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Article OP here, it was supposed to be implied that this was a job I worked at in the past (the time tracking thing).

I confronted management about the time tracking but it was one of my first jobs so I had little experience with that kind of thing. The job was a nightmare in so many different ways that the time tracking was the straw that broke the camel's back.
Sorry I was unclear. I was talking about the Victoria-Vancouver ferry, which is about 3hrs. Same with the Seattle-Victoria Ferry.

The SF ferry is also slower than driving with no traffic or bart :)
> I've had an accountant do my taxes since I was 19, and
> feel like I've probably saved a pretty substantial amount
> of money...simply by ensuring I'm doing them correctly
> and, more importantly, on time.

Can you give one specific example of something you wouldn't have been able to do correctly and on time yourself, that has at least $1000 in value to you? I've been doing my own taxes (with a six figure tax bill and often 15+ 1099s) for ten years; I'm pretty confident I've not made any meaningful errors other than typos or transposing labels on the odd stock entry, a mistake that would cost me $0 even if audited.

I--at least for a W2 worker who is a US citizen living in the US--have a uniquely bad tax situation, and I'm pretty confident that I'm not missing any major tax breaks, short of doing absurd accountancy.
Totally forgot about it :)
Then you should try the X1 Yoga - basically an X1 Carbon 4th gen with the yoga hinges and a wacom digitizer and a glorious screen..

It has been my main laptop since release and it is by far the best laptop I ever owned...
I get the appeal of 3D touch but it has absolutely no discoverability - this feels like a complete setback in UX design. Apple used to be known for having UIs that had a lot of visual cues and didn't hide features from the user. However it seems they have done a 180 on that in recent years.
I believe that something like a self-guided human-size quadcopter is safer than a helicopter and that will start to take up some of the luxury helicopter transport market.

People seem to be arguing that helicopters are safer. I'm not an aerodynamics expert, but my intuition tells me that will be proven wrong eventually. They just are misjudging a newish way of doing things. Anyway, I don't see any point in arguing about it. Eventually the drones will get bigger and bigger and someone will have the balls to allow it to be tested properly. And eventually people will catch on.
After buying a recent macbook (not the touch bar version, ugh) I suspect the real reason is fashion related. One port is more sleek, more stylish than two or three ports. Functionality sacrificed in the name of a sleeker look...well, I appreciate the intent, even as I recognise I am not the target audience.
So, two things.

I used to really respect Joel Spolsky. I've read all of his stuff and really liked it.

But I can't help thinking that Fog Creek just isn't that important of a company. As a decidedly "technical" person, I don't know a single person that uses any of their products. And I really do mean, zero. I know plenty of people that use git, IntelliJ, github, Stack Overflow, Twilio, AWS, Firebase, Google Cloud Platform, MongoDB, Pivotal Tracker, hell even JIRA, but nothing from Fog Creek. Ten years in the trenches, writing software, and never have I even once used, or even _met_ anyone that uses their stuff.

Furthermore, the world has kinda moved on. We aren't shipping desktop software anymore and also, it's not enough to release to the web, either. These days people expect mobile apps, complex responsive design, and 1000 other things you didn't need to do 10 years ago. Software is increasingly becoming a field dominated by teams of specialists in all areas, and I just don't get the sense that Gomix was built with this new reality in mind.

Second. I first heard of this guy (Anil) only about a month ago, when I came upon Joel's blog. I heard that he became CEO and yeah, I agree with a lot of what you've written -- a windbag with a political agenda who's great at self-promotion. Honest question though, does this make for a great CEO? We can certainly look to really cerebral guys like Bill Gates as a model for a tech CEO, but consider that Jeff Bezos apparently wasn't a developer. Also consider that more problems in tech are basically "solved" at this point, and as the industry matures, things like promotion and marketing are getting increasingly important. Satya Nadella (Microsoft) himself acknowledged this; I just read last week that Microsoft had some kind of senior meeting, and Satya was on a rant about how MS's culture is too engineering-driven for today's world. I don't have the temperament to be as much of a self-promoter as a guy like Anil, but I know plenty of companies that seem to be run by these guys, like Buffer, Groove, or anyone else specializing in "content marketing", and it seems to be working for them.

So before you dismiss this guy, think of what it takes to make a good tech CEO. I fucking loathe self-promoters, really I do, but I'm becoming increasingly convinced that's what it takes to make it in the sort of CRUDdy "tech" that isn't too research-heavy, which is most of software, these days (not autonomous vehicles, genetics, deep learning, thorium reactors, etc)
Not an Apple fanboy, but the Lighting connector is way better designed than any USB connector, so I wouldn't call it crap. Proprietary, therefore sometimes annoying yes, but definitely not crap. The USB connectors are equally annoying when you try to insert them. With USB type A I always have to inspect the tip of the connector and the plug, and micro USB is always a pain to insert properly leading to connector damage at both the cable and the device ports.

The decision not to include a phone jack in the iPhone 7 was a crappy decision insteaead.
I did the yoga thing with a Macbook Air and it's hinges was fucked instantly :)

My X1 yoga has no trouble what-so-ever and I dropped it a few feet.. (and it rattles along unprotected in a leather bag every day)...
I think the threading model is one of the most interesting part in memcached. Unfortunately is not covered here but can be read from the sources quite easily.
> Assange has earned your trust
> by never, once, being shown to
> have provided incorrect
> information

I suspect what you mean is "Wikileaks has apparently never released forged documents", which is very very different from "Assange has never provided incorrect information".
I think its a great idea by still cant get past the new latest name for it. HyperDev was geared toward the technical crowd, But GoMix??? It speaks to no one...
Perhaps from a hardware perspective this is true, but if you have to run commercial software (e.g. Adobe, DAWs, etc.) and do software development in a Unix environment, there really isn't a better option than macOS on a MacBook Pro. Windows sucks, and as much as I love Linux, it just doesn't cut it when I need Illustrator, Photoshop, Studio One, or Logic.
It's one of the critical flaws of Apple's modern design philosophy: Having a right mouse button would be too complicated, but hiding layers of complicated functionality through opaque multi-finger gestures, taps, and keyboard modifiers is A-OK.

And it's absolutely true that when Apple adds a new feature, it must have an accompanying slow animation tween to sell it. Frustrating.
Both your statements are untrue.

Sanders didn't say that. (Read your link. It's an aid running interference.)

Donna did leak debate questions. Here's an email from Donna Brazile. The subject is "From time to time I get the questions in advance".

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/43962

The email contains the exact text of the question submitted to a CNN producer in advance of the town-hall by a moderator; it is very similar to the final question that ended up being asked.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2016/10/roland-martin...
Too true! Nothing sucks more than Christmas shrinkage.
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Just to double check, when you or anyone else involved initiated this project, were you aware that JavaScript IS in fact now compiled to optimized native code at runtime (i.e. JIT compiled)? I am asking because several years ago that wasn't the case, and many people still to this day refer to JavaScript as an interpreted language, when that generally isn't so anymore.
On my X1Yoga, the fan almost never runs.. When it starts up I look at the running processes (because something is likely wrong)
> They need to get rid of 3D touch, get rid of double-tap one-hand accessibility mode whatever it's called, get rid of weird swipes from the edge

Hear, hear. It's like my last days of using Windows. Every app window had so many "hot spots" crammed in that triggered something, so that whenever i had multiple overlapping windows and wanted to click on a background window to bring it to the foreground, I would inadvertently trigger an action or change program modes because there wasn't a single pixel of the underlying window that wasnt an active zone.

That behaviour totally broke the "multiple pieces of paper on a desk" behavior and instead turned your desktop into a myriad of booby traps ready to kill your productivity.

I am starting to feel the same way about iOS.

Bring back "dead space" on application windows that don't HAVE to do anything when you tap/click/swipe/pinch on them.
This happens because you have the iOS 10 update (or whichever version) downloaded but not installed. If you delete the update from Settings -> General -> Storage & iCloud Usage -> Manage Storage, and turn off automatic app updates so it doesn't get downloaded again, the prompts go away.

Worked for me on iOS 9.3.5 after another HN user recommended it, anyway. Older versions I'm not sure about, but it can't hurt to try.
In aggregate, young people today have a lot of advantages that the boomers didn't have. Just talking about money is disingenuous. Poor people have always spent their entire income on living expenses - yes, rent now is more expensive, but food, clothing, and transport is much cheaper, for example. And no, the gap is not stark when you look at the boomers in their youth. It's only stark now, when the boomers have a lifetime of earnings behind them - hardly an apples-to-apples comparison.

And when we look at things other than money, the young today are better off than ever before. Remember when it was shameful to be seen to be pregnant in public? Remember when intellectually disabled kids were shameful and you were expected to keep them out of public view? Remember when every house had only one phone, and it was in a central area? None of these always-on-call compact contact and entertainment machines that travel with you. Remember when if you forgot to do your food shopping on Saturday, you'd go hungry on Sunday, because nothing was open? And this is before we even start to touch on equal rights for minorities and similar.

I don't have a problem if you complain about how we got here and are looking for a way to fix it, but just whining that you've been shortchanged while simultaneously ignoring all the better things about life... just sounds so adolescent. There isn't a boomer 'team' and there isn't a millenial 'team'. People don't fall into such overbroad demographics, at least not to any useful diagnostic degree. Boomers didn't get together and simply decide to fuck over their kids, so talking about them like that's what they did is just plain rude.
When are you internet addicts going to realize:

1.) You spend too much time online.

2.) You mistake your online sources of knowledge and experiences for reality.

3.) You are endlessly writing science-fiction.

The amount of collective dillusional behavior that has captured the imaginations of participants on social media forums such as this is truly awe inspiring!
Isolation and reproduction.

For one thing, you want the development environment to be as similar to production as possible – same OS version, same webserver version, same DB version, same dependencies, no unwanted extras that differ between environments.

For another thing, you don't want to have to solve conflicts between project A and completely unrelated project T if you need to work on them both.
Article OP here.

God, I love Seinfeld so I feel a little flattered by that! :)

The article is more of a musing about an insecurity than anything else. But as to the content, maybe I can explain a few things better:

1. The management WAS bad. The job where I was time-tracked was a nightmare in so many different ways. However, it instilled a sense of insecurity in me. A single comment from a manager at a completely different company brought all that stuff back up and ever since then, I haven't been able to put my mind to rest about my own performance.

2. Developers are often quick to blame management for problems without considering that THEY might be the problem. So I mentioned that when someone tells me "The management is bad if you're missing deadlines", it doesn't make sense to me as a blanket statement.

3. I concluded with saying that I have certain abilities that I recognize as good but I'm still wondering if that's enough or anywhere near enough.

Thanks for the feedback though! I'm trying to do better with writing this type of stuff so that it's as concise and self-explanatory as possible. Looks like I still have more work to do.
> To be fair, Gmail does support the IMAP IDLE extension, which is the standard way of doing push email over IMAP.

IDLE would become a major battery hog on the iPhone, which is why it was never implemented. I don't believe Android supports it natively either.
Coercion is entirely orthogonal to any form of state.

In practice, all forms of state use coercion. Try resisting arrest by the police for a crime you are suspect but didn't commit.

There are much worse examples that polarize much more.
Article OP here.

The time-tracking we did was real-time. You sit down, you press "play" and you're tracking. The added bonus (oh jesus, I forgot about this one) was that your status was visible to your manager at all times.

Anyways, thanks for the thoughts!
Started to get serious about sleeping regular, sufficient hours, coupled with situational changes that made this more tenable. It's night and day. I feel like a completely different person.
I think it's the other way round --- not that white men tend to be privileged (many aren't), but that privileged people tend to be white men (many are).
As a non-US-citizen: how do they do it?
well pointed!
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I've been wondering something similar - why is it that we have all these GPS-controlled self-flying stabilized quadcopters using cheap chinese microcontrollers, but a lack of mini-helicopters using the same technology. Is it that much more difficult to computer-control? Or are the more complicated mechanics just "not worth it" when you can just build a quadcopter instead?
They're not mentioned very often, but it looks like at this point for the T4xx you have to go with the "p" models to get a Nvidia GPU - the T460 and T460s are only Intel, as I understand it the T460p is somewhere between the T460 and the W product line - a little bigger, a little more expandable, etc.

Looks like you can also only get the GPU with the i7-6820HQ, so out of all the T product line there's a single CPU/GPU combination that's not using the Intel graphics. That may in part be related to the significant improvements in Intel's graphics capabilities in recent generations - starting around the HD4000 in the third-generation processors the GPUs are actually reasonably capable, and they've improved rapidly even from that point.
Looks like Japan might be the best place to start a company. People never quit, work long hours, does not have life outside work.
The name reminded me of a derogatory term for patients. Or a Go library called "mix". Those reservations aside, it does seem descriptive of what the service actually does. Still, it lacks the charm of "StackOverflow," or the uniqueness of "Trello."
WA has high sales tax, for one.
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Publication rates in mathematics are much lower than in other fields, so the lack of publications isn't completely unusual. The lack of a letter from the advisor though would be seen as a major red flag.
So let's assume there are even the septillion lifeforms. And let's assume there are trillions that are sentient and advanced enough to use radio, haven't destroyed themselves, etc.

Why haven't we seen them?

Well there's a lot of reasons:

1) Finding radio that isn't directed is hard to distinguish from the enormous output from a sun. (Why would you broadcast more powerful than your sun unless you're trying to communicate outside?) This is the big one.

2) The distances are incredible. See the map here [1] and just what a 1000 ly radius is. Outside that extremely small region those aliens would not only have to have been broadcasting for over 1000 years. We've really only been broadcasting for about 100 years and we're already speculating communication beyond radio.

I can keep going on more reasons but these two alone should be enough reason for anyone to realize that we haven't been listening for nearly long enough to make stupid conclusions like this.

[1] http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/milkyway.jpg
I am not sure there are 'so many' especially in big cities, but quite a few comparing to the developed world.
> It's a huge burden to open source a whole project rather than just a library.

None of that is a burden. There is no responsibility and this INCESSANT claim, is everywhere (used across all manner of projects for decades, specifically by MS or MS acquisitions) without basis.

> so now you're shackled to having to document piecemeal

That just sounds like you cant trust yourself to make good decisions, again? JUST DONT. You ripped off the band-aid. PROBLEM SOLVED. But that doesn't happen, traditionally we just get these nods about how "tough" OS projects are which makes no sense, since you are already washing your hands of it somehow the OS project you HAVE to handle? Instead, it's much more likely that people are afraid of criticism, which has never been borne out in the wild..."but we don't want to be compared to DOOM's sourcecode quality".

> won't invest in the time to get it working.

That's a personal choice. Reading how software works and looking at design, is part of the value. Getting it to "work" is ancillary. SMH
That points to the 4th gen X1 Carbon, whereas the link for the story seems to be about a 5th gen X1 Carbon (which now returns a 404). Lenovo may have inadvertently leaked that page onto their site without intending for it to be reachable yet.
Seemed like a bit of an odd talk for a crowd that largely flies to cons. This is mostly stuff your average FTer already knows.

And for gods sake don't try adding your frequent flier # on other peoples tickets. The airline will catch you, and unless the tickets have your name on them you aren't gonna get any miles anyway.
Same thing a smaller-volume investor would do to spread their risk? A mixture of bonds (gov't giving itself money, to earn a return, ha!) and stocks (probably a wide index fund, both US and international).

Deciding on the breakdown of what percentage to allocate to each bucket and how many stocks from each category to use in your index would be an interesting debate to have though.
> They need to go further and ban any and all exotic animal trade for the quackery medicine and delicacy markets.

Yup, like rhinoceros horns powder and shark fins amongst other things...
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> Homicide rates are the key number to track.

It's also basically the only thing you can compare between nations as well. About ten years ago I saw a New Zealand-based study that took crimes from NZ, Australia, and the US, and rated them using the other countries' parameters. I've sadly been unable to find this study again, but it was very interesting in its results - the way crime is reported, the same event in Australia and NZ will show up about five times more than in the US. If two blokes have a fight outside a bar and it involves weapons, in the US, usually just one charge will be brought. But in Aus/NZ, the way the law works, about five charges are brought, eg from simple assault to attempted murder, and only the most severe successful charge would be used for sentencing. However, when the stats are aggregated, it's done by charges brought, not convictions (for some odd reason).
Made me think of this. Maybe when they were doing the experiment, a gravitational wave happened and they somehow reflected it?

> Thin superconducting films are predicted to be highly reflective mirrors for gravitational waves at microwave frequencies. The quantum mechanical non-localizability of the negatively charged Cooper pairs, which is protected from the localizing effect of decoherence by an energy gap, causes the pairs to undergo non-picturable, non-geodesic motion in the presence of a gravitational wave.

https://arxiv.org/abs/0903.0661
Unless you're looking at handwritten and/or deliberately obfuscated code, the "more advanced" instructions are unlikely to be encountered; the bulk of compiler-generated general-purpose code will be moves, ALU ops, pushes, and pops along with the usual control flow calls, returns, and jumps.
Does it relate in any way to Von Neumann's trick[1] to create a fair coin from a biased one?

In short: if you don't trust the fairness from possibly biased coin flips, then don't look at individual outcomes in a sequence of (H)eads or (T)ails, but only at H,T or T,H combinations.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_coin
>I'm pretty sure the attack vector they discuss about finding boarding passes and changing the frequent flyer number attached to the itinerary is what the people who sell flights for 20-30% the cost[0] do

That scheme wouldn't work, name on tickets needs to match your ff# for you to get the points on basically every single airline.

Those services are mostly based on stolen points from bruteforced accounts. VBV cards make credit card fraud a very reliable option too, but it'd have significantly lower profit margins.
Where did you buy it? Was it used, or new?
Returning bottles for a deposit in Toronto is incredibly inconvenient.

Yet, the same phenomenon seems to exist in Berlin, where public drinking is tolerated if not encouraged and bottles can be returned to supermarkets.

In general, I wouldn't direct any condemnation upon individuals for scavenging... instead it's worth scrutinizing systems that encourage this waste.

"Keep America Beautiful" was founded by Philip Morris, Anheuser-Busch, PepsiCo, and Coca-Cola...
> However no one has yet figured out how to represent Lisp code in good a way that doesn't require a large number of parentheses, often stacked together in groups of three or four.

Parinfer solved this problem for me: https://shaunlebron.github.io/parinfer/
>flying cars

Is Larry going to be the first billionaire mental asylim patient?
> The situation is really bad, if the next 10 years are as bad as the last 10, elephants will be basically extinct in the wild.

This is wrong. As you might know, elephants are not evenly distributed. Zimbabwe struggles with wild Elephant overpopulation and has to cull a fraction of the herd every couple of years otherwise the ecosystem will collapse.

I'm in no way supporting poaching, but raising a fact that I never see online until I raise it. Conservation is a complex topic.
I'll have to inject a bit of criticism to this particular rant.

If one is using several applications on Windows and being productive about it - You don't switch applications in Windows by clicking then with mouse. You order them on the task bar and then switch between them using windows button - number (where number is the order on the task bar.).
Literally everyone starts out young.