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Your description of 'thinking algebraically' is similar to how I think of it. Seems to match something in human brains that partitions thought into subjects/domains which each have their own definitions of which things are fixed and which vary. I tried building a minimalist framework around the concept, adding one other element: 'converters,' which are used to move objects between domains. I wrote on it in more detail here if anyone's curious: https://github.com/westoncb/Domain-slash-Converter (probably not much of anything special in the source, though I think the concept may have something to it, and I've successfully built one pretty large and interesting thing on it.)
It's not "software" in that it's not something I choose to use. It's firmware, which is code that I have to use.

Also, even if you do not agree with the above statement, the kernel is unique enough to be granted an exception. If I can't get say sublime text or some proprietary decoder from the repos, that's a tiny annoyance; but if my screen gets funny colours or if I cannot connect to the wireless, that makes it unusable for me. And at that point you're effectively barring me from using free software (but with the exception of a couple blobs that I can totally live with given the status quo), not helping me adopt it. Yes Debian is not as cool (I really like Guix and GuixSD), but at least they are not impeding my day-to-day needs because of extremist morals.

When I asked on the official mailing list for help and was told kindly to f off, that makes me sour enough to say meh, I can use a relatively less interesting distro if it has a better, unconditionally helpful community.

Edit: also it's totally censorship to ban people from saying things they do know and could say.
Twitter is sweeping out fake accounts like never before, risking user growth
It's absolutely insane. We need to give up the idea that we can have huge employers surrounded by single family homes. I'd take a nice apartment close to work over a million dollar home and 45 minute commute. That was one of the biggest contrasts to me going to China, "small" cities were incredibly dense. It was just apartment after apartment. I don't know what the catalyst will be in the US to get us to go from single family communities to density.
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Zuck rolls around in it every time he drinks a free latte or gets hauled in front of Congress. Dithering about how "real" it actually is is left to the plebs like you and me. It's as real as anything else in this world.
After they switched us to an open office there was so much complaining that they then bought noise-cancelling headphones for everyone. So now we have an open office in which everyone wears headphones in an attempt to emulate having some privacy.

From my perspective it's the worst of most worlds, but they did manage to cram a lot more people into the space so it does save on building/office costs.
User-rating systems are cut-rate substitutes for a skilful boss
Modern programming languages are a lot more featureful and sophisticated than assembly language, and they change a lot more than instruction set architectures do. How is your lament different than that of an assembly language programmer, who might complain "crazy how far we've come from conditional jumps and some stack manipulation"?

I'm 41 and got started in the 1990s, and those assembly advocates really did exist. What makes you think that 20 years from now people won't have a hard time believing that anyone could have advocated "just HTML and some script tags" over modern development practices?
If a European goes there, he’ll have to sign a GDPR agreement? but if the city grew tired of that, they could forbid access to Europeans altogether. Which I’m not surprised would happen one day, perhaps not under this form, but becausr of our overprotected status.
Mark Zuckerberg is already constantly one of the largest insider traders. He currently sells almost $50M of FB stock most days the stock market is open.

https://finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=FB

(Insider Trading at the bottom)

Better link: https://finviz.com/insidertrading.ashx?oc=1548760&tc=7
So? It's enabling dystopia.
Yes, there's no required waiting period before pursuing a GC and you can pursue a GC while in F-1 status.
Yeah, looks like a long forgotten temp path for a long deprecated feature. I'd be lying if I said I'd never done the same.
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That's silly.

GWT was a solid platform for quite a large number of years, and is still used in quite a large number of enterprises. Also, there are a lot of good ideas in there that the JS community is only just catching up to, like dead code elimination.

A lot of modern javascript/typescript syntax is inspired by CoffeeScript. And CS is so trivially easy to learn that "saved a few brain cells" sounds like intellectual laziness.

There's a fair argument to be made for not jumping on the bleeding edge. But your examples are all mature technologies that had good solid lifespans during which people used them to build successful products. If those are fads to you, I'm guessing you must still do most of your work in C?
That's definitely an option, if enough people want it. It would keep things lighter in the winter evenings. The major downside would be sunrise after 9:00am in the winter, so waking up, getting ready, breakfast, and commuting all in the dark.

* I wonder if people in the Arctic region, like Greenland, Iceland, Finland & Svalbard just roll their eyes when Americans talk about DST? ;)
They've just been punched in the face, they can't reasonably punch back. (Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth).

I know it seems like universal surveillance could level the field and make people less likely to judge, but in practice it doesn't work that way. You say "people will probably want into [the judger's] porn browsing history", but in reality, they don't. The preemptive strike generally wins, and counterstrikes generally look like defensive posturing. So removing all privacy just gives more power to the bigger asshole.
It's the other way around. Oligarchs are oligarchs until Putin says otherwise: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3011021/Exiled-oliga...
Excellent response. Thanks.
Ignoring 2007 and 2008 (when investors like warren buffet hugely outperform) makes this less meaningful.
I've always heard it was in high demand because every drug store needs a pharmacist and the education requirements are stringent so the supply is not great.
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The revolting side was well armed as well. It's not the case in Saudi Arabia.
Aggregate statistics for the EU is pretty much the same as for any single member state. You don't get any more complicated history than that, also half bigger than US. I don't see how you're so exceptional an orange. But then I don't roll my eyes as a proxy for thinking.
I, as well. Likewise their introduction and increase of the rotation of the image tiles applied to each title, in their listings.

Most recently, there is the response to their removal of user reviews. That I regret; I've found them useful, and even a bit more so with the removal of the "star" ratings for this overly simplistic and opaque thumbs up/down mechanism.

But what I haven't seen mentioned, but am now noticing, is that at some point they removed the year of release from at least their hover/pop-up descriptions. At the moment, and not in the right place to check, I'm not sure whether they are gone from their more details listings -- whose UI to access is an unwieldy pain in the ass, itself.

They just want you to see an interesting looking tile, that you haven't seen before, and click on it.

Never mind that the content behind it is most likely the same "minimally acceptable" c-list, maybe b-list, content they've been increasingly shoveling up for these past some years. Except for some of their headliner "original content". And, a lot of their original content listings are becoming similar stuff they slap their brand on, often acquired -- likely on the cheap -- from non-U.S. productions. (There's nothing wrong with non-U.S. productions, but there's a lot of inexpensive, second-if-that tier stuff in the rest of the world. And the good stuff is increasingly captured by other outlets maximizing returns and control over what Netflix will pay and offer.)

At least, that's the way I've come to interpret what I'm experiencing with them.
Of course, it's very easy to think you're in category 2 when you're really in category 1 but don't see how you're wrong...
FYI peterkvt80 is working on a new page about teefax: http://dailyprog.org/~peterkvt80/
This article's title is pretty terrible... "say hello to full employment" - then proceeds to discuss the employment situation in Iowa for the length of the article.
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No no, that would be Perl.
Can we litigate this? It would help move the India/China GC line.
"To be fair, "You got caught smoking pot a decade ago, and therefore we cannot trust you to write Python code" isn't the kind of judgment a successful company would pass. That's the kind of thing a doomed company would do."

I don't feel that's really relevant, and the person who is trying to get back on their feet likely doesn't care. They just want a damn job.

"Honestly, people who commit crimes against their employers do this to themselves"

Not many do. In fact, I'd say far more employers commit crimes against their employees than the other way around. And yet, they don't have to worry.
Just because the U.S. and Britain fails to care about free speech and human rights doesn't mean that the battle is not worth fighting.

This tax is in direct opposition to free speech, so opposing it defends free speech. It is, however, only a single battle in a very long war.
There are ways to protect your green card status while living outside the U.S., even for years, if your intent is eventually to return to the U.S. The document to research is called a reentry permit.
There's something to this complaint, in that I actually rarely want an SPA either --- I usually want something that behaves like a damn web page.

But having had several years of experience building web applications in Rails, handing data carefully between templates and controller code and managing the leaky abstractions for those places I actually had to use Javascript, I do not miss that experience at all. I'm not a front-end developer (I do it when I have to) and I am 3-5X more productive in React than I ever was at Rails front-end. If that's the return a nonspecialist gets from the React stack, I can only assume someone who specializes in it does even better.
Quickly comparing Brk.b to vti over the span of the past 5 years (so no graph hacking) they gained 60.14% and 64.71%, respectively, dividends not included. That's a much smaller difference than your statement seems to imply.
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Your comment seems to be saying that excluding minorities and women is good. You seem to be saying that racial bias can be a form of editing/filtering to ensure quality. Can you clarify?

To read your comment as charitably as possible, you (and Terry Gilliam) either misunderstand what diversity advocates want or believe all minorities are less funny and would be underrepresented in a true meritocracy.

Again, no one is saying that an ensemble like Python be injected with minority members. They're just saying that we should give more opportunities to the black or Arab or gay versions of Pythons, or we should at least cast diverse actors when we're creating an ensemble from scratch.

A good case in point is Saturday Night Live: its biggest stars of the last 20 years have mostly been women or minorities, and it wasn't due to "affirmative action". Audiences picked them out of the crowd of actors they were seeing and loved their work.
Looks like algebraic query language AQL. Anyone familiar with both this and AQL who can give the comparison?
I think it is a bit more nuanced than that. Forbes includes non-US persons. Jack Ma (China), Mukesh Ambani (India), it goes on.

What it doesn't include are people where their wealth is hidden because it was either acquired and/or held illegally and those who have control over wealth but only by virtue of their position (so a king is "rich" because they can control what the sovereign fund invests in but they don't make the list because if they weren't king all of that wealth would be inaccessible to them.) If Czar Putin suffers the same fate as the Czar Nicolas where the people decide it is no longer in their best interest to have him plundering the country then Putin will likely die with greatly reduced wealth, much like Emelda Marcos.

Crime bosses have the same problem, their wealth is a function of their black market operations and when they are deposed or killed the organization reclaims the wealth for itself.

The people on the Forbes list have full control of their assets and nobody is going to rise up in revolution if they decide to spend it poorly. So they are indeed rich 'persons' as opposed to simply stewarding great wealth.
>you can only externalize the costs onto other people.

For a marketeer this seems quite a lot like zero-sum thinking.

Besides you absolutely can escape the market. Not everything has to be a market, for example healthcare can be provided using market or non-market logic. You can also shrink the impact of markets, for example look at this [1] example of food-banks run using a market-ish system. They removed the parts of the market that they didn't want ie. everyone starts from a level playing field and cash is distributed regularly based on need but then they kept the price discovery system. We have this same power over markets, we can just get rid of the parts we don't want through laws. In homeownership we want to get rid of most of the frictions of the market that rub up against long-time asset holders. In investment securities we don't mind a structure that compels people to sell to produce market liquidity because most people don't have an attachment to their shares of $VTI. In home ownership people have as strong an attachment as you can have to a physical commodity so we don't want a structure which compels people to sell.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/11/22/565736836/epis...
The public safety of no people having different political opinion, of no people who would want to raise awareness on the problem of Amazon for this instance, because they could cause unsafe words being told to your ears.
When you can afford to buy naming rights to a hospital I'll register your opinion. Until then, although everyone is free to express an opinion, I'll file yours under ungrateful jealousy.
The financial rescue and QE happened in 2008 while Bush Jr. was in office.
Hi Peter,

Thanks for taking time. You mentioned earlier that people on H1B can file for a part-time/concurrent H1B with the start up that they are founding. I have couple of questions with this approach
1. Can I register the company with 100% ownership while working on H1B full time? Can this company make money?

2. What will be the requirements for this new company to file for concurrent H1B

3. Any recommendation around which type of company (LLC, C-corp, etc)

4. Is there a minimum requirement around the number of employees, funding amount and VC investment for this new company's H1B petition to be successful?
The middle classes process information. It makes sense that blue collar workers will ultimately earn higher wages than them. It has already occurred in some cases but it's going to become a general pattern. Computer automation is similar to inflation I expect - it will creep up on people and before you know it most university graduates will be poor and the blue collar workers with their act together will be prospering.

Not a popular message I realize.
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That's all correct although an advanced degree also might help you qualify under the EB1A category (assuming that you publish, etc.).
> Fifty years ago, a washing machine, refrigerator, and color TV were high end, luxury goods, available only to the relatively wealthy.

The color television - yes, but washing machines and fridges are older mass market appliances than most people think (75+ years) - and before that they had effective but sometimes inferior counterparts like root cellars and hard ice deliveries.
Would a TN visa allow you to do this? As in obtaining a GC while staying with a TN? Thanks
People don’t throw out technology until it’s obsolete for THEM. There are tiers of consumers across the world for whom obsolete is defined at different stages of functionality/performance/affordability/etc.
It's a proxy for their extreme level of success. I can't be mad at that
the exercise of modeling a domain is not something they really engage in

This is what I've seen in interviews. The typical recent grad can understand an existing model. Some of them can't design a simple model from scratch and concretely specify functions to do operations on it.

if the program doesn't do what they want it to do, either the instructions are wrong, or there need to be more of them to handle the cases that aren't currently handled.

I've asked interviewees what they could do about them cycles in user-entered code, by giving them a 2-node example. Far too often, they reply with an if-clause to detect exactly a 2-node cycle. Then I ask what to do about 3 nodes, then far too many of them try to give me a 2nd if-clause!
We might just need to work on that.

I imagine a high-profile incident with privacy violations will turn up one day and make the public interested. By the time that happens it would be beneficial to already have a privacy amendment proposal.
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"Even if high-paid populations are being shifted around, it's better for the region as a whole to have more highly-paid people."

No, that's not at all axiomatic. Consider a place like Aspen: formerly a small mountain town, now an enclave of incredibly wealthy people. People who support the area have to make a treacherous daily commute from nearby towns, because none can afford to live in the area.

Sure, some people become wealthy from owning land in Aspen before it became famous. Most residents did not.

If all you focus on is tax revenue, median income, etc., everything looks peachy, but that's a myopic view. One can easily argue the same thing is happening in San Francisco.
Thanks! Glad it's useful.
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>If you make widgets for $4.50 and sell them for $5 each to a million people

You've identified a want and delivered a product to a million people. What is the proper compensation for that? Should people not be allowed to identify wants and address them for profit?

I think the error in your view is that any sale is predatory, when in reality both the consumer and seller can profit. One gains something they need or want and the other gets money. Sure, buying consumer crap isn't going to lift you out of poverty, but you're still getting a benefit from the transaction.
The technology may be great but the...I dunno what you call it... Branding? Rhetoric? just elicits an eye roll.
And here I am. Laid off after 2 months, among hundreds of workers, and unable to find employment. Someone tell me more about these "more jobs than people" again. BTW I have a B.S in Computer Science and living in the USA.
And some further commentary and context around this: https://kottke.org/18/07/did-blogs-ruin-the-web-or-did-the-w...
Eiffel dates back to the 1990s. Java was going to have Eiffel-style invariants, but they got chopped out because Bill Joy had a deadline to meet.
There is a custom plugin/language to extend vanilla Minecraft server transparently called Denizen. Custom yaml based scripts and even repl in-game
It's hard for me to comment without knowing more about your position and job requirements but it sounds like you have plenty of experience to meet the requirements for the job and you can rely on and document experience gained through companies that are now out of business through letters from former supervisors or colleagues.
Rails is definitely off of its peak, but has been pretty stable around the 10% level (10% of postings mention it) for the past year.
Well, if you're unable to produce all the protein needed for all ongoing tissue building, you have a deficiency. Anything more than that will just be metabolized. And, well, you're very unlikely to be under that limit.
What's your point? Are you saying that you can only formulate an opinion about people who are equality or less successful than you in life?
I'm hoping developers choose the long-term sensible option, which is the multi-platform one.
A RSS feed has been on my todo list, will get that added.
> History instead shows a clear path to how Europe ended up with the bottom 50% ending up with a much larger portion of wealth than the top 1%.

I'm convinced that this was mostly due to the war. Indiscriminate destruction and injury is a great leveller. It also triggered the end of colonialism in the 70s, which was critical to egalitarianism.

This almost happened in America, but it's difficult to trace the exact point of failure. Possibly Carter's failed Iran rescue and subsequent non re election?
I'm not sure it's possible to measure the number of job openings anymore. It used to be an expensive thing to do, as a human would read all the responses, but now they sometimes advertise a bunch of fake positions just to measure the current available talent.
I think at the OS level, safety from Rust are less useful. The "wrap unsafe code" doesn't really work.
That's a great question. I would say it is a bit limiting, and there are definitely some bumps in the road for the average user coming from stock Android. There are a lot of great open source applications in the F-Droid app store, but it definitely doesn't cover everything you'd expect from a stock phone these days. There is an app, Yalp Store (it downloads APKs directly from Google servers), that can be used to supplement this with normal Play Store apps. Many apps in the Play Store will rely on Google services though, so you will have a wide variety of results ranging from apps running just fine, crashing on boot, or not supporting push notifications. For me, not getting push notifications in Slack was an issue as it relies on Google Cloud Messaging (GCM). Luckily the encrypted chat messengers that I use Signal/Telegram have support for their own polling mechanism and don't rely on GCM. For Slack I ended up just writing a quick tool (https://github.com/dan-v/slack-to-telegram) to forward messages to Telegram so I get immediately alerts. But it's things like that this that you will definitely run into when running without Google services.