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I don't deny, there is no business cycle. My point is, that a handful of people decide when the cycle should have it peeks and bottoms. To me it is like: "We don't like winter, so let's warm up the entire planet. And if there is a problem we can always cool it down a bit".

There are 7 billions participants in the global economy and somehow FED pretends it has this magic ball that predicts what will happen in upcoming months. And even if it had, they have no proper tools to react on it properly.

I could try answering to that in detail, but others (smarter than me) did that already.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00843932

Fiscal policy depends mostly on monetary policy I think. The amount of money government can borrow is bound by central banks. But, central bankers don't respond to voters, so basically they can do whatever servers the financial system and it stability.

Of course I am joking, they simply have no idea what they are doing, since it is virtually impossible. I grew up in post communism country and I have cold sweat when I hear about price control. And somehow price of the money is centrally managed.

Because arrogant people think they can steer entire global economy with a single parameter - money supply.

Since there is no natural business cycle, no one knows what will happen. And If someone says he knows, it is because he sets the interests rates.

Religion is a oversimplification of philosophy doctrines. Imagine Moses trying to communicate with regular folk his views on the world in a way that Socrates did. It was much more efficient to translate it to a set of stories that impose specific behavior.

The closest religion to philosophy (I can think of) is Buddhism, it is basically a guide to learn about self and the world.

I'd rather say, philosophy is about thinking, it is a tool. Tool that gives you ability to reason about pretty much anything.

Philosophy today is one of the most undervalued discipline. It doesn't yield any return on investment immediately and is mostly confusing at the beginning, so people don't tend to have interest in it.

I think we have some sort global identity crisis because of that. Religions are not sufficient enough and science doesn't even try to answer the question of "why?" but rather "how?". In result of that, we ended up with no ideology and no tools to build one for ourselves.

This is laughably ironic, because we really want some change in the way we live and think and yet, we don't turn back and evaluate what people came out with in the history.

edit: if you want to start with it: http://philosophizethis.org/category/episode/

I'd say they are too descriptive. I don't believe that this project provides such universal solutions and I expect from the author to clearly state what problem exactly does it solve. Ideally, as a picture/graph.

These buzzword product descriptions are terrible. Documentation should say first, what does this piece of code do and when should I use it. The actual rationale for this project is buried down in the middle of the documentation with a sparse 3 sentences.

> The first is to be able to track each message individually (i.e. not using a single commit offset) to make suitable for asynchronous tasks. > The second is the ability to schedule messages to be consumed in the future. This make it suitable for retries.

That's a start - I'd love to see how did you solve the problem? How your solution compares to other similar products? Why should I care about stuff you are mentioning? It is not an issue of not mature product - I think one should start with defining exactly and precisely what is being solved here.

When solving a technical problem you always have to tailor your solution to a specific set of requirements and it is never like: "distributed, horizontally scalable, persistent, time sorted message queue." So please stop using such buzzwords.

How come this question managed to appear on the top page? Asking this question and expecting a correct answer is bananas. There are so many factors that you have to take into consideration that it is virtually impossible to make a right generalization. The question you should ask though, is: "What should I do to achieve goal that I've set." If your product is unstable, bugs are piling in the backlog - _maybe_ holding the factory line for a refactoring is right - but only just maybe. Remember, that users don't care about how cool your stack is.

Fuerteventura (Spain) -

- It is a turist island, but not that much crowded. It is relatively cheap to live there (comparing to Dublin/London/OtherTechHubs)

- climate is absolutely amazing (18-25 degrees all year - no rain)

- it is not a party island, it is really quiet and peaceful

- internet is decent - although expect higher pings when working on remote terminal.

- no need to speak spanish - since turists are everywhere - basically everyone speak english on level that enables communication

- perfectly safe.

- EU, Schengen.

> functional-Ruby.

It is not. I understand why people from Ruby really what it to be "like a Ruby", but it is a completely different language. People confuse this by not understanding the erlang runtime and end up writing really poor code.

This should be one of first articles new people to elixir should read. http://theerlangelist.com/article/spawn_or_not

How's the rent? Ive heard it is the most expensive city to live in Germany.

Relocate to a tech hub (Dublin in my case) and find a job where working remotely is possible, but be on the site for a few months to prove yourself that you are effective when remote. Start full time on site and gradually move to be remote.

Whenever I read such a piece, I recollect Noam Chomsky reflection that capitalism is a system where well informed consumers do rational decisions. But, our lives are so flooded with the informative garbage that people tend to do unrational decisions based on feelings and unknowingly. People are just not ready to digest that much, our educational system failed us miserably.

Queue is not the holy grail, especially if you want to put something on the queue during the db transaction. Be aware, that once you do I/O (some RPC or queue interaction) you loose the ACID in the db, you will make the system much less reliable this way.

The way to do this, it to publish on queue _after_ transaction, but also be sure that the action won't be lost in the process.

https://martin.kleppmann.com/2015/04/23/bottled-water-real-t...

http://dataintensive.net/

I created a very similar project: https://github.com/fieldaware/liveprofiler a few months ago.

Now, I am surprised I didn't push it forward.

Make over 100k, spent most of it on housing.

I love the last slide:

- do "the right thing" (whatever you the analysts think that is)

- Let me guess - you want everything, don't you?

Just don't scale, until you are ready.

I highly recommend Eric's Schmidt take on this: https://youtu.be/hcRxFRgNpns?t=838

SQL as language is one thing. The fact that RDBMS systems with some consistence and isolation guarantees is a different story.

MVP: Yes. Production, complete products: No.

That's a really neat way of explaining concurrency model.

I did something similar for Erlang VM http://eddwardo.github.io/elixir/links/2015/11/04/links-in-e... (less advanced). I'd love to see comparison of these two models.

Average CPM for ad online is 5$. Would you pay 0.005$ for rendering most of the websites?

I'd start with reading this one: https://grimoire.ca/mysql/choose-something-else

As a heavy user of Atom I am surprised with the benchmarks. To me the editor is fast enough, can't provide any numbers but it is pretty responsive for daily usage (Python, C, Puppet, Elixir, Erlang)

How is it possible that

"When we asked respondents what they valued most when considering a new job, 53.3% said remote options were a top priority. A majority of developers, 63.9%, reported working remotely at least one day a month, and 11.1% say they’re full-time remote or almost all the time."

And only a few percent of companies hires remote?

I see ML and AI raising on the market quite fast. How does this work? How many ML engineers are out there? If, broadly speaking, we have shortage of software engineers, what is the demand for ML engineers? It is not something you learn overnight as a dev or mathematician, so where are there coming from?

TL; DR: Slack costs money and that's why we didn't like it.