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This blog post says as a Software Engineer working in the US you should have $4 Million in savings to have the same income, in retirement, as a fresh software engineer

Fidelity is always telling me I need some ungodly amount of money saved in order to continue the lifestyle to which I've become accustomed. I don't need that much. Here's what my current income pays for that won't be an issue in retirement:

1. Maxed out 401K at $18K/year. The wife's doing the same.

2. $3K a month paid to mortgage principal, in addition to the house payment. (It is financially unwise to pay down a 2.5% loan quickly, but I'm not retiring with a house payment.)

3. Commuting expenses.

4. A hell of a lot more eating out than I plan to do in retirement.

5. My current tax rate. A lower tax rate in retirement is the whole basis of the appeal of tax-deferred accounts.

And let me give you some anecdata to work with as you ponder your starvation in retirement: my parents. Mom just bought a brand new Corvette last year. Dad is talking about a new $65K truck to replace the one they bought just a few years ago. The just bought a new $35K fifth wheel camper this year. A large, long-paid-off house on six acres in Florida. Lots of camping trips, which means feeding that hungry diesel truck that's pulling that fifth wheel, and camp spots with hook-ups ain't cheap. Maybe it's not how kings live, but I'd have no problem with the lifestyle. They're in their 70s now, I don't see the money running out any time soon.

And they retired in their 50s with about a million dollars.

You'll need $4 million if you still hold a mortgage in the Bay Area and you're stilling hitting the $EXPENSIVE_NIGHT_SPOT thrice a week, while having Uber Eats delivery your dinner every night. Which you won't be doing when you're 55 or 65 if you have any sense. Which means you don't need anywhere near $4 million.

To get to answering your question, I plan a minimum of $1 million, and a max of $2 million, when we retire. We're not going to continue to live in Redmond, WA, I don't think. Taxes are pretty good, IMO, but we'll sell the Redmond house and buy something in, say, Bellingham and pocket the difference. I have absolutely no reason to believe we'll be anything other than just fine and dandy. Especially considering that the median person of our mid-50s age has less than a tenth of our current savings, and you don't see masses of retired people starving in the streets, do you?
My random advice from the internet, is to make your decisions premised on never seeing the money.

1. The COO did not treat paying you as a priority.

2. The COO normalized non-payment by stating they had not been paid.

3. The company is not even offering pennies on the dollar.

4. The investor has pulled out.

Roughly, your options come down to luck.

1. Maybe the company gets money and decides to pay you and everyone else for work done instead of using the money to grow the company or pay themselves.

2. Maybe the company gets money and you and everyone else who they owe money can sue them and win and the money spent on attorneys turns out to be well spent.

3. Maybe the company files bankruptcy and you pay an attorney to represent you and their is a pile of money so large that even unsecured creditors get paid.

4. Maybe you hire an attorney and successfully litigate a claim and the company has no money.

5. The most likely situation is that the company goes bankruptcy and you never see money no matter what you do. It's the one to plan for.

6. Just move on and find paying work and consider requiring a retainer or other method of billing where non-payment does not hurt so badly.

Good luck.
> persecution, unwarranted jealousy, or exaggerated self-importance

Which aspect do you feel is manifesting?

What the years (59) have taught me is other people very RARELY care enough about anyone else to persecute them.

My desire for physical things has lessened significantly, since unless you have an extreme amount of money, more things just complicate life more. As for self importance, I want to contribute to making life better for mankind, but I don't think a lot of being recognized for it.

Suspicious is just being wise as long as it doesn't rule your life.

Corruption is a choice you make in order to have more physical things or feel more important.

I feel every year makes me wiser and increases my desire to help mankind.

Maybe we need to have a test at 100 years, and cull the self important, corrupt individuals.

I personally would love 3400 years! All the things I could learn, all that I could contribute.

Edit: I MIGHT even learn spelling and grammer!
This is quite an uncharitable view of those who are against restricting immigration as much as Le Pen would have wanted to. Although I am no proponent of neo-liberalism, I am a proponent of multiculturalism. And that doesn't necessarily carry with it "migrants thumbing their noses at the law" and "unchecked" illegal immigrants (if we are going to put legality over morality here).
Milwaukee's War on 'Pokémon GO' Could Change Tech Forever
Doing a business without the necessary licenses in place, forking the Java eco-system by creating an implementation that isn't able to run any random Java library due to partial implementation, is surely the contrary of "do no evil".

When Java 9 finally gets out, and looking forward to Java 10 roadmap, this situation is only going to get worse.
You can check your code without running it on databases which support it, e.g. Postgres https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/sql-prepare.h...

db=# prepare t as select 1 from a;
ERROR: relation "a" does not exist at character 28
STATEMENT: prepare t as select 1 from a;
ERROR: relation "a" does not exist
LINE 1: prepare t as select 1 from a;
^
Time: 0.684 ms
It's NOT the governments money! Stop acting like the government is entitled to a dime!

Cook is right to do everything possible to avoid paying this over bloated joke of a Constitutional Republic! The founders would be screaming for another revolutions years ago!
You can migrate to Django 1.11, it's also LTS like 1.8.
It seems that Trump and Brexit may have been the high water mark for the wave of nationalism sweeping the west. 2017 has seen nationalist candidates fade and underperform their polls across the EU. Trump has made less actual policy progress towards his nationalist goals than perhaps many feared/expected.

Things were quite scary a few months ago. There are still things to be concerned about going forward, but politics ebbs and flows, and for now perhaps the flood waters are receding.
Yeah, given that Android N after one year is at 6%, ....
Yeah! I'm sticking with my horse drawn carriage! Down with these global warming inducing combustion engines vehicles! So much social pressure to use them. Why won't my work understand that it takes me 4hrs to commute by horse?! They are so totalitarian, requiring a car and all.
Well... rent...
Also, what about your perception of time? Would it pass the same as it does now? Compress or expand?

I think mortality is fundamentally wired into the thought processes of earth bound organisms. Part of that is how one perceives even smaller units of time like a minute, second, hour..
Yeah, universities are getting squeezed from every direction. Its bullshit-we've gone from being a research university to being basically another corporation. We still have some old firebrands lurking in the corners (which reminds me of 1984-how the old revolutionaries are pushed to the edges and coffee shops and have all their fangs pulled as soon as the revolution is over).
> The incident lasted about 2 and a half hours.

And because it was a weekend, much of that time involved me trying to figure out who had the proper credentials for crates.io, and then texting those people until one of them responded. :)
Most of the performance gains seem to come from the async/await stuff which is a rather late development which has actually nothing to do with any 3.x features. Could be done with 2.x as well.
Lol. I'm another one from Burundi. East Africa.
> The EU's economy is the largest in the world

Not quite, but it's big. The EU is $17T. The US is $18.5T.
But I agree that you shouldn't fuck with that especially for the reasons that Le Pen and the Brexiters had.
Close to zero chance you will receive the money by next week.
so the peace was nothing to do with the fact the USSR had several million troops, tens of thousands of nuclear weapons and a few thousand tanks 10 miles away?

former largest economy: after brexit the EU27 economy will be smaller than the US
Because a state of medical science which has solved aging will certainly not have solved cancer, Alzheimers, or heart disease.
How many customers do you feel will have devices with Android O, given Android N is around 7% after one year?
Brilliant article - useful framework for thinking about systems for interviewing.
Does anyone know if [Shorewall](http://shorewall.org/) has plans to support nftables, or is it staying on iptables for now?

While I'm excited to hear about a simplified abstraction at the kernel level, for most setups I've had to configure, I really like the highlevel abstraction it provides.
You're comparing vastly different immigration systems, Canada takes in highly educated immigrants and your country has always been growing by immigration. Many European countries have their own share of unprivileged ethnic minorities or quite simply defranchised parts of the country where the big arrival of migrants economically threatens their livelihood, that's not racist.

> Whereas in Europe it seems that you are constantly defined by your ancestry, even after multiple generations.

Yeah, too many different languages, too many cultures and ages of history where Europeans ruled over each other precisely because of the ancestry and the power that went along with it. That is highly engraved in collective mind of most European countries.
That's the same as my own example of explaining to people that dogs brains can do some pretty complex math. I throw a stick that's turning as it flies and the dog catches it every time, but it can't explain nor communicate the formula that went into that.

But this is really an optimization problem: representing your formula as a bunch of weights that are then used to drive a cascade of multiply-add rules to derive some output is an imprecise but roughly accurate way to model a problem. That there is a much more direct and analytical way of modeling that problem requires intelligence of a different order.

But a program like mathematica gets awfully close to that, so that's not a problem that is a good fit for being solved with a neural network even if it would work.

I'd prefer to use a neural network for problems that have a less well defined solution.
Right but my point is that if you preemptively disqualify everybody that held high positions in industry or government, who's left to rule the country? Idiots like Le Pen.
I don't know if you are joking but too much globalism got us here in the first place. You think from where China got all it's money and started being competition in global market to more tech advanced products? Globalism was a way for big corporations to make more profit thanks to cheap workforce and it was great, so much benefits for both sides until it wasn't. In USA-China trade there is a lot more money going out of USA, around ~400 billions (if I recall correctly) more going to China.

You know what would happen if markets in EU would be flood by cheap african food and products without any regulation? When 500 million people from Africa would suddenly moved to EU? This would be great for Africa but disaster for EU. Sad truth is that we live in a world with limited wealth, if you want to give it to someone then you need to take it from someone else. You think that EU is giving billions of euro to Erdogan to keep immigrants out of EU because they want to get rid of the borders and welcome them in? We want to keep our way of live for us and for our children, we are selfish, we give sometimes some money to poor to satisfy our conscience. This is sad, unspoken and not politically correct truth.

There needs to be balance in everything, in globalisation also. There is no one golden solution for everything but radicalism in either way is not good.
The idea is not just her election...it's the wave. If people like her ideas, they might give her the parliament that mirrors her ideas.
Trump is not anti-establishment at all.
$0. I'm focused on building a six-month emergency fund first.

I don't need anything approaching 100% income replacement, as it would make no sense to pay exorbitant rent for proximity to jobs as a retiree.

I doubt I'll save enough over my lifetime (outside of 401k) to scratch a down payment on a Bay Area 1-bedroom condo, but it'll be more than sufficient to buy a palace for cash anywhere else the moment I don't need to live here anymore.

(I have worked in Midwestern IT cost centers, never again).
Ugh PTSD coming back regarding Shikikin and Reikin. Such BS.
Austria Hungary has failed. The Soviet Union has failed even though everybody in it was speaking Russian, which is not the case with the EU. The EU will fail if it continues like this, with massive centralization of power. The difference is that unlike Austria Hungary and the USSR, it does not have a standing army to back its power and member states will leave when economic crisis hits and it's no longer in their best interests to stay.
I dread that in all likelihood, due to their money, power, and determination, it is kleptocrats, sociopaths, and fanatics that may get access to this or other advanced technology first, and come to dominate either the "left-behind", primitive humans, and/or whatever form of existence they transcend to.
Have you ever read the list of side effects of a vaccine?
> `k = d.keys(); k.sort()`? Just give me a list

Here you go, a sorted list of dict keys:

k = sorted(d.keys())
Why is that hard? Expose it to data it hasn't seen yet and see if the results check out.
It's cultural. We believe housing is an investment.

Not the case in Japan.

That belief in the market drives the direction.
The link appears to be a few years old now, so its advice here I think is a bit out of date. And some might argue it would have been out of date in 2014 as well.

It should probably be updated to say that unless you have a VERY strong reason to use 2.7, use 3. And even then, probably still use 3, because your reasons probably aren't as strong as you think they are.

EDIT: Generally the strong reasons most people had for using py2.7 for new projects were some variant of: "X, Y and Z libraries I need only support 2.7". But now and days, that actually stands as more of a reason to find alternate libraries.
Here you go, just updated the site:
http://100millionbooks.org/standalone/
Say what? She went from 21% to 34, that's a 60% increase.
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What do you think has been going into Burundi and Rwanda where Hutu ( Bantu) are up against Tutsis (Nilotes) ?
I really hope you guys do not go the hard days we went trough!
I guess the difference would be similar to NYC vs. Kentucky or Alabama vs. California. Those differences (economically and culturally) don't seem to be a too big problem for the US.

To come back to the example of Switzerland, the economically and culturally differences between a mountain farmer and a Banker in Geneva shouldn't be underrated also.
I didn't engage with that aspect of your argument. There's two aspects of it. I'll give you credit for not invoking the "they" side of this directly but I think it's a huge factor in all this so I want to address that first - whilst acknowledging that wasn't the point you yourself were making.

I heard many variations on "they are making decisions for us" and find the words "they" and "us" in that sentence fascinating.

We draw imaginary lines and boundaries all the time - what Kurt Vonnegut called "granfalloon". So the notion of "Britishness" kicks in when discussing Europe - and therefore the people making the decisions are "they" and if we withdraw then suddenly it's "us" making the decisions. But this is a psychological illusion. "Them" and "us" expands and contracts depending on the context and it's part of a very deep and ancient emotional response that is easily triggered. I high-fived someone at a party last week when I found out they were also a Python developer. Some part of my brain decided they were therefore "family" or "tribe".

We do this all the time but we also equally spend emotional energy deciding who is outside that boundary. So - in a different context the same people who cheer British independence from Europe will find themselves bemoaning the faceless bureaucrats of Westminster, or "that lot" in the local Council. This isn't me being I snob - I do it myself. It's a universal human weakness.

My point is that this primate pack instinct is so deeply ingrained that it takes a huge effort to resist it's pull.

Now - on to the point you actually made (with apologies for using you as a straw man).

How direct is the democracy in the EU? Well. It's less than the directness of democracy in the UK itself but not by much. All modern democracies are indirect to one degree or another - and this is a good thing. Constant direct democracy wouldn't necessarily result in a better outcome. Just look at the situation in some US states where legislation has allowed people to force issues to be voted on at the state level leading to some crazy decisions hoisted upon the state. And that's not even bringing in the problems caused by the elect-ability of DA's, Sheriffs etc. which is well documented.

Democracy SHOULD be limited. It's a check against tyranny - not a continual opinion poll. The wise have always understood this - hence the electoral college and the incredibly convoluted system designed by Cleisthenes at the birth of democracy - trytties and demes were designed to break up traditional kinship based-allegiances which would have smothered the baby at birth.

So - the question isn't whether the EU is more democratic than the UK - it's what the optimum level of democracy is and whether I'd rather have my laws made by a bunch of people in Westminster I'll never meet - or a bunch of people in Brussels I'll never meet. I don't have any particular reason to favour the strangers in Westminster.

EDIT - my dinner is ready and I don't have time to proof read the above for even basic coherence and logic so please factor that in to some degree. I don't write well when I'm hungry.
Let's not get nationalist the other way either.

Some signs that a comment is probably bad by HN's standard: (1) general claims on provocative matters; (2) pejorative 'you'; (3) using the word 'actually' about something difficult; (4) promotion of one identity over another. The more such markers in a comment, the more troll effects it has, even if the trolling is unintentional. (Most is.)

Some things that counteract these effects: nuance; empathy; personal experience.
When you really, *really* want generics
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Do you sponsor visa's for people outside UK
The Red Hat family of distros being decades behind isn't really an indication that things they aren't using are new and shiny. Plenty of modern distros ship Python 3 as the default Python, including Ubuntu. RHEL6 still uses Python2.6! It's horrid.

I'm also a sysadmin, and not a programmer. But I do a lot of my automation scripting in python, and have worked on a few larger projects in python, including one that's requirements meant it had to be Python2/3 compatible. I am not a fan of Python prior to 2.7 at all, and I think 2.7 is really just a bunch of bandaids trying to pull together a pretty crappy language, whereas 3.x is a joy to work with.
Absolutely Purrfect,so long as it does like i knead, and not auto update/edit my Rough 1st draft. And super nice to muck up with Nasty edits in a whole array of multi coloured stenciled surgery. Yup
it's a really fun book, and not particularly.

The dialogues (Achilles & Turtle) between the "essay" chapters are insanely enjoyable if you like wordplay and divertissement writing. "Crab Canon" is amongst the pages of literature I can re-read ad infinitum.

It gets somewhat harder to follow as it proceeds, and the lack of a "plot" makes it easy to abandon it, but I'd still recommend it.
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I've been using the original Vue HN (https://vue-hn.now.sh/top) for months, never even turn on the original HN (unless I need to post a comment, like now).
This is a huge win for global order. Had France elected Le Pen, the EU would likely have collapsed. The next important election is the German election, which appears to be leaning more liberal than those in the US, Britain, and France. So long as Germany elects liberal or moderate conservative, the EU will stick around. This will make greater tensions over Brexit, and give the rest of Europe greater leverage in the negotiations.

It seems to me that many of the current (reasonable) arguments for nationalism and ending globalism stem from the belief that Westphalian principles still apply just as strongly now as they did in in the 1960s. If this were true, it would make sense for China, Russia, and the US to look inward, and all compete independently to become the global hegemon. However, in a political climate governed by instantaneous information transfer and diminishing privacy, global order becomes something different. People paying attention have much more information than they used to, and this makes the peoples' relationship to their government different - namely, it diminishes the need for trust. In such a system, why should officials need to negotiate on behalf of the interests of people? There do still exist circumstances in which this is necessary, but broadly, there is probably more cultural commonality between Hong Kong and New York than New York and Wichita. And more interestingly, there is probably more in common between Elko NV and Kalgoorlie/Boulder Australia, than Kalgoorlie/Boulder and Sydney or Elko and San Francisco.

How does global order change to cater to this paradigm?
I'm not a ramen connoisseur but to have this kind of ramen at home is a treat. I sometimes add mushrooms, garlic, chilis to broth.

Nongshim Shin Black Noodle Soup, Spicy, 4.58 (Pack of 10) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B017IRZLKQ/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apap_nz6...

Theoretically there's no reason why a quality broth can't be reduced to powder form and used with instant ramen.
You should go to Nepal. Serious mountains and everyone there uses dried instant noodles, which were less than 50 cents a pack. You can eat them dry, or boil them up and make a soup.
Deep learning based style transfer that got viral a year or two ago was worse than this 2008 result, especially worse for that hone application to portraits.

The hype was nowhere near just because there's no deepness.

I admit that https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.01088 this beats everything and is extremely powerful and simple but the hype for deep things seems a bit too strong.
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> 'team lead' and a 'manager' don't have to be the same person

This has been my experience at several places I've worked, including my current work at IBM Watson. I talk to my manager maybe once a month at best[1], whereas the team lead is doing the same work as the rest of the team and in communication with the other members almost every day.

[1]: this is partially because I work remote - I assume I'd speak to my manager a little more often if we worked in close proximity.