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In my experience LinkedIn produces 97% spam the 3% of value they produce is so valuable that it keeps me there. All of the jobs I've worked in my career have come from a LinkedIn hook up. Additionally I have helped friends network into jobs through it. I wish they would clean things up a bit, however.
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The author mentioned in this article, Esther Gokhale, wrote a book several years ago with the somewhat goofy title 8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back, which I can't recommend enough, especially if you suffer from back pain. It really transformed the way in which I think about my posture and ergonomics in general.

One of the things she touched on in the book, which the NPR article seemed to miss, was a hypothesis that poor posture in the Western world is the result of a cultural shift in the early 20th century. Particularly that slouching and unnatural postures were a sort of rebellious statement against the Victorians for 1920's youth.

Bad ergonomics and posture became so hip that they found their way into furniture design - something that became very clear to me after having a herniated disc and a vintage mid-century couch in my living room..
French Lower House Might Let Google Keep Its Search Algorithm Secret After All
pkg install binutils && make -C/usr/ports/lang/gcc install clean :-)

You can also `make package` to, well, make your own binary package (it will be in /usr/ports/lang/gcc/work/pkg) to distribute to other machines. Or use poudriere to setup a proper package build server.
Sounds like it could have been toxic shock syndrome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxic_shock_syndrome
> As is everything. [Everything] is higher (as a percentage) in low-income households.

No. Exceptions including (from the link above):

Buns, cakes, biscuits etc. Beef (fresh, chilled or frozen) Bacon and ham Fish and fish products Milk Butter Margarine, other vegetable fats and peanut butter Fresh fruit Dried fruit and nuts Preserved fruit and fruit based products Fresh vegetables Other preserved or processed vegetables Sugar and sugar products Jams, marmalades Chocolate Other food products Cocoa and powdered chocolate Fruit and vegetable juices (inc. fruit squash) Soft drinks (inc. fizzy and ready to drink fruit drinks) Beer, lager, ciders and perry (brought home) Men's outer garments Men's under garments Women's outer garments Women's under garments Boys' outer garments (5-15) Girls' outer garments (5-15) Infants' outer garments (under 5) Children's under garments (under 16) Accessories Haberdashery and clothing hire hire/repair of furniture/furnishings Medicines, prescriptions, healthcare products etc. Purchase of new cars and vans Purchase of second hand cars or vans Purchase of motorcycles and other vehicles Spares and accessories Petrol, diesel and other motor oils Repairs and servicing Other motoring costs Rail and tube fares Bus and coach fares Other travel and transport TV, video and computers Computer software and games Equipment for sport, camping and open-air recreation Horticultural goods, garden equipment and plants Pets and pet food Sports admissions, subscriptions, leisure class fees and equipment hire Cinema, theatre and museums etc. TV, video, satellite rental, cable subscriptions and TV licences Development of film, deposit for film development, passport photos, holiday and school photos Gambling payments Diaries, address books, cards etc. Newspapers Package holidays - UK Package holidays - abroad Restaurant and café meals Alcoholic drinks (away from home) Take away meals eaten at home Other take-away and snack food Contract catering (food) and canteens Holiday in the UK Holiday abroad Room hire Hairdressing, beauty treatment Toilet paper Hair products, cosmetics and related electrical appliances Household insurances - structural, contents and appliances Medical insurance premiums Vehicle insurance including boat insurance Non-package holiday, other travel insurance Moving house Other services and professional fees Money, cash gifts given to children Cash gifts and donations7 Club instalment payments (child) and interest on credit cards

Healthcare is explicitly included as something high-income households spend a larger % on.
I do the same, but from reading a lot of comments in similar threads here, it seems that we're a minority. Many (most?) employers want to hire people with only the exact skills & technologies they're currently using.

I was hired into my original position here knowing absolutely nothing about the language or the technology. Like you, my manager just wanted raw talent that could be retrained and it worked out for him. That's probably colored my interviewing practices over the years, but an awful lot of people don't want to take that kind of a risk.
>Yes but that 0.001% are within the influencial 1% of users.

No, they just believe so about themselves.
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I know it's just my own anecdotes but I find that really hard to believe given how painful my back pain has been. It was so painful once and lasted for about a week that I seriously considered that I would end my life if the doctor told me there was nothing they could do.

For me, at least recently, the trigger seems to be lifting something heavy and wrong way. It doesn't hurt that day but the next day I literally can't move in certain directions without searing pain. Just turning in bed, getting in or out of bed, getting in or out of a car, walking, using the toilet, sitting down or getting up, all of it hurt.

The doctor claimed it was muscle spasms. She gave me some muscle relaxants and it went away. I've since try to work out more. I haven't had an episode in a while but I can't sleep on my stomach like I used to as curving my back that way has been known to trigger it.
After a few decades in a chair, doctors talk about bone spurs etc on my upper spine.

Is that just mental effects on the X-ray machine, which needs its attitude readjusted with a heavy wrench? :-)
Shameless plug for my tiny implementation of Promise (similar to the Future type mentioned in the article)[1].

I've used it in a few projects, and it makes dealing with async things feel surprisingly natural:

getLocation()
.then { apiRequest(params, location: $0) }
.then { json -> () in
for result in json["results"] {
display(result)
}
}
.catch { showError($0) }

It's also easy trivial to adapt existing callback-based[2] and delegate-based[3] APIs to promises.

[1]: https://gist.github.com/Sidnicious/93d2a8db1266e2fd239c

[2]: https://gist.github.com/Sidnicious/69df2c483aadc08bda4f

[3]: https://gist.github.com/Sidnicious/99b099d9b6f2ecb9e383
> It wouldn't take much to support 150 to 180 mph

Do you have a source on this? I did a little napkin math based on these suggested curve radii[1]; namely, I fit a function to the data points in this SageMath worksheet[2] and extrapolated. The fit a) looks good and b) seems to imply that the vastly increased minimum radius of curvature of turns would require significantly re-engineering the interstate highway as it exists today.

[1]: http://www.state.nj.us/transportation/eng/documents/RDM/sec4...

[2]: https://cloud.sagemath.com/projects/56f621e5-fd90-4a21-ba52-...
Using OS in RAM slot, people would be able to upgrade their OS even in today's machines.
I've only been a full time employee for a short period of time and I see exactly where you are coming from. It's not even that I don't like my job, just that there are so many things that I'd like to be doing instead. When there are days with awesome weather I feel like I'm wasting them by staying cooped up in an office all day.
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I divide the categories a bit differently:

It seems that machines are much faster at learning how to do low level stuff(compilers, generic problem solvers, etc) - than they are at doing the high level stuff - understanding the problem and build a high level spec/system for the solution.

And of course we're becoming more capable of letting the domain users enter more and more details of the system themselves, either by visual programming, scripting or giving data to machine learning systems, etc.

So if those trends are to continue , professional programmers will specialize in creating more and more , highly abstract generic solutions.
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>>"see these big houses, two pools and an spa? They think they need all this, but have no time to enjoy themselves. Me? I have everything I ever wanted."

Unfortunately a lot things have changed since those days. In fact a few centuries back you could have a lot of fun in life doing nothing at all. These days things are so organized, anybody who falls out of line is likely to through a great deal of suffering. Healthcare is very organized and expensive, you can't get a decent job today without education and the overall society is moving towards a trend where not having a certain set of things can leave you with social disability.

>>One thing he usually says, contrary to what most people think is that life is long, really long. There's time for everything.

This is very true, and this is why if you are going to live really long you better have a good cache of savings for your retirement.
Plenty of people have MRI scans that can show herniated discs. Have a look at [1] for a very clear image of what you can see in some obvious cases. Obviously some aren't as clear as the image below, but mine for instance was.

[1]http://www.mayfieldclinic.com/Images/PE-HerniatedLumbar_Figu...
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Sounds like your ability to adapt is extremely low. If you're truly stuck and there's no other jobs available immediately for you, then this is a great opportunity to work on that problem.

Another thing you should consider is to stop apologizing for using PHP. That should only be coming from people with a fair bit of experience with it before they decide to hate it for themselves, and followers who express that opinion because they think it's cool.
I noticed, but looked further. Most people have simoultaneously beliefs of which some are true and some are false. Very educated people don't vaccinate their kids. Which is not to say they are false in any other aspect of life. Indeed, they loose their credibility. But I think it's a matter of critical thinking to be both skeptic and charitable. Otherwise we fall into the classical, but very recent trap: you can't be a scientist and also be religious.
In fact, I'm not sure I've ever spoken to anyone from HR during a hiring process. Well, except for outside recruiters, but I prefer to keep even that to a minimum (some do insist they want to meet in person, unfortunately). Usually, the first interview is with a manager sufficiently knowledgeable about the technical issues, sometimes accompanied by a developer.

Often they hire based on just that. If they don't, step two is usually some sort of assessment, and the assessments I've done tend to be pretty good.

It is possible that I've forgotten a ton of interviews with crappy companies that I didn't end up working for. The interviews I remember are the ones that worked.
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The problem with some back pain is you're unable to walk or bend over, let alone actually exercise, until the pain is masked by something else.
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Thanks for the correction.

I thought about moving to a system that uses React or something like it and I looked at a bunch of them, but I'm sticking with Knockout for now because it lets me keep my markup in the HTML document where I personally think it belongs.

I'll probably end up moving to Aurelia (or something like it) because it's so pluggable and you can use it with React or not. There are so many choices right now, it's hard to decide!! Sticking with whatever I pick is also sometimes difficult, but I've been using Knockout for about a year now.
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also heder !== header :) (under security and access control section)
Yes, you kind of do need the read barrier, otherwise you get exactly the problem I described with the stale cache.

You can't "kinda" have synchronization just as a design for a mutex can't be a "kinda" lock... You may get away with it for a while, but like I said, playing with fire.
Most people have problems like these but experience no pain or functional impairment.
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Blocking any kind of automatic access not explicitly provided for (via an official API, often paid) is quickly becoming a business norm on the modern web, so this doesn't surprise me too much.
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In the context of views that are potentially odious but are tolerated in technology, it's perhaps worth noting that two of the instigators of this decision [1, 2] are respectively an avowed communist [3] and a socialist who serves on the board of a magazine that literally takes its name from the people who brought us the Reign of Terror [4]. Should they be barred from speaking at conferences because people might feel "unsafe" in the presence of someone who holds such views? Or should we learn to leave politics at the door, and be willing to listen to tech talks even from people whose politics we find repulsive? I for one endorse the latter view. Strange Loop is entitled to its decision, but I find it both craven and sad.

[1]: https://twitter.com/steveklabnik/status/606219754513264640

[2]: https://al3x.net/2015/06/04/wouldn't-censorship-be-exciting....

[3]: http://blog.steveklabnik.com/posts/2011-12-15-marx-anarchism...

[4]: https://al3x.net/2015/03/03/jacobin.html
I used to send a monthly email asking for my payroll slip since VS2013 required an upgrade to IE 10/11 and adp was only able to run on IE 5-9. The thing that always got me was the error message which ran something like: "please update your browser to a compatible one from this list of 4 year old software, your current browser is not advanced enough".

Sigh.
"it would be trivial for someone to make this stuff if they wanted" - it gets hard to consistently fake it when you have so many documents. Wikipedia says it is thousands - anyone has more precise stats?
I disapprove of your lottery algorithms, but I will defend to the death your right to sell them to me.
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You are probably just being sarcastic. But yes, completely. The kicker for me is that it is illegal for anyone else to run a lottery (Racketeering).

Lottery TV commercials literally make me want to puke every time I see them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaB28DCxFQI
There is a reputational cost in breaking the contract that's not part of the terms, if it becomes public knowledge (court case) or if you disclose it to future partners, as you may be obligated to do. This should be part of the calculation when deciding what's "good for you". And you may not even be aware how this damage to your reputation is affecting your life. As a landlord, I threw out one application from a tenant because he had defaulted on a student loan, and he never knew that.
The airport is not in either city centers, there are more security checks, you have to check your luggage in etc... The door-to-door travel time is significantly more than 1hour for the plane.

Also in my experience the TGV is much more comfortable than similarly priced airplane tickets. You can look at the landscape (unless you're traveling by night), you have more room, you can walk around etc...
I don't think it's so much that we're not good at being preemptive, although that is probably a part of it. It seems that what is most inhibiting intelligent and passionate discourse about Western surveillance is misdirection. In the United States, one is taught to focus virtually entirely on making ends meet and achieving financial success -- anything other than the financial well-being of a person and that person's family is largely considered secondary. The effect of this is a population that suffers from the condition of caring a great deal about social issues, but not acting on their beliefs. I'm not sure how much this applies in Europe, but in the US I am faced time and time again with the sentiment that XYZ is "undeniably a bad thing, but there isn't much I can do about it." Complimenting this is the fact that many of the people who feel most passionately about these issues are also the people who realize that the consequences of our current political climate are severe, and will stay silent in order to avoid the traditional punishments of the state.
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I'm pretty sure that aside from Zen Payroll and Intuit there is no actual API in place.

Why on God's green earth should a change I make in Zenefits take two friggin' days to show up in ADP? That's not an API. That's a high-school dropout earning minimum wage entering into ADP they changes you made in Zenefits.

I don't agree with ADP's heavy handed approach, but if this "integration" is Zenefits' service, they have half a billion in the bank to make it better now.
Yesterday Thomas Drake spoke on this topic: https://voicerepublic.com/talks/the-digital-surveillance-sta...
I certainly did notice that my back hurt a lot less once I started weight training. And as an added benefit, people have commented that my posture has improved. So win-win!
Never got around to playing it, but I believe "Starkiller" is the main character in The Force Unleashed. Could be where you've heard the name before.
Tyk (self-hosted) offers a dashboard and analytics for free out of the box. :-)

Tyk Cloud was very much built to make the open source and free versions better (and sustainable), so I think there's probably some differences in motivation.

Ultimately we're trying to solve the same problems, which is great, we're seeing more and more projects try to make API management better, just noticed the other day that a new ruby-based app has shown up called API Umbrella (http://apiumbrella.io/)! It's getting busier, which is great news for API developers.
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I think that a software that writes good software is quite far down the line, I wouldn't direct my career planning around it.
Humanity's brightest haven't even managed to make a cross-browser styling language that renders lines that are aligned with each other correctly.
>A lot of the time it's just a bunch of if this than that statements.

Until you get to corporate and contract law, then it's just a bunch of if this then that statements with subtle unstated implications.

You could almost say that the entire point of corporate and contract law is for one party to disguise intent, forcing the other party to hire a lawyer to try to divine the intent.

Not all consumer terms-of-service are quite so devious, because sometimes the intent is simple minimisation of risk and legal ass covering to avoid opportunistic sue-age.

But in high powered negotiations you'd better believe the other party doesn't necessarily have your best interests at heart, and a naive reading of terms can do you a lot of damage.
Do companies really try to pigeonhole developers into "tech stacks" so much that you'll be forced to revert to junior status to change?

Unless we're talking about COBOL -> Haskell here, I think any decent company would be wary of overvaluing skills with a particular language or framework and undervaluing fundamentals.
That tends to happen if you use all the bells and whistles that come with the standard framework boilerplate, like annotations and the Doctrine ORM. Sometimes Silex is all you need.
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Isn't this just a DC-DC converter? How can they have a patent for something that was invented decades ago? I used to read a lot of IC datasheets in my previous job and such battery extenders are given as reference designs in the datasheets.
The Schlub paradox: a sufficiently Flub language is so far divorced from its target platform that reasoning about the execution characteristics of a Flub program is non-trivial.

In data-oriented design the mantra is, "the hardware is the platform." A given CPU comes with some instructions it understands and our job as programmers is to use those instructions to apply transformations to a stream of data. The optimal language is of course the assembly language of the target platform. However it's often more practical to use a language that compiles down to a target platform's instruction set with the fewest number of transformations (barring the presence of optimizations).

Flub languages attempt to give programmers the tools to write programs which hold some provable invariant, provide denotational semantics, or some combination of these. The benefit of this is some reduced cognitive load, expressive power, and other "soft" features. This power is what lets small teams run circles around Blub programmers in the Blub/Flub paradox.

However the utility of these features and whether they actually do allow small teams to get more work done in less time hasn't been proven to me yet. It may seem tedious to think to think of the statistically significant data-access pattern in a given operation and forming your data-structures and transformations to make that access pattern the fastest route for the target platform... but it has big wins in terms of execution speed of the programs and the maintainability of such programs. One still requires a significant amount of mathematical reasoning and understanding of what a compiler can and cannot do for you.

I'm slowly coming to the opinion that there won't ever be a compiler or Flub language that will give you your cake and let you eat it too. In practice I've found re-usability to be a low-priority concern, generics to be a performance hindrance, and I've yet to find a convincing example of how type-safety is the future of mission-critical software (though there are some promising projects for sure).

Thus in conclusion: I think Blub languages will continue to rule the roost. Flub will come and go and remain fashionable as the OP has alluded to. However I don't think it's the avenue worth pursuing in order to write better programs... too much abstraction makes it rather difficult to reason about what our programs are actually executing on the target platform and for many cases that can be critical. It always comes down to the data and at some-point one needs to consider the target platform anyway. Data-oriented design is one way to think of the data first and allows the programmer to choose the appropriate semantics for the necessary transformations to be expressed by their program.

(I hope I'm making sense).
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I took Esther's course in 2013, and it's had a huge effect on my life.

Getting into the correct position involves moving some muscles I didn't know I had, but, once achieved, it feels amazing. Sitting feels like being massaged. I can twist my neck further. When I practice karate, all my movements become faster and easier. The only problem is keeping the posture once achieved, as all your old movements can cause you to revert (and yes, it takes some core strength, but that's a small part).
No statement on whether this should be true or not.

But the reason it was started was because students didn't have the credit history to get loans at all--especially since the thought was they had no credit to lose so they would be incentivized to just default immediately after graduating.

Which is why student loans were made non-defaultable, to make a market for student loans possible.