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Fun fact: Chicago has a budget of about $9 billion for 2.7 million people, plus Cook County has a budget of $4 billion for 5 million people. San Francisco City and County has a budget of $7 billion for under a million people. Fairfax County, where my parents live, has a 3.7 billion budget for about a million people.

Chicago and Illinois are not high-tax high-spend jurisdictions. The top income tax rate in republican Virginia is almost double the historical income tax rate in Illinois. Their fiscal problems are the result of being low tax jurisdictions with moderate expenditures.
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Interesting question. Would this mean that more genetically homogeneous countries like Japan and Iceland would have lower GINI coefficients?
The help in programs used to be fairly comprehensive though. I don't think I have used one for years.
What about the ISC license? It is slightly more liberal than Apache 2.0, and really short.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISC_license
I believe that's correct. Since Quill the Supreme Court has consistently refused to take cases that involved forcing retailers to collect sales tax for sales that didn't involve shipments to states in which they had a physical presence. However, I'm not aware of legal prohibitions about states collecting use taxes for cross-border sales.
A bit cruel, but I admit I laughed at that.
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A.k.a. "coping mechanism".
Perhaps I am in a minority because I am currently involved in research / academia, but I find I am using Google less and less as time goes on. This is not meant specifically to be a dig at Google, nor am I saying I go without; however, it really isn't as useful to me now as it was when I first started programming.

The reason for this, I believe, is that I am less and less interested in the broad range of answers Google often returns. Sure, you can easily find an answer on StackOverflow as to why Visual Studio is giving you a LNKxxxx error at compile time, but this has limited utility (in my experience). As time has gone on, I find myself searching Github, API documentation / wiki's, and most importantly, my University library. I vastly prefer reading real code alongside documentation than to just get an answer. Sure, I memorize the easy things, like how to get the length of an array in Javascript or which library to import to access vector-fold in Scheme, and that's fine if you're able to do it (if you Google this information, you likely work with more than 3 languages per day or per week). Instead, I find myself searching for answers in 1) other implementations 2) documentation of that implementation, and 3) in the original work documenting the theory or concept (papers, journal articles, textbooks).

Certainly, I think it's okay to Google something, or just search in general. But as time has gone on, the value of my University's library, as well as specific documentation and the availability of open-source implementations of most general purpose materials / paradigms has made my life infinitely easier (and hell, possible). While I value what's possible to find on today's search engines, often times dedicated resources really are the best way to go over the much more broad search engine Google provides.

Note though, that despite this, I do realise that much of these "specialized resources" were discovered through Google, so perhaps I am in circles on this one.
No, most stock prices doesn't change that frequently.
I don't see how special interest groups will be a problem. Surely, they can flood the reviews with unlegit attacks, but the academia can just ignore them and only stick to the high-reputation review groups. They can make a lot of noise, but I don't think it can be a big problem for the academia.
We had Usenet news groups back then, it was the StackOverflow of the 90s :)
Not all employers ask for Github account. What type of companies have you been looking at?

One option I would say it to try larger tech companies? They usually rely more on resume and credentials then github accounts. Make sure your linked in account has up to date information on your skills etc... Given that you have a signed an NDA I assume you have a current job? If so do you have coworkers that could provide you with references etc...?
Compasses don't work on Mars, so how do you navigate?
I saw Typeform about a week ago. Looks pretty slick. Planning on trying that at some point too.

Totally agree that the handholding nature of it could be really powerful as a tutorial, especially in user onboarding.
Obviously the issue is with the app developers. That is why I am suggesting splitting static checking and compiling, so shit developers at least stand a chance of doing the right thing.

(I would rather a fast compiler until I am ready to release a final product and then swap. I probably do more cross compiling and creating custom toolchains than you.)
I promise you that this particular effort does not comprise our entire economic program...

Our positive proposals are here: http://www.illinois.gov/gov/documents/compiledpacket.pdf

But whether you agree with agenda or not, it does not diminish the fact that this particular tax is counterproductive.
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I wanted to purchase either Tesla or 5 Series BMW in 2014, I picked a BMW at the end.

I went for a test drive and while in terms of ride quality Tesla is not far behind BMW but in terms of interior comfort and quality BMW is miles ahead, Tesla inside looks and feels like a Toyota or Nissan, I doubt anybody who likes Bimmers or Mercs for their interior quality will go with a Tesla, nevermind Maserati, and if Tesla decides to make interior better - it will certainly raise the price a lot which will make it even less comparible.

I think it's unfair to compare Tesla to Maserati (Ghibli), BMW or Mercs, I think Tesla is not for somebody who otherwise would have purchased Maserati or bimmer, but for those who otherwise would have purchased Toyota or Lexus and saved up a bit and went with Tesla instead.
And the reason behind that: Programming Mistake.

Software Developers should be more careful.
Very rarely. In general, we use DuckDuckGo.
In last week's Economist of London (June 27, p.56) there is an article titled 'The halo effect' which explores conclusions drawn by a recent Princeton University study of large firms prosecuted for corruption and amount of subsequent punitive damages as a function of perceived 'corporate social responsibility'. Interesting finding was that 'spending on employee and community relations had a much bigger impact on the prosecutors than did promoting diversity or being environmentally friendly.' When push comes to shove all human interaction, like politics, is parochial. So it's not surprising that within the first-world academic community all Elsevier effort at 'making developing world libraries flourish' by supplying discount textbooks coupled with programs to 'award women scientists in the developing world' has done little to mitigate perception of the firm as being both avaricious and elitist. Seems like a change in strategy is in order.
I once went to a meeting sponsored by the EU about how to make data resources for computational linguistics more interoperable.

I noted with increasing dismay that everything people were saying aimed to check off requirements that met EU definitions of interoperability without doing anything at all to the data. For example, someone asked to produce XML could just submit something like this:

<xml>
<!-- Please download our dataset from http://example.server/example.csv. -->
<dataset type="text/csv" href="http://example.server/example.csv" />
<license>unusably restrictive academic license text goes here</license>
</xml>

And now I kind of understand that was the goal. The people running that meeting weren't trying to be useful, they were trying to create a bureaucracy that would excuse their lack of usefulness.
I agree, it's one of the nicest examples I've seen. However, "But I don't grok that" is almost synonymous with "But I don't fully understand that", is it not?
Nothing, but there hasn't always been that spec, and SCTP over UDP is not what people usually mean when they refer to SCTP.
For this purpose mathematicians use OEIS (oeis.org). Check it out.
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Some companies cannot afford to upgrade their hardware to run the latest versions.

They are stuck on older Windows versions that cannot run the latest Office versions.

I noticed a lot of companies still stick with XP. I watched the Terminator Genisys movie and had a display in the hallway with a pop-up that said XP support has ended. A lot of Movie Theaters use XP still. The US Navy still uses XP and an old version of Office.
Larger (regional) public libraries were where I'd be able to find a pretty good variety of books about computing. I'd pick them up regardless of subject, e.g., the APL book despite having no access to APL-capable machines, or a text on expert systems despite having no AI fundamentals. It was fun and a little mysterious, and I did a lot of on-paper coding. It was also easy to get a good C programming book for more practical stuff.

Sometimes I'd scour BBSs for a little info, mostly about BBS programming in pascal. It was usually faster to go to the library, though, since the Fidonet transfers were irregular and usually a day between.

I'm not sure if having Google, or even a more developed internet, would have been better. I spent a lot of time "inventing" things, which, I think, really ingrained the basics into my head. It was, in a way, disappointing to learn later that some data structure was actually old and well researched by people with 20 years on me. But those are the ones that will always stick with me.
If it's pattern matching then the most effective teaching method is probably exposure to patterns plus feedback on attempts at detecting/emulating those patterns.
This is the same argument that was made against requiring companies like Amazon to collect sales taxes, but that has been going on for a while now (including in Illinois as of this year) and the forecast layoffs and economic disaster have failed to materialize.
>I still sometimes look at code [...] and think, generations of coders must figure out something more practical

Imagine if package management happened this way: say you want to update your version of, oh I don't know, wget. First you Google "wget" and your operating system (analogy for your programming language). Then you open... not the wget page. There is none. You open stack overflow tabs. Not just one either. You look through them, i.e. the answers, the comments about the answers. Finally you find one that people report actually works, you copy a massive block of code into a text file. You make some changes, as it isn't really complete. You save it. You compile it. And, if it worked, there's the latest version of wget, and you move on.

Sound reasonable? Apparently it is for programming languages.
> "by publishing with a paywall journal you acknowledge that your field values the prestige awarded by that journal" and then going on to say "it's not the publishers that are dictating the prestige".

No. the grandparent post is pointing out that journals do provide value in practice, because people care that someone was published in the journal. This has nothing to do with the publisher, and everything to do with the people reading the papers.

> If validation is so important, why can't there be a subset of tax dollars towards a committee?

You're confusing "ought" and "is". The system, as it works today, isn't that -- you can push for that change, but as it stands, journals add value in an academic career.

Until a researcher can actually submit their research to a tax dollar funded committee (or whatever other alternative people dram up), and get that weighted as heavily as a journal publication when applying for tenure, journals will not be replaced. Working towards replacing journals may be nice, but the parts aren't in place today.
There are still jobs like that; right now, Indeed.com has 2000 COBOL jobs offers. I wouldn't trade it, though.
At which point we rapidly approach the theory of the "utility monster".
Aren't all serious Math and CS papers free on the arXiv anyway?
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They're not just the coastal rich. I've seen a couple of them around my city in the Midwest - with a population in the area of roughly 200,000.
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See http://xkcd.com/1425/ , or my second sentence at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9818893 . ;)
> However, the more I mature as a developer, the faster I can detect horrible StackOverflow answers which technically answer the question but cause a couple of more or less sneaky issues.

This has been my experience as well. As I progress beyond the junior engineer stage of my career, I find the surface layer of the web to be increasingly less useful. The sheer amount of garbage out there makes me worry for new programmers.
Beyond that, journals can help financially support their attendant society if they're a society journal, and while it gets dismissed, having a copy editor and a layout person improves papers.
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Providing food and shelter versus cash makes the government have to solve all the distribution issues(something that I think we need a benevolent AI to do for us), making the dole actually be food makes entire groups eat the same food, countrywide chicken casserole nights will become a real thing.
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I can really sympathize with that having been one of the people subject to those externalities, but at the same time, I have to wonder just how many such goods there are and which industries would collapse.

I'd be glad if crappy industrial jobs could be made less so, but if suddenly computers are no longer affordable to anyone due to the inability to find anyone willing to work in the myriad industrial processes that feed the semiconductor industry, I'm not sure that society will actually progress as a result and perhaps there could be less socially disruptive ways that better achieve the goals of basic income.
It sounds like vaporware :)
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It almost seems like it'd be more of a challenge to use APL to write a comprehensible program.
> The barbarism began 200 years prior when Africans were stolen from their homeland

Sure is a lot of presentism and tu-quoque-ing going on here.
To be fair, Slashdot bashed the iPod (2001), not the iPod + iTunes w/ Store (2003).

I think that's a pretty big difference.
Cars are a special case, not just because of their size and thus ease of detection, but because you're required to obtain a license to operate it in the state, and the state can set arbitrary conditions on such licensure.

More generally, however, under what constitutional authority are you suggesting that states could levy a sales tax on inter-state (rather than intra-state) commerce? That is a power specifically reserved to the federal government, and not granted to the states.

There have been federal bills proposed that would authorize states to collect such taxes, and if such a bill passed, that would delegate the necessary taxing authority. To the best of my knowledge, no such bill has passed into law. Why do you think such a bill would be necessary if states can do this already?

In any case, one more reason to be in a state with no sales tax. I certainly wouldn't want to fight that particular legal battle myself.
The majors have not been able to put out a decent, reliable car in ~100 years, and you expect them to crush Tesla, a pioneer in the space?
Grep was my google in the old days.

I kept a library of code I liked or found useful. For example, a bunch of nicely written code on SGI's that came free by guys like Paul Haeberli was quite useful say if looking for opengl examples.
One common characteristic I've noticed among the experienced engineers I've known - none of them have the time or inclination to post to StackOverflow, or forums, etc.
They're allowed to drag their feet a little bit, but yes.
I don't know what they've said when publicly, but the intention of 6.x on their end related to support for Docker has always been best efforts in terms of their support practices. Docker support by Red Hat in RHEL7 is actually a compelling differentiation they use in the field to get their existing customer base to upgrade.

This conversation goes back to the moment we started talking about it before the announcement[1] in September 2013

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Google is obviously missing a trick. Instead of working as a search engine, it should work as an online compiler and code repository.

Then it could apply machine learning and AI to predict code before it's typed.

Maybe Google Code was an early prototype?

I regularly wonder how much code is repeated effort. I get the impression that some very non-trivial percentage of global business effort is thousands of different developers writing their own versions of code that does the same few things - especially in web land.

For some reason frameworks seem to make this problem worse instead of fixing it.
QUnit with no alternatives?

I guess the audience of the JS tests mostly consists of jQuery users, so it's probably not as strange as it seems to an outsider.

I wonder whether there are any reliable stats on test framework popularity in the wider JS community. The only numbers I've seen suggest that it's mostly Mocha and Jasmine.
I think we agree. It would be better if there was a different way to validate the importance/impact of research. Particularly if there was a way to evaluate the importance immediately, as opposed to waiting years to see how the impact plays out (via citations, etc). So if there was a committee that provided that evaluation entirely outside of the publishing ecosystem, that would be great (great from the viewpoint of humanity, maybe not publishers' business models).

Hell, if you were guaranteed that your tenure committee actually read your full papers and then made their decision about the importance of your work entirely on their own, then you don't need any other validation of your work. But at that point we're sadly living in a fantasy world. In the real world academics making hiring decisions need external validation to judge their applicants. Figure out a better way to provide that without losing a ton of money and you're golden.
this is exactly what I did. I wonder what the psychology/cognitive science explanation of this might be.
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Sure, making changes solely for the sake of creating jobs is the broken window fallacy. However, if there is an otherwise legitimate need for changes to the tax code, I don't see how this applies. I'm guessing you're not advocating that the tax code be set in stone, never to change ever again, lest someone have to do work.

Back to my original question: how to you determine which tax changes to support and which to oppose?
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While in theory I support smaller government in practice I'm pretty sure I should be grateful for large government since without it I would not have my private sector software development job. I’m a totally blind software developer and one of the major reasons the screen reading software I use in my job is kept up to date is section 508.
While their not being paid directly, it should be noted that reviewing, and sitting on editorial boards, is considered in a great many tenure decisions.
Your study shows increased risk of suicide for people who've gone through gender reassignment surgery compared to the general population - not compared to people with gender dysphoria who have not gone through gender re-assignment surgery.
I am now intensely curious about the deleted comments :)
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Why would it "break for no reason"?! For all I know regExps matching one small piece of the page if far less prone to breaking than parser that has to analyze the whole page. Designer changes one <div> or id/class somewhere in the top of the DOM tree and you can't reach the node that you are looking for anymore. Same goes for regExp of course, but it's looking at a smaller portion of the html, so it's less likely to be affected by small changes in some unrelated part of the page. And any major redesign will break any dedicated scraper, no matter which parser it uses...
Basic income is only money, though. You don't control whether someone pays rent or buys $x worth of beer with it.

I say that not to be mean, but because of the times I watched my coworkers get their paycheck, walk or bike[1] straight to the gas station to buy lots of beer (estimated cost ~10% of paycheck), and call in sick the next day.

[1] This was mostly due to being unable to afford a car, though I was aware of a few with DUI convictions. In one case, they were able to bike there because I helped them replace their bike after it was stolen around Christmas time.
A lot.

Simply because it's impossible to remember everything unless you use it on a day to day basis. Every useful link I find is tagged and stored in a repository for future use.