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People care about reputation, social standing, glory and their conscience. All of these can act as incentives. When we say that incentives matter non economists only hears that people respond to price signals but what economist really mean that, holding everything else constant and giving a price signal people will do it more or less of it.
Economists often focus on monetary incentives because they are observable and usually easier to change in a model. For example if we say that doctor salaries go up more people will want to be doctors. This is misunderstood that doctors are motivated by money rather than the non-monetary motives to be doctors but this really means that holding the non-monetary satisfaction of medicine constant, increasing the monetary satisfaction will make medicine more attractive relative to other professions. The clear example for this are doctors in USA and Cuba. The difference in monetary compensations is huge relative to other professions but non-monetary motives are still high enough for people in Cuba to want to endure ardous learning to be a doctor.
I fully realize it's a lost battle. The genie is out of the bottle. I'm just annoyed that it's happening. I live close to a city that 2000 years old and all that time population either managed to grew or stagnate but never this.
People without children also expect to receive pension while escaping the effort and time to raise the next generation.
When you did this at family level the result was pretty evident, in your old age you were alone and vulnerable. Doing this on national level hides this effect.
There are people from USA who always bash on it (Reddit Bernie Sanders socialist brigades) and Europeans who never visited and feel they have to explain/rationalize widening gap between US and Europe.
I know it all anecdata, but my experience is completely different.
I am from Croatia, I lived there until my late twenties when I got a job in Munich. For the next 6 years I lived (with wife and three children) and worked in Germany, Austria and Netherlands until we moved to USA.
Almost everything is better here. Healthcare, while expensive, is much better. Houses are huge and luxurious, cars are cheaper and more comfortable. Eating out and groceries are also cheaper, even if you buy higher quality items.
And of course, salaries are higher even if you don't work in tech like my wife. If you are in tech difference is huge, in Germany i was paid 80k € and here in States my first job was 190k $ and to add insult to injury taxes are lowar so my take home is higher. And I'm not in Bay area, this was in Nebraska. Later we moved to Colorado.
People are very polite and always ready to help. I don't see if we would ever return to Europe.
With work issued macbook pro I have 2 4k 24" monitors to get that retina clarity instead and they keep fans on all the time.
It also says a lot how relational database models outlive business logic api-s.
Always appreciate your insights Patrick, but you are completely off base here. USA has far fewer working age combat veterans now than it did in the 1950s through 1980s, and violence isn't anywhere near the levels that pervaded American society from the late 1960s through early 1990s. Trump's harshly criticized immigration policy is quite tame - compare it to the mass deportations under Roosevelt and Eisenhower.
The scenes in Portland and elsewhere are completely understandable - organized black clad rioters are attacking federal buildings. Is the government supposed to let them storm the buildings? No government would allow such a thing to happen, though perhaps the USA will.
America is a dying country, her people destined to be a small & hated minority surrounded by masses of her former subjects. Your own state legislature even recently voted to legalize discrimination against people like you (Assembly Constitutional Amendment No. 5).
Unfortunately, the only thing that is missing is will to do so.
When the First World War started UK had a larger population than France.
DbVisualizer -> best GUI for databases, you learn it well and use for all databases
Editpad -> fastest text editor I’ve ever seen with bunch of useful features and terrific regex (see regexbuddy from the same author)
I live in a small town that is almost 1700 years old. Something is very wrong if we are unable to maintain or grow our population while living in unprecedented luxury and wealth compared to historical norms.
When I worked in a large bank we tried to migrate core system from Db2 zOS to Postgres and it went nowhere. I was a in-house developer working with Postgres consultants and they were amazed by db2 performance in OLTP scenarios.
So if your organization is already spending cash on Oracle, Db2 or MSSQL, use them for superior performance. Migration off them is costly and risky process.
If your working at a startup there is absolutely no reason to choose anything but Postgres if you need relational.
Scripting is better because Kotlin doesn't have simple dependency management like Grape and compilation speed is way faster than Kotlin's. One of Kotlin's downsides is compilation speed and kts (kotlin script) is even slower. Also, Groovy still has ton of utility methods in GDK not matched in kotlin stdlib.
Other than that, I'm sad to say, Groovy is dead or in process of dying. I'm seeing companies rewriting Grails apps to Spring Boot and switching to Kotlin dsl in Gradle. It's a shame really, such a fun language to program in.
New England, with its Puritan settlement, had supported the Commonwealth and the Protectorate.
The two groups repeated their conflict two hundred years later in American Civil war
Advanced Query Tool is also good but it's geared more for BA than DBA.
Aqua Data Studio is also very good but too expensive ($499 single user licence).
For reference, I've also used pgadmin, DBeaver, DataGrip, SQuirrel in my two year long quest to find the best tool. I was assigned to pick best tool for 500 developers and business analysts.
IT salaries here are much better than western Europe compared to other professions and it's not worth migrating.
I've interviewed for jobs in Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark and Germany and the highest offer was 75k € for job in Brussels region.
According to online calculators thats 40k take home salary with housing and services at least twice as expensive. My 50k € Croatian salary leaves me with 33k net with vastly better quality of life.
Why are western Europe's developers paid so little while living in much richer countries?