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Well this makes me feel good, because I apparently write better Python than the average Googler, since my Python is entirely maintainable.

Agree about the monorepo thing though, it just seems like people are optimizing for the wrong things with monorepos.
Isn't allowing immigration like we do just going to create an even greater demographic time bomb in the future? Eventually, immigration is going to decline and we are going to be faced with an even greater problem because the population is so much larger.

And that's not factoring in climate change issues. Shifting millions of people from countries that cause very little pollution on a per capita basis to the country that leads the world in per capita basis is going to add to climate and pollution issues.

Seems like we are between a rock and a hard place.
I really don't know much about it beyond the anecdotes I've heard from friends and others, but aren't there cases of psychotic behavior (going berserk) and also suicide? BTW, I wouldn't use the term "natural" as an indicator of how benign it is -- the following are also natural: arsenic, anthrax, mercury, water hemlock, and castor beans.
>> But if you want to make a career picking low-hanging fruit, you'd better be financially independent, because as the paper also points out, mathematical power brokers don't appreciate low-hanging fruit-pickers!

For low-hanging fruit one should most likely join machine learning where all the work currently is done on trivial results that advance the field only in the most marginal sense, but are straightforward to obtain: get more data, use more computing power, produce state-of-the-art results, even if they are only half of a percent better than the previous state of the art results.
Privacy of zcash depends entirely on the setup.

Please reread the paper.
> crev is scalable, distributed and social. Users publish and circulate results of their reviews: potentially warning about problems, malicious code, or just encuraging high quality by peer review.

I like this. It would be nice to flag questionable areas outside of the maintainer's control, for other experts to look at. Sometime's I've seen something fishy that I share with a friend/colleague who might know how to interpret it, but often times it's in a language/framework that I might not have a friend to ask.

The open source saying "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" has always been a faux pas, because there has never been enough eyeballs, especially on small projects. However, something like this could begin to close the gap. +1 from me
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Yeah, you definitely need a "What are pipelines?" section. From looking over the examples, my impression is this is some kind of job scheduler, like sidekiq.
The real increases in quality of life would come from nationwide paid time off minimums, removal of "exempt" employees from overtime, removal of tipped employee exemptions, and removal of health insurance benefits for employers.

That would force employers to hire more people, increase demand, and therefore increase pay, at the same time as giving people a decent quality of life.
The other important consideration is illegal aliens who are likely working off the books and paid less than minimum wage. Without strict rules regarding employment of illegal aliens, businesses will continue to take advantage of illegal hiring practices.
I'm thinking how viable is marry both. Make flattened AST that still allow to keep the easy of an AST walker yet with more dense representation?
> Seattle raised its minimum wage by 37% in one year

This is objectively false.

There is no one year period in which Seattle raised it's minimum wage 37%. The most aggressive increase I can see was 18%, and it only applied to large employers in 2011-2012.

https://www.seattle.gov/Documents/Departments/LaborStandards...
Apple just lost a Facebook: Market value decline
> I don't imagine you could get enough support to drop it altogether

Support is rising quickly.

> Prop 13 already has a few nuances for specific counties.

It does not.
I'm a Brit and America, your health care system is torturing me
It’s also worth pointing out that this is Bloomberg Opinion, which is basically junk. Very disappointing what happened over there, it went from a news source I read daily and enjoyed to a url which I use to discount headlines I read elsewhere.
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Microsoft actually had done it and pushed the whole Windows repo into git.

https://github.com/Microsoft/VFSForGit
> No user of this product has ever harmed anyone else as a result of using it.

That is a ridiculous statement. Anything can harm you, including water. Everything has negative side effects given a large enough dose.
We have just added the support for C++ and currently looking at Rust but it's a bit tricky. There is no official gRPC SDK for Rust but I think we will manage it soon. :-)
Interesting. I've been considering nix, but wasn't aware of direnv. Should be a sensible combination.
it's already been published. Google used Perforce for at least a decade and then cloned the perforce wire protocol when it was clear perforce wouldn't keep scaling (there's a great presentation online about google using RAMSANs to store the perforce index), but backed the repo in something like bigtable or spanner.

I'll give google credit for one thing: it can change backends a lot without too much user visible pain.
While this is the right thing to do, be careful. I am sure that there is copyright on the digital files themselves. Similar to the disregard for human culture that museums showed when trying to prevent third-reproductions of their catalog images and else.
I agree with a lot of that, but in practice some syntactic sugar around types in TLA+ (or at least canned type invariant macros) would make it easier to write concise readable specs. Think "x is a natural number", "y is a member of set x", etc. It wouldn't satisfy the type theory folks, but would be nice for TLA+ users. In practice, it seems like everybody (including me) ends up re-writing a whole lot of type invariants in each TLA+ spec, and it would be nice to avoid that both to reduce boilerplate and to communicate to the reader what the author's intent was around data types.
Is there precedence for such a lawsuit?

I've wondered about legal obligations to web accessibility in the past and assumed it would eventually become a bigger issue since.
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Off-topic but can you recommend any resources off-hand for improving in your preferred C++? I share your approach but have a heck of a time finding quality books and such. (Email in profile if preferred.)
Is a system where people getting paid too much to be pulled up in class, out of poverty & struggling really a system people would want to keep?

Does this system require poverty & struggling? Does it require an alternate class of people who still do required work, but will always be living right on the edge?
Given the fact that most people are already maxed out on apps on their device with just things like facebook and youtube, you're going to be hard pressed to get people to install your app just to try it out. With a progressive web app if they like your app they can add it to their device home screen without installing via the app store and without using up space on their device. Also don't need to pay Apple $100 a year but you have the same benefits as a native app. Now with wasm you can even include native performance from a progressive web app.
Interesting, but what's the added value?
The movie is entertaining but misleading. If you have the time, check out the book the movie is based on.
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Seattle's minimum wage hike has as a massive confounding factor the most extreme economic boom in Seattle's history. The wage hike could have significant adverse effects and you'd never notice in the current economic environment in that city. It should lead to serious doubt that this is replicable in most other cities or even Seattle in other times.

The assertion that this demonstrates anything useful about minimum wages, rather than the fact that the city has a severe labor shortage and is swimming in money, is dubious. Show me the data from a city with median economic growth and median unemployment statistics and I would find it more convincing.
Link to the mentioned new paper.

https://evans.uw.edu/sites/default/files/w25182.pdf
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I agree with other commenters that it would be really helpful to understand exactly what you mean by "pipeline", and how they can help/improve a project or workflow. What problem does this solve, and how does it solve that problem better than other solutions?

Also, very minor nitpick, but your programming language icons shouldn't be in <a> tags. They appear to be clickable, but do nothing, which gives the appearance that the site is not working as intended.
It's a picture of a street sign saying "WYNOT RD", for those wondering.
"1500k" makes my eye twitch
Here is a blog post by one of the authors. In the preface he explains what he thinks he got wrong and what he believes now:

https://perfect-free.typepad.com/the-perfect-and-the-free/20...
Inflation does count all those sectors. Which, by the way, would mostly be untouched by changes in minimum wages.
Bloomberg central doesn't seem any better right now. They still haven't retracted the Super Micro story.
I'm not sure that's true. I've lived long enough to see Wal-Mart move into my home town (rural NC, population 5K) and see it obliterate local businesses, in part because it paid it's workers low wages compared to incumbent family businesses that paid employees well.
The wallet exposes an interface that allows different 'plugins' to be implemented. Right now you can exchange slates (the transaction data) via http, file or keybase. It is possible to build plugins that use any communication channel (Telegram, Signal, email etc)
Like you said, it is a major concern for companies that must show X% growth year over year. Part of that is built into the fact that population keeps growing. It isn't possible for all companies with a negative growth rate.

The other issue is that the issues Japan is facing is there are no people to take care of all the elderly. It will be a challenge to make sure they just don't starve to death. There will be a lot of people that may just die at home and no one knows. I do think that as automation increases, more and more jobs will be around elder care.
I got the number from the NYT article, which said $9.47 to $11.00 in April 2015, then $11.00 to $13.00 in January 2016. That is a one year period, and a 37% increase.

Here is another source that mentions $9.32. https://www.natlawreview.com/article/seattle-minimum-wage-in...

I'm not sure why there are two different numbers, but it was extremely rapid. I'd be happy to leave it using the more conservative figures from your table that they increased it by 36% in two years, as that's still neither modest nor gradual.
Yeah, I concluded that after scanning and seeing the "Some Job Killer" graph that essentially shows that the population in Seattle has increased since 1990.
It's not just a good idea, it's the law (in the UK): https://www.asa.org.uk/news/making-ads-clear-the-challenge-f...
What are the downsides of legalizing Psilocybin and/or using it for treating depression?
> Now, plagiarism is a serious issue, but these politicians were not “faking” their academic records.

'Faking' is a word not even strong enough. Those people acquired titles by fraud and deception.
There was a lot of fearmongering. As other communities are evaluating or adopting a similar strategy to Seattle, I would say it's a relevant article, because now we have better data to rely on.

It's similar to when cannabis was legalized in Colorado. There was a lot of panic and fear. Other communities waited and observed, then embraced.
On iOS you won’t get notifications or be able to run anything in the background.

But if you are trying to start a business and the $100 a year you would have to pay to distribute your app will make or break you, you have bigger issues.
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Another widespread scandal was when politicians used miles gathered on flights payed by the public for private flights.
The biggest scandal in the last two decades though was the CDU-Parteispendenaffäre (Big donations to the CDU from unknown donors). But the former Bundeskanzler Kohl took the secret to his grave and Schäuble who accepted illegal donations from a well known arms dealer is still a well respected politician and serves as president (roughly similar to the speaker role) of the Bundestag.
Actually we've know how to do carbon sequestration for plant matter for quite some time. The resulting biomass can be gasified and remaining carbon is turned into biochar which is inert in the soil for thousands of years. Not only is it a viable process, it's a fairly decent energy source which makes it cost productive.
It really doesn't. Every year, the US does numerous natural experiments as states raise (or don't) their minimum wages while similar states do the opposite. Every time, without fail, the states which raise their minimum wages do better economically. Doesn't matter if they're a rich state or a poor state, coastal or inland, populous or not.
Let’s assume Alice is an antagonist coordinating with Carol to unmask bob.

How many self to self tx does bob need to do to hide from Alice and carol?
Center for Immigration Studies is a known anti-Immigration bullshit think tank pushing John Tanton's agenda. Nothing coming out of there should be taken seriously. All their 'studies' are biased by default. They're equivalent to the tobacco industry think tank studies on tobacco harm.

See another series of viewpoints here: https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/33883/do-immigr...
Sounds like publicfig is saying that it's not optimal for them.
It increases coupling in exactly the way you just described.

Sometimes this is beneficial. Sometimes it isn't.

My point is — more often than not — conventional wisdom is that DRY is always preferable, whereas the reality is not that simple.
As luck would have it, the XMPP newsletter was also sent out today: https://xmpp.org/2019/01/the-xmpp-newsletter-4-january-2019/
1) Extended family and close friends care for children. If you have a friend or sister or cousin who's pregnant or just given birth, they keep an eye on your kids. Same goes for elders who no longer work outside the home.

2) Lower standards for supervision of children - as it was in the US in the 1970's, it's considered normal not to know where your 9-year-old is or what they're up to between breakfast and dinnertime.

3) Lower penalties for leaving the workforce for several years to take care of infants and toddlers - jobs that don't involve career progression or even necessarily what we'd consider formal employment (e.g. people working in their own fields or small market stalls).
First, there is no guarantee that a backend and frontend developer together perform better than 1 full stack developer. It really depends on who's doing the job. I'm a full stack JS developer, and yes I can do pretty awesome CSS if needed, or is that considered to be impossible?

Btw, how would the author go about building a nodejs SSR React application? 1 backend, 1 frontend and 1 HTML/CSS guru? I've actually never seen that, even in large companies.

I see there is some frustration about CSS in JS while writing in object notation is not any more difficult than CSS or SCSS, my 12 year old daughter would learn that in a snap. I can imagine it is frustrating for people that are good in HTML and CSS that there is not much work if you cannot actually code, but that doesn't mean there is a problem with full stack.
It was hard for me to absorb , I was like thinking that I lacked basic knowledge needed to master it.
How does this manage processes? From the example code it looks like your pipeline keeps running?
Reminds me of the "You're just a tracer!" scene from Chasing Amy.
The proof relies on the fact that the rationals are lesser in cardinality than the reals, but for each "rational point" from your field of view, there are infinite trees in that line. So anything anything which doesn't force all those trees into a rational point is going to cover something larger than the rationals... and then you'll probably need an answer to the continuum hypotheses?
Canadian customers paying in USD: I think it depends on the type of market and product. We've found competitive advantage in offering CAD pricing stability to our Canadian customers (B2B, both services and physical goods).

SR&ED: We've used it to great effect, and have never used a consultant. The rules are actually not that complicated; CRA presents seminars on how to determine what is eligible, as well as on how to complete the T661. It's a small time investment to attend those to determine if&how SR&ED can work for you. Documentation, it depends: lab notebooks and a spreadsheet of hours can go pretty far. They've tightened up process on first time claimants (all go through review now afaik), but at the same time they've introduced programs for first timers where you can get an opinion on eligibility ahead of time and can then check in with them periodically during the first period for their ongoing evaluation and comment, in which case they guarantee no surprises during the review. As always YMMV: for us SR&ED had the same effect as outsourcing our dev to a far lower cost country, but effectiveness is reduced if largely doing things like crud apps, or with single employees who are also substantial shareholders.
That joy will fade when the general public is led to believe that this company is the only "safe" providers, due to a FUD campaign they will finance attacking competitors and lead uncertainty to the safety prospect of growing one's own shrooms. It does not matter what they say, they can make up anything. Their campaign will be executed through multiple parties and will not look like they are behind it.
Thanks for the feedback. I will add that!

To answer your question, a pipeline is a real application which consists of at least one function (we call it job).
You can compare it with a Jenkins Pipeline (https://jenkins.io/solutions/pipeline/). Therefore, a pipeline is one flow of automation task which consists of one or more steps.
Steven Camarota is not a trustworthy source. But don't just take my word for it; take the federal judge in the Kobach voting case, who criticized Kobach for even citing him.
Strategy is what officers and generals do. Tactics are what NCOs do.
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A team can have redundancy without every developer having to know the full stack.
The minimum wage doesn't drive costs in housing, healthcare, and education.
The article says they are trying to restrict how research on the drug is done too and that's a catastrophe on its own. No laughing matter here. This might seem ridiculous on the surface, but it's a sinister move.
I complained about XML in their mailing list jabber-dev back in 99 because how they shoehorned it to the protocol. I still don’t like it.
I don't think this an indictment of the typical supply & demand model. The model is pretty flexible since the shape of the various curves will dramatically change what happens.

The real argument isn't about the model, but rather the shape of the demand curve for low skill labor.

I think taking the two versions of this study as separate analysis is interesting, since it shows a shift in employment from individual restaurants to chains. Which itself is a real impact from the rising minimum wage, but one not (itself) impacting labor.
The blind spot here is that no one really understands how it works or the long term implications. It may have a use for patients with treatment resistant medical conditions where the alternatives have failed or side-effects are intolerable.

Why should healthy adults take this substance? Many of the so-called experts interviewed in Michel Pollan's new book took psilocybin and believed the experience revealed the inner truths of the universe. It seemns like it could be quite harmful for more people to embrace meta-magical thinking.

Related:
1) Michael Pollan is interviewed on a podcast by Tyler Cowen. They briefly talk about whether psychedelics have contributed to society through novel discoveries.
2) Robert Sapolsky's lectures and book Trouble with Testosterone touch on meta-magical thinking.
> The problem occurs when these folks are confronted by facts that are at odds with their belief systems. The options are to either rethink your ideology or alternatively ignore the data. Most participants seem to have done the latter.

Especially with politically charged studies there will be conflicting data reported. It's hard to tell which data accurately collected and reported.
I think we agree (and it's probably self evident) that it's hard but necessary work to try and get the boundaries right, and it requires a lot of refactoring before things stabilize. In the early stages of work, that refactoring is frequent and often deep. Later, it (usually) becomes infrequent and shallow.

I think it's important to separate internal dependencies from external ones. My personal advice is to treat external dependencies in whatever way the language prefers, and upgrade on a cadence. This is because you can't have any real impact on your external dependencies - even if they are critical, you can essentially treat them as a black box for terms of this conversation. For the rest of my response, lets assume we're talking internal dependencies.

The thing about breakage "for no reason" is that you are still broken, you just don't know it yet. One assumes the team that broke you had a reason. It might be a good or bad reason, from your point of view, but it wasn't no reason. When I talk about forcing the conversation, this is why. It's not better to hide from the changes, or pretend that you are safe. You aren't. All that happens is you move the time between when the breakage was introduced, and when you discover it. Most frequently, that discovery happens when the upgrade becomes critical (security) - and the time to apply the change has gotten longer, and the team who made the breaking changes no longer remembers clearly the drift. This makes teams even more less likely to move.

By ensuring these types of changes hurt, and are understood to be a shared responsibility (the consumer has a responsibility to move, the producer has a responsibility to understand and protect the stability of their consumers), teams have the impetus to design and build systems that ensure their stability. It's one thing to ask for things like circuit breakers, backwards compatible interfaces, etc. It's all theoretical from a single engineers, or single teams, point of view. It's not a panacea, but when the contract is structured this way, everyone adapts to the issue: producers get more defensive, consumers get less debt.

Like I say in the original, I think this comes down to perspective. When my concern was primarily the efficiency of a single team, who was small enough to stay connected through conversation and shared understanding, it matters way less.

A lot of your reply comes from the perspective of wanting, as an engineer, to just Get Things Done again. I get it, and I'm sympathetic. It is harder to work this way, because you can't take the easy shortcuts (pinning, delaying the upgrade, ignoring your consumers, etc.) - but that's precisely the point. Those things are bad in the long term.
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Understand what you'll build first. Shape your API second.
Only then you can build anything you want.