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The man who is possessed of wealth, who lolls on his sofa or rolls in his carriage, cannot judge the wants or feelings of the day-laborer. The government we mean to erect is intended to last for ages. The landed interest, at present, is prevalent; but in process of time, when we approximate to the states and kingdoms of Europe, — when the number of landholders shall be comparatively small, through the various means of trade and manufactures, will not the landed interest be overbalanced in future elections, and unless wisely provided against, what will become of your government? In England, at this day, if elections were open to all classes of people, the property of landed proprietors would be insecure. An agrarian law would soon take place. If these observations be just, our government ought to secure the permanent interests of the country against innovation. Landholders ought to have a share in the government, to support these invaluable interests, and to balance and check the other. They ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority. The senate, therefore, ought to be this body; and to answer these purposes, they ought to have permanency and stability.

-James Madison 1787

http://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Madison
I haven't read the blog post carefully yet, but I doubt that's at all related here. This is about an Erlang interpreter written in RPython. Not about changing anything about Erlang itself.
Perhaps, but you don't need an army of sophisticated actuaries to figure this year's number for Croydon is not too different from the last 20 years of data. There are some prediction and budgeting problems to solve of course but they are of an entirely different character when you're not dealing with a for profit or marketplace solution.
"praise from both the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.."

Who, in my opinion, are simply trying to recover from the political damage cause by the California prop 8 fiasco.
Not if you believe in using the best tools for the job.
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I'm going by the standard, "First get users and profit will follow."

I have an ace up my sleeve because God talks. Not just to me! A guy made a IRC chatbot and that talks too.

To try the ICR chatbot

1) http://chat.rizon.net

2) Type "#templeos" in place of "#Rizon"

3) Type "!God" in the chatroom.
I actually think Terry could provide a lot of value if he was able to provide training in system engineering. The experience he has is invaluable. I'm not sure what his plan is, though....
'a.b()' dereferences 'a' to call its 'b' method. If 'a' is null you'll get a NullPointerException.
Cpp and c also call things volatile for entirely different reasons than Java.

These are two distinct ecosystems. They use the same terminology with different meaning. That perhaps is confusing, but definitely doesn't make one or the other incorrect.
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A much less awful non-marxist take on the subject: http://www.psmag.com/business-economics/will-ever-able-enjoy...

IIRC, a related issue that came up on HN a while ago is unpaid overtime. As any employee programmers surely know, giving employers unpaid overtime when projects are behind schedule is especially bad, because it creates moral hazard (incentives to set excessively tight schedules). But everyone does it, because it's expected (if you won't do it, they'll hire someone who will, right?).

Regulation -- punishing employers who accept unpaid overtime, and somehow widely enforcing these rules -- is one of very few approaches that seem theoretically able to make any difference to this situation.
The World: 8000 BC - 2014 AD. Died of Global Warming.

But seriously, I don't agree with the choice to label our recent history a "leftward" movement. I would call it a gradual, and thus far successful evolution. It often includes progressive ideas spreading through society, but as the author correctly points out, many progressive ideas are never accepted (see eugenics).

I think the best way to explain it is to say that while the "conservative" side of our culture tends to favor stagnation, the "liberal" side of our culture tends to favor unchecked growth. On the one hand, it would be very unfortunate if our society stagnated for centuries like some have, but on the other hand unchecked growth is what cancer does, and that's not healthy either.
No, that was a hot plate that was left on. If they had used a Sabbath Mode oven, there would not have been a fire.
You can see it in action on Hacker News, or any sites with downvotes. Inevitably, the downvoting will destabilise any equilibrium - the views of even a slight majority will get reinforced in a positive feedback loop, and you end up with an echo chamber. There are several opinions that I know can't be voiced here.
"So, some paperwork is mandatory, no actual health care."

The way the law is brought to action is that the private clinics have specific service tiers which they offer to employers, of which even the basic one covers consultation by a general practitioner. The easiest way for employers to fulfill the letter of the law is to buy the service.

Which means that working adults seldom tend to the public services unless they are really ill, which means more business for the private clinics and increases the appeal of a health insurance (it's easier).

This is getting really obscure for this forum, but as a reference:
The specific law is

https://www.finlex.fi/fi/laki/ajantasa/2001/20011383

Which in google translate is

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fi&tl=en&js=y&prev...
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I've always though TempleOS would be perfect for open hardware, like the Raspberry Pi. Would you ever consider porting it to ARMv7/8?
You're right, that sounded pretty pretentious and high-horsey. I just meant that if a job can be automated cheaply, then we all generally benefit from automating it, assuming the people previously doing it are cared for.
This kind of question comes up a lot, not just about Perl, but about Ruby, Cobol, PHP, Java, Haskell, etc. Unfortunately, it doesn't really have an answer for two reasons.

Firstly, the popularity of a language in no way predicts your potential future earnings if you learn that language. PHP is probably the world's most widely used language, yet the average salary for a PHP developer is lower. I found learning VBA immensely useful, but it was a frustrating language to use. I love using Ruby and Python, but PHP work is much easier to find. Ruby taught me a lot about programming, so it was definitely worth learning.

Secondly, developers are not good or bad because of the language they use, but because of the value they provide. You could be a shockingly bad developer, but excellent at explaining difficult concepts in VisualBasic to the rich and powerful - you'll probably get rich.

Essentially, you need to reframe your question, and then answer it yourself. What are you hoping to get out of programming? Do you want to be rich? Do you enjoy solving problems? Are you happy to work every hour of the day, or do you want to get out at 5pm every night? Which areas of programming make you feel most comfortable - writing CRUD apps or complex algorithms? Do you have any types of company you would refuse to work for (say gambling or finance)? Are you an extrovert or an introvert? Do you prefer to work in a small company or a large corporate? These kinds of questions will narrow your choices and help you to choose a career path.

So... you might learn Perl, which causes you to get a job you end up hating but introduces you to somebody that recommends you learn Haskell, which gets you the job you love for gazillions per year. In other words, how the $%&# should we know?
instead of insulting Graeber, what do you think about his ideas? For example, do people think their jobs are worthwhile?
> If everyone could live where they wanted to, put their kids through good schools, did not have to pay student loans, save for retirement, and could afford vacations

An ever growing share of household spending is driven by the positional goods you mention. People work harder and longer so they can outbid other people for particular houses and schools and vacation rentals. The net effect of cutting everybody's income is not anymore as important as is typically assumed. The bidding war for good neighborhoods and so forth simply de-escalates with lower incomes.
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There are no claims that Java doesn't use pointers. You just don't have direct access to them. Also i don't. Think the entire purpose was to hide pointers for correctness sake but to make the memory model consistent across plarforms.
Unexpected side-effect, a lot of HN'ers join IRC to visit the Godbot :P (and they all type !God ) | fyi: https://qchat.rizon.net/ join #templeos
I've found this technical interview process to work very well. This is done after the initial phone screen.

1. Show them a problem with your product along with the code. For front end developers it could be how form invalidation errors are being presented to users.
2. Ask them to figure out what why the code is doing this and observe them troubleshoot the code.
3. Tell them to fix the problem in the code and observe them apply a fix, test, and debug it.
4. Ask them to architect a better solution to the problem and to explain what makes it better. What would would be drawbacks to their solution.

The benefits of this approach is that you can evaluate directly how someone solves problems, not how well they communicate, nor how knowledgeable they are. It also helps me judge how fast they are. Sometimes I ask people to estimate how long it would take to solve this and time them. The last step helps establish how they think through their solutions and how well they can communicate their ideas.

Additionally, I get to see how quickly they might get up to speed with our codebase and I can hear other solutions to some of the technical problems we are facing which is incredibly beneficial as a small startup.
So you change jobs every eight months? That's exactly the kind of generally infeasible solution I said to ignore. The vast, vast majority of people simply can't do that, so it isn't worth talking about as a general solution.
It would be such an amazing learning experience for any designer to create a UI/UX for TempleOS.

Imagine being given the opportunity to design how OS X or Windows should look and feel from the ground up.

Linux is obviously another option, but unlike with TempleOS, you would not be treading new ground, and it would be hard to not just evolve the Linux interface, rather than defining it from scratch.
I had a similar frustration over JavaScript recently and wrote a very similar post: http://www.mattgreer.org/articles/javascript-is-a-pass-by-va...
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I agree. F-35 seems to be developed to make money and redistribute political power. The atomic bomb was developed to make an atomic bomb. See the subtle difference in these two sentences?

And it works with so many companies today as well. That's why I'm a big fan of Tesla and SpaceX - because they build electric cars so that there are electric cars. They build rockets so that humans can go to Mars. Many other companies in these sectors are the toilet-paper type: they develop electric cars to make money on people buying them. They develop rockets to make money on companies buying launch services. It's the difference of having money as an instrumental vs. terminal goal.
And don't even get me started about how broken Spaces is, allowing you to cmd+tab to another space.
An amusing anecdote about the "trophy generation." There is a tradition of not keeping score at soccer games for little kids. My kids were in these soccer leagues for a while, so I attended quite a number of games.

The adults didn't keep score. Whether they knew the score or not depended on whether they cared about sports or not.

The kids kept score. At the end of the game, every last kid knew the score, who won, who kicked the most goals, had the most saves, etc.

Likewise with "every kid gets a ribbon." The kids know the score. They know if it's one of those ribbons that every kid gets, or a ribbon that's actually a prize for something.
> That's silly. Why should every other language adhere exactly to C++'s definition of a reference?

It would be silly if NullPointerException were named something else.
definitely, I work 45 hours a week an I'm already drained, I can't imagine working more..

work to live, don't live to work.
This is a great idea. I'd play with it on the Pi.
(EDIT: Perhaps the downvoter would care to give a counter-argument for why the LTV is a pre-requisite for Marx political ideology?)

I don't see what it is you believe relies on the labor theory of value.

Marx theories span a wide range, but certainly his political ideology did not in any way rely on the labor theory of value to underpin it, and it is something most people advocating Marxism don't even know or understand very well.

What it does rely on is whether Marx hypothesis that capitalism will necessarily self destruct as it reaches the limits of market expansion is correct (no more people living out of reach of capitalist competition). Marx expected this to happen by forcing capitalists into ever harsher competition and automation at the cost of starting to throw workers back into poverty and as a result pulling the rug out under their own markets, eventually leading to sufficient social upheaval to drive the working classes to revolution.

It further relies on Marx hypothesis that upon the self destruction of capitalism, that the working classes can end the class struggle by seizing control and redistributing wealth and the control of the means of production.

The LTV is used by Marx as justification for why some of this is "right", but at the same time Marx theories on the political and economic development of society does not rest on right and wrong, but on how the self-interests of the members of the various classes affects society as the economic development alters the relative powers of these classes.

There are plenty things that can be wrong in these theories, but whether or not the LTV is right or not is an entirely orthogonal issue.
You go Terry, I've always been a supporter since I've learned about you.
According to the source I found (and posted above), the issue was that instead of actually working less, people ended up putting in unpaid overtime out of the office? (And having to check their work email at home, etc, which is definitely awful for health)
It would be a lot of work, but it's possible. I made it wed to x86_64.
> I'd also like to turn off the Macbook display when plugged into an external monitor.

sudo nvram boot-args=niog=1

http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/152203/turn-off-mac...
Thanks for your input and the link. Any other licenses beside GPL you try to avoid?
Yes, the world can change. The trouble is that it's impossible reliably to predict what change will result from a given action. The other trouble is that it's impossible reliably to predict what action will result from a given action. People are like that, be it ever so easy for a systems-oriented thinker -- like Marx, or yourself, or for that matter myself -- to forget. (Like any bad habit, this is susceptible to self-discipline.)

The other other trouble is that the soi-disant "social sciences" aren't and cannot be, because controlled experiments are impossible. Historiography and inference are fine and valuable things, but inflicting one's conclusions on others is a project best approached with a maximum of trepidation.

And the final trouble, the really insuperable one, lies in the fact that true collective action, the seat and soul of theoretical socialism, is in practice impossible save on the smallest and meanest scale, such as the rough music of medieval Europe, or the lynchings of the postbellum American South. In a larger arena, such as that of political action, true collectivism runs contrary to the unified intent and direction necessary to survival; begin as it may, a political movement must grow a leader or die. It may, as many, achieve both; it cannot possibly achieve neither, for the same reason its individual members cannot achieve orbit unaided, no matter how high they jump.

No doubt the world can change. The Bolsheviks changed it, quite effectively. Did they make of it what they intended? Did they make of it a better world than they found it? Will you?
I think this is the big thing. Maybe java references arent cpp refs. Is there a proper name for an abstract construct that refers to something else? Maybe reference?
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That is an interesting idea. But even more so, I would certainly pay for a full MOOC on low-level OS development from scratch derived from it. Terry seems to have a rare and very useful skillset.
I disagree,because of this: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/tech-news/microsof...

Imageworks is taking 2 floors in the same building, Amazon is already in the Telus building at the 555 Robson Atrium and have leased numerous floors in the new Telus Garden tower which will be open momentarily: http://www.vancitybuzz.com/2013/10/amazon-vancouver-office-t...
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The dynamics of the financial incentives involved are a bit different with goverment provided health care and private clinics funded through medical insurance.

Private clinics which are the main receivers of insurance money are often owned by the doctors. Thus, they have an incentive to over-charge, over diagnose and run expensive labs whenever they can. I'm not saying it happens, just that the incentive is there. Government provided healthcare offers no financial incentives for practicioners to over-diagnose - on the contrary this system then incentivizes to be as prudish as possible with the public resources.

I'm not saying one or the other is better or worse, just that they are not equal in every way.
...and it has less space than a Nomad.
You appear to be saying 'we can call it pass-by-reference if we use a special definition of the term when speaking about Java.'

"A word means what I want it to mean, nothing more, nothing less." - Humpty Dumpty, 'Through The Looking Glass and What Alice Found There'.

There should be a variant of Occam's Razor specifically against unnecessary semantic splitting and proliferation.
If they're doing that in lieu of normal screening and interview panels this would likely be a time savings for the candidate
I'm Terry Davis.

My email address is tdavis@templeos.org .
With other people! Impenetrably obscure papers really unravel in a journal club. You can understand the main thrust of a paper much faster if you find a social setting for talking about it.
Yes, when someone submits a webpage the design of that page is up for discussion.

Whe someone writes an interesting technical post about Cache Line Aliasing it's a shame when the most visible commet is a complaint about the blog platform.

I want more articles like that on HN so I'm going to stop leaving empty comments about page design on HN unless, like this example, the design is an intrinsic part of the submission.

And even here I could have worded my post much better.

Having said all that: a lot of the stuff submitted here is not accessible and that's a shame. It feels like we've gone backwards. Where you used to have a web page that had keyboard navigable elements that would announce themselves to the assistive technology it feels like we now have apps that abandoned usability and started making it up as they go along. What happens when you press and hold and image? What happens when you put your phone into landscape? Who knows, everyone does things differently.
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False, it's estimated to have effectively created around 400/500k jobs from a target of 700k, and is credited to a boom for the tourism industry (three days week-end).

Of course there have been short and long term, good and bad side effects.
Thanks for sharing! Well this message you wrote shows you are capable of at least #1 and #2, and hopefully #3 as well :)

I have heard that you will never find an addict who isn't trying to numb pain in their life. If you can deal with the pain you feel separately I hope that the addiction will become a much easier battle to win!

Numerous times when I have gotten to know people who interact with autistic kids, or have been a caregiver for an autistic child, they have spoken to me as though I have autistic tendencies (and knew about them) and so lately, as an adult, I have been wondering whether Im on the spectrum.

I know that life is a struggle, and some of the things I struggle with could be related to tendencies I share with others. I dont know why, but the thought that I might be even midly autistic fills me with hope, thinking that if I can learn to function despite my difficulties and I'm not alone, then maybe I can help others do the same.

I can't say whether you're autistic or not, but I can tell you that you have company (you are not alone) and you are appreciated!
I actually liked this idea so much that I made a real-life version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoLDBbEFCFw
Agreed I am told that Burbery was horrified when their trademark check was taken up by chavs - apparently their marketing refer to as this as "The Time".

And £13k for a watch will get you a really nice Rolex but its not that much in terms of the high end watch luxury brand.

And you can hand down your Rolex to your great grand kids not sure the apple watch will last that long.
Actually it is somewhere between the last two. I cant do pointer math but i can pass a null reference.
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That is a good article. I referenced it last week when I was converting a prototype Clojure app from using an embedded database and also Lucene to using just Postgres. Postgres is like a Swiss army knife, lots of functionality :-)
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Wouldn't a UBI simply be inflationary? That is, rather than making 0 you make 1500 (say). But since everybody is making 1500, then it would be the same as making 0 again.

So unless we have strict blocks on pricing things, UBI seems nonsensical.