It's just a bunch of facts on a specific subject: "companies leaving UK because of Brexit". How would you "balance" a list of facts to make you happier and avoid what you call "project fear"?
List of companies that are not moving outside of UK after Brexit? Sounds pretty useful. Go for it, compile it. The author was apparently interested in those that are moving out, though, but you are free to create a "list of opposite" if you think this is more interesting. Or, even better, perhaps you want to create a list of companies that are moving to UK because of Brexit? I would really like to see it.
That's an argument you ought to bring up to Mr. Fenn - since it appears that an eternal search was more or less what he was going for:
> He has also affirmed that hiding the treasure in the first place was largely about encouraging families to enjoy the outdoors. “I wanted to give the kids something to do,” he said. “They spend too much time in the game room or playing with their little hand-held texting machines. I hope parents will take their children camping and hiking in the Rocky Mountains. I hope they will fish, look for fossils, turn rotten logs over to see what’s under them, and look for my treasure.”
I don't normally listen to Lana but I clicked on the YouTube link and saw the title of the album is Lust for Life - is Iggy Pop planning to sue her too, lol.
Transportation is a big and growing problem and this exceptionally interesting HN discussion is a testimony to that. But, no mention of a potential to reduce the problem by increasing the number of people working remotely from home and eliminating part of the transportation demand. Any thoughts on this?
I can't imagine remoting will be that huge a chunk of the market for a long while. Even in software whenever I go over postings its usually only about 20% that offer remote as an option - and in practice software development is one of the most remote friendly careers.
I removed capslock from my keyboard whilst in a previous job cause I never needed it and, worse, kept hitting it instead of tab accidentally. Not using Excell, just coding on a Linux workstation.
What's also important is to have a simple, neat API, ideally C API. If you do have it, then writing wrappers for any language, even manually, without SWIG (which is great, but does add complexity to your project's build process), is simple.
Yes that's a valid point, manually writing bindings for C++ is very hard though (IMHO), as there are many intricacies that you have to keep in mind, and SWIG is really good at automating all of these away. For C-code the story is a bit different because usually the code is much less complex.
That's a very good question. I asked this question at a dinner after European Common Lisp Meeting in Madrid in 2013, a wonderful, memorable gig, BTW. I was surprised how unanimous CL elites were on this subject. They were strongly against even small, incremental improvements or additions. IMHO, it would be nice to have a standard socket library, for example. One of the reasons mentioned was cost of the standardization, including updates of all the implementations. I kind of understand it, but, on the other hand, it makes me a bit sad. Things either grow, even very slowly, or become fossil.
This looks really nice. A low level Lisp as a system programming language - a C replacement - is an interesting idea. First thought after going through the readme: does it try to provide stable ABI? This is an important feature for a C replacement; for example, C++ has not managed to get it right, although the idea was to provide a better, object oriented C... What worries me in particular is that Dale has overloaded functions, that makes things harder as far as stable API is concerned, but maybe I'm wrong. Nice stuff, anyway. I can see a little PLT trend of new high level languages that want to be good in doing low level stuff and don't use GC. I like that!
