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Maybe with this 4M they can stop producing workflow crushing bugs. I'm getting a bit tired of explaining to my boss why first he can't search the code because our repo is too big, then search doesn't work in firefox, then when he gets through the diff/file is too large (we've only recently seen the syntax highlighting start to work too).

Then after someone does the work, then they can't assign the MR because of glitchy privs!

If anyone is reading this at gitlab, please don't take this personally. I wouldn't leave gitlab, I just need the core 80% of the functionality to work flawlessly, and my upgrades to work without half of my team moaning at me for having faith that this upgrade will be the gold edition we need.

Also like most people that I've spoken to, we're not interested in gitlab-ci at all (we already have a ton of buildscripts in jenkins). If we didn't like jenkins we'd be using stash/bamboo right now.
It should be possible to add this kind of obfuscation noise algorithmically. Real human activity isn't random, but it does follow certain patterns.
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How does one transition from perm to those kind of gigs? Are they reserved for top-tier talent only? Is there much outside of the City?
> if all other things are equal, we should try to reduce needless suffering as much as possible.

But all other things are never equal. So this near-consensus is useless in practical terms. The arguments always start over which other things that are not equal should affect one's decisions, and which shouldn't.

For example, take Singer's classic analogy between saving a drowning child at the cost of ruining your clothes, and donating to charity to save a child in a faraway country at the cost of some luxuries. Obviously a lot of things are not "equal" between these two scenarios, but Singer is claiming that none of those things matter: if you would save a drowning child at the cost of ruining your clothes, you should forgo luxuries to donate to charity.

But Singer ignores one glaring thing that is not equal, and which, IMO, does affect the choice you should make: drowning children are rare. That's why we have a moral consensus that we should save them even if it costs us a ruined set of clothes. If there were drowning children all over the place, and everyone was always having to drop what they were doing and save them and ruin their clothes and have to buy new ones, all the time, we would not have the same consensus. Instead, we would be asking why there are so many drowning children around, and would be taking different actions to prevent them from being at risk of drowning in the first place.

But that's exactly the position we are in with respect to world poverty. Poverty is not rare; historically, it has been the normal condition of almost all human beings who have ever lived. Those of us who are fortunate enough not to be in poverty cannot afford to treat it as if it were a rare emergency like a drowning child, because it's not rare, it's common. (It's hard for people who live in the developed world to see this because what defines the "developed" world is precisely that poverty, real poverty, is not common. In the US, for example, a "poor" person typically has enough food--in fact, too much, since a major health issue for the poor in the US is obesity--some form of shelter, access to public transportation, a cell phone, and an internet connection. That is not "poverty" by any reasonable historical definition--it certainly isn't compared to the condition of people in, say, sub-Saharan Africa. There are people in the US who are in real poverty by this definition, but they are very rare, so it's hard for people in the US to realize how common real poverty is elsewhere.)

So if we are going to fix poverty, we can't do it by helping individual poor people, one at a time. We have to fix it by asking why it is so common in the first place.
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CDs can be nicely packaged, but LPs are larger and seem to get more interesting and elaborate packaging. For example, a gatefold 2xLP is just a nicer object to me than the standard 2xCD case (and many double LPs are single CDs to boot). So on average, a nicer object. They usually come with a download card nowadays so you get the digital version too.

Another reason for me at least is that a lot of the vinyl I buy is directly from bands at their shows. In that case I'm getting the souvenir and I'm giving back something directly to the artists. It might just be gas money to get to the next town, but it's more than they'll ever see from Spotify.
great resources—plus, the close.io blog is fantastic (steli efti's company) with lots of nitty gritty sales tips: close.io/blog.
Isn't it possible that building cities near the coastline is, in the long view, a bad idea ?

Even without global warming or climate change or whatever, isn't it pretty dicey to put anything at 0-5 meters above sea level that is meant to last longer than a generation ?

Major population and infrastructure right on the ocean may be a hallmark of a fairly young civilization.
Well perhaps that is true but then you will experience a lot more mental incongruity. For example, gay and transgendered people have much higher suicide attempt rates. The more you deviate from traditional family values, the unhappier you will likely feel. There is a big correlation I bet.
The problems with LSD:

1 - it's incredibly hard to produce.

2 - it's incredibly hard to ensure something is pure LSD.

Those problems are not there for psilocybe mushrooms, for which the LD50 has never been found (read: it's totally safe).
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Yes, totally! :)
> a way of writing code where "might this crash?" is a question you're never bothered to ask.

Is that actually true? Yes, you won't get a partially written int, but you could still run into consistency issues if you don't lock. For example, if you need thread A to update both x and y to have a consistent state, and B is reading both x and y, A might update x, then the scheduler would switch to B, and be might read the new x and the old y. If the update A was making needed to update both x and y for the system to be in a consistent state, you have a problem.
Mine was HTTP/1.1 at 1.44s versus HTTP/2 at 0.54s. (connection speed: 330 mbps (ethernet->cable modem); client: chrome 46.0.2490.22)
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> The absolute worst example I can give is something like Hudson or Jenkins.

Though I agree with you to some extent, IMO you chose a bad example. Jenkins has one of the most shallow learning curve of any the tools I use, and doesn't require a lot of fussiness. If I can it to build from a terminal window, I can get it working on Jenkins in 30 minutes.

Might I suggest Appium for your example? The one where, in the official docs, it says "If install fails, keep trying to install a few times." Rest assured that you'll need those instructions. Gawd, I hate Appium.
This. This has little to do with social engineering and the compromised email account and everything to do with a company where standard operating procedure is to manually send $700,000 around based on an email.
How does the charity prevent the person from buying a bed net?

So you're saying that when a charity provides bed nets, it causes individuals to make the irrational and sub-optimal choice of using a bed net without purchasing it. And this happens frequently enough to significantly reduce the utility that a charity provides?

This doesn't seem very intuitive to me. I am curious if you have any evidence that you could point me to show this effect happening. I'd be especially curious how the presence of the charity causes people to act irrationally.
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Yep. You don't want to be the guy with $100 in a cup held out in front of you. Remember, it's almost as easy to dip a bill out as it is to dip one in.
socket.io is a big deal, and it breaks on 4.0.

I've not tried 4.1
There is something odd about the "business" of "selling" Adblockers.
John Gotti was widely "loved" by the same community he terrorized. There are countless examples of this throughout history. Certainly, a segment of the population is simply scared, but fear alone is/was not enough to keep power.
iAd's and not used on the web at all, they are only for in app ads.
The 'leveling' power of the web is an illusion. The web is controlled by those who have the resources to develop and distribute web browsers, which is a tiny elite at this point.

The leveling power was never about the web - it was inherent to the Internet and open source. What we needed was a true open-source app platform that was a community property the way Linux was. If we had that, it wouldn't matter what Apple did.

Unfortunately Google killed that dream with Android.
COBRA is not a realistic option for most people. Without the employer contribution, most health plans end up costing more than $1k/mo. That's too much for a steadily-employed person to afford, let alone someone who was just laid off.
Highly ironic that Gruber is complaining about blocking its website ads on the grounds that they're not annoying like other websites. Same with plenty of other Apple bloggers.

Guess what: adblocking because some ads are obtrusive is like killing a fly with a cannon. Or more like killing a fly with a nuclear bomb. No adblocker maker is going to start whitelisting every single non-obstrusive ad network. They're going to block most of them. Most users will not make the effort of whitelisting their favorite websites either, they'll just see some adblocking app on the Top list in the App Store, download it and forget about it.

Bigger websites will get smarter about ads. Probably more "sponsored" stories and similar things that you can't block. Smaller websites are going to have a harder time tho. All because some people can't understand that if you don't like obtrusive ads the best thing to do is to stop visiting sites with obtrusive ads.
This is pretty cool stuff. You get the RAD advantage of Python, probably easy to extend w/ new features, customization of real assembly, and then the assembling part itself. Nice tool. Assembly hasn't been this interesting since Microsoft started coding it in a proof assistant [1]. I like this better as Python is a bit more accessible. ;)

[1] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/nick/coqasm.pd...
This article is about salary negotiations, not software-engineering negotiations.

I was hoping this would be about negotiating feature sets and timelines, which would actually be relevant to the set of people working on software (rather than being relevant to the set of people trying to make money; of course there is overlap).
I am not complaining about the research that went into the article, but the content at least must be comprehensible.

My observations so far - the top gigs are the ones who are doing what they are good at.
A few examples -
https://uk.fiverr.com/ukulelebandito/write-perform-and-recor...

https://uk.fiverr.com/reverbdominatio/professional-voice-for...

I think Fiverr is for someone who can help others with their hobby, but I highly doubt if it can ever be fully grown into a professional freelancer network!?
Shameless self promotion (non-profit, though) but if you're interested in game preservation, and in particular, games that might not be worth a commercial re-release, the Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment in Oakland is always working to save stuff like Habitat.

We're running a Kickstarter right now, too, to move into a larger space. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/themade/the-museum-of-a...
14s vs. 0.5s (Safari / OS X El Capitan). Quite impressive.

I wonder if there's some setting wrong that makes this take 14s for me using http/1. Any ideas?

Edit: same with Chrome and similar on Sarafi/iPhone (6s vs 0.6). I wonder if the difference is magnified by higher latency because I'm in Europe? If yes, I guess http/2 is a godsend for all non-Americans.
This reminds me of the dungeon crawler in phantasy start I, one of my favs of all time. Also, Eye of the Beholder.
I'm assuming they renamed because they lost the USPTO trademark case against Zendesk [1] or just decided they didn't want to fight anymore.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner/2014/12/20/zendesk...
Genes are just part of the picture. Culture is as important - cultures evolve and are selected for fitness in almost the same way as genetics. This is a mammal thing, especially vivid in humans.

In fact, culture has been shaping genes far more than genes, culture. In the last 50,000 years Homo Sapiens genetic adaptation has increased manyfold, likely in response to environmental changes brought on by culture (agrarian societies, towns and cities, large-scale cooperative venture etc).

So the 'genes rule the organism' idea has been untrue for 1000 generations, for humans.
"Microsoft investigated and concluded that he had in fact been sexually harassing female employees." A quote from the article.
Huge branding change. Gusto does seem to me like a much better name than ZenPayroll. Wonder how much they paid for gusto.com...
Excellent observation regarding the street musician (busker) faring better with a little grease visible to potential audience / donors!

I'd like to point out that the music industry has long been a bastion of other techniques as well, some more underhanded than others, depending on one's moral compass. The notion of Payola is still alive and well, and has changed with the new music and marketing avenues. I'm not in a position to name specifics, but there's word of payment for review / features, which seems the most blatant. Personally I can attest to navigating all sorts of sketchy "Promote through us!" type operations that may or may not be doing legit advertising...

Getting a network of Twitter or Soundcloud followers - or appearing to have one - is a pretty standard objective, which I guess why there exist services or short-cuts to those ends.
It's a women's fashion publication. By the age of the models they use, their target market is girls age 15-25. (As opposed to tabloids or mags targeting an older range of women, see http://www.zoomermag.com/). Given that target market I can see why facebook might have been appealing ... ten years ago.

The young are walking away from facebook, women in particular. Most walked the day their grandparents and highschool teachers joined. But young women are really walking away these days because they find any picture of them on facebook is quickly harvested for use by some shady dating website. As one student expressed it to me, facebook has a "serious creep factor". So nobody should be surprised that a fashion mag lost money on facebook ads.

I'd suggest which form of social media is better for this market, but as I am not a teenager whatever I say will just make me look old and out of touch.
I would recommend a small variation of this technique in order to maintain good working relationships with your manager/employer.

Start with a conversation explaining why you believe you should be better compensated, highlighting the value you add to the company, rarity of your skills, market rates, etc.

If the request is rejected, or the increase offered is inadequate, then find an offer at another employer and use this to negotiate (or simply accept the offer and move on).

This approach shows good will, in that you gave your employer an opportunity to make things right before escalating to a threat of leaving.
Two things:

I went back to my original employer and said I had a new job offer for $70k, and I didn't want to negotiate, I just wanted their final, last ditch offer

That's an incredibly awesome way to have a huge target painted on your back. A lot of employers get really pissed at this tactic but won't say so to your face. They will gladly give you that new salary for just enough time to get a (cheaper) replacement on board. Then your salary is changed to $0.00.

I found a solid startup, _one_I_would_actually_work_at_, and tell them I make $100k (a lie, I added $20k to my current salary).

Welcome to the 2010s, where credit bureaus now run additional services for employers and HR departments. My company regularly uses The Work Number from Equifax. I pulled up my report and it has my salary history for the last 20 years on it. Perhaps working for small startups that can't afford this service will let you fly under the radar when it comes to bluffing about salary history (and don't get me wrong, I'm all for not letting your next employer know what you were making before), but you gotta tread lightly here.

https://www.theworknumber.com/

My opinion is that one should tell the new employer what it would take to make you jump, and that's it. If they can't make that number then you have your answer. That, or they need to make up the delta in other ways.
Thanks for your feedback! Your considerations are all very appropriate.

1. The demo site is very bare-bones right now. I had something more informative when I was targeting consumers, but right now, I'm having 1-1 conversations to introduce folks to the idea so the extra context isn't necessary.

3. I agree. And people really liked the app itself in early tests. But they were clear they wouldn't pay (and that they wanted a native app). So I'm testing institutional appetite now, and libraries are best-aligned with its mission.

Your idea about school-issued tablets is awesome! That didn't even occur to me...I'll have to check that out.
Why isn't this in the public domain?
"Until around 6 months ago I didn’t even know about ad blocking," The author who claims to be a "content marketer" was ignorant of ad blocking until very recently. This person is out of touch, and has nothing useful to contribute on this topic.

Resistance to ad blocking isn't futile. I haven't viewed ads on the internet for years, and it's been a great ride. I guess there will be an arms race of ad blockers vs new ads or new strategies to get people to view ads. I don't care anymore, and I'm sure many are with me when I say that I will actively avoid websites who pester me or impede my consumption of media. There's an ocean full of alternatives for any given place.
How? That's exactly what it's for. The attacker would attempt to sign in on their machine and would be prompted to enter a code.
How have your property rights been compromised through inaction at the federal level of government?
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People admiring Walter White was definitely a phenomenon (does not mean it was universal among the show's fans, just that it existed), and in some ways there are aspects of Walter's personality that are admirable in an individualist society: making money based on your own talents, being extremely competent or the best, self reliance in difficult situations. They didn't care about the horrible stuff he did and the lengths the show went to to explain to you that this is not a good guy.
Nursing is a _hard_ job, and tired/stressed people make mistakes. I would be interested in seeing data on patient outcomes before and after this change.
I was really confused initially, I thought these guys https://www.gousto.co.uk/ were already called Gusto.
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Does this mean those Amazon affiliate sites are illegal too? A lot of these sites review products as if they have used the them, but there is no way they could've paid real money for the dozens of products they review?

There are probably plenty of fakes, but if you're successful, brands will send you their products for you to review.
To be fair, this isn't just a problem with Bitcoin. Spear phishing attacks leading to fraudulent wire transfers are fairly common.
i think you missed the point.

Apple is not killing the ads, its killing ads in the browser. Content producers are just going to leave the web and do native apps with ads. On iOS, those ads are controlled by Apple. It's genious.

It's just a shame that the web is a casualty.
Interesting choice for a company trying to break into the HR space. It's not clear how to pronounce it.

Is it -g'oo'stow- or -guh'st'oh-?
They also need a sustainable pension and savings plan, if you divert too much taxes out of that you'll end up actually needing that care much more than you think.

Some of those systems don't work in the long run, the rent control in Sweden results in each available apartment getting thousands of requests with people actually waiting decades to get an apartment, and this isn't some low income housing this is just because the majority of the apartments in places like Stockholm are rent controlled and managed by the government.
I am also skeptical. Quoting from http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/2006/02.23/05-ap.html :

> The study by researchers at Harvard University and the University of Virginia (UVA) found the best predictors of success in college science courses to be high school classes that foster mathematical fluency, value depth over breadth, and feature certain types of laboratory work.

The study appears to be https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/smg/ficss/research/articles/Scie... . Table 4, model D, page 14 shows that science grades, followed closely by math grades, are much better than the English grade at predicting "College Science Grade". (It does not specifically pull out physics.)
i was hoping that the article was going to discuss the issues that you're very nicely outlined
Go get, use and improve them:

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/talc/

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/nick/coqasm.pd...
Probably to avoid confusion with Zenefits, as well.
They also announced benefits. Could be to avoid confusion with Zenefits.

Too many "zen" companies...
Just a clarification the difference in cost-per-byte stored is 25% (1.25 cents vs 1). The rates are all so small it's hard to see that but when you say $12.50 vs $10 per TiB/month, I think that makes it more "visible". As you get into the PiB range ($10k/month on Nearline) and then consider storage for a year you've got a difference of $30k/year/PiB. For individuals doing a small backup even 25% isn't huge in absolute numbers, but in the petabyte range it matters a lot.

Disclaimer: I work on Compute Engine (and not GCS or Nearline).
I wonder if they already knew about http://www.gustoemail.com/
> A more prominent and successful company would have jettisoned him as soon as it found a qualified and, in all probability, more loyal applicant.

Even a successful company needs good engineers. They don't fire people just because they're "not loyal". Sure that medium sized company might want to replace you with a cheaper more "loyal" version, but what is their capability to do so? Beyond loyalty is dollars and cents.

I would say it's a solid tactic assuming the developer would actually go and work at those other companies. Worst case scenario of this tactic is that you tell them you've got a better offer and they tell you to go take it. Even then, you could likely backtrack and explain how in your heart of hearts you decided it wasn't the move you wanted to make. Unless you're underperforming in some other area, I've not met a software company that can afford to toss out good engineers.
2 factor doesn't protect against phishing. It's trivial for a phishing site to ask for a 2fa code, and then immediately use that to sign in on your behalf.