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Thank you very much for writing this. The staggering smugness I saw, and continue to see, from Reddit threads about how people that voted leave most be slack jawed morons who don't even know what the EU is made me really frustrated. Apparently divisive rhetoric and a sane discourse on politics isn't possible on either side of the aisle (or the Atlantic for that matter.)
Why are you asking questions?? I think you must have something to hide...
I'm thinking I'll be fired, and then because staying in US without an employer even for a day is illegal, I'll be forced to go back.
Maybe I'm living in the past and haven't been informed, but is Bluetooth still unsecure?
Looks neat from the pictures, but only supports Microsoft Windows currently.
I just came back from a 5 day holiday. I was working so much on my own project that I burnt out. It took me a few days to realize what was going on since my project was getting easier and yet I felt a lost in motivation.

So I locked my computer up, took a road trip for 3 days and did literally nothing for another 2 days. I started working again yesterday afternoon and was quite surprised how much more agile my mind has become.

It's hard to let go and relax sometime when there is always so much to be done. I think we are need to realize everyone is human and every few months we need some break no matter if we feel like we do or not.

After working for 10 years now, I now realize that nothing is really every that urgent. No matter what anyone tells you. Its your perception (or your boss's) that make it urgent, but objectively, it probably isn't.

The world won't stop spinning just cause you took one more day to finish something. Burn yourself out, and it may even take up more time.
Please, don't use misspelled words in kids' products!
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Pretty much the only reason I can touch type is from smack talking people during Quake sessions
I'm not so sure I agree about access, but I totally agree about excel. I mostly use Mac and but I will always keep a Windows box around if only to run excel.

Sometimes that's the tool you need for the job, and no other will work as quickly or as well. The windows excel team knocks it out of the park pretty much every time.
You don't even need to be a good programmer to make 70-80k

You can be a really bad one, that's still upper middle class in much of America , and not to shabby even in high price cities like LA
While we're on the topic, can we sentence BP to death?

They destroyed the livelihoods of thousands, if not millions of innocent people, and thoroughly polluted huge swaths of the Gulf of Mexico coastline (and a bit of the Atlantic coast, as well). They caused the biggest single environmental disaster in United States history, and it was due to negligence.

If this wasn't an accident, but rather a deliberate attack "in the name of Islam", we would have gone back into Iraq. It would have been 9/11 all over again, but with far more actual damage caused. But since they're a company, they get a slap on the wrist and keep on going. (I'm exaggerating, I know they paid a lot, but they're still more than alive and kicking. I just wish their stock tanked more after the Brexit vote.)

If you want to make an example of a company with a clear-cut case, you can't really do better than this. They committed mass destruction of the Southern coastline. Seriously, if this was intentional it would be a war crime.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_Modification_C...
Limited liability doesn't protect you from the value of a stock being wiped out. Lehman Brothers was a limited liability corporation but anyone holding their stock during the bankruptcy was still stuck with worthless stock or debt that they couldn't recover in the proceedings. The current fine mechanisms are inadequate and can't properly realign incentives against breaking laws that carry civil penalties, especially in a case as blatant as VW's cheating.

Perhaps increase fees/taxes on "toxic" shares in companies that have broken significant laws with intent or maybe force these companies to settle by issuing diluting stock that goes to agencies responsible for cleaning up the mess. Or even tax revenue instead of profit on these toxic shares which would create a huge incentive, especially for executives and large stock holders.

The point is to tweak and realign incentives, it doesn't have to be passing on extreme financial liability to shareholders. Most investors can't take a huge hit on their portfolio like a company with tens or hundreds of billions of dollars of revenue can.
This article had more assumptions in it than examples of assumptions it was complaining about.
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(I got through about half the article)
I think making the analogy to Christianity and chivalry is simply a way for Nitobe to communicate the way samurai were percieved and it seems a bit dramatic to lay it all at his feet as some kind of grand manipulative agenda.

The Meiji era (and the Taisho era after it) were times of a very bizarre "formalization" of japanese culture. Like other comments mention, things like karate, kendo, ekinaba, art of sword making, etc. etc. were all formalized and unified under one umbrella at this time. Before say "karate" you'd have different schools teaching different martial arts under different names around the country.

I actually don't have a very good grasp on why this happened
Depends on the devices. My car, for instance, has about a 50% chance of successfully hooking up to my iPhone.

BT needs fewer features and better implementations. But apparently interop and reliability are not sexy enough for the BT standards folks to worry about. Can you imagine TCP/IP being in the same quality hole that Bluetooth is in?
If all affected countries punished VW as hard as the US, the cumulative fine would be hundreds of billions. That would indeed be a death penalty. In fact, 15 billion is disproportionate in my opinion.
> Why does teaching programming have to result in a programming-only job?

At the last local Python meet up I went to I sat next to a sociologist who writes code for data analysis and visualization and a 3D artist who wanted to script up Blender. If social scientists and artists are programming, I'd say it is a useful skill across a broad range of disciplines.
Yes, thank you. I moved from Chicagoish midwest to central Kentucky two years ago, and everyday I still experience cultural shock at the overall compassion and friendliness of most people here. True community-based values and socioeconomic success start with human goodness toward one another, not statistical or engineering research.
It's easy to get cynical about business and politics. But, sometimes people push for ideas not only because they can exploit the results, but also because they might be good ideas for lots of people in general.

1) It is generally expected that the skills involved in software development will be increasingly important for high paying employment and the general advancement of the state of the world. That's not a claim that being specifically a "Software Engineer" is important. But, that already "Nearly half (49%) of all jobs that pay more than $58,000 require some coding skills" [1] The kid might grow up to have a job that involves analyzing a lot of data, or running a lot of simulations, or designing something that requires more aid than a pen and paper can provide (ex: synthetic biology). Either way, that kid is going to end up doing a lot of work that looks a lot like software engineering in practice --even if it doesn't say "That Kid - Software Engineer" on that kid's business card.

Even beyond "some coding skills", it is recognized that the systems thinking, systems design and systems architecture that is inherent in software engineering is increasingly important for highly-paid technical work moving forward.

2) Very few actually "hire only the top 1%". If that actually was the case, 99% of software engineers would already be unemployed. The "hire only the top!" meme is more of a reminder that it's not often a good idea to go cheap and hire lots of low-cost warm bodies to fill out your project. Hiring cheap is the natural tendency of all management. So, they need a catch phrase to knock themselves out of that norm.

[1] http://www.content-loop.com/why-coding-is-still-the-most-imp...
The difference, obviously, is that it's not literal. In a corporate death penalty, no one is dying, everyone can bounce back and have a second chance (or third, or fourth, etc.) at success. With a real death, that's it. The end of consciousness.

I'm sorry, but I find the comparison ludicrous, despite the name.
And a high chance that one day they'll lock him up and throw away the key, Chelsea Manning-style.
Anecdata as a counter example: Germany has a really high density of stores (I am living in Berlin and have ~10 supermarkets within 1km distance) and is also known for its extremely cheap groceries. The margins of the supermarket chains are razor thin, but the high density of stores is one of the reasons why you don't need a car at all in bigger German cities - in addition to good public transport.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11991489
Finally, it getting closer bringing so much hopes.

Thanks aws team.
I don't like programming with proportional fonts as much because they tend to be narrower than monospaced fonts. To get the same on-screen indentation, I end up using more spaces, and it's easier to have an off-by-one different in indentation, which is troublesome if I'm using Python, and which really bothers me if I'm using C++.

Aside from that, I like having nicely-aligned tables in my code, and it's sometimes useful to align conditional statements across lines. Monospaced fonts just fit into my workflow a little bit better.
Actually there is something like that in the internationalised DNS standards (that is, internet domain names that look like .xn--xyz-abc sometimes and .日本 other times.) There's a blacklist of certain Unicode characters that are disallowed in domain names because they resemble more commonly used characters. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack
The time it takes to go into burnout is supposed to be the time it takes to restore yourself.
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As a broader industry, we practice shameless elitism and seem to be making real-world software development more inaccessible to non-experts. As professionals. we deride RAD tools and "drag and drop" development, and show geek love for ever-more abstract modes of thinking like Functional Programming that a small percentage of working developers, let alone the general public, will grasp.

Yes. Look at what happened to HTML, which was supposed to be simple. Up to HTML 3.2, there were good WYSIWYG programs such as Dreamweaver which could do a good job of page layout. Then came CSS, div/clear/float layout, vast amounts of Javascript, and a mess so complex that HTML became only an output language for content management systems. Yet most of the pages look about the same.

The complexity of simple business applications has increased substantially since Visual Basic, yet most of them aren't doing anything that profound. (I occasionally point a finger at Soylent, which built an elaborate IT infrastructure for a site that averages about two sales a minute.)

The annual web infrastructure fads aren't helping. Some of the biggest sites run on rather vanilla infrastructure. Instagram runs on Postgres. Wikipedia runs on MySQL with Ngnix caches. Do you really need NoSQL?
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There is no objective top 1%. 99th percentile for one job might be 9th percentile for another.

Also teaching programming is more about technical skills and literacy than making literally everyone employed as a programmer.
Bankruptcy is probably the closest currently existent analog (and bankruptcy sometimes does come about because of fraud or other malfeasance).
The employees most likely will recover but the company won't. So there is no bouncing back for the company, it's not getting a second chance if it's discovered that a mistake has been made. So in my opinion the comparison can be made.
The subject wanting this is "Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni" (Authority for Communications Guarantees) which is the regulator and competition authority for the communication industries in Italy.

They say:

> To compensate the TLC companies, the TLC companies could be allowed to collect money from the customers wallet (phone credit). [...] Or maybe (those messaging apps) should just avoid the Italian market.

This is just primitive and retrograde, I can't believe I am reading this.

All they are doing is making the interest of TLC companies which in Italy have a long and repeating history of charging the users with unjustified costs.

In Italy, not so long ago, there was just one national (country ran) TLC company (SIP) which at the time had almost prohibitive costs for connecting to the Internet and using it in a continuative way.

After the market became private, competitors arose and prices started to fall but they never got as cheap as the most developed countries because one of companies (the once country ran one called SIP then renamed Telecom) is still the only one responsible for the country-wide cabling and all the new competitors have to pay for the renting of the cabling, so they all together form a pole of interest that keep leveraging on the long-instilled mentality in the consumers that they had to be subject to higher fees.

This sucks and it's just a "modern" attempt of re-balancing those TLC companies profits on this same principle again after the coming of messaging apps that had for once brought back a sane competition in the market.
> VW is worth $73 billion

According to Google finance, its 56 billion, and probably less after this news. The US branch is probably worth 10% of that, or 5.6 billion. That way, the 15 billion are basically a three-fold death penalty.
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It seems that the fundamental issues here is direct democracy vs representative democracy. There is an age-old issue of whether each individual citizen should indeed be able to vote on each individual government decision. It hardly seems fair to label someone who doesn't believe in direct democracy (or representative democracy for that matter) as not believing in democracy altogether.

This article seems to do a slight-of-hand where it equates critics of direct democracy as undemocratic.

And it does seem in this case that the populace supported Brexit, but a poll of the representatives would have shown the opposite.
Yes, it still is especially since 4.0, and this new update does not seem to do anything to improve it. BT sux.
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Plus, its fairly well set up for "scabs" to make anything unionized ineffective. Uber will just respond: "no thanks" to any union strikes. Without the union colluding with the city or state governments to monopolize or cartel the industry... Part time drivers will just see "surge pricing" and "more pickups" to make part time easy money on.
In addition, everyone who got screwed by buying a VW is now doubly screwed when they're trying to find a shop to perform routine maintenance, as the factory repair shops have apparently been put out of business.
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Word robot comes from word "robota". In feudalism that was form of taxation, paid with labor. Feudalism in Austria empire put many restrictions on people (impossible to move, needed permission to marry, no free religion etc), but was not really a slavery.

Source: I read memoirs of guy who invented this word in theater play.
They can't possibly know the makeup of other test takers. I could be 95th percentile of the total population but still 10th percentile in a test room.
Looks like all those billions Jeff Bezos is investing in India are trickling into AWS infrastructure as well. This is good news for others; Singapore was their closest zone for Indian consumers. I always wanted an availability zone here in India.
Hey Michael, is it imperative to have a problem to start a company and get to product/market fit? I am thinking of successful companies like Starbucks and P&G whose customers are definitely not in hair on fire mode. Or is this framework of getting to product market fit for tech companies only? Your thoughts?
One of the main reasons we choose to go with simple cameras is because it can be so much cheaper than LIDAR and RADAR sensors. Won't disclose the actual price, but it is definitely a lot cheaper.
Is it all indoors or is it outside as well?
Right, I agree that it depends on the device. A Chevy model I don't recall had the stupidest bug where you sometimes couldn't pair unless you reset the car computer... by leaving the driver's door open for 5 minutes.

I don't blame the Bluetooth standard though, messy as it might be. That's clearly terrible implementation on the car manufacturer's part.
> But all civilized countries have no death penalty for good reasons.

Civilized like in 'western civilization'? E.g. USA?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_Unit...
Oh, my pet peeve is coming up. I guess I have no excuse not to apply..
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Secretive Alphabet division aims to fix public transit in US
Well, the work was created by Karel Capek.

In Czech language `robota` means forced labor for your lord. Robotnik is just guy performing it, it is not used in other way in Czech language.
You don't need thousands of years. Most European cities are much, much younger.
Additionally, I find it quite extraordinary how such huge settlements over a bit more car exhaust in a country with lots of emissions-testing-exempt trucks and massive hydraulic fracturing programs can exist at the same time, but who said that government policy needs to be consistent?
The real bushido of modern Japanese, at least of generation born in 70-ies, is their work ethics. I worked with JICA team for 3 seasons, I never seen people that commited and self-sacrificing to work as these people were. And I hope, I will never see again. Life is so much more than work.
I'd rather go long than go fast, and I'm not willing to put in the training time to do both, so I choose long and slow over short and fast.
Talking about the "brain" of a corporation may be pushing the analogy too far. And, I believe I've probably made this a much more contentious conversation than it needed to be by using emotionally charged language like "death penalty". And, I think a lot of folks are interpreting my opinion as much more black and white than it is.

My thinking is merely that at some point, we as a society should probably consider refusing to allow a corporation that has shown an ongoing wilful disregard of human life to continue to exist.
...which is what Zigbee should be addressing.
Others have commented that basic coding education is akin to literacy or mathematical literacy. I agree, but also observe:

Coding teaches structured thinking. Basic coding (like lightbot-level or the Frozen/Minecraft hour of code exercises, which is where my 5 & 7 year old are) teaches skills every bit as valuable as thinking board games. We don't play Rat-a-tat-cat, Monopoly, checkers, chess, and go with our kids in hopes that they'll become grandmasters or even employable in the field. We do it because the elements of strategy, planning, adaptation, hard work, and overcoming initial obstacles are valuable thinking skills. As my kids get older, they'll progress into "harder" coding exercises, still not with a vocational angle. Even if they end up in a non-programmer job, "programming" is going to become an ever-increasing important part of most white-collar jobs in the future. VBA is programming. Excel macros is programming. Writing rules to filter your email is programming. I'd rather that not be mysterious to future generations, and I'll see to it that it's not to my kids.

"Only Hire the Top 1%" is something that I'd love to do, having seen the results possible when you get a dozen or so of the actual top 1% together. As it's practiced, most companies that think they are hiring the top 1% are probably hiring the top 3-5% and are hiring that not from the overall pool, but from the pool of people that walk through their door. That can quickly get you to "we're hiring from the top half of the pool, but we say we hire from the top 1%".

Imagine a pool of 1000 candidates and 26 companies with a divinely perfect interview system and rigorous "top 1%" standards. 10 will be hired by company A. 990 will be joined by 10 more applicants who left their job for whatever reason and apply to company B. 10 will be hired by company B. Lather, rinse, and repeat, and the top 250 (or ~25%) will have been culled from the pool before company Z even starts their process, yet company Z will still hire "the top 1 percent [of people they see]" The example is simplistic, but company A will get a much higher caliber workforce than company Z.

That's why retention of strong employees (with financial and work/colleague means) is so critical, IMO. If you can keep your top employees from leaving and have a decent interview process, you'll end up with a good team. If you have constant churn, you'll have an awful team almost regardless of anything else you do.
Too clever by half; wrestling with a pig in the mud only makes the pig happy and you full of mud.

Don't use other people's argumentative frames if you actually disagree with them.
See also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W71BTkUbdqE
"Most of the founders in each startup we fund (and always the CEO) are expected to move to the Bay Area for the duration of the three month cycle." ~from about y combinator.

Isn't the reason cities are full the same reason they require this kind of thing?

Why not solve this first. If I can live anywhere and apply, maybe everyone else doesn't have to live in the valley as well.
Fun fact, words 'slave' and 'Slav' comes from same word.
neural linguistics? Care to elaborate?
I'm just a student but as I see it, two things: enough companies don't hire only the top of the top; and most people fit in the top 10% for one company or another. One might not be a good fit in one place, but in another fit really well and coincidentally have the right technology stack background.

And besides, someone who can code is (in my programmer's opinion) more self-reliant than someone who can't. You can start your own company doing something small that still helps a bunch of people.
The stringent licensing is the reason why thunderbolt 3 is dead.
My co-worker rents a condo on VRBO and the condo board is perfectly fine with the short-term renters as they have far more trouble with long-term renters.

The real issue is how much real estate isn't available for long term renters because short term rentals are so much more profitable and easy. It's killer on vacancy rates and drives up rents for everyone.