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I am 29 and I also feel uneasy about my life. I have no real interests. I make a pretty good salary as a pharmacist and I've been saving and investing 80% of my income (up to 90% this past year) the past five years. I plan to do this for another few years.

But then what? I already designed my minimalist life to be filled with free time (no possessions, no obligations). No mortgage, no loans whatsoever, and getting a vasectomy next month. Literally all the time I have not at work is free time.

This may sound like humblebrag, but because my expenses are so low I can quit working right now. But it's nothing to brag about. Because I'm scared. I'm addicted to a salary and the reason I keep working (I don't like my job - it's repetitive and tedious and stressful) is because I don't want to make less money than I'm currently making.

I don't want kids, I don't want to travel. I don't want to commit to a relationship. What will happen in five years when my passive income comes close to what I make at work? What will I do with myself? I really don't know. I'm learning how to code but lose motivation every two weeks.

It'll be interesting to see what people actually do when there's no work left to do. I don't picture a good outcome, mainly from my perspective of having too much freedom. Yes, there is such a thing.
This is what made me ditch Gmail. After using it for several years, I stumbled across a serious bug that removed all email from my inbox. I tried contacting support, but there was none; all I got were replies from top contributors pointing me to other people with the same issue. It becsme clear that there was no way to escalate the issue or get help from someone who could actually investigate the bug or help restoring my email. Top contributors are not an actual replacement for customer support.

I've since switched to a paid email provider.
GOOG took many years to write theirs and it's still problematic for them in anything in lots of their use cases.

I think that's a creative interpretation of the facts. GOOG is operating at enormous scales pushing the limits of operational knowledge. I think it's quite acceptable and natural that vendors are packaging up their learnings from 2007 into products now for most enterprises (which are starting to really eat them up).

"Mesos/Kubernetes are vanishingly small parts of the larger ecosystems out there. You can't just wave you hands and disregard quite literally the billions of dollars of infrastructure that are deployed each and every year by major service providers and corporations. Tiny cloud providers are not the largest slice of the pie when it comes to dollars spent on networking gear right now."

While I agree with your broader point about VxLAN v. MPLS (I think), the above isn't even wrong. Mesos/Kube aren't vanishingly small, that would imply they're shrinking, rather than small startups/projects that are growing at astonishing rates. You're also confusing billions of dollars of low-mid margin hardware with potential billions of dollars of mid-high margin software that's aiming at IBM, HP, CA, Oracle, and Microsoft's application servers and management tooling.

Secondly, Mesos/Kube aren't cloud providers, they're the startups that represent the next generation (along with Cloud Foundry, OpenShift, and whatever Docker comes up with) of data center operating systems that are going to run the bulk of enterprise systems the way VMware does today.

That said, there's a belief that all of this requires SDN/Overlay Networking like NSX or VxLAN that will magically fix network problems by bundling it with the app platform and waving a wand. Here I agree ... they won't. The secret behind good software defined networking is solid hardware defined networking ;)

Sorry buddy. You're way wrong here. Either you've never built an infrastructure that anyone cares about losing for an hour or two while you figure out what went wrong or you're so tanked up on "cloud" kool-aid that you've forgotten how we got to this point and have failed to understand how large systems scale up from small ones.

I dunno. Stepping back, I remember James Hamilton from Amazon at re:invent clearly was aiming directly at network vendors as the last bastion of costly proprietary mainframe thinking that will be commodified by software-defined cloud services on commodity hardware. It will take time. But they're pretty jazzed about it.

"Show me a large multinational bank that's storing their transaction data on S3 or Ceph and I'll show you a bank that's not "systemically important".

Ceph, I agree.

Amazon OTOH has won the object storage game. S3 is the de facto API for all object storage now, whether it's from EMC, NetApp, etc. And mission critical banks are definitely using it, at humungous scale. I have no idea why you'd think S3 is appropriate for transactional data, it's an object store.
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I imagine displaced blue-collar workers are looking for jobs in areas quite a bit different from displaced college-educated white-collar workers. The problem with the job market facing college graduates seeking white-collar jobs seems to be a different issues from one of automation of factories.

Just like how in the US, the problems faced by liberal arts majors struggling to find work is going to be quite different from that of factory workers who lost their jobs when the production moved overseas.
Extremely. Also, it looks like they picked random years for the data points as well. They cross in 2010 like it has some significance.
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Why should hiring managers be required to give you preferential treatment vs. someone born in a much poorer country who happens to be willing to do the same (or, likely, better) work for a lower cost?

Its a cute fact that you and the hiring manager were both lucky enough to have parents who lived in the U.S. when you were born, but that doesn't make you a better or more worthy person than someone born in a poorer country. (You already have access to a stronger social safety in the form of unemployment, social security, subsidized healthy insurance, etc if you find yourself unable to compete with foreign talent.)

The idea that some people should be considered more worthy than others by our society just because of where they were born or who there parents are is the definition of xenophobia and racism.

You should read up on the literature on brain drain. In addition to your comment being morally abhorrent ("people born in poor countries should be forced to stay there and fix shit so people born in rich countries don't have to deal with it") its also not well supported by the facts. Giving people the chance to get high returns from their education incentivizes a much larger group of people to invest in their education than end up leaving the country.

Given that the same worker ends up making 2-3x in a developed country what they would with their exact same skills in a poorer country and ends up sending much of that extra money back in the form of remittances, immigration is generally a positive force for those "left behind" (not to mention those who immigrate).
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Sheesh, am I the only one who actually enjoyed the visuals? The idea of having economists in an arcade brawl is basically parodying their usual blogpost battles and treating it as if it were real fighting, so I found it humorous.

The article itself, however, is queer--it ends in an unsatisfying ambiguity: apparently Krugman wins because he is both "ref as well as combatant". In fact, the article seems to imply he loses three arguments (there are three gifs of him getting hit) and wins two, although with Osbourne, it's a little ambiguous there who is right. So, 1.5/5...So he...wins?
I wonder if it was meant to be a short term fix until some drivers passed certification or something? Or maybe their software update selectively runs windows update to find updates and notifies the user? I wonder how long it's been set up this way? None of these are good, but the details may mitigate quite how bad it is (in spirit, if not reality).
I don't doubt that there are a number of challenges to getting a job in silicon valley - some of these may be racial bias in some cases. However this blog post doesn't really demonstrate anything.
Windows 10 isn't released yet, so there's no way that I'm aware of for it to download Windows 10 in the background.
This seems a bit like "the enemy of my enemy is my friend [even if also the enemy of my friends]." Without debating the merits of the Windows 10 patch you describe, surely it's not Samsung's place to decide on the user's behalf to block not only that, but all updates?
I'd agree with your first paragraph and disagree with your 2nd one with the exception of the tech bubble -- it's been really, really hard for normal businesses to get bank loans even when competing with 0.1% interest rates from the fed.

My theory is that the administration wanted more stimulus, couldn't make it happen politically in useful ways (infrastructure projects, school building, new nuke plants etc), so the only outlet they had was QE, which did the job somewhat (we're not in a great depression), but did have the negative effects you highlighted. I think we'd be better off had the money been spent on infrastructure projects -- same sugar rush preventing a crash, plus we get a bunch of stuff afterwards. Right now we just have paper assets in the aftermath.
I'd be very surprised if the OEM license doesn't include such language - just because its there doesn't mean Microsoft is aware of what the OEM's are doing.
"You don't have Adobe Flash. Please download it."

Closed the tab.
As someone who's been paleo for over 6 years, this makes me very happy. I believe the paleo community had a lot to do with raising awareness of beneficial fats, promoting pasture-raised meat, and coconut oil and butter over industrial seed oils like canola.
Right, good point - when you choose arbitrary scales you can make them cross whenever you want.
Stupid scientists with their stupid science that isn't alway right.
"You already got the payoff" equaling "predicted doom averted" seems very abstract. I interpret that as, "zombie economy continues to shamble along according to plan".

Now, going instantly another 500bln in the hole and rolling over that much more debt service every year is concrete. I can measure that failure.

Was the stimulus worth it short term or long term? I don't think so!
It's really hard to find the correct middle-ground. Would you prefer if Windows worked like iOS where there are serious limitations on what apps can do in the background and where every application has to go through a central authority for vetting?

Or do you propose a solution that gives both freedom to the user while also not allowing something like this to happen?

Yes, there are whitelisting solutions (built into the OS by MS, btw), but they are a real pain in the ass to use - there's just too much stuff running on your machine at any given time.
> There really is no excuse. I should get off my ass and make something.

please don't make a Bitcoin exchange/bank. or anything that will take enduser's private PII or money.

the mindset to "just go make something" is admirable in some cases. on others it's not. scratching your own itch and then monetizing it is admirable. picking up a knife and thinking therefore that one can be a neurosurgeon now, is not.

too many people do the latter. the former is fine. ;-)
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"The main problem is the difficulty to hire Haskell programmers."

That does not match my experience. I posted a Haskell position, promising to pay substantially below market rate with no hope of equity, and had a dozen or so applicants that seemed worthwhile (and a handful that really stood out, one of which turned into the hire).

"Then there's the entire ecosystem surrounding Haskell, which is still old and antiquated (looking at you Cabal)"

IME, pip is worse and Python seems a go-to choice for startups.

"Finally, the very high bar to just learn how to correctly program in Haskell puts it out of reach of 99% of the developer community."

Something like 99.9999% of the developer community isn't going to be working at your startup regardless.
Come to Australia. If you have two degrees and speak English, should be reasonably easy. Also Australia is better than America :)
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Yeah, and they could limit the graphics card to text-only mode. Improved battery usage AND it protects users from seeing advertisement videos and images online.
Interesting story.

Earlier today I was reflecting my own background. About 10yrs ago, I bootstrapped a project into a startup. Some of its highlights would be getting paid customers, iterating product (pivoting in 2002 lol) and getting seed investment from institutional VC. You ask what's the big deal? Well, I was a junior in mechanical engineering with 0 coding experience in India, or any experience for that matter. I manage to move things forward. Got people involved.

10yrs later with multiple degrees in CS and 6-7yrs of experience delivering successful software at work. I struggle getting basic ideas off the ground. I just go into technical details and complexity.

Shouldn't this be other way around?
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Although the language is a bit cagey, it seems like at least parts of Windows 10 will be downloaded before the official availability date:

> Between reservation and when your upgrade is ready, the files you need for the upgrade will be downloaded to your PC to make the final installation go more quickly.

(from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-10-faq > What happens when I reserve?).
we just never noticed it.

Quite likely if those who would have the knowledge to look into such things are also those who would just reformat the drive and install a fresh copy of the OS.
"In the kernel" is a bit of a misnomer in Windows. The graphics subsystem is not in the NT kernel (which is a pretty-minimal microkernel), though it is within the same Win32 process as the one containing NT kernel services.

In other words: "within the kernel" from a userland perspective; in a separate security domain from NT's own perspective.
Over the weekend i saw an HN article about an x86 compiler written to compile using only MOV commands, after it was proven that x86 MOV is Turing Complete. I was sure this would be the most impressive waste of technology efforts i would see for a long time.

I was wrong. It lasted 3 days.
> service, skilled, technical, and professional positions.
> "white-collar" jobs

Are those the two groups of jobs you meant? I don't see the distinction between them...
It's difficult to know when to invest the time in giving candidates feedback. While I would love to do it every time, giving any feedback during the hiring process is a legal minefield and not every candidate appreciates it. In my humble opinion, any engineer who has top-tier potential will be able to derive from the questions asked during the interview process what they need to learn in able to get a job (note, I did say "get a job", not "be a great engineer" - thinking that those are the same skillset seems to be the first mistake many job-hunters make).
But they wont turn them away, and that's my problem with the article.

I went to an absolute shit school (like, bottom 150 of world ranked schools) an I had interviews that lead to offers with Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Intel, among others, when I graduated. People from my graduating class are working at many of these companies, i.e. with the same background as me.

So clearly it can't be a horrible problem if they seem happy to employ people from my no-name, considered harmful, school.

Who knows, maybe every single one of us got extremely lucky, or some engineering managers just happen to know it doesn't take a M.S. from MIT to know how to write good software.
> I've seen startups killed by New Guy CTO Who Really Likes Java.

Of course, that's simple statistics. Java is the dominant language out there so it's going to be the most used language by startups that fail. That's a pretty silly argument.

And it works both ways: most of the startups that succeeded are based on Java (and other dominant languages). Hardly any of those based their product on Haskell. And again, I'm sure you can find a handful of those, but we're talking about statistical anomalies here.
Just curious -- do you have deterministic views? ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_determinism ), i.e. do you buy humans have free will?
He was wild about them, and given how creative and dedicated this fellow seemed, I'm sure they're geniuses. I didn't meet them, though, so I can't really say much more than that.
Services and skilled trades are not traditionally white collar jobs. Professional are.
I've always wondered why instead of minimum wage laws they don't have a law defining the maximum difference % wise in total compensation between the highest paid and lowest paid worker at the company. That would at least align the CEO's incentives with that of their employees.
Does it execute in ring 0? I don't really understand how Windows works.
Honestly, as a Linux user this kind of makes me chuckle.

Microsoft has spent so much time abusing their market dominance, trying to cripple linux on the desktop that it's kind of funny for once to see a company which they can't strong-arm doing the same thing back to them.
In theory Apple Watch has the processing power for significantly > OS 7

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I'm a fan of creating two commits in that case:

- Refactor to prepare for Feature X
- Implement Feature X

Note that these can be written in parallel, but just submitted as two separate commits (guess which side of the history editing debate I come down on :) )
But it didn't devalue the dollar, inflation's been really low for the last 7 years.

Honestly it doesn't make much sense, and should really make people hesitate to pursue deflationary measures. China's fiscal policy does serve to deflate the dollar, so that counterweights QE a little, but that much? Maybe, I guess?
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Eh normally you just expect hardware vendors to be so incompetent at writing software that this isn't too surprising.
As I mentioned once before, one can only hope they can figure a way out of this conundrum. Given the relative strength of the central gov't to direct economic policy, perhaps they'll trike upon a solution to automation and software eating jobs and thus people's source of making a living.

They are going to hit this economic obstacle on a massive scale first --before the jobs even get to migrate to the interior where there are masses of impoverished and underemployed or underproductive workers.

Japan has not been able to age out of this problem, that's to say they have not figured a way to transfer the wealth generated by automation into the general population, so you get older people doing redundant jobs or menial jobs. In other words there isn't an "automation fund" which diverts wealth to the underemployed and those whose jobs have become redundant an unnecessary.

So perhaps the solution is something akin to the Alaska Permanent Fund fund; however, instead of being funded by mineral wealth, gets funded by wealth generated through (hw) automation and efficiencies brought on by software. This fund then gets redistributed based on a combination of need as well as a per-capita flat rate.
Regardless of the answer to the question in the headline, Rosalind Franklin not receiving the Nobel Prize was and always will be a disgusting travesty.
That's in part due to China's recent expansion into higher education, which the article ignores. Also, the services and skilled trades are not traditionally college-graduate jobs.
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A few incorrect parts don't mean the guidelines aren't a net benefit. Just imagine what an average school cafeteria would serve if no regulations were in place at all.
I think the problem for is a lot of it wasn't science driven, was more economic/ag policy driving waves hands science.
It's entirely possible that the support he received from others outweighed the time he put in supporting others. I know for sure that's the case for me.
Just the tech bubble?.. I dunno. I'm not that good at these things, but fracking comes to mind, and subprime auto loans.

"Couldn't make it happen politically?!" That part I don't get. You mean they couldn't just give everyone money so they spend it instead of giving money more or less directly to the richest people? You mean the citizens would revolt?!

(Actually the possibility of QE on the scale we had in a bunch of democracies left me dumbfounded. Why do people put up with that shit?)
Because the US and EU have repeatedly told Microsoft that they're not allowed to force OEMs to use their software.
I'm more interested in how the uploader got a verified Youtube account, especially with <20 subs and 3 videos.
Indeed. This sounds like they just gathered soundbites from his opponents without any attempt at even-handedness, even though many of the issues have been followed by a lot of back-and-forth in public fora. Followers of Krugman's blog can recognise many counterarguments in the article which have been specifically addressed in his blog (and in many cases credibly overturned).

Also it would be fair to let his side pick a share of the debate points.
I would imagine they're reinvesting it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_Conservation_Corps

Not always. I think it's a shame that the stimulus wasn't done too well, but I don't think any attempt was destined to failure. If done well, the stimulus might have effectively addressed a large number of problems, such as infrastructure and unemployment as the CCC did in its day.
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I'm sorry, but welcome to science. Theories evolve, new things are discovered, we make appropriate changes.

If the government stubbornly held onto their previous policies then they would be open to criticism, but the fact that things are changing is a good thing.

Nutritional science is hard, our bodies are complex.
A little anti-trust action against you by the government will do that. Though it may not have been solely consumer friendly in the past, strongarming OEMs to avoid these kinds of messes was one of the things that got them in trouble 15 years ago.
Reminds me of a SaaS company (I won't name) solved the problem of "too much support time wasted on non-enterprise clients" by funneling all non-enterprise support questions to a community forum and encouraging contributors to answer those questions.

I answered dozens of questions for many days, thinking it will help build credibility (as suggested by another commenter). Then I realized I'm just volunteering as level 1 support, and decided it's not worth it.
> Sheesh, am I the only one who actually enjoyed the visuals?

Pretty much. The pixel art was well made, but the point of design is to convey an idea. The only point conveyed to me here was "I can't read this because things are flickering in the corner of my eye", and the parts I did manage to read did not seem worthwhile of the effort.
+1 for mentioning that specific feature in Cool Edit Pro.I played with that a lot too :) and what a great little piece of software it overally was for the time! I never really liked how Adobe had to transform it into that heavily bloated thing it became when they got their hands on it :/
That's weird. I don't think I like that the mods can tone down an article title, when submitters are expected to use the original.

If the article title makes a wrong claim, the comments and the voting mechanism will take care of that, does not seem to be the call mods should be making....