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You mean like Numpy? =P
Funny part is the author of that blog post demanded Cloudflare identify customers and explain why Cloudflare customers were doing a legal activity.
Sadly true, after watching NotJustBike's video on Halloween I looked up Apollobuurt and it looks like places are a million or so (still cheaper than SF, at least!)

A second-tier city like Utrecht, etc. is more likely. Or just staying put because $currenthouse is paid off and that's awfully nice.
I was following this chain until the parent poster said "Shill harder". What a shame.

I think it's made obvious that you're operating on a level in which you still critically think about the opinions that you hold. Most of the people who resort to anti-China platitudes or accusing others of shilling have simply tuned out the actual thinking part of the equation.

Most outrage culture nowadays involve blatant rage without giving a second thought. I checked out your links and it seems more substantial than "eyewitness accounts from expats".
Yeah, the first-hand contracts system is a disaster atm.

But note that waiting time only applies to first-hand contracts. You can still rent second-hand.

The idea would be to build much more, and buy up the former second-hand places.
Yeah, that US viewpoint kinda irks me too. Of course Europe is cheap when you earn US tech salaries. Amsterdam is definitely not cheap on your average non-FAANG/IB local Dutch wages.
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I hated summer in Los Angeles and remember running the aircon in February thinking "I need to get the hell out of here".

January is rough but overall I prefer Irish weather.
No, it's not walkability that makes apartments in central Stockholm expensive. There's just not much more space there for more houses. For decades car traffic was what was prioritised. Just look at old Slussen which was just a couple of big traffic circles, with narrow tunnels for pedestrians. Or Sergel's torg, arguably the most central square in Sweden, which is dominated by a big traffic circle and with shops and pedestrian areas underground.

Then it is true that too little housing is built, and with the current very low interest rates people can afford to pay a lot for their dwellings. But I don't think it is intentional to not build more.
Ideally one day TypeScript would take JavaScript's place, but no browser vendor seems keen on the idea.

On the other hand, TypeScript success in adoption is based on following another proven attempts, C++ and Objective-C.

With such approaches, the warts of the copy-paste compatibility with the underlying platform are both a sin and a curse.
Well that's the most stupid thing I've read in a while
Doesn't matter. The manager doesn't get a pass for following the owner's bullshit. The manager is complicit in the abuse of the employees, doesn't matter they were just 'following orders'.

Whole businesses have shut down over this. An entire burger king quit all at once and posted in on their signage.

I will never eat at another burger king knowing how they treat their workers now.

If more people had ethics and morals other than the 'holy profit' we'd be a much better society.

I, for one, stand with my brothers and sisters in their struggle.

I guess you need to have been through it to have empathy anymore.
I was personally writing simple BASIC code by the age of five, it doesn’t take much to flip a switch and type in a few characters to start the editor. Don’t underestimate the learning capability of a child.
That's such a silly statement when you're a slave to Apple, which is closed source.

You could be using an open source, non-googled, android OS with an open source Tox or Briar client.
Oh yeah, compared to what it was meant to replace (COM/DCOM, C++, VB6, ASP/vbscript), .NET was undoubtedly a massive step forward and a no-brainer to adopt, for anyone invested in the MS ecosystem.
I’m a 30-year user of emacs. I still pick up the mouse to do something in emacs at least once a month.
Given that author has delivered multiple trilogies, I would not be overly concerned about them not finishing this one.

I haven't read any of the Siege books yet but did enjoy their Engineer trilogy and would recommend it.
> remember those freedoms can also destroy your life, if you end up on the other end. Americans have to step over homeless people on the sidewalks, who got fired, who got sick while uninsured, who are addicted or mentally ill. Those who do well live in suburbia, where their kids are also not that free, going outside alone is too dangerous.

Those taxes pay for other forms of freedom
Yeah, but even considering that, the gross salaries are still much lower.

Taxes are too high (on income), and wages are too low.
I'll try your suggestion, but it might come down to the podcast type. Some of them are just two people talking as if they are hanging out, of it's a very low fact content discussion. I weed those out now.

A focused topic and fact or idea based discussions or stories in each episode keep me listening.
> Obviously, hacking into a bare shell or IDE without any outside info is not how people use computers nowadays. Furthermore, the above reads like a parent trying to recreate his own life in the life of a child. The world is different, surely.

different for sure, most people use computers as spectators, computers happen to them; of course they can enjoy it, just as you can enjoy music without making music.

But sometimes I feel musicians appreciate music in a different way, same as woodworkers appreciate a nice table in a different way.

Reminds me of 'What I can not create, I do not understand' (Feynman's last board), but not entirely in the way he meant it.
Well, it is an opinion. Thank you for sharing your heart.
I think the original poster is off by a bit, 350-450k USD for 60m2 is what you pay outside Stockholm. In the city proper, it's ~770k USD for 60m2. Basically this segregates society into the "haves" and the "have nots".
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This might be useful to you - trimodal nature of comp in NL.

https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/software-engineering-sala...
That kinds of begs the question what the glass is half full of.

I agree it's astonishing no matter what side of the isle you come at it from.
The interviews with Ken Jennings on I believe the freakonomics podcast have been very interesting. His explanation that it's about being interested in many things (interest makes you remember) is on point.
Hadn't heard of it before. It looks really good, any particular reason people shit on it?
> we need 100K houses in the next decade

That's a lot for a country with 17M inhabitants. Is that mostly driven by urban flight (not enough flats where people want to be) or is it more about population increase or less people living together (no enough flats anywhere)?
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If I may ask, your profile says "Professor of Human Centered Design"
- is this why you moved to the Netherlands? I'm very curious about your work, based on that.
> Clubbing it all together

Wherever the author works, they employ a lot of Indians!
I went with Elm instead. It helps I really like types and prefer a fight with the type-checker/ compiler then with runtime errors any day.

> it's pretty amazing. It's a lot less boilerplate than React, and god that feels good.

I could have said this for Elm! :)
I m a Hong Konger, I have no debt, earn 10k USD a month, pay reasonable taxes for reasonable services and get annoyed like everyone at the yellow vs blue bullshit polarisation of the public discourse.

We're fine, but I do feel bad for the americans who live in some sort of delusion that their exploitation is freedom.
I feel like Angular is the "dark matter" developers choice. It gets picked to do shit now, not tomorrow. Therefore every comment on these updates for Angular are a repetition of "Isn't Angular dead yet?", the hype for a new Angular release is not the same as for a React one, because the developers using it use it to do boring but helpful CRUD applications.
It is not automatically inefficient. In Zurich, I have around 5 supermarkets near by, walkable in about 5-10 minutes. Don't even need a bike. Taking the car would increase my travel time, not decrease it.

So my walkable city is more time efficient and has health benefits for using your own body instead of a machine to do the traveling. It's better if we measure for time efficiency and health. And it shows. Looking around, 95% of the people here, at least those not in cars, are healthy, slim and fit. All as it should be. What else would you optimize for?
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> I don’t get why housing should be a special carve-out and don’t see a workable answer to how to provide food for everyone while banning all investment in companies that grow or sell food.

The economy exists to support everyone's life, not the other way around. Just because you can argue someone can make a quick buck selling a basic necessity, that does not mean it's ok to deprive a whole community of basic necessities.

Take for example water. Would it be ok to hold everyone hostage over access to it, and even lobby for municipalities to stop the public sector from encroaching onto a service provided by a private business, just because Nestle and the likes bottle and sell it?

The current delta between the have and have-nots, and the profound impact that "small" real estate investments have on pushing access to housing far out of reach of your average middle and upper-middle class family, is a collosal social and economical red flag. Access to housing has a profound impact on everyone's lives and even community. You accept jobs based on access to housing, and the amount of time wasted supporting said job is time eaten away from the time you spend doing far more important things like caring for your children and family. Being deprived from that just because a faceless investor wanted to park his bailout money somewhere and decided to dump it in real estate hurts society.
I support universal healthcare, free life-long education and universal paid leave.

I don't support inviting 3 million refugees (to a nation of only 11 million people at the time) when we have no spare housing, or being forced to fund others' childcare (it's a lifestyle choice).

Taxes can be much better managed.
> Investment banks have a one-way approach to open source software: (some of) it can come in, but none of it can go out

I'd say thats how they see society and their role in it more generally. Doing God's work is a surprisingly directed graph. It applies also to the broader banking world, but investment banks being the most lucrative (when not bailed out) attract talented people that in principle can close the loop and return something important back (much more so than the "sleepy" commercial bank or credit union).

It would interesting if the above (potentially biased) view could be backed up by computing an open source leech ratio per industry sector. The amount of open source code used versus the amount contributed.

NB: a high leech ratio does not necessarily make you the worst offender. If your business model is evil no amount of open source contribution will wash it out
I would worry if people started moving away from Emacs as text-centric. My biggest complaint with VSCode (which I do fully expect to take over and to which I will one day presumably have to migrate) is that there's so much damn UI for things. The terminal window isn't just a buffer of text like everything else, it's its own ungodly window that pops up differently. Most extensions are primarily UI instead of keyboard and text driven. There's a nice Magit clone which does things properly, and I'd love to see more effort on things like that. But fundamentally VSCode doesn't seem to have the right level of abstraction to allow all this.
I’m surprised at the disparity between Emacs and vim use (20% vs 3% according to some survey). I thought it’s more equal.

I suppose, while the learning curve for Vim is a lot steeper, you reach the power regions very quickly too. With Emacs, while it’s less alien initially, you need to learn quite a bit more to get to “power user” levels. But then, in turn, it seems that Emacs is much easier to mold into an IDE sort of thing, whereas this seems against the Fu of Vim. One tool, one purpose.
That's because you aren't actually looking for employment, being already employed.

I guarantee you- if you are not working, have bills to pay and/or a family to take care of, and you do your part- being prepared, well groomed, informed about the company. You interview, you interview again, then finally with the owner. And after all this time, preparation, endless interviews, $ costs, time costs, etc and they lowball you- you will be offended.

If not, you didn't need the job. Shit, I've been offended over this rigmarole when looking while employed.

Many businesses do it on purpose, making you sink time and money so you feel invested and they hope you will not realize the sunk-cost fallacy.

This is how businesses these days negotiate, and it's disgusting. Much like making speaking about compensation against company policy even though it's illegal.

Companies break laws, exploit us, and we all just bend over and take it.
It is very hard to prove you have lost trading signal. You would have to redo your backtesting, and would politically be fraud (high risk of getting sacked). Often trading systems will perform worse in the real world anyway compared to the simulations, so it generally can only be proven if there is a politically willingness to do so.
You are completely free to found communes with anyone that shares your vision.

I believe gated communities fit the definition and as I understand it their numbers increase in certain countries.

Or do you mean financial and legal exemptions from the state? In that case I would disagree with the experiment.
Boring means boring to you. Use whatever you already know and you'll run into fewer problems. If you already know Java then that's boring. If you already know Elixir then that is boring.
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New Yorker writers are masters of their craft, so unless you have decades of experience professionally editing and writing, I recommend giving the piece at least a second chance.

That said, I also skipped over tons of passages, for example, the laundry list of energy supplements. I read for different reasons on my phone, compared to when I’m reading a physical copy of the New Yorker. On my phone, I’m rapidly skimming tons of articles searching for interesting facts, which just isn’t suited for reading the New Yorker’s beautiful long-form style.
Use a STUN server to assist with NAT traversal. Some DHT swarms can also assist with that.

Or use a VPN or VPN-like network, like TOR, yggdrasil, IPFS p2p, etc. Some are explicitly designed for that kind of use, and can form a mesh network with peers that are physically close.

Unfortunately, for yggdrasil that means mostly Apple's Airdrop, though that should be possible with the more recent wifi NAN "neighbour area network" (wifi aware) and P2P.
This was 100% my experience too.

The biggest productivity gains were:

- having a single source of truth for both data and code (in a closely coupled environment)

- strong, battle-tested libraries to take care of all infrastructure concerns.

- enforced code dev/test/review/deployment workflows

This let the front-office devs be highly productive on adding real business value for their trading desks.

Remember also that these systems at GS, JPMorgan and BAML started around 2007-2010. The infra we all take for granted today at AWS/GCP/Azure simply did not exist back then, and banks' data security policies at the time did not allow cloud processing.
Sure, you could. How many people do? I don't. I could. But that doesn't solve my problem with Tox.

I use IM apps to keep in touch with people in my social circle. I've been coercing a lot of my close friends to switch to Matrix (I use the word "element" because they're not tech savy and I don't want them to be too off-put), and some of them actually do.

If Tox does not have an app on iOS store, that, as of now, makes it impossible for me to suggest it to approx. 60% of my friends, folks I exchange instant messages with, on a daily basis. Due to this, I'm sure you could see why this limitation makes this platform/service absolutely useless for me.
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> All modern XMPP servers store the password securely hashed, and during authentication only hashes are exchanged.

Huh, I didn't realize that SCRAM is this widely supported https://xmpp.net/reports.php

Thanks for the hint!
That means you would hit someone you know is relevant once every workweek (at least) and because you took some time to figure out whether or not they were a match, you can be reasonably certain you can get 1-3 relevant candidates for a position every month. Having known recruiters, these figures are almost unthinkably high. Clearly this is a viable strategy.
Reformatted, because very interesting:

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From my experience:

- NVIDIA seems to have best balance of culture of competency, work satisfaction vs how well is run, although it is getting more bureaucratic as it grows

- Google used to be good in many aspects but now things are deteriorating - Facebook is mixed bag, where Oculus part is more of a wild west and main FB is still ok better than Google

- Amazon other than "hire to fire" (loading your RSUs towards the end and then raising the bar to force you out before main RSU chunk gets vested) is a mixed bag

- Intel is with a royally broken culture, rampant nepotism and crooked HR (just try to google HR flagging employees "THIEVE" just so they do not get re-hired regardless of their performance and also read in the Oregonian news about age discrimination where they mopped large number of actual best engineers - no wonder they lost the edge and are sinking further, not sure if the current CEO who is the best thing that happened to them can save them anymore. My bet if he does not do HR and culture cleanup, he won't be able to do much. The only hope for Intel is geo-political move of the fab manufacturing to the US but even that will have mixed effect.)

- Apple is mixed bag, with some teams better and some worse and all suffering from culture of secrecy

All in all in each company you can find a good team with a good manager/director/VP as well as you can find bad ones. All pay competitively, where Intel is at the bottom followed by NVIDIA although case by case for higher grades both can compete if needed.
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Even FAANG pays shit in Europe. I was paid 75k at Amazon.

Europe is designed for the landed aristocracy, not working people.
Which "P" are you thinking of? There are at least three obvious candidates :)
Right? It's like "I want to start eating less meat". "OK, here's something that sorta kinda looks and tastes like burger or nuggets". "No, but I want to start eating vegetables". "Yeah, yeah, don't worry, this thing is made of vegetables".

So, prior to the veggie burgers and soy nuggets you were hooked on low quality meats in beef burgers and chicken nuggets, and now you are to remain hooked on low quality vegetables in bean burgers and soy nuggets.

Or rather, you are to remain hooked on the products of the same industry that has been destroying the planet and the developed world's diets for generations. And suddendly, the products of this same industry are not just not junk food anymore, they are healthy alternatives that don't harm the environment!
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so you say:

emac users are, well; conservatives...

(( use controversy ))
Similar prices here in Prague...

I think that the reason is similar to why stocks have appreciated so much - long-term interest rates have dropped as a result of QE.

What central banks usually do is that they buy short-term bonds to affect short-term rates. QE means that they buy long-term bonds to affect long-term rates.
> The main issue is that there is just nowhere near enough housing to keep up with population increases, seemingly anywhere in the Western world.

With falling fertility rates, natural population growth in the west is about zero today. If not even (going to be) negative.
here's the fuzzy search impl on an adaptive-radix-trie in typesense: https://github.com/typesense/typesense/blob/96bc8a078/src/ar...
100% agree on the balance.

"Screen time use may have detrimental effects on children’s health and development" to me associates with having witnessed (too many times) parents hand their child a tablet with some simple game or a video in order to free themselves for a conversation or another activity, rather than a parent teaching their kid programming. I wonder whether it's not the 'screen' itself, but the type of activity normally accompanying it. (And the sacrificed of other required complex activities, like you mentioned)

Just like it's really challenging to bring a second language to the level of the mother tongue, and even then one mostly dreams in the native language (citation needed), I wonder if learning programming from young age will open one to a more "fluent" understanding.
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I like the article gave a screenshot of the bullet points to follow to reach the no bullet point state.
To be fair for me (Swiss and self employed) the renting prices in beautiful places like Haarlem or Rotterdam appeared really tempting. Nice big apartments nearby the city for less than $1000/m are basically unheard of in Switzerland, or Austria for that matter.

No idea what locals earn there, but from a outside perspective it appeared really affordable if you ignore the high taxes :3
In my experience, it's bullshit. The author must be conflating staff positions with "senior".

I was paid 75k as an L5 engineer at Amazon, that's like intermediate senior (two levels down from Staff). So maybe one level up you'd get 100-110k?

I've never seen salaries anywhere close to that article. Even contractors might pay $150k (and then you have to pay your own taxes, insurance, etc. out of that).
I guess there's also some of "beggars can't be choosers" paternalist mindset going on when _deciding for the poor_ what they _deserve to have built with our money_.
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I think Minerva is clearly a reference to Athena.
I believe one thing that can help security a little is to use full version numbers in your dependency list. This applies to all package managers.

Because the moment someone hits update on the package manager nothing will get updated and you won't receive potential dangerous updates you did not review first.

Edit: sorry this is not relevant to the question...
What's your strategy/stack of sandboxing, and on what os?
Is it property damage if one of my lasers hits the cmos sensor of such a camera?
Walkability is highly correlated with population density. Dense walkable neighborhoods are more attractive. These two together make housing small and expensive.

Walkable neighborhoods need destinations you can walk to. Businesses need a minimum number of customers to be viable, so the denser the neighborhood the more variety of destinations it will have.

To avoid cars taking up the space, it's necessary to have high-frequency public transport, and that also requires high population density to be viable.
I'm learning to drum and it's one of the most fulfilling experiences of my life. I've tried to play other instruments before and despite a lot of practice, I never got very far. I'm really connecting this time and it's amazing. Hoping to get paid a few bucks an hour in a couple of weeks so it counts as a product :)
Yup. Just give them a tablet without any games and network connection, load it up with text, music or some (foreign) language phrasebook that you'd want them to learn. They'll get bored very quickly, but if they don't they learn something new. It's a win either way.
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