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> or because they shut down the conversation at some point.

That's the vibe I got from her post (that the conversation just stopped at a certain point), but that's really my point; in adult, human interactions, if you behave in ways that people find unacceptable, people can and will at one point simply say, "I've had enough" and shut down further dialogue because they do not find communicating with you to be constructive or productive. They are within their rights as human beings to do so.

Some people seem to have a "I have a certain approach and you must accept it and deal with me" attitude and that's just not how the world works. You can try to push a bad, combative attitude on other people, but there's just nothing that says that they have to accept it.
The problem is that this niche is not stereotypically a very well paying niche. The intersection of high earners and disabled people is quite small (and the intersection between lowest 20% of income earners and disabled is quite large)n So, there's not really a lot of money (if any) to be made by focusing solely on this niche.

That's why the ADA and various government laws came into existence - nobody was catering to the niche since it wasn't lucrative enough.
Any plans for bitbucket?
Most of the Forbes 400 are self-made: https://www.forbes.com/sites/afontevecchia/2014/10/03/there-...
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Yes, but the point is, they had it and it worked just fine. Inductive power transmission works fine if the distance is very small (as it was with these paddles).
Right, you've to report it. But the question is if that's actually against the rules - it's not entirely clear to me. I'm personally lucky enough to now have a greencard so I don't have to worry about it anymore...
Ok, then I failed somewhat.

Because I was just trying to educate in a somewhat lighthearted manner.

So I ask again: how do we stop the current JS abuse?

BTW: I've been my tems dedicated frontender for the last few weeks ;-)
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I know nothing about this area, so this is kind of an ELI5 question, but: If the wavelength of the light defines the lower limit of detail size, why can't they switch to actual x-rays, which we already seem to be really good at producing?
This is the sort of generic ideological rant that we're trying to avoid here, and we ban accounts that use HN primarily for this purpose. So would you please stop posting like this to HN? Nothing good or new can come of it; these discussions are always the same and always become nasty. Boring and uncivil are the two sins on HN.
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Well, that's one way to get lawyers to figure out who own what...
For all practical purposes BitTorrent needs trackers for initial peer discovery so it's not really much of a downgrade.

Even with a DHT for any kind of practical content discovery, sites would need to track at least one member of the swarm so new peers can join.
I am sophomore in college and it would appear that friends in high school who skipped out on college and are working now are economically and socially farther ahead in life than most of my classmates in college.

You're a sophomore. That makes you, what... 21? It's a bit early to be coming to conclusions about relative success. At that age, they could be managing a gas station and would appear to be "economically further ahead."

The tortoise and the hare spring to mind. Wait ten years and then see how you're all doing.
loved your insight into this, thank you
> I used to think that also until I studied economics in college

Right so you kind of proved my point, that deflation is the academic economist boogieman.
That's a very strange comparison. How often do you look closely at the artwork for an album? If you're spending countless hours staring at a single album cover, you probably have some issues.
Judging by your comment I don't seem to be missing out on much in terms of conversation.
“I want people who work for me to retire in their 50s and own their own boats,” she says.

God that sounds terrible anyway. Do that many people want to retire - literally have nothing greater than themselves that requires their input on a daily basis - and go sit on a boat? What a waste.
Also mW for Ultraviolet vs. around 100W for EUV
I just bought a washing machine. I spent a long, long time looking for the simplest one I could find, in the hopes that I could replace any mechanical part. From other HN threads it seems the control panels tend to go out a lot.

Since I live in an apartment and wanted a small one anyway, I ended up with a portable one (oneConcept DB004 - odd name) that uses mechanical timers for the stages (you can hear them ticking!). It hasn't arrived yet but I am hopeful that when it inevitably breaks I can fix it.

I want to get a dishwasher next and sadly don't know if I can find something equivalent.
How is GF's 7nm process in comparison to Intel's 10nm process? Is Intel still much denser like with 14nm vs the rest of "14nm"?
But extended warranty is just insurance, nothing to do with the product being durable or not.

I don't buy the argument that costs will skyrocket. Most manufacturers, won't give a lot of thought to making their products more durable while keeping the costs down, unless pressured, either by consumers, or the government. They're more focused on making money (rightfully so). The incentive to keep making money because their products break often causing people to re-buy, must be removed IMHO.
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I recommending taking courses online to learn how to write it. Also, you may want to work on some open source projects if you want to see what maintainable JS looks like and how to write it.
Did you build on many different platforms using multiple compilers with various degrees of standards support, just as Mozilla does? That makes it harder (for starters: how do you suppress warnings in a portable way?)
I am curious to know how the trend of GDP per capita in Japan compares to other developed countries. When comparing US and Soviet Union, it is often said that the economy of USSR was expanding, much faster than any time in its history, but not quite as fast as US; and that is the reason US far surpassed USSR in terms of economy. If Japan's GDP per capita is not increasing as fast as or faster than the other developed countries, they may lag behind, just like USSR did.
> A society without a government that monopolizes force can't really exist, or at least not for long.

This is falsified by many historical examples. I gave one upthread (some of the American colonies, such as Pennsylvania in the early 1700s). Another would be saga period Iceland, which existed for several centuries with no government that monopolized force.

I think history does show that societies without a government that monopolizes force are vulnerable to a failure mode which basically consists of an outside entity being willing to invest enough resources to overwhelm the force available within the society, and thus establishing a government by takeover. This is what happened in both of the examples I gave above (Iceland was taken over by the King of Norway, and Pennsylvania ended up caught up in the general tightening of everything when the British decided to get tough on the colonies after the French and Indian War).

In other words, any time a group of people try to set up for themselves a place where they can live the way they want to, interfering with no one else and with no one else interfering with them, it doesn't last; someone else always ends up coming in and taking over and trying to tell them what to do. I view this as a bug, not a feature.
I have a little story about this kind of thing, where doing something rather simple and low-skill can make an absolute fortune.

One night I was talking to an older friend of a friend, 50+, around a year ago now. We were talking about what we did for a living and what we got paid. We started off with what he did: He's a bricklayer, nothing more, and told me that they get paid per brick they lay. It's something like £4 per brick. What shocked me was an experienced bricklayer like him usually lays enough bricks to make around £400/day.

"That's almost £150,000/year!" I said, trying to not sound too envious or anything (spoiler: I failed). And this doesn't include the one-off jobs they get every weekend from rich foreigners who have extravagant houses built in the UK all the time. All in all it can amount to some very large amounts of zeros in your bank. In a few years he became a millionaire from bricklaying. I have since then talked to a few others who are in that trade and it all (anecdotally) corroborates, approximately (the older you are the more you get picked for "specialist" properties that involve very rich Chinese and Arabians apparently, which can make you ~£1,000 in one weekend).

I asked, as any sane person would, something along the lines of "why isn't everyone and his dog laying bricks?". And the reply was very intriguing. He said essentially that younger people these days (my age) don't want to lay bricks every day now, or don't have the stamina. They want to go on their phones and become world-famous and important and work on new gizmos and apps every day and be looked at by everyone and be payed attention to, etc, etc.

Since then I've not really been able to get my head around it all. It seems like although we talk about automation stealing jobs and everybody will have to be a "techie" to make any sort of decent living, there is definitely a small "elite" minority doing these very old-fashioned jobs that no-one wants or can do anymore. I fear sometimes that we (the younger generation) are slowly going mad with technology, and forgetting about the practical skills. What our own two hands were made to do so to speak.

We never got on to what I do in the end funnily enough.

Anyway, more relevantly, this lumberyard article is just a (slightly Americanised) theme of the above. It's these jobs that were done for a pittance in the past (sometimes even by slaves and prisoners), and now are these trades that sometimes are paying exorbitant salaries, just simply because nobody wants to do it, because no-one can be bothered anymore.

Apologies if this was long and off-topic, but I hope it's left some kind of thought somewhere.
My sister was a software engineer. She wasn't ever a part of those women-only developer groups. She just really liked programming. It wasn't a political statement, and I don't think I've ever heard her talk about 'sexism in the workplace' that everyone else seems to love to talk about.

She left her engineering job to raise her children. My mother was completely against this move though because my mother (also originally a software engineer) thought it was bad form that an educated female engineer would leave the workforce and 'waste her life as a stay at home mom' (paraphrased), and that my sister needed to set a good example as a professional woman or something.

I kind of think it's all silly that my mother would push for this, but I do understand it, because when my mother was a software engineer things were pretty bad. However, I think these days it's pushing the point too far.
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Not sure what you mean by reactionary; they seem pretty centre-left.
> Jon Voight in Transformers — in this scene, just after American troops have been attacked by a Decepticon robot, Pentagon Hollywood liaison Phil Strub inserted the line ‘Bring em home’, granting the military a protective, paternalistic quality, when in reality the DOD does quite the opposite.

So glad the authors were able to stay objective and emotionally removed from the subject /s
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But are younger generations jumping onto the treadmill to acquire these assets at overinflated prices? That's the question.

Housing and equities might continue to go up in price, most everything else will decline (especially energy and transportation). Wouldn't that mean you could live well off of little if you opted out of high cost of living areas?
Thanks for the writeup! This gives some insight into how convoluted the system is and hence why people don't trust it.
Success is relative. The recovery programs that have sprung up from the ideals of Alcoholic Anonymous are not perfect, but the US Government has done very little to actually support those with substance issues. Quantitatively AA and NA are far more successful than all the money we throw at drug enforcement, and our drug enforcement policies actually harm the programs and the users, i.e. mandatory AA attendance in response to alcohol related offences and the danger to an NA individual's recovery when they do fall off the wagon and are picked up by law enforcement.

I've seen the local success rate for AA, and I imagine that the NA programs are worse, but they are better than the alternatives we, the United States, present them.
The warranty doesn't make the product durable. Its just allows you to re-buy the same non-durable product using resources from a shared pool.

This is about addressing the fundamental problem.
I respect that. Personally, I feel that Github has a long enough history of mismanagement and poor culture that sexism and the kinds of issues this post describes aren't difficult to imagine at all.
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YES. I’m a software engineer. I’m a woman. I’m not a “female-software-engineer”. I don’t need people in HR randomly telling me that they support me (umm, thanks?). I hate that the typical first question after I tell someone what I do is usually about sexism, not about what I’m working on. I’m not a victim.
There's a perfect storm coming for Intel. For years they were able to sit on fat server margins because of superior fab process and CPU architecture. Now GF/Samsung/TSMC is competitive in fab technology and AMD has Zen. The days of high server margins are coming to an end.
It's possible, but it's far, far less likely than a post on social media with your name tied to it - it's also completely deniable and contains only usernames.
> You learn all this ridiculous nonsense, and when you get out, what are you applying that to?

Who cares about learning history? It's not like those who don't understand it are doomed to repeat it or anything. I'll leave that to the politicians - I have houses to frame. All knowledge should be directly translatable to $$$ or it's a waste of time. /s
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This looks a bit overdone. For the first example I'd just do it like this:

const numbers = [,'one','two','three']
function matchNumber(n: number) { return numbers[n] || n }
Tesla's statement is very interesting. They say: "Despite repeatedly receiving special treatment at the expense of others, Ms. Vandermeyden nonetheless chose to pursue a miscarriage of justice by suing Tesla and falsely attacking our company in the press"

So Tesla is claiming that they discriminated against other employees and harmed them at this woman's behest.

Strange claim, since it is actionable by these supposed people who they harmed and admits that Tesla's management is incompetent and engages in gender discrimination.

It seems that like Uber most people with real skill and talent are jumping the Tesla ship before it goes down.

This is a side show compared to Tesla's other problems (just like Uber) but it is in these cases where there is an emotional impact as opposed to boring numbers that people actually take notice of how incompetent the management of a company really is.
Sorry, not at the moment. We're all in on GitHub right now.
IIRC, same reason you use a laser rather than a lightbulb in a laser cutter. Conventional x-ray sources don't focus anything like as well.
Wow, major egg on my face; thank you for the clarification!

I've actually been operating under the mistaken belief that Bay directed that movie. It feels incredibly Bay.
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity."
I am tritanope, with a (very mild) deuteranopia on top for good measure.

The 7-colour palette works well - I can see seven separate hues (well, eight if you count the black.) The hardest ones to tell apart are the vermillion and reddish purple - I don't think I'd be able to tell the difference unless I had both in front of me simultaneously.

The 12- and 15-colour palettes don't do much for me.

Kudos for not using colour as the only cue!
What would it do that some basic templating library wouldn't do?

Not knowing the specifics, I would lean toward a template library, as it would be more precise, and could account for things like changing gender, plurality, a vs an, etc, in a structured way.
Because sex doesn't just mean female. Males are an equally protected class in terms of gender based discrimination laws. So you pointing out that you specified "protected class" doesn't really mean much, since it equally applies.
I'll take a stab at it.

In a real deflation, prices fall. That's wonderful (unless you're selling). Then wages fall, which is less wonderful, but (I think) they don't usually fall more than prices do.

The problem is, your mortgage doesn't fall. Neither do the payments on any other debt you owe. They stayed at a constant number of dollars, but each dollar is now worth more. So your mortgage payment, for example, becomes a bigger fraction of your paycheck.

If you have debt when deflation happens, it can crush you.

Then you have the second-order effects. People go bankrupt, and their creditors sell off their assets. Or people sell assets, trying to avoid bankruptcy. In either case, the supply (of many things) increases, due to people trying to get what they can. This drives prices down. So we get more deflation, which puts even more people in a pinch, so even more people sell what they can...
The American dream sounds a lot like retiring in one's 50's and owning a boat (to her). I'd say I agree, minus the boat part.

Her's might be different from our American Dream; but if she's setting up her employees to do this, then both sides are #winning.
You're not addressing the article at hand. The article is not claiming that sexism doesn't exist.

> I've never seen men, as a group, encounter the obstacles I've seen many female peers discuss

Though since we're on the topic - I can't speak for your specific anecdotes, but I'll say this: men may not face obstacles to the same extent of women, but they definitely face their own obstacles, and sexism against men even in this industry is a thing.

Affirmative action and hiring quotas are reverse discrimination. Being a women in this field gives you a leg up in terms of university admission to competitive CS programs and employment at competitive firms. Recruiters are often female and discriminate in favor of women. (I've experienced this numerous times firsthand). For your friends who were actually sexually harassed, the mere accusation alone is often enough to get co-workers fired and have their reputations ruined (see Adria Richards dongle joke).

So yes, females unfortunately face a huge set of obstacles, but they also face a huge set of advantages that shouldn't be overlooked. This victim mentality needs to stop at some point.
I'm NOT disabled, and I hate videos without a transcript.

Most videos suck. Giving me a transcript lets me read everything quickly and determine if the video is worth spending an hour on.
> No please don't do this, no one will ever do the todo. The code base I'm currently working on has more than 2000 todos.

Visual Studio integrates TODOs into its UI. After rolling off of feature work I can pull up the TODO list in VS and start picking tasks off, jumping right into the code.
Yes that is amazing, most biological components are bigger:

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cell_Biology/Introduction/Cell...
Just out of curiosity, what do you consider "places where serious startup people gather?". I tend to go to the monthly JS meetups (which mostly seemed to have moved to IronYard for the time being, thanks to their generosity) when I have time...I've seen some other things like the monthly-ish series that ISL organizes, but those always smelled to me like it would be less "deep" so I never went. I went to a Hacker News meetup once actually (I think it was at Vapiano in ChT), and met a few nice folks but I don't think that ever happened again.

Overall, I'd say DC/Metro is a place with a pretty solid balance of interesting problems to solve, people with money who are willing to contribute to their solutions, talent and "runway efficiency". I don't know if the Appian IPO really changes any of that, per se, but I think the region is pretty good for startups - especially if you're willing to think outside the box with respect to how you get your funding / pitch your idea.
Whoa, those exclamation marks woke me right up from my midafternoon coma haha. Thanks for this, I'll keep this kind of tone in mind.
> So you just don't like to hear opposing views?

Personally abrasive escalation takes threads into flamewar, so please edit such things out of your comments here. As a bonus, the signal/noise ratio of your comments will get higher.

Edit: fixed now, so I've detached this from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14703776 and marked it off-topic.
> The performance culture isn't just C. Far from it

Sure, but it is where it is more visible, specially micro-optimizing code as it is being written, without validating if it really matters to the application's use case with a profiler.

The school of systems programming languages from Algol side, was that correctness was much more relevant than pure performance, Algol dialects for systems programming already had Rust like unsafe blocks in the mid-60's.

In Burroughs B5500 the administrator could enable which applications with unsafe modules were allowed at all to be executed, 10 years before C was invented.
I appreciate the perspective that, because psychology is variable from human to human, by having a large effect size, it almost certainly invalidates whatever conclusions are made based on the data. This kind of thinking allows the reader to understand further psychological studies without relying on specific refutations, but instead they now have a "bad smell" sense that they can fall back on.
The my theory top comment is an HN classic.
Prices include wages too. If all wages and prices adjusted instantaneously, then there is no real difference between inflation or deflation.

However, people are mentally resistant to being paid less (nominally) for a job, even though in inflation-adjusted terms they would be making the same thing (or more) as they did before. This "wage stickiness" leads to unemployment as companies choose to lay off people instead of paying them more (by holding their wages constant over time), and are also resistant to hiring new people at lower wages while keeping current employees stuck at higher wages, for fear that this would discourage current employees or cause internal conflict.