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Your likely somewhere in a pile of old resumes that new people call when they start.

Oh, cool. Thanks for bringing my other gripe about the Chicago scene.

Not to pick on your firm specifically, because I see this at other places like SEI and Aerotek too, but everyone is literally just out of college. And with zero tech experience. And nobody stays more than a year or two. I realize it's pretty easy to fill webdev jobs these days so maybe a tech/engineering background isn't quite necessary anymore but, MAN, you all really could benefit from some people with some experience and connections.

There's exactly one guy in the Chicago area whose calls I'll physically take because he knows his shit and has been doing this for 30 years. The rest of them are just...gone.
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I guess that means you don't want to be a public servant exposed to public scrutiny ?

That is part of the job.
Unlike sugary starbucks drinks, I never said milk was no different than coke.

Its not opinion, but by definition milk is not empty calories like sugary coffees and coke, because it contains nutritional value above food energy. But my opinion would be to avoid milk. Here is my quick analysis:

16 oz of milk is ~250 cal and ~25g of sugar, that is a lot of calories and sugar for the comparative nutritional value (minimal protein and vitamins). To put it in perspective that is 100% of the daily sugar intake suggested by the AHA yet only 1/3 the daily protein intake (for women).

Again one would be much better off replacing that 250 calories in a glass of milk for a breakfast of say 3 egg omelette with spinach (~250) on a daily basis because they would get much better nutritional value and avoid an inevitable sugar surplus. Really this circles around to my original point, if people are consuming even 100 calories from coffee in the morning, they are not really skipping a meal, because a healthy breakfast could come in 100 calories...that is an egg and slice of bacon or one egg omelette with a green vegetable.

So let me ask you if someone has a 120 calorie sugary coffee or 250 calorie glass of milk (100% daily sugar, 1/3 daily protein) in the morning, is that really the same as skipping a meal?
I meditate daily, and I'm part of a community that encourages it, but only after a thorough process of mental housecleaning. If you're full of un-dealt-with bitterness, anxiety, resentment, guilt, restlessness, shame, etc.—to say nothing of untreated mental illness or trauma—yeah, meditation is going to be a supremely unpleasant experience. Shutting out all distractions is only comfortable if you haven't been using those distractions to keep from having to deal with life.
I am a newb dev, so I am curious to know what you used to build the simulator. You name-dropped webgl, but what else is needed to put together something like this, with the nice drop down menus, the drag and drop, and all that?
Holy crap, I can't believe so much stuff is still animated on paper. When I was in the animation industry back around 2000 it was pretty clear that hunching over a light box was on its way out; I even worked on one project that was using traditional ink and paint for stylistic reasons (it was trying to look like an old 1920s cartoon) and the folks overseas thought we were crazy for doing this.
And Oculus, at the beginning (with the DK1), shipped a no-bullshit SDK with native code you could develop with. They did so with a minimum of other nonsense, licensing, and so forth.

They aren't the only vendors with this problem--Meta, Epson, and other folks in the AR space have purposefully gimped their platforms (esp. BT-200) citing "piracy" as the reason to lock developers out of their hardware or software.

I'm keeping perspective just fine on this: the fact is that practices have shifted from open platforms to closed gardens to make development "easier" and, more importantly, to try and moved to walled gardens before there's really anything to even fucking plant.
The iTerm feature at the end is very thoughtful. I wish other terminals provided that feature.
So wait a year or five before release. I understand that access to intermediate versions of documents while things are being hashed out can be a problem. Being able to reconstruct why a budget looks the way it does is really helpful.

There's also a volume issue.
OK, the big theme here is "innovation has slowed down, but this is being masked by all the activity around computers". So let's take a look at that.

Way too many smart people are tied up doing rather banal things with computers, or in finance. That's capitalism in action.

What isn't being worked on? Thiel is bothered by lack of progress in medicine. Medicine is now working on really hard problems, most of which are consequences of aging. Short of redesigning the human genome to eliminate aging, which may happen, those problems will remain hard.

There hasn't been much visible progress in aircraft in a while. Boeing is still building the 737, which first flew in 1967. Aircraft are lighter, quieter, more fuel efficient and safer than they were back then. But not cheaper.

The biggest societal problem is that we have less and less of a role for a big part of the population. The average IQ is only 100, remember.
C or Scratch.

Or, you know, encourage them to go outside and be physically active and interact with human beings.
Cookpad used to have a lot of foreigners and was considered to be one of the best places to work. From what I heard that has changed about two years ago, now most of the foreigners are gone and what's left is a fairly normal Japanese company with all the cultural aspects that that entails.

To me the average level of developers at most companies I know is just heart-breaking, many times they don't seem to be thinking on the right abstraction levels and instead treat development as something you just persevere through by pure exercise of will (which is of course exactly what you are rewarded for: put in long hours, results don't actually matter as long as you try your best, onboarding/training is limited to manners, how to clean the whiteboard and how to water the plants (not joking), your university education/diploma is considered worthless, hence why lots of people suddenly become "software engineers" with a law degree or a biology degree or an english major degree because tech jobs generally pay better). In the end in my opinion the prevalent culture/values are just not very conducive to becoming better at software (although it kind of works in hardware and on the outside definitely appears to work in services).
Not that I advocate this approach, but another way to look at FizzBuzz is as a personality test.

If a (senior) developer balks at writing FizzBuzz, perhaps it shows arrogance and a lack of humility. It could also be useful to see if the developer follows up to inquire as to why they were asked a FizzBuzz question, and about its relevance to the work. I see this kind of questioning as not only fair game, but good to ask about. Not asking about something that seems out of place could seem off.
You just described Mathematics.

For the longest time, it was just something I did because people told me to. They judged me on how well I could complete a problem so I did the problems...

I hope to god we don't go down the same path for Programming.
> If there are people who know PostgreSQL already and they have the tooling for it, then they want to reuse that stack.

I haven't ran into these people in all of my experience on-site with paying customers. I'm not saying you're wrong, just that either I've gotten very lucky with my sample, or they do exist, but they don't really matter from a product perspective.

For example, I have run into a few Ops teams who interface with separate teams who have DB admin roles. Universally, the Ops team prefers the included DB "feature" because it allows them to avoid the overhead of dealing with the database. It's unfortunate the "overhead" in this case is collaborating with the DB admin team, but it's the reality I see on the ground.

> If PuppetDB was to support multiple backends, then you would find that every organisation would want to run on their own stack.

I'm not sure that's true. I'm sure it's not true for _every_ organization. However, assuming it is true, I think it's a good example of why supporting multiple backends for PuppetDB would be a poor product decision. It wouldn't provide much value to Puppet the company or to their customers and it would increase the cost of support and maintenance tremendously for both parties.

The same applies to any on-premise software product. This is probably why pluggable backend data layers as a feature are so rare in on-premise commercial software products. Why bother?
I don't think this is a good URL change. It is not like http://conversationswithbillkristol.org is a blog spam for "Conversations with Bill Kristol". And the original site has video divided into chapters which is useful.
Nothing, as long as you have nothing to hide.
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Is she a teacher, doctor, outdoor enthusiast, or IT professional?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11753668
From a WCAG point of view you might want the top one instead, some screen readers read content in <em> in a different tone, which may not be intended.
You can see my response above, and I haven't used it in a year so I am not sure. My experience is based on using it for about a 1 week period once a year before getting frustrated. I started in ~2012-2013ish.

However, hbo go started getting developed in 06'.I am not saying it isn't difficult to do, but if you can't do video at scale in 2016 when your core product is video and you have 8-10 years of developer hours spent on it, I mean, what are you doing? The reason, if I understand correctly, it is pretty decent now is because hey bought/licensed mlb.coms tech.
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There was stuff dropping away … [and] electric shocks through my body. [My] core sense of self, a persistent consciousness, the thoughts and stuff, were not me."

This sounds to me like the beginnings of psychosis. I don't doubt that these feelings could be induced by meditation, but I do doubt that they would not have emerged in some other way.
Right-click hooking could be defeated by inserting a sequence number in the right-click menu and displaying the same sequence number somewhere in the browser window.

I will say that the people who generate event hooks in browsers need to pull their heads out of their asses before this kind of thing becomes necessary.
iTerm solves this problem from the other side- if you paste something that contains newlines, you get a confirmation dialog.

It defangs this vulnerability nicely.
Seems like if I really want to know what's going on at that level, I should really use something more simple, like a raspberry pi...
That's also a fantastic point.
Now you know that it fits their active, low-key lifestyle.
If this is white-labelled, why do you get a cut of what I sell it for? Aren't I hiring you to host/manage/support and I simply proxy support to you guys for the duration of the service?

Or are you billing my customers and sending me money? In which this sounds like an affiliate program more than anything.
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<em> is a semantic element, and doesn't necessarily have to be italic. There are lots of use cases for italic text outside of <em>s.
Can someone do a back of the napkin calculation to compare the performance of a quantum simulator with the real deal?
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you know, this was a pretty good rebuttal. The interesting thing here is that this is the total opposite of the internet. Content creators (and content) is virtually worthless and interchangeable, while the "catalog" is virtually everything. The internet version of the catalog can be a portal like hn/google/reddit ect, but the actual content doesn't matter.

Where as you correctly observed, the content is the only thing that matters for video.
In the sense that passwords are security through obscurity, yes. Please try to avoid using this trope except when it actually applies; obscurity in the design of a system, not a system keeping some information secret. See the difference?

As an extremely obvious example, imagine being able to screen getaway drivers whether or not their face is "on file". Now there's no "known wheelman Bobby was seen driving away with two other men". Helpful in avoiding detection, no?

Note that I'm not arguing in favor or against, just trying to play devil's advocate. There's a great deal of group think on these issues around here, and the Other Side never seems to get brought up.
Yes, switching TextEdit to default to Plain Text is the first thing I do after installing OSX.
If you're big and are a typical company bad at IT, AWS is a massive cost savings. Most HN readers probably aren't very familiar with the costing and the line item levels of bureaucracy in Fortune 500 enterprise IT that makes AWS bills of $200k / mo for maybe 10 lightweight websites (< 200k http requests / mo) on an intranet look like a stupid cheap bargain. Maybe the oldest crowds do, but past customers of mine have readily paid $5 MM / month for basically a couple Wordpress sites that are on 24/7 deathwatch by human eyes constantly because they've failed to ever get basic monitoring working or it's cheaper to have a human watch than to pay for resources that properly monitor the site for outages and simply reboot. The places that deploy and operate applications (and their infrastructure) like it's 1994 dominate much of the Fortune 100, federal, and state governments. For every hip project with containers and configuration management there's 20 legacy applications operated with legacy methods.

These companies want to buy software to throw over the fence to the same people and processes because they've invested decades in their creation and innovation / eliminating waste is so damn difficult in such a culture.
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> I want to get packets from the network delivered into a block of memory, and then all subsequent parsing and reading occurs on that memory, with OS provided framing and fine grained policy determining how things are interpreted by userspace.

well, as others have pointed out, dpdk / netmap are a couple of choices available for bypassing the kernel network stack completely, and get stuff directly into userland. once things are there, you can do all protocol specific parsing etc.

this essentially implies that what you 'see' in memory are mmap'ped ring buffers, not the so called PDU's that you are looking for. the number of protocol-stacks available in userland is, however, to the best of my knowledge, quite limited.

for example, there are couple of folks exploring the option of exporting linux-kernel's networking stack as a library under the N.U.S.E (networking in user space) project. details available here: http://people.netfilter.org/pablo/netdev0.1/papers/Library-O... (https://github.com/libos-nuse/net-next-nuse),

if you have a very specific application in mind that you want to tackle e.g. let's say acting as a transparent proxy, forwarding l2 etc. then things are kind of doable. implementing a generic very high performance stacks (where 2-3 cache-misses will wipe out your timing budgets) is kind of hard, imho...
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Well, considering that Swift was in development for 4? years or so before they announced it, it would make sense if they've already been working on a new API platform for a while. Something that pleasantly unites iOS+MacOS+Swift on the developer side, while letting those operating systems retain their differences and strengths on the user side.
This. I would be very much curious too, whether if this can have a cultural impact. If not, I'd say it's largely uninteresting. Sure they'll make a couple of successful developers, but I'd rather want to live in a society where people have proper understanding/respect to tech jobs than the same old society with a few math/programming prodigies.
> Meditation probably helped him discover it earlier than he otherwise would have.

Religious or Spiritual Problems is it's own section in the DSM-IV. While that particular issue isn't especially exciting, a lot of the symptoms that can manifest don't correspond with any other mental illness.
In a similar vein, BitNami makes money licensing full-stack open source components with an integrated installer. I used it/them for a few years and while I wasn't smitten, it got the job done until something better came along. If you want a one-click installer for your mvc + db app, it might be worth looking at.
FBI is using this data in the lowest most incompetent way. Entrapment, coercion, blackmail, harrassment, falsified evidence, perjury, illegal open ended investigations, is their m.o.

Corporations, foreign governments, cops, informants, christian hate groups all have direct or indirect access to this database. Why don't we?

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130723/00563923895/dojfb...
Exactly. It is even more exploitive if you know this.
Hbo has a very good catalog.
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The average film, at 1080p, is in my personal experience closer to 10GB+. 1GB maybe be enough, say, for a single TV episode.
One of the hardest, but also the most pressing issues is regarding population growth.

Should we artificially limit population growth? Can it be done in a way that isn't forceful, but perhaps with the right incentives?

Should humanity, as a global society push for quality over quantity in reproduction? Is basic income still feasible in this scenario?

It's an ethical and ideological mess and frankly, it'll require someone way smarter than I to come up with the answers.
I guess you call a 5 or 6 figure per-year free education, room and board, use of multimillion dollar facilites and training expertise, getting "paid nothing."

Minor league players don't make a lot of money. Sometimes they have to pay to play. They get chewed up and spit out broke for the most part.
This is the first flexbox-layout (I've seen) where the framework actually adds something. Bootstrap et al seem to have missed the momemt where their layout functionality became just a useless wrapper on flex.
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Try reading The Hard Thing About Hard Things and not rolling your eyes the 10th time Horowitz brags about hiring the best of the best of the best. If you took him literally no other company stood a chance against him since he had a lock on all of Silicon Valley's top talent.

Perhaps it builds the perception in those hired they are in fact the best.
The cynical view is adopted by some after having been employed by multiple companies, and discovering that they're mostly interchangeable. The majority of employers are not unique, are not offering anything special compared to other businesses, and should not be pretending otherwise by making candidates grovel like peasants trying to get a job working for the royal family. Most positions do not require a "match made in heaven", but many interviews are conducted in such a way that candidates have to jump through hoops to prove just how compatible they are.

I have yet to participate in an interview that focused on the quality of the employer-employee match, where I have not spewed nonsense in order to "pass the test". I remember an article that laid out how this can be viewed as a positive process; that it tests whether the candidate is capable of handling awkward situations diplomatically (or something to that effect). That we as a society consider being completely fake to be a good thing blows my mind.

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Question: Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

Given Answer: I'd like to work up from my existing position as a senior developer to a team lead position, and possibly another step up or two from there.

Real Answer: I love the work I do as a developer, and do not wish to climb the corporate ladder. I figure this might change as I get older, but for now I am happy with what I do.

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Question: Why would you be a better fit compared to another candidate?

Given Answer: The job listing mentioned X, and I have a lot of experience with X. The listing also mentioned Y, and I am very interested in gaining more experience with Y. I like element Z of your culture.

Real Answer: I match most or all of the requirements you mentioned in your listing. Every candidate you interviewed probably does. Just hire someone and see whether it works out for you.

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Question: Why did you leave your last job?

Given Answer: No opportunity to advance, or accomplished the tasks the employer had primarily hired me for.

Real Answer: Boss was incompetent, HR introduced unacceptable policies, or management put a stop to salary increases / bonuses that have been around for years.
It also doesn't try to distinguish the speakers, which is weird. (It could just be "speaker #1", "speaker #2", etc.) I'd have thought it would be a lot easier to distinguish voices than to understand the English words they are saying.
Nice! This will prevent activity stream spam.
If OP was turning down more work claiming to be busy when they weren't, they were wrong.
Sorry if this is the wrong venue to ask this, but any idea if/when Codeship will natively support you guys?

It's honestly my one hangup since we do all of our deploys there.
Eh, maybe. Everyone with facebook has unfollowed that crazy relative that posts their political rants. I think the vast majority of people don't care about axe grinders. When something does come up, people can go see for themselves. There's also the issue of volume. Something like 1/3 of the us workforce is employed by government.

Sure, there are crazy people out there. But they're going to be crazy anyway. I think this would make people take the crazy people even less seriously.
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The first half seemed to be about fear mongering but I found the last half more balanced. And discussing the Three Marks of Existence as the full breadth of what meditators are supposed to achieve was quite refreshing to read from a mainstream Western source.

Overall, what I got out of this article was that in some cases, problems can arise from engaging in contemplative practice. But these instances are rare and usually come about due to existing mental illness.
The article in question doesn't state that meditation was a cause of their problems, but pretty obviously details that people coming to meditation looking for ways to improve their lifestyle, instead began down a road to a much worse place.

While it might be unsurprising that meditation did not provide direct benefits to mind or body, it also failed to insulate or deflect these people away from new misery.

It's interesting to learn that the people described in the article had uncovered unsettling realities about themselves while meditating.

Knowing what I know about many people, uncompromising introspection is not something everyone would be comfortable with. Some people are jerks. Some people have their head in the clouds.

Grinding one's life to a halt, and taking a hard look in the mirror, is bound to derail an unrealistic world view now and again. But if, on the other side of an unceremonious introduction to cold reality, awaits absolutely no way to fix profound disappointment...

What then?