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Can you please define the difference between average and marginal productivity?


Average productivity is exactly what it sounds like. If google is making one million dollars in a year and has 1000 employees their average productivity is $1000.

Marginal productivity is harder to pin down empirically, it's the first derivative of productivity with respect to inputs of labor. Not all labor is productive to the same degree, it was hired at different times, and there's variance in negotiation so your comp definitely doesn't (===) your marginal productivity. It's also probably greatly distorted for startups that are banking on a unicorn valuation where the expected productivity is something like (0.99 * 0 + 0.009 * 1 million + 0.0001 * 1 billion). But for Google et. al where they're in a relative steady state, they have a good idea of how much revenue grows when they add an employee and they'll be willing to pay up to that.


No time, frankly to make a game you need a good idea an implementation skills unless someone is in the field of graphics or some very specific case there is simply no good reason to invest time to do it.


Very nice relevant problem solved using congruent numbers which digit is not included in 2^29 calculation: https://youtu.be/MW3Hy9r6x-k


No jobs in rural areas. If remitr work becomes the new norm there is an incentive but I doubt it.


I have to use teams every day, I find extremely slow and missing basic functionality eg reply to message. It has many fancy features but honestly I find it extremely buggy especially for Linux OS.


I'm baffled at how bad Teams is, I also have to use it every day at work, and it feels like bad software that would've been made 10 years ago.

Everything is painfully slow, counter-intuitive, buggy, it seems every view has to reload from scratch at each tab switch, even in the native application. I don't see how Microsoft could release this, it's the first time in a long time I actively despise a piece of software.


To reply to a message you have to copy it and put a > in front of it.

> Like this

I have no idea why it isn't built into the UI


Seems be only a limitation of the desktop versions. I can reply to specific messages on my iOS devices without issue.


Add Yugoslavia too in the 90s which started by Clinton, Syria intervention which started during Obama


In the US, wars are started by Congress, not the President. The conflicts I listed are the only wars authorized by Congress over the last 40 years. We can bring other conflicts into the discussion, but that’s a different standard than “war”.


Sorry but it just seemed odd I didn't see a mention for GIL (global interpreter lock).

Because of this mechanism that ensures concurrency safety Python does not support parallel execution of threads. I am wondering if the rest of the HN community finds it as a major disadvantage.


Which ones would you propose as "good-to-be-read" js projects?


I'd recommend reading the source of things you're working with (or want to work with) first.

If you're doing front-end work, then React and Redux (or Angular, or jQuery, or whatever.)

If you're doing Node.js, try reading through the lib/ folder of Node's source (the js code goes in lib/, the c++ goes in src/), and follow that with packages like express and request.

When you hit an interesting/confusing/etc. dependency, track it down and read it's source too.


I am curious in community's opinion about it, seems a bit machiavelic (effective no matter the cost). Feel free to say opinions :)


Did someone get why they prompt us to go to https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hoehrmann-javascript-schem... ? I didnt get it.

The mechanism next=javascript:alert('') with the column how is it called? Are there exape of using anything other than javascript before column? it was a very great tutorial:)


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