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>One day we will return to the value of building quality products and value the people that do it as the engine rather than the financial part of the company as the engine. You can't have financial success without happy workers and thus good products being produced. After globalization is more baked in, it won't be as easy for companies not valuing quality work. We don't want to finish that stage with a depleted consumer base.

This is certainly what drives real economic growth (as opposed to that phony stuff caused by ramping up consumer debt to heady levels).

However, I don't think that the "MBA short term metric builders" (as you put it) are at all concerned with real growth. I think they would far rather see steady and slow stagnation of their companies and the economy as a whole where their position in the hierarchy is kept intact rather than fast growth where their position is more uncertain.

This is why I'm not so optimistic that valuing quality work is a state that the country will naturally return to driven by market forces. I think the decline will continue unabated until there is some kind of enormous keynesian kick from the government (in the past it was war and a federal public works program).
Do you really think the average person knew what was going to happen, when economists and banks didn't?
Absurd in the States. My analogy was to show that falsifying your title as an engineer here is the same as claiming to be a doctor, both are against the law here. The course load for SE is higher and it's a longer degree so the number of courses required to obtain it is actually a lot more (here).
From this large picture,

https://blog.adafruit.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Pi_II_t...

U16 appears to be in a WLCSP package (and others have noted that it is "shiny", which would also agree with the typical appearance of one), and WLCSPs do not have much of a package - they're essentially bare die that have had solder bumps attached to their top surface, and are mounted upside-down ("flip-chip" style) onto the PCB. It won't take much light intensity to cause photoelectric effects on a WLCSP.

More info here: https://ez.analog.com/docs/DOC-2357
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The generics work was done by the people behind the F# team for the CLR overall (for v2), well before LINQ existed. (And F# had generics in the compiler using an erasure system before that.) If those MSR folks had not risen to the occasion, C# prolly would have had to used a lame erasure approach just like Java.

DLR and LINQ don't modify the runtime, nor does the TPL.

So there's been some incremental improvement in GC, some advancements in JIT (perhaps driven by Windows Phone needing more AOT support). And this was stuff that was known for a long time, but MS stubbornly refused to do, just like they did with static linking for C#.

But come on, no real serious advancements since the CLR v2. The IL is still the same. MSR came in and gave them a vastly improved type system, and things have sat there ever since.

Maybe that'll soon change, but seeing as how C#'s been just slowly adding F#'s features and toting their compiler rewrite for years, somehow I'm not really counting on any revolutionary language tech coming out of there.
Dolphin uses DirectInput on Windows, so basically anything works. If you're in the market for a PC gamepad, it's hard to go wrong with a 360 controller.
I hear ya. One of my greatest frustrations with reading "Javascript: the good parts" is where Crockford dismisses the legions of faults with Javascript as 'things that never happen to him anyway". Well in my bloody world, these JS faults go undetected in production code, causes days lost to debugging, cause customer complaints etc...

"Fail early" (and loudly!) ought to be design goals for all programming languages IMO.
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The point is, even socially it's weird here to claim you're an engineer if you don't have it
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It's utterly evil; that is why major religions like Christianlity, Islam etc. prohibited its consumption. I really dislike even tasting it!
I am not a cat fan, or a squirrel fan. I do know from observing squirrels crossing power lines that their dielectric constant is significantly lower than that of air, but I've never figured out how to determine it strictly from observation without actually doing an empirical measurement.
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How it can be resolved if there is a conflict? Like, for hashing, some are suggesting for Video A and some for Video B. So you ask them to vote? And then who is eligible to vote?
This is not the same thing. The cause is from the burst of light, not EM.
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Not really biggest pain, but I would appreciate your help on this. I am learning Swift and iOS Dev. What kind of apps I should have in my portfolio, so that I can apply for jobs? I have built basic to-do apps etc. and I am not getting any new ideas which I can implement. Either I find them too easy or too complicated for me.
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I am astounded by the fact that this "provocative" new theory is based on extremely simple and trivially verifiable facts.

How many times have I heard, even here on HN, claims that the high incarceration rates are due to the war on drugs, and I just took them at face value without bothering to look up the figures? How many times have newspapers printed interviews and op-eds arguing the same point, without doing any fact checking?

(Disclaimer: this time, too, I have not actually checked the numbers myself. But at least at this point I can be sure that someone has lied to me!)
Well, its not just peeps in SV that use the caffeine + alcohol recipe for productivity, its pretty much all of America. Speaking anecdotally, I find that Caffeine makes me super alert and alcohol super relaxed, both of which are the intended effects. But I do make a point to not abuse either of them, simply because I don't want my senses to get numbed by their effect.
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I'm thinking if someone can program a chrome extension for websites/system/network monitoring dashboard by opening a new tab will be wonderful.
Yes it does make a difference because the wealthy individuals who own many units can drive up the price by restricting supply. They can influence zoning laws and block new high-density construction to protect their profits.
I don't know why you think they can't win seats in those areas, particularly as anti-EU sentiment increases.
Lots of programmers won't have jobs in ten years. What, you think Amazon are going to stop when they've put all the sysadmins out of work?
Did you RTFA? Do you honestly believe these utterly basic questions you've posed after a few seconds of consideration never occurred to any Air Force or Lockheed or NASA personnel involved in building this system? Or are you just cynical enough to believe the Air Force isn't really concerned about the "war time" effectiveness of its _fighter_ planes?
> Get rid of all the abstraction, local state, dependency injection, symbol management and so on. Take HTML/HTTP seriously and think about REST in terms of HTML rather than JSON.

So basically go back to writing Javascript like we were doing ten years ago?

No thanks.

I was there, it was hell, I hated every second of it.

The Javascript framework scene is very chaotic today but it's exciting, a lot of new concepts and approaches are being discovered on a weekly basis. A lot of them won't pan out but some will, and they will make writing Javascript even more fun than it is today.

And one thing I know for sure: it's hell of a lot more fun to write Javascript today than it was ten years ago.
Most people are smart enough to know the money has to come from somewhere. Over the long haul a country's budget isn't that different from that of a household. They voted for ever increasing levels services - if they didn't know the bill would eventually come due they certainly should have.

And the idea economists and banks didn't realize ever increasing amounts of debt would be a problem just isn't credible.
Get an MBA :-)
6 mentions of 'cloud' in the intro. 13 from the back cover. This sounds like a buzzword extravaganza rather than anything particularly useful. Has anyone read this that can comment? Is it just re-branded knowledge about distributed systems?
But best online resources come from Hubspot, Growth Hackers, Google Analytics, etc.

But just as programming is a profession, so is marketing, so it's important that you get professional marketing in ASAP.
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Whenever you have a good interaction with a recruiter, tell them that, and tell them that you'd like to build a relationship and contact them every time you begin a job search. The good ones will be receptive.
Their twitter account has been compromised as well :(
That's 27% of the budget, though.

This is not a problem of "crony corruption". It's the same problem you see in Central and South America - voters who think they're entitled to Northern European levels of services without having a Northern European economy.
Sounds like your OS is... a POS!
One big reason: turnover rate. For recruiters it's about 70% first year, and ~90% by second year. Most jobs are contract and not many people survive agencies. Internal jobs are more stable so turnover rates are likely a lot lower.

There are people that stay in contact throughout multiple switches, but it's pretty rare. Staying in touch after getting you multiple jobs presumes they are likely in agency and that they still work on the same type of roles. Agency turnover is high so they might not even be in recruiting after the first year. Then also take myself, I worked on varying roles from finance, healthcare, mech eng, swe, ml, pm, and more all in the last 2 years. Chances of me working the exact type of role I got you into a year later is unlikely.
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I discovered React after using Om, and I believe that Mercury comes with a lot of good practices enabled by default. But it's technically possible to achieve the exact same 'decoupled-state-pure-shallow-etc' using React. It's just not turned on by default and some additional boilerplate is needed, so it's harder to achieve this in React. The only reason I use React instead of Mercury is that React is battle-tested. No amount of testing can replace the real-world situations.I choose a path of higher resistance because I trust React most (due to it's popularity and usage), even though Mercury is better in theory. Ultimately it's a pattern, and that pattern is associated with a level of abstraction over the DOM as well as the way we write code. Mercury and React are two examples of this. I would like to see more competition and libraries to choose from, modular DOM abstractions, with declarative UI's and alternative API's and jsx-esc transforms. That'd be awesome IMO.
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"Hero"? There are people who have been working for years, decades even, on the homelessness and poverty problem in the valley. Those are the heroes. This is a guy who likes being in the spotlight, and has been out of it for too long since being ousted from his company.

If he's sincere, he'll get in there and do the real work, and won't pretend that giving talks at a tennis club is helping the disenfranchised. I have serious doubts he even understands what questions to ask yet, much less what the answers are. Homelessness, poverty, addiction, mental illness, are incredibly complex topics.

I've been involved (not on a daily basis, but with some regularity) in a variety of on-the-ground activism and volunteer work for the homeless in Austin for about three years now. I don't even begin to presume I know how to solve the underlying problems. But, I know how to make a meal and serve it, so I've done that a bunch. I know how to drive someone to an appointment or to their safe sleeping spot, so I've done that a bunch. I know how to talk to city council members, so I've done that. And, I'm white and middle class, so I can run interference with police when they're being assholes to homeless folks, so I've done that. None of those things gets you profiled in the Guardian, but they actually help a real live person make it through another day.

I have significant doubts about the sincerity of his change of heart, and I have even more significant doubts about the impact he will make...I fear he may redirect resources from good programs into programs that are poorly thought out based on a poor understanding of what the problems are and how to remedy them.
You can take it a step further and use SPARK:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARK_%28programming_language%2...
And their website:
http://www.who.is/whois/chipotle.com

https://twitter.com/theceltic666/status/564235898427281408
> I've found that a (good) recruiter will work hard to drive up your salary

That hasn't been my experience at all. I've been contacted by several recruiters and nearly all of them asked me to lower my rate for them.

On one occasion I was asked in depth about what rates I would find acceptable under which conditions and then after they established contact between me and their client I would find out that they had already offered my absolute minimum rate (which I had previously qualified with "if it's a perfect match, a nice environment, and the office is practically next door, I may be willing to go that low") without asking me.

But I guess recruiters for consultants are a different matter from recruiters for permanent employees. There's probably a higher incentive to negotiate a high wage for a permanent employee because in most cases you'll only sign them up once. With consultants you just want them signed as frequently as possible.
The share of public worker sector workers out of overall employment was 29% in Greece vs 19% in Germany and they earned 49% more per hour than private sector employees (in Germany the difference was 19%). Source: http://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/scpwps/ecbwp1406.pdf
How did they get in,in the first place?
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Now, scene.org is hardly a decent news archive these days. It's basically just kept alive with no active development.

Scene.org's core function is to act as an archive. A very large share of all demoscene productions, ever, are hosted on scene.org and its mirrors. It's been fullfilling this service for many many years now, and I don't think it's going to stop anytime soon. It's excellent for a community to be able to rely on such an excellent file host for such a long time.

For a better accessible and searchable database of demoscene productions, it's better to go to http://pouet.net. Don't be scared away by it's, well, "impressive" look and feel, it really is the central hub of the demoscene and the design is chiefly maintained because of nostalgic reasons.

Another more detailed archive of roughly the same productions is http://demozoo.org.
I was curious how traumatic it can be. Went searching and found this abstract from a paper[1] studying ejections in the German Air Force from 1981-1997:

"[86 ejections from 56 aircraft had an] overall success [(survival)] rate of 97.6%. Of all 85 participants, 12 (14%) were uninjured, 41 (48.2%) were slightly injured, and 30 (35.3%) were severely injured. Typical injuries were those of the spine and lower limbs. The most common severe injury was a vertebral fracture caused by ejection acceleration. This is followed by lower limb injuries received during the parachute landing fall."

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10596782
This is a nice write-up. A couple of minor corrections:

First, in several places it talks what a physical RAM "chip" looks like in terms of its memory layout. It would be better to simply think of an address space instead of a physical chip. Even without virtual memory, you don't know - and don't care - how the hardware addresses an actual chip. It may not even be a chip! The same principles would apply with old-fashioned magnetic core memory or any other kind of memory.

Also, this is completely wrong:

> Swapping at the granularity of 4KB chunks mitigates the issues caused by fragmentation (since they are small).

If you're comparing segmentation with paging, then paging doesn't just "mitigate" fragmentation. Fragmentation simply doesn't exist when you always allocate the same size memory blocks. It's not because the 4KB pages are "small" - segmented memory often used much smaller allocations than that. You could have any size page and it would be the same thing: there's no such thing as fragmentation in this situation.

Consider the difference between a heap allocator that manages blocks of any requested size vs. one where all blocks are the same size. In the latter case, your allocator can simply consist of a list of free blocks. To allocate a block, you take one from the list. To free a block, you add it to the list. It's that simple, and there is no opportunity for fragmentation to happen here. And this is completely independent of the block size, as long as all blocks are the same size.

Of course you could sub-allocate memory within or overlapping your pages, using some other kind of memory allocator like malloc(), and those memory allocations would suffer fragmentation just as segmented memory does. But again that fragmentation is due to the fact that you're allocating different sized blocks, and it's a separate question from whether the paging mechanism itself can become fragmented.
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yea well you inject that transistor into your blood and then sleep on a metal spring matress - that if you lay on it bends into a natural satellite shape - once injected those will be subjective to any magnetic force, and can be pulled to your brain while you sleep with a magnet, with enough exposure to a magnet it could even be formed into an antenno or a satellite shape. so then try to fight the electric dragon gods and their emf/microwave weapons.

same reason they put aluminum in deodorant for 30 years or whatever. once you can have metal in your blood you can be captured in the magicnet (magnet)

so tired of this shit stop posting anti vaccine shit it irks me; you have no idea what your talking about nor the cultural histories of the earth. its the year 4000 in china and they all worship a dragon god. so idk why you post this fud.
The notion that employees at Trader Joes are different than employees at WalMart is the curiously American breed of classism, where the poor people get their groceries bagged by poor people but the rich people get their groceries bagged by temporarily embarrassed millionaires with art degrees.
> But often, paid prioritization is a good thing. As American Consumer Institute president Steve Pociask points out, if ESPN wants to pay Internet providers to make sure ESPN fans get their content without it counting against their data plans, why shouldn't that be allowed?

That would be allowed under the proposed paid prioritization rules, because that is not paid prioritization.
I should have scare-quoted "lazy" to make it more clear that I meant it in the tongue-in-cheek sense.

I'll grant you that the Mandatory Minimum Work Week (MMWW) is a plausible alternative to Basic Income (BI) with two caveats. One, that you would probably want to implement it more as "Mandatory Minimum Vacation" so as to leave alone jobs that fundamentally require time blocks of a certain size and two, instead of a strict rule use progressive fees for violation so that the incentive landscape can accommodate exceptional circumstances. For the sake of brevity let's call this "MMWW+".

> I feel like you are missing the point that the "bottom" has a much better, easier, fairer chance

That's a statement, not an argument. If you can back it up I'd be interested, because the only tiebreaking argument I've heard between BI and MMWW+ favors BI due to efficiency. MMWW+ cuts a swath through the whole labor force resulting in a very uneven effect across professions. Surgeons already make $500k/yr, what will happen if you effectively cut the surgeon labor supply by 10%? Either a huge price shock or they pay the fees for violating MMWW+, and those costs are going to get conveyed right back to the consumer due to relative elasticity. Contrast to BI which effectively identifies the component of the labor force which is cheapest to remove and addresses it in particular while more or less leaving everyone else alone (modulo a small bump towards the mean which you can eliminate if you so choose at the expense of damping marginal incentives somewhere near the bottom).

> [MMWW is] more utopian than what are we faced in capitalist societies now, but goes against business profit maximization

BI, MMWW, MMWW+, and all other alternative schemes run contrary to current vested interests. Since the cost is common to all of them it should not affect an analysis of which one is best unless we have reason to believe that one is significantly more palatable than another. For instance, MI>BI and MMWW+>MMWW but I don't see a compelling reason to believe that MI>MMWW+ or MI<MMWW+.

> The recent uptick in free lance jobs is rough for this very reason. It's less risky to sell most your leisure time to large companies. That's my personal diagnosis.

"Diagnosis" implies identification of a root cause, but that seems more like an effect, and I'm not sure how it fits in to your larger argument.

> destroy the [8-9]-[5-6] scourge imbued unto us by unionized industrialists of the past and craft new culture.

You realize that workdays were longer before the unions forced the "scourge" onto the industrialists, right? They argued for the exact same thing that you argue for, and for the exact same reason.

> the non risk averse must continue(create) their own entrepreneurship endeavors

The single most convincing argument I've heard in favor of BI / MI is that in reduces risks associated with entrepreneurship and lengthens runways, even for professions that don't command a large salary.
The problem with your theory is that, as others have noted, the effect seems to happen with a red laser pointer as well.

To interfere with the electronics, the wavelength only has to as large as the band gap in silicon (as someone else has noted, around 1.1 eV). This means that IR light (and all visible light) can cause the interference too.

A strong enough light source will lift a lot of electrons from the valence band across the band gap into the conduction band, effectively turning a transistor into a conductor for the duration of the flash. Since the sensitive part seems to be related to the power supply, it's quite plausible that this leads to the voltage fluctuations on the power rail.
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