I think anyone who's an expert in any general-purpose programming language can find a way to parlay that into a job, since it's much easier for them to learn another language, but knowing Clojure doesn't help much for learning other JVM languages. My guess is an expert C++ programmer could pick up Java faster than a Clojure programmer.
I think the Clojure job market is pretty good for senior developers but bad for junior developers. Anecdotal evidence, but I saw someone a few months ago who had an active Clojure blog, gave talks on Clojure, contributed to multiple interesting projects on GitHub, but was unable to find a job before literally running out of money and going homeless. That could just be a weird situation, but I almost never see any job listings looking for junior developers, and when I do, they tend to be in Europe/Canada rather than the U.S.
A large fraction of the population lives in growing areas, so the rising cost of real estate in growing areas is an extremely important factor, and on average it's been rising faster than wages for decades.
Also, taking but not completing MOOC shouldn't count as a failure. I've enrolled in ~8 courses on Coursera and never completed any of them, but I still gained a lot of value from what I learned in those courses.
I'm not sure what to think about XLM. On the one hand, I am very pessimistic about all altcoins, but on the other, I am impressed with Stripe, Keybase, and the teams behind those products.
Yes, but he was already on suicide watch. I would be interested in seeing statistics on how often prisoners succeed in committing suicide while on suicide watch.
That's actually the reason why I use Gmail instead of switching to a smaller email service - it's "too big to fail," I don't think Gmail will be discontinued for as long as Google exists, even if it became somewhat unprofitable, due to the outrage and class action lawsuits that would result.
This isn't a problem that will be solved by technology anytime soon. There are more guns in the U.S. than people. Even if you had a perfect tracking system for legally sold weapons, there are plenty of people willing to sell guns illegally, just like there are many people willing to sell drugs illegally.
A shooter can keep loaded guns in his car trunk, park in front of an establishment, and run inside in 20 seconds. It will be a long time before we have AI that can identify and subdue a gunman within 20 seconds.
I recently read David Deutsch's book Beginning of Infinity, and it drastically increased my level of optimism. Summarizing it wouldn't do it justice, but I highly recommend reading it.
> Unlike Audible, however, it's easy to game the system by subscribing and quickly unsubscribing.
You can do this on Audible without problems. I have an Audible library of 15 books that I accumulated over a few years through various promotions, never paying more than 33% the normal cost of a subscription.
I see what you mean, evil.com could still make a request that includes cookies, which is why we need CSRF tokens. But from my understanding, it wouldn't be able to do that in a XMLHttpRequest hidden on the page. It would have to be a request from something like submitting a form which would navigate the user off the page. Is that correct? Of course it doesn't make much difference from a security perspective.
I thought the browser at evil.com would first send a pre-fetch request without the cookies, but not send the full request when it doesn't get the correct value from Access-Control-Allow-Origin in the response from banking.com.
I'll admit I may be one of the developers that doesn't understand CORS...
I'm pretty sure you're incorrect - requests to sites different from the one you are currently on will not include auth data by default because of the same-origin policy. The auth data would only be included if the server that the request is being sent to responds with an Access-Control-Allow-Origin header whose value matches the origin the request was made from.
Doesn't Google keep track of web history through IP/browser fingerprinting even if you don't use an account? And when asked about it they give vague answers about what information is being kept and for how long. That's why I switched to using DuckDuckGo for most of my searches.
If I take the perspective of someone who isn't informed about the technology, I can see how they could think that the technology is safe and Tesla is putting excessive warnings because their lawyers want them to. I think superfluous warnings on so many products has trained people to take warnings less seriously.
Long Now Foundation is thinking about the distant future, but as far as I understand the building phase of their current projects will be completed within a single generation.
With PredictIt there's a max bet size, so the manipulation would have to be spread over many accounts. Seems like a very high risk/reward ratio considering how many people would have to be involved, and considering most people don't know or care much about PredictIt.
I've heard this before but I created a WeChat account last week and didn't have to provide anything other than a phone number for a SMS verification code.
Are you sure it's because you are getting older, and not because of another factor like technology? There is growing evidence that the constant consumption of information e.g. on social media and mobile devices is negatively affecting people's ability to focus. In my opinion the only way to rule out that possibility would be to go several months without it, pretending like you live in 2005.
I know a psychiatrist who works at a university who said she has had many students tell her that they can't focus as well as they used to in high school. Since these students are in their late teens and early twenties, I doubt it is due to their age.
It seems to have widespread utility in countries with severe currency problems like Venezuela. But I agree, for countries with healthy economies, I don't see why crypto would attain mainstream adoption for much more than black market transactions.
Morale must be even worse when you consider that Facebook tries to only hire people who are enthusiastic about the product. I've heard people who don't use or don't show enthusiasm about the Facebook platform are screened out before hiring as "bad culture fit."
After a while the parens became something I enjoy having. I like being able to structurally edit code, and comment out paren expressions by prepending them with '#_', I feel like I can edit Clojure code much faster than JavaScript code.