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32LeftatT10
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how have you not been laughed off this site yet? does your brain feel no shame?
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glacialthinker
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When did the version numbers jump so ridiculously? My work machine here is VS2015 with version# 14.0.24431. Anyway, wishful thinking to expect VS (eventually) supports the latest C++ standard within a year.
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Either way there is competition, and they showed that it can be done, paving the way for local companies to start up. More choices. It takes something like Uber to push in, get the laws fixed, carve a space in the rotting corpse of the medallions, and it gets easier for the next one.
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ArmandoWall
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Ok, dude. I'm off to bed. Have a good rest of the day on the other side of the Pacific.
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interroboom
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I agree that the "productivity" argument for Python is overstated, but again, the core argument I'm interpreting from the article is that you should prioritize what will get code out the door before something like language runtime performance.
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Blaz3
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No. Am programmer.
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You can also use modern languages with memory management, but instead people want to write everything in languages that are the opposite. Don't even need fucking Rust to do it.
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SnowdensOfYesteryear
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>Doesn't look too bad for C++ Oh god, it's been a while since a comment on proggit has made me laugh so hard.
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milesrout
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No not .tar.gz, but .gz.tar: compressed files tarred together, not everything tarred together then compressed at the end.
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foomprekov
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Off-work? Tell him to have fun
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axilmar
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Exactly this. Reading the article left me with no more knowledge than before reading it. If Microsoft gurus have no answers to the problems of security, abstraction leakages, tackling complexity effectively, giving us distributed systems that work, then perhaps the task is futile. On the other hand, we have based our civilization on cutting, copying and pasting text; yes, I am talking about web technologies, which are plugged with so many issues...we could do a lot better than that. Where are Microsoft's innovations on this front? There are non-existent.
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milesrout
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Well that's not fair at all. UNIX had dbm. The thing about UNIX is that it advocates that your default should be what is good for humans: text, specifically text that is terse and concise but still human-readable.
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batua78
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It is when you live in e.g. the SF Bay Area. That limit might have made sense years ago in a low cost of living area, but it hurts places with a high cost of living
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flukus
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Aren't epubs more of a distribution format than something you read and write natively? Most readers will "import" an ebook, not open it.
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Tell me one thing. If making female exclusive bootcamps is not a discrimination, then what is it?
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yCloser
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> and I Don't Care cool! I do...
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Also replace the bool with an int or char then. I think msvc even complained about bool having performance issues for a long time ( or I was just stuck with an ancient version ).
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andkore
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produces*
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>From there I imagined *.install files, with a standard manifest on where to unload its contents into the file system/registry. No more deb, msi, exe, etc. Could even have cross platform installers in a single file! Well that's pretty much exactly what .deb does. .deb and .rpm and all that, they all started off as 'tell the system to put X file at Y position'. But it turns out that in existing systems you have to do extra stuff, like run commands to register with particular programmes, etc. And then you want to include dependency information. etc. And it's really how you do all those things that causes incompatibilities. I suppose the difference is that in your scheme, you store all those files in the file, as blobs, and then compress the resulting .sqlite3 file. For a brand new fresh operating system, yeah of course your idea would be wonderful, although honestly there's no real reason that you can't do that with plain text. It's not like you need to be able to efficiently query a .install file. It's not going to have millions of rows (if it does, you're doin' it wrong). The idea of audio and video containers is nothing new: that's exactly what .mp4 and .mkv are: containers. They can contain video and audio streams in a variety of different formats. I suppose the real advantage of this is more self-describing data. Except it probably would end up, in this world with all our existing technology, just being a self-describing collection of binary blobs rather than binary blobs hunked together in some predefined container format. >All the zip, tar, rar, formats... now they're just *.archive files with a meta bit saying what encryption was used on the blob. I don't really see how this one works. So you've got essentially the same data - the same, compressed data - inside something that just ends in `.archive`, meaning you need to use some sort of program to tell what it is, instead of it just saying `.tar.gz` at the end to tell you?
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>> \| > I see what you did there I don't understand, what does a pipe mean in this context?
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loup-vaillant
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I confess the 10.000€ price tag was mostly a wild, not-so educated guess. Still, I've heard hospitals tend to cost less in France than they do in the US, I'm not sure why. Maybe because most of those prices are regulated? 2700$ for an x-ray, methinks someone is being ripped off. In France, that would be about 20 times less (100€, 200€ tops).
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ledasll
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not because response time were too long, but if you efficiency is too low, even great idea will suffer. If you need 5 aws server with 12gb ram to implement chat (and it takes 4 months because you are using cutting edge languages and frameworks for faster development), that doesn't help to satisfy customers.
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theHM
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*... if caught*
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loup-vaillant
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Yeah, sure: feels good to be rich in the US. I'm not so sure about the lowest quartile however… I mean, your argument makes sense, but it also feels a bit selfish.
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Misterandrist
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But there's no way to know where in a tar a given file is stored. Evem if you find a file with the right filename kn it, its possible for that to be the wring version if someone readded it. So you still have fo scan through the whole tar file
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shazam9
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You probably haven't heard about salaries in the Bay Area. The numbers will blow you mind away :)
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zetsurin
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I'm not even American, but think this is good policy. In Australia, software development is increasingly becoming a dead end as increasing numbers of bodies are dumped here by the likes of InfoSys, provided to companies pretending to have attempted to hire local talent. The 457 visa (our H-1B equivalent) is widely abused here. The chance of us having people in charge with the balls to do anything about it: nil. God bless America.
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__Cyber_Dildonics__
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Your users care, if you have any.
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milesrout
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Yeah like, I love Python and all, I fucking LOVE Python, but getting over a thousand lines it's pretty to lose track of what types things are unless you rigorously use `namedtuple` everywhere.
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DBroc05
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> I've taken my kids to Disneyworld a couple times Seems to be working.
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shinazueli
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My local market corresponds to the largest market for SW engineers in the world. I personally spent 7 months unemployed after college begging anyone on earth to let me write code for a paycheck. I've had multiple friends with the same experience. I know several co-workers that *could not find* comparable jobs at all, and were either forced into early retirement or to contract at severe wage discounts. There is zero shortage of labor. There is a disconnect between what "market rate" means. Hint: it's nowhere near what some employers think it is. Go on Glassdoor and see if your pay rates match what's being reported in the area, within a few thousand. Chances are, if you aren't finding talent, it's because either your area sucks or your offer sucks. Sometimes both. If the company wants me to move out where they're my only choice in the industry (thus severely hampering my future income prospects and job security), or they want me to move to one of the highest COL areas in the country and commute 90 minutes each way, then the pay better match up. And if you want someone with 3-5 years of experience in a framework that's only been out for three years for a code monkey entry level job contracting with no benefits and no remote work in a commute area, die in a fire. Most job postings I see have absolutely absurd experience requirements for the work involved. **Absurd**. *Ridiculous*. There's no reason an NCG couldn't do that work, other than the fact that it's apparent to anyone on the inside that the intent is to go get an offshore dev that has "experience" fucking up my code. Especially when I sit and hear the discussions about how we simply aren't going to hire (locally) because it's financially not possible, and I see dozens of open reqs for offshore devs in the system being filed. I actually see it, with my own eyes. I know people and have referred them and get told $$$$$. Yeah. It happens. Or when we have layoffs and my team gets smaller with no reduction in work or scope or timeline, but the following week **new teams** are being formed offshore. Totally not replacing them, that's *unrelated* work, it just *happens* to be the same exact code the people who spent 10 years writing worked on. Total coincidence. I spend literally 3/4 of my day either cleaning up the mess they make in my code base or preventing them from checking it in in the first place. And it's not like I'm super experienced. Anyone with an ounce of common sense, a degree, and the ability to read could do it, given a small amount of training that corporations seem to feel "costs too much". Yeah, it's so much cheaper to hire 3 Eastern European or Indian devs and rewrite everything they touch. Yup, we don't have any local talent, but hey, the execs got a stock bonus and I get a 14 hour day because *that cocksucking idiot who can't be bothered to use a compiler or learn the language of the country he lives in broke the build again.* There's a reason why I say regulation and legislation are basically the only hope we as a country have. I won't be able to finish a career the way things are going, because although I recognize that engineering is a craft in the truest sense of the word, and takes years to learn and master, I'll never be able to compete with executives getting stock bonuses for replacing me with someone that earns 1/6 of my salary. Yeah, I'm probably ten times more valuable than them, but that only affects the *future* executive, not the one making the call and getting the bonus **right now**.
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andkore
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A country is more than an economy. There are more important things than maximizing GDP.
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andkore
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Go home, street shitter.
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saturn_vk
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Absolutely, and if python is your most familiar language, by all means, you should be using it if you need to get something out the door. There's little point in first needing to spend time learning a new language when you're on a tight time budget.
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t0rakka
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He most likely meant that he doesn't want to work for cheap. The recurring theme when H1B's are topical is that they work for peanuts.
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bonekeeper
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Haven't you heard? Only human white males can discriminate against the rest of the omniverse. /s
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barsoap
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> Countries like the UK, Sweden, Germany and Australia are highly competitive and have great programmers who are happy to work for lower salaries than their US counterparts No, we aren't. You can't compare the net or gross salaries at face value because Americans have to pay a lot of stuff out of their own pocket that we don't have to.
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plzsendmetehcodez
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> Our solution to this [problem of declaring classes in header files] is simple — we don’t use classes. Umm, okay. Omitting a large part of language functionality surely is a great way to reduce complexity and coupling, but unfortunately this solution likely won't be practical for, say, 99% of C++ projects.
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ThisIs_MyName
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Yep: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_(computing)#Random_access I wonder why so many programmers bother to use a format intended for tape archives.
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romeozor
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They need you to write efficient web apps so they don't exhaust Azure resources, so they can sell more CPU time to more people.
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ThisIs_MyName
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> Imagine a *.video or *.audio file for all videos and audio, regardless of codecs, streams, subtitles/lyrics, art, meta, etc. Isn't that just [MKV](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matroska)? > an open standard, free container format, a file format that can hold an unlimited number of **video, audio, picture, or subtitle tracks in one file**. It is intended to serve as a universal format for storing common multimedia content, like movies or TV shows. Matroska is similar in concept to other containers like AVI, MP4, or Advanced Systems Format (ASF), but is entirely open in specification, with implementations consisting mostly of open source software.
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> Not everything needs to calculate with lightning speed down to the nanosecond level. But CPU time = heat being emitted (who cares about environment?) and electricity bills. Why should I spend the amount of heat and CPU time suitable for heavy computation on a trivial task?
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MiaTalis
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Give this programmer slow IDE that takes ungodly long amount of time to open or find anything and have noticeable delay when typing code.
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slaymaker1907
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I don't think that SQLite is a one stop shop for application file formats. While I can certainly see advantages for formats where something needs to be manipulated by many processes since it is file based but may be cached in memory, JSON is quite nice for file formats since there are so many existing utilities for JSON serialization. Furthermore, while SQLite can of course be queried using various tools, I love being able to open up a file in a plain text editor. I imagine it would be very difficult to make performant, but something like SQLite that stored relational data in a single file yet stored it as plain text would be really cool. Sort of like CSV, but stored in a single file and with the ability to use SQL on it.
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Tarballs are perfectly good for what most people use them for, which is moving entire directories or just groups of files. Most of the time you don't care about just one file from within it so the tradeoff of better overall compression in exchange for terrible random access speed is worth it. It's just a question of knowing when to use what tools.
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wsnqwn
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Yuck, this is a terrible advice. Use SQLite when you need an embedded SQL database. Period. I've seen so much bullshit use-cases of SQLite, I really think the SQLite developers should not encourage this kind of "just use to for everything" attitude. Of all the applications they mentioned in their blog post, only Git would be a good use-case. SQLite became my pet-peeve once I noticed that junior developers have no idea to store data without SQLite. "Hey, is it okay to add SQLite as a dependency so we can load and store our 3 lines of application config?" Fuck this. "You know the large array of floats? I load each element one by one from an SQLite database instead of doing a single read on a fucking binary file." Madness.
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homonomonohomo
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Where are you looking, I work in Chile and while I don't have hard statistics, I'd say 14k (like 800k peso a month?) is a very low salary for a programmer -- most of the people I hire ask for *at least* 50% more than that, and they are not senior. In any case, Chile (and Singapur, I think) have free trade agreements with the US, that guarantee a certain number of H1Bs are set aside for Chileans. Which in turn means US companies are especially interested in Chilean citizens. Amazon flys a bunch of people to Santiago every year for interviews, for instance.
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She seems to be reinforcing stereotypes while trying to break them.
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Doesn't behave too nicely. I have to hover and jerk around quite a bit to actually get the things in the place I would like them to go.
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Overworking your employees costs you turnover (they are likely to leave) and intangible goodwill (why would I go out of my way for a company that overworks me?). Some finance departments might be myopic enough not to realise this, but it's true nonetheless
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> Plus a system of automatic updates you keep putting off because you’re in the middle of Candy Crush Saga every time it asks. No, more like a system of automatic updates I deliberately keep switched off because automatic updates are broken, too. *Everything* is broken, remember?
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...and latency. Buying more servers doesn't lower your average response time. Buying better servers doesn't help either because single-core performance is stagnant.
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That already happens
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School only teaches you the basic of popular languages. Data science for example requires a lot of math background while just learning R or Python would not be enough. Webdevs in the midwest are paid around high five figures. While in the coast it is in the six figure range. Webdev guys start the job as a stepping tool to something else. Some want to going into information security while other want to become software engineers who know more than one skillset. But these days software developers are the same as software engineers.
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Good luck growing to 0.0002% then.
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This. This is exactly how the outsourcing companies that specialize in HxB Visas manage to stay busy robbing Americans of high salaried positions. The available talent pool is full of absolutely qualified and even over qualified talent for 99.8% of every technical position open in America. These America hating outsourcing and consulting firms use the same deceptive descriptions and excuses to justify bringing in unqualified immigrants that have to be trained while making less than the American counterparts displaced. They use loopholes and the bare minimum as noted in the requirements of finding local qualified employees. Examples of what's covered during the consulting phase when HR departments are being taught how to maximize their profits by utilizing visas: Ads for positions are posted in a local rag for the shortest specified time span that meets the minimum requirements. The qualifications for the position are exaggerated The salary posted will be entry level while requiring a highly specific level of experience, education, and certifications in order to ensure no one will apply that would meet the criteria. The contact information will have a phone number that's directed to a voice recording, or the wrong extension will be posted, or an email address created that will basically be ignored. There's more, but you get the idea. These actions are done to ensure that no American who is qualified will see the posting, ignore it, and/or find it incredibly difficult if not impossible to contact the hiring manager or recruiters. After 30 days of this, if no one answers or meets their requirements, they then present their efforts as proof that they require importing talent. In reality, it's basically an indentured servitude economic slavery system ensuring that the imports will do what they are told, take the salaries without any real raises, and will show up on time every day or risk being shipped back. The entire system needs to be shutdown and only extreme cases allowed while the system is overhauled with anti-abuse mechanisms in place as well as industry agreed requirements to ensure that Americans are getting the jobs that they qualify for it can be apprenticed like they are willing to do with imports.
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Yeah, that's why I said **all things considered**. In the end it's pretty much the same for majority of people. I guess people just like to see bigger numbers, even though the quality of life doesn't change to the better.
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Why not just re-write it in Rust?
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All it takes is for one guy who got fired, or whose visa expired, to spill the beans. Even with an anonymous tip. Risk : reward ratio on that is terrible.
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Because they don't belong here. All the invalid Soros based reasoning for expanding the H1b program and overlooking abuses were just excuses for corporations to cut costs. There are tons of US stem graduates, it's just no one scouted them or wanted to train them. They figured they could make training facilities in India (or the consulting firms could make them) for peanuts and then bring the people here rather than actually training US citizens. H1bs need to go home. If someone is legitimately skilled or talented, then they can get here on O visa. Leave the ones who come here with graduate degrees (or get one here). Hadji with 5 years experience in a development platform that was released 2 years ago needs to go home.
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lack of empathy for the world stemming from a lack of experience with the world It fits, bit self-aware of you to point that out though ;P
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Execution speed isn't really the problem with dynamically typed languages though; long-term developer performance is. Python is fast to write at first, you can quickly jot down "something" and then get it working, and peppered with a bunch of unit tests, it'll be of reasonably quality. The pain starts when you need to perform nontrivial refactorings; dynamic languages are absolutely terrible for refactoring, because they lack a formal system for expressing assumptions and assertions in such a way that the toolchain can reliably check them for you.
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Right, I just wanted to underscore how all-or-nothing it tends to be.
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Come to London, it's not quite US level but demand for good devs is still huge. Yeah Brexit might fuck things up, but that's still 2 years away.
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We just don't argue that point because that is for the H1bs to argue. If they were allowed to switch jobs it would boost their pay, and by extension ours. But we would rather they just weren't here in the first place. Think about it, evil corporations and our government have colluded to bring people from developing countries with extremely devalued currency so they can pay peanuts instead of having to pay their own citizens decent pay. This is not a sustainable model.
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eigenvectors
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Does it work for SIMD vectors?
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No, Python does not make you productive. And this is what you really must care about. Python is a very restrictive, low level language that forces you to do things in a convoluted way, it encourage boilerplate and bars users from building higher levels of abstraction. And, on top of all this shit, it's also slow. I cannot comprehend where all those dimwit fanboys are coming from.
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Actually place of birth does have to do with potential... on average. The average IQ of India for example, is more than a standard deviation below average. It's because of the number of people there that they have some crazy geniuses. There is a visa for that - it's called the O visa. Bringing 200,000 Indians a year on H1b visa is not justified because of the 1 Ramanujan doing higher math in his mud hut. For the rank and file programmers, US citizens would be making companies so much greater. Our education is more well rounded. I was in grad school for computer science and most of the Indians in my class were mediocre. Willingness to work twice the hours for half the pay is not a talent or skill. Indians are the Mexicans of the programming world. They just made a legal path to exploit for them because programming jobs cost more than harvesting crops.
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None of the examples mentioned are as trivial as an array of floats... but even if they were, why do you think it's better to load a **large** array in memory in a single read (if it fits), instead of loading the data you need at any given point using a convinient query language?
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Chief_slapah0
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I love Lines of Code metrics
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combinatorylogic
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Maybe. But how Python is relevant here? If anything, it will delay the delivery, being such an unproductive language.
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Ridiculous. No nation can survive putting the world's needs above its own. Things cost money, and the only source of that is your own people and resources. The only reason the US has helped other countries so much in the past is because we had extra resources. Now we have a horrible trade deficit and our own people are suffering. Time to focus on ourselves.
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The argument is valid minus the helping them point. I understand they are not helped if they just have to go back to India and make 6k a year as a programmer. It's just true that they are exploited relative to US workers, which is the obvious purpose of the H1b program.
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Nihus
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We create the problem ourselves not valuing our work properly. There are ppl that are willing to work for less than they should, companies hiring students well under market value and not raising the pay accordingly to the early knowledge gains. Until ppl will stop staying in a firm like this and just switching jobs that pay properly there is nothing we can do. Also keep in mind in US they have to pay school debts so the real earnings at least at the start are not that high
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His fundamental argument, that you always have a trade-off between execution speed and productivity, is flawed imo. It is certainly possible to have both high productivity *and* high execution speed, if you design the language well. This is the reason Google invented Go. It's the reason Mozilla invented Rust. This modern trend of old-fashioned statically-typed AOT-compiled languages but with modern, powerful abstractions has shown this premise to be false. Additionally, I consider Python to be a good language for small tools and one-off batch jobs, but very unproductive for anything larger than around 1000 loc. Beyond that, I find the dynamic typing and general lack of structure to be prohibitive. I've on several occasions spent days chasing a bug caused by someone sending the wrong type of object into a function, which due to duck-typing only triggered the bug 20 files away (but only if the stars happened to align that day). The call site could even have been correct when it was written, as such a bug can be caused by someone making a breaking change somewhere else without even realizing it. If it were any statically typed language it would have been a compiler error instead, and those three days could have been productive. Python is a write-only language in my book.
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> Buying more servers doesn't lower your average response time. It does, when requests start queueing up. Same for servers with more cores. Adding more servers will also allow you to distribute them globally and load-balance at the DNS level, which also improves latency.
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>my family is choke full of IT project managers, developers and solution architects. Family reunions must be awesome
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Well, the main point is people are broken, not computers. For example, recently I watched a TV show called "Black Mirror", where the boy was forced to do some bad things by hackers who threaten him with the video on which this boy was masturbating. It's definitely the social problem that the person is ready to do some extremely bad things just to hide that he masturbates. Do we really need to hide so many facts about ourselves? Do we really need so much privacy? Maybe there is no need for passwords at all, like Stallman said? Maybe you should not hide things that you are ok to do, and you should not do things that you are not ok to reveal. And it's also valid in case of bigbiz. How much does Rad Hat spend on security while they code is publicly available? Do you need so much security measures while your code is free? And of course the way of how do we do computing is also broken. Browser should render simple markup language, not play videos, inherit drm and webgl. And this website OP provided is also harmful.
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Actually it will. You see when they don't have the option of training people in India for pennies and then bringing them here on H1b they have to pay more. Higher pay means more incentive for people to become programmers. In my original field, there were so few qualified people that they started a whole campaign to try to find more in hopes of driving down pay. They even targeted kids in grade school that were good at math and tried to convince them to become an actuary when they grew up. Indians in general are less qualified. Their education is less well rounded and the population has an average IQ more than one standard deviation below normal. The only reason they are tapped so hard is because of devalued currency. A programmer in India makes 6k a year, which is ok for them because cost of living is so low. If they come here and make only 60k a year, they can live cheap and send the excess home so their family can live like kings. Therefore they are grateful to work 80 hours a week at pay half of what programmers used to make. And since there is now a collection of code templates and engrams, the job doesn't even require the same level of creativity that it used to. It would be much better if companies did have such creative people because they would do so much more, but companies have been listening to bullshit from their HR departments like "Anyone can do the job, we just want someone who will fit with the culture".
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The key observation is that you don't normally write the critical path in Python, or at least, only a small fraction of it. The web server is fast as fuck, exactly because most of it wasn't written in Python. The Python code really just orchestrates the underlying library and system calls, and most of that stuff was written in C or something similarly close to the metal. The client is a slightly different story, but even there, the most whopping performance factor is not JavaScript execution performance, but network latency and layout. A 10% speed boost in code that spends 99% of its execution time waiting for network resources and library calls produces an effective speed boost of 0.1%. Meanwhile, avoiding 10% of the library calls in the first place produces a 9.9% speed boost.
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tdammers
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Do you have a moment to talk about our Lord and Savior, NoScript?
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> The license grants rights only to legal entities. I actually like this, persons and companies, etc that are known to being able to enter an agreement. Minors would thus need parental consent, which makes a lot of sense. MIT only mentions *person*, isn't that an issue for some corporate settings? IANAL, maybe it's fine.
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They're both equally important. Development speed is important. Application performance is important.
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Yup, same here, worried about things.. I've got a local bachelors degree and a few years of experience, so I hope I can still get thru >_<
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