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To add to what throwaway2048 said, as well as having high performance requirements, they're small and don't change much. You wouldn't want to write your typical CRUD app in Rust or C++ because developer speed is more important than application speed. But bittorrent trackers, while using http, are operating to a strict protocol, and are nowhere near as large (in terms of features and code size) or as fast changing as typical web apps.
A poisonous workplace with lots of employees will create huge negative externalities to the surrounding society.

1. People look up to their successfull peers. Examples succesfull companies create propagate throughout the management layers in the industry.

2. If Amazon sets a 'lets suck them dry' example then this will lower the barrier for other companies to follow suit, or enforce their existing pathologies

3. Bad work/life balance creates depressed people and is not so good for long term productivity. It might create short term kicks for adrenaline junkies and workaholics. Such practices have no rational defence, except that they appeal to certain macho people. From the POV of the company it might not be a problem since they can always hire more people to suck dry but the broken people who leave have suffered personal tragedies with various side effects.

4. What is this 'Tech' where 'one needs to earn their place every day'? It certainly does not sound like professional software engineering for sane and capable people who can choose where to work.
Indeed, I myself started working in 1980 and it sure seems like it was better then, but I can't isolate that from working in the Boston area until its high tech scene finished dying a hard death in the early '90s (the web created a new one a little later) and I moved to the D.C. area which you might say didn't have as high standards.
ouch, my brain.
I had interview opportunities with Amazon twice over the last few years and I've turned both down because of the reports of how badly they treat their workers. I made sure to tell the recruiter why and he said that they get that a lot now.
All the time.

The days of long-form writing are definitely over, but I think noting things down will remain a constant for many years to come.

For me, I find it helps me think more abstractly and plan my thoughts better, because it's just more fluid to scribble ideas down.
Proud mid-2010 MacBook Pro here. Replaced the HD for a 700 Tb ( or Gb can't recall ) for 30 USD. Replaced the top panel for FREE ( love Youth Apple in Taiwan, they used glue on a dislodged key then owned the mistake when the whole keyboard broke and replaced the whole top panel for FREE ). Everything else awesome. Only thing missing is HandOff with my iPhone 5s ( damn old bluetooth ).
Var just makes it harder to read C# code. For example, the difference between...

int foo = object.GetSomething() vs
var foo = object.GetSomething()

The int makes it easy for you to instantly identify that foo is an integer. In the var example, what the fuck is foo? A string? A class? An integer? To find out, you must rely on Visual Studio's Intellisense and hover your mouse over foo for a few secons, before Visual Studio will tell you what type foo is. This slows your code reading considerably. And if you don't have Visual Studio, then you have to go waste time reading the documentation to figure out what type foo is.

Sure, it save your typing time, but, it waste other developer's reading time.
In my years of jazz band on set, along with different rock groups....I love bassist <3. A good bassist allowed me to go crazy, and if I got off, I knew where to listen to be on...nobody else would even notice.

That said, I think it would be pretty similar, the study should have said "anyone who thinks...in time".
There are plenty of out of touch billionaire dinosaurs. Google Sheldon Adelson. Google Robert Kraft. He remains 100% convinced that nobody below him has ever violated any rules or cheated. Having billions of dollars is the quickest path to becoming an out of touch dinosaur.
Give me a break. That's like saying Cornell's Tech MBA was created to fuel America's military-industrial complex.
That's been the goal of the Freenet project for a while, to build a distributed encrypted network protocol. It distributes storage and processing which is why full encryption is necessary; you don't want 10 people reading your email when it's distributed across their machines.

The challenge for Freenet has been speed and fun. To have something like Facebook you have to download a JAR plugin for Freenet that adds that capability. That's not fun. The speed is slow because of the encryption and constant syncing.

It might be better to look at the MediaGoblin and Pump.io (and StatusNet to some extent) for ideas on federated platforms. The challenge there again is fun; it isn't fun to set things up.
Have they improved performance of SwiftKey? I had the paid version for years, was even a VIP (won a t-shirt and everything), but I switched off last year in favor of Fleksy as a faster, more lightweight alternative.
AFAIK only the Neo9000 offers baseband isolation from the main system.

https://neo900.org/faq

> Unlike some other smartphones do, Neo900 won't share system RAM with the modem and system CPU will always have full control over the microphone signal sent to the modem. You can think of it as a USB dongle connected to the PC, with you in full control over the drivers, with a virtual LED to show any modem activity.

I found no information on baseband isolation for the Blackphone. Does anyone has further information on this?
I keep a small notepad and pen next to my keyboard. I write notes on it, but I rarely review them. The act of simply writing notes helps me remember them.

On a related note, BIC is actually doing PSA style radio ads and has a campaign website to "save handwriting":
http://bicfightforyourwrite.com/
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I think much more clearly when writing on paper than when typing at a keyboard. I can get into a mindset, and the pen and paper don't ever distract from my frame of mind. If I try to think through something at the keyboard, I often drift and my attention ends up on the machine itself.

I have no idea if this is by nature of the medium, or because I grew up in the 70's and 80's without consistent computer access until I was in my early teens. I also lived in a tent for a year, and wrote in a journal every night; I think that has influenced my writing mindset significantly.

So, if I'm very clear about what I want to write, I can use a keyboard. But if I'm still sorting through some ideas I'll grab a pen and paper. I even draft important emails with a pen and paper. Usually drafting a quick sketch or outline is enough, and I do the wordsmithing at the keyboard. Whenever I'm at a loss for words, though, I push the computer aside and sit quietly with a pen and paper for a little bit.
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Implied in your comment is that employees (assuming they are employable white collar employees) are empowered economic actors. They keep choosing to work there.

I think the reality of the employee-employer relationship is that employees don't have the sort of power, as one would have as a customer, for example. Part of the reasons are probably explainable economically. It's a fairly illiquid market for employees because the cost of getting to an agreement, negotiating terms (never-mind sampling) is very high. A lot of other reasons are probably best explained psychologically or anthropologically, roles we assume in certain situations. I suspect these are the bigger ones. Either way, barriers are there and bad treatment of employees often results in badly treated employees, not empty just resignations.

In a lot of ways, "if you don't like it, get another job" like "if you don't like it, get another country."

The free exchange economistic-ey forces are there, but they are not the only things there. Other things that make employers behave better is standards set by society. These are laws, but also just norms and practices. These are impacted by things like articles or consumer responses.

It's complicated.

I'm fairly sympathetic to a lot of libertarian positions. But, I don't buy into the strong economic rationalist arguments.

Economic forces dictate how some things play out. other times, other cultural forces take effect. When it comes to employee treatment, I think societal norms are a massive influence. The reaction you are observing is part a mechanism for this. Society's scolding amazon for treating its employees badly, defining and enforcing the nom..
I think Roda[0] should also be on this list.

From its Github[1] page, it cites Cuba and Sinatra as inpiration[2].

[0]: http://roda.jeremyevans.net/

[1]: https://github.com/jeremyevans/roda

[2]: https://github.com/jeremyevans/roda#inspiration
What You Miss When You Take Notes on Your Laptop:

https://hbr.org/2015/07/what-you-miss-when-you-take-notes-on...
I've worked on large and complex apps with MVVM in WPF and on the web with Angular, and have not regretted using MVVM for a second.

Databinding is indeed a leaky abstraction, but at the same time it's a very powerful one. I'm willing to learn the inner workings of the binding system to avoid performance pitfalls and other weirdnesses. I'm also willing to continually wrap all sorts of not MVVM-ready components to make them data-binding friendly. When people talk about databinding being a leaky abstraction, what I hear is "I was promised magic and it's not actually magical."

Also - there's many different approaches to how it's done with various tradeoffs. Compiled bindings on Android and the new Windows platforms look interesting, and you should also check out how ReactiveUI approaches it.

In the end though, I've never been able to achieve a satisfactory level of loose coupling, testability, and portability without databinding. Despite the overhead and occasional surprises, it's paid off in spades as far as quality and productivity.
Nietzsche was likely driven insane by CADASIL leading to frontotemporal dementia[1]. CADASIL is a genetic disorder and has nothing to do with being solitary.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18575181 and http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17087793
Dig from the other that wont destroy the artifacts?
Yeah, but hard copies on what? Discs, paper, what's the medium with the 10K year time horizon ?

Wait, I got it. Stone Tablets. Just have to get a Google project off the ground to inscribe all the worlds code in slate.
I mean, what does 'designed for high-volume mobile transactions' even mean in the context of having Linux running on the hardware?

Excellent question. Statements like this, grandiose but nonspecific, are intended for managers and those who are looking for a justification to spend money.
"Stay clear of HR, that is true for 99% of jobs."

Having met at least 50+ people in HR who aren't what like you say, i'm going to call complete bullshit on this. I don't think you have anywhere near the kind of data to generalize an entire profession across all industries :)

The vast majority of people i've met who feel like you do are people who were, IMHO fired pretty fairly, but are ashamed to admit that maybe they weren't performing as well as they think, so they blame the system.
Can't say I disagree about the format of the slides. Subsequent sharing wasn't really a primary consideration; it was only intended as a tool to assist me in my presentation. I will see if I can convert it to something a little more standalone-consumable. Of course, it will still be missing the extemporaneous talk that was intended to be the actual presentation, so it will still surely be somewhat lacking.

Thanks for the critique!
No. It's getting worse and worse.

Tho the quality of the thinking when hand-writing and when typing is different. For that, currently, it is irreplaceable.
I tend to program with a pen and a pad of graph paper at my side.

I tend to program in a 'distraction-free mode', where my IDE covers the whole screen. I still need a place to take notes, to hold my to-do list, and to make simple diagrams of dependencies.
They exist in every profession, HR is no better or worse.
Witness the number of startups which end up in PR disasters, etc.
Bezos needs to buy some Robert Anton Wilson from himself.

Celine's Second Law:
Accurate communication is possible only in a non-punishing situation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celine%27s_laws
Israeli universities are pushing big into international collaborations of various types to counter efforts at isolating Israel because of its occupation policies. This isn't secret, it is a very conscious effort on the part of Israel's universities to counter the BDS movement:

https://english.tau.ac.il/vision/Shaoul_fund
Handwriting can have huge benefits. The NSA can't read it the instant you write it - in fact I don't think anyone can read mine except for me. I don't even need an key or passphrase to protect it.
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And yet Amazon (3.4) rates comparable on Glassdoor to many other important technology companies, including: Oracle (3.3), Yahoo (3.5), HP (3.3), IBM (3.1), eBay (3.5), Tesla (3.4), Dell (3.4), Cisco (3.7).

That's with 5,800+ reviews. Something doesn't add up.
I do. The direct interaction with the pen, the aspect of drawing helps me immensely: I can pull that image from my memory much easier. Therefore, if I need to remember something, I'll write it down, instead of typing it.

Also, for communicating I find writing/drawing (whiteboard) a very handy tool (in the toolshed). There is the potential problem of bad handwriting, but I fix that by forcing myself to not being hasty.

Finally, there is the aspect of authenticity; that seems to be important: Many cafés and shops arguably use it to appear more humane.

The carefulness aspect I don't see myself. I can think while typing, whereas while writing my attention seems to be caught more by the task at hand.
I relate to this. I like the way you make it clear that given a choice between sanity and productivity, you choose the former. But is this not a false dichotomy, I wonder? I hope!

For me, prolonged absence of close company quickly begins to feel like low-grade depression ... or general melancholy. I used to enjoy solitude, but the years and the birth of my children has shifted most of the time I used to crave for myself. I don't crave solitude as badly anymore. In fact I fear being left alone. Also our recent financial set backs and a few deaths in the family has left me questioning the idea of being productive entirely.

The funny thing is that I'm not entirely honest when I get the company I crave ... I begin to display fickle emotions of wanting solitude immediately because I feel I'm not productive.

I'm really in purgatory right now with exactly that: sanity vs productivity.
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Every time someone invents another framework, 1000s of hours are lost to rewriting these widgets - colour pickers, date pickers, drop-downs, combo-boxes etc etc. And that's before people complain about lack of flexibility and all the missing features their predecessors have accrued over time. More wasted time as people try to get to grips with yet another style of configuration, operation and tweaking to fit real world use cases.

I'm all for innovation and advancing the state of the art, but there has got to be a better way of dealing with these basic components. All we're doing here is creating projects for those with time on their hands, frustrating those with none, and keeping StackOverflow in business.
I always architect things first on paper. Can't beat it to draw diagrams and things alike.
what does any of that have to do with mobile vs non-mobile? It's like they just added a word for no reason.
I've taken notes in many math, engineering, and computer science classes, and after that I've attended many design meetings, schedule meetings, and brain storming sessions. In these settings typing doesn't work well and there is a distinct advantage in having good diagramming and math notation skills.

I find typing better for prose and prefer to program in a text editor.

I've had this discussion several times with the people running my children's schools (grade levels between 6 and 12). They have always been big on pushing technology in the schools and moving away from simple pen/pencil and paper.

My kids grew up with computers, iPads, and cell phones and so did virtually every other kid in these upper end schools. They didn't need to be pushed to use keyboards and didn't need instruction in typing, my daughter has typed faster than I can for years. But the schools, and many parents, were obsessed with the idea of being modern. I tried to explain that low resolution touch screens were inappropriate for taking math notes past simple fractions, but of course, I couldn't change their minds.

I felt the use of technology in the schools often hindered instruction and learning. Naturally, there is a place for it and I was happy that my senior was required to prepare her math projects using Sagemath and LaTeX.
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Hi there. David Ascher here, from Mozilla.

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* I think we have a single account per email address, but I don't think that's what you mean. Also, you can likely use +whatever on your email addresses if you really want to.

As to centralization -- I'm as worried about centralization of the net as Brewster Kahle, but that's as yet an unsolved problem, and not the one we're tackling with Webmaker. We're (just?) trying to make an app that makes it easy for people new to the internet to see that they can create web content, not just consume it, even if all they have is a low-end android phone and low literacy. The app storage architecture is centralized today, but I'd be happy to explore ways to federate it, once we get to the point where it we've confirmed the app is attractive to its main audience.

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> who, after spending so much effort get the code written and debugged and barely worked, still have the energy to write article to explain it

Professionals who care about long-term success of a project?

Most of what I see in this thread are just excuses, born out of either ignorance or laziness. Or both. The same arguments that were used against adopting higher level languages instead of asm.

The truth is, as sklogic says in this thread, the code won't ever tell you the whole story. You're not writing code in a vacuum, you have Jira tickets, requirements, mockups and so on to help you. Yet people throw these away and leave only the code, as if working with code alone was what they do and what should be done.

I wish programmers stopped being like that. They should just learn how to write ok - not great, just ok - prose and get it over with. It's so frustrating to see programmers reject good ideas because of laziness and dumb stubbornness. I'm starting to believe that it's just the human nature at play here. Makes me hate humans even more than I already do.
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...and training, succession planning, workforce planning, onboarding, offboarding, retention and attrition, re-locations, HRIS management, coaching, etc.

Not sure most people really understand what HR does, just as HR arguably doesn't understand what a developer does.
> 5. It's not allowed to use the file name as source code.

I would love to see the entry that made it necessary to add this rule.
We seem to have killed it (at least, my search terms resulted in an interminable loading screen).

Please, people, lay off it while they can figure out some scaling!
IANAL, but here is what I would do at a minimum. First and foremost make sure you have a shareholder agreement that clearly lays out what your role is and what is expected of you.

It really doesn't sound like you are taking any risk (i.e. you are keeping your job, you are going to continue to work on your own projects), so the bigger question is how much time and value are you really adding to the startup? You will want to be clear in your agreement what your intentions are and how much time you are willing to devote. While telling your co-founder that you plan to keep your job and work on other projects sounds good in theory, when something doesn't get done or a milestone is missed, you are going to be the easy target for that failure.

Startups are risk inherent, and if you don't have any tolerance for risk they definitely are not for you. Animosity can fester when one founder is taking all the risk and the others are just along for the ride.

From your side things you may want to clarify are what your ownership percentage is, what the vesting is going to be, are you getting paid and if so how much, what your duties are, etc.. After you have a shareholder agreement drawn up, it is better to spend a couple hundred dollars to have your own attorney review it. Those dollars spent now could save you aggravation or even costly expenses down the road.
in fact I don't think anyone can read mine except for me.

I have an even better setup - nobody can read my handwriting, including me. So it's literally Write Only Memory. Not sure what the applications for this are though...
Nice !

It's not really a paradox, though, because "being a double-edged sword" is a comparison that's being made with regards to the decision of using that particular single-edge sword.

And "being a single-edge sword" here is a technical description of the physical object.

But that quote is something worth writing down somewhere.
I understand that there are a lot of different points of view on the H1B. However, when people talk about "protectionism" around tech jobs, I feel it is important to point out that tech jobs are already far more open to international competition than almost all "upper middle class" professions like law, medicine, or dentistry, and that much of the objection to these visas is around programs specifically designed to use the immigration to increase the size of the tech workforce, not immigration in general. This objection is, in fact, absolutely consistent with support for a more generally pro-immigration outlook and even the "greater good" you have mentioned. In fact, I'd say allowing general immigration where immigrants are not obligated to study tech-specific fields to get into the US, and are free to choose a profession rather than having to work in a set of pre-defined fields, is far more pro-immigrant than restrictive tech visas.

Here's how many people who support immigration but are skeptical about the tech visas see the argument:

Claim: "there is a critical shortage of tech workers, therefore, we must change our immigration system to favor tech immigrants over other kinds of immigrants".

The response: "although immigration is generally beneficial, the evidence does not support claims of a specific tech worker shortage. Therefore, we should pursue a more general policy of immigration, and allow immigrants to respond to market signals when they choose a profession, just as free citizens and residents do".
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I'm sorry, where's the rant?

I didn't know there was a 10.10.3 patch - I never said there wasn't. OP said there wasn't, I said it remains to be shown. You're more than welcome to correct me on that.

I don't understand what my patch sentence has to do with whining - or how that is whining about the HN crowd?

It's still unclear what was unwanted about my original comment, so I can't really correct my behavior (which was what I wanted all along).
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