You don't need introspection if you know what you're doing. Plenty of C/C++ programmers work without it and do quite well. The more you know what you're doing, the less likely you are to make a mistake. But keep on claiming that requiring hand-holding is somehow the hallmark of an experienced professional instead of training wheels.
That "greater productive capacity" hasn't returned real returns to the overall economy. If it had, there wouldn't have been a need for a bail-out. Brand new houses that were torn down because they couldn't be sold can hardly be called productive. Houses that can't be dumped because the tax liens are more than their current worth (lots of Chicago, for example), didn't add anything to the country's productivity.
It's the same thing with the spiraling cost of higher education - it costs proportionally way more than it did at the turn of the century, for a product that is worth less in today's economy. This is sucking money from the current generation, money that can not be put into production of goods or other services.
Look out or they may decide to use indentations to delimit code, same as python. Then they can waste their time on what is a "true tab" as well as the "tab vs spaces" holy wars.
Developing for java using one of the popular IDEs is a real resource hog. There's no getting away from that. Developing for java using make files and bash scripts is FAST. Problem is, most people need code completion, etc. to hold their hand. If c programmers needed that level of support, they'd be told to go back to school and really learn the language.
Do some proper research. Pre-industrial societies worked far less than you think. And it's a HUGE lie to say anything like " Productivity increases both improved the standard of living and made it possible to work less. More recently, productivity increases have gone mostly to improving the standard of living rather than reducing work." The productivity increases over the last 45 years have not been responsible for the increased standard of working - that's from the huge increase in average household debt. The productivity gains, after discounting for inflation, haven't shown up in worker's paychecks.
The middle class used to own a home, a car, send their kids to school, take an annual vacation, and save up for retirement, all on one income. That doesn't happen so much any more, especially on a single income. Most people, even with two incomes, are stretched.
The reason houses are getting larger is debt. Not increased incomes. And houses in the more desirable areas, despite huge increases in cost, are getting smaller. You've got houses that look like tear-downs going for insane prices.
According to your theories, life must have been amazingly better when the 72-hour week, with 6 12-hour days, was the norm. Feel free to work more for less.
All it takes is for one or more employees to change their behavior by switching employers or doing their own start-up to prove it works. And among a group of 300, it's almost a certainty to happen.
Too bad you don't have laws preventing discrimination based on social or economic status. This would also help women in obtaining the same pay for the same work, instead of the "the guy needs more because he's the head of the family" crap, and help prevent the economic abuse of interns (or perm-interns).
It was only some, and nowhere near a significant number. Do you have a problem with ignoring something that is relatively insignificant?
And the Canada of 2016 is still a lot like the Canada of 1970 despite Harper trying to destroy it. Universal health care is still here last time I looked. The rest of the country wants to copy the universal drug plans of several provinces. We still don't tolerate religious interference in politics. We still have gun control, and much lower murder rates than the US. We still have a far lower per capita incarceration rate than the US (which ranks as #1, but who's counting)? We're finally going to enact the recommendations of the Le Dain commission that recommended the decriminalization of simple possession (majority) or outright legalization (minority) of weed. Quebec's separatists are still a pain in the butt at times. About the only difference is that we've changed the status of part of the north-west territories to the new territory of Nunavut, and we're going to introduce proportional representation.
As far as being "far from 2016 USA", we see that as a benefit, same as in the 70s.
Under Canada's universal health care plan, and 8.5% reduction in hospital visits is the opposite of a resource sink. The reductions in car accidents are also the opposite of a resource sink, unless you want to use the broken window fallacy to say that body shops and wreckers are losing money. The improvements in graduation rates are a positive investment. Much better than throwing out the years of investment that are wasted when someone drops out.
If you had read the article I linked to, you would have known that the only people who worked less were students and new mothers. Contrast that with the reduction in work days lost and lowered payouts due to work accident hospitalizations and visits, lowered domestic violence, and fewer mental health problems and their related costs under the universal health care plan.
Look, unless we do something to reduce the number of hours each person works, we're going to be looking at 50% unemployment by 2040. Are you really looking forward to a workforce participation rate under 30% from 62% now, not counting those who no longer participate in the economy (unemployed too long, disabled, unemployable, pensioners, retirees, etc). After you subtract the 7% who work for the various levels of government, that would leave 23% of the working-age population paying for the other 77%, plus the pensioners, etc.
First, learn how laws work. The courts don't pass laws, they just administer them. Governments pass laws, based on pressure brought by, in this case, the victims of "reparative therapy" who were able to prove to legislators and consumer protection departments that it is a fraud, that none of the claims it made are true, and that there is no medical basis for it. In other words, people who believe in "reparative therapy" are suffering from a psychosis, believing in something that isn't real despite all the evidence proving the contrary, "because".
The techniques used on children were abusive on their face, and only a sociopath would do such things.
How does it feel to be on the losing side of history?
If you're going to use dna as the basis, please do it honestly, without such a simplistic interpretation. It's not just the genes, but how they are expressed, which is dependent on many things. In the case of transsexuals, parts of the brain develop as that of the opposite sex under control of the individual's genes. That's now a proven, accepted fact. We can't change the brain, so we fix the body to match. You might prefer to change the brain to match, but not only is that not possible, but that would also drastically change the person's mind, not just their brain. Are you willing to basically destroy a person's essential self, rather than affirm it? I'm not.
It's been tried - administering hormones as the same biological sex results in violence and suicide. "Reparative therapy" is now illegal in many areas because it cannot change the brain structures involved, and in children the techniques often cross over the line to sexual abuse.
As for Iran, for years after the fatwa, it was THE sex change capital of the world. Lots of medical tourism because the procedures were safe, more than competitive in price, etc.
The treatment of homosexuals in Iran is not the same as transsexuals, and I never said otherwise. You're either being silly or intellectually dishonest comparing the two. Come on, your position wrt genes isn't scientifically tenable and is rejected by doctors, and your position wrt the treatment of transsexuals in Iran (which is better than many parts of the US) is kind of sad...
Even Cuba has a better policy towards transsexuals - including free sex changes for citizens. Can you beat that?
It wasn't plagiarized. I came to it on my own after abandoning the evangelicals when looking at the crapfest of the stories contradicted by science, historic inaccuracies, and plain "this just doesn't make sense". It was a relief to return to atheism. And I'm not the only one.
The convention here is 1.5x until 50 hours, 2.0x for 50-65 hours, etc... Unless a union contract specifies mandatory overtime, just leave after the regular number of hours, or insist that they pay overtime. An easier way is to accumulate an extra hour a day by working straight through lunch and taking every second Friday off. Worked for me:-)
You seem to miss that the gospel was "for the jew first, but also for the gentile." (romans 1:16). At that time, jews were allowed to own gentiles for the life of the slave.
Luke 4:18 was about the spiritual freedom from eternal condemnation granted by the gospel. Context counts.:-)
To say that slaves even took leadership positions in the church is irrelevant - by that time, slaves were running much of the Roman government, doing the actual reading and writing for their masters, taking care of businesses for them, raising and teaching their children, etc. No big deal.
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Wow, you didn't read what the graph was, did you? It's the number of lines of code, not the adoption rate. Kotlin is going nowhere.
You don't need introspection if you know what you're doing. Plenty of C/C++ programmers work without it and do quite well. The more you know what you're doing, the less likely you are to make a mistake. But keep on claiming that requiring hand-holding is somehow the hallmark of an experienced professional instead of training wheels.
That "greater productive capacity" hasn't returned real returns to the overall economy. If it had, there wouldn't have been a need for a bail-out. Brand new houses that were torn down because they couldn't be sold can hardly be called productive. Houses that can't be dumped because the tax liens are more than their current worth (lots of Chicago, for example), didn't add anything to the country's productivity.
It's the same thing with the spiraling cost of higher education - it costs proportionally way more than it did at the turn of the century, for a product that is worth less in today's economy. This is sucking money from the current generation, money that can not be put into production of goods or other services.
And you haven't even addressed the fact that pre-industrial societies worked less, contrary to what you claimed.
It's you that doesn't understand the relationship between work, labor, productivity, and the role of debt in devaluing labor.
Japan is experiencing deflation in many areas, whereas they should have benefited from lower oil costs. That's why both the Bank of Japan and the European Central Bank are into negative interest rates. It's why even the fed is worried and using negative interest rates as one scenario for bank stress tests
The best XML IDE on the planet is written in Java.
(And, no, I don't work for them; I've just been using their product on a daily basis for nearly ten years.)
That's kind of like saying "The best dog poop comes from $WHO_GIVES_A_SHIT." :-) xml was a big mistake we will always be paying for.
Red Hat managed to spend five years on Ceylon, a JVM language almost nobody wants to use.
Great to see a sane alternative gaining traction.
Everyone knows they should have named it Cylon - the Cylons had a plan for universal domination. Ceylon was deprecated for Sri Lanka.
But no, Kotlan is not a sane alternative and it's not gaining traction.
Look out or they may decide to use indentations to delimit code, same as python. Then they can waste their time on what is a "true tab" as well as the "tab vs spaces" holy wars.
Don't blame timmy. Someone had to submit this into the firehose - probably someone from JetBrains.
Developing for java using one of the popular IDEs is a real resource hog. There's no getting away from that. Developing for java using make files and bash scripts is FAST. Problem is, most people need code completion, etc. to hold their hand. If c programmers needed that level of support, they'd be told to go back to school and really learn the language.
^^^ Damn, you beat me to it!
Do some proper research. Pre-industrial societies worked far less than you think. And it's a HUGE lie to say anything like " Productivity increases both improved the standard of living and made it possible to work less. More recently, productivity increases have gone mostly to improving the standard of living rather than reducing work." The productivity increases over the last 45 years have not been responsible for the increased standard of working - that's from the huge increase in average household debt. The productivity gains, after discounting for inflation, haven't shown up in worker's paychecks.
The middle class used to own a home, a car, send their kids to school, take an annual vacation, and save up for retirement, all on one income. That doesn't happen so much any more, especially on a single income. Most people, even with two incomes, are stretched.
The reason houses are getting larger is debt. Not increased incomes. And houses in the more desirable areas, despite huge increases in cost, are getting smaller. You've got houses that look like tear-downs going for insane prices.
A dead person - because that's what they'll end up with anyway. Zombies of Mars!
According to your theories, life must have been amazingly better when the 72-hour week, with 6 12-hour days, was the norm. Feel free to work more for less.
The prices of things will most certainly drop with increased automation. The huge problem even now is deflation.
And yet women without children are still discriminated against even using your theories.
All it takes is for one or more employees to change their behavior by switching employers or doing their own start-up to prove it works. And among a group of 300, it's almost a certainty to happen.
Too bad you don't have laws preventing discrimination based on social or economic status. This would also help women in obtaining the same pay for the same work, instead of the "the guy needs more because he's the head of the family" crap, and help prevent the economic abuse of interns (or perm-interns).
It was only some, and nowhere near a significant number. Do you have a problem with ignoring something that is relatively insignificant?
And the Canada of 2016 is still a lot like the Canada of 1970 despite Harper trying to destroy it. Universal health care is still here last time I looked. The rest of the country wants to copy the universal drug plans of several provinces. We still don't tolerate religious interference in politics. We still have gun control, and much lower murder rates than the US. We still have a far lower per capita incarceration rate than the US (which ranks as #1, but who's counting)? We're finally going to enact the recommendations of the Le Dain commission that recommended the decriminalization of simple possession (majority) or outright legalization (minority) of weed. Quebec's separatists are still a pain in the butt at times. About the only difference is that we've changed the status of part of the north-west territories to the new territory of Nunavut, and we're going to introduce proportional representation.
As far as being "far from 2016 USA", we see that as a benefit, same as in the 70s.
Under Canada's universal health care plan, and 8.5% reduction in hospital visits is the opposite of a resource sink. The reductions in car accidents are also the opposite of a resource sink, unless you want to use the broken window fallacy to say that body shops and wreckers are losing money. The improvements in graduation rates are a positive investment. Much better than throwing out the years of investment that are wasted when someone drops out.
If you had read the article I linked to, you would have known that the only people who worked less were students and new mothers. Contrast that with the reduction in work days lost and lowered payouts due to work accident hospitalizations and visits, lowered domestic violence, and fewer mental health problems and their related costs under the universal health care plan.
Look, unless we do something to reduce the number of hours each person works, we're going to be looking at 50% unemployment by 2040. Are you really looking forward to a workforce participation rate under 30% from 62% now, not counting those who no longer participate in the economy (unemployed too long, disabled, unemployable, pensioners, retirees, etc). After you subtract the 7% who work for the various levels of government, that would leave 23% of the working-age population paying for the other 77%, plus the pensioners, etc.
You are one f*cked up conspiracy nutcase.
First, learn how laws work. The courts don't pass laws, they just administer them. Governments pass laws, based on pressure brought by, in this case, the victims of "reparative therapy" who were able to prove to legislators and consumer protection departments that it is a fraud, that none of the claims it made are true, and that there is no medical basis for it. In other words, people who believe in "reparative therapy" are suffering from a psychosis, believing in something that isn't real despite all the evidence proving the contrary, "because".
The techniques used on children were abusive on their face, and only a sociopath would do such things.
How does it feel to be on the losing side of history?
So you agree that if it were universal it would have the effects I speak of?
Also, with a bisic income, more people would feel secure enough to work fewer hours while getting their own start-up going.
If you're going to use dna as the basis, please do it honestly, without such a simplistic interpretation. It's not just the genes, but how they are expressed, which is dependent on many things. In the case of transsexuals, parts of the brain develop as that of the opposite sex under control of the individual's genes. That's now a proven, accepted fact. We can't change the brain, so we fix the body to match. You might prefer to change the brain to match, but not only is that not possible, but that would also drastically change the person's mind, not just their brain. Are you willing to basically destroy a person's essential self, rather than affirm it? I'm not.
It's been tried - administering hormones as the same biological sex results in violence and suicide. "Reparative therapy" is now illegal in many areas because it cannot change the brain structures involved, and in children the techniques often cross over the line to sexual abuse.
As for Iran, for years after the fatwa, it was THE sex change capital of the world. Lots of medical tourism because the procedures were safe, more than competitive in price, etc.
The treatment of homosexuals in Iran is not the same as transsexuals, and I never said otherwise. You're either being silly or intellectually dishonest comparing the two. Come on, your position wrt genes isn't scientifically tenable and is rejected by doctors, and your position wrt the treatment of transsexuals in Iran (which is better than many parts of the US) is kind of sad ...
Even Cuba has a better policy towards transsexuals - including free sex changes for citizens. Can you beat that?
It wasn't plagiarized. I came to it on my own after abandoning the evangelicals when looking at the crapfest of the stories contradicted by science, historic inaccuracies, and plain "this just doesn't make sense". It was a relief to return to atheism. And I'm not the only one.
The convention here is 1.5x until 50 hours, 2.0x for 50-65 hours, etc ... Unless a union contract specifies mandatory overtime, just leave after the regular number of hours, or insist that they pay overtime. An easier way is to accumulate an extra hour a day by working straight through lunch and taking every second Friday off. Worked for me :-)
Luke 4:18 was about the spiritual freedom from eternal condemnation granted by the gospel. Context counts. :-)
To say that slaves even took leadership positions in the church is irrelevant - by that time, slaves were running much of the Roman government, doing the actual reading and writing for their masters, taking care of businesses for them, raising and teaching their children, etc. No big deal.