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The problem is age, mostly, isn't it though? With age you neither want to leave the place you grew accustomed with, nor would it be easier than finding a job in your profession, as some complain even here with respect to IT.

Anyway, I find it a terribly boring and ignorant idea, to work in one profession all life, without much change of pace. or chances to gain valuable knowledge from dfferent fields. Although, it sounds comfortable enough to understand why so many would not want to change a running system. As the saying goes, let the cobbler stay with his lasts (!g what's a last anyway?)
edit: originally the saying ment to stay within ones competence.
What about second hand couches? I'm not sure how it all goes in the US, but here in Holland, we can get tons of free couches that look fine, do people sell everything they want to get rid of over there? - http://www.marktplaats.nl/z/huis-en-inrichting/banken-bankst...

Stuff like this disgusts me. How is it even legal to charge so much interest?!
Let's eat and see how it plays out.
Not technically in production yet, but I use Docker for the following scenarios:

- Build agents for TeamCity, this was one of the first scenarios and it's been amazingly helpful so far.

- Building third-party binaries in a reproducible environment

- Running bioinformatics pipelines in consistent environments (using the above tools)

- Circumventing the painfully inept IT department to give people in my group easy access to various tools

I've also been contemplating building a Docker-based HPC cluster for a while now, though unfortunately I'm currently lacking support to make that happen.
Yes, exactly right. All the more reason not to hobble yourself with crippling financial obligations just to get a new sofa. They're essentially locking themselves into a financial decision that cannot be undone, and therefore when, later on down the road, more important financial decision points present themselves, they're unable to cope.

But this ties into the poverty trap where you simply stop thinking about the future because you're out of hope.
Is it even illegal to shout "fire" in a crowded theater?

This isn't 1900. There are accessible, well-lit exit routes in every theater I've been in. Not to mention fire suppression systems, alarms, and the fact that you'd most likely see a fire before it was time to panic.
Isn't the whole point of "the cloud" to abstract away the specific hardware you're using?
I think this is a complex issue. I suspect that like with cars, many of these folks would have the option to buy a used item which is equally as functional for something like 20% of the price of a new item. Again, like cars, household items depreciate extremely rapidly.

There's clearly some blame to go around. Better public education on financial decision making would help. The companies providing this type of financing could alter their business model or screening processes.

Also, it seems that many lower income individuals strive to own new items because it portrays financial success even if it results in the opposite.
Smoking is an addiction, and it is highly correlated with poverty for a variety of reasons, some of which I'm sure you can find if you step off the personal responsibility high-horse for a moment.
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I know a guy who is smart, well educated and gainfully employed, yet he cannot do financial math for his life. I used to try to educate him about these things but after a while I gave up. He was either unable or unwilling to learn those lessons.
Other commenters are saying that people shouldn't buy it, a couch isn't necessary. I disagree. I've worked at 10 hour a day jobs of physical labor, where I come home too tired to do anything. Having a comfortable place to sit to recover is essential. Leaning against a wall is awkward. However, the chair I had was a 20 year old office chair falling apart. Super comfortable, even if I had to tighten the screws several times a year.
Or pick stuff up off the street on garbage day. Been there, done that, still have a garbage-rescue stool sitting around my expensive townhouse.
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I'm also bemused by the lack of understanding and empathy in this thread. For all the social righteousness spouted by HN as a whole, this is disappointing to witness
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It's a matter of pragmatism. When you have a sequence of functions that all return (res, err) pairs, it's extremely helpful to be able to use := even though the err is not redefined.

Occasionally, I wonder whether := with several variables on the left hand side should have been to defined to redefine variables (shadowing the earlier definition), but obviously the Go people thought that such shadowing would be worse.
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There's no need to reestablish all of science every time someone runs an informal experiment. Previously demonstrated results can be assumed to be valid.
Those aren't the only things that people rent to own. Most people rent basic household furnishings like couches, mattresses, and tables. Aaron's et al will offer other things to try to upsell you, like iPads, but that doesn't mean the entire sector is egregious.

I believe there is a place for businesses like these. They're making an offer for important things, while possibly not quite absolute necessities definitely very useful "luxuries", to a group of people that would otherwise not be able to have them. No one else is willing to touch the prospective borrower in this situation because they are massively high risk. If you're in that position, you have to accept that people are going to want to be compensated for their exposure.

If the only way to get a couch was to buy it over again each year for four years, would you do it? Remember, it's your only reasonable option to actually get a couch that you don't pull directly out of the landfill. Some people may go without a couch and be fine, but I don't think it's unreasonable to RTO a couch or a bed if it's your only option to get a decent furnishing.
Nothing about this is exploitative. Poor people have a very high chance of not paying these debts, so they are charged a much higher fee over time instead of being able to pay a lump sum.

These are not necessities for living. iPads, couches, and lamps are luxuries in varying degrees. These people can always make the choice to simply not buy them.
> Your examples aren't quite equivalent -- `people` in Go refers to a contiguous chunk in memory of size len(people) x sizeof(People).

How it's laid out in memory is tangential to the original critique - namely, that Go introduces complexity by not having parametric polymorphism.

> But we are doing something you can't do at all in Python (barring specialized array modules or similar).

Python not only allows this (I don't see why it wouldn't), it has built-in support for an equivalent for sorting via rich comparison methods [1]. The point is, though, that you don't have to.

As for the Go example, it's not equivalent because you're writing your own boilerplate code. And it's throwing static typing out the window, which doesn't seem very idiomatic.

1: https://wiki.python.org/moin/HowTo/Sorting#Odd_and_Ends
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Being impoverished doesn't just mean that you spend more time (and money) to get the same things[1] -- it means that the amount of effort you spend worrying about things that the non-impoverished take for granted reduces your ability to make good decisions overall[2].

People who haven't read e.g. Adam Smith on linen shirts like to take the image of a poor person with a wedding ring or a television and hold it up as an example of excess, but when you see widespread behavior that appears irrational, the right response is not to criticize it on those grounds, but to try to understand why it's happening. It's always happening for a reason.

1: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05...
2: http://thepsychreport.com/research-application/featured-rese...
> Now, some answers to why wings work are just plain wrong (like the original wrong answer -- the Bernoulli effect). However, when one person says "Wings work because they push air down, and the air pushes the wing up", and another person yells "No, that's all wrong! It's because of <insert-fancy-effect-here>", they can both be right

But arguably "Wings work because they push air down, and the air pushes the wing up" doesn't really answer the question because air being pushed down is as much an effect of wing working as is airplane flying, but the cause why wing works would remain mystery.
It's pretty clear most of the commenters here have never been poor, but instead look at everything from their startup bubbles.

I've been poor, and yea, I'd totally see people going that way to get a sofa, just to feel like a bloody normal family.
"However, the sensible side is frustrated that these people aren't doing basic math."

I did basic math on my cell phone plan this morning, and realized I can get a better deal by buying the device outright, and just getting a BYOD plan - so that's what I'm planning to do. Yet the VAST majority of Americans are doing the subsidized phone thing.
It seems people disagree with your statements but you make a really good point.

> They are charging people with ridiculous prices because the risk of them failing to pay is ridiculous certain.

> This business model is exploitative and downright evil. But they are not the problem.

Indeed, the problem is that these business are kept open by people who do not budget properly. Closing these businesses doesn't mean these people will have more money to spend on things that matter. We can say they aren't helping, but we can't say the consumers would better allocate their money.
I haven't tried iCloud Drive, though that should not be related as, assuming it works anything like iDisk did, it would keep the drive local and sync changes back and forth, rather than doing direct network loading/saving.

As for I/O, last time I checked, the Recent Documents list is actually being loaded on a background thread, but the main thread is where the UI for it has to be populated. Normally the list would be loaded before the main thread goes to access it, but when the load is blocked by e.g. my NAS waking up, the main thread ends up waiting on a semaphore.

It is rather unfortunate, since nothing I'm doing actually needs to see the recent documents list. And if you're going to say that the main thread should be able to simply indicate that it's still loading, and refresh the list when the load finishes, then I completely agree. But I would not be surprised to find that the relevant code here is many years old, possibly written in C, with no maintainers, and not having been touched in those many years, so there's probably little chance of it being fixed :/
It's a major problem. iOS 8 demands something like 5GB of free space. The existing OS takes up maybe 4GB, so on your 16GB device, you can't upgrade if you're using more than 7GB or so. Not even half!

It's still possible to upgrade using a computer, but how many people even know you can do that anymore? The days of syncing with iTunes are long gone.
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Our culture (and the culture in the US even more so, apparently) is very focussed on consumerism. Couple this with a bad educational system and a very liberal attitude to markets and this outcome shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone.
How about buying second hand computers or laptops?
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You're certainly right that buying an expensive item without having the money to do it is a bad idea, but think about the infrastructure and amount of time you needed to find those cheap items. You had a working computer or phone, an Internet connection, and enough knowledge to know to look at Craigslist. When you found your item, you probably had to arrange shipment, but it was no problem for you because you either had a car that could carry it, had a friend with one, or in the worst case, were able to rent one. Finally, you had several blocks of time that weren't already filled with things you had to do to handle searching Craigslist, maybe searching again, and finally going to pick up and take home your new piece of furniture.

I don't know your specific circumstances, and I apologize if the points above don't all apply to you. But it's important to realize that there are a lot of non-obvious resources that people from wealthy backgrounds have that they don't even think about which allow them to save money.
....which works out to somewhere between one and two metrocard rides per city resident worth of annual lost tax revenue, and is only ~33% of the NYPD's annual settlement slush fund: http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/2j57fl/new_york_city_h... . This isn't buying us much in the way of services, I'm afraid.

Fellow NYC resident here, playing devils advocate: do you think the people renting these AirBNB units are contributing more or less than $33 million to the local economy by consuming local goods/services when they stay here?
This is spot-on what I'd like to do, and I have the exact same concerns. Thanks for sharing!
Seems to me that it wouldn't take much to recruit those people out of NASA if SpaceX actually had a manned project to Mars ready to go.
It's your "Ground Hog Day". I'm not sure how much more there is to get out of the comment: "Go doesn't have generics, doesn't work for me."
Isn't there an ethical question, then, with preying on such people? If, as a business owner, you know that all (or many) of your customers are overextending themselves and ruining their finances, is it ethical to continue preying on the insecurities and shortsightedness that drive such poor decisions?
Interestingly the US and Great Britain complain that some other European countries do not stimulate their economy by encouraging debt financed consummation and therefore have export heavy economies (e.g. Germany). I guess this is the flip-side, poor people buying stuff they don't really need, without actually being able to afford them, because they have been conditioned to do so. It's not like you couldn't get a perfectly acceptable couch for a few hundred Euros or even for free.

Of course in the current economic climate anyone not investing properly and just saving money is losing roughly 2% to inflation and probably even more because the stock market has risen by much more. So countries where people have traditionally left lots of money in saving accounts get screwed over and those that are in debt are rewarded (the majority in the US and GB).
It's very different. Searching an archive takes time and effort. Using a search engine takes virtually none.
It would take about 11 weeks of payments to save up for the ipad to get one from eBay instead ($230 on ebay for 2nd gen 32gb model, 19 dollars a month for 72 weeks from buddy's). I wouldn't want to do without the internet for that long, but if they cancelled their internet for a month (which they wouldn't need without the ipad in this hypothetical) they'd be able to buy in maybe 2 months.

Is two months of having to use the internet from the library really worth spending $1000 on when you can't even afford a $230 ipad? Sorry, but there are other options.
I saw an SNL skit long time back whose basic premise was "Dont buy stuff you cannot afford"

http://vimeo.com/50044167

Maybe they should see that video.
Proper title should be "Rental America: Why the stupid pay $4,150 for a $1,500 sofa".

Let's stop sugar-coating this kind of nonsense and shifting the blame to predatory companies. Nobody made these people spend their money on non-essential furniture and electronics.

If we were talking about food, utilities, healthcare or shelter, it would be another thing entirely. But these folks have set aside delayed gratification and voluntarily purchased luxury items at a mark-up that would make a theater concession stand manager blush.
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One of the first things I disable in an installation of Mac OS X is what I consider superfluous animation. I will admit that this may be a slightly nutty attempt to maximize battery life and (perceived) computer performance - perhaps the digital equivalent of a hypermiler. This app puts a pretty bow around the relevant preferences. Maybe you'll find it useful.
It's pretty clear most of the commenters here have never been poor, but instead look at everything from their startup bubbles. And no, I'm not talking about the self-induced poverty where you put money in your own company, and you eat noodles every day for 2 years.

I've been poor, and yea, I'd totally see people going that way to get a sofa, just to feel like a bloody normal family. One less thing to think about. Sounds whack, but that's how it is.
When I get nice service at a restaurant i leave more than the default 15% tips, to actually encourage good service.

So when i find a really nice piece of software that actually saved me a lot of money (by increasing productivity and reducing licensing cost of other dev tools), i don't mind paying them a 70$ one time fee.

Because in the end, they are not going to pay their employees with your respect.

So, you have all the right not to pay them, you also have the right to leave shitty tips all the time and to not go voting.

But i think i don't need to explain what will happen if we all act like that.
To add to this, I think the hidden value of workflow optimization is avoiding interruptions.

If the optimization itself is only worth a few seconds but it allows me to remain focused on whatever I'm actually working on, it becomes much more valuable.
the vast majority of americans dont have $650+ to blow on a single purchase but do have $x per month.

It's sad that we've created a paycheck to paycheck culture, but thats what we have.
I had copied that exact text to clipboard to ask the same question. I would guess it's dependent on having video rather than a still but I really don't know.
That's true, although it doesn't mean that Mir or Wayland will necessarily stick as Mac OS window system did. It's a way too fast morphing landscape, even for a 10-year long project. Mac is a relatively stable platform based on a carefully curated ecosystem with predictable future, etc. Linux is not.

BTW, I really like your X11-VT100 analogy.
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I may often not be super-sympathetic to the disadvantaged, but I can definitely see the iPad. To them, it's a hassle-free internet device that isn't likely to stop working or get infected with malware or have some other issue that they don't understand and can't fix. Want them to learn new skills and look for a better job? Much better to do both over the internet, where you don't have to drive around in a possibly broken-down car and burn expensive gas to look for a new job or go to school.

Then again, it could also just be a way to spend more time and money on video games and movies...
>If the noble concepts supposedly behind democracy had any traction with governments, they would have led us to a direct democracy, not a representative one.

Switzerland seems to work pretty well by direct democracy.
Very good points, and as the author here (http://blog.lusis.org/blog/2014/06/14/paas-for-realists/) points out:

> I should state up front that I disagree with quite a few bits of the 12 Factor model. It’s important to remember that, imho, the 12 Factor model was designed as a business strategy for Heroku. The steps follow exactly what makes an app work best on Heroku, not what is best for an application.
I've responded to that with "Cocaine. I hate the stuff but I love the way it smells."
Or not own a couch. I have literally never owned a couch. When did this become a need?
Except for mattresses, there is simply no reason to buy new furniture. I'm an engineer, I had a house fire recently and will easily have the budget to buy new furniture for my house after it is repaired. But I plan on shopping at Goodwill, Savers and Craigslist. Because new furniture is not necessary. Why would someone who is much poorer than me think otherwise?
Clearly you've never dealt with an addiction before. For some people cigarettes aren't just an expensive 'vice', they're a physical need due to chemical dependency. It certainly doesn't help that the most prominent cigarette ads tend to be in low income areas.
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...but think about the infrastructure and amount of time you needed to find those cheap items.

One can purchase a local paper for $1.00 or less. Yard sales and Goodwill stores are free and easy to peruse on a weekend morning.

Let's not pretend that finding a couch is a herculean task, or saving up the cash for a couple of months is nigh impossible.
To provide some background, one needs to understand the United States is vast geographically. Driving for 2 hours over 100 miles (160 kms) is considered normal to a lot of people. That creates a huge gap among the poor and the middle class in terms of resources. I live in Chicago, and it is very, very easy to get a user couch in great condition for under $100 because the supply is plenty. People here can afford to get rid of their barely used furniture for whatever reason they like.

On the other hand, people living in the poor, rural areas have no access to this supply of cheap quality used goods. And they don't have the means to leave.

I would suppose opening up a business that transfer used goods from the rich area to poor area and capitalize on the margin would be a great idea in a lot of ways.
Sure, but I wasn't speaking for family trees in the social sense of the word. Of course these should include same sex adoption.

There are definitely uses for a genetic only tree, eg for medicine.
No "the poor", but "the idiots". The family described isn't even poor, but they waste so much money trying to live a middle class lifestyle they live seriously below their means.

You're poor if you have serious problems having food and a basic place to live in at the same time, without spending anything on bullshit. If your problem is 'I can't afford this sofa', or a new ipad, you aren't poor, you just aren't wealthy.
An opinion isn't right or wrong, it just is, no matter how strongly you assert it. And it certainly is open to ridicule: would you take seriously someone claiming, with absolute sincerity, to be the sovereign ruler of the Gumdrop Kingdom?
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This Marvell SOC has 16 Serdes integrated inside the SOC can be partition to Gige ethernet, SATA, or PCIe in any numbers of ways.

http://www.marvell.com/embedded-processors/armada-xp/

Along with low power, make it very interesting.

I can see someone put 64, 128 of them in 1U chassis. This might be interesting low cost system for someone who need simulcast live video streams to millions of users at really low cost.

"64 4 cores CPU each with integrated 16 GIGE ports for fan out live video stream that potentially fit inside 1U chassis"
The 20th century is also full of examples of better and worse ways of allocating capital that didn't go on in the Soviet bloc. Troll harder: there are more than two alternatives.
Don't be so literal-minded. If you have been following the news you might have noticed some deliberate Ebola hoaxes in the last week, where a man on an aeroplane and another on a bus shouted out they had Ebola and threatened to deliberately infect other passengers and the bus driver, respectively. The fact that nobody was actually hurt in these two incidents doesn't alter the deontological basis for a rule against such behavior.