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> Prosody's XMPP server implementation dropped websocket support in favor of BOSH years ago.

You probably refer to the "old websocket" spec, new websockets are working well: https://prosody.im/doc/modules/mod_websocket
CPI does not include rent but thats what more than half of average couples combined income is spent on.
(Couple with full time $15 per hour jobs living in $2000 per month apartment)
What I'm trying to say is you can't research something you can't define. So any research on an ill-defined subject is a priori bunk.

It's like if a medieval scientist set out to study the cosmic spheres. He could amass as much data as he liked, but it doesn't matter - since he's fundamentally using the wrong concepts to understand what he's seeing.

Not to mention, I think your analogy works against your point. If you think about energy or power in any other way than the specific electrical sense, you're making a mistake. Just because they use the same words doesn't mean they are the same concept.
> I often wonder how we can have skyrocketing prices across so many asset classes yet near zero inflation

Well for one, the inflating assets aren't directly part of the CPI. And to the extent they are (eg bankrent on a new home purchase), they only apply to the sliver of people who just bought a house.

Furthermore one would expect the long term CPI trend to be downwards, due to technological progress and economic evolution. So the fact that we are not seeing that is indicative of huge inflation. eg Walmart hollowed out the economy by providing things "cheaper", and they did. But rather than this actually benefiting people (who should have to work less to afford those goods), even taken at its face value the CPI feedback system guarantees people's costs stay the same, meanwhile there are fewer jobs.
It would help if you provided more context here. You are not in the same situation as Warren Buffet or Ray Dalio, so you should pause before trying to apply their advice to your own life. Are you a student? An employee? An entrepreneur?

Of the attributes they listed, I imagine it is easier to narrow people down by skills first, then intelligence and then character won't necessarily be something you can judge easily and accurately. In any case you will probably have to work with them for at least a little while until you could confidently consider them "good" though.
Did I say somehow that they were immune to injuries? I said the risks are not as bad. For example, they are, overall, statistically less likely to suffer any on-the-job injury attributable to inflexibility of muscles and tendons, obesity, loss of bone density/strength, Alzheimer's, arthritis, or dizziness from diabetes-related blood-sugar problems. Those are all risks that go up with age.

They are also less likely to suffer any injury caused, or made worse, or made more likely, by some past injury they've already had, because they're likely to have had fewer of those.

Also, even given the same exact injury, they will likely heal faster & better than someone even 10 years older.

Black & white thinking doesn't really serve here. There's not some age before which 100% of people have none of the problems and after which 100% of people have all the problems. It's a continuum.
My rent has increased about 10% over the past decade... And I live in neighborhood that pretty rapidly gentrified ~6 years ago. Yours doubled? Really?
It's weird at 30 I can't see myself making it another 20 years. I find programming draining and exhausting, but I still enjoy doing it :? I just don't think I'll just feel like I will have lost a lot of the fire when I'm that age.
I hate to be that guy, but there was something seriously wrong with your process. If you have any of your apps saved from around that time, it would be a learning experience for all of us if you shared them. Redacted, of course.

To add to your story, let me tell you mine:

High school grad, going to a CC, really bad grades and only experience in freelancing and projects. Projects weren't amazing, but they were put together well.

I averaged 600 apps per day. That was after I put a lot of effort into my resume, making sure the wording was perfect and the layout pristine.

One weekend I got really desperate and did 500 apps in one day and waited it out for a month. I got something like 30 positive responses for a phone interview/code challenge. I also had recruiters for contracting and temp work blowing up my phone for their shitty positions.

I refused them all, because I thought I could do better. And I did.

Come around 22,000 apps in one month. If it had developer/software/programmer in the title, you bet your ass I applied to it. I wasn't qualified for any of them and I didn't list my education.

I got around 900 followups and had the pick of the litter. I fabricated nothing on my resume. I got followups for positions in countries whose languages I didn't even speak. "We'd love for you to come join the team if you're willing to relocate and learn how to speak X language" [Translated].

I'm sure some of you might have even seen my resume. 30 apps per day? How does it even take that long? You can do apps in less than a minute. Cover letters are for schmucks.
"I do appropriate hours and give me this time I need to leave early for example to pick up the kids"

I think that's the problem. Young, fresh, idealistic programmers straight out of college are willing to give their whole body, life, and soul to a job; if a recruiter was charismatic enough (and if it wasn't for student loans), he or she could practically convince them to pay the company for the privilege of giving them programming to do. They don't know any better.

You, on the other hand, are old and tired enough - and more importantly, have enough other priorities in your life - that you simply can't be convinced to work 12 hours a day or make your free-time hobby also be coding for your employer.
I grew up in a Sears & Roebuck home, as were a good portion of those on my block. The Wikipedia article on the subject says that there were 70,000 of them built[1]. So I see this as more of something that has come and gone, probably a few times, and we are back on the up-swing.

The Sears & Roebuck were partially assembled (think wall by wall), and then those parts were hoisted off the freight trains and nailed together. There was still a lot of work that needed to be done (often by professionals), but it really cut down on the (especially local) costs.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears_Catalog_Home
A security guard at one of my employers had retired from a concrete contracting business.

He was an interesting fellow to talk with, when I'd be coming or going from the building off-hours.

I bet some of those books make pretty good reading. Like some of the older tech references I recall in the IS field. Told you what was really going on, and how to get stuff done with it.
It's not so great to submit lists of articles, such as the home page of a magazine issue, because then there isn't any content to sink teeth into. Such threads always boil down to lowest-common-denominator, i.e. generic, i.e. low-information discussions.

It's better to submit a specific article and then people can discuss what it says.
Yes sorry was a library on which to build your app.
> Property taxes and housing cost (especially rent) has doubled in last 10 years in New York.

Same thing in Canada's larger cities (if not a doubling in much less than 10 years), yet we're told the change in the housing component of the CPI is < 2%. Lies, damn lies, and statistics.
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Is it that error prone? Could people not just submit what their own opinion and then you aggregate it systematically?
I'm not entirely sure what my point is. I just think it's an interesting comparison that one article calls iron working a "high-paying job" while another says iron-workers don't make enough to live in certain cities and pressures government intervention to correct it.

I guess "high-paying" is a matter of degree, and cities are really expensive.
Metro area is a much larger sample size though; for certain rapidly gentrifying areas, like Long Island City, I could see there being a large increase which gets drowned out in metro-wide statistics.
This claims that Psychology is only (still too high) 4th most popular. This is for 2014-2015 though.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/15/the-6-most-popular-college-m...
Work is underway to rewrite Synapse (the Python server implementation) in Go: https://github.com/matrix-org/dendrite
This is why I don't take the CPI seriously as a meaningful measure of inflation "on the ground." A key inflation metric that misses the major expenses of most people is IMHO borderline fraudulent.

From what I've seen inflation has been very high for the past 20 years, but has not been evenly distributed at all. The deflationary pressures of offshoring, automation, technological advancement, and device convergence have caused tech, appliances, and gadgets to drop dramatically in price, creating the illusion in many sectors of low inflation or deflation. Offshoring and automation have also held wages down and kept consumer product and service prices from inflating much. The Internet has completely collapsed the price of media (music, TV, news, etc.) too. If you're looking at these things then inflation looks low.

Tuition, health care, housing, and energy on the other hand have all inflated quite a bit. Housing is the big one. In some markets it's at the level of "real estate hyperinflation," rising to absolutely ludicrous 8-15X median income multiple prices. There's also been a lot of asset and stock price inflation and bubbles in things like trendy tech and cryptocurrencies can be considered secondary symptoms of a lot of money sloshing around.

I've heard the present condition described as "in-deflation": deflation in everything you make and in therefore labor, inflation in everything you need such as health care and housing/rent. My hypothesis is that this results from an impedance mismatch between inflationary industrial-era economics and monetary policy and deflationary information-age pressures. Both high technology and globalization are extremely deflationary. We did a ton of QE to re-inflate the economy after 2008 but since high tech and globalization were such powerful deflationary pressures the only place all that money could go was real estate, stocks, and speculative bubbles.

In any case they've pumped so much money into the economy we may now be about to see a little bit of wage growth.
No, I think I was a bit unclear. The guy obviously knew what he was doing, and had setup projects in Node. For me to come in and tell him how require() works would be insulting.

No missed opportunity, I pivoted the deal after turning down the first.
While I love reading about logical fallacies, I don't see how I've committed one.

I never said building infrastructure would convince everyone to bike. Rather, the government can (and often does) move society as a whole in one direction using money as a lever. Do taxes on gas or alcohol prevent everyone from driving or drinking? No, but they move the needle, just like building cycling infrastructure does.

And I never cited the "10% increase" as an important metric for the success of cycling infrastructure, you did. None of my arguments is about the absolute number of people cycling, although others have pointed out that biking is likely underfunded relative to the number of people who use the infrastructure. I just cited the increasing number of people on bikes as a counterpoint to your claim that "no matter what people say, they don't want to cycle to work".
Spending money on virtual games is miles away from child labor. I don't think you'll find very many people in here arguing that anti-child labor laws are a bad thing, so I find your comment a bit of a red-herring.
It's sort of ironic considering France's history with Minitel[0] and encryption[1].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel

[1]: https://www.forbes.com/forbes/1997/1201/6012058a.html#75b6a6...

Specifically from [1] is the line:
"Its illegal in France to encrypt any communication in any way unless you have permission from the government. How is electronic commerce going to get off the ground in such a society? Good question, which appears not to have occurred to the authorities."
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But if you make more than $60k because of your college degree, then you are in the black in not too long. Let's say you make $80k, then you are break even at 17 years. If you are making more like 100k, then you break even at only 8.5 years. Considering that the retirement age is around 70, this means that even a small increase in salary leaves a good chunk of money on the table by retirement (or allows an earlier retirement).

Of course, there are the other factors that others are discussing. Plus things like interest (on loans and investments).
> as the gov't is trying to slow down the real estate market

This is not the reason for mortgage stress test, just one of its effects. The main reason for the regulation is to avoid a tsunami of bankruptcies when interest rates eventually increase.
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> those 3500 recipients could not have known that you're 41

A likely-accurate age estimate is easily discernible for applicants who follow the common practice of putting their education history with graduation dates. A much rougher estimate is also possible with nothing more than specific technologies. You can do pretty well with employment history as well -- and I'd suspect that many among hiring managers or HR staff quickly develop a profile (consciously or not) that rules out both inadequate experience AND experience that feels too scattered or too long.

There could also be other factors, of course. Timing can be an issue. I've heard stories of people applying for hundreds of jobs (who were getting hundreds of applicants per open position) during the 2001-2003 bust. I wouldn't be surprised if it were the same thing in 2009 (though I found 2009 was a great time to be contracting -- businesses still wanted stuff done, they just didn't want the liability of an FTE on the books).

And there's always the possibility that the GP was simply not matched to the job, but it's not the foregone conclusion you seem to be assuming.

> I remember plenty of "old" guys doing this kind of IT stuff.

Most of the people I remember working with have health insurance, too, so naturally not having health insurance has rarely been a problem for working people.

(Which is an indirect way of saying: survivorship bias! The existence of companies that employ workers over 30/40/50 is positive to observe for anyone who'd like to make software/IT their career as long as possible, but the figure that'd probably matter most would be the relative hire rates among different age groups.)
Try comparing the numbers of bicycle commuters versus automobile commuters and doing the same for any American city and prepare for your mind to be blown.
Since when do engineers have a say in what legal does?
I'm no longer interested in trying argue that experience results in higher productivity - if you have to say that then you're already in a situation where they believe young is better.

That's the point, and that's why I'm actively working to make money in other ways and not be a programmer because I'm not employable. Well perhaps employable now, but at 60?
Our company wanted to defend their database. It was shipped as part of product (something like dictionary), so without further protection it was extremely easy to dump the database. I decided to encrypt the database. But obviously smart enough person could just disassemble the encryption and extract the key. So I implemented my own simple JavaScript-like programming language, built a compiler for that language which compiles it to some complicated bytecode, implemented a VM for this bytecode and implemented encryption routines using that language. Now to reverse-engineer encryption cracker must write his own disassembler and I tried hard to defend against hacker just calling the blob as a whole (though probably it was the best attack vector if you ask me). While this defense wasn't perfect, AFAIK it worked and this compiler and VM project was very interesting for me, especially because I used Scala for compiler and it turned out as a perfect language for this task.
> It is also pushed a lot by Intel for FPGA, which probably scare even more NVidia.

These tools aren't available for the wide majority of developers, and are still exceptionally difficult to use and maintain without hardware engineers. I'm going to assume you haven't used FPGAs at all? The ones that can compete at the same tasks for GPUs are not as easily available in terms of price, volume, or even over-the-counter availability (be prepared to ask for a lot of quotes), and the tools have only become more accessible very recently -- such as Intel slashing the FPGA OpenCL licensing costs, and Dell EMC shipping them in pre-configured rack units.

> Nvidia only introduced the possibility of having runtime compilation as a preview in Cuda 7

In the mean time, Nvidia also completely dominated the market by actually producing many working middleware libraries and integrations, a solid and working programming model, and continuously refining and delivering on core technology and GPU upgrades. Maybe those things matter more than runtime compilation and speculative claims about peak performance...

> The "single source" argument is completely overrated.

Even new Khronos standards like SYCL (built on OpenCL, and which does look promising, and I'm hoping AMD delivers a toolchain after they get MIOpen more fleshed out) are moving to the single-source model. It's not even that much better, really, but development friction and cost of entry matters more than anything, and Nvidia understood this from day one. They understood it with GameWorks, as well. They plant specialist engineers "in the field" to accelerate the development and adoption of their tech, and they're very good at it.

This is because their core focus is hardware and selling hardware; it's thus in their interest to release "free" tools that require low-effort to buy into, do as much dirty integration work as possible, and basically give people free engineering power -- because it drives their hardware sales. They basically subsidize their software stack in order to drive GPUs.

> Furthermore, you can have single source in OpenCL putting the code in strings.

This is a joke argument, right?
Maybe so, but please don't post shallow dismissals to HN. Even if they're right, they damage the container here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I know folks love the gopher, but I’m a fan of this to be honest.

The hand drawn gopher just looked... childish? It definitely didn’t give me the impression of an efficient and well put together programming language.
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whats your zipcode? I will try to look up history rental listings from your local apartment complexes on zillow to see if this is true. really curious
I am not sure you can equate a Greater LA CSA to a city. CSA includes multiple cities (and some deserts) that are ~200km apart.

Densities in these cities are not so outrageously different. ~5,600/sqkm in London vs ~3,300/sqkm in LA
Sleek new logo makes it look like a bicycle renting start up. While I think its good to refresh branding and aim to unify more things, I will miss the Go Gopher.
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I think Telegram (https://telegram.org/) is quite convenient for communication within a team, however, it is not such the workflow-oriented software as Slack is.
It's almost guaranteed we are not leaving a world of low interest rates (vs historical norms of the past 30 or 50 years).

Most of the global economy is loaded up on debt: Japan, China, the US, large parts of Europe. These days it's the exception when a country has a modest debt context, whether at the government level, corporate level, or household level.

Countries that we normally think of as very well off, such as Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands are among the most indebted people on earth in terms of household debt to income. They can't afford much higher interest rates at all, it would collapse their housing markets and shatter their household finances.

Australia is in the same boat, two years ago nearly 1/2 of all new Australian mortgages were interest only mortgages; over the last 10 years, the average has been about 35% of all new Australian mortgages have been interest only (in a nation where their housing market is 4x the size of the economy; by comparison, the US housing market is 1.5x the size of its economy). As of a year ago, in total around 39% of all outstanding Australian residential loan balances were interest only. [1] For those that recall the US real-estate bubble, that's a terrifying figure; the US interest-only share of the market during the crazy years of the real-estate bubble was single digits (5-8%). Australia is currently taking action to try to counter this, which is rocking their market presently. [2]

The solid gains Canada made in their household wealth figures over the last decade? Almost entirely from their real estate bubble, which has produced a housing market that as a % of GDP is 2/3 larger than that of the US (the Canadian housing market is 2.5x the size of their economy, up from about 1.6x in 2007). They also can't afford significantly higher interest rates.

New Zealand is similar to Australia, their housing market is 4x the size of their economy. The UK's housing market is 3x the size of their economy, or twice the ratio of the US. These countries are all fragile when it comes to higher interest rates on mortgages.

Even the Swiss are in terrible shape, their household debt as a percentage of GDP is 50% higher than the US ratio.

In the US, its households are in reasonably good shape on debt; US household debt to income figures are the best they've been in decades, essentially the lowest the US has on modern record. Its corporations have loaded up on debt over the last ten years, and of course the Federal Government has taken on immense debt over the same span of time. The US Government simply can't afford 4-5% interest rates on its soon to be $30 trillion in public debt; which is another way of saying: in the US we are never returning to normal interest rates, not under any circumstances. The Fed will go into perpetual QE mode, as Japan has, to guarantee that.

Germany is a particular stand-out among high income nations when it comes to having low government debt, no real estate bubble, and no serious household debt to income ratio problem.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/2Z0mzou.png

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-15/tougher-l...
After many rejections during my job hunt last year, I did seriously consider it, yes. Despite having a pretty solid skill set and experience, no bites, which is rather demoralizing.

You can argue whether candidates in their 50s are less viable, but it was clear that age was a factor. Not just being typecast as stodgy, but also that many people simply don't want to work with, or compete against, someone who's older.

I see comments about people getting old and not wanting to learn new things, but for me it's almost the opposite. One of the things I like most about tech is learning new things, and once you've been in for several decades, there are fewer and fewer truly new things left to learn, and positions where you'd get to learn them are fewer and fewer.

It was almost a fluke, but I did finally find a job (still in tech) that works for me. But if you knew the details, it wouldn't cheer you.

I may yet leave soon, and just live out my days as a churchmouse working on Open Source projects. We'll see.
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