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Has JS had a rough few years? There's been big advances like React and TypeScript. ES6 was a big improvement. JavaScript finally has lexical scoping. It's better than ever.

The frameworks exist for a reason, as much as it's popular to diss them. Stuff like jQuery has fallen out of use because it's not considered useful anymore.

Progress is important, faster progress is good. Changing stuff for the sake of doing so is bad, of course.
At a previous employer, I left behind maybe not millions of lines of Python 2 code, but certainly somewhere in the hundreds of thousands range. There was also a fair amount of reliance on 3rd party libs for databases, IBM MQ and tibrv that had native components. We also had our own Python libs that had native components written using Boost Python.

Large Python projects are possible, but if you don't have good discipline and organization, it can quickly become a mess (probably true regardless of the language).

I'm not sure how much effort it'd be to migrate all of that to Python 3, but I'm sure it's not trivial. But, I also don't think it'd be a multi year effort. It also wasn't a big monolithic project, so a migration could be done piecemeal.
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No, I'm sorry... It was thought in Italian... but written only (more or less) in English :-)

But the supporting tool is actually in Italian:

https://aladdin.di.unimi.it/sw/fatine/
No doubt, this is a rare achievement of technology, community and economics.

At the same time, if everyone abandoned the project today, it's tough to imagine a measurable impact on the world outside the cryptoscene.

Personally, I feel that everyone has been too obsessed with the desire to hoard assets to actually build shit that's useful to society. The fact that this rent-seeking desire is baked into the core of most cryptocurrency schemes makes me skeptical that the space will amount to much in the near term. I suspect that when it does, it'll come about in a way that avoids rewarding the squatters. Certainly nowhere near the ratio of dumb money to strategic investment we've seen in the past couple years.
I'd lay the blame at the feet of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayer Foundation.

Tech brought wealth into the city. Prop 13 is the law that made that wealth toxic to the people that lived in it by enacting a titanic perpetual wealth transfer from community to homeowners (and creating a class of freeloading NIMBYs).
Strangely, neither France, nor the UK or any other of the large European countries could ever counter that with their own unofficial channels and backroom deals. They must be real Gentlemen, not to stoop that low!
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This is exactly like the Actor Model and what Erlang seems to do.
This is a great post.

I feel much the same about life in state school in the UK.

You're chucked into a cage, essentially, with a bunch of unformed humans, when what is really needed is a solid set of role models. Teachers can't provide that wholly, because not everyone wants to be a teacher.
See the Prop C campaign (e.g. Marc Benioff) for more insight in this issue. SF tech didn’t invent homelessness but it has clearly exacerbated it, simply by generating a lot of demand for housing.

In a nutshell, the tech industry generally tries to point the finger at lack of supply and blame NIMBYS for obstructing housing construction. But this can be seen as a defensive strategy: it’s pretty clear that a sudden, massive surge of high income earners into a constrained area in the top of a peninsula with weak tenant protections will push a lot of poorer people out of their housing.

It’s not only the fault of the city not to build housing fast enough. We’ve even seen “strange” effects in other boomtowns (Seattle) where building doesn’t solve the problem.[1]

It’s not that strange if you truly understand economics 101. It contains the concept of price inelasticity, which one might see under boomtown conditions (insatiable demand for a necessity, essentially). But to even engage in a real economics discussion kind of misses the point. Mostly the tech industry wants to deflect blame for the problem.

[1] https://knock-la.com/seattle-a-cautionary-tale-for-supply-si...
How so? Civic duty does not mean paying more taxes than required.
History is written by the victors, and his scandalous policies did not lose in the court of law. As it turns out, all the shitty shit he did was perfectly legal[1] (And also supported by most of the country.)

The current crop of scandals is, ah, personal failings and run of the mill conflicts of interest. Obama's cabinet picks were a bit better then the current crop, in that respect. Well, except for Hillary's email server. Which he has masterfully distanced himself politically from. Trump has not done the same for his problematic subordinates.

[1] Which says a lot about how restrictive on government power the constitution actually is.
so are they voting it down because they are being taxed for something they cannot use or benefit from directly?

I'm hesitant to say this is exactly it (or even that it's one specific thing), since--if memory serves, and I'm opening this up for someone who perhaps has a better memory than I do, there was a bond package in 2005 that wouldn't have even affected the western edges of Travis County as the Cities of Bee Cave and West Lake are unincorporated.
AWS, Udemy and others also offer a bunch of free coursers.

It's incredible how these free courses are rolling out.
I've definitely been using games for the purposes of finding this sense of comptency/accomplishment that I also desire and appear to be lacking in meat space despite becoming a senior in three years
Consensus doesn't mean 'about half of the people think one way, and half think the other'.

Do you believe Brexit was a consensus in the UK then?
I'm not saying it's a great situation.

Just not a "crazy" one.

Can't redevelop lower Manhattan because everything between Houston and 30th is a "historical building".

You know perfectly well this isn't true. Not even half of the lots in that area meet that description.

The main reason you "can't" just rip up and re-develop Lower Manhattan is... it's already one of the most sensibly built places on the planet - and so "redeveloping" anything beyond selected corners of it would basically be pretty stupid.

Oh and plus the fact that it's already owned and the land is like really expensive and stuff.

local governments are powerless.

Also nowhere near true, but whatever.
Malicious actions are a concern, but they’re at about the same level of concern as alternative acts of terrorism. Unintentional errors in the things you list don’t feel like they’re huge threats. I would Imagine incidents with at most tens of cars and a relatively low risk at that. Not good, but not a scalable threat.
https://9to5google.com/2018/10/11/the-dirty-word-android-dea...
What about high-quality intros and tutorials you can complete in less time [than a serious academic course] to acquire practically reasonable understanding of particular technologies/subjects?
It highlights the notion that taxation policy is inherently amoral (or, more specifically, a patchwork of overlapping morality and ethical frameworks and the laws resulting from that multi-framework pileup; it's the ultimate sausage of the legal sausage-making process).

To highlight it, people highlight the hypocrisy of individuals using the law to minimize the money they pay out while criticizing corporations using the law to minimize the money they pay out. While you can argue there is a difference, doing so puts you in an ethical framework that not all people in the discourse might share.
You can already do this, but it would only result in being taxed twice—first when you earn your wealth as ordinary income or capital gains, then again when you draw the salary or dividends from the company. No such thing as a self-licking ice cream cone (without committing tax fraud).

ETA: Getting your employer to pay your company instead of you would be tax fraud.
I appreciate that you have found enjoyment in some games despite categorising most of them as terrible. However, whilst the quality of any game is entirely subjective, I would very much argue that most people would not spend time playing a game they do not enjoy. I thus reckon a metric like average time played is a telling one in terms of whether people who purchased the game actually enjoy it. Mind you, most platforms offer refunds with no questions asked should a given game not meet your expectations.
Sounds like you believe there's a progression from BP to reactive programming. I think it's the other way around.
It really goes to show where exactly WSJ has gone over the last decade. Rupert Murdock turned it into nothing more than a tabloid.
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In a lot of Midwest, you can buy a decent house and a lawn for $150K all-in, where the land is under $25K of the assessed value.
Dutch here. Other than kuip as in badkuip or a ship's kuip, I don't see what it refers to. Does it mean anything funny in the context of space?
Yes, the search functionality in Sphinx leaves a lot to be desired, even if you are already writing your own Sphinx plugin it is fairly difficult to add stuff to the search indices in a meaningful way. It's also slow. Overall Sphinx suffers a lot from hardcoding the reST data model and directly working with that.
The New York Times recently published some charts showing how each state generates its electricity: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/24/climate/how-e...
I'm aware of that particular case and think it's certainly representative of some peoples' goals in the area but it's not universal. I think it's helpful to shine a light on things like this. The parent comment I was replying to, however, just assigns a view to a grand, ambiguous They and implies that anybody arguing for preservation has ulterior motives. Not helpful.
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Now THAT'S what I call systems thinking. ;)
It's worse than that. They have to setup a job site every Friday night and break it down on Sunday night. Think about doing a craft/construction project in your house when you don't have a dedicated workspace, most of the time is setting up your workspace.
Hmm, food delivery seems like the last thing that needs to autonomous driving given there needs to be someone to pick up the food and to deliver it the last few feet to the waiting customer.
> Not implying Apple will support wasm, but their plateau enables other wasm-first platforms to emerge. Content providers will give away $100 phones to secure subscription revenue.

I don't understand the former has to do with latter. It would make more sense for content providers to go native than to use WASM if they are providing the hardware. If content providers are giving away hardware they'd want it completely locked down -- not open.

Also, Apple's plateau exists because the market is saturated. Everybody already has a smartphone how is there a market for yet another new platform?
What is wrong with LTS releases? That's what python 2.7 is.
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To summarize the comments here...

Apple sells outrageously-overpriced commodity technology, coupled with gimmicky features, buggy software, and planned obsolescence, to naive consumers who buy it every year regardless.

AND

Apple’s products are so well-designed and reliable that customers remain satisfied for years and don’t feel the need to upgrade on an annual basis because their current devices do everything they need.

Also, Apple’s constant incremental innovation combined with the fact that they stopped all innovation a decade ago (save for headphone jack removal) will be the death of the company.
As I understand it, Hollywood movie crews are still treated a lot better than game devs.

There's a reason for that, and it's not because movie producers are nicer than game producers.
I disagree, but it would look better on pictures if haze was not so strong which admittedly it often is.

I've been to many places around the world, but east Tajikistan was one of the most breath-taking.

Some pictures from that trip (not taken by me): https://www.flickr.com/photos/29022619@N03/albums/7215766398...
I wonder if Star Citizen is/was so successful in raising money - because it plays perfectly into this demographic.
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Android is what could get screwed up. ChromeOS could too, but it isn’t as important. Relevant hint: https://9to5google.com/2018/10/11/the-dirty-word-android-dea...
It would disrupt the delicate framework of trust that the top level of global economics flows upon, and ultimately, the US economy is a trust-based animal.

The more interesting scenario would be a smaller government trying to embarrass or blackmail the US by doing something similar with THEIR military, and that's the stuff of James Bond movies. ;)
You say "revenue extraction" but why is it bad? Roads need to be paid for and having express lanes that convince some people to pay more voluntarily seems like a good thing.

Busses and trains aren't free (usually) so I don't see why highways should be free.
I never heard of it before but boy do these docs look and read well on a first skim. Thoroughly impressed in just a few seconds.
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Support indie games! There are tons of great ones out there :)

www.humblebundle.com -> Great place to find indie deals

www.factorio.com -> Game I've invested 100s of hours into because building and number management. Plus Mods!
How is this implemented ?
ah, yes the popular vote. Let's let the massive population of california lead the way deciding the fate of the country and give it to the hands of a larger criminal.

https://www.wnd.com/2015/04/wall-street-analyst-uncovers-cli...
Yup. From. From. And likely never going back.

I'm a few weeks now into relocating to the midwest (which is why I still say "we" when I talk about Austin), and I've said the same thing.

Austin is a marvelous place to spend a weekend or a couple of days if you want to see a festival (I still think Nashville is the better "live music" city), but I will never live there again unless it transforms dramatically so much of their transit issues, housing issues and traffic issues, not to mention finding a city council with a backbone.

I don't think I can put it to words and have it sink in any better to someone who hasn't lived there how livid I was to see the news that council abandoned CodeNEXT. That was the move that got me packing up and forced my hand to get the hell out.

https://www.statesman.com/news/20180802/codenext-to-code-nix...

FTA: Since the first draft of the revised land-use rules was released in early 2017, CodeNext has laid bare the ideological differences between pro-density urbanists and neighborhood preservationists, who have sniped at one another for months in public meetings and through social media.

Yep. That's pretty much describes my near 20 years living in Austin to the letter. About the only thing those two groups can agree on is "build another toll road so far out of the city it takes a 20 minute drive to the eastern edge of the city limits just so you can go north to Pflugerville and not sit on I-35 for an hour and a half"
There's plenty of game developers, there's only one Tom Cruise.

And there's no path for modern devs to get any sort of selling star power unless they also do game design (Zacktronics, Kojima, etc).
Very cool! What are you going to do next with it?
I actually find the majority of the apartments in SF to be quite bad. I love the looks of some of the old buildings but,.. they were often built for single families. They'll have 3-4 bedrooms and one bathroom. For apartments so many are really old with zero sound insulation. Many apartments you have zero privacy and can here everything going at your neighbor's. My SF apartment just walking from one room to another after 11pm would piss off the neighbors. I basically had to tiptoe to bed for 6 years and otherwise stay out of the bedroom as the floors were really thin and the people downstairs would complain. Lots of apartments were single family homes and then split. They'll advertise 2 bedrooms but it will really be just a re-purposed living room or dining room with double doors or a temporary wall.

I get the impression 30% to 50% of the city is that way (way old) and most of the rest is like 70s-80s stuff that really needs to be torn down and rebuilt. Some of the more modern buildings say down in China Basin might be more sound proof and energy efficient? No idea.
Remap a button. I have the keys to the right of t,g,b mapped to right, middle, left respectively! Really cozy with a trackball for finicky CAD work
It is your problem - the inconsistent APIs, the slow as molasses updates for Windows, security vulnerabilities etc.

There is a reason that all of the energy and money when it comes to applications has moved to mobile and the web.

Any platform creator has three priorities.

1. The company

2. The Users

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3. Developers.

Developers will go where ever the users are. You don’t have to make life comfortable for developers. Windows Mobile was a joy to develop for compared to any other platform, but it didn’t matter.
This is a nice bit a progress and addresses a major concern about using PyPy in real-time systems.
Which are reasons to regulate the conditions in so-called puppy mills, not reasons to ban them altogether.

Should the US have altogether banned the sale of meat for human consumption after Upton Sinclair published The Jungle? What a ridiculous notion.
I realize that, however it's a logical claim on the determinants of implementing an automated system.

If the logic can be applied to one system it should be able to be applied to all systems.
The median commute time in the US is 25 minutes, up to 32 in the most congested metro areas. This is overwhelmingly due to driving on freeways across suburbia, enabled by sufficiently low density.
> you cannot find them easily on Yelp due to low ratings / reviews

I know right! There was one time I went to one restaurant with a good rating, and the line up was so long we ended up just waddling over to an inconspicuous Japanese place next door, to discover some pretty decent traditional style service and food.

I did find a number of chinese/korean restaurants that clearly cater to actual chinese/koreans, but the cultural density is so low that unfortunately they've mostly fell short compared to the quality you can get in the various chinese/korean neighbourhoods in Toronto.
The only “real” city in the USA is Manhattan. SF does not come close to qualifying as one. Let me know when I can get dinner reservations at more the 2 places at midnight. The streets roll up at around 10pm. Just for perspective I would argue the only real city in the world is Tokyo.
I don't think 10% flat rate is a safe assumption... I've been working in a different market for about 10 years. I have owned my house outright for the last four, leaving me with about 5 years of salary in savings + retirement, so i guess that'd be about 50% per year overall, not 10%.

Everyone I know in SF is still renting.
The vast majority of failures in automobile usage today are caused by human conditions that will never affect a machine. Alcohol, drugs, fatigue, social distractions, aggressive driving.

Google something like "top causes of automobile accidents". No list I found had exogenous causes (rain, snow, etc) in the top 5. For machine driving to top that isn't going to be that hard given that we are our own worst enemy on the road.
Yes philosophical admiration of Wittgenstein indicates a failure to take him seriously. If he was right, people should stop philosophising.

But they don't. Wittgenstein failing to end philosophy not once but twice in the Twentieth Century marks him out as a doubly spectacular failure on his own terms.

The problem may be that neither logic nor philology exhausts philosophy in ways simpler than philosophy itself. Wittgenstein's domineering charisma and conceptual purity make his attempts to do so dazzling in ways that the flounders of the analytic tradition don't have access to.
Said riders almost always pay non-resident income taxes to NY as well.
> I know lots of people that have absolutely no idea how the mechanical side of a car works, but they trust their lives to one at 100km/hr because it has worked generally pretty well in the past.

Car safety has made great progress in the past 10 or so years. People don't have to know how they work under the hood as long as designers and engineers already built safety into them and these designs have been heavily tested by third parties (e.g. Euro NCAP, IIHS, etc)

Self driving cars will have to prove their safety, especially in extreme weather and non paved roads.
syngas definitely seems like one of those holy-grail technologies that could save us from ourselves if we can make it economical. Plug-in replacement for transportation, one of the most difficult places to decarbonize. As a bonus, syngas is pure by nature, so engines burn cleaner without any need to worry about things like "low sulfur diesel".
So you want developers to support a platform where their app is used only once?!? I think they'd prefer native 100x over web applications for that reason alone!
> the "evasion" in question is the US government trying to grab taxes on money paid to a company by foreign nationals in a foreign market

It's not just this, It's also evasion of taxes that could've been paid in these countries. (Could've, because what they're doing is legal, so they have no obligation to.) What they do, is most easily explained with the Starbucks example:

Starbucks has one subsidiary, based in the Netherlands, that holds the rights to sell coffee with the name 'Frappuccino'. All Starbucks stores are owned by another subsidiary. Whenever a store sells a 'Frappuccino', they pay a $1 royalty on that name. Because royalties aren't taxed in the Netherlands, this $1 is pure profit.

This is from memory, so It's probably not completely right, but in the end they really do evade foreign taxes, not just a double tax in the US.
I don't think you should get down voted. I spent $60 and listened a little under 600 hours on Spotify in 2018.

I understand the reasoning, but time spent is not really a great measurement of value. I probably spent hundreds of hours on a couple of games back in middle/high school and I'd be lying if I said I didn't regret at least some of that.
They've been replacing highway bridges in MA in much less time. They prefab and build up the new bridge next to the highway, then shut the highway down for a weekend, tear down the old bridge, roll the new bridge in place, anchor, and the highway was ready for use the next Monday morning. Rinse and repeat for the other direction.

They did 14 bridges in 10 weekends, cf. https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/publicroads/12mayjune/...
Why is dollar per hour a good metric of entertainment value? I don't think entertainment is a binary yes or no. Entertainment is a scale, and it's possible you get more total entertainment from something that you enjoy intensely for 30 min vs something you mildly enjoy for a hundred (or so) hours.
The first thing I thought to do when I read your comment was replace the word "superpower" with "AI". It doesn't answer any questions, or really add that much of an extra dimension, but it was my first thought.