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>but it is also the case that their getting-away-with-it power is at an all time low.

Actually, most, if not all of the provisions, of the DOJ settlement have expired. This is why they can ship an AV with their OS and tell OEM's to cut it out with the crapware and offer special installers to remove this stuff.

I think they're just too weak to be the MS of the 90s. They just have to play ball to be competitive like everyone else. This is a good thing. Yet somehow the hysterical anti-MS attitudes are still here. Look at this thread. Its 90% conspiracy theories and axe grinding from things a decade out.
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I think that everyone believes part of their job should include deciding both what they do and how they do it. I think it's pretty rare for non-managers in any field to have the latter, and extremely rare for any non-managers to have the former.

I'm not sure why you believe engineers would be uniquely entitled to make decisions about what they're building. Even in a classical engineering job (building a bridge) they don't get to go "nope, this is a bad idea let's not build it." At best they can say "this is what it'll take to do what you want, is it worth it to you?"

Really, deciding what to do is literally the only job top management even has. It's not often shared with the people doing the work.
Well, I'd first recommend not eating shit in the first place.
I don't buy it.

The different types of cones are all sensing the same physical property: wavelength.

Each type of clone is more sensitive to some specific range of wavelengths (detail: the graphs of sensitivity vs wavelength for each type are approximately but not exactly bell curves).[0]

TRICHROMATIC
------------

L M S <--long, medium, short cone cells
R O Y G B I V
6 5 5 5 4 4 4 <--wavelength (read down)
5 9 7 1 7 4 0
0 0 0 0 5 5 0

So your visual system does the math to determine the scalar value of the color that is being perceived. If M cones are firing a lot and L and S cones only a little, it's a blue green. If L fires a little and M less so and S hardly at all, it's a red. Etc.

Adding another type doesn't change the nature (dimensionality) of color, it merely changes two things: 1. the math you use to determine that scalar. and 2. your ability to distinguish between 650nm light and 651nm light (perhaps).

Perhaps this will make it clear: imagine one million different types of cone cells, each with some distinct sensitivity range. That doesn't give you a million-dimension space. It would certainly give you the ability to tell the difference between 510nm light and 510.05nm light, though!

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cone_cell
I mean they know what your individual salaries have been at previous work-places.

http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/exclusive-your-employer-ma...
For sure. In my current position it's definitely an advantage to disclose. But I understand the impetus behind the law.
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There isn't a service offered by a credit bureau that I know, which allows an employer or a lender to find out about a prospect's salary. Salary info is used for credit risk strategies, and only where applicable or allowed.
This adage is used mostly by snake oil salesmen slinging get-rich-quick schemes. Working for somebody else is probably the best way to get rich. Putting a qualification here, rich is not filthy rich, but affluent to comfortably rich.
I am a developer, so I am all for higher developer salaries, but your posts shows a common misunderstanding about economics. The value someone creates has nothing to do with their salary. Their salary is dictated by how many people need to hire developers and how many developers exist to fill those jobs or in simple terms, supply and demand. I might create millions of dollars in value with my code, but there might be another developer that will accept $5k less that can still create millions of dollars with their code. Similarly, the job that 95% of us do really isn't that unique. Sure, each development job has its own challenges and there certainly are a handful of 10Xers out there, but the truth is that once you get to the point of "competent developer" and the meaty part of the bell curve, we are all pretty much interchangeable. It then becomes a question of who will do the same work for less.
For the elucidation of the audience: one thing which I found out can kill PostgreSQL (and luckily there are few of those) is temp table over-use. Imagine a busy app where most page loads create and work on wide temp tables. What isn't directly obvious is that temp tables, like regular tables, have their metadata (attributes) stored in system catalogues, and the catalogues themselves apparently are very much (if not identical) like regular tables. So now, there's huge write traffic on system tables which by the nature of temp tables generates huge numbers of dead records, as information on every field of every temp table, etc. is created and deleted. I'm also pretty sure there's some ugly locking also in the mix.

So imagine now that autovacuum was turned off...

The user tables in such a system can survive if they are not updated often, with an occasional vacuum. However, the situation here was such that for every GB of user data, another GB has accumulated in dead records in system tables. Half of disk usage has gone to bloat in system tables!

It's easy to fix, of course, with a full vacuum of everything, if you have the time. Or more quickly, a full vacuum of system tables should be very fast, right? Right, except in that particular old version of PostgreSQL there was a race condition bug with vacuuming system tables which locks up the entire cluster with a possibility of data corruption for the db in question. Guess what happened.

A restore from backup.
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"Companies will not be allowed to prohibit their workers from telling others how much they are paid."

Companies are not allowed to do that now. That's Federal labor law, and it's been prohibited since 1935.[1] This only applies to employees, not contractors.

[1] https://www.dol.gov/wb/media/pay_secrecy.pdf
Would that requirement for accuracy and speed include telegrams encoded using a commercial code such as the acme?

Arbitrary key combinations strike me as harder to type fluently by feel compared to my native language. Following the piano playing analogy mentioned somewhere up the tree playing a melody in a definite key signature is easier than a 12-tone composition!
This is old and very good tool for passive identification. I wrote my engineer thesis based on p0f 10 years ago. It mostly uses differences in implementation of TCP/IP stacks between OS and couple of other things to recognize the OS. You can add new fingerprints yourself.
Still no way to run multiple independent windows without a lot of dirty hacks. This is the only thing that keeps me with Chrome: The ability to close a certain set of windows when I'm done at work and have them out of the way. Or the other way around, close windows with private and personal things.

I don't understand what stops Firefox from implementing something similar. They already have the concept of profiles. Just no ability to run them simultaneously.
I agree, but smaller payscales means both sides are less willing to negotiate - i.e. an employer would be less willing to negotiate a programmer position as fiercely as an NBA team would for a starting slot.
Feel free to tell them what you make just add 15-40% to that number. This has worked well for me. Employers seem happy as well.

Example:

Assuming your current salary is X.
"So I currently make (X * 1.20), but in order to make the jump I need at least (X * 1.40)."

That way they get to feel out immediately whether they can afford you, you get the salary that would motivate you, and no one is wasting time in the hiring process.

Keep in mind many employers wont want to pay you more than 8-10% more than what you "currently make" unless they are incredibly motivated to hire you and you alone.
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the incentives between the negotiator and client will be perfectly aligned.

I'm not sure that this is the case when talking about such low amounts.

Taking hints from a similar "agent with percentage", think real estate agents. Unless an agent is working with pretty high level homes, the 3% they are getting is not significantly effected by a something like 20k up or down on a $300k house. It's an extra $600, but often their time is better spent getting the deal closed as quickly as possible for as many people as possible. If that $20k for the client takes an extra few days the haggle, the agent could have been working with another client on another $300k house deal.

In both cases, the thing that throws the agent and client out of alignment is the fact that the deals come through very infrequently, thus from the agent's perspective, they need to keep clients hustled through the door in order to be able to keep their own cash flow going, and working extra hard for a minimal gain isn't going to generally effect future gains. Most engineers would just use the same agent regardless unless the agent was spectacularly bad.

(and there are way more rules for real estate agents than there would be for a hypothetical engineer's agent)
This is really difficult to quantify, I imagine. Sure, engineers can create very valuable things. They can also create totally useless things (I am one, and I've made my own share of 'useless' features).

I don't really see why singling out engineers is really terribly helpful in saying how much they're worth. An engineer can create great value, but if no one is selling it, is it worth much? A company without a direction can have great engineers but crater without good leaders. Without accountants, the money would be in shambles. Without IT, nothing would get done in a larger company. Without designers, user experience would likely suck so bad as to get in the way of the product.

It's hard to say that engineers necessarily deserve a larger slice of the pie. As it stands, we/they're paid quite handsomely. But I think to try to make it out to be something almost mythical seems unfair to everyone else.

Look at Apple, for instance. Without Steve Jobs, it almost certainly wouldn't be what it is today. Steve Wozniak is by all accounts an excellent engineer, but without Jobs' vision and drive, Apple wouldn't ever have taken off. Of the two of them, Jobs was the much more "valuable" by that measure.
Well, it is Massachusetts, after all. Effectiveness is less important than ideology. They could also cut some of their ridiculous taxations, if they want to be more competitive. Switching from working and living in MA to working and living in NH is worth almost a 10% pay bump.
Yeah, their software was really buggy so I ended up changing to crashplan. I've been using them for years without any regrets.
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True, but it doesn't work like that in many parts of the world. I personally know Javascript engineers working for 20k just for geographical reasons and, like GP said, they should all smarten up imo.
Except this would now be illegal, and while some companies/employers are shady and will try this, having this law is better than not having it.
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Has anyone here tried PhotoReading?

It's the same principle of reading the same text several times, along with an additional preparation by "photo reading": taking in the whole book with a relaxed gaze, one page at a time (about 1 second per page).

This makes it easier to find relevant information later, as you instantly familiarize yourself with the high level structure of the material:
the relationship between the layout of the page and the information contained.

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How many people don't even have payment info in their Google or Microsoft account? They can't pay anyway and payment info is not required so clearly that's not it.

I'd just like to download apk files from the play store, but that's not possible without an account even though there's no reason for it whatsoever. Moreover, I'd like to contribute to many apps while still not attaching payment info to my account. Currently I bought some pro versions of apps via gift cards, but this doesn't work for subscriptions (even if you have 100 bucks prepaid on your account and the subscription is 1 buck a month, and don't get me started on country locking the credit). They all want to have your data and lock you in.
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Sorry but the above poster does not handle parallel operations yet, come back for v2.
> Despite "twitter" being in the title, the article doesn't discuss twitter.

From the article:

> In May 2016, we uncovered a Twitter-based digital malware campaign seemingly orchestrated by the United Arab Emirates, which resulted in the arrest and torture of numerous activists and journalists there.
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I think you're unfairly discounting the essential work done by other people in any business. While we engineer-types are tempted to look down upon sales, marketing, legal, HR, and leadership as do-nothing fluff, those roles can be just as crucial to a business's success as an engineer's. Pay is determined by the supply and demand of labor in the market.
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Prices for goods and services are determined by supply and demand, not by what, "in your opinion", is "fair".
Can you tell me the reason behind you thinking that "100k for a JavaScript engeneer is more than the "fair share"? And why you highlight the word "engeneer"?
The problem with skype was that it only worked if everybody involved used old versions of it. Dozens of people had the same issue on the client's office, so they switched to hangouts which worked now and then. There's a new version of skype for linux now that seems to be working fine though.
Have you ever worked on a project where management considered developers as pretty much interchangeable and added folks to the team that did more damage than good? If so, do you want to repeat that experience?
A job's salary might be capped by the value created, but it's supply and demand that determine wages, not value created.

If you're creating $1M in value, but there are only 100 jobs and 1000 people applying for them, you'll never capture the $1M.
How does that contradict the quote?

Maybe your doc sends you home with no help precisely because it is poorly understood and so they don't know how to help you?
Nail on the head right here. The price of an employee isn't their MPL, it's no greater than their MPL and is set by how little the next guy is willing to take to do the job. Competitive pressures work to drive down labor prices, too!

Nobody is stopping engineers from saying "I'm going to contribute $1.5m to your bottom line this next year, I want you to pay me $1.4m", but they'll be shown the door because there's a guy that's willing to contribute the same $1.5m in exchange for $100k in compensation.
I can only assume that "Scalp_game" is either a new PC title that involves phrenology, or a means by which shampoo companies can alter product ratings.
I think you are misunderstanding... there are multiple dimensions to 'getting-away-with-it' power. While you are correct that Microsoft is under way less legal and public image scrutiny, they also have lost the lock in that gave them the power to do what they want and have everyone else in tech follow.

point blank most families these days have 3 or 4 iOS or Android computing devices for every 1 windows computing device.
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Underpaid relative to what? Oklahoma pays teachers crap, yet for every open position there are fully credentialed applicants willing to accept that salary.

I wish everyone could make a million dollars a year, but as of yet the only fair way to set value for labor is a free market.
Oh man, all of my spam, and mail from people I didn't want having my real address will be compromised.
> a “if-then” programming paradigm that links data to pinpointed procedures.

this is an overly simplified and reduced way of describing the idea of encapsulation.
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Bad news (there is no cure):

“We both found the same brain structure involved in the
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They have you trained well.
It's the lack of defense in depth which I would say is disappointing more than anything. Firefox prior to e10s pretty much ran everything save for NPAPI plugins in the same process. Perhaps it is "sandboxed" in the code but in practice I'm not sure you could call it a sandbox from the defense in depth standpoint. Simply running stuff in a separate process doesn't count for much if the separate process is not restricted in any way.

When you contrast it with Chrome which uses basically every single operating system mitigation in addition to their sandboxing and the difference really is striking.

I'm looking forward to the future of e10s Firefox since it now enables them to move forward with more advanced security mitigations and better defense in depth. I believe Mozilla released a plan for the future of these things which it showed what they wanted to do step by step (e.g. plugins first, etc).
Bad: It's chronic (not really news). It's related to depression.

Good: It's already treatable with serotonin and might become more easily treatable because there seem to be an underlying neurological cause and hearing damage is not sufficient in itself.
What're the use cases for this?
Way to innovate by ripping off the name and feature of Snapchat!:|
I've been trying to write a novel for about a year now, using the planning approach as best I can figure it out. It's been a struggle because I feel like I need to take more of the pants approach except that I have an axe to grind and I want the story to do it, so it's been a big conflict between the two approaches. My latest compromise has been to try to define the story progress as a series of high-level situations for the characters, then "pants them out" to see how they work together. I'm really pretty stuck on it though, so I can't say I'd recommend doing whatever it is that I'm doing, at least if you want to finish a story in just one lifetime.
how would this prevent an external recruiter from asking?

What if the company has an office just over the MA border where they hire then later relocate the employee to MA?
True, this is certainly a commendable move on their part and while they are making the right decision here, I feel they've shown real professionalism and class.

Color me impressed as well.
> Isn't that basically what a recruiter does? Every time I've dealt with a recruiter, they've done the salary haggling for me.

Recruiters are much more likely to cut bait and leave an extra 5% on the table to:

1. Keep a good relationship with the employer

2. Keep their turnover high, making money on negotiating many "OK" salaries instead of maximizing each individual salary (including yours).
I think "if-then" is the layman's term for "imperative" in that context.
Where are you based? I'm in London and it's gotten so bad for me I only apply direct now so I can ask for a specific number that I would like. I no longer take calls or reply to external recruiters because so far they all tell me they won't proceed unless I tell them my precious salary despite myselr having told them what I want to make in the new role. Even if the company is willing to pay what I want they insist on knowing. I just say thanks but no thanks.
Do you have any tin foil left so the rest of us can make hats too?
In the past I have always declined, no one has ever pressed it. I even have refused to define a minimum salary or salary requirement. Let them tell me what I am worth. Giving any of that information always seemed like a move that put me at a disadvantage.
What are we exactly looking at here? That is somewhat frightening how busted it looks.
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Assuming perfect information, yes, "supply and demand". Since you are so eager to offhand dismiss people, you can now research that one condition you conveniently left out.
If in 10 years, every high school graduate is trained to be what we now think of as a 10x programmer, do you think they would still make six figure salaries?

Of course not! Value-creation may drive demand but it does not (itself) set prices - supply is in there too. There are enough programmers willing to work at current salaries, or they would rise.
However that may be, I am really curious to see an example of an unconvertible type definition.
You're right. They would just pass on the candidate and go with someone who isn't represented by an agent.
Taleb has the right idea for how to do research, in my opinion.

First you get "fuck you money" (which is not necessarily millions and millions of dollars, just enough money so you don't have to be a wage slave anymore).

Second, you move to some place cheap with low upkeep costs and a nice garage/mad-science-laboratory on premises. That's where you do your research.
What NTLM service would you be able to access for example?