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by hiram112 9y ago
It's more like two opposing narrators: 1. Employers: we need more immigration, not enough workers (willing to work for the shitty wages I want to pay). 2. Workers: automation is kill all the jobs (that pay well, but require few skills)
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by hiram112 9y ago
I've always had the belief that the Microsoft juggernaut would continue its slow decline in relevance as mobile and web devices removed the need for Windows, and the improvement of apps like Google Docs, OpenOffice, etc. would eat away
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by hiram112 9y ago
I'm as disillusioned with the direction of Google and other SV companies as anyone with regards to censorship, deleting accounts, and manipulation of their products to push their agendas. On the other hand, this particular case seems p
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by hiram112 9y ago
Note: I find it interesting/disturbing/sad/telling that I've been sitting here for a long time contemplating if I should even submit this message since I use my real name here. Thank you. I have been noticing this for
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by hiram112 9y ago
Yes CGI was just an API between the web server and a an executable to handle the call, really no different than how Apache talks with mod-PHP. C was used, but Perl quickly became more popular.
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by hiram112 9y ago
> Doctor classifies it under a broad diagnosis requiring little tests and you're screwed for life. I don't understand. Can you clarify what you're saying?
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by hiram112 9y ago
This is so true. The right has always had its own junk - things like Fox News, various 'Think Tanks' and academic institutions who are quite blatant in their bias. But in the last few years, at least, I've been amazed at just
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by hiram112 9y ago
Yeah I'd be pretty pissed if I couldn't renew my license to Intellij this year because of some sanctions passed against Russia due to political BS by our political parties.
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by hiram112 9y ago
I'd be very interested to see if this works out well in practice. We had the same hope for Scala - the idea being that the developers who were interested in using it functionally could do so in the more complicated parts of our applica
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by hiram112 9y ago
The last problem we had was with various Fintatra / Finagle libraries written in 2.10. We wanted to upgrade some other - not all - projects to newer versions of 2.11. It wouldn't work because our Thrift clients were incompatible w
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by hiram112 9y ago
Yes this is what the left has been pushing in America. The whole issue, having never really crossed the minds of most people, suddenly became front and center with the help of a coordinated push by most of the liberal media. I don't ha
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by hiram112 9y ago
I didnt think the Scala Coursera was very good for general developers - a bit too academic and focusing on functional / recursive patterns which aren't a good way to get a feel for the language in everyday web usage (vs Php, Java,
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by hiram112 9y ago
I would not recommend Scala anymore unless you're a small team with smart devs eager to learn it. My project is not so small, and the average developer is not interested in spending the time to really learn the language and functional
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by hiram112 9y ago
Without GApps / Play Services, I'm wondering just how helpful an Android device would be for the typical techy on the go. Sure, I could text, check email, use open source maps, check my account balances, and play some simple games
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by hiram112 9y ago
I hear this about the US all the time - open the gates, plenty of land left. But the areas that have seen job growth in the last 20 years are highly concentrated in areas that are about as packed as most of Western Europe: LA, SF, Boston th
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by hiram112 9y ago
We've been hearing this warning forever. The truth is, if the remote teams in low cost places like India and China worked so well, they would have long ago offshored everything. Cause let's be honest, most companies can't eve
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by hiram112 9y ago
Good point. I know folks on the right screamed about the 'welfare queens' living on the tax payers' dime in the inner cities for generation after generation. In reality, this was a coded attack against blacks, and the majorit
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by hiram112 9y ago
.Net had always had a problem with open source because Microsoft implemented APIs and kept them closed source. Users ended up paying for it via licensing, MSDN, and Visual Studio. I often see a lot of really mice Java frameworks with a .Net
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by hiram112 9y ago
I don't think the kernel itself, especially a micro kernel, is all that big of deal these days. There are already plenty of decent Unix-style and other kernels out there, mostly relegated to academia and research. Any of these would b
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by hiram112 9y ago
You're 100% right. Same idea with the guys getting rich of off of patents in the pharma industry (e.g. EpiPen). Nothing these forms are doing is technically illegal. But the reason some of these guys are gonna be crucified is the arrog
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by hiram112 9y ago
Seems like Google has done a pretty decent job of 'pushing' most sites towards secure sockets. This, along with a lot more companies being hacked, blackmailed, extorted, etc - costing them real money - seems to have solved the pr
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by hiram112 9y ago
Lifetime wealth might be a good way to aggregate the results, but the practical consequences of student debt are far more insidious. If half the educated population is still paying off loans in their late 20s and even 30s, this delays and r
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by hiram112 9y ago
It's been a while since I took a math class, but it seems like the logarithmic base is key to understanding what kind of problem you have and the type of solution needed. Comp Sci naturally uses 2, biology and finance tend towards e, e
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by hiram112 9y ago
Are you saying the engineering / dev salaries in NYC are outpacing DC? I see DC creeping up to $160K-$170K or so for senior devs that can negotiate. What are you seeing in Manhattan?
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by hiram112 9y ago
WTF? 'Opioids' are the prototype solution to human pain. Have you never had surgery, a massive fever, or a broken bone? Morphine and its analogs are probably up there with HVAC, internal combustion engines, and carbohydrates with
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by hiram112 9y ago
What's that supposed to mean? RNs and Nurse Practioners make at least as much as the typical software engineers in SV. The $175-$250K+ that some of the senior guys at Google and FB make is not typical. Most of us in the rest of the cou
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by hiram112 9y ago
> pay a little more for manufactured goods That's only part of the equation. The real issue is that the US elites are going to have to trade some of their profit margins - based on global expansion, market access, lack of tariffs, U
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by hiram112 9y ago
Agreed. Japan is the size of California, demographically dying, and can't even feed itself as it's a net importer of food / energy. It's also basically a protectorate of the US. Globalization, the rise of China, and the
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by hiram112 9y ago
> If you're a skilled professional in a coastal metropolis globalization is great... Might want to modify that to a 'skilled professional under 35'. The H1B, offshoring, and the race to the bottom with younger and foreign
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by hiram112 9y ago
Considering the history of Japan, China, and the rest of East Asia, along with the apparent weariness of the US defense guarantee, nobody can blame Japan for wanting to begin strengthening itself militarily. They'd be stupid not to. Wh

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