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> I recommend reading 'The Wealth of Nations'. As an economics textbook, it is fairly dated, but it makes the point that ten people with a specific specialization can do more than ten people all doing the same work at once. Therefore the value you can provide increases with specialization as you can be part of a team than can provide more.

I think it's improper to retrofit a dated analogy into something innately complex like software engineering. It ignores the communication overhead needed in creating software which was almost absent in low mentally-taxing work of 18th century.

Let's say a team wants to build a website. Are you sure you'll have better odds at making it in time with a specialist for HTML, CSS, and Javascript? Brook's Law is at play here — finely grained task spread across dozens of people who have a little idea about everyone else's work is bound to prove disastrous.

The role of specialist is crucial, but only when the her knowledge in a singular aspect can save a lot of time for the whole team.
I foresee a problem where people confuse the wording of "total order on all messages" in the wiki to mean there is a "global total order" - in other words, that bus1 solves distributed systems and we can all go home - and building buggy systems on this assumption. I'm not saying the concept is flawed or the implementation buggy, or anything like that.

PS. Neil Brown in the LWN article already conflates "global" and "total" order.
One that comes to mind is folks asking for relative path support in Dockerfiles (though I understand why the Docker folks don't want to do that).
This is just my observation. Like anything involving people the best you can do is correlation (too many outliers), but the driving factor seems to be people get locked into a path early in their life and find it hard to walk away from all they have committed to their specialisation when they later find they don't actually like what they have spent their life becoming good at.
It can work, but it's not exactly a universal solution. For a site that tries to sell this as a design that should be a good basis for everybody, it's not.
why would anyone like to hear it? your comment implies conservatives love war.
They were quite public and arrogant about it
If it is exactly 1 km you could triangulate to find someone's location.

A program to do that would do a bisection search along a line (faking coordinates for the location of the device) to find the point on the line where you transition to seeing the person's messages. Then, repeat along other two lines in different directions. Each transition point gives a circle of 1 km radius on which the person is present, and the one point shared by all three circles is their location.

This could be mitigated by rounding off coordinates to be coarse enough that it doesn't give their precise location before calculating the distance.
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The issue is not force everyone to be in private offices 100% of the time. The issue is give everyone a place to go that's private so when they need to have quiet/alone/distraction-free time, then can have it.

Granted, I generally assume laptops, and many folks probably have larger desktop setups, but it's the choice factor here that is always ignored during optimizations for "efficiency".

Until you can test, say, 3-6 months of privates offices for those who want/need them vs open-plan for everyone, you won't be able to get usable comparisons.
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How is it obvious that the iPod gave birth to the iPhone? It is a completely different operating system with a completely different user interface.
Hold on, because, I'm pretty familiar with pre- and post- UVM OpenBSD, because Arbor Networks shipped on OpenBSD (against medical advice) and ran into a number of really bad VM bugs that Theo couldn't fix because of the UVM rewrite!
It's certainly paid off. You write well.
I think you overestimate Steve Jobs.

What goes up must come done. It's very normal for a growing company to see a period of loss. Even invincible empires died as history tells.

Of course Steve Jobs created a big company. But it doesn't mean Apple would never fail if he was still here.
our coworking space is almost all windowless - I don't mind, others don't mind (or are still members, despite it). But we've still got ventilation in each room - it would get unbearable quickly without decent HVAC.
Regular work means emails, slack, having coffee break with colleagues, over-hearing John's joke, overhearing what happened in metro to Mark this morning, suggesting where to go for lunch today and of course preparing for a meeting and going to the meeting etc.

"Deep work" or "flow" means there's just you and the thing you're doing, nothing else.
Looking forward to the follow up walk through on how to miniaturise this to the shape of a bee.
I like this idea. I am leaning more towards the entrepreneur side, because being employed is not my ultimate goal. Good thinking.
I like just one monitor and have only the software opened I really use like editor, browser and a some terminal (depends on the os, mac or win).

Everything else like email I open check it and then close it again.

I'd rather switch windows instead of moving my head.
I'd rather switch windows instead of moving my head.
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Difficulty with this is that it assumes laptops, or requires laptops + desktops. While we're on the subject of choice, some folks are very particular about double monitors, specific keyboards, physical arrangement of all that stuff, etc. The switching back and forth between different rooms... either requires multiple machines or ignores some of the beefier setups some people want/need.

That said, I'm fine with one 16g laptop and I move around with it a lot, but I also know a lot of folks who could not be terribly productive on any laptop vs their current setup.
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thanks for that extra view point, and I totally understand that angle!
Very classy and open-minded response and attitude.
Completely avoid running SAP system during this double hour
LG Chem the supplier for the GM Bolt battery said they expect more than 35k this sounds to me like the car is going to be aggressively prioritized in ZEV states.
Because at the beginning of the year, you have to be extra careful and take more cautious trades to not step outside your 2% loss limit, but at the end of the year, assuming you are successful, you can afford e.g. 5% loss limit, as you have already made 10% in profit, so you are able to engage in more risky trades.

As this policy were made public at some point, and you usually don't disclose your working risk management profile to the outside world (as it can and will be analyzed and exploited), I can assume that BlueCrest now uses a different approach internally.
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Not 100% sure how this works or what it does. Can you explain?
I've been considering whether a mirrorless would be a good fit for me for some time. I recently set out backpacking and ditched my DSLR for a much smaller 35mm rangefinder. While there are times where I think "I wish I had my DSLR so I could use <lens X>", I've been getting by just fine. Similarly a friend just came back from a trip to South America and Australia on which he took a small Sony point-and-shoot (with very nice results).

Ultimately it's the person behind the camera which makes most difference, but I must say I've been tempted to sell my DSLR and replace it with an entry / prosumer mirrorless simply for the size.
One corner case that exists: a content is linked on Wikipedia, this content is taken down due to a copyright violation

(I suppose Archive.org would be asked to take the content down)
the comments here say that engineers who were developing first DRAMs knew about this since the very beginning and there are actually qualification tests for the hardware. the problem is that capacities got too large to test effectively.
What I love is this:

"The move could hurt the companies image in San Francisco where the competition for engineers is fierce."

I live in New York and I would never work there. Why would anyone want to join a sinking ship? It's image is gone all in the name of the mighty stock price.
So, Second Life is MySpace, and we are waiting on the Facebook version of SL?

Interesting.

I kind of see how Snapchat is positioning itself against Facebook in this arena.
That assumes the allocation of capital provides no value to society. Mortgages, business loans, loans to governments (bonds), etc.
The lamp post is part of a wider local 'ecosystem' that includes ways of dealing with abusive messages attached to publicly-visible objects.

Communication apps like this, not so much.

This is why service and software makers are considered to have more of a responsibility to be concerned with misuse of their platforms. (ETA:I mean platforms, as in publicly-accessible stuff on the net, that's under their control.)
I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that Carmack spent a lot of time with Racket writing a script language for VR and a big part of his work was with Android.
I used to love Snapchat, it felt like the future of communication in many ways. Unfortunately it seems that their Android app became completely unusable on mid-tier devices in the past year. Painfully slow UX and unreliable in most situations. Wish they'd do something about this as it forced me to abandon the platform entirely.
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Those ideas are and probably always will be in deep conflict. Nobody said it has to be easy.
"[S]omewhat arbitrary" is a correct description. We take something that is fundamentally partially ordered (real-world events that may happen exactly at the same time), respect the partial order and extend it to a total order. The extension is arbitrary, but I fail to see the problem with that, or how it contradict anything we wrote?

Could you explain what bounds you are interested in and in what way you think anything is exaggerated? I would like to update the docs if necessary.
Reuters leading with "Twitter beats revenue estimates..." while the Wall Street Journal chose "Twitter to Cut 9% of Workforce as Revenue Growth Slows" [1]. This is usually a sign of a political fragmentation, e.g. within management, within the Board, between the former or within the shareholder base.

(Reuters' correspondent is based in Bangalore; the Journal's in the Bay Area [2]. Neither contains any direct quotes. Journal cites multiple Wall Street analyst reports.)

[1] http://www.wsj.com/articles/twitter-to-cut-workforce-as-reve...

[2] https://www.linkedin.com/in/dseetharaman
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This is interesting to see Heartstone mechanics with no animation or effects.
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Did you also ask Tesla and SpaceX about what they do to ensure humane working conditions?

I've worked in a studio/factory in China and visited plenty; from what I've read, they're far better than SpaceX.
Yeah, I could've added more information, but I've been working on features. Please refer to my comment on this story for more info!
The two top questions are "How to modify existing, unpushed commits?" and "How to undo last commit(s) in Git?". That could be interpreted as evidence in favor of a staging area. People actually need to change committed things very often.

On the other hand, on place 20 is "How to undo 'git add' before commit?", which displays a UI shortcoming with staging.
I follow the principle of trying to be (and hire) T shaped people. Wide generalist knowledge (knows a little of everythin) but one topic where they go deep. You can be specializing in backend programming but I would expect you to be able to hack a quick front end fix. You can't get away without the minimum of basic HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL and Linux, you also must know basics of security (CSRF, XSS, SQLI etc). Then you can go deep on anything you want.
Or, you know, journalistic discretion?
Archive.org will take content down for certain reasons, but they have a pretty broad copyright exemption as a non-profit archive.
Those "dumb glasses" are all I hear high school kids talking about when I volunteer. If they hit a cheap enough price point with them, kids are going to wear them everywhere. There'll be plenty of backlash as schools/etc ban them, but they're targeting a market that's already crazy about them.
This guy should grow a thicker skin. If you act like a jerk online, someone will complain about it, even if you don't recognize their right to do so.

Also, "stolen intellectual property"? They should steal his pixie dust and unicorns too.
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Be it web application development in specific, or software engineering in general, or even in life itself, I'd say its much better to be good at many things than great at one thing. For one, it makes a person self sufficient and independent. Assuming one is a curious autodidact, one can always improve or learn things that they aren't good at yet. Next, it sort of gives you a perspective from various points that makes you appreciate things better. Finally, it is a humbling experience (which is good in life) as it makes you realize how much there is to learn - the more you know things the more you know you know nothing effect. Of course, one must not get perturbed when derided as "jack of all master of none". On the flip side, one must also not go around town calling oneself a polymath or a renaissance man - those days are over, at least with established fields of knowledge - as it would be equally ridiculous.
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What's the phrase, cut deep and fast? Twitter should probably cut more like 25-50%.
Depending on the strike price, can't you just buy or short a few shares?

I mean that's a bet with a payoff & loss.
It can lead to buyer hesitance, which is a problem. Why buy now when the car can suddenly become better? Without any understanding of when it would get better, or how much, the fear of the regret can be substantial.
Is it even possible for it (or any similar tool) to be client-side only and work without JS?
Of course not: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esc_key

You can also see it on original VT100 terminal keyboard.
> Twitter Inc's quarterly revenue growth slowed sharply in the third quarter but topped analysts' expectations, and the company said it would cut 9 percent of its global workforce.

> Revenue rose about 8 percent to $616 million, above the average analyst estimate of $605.8 million. The company reported a 20 percent rise in revenue in the previous quarter and 58 percent last year.

> Twitter had 3,860 employees globally as of June. The layoff could hurt the company's image in San Francisco, where the competition for engineering talent is fierce.

Total revenue of $616M and 3,860 employees (pre-layoff) means they've got $159K of revenue per employee. If the majority of their work force is engineers that's pretty weak. After adding in health insurance, 401k, real estate (for office locations), and all the rest of the usual expenditures, it's no wonder they can't turn a profit.

> "We're getting more disciplined about how we invest in the business, and we set a company goal of driving toward GAAP profitability in 2017," said Chief Financial Officer Anthony Noto.

They're going to need go significantly deeper than 9% to get to profitability.

EDIT: Per the replies the revenue numbers quoted are per-quarter, not annual. Still begs the question of how they hell they're not profitable making $636K per employee.
I figure you're just rounding latlons to 2 decimal places and putting people in buckets?
qualcomm financials for reference:

+----------------------------+-------------+-------------+----------------------+
| | Fiscal 2015 | Fiscal 2014 | Year-OverYear Change |
+----------------------------+-------------+-------------+----------------------+
| Revenues | $25.3B | $26.5B | (5%) |
+----------------------------+-------------+-------------+----------------------+
| Operating income | $5.8B | $7.6B | (23%) |
+----------------------------+-------------+-------------+----------------------+
| Net income | $5.3B | $8.0B | (34%) |
+----------------------------+-------------+-------------+----------------------+
| Diluted earnings per share | $3.22 | $4.65 | (31%) |
+----------------------------+-------------+-------------+----------------------+
| Operating cash flow | $5.5B | $8.9B | (38%) |
+----------------------------+-------------+-------------+----------------------+

wow.
Twitter certainly has problems but they have nothing to do with any sort of unhealthy pursuit of the mighty stock price. They have to do with poor management, lackluster growth & inflated expenses.
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Twitter isn't sinking. It just isn't ascending as fast as investors would like to ensure hyper growth.

While its always great for your career to be in a company that's constantly growing - sometimes being that person that can help the company do a lot more with less resources is even better for your career.
When everyone's jumping ship - the people who choose to stay on-board can often be very rewarded as far as their career growth goes.
>Layoffs are capitalism and efficiency and all that so nothing to hold against GS but I find it strange how difficult it is to disloge the upper echelons even after unethical, reputation damaging and near criminal activities.

I think capitalism is best understood as a system that first, last and always enshrines that upper echelon. Associating capitalism primarily with efficiency or even commerce is the precise error producing any "strangeness". Nothing is strange about it doing what it's there to do first: produce wealth for the upper echelon, such wealth legally taken from the producers.
Tinder once had this exact problem. You could find users' exact locations via triangulation, since the API reported an exact distance from your location: http://blog.includesecurity.com/2014/02/how-i-was-able-to-tr...
I recently had to lay off a couple of people in my department (part of a larger cut overall) and it is honestly the hardest thing I've ever been through in my professional career.

The only saving grace is that, as developers, they could (and did) go right out and get another job immediately. Such is the way of the software industry.
I'm not up on the Bay Area hiring scene these days, but I would guess that the people that would never work there, wouldn't have before the layoffs.

The big companies use stock as a major component of their compensation package, so the stock price being down already was impacting their ability to hire in comparison to their peer companies. By cutting staff and beating revenue estimates they might be able to raise their stock price which may keep some of their existing engineers from jumping ship.

But I'd agree, Twitter does not look like a great long term prospect for ones career.
They spend about 2.5 billion dollars to make 2 billion dollars. Not a great business model. If they can do more cuts and bring the expenses way down and seriously turn around the product, they will have a good future. I almost feel, they need somebody like Eric Schmidt to manage the company while Jack learns and focuses on the product.
I can't remember the exact language he used but in his last talk at OC/3 he implied he liked it, but they were using something else (JS or JS-like). Shame really, it would have been neat to use something scheme based.
Thanks for posting this here, I am the person who wrote the complaint.

I use Go since the day of the public announcement. I love Go. I contributed to Go the Solaris port, the arm64 port, and now I am finishing up the sparc64 port. I don't want to play a game of who's contribution is more important, but since I started contributing to Go, I received only unfair treatment from people associated with the Go project in either official capacity, or from powerful members of the community.

This is just another example (one that broke the camel's back apparently) of the shit I have to swallow to contribute to the project I love.

I cannot continue contributing if I all I get is insults, nobody thanks me for anything, and people are actively hostile against me and discriminate me against me at conferences. Sorry.
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Medical displays are 5:4 or 4:3 as standard (ISO 9241 and 130something) they aren't 1:1.
Ask HN: What are the best personal project websites you've seen?
I just finished graduate school and am trying to design a small personal website that showcases the research I've done to potential employers and explains how and why my skills would be useful in an industry/startup setting. I also want to give a little background about myself.

I've been looking at a variety of people's personal websites; however, I've noticed most of the researchers I follow tend to highlight their papers/publications on their website, which doesn't seem quite so useful for someone who wants to work in industry (in most of my interviews so far, I get the impression that publications are secondary to the technical skills I've acquired).

What are the best personal project websites you've seen? Something that a potential employer would look at and think "I need to hire this person".

Thanks!
Of course they don't have "people". Every large organisation has a human resources department. The clue is in the name "human resources"; they are just resources.
In conclusion, NOUN1 is not a NOUN2 you can rely on blindly

This is true for everything. I don't see why this is evidence of anything. If you rely on any system blindly you are doing something wrong.
Remember that it is quarterly revenue. That gives an average revenue of %636K per year per employee, which does not sound that bad.
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True, but it's not a new thing and the BM story was far more elaborate than "guy does naughty thing, gets blackmailed".
Let me do a mini-askHN: I'm thinking of joining Twitter to work on their anti-abuse efforts. What factors should I consider in my decision?

At first consideration, this news doesn't worry me a ton. They provide a product that provides a lot of user value, just to a smaller user base than they/investors hoped. They've found a reasonable way to monetize it, with $2b+/year in revenue. Their expenses are too high for that, but not egregiously so, with previously committed stock compensation being a big chunk of things. There's still a lot they can do with the product. And they've got a unique value that's hard for other people to replicate: it's the place for public figures (public figures at all scales) to interact.

Am I crazy here? I know I'm taking a risk, but I'm not seeing more risk than, say, joining a Series A startup, which I've happily done before.
>> Well, yeah. That's 28,108.80 a month

If you can't (or don't want to!) afford that kind of money for data analytics, please consider giving the FOSS alternative EventQL [0] a try some time.

It's super simple to set up and tries to be efficient on commodity hardware, so you can run large clusters (>100TB scale) for a couple hundred dollars a month.

[0] https://eventql.io/

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I'd go further and say that many introverts self select for jobs like programmer, researcher etc that require deep sustained focus.

I would bet that introverts are _over represented_ in tech, but of course they put us all in open office plans.