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State and Federal government has done "No Negotiation" for a while. Based on your experience (and they usually have hard guidelines) you fit into a specific grade/step. Generally, the only 'negotiation' you can do is to try and sway their guidelines. "I feel that even though I have 2 years of work experience I had extensive internship experience that should move me from a step 3 to a step 5." (But, everyone in a step 5 makes the same) And even then some (my state govt) still limits where they can put you. Eg, programmers make between $X-$Yk. You cannot make more starting than ($Y+$X)/2 even if you invented the tech they're using.

A lot of 'cool jobs' pay shit anyway. I moved from a 'boring job' to a 'cool job' and took a very slight pay cut (although I did negotiate). But, I enjoy the work a lot more. There are tons of people who want to work at startups or places like stripe/reddit and are willing to take 'shitty pay'. Even if they allowed for negotiation the pay would still probably be less than what you get.
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I apologize, but have you read the actual post? @kjs3
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That's not true. Quality and agile process are almost orthogonal. It is entirely possible to develop extremely high quality software within an agile environment and very possible to develop extremely poor software using waterfall.

Agile doesn't mean "every engineer working on whatever they wanted."

Ultimately quality software results when developers place a priority on writing correct software and when management is truly committed to creating high quality software and all of the expense that includes.
Well of course they'd defend it. The EPA would look like idiots if they admit they approved something that made a disaster worse.
>A 10 year old computer ought to still be usable.

Usable maybe, updated with new OS updates though?

Those either costs money to develop (if we're talking point, security etc updates to long dead OS versions), or stalls the development of new features (if any new OS version must run in 10 year old PCs).
Maybe because I'm introverted and don't care what my friends are eating?

There you go.
The question why people are so bad at intuitively weighing harm is a different but interesting question. There have been some studies that suggest that there is an inverse relationship. When asked how much money they would give to save 2 lives people offer less than they do when asked to how much they would give to save 1 life. Not less per life, less total. As the number of lives goes up, what they offer goes down. This may have something to do with abstracting the harm. With torture it's easy to understand what's happening. With a single death it's harder to fathom how much is lost. The thousands that die in traffic each year hardly register.

The incompetence of humans to intuitively make moral judgements is precisely why we should think rationally about morality rather than emotionally.
I'm sure a lot of folks will disagree with me but as someone who doesn't use twitter i find this absolutely delusional. Even if you do use twitter I can't imagine the perceived importance of this and all the media traction didn't get at least a chuckle out of you.
In the old days instant messenger didn't work if the other party was offline, it didn't usually support more than 1 recipient, and it was just stuck in proprietary programs as it is these days. SMS is too short.
I countered and said there are people out there that do not want to fill their phone with endless apps.

Yup...things are in fact different now.
Preview. The banding is pretty odd (the bands have gradients _within_ them, it's weird), and is also displaying artifacts from OS X's default window-transparency settings. Turning those "down" helps, a bit, but there's still banding. I don't see an option to turn it off completely. So I'm not sure where to point the finger.
I've added some notes to the end of the article that clarify this.
> American workers

... getting cheaper services due to cheaper labor cost in other industries.
They also getting better employment opportunities, because companies grow faster with better selection of labor.

In addition to that immigrants are more likely to hire in the future, so it also improves opportunities for American workers.

> US government

... wins, because there are more employees to tax and corporations have higher profits.

> The system is being abused.

... by politicians, restricting access to jobs to some categories of workers.
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Ah good, now we're talking specifics. Does REPORT ZONES not point to this conventional section always? I cannot wait for a FORMAT ALL ZONES or something command to control the number/amount of conventional sections at the sacrifice of capacity, though it looks like it's not coming.

The power guarantees in the zbc spec (as of r03) seem to not be held by some drives. Writing less than a full zone seems to be a bad idea.
I'm not sure anyone is saying we'll never have self-driving cars (in the sense of summon a car from an app). The debate is whether it's 10 years or 50+ years.
You get me.
Amazon plays games with terms like "durability", meaning that the data exists. That doesn't mean that it is accessible by you or available in its entirety.

Microsoft is definitely more straightforward in its claims. O365 for my org was in Midwest, midatlantic, and southwest, giving us a really good continuity story.
Well, if you believe you are qualified and have graduated from a top non-US univ with a PhD and have done research, O1 isn't as hard as it sounds. I'm from India and spent a few years in Europe at a lab post-PhD and came back on an O1. Many of my colleagues form the EU lab have made their way to Silicon Valley via O1. It is difficult, but you don't need a Nobel/Fields/Turing to get that visa.
That brings the list of states with outright bans to Arizona, Iowa, Louisiana, Montana, Nevada, New York, and Washington. That is a rather diverse set of states that probably wouldn't appear together on many other lists. By my rough math, they also amounts to roughly 15% of the US population that DraftKings and FanDuel are unable to accept money from. These companies have to be in full crisis mode at this point and it is hard to imagine they exist in the same form a year from now without some major reform.
Yes. I actually (re)read it with some care as I couldn't fathom how vapid it was and wanted to give you the benefit of the doubt.
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C-level, I meant executives :)
I'm an ex Google Apps user and now a happy FastMail user. I left Gmail for many reasons, some technical (poor IMAP support, unhappy with the available clients) and some ideological (I don't want to vote with my wallet for monocultures). However ...

> Have your own domain for emails

Gmail allows you to own your domain. You just subscribe for Google Apps, at $5 / user / month, which is reasonable.

> If you don't pay for the product, you are the product

Well, with Google Apps you very much pay for the product. But I don't agree with such thoughts not even for the free Gmail. Yeah, it's a cute line, but has nothing to do with reality, the reality being that products being sold have to be produced, the essence of capitalism being to lower the costs and increase the scale, turning sold products into commodities and users, by being people, are anything but commodities, being in fact entities that in comparison with hardware or whatever, can always get pissed off or switch to a competitor. Such lines also assume a very simplistic view of the producer / consumer relationship. Cash changing hands is nice, but in our world an ecosystem is much more complex than that, much like how in nature there's a very complex and life creating relationship between predators, cattle and grass, each link in that food-chain being essential for the survival of everything else. And the genius of Google has been to recognize that the welfare of users is paramount to their success, though unfortunately they seem to forget that ever since Google+ and Vic Gundotra.

More realistic would be to say that a zero price tag is in fact subsidized with something else, as there's always an implicit cost. The cost of the free Gmail is lock-in. And just like in nature where monocultures are unhealthy for everybody, free Gmail is hurting competition and worse, they are dropping the ball on standards. So Android is my favorite mobile OS, but can you believe that Android doesn't have a modern, well designed and standard email client? I mean, you're good as long as you're a Gmail user. Exchange also works. But for plain IMAP? Say goodbye to push email and to basic functionality, like archiving by swiping. They should also be ashamed that Android doesn't support CalDAV or CardDAV out of the box, though granted you can buy some add-ons.
I'm at a small BigCo. We have a few pilot agile projects. Based on what I see them doing, and what I read in the article, it looks like scrums are two week death marches.
I must be odd because I enjoy Gmail as it is and their Inbox app as well. Both the desktop and mobile experiences are excellent for everything I do.
This AWS re:Invent 2015 talk by Dave Hahn is also really illuminating: A Day in the Life of a Netflix Engineer (Using 37% of the Internet)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mL3zT1iIKw

Interesting to me that they use Atlassian Confluence for team stuff. Thinking of testing it out as well...
Hi Theo!
As a french from centrale lille who already worked as an intern in San Diego your story is frightening.

I have a new intern offer in San Diego (I love this city) with a very good possibility of being hired after. Hope I will get my HB1 but if not I won't mind cheating like Indians.

Easiest way to get a green card is getting maried. As a french you should have used your French bonus of +5 attractiveness with girls :P

H1B game is fucked up for europeans anyway.
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great link! thanks for posting fitzwatermellow. Adding to the ScaleScale original post and giving you credit.
You are correct. The Constitution is there precisely to allow you, and people who disagree with you, your opinions.
So can you cancel without being hassled excessively or not? The founder of the business just stated right up the thread there that there's no self-service cancellation and they always exchange a few e-mails with someone who is cancelling.

Personally, I am usually happy to give feedback to fellow business folks, and I wouldn't be offended if someone politely asked for it from a service I was cancelling. However, if a single reasonable action to cancel and no further contact resulted in my card being charged because I didn't play along, that service should not expect a happy outcome.
> Responding to change over following a plan

Which, in reality, leads to everyone working on random things, just adding features and somehow patching bugs.

But often refactoring the system, rewriting subsystems, etc is necessary.

> Working software over comprehensive documentation

If your software is working, but there is no documentation, this might work well for a website, but as soon as you go into control systems for the heating of the ISS, or go into railway control systems, or systems that measure the optimum way of packaging a package at an internet retailer, documentation is everything.

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The agile manifesto works kinda, but, to quote a professor, especially the "as long as it works, we don’t need to know what we are doing or have documentation, leads to you carrying all that technical debt around with you all the time".

One of the largest european internet retailers fixed their code quality problems by forcing teams to release all code shared between two teams to be released under Apache License on GitHub. Suddenly developers started caring about code quality, reusability, and maintainability.
Do these retired people have sweatshop income?

> Median Income 25-44	$78,810

That's not much higher than $60,000
Which means that about 35% of workers get "sweatshop" income of $60,000 or less.
or software which could automate the flight path similar to a drone.
> ... and you dealt with your feelings in what seems like a mature manner that caused no professional harm to you or her.

Thank you.

> Where's the problem that needs solving?

I was responding to Mz's post about how men who were not attracted to her reacted negatively to her. My point was that men who are attracted can be just as difficult.

It's fine if you don't see the problem based on my personal situation. In fact, I prefer it that way...
Yes, I know that Flash can be manually kept up to date. However, it's nice to have Google taking care of that issue via updates to Chrome.

Regardless, for me it's more about risk management. What's the more likely scenario? That an attacker compromises my internal network in order to launch attacks on my son's OS X box to compromise it via some known service exploit or an attacker serving malware that targets Flash vulnerabilities via a compromised host or ad network?

I tend to read more about the latter category than the former.
> Working software over comprehensive documentation

> Responding to change over following a plan

These statements from the agile manifesto are directly opposite to any kind of quality software. Documentation and Code Quality are some of the most important features. Your software is not working if it doesn’t exactly match its documentation.

You can live with that in web software, but you’d end in jail if you tried to write security critical systems like that.
Previous discussion of other, recent articles about Tsu:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10520025

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10519875

tl;dr Tsu is a spam factory, and, as a user of Facebook, I'm glad they blocked it.
We make prediction market software for companies to use internally: https://cultivatelabs.com/forecasts if you want to chat sometime.
This. This. This.

Instagram is killing twitter when it comes to short-form public social profiles. Depending on the hash tags, you will get likes instantly for your photos. The narcissism and instant gratification can be very addicting.

With twitter, you either need a re-tweet, or a "favorite," which clearly doesn't work well because no one wants to "bookmark" tweets.

To me this looks like an attempt to grab some of the "slacktivism" clicking that Instagram and Facebook provide by copying the metaphor with the lower barrier to entry.

To the newest kids on the block (in the literal sense), Twitter could position itself as "Instagram for Text." If that makes any sense, and it catches traction, you could see instagram responding by allowing posts without pictures, etc.

The closer these networks get to each other with form and function, the fiercer the fight could be. Which in Twitter's case is a good thing because they've been losing.
Well, pretty much most people I know have had successes with O1 -- myself included. I work at a SV startup and while the process is onerous, if one is qualified, O1 is quicker to get and has fewer constraints attached to it. OP of this post was bemoaning that while he/she, a PhD couldn't get in the country, others less qualified than him/her could get in via H1B gaming. I merely suggested an alternative. If the OP indeed thinks he/she is more qualified, than the OP could apply via the O1 route.
You can do via, but not for public transport, and indeed it magically hides the add destination button if you're not in one of the modes it supports (including if you're in the auto-mode and it's suggested a public transport route).

I can kind of see their reasoning, since public transport is often time dependent, but often I don't care about specifics, I just want to get an idea what links exist, and how long I'm going to spend in transport visiting a bunch of places.
A word to the author: Please proof read your writing.
Nuclear would definitely solve the endurance problem. Since there's no weight margin for shielding, a few minutes of fuel would suffice for a lifetime supply.
Not a big fan of gofmt, but oh well. (I prefer more whitespace, both spaces and newlines, than K&R formatting would like)

Otherwise, the go built-ins are usually the "get on with it" win.
OK, that is appreciated. However, must every "exasperation" in written blog form be worthless if not long-form genuine journalism?...

FYI the post was not intended to be journalism. Sorry for the confusion.
On this, the writing app Ulysses for the Mac had my favorite trial. I think it was an 8-hour trial? But it was 8 hours of use. I remember coming back to it late in the day after downloading it and thinking, "crap! My trial." The timer hadn't ticked down at all, even though the app was open in the background. The timer only went down while I was typing.

I like a lot of the features of the app, but it would be a lie to say this trial thing didn't push me over the edge into a "buy."
It is bizarre and alarming that anyone is questioning the right to free speech on taxpayer-funded land.
That's not true, by either the letter of the law or the spirit of it. I own a business, and I post my email publicly because I want people to contact me. Some of those people will be selling me things--I want that! It's true that I end up with a lot of spam as a result, and that sucks, but it's better than never receiving unsolicited business email.

Sending unsolicited email to consumers is, indeed, spam. B2B is different.

EDIT: CANSPAM (US) is a bit ambiguous on this point. (Helpful blog post: http://customer.io/blog/Send-email-without-unsubscribe-link-...) CASL, its Canadian equivalent (I'm Canadian) is very clear on this point, though--unsolicited B2B to a publicly posted email address is a-ok, as long as it's not automated.
My school defined a full time student as 15 credits per semester, which would work out to 5 classes most of the time (some you get an extra credit for a lab). THe expectation being that you will probably spend 1-2 hours outside of class for each our in class. That works out to 30-45 hours a week, so pretty much full time hours.

They also wouldn't let you take more than 20 credits in a semester without written permission as it is too likely you will fold under the pressure. I did 18 credits once and it was a pretty horrible experience.
This decision baffles me.

What possible benefit to New Yorkers is there to not allow them to take bets, if things like state lotteries are still legal?

We let people drink and smoke but people can't enjoy putting money on fantasy sports.

I'm not in the state, but I'd consider myself a power user of those sites, so perhaps I'm only disappointed that alot of easy money just left the system.

If these sites didn't have the people(NFL and Jerry Jones) and money(see people) behind them that they do, I'd be a bit more worried about their future.

Is this just some state's working on an endgame to be able to tax fantasy sports revenue that comes from their states?

This is the same state that outlawed pinball until someone proved that it was a game of skill.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/atlas_obscura/2015/05/29/pinball_...

That's it, its time I took this into my own hands, and went on a major winning spree to prove that fantasy football and hockey are really games of skill and not chance:)
On second thought you're probably right; this API will probably break in a couple years and my player won't work anymore, just like everything else that tried to use createJavaScriptNode in the past is now broken.

Hopefully the web workers transition is the last...
Reminds me of this summary from Marc Cooper, about the 57 days he spent in 1973 at the Hotel Geneve in Mexico City, waiting with eminent journalist Marshall Frady for an interview with Fidel Castro, all on Playboy magazine's expense account.

http://www.thenation.com/article/remembering-marshall-frady/

Teaser:

"Without my knowing it, Marshall had rented us two IBM Selectric typewriters. The plan, he also announced, was for him to write a proposal for his next book – a bio of Billy Graham. My task, he told me, was to write a proposal for a book about my experiences in Chile as translator to President Salvador Allende.

"I had no idea how to proceed. But Marshall had his own special discipline. The afternoon the typewriters arrived he went to the pharmacy next door to the hotel and bought – as you could back then – a roll of amphetamine tablets. Then he bought a fifth of J&B and, at sunset, locked himself in his room."
That's all just horribly inaccurate.

There is no aspect of agile development that means that 'quality' (whatever that means!) cannot be delivered.

Forget all of the fancy words and meetings and tools and techniques. At the core, agile development is about breaking work down into manageable, deliverable, testable parts, and being able to flexibly respond to changes in requirements when they inevitably happen – the goal being to ensure you are always building the correct thing.

You're right that this might not be appropriate for some systems – particularly those where there are unavoidable complex, cross-system dependencies that define acceptance. That's fine – traditional engineering approaches are suitable for these cases.

But the idea that agile development is anything to do with "without oversight and every employee was working on whatever they wanted." is a complete nonsense.
But you don't need to search. Open maps.google.com, then type the address and click on the arrow; it'll open the two directions input screen with the destination already filled in. Now you can just choose the origin (e.g. click on "my location") and it'll show you the route.
That's fine when you have a single patch/synth, but most projects have anywhere between a handful and tens of different synths.

Novation have made automap systems for about ten years now. NI have made them for a couple of years.

But aside from touch panel toys like the iPad and the Lemur, and some high-end mixers, I still haven't seen a system with more than eight knobs/digital labels.

It wouldn't be hard to design one. Unfortunately in a market where $200 is a lot for a controller, it's hard to make a project like that profitable.
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I let the example chess program run 4 times and the each time white (the un-optimized version) won. Granted that is not enough times to prove anything but funny anyway.
If they had a massive influx of paid users, they would have been able to spend their way out of their scaling problems by first buying server resources and then hiring.
Honestly, there are enough problems with the article to warrant a critique. However, someone may not want to take the time to outline every single one. It's incredibly confusing to the reader that the article states Netflix relies on frameworks for one language, and then states that all of their code is written in another language.
Someone at Netflix did a talk perhaps it was about Falcor. They use React embedded in browser apps across all devices. So they use Javascript on the front end. They use Node.js as the proxy server / router with a framework called Falcor which is written in Javascript. Falcor queries all the multitudes of services and databases then caches that data in a graph. Falcor reaches out to all the servers and databases, scores or services, that are written in Python and Java.
> Are you saying that there should be no restrictions on foreign workers in the US?

May be no special restrictions at all (people are supposed to be equal, right?).

But we can start with reducing existing restrictions.

For example we can keep these restrictions:

- Background check (no criminal past)

- Revoke Welfare benefits for 5 years.

- $1K Green card processing fee.

- 1 month Green card processing time.

?

Don't you think that these restrictions are significant enough?

Do you need more restrictions in order to get ahead of foreign workers?
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