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Goodbye plenty, matured, well tested libraries and frameworks and big community. Hello go.

(Nothing against golang, just wanted to point out it's not that easy for every usecase).
What's the red herring here?
Interesting. My sense of touch has gotten messed up for week or so a few times and those experience really made me appreciate how the brain integrates the senses to create the feeling of "normal" existence. You don't even realize this until the system breaks down. The closest thing I compare my experiences to is: imagine interacting with the world using a pair of super awesome VR gloves. Not muted exactly, just somehow unreal feeling.

Even though my muscles worked just fine, the differentness of sensation made it very to manipulate objects without concentration. This was especially true for fabrics and soft objects, which my brain found fascinating to play with but utterly incomprehensible. The unreal sensation slowly faded throughout the week but certain experiences—like trying to use pockets—would make the feeling of unreality come roaring back. I don't know if this fading was just my brain returning to normal or if it was my brain re-leaning and adjusting to what normal is.
In semi-rare cases, majorities organise against minorities. If that happens and the majority gets access to the data stored in something like Facebook's databases, it will be catastrophic. We can't say what minority it will be either. Rich people? Gypsies? Foreigners? Farmers? Poor people? They've all been persecuted groups at some point or another in some country.

This isn't comparable to something like not being able to repair my phone, requiring me to buy a new phone.
I would go as far to say that $120K is exceptionally high for a senior dev and in fact $100K is an upper boundary.
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Sorry, but as a european I have to say: "Nice try" ;).
Honestly, I see no point in colonising Mars when there are still places like the Antarctica and ocean floor which are, with all the difficulties, much more hospitable and easier to reach.
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>>>Apple's walled garden is no different to those you see around Xbox and PlayStation, but nobody seems to object to them so vigorously.

then you are not paying attention. This has been a issue for gamers for a VERY VERY VERY long time. Cross platform play, Games that are portable between systems, etc have a compliant since the original Xbox and before

Further lock down of the Xbox One caused a massive uproar that MS had to pull back from

>It's worth remembering that what Apple does with Mac and iPhone is the norm in most other consumer products and in most other industries. It is not normal to have physical products built by one company that has at its core a platform fully controlled by another company.

No it is not the norm. Infact there are consumer protection laws that prevent alot of that from happening for products that are not completely self contained.

However it is more common in electronics simply because that is the nature of electronics, you do not really have a concern on if your chair is compatible with your floor.
just two examples:

https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article165956201/Ein...

https://www.n-tv.de/politik/Bundeswehrsoldat-lernte-Arabisch...
Then you probably won't know enough to setup that trap.
I agree there; economic disparity is bad insofar as it can be spent in ways that could manipulate the overall system. However that is really the fault of an imperfect political system with broken incentives, not a fault of wealthy people being wealthy.

(It always amazes me how politicians manage to forget that they represent their constituents, not corporations or their lobbyists. It has gotten to the point where pointing this out is somehow seen as socialist or anti-business. But it's plain fact. Politicians are there to literally represent people.)
It's not about the features, it's literally about library support. If someone wrote an easy to use R-emulator in C then all this would be moot since you could then just bind the libraries into literally every language ever.

I'm not proposing that "my language would be better", rather, "every language would be better".
> The way it plays with the time dynamics and weaves it into it's story is brilliant.

This deserves expanding upon. Where most games interweave interactive game sections with non-interactive storytelling sections that mostly use the tools of movies to tell stories, Braid and the first Bioshock are my two go-to examples for games that effectively use the game as a narrative medium distinct from film, where the story is told in a way that actively benefits from being built as a game.
There is hardly any water and the cities were designed around cars far more than any city outside Los Angeles.

As a past/present resident of both LA and Melbourne, I would modify that to say that Syd/Mel are as dependent on cars as much as Los Angeles, but without the planning commitment to cars that LA has exhibited. Bring up maps of LA and Sydney/Melbourne on the same scale. LA has a grid of freeways with a cell-size of 10-15 km. Not so for Sydney and Melbourne, and their surface streets are much worse. Roads designed as two lanes each way made into 3 narrow lanes each way by turning the shoulder into a new lane. Nowhere to go when someone breaks down. Without a commitment to either a comprehensive transit system, or a decent freeway network, Syd/Mel have half-arsed implementations of both.

In LA I was comfortable cycling along PCH, Santa Monica Blvd, Sepulveda Bvd etc, but I would never consider cycling on their Melbourne equivalents.
Montreal winters are legendary. Toronto barely even gets snow.
I didn't realize the issues presented are already the 'easier' ones... unless I am misinterpreting your website again?

For example:

1. https://github.com/coala/coala/issues/5674

On the right hand side it has the label difficulty low, importance high

2. https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/issues/4377

has the label good first issue

So labels are not consistent in each of the repositories. And it would be sort of difficult to display a label on each of the issues on your website. But maybe you could display and use the labels the repository is using for your own website (maybe with a toggle). By copying the labels you might not have to gauge difficulty?
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Or rather, I'd vaguely heard the name but I erroneously thought it was just another flake8 type thing.
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Ironically the way they did this was by creating a walled garden that doesn't actually allow for any competition.

There is plenty of competition. If you don't want what Apple sells at the price it sells it at, you buy an Android or Windows device - like most of the world does.

They produce their own hardware, running their own OSes with their own app stores, their own web browsers and their own entertainment platform. Instead Google and Microsoft were struck down repeatedly for trying to create similar lock-ins but on arbitrary hardware or arbitrary OSes.

There is an existence proof that proves that's not true. Microsoft and Google are doing the same thing - just not as successfully.

Apple creates lock-in by brute force: you have an iDevice, so you're using iServices because it's convenient and you'll migrate over all your other tech to iDevices too because the synergy is compelling and there's simply no other option (good luck trying to use iMessage with your Android friends, or consuming iTunes content on your Microsoft tablet).

How does iMessage preclude you from texting Android users? On the other hand, thier are dozens of cross platform messaging apps.

iTunes is available for Windows. Even without that being the case, iTunes purchased music has been DRM free for a decade and you can transfer most of your purchased digital movies over to Amazon, Google Play, or Vudu using Movies Anywhere.

Even with Android and Windows, Google and Microsoft don't have that luxury: you may be using a Google phone but that doesn't mean you're using a Google laptop (simply because ChromeOS is not always feasible), or you may be using a Microsoft laptop but Microsoft phones are simply no longer a thing.

Seeing that Apple sells at least 10-15 times more iPhones than Macs, most iPhone users are obviously Windows users. Apple sees this, they released iTunes for Windows over
15 years ago and they have iCloud extensions for Chrome, IE, and Firefox for windows to sync bookmarks.
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the ease and benefits of a refugee status are overwhelming. It's a common "joke" among my (German) colleagues that they should just claim a Syrian refugee status for bonus money
ohh please, that is hyperbolic to the extreme.

The solution to that is for people to stop storing that level of personal info in facebook. I can't believe people would share that kind of intimate information, enough that their life would be threatened (as you imply) simply because someone gained access to their facebook profile.

Me not having access to information on my device impacts me today, in reality. Your statement is a far fetched unrealistic projection of a dystopian world that I have no reason to entertain outside of fictional novel
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Going by OP's argument, that is just another megaproject. See e.g. Bill Gates' attempts to eradicate polio or to reduce poverty.
Tell that to Ericsson, who (warning: unsubstantiated claim ahead, but its a widely held industry belief) have had their entire business gutted by Huawei who basically copied entire designs from Ericsson core-mobile equipment
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In tech worker dissent, signs of a broader shift
This is the only real solution. Everything else is pointless.

As long as we keep producing plastics, they will end up in the environment, and whatever doesn't will be a pain to recycle.

We already have alternatives for almost everything. We have single use plates and cutlery made from cardboard or wood, we have compostable packaging foil for vegetables and compostable trash can liners. The only problem is adoption -- as long as plastic is slightly cheaper, no one will use it.

I really hope the EU comes down hard on plastic packaging -- imagine if all packaging was compostable, you could just throw it on a pile in your back yard and it would turn into fertile soil within a couple of months!
Georgia's is incorrect. The oldest in Georgia is the "Pirates House" in Savannah: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_oldest_buildings_i...
The oldest building on the list actually dates to 1190.
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Why would you move to iOS over that?
So how is US related to the people living in the UK? I don’t see US paying for the police making sure their offices aren’t looted on a daily basis.
Apple has been paying dividends since 2012.

http://investor.apple.com/dividends.cfm
> I’m not a fan of full blown IDEs that require their own configuration.

Hmm, but those IDEs actually do solve most of the problems author has had with Python. If one regularly code in Python, spending a few hours configuring the IDE is justifiable. I for example never write scripts outside the IDE, because why?
But he was speaking of the majority of polish people who work abroad, right?

Not that all polish people are doing it. And you seem to be qualified enough, to get the "better" jobs.
But the ordinary polish people accept lower wages, when they are still higher than what they would get back home.
It is allways the question with what you compare it.

And that germans used to say, the polish steal our cars, was because there have been many car stealing gangs. And the common rassism/nationalism to generalize and to protect the home economy against the working immigrants who steal our jobs. So degrading them, makes it easier to justify actions against "them".
Very common theme.

I think it stopped with the polish, because they got much richer and are not so poor in comparison anymore - and because the nationalist unite against the even poorer people from africa etc.
"offering the upper end of the six-figure range for an individual contributor"

Really? Like 900,000 USD? Really?
> HN is just a relatively US focused site

Maybe it's language related.

I'm Chinese, and I can tell you there are many people in the dark corners of China's Internet are talking about similar kind of things: Spy stories, military secrets, dark politics & histories, rumors etc. Basic human nature. But if you don't read Chinese and look into the right place, you'll simply unaware of their existence.

I don't think all English speakers can also speak or read German, so maybe that's the reason, rather than "They just don't care".
The oldest building in my city would be walls from somewhere around 0 BC. It was a rather important nexus for the Roman Army due to the geographic location. Though it's largely buried under more modern walls from around 13th century.

There is also social housing, build in the 16th century by one of the top 3 wealthiest people in modern history. Still in use today, about 1€ a year rent.
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> the first game which was intended to be a piece of art

There have to be earlier contenders than this, surely? Yes it's the ancestor of the modern wave of artistically-aspiring games but game development dates back to the 1970s.
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Almost all of the software I've written is as useless outside of the company as air pockets taken out of a loaf of bread.

The big-rectangle diagram of what I do is fetch data from A, apply B(A), and send the result to Z. This is great when A is a proprietary API delivered over long-poll HTTP, B(A) converts it into a vocabulary common to just our products, and Z is Websockets to a mobile app. When we add a new customer who uses A2 all I do is write B2() and the rest stays the same.

Outside of the company, it's useless. There are thousands of products that do the same thing for different flavours of A, B and C. However, we can get our particular product to our target markets a year earlier than someone starting from scratch.

Compulsorily licensed to a competitor, they'd barely be able to install it because it's not packaged like a product. There's an old database that has evolved over more than a decade that's as crusty as an old fishing boat's keel. If a "good compulsory licensing scheme" would compensate the company for packaging it and writing manuals for it, then it's looking at millions of dollars just in the opportunity costs of taking the lead developers off other projects.
Do you find C/C++ acceptable from a safety/reliability perspective, or do you write in safer languages (Fortran, Ada)?

AFAIK critical software coding standards forbid dynamic memory allocation, so things like stack overflows, null dereference or out-of-memory errors can't happen, but array-out-of-bounds exceptions can still get you. On the other hand, static verification tools catch most of that.
The oldest 'man-made structures' in America are much older: http://articles.latimes.com/1997/sep/19/news/mn-34091
> "Older publications are obsolete and unfortunately many of them have errors (including my own!). I wrote the Wikipedia article on the Actor Model but am no longer allowed to update it :-("

As someone who's been interested in the Actor Model recently, thanks for this statement, and the link to the book you've provided.

This would help avoid going down the wrong path.
> You're going async by using Golang, why not in python?

In Golang, you're still using a thread-based abstraction.

In Python, "going async" involves switching to a slightly different style of programming and using different I/O libraries. While that has advantages, using threads lets you stick with the standard style.
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I don't work there but I do work at a place that supplies JPL with some of the tools they use to solve the problems you are interested in.

https://www.mathworks.com/company/newsletters/articles/bring...

If you parse the user community and external repos you will find specific code & models for some of those use cases

https://github.com/search?q=matlab+rover
https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/?s_tid=gn_mlc

Do note that JPL also uses other tool chains, some open, with similar communities and repos. I'm not as knowledgeable to what extent they use these, ymmv (pun intended)

https://github.com/search?q=python+mars+rover

the fundamental point I would try to convey is that you can learn as they do - through trial and error via simulation.
Sounds like steganography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography
Without a rooted phone, there's no better way to "fix" Android's captive portal code, or to automate it.
This tech is already applied to MRFs and it still doesn’t work 100% if the time, causing downtime on the line, and lost revenues.
Think houses rather than bananas. Or treasuries. That money isn't sitting idle, it's raking in interest payments which ultimately come from the public.

> If the money and assets of the country's top 1,000 wealthiest people were all handed back to the central bank tomorrow, as long as existing investments were maintained the broader economy would be largely unaffected.

This is essentially the claim that central bank debt doesn't matter, which is .. controversial.
And they provide a free all pack subscription for open source contributors. Its nice to see all the features at one place though their pipenv integration is still a bit shaky[0]. I haven't got a response yet.

[0] : https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/PY-30855
Oh please stop it with the ridiculous baiting argument, especially such nonsense as "REAL possible outcome of instituting oppressive laws like this"! Perhaps stealing cars might be legal, otherwise car owners might bait by driving their cars around -- it's a REAL possible outcome! Shoplifting should be legal too -- it's a REAL possible outcome that shops might bait us by having all those things on their shelves!

All of us have been in a situation that we wanted something from a shop but couldn't have it because we couldn't afford it or for other reason -- how many has taken it anyway? And furthermore, how many of those who have did expect to be pardoned because they were "baited"?

Just stop it and grow up. Please.
I get your point but the “recyclables” we produce as Americans are not really recyclables. They are 90% recycling, 10% trash, or worse.
I don't understand why it's so hard to build a machine that separates plastic from other materials. I mean in agriculture we have machines that separate tiny seeds from anything else, I don't see why it wouldn't be possible to have a plastic sorting machine.
Tell that to people in smaller towns....
The reason why we have IP laws is that we assume innovators are selfish and will only innovate for personal economic gains.
Most use one sim as their primary sim while the other sim is the one which has the cheapest data plan.

Number portability came to India late so having two sims gave you best of both the worlds and now people are just used to having two sims.
A compromise could be variations of the main pin, like replacing one digit with one from the card number. Since the only real attack on pins is a combined peek-then-rob attack, a variation like that should be enough to avoid damage spillover to the unpeeked cards.

If one wanted to go all geek, one could of course do some mental hashing, e.g. by using the digits of the primary pin as indices into the string of digits prominently printed on the secondary card.

Pins are a bit of a safe playground for schemes like that, because the schemes are never significantly more unsafe than the best four-digit number.
An interesting subset, the oldest continuously operating pubs: http://home.bt.com/lifestyle/travel/uk/britains-best-oldest-...

("oldest pub in scotland" has two different disputed entries ..)
There's a significant cost covered by the inventor as they carry the burden of trial and error which comes with developing something novel/pioneering.

Now, in the bigger picture, I agree with you that sharing knowledge and innovation benefits the greater good over longer term.

But the thing is, if you copy these novel inventions in secret, close up access to anyone else being able to benefit and establish trade embargoes then its more like stealing than copying.

It's sort of like if Aaron Schwartz sold books to private buyers instead of open sourcing them.
Well, its easy to blame Amazon but at the heart of it our tax system sucks.
> What really makes space unique isn't space as such but that there is no real-world (real-space?) testing, no inspections after the fact or do-overs.

This is becoming less true today as engineering problems become more complex and simulation tools become more capable. Most automotive manufacturers have virtual models of their vehicles in testing long before the first nut meets it's bolt.
this title...that's the weirdest way I've ever seen anyone write one trillion.. one billion thousand dollars?
I feel like they (and everyone else) should just use SuiteSparse: http://faculty.cse.tamu.edu/davis/suitesparse.html

In the same way that people almost universally use BLAS and LAPACK or the MKL for linear algebra.
> It only really hurts the rest of the population if they go on a frivolous consumption spree

Political donations.

Apple seem to be pretty restrained on this front, but other industries can just buy entire carveouts for themselves. The insurance industry holding back healthcare; the tax preparation industry holding back tax reform.
How would root or iOS help you? The problem is that each captive portal is different, so you need the user to "teach" it once. Seems a reasonable approach to me.
It seems the author is one of those employees who think if he works hard he does a good job.
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How do you automate captive portals on iOS then?
There are more than two million Romanians living just in Italy and Spain. Do you think most of them are criminals?
Agreed most feel 90-100k is the max
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> I make stupid mistakes in Python constantly. I misname a variable or a function or I pass in the wrong arguments.

> Unit tests would catch most of these, but it’s hard to get 100% code coverage, and I don’t want to spend time writing unit tests for a one-off script.

Sorry, I actually do like golang but this is telling of a bigger issue. Someone else is going to have to delete/fix it