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But the simple knowledge of this fact is so scarce that it makes almost no difference. And since most schools don't care about coding (or, where I'm from for example, about anything not related to get the most students to pass the equivalent of SATs), this is not going to change soon.

I was so surprised when my father told me that back in the 80s, in a small city in the interior of Brazil, in a public school, he was taught BASIC as part of the school curriculum.

Over twenty years later, in a prestigious private high school in the capital city, coding was only mentioned once by a school director when shaming students for only using computers for "foolish tasks", while completely ignoring the fact his school didn't give a single coding class, not even as extra curriculum.

Programming should have the same importance status as maths in school, if not more.
If you only get z shapes (with the same orientation). Is it then possible to avoid gaps? This is not clear to me at all.
We’ve been using diplomacy for decades. Obama was very diplomatic. He handled it well,in your opinion, right?
You have invested your time in some ways; others have invested theirs in other ways.

Lazy is a very loaded term - I'm hesitant to subscribe to the notion that keeping up with Game of Thrones is any less an investment of time. As examples of the value of such an investment, you can then discuss it with your friends and coworkers, facilitating social cohesion and acceptance. You can use it a tool to encourage you to take a step back, and look at other things you are doing from a different perspective.

Sleep is another investment, the value of which has been much-discussed here and elsewhere. I'd encourage you to invest in it.

Perhaps your investments have been commercially focused - this is no bad thing. You will have learned directly about the work you have been doing, people's behaviour around you and yourself. You have learned some of what you are capable of - working so hard in impressive in itself, this is a capability you can understand and rely on later!
You will have gained a reputation with some of the people you have been working with. If you are still on good terms with any of them, you can use this to better understand yourself, and you can seek recommendations from them.

That said, not all investments work out. I'm sorry your investment has not brought you what you expected.

Please try to focus on what you have learned and gained, and keep actively choosing your investments. You're almost certainly doing fine, and if not, please ask for help.
You want to know what they mean?

"I haven't studied CS and don't understand that all compilers are just translation layers from one language to another"
People are use and enjoy hard drug as well, I'm all against drug war, but it does effects their families and society, and if the use of drug was as wide spread as social media.
We would have had a very different society.

I agree with you that who are we to tell they're wrong though.
Don't value the means based on the outcome. Every experience in life is life itself. Take care of what you spend your time doing. If you enjoy the moment then the outcomes are stepping stones to the next thing, whatever that may be.
That just means the worker is not as valuable to the company and easier to replace, so they have no incentive to "rate, engage and more importantly retain" the individuals. Why would a business want to pay the premiums (longer vacation, high pay) associated with long-tenure, non-essential personnel? More experience, institutional knowledge, etc. all make an employee more valuable. But how much of that do you need for janitorial duties?
This story is evocative of Trent Reznor's success story.
I agree with you about that trope. Moreover, we are also teaching them that good are always smarter/more skilled or win another way. Basically, when you are looking at the winner, winner must have been also morally right. And when winner does something bad to win competition or whatever, then it was still good.

However, I quite sure that all of these still can be conveyed with humans as much as with animals and anthropomorphous trains/cars etc. The only reason city kid knows that rabbit is fast is because the kid seen it running in cartoon anyway. It is not like kids would had hands on experience with rabbits and turtles.
Here is the description of their stack and how Erlang helped them by Rick Reed at Erlang Factory:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c12cYAUTXXs

Here is Jamshid Mahdavi talking about their stack as well but focusing on development, testing and shipping code. Some of the stuff they do will surprise you if you've been at a shop with a large QA team and deployment pipelines with many stages.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW49z8HqsNw
On the other side, these "Services" aren't mostly there because they are cheaper. Washing Clothes by yourself along with Washing Machine is still magnitude cheaper for most countries. But it saves us time in doing it, or to be precise, we are lacking our time to do it because the economy is very good at extracting every single ounce left in your free time for work. And sometimes you have other priorities.

That is why we now even have meal prep services for families. Sometimes I wonder if this is what the economist called "Services Economy" that some / most country must transition into.
I agree with your point. Its just that not all consulting or outsourcing is bad.

A decade ago, at least in my experience, Chinese products were synonymous with bad quality and were not considered reliable. Nowadays, while those kinds of products do exist there also exist very good products designed and made in China (eg: DJI, OnePlus, etc.).

I reckon its still early days for software and going forward, we will learn how to build higher quality standard stuff and even high quality novel products. Generating this stigma against against consulting and off-shoring before we have had time to properly analyse the cost-benefit tradeoff doesn't help anyone.

They might be and are probably bad in many cases, and cases where they did not work should be publicised and studied. But making broad statements and correlating them with bad work environment is not helpful.
So then the right question changes from what a good contract to sign is, to who is an asshole or not. Do you have any specifics that you look out for that you would like to share?
It's also not usually running on state-of-the-art chips and architectures. Think about hooking into a 8051 microcontroller (circa 1989) with on-chip RAM and EEPROM and no spare I/O.
That's also how a lot of software companies used to work. Even the big business names like Microsoft and Adobe added major new products to their portfolios over time. At the other end of the spectrum, there were people writing indie games or little utilities to make your computer work better in some small way, who might have dozens of products in their back catalogue that were all low-cost, one-off purchases.

A lot of software today seems to be more like movie or sports franchises: once you've found a winning formula, you just keep cranking it out with slight variations from one year to the next. After all, as long as there are enough suckers in the market to pay your bills if you do that, what's to stop you?
The issue that the article is highlighting isn't so much the low pay of janitorial staff (in fact it states that Ramos makes about the same that Evans did). The issue is that there's little or no possibility for upward mobility for Ramos as being part of an outsourced labor staff. I'm not sure if I unreservedly accept this premise; judging from where I work, at least, the outsourced staff have a little bit of a better opportunity to for entry level in-house employment simply by exposure to word of mouth.
It sounds like the real reason for inequality is that the pay for "janitorial work" has simply decreased. The article makes a point to say that the pay is the same, accounting for inflation, but it's disingenuous not to highlight total comp, which Ramos had significantly less of than Evans.
The underlying cause of this whole issue is the changes in tax policy instated in the Tax Reform Act of 1986, previously income was taxed at higher rates unless deductions were utilized which forced those earnings back into the economy creating jobs funding research, etc.. As it's become easier to retain more earnings there's little incentive not to optimize an entire corporation solely with the purpose of generating returns at the expense of all else. To resolve this USA should consider reverting back to the Internal Revenue Act of 1954. Under this rule set income over $400K/yr was taxed at 90% or it was reinvested in the economy. Do this and this inequality issue will sort itself out in the same time frame it took to do the damage.
"The ability to cause destruction overseas is of secondary concern"

No, that's my primary concern.

If your calculation is off, and they do attack, or scare someone else enough to attack them, the result will be horrific.

And you seem to assume the situation there is stable and KJU will behave rationally. If domestic politics in NK get complicated or KJU gets too paranoid, there's no telling what he will do.
But if the outsourcing companies were providing opportunities on their own, their employees could afford classes, living expenses and work on skills to eventually work at Apple.

Apple gets quality janitors and security guards while paying the outsourcing company more.

The outsourcing companies are the actual ones running the race to the bottom. Stop that, and Apple will have to reconsider (at which point, we get to argue all over again if their new solution is morally acceptable)
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They keyword you're looking for is intragenerational mobility, it'll pull up plenty of research, here's one link I found: http://equitablegrowth.org/equitablog/income-mobility-over-a...

But actually, I would go the opposite way and say we need to look at multigenerational inequality. Which is to say that our current inequality metrics might look really good even if you were bound to being only 1 quintile higher or lower than your grandparents, every individual would oscillate in a small range through their life but once accumulated it would show up in the data as lots of mobility. What I'd be really interested in seeing is how likely a family is to climb out of poverty over a few generations and then to stick there or how likely a rich family is to sink into poverty and stick there.
Well I would like to see some basics fixed like being able to talk to people without having to restart the client. And screen sharing without crippling performance of my laptop so my code still autocompletes while working together with someone.
I have lived with essentially 0 social media presence for about seven years now, and I can say with certainty that my life is better without it. Facebook et al create an atmosphere where a relationship is defined by clicking a button that says "like" on someone's picture or sending them happy birthday wishes when you're reminded to. I find that even if I haven't seen someone in years, giving them a call and meeting up with them produces far better results than tepid, meaningless banter mediated by a walled garden. "But what if they live far away?" you ask. Send them an email. Long form, asynchronous, high latency communication also produces far better results than consistent small talk on Facebook
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Government was similar to this. Many of my mid to high level colleagues in IT about 5-10 years ago came up through the ranks from clerical jobs. My longtime director/mentor started as a tabulating machine operator in the 70s.

All of those types of people are pretty much gone into retirement now. We don't have that type of advancement because most of those entry tasks in both IT and business are farmed out to a permanent underclass -- a contract bodyshops with mostly South Asians on work visas.
That bothers me on basically every stat on a news article. They just come up with a number and expect people to believe it. But they don't talk about how it was calculated so people can't confirm it themselves, and very often, if multiple "experts" are the ones calculating the stats, they just pick the biggest outlier to strum up more controversy.
I think articles like this usually do mention the stats a bit, but usually start out with an extreme story to hook the reader. It's a common storytelling technique and something I see often in journalism and pop-sci books.
Agree.
In a capitalist society, this is par for the course. If you try to build systems to remove this inequality, you have to move towards communism since you will then need far more complex control mechanisms.
You can go infinite if only supplied Ss. You'll have intermediate holes which will be filled in after the above row is cleared
Stop wrong them paychecks.
In addition to others' comments, note that a well set up business will shield your personal assets from lawsuits. And for a company like this, there are no assets. What are they going to do, take the office chairs?
You're looking for research on what's called "socioeconomic mobility". The Atlantic has summed up some of this research [1]. Basically it's become harder for American workers to work their way up the income ladder over time.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/07/social-...
> The idea that "if you don't like it, leave" can be used to excuse any injustice, such as against the Jews in Nazi Germany.

That you need to bring up the Nazis shows how bad your argument is. Please just move to Venezuela or North Korea.

> No, it doesn't. Communism calls for the liberation of people via the abolition of private property

1. It calls for the forced confiscation of private property.

2. Explain how someone can be liberated by having their economic freedom removed?
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I would like to learn more about expert systems and start making them. But I don't know where to start.
I've heard from smarter people than me that your parents' level of economic attainment is the best predictor of your economic attainment. Everyone may be broke in their twenties, but some of those 20 somethings presumably got a leg up from being in a good (pre, elementary, secondary, post-secondary) school and can ask mom and pop for help on the down payment for a home, etc.

Suspect that's still the case, though the other trend of increasing inequality means that more and more at the bottom are slipping out of middle class, while a very select few at the top are headed toward cryoretirement in their ice palaces overlooking a scenic valley on some private jovian moon.
So the solution to lack of stability is to not allow some people to ever have it?
It isnt just the cleaning staff. IT, especially startups, have a culture of pigeon-holing people even when they are on staff. It's a symptom over-specialization imho. People are hired according to extensive and exacting criteria. Once hired, managers find it difficult to think of the person as anything else.

Honestly, that is a large part of why i broke free and enlisted. I'm now in an organization that sees increasing skills and promotion as essential. If i fail at my job (pilot) i wont be fired but given a different role. Call it a throwback to the 60s if you want, but im less stressed now than i ever was as a consultant. (And forget everything you think you know about the military. The rcaf isnt anything like american movies.)
While I used to use Zenni glasses online and had some success with them, I really should have known better and shouldn't have taken a risk like that (though obviously it's not gonna do super permanent damage if any since I didn't wear it too long).

I wouldn't be surprised if their lenses were not the correct power, and if their cylindrical prescription is on the wrong axes, etc. I don't trust some random sweat shop in China doing this (don't quote me on this but I am pretty sure the operations is done in China).

Since the frame market is monopolized by some sleazy business, I wish I could just buy a decent frame from Zenni and give it to a qualified local optician who can fit a nice lens in it.
How did that work out nicely? Target's stock price is lower today than it was in August 2014. And it has underperformed the market index.
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No, but it's a relevant question anyway.

Mersenne prime: 2^n-1, for example 31=11111[base 2], we know 49 of them

Fermat prime: 2^(2^n)+1: for example 17=10001[base 2], we know 5 of them]

This is similar to a Fermat prime, but it's not exactly a Fermat prime. So the binary representation is horrible.

The main idea is that is you know the prime factorization of N+1 or N-1, then it's helpful to test if N is prime or not.
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Well, the major companies are the one pushing to pay less and less the outsourcing companies, aren't they?

I really want to know what BigCorp will chose the first between a company paying janitors above minimum wage and a company offering them to cut their cost on janitors by 30% (but janitors gets only enough to scrape by). My experience is that they will jump on the cheaper offer (so someone can get a bonus), and the janitors can go fuck themselves - and so can the quality of their work. It happens all the time, and not only with janitors.

Arguing that the fault rests (only) with the outsourcing companies is the same thing as arguing the fault of people getting low salaries rests (only) on those people. It may be technically true, but it seems pretty naive to me.
This is exactly the kind of rhetoric trump used to win
>Company contracting the outsourcing company can dictate what is paid to the contractors.

That should still have a floor through labor laws. If it doesn't, that too needs to change.

>Company contracting the outsourcing company does not usually pay outsourcing company unmeasured rates where OSC then keeps large margin from contractors.

Higher minimum takes from that margin. OSC can then choose to charge the client more or pay themselves less.
A few weeks ago the NYTimes had a graph showing the same trend applying to all workers that this current story illustrates with two examples:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/07/opinion/leonh...

TL;DR
In 1980 low income workers saw their incomes rise faster than high income workers, now the vast majority of income gains go to extremely high paid workers.
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This.

Real-time interviews are the worst of two worlds (emergency fast coding and live demonstration at the same time) and barely show anything about how one normally does things.

E.g. in emergency coding I automatically assume I'll inevitably make mistakes due to haste, so I run a lot of sanity "is 1+1 still 2, do I remember that right?" checks. It helped me a few times when the servers were on fire and I needed to fix stuff fast and think later. But that's incompatible with live demonstration, unless the purpose is to embarrass myself and make me look completely incompetent or diffident.
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And sometimes you don't. Zuckerburg famously had the chance to sell out for billions quite a few times [1], and basically said, "I'm doing what I want to be doing. If I sold out I would just start another social network company and I already own the best/biggest one."

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/all-the-companies-that-ever-t...

edit: Closer and better quote. Thiel's paraphrase of Zuckerburg, "I don't know what I could do with the money. I'd just start another social networking site. I kind of like the one I already have."

[2] https://www.inc.com/allison-fass/peter-thiel-mark-zuckerberg...
Thank you for pointing out how Cuba has regressed relatively to its peers. Cuba used to be the second wealthiest country in the Western Hemisphere.

Also that you need to lie about what your source says is sad. It's 68th among all countries.
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"Programming should have the same importance status as maths in school, if not more."

It amazes me that it isn't the case, I assumed most High Schools if not grade schools were teaching some programming by now.
We've banned this account.

> We ban accounts that use Hacker News primarily for political or ideological battle, regardless of which politics they favor.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I don't have a legibility problem using TeamViewer, done a lot of pair programming this way.
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Software gets shittier because speed of development and time to market continues to outweigh any reason for quality. Code written 20-30 years ago almost always looks cleaner to me than the code I'm working on today :(

What is the incentive for quality?
The fact that you're telling me to move to Venezuela (capitalist economy) or North Korea (a country that doesn't even call itself Communist or even Socialist any more) shows just how bad your argument is. It was perfectly valid for me to bring up an example of a repressive regime as an immediately understood example of injustice. However I could have just as easily used the example of Bangladeshi sweatshop workers. Should they just shut up or move away?

Moving is irrelevant, too - everywhere has become private property, everywhere is rented or taxed. One cannot escape capitalism.

>1. It calls for the forced confiscation of private property.

Yes. What about it?

>2. Explain how someone can be liberated by having their economic freedom removed?

People's economic freedom is not removed, rather, it is provided in the first place - higher stage Communism is the refined ideal of the free association of people as producers and labourers in the economic sphere.
atleast this one worked: http://simh.trailing-edge.com/games/dungeon.zip (Bob's port to Fortran)
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Does Kotlin have an abstract specification, or is it defined by a reference implementation?
I don't see how having a contract job means never being able to move into a stable position.
I think they're both equally culpable; the customer for making pricing a race to the bottom and the service provider for choosing to play said game.

The customer could choose to consider the treatment of the workers a priority in selecting service providers, and the service provider could choose to refuse to exploit their workers just to secure deals, but neither of them have any real incentive to do so. It's not illegal to shop primarily by price. It's not illegal to hire PT workers even when FT would be viable.

I do agree, though, that the problem is a lack of regulation; unfettered capitalism really does have a evil end game.
"Devil's advocate" means taking an intentionally contrary view--not literally saying things that the devil himself would say.
The original MDL source code is beautiful to read:

https://github.com/itafroma/zork-mdl
I'm failing to see how that's an upside at the wider economic level. If companies choose not to renew contracts, people are still getting laid off; they're just getting laid off from the contracted company instead of the company that terminated the contract. All you've done is shift layoffs onto people who, arguably, are the least able to deal with losing a job.