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by walrus1066 9y ago
It took >100 years for them to deal with it. It was often much worse than China now. In the UK, in the 1800's, millions moved to London, and lived in shocking slum conditions. Life expectancy was ~30 years, diseases like cholera kil
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by walrus1066 9y ago
Not sure how much it limits growth, people just cram into ever smaller living spaces, or commute in from towns further away.
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by walrus1066 9y ago
I'm with the OP on this, I've experience with Java, C#, Python & C++. I'm a big fan of rapid prototyping with Python to map out problem domains, and once the domain has been mapped properly, rewriting in a statically type
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by walrus1066 9y ago
I'd think the business men at Instagram have been very happy with the agility of development, that got them to a $2.8 billion revenue p/a company. More than enough to cover the engineering effort to help improve the maintainabilit
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by walrus1066 9y ago
Still very limited, for example, if I have: def some_func(foo): foo.run() ... Find usages in the run() method will return dozens of results, the IDE can't help you any more, to find what 'foo' is at runtime.
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by walrus1066 9y ago
Think you trade maintainability for initial productivity with a dynamic language. You can churn out a greenfield project faster as you don't have to spend upfront time mapping out interfaces, DTO's etc. It's also easier to &#
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by walrus1066 9y ago
Peercoin and Novacoin have gone up by 2,000% and 1,000% in the last year. That's an annual inflation rate of -95% and -90%. Which is nuts for a currency. Even during the great depression USD deflation was -10% max. In Japan, where defl
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by walrus1066 9y ago
This is the most pertinent article on rewrites for me. 17 years old but very relevant. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
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by walrus1066 9y ago
100% this. I've also seen a lot of cases where the rewrite is partial, and integrated with the legacy system to preserve end to end functionality, as they don't have enough time to do the full feature set, migrate all the data fro
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by walrus1066 9y ago
2) attractive store of value due to the deflationary nature (note that not all cryptocurrencies are deflationary) Could you give an example of one of these non deflationary currencies?
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Learning in a World Where Programming Skills Aren’t That Important(daedtech.com)
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by walrus1066 9y ago
Bitcoin itself is useless as a currency, a currency needs to have stable purchasing power, i.e. One coin will purchase roughly the same amount of goods next year as it does this year. Bitcoin by design doesn't allow this. Hopefully one
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by walrus1066 9y ago
Yes, I think it's fine if you treat it like gambling, or like buying penny shares I.e. accept there's a good chance you could lose your money, and that it's nearly impossible to assess it's true value, anymore than wheth
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by walrus1066 9y ago
Mass human psychology, the price rise leads to more people buying, from 'fear of missing out'. Also unsophisticated investors pile in after all the news coverage of the price rises. This all creates a self reinforcing dynamic, whe
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by walrus1066 9y ago
It's not really useful for that either. If I was a drug dealer, I'd want to use a more stable asset than bitcoin. Otherwise I risk buying goods when the price of coin is high, but when I want to sell my goods the price might have
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by walrus1066 9y ago
At least gold has some practical uses (i.e. In electronics). So if people gave up on the idea of holding gold for the sake of holding gold, it would still have some residual value. Bitcoin, however, seems to have no practical uses whatsoeve
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by walrus1066 9y ago
It's certainly possible, it has no practical use, it is not backed by any 'buyer of last resort', its value is solely derived from faith that it will keep increasing in value. If the holders of coin lose this faith, nobody wi
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by walrus1066 9y ago
I think it'll be more of an old fashioned speculative bubble burst. The smart money will start taking profits by selling their coin, as the price goes down those that bought the high will lose their nerve and sell to stem their losses.
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by walrus1066 9y ago
Trouble is, this ability is very hard to test for. A test is always an isolated, well defined problem, where the solution is written in a vacuum. But this is completely unrepresentative of the actual kind of programming tasks at work (in m
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by walrus1066 9y ago
My company would be really hampered if Equifax went bust. We do use two other credit bureaus, but some functions depend on data only Equifax provides. We also use the different bureaus together for cross checking, often one bureaus file wil
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by walrus1066 9y ago
Well, these guys are simply too big to fail. Equifax cannot go bust, otherwise loads of consumer credit (mortgages, car loans etc) would freeze up, causing huge harm to the economy. The market likely knows this, hence the stable stock price
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by walrus1066 9y ago
Any idea how they will deal with radiation exposure? Outside the earth's magnetic field the astronauts would be exposed to lethal cosmic rays & solar flares for many months.
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by walrus1066 9y ago
It's still doable, and lots of great online guides and videos on how to repair smartphones, laptops etc. I replaced my smartphone earpiece, following an ifixit.com guide. Was initially daunted, given the expense of the handset, but it
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by walrus1066 9y ago
Problem is, these algorithm based reinventing the wheel exercises don't filter out bad candidates. Being good at these has no relevance in 99% of companies. We give candidates a take home exercise which is a simplified version of our b
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by walrus1066 9y ago
On the contrary, he seems to be trying to help the applicant, most would just not reply to a candidate filtered out because their 'experience tuple' didn't contain a certain keyword (UNIX & LINUX in this case)
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by walrus1066 9y ago
You should have just appended UNIX to the CV and been done with it. You just have to play the game and keep a long 'experience tuple' of keywords. The recruiter was basically trying to help you, most would have just filtered you o
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by walrus1066 9y ago
Beware that: “The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.” (John Maynard Keynes) Especially relevant to short selling
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by walrus1066 9y ago
Does your job actually require knowledge of BTrees?
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by walrus1066 9y ago
In a democracy, if you are unhappy with how the leaders runs the country, you vote them out. In a workplace, if you are unhappy with how the management run the company, you vote with your feet and leave, nobody's forcing you to stay.
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by walrus1066 9y ago
I think you need to learn this ability, otherwise you might suffer a burnout. You need to remember, whether you put 40, 60 or 80 hours p/w into a death march project, won't be recognised. Everyone will be too busy to tally who&#x2

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