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Do you have any citations about the USSR's industrialization at gun point? From what I know it was opposite - the peasants had been bound to their "kolhoz" (collective farm) and could not leave. It was implemented through internal passports[1], which were not issued to peasants.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolhoz#Kolkhoz_life_under_Stali...
An issue of Journal of the ACM featured all six.
That did not save a byte. Commodore Basic did not store source code; it stored tokenized source code, with 'print' taking a single byte (http://www.c64-wiki.com/index.php/BASIC_token)
That's a good question, and a fair one. I did take a few stabs at it, but other programmers resisted any changes to their workflow that would have been required if a different source code representation were used. They really could read that code by sight. The LIST annotator slotted right into their workflow by highlighting the numbers they wanted to focus on---the English-like representation to the right was almost completely ignored---the arrows and boldface highlighting in the numeric listing, along with the line numbers, were what they used. Editing still had to be done on the raw numeric files, in KEDIT.

Of all the tools I tried introducing, LIST was the only one that was adopted. It took off spectacularly well and was beloved.
I've heard this before, but there is only so much you can do. You can't be constantly calling your manager on his bullshit. What kind of relationship are you going to have this way?

I agree with you to the extent that you can give hints and ask the manager one or two tough questions. Once the OP raised the issue with the lost money and the case was dismissed, that's all you can do.

Some managers are passive-aggressive, they will exploit the peace and just sit and wait to be confronted about everything. And any confrontation labels you abrasive or without respect for authority and that puts you into a losing situation. You must know what kind of person you are dealing with. A bad manager is a bad manager. Best option is to leave asap, if you have a bad manager you will never advance your career.
As to the point about Soviet economy,Marx didn't actually have any real plan for how socialism should work, aside from a couple pamphlets he wrote that lacked any real detail. I guess the plan was to play it by ear once the almighty revolution happened. From a business perspective, it strikes me as something close to "Let's implement a product with literally tens of millions of features in a single sprint, and if we fail millions of people will starve to death!" [1]

A good accessible book to read, if you're interested in Soviet economic planning, is Red Plenty. Yes, it's fiction, but very much targeted at people who think linear programming and algorithmic complexity aren't out of place in a fiction book.

[1] That's a bit unfair, in a perverse way, as most of the mass famines we hear about with tens of millions of deaths weren't an accidental byproduct of bad planning but a conscious decision to destroy political enemies or demographics that statistically were less likely to support the regime. From an implementation point of view, the mass economic dislocations the USSR experienced in the revolutionary period were less than I might expect.
Some of those innovators might want to dial back the self-congratulations and get busy innovating decent, affordable housing.
There are many ways to spend tax money that aren't directly related to welfare: military, infra-strucure for the private sector (docks, airports), industry, research...

I believe that a state that taxes and redistributes wealth is enforcing some level of common ownership, so acting under socialist principles. A state that uses tax money and reverts back into public services though is more often said to be only a welfare state.
I don't know much about motorhomes: what is the bathroom/shower situation like?

Also, what's your internet configuration?
Let me know if I can help somehow!

Oh, and hey: many people do claim that the USSR wasn't actually _socialist_. You'll find two groups who do this: anarchists, and new Marxists who still have some liberal left in them. The USSR certainly claimed to be socialist, and was according to socialist principles.

The two groups will make this incorrect, revisionist claim because of two reasons. Anarchists want to bolster socialism while trashing statism, so they want to play up 'state socialism's failures. New Marxists will want to play down any perceived 'failures' of Marxism by distancing themselves from said 'failures.'
Yep. If your job could conceivably be done by an automaton, eventually it will be. Since we are just automatons, that means that every job could eventually be automated. Which is ok. I'd rather not have to work. But it's also basically proof that someday we'll need socialism because there will be no jobs at all.
And these are the people that we trust to handle our money. Sometimes it amazes me that the whole financial system hasn't already collapsed in a smoldering heap.
Youtube might have avoided ruin up until now, but it's suffering from suffocation by G+ and the same over-design afflicting Gmail.
Just because you have a distinct view on the future doesn't mean it's OK to push that view into others. Telling someone their job is going to be obsolete is akin to saying, "If you don't make the choice to get a new job in the next 15 years, it's likely you'll be out of a job." Honestly, if someone told me what I do for a living would be not needed soon, I'd probably go on a Tweet bender myself. It's a frightening proposition, even if it is interesting and exciting.
I think that @mixmax was mostly referring to the US border.
Given that Australian taxes really aren't as high as you portray them, what's stopping Australian entrepreneurs? If government money isn't the driver, then they should be able to source private money.

Really the issue is that Australia is a long way from consumer markets of any particular size. Australia has plenty of innovation, but it's not visible in general because it's not glitzy consumer-oriented hand-held stuff. In academia, we punch above our weight in medical research. Politically we've always been innovative - first place to legislate the 8-hour day, second to permanently bring the vote to women... and in the modern day, we're still trying new things, like the Minerals Rent Resource Tax. I myself have worked at one company that was at the bleeding edge of sleep medicine equipment, and at another company that was involved in high-tech agribusiness.

At the end of it all, it's easy to see Australia as not having the giants of the US in consumer products, but we don't have anywhere near the market size. We also don't have vast swathes of our shitty work being done by undocumented immigrants - the US economy requires this pool of labour to perform so well. To suggest it's just a matter of taxes and paperwork is misleading.
Sure, but the query goes through the layer of functions that actually deals with the database connection. If an error occurs, that layer is responsible and the "higher" layers simply pass on the exception that is thrown.

Point is: the function that deals with database response should never be responsible for dealing with database connection errors.
You'd be surprised. Consider the effort many game studios go through to get the testing done on a game before release. It is a pipe dream to think that everything can have a full automated test suite written for it. I suspect that the only things this is true for, are things which have been written so many times as to be almost trivial. (Not that we don't make enough mistakes on those systems...)

Though, maybe you were just questioning the "perfectly" portion. I mean "perfectly" in the sense of "validates all of the user's requirements." Not in the "covers all paths" or "anticipates all possible scenarios."

Consider, crash test dummies. This is a form of testing that is far far far more expensive than having a complete model of the system. Yet, we still do them. We do not rely solely on them, you say? Of course not. Apologies if it sounded like that was my point.

Edit: Also, it is also possible to use traditional QA tools without having a fully dedicated team. That is to say, unit tests are not a QA tool. Yet, we constantly try to replace the QA team with them.
I get that he's mentally ill (I read up on his OS the other day), but I do take exception to the repost of part of his comment. Because his comment is ridiculous. "Monkey" is meant as a racial slur. "American" is meant comparatively (where the smart people learn assembler!), not just incidentally. Taking it out of context like that doesn't make it salient just because it's not as obvious what it means.

So it's fine, I guess, not to judge him, but we ought to keep judging his comments, which are hellbanned for good reason.
1. Cities need places for the poor to live, that cannot go away unless you can completely automate unskilled labor, or make serious changes to transportation infrastructure.

2. Living in rural areas isn't always as cheap as you think. Gas, Food, Internet, Phone, TV, etc.
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I said plain text, not password. And it doesn't side-step anything because when you're in front of a judge and explain why you cannot provide plain text, they'll take your phone from you, get it to the location you tell them, and if none of that yields plain text, you go to jail. Two years, they give you for that.
I remember running across estimates that in Europe in the 1700s, 20-30% of the population was permanently displaced, and a large portion of those were bound to die unpleasant deaths. (Starvation and death through violence both ranking high.) This was not considered exceptional - this was considered an inevitable and unexceptional fact of life that nobody could change.

There would be good years. There were also bad. For bad consider that during the 1300s the population of much of Europe dropped by half due to climate changing the carrying capacity. (The Black Death didn't help either.) Despite a reproduction rate that was much higher than todays.

I submit that your idea of "not some picnic" is MASSIVELY nicer than what was accepted as daily reality.
Suggested reading material would be welcome. I have a reading list of economic and political philosophy I'm plowing through in roughly chronological order, but I'm only up to mid-19th century so far.
> Nobody wrote machine code this way.

I'd be careful about that claim.

It was not that unusual to "hand assemble" programs, as it was not that unusual to remember the codes. The 6502 has less than 60 documented opcodes (and quite a few undocumented ones with various weird but in some cases somewhat usable behaviour) and only a few addressing modes, and all opcodes are single byte, so knowing most or even all of them doesn't take that much exposure.

Some of those values are so ingrained that I still remember the decimal values, despite the fact that the moment I started using tools to work with assembly on the C64, it was all hex

e.g. 169 decimal is "load accumulator immediate" (LDA #[8 bit operand) on the 6502. (or A9 in hex)
Indeed I did. But how would anyone prove that this scenario isn't just hypothetical?
As long as the basic income implemented is much less than per-capita GDP, there's still opportunity and incentive to work to earn more, especially if the basic income level is set at a realistic poverty level that doesn't allow for much in the way of luxuries. And if the basic income only provides a net income boost to a minority of voters, then there will be electoral pressure to keep it low, rather than to keep increasing it. It's not a slippery slope we're discussing here so much as a slippery mountain with communism on the other side but some significant uphills between here and there.

I also don't think that a basic income would have as strong an inflationary effect as you think it would on the items necessary to survive on a basic income. Since the basic income would replace minimum wage, producers would be free to pay cheap labor much closer to fair market value, so the cost of the products of unskilled labor could drop significantly (offset by an increase in the price of luxuries due to higher income taxes).
Yeah, but google are destroying all their products with G+, YouTube isn't unique there.
> You can't be constantly calling your manager on his bullshit. What kind of relationship are you going to have this way?

No relationship, since if I find I _have_ to call my manager on bullshit repeatedly, why would I waste my time in that position ?

> A bad manager is a bad manager. Best option is to leave asap, if you have a bad manager you will never advance your career.

ah yeah you came to the same conclusion as me :) I thought you were saying, one should just tough it out upon finding oneself reporting to a bullshitty manager.
'We offer a competitive salary'

Details revealed upon speaking more but it's certainly attractive compared to the other SF Bay Area tech companies.
Thanks I'll try these for sure
I think I've counted at least six different variants of that obnoxious tout screen YouTube occasionally shows to convince you to convert your account over.
The Brazilian bank industry uses it for processing automated payments and receipts, but thankfully the formats are fairly standard across banks. Writing a parser and generator wasn't particularly hard, after finding enough documentation online.
> Just because you have a distinct view on the future doesn't mean it's OK to push that view into others.

I guess that's why he didn't. The conversation seemed to be very calmly introduced even when that lady had no idea of what was coming.
Awful. Shit breaks every time I drive it, and sometimes when I don't.

I am currently more interested in conversion buses (including some that are 60 years old). Even high quality modern rigs fall apart...and mine is not a particularly high quality rig. It was about $95k when new, and I bought it for ~$30k used. It was in decent shape when I got it, much less good shape now, though I'm in the midst of getting it back into shape for sale.

The things you mention, however, are mostly not the things that have been a problem on my rig. Cabinets are solid oak and holding up great. Plumbing has never had a problem.

Things that are problematic:

Ladder got smooshed by a tree when I backed into it. Got more smooshed by a light pole in Mexico with the roads were too small. A ladder is shockingly expensive to replace ($485 for an OEM replacement).

Windshield has been broken and replaced once, and now has new cracks in it. $500 deductible each replacement.

Day/night shades are nearly all a wreck. Restringing is cheap but time consuming. Replacing is very expensive.

Roof has sprung numerous leaks over the years. The slide out, in particular, has been a source of quite a bit of water damage inside the house. It's not terrible, but it's visible if you're looking for it. Water damage hurts resale value a lot, as it is difficult and expensive to repair. Roof needs new rubber. This is time consuming, and slightly expensive.

Air conditioner broke.

Leveling jacks are getting cranky.

Electric steps have broken three times in interesting ways (never the same breakage, but always makes them unusable or less usable).

Chassis battery broke loose and was on the verge of falling out of the bottom of the rig...I just happened to stop and check things at the right time. That would have probably been a bad day.

The carpets are wearing pretty poorly. Some of the upholstery is also looking a little bedraggled.

The exterior looks rough...the fiberglass itself is fine, but the decals are all peeling off and are cracked from sun exposure. I see why so many rigs this age are sold with decals removed...the rig would look a lot better that way, though it'd look kinda plain in all white.

So, yes, motorhomes are made to look good while new, and to fall apart over the next ten years. Some are built slightly better than others. But, none are made to last, as far as I can tell.
I work with MUMPS near enough every day, and I actually kind of enjoy it.

Ask me anything!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6312391

Also, this here thing is orders of magnitude worse than anything MUMPS and the comparison is very, very unfair.
When do you know that your idea is the right idea?
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I am a MUMPS programmer – Ask me anything
The vast majority of my work involves maintaining a system written in MUMPS, running on InterSystems Caché.

This may be the Stockholm syndrome speaking, but it's pretty alright. And I say this working with extensively with, among other things, Python and JavaScript also. My educational background is an MSc in Physics, so I'm also familiar with everything from MATLAB to LabVIEW to Assembler to PHP.

Ask me anything!
I don't understand how you even know who Storm is.
Those commenting here who haven't done so already should go read A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century. It's a great primer on what life was actually like back then, and what is and isn't known about the details.

http://www.amazon.com/Distant-Mirror-Calamitous-14th-Century...

The discussion on enclosures and factories seems like a red herring, as that whole mess took off too late in the timeline to be considered Medieval. At the point at which enclosures were happening in a widespread way in (for example) the UK, the economy was transitioned into a state of fairly steady growth in wealth and life expectancy over the long term that would, via compound gains, form the foundation of the Industrial Revolution.
It's published with an "Opinion" heading right at the top. The whole piece is clearly advocating an opinion that more leisure time is a good thing, for one.
> with the assumption that location truly is a choice and people have chosen to live somewhere cheaper

That's a terrible assumption to make. People often live where they do due to obligation to others (family usually). I would never work for a company that would consider cutting salary because they moved to a lower cost area. I also know several people that have quit a job rather than relocate to a lower cost part of the country with an employer as the relocation also included a cut in pay.
Whoops, that's a link to the LinkedIn main site. Which you probably already know about.

My real LinkedIn is here: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/mike-thvedt/11/5b4/9bb
It's not the whole UK - just England & Wales. ROS do the same job in Scotland (http://www.ros.gov.uk/); not sure about NI.

The land registry is woefully incomplete. Things only get into the registry when there's a change of ownership, and some land has been in the same family since the Domesday book. This was a problem when I used to work on software processing planning applications as some councils thought they could use the land registry to validate addresses.

The planning applications had great data in them if it could be opened up (eg they are generally submitted with a property boundary map!) but generally the councils wanted to either monetize this data or not release it at all; so you just get pdfs&metadata out, even when the user submitted in a vector format.
> This could be an interesting experiment on a small scale. Maybe a small-medium US state could try it and see what happens.

What if we had some big colony made for social/economic experiments? We could try out crazy things like basic income. Perhaps the experiments are opt-in/out, or maybe if you hate them, you can leave with paid relocation.

The population should be a microcosm of the US or a US city, and the goal should be to try weird things to get it close to a utopia, using the same budget as a comparable populous.
Not that I can locate. You may be thinking of Alameda or Angel Island.
Why is it misleading, when the racist drivel that surrounds it is clearly mostly or entirely a manifestation of his illness? (if you've followed his history, you'll have seen him much more lucid, and the religious and racist rants is something that has come as he's deteriorated)
Hmm... I should reframe this. I just noted it says personal. I didn't see the qualifier, ignore my previous post as it is for my actual business data (e.g. huge persisted data stores, logs, etc).

Personal looks like:

- Two or more personal computers (e.g. iMac and MBA) with SpiderOak syncing between.
- Once weekly I backup to disk (basic rsync), take said disk to safety deposit
box (as mentioned above), trade it out with another with the previous weeks data.
This makes sense for me (over AWS) for the amount of data I have,
the fact I do this anyways for my business, and that I do not trust most services
with my data.
- More recently, I've been doing a year-end permanent archive to disk going back
2 to 3 years.
I think this is an fascinating phase in our adjustment to truly ubiquitous mobile computing. A big part of the problem, in my opinion is how "social networking" (which happens to be massive part of being "connected") is heavily based on reputation, at least for we the users.

We want to get validation from others in form of likes, upvotes, positive comments, and shares, specifically because Social networks encourage this. They have designed their interaction models around this system, because its like crack ... literally, the dopamine shots you get from these activities keep you coming back for more. We're so focused on chasing the next social network "high" that we forget to actually pause and just "be".

I'm not sure how it will pan out, I imagine that eventually just like with everything else, there will be a backlash against this kind of behavior so that social networking in the future might actually focus on fostering deeper interactions with others instead of trying to double "page views" and "engagement"

I for one do not do much social networking, texting or whatever when I'm interacting with an experience or a person, thats just how I am. I do however try to get some memories of those experiences down because human memory is so terrible. This is why I'm not sure how I feel about recording concerts. On one hand those are once-in-a-lifetime experiences that I've found I can't relive without getting them down in video or photo (I rewatch my favorite concerts all the time and am immensely thankful I took the time to record them). On the other hand, I realize that people who want to get their social network high, will abuse the privilege to get a few more likes on instagram or facebook.

Its a toughie, and I realize I'm an outlier because I have begun to see the zombie-like behavior in younger people (I'm on the high end of the Millenial generation) ... I dated a girl who was constantly on her phone, and it was really really weird because that had never happened to me before. I also see young kids these days standing around at a starbucks huddled around their iphone screens, giggling over snapchat and instagram. Again, that was very wierd to see.

So I'm not sure what the resolution is, but I do realize that it really is a developing problem, where I might have completely dismissed it as hogwash just a year or two ago.

Sorry for the meandering comment :\
Orange is the New Black is awesome. Highly recommend.
I feel like I missed something. Why is it that off-street parking must be subterranean? Is it more expensive to make the building a floor of two taller and use the first floors for parking? Is this illegal somehow?
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