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I see so much of this arguing against being interrupted, or context switching. I suffer from it, most of us do, but I think everyone's trying to solve the wrong problem.

The problem isn't that we get interrupted and our concentration suffers, it's that we keep trying not to be interrupted. Good developers are people who knit things together. The myth of the savant coder who just cranks out beautiful amazing stuff has to die. What makes a great developer are soft skills, and gluing together other code, not cranking on something for hours alone. Just like every other industry, you have to deal with other human beings, email, and the rest of life. We don't NEED to be cranking out code for hours on end, we need to integrate and interact with other people.
Yes, it works on a subscription model and I pretty much dominate my micro niche.
I am looking forward to rine-repeat this model to other micro niches in my parent niche.
GP doesn't mean that those are signs of success; they mean just that those three things aren't signs the company is failing like some of the other comments suggest.
They would have had to have been careful to do so in untraceable fashion. VW would have been all too happy to divert attention to the researchers' "greed" rather than VW's if there had been a whiff of impropriety.
They do just a random quote on the subject :
"While public pension programs have traditionally stayed away from using options strategies in their portfolios, that is beginning to change.

This year, John Colville, Portfolio Manager, disclosed that he was successfully employing options on up to 66% on the equity portion of the City of Sacramento’s pension fund. We also learned that Tim Walsh, former Investment Director with New Jersey’s public pension system had similar success employing covered call options. Most recently we learned that CalSTRS intends to allocate to one or more managers a total of $150 million across both low volatility equity and covered call strategies. Upon evaluation of the performance of this initial allocation, CalSTRS may expand the program in terms of number of managers or capital invested."
Great points all around! The reason I think small businesses are relevant is that the founders/owners own the entire business. They either lose money, break even, or make money. In the sucessful small business cases where they make money, since they own 100% their profit requirements for a good return are far lower than those of a startup. I'd guess it's still a power law scenario (just with less amplitude than startups).
We're in the healthcare space so we have to own our hardware and co-locate.

Vendors will say all manner of things regarding how HIPAA compliance requires you to buy their most expensive services, but the HIPAA legislation and related rules are almost silent with regards to implementation requirements that map to actual technologies you could actually use. "Quote me the subsection of the Security Rule you are referring to; it will look like 164.308(a)(5)(ii)(D)." is dispositive of this sort of thing.

That's a real thing, by the way. The requirement, in its entirety: "Do you have procedures for creating, changing, and safeguarding passwords?" Did you see the point where it requires hashing the passwords? No, you didn't, because HIPAA doesn't require hashing passwords. It requires you to have some method of "safeguarding" passwords written down somewhere.

[Edit: Parent has clarified that they're dealing with standard paperwork at clients rather than the legislation itself, which makes sense (and, also, oww).]
Bingo. If you've scaled up, you stay scaled up for the instance hour. Otherwise, you just threw money away.
Perhaps not directly very often, but they certainly allocate money to funds that trade options.
It's about more than just ground clearance. Approach and departure angles matter too. The Outback has long overhangs, especiially the front.
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If anyone is interested, the Lykovs were part of a group of 'Old Believers' (староверы) a sect of the Russian orthodox church. The primary reason many people who shared their faith fled major cities was because of Communist religious purges (an attempt to solve the problem of 'Religion is the opium of the people')

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Believers
This is about 8 months old. Anyone know if Udemy cleaned up?
I think there is a time and a place for both modes (and it also depends on personality). What's wrong with private exploration / development after a period of research on the problem?
Unfortunately, many standard business associate agreements with clients have yet to catch up to cloud offerings having better compliance guarantees. Many of our agreements with customers, both more recent and legacy, are the reason for the requirement.
Lot of risks here...

Homeowners taking in people they can't hold liable for damages.

Refugees putting themselves at the mercy of homeowners in a country they may not have a lot of options in.

Add in cultural and communication issues, in a high stress time in someone's life...

Noble cause, just hard to structure a system to have checks and balances to mitigate the risks.
I don't really buy this article. The terms AWD and 4WD don't really define a set of functions, but the article says they do then waves hands at all the exceptions.

Really, from what I've seen, current usage is AWD is a 4WD system marketed for on road use, and 4WD is an AWD system targeted to off road use. The biggest indicator seems to be if a vehicle has a low range transfer case, it will likely be marketed as 4WD. Also, if it is marketed as 4WD, HOPEFULLY it will have under body armor.

Remember, not all AWD/4WD systems are equal. Last winter our neighbor's Subaru Impreza with Symmetric AWD (which Subaru claims is super good) couldn't make it up a small incline by our houses. Both my Audi and Land Cruiser on all season tires had no problem.
You could do serious damage with this. You could follow CEO's,government officials etc and detail everything they do and who they meet with. Nothing stopping that company from using the images they have stored to compile information on whoever they want in the area. Great technology thats super easy to abuse to devastating effect in a myriad of ways. No one really cares about that though .
Very good writeup - I've always been curious to implement 2D fluid simulation but only had a faint idea in the back of my head in terms of how it might work.
I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't... I've found the signal/noise ratio to be especially bad in Udemy.
Why it is next gen framework? I can't see it different from angularjs or something angularjs like framework.
ES6 Proxy doesn't sound useful enough to ditch anyone on IE, Safari, and all of iOS.
Can't wait to get one of those, just waiting on my TDI buyback...
Primitive Technology is really interesting. This guy is super good at it : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA

He's trying to get iron smelted right now, but that's really hard. It seems the problem the Lykovs ran into was that their metal items rusted after a while and they couldn't repair them. It's really hard to live without pots, and knives.
Not so much HIPAA directly, but the business associate agreements that many customers make use of. In order to meet the requirements of many of the agreements we have in place, we have to own any and all hardware that PHI data lives on. They don't exactly accept redlines on those kinds of agreements.
Here it comes. The next wave of propaganda, in favour of precogs. The concept of precrime will save us from ourselves.
I didn't say that 'Dark Matter' was Bullt or that it was 'wrong'.

I said that Scientists should not speak of it as in any way an established theory, or that it even exists.

Dark Matter should always be written "Dark Matter" and communicated not that it is 'something' but that it is an idea.
How does it get past aslr? You still need to find addresses of the movs, don't you?
This is what I've been using as of late to learn new technologies. I always seem to forget to tell younger developers about using this approach to learn.

Something else I would add is that you should try to find well known OSS contributors that work on projects that use tech/languages you use. If you monitor their projects you can pick up great habits from reading through their code.
> probably someone else than Robert Kearns would have thought about it between 1969 and today.

Don't be so sure - delays existed for decades prior, and windshield wipers existed since horse&buggy days - yet nobody realized the importance of combining the two. There is a reason to the saying "everything is obvious in hindsight".
This makes a good case for having both some "core hours" for sharing, and some "crank stuff out" time.
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When I was younger a common thing people said about China was that they were culturally incapable of innovation, and in my parents youth the same was said about Japan. Several years ago I found an article about olde-timey racism that said the Germans too couldn't innovate.

Where I'm going with this is you need to be extremely careful about these kind of blanket statements because you almost certainly have historic blinders on.
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I think 30 years ago such talk would have mostly targeted Koreans. By then Japanese companies were fairly well-regarded (having had their own bumpy starts in previous decades). If anything I recall the perception in the '80s being that the Japanese were too good and would take over western economies.
I owned a WRX that I never got stuck in snow. I once came up to a hill with a Sabb and Civic both spinning; and a semi-truck that couldn't really move when they were in the way. I had to wait for both of them to give up, left off my clutch, and crawled up the hill.
Yep and in an irony of history, they, not the Metropolitan of Moscow, were actually being better at adhering to tradition.
You might be right, although it's worth considering that the bandwidth required for sharing scientific papers is orders of magnitude less than that needed for audio or video.
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Some comments:

* Very attractive and responsive website. Excellent work on this front.

* There should be a clear link to the Github under /contributing/how

* I'm still hazy on the scope and goals of this project after reading further. It seems like some combination of widget library, package manager, and IDE. Some specific examples of things being planned or worked on would really help here. I'm imagining a tool set composed of things similar to Pycharm, Tkinter, and Anaconda but the most frequent comparison is to Django. If I am correct about the purpose (which may not be the case) then the Django references are just adding confusion.

* Good luck!
Doesn't work on the Latest Firefix on iOS... Thought we did away with these "Please switch browsers" messages... Way worse to show a message like that than to have a few divs not line up perfectly.
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GCE only need 10 minutes and then you can spin down.
You can verify it sure, but it is much harder to verify excel equations than code. There is no github for Excel (besides saving with different names). You generally don't see the equations when you look at Excel - this is one of the reasons Excel is so error prone.
Yeah, the peer reviewers work for free and the authors actually pay to be in the journal. It's a deeply broken system.
You are making the rather large assumption that artists would not only still create but more importantly spend resources to record their music. Humans are at least partly driven by incentives - giving artistic creations away for free would at a minimum reduce the number of artists who would want to do this. Some may do it, but you surely would admit that some would not - hence a reduction.
If it's not broke, don't fix it.

I think it'd be important to define what do you need to organize (because an organization is about, well, organizing), and how it will contribute, where it will contribute.

Happy to chat more. Email in profile.
I think a 1 on 1 off day could be interesting. Normal week but every other day is worked from home in quiet, maybe include some IRC.
Pertaining to your edit, apologies for over-simplifying originally. You are absolutely correct that the Security Rule is very very vague. Many HIPAA audits barely reference the Security Rule and instead use stronger rule sets. Unfortunately, HIPAA is generally documentation of policies as opposed to true technical guidance and requirements. We're also an 8 year old SaaS company so many of our agreements pre-date the "cloud" catching up from a complicance perspective. At the speed of healthcare, I imagine it'll take another decade for the industry to realize that an AWS cloud is probably more secure than something a 10 person organization can cobble together.
I'd be more inclined to buy your argument if you supported it with evidence. Also we're talking about the impact of physician salaries on healthcare spending. Engineer salaries aren't relevant in this discussion.
Just imagine an alternate world in which Elsevier et.al. used common sense, and offered all papers for a reasonable fee, like 1 euro per download, with a fraction paid to the authors. They could be generating 50 million euros a month and be regarded as good guys.
Udemy basically has a similar piracy to YouTube. If someone reports the content as copyright, Udemy looks into it and takes it down. They also now actively check for copyright infringement when approving a course for their marketplace. As far as any money exchanged, it just gets refunded (in the case posted here, only free coupons were used, so no money was exchanged).

The CEO posted a blog on this event:
https://blog.udemy.com/maintaining-the-integrity-of-our-udem...

Basically Troy's course got posted on Nov 18th,it was reported on Thanksgiving Day, and it was taken down the next day.
Something so obvious yet I've never thought about using it like this before. Thanks for the tip OP!

Just tried a simple search for a lib I use and found great ways to refactor my code.

https://github.com/search?l=elixir&q=Exq.enqueue%28Exq&ref=s...

I'm going to use this method when learning about a new package.
Please post the results in an update when you can! (=
But why is it wrong?
Its not a mystery at all.
China has tons of free world class education based purely on academic ability and a couple of billion people educated to a world class standard.

The US has virtually no education system, what does exist is expensive and not practically oriented.

Basic supply and demand. US has high demand for skills and totally non competitive supply. (even in tech now, which is why they need the H1B visa thing)

But dont expect it to get fixed. It's that way on purpose.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILQepXUhJ98
Thanks! Or a turtle being drawn by a turtle being drawn by a turtle... turtles all the way down! ^_^

Seriously, though - I appreciate the suggestion - I was thinking of triangles drawing triangles, and turtles drawing turtles - but it didn't occur to me to mix the two. Great idea!
Yes, in fact they took down the course in question the next day after it was reported: https://blog.udemy.com/maintaining-the-integrity-of-our-udem...
This is a great resource. I've pointed many people to it in the last couple of years.

Thank you for putting it all together, and I look forward to your updates!
I hope that Pluralsight files for legal copyright on the works in question, then outright sues Udemy for the profits of all of the works in question since first notified of the copyright violations. Given the profit drive of Udemy, it wouldn't be unreasonable for them to charge a non-refundable $100 review fee for each course uploaded... that would cover the cost of a real person reviewing said content.
It's a great reference that I always come back to when setting up new boxes. Thanks for putting it together!
The blog post itself says that... I think the person you responded to is asking if they have done anything to change the fact that their is zero review of any content posted, neither for accuracy of content nor ownership.
Step One: talk to a local temp-to-perm agency about computer literate clerical staff or a personal assistant. This lets you defer ALL the HR/payroll/tax issues until much later.

[Also: please put contact info in your https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=techcorner HN profile]
He wants a meek and ineffective West devoid of moral confidence in itself.
Admittedly I don't have a lot of context, but the only allegation I see here of actual unethical behavior on Udemy's part is that one embedded tweet which claims that they don't respond in a timely manner to DMCA takedown notices. I think that if they want to be a free-for-all platform without human review like YouTube rather than a curated one like Pluralsight, that's their prerogative; there's room for both in the marketplace and consumers have plenty of choice. And if they're a free-for-all platform, they don't have an obligation to proactively police user-uploaded content for copyright infringement, only to respond to DMCA notices.
> The site had its original URL removed, but you can still find it easily.

Why isn't this a link? Why isn't there a link to http://sci-hub.cc/ anywhere in this article? Linking isn't illegal.
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Travelled to China from Ireland to work with a Chinese software company. Dragged in to work for GE, ended up across a lot of their divisions from 2005 for a few years. Worked out of Atlanta for some time

They did not have a software culture at the time, everything was outsourced. Project managers did not have any clue of how to manage a software project professionally, they struck me as more financial / admin types. India and China were like wolves and GE threw projects to them expecting the lowest cost to emerge as the winner.

Office was always dead on Friday, there was a culture to often work from home but not actually work.

From my understanding at the time they used to cut 10% of the worst performing staff every year, I believe they were one of the worlds largest employers at the time. My biggest peeve was their culture of having meetings just to have meetings....I think this issue can be found in most large enterprises.

My cousin now works for GE in Australia and says 'they are trying to become a startup'. I'm not convinced, it's pretty cool to be called a startup but true startups will only thrive in GE if they are left alone by management and allowed to utilise large resources. It can work, small teams can make great inroads for these types of organisations.
That wasn't the blogs main criticism... It was that the site advertises itself as a place for high quality educational content but does no review of the content at all.
The notice specifies that it uses certain APIs that are not available to Safari. (Every browser on iOS is effectively WebKit/Safari.)

That said, I don't know if it's a good idea to depend so heavily on those APIs without some kind of fallback. A framework that doesn't support iOS is probably a nonstarter for the vast majority of projects.
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and it's impossible to achieve it without probing those attributes.

some advertising libraries solve that, since the advertising industry deals in in-view ad impressions for a few years now, by being smart about when to do it. the best one is called safeFrames. others like moat detect if the user has a fast computer, abuse it to no end, and then extrapolate the results for the whole audience.

i expect all of them to move to the native APIs soon (but Android fragmentation will make it slow)
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Thanks for confirming. Any chance you would share your site? Or does the fact that it is a micro niche mean you worry about competitors starting up and can't promote it more widely?
I didn't realise that Jeff Barr has been doing these posts all the way back to 2006.
Udemy does do copyright reviews for approval to the marketplace but I think they are just contractors though, so I can definitely see how courses could slip by, with someone being unsure if it was a copyright infringement or just licensed content.
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Note that all 5 of the letters written to the SEC in response to the proposal can be found here [0]

[0]: https://www.sec.gov/comments/sr-batsbzx-2016-30/batsbzx20163...
For reference, the $10/year plan came with a paltry 250MB of space and no CardDAV or CalDAV access to contacts/calendars. Nobody in my family would be able to use such a plan. The $20/year plan came with a fairly low 1GB of space, and still no CalDAV. It's possible that maaaybe one member of my family might get away with this plan, but I'm guessing that everyone in my family probably has over 1GB of email. The $40/year plan came with 15GB of email, which would probably be sufficient for my family, though I can't state that with 100% certainty. $10 extra per year is not that big of a deal, especially when you realize it comes with even higher limits (25GB, and 10GB for file storage as opposed to the 5GB that the old $40/year plan offered).
Fully agree. My point was that it can indeed be verified though in many circumstances.

That said, I think there's always a balance between a quick down and dirty business solution that gets the job done, vs. something fully engineered. Additionally, it is much easier for business users to shoulder more of the workload while letting people with programming knowledge focus on other tasks.
I remember reading this a while back on HN, for those interested in the discussion, here's the link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10125523
The problem is the can-do, hardcore engineering types (particularly those without college training) are gone and supplanted by layers of bureaucrats and bean counters.
How can I become a AAA programmer?
I am about to receive a bachelor degree on computer science (but the education is not as high level as you have in USA or the like). I live in venezuela and I'm 23 years old (which I think might be of help for the answers)

I've been programming with web stuff for about three years (sporadically). Mostly php, html, css, jQuery.

I try to read everyday programming books, but I don't happen to see much progress. Sure, compared to myself three years ago I've made progress, but now I think I progress very slow and is frustrating.

I have tried applying for freelance projects (because my country's economy makes inviable working on a local company), but I'm always shadowed by people much more skilled (specially from USA).

Also, every time I read the comments in here I feel dumb as a rock. Everybody seems so intelligent and nerdy that I'm actually fearing that I can't get a good paying freelance job. Is it because I'm relatively young and inexperienced? What do you think is the average age here?

I'd like to be that guy whose GitHub's libraries are used by hundreds of people with very nice programming prose. But every time I take a look at other's githubs I feel overwhelmed and so little.

I don't know what else to do to speed up my coding progress. Should I keep with a specific set of tools? Or should I learn the cool kids in town? (that's another problem, there are so many tools to learn to be competitive. It's overwhelming).

Thanks for your time.