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> "what year is accepted as the official death for Jesus?"

There's some disagreement, but in the research I was doing this morning the most commonly accepted date I found was April 7, 30 AD. (Other common dates are March 25 or April 25, 31 AD.)

Interestingly enough, this provides the source for the date of Christmas. There's an old tradition that says Jewish prophets always live a whole number of years, so their death and conception are the same date, putting their birth date 9 months later / 3 months earlier. The two dates being celebrated in the 2nd century church were December 25 (based on the March 25, 31 AD date) and January 7 (based on April 7, 30 AD). We now call those two dates "Christmas" and "Epiphany". You can find these dates discussed by Sextus Julius Africanus (160-240 AD), Irenaeus (in Against Heresies, 180 AD), and Hippolytus (commentary on Daniel, 204 AD).

Rumors about hijacking a pagan celebration date started several centuries later, by Jacob Bar-Salibi in the 12th century. He probably got his causation backwards -- the Dec 25 celebration "Sol Invictus" was a result of emperor Aurelius' decree in 274 AD, meaning it took a date Christians had already been celebrating a century earlier.
They do: even pedestrian looking Audis and Mazdas from a few years ago beat this retrofit by quite some margin. And the Tesla Model S is 0.24.
Well, at least it's got some symmetry to it!
Thank for the effort! Not sure how fleshed out the other implementations are but Lisp vs C now shows what I would have expected:

* SBCL can produce impressive x86 code

* It's ARM branch is pretty new, so it but 30% isn't too bad.
I know, but it will then look like someone else's idea of vital work. It is much better to make a bespoke one for each instance.
Hm, I can't disprove what you are saying outside of my own experience but I'm also not sure you can prove that all value decisions are arbitrary.

Aside from the fact that such conclusion (which I assume is based on logic/rationalism - but you can pretty much sub any other scientific/philosophical concept here) itself appears to be as constructed (aka. arbitrary) as any other value system, I also think that while arbitrariness may be a logical conclusion when viewing experience/existence/etc. in abstraction, I would argue that at the very least, experience/consciousness gives humans some evidence/reason to believe that value decisions are not or may not be arbitrary, and I consider our direct experience/consciousness to be a very significant data set to consider in spite of how non-rigorous it might be. Put another way, through observation I have concluded that while many people do say all value systems are arbitrary, I have yet to see one person who I would say lives their life as if that were actually true - even my most sociopathic friends (dead writers or real people I know haha) appear to have a strong preference for self-preservation or rationalism.

I'm mostly interested in the concept of self-preservation, aka. the assumed value in continuing one's existence in the first place - I would argue that almost everyone I know makes decisions assuming that their life has value, and that such value decision does not feel arbitrary at all even if logically it seems that way - I think this conflict drives a lot of very smart people crazy or at least annoys them, and to me the existence of this conflict is not insignificant.

As I've said before, I started paying attention when was I 14 and I'm 29 now, so my 15 year data set trends strongly as described =) Of course yours or any other persons experience of consciousness may differ greatly, that's the crazy part about it all I guess.
Health care isn't free in ANY country. You pay for it, even if indirectly. The high taxes and high 'social charges' in a place like France results in much lower salary. One could argue, that in France your purchasing power is much less than someone in the US paying for health insurance out of pocket. Rails devs in France might make 35k euros per year, so one could argue that, compared to a $120k salary in the US, that you're making substantially less in France, despite almost "free" healthcare. If you also add in, for example, in Paris the cost of accommodation, the higher cost for things like food and consumer goods, that 35k salary is looking pretty bleak. One could ask yourself if approximately $80k less is worth 'free' university and 'free' healthcare plus higher costs for pretty much everything. I'm not saying either place is better (however I do happen to live in France,) but there's no such thing as "free" healthcare or "free" education.
I'm on the same boat as you. At my workplace ThinkPads are standard and lots of people install Linux. It seems there is some hacks to make the (2|4|5)40 trackpads work. IIRC it is a combination of kernel 3.17 and some X configuration fiddling. So not all hope is lost.
I agree with you; your second point is a good one. It's easier to increase the size of the pool rather than figure out how to better select within the current pool size; and if your concern is truly just getting "the best", it's cheaper to go abroad than to "steal" proven talent from competitors.

If companies were willing to pay their top engineering talent anywhere close to C-level salaries, they would have no problem finding willing applicants. There is no legit argument for upsizing the H1B program that does not rest heavily on cost.

That said, I am not against the US taking highly-skilled immigrants, even if it does temporarily depress salaries... The only bad things about the current program is the indentured servitude aspect of it... if tech companies were truly interested only in talent they wouldn't lobby to expand the H1B program, but open the borders more in general. But of course giving tech workers that much freedom would mean their expectations and demands would just quickly equilibrate more quickly, reducing the "value".

I also don't completely buy his argument on percentages. Even poor kids in the US have probably had 100X more access to technology than their counterparts abroad. I think early access and exposure to technology is pretty important for developing the intuition that comes in useful when trying to understand how things work and appreciating and recognizing good design. I would guess that the US has a much larger percentage of the world's talented workers than is naively calculated based on population alone. A better measure would have some per capita weighting.
Someone else can always offer 20% more than you if they use you to train. This may work on the small scale where you build lasting relationships, but on the scale of large companies? You'd rapidly gain a reputation of being a springboard, and not a place people join to do their best work.
LOVED these as a kid. I loved building all sorts of fans and paddleboat things. Only bummer was that my mom who knew jack about electronics was hyper-paranoid that I was going to electrocute myself playing with them in water. I used to sneak them into the bathroom and put them in the sink behind her back.
> Paul's entire argument is a strawman. H1B isn't about hiring "great programmers"

You use the word "strawman" and without skipping a beat replace his argument with one (about H1Bs) that he obviously isn't making.
Converting a C value to a Cello value is easy.

int cValue = 5; // because I randomly feel like that's a good number
var celloValue = $(Int, cValue); // I'm pretty sure this works, but I haven't proven it

Coming back from Cello to C, it appears that you can do this:

long anotherCValue = as_long(celloValue);
The H1-B visa IS supposed to be for top-notch programmers. That's what it exists for.
Now if we can just get management to sit down and watch this...

I keep watching Cargo Cult "Agile" turn every project into a galley, developers at the oars with the scrum master merely manning the drum and shouting "row!" Two lashes for failing to update your task in the system, no matter that the work got done...

We really need to get back to the real measure of working software instead of "are we going to have a demo or not?"
There already is a name for it - the Cravath System, it's the approach taken by the best law firms.

http://www.cravath.com/cravathsystem/
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As a result, I can see programmers from Western and Northern Europe, who as of know may consider relocating to the US, change their mind and say "why bother". Any EU citizen will have easier time relocating to London/Berlin - two places in Europe where a lot of tech companies are located.

PG's point is that a lot of people from outside the US (including from Europe) currently would prefer relocating to the US but they have difficulty getting a visa. Long term more and more people would prefer the second best choice that's available to them.
Nice to be validated by a third party. :)
Why not try another distro? I have been using Fedora since version 17 on my T530 and using fedup to upgrade without issues. Now I'm on Fedora 21 and it works perfectly fine.
I think it's important for all startup founders to realize that non-executive salaries in the U.S. tech industry have been incredibly distorted by the illegal wage fixing practiced over the last 10-15 years.

The wage fixing set an artificial ceiling on programmer salaries. And if it's now stopped, we should expect a major correction over the next 5 years as market wages adjust. I'm hopeful that recent salary increases by large companies are evidence that things are moving in a good direction.

But it will take time to rebuild trust between labor (programmers) and management in the tech industry. I don't think we're there yet, and in the meantime I am cynical about any effort to address hiring difficulties by increasing immigration.
Interesting. I had to look up what the Fermi paradox is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox

But this doesn't solve why the Earth wasn't already visited/colonized, correct?
So what was it we couldn't do ten years ago to get these same values?
This is an old hypothesis:
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9810355
The allocation of visas for exceptional talent is surprisingly skewed. Only about 6% of 1 Million green cards issued each year are issued to people who are here for their skills. Rest goes to family based immigration.

This specially hurts engineers on H1B from India and China the most, because of per country limits, they have to wait for close to a decade. e.g., someone from India, who qualifies for the definition of "Exceptional" for EB2 bucket, should have applied in 2005 to get visa this month.