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The caption for the top picture mentions "Tiffany-style lamps". So, Friday's moved from aping the tastes of rich people of bygone eras to aping the tastes of contemporary rich people.

In other words, the story is that over decades, rich people's tastes in decor changed. Ho hum.
This is interesting to me, because I have never experienced anything of what you describe when working for somebody else. Maybe it's because I work in an office, and so there's a very clear change in environment that affects my ability to focus on different things: office=paid work, anywhere else=not paid work.

In any case, what you describe seems like a pretty big limitation to me. If your employer isn't asking you, or pressuring you, to do more work, then they really shouldn't be held responsible when you do. I wouldn't paint my neighbor's house without having been asked to and then be upset with them for not asking me to (and therefore not paying me to) paint their house. That's nonsensical, but it's also an analogy with limited applicability.
Fun fact: the US Midwest grows corn, which produces as much oxygen (absorbs as much CO2) as the Amazon Basin. During the summer anyway. So we're growing a lot of plants already.
Is there an easier way to get an invite these days? Still don't have an in.
I hope this is different from what this article is advocating, but I worked on a project that kept per-sub directory changelogs that were intended to track every commit to every file in a directory. Our tech lead basically had to nag everyone to write them, and it felt like a big waste of time (Note, this was not an open source project, and the article specifically speaks to OSS.)
It's usually more honest. I guarantee I'm not working 8 hours straight in the office.
> I think we could give them the benefit of doubt

I've found that this is a much less stressful and more productive way to approach most things in life.

> Some of the 60 hr/week employees are gunning for promotions and probably don't care about work life balance. Why should everyone have to compete with that?

That seems totally reasonable. It's similar to the way tech companies have a concept of a "terminal level" where it's considered fine to spend your whole career with no pressure or expectations to earn further promotions.
> If you care about optimising NOPs, you're probably wrting a compiler

Or low-level systems code. For instance, the Linux kernel makes extensive use of multi-byte NOPs.
What shell are you using? I could see a naive shell forking twice without exec, but I don't know of a shell that does that. Exec just says "don't fork(3) before calling exec(3)", but, but inside of a pipeline like that, it shouldn't fork again anyway. I have tried it with and without.
Apple supplier Pegatron is under fire for “excessive overtime” and illegal working conditions.
> While all previous evidence goes towards pointing this to be another way for AMZN to squeeze more out of their employees...

Why would you go against a theory that all evidence pointed toward? I think what you meant is that despite what it looks like at first glance, there could be reasons why this is a good idea. You should present evidence for those arguments, maybe based on personal experience
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It depends on what type of games.

Games like Dota2, Call of Duty, etc. require some strategy and will be a different experience each time (especially on multiplayers).

If you think about "Beyond two souls", well not that much.

On the other spectrum, you also have to consider copyright infringement and royalties as a problem on its own. Why should some individuals make money by reproducing the content (totally in some cases) without having to pay any royalties at all?

Am I allowed to stream the latest Star Wars with me in the corner making comments along?

Movie is passive and game is active, to some extent yes, but for how long can we disassociate both mediums in terms of IP?
Me too, I thought it was all shipped out from some warehouse in, like, Missouri whenever they opened a new one.
Ahead of his election, he promised to kill 100,000 criminals in his first six months in office.
And he has warned drug dealers in particular: "Do not destroy my country, because I will kill you."
Last weekend he reiterated that blunt view, as he defended the extrajudicial killings of suspected criminals.

How does someone this fucked up get elected? I thought the US had it bad with Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo
> Well this makes my point. Let me look at the earliest ten.

That... seems like an odd choice, when the question is whether he's a celebrity now. He could have had no exposure until a few years ago and still be a celebrity, so I'm not sure why looking at his oldest media appearances is relevant.

Maybe you would prefer google trends?[1] For a real treat, change it from US to world wide. Chomsky is a global name, NGD is more of a US phenomenon. NGD has eclipsed Chomsky in recent times, but event at half or more of the current exposure NGD has, I think that points towards a celebrity status.

> Neil deGrasse Tyson has been on NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox, CNN etc. much more than Chomsky has in the past decade. He is much more of a US celebrity.

That doesn't actually prove that Chomsky isn't a celebrity though, as it's still possible for NGD to be more famous and for Chomsky to be a celebrity. Also, I think you have a fairly narrow view of what "celebrity" is, if it's mostly informed by television exposure. Sure, television is a quick way to celebrity, but there are other ways (and those used to be the only ways). Einstein was a celebrity. Stephen King is a celebrity. Being well known is the definition, not being an entertainment personality.

1: https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%2Fm...
Revitalization of non-profit accounting project
This sounds like a peace agreement between two parties that will keep coexisting.

What you want is a victory.
Thanks! Even better than mine.
Click on the "prices in real terms" chart, which factors out inflation.

The average US price in real terms is up like 10% since 1980. The average SFO price is 400% above that. The average NYC price is 200% more. That's a real estate bubble.

Lots of factors influence what's happening. Between Tech workers who make too much, Chinese capital flight liking for a home and stupid bank underwriting practices, demand is wacky in a few cities.
This is the wrong time to be in the datacentre business. Especially one that traditionally provides a high-touch, traditional bare-metal based model.

It probably doesn't make a dent in their revenue, but Xero is just completing their migration from Rackspace to AWS for reasons they don't articulate well.
This is true of many more jobs, jobs that require you to think and use judgement. This isn't just engineering jobs.
That's not better, it's just a different class of employee.
This is hardly unique to engineers though. Almost everyone whose job involves coming up with ideas and thinking through problems does some of it in the shower.
Seems reasonable to move to a higher ground and out of the way of flash flood areas.

Eat some sushi before the ocean acidification decimates the fish population.

The rest, who knows.
I agree. Maintaining a changelog can be certainly be more difficult in large projects (although I don't think it has to be). I do think changelogs are a manifestation of the maintainers' care with regard to end-users. It signifies that they don't simply focus on the quality of the project itself but also how the project's evolution is perceived and understood by end-users and fellow contributors.

It's strange to me that anyone would consider especially open source software as something so good and obviously beneficial that the archeology you mention would be a fact of life for end-users. It betrays a misconception about the value of software in a vacuum: without tests, code documentation, interface design, and change documentation (a changelog).

The best algorithm is useless without proper tests verifying how it functions against real input; it's obscure without good documentation highlighting its quirks and design decisions, and if it evolves without clear explanations within a changelog then the changes in its behavior will remain mysteries to end-users as long as they don't go deep inside the code to understand how it worked before and how it works now.

I've had to do this kind of programmer-archeology on numerous production dependencies (transitive or otherwise) in the past and the resulting frustration is very much the fuel that motivated me to make keepachangelog.com
Yes I read it. Word by word. I am born and raised colombian, and for over 40 years have seen the result of sacrificing justice for short term gains or individual vanity.
It's not 5 seats. It's 5 in the senate, 5 in congress, and 16 in special circumscription where only FARC friendly candidates can participate.

They have massive amounts of money stashed for the upcoming campaigns, and by now you should be aware that money buys regional candidates in Colombia. Add to that fear of FARC retaliation in areas where the government now will have NO presence during elections or afterwards. (they have strategically left Frente Primero out of the accord, to handle the residual drug operation and armed coercion).

"Confessing" to war crimes and crimes against humanity does not constitute appropriate punishment under any international standard. The International Criminal Court and Human Rights Watch have both been quite clear that no jail time would be unacceptable.

You have lived here barely enough to have only seen Santos as president, who has done absolutely NOTHING except push his narcissistic agenda forward, at the expense of justice, economy and the independence of the branches of power. I am old enough to know colombia's problem is not 17,000 asshole terrorists in the jungle, it is LACK OF JUSTICE at every level, with politicians, guerrillas, paramilitaries etc. Sacrificing justice to appease one criminal entity is exactly why my country cannot 'move forward'.
You know that Obama has authorised the extrajudicial killings of American citizens, right?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki

You already have it bad, regardless of who you elect this time.
> They are piloting it on internal HR software which I think says a lot.

There's a tendency for people to think that HR software and other internal tools are less important than public products, but if the company is allocating employees properly, that doesn't really make sense.

The engineers working on this HR software all passed the same technical interviews that everybody else did. Amazon could have easily allocated them to some flashy consumer product, but management decided that it's important to have a team working on HR software. So either somebody made a horrible miscalculation when they decided to build the HR software, or this work is equally valuable to all the other work happening.
I think they now offer one extra domain per user and same space, which I think was not the case earlier (I could be wrong here).
So what other BIG Cloud Hosting Companies are there left?

Google, Microsoft, Amazon, IBM ( SoftLayer) OVH, AliYun.
Facebook Tests Video Ads with Sound Automatically Turned Up
This is a bit like the debate on whether it's the current or the voltage that kills, with lift-to-drag ratio being resistance. You are right in the physics sense in that drag alone is enough to calculate instantaneous fuel consumption, but to calculate range you already need to consider mass ratios and lift.
I don't doubt it. Some people see the two as similar trades, others are adamant they are completely separate.

I figured I would make the post for the second group.
I agree with your general premise but disagree with the conclusion. I think this gives you an ability to commit to delivering less which results in less deliberation outside of your primary work hours.

Frankly though, if you love what you do you always take your work home with you (mentally anyway). So at the end of the day, there is no on/off switch for engineers (along with other types of careers) so although engineers are some of the highest paid you want them to be paid higher?

I am not saying I would disagree but also not saying I think I am under paid by any stretch of the imagination.
Even people can't sense sarcasm online.
How do you "synthesize ideas" if not by combining parts of your own personal database of images/concepts? Even in your example of "X flower with Y center [and Z features]" you start with a mental picture of a flower you've seen (or a generalisation from many flowers you've seen) and then modify it with your mental picture of colours X and Y and features Z.
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Gitlab support?
> I think he's getting at the fact that if they're in a cage they can't commit crimes while in there

Yeah, that's what I suspected. To me, that line of thinking feels short-sighted and/or motivated by revenge rather than rationality.
As the title of Wirth's book goes:

Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs
(for the record, I'm not saying this is a good idea for personal desktops, just discussing the theory) No, it's not preventative. But wiping an infected one is not pointless either. Especially if you can upgrade all the relevant applications after each reinstall, potentially closing previous issues. In some contexts (small town library without IT staff, shared computer, no knowledge how to do stateless terminals), it would be an improvement over what's currently happening.
> my greatest fear is a nosy neighbor calling CPS

Ditto. My kids are now old enough that they can both ride a bike, so I let them circle around the block on their own. Every time they go, my heart is gripped by terror that some neighbour will report "feral" children.

I grew up in a block of small "working class" flats with large communal gardens and a small park; I could safely ride and play with other kids, and most of them were going to the same school as me. Now I live in middle-class suburbia, in a larger house with a nice private garden; but my kids cannot wander around without risking to be hit by a car, their "parks" are just playgrounds with lawns, and because they attend a "better" school a bit further away, don't really know anyone in the area.

This is the product of an individualist culture, of which I am a prime representative. I don't like conflict, not even the occasional low-intensity friction which is inevitable when you share anything (a block, a garden, a parking lot); so I bought a house where People Shall Leave Me Alone and where Kids Shall Be Safe. This makes it much more difficult for my kids to be social and "explore the wilderness". And no, virtual realities are not a replacement.
But the thing about machine learning is that once it works at all, "a long way to go" generally means "add more training data" rather than "we require significant conceptual breakthroughs".
You sound like you resent this which makes me question whether you genuinely like what you do?
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Vote and argument publicly to being goal warming, and the short term costs of mitigation, into the public's mind.
Choose against far supply chains.
Go solar, ride public, and electric car of you have to, and consume as little materially as possible.
Travel little, and prefer train over planes.
It's a very small impact for one person, but if you multiply by /everyone/ it becomes large.

I worried about global warming 20 years ago, but there was so much unknown, that I decided to wait. Now, we know much better, and it's actually worse that we thought before!

At about 3.5 degrees warming, the global food supply chain breaks down. We're at 1 degree now, and get Louisiana floods. 3.5 is between 20 and 50 years off.

But, who needs food or social stability anyway? We're all rugged individuals who will survive alone based on low taxes and Freedom (tm)! So don't worry!
If it's all going to hell anyway, might as well enjoy it now, and if we're wrong after all, then that was the right choice.
Screw other people, I'm getting a SUV!
Good for you! I am glad to see others supporting this because I also feel Amazon isn't a sweatshop. Every big company has a bad apple or few in the bunch and those are the loudest criers. The great teams (majority) don't complain because they have no complaints! Keep up the good work on Alexa!
Not equal parties. A legitimately constituted state with 50 million people vs. 17,000 guerillas. All countries have terrorism and 'coexist' with it. In the meantime their citizens can go about their business. That was the state of things when Santos took office and revived the FARC guerilla.
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Real estate professional here, investing in listed and non-listed. Few ETFs will have to adapt to this change, but those that will have had a long time to figure out the most tax efficient way of doing so. While they are passive managers, they still have incentives to help their investors with structure.

The new GICS sector could bring some new attention to the sector. This probably will affect small cap more than large cap as the generalists take a broader look at the sector. Many have invested in the large caps for a while just to have some exposure. There have been rumors that general stock managers have underweighted the sector overall as it was a part of their 'financial' bucket, but unlike the traditional financial stocks. However, I wouldn't expect money rushing in or out. If there is any price drop over the next couple weeks I would expect it is due to expectations around the Fed rather than ETFs selling.
Most of the oxygen we breathe comes from plankton. But we don't particularly care for or about the ocean -- we don't see it, and we can make money by ignoring its health.

It's the American Way (tm)!
Yeah, this is definitely not what I'm advocating. That sounds insane to me. Several contributors have pointed out that these conventions can be useful beyond the realm of open source so I think we've tried to make it a bit more general. It is definitely based on open source conventions though.

An open source project like Rails has different components all developed within a single repository although they're packaged up independently for release. Each different component has a root level changelog that documents its changes and there isn't a centralized changelog for all of Rails. In some ways it's problematic because you can't see a merged changelog for all core components of Rails but it's also useful when you're only worried about changes to the ORM component since you'll only see changes pertaining to it within its own changelog.

In my mind a changelog is a root-level concern for a single piece of software, regardless of how many isolated components it's composed of. Basic tooling should be able to centralize each changelog (as long as versions are synchronized, but that's another issue) and ideally you should be able to filter by sub-component.

This is definitely not something we've created any guidelines for yet. So if you have any thoughts on the matter, feel free to suggest them: https://github.com/olivierlacan/keep-a-changelog/issues
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Simple - reduce greenhouse gas emissions by around 50-80%. If we achieved 100% tomorrow the earth would continue warming by another degree or two.

Achieving those levels of reduction will need changes to nearly everything we do.

We could start by ceasing deforestation and getting off fossil fuels as soon as humanly possible, but it wouldn't stop there. Oh, and stop electing politicians who claim climate change is a hoax.
I found these to be helpful to think about what we can do as individuals to help fight against climate change:

From Nature Conservancy:
http://www.nature.org/ourinitiatives/urgentissues/global-war...

From the EPA:
https://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/wycd/

From the Canadian government:
http://www.climatechange.gc.ca/default.asp?lang=En&n=D27052C...

If you mean what we can do specifically about the melting polar ice caps? Pressurize our government to make legislation that helps reduce emissions.
I love how there is a prominent link explaining Year 2000 issues.
Yes, we are all aware that your ideological allies are saints, forced to do the wrong things by fate and circumstances. While your ideological enemies murder babies for fun.
In the fridge? Let's hope he knows how far the closest tower is for the journalist's carrier.

My Galaxy Note 4 gets a solid connection on T-Mobile in the fridge, in the oven, in the washer, and in the dryer.

It's in the range of 33ms ping, 45Mbps upload, 24Mbps download in each of those locations.

Why? T-Mobile has a neighborhood tower one short block from home.
New galaxies made of an unproven concept!

Do you seriously believe this shit?
guys lets not pretend Amazon doesn't operate in Europe and already have this setup - if its already working over there dipping their toes in the US is reasonable. it's a pilot.
Do not keep a ChangeLog; it is redundant w.r.t. your git commit messages and causes useless merge conflicts when you cherry pick, rebase, etc.

Do use ChangeLog format for commit messages!
In theory it should not make a difference but my scripts seem to run faster when I use exec after pipe.

Normally I would only add exec to the last command in the script, as djb does. But then I started experimenting with using it after pipes.

If you or anyone can explain why this could make scripts "seem" to execute faster, I would be grateful.

Here's the shell source:
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-release-7/src/bin/sh

Incidentally, have you ever tried execlineb? I use that sometimes too.
Clearly that is not enough because the levels of CO2 in the atmosphere are at never seen before levels:

http://climate.nasa.gov/climate_resources/24/
There is a pretty big difference between the authorization of a single extrajudicial killing in a specific case and the broad admonition of your citizens to go out and kill anyone they suspect of being a drug dealer.
Perfect example of how people can justify almost anything if they try hard enough.
Git does support custom merge "drivers" on a per file basis. For example: https://gist.github.com/seanh/378623
It's actually just an alias for document.querySelectAll, so kind of like a very minimalist, modern-web jQuery.
We can either cut carbon emissions, or gamble on impacts of climate change. But given latency and positive feedbacks, restraint is unlikely. By the time that impacts are undeniable enough to motivate substantial reductions in carbon emissions, it will arguably be too late.
By that logic there should be no plea bargains or criminal surrenders. You negotiate not only to be released with no consequence. You also negotiate to lessen your punishment. The AUC paramilitary leaders did this and are now paying reduced sentences (8 years) in the USA, which if you ask me is shameful considering their crimes. FARC leaders, for the same crimes will not see one day in jail.
There's no reason why you cannot do that. Our contractors get fixed hour allocations, and often will strictly work to the hours they are paid for (we won't pay overtime without approval).

A few of my folks were angry about this and claimed to be working 50-60 hour weeks. My response was "there's a easy solution to this problem". They cut out the excessive OT, which was mostly unneeded, and not too much changed.
It's a good thing but they are really late to the party in supporting Selenium.
Good question about the tidal wave. I'm not sure about that. From the article:

"When ice shelves lose large chunks, it does not raise sea level because these bodies are already afloat. However, the loss of an ice shelf can speed up the seaward flow of the nonfloating glacial ice behind it, and this ice can in turn contribute to sea-level rise. Researchers have estimated that the loss of all the ice that the Larsen C ice shelf currently holds back would raise global sea levels by 10 centimetres."