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I'm a poor grad student at an ivy, and I have to say that I find just under 30k a year far more than enough for myself. The whole starving grad student just doesn't hold up in rich private institutes. I live in a cheap house with four others, but my peers have apartments in some of the nicest buildings around. I cook my own food most of the time, but many grad students eat out twice a day, even if only at a food truck.

Now I won't pretend that 30k is much to raise a family with, or much if you have to help out your parents or siblings. But I'm saving a sizeable chunk of my income and I'm not even supplementing it with tutoring the rich undergrads, which can net you two hundred plus a week for a few hours of work.
These are the steps I've used for some 17-years to deliver projects on time and have the client complain less during the project. It's done wonders for me.

Hope it resonates with you.

Let me know if I'm missing something.
If you've given notice already, you go. Especially if you'd already timed your notice to stick around until production, and then they - not you - moved the goalpost.
Doesn't look much better.
Reductio ad absurdum is a valid form of argument.
I really hope you're not serious - having to provide for the support of common infrastructure and needs is very, very different from the condition of slavery, something that our country has a very tarnished history of.

You're free to choose another place to live. You're free to choose how you earn your living, or even whether or not you do earn a living. Nobody will beat you senseless if you decide to take a vacation this week. Nobody has absolute control over every detail of your life. You can marry and associate with whom you choose. You can object to paying 25% of your income, hand out tracts to that effect, and vote for politicians who may change that. You can't be bought and sold.
Simpler format to remember for random numbers:
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Random passwords can be generated:
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Yeah, Bell Labs never did anything really important.
Remember the 90's? It got kinda crazy: http://lurkertech.com/bill-the-borg/windoze2495.jpg

(I kinda agree with you -- as far as billionaires go, you could do a lot worse. But maybe sametmax is right and Gates is just that much better at PR than your average billionaire. Who knows.)
Elizabeth Warren is not a technocrat IMO. Studying Law does not give you any background in science or engineering. It does make you very good at making arguments in support of arbitrary things and bullshitting, but I'm not sure that's something we should encourage in politicians.
I run World of Solitaire, currently #1 Google result for the solitaire search term. I haven't noticed any measurable change in traffic to my site since they put this up. Probably because folks can get a much better experience on my site compared to the mini version they created. Maybe simpler website with tools such as spinners, randomizers, etc may see more of an impact.
Having worked with a boss who had never done our work, and one who had, I can assure everyone: There's a world of a difference!
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I believe what constitutes a great manager will depend a lot on the context. The "team lawyer" archetype mentioned elsewhere may in some cases be exactly what is needed. (Some dysfunctional corporate environments comes to mind.)
In other situations (small startup? consultancy) a very technically minded manager may be just the thing.

For revolutionary products (truly revolutionary) the big picture person may be crucial.

The other dimensions, like detecting bullshit, help team members overcome insecurities, have courage to make impopular decisions, these are orthogonal but very important too, I think.
Why is it that every time someone mentions some negative effects of marijuana, someone has to chirp in and say that alcohol is so much worse?
Isn't this article about "car tunnels", not public transport transit tunnels?
Seems like a pretty perverse incentive to have the project largely funded by a commercial company offering a repackaging of the open source product with some added features that Wine couldn't add themselves least they compete with the benefactor directly and lose their funding.
Windows 10's Edge must stop stealing the browser default, says Vivaldi CEO
It happens. If you like/respect your engineering colleagues, give them your email telling them you're there to help during launch.
Again to the desert island:

You and I are on an island. You have money (or coconuts, or whatever). We agree that if I work for you, then you will give me some payment. That payment is my income.

How does that example depend on the state or a tax system?
It must be great to be known as a doomsday escape haven like New Zealand. When the world actually goes tits up, you have a whole bunch of rich people bringing supplies and survival gear to your country for you to take.
Actually, I have seen multiple libraries aimed for desktop UI that implement trees. Seems that trees somehow were lost in the transition to web applications.
> If you eat it you can ingest the dosage confirmed to kill dogs

You would almost certainly vomit long before you hit that threshold.

If you also took an anticonvulsant and just straight-up downed raw plant material, I suppose it's possible... but at that point, we're stretching the meaning of "lethal dose".
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I'm really bad about this too. I actually got to the point where I googled 'most asked Personality questions in interviews' which had like "Describe a time where you showed leadership." etc, and I have a Google Drive document that has a paragraph answer for each, and I reread that a couple of times before going into an interview so I will have a few of these stories prepared.

I still would struggle if you asked too many more details beyond that, though. I had to dig deep into my brain in order to write those paragraphs in the first place.

I do the same with technical questions. Anything I get asked (that I remember afterwards) goes into a document (with paragraph answers) that I review before future interviews. I also try to anticipate some other questions and put them in there as well.

Because the scope of Computer Science is so big I still get questions I didn't prepare for asked of me pretty much every interview, though, and I struggle through those questions.

Despite this, I do have a good memory for work and can keep entire systems in my brain. But in doing so this other crap gets shoved deeper and deeper and are more difficult to retrieve.
Alternatively, why not just allow advanced students to graduate and start college/career early, if they so desire. I know this happens in exceptional cases, but why force a kid to just load up with AP classes (which may - but probably do not - match college level rigor) rather than simply taking college courses? If they're past what high school can offer then let them finish and leave. We keep far too many students in high school longer than they want/need to be. Most - in my experience - just start to coast at that point.

A separate school for "advanced" students doesn't outright bother me; however, I think defining "advanced" is more challenging than most would initially consider. There are many reasons that a student may be ahead/behind at any point in their education.
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I strongly agree that the benefits of exposing students to a wide variety of mindsets, abilities and experiences is just as valuable, if not more valuable, than being able to tailor curricula to fit the ability of students perfectly.

I think the ideal is a little bit of both: strong multi-track curricula with common social ground + experiences.
> It is arguably the most important discovery in human history

Fire? Writing? Textiles?

There's a case to be made its the most important discovery of his era, but then, we do tend to be Eurocentric here and the Chinese were at the climax of a centuries long golden age when Colombus was doing his thing in America.
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The last time this story made rounds on HN, quite a few readers were ripping into the people described in the article, and it sure feels good to do so, but... I don't know about you, but if I had more money than I conceivably ever needed, I sure would contemplate having a helicopter on standby and a luxury compound in some scenic part of the world. You know, just for fun, just in case.

In fact, I suspect that once you're in that particular wealth bracket, it's no longer about people who have contingency plans versus the ones who don't. I'm pretty sure that almost every Fortune 100 CEO has private security parked in front of their house and a plan to get out quickly something bad were to happen. There are many security consulting companies that cater exclusively to this segment - and they are doing very well. It's just that most of the CEOs won't talk about it to The New Yorker - partly because of opsec concerns, but partly because such revelations would make it even easier for us to vilify them.

And before we assume that their plans are lopsided and irrational, I think it's worth keeping in mind that the article is written to be entertaining. The author wants to tell us about the stuff that is out of ordinary and out of reach of mere mortals. That doesn't mean that the people featured in the article don't also have a fire extinguisher and some tarp and nails in their garage. Heck, perhaps 95% of their prepping goes toward more pedestrian risks? Perhaps they practice defensive driving and situational awareness? Perhaps they go camping or hiking every other week? Perhaps they take EMT courses and participate in community preparedness drills? Who knows... that stuff is boring. ICBM silos and helicopters are fun.

We should also remember that unlike many many of the stars of "Doomsday Preppers" who seemed inexplicably frightened by the prospect of social unrest in the US, the ultra-rich may actually have something to worry about. When angry masses take it to the streets, it's not the cookie-cutter, mixed income, urban sprawl neighborhoods that are going to be set ablaze. We had quite a few big revolutions, and it's usually the heads of the variously defined aristocracy that roll. It's not ancient history, too.

Lastly... one viewpoint presented in the article is that it's somehow immoral for the CEOs to worry about self-preservation instead of trying to give back to the community. I think that's a non-sequitur - is it also immoral for them to buy a fire extinguisher or install sprinklers before making the world a better place? - but more importantly, the two goals are not mutually exclusive.

PS. Disclaimer - I'm the author of http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/prep/, so I might be not entirely impartial.
In my opinion, barring some serious nationalistic policies that I can't see at the moment... no matter what Trump says or does, technological progress on this issue will move onward regardless.

This even includes progress in the United States. Even now, it's hard to see one of the worst CO2-emitting sources of energy (coal) gaining that much traction with natural gas being quite a bit cheaper here. If solutions that emit less CO2 than natural gas get even cheaper, those start becoming no-brainers to implement.

I'm sure that some states will try to nudge more from a government level (see: California), but even in states that don't, if economics dictates that the CO2-less solution is better, it will most likely be implemented regardless of political bluster. For example, Oklahoma is long known for being a traditional oil and gas stalwart. Yet as of 2015, 18% of electricity in Oklahoma is generated by wind. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_Oklahoma)
Other people indeed chimed in on your question in other comments. But here's my take about the most important fish features:

* Instant auto suggestions, you just type stuff, like in a web browser.

* Sane defaults, no need to bring around your own config. On a new machine I just install fish, run fish_config and customize the prompt with the web UI.

* Scripting with simple syntax, especially for one-liners. Yes, fish is incompatible with bash, but it's less of issue in this case.
Does anyone have a point of contact for joining this group? My email is in my profile.
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Great? Angela Merkel, Maragaret Thatcher, Frauke Petry. Whatever your political persuasion there is, i'm sure at least one of those you would not describe as 'great'
The list of fundamental rights that are widely agreed upon are:[1]

- Right to self-determination
- Right to liberty
- Right to due process of law
- Right to freedom of movement
- Right to freedom of thought
- Right to freedom of religion
- Right to freedom of expression
- Right to peaceful assembly
- Right to freedom of association

If the state can arbitrarily dispossess you of all of your goods you don't have some of the above rights. However, the vast majority of most citizens' property and wealth is not necessary to exercise the above rights.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_rights
Do you have any literature on this story?
> Instead, what seems to have happened is that the existence of an "intermediate" representation was a deliberate architecture choice by human Google programmers.

Which has been proposed as a machine translation technique for many, many years.

Maybe Google are the first to learn an interlingua, but they are not the first to use the term, much less the concept.
Leave. Do as much as you can, and apologize if you feel you should. But leave.
> I never even thought about the fact that something could go wrong to me and I would not have access to the best possible care for any reason whatsoever until I found out about Americans and I remember thinking that was really savage. Then I realized my luck.

I am based in Switzerland so my health care money also goes to private companies. But these are heavily regulated.

However i can only agree with that statement. I always went to a private clinic because it was near my home and had less people there. It was not special or anything, it was just convenient.

Whatever happens i knew i get help and if i get a bill it some bullshit small costs i can easily pay anyway. The highest bill i ever got was $500 but only because i wanted a lot of random blood tests that no reasonable health care would cover.
> And why[while?] one might argue about the "better"

This is my point. Python's philosophy isn't "bad" in a universal sense (let alone broken). It's just that the author has a different philosophy for programming languages himself. And I find it short-sighted to regard other philosophies as "bad" or "flawed", simply because they do not match your own.
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I'm not sure how this can be well-answered.

Any time you actually feel stressed, you're unlikely to feel that it's 'less stress' than some previous experience; I think it inherently feels each time like you're discovering what '100%' might be, or perhaps it's less than that - a thought that in itself only adds to the stress.
There is nothing more demotivating than realizing that the person in charge of making technical decisions has no idea what he is talking about.

Maybe it's simply a question of different semantics, but I've never worked at a place where my boss was in charge of making technical decisions. That is always done by whatever senior engineer is in charge of that particular project.
>That means that only 1 person owns all resources and everyone else owns nothing.

That's like saying we should not have an absolute right to be more intelligent than the average person since such a right is perfectly consistent with a society where one person is infinitely more intelligent than everyone else.

Material equality is not a right, and the pursuit of a society with material equality does not grant any party a right to imprison someone for their refusal to hand over a share of the currency they receive in private trade.
I'd imagine it'd be similar to Yelp when a business leaves canned 'sorry' responses to all their bad reviews.

Are users able to remove bad ratings once they are left? Bribery potential...
With ever-more-complicated technical marketplaces into which legislation pokes its head, the need for technical guidance for this legislation arises. Here in the US at least, lobbyists (usually funded by trade groups) are able to fill that role and in some cases might be a net benefit.

What I want to know is -- is there a market for a "constituent pro-bono consultant"? I don't want to become a career politician (not even part-time), but I would be willing to consult with legislators on technical matters without compensation. I won't buy my representatives lunch or even coffee, but I'd be willing to try and be a balance against the trade groups for the sake of the people.
> Business dramatically added scope and was changing requirements and demanding devs work nights/weekends to accommodate.

Any employer ever demanded this from me, I'd be straight out of the door.
Yes! The project seems mismanaged, you dislike working there, you have a better job with a start date agreed on -- get out now.

Also, be explicit with yourself on why you do not want to leave shortly before deployment? IMO the only reasonable answer is that you are a key player and want to help your current project through birthing pains.

If so, you can offer to help your old employer, pro bono, for a short time after the launch as your time allows. No guarantees, but you will try. If they do ask for help, work for a few evenings or a weekend and help. But leave now -- the chances that the latest slip of a badly managed project is the last are always slim.
So what? The Dow is a terrible indicator of even how well the stock market or the economy as a whole is doing. It is price weighted instead of market cap weighted so smaller companies that released fewer shares at a higher price have more impact on the Dow than larger companies. http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/01/04/508261371/episo...
> Here in the U.S., very few public high schools have single-track education, at least not for "core" subjects such as English, math, and science. There are typically remedial, standard, honors, and AP classes for these subjects.

It's not just curriculum, though. The whole structure of the school is usually oriented toward "managing the lowest common denominator." Grade schools have more in common with prisons than they do with any other societal institution.

Imagine a school with a few fixed lectures during the day, self-directed study time built in, and the ability to take a break or get a snack at the student's convenience. That's basically college for most people, but a lot of kids are mature enough to handle something like that at a much younger age.
The problem in the US is that the AP kids get shafted because so much of the budget is spent on running a glorified daycare for the kids who really don't want to be there.
"Nobody has the right to steal" is a tautology: theft is by definition the unsanctioned removal of something, so all theft implies the violation of some right. All property rights accomplishes in this sense is making stealing easier by extending the human rights to encompass basically anything, making it easier to find a means to violate someones right.
>For now, 314 Action will only back Democratic candidates.

Great. When you're being accused of being partisan, the best way to come back is to form an organization backing potential political candidates of just one party. What a joke.

This is a squandered opportunity to try to get scientific minded people into running for the republican seats, which is how you would get real change in the discourse. Anyone who thinks there aren't fiscally conservative scientists out there who want to shape the Republican party into something better is deluding themselves.
Which I think can be compensated for if the manager focuses on just that, more humane issues. Of course, this can be done badly...
I understood that reference.
I don't think it is. I think it is observing elephant emotions and recognizing them for what they are.
I look at Microsoft's uncooperative corporate strategy, which he has direct control over.

It really seems to never stop.

He could make a dictum: "Ok, from now on, all we do is create value. Desktop Windows will always be able to do the same as the professional/ultimate/bestest version. And we're going to do our best to cooperate with open source, instead of trying to screw them after making friendly."

But their strategy is just fine for me - I've long ago switched to a desktop OS that's always the professional version and that comes with everything a desktop OS should come with - GNU/Linux (in my case, Ubuntu, but there are others). It just screws all the other people who don't have the ability/nerve to switch to Linux.
You are correct, I thought she was an economist, which does not seem to be the case.
The other point of view is that you should never burn your bridges. Your next employer is likely to be much more flexible at first than later on, and even more so before you start, so if you need a favor, now is exactly the time to ask for it.
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While it's heavily maligned, this was one of the points of The Bell Curve.

200 years ago, the smartest and dumbest person both probably lived and died on the same farm. 100 years ago, it wasn't noticeably different. Around the 1920s/30s, society started segmenting the higher end out into higher education and then completely different career/life paths. Fast forward another 50 years and people on the higher and lower ends of intellect rarely meet.

Think of the people you interact with on a daily basis - unless you're doing things completely outside the realm of intellect - and you'll start to realize that the vast majority of them aren't far off from you intellectually. This applies at the top and bottom.
I'm having a hard time understanding the issue or being empathetic. If somebody invites you to go to dinner and a movie, why cant you explain that you cant afford it or would rather not spend the money?

Would you rather them not invite you? I've always found that rich people are not trying to put you down by talking about their boats, clothes, or businesses. They just live with a different set of parameters that people can't relate to.

I think it's wrong to expect Harvard to provide a "safe space" for poor people. We should instead expect everyone to respect each others differences. Rich, poor, jamaican, colombian... People are people. Instead of being self-conscious about what makes you different, embrace the differences and expand your world view.