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> Don't scold the fast guy for being sloppy, give him tasks that require speed and solve bugs with better QA and tests.

What if we're in finance industry working on critical systems and a bug mean millions dollars lost? Should we hire "sloppy" at all? I think not.
A corollary of managing passive-aggressive team members is to not hide bad project news from upset management. A project in trouble is unlikely to get back on track on its own. Management wants to help but needs to be able to trust your status reports.

Likewise, your job is to ship the project and you need your dev team's trust to do that, so you should look for new solutions and risk mitigations when raising project problems to management, not pointing blame or throwing people under the bus.
I experienced this years ago (IPv4) on Sprint, where Wikipedia edits were blocked from all of us using Sprint mobile data (native on device or tethered).
Sorry for the rant, but it really irks me how Vanguard charges a fee for the target date funds, when all they do is buy shares of other Vanguard mutual funds, which themselves pay fees to Vanguard (and rebalance).
You can help make that happen. :D

http://docs.everypolitician.org/contribute.html
About V8 JavaScript: "Slow, because compared to C, Crystal or Go, it's slow."

In my experience writing real world server programs, Node.js is faster than Go in many cases. Part of this is a lack of Go library maturity, but it's also due to the fact that V8 optimizes code at runtime based on how it's being used. This project seems to come from a naive, "interpreted slow, compiled fast" view of the world, leading to false assumptions like Go is going to be automatically faster than Node.js because Go is AOT compiled and Node is JIT compiled.
The purchase of instagram was a pre-IPO move to prop up Facebooks offering as a mobile company before their core product had actually transitioned. Investors major question was if FB could transition from desktop to mobile at the time, and Mark needed something to back that up. Mark had been quite vocal about Facebooks guesses around mobile, html5, apps and how he needed to reorganize the product teams but couldn't get the story together in time. Thus instagram.

The logic in both the article and most of the comments seems to utterly forget the context of which FB was in at the time.
I've come to the following conclusion: if you are not pulling your weight, then either your manager or HR will have a talk with you about that. Even in a "right-to-work" state, firing and hiring costs are still high enough (impact to deadlines) that it makes financial sense not to fire and hire unless absolutely necessary.

So until such a talk happens, don't worry about it. Just keep on keeping on.
I do some of my best programming while I'm staring out the window or getting coffee or sitting on the toilet.
There were quite a few models where the RAM wasn't upgradable - I believe they were soldered directly to the main board. Is this the case for this revision? I can't tell!

Seriously, I used to be able to tell from product spec sheets, but Wikipedia also used to have model lists for each major product line with detailed specs. Wikipedia doesn't do this any more? Not even as part of Wikidata?
Maybe generating fake data for testing/development purposes? Each company has to do this in a different way to suit their business needs.
The "hybrid" cars should be able to operate in mostly-gas mode even with severely degraded batteries.

I'd buy one of them. I wouldn't buy an old electric only car. Lithium cells last 3 years, or at a stretch 5 years if you're happy to have only 30% of the range.
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The article mentioned Polymath 8, which lowered the bound from H=7*10^7 to 4680. This bound has since been lowered[0] to 246.
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[0]: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2014/02/21/polymath8b-ix-larg...
> according to U.S. officials.

"officials" said iraq has wmd. "officials" have an ambassador's daughter crying in front if congress, telling lies about babies being killed. "officials say" all kinds of shit. "officials" have lost all credibility. and still, "officials" have their "say" in some stupid paper.

edit:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_(testimony)

https://youtu.be/LmfVs3WaE9Y
That's a valid point. I know in Mathematics quality seems to trump quantity but having _no_ articles certainly didn't do him any favors.

But the lack of LORs... that would be a scarlet letter, no? I've never heard of a PHD advisor doing that; seems quite intentional and not at all like the way he presents it in his little essay I linked in my last post.
Exactly! That's the angle all the news outlets seem to be running with, I just found it amazing he could pretend to be CIA and get away with it for so long!
I picked up a Surface Book on launch day. i7, 16 GB, 512 GB. As others have pointed out, there were several software glitches for a few months after launch. Ultimately, the software problems have been worked out.

For me, the ultimate deficiency is the Surface Book's inability to drive two 4K monitors at 60 Hz. Although not promised in so many words during the launch event (they said "two 4K monitors" without specifying the refresh rate), I had assumed it would support 60 Hz rather than 30 Hz. This limitation convinced me to retire my Surface Book to a purely mobile role and use a proper workstation for 90% of my computing.

I expect that a second-generation Surface Book will resolve that specific hardware limitation.
If it doesn't map cleanly to a program representation in some way, then what is the point, when it's harder to do real work with?
Kudos to Chinese government to work together with international society and celebrities to raise the awareness of normal Chinese people. Shark fin was considered a delicacy, but in fact not tasty at all. Most people just need to get the truth be told to them in a way that they are willing to listen, Cheng Long and Yao Ming are perfect public faces for such effort.
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c) people who don't have what it takes to do the job well (be it physically, intellectually, emotionally, etc...)
Wow. Great fact!
This is not correct. The 4 x 10 schedule exists in engineering companies and operating companies in the oil refining industry. Source: I work I. This industry and amange people who work a 4day x 10 hour weekly work schedule.

This 4 X 10 schedule or something similar (9/80) is useful to attract and retain engineering talent.
A lot of the critical comments I see here are addressed the Uber paper (https://www.uber.com/elevate.pdf) which is a really interesting read.

The cusp of their argument is that several technologies are coming together to make VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) feasible within the next decade. VTOL aircrafts are theoretically much more energy efficient than helicopters, and a lot of the cost associated with planes is due to their low production volume. If a company like Uber started to use VTOL aircrafts, the price would rapidly decline to closer to what cars cost now, and the cost of a flight would be low enough that more than just the wealthy could use them.
"officials" aren't a single person either.
Larry Page pouring millions is like you donating 50 bucks.
"it's an insurance company or government contractor getting software from an individual or a company with nine employees."

The good news is high-assurance systems have been built with smaller teams than that. We also have cases like Bernstein's where one person builds all kinds of stuff with provably better security using a bit of brains and methods that work. We also have tools like SPARK for static systems and Rust/Eiffel for larger ones that can easily eliminate entire classes of attack. Ada & SPARK have been around decades. Eiffel over a decade. Hardly anyone in security-critical space using them.

Most of what you see is easily prevented. Even with small teams. They just don't care or try. A baseline stopping code injection or insecure configurations would knock out a ton of problems. The next thing that would happen, as did with DO-178B regulation & TCSEC, would be reusable components and consulting services designed to meet the standard where the cost & limited expertise is spread among many customers.

It could be done. Even for smaller players to a large degree.

"What you need isn't for the software vendor to be liable, it's for the company holding all the customer data to be liable to those customers."

Doesn't solve the DDOS problem which can also be used for extortion, interfering with government operations, etc. My approach targeting root cause handles that, too.
Yes, it's amazing how many game development techniques appeared and faded out in the 90s, in that window of time between fast-enough CPUs and affordable GPUs. I have a copy of the Black Art of 3D Game Programming on my shelf and it's full of awesome tidbits.

I recently browsed flipcode.com and sadly parts of it are broken and only available thanks to the Internet Archive.
Who was that guy? I felt like he was speaking pure reason and it was like a religious experience or something. He is a genius.
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> mySociety Limited is a project of UK Citizens Online Democracy, a registered charity in England and Wales

Contributing data [1] on powerful people carries risks. These risks depend on whose information you are sharing, how you got it and your country's strength of rule of law.

Britain has very broad dragnet surveillance laws on its books [2]. If you are going to contribute, please consider the INFOSEC and OPSEC ramifications of those laws.

[1] http://docs.everypolitician.org/contribute.html

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/mar/01/snoopers-cha...
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Are you saying you have reason to believe that Grizzly Steppe code was not used to penetrate the Vermont utility? Or are you just being cynical?
Bush misused and misled the public on the little WMD evidence that was had:

"It has become clear that official intelligence was not relied on in making even the most significant national security decisions, that intelligence was misused publicly to justify decisions already made, that damaging ill will developed between [Bush] policymakers and intelligence officers, and that the intelligence community's own work was politicized," Pillar wrote.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02...

Also, Powell: "I'm Not Reading This. This is Bullshit."

http://www.truth-out.org/archive/item/44516:powell-im-not-re...

On top of that, your little talking point, which is endlessly repeated on the internet, makes no sense. So Iraq was sold to the public dishonestly, thus all claims from the government are dishonest, but for some bizarre reason the Russian government is unusually honest and truthful? Come on.
> it's only been disproven in theory, not in practice

There's a hell of an experimental body that led to (and supports) our current laws of motion. These laws aren't "just theory", and they definitely aren't dogma. Are these experiments probing the laws in a region they haven't been tested before? Can these unexpected results be reproduced outside of the framework of a cool engine for space travel?

E.g. there's a difference between measuring for the first time the spectrum of antihydrogen, which we predicted with the strongest confidence would be the same as hydrogen's; and measuring the spectrum of hydrogen with Rock&Roll sounding within, because "we can't know if any specific music genre will have an effect until we test it".

So yeah, if people want to spend their own resources testing this, the more power to them. But the way it's been done makes it look like they're more interested in a cool positive result than in unveiling the truth, and that mindset leads to things like the N-rays.
ah ok Joscha Bach, wow. Now I have a new guru to follow.
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The Carbon-X1 has screws, and the battery is easily accessible. https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/documents/PD103715

The body is made out of carbon fiber. Technically this is 'plastic', but not in the context of your comment.
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It's Bitcoin.
Wait a minute, currencies are supposed to be boring and predictable. The economy is supposed to be predictable, how else could you make long-term investments.
I don't know if Patrick could do that, but I've been on the other side of deals materially equivalent to those numbers.

A 30k rack rate at those utilization rate is a high number but not an impossible one.

It is not a number you will get for software contracting. It's one you'll get for solving business problems that cost/are worth much more to your clients than that.

Sometimes that involves software.
from the quick read, it looks like a spear phishing attack at the root of it.
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According to the report by the FBI and DHS, the hackers involved in the Russian operation used fraudulent emails that tricked their recipients into revealing passwords.
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This incident should be investigated thoroughly and serious defenses should be put in place. Destabilizing the electric grid like the Kiev incident shouldn't be allowed.
I have a T530 laying on my lap right now. I would call it plastic, flimsy, and bendy. Pick it up by one corner, it creaks and I can feel it flexing. I can see and feel the screen flex as I adjust the angle. Close the screen by pushing down on the top right corner, and it doesn't latch properly because it flexes so much. I can feel and hear it flexing as my left wrist rests on the palm rest while typing. I would not want to walk on it, I would be willing to bet money that I'd break it. This is not a solid laptop, and I will not be sorry when I replace it. My previous one was a T500, and it was well built. My next laptop will probably be a Dell Latitude, the ones I have held were solid as a brick. I saw one that was kicked as hard as possible by a large guy. The screen was broken, and it was visibly bent, but still solid.
There is a startup trying to do just that... bioengineer rhino horns, tusks etc.

http://signup.pembient.com/
Does Lenovo's history with malware give anyone pause when considering this laptop?

I'm just interested in general - I'm a Mac owner now, but used to be a happy thinkpad owner back in the day.
Reasonable minds can agree both governments have proven to be dishonest, although Russia is almost certainly worse.

I think he's just saying he has some skepticism, which is perfectly reasonable.
I thinkimux is rather hit and miss when it comes to battery life on Linux.

I've never really quite understood why, as I though ACPI is meant to handle this. But I'm not terribly au fait with this interface, so there might be good reasons, I know Torcalds criticised it early on as a "design disaster" and there were and I think still are concerns about the way that bytecode has unfettered access to the system.
The first statement is not in evidence. It's amazing how many people believe both that nothing was in there, but also that it swung the election. As opposed to, say, the connections between Hillary's top aide, Huma, and the infamous Anthony Wiener coming to light. Or do you know him better as "Carlos Danger"? Did the Russians also make her avoid any campaign stops in the (not so) "blue firewall"? Or what about when Michael Moore put out a speech that could be chopped in half and turned into a Trump ad? Or what about when they insisted that Hillary's health was perfect, then everyone saw this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zYthqiLs_I

You can say the polls only took a dive in the last week, but if you really look at them, most polls were oversampled in the Democrat's favor the whole time. There were legitimate reasons they did this in expectations of Obama-like results, but in the end the results speak for themselves.

But yes, the sysadmins hold the keys to the kingdom. Why get one lousy email when you can get the email server via the sysadmin? And every other server.

If you just want one person, there are better ways than noisy phishing attacks. Everyone knows that Podesta's email was phished, not many people realize he also lost his cell phone in a DC cab...
> Assuming Clinton had those dirty secrets and Trump had nothing equivalent

Those are two rather incredulous assumptions considering that:

- Clinton released all of her tax returns, whereas Trump didn't release any

- The Clinton Foundation has been audited by at least three well respected, independent, organizations (garnering top ratings from all), whereas we know comparatively little about the Trump Foundation (or whatever it's called), yet it's admitted within the last six months to several inappropriate expenditures or donations, and is likely being investigated for more

- Trump sits atop a network of literally hundreds (if not thousands) of "independent" corporations designed solely to evade disclosure, liability, taxes or some combination thereof
I hope it's not Uber pioneer this movement.

Uber showed that they are not willing to comply public agency on regulation-related restrictions. VTOL vehicles, they are more dangerous than cars. Uber's attitude, when handling such technologies, make me scared.
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So name them. No US official will tell classified info on some agency phone, so it is always the opinion of the administration that is being repeated. But papers like WP and NYT allow "officials speaking on the condition of anonymity" to claim any number of things and slander whoever without even the remote possibility of supporting documentation.

It's not even about access, there is no access to be had, just more PR that didn't hit the wire. The only journalist who got classified info from a gov official in the last years was the mistress of Petraeus writing his biography, and even he realized that mere words are useless so helpfully supplied his notebook and docs.
I was basing that assumption off of what he wrote in a post above: "I pay about $1.5k/month for colocation and the amortized cost of hardware, and that's the major expense.". He's probably not claiming every deduction he can.

I'm not US based, but given he does everything himself there's no reason to assume he has everything optimised. Every country is different, but most tend to have similar tax concepts to some extent. I'm based in Belgium, and if I wouldn't optimise anything on $200k income, I'd be paying close to 50% tax. If you do, you can comfortably get away with legally only paying a fraction of that, say, 15-20%, if not less.

His easiest way to save on income tax would probably just be to sell his business / product, so that he can book a capital gain. Capital gains are taxed lower than income. But that isn't exactly an optimisation unless the difference is significant enough. Definitely worth doing if you don't see it growing much from this point though, or if you're bored with it. That capital (for a business doing $225k a year in profit, maybe $500-650k after tax?) can then be reinvested tomorrow in other assets generating capital income, i.e. stocks, which is preferred to income taxable at income tax rates.
Yeah, I wouldn't want a crummy windows trackpad taking up space either ;) also all Apple laptops are 16:10, other than the 11" MacBook Air.
Their working conditions are horribly inefficient.
My best guess is some kind of highly automated backups but it doesn't quite fit IMO and I'm also very curious.
> having the UK, Wales and Scotland all on the list is somewhat confusing

Why? UK is comprised of countries with their own legislatures (with devolved and varying powers). England doesn't. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have parliaments, and their own politicians so need an entry. They all elect MPs to the Westminster UK parliament as well. Just as all these areas elect EU MEPs too.

CGP Grey explains UK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNu8XDBSn10
Travel to a client is billed to the client separately via a magical sentence that Thomas taught me: "I will expense travel as per your standard travel policy."

How does that work exactly? I mean, logistically -- if you're coming in from outside, you generally won't know what their standard travel policy is.
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Here is why I don't like mobile data peripherals on laptops: it causes the software to firm incorrect beliefs about the link state. With a mobile modem the OS will decide the link has gone down, and sever all connections. With wifi tethering the laptop has no idea what the link state on the phone might be, so it rides out brief loss of signal events.

Small but important difference in my opinion.
That is a great point. A project manager's quarterly goals, for examples, will be rather meta compared top a developer's. A project manager's success shouldn't be a byproduct of the dev team's work. At the end of the day, you don't have the authority to make developers do anything and you can't take credit for their work. But you should still be able to succeed in your project management job even if the developers don't ship on time.
Last year it was China. This year it is Russia. If hacking were a reason to escalate with a country, then everyone would already be at war with the US, as we have hacked everyone, almost completely and entirely, from before they even boot their NIB routers.

The report is interesting only in that it exposes operational and software weaknesses that should be hardened.

The rest of it, I roll my eyes at the side show and am ever hopeful the US will saber rattle less, and get on with the business of helping Americans prosper.
Can you provide examples? Ideally of both positive and negative outcomes.
> CGP Grey explains UK

He has another on why "how many countries are there?" is a difficult question [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=how+many+countr...
If, by "nobody", you mean "around 100 billion cumulative people", then I agree with you.
Yeah I'm surprised 2FA isn't the norm with organizations that work with the government or control infrastructure. The idea of just using a password is fairly idiotic. They're too easy speared and cracked.
The NY grid operator and ConEdison (NYC electric utility) unknowingly had a former KGB spy who had been living under an assumed identity for 40 years on the payroll in CIO/Chief Software Architect roles for many years.

I'm sure there's plenty of similar stories, both human and technological.

https://www.rtoinsider.com/soviet-spy-jack-barsky-nyiso-1505...
The Ehang seems interesting, but ultimately it's limited by battery tech and the fundamental inefficiencies of the design which makes it more of a gimmick than anything else.

There's enough open source information laying around on the internet to figure out the power draw of the Ehang in flight and from there you can figure out roughly how much the batteries on it weigh (spoiler: it's many 10s of kilograms for the 23min flight time they claim [1]).

Don't forget that these batteries will degrade with time, especially in such a high-load performance regime. This will further limit your flight time until you replace them.
On top of that, having 8 tiny props is always going to be less efficient than a fixed-wing or helicopter-like design.

If you're a Chinese billionaire, you don't care that your "flying car" has these limitations, but these same limitations (among many others) preclude the Ehang from becoming an actual practical method of transportation.

[1] http://www.ehang.com/news/137.html
Iraq had WMD and used it frequently, like other countries in the region.
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True, but it's not unheard of for math PhD's to graduate with no refereed publications (certainly they'll have a thesis), so it really was the lack of his advisor's recommendation that killed his career.
Ridiculously click-baity title and has to do with currency?

It was a given.