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A lot of folks are focusing on your circumstances at your former job (work not being valued, etc), but I don't find that terribly relevant given the way you've handled leaving your former position.

> How would you feel if a fellow developer left in the circumstances described?

About you, personally? Probably a little jealous, but I wouldn't feel that you have done something wrong. It sounds like you gave adequate notice and planned on leaving one week prior to it going production. You then extended that and even that didn't work out. Assuming you're being paid more at this future employer, you've accepted a financial loss for the sake of your team. That's way more than most people do in your circumstances. Deadlines slip, sometimes, but some deadlines cannot be avoided. You made a commitment to another employer, asked for and received an extension to your start date, and now you're at the point where you need to live up to that commitment.

> If you were a dev manager or hired this developer, how would you feel about them leaving in the circumstances described?

You weren't clear on which dev manager (the new one who just hired you or the one which you're leaving) so here's my thoughts: As your former dev manager, I'd be perfectly fine with this for the reasons I indicated, above. There's only so much that I can expect from you and you've already gone further than most. As for your future dev manager, I'm pleased that you cared enough about your former job (and I probably know that you already weren't happy with this project and you still went over and above to try to leave them in the right position). I'm happy knowing that you showed dedication to a "bad project" (and we have bad projects here, too) and am looking forward to having someone on the team with that level of commitment.

Frankly, you already did everything I would have done, here. I would have told my future employer that I accepted the position with a firm start date, and that I will live up to that commitment, however, an important project where I am a key member slipped and would ask for another week to ensure I'm leaving my former employer in a good place (implying dedication and commitment that can be expected from me in my future position). If accepted (and it almost certainly would be), I would work to that date and leave regardless of the project state (working as many hours as required to push through and make it happen -- but we all know that isn't a guarantee). Accept that you've done the right thing and keep your commitment with your future employer. Also, keep in mind, that your former employer almost certainly would not give you this level of commitment if your position were eliminated.
everyone is replaceable. this is a business. you own them nothing. you've already done your due diligence and they knew you were going to leave. they will survive without you and your fellow co-worker will forgive you. i've been in this position before and i always stayed till the end of the project so i didn't screw over my co-workers, then i bailed. you've done more than is required of you already. a lot of people would give their two weeks and run. the project sounds like a mess. it not going to get any better with you staying around for a little bit more.
Bernie Sanders and his supporters were also not democrats, just people that registered to vote in the democratic primary. If Bernie had chosen to run with his same platform but as a republican he would have gotten the same votes.
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The wealthy in this scenario assume they'd be the first to know of the fall of civilization. If they were further down on the chain, still would require a ton of infrastructure(planes, roads, etc.) to move people to these locations.
Also reminds me of a great classic from The Onion [0] about the winner of the yoga championship:

“I am the serenest!” Bikram shouted to the estimated crowd of 20,000 yoga fans, vigorously pumping his fists. “No one is serener than Sri Dhananjai Bikram—I am the greatest monk of all time!”

0: http://www.theonion.com/article/monk-gloats-over-yoga-champi...
>Contrast a Python list with a NumPy array. To achieve speedier loops and vectorized arithmetic [0], the array gives up dynamic typing and dynamic sizing. In most applications, I would gladly give up some compute speed to gain some programming productivity.

Except numpy arrays have a much richer interface and can still store dynamic objects (dtype=object). So what's your point?

>I love duck-typing

So do I. Where does this come from? I don't believe I ever considered it a contra.
Not in the US... because we really only have 2 parties, which is extremely unfortunate. We are polarized by design.
Actually, axing the net-neutrality regulations, which he is sure to do, will help Comcast and AT&T.
>single largest differentiation between "senior programmer" and "software architect"

I am glad that you brought this up. My question was more from a perspective of distinguishing senior engineer vs architect interview questions. There is only a limited time in the interview. Shouldn't an architect be also asked the senior engineer questions in addition to the ones discussed here. Especially my our org setup they are also hands-on and individual contributor to the code base. One solution could be to restrict the 1st couple of rounds of an architect interview to senior engineer questions only . Fair ?
I know the science of genetics (as well as a layman should). I read Super Pigs and Wonder Corn as child. I'm actually pro-genetic engineering.

What I don't know, because I don't have source data, is what will spliced in gene based foods (that's what I mean by GMO, not the equivocation straw man people throw up in the Mendel sense) do to both the human GI tract and to the environment at a macro level. Until then, I'd like the option of "noping" out. Just the option. I might not even do it because as Stewie says, "They say star light gives your cancer, but what doesn't these days?" I just want the option.

Scientists have come along and said, "Stupid layman, trust us. Of course we're just like those people who said use lead in paint, then in gas, and advocated for Asbestos". That' not scientific. I want to see the data. Until then, my default is skepticism, you know the rational default [1].

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeptical_movement
Oh the TAAS...I spent 10 years being told I would finish that crap in the 10th grade...only to find out in the 10th grade that TAAS II was coming out and we were the lucky candidates to take it...in the 11th grade.

The #2 pencil is spot on. I carried an entire box of pencils and would trade them for a slice of pizza at lunch.
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We all know that the Electoral College and these complaints about California and New York are disingenuous. They're devices to make sure the South controls the country.

So, did Trump win by a lot when you take out California and New York? Yes. He also lost by a lot when you take out the South. Population is the only fair metric for weighting regions against each other. The South is not entitled to control everyone else's lives, especially since they're the damned region that demanded extra Representatives for their slaves.
Interesting. Maybe give some examples?
For a time, I worked about 10 hours/day in a coffee shop[0]. It worked for me, but you say upthread that you have a difficult time tuning out irrelevant buzziness - so it may not work for you.

[0] Actually, there were several coffee-shops, one with an outdoor patio on the lake.
Are you comparing the Tesla 21700s with all the commercially available 18650s, or with the specific 18650s Tesla uses? It's possible Tesla doesn't use the most energy dense 18650s available, so their 21700s could be an improvement for them.

Also, are they currently limited by the heat dissipation? If not, increasing the volume per cell might not be as much of a problem. The linked article mentions that they doubled the number of cooling loops per module, which might already be anticipating an increase in heat to be removed.
As a male who has been constantly harassed by other men, I don't understand why people love to make this about gender.
I of course can't know, but I estimate that about 0.1% of Bernie support were because of GMO labelling.

The real question is WHY something is in vogue.

Sure, money doesn't mean evil, but I have no trouble believing that money is the root of a ton of obviously bad policies and legislation. The healthcare, tax code, FCC points above, and many more.
How did you figure out the directions? (i.e. down, right, left...)
You often hear the idea that all business cares about is the "bottom line". I don't think that's true. IME, all businesses care about is ego with a heavy correlation to the bottom line. IME management doesn't care if they are making money, as long as they look like they are making money. Often the best way to look like you are making money is to make money, but sometimes it's easier to manipulate data sets...
We can let traffic get so bad it reaches an equilibrium that stiffles the growth of the region by preventing movement, or continue to expand capacity indefinitely.
In my opinion this is missing an important thing: Does the Swiss model scale?

For example, the Singapore model can't scale. It's based on rich people and corporations arbitraging the international fiscal system. You can't have another Singapore without having another East Asia and West with it.

Swiss is definitively a privileged place that is benefiting from the overall wealth of Europe and many other countries. We can't have the niceties they are having unless we have huge leaps in overall productivity around the world.

Edit: To explain my point further. Let's say you have a Swiss watch factory that is relaying on export for 90% of its production. With this money it can afford hiring top researchers and paying very high wages even for low-skill positions. This wouldn't be possible if there wasn't a huge market to product this luxury good for (Europe, US and Asia).
"Liberal policies for private companies" really means that companies have less regulation and red tape, and therefore have a less liberated workforce. One of the points the article makes is that the Swiss government have legal mandates on workplace benefits such as time off and maternity leave, which is the opposite of what some refer to as liberal, at least when talking about businesses as opposed to individuals.
If pressed to find some numbers, one might measure it using a few metrics:

1) Turnover percentage

2) Number of mandatory recurring meetings factor (divide top line by # of meetings?)

3) Strictness of "Core Hours" (meaning, does it cover the entire work day, or just part of it) Perhaps this is a percentage?

4) Leave policy (multiplier for good policies)

5) Work From Home policy multiplier (flexible? routine? abnormal?)

6) Hours worked per week

7) For Software add: Test Coverage %, Automated Deploy Apps divided by Total Apps %, Uptime %

8) Open Office penalty factor

9) Team Room # factor (number of rooms / number of teams)
If you're a vaccine developer or someone working on genetically modified crops, you'll get pushback from Democrats. Pick your poison.

>but only one party has put those people in charge of the party and the party platform.

If only there were some way to get people elected into the party to change this.... nah, let's just dig in with the party that got summarily rejected by the current voting system we have.
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The American chestnut is not extinct. Every single passenger pigeon is dead. Whereas there are genetically pure, blight-resistant trees still living in the wild, but they are so widely distributed that they couldn't breed naturally—each surviving tree is documented, and researchers are still searching for more, such as on isolated Appalachian mountainslopes. But new American chestnuts are being planted. The American chestnut is more like an animal that was nearly extinct in the wild, but rescued in zoos and captive breeding programs, and is now being reintroduced to the wild.

The American Chestnut Cooperators Foundation breeds genetically pure blight-resistant American chestnuts and plants thousands (4,090 in 2015) of seeds every year in an effort to grow genetically pure blight-resistant saplings. http://accf-online.org/

The American Chestnut Foundation spent decades back-crossing American chestnuts with Chinese chestnuts to develop a variety with the characteristics of the American tree and the blight resistance of the Chinese one. Since getting nuts in 2005, they've planted hundreds of trees in national parks; there's an orchard of a dozen in our city's nature center; there are thousands planted at the Flight 93 memorial alone. https://www.npca.org/articles/939-cracking-the-nut http://www.acf.org/

Chestnuts are similar to American bison: only a few very small bison herds are genetically pure; but there are numerous large herds of American bison with a small amount of domestic cow genes.
I would differ with your use of the word "guess".

The underlying dynamics of the market have supported the people who have been long on it.
A URL to something that shows the problem really would be useful here. I can profile and all that, but it would be good to be profiling something that actually shows the problem.
Thanks for the feedback!

Do you mean a threaded discussion per topic or per opinion?
You do realize a Republican President was just elected who supported gay marriage, right? It wasn't a show stopper for him.

The cognitive dissonance is strong in this thread.
> It does not need to be Samantha Bee's job to win everybody over.

Exactly. It's Samantha Bee's job to feed the polarization cycle. If she doesn't, who will?
This is an insulting comment that should be whited out.
I agree, but I think "kids who are actively harming the educational system" and "gifted kids" is a false dichotomy: the spectrum of "kids whose educational experience is damaged by bad apples" is wider than the gifted kids discussed in this article, and by only helping out that small subset I think we leave a whole bunch of kids left hanging (and arguably the ones who need a strong education the most.)

(Our high school's approach to that was just offering "study hall" as an elective, with the implication that you could just skip study hall and nobody cared.)
Not only is it not necessarily the product of one's labor, but at the high end of the wealth spectrum, it is certainly not the product of one's labor.

http://nautil.us/issue/44/luck/investing-is-more-luck-than-t...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-01/why-luck-...
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Theoretically, yes, but you wouldn't want to dig significant parts of the tunnel before you're certain to get the rights to finish it, either. Imagine negotiating with a land owner for the rights to dig the last 10 meters of tunnel, somewhere in the middle of already built parts stretching over kilometers. That owner probably will be able to get 50% of the completed tunnel in exchange for those rights.
What decisions has he made that are pro worker? I have heard that he has pushed to restart pipeline construction (pro business), freeze fedral hiring (anti worker), and kill ACA (anti worker, pro business).
As you sort-of eluded to - it varies by week.

Most of the stress in my life is caused by commuting to and from work, or not relaxing after work (ie: Not going home right after work).

Job wise - It's fairly stress free probably around 25%.

The majority of that percentage is from waiting on other people or answers to questions, or things that I feel are out of my control. I enjoy the work I do, and it hardly feels like work (which is great), but I feel like I could be challenged more.
I want to quote another part of the article that I think is important. Even if you use the right reasons, it's still not effective:

> Don’t waste your time trying to prove that this ism is better than that ism. Ditch all the big words. Why? Because, again, the problem is not the message but the messenger. It’s not that Trump supporters are too stupid to see right from wrong, it’s that you’re much more valuable to them as an enemy than as a compatriot.

> The problem is tribal. Your challenge is to prove that you belong in the same tribe as them: that you are American in exactly the same way they are.
But they way, people still have stress here. But the way I read this comments, it's less than in the US and you can often work less of be less achieving, earn less but still be able to come by easily and loose the stress. Stress seems to be more implicit at any level in the US. We still have people burning out here though and occasionally there are departments that almost develop a japans "stay a work as long as the boss then drink together culture", somehow.

Work life balance is recognized as very important here and the correct way to deal with a too large workload is to go to your Project lead and ask him where your priorities should be if you can only finish one of 2 things. This was really hammered in during an application interview at ASML. I answered that I'd pull an all-nighter if required, they were very adamant about never putting myself in a situation that could lead to burn out, even temporarily. Perhaps I'm a bit in a "highly educated" bubble and truck driver have more stress? Although truck drivers can actually get fined when they don't take their obligatory breaks and stick to decent working hours.
There are a number of hybrid American chestnuts that are blight resistant. I have a Dunstan Chestnut that is doing rather well after a few years. It still gets the blight but heals itself over time.
Your post is in the uncanny valley of Poe's law.

> And hit your deadlines!

In past jobs, my deadlines were impossible to hit, mostly b/c they were set by my pointy haired manager. The estimates given to product/project/program managers were met with looks of "that's nice but I already told the higher-ups a different, sooner figure".

> Organizing the code!

This is literally the last thing to be prioritized. Pay down technical debt?
Best output? Perhaps you mean most? And perhaps you mean GDP and not output?
>Also, the "CA and NY would run the US" is an extremely weak argument. It's logically equivalent to saying that Texas and Oklahoma are currently running the US, since their electoral votes are sufficient to swap the winner from Trump to Clinton.

Actually, I don't think it's equivalent, since basically no Congressional majority or Presidency has been won without the South for the past 50 or so years. You can actually estimate which party will be dominant in an American party system by looking at who consistently holds the South, irrespective of how other regions vote.

So California and the Northeast can consistently vote one way, and it basically just doesn't matter if the South happens to disagree.
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I agree completely with your premise but I don't think you've identified the real issue with immigration and brexit - the real underlying issue is unemployment/underemployment, fallout from the financial crisis, near 0% interest rates etc all combining to leave the poor with next to nothing.

Then they see immigrants arriving around the same time all this is happening and assign the blame to them.
I don't disagree with you on policy, I'm just pointing out that thought experiments pushed to their logical extreme don't really make sense.

Before your body was formed, there was no "you", so the concept of ownership didn't apply. The "offender" in that case was the laws of physics, or some deity if you prefer.
Oh, like in JS where using one dependency gives me 5k dependencies for free? :)
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The same systemic problems caused the loss of Challenger: the reason why SRBs were segmented was that they had to be transported over rail from another state, instead of over barge from a nearby factory.

Arguably the loss of Columbia was also partially caused by the same systemic problems: shuttle had wings (instead of a lifting body shape) due to Air Force's wishes. IIRC this necessitated the existence of the ET.
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In the past, they would have founded their own nation with a personal army by now.
> Trump for all his craziness is vehemently pro business.

No he is definitely not. Trump is anti-business and he makes that very clear. His campaign promises and actions since election are super clear that he is pro-his-wealth and not pro-business.

A pro-business politician would raise taxes on the wealthy, provide tax cuts for the middle class, increase the corporate tax rate, improve immigration so that more people could come in to the country, address massive business risks like climate change with a serious face, improve healthcare for everyone in nation, etc. A pro-business politician would want a healthy and wealthy middle class, a stable climate, and good tax structure to incentivize smart people to come here and build useful things. More businesses are more likely to succeed in a society that is healthy, resourceful with its environment, and with enough wealth shared that income inequality does not destabilize the structure.

Trump is the opposite of being pro-business. Trump is not fiscally conservative or pro-business at all - the very idea that he is would be considered an "alternative fact" - a lie.
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I'm fairly impressed with how Java has maintained relevance and steadily improved over the years. Java 8 was huge in tackling the Functional programming front. With REPL and more functional improvements in Java 9 its starting to feel fresh again. Go & Swift are great efforts and I hope they gain a larger community but JVM is here to stay and it's great that they're improving it while so many other languages have fizzled out over the years.
You're right.

But if you want to make a car, would you start from a motorcycle or a boat?

There's a lot more work to be done by going through the GOP.
I never considered it harsh. If anything, it should be a testament to how nice Python is -- if I /didn't/ like it, I would have a much, much longer list of complaints!

People seem to be missing that sentiment -- I do love Python and use it almost daily. This is merely a list of thorns I run into frequently.

>Regarding the FP comments, since it lacks TCO, my take away has always been that Python can only ever become a quasi-functional language. Its hard to be more than that in its current state.

I mean, it could always encourage playing with functions more -- and importantly, providing an stdlib that encourages that.

>These questions made me want to ask you - what languages do you think are better in comparison?

That is a somewhat loaded question: my counter question would be, "In what regards?"

I cannot say a certain language is better than Python in every or most circumstances, but I can in regards to specific points/features, if you'd like to elaborate.
What's your definition of rich white people? Just curious. AFAIK I've never met any "rich white people" of the type portrayed in nearly every Hollywood movie about school (high school or collage). I'm not saying they don't exist just that I haven't met any so I'm wondering if maybe I did and didn't know it.

I certainly didn't met any kids in high school that had any kind of money to flash (a fancy car or other expensive things to show off).
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