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by cwp 10y ago
Montreal is affordable, but I don't think you can attribute that entirely to rent control. Forty years ago it was the premier city in Canada, but it's had a serious decline since then. Perhaps not an absolute decline in population
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by cwp 10y ago
Meh. "Plunging" is a strong word for an 8% drop. Even if you buy the "effective rent" argument, 22% isn't much of a plunge. This is a start, limited to a very few neighbourhoods, and merely makes the housing market
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by cwp 10y ago
I wouldn't blame it all on wealthy NIMBYs. There are poor, renting NIMBYs too, and they're just as much a problem.
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by cwp 10y ago
Yeah. Build more housing.
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by cwp 10y ago
I do this too. If somebody helpfully labels themselves as anti-science, I'll make sure not to give them my money.
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by cwp 10y ago
Not until Sunday, because leap year.
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by cwp 10y ago
Yes, I've noticed this too. The AWS documentation and the console both say that the changes may take a long time to apply, but in fact the database is up for most of that time. I've done several big upgrades that had only a few se
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by cwp 10y ago
Yeah. I bought Paw and love it. It's easily paid for its self in time saved.
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by cwp 10y ago
Well, she does tell whose work she's summarizing. Shouldn't be hard to track down the papers if you really want to.
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by cwp 10y ago
Yeah. I actually develop on a Mac and deploy on NixOS. Nix works well on both, and my builds are parameterized by system. Cross-platform dev has its issues too, but they seem easier than dealing with desktop Linux.
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by cwp 10y ago
Yeah, there's a learning curve. No doubt about that. It does sound like nix is a good fit for your use case. You could certainly create separate environments each with a slightly different build of OpenCV. They'd share dependencie
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by cwp 10y ago
This is why I love nix so much. Getting a dev environment set up with nix is the usual amount of hassle. The difference is that nothing ever works by accident. Therefore, once it does work, I know I've captured all the dependencies and
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by cwp 10y ago
There's a huge photo right at the top of the page!
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by cwp 10y ago
Also, it does work. It's just not completely automatic.
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by cwp 10y ago
The nix solution is npm2nix, which runs npm against a package.json file and generates a nix expression for all the npm modules you need. This mostly works, but occasionally you need to override the generated derivations to add implicit depe
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by cwp 10y ago
It's not just that it's impossible to capture everything in one database, it's that it's a waste of time to try. There is no format that can capture all nuances and be useful for all purposes. Data is messy. The only thi
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by cwp 10y ago
See the sentence right after that one. In the best cases the Bay Area tech community is cliquey, in the worst case it's illegally discriminatory. The recent fashion for founder-friendly term sheets hasn't really extended to employ
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by cwp 10y ago
As someone trying to hire web developers, it looks to me like Bootcamps are more like finishing school than trade school. Candidates that come out of a bootcamp have learned how to signal membership in the Silicon Valley in-group. Their res
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by cwp 10y ago
Only if they go to a college with no tuition.
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by cwp 10y ago
Even so, the syscall handler would have been written early in the development of the x86 port, well before it was "viable" for customers. Relying on quad-word instructions in hand-written assembly for such a crucial part of the OS
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by cwp 10y ago
Illumos (Solaris) has been around for a while. It was probably written in the 32-bit era.
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by cwp 11y ago
Guix uses Guile instead of the nix expression language for defining packages. Honestly, I don't understand that choice. The main issue with nix is that is a lazy functional language and the learning curve for that is a barrier to adopt
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by cwp 11y ago
Yeah, they're getting there. The binary package cache is a start. If it cached upstream tarballs and git revs as well as builds, it would mitigate the sort of thing the OP talks about. Nix still needs some sort of distributed trust mod
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by cwp 11y ago
Yeah, the mode matters, but really 30 minutes is an easy commute regardless of the mode. If you were to spend, say, 90 minutes going each way, that would take its toll too. (Though there would also be benefits to getting that much exercise.
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by cwp 11y ago
No, it wasn't misguided. It worked great, and made writing web applications so much better and easier than it had been. But Javascript has come a looong way in the last 15 years, and sophisticated web applications do a lot more client-
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by cwp 11y ago
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by cwp 11y ago
There's work to make it run on Windows, but it proceeds slowly.
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by cwp 11y ago
Yeah. Interestingly there are several threads on the nix mailing-list right now discussing how to do just this: implement a language-specific package manager, for a brand-new language, using nix. One guy is even using it to replace make.
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by cwp 11y ago
I use nix in production, and I love it. It's just as good in practice as it is in theory. I think the problem is that really using nix involves learning a new language. And it's a weird lazy functional language at that. So yeah, t
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by cwp 11y ago
Here here! I had several Smalltalk jobs (VisualWorks, Squeak), before going back into more mainstream stuff. Still use it for personal projects, though.

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