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Actually that is a low rate for the 1990s
But there exist more producers of ARM chips, so it is more likely that one of them also produces one without a management core.
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If people didn't care, they wouldn't be moving into Julia, Go, Chapel,...
As nnd mentioned it's pretty difficult to do both at the same time (freelancing and traveling).

A few notes from my past experience that may be useful:

1) My first real remote working gig was as a dev/tech writer for a software company. I worked out of an apartment in BKK initially before relocating to Malaysia and then Philippines. You feel like you have a base rather than constantly moving around. As I was a remote working I didn't have to look for new freelancing gigs. This approach worked really well for me. This was not a freelance gig though.

2) Career break. I've had a few of these over the years. I saved hard, then quit my job. I then took a year out, travelled etc. before coming back to look for another job.

3) What I do now. I work for three months of the year on (freelance) contract in UK. I then take 9 off - that's my target anyway. It does vary a bit as sometimes the length of a contract does vary. During the 9 months off I do travel. The great advantage of this is when I'm on a freelance gig I focus on that, but when I'm off I can travel without having to think about work - at all. In order to be able to do this I had to make some pretty big changes - I sold my house, my car, I live on less than 1K a month. It's not for everyone but I love it. I would not go back to my old life in a million years.

There have been a few threads of this nature recently - I guess you could check my comments to find those other threads.

Good luck!
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Once the company goes public, the amount of money they raised is included in their finances, and not counted as a round. Take a look at the Amazon finances and you'll see how much they have raised on loans. The higher the stock price, the better loan pricing they can secure. This is the strategy that Tesla employs as well.
It's "full of encumbrance and moves at a snails pace" PRECISELY BECAUSE "human lives [are] at stake".

A quick look at medical history will show you what happens when people cut corners.
Yes there are a number of models, but since the quality of the results depends a lot on the training data as well, which I wouldn't know how to find or evaluate, and possibly might require tweaking algorithms for different languages, which I wouldn't know how to do, it's not really 'usable' (for me).

I figured someone would have gone to the trouble of combining models with a maintained collection of datasets to produce an open source alternative to Google Translate by now. I've been wondering that for years and it never seems to happen. Not saying anyone should feel obligated - I'm just curious why we don't see this, when we see so many other open source software projects that are competetive with their commercial alternatives.

Is it difficult/expensive to acquire these datasets? Is it a lot of effort to actually fine-tune the algorithms to reach passable results?

It seems (without knowing the details myself) that the state of the art in actually usable machine translation tools is always locked up in commercial IP, even though it feels (at least to me) like something that should be a free public service and therefore an ideal candidate for the 'open source' treatment.
> Well not anymore than stock Android id say.

It's even less open-source than AOSP.
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Perhaps not dispositive, but without evidence otherwise, FTB’s belief is not sufficient to convinct. It’s always possible that your fellow citizens are crooked assholes. But evidence should always be required to get a punitive conviction.
i am interested to know the particulars of any routines people have for reading and reviewing a codebase, as the author talks about doing in his spare time. do you take notes? add comments? step through with a debugger?
I don't think the heat map is plotted right. For android development Burma glows red, for iOS it's Cambodia. I'm not telling that there aren't enough developers there, but from the context of the article & comparing the India, Bangladesh the heat map seems off.
This just seems wrong to me. There are plenty areas of programming where knowing a little bit about internal data representation, either in memory or in your data store can help you make better choices. Not everyone needs to be a system programmer, but folks still need general computer awareness. We just aren't far enough from the CPU yet. Sufficiently advanced understanding of algorithms implies computer architecture awareness to me.

I get what you are writing about here, that higher level concepts dominate programming many common apps today, but it seems like a weird place to allow yourself to have a knowledge gap.
As a sports outsider I see the problem with doping to be moral and societal.

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Societal: I'm not a fan of spectator sports in general, but... when people become rich and famous and powerful by cheating, that probably strenghtens the view in many people that winning at the expense of others and ignoring our own earlier declarations is more important than cooperation, fair conduct, honesty etc. Not a world I would like to live in.
> Any 32-bit edition of Windows

I was quite disappointed when I bought a cheap Windows Table/Laptop to tinker with. And the Windows installer would not let install the 64bit version on 2 gigs of ram...

> Personally I prefer to wrap Cygwin in http://www.msys2.org/

Can you tell me more about that? Isn't cygwin and msys2 two separate project?
C is not in the same league as the languages I mentioned, in regards to productivity and memory safety, while enjoying quite good performance.

What is unfair about being as dynamic as Python and yet enjoying top quality JIT compilers?

Just the community not caring about it and forcing everyone else to go down into C or somewhere else, it seems.
>You know how much a cup of coffee costs, a laptop, a car, a house. Chatbots and web-pages have their market price as well.

You are thinking that people charge some amount derived from their costs. But it's more like people charge as much as they can (as the market allows) and the actual costs are only important as a lower bound - there is no higher bound.
The book Thanks for the Feedback, by the authors of Getting to Yes and Difficult Conversations focuses on this question https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DMCV0XE/
So I guess it has nothing to do with http://hevea.inria.fr

Is there a reason why French people like that name so much?
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Tmux in vim can be made quite convenient for an acme user :

- tmux mouse support gets better every release, so you can actually select, send or exec, there is no chording though.
- vim has remote features, so you don't need multiple vim instances. Yoy can "send" to a running vim instance. Vim splits are pretty powerful, buffers being independent.
- neovim has :term support too, i would not recommend it

Acme found a nice usability sweet spot, mixing an editor with shell and a tiling wm.
Tmux and vim can imitate some interesting behaviour such as 3-click to open, but the general behaviour isn't as consistent.
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Fortunately those are not so rare...
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Sorry, but what's the latest on this? They got new website?
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What would you recommend them do in order to either get him off the team or start pulling his socks?

Before doing either of those things, why not try to address why he isn't working? Is he finding his tasks boring? Is he out of his depth? Is there a problem outside of work that's affecting his productivity that he needs help with?

It's preferable for everyone if you can help a team member rather than being antagonistic or defensive when there's a problem.
Yeah, American toilets are weird. First time I saw one (at LAX after flying in from Australia) I thought it was broken - firstly given the huge amount of water in it at the start, and then the way it fills up when you flush it! I really thought it was going to overflow.
Do you have a screenshot to show what you mean?
It sounds like you need to 'productize' what you were doing before. You didn't say what you were doing but I will assume 'developing'. There have been quite a few threads on this, but you could perhaps look to capture your knowledge in a training course or e-book. Have a look at IndieHackers for more ideas.
Data.table is great for SQL-style code but it imposes some annoying limitations, namely that the output is always coerced to a data.table.
I suppose it depends on whether you think that Facebook is a worthwhile product that should be commercially viable, rather than closing. If you do think that, you are making the the world a better place for some values of better and world.
> Android 4.4. Although that is also quite out of date, it is still supported by app developers.

For the time being. I'd wager many/most new applications start with minimum 5.0 unless they have an explicit reason to choose otherwise.
Because it's slow, bloated and tied to google.

I've got a super computer in my pocket, there's no excuse to be so slow and jittery, it's been 20 years now, it's time to give up on the "java will be as fast as c one day" dream. Most apps are glorified list views yet they still take several seconds to start.

There's a tonne of google crapware that comes with every phone that can't be removed. Google has been promising to split this out of the OS for a quite few years now yet I don't see any progress. This is the only issue that forking would solve (while creating others).

The development story is the worst I've ever encountered. Untestable God-classes that every activity has to inherit from. Awful convoluted build tools that require and IDE to use (they aren't documented). A hideous xml based UI library that pretends it's as simple as HTML but makes things more complicated. The list goes on.

No one does security updates. Even googles flagship phones will only get 3 years of security updates at best. If you buy a mid-range phone you can expect a year if you're lucky.

I refuse to believe this is the best we can do.
No 100% accurate license-plate reader exists - and that includes human eyesight. Showing license identification confidence levels, as the author's code does, is far better at dissuading the cops from over-reliance on the tool, than pretending no mistakes will ever be made.
In the automotive world (with the exception of infotainment and assisted/autonomous driving systems), ECUs have amounts of RAM measured in kilobytes, not megabytes. I've left the industry now, but I /think/ the powertrain ECUs I worked with usually had around 256KB of RAM.
Just tried this on iOS Safari (running iOS beta, haven’t checked earlier version). Those media ids change on every page load.
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I've heard the opposite. [1] You sound like you have some first-hand experience though, so I'd like to hear what you think of the below:

That’s about the most reckless and grotesque characterization of an airline pilot’s job I’ve ever heard. To say that a 787, or any other airliner, can fly “unaided” and that pilots are on hand to “babysit the autopilot” isn’t just hyperbole or a poetic stretch of the facts. It isn’t just a little bit false. And that a highly respected technology magazine wouldn’t know better, and would allow such a statement to be published, shows you just how pervasive this mythology is. Similarly, in an article in the New York Times not long ago, you would have read how Boeing pilots spend “just seven minutes” piloting their planes during a typical flight. Airbus pilots, the story continued, spend even less time at the controls.

Confident assertions like these appear in the media all the time, to the point where they’re taken for granted. Reporters, most of whom have limited background knowledge of the topic, have a bad habit of taking at face value the claims of researchers and academics who, valuable as their work may be, often have little sense of the day-to-day operational realities of commercial flying. Cue yet another aeronautics professor or university scientist who will blithely assert that yes, without a doubt, a pilotless future is just around the corner. Consequently, travelers have come to have a vastly exaggerated sense of the capabilities of present-day cockpit technology, and they greatly misunderstand how pilots interface with that technology.

I’d like to see a remotely operated plane perform a high-speed takeoff abort after an engine failure, followed by a brake fire and the evacuation of 250 passengers. I would like to see one troubleshoot a pneumatic problem requiring a diversion over mountainous terrain. I’d like to see it thread through a storm front over the middle of the ocean. The idea of trying to handle any one of these, from a room thousands of miles away, is about the scariest thing I can hardly imagine. Hell, even the simple things. Flying is very organic — complex, fluid, always changing — and decision-making is constant and critical. On any given flight, there are innumerable contingencies, large and small, requiring the attention and visceral appraisal of the crew.

[1] http://www.askthepilot.com/questionanswers/automation-myths/
> Just the community not caring about it and forcing everyone else to go down into C or somewhere else, it seems.

That, or the inherent dynamic nature of Python that makes it ridiculously hard to JIT (especially without breaking compatibility), and that a tiny subset of developers have enough experience (and will) to work on it as there is no Google willing to funnel buckets of money into making a V8 for Python, to the point where PyPy has reached an OK state after 10 years of development and a codebase that dwarfs CPython in size and complexity.

I hate people who deride the community for not caring enough about adding a JIT. Yeah, that sure is the reason. Not mind-boggling technical limitations, nope, just pure laziness.

Why don't you try?

Exactly.
The specific purpose of the benchmark, though, is to compare implementations of the same algorithm natively in the language itself, as explained explicitly on the Julia website just under the table of benchmark results (see quote below).

As such, I do think the article misses the point somewhat. Of course, if there's a numpy function that does what you want, you'd use it in real life. But what if there isn't? The nice thing about Julia is that the function can be written in Julia itself, and fast.

> It is important to note that these benchmark implementations are not written for absolute maximal performance (the fastest code to compute fib(20) is the constant literal 6765). Rather, all of the benchmarks are written to test the performance of specific algorithms implemented in each language. In particular, all languages use the same algorithm: the Fibonacci benchmarks are all recursive while the pi summation benchmarks are all iterative; the “algorithm” for random matrix multiplication is to call the most obvious built-in/standard random-number and matmul routines (or to directly call BLAS if the language does not provide a high-level matmul), except where a matmul/BLAS call is not possible (such as in JavaScript). The point of these benchmarks is to compare the performance of specific algorithms across language implementations, not to compare the fastest means of computing a result, which in most high-level languages relies on calling C code.

https://julialang.org
Android is running on top of a Java VM, with completely independent UI components. It's a long way from a traditional Linux userland.
Maybe North Korea shorted the market yesterday? Missile over Japan... Market down now. Coincidence? This might be an easier way to get money than asking for aid
I find this too. Even the so-called proprietary algorithms many companies tout aren't even that complicated because 90% of their business runs on a REST over CRUD in SQL web service with a slightly different bootstrap theme on the frontend.
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You mean you count not showing up to vote as an active vote choice that should be protected by secrecy? Because the secrecy of the physical votes is produced by the mixing of large numbers of indistinguishable containers prior to reading, not by the votes being handed in by strangers.
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It's a multipolar trap. Everyone hates the system (except maybe the people at the top, and even they might prefer the country they rule over not be a poor hellhole, in theory.) But no one can do anything without getting themselves executed (or worse...)

One of the scariest things about 1984 to me wasn't the weird specific details of that dystopia. It's that the system was completely stable. The system became so controlling and surveilling that revolution wasn't even remotely plausible. 1984's governments could go on for a thousand years until all the resources of the Earth were used up. Maybe it could keep going beyond that.

Real authoritarian regimes don't seem to last forever. Although usually it's divisions within the ruling class, not real revolution from the bottom. Which is why monarchies like North Korea's tend to be more stable, because there's a clear line of succession and less of a power struggle when the old leader dies.

And modern technology enables a lot of stuff that wasn't possible in the past. Extreme levels of surveillance, automated militaries and law enforcement, and anti-aging tech so the leaders never die, nuclear weapons so external invasion is impossible, etc.
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"The translations are really accurate in context and sound very natural, noticeably more than Google Translate or Microsoft translator..." gets the "sound" wrongly translated to French (et son) but correct in Spanish (y suenan ...)
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'Khosrowshahi will be leaving behind a ton of money at Expedia, though presumably for three tons of money at Uber, if all goes well. But I assume it's not just about the money. If you want to be the CEO of Uber, presumably it is because you like the CEO game, and want to play it at the hardest possible difficulty setting.'

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We can't know, but there's no reason to suspect they are. Why would China want a North Korea able to nuke Beijing? Why impose sanctions on North Korea if they're following your orders? And when has North Korea ever listened to anyone?
I'm not really that sure of Sailfish's open source status. It seems the launcher, lock-screen, and system apps are closed source, personally I don't mind about those too much, but I do mind if the UI library is closed. Does anyone know the status of that?

Edit: It seems the UI library, Silica, is sort of half open, half closed: https://github.com/dm8tbr/sailfishsilica-qt5. Really think Jolla should look at that.
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I could see someone making the decision on the basis of active directory integration
Managers often think throwing more hardware at the problem will fix things. But hardware scales sub-linearly. Solving the actual underlying problems can easily get you exponential payoffs.

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¹) This was a long time ago before SSDs existed and buying a hardware RAID of fast disks and fast CPUs / memory was extremely expensive.

²) DBAer consultants of a certain large database vendor are not worth the horrendous hourly fee they ask.
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I think people switch over from Terminal to iTerm too quickly, without giving it a good shot. After using iTerm for a few years I switched back, since I realized it wasn't bringing me any value.
But the bureaucrat(?) did say "Buttle".
Most pilots do not make nearly that much money... entry level is often below $30k. Maybe you'll break 6 figures at a top-tier airline after a decade of experience.
And thus we want benchmarks that measure language performance, not the fastest way to compute Fibonacci numbers. The solution to the latter problem is the same in Python and Julia and consists of calling the assembly function in gmp...

Julia has a lot more potential for optimizations than python, but what python has going for it is the larger ecosystem. So if you want to write a one-off experiment that's similar to stuff that already exists in C bindings to python you should use that. If you plan to write a large application that you still want to optimize for current processors in 10 years then I'm not sure if python is a good choice.
It shouldn't feel wrong to you. In today's connected big-data world, the vast majority of your performance latency is from querying your data (if you structure your db incorrectly), followed closely by client to server communication.

That's the p90 use case for development people are doing.
You could try training - perhaps even IT training and use your tech skills.

I did that for many years and you certainly need good people/comm skills. I have some fun memories of my life as a trainer - I met a lot of cool people and had a lot of laughs. Went to some nice countries including a memorable trip to Sony HQ Japan. You have to like traveling around though. I eventually left training mainly because the traveling was becoming a pain as at the time I had a young family (all grown up now), but I enjoyed it a lot more than developing.

If you want to completely leave IT then it's a bit tougher, but still possible. The main thing is to find something that feels meaningful to you. They are a little "old school" now, but I would recommend the books by Barbara Sher.
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