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This simply isn't true in the UK. You can't drive 5 miles without seeing some giant new sprawl of new build housing, yet rent is increasing year on year.
Very interesting story. I'm actually impressed, you're allowed to give us such "internals" about GS.
No, I just saw the change after moving to another university for another degree (of course not for these reasons).
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> I should be able to click an app on my computer and have my own web page running in seconds, that anyone can find and follow.

There's literally thousands if not tens of thousands of hosting providers and software packages that offer just that. I can get some hosting with DirectAdmin to install e.g. Wordpress on it within minutes. Following is through RSS feeds. Finding is down to Google, which in turn is down to you, the author, writing good stuff.
I worked at one of the largest of these systems. It seems to be the one referred by the post.

The global distributed store of pickled python objects using Event Sourcing was one of the most horrible and expensive database systems I've ever heard of. It runs on THOUSANDS of expensive servers with all data stored in-memory. To get the state of a single deal you had to open, decompress, deserialize, and merge hundreds if not thousands of instances. And 90% of the output was more often than not discarded.

The Python interpreter extensions reveal the ignorance of Python by the original developers. There was no good reason to fork CPython.

There were many small subsystems created and supported by lone rangers with impressive CVs and astronomical salaries. A JIT better than any other one out there (but with a lot of limitations). A meta-query system extremely elegant.

But this all was a sham. The actual daily crunch/analytics was run on more classic SQL/Columnar clusters. From the distributed object database hours-long running batch jobs loaded stuff on old school DBs. And those blew up frequently. Sometimes those blow ups cost many millions in delayed regulatory reports. The queries running on top of SQL were beyond stupid and the DB engine could not optimize for them. And of course, people blamed SQL and not the ridiculous architecture and the OOP dogma.

Don't work for old school banking, hedge funds, or anything like that. They are driven by tech cavemen and their primadonnas. Exceptions might be some HFT and fintech shops.
"Jacob informed me that he wanted his computer to look “just like yours."

This is it. What the kid wants is to mimic what he sees his parent is doing, and I believe the parent is projecting his own desires and inclinations onto the little one.

I do not think there is anything specifically wrong with this though, because that's what learning is about (too screen time as a kid could be an issue regarding myopia and so on, though). But stating that at 3 years the "kid wants" something as specific as running a Linux destop by himself is wrong.
One of the big tradeoffs with Wordpress is that it is a user-first, developer-second kind of framework. I say framework because that is what it has become, for better or worse.

Despite that, developers are building serious/complex websites with tons of custom functionality with WP, by extending it via the hooks that the theme and plugin system provide.

One of many problems with the above is that your whole default project structure is optimized for user workflows rather than developer workflows. Dependency management becomes even more complicated and fragile than it already is. So in terms of JS inclusions you get pre-compiled stuff instead of the source, because WP doesn't have a dependency and build system.

The best strategy to solve that is to _avoid_ dependencies, _especially_ plugins-level dependencies, like hell and have only a minimal vetted list of those. Most functionality plugins provide are again, optimized for users who will only ever touch the GUI and are typically completely unnecessary, too complex and are often painful to interact at the code level.

Plus as a kind of important aside: there is another issue with providing plugins with pre-compiled JS and other stuff without the source. I'm pretty sure it violates the GPL license[0] to do so or is at least a grey area. Would be happy to hear of more knowledgeable people about this issue.

TL;DR: When developing with WP, avoid dependencies and especially plugins. There is already enough accidental complexity as is.

[0] https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/getting-started/wordp...
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I think you're locked into a Capitalist view there.

What you say amounts to "without rich people to pay every time they do some work poor people wouldn't be able to build houses". I don't buy it. I think it's perfectly possible to organise society without the driving force being "how can we as a society benefit this tiny cadre of super-rich people without pissing-off everyone else enough that they revolt".

Of course you need to wrest control from the people who can buy "mind control", and vote to allow corruption from the ruling party (cf UK parliament yesterday).

>All of this extra development spurred by investment money pouring in leads to lower rents for everyone //

The more we give to the rich the cheaper everything will be for us plebs, yeah, you're going to have to spend a bit more on your PR to press that idea home.
The technologically unwitting reality of the Indian MSME sector
If aspiration is such an obvious solution why isn't this information immediately broadcasted to all the doctors and nurses, as many of these are still mind boggled when you ask for aspiration?
He didn't find an alternative. The university did.
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I'm a daily Emacs user, and happily use a 100 line init.el, mostly composed of "enable this mode".

Emacs supports customization needs to the nth degree, but I've found that this is a false economyy.

I agree Emacs needs to be easier to get started with.
It varies a lot! Some places in Finland are almost exactly like some places in America. Huge windowless stores next to a big road. You are supposed to drive from one big parking lot to the next. There are also inside playgrounds for kids and gyms in some of these big box buildings.

https://www.google.fi/maps/@60.2791313,24.9709347,3a,75y,66....

There is usually a bike and pedestrian way also, and there are buses going there too. But it's not human scale. The inside is divorced from the outside. In the winter it's a pretty noir experience as you visit these places after you get out of work, when you need to buy some lumber etc. It's dark and it rains, it's +1 C, there's a highway close by and the orange light from street lights and the car head and tail lights are lighting up the place. Salty water and brown sleet is splashing there from the large mass of cars driving around, and the constant noise from the studded tires. There is no cover, no trees, nothing living really except some barely struggling grass on some traffic dividers. These are built outside city centers, near the outer ring roads. Land is cheap. It used to be a field 30 years ago.

And vice versa, some places in America are just like some nice places in Europe, like a lot of Boston.
Emacs should have been what VSCode is now - a powerhouse of customizability that offers unmatched functionality by default. Instead it's a toy for some old people who are still holding onto the remnants of an age that passed a long time ago. Emacs is basically useless compared to VS Code, and its authors are what's holding it back. I don't see it bouncing back to popularity any time soon.

Anything you can do in Emacs, you can do in VS Code faster, better, and easier.

Emacs is being steered by a committee of living fossils that look condescendingly on people who expect a text editor to be discoverable, easy to learn, and productive out of the box. They make passive aggressive comments ridiculing anyone who wants Emacs to behave remotely like any other program. With this kind of leadership, it will be dead in a few years.
>Companies providing and selling food, energy, and consumer staples are investment materials.

>companies that grow or sell food.

House builders would be the analogous party to that. The parent comment is describing landlords, specifically part-time landlords who buy up family homes and turn them into rental properties. Your analogy doesn't apply to those landlords.
>And are the landlords just leaving the house empty for the hell of it?

No, but a landlord who got into the market early when properties were dirt cheap can leverage that and buy more and more for renting them out, reducing the supply and increasing the competition if you want to buy your first property and not be a renter your whole life. You know, like when you want to settle down and have kids, you're gonna be out-muscled by a landlord who already has 3 properties and is is looking to buy 2 more.

>housing is a surprisingly flexible commodity (too expensive, people live with parents/share, and then move back out if prices fall)

The thing is this is one of the reason why birth rates are so low in rich western cities. How can you expect people to start families if you expect adults to live in shared accomodations or move in with their parents?

Having access to cheap, spacious housing that's just for living and not part of someone's investment vehicle, would definitely make "nesting" an enticing proposition for young adults, like it was for the boomer generation. But if you expect them to bum around between living with roommates and living with their parents like adolescents, and their only hope of nesting being to grind away after years in university at some soul-sucking job 40+ hours/week plus commutes just to afford a bank loan for a shoe-box that they'll have to pay off till they die, then of course they'll realize this expectation of their life is a scammy wage-salve trap and say "to hell with that, I'd rather stay single, childless and free and spend my time and money on travelling, clubbing, netflix, meme-stocks and videogames".

But of course, fat chance to get governments to admit their policies of enriching the banks, property investors and the older owning class by squeezing the young is the cause of this. To them, the real reason why the young can't afford to settle down is because "these pesky millennials and zoomers spend all their money on iphones and avocado toast, so to fix this we'll allow uncontrolled mass immigration from the third world".

Housing can't be an affordable necessity for starting a family that everyone should have access to while at the same time being an investment vehicle design to enrich their owners. It's either one or the other and most of the west has chosen the latter while talking how the former is more important.

In Austria, the goverment isn't even hiding the fact that housing is officially an investment vehicle, with the conservative party throwing the blame back on the people for not having bought properties as the reason why they stay poor and can't afford to keep up with rent increases. Despicable!
Thats 32,000 pounds. In a single day. If I ate 5 pounds of food a day, it would take me nearly 18 years to eat that much!

Any shithead who hunts these magnificent animals deserves to be locked up for life
Serious question about socially ethical investing.

Is one truly making a statement and helping Evilcorp by buying stock?

Or is it more of a zero sum game where it's going to the market price with or without you; might as well make more money there and use the winnings somewhere more socially responsible?
I've studied English and by jingo I'm going to put that education to use! Concordantly! Vis-a-vis! Ergo! Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcaniosis!

(I love how that last one is even in my browser's spell checker)
I use Emacs GUI. I like the desktop integration, mouse support, rich fonts/themes.
Here in Norway McDonalds advertises that it only uses Norwegian beef in their burgers: https://www.mcdonalds.com/no/nb-no/maten-vaar/raavarer-og-le...

"Mesteparten av råvarene våre stammer fra norske bønder.

Vi bruker for eksempel kun 100% norsk storfekjøtt, kun norske økologiske egg og norske poteter – og når sesongen tillater det, bruker vi norsk salat, tomat og løk. Vi vet at kundene våre ønsker norske råvarer, og derfor er vi helt og holdent avhengige av norske bønder. Ingen bonde – ingen burger. Kanskje er det din nabobonde som har levert råvarene til akkurat ditt McDonald's-måltid?"

Translated by Google because I am too lazy to type my own translation:

"Most of our raw materials come from Norwegian farmers.

For example, we use only 100% Norwegian beef, only Norwegian organic eggs and Norwegian potatoes - and when the season allows, we use Norwegian salad, tomato and onion. We know that our customers want Norwegian raw materials, and therefore we are completely dependent on Norwegian farmers. No farmer - no burger. Maybe it's your neighbor's farmer who delivered the ingredients for your McDonald's meal?"
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Many anecdotal reports coming in where people start experiencing side effects 3+ weeks after the vaccine.

But anyway, of course you can't link any of this back to the vaccine. Especially without control group.
I think you are over stating the flexibility of moving out, getting a roommate, or moving in with your parents.
What if your parents moved into a smaller residence and can't fit a family?
Thanks!

> everything is straight forward to write the elm way.

Same could be said for React and Angular I guess; but mainstream drama is easily forgotten. :)
what would be the implication wrt external banking services that use open source software? (echoes the cloud databases story...)
Investment banks at that time were a little bit different.
I am a big fan of Angular (2+). While I can't exactly say I now enjoy front-end development 20 years into it, I can say it is a much more enjoyable experience than it used to be.

I'm coming at it from a strong OOP background, and while people call it "opinionated" I have no problem with that. My current project is Angular v12 and C# .Net 5 for APIs and it all just works, C# developers who don't have experience with SPAs can read the code and see at a glance what is going on. "We can inject the UserService in the constructor here and get the current ID", etc.

I have worked with React but it seems to come from the other direction, JS-first, and is constantly changing how you should approach things, from hooks to routing.
Same with the EU. Old continent doing things old minds do...

It won't help them but will still do a lot of damage. And they wonder why people don't trust a single word they say. Poor representatives...
Perhaps he is compassionate for people who are not bereft of compassion. His point is about as valid as the parent post's.
Because of Covid I've been remote since last year. It's still an evolving situation. But things have worked out pretty well.

Our CEO was also remote during that time too and here's him giving a webinar from a cabin :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXPDXbrPdxI&ab_channel=Beaco....
it's also not entirely true, I know of some hedge funds that have made significant contributions to open source codebases (including Python)
I always feel like functional programming languages start with some math major looking at traditional OOP code and thinking "ITS TOO READABLE!!"
Everyone's different like that. I do 6-7 hours of sleep a night which is not ideal but a stable enough middle ground. I get 'stressed' (best word I can think of) if I don't get enough sleep, or more of a worry that I haven't gotten enough sleep. We tend to catch up in the weekends though.
Apropos of that anecdote, here's why I'm leaving Backblaze. Details from memory so a little fuzzy.

I liked Backblaze and paid well in advance. At the time of this issue, something like a year's credit left on my account. I migrated one Macbook Pro to another (the old one had a hardware issue) and followed Backblaze's documentation to ensure the migrated computer was still backing up, taking over the previous backup.

Cue my surprise a couple of months later when I get an email saying my account is unpaid and data will be deleted. After months (literally) of email with Support it turns out the Backblaze documentation was incorrect, and the steps to ensure the migrated computer took over the old backup also created a new, empty backup before taking over the old one (this was part of installing the software.) That backup was never used - it was created as part of installation unknown to me. But the unused, empty backup showed up in the account as unpaid. Despite a year's credit on my account, Backblaze's response was that deleting data for all other backups on the account was their best action.

I couldn't get Support to fix this. I ended up emailing Brian. He forwarded it on to someone who also didn't fix it. It's a remarkably simple problem (delete the unused backup, verify the account status is ok) but once again, Support seemed inactive.

I got desperately tired of emails that had no effect. I'm now buying a local NAS and plan to back it up via rsync.net. I wish them good luck with the IPO, but if you're a decision-maker looking for a backup solution, you have to question if you want to trust a company who's unable or unwilling to fix a straightforward issue, or if you want to trust a backup company whose default response seems to be that they'll delete your data. I don't.
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I've been using emacs for approximately 30 years. Every once in a while, someone ask me what editor or IDE I suggest they learn, and I never suggest emacs. It's incredibly powerful, but it's a fossil.

I keep using emacs mostly because of muscle memory.
I have gone through interview rounds a few months ago at several of the companies the author mentions in the blog post and I can confirm that the range seems about right. The offers I received for their EU offices were between €120k - €170k (total comp).

But - compared to what I have heard about the US, the variance between offers is much more extreme in the EU, depending on whether these companies only compete in the local market or globally, and it is really hard to figure this out before going through the whole process. I have been surprised by a few companies that pay very competitive salaries in the US but which are barely competitive compared to some of the salaries I know from local companies here in the EU.

So yeah, it is possible to find these salaries in the EU, but they will still be considerably lower than what you can expect in the US and the bad offers are harder to weed out in the EU.
Up until the point where people start organizing things as facebook events and you are out of luck if you don't have an account.
As an aside, and because we are talking about yeast, McDonald's burger buns are not really dough based risen bread. It's baked foam. Like they squirt it out all foamy and then bake it. (It's possible that no yeast is used, but I'm not sure)
You would probably be more productive in VS Code with an empty config.
Yes, buying (and in turning raising the price of) stock does help the corporation
Holy Shrimp!
Nothing whatsoever has changed about the power imbalance between people and government. The only thing different between the tea party and now is that back then, a lot of people were willing to kill, be killed, and be jailed for their political beliefs. Almost no one at all is still willing to risk this.

I could write a whole thesis, and I'm sure someone has, about the decline of honor or idealism or whatever you want to call this spirit. Point is, the valuation of the self has never been so high in history before, nor the comforts. Who is going to risk death by cop today when they have such comfortable lives? And it's not just comforts, but a change in attitides; the tea party folk were quite comfortable, more than most today, and they were absolutely prepared for jail.
Just because it is expensive to learn Emacs doesn't meant that it isn't worth it. Fine, you aren't "going to put the time in". But what do you get then? A mess of programs and plugins that need to be replaced, rewritten or reconfigured all the time, and its not even close compared to a well managed Emacs setup.
Of all big tech companies Fb is

- the least innovative,

- has the worst corporate governance,

- purest advertising company,

- The CEO is not good but has dominant share of votes.

Facebook is relevant only because they spend their way out of trouble and buy competition. The US and EU regulators are going to remove that tactics. Good luck getting EU approval for any new Whatsapp, Instagram acquisition.

There is no clear avenue for them to stop doing the negative things they do, but they are not even trying. They just treat it as PR problem.
Yes, Helsinki. A capital city. Which is where most of these comparisons end. In most European countries, people have trouble even affording a place close to a larger or capital city unless they inherited money or already live there, at which point the quality of transport rapidly diminishes (same goes for a place in that city with good connections). That includes young professionals working in tech.

When you have to go home by midnight as a student / young professional living outside the city because public transport service ends (or even before that because you don't want to get stranded), or you live somewhere off the beaten path, or even the other party lives off the beaten path a little, getting a car to drive at least a part of that becomes more and more enticing.

I say this knowing that improving public transport to reduce the number of roads and cars on the road has been a topic for a few decades now, and even the most obvious national lines aren't being funded in my country, whereas there is money to create more roads and maintain older roads. I don't doubt The Netherlands is far better than the US, but while possible, there are still tons of hurdles to overcome in going car-less. Japan is another example, where the cities do it much better than we do, but the outskirts arguably do it worse.
Car traffic is still prioritised, the new slussen is still an 8 lane highway right through the middle of the city, and the biggest reason it's downsized is that the ring road is now finished. And the biggest reason why Stockholm is managing to be so "car free" is because the highways are in tunnels underground.
You don't have to live like this. I recommend you find some new friends not connected with your work - join a choir or maybe an improv group
>The executive branch and candidates for presidency are explicitly obligated to believe and follow Islamic and Sharia laws.

Oh come one. Is the US not a democracy because the executive branch and candidates for presidency are explicity obligated to believe and follow the constitution?

As a Canadian I've personally benefited from the US hegemony and if I had to pick a least-rapacious global hegemon historically you'd be in the running. But I see comments like this and I can't help but feel like the US might have 'Earned' the same kind of 'Democracy' its three-letter boys brought Libya.
Nice project. It reminds me of dogelang (dg) for Python: https://pyos.github.io/dg/
"Most of Europe is more or less walkable"

Europe is not just Berlin, Helsinki and Paris.

There are a lot of very rural areas where you need a car to get things done.
IIRC he claimed they feed deep and poop shallow.
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