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As a well paid developer I'm very thankful to be in tech (I kinda just fell into it). IMO, being a developer doesn't require the intensive training of a doctor or lawyer yet pays really well (especially when you have 10-20 years experience). Personally I learned all I know on the job or on my own at home (my undergrad degree was Math and I did very little coding). Plus there are so many job options. Almost every company of a certain size needs software developers (or some type of IT staff). I've worked at companies where I had to work really hard with long hours, but I've also worked places with a very light workload (lots of screwing around time on HNs and Reddit). My son is adept at math and computers. I hope he goes the Computer Science route. He should be able to find a good job and live where he wants.
Seriously, Google should act more harshly on those devices, to the point of making them lose their Google Play certification and trigger a SafetyNet non-compliance..

This kind of shit shouldn't fly.
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The book? I read a book long time ago that was a "novellization" of the movie. I was young, in my early teens, and clearly remember that I wasn't sure what the end meant. Later I watched the movie and realized that it was even less clear. And later learned that the movie was based on a short story (Rendezvous with Rama) that I haven't read.
> I have come to deeply appreciate the idea of a common language that people share so that we can all work together regardless of where in the world we are.

It seems to me that antirez strongly agrees with that. He mostly has issues with English as a verbal communication medium.
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Pension funds (and retirement savings in general) depend on low-risk investments returning significantly above inflation. These no longer exist, for a variety of reasons, demographics being one of many.

People have been assuming that negative interest rates are a temporary thing but people are beginning to think that this may actually be the natural state of affairs.

Historically, protecting your wealth cost real money: banks had to hire guards to protect the gold in their vault. Fractional reserve banking flipped this so that the banks started paying interest.

But now the world is awash in capital so low risk investments now return interest less than the inflation rate. Even the nominal rate is now sometimes below 0. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20696343)

There is no longer such a thing as a "safe investment". The only way to grow your money is to take risks with it, and the level of risk required to get returns significantly above inflation is growing.
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This is fairly standard best practice: your day-to-day account should not have admin-level privileges. It's the rough equivalent of running as root all the time (hand-waving a bit here).
It's funny that we have people in this thread arguing that the same policy worked for both Singapore and China and others arguing that Singapore is too small to be relevant to Chile's experience while China is too large.
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I use quite a few applications that aren't from the App store. I've had 'App store and identified developers' as my default for ever and I've come across, possibly three? unidentified developers in the last three years. It's not a massive inconvenience and to be honest, I welcome the 'Hmmm - its not signed' pause for thought.
Have you tried paying for the open source software?
Yeah, you got the point ;) This however only works for problems where you can validate a solution in polynomial time.
There is still the problem what happens when a solution does not exist. Even in this case, the algorithm must terminate in polynomial time.
I think he agrees: a common language is good. However English is a horrible choice because it is so difficult.

I'm a native English speaker, even though picking a different language would be worse for me I still agree English is a bad choice. Maybe if we reform our spelling we could improve - maybe.
All I can say is it matches mine. So we're at impasse I guess.

English speech varies. Even across the UK there are dozens of regional accents and dialects. Now add the many regional variations across the USA and other world Englishes. All with their own traits and habits, some more widespread than others. A deep rabbit hole with many forks then.

Common enough that I would not think it the slightest bit unnatural on hearing, or give it a second thought. I wouldn't give it a second thought reading it in a natural conversation in a book - not just in intentionally neutral business or net writing, so that's not going to be memorable. It's not an idiom I'd single out as localised to any one group or region. It would be memorable and feel odd reading if it were all that way in a novel's quoted conversation, or nearly all names with few pronouns like some telesales scripts seem to encourage.

Not as common as he/she certainly, but I dunno 1:4 or 1:8 or something. I couldn't say what proportion is names not pronouns either. FWIW My people skew international, educated, Scots and perhaps city in a part of the UK that's well north of London.
The arch wiki has a great list here:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/list_of_applications
If this is Microsoft's idea of performing a security function, I have to assume that submitted executables are also going into a giant database/archive that can be turned over to the three-letter agencies with a single National Security Letter, complete with any secrets embedded therein.

Like Bo Burnham says, I guess I should lower my expectations a lot.
I want to do these things but the 15% deduction for tax constantly scares me away. I guess I should assume that my equities are gonna drop 40+% so the 15% is easier to swallow?
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That would require logging out and back into the mobile client every time they leave and start work... that’s pretty tedious.
For me it would be less useful due to the similarity(e.g. I had little to no difficulty learning Spanish as a native English speaker. Sure, there were differences, but the similarities allowed me to focus on and pick up the difference more quickly without being overwhelmed). It would be like going from Java to C#. Some differences, but very few because the base is so similar.

I should have specified it was learning Koine Greek that helped (Latin was somewhat of a bridge that made it less painful, because Latin also relies heavily on declension/conjugation instead of straight word order). Koine Greek is wildly different than English. I think it would be the difference between something like going from an OOP language to something like Prolog.
Its not dead, but how much new code is being written in Perl? I generally measure th health of a language by how much contemporary use it gets.

I used to write Perl but I do not take it out of the tool chest anymore and I see very few Perl codebases in the OSS world.
> Everyone on the teams I worked on seemed to think that standups where useless

It sounds like a bigger a problem then standups; if everyone feels they are useless why is there no forum in which this meeting is being discussed and removed or recalibrated? It sounds like the team doesn't own their own process or doesn't talk to each other about process
I disagree with spoken English being a sane language. I have yet to find a deterministic way of knowing how to pronounce a word I haven't heard before. I can make up a word in Spanish and I know everybody will pronounce it the same way.
While tidy conceptually I don't think the economics and logistics work for that - retail space is more expensive than storage. Even if the ownership could be worked out to stock the same thing competively it would make more sense to get it from shared storage than use the more expensive retail space.

Said assumption also isn't trivial in terms of "what people want to buy vs what is sold".
Self-sufficiency is a bit of a sliding scale. You can be self sufficient as a band of hunter gatherers at only a dozen people but technological civilization certainly takes a lot more than that, there's more total knowledge involved so it has to be spread out over many heads and spread redundantly so that a single death doesn't remove a technology.

One can imagine a Mars that's been terraformed and grown to a population of 1 billion people in the very distant future. But at that point I expect most of the mechanism of technological civilization to live inside AIs rather than human heads.

If you imagine a colony of just 1 million people on Mars that's pretty doable in the medium term. But it's only a very narrow range of disasters that would reduce Earth's population to less than a million and not also spill over to wipe out Mars's more fragile civilization as well.
I agree that if you don't want to beholden to foreign rules, then don't become dependent on foreign markets. But what is this "our rules" business? Google lobbying rules that's currently clashing with the EU. Or US foreign policy rules?
They probably would've mentioned this in the article were it the case, but I wonder if it was visible at all in the night sky? We can see part of the Milky Way, after all. I guess there wouldn't have been writing yet but could such a thing have made it into oral history? Was there even oral history yet?
As we all know, English is the hardest language, except for all the others.
Maybe awk for text manipulation?
That's because they regularised the spelling.

Many languages have undergone spelling reforms, e.g. Irish Gaelic in 1948, (if I remember correctly).

English is now a World Language rather than a property of the English, and so this no longer appears possible.
Native speakers might not always be aware of their accent.

Sometimes, there is no standard version of the language. With British English for example you used to have Received Pronunciation (RP) but nowadays it's not that widely used anymore. It's also associated with social class. In some ways it's always been an artificial accent only people from a certain background used consistently.

These days, even BBC TV presenters often use their respective regional accents (Still optimised for clarity and comprehension, though. You won't hear a thick Glaswegian accent from BBC newsreaders).

Arguably, there's "Modern RP" but in many cases that's just a South-East England / general London (i.e. non-Cockney, non-MLE) accent.

Anyway, you probably need to have some linguistic awareness to be able to recognise and make these distinctions for your own speech and change your register accordingly.
I doubt it, defined benefit pension plans don't make financial sense in the current climate. Who is able to predict which company will be around in 30 to 60 years in the future, and what the economic climate will be?

And much of the pension fund investments are going to the same place as 401k money anyway. Why not directly invest in VTI and skip paying all the pension fund managers and staff? It's not like they have some secret investment return recipe, and it shows in their performance.
One fair option is to outlaw pronouns in the entirety. While this is largely absurd it solves for any and all related problems of emotional distress equally to all people.

More seriously though, at one point is catering to somebody's offense the line too far? I am really of the mind that online posts that voice offense or defensiveness should be flagged. To me offense is a lazy way to discard disagreement when remaining objective or simply walking away are more effective.
Hmm. That’s a good point. Do other apps do this? I had already left LastPass for KeePassXC by the time my company adopted LastPass, so I’m not sure how other apps handle this.
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I had problems visualising things, when reading it in English. Many years ago, when I started working on enterprise applications, I would come across terms like "Provider" which I would read about and then forget. I guess I could not make simple connection between the technical term "Provider" and the real word abstract noun. This made understanding simple design patterns or abstractions harder. A lot of times when you know the literal meaning of a technical word and can visualize it in your head, understanding the related concept becomes a lot easier.
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Perhaps it's not running the EXE but instead identifying URLs in the code, cURLing them to see what it gets, and doing so to verify what they get isn't malware?
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It's only because the events got out of hand, not because of the action per se. The same person has been doing this for many more cases where it was just fine and this is perfectly clear by the tone of the CTO.
Hi _bxg1,

Cycorp? Do you need more Lisp developers? I'm trying to switch jobs.
Yes, it’s really cool to be able to look up online the actual real-world area and airport charts with radio frequencies and all, plan your flight with something like SkyVector (free, no affiliation), and then reproduce it fully in the sim with actual weather and without relying on in-game map for hints.

To a bystander it may seem like watching paint dry, but it’s quite engaging and not so easy.

The worst (and/or most fun) is when you are in a cloud, lose your instruments/AP and suddenly notice your compass spinning like crazy (one time I forgot to switch the alternator on and the battery powering most of the instruments ran out, plus sims usually also have configurable random failures). It’s quite trivial to just lose track of your position as well at first.

I pick some old aircraft like Cessna Skyhawk usually, it has autopilot and most common instruments, but its AP is not so advanced that I’d have to spend a chunk of my time sitting around keying in data in order to fly it properly.
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An important distinction to make with GE is that most of their pension plan is "defined benefit" as opposed to "defined contribution". The latter is much more common nowadays because it avoids these massive long-term obligations to the company.

EDIT: Added "most of". A percentage of their employee base has already transitioned to defined contribution.
> I disagree with spoken English being a sane language. I have yet to find a deterministic way of knowing how to pronounce a word I haven't heard before.

I do not understand what do you mean here. In spoken English, the only way to know about one word is by having heard it, so you know how it is pronounced. Illiterate people can speak perfectly correct English.
The "death contract" is a Tontine. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tontine
Thanks for the thoughtful reply.

I get lost very easily, and have a terrible sense of direction. I particularly dislike directions that are landmark based as what people find memorable about a given scene varies quite a bit.

Plus after the first couple instructions I’m just not going to remember anyway, and prefer people just give me an address for mapping software.
Can you explain further? I’m curious how Bitcoin benefits from it?
Booking.com might keep it alive for a while
> You're only talking like one or two dollars worth of electricity (I think people who don't have electric cars don't realize this),

Yeah, I get the impression a lot of people don't really know what electricity costs. Like, they know what their monthly utility bill is, but they probably don't know what that bill was really for, in any measurable units.

If someone (for example), charges at a L2 charger @ 3.3kw at a restaurant for an hour, in the state of Michigan, they've used up about 53 cents worth of electricity. That's all the restaurant paid for that electricity. For that 53 cents, their car probably got an extra 10 to 13 miles of range.
I hope Apple is prepared for a massive exodus of developers / ISVs and a class action or three if they try to force all software through the App Store.

I owned a business focused on iOS and shut it down because of the dumpster fire the App Store has become. My livelihood will not depend on some halfwit middle manager.

The day they force Mac software through that dumpster fire is the day 100% of my Apple products go in the trash.

Enough with the fucking greed already.
Are you conflating GM with GE?
I find it sad that people would down-vote this. Regardless of how you feel about him personally, it'd be a different and far more silo'd internet without him.
"no discussion of moderation" (like the rule on not discussing downvotes) seems to handle the first part.

Often, but not consistently AFAICT, a moderator (such as yourself Dang) will add a comment to the effect that a title was changed or a link was rewritten, it's just hidden in the comments; that's a strange thing to do if you fear discussions devolving towards meta topics.

Problems arise when people comment on a story when the substantive parts of the story then have been changed.

As for the second part, surely optional features (as there are already, eg "display dead") don't _compromise_ minimalism.
I just don't see a reason to use it nowadays. Python is more verbose, but it's also easier to read and debug, and its tooling and package ecosystem is less chaotic.

And for small stuff, I just have Zsh, which is a perfectly suitable Perl replacement.
I actually agree wholeheartedly.

My 5 year old is learning to read and write in English; his spoken English is quite good (his pronunciation is way better than mine of course), but I'm at loss of how to teach him properly to map the written to the spoken word (and the reverse mapping is even harder); he seems to be learning fine anyway.
distributed isn't any better. You'll get back all the companies working with distributed systems too.
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I'm building an application that would store user defined content. The platform is built around resiliency of content and cited papers/resources to help potentially controversial content remain available, distributed, etc.

While the software is self-hostable, I do plan on running a "node" publicly. However I am concerned about content moderation. Not just the tone and level of controversy, but most importantly content that may cross legal or moral boundaries. In short, I don't want to be housing a hate group or hosting kiddie porn.

What features of an application do you see as essential to manage user content? I want to ensure that my attempt to "do good" doesn't land me in legal or financial trouble.

Thank you.
GE is probably a bit more than fraud given my experience with some of their LED products. I'd say they're outright liars.

The UV Blacklight they advertise at 7W - you think that's getting 7W of UVLED. Nope, instead you get a single 1W UV LED surrounded by 4 1.5W LEDs. And you pay almost $20 for this rip-off of false advertising.
You are, unbeknownst to you, answering your own question there

(Standard) American English and RP are easily to understand. Some other standardized styles/accents in other countries are easy to understand as well.

But regionalized accents are far harder to understand.
The oyster example has me wondering if they would have been better off subletting if say split the morning slot with a breakfast place and do a change over at some point. The main objection being enpty booths harm the common's benefit.
As a French, I am almost sure by now that the existence of H is just a lie, even if some say that haricot and hérisson suffice to prove that it's not.
Thanks so much for the recommendation -- amazed that I didn't manage to find VLC in all my searching. I don't think of VLC for playing music so much so maybe that was where my blindspot was.
It's not used in this case.
I know of few Western universities in China giving out VPN on campus from under the table, but nothing like that in BJ.

Can you elaborate?
Alright that is pretty bad.

The same insult doesn't really work on men in that same setting, since we're not really a minority. So we're more armed against someone calling us "she".

But I can imagine it's hard to have to justify yourself every time for being a woman. Yeah that sucks, a lot of jerks out there and not much to do about it.

I stand corrected.
There are some specific exceptions. For example, it's not that unusual for "artisan" sandwich places to also sell their bread. But it doesn't really make sense to imagine a pizza place that also had un-prepped mushrooms, green peppers, etc. out on display for separate sale. It's just not their business.
Calling Perl (released 1987) "one of the first" programming languages is an extremely revisionist view of history to put it lightly.
Literally the reason AWK was created
The fact he has a sweetheart deal from the city and is allowed to own the only bar in the hall and keep all its profits has the real risk of him making all the money at the expense of all the other stalls.
And while they cut pension benefits, this is what the CEO makes:

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/05/new-ge-ceo-larry-culp-inks-s...
It's worth noting here, that nothing in this new news indicates any sort of fraud, merely that GE is struggling - as everyone already knew.
You are completely right about accents of course. In theory written words should have accent marks, but it is common accepted practice (outside of dictionaries) to omit them.
I'd never in my life have thought I'd have bought a car > $50,000 and here I am with a AWD LR Model 3 and loving it! My other car was a 2011 Ford Fiesta. If you don't want to purchase one, don't do a test drive. Once my wife and I did a test drive in a Model S, we were both sold on a Tesla.
Maybe not DDoS - I doubt that MS allows that service to have that much throughput, but if you wanna try to get past someone's firewall rules, like the author points out - people may whitelist those particular IP's.
I'm just here to complain because it's annoying to incorporate yet another step in a CI flow.
“Bob, a cis heteronormative middle aged white man from Seattle, wants to send a message to Alice, a bicurious housewife from Kentucky”
I do know somebody who is using perl for a RESTful api backend for a line of business app. I was pretty fired up to find that, if only for nostalgia (haven't used it myself since undergrad studies required it [bioperl])
having read the article I agree with only one point that the author makes: once Perl is removed from the default installs, it will lose one of its advantages, being there and working by default. People will likely shy away from installing an additional programming language.

The other topics there have been rehashed many times before and are little more than extrapolations and exaggerations - how could a language ever go extinct ... if anything COBOL demonstrates that languages do not go extinct.