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I went to business school (top European) as part of my engineering degree.

They actually do make a point of mentioning that there's more than one philosophy of management. For instance, in the Germanic world, it's common to promote managers from the ranks of whatever business is being managed, whereas it's a bit of an anglo thing to have a "manager" who is somewhat business agnostic.

But of course there's a problem. If you tell people they need specific experience in the car industry to be a car industry manager, or as a software dev to manage devs, then WTF are you doing in a business school? Especially as an undergrad? You gonna manage the student bar?

So then when it comes to all the case studies, you have to kid yourself that what happened to Betamax in the 1980s is going to be relevant to you in 2016. It's interesting to read all this historical "strategy" stuff, but the students I hung out with (being engineers, technically competent and skeptical of BS) tended to see them as something akin to a history class. Sure there are lessons, but a lot of it is just interpretation and conjecture. Nothing in it with the rigour of an engineering course.

As to why MBAs are useful, it seems it's really a question of signalling. If you pay a few hundred grand in fees, rent, and opportunity cost to do an MBA, you probably have some motivation. And there is some value in generic management; not every line of business requires deep technical knowledge, and those are fine for hiring some guy who's happy to work long hours and fly around a lot. It's a problem for something like software dev though.
Ah, I see where the disagreement lies. I've thought that by downsides you mean _relative_ downsides, whereas you meant absolute ones. Thanks for the detailed explanation of your position.
This isn't good analysis:

So those people who have been the victim of politics (you used a gender-specific pronoun, now I will shun you, but I'm really doing it because I don't like you and want to hurt you but have a convenient social excuse to ostracize you and look like the good guy for doing it) often overreact and take out their anger anonymously online.

People aren't getting shunned for using gendered pronouns. They might think that's why people avoid them, but if that is the only thing they are doing, no.
Wouldn't a better idea be to give it to people with lower middle income which is more indicitive of the average household
That's like saying your neighbour is peaceful and serene because he hasn't got in trouble with anyone in your neighbourhood, yet he beats his wife, is an alcoholic, etc..

Come on man, seriously? Tibet? rings a bell?
Henry Heimlich has died
I used Sybase ASE on Linux in the early 2000s. It was a joy to use back then. Same dialect of SQL as Microsoft SQL Server, easy to set up and work with.

Microsoft SQL Server has since diverged to the point of being a completely different codebase, whereas Sybase stagnated and were acquired by SAP.
Klatmon, I'm the author and lead maintainer of react-toolbox.com. I want to put you a bit more in context to understand what's going on.

The library is originally, and still, built with SASS. We've migrated already to PostCSS (there is a beta published) to fix issues regarding customization and building. I'm releasing a new package in a couple of days so you will see the reasoning behind this migration.

Cutomization is a problem really difficult to solve and it needs dedication. I'm putting a lot of effort on it but I can't review issues, solve doubts, fix bugs, work on new components, maintain the docs site, release new versions, keep dependencies updated, writing changelogs... and at the same time figuring out how to solve major problems like customization and workflow.

I'm one person without any funding or retribution. I have no help apart from sporadic contributions and some people helping with issues from time to time. I also have a full time job that keeps me away from dedicating as much time as I wanted.

Instead of being critical (and to hate being critical), you can contribute to the project. There is no need to write code or to fix bugs to contribute. It's enough responding issues, solving doubts... But please, don't be unfair. Open Source is built by everyone. If you see weaknesses, just try to help fix them, not just pointing at them. :)

About the changelog... there are no breaking changes, no major releases. You can see what's changing just by checking out the git history. I get is easier to check a note with the highlights but I need to assign priorities to move on. In any case I want to let you know that I plan to release a roadmap, along with an article and a new package during the next week.
No, they aren't usually.
> ClojureScript offers features like dead code elimination

In Clojurescript, it's my opinion the Closure compiler is of dubious value. It adds yet another level of indirection between the source and the target. And isn't it the dead code elimination that makes run time macros impossible in CLJS? They are possible in Clojure proper.
Survey grade receivers using differential GPS can achieve cm-level accuracy most of the time.
Have you ever considered the possibility that China's society and norms differ markedly from what you're used to, and that they might have a point?

Sounds pretty presumptuous for a person who's (I assume) never lived in China to claim that they know what's good for the Chinese better than the Chinese themselves do.

In particular, political elites and bureacratic, centralized government arise exactly because high populations densities and large populations lead to conflicts that require specialized decisionmakers to resolve. That's why scattered bands of hunter gatherers don't create formal governments, but cities and large countries do.
I think of it as a public service, so others don't have to do the same. Thanks!
Yes I can see that, but do you think he would be telling his life story if he could substantiate his claims? I think not.
If only there were a way to bring multiple employees together to overcome the power imbalance between them and an employer. /s
Well all the banks are state-owned, so it's kind of a moot point. They'll go along with whatever the government decides.
"Watch the whole video to get the whole story".

Thanks for the tip, genius.
Not true. The deadweight lose from taxation results in less economic benefit than not taxing and redistributing the money. Keynesian economics doesn't work. Assuming the administrative cost of taxation is non-zero, that cost means that $500 given to someone cost someone else >$500. So we spend $500 + deadweight loss to 'gain' $500 in economic gain.

So the benefit of giving that money must provide a gain greater than the deadweight cost. That gain could be non-monetary (a mom raising her kids for example) -- but just the 'spending' doesn't benefit the economy because spending $500 actually cost much more than $500.
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FWIW, it's not the "migrant" part in itself that irritates me. It's the whole thing, "migrant workaholics". I hate the people who moved to my hometown for the sole reason to make money and go back to their home country, with no intention to integrate.
What about having a maximum file size? If you are a site for documents, user's probably don't have any reason to upload a 3 GB file.
What is that gonna achieve exactly? Aren't prices gonna just inflate upwards and things become less affordable?

If you just pay everyone X amount of money every month for whatever, it just means that in order to produce something you'll need to pay someone a lot more than that X amount in order to work and produce it and also it means that that item is gonna increase massively in cost in order to pay the items production itself.

I am highly against that idea.

You want to solve issues? Give free food/water and shelter for survival, thats all a human needs. It doesn't need to be a food from a chef or Evian water or a house with even an internet connection. All it needs is just to provide some safety that that person is not going to die of starvation or weather. Other than that if you want to have a better have and lifestyle well you have to work for it.
Primary Keys: IDs versus GUIDs
If you introduce a bug bounty too early, you will be paying out for vulnerabilities that could be caught or prevented in a much more cost effective manner (vulnerability assessments, penetration tests, developer training, appropriate monitoring).

Daniel Miessler has a good breakdown of when to consider various types of security testing: https://danielmiessler.com/blog/when-vulnerability-assessmen...

Sqreen also have a handy basic security checklist: http://cto-security-checklist.sqreen.io Specific to bug bounties they say "You need security aware people inside your development teams to evaluate any reports you receive."
Ever heard of how difficult attribution is in hacking? They got access to the emails through a fishing attack. Even if the attack IP address originated from Russia, you think they really know it was Russia? Come on. This is pure manipulation of the American public.
So now after 3 layers of us trying to coax you into giving us a little bit more concrete detail on your argument, you link an article in German which a lot of people here cannot read?

Anyway, the article's argument is that the certificates for renewable energy are created in e.g. Norway and Switzerland where it is easy to produce cheap hydropower which cannot be transported to Germany. Meanwhile the Norwegian and Swiss do not buy energy with certificates because they "know" that their energy is clean.

This is indeed true and a valid argument. However Norway and Switzerland produce only a finite amount of these certificates. If demand for certified green energy does not exceed this supply then this is simply a sign that not enough people are willing to pay extra for certified green energy which is regrettable but not a fault of this system.
Anecdotally, it was definitely a bad thing for me. I was laid off of a software dev job at the beginning of the summer in SoCal. I would have loved to have spent that time working as a bartender, for the local bike share program, or as a lifeguard. These were all positions I could leave after the summer (3 months), inevitably returning to a higher paying software development job without causing any harm to my employer. But by actually working, I would earn about half of what I received in UI benefits.

Since I was looking for an advancement in my career (I left the company on good terms and my former boss ended up being one of my references) and not desperately looking for anything that pays, I ended up doing a lot of volunteer work while focused on increasing my skill set a bit and looking for the right opportunity. But I could have just as easily spent that time sitting on my ass.
Aaah...procrastination. "I'll just wait t'ill I'm 150."
Yeah, much less. As the sibling says, GitLab has integrated CI/CD, extensive code review functionality (which GitHub just added), more fine-grained rules about who can merge what where, an integrated Docker hub, etc.
Sub-millimeter is a little tricky.

Very high (few centimeter) resolution can be done in real-time, in fact, under some limitations. Keyword: real-time kinematic.

One important component is using a reasonably short baseline: you have a receiver at a known location somewhat nearby (in many places there are networks of stations run by the relevant governments), and you compute difference between your solution and the station's solution. Most of the errors are common between the two and so they cancel.

Another important component is carrier phase tracking: The receiver processes the signal to recover the carrier phase. This boosts the resolution from the code timing to a level determined by the carrier frequency (and signal bandpass). Unfortunately, it leaves an integer ambiguity-- you know you are 'something' + 0.233 cycles from the sat, you need to solve for the 'something'; you can do this by collecting enough data as the sats move around or by starting at a known position and moving while holding a lock.

Another component is multiple frequency operation. There is a set of GPS signals on the L2 band some 350MHz lower in frequency. If you imagine the lattice of integer solutions in 3D space for two different frequencies you can observe the the integer solutions coincide very infrequently, leaving few options to choose between. Dual frequency operation also allows for correction of ionospheric effects.

Another component is semi-codeless tracking: The L1 and L2 GPS signals have a military P-code signal which is encrypted. The P code signal runs at 10x the speed and has a much longer repeat interval, this increases the accuracy of code tracking and improves multipath resistance. The L2 signal has historically only had the P-code stream. The encryption would be a barrier except it's kind of broken: The codestream is 10MHz but the stream cipher runs at only 500KHz and the same signal is sent on L1 and L2. Because of the first property you can still range against the P-code and because of the second you can find the phase offset between L1 and L2 quite precisely. (Trade name for this kind of codeless tracking is "Z-tracking"). --- this is hopefully becoming less necessary now with new civilian (unencrypted) signals on L2 and L5. The new signals also have better anti-multipath properties.

Any survey receiver worth the name implements these techniques and many more. For realtime (non-postprocessed) output using the above, accuracy is 2cm +/- 2ppm (of the distance to your reference station) or so.

What postprocessing does is lets you use very accurate orbital and ionospheric data which is available for download some hours later, built based on observations by many known-position ground stations. (I believe the Galileo sats even have retro-reflectors for laser based ranging, though I don't know if they're used yet.) ... plus using many hours of observations as the sats move through the sky.

So like any modern technology, the state of the art result isn't given by any one technique but by many combined.
What's wrong with equality? Everyone pays the same rate.
Ah, interesting. I'm German too. Unfortunately all my ties to Germany have been severed when my Oma died.
Important to note too is that in Sweden, and likely other scandinavian countries, you can find a part time job and get part time unecmployment benefits.

As long as it's within the law, on paper. If you're taking undocumented work then you're also taking a risk where you might lose your benefits if found out.

I think maybe there is a larger chance for undocumented work in countries like the US. I have an impression that there is a more prevalent culture of cash-in-hand jobs due to the sheer size of the country.

So maybe you react more to the quote than I would because I've always had documented work, whether it was 25%, 50% or 80% it was always documented and known to the government what I was doing so I could always apply for the necessary benefits I was eligible for.
I learned this many years ago as the Borromean food problem, after Borromean rings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borromean_rings
> Really, if you're a Republican please don't call yourself a patriot.

Please consider giving people who disagree with you the benefit of the doubt that they actually arrived at their positions upon careful reflection, just with a different set of principles and priorities.
You're just making the assumption that the behaviour you observed must represent what's taught in Business school.

I think it's just hard to get fired for taking the easy way out.
I guess it sucks if it's a full time job. The kind of job that works people to the bones and leaves them with anxiety and depression in their late 30's . I did shitty jobs too, working in corn fields and stuff like that. It just breaks you.
You're right, I'm thinking of GMI - Guaranteed Minimum Income - as I've seen the two spoken of interchangeably while that doesn't seem to be the case.

My fear when comparing the two would be that UBI would, over an extended period of time, put us right back where we started. I say this because UBI would essentially just be moving the starting point, $0/mo in this case, to say $2,000/mo, and that markets would eventually catch up to this resulting in hyper-inflation, i/e $25 gallons of milk.

However, since as wikipedia says, "most modern countries have some form of GMI", either I'm being too optimistic about GMI or too pessimistic about UBI. Then again, perhaps the issue evolves into one on taxation, loopholes, etc. since GMI exists and we're still discussing how to "fix" this issue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guaranteed_minimum_income
The Agnelli and Rotschild (proprietors) have brass balls.

Everybody knows the Chinese just copy Western inventions.
Excellent point. Here in the US, we have payoffs to government officials on the local, state, and national levels.

I like the idea of a Bitcoin like currency with 100% transparency in universal use. Privacy is important to me, but if everyone on earth had access to all financial transactions that would help stop corruption. Use case: turning my personal software agent to free to evaluate candidates in upcoming elections, not invest in companies if I dislike who they do business with, etc.
"Some guy got access to Podesta's email through a fishing attack."

-Hmm, the fishing email was sent from a server in Russia.

"Don't worry Trump will never win."

Trump wins.

"HACKING, RUSSIANS HACKED THE ELECTION!!!!!!"

It's Russias fault! Not the gross negligence of the democratic party! This has nothing to do with our terribly flawed candidate! The election was illegitimate!

But really, more concerning is the president of the United States calling an election illegitimate. That is the real news story here.
He's doing so many different things and on that scale, literally anything he does can be tied in into all his other businesses.
"We've finished X-Raying and scanning it, you can have it back now"
A good recommendation as I've read him and like him a lot! It's a bit sad that most of the people interested in Japanese management ideas aren't interested in him (though he does have some following).

My recommendation to you (but maybe it's not news to you either): see many of Deming's ideas applied to modern government in John Seddon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Seddon
There was significant discussion around 1024-bit RSA keys around that timeframe. Here's a discussion of it from RSA Labs. Make note of the links in the References section: https://www.emc.com/emc-plus/rsa-labs/historical/has-the-rsa...
Results can start to be worthwhile early on. But the life-altering decisions people make over a two year period when guaranteed a subsidy that runs out at the end of those two years are not particularly likely to be the same as the life altering decisions people make over a two year period when guaranteed that subsidy for life.

(If you wanted to really understand all the dynamics, you'd probably want to wait more than a generation to understand how subsidy recipients' decisions to raise children are affected and whether those children make systematically different life choices.)
Interesting, thanks. A mentor is a senior, more experienced person who assists the development of a junior person with advice and guidance. This seems to be something else, more of a cultural integration idea.

What kind of organization is it (what's the business).
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I'm, that's not universal if it is restricted by means test or employment status.
If market size is more important, we'd expect most European startups to come out of the largest countries, even after weighting by population, right? And if entrepreneurial culture or socialism was more important, we'd expect some metric for those to be correlated, right? Really curious as to whether this analysis has been done in an authoritative way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God's_algorithm
Berlin is one of the LEAST homogenous cities in Europe, so it has to break this argument down.
Yep, I'll be enforcing a max file size (it's only for text-based documents). I guess my bigger concern is spam. Allowing a user to upload an "unlimited" amount of data is a DOS vector, especially since I'm the sole dev. So I'll need to do some sort of curtailing, but hopefully the kind that would be invisible to anyone using the site for its normal purpose.
There's a link in the article to Wikipedia. Basically that an omniscient being would know the shortest number of moves on a Rubik's cube, so the most number of moves "God" would take to solve a Rubik's cube would be 20.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/God's_algorithm
And the TDS specification is also available (no registration needed to read the docs). So anyone can write their own freely licensed driver (much like FreeTDS). I've been thinking of writing a native Haskell port, myself, as SQL Server on Linux is so much easier to start with (SQL Server is one of the systems that has almost 0 support anywhere in our ecosystem, but I know of more than one person who'd like to see it).

So while SQL server is unavailable, free client drivers will hopefully begin popping up more and more and will become accessible through e.g. Debian repositories, with time.
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> read: are in and have not been in wars, are leaders of the UN peacekeeping forces, and do not militarily interfere in other countries' affairs)

Tibet might disagree
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Thanks; glad you like it! I've already offered the example of, "It is our priority for the Pentagon to spend more money." If it's "quite easy" to come up with a more defensible priority or principle, why don't you give it a try? If I had to come up with something to support both of the disastrous decisions that bookended his administration, it might be something like, "Listen credulously to the self-interested crooks that Dad told me to hire," but I'm sure you can do better than that!
No, that's what they did, not what they wrote. Their business books are detailed and thorough.
What's the evidence that results of such study could be generalized to the entire population? I mean, yeah, 2000 people seem like a big group, but one might have different ideas about what to do with free money if the society around stays exactly the same vs when everybody else is also entitled to UBI. When I'm unemployed and look around and see all my friends work I might feel quite ashamed of myself and willing to change, but if all of them "retire" at 30 instead this might not be exactly the case.
Yup. SaferCPlusPlus has vector and array substitutes that will also catch "use-after-free" bugs and use of invalid iterators. Clang/LLVM and gcc also provide "sanitizers" with much more comprehensive checking. But there are still situations when you'd want to use SaferCPlusPlus [1].

[1] https://github.com/duneroadrunner/SaferCPlusPlus#safercplusp...
If those primes are compromised, 100 of them are still useless.
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Just mentioning the Scientologists wrote something useful is no basis for downvoting. If you disagree or don't understand, say so.
There are already lotteries that pay out $1k/week or something for life.