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> But what is the one thing or service that you use from Google which was launched in the last 5 years and are widely used? Nothing.

Project Fi? Launched 2015, unsure of subscriber count.

Google Cloud Platform? Launched in 2011.

TensorFlow? Launched in 2015.

Kubernetes? Launched in 2015.

> Why are they not dominating anything else but a few software services that help them sell their core product, the ads?

A lot of it comes down to first mover advantage. Lets take your payment tech example. Paypal was founded to accept online payments within months of Google being incorporated. The way I recall the dotcom era, Paypal was paying customers 10 bucks to open an account. And that money was useful because virtually everyone on ebay accepted it. Network effects are critical there.

Google Wallet tried that same trick and it doesn't really work because there's like a billion startups in the space competing to offer virtually the same API and customer UX. Venmo, Braintree, Android Pay, Google Wallet, fuck, even my own credit cards are now in promoting their services in the 'p2p payments' space. None of them are going to end up looking like a Paypal success, because the market is comparatively fragmented.

Same goes for hosting services: AWS has something like a 5 year head start on customer acquisition, and many of them are locked in to AWS for the forseeable future. Between the AWS specific API deps, and the cost of cloud:cloud networking, they have their work cut out for them. And again, there's a fleet of startups flooding the market, as well as major companies: Oracle and AliBaba are bootstrapping cloud hosts in Seattle, where they're pretty transparently recruiting burnt out AWS engineers.

Arguably, they're structurally at a disadvantage. Google's competitors can freely subsidize user growth, whereas Google doing the same would likely draw antitrust complaints today. It's already kind of a big problem for them, and other market incumbents. I just listened to a fairly level headed discussion on the FT podcast about why Amazon might need to be more strongly regulated. Going forward this restructuring is likely going to be the way Alphabet works: instead of directly innovating, they use the proceeds from Google to buy winners from those overcrowded markets, some of which they may have had VC funding rounds in.
Very insightful, thanks. It's indeed time to realize that present day old people are actually those who built computers, not the ones who saw their kids tinker with them.

Also, being 35, I must say that I find retired people way more deep into technology, especially internet, than my generation. It's very common I talk with previous school friends and they say they don't have any social profile on the internet. The reverse is true for retired people, it's rare I hear them saying they don't have a least a facebook profile. But here too, I guess it could be "just the people I see".

Regarding how old people are seen, I wonder if there is not something larger at play. When I was a teenager in the 90', I was seeing old people as physically weak and mentally tired, and thought it was just the way it is. This summer, I went to the birthday of a friend's mother, and was shocked when I discovered she turned 70. And then, I realized her husband, their brothers and sisters etc were all about the same age. And here is why I was shocked : they were doing great. Actually, really great compared to what I remembered about that age, to the point it couldn't be just me growing older and having a more nuanced vision (like: most of the 90' 70ers were handicapped in a way or an other, almost none in the ones I saw at that birthday). And then, it stroke me : people in their 70 during the 90' were people who fought WWII.

Could it be that we tend to see older people as less potent just because we were used to old people who had been greatly diminished by a massive and painful conflict?
Two-way databinding is not supported by Vue 2 if I remember correctly. You can do it, but you'll get console logs, about how you should avoid doing it.
I'm currently converting a van to a campervan, in part to escape this money drain, in part to give me more freedom of where to live. It's not an option for everyone but I'm glad it's been working out so far (I should point out that wild camping is of dubious legality in many parts of the UK).

An alternate option is living on a boat (narrowboat, Dutch barge, etc...) on the UK canals, which even with mooring fees can be more affordable than renting.
So how much extra money do you send in with your tax return every year?
That makes sense. Thanks!

Is there somewhere I can read more about this? :-)
ASIO doesn't require boost, there's a stand-alone version.
I suspect the volume implied would be counter-productive.
By your text, you're a random senior developer. It shouldn't be too hard to get a position, as long as you live in one of the active tech locations.

It looks like you and the parent poster are facing the usual company that is looking to hire a cheap 20 year old web dev with little experience. Not a good fit for you.
Do you have an example of an optimization pass you would turn off in Clang?

I mean, do you actually know which one you'd turn off and what the pros and cons are. Not just answer like "of course, whichever one caused this behavior!"

I'm asking because I noticed nobody who rants about compiler behavior on UB code actually seems to have a detailed understanding of what they're talking about. They always seem to just be shooting from the hip.
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I realize there are scenarios in theory where it's easier to verify output than create it, but in practical terms (e.g. A web application) what would the difference be between a testthat validates all possible inputs/outputs and the actual program you're writing?
Asio is also available as a standalone library without any dependencies (C++11): https://think-async.com/
Reddit's main code is no longer open-source
As I recall, one couldn't (and still can't) get funding for research into medicinal uses of drugs like marijuana and heroin.

Politics always drives what gets government research funding and what doesn't. Politics defines what is "legitimate" and what isn't, and those shift over time.
Larger employers typically offer season ticket loans, repaid pre-tax through a salary sacrifice arrangement, so you can effectively discount the cost by your marginal tax rate.

Higher rate (40%) tax payers therefore only pay £3,000 for a £5,000 season ticket (less if you include NI and other deductions)
It seems to be supported in Vue 2.x to me: https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/forms.html
Vue doesn't force components or build tools on you. You can drop it as a 30ko script in an html tag and put the template in the html file for small projects, then go full webpack + components as it grows.

Managing state is very natural on small projects, but you can use the official, well integrated store.

The doc is stellar. The api is simple, with no surprises, and riddle with small helpers to make your life easier. As a result, reading the official tutorial feels like a friend is talking to you.

Debugging and training are easy.

I do mostly react for my clients, but when i can choose, i always go for vue.
Germany used to have laws similar to this for centuries (also in terms of a limit of how high interest could be, and a general profit limit, see "Wucher"), but many parts of these rules have been removed over the decades and centuries.
> fewer features

My two 0.02 € on this:

Features have external and internal complexity. External complexity is documentation, usage, support while internal complexity is time spent on maintenance and development, increased complexity of the code, reduced stability etc.

External and internal complexity are unrelated, and when deciding whether to add some feature both must be considered against the assumed advantages of the feature.
The rule of thumb is 1/4 of gross income before tax, 1/3rd of net income after tax - reasoning that 25% of your income is lost to taxes.

Another approach is to take your salary, max out your pre-tax retirement contributions, find out what dollar amount you need to maintain your current lifestyle in non-accommodation costs, set aside at least a few hundred $ monthly buffer, then whatever's left will be your budget for housing.
Students also hate math, it's not a reason not to teach skills that are going to be invaluable.
> If you really need to know a fact, you will naturally memorize it in the course of your work.

And then there's programming interviews for big companies, where they all want me to know minute details of things I'be never encountered in my day job, that I studied years ago in college, and that I will probably not need for my actual job (90% sure about this, seeing most products released by the big companies).
> it raises the question of why this sort of gesture is even necessary in our society.

The purpose of the United States is to make corporations (and their owners) obscenely rich.

Tax breaks like those recently shown to Apple are the perfect example.

So because corporations, and therefore their owners like Mr. Dell are obscenely rich, the government is not. In fact, it does not even have enough money to provide Health Care, higher education or disaster relief to it's citizens.
Renting is an ultra-competitive market -- landlords aren't personally deciding what your rent should be.
I also noticed this with books. My impression is that the same book can be called "great" by one person and "boring" or "uninteresting" by another, and it says really more about those people in relation to the book at that point in their lives, than about the book itself. It can show you what developmental stage these people are in.

For some, reading a simple book on emotions will be a game changer, while for others it will be stating the obvious and they won't even read more than a chapter or two, deciding that the book was too basic or even "bad".

I've developed a habit of buying and beginning a lot of books, but many I discard or set aside for the future. Few books seem "too basic" for me, with many I sense that their time is yet to come, or their utility at this point in my life is unclear.

BTW I have the same experience with movies; some of them have a great number of really interesting detail that I often miss the first time around.
Two-way binding does exist, just not in the same problematic way it existed in Vue 1. It was changed to just be syntactic sugar for the event handler approach - https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/forms.html .
The green belts need to go. Cities should be allowed to expand outwards.
I understand that if you live the canal-boat lifestyle you also don't have to pay council tax.
Pretty much. Hilariously the rate of house price increases in London is almost outpacing the rate I can save for a home.

So even if you can save up, you still can't buy a house.
How much did the Clintons donate to their foundation?
...as noted in a sentence ending in a preposition, which most pedantic editors of written English would regard as a habit not to emulate.
Vue is relatively simple and the Vue docs themselves are comprehensive and excellent.

There is a culture of complexity and some people thrive and perpetuate this complexity for not always technical reasons.

Vue completely avoids and sidesteps this and its best to start with the original site and docs or you might find yourself sucked once more into this gratuitous complexity.
> You’ve got to think of “land” as a metaphor for all unproductive forms of capitalism... Goldman...

Banking existed in George's day too and when he said land I think he meant land. Land issues are still relevant today - in SF/silicon valley much of the value created by the tech industry has ended up with landlords who did nothing to produce it. You could make an argument for taxing that and spending it on social stuff. Also places like Monaco and Hong Kong have been successful in having low / zero taxes on wages etc by the government keeping ownership of much of the land and getting income from that.
The rent prices around the world in big cities are absolute perverse. And it will only get worse I fear. Partially due to rich foreigners and partially due to AirBNB & Co. Good example there is Prague, no normal Czech citizen can afford to live there anymore, the rent prices are ridiculous even compared to some German Cities.
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Indeed, most employers however offer it only after 6 months of employment and you have to maintain your employment for 12 months if not, you have to repay the loan in full which often means you cannot benefit from the offset tax liability.

It's also a case where those who can afford it more easily and can also afford London rent get discounts while people that earn less do not.
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Whats the breakdown between 1br/Studios and Roommate situations?
Should we impose draconian population control?
> Overall, 40 per cent of renters pay more than 50 per cent of their incomes on rent, the report found

This feels much more telling than the title of this article.
I would suggest to visitors to Vue to not dive into using something like Vuex unless you really know need it - IMO it's not at all a 'by default' library to bring into a Vue project.

Give a try using only props and events. You will save a lot of typing and brainpower avoiding actions, mutations etc. I work on a fairly large, at this point, Vue application, and I am pleasantly surprised how far we've gotten without global state stores.

If you need a global event bus, you can just use vanilla Vue to get quite far as well - https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/components.html#Non-Parent-Child-...
I don't think those are pre-tax. They are just interest free loans.

At least, in none of the companies I've worked for has it been pre-tax
It happens also in Spain. Ibiza is absolutely crazy, but also Barcelona and Madrid.
They could mention Weex

https://weex.incubator.apache.org
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very nice article. Uplifting. So many times people feel otherwise because they are compelled to think this way ...
Take the report with a grain of salt. It appears to be sourced by an investment firm with an interest in selling real estate securities. There are no details given about how their sample of 10,000 renters was created; the data also seems self reported by the renters, so I would have accuracy concerns.

The figure seems dubious given most landlords would balk at extending a lease to a tenant who's major share of income would be going to rent (high credit risk).
What is even worse on these sites is that if you switch too much between room types to check prices the original price goes up. In order to get the price you first got you need to delete your cookies and start over.

I don't know how that is even legal.
No thanks. There's no reason cities can't expand upwards. Besides that, there's plenty of brownfield sites that could be converted to housing if the desire to do so was there.

The best option in reducing prices would be to invest more heavily in transport infrastructure so that towns on the periphery of cities became more attractive to live in, and therefore develop in. Investments are being made in national rail infrastructure, but less so on the local level. It's a real shame that the UK lost so much of its railway infrastructure during the push towards automotive transportation.
But you also have to move "forward" at least every 14 days if you don't want have a mooring.
For London it would also help to increase the density of housing. Large areas of the city are still built with Victorian houses.
Last year I did a 1,5 hour commute to London daily.
The biggest cost is not the ticket fare, but the time you waste being in a crowded train/underground for ~3 hours every day.
Couldn't this be a predictable result of deflation in other expense categories, i.e. as "stuff" becomes cheaper consumers will just reallocate the savings to competitive markets where demand outstrips supply (e.g. housing near good jobs)?
Or upwards. London has a very low population density because of building height restrictions (now considered archaic, I understand). London has very few tall buildings and Canary Wharf is is closer to downtown Bellevue, WA than it is to Manhatten in terms of scale.

Brits are somewhat opposed to "tower blocks" because they were a poorly-planned top-down social engineering experiment in the postwar years to deal with rehousing the residents of slums and other deprived areas. Modern "high-end living" flats in much taller, aesthetically pleasing, and most importantly: safer, structures are being built, but not at a sufficient pace.

A reasons there hasn't been a total crash yet is because lovely, lower-density houses (think: 3 and 4 story spacious townhouses, not working-class 2-up/2-down terrace houses) are bought up for millions then internally gutted and remodelled into individual, modestly-sized flats to rent - sometimes barely larger than the size of a living room.
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Development specialized on the free software project Open edX, used by many universities and companies to run online courses. See edx.org, stanford.edu or fun-mooc.fr for examples of Open edX instances. We are a team of fifteen developers, working remotely from Europe, North America, Asia, Russia & Australia. The company is not affiliated with edX, but contributing and working with them on various projects. This is a full time position, were you would be able to work remotely from where you want, as long as you have a good internet connexion. : )

It's a large Python/Django codebase, with good code standards and architecture (a lot of the edX engineers come from MIT). You would work on different clients contracts using the platform. The clients list/references include Harvard, edX themselves, the French government, and various startups & universities currently running their own instances, or looking to create one. Tasks are varied, from developing developing core platform features, custom exercises and tools for specific courses (XBlocks), customizing and deploying instances, working on both client/server sides, etc.

Most of your work is published as free software (Open edX is released under the AGPL license, which requires clients to release modifications under the same license), and you would also contribute to the free software project, pushing some of your developments upstream through pull requests, contributing features, documentation or help on mailing-lists.

Stack: Python/Django, Ansible, AWS/OpenStack, Debian/Ubuntu, JS, HTML/CSS, MySQL, MongoDB

Interview process: a 30 minutes Hangout with a (simple) coding exercise.

To apply, fill this form: http://opencraft.com/jobs/open-source-developer/
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Or we need to build higher density housing. Once the greenbelts have gone, you won't be able to bring them back. Ever.
I have heard from some people that booking.com takes such a high percentage that you can call some hotels and get a better price going directly.
I like the green belts. There are other options - upwards in London or allow more building outside of the belt. Personally I think tall residential buildings in London could work quite well. In places like HCMC, and China they are throwing up 30 story blocks like nobodies business - I think only planning restrictions stop that here. I live in a 5 story block in London and think no one would be much inconvenienced if it had 45 stories instead. Prince Charles might moan but who cares.
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Ill do the same, but its noy legal in most municipalities in Spain to park and sleep in your ban.
As I kept watching the video I thought the word "overengineered" was the completely wrong word, and AvE himself addresses it perfectly in the end: It's "underengineered", "underdesigned" but "overbuilt".
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> At a company I worked for, we compiled a high-level declarative expression language of our own devising into SQL and other back-end representations, including English. Is that a "compiler" as many see it? No. However, thinking about the problem like a compiler problem gave us lots of insights into how to architect our product

Wow. Snap. Except we never got it to compile to English (well, we probably could have but the result would have had deeply nested bracketed clauses...)
Hey, not interested in applying for a job but would love to talk with someone on the engineering team about how the product works. I'm starting a blog about source code (already got a few gists up at https://gist.github.com/CarlMungazi), so this is an area I'm interested in.
I found the commentary on Tomasulo's paper particularly fascinating. I had no idea those concepts were so old! Thanks for the history lesson!
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It's all about finding a way to use that time. Podcasts?
And, for that matter, Germany.

This culture isn't bad and works reasonably well in a lot of places.

(not my thing though)
>>> If you have, did you notice that there wasn't a middleman taking a cut when you sent the money?

Not an issue for me I'm afraid (UK).
There are no silver bullets, but there are wooden bullets that are totally ineffective.
Used to be http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/ but I feel like most "blogs" died at the same time. Internet too big now..
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Rand's philosophy is basically an elaborate justification for being a dick.
Just following orders, eh? Bypassing Gowdin for a second, police officers should independently know procedural and constitutional law if they are to execute or impede it.

That his supervisor and colleagues also didn't isn't an excuse.