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Archlinux.

It's the distribution that's taught me the most about linux in general. I feel a lot of freedom here. Not only because of what it's taught me, but also because the tools are very simple and easy to combine to do useful things.

Maybe it's also the case in other distributions, but in Archlinux every file in the filesystem after initial installation belongs to a package. That means that I can create Archlinux containers with the package manager. And every installation corruption (because power went out during an update, for example) can be fixed with the package manager without needing to reformat or whatnot. This becomes very clear through their very barebones installation procedure, which is just leaving you in the shell with instructions in ~/install.txt, instead of putting you through an installation wizard that leaves you wondering the concrete steps that it did.

Also, packages are simple tar archives, and how the source is downloaded and built is described in a shell script with detailed conventions. I can take the name of any package, and, in uniform fashion, download the source, make modifications, create a patch of them if I want or just build the package from the modified sources, and install. Creating a personal package repo is also very easy.

Everything just does one job and doesn't make a mess of things, like how Ubuntu oftentimes automatically starts services when you install them. Archlinux also doesn't make it's own conventions on how the system should be administered and by what files, like Ubuntu with its ifup, ifdown scripts and /etc/network/* files.

If I want to know how to use a package, I only need to look at that package's documentation and not also at how the distribution idealizes my use of it, like how Ubuntu has you making symbolic links between /etc/apache2/sites-available and /etc/apache2/sites-enabled with the Debian-originated scripts a2ensite and a2dissite.

On a related note, I've been thinking of moving to NixOS (or GuixSD) for their declarative configurations, but haven't because of the time investment that it would require. Last I tried NixOS, I remember being met with some very fundamental/unavoidable flaws/features that put me off a little. In particular, I remember that if I wanted to make a change (however trivial) in a package many other packages depended on, it would mean that those dependent packages would need to be rebuilt. This is cool since it ensures the consistency of the whole system, but it takes so damn long to see those changes in the dependent packages that it's so annoying. In Archlinux, you'd just be taking the risk that you might've broken the system, but letting me take that risk is much more efficient.
Off the top of my head, things I never implement or use anymore:

* socket listeners

* line drawing

* explicit memory management

* old APIs and libraries

* Perl

* Assembly

And things I rarely use:

* Semaphores & other threading primitives

* XML

* C/C++

Now, knowing these sometimes helps, but the amount of time I spent on them probably doesn't justify the benefit aside from the fact that it was necessary at the time.

And somebody is doing these now — I just find I don't need to, as it's always handled somewhere below the abstraction layers where I work.

An equally interesting list would be the things I use now that didn't exist when I graduated from college in 1996.
Payday lenders are predatory. They want to get people locked into a cycle of debt, so that they can charge many times the original amount in interest per year. I'm surprised to see anyone defending them.
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I'm surprised that Prize Linked Savings Accounts (PLSAs) aren't more mainstream (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prize-linked_savings_account). Legality is state dependent I believe, and CA just passed into law late last year.

Plenty of studies show that they encourage more savings from those who previously did not save.
Climate Change Transforms These Cute Little Birds into Murderous Brain-Eating
it is a geek idea! i like it.

you still get a website?
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I will provide a website to see the inbox of your alias. (maybe for services who send your pw in the email, but then you might be better off using other established servers.)

Gmail API is a bit slow so it might take 30 seconds for email to be received on my end, keep in mind while testing!
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just wondering does it break gmail's terms?
I think that is why I value Non-Violent Communication so much, for its desire to be compassionate and empathetic to both your self and others while realizing that you don't just deserve to get what you want from others just because you want to feel a certain way or feel you need a certain outcome due to circumstances.
Researcher Won't Disclose MacOS Keychain 0 Day Without Apple Bug Bounty Program
Nowhere in the regulations is government banning PayDay loans (now or previously). This is about setting limits on just how much profit they can make per loan (since financial complexity makes it trivial to hide the true dollar cost).

And actually lotteries are heavily regulated, particularly in relation to odds, costs, and complexities. You know, when you buy a ticket, exactly how little chance you have.
I want to get away from email. While everybody is used to it, information tends to get lost in the 14th partial quote of an email which went to only three of five people and two more which are not responsible for the project... You get the hang of it.

And Google Groups would not fulfill the need for a self-hosted solution, so it's a bit out of focus. But I get your point and would like to thank you for it.
It's not commercially available unfortunately when I last checked. You have to buy business software and licences to get access to the DB kernel and api's. The main product is called Enovia, formerly called eMatrix by matrix one. Dassault Systemes in France.

Would be sweet to have a similar system in FOSS middleware on top of Neo4J or OrientDB.
What do you mean stay up to date? From my experience I've noticed that if they dig deep and understand the underlying fundamental concepts of the trade, there's not many programming problems, platforms, or languages, that couldn't be learned in the span of a few days. The longer I go, the more I realize that everything that seems new and fresh was most likely already invented in some capacity before I even wrote my first line of code. I completely understand if they are non flexible and still choosing out of date frameworks or libraries that aren't necessarily used any more, however the ability to compare and contrast frameworks and languages and choose the one based on a deep understanding of the underlying implications seems to me more important than being fluent in the latest platforms.
It isn't so difficult to fix the unaffordability of life, the US government was, for a while, quite happy to experiment with programs that aided the working poor by providing financial relief so they could secure more stable employment and lives - Helsinki recently invested in a distributed free-housing campaign that has had a noticeable impact on poverty.

The US is stuck in a silly "American Tough" outlook of people pulling themselves up by their bootstraps when a little bit of well targeted aide can help society immensely. There is a wonderful old MLK quote

> We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor

so as a society we should closely examine the money that gets funneled to quantitative easing, subsidies for fossil fuels and other corporate bailouts, along with the reduction of progressive taxes like luxury and estate taxes... and consider how far that money would go if put into SNAP, CHIP and public housing.
well I've talked about edge Load Balancing..
I had a bit of a burnout around 2006 -- I had worked my ass off on a fantastically complex framework, the pinacle of years of experience, and it was a joy. It was SO cool. There was an application on top, which was also pretty cool.

And the marketing bods/management and so on more or less dragged the project off track, up to the point I didn't want to work on it at all, I quit, I left my 'baby' and had a hard 6 months where I didn't really want to do anything... Good thing is that I became a pretty competent landscape photographer along the way...

Nowadays, I work a LOT more like a mercenary. I don't mind working on projects that leads straight to the wall -- NOBODY will listen to you, or trust you've seen that 12 times before.

So as far as I'm concerned, I enjoy the work, the architecture, the TECH challenges, and everything which gives me a quick, and I completely ignore the outcome in the end. Sure, if it's a success, whoohoo whoohoo but I no longer put the same amount of 'care' and 'ownership' in what I do. I just let it go, and do something else just as efficiently.

It might sound cruel, but for the like of us who REALLY get a kick from designing/building/implementing stuff, it's actually quite liberating.

I just smile benignly on at the idiots in the room sometimes, it's quite relaxing :-)
> Arguably, the consumers that the CPB is protecting is those who are aware of the fees and conditions but still require payday loans, who would be excluded from consideration by the new rules [1], which do not change the interest rate requirements but exclude some customers from eligibility.

I'm not sure many such people exist. Surely the vast majority of payday loan companies' customers are not these kinds of people, but rather, people who are being taken advantage of.
With modern advances in law enforcement techniques for dealing with organized crime, the legality of state run lotteries should be revisited. The continued operation of numbers games in immigrant communities probably has more to do with inadequate policing in those communities than it has to do with lack of awareness for state lotteries.
It's not masquerading as a strategy, it is a strategy. There's no "bias" - the fact that the same strategy was employed by a lot of companies that didn't survive doesn't make it a bad strategy, since the whole point of the strategy is to optimize for a small probability of massive success.
> there is no unified mission any more

I enjoyed the way you phrased this. At times I've felt like different aspects of the "college experience" would be a scam if there weren't so many disparate good-intentions.

> They care about signaling

Non-traditional students in my university used to qualify for free tutoring by specific university-approved tutors.
This semester, it was deemed an inappropriate use of resources and the funding was instead redirected to hire an administrator to write a regular newsletter "designed for the nontraditional undergraduate community" to "provide more opportunities to enhance and enrich your student experience".

That's quite an ambitious goal for what I would term marketing. If there is in fact anything resembling a unified-mission at this time, it certainly does not include reducing friction of at-risk students from graduating.
So you don’t see the problem in your little example?
Jabras customer support is in Germany
> Nonetheless, payday lenders are not exactly making money hand over fist.

Even assuming this is true, which I doubt, am I supposed to care that predatory lenders are suffering? It'd be good if they shut down. I'm all for making them unprofitable.
==Non-hispanic whites + blacks made up 95% of the population as recently as 1970==

The large immigrant communities from Italy, Germany and Ireland were not considered "white" when they first came to the US. Only later did that occur as definitions of race have changed over time, usually to serve a political purpose.

==the fact that the U.S. has gone from one (black Americans) to two (added Latin American immigrants — now 16% of the population) racially delineated underclasses does a lot to undermine social cohesion.==

Have you explored the possibility that people's obsession with this is what has actually undermined social cohesion? It has happened before in American history with the Know-Nothing Party.

==Source for U.S. demographics==

Your own source shows "whites" (72.4%) and "blacks" (12.6%) as making up 85% of the population as of 2010. You have decided to further delineate that into "non-hispanic white" which is not an actual race. Also notable that you don't split out the differences of Southern Italians and Northern Irish. Do immigrants from Spain count as white or Hispanic?
Why doesn't the EU impose trade tariffs, sanctions or embargos on China?

China will continue to do this and laugh at the naiveté their victims.

There's no reason for them to stop until there is one.
Maybe I don't understand the full implications of the problem, but it seems obvious that a multiplicative table will result in more 'numerical diversity' than a summation table. Both multiplication and addition yield points on lines described by the usual mx+b equation. Addition constrains x to 1, so all of the results will be clustered near the origin, with more coincidences as an unavoidable result. Conversely, if x is allowed to exceed 1, the resulting 'lines' will spread out on the graph and leave more room for unique points.

What am I missing?
> Its cost is non-negligible for a low income student

They have fee waivers for low-income students, which cover the cost of 2 SAT sittings and up to 6 subject tests. https://blog.collegeboard.org/guide-to-sat-fee-waivers
I'm contracting, so the last time I aced a discussion about a job was about 5 hours ago.
> Practice getting people talking about themselves. It's the best way to get people to think that you are interesting.

Could you elaborate why why that is the case?
The gaming industry is still heavily invested in C++, for better or worse.
Measuring coding contribution is hard. The most robust attribution models calculate the difference between the success of the project with and without the contribution, but in practice, we almost never know how successful the project would have been without the contribution. The closest we can get are isolated A/B tests, where we can measure the value of a specific code change in terms of business outcomes.

Measuring the volume of changes in any form is problematic, since it’s possible that the programmers who add the most code are actually making the code worse by accumulating technical debt faster than business value (instead of refactoring so that important changes can be made simply).
Could you share which companies you are referring to?
This is not IP, it's personal and corporate data.
Yes, that was my point: they choose one and it works fine. It is easier in that case to ensure and keep a certain mass of users and so, for a long time. That leads to the possibility of blitzscaling and monopoly I think.

To me, the problem comes when you provide a service. The service market seems much more difficult to diversify than the product market. When the need is well filled by one company, it is difficult to keep competition alive. It is obviously not binary. It depends on the service.

For instance, for the product side; Nike, Adidas, etc. are constantly trying to improve and change their products to keep up with the complex shoe market even if they are pretty colossal companies. Because the user need for a new shoe pair is coming on a really short scale and the competition is fierce.

I'm not seeing the same kind of competition with services. When you use a service that fills the need, you don't change in general. Or at least, people change on a very long scale. Some times, it even takes a cultural shift to change habits.

On the google vs bing example: Well, ok some uses bing, but in majority because microsoft makes it easy to do so on their systems ;-). There exists some very good alternatives, like duckduckgo, but it represents a minority.
Honestly, they're providing a service and there are customers. Walter block who is a noted austrian-school economist did a fun set of books called "Defending the Undefendable" where he runs through thought experiments about Slumlords, Payday Lenders, Pimps, etc. I'm not asking you to agree with him, or start defending pimps but reading through some of those is a fun way to get a different take on things. Book is available in print but also below for free from Mises:

https://mises-media.s3.amazonaws.com/Defending_the_Undefenda...
Take Dan Lyons' book about his time at Hubspot. In what universe was that going to end well? (Leaving aside the question of whether it was ever intended to end well by all involved.)

Clearly there are some companies more open to more senior people in various roles. At some level, the path of least resistance at least is to accept that.
The comment you're replying to suggest something slightly different. It suggests that you do things that will minimize the chances that you will look older than you are.
While I don't think it's a cure any more than locking your door is a cure for theft, it does improve your chances of getting hired in the world we live in today.
All this fails to take into account Oumuamua not only changed speed, but it also changed direction. If someone's goal is to go from A to B, you don't want a meager gravity assist that'll add a dozen light-years to the distance you travel.

So, if you are driving from Santa Clara to Sunnyvale, it's not a great idea to first drive to LA to get a faster car, and then drive to Sunnyvale. In fact, it'd be faster to walk.
> They should allow anyone on the continent to own a .eu domain.

Since when is the UK "on the continent"?
The Steve Jobs response is klassic.

https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/3faz2u/steve_jobs_in...
Yes at all. There's something unnerving about the way the remain side of the debate all engage in this mafia boss style of low key gas lighting. Let's just not acknowledge the fact that you cannot merely just have have certain things easily. Suddenly rules and technicalities become extremely important to the EU.

Something else it is reminiscent of is joining a cult such as scientology. All reassurances and promises on the way in ... but when you try to leave... So in some sense of course Norway has X and Y. They gained these things whilst increasing integration with the EU.

Yes I know. Leave voters are less educated and somewhat racist statistically.
I've kept the same job for over 22 years. Hopefully it will last another 22...
Interesting points
Unfortunately a larger and larger part of federal staff are contractors, including most younger people I know who work for the Feds. Due to the misguided attempts of Congress to reduce spending, it's much easier to hire a contractor with 50% (at least) overhead rather than just hire them directly. Heck, a guy I know used to be a federal hydrogeologist. Worked in a gov't office on a permanent basis, was supervised by government employees, etc. He literally just received his paychecks and talked to his de jure boss twice a year. For that, the contracting company actually charged more than his salary in overhead.
There's been some success with lottery savings accounts in other countries. The idea is that it's very hard to get people interested in saving if they'll only see a handful of bucks per year in interest on the kinds of amounts they'd be saving, but if that saving instead enrolls in a lottery they could see a huge return.

Basically, turn small predictable gains into smaller predictable gains plus much larger unpredictable gains, so that people start redirecting money spent on the lottery (which is a big net negative for them) into money in savings accounts (a net positive for them). And then, as a bonus, they also have money saved up for an emergency.
It's not about having bank branches nearby, it's about people that can't get traditional loans or credit cards. These are loans of last resort for people that don't have enough (or good enough) credit. The default rate on these is around 20%.

I don't have a solution either, but this is a more nuanced issue than just not having a bank nearby.
I see something similar in my industry. I work on embedded systems for industrial automation and in my mid 30's I still tend to be one of the younger ones in any group of coworkers/clients. In my case don't think this is issue of "insulation" but rather a difference between technical fields. Industrial automation is a long-game. Development projects can last a year or more, and client support can stretch into the 10s of years. Also, there is a lot of value in deep domain knowledge that takes years to develop.

I think age of the companies themselves comes into play. If a company is only a year old, nobody has had time to age with the company, almost nobody is going to have had a kid, been through major medical issues, ect, while working there. Even if an individual may have that kind of life experience, the company itself doesn't. I think it shows in the kind of environments they create and the type of people they tend to attract/want.
When it rains, it can rain a lot in Houston, but it still seems to take a few drivers there by surprise every time the heavy rain comes back.
> Nonetheless, payday lenders are not exactly making money hand over fist.

Before these regulations were originally enacted they were making $9.2B, that dropped to $6B. The regulations are now being removed. So they were in fact making money hand over fist, and will be again.
Care to share this wisdom? I'm wrassling with these kontainers now and I'm wondering why people think they're so wonderful.
Creed's plan from The Office. "I'm 30. Well, in November I'll be 30."

https://makeameme.org/meme/im-30-well
Nobody is denying people credit. Payday loans are predatory and perpetuate poverty instead of helping to solve it. It would be great if they were transparent and didn’t try to rob you in the process, but that’s just not how they work.
The Midwest has a lot of age 50+ devs. Java and ASP.NET rule the land and it’s almost all B2B like hospitals and other large orgs that don’t want bleeding edge tech. For example, trying to find React devs in the Midwest proved difficult.
Food stamps can be used to purchase lobster. I don't know why you think that's impossible.

Edit: I've even seen fast food places accept EBT.
They claim that minority students increased representation in gifted programs after increased testing and linked to a paper.

They forgot to mention that the paper says IQ cutoffs were 130 for non-disadvantaged students vs 115 for poor/minority.

This is a standard deviation, 15% of people from a 100 IQ pop exceed this threshold.

The paper then goes on to say, with lower ovjective standards, the groups pass the subjective bar at equal rates.

The subjective bar being applied by a system so motivated to achieve proportional representation they altered cutoffs.
I'm only in my early 30s but I have loved having old timers on my teams. They tend to have abandoned their illusory superiority (and super low estimates) that young devs exhibit so frequently, which really grounds a team. And talking tech with them is always an adventure instead of a sports team argument about which framework is best.
And Facebook and Google want to get you locked in a cycle of mindless browsing and ad consumption. The difference is that Facebook and Google operate in markets with high barriers to entry resulting in fat profit margins. Payday lenders, by contrast, operate in a market with immense amounts of competition. There’s one on every block in most places.

Payday lenders don’t lock people in cycles of debt. What looks people in cycles of debt is that their income levels are marginal so any unexpected event can totally derail them.

I have a paid off car. When I got into a fender bender, I needed to pay $2,500 out of pocket to fix it because I don’t carry insurance for damage to my own vehicle. If I was poor, what would I do? I can go to a payday lender, who has to charge high fees because poor people are high risk. I’m caught in a cycle of debt—because I couldn’t afford that expense to begin with. But at least I can get around. If you take away that option, I don’t get my car fixed and lose my job. That’s the alternative.