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Alas, this is about the level of analysis I've come to expect from years of reading The New Republic on issues like this. Neither cultural nor legal conditions surrounding employment in the United States are ideal for workers who have the preferences of the author of this article,[1] but neither are they so horrific that the economy is "hurt" in a big way, especially compared to the economies of other countries.

Other comments posted before mine have already pointed out that overall prosperity in the United States is quite high, and I might add that many of the newly industrialized countries of east Asia (which characteristically have high population densities and limited natural resources, and thus are a model of what policies it takes to be prosperous despite a lack of natural advantages) increase steadily in wealth and general prosperity[2] despite ignoring parts of the author's advice.

For me, the crucial fact to keep in mind in any of these decry-America threads on Hacker News is that people vote with their feet. The United States continues to be a highly desired country to immigrate to,[3] so whatever trade-offs the United States economy offers, there are still a lot of people who think they are better trade-offs than the trade-offs in the familiar home country they were born in.

[1] http://www.newrepublic.com/authors/bryce-covert

[2] http://edition.cnn.com/2012/08/17/business/world-rich-list-s...

[3] http://www.gallup.com/poll/161435/100-million-worldwide-drea...

http://www.census.gov/topics/population/foreign-born.html

http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/english/immigrate/immi...

AFTER EDIT: I note the downvotes indicating disagreement, and I am curious about what you disagree with. Please let me know.

And I am amused by this correction to the submitted article: "Correction: This piece originally stated that workers with smartphones spent 72 hours a week on their off time checking work e-mail. In fact, the 72 hours include working hours, and the workers are just professionals, managers, and executives. We regret the error." We are not talking about a strongly numerate analysis here.
s/Right now there are/There are always/
On the flip side of that coin, I've watched people take 1-2 months of vacation within their unlimited vacation policy.

It really depends on who you're working for.
There are actually already MULTIPLE parsers for TOML in Rust, and Cargo switched between the two yesterday.

As you say, this is a testament to TOML's simplicity.

EDIT: Furthermore, TOML is going to have a 1.0 soon: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/46
Thanks for putting this together. There are definitely some places where there is a marked speed improvement over lodash, but lodash seems to still win in a other cases. I think I will stick with lodash for now and go look into augmenting it with these faster methods if I have a performance problem.
Hey there Nikki,

Nice story, I have a similar one myself. I remember that I followed 99dresses quite closely two years ago, I was the technical co-founder of a Fashion & Tech startup, and we were trying to do something really similar for a while. (I'm also foreign, got a lot of local press coverage, traveled to Silicon Valley to work etc.)

I've been the leaving co-founder of a startup, mostly because I thought (and told) that my co-founder was incompetent and bringing zero value to the table. He took it pretty bad, but at least I was honest about that (and right).

You're very young, I'm 28... my biggest advice would be for you to get a stronger technical background. You can still do it, you are young, and it would greatly empower you.

If you wanna have a chat shoot me an email or add me on skype 'n_goles'.

Cheers!
Let's just take this a piece at a time.

...there is a 97% consensus that humans are causing and exacerbating climate change...

Ignoring the lack of citation, why is it necessary to resort to band-wagon style marketing?

...the only reason so many scientists agree on climate change being a thing is because all the ones who disagree are being “censored” or something...

I don't think that most of us who are skeptical about climate change believe that scientists are being censored as a matter of scientific conspiracy. It happens that the "fix" for man-made climate change also aligns well with a particular political party. Unfortunately, this results in people who are equally ignorant about the science involved supporting climate change simply because they support the economic policies that would be enacted to "reverse" climate change.

...These people often believe that there is actual scientific evidence disproving climate change. There, of course, is not.

Isn't that the same argument made by academics when religious observers attempt to reason faith against evidence? And isn't the author now asking for us to "prove via the scientific method" something that would be impossible to do? Perhaps that's the point? Who wants to lose $10,000 of their own money?

I know nothing about this guy except what I've read in this one post, but I feel that the author is being intellectually dishonest and with his "prize" and, instead, is attempting to argue his point via propaganda.
That Cadillac ad is awesome. I'd never seen it before.

It watches like a parody, but at the end you're hit by the reality that yes, this guy is being completely serious. The message really is "sure, I traded away my quality of life, but look at all this stuff!"

That's actually the notion that Cadillac is trying to sell. Amazing that they're doing such a good job of it.

Fortunately, there's no real trick to getting back that quality of life. You just need to take more vacation time. You can negotiate this in to your package, but if you're in as hot a talent market as we are today, you might find more success with simply taking it. "Hey, as a heads up, I'll be taking 3 weeks off at the beginning of June" followed a few months later by "Hey, I'm off to Kalymnos for a couple weeks in October", followed by "I'll probably be out of contact between Xmas and New Years."

Note the lack of "asking" above. The correct attitude to take is that it's them who are acting irrationally by suggesting that you shouldn't take a healthy amount of time off to live your life.
The eyelid animation is intentional, yes, but I'm not sure the partially closed eyes when the char size is increased was intentional.
But why do you say "we have no idea"? Lots of things are known, like temperature averages and trends.

As I said, I am not a climatologist myself. I am a bit surprised that tree rings are supposedly not accurate enough to say things about a 150 year interval. I was under the impression tree rings develop on a yearly basis? I suppose there are other factors besides temperature that affect their growth. Then again, for standard derivation as you desire, those factors might be easy to cancel out?
https://developer.nest.com/documentation/api-reference

For a while, you could pull that data through a private JSON API, the same one the iPhone app used. I'm assuming something changed a few months ago though, because the application I wrote to chart out that information stopped receiving those data points. This was probably part of the transition to a public API.

Using the API, I was able to see that running just the fan in my house didn't appear to do anything for the temperature of the house, despite the temperature difference between the two floors. It was interesting charting internal temperature against outdoor temperature as well, giving me a visual reference on the efficiency of the system.
500+ years ago, very few scientists of that day thought the world was round.

A scientist should be able to study the other side without threat of being fired or completely losing their career.

Your viewpoint is as close-minded as many religions.
Trade in a Macbook Air for a Surface Pro? In your dreams, Microsoft.
People are paid money to sow uncertainty about climate science. These tactics are the same ones used by tobacco companies. The tactics are the same and many of the scientists are the same.

That's not an honest debate.

The reason people don't engage with you has nothing to do with whether you're an expert or not. It's because people who deny climate change often grab a snippet of science, out of context, and that's been given a spin by deniers. Then, rather than learning why that bit is flawed or what the context is they'll just throw it into a discussion and demand that it is explained. And then they'll grab another bit. And another bit. Eventually it's easier to regard this as trolling (which it is - concern trolling) and treat appropriately (by stopping feeding the trolls).
If you compare countries, a more productive economy is a good measure. If you compare people and lives, not so much.
So the forEach magic that is so much faster is... a normal for loop:

exports.forEach = function fastForEach (subject, fn, thisContext) {
var length = subject.length,
i;
for (i = 0; i < length; i++) {
fn.call(thisContext, subject[i], i, subject);
}
};

I knew that forEach was slower than a normal for loop but I was expecting something more.
"Does it matter if person folding your laundry got into a drunken fight when they were 19? Not really."

No. It doesn't.

Does it matter if a person with a history of DUIs (or even ONE) drives me for Lyft? Yes.

Does it matter if a person with a history of armed robbery or home invasion delivers groceries to my house for Instacart? Yes.
Reminds me of this comment by Petka Antonov on native V8 Promises being way slower than Bluebird[1]:

>I'd expect native browser methods to be an order of magnitude faster.

Built-ins need to adhere to ridiculous semantic complexity which only gets worse as more features get added into the language. The spec is ruthless in that it doesn't leave any case as "undefined behavior" - what happens when you use splice on an array that has an indexed getter that calls Object.observe on the array while the splice is looping?

If you implemented your own splice, then you probably wouldn't even think of supporting holed arrays, observable arrays, arrays with funky setters/getters and so on. Your splice would not behave well in these cases but that's ok because you can just document that. Additionally, since you pretty much never need the return value of splice, you can just not return anything instead of allocating a wasted array every time (you could also make this controllable from a parameter if needed).

Already with the above, you could probably reach the perf of "native splice" without even considering the fact that user code is actually optimized and compiled into native code. And when you consider that, you are way past any "native" except when it comes to special snowflakes like charCodeAt, the math functions and such.

Thirdly, built-ins are not magic that avoid doing any work, they are normal code implemented by humans. This is biggest reason for the perf difference specifically in the promise case - bluebird is extremely carefully optimized and tuned to V8 optimizing compiler expectations whereas the V8 promise implementation[2] is looking like it's directly translated from the spec pseudo-code, as in there is no optimization effort at all.

[1]: https://github.com/angular/angular.js/issues/6697#issuecomme...

[2]: https://github.com/v8/v8/blob/master/src/promise.js
Seriously, why do people use Heroku? Every developer bone in my body says "run away" from the design of the tools to the interfaces to the app build scripts (?really) to the reliability. I'm not saying that AWS/hosted is better, except that they all are, by comparison.
Er, what about oil? I'd have thought the oil industry on its own was more than 3%, and industries affected by gasoline costs are a huge sector.
I'm optimistic about nest - they seem to understand this, their thermostat is a great user experience. You hook it up and use it just like you would use a normal thermostat, and it uses that info to make intelligent decisions to do actually useful things - like override the schedule and turn the heat up when you take a day off work, or turn the heat down when nobody is home, all with no user interaction.

Remote control isn't the killer app for home automation, no control is. I don't have a need to turn lights on in rooms I'm not in, but it would be nice if my house could turn the lights off for me when I forget to. Or if I drive off and leave the garage open, it could close it for me so I don't have to call a neighbor and ask them to check it.
So what exactly do you have to lose if you leave the oil/coal in the ground? It will still be there for your descendants.

Especially, if you accept that global warming exists but is not man-made, it may be useful to keep backup of energy to be able to deal with it in the future, wouldn't it?
I'm JUST getting into a little home automation, and here are some great use cases that aren't just a novelty:

When my wife and I both leave the house, the front door locks itself. We never have to worry about if we locked the door or not. We can also leave and enter without having to carry keys, which is great. I can also unlock the door remotely when my in-laws stop by unexpectedly to drop something off.

I have a room in the basement where the light switch is on the far side of the room, so you previously had to traverse a pitch black and somewhat hazardous space to reach the light switch. Now it's all run on a motion detector that turns the light on and off as needed automatically.

And we just got a Nest. My wife, a non-tech person, loves the front door lock magic and the Nest. As more stuff comes out, and I add more stuff to the system, the utility will only increase.

I'm looking forward to things like smart security systems that know when I'm home, away, sleeping, awake, have company, etc... And interact with tokens (for instance if it's 2 AM and someone pulls into my driveway, I want to be woken up and alerted. If it's 2 AM and I'm pulling into my driveway I want my wife to be able to sleep). I'm looking forward to music that follows me through the house, and turns itself down when I get a phone call.
It's actually really hard to find a job that pays a decent wage and gives a good amount of time off. The kind of job where you can 'work to live'.

Our mentality of "Americans love to work hard" is misleading. I'd say Americans are just optimistic. We are sort of 'forced' to work hard so we're optimistic and try to make the best of it.
Telenor owns networks in 12 countries.

Cable connections were opened to Denmark in 1867 and to Great Britain in 1869.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/06/13/cia_rendition_jet_wa...
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Jordigh, that's not the first time you've made that evidence-free claim. Let me make my own: your hostility has less to do with Wolfram and more to do with you.
You develop an open source alternative to Matlab. But if the Wolfram Language is really successful, it would make the work you've done fall short of its goal, which is to put all science and math computation on a free, non-proprietary basis.
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You actually think people decide whether to take a vacation or not because of what they read in the media and NOT based on the culture of the company they work at?
>'But that problem is so ingrained in our culture it is never going away.'

I don't know about that.

Anecdotally, I've experienced this culture enforced by older (>50) people and don't see much of it at all with younger people (<30). Surely there are exceptions - startup culture seems more prone to it - but that's to be expected.

I expect the culture is simply going to die off not long after the baby boomers.
Nature finds a way. The free market is the little green shoots growing up between the cracks of the grey statist utopian paved earth. Technology is allowing innovators to outpace the entitled dullards that inhabit the halls of political privilege. They'll shut this down, with all you fine citizens celebrating, but the innovators will route around it again.
I thought that ad was more "look at me, I'm a crazy hard working American AND I drive electric. They're not mutually exclusive!"
Unless you issue it.
front line employees making $9/hour get screened, but executives with golden parachutes manage to get hired with falsified university transcripts, leaving trails of steaming wreckage behind them, destroying thousands of those $9/hour jobs. :(

no real relevance to what you posted, but it made me want to rant.
>than some imagined hurt to the economy

Whose economy?

I don't see how people who are working >80 hours a week are living in the same economy as the 'investors' they work for.

Real spending power for most people has crashed since 2008; tech is a rare exception.

How can that happen if these people are valued, equal participants in the national economy?
I have a handful of sites that are more than just hobby sites, but the number of 9's in the SLA won't affect the bottom line at all. 5 DO droplets = $25 / month makes significantly more sense in this case than paying over $150 for the equivalent at AWS.

And I think this use is a large enough market for DO to make a fortune.
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>This is North Sea oil, right? Hard to generalize from.

Wasn't really generalizing, just stating fact.

Norway has far fewer proven oil reserves than Iran, Iraq, Venezuela, Algeria, Ecuador, Nigeria and on and on...

Oil is not a panacea. The combination of a progressive culture and resource endowment tends to win. But don't assume that the latter is most important.
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For me, this is one of the most significant developments in renewable energy.

It works at night by storing heat in the liquid. Brilliant!

They have also shown that it works at scale, and in different environments around the planet.
Norway has always been a bit of an outlier. It is what you get when you combine Middle Eastern oil resources with a Western European rule of law.
Fair enough.

I've never worked on that sort of thing so to me downtime == $$ lost. I need a load balancer for anything more than a hobby project as a result. The one thing I can't find anywhere is truly multi-DC load balancers as a service from a hosting provider I'd use.
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Only if you treat it as a framework. Sinatra is a great library.
It should be (eliding namespaces):

transform(begin(tmp), end(tmp), begin(tmp), [] (char c) { return toupper(c); });

...the only noisy parts are the calls to begin() and end(). On the other hand, it will work for any collection type with good iterators (vectors, lists, strings, deques, ropes, etc.).

It is also trivial to write a mylib::transform_in_place() that cuts down on the noise with a one-line function.
I'm not saying the fear is unwarranted, but do you know where your employer is inputting your SSN and where they keep it? How safe do you think your personal data is?

Regardless of whether I think it's safe or not, the reality is that I can sue my employer if there is something malicious. My employer is also naturally incentivized to make sure nothing happens to my identity (because if they did I'd leave the company, and he/she would lose a resource).
> Since C++ is such a Chtuloid horror, the mere fact that it is possible to use other language, let alone garbage collected languages, is extremely strong evidence that C++ simply isn't the best choice.

Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.

Seriously though, don't mistake your personal opinion for some objective truth. There are plenty of programmers out there who enjoy C++ and don't see it as a Chtuloid horror. What you have isn't strong evidence of anything, really.

> (Of course, I don't take legacy code nor talent availability into account. They are crucial in any real-world decision, but they don't influence the virtues of the language itself.)

And there are even more "external" factors to consider, but if you allow yourself to cherry-pick criteria then you can make any language be the optimal choice. Languages don't exist in a void.
If the only tool you have is FTP then either you're an attacker with a single set of compromised credentials, or a legitimate user forced to act like one.
You're right, we should fix the vacation policy for humanitarian reasons, not economic ones.

However, having a solid economic rationale is a great counter-argument.
Sofia Coppola, on the other hand, makes entire movies that you can spend in the toilet
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Fuck that. Computers, robots and the rest of automation / efficiency gains should (have been, and) be translated into 10-20 hour work week instead of increased consumption and consumerism.
You haven't been coding long enough if you hadn't had projects that consisted mostly of just that.
In a general sense, yes, but not in very narrow problems where the GPU would stumble and flail because of architectural limitations that would prevent it from fully applying itself.
> get a mentor

Seems easier said than done. I wouldn't want to share details of what I do with random people. Probably not with coworkers either unless it's strictly related to the job at hand, but at that point the advice they can give you is also more limited. Also, you need to find someone with more experience than you, so you don't have much to bring to the deal.

> Books are wonderful but nothing beats interacting with successful people.

That I can certainly agree with.
> "'cause we're the only ones going back up there [the moon]"

If only that were true. In many ways, we're further away from being able to reach the moon (or deeper parts of space) than we were 20-30 years ago[0]

[0]http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2011/10/why-not-space/
Since such trends are definitely harmful, at what point does it become a human rights issue? If so, the UN or some other organization should put their foot down and set some guidelines for which a country's citizens can sustainably achieve value to their employers and the economy.
Surely, your emotional reaction depends on how long ago the DUI was. What if they had ONE DUI ten years ago?

Armed robbery and home invasion are very different crimes. Just because they held up a liquor store doesn't mean they're going to rob you while you sit in the backseat of their car, with their picture and full identity flashing on your phone. And home invasions are crimes of opportunity.

I'm not sure I think that background discrimination is always wrong. Just that it's grossly overused, and there is no room for discretion - especially considering how many people get bullshit charges in the US.

Does a DUI disqualify you from being a good programmer, or a well respected project manager? I'm not sure that it does. Maybe you're an asshole, or maybe you did something stupid while undergoing your divorce.

It's especially egregious to start barring people from the bottom-of-the-barrel gigs as well. At that rate, you might as well never release them from prison to begin with.
It depends who you are, i think this is all relative. Not talking myself explicitly, but for some people graduating high school is a major accomplishment in their life and is something that took a multi-year effort and was completely optional. Imagine a teenager who is the first one to graduate from high school in their family, who had numerous pressures to drop out (baby, lack of money, etc).

But I do agree with you that many people are unsure why they are in college until they are able to reflect on it after the fact. I think that happens a lot in life where you learn about yourself by looking at prior events.
This isn't about spending billions. It's about not putting beads in facial scrubs.

Surely the industry will survive if they use something like walnuts or pumice instead.
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Yes, what this guy said.
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