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How is something as frivolous as taking notes while programming, which many people do, worth a blog post and a mention here on HN? Let alone turning it into some dogmatic principle to work by, by calling it 'log driven' programming. What is next? Keyboard driven programming? 3-monitor-driven programming?

I do this:

While programming it pays off to stop and think about the code. I call this, thought driven programming.
Thank you for sharing. Rather than having our own children, I think I would prefer to invest my emotional and financial bandwidth to open up an education system that provides good education for general public. I have been actively experimenting with education and observing how people communicate and learn during my free time and plan to dedicate myself fully to providing good education full time in a few years.

If my wife and I decide too late that we want to have children, I think we will be happy with adopting and providing someone with shelter and love they otherwise wouldn't have had.
Its always amusing to see stories about communists going far out of their way to avoid capitalism.
And Hungarian language is the worst ever.
From what I've seen, people are addicted to streaks.
> Sometimes I think I should just use Kotlin, but then I would miss the ability to drop seamlessly into dynamic mode

You can use Apache Groovy for just the glue code and Gradle build scripts, and use a statically-typed language like Java, Kotlin, or Scala for the actual system you're building -- that's what most programmers do.
If someone else launches a similar mission, will he tweets that they are a pedophile ?
The application of advertisements and the ad industry in general to crypto is IMO the antithesis of the Crypto Anarchist Manifesto[^1]. What are your thoughts on this matter?

[1]: https://hackcabin.com/post/take-flight-monero-cli-wallet/pdf...
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India is not safe country for women in general. I don't know about Pune but it should be a similar situation. You can hardly see any women traveling alone at night in most Indian cities. Our law enforcement are just terrible compared to west. Crimes are high. There is nothing like 911 that will take care of you in a matter of minutes if something bad happens. Take most advices on India with a pinch of salt and please don't relocate here untill and unless you have experienced India first hand by yourselves. Most places are overpopulated and over polluted. People dont follow traffic rules and everything about India is completely opposite that of the west. A western colleague of mine got hit by car almost twice in the firsy day we went out. You can hardly find any foreigners in Indian cities unless its a tourist hotspot. In most cases there is nothing for you to justify moving to India. Look at the H1B visas from India and number of Indian students doing masters in foreign countries. Almost anyone who can relocate from India would do that in an instant if they have the resources.

You should take a look into this blog post https://medium.com/@oliviagoldstein/a-year-in-india-told-by-....
Sadly deleting Facebook isn't an option for me, as it has become _the_ place to get notified about social events around here.
Twitter/Reddit/whatever doesn't have as strong a presence here, and the traditional websites have all be replaced by facebook pages.

I've cut out all the services from my life that siphons my "metadata", and while my daily Facebook usage was around 15 minutes/day, i still can't completely delete it.
Instead i've banned the Facebook app from my phone/tablet and only check facebook when i'm at home during the evenings, and even then i use Firefox with Facebook Container.

As for (Facebook) messenger, i'm trying hard to teach people that i don't use it, or telegram, and instead they can reach me on Signal, or just plain old iMessages/SMS. It takes a few weeks, but usually people "get it" when i don't reply to their messages.
> Is there any major capital where they don't rise?

Athens.

I need to leave that country for my own sanity and I'm currently on the lookout for a new one to move to. All this talk about portugal is very tempting :)
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Teleport (https://teleport.org/). This entire service was created to find a better place to live, allowing you to compare various attributes of each city.
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"Common sense is not so common." - Voltaire
+1 for portugal, i was actually in lisbon for a few days this summer, first time, i really liked what i saw, was more on vacation than for work, but definitely had a few escalations that forced me to get on the internet and everything was fast. people are friendly, costs relatively low, i stayed in 2 different parts, but near my hotel there was a large huawei office (not that i'd ever consider working there), but it tells you that some big, multi-national companies are there.

i also heard that if you buy a 600k usd house in portugal, you could register for eu citizenship, please someone confirm.
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As an addition to the shelter example: if there were many dogs, and there were only one white dog, you would say "I'll take white dog." And so on...
> Added background: I'm not so optimistic regarding bith Tesla and SpceX anymore as have been, especially Tesla.

Not commenting on Tesla, but why are you not optimistic wrt SpaceX?

To put simply, SpaceX has won the space launch industry more thoroughly than anyone could have predicted just a few years ago.

SpaceX is now routinely recovering every core they fly, and based on publicly revealed data they are cheap to refurbish. This means launch costs they pay are down to a small fraction of what everyone else pays. They have reduced the cost of getting to the end of their launch queue to $60M for basic service, and despite the low sticker price they are still probably making more profit per launch (not profit margin, more flat profit) on those than any of their competitors are. According to Königsmann's recent talk at IAC, they now have a 100 future launches on their launch manifest, priced at about $12B. That's more than the entire rest of the commercial launch industry put together, by a huge margin.

Because they now get their first stages back, it means that their stable of launchers grows larger and their launch cadence can improve with every new finished rocket, so they can rapidly turn those deals into actual profit.

In just a few years, SpaceX has turned from the scrappy upstart to the 800-pound gorilla who dwarf all their competition. On top of that they have the BFR which sounds fantastic and fantastical, and their satellite internet business which seems designed to make sure they don't run out of launches for their launchers, and both those projects are a lot more risky. But the point is, unlike Tesla with Model 3, those projects can fail and they will still be the most effective and profitable space launch company in human history. They can afford to have a long and explosion-filled development cycle for the BFR. In a lot of ways, they have already won, and that's just the victory lap.

Of course, until they get BFR worked out, they are not going to go to Mars.
Like when was the last time violence resulted in a very good change? Because I have plenty of examples where it went completely wrong, bringing only the death of millions. This way of thinking ("the end justifies the means") is one of the most dangerous concepts and the cause of suffering of many people in the world right now.
On top of that the miner is opt-out and (hopefully) throttled to 30% thread/cpu use (based on session and without cookie) and only while reliably detecting a page is actively in use.
Dell Precision M3520. Good keyboard, good size, good complement of ports (3x USB3.0, HDMI, Thunderbolt, NIC, even VGA), excellent performance (i7 + expandable RAM + Quadro graphics), nice 1920x1080 screen too. Leagues above our standard XPS 13s for usability, if much larger and heavier. I have it running Ubuntu 18.04.
From all the things that are going wrong in Germany, this is the most bizarre compilation I have ever seen (except the food situation). Probably an indicator for how good life is in Germany in general :)
I'm Polish and after living in the Netherlands and London can't stand Poland.

Xenophobic, homophobic, antisemitic nation. You're rightly warning about the Trump-like revolution. But it is much worse now. For example you can't become a school director if you're not catholic. All national TV is just a fake news brainwash directed by governing party. Don't go to Poland.

P.S. If you're muslim they will lynch you.
yeah... have forgotten some of these things. data reverse engineering? who remembers that..
http://search.lores.eu/realicra/finn_de1.htm
http://search.lores.eu/bg_weird.htm
http://search.lores.eu/angewalk.htm

another mirror of the software side, still alive, is here:
http://www.woodmann.com/fravia/papers.htm
The problem is lobbying and laws being written with the help of banks and financial firms like Deloitte with intentional loopholes, who have large wealth advisory services and then go on to market and sell their services to wealthy clients.

This is brazen corruption and everyone knows it. There has been focus on offshore havens for decades now with no resolution suggesting a lack of interest in fixing the loopholes.

It's like saying every employee can sell their services to a marketing firm which can then lease it out to employers. And the marketing firms can exist in low tax regions. If the law allows this it is not 'tax evasion', merely 'tax optimization'. The end result is is lower tax revenue but of course employees as a group do not have this kind of clout so won't happen. But let us not pretend we do not understand what is happening and muddy the waters in the face of brazen opportunism and corruption.
Please don't do that. If you have a point to make or something to add, please do so. Having actually read the wikipedia page you linked to I'm still not entirely sure exactly which point you're trying to make.
Now?!

Tech is not only about coding away in a cubicle, what the company does is part of the job.
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Interesting, would you mind sharing what some of these activities entail?
For money, my dear, for money. Is there any other reason for a company to exist? The stuff like "do no evil" or "we are green" is just a smoke screen. At the end they will do everything for money.
Cambridge is crazy cool and one of my favourite cities but it's expensive by many standards, not just UK ones. "vs Bay Area" nearly everything in the world is cheap.

For those looking to spend though: Cambridge has a cool tech/startup scene, almost everyone bikes and there's no cars in the city center. It's a fairly small city, very green, both quiet and lively.
The one and only POS opensource project that SME's can use at their local store.
Now: X1 Carbon 1st gen. its tough as old boots and light as a feather. sadly its also pretty old now

Soon: Undecided, was going to be an x1 extreme until they put the price up by £500 for no reason so itll likely be an xps15 or a 13-14" laptop and an eGPU next
I think this makes a good deal of sense.

The tech job market is extremely buoyant in the present age, meaning very few programmers are in a position where they have to settle for a job they dislike just to make ends meet.

I mean, every tech company talks about wanting engaged, passionate, proud employees - so why settle for doing work you can't take pride in when you could switch to work you could be proud of, and probably get a raise while you're at it?
+1 for Eindhoven. Very cheap beautiful (quite small) houses. Very nice people. Lots of tech. Great transport, both trains and airport.
Would you consider the English level of Bordeaux or Montpellier good though?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2016/11/08/how-bil...

The Clintons are super rich, $240 million net worth, despite a life of "public service". I wonder how that works out?

It's like Robin Williams said, "Politicians are like babies, they should be changed frequently...and for the same reason."

It was high time the Clinton dynasty ended.
>this is EU financed.

Great, i was getting worried the EU was just going to sit on it's arse. I am glad the EU is finally taking this issue seriously.
> For precision and file size reasons, coordinates are stored as 3 x int32 instead of 3 x float or 3 x double

I get storing them as float instead of double but into instead of float for size/precision doesn't really make sense to me. A float is 32 bits, so will be the same size as an int(32). If it's precision you're worried about,you're going to lose the precision as soon as you convert it from an int to a float to use.
> jumps to the "Kremlin propaganda" with tons of handwaving and no evidence at all

The video is promoted by RT, there is enough evidence for it (like, you know, links to a page on RT website containing the video). Even if it wasn't created as Kremlin propaganda, it is used as such now.
> There is pretty much no way you won't lose money

Are you crazy? An absentee landlord can't keep close tabs on the property. It can be trashed, or the tenant can stop paying rent.

I didn't rent my old house out for that exact reason.
FPGAs are much better than current GPUs for low precision NN computation (binary or ternary). Nvidia knows that (that's why they introduced experimental INT1 mode on their latest cards).
Cost of living in Auckland and Wellington is high (rent and food, mostly), but great fibre internet and huge demand for engineers. Big days rates from what I've heard (I'm in London now).

Auckland is on two harbours, absolutely beautiful geography, but you'll need a car and it can be a congested, frustrating nightmare. Lots of smart people though, universities, cultural stuff etc. GREAT food. Seriously good - loads of Asian migration will do that.

Wellington is much smaller, also beautiful, but worse climate. Lots going on though, for a city of its size (150k cbd, 400k wider area). Is the capital, so combination of liberal arts educated public servants, HQ of Xero and centre of film industry (including Weta Digital), 2 universities both with strong creative schools, HQ of national ballet company, HQ of national orchestra and lots of other stuff makes it a pretty great city intellectually. Really cosmpolitan, also great food, but the asian food isn't as good as Auckland. Great local tech scene and lots of creative people.
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One clarification: Gross salaries in Spain are not as gross as in other countries.

For example, a salary advertised as EUR 45K in Spain does not include taxes and benefits (mostly unemployment insurance and medical) paid by the company.

So a SE with a gross salary of EUR45K directly costs the company employing here some EUR60K (i.e. some USD70).

The employee full cost to the company is never konwn to the employee (some 30% is somewhat hidden), unlike in other countries such as France. I guess it helps government to appear they do more with less taxes seen by their voters.

There are other indirect benefits, such as layoff benefits. If a Spanish company fires you without cause, it is liable to pay you 33 days per year worked.

I'm mentioning because comparing gross salaries in different countries, is a bit like comparing apples to samsungs.
The first thing that comes to mind is extreme latency sensitivity.
I did realise that the GP wanted to have their cake and eat it -but why would anyone pay full SV rates for a contractor in a different country.

If they are cool with remote working why not hire much cheaper remote workers at eastern European rates.
> There's a reason @paddycosgrave moved Web Summit to Lisbon.

Because the tax payers are paying €110m for it? http://www.thejournal.ie/lisbon-web-summit-new-ten-year-deal...
Why would you expect people to leave their country instead of simply moving inland and continuing, more or less as they already are?

Climate change's primary destructive effect will be to shift the coasts. There are good and bad things about this. To bad thing is quite self evident. We, and I mean as a species, tend to be extremely densely populated on coasts. This maximizes the numeric affect of increasing sea levels. But there are also some good things about this. The corollary of densely populated coastal regions is that there is an immense amount of sparsely populated inner land to migrate towards. It's not like the increasing seas will push people up against a wall. There is plenty of underutilized land to expand into, right behind us!

And another thing here is to keep in mind is what I already hit on above. Climate change is slow. Even the catastrophic near 0 probability ignore-everything climate change will happen very slowly and over many decades. This again has pros and cons. The obvious con is the parable of a frog boiling in water (which as an aside is not true...). People are less likely to act in any substantive way when the negative change is so gradual, which will increase the chances of us ending up in one of the worse scenarios. But there's also a very positive aspect. The change will not be catastrophic. The coast line won't suddenly be inundated with tens of feet of permanent water. Instead you're going to see the seas inch forward ever so slowly. This gives people time to adjust and migrate while minimizing chaos. So for instance take Miami, which is already suffering from increasing sea levels. You're not going to see property values go from sky high to $0. Instead they will slowly trend downwards and we'll likely see more inner land values slowly trend upwards. And they are also trying to combat the rising tides technologically, with some success. This same pattern will be expected in most places, so it helps preclude scenarios getting "very nasty, very quickly."
Proposal of WEP operation with strong IV and its implementation (2016)
Bangalorean here. I'd +1 what's said above. (both pros and cons)
You're right that Clojure isn't 750 times more dense than Java in even the 99% case, I'm not trying to claim that. I probably should have used something more conservative to make my point (that dynamic languages will usually result in significantly less code for the same problems and that might itself cause suspicion of large projects entirely by dynamic language fans rather than take on the question directly of can their language scale to projects millions of lines big). The particular project I was thinking of in this case is Hibernate ORM, which somehow managed to weigh around 750k lines last I remember. It's a bit of a facetious comparison, I'll admit, to point to a few Clojure projects I know of that seem to solve the same core problem better in around 1.5k lines. Even if you agreed that they did, I think we'd both agree it was because of language features apart from dynamic typing (your own experience of two static languages differing by as much as 10x implies as much). When the problem domain is related to symbolic computing and metaprogramming, languages that support symbols and macros are going to have a huge advantage, especially when you start generating code you would have written by hand otherwise.
I wonder if any router vendor has implemented this.
At least half my class struggled (heavily) with recursion while implementing seach algorithms e.g. They all still got their degree as well...
Glad to see this as the first comment I read. Im currently sat in Portugal on 4ha of land I have brought over near Fundão. It is more out of the way, but still has excellent access to cities. Plus it is absolutely beautiful.

I’m a freelance software developer and can happily work out here even on a plot of land which has no power/net connection. The 3G/4G is great, and everything easily runs of a single solar panel.

This isn’t my long term plan, but does me well when I come out here for a few weeks at a time. Long term there’ll be a house etc.

If there was a coworking space in Covilha / Castelo Branco I’d be very keen.

Otherwise I may start a little coders retreat or some such :-)
The aspect I am somewhat aware of is the latency requirements. It not only has to be low enough on average, but it has to be predictable, which usually translates to minimizing latency spikes, which, on garbage collected platforms, translates to tuning your memory usage patterns, as well as the gc algorithm directly. I was suprised to learn just how prevalent GC languages are in this industry.

Also, I'd say that this implies that profiling-centric development is obligatory.
Ok but it is Benjamin Grahams definition - he was Warren Buffets mentor BTW
None. Laptops offer terrible value for money for the sort of work I do. I have an MS Surface Pro for when I want to work on the move (which is surprisingly great for what it is and the keyboard is far more comfortable than it has any right to be), but not for day to day work.
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Interesting. I wasn't aware that it was already valid or so lax (20% vs 48%!). This measure was sold by government as a way of bringing back our emmigrants.
There was once a story about a clinical trial being scrapped because it was based on a one-off error in a list of genes.
The "problem" with Reddit is that (depending on your selections) most information there is actually relevant.

After Google killed Reader, i found myself using Reddit and HN far more than i had previously, as these are good aggregators of stuff i find interesting.
> However, there aren't any non-overwhelming "real" coding platforms out there.

For the past few years, we have been working on a Scala based 'real' coding environment that's easy to get going with (via Turtle graphics), but also supports more advanced stuff (generative art, games, circuits/robots):

http://www.kogics.net/kojo

http://www.kogics.net/kojo-screenshots
The cost assessment of service missions take into account all the experience gathered when performing them. Even if a replacement telescope is cheaper, you do not learn anything.
Your salary will just not decrease so disproportionately in relative terms. € 50,000 was a starting salary I was offered for a business position straight out of university. Any software engineer, much more so people with experience will earn considerably more. As other's have pointed out, senior positions rather range from 70k - 90k depending on the position and experience.
As it says in the first sentence, this simulator is built on top of Unreal Engine 4.
“This app is only for rich people,” Spiegel said, according to Pompliano. “I don’t want to expand into poor countries like India and Spain.”

Delicious irony.

https://variety.com/2017/biz/news/snapchat-evan-spiegel-only...
Leases are typically 11 months long (apartments). If you need options shorter than that, you should either find a cheap hotels, or Airbnb before settle on a longer-term option.
Confidence arises when one manifests their self-perception in such a way as to attract those around them. Various fears and especially the mind may incumber this phenomenon. However, it may be controlled when moved, ideally of one's own free will, to an environment in which we feel free to express our true thoughts and desires.
I was under the impression that pre 20th century companies just existed as a legal and organizational convenience in order to help collect a number of people with similar goals rather than to solely make a profit.
Any person in the situation where “financial security” based on government-issued currency is tenuous enough to make cryptocurrency an attractive option is either 1. doing something illegal, or 2. would be better off with access to the energy used.

“There are no financial instruments that will protect you from a world where we no longer trust each other.” https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2018/01/02/why-bitcoin-is-st...
Aah, I misread the comment I was responding to, sorry.