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Gotta disagree with you on this one, since in your example, 'candies' corresponds with USD in the real situation, while USD corresponds with ETH, which is quite distinctly not a real currency.

Not exactly an apt comparison.

>these people need [their package manager] and [their source code management tool] to deploy? Seriously?

Not really sure I understand what you're implying there

I have no such privileges but I fail to see why you would use them here.

Off-topic, yet directly tied into a main player in the article?

Flame-bait, because it calls into attention the fact that this feel-good piece is easily seen as applauding a man who deserves no such graces?

Introducing politics into a non-political story, even though a main actor in it is part of an unscrupulous political machine which shouldn't be ignored?

Questionable decisions by you, in my opinion.

From my experience as someone having moved to California from Canada, it seems there is quite a large homeless population which actively chooses to be in California as opposed to other places owing to its extremely mild climate.

Since I moved to San Jose, it's only rained a handful of times, and this place's harsh colds of winter have reached such dreadful temperatures as I'd witness on a mild fall day in my former country of residence.

That certainly can't help those numbers, even if I do think the absurd costs of living are quite bad, depressing the QOL for everyone outside of the engineer class here.

>Is this done by purpose, or did they end up with a million lines of Python code and are looking for ways to make the maintenance easier?

Definitely the latter. I've seen this discussion a few times before, and it's always the same. Your initial developers are not looking down the road to the million lines of code milestone, they're just trying to make a product that might actually make some money here and now.

I'm sure Instagram was exactly that. They needed to handle images and some guy knew how to do it in Python. They wrote Python code, and then people liked Instagram. They eventually became a billion dollar company with millions of lines of code and no where along the road was there time to say "hey we need to refactor this whole thing". Or if that was said, management laughed and said "we need this feature".

So here is where you end up. The developers need to clean things up but they don't have time to clean it up by using a language, realistically, they probably don't know as well as the Python they wrote the millions of lines of code in.

Re: your last comment, navigating a million lines of any codebase is daunting, and especially more so if you aren't a developer in that language. I'm not sure what exactly "Python" has to do with that, besides that you're not a Python dev.

If I pay American taxes and not Canadian taxes, that's fine. A bit unfortunate because the bracket I'll be in is higher as is the tax rate, but not the end of the world.

The only real obstruction I'm worried about is the legality of doing that work for money. I have some friends who I could employ too, and lots of cash could just sit with the company, but if I can't work for that entity (legally) there's no point in starting it.

Thanks for your time. That's interesting. I guess this might be a little more nuanced than I thought.

So, despite the fact that the company would be a Canadian entity, I would be considered self-employed. Would a simple workaround be enough to thwart this, such as having a friend own the business, and proceed to hire me as a remote employee?

As a Canadian citizen who is working in California under a TN visa, I am interested in starting my own Canadian company and working on contracting / consulting work via said company.

All the money I make through said company would be paid to me in CAD and stay in my Canadian accounts, which I doubt really matters. I do not see why there would be legal issues with this, but this seems like a good opportunity to ask someone who might have a better picture.

I don't like Hillary at all and think the Democrats would've easily won if they hadn't used establishment tactics to put thru their establishment candidate over Bernie, but..

>his competition was not any better

Really? Hillary was going to carry on a lot of Obam-ian policies. Net neutrality would still exist, pedophiles would not be publicly endorsed by her, and a 'tax cut' that is actually just a confusing mess that only clearly benefits the super-rich would not have happened.

So what exactly would she have done to be as bad as Trump? The guy is incessantly mired in scandals; says things that a centrist family would barely tolerate their old, crazy, racist uncle saying around holiday dinners; and is basically a narcissist.

I don't like Hillary at all and don't see how you can say "she's not any better than Trump" with a straight face.

I wasn't really trying to imply it's bad advice or isn't ethical or anything. I get that the parallel I decided to draw does indeed somewhat imply that, but my intentions weren't as such. Just struck me as funny.

Not really a criticism, but this read a bit like a slimy dating guide. "Remember, like everyone else they want to feel wanted for more than their money". "Keep them all interested until you've made up your mind". "Subtly let them know that you're wanted by others".

On an unrelated note: I don't know why I can never contribute constructively on this site, but here I am.

>And at that point is the added complexity worth not just ~rendering with rails~ using Node.js for your server?

They do if they have a Software (or otherwise) Engineering degree, and getting in as a CSA just means you need to have 'microservices' and 'managerial' duties in your role

Like I said, the most latency-sensitive topic I can relate to is first-person shooters; in particular, I play the game CS:GO, where one shot can knock you out of a round. I play within a 40ms ping area, generally around 20-30ms of ping, and that seems to get me (from California) more or less the whole west coast of America.

I experience virtually no issues from my internet, and like I said, I pay $30 a month for this service. I don't use a lot of band-width, I simply use a consistent stream, and I see no reason why I should have to pay more for that right. It's an automaton wiring packets, not people scrambling to move data.

Back to you, though: what sort of issues arise from this extreme sensitivity to latency you have? Is 'telehealth' just a doctor skyping with a patient or do you have some kind of real-time devices that depend on communication over a distance? If the latter, how sure are you that your architecture isn't the issue, and some computations couldn't be done in a different link in the chain?

>the REAL issue is local governments providing de facto monopoly power to ISPs

I totally agree. Like I literally said in my comment, the whole calculus of this conversation would change if ISPs actually had to compete, but since they obviously don't, I can't possibly see how revoking net neutrality is a good idea. It simply lets them tighten their stranglehold in a fashion that costs everyone more money and extends the anti-competitive sphere they exist in into the whole realm of business that relies on sending traffic over the internet.

So sure, it's easy to say "telehealth has a real impact on lives and YouTube for children doesn't", but that doesn't mean eliminating net neutrality here and now is a good choice.

>Either way, this is an important point and I'm surprised that the HN crowd doesn't discuss it more.

But right now all latency-sensitive applications should be operating just fine. I regularly play online first person shooters, and that is a latency-sensitive application if there ever was one. So that strongly suggests, seeing how I'm on Comcast / Xfinity's cheapest plan, that all lanes are fast lanes right now.

Accordingly, that means if you were to

>nuke [net neutrality] and let the markets figure it out

that's actually just letting a monopoly extract more profit from their network by intentionally degrading the quality of some connections unless paid more money.

I don't really think I need to say more, if this was a fair and competitive market where giant ISPs weren't lawsuit-happy in order to keep out competition, or they weren't able to do that successfully, sure, maybe the market would figure it out, and eventually the ISPs that offer true net neutrality would probably have traffic because no consumer is interested in paying more to be able to use the internet in specific ways.

As it stands, it's extortion being codified into law via bribery, disguised as 'the removal of heavy-handed Obama regulations in order to improve the network you've never had any issues with'.

I don't really think that we believe either of those things; it seems a lot has been written on how MAD is a rather poor sentiment to rest our future upon.

But all that aside, 20 countries each having 50 warheads seems a lot likelier to end up with 20 countries each having thousands of warheads than 2 countries having thousands of warheads and everyone else none does, no?

I doubt that's possible, although it would be very interesting.

Your comment only had one takeaway for me: len('M(ySQL|ariaDB)') > len('MySQL/MariaDB')

I think about this sometimes. Ground, I have no answer, you seem like you will die. Perhaps landing legs first allows you to use those as a crumple zone.

Water, though, isn't the pencil dive the clear winner? Everything else would decelerate you so much faster that it would be bound to cause injuries. The only downside (relative to all other methods of impact) I can imagine is how far underwater you might end up.

I would be happy for someone to tell me otherwise, but this is my completely theoretical summation of a terminal velocity water-landing.

You don't already?

You're comparing Go to RN. The comparison he's making is Matcha to RN. Matcha doesn't come from a giant company. The language it's in does, but that doesn't mean anything for framework momentum.

GET requests are a bad example because usually GET(x) will always return the same thing, unless x was updated in some fashion

Let's work with the classic TODO app example. Say the user adds a TODO item, and makes a POST request to the server to store it. If the user POSTs their TODO, but due to your front-end being overly-eager to hear back from the server, it sends the request twice because the first one took too long to respond.

This should not create two identical TODO items, but instead only create one. This is the concept of idempotence; performing the same operation n (n > 0) times should be the same as performing it once.

It's slightly notationally inaccurate to say f(f(x)) is what the client is performing in this case, it's more like f(x) * f(x), but these details surely are unimportant.

>religious views about stem cell[s]

I find this hilarious. Not knocking your comment or anything, just fairly sure religious texts didn't say 'thou shall not induce artificial stem cell growth'

>Their use of chinese slave labor

at least comes with the occasional nudge to the slave-driver

>exporting environmental destruction to dictatorships with lax environmental laws

Can you explain what this means?

>their use of offshore tax havens to elude paying taxes

This doesn't strike me as particularly evil

>etc.

I don't know, there's a pretty damn big list of things corporations do that are evil and you didn't seem to elucidate the comparison well enough to end it on 'etc., therefore they are evil'.

They seem to genuinely care about privacy and encryption, actively fighting the American government on backdoors. That's not something I can think of another company doing. Your move.

I don't think that it's supposed to be read "no funding in general and no direct support from the university", but instead "the university offered them no funding or direct support"

I don't particularly understand the claims against this man, but as this organization and its discussions happen (almost) entirely online [is this correct?], surely it must be incredibly obvious whether or not allegations brought against him are true or not?

There is a certain irony in an article criticizing of Facebook as a data-retailer disguised as a free service being "free with exchange of an email address".

>after Uber let $1k get stolen from my bank account

I... really fail to see how this happened.

Sorry, this is just a trivial observation, but if you're going to accept

x + x + 100 = 500

and

3x - x = 400

you can probably list any variety along the lines of

(n)x - (n - 2)x + y = 400 + y

so clearly that isn't a finite transformation space.

Now, these transformations might look trivial, but this problem is too. So there's an interesting question of bounding your algebraic transformations to a subset of all possible transformations that still make all possible solutions available, which ultimately doesn't answer yours.

>You're speaking from a position of bias and ignorance

I made a fairly concise point, but you're right about one thing

>we all do this sometimes

Because you most certainly just did

>As for your specific concerns: the easy pattern is that the letter for a group of five literally looks like half of the letter for a group of ten.

That's not the issue with the "easily repeatable pattern". The issue is this:

>V = X/2, L = C/2, D = ↀ/2, ↁ = ↂ/2, etc.

Do you see that "etc" you post? That's because, to represent 10^n, you need to know 2*n + 1 characters.

This is an obvious downfall that Hindu-Arabic numerals obviously do not have. Even if you ignore the shorthand (which would be foolish, parsing 5-9 characters in a row can take a serious moment of focus), you still need to know an unbounded amount of characters to represent the integers alone, and let's not even discuss the obvious fallacy of fractions etc..

Also,

>Objectively, the Roman system is easier to teach up to a basic level

Even this is an unfounded statement. Make an argument. Prove it. Objectivity of teachability can't possibly be something you just throw out casually in an argument, let alone an argument where you told someone they were biased and ignorant for, as far as I can tell, no reason at all.