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They don't exist. I've seen good things relating to this Red language, but have fun learning a new language when you really just want to make a program you've already written graphical.

Try learning the unreasonable class hierarchies of Gnome or Qt, if you want to write a graphical application in most languages; there are several tomes covering X11 and Motif and, if you bother to learn those now, just remember that Wayland's been right around the corner for over a decade now.

Every other option is either unsuitable, unmaintained, or something else. The terminal is also poorly used in UNIX: you can't get key modifiers for everything, since it's all sent as plain characters; there are several competing conventions for reporting mouse codes, all broken in different ways; instead of using the FUNCTION KEY control sequence, which scales to however many you need, Xterm and cohort send baroque sequences with no pattern, instead; and, lastly, extended color codes are broken, because Xterm implemented its own standard before someone read the real one and then it implemented the real standard incorrectly, with the other terminals following its lead as if lemmings, because they probably never saw the standard at all, and now it's too ingrained to implement properly, so just send the wrong codes, right?

It's all utterly broken and it's disgusting. I want you to take notice of how much visual garbage is in Unicode. Now, part of that is to encompass other character sets, but consider that, since the GUI and everything else is so utterly broken, why not make the character set the GUI toolkit? That seems to be what's been done, and who needs a real GUI system when you can send cute Unicode glyphs back and forth?
actually, all you should have to do is this:

1) download a client for your OS from this page:

https://github.com/moul/gotty-client/releases

2) type the following on the command line:

$ gotty-client http://play.eolsh.com:35515
As far as I know, The current rule in the US is inheritance tax doesn't apply to the first 5 million. This seems to be more than fair.
Neural networks can't be discontinuous, even piecewise, because you wouldn't be able to differentiate at the discontinuities.
SSH does not use TLS, and does not have the TLS extension SNI.
Yes.

From your own quote: Poland, second place (over all)

World Atlas has them at #3 https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/cities-with-the-worst-ai...

So...not "dirtiest"
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In Barcelona, capital of Catalunya, most of what you'll hear is Spanish, not Catalan."

Sorry if I may seem pedantic, but there is no such thing as "Spanish" language (at least not inside Spain).

The language you are talking about is actually called "castellano" (Castilian).
Even at the top end of that range it's less than what a competitive internships annualised compensation would be. Are you really able to hire people at those rates?
No, because these are nations.
>There is NOT a shortage of software developers.

What would have to be true for you to agree that there is a shortage of software developers? Big tech cos have total comp of ~$600k/engineer. Would you think there is a shortage if they had to pay $6m/engineer? $60m? How do you define "shortage"?
Hi, can you kindly answer the following questions: How much experience do you have? What is your current technology stack? Is the salary which you stated based on an 8 hour workday 5 days a week schedule? How much late sitting do you do, if any? What is your typical work load, I mean do you solve complex problems all day long or do you just stitch libraries together? The salary which you stated looks a bit unbelievable. Thanks.
Property taxes (including inheritance taxes) can introduce huge inequalities of their own. Look at Italy for an example, where there are many beautiful villas left to go to ruin because the taxes were unaffordable for the families who owned them. Many landowners both in Britain and Italy are not really rich, particularly when they inherited them. Taxing them simply forces them off the land their families have owned for generations, and that's not really fair either.

You can buy whole Scottish estates, complete with castles and lochs and hundreds of square miles of wilderness, for less than the cost of a small flat in London. They aren't necessarily particularly viable economically, despite their size, and the owners aren't necessarily wealthy (though some are of course). They get put up for sale all the time for a good reason! They are a huge money sink.
I agree. But these tests do nothing to validate that I can be a useful programmer on a team. Nothing about those types of questions prove that I’m unable to build a viable web app. I’m not applying to be a embedded programmer just continuing to do what I’ve done for years.
i've used themed tk (ttk) via python's tkinter.

It looks almost nice, and generally nice enough that people didn't realize immediately it was tk (that says a lot, considering how ugly tk is).
using the browser as your client is an easy way to get playing in seconds, but if you'd prefer to play on your terminal directly (which is actually how I intend most people to play), try this:

1) download a client for your OS from this page:

https://github.com/moul/gotty-client/releases

2) type the following on the command line:

$ gotty-client http://play.eolsh.com:35515
The problem is that somebody with 20 years experience knows Vue and React are really just older technologies refried and served to new programmers who weren't around the first time. Hiring too many people who can say "this looks suspiciously like what I was doing 10 years ago" ruins the tech marketing cycle.
Let’s see how he/she enjoys the US healthcare system if ever out of a job...
Just go the electron route and find a way to make it snappy in-spite of electron (ala vs code)
I've experienced the same, honestly it's a numbers game and it took me many rejections and turning down toxic roles to find a good team of people I could enjoy being around 40+ hrs a week.
No, that's armed trespass, poaching, etc.
Well, you're not exactly wrong but what you're saying is a bit weird.

Technically something capable of arbitrary computation in the Turing machine sense can be stronger than a Turing machine (the obvious example being a Turing machine with access to a halting oracle).

Also if you want to show something is limited by the capabilities of a Turing machine it's way easier to point out it's being run on a Turing machine, as opposed to showing it's capable of arbitrary computation (which might not even be sufficient, as I explained above).

As it stands it's not entirely obvious that a neural network with access to arbitrary precision arithmetic might not be more powerful than a Turing machine, but since we couldn't possibly construct a neural network precise enough that's a bit of a moot point.
> if it did then there could have been cross pollination of microorganisms over billions of years

I don't think this is consistent with DNA evidence, since such cross pollination would be expected to show up as two sets of genetic lines of descent with very different characteristics, since the environment of Mars is very different from that of Earth; and we don't observer anything like that. In fact, if life was evolving separately on Earth and Mars, it might not take very long before the two lines of descent were not even compatible genetically, meaning that genetic exchange would be impossible even if the organisms were brought back together.
Tkinter for python seems pretty concise. I'm not an expert with it. Looks prettier than I remember tcl/tk to be.
Ah, that is true.

Home ownership is quite high here [1], 77% of households own their own home. A lot of that is mortgaged. I can't really find equivalent numbers to that in the UK. A lot of the land is "utmark", like out side of cultivated areas, and can be used by pretty much anyone and a lot is just government owned.

[1] https://www.ssb.no/bygg-bolig-og-eiendom/artikler-og-publika...
Well, I think Netflix has cache/edge servers that they deploy to ISPs instead. That said, last I looked at it, the model described (keys through https, enc. chunks through http) was used by BAMTech for example.
For years, people complained that Linux was left out of the equation when apps were released. Then electron came along that made it super easy to be cross-platform with a performance loss. Now people complain that it's not written natively which seems silly for a calendar app. It's not like performance or look-and-feel is a huge issue. If they made it natively, people would complain it doesn't have a command-line API.
What do actual card-form-factor “smartcards” get me over using the CCID interface on the Yubikey?
So... other than using std::function and other than something in Qt, what would be a more efficient C++[11,17] native way of doing a callback?
It’s not crass to honor Joe’s legacy. It’s on topic and relevant.
I would dearly love to have this. If it's controlled by software, then it is subvertible in a way that pure hardware solutions should be invulnerable to.
[ as an aside, I was prompted after writing the above to try again, and added a Fedora 29 partition to play around with. I'm pleasantly surprised by how much immediately works. Early days as yet ]
Even after paying $600,000 per employee, Facebook still makes $600,000 profit per employee.

So it is currently at a 50/50 split of the value created between the employee and the company.

I would expect, in a skills shortage, that the employee would be able to demand a much greater share, something closer to -- or even temporarily above -- 100%.

The absolute number, $60,000 or $600,000 or $6,000,000 doesn't seem relevant.
FORTRAN IV Running on DEC PDP11 (11/40, 11/03 and PDT 150)

WAs told in my first week after a hours quick instruction on our 11/40 - to get the book on Fortran from the company library and learn it.
> Its pricey, but switching to this dramatically reduced the drama during dental visits

What drama was there during dental visits? Found cavities? How often do you go to dentist/how often did the drama happen before you switched toothpaste? Sorry for blunt questions, I really don't know what that could mean.
Even in Silicon Valley there aren’t that many companies other than FAANG offering $200k base salary. $200k total compensation, including stock and bonuses, is a different matter.
It will be interesting to see how the next president after Trump handles this matter (whether in 2021 or in 2025). I think there's a nonzero chance that even a Democratic president would pardon Trump in the name of national unity.
How do you know they are settling?
Your argument is "I got mine fuck everyone else" which I think is about as uncompelling as an argument gets.

My argument is that getting more people into tech increases opportunities and raises the standards of living for everyone. When entire industries are disappearing due to automation I think it is rather ridiculous to try to restrict people from becoming programmers.

You are right, it is not your choice, and thankfully society is making a very different choice.
Lists of Liberal vs Conservative cities in the US always put Berkeley at or near the top of the Liberal list.

I am not being critical, but I suspect it might not be representative of California.
Only some of the real ancient pre FORTRAN IV stuff has been removed.
After moving to California in 2011, I decided I missed the office banter and started looking for a job. I found a listing on a large, tech-based recruiting firm (cybercoders) and the job was perfect for my skills. I applied but heard nothing back.

After a week I reached out to the recruiter, and she replied with a curt, "You're not qualified for this role so we're looking elsewhere." I was a bit surprised as the reqs they described in the job listing were exactly what I had been doing for the last 3 years. But it got me thinking whether the company (HR, Hiring Manager, etc) had made the decision or if the recruiter had?

In addition, there was no additional offer from the recruiter to work with me? It was literally that one line. It got me thinking that maybe my experience(s) wasn't valued by the recruiter as someone worth pursuing, as I may be more "work" to land a job than she would want to invest?

Anyway, with my pride slightly dinged, I immediately wrote off the recruiter (and cybercoders as a whole) as someone I wouldn't want to work with in the future. I got a job at a larger company and a few years later, enjoyed responding to the SAME recruiter asking if I was interested in some jobs she had to offer (nothing bridge-burning worthy, but it felt great saying "NO THANKS")
You're talking about training. That's a totally different question than approximation and representability.
A few years ago, they asked me to be a tech reviewer and the compensation was a credit/bio, a copy of the book, and an ebook of any other of their books. No money. I took that as a sign they weren't serious about getting a good review.
FWIW, some views from Norway, which has universal healthcare.

3: Don't need health insurance so I'd say that's better.

4: We can chose our own primary doctor from the pool of available GPs. Available just means that some GPs have too many patients on their list already and don't have any slots available. You can switch primary GP once a month (IIRC). I switched a few times until I found one which I liked. Repeated the process when I moved.

5: I can see my GP whenever I feel like it, just need to set up an appointment. If you mean to see a specialist then yeah, I'd need my GP to refer me. Sometimes this can feel a bit unnecessary but mostly it's not a big issue IMHO.

6: If my GP doesn't have time for me, I'd just switch and find one who does.
I picked on needless complexity due to top-down design not on static typing per se.

Here's a good video highlighting the difference of approach.
Well worth watching. Applies to how many Java architects would design a solution. I see the same kind of top-down approach happening in the Typescript area as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb823aqgX_0&list=PL0ydHZ1qvY...
This is a good move. I also don't consider tucker carlson 'far right'.
I haven’t seen an email with images in years because I always use clients which allow disabling auto-loading.

If I get an email with images it’s usually an email I didn’t want and I block the sender shortly thereafter. Real people don’t tend to send emails with images that are important for understanding the textual content.
Like FTL, nothing in physics as we understand it, or that we've observed in the universe, allows for even the possibility of anti-gravity. Theories always require some magical fudge-factor like "negative mass" that, as far as we know, don't really exist either, and can't apply to our universe.

As far as is known, the only way to generate gravity is mass, and the only way to counteract gravity is to push against it in the other direction hard enough, but that's just rocketry.
A lot of their cars are hybrid, so engine is right
The commenter hadn’t even done the interview yet. There’s no way a court would interpret this as a contract to pay the person that amount.
Guess I'm alone in not seeing what's so good about this talk. He only presents problems, and in an extremely disorganized way. The closest thing to a solution is "wait, hardware advancement will eventually make your slow code fast."

It's definitely entertaining, but that's about all I can give it.
They also sell a lot of hybrid cars. Would be a better comparison with pure EV sales.
> It takes fifty lines to create a dialogue with a button.

In Tk/Tcl it takes one line if you want a simple dialog with a button:

tk_dialog .d1 "Dialog Title" "Dialog Text" "" "" "Button Text"

Creating your own custom dialog takes a few more lines (obviously), but nothing close to fifty lines for just some text and a single button.
How does this compare to Teleport:

https://github.com/gravitational/teleport
No, because the rich in this case didn't buy the assets, they inherited them from people who were gifted them for being lieutenants in an invading army 1000 years ago. England is still an occupied country, and the only solution is to revolt against the occupiers.
That's... one way to make something clearer. It's also a way to hide complexity behind leaky facades. "Just add a layer of abstraction" is horrible advice.
SCP-1115 [1] is proof!

[1] http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1115
Letter of Recommendation: Digging a Trench
> I'm afraid to link it here because the traffic might kill my puny box.

Setup Cloudflare, which is free and easy to use. Or, just post an Internet Archive wayback machine copy of your post would be good enough.
Wait a minute, isn't it also the case that according to the Weierstrass approximation theorem any continuous function on a closed interval can be approximated by a polynomial function? And isn't that kind of pointless for practical applications because we also need to avoid overfitting?

To clarify, I'm not trying to make a snippy remark, I just happened to have used polynomial curve fitting before and looked up the Wikipedia page for the Stone-Weierstrass theorem and am trying to figure out the relevance of that post on NNs. Is it essentially the same claim?

Any clarification appreciated!
And with you and others sharing stories of that humor and humility, it will truly be undying.
> I would expect, in a skills shortage, that the employee would be able to demand a much greater share, something closer to -- or even temporarily above -- 100%.

It would be really interesting to compare salary/profit ratio of the tech industry to recognized labor shortages in other industries.
> It's not acceptable to totally ignore actual safely issues being brought to light and respond universally with panglossian emptiness.

Not only is it acceptable, it's effective. Until a 787 actually crashes and provides unambiguous evidence that the whistleblowers are telling the truth, it's a he-said-she-said situation.
> 2) salary expectation

Oh lol. I just applied for a job that asked for salary expectation. Well I guess its ok. I spent minimal amount of time uploading my resume and entering data into 4 webpage.
I had a friend who worked for a cable company (several decades ago). He would tell me that for cable customers, frequently the cost of infrastructure was recovered during the install, if not within the first month or two.

When you look at the gross profit margin for ISPs and cellphone companies, it is frequently > 60%

Being the only game in town really has some tangible benefits.
I'll never understand why these companies are letting inexperienced employees take any part in interviewing people with significantly more experience.

If I owned a company I would never let some inexperienced fresh grad interview a senior engineer. They are letting some kid take part in one of the most important parts of their business.

It's yet another area of software development hiring where all logic and reason have gone out the window.
I've found the recruiting community to be very self-serving and manipulative. Recent example - someone who I had spoken with (shared the stage) at a conference indicated one of her clients needed someone with the my background. Naturally, a resume was on her desk before the end of the afternoon...

A few weeks later, I get a call from a retained recruiter I had worked with previously, after having had my resume sent to her by the company. She basically proceeds to "force me" out of the running for the position by talking it down. She clearly had some firm favorite sitting in the wings...

[in reality, I was out as soon as they asked me to relo my family for a lower total comp package than I was currently receiving. Yeah right.... not that hungry yet...]
For non Fortran programmers this is what they looked like.

IF ( N ) 6020, 6030, 6999

Basically GOTO 3 different labels, depending whether if N is -ve 0 or +ve

I have used my first jobs standard for statement labeling - which was fairly common, 6000's for goto's 7000 and 8000 for FORMAT statements
You are nitpicking, and completely missing my point. Let me rephrase it.

The original article is about neural networks being able to represent any function (for some definition of any).

I was just pointing out that there exists much cheaper ways of representing any function. Therefore the article seems very unexciting to me.

Btw, you have chose L^2(R) yourself and then used that to show that there are interesting function not in the space you have chosen, quite a circular argument.

Since the article on neural networks never mentions functions defined on a infinite domain, one can easily take L^2([0,1]) or L^2([0,Lambda]) up to some cutoff Lambda. I would say that all non-pathological functions you can think of are there!
Going from "more efficient" to "most". That would be the assembly `asm("JMP *%eax")` instruction or something like it.
One of my labs some students curve fitted a sixth order poly onto five data points they collected. The process being measured was y = something something minus ln(x). It fit all five points exactly and smoothly and wildly diverged on either side. The professor was really amused.
Open source projects started by or significantly invested in by tech companies must be a huge recruiting tool. I can think of several people in the React community that ended up working at Facebook.
Not much as far as SSH is concerned, but you can buy many smart cards and just use one cardreader. For personal use it's more convenient to use Yubikey as a commercial proprietary solution.
Perhaps but this would also remove any pretense of deniability from the manufacturer. If discovered it would just show that they went to great lengths (extra engineering effort to implement and hide) which could only be explained by the conscious decision to make it a back door and bypass it later in software.

So the issue would no longer be one of ignorance (no button) but of premeditation (button with hidden bypass).
In Android, you actually can't trust when the OS says the WiFi is "off."

Yes, the network is not connected, but google is still tracking SSIDs.
> It doesn't worsen your health, it either does nothing or improve it, so it is reasonable to do it

There are thousands of wives tales and pseudoscience remedies I don't need to waste my time on. If not backed by actual science, this type of recommendation is no better than any of them.
Async I/O in Rust: don't. Wait until everything gets way more stable that it is now.
> The problem is that we have insulated the shareholders from responsibility

Do we? Shareholders take the hit when the corporation negotiates a fine instead of punishing the decision-makers responsible directly.

How much did dieselgate cost VW shareholders? How much did it impact the people that made the decisions?
You can keep saying this but it's just not true. In the number of companies in which I've been involved, engineering managers are solely responsible for writing the reqs.

HR is just an easy scapegoat. I'm sure that often HR is primarily responsible, but often HR just works with what they're given.
Aren't all total functions continuous?
FLTK is the classic lightweight toolkit. Their "Hello world" example from the documentation is 15 lines[1]. Possibly more importantly it is also very lightweight in terms of memory footprint, the docs advertise[2]:

> * The "core" (the "hello" program compiled & linked with a static FLTK library using gcc on a 486 and then stripped) is 114K.

> * The FLUID program (which includes every widget) is 538k.

While that is pretty neat, I do feel like there would be place for the true graphical equivalent of ncurses; something both equally fast/lightweight, and as simple to code.

[1] https://www.fltk.org/doc-1.3/basics.html#basics_writing

[2] https://www.fltk.org/doc-1.3/intro.html#intro_features
/s? I sincerely hope you are joking.
In this situation both points are on consumer fiber (AT&T). A 28 GB file takes roughly 1 hour to upload to G-Drive and 1-2 hours to download on the other side. Speeds caps out at 14 MB/s using most services like G-Drive, Dropbox, etc.

Multipart/chunking with S3 / Google Storage may yield faster results.

Bittorrent/Resilio Sync is extremely slow, sub 1MB/s.