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Ask HN: Stepping Away from Day to Day Development, How to Manage?
Background:

I joined on as one of the early employees at a startup a couple years ago. I liked the idea, had previously worked with one of the founders and took the lead developer role. Things have gone well, the development team has expanded, hiring a few really talented devs and many other quality contributors and along the way a VP of Engineering who is far better at the people-oriented parts of running and building a dev team.

As those people have come up to speed and the product solidified I've handled off more and more and now find myself mostly stepping back from development. I'm still in discussions about technical plans, but now I'm also spending time in conversations with PMs about new products/directions, timelines and planning of feature rollouts, and being brought into larger sales deals/partnerships as a bridge to the technology side of the house, speaking on behalf of the company at various events, serving as brand expert, and mentoring up younger devs.

Part of me feels like I've been put out to pasture, but the larger part seems that I've fallen into quite a great opportunity for growth and a perfect opportunity to train up for a CTO/technical founder type position in the future, and maybe just a bit of "reward" for being an early employee that went all in with the founders. I'm doing less, sleeping more and easier, cognitive load has been nicely reduced and creativity/ideas are flowing as well as ever.

Things are good, but I can't help but feel a little strange for not being more directly involved with development.

Foreground:

For those of you who have made a similar transition, how did you handle it?
Did you do anything to scratch the itch or did it just go away over time?
Do you worry about losing anything?
How did you adjust to a role with much less direct "proof of work" but not in a management role?
I do take your point. I guess i'm just trying to say i've had good success just diving in head first and working backwards :)
We engage plenty, we sell them lots of guns, to the tune of $115B under Obama (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-saudi-security-idUSKCN...).
All glass (deposit or not) goes into one smashy-smashy pile, so the city loses the deposit value.
> - The brick is tiny.

I and my family have owned several Thinkpads. I just bought a Thinkpad this past cyber Monday, and the power brick it came with is significantly larger than prior Thinkpad models' bricks. So much so that I was a little disheartened when I saw it. Since you mention you have a slightly older model, I suspect that your adapter is tiny, as you say, on par w/ MBPs'. But the current models from Lenovo have regressed in this respect.

Just so you can see, here's a photo[1]. The smaller brick is from an older T500, and the larger one is from my new T460p. The small Lenovo and the MBP appear to output roughly the same. The larger, newer Lenovo one is capable of pushing more power, but at quite a cost in size.

[1]: http://imgur.com/CQJKyUp
You probably also earned additional pay (at a higher rate) for overtime - which can help justify spending the extra time there, at least if you value the money more than the free time lost. Which doesn't apply to salaried employees.
Absolutely. We _definitely_ weren't near 100% utilized.

I actually think that might be why bootcamps became an attractive proposition; it's much easier when you're selling months at a time rather than weeks or days at a time, in a sense.
How flexibility has played significant role in mobile app development
This looks like a slightly upgraded Mozilla Thimble https://thimble.mozilla.org
To my knowledge, Memcached really only wins when you can make use of it being multi-threaded -- have a lot of concurrent key requests. Even though Redis runs single-threaded, it often will do more IOPs with respect to a single Memcached thread, and that's without considering that you can get even further ahead pipelining Redis requests.

To compete with Memcached's multi-core throughput, it's probably not a big deal for you to run a Redis process per core. Surely you are already running multiple memcached for higher availability, so I can't see multiple Redis procs adding much more complexity.

Of course, Redis has many more advantages. For one, I can't be bothered to ever again not have Redis data types, so Memcached just doesn't make sense in my stacks. And even a caching layer has advantages in being able to persist to disk, so I love that too about Redis.
I don't know about the modern ones. I've been a thinkpad user since 2005 or so and my impression is that the quality has been dropping consistently. Traditionally though, many of them came with a magnesium alloy roll cage that protected the internals quite well. It considerably reduced flex and made the whole thing quite solid. The X1, it seems, has a carbon fibre roll cage. I don't have any personal experience with it http://www.lenovo.com/us/en/thisisthinkpad/innovation/roll-c...
have you ever been in a farm? it sounds really cruel, yes, but thats quite similar to the majority of the meat production... sadly :(
Docker outside of Linux has been a major pain point for a while. I'm switching to a Linux laptop and native Docker is one of the things I'm most looking forward to.
>there is a huge difference between "I'm fine with hurting people's feelings" and "I'm fine with killing people

Those aren't the choices.
The flame malware stuxnet is based on has turned up in several places and is a good place to start. So is the equation group leaks. Those are the two major sources known for info on US/Isreal/five eyes countries. Another interesting thing to look up is the "black rooms" in global datacentres. China and Russia have their own "state" malware as well that goes by various names. Not to leave off North Korea, they do a lot of cyber warfare themselves and have a university apparently dedicated to it.

Basically every major world power has their own secretive hacking groups, malware, and pool of zero day exploits. Hilariously, the best way to find out what your country has got is to look it up from an anti-virus vendor based in another country.

Kaspersky Labs in particular (might be connected to Russian govt but interesting anyways) is a great source to learn about state sanctioned malware besides Russian/Chinese stuff.
I always find these quite refreshing to read. Something to be clear about is that it's not a brand new argument, nor a "scientific argument for God" or irrefutable argument per se; it's providing a more casual everyday suggestion about God using some data that happens to come from science. Particularly, it points out the unlikeliness of life, which can be a sign if you are open to there being an agency behind it (in a "God's been leaving hints" kind of way), but if you're not would always be ascribed to the "unthought-of-yet explanation".

Which is why it's also not so surprising that Kraus wrote a follow-up for the New Yorker complaining that evidence of a gap isn't evidence for God as we can't dismiss the "unthought-of-yet" material explanation, or that there might be reasons for those odds to be smaller. (Those kinds of rebuttal pieces inevitably come across as Scrooge bah-humbugging the sunset in response to someone's casual remark that God's got a pretty cool set of paints...)

Science is an engine for providing material explanations for phenomena; it has no "there is no material explanation for this" option. This has not changed in thousands of years (though we only somewhat-formalised science as a field of endeavour more recently, empirical testing as a form of epistemology goes all the way back to "is this berry poisonous?"). So much so, that you'll even find bible verses talking about it:

Hebrews 11:3 By faith we understand that ... what is seen was not made out of what was visible

John 3:8 (NLT) Just as you can hear the wind but can't tell where it comes from or where it is going, so you can't explain how people are born of the Spirit.
> But Russia and China don't go around enforcing human rights and their morality on other countries

Do you have more details on this? Georgia, Ukraine and Syria would be very interested in learning about Russian passivity as far as enforcement of their world views.
>The DNC was deplorable and idiotic in its rejection of Sanders and active working against his campaign. But the primaries were not rigged.

But they didn't do any of that either. It's amazing how out of control this narrative has gotten. And this is precisely why we can't justify these sorts of intrusions so close to an election, the stories become such distorted pictures of reality which is antithetical to to rational decision making.
> I haven't tried out desktop Linux in awhile

I read your first sentence and was like "wow, this guy hasn't used Linux in a while." Then I got to your second sentence.

So, yeah, maybe give it another go. In my experience most of the complaints I had 4-5 years ago are gone at this point, and the convenience gap has closed substantially. OS X is still more user friendly of course, and there's a little bit of configuration required to make everything work smoothly under Linux, but it's a lot better than you remember.

Importantly, I've seen some devs using OS X, and they spend way more time dealing with dev tooling issues than I spend dealing with printers, devices, and gui stuff.
I guess you conveniently forget where Sanders said his emails would have the same sorts of messages from Donna?

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/30386...

>"If Bernie Sanders had been the nominee of the party and the Russians hacked my emails instead of John [Podesta]’s, we'd be reading all these notes between Donna and I and they'd say Donna was cozying up to the Bernie campaign. This is taken out of context. I found her to be a fair arbiter, I think she did a good and honest job."

Turns out they weren't even debate questions:

http://www.nbcnews.com/card/top-sanders-aide-defends-dnc-cha...
Cops Say Uber Driver Saved Passenger, 16, from Sex Trafficking
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Many products (cell phones, cars, medical) started off for "the rich" and gradually became mass market. I am very surprised at how many people are not able to see a future where general purpose ground based transportation is obsolete.
Curious, why Vagrant and not Docker? Then you don't need to run a VM, but still get the same isolation.
Wordpress is its own beast with horizontal scaling too. It's quite difficult to run a load balanced ep instance simply because it was never designed for that. We used to runs ton of wp sites at my last place, and if the cache wasn't enough the usual course of action was to throw it on a server/database combo that was practically a supercomputer. PHP takes up way too much RAM per thread and it's just slow and terrible to work with on popular sites :(
I found this post with examples of things recently built with gomix quite illustrative:
https://medium.com/gomix/what-can-you-build-on-gomix-557e380...
> Wow.

There's quite a few cultures where it's a traditional norm to put one's wife in charge of the household finances (cultures in which that wife tends to be stuck at home running it, whereas the husband is mostly home to sleep and otherwise working himself to death). The husband is given sort of an allowance to spend. It's not a strange idea for many people on the planet.
Amazed me to read the part of Joel's side of this where he talks about the staff counts at Stack Overflow and Trello. I remember the early days of his blog, SO, and when Trello was announced. Now Trello has 100 staff and SO has 300.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2016/12/06/anil-dash-is-the-n...
I love Fog Creek and use Trello daily. I'm your target audience. If you could make this self-hosted i.e. on my own company's intranet secure servers, I would pay a lot for it.
I never really got the whole public/private thing. If you want to only expose certain functionalities, that's what the interface does. Making things private just hides things that are potentially nice hooks for testing or whatever.
Can confirm the necessity, having interned there. COTS galvos at that price weren't good enough.
While the topic is important but not tech related, I shared because I think there's another story here.. about the data.

Odds are this wasn't the first time the (alleged) pimps used Uber to deliver the girl. If that is the case, there should be a series of drop offs and pick ups at hotels. Cross reference that GPS data with phone records or emails and you could build a compelling - though maybe circumstantial - case. That's what convinces people to flip.

Then the goal can move beyond two pimps and potentially see a larger network.
If you need an in memory cache, you use memcached. If you need data structures and have trivial data sets (this is an enviable position) you use redis.

If you don't know why you need one or the other, use redis until you can't anymore. Plenty of people still use memcache, although lots of the current users are forking their implementation to get specific behaviors from the internals.
Reddit Co-Founder Ohanian Gets Engaged to Serena Williams
doctors do NOT go to school for nutrition. I assumed they knew about it, but turns out they don't. Most med schools don't teach any classes about nutrition or at most 1 or 2.
So a portion of Ukraine and Syria? What inconsistent values are they forcing on other countries? Which they attack other countries for not doing, but actively fail to follow themselves? I've given examples, I'd like to hear yours...

US actively pushes human rights agendas across China, all of South East asia, Balkans, Latin America, etc, every time they do trade or diplomatic deal. Russia doesn't do this stuff at all AFAIK. They just occasionally demand unquestionable political support in exchange for support or outright annexation. They don't package in morality and human rights like the state department and executive branch of the US does.

Russia and China seem pretty consistent with their immorality. But diseases are just as dangerous when they lurk silently and when the host is in denial they exist internally. And you can't go around playing doctor when you don't follow you're own medical advice. It totally weakens the message. It's easy to dismiss, even if the message is good and moral, it's ineffective.

How is it going to stop Russia from playing dirty in the dark while pretending they are upstanding citizens in light? You don't hire junkies to get junkies to quit drugs.
I watched that docu before realizing who he was, and man, they could not have chosen a more appropriate person to narrate it. His work is absolutely amazing.
They're both online editors that use the word "remix", but that's really it.

Mozilla Thimble is a HTML/CSS/JS learning tool. It's frontend only and doesn't have realtime collaboration.

Gomix is backend and frontend. It's collaborative, so a team can work on it at the same time. They're looking to change how teams work together by replacing version control. It also deploys instantly, so there's no saving/uploading/pushing/etc.

Source: https://learning.mozilla.org/blog/introducing-the-new-thimbl... and https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2016/05/31/introducing-hyperd...
I like her description of the event: "Down on 1 knee. He said four words. And /r/isaidyes"
forgot the sugar!
Uh..... I don't disagree with you, but you're responding to something I didn't even say....
You know what sucks ass though?

The 10x developer that isn't actually a 10x developer, but continually gets to start projects! So they get to do that part where you can make 80% of the program in 20% of the time. They slap it together, and move on to the next big thing. Leaving everyone else to clean up their rushed mess that barely works.
Level is relative here. But remember DNC candidate had 6 or more multibillion dollar mass media corps actively supporting their candidate, POTUS was campaigning for them, had a top strategy team, support from tech giants, Wall St., huge contributions from countries like Saudi Arabia and so on. A few emails leaked I would say still wasn't a level playing field but it was close?
I think he implies that once you get into the area of international law, what's "illegal" for one party is merely "protecting and advancing national interests" for another.

Moreover, there's no universally accepted third-party authority in charge of decision-making (i.e. your local courts) and enforcement (i.e. your local cops) that any country can appeal to in order to rule something "illegal". And even if there was, it's all based on a system of international agreements, so what's to prevent the aggressor from exiting the treaty anyways?
I don't think public sector unions are disadvantaged. That group of disadvantaged folks would be private sector workers. I believe the argument would be that, to a certain extent, their pensions and other benefits do "fix the market" for their labor. I'm not sure I agree with the argument. My view would be that if the unions were as effective as they could be the workers' salaries would be higher and the pension benefits a bit lower.
I'm not perpetuating any particular agenda other than that people should request enough information to form their own opinions. Throwaway accounts for political conversations are an occupational necessity for my line of work.
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Tort reform that extend products liability to sodtware and hardware developers and their partners. The problem is too complex for corporate or individual end users to manage. This plus retooling NSA through SBA conduit to provide protections to small businesses, law firms, health providers.
My understanding is that overtime scams are common in parts of the public sector.

The usual scheme is that you are not punished for not showing up to work, but are paid overtime for taking someone else's shift. As a result, swapping shifts with someone results in a 50% pay increase for both of you. Together with other scams, the result may be even greater.
Former Top Military of Iraq:

SADA: Well, I want to make it clear, very clear to everybody in the world that we had the weapon of mass destruction in Iraq, and the regime used them against our Iraqi people. It was used against Kurds in the north, against Arabs — marsh Arabs in the south...

SADA: Well, up to the year 2002, 2002, in summer, they were in Iraq. And after that, when Saddam realized that the inspectors are coming on the first of November and the Americans are coming, so he took the advantage of a natural disaster happened in Syria, a dam was broken. So he — he announced to the world that he is going to make an air bridge...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/2006/01/26/exclusive-former-top...

Other sources:

http://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/syria-chemical-...

http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/24/the-unresolve...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/1...
Ok, we took a shot at it. If anyone suggests a more accurate and neutral title, we can change it again.
Anything you read in the news about this is all speculation. Any hard evidence the US has is most definitely top secret. I would believe the govt in this case, mostly because openly blaming another country for this is polically somewhat dangerous. There's not really a reason to point fingers unless you really want to send someone a message to "knock it off"

Blaming anyone and publicly admitting that your governments fundamental democracy was compromised is not to be taken lightly. Politically, this is a signal to Russia that if they continue to interfere there will be consequences.

The US govt would not publicly admit such weakness unless there was a good reason
Taking the time to read comments, then still more time to reply that you don't care. No irony there.
Yes, there are specific exemptions, but a properly worded FOIA request should be able to maneuver around them. For example, Exemption 7[1] would protect "from disclosure information which would reveal techniques and procedures for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions or that would disclose guidelines for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions if disclosure of the information could reasonably be expected to risk circumvention of the law," but a properly worded request would seek the information that those techniques uncovered, not the techniques themselves.

1: http://www.foiadvocates.com/exemptions.html
First Joel is brilliant. I love the idea. However,

"Set up your Alexa skill in your Amazon developer account."

"TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID and TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN - available from https://www.twilio.com/user/account/settings"

...

Things have changed since 99. The walled gardens are up. Credit cards are required everywhere. I hope the 'casual' programmer can fill out all these forms and not be scared by AUTH_TOKENS. I wish gomix had a pool of community accounts. (eg for Twilio where you get like 100 free texts and you just hack on).
A few years ago I got into the habit of using alternate languages to HTML, CSS, and Javascript---namely Pug, Stylus, and Coffeescript---and I'm physically unable to use the originals any more. Are these supported by Gomix?
In 2006, a paper was widely distributed among policy makers that advocated the idea that the United States could establish "Nuclear Primacy" and could win a nuclear war with Russia if we struck first.

There is an interesting article about this dangerous idea that is permeating Washington here.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-30/eric-zuesse-america...
Eh, different strokes.

Personally, I have a ThinkPad W540 for work and while it weighs like a brick man is it easy to work with. The UltraNav isn't as nice as the trackpad on my XPS 13, but I usually work with the TrackPoint on ThinkPad's anyway (killer feature for me to be honest, even Apple's awesome trackpad disappointments in comparison to a good ol' TrackPoint in my opinion) - upgrading the RAM and SSD required a couple screws for the appropriate bays in the base cover instead of needing to take the whole thing off like my old 2012 MBP. Also, while USB Type-C and ThunderBolt 3 "work" for a dock, being able to plop by ThinkPad down on my desk at home and have it start charging and connect all of my peripherals is still easier than plugging in a cable (even if it's just one cable).

Also, as far as Linux support I guess that all really depends on the individual. Most of my workflow is heavily dependent on Linux (Java/Python dev in JetBrains products, ansible stuff, administering a couple dozen Linux VM's) with the exception of our .Net apps (where I run Visual Studio in a Windows VM) - there's not a whole lot of benefit to me running macOS, and in fact, I'd really rather run Fedora (call me an oddball I guess) since anything not getting deployed to a Windows server goes to a CentOS VM, makes moving from development to production a lot easier.
Laptop gets malware - could have come from anywhere
Government links malware to russia - no proof
??
War!
Russia has denied involvement with this incident in the past[1].

I would encourage considering applying the same standard that we would apply to a trial by jury. Simply indicating that someone is a repeat offender, and would have reason to commit an offense again, does not itself meet a standard of evidence of actually committing that offense.

1: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/kremlin-denies-putin-d...
That doesn't get in your way for finding jobs?
Guess that answers that question, binary blobs in their "open source" for the foreseeable future. :(
This looks like a really cool architecture, but I'm mildly uncertain about how well it scales given the simplicity of the tasks demonstrated. Delivery tasks are the most basic tasks in RL research. I'd be interested in predator/hazard avoidance, as well as some sort of rudimentary reasoning (might require analogy structure built-in?).

Additionally, the pure-pixel input is neato, but the discrete outputs seem limiting.

That being said, I'm overall very happy with the direction of research!
That could actually be awesome. Use electric motors in a drone type configuration for VTOL and then just use a gas engine for cruising.