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>It's a great medium exchange, but it suffers from low adoption meaning it's a bad store of value (but so is fiat) and a bad unit of account (but so is gold).

So it unites the drawbacks of both fiat and gold without any of the advantages.

>* It's sound money whereas fiat is not (nobody can arbitrarily increase the supply)

Yeah they can, it's called a hard fork in cryptocurrency.

In fiat it's called "printing play money", but the goal is essentially the same.

>Except for the fact that you can't send gold coins digitally.

Actually you can, though in this case you exchange ownership contracts of the gold, which you can swap for the gold you own at your bank.

Plus I don't need to wait an hour to do that, I can do it even offline if I wish, where all parties can verify the transfer without a computer at all.

>Also, it's much more difficult to check for gold coins. And difficult to transport. It's easy with cryptocurrencies.

Until the tax office knocks at your door and wants to know where all that money went. Then the ease of transport is suddenly a problem.

>It's a great medium exchange,

In my experience, no. It's not a medium of exchange at the moment any more than beer tops and a ballpoint pen are. Bitcoin and Friends are at the moment a speculative asset that people hoard in case it gets more valuable or use as an unregulated stock exchange.

The average customer can't even get refunds if they get scammed, how am I supposed to take it seriously as a digital currency?
Sorry, I mistakenly thought this warrant was for the Christchurch attack (due to 8chan being a US company). I'm sure they did get on their radar then. And now there are probably meetings just about 8chan.
> network effects in programming make people fear that other people’s choices will be foisted upon them.

The hype is the main problem with Go.

It's a practical language but it's mediocre and in no way pushing the boundaries of language theory. Yet it's being sold as a huge leap forward in computer science.

People who are forced to use it by network effect resent the decision is hype-based and not evidence driven.
I started working with Kotlin recently, it's bad compare to Go goroutine model, the biggest problem is actually knowing if a function is sync or async, especially when you use other Java lib.

The fact that you need to create your own threads pool to run those koroutine, really it's inferior to the Go runtime that does everything for you ( multiplexing goroutines onto os threads, creating new thread if blocking ect .. ), in Go it just works and it makes sense, in Kotlin you need to do many many things manually and it's much more complex for no apparent reasons.
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That's a very partisan way of presenting things.
If you need to know and understand syntax implications on highly generic type pattern constructs coming from a dozen external pragmas, just to be able to read the code then it’s a severe language design problem.
What a strange argument. "Pretty much everyone knows" that C/C++ aren't memory safe even for sequential code, and that it's incredibly easy to trigger thread-safety bugs in C/C++. But since "pretty much everyone knows", I suppose that makes it OK?

> Anyone who doesn’t know this isn’t ready to get their head around writing multithreaded code in Rust.

Well, if they aren't using `unsafe` in the process (or, to be fair, relying on buggy library code that uses `unsafe` inappropriately), they're not going to introduce memory unsafety via data races - no matter how "ready" they are. You just can't say the same about C/C++. Or even Go.
That is so much more likely than you know...
> different from Libra since its transactions are validated by external partner nodes

“Facebook is expected to maintain a leadership role [in the Association] through 2019.” The Association (“an independent, not-for-profit membership organization, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland”) holds title to the reserves, has a monopoly on coin minting and destruction, and has sole determination over new Association members (who each get one vote).

It’s Facebook Credits with co-branding.
Panasonic, back in the plasma days, used to have a "professional" line. Those were plasma monitors (no built-in tuner, no sound processing at all), and it had modular inputs. There are 3 slots for I/O cards. Can still find the cards on ebay under the "Panasonic HDMI TV Boards" search results.
> Libra is Facebook Credits [1] rebooted.

Absolutely not. As someone heavily involved in social gaming and related payment solutions at the time, Facebook Credits were only intended for one-way transactions, from users to game publishers, with Facebook getting a 30% cut. You weren't able to transfer these credits to other users, so it was never any form of real currency.
They likelly had forgotten how it was before
Security through obfuscation. Lockheed, good morning!
> This seems like 30 years of experience in a corporate environment.

Well... That's where the money's at, right?

> Tests? No, definitely not on the first run. Maybe only for documentation purposes in legacy systems. But don't take away all the fun by starting with tests.

Kindly disagree. In a corporate environment (at least the one's I've worked so far), you HAVE to start with the tests. From my experience, people maintaining your code after you've left the company (or you are sick, whatever) will be grateful to have a testsuite that can verify the edge cases are still working after their changes have been deployed.

Also, when the first working lines have been written, there was no way we would revisit them to write test on top. I need tests to verify that what I've just written actually works.

Others might create a "ExampleConsoleApp1" for this, but then I can also write a test.
Nitpick - train is about 9 to 9.5 hours; but yes, I did a similar journey once, and the train is not a viable alternative.

(Though the sub-segments of it probably are - Manchester to Brussels or Paris might be a toss-up depending on where exactly you are going...)
A domain admin can access the user's long term kerberos encryption keys and generate arbitrary key tabs for that user.

If you have domain admin, you can access EVERYTHING in that forest and any two way trusted forest.
That isn't worth the bits it's written on. They are free to change their TOS any time they want.
With the current climate path we're on, catastrophic collapse of many ecosystems will likely accelerate the decline of the population.
One minor correction, centralized databases are faster than distributed databases. By choosing blockchain, they are choosing a slower db.
Don't go for a BA in English and Philosophy at the University of Sydney, at any rate.
At Apple, they are very generous with refreshers - my initial grant was $105k, and my refresh grant was $125k and I expect at least similar, if not more, for my refresher in a couple of months. The only reason my refresh did not exceed my initial grant was because my initial grant climbed almost 40% in value in that time.
Implementing a "simple virtual machine" for a particular task is
greenspunning[1]. Introducing a JIT library is work, complexity, debug
and portability issues. LLVM compiles much slower to native code as
the Clasp[2] guys notice comparing to SBCL. And in the end, any of
these would be at most "competitive" to the simple Common Lisp
implementation in speed (which is even portable across the different
implementations).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule

[2] https://github.com/clasp-developers/clasp
A basket of bank deposits and short-term government securities will be held in the Libra Reserve for every Libra that is created, building trust in its intrinsic value.

A global federal reserve in the making
So they want an Alipay competitor for the west? Tho I see Alipay outside of China more and more
> Maybe only for documentation purposes in legacy systems.

> people maintaining your code after you've left the company

That's what a legacy system is. I agree. That's a good use of tests. But don't start WITH them. You'll build rigid systems.

> Well... That's where the money's at, right?

Agree with this also. But this is (or should be) hacker news, so we look for better ways to make software, regardless if it makes money or not. Or maybe we should rename it Financial Times?
This is just not true. 2.5 years ago when I was looking for a remote-only go job, I had so many positions to look at, I had to put them in a spreadsheet. None of them were in silicon valley .

Many many places are using go here and there. From start ups to big enterprises.

It's rarely all they do, but it's pretty common to have some backend in go.
Why not self publish? Given how well-known you are in your target market, you probably don't really need the marketing help from Penguin.
You don't need to write any unless your fixing bugs or contributing to the project (I'd say parent's comment still stands though).
> It’s self-evident that if those college graduates who are underemployed had chosen different courses, then the problem would look quite different.

Not only is this not self-evident, it defies common sense and economics. If more people take professional degrees then the supply of those degrees increases and salaries decrease (and we're back where we started). That is, if there are enough professional jobs to go around which there aren't. You seem to think there are lots of professional jobs to go around, but I went to school with many engineers who struggled to find jobs after graduation. It seems like we're above the point of saturation in many professions.
And Chromium's crosvm. Rust is a perfect fit for that particular task (writing a VMM).

I would be surprised if there was widespread usage of it, though. Rust chose a whole different set of tradeoffs than Go.
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You're looking at the wrong timescale. Institutions and founders of powerful corporations have life long time scales to subtly tweak and manipulate their messaging and approach.

Look back in 10 years to see whether the conspiracy theorist were wrong. I have no doubt the lobbying to exclude and put "regulations" in place is coming.
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To add to that, while Gorgonia's Tensor (https://github.com/gorgonia/tensor) library is fairly mature, plenty of work can still be done. Gorgonia proper too has plenty of work to be done on improving the various VMs. Last, there is greenfield work to be done in making Gorgonia user friendlier
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A basket of bank deposits and short-term government securities will be held in the Libra Reserve for every Libra that is created, building trust in its intrinsic value.

Soon 'The Libra Reserve' will hold only a 10th of the total Libra Coins in circulation (fractional reserve). A global federal reserve in the making.
While I agree with most commenters here that are skeptical about a surveillance-based currency, I'm very positive about the idea of having mainstream apps such as Whatsapp and Messenger introduce the concept of paying with your phone without needing to link your accounts with any bank account or debit/credit card, because the money is in theory being held by your device (under the hood, just holding a private key of a "blockchain" account that has a non-decentralized-stablecoin balance, I know).

This will enable people to start thinking of money in a more pseudo-P2P way, get comfortable with it, and in turn allow them to start understanding better what cryptocurrencies really are (which Libra is not). What cryptocurrency and Libra share is, at least, the concept of ownership via public/private key cryptography, as opposed to identity-based systems such as paypal/banks/credit/debit. This has some UX-side-effects that people will start to learn, such as the push vs pull system (e.g. it's not anymore the merchant who scans your QR code, but the other way around, the customer scans the merchant's payment-info).
Oh of course it's a "Rational" product
You can rent a cruise ship if you want. If you are only going to own one of something it makes more sense to go for the Swiss army knife approach, hence the proliferation of crew cab pickups and crossovers. Also, 250hp really isn't that much in this day and age. As someone who rents various kinds of trucks and trailers every month or so I have plenty of sympathy for people who's use case is narrow enough that they can fill it with a single vehicle, even if it is a crew cab F150. Yes, it's a luxury but it's a luxury a lot of people can afford and justify. Renting equipment is a massive hassle and nobody is going to do it to pick up plywood or furniture if they have any other option. You're basically complaining about people rationally choosing to spend their extra income on a luxury that has a big impact on their day to day lives.
I'm curious as to the thoughts of people here on C#. It's in the same Java/Go space, and .Net Core serms awesome on Linux.
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> Then why would it be useful to have the spec first if you're expecting to throw it away anyway?

The idea is that you should be ready to throw your code away if the requirements change. If the spec changes (e.g. your own made up spec to the client's actual spec) then be ready to throw away some (all?) code.
Could have been worse. Could have been Uber.

EDIT: Oh crap. It is Uber.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20211358
The 1553 bus is ancient, but it's electrically and logically simple. The concepts necessary to use and incorporate 1553 into designs is easily acquired by a fresh engineer (I should know, I first used 1553 in a design as a 24 year old straight out of grad school) and it's already incorporated into all kinds of avionics and weapons. Why not use it?
> I, and most other employers, are not looking for perfect answers

I wouldn't agree with that. Most of the interviewers I had at the end of the day didn't want the take the risk of "hire" if the answer wasn't like they expect.

> We want to know whether you are the type who chokes. It tells us that your desire to look good in front of someone (or conversely, your fear of looking bad in front of someone) fills up your mind more than your desire to solve a problem.

I think that can be better written in the job requirement. I would think twice before going to an interview which the solely purpose is to make an artificial stressful situation, out of an already quite stressful situation, just to see if I break or not.

Yeah, I can give zero shit if the stakes are low or if I am not interested in the job or the company for example. What happens is not my ego is hurt, but before I go for an interview I am already emotionally invested that I want to work for that prospective company.

All that said, people come from different backgrounds, imagine interviewing someone who is constantly judged in life and/or have struggled with bad managers prior to expect they would be free like a bird in front of failure.
Pretty easy to find this kind of stuff in the UK, e.g. a lot of cutlery used to be made in Sheffield which is near to me and there still seems to be a demand.

https://www.sheffield-made.com/acatalog/Old_English.html#SID...
I just have to laugh at putting "250HP" and "monster" together....

I'm a gearhead, I daily drive a ~320HP car and am building a 600HP car, so I realize I'm a statistical outlier when most people just wanna sit in their appliance and commute to work as cheaply and safely as possible. A future of nothing but minimum-range electric toasters on wheels is probably resource-efficient, but definitely sounds depressing and boring to me.
I might prefer 4x detention time if I got to choose a US prison over China. I'd certainly prefer the freedom of thought and speech in the US.

https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2014/jun/22/inside-chin...
I don’t think T-Rexes actually suffered from that problem.
> Could have been Uber

Uber is a Libra Association voting member.
Merely playing devil's advocate here but I'm not entirely sure that a cellular module that knows where you are is really any worse than having your mobile phone in your pocket pinging off local cell towers or your number-plates being seen by ANPR-enabled cameras road-side (of which there are probably a lot more than we realise).
> WeChat isn't too terrifying

Finding out people use a proprietary chat app as a primary payment mechanism is indeed terrifying. Now on to a proprietary currency!
> it’s a pretty long read... clearly the author did not learn brevity in his coding, or that his blog’s color scheme does not contribute to readability

It's also riddled with typos which made reading it hard. There's some wisdom in there, but it was clearly written in an editor without spell/grammar checks. Maybe there should have been a section about rereading your own work before sending to your team/prod? =)
Remember as the power dynamics shift, the action will too. In 30 years what’s left of Pax Americana will be done. Much of existing US Naval and Air power will have attritted away. Asia/Africa will be the battleground.

As those countries get more powerful and develop nuclear, the consequences of conflict get nastier. Things like restricting water supply bring back old style 20th century slaughter.
I would like the title to be true. Europe truly needs to break away from the US, but I fear it's just a face saving fig leaf.
When first learning it's more enjoyable to see an idea translate quickly to reality.

JS is great for that purpose. It's very easy to make animations and other fun effects in the DOM or build an extension on top of their favorite site. Once invested they might start research and discover CS fundamentals. Immediately throwing them at typescript without understanding JS could lead to frustration/confusion.

They also might learn an appreciation for things like type safety by not having them. For that reason dynamic languages like Ruby /Python are great. They can execute an idea faster, and if they get frustrated by those types of issues then introducing them to those other languages. Kotlin is cool, but it makes a lot more sense if you have had to deal with null pointer errors before.
I propose that a blockchain with mutually trusted gatekeepers is indistinguishable from a replicated RDBMS.
The 10 year forecast for U.N. population made in 1990 was off by 3.3%.

They have gotten fairly close with long term estimates a few times, but a poor track record for predicting deviations from existing trends.
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> it's being sold as a huge leap forward in computer science.

I don't think anyone is selling Go as a huge leap forwards in computer science. It is a huge leap forwards in software engineering though.
As someone who has read all of 6016, doing so cost me a good chunk of my sanity.

Never mind the fact that many areas of the standard don't matter because the manufacturers of equipment that use those areas made up their own way of doing things that isn't 6016 compliant. So you can comply to the standard, or you can actually work with platforms in the real world, but you can't do both.
You would never do that of course.
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It's a luxury many people can afford because they don't pay for the externalities.
This is awesome, thanks. It would be cool to gamify these mental models in an app to help train. If this has been done or gets done, please post :)
I really like this one:

> Documentation is a love letter to your future self

This seems like a brilliant way of transcending what feels like a drudge-job, making it into something really meaningful.
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"But don't start WITH them. You'll build rigid systems" - Only if you design them badly.

Most people write terrible tests, which are over mocked. You should test input(say simulate http post call) then check the thing is in the fake database or even better a call to retrieve the item. You can completely change the way its implemented in between.
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Quite often ebooks (a "luxury" digital product) are taxed at full rate, whereas physical books are taxed at a lower educational rate, so that explains some of the difference.
Facebook’s Libra: blockchain, but without the blocks or chain
Simply because of the extra work involved. I did it once and know how much work that is :).
"Libra". Clearly still has a beef with the Winklevoss twins (and their company "Gemini").
I got about 35mbps down on tunsafe vs 45mbps on this one. Not a scientific test, but seems to be faster.
I don’t see much, if any, generated Go code at Google. Not to say that it doesn’t happen but it’s not on my radar.
I would guess that based on name and link to a book, he wrote, in Portuguese, that the chap's first language is not English
Then you should not refer to CIA twice in your defense, with its well documented history of war crimes and nation-breaking.
It should scare them. We will have to give those journeys up anyways. It was only 100 years ago that such journey's even started being plausible for large numbers of people unless a train was involved. Society did just fine without the luxury of personal long-distance transport.
News items like these are then used as fodder for higher immigration limits so that the liberal parties keep getting elected further, even as they enjoy less and less support from their already existing citizens.
For me, on Amazon, I see the ebook as $14.99, hardcover as $19.60 and paperback as $24.87.

I'm surprised the hardcover is cheaper than the paperback.
It's pretty easy; I suggest using wg-quick.
My first job out of college and I was put on assignment using a VAX -- this was 2005 in Cambridge, MA.

It's a weird feeling when you are in your early 30s and encounter a personally familiar piece of hardware in a history museum.
How is Valls seen in Spain? His public image in France was not amazing when he left (he was a socialist but left the party to join macron, and now you're saying he joined the right wing? )
> But don't start WITH them. You'll build rigid systems.

It depends. If you'll test implementation - sure. But if you test use cases - not necessarily,
Thank you for this - long overdue in my opinion and I wholeheartedly agree this should be taught in schools. Just ordered a copy on Apple Books : )
Sure. Those Chinese exists, but ones from the other end too, living in north america no less.
I did a lot of selling of Go, for years, and my position was that it’s about building an ecosystem that’s a solid basis for software engineering. Not a quantum leap, just sound proven ideas that yield predictable and reliable results.
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WeChat is absolutely terrifying, ask poor Winnie the Pooh or the uighurs.
One semi-related thing is automation. When i receive a forex payment to my bank(south africa) it has to go to some human controller etc. If i can transact 24/7 without human intervention thats a big plus
It's allegorical in the sense that this is general Lisp technique
useful not just in this case. The DSL is targeted at (non programmer)
end users and supposed to be fired through a REPL. Wouldn't want to
make them write C++ with lambdas, semi-columns and whatever syntax
traps of the latest standard.
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I'm not sure how one can defend the concept of foreign intelligence in the US and not mention the CIA. The premise of my comment is that they're separable, but that it's difficult to separate them as a practical matter.
So what you're saying is that privacy is already dead, so we might as well keep making or worse?