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If you want to get paid for doing it, Perl 5. If you're just mucking about with personal projects, Perl 6.
Exactly; Big company pays subcontractor an X amount of money for services delivered, subcontractor then tries to get as much profit as possible at the expense of their employees.

IMO subcontracting itself is a problem as well, especially if it's a long-term contract. There's nothing wrong with a company hiring its own (for example) cleaning staff.
This reminds me of a scene from Jack London's The Iron Heel[1]:

"He lost his arm in the Sierra Mills, and like a broken-down horse you turned him out on the highway to die. When I say 'you,' I mean the superintendent and the officials that you and the other stockholders pay to manage the mills for you. It was an accident. It was caused by his trying to save the company a few dollars. The toothed drum of the picker caught his arm. He might have let the small flint that he saw in the teeth go through. It would have smashed out a double row of spikes. But he reached for the flint, and his arm was picked and clawed to shreds from the finger tips to the shoulder. It was at night. The mills were working overtime. They paid a fat dividend that quarter. Jackson had been working many hours, and his muscles had lost their resiliency and snap. They made his movements a bit slow. That was why the machine caught him. He had a wife and three children."

"And what did the company do for him?" I asked.

"Nothing. Oh, yes, they did do something. They successfully fought the damage suit he brought when he came out of hospital. The company employs very efficient lawyers, you know."

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Iron_Heel
You didn't buy tacobell with bitcoin unless Taco Bell quoted you a price in BTC...
That most life decisions for most people are based on their social and cultural environment that force them into a predefined path. Wandering out of it comes with a price of continual self-doubt. Staying into that path is an easy way to live an ok life but it comes with the greatest price of all: a terrible feeling of regret at the end of your life.

Something I also believe is that most people will not question those life decision and ask themselves if this is really what they want.
Current OSM data license is ODBL 1.0 [1], I think Apple would have a problem with having to share modifications they made to the data (especially if they merge in data from commercial sources).

Share-Alike: If you publicly use any adapted version of this database, or works produced from an adapted database, you must also offer that adapted database under the ODbL.

[1] https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/
I wonder if this is the Motorola ROKR all over again
Because I want my IDE, github and the app I am working on to be colorful and everything else blunt
That most office jobs are useless, and contributing nothing, and what they do contribute could be done in far less time.
> However, I've never believed it to be possible to have a language both as a shell language and a proper programming language for large-scale projects. I believe the two usecases are fundamentally antithetical, but I'd be happy to be proven wrong.

I'd say Powershell proves you right. Powershell has a great design, it has optional typing and access to a cornucopia of libraries via .NET.

Even so, they had to make some compromises because of the shell parts (functions return output, for example) which makes is quite finicky as a "proper" programming language.

On the shell side, the very nice nomenclature which makes it very readable and discoverable makes is annoying sometimes to use as a shell. That and the somewhat unwieldy launch of non-Powershell commands.

Someone who attempts to bridge the two has a ton of work to do, both in the research and in the implementation department. I guess Oil Shell (https://www.oilshell.org/) is the most realistic approach we have today. And it's probably still 1-2 years away from release and many more years from mass adoption (if that ever happens).
Link should be: http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/05/23/should-psychiatry-test-...
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Call me cynical, but the guy can probably get a much higher lump damages sum from tesla than from MkIII, the latter of which is likely to just go bankrupt if they had to pay damages.
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Yes, but it's also true (or even more true) for children. So it's OK for a kid to get bored while their parents are busy with something, be it their phone or anything more valuable.
True, you are right and I've never thought of it that way. We all have our strengths and weaknesses and surely without everyone being "classified" as something we are all incapable or terrible at doing certain things while we are tremendous at others. It's like the fish climbing a tree versus certain types of animals swimming. I love that saying. If you test them at what they were meant to do they'll pass with flying colors. Problem is it's impossible to classify humans in such a visual / species type of way. We are too indistinguishable.
There are various lower levels. It's "up to". Many of the things GDPR requires have been law in various parts of Europe for a long time (e.g. Germany), sometimes in all of Europe. But the fines were so low that most companies said "eh, who cares" - now enforcement has teeth and it's panic all around.
I was struck by the family that moved back in the article. They had a good job in the new location. What they didn't have was extended family or a community.

The pure financial impact of extended family childcare can easily eat away a step up in earnings for those with young children. Then the intangibles of not getting them to know your parents or the close friends you grew up with, those don't even have an exact market substitute. Frequent travel I guess?

It's not easy.

From the econ perspective I can't help but think that greater labor mobility would make things so much better, but as a new parent it's becoming obvious these are not trivial behaviors to shift at all.
Here's an article about the high school hacker extraordinaire [1]. My favorite line from the article has to be this one from the sergeant:

> We wrote numerous search warrants to get the IP addresses of the possible phishing site email. We got it and we did good old fashioned police detective work and we narrowed it down to an address

Good old fashioned police detective work indeed.

[1] http://www.ktvu.com/news/concord-student-accused-of-hacking-...
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Yes, that is very well possible. But that is not how an average Dutch person would read it.

Your reading makes excellent sense though, since a lot of the houses here are made of red brick.

Maybe he did not want to be limited in his choices of brick colors :)
I don't see the point either, a good backward compatibility is useful but a 100% backward compatibility even with unspecified behaviour is a recipe for disaster.
Fox News wouldn't violate the first amendment. At most, the POTUS might be prevented from using that website.

(Nitpick: "free speech" is a general philosophical concept; we're talking about the 1st Amendment, which is a particular application of one of many views on that concept)
> Just for fun I searched Bloomberg for this phrase: "why do upper middle class people continue to live in overpriced cities despite having all their needs met". The second result was this one: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-08-12/only-45-p.... Maybe we are more alike than we realize...

The article is paywalled, but AFAICT it's not particularly true or relevant. The article you posted is from 4 years ago, and is based on the Fed's annual "Economic Well-Being" report. The most recent one was just released (https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/2017-repor...), and it shows that ~40 of non-retired adults think
that their retirement savings are on track. This comfortably encompasses the upper-middle class.

The 2014 report is here (https://www.federalreserve.gov/econresdata/2014-report-econo...) and shows worse numbers for savings (the metrics seem to have changed, so I can't make a simple apples-to-apples comparison). AFAICT, the main changes have been to economic optimism and liquidity, both of which are better indicators of the contemporary economy[1] than they are of actual financial stability or level of savings. This is hardly surprising, given that we were still not that far out from a shaky economy in '14.
> businesses with basically 0 startup capital requirements [...] and minimal time commitments ala software

I don't know what world you live in, but in mine, new software takes a lot of time to write, or a lot of money to pay someone to write it.
My impression is that Instapaper team is terribly understaffed and probably lost control over it's code base. They had changed hands twice over the years (Betaworks (Digg) 2013 and Pinterest 2016) with practically zero changes in code or the app. Zero progress, zero updates. That says something.

And the instapaper.com when downloading is sharing data with third parties like there is no tomorrow. Simply it is downloading a lot of crap from original sites (images etc.) which could be used for tracking - no way they could be compliant with GDPR and let user decide which third parties to share data with.
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Keep in mind it's for graph processing - Hadoop/HDFS still shines for data-intensive streaming workloads like indexing a few hundred terabytes of data - where you can exploit the parallel disk io of all disks in the cluster - if you have 20 machines with 8 disks in a cluster that's 20 * 8 * 100mbyte/s = 16gbyte/s throughput - for 200 machines it's 160gbyte/s.

However for iterative calculations like pagerank the overhead for distributing the problems is often not worth it.
Golf driver spotted.

But jokes aside I wouldn't be so sure about this. DHL has famously chosen StreetScooter instead of VW to built their last-mile fleet and the top brass in VW were also famously upset about this.

Also sales of the first gen Golf EV weren't even of the same order as sales of e.g. the LEAF - perhaps because VW insisted on keeping diesels alive longer than it made any sense.
>Those believe that it is somehow physically possible to engineer the language parser that it use some extremely sophisticated lexic tools to guess what version of JS something the code refers, those also are the proponents of "lets guess the api version by counting the number of arguments, and if we need a new one, we just add one more"

You don't need that luckily, we have DOCTYPE to tell us something about the version of a document.

A simple `<!DOCTYPE html js2018>` would be sufficient IMO though it might break older browser (but honestly, screw everyone still using IE8)

On the other hand we have WASM now and once we get proper integration into browser I imagine things might get better.
Trump violated the Constitution when he blocked his critics on Twitter
Me too. And I can see I am definitely subscribed to "account update" emails. I'm not sure how they would decide if I was European or not, can't see a tick box for that in the profile page.
What about it did he find appealing?
found the Google employee
Out of curiosity, what is this "old phone"? Is it still a relatively modern smartphone?
No. The public official can still mute them so they don't see they. The public official doesn't have to interact. But they cannot keep someone from accessing their feed when they use it for politics. They still have the right to access the information directly.

These same people can right letters, after all. The politician doesn't have to read these letters nor respond to them. But in doing so, they can't keep people from sending letters nor stop them from getting information about the office.

In short: When they use their tech for political motives, the politician's want to block people doesn't overturn the people's right to get information from the source, be it twitter or a press release on the government's website.
> It costs a few hundred million to maintain all those banks and vaults.

There are ~8000 banks in the US alone, around 15K around the world.

According to your made up number, it costs $6K/year to run a bank. That's not even remotely close. That would pay maybe a month of the desk clerk's salary + overhead.
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Airbnb is a service, where bitcoin is a commodity. I don't mean to imply you are wrong. I simply mean that there may be an even more interesting parallel out there where a commodity is no longer being used in its originally intended way which may support bitcoin's evolution of purpose.
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> Credit and debit cards are just a way of shifting dollars around

A credit card is shifting a line of credit, an intangible promise to pay, a form of trust, that happens to be denominated in dollars.

We can pretend it's just a balance of dollars, even though it technically isn't, because it makes conversations easier, and in practical fact that's how it appears to work. But that's just a shorthand.

We can use the same shorthand to say someone bought something with bitcoin.

There's no reason to demand perfect technical precision with bitcoin and no similar pedantic precision with lines of credit.

> you can't walk into a store and give them some gold flake or a quart of Texas crude in exchange for a candy bar

I think this is the best test. Here the guy has done that. He walked in with bitcoin and walked out with tacos. When you say that's not really what happened, it feels like a no true scotsman response.
The big problem is the incentive structure.

TC39 can't introduce breaking changes because browsers won't implement breaking changes.

Browsers won't implement breaking changes because users would switch to other browsers which don't implement breaking changes.

It doesn't matter whose "fault" it is, if a website works in one browser but not in another, users are going to use the browser it works in.
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That is so easy to say on an online forum, depending on where one is living and people that depend on their income, it isn't always a clear option.
I live in world where I can write the MVP to prove a business case in a week after / before work, sometimes with no code!

Edit: My MVPs may not meet your requirements for new software. They will not be all singing, all dancing. They will do some tiny slice of core functionality that allows me to prove the value of technologies application to the problem. Often with serious manual intevention.
Instapaper is owned by Pinterest btw. Not a 2-ppl SaaS.
How does shutting down fix GDPR issues? Does all user data magically disappear by shutting down?
Most of which didn't have such a tool available to them. They did tend to use whatever technology they had available (radio, newspapers, television, trains, telegrams....). And they haven't all gone smoothly either, nor did they reach all eligible voters.
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If you subcontract a company knowing that your demands result in workers working under subhuman or severely dangerous conditions, you are very much responsible for that.

You don't get to subcontract out your moral/social responsibility, even if you're Apple or Tesla, Nike or Adidas or whatever.
Thing is, accountability only happens when it is imposed and validated by institutions.
SeaBIOS is doing a reasonable job at that
Seems they are trying at any rate: "town built for self-driving cars has opened in South Korea" https://qz.com/1121372/south-korea-opens-k-city-the-latest-f...
As a red/green colorblind the only thing that I hate when people mess up are charts, never had a problem with everything else
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Yes, luck plays a big part in this game... unfortunately. I actually read it as in "he'll make sales which will generate more income" but what you're saying is valid though I think once you launch, you end up getting more work as feedback comes pouring in.
I guess the conclusion is that if you're attempting to create a new PoW cryptocurrency you better make sure to tweak your PoW algorithm enough to make sure that existing miners cannot easily convert their special purpose mining rigs to sink you for fun and/or profit.
This is what happens when you use monkey patching (ie. overwriting the builtins of a language/library). Unfortunately, it's a very common technique in the JS World. It's sad that so much of modern development (JavaScript) is based on such bad practices. Just because it's easy doesn't mean people should do it. Touching globals is almost never a good idea.
> I can't believe people have different values from me.

I don't find it all that unbelievable. Convenience is a hell of a drug, and the practical negative impact on someone's life from this kind of service is...what exactly?
Well he isn't able to use a computer or even complicated mobile phone. And now he has a bad sight and his hands are shaking.

So the ability to talk to device, to get on the internet, to get weather forecast, news, music he likes (he obviously doesn't like modern music), get some videos from YouTube on TV screen or call someone is a revelation. Plus the fact that it just works and is really cheap.
Is it me or is there only this scientist (Jean-Lou Justine [0]) who reports about this invasion?

All articles that I find in French are written since a few days only and they point directly or indirectly to M. Justine and all have the nearly the same wording and pictures as in the WP article "

[0] http://isyeb.mnhn.fr/directory/pages-personnelles/article/ju...
Of course they would. About the same things, in the same way.
To be in the position of being able to do a bitcoin 51% attack however you would have had to sunk enormous costs into buying ASIC miners. The minute everyone finds out that a 51% attack occurs you will have pressure to change the mining algorithm and suddenly all your miners are worthless.
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I think from Apple's perspective the iPad is the $500-$600 Chromebook competitor suitable for everyone. People have different opinions on the actually usefulness but Apple has been pretty clear saying the iPad is 'the future PC'.

Regarding swift on server, I think this could be fun. Will try it some day https://vapor.codes/
You can still do that. There are many languages that compile to Javascript though I never saw the point in those (mostly because I'm very comfortable with JavaScript as a language)
What I find ironic (as an exmormon/ex-christian now semi-agnostic person -- I still quasi believe there could be some sort of afterlife but the bible is dead to me.) is that those on the 'christian right' are more prone to push out the poor and neglect them those who are on the left more anxious to help and alleviate their pain points. -- I've known humanists, secular buddhists, atheists, and agnostics with bigger hearts and more care for the poor than the majority of God-fearing people regardless of faith.

One reason I stopped believing is because of all the hypocrisy I'd hear. Go to church on Sunday, leaders of the church officially deny supporting a political agenda, then they go about instituting anti-gay propaganda and fighting against legalizing marriage, or legalizing medical marijuana. Heck the LDS church is trying to ban the ability to record someone (like a Bishop) without them knowing, because they're afraid of the backlash they themselves might have (and so far are having with recent events).

Yet, I still admire Jesus and what he taught... the sad thing is.. there's no Jesus in most of America or they'd be fighting to cure the sick and the poor, they'd want universal healthcare and guaranteed basic income. Even Jesus forgave the Harlot and welcomed her at his table, so why not forgive the drug addict and give them a home regardless?

I say make GBI require you spend it on rent/mortgage -- to receive it you can't be homeless - you must have a physical address and only one check per address + x amount per person living in house, --maybe 2k per house/apartment, 500 per adult/child extra living therein.

This even helps the economy as poor people are most likely to spend the money locally instead of squirrel it away in a trust fund or investment.

If I had GBI, I'd quit my day job and finally launch a side-business or go freelance full-time, but I work 60 hours a week on salary for 80k as a developer because I have to pay the bills and my wife stays home with the kids. I could really use that money personally to just float by when freelance dries up, or my side project fails, and I start building the next one.
but there is also the VGA BIOS.
No, it's not the same. This isn't a contractor doing work entirely under their own care and control and providing a finished product to Tesla. They were working on Tesla-owned electrical equipment within the premises of Tesla's factory.

I supervise the operations of a power generating station. From time to time, I have specialized contractors working in my substation. You can bet your bottom dollar that they work under safety practices approved and audited by myself/representatives of my employer (the site owner). There would never be - as occurred here - an unqualified worker injured by an arc flash on my site because no contractor worker is starting work until isolation, lockout and grounding has been verified by two qualified people.

When work is occurring on a site that you own and control, you have a responsibility to supervise and audit the safety practices of your contractors. The fact that very basic safety protocols weren't being followed on Tesla's site shows that they weren't doing the due diligence that I expect from professionals in the electrical industry.
You know why: some organizations are simply not meant to be fixed. People get hurt for silly reasons and one may not want to hurt the wrong people.
I don’t have a good answer to the framework question, but I do have an opinion about cross-platform. Why make cross-platform a priority over efficiency and user experience? I bounce between Mac and Windows daily, and my least favorite apps are those that try to run on both. They are often resource hogs and provide a UI experience that feels worse than native apps. Electron apps have the least bad UI experience, but are resource hogs. One app I use for work, Mendeley, uses Qt for its UI I believe, and it’s garbage on both platforms- so I use the web interface instead. Give me a good native app instead of a suboptimal cross platform one.

I often think the issue isn’t cross platform though: it’s that there is a cohort of developers who know a toolchain (JS+web), and use frameworks that let them live in that instead of investing the time and effort to learn how to write an app well using a toolchain not built for those focused on web/browser models of programming.
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It sounds like the whole field is contaminated with mind-body dualism. But there's a bigger problem; even once you accept that humans are fully physical, embodied minds in a sea of whatever chemicals can cross the blood-brain barrier, the scope is wider. Humans are part of a society that can harm them without effective means of redress.

Also, from the original paper, via the linked LJ: https://siderea.dreamwidth.org/1388220.html

"I began taking blood samples from everybody who came to the clinic. At times it seemed like Transylvania Station. The state Department of Public Health's laboratory tested blood free for anyone under the age of 12 and provided plastic pipettes, finger puncture equipment, and even mailing envelopes at no cost. So, for a while, everyone in the clinic was declared to be under 12 years of age."

Both a nice public healthcare hack and a risky thing to admit in a journal article.