems so unrewarding, it's unsurprising that many seek refuge in games and other entertainment (Netflix, social media, news feeds, etc)...

Any way you slice it this is not going to end well. Essentially we're in a Great Depression of an entirely new sort.
Very true.

I have seen this in Australian academia: Boomer academics who were permitted to publish a paper every 2-3 years during the first 10+ years of their academic life, and/or defer getting a PhD to ludicrously late in their careers, are now elevated to senior positions supervising students and junior faculty who will not have reasonable careers unless they publish a paper every 2-3 months or better.
> it's terribly slow and requires a lot of memory.

...and generates a solution that uses far less bandwidth, especially after thousands or millions of hits, which is the real point of the exercise.

Cloud computing companies love this. They've got a lot of bored hardware to put to use. It's absolutely no surprise to see solutions like this coming from Google. Spending a dollar of compute time to save $1000 in bandwidth is a no-brainer win for a company with a million servers.
Saw this happen with some of my old friends, years ago. Not with WoW, but Final Fantasy XI... it was insane and scary, for sure.
There's a generation a decade older than you that grew up putting enormous amounts of time into video games. We're all (mostly) functional individuals now, so I'm not to worried about kids today doing the same.
I think the social penalty of a young man dropping out is lower than a young women because their perceived social value is much lower. It is a lower height to fall from.
I think you got caught trying to humanize and understand people with reprehensible beliefs instead of condemning them, censoring them, and diagnosing them as sociopaths.
Tell that to my new house with maxed out fittings in Zelda: BotW.
Also Facebook is not SaaS (at least not the way most people think of it).
I did too until I realized that the alternative had a high probability of ending in bankruptcy resulting in loss of employment for two dozen employees. I'm fine taking a moral stand when I'm the only one who stands to lose. It's harder when you're playing with other people's money / lives.

The world isn't fair.
If you mention ack, you gotta mention silver search (ag):

https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher
How to Clear a Path Through 60 Feet of Snow, Japanese Style
It's veering into seeing the reality outside the small bubble of people that are empowered by technology.
Similarly I wrote a scraper for a local used item marketplace and whenever I need to purchase something that isn't urgent and I'm OK with it being second hand, I plug in the relevant stats and load it in to cron. Near instant notification with contact information and details in my email when a match is found.
I don't think aesthetics play very much if any role in being a effective front end developer. Look at Craigslist the thing is terribly ugly and dated but still widely used and functional. The aesthetics look like someone with no taste in design or modern UX wrote it. If someone writes the next CraigsList by your definition are they not a successful front end developer? Sure having a taste for design is nice but hardly necessary to be successful at the craft.
So why did the generations before the Baby Boomers do so well despite having a much worse game stacked against them? I think the crisis that Millenials are facing are a case of over-parenting/over-protection, increased secularization, the rise of feminism and demonization of masculinity, and a failed higher education system.
So you built a machine learning model?
Fair critique.

I was thinking of an acquaintance who fits the mould I described. He lives in a shithole town where the are no jobs and no prospects. He complains endlessly about how he'll never find a career. Why doesn't he take responsibility and move somewhere with an actual economy? I know he's not stupid. So why doesn't he try?

And yes, I am more concerned about the results. Knowing how we got here is necessary but isn't going to change the future.
But this is the fundamental point of the article. It's very difficult to do marketing, communities, competitive analysis market research payroll and accounting when you have no money and no product. So what can non-technical co-founder bring to bootstrapping a SaaS platform with just ideas? May not be possible.
Top Machine Learning Algorithms
Annotations are a horrible, annoying feature in the first place. Good riddance.
They'll take up gaming. The gulf between being a truck driver and, say, a programmer is vast. Imagine losing your truck driving job and suddenly trying to figure what the hell else you're going to do to support your family. Yikes!
So, not exclusively.
Could the more modern games my generation grew up with be more immersive, having a larger effect on mental development?
It certainly should be one or the other. It's completely crazy that you can copyright something, then make a vague description of it and patent it too (without even having to make the original source code available!). And having worked for companies that got sued for patent infringement quite a bit, what usually happens is that someone sues you and demands your source code in discovery. So it isn't even a "I'll show you mine if you show me yours" -- it's "Your software could plausibly have been implemented using our patented technique. Let's have a look at your source code that proves that it isn't".

So instead of being a tool that trades off a limited monopoly for a technique in exchange for making public something that would have been a trade secret, it's a way of protecting a particular implementation while at the same time being able to force your way to see all of your competitor's implementations.
The key here is that he had the financial backing to complete the project. Unclear whether the original poster has enough of a cash runway to keep even a team of 1 at a fulltime salary.
"Why don't you all just f-f-fade away / and don't try 'n dig what we all say"
Usually love the Economist -- and I read it regularly -- but I think this article is bullshit. It's the same kind of nonsense people were writing in the mid and late-90s: that violent games cause violent tendencies. Luckily, those claims ended up being completely debunked by dozens of studies.

Now, we have a "gaming epidemic" that has gripped the unemployed, underemployed, and depressed? Give me a break. Gaming is simply the cheapest form of entertainment and escapism today. In the 70s, it was movies. In the 60s? I don't know, drugs?

My point is that gaming is used here as a red herring (heck the article even admits to this: "gaming isn't the problem" in one of the last paragraphs). Really, this has nothing to do with gaming, and everything to do with the growing pains of every generation. The article also tries to awkwardly criticize common-sense truisms, e.g.: "Many gamers (Guillaume among them) report that they are happy with the decision to work less and game more."

Uh.. duh? Even I would be happy working less and gaming more, and I have a pretty awesome job. Is it really some kind of poignant discovery that people would rather have fun than work? Here's another example: "For Emily, and for many others, games were not the luxury luring her away from career. They were a comfort blanket and distraction, providing some solace when the working world offered only bitter disappointment."

And.. why is this bad exactly? Why is it bad to take some time off and decompress if you have a horrible job you hate? What's the alternative? Work yourself to the bone, fall in love with someone you hate, have some kids that hate you, get a divorce, and die alone? What is Mr. Avent's point here? Because I don't see one.

Disclaimer: I played Counter-Strike competitively and professionally from around 17-22 (I'd say on average 5-6 hours a day). I still play every now and then, but don't compete at tournaments or in leagues. I'm 30 now. Not only was my experience irreplaceable and positive (I made many life-long friends and met many cool people), but it also helped me with many other aspects of "grown-up" life:

- I learned to be goal-oriented and focused

- I learned how to lead and work with a team to succeed at a common goal

- I learned how to weed out shitty people that poison the environment

- I learned what it truly takes and how hard it is to be the top 1% at anything (even at a stupid video game)

- I learned how to negotiate contracts and balance budgets
I'm glad we've gone from moral imperative to recognition that these folks are merely extortionists.

But on practical grounds I disagree with la terreur - call of duty is not really a substitute for military training. Senseless violence of the sort you almost seem to be advocating (am I misreading?) could be easily suppressed by a modern police force.
Right now, the biggest pile of useless stuff I have is .. video games.

(~Twenty years ago I bought every Atari/Intellivision/Vetrex/etc game I could find at various flea market and thrift stores, and for the last ten I've been dreading getting rid these boxes of useless stuff.)
My loved ones live in a town with the population of 1000 people and 400km from the city, where the only tech jobs are.

Not everyone grew up in the city suburbs. Not to mention, I am talking about the burbs not the CBD anyway. Rent is still %50 of my tech sector wage for an ancient two bedroom unit in the suburbs. Rent sharing is the only sane option, hooray living with strangers.

I don't mind, I enjoy and appreciate what I have, but you can't pretend like it's the same opportunity for everyone and the same opportunity as it was a few decades ago. Things are different, and it's different in ways wr can try and fix, hence the conversation on the topic.
What's missing from the matrix is "no language" language or null language. That is, a column and row that represents people who start projects from scratch in a given language.

I agree that the analysis makes it abundantly clear people move to older languages, but the question is what new projects are started in, and how many projects represent new versus transitioned projects.

This analysis is interesting, and gives a rough idea of what people are moving from and to when they decide to do that, but not necessarily popularity.

What the author is indexing in the end isn't really predicted overall language use, it's predicted transition target frequency.