hackerpacker

you must have missed the second bullet point.

I lean towards the one with the best distribution model, what can reach the largest audience without unnecessary layers, since the language particulars aren't all that important except in endless bike shedding.

and that would be JS.

Unless you need to do something more interesting than a browser will allow.

well, when they convert the bulk of their stuff to go, if the plan works, and the theory is correct, then they can hire something more like a laborer instead of an engineer.

The main thing is that they are so huge, they can afford such experiments. I don't put much faith in that approach outside of a huge organization, and the jury is still out internally.

And given their shift to no brainteasers and no degree, and diversity and other non skill based focus, and sheer number of employees, the bar may not be set where you think it is these days. Hell it might not be much harder than stating your political beliefs (assuming you have the right political beliefs) based on recent cultural evidence.

On the other hand, I don't think anyone accused slack, with multi-megabyte webpages and even worse mobile app, of being a great experience. I think I used it once, and said no more.

you can stare at the sun to be more productive when viewing the sun as well. /s

No, I don't buy the green screen argument, any more than the randomness of paper being somewhat white and ink being in contrast to that. Certainly white on black is useful in astronomy, the stuff you are interested in is lit. This article was such a wall of text, I don't know if it ever supported its conclusion very well, which is ironic for an article promoting "productivity".

some of don't really care who reads it, just that it is available. This gaming of everything is not necessarily a good thing. Is your article about programming or something, or is it about attention whoring?

It can be a very rich club, and its members are all expenses paid tax free, with a lower tax bracket for 10s of thousands of disposable income.

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

LDS net worth 67 billion, vatican, 30 billion etc. etc.

Obviously there are extremes on the other end, but for those with 45k disposable income, who can make investments and own land, no "vow of poverty" should be assumed either.

the bureau of labor statistics lists the mean salary for clergy as $50k, with a range of $25k to $80k as well.

https://www.bls.gov/oes/2017/may/oes212011.htm

but everything included, so that is basically 35k, tax free, or in a lower tax bracket since so much of the compensation is non monetary, purely disposable.

edit, this says the median is 45k https://work.chron.com/much-catholic-priests-paid-12915.html

" It's not a language"

It sure looks like a language to me, like some sort of assembly language.

https://webassembly.org/getting-started/advanced-tools/

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAssembly/Text_fo...

granted this is a textual representation (very useful in certain circumstances) but that is semantics. Having done plenty of assembly, I don't see a huge distinction here.

" Let them all fall away to hear what the artist might have to say."

"Pay attention to me" seems to be a recurring theme.

I would suggest learn 5 tap instead, orders of magnitude simpler to learn if you already know the alphabet and how to count.

https://www.eham.net/articles/1681

well the pressure aspect wouldn't require constant energy input. And I assume it is a lot more economical to use a consumer refrigerator than liquid nitrogen.

But yah, you can bathe a much more complicated "circuit" in liquid nitrogen a lot easier than compressing it with diamond anvils. Though no commercial superconducting computers have emerged, cmos is just too cost effective currently, and the known examples are still in the 4K range.

"Some sort of measurable practice", not anything remotely like a "soul", in fact invoking "you have no soul" usually means you lost the argument and are now desperate enough to say anything.

funny this coming from vox

honestly thought I was reading the Duffel Blog for a second.

I'm not trying to shit on anyone, just lucky to live in an area of abundance where $200 can go a very long way if you do your homework and don't internalize status/marketing expectations.

Indeed if it weren't for people pursuing the new shiny, I'd have to pay at least 10x for the same utility. But as it is I'm glad to re-purpose/reuse. I have no delusions that I'm not a scavenger in this economic realm. Though I do appreciate a solid "grandpa" car that seats 6 and can tow a few thousand pounds and can still get 30mpg on the highway.

until recently mine was a $70 i5 compaq elite (w/ssd and ram and vidya). And yes, I do drive a 25 year old $1000 car on the daily (only upgrade was a tow hitch), jealous?

when you concentrate that much power, the effects may be worse than the original problem. Indeed it may not even address or care about the original problem once it reaches critical mass. The type of people who are interested in social/economic/political power, seem mostly interested in social/economic/political power, and the moral crisis de-jour is just a tool.

>The definition of units are done in the most convenient and precise way possible.

testing my scale with a mirror that contains a kg of photons doesn't sound very convenient.

been there, use qwerty.

1. every keyboard in the wild they encounter will be qwerty

2. probably a matter of time before keyboard is fully optional/non existent.

This will give them zero "advantage" in the real world.

that study is a case study in selection bias by someone with a political agenda.

You can't just look at actions by one somewhat arbitrary group against another, and not look at the actions of anyone else, unless you are expressly trying to be misleading.

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

You can see that the other "group" here, whos actions are deliberately being ignored by the author and everyone else with an agenda, have brought a lot of violence of their own to the table. Or at least have enough conflicting data points to not pretend to "know" something about facebook and framed studies.

"The group represented roughly 2 percent of the German population by end of 2017,[10] but was suspected of committing 8.5 percent of crimes (violations off the German alien law are not included). The numbers suggest that the differences could at least to some extent have to do with the fact that the refugees are younger and more often male than the average German. The statistics show that the asylum-group is highly overrepresented for some types of crime. They account for 14.3 percent of all suspects in crimes against life (which include murder, manslaughter and involuntary manslaughter), 12.2 percent of sexual offences, 11.4 percent of thefts and 9.7 percent of body injuries The report also shows differences between the origin of migrants. Syrians are underrepresented as suspects, whereas citizens from most African countries, especially northern Africans are strongly overerrepresented. Afghans and Pakistanis are particularly overerrepresented in sexual offenses.[7][10]"

"Given what we know about social media and violence"

you mean how social media is akin to a pressure relief valve, and how actual violence has gone down since it took off? And how this is probably about clicks and stirring the pot than actual violence, and how this is just going to completely backfire? Shall we burn some books too?

so, Louis Farrakhan is "Far-Left" then?!?

can we just make a law that the driver is responsible/liable for the car they drive, regardless how they drive it? I mean breaks failing while you are actively driving is one thing, but to completely surrender control, that is a choice.

In my experience, is usually the ones proclaiming moral superiority that have the most to hide (or are the most willfully blind).

There is no moral dichotomy between reps and dems, they are pretty much equally depraved from what I can tell.

fwiw, I took a stab at replacing a bunch of => with . and ran it: time ./crb-vec-omp real 0m0.764s

which is more than twice as fast as the rust example,

but it didn't create the right output...

if you get bored would you mind taking a stab at adding parallel and modifying crb-vec.c https://github.com/niofis/raybench , I definitely think you might be on to something here.

fwiw, I looked at some of the quicker c/rust examples, without too much other analysis

  crb-vec-omp //I added some #pragma omp to crb-vec
  executable size:
    18k
  time:
    real 0m3.630s
  valgrind: 
    ==17703== HEAP SUMMARY:
    ==17703==     in use at exit: 7,408 bytes in 15 blocks
    ==17703==   total heap usage: 20 allocs, 5 frees, 
  14,790,856 bytes allocated

  rsrb_alt_mt.rs
  executable size:
      426k
  time: 
    real 0m1.630s
  valgrind: 
    ==7221== HEAP SUMMARY:
    ==7221==     in use at exit: 43,120 bytes in 216 blocks
    ==7221==   total heap usage: 256 allocs, 40 frees, 
  11,113,784 bytes allocated

and because we have a number of tiny single cpu vm's out there (which would also benefit from a performant language) I gave it a shot there:

  :~# time ./rsrb_alt_mt
  ./rsrb_alt_mt: /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.18' not 
  found (required by ./rsrb_alt_mt)

  real 0m0.002s
  user 0m0.002s
  sys 0m0.000s

  :~# time ./crb-vec-omp 

  real 0m24.234s
  user 0m24.160s
  sys 0m0.035s

so rust appears broken on centos 7.5 (no, I'm not going to edit the binary). But that is an insta-deal breaker for us.

shouldn't rust being faster than C be something of a red flag that they aren't quite the same algorithm? Or that the algorithm is sub-optimal?

that isn't a very random test then.

re: performance, as someone who isn't particularly enamored with rust or go (or any language), how is this thing only doing 16MBps local to local?!?