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You believe what you believe because you read European newspapers, which are anti whoever doesn't comply with what Germany says.

Poland is absolutely NOT hostile to Europe, on the contrary (sorry, I couldn't find a source right now). Italy and other countries are a huge percentage more against Europe than not Poles.

Poland simply doesn't need to lower its wages like Germany did, and has therefore no interest in letting in any of the extra hundred of thousands of migrants that hang around across Europe thanks to Germany opening the borders to them. That would significantly increase crime--which is virtually not-existent in terms of personal safety in Poland--like it happened in Italy and I assume other countries, and cost a ton of money that is currently put into much better and more productive use.

The government is extremely stable. If you read about extreme Catholic-based laws, it's just because that's what they believe in, and after a few years of "West no matter what" following their independence from the Soviets, they are now trying to find their own identity--which is like it or not extremely Catholic and nationalistic. I don't necessarily love those laws, but I'm not Polish and I have different values. The US has it even worse, with laws dictating what sexual positions are legal and which ones are illegal in many states--and no one is complaining.

From a business point of view, I have a company that I opened in 1 day. You have the right to issue invoices from the minute you apply, the government has 1 week to send you a tax ID # (I got mine via email after 3 days). Everything is done electronically, via a trusted profile like your bank account. It's extremely efficient. Taxes are a joke compared to what I'm used to (Italy at 45%): 19% flat. My accountant is EUR 40/mo., but you can find cheaper ones (by comparison, my accountant in Italy cost me EUR 120/mo. because of the bureaucracy involved).

Many people don't know a lot about Poland, and what they know is pretty far from the truth.
Your parent didn't say that. Speaking about Rust in a thread about a Rust project seems to be very on-topic?

(I would also disagree with that statement, but in a different way: Rust enables zero-cost abstractions, but nothing inherently means they have to be. I can also make quite costly ones, and they'll compile.)
Given that "Older people are less innovative, learn slower and so on." what would you guess the average age of founders with a successful startup exit is?

(A) 22

(B) 26

(C) 31
A free market does not work for health care. At all.

Or, more technically: health care does not meet the requirements for a "free market", so cannot exist in principle.
None of the above. Try 47.

https://digitopoly.org/2017/07/17/the-young-entrepreneur-myt...
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The non-related words for ox, cow and beef.
I can confirm the same at least in Czech, Ukrainian, Belarusian and Russian. But not in, say, Polish (where 'beef' has its root from 'ox')
Perhaps someone here can answer this: if a voxel is an aligned cube in a rectangular grid, how could one represent a mirror (or shiny surface) that's oriented at (say) 45 degrees w.r.t. the grid?
> So when you explicitly break, the for body was executed.

Maybe that is what is technically happening, I honestly don't know what that means.

I consider the body of a for statement to be execute for every loop, and for the loop to normally end when all values have been iterated. And else-clause is something that happens instead of the intended clause, which makes it very hard to fit in.

Reading through the comments here, there does seem to exist a mental model where the else makes sense. Something along the lines of

`if` there still is a value to assign to `i` do `loop-body`, `else` do `else-body`.

You can learn that, and it does make sense, but it is not the mental model the majority of people will build when they see a normal for loop in Python.
I would say older employees in corporations tend to be middle managers. If the layoffs affect more management than the engineering side you are going to have a skewed graph.
> It'd be great if we native English-speakers would tolerate — and even encourage — "mistakes" in English to streamline (refactor?) the language and make it easier for non-native speakers to become fluent

This is how languages evolve already. Mistakes become accepted over time.

The problem with "turning it up to 11" (or not offering mistakes any resistance before giving in to them; being conservative about it helps to single out the most persistent ones, working as natural selection of sorts)... is that not all the learners will make the same mistakes.

> English as a Second Language teachers could doubtless come up with a long list of such "mistakes."

Exactly, it would be a very long list. And much dependent on the background of the learner (aka their first language). What'd be obvious and easy for me as a Pole is not necessarily the same for a Spaniard.

Meaning this approach would lead to further diversification, rather than unification of the language.

> "misspellings" should be tolerated as well

As a non-native speaker, I'm pretty sure that widespread acceptance for spelling mistakes would pose more difficulty for me in the long run.

It is way easier for a native speaker to see past them.

So, while your mileage may vary, I, for one, vote thanks but no thanks :)
are you familiar with this project?

https://www.ledger-cli.org/
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That is interesting (especially regarding the comment below citing an even higher age)!

But I'm not sure how that converts to the skills you need to have to be an employable Intel worker, which are most certainly a lot different
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If the job is something with such a steep learning curve and plateau (maybe due to periodic technical revolutions?) that someone with 20 years experience is only insignificantly better than someone with 5 years experience, economics would support paying them the same. If we want to artificially subsidize some more expensive older workers, they should be subsidized directly by society, not by forcing employers to do so.

(There are a lot of jobs where 20 years gives better performance, or where being 51% good va 50% good would be worth a huge premium, but not all.)

Where this really gets complex is startups which are growing in headcount and shrinking in equity offer size. An early hire there might be objectively worse than a new marginal hire but has an equity vesting package which makes him vastly better paid for each month today. IIRC it was Zynga which tried to forcibly renegotiate this (instead of just firing people who were presently underperforming, the usual route).
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Also a fan of ledger. See http://plaintextaccounting.org for some more details on its workflow.
It's not orwellian to be friendly towards authority, especially when you're a business and it's about the privacy of the users, protecting the very data that orwellian governments seek to collect and abuse.

Otherwise, I would love to hear which part of my comment was orwellian in nature?
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Dream Yoga and the Practice of Natural Light by Chogyal Namkhai Norbu. Gives you a completely different perspective on life. Also Awakening Upon Dying by the same author.
I remember reading about a study that attempted something similar, they found that dietary guidelines were in fact impossible to meet using a "natural diet" without supplements (scare quotes because I don't remember the exact dietary constraints). I think the constraints also included lower bounds for things like sodium and potassium (this model only has upper bounds for them).
the parents idea is totally bonkers, who needs abostrophes anyway ...
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There is a far bigger problem than thermodynamics in play, namely: dust. Not just in computer cases: it also applies to places like photography darkrooms. The usual pattern of placing a single blowing-out fan in a ventilation duct is all wrong: it pulls air in from the cracks in doors and windows. The dust-proof way is to make the fan pump the air into the room, but also install a HEPA filter on the air intake pipe/fan.
> If the job is something with such a steep learning curve and plateau (maybe due to periodic technical revolutions?) that someone with 20 years experience is only insignificantly better than someone with 5 years experience, economics would support paying them the same.

Good news then that this isn't how tech jobs work, where about 99% of all "technical revolutions" are just renaming old things which had fallen out of fashion and use them again.
Brain trauma is inherently more localized than drugs, so expecting a 1:1 mapping is hardly reasonable.

However, fever lack of sleep and other non localized effects can produce a wide range of Hallucinations.
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> Worse imho is the "glasses", "pants", "pliers", "scissors", etc thing. Single object with plural name just because it happens to be made of two similar parts.

As a countable noun, aside from also being a drinking vessel, "a glass" is a lens or monocle. A pair of glasses is exactly a pair of those. These definitions are still in current use.

Its true that the singular terms for the others are no longer in common current use, so the plural seems odd, but glasses is a particularly bad example.
>Older people are less innovative, learn slower and so on.

Why should I or anyone else believe this about older and more experienced programmers? I can't think of many fields where more experienced practitioners are generally worse...
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I got this one of reddit a long time ago[1], but maybe someone here knows where to find it.

A blog post laying out why Japan prefers "gadgets" over PCs, due to their complex writing system requiring more RAM, causing all early PCs to be more expensive. The post was really well written with pictures and price comparisons between US and Japanese versions of (if memory serves me right) Amigas and Commodores and other systems.

[1] Maybe before the release of the iPhone, but definitely before the release in Japan
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This is the most ridiculous thing I ever heard, is it april fools day?
I read about "amper's and". Although I have no idea what an amper is, if memory serves the whole thing is related to merchant short hand, but it cannot get any more ridiculous than this joke somebody is having on you.
Old people should be killed at birth.
This looks similar to the Makita-brand UKW radio that my parents are using around their garden. The radio also runs off drill batteries.
Not really, Samsung was already winning out thanks to their UI and usability over stock Android.

I never knew anyone that would burn custom ROMs on their Samsungs.
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> Grammatically plural nouns denoting single objects is something that occurs in multiple European languages (and perhaps others), not only English.

None of those examples in English unambiguously denote single objects, they all denote indefinite numbered collections. The explicit singular object in each case is "a pair of X", where "X" is the term you have listed, and that is a grammatically singular noun phrase denoting a singular object.
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In Swedish, "by itself" is "för sig" that is, quite literally, "per se". (ö and e in "per" pronounced the same, "sig" and "se" pronounced the same.)
>You want a major version bump on very widely used software just to remove something that causes a minor confusion on the rare occasion it is used?

No, I want a deprecation warning, and an eventual removal when for 4.0 lands.

>In what world does that sound like a good idea?

In a world where we don't pile crap upon crap forever, like with POSIX, X-Windows, or C++.
Arguably the biggest "brand" connected to the Z80 was CP/M[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/M
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I am a contractor in the Netherlands and I believe it is the best possible place for a developer. We have a very high quality of life and a good balance in income and spending.

As a contractor you can earn near 20k per month pre-tax (around 7k per month post-tax) and live in a big home that costs you 1k per month in mortgage. That leaves you a lot of money for your spare time, fun activities and early retirement. I'm planning to retire at 35.
I wonder if the results would be different if the study subjects were people who often listen to podcasts or audiobooks in faster speed settings.
A potential problem I can see with this is if you use this tool regularly, then an adversary can simply overlay all your uploaded tracks and go looking for the really obvious circle centered on your home.
dat- is the stem, I suppose, -um is a grammatical ending. Data simply suits the English ear better because it's close to the nominal suffix -er. How do you like this dater point?
> Code is not data

Lisp would, of course, disagree. :-)
And plenty of new business models and paid models will appear that allow proper price discovery.
You can use the GPU's harware rasterizer to voxelize a scene.

http://www.alexandre-pestana.com/voxelization-using-gpu-hard...

This approach is used in most commercial games that support voxel-based global illumination.
My (admittedly snarky) post was in response was to the "old people are slow" comment. You are probably right though on the different skills.

<snark>

Perhaps being a successful founder doesn't require as much neural plasticity as being an older worker at Intel. ;-)

</snark>
Not everything needs to be idiot proof.
Important cultural differences (not festivities and language but religion and morality and ethics) means that people of a culture can not enjoy or even tolerate another culture.

As European, I can only hope the world will adapt a secular vegan European-like culture and not e.g. the war loving US culture with lying government officials (even worse than some European nations) or the Chinese culture (e.g. Social Credits and no freedom of speech) or the work culture of South Korea and Japan or a Muslim/Sharia culture or a culture of genital mutilation of boys and girls or a culture of throwing acid in the faces of people or a caste system like in India.
I would answer "you can write trash in any language, in Rust you need to find ways how to do it, when in other languages - how to avoid it".
Looks like ycombinator now is the place when people just looking for negativity and what else ti disagree with.
Maintaining a gratitude journal is an excellent way to help bring yourself into the present and acknowledge what is positive in the here and now (or at least close enough to it to begin with). Once you build a habit around it it's easier for that positivity to spread further.

It helps you realise that a lot of positive stuff will happen during your day that you don't notice, because the anxiety about what the future might hold dominates your attention. Even if it's as simple as making toast with that perfect level of crunchiness, or saying good morning to someone and noticing a smile.

I'm a strong advocate of finding a therapist you trust, though. These things can help a great deal on the surface, which is fantastic, but it's important to have somebody there if your awareness goes deeper into your past, which is where the 'why' is.
RMI (and similar technologies like CORBA) is a “mistake” in today’s world because it makes every public method an attack surface. It also hides important details that the client really can’t not deal with, namely network issues.

I put mistake in quotes because there are situations where RMI (and Java serialization) work fine: trusted, reliable networks like cluster or grid computing.
Libertarianism invariably ends as Feudalism.
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BTW, contrary to other comments this has nothing to do with the binary nature of serialization. The problem is that serialized "data" are programs. They're code. For some really scary stuff see the XMLDecoder [0] API which is XML-based " Java-bean serialization" but actually enables arbitrary code execution.

Note that even when it's not an explicit feature serialization libraries have a tendency to become unexpectedly Turing-complete [1]. There are many, many systems out there that are vulnerable to "surprise Turing" attacks.

The only real defense against this is to have well-documented schemas in place and to thoroughly validate all incoming data. Ironically all the guys churning out schema-less JSON microservices think they're okay. They're not. As they say the truth is even worse than it appears...

[0] http://blog.diniscruz.com/2013/08/using-xmldecoder-to-execut...

[1] https://medium.com/@cowtowncoder/on-jackson-cves-dont-panic-...
Since you live in France, wouldn't your business be considered French as well, assuming you don't have employees/associates in other countries? Since the corporate tax residency cares about where the activity is directed from.
Well, to be technical, in Europe a company does not enjoy the same rights and privileges as an actual person (natural vs legal person). So legal persons are made of natural people and natural people are a legal person of 1 but also enjoy a lot more rights and privileges than legal persons.
The datagenetics blog has a pretty deep dive into this question! http://datagenetics.com/blog/july32015/index.html
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Please stop derailing actual conversations with this nonsense.
Totally opaque to whether that's "lego's" or "legos" and children in general probably don't care for an overzealous syntactic classification of single morphemes either.

Is "gimme the lego over there" strange? I think it is, and if it is, then it's an interesting dater point to support this hypothesis.
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Would that go hand in hand with cartography and surveying as well?
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Approach, friend.
> everything that follows is how his co-founder screwed him

No. It's the part that takes up the most space, but there are a number of other, perfectly useful conclusions, like "you need a product and customers, not a technology", and "adapting to customer needs brings you succees".
I'm curious: What is "enough" for someone with eq of an MSc in CS and a couple of years work experience with big data and distributed systems? I realize Glassdoor and similar sites aren't the best source of information but 60K EUR per year seems to be "normal" pay for such a profile and offering above that hasn't helped us.

We're having trouble even finding relevant people to open up the conversation with. I am interviewing pretty much daily and I can count the number of candidates that we have even been talking salary with on my fingers. I bet it's a different story with web or app devs, though.
Yup, my intent was to get to a simpler approach.
> Your parent didn't say that.

Yes and it's more disturbing. It says "In Rust abstractions are free" when an algorithm was discussed.

Rust having "free" abstractions does not change the performance characteristics of an algorithm: this is what the grand-parent was talking about.
How is that relevant to the topic of answering the criticism?
First, productivity (as in widgets per hour) is a bad measure for knowledge worker value. It's famously hard to measure the output of teams of engineers over long periods of time, let alone the recent output of a single engineer.

Second, it is just taken as a given here that knowledge workers become less productive over time. Why are engineers downhill starting in middle age but not doctors, lawyers, professors, and professional coaches?

Third, it's also taken as a given that we can fairly cut the wages of individuals based on... what? Again, we're bad at measuring performance. Are we assuming they're less productive because they're older? How is that OK? It's possible that a 50 year old has become better at relevant things in the last year, surely.
Actually, I double checked (can't edit anymore), the total cost is the double of net salary, not brut salary. Employer taxes are 43% of the brut salary.

Bottom line : a good dev salary of €45k costs about €65k, before any tax reduction.
Median income is 1772€ per month.[1]

According to [2], 2500€ is top 85%, way higher than median!

(Numbers from 2013 and sources in french but I guess it is understandable for everyone. I expect salaries to have slightly increased in the last 5 years but not moving by +40%)
[1]https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/1370897

[2]https://www.alternatives-economiques.fr/salaire-mensuel-net-...
So far I've managed without fans because my home has one side in the shade and one side in the sun so I just create a draft and pull all the blindes down to avoid direct sunlight.

Being a Swedish summer, maybe around july august I'll need to take the fan out of storage and then it's just to get a draft on myself. Not to move any air around. The draft between the two sides of my home does that better.
Really great project! Good work. Love seeing Nuxt in the wild too.

Reminds me of Numi[0], a really beautiful text calculator I've been using on MacOS for a few years now.

[0] http://numi.io/
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As one who designed medical equipment (though not the mechanical engineer) this is the answer.
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There's no such thing as "data". Every piece of "data" eventually gets interpreted, thus becoming a "command" in some level of abstraction. The core of every security vulnerability is the belief that "this is just a piece of data".
I think you are looking for user patio11 on here...
What if baseline happens to be China and Russia style? I'd rather not rely on baselines.
That paper is pretty good but it's comparing bw-tree with much simpler in memory data structures. I think bw-tress might work specially well for fast-disk storage.
I agree that fever and lack of sleep can produce hallucinations, but I'm not convinced that they are non-localized effects in the brain, nor that psychedelic chemicals are non-localized in the brain.
Imagine if we put some radio telescopes on Mars and ran a baseline between Mars & Earth.
I still have a Timex 2048 (a clone of Sinclair ZX Spectrum). It is not the first Spectrum I used, but first I owned. It works still and I have a family tradition of plugging it into our TV set each Christmas and playing the games we have grown up with. Years ago I could use my PC workstation to "play" tape recordings into it but nowadays you have to use an Android phone [1] as I think there is too much of sound filtering built in and the tapes just don't load.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dk.rift.tzxdro...
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