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It's not that companies shouldn't invest in training, it's that bad hires will cost you more in training among other things and have little to show for it.

I would sooner invest in training somebody from the ground up, even straight out of college, if I knew that they had the humility to listen and apply their learnings to their job. It'll cost me team resources and it'll take time to get them to where I need them, but as long as I can find junior level work for them to cut their teeth on, I will take them over someone who doesn't learn any day.

The problem is that training is expensive, so I need to filter for people who will give me good ROI on training. I'm not afraid they'll leave. People who feel that they are learning a lot generally won't leave their job unless you're doing something shitty to them.

Which brings us to the common debate about how big the talent pool really is. On one extreme, you have the argument that competence is really rare and the applicant pool mostly sucks. On another extreme the applicant pool would be huge if companies would be willing to train employees. In my experience it's somewhere in the middle: there are a lot of okay people who can do certain jobs to a certain level, but most of them have an immediately visible growth ceiling because they are not as adaptable or reliable as they need to be, and as a manager it's very hard to give such a person more challenging projects to grow into.

Some of this is a managerial problem. Some managers are better at developing talent than others. Some managers are better fits for certain employees.

However, there are also employees that are just not reliable, or culturally toxic, or unable to deliver the level of results you expect for how much you're paying them. You pay the cost for such employees in taxes on team morale, project cohesion, and predictability of execution, all of them leading to projects weirdly taking far longer than they should and ending up far more complex than they needed to be.

So making a bad hire costs you much more than just the money you paid him/her. However, it's not clear that you have more to lose on a bad hire than you have to gain on a good one. That's how I ended up on the "fire fast" approach, but that had its own pros and cons.
I'll give you that the tooling is quite a bit better these days, but that's it. Practices are as horrid as ever. Cut-pasting from Stack Overflow seems like something every new grad knows how to do, and is everywhere. Not sure about your focus on design patterns--I'd often call their use a negative, not a positive. When faced with a problem, a good developer asks, "How can I solve this?" A bad developer asks, "I must find some named design pattern to mash this problem into."

At its core, 90% of professional programming is:

1. Plumbing: Routing data from this component to that one through this API

2. Processing: Algorithms, most which have been published for decades)

3. Formatting: Ingesting data in format A and displaying it for the user in format B.

This is true today, was true when I started, and was true 20 years before that.
"Figma is free through the end of 2016."

Wonder if they will follow the same model as Sketch.
> Okay. So the first one was on the pharmacological induction of lucid dreams. It is complicated, but it’s a mechanism to induce lucidity in your dreams. You can control your dream by waking up in the middle of the night and taking an over-the-counter supplement called galantamine, which increases levels of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine in the synapse. Fun fact is that I’ve been writing down my dreams for 11 years.

Uh, what? Has anyone heard of this kind of procedure? I'm aware of other methods to induce lucid dreams but never ones that involve OTC medicine.
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I haven't done the setup on windows before; but gpg4win does the auth correctly, and it automatically hooks up to putty!
How internet companies delete your right to own your digital purchases
I've played CS:GO from NY to Virginia with Parsec (to an AWS machine) and topped the scoreboard consistently (in pugs).

Also did a 3 hour raid night on the new Legion content with it on WoW, lot of dynamic camera movement there. Cleared Nythendra on Heroic as the 4th DPS.

May not be to everyone's liking, but worked for me.
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I have a toddler in NYC and our pediatrician is strongly opposed to vaccines. I've met other intelligent, well-off parents who are in the same camp.

It's not a black and white issue; there's a plethora of cases of children having bad reactions to vaccines. And what I find particularly interesting is that the people arguing against vaccines tend have calm, reasoned arguments while people who argue for them (like you) often resort to ad hominem and passionate anger.

http://vaccinechoicecanada.com/vaccine-ingredients/when-vacc...

https://www.mercola.com/article/vaccines/neurological_damage...
Engineers are respected for their ingenuity, intelligence, real-world problem-solving, studious determination, maybe even grit. These skills are on the opposite spectrum from vanity skills(presentation, socializing, marketing), which unfortunately are at the core of gendered expectations for girls. Since engineering skills actually reflect a depth of the holder(especially in our vanity driven world), they implicitly demand more respect. Really, more professional females in engineering is the only way forward for current gender issues. I would argue it's the same battle that must be fought to combat racism as well.
http://www.ul.com/newsroom/pressreleases/ul-launches-cyberse...
>Blackberry needs to target them.

Why? Dumb phones are more or less a commodity - margins are tiny, and volumes are likely small.

If Blackberry lost at the high-end smartphone game, then switching to enterprise security or whatever they're working on makes way more sense than shipping a few hundred thousand units of $100 dumb phones.
One idea might be to approach the problem by starting with dynamic text search and then selecting a framework and/or database based on that criterion.

Good luck.
My understanding is that his disease has to be able to flourish in the region to be considered endemic. Any outbreak of measles in the US would be expected to die out completely after a while, rather than continue moving through the population indefinitely.
This may be wrong, though.
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Yeah the internet is a crowded place. "figma design" works as a search query for it. Also "figma" is pretty easy to figure out how to spell and say according to the phonological rules of English, so that's all helpful.
I can concur. Thats the one thing thats hard about switching, here in the Netherlands bread is THE lunch thing.
I found low carb bread at the supermarket, so i can eat that, it has a lot less carbs. Lifesaver!
I also think that humor doesn't age well, it's largely generational. The Simpsons is better than most humor, because their jokes are generally stronger. They rarely go for the obvious joke (throw away the first 2-3 jokes you come up with, because they are too easy), and there is basically no sarcasm on the show (ever notice how all sitcoms are just sarcastic barbs for 22 minutes, and have been for decades?).

That said, it can be hard to appreciate just how excellent it was for its time, since it changed the way a lot of series to follow write their humor.
Nice explanation here.

https://www.britannica.com/science/endemic-disease
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That article should not be considered reliable. Even though that sentence was structured as a statement, all the sources are cited as "multiple reliable sources." There is no record of those "taped phone conversations" and the whole thrust of the article is that there is a rumor that the CDC will recant its study showing no link between the MMR vaccine and autism. Where does that rumor come from? Those multiple unnamed reliable sources. Also, this article was written in May, so if they were truly on the cusp of releasing new information it's weird that we're at the end of September and none of these predictions have come to pass.

Though the article is a great example of how this type of misinformation can propagate and sound scary and true if you're already predisposed to believe its stance, so is still interesting to read from that perspective.
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Hmmm. I have 10Gbps fiber in my office that is 3ms away from us-west-2...
That isn't something made up for the film, in real life at least one "no recall" decision has been made using exactly that sort of cost/benefit analysis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Pinto#Cost-benefit_analys...
Yea I think I agree with what you said, especially that the increased communication helped this (I remember when I started programming I didn't have access to internet and once I actually got it it was a complete game changer in terms of learning).

And don't get me wrong I don't think what we have today is anywhere near perfect or even good, frameworks are often more trouble than worth but at least frameworks showed people that <?php mysql_query("select * from foo where id='" . $_GET["id"] . "'") ?> isn't the only way to write code - I do not want to go back to those days.
I think you are right, it will likely not be an obviously good move until you are at > 70% autonomous.

I think there would be a big market for trucking though to have augmented autonomous, so you can keep going for stretches while sleeping. Plenty of routes in the midwest would allow for that, so cross country travel could be improved.

Also, driving at night. After traveling back and forth to my inlaws a few times late at night, I noticed I saw many more three trailer trucks on the road. a lot more. It finally occurred to me that they likely drive at night to avoid traffic, with such a difficult to maneuver load.
Ah, I think you've assumed that the assignment of 10.1.1.1/32 to lo in that example is to replace 127.0.0.1/8. It's in-addition-to. The most common case is multi-homed routers that wish to announce a management address into the IGP, but I've also used it for stuff from proxy farms to making containerized/virtualized microservices a bit more portable, and I'm far from the most sophisticated user. There's people out there doing exotic things with anycast or VPNs or VOIP or MPLS that do this too. I once built a Cisco UCCE site that required it as part of ensuring there was a diverse path for their queue state replication that was in a separate routing protocol convergence domain. And so on - it's far from unusual.
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I thought Musk did a great job at salvaging the lower brow questions.

> Send Michael Sera to mars because we don't want him back
>> Elon talks about the importance of offering return trips

> Where do we put the shit on mars with no water
>> Elon talks about how the critical shortage is power, not water.

> Are you thinking about interstellar travel
>> Creating a colony on mars creates the incentives to spur us to create the dramatic improvements in space travel that will one day give rise to interplanetary travel

While I understand the frustration, including the general public in this discussion in critical to build the support and good will needed for this project to succeed. We need more people to be willing to address questions like this.

The only time I felt bad for Musk was when that girl asked him if she could take him upstairs and give him a kiss. He mumbled something like "I don't have that here" and moved on.
Camp 3: those of us who think "shove something, anything that 'works' out as fast as possible" is a recipe for disaster, irrespective of the transport format or service infrastructure.

I suppose folks in this camp would overlap significantly with those in camp 2, though.
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And then there will be laws that make this illegal. Plus the car will probably be taking video of the infraction.

Hell, if everyone driving self-driving cars reduces the 38k deaths and 4.4 million injuries, then it's possibly that eventually it will be illegal to drive. At the very least, I would expect there to be autonomous-only roads - and you'll have to pay higher insurance premiums to manually drive a car.
Chrome on Android lets you bind your phone/tablet's localhost to your computer's localhost. This enables you to test during development, even if your corporate IT people disallow connections between devices on the same WiFi network (or partition personal devices onto a different network than corporate hardware).
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... Just as we should no longer trust SMS for two-factor authentication, we shouldn’t trust it for account recovery. Disable this anywhere you can.

This is interesting, but, instead of SMS, what should be used for 2FA?
I started 3 weeks ago, and have been losing weight steadily (10 pounds in 3 weeks), have no real appetite (can go for half a day without eating something, but force myself not too), and am more alert during the day at work, without the "sleepy" low period in the afternoon anymore.

I eat mostly what's allowed on "Atkins 2.0, stage 1", plus some small stuff that's not like watermelon). Scientifically the calorie intake is more important than the what (for losing weight), but this diet helped me reduce that too.

>Why stop? Bread is delicious and it make social eating event difficult / less engaging. You can take a meal off from the diet and be fine, but it's a slippery slope of will power.

Can try with some extra rules, like "only on weekends", "only when having dinner at friends house" and also limit it to specific "light" items, not full-on refined-sugary/starchy stuff.
It depends. One possible way is to request FSB to investigate based on presented evidence (illegal supplies of military equipment are their scope of responsibility and we do know that these supplies were not authorized in accordance to Russian laws). If they will not start investigation, then report to the Office of Russian Prosecutor's General. If prosecutors reject the case, go to local court and then up to the Supreme Court. If no success there, go to the European Court of Human Rights and sue Russian Federation. If Russia loses in ECHR, Ministry of Finances will be responsible for paying damages. If (very unlikely, but possible) FSB agrees to investigate and finds the responsible people, likely, it will also find that they were on duty when supplies of equipment took place and, thus, Ministry of Finances of Russian Federation will be responsible for paying damages.
If only companies open sourced the 3D designs/models for products & parts they no longer care about - why not? Perhaps Sweden could incentivise exactly this outcome?
Fire Particle Simulator with JS and WebGL
https://ethanhjennings.github.io/webgl-fire-particles/
You're right, networking will and can never, ever get better.
medical software and agile development ... what could go wrong?
Right, which is why I said "not noticably automated" rather than "not automated".
Because the Chinese government doesn't want it to be the case. They want the currency to be an instrument of government policy - to be able to make it weaker or stronger at will.
How would this affect Chrome on Android, which allows you to redirect localhost requests from a phone to access localhost on the computer it's tethered to?
The only reason anyone is paying £1m+ for pokey two beds in Battersea is because they think a greater fool will pay more in a few years time.
Yes, I believe they've licensed Microsoft's AI chatbot "Tay" for this purpose /s
If you read my full post, I'm arguing for them to change the paradigm of the "dumb phone." A dumb phone as it stands now is a commodity. I'm arguing that there exists an untapped market of people who want a hybrid, capable of filling the multi-functional tool role of a smartphone WITHOUT the focus on social media, video, music, and other entertainment roles.

Why do I need to buy a flagship smartphone to get the best camera? Why do I need to buy a smartphone to get group messages? Why do I need to buy a smartphone to use my phone as a flashlight or navigate with Google Maps? Why do I need to buy a smartphone to type on an intuitive keyboard?

I'm not a teenager. I want a productivity device, not a gaming system or a miniature television or a twitter feed.
I'll have to knuckle down and listen to those podcasts, then. As for the protein limitation, the calculator in the other comments have upper limits. I keep getting conflicting information on this point.
I am often doing a variation of this meal:

- take 2 salmon fillets, crush whole garlic and spread over the top; put for 10 minutes into air fryer. Put a few drops of olive oil on top of garlic texture

- take frozen vegetables (it's up to you what you like), put them for 3 minutes to air fryer

- take frozen "frutti di mare" and frozen spinach, put them for 10 minutes to air fryer

This should be a balanced ketogenic meal, very tasty with lots of fiber as well and added benefit of garlic compounds fighting imbalances caused by sugar-based diets (fungus, candida etc). I lost 20 pounds in the past three months (took a lot of sports as well) giving me a nice sixpack. I used those urine strips to monitor if I indeed had ketones in my blood or not.
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That's what the article Implies that China is working towards it by slowly removing controls from it currency. Nowhere did I read that it was already a reserve currency or becoming one next month.
They have a strong embedded OS/tools/middleware (QNX) and cryptography (Certicom) portfolio with QNX in particular being a major player in the automotive embedded software/middleware market and they are moving into the medical market.

They are reorganizing around the IoT movement as their software assets can be retooled for more lucrative "connected devices" markets outside of smartphones.
I'm not a big green-IT guy, but always pushing your systems close to its load maxima and then backing off with the test traffic as real traffic comes in feels like an enormous waste of electricity.
1 success out of how many failures? The people of California are not nearly as intelligent or forward thinking as the people of Switzerland.
If you're looking for a cookbook, this one is good for some ideas: https://www.amazon.com/Ketogenic-Cookbook-Nutritious-Low-Car...

Personally, I'm not a huge by-the-book cooker. For my keto/very-low-carb diet, I just focus on certain foods that are in line with the target macros. That means lots of:

- 80/20 hamburger meat

- Fatty steak cuts (e.g. ribeye)

- Fatty fish (e.g. salmon)

- Fatty chicken cuts (e.g. legs/thigh/dark meat)

- Most pork (except lean cuts like loin) e.g. pulled pork, bacon, belly

- Avocados

- Macadamia nuts

- Eggs (particularly yokes)

- All coconut products (e.g. oil, milk, unsweetened flakes)

- Green, leafy veggies that are low in carbs (e.g. kale)

- Green veggies that are high in fiber relative to carbs (e.g. Brussels sprouts, broccoli)

Spices are all good, so a lot of my meals turn out like meaty stir fry-type dishes without the starch and with a focus on adding fats (e.g. coconut oil, olive oil) if needed.
Have you ever been at a big company where you found more than one or two exceptions to "I just don't give a fuck this company or any of youse", and which one, because I'd love to submit my resume there.

Issue with interviewers is that they invariably think themselves smarter than they are. For instance, just because something has a linear programming solution doesn't mean it doesn't just have a closed form solution too (most software engineers that have interviewed me would say "closed what ?", I feel). I've found, often, on interviews that you have to lower yourself to the interviewers' level to pass. Even when the problem is not so much that the interviewer doesn't know the stuff at all, the problem may be that they don't know it well enough to have a thorough understanding of the problem without preparation (and they never prepare), so they simply can't deal with other approaches. Or they provide a "warmup" question that is ridiculously hard or easy, and don't deal well with the fact that you approach it very different from what they expect for the real question.

Very few engineers, even at companies that claim to be different like Google or Microsoft, truly have a mathematical background in algorithms. This does not seem to stop them from often smugly pointing out the "right" solution from a blogpost that happens to be flat-out wrong, ill-specified and handwavy, to a Math PhD. Putting any math on the whiteboard in such situations is a bad idea. Even just pointing out the flaws in their assumptions ... Constructing a proof that it's equivalent to a well-known problem with lower complexity than their optimal solution does not often end well, as they neither can nor want to understand actual algorithm theory. They don't know the assumptions they use, and never once have I known one to question if the assumptions apply to the posed problem.
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Thank you for pointing this out! I glossed over it in the title, but it is bears special attention to avoid falling into any traps of rhetoric.

There definitely seems to be a trend in diet right now to search for the "natural" cure to all our ills. The Paleolitic Diet is probably the best example of this because it is explicitly named as being based on the past. There is an unfounded belief that primitive people were healthier, stronger and better in many ways. However, I don't know of any evidence to support those claims and most of the arguments don't hold together if you don't assume the correlation of natural and good.

I'm really curious what causes such as fixation in our modern culture on the "natural" as being healthy and good.

There's also an odd opposite assumption that anything that is "unnatural" is probably "bad". GMOs are a good example of this. Anything derived through selective breeding is good, but as soon as you directly modify the genes it's bad, despite more rigorous testing.
> As for vegetables, I missed carrots and peas too much. Mustard greens and broccoli are apparently okay, though. I could always just make salads out of baby spinach and arugula, but I suck at making salad dressings.

The rule for veggies is to avoid starch and stick to dark leafy greens.

My go-to easy dish would be a "taco salad", where I'd cook some ground beef and serve it with cheese, salsa, sour cream over lettuce. There's also lots of dishes possible with kale and spinach.

> take advantage of cheap fatty meats

Fish included! No reason to worry about eating "too much" salmon. Cook it with butter sauce and it should fit your macro-nutrient ratios perfectly.

> I prolly fucked the diet up

As another comment said, it's no wonder you felt sick. Also, the "keto flu" is a known phenomenon while your body adapts and flushes all the water out of your system. Drink a lot of electrolytes (chicken broth is a good source) and you'll feel better.
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Best ways to get into hobby game dev these days is PixiJS for HTML and Swift or Cocos2D for phone dev. Unity for 3D, but it is pretty hardcore. Get a good "learning 2d game programming book".

I learned SpriteKit and Swift for fun and started making games with my kids. So rewarding and a nice break away from real world programming. But not something I would want to do for a living.