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> My biggest concern is it seems to be slowly taking over everything and thus violating the core unix philosophy of "do one thing really well".

The larger attack surface, reduced "git 'r done"'ess when you're in the midst of a hot outage, and increased complexity to trace what happens give me concerns. Some touched upon in this StackExchange [1] conversation thread, but lots of good threads elsewhere on the Net along these and other lines. Personally, I'd rather see the entire idea of "booting" be looked at again.

The reason sysadmins value the "git 'r done" aspect of System V init is because servers are not booted frequently. But init scripts are changed more frequently than servers are booted, and business application teams forbid booting the server more than utterly, absolutely, necessary; and the sysadmins wanting to boot to test a modification to the init script doesn't count. Dev/QA/Pre-prod change control environments help, devops-based source control discipline helps, but the next time a server is booted is always at least a "sideways-glancing-to-see-what-breaks" moment for many a sysadmin. When the startup sequence breaks somewhere, it becomes a hot outage, and especially if correcting it requires application-specific domain expertise, outside the OS. In the middle of such a hot outage, the ability to get closer to the problem domain within the shell script is appreciated. Systemd's init compatibility indirection layer helps, and hopefully, some thought in the future is given to streamlining this layer.

The entire notion of "booting" has rubbed me the wrong way for an increasing amount of time, though. Microkernels tried to address this, but they never caught on. Solaris and AIX try to address this, and Linux is exploring this, with their live kernel migration features, but they don't really do much to help higher up the stack. The best I can do to mitigate this itch for the time being is highly-available three-node clusters, and regularly moving the application to one of the opposite nodes, booting the inactive node, and testing changes to that boot, and the aforementioned devops-orientation and source control. Having an OS that lets me "re-home" a running application Tandem-Kernel-like/VMWare-Live-Migration-like, to a newly-"booted" state of the OS though, would be the bees' knees.

[1] https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/167721/what-are...
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I'd go for "Netherlands feeds the world, despite its size."
Over twenty years ago, we were doing parallel ssh to multiple hosts. We found that did not scale, for many reasons.

Thus, cfengine was born. And Puppet. And Chef. And Ansible.

Feel free to repeat all their mistakes if you want, but if you want to build a better tool, I would encourage you to learn them and understand their weaknesses first.

Just blindly repeating the mistakes of the past is not a recipe for success.
> Parking money in index/hedge funds is not "investing it back in the economy".

Of course it is. What do you think those funds invest in? Piles of cash?

> Bank lending is driven by demand, not deposits.

If that were true, banks wouldn't need deposits and certainly wouldn't offer free checking. They're not charities.
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Rather than tax wealth, tax spending: no taxes on your income, no taxes on anything until you spend it. That way people will have more money to invest in companies allowing the economy to grow and create wealth, and we kill the ludicrous idea that consumption creates wealth, rather than construction. It does have the issue that this hurts poor people, but that is easily solvable with a direct transfer of (electronic) cash.
Certainly, we've updated the title from “This Tiny Country Feeds the World” to a representative phrase from the subtitle.
Are Beanie Babies similar to Magic the Gathering cards?

Fashion sneakers, Beanie Babies, and MtG cards all have had prices inflated above the price for comparable goods (regular sneakers, teddy bears, and regular playing cards), you can say that. Fashion sneakers and MtG cards have had longer runs in popularity than Beanie Babies had and sneakers have more intrinsic value to people than either MtG cards or Beanie Babies do, but they're all different.

You can say that they are all fads, but owning shares of a company, learning a particular programming language, or picking a university to apply to are all subject to waves of popularity that can obscure their value for people as well.

The question seems disingenuous.
Only if you bring back 1954 tax deduction laws too. Most corporate compensation was in the form of generous expense accounts. People would write off cars, real estate, dining expenses and even travel as a perk. So on paper, income was lower but in reality, executives earned much, much more. The 1986 tax reform act changed all that.
Here in the UK, tomatoes from the Netherlands are the most common sold in British supermarkets.

Unfortunately, they are quite flavourless. The type of tomato (and price) makes no difference (organic, vine-ripened, salad). Most of them are usually semi-ripe. Even if you allow them to ripen at home for a few days, they are still quite tasteless.

Presumably, Italy keeps its best tomato produce for themselves and I don't blame them (although Italian tinned tomatoes are widely available in the UK, just not the fresh variety).
That's not the point. Suppose a tech employee was forward and said she has a startup that takes up 20 hours a week for her and she might leave if she got funding?

Because these days, many do. Far better imho than the world of Full Time Employment and its endless office politics and keeping up of appearances. No need to ask for permission to work on a project or give more attention to your own family.
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In Germany maybe, but I doubt a Swiss or Austrian police officer would know that.
What's the downside risk? Getting a slap on the wrist fine that doesn't come close to clawing back profits?
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Also needed is a very stable environment, but infrastructurally and politically. A lot of these investments would never be feasible without for example the stability of the electricity network or the road network.

It can be argued if this is caused by the government, but the Dutch seem more maintenance-minded than most other countries I visited. Probably caused by all the dikes: if not maintaining something properly will kill your entire village, you have a lot of incentive to become very good at it.
The difference is that filing fake bugs isn't theft.
> You can't go right by starting an "attack" on a bunch of people of very diversified backgrounds and ideologies.

Yes I can. I just did it.

Btw. according to the law if I attacked people of homogenous backgrounds I could be punished (for racism and hate crimes). But Diverse people? Well...

Also: don't tell me what to do.

note: your server is down (the one linked in your profile)
I suspect you're too young to remember what searching was like before Google.
I read parts of the MDL manual. It supported hacks whereby it could shift to using parentheses, as well as evaluation/quoting conventions that are more like Lisp.
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There are more post on social media about the breach now. There was no interaction with Amazon.com at all, I tried to login Amazon.com minutes after receiving these two emails. The result shows the account does not exist on Amazon.com anymore. Again, didn't click any link, it just happened.

>This often works wonders as people re-use the same password elsewhere. Was your password unique to your Amazon account?

I really doubt it. The way password managed and password used on this Amazon account is HackerNews approved.
Most rich desktop APIs are very imperative and the Haskell bindings are often just a thin veneer on top. For an example of a really nice Haskell UI API, see threepenny-gui:

https://github.com/HeinrichApfelmus/threepenny-gui/blob/mast...
Ha. The defaults on Sun workstations (at least mid-late 90s) weren't that bad. HPUX seemed to default to making delete the interrupt character, at least in a shell when I telneted into them remotely.
The moral education is only one of reasons why we read to kids and why kids read. I would even say that it is not the most important one.

However, author thinking that it is enough to show cuddly animal and nice picture does not surprise me. Most nchildren books, especially those with shiny appealing pics are awfully written. Kids want to buy them, but they rarely wants them to be read or care while you read.

On unrelated news, kids don't read or read less and less every day. I would not worry about children books not teaching right morality. They are being read less and less.
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That's a fair enough point, but i don't really see why you need to restrict yourself to only 3x3 when you can support others at a slight penalty. For that reason, i suspect it's a winograd convolution ASIC or some similar algorithm.
The number of chatbot services popping up promising to solve customer support for businesses is concerning. I've personally had bad experiences with chat bots when trying to get a refund and all it did was point me to some help article that I've read, ask me a question that I've already answered before, or worst is provide an answer that is totally unrelated to the question I asked.

IMO, most chat bots out there are just digital reincarnations of phone VRU systems. I don't see them taking over customer support anytime soon. Bots should not be the front and center of customer support, but should be assistants on the sides of both customer and the support agent to provide sideline help while a conversation is ongoing, instead of the bot taking over the role of the support agent.

For example, when I start a conversation with a support agent, I could be prompted to enter my email address if I havent, or select a category (shipping, refunds, etc), all while waiting for the agent to get back to me, or as a starter to the conversation. On the agent side, a bot could be helping me by suggesting responses to the customer's question and letting the agent pick a response, instead of the bot answering the customer directly.

The human experience is crucial when dealing with a business. We're not there yet with AI to have bots take over the entire conversational experience between a customer and a business, so if you're building a chat bot, please don't bring the horrible phone VRU experience to the internet.

Don't get me wrong on bots though, they're awesome when it comes to certain situations and tasks that don't require human to human interaction and are usually structured, like shopping. Take Shopify's Facebook Messenger bot where a person could shop on a business's Facebook Page via their Messenger bot, with the bot taking on the role of navigating the catalog for the user.
my proposal is to replace the current tax code with the 1954 act.
Aha, so that's why mine was totally blank (the text never appeared). I had to turn off my ad blocker to read it.
Because all the letters already look weird. The fact that the style of B and D are very different doesn't matter because the reader doesn't know what the other letter ought to look like.

Yes, if you compared them side by side with an official and the fake it would be easy to see. But when just reading, all the letters already look weird.
But animals are used inconsistently in stories.

In one book you'll have cats and dogs not getting on. In another book they'll be best friends.

In some books the animal are so anthropomorphised the animal characteristics appear irrelevant. For example, in You must bring a hat there is a human protagonist who meets a hat-wearing monkey, a monocle-wearing badger, a tutu-wearing and piano-playing elephant, etc.

(It's a nice book, with lovely illustration. https://www.amazon.co.uk/You-Must-Bring-Simon-Philip/dp/1471... )
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Free markets, free minds, free individuals.

It's a libertarian mantra. I'm not a libertarian but the substance behind the credo is commendable and accurate.
There are flavourful varieties such as Tasty Tom or small plum tomatoes, but they are much more expensive at €10 per kg versus €2 per kg for a basic variety and less than €1 per kg for the most tasteless variety.
Whether the actual project is worth exactly $1 or $86 million is not the issue. Not even whether a $1/67 lines of code can replicate a $86 million project.

The real substance -- and the first posts hints at it -- is that government (and private sector) projects are more often than not many times more expensive than they should be.

Sometimes because they are overengineered (in 2005 it would be 200 Java programmers building a EJB/SOAP/XML monster that requires 10 workstations to run), other times just because they can (charge more). The same way health related projects and vendors can charge a ton for trivial stuff (even plain plastic syringes).

In many countries, it's also because the bigger the project, the more greedy intermediaries can get a bite.
There's also the huge difference in power consumption.
Bernie Sanders has three big houses, a boat, several cars, and multi-million dollar book deals. What does he need half that stuff for?
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> her $16.60 an hour works out to $34,520 a year.

Interesting... I'm developer at a comparably tiny company, I get paid slightly less than her per hour but a larger salary overall, and my rent is less than half of hers (and it's not considered cheap around here).

I know i'm not paid top notch but all I read here is it's hard to be a janitor in expensive places.

[EDIT]

Maybe this is not a fair comparison, I'm not paid hourly, and all I have revealed here is that I work rather a lot of hours. She does 44ish hour weeks, and to be fair as a cleaner you are unlikely to physically be able to work more (consistently).

The ratio of pay to rent is ridiculous though, (that is a fair comparison) my rent is way under half hers. If housing is that expensive in that area then janitors should be paid more...
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I wonder if there is ever going to be an encoding that replaces UTF-8?

Maybe WTF-8? https://simonsapin.github.io/wtf-8/
Not exactly a fair comparison when the C program is using 1.5MB of pre-compiled dependencies while the C++ program reimplements all of the functionality from the dependencies in the code being compiled.
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Oracle is lethargic from the perspective of its employees because the company is extraordinarily sluggish and apathetic.

The pace at which Oracle develops software, the flagship Oracle Database for example, is ridiculously slow. The Database team takes about 3 months to 6 months to develop tiny changes (say 10 to 20 lines of code). In other Fortune 500 companies I have worked for, I have seen such changes taking about a few days (5 days max!). I am not kidding! What takes say 3 days to develop in a normal software company may take about 3 months to develop in Oracle. And mind you, Oracle Database is one of the premier departments of Oracle; other departments are even worse!

Oracle is also remarkably apathetic to its employees. The link[1] shared by foo101, i.e. has a few anecdotes that highlights this apathy. In fact, when I read James Gosling's account of Oracle in that link, I thought, "Wow! This is so accurate. Even someone of the name and fame as James Gosling had to face the same lowly problems at Oracles that relatively unknown developers in Oracle face."

Disclaimer: I worked for Oracle for 2 years.

[1]: http://www.eweek.com/development/java-creator-james-gosling-...
> People should be insisting on raises at least in line with inflation

To be blunt, that really is SV cuckoo-land thinking.

In 22 years of employment, 18 in IT with Fortune 100s, I have never had a job in which that was possible.

Why would a company voluntarily increase its personnel costs by the rate of inflation?
I also find the name good as it is. When I first heard of it, I read up on it only because it had that weird name. If the name was yet another generic OS name, I would have just scrolled on, thinking that it's just yet another OS.

I agree that it's not that well-suited for outside of the geek community, but I doubt we're anywhere close to that. If it gets picked up by a manufacturer, they'll just as well market it to geeks. You're not getting around that, unless Android and iOS disappear from the face of the planet.
> D, Rust, OCaml, and a few other projects are interesting in this space since they provide some of the same benefits as C++ with respect to correctness and safety.

Can you name a correctness and safety benefit that C++ has that these programming languages do not?
In Sweden we tend to get e.g. tomatoes from the Netherlands, Spain and Morocco. From a consumer perspective it seems random - the price doesn't really factor in at all.

Tomatoes from the Netherlands are almost always tasteless.

Tomatoes from Spain are often tasty, but sometimes tasteless.

Tomatoes from Morocco are sometimes tasteless and sometimes horrible.

So I look for Tomatoes grown in Spain and wish for the best...
Taxation is both effective, and far less invasive to markets than many other solutions.(like minimum wages, enforced labor unions, changing the way companies pick or compensate CEOs). So that's why it's brought up so often.

What are some solutions you're aware of that are equally effective and less invasive?
Do those emails occur soon after you log in to Spotify? I recently found out that Spotify secretly tries to log you in as a Facebook user even if you don't use Facebook login. It first tries to pass the credentials through Facebook login and if that fails it goes through regular email login. This failed attempt triggers the Facebook security emails

I'm not sure that what they are doing is even legal. Just another reason to NEVER use the same email/password combination on multiple sites. I wouldn't be surprised if other apps are doing the same thing.
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I think it's very reasonably cynical to expect a bank to happily pay 50 million fines to make a billion in profit, but I don't think the numbers are working out in their favor here.
I think they are often pretty bad. Too many start-ups seem to place chatbot's in their product just because it's the right thing to do.

I think chatbots can be great but their design and implementation are often terrible.
"It says I’m personally liable if anything goes wrong!"

Things like that are really bad to sign. You can end up with no business and a collection agency taking a cut of your salary for years.
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Sure, I should have stated my assumption: there will always be inequality in a capitalist economy.

But you can have varying levels of inequality and the extremes are probably not healthy. My suggestion above wouldn't create perfect equality, it just fixes the broken incentives we currently have that reward us for hoarding wealth and penalize us for earning it.
Perhaps I shouldn't have used individuals, but in my opinion, it's easy to see that a team of engineers automating a factory produce, via their machines, much more than thousands of the factory workers who were doing rote work day after day.

The people that developed email and whatnot produced more than the people who deliver mail, etc.
Right now we are looking for someone with a bit more experience for the role, sorry!
Fantastic article, we've truly been seeing a bifurcation of the workforce, and the development of a plutonomy. The interests of capital and labor are inherently opposed because the incentive of the employer is to reduce costs, and capital has been winning out.

I think there's a false tendency to blame Apple for this predicament. It's not Apple's responsibility to provide for the welfare of our country's citizens, it's our responsibility - and it's only through our government that we can really change things. No vacation, benefits, and 80% of one's paycheck going to rent is our government's responsibility to fix, not Apple's.

The most obvious policy here would be some sort of universal basic income. This would naturally prop up wages for the low-paying jobs like janitor that nobody wants to do.

Having to work under those precarious conditions for such lousy pay (relative to cost of living) and no prospects for advancement must be a downright miserable experience, the literal definition of wage slavery. 6pm-2am shift means she probably never even sees her kids during the week. All for a meager $600/month in disposable income after rent is paid (which when you're a contractor without vacation and benefits isn't much). And she'd never be allowed to complain about it because she'd be told that she should be grateful to have a job, there are people in Africa starving, she should've studied harder in school, and she shouldn't have had kids. What a world we live in.

Many oppose universal basic income on ideological grounds, but enough with this ideologically-driven bullshit that ignores the unnecessary suffering of the wage slaves at the bottom. Nobody in a first world country should have to live a lowly life like that janitor.
Right. So cost and use will have to be weighted here. I'd guess a foreign car gets inspected closer anyways.
For investment terms, I've come to believe every term matters quite a bit. There is a good chance you'll eventually have a down round, or IPO under your last rounds price; when all these terms will catch up with you.

Time kills all deals though, and NOT getting the deal done imho is a big risk factor. So an imperfect contract is better than no contract..
Social status.
Doesn't have to be hygienic, it's enough that fixing it doesn't justify the time/money costs for the programmer.
> To avoid that kind of stuff, when I deleted my account a few years back, I used an automated script to delete all my posts.

Worse still, they've gone out of their way to make this as difficult as possible. There's no bulk delete in any of their apps or API. We all know why.
But that might not be cause for alarm. In fact, Ronnie Moas, the founder of Standpoint Research (known for his prediction that the cryptocurrency asset class will one day be valued in the trillions), contends that the price break is rather the work of larger traders who want to build up even bigger positions in cryptocurrency.
Out of curiosity, what made you settle given the contract in your favor?
>This makes sense, and then somebody has a vision for a use case beyond the original imagination, goes to turn the code into a library and spends countless hours smartening up lazy resource management.

That's THEIR problem then.

Why should the original author care for that?
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Can you explain what conclusion we are supposed to draw from that chart?