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From your list, Haskell. Rust and Go are trendy right now but there's no guarantee they will last (much as I admire Rust's design), whereas Haskell is old enough to have passed through the hype cycle and out the other side. (So has Lisp, but it's simply not popular enough, IMO).

Honestly you already have a language that's much more commercially viable: C#. You'll find it easier to make money by expanding your C# skills than with any of the languages you suggest. If you want to go functional then F# is a good companion language since it's interoperable with C#, so you can use small pieces of it where appropriate.
Doesn't it still work the same way?
I study in a tiny (280k) people city in northern Germany. and rent for a tiny one-room apartment without window is — if you want to get an apartment without waiting for years – also around 350€. Not cheap.
I recommend JavaScript. Finding contractor work should be fairly easy if you are able to build web applications. In addition, learn Node so you can write backends for those web apps in JavaScript as well.

When I was in school I focused primarily becoming proficient at Python, as I thought that was the language that would land me a decent career. Since I am mostly interested in web programming, I found myself building backends in Python - but always ended up still using a ton of JavaScript. When I switched my focus to being primarily a JavaScript developer, I ended up finding a ton of work and that is still the case to this day (5-6 years later).
Horses also take up a lot of time (or rather if you have one, you will spend a lot of time with it to get the most out of what you are paying for it), which means you aren't spending money on other things.

People often make the mistake of thinking "how can they afford <expensive thing> when I can't (because of all the <expensive things> I have to pay for)" without thinking that maybe the other person has a different lifestyle/priories to them.
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It seem can be used as an USB HID based device.
Playing devils advocate here, but Ruby's ticked those boxes pretty well in my experience. Also js if you don't mind sacrificing a bit of expressiveness (pseudocode-ish syntax).

Don't get me wrong, I do also love python and can see it being used for years to come. Also, I know of at least a couple of algorithmic traders using it daily.
Iwata's love of his work was evident in all his interactions with fans around the world. Beyond simply being passionate about technology, he was passionate about bringing fun and happiness to his customers. We can all learn something from his example, I think, as craftsmen.
Unfortunately it's hard to see how austerity measures (in the "bailout" deal) are going to improve debt compared to GDP. It certainly didn't in Greece, where a 6% rise in debt (post-haircut) went with a ~35% increase in debt/GDP, because austerity tanked the economy.

It's also unclear what exactly "too much debt compared to GDP" means. What number is too much, and under what circumstances?

Additionally, while Finland's debt/GDP may be "fine", for your definition of fine, Finland's economy is not doing fine, thanks to the constraints imposed by the Euro and the same austerity policies in place throughout Europe. [1] [2] Even now Finland has 8%+ unemployment and 0.8% growth. Indeed for these reasons, Finland is expected to become one of the most indebted countries in Europe. [3]

[1] http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/06/01/the-finnish-dise...

[2] http://www.interfluidity.com/uploads/2015/07/Greekovery.png

[3] http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2014-01-23/is-finland-a...
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Just did a few job searches for contracts in London.

0 jobs available for most of the "cool" languages, but some for clojure, 4 for go, and hundreds for java, C++, C#.

So, it depends if he wants to get paid or just learn for the sake of learning.
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Isn't the Argentinean case lauded as an example of successful default?
He does not need to learn all of them if he actually wants to get paid.
There's a quick mention that this was a reporting server. I'd guess the reports have a common query in them that yesterday did not spill to file sorts, and today does, so literally overnight the report process goes from using virtually no disk space to using arbitrary multiples of how much you have.

Nothing really great leaps to mind to solve this in the general case. These sorts of correlated behaviors can really be jerks.
I'll probably post this as a separate submission, but EarthBound's programming was sublime. Most of the actual native 65C816 code was just a VM, and the actual game was written in a high-level language that targeted the VM.

http://earthboundcentral.com/2011/04/a-look-at-the-mother-2-...
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Much higher VAT? Tougher penalties for tax evasion + more thorough investigation?
"It's not like they get rejected and keep selling that one book they just wrote." (1) just because you're selling doesn't mean you're making profit. (2) Airbnb wasn't profitable when they were getting rejected, so in a sense "they kept writing". Hell, they even sold cereal boxes to stay afloat before Ycombinator picked them up! https://www.airbnb.com/obamaos
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Any coin-op was obviously trying to walk a tight rope between maintaining user engagement and making it hard enough that you would have to spend significant sums for training purposes. Otherwise you might as well give players 999 lives.

Proof: there is no technological limitation for modern coin-ops regarding saving state, but games actually implementing some sort of saving mechanism are still few and far between (and even then, saving features are almost invariably another way to force players to buy add-on gizmos...).
https://common-lisp.net/project/commonqt/ works well,
https://github.com/Shinmera/qtools is an attempt to make it work better.

Also https://github.com/robert-strandh/McCLIM looks maintained but if it's anything like what it was a couple of years when I last looked at it, it could use some contributors :)

There are also at least 3 GTK+ bindings that I've seen around.

http://cliki.net/GUI lists 31 GUI libraries. We have enough for every day of the month :)
A look at EarthBound's text system and scripting language (2011)
When the profit margin is a cool $250 USD and everyone else competes in low price/volume but cant even reach apple's numbers, its not surprising at all. Same is true for the Macbook, they don't ship as much as Lenovo but they do have a margin that their customers are more than willing to pay.
> There is also so much bad code being written in JS right now that entire careers will likely be built doing clean up.

Perhaps the most demotivational advice I've ever read :-)

"Learn javascript and clean up other people's mess."
And the people of Greece would vote for a government that does that?
I expected this answer at the top... JS will always be in demand for front end web positions (the MVC front end frameworks included), but as for the backend I have doubts about it's longevity, a major flag being the IO & Joyent split, as well as general back end developer anathema to using JavaScript I've sensed over the years (your's being an example). Maybe they'll resolve the community, and maybe greater numbers of back end devs will learn to enjoy JavaScript. It's hot right now of course, but thinking long term my experience tells me it's a risky choice if your goal is more pure back end dev.
Great book, but the comparison to Moby Dick makes no sense.
Interesting. My Grandfather is 100% Finnish. He never smoked. And now he has Parkinson's.

Anecdotal, I know :)
Reading the title I thought maybe this was going to be about the logistics industry. Shipping containers are a lot like packets, ports and train yards are a lot like routers, etc.
GraphQL is always POST, no? It's not REST at all. It's not quite RPC either. There's a single handler for all API requests. I don't know if there's a name for this type of thing.
Thanks for doing this. I am planning on getting into Phaser really soon and I will definitely be reading this source code.
Could someone edit the title and put spaces after the periods and around the dash? It's really bothering me.
You'll find some more stories in these recent threads --

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9724759

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9872969
Exporting gas/oil helps alot :)
Yet, the mouse over text for the comic says "ISO 8601 was published on 06/05/88 and most recently amended on 12/01/04."

Is this irony?

Probably not. Nothing is ever irony.
Perhaps eating eggplants may help too?
You can't customize it to use a different service, no.
Fine. I cannot argue about _your_ experience. _My_ experience is different. One of my computers is really old Pentium M laptop (9y old) and HTML5 barely works at 240p. Not only that, it has limited set of resolutions at the first place. Flash works just fine 480p resolution. It looks also much better at lower bitrates (to _my_ taste) than HTML5 in Firefox

> make me think of some kind of adobe shills maybe

Delusions or paranoia may be?
Reluctant how?
If the trend towards phablets is real and medium-long term, what is dying - Phones or Tablets?

I also think the people reading this list, for the most part, aren't the target market for Tablets. Netbooks, if they were allowed to live, would have pre-empted the tablet market. As they were killed, we have entertainment/casual devices that work well with non-techies. Lots of money satisfying non-techies. But the renewal cycle sucks for such people, particularly if there's no hardware reason to do so.
Well, you got that completely wrong. What would have been correct is:

"You could easily have made this point without degrading men."

In his story he generalizes men as playing the fool and makes no generalization about women.
Well, one could argue that it was just a bubble that burst – but that would be ignoring a lot of the situation.

Some of the issues are that the IMF wants Greece to implement the austerity stuff on a different time scale than SYRIZA plans to, and that the population is very much against those systems (which I can understand).

If the greek government would improve their tax agency so they’d have 0 tax evasion (let’s just assume that), then with the next election, a party would get elected that changes that. The reason: Currently, greece has to pay back debts, but that means people have to pay a lot more taxes, and only see the infrastructure to become worse – leading to uproar.

Greece can’t just stop spending completely, they have to improve the situation in many places, while simultaneously improving tax collection slowly.
> It's also unclear what exactly "too much debt compared to GDP" means. What number is too much, and under what circumstances?

It is clearly meant according to the Maastricht criteria:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_convergence_criteria

"2. Government budget deficit: The ratio of the annual general government deficit relative to gross domestic product (GDP) at market prices, must not exceed 3% at the end of the preceding fiscal year (based on notified measured data) and neither for any of the two subsequent years (based on the European Commission's published forecast data)."

"3. Government debt-to-GDP ratio: The ratio of gross government debt (measured at its nominal value outstanding at the end of the year, and consolidated between and within the sectors of general government) relative to GDP at market prices, must not exceed 60% at the end of the preceding fiscal year. Or if the debt-to-GDP ratio exceeds the 60% limit, the ratio shall at least be found to have "sufficiently diminished and must be approaching the reference value at a satisfactory pace"."

Or in easier words:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maastricht_Treaty

"2. Government finance:

Annual government deficit:

The ratio of the annual government deficit to gross domestic product (GDP) must not exceed 3% at the end of the preceding fiscal year. If not, it is at least required to reach a level close to 3%. Only exceptional and temporary excesses would be granted for exceptional cases.

Government debt:
The ratio of gross government debt to GDP must not exceed 60% at the end of the preceding fiscal year. Even if the target cannot be achieved due to the specific conditions, the ratio must have sufficiently diminished and must be approaching the reference value at a satisfactory pace.".
Isn't this just a RESTful interface to a NoSQL database, eg. MongoDB?
Certainly not my book :-)

Edi's upcoming book on Amazon is listed as $56, due December 2015. I will probably buy a copy when it ships.

EDIT: I just pre ordered a copy on Amazon to lock in that price.
Indeed, and you hear these kinds of suggestions all the time.

It sums up the absurdity of the situation when it's genuinely and routinely proposed that a solution to ridiculous cost of living in a city is to live.. not in the city.
>> Edit: argh, I wish HN would accept underscores for italics.

Try asterisks around it instead.
Seems like I missed it. I'll try to take a look and see if I can find it. Thanks!
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"The exact cause behind the phenomena is unknown at this point."

Dopamine.
The abstract reads "Nicotine addiction negatively correlates the changes of developing Parkinson's disease". I'm not a fan of the wording of the HW title to make it sound like smoking could be a good habit.
From the OECD. Here are a few articles that explore the EU's approach on sovereign debt crisis. One is form 2011, and the other is from 2012. The 2012 article discusses the "Greece Problem":

The „Greece problem‟ needs to be resolved once and for all
with a 50% (or larger) haircut on its sovereign debt and
necessary ancillary policies, so that its chances
or remaining in the euro improve. (2012)

1. 2011 - http://www.oecd.org/finance/financial-markets/49191980.pdf

2. 2012 - http://www.oecd.org/finance/financial-markets/49481502.pdf

3. Greece @ OECD.org: https://data.oecd.org/greece.htm
Can you give some examples?. (genuinely curious btw).
Most malloc implementations use a set of segregated explicit linked lists, which can be implemented with as low as 2 bit overhead, although, due to aligning, this ends up being 2 times the wordsize: in the end of the chunk you have a bit that tells if it’s free, and in the beginning of the chunk. If the bit is set to "free", then you use the free space inside the chunk for an offset pointer to the next and the last free element of the same size.
Maybe smoking kills you before the Parkinson's can get started? What age does it kick in for most people?
Isn't the Atom text editor mainly a Chromium web view running on the desktop?
What if your IP is the copyright on some open source software and amazon is violating the licence? The clause would prevent you from enforcing the licence if you find out through using AWS that they violate it.
Microsoft's GigJam deconstructs tasks into “molecules of work.”
If you actually look at the country's debt compared to its tax revenue, most of these countries situations become much more severe:

A better comparison is to examine each country’s debt to government tax revenue, since that is the government’s income. This also offers a better comparison because different countries have very different levels of taxation. A country with high taxes can afford more debt than a low tax country. Debt to GDP ignores this difference. Comparing debt to tax revenue reveals a much truer picture of the burden of each country’s debt on its government’s finances.

When I compute those figures, Japan is still #1, with a debt as a percentage of tax revenue of about 900 percent and Greece is still in second place at about 475 percent. The big change is the U.S. jumps up to third place, with a debt to income measure of 408 percent. If the U.S. were a family, it would be deep into the financial danger zone.

To add a bit more perspective, the countries in fourth, fifth, and sixth place are Iceland, Portugal, and Italy, all between 300 and 310 percent. In other words, these three are starting to see a flashing yellow warning light, but only three developed countries in the world are in the red zone for national debt to income. The U.S. is one of those three.

source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffreydorfman/2014/07/12/forget...

Many Scandinavian countries economies have slowed somewhat recently. Norway has been nicked from gas prices coming down since its such a big oil exporter. Even with the slow down, most countries still have robust economies.
The deal is terrible ... I cannot see how it will pass parliament. It is dooming Greece for a century. And on top of that the privatization fund is deeply humiliating.
"Now, the FDA is taking a step to remove artificial trans fat from the food supply. This step is expected to reduce coronary heart disease and prevent thousands of fatal heart attacks every year."

From http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm372915.ht...

Close enough to use the word "ban".
What does it mean for an algorithm to be fair?
That might be a function of the incredible volume of new posts that get submitted to HN, rather than being simply the effect of the algorithm. (If you're not getting 30 new posts each day, many articles will undoubtedly live on the front page for longer than a day.)

The algolia search seems very good in my opinion, I rarely simply can't find a post I remember and want to look up again days or even months after noticing it. Of course that is a proprietary search, isn't it?

At least it's a separate problem than the one solved by HN software / news.Arc (and probably Telescope, too).
That very advice has powered many a career in Cobol...
This has been one my issues with the CCP. They seem to feel the only good policy is to keep the markets growing rather than focusing on making the lives of the average citizen better. Building highways and airports are nice if you have a population that can afford to use them, but what many people in China need is to have their healthcare and schooling made affordable (they basically took away most of the socialized medicine and schooling programs they still had in the 1980s which by then were half-govt-covered/half-citizen-covered affairs). The wealth of the economy shouldn't serve a few if they really support socialism. But that's just my take on the matter.
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What was the exact relationship between Inferno and Plan 9? The documentation said it was "influenced by". Did it share code? Was Limbo used anywhere in Plan 9 (which I assume was written in C)?
Perfectly rational actors are necessary for the claim that was made. The kind of aggregate best-effort utility maximization you offer is not sufficient for the blanket universal claim made upthread, which requires that every (not the average) voluntary labor exchange is inherently for optimal (not best-effort given the laborers current information) value.
> It is clearly meant according to the Maastricht criteria:

It was not clear to me, but thank you for the explanation.

What insanity that the European nations would cripple their economic tools with a treaty like this. There are times when debt/GDP absolutely should be in great excess of 3%, and times when debt must be greater than 60%, and no country should require 'approval' to tackle their own economic problems.

Fortunately, I suppose, it looks like these sections of the treaty are not enforced very strongly.
Some people (myself at least) actually like refactoring. There is something really satisfying about coming in and fixing up a badly written Node.js codebase, breaking it up into microservices, etc.

Plus if you want to be a $200+ per hour contractor, this type of "mercenary work" can be really profitable.
Absolutely.

I think people get hung up on the idea of applied science, since applying science is typically one of the best methods of engineering. Our ability to engineer things is dramatically improved by applying the knowledge, techniques, and processes provided by science. But it's not the only way.

I feel the article dances around what the fundamental purpose of engineering is - that is to create viable real-world objects by solving problems of constraints and tradeoffs. Nearly all meaningful engineering problems can be posed as a series of constraints and tradeoffs. Even if you were out trying to sharpen a stick into a spear, you're intuitively (and probably iteratively) solving the problem of constraints and tradeoffs.

When you set out the make the spear, you might not even know the full extent of the problem. You know that at a high level the spear (assume a throwing spear) must be long enough to be stable in flight, short enough to not be a burden, heavy enough to fly well and deliver energy on impact, light enough to throw, thin though to grip easily, but thick enough to not shatter on impact, pointy enough to inflict damage, but not too pointy for the point to be too fragile.

You now get to solve this problem. Sometimes as an engineer you might get the exact values of these constraints given to you, sometimes you have to go find them, and sometimes you wing it. You can use science (work from material properties, dynamics, deformation, biomechanics), you can use some 'direct empirical evidence' (screw around and guess and check =D ) and iterate through a bunch of spear designs, or some rules of thumbs that your uncle told you or a mix of all.

The most important thing is that you are managing trade-offs and constraints at some level.
True, we are talking about economics, not languages, so the OP projected PM's incompetence in one area without providing additional facts.

However, I see nothing arrogant for his country citizens (who pay his salary) to expect of the highest-level official of a EU country to have such basic skills as speaking English.
I've got the second gen (bought to replace my Nexus 5 when I broke it). It cost me $200+ less than the equivalent iPhone or Galaxy, came with minimal OEM customizations and the ones it did have were actually useful, and the hardware customization options were a very nice touch in a world of black slabs.

The 2014 Moto X was basically the Nexus 5 successor that could've been. It's visually just a more reasonably sized and reasonably priced version of the Nexus 6 and was my first foray away from the Nexus line in several years.

My Moto 360 has also been mostly good as well. It flaked out at one point and I swapped it under warranty but the experience with customer service was a troubling sign of the state of the company. Their website had a lot of issues and I couldn't follow the normal process for requesting a warranty exchange until I managed to get hold of someone who knew what they were doing on the phone.

I really hope they don't start to go downhill now that they've left the Google umbrella because it seemed that they were really turning it around after years of poorly designed and annoyingly branded "DROID" phones.
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