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There are a lot of people who claim they're more productive in Clojure, in spite of or because of its dynamic typing.

I'll just throw my anecdatum out here: I found that dynamic typing was a major pain even on my own personal projects. I also never found REPL-driven development to mesh well with my workflow.

In Scala, for example, entire classes of error that I just shouldn't be able to make don't exist. Maybe I'm just the kind of person who works better with static typing.

Clojure overall is an excellent language with really good features. It just won't get out of my way sometimes.
I think weight wise MacBook Air is not much lighter than MacBook Pro 13". But it is about 500 dollar cheaper than MBP with newer 8th gen processor. I guess will wait until MBA gets cheaper or cheaper MBPs get new processor and keyboard.
I love reading digitally, and I love my e-reader. My only peeve is that for some reason, no one makes a pocketable e-reader. I would love a smart-phone sized e-reader, maybe a 5-6in screen at most.

Kobo made one for a while, but has since EOLed, as well as Papyrus IIRC.

As a consequence, I tend to read on my phone, but it's not nearly as comfortable as reading on my e-reader, and I tend to get eye fatigue much more quickly.
I am fully in support of this, and actually quite surprised by the negativity in this thread about this decision. All the major hold outs online, like the Donald, already do the reverse of this and ban anyone who challenges their viewpoints.
In every measles outbreak, some of the victims are indeed vaccinated. Being unvaccinated based on a whim (as opposed to kids with immune deficiency, on chemo, etc) hurts everyone.
https://www.reddit.com/r/paidforwinrar
> he Om team later praised as being the same concept they had in mind, but with a simpler and better API.

is this in public? cursory search did not return any hits.
I was talking about the primary consequence if you want put a banner after being given money, you don't necessarily have to be an advertising company. I think you are assuming everyone uses advertising companies to advertise, but that's not true even though this is how we'd get there.
The amount of implicit absurdity behind your words is astonishing. Basically outside die-hard Marxists nobody takes such claims seriously, because it implies lack of competition.

Hint: the cloud market has PLENTY of competition.
Again? Single page apps refresh and respond faster than their HTML counterparts. Sounds like a mad backend dev posting hate for the evolving front-end world because they don't want to learn new stuff.
I think it depends on your definition of boredom. What does feeling bored mean to you?
You're not screening them out from being doctors, but from specializing in surgery. The people who don't want to be surgeons won't need to take the test and those that fail can select a different specialty.
"Weed makes you feel - provided one responds positive to it - not weary, not impatient and one finds the present activity overly interesting." - Exactly. It makes you ok with being bored rather than feeling weary and impatient and prone to go and do something instead of finding whatever banal activity you're doing overly interesting.
- 2013-2015 student
- 2013-2014 $25/hr internship 20 hours/week
- 2015 50k internship converted to full time
- 2016 105k software engineer at startup
- 2017 130k software engineer at same startup
- 2018 145k lead software engineer at same startup

all of these are in low cost southwest (not Phoenix, think mountains)
As a child in the 1980's my uncle would bring me out to his garage, put a welding mask on my head and have me sit on his tractor in the dark, while he played a tape with Tomita's rendition of Snowflakes are Dancing, and pretended that we were travelling to a far off planet, which was called Oxena. This has sparked a life long fascination with Debussy's music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWlSenLsXCI&list=PLGltXnm_5I...
Similarly, here is one with music. Winamp necessary. https://a.doko.moe/uigihv.jpg
I think iframes are inferior to the JS approach for a few reasons, one is usability for people with screen readers / etc - others would be standards compliance, bookmarking, managing state when pieces do need to talk to each other, etc.
https://danluu.com/bimodal-compensation
is a pretty interesting read, I think.

It does seem to me based on reading these topics that there's a set of developers that think anything above X is crazy, and a set of developers that think anything below X is crazy, and they don't really overlap.

That's the case across all disciplines/people, of course (I guess you'd call it... the class system?) but I think it's a lot less discrete.
Did you try it on ie11? That was the only one we experienced it on. Of course we had to support ie, which meant a layout re-write. :<
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Well, you have 40 years to lobby for a recovery mission, or 100 years, depending on which approach you want to target.

https://twitter.com/NASAKepler/status/1057357823426879489
I don't think we are talking about that kind of typos. But there is a often a big dip in quality of people, who routinely struggle to write a half decent working program without making these kind of mistakes.

Sure every once in a while its possible for any one to drop in a spelling mistake, but those are rare situations in code. Mostly because code is often not a dead piece of documentation, which is read and auto corrected in the human brain. Code works on a computer with well defined interfaces and protocols.

Think of it this way, would you hire a programmer who often makes typos, to write shell scripts that have 'rm -rf'?

If you wouldn't, how often do you trust these people to execute DROP DATABASE <typo_database_name_which_happens_to_be_real>?

There is a big difference between programmers who can put in typos in a sentence in a code comment, and the kind of ones we are talking about.
Housing is also a lot more variable than a Macbook. Even within the same country, it can easily differ 3-4x depending on the region. There's a reason it's not counted when calculating consumer price indexes or GDP PPP figures.

For Estonia above, the cost of most everything else than local produce is comparable to the Western Europe or the States. Clothing, petrol, consumer electronics, foreign vacations are not any cheaper.
State management is hard. It goes boom because lots of things are going on, not because browsers are naughty.
Clojure isn't nearly as bad as most would have you believe. I still prefer static strong typing, but since Clojure is strongly typed usually you'll find most of your errors within a few rounds of execution. And they have an excellent implementation gradual typing if that's your thing. If you value dynamic types, this is about as good as you can get.
Huh? Trump approved the space force and further missions to the moon, which will hopefully result in much more spending on space-related technologies. He's renegotiating global free trade agreements, which is definitely a good thing (I'm not entirely on board with how he's renegotiating them, but the status quo is bad, and if people are more willing to renegotiate, that makes me optimistic). He's done more progress with NK than anyone else in the last x0 years.

On the other hand, Obama invaded 2 countries and kept on waging a war in two others. He also lied about closing Guantanamo Bay.

It's easy to come up with one-sided examples for any politician. That's what politics is, really - the game of (shitty) trade-offs.
"And instead of using ClojureScript with Om, people mostly jumped to JavaScript + React, which the Om team later praised as being the same concept they had in mind, but with a simpler and better API."

Om solves a different problem than js + react. Om uses react. You are comparing apples and oranges. Do you know what you are talking about?

I'm guessing you have never used react or clojurescript or OM.

What you said makes no sense.
We're already well past the point of lazy IoT security becoming the norm.
You've framed this criticism as a hostile, unconstructive mockery of a person who is ostensibly your partner in conversation/debate.
And how is that bad?

Okay - so you normally would feel unpleasant. Now you don't because of weed. Of course you can argue weed is unhealthy - totally possible. But regarding the perceived state change. How is that causing harm? Because s/he's not going to become wealthy or "successful"?
If he is advanced, a normal distribution will look about like this to him.
Um, Om is React. React came first and Om interfaced with it.
Haha, you are on some hyperbole stuff my dude. If you want to work super hard your whole life go for it. I am very satisfied working my 8 hours and then putting that work aside and enjoying my leisure time.

I still of course work extra some times or do productive things in my time off, but yeah unless there's a deadline I'm not gonna worry about some work problem on off hours when I can't even make progress until I get back to my work computer anyways.

Fear/worry/anxiety is the mind killer and often helps nothing.
I read a number of Project Gutenberg books on my Palm Pilot in the late 1990s. 160x160 monochrome.

To beat that you'd pretty much need to read a book off of one of these: https://www.newark.com/lumex/lcm-s01602dtr-a/dot-matrix-lcd-...

Now, I'm sure someone is either A: going to pop up to claim that they did or B: pop up to say they now have their next Arduino project. "E-Readers are so big and expensive, so I thought I'd roll my own with parts I just have lying around..."

Anyhow, when I see people talking about they can't possibly code with anything less than a 4K display, I still find myself chuckling a bit. Not that they're bad things by any means, but... well... it's a pretty big leap over where I started. I remember the excitement I had in college when I could get 800x600 and 1024x768 for the first times. So much text!
I haven't tried this format yet, but I think I'd like it. I do nearly all of my reading in bed and this format seems like it would eliminate the issue of having to hold the book up in the air every other page so I can see it (which is the main reason I started using an e-reader).
So what you're saying is, because you're lazy, you want the user to suffer.
Interesting set of example modulations, especially slow-scan television. You'd need a SDR to recieve that. It looks like this could also be used to transmit for short distances on the 433MHz band used by all sorts of gizmos (wireless doorbells, remote controlled lights etc).

Would be interesting to see example spectra to see how clean this is and what gains there are from simple filters or an antenna smarter than a monopole.
What's wrong with "banal" activities?
But in the case of dev and prod distinction it has nothing to do with fitting some over-constrained engineering principle, but about fitting actual science: if you cannot reproduce something, you don't have a result, you have a fluke.
I am of the same persuasion, but my parents are the opposite. For them, the physical dimension of a book is a prerequisite to their enjoyment; turning a page is their little dopamine hit of achievement. When they travel, they get anxious about ruining a "precious" e-reader, whereas a cheap paperback can get abused with rain or sand with little thought - possibly even a hint of pride for turning an object into a unique memory.

Then again, they hate flying, and travel in a campervan...
Within the middle of the cognition bell curve, yes. Pattern recognition, organizational skills, general personal awareness and motivation are all higher in the non-smokers I know compared to the daily smokers.
Define "coolest".

If parts of reality are better than others this is probably due to internal responses. Every bit of sense-data modifies the internal brain state.

It follows that with sufficient control we can modify the brain, or the sense-data to create an experience akin to the coolest parts of whatever way of life we make.

Your considerations on whether synthetic reality is better, and whether all reality is effectively synthetic will then inform your conclusion on this meaning a modified view can always in theory beat reality.

In practice one will probably just chase a bigger high until the high is so risky that it eventually kills you.
Not many ops or 40+ answers. White male only high school educated. Self taught CS.

Here is mine from an ops management perspective. Missouri.

$30K 88-89 - Progress database developer Insurance
$50K 89-94 - Citi started as technical support ended up LAN Manager
$60K 94-96 - Independent Consultant for PC sellers doing LAN/WAN installations
$65K 96-97 - National reseller as Systems Engineer Manager
$100K - 99-09 National telecom company as international call center technical manager
$150K - 09 to current VP of IT for legal software company responsible for ops and development
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Needs more "bork"
One wonders what kind of challenging tasks a programmer who can't even indent code, can solve.

By the way indenting code happens to be the most basic of code review checks.
Yeah that's fair, but (again, purely personal) I also wouldn't want to move from the Alps to live in Dublin, no matter the salary.

I agree that the salaries are lower, but also tax is a fair bit less in the UK than some EU countries. When I did the math on paying UK taxes vs registering in France for French taxes, the take home would only have been ~50% of net salary on the French system.
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I think the parent comment is a perfect answer to the question posed in the title.
/r/The_Donald isn't exactly a community I would hold up as an example of this sort of policy working out.

I have a general distaste for communities like this and it's always disappointing to me when I see any community voluntarily turn itself into an obvious echo chamber.
A separate CR character allows for a few interesting things: "bold face" (return to the beginning of the printed line, type spaces for normal letters, the letters again for bold letters), underlined and crossed-out fragments (same, just use _ and - over affected characters), and, much later, in 1960s, various running progress meters on video terminals.

Which character to use as a line separator in a text file is a different question.
Huh don't self employed contractors make more in terms of $ to cover the extra costs 3x is norm in the UK.
An automated bowling alley and a robotic arm have more in common than you think
It was regulated. It was not outlawed.

Nobody seems to be saying they want unregulated marijuana usage, so it seems comparable. (If nothing else, everyone agrees it should be taxed, and that is already a form of regulation.)
This was proven false by the Portuguese drug decriminalization program.
I keep wondering how some Chinese businesses can be profitable selling stuff at what seems to be impossibly low prices (example : https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B00YMIKRTA/ 0.97EUR, postage included). If cost of labour is removed from the equation (slave labour), that can explain a lot.
Their career page says 60k, though.

If it weren't out of area of expertise, Wales is quite beautiful. And I almost understand Rhod Gilbert.
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If you have to break the rules to succeed against competition that is playing by the rules, it may be a sign that your business is not sustainable.
Or are a woman travelling alone.
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- $42k-55k: 2013-2015, Manual Testing@Big Consulting

- $70k-105k: 2015-2017, Lead QA Eng > Dev Team Mgr@Small Niche Consulting

- $110k: 2017-current, Software Eng@Startup
> and keyboard

I'm also waiting for new keyboards but I fear it will take a couple of years.

I imagine a new keyboard means a complete redesign, and considering the new MBPs were released in late 2016 I doubt we will see new models before 2020.

Apple used to release new Mac models ever 2-3 years but the Mac line is not a priority anymore (it's only 10% of Apple's revenue).
It amazes me that someone as intelligent as this guy can say something asinine as “as a white man I know I can negotiate without backlash.” Not only is there no evidence to support this, he seems completely oblivious to the fact that he is not a representative white man at all. He has written widely used books on JavaScript! Don’t you think THAT might be the reason he can negotiate without backlash rather than his race and sex which he has in common with probably half of all applicants? Please don’t paint all of us just average, struggling white men as undeserving and privileged just because you have been extremely fortunate and successful.
So is the carbon on cooked foods. It's not good to breath solid carbon particles into your lungs, or ingest them into your body. But most people find it reasonable to cook food, because it tastes better.

That's not to say that these aren't things people should be aware of. They should know this and it will help them make the adult choices they want (smoke vs consumables vs other methods).

Just so you know, yes, smoking it causes cancer but it's not on anywhere near the same level as smoking tobacco cigarettes due to how tobacco is treated.
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Agree, hard to go back to paper once you taste the convenience of e-readers. My main grievance with e-paper readers is that it's really not practical to take notes or to highlight stuff in books - sometimes the selection is just awkward, and typing is very slow. Another issue is that you can't have your books sitting around for everyone to look at like in a bookshelf. I think this is somewhat damaging because I discovered a lot of books I would have never read just by looking at other people's bookshelves. In the digital era this is just not as easy to do, and recommendations tend to show you what people like yourself like, but its not the same, and bookshelves can be good conversation starters too.

But apart from what I described, E-readers pretty much win on everything else.
I'm in my 30s and when I gave up pot my cognition quickly improved...
I use a completely different method (to detach from whatever it is - work or something else). I pick an instrument and play some music. Something anyone can do, as long as you don't fret about being good or not.
Not to mention that CPU technology hasn't advanced sufficiently to render the old model obsolete. Most, if not all, tasks you can do on the new model can still be done quite competently on the old model.
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An article about holding a small book with one hand, so you can easily read it, that has no pictures of anyone doing so. Why does this happen so often in newspaper style articles? Argh!

Personally, I've moved from paper fiction to an ebook reader and couldn't be happier: it's so much easier to hold—particularly with one of those popsocket grippers affixed to the back.
Tobacco shows probably the most effective way to reduce consumption of something - make it legal, but put heavy sin taxes on it. It's hard to keep a heavy cigarette habit going when a pack of Marlboros is like $10.

I don't smoke marijuana, but I'd like to see it legalized, if for no other reason than to shift law enforcement resources to more important things - when people are dying every day from Fentanyl overdoses, busting pot smokers and growers is asinine.
The title is a little misleading. RPG.net is banning PEOPLE who publicly support Trump on their forum.

Look at these 5 videos. People on the left are allowed to bring their whole selves to RPG.net. People on the right are not welcomed to do the same.

https://www.wsj.com/news/types/voices-from-a-divided-america
How's the battery life on that?
88,000* people die each year from alcohol-related causes in the United States. Clearly there's more to worry about than your "self healing liver".

Also, citation needed for your claim about MRI/brain activity.

* https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/alcohol-health/overview-alcohol-co...
I think it's more in the tone of "just because you can doesn't mean you should".
CS50, Harvard's introductory CS class, introduces students to programming with C. I took the online version in 2016, and I greatly enjoyed the way it was presented. I'm not in the best position to compare and contrast teaching methods, as I've only taken the single class on C, but if you have the time I would highly recommend seeing how they do it.

You can access their lectures, notes, problem sets, slides, and other material for free on their course website [0] and on edX [1]. A warning in advance before you click the course website link though! It's currently Halloween, and the page features an autoplaying scream sound. You've been warned!

[0]: https://cs50.harvard.edu/2018/fall/

[1]: https://www.edx.org/course/cs50s-introduction-computer-scien...
"Even before X3.4-1967 was published, there was already interest in two more minor revisions. First, the ISO code had since its ﬁrst draft allowed the use of character 0/10 for new line as well as for line feed, but ASCII had not. On July 5, 1967, John B. Booth proposed that ASCII also include this dual meaning."

I fear it will never be resolved at this point.
Rust MIR-based borrow check is almost here
You can't stop people from being stupid and self destructive, just look at the prevalence of obesity. If the law required that people eat beans and kale, there would be a lot less obesity, but would you really want to live in that society?
It’s not causing harm, it’s preventing growth.
I noticed a lot of clojure codebases at amazon in 2013 (I was looking because I was learning clojure at the time). It took a look about three years later and most of them were either ported to java or scala, or dead. There were a few still running, but it looked like they were not actively developed or maintained. In my experience at amazon that likely meant they were zombie services (running but nobody used them and nobody thought to take them down), which is surprisingly prevalent at amazon. But I guess it could also mean that they were running and were so amazingly stable that they didn't need maintenance, which would be a good thing.
What are you referring to by "instead of using ClojureScript with Om, people mostly jumped to JavaScript + React, which the Om team later praised as being the same concept they had in mind, but with a simpler and better API"?

Om uses React, it didn't predate it or anything. Many of the things Om tried are more relevant to things like Redux, not React proper, so I'm not sure what your comment is referring to.

And as a counterpoint, React just introduced the State and Effect Hooks, but those are both things that Om and reagent (the most-used Cljs React lib) have been able to do for years.
How high are you right now? LOL
> no one makes a pocketable e-reader

Funny, I went for the exact opposite. I had a Kindle paperwhite and purchased a Kobo Aura precisely because I could get a 7 inches screen. I'm much happier with a larger surface, and I read all the time in public transports.
I would upvote you if your arguments were better.

> and hosting fees are a real thing

What's the actual marginal cost of a few extra comments?

> It's not a public venue

It is.

> you come into my house

Your house is a private venue. In contrast, a public forum is a public venue (even if it's privately owned).

> being allowed to support

And I'm not denying you that right. I'm just saying it's morally bad, and also counter-productive (to what you or they are trying to achieve) - you'll get more Trumps elected with policies like this, not less.

> go make your own... it's pretty easy and affordable

Yeah until you get censored by Facebook, Google, Twitter, PayPal, Visa, CloudFront etc. - censors / opponents of free speech have a lot of market power these days.
Being able to not rely on government assistance for ANYTHING, including health care, would be a start.