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50% of people don't retire in any one year (though some years a larger percentage of people do retire because of bumps in the pipeline).

Also when people retire the pension fund doesn't draw out their entire pension in one go.
Yep, this is exactly what happened to me.
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Ehh, sentimental value. I've had it since I was 13 or so. Plus I occasionally get a random text from an old friend.

I've thought about it though. If I knew it'd fix the problem, I might do it. But the robocalls seem to scale up faster than new numbers. I guess it'd be a nice reprieve.
Fortunately I have the full collection in my media files. I watch it often and although it dated it's the seminal TV production for "How to do something and why".

Personally my favorites are the Elevator and the Vacuum.
Exactly, that's why runescape and world of warcraft have adopted the marxist game mechanic of automatically redistributing all resources and exp between all players at the end of every day.
"Apple's path with Swift doesn't seem to solve the problems I have as a day-to-day iOS developer. "

That's the key take-away for me.

Of course Swift has an easier time with some syntactic issues than Objective-C, which is two languages crashed into each other. And yes, Objective-C was way, way overdue for a better replacement. Heck, just dropping the "C" part from the language syntax and reducing it to type annotations in a nice typed Smalltalk (see Strongtalk, or TS) would have fit the bill.

It's not as if there aren't lots of problems (and your list will almost certainly be different). For example, applications are no longer just code, non-code resources are just as important, but support for them is at best rudimentary. So with pluggable scheme handlers and polymorphic identifiers, we could write

checkBoxImage := img:checkbox.

And have the "img" scheme handler statically check resource availability against a list automatically imported from Xcode's resources (pluggable, see F# type providers). Of course, the internet also happened, so

shoppingPage := http://amazon.com/

should also work, because why should obtaining resources outside your machine have so much extra ceremony. Abstracting should of course also work:

scheme:amazon := ref:http://amazon.com asScheme
shoppingPage := amazon:/

And of course you can compose scheme handlers, so you add JSON or XML decoding and then use the resulting scheme handlers as if the original data source

Then there is keeping UI and model in sync. There were bindings, but these were hacky, somewhat unreliably, undebuggable etc. Much better to generalize and integrate a constraint mechanism into the language:

-<void>setupTemperatureConverter
{
ivar:f |= (9.0/5.0) * ivar:c + 32 .
ivar:c |= (ivar:f - 32) * (5.0/9.0).
ivar:k |= ivar:c + 273.
ivar:c |= ivar:k - 273.

ivar:c =|= ivar:celsiusTextField/intValue.
ivar:f =|= ivar:fahrenheitTextField/intValue.
ivar:k =|= ivar:kelvinTextField/intValue.
}

That's actual code for a temperature converter app, setting up relationships that get automatically maintained. And if you make constraint handling support pluggable as you should, you also have a proper syntax for writing autolayout constraints. And Makefiles.

Together with composable scheme handlers (see above), this gets rid of the vast majority of your view controller code.

Then there's the nib vs code dance. Or storyboards. All semi-solutions to problems that are largely (but not entirely) architectural in nature. All can be aided tremendously by good linguistic support, putting to rest many of the recurring problems we have with these technologies (or conversely with not adopting them).

Swift does nothing for any of this.
There is no "low" in business thinking. Capital is amoral.
No, at that point human psyche perceives criticism as an attack. The helpful thing is to treat people humanely. Don't attack.
I'm honestly not sure if it's 50% or not, but I suppose the idea is that not everyone withdraws at the same time. Ideally, you would only sell off assets that you need to raise capital to pay for benefits. Also, there's new money coming into the fund by employees paying in, and I'm not sure they can stop.

But in general, if everyone wanted to sell their assets at the same time, that's when the stock market "crashes", because there's no buyers. I suppose the pension fund managers can make these types of decisions, but in general they are governed by rules and best practices in terms of what investments they can make.

If these funds stopped investing their money, they'd be at greater risk of inflation, and where would they put it? What would be the next step?

But you're right there is a lot of retirement money in the market, and when people start to retire, some of that money will go out of the market, but also a lot of people are trying to live only off the interest/dividends, and keep the principal because they are worried they will live longer than they were expecting.
Pretty sure he meant refined sugar, which has been proven time and time again that it is both very addictive and very bad for your health.
Could this be related to the fact that all communication between Linux devs is done by email?
My experience tells me it varies by network. All my family runs on ATT, Verizon and TMobile.. and all get spam by robocalls. Meanwhile I have SimpleTalk (which is a rebrnd t-mobile so you get reception of tmobile network under silly name simpletalk), I got about 10 robocalls since I have this number circa 2011.

Also - certain area codes are hotter than others. While I have Cali number, I know many folks living in Alaska and never got robocalled.
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Disabled, since my provider charges for it (around 0.12 € per message, but still..) and it requires setting and remembering a PIN code to access it.

I don't think it's that useful anymore in the era of WhatsApp voice messages.
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Why has nobody made a union you join through an app?
Lester's dad thought Lester had been killed. He was presumably the executor for Lester's estate, which was liquidated (e.g. the cheese factory was sold).
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Fuck Facebook! Stop wasting cycles and bytes discussing over something obvious, while making "dumb" excuses why you need to go back and get fucked back.
Permission from the carrier to dump an audio file directly into your voicemail box.
I've always wondered why the large tech companies/universities who claim they care so much about diversity don't send their recruiters around the world to track bright, persevering teenagers such as the young man of the article, and bring them into their organization (providing proper mentorship/training in the case of companies). It seems like it would be a fairly cheap way to have a very diverse organization with brilliant people from all over the world.
They are not forcing you to listen to anything. You can a) delete the message or b) change voicemail systems so this does not work. These problems can be mitigated from a technical perspective.
Hi philip1209, I just applied to your Moonlight site as a software developer. With that said, my experience has all been in web development, and have some personal experience writing native desktop apps. Would I have a problem finding work in your platform as a web developer? I also like the idea of working for more technical clients. I believe that finding high-rated clients is one of the bigger problems that freelancers have in using most common freelancing websites.
> You are mindful and react on direct stimulus - while gaming, you do not think on future or past, you are immersed in your actual activity - it IS mindfulness.

I disagree. Reacting is the polar opposite of what mindfulness is about. Mindfulness is about, among other things, responding appropriately to what is happening, not reacting.

What you're describing, the state people get in when playing computer games, is a state of hyper-vigilance. Acute-awareness of what's directly in front of you induced by a simulated battle.
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Yea, I was expecting the article to be a technical explanation.
Thanks for pointing this out, I've been thinking about this very question myself. Perhaps Stan is trying to test out different titles, or felt that a different title does this project more justice as he is progressing with its development?

Different titles he used, in chronological order:

* Show HN: Warp – Simple terminal sharing for better developers interactions

* Warp – share your terminal with one simple command

* Show HN: Instantaneous terminal sharing
Instantaneous terminal sharing

My take away from this: Don't include app/product name, describe product in as few words as possible, don't include examples (... for ...) so readers has the opportunity to imagine the possibilities.
Jim Allchin, who led the Windows client team, famously wrote an email to Gates and Ballmer during the development of Longhorn saying that Microsoft had lost it's way and that if he didn't work for Microsoft he would run OS X himself.

http://www.macworld.com/article/1054364/allchin.html

Trainwreck seems a bit of an overstatement when discussing that time period.
Obligatory xkcd https://xkcd.com/1357/

Also the mouse over text applies very well to this situation as well.
That one was actually clear to me. "That looks like a fuel gauge. Carbs are our main energy source - fuel." But I paid no attention to the colors.

Fat, on the other hand, made no sense to me. And I had to go back and read the text to see if they really did intend it as "measuring tape to measure how fat you are", and yeesh, they did. That's... bad.
That just shows that big companies can have poor judgment too.
> "he contract that generated them is already in the Ethereum blockchain and it cannot be changed."

Unless another hard fork kicks in and multiple truths exist?
For a long time now I've received many many more robocalls than real calls. It makes me want to turn off the phone features of my phone.
I would hope given the title character's nature that this was done intentionally :)
Well, half of the point is that you don't want voice in the first place...
Switched it off in 2003.. enabled it again in 2005 because of a practical joke by a friend who had my new manager made it a requirement for the new job.. :D

Switched it off soon after again. Reason is mainly that 99.9% of the voicemails left were work related (I only keep one phone# for everything) ahem, "lazy bullshit". It seems most (middle) management is constantly leaving messages about non-issues, for me to deal with. Texting is a miniscule additional "hurdle" which filters this out for me.

I had several discussions proving my point.

[Bill Lumbergh]"Yeah, could you please enable your voice mail?"
[Me]"Well, if it is important you can text me, I'll get right back to you"
[Bill]"but that is less convenient.."
[Me]"I guess if there is something important, it would warrant the effort to send a three word SMS message.. 'please call me'"
[Bill]"Eh.."
The best news in this release is the 58% growth in subscription revenues. Since Apple has never had a system to allow paid upgrades, subscription is the best way to build a sustainable software business on the store. So this rapid growth indicates that customers are accepting subscription based software and that's great news.

I also posted this because on other threads some devs felt that because the market is top heavy that only huge developers like SuperCell and Kings were the beneficiaries. They felt that paying $99 a year and being forced to buy an Apple computer just weren't worth it. I wanted to point out that's not true and that strangely, despite my failure I'm an example of it.

My iOS app business has essentially been closed for over a year. I was never able to get revenues above $70k a year, and they've fallen over time, mostly because my main app is in a niche that's really hard to grow and frankly not worth the effort. And because my other ideas weren't successful, or I didn't do them well enough.

But still I've profited from the massive growth of the app store. I recently took a job for a company that has a large free app (as well as other internal apps used by employees). I'm now making over $130k a year (salary plus benefits) in one of the cheapest places in the country to live. Plus, I'm still making around $1500 a month from my existing apps, without doing any updates.

All the revenues from the growth in the App Store has created a lot of good jobs and developers benefit directly from them. I'm in particular grateful for the one it created for me, at a great company with outstanding benefits as well as management philosophy and business principles. For all the things we bitch about as developers, I have to point out that by comparison to most jobs it's a pretty awesome gig for those of us lucky enough to be employed as developers.
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Honey Badgers are pretty awesome. If I had another life to live I would move to Australia and spend at least 10 years working with honey badgers.

PBS produced a great documentary on them called "Honey Badgers: Masters of Mayhem", which exemplifies their intelligence, curiosity, and persistence. If you are a ferret owner (or just like ferrets in general), you will immediately relate to the honey badger and have an affection for them.

The documentary used to be on NetFlix but was pulled recently (not sure why). However, it is available to watch on the PBS website:

http://www.pbs.org/video/2365179375/

Amazon also has it for sale (absolutely worth the $6 they are asking for it), and of course someone posted it on YouTube. It is 53 minutes well worth spending.
You have to listen to the message to find out if it is something important...
> Unlike democracy however it is fairly easy to get rid of Linux and replace it with something better.

Is it?
An example of in the middle: realize things have flaws, but work to improve them. Realize that perfection cannot be achieved, so work with the stakeholders to come up with something acceptable. Programming here is just one other set of tasks that has to be done. Check out http://meaningness.com for deeper insight on the philosophical side.
Regardless of if it does or not, what's the likely end result? Spam voicemails become the new email, filtered aggressively, and increasingly ignored over time in favor of less-spam-prone methods. They're asking for something pointlessly unsustainable that would be no different from any of the other high-noise/low-signal-ratio channels they already have.
There may be (depending on the mechanism used to acheive this) a good policy argument to be made that these shouldn't be governed by laws governing phone calls, but they are exactly the same arguments that would lead to the conclusion that they should be governed by laws concerning unsolicited commercial email.
In what ways is objC difficult to maintain, and in what ways is Swift easier to maintain than objC?

I look forward to the magical bug free future when I switch to Swift.
I have also done this at work with (what I believe) some success, w/o the distributed systems aspect.
Speaking specifically to Toyota's 0% deals, I bought a Toyota a couple years ago, and at that time there was a cash back incentive that was mutually exclusive with 0% financing. This car was pricey enough that 0% was still a better deal, but for most of what Toyota sells it's a worse deal.
Thanks for Tom Watson quote, I'd never heard it before, it's a good one. Also agree with everything else you just said, this is not the junior devs fault at all.
Didn't even know it was a weight scale given how abstract it is. Knowing that, these are just cultural stereotypes it seems.
Seeing this and some of the other people who get spam calls (I get them too from time to time), I am wondering if they allow this legally, why not do something to make the effort of it not worth it?

https://www.reddit.com/r/itslenny/

I am reminded of this, where the goal is to waste to telemarketers time as much as possible, and my thought is enough people used it, it would make spam calling not worth it.

I would gladly pay for a program in which I could load that up on my phone and have it distract/annoy them back.

Thoughts?
.. and why does that allow them to spam you? Just because you can avoid it by changing numbers? You could make that same argument for a restraining order -- "Oh you can just move, so why would we legally protect you?". Absurd.
Eaze looks fantastic! I applied for an engineering position there 10 days ago; when might I expect to hear back?
It's not bike-shedding when the actual goal of the committee is to determine a color for the bike shed.
Gas gauge still doesn't make sense to me, based on the orientation. Every gas gauge I've seen has the "empty-full" axis being vertical.
My point is that people may be upset at this particular use of force, not of the use in general. That it is legal is beside the point.
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If that's the mechanism and this takes off, there'll be a strong incentive for one carrier to offer spam-free voice mail and either steal all the customers or cause the entire industry to fall in line.
It's easier in many ways but due to anonymity you have to cross trace more.

But yes, it's WAY easier to trace than cash
I'm the one who said Guix instead of GuixSD, I'm a different person than the one who made the comment about Linux and RMS.
Does anyone have any newspaper lists or forums/communities that continually have good recommendations on current books to read? I love going to bookstores but don't have any idea where to start, and want to have at least "heard of" some titles before I go.
"with a single line of code." Uh no, it's a library... I hate it when projects say that.
That's basically the optimist view in the article, I think. Optimism in this case isn't about pretending the thing is good, it's about believing it can be good.
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My first thought was "sure, FreeBSD". My second was "hmm, not always so easy".
In Europe all services I have seen has been of the kind where whoever makes the call pays, and nobody ever gets charged for receiving calls.

Under such a system, this can become a issue.
Yup, my bad. I've always called the distro just Guix in my mind, but I know the difference.

Anyway, thanks for pointing that out.
Think about how dumb the average human is and then realize half of them are dumber than that.

Humans have become the dominant species for two reasons:

1. Our ability to reason

2. Our technological superiority

Many animals can rival or exceed the intelligence of the average human, but due to the fact that they're seen as "just animals" and that they can't communicate with us in a matter we understand (nor care about doing it) makes humans think they are superior in every way.
Then, whenever scientific progression proves that animals aren't as dumb as they look, humans have to come up with new arguments to separate themselves from other species.

It's the typical arrogant and limited view of the common homo sapiens.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
It's time to start questioning the underlying idea if jobs. We're close to a society that could make work optional or at least people could spend much less time doing it.
>Basketball, soccer and such require basically ball and place (which is available for free here).

They also require you to be good at it to enjoy it, have slow and painful learning (depending on shape), and require you to be in a group interested in it. Unless you got in to it early on in your life it's not easy to pick up - unlike video games
> That is to say that subsytems were defined solely based on technical considerations, which is how it should be if the goal is sound engineering.

I think that's too idealistic. As another sibling poster pointed out, it's more like a democracy... with all the attendant upsides and downsides. (Also, I'm sure there's a lot of interpersonal politics involved, even if it's all over email.)

Don't get me wrong, the Linux kernel works surprisingly well and I rely on it for almost everything (including my livelihood), but if you really look at it, some of the subsystems are shockingly bad.

I think a good example is containers/namespaces which have a ridiculously bad security record. (See "user namespaces".) Again, I'm sure the people working on these things had the best of intentions, are very competent generally, and were hampered by the "never break userspace" rule. However, if containers/namespaces were truly designed, it could have been done a lot better. (See "Zones" on Solaris et al.)
I do really like the idea of a 'shared fleet' to get cars off the road and encourage alternative transport (walking, biking, public transport, ride sharing) and reduce our 'car culture'. Because these alternatives don't cover all use-cases, I need a car sometimes so I'm mostly forced to bear the rather large expensive of having a car all the time. I'd totally consider ditching my car entirely if I could press a button and reliably get a nice-ish car valet'd to my door in a reasonable amount of time for a reasonable cost. It's unclear if this is where we're at with these companies (and I already have a car sitting in my driveway so i'm already pot committed for awhile)
How do you leverage word of mouth when the people you know don't even know the right people for your kind of work? I have plenty of time- I don't have a job but my network is disappointing for the time I've spent in the field (web developer, 7 years).

So how do you get word of mouth going when nobody I know, not even 2nd degree connections, know anyone that is hiring? It really sucks to be in this position.
Perfect point Uber is paying them and they play video games. (I love games, and the US is a wealthy country across the board so it does not surprise me that men are enjoying more leisure time at a younger age.) I am pro more video games.
Holy crap on a cringle... I think I've been in there before but there's also a ton of other nuggets of gold.
Ask HN: Opinions on a regulation which could solve most privacy converns
I had an idea about how most of my personal privacy concerns could be mitigated.I would like to solicit opinions on the idea.

I believe that if use of our personal data (including aggregation, correlation, study and sale) were required to be reported, we could provide real knowlegable consent to the use of our personal data. In other words we would be able to know who is tracking us and why.

The current system where we blindly click "I agree" is broken. People do not want to wade through the legalese and they shouldn't have to.

If we were notified every time our personal data was used, we could finally know what we were agreeing to.
I don't think that's a reasonable conclusion, given that HN is pretty specific about what title to use. From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html:

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait.

Basically, the HN title should be the page title (with a few exceptions noted in the doc above). The whole point is not to use the title to do what you're proposing and apparently, observing.

My interest wasn't "How do I get something to rank on HN?", it was "I want to encourage people to submit things that they discover and love, not repeatedly submitting things they're affiliated with." I may be in the minority, though.
On the other hand I have seen SAP implementations that could be described in the same terms.

They are the kind of project that kills the recipient organisation.
Looks great, I'd love to have an RSS feed though, having that in addition to the daily emails would be a great way to keep track of upcoming, popular and new opps entries.

Love it already.