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You know what else you will not find in Germany? Successful software companies. There’s basically SAP (which is a multinational that hides its revenues abroad) and hardly anything else. Hmm, I wonder why that is.
Agreed. On automation, another to look at it is corporate companies literally print money without doing anything. Once upon a time when the company was starting out everyone had a real job. The retail chain with over 3000 shops only cares if the POS is up and stock is in the store. It doesn't matter how ineffient other business units are.
Don't know how it looks in dyson vacuums, but in every brand I've tried, bagless vacuums are a disaster. They either don't filter that good, require special cleaning or both. One bagless vacuum I've recently used was designed so awfully, I joked that it should come with another vacuum to clean it. From what I've seen in pictures, Dyson's designs are much more easy to clean.
That's the point! With the subpoint that it scales...badly.

It's not like you can spin up 20 more instances of the historic city center when you get 20x the usual traffic. Result: cities literally divided against themselves, transformed into a tourist-factory-slash-amusement-park that nobody lives in, segregated from the actual living city.

What, me bitter about my hometown being disneyfied? Nooooosir...
I am familiar with both; what's the connection in particular?

That patterns organize along least-energy principles and propagate by extracting resources from surrounding energy gradients is almost a tautology. I'm genuinely curious what you're disagreeing with.
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You have a bleak perspective on things. As human beings we have never had as much free time as now where we dont need to worry about food, and we ha e never had as much disposable income as now to be able to enjoy more things out of work.

And your view can be easily reverted. We have never had as many interesting jobs as now. And centuries before us you had to do what your parents did and you had a miserable life anyway. Lets stop with the Lost Eden false nostalgia.
I am struggling to find a definition. The article refers to another article that comes with 'the ballooning of not even so much of the ‘service’ sector as of the administrative sector, up to and including the creation of whole new industries like financial services or telemarketing, or the unprecedented expansion of sectors like corporate law, academic and health administration, human resources, and public relations.'

Not a very clear one I think. So only engineering and production are 'real jobs' ? Only people that create something physical ? He also calls late night delivery pizza a bullshit service. Is that only about the delivery, or does that include the pizza (only baked because some bullshitter ordered it). Even so, a late night pizza might also be appreciated by 'the world's population to pursue their own projects, pleasures, visions, and ideas'. So when they order that same pizza at night its not a bullshot service anymore ?

We need a better definition before spending more time analyzing and ranting.
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Please remove the plea for upvotes from your site.

The mods usually react harshly to this and bury the submission.

Your article doesn't need that to stay some time on the front page, anyway. It's high-quality and people have recognized it as such.
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Wow, you really had great potentials in CS!
Its not just the universities. Its all big people structures. After a while the whole point of management is to take care of themselves until the eventual decline of the structure due to inefficiency and corruption.

12.5K people managing 2.5K. Having an real worker to manager ratio of 1:5 is not inefficient, its trying really hard to be self destructive.
Norway's energy generation is 100% renewable, other countries are more than welcome to stop buying their oil and gas.
No but it's much more present in the young social groups, and the closed ecosystem of a school coupled with the limited autonomy the system gives you at this stage of life makes it especially challenging.
This example looks like it should be turned into a malloc variant, i.e. needs only to be written once. Raw pointer access is also available in other languages of course, albeit it is usually made much more difficult.
Can't you just vent to outside of the plane? It's not like they are usually in enclosed spaces.
WTF. My alma mater (Dresden University of Technology) has 6000 academic staff and 2500 administrative staff for 35000 students, which sort of matches the expectation that I had before checking.
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I have absolutely no idea what it would sound like. So that means I’ll definitely try it later tonight and update the blog post. Tx
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"Nothing we do in this large department of ours is really very important, and there’s never any rush. On the other hand, it is important that we let people know we do a great deal of it."

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The propulsive efficiency as defined in the Wikipedia article is the product of the cycle efficiency (the efficiency turning heat into mechanical power) and the mechanical efficiency (the efficiency turning the mechanical power generated by the engine into movement of the airplane). The mechanical efficiency can be close to 100%, but the cycle efficiency is only 40% or so.
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Soviet history is very tricky subject to study.

Russian State aka Kiev’s Russia started in Ukraine, so saying Russia starved Ukraine is like saying USA starved California, if somehow California got independent and the rest of country blocked food stuffs.
Put kerosene in a tank to drive a generator to provide electricity when taking off, and as backup to generate DC for charging batteries when necessary.

Now instead of kerosene burning in a jet engine, "we are all fucked if it doesnt work", its burning in a simple compact, "fuck it if it doesnt work", generator.
I don't know if you're quoting this to show the absurdity of the statement or if you really believe it.

Nobody understands how a processor is made. Hell, I bet there's almost nobody that truly understands how a plastic cup is made. Do you know how complex the equipment for exploration and drilling oil is, refining, polymerizing, injection molding etc? Do you really think you can find a single man that's able to do this from scratch? And that's an easy case.

No system can be understood in it's entirety by anyone. This is because there's no absolute truth to be known, only approximations of varying degrees.
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earn high grades

This is a definition of "earn" with which I was previously unfamiliar.
6. Waze can help you navigate to the most secluded spots, even when the local signs become sparse.

...and then you can complain on FB how many people are on that supposedly "secluded" spot. Surprise: technological innovation applies to them as well.

Indeed, technology removes many bottlenecks...but as we should know here on HN, all that ever did was expose other bottlenecks elsewhere in the pipeline - and physical scarcity is a far harder bottleneck than knowledge imbalance.
> As a German engineer, I always shiver at those "I went to hospital, the doctor turned out to be out-network and now I'm in debt for the rest of my life" discussions at HN.

You're proving his point: all the risk-averse folks stay in Germany. The rest are in the bay area.
> The generic किताबी कीड़ा insult is largely for nerds with awkward interests and lifestyles.

No, it's a literal translation of "book worm". I've never seen it used for people who just have quirky interests and don't otherwise read or study a lot.
Reminds me of the French Minitel which started in 1978 and was retired only in 2012: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel
I have a friend whose voicemail sounded like they were answering the phone. So annoying!
I've heard similar opinions to this before, and I don't think it makes sense. It's so hard for businesses to stay in business that if they could shed the bullshit jobs they would.

I think technological progress is slow process and these jobs exist because they provide some competitive advantage or provide surge capacity. If they're truly bullshit and in the private sector they will eventually disappear. It can take a long time to accurately determine if an activity is essential in complex organizations.
Let me jump in in the discussion and answer why those are objectionable and how to fix them so the same objective can be achieved while not be discriminative.

> 1. A company makes a prayer room available for their Muslim employees to do their daily prayers

Services and gifts are from a practical point of view just different forms of bonuses given to employees. A extra room cost money to rent, and if employees are given free time in there then that also cost the company money. The solution is to calculate how much the prayer room cost, divide it per employee that wish to use it, and give each employee that money to do as they wish. The Muslim employees can pool their bonus for the room, and the rest can either pool it together for something else or increase their individual pay check. This way the company do not discriminate and a person who believe in the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster has the same benefit and support at the company as a Muslim.

> 2. A company hosts a Women in Tech conference
If you have to ask attendees or speakers if they identify as a woman, then what you are doing is explicit discrimination. This is objectionable so simply don't. Organize event instead so that you reaching out to intended minorities by looking at what works and interests those groups.

> 3. A company hosts a GLBT in Tech mixer during Pride Week

Same as #1. If a company spend money on one group, then that is an indirect bonus to those employees who belong to that group. If its not possible to provide every employee the same benefit, at least make the selection process transparent and as fair as possible so both a GLBT mixer as well as a nudist mixer can be created if both exist as groups at the company.

> 4. A social media company creates a couple special features for Black History month (e.g., Twitter's @Blackbirds bot)

Very similar to the above one. Who decide which group deserve the special feature? I would suggest something similar to Wikipedia's featured articles, where any topic can be suggested and a fair process decide which one get selected. The more transparent the better.
The link between doing useful work and being paid for it is broken in these cases, just noone openly admits it. So why not make it explicit and stop requiring people to pretend to work to get paid?
Thanks for this advice. I am new to blogging and certainly new to HN front page etiquette. I think my excitement got the better of me!
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> The problem with C is that in any bigger project something always slips through even the best programmers, reviewers, static analysis and unit tests.

That's also true of all the other languages.
>>There are economic incentives to create larger and larger organizations;

One of the real reasons why languages like Lisp and Perl had a short life in MegaCorps is they were anti-dote to large people hierarchies. You can disproportionate work with small teams.

Execs and VPs openly boast in company all hands about their 'team sizes' and numbers almost as the biggest accomplishment of their lives.

No one is going to buy any technology or methodology which shrinks their head count.
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At my university which is also a heavily endowed top ten, and it's hard to not imagine that they were intentionally aiming to waste money. In my opinion the purpose of this was to justify increasing costs which internally is then seen as a measurement of growth. You would regularly see buildings, fully functional and usable buildings, being completely demolished and replaced with new buildings to no end. The only real changes would be snazzier looking architecture and some nicer desks because, ya know, you have to tear down a building to stick in some nicer desks.

What I think people forget when we speak of monolithic institutions, be they institutions of learning, corporations, or even governments is that they aren't really monoliths. They're just made up of lots of individuals who are mostly just interested in themselves. So who is the person whose motivation is to reduce costs? Go look at the regularly flaunted bios and list of achievements of presidents of any major university. You're not going to find reducing costs anywhere in there. Instead you'll just find a whole slew of different ways they managed to find to spend even more money.

Here [1] is the president of Stanford's bio. Lo and behold, among his amazing achievements include 'Dr. Tessier-Lavigne worked with faculty, students, staff and trustees to develop and execute a ... a $500 million / 2 acre campus expansion project in the heart of Manhattan that broke ground in 2015.' Literally managing to spend half a billion dollars of other peoples money for a 2 acre expansion is, in and of itself, regarded as a noteworthy achievement.

[1] - https://president.stanford.edu/biography/
Here is an Interesting trend on Githut https://madnight.github.io/githut/#/pull_requests/2018/2

Seems Ruby is on a downward trend, while other languages are picking up, Kotlin, Elixir , Lua , Clojure. Surprisingly Perl is also on an uptick. There is a high traction for Functional languages and this trend will increase as we transition to a more multicore world Ruby cant cut it in those environments, JVM would stay but it isnt sure which JVM lang will be preferred in that environment. Rails on the other hand is too convention driven and may not survive what is coming.
I'm a German who had a green card in the USA. I gave it up and moved back home to Germany. I value the European lifestyle over the American. I make less but I'm happier with being treated well.
"we have never had as much free time as now where we dont need to worry about food"

We actually have less free time compared to hunter-gatherers. http://rewild.info/in-depth/leisure.html
100% agree!!
I think you're looking at the numbers incorrectly - the vast majority of the admin staff aren't managing the academic staff, they're providing other/different services, as well as supporting the academic staff.

EDIT: I'd also like to make the point that I'm not advocating for this level of human resource, but that I've seen it from the inside and know how much of a complicated issue it is to be solved to the extent that throwaway comments on a forum about "waste" and "inefficiency" contribute exactly FA, and could lead to animosity toward those roles and the people in them making a go of it (as bored as they might be).
I'm all for alternatives so that I can choose away from Tesla and away from some heavy-handed oil-producing countries in what/who I support.

No idea if Dyson is going to make a good electric car or not but I sure hope they do -- another big player in the space also means more innovation so I'm up for that, and Dyson prides themselves in unique engineering so maybe they'll make a thing that will actually help other manufacturers regardless of whether their car is a success or not.
Bagless vacuums aren't better. Really

Cleaning dust out of a bagless vacuum is bad if you have allergies.

Buying the bags is an annoyance but it is the lesser one.
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Thanks.

I grabbed a multimeter and checked the first part I could find. 1mV DC covered, 10mV DC uncovered (it's a bleak cloudy day). Magnifying glass reveals it's a 6v2 zener :)
Irony warning, I'm writing this from a vineyard in Tuscany.

You do realise that you are part of the problem you are complaining about? Why are you entitled to visit there and nobody else? Regarding the tour buses, as someone who lives in a popular tourist city (Edinburgh) given the choice of a bus full of tourists rocking up every day, or the same number of tourists rocking up in rental cars, I'll take the bus any day. There's nothing worse than navigating narrow streets surrounded by people who can barely drive not knowing where they're going.
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I'm a long time coder and still liked watching your video just for watching someone else work in emacs. How do you get emacs to highlight all occurrences of map? Was it a keybinding for "highlight-phrase"?
I bet ya a signed dollar it won't.
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That we should! Let's hear some concrete implementation ideas as to how we can make it work without just making swathes of people redundant without something else in place (and that can't be swept away by party politics 4 years down the line).

There's lots of smart people on HN, but the default reaction to everything is "automate! efficiency! the market!" and then "something, something, UBI!".

A secure bullshit job that puts food on the table and scratch in your bank account is better than all of the alternatives proposed to now. Not saying it can't be solved, and would love to work getting there too, but it's a hard problem where the solution needs to be sustainable outside of flaky social security.
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I don't think OP is saying that TSA has affected safety or cost, merely that flying has gotten cheaper and safer(independent of his statement about the TSA)
I believe all this is part of evolution.. thing to come after the current(human).
I disagree that people and societies organize by efficiency and how well they reduce energy across time. In fact the two almost contradict each other. People organize based on individual/egotistical "efficiency", and not the efficiency of the system/society.
Well, there are corporations that can and do hire people with the hacker's mindset and corporations that don't. If you take the highest paying jobs, you usually get the latter. That is a problem.
"the purpose of a system is what it does"

"the bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy"
> people spending time and money to create and satisfy procedures that degenerate into rituals

There's something about the idea of ritual indeed. Well found
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Pretty much all the Dyson's I've used have had very poor suction and hardly pick up anything.

The Toshiba bagless cleaners work well in my experience.
> Ultimately patterns (atoms, cells, people, societies, whatever) organize by efficiency,

This is meaningless if you leave out the goal though. Efficiency for what, food distribution? What's the function around which we are optimizing.
Progress doesn't come from innovation alone, but also from finance and adoption. Norway are doing a good job at raising demand for electric transportration and acting as a testing ground and leader for the future. This is something all rich countries should do. / Fellow Swede
I also played with improving the Halton sequence. There is an other generalization of the Golden ratio, namely the metallic ratios. Unfortunately using them performs worse than the Halton sequence.
Is that really that far off from the current state of a cars? We had a 69 gmc truck growing up and I could point o the parts in the engine and understand how everything worked. Later ok we got a 97 gmc truck and damn it’s way more complex. I know it can still be worked on by anyone and is definitely serviceable but what is a 2017 model like I’m sure even more complex with onboard computers etc...
Whoa, this is awesome. (I mean that half-sarcastically in a "you must go and see, you won't believe it" kind of way.)

It definitely inspires awe.

I mean, what am I supposed to make of this?
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One of the under-appreciated facets of SaaS economics is that you have to grow your growth constantly, regardless of whether you're bootstrapped or VC funded.

If you're steadily adding 100 customers/month you might think thats great because of the accumulating nature of subscription revenue - but actually that's a death sentence.

Your churn will grow as your customer base grows.

If you've got a 5% monthly churn rate then at 1000 customers you'll lose 50 customers/month. At 2000 customers you'll be losing 100 customers/month - and all of a sudden your 100 new customers a month will net out to zero. After that point you'll start losing customers.

From a quick look at Buffer's baremetrics board that's what happened here.

You either have to have net negative dollar churn (which is very very hard if you're selling to SMEs) or you have to have an exponential growth rate that means you can escape the churn effect and that almost always require external capital to fuel the growth.
This, a 1000 time.

Germany's (and western Europe's in general) biggest problem is not lousy compensation and sky-high taxes (although these are a huge problem as well).

The biggest thing that prevents Europe from innovating is culture.

Risk-taking, innovation, doing crazy "unthinkable" things is something that has simply deserted the European DNA a long time ago (probably over a century by now).

Almost all the important technical inventions of the 19th century happened in Europe.
Almost all the important technical inventions of the 20th century happened outside Europe.

If you've ever worked in Germany in a tech company you will very likely know what I am talking about here: when you throw a new and crazy idea on the table, the immediate reaction of the crowd is to carefully explain to you the myriad of ways in which your idea is just "not possible" and "will fail".

Getting a brainstorm-type session going with a group German engineers is darn near impossible.

And much less so with management.
Pizza delivery is not a bull-shit job. He mentions people doing this lousy job only because people are forced to hold bull-shit jobs so they can eat and then don't have time to cook for themselves. He expanded this article into a book after doing some research. His working definition of bull-shit job is that the job holder calls it a bullshit job.
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