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When I worked at IBM, I met John Backus, the inventor of functional programming. I definitely didn't get it at the time, but have since become an evangelist.

This article makes several good points about FP and why everyone can benefit from having functional techniques in their recipe book.

But it's missing the key fact that introduces problems, which is that there is really no such thing as functional programming in toto because every program must rely on hidden values and have side effects in order to be useful. So functional, in a way, is a myth that we sustain in order to get the benefits he mentions, which are mostly bulletproofing and debug-ability.

In reality, all programs are imperative because the processor is imperative; it does only one thing at a time and in a certain order. Einstein said, "Make things as simple as possible, but no simpler," and this can be said of functional programming, too. Whenever there is a possibility of eliminating a closure, or using immutable, typed data, or composing functions into each other, we should consider the possibility of refactoring to a more functional style -- but that doesn't mean we should just do it. The trade off is that FP is more difficult to write and hides bugs better than imperative code. There are fewer bugs when you're done, but it's harder to get there.

One thing I've started to do in my own code is to declare, in the comments, whether a function is purely functional or if it relies on closures or globals. Having these "flags" at the top of every function shows me places where I might want to refactor to remove some of those potential holes.
My honest advice: If possible, start looking for a new job.

Not sure where you live but my expectation is that the employer should provide the developers with good computers.
It's a crappy company that can't business expense 2k on employees work station...

In case you are in shit part of the world (everything except USA and west EU) complete couple of years to put something on your CV then get the hell outta there, otherwise start looking for a new job right away
It wouldn't make sense the other way around, since whenever individual rights contradict that of the State's, the federal court(s) would effectively undo the basis of their sovereignty.
I was curious how staffing in classical orchestras work and below is a good explanation from Quora (about the US).

https://www.quora.com/How-does-seating-and-hiring-firing-in-...

My former teacher (he's been a concertmaster of a major city symphony for years, and is also well versed in the different ways in which one can ask "Did you actually practice?") wrote this explanation:

Think of it as management and labor. Management is Executive Director, Music Director, Principal Guest, staff, etc. Labor is orchestra musicians. Then you have the Board, which is there to raise money. Then you have the volunteers. Bear in mind, orchestras are non-profit, 501(c)(3).

So between management and musicians there is a CBA, or collective bargaining agreement. Just like the Major League Baseball has one between players and owners. In the CBA, you'll find chapters on hiring and firing. Each Symphony has its own CBA.

Usually, hiring is done by auditions behind a screen. If you're hired, your first year is the probationary period (sometimes two years). At the end of it, if management deems you fit for the job, you are granted tenure, just like at a university when you're applying for a teaching position. You don't need to re-audition, unless it is for a different title (from section to title chair, etc.), in which case you do. Firing, if it must come down to it, is also explained in the CBA.

The big symphonies are part of AFM (American Federation of Musicians). Then you have regional orchestras, community orchestras, etc. Some might be unionized, some not, but essentially it sort of works the same way.

Some concertmasters, like in England, are contracted outside the CBA, so they may be on a 3 or 4 yr contract, or more. But I think it the US, most are part of the CBA.
https://old.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/g5zvpa/ps... - is probably the most succinct from that thread. Your challenge isn't just learning Cobol - that's relatively simple. It's all the surrounding infrastructure that is also very different - different OS, different file system, different database, front-end is 80x24 green and then you get into source control, build and devops which will all be different.
Let me get this straight. There was very little evidence and the evidence we did have didn't point to Iraq, but they were a legitimate suspect?

You have to realize how this sounds, but I'll keep an open mind to interpreting what you're saying hospitably if you'd like to explain your reasoning.
If I'm not mistaken, Melkor (Morgoth) created orcs by corrupting elves. Saruman created Uruk-Hai by breeding orcs with humans.
Outlawing contraception is next?

You don't think that's melodramatic?
> does this mean the parents force the children to stand on their own feet and not extend to them financial support or do you mean they cut them off of their money as is. don't these people know about inheritance?

More or less, yeah. In America, you are expected to be your own person when you turn 18. That almost always means having a job and paying for a place to live, even if it means flipping burgers and renting a room at mom and dad's house.

Though, I've been reconsidering that expectation with all these articles over the past few years of parents helping their kids with down payments on their kid's houses. Now there's parent plus student loans.

Inheritance? Many older adults also live paycheck to paycheck and are drowning in debt, and might explain how eager some parents are to kick their kids out. In America, inheritance usually only happens when both parents die, but many kids won't see a penny of inheritance.
The iPhone at 15: An Inside Look at How Apple Transformed a Generation
Personally, I don't really have an issue with staying late (a little after 5:30 I need to start dinner so it can be ready by 6:30-7:00, I'm kind of a slow cook).

My motivation to try this is more for shifting to hobby mode and being productive when I go back after dinner, as I've been super unproductive after work lately.
Nope, based on the same article a few lines lower:

> The burden of dementia is increasing exponentially especially in Asia-Pacific region, where more than 60% of the population reside [34]. The prevalence of dementia seems to be higher in developed countries, like Japan and Korea, than in countries with low incomes in Asia. A Japanese study found that the prevalence of dementia equals 11% among those aged more than 65 years [35, 36], whereas a Korean one found the prevalence of 6.3% [17]. Another study conducted in Korea, the Seoul study, showed that the prevalence of dementia, excluding very mild cases, was about 5.3% for overall dementia and 4.3% for AD [37].

> The prevalence of dementia greatly varies between different ethnic groups living in the same country, like in Singapore, that is probably the most multicultural region of Asia. A Singaporean study showed low standardized dementia prevalence among the ethnic Chinese (2.5% among the elderly) when compared to the ethnic Malays (4.0% among the elderly) and this finding was independent of the frequency of vascular risk factors [18]. Whereas these differences are due to different genetics or lifestyle it remains a matter of debate.
True, but that eliminates people who belong to groups that we no longer recognize at all. We don't recognize slaves at all, so that slaves can't own guns doesn't matter. Nobody would complain about a law that makes it illegal for slaves to own guns: there are no slaves. Laws that blacks or women are somehow different and thus cannot own guns might be historically supported, but today we elevate those groups to the same level as white land owners, and so they get the rights of white land owners.
> Ever heard of Sandstorm by Darude? Yeah that has nothing to do with this

Yes, I have. I still remember some girl I dragged into my student slum shared house widening her eyes and asking "Do you have an older brother or something? Why is your library a bunch of Nine Inch Nails or whatever? That's a very old album." and I immediately shot back something to the effect of "I pirate everything because I'm not some rich bitch from Fox Chapel -- I just look at what's well seeded, those weird Russian pill vendors have good taste in EDM, and your stupid CD store got too good at spotting shoplifters."

(Yeah, that also has nothing to do with this, but HN needs to have more creative nonfiction and less "Uh sir, this comment is not appropriate for LinkedIn" energy.)
KDE Plasma Mobile Gear 22.06
So is the implication that the current ~$20k BTC is a "floor" in response to the discussed selling pressures from stablecoins, end of stimulus and holdings by miners?
Res Tokens: Anonymous Credentials for Onion Service DoS Resilience
Some of that plays into questions about why the Roman Empire didn't advance more technologically than it did. One of the explanations I've read is that, given ubiquitous slave labor, there was no need for labor saving devices which has been one of the drivers of industrialization.
They aren't different colors. They have are a standard color with a standard sprinkle, but the details of the sprinkle are unique, like a (real) fingerprint.
> The mission for the rangers isn't to militarily defend the region as a garrisoning force, it's to suppress any news or investigation of the Shire to keep it secret.

Reference please.

The Rangers do protect the Shire but there are no references to a 'secrecy' mission in the book IIRC.

There are main roads that pass nearby that are travelled at least by Dwarves and Elves. Frodo and the other hobbits themselves see Dwarves drinking at the Prancing Pony in Bree, where discussion of the Shire would undoubtedly have happened.

Saruman is also aware of the Shire, if only because Gandalf kept on about it.
Because real life has feature creep!
Sometimes you catch people in low energy or bad moods. It doesn't excuse the behaviour but try not to take it personal.

My trick is to write the wtf in pending review then go and look later in the day if it's still valid. Often I just needed to eat something and I'll be over it.
Show HN: Soda Core is now GA – Test data like you would test your code
Nope! More precision sure helps but not in all cases. For example, having more precision will not help in boundary problems where you have to decide if something (for example an amount of money) is above or below a threshold.

Moreover, many problems related to money) must compute with limited accuracy. For example, all intermediary results must be in 1/1000th of euros. You can use floats (yeah, I know, everybody say it's a no go) or fixed point, but in the end, you absolutely can't avoid thinking about rounding.
One day a fisherman was lying on a beautiful beach, with his fishing pole propped up in the sand and his solitary line cast out into the sparkling blue surf. He was enjoying the warmth of the afternoon sun and the prospect of catching a fish.

About that time, a businessman came walking down the beach trying to relieve some of the stress of his workday. He noticed the fisherman sitting on the beach and decided to find out why this fisherman was fishing instead of working harder to make a living for himself and his family. “You aren’t going to catch many fish that way,” said the businessman. “You should be working rather than lying on the beach!”

The fisherman looked up at the businessman, smiled and replied, “And what will my reward be?”

“Well, you can get bigger nets and catch more fish!” was the businessman’s answer.

“And then what will my reward be?” asked the fisherman, still smiling.

The businessman replied, “You will make money and you’ll be able to buy a boat, which will then result in larger catches of fish!”

“And then what will my reward be?” asked the fisherman again.

The businessman was beginning to get a little irritated with the fisherman’s questions. “You can buy a bigger boat, and hire some people to work for you!” he said.

“And then what will my reward be?” repeated the fisherman.

The businessman was getting angry. “Don’t you understand? You can build up a fleet of fishing boats, sail all over the world, and let all your employees catch fish for you!”

Once again the fisherman asked, “And then what will my reward be?”

The businessman was red with rage and shouted at the fisherman, “Don’t you understand that you can become so rich that you will never have to work for your living again! You can spend all the rest of your days sitting on this beach, looking at the sunset. You won’t have a care in the world!”

The fisherman, still smiling, looked up and said, “And what do you think I’m doing right now?”
OK... so my guess is that for whatever reason they don't want to purchase a new machine (a bit of a red flag) and they handed some old machine they still had to the new, junior, guy. Not a great sign but it happens. Did you do your internship on your own computer? (Really a red flag if you did)

The constructive way to go at it is to present a "business case", i.e. to explain how a better machine would make you more productive and help the company. But if that's simply the way they operate I would not push too much.

You should probably send CVs around.
>And why shouldn't they.

I'm not making the argument that they shouldn't.

Rather, we were discussing the interesting situation where people that don't believe in unrestricted late term abortion use the same phrase.

It is interesting because it can ratchet up disagreement by signaling a more extreme position than they actually hold.

Pro-life and pro-choice are such poorly defined positions that someone with a middle option can easily classify as either
Ok, I see what you mean. I wonder if you can use a custom Hacker News site/reader that might help somehow?
I'm sorry, I should have added that in the post; the company doesn't enforce BYOD. They do provide work machines to its employees. In my case, they offered an even weaker machine than mine.

I am unsure of the appropriate way to raise this matter with the employer, or if I am in a position to make such a request.
No, it's the 40th anniversary of the film's release.
As a candidate I wouldn't care what you sound like. You are just the guy providing me the question and being the obstacle to my higher TC, not bothered about your tone.
Yeah I agree this is a lot more like Audacity. But if it has chapter support and clips can be aligned like in something like a regular DAW, it has an advantage.
Ego, power, and/or mental illness? Zuckerberg and Musk come to mind.
I ignore style check nitpick comments.

Fix your linter and autoformatter.

You don't pay me to lint code.
I agree, had a difficult time watching it and the remake. Although I think it's similar to Cyberpunk 2077 for me. That game is not the greatest but the environment & world is what piques my interest.
Early 2021, Tom Baeyens (creator of Activiti) and I started working on an open-source library to collect metrics and test data in SQL accessible tables (Apache 2.0). The goal was to make it easy for data engineers to catch data issues as early as possible in their data pipelines. We called it Soda SQL and our community of data engineers grew to over 1,000 Slack users and 35,000 downloads. Users liked Soda Core because of its easy of use, minimal dependencies, and SQL-first mentality.

In the first year, we kept on adding features to the library based on the input of hundreds of data engineers, dozens of which ended up contributing back to the project (thank you so much for being part of our journey). As a community, we added support for additional SQL dialects, introduced a programmatic interface, added operators for Airflow and Prefect, and make it easy to collect and store failed rows.

About 5 months ago, we felt like we were hitting some of the boundaries of the original scope of Soda SQL. We also wanted to introduce a new way to define checks on data, that was much more compact and human readable for everyone involved (including the non techies). Therefore, we decided to start from scratch and pour all our learnings into Soda Core. Today, our team is super excited to share with you that, after a good 2 months in beta, we’re ready to release Soda Core in GA.

Some of the key features of Soda Core are: (i) Human readable and writable checks (ii) Check data in Spark & SQL using fixed and dynamic thresholds (iii) 25+ built-in metric & check types (iv) Ability to manage check files as code

What’s next? (i) Support for Kafka and Pandas (ii) More check types e.g. compare datasets when releasing new analytics code (iii) Natively support additional orchestration and CI/CD tools

Would love to hear your thoughts!
I think we should do that more often when the OP can't be bothered adding a non-paywall link, given we're not allowed to moan about it.

A re-imagining seems a good compromise.
It could just be where I've chosen to live, but I have never seen a new "lower tier" apartment building go up. It's been "luxury" apartments (though actually built fairly cheaply, just expensive to rent…) 100% of the time.
I had a github profile once, but a conflict with the Go team lead to my account being blacklisted (flagged). So I deleted 150+ repos from it and the account.
I host my own gogs and recently gitea instances now and there is little public code there.
The public code is not representative and I won't give you access to my private code.

I also won't do pre-noon interviews.

If you start pressuring me I'll revoke the application.

You can be lucky I even applied to your company, despite all the bs buzzword requirements you have posted you have no clue about what they mean.

I am very angry at current hype driven job ads.
And yes I wager they're more of an ad for the company than actual job ads.

From some ads where I sent my application to I have never even heard back, which means they probably sold my info.

Even reading all those job ads is tiresome. Most don't even write if they're ok with 100% remote. Most don't even write if it's ok to not work 100% full time. Most don't write how much they're willing to pay.
Most job ads are just a waste of time spicked with bs trendy buzzwords.

I'm so pissed at the whole state of everything.
No, I agree. It's a slow movie, the acting and writing are kind of bad, and it failed to drive home the themes explored in the book its based on, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. The book asked what it meant to be human, and pointed out some of the ironies of humans claiming empathy is what makes humans human, while simultaneously being completely callous towards other humans (by abandoning the masses on a dying Earth) and androids (who are conscious but enslaved and doomed to a short lifespan), and intentionally manipulating their feelings with essentially drugs. It was an entertaining read, which I picked up after watching the movie and feeling similarly confused. The movie kind of missed all that.

The redeeming factor of the film for me was its visual style, which was innovative for its time, and defined the cyberpunk aesthetic that we are familiar with today. The dark dystopian ecumenopolis, neon lights, giant ads, flying cars, etc.

Also worth pointing out that there were several different versions of the film, and some of them have a worse ending than others.
Right the CEO is Gen X

They would be the same age

And with that level of inequality it would be much less interesting to elope with someone that age.

Some people think “I like relatable people and I cant relate to people under a certain age, what do you talk about” which simply means they tried the hot younger person first/eventually like everyone else and if they had any game or tolerance they would be with that younger sexier person

sexier by the definition of improved utility of sex henceforth making them more sexually attractive at all
I think you’d have to actively seek a job somewhere that has running COBOL and then express interest in picking it up. They’d probably be happy to have you, but you wouldn’t be making the big bucks. That would have to wait until you had a decade of experience and then venture out on your own as a consultant or get hired by a specialized outsourcing firm.
Anti-Abortion Centers Find Pregnant Teens Online, Then Save Their Data
An argument I like to make in cases like this is the relatively low cost of a good machine, both in relation to salaries and to cheaper machines (the base cost is already more than 50%). This is a classic argument of focusing the cost savings on moving costs, where your employer clearly does the opposite thing here.
With all due respect to the experts
He joined the company in 2019 and he's leaving it now in 2022/2023. Maybe he didn't like to be WFH CEO?
For a device of this size, I would measure productivity gains in terms of accuracy rather than speed. That is to say: I don't expect to type as fast as I would on a full size keyboard, but I would expect to be more productive than I would be with a touchscreen keyboard. Whether the ortholinear layout affects that, I don't know. Admittedly, the small spacebar buttons probably would.
Yes. It starts from $19 per card(including all charges. shipping free).
Generally speaking the kind of person who doesn't find work enjoyable will not spend enough of their time on it to achieve the success necessary to acquire the money that would let them live a life of leisure.

The workaholics are running things and they can't believe everyone else doesn't want to be like them, which is why I'm spending 40 hours a week at a job where I do actual work maybe 3 hours a week.
I find the whole dominant submissive thing misleading. I’m sexually submissive (or at least that’s what populates my fantasies) but tend to be more dominant in real life. Then: women tend to manage day to day life with me and “tell me what to do” (this occasionally crosses some wires in my head too) but I’m the one to take bolder decisions (initiatives, but my partners tend to follow my lead) like moving houses/cities, making large purchases, having children.

My dad (from an older, perhaps more misogynistic generation) always said he and mom had an equal relationship but he was Captain of the ship. This has been the rule in my life: in crises, when taking bold steps forward, when taking risks, make-or-break decisions, I’m the Captain. Even if I often tried (before kids) to have women with my play the domination game outside the bedroom too.

I’m an existential dominant, I guess.
I dunno. I've read a lot of GPT output. It lacks a certain consistency over medium scales. The big picture checks out, and the word-by-word grammar checks out, but the sentence-by-sentence information often isn't cohesive, or certain entity references change over time.

Text-to-image algos did the same thing for a while, but you look at the latest full-size DALL-E and it's pretty much flawless.

https://openai.com/dall-e-2/

If I were considering art school, I'd certainly be reconsidering my options. Maybe there are some defects in the output, but nothing photoshop can't fix.

I think where humans win out (for now) is where a high degree of specificity/precision is needed (e.g. graphic design). Or certain legal requirements are present - AI art can't be copyrighted at this time - such as logo design.
> Once you answer yes to this question you are criminally liable for whatever is in the suitcase.

Can you share examples of this happening, where the conviction dependent on that admission?
Around here it seems to be a guy chasing around no more than five leaves for several hours.
No, no, no.

You’re telling me the situation is more contentious than the 30’s when FDR was trying to pass his New Deal during the greatest economic collapse the US has ever known?

No. Your reply and your hyperbole suggest you don’t know much about the court’s history.