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Ruby Under a Microscope is the first and only technical book I will finish; if you like Ruby and are curious about how things work under the hood it's a joy to read. You need to look for something that actually interests you. Reading some bible on design patterns with hundreds of useless Java or C++ examples often IS boring. And let's be honest it probably won't make you a better software developer. A close second to me was Hacking: The Art of Exploitation by Jon Erikson. It's a great introduction to low level stuff and how basic hacks are formed. Really loved it though I admit I never finished it.

One man's debt is another's asset. If the banks don't collect their mortgages they might collapse. Will I trust a bank to save my money if I knew their balance sheet is negative?

I like your thought process and it might be a good way to go.

> Raise interest rates on debt. This will cause people to pay back existing debts

But this is risky for the stock market right? interest rates on debt are connected to the fed's interest rate and to bonds yields. Higher bond yields = stocks are less appealing. That could be fine during normal times but the stock market is very very high so the risk for a huge crash is high. Who knows what the result of a stock market crash might be, the 30s were one huge depression. During the current political climate I can see why the high-ups want to avoid that.

But It's something to think about what you're suggesting and it's very possible what you're suggesting will happen in some form or another.

Is this what you mean? https://handmadehero.org/ holy crap there's an enormous amount of videos in there. Thing is it's meant for Windows from what I'm seeing and also isn't really divided into topics (let's say I just wanna learn about pointers or about macros).

Hey are there any good resources you'd recommend?

> They are bombing innocent Yemenis who have ZERO connection to Iran

The Houthis are an extremely well armed group supported by Iran, please read about the topic you are uninformed. I am not saying what's going on there isn't tragic but it's far from "good guys vs bad guys". Iran had a role in what happened in Yemen as it had a role in what happened in Syria. Saudi Arabia is as far from liberalism as Iran, I acknowledge that. But they have much less of a will to export "the revolution" to other places - unlike Iran. They kinda mind their own business most of the time.

> You're uncritically buying the line that Iran or the Muslim Brotherhood are the worst (which could be argued) but the other less so, because they are on "our side".

You are being uncritical as well. If you have any info that suggests otherwise you can share it, otherwise don't just contradict me and call me uncritical.

> If you prioritise human rights, that lives on both sides are equally valuable

I prioritise human rights within reason. Since the Arab Spring we've seen the whole area can in fact get much worse for humans very quickly. "Democratizing" a place like Egypt probably means bringing a hostile (to the West and to freedom in general) Islamic Caliphate of some sort, which I don't like.

Is Elixir slowly dying out?

I don't care about NSO at all, they can shut down tomorrow for all I care. I'm just saying if the alternative is between something like the Islamic Revolution of Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood type movements - to something like the military regime Egypt has now or whatever the Saudis came up with, I take the latter. What you said about resistance being impossible - it won't get any better under a radical Islamic rule as we are seeing in Iran. All I am saying it can get way worse. it CAN become North Korea. What we have now in several areas there may be the best we can get for now. And a big part of how I feel about this is about self survival - the Iranian regime hates the West (and especially the U.S but not only) in very deep ways that Saudi Arabia/UAE/Egypt/etc do not. That's how it is. As long as it is what it is selling stuff to Saudi Arabia doesn't sound super terrible.

Not really. Its a U.S thing.

Just putting it out here ... https://www.statista.com/statistics/267131/market-share-of-t...

> And - it directly started most of the wars it fought; and one other was an attack to reclaim land occupied by a previous Israeli campaign. It's only the gulf war in which Israeli was "just attacked" (by Scud rockets from Iraq).

That's a very naive way to look at things, I really doubt you bothered looking into it deeply. Israel had little choice to go to the 1967 war, Egypt was preparing for war both rhetorically and in action (blockade of the Straits of Tiran among others). If you actually care about History and read about that period you'd understand Israel felt it was facing an existential threat. Was it the case? We don't really know. There was a good chance Egypt would have started invading. I agree that Arab states tend to sometimes speak a lot (even threatening genocide) without doing much, but Israel couldn't really know.

> hey both have this old-guard mentality of "might makes right" hegemony, which a lot of other countries (and some portion of their populations) don't like because it's broadly incompatible with a human-rights centered worldview that favors the pipe dream of peaceful multilateral democracies.

At least you are honest enough to say it's a pipe dream. It really is. The world is pretty brutal and liberal democracy is a value shared by a minority of humanity. If liberal democracy wants to survive it sometimes has to defend itself. The minimum it needs is an army to protect its people. Does that absolve U.S or Israel from every arms sell they do? Probably not. But it's a broad context we need to understand when we talk about this issue.

> which a lot of other countries (and some portion of their populations) don't like because it's broadly incompatible with a human-rights centered worldview

I understand that's the liberal and progressive thing to say. But if you really think about it, it reeks from hypocrisy. The "progressive" countries (who are they exactly?) like Canada, Sweden, Australia etc all need the U.S to protect them. They wouldn't want the U.S to go away, not in a million years.

So morally there is no difference, there are only some technical differences.

> My opinion is that the best you can do is to hire people with a similar set of core values

Not working with people who worked at Microsoft is a huge inflation of the concept "core values". There are terrific people who work for Microsoft who are far better than you or I (statistically it must be true), yet they are somehow not good enough to pass your "core values". Which are what exactly?

Also - would you be as liberal for the opposite discrimination? Someone who thinks progressive politics should be banned in his company?

It also runs on Intel and probably gets some supplies from Europe. It's pretty insane to boycott any company that indirectly works with the U.S military.

It would be quite a blow if the 5% of Israeli government who use IPhones (IPhones aren't really popular outside the U.S) suddenly have to switch to Android. As an extreme measure I suggest blocking their itunes accounts. And no more Macbooks! Settle for some cheaper superior hardware elsewhere!

> It is actually part of the Israeli state-sponsored terrorism around the world

Care to explain what you mean? When the U.S sells arms by the billions to despot regimes is it also a state-sponsored terrorism around the world? Or just when Israel sells a cyber app you call it that?

The U.S supports the same regimes. The U.S made huge weapons deals with UAE, Saudi Arabia and more. Selling actual fighting jets that destroy thousands of people, not some cyber app.

Wait what? You don't hire people from Microsoft? Let's say I get Facebook (I don't really) but what's wrong with Microsoft?

How about people who eat meat? Or vote for the other party - the one you don't like? Are you trying to hire people who are morally compatible with you on every single question? That's gonna be rough hiring.

Even the weapons industry is a tough one. The knee jerk reaction says it's immoral to work for them. But after contemplating - if the U.S (or Europe, or anyone else) doesn't have an advanced military it will be taken over by its enemies (Chinese, Russians etc). Yes, the fact that "they" build their own militaries for the exact same reason is tragic. But if the U.S just dismantled it's arms industries what do you think would happen in a few decades?

> Just sucks for everyone else

Not necessarily. I assume you mean it fortifies despot regimes in the Middle East right? I no longer think at this time there is any sane alternative.

Is that so much different than how the U.S operates, other than Israel is really fun to demonize? The U.S arms whoever it wants to arm, Europe as well. So selling F-15's is cool but cyber hacks isn't. Got it.

A bit more nuanced; Israeli Arab Muslims (besides Bedouins) and Arab Christians don't go to the army besides some very small number of volunteers. Bedouins are a special case but I think going to the army isn't as prevalent with them as it used to be. Druze all go to the army but they are not Muslim and don't see themselves as connected to the Palestinians.

Gitlab, Discourse, Mastodon, Forem (dev.to) etc etc. All are big OSS software and are maintainable and seem to have quite a high velocity feature development. If it was an unmaintainable mess the whole opens source thing wouldn't have worked as well as it does for them. So maybe we should steer the debate towards - it CAN be done (as you can see) but it's more difficult with Rails (which I think is false).

Lots of people complain about Elixir's lack of types and possible incomprehensible mess caused by Macros. It kinda proves to me that everyone has different tastes in software and that's about it, there is no objective truth to any of it. For me Java code is a nightmare.

Hmm isn't Rails 6 giving this out of the box?

Depends on your definition of major. For a company to become a unicorn it usually takes 7 years (not sure on the number but it keeps changing). So many companies formed in 2015,16...+ aren't there still. Looking in Linkedin for Rails jobs there are a lot, not all of them are old companies. Gitlab is a very famous name(2014) but it too IPO'ed so it's not a startup anymore.

How was the memory between the two?

But you do the process you described only once per "warmed up" method right? Yes it sound expensive but once it's warmed up it should be as good as YJIT or am I missing something?

Yes not bothering learning Ruby when picking up Rails is very common...and sure, things look quite bizarre when you have no idea what's going on.

"A Palestinian town". No, it's an Israeli town, or if you wanna call it an Arab-Israeli or Palestinian-Israeli town that's fine as well. These people have Israeli citizenship and in fact when surveyed they show very little enthusiasm to go under Palestinian rule.