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(Disclaimer: I know nothing about economy, and the very little I've read made no sense to me)

I keep reading about how Germany's "zero debt" economic policy is bad for the country, and how bleak Germany's future is. That is, everyone seems to agree on this... except for the Germans, who say nothing about it while they continue being one of the top 5 economies in the world.

Lots of these analysis come from the US, which to me makes even less sense: why would anyone listen to the country who got paralyzed when they couldn't keep getting even more in debt? How come George Soros can suggest[1] that Europe should go to war against Russia as a mean for stimulating the economy, and do it with a straight face?

Every article seems to suggest that German economists are a bunch of amateurs who don't know what they are doing. But from my layman's point of view, it certainly doesn't look that way.

[1] http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/nov/20/wake-up...
TLDR; op blames awfull books that spread bad practices and then made PHP code ugly and insecure.

I personally don't care about PHP.

Now the PHP community is kinda funny.
Basically there are the people that use PHP as poor man's java, that feel the need to write 50 design patterns per file, who hates the other part of the community, the one that couldn't care less about "software engineering best practices".

So it's not much that people hate PHP, more like PHP developpers hate other PHP developers because they feel the need to be labelled as "good" PHP developpers, unlike the "bad" ones.
Just curious, who said that?
Russian hackers behind ‘worst ever’ White House cyberattack
It's not in ruins, but Germany's highways are definitely not as good as they used to be. Especially if you compare them to the roads in France or The Netherlands, for instance. The internet infrastructure in Germany needs work as well: It currently ranks below Russia and Hungary, far below countries like Sweden, Netherlands and the US.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Internet_c...
Tesla banned in West Virginia, whose Senate president is also an auto dealer
On a modern pipelined CPU with separate instruction/data caches self-modifying code does have a rather large penalty since it has to flush the pipeline and the caches, but on the original 8088 PC which has no cache and no pipeline (there's only a 4-byte prefetch queue), the penalty is much smaller.
This isn't kindergarten where you can just show up and start scribbling.

Even if the actual act of coding (or painting, or martial arts, or writing, or watering roadside plants) is effortless, there's a hell of a lot of effort that goes into just getting yourself in a position to do it.

Example: perhaps painting is effortless for you, but putting yourself in a position to paint involves a lot of mundane things that require effort. You still have to buy and stretch canvasses. You have to buy a brush. You have to clean your brushes. If you want to make a career of it, you need to tackle some basic business tasks. You need to deal with an agent or gallery. You need to file your taxes, because painting gets a lot harder when you're in jail or the IRS has taken your stuff. You have to work and pay your rent, because it's tough to paint when you're homeless and worrying about your next meal and whether you'll survive the night. And so forth. There's a lot of shit that has to get done just to place yourself in a position where you can regularly put brush to canvas.

When I started my own business that was my experience. Writing the code was the fun part. Effortless, you might say. I was compelled to write it - it was harder to stay away from it than it was to work on it. But I went through hell just to be able to write that code - I worked long hours at my day job so that I could pay the bills, I often had to choose between writing code and having a social life, and so on. And prior to even starting that venture, it took me years of hard work and college education just to develop the skills that allowed me to write that code.

Your advice is, at best, useful only to those who already have their basic needs provided for. Trust-fund babies and the like.
Insurance solves that.

The Japanese shifted liability onto larger vehicles. Just as most places will always treat a rear-shunt as being the fault of the car behind, hitting a cyclist is always the fault of the larger/motorised vehicle.
Wasn't there recently some kind of legislation in the US that encouraged the adoption of NFC-based terminals, which was one of the main drivers behind the release of Apple Pay in the first place? I remember reading about it somewhere in the middle of a Google Wallet vs Apple Pay flamewar.
MWC 2016: what we want to see
Only if you care about the jtag controller they added (and the tooling/portability/etc...), consider that if you just need a board with that processor you can get the STM32F4 Discovery (no spi-flash, more sensors) for $10 ($10 more buys you the version with an integrated 3.5" color lcd touchscreen): http://www.st.com/web/catalog/tools/FM116/SC959/SS1532/PF252...
How big is Tesla's new factory?
Jepp:
http://www.crockford.com/javascript/jsmin.html
http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1096212_the-tesla-gigafa...
The problem with a lot of developers is that they just want to be sit in a corner, and figure stuff out on there own.

When in 3 words you can ask for help from someone who's done it before, and save a lot of time for the company.

There a lot of personality types that just won't ask for help, unless you make it a part of the routine.

Stand ups go bad when employers try to use it to "control" employees(You must be in at this time, put social pressure on you to complete things etc) as opposed to just a casual routine thing.

Tends to be good when implemented by devs themselves, bad when its enforced as strict policy, and business people trying to squeeze the last bit energy from the dev team.
You have clearly stated though that what makes you happy would be to create things that "would persist in history and influence other people".

For some reason you then define something that would make you unhappy as 'happy' "For me, to be happy with limited success and a more laid-back pace would be a kind of personal death."

You mentioned you can't be happy with that, so it doesn't make sense to define that as happiness.

Optimising for happiness is going to be different for each person, and from your post, it seems it you should be optimising for creating things that will persist in history and influence people, because that is what you have mentioned will make you happy.
If you have a team that works fine, then yes, okay, don't do that stand-up. But usually people don't know what the other guys are doing in the other office or even just the next guy, because projects are complicated in real life. And if you really follow that pattern, then each member takes less than a minute and you are done in 5-10 minutes with a whole team. There is nothing to optimize, even if it's unnecessary.
The Mars trilogy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_trilogy ) is a bit dated but fun. It's fiction though.
Speaking as an occasional pedestrian in Japan, it would be nice not to have to deal with cyclists hurtling down the sidewalk at great speeds as happens today.
That's an interesting idea, thanks. We wanted to avoid any concept of registration (ie all appointments are currently 'checkout as guest'), since it's an experience barrier, but Fb/Tw/G+ are good human verification tools.
> What advantage would I gain learning Commons Lisp over Clojure?

You'd get to learn a standardized language with good support on many platforms (including the JVM, see ABCL) that has stood the test of time very well. I'd argue you'd get a bigger picture of the Lisp world than Clojure can offer, which is rather a specialized offshoot that breaks with many traditions.

Common Lisp is also a rather nonopinionated, it supports almost all programming styles out of the box, and new paradigms can be implemented on top gracefully. It doesn't push you into one way of doing a certain thing, unlike Clojure which has some strong preferences.

Clojure will bring you an opinionated concept of parallelism/concurrency, and a standard library geared very specifically to its conceptual design. Some problems will already be solved for you, but in turn you miss out on many Lisp-ism that didn't make it into Clojure.

I'd imagine Common Lisp is fairly well respected, too. :) I have always considered it the mother of all programming languages since 1990. From my experience (1 year ago) CL tooling is much better established than Clojure tooling. CL has tons of libraries available through Quicklisp. The quality of libraries is generally very high, but I can not really compare it to the Clojure landscape.
This is the mark of genuine flow :) wow...you should start your own "do whatever you want" university. Pretty sure all the young impressionable minds around here will enjoy it.
This list needs corrections, e.g.:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk#Zip2

$22 million at 28
Next year's big Windows 10 update is codenamed 'Redstone'
Clojure in a bank – video
My favorite version of this tale: "Free Bananas in the Kitchen!"

http://www.metafilter.com/78177/PLEASE-UNSUBSCRIBE-ME-FROM-T...

I remember it happened at NYU a couple of years ago and they turned it into a kind of ad-hoc social network/partyline. I wonder if anyone archived those emails? I suppose they deserve to remain "private."
How to ROOT GIONEE V4S
Is the Apple queue dead?
Great post. Only thing I would like to add: It's nice if people are honest about the state of code and make info about its status and (non-)maintenance easy to find.

On github & co many people seem to judge projects by activity, but that isn't necessarily a good metric.
Microsoft seeks to recruit autistic workers
Effective Java: a tool to explore and measure your Java code written in Clojure
Author seems to be a "wannabe"!

Tell your parents NOT to impose their ambition and frustration on you!
1. True, that makes sense.

2. But isn't Germany's position at the moment infinitely preferable to Greece's? Obviously the situation would be better if no bail outs were required, but if they are, I would much rather be the country with the surplus.

3. Good idea, I've watched a few already but should continue.
You could also go beyond that by changing the image 50/60 times a second, which would then blur together. Enabling you to display colours that aren't even in the ST's palette.
Scaffold your webapp with new React UI Builder
We need a way to find your email address, then we can send you an invite...
Why You Should Choose Drupal as Ecommerce Platform?
Please do not buy Richard Stallman a parrot and other rules (2011)
This tool is a visual web page builder, where you can create web pages utilizing a big set of React components,
also you can define composed components on pages as project components, and then export all pages as a React application.

After export you will have a completely prepared source code of React application with components from framework,
which was selected for project (currently supported only react-bootstrap), including components defined as project components.
I just sent you an invite.
I sometimes think that people on HN live in this artificial bubble where everyone has same arrangements as programmers or work in startups. There is plenty of posts like yours, or "why don't you just work from home a couple days a week?". Most people work fixed schedules, they can't "go home an hour earlier".
This. Apple wouldn't be what they are today without the return of Jobs.
But ultimately its a psychological issue that leads you to eating more. Not actual sugars or carbs being turned into fat
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If you look at the German Mark at its time. It was the anchor for a lot of currencies. Basically the currencies of the continent followed the Deutsche Mark and much the currency policy was made by Germans in the Deutsche Bundesbank in Frankfurt. Many of the currencies were members of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Exchange_Rate_Mechanis...

With the Euro, the currency policy is now made by a European institution by Europeans, in Frankfurt at the ECB.

Trading is easier because of a larger market easily accessible: the EU, the Eurozone, Eastern Europe, ... Before that it was slightly more difficult, but still the industry did very at exports.

> That plan has hugely backfired, boosting the struggling german economy after the very costly reunification in the beginning of the 20th century.

The economy has been boosted because Germany got after the fall of the wall a huge new market: Eastern Europe. Right next to its door. In the EU, in the Eurozone.

Since a lot of German exports are to the Eurozone or to countries which have currencies following the Euro, much of that is not depending on a favorable exchange rate.
This is the something i was looking for.
I just sent out my last invite to you.
Have fun with it.
Ask HN: Open-Source HTML5 Video Player with Playlist?
What is a good preferably open-source "HTML5 video player with playlist" to replace JW Player ? Example; http://support.jwplayer.com/customer/portal/articles/1428529-display-a-playlist-sidebar
Invites are all gone, sorry!
Only 14% of the U.S. economy is export. Almost 50% of Germany's economy is export.

Edit: changed 80 to 50. Not sure where I saw that number.
I was shocked on how little time off my US friends got for having kids.

Most fathers kept on working and mothers were back to work within a week to month of having a baby.

This practice of encouraging mothers to return to work so quickly seemed like a relic of some era of one wage earner families.

How can Europe and US be so different in this regard, when the demographic problems should be similar?
I completely agree. Foreach is generally nicer for looping a collection anyway.
They are stopped. But when they focus on an individual, or a site, they only need one mistake.
I have to say that Jeffrey Way's Laracasts[1] - which yes, does cover more than Laravel - is a great place to go to learn really good PHP techniques.

[1] https://laracasts.com/
Watch out Tesla Aston Martin is building a 1,000-horsepower electric sedan
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Let's hope the "no standing" argument doesn't work this time?
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Very Different Places (Libre RPG System with Three Settings – WIP)
I cant understand why more people dont realize US is not a capitalist or free market economy.

Or even the EU.

If you look closer at any industry you'll see cartels, monopolies, government support and skeweing what and who gets the money. Who gets payed and who doesnt. The best products do not win, the best companies do not win.

It seems the different vs USSR is the scale of the economy.
This is just a guess, but one thing that could do it would be cycle-exact self-modifying code using interrupts. Modify the code too early or too late and the CPU will execute the wrong instructions.

I see this demo as somewhat of a challenge to the emulator authors.
A lot is economic warfare. Remember the Euro collapsing next day? Soros was claiming that. A lot of 'experts' were claiming that. What happened? Nothing. You could read all year that the Germans were already printing Deutsche Marks to get a away from the Euro.

Even Greece. Totally overblown. Greece is a tiny country. Its GDP is half that of Bavaria.
> I keep reading about how Germany's "zero debt" economic policy is bad for the country, and how bleak Germany's future is. That is, everyone seems to agree on this... except for the Germans, who say nothing about it while they continue being one of the top 5 economies in the world.

Staying in the top 5 means maintaining growth. Growth can be domestic or from exports - Germany could either keep depressing local wages, thus furthering exports, or stop depressing local wages and neglecting infrastructure and education, thus furthering domestic growth. As I understood it, the argument of the critics is not about growth, its pointing out that Germanys export strategy creates massive collateral damage both in Gemany and in the Euro zone.
RBS and NatWest were wrong to trust Apple on biometric security
Sounds like a utopian dream compared to here in Sydney where the roads minister is ripping up our miniscule cycle network and replacing it with "part time" cycle ways and loading bays.
I think having the discipline to follow through with the things you have decided are important to do has a lot to do with it, actually.

“Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work.”
― Chuck Close
Well, it's no magic bullet. Here (Finland) the insurance of motor vehicles always covers damages to bicyclists, even when the bicyclist is at fault (breaking a traffic rule) but that hasn't removed all car/bike collisions.

Having segregated (and physically separated) paths for bikes works well though. They remove the fear that when you're riding straight, a lorry comes from behind and kills you outright. Here the paths are usually shared with pedestrians, and while pedestrians are annoying, they are few (compared to Japan...) and it works reasonably. Intersections are a bit of a problem, but the mistakes by car drivers are quite predictable (and being also a driver myself, I know why they happen), so I can watch out.
I saw a good quote re (1) the other day. "It's not a promotion, it's a career change."

I'd recommend treating it as such.
Author quotes this

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

but is explaining that his tools (github etc) should let his team know what he did yesterday, and that he finds it pointless to tell them face to face.
same in Italy, but it just increases the chance of the driver just running off the scene.

I guess one needs to match effectiveness of incentives with the local culture.
On saving the world the world, and other delusions:
http://www.moreright.net/on-saving-the-world-and-other-delus...

This is a trap - and one you need to be really careful not to fall into, or it will destroy your life.
> Only 14% of the U.S. economy is export. Over 80% of Germany's economy is export.

It only seems to be a bit more than 40%: http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NE.EXP.GNFS.ZS
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Ask HN: Your thoughts on subsidies
I'm mentoring a startup who got their "seed funding" from a EU grant/subsidy and I was wondering what your thoughts are on this kind of situation. It's "free money" (no dilution) but also comes with all kinds of other strings attached (most notably reporting). Maybe I'm too cynical but I've come to consider subsidies a poison that tends to turn promising startups into risk-averse slow-moving entities more concerned with "keeping up appearances" than anything else. What do you think?
>If I do this project and publish my web app, I will be happy. Or if I contribute x-lines to some OSS and get my name on the contributers list, I would be happy. It was sort of like preparing your bed but never actually sleeping in it.

That realization sounds a lot like the TED talk I saw recently from Shawn Achor. He likens it to always moving the goalposts on your own happiness. (FYI - you can get the same amount of info from this TED Talk as you can from his book. Not worth $7.)

http://www.ted.com/talks/shawn_achor_the_happy_secret_to_bet...
I'm from Germany, and im tired of the argument, the Germans should do something about their export.

Export exists, because someone outside of Germany thinks goods from Germany are better then goods from their country.

How to solve this problem? Go and produce better goods urself, instead of crying to Germany to make their goods worse.
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Giving back for the future of open source
The current system is just to post sample suggestions to the GitHub issues page [0]. No voting however. I'm not sure there's much need for a voting system right now.

[0] https://github.com/sftrabbit/CppSamples-Samples/issues
> Over 80% of Germany's economy is export.

Germany has a GDP of 3 Trillion Euro.

It had exports of 1 Trillion Euro.
Adding pom.xml falls under "don't be a dick" rule?
it powered a chinese startup called meiqia, http://meiqia.com
Addendum: There is also export of unique goods, e.g. some countries have rare earths or some other unique ressource. Germany does not have any unique ressources, eversthing Germany does, anyone can go and do equally good/better himself.
Humans should have enough humility to accept that our limited cognitive abilities probably don't define the universe. If you had a certain mutation, you might in principle discover things out of reach of my mere math perceptions. Just like my number sense apparently lets me notice things out of the cognitive reach of cats. (Or so they let me think.)

Humorously, for all we know we're surrounded by entities which can perceive a lot. But we're as aware of them as slugs are of us when confronted by our shoes...

One thing about our math sense is that it seems fairly underdeveloped in comparison to some other abilities; maybe physics is currently dominated by math because we have to work harder at it. Otherwise, the fruits would've come to us earlier.
And the card reader issue is really just the polarbear shit on the tip of the iceberg when it comes to taxi crapiness.
Uber meets IoT
I chose Tesla for three reasons (over PayPal and Zip); first, it's what he is most famous for; it produced most of his fortune and is by a large margin his biggest success; and it's amazing what he went through to pull it off.

There are other entrepreneurs on the list with smaller successes prior to their big hits (a lot of them in fact). In my post I included the text "the age at which they got their big hit" to cover that aspect.
Better link that contains more headers (showing the email's date, and linking to a FAQ):

http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
Id say in the UK the contract rate is more like 60-70 Euros or £50 ph for an experienced developer maybe -20% for a very junior developer though most serious contract developers quote a day rate
It did have a niche, it just didn't have any software. I remember waiting/hoping in the 90s for Adobe and Quark to port over to BeOS so we could ditch Mac OS for publishing.

In fact, it would have been interesting for someone like Adobe to buy Be, and become the de facto standard platform for most kinds of creative work. I can't imagine in that universe that there'd be a MacBook on basically every creative's desk, as there is now.
The thing is the numbers can not be compared.

Wealth in the US and Germany is totally different. The US invests in the stock market, the value of companies is extremely high ... it's just a fictional value.
Thanks. I tried testing on as many devices as I could. Could you please submit a screenshot and description to the website issues page [0]?

[0] https://github.com/sftrabbit/CppSamples-Web/issues