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And there was much more government intervention in the 1950s than now: GI bill in the US, similar programs in Europe, much stricter stock market regulations, heavy government subsidies to all economies (e.g. Marshall plan), financed by much higher taxes …
I think a lot of people are willing to "leave cash on the table" if it means a smaller, more effective team and leaner product.
Dod that small expert team polish the product and maintained it for the next 2 years?

Something about 80%/20% rule...
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UPS is not particularly strong on international shipping. Is your example because those post offices are actually more efficient, or because there are bureaucratic roadblocks slowing down UPS (a U.S. based carrier)?
Too bad :(
What is the reason? Financing?
Looks like the output I pasted is actually wrong though so maybe I spoke too soon.
This is my office [1]. Pardon the crappy photo quality.

All employees at SmugMug get a space like this with a door. They aren't totally enclosed offices per se...the front wall is a metal mesh covered with giant gorgeous photos on the outside, and they stop about 1' short of the ceiling, so they might not meet your headphone requirement, but in general things are quiet. One of my walls has whiteboard paint covering it.

Throughout the day I switch between my chaise and the double monitors on my desk when I need the screen space. But there's nothing quite like kicking back with my shoes off after lunch with a cappuccino and knocking things off my list. I don't think I could ever work in an open floor plan after this.

I usually don't close my door, but if I did I'd have zero visual distractions. To the contrary, thanks to a helpful decorating budget all new employees receive, you can make your own zen space (textured wood print wallpaper is both inexpensive and amazing). We have several open spaces of varying sizes with couches and such if that is what you'd prefer. Convertible standing desks are also available for anyone that wants one.

This is the first company I've worked at that seems to get that different people have different work environment needs, and that focused, complex work often is best done in a private space you can be comfortable in.

Hope it's alright to plug given the nature of the post but...we're hiring [2].

[1] https://goo.gl/photos/caP41XiMfUuFNK1o8

[2] http://jobs.smugmug.com/
> What will happen when people stop paying

They'll utilize Windows Update.
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Yup. Have never gotten the whole "Airbnb/Uber/<startup>" is just a crud app line of thought.

If they're crud apps then everything else in between is just glue programming.

The author of the post covered some very astute points but one not covered in much detail is the challenge of scale and reliability. Maybe this falls under the bucket of optimization and/or latency but I think this deserves being called out on its own.

Once you have Uber-scale number of users requesting taxis at any point, and have a network of drivers constantly communicating their position with the app, suddenly you no longer have a trivial crud app on your hands...
This is simply not true. Most algorithms can and will correct for biases in their inputs.

See this (somewhat technical) article where I go into explicit (simulations in numpy) levels of detail:

https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2016/alien_intelligences_...

The best analogy I've come up with for the non-technical is that algorithms are like humans trying to draw inferences on octopus society. Some octopi might have bias against some other octopi, but it's the height of octopusthromorphism to to expect a human to reproduce that bias.
Well, Joel advocated private space for developers, but with an emphasis on 'paired coders' working together from time to time to mitigate the risk of 'lone wolf' programmers going off on a tangent, and to ensure code quality and consistency.

This was all before the dot com boom IIRC. At one stage, a few years ago there seemed to be a movement towards private developer offices, but it seems to have been overturned somewhat of late.
Damn. It's in the post on the page. Yep. Financing.
Anyways, I'm sorry to read that.
@szines Thanks for the tip, will definitely check it out! The problem I have with ember is probably caused by me being new to front-end field, and is not necessarily caused by ember itself, but the whole stack needed to develop for it. For example I prefer using MDL over Bootstrap and when I tried using it I discovered it wasn't quite straightforward, but hacky I would say, certainly not a simple "include this .css and this .js in your source code." I eventually switched over to Semantic UI for my pet project, it works quite well for now.
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> To read text, you generally don't.

This is becoming less and less true unfortunately, thanks to stupidly designed (eg: not progressively designed ) JS frameworks.
Inequality is not the source of war, it is the source of everything that you see. It's also known as diversity and is the basis of life. You can't be rooting for diversity and against inequality at the same time - you're contradicting yourself. Unless you're also against diversity, in which case you really don't understand much of anything.

Inequality can only ever increase. The opposite is unnatural (and rather impossible).
I only agree in theory.

In practice, many small businesses in my area only have a Facebook homepage now (and no other website). Many friends and colleagues solely organise get togethers (farewells, engagement parties, birthdays) on Facebook. There have been quite a few web services I would have tried around the place, but they only supported 'Log in with Facebook' or 'Log in with Google+' or similar.

Luckily I have an understanding peer group, who will send me a message outside of Facebook to let me know when stuff is going on. Of course to them I'm spoken of as "... oh hiisukun doesn't use Facebook because of some weird nerd reasons ..."

Not everyone is so lucky as me, and more importantly - there are certainly enough alternatives that I don't -really- miss that particular social network. But if I was in China on WeChat, would I feel the same way?
Pretty rare these days I would say. I remember having them early in my career, 2004-2006 or so. Now I guess we're all Agile, or something. It makes the Agileness more better if you can hear your coworkers eating and talking about the game, I guess.

Most places I've worked since, even the CEO didn't have an office so it was more of an egalitarian thing. (By that I mean the false egalitarianism that's prevalent nowadays where your boss is your friend, not just your boss.) When they don't do that, and it's a situation where execs get one and peons don't, that's pretty tacky and indicative of a company that will be shitty in other ways IMO.
Imperial College's chemistry lab has their own glassblower:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24787-dream-job-scien...
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My employer operates 18 data centers in 7 countries around the world. We offer a competitive array of services and features, dynamic networking configuration, numerous ecosystem partners, API access to all of this, and high-quality support. https://www.ctl.io/
I am usually not someone who falls into the "what do they need so many people for, it should be simple"-trap but I was still surprised to learn that Lyft has 400 engineers and Twilio has around 300 too. I am note sure they would be that big if they had to finance everything out of their profits, but i guess it's a good way to maximize progress, on the other hand they also had a lot of challenges with growing dev teams.
Of course it's not career suicide for a software engineer, and recruiters that make such claims should lose credibility with a candidate when they say these things. The recruiter counteroffer "script" ("career suicide", "you'll be fired once they can replace you", "you'll never get a promotion", "you'll be an outcast at work", etc.) is all stuff that could happen (other than the suicide part), but is highly unlikely just based on how many times we hear anecdotes about a counteroffer working out and the person staying for years.

Counteroffers are still a fairly common way to get a raise in software, although I think now that there is much less stigma to "job hopping" candidates are just as likely to move to new companies to get the raise.
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It can depend on the situation. There have been a few small offices where I've felt moderately productive, but looking back they've tended to be filled with people from across the organisation, working on different things. The "team office" which I know is the ideal for some is a recipe for high visibility and unhelpful pressure.
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In recent versions, yes. Dropbox has monkey-patched less over time but it feels like they were one of the user successes which lead Apple to prioritize adding new official APIs to remove the need for ugly workarounds.
And just to add to this, Manifest Destiny had some very concrete related beliefs. Such as "the rain follows the plow", the belief that if you settle and farm somewhere, the climate will magically change to make this workable

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain_follows_the_plow

This led to people settling in unwise places. And you know what, even though the Wikipedia page says that climatologists now regard this as mere superstition, these areas of the US are now well-populated: A critical mass did settle, so in a way it's all worked out.
Things like Dropbox are striking. I guess it was mostly written originally by Drew Houston over a year or so and was cool.

Then 2011, 50 million users 70 employees. Seems fair enough.

Now about 1500 employees. It worked fine and scaled fine with 70 employees so you wonder if hiring the other 1430 was good business. I guess if VCs are throwing money at you you may as well spend it on something. Though that's probably what Yahoo was thinking when it went to 11,700 employees and that didn't play out so well.
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randhunt@amazon.com -- I'd love to know more. Happy to make amends and figure out a path forward. No response from support should never be the customer experience. Get in touch and I'll take care of it.
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If you know what you are looking for; you can buy used lab equipment very cheap. Most sellers don't even know what they are selling. You do need to spend a fair amount of time browsing.
I've been thinking about a glass lathe on CL for awhile now.
My problem is space.

What the frak HN?! Why is this have been downvoted to a flag kill?! This guy is absolutly correct! you can buy lab equipment on Ebay on the cheap, many sellers don't know and don't care.

Local listings are even better you can sometimes buy a whole lathe for "free" by just agreeing to take it of their hands these things are huge and heavy and the transport costs are usually higher than the cost of an old machine.

Here is an example of a Machine Shop Lathe for 150 GBP not that different than the Lathe He uses (He doesn't seem to use a glass lather with it's own heating elements, but just a glass chuck and a torch).

https://www.gumtree.com/p/other-power-tools/machine-shop-lat... (yes a "faulty" motor, which is usually fixed by a new fuese or a drive belt).

Here is a fully functional one for 500 GBP https://www.gumtree.com/p/lathes/metal-turning-lathe/1191030...

And here is a beast 15X50" refurbished lathe for 2500 GBP

https://www.gumtree.com/p/lathes/colchester-triumph-15x50-la...
With his slightly smaller brother (more in line with the size of the lather the guy has in his shop from what I can tell) for 1500$ http://www.ebay.com/itm/CLAUSING-COLCHESTER-13-X-40-ENGLISH-...

Do they need work? sure but you can buy an entire shop for less than 10,000$ if you are buying used, have some patience and can fix things up (and if you are planning to run a shop and you can't fix your own tools, when sorry but don't bother unless it's a hobby you don't mind spending money on since if you can't fix 99% of the problems yourself you'll be out of business pretty quickly).

You can see from the wide shot of his shop that the lathe he uses is a pretty old one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awkzCmQ0kVA this isn't some high end CNC lathe, this is a pretty large prescision shop lathe which can be bought for <2000$ in good and working condition, and usually for <500$ if it needs some repair simply because the thing requires a small crane to offload (these things can weight 2000 or more lbs.).

Old lathes are the "free couch" (or almost) of the machining world, people can't get rid of them because they are too big, and they aren't a rare item to command a huge premium unless they are relatively new or highly specialized.

Other testing equipment is also pretty darn cheap, I've bought signal generators and scopes for <100$ on many occasions of Ebay and local listings which were probably worth 5-10 times more (and I've resold them after a short refurbishment).
> If inequality itself is good, then does that mean we should apply punitive taxes to poor people and subsidize the rich?

It's kind of what we around here, don't we? Most rich don't pay much in taxes, effectively subsidized by state
> Assuming a large percentage of software developers leave for new gigs every 2-3 years, even in the best companies [that is an assumption on my part; I don't know if it's true or only anecdotal]

I don't think that holds outside a certain few areas. No company I know of in Dallas, for instance, expects to turn over their developers that quickly.
It is illegal everywhere in the US. Talking about compensation is protected by the National Labor Relations Act.
Headphones and earbuds are very painful for me after like 10 minutes. This is at a very low volume - there's just something about putting sound that close to my ear that hurts.
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Funny enough, I also have a second business where I do resumes, cover letters, LinkedIn optimizations/reviews, and career consults for people who need help. I don't know the laws of the EU regarding recruitment, but I know historically recruiters at least in the UK were a bit more respected than here in the US - not sure if that attitude has changed or not.

I'd go on LinkedIn and find a recruiter in your area - they may be willing to talk to you about the business. My blog (jobtipsforgeeks.com) has a handful of articles on recruiting topics as well.
For Sierra, development is focused on Karabiner Elements: https://github.com/tekezo/Karabiner-Elements

I had to get my Esc key remapped to Caps Lock, and that's the only way I could do it for now. See: http://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2016/remapping-caps-lock-ke...
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> There is inequality in city-services, whether private or public.

While implementations can be a problem in any system, private business has an additional expense: profit for the owners. Labor and production costs will be roughly similar, but private will always have some amount of the money diverted to profits (which can take many forms). Worse, because many of these services (e.g. water) are a natural monopoly, privatizing the service won't gain any benefit from competition.

> primarily due to excessive labor and pension costs

This is a common talking point that isn't based in reality. We've been cutting services for a long time, while also cutting revenue. If corporations actually paid proper taxes and/or we taxed wealth-creation properly as income, then most budget deficits would disappear.

> raise prices

That's the point; governments can do the equivalent by increasing taxes. Unfortunately, most people panic at the very idea.
>>There is scant evidence backing up that "usually". You obviously need some incentives for people to take risks or work hard, but no Zuckerberg or Gates or Kamprad or Ek would have been discouraged if his marginal tax rate had been 10% higher.

Had Elon Musk's marginal tax rate been 10% higher, we wouldn't have Tesla or SpaceX, considering he nearly went bankrupt multiple times trying to build both companies. Your comment about drinking water is also inaccurate considering the water systems in nearly all US cities are government controlled monopolies.
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This doesn't really tell us much, other than that it looks like a phone and seems to run software. There's going to be much more to it than this, I suspect.
This is pretty neat and a good logical step to Transportation as a service
Try these instead :) http://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2016/remapping-caps-lock-ke...

The next Sierra release might allow the Esc key to be remapped natively, through the Keyboard System Preferences...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0C9kUtvequ0
Indeed, though the goal is to keep the closure of base dependencies as small as possible. They don't really want to be depending on anything other than a C/C++ compiler and a shell.
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I recently had a discussion about how hard it would be to have a system inside a bus to announce the next stop. Sounds like a weekend project right?

Think a bit further:

- Hardware needs to be resistant to harsh diesel engine vibrations

- 3G/4G connectivity

- Need a mobile data contract with local ISP

- Software needs to be able to handle network disconnections

- GPS needs to be able to pin-point at which stop the bus is currently stopped, even with bad GPS coverage in larger cities

- If the bus skips a stop because of a detour, the software should be able to detect it and announce the next stop

- The announcement should be bi-lingual for Airport busses

- The announcement should work for people with hearing aids

- Server needs to know all bus-stops

- Server needs to know different stop types, such as bus terminals, intersection stops, regular stops, hand-over stops, virtual stops

- Server needs to be able both work of a yearly bus schedule and real-time update

- Server needs to output in an understandable JSON/XML because the government subsidies demand an open-data format

- Server needs to publish data to an open-data server because of the subsidies

- Because the bus-company is sponsored by European Union money the control interface should be translated to German/French/English/Spanish

And now this weekend project takes a team of 10 engineers working for a year.
"Most other smartphone manufacturers, including the world’s largest, Samsung, use Android but do not actively develop the software, only modify it, relying on Google for primary development."

I never really understand this. Surely Samsung has the technical expertise to develop an OS to suit their own hardware?

Is it really worth relying on Google to make Android, and then "modify it" to suit their needs?

It is clear the benefit of Apple having control over the entire product - why do other large smart phone companies not do this?
That's cool. Beats the shit out of Java.
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Netflix... which also runs on AWS. Or was that the joke?
https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/
Actually, they are. They perform a public good while not consuming public dollars. Oh, you didn't know that they self funded?

https://about.usps.com/who-we-are/postal-facts/top-10-things...
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> I can call, on 2g crappy China Mobile to colleagues in the EU where Skype and Whatsapp will not even connect or send anything over

Are you sure this is not due to the effects of both 1) the GFW and 2) the atrocious traffic shaping Chinese ISPs apply to international connections?

Not sure about Skype, but Whatsapp always works for me even down to 2G, outside of China.
I don't recall Joel being much of a pairing advocate. Actually, more the opposite [1]. Are you sure you aren't thinking of someone else?

[1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/FiveWorlds.html
>safe

In 99% of cases these devices are exploited using vulnerabilities in the software or configuration added by the vendor (such as telnet access with root:root), not bugs in Linux.

>open source

How exactly would a permissively licensed kernel get vendors to disclose the source code?
Every variation of this comment/mindset drives me nuts. It's unbelievably thoughtless.
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Because it's (relatively) easy to develop a good OS, or one better than Android, but it's going to be very difficult to get the 3rd party apps to support your platform before you have enough users. And you wont get the users without 3rd party app support.
I bet its mostly sales. I had no idea about how much sales ppl you need at certain scale.
>"... headphones isn't an option."

Based on my experience in a very similar situation I'd recommend finding a way to overcome any barriers to using headphones, then using a pair w/ good noise-cancelling, and listening to brain.fm. It's remarkably effective.
It depends on the size of the organization.

If it's small you just have the CEO/founder who decides everyone's salary, if it's a big bigger you have a manager with a margin of negociation but can always get a signoff for a bigger raise by the CEO, and when it gets really big there is a hard grid with categories, ranks within the categories, lower bounds and upper bounds.
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Android is big brand, you can take a ride on the Google / Android branding and their appstore with a million apps.

Samsung is, however, developing Tizen, their own OS, which runs on the gear s3 watch and a number of smartphones. But the appstore is still pretty empty and consumers are weary.
>your employer is given cause to question your loyalty and may be more suspicious of your contributions moving forward. This sentiment has been expressed by MS CEO Satya Nadella and I'm sure it's popular in other management circles.

Haven't they laid off around 20,000 people in the past few years? Seems like MS as a company wants to have it both ways, as I'm sure many do.
I never realized how much of a tool git users were before I knew there are 500 page books about it....

This whole thread is evidence of two opposing viewpoints: "git is too hard" and "git is powerful, professional tool and that requires some effort".

I believe those making the latter point misunderstand the first group (to which I belong): I'm not opposed to putting in some time to learn a tool that's central to my craft.

But git seems to often be complicated not because of the complexity of the underlying problems, but because of choices made in its implementation.

Consider: If you have a decent understand of information theory, you'll be able to use any database system within a short time, even if you never had heard of SQL before. Indeed, with a few years of SQL, you'll quickly understand NoSQL systems as well – coming from Postgres, I was productive in Redis within half an hour.

But no amount of experience with VCSs will allow you dive into git without hitting a brick wall.
The two are not, in fact, mutually exclusive.

The actually interesting question, for any given thing and context, is "is censoring this thing in in this context a worthwhile tradeoff?"

This question is often hard to answer for each specific case - any answer that actually addresses the issues is likely to be in the form of at least a list of pros and cons if not a longer essay; certainly not a snappy one-sentence slogan - and no general answer that definitively covers all things for all contexts exists.

Anyone that tries to tell you otherwise is trying to sneak their politics into your brain via the back door.
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