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>> The point is that there are definitely economic benefits to the simplicity and low-overhead of currency union among equal and near-equal partners, but when economic conditions vary greatly between regions (or more correctly, when economic conditions change differently over time in various regions), there can be a greater benefit to having different currencies that can trade at different levels against each other to assist in the proper valuation of resources in either region.

How do we make things work here in the US?

>> So I think it's obviously wrong to say "the Euro is bad". It's a great thing for France and Germany and Belgium and the Netherlands and several other countries in the Eurozone. But expanding the Euro to Greece maybe was a bit too far.

I don't know how Greece would have been better off with Drachma. I mean Drachma is still convertible currency, no? Greece isn't Zimbabwe. They can't just print money, can they?

Maybe this is naive but I don't understand how currency matters unless you have some weird third world level conversion control.
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"Most software engineers work for outsourcing companies. "

Is this still true? I have heard that years ago it was prestigious to work for the likes of Infosys but now the best engineers work for Indian startups and the outsourcing companies only get average ones or worse. This seems in line with the people my company gets from outsourcing companies. They all seem pretty clueless but the direct hires are quite good.
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Nobody forced Greece to take loans they could not repay. That's a revisionist history. Greece had a choice to turn down the bailout and instead default on their debts. They knew they would not be able to continue using Euro if they did default so they instead deciding they'd prefer to stay in the Eurozone and took the money.
I agree, you've gotta laugh. And always keep working to make things better.
Your claim makes it sound like Canada has to do whatever US told it to do under any circumstance. I had hard time to believe that is the actual situation here.
It's all fun and games until you accidentally forward that important email to the wrong manager.
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Has he been able to do that in the Russia elections issues ?
I get the impression theft usually pays the thief a lot less than the value of the loot -- they have to fence it, etc. You could view that as a quibble about profit-sharing, but OTOH in the bigger picture theft is highly negative-sum because of the costs around prevention and the thief's extra work in overcoming it (and other costs). So theft actually is rather like littering in this way.
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I was surprised by this and the amount of detail regarding the workarounds by the local dissenters. Nowhere in the article did it state that PII was masked.

I wonder if the assumption is that, all the descriptions in the article are already known to the CCP.
Xiaomi CEO on the ‘life-and-death’ changes he’s making
I had a co-worker who only needed 4 hours of sleep, a DBA manager. He told me had multiple sleep studies by the washington state college, he just won the genetic lotto, and just had more time to get things done.

I've been into sleep hacking for the last 3 months, and thinking on and off about sleep cycles for myself for the last decade. Picked up a sleep tracker and newer fitbit that can track my sleep and verify each others recording. I tend to want 8 to 9 hours, but with an officer job, its been 5x 6 hours and 2x 12 hours on the weekend. This just isn't maintainable anymore for me as I'm getting older and limiting my caffeine, etc.

I've switched to a 10pm to 6am with possible modifications. It makes the days 2 hours shorter, but I get time back on the weekend as I'm not re-charging up from the week, and I wake up rested every day.

I've done segmented sleep when I was working a service job in my 20s while living in dorm. Crash at 10pm, Get up at 4am, work an hour, go back to sleep at 5am, and get back up at 7am. That worked great, and want to try to replicate that again. Love waking hours in the twilight mornings when its quite and refreshed.

Plus, you get the benefit of another deep sleep cycle after being awake and active, and going to sleep again. (As my sleep trackers are reporting to me).

And thats not even talking about supplements and exercise to effect sleep. But I recommend magnesium for everyone.
That's a viewpoint of a bullshit legal system of thugs, based on the accused being guilty until proven innocent.
To be more precise: RTX (like OptiX before it) makes no particular assumptions about the applications. It concerns itself mostly with fast ray/scene intersections while user code in the form of very specialized shaders form the actual rendering algorithms around that core. That makes sense because constructing acceleration structures and the intersection tests themselves tend to dominate the runtime for these algorithms unless some particularly fancy shading is applied to the surfaces.
Leave the shell of a company that sucks the happiness out of me, and move somewhere warmer.
When I consume refined sugar, I digest it and use it for energy - like any other food. Perhaps some people have intolerance to refined sugar, resulting in the negative outcomes you described.
Your last point is out of context
You want a car programmed to drive on the right on Japanese roads?
If you can do all the above, then you already have some basic sales skills.

A developer - needs to "sell" his solution to his teams/managers

A trainer needs to sell his trainings to get students to come visit.

A tech conference presenter needs to "sell" his ideas to the audience so they can "buy" it.

Actually, training and sales is an extremely good combination to have. Case in point: Most people on the internet get rich by teaching others to become rich rather than doing what they teach themselves :) Such as - eCommerce courses, become a consultant type courses, etc.
This piece appears to be biased (and presumably was paid for by Hubspot). As a contrasting opinion, here is a personal perception of Hubspot (having worked with them as a client employee and a consumer of their output). As usual, this is opinion/perception from the writer only (not the opinion of an organization, and not making any claims).

"HubSpot’s HEART values: humility, empathy, adaptability, remarkability, and transparency."

- Hubspot arguably engage in (and recommend) dark UX patterns. Hubspot arguably encourages SPAM, misleading wording and coercion. This is in relation to current industry opinion on ethical UX, let alone future opinion.

- Much of their blog content promotes manipulative marketing and sales, with little consideration of the consumer's actual needs (see https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/emotions-in-advertising-e... for an article on consumer emotions that ironically concentrates on conversion & manipulation of said emotion).

- Hubspot arguably sells to anyone - The culture appears to be 'traditional aggressive salesmanship'. I.e. they do not consider whether the client can afford or gain value from the product, they just push through the sale. This opinion contrasts with their ethics code (https://s2.q4cdn.com/235752014/files/doc_governance/Code-of-...).

- While Hubspot arguably may not have a moral obligation to prevent it: They appear to be encouraging (or at least facilitating) low-quality content being churned out in the interests of clicks. The platform and mentality does not appear to be conducive to the creation of actual valuable content, nor the maturation of marketing/sales in an ethical direction.

- Hubspot arguably uses the word 'ethics' as a marketing tool, and there is little to show that real ethical considerations have been regularly employed. This is analogous to greenwashing and could be seen as detrimental to real ethical-capitalism.

Personal opinion: Hubspot's existence is detrimental to society.

In the interests of fairness and general industry progression, Hubspot's opinion/response to this is extremely welcome, and further discussion involving them could be very beneficial to many stakeholders.

Here is another angle (which none of the above opinion was influenced by) - http://fortune.com/disrupted-excerpt-hubspot-startup-dan-lyo...
> We force him to try everything we put on his plate.

As long as a child is receiving adequate nutrition, is it necessary to force him to expand his culinary horizons? Natural curiosity tends to balance out temporary fixation in the absence of such abnormal thinking that might arise from feeling a lack of control.

> If we gave him autonomy, he’d choose candy and soda.

Whether or not this is the case, there's a difference between allowing choice and allowing all choices, and there's a difference between imposing quality and imposing quantity. But, I don't think the stereotype of a kid binging on junk-food without boundary is accurate outside families that build such foods into a rare, prized(!) and denied commodity. It's just unfortunate that that attitude is so pervasive.
"10x engineers "

I really hate this. Maybe there are a few real 10x engineers but mostly it depends on the environment. I think I have been a 10x engineer myself in one company where I could work with autonomy and get needed support. Now I work at a place where they prefer many 0.5x engineers under tight control that do what they are told.

I think a lot of us could do much better if we were allowed to do so.
I love a good read as much as I love a good YouTube series. I'm not sure biodiversity is going down. I think it's just becoming (discipline + computers).

The fact that a lot of people are making really good money doing artistic endeavors on the internet suggests that those endeavours are still valued.

I wonder if maybe we don't need as many artists because they reach a global audience now with less friction than ever. Anecdotally: I never would have subscribed to a sports magazine. I'm not into sports. But SBNation's YouTube series on weird sports history has me hooked.
>makes me wonder about stack overflow survey about vim being thrice as used as emacs.

Your poll has more selection bias than the SO survey: your poll was seen only by HNers who decided to read comments on a story with "Emacs" in the title.
Leaving the industry.
Finish the product I'm building with some friends and start selling it, so I can finally leave my current company.

Also, get more fit, since I'm starting to lose my ideal weight.
Pushing data in real time using GraphQL subscriptions
Now comes the fun stuff in my GraphQL series–we'll use subscriptions to display changes to our bookstore in real-time. In Part 6, we'll implement subscriptions on the server using Apollo PubSub.

However, the default implementation of PubSub doesn't scale. More robust implementations are available, but not documented well. We'll create a pub/sub mechanism using Redis to distribute published messages over multiple servers.

I'll be releasing one part a day for the next week (in case you'd like some holiday travel reading). Here's what you can look forward to.

Part 7: Subscriptions (client implementation)

With only one part left in the series, I’d love to get your questions and comments.
I'd be so curious to hear more about this, with examples of things they'd say and how you'd spot them (and what to respond with, ideally).
Probably the reason why the jogger screamed and "fainted".
>or reconstruct the database from a dump.

Indeed - just write a new file you export data to be shared with someone else.

Heck, for many use cases (e.g. config files), the save_to_file() function can always start by deleting the old file completely, creating the DB from scratch, and filling it with data from memory (essentially, treating the DB files as immutable).

Hardly a difficulty, no?

And proprietary file formats aren't guaranteed to NOT have the problems you described; the only apriori advantage is that their structure is opaque. Hence my "security by obscurity" remark if my understanding is correct.
Theres also a calming drinks that contains magnesium that helps you relax, get better sleep, and help moods. I never knew magnesium was so important until I started looking into diet and sleep patterns.
Most Chinese programmers not working for outsourcing. China has a very big market it own,the current hottest topic is AI,so many startup company looking for develops.The previous hot one is app developing for Android and iOS.
I sense an argument that it would be easier for everyone to simply let Meng walk away. What, is she more special than another bloke who lies to the bank about transactions? If yes, let us flush rule of law down the toilet.

Whoosh! Now the only rule is Darwinism.
Health and Fitness needs to be number 1 - part of that is reducing alcohol intake which is difficult as I am part of a very active social group which has a lot of alcohol and drug abuse.

Financially - reducing my cost base and actually getting to a new highest "net worth" figure (I've spent a lot on self education which has been very fruitful but I need that "fuck you money")

Otherwise I need to diversify my income and move towards operating my own businesses - either contracting or a bootstrapping an info product. I think I need to bite the bullet and rebuild my income as 100% location independent because I hate the daily commute so much.
This is what a lot of people don't realize, no matter what country you are in, you are always guilty of something.

I'm an American, in America, and I'm 100% certain that I'm in violation of at least one of the over 40,000 laws and regulations that exist on the federal level. (And that doesn't even count the state and local laws and ordinances.)

Here's the thing though, I have no idea which laws and regulations I'm currently in violation of.

So all a country has to do is pick someone. Just arrest them, and assuming a sufficiently complex legal system, whoever they arrest will be in violation of some law. As regular people we just can't help it. We have no ability to maintain an awareness of every law and regulation we are subject to and stay in compliance with them.

So if you're Canadian or American, and you're not someone with the resources or clout to protect yourself from all of this, I'd strongly urge you to consider business models that allow you to operate at a distance from Asia. No one wants to be the dumb patsy sitting in a Chinese prison for 10 years because China and the US want to throw temper tantrums with each other.
Talking about "sleep hygiene" is still perpetuating this backwards paradigm based around expecting that people must wake up early to be productive. The early bird may get the worm, but the early worm gets eaten.

I've personally found that dark hours are more productive for mental tasks like programming. AFAICT not because of secondary factors like quietness or people being around, but simply that bright light undermines my ability to concentrate. After loading a problem into one's head, and getting "in the zone", one is supposed to interrupt what they're doing to go to bed at a "reasonable hour" to live up to someone else's expectations of what a productive person should look like? Give me a break.

The times I've driven across the country car camping, I've naturally fallen into waking up much earlier. And I'd much rather do physical tasks when it's light. But consciousness is not a scalar, and so it's inappropriate to extrapolate these patterns as indicative of some "true natural cycle" that's being distorted.
I was surprised there is no link to the source for the "distribution." It seems like that would raise the hurdle for anyone wishing to submit bugfixes.
See you there! I hear it’s nice this time of year!
Can you clarify what you mean "wake and sleep with the sun". Right now where I live the sun comes up just before 7am and sets at 4:30pm. Are you saying you sleep ~14 hours a night?
>Your claim makes it sound like Canada has to do whatever US told it to do under any circumstance

No, Canada has to do whatever the US-Canada extradition treaty says, not whatever the current US administration tells it to do.

>I had hard time to believe that is the actual situation here.

How so?
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Yeah I was in NYC for the first time this year and I was impressed by the filth and general dilapidation. The subways are exceptionally dirty, and the stations/trains along the A line seemed to be in advanced decay.

It’s nowhere as bad as Chicago though ;P
Anyone know about Netbeans / CoolBeans' support for Angular / React and other front-end technologies?
Same here. I have been living off my parents and building the product. Need to get it done. Good luck for your product and I wish you good health.
> How do we make things work here in the US?

By being one country as well as one currency region.

That's not just a glib answer. The US can use federal financial transfers to help, say, Mississippi. But the EU can't use direct financial transfers to help Greece, because EU rules (IIUC) don't allow it, and Germany (for example) wouldn't put up with being taxed to pay for it even if the rules allowed it.
Lose another 100 pounds. Get an MVC of my web-based DBMS onto GitHub. Learn trumpet.
They are not stuck. They are adhering to the principle called rule of law, where the accused are extradited, tried in court, and guilt is based on evidence instead of family status.
Improving diet and exercise habits.

Diet > more plant based

Exercise > more “zone 3” cardio training and maintenance level weightlifting.
1. Most work is still from outsourcing. A lot of that work is good. It depends on your preferences, and what you want out of the job.

2. Training was a thing a decade back. A lot of companies would spend a fortune on training people.

3. Even until a while back, and may be even now. Growth was high, and a lot of people got/are getting rapidly promoted. Sometimes this happens very early in career. You have a lot of managers who just haven't had any real programming or engineering experience. These people only survive by toxic politics and building cartels. So all your usual cartel politics apply. People close to bosses and butter their breads, get promoted, get to travel abroad, bonuses, raises, RSU's all flow in that direction. By and large, there is no merit. Appreciation or scope for talented people to get rewarded is very small or non-existent.

4. Networks matter when it comes to getting hired. Hopping jobs continues to be the only way you can good hikes. So a lot of interview gaming goes on. If you know people, you can hop forever. People hop jobs very often, until they can find a helping cartel boss. Until then 8 months - 1 year is what people stay. Barely work, learn or gain any experience and keep hopping. Even here if you have friends, the make the interview easy for you. If you don't have this, face 10 rounds leet code interviews.

5. Entire game is finding a boss whose bread you can butter, and get what you want.

6. Recently learning has become a thing. Thanks to internet, and interaction with the programmers in the west. Youtube, and MOOCs and all that. A very small, negligible minority of people focus on gaining skills. They are also not very liked in many places. The cartel bosses don't like smart programmers who could later become competition and take their jobs.

7. Moving to US continues to be the only way to get some decent out of one's career. Again it all depends on your relationship with the cartel bosses. Even here its often the wrongest possible who get to go. H1's L1's Green cards all flow in that direction. Which is why I often Laugh when, US claims its importing 'High quality talent' from India. You are getting the worst crowd from here. The real people are stuck. There are no managers to push their case, and mostly they have no network or time, to do a range of political ground work to move to the US.

8. Lastly skills don't matter. Its career suicide to learn and gains skills. Keep a stack of Machiavellian literature handy. That's the skills you need to gain to win in India.

Lastly your question is wrong. There is nothing like popular languages or agile or anything. Its just your usual thing as in the US. Except with the points above.
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I love it, feels warm.
Personally, I'm from Iraq, regular people won't care, but politics, religious figure, government thingy with a stupid manager etc... they will give that dev a hard time, some yelling, and might just fire him
My plan is to show "Oh By"[1] to one million people.

The idea has always been that I have no idea what Oh By is good for and that someone (or many) will come up with surprising and interesting use-cases.

Recently on HN I was reinspired by the Tim May[2] interview[3] in which he said:

"... the street will find its own uses for technology ..."

Surprise me!

[1] https://0x.co

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18690492

[3] https://www.coindesk.com/enough-with-the-ico-me-so-horny-get...
As somebody with a pretty severely delayed circadian rhythm, I believe from my experience that
you actually just have a normal cycle.

With the abundance of electric lighting etc., everyone can be a bit lazy and go a couple of hours later than their normal cycle. But, if you actually were a night-owl, you’d be basically unable to force yourself to sleep at 10pm - at least, not until you become sleep-deprived enough (and not even then sometimes).

This is one of the biggest problems people with actually delayed circadian rhythms have - people with normal rhythms (innocently, but incorrectly) believing that their experience means that it’s just a preference and routine/discipline issue for everyone.
I completed my family this month. I have my dream job. I officially have everything I want in life, and now I just have to enjoy it all. So my focus is on:

- improving living, eating, exercise habits

- working on how not to lose perspective. I've turned down more money for more time with my family. I hope into my 30s I don't accidentally lose perspective on what's important. So far I think the trick is to live a poorer lifestyle than your income suggests you ought to, which drastically reduces all financial and employment pressure. Figure out how to persist this into the future.

- sing with my toddler more

- clean up the basement

- grok C++
Emacs because of Org Mode.
Yes yes yes. The removal of the headphone jack was a decision I could have lived with, but this, that the same set of accessories cannot be used with all their products is just such an irritant.
I have no idea what they are trying to accomplish with such inconsistent design choices.

The absolute kicker:
You cannot charge Apple's flagship smartphone with Apple's flagship laptop without an adapter that does not come bundled with either of the two!
They overlap a lot in the West especially, but they're very different phenomena. Look at Japan, where Christmas is hugely popular, Jesus is nowhere to be seen, and a poll of schoolchildren a few years back showed that most of them thought the holiday was about celebrating the birth of Santa Claus.
First you need a peripheral that can see the pulsar.
Trump can pardon a guilty verdict, but he cannot force charges to be dropped.