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Not necessarily. I block FB at my router at home and via DNS on my phone, reject mail from them at my server and use a browser blocker for their web bugs at work. And still "my" data leaks to them via other people who apparently upload address books, tag me in photos and whatever other mechanisms for soliciting data on nonmembers they've ginned up.

I know this because before I started bouncing their mail I'd get an endless stream of spam from them about how many friends desperately wished I'd sign up.
A classic bootsector virus would infect any floppies that had been left in the machine when it booted.

Presumably you could do the same thing these days with any USB flash drives that had been left plugged in.
I won't downvote it if anyone can show an example of it actually ever happening.
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"OH really? How will he do that?"

By slapping tit-for-tat policies.

+ Don't allow Chinese companies to invest in the US.
+ Control capital
+ Impose tariffs
+ Get the US gov to make it impossible for Chinese to do business in the US.

Could be done with the stroke of a pen.
ElectroBOOM's videos are all like that. It's a comedy channel.
Yep. And laypeople (wordpress's main audience) are not in a position where they can figure out which plugins have dangerous bugs.
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"And watch while we are plunged into a recession due to a huge disruption in global supply chains."

This is false. China is not the sole or important supplier of most things.

Vietname, India etc. are becoming capable of providing labour and supply chain.

A 10% tariff would be fair.

Besides, something needs to be done to balance trade.

Right now China is cheating by claiming they are open, whey they are not.

The West should simply implement tit-for-tat policies.
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> Which looks ridiculously high for merely 20M population of Florida.

Based on...?
They're probably some real mental illnesses but probably much less than actually listed in the DSM book. I just think the industry is quick to give people pills and the people who write the DSM have financial ties to the industry.

3,000 people a month die because of psychiatry. We don't ever hear about these victims. There was a court case where a psychiatrist testified and was questioned about what tests he ran on the person he was claiming had a chemical imbalance. He was questioned what kind of tests he did and he said he watched him for 2 hours. No actual medical tests. It's very subjective and not scientific in most cases.
It can come from where the first $200B came from : bonds and debt.

The mosquito thing in particular, you could totally say "Year N's costs will get covered in year N+2's sales taxes"

This is, of course, assuming that revenue increases. But all else being equal, inflation makes this happen
Florida's GDP is $748B. Suppose 1 in 300 people in the state are mentally ill enough at a given time to warrant living in a mental hospital. If that costs $1B, about half as much of the economy would be spent on them (per capita), compared to the general population. Seems very reasonable to me, without any more specific numbers to go on.

To throw out another number for comparison, medicare and medicaid together cost about $50B / year in the state.
I do wonder if there is room for a solution like the S-100 bus these days. That is perhaps the one thing that irks me about todays computers, that the motherboard is dictated by the CPU socket soldered on.
"China has leap frogged pretty much everyone else in every aspect."

How laughable.

Is anyone in the world using a Chinese based OS? Is anyone outside of China really even using a Chinese OS derived from American ones?

Is anyone in the US really using Chinese software?

Can you name any big Chinese products or services that we use in the West besides cheap commodity stuff?
I'd recommend SquareSpace for simple sites and Shopify for eCommerce sites.

I think my own recommendation progression has been something like (starting from my early programming days till now):

- My own homebuilt CMS

- A standard CMS like WordPress etc

- A SaaS solution like SquareSpace or Shopify

I really feel like the managed solutions are just that more convenient in the long term, also for the clients own sake.
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Phew. Glad to know that I'm not the only one dealing with bullshitters on resumes.

I noticed that the recruiting firm that got me my current job is that the candidates that they send aren't that great. I only met this firm because a friend passed the gig on to me. They just send anyone and hope that someone sticks. But once they find someone that sticks and is doing well, they keep on coming back once the headhunting contract limits are off.
Meh. Building an airplane isn't that hard anyways, China will get there soon if they aren't already (e.g. with the C919).

It is very difficult to build avionics and jet engines that work, which are just shipped whole sale in final assembly. It will take China much much much longer to replicate that technology, and final assembly rights aren't going to help much at all.
I've found that the type of person who "[doesn't] put up with crappy work environments" is often the type of person who finds all sorts of perfectly fine work environments to be crappy.
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still exactly like this
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This feels to me like a rationale for trying to get something for nothing, to be honest. Why would a quality engineer with an understanding of their worth stay at a company for two years when the next company's offering 20% more after twelve months? "Make hay while the sun shines."
> the real, unbiased, can't be faked data

I don't understand. Is this sarcasm?
It does leave a bad taste in employees' mouths.

When I left my last company (which acquired the startup I was an early employee at), I did exercise most of my options (all the ones at the lowest strike price.) Just in case. It cost me about $5K. Maybe it will amount to something...
I think this is actually a very real problem. What would happen if I could sell one investment and immediately buy another investment vehicle and not have to pay taxes till I transform it to something that's obviously not an investment. If done right this should just make the market more efficient because it prevents lock in.
That's starting to bother me too. Shy people, short men, disabled people, people who stutter, fat people, ugly people are also being discriminated against. It's certainly a well-intended effort but the "diversity" trend creates a few groups of favored people while doing nothing for others that are also being discriminated against.
For me, anecdotally confidence is not a constant value. Regarding most things, specially when it comes to programming, it starts out with a somewhat high and overinflated value. I jump in with all kinds of wild and crazy ideas. Then when I start working/learning it starts to sink fairly quickly. As I learn how little I know, it sinks lowers and lower. Then it stays down for sometime as I work get through an initial learning curve.

After some time, when I see things lining up and working as expected, it starts to come back up but it never reaches the heights I had initially. I lose the enthusiasm and courage for wild and crazy ideas. Which is a shame because if I can teach myself to retain my enthusiasm as my confidence sinks, when I'm actually capable I'd be more brave.
On one project I was on, we used a 16-bit MCU for a power controller. Cost less than twenty cents, and we got a lot of functionality out of it (you can cram a bunch of complex logic into 2K of code).

Near the end of that project, the hardware engineers came to us and apologized; they had managed to source a part for the same price with twice the code space. Could have used that, would have saved quite a bit of space optimization effort.
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I think the unspoken assumption is that Indians and East Asians have no trouble getting hired based just on their academic and technical merits, despite not being caucasian. If you think about this for a while you'll realise that the "diversity" being championed is not diversity of race or gender.

No company is so racist that it will refuse to hire someone who's going to make them a profit.
I wish your thinking would be more widespread. I never understood how come that restful HTTP became very popular without having any universal query language around and merely providing an HTTP client with each service built, while in the DB world everybody is obsessed with SQL? Why not just provide the developer with an API/library for the underlying algorithms/datastructures?

For example I hate so much when I have to read mySQL documentation jus to find out what went wrong when I used ORDER BY and the optimization didn't kick in? I mean, if I have to keep in my head the whole optimization mechanism of the DB engine and all the steps of the filesort algorithm going on behind the scenes just to write a single wretched SQL statement, then what's the point of SQL in the first place?

And this was just one example. The truth is that the SQL abstraction is leaking. Most of the commands don't encapsulate anything at all.
> Most of the accusations of ageism seem to be for fields where 20 years of experience is not so valuable.

I don't have enough data/experience to confirm that, but it seems plausible.
What? No they don't.
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That's unlikely (but not impossible) to be true for founders. Anything that's going 5+ years has some semblance of quality behind it.
> Since health care and education is "free" in Croatia

most places with free health care at least cap the cost of prescriptions and other related health costs to some pretty reasonable amount in most cases. Most people living in western countries outside of the USA really don't lose any sleep thinking about health care costs. There are always some exceptions (some chronic or unusual conditions not covered), but it really isn't on the list of things most people worry about much.

I've always found it astounding that people in the USA seem to think living with the looming spectre of financial collapse from medical debt as an acceptable (or only realistic) option for their society.
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If that is true, shouldn't companies then not also reflect age of society and hire a bunch of +50 married-with-kids people instead of hipsters fresh out of college?
Another useful article related to exception handling : http://llvm.org/docs/ExceptionHandling.html#itanium-abi-zero...
Because it's harder to do and people think they're better at judging candidates with more info than they actually are.

Not very curious, that.
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So much this.

I saw facebook's earnings last quarter and my jaw dropped. 40% increase in revenue since same quarter last year. Then I took a look at their quarterly report, and the entire thing -- and I mean, like 99% of it -- is about ads. MAU, DAU, publisher and inventory growth, top-level organizational goals about getting more marketers on the platform, etc. The only other two revenue sources they have are hardware sales and payments, and they didn't even break out how much either of those businesses made apart from the broader facebook advertising business. It became extremely clear reading the report that ads is where the focus, attention, and money are going in the company.

I guess Oculus is going to be a giant ad business. Either that, or fb is going to pull off a major win against the innovator's dilemma, where they get so focused on ads that that focus chokes other initiatives within the company.

I don't doubt Oculus (as well as Messenger) have a ton of ad inventory in front of them. But I think it's a mistake to think fb cares about the hardware per se; they don't, it's all just a doorway to their platform.
"The point of the 90 day exercise period is that since the departed employee is no longer adding value to the company"

So all of the work they've done until then disappears? It's gone? It's no longer helping the company?

If companies don't want people to leave once their options are vested, then maybe they should concentrate on being a better place to work. Not by handcuffing someone by threatening a crazy short expiry date on their hard earned options.
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The Help section in the sidebar with mini video introductions explains that.

See step 6 (using the Content Wizard to create a new weblog article for example, including body content) or step 7 (which explains how to switch to structure mode, another way to add and/or rearrange body content).

Existing body content can be edited simply by double-clicking on it while in edit mode.

The question is whether this is just a case of understanding the basics of a different paradigm, or something that could be made more intuitive.

Thanks for the feedback, and thanks for taking the trouble to look at it.
Thanks - I'll check it out. I'm thinking to compile a list of good resources and add it to the current article.
The intent is keeping the entire platform free from malware and junk.

Your app may be malware free, but it's pretty obvious there are many others which would not be.
Narcissists are the greatest threat, with a few exceptions (I am careful who I label a narcissist. It's not because they are known to be tough boss that they have narcissistic personality disorder according to DSM-5). Anyway, they are centrally responsible for many global ailment, including global warming, and more importantly for not doing much to solve any problems.
"the right" didn't invent "global warming"....the left did.

Listen, maybe, or maybe not, there is man-made global warming, but when the left calls for the death-penalty for global warming "denialists", then we know it's the official religion of the left.

The politics of "global warming" is too intertwined with leftist political agenda.

You people can keep on being "denialists" about that in public, we know its true.
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Depends on who's point you look at it from. The investors and the founders get to make out pretty well, so to them it's a success. The acquiring company doesn't have to pay a lot of employees actual money, and they give them something which handcuffs them to the company for a while, so to them it's a success.
This actually happened to me during the first bubble. A large, public company acquired a former employer for less than the most recent valuation. None of the common stock holders got anything. Some of the preferred holders were paid out.
I'm that person. For me it's the code quality, attitude and direction that matter the most.

There is an awful lot of terrible code out there and an awful lot of companies that are either oblivious to it or lying about it until post hire.

I can handle terrible code, but if there isn't a solid plan in place to improve it for whatever reason (or if it's getting worse) then I'm out of there.
I know some processors (mostly of higher end processors) do but I don't know if specifically that processor does. I do know that at least some manufacturers will offer automotive and aerospace grade parts if requested (if not for the extra money).

There's also the fact that it's off the shelf completely because there are none left to buy because somebody else already has them. If I remember rightly it can have something to do with the component failure rate on a silicon slate.

I've also heard of stories where processors that have a co-processor by design fail for some reason and are sold for their larger processor capability only. I've seen this with an ARM chip.
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"Startups are for grownups. [...]
Grownups are willing to give the next five years of life to the pursuits of the startup — the people. Blindly."

Nothing to see here except more patronization. Move along.
>Agreed, but sometimes there is no money to spend, and that's my point...it is purely a budget issue not a political one.

not true. Like every action of a politician this one was political too. You can cut 5.5M of mosquito control or, for example, you can release couple hundreds of low level drug offenders or similar. The latter would cost him political career, so he went with the former (which condemned 4000 people to getting the disease).
> - if it takes me more time to understand what you wrote than completely rewriting it you're of no use to me. Since I'm wasting that time anyway, I better write it myself and save the money spent on you.

So well put.

Too bad it's not just juniors who write code like this. I wish I could show the sample code and the TODO comments to one of the "senior" engineers I work with. Because it's exactly (and I mean, EXACTLY) like a few hundred functions he wrote in our codebase in the past few years.

How do you suggest this sort of change of approach to someone who's your peer instead of a n00b you're training up, without sounding condescending or insulting?
I'm not him (or her), but I've got the same problem w/ FF48.0 - and, no, I don't have that add-on. I ended up just using Chrome for now.
SF homeowners want their neighborhood to stay locked in time forever and pretend nothing will ever change. They want to protect the "character" of the neighborhood, by preventing all high rises and anything that isn't a single family townhouse.

They'd probably be fine with more housing being built 'somewhere else' for the homeless. But ya know, definitely not in THEIR backyard.

Developers (aka landlords) aren't the ones protesting new building being built. This is because they would love to be able to build more. Even though they would make less money per apartment, there is so much demand for houses, that the massive amount of new development would make up for it.

There is only so many landlords out there. Their vote isn't particularly significant. But there are a LOT of NIMBY homeowners.
You are right, it totally skipped me. It is very possible that some of their personnel/phones were captured leading directly to this information.
One or two gen-xers or millennials saying such things per ageism comment on HN might count as discounting ageism as nonexistent but only by those people specifically.

People know it's a problem. Whether or not they actually do anything about it is a different story. Like any "ism."
I looked inside an IBM laptop charger and it was considerably simpler than the Apple charger. Since it always outputs power, it doesn't include the microcontroller in the Apple charger. The other circuitry was somewhat simpler (it didn't output multiple voltages), and the IBM charger didn't go to as much effort to be compact.
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This is true, but at the same time I don't think having to resort to Googling an error is a good user experience in the first place. With Eve, we want to try and avoid that as much as possible.
Nice to hear that IronPython is still seeing some love... I was sad to see (whatever the DLR JavaScript runtime was called) go away when IronRuby and IronPython were picked up.
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> Nobody is crying about the lack of diversity in nursing or

That canard has been brought up and refuted so many times here that it's time to just retire it.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12221763 and marked it off-topic.
EDIT: There certainly seems to be different quality levels for this particular processor anyway [1], which I'm sure they'll want a premium for higher quality. Feel free to correct me though.

[1] http://www.ti.com/product/MSP430F2013/quality
At the risk of outing myself, it's a strange correspondence based approach. The idea is that we never commit to a repository but instead email changes to each other, making a patch queue. This has the benefit of forcing every commit to be code reviewed. The process is that we get an email to start work on some new ticket, which will be a reply from the "tip" email that we are supposed to base our work on, with a new subject. This is a development branch, so to speak. We have separate email addresses for separate projects, so project management is fairly hands-off. Requirements are hashed out in these email chains. This has the benefit of making all of our code "literate" in that it is adjacent the requirements.
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Wouldn't that be the case with pretty much any totalitarian regime?

No. There are plenty of totalitarian regimes where any actual wealth held outside of a tiny ruling clique is considered unacceptable.

China's trick is that they 1) embraced de facto capitalism and 2) managed to spread the wealth amongst a relatively large Party base (as a % of the population) while still maintaining insider control. That's a very, very fine balancing act, and most authoritarian regimes can't manage to do it, leading to either failure to sustain economic growth (e.g. Russia, or North Korea) or complete loss of control to new economic elites.

In fact, Xi's anti-corruption campaign may potentially destabilize the Party because it breaks the implicit contract that has kept the Party together for the last 3 decades (namely, support the Party, and we'll look at the other way on corruption).
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A major difference between a 3 month window and a 10 month window is that with the former, you "get" to purchase lottery tickets. With the latter you have massively reduced downside risk.
I've never, in 10+ years of MacBooks, had to replace an adapter due to fraying. I suspect it's because I don't yank the cable out (instead grabbing the plug), but more importantly, because I don't use the cable wraps included. Just a quick over-under coil, tossed in the bag, and I'm good to go. I still use the adapter that came with my 2006 MacBook, having added one of the plug converters for the Retina laptops.
I thought the reason for giving options instead of RSU is tax reason, why not let all employees exercise on day 1?

Vesting still makes sure you stay long term.
Hey now, keep your head up. I worked almost two years for a government agency that went out of business. :)
Zuck have recently said that their 1 billion VR users are going to come from mobile phone and not PC so the real reason behind this hardware lab could be that fb is going to develop a real phone (sw + hw) and not like earlier.