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>- He believes that there is a widespread and insidious government conspiracy against him that involves members of both the Obama and Trump administrations, as well as Peter Thiel and Palantir

What, against him personally, or just the usual ongoing surveillance state stuff?
> Back in the real world, Apple made the correct choice in not buying BeOS.

how come, given the positive review you are giving it?
That would be fine with me. I thought Bugzilla was better.
They'd tried something similar around 2000 with internet appliances but hardware limitations were pretty bad. The Sony eVilla — awesome naming choice — project I was involved with had an aggressive hardware price point which included a landscape display used in portrait mode but not video hardware which supported rotation, so it had to be done in software.

Be seemed to implode with that failure and by the time Palm bought them I doubt they had many good people left. Palm certainly didn't have the vision to invest significantly and I doubt many companies would have bet on a partnership with two failures.
Why is cultural Marxism a conspiracy theory? It was my impression that Marxism just means class struggle in this context, and that cultural Marxism means class struggle on cultural issues rather than economic issues?
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Thankfully, this is all just dust, so no worries.
These straw man arguments always annoy the hell out of me. Please give me some textual evidence that postmodernists and co are anti-rationalists! How does Deleuze, the postmodernist philosopher par excellence, undermine rationality? He wrote two worshipful books on Leibniz and Spinoza, who were both rationalists. These "takedowns" always read like someone who has never attempted to grasp postmodernism either philosophically or sociologically, and someone who certainly has never attempted to grasp Leibniz!

People seem to talk around the simplest postmodernist theses, usually by knowing nothing about postmodernism. In my mind, there are two:

1) Doubting the truth of all knowledge, and
2) an incredulity towards all metanarratives.

Now, please, please recognize, that disbelieving the truth of knowledge is not the same as disbelieving truth! The Popperian concept of verisimilitude could easily be construed as an extremely rational form of this doubt. Is any scientific theory, strictly speaking, true? Or are they all models that approximate a reality we can never ultimately reach? If you think I'm being too kind towards the postmodernists with this interpretation, then you don't understand postmodernism.

With respect to 2), incredulity towards metanarratives was not an assertion in Lyotard's essay, but an observation about the state of our society. And is this not, obvjectively, what we observe? Don't kill the messenger! Certainly not when the messenger is Lyotard, a man who was extremely politically engaged in the Algerian revolution and whose disillusionment ultimately led him to question all grand ideologies.

tldr; these essays are strongman arguments that show they don't understand postmodernism or even their own terms.
> Please use more secure values in production. ;)

That's not going to stop people from using those exact values. How many breaches have we seen due to the lack of sane defaults? Tutorial code (especially when written by the people putting out the software) is a default, and it's likely to result in plenty of people running this exact code in production.
The times I've see it used, Jira is purchased and configured by centralized people with institutional authority, and then given to teams to use, like it or not.

I think the tool itself isn't that great. When you try to be all things to all people, it's easy to be tolerable for most and great for nobody. But the real problem is what it represents: a straitjacket for teams, used to force them to work in ways that people with political power deem appropriate.

The Lean Manufacturing folks put bureaucracy into two different categories, supportive and controlling.

Supportive bureaucracy is bottom up. E.g., by my door I have checklists for what I need when I'm going out running or swimming. Nobody makes me do it; I just was tired of forgetting something. Good teams do similar things, like an estimation checklist or a written-up release process.

Controlling bureaucracy is top down. It's where other people use systems to force you to work like they think you should. They're used as a poor substitute for trust. People experience Jira as sucking because it's a instrument of control, and controlling bureaucracy sucks.
Postico[1] too. It's really wonderful.

[1]https://eggerapps.at/postico/
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One example of the power of Swedish unions is that Sweden has no minimum wage law. Sure an employer could pay less than the union rate by why wouldn't the worker go to a union shop instead?
Postmodern thinkers are not preventing anyone from speaking, are they? You don't have to like Derrida today, and it's perfectly fine to disagree with Deleuze, Guattari or Fanon...

What's this about?

This sounds to me that Peterson is pissed because people in humanities tend to oppose capitalism. But I think that's mostly because people in humanities have a role in criticizing the system in which we live, instead of trumpeting to the world that what Western societies have achieved is the best thing humans have ever created...
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Yes, lack of investment is part of the problem.

There is also resistance to regional planning that would limit building in the most vulnerable areas.

(When Katrina hit New Orleans, the oldest parts of the city were less impacted, because building started on higher ground)
But it isn't engineering. Not really. The number of things you can measure and plan for in advance of implementation are much, much smaller than the number of things you need to build every day. Engineering is a discipline with thousands of years of practice and study behind it, and the traditional 'best practice' is far more likely to work than ones from the programming world. What's more, once the plans have been written, implementation, even prototyping, are predictable and tend to proceed apace. Engineers do not guess, and they test much less than we do, because unless they're working on the bleeding edge, the results are a forgone conclusion for all but the most intricate constructs.

In programming, the map is the territory, and in the time you can map out and nail down all of the unpredictable bits of a program, you could have written it already. We also don't have the luxury of physical laws. The few natural laws that do apply, the speed of light and time complexity, are so rarified and remote that they don't apply most of the time. We share more with the mathematician than the engineer, but even that comparison rings hollow.

We create programs custom built for a purpose, using rules of thumb and our own aesthetic instincts, that meet a need. Craftsman seems appropriate.
In Germany private insurance is the only option for self-employed. It is precisely a mandated requirement for basic coverage. The two "public options" are not available to freelancers, and anyway the public options are more akin to competing non-profit insurance companies than state-administered health care like in France, the U.K., or Canada.

Buying insurance is also a pain because unlike in the US under ACA, German insurance companies are able to charge higher premiums for pre-existing conditions up to a mandated Basispreis (approximately 3x a healthy person's rate - somewhere north of 600€ per month). Pre-existing conditions can include a hospital visit with a null diagnosis.

There's a lot more to it, but I get frustrated when people talk about European-style health care as if it means something concrete, when there are such a wide range of policies across Europe.
Insightful.

To me it seems like a chicken-egg problem: silicon designers have no incentive to standardize the way SOCs work because there will be no benefit to the software ATM.

I'm curious if forcing the egg, common kernels, will have silicon designers rethink their engineering efforts in order to save time on software.
In my experience, this is by far the largest group. Then they build a distributed monolith and cause a giant mess, like the OP was describing. I really wish people would jump off of the microservices bandwagon, because so very few on it actually understand microservices at all, or have the skill set to make them work.
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That is a valid concern. However, once a password is published (especially in docs or tutorials) it is insecure whether they are random values or not - simply because they are public and clearly linked to the product you're running.

That's why I chose to make it explicit, and thus more likely to be caught in review if done.
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Improvements in the development process and communication.

What we’d like you to have:

A rather solid knowledge of Java. Good familiarity with Java 8 would be a plus.
Experience with SQL & NoSQL databases. Cassandra in particular would be a plus.
Experience with Netty and networking in general.
Experience in development of high-load backend systems.
Testing skills (unit testing, functional testing, performance, integration, etc.)
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One other Musk policy that sounded really well (I haven't experienced it actually implemented yet, but I try to keep myself to it) is to avoid non-common acronyms: https://twitter.com/davejohnson/status/602951117413216256

Starting at a company and having to come to grasp with tens of acronyms before even knowing what the thing they stand for does seriously harms your ramp-up speed, I think.
Very rich people don't need to do any of that. They hire kitchen staff who'll do everything but eat the food.
Good thing used cars are cheaper: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15076441
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Turing incomplete code (sql, bpf, agda) is code. ergo markup is code. imo, ymmv.
And the fourth which is haphazardly ending up on them due to the way the organisation is laid out and not invented here syndrome. Its mostly an organisation pattern not a technical one.
In short, it is better to identify and drop things that would hang in your mind from actions you did. Sleep is the natural way to get rid of hangings. If it is worse and you cannot sleep, then meditation is a good way, though not a easy way.
Was there a safe route if you wanted to ride a bike? 5 miles is a pretty short ride.

Seems like the morning temperatures would be fine for most of the school year (and the afternoon temps would only be really high a few weeks total).
> If you just graduated from college with no money and debt

Require a guarantor
We just hope this kind of thing stays as extreme and unlikely in the future too. :(
Trips up at the first hurdle - 460p unless you meet the hardware and software requirements

That's a sinking ship. That's the sort of thing that allows Facebook into the world despite MySpace already existing. The sort of thing that allows Google to elbow its way into the #1 spot past the Altavistas, Hotbots and the Jeeves. A new site would come out of nowhere that doesn't have that restriction.
I so wish I understood what you've written.

I've tried to grok philosophy a few times. The reading makes me anxious. Just like when I try to understand poetry and complicated software. I hate knowing that I'm missing something. On the plus side, I have deep empathy for people who don't grok stuff that seems to come easily to me.

Why I'm writing: I think my core mental defect is impaired short-term memory. Most people can keep 7 things (+/- 2) in their head at once. Allegedly geniuses can keep 10 (+/- 2). I suspect that my capacity is 5, or maybe 4, though I'm afraid to check.

In both philosophy and complicated software, the levels of indirection, the nested subclauses, quickly leave me behind. I'm more a Gettysburg Address kinda thinker.

So. If in your travels you find any kind of clue about short-term memory, or IQ in general, and ability to understand philosophy, poetry, code, please show some extra patience for people like me who are struggling to keep up.

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I'm totally on board with the abstract of that SHATVO paper. If I wasn't overly, unreasonably optimistic, I wouldn't get out of bed every day. Whatever the paper's logical failings, denial is what keeps me going.
> Why would you extend a massive loan to someone who is broke, has no credit, and can immediately discharge the debt

Ask the people that offered student loans in 1997
That's definitely not my experience. If you want to get an interview, forget about n years of experience in technology X. Instead, work on meeting someone at the company who can hand your resume to their boss.
I already have a hard time with OAuth Client!
I quite like Jira. Speed definitely needs improvement. But one thing that would really make my life easier would be a unified syntax between Jira issues, bitbucket comments and confluence pages.
I'm not sure it's analogous though. It'd be analogous if juicero were selling just another juice bottle ready to drink but maybe mailed to you instead of sold in stores.

What juicero did was sell you an expensive machine to essentially squeeze odwalla bottles for you into a cup... something ludicrous like that.

There may be a market for juice bottles, but juicero wasn't selling juice bottles.
Hire a cook.

Trivial if you consider your time to be worth > $1,000 / hour.
This would seem a good statistic to cite when trying to show the comparative inefficiency of the American system.
I agree in principle though I don't see that happening anytime soon.

But the point is: why should I use Java in 2017 when there are plenty alternatives around? Mindshare, maturity, and ecosystem are good reasons to choose Java still. But what's the point in Java bytecode or other compile-to-bytecode languages when the only ISAs left are x86_64 and ARM (this is also a problem I have with WASM). Back in 1996/97, there was a very real danger of MS operating systems eating the world, and Java was welcome as a cross-platform language (for me, it was very important to be able to continue developing on Unix). I'd say Java was successfull in preventing MS dominance on the backend.

In 2017, it's time to move on. Personally, I'm not into languages dominated by a single party, or having a single implementation only. So it's C and C++ for me, plus JavaScript for scripting.

But Java has been the go-to language for most of the time starting with the WWW boom in 1996, so the sheer amount of Java code means I don't need to worry about Java's demise. In fact, I'm fully expecting to do Java development gigs until retirement.
One solution could be the app/service could have some dummy passwords built in which you can use for tutorials but it will refuse to use them if supplied.
They have a warrant to access the device and he won't unlock it. I think he should have to unlock it, sort of like unlocking your house if they have a warrant for searching it.

My dislike for police is eclipsed by my dislike for pedophiles. So I'm biased here.
ITT: people saying Jira doesn't suck when the article already acknowledged that (because the headline is not the article):

> I think that [Jira sucks] is a vast oversimplification, and shows very little sympathy to the challenges faced by Atlassian (and the advantages the Trello team enjoyed). The problem isn’t Jira.
Oracle controls the "Java" trademark. They can prevent OpenJDK (and any other implementations) from being able to call future major versions Java (or indeed JVM/JRE/JDK), simply by not publishing or not licensing future versions of the TCK. (Licensing terms for the Java trademark require an implementation to pass the TCK to be able to call itself Java.)

Just removing the word Java from the OpenJDK sources and documentation would be a huge endeavor. All the standard tools ("java", "javac" etc) would have to be renamed. It might also require completely breaking backward compatibility, because APIs are now copyrighted and the Java standard library packages are named java.* (and probably there are class and method names mentioning "java" too).

ETA: even ignoring copyrights on API, the trademark itself might stop you from publishing the not-Java standard library
under the package java.*.

ETA #2: other commenters say it's allowed to use a trademarked word as long as it's necessary for compatibility. But it's not allowed to actually say you're compatible. Apparently. I don't claim to understand this, but law is not require to make sense, so this could be true.
You don't think someone with the net worth of Elon Musk and his focus on productivity doesn't have assistants for that? Really!?

Even still, I source my own food, cook it, and eat it three times a day and don't spend 3hrs/day every day doing so (and those who know me know I cook pretty fancy meals).
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe Oracle fired anyone related to openjdk... they fired some people related to Solaris.
I'm not sure I have too much to say here. The article comes off as incredibly smug, and through its use of an eight-pointed star, downright heretical ;-).

The author needs to be made aware that the anarchistic, chaotically liberatory vision of Anonymous morphed, over the past few years, into /r/The_Donald. The networked people are not the ones fighting authoritarianism; they're the ones supporting it.
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>> The paper reports a relatively small performance improvements. But I suppose if you're Facebook (they and RedHat implemented this) and performance improvements are measured in millions of dollars you care a lot about 7% less CPU utilization.

You think 7 percent is a small performance improvement? IMHO it's rather large. I take the time for much smaller than that.

To understand why, let me ask a question do you think doubling performance is a good thing? In other words a 100 percent increase in throughput or a 50 percent reduction in execution time. I hope your answer is yes because a lot of people think so. So what's 7 percent? Well imagine there are 7 different areas of your code that could be improved with each one contributing 7 percent. That's 49 percent or about what we'd call a significant improvement. Fixing up a number of single digit things adds up. But there is a more sinister side to it. Suppose you wanted to let those 7 little things go, and look for the big fish - the one that's going to get you 50 percent all in one shot. Guess what? It doesn't exist. Why? Because these little things add up to about half of your time, so to find the big one would imply taking the execution time for the rest of the code down to zero, because that's the only place there's 50 percent left. Unless you're doing something really poorly, there isn't a big win to be had. Performance comes from compounding the effects of many small optimizations.

If just moving TLS from the application to the kernel gives 7 percent - presumably by eliminating overhead - that's a good thing. Even if it's just 7 percent of time in communication which is only a portion of application performance, it's still a good thing.

--- note, this is a comment about performance and says nothing about tradeoffs in security by putting TLS in kernel ---
Nobody had any power in the first place. Have you SEEN a baby? My parents raised me to who I was today. They empowered me. They have no power over massive monopolistic corporations though, so I don't see why it's so horrible with further empowerment.
Shipping costs most definitely are not free by law in the Netherlands. They do have to be mentioned clearly though, none of that nonsense of hiding it until after you've entered your address info.
Among similar tools(HP Quality Center/VersionOne/Redmine/ServiceNow/Bugzilla/Trac) I have been using at work for the last few years, Jira has always been the most intuitive and user-friendly, at least from the developer perspective.
The others might have caught up with it by now, maybe there are new better alternatives(please let me know about them) but I agree with the author that the most of the criticism comes from the people who tend to associate the bad processes they are forced to follow at work with the tool itself. Of course the downsides of Jira mentioned in this thread are all valid, but I don't think they outweigh its benefits.
Petereson appears to be confused about the subject matter (e.g., I don't understand how he relates Marxism to postmodernism). Furthermore, he himself draws on postmodernist ideas. I don't think he's a good source for philosophical insight, even if we can broadly agree with him about what are the worrying trends, e.g., on campuses, in politics, etc, even if for reasons other than his.

Also, agree w.r.t. the right/left distinction being meaningless where this phenomenon is concerned. For example, the whole "post-truth" condition is now very pervasive across the political spectrum. Someone who remembers their Socrates and his spat with the sophists will recall that bullshitting (understood in the Frankfurtian sense as not really caring if something is true or false as long as it brings about the desired result) to get your way is not really something new. Therefore, to make postmodernism the ultimate source of such activity is wrong. If postmodernism did anything in this regard, it was to contribute to making sophistry respectable again.

It is important to note that a rejection of (at least part of) modernism does not imply an embrace of postmodernism. Much of our modern, liberal sensibilities draw on Locke and Locke himself had difficulty in reconciling liberty with knowledge.
I think we need to better manage expectations of living space. Renters have no right to live forever in the same apartment, and if they can't pay rent, they have to move. Homeowners pay rent in the form of property taxes to the government, and likewise: if you can't pay your rent, you gotta move.

So you won a lottery ticket?

You pay your taxes or go to jail.

So you got lucky with your home purchase?

You pay your taxes or lose your home.

Property is pretty fungible - if your taxes go up, you got lucky, now you probably are sitting on hundreds of thousands more dollars. Stop being stubborn. You've had your turn in that property. Sell. Move to a cheaper place, own it free and clear, and free up housing stock for people who are willing to pay for it.

- Sincerely, the rest of us.

PS - a commenter writes:

> That ignores the possibility that you bought your house as an investment, because you recognized the potential of a neighborhood, or that you were responsible (in part) for building the value of the neighborhood.

Oh, you expected the neighborhood to improve and didn't expect your property taxes to go up? That seems really disingenuous.

> Luck

We all have luck, and for the most part, we make it ourselves. The reality of life is that you shouldn't expect to live in the same place forever. If you've had your turn in one place, but the economy is saying your turn is over, don't fight it. It's not worth it. Make your own luck. Move where the taxes and crime-rates are lower and where the schools and streets are better.
Then I hope that this makes your life easier :)