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> The 'update skills in various units' argument rings a little hollow at a company where a new hire on an eng team in an org with lots of legacy systems, like Windows or Office, will be expected to need 6+ months to be fully integrated in the team. If that were true, why not just retrain the people you already have?

I didn't see where it said who they were laying off. What if they were laying off hardware engineers? If they haven't done software before that ramp up time to integrate into a software development team may be years.

They do a lot more than just software. I agree if they're laying off of software then there is no reason they can't be retrained in another dev team but that's not always the case here.

You're also missing the part where Microsoft gives them 60 days to find a new position within the company. I'm assuming they have to re-interview but probably no way to avoid that.
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>"A spec that detailed would basically have to _be_ the code itself."

No it wouldn't. The specs are applied as part of the test suite. Please read up on code contracts to see how this is possible.

If you didn't like the link I shared before, here's a video:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YQJMe0Eahyg
Looks great. I find it funny that there seems to be a surge of these snazzy JSON API libraries _right after_ I struggled through manually implementing the spec for an API project.
> I would suggest to use https://posteo.de instead. They offer anonymous payment by post (I'm just a happy user).

I glanced at it. It may offer anonymous signup but it uses standard mail protocols. Almost every email Posteo processes for its users reveals their identities.
For self-driving cars, viable includes safe. That's why it's taking a long time to develop.
Can you explain to me how "elaborate on your problem in such a way as you would explaining it to a colleague, because explaining it often leads you to a solution" is either "devaluing the seriousness" or a "gimmick"?

You can talk to the wall, too, if you want. What's wrong with the duck prop? Is there merit in such Grave Seriousness?
Then the officer calls the home planet to verify that an ID exists for that name and address. Problem worsened.
They lost their most skilled staff from the 1990s era due to early retirement. They fired all QA staff. Nowadays they have a big piles of legacy codebases. They outsourced or better say moved development of many products to India. Nowadays you really feel the lower skilled work force (compared to 1990s staff) and no QA to speak of everywhere in there products. Their product feel like designed by people who have little engineering knowledge, a far cry from 1990s software UI. Well it already started with WinXP that contained already HTML based UI parts like "software" control panel, and many more parts - an undocumented new UI API where the EU fined them. Plus the 1984 style spyware features their Nadella CEO introduced and forces upon end consumers like there is no tomorrow.
I am disturbed by (i) the spectacle of financiers who three months ago were telling anyone who would listen that they would never do business with a Trump company rushing to praise the new Administration

He is surprised that bankers are in a hurry to put themselves in a position to make money?
Running a company and owning a company is different. Some people like the challenges which are involved in running the company day to day.

Lot of wealthy people work for Buffett because they like their jobs running companies and they like Buffett.
Like .cur files! According to a quick google search, there was/is a buffer overflow vulnerability in XP. Makes me wonder how many SP1 XP installs hit Neocities.
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Ask HN: Any professional courses for learning business skills in the Bay Area?
There are abundant courses to learn programming, engineering outside academic institutions like Berkeley, Stanford.

Are there any similar courses to learn the fundamentals of business(finance, marketing, sales)?
How unethical is this, for this group of so-so around sensationalist bloggers led by Zeynep Tufekci (tptacek?) whom I would not dare to call real cryptography specialists (and this is whom they are in my eyes, none of them is a person with a worthy math/crypto research background) to solicit opinions of reputable bodies on this crypto hole, and then twist and editorialize all of that to suit their message that this crypto hole is not a crypto hole
Yes indeed, sad to see this work go down. Most likely due to Google pulling people out of the NaCl sandbox project.

Thanks for the pointer to Manta.
2014 discussion panel at Stanford Law School, with entrepreneurs building marketplaces for legal services, including contracts, https://youtube.com/watch?v=EqR_4Xhmng0
This book was really helpful for me when I was getting started with natural language processing: http://www.nltk.org/book/

It's practical, readable, and it's free.
Does Twitter still support tweeting over text? That's how I did it pre-smartphone.
Because languages like Lisp, Smalltalk, Ruby give you greater control over bending the language to more closely match the problem domain, instead of jumping through extra hoops to express what's needed, and the result is a more readable program, because it's expressed in terms of what the program's trying to accomplish.

The entire history of computing is abstraction away from the machine, and offloading as much of the work to the machine, so that humans can focus on solving problems instead of worrying about lower level details. Dynamic languages tend to be better at that.

Now if you Haskell is the comparison, then maybe not. But Haskell has an advanced type system with excellent composability, so it's quite capable of expressing high level abstractions and domain specific code.

That's the general idea, but clearly not everyone agrees. Or perhaps, other concerns are considered more important.
I know the root's comment wasn't actually useful. People who have decided they hate GC like this will always do so. Much like vim/emacs :D

It was more a question of whether the commenter had any better solutions to propose. I was /really/ trying not to just be a dick and say "cool, so you work out how to do that without changing the language at all".

:D
Gotta give everyone their fresh, daily dose of self doubt.
Another major point for me is maintainability. When you are trying to figure out the type of the object that was passed in to many layers of functions across files in a legacy codebase, it's a nightmare.
there's no such thing as grammar

I'm not sure what you mean by this. Certainly adjectives are a thing, and if I learn a new adjective, "anguilliform" for example, I have never heard that in context, but I know exactly how to use it. That is grammar, right?
Thanks for your reply! I am honestly very scared by the coding challenge I would have to pass for a SRE role :(
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It still does conservative root scanning for the stack. Hurrah for ABI compatibility!
> Overall yes, re-encryption is necessary. But that can be a batch process done while your phone is charging and on wifi over night. Is a drawback, but re-keying always is. But just because you got to change the keys every once in a while, doesn't mean you toss the locks.

Encrypted hard disks utilize a simple scheme whereby the password/key derived from the password decrypts a small set of keys or single key that's just randomly generated, and decrypts the rest of the drive. So, to change the password, all you need to reencrypt are the real keys.

Password -- decrypts --> master key -- decrypts --> rest of hard drive
^^^^^^^^^^
this is what gets re-encrypted on password change
and is small; ~a few KiB

Similar could be had for email.

The approach above also lends itself well to supporting multiple passwords. (If you share an account w/ someone, for example, though email has other tools like mailing lists that might be better suited.)
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More importantly, with this knowledge one now can write pixel shaders that display 3D scenes :P
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I'd love to hear about your experience with building the anycast network.
True, matrices are convenient for notation, and they tend to be confusing at first. A tutorial like this is better off without the detour through linear algebra.

But without them you lose the ability to smoosh multiple transforms together, making it harder to do anything hierarchical or animated. Personally, I'd place their utility higher than "just" notational convenience.

I feel like we haven't figured out how to teach matrices, that they're inherently easy after you understand them, but we don't know how to introduce or explain them easily. Do you introduce them later & do you have any good resources for them once you do broach the subject with your students?

I like your identity example. I think I really started to "get" matrices after realizing they are literally vectors put in a stack, and that the vectors represent the state of transforming from the identity to those vectors. With that in mind, a matrix can feel much easier than a rotation involving trig functions and hand-coded dot products. You can do all kinds of rotating and other transforming without any trig once you see matrices as transforms rather than an opaque and mysterious brick of numbers. But I admit it took me years to feel that way after my first encounters with matrices.
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Also, another reason the vaccine analogy fails is that this situation is being likened to the Guardian overemphasizing the risks of vaccines on the assumption that the only choices are "vaccine" or "no vaccine".

But the story is really more like "Complications associated with Vaccine A" when several alternative vaccines without those risks exist.
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From every client that a former client has sent my way. 50% of my clients introduce themselves with some variation of "Something happened, Bill gave me your name. Help!".
Which they (you) are. This is comical!
Worth mentioning here, the text summarization engines are pretty much only usable on news articles or text with clean paragraph structure (yes, non-tech literature works too). Popular text summarization tools as they stand now, fails on anything else.
Reason is an alternative, JavaScript-like, syntax for the OCaml language. Same language, different syntax! It's crazy cool. BuckleScript is an OCaml -> ES5 compiler, so it actually compiles Reason to ES5 just fine.

Bloomberg and Facebook are two big users of BuckleScript. FB have a couple of folks writing significant stuff in Reason, compiling with BuckleScript, and deploying to user-facing web properties.
CREST has been available to the public for a while now, though not online. ODCI/DI would be interesting to look into but I won't hold my breath finding anything outlining the bastardly of the early 60s. [0]

First terms I looked up, "Budget Hawkeye" for 1963-64. Found some details, hard numbers were redacted. NPIC ^grew^ a lot post '63 judging by the budget requests. Lots of files referencing "Brass Knob" in '63 (daily Cuban flyover). The other interesting details were NPIC monthly memos detailing the daily operations.

Some interesting finds

- David A. Phillips ('81) https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/document/cia-rdp90-0...

- Howard E. Hunt ('85) https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/document/cia-rdp90-0...

- Jim Garrison ('67) https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/document/cia-rdp90-0...

- Film 'Executive Action' ('73) https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/document/cia-rdp88-0...

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12324273

[1] https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/document/cia-rdp76-0...
Ooh, I wonder this could lead to the Haxe compiler running in JS.
Ha! I'm not sure who you're trying to convince, I keep saying I agree with you!

I'm merely phrasing things a little differently. A fully free market with no regulation or intervention, as you point out, is frequently impossible. Especially with in infrastructure where natural monopolies abound. Free markets have a tendency to become monopolies or abusive without efforts to maintain competition, and as you point out we have to encourage competition. But this requires making tradeoffs.

The person who put the cable in the ground feels they are free in this (theoretical, but non-existent) free market, to charge whoever they want whatever they want to use the cable. The person using the cable has no choice but to accept those terms because there isn't effective competition. Wheeler chooses the freedom of the consumer to choose versus the freedom of the provider in order to favor competition among providers.

I agree with this balance, Wheeler was good, I don't like this new guy at all so far.

My original objective was to try to explore the other guy's point of view, to give some of the arguments they would give in favor. I find them unconvincing, but those are the arguments those opposed to net neutrality give.
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> it seems that Rails is only a benefit if you were unable to make halfway decent library and architecture choices on your own, or if for some reason you benefit from hiring people who are already familiar with a particular Rails version.

As far as I can tell you just described almost everyone. I'm a web dev contractor that has jumped around between a few dozen code bases in the past few years, often to clean things up. My experience has been that it doesn't seem matter if the code was written by a team of MIT grads or outsourced to china. With exactly 1 exception, all the home grown framework code bases were in much worse shape, often with huge performance issues.

As to why it's so hard for people to mash together their own sets of dependencies in a halfway maintainable way, I have no idea.
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Yeah, he had no clue that bankers are greedy, that's why he pushed the Glass-Steagall Act, but suddenly he became enlighten. Well good for him, didn't work out for tax payers, apparently.

I wouldn't worry though, the market will regulate itself and if it doesn't, there's always tax payer money just around the corner, all financial institutions have to do is make sure they're on the right side of the tide (e.g. not Lehman, but Goldman).
Everyone knows you can't uninstall twitter.
That's a pattern among very senior googlers. When they get bored of working, they go to other companies to semi-retire. I'm almost certain this is not going to be any different.
> I said, if you want to dedicate 20 years of your life to it, not focusing on other things, living in a Western country, you can do it.

I'm really sorry to quibble, but you didn't say any of those things in the comment I replied to. I mean, there just literally isn't anything about "20 years" or "Western country" in there.

> Second, there are plenty of people who manage to make $10,000+ a month online, regardless of where they live. Probably millions.

Citation needed!

> Also, even in impoverished countries there must be opportunities to make money and do deals.

Why "must" there be? This just sounds like wishful thinking. There is no natural law stating that opportunity is shared globally, and in fact this is mostly not the case in practice.
I thought that too, until i bought a cheap netbook that came with windows (7? Student edition? I cannot remember). I plugged in a mouse and windows said it needed to connect to the internet to download the driver for my MS optical mouse. I practically fell out of my chair laughing.
He lists two projects unrelated to Signal in the article. There is no mention of Signal.
> irresponsible conjecture.

More like mis-informed assertion on your part. The filing employer is REQUIRED BY LAW to prove that they couldn't find an equally qualified person in USA.. They are required to post a job listing and vet applicants. The H1B abusers like Microsoft, Infosys skirt around this by putting an ad in an obsure local newspaper that no-one is going to read. And even if someone applies the Hiring Manager finds some grounds to reject the applicant without legally getting into a pickle ("ex: candidate failed verbal tech interview etc).

See: https://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/FactSheet62/whdfs62M...

and

https://www.uscis.gov/eir/visa-guide/h-1b-specialty-occupati...
My father, who is a lawyer on the brink of retirement with programming experience, mentioned this to me many times throughout his career.
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By the measures of hard work and value creation being discussed in this thread. I'm sure you disagree. I'll try to save some time by stipulating that this is a value judgment, I likely disagree with your disagreement, and I am happy to agree to disagree.
One of China’s first unmanned factories in the city of Dongguan recently replaced 590 of its workers with robots and the results were astounding. While the factory used to be run by 650 employees, only 60 of those people still work at the factory and their primary job is to make sure the machines are running properly, not working on manufacturing.

Since the shift to robots, pieces per person per month has risen from 8,000 to 21,000—a whopping 250% increase. While some may argue that quality of the product will decrease with the use of robots, this doesn’t appear to be the case either. The number of product defects has decreased from 25% to just 5%.

So the old useful-output production per month was 650 * 8000 * 0.75 = 3900000 pieces. Now it's 60 * 21000 * 0.95 = 1197000.

Useful output in pieces per month is now only 31% of what it used to be. The much lower defect rate might save a lot of money, but I wonder if profits actually improved following such a dramatic output reduction, even considering savings on wages and defective parts.
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Trump believes no computer is safe from hacking, so maybe he won't even use this, except for tweetings.
That was spot on :)
Personally I prefer the Danish idea of "Flexicurity", where it's easy to hire and easy to fire, but there are strong welfare protections guaranteed by the state if you do end up unemployed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexicurity
I don't think Spam checking should be a concern since most spammers aren't going to encrypt their spam.
Aerospike was the last piece of software that impressed me with both benchmark scores and architecture being so well done that I can't find any comparison in the distributed db class.

I really want to use it in production, but what scares me is its association with Redhat. The tastiest cookie in the jar - cross dc replication is already paywalled. I'm afraid it will further go through the route of becoming begware, premiumware, or "consultanthiringware" that software out of Redhat's shop tend to become over the time.
The core of the challenge is our measuring stick --- money --- is a too-aggressively lossy transaction representation system, yet it is press-ganged into use as such when it really should only ever represent just the money itself instead of all the imputed characteristics ascribed to it by current mainstream economic thought. All sorts of desirable information by involved parties is detached from the money when the transaction completes, and we currently have very incomplete mechanisms and highly fragmented platforms for conveying that information.

Taking this down to a more concrete level, if every transaction and popular properties in a market were recorded and undoxx-ably published blockchain-style, then market actors who try to externalize costs will find those properties they are externalizing upon others added to the system, and their activity shunned more quickly. Much rent-seeking and externalizing behavior today in businesses (especially gig economy-pitch-based businesses) relies upon a great deal of extreme asymmetric information postures between the parties, possible because of the much more complex information ecosystem we operate in as economic actors today.
It’s kind of sad that companies spend so much time squashing ants. Instead of seeing an opportunity to encourage more excellent film-making, and allowing talented people to keep improving their skills and one day produce even more awesome projects, all they see is a chance to go to court.
"less information means less bugs" is not the same thing as "less code means less bugs". Your entire argument there is a non-sequitur, no one who says "less code means less bugs" is talking about the mechanical aspect of typing out code.

They're talking about a combination of using battle tested code and writing at a higher level of abstraction.
Unlike the rest of us, he probably won't even have to root his phone to purge it of bloatware.
is that because R is never quite 0, meaning that higher A causes heat which raises the temperature above the superconducting level?
Worth checking out if you're considering to use it: https://aphyr.com/posts/324-jepsen-aerospike

In a gist, very good pick if it's acceptable to lose writes in some circumstances.
Well, Rust can compile to asm.js or wasm, too.

Might still be rough around the edges, but it will improve soon enough.
Well, we also didn't mention foreigns (like, functions dealing with OS), punctuation, predefined nouns. Hooks and forks also deserve a description, even though I don't think this is about "precedence/associative" matter - both hooks and forks as a whole are verbs, so verbs rules apply.
Well, considering how awful Groupon and related coupon services were, can you blame them? A lot of companies that reach small businesses are only solving the problem of getting themselves paid rather than offering value. Small businesses are already used to people trying to milk them, and tech has potential to do so even worse than local attempts.
The debugger is pretty good when using `iex`. However, you don't get "step through" debugging like you do with Python's `ipdb`, only breakpoints.
> no QA to speak of everywhere in there products

nit: their, not there.
That's a great point. I wonder if there would be a better way to introduce meaningful, actionable topics of study to an introductory-level audience of people who may have never heard of NLP.
If this were just a trickle of 700 who were eased-out for performance reasons, I would accept your sarcasm. However, this was not easing-out. This was pre-planned.

If you google "microsoft mass layoff", it's like they have these pre-ordained layoffs of thousands every year, while their visa certifications are in the low thousands every year. In this case, the 700 is just a single wave of a layoff planned the middle of last year.

I am not knocking worker visas here. I am knocking Microsoft's honesty.
I believe, as designers, we can do better. In our education, there has been much focus around the what and the how, that the why has been left out. The why did not seem like a hard skill, but in my personal opinion it is the most important skill. Rather than just creating more efficient things, we need to start to deepen our understanding of what it means to be human. We need to re-imagine how design and technology can help people with being what they are best at.