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Military should be interested in this, they also pay more than sparse civilians in the middle of nowhere.

> Humans evolved as social creatures and we crave attention from each other

this is not entirely true. Humans evolved to crave attention from their tribe or extended family. Since we don't have tribes anymore we try to please random people who do not care about us. The instinct to be likeable is a correct behavior from evolution point of view, but is bad in a modern society.

Why DC is different? Bellevue and Kirkland in Seattle expected visitors with AR-15s.

Nah, I implemented a simple wrapper around an internal tool for auto-translating Oracle PLSQL to SparkQL. Data Engineers liked that a lot

Back in Amazon I found some ancient code written in Common Lisp. Doubt any production services left, but I updated the build system to support Clozure CL. My contribution in $BIGCORP :)

Eventually, somebody will write bots to deal with this robotic bureaucracy and it will be matter of how much licenses and CPU power you have to negotiate a better deal. Essentially, it will be like rich people nowadays solve issues between themselves using lawers.

You can earn 250k and donate 190k if you want. 190k per year will go very far. If you don't to whom to give I can send you names of specific people who are struggling at the moment.

Is this article just rehashing a chapter from "The Debt, first 5000 years"?

Small villages where everyone is a relative are very common in the recent past. In same places it is still the case.

Modern man has up to 1000 "relatives" for sure. It just happened to be people who don't care about that person or not even aware he or she exists (celebrities for instance)

I heard about Dunbar number from pop-science articles, and it feels right. Isn't Marines companies size based on this number? Must be true then.

I accept that I cannot fix it for myself, but I am trying to make it easier for my children. Hopefully, they will have enough resources to fix it for their children.

It is much simpler than this. Humans are social animals, we need upto 1000 close family members. Not friends, not colleagues, not church members - relatives. They should be really close, like you should see them almost every day. If you don't you develop unhealthy relationships with people who really don't care about you much. And this means you are alone in this world and you must be stressed - something is going to happen and nobody is going to help. This is natural reaction to an abnormal situation.

We had a rare occurrence of snow in our small town. Some kids went outside to play and a neighbor called on them to the police. Lesson learned - just stay in the freaking house all day.

Are you a professional educator? Because you sound like one. Teaching 7 years old divisions is the simplest thing ever. I've done it in the car driving to hockey practice using sharing scenarios. You just need to know what kids interested in and the parents know that the best.

I just checked my gmail account - found that I had an interview with ITA Software in 2005. The task was about finding palindromes in the dictionary. Man, I bombed that one really hard. The language barrier was one thing, but lack of practice was another. Nowadays we get a lot of support from a plethora of sites, other engineers and many companies train people to take interviews which helps another way too. I got into a large Common Lisp project 5 years later anyway, so no bad feelings.

The North has plenty of water. It is historically underdeveloped and still hasn't caught up with South- East

Let's not forget "stukach". Your friend or relative might be the one who meets a curator from KGB and reporting everything "interesting" you have said. Each big enough organization had a permanent curator assigned to monitor sentiments. And repercussions were real enough.

this quote caught my eyes: ``In San Francisco, said Gascón, prosecutors moved away from incarcerating children for low-level offenses like truancy or petty theft as research showed that even one stint in juvenile hall led to a higher likelihood of recidivism.``

This effect was known from the beginning of the traditional prison system. Here is the quote from "Discipline and Punish" by Michel Foucault: ``. And, just as the project of a corrective technique accompanied the principle of punitive detention, the critique of the prison and its methods appeared very early on, in those same years 1820-45; indeed, it was embodied in a number of formulation which - figures apart - are today repeated almost unchanged: ...

- Detention causes recidivism; those leaving prison have more chance than before of going back to itl convicts are, in a very high proportion, former inmates 38 per cent of those who left the maisons centrales were convicted again and 33 per cent of those sent to con-vict-ships (a figure given by G. de Rochefoucauld during the debate on the reform of the penal code, 2 December 1831 Archives parle-mentaires, LXXII, 209-10); between 1828 and 1834, out of almost 30,000 convicted of crime, about 7,400 were recidivists (that is,1 out of 4.7 of those convicted); out of over 200,000 correctionels, or petty offenders, almost 35,000 were also recidivists (1 out of 6);in all, one recidivist out of 5.8 of those convicted (Ducpdtiaux, 1837,276ff);in 1831, out of 2,174 of those condemned for recidivism, 350 had been in convict-ships, 1,682 in maisons cenffales, 142 in four maisons de correction that followed the same regime as the centrales (Ducp6tiaux, 1837, 276ff). And the diagnosis became even more severe during the July monarchy: in 1835, out of 7,223 convicted criminals, 1,486 were recidivists; in 1839, 1749 out of 7,858 ''

Keep in mind, "Discipline and Punish" was published in 1975 which is whooping 44 years ago.

P.S sorry for typos, scanned version of the book is not very good quality

The headline is a click bait. Slightly better one would be "is idiomatic C++ fast"

Does anyone know specific teams in Microsoft which are mostly F#? I might start to target them :)

Ah, "effect", of course. This is what I meant

Well, I made a mistake by saying that "NHL players most likely to be born in December" when in fact they most likely to be born in January. December is the horrible month to be born for a future NHL star (https://www.quanthockey.com/nhl/birth-month-totals/nhl-playe...). So it is not that obvious, isn't it? :)

It is similar to hockey paradox when NHL players are most likely to be born in December

Typing from my phone, so just keywords. Emacs, SLIME, single repo, pair programming, monolith applications, mercurial, PostgreSQL.

Most influential was pair programming which I personally hated but had to admit it works.

I would gladly work on large scale Haskell project and make a fair comparison! I managed to write my code in Java like Haskell (using FunctionalJava) and it was very successful, so there is a big potential for Haskell in more traditional shops.

Laziness is quite dangerous given existence of side effects in Clojure - this would the most common error for new developers. I missed LOOP even it has a bad reputation - nevertheless it covers almost all useful cases in practice. We were misusing AOT compilation, the behavior of that code was surprising sometimes.

But the main failure in my opinion was absence of good development patterns which leverage strengths of the language and mitigate weaknesses. Dynamic languages such as lisp absolutely need REPL as primary development mode, conventions has to be strictly enforced and consistency is much more important than in languages with rich static typing. Clojure can be and is successful in many projects. But if your team is trying write Java with parenthesis everything is hard.

I have worked on fairly large Common Lisp project (around 500k lines of actively managed code). That was the most pleasant experience in my professional life. The refactoring was easy, introduction of new features was simple and clear. I attribute it partially to language itself and partially to the team culture. We had a lot of tests BTW. After this I had quite bad experience with a Clojure project in a different company, so I am not dogmatic about lisp supremacy anymore. Still, Common Lisp definitely can be extremely successful in production given proper environment.

If you didn't know Microsoft used to have its own version of Unix a long time ago: Xenix. Never seen it personally though, my first experience with PC was MSDOS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix

I used obscure languages as a filter for interesting jobs in interesting companies, worked really well. Unfortunately, Common Lisp now is so strong filter pretty much nothing left :) Try Haskell, it is great.

A local butcher who throws away perfectly good beef fat! jokes aside I understand it not all thrown away (some parts are) and used in pet feed, cosmetics, fertilisers etc.. But the primary reason those cows are grown is a human consumption - other uses are an attempt to utilise "free" leftovers. So to reduce number of animals we should eat more other parts.

It would be easier to raise healthier herd with smaller population. Going 100% would be unrealistic I agree..