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"interesting" != "boring"

When the poster writes a response, one can either honestly try to understand his position, and then ask followup questions that are relevant to what he actually wrote.

It seems like you didn't do that. Instead, you distorted his choice to read work email as "boring" and therefore, your followup questions (side projects? hobby?) had the tone of "lecturing" about his habit.

In reading all of your replies to everyone, the gap in your worldview is that some non-managers like their work such that reading email outside of office hours is a natural response. However, that doesn't mean everyone should do it. For workers that feel strongly that reading email after-hours is wrong, telling others not to do so isn't going to work.

If some people have different viewpoint about after-hours email, are you interested in thoughtful discussion about it? Or do you prefer to lecture people regardless of what they say?
Is the game about regexes or finding letter patterns in words? The rounds I played aren't realistic or particularly interesting uses of regexes.
Europe is great. I have several friends who've made this move. I'd say that they have a higher and more relaxed quality of life at a much lower salary than I know of in the U.S. Salaries are lower, taxes are higher, but I think it balances out well.

One thing I've noticed is that if you're willing to live a bit outside of a major city and along a commuter rail line (a commute not extraordinary by U.S. standards but seemingly insane by European), housing costs can be much much lower.

With a few exceptions, the kind of tech work will likely be more prosaic in nature. The kind of big startup scene you might find in SV or other places in the U.S. does exist in Europe, but not at anywhere near the scale or with the kind of capital availability that's present in the U.S. On the upside, the work tends to be very stable.

Long-term, you'll have to think about retirement and either make a decision to stay or return and start saving up. If you come back to the U.S., the system is designed to offer you a reasonable retirement, but only after decades of saving. You may not think that's important at 26, but you'll likely start to feel it at 36. If you stay in Europe, you'll need to figure out the local retirement system and how that work.

If you pull that trigger and stay in Europe, you'll probably want to look at giving up your U.S. citizenship because you'll be obligated to pay taxes the entire time you're in Europe (there's some deductions, but you'll still have to do all the paperwork).
The experiment is pretty simple.

You put the engine in space, with solar panels, and you see if it stays there or falls back to earth.

There is no experimental error, or even measurement devices.

It is a space engine. Either it flys or it doesn't.

Over the course of a year, it will be obvious if it works or not. Because if it doesn't work it will fall to earth.
We have a lot more space in the US. A typical 4-bedroom suburban home is somewhere around 1800sq/ft and, anecdotally, that number has been creeping up.

Of course, all the space also has massive drawbacks... car-centric culture, sprawl, long commutes, harder to implement public transit, etc.
The cynic in me is thinking that for the shovel-ready projects, they looked no further than the government's own facilities backlog.
This is a patch for apt, it does not have anything to do with aptitude.
I agree with this. Savings keep a lid on inflation but also distort money supply and demand, just like the real estate bubble distorts supply and demand for housing. A lot of distortions with temporary fixes to keep things going.

2017 will be very interesting. Can't wait to see what happens in Tuesday.
Ya, lending is very biased in china, especially from the big banks. Not just to connected peoples, but to zombie SOEs.
Totally agree. GUI is derided as a child's toy and command line is the only "real" way.
Polymer started working on a GUI builder, and finally went with a command line interface where we need to type mkdir, --g serve 0.0.0.0 sorts of commands. As a designer playing with concepts, this puts me in a totally different kind of mindspace and make me worry about arcane commands, not UX processes or concepts.
So the largest are about the size of a bee brain? Amazing how many applications you can get from insect-brain sized networks, about a hundred thousand times smaller than a human brain if a parameter is at all analogous to a synapse. Seems like human-level AI is a ways off though.
Bush said we'd be done in 2 weeks! Remember that? lmao One way to avoid this: stop paying taxes. (if you can earn online, then you can live outside the US & you will get a 100,000 USD deduction. Still must pay SS & Medi, but I don't think those go towards wars.)
The article is exactly right.

It sounds like XLR8 isn't wrong in that identifies the two main activities of a growing business: 1) Making their bread-and-butter work as efficient as possible and 2) Innovating to multiply opportunities and inefficiencies. In short, a company needs to streamline and explore. But, advocating that the networking and exploration required for #2 is an offline, voluntary activity is foolish, dangerous even.

I've worked in a variety of organizations of different sizes, in different industries and different states of startup or maturity and found one consistent pattern for failing organizations: They start to routinely tell people to "stay in their lane" at work and respond to new ideas with "Sounds great! As soon as these low value, high effort activities are done you can work on those high value, low effort ideas in your spare time." That's the beginning of brain death for a company. The body soon follows.

Instead, strong companies with strong leadership know that it isn't their employees responsibility to be more efficient and productive at low-value, high-effort activities. It is the leadership's responsibility to root out and eliminate those activities either by automating, out-sourcing or de-prioritizing them. The right way to streamline a business is to listen to employees and relentlessly cut, kill, and destroy routine or low-value work.

As you do that, you free up and empower employees and the organization to leverage high-value work in front of them and explore and pursue high-value opportunities on the horizon. In a healthy, growing organization those are everyday (during the day) activities not after-hours, side-projects that force employees to sneak time from work or steal time from their families.
Filtering can't tell you what they leave out.
Much of the city of Los Angeles is rent-stabilized, meaning rent can only increase up to 3.5% a year as long as the tenant stays there. But when the move out, the rent can reset to market rates.

I just moved out of a place in Studio City, paying $1200 for a small one-bedroom apartment. It's listed now for $1600, and I'd bet on it filling within 10 days.

So that's a 1/3 increase in rent I was able to avoid by staying in one place for a long while, but if I'd been moving around it would have cost much more over the years.

In the far (semi-rural) reaches of Sacramento now, and happier for it!
Not in the US. We're facing a huge impending labor shortage. (And immigration just externalizes the problem of accommodating raising children from US policy to India or China policy.)
This is entirely my point and it seems I've done a bad job at explaining it. If a house, car, kids, etc is middle class then you need the salary to match it. What people are calling a middle class lifestyle doesn't match up with their definition of middle class income.
I agree with that. Some things are a bit different, like PS -> GIMP, but once I had the basic equivalents down, I found it a great tool.
Url changed from http://www.tomshardware.com/news/exploit-iphone-message-sing..., which points to this.
I have thought about this topic the same way. But what is that "ideal" solution ? What is the middle ground ? Perhaps a widget/component based drag/drop but customizable HTML/CSS if needed ?
Those empty cities weren't the result of state planning, they are simply the savings accounts of people who don't trust banks.

You can see the same thing happening in central London, Vancouver and New York on a smaller scale. Plenty of housing in upscale neighborhoods bought as an investment and left empty.
Studying another language is part of leaving your comfort zone. People can start with the several apps available today, they don't even need to go to an actual class.
If you are trying to match your production platform then you will use a VM of some sort in Linux anyway. If you are not trying to match your production platform then you can develop just fine on OSX.
Reduced mooing.
I'm confused. How am I "magically ignoring" that?

I was addressing "against anything involving steel tracks."
>It seems that you're assuming that there is some Real Chinese Culture that has never evolved or integrated another population or culture.

I'm only recognizing that there is a Chinese culture that has been shaped by various forces (including population migration, trade, and even war and invasion) over long historical periods (keyword: long).

Which doesn't translate to some "Since we had e.g. the Mongols in the 13th century, and they are now part of Chinese culture, it's no biggie to just get some hundreds of millions of people that don't share our culture to replace our aging population" -- any more than "Since we were subjects to the Queen before 1776 it's no biggie to subject ourselves to being a UK colony again".

>Maybe I've heard wrong, and there are in fact no substantial differences between Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong

That only matters if they are also more substantial than those between "Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong" to Berlin, Phoenix, Santiago, Accra or London.

Otherwise, all, or almost all, countries have regional differences within the country's culture. Beijing and Shanghai are not more different than, say, New York and Savannah or New Orleans and the Quad Cities. As for Hong Kong that has been, for over a century, shaped from being a UK colony.
Per capita is correct. There are really two Chinas, a richer china that consumes a lot and saves comparatively little, and a commoner class that has no choice but to keep saving.

If you want to get a permit in Beijing and have money, buy a Tesla. The quota for elctric vehicles is higher than for gas, so you see a lot of rich people in Teslas these days, something unthinkable only a couple of years ago.
Honest question... where does the 30% income/housing ratio come from? I always assumed it was pushed by the housing industry to "con" us into more housing than we need.
Fascist government with zero transparency or accountability announces big public works project.

This is just what fascists do.
In fact, at least in the US, this is not the case, and it works both ways. If you're a salaried exempt employee --- as virtually all software developers are --- you don't get overtime pay and can be expected to work in off-hours. On the other hand, your pay can't easily be docked, and must be docked in full day increments.

Restated: salaried positions by definition include an expectation that your work won't always be confined to 9-5 hours.
> US debt to GDP is not really different than other developed economies

Yes, the other developed economies which have largely given up on developing and embraced stagnation instead. It's not the greatest situation, especially if you're unfortunate enough to be young.
>I argue that generating NYC conditions for the general population is one of them.

OMG, I certainly hope not. They'd certainly better not try to generate NYC conditions for me.
Cool concept, but I think it'd be infinitely better if the challenges were more realistic/interesting. E.g. matching dates in a particular format, but not another similar format.
Because one takes an extra line. For something that's effectively an error condition. There's so reason errors should take up so much vertical code space (which is at a premium even today, given how wide monitors are). This is one of my primary quibbles with golang, and why I will never give in to the community's slavish devotion to "go fmt @
Because one takes an extra line. For something that's effectively not the point of the code. There's no reason errors should take up so much vertical code space (which is at a premium even today, given how wide monitors are).

I much prefer errors going out wide, so you can mentally skip them when learning code, but zoom in when they are the thing you are checking.

This, incidentally, is one of my primary quibbles with golang, and why I will never give in to the community's slavish devotion to "go fmt" in my own go code.
TLDR:

* There is no emulator

* This appears to be a work-in-progress project.

* The 'decompiler' is actually a disassembler

* Only supports a tiny subset of opcodes.
One of the issues I care about is net neutrality and I'm very worried that Trump will repeal it next year. I plan on reading all related read news and to help mobilize the tech community against a repeal. There are many other similar issues that people are gearing up for a fight.

Honestly, I think the people that have the luxury of ignoring all news are the privileged and selfish. We have a duty in a democracy to stay informed and join the fray. That's the price of living in a free society. If there is no grassroots involvement then the government ends up being run by the moneyed interests.
And I wouldn't. I'd rather work hard at work, when I expect to be working, than at some other time when I don't.

Personal time where I can be interrupted by an emergency isn't personal time to me.
That's why I called it arbitrary.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-07-17/housings-...

I was using it as a starting point.
Yes, I did. How does this even remotely refute what I wrote?

The parent poster said, "I have a hard time imagining how anyone who actually reads these studies could possibly deny the occurrence of global warming."

To answer his/her question, I provided multiple reasons why people, in fact, do reject climate change.

I think your response, and the knee-jerk responses of those who down-voted me, are perfect examples of why I don't watch the news anymore. None of you bothered to read and understand what I said, or why I was saying it. You just assumed that my views on climate change differ from yours, and down-voted me based on your emotional views.

Instead of leaping to irrational conclusions, regarding my post, I invite you to read it and understand why I wrote it and what I was responding to. I believe it will give you a great insight into the matter at hand, and the challenges you must overcome in reaching those who refuse to accept climate change as an issue.

Or, you could just polarize the issue, down-vote those you assume don't agree with you, and keep things at the status quo.
too much work. changing my default search engine to ddg is faster and easier. i don't even know all of the bang commands! if i followed your advice i would have a significantly inferior experience.
Wow, everybody is super sensitive about women in tech, but it's ok to make comments like this? Talk about multicultural respect.

Or maybe I am reading it wrong? Anyway, please be careful with this tone, it's very bad (as Italian, I know very well since 80% of the people I meet ask me "hey, what's up with mafia?").
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What's a Windows trackpad?
That's how I read this. They basically want a cheaper autonomous-helicopter-uber-like service for mid-level execs.
I'm very interested in the Kong Feng GB Boy Colour he mentioned, I'd love to know how they copied the GameBoy CPU etc. through decapping.
Well, let's hope it does. Other people need to get rich too.
Right, I get that. But that's true of every real estate market. The problem in San Francisco is that middle class families are priced out of every neighborhood in the city; their only cost effective options might be in another city.

Is that true of LA? It's only the case if there's no reasonable neighborhood within the boundaries of LA you could move to after an untenable rent increase in your current neighborhood.

For instance: it's obviously not the case that middle class families are priced out of the Chicago market. Chicago is full of neighborhoods full of hours and townhomes and three-flats that span pretty much the whole price spectrum. On the other hand: some neighborhoods that were pretty reasonable 10 years ago (Roscoe Village, or Bucktown) are now so expensive that their demography is changing. That doesn't mean Chicago is pricing out middle class families; it means Bucktown is.
I once suggested a compromise of limiting US-style anti-discrimination laws to manual labor and similar jobs.
this whole devolution of journalism at least has made me realize that i can't in any way pretend to have an informed opinion about whats going on outside my daily life

it was a comforting illusion while it lasted. what do we have left? a groundless postmodern solipsism?

i used to be quite comfortable thinking that assange and wikileaks had a complicated moral position that could be both praised and damned simultaneously. now, i don't even have that.
I think I'm going to invent a device that puts out a sound that cancels ubeacons. Heck, I might just write some software and unleash it to an unsuspecting world and drown out all subsonic frequencies.
My personal experience of these kinds of industry groups is that the participants who are technical and mean well are misunderstanding their part in the committee and eventually get replaced by political non-techies who better act in their companies interests. Sad but routine.
Potato hacking. I normally follow the "potatoes by day" variant. The process is simple: steam/boil at least a couple pounds of potatoes, then let them cool in the fridge overnight. The next day, you can only eat potatoes (no condiments whatsoever!) until dinnertime, at which point you can eat a normal dinner. Coffee, tea and water are fine during the day as long as they don't have added sugar/cream/etc. Don't forget to cook more potatoes if you're running low! They keep for at least a few days in the fridge.

In my experience the hack is a great way to liberate yourself from false hunger signals and feeling like you "must" eat certain foods. If you're hungry, the potatoes taste good. If you're not, they don't. Resetting all these habits helped me shift the remainder of my diet towards better food choices, to the point where I actively seek out fresh veggies & fruit and dislike packaged or meat-heavy meals.

The hack is not for people that have issues with nightshades or starches of course. potatohack.com has the most comprehensive info on the subject, but it is discussed on other blogs as well.
Same here, if it's really that urgent someone will eventually call.
I'm having trouble finding the phishing there? There's a mention of QUANTUM INSERT replacing pages with malicious copies, but that appears to be a man-in-the-middle attack of some kind unless I'm completely misreading it.

It also took them quite long to figure out what was going on.
Yes, but what AI running on the JVM produces a meaningful stacktrace? Neural net based AI can't do that as far as I know.
Wouldn't this put Germany at the mercy of Russia?
edit: Downvoted for asking a question. It seems people forgot that Russia is always threatening with cutting the gas supply.
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If no one told you there were people starving, neither you or the average person, would notice.
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Your lines are setup for freight, you need separate lines for HSR.
> The "younger workers who are willing to work harder than their entrenched counterparts" are an actively harmful influence

Even if that's true, the solution should not be to actively penalize young workers, which this might do.
Since when is being on call 24/7 "competitive"? I associate it with people who provide public-service type services - doctors, first responders, electric utility workers, even cable TV/modem techs.
Knowing the different types of internet connection
I made this commitment in 2016 and don't much tune in. Important events seem to eventually percolate up into my other social discussions and places like here on HN or Facebook and I've found I've missed very few of the broad strokes -- but lots of the details.

On the other hand I've also noticed that I seem to be able to approach topics more objectively and less "inflamed" with presupposed positions than before.

This all has lowered my stress levels immeasurably and given me much more of a "we'll be fine" attitude about major events.

The real problem is that most of the major media sources are terrible, absolute amateur hour bottom of the barrel lowest common denominator garbage. The quality of what passes for journalism these days would get a person fired from almost any other profession.

When you find good journalism, it's almost like coming out a coal mine into the fresh air, but it's so hard to find it almost isn't even worth it.
Well the MacBook Air is pretty obviously not designed to do that. The ThinkPad hinges are different on either side, and they came out of alignment and then jammed and broke.

You may have dropped it a few feet, but I drop my MacBook Pro all the time because I'm a terrible person. This dorm-bed fall has happened several times now too. The durability is simply off the charts, and I can't say the same about ThinkPads. They just feel so flimsy, everything bends or flexes on them.
There are plenty of debates in science. The debate over gravity would have been a good example because you had serious people in both sides of the debate and something approaching the truth came to be the consensus.

There is not a similar debate about climate change.
Thanks for the extra context, and alternate interpretation. You seem like you might know this story better than the writer of the referenced article, but you and the author seem to be making contradictory causal claims. I hold to my conclusion if the author's story is taken as authoritative. If yours is more authoritative, then it sounds like your conclusion is better.

I kind of took the story as an allegory when writing my comment. The article is quite vague about the details of the situation. And for all I know, it IS programmers that write specs for this European Space Agency unmanned rocket project. But the way the story is told aligns with a more universal experience of programmers blaming specs for the failings of programs, even when they should have recognized that the program was misspecified before implementing it. I ran with that interpretation because it was illustrative of something important, but it is not particularly surprising to me that the details are being questioned. The article was never a rock solid account.
I imagine you are correct that the cultural differences across Europe are greater, and yet everybody in the us definitely don't watch the same tv shows, and if i go to Memphis TN, there are plenty of people who I just can't understand what they're saying for the life of me, even though we speak the same language. (I'm from Montana). Probably not as much as Europe, but it is there.
Yeah, very valid. The comment was stream-of-consciousness because I saw this post when I got home from a pre-new-years-eve party last night.

Honestly with the rest of this thread and the feedback though, I wish I hadn't posted it at all. I used to really enjoy participating in this community.