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There's a little big detail w/r/t java comparison: every company I've personally worked with who uses rails for their backend vs java moves WAY WAY WAY faster. So in terms of the "enterprise stack" dichotomy, there is a difference in kind between rails/java.

I get things done faster and more maintainably (for future me and other devs) when I do it in rails. Hopping into apps that rely on (request, response, next) always hits me with a learning curve every single time I come back to em, which gets worse as complexity rises. It could also be that I'm very bad at thinking in terms of pipes and need to practice that more.

I also find that in rails, there really aren't _that_ many ways to do things. And, in general, apps that age gracefully always figure out how to phrase their domain concepts through the smallest restful url's/resource mappings they need. There's a lot to be learned from the approach the smaller micro frameworks take, and you can get the best of both worlds in a lot of ways.
> Roughly 20% of the USA will be at church this Sunday. ... a general rule of thumb is that each week more people will be at church than will watch a game of professional sport live.

Interesting comparison: they are also mass participatory activities of the sort described in the article, with scope for discussion during (sport) and after (!!) in the case of religion. Quite different from watching at home.

I went to a professional game this year and realised that it was the 8th one I'd attended (never watched one on TV). Now looking back I've probably attended about the same number (less than a dozen) formal abrahamic services my entire life as well (weddings, funerals, services, bar mitzvah). I'm 54; my parents, in their 80s, are probably at about the same number -- perhaps a few more funerals in recent years. Apart from one "crazy aunt" in India who would drag me along to the temple when we'd visit I pretty much don't know any people who profess to be attendees. Note I've always lived in low-religion regions of low-religion countries (Australia, Germany, USA and France) so it could be a self-selection issue.

> ... personalisation of religion ... has become completely in-grained in our thinking. So religion just doesn't get discussed in public forums any more.

It's interesting; I know the desire for this state of affairs runs prominently through the writing of most of the US government's founders and it seems like a good republican (i.e. non-arisocracy/monarchy ideal). But I can believe something could have been lost in the process. It seems like the only mass participatory activity Americans have in common any more is the useless TSA rituals :-(.
I live in Vietnam but we have a lot of Koreans in the area I live in and what they eat doesn't seem very healthy. Huge amounts of cheese and grilled meats and very heavy drinking. Is that typical for Koreans in Korea too?
Painting a misleading picture of the whole situation by ignoring evidence that doesn't suit their agenda is dishonest.
I read a very insightful comment on a previous similar thread about this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17682648

The short of it is that any platform you build to make friends (at least if you take the naive approach and just build a dating app for friends) turns into a dating platform. It certainly matches how I interested I am in new people I meet online despite having a partner already. My hypothesis is that you typically have friendships with people of the same sex in a group (I certainly hear about people hanging out with "the lads" or "the girls" more than I hear about them hanging out one-on-one with same sex friends) and that isn't something any dating-app-for-friends has provided thus far.
https://tcpdump101.com/js/t101.js

9,000 lines of Javascript, looking pretty handmade and very heavily coupled. I'm not sure if you'd make much progress.
I'm a little confused? 1 why aren't you adding more prep time after each failure? 2 why do you keep interviewing with them at all? a job at x fang company isn't a goal in itself? is it because the opportunity keeps coming up about you take advantage of it? if the latter then why be upset? it's like walking by a carnie game and getting a free play and being upset you lost.
Sorry, I should have mentioned I'm not OP you replied to.

I moved to London in early 2013, and it definitely wasn't that popular. I had my own group of coffee buddies but I was the only one drinking it.
Even today only 1 in 10 coffee drinkers have it [0].

Note that I did drink flat white all the time back then, it just didn't always appear on the menu. You just had to ask nicely and most people would make you one (or try anyway).

Note that Starbucks and Costa do not make flat white IMO, even if they sell a drink called that.

That said, today is way different and flat whites are everywhere.

[0] https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/flat-white-coffee-c...
Interesting. I may live in a self-selected group, though perhaps "bubble" is too strong a word.
My question about rain is if the system is confused because the color of wet soil is different of the color of dry soil. It is interesting to know that you are integrating other sources like the weather report.

About Punjab: I searched the place it in the map https://www.google.com/maps/place/Punjab,+India/@30.9863447,... And it looks quite flat, the mountains are outside, on the northeast. Now I have another question. Does your site cover only Punjab or a bigger region?
In general very few things are getting worse in society. What is happening is that things are getting more unequal. When you lack power any excess will be made to serve someone else. It isn't like driving an hour to a busy supermarket was the height of social interaction. And social interaction has always been about your status in society. In the end it is a choice of who is going to give up what.
I remmeber having the same deep interactions on ICQ!
the problem with these is that the tension on the spring (necessarily) is very high and they're painful to wear after a couple of hours.
Interesting article, though I've got a few criticisms of it as well as related points I feel it missed out on.

1. AI won't necessarily replace humans because the success of a business isn't always dependent on an 'objective' metric like price or technical quality. For example, branding is often more important to the success of a product or business than the actual objective properties of the product is, especially in the world of film/tv/video games/music/etc. Disney won't lose sleep to an upstart creating a Star Wars or Mickey Mouse competitor with AI/machine learning, and Nintendo won't see Mario/Zelda/Pokemon lose popularity to AI generated rivals. Same goes on smaller scale with YouTubers, Twitch streamers, etc. Their fanbase likes them because of who they are, not just some objective quality about their work.

So in that sense, I feel it may be likely we get an artist/brand economy when AI takes over, where the only way to succeed is to market yourself/your character/world.

I also feel businesses based on location aren't going to be too threatened by AI for the time being either. Objectively, the shops at an airport/station/wherever are terrible, and offer worse wares at higher prices than their competitors.

But they still make a ton of money, because for many people 'something edible now' is more important than 'something better in 20 minutes or so'. People are lazy and impatient, so there will always be an audience for convenience, regardless of better options in existence.

So in that sense, it's doubtable that AI will put everyone out of work, simply because people aren't purely rational creatures using quality and price as the only important thing they look for in a product or service.

2. The flipside of authoritarianism and technology is that any technology used by tyrants and those already with power can be easily turned against them by their opponents too, especially if cyber security doesn't get much better than it is today.

This has both a good and a bad side. On the good one, well it means the rebels/revolution/whatever will be able to literally hijack the military that the powerful are using to try and supress them. Or that peacekeeping forces can basically shut down a dictatorship's army there and then, or cripple their entire 'society' altogether.

At the same time however, it also means a small group or individual without any popular support could also take over societies themselves.

Which in turn brings me to the depressing point that all negative futurism articles fail to make clear. Namely:

Technology makes it possible to rule with a zero percent approval rating.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ZeroPercentAppro...

That's the scary thing about its effects on governments and power. The more advanced technology gets, the less a tyrant needs to be loved or even tolerated by the population to hold onto power.

Either way, the article's got some good points, and I definitely feel we should planning for these issues before they're too late.
There is a point to bring: during the WWII and later cold war, Soviets were extremely vocal about untouchability of top political leadership, and immunities provided by Vienna convention being absolute. And they uphold that dearly.

Now my Western friends, try spending some time to think why they did so.
> Only trivially small ones that we'd do a few times a week. There's still lots of physical activity that we do (eg walking around, carrying things like shopping, sex, etc).

Not everywhere — one of the major reasons fitness (and BMI) is correlated with walkability of a city is that in many typical US cities, you barely have to walk anymore, while in the more walkable cities driving is less possible, and you’ll walk or cycle much more, and usually use transit more (which means walking to/from the stops).

All this adds up.
I am sure the author appreciates that back-handed complement, I appreciate that you reinforce the facade of programmer arrogance in tech-pop.
I have read your comment several times and still fail to find any meaning to it. Is it some sort of joke/sarcasm ?
The only racism here is in your head.

The NY Times is alleging "Bias at Google" and cherry picking examples that support that allegation while ignoring evidence that would refute that allegation.

I'm sure all of these examples, both positive and negative, have technical explanations. Further refutation of the claim that Google is biased.
I’m happy to hand the project over to somebody who wants to maintain it. I can’t find time for the long trail of old projects right now.
If I were writing apps that were sold to customers, that would be even more of a reason to use LINQ - not most ORMs though.

I know about a software package that was written in C# that officially supported Sql Server,Oracle, and Mongo and he was able to support all three with basically the same codebase using Linq and runtime translated Expression<Func<T>> statements.

His LINQ queries and expressions were the same across data stores.
You could think about it this way: the mechanical parts of cars are all the same-ish (and Apple is planning on them being commodities). So when self-driving cars show up, the only thing to differentiate them will be the software, and Apple is planning on controlling it.

If you hop in a self-driving car, then hop out at your destination, the only parts you have connection with is the seating and the software.
Yeah, this stuck me as poorly worded. But to follow the Charitability rule, it can be better interpreted as follows:

Often, when someone puts forward an argument, there are multiple ways to interpret it. Some of these versions of their argument are strong than others. Assume that they were trying to say the strongest version.

See also steelmanning:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man#Steelmanning

If you want to see examples of steelmanning, read

http://slatestarcodex.com/
Okay I'm skeptical.
On the one side some 'bad other' could be using an undefined device to attack only American people, only in foreign lands, and for uncertain reasons. That narrative conveniently fuels paranoia and makes for good reading. Alternative explanations exist, based on well established medicine, which I think need air time, link below.

Now, I'm all for exciting stories but this one keeps being resurrected without evidence I'd find compelling (namely lesions on MRI, quantifiable deficits in function, or signs and symptoms that prove neural damage). Indeed all the features of this particular syndrome appear better explained by functional, rather than structural, disease.

Of course the possiblility of acoustic or electromagnetic weapons being used exists until proven otherwise, but in light of what is known, it seems unlikely to me.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/14/cuban-acoustic...

Declaration of interests: I've worked with Prof. Stone.
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I don't think that is the opposite though.

We've mostly burnt the bridge you used to get there.

In the 90s BBS's, IRC and even ICQ had sites to connect people where people would list interests etc, people had ICQ or other icons on their home page to connect and just randomly chat. BBS's and interest groups would have meet ups and yearly BBQs etc. There was an openness, perhaps a little naivety, to connecting with strangers who would eventually become close friends. There was a special sort of novelty being in a conversation with 3 people from all around the globe at the same time.

Now it seems to me much more about connecting up your existing networks. Friends on Facebook or whichever chat program, but not much for random new connections. Meetups are rarer too unless you've joined a local Facebook cycling group or similar. People aren't as open to connecting with the unknown as it's probably a scammer/spammer etc.

I can understand why my kid's generation might feel it's more difficult now. Especially if they don't have much in the way of existing networks.
So, with `for` you will introduce even more JS-incompatibility, break even mire stuff (basically, all forms), and the reason for the change is?.. Somewhat less typing (which is already covered by autocomplete in everything but Windows Notepad)?
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I have none. I'd never put any in my home unless I had complete control over them. Same goes for digital assistants, no Google home or Amazon echo for me.
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Monorepo or multirepo
I was recently introduced to the idea of monorepo source control and i'm baffled. It seems like a bad idea at first but then it keeps getting better. Thoughts?
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This reminds of the saying “During the gold rush, it wasn’t the prospectors who got wealthy, but rather the people selling shovels.”
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"Let’s dispel with the myth that ORMs make code cleaner. Join the embedded-SQL movement and discover a much more readable, much more straightforward way to query databases."

Any argument whatsoever for this? Would love to see an example of how when you do away with the whole object persistence layer, and you just have a SQL string (which ORMs allow you to do anyway), how do you get your parameters over, how do you get your rows back, how do you manage your transactional scope, how do you get your rows in and out of your objects? all of which has nothing to do with a SQL string.

Well let's read on:

"Erik Bernhardsson... is the CTO at Better, which is a startup changing how mortgages are done. I write a lot of code, some of which ends up being open sourced, such as Luigi and Annoy. "

Open source stuff! Let's go there and see an example of this "write raw SQL and don't use any persistence libraries and your code is readable and straightforward", because nobody ever seems to actually want to illustrate this and how they don't end up writing their own ORM anyway, and we see, oh https://github.com/spotify/luigi/blob/master/luigi/db_task_h..., it's SQLAlchemy ORM.

Foiled again in my search to see this elusive super clean and simple raw SQL with no ORM that doesn't reinvent an ORM anyway. Which is the real "myth" ?
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Take a look at Michael (@SciresM): https://twitter.com/SciresM?s=09
> Most fatigue is just a drained feeling, followed by some muscle soreness for one to three days. Soreness in tendons and joints is almost always a problem, in my experience. If it doesn't clear up in about three days of relative rest, you're heading into chronic injury territory.

In my experience, if it doesn't clear up in three days, I'm already there (and usually also have no fucking idea what I did to cause the injury).

The more I look into this, the more I suspect that in my case it's a sensory deficit, i.e. I literally can't feel the initial pre-injury discomfort that trains most people not to move/position their bodies in ways that acutely damage joints or connective tissues.
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“In dictatorships, you often have factions that think nothing of going against the general policy if it suits their needs. I think that’s a perfectly viable explanation.”
Frey.

I’m not sure that’s a thing unique to dictatorships at all.
I don’t see why this is downvoted — when self driving cars are a reality the car windshield hud will become one of the highest value “displays” around. The computing infrastructure to support this display will also be highly controlled compared to previous generation consumer computing hardware — I think the only model for computing on this surface will be “walled garden”s — if Apple doesn’t want to be locked out of this interface they’ll have to build their own platform for it.
That is certainly interesting.

We’ve all seen the video where the Erlang guys live update the code on a telephone switch without closing any of the calls that are on-going.

Elixir runs on the Erlang VM.

Does Drab support hot code reloading? Does it handle modifications of templates without breaking existing client sessions?
You said it harsher than I would have, but I go hiking to be alone. 6-8 hours with nothing but some music and your thoughts is amazing to help clear the mind and get re-centered. Sadly, I no longer live near good mountain hiking, so I use surfing as that time to re-center.
We still use Rails and it's a good fit for getting projects off the ground quickly and validating ideas. It's a niche but it's an important niche.

Once Rails projects get beyond a certain size though they start getting exponentially more difficult to maintain. My sense is that Node is going to surpass Rails by sheer brute force eventually. When I work in JS now I'm just amazed at how much better the tooling and performance is than Ruby and ES6/7 is overall a pretty nice language to work with. And having something like Typescript is essential once a codebase gets big enough.
You achieve the same thing with Rails and Turbolinks. Watch this presentation by Sam Stephenson to see what I mean.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWEts0rlezA
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> Without a knowledge of what exists outside Rails, how do you know you're not wasting time and effort? (Not to ask how you're going to get your next job.)

So now you need to factor in research time. Then, continual research time, every time a new library or version of a library comes out. And if your research turns up that, no, in fact, version X or new lib Y is not substantively better (by whatever metric you're looking at), do you count that research time as 'wasted'?

> how do you know you're not wasting time and effort?

You look at the results of what you're doing vs what expectations were, firstly. You can then, periodically, look at your efforts, and compare reports from others who are claiming to do the same thing, and ... occasionally... spend time determining if a different approach offers radically better returns on the effort/results you have now. Switching to XYZ may also involve huge amounts of refactoring, upgrade, migration, etc. How do you know all that effort won't be "wasted" if new platform XYZ is abandoned 18 months from now?

"efficiently" doesn't necessarily mean "at maximum efficiency". Also, "business value" is almost always intertwined with hitting particular date/time goals, which often trump technical metrics.
This is basically what everyone is doing at these kickball/softball/whatever leagues.
Same in Santiago (Chile). Even if the pop is more or less 5 million. We have PedidosYa, UberEats, Rappi, instadelivery, Glovo, menuexpress and other local options.
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I am going to say something very unpopular just for discussion reasons:
What if, IF, by having so much information at hand and telling each other how much live sucks, we've created a situation of mass induced depression based on hypochondria?
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At JuliaCon 2018 in London, Sophie Wilson (Broadcom/ARM/Cambridge) gave an insightful overview about the "Future of Microprocessors", and she touched on this topic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX4ZNfvw1cw
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Do make a version for video as well! I will pay for one!
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Wearing it in the office - if you can get away with it - would also be a good way to make a point that the office environment is too damn loud to think.
The world is filled with other people. IMO, the benefit you get from another person being able to immediately be productive in your codebase vastly outweighs any benefit you would get from hand picking an ORM, a mailer, a templating library, etc.

And, anyway, Rails is pretty modular; you can rip out and replace anything that isn’t to your taste.
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My spookometer isn't going off because of what happened with the diplomats, but why the story is covered so darn much in the news.
RF/Microwave EE here. I actually tried this on myself several years ago with no effect. Specifically 20W at C-band into a 10 dBi standard gain horn a few feet away, pulse mod to 1 kHz. That was still not near enough power density.

While it’s plausible, it would take a big effort to affect this many people. The peak power densities, as described in the paper, would be tens of W/cm^2; e.g. radar transmitters and big antennas.

To direct this power, you’d have to track someone with a high gain antenna, and once you are non line of sight, it would attenuate greatly. That, or you’d have to place covert equipment in close proximity, in many locations.

It would also be very easy to detect with basic test equipment, as the desired peak power levels are huge.

Maybe there could be some organ resonance effect with mmWaves, such as bones in the ear, but that is sketchy too.

Here is the link from the article:

https://braincontrolhedge.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/audito...
One begins to wonder how many such scams like this the Chinese economy can support before the whole house of cards collapses.