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I'm pretty sure I've read this same article, give or take a few words, many, many times before, only replacing the two languages being compared.

This bores me, probably because I find everything to be the exact opposite (except for parallelism, I'd be foolish to pretend Go isn't better in that area) but specially because I find Go to be an ugly language to write. The error handling is only the top of the can of worms.

Python, in comparison, is a delight to write and specially to read (when it's well written).

In short: Oh, terrific, another one.
Would you mind providing a way to contact you in your profile? I'm not sure my questions regarding average cost per case, duration, etc. are appropriate for this thread. Thanks.
I want to vent about Schwab, too. I've been using Schwab for years now, and they're pretty OK.
> just seemed you were implying before that corporations hold some kind of responsibility to ensure trash doesn't end up on the ground

I'd argue they do, or at least should. As do we, the end customer.

No law, advertising campaign or regulation has yet achieved 100% compliance. It's the responsibility of producers and retailers to realise, or be forced to realise, that in selling to humans some portion of their trash will be disposed of lazily or inconsiderately and mistakes will be made. They made it, they cannot be absolved of all responsibility the moment it's handed to the customer. Particularly when the quantity created is ever increasing and producers seem ever more inclined to single use plastic - because for them it is consequence-free.

There's an army of psychologists employed trying to create need or desire where there was none, or encouraging further sales. How might they nudge a real improvement in trash disposal? Maybe a 25p or $1 deposit on a bottle or container would be a good start. Maybe we'd want to require benign and decomposing materials knowing full well we're over-evolved apes that would once harmlessly drop the banana peel or chicken bone wherever we finished with it.

Responding to a straw ban with a sippy-cup lid that uses more plastic (hello Starbucks) is taking the piss and ignoring all the now well known public concerns. If there were any natural justice that should result in a business-threatening boycott and draconian legislation in response. Whether the straw ban was well intentioned but misguided is a separate conversation.
I like Teleport. It's not an SSO implementation but if you pay Gravitational you get SAML. BLESS, the Netflix solution, relies on you being able to call a Lambda. You can SSO that as well via STS' AssumeRoleWithSAML. (But be careful, AWS SSO should be like the last SSO you implement, generally hardening IAM is super complicated, talk to me for more details. We owe y'all a bunch of dinky "here's how you do IAM" blog posts.)

EDIT: I previously incorrectly claimed that you need to pay Gravitational for Teleport SSO. That is incorrect: you only need to pay for _SAML_, specifically -- I forgot that you can GitHub auth into it, which is a form of SSO. (Though for most of our customers I think that single trust store is a core part of SSO, and GitHub isn't a good SSO by that metric, by vritue of account reuse and the fairly tenuous links between users and organizations. GitHub does a great job of modeling open source interactions, but that model falls over a bit when translated to commercial software engineering orgs.)
The text seems perfectly sized for reading on my screen. At 200% it looks like one of those clownish Bootstrap homepages and I'd have to scroll every 5 seconds to read it.
Could have created another problem though. Plenty of flat-eathers[0] out there.

[0]: https://theflatearthsociety.org/home/index.php/about-the-soc...
Thanks to this comment I just spent the last hour exploring Moscow, Tokyo, Kyoto, and the Dominican Republic. I feel like I've always taken street view for granted. But it is a truly incredible experience to drop into a city you've never been to and see things you wouldn't see even if you visited.

Granted, nothing compares to actually experiencing the culture and places in person, but street view makes for a completely different, incredible experience.
Fully agree with you. I would put it more in the area of 50%, but this is exactly the point I am trying to make.

And as a guy, when you start a conversation with another stranger guy, none of this "Looking and feeling creepy" applies.
Those skills tests do a poor job of measuring your skill level. That said, you should be spending all of your free time programming. Knowing a little React is a heck of a lot better than knowing no React, right? Right.

Just make programming your life until you land a job. No one cares about your personal life if you can get the job done. Don't let it hold you back.
Poorly executed X does not make X bad.
Completely agree, but we can also figure out how to make it easier. Take a look at http://kakoune.org/why-kakoune/why-kakoune.html#_improving_o... (this is the section that introduces the flip on vim's command structure, but is otherwise a great article to read top to bottom).

There are a lot of ways vim is right or not right, but this lowers the barrier to entry in a profound way. We can keep advancing like this, and stacking those advancements on each other until vim isn't hard. Maybe? What do you think?

I think one of the big ways vim is hard is what Kakoune attempts to fix - visualizing selection. Adding a "layer" to working in vim, we had `u` and `^r` to figure things out - doing something and knowing we could go back. Now with Kakoune we have movement before action. This adds another way the program can converse with the user.

Disclaimer: I don't use Kakoune, but I dig what it's doing and I want to try it out. I think it is a fantastic critique of vim.
It's interesting to me that nobody has yet mentioned the Bloomberg terminal, which is basically what the author is describing. It seems Bloomberg "got this" a while back, and dug their heels on for their keyboard-driven terminal-like UI whilst all other shops were going w32, Excel plugins, Web, etc. It's not sexy by any means, looks like it's from the 80s in a mainframe, but it works well for a lot of people.

Images, check. Fonts, check. Command-driven, check. Lightning fast, check.

Moving traders and other front-office staff away from BBG terminals is next to impossible due to the drop in efficiency and familiarity.

Pretty much every "function" (more similar to what devs might call an "app") can be launched via a command typed into their command bar. And it's incredibly well indexed and fast to search. Everything from reading news, checking messages, seeing a quote for AUDUSD (then subsequently purchasing). No mouse required.

Edit: typos
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This won't fix things. If you look at maximum road capacity for a highway lane it's pretty pitifully in the hundreds. Maximum capacity being exact speed limit driving with minimum safe distance between cars. Obviously, city streets have an even lower capacity even if you exclude pedestrian and bicycle traffic Ultimately cars can't be the only solution in dense urban environments.
I accidentally discovered that a couple bites of sauerkraut instantly kill any residual appetite after a meal - which is a different version of your "bland food" assertion. I'll try olive oil next time.
It's a film about a homeless guy who worked really hard and made it as a stock trader. ...It is not like your life at all. Get back to work, lol.
I am not 100% sure why people are discussing their individual styling preference. Keep what you have. Thank you for sharing.
The scheme creates the perverse incentive of traffic jams as a source of government revenue -- incentives similar to speed traps. Even better it's able to scale to hundreds or thousands of imposed charges per hour, doesn't require staff, and individual drivers can't challenge it in court as would be the case with a traffic ticket. As a public policy proposal, it's a regressive tax designed to keep those without financial means out of the way of those for whom congestion pricing is but a trifle. Starting the sentence with "scientists" doesn't make it science. It is there to create an undeserved aura of inevitability to ordinary horseshit.
In Washington State, Bellingham's "Pickett house" is "the oldest documented wooden structure on its original site in Washington.".
http://www.historylink.org/File/20594

(The Fort Nisqually/Hudson's Bay granary was moved to Tacoma in 1934 and later 'restored'.)
People like to network. Consider it a business card with words.
Maybe we should. Open it up to the market. What's it cost now, 5 million a block of road?

For the record, I did not say take away all money from the state, but I understand why you'd think that.
Yeah fair question; hopefully my answer suffices. These three concepts are kind of a constant in his later economic work. I don’t know if he ever presented them in such a succinct way himself; I think listing them like I did was done by somebody else later on. I could be wrong.

I am most familiar with Das Kapital. The ‘means’ are a big part of Volume I, more so as it progresses if I remember right, and his main focus in that volume is the capitalist mode, which prioritizes the means. Volume III (written by Engels) goes deeper into the wider system of modes; elaborating on how modes function in general, and this is where the acceleration concept is asserted more formally.

I am no economist and maybe that’s why but I find the modes discussion in Volume III the most interesting, whether his economic stuff is correct or not, his breakdown of modes seems almost more like anthropology. I mean, I don’t know how people would ever understand us in the future without understanding this in some form or another.
Eh, as always, it goes in fits and starts. I quit my job a few months ago and spent longer than expected to recover from burnout, now I’m trying to do a release before returning to work.

I sort of painted myself into a corner with some aspects of the last compiler design, so I rearchitected things again to unblock some missing features, fix type system bugs, and make it easier to integrate with editors and such. None of this is really online yet—I haven’t been working in public that much, so the progress of the past few months, such as it is, isn’t very visible.

Anyway, I rewrote the typechecker based on “Complete and Easy Bidirectional Typechecking for Higher-Rank Polymorphism”—great paper, btw—and lately I’ve been working on various things:

• Unboxed arrays, closures, and existential types. (Similar motivations to the “impl Trait” work over in Rust.)

• Standard-library design around smart pointers and low-level code, since I’m trying to write a small kernel in Kitten as an example application.

• Extensions to the permission system to give the compiler more knowledge about optimisations, make it easier to write allocation-free code, that sort of thing.

• Taking advantage of types to avoid the need to represent the data stack in memory at runtime—instead the compiler will do register allocation like a conventional C-like language compiler.

• Finally, a proper x86-64 backend—someone’s also recently expressed interest in helping with a wasm backend, which I’d like to get to.

Basically, progress continues to happen slowly. For the past few weeks it’s mostly been planning and writing my thoughts down for whenever I actually have the energy to write the code. I’ve tried to stick to a weekly schedule, but that’s been disrupted since I went and visited my family for a couple weeks. The next step, I think, is to find some source of external accountability like giving talks or committing to a release date so I have more consistent motivation to work on it.

If you want to chat about it, come hang out on the Gitter channel[1], or follow @evincarofautumn on Twitter for updates.

[1]: https://gitter.im/kittenlang/Lobby
It took a while for the suburban model to take hold of the United States, clearly it would take a while to re-densify metropolitan areas. I think you go too far by saying it is impossible.

To use an Americentric, and worse, SV-centric example, consider when SF's BART was built. They trenched Market Street
through almost all of downtown! Building transit even in dense urban areas is clearly doable with enough political will.

Maybe I'm doing the typical HN thing and assuming that lots of people are like me, but I've been moving around the SF bay area, and being close to transit is a massive consideration.
"Roads are inherently too limited in space to be usable by everyone in Manhattan."

This is simply not true.

With a little bit of intelligence things can be changed. Such as: allowing only smaller cars, getting rid of taxis or limos, having very fast 'above ground' public-ish transport etc..
Right, other taxes could be better implemented too.
I don't think it'd make much a difference. But I didn't say take away all money from the state...

Funny how that's the knee-jerk these days.

From my experience Roads and subways are not being adequately maintained. At least in the big cities. But I do know every few years we pass a multi-billion dollar referendum for the BART that goes to... mostly pensions.
Yes! SAT solvers are an amazing secret weapon for solving tricky problems. I've been collecting some fun examples of solver-aided programming here: https://github.com/kach/recreational-rosette (also, not in that repo, but still interesting: https://github.com/kach/tower-of-power).
I think the easiest way to get started is to deploy Teleport or BLESS.
The funny thing is when I'm on vacation, I find it much easier to strike up a conversation with strangers! Also, now that I think about it, when I'm walking around NYC with a camera around my neck (i like street photography), people approach me more often. I guess a derpy tourist is less intimidating hahah.
Those descriptions sound more like pantheism than animism, although neither is a great fit.

I say pantheism because both authors focused on the distinction between matter (material universe) and form (idea, essence, etc), and according to my simplistic knowledge of their philosophies I immediately interpreted soul to mean something more like essence, which connotes something more elemental and even shared, rather than our meaning of soul which emphasizes individuality and separateness. Animism also emphasizes the individuality and uniqueness of things--it's why animists worship objects (or the unique deities within them, if you will).

But pantheism is a poor fit. Someone with knowledge of ancient Greek language and Greek philosophy could set us straight. It's sort of pointless to quibble about semantics when we're reading a translation (and perhaps a translation of a translation).

That said, another reason pantheism popped into my head is because while animism long ago was purged from Western culture, pantheism (and a tendency to pantheistic thinking) is pervasive, even among professed Christians.
If they had promoted and made a feature of explaining RSS instead of downplaying and hiding it. They could have promoted it and put RSS feeds on new tabs instead of advertising and what's popular on Pocket.

Most users don't know what RSS is until it is explained to them. Most users don't know what pocket and a whole bunch of other things are either until some explanation is given.
You're right that shitty systems train users to be phishable -- by typing their password all over the place -- all the time, not even counting the poor default password hygiene most users have. This is one of the reasons U2F/WebAuthn is so incredibly valuable.
> Let us look at the above three strings. The first two strings can be described by relatively short computer programs:

> 1. Print “100” 30 times.

> 2. Print the first 25 prime numbers.

> The Kolmogorov complexity of the first string is less than the Kolmogorov complexity of the second string because the first program is shorter than the second program.

The second also abstracts away the concept of prime numbers. All of which have their own Kolmogorov complexity, no? Is there such a thing as talking about local and externalized Kolmogorov complexity? Actually, both assume understanding of multiplication, decimal notation, printing.
so I just completed 4 months of fasting (I had a friendly wager going, where I had to lose 15kg in 16 weeks, or pay $2000)

I did it via intermittent fasting (no breakfast, or lunch, black coffee/water only, and a normal dinner)

Chart: https://imgur.com/a/rzckgMi

Basic routine was this

Monday, fast, overhead press at gym
Tuesday, normal eating, deadlifts
Wednesday, fast, rowing/kettlebells
Thursday, normal eating, bench press
Friday, normal eating, squats
Saturday, fast, cardio/hiit
Sunday, normal eating

came in under the target (needed 15kg, ended up losing 18kg) and won myself $2000 because the guy I had the wager with didn't hit his target.

Fasting really works, it doesn't cost you anything, and you save money.
There are lots of credit unions that have 3% or better checking accounts:

https://www.lmcu.org/personal/banking/checking-accounts/max-...

https://www.myconsumers.org/personal/checking

No penalties for liquidating, some minor requirements (use it for at least one bill and a couple purchases each month) to get the interest rate each month.
This is amazing. I love the idea and simplicity. As others have said being able to edit/delete messages would be great. Also a way to tag them e.g. Thought, idea, question, reminder
I'm not in the USA, so I don't know what recruitment sites are popular there but you should find these web sites and create a profile, like in Linkedin. And then apply to some jobs there. May be you can send friend request to reqruiters, but there I think you have 3000 requst limit.

If I were in your shoos I would accept any programming jobe, and after a year may be you can change your jobe.

Some work places may not ask you for skill tests. If I were in your shoos I would apply to all of them. Go to the the interview even if you have very low chance to be recqruited. At least you will learn what is asked and next time you will have some idea about how to reply.

You can accept low salary if you want to increase your chace.
Did Stephen King's Son Just Solve a 44 Year-Old-Murder Mystery?
Sounds interesting. Do you have a link to or citation for the paper?
The last time I checked, it didn't support Django. Migrations didn't work. Don't know whether it works or not now.
That's great to hear. Would be nice to have an "official" sort of tool for deployment.
Get the fuck out of here you uncivil, disruptive, completely wrong prick. Nobody fucking likes you, and until you're willing to comport yourself to civil society, kindly fuck off.

See, doesn't feel very good, does it?
A normal toll road might support a cash option. I feel like the kind of dynamic pricing here would be really onerous to handle if it was implemented with toll booths; that is, this type of pricing would require a transponder.

And, AFAIK, no transponder offers the ability to load cash onto it. (That is, transponder manufacturers/operators require an incursion of one's privacy, despite there being no technical or legal requirement for it. I'm in America, YMMV.)

Further, they have been shown to be used in spying (essentially) by cities[1] and even in political attacks[2].

Transponders are also a right PITA for anyone traveling. Boston, for example, has some really lightly marked toll roads now that are all transponder/camera-only; if you mistakenly drive a rental through those without realizing it (which is really easy), the rental car company charges ~$25 for the "service".

[1]: https://www.aclu.org/blog/privacy-technology/location-tracki...

[2]: https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-future/christie-use-tollbooth...
Are they ever able to collect those defendants fees? I thought it was common to transfer the IP and file with the new shell company, who would then file bankruptcy in case of an award.

Also thank you for that detail.
Do you know how it works if a US troll sues a company outside the US?
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I recently found myself in Boston needing computer stuff, and wound up at Micro Center in Cambridge. It was interesting in that they had pictures of the computing legends. Your list reminded me of that, as most of your list was represented in these portraits.
Arbitrary doesn't mean random. It means chosen randomly, as in any Turing Machine chosen randomly will work in that situation. The output isn't random, the output for one Turing Machine should be the same for all Turing Machines.
Yup this. If I wanted to carry around a bag of plugins all day, I'd just use bash.
A better idea is giving businesses tax incentives for each remote employee living within X miles. That way you can support more rural communities too.

Their solution just trades time stuck in traffic for time stuck on public transit and that's if where you live has adequate public transit. The people who need to drive will still drive and these tolls will displace the traffic elsewhere. It's silly.

There is a more accurate and cheaper way to do this, just double the price of gas with extra taxes. It will have the same dumb effect, make commuting harder for poorer people.
> Yes, crows will totally work for peanuts.

They may even prefer them (if whole, in shell) to other "payment". Even though they're fairly bulky, they're not much heavier, and the shell makes for a great preservative, even exposed to weather.

Personally, I like using peanuts because it allows me to feed corvids selectively, even in the presence of gulls, who either don't know how or are physically incapable of opening the shell.
BYTE was great, sort of a microcomputing version of the more upmarket mini-/mainframe Datamation magazine. But as a hobbyist I was more drawn to Creative Computing [1] and the even funkier Compute! [2] magazine in its exclamation point heyday.

1. https://archive.org/details/creativecomputing

2. https://archive.org/details/compute-magazine
How many regular users use JSON or other development tools?
Was homeless when I went to a dev boot camp. Had no industry experience, just a bunch of python scripts to automate my old job, and a few years of linux usage from not liking windows. Focused really heavily on several SPA frameworks, and javascript/nodejs. The biggest help was the hiring network, whiteboarding practice, and resumé critiques. Also that I submitted like 5 applications per day to anything even partially related for a solid month. I never mentioned my dire straights, since there appears to be a social stigma in the industry, although there doesn't seem to be a stigma against the happily ever after finding work. If they ask why there's gaps in your work timeline, don't tell a sob story, just tell them it was health related and move along. Also try to schedule groups of interviews a few weeks out, it gives you very real leverage in the labor markets, instead of appearing/sounding desperate let them show their hand, since you're already surviving you dont need the job/career, if anything they need you, the labor markets are seriously strapped for talent, so take on some part time minimum wage work that you'd like, and take as much time finding the right fit team/culture/project that you would enjoy. Don't give up, never stop learning, you can do it.

Edit: imo, Also don't deal with recruiters they'll plug anything/anyone for a CTO position if they can pull the commission, although I guess maybe as a way to practice interviewing.
What math leads you to this conclusion?
True indeed. I was now trying to create an even more implausible conspiracy theory, but then I run the risk of actually starting it. Maybe that's how all conspiracies were born? :P
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