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Despite the drawbacks you listed here of the IQ test (which are drawbacks of testing in general I think), which are all true, there is no better predictor we know of than SAT like tests or IQ (which are pretty similar and what they test for). What do you suggest doing then?

> YJIT uses significantly more memory when active -- e.g. OptCarrot takes 80MB without YJIT and 350MB with YJIT. This can be adjusted by setting --yjit-exec-mem-size.

This one gave me a worry. I think it can be addressed, but if it can't this whole effort seems a bit overrated to me.

Wow poor engineers whose children may be simply smart but not gifted. Truly heartbreaking. How can the fragile ego of said engineers survive this onslaught? I mean what are they suppose to tell their engineer buddies? The shame of having their kid maybe not go to ivy school when he's an adult...if only you could test for IQ during early pregnancy, but it's way too late now when the bugger is 8 and has an IQ of only 120. 120, jesus, that's like not even in the top 5%. Must be his damn mother's genes. I think this should be a Netflix drama actually. Emmy material here.

> Also, even at 8 there's competition

Yes if the parents push for it, there will be competition. It's usually not the poor child's idea to start cramming for IQ tests when he's 8. Sounds fun though...let them deal with crushing anxieties and feelings of inadequacy as soon as they're 8!

What could explain the huge difference in racial demographics when it comes to the NBA ? Will we start preventing black kids from playing basketball at an early age so whites can catch up? I mean if there is no such thing as differences between peoples, surely the NBA is racist for not accepting barely any Whites huh?

The high expectations is indeed something to think about. It has never been harder to be extraordinary at something; I feel like there's just too many people on this planet and the competition is fierce. So I don't know who those gifted programs track - but if it's simply your 130ish IQ top 2%, that's really nice and all but doesn't really mean these kids will achieve anything great. Most of them will be successful lawyers, programmers or doctors and that's it. Nothing extraordinarily gifted about them when they will reach adulthood. They are not likely to be pioneers in their fields, to win awards or do anything memorable or great. So why create this insane pressure for them to show how unique and gifted they are?

Can they make me a paper billionaire too? I mean if it's only papers they shouldn't mind right?

Some people are justified to be angry since the system definitely screwed them over...

I doubt that many JS developers know or care much about performance. If performance is that important you have Java/Go/C++ ...why use Node?

Someone's pet todo-list is a business I guess...

Yes calling Rails magical is a bit lazy imo. There is no magic and everything is documented to the point I would say it's actually quite a beginner friendly framework. You can say you disagree with some of the Rails APIs/conventions but that's very different than "magic". I think a lot of the complainers are people who just don't want to bother with Rails, they are not making the minimal effort of reading most of the docs. Maybe there was one Rails legacy project on their job that was a mess and interfered with their efforts to learn Node/React/Cool new stack. If that's your mindset then yes Rails is very "magical".

What parts of Rails are magical to you? This is an exaggerated stereotype imo. Spring framework felt way more "magical" than whatever Rails is doing to me. You can look at the Rails docs and it's all explained pretty clearly to me...

What is your definition of existential? To me if a country like Iran reaffirms it's commitment to destroy Israel every few months then yes Israel has existential issues.

The U.N decided in 1947 to divide Palestine to two nations: one for Jews and one for Palestinians. The Palestinian and the entire Arab world did not accept this and went to war against the Jewish state. Though their rhetoric was very aggressive, arguably genocidal, they weren't successful at all despite Arabs outnumbering Jews by about 50 to 1. They lost, and indeed 750K Palestinians became refugees, which was avoidable and is indeed tragic. Note that the Palestinian "refugees" of today are being held hostage by Arab countries like Lebanon, Syria etc and not given citizenship. Despite being born there, their parents being born there etc. Still refugees. On purpose, so the refugee problem never goes away. This is truly shameful but for some reason only Israel gets the blame. . Now the story continues: The Palestinians want to reverse what happened 73 years ago and allow the Palestinian "refugees" (we are mostly talking about children and grandchildren of the original refugees) to "return". To do what - live in one big democratic state with the Jews? Not very likely. And even if that was their true wish, which is doubtful, I don't see why we need to create one disfunctional state to bring "justice" to people who are mostly now dead. This dream, this right, this fantasy (we each have our own interpretation of that) is what keeps the conflict going. If the Palestinian forfeited this wish there would be peace. But I really don't think they can, their identity is now too much involved with returning. Now you could say the same about Zionists: if they just give up and return to their homes in Arab lands or Europe etc, or accepted life under a Muslim Palestinian rule, there would be no more problem. The one difference is that Palestinian Muslims have maybe 30 Arab states where they share the same religion and culture. Jews literally have nowhere to go. The only country where they feel mostly safe (and even that's now deteriorating) is the United States, which doesn't seem to keen to absorb millions of refugees.

There is tons of subjectivity in software development; people can't even agree when types are better than duck typing and vice versa. Even if there is some definite answer to all these questions we are not all ever going to agree on it in big numbers, so yes I think language framework wars can be called bikeshedding in most cases. Especially considering comparing Rails and Django is comparing two very very robust, "old" and proven solutions with about equal performance and feature set. Even the syntax is pretty similar. If one is objectively "better" it's not gonna be by much. It's not gonna matter at all to your average project which one you choose.

Yes, niche, as in not in the top 50 in Tiobe index, as in less than 25k people on the Elixir subreddit, as in around 1000 jobs in the whole of the U.S which is a fraction of the popular stacks. Niche. No matter which measurement I go with Elixir isn't anywhere near the top 20. The third one (spectrum) is actually a combination of 11 measurement metrics, so before you yell at me that Elixir devs don't use Stackoverflow - Elixir isn't niche only on Stackoverflow. It's just niche, period.

https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2021/08/05/language-rankings-6-2... https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ https://spectrum.ieee.org/top-programming-languages/

Phoenix/Elixir is so niche I don't know how you can put it in the same line as Django/Rails/Node. There are major consquences to picking something so niche most companies will not go along no matter how awesome the tech is.

Too late how? Shopify isn't doing this so all the Node people will come back to Rails. They're doing it to run their platform faster and eventually save money. They also like Ruby. Also - for the companies running on Ruby (there are still quite a few) this is big news.

Is the main difference in performance between JS and the others (Perl, Ruby, PHP) the fact that JS is JIT'ed and the others are not? I mean JS used to be slowish and until V8 came, what is V8 doing? Why can't Python / Ruby do the same thing?

Will we see a bit less SPAs and more of this? Rails has come up with Hotwire. ASP has something similar I think...only questions is what CTOs will make of this. And front end devs who are super used to doing SPAs won't like this change I fear.

Not sure what the OP is asking - if he's asking what kind of API or abilities they give you I would say pretty much equivalent things. If he's asking what the underlying architecture is then I yes they're different.

> they’d be better off (IMO) trying to minimize the divisions and working together as Lebanese instead of all these fragmented groups

Yes that would be awesome. But indeed it doesn't seem likely, seems like religion or ethnicity plays a bigger role in that area of the world than nationality.

> When other countries historically have ‘solved’ this problem, it ends up being pretty terrible for the minority groups

It's pretty terrible in Lebanon now as well, and there was a horrible civil war between 1975 - 1990 which could happen again. I'm just saying - yes change could be for the worse, but it's not like things are peachy now. A split up has advantages even if people need to relocate. Cyprus is a pretty good example on how it could work out. Also as horrible as the clusterf** of Bosnia was, it seems the more separated the different ethnicities are the better.

Maybe it's best if Lebanon splits up? It's like it's not happening all over the region...

> “We are supportive of Lebanon as long as they get the reforms right and they are not a proxy state for Iran,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said last week"

This seems sensible to me; we will help you if you become a friend instead of an enemy.

I immigrated to the Netherlands for 3.5 years and came back. I really recommend immigration as an experience as it's real character building and gives you so much perspective on life and on your home country. I realized my close family and culture were more important than I thought and I moved back. Also there are some genuine annoying things about being an immigrant - like the fact you will be seen as an immigrant :) I just didn't like it too much. My homecountry still has water running down the pipes and the supermarkets have food - I found out it's not such a terrible place and every place has problems, even the Netherlands.

> I had a comfortable life in India. I was earning enough, I had no struggles and I had my family and a few friends. I don't know what the fuck got into me but here I am

I think you should just go back. I did the same move to NL from a different place. Here's the thing; some things there's no getting used to

1) The weather is absolutely horrendous. If you're used to Indian sun forget it, you will be miserable for big parts of the year.

2) The language: It's just better to be born in NL. English is too comfortable to get by there so you don't invest enough in learning Dutch. I heard stories of people living 20 years there without knowing proper Dutch. Sure you can work on it and it's up to you but it's a struggle that many people lose.

3) The mentality: there will always be some annoying barrier making it extremely difficult to befriends actual locals. The ones who are open to meet you are sadly often times super weird. The "normal" ones don't really need a "weird" immigrant friend it seems. And on top of that they would prefer to speak Dutch after long day's work which makes sense.

4) The taxes: Are simply brutal. The country is amazing so some of the taxes is used wisely, but still. Why do kindergartens cost so much? In Berlin they are free! As a tech worker you are real middle class since it's not a luxurious job in NL (most accountants, lawyers and even school teachers make more or the same as you in NL), you will feel the squeeze a bit.

5) Most tech companies don't offer any shares/options. For such a socialist country this is a head scratcher to me.

6) But mostly dude the weather ...made it unlivable to me and we decided to move back after 3.5 years. Those freaking winds and endless gray skies, I'd cry every time I'd look at the weather forecast. I suggest you look at it as an adventure, try have some fun and if you discover life in India was actually working out good - just go back. Immigrant life is way way overrated.

What is the salary difference? Japan isn't so cheap either right?