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Lol Denmark government vs the U.S. government. Quite a difference there. Good input to juxtapose but not many parrallels to draw. Dennark pays to educate it's people (the u.s. has more student loan debt than all credit card debt combined with the worst literacy and math competency rates of most first world countries and soon to fall behind industrializing second world countries whose educated elite outnumber the entire u.s. population. ) And Denmark has things like good public transportation, pays for grad school even and an entire department dedicated to happiness for Danish people. The closest thing we have to that is welfare (canned sardines and Doritoes on food stamps with a smug and condescending scoff from white Republicans with a "just pick yourself up by the bootstraps" attitude to a population it had enslaved only a few decades earlier with a complete dismissal of the globally consistent studies that across most socioeconomic situations countries and arenas it takes an average of five generations for a family to rise out of poverty.

Definitely some differences to be had.
This has been the bread and butter of my work life - I either inherit a pile of garbage or get a green field.

Your first chore: getting a working dev instance with a debugger. Depending on the stack, and dependencies this might be a mountain that is rather hard to climb but it is going to make your life easier.

Second chore: look at the history you have. God bless you if you have source control, with commit history, and any sort of sane commit messages. Bug trackers are also your friend. Lastly there has to be SOMEONE with lore/knowlege of how the code base got to be the way it is - if you find them and TALK to them. Knowing WHY is almost as important as knowing what.

Third chore: Pull the schema. Get a schema dump of the production database, and look at what query logging is set at (might not be sane) and what it should be (query sampling might be your friend). If your lucky enough to have a MYSQL setup then use workbench to help generate a diagram or any other tool you prefer. You want to have an artifact when your done, one that you should maintain.

The fourth and fifth tasks are going to occur concurrently: Walking the code base and understanding or building in logging - Your going to walk the hot spots in the code base first - think home page, log in, and the core functionality. Every time you find something interesting add a comment, and LOG where you think is appropriate (remember you can always shut this off later).

Really this is an exercise in reading and understanding what exists today with as much context as to WHY as you can discover (see step 2). Don't be afraid of either using the @bug and @todo syntax in comments and opening up tickets against yourself/the codebase. You may end up with a list of 200 things to change in the first week and that is OK.

Once you can READ the code base as it exists make sure you REVIEW the code for what your replacing -- even money says that there are bug fixes and edge cases that have already been solved for in that code, ones that your replacement may have to solve for even if it isn't in the "requirements"

Lastly, find someone to commiserate with and someone you can "bounce ideas off of" - rubber ducking works up to a point but sometimes in explaining to someone else they ask the critical question and it sets off your thinking/exploration in a new direction. They don't HAVE to work where you do but if they don't having history with them (even at another job) sure does help.
If two particles don't have any forces in common they can pass right through each other - i.e. they don't have an edge that says "I'm here".

Your explanation was so much fun. Thank you.

What are the types of force? Gravitational, electromagnetic, what else?

What forces is made a quark of?
Would you please not post unsubstantive comments here?

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Oh yeh forgot to mention. We have masogynists for President. Enough said
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Highly recommend Four Fish by Paul Greenberg, does a good job showing all sides of the fishing industry and the projected future if we keep going the same way.

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> Regarding the "racism against Americans," there is no such race,

The term "racism" is commonly used broadly, well beyond the notion of race (which doesn't even exist biologically anyway). Nationalities and religions are obvious examples.

A derogative speech against say, Mexicans, is easily frowned upon and called "racist". I'm pretty sure nobody would accept the argument "there is no such thing as a Mexican race" as a defense.
It doesn’t. Because you assume that blockchain will magically identify and attribute every single of 30 million songs in Spotify’s database.
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to HN? We ban accounts that do that repeatedly.

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> It's not just a 'perception of gov't incompetence': it's a widespread phenomenon

How do you know? I know a couple of talented, hard working statisticians that work for the census. They tell me a lot of good work gets done there. Well, at least until this year when they have suffered complete demoralization after a Trump political appointee crashed their china shop.
I find them very uncomfortable, ugly, and overpriced. I would be very happy if suits would rot in the dustbins of history. I guess everyone has different tastes.
This is true, but your in with a foreign degree is different. For china in high tech, returnees (sea turtles, 海龟) are very much in demand and will command US-like salaries (for the same reason, China attracts Japanese, Taiwanese, Korean tech workers, they pay very well in comparison to other Asian countries). This applies to Big Co as well (or at least the big co I worked for in Beijing).
Broadcasting a song and on-demand streaming is technically isomorphic.

1. Clearly on-demand streaming implies broadcasting.
2. Presumably I could turn a broadcast into an on-demand radio stream by setting up a radio station which loops through all songs. Then I get into my rocket ship and travel away from Earth at near lightspeed and return, arriving exactly when the song I want to hear on-demand is being broadcasted. It's possible to approach zero latency for this method, depending on whether I stay in my rocket ship all the time and how fast I travel.
The bet is that for each one of the /r/Churning crowd, there are many many more who are "followers" and simply get the card that their knowledgable buddy has - but less often, and only if the perk differential is dramatic.

That is the market the CC companies want. You merely benefit from this by riding the crest of the wave.
>the Earth is having a really tough time

Pointless statement because you are anthropomorphizing the planet. The only way the plan ceases to exist is if we manage to blow it up. Otherwise it's fine. Be more precise in your words.

>the ocean is full of trash

Again, it's not full. Don't be hyperbolic when convincing someone of an argument.

>It simply does not scale to 7.5 billion people

There is no evidence of this. The lifestyle of a vegan westerner who does not travel frequently scales extremely well.
Now they really won't be able to analyze all that data...
What race is American?
Not that easy. Most first-gen people I know are absolutely against marrying anyone who isn't a permanent resident, basically because of advice like yours.
monero has become popular in this space, but the average (illicit) user is still probably making operational mistakes while buying, using, and selling it. in the case of monero a lot of people like to skip the step where they download a 30GB+ blockchain over tor, and I can't blame them. when the privacy-oriented cryptocurrencies are effortlessly private, that's when they will have arrived so to speak. I'm fairly optimistic about moxie & co's recently-announced mobilecoin (https://www.mobilecoin.com/whitepaper-en.pdf) for that reason -- if it's going to get adopted by whatsapp, the user experience will necessarily be pretty darned simple.
I've never come across a geocoder better or cheaper than Google, unfortunately. They all claim accuracy but fail in trivial cases, or interpolate to the wrong part of the street where Google is spot on (though Google has its occasional flaws). I'd love to see competition but it's probably not coming any time soon.
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Edit for the last sentence of my comment above (which is not factually accurate, although the point stands):

The US usually ranks well but often comes behind China, Russia, or less well-known countries like Vietnam.

Top talent are born all over the world. With global education becoming more decent esp in developing nations, these talented people can flourish and become competitive with those born in developed countries. 7+ billion surely include many more top talent than 300+ million.
> other important bases seem to be covered

Except accessibility for blind people (through screen readers), and probably people with other disabilities as well. I just tried the Red GUI with the NVDA screen reader on Windows, and it's mostly inaccessible.

BTW, this is a problem with nearly every GUI toolkit developed from the ground up (that is, from the host OS's low-level graphics primitives). The exceptions are mostly the big, "bloated" GUI toolkits, like those provided by the major operating systems, the major browser engines (and by extension Electron), Qt, JavaFX (though only on Windows and Mac), and maybe a few others.

Edit: SWT is one of the most accessible options for cross-platform desktop applications. That's mostly because SWT primarily uses the host platforms' native widgets. But it does have some custom controls, and for those, it implements the platform-specific accessibility APIs. I understand that a lot of people don't like the conventional desktop look and feel though.
Not sure why people are downvoting this.

It’s illogical to claim you can be racist against diverse countries like the USA or Australia. Pretty sure the OP is more referring to xenophobia than racism.
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> If you have an HTML5 game that you own and it doesn’t require a server (it runs entirely on the client side) then there is no technical reason it can’t be archived.

If a game is fully available on the client side - it doesn't just need to run on the client side, but have everything available on the client side, data files and all - then yes you can archive it. But this is a very limited case and so far only the most simplistic games can be distributed like that. And TBH considering the DRM craze that games have, if anything i'd expect companies to try and make such archival as difficult as possible.

> You can’t run google docs offline because what would that even mean?

Having a word processor, spreadsheet, etc available offline.

> One of the main features of google docs is the live collaborative editing. It’s a multiplayer game that requires a host server.

It is a feature but i'd say that the main feature is being able to edit documents. In terms of games, it is a game with multiplayer features that still requires a host server for its singleplayer part (which is generally something that is frowned upon).

> You can architect your game to be friendly to being archived or you can make it completely impossible by introducing a dependency on the network.

You are talking from the point of view of the developer, i am talking from the point of view of the user. It should be obvious from when i wrote "How can you preserve a game that you have not full access to its files? Only the developer has that power and developers for the most part have shown over and over that they do not care about the games and applications they make after a couple of years or so". It is the user that suffers from such choices, not the developer.

Please try read my posts with the eyes of a user, with the concerns of a user's and try to avoid any developer bias.

> This is true for native games and web games.

Technically yes, but things aren't black and white - there are "natural" tendencies in each approach with the web approach leaning heavily towards network reliant applications and the native approach avoiding it.
See if that's still the case after a year though. I bought for the free handout and then cancelled before the annual renewal.
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If you can "customise every aspect of the system" why does he spend a whole paragraph complaining about people who like JSX? Shouldn't the answer be, "and you can use JSX if you want"?
There are many reasons to just get a dedicated machine, especially given that they're like $10/month these days. (kimsufi, hetzner, ...)

This is a major one. On a dedicated box, as long as ssh and your http server are secure, you can run a compromised kernel. In practice, of course, it mostly means that there's an extra layer of exploit necessary before attackers are in. Everybody should insist on that, always.

Performance is another one (to put things bluntly: a 2-year-old atom with 4G straight on hardware, on 99% performance, beats a Quad Xeon with 96 Gigs of ram where you're 1 out of 100 VMs. And even that undersells it. In practice on that quad xeon it will regularly take 1s to jump into your code for a web request. Not generating a response, just the time before it actually processes your packet. If you're I/O bound (ie. every single website), the lowly dedicated Atom will beat the big bad Xeon).

And lastly, included network capacity is the third one. The cheapest dedicated on hetzner comes with $3000 worth of network (Google cloud prices, Amazon's are more expensive, and yes it's FUP bandwidth, so presumably you can use like $500 of it without problems if you're paying $10, not the full $3k)
> Google and Facebook .. provide a lot of value to a lot of people, invest in R&D, and contribute to the open source community.

VS

> Facebook is attempting to kill all open communication protocols and force everyone to communicate through their platform with powerful network effects.

There's no contradiction here. Both can be true at the same time. Large organisations (government & commercial alike) have even less of a fixed & permanent nature than do individuals, and can carry out huge numbers of activities in parallel, some harmful, some beneficial.

You can try some sort of rough consequentialist calculus on an organisation's overall benefits / harms to society, which is complex and subjective to an extent that gives almost completely free play to prejudice.

Alternatively you can look at the systems within which organisations grow and assess the functioning of the whole thing. I think this is the more powerful approach, having more potential for sidelining empty moralising. Personally I believe that for fundamental reasons, hypergrowth-oriented technological society inevitably leads to the destruction of everything of value (in truth a subject for a book, not a forum comment). Facebook & Google are natural & unwitting agents of these fundamental forces. At the same time, decent & capable humans work for them in large numbers, so inevitably make positive countervailing contributions.
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The only real problem I see is a lack of elaboration on some of the important little-known politics at play, here.
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>> Trump and others don’t recognize is that the American university system is a distributed system of factories that manufacture knowledge, innovation and the future.

There is another side to this. And that is that the American university system has a distinct political agenda that is opposed to the interests of the Trump-supporting half of the American electorate.

It is a bad thing for innovation when there are fewer smart people immigrating into the U.S. However, when you have a system of institutions that adopt adversarial political positions toward a large chunk of the electorate, you should expect that at some point you will end up in a situation where the electorate elects leaders who work, to some degree, against what the winning side of the voting public regard as powerful institutions firmly in the hands of political opponents.

There is not, unfortunately, an easy solution to the adversarial relationship between academia and half of America. The shift toward a mono-cultural academia (from a political standpoint) has occurred over decades; the left is now firmly entrenched in American universities and unlikely to relinquish its position any time soon.

We can't ban politics from universities either; you will never get politics out of any organization in which humans are involved. We are distinctly political animals.

So perhaps the focus should be on returning academia to a more politically balanced setup... that we might no longer end up in scenarios like today, where half the voting public views academia as a shining part of the leadership of progressive society, and the other half views it as a once-great former pride of our country, sadly fallen and increasingly adversarial. So long as the universities remain a bastion of the American left and an enemy of the American right, they will continue to feast during the years in which the left holds power, and continue to starve during the years when it does not.
I've worked as a healthcare professional provider in a major medical center in a major metro area. My parents are both physicians and my wife is also a professional provider. I've used EPIC during an initial rollout, and my wife has used it during two rollouts. I've also used other EHRs in smaller clinics since then, and have used the VA system.

My sense is that EHR mandates were colossal screwup. They should have never happened. No matter how good they seem in the ideal, mandating them should have never been the case.

The reason why is because each hospital had a very well-tuned staff with a system that was designed for that hospital, in-house, over years. Implementation of EHRs should have been done the same way, ground-up, on a site-by-site basis, in a way that allowed for more gradual, flexible adoption with complete autonomy by each site. If they wanted to buy into something like EPIC, great. If they wanted to develop something in-house, great. If they wanted to contribute to an open source project, great. That sort of system would have been much better in the long run.

As it happened, EHRs were just sort of slapped on, top down, with the providers being forced to adapt to them rather than vice versa. It was horrible, and a perfect example of government regulations fucking things up. I'm very pro-public sector, nonprofit, etc. but also think that regulations (in terms of restrictive licensing laws, FDA nonsense, things like EHR mandates, etc.) are the unrecognized disease in American healthcare systems.

EHR mandates at each hospital system I or my spouse worked at to resulted in cost overruns of billions of dollars. Those are just two systems in the US, and believe me, neither of those hospital systems--which were very successful, well-run enterprises, without EHRs--would have never implemented them when they did without the mandates.

The most egregiously stupid thing about the mandate is that EHRs would have been implemented in both these hospitals relatively soon anyway, but it would have happened on a much better timeline, in a much more sane way.
It's not necessarily economic coercion. Status, success, wealth, and power can all be very attractive. Even high-status women who can easily take care of themselves still sometimes prefer successful and powerful men.

If you're writing a breathless Vanity Fair piece you're going to try and spin the economic coercion narrative, because it's fashionable to hate on Silicon Valley and we're in a weird cultural moment when it comes to the intersection of sexuality and power (thanks to stories that are coming out of the other, far more sordid side of California), but money and power are still sexy, and they always will be, and the rich and powerful will take advantage of that.