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> This way the society can be transformed and modernized.

Sorry by the bitterness but this sound exactly like the big plans for Irak. "The new Greece, now with 40% more of democracy kindly carried for our troops... and only cost US a few extra billions!"

Sometimes the right solution is simply to let fall the speculators. Military intervention just raise a new debt in an endless circle. Nobody can win always, not even banskters.
Regarding the JVM as a strict superset, there are a few features I'm not sure fit that model.

Isolated garbage collection. Limiting GC to a single process/thread. It's my understanding that this is only possible with individual heaps, prohibiting shared memory. I see this as a polarizing tradeoff (with pros and cons). I don't think the JVM does this, and therefore isn't a superset.

Preemptive scheduling and soft real time. It's my understanding that Quasar bridges this gap by looking for natural points in execution to insert a pause/continue (oversimplified I'm sure). What are the guarantees? Erlang provides fairly strong guarantees about fair scheduling, making it very suitable for soft real-time systems. Would Quasar, for instance, pause a tight for loop if execution was running long? Or does it only pause on blocking operations like IO?
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Official now, latest headline:

GREEK PM TSIPRAS SAYS ECB'S ACTIONS HAVE FORCED THE CENTRAL BANK TO RECOMMEND A BANK HOLIDAY AND CAPITAL CONTROLS
Its an interesting story but I would summarize it more as being extremely poor as children in the 70s, also they happened to home school although that wasn't a substantial part of their story. Or if they somehow attended stereotypical K-12, however impossible it would have been logistically, wouldn't have changed the overall story very much.

Also, in the olden day, people, both kids and adults, were more creative.
Close to the threshold(Greece)
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As an Irish man, it makes me kind of proud that we have pulled ourself out of the mess enough to be rarely mentioned in such lists any more! We have a lot of problems, including a stupid housing market once again, high debts and exposure because of our export dependance - but i would sure rather be in our position than Greece's.
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if the rat devotes 8% of its brain to imagining running around mazes in its sleep

how many % of my brain stays awake at night imagining work-related and life-related issues when i sleep?

ack no wonder i always lose sleep
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To be fair, neither the title nor the abstract suggest that a result will be presented.
If Italy defaults then all hell breaks loose.
The only thing I'm saying are very negative things towards people who read (or heard the story of) Unity's PR-level attempt to make it sound like the people behind Mono are jerks, and then bought in to it full force and now repeat the line at every opportune moment (and then some inopportune ones, too, like the comment I replied to).

What we also don't know are the terms for the first negotiation. It's as possible that Mono made one offer and Unity countered with an insultingly lower one, then Mono accepted due to being a poor position to negotiate something "reasonable", but are no longer in a position to have to accept whatever is offered, now that Xamarin is off and running.

We don't know. Hypotheses non fingo.
>Our Varoufakis-illusioned prime minister thought that he could force a better deal from Eurozone members by blackmailing with a worldwide economic Lehman Brothers moment.

"Better deal" meaning "a deal which doesn't involve breaking promises they made to the electorate".

Clearly such a deal wasn't possible, hence here we are.

The idea that this is somehow blackmail is ludicrous.
I'm not very well educated in this area, for anyone else like me, this infographic video really helped explaining the European Debt Crisis.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8xAXJx9WJ8
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Was all that German debt borrowed or was it largely war reparations?
I'm over this horror of the investors (creditors) not getting repaid. When you make an investment, you are taking a risk. If it doesn't work out, accept it, learn and move on.

The fact is the EU currency union was deeply flawed from the beginning, and favors exporting economies like Germany over a tourism/shipping economy like Greece. Greece was the fastest growing economy in Europe for decades prior to joining the Euro, and given its immense advantages, there's little reason to suspect this wouldn't have continued in a fair and equitable union, despite corruption & overspending.

Invading Greece to recoup the losses of large banks is not only insane and unethical, but will undoubtedly be met by the bloody resistance of a proud people. It would probably lead to a third world war, which the EU was created to prevent. Your option B is a better union, but it seems very unlikely to happen.

The best bet is what is going to happen anyway .. Greece will leave the Euro, struggle to get back on its feet, but once it does it will prosper as currency devaluation will play to its strengths as the most enticing per capita tourism mecca in the world.
Yeah, it is too bad there wasn't some way to deploy the parachute system manually. It would be nice if the cargo could be saved.
This article was originally posted on Recurse Center - https://codewords.recurse.com/issues/two/git-from-the-inside...

And here is HN discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9272249
greece and Argentina are entirely different since Argentina had it's own currency (which it could devaule) and it also had a strong export (soy beans). greece has neither.
The worst thing is the duration of this. If you're a young Greek, like some of my friends, you're screwed. You either leave your family and go to a foreign country, or you stay and try against hope to get a job so you can start a family. Now it's been several years of this crap and it's going to leave a lasting scar on just about everyone who's old enough to remember it.

Whatever they decide, they should have decided it long ago. Go bankrupt, or get a (sensibly sized) haircut from the creditors. But decide before everyone's life is ruined living in a zombie economy.
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"The fundamental problem is you can't have a partial union."

You can have a partial union. That's what EU members who aren't part of the Eurozone have. Greece defaulting will be damaging for its trade prospects, but they don't need to leave the EU to recover.
That guy really looks biased.
It challenges how we think about "eras" by inventing one from whole cloth. In the end they are more arbitrary than it first seems.

For example, the American "wild west" period seems much larger and more distant than it actually was. (Mostly thanks to a glut of Hollywood movies about the period). It is quite possible to have slung a six-gun and driven cattle in the "old west" and still lived to witness the beginnings of the space race.

I've found that this phenomenon effects me personally as well with the "formative years" of my late teens and early twenty's seeming to occupy a much larger place in my memory than chronology otherwise suggests.

Makes one think.
Firstly, mercenaries don't just choose their company by the money they make but also by equity + location + culture + colleagues ...

Secondly, everyone becomes a mercenary at the right price (again, price = $$ + location + culture + colleagues + ...)
If someone really claims he has no "price", I will have my doubts as to whether he speaks the truth or is smart enough.
It's actually reasonably easy, you just write a shim that can be linked as 'extern "C" {}' and then use jni. (I find it much easier than, for example, cython)
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Bulgaria, Greece and Russia share an Orthodox Christian and Slavic heritage.
I remember the economics editor of the Guardian saying at the time of the euro launch "a bad idea who's time has come"
My mechanisms for pain and suffering really aren't any different from those of a dog, a pig, a cat, or a rat.

The mechanism is the same, but the effect is very different. Other animals do not exhibit the anxiety about expecting or experiencing pain that humans do. While that does not justify putting animals in unnecessary pain, it does mean we should be careful not to anthropomorphize our reactions to pain (or anything else, for that matter) onto animals.
I've built dozens of Erlang apps and used ETS in every one. I've used Mnesia once, and it was not a pleasant experience. Most Erlang dev teams use ETS directly. It's possible to use Mnesia successfully but I see it far less often than ETS these days.
This may be the chart you're thinking of:

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/06/25/breaking-greece/
"Tsipras turning this into a "fundamental democratic issue" (his words) is the most shameful populist trick in the book."

This ("shameful populism!") is kind of just another way of saying "I don't like this democracy thing. Stop it!"
I feel like that's an overly-aggressive definition of 'systems language.'
There's also a fun Wikipedia page on this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limits_to_computation
Relying on convention is a good thing, as long as your team (and the larger community for that language) is mature enough to have a strong set of relatively easily discoverable conventions.
Well I still use it (and Python) for fun for my own high-performance stuff - there's no other language out there (yet, without having to install custom compilers) that allows speed, flexibility and encapsulation...

Good points though - there are huge ecosystems out there in the games / graphics / VFX industries of C++ code and libraries, and I doubt any of it's going away any time soon.
I don't understand your point of view. The size of the economy has little to do with your everyday spending.

As for taxes and iPhones, I pay 19% income tax, and when I buy an iPhone I deduct a) 23% VAT, b) 19%, because that is a business expense. So, I don't see how one could say "taxes there are high".
I don't understand the downvotes. Is there something wrong with asking questions?
Don't pin everyone on "that's what the people want though!!!"... there's a reason we don't simply setup government so that whatever passing whim the populace manages to latch onto gets adopted and then cast aside once the populace gets bored with it.
This is not what the modern definition of "Anarchists" means at all.
"adhoc currencies get created"

Remember that day Google shut down Reader, and ready or not it was demo day for every competing rss feed reader?

This is demo day for bitcoin or dogecoin or whatever other digital currency you can think of. Now I'm not claiming any will succeed, but I am claiming its going to be demo day, ready or not.

My gut level guess is the next Greek currency is far more likely to be the Ruble than BTC, but whatever, its still gonna be demo day for BTC even if it fails.

The next quarter or so will be an exciting time to work at a place like Coinbase.
I hadn't heard of kOS -- thank you.
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I'm a big fan of good descriptive names, but in practice when I run into a lint-enforced 80 character line limit names are the first thing to suffer.
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The information density seems uncharacteristically light to me (compared to other Vixie articles).
not really: Capablanca's nick name was "The Chess machine"
http://www.chess.com/article/view/when-the-chess-machine-was...
Greece will close banks to stem flood of withdrawals
Greece has already voted in one government that promised an end to austerity and then reneged upon its promise when threatened by the Eurozone.

I think that if the successive government also reneged upon its promise, that would signal the true end of democracy is Greece.
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The Economist is quite neo-liberal.

> Syriza, Mr Tsipras’s hard-left party, is anti-market and anti-enterprise.

Only if by "market" you mean no social security and zero-hour contracts, and by "enterprise" you mean a fire-sale privatisation of state assets.
Um... When I was suffering very bad anxiety I was unable to keep food down due to the anxiety and it certainly didn't feel anything like hunger.
Antonio Damasio's Somatic Marker hypothesis goes into this and completely changed the way I observed my own mood and emotional state. His book Descartes' Error is a good read if you want to look into it.
Just looked up DragonFly BSD. Prior I just heard it was doing concurrency or something differently. Looking at the details... damn, I'm impressed. It's still a UNIX architecture with the good and bad that comes from that. Yet, they're applying rather than ignoring many good engineering choices for dealing with various UNIX problems such as concurrency, integration, OS-level faults, & kernel debugging. The HAMMER filesystem is also a nice development given it's not GPL or Oracle-related (right?). A BSD alternative to ZFS is by itself worth a whole project.

So yeah, there's still hope for UNIX. Looks like that hope goes two ways:

1. UNIX variants like DragonFly that intentionally break things or get rid of crud to better themselves over time.

2. People on such projects who stumble onto superior architectures while looking for improvements and start building a better non-UNIX.

I'll keep checking up on it to see what happens.
> Instead, EU governments are scared of... What exactly?

Their own electorate.
> If I write a server app that listens for client connections, why not daemonize that?

Because writing a daemon is almost always more work than writing an application that runs in the foreground. And systemd is capable of taking applications that run in the foreground and running them as daemons instead.

Put another way - if something else is doing all of the hard work for you, why would you want to write a daemon yourself, except possibly as a learning exercise?
Not just 60. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Banting

Actually this made me wonder how far back you could go, and a little searching turned up a vaguely-decent match from antiquity: "Obese people and those desiring to lose weight should perform hard work before food . . . Their meals should be of a fatty nature as people get thus satiated with little food. They should, moreover, eat only once a day and take no baths and sleep on a hard bed and walk naked as long as possible. —Hippocrates (Hippocrates on Diet and Hygiene, Zeno, London, 1952)" at http://forum.lowcarber.org/archive/index.php/t-464645.html which was ironically hard to find among all the hits for a vegetarian Hippocrates Diet.
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Greek here. It seems that Tsipras is trying to pull his last card by going nuclear but the general consensus amongst non government supporters is that he did more harm than good. There was a belief that even a bad deal with EU was far better than a non-deal and it seemed that finally they’ve found some common ground and an agreement was a matter of days. The referendum announcement caught pretty much everyone by surprise.

There is a strong trend towards the Yes vote in the referendum and most people I’ve talked to view it as a consensus towards Euro regardless of how the government will try to put it. And there is still hope that even in the last minute a deal will be made for the sake of everyone involved.

You have to understand that to most people in the tech industry or any other person with some kind of liberal thinking, Tsipras is like an alien. An idealist of a communist era that was never popular in Greece and whose decisions and actions seem insane. We don’t understand what his strategy is and whether he’s bluffing or really want to take us out of the euro.
The cargo bays are laid out a little differently - If I recall correctly, it was mostly due to different styles of airlock between different orbiters. And since the loading on the cargo is highly dependent on where it sits in the bay, you can't just move stuff around willy nilly.

There are probably other minor differences (I want to say there were some electrical interface issues), but that was the part that impacted my work.
I think your parent is referring to a monetary union. As in: you can't have a monetary union without a fiscal union.
And of course there is also Pushpin, which allows Django to delegate WebSocket and long-lived HTTP connection handling.

This is not a cop out, either. In a multi-tiered architecture, it's preferable to avoid stateful sessions between the edge and backend.
I wanted to play around with Unity several times so if I get to do that it would be fun, thanks to you and your company for looking at making it a reality.
They want to be in the EU because they remember the drachma, and whilst germans will remember a strong deustchmark that was never the position of the drachma.
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Maybe his/her experience in the US is so very different than mine, but I feel like he/she's grossly over exaggerating. I've lived in 4 cities in the midwest and west coast and would not hesitate to call the police for that reason.
Likewise, the followup post: https://codewords.recurse.com/issues/three/unpacking-git-pac...

And the corresponding HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9773714
Paying significantly above market is not all it's cracked up to be:

* top-notch technical talent tends to value equity over W2 income (of which the take-home portion doesn't amount to much in states like CA or NY), people won't give up an equity position at growing company for a higher salary but questionable growth

* for employees that do get a sweet way above market salary package, this creates an incentive to cement their position at the company as much as possible, Yahoo! is probably prime example of that - very little usage of open technologies, all custom-built, all requiring immense institutional knowledge
The first half was reasonable, the second half just bad.

It literally portrays Greek people as drinking grappa on the beach while hardworking Germans pay for their lifestyle. Greek people as immoral, Germans as respectable and responsible. That kind of cultural stereotyping is toxic.

It's also analytically bad. It argues the problem is fiscal irresponsibility, even though Spain had a budget surplus before the crisis hit. Spain was a model of fiscal responsibility (and was lauded as such), and yet they too went into a deep depression with 50% youth unemployment.

The video doesn't even mention the most important cause of the crisis: balance of payments between the north and south.
So if I understand correctly:

There are loyalist teams and there are mercenaries. Loyalists have a special feature of being behind their leader whatever happens, because he has a mission.

If the employees are not in that category, they are, by default, mercenaries.

So you need to get people who are not mercenaries and go look for them in locations that are not as active as the Silicon Valley (where they have, de facto, more options). Look for them in the rural edge of the wafer.

Did I understand correctly the gist of it?

There are different words to describe this:

- Cognitive dissonance: It is the employees who are mercenaries. The leader has nothing to blame himself for. He's a leader with a cause and a mission. It's their fault.
(The world isn't in short supply of sanguinary people and dictators. They are leaders. They have a mission and values. I guess people who left them are mercenaries too, by the post's logic. Since it doesn't say anything about what the "leader" is doing, what the "mission" is, and is the mission in the field the same as the one on paper).

- Manicheism: Either loyalists or mercenaries. Because hackers think in terms of combo boxes and two options are enough. Binary is nice.
> Does the author resent staying out of school because... it didn't prepare them for the awfulness of school? I kind of got that impression.

No. The author resents staying out of school because it also meant staying out of more diverse and more regular social interaction. Successful social interaction requires shared values (which wasn't really the issue) and, at least to a degree, shared social experiences. If two people have hitherto had experiences that are so divergent that ego cannot understand any of the structures or references alter uses, then social interaction becomes very difficult.

Accordingly, fitting in was difficult because of their non-standard upbringing, and while the parents might not have minded that they did not quite "fit in", the children did not have a choice of their own or even the necessary experience that would have enabled them to make an informed choice in the first place.

What is described is the removal from the Zeitgeist, which becomes a problem if others simply assume a shared set of conventions and experiences or if you would like to be part of a group that is based on different premises.

That school was (at least partially) awful was merely a symptom of this underlying social schism, not a cause.
At this point, we can safely say that whatever the scenario, it's going to be very ugly for Greece and not only in the short term.

In Europe, there is little compassion for this country though, due to their reputation for laziness and huge tax evasion schemes.
I actually remember my holidays there some years ago (beautiful country btw) - most things were paid in cash and in many grocieries I didn't even see a cash register.
The other peripheral countries, like Spain, have high unemployment rates. The people are also tired of austerity. If they see that a left-wing government can force their creditors to blink, they might try it, too. And that might cause another crisis.
That's a good subject. This Rust blog entry[1] is perhaps a better explanation.

When you pass data to another thread, there are three options: 1) pass a copy, 2) hand off ownership to the other thread, and 3) transfer ownership to a mutex object, then borrow it from the mutex object as needed. All of these are memory and race condition safe due to compile time checking.

Those are the concepts. The Rust syntax needed to support it is somewhat complicated, but if you get it wrong, you get compile time error messages.

This may be the biggest advance in software concurrency management since Dijkstra's P and V. Almost everything in wide use is either P and V under a different name, or some subset of P and V functionality. Locks are not a basic part of most languages; the language doesn't know what a lock is locking. The Ada rendezvous and Java synchronized objects are exceptions. Those were good ideas, but too restrictive. Finally, we're past that.

Go could have worked this way. Go originally claimed to be concurrency safe, but it's not. You can pass a reference across a channel, and now you're sharing an unlocked data object. This is easy to do by accident, because slices are references. Because Go is garbage collected, it's almost memory safe (there's a race condition around slice descriptors that can be exploited), but it doesn't protect the program's data against shared access. In Rust, when you pass an non-copyable object across a channel, the sender gives up the right to use it, and the compiler enforces that.

[1] http://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/04/10/Fearless-Concurrency.ht...
Stated more accurately, services running under a supervision suite yield their daemon instantiation to the underlying process manager, for which enforcing a consistent daemon control framework is its purpose.

So has been the case since IBM AIX in 1992.