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> Over complicating a language with rarely-used features can definitely create problems.

Agreed.

There's a number of (full) languages that compile to the Python AST [0] (I'm especially fond of http://hylang.org), but they're very different from Python. It would be interesting to see smaller variations of standard Python implemented in an interoperable way like these languages do.

[0] https://github.com/vindarel/languages-that-compile-to-python
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I am a Swiss-American programmer who has worked in California and also in Switzerland, and this is all accurate.
I assume the decision to leave datalogging turned on to this degree was not made by the same folks who decided to put datalogging and firmware in the same flash IC.
I'm not so sure high intelligence really protects you from reacting with emotions or act irrationally. Plenty of intelligent people can still react very emotionally or even irrationally. Though I suppose reacting intellectually has a higher pay-off for them than for most.
Historically, Debian hasn't particularly objected to packaging obsolete versions of programming languages without upstream support.

I doubt anyone is checking for potential security problems in the Algol 68 and Fortran 77 implementations that Debian ships, and I don't think the people using those packages are particularly inconvenienced by that.

It seems a shame that the social pressure to persuade people to port their code to Python 3 means that Debian is going to have weaker support for 10-year-old Python than 40-year-old Fortran.

In particular, there are ongoing efforts to try to make it the normal thing for scientists to make the programs they ran on their data available so that their results can be reproduced; aggressively dropping older programming language implementations rather gets in the way of that.
I skimmed the paper and it looks similar to loom. Specifically they cite CHESS and Cdschecker as prior art. Both of those are what loom is based on.

I guess 2019 is the year of concurrency checking :-)
serious question: do people still run antivirus on windows other than MSFT's free one?
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I know people who've done a 2+2 program at Harvard, where they're admitted after undergrad but have to work for two years before being admitted. I guess it's possible to go straight to an MBA, but I don't see why it's desirable for most people. Most MBA students see it more as a credential and networking opportunity.
This article miss the point, misrepresents and oversimplifies, it's not denouncing the culprits, it's dancing to their tune. This is what they want: "blame the algorithm, forget the real culprits".
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It is not.

Amazon accomplished the task by building their own Oracle replacement. You have to be approximately as large as Amazon for that to be a realistic option.

If you'd like to use the alternatives that Amazon built, you can, of course, migrate to Amazon Web Services. Though, if you dislike the vendor lock-in you're experiencing with Oracle, and are considering Amazon as a good place to flee to, you possibly haven't been paying attention. With Oracle, you're just renting the software. With Amazon, you're renting both the software and the hardware, and renting the hardware is a precondition of being able to continue using the software, AND they charge you a fee to move your data off of their hardware. It's one of the most well-engineered enterprise vendor lock-in traps the industry has ever seen.
I am wondering which of these alternatives has a similar audience like meetup.com. The audience is the real killer feature of meetup.com.

I know of no other place where it is so easy to gather people. Just post a new event and people will notice and sign up.

If you switch to a self-hosted solution you will have to find an audience through other channels. Which, for many Meetups, is quite the challenge. Remember "build it and they will come"? Same applies to events. "Set a date and they will come" - doesn't work that way unless you have an existing audience.

Personally I don't mind paying 2$ to attend a meetup. The old/existing pricing model seemed much smarter for everyone involved though. Organizers pay to get access to the audience. The audience pays nothing so that the audience, the real value, can be maximized. I hope that they won't destroy their value with this move...
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I feel like Amazon is getting lazy on the customer side of retail products. The experience has been eroding for me. They are usually not the cheapest quickiest or best quality. The return policy with 3rd party vendors and the product switching reminds me of sears in the early 2000s.

Name one novel thing Amazon has done for those buying products over the last few years?
Are you ready for America's data protection laws?
It's been a requirement for a while that you have to have a real (non-VoIP) cell number for doing 2FA. Personally, I hate this idea since getting a VoIP number for 2FA isn't vulnerable to SIM Swapping attacks like my number issued by T-Mobile is. The last time I set up a Twitter account I had to do the "unsuspend me" thing half a dozen times before Twitter stopped insisting on auto-suspending because I smelled like a bot for some reason.
Well, Amazon certainly isn't.
IBM is all over the US (much much more locations than others mentioned here) and it's also split into two: product and consulting. Consulting get paid less and bring down the average but people choose it for location and project variety
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If you change your walking habits based on what you think others think of them, it might be a good time to reevaluate how important external validation is for you. I'm not saying this to be condescending, it is my personal and very subjective opinion that it doesn't seem like a healthy approach to living a life. There's nothing wrong with matching the pace when you walk with someone else, your daily habits are something else, though. You should decide what's good for you, not the opinions of others.
Statute of limitations should apply in situations like this. It's really weird that it doesn't.
Some of those successful people are just faking it, or fooling themselves. But there are at least two "short sleep" genes which allow people to be rested in about 6 hours instead of 8.

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2019/08/415261/after-10-year-searc...
> the conclusion should be "read 200 good books"

200 books of any type sounds like too much time in one activity for me.
I'm an American living and working in Zurich for Google. Frankly - without Google handling every part of the process for me it would have been extremely difficult to get the visa.

The best route you have into a job here as an American (or other non-schengen area resident) is to find a company already doing business here, get hired, and then transfer here.

But once here... it is very nice
>modern work ethics

Don't kid yourself when comparing the present to the past (and for some, still present) with sun-up to sun-down manual labor.
More importantly, the comparative lack of political resistance to the policy package facilitating e.g. India and Indonesia growing at ~6% a year for the last 20 years means that we already have a better way of bringing about mass catchup. Perhaps the biggest geopolitical question of the moment is whether we did too good a job of facilitating China’s rise...
It's worth pointing out that economics is a fake "Nobel" prize, funded not by the Alfred Nobel foundation, but by a Swedish bank trying to cash in on the name recognition.

Economics is almost entirely ideology accompanied by linear regression, and should be ignored or at least laughed at by numerate people.
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That's true. They need certain percentage of people on the bench to bid on consulting projects.
> Amazon/ecommerce,

Ironically, Sears shut down its century-old catalog just as ecommerce was becoming viable.

They had the infrastructure to be Amazon but they threw it away and Amazon had to build it all up from scratch.
You obviously never lived in Switzerland. Can't explain all the US-CH differences in few words, but some benefits: better healthcare, better social system, much much safer, actually working public school system, great clean nature on your doorstep, I can be in 2 minutes of drive in beautiful France and 1 hour drive in Italy and rest of Europe is just around the corner. Very health and sport-oriented mentality. Super strong middle class which creates much healthier long term society. Much better (and healthier!) food, population that has most voting power in the world and actually votes sanely. You can have all the guns you can have in US too :) And so on and on and on...

Oh, and your tax dollars don't support wars making the world a significantly worse place with all the rest of evil attached, if you care about such things.
Me too - still the best laptop
My 2011 MBP is still my primary. This is the case for a lot of people because the newer versions just don't compare. On to of that you can't even upgrade the components in them since everything is integrated into the board.
I'd rather have a language with no standard and no UB than one with a standard and UB.
Things I love about regex:

* The global or g switch. The global switch applies a pattern to all matches in a string, which can be used to return all pattern matches or apply all pattern changes.

* In JavaScript space like characters are represented by the \s switch. There are many characters classified as white space, so it is very nice to have a grouping for them when performing a search and being able to ignore them all if necessary. \s+ will match a group of consecutive characters that may be any combination of space, new line, carriage return, form feed, and many other characters.

* Partial matches are helpful. Sometimes you know the pattern you want to search for and you need to replace that pattern with a different pattern without harm specific data in the match. In this scenario I perform a replace method on a string and search by regular expression with the a g global switch. For the replacement result I supply a function name. A regular expression match is a string argument in that function. In the function I can manipulate that result to be something else, even using regular expressions, and return the result, which is inserted back into the target string over the regular expression match.
I actually moved because of family (wife) vs because of a job, so I brought my job with me.

The few interviews I've had have been through friends knowing friends, but there's a good number of job sites dedicated to Switzerland.

Getting a visa as a third-country citizen (i.e., not EU or CH) is difficult and you need to find the right company that's willing to jump through the hoops for you. Definitely doable if your skillset is right, but it's going to be unique for each situation. A more viable option may be by using an EU country as a springboard (get EU residency, which, in my understanding, can improve your chances of getting a visa in CH).
ChromeOS? Is that a success? Lots of concessions there I guess though.
How much of that success can be attributed to the features that were added in the last 10 years?
>tax them the same

What? They are taxed the same. In fact, they are taxed more. They pay for Social Security and Medicare even if they never get to use them. They also have to pay state unemployment insurance but they cannot claim the benefits from it. Not to mention the food stamp program etc.

I am confused with your wording and the use of double negatives, are you saying they shouldn't be charged for things they won't use?
Until everyone has put their golden eggs on .NET Core basket, it makes plenty of sense.
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The normal thing in Debian is for a maintainer who wants to step down to orphan the package so that other maintainers get the chance to pick it up.

It seems perfectly reasonable for the Debian Python team to decide they no longer want Python 2 getting in their way. But I think they should have done more to check whether someone else wants to take over.

There's nothing terribly wrong with packaging mature software that doesn't have an active upstream. Realistically nobody cares about any remaining bugs in Python 2 being fixed; the work involved would basically be making sure it still compiles with newer versions of GCC.
Child predators will eventually be outed because no one can keep a secret like that absolutely secret. Someone, somewhere will talk.

These US Constitution rights also protect people who aren't child predators. You can't strip these rights from suspected molesters without also removing them from regular citizens.
We have 3 .NET Core apps already in production in an enterprise environment but all were new projects.

We have not migrated the 4-5 .NET apps we have and don't see a pressing need yet.
Yes, that's my point. And it doesn't really simplify the function itself, it just rearranges it, in the same way you can break up a complex painting into jigsaw pieces and say, "Look, each piece is simple!"
Are you implying the manhattan project was somehow a good thing?
Usually blockchain-based stuff around Zug.
not to turn this into a 1-up session, but 100CHF is an overestimate.

i pay 49.99/mo for 10Gbps symmetric
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My undergrad is in Finance and my advisor back in 2008-2009 said don't get an MBA, you already have a business degree.

So to answer your question, i'm not sure it'll teach you a whole lot. Currently going for my MS in IS.
Telsa having trouble building reliable cars is not evidence of an industry-wide issue. There are tens of millions of cars on the road with decades old solid state components that are in perfect operation.
For comparison, drivers in Los Angeles county drive 1.6 billion miles before 9a this morning.

Congratulations, Tesla had almost a morning worth of driving data.

And yet somehow with all that data they can't make a car that can drive itself in a parking lot.
The loan holders get their say in the bankruptcy process. In fact they have first say.

It all comes down the the judge saying "hey banks, you will never get your money paid back, what option to get some of it back do you want us to take. Options are the company doesn't pay for a few months while they make some changes, and then continue paying off their loans, or the company is sold and the bank gets the proceeds of the sale - one common variation of the latter is the bank gets ownership of the company to run as they see fit. Again, the bank gets first say, though the company will make proposals, and the judge will force things.

Of course in the real world it isn't one bank, it is hundreds of banks and bond holders each who want their say, and there are contracts saying what say each party has. The judge is just there it get all of them into court and come up with an agreement that as many can accept as possible. Sometimes that means the judge says to one bank you want X, but everyone else wants Y so you lose. Bankruptcy is common enough that judges (and any bank) understands how to deal with it and the rules are common.
Science doesnt mean forming a consensus. You are arguing for allowing competitive ideas which is the most scientific thing you can do
> .. in some engineering orgs, white people outside of management are a minority (although it’s not just white managers, there’s tons of Indian managers too).

White managers from which country? Plenty of my managers in silicon valley were from UK, some from Germany and Switzerland.

But it probably doesn't matter to you, doesn't it?
I have the opposite hope - I hope they do destroy their audience. Meetup.com hasn't had any real change or innovation in 10 years and it's time for some new players to shake up the space.
7% includes dividends and inflation adjustment.
That will come in handy, thanks!
I was applying for roles recently that were as high as 180K CHF (and that wasn't FAANG).
Why are you doing 36*8? It look likes 26 + 10?

You got 32 bits, thus 2^32 = 4 294 967 296 possibilities

30 000 000 000 000 / 4 294 967 296 = 6984.9193

That doesn't seems to me like a 100% probability at all.
I work in c++ and D was designed in part to address a lot of c++ complaints. so I find myself with very few issues while writing D. it's just a very enjoyable experience (subjective ik)

the meta programming is very cool also
You still can- Lowes carries Craftsman now and honors the forever warranty (no receipt needed) for tools purchased from other retailers. That said, if you have older USA-made Craftsman stuff I don't recommend warrantying them unless they're totally destroyed as you'll be given a modern cheaply-made Chinese tool. If it's something serviceable like a ratchet, better to buy a kit to repair it rather than hand it in.
>Google Drive plan with 100Tb.

Is there a grandfather plan or are you spending ~$1k / mo to store 100TB?

It looks like the highest listed plan is $300 for 30TB.
That and risk taking was muted because they were scared to take a big hit.

I really don't know what the plan was if it wasn't to just bleed it dry. Because, as you point out, if they're scared to take a big hit, then they'll just survive and never go after a market or a competitor. You want to sell shitty tool-shaped objects and hope no one notices, or how about you got after Snap-On with your new Professional line that's 30% less but just as good (Craftsman ain't the only one riding on reputation)? And, yeah, Sears actually sort of did that about 20 years ago. How about "fuck Viking, Sub-Zero and their shitty, overpriced appliances. We make better ones, and they cost less. 'cuz Kenmore is back, bitches."? Or something, I dunno. What I do know is that I don't need a fancy MBA to tell you the end result of gradually eroding quality and not maintaining your stores.
Why can't Rust match that?
The country is massive and much of it is in poverty, this is looking at improvements relative to other similarly disadvantaged areas.
> Companies that offer stock options are generally rare

Missed opportunity, given that capital gains in Switzerland are tax-free.

On that note, the tax rate in the bar chart is for corporate taxes, not personal taxes. Swiss taxes are low but not that low [1]; the average worker burden is around 22%.

[1] https://files.taxfoundation.org/20180917120122/A-Comparision...
Ok, but everywhere in Europe people start leaving after 16 the question was whether the working day is 6 hours or 8 in Norway?
MBAs are a gatekeeping mechanism for the rich
No, this sounds like an orthogonal issue. Plenty of public companies -- perhaps most -- are afflicted with quarter-by-quarter thinking, but deliberately pitting divisions against each other? That's much rarer behavior.
Man yikyak was really popular in my university. It was great and people could express anonymous opinions, have discussions, have in group memes, jokes, etc. Then they had the genius idea of forcing names on everyone and it literally died overnight.
Why an expat. Is it something with the work permit. How does one transition from expat to immigrant ?
Too bad that there aren't written even a fraction of that worth reading.
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Yeah, that agency was talking bullshit. Sadly, all too common. I really wish Goog/ FB would get their shit together and allow proper measurement of them both, but it's not really in their interests to do so, sadly.
The primary choices for distribution are to either demand maintainers that they updates their scripts, or to take up maintaining the python 2.7 code base themselves, a code base which is written in C and mostly before 2000.

Is your code in Debian right now, or was your comment a general question in regard to the status of python 2.7?
I think the risk to meetup.com is that the established meetups for groups like programmers or other career/professionals, the ones most likely to be important enough that people would pay $2 to attend, are also precisely the ones least in need of meetup's audience, since they are established.

Also, charging $2/person means about $0.25 goes to Visa/Mastercard/PayPal/whoever does the payment processing, which is about 12.5% of your revenue skimmed off the top immediately. Charging the organizer more, and everyone else nothing, works better from that point of view even if the attendees chip in a few bucks each to compensate the organizer.

Of all the business models one could imagine for this site, this seems like one of the less well thought out.
Sorry, but Austin is not low COL. you’re way off the mark with those numbers for anything near Austin central and it’s going up exceedingly fast.
> I think your objection is to the fact that most treatments of first order logic informally talk about a "set of variables indexed by the natural numbers" or something of that sort, but that's informal, and it's understood that really what's going on is an algorithm "under the hood."

Precisely my point.

> an example of a definition of anything that you find is watertight

There is no such definition. The existence of anumeric languages suggests that my worrying about this is important for pedagogy, not just philosophy.

From my experience, if you want to have students understand the meat of an "intro to proofs" or first real analysis course, then you have to avoid the discussion of what "is" really is. Undergraduates love that crap as it's a distraction from fighting with the new symbols they're attempting to learn. But at the end of the day (or ideally, in the first few lectures), the student must realize three things: there's always a next integer, a set is a bag of distinct objects and a function assigns each object in one bag to an object in another (or possibly the same) bag.

Many students are never explicitly told that there a few fundamental, undefinable building blocks of mathematics - the most important being set, function and natural number. And like the person who never learned numeric words, their understanding is hindered.
Most places likely aren't using Oracle at Amazon's scale, either.

I suspect that one of MySQL, Postgres or Microsoft SQL Server can fill in for Oracle if you have access to the source code and can make changes yourself. (If you've bought software that is Oracle-only, then it's not an option -- but it wasn't an option for Amazon, either). I suspect that in a lot of cases, this will pay for itself, but it might take 10 years to do so.
1. If you don't live in a bigger city forget it. You have to pass "inspection" on comunal, city and state level (in that order). And the people in small villages won't say yes unless you are maybe very active in local (drinking) clubs.
I've read one Don DeLiio book, White Noise. There are other works on myself of his that I intend to read as thoroughly enjoyed White Noise.

Though more to your point I recently finished Mathias Enard's Zone - three months to read. It is 517 pages long, one sentence, a stream of thought. A difficult book to say the least, as the topic, dealing with not only the melancholy of the narrator's life but how his theme has remained the same for thousands of years. Zone will have a lasting impact on my ideological outlook for the remainder of my life.

As a break from hard topics, I am now reading How to Listen to Jazz, as an avid jazz listener.
Still fancier than a Dutch sandwich, which is just two slices of buttered bread with some cheese or something in between. Or just one slice which is folded.

(Although in recent years a lot of Dutch workers have discovered the fancier lunches from foreign traditions.)
Correct. Majority of the social security is never used by h1b. Also need your own insurance, cannot claim any benefits, have to leave the country in 24 hours if h1b lose the job, cannot claim business expenses...
The := operator is the assignment operator on Object Pascal, just saying, remembering my old days. BTW not so old for everyone -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15490345