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Except your example isn't a complex trade off -- it's just how it works. FirstOrDefault() returns the first or a default. It's right in the name? Which is first? Well you better provide an order if you care. If you don't care, don't provide an order. There is nothing complex about that at all.

It almost seems like your looking to blame Linq for what is clearly poor database and project design. If you have poor design you're going to have problems no matter what.
That's the reason I used GDP per capita instead of after-tax income. Even if employees do not need to pay for insurance, retirement, or schooling, the nation as a whole still has to.
The lower classes' standard of living is all that matters. If you're rich, you can live especially well even in 3rd world countries (where servants are cheap and anything can be paid for).
Unit tests would be highly unlikely to catch most of those.

"a formula written on paper in pencil was improperly transcribed", "neglect to properly "seed" the program's random number generator, A HW bug that's not close to obvious numbers to check, intentionally inserted bugs, input outside of the intended design, etc.
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Since 2001 I've lived and worked in Finland, Denmark & Sweden. Achieving a healthy & meaningful work-life balance is emphasized in the Nordic countries (I do not know about Luxembourg) The authors experience in Switzerland strikes a familiar chord with me. I have close friends in the Valley who envy me because I get 6 weeks a year off. I don't think this article is necessarily about high salaries and the luxuries you can afford with that salary (and I'm not saying that that was what you were saying) but I have come to believe that there is a better work-life balance in certain northern european countries than anywhere in the U.S.A (I'm willing to be corrected of course) especially when it comes to maternity and paternity leave. In discussions like these, I am reminded of a video my American friend sent me a while ago :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNzXze5Yza8
I've lived in all three of those locations, and I have to agree that there is awesomeness in all three.

There's also crap, though; all three are only awesome if you're toward the top of the earning spectrum. And even then the vacation allocations (and the guilt tripping related to using vacation) are pathetic, pretty universally in the US (with a few notable exceptions, but even those rarely give you a MONTH OFF every year and expect you to TAKE IT).

Until we have free health care and more standard vacation time and less expected overtime, there will be no Switzerland in the US.

Only privileged rich people living in enclaves have their own Switzerland experience. For all intents and purposes I'm one of those at this point, for what it's worth. I can take my extended vacations now (between contracts), and a few people I know will take an unpaid month away from work every few years. If I work overtime, it's for a high hourly rate for every hour I spend (depending on project type and client, between $150-$250/hour).

But the majority of people, even here in Boulder, still have a max 2 weeks of vacation a year, unpaid mandatory overtime, and pretty pathetic salaries to boot (considering the cost of living). Hardly paradise. Certainly not Switzerland, for them.
/u/hga compared purchasing power, so taxes are already accounted for in the numbers above.
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Your patience is amazing. I've really appreciated the calming effect you've had over the past several months, along with your thoughtful explanations. So, thank you very much.
While I agree with many of the sentiments in the article, I don't think a comparison of wages is entirely fair. Some small nations have an out-sized GDP per capita such as Switzerland, Luxembourg, and Singapore because of their large financial industries. These industries are possible because the countries attract wealth and the wealthy through very low taxes(like Singapore) or very strong banking secrecy laws. And while bringing in a large amount of wealth can lead to a GDP per capita for boost small countries its not reproducible when a country is the size of the United States.[0]

[0] - Because if every billionaire in the world moved to the U.S. it would barely move the needle on wealth per capita unlike Singapore, Switzerland, and Luxembourg.
Usenet isn't dead. I still use several Usenet groups via Thunderbird. Google Groups is a Usenet host/client, and many groups belong to both the Google and Usenet spaces. The Usenet interface is easier to use, has no ads, and doesn't require a Google account.
The goal is not to look like golang but to maintain locality: Implementation of one thing should be at one place, not at two different places.
> This site serves the startup community,

No the site serves YC that it happens to have some overlap with serving the general startup scene and hacker crowd is a good thing but it's not the primary thing.

> the community will go elsewhere if the values of the site don't lead to good content/community.

Only if a threshold is reached and there is a consensus that it's time to move on, there appears to be no sign of that, realistic people realise that HN while a valuable resource belongs to YC.
Thanks! I guess it's because we're a game development group inside Google, who are more externally focused than most Google engineers. We wanted to ensure the library is attractive to outside developers, hence CMake and other choices (like not having any dependencies).
Few in the US who make a lot of money seem to spend it on working 80% rather than on buying a big house or a nicer car. The quality of life difference is cultural, not economical.
10% is actually a pretty significant disparity when you consider the fact that both are developed countries.
I'm not so sure. Check the job listings on any major US job listing site and see how many iambic pentameter jobs you can find.

Where do you think those jobs went, if not overseas?

I don't think they were automated away. I know that Google has been doing a lot of research into that, but that has been focused heavily on producing lyrics for rap battles (Geoffrey Hinton is known as Grandmaster BackProp in the rap community). They are years from having anything with serious commercial potential outside the hood.
How about no commute because you're working remotely from anywhere in the world, awesome pay, the best health care coverage, dental,options (even with a great base pay package), 401k, relaxed work culture and a company that goes out of it's way to spoil the team. Our company and team are all US based. Sounds like the author picked a nasty US company for her article.
What I mean is what is not considered slavery now, could be reconsidered as so in the future. I believe so in this case.
"Uber is a highly disciplined company. I'd completely expect their new HQ plans to be focused on optimising the company's performance, not extravagance."

Pictures: http://gizmodo.com/ubers-new-san-fransisco-headquarters-is-a...
Reliance on certain, newly-deprecated things like gnu hash_map which has performance characteristics important to our specific application.
The three first Google results for 'Quality of Life index' put the USA at the 16, 12 and 10th place.

While salary in Italy, France and Germany may not be as high as in Switzerland, they all have longer maternity leave, bigger number of vacation, better public transportation and better benefits than in the USA
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Xenophobia. Cultural intolerance. Very 'always know best'-oriented culture.
There's a lot more to it than just being binary. The big deal is that it can be accessed in-place while still being portable and forwards/backwards compatible. For example, Protocol Buffers is binary too, but requires unpacking, causing lots of object allocation, etc.
Yeah, urm, no. Okay, the "deal" part isn't that far off.

The landed gentry lost much of its status and importance during 19th and 20th centuries, or joined (if they invested wisely) the class what the left likes to call "capitalists". This was caused by what is called "industrialization". Old aristocracy managed to continue to exist in some form in some countries (the UK is great example of that) and the class divisions didn't disappear, but turned into something slightly different.

And the implied threat socialist / communist revolution was part of the deal, but it isn't that simple. Far more important was parliamentary democracy. Of the much praised Nordic countries (the ones Bernie Sanders seeks inspiration from), only in Finland the left actually tried a violent revolution. It failed, and they were mostly kicked out and kept out of politics until after WWII. Compared to Sweden, where the factory owners and unions started to negotiate decades earlier, the deals after that were always worse.
I know that. So what you mean to say by "no", is that one should be "proud of their country" when the system benefits a minority of the rich and the lower classes live in trailer parks or are homeless who get food stamps? U.S. logic I guess. You're much better off literally anywhere in central/northern europe than in the U.S. which is what is meant by the standard of living is higher. And how about the lower standard of education? The millions of morons who believe in god and creationism? There's so many ways in which the U.S. is a retarded place.
Sadly there are concerted political effort being focused on going American in the Nordics, as the current system is considered "inefficient". Even the supposed left is in on the game, pulling a double talk akin to UK's Labor...
I never understood the ripoff that the "lunch hour" was.

So... you are going to keep me away from other stuff, but I'm not paid for it?

Also, you might not be hungry. If you live on a low carb high fat diet, you can easily go 12 hours or more without feeling the need to eat something.

And some companies will even go to the length of banning sites like youtube. "Try to kill an hour... but we'll remove anything that could distract you... Have fun twiddling your thumbs!"
Thanks. It was immediately obvious the cut was on the wrong axis. How did that ever see the light of day?
> I can see a lot of things that could be considered online harassment campaigns directed _toward_ that group(and anyone they can claim to be associated with them), for certain.

> #GamerGate is actually just a hashtag

Well, if Gamergate is merely a hashtag, and so didn't do anything—then opponents of Gamergate aren't an online harassment campaign either, since they're merely the lack of a hashtag!
Make an image search for "swiss political billboards"
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I'm trading this parte on mobile but The page will continuously hijack me to advertising pages.
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Can you tell us more about that?
I guess lunch hour is much nicer if your home is under 10 minutes from work. If your commute is longer than 30 minutes, going home for lunch hour makes no sense.
Some more info - openocd is a not bad open source JTAG server. <http://openocd.org/>

The TL866 I suggested does support your part.

If you've got the flash in a TSOP - another trick for getting at the flash is to find a FPC cable that has the same pitch as your TSOP and solder it down on the board. FPCs with varying pitches are available at Digikey etc. That way you don't have to remove the flash from the board.
Because it conflicted with our number system, and we (mostly...) decided that harmony with the number system was better than divisibility. If both were base 12, there wouldn't be any conflict.
Switzerland is the world's most successful parasite. So it's hard to recreate their 'success' unless you have lots of host countries to feed from

https://wikileaks.org/wiki/Switzerland:_A_parasite_feeding_o...
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> Sure, if my job is very close to my house.

I'd guess that is indeed quite common in Switzerland. So having a 1 hour lunch break in the middle of the day makes sense for them, but would not make sense in the US, where much longer commutes are the norm.
This. All these people commenting on the premise that usenet is dead, don't realize it is alive and kicking. As is IRC:)
The original link should be used here.
Well you have to remember that the Swiss have both better income sources (assisting the world's wealthy & many corporations evade/optimize taxes for instance) and don't have military expenses and such due to neutrality.

While many problems of the US are of its own creation due to either ideology or wealth dominating politics (healthcare & education spring to mind), it is quite unfair to compare what the Swiss government provides with the US.
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GDP doesn't mean shit.
The oil is a curse rather than a boon.
You misunderstand why contract enforcement leads to violence. In the real world, contracts among equals are always fungable and rarely enforced with violence. It is different when the contracts are between powerful and the not so powerful. Violence propagates down.

Ethereum, by automating contract enforcement is going to end up being a tool for the powerful against the weak. A tool which brings the cost of lowering contract enforcement will lead to powerful organizations using Contracts more often against the weak.
You might try Toastmasters. Once you get past the first few "nervousness" lessons they focus on how to convey meaning with speech. Every chapter is different, so YMMV. Several of the speeches you have to prepare cover persuasion, motivation, and how to structure a speech so that everyone remembers exactly what you want them to remember. They teach through having you give a series of 5-7 minute speeches, but I've found the practice helpful beyond giving a formal talk.
Reading this as a European, it's fun and telling that you focused on salary differences, whereas what mattered to me were the other quality-of-life elements (I assume you're living in the US).

To sum up, what matters to me, in what she described, were the consequences of the belief that one shouldn't be ashamed of having a life outside of work, and needing some time and peace of mind to actually enjoy it.

More money won't make me happier if I don't have holidays, week-ends, and some time during workdays to actually enjoy spending it, without being chronically on the verge of a burn-out. This is common sense in Europe, whereas it seems to be considered leftist heresy in the US.
Yeah, Windows 7 definitely has that feature. But maybe the issue here is that it unexpectedly started happening after he upgraded to Windows 10, which means that Windows 10 may have changed his default screen saver without asking for permission, and depending on what you keep in your pictures folder, that may not be a great idea - it exposes private content to people who may otherwise not have access to it, which is a security breach. Your picture directory might also contain scans of sensitive documents, etc.
When private interest does this, and they do it commonly, it's not a problem -- that wealth is privitized... but when a country does it and benefits its citizens it's a big deal.
Good point. Lookup in Java is a bit slower than in the language FlatBuffers was originally designed for (C++), but being able to bypass Java's object allocation may well make up for that.
I think you're getting entirely the wrong message from the article.

It's not about whether it's possible to reproduce Switzerland's standard of living in America. It's about asking some difficult questions about the fundamental aspects of American work culture and how they can be changed for the better.

For example, why isn't there mandatory paid maternity and paternity leave in America? Why does the culture essentially force people to choose between careers and family?

It's funny because you show inappropriate content on TV and everyone goes "think of the children!" and loses their minds, but no one bats an eye when mommy and daddy has to work 60+ hours a week each and has no time to spend with their kid.
As disingenuous as comparing a small country to the US as a whole.
And they all are known as tax havens except for Norway which has half a million dollars of oil reserves per citizen :).

But I do think the article is right in pointing out a lack of options in the U.S. if you want to live a lifestyle that doesn't center around work. I love writing software but 40 hours a week + 5 hours of commute + 6 hours of software practice + recovery time seems to me to not leave enough time for enjoying the parts of life that don't involve compiling.
The tricky thing about averages is that a few high numbers can slew the average...
Now who's playing word games?
Teachers unions are an artifact of a system modeled on the way things work in wealthy nations where there are a surplus of qualified teachers...e.g. the US where states have factory scale colleges of education in order to churn out new teachers and thereby suppress wages (and historically to provide respectable jobs for women from "respectable" social backgrounds).

It's a model where schoolmasters have Doctorates of Education; local government administrations tend to be relatively less corrupt; the overall cultural identity relatively free from hereditary entitlement; and with a historical ideal of universal franchise.

The idea that education can be provided for $100 per pupil per year doesn't fit the model, and the skew is in economic assumptions in general.
They pretty much have to allow the drivers to drive for competing networks, or qualify "partner" as an employee. So Uber marketing budget in some ways helps Lyft, Sidecar and Wingz.
Can somebody provide cliff notes? This is too long and I strongly dislike what has been written in the first few essays. Maybe somebody can sum this up in shorter form.
I agree wholeheartedly and also want to point out that people who regularly produce great content can usually capitalize on their audience through other means that don't directly monetize the content. Obviously speaking engagements, hardcopy book sales, and other offerings related to the content you've produced. Content is too general a term to be very specific here.
The nordic countries have similar quality of life. Granted, a bit less purchasing power and much higher taxes, but even better work/life deal (longer holidays, more parental leave) etc. And apart from norway it's not oil. And none is a parasite I think.
FlatBuffers isn't available natively for JS (yet), though you could use it through asm.js if you really wanted to.
The commutes are just the other side of the same coin: The way the US treats it's work/life balance has had deeper consequences. If you aren't expected to leave the kids to school and also have dinner with them at 5pm, then you might just as well work a long day. And since you are working late anyway, you could just as well have a longer commute. On a weekday, work is expected to be a full day. Not just half the day. The 2yo will be asleep when you come home anyway. So imho the sprawling city is born from not just the car culture, also the work/life balance culture.

If you are supposed to leave kids at 8 and pick them up at 4 then obviously a 1h commute isn't really doable. Public transit and compact cities follow naturally from that.
I'm glad to see the synthetic bio folks making progress down this path. I hope that the ecologists can catch up so we can develop a better understanding of human microecology. Control and regulation of the ecosystem that is a human is likely to provide as many, if not more, tangible benefits to more people than any direct genetic engineering of human beings.
> (the money has to come from somewhere, after all) <

And where did they get it in the first place? When it comes to money it is effectively turtles all the damn way down.
SOFIA is (of course) an infrared instrument. For infrared, water vapor really messes up the light, like trying to see through fog. So getting above almost all of the water made up for the complexity added by a moving platform.

If a glider could get up there at a pre-determined time, and fly a stable course, that would be really cool. If the glider can't be relied upon to be on-station at a certain time, perhaps because of sensitivity to weather on the way up, then it would be hard to plan your science.

Someone should try it!
> Face it you are the third world compared to Europe. Ooooh, those poor little jingoistic feewings are butthurt

You seem to not know the actual definitions of "third world" and "jingoism."
My interpretation is that they are technologies that embody/manipulate information, as opposed to matter or energy. And, whether you agree or not, the argument being made is that information technologies are different in fundamental ways than matter or energy technologies.
Notable tidbits (most of which were already public record if you followed the story very closely) include:

+ Mt. Gox commingled depositor and corporate funds. (Corroborated in the Japanese version of their docs released by the bankruptcy trustee.) Many in the community believed that they had promised not to do this (true) and they this was impressively unprincipled (I lean against this understanding).

+ Mt. Gox had standards of engineering professionalism which were not what one would hope would prevail at a financial institution with $500 million in assets. True and previously reported. Specific examples include lack of a staging environment, source control, testing procedure, engineering leadership, auditing... it goes on. Also might suggest in future not putting all code into MySQL.

+ At one point all BTC deposited at Gox were accessible by VNCing into a particular box, which suggests that claims that Gox had cold storage secured by keys kept in diverse physical locations were not consistent with conventional interpretations of engineering reality. (The new information here is "VNC." It was previously known that at one instant in time Gox proved its reserves by moving all it's BTC in a single transaction. This could be done in a way consistent with what the community thinks "cold storage" should mean; the VNC bit militates against that understanding.)

+ Employees of Mt. Gox believed, on the basic of public evidence, that the firm was losing money even at the peak. (I'd be interested in seeing their math for this; that was not the conclusion I reached in a napkin calculation in mid-2013.)

+ Wages at Tibbanne (which provided 100% of employees for Gox) were consistent with prevailing wages in Tokyo startups i.e. scandalously low. 50% of employees earned less than $2k per month; director-level salaries in order of $4k, except for...

+ ... explicitly alleged looting of customer funds to support director lifestyles.

+ Management was unable or unwilling to answer basic queries regarding finances internally.

+ Gox's bus number was one, and that bus would have resulted in $500 million being unrecoverablu lost. Management, when asked about this, lied brazenly. (Last part is new info, first part obvious.)

There's more at the link.
> Taxi apps are subject to network effects

Network effect is limited to local. Them adding 5 more drivers in NYC does not benefit riders or drivers in Portland or Barcelona.
if you are going to include Windows NT, you should probably also include Windows Phone OS
"The entire codebase was stored in a database, only accessible via a client Mark maintained, with no version control nor lock controls meaning if we both had a file open we could overwrite one another's files and undo work.
There was no pre-production environment. Meaning changes were supposedly deployed untested or made straight on production.
I was told I could not touch the backend, although they were working on getting access to this via Mark. Although it was taking time because Mark was more busy with his Bitcoin cafe.
They said that despite all this, it was still a decent place to work because there was literally no pressure to perform.
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Just wow.