I've been using scala for two years now and I think there is a simple trick to avoiding the problems you mention:
1. Many of the language features are best left to library designers so that application code is easy to understand. This is not a problem unless you make it one. 2. Carefully choose what libraries to use. Specifically avoid using all the esoteric stuff in github. Especially if the library is very "functional" and has lots of "operators". Just don't use them. Using Play and Akka and the stuff that typesafe uses I haven't really had too much trouble with migrations or code that is impossible to understand.
And, coming from 10 years of Java, I am loving Scala development.:-)
There was a lot more oxygen in the air back then. It wasn't just hotter. With the lower oxygen levels the huge dinos wouldn't do so well because they didn't have muscles for breathing like we do.
They will become your next project manager. Then they can stop learning, because in management roles that is not required. (It would be useful though.)
At least around here, we have a reasonable amount of "women in IT." They're just not coding. There are a lot of women in management, testing, QA, UX - anything that does not mean actually writing software. Some of them have a university degree that prepared them for writing software, but most escape that role very quickly after graduation. I'm pretty sure they could do it at least as well as the men can - they just don't want to.
Having more people dying will not stop population growth. Even in Africa AIDS treatment works enough that they can just have more children to compensate for the people dying with AIDS. We need children to stay alive so that people will not want more then two children in their family. This has happened in Asia and it can happen in Africa.
And Africa will have 4 billion people. There are already so many kids there that it will happen and nothing - especially AIDS - can stop it.
My point was that in addition to the other problems that BMI has it also has a problem of making tall people overweight. And as populations get taller and taller on average, this measurement problem increases the percentage of overweight people. For this simple problem it would be enough to just create a new formula using height and weight or even just use something above 25 as the overweight limit for taller people.
The formula for BMI is weight(kg) / heigth(m) * height(m). This formula only has two terms for height, but in reality I'm a 3d person. What I mean with this is that it is easier for a short person to be "normal weigth" in BMI. As people on average get taller and taller more and more people are going to be overweight. On the other hand many of my male friends are lifting weights and they are all "overweight" while clearly they are not fat.
So, while the problem is probably real and severe, I'd like to see a better way of measuring this stuff.
How on earth will a doctor find a tumor in my ear for $50? With that money, they could at most spend 20 minutes with me and probably only about 10 with the rest for reporting the findings to a computer. With so much to cover in a human, they could only find the tumor if a said that I think there is something in my ear... and if I was suspecting something then I would go see a doctor anyway?
Now, I agree with the point you were making: yearly check-ups are worth it. But I find the example pretty hard to swallow.
Then they screwed up already by signing the agreement. I don't think it's realistic to have this kind of stuff happening in your family and then not telling you teenage kid the end result. I mean, after a year of mom and dad being nervous and stressed about the thing you will - not say a word to your kid? WTF kind of parenting is that? So they should not have taken an agreement that had that kind of a clause in the first place.
Is there anything stopping people from downloading Amazon app store and installing it themselves?
Play store is not available as a download from Google (you can get it though), but Amazon is. So this phone should have that and many other third party android app stores.
I just opened the terminal, typed ssh, hit return and got the ssh synopsis. So, ssh client is installed with the terminal by selecting developer mode in the settings.
More importantly for me the phone has a ssh server that's a really nice way to move stuff to and from it.
It's company of about 100 people. They said already last year that they only need to sell hundreds of thousands of phones to make it a feasible business. They don't need to replace anyone.
And besides, I've been using the Jolla phone for three months now and I love it! So clearly, for me and the other customers, they make a difference.
Well, the point is that you fill an application and get the permit to raise funds. All kinds of non-profit organizations get them all the time. If wikipedia had done that the Finnish police would be quite happy. The problem is that Wikimedia is registered in California and they obviously do not care about Finnish law and I have no idea of how the police think they can force a US organization to comply with the rules if all the servers and staff are outside Finland.
The issue with the kickstarted texkbook was different because it was not a non-profit organisation. In Finland you need to crowdsourcing very carefully so that it is clear that you are selling a product and not raising money. Jolla did it with their phone so it can be done, but just using kickstarter as it is is illegal, because it is too much like charity for funding a regular company.
It doesn't matter if people in the US feel less safe now. I, as a non-USian, feel a lot more empowered and at peace with the world now. I definately believe that his actions did help world peace overall even if they did hurt US interests. Hypocrisy was running too rampant and it is a good thing that it was slapped down a bit.
So? The Nexus 5 has nothing to do with what made n900 great. Jolla has a pretty similar OS, community and development environment. Neither phone has a hardware keyboard. Either you are willing to pay for the better OS or you are not... I agree that Android hardware is the most cost effective hardware on the planet.
(Part of the Jolla price is 24% sales tax to Finland - it would be nice if they had a separate export price for people outside EU without the tax. Hopefully soon.)
I got one from preordering and I really like it a lot. If the thing you like in n900 is the community and the hackability, you will like Jolla too. Most importantly, I'm able to use it as my work phone already, so it's not just a plaything. So far there has been a steady stream of updates and apps. If you are in US, getting one is probably not very easy, but maybe you can get one from ebay or something? (Check the frequencies etc. first.)
No. It was a shame on all European countries that when he was still at the airport we were declining planes from flying over our countries. All because of a remote chance that Snowden was sneaking to South America. We would not have given him acylum. Sad indeed.
It's my business to pay attention to myself, and not my business to pry into other people's matters. Life should not be a competition.
I absolutely agree that life should not be a competition. But - I assume you are from the U.S. - I'm pretty sure that overall life here is less a competition then it is over there, so clearly public tax information is not driving the competition the way you assume it would.
The way I see it is that it gives you more information to make important desicions about your life. Like how big a mortgage can you actually pay back? Or is your employer really valueing you highly like they say they are doing? And that is a very good thing. Most other information sources, like banks or surveys only give you very averaged and aggregated data that is difficult to use this way.
In a similar way, we built a house 7 years ago and I've been trying to tell all interested how much the project cost. People around here often do not share that kind of information. Prospective house builders have to work with very inaccurate information about the real cost of building a house. People bragging about how clever they were and how much they saved etc. I think this kind of thing is a really big problem in our society and we need more public economical information - not less.
Well, certainly the people earning a lot of money think we have a culture of envy. But I'm not at all convinced that we actually have one outside of the top 10% earners envying each other. Now, of course the people making less money envy the rich in the sense that they would like to make more money - but isn't that what market capitalism is all about? What I mean is that most people are not consumed by this envy and they do not suffer from it in any significant way. Nor do people regularly harass each other about their money.
I dunno, maybe it is different in Norway, but your original comment really sounded like the comments I hear around here and I don't see any hard evidence to back them up.
And finally: if the tax information was not available, it would not stop this. People would probably think the rich are earning even more then they really are and envy them even more. Out of sight - out of mind, does not really work when you can see people using their big income in luxury boats, big houses and expensive cars.
The idea is to get the information for the negotiations, and offers from other companies suffer from the same problem. I.e. if you don't know what you are worth, how do you get good offers from other companies? Also.. getting an offer from another company seems to take some days in my experience: maybe two interviews and some kind of pair coding thing. How many of those am I supposed to go through to get a general feel?
I don't know what you do for a living, but I sure as hell know how good the other members of my dev team are at their work. I would like to add that I know it much better then our managers.
And yes, we do also share this kind of information between coworkers. Sometimes with numbers, sometimes without them.
After all above: public salary info would IMHO make everything easier and... more transparent. If someone feels they should get more pay, they are free to leave. I just don't see the problem.
Fighting wealth equality should happen in policies, not publicly shaming those who work hard and actually contributes to the society.
It is hard to explain to foreigners often, but there is a deep rooted culture of envy that historically have been strong where someone standing out in a positive way is pulled down as hard as possible.
I live in Finland and we also have publis tax information. I think the rationale for having that information public is to make hiding income harder... if you have no taxable income and your neighbour sees you buying new cars every year, that may cause him to go and talk to someone at the tax office. I'm not sure if there actually is someone you can report a suspected tax evader, but that's the general idea. The shaming is bad, but that is mostly done by the press here and AFAICT there is no shame if you have some reason for the large income. E.g. people owning companies are treated more like heroes.
But, anyway, what I really wanted to say was that the "culture of envy" is a myth. We have the same myth here too. The envy is mostly inside the head of people earning a lot of money. The people earning less generally do not care.
Personally I am very much in favor of public tax information. I usually check the income of some of my coworkers every couple of years. Usually their wages are very much what I expect, but once I noticed that my previous employer valued writing design documents over creating working software - and after learning that I decided to change to another job. I did not start raving and frothing at mouth.
Usually, what you imagine without the information is much worse then the reality.
Compared to what Google and NSA are doing, I find the public tax information to not be a problem.
I don't think the schools here in Finland have degrading for decades. The buildings are getting old because many of them where built after WW2 and they have certainly degraded, but the other stuff is just about a just as it has ever been. You still get a free meal, good books and professional teachers.
The reason we are running out of money is that we now have a lot of old people not working anymore and their healthcare may well be the end of the nordic welllfare state. But the public school system is still doing just fine.
How does an identical twin raised apart inherit poor education? By being adopted inside US so all schools are equally bad?
A btter critique for these twin studies is that the children "reared apart" are probably mostly reared in a relativety similar environment. Meaning that if you sent identical twins e.g. from the most poor areas of Africa to a good place in US you might get more environment effect then 20%. But still IQ is partly hereditary and the hereditary part about half or more.
12V * 100Ah = 1200Wh = 1,2kWh. If I have a closet full of those that's, maybe 50kWh of energy. It's not enough. A winter night is 16 hours and my house can use 150kWh of energy during that time. (And the solar panels would not work under snow.)
But I'm not in Michigan. Maybe there it would be enough?
According to the article the 50 miles drive is one reason the plant is not competitive against cheap landfills. The garbage trucks need to drive 100 miles with each load.
Here (Finland, Europe) we have pipes that circulate almost boiling water in city and town centers. The plants can be a mile or two away and the losses are not too bad - the pipes are underground and they have a lot of polyurethane around them for insulation. The plants do produce both elecricity and heat.
It may be true that is Michigan it's not cold enough to make something like that worthwhile. Here we can easily have a month of -20C cold and in December days are 8 hours long, so solar just isn't not an option. During that time my house uses about 200kWh of heat a day - and it is well insulated. I am looking at ways to get as much as possible of that 200kWh from something other then electricity.
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I've been using scala for two years now and I think there is a simple trick to avoiding the problems you mention:
1. Many of the language features are best left to library designers so that application code is easy to understand. This is not a problem unless you make it one.
2. Carefully choose what libraries to use. Specifically avoid using all the esoteric stuff in github. Especially if the library is very "functional" and has lots of "operators". Just don't use them. Using Play and Akka and the stuff that typesafe uses I haven't really had too much trouble with migrations or code that is impossible to understand.
And, coming from 10 years of Java, I am loving Scala development. :-)
There was a lot more oxygen in the air back then. It wasn't just hotter. With the lower oxygen levels the huge dinos wouldn't do so well because they didn't have muscles for breathing like we do.
They will become your next project manager. Then they can stop learning, because in management roles that is not required. (It would be useful though.)
At least around here, we have a reasonable amount of "women in IT." They're just not coding. There are a lot of women in management, testing, QA, UX - anything that does not mean actually writing software. Some of them have a university degree that prepared them for writing software, but most escape that role very quickly after graduation. I'm pretty sure they could do it at least as well as the men can - they just don't want to.
Having more people dying will not stop population growth. Even in Africa AIDS treatment works enough that they can just have more children to compensate for the people dying with AIDS. We need children to stay alive so that people will not want more then two children in their family. This has happened in Asia and it can happen in Africa.
And Africa will have 4 billion people. There are already so many kids there that it will happen and nothing - especially AIDS - can stop it.
Look at the presentations of this guy for more info:
http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_...
Yes, a better way of measuring would be nice.
My point was that in addition to the other problems that BMI has it also has a problem of making tall people overweight. And as populations get taller and taller on average, this measurement problem increases the percentage of overweight people. For this simple problem it would be enough to just create a new formula using height and weight or even just use something above 25 as the overweight limit for taller people.
The formula for BMI is weight(kg) / heigth(m) * height(m). This formula only has two terms for height, but in reality I'm a 3d person. What I mean with this is that it is easier for a short person to be "normal weigth" in BMI. As people on average get taller and taller more and more people are going to be overweight. On the other hand many of my male friends are lifting weights and they are all "overweight" while clearly they are not fat.
So, while the problem is probably real and severe, I'd like to see a better way of measuring this stuff.
Do you mean that Mir is already on a phone? Or Wayland?
I already have Wayland in my Jolla phone running Sailfish OS, so Wayland is just as ready in the mobile world. That is a working device that I bought.
How on earth will a doctor find a tumor in my ear for $50? With that money, they could at most spend 20 minutes with me and probably only about 10 with the rest for reporting the findings to a computer. With so much to cover in a human, they could only find the tumor if a said that I think there is something in my ear... and if I was suspecting something then I would go see a doctor anyway?
Now, I agree with the point you were making: yearly check-ups are worth it. But I find the example pretty hard to swallow.
Then they screwed up already by signing the agreement. I don't think it's realistic to have this kind of stuff happening in your family and then not telling you teenage kid the end result. I mean, after a year of mom and dad being nervous and stressed about the thing you will - not say a word to your kid? WTF kind of parenting is that? So they should not have taken an agreement that had that kind of a clause in the first place.
Is there anything stopping people from downloading Amazon app store and installing it themselves?
Play store is not available as a download from Google (you can get it though), but Amazon is. So this phone should have that and many other third party android app stores.
I just opened the terminal, typed ssh, hit return and got the ssh synopsis. So, ssh client is installed with the terminal by selecting developer mode in the settings.
More importantly for me the phone has a ssh server that's a really nice way to move stuff to and from it.
It's company of about 100 people. They said already last year that they only need to sell hundreds of thousands of phones to make it a feasible business. They don't need to replace anyone.
And besides, I've been using the Jolla phone for three months now and I love it! So clearly, for me and the other customers, they make a difference.
Well, the point is that you fill an application and get the permit to raise funds. All kinds of non-profit organizations get them all the time. If wikipedia had done that the Finnish police would be quite happy. The problem is that Wikimedia is registered in California and they obviously do not care about Finnish law and I have no idea of how the police think they can force a US organization to comply with the rules if all the servers and staff are outside Finland.
The issue with the kickstarted texkbook was different because it was not a non-profit organisation. In Finland you need to crowdsourcing very carefully so that it is clear that you are selling a product and not raising money. Jolla did it with their phone so it can be done, but just using kickstarter as it is is illegal, because it is too much like charity for funding a regular company.
It doesn't matter if people in the US feel less safe now. I, as a non-USian, feel a lot more empowered and at peace with the world now. I definately believe that his actions did help world peace overall even if they did hurt US interests. Hypocrisy was running too rampant and it is a good thing that it was slapped down a bit.
So? The Nexus 5 has nothing to do with what made n900 great. Jolla has a pretty similar OS, community and development environment. Neither phone has a hardware keyboard. Either you are willing to pay for the better OS or you are not... I agree that Android hardware is the most cost effective hardware on the planet.
(Part of the Jolla price is 24% sales tax to Finland - it would be nice if they had a separate export price for people outside EU without the tax. Hopefully soon.)
I got one from preordering and I really like it a lot. If the thing you like in n900 is the community and the hackability, you will like Jolla too. Most importantly, I'm able to use it as my work phone already, so it's not just a plaything. So far there has been a steady stream of updates and apps. If you are in US, getting one is probably not very easy, but maybe you can get one from ebay or something? (Check the frequencies etc. first.)
http://jolla.com/
No. It was a shame on all European countries that when he was still at the airport we were declining planes from flying over our countries. All because of a remote chance that Snowden was sneaking to South America. We would not have given him acylum. Sad indeed.
It's my business to pay attention to myself, and not my business to pry into other people's matters. Life should not be a competition.
I absolutely agree that life should not be a competition. But - I assume you are from the U.S. - I'm pretty sure that overall life here is less a competition then it is over there, so clearly public tax information is not driving the competition the way you assume it would.
The way I see it is that it gives you more information to make important desicions about your life. Like how big a mortgage can you actually pay back? Or is your employer really valueing you highly like they say they are doing? And that is a very good thing. Most other information sources, like banks or surveys only give you very averaged and aggregated data that is difficult to use this way.
In a similar way, we built a house 7 years ago and I've been trying to tell all interested how much the project cost. People around here often do not share that kind of information. Prospective house builders have to work with very inaccurate information about the real cost of building a house. People bragging about how clever they were and how much they saved etc. I think this kind of thing is a really big problem in our society and we need more public economical information - not less.
Well, certainly the people earning a lot of money think we have a culture of envy. But I'm not at all convinced that we actually have one outside of the top 10% earners envying each other. Now, of course the people making less money envy the rich in the sense that they would like to make more money - but isn't that what market capitalism is all about? What I mean is that most people are not consumed by this envy and they do not suffer from it in any significant way. Nor do people regularly harass each other about their money.
I dunno, maybe it is different in Norway, but your original comment really sounded like the comments I hear around here and I don't see any hard evidence to back them up.
And finally: if the tax information was not available, it would not stop this. People would probably think the rich are earning even more then they really are and envy them even more. Out of sight - out of mind, does not really work when you can see people using their big income in luxury boats, big houses and expensive cars.
The idea is to get the information for the negotiations, and offers from other companies suffer from the same problem. I.e. if you don't know what you are worth, how do you get good offers from other companies? Also .. getting an offer from another company seems to take some days in my experience: maybe two interviews and some kind of pair coding thing. How many of those am I supposed to go through to get a general feel?
I don't know what you do for a living, but I sure as hell know how good the other members of my dev team are at their work. I would like to add that I know it much better then our managers.
And yes, we do also share this kind of information between coworkers. Sometimes with numbers, sometimes without them.
After all above: public salary info would IMHO make everything easier and ... more transparent. If someone feels they should get more pay, they are free to leave. I just don't see the problem.
Fighting wealth equality should happen in policies, not publicly shaming those who work hard and actually contributes to the society.
It is hard to explain to foreigners often, but there is a deep rooted culture of envy that historically have been strong where someone standing out in a positive way is pulled down as hard as possible.
I live in Finland and we also have publis tax information. I think the rationale for having that information public is to make hiding income harder... if you have no taxable income and your neighbour sees you buying new cars every year, that may cause him to go and talk to someone at the tax office. I'm not sure if there actually is someone you can report a suspected tax evader, but that's the general idea. The shaming is bad, but that is mostly done by the press here and AFAICT there is no shame if you have some reason for the large income. E.g. people owning companies are treated more like heroes.
But, anyway, what I really wanted to say was that the "culture of envy" is a myth. We have the same myth here too. The envy is mostly inside the head of people earning a lot of money. The people earning less generally do not care.
Personally I am very much in favor of public tax information. I usually check the income of some of my coworkers every couple of years. Usually their wages are very much what I expect, but once I noticed that my previous employer valued writing design documents over creating working software - and after learning that I decided to change to another job. I did not start raving and frothing at mouth.
Usually, what you imagine without the information is much worse then the reality.
Compared to what Google and NSA are doing, I find the public tax information to not be a problem.
I don't think the schools here in Finland have degrading for decades. The buildings are getting old because many of them where built after WW2 and they have certainly degraded, but the other stuff is just about a just as it has ever been. You still get a free meal, good books and professional teachers.
The reason we are running out of money is that we now have a lot of old people not working anymore and their healthcare may well be the end of the nordic welllfare state. But the public school system is still doing just fine.
How does an identical twin raised apart inherit poor education? By being adopted inside US so all schools are equally bad?
A btter critique for these twin studies is that the children "reared apart" are probably mostly reared in a relativety similar environment. Meaning that if you sent identical twins e.g. from the most poor areas of Africa to a good place in US you might get more environment effect then 20%. But still IQ is partly hereditary and the hereditary part about half or more.
12V * 100Ah = 1200Wh = 1,2kWh. If I have a closet full of those that's, maybe 50kWh of energy. It's not enough. A winter night is 16 hours and my house can use 150kWh of energy during that time. (And the solar panels would not work under snow.)
But I'm not in Michigan. Maybe there it would be enough?
According to the article the 50 miles drive is one reason the plant is not competitive against cheap landfills. The garbage trucks need to drive 100 miles with each load.
Here (Finland, Europe) we have pipes that circulate almost boiling water in city and town centers. The plants can be a mile or two away and the losses are not too bad - the pipes are underground and they have a lot of polyurethane around them for insulation. The plants do produce both elecricity and heat.
It may be true that is Michigan it's not cold enough to make something like that worthwhile. Here we can easily have a month of -20C cold and in December days are 8 hours long, so solar just isn't not an option. During that time my house uses about 200kWh of heat a day - and it is well insulated. I am looking at ways to get as much as possible of that 200kWh from something other then electricity.