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>You can absolutely do anything you can do in Erlang in another language. Some tasks will be easier, or harder, however.

Lots of languages have actor systems. But how many have preemptive multi-tasking on these actor systems? I can't think of any at the moment. I am well versed in Akka for Scala and the lack of preemptive multi-tasking for actors is a big pain in the ass. Erlang's advanced BEAM and support for this is it's main selling point, imo.
Thanks! I honestly haven't developed much of Mesh in Mesh, because it's still early in the 'bootstrap cycle' and due to the parse delay issue mentioned above. It's also not nearly as robust to errors as it should be - text editors and traditional spreadsheets allow the user to 'sketch' ideas as discussed by Aaron Hsu [1].

I'd like to stick to a grid for writing 'functional core' logic, but there's potential to use a node interface at the surface of the 'imperative shell', to link up sheets or data feeds (push/pull). I was really impressed by Nodes [2] and I need to spend some time digging into Node-RED [3].

[1] https://www.sacrideo.us/un-structured-programming/

[2] http://nodes.io/story/

[3] https://nodered.org/
This is natural selection at work.

Stack Exchange has become a frustrating site to use.

"Closed as duplicate: different and unrelated question"

reopen further explaining the question and how its not related

"Closed as duplicate: the first question that was immediately closed with no replies"

OR!

Google around, find SE link on issue, everybody is arguing about why the user wants to do it that why, convinces them to do it another way, only I don't have that option, so I open my own question, and its closed as a dupe of the one from google where the original question was never answered.

or

Post helpful answer that actually answers the users question as asked without berating them for wanting to do it that way

Get yelled at in the comments for creating noise?

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The moral of the story is that stack exchange needs to die so that something else can come from its ashes that is able to look back at SE as an example of how not to do shit.
There are plenty of places where you can talk about what "rape" and "children" mean. There are lots of legal discussion groups that would welcome this conversation. Except he's going to have to meet a somewhat higher bar than "I haven't got a fucking clue what I'm talking about, but here's what I reckon anyway".

When someone linked to your organisation is accused of raping a child that's probably a bad time to start a discussion saying "was she really a child?", and "was it really assault?" and "was it really rape?".

The fact that RMS is incapable of seeing that it was the wrong time to launch this discussion, that there are better places to have that discussion, is precisely why he needed to go.
Wouldn't tariffs help a U.S. domestic rare earth mine? Unless the assumption is that China imports the majority of global rare earth production, even after being a huge rare earth producer.
One thing I've noticed is that negative reviews, even very specific ones, often just serve to delay my purchase. I was looking to buy an ab wheel recently, and almost every single option on Amazon had some negative reviews which seemed legitimate and did give me pause. "Handle snapped off after just one week, causing me to smash into the floor and loose a tooth", for example. Of course I don't want that to happen, so now I end up spending over an hour looking through products, all which are under $40, none of which are free from some sort of specific complaint - "Handle is too narrow, this is not good for your lats. Can't believe the manufacturer would cheap out on this, I ended up with back pain after less than two weeks of use.", "The additional wheel makes this too stable. I've had many in the past, I clearly do not get as good a workout from this one. Will be returning it." etc.

These all have 4-5 star reviews, and otherwise seem perfectly fine. If I saw them in a store I would have purchased them without a second thought.

Ultimately I just went back and bought the first one I saw. It seems perfectly fine, I can't see any issues with it.
> The word “assaulting” presumes that he applied force or violence, in some unspecified way, but the article itself says no such thing. Only that they had sex.

If someone appears to be having sex with someone that appears to be underage, the older person appears to be sexually assaulting the younger person. This is because a minor cannot legally consent which makes non-consensual sex forceful by definition, hence it is called assault.

In other words: rms was wrong, and now rms is gone.
The kid is itself the whole time. Realistically, being really bullied is not something kids just overcome right after it all ends. It has impact on their behavior long after. The "dick teacher" which is your framing not mine, is same case, the impact is long term or require a lot of parental resources to overcome.

The parental success being hereditary is not merely random, it is because parents put a lot of effort into making sure kids do end up the same. Intervening when things go wrong is one of ways how it happens. Changing school when peers or teachers are bad is also how it happens. If you don't care and kid don't care and you are fine with it, the kid will grow up into person that don't care when when left on own devices.

The tutor makes difference when preparing for tests that decide which school you go to. You being yourself when you actually finished the degree and you being yourself when you did not is not the same for jobs that require degree. In many jobs and societies, credentials, the degree and school and network do matter. Which is why those with resource push for those credentials.

When you don't know high school math well, you will have hard time in those STEM classes that require difficult math. They are difficult enough for students from good schools, those from bad schools were literally drawning. It makes difference between finishing it and having access to those jobs and not finishing it and not having that access. I don't know how in your school, but ours kicked a lot of people out on these.

You know who is in worst economic situation in USA right now? Students who did not managed to finish college, but do have debt.
So, I've listened to that and I'm not sure what lesson that OP should take from it to apply to the situation at hand. It seems to me that OP is taking ownership of mistakes, but doesn't know where to go in preventing them.
Everytime you think "it is naturally so" you need to take a step back and wonder why you think that is. My experience is that most of my male coworkers do not have a natural interest in computer science or engineering. They are here for the money.
Why not? This is a bizzare thing for people to get hung up on.
The quality of iama clearly declined and has not recovered. Is that success? Not by my standard. But it might be successful from Reddit's corporate point of view, since they are no longer paying her salary.
It doesn't have anything to do with diversity of opinion or lack thereof. If this article is correct, the issue is simply a blatant misrepresentation of what Stallman said.

I admit I haven't been following this news very well so far, so I'm doubtless missing some important facts. I'd heard Stallman was stepping down because of something he said about Minsky, but I have no idea what that was. If this is it, and this article is correct (edit: based on additional info here and elsewhere, it seems Stallman has a long history of questionable behaviour towards women that was also addressed in the initial article, so this new article is omitting quite a bit), then I'm baffled that he has to step down from anything. What he said, that the girl was coerced to appear willing, seems pretty clear to me, and presenting that as him saying that she was actually willing, sounds like a pretty clear and blatant lie to me. Seems worth criticising the organisations that spread that lie.

I'm generally in favour of fighting rape culture and child abuse with all that we've got, and Epstein is clearly pure evil. If Minsky has sex with an underage girl, it doesn't even matter whether she appeared willing or not; that's just wrong. In that sense, Stallman sticking up for his friend was probably not the greatest idea, but if he said she was coerced, and not actually willing, then it's wrong that he should lose his job for saying things he never said.

And yeah, sure, Stallman is a weirdo. Occasionally even a disgusting weirdo maybe (I remember a video where he seemed to pick something from his toes and put it in his mouth), and I recently read a description of events where he publicly embarrassed a woman for being present at a tech related event. (Edit: it seems he has a long history creepiness towards young women, including his students.) If you're gonna fire him, fire him for that, not for something he didn't even say in a private mailing list.

In general, I'm fine with weirdos. We need more of them, not less. Being a weirdo is no excuse to act like an asshole, but on its own it's no reason to ostracise someone.

But this issue? If the description from the article is correct, it seems based on a blatant lie.
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Your eyes change shape as you age -- they get more "leathery". In my case, I had myopia from about 16 until I was 40, although I stopped wearing glasses a few years before I hit 40 because I found that I didn't really need them. My eyes are "rounder" now than they were when I was 16, and it will eventually go the other way and I will need bifocals / reading glasses.

Your body changes a lot around the 40 year mark and I don't think that it's related, at all, to your smart phone. I'm sure that those older than us can tell us what to expect in the next decade.
First manager I've had, great guy and despite his shortcomings I'd work with him again. Straightforward honest guy, did he work well, mentored me well. Then one day he assaulted another coworker in the break room.

Someone's on-the-job performance doesn't mean they are always and forever in the right. Given the lack of any concrete evidence posted but lots of hand-wringing and pearl clutching about vague incidences, I think reserving judgment is the proper course.
The interview platform/website?
> Learning to speak German is time intensive. The global utility of that language is on the lower end. I argue that OP should rather invest this time into (1) building his career, (2) professional+personal network and (3) exercise.

> That said my assumptions are that OP wants to live in Berlin, is a young tech worker who does not envision today that he stays in Germany for more than 7 years.

I guess we are just different. And since it's a personal value judgement there really isn't any right answer. I just couldn't imagine living somewhere for 7 years and not wanting to learn the local language. I can't even imagine living somewhere for a few months without making an attempt at it. I agree that your examples (1)-(3) are important, but I consider learning the local language and culture as an investment in your life and experience. It may not have global utility, but I find that totally irrelevant since you are not living "globally" you're living in Berlin.

Anyway I find it interesting to hear your opinion. At this point I guess we'll just have to let the OP decide what's important.
Uniqlo epitomizes fast fashion.
That's correct. The naming was due to it being initial built to show information (=info) on a projector (=beamer) at a German hacker conference to inform visitors about talks, tweets and more. You can actually see the very first public usage in this old image from 2012: Note the projection in the top middle: https://entropia.de/images/c/cf/GPN12-atarifrosch-20120609-0...
In my overly-populated European country, I think most people think that "nature" is going away because we're building more and more houses where fields were.

It's weird to me that people here seem to think of fields as nature, when it's actually huge zones where a single species of plant grows and where insects are killed with poison
Misguided yet understandable conclusion.

People enjoy doing things for others. It's a deep Need people have. If mass violence and wars, natural disasters of all kinds through the ages, have not been able to make us more selfish and wipe out that need, internet drama is not going to either.

The process is messy sure, and if you are experiencing it for the first time it can be confusing, repulsive and misleading. It's not a good idea to follow those feelings and make conclusions. Because those conclusions will obscure from your view, the reasons why anything good happens in the world.
Yes, we should fire people who are borderline pro-paedophilia and are actually pro-rape. Also, just read the accounts of women who have had the bad luck of directly working with Stallman. We’re all grownups, at some point we should all be responsible for what we say and what we do.
The funny thing is that the statement is not true, the first store was called “Fashion 21” and they renamed themselves when they started opening other stores.
Not to refute your experience, but "adding true -> ok to every if statement" sounds like an anti-pattern. A couple of notes to elaborate:

1. If-statementes should rarely be used in Erlang because case is preferred

2. If you're returning ok everywhere, you could also just let it crash by doing something akin to true = function(). Always go for let it crash first, unless you really know you can handle the error sensibly (and then use a case-statement)

3. httpc is kind of known to not be the most formidable HTTP client. Hackney is a more modern and better choice. The good thing with httpc is that it is included with OTP, otherwise there are better choices (scalability- and feature-wise)

4. When someone says "multicore support" and "performance" support is not great it's usually one of two things: (a) they're developing a use case that is not fit for Erlang (e.g. compute heavy) or (b) they don't know how to use Erlang properly (e.g. too complex process setups)

Now, many of these things are not obvious to people new to Erlang and takes some experience to know about. This I would say is the bigger problem with the Erlang eco-system.
Globally, we are losing forests and have lost them for hundreds of years. Iceland, Brazil, Madagascar, Indonesia, many places have lost huge amounts of trees due to humans.
That seems like a selection bias. You never see the ones who keep to themselves.
I cannot agree more with your last paragraph.

I am finishing my PhD in a few months and while most people think I have a good profile for and should stay in academia, I have lost the will honestly.

At the end of my PhD, I am basically still interested in the things I was always interested in. But I keep questioning myself if PhD was really worth it, and what would I really have missed out if I just joined a job that I enjoyed doing.
You are being downvoted but I agree with you. Of course there is a difference of degree but it is the same mechanics. I come from a country run by authoritarians, and it is the same. Some people seem to think authoritarians admit they are the bad bad guys oppressing the people,but they ALWAYS see themselves as the champions of morality, high values and justice. It is the other group of nasty people who dare to confront their vision who need to be discarded.

It reminds me also of a funny and universal thing I have noticed for example on Reddit. Moderators of subreddits, many of them dedicated to noble causes and ideas and supposedly anti system tend to be extremely autocratic and arbitrary in their decisions, even the worst judge in America would be more level headed.
> If he were more socially apt maybe he would've known to never share his opinion of what he assumed the thoughts of his late friend were

No, it's not about socially apt, his ideology is rooted too deeply in freedom to say opinions about sensitive issues and rejecting the norm. There were always going to be a lot of opinions "normies" wouldn't like. So the only way out for him was to fight back, attack the attackers, call the media "fake news" and all that.
> I now can see quite well without glasses which I could not do 15+ years ago.

This happened to me at 40. The eye doctor explained that human eyes get thicker and more leathery as we age, which changes their shape. So if you're myopic before this time, you have a decent chance of having improved vision. It eventually goes the other way, though, and reading glasses or bifocals are needed to correct your vision.
I would appreciate reading your understanding of where I'm missing the mark.
Ask HN: What organization to support to prevent climate apocalypse?
What organization should best be supported to prevent the climate apocalypse? What organization has the best chance to actually change things to the better?
In the linked post Jeff Atwood is in the comments moaning about the title.
One of the moderators resigned by citing a persistent pattern of corporate missteps and a monumentally deplorable moderator dismissal.

Jeff Atwood commented under the resignation: "It is definitely hard to see long time deep contributors go, but this is sometimes the way of life. I don't begrudge anyone after ~10 years wanting a change."

https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/389906/moderator-re...

Hardly seems helpful to me in calming down the heated minds.
I’d not consider relup and module loading the same feature. It is rare to see relup (though I have used it, it’s tricky to make work) but hot code loading of modules was something we used extensively both during development but also in production to test out patches for problems. It was super easy to use and never a big problem.

Keep in mind that we rolled out the patch incrementally to one or two machines and then to more. If it looked good we’d roll it out to the rest of the cluster. From there we’d make note of the result and get the change ported into a proper release.

Each time I hear stories that both clustering and hot upgrades, module loading, etc are hard or rarely used I wonder if the person is just repeating someone else’s rumor. They’re great features and work fine if you do a little homework (just like learning anything, don’t treat it like magic).

This was from my time at Cloudant/IBM, though its far from the only case I’ve seen. We ran over 1000 machines this way with some clusters growing to more than 200 nodes using distributed Erlang (something I keep hearing is hard or impossible, it’s not).
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Bigger names, politicians, etc. too often seem to be bland, seemingly PR-run affairs. For smaller names and niche topics, there is often some legitimate discussion worth reading.

Of course sometimes the bigger ones are great for another reason, their PR-run effort blows up in their face. The recent Beto AMA was a great dumpster fire of a read.
Stallman wasn't convicted of any crime, so please drop the "illegal" thing. He can have whatever controversial opinions he wants.
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> To this day, if you can add a new repository, it is fully trusted and can provide trojaned updates to any core package.

Invent idiot-proof security and someone will invent a better idiot. Even if you have a "trusted=1" flag for repos, you can be sure people will set external repos to be just as trusted as the core ones without a second thought as soon as they stop them from doing what they want to do (whatever that is, or however in/sane it is).

It's maybe not the most elegant option, but for security-conscious sysadmins you could already today disable all repos ad hoc and run your "system wide update" only from certain whitelisted repos, while still allowing specific one-off package installs from third party repos.

By adding a third party repo you have already said you trust that repo to install software, probably as root, on your machine. It doesn't get much worse than that from a security standpoint anyway right, will "trust flags" really make much of a difference to the wider security issue?

Sorry if I'm making too many assumptions here or thinking out loud.
Please refrain from personal attacks as they are against hacker news terms of use. Secondly, you need to provide specific examples. There's plenty of content in this thread arguing contrary to your position, maybe you should read those, too. I think it's a cop out to simply refer to a thread. Are you sure you know what you are talking about?
Former monetarily poor[0] programmer here. AMA

[0] $7k per annum take-home-pay.
So? Stallman is the last person on earth I'd suspect of opportunistic opinion changing. The whole life of this person revolves around being stubborn in his point of view regardless of what others think about it. I've seen many people suggesting that that last note is a kind of "damage control", but that's probably the least believable accusation when it comes to rms.
Honestly, I don’t see anything wrong in his statements. He was skeptical that it’s always forced and not the arbitrary “minors” choice - okay?

This was over a decade ago (first link), and appear to be musings on the issue. It doesn’t necessarily say (as you claim) - “I support this”
Ask HN: How to Demonstrate Motivation and Effort?
What is in your opinion needed to demonstrate motivation and effort to your employer as a software developer?
It would help to just remove the current moderators that are super pedantic about building a "knowledge base", when actually they just like exercising their power.

I've also noticed a recent trend that moderators on SO are also now deleting questions to stop any objections to the close votes from lower-ranked users, it's ridiculous.
What you are describing is human nature. The same things happen on Quora and other Q&A sites. As long as human nature doesn't change, the same patterns will emerge.
The ability to brush off the words of a respected superior (parent, manager, supervisor, etc...) is not equally distributed in the population. Female students have a disadvantage over male students, especially in fields that are male-dominated (such as CS or Physics), LGBT members are even more disadvantaged.
The harm is in the compounding of a hostile environment, and when the hostility comes from a person of considerable power such as the famous Stallman, the hit is all the worse. Don't take my word for it, there is a lot of research on these social dynamics.
Has Australia had a 28-year expansion? (Yes)
Yes, but CO2 levels are the main driver of anthropomorphic climate change, so reducing them by 2/3 (since industrial times) will likely help quite a lot.
> Also, Gruber dislikes Stallman for quite a while, and has repeteadly picked on him for various reasons like "lack of hygiene"

It somewhat makes me think that, coming from the greatest Apple fanboy ever, Gruber forgot that on many accounts Steve Jobs too had a personal hygiene problem.
I remember reading that in the Netherlands at least deforestation is taking place again. The reforestation effort had been doing quite well and then governmental policy changed.

EDIT: I will look for a source for this though, so do remain skeptical of what I just wrote for now.

EDIT2: this site claims a net loss in Dutch forest area of 3.8% since the year 2000. Clicking around on the map it seems like practically all European countries are losing forests faster than they are gaining them. At the moment I cannot find a source for the governmental policy claim though.

[0] https://www.globalforestwatch.org/map/country/NLD?mainMap=ey...