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Very carefully.

I currently work as a self-employed independent contractor in the cloud-engineering and devops automation sector in the greater Boston area. I have a strong focus on minimizing cost while making sure the customer achieves that they intend to, and that has given me an edge over fellow contractors that like to drop a known pattern in place and call it a day.

Here's an example.

I had a meeting a few days ago where I was asked to optimize a section of a product that made no sense to me (eliminating DNS and SSL tunnel start-up times). I have a firm believe in how I operate that I do not want to waste my customer's time, money, or my time in the work that I do.

I came back with a data-driven response showing other areas of the product with low hanging fruit that got seconds of time back instead of milliseconds on the area they wanted. I implemented one solution as an example, and landed several more months of contract work with them as a result.

I don't want to waste my time to get paid, I want to solve interesting problems and get paid solving them. I also want to stand behind my work, and stand proud.

So for me planning my career is as simple as finding companies that have problems I can address, for me that is low level network protocol analysis, distributed systems, cloud deployments, and java optimization. I hit those hard, and then build up quotes from customers I have worked with to show potential leads what I am capable of. Understanding that anyone you are talking to is a potential lead was huge for me. Just because it's some guy you ran into at a bar, some woman talking about her start-up, whatever - they all are potential customers, and you need to hold yourself as a professional.

Don't be an ass, establish credibility, and show that you actually care. Money follows.
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But why pay for it than?
Said software can still be run using emulators, can it not? There is lots of (well, some) potentially useful software out there that only runs on machines no longer in production. A good solution is also to make source code freely available, then the best programs will not die.
How about coming up with an example for ARM, one that doesn't come from using the new chipset but which requires the new instruction set (and particularly one which somehow precludes supporting older applications). AFAIK, ARM64 maybe offers some minor benefits to floating point operations, but mostly just provides access to some more registers... an advantage which sometimes matters but is often so dubious that on 32-bit ARM a lot of performance oriented code would be compiled to Thumb-1 even though it had half as many registers, as the code would load faster and take up less space in the cache.
FTA:

> By the 1990s, it was finally dawning on film creators and processors, too, that using a white-skinned person as the universal standard was short-changing people of every other skin tone.

I don't quite understand this statement. The point of the China Girl was having a fairly agreed upon color to make sure the film was developed properly.

As long as you were pretty sure what the color was supposed to be, you could kind of judge how good the film was.

Introducing other ethnicities would defeat the purpose.
Most smokers in Melbourne CBD are Asian immigrants (anecdotally).

I think it's culturally hard for them to give it up, which is a real shame as I hate walking through clouds of smoke on Little Bourke St.

Not sure what can be done about it though, banning it outright I think is too far as it's an assault on people's personal freedoms but I would like to see a ban on smoking on the street/public places.

I don't want to be secondary smoking the stuff, it smells awful and probably does a decent chunk of damage if you are walking through it every day though that is unsubstantiated, I haven't read any studies on secondary smoking.

Atleast most smokers here seem responsible when disposing the butts. Silver lining I guess.
Smoking has been gradually phased out here over the course of 30 years. It used to be that around 40% of adults smoked, and now it's down to 10-12%. If you think that smoking rates haven't changed significantly here over the past few decades, you're either very young or very blinkered.

Or just listen to smokers complaining how they're a dying breed (works on two levels, that one), or how you can't just ask anyone for a light anymore as fewer people carry lighters, and how bumming a cigarette off a stranger is no longer commonplace now that cigs are over a buck each.
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Queensland has the most retarded smoking laws. Can't by groceries and smokes at the same time, have to walk to the cigarette counter. Festivals where you can't take drinks into the smoking area. Pubs where you can't take a bowl of chips into the smoking area. Can't have an type of entertainment (TV) in the smoking area.

If you smoke, don't even think of visiting Queensland.
You're out of your god damned mind. They sure as hell don't defend the 9th or 10th amendments.
This really, really sucks for people who paid good money for 32bit apps. Or even expensive external hardware items that require ancient apps to be useful. Even if the apps are removed from the app store (and Apple has gone on a rampage removing old apps), existing customers always could keep the apps installed until now. If apps stop working and disappear, they will lose a whole lot of the trust that people had in the app store. I'm also curious about how this will affect the usually impressive rate of upgrades to the latest iOS version among active app-purchasing users.
Don't forget that the newest Apple Watch is 32-bit.
It's not your problem if a company doesn't have a correct respectful hiring process. requirements for potential employees on the market are crazy, companies definitely should live up themselves to the professional and cultural quality they demand from other participants. Companies tend to never excuse even slightest fails of generally well prepped candidates, no reason for candidates to excuse pure disrespect of their time and effort.
I wonder if they will at some point remove the crap that's needed for 32 bit mode from the die. That could shrink the die size a tiny bit.
Interestingly this is the first issue of Nature Astronomy, I hadn't known until now that they were making a topical journal (similar to Nature Geoscience, etc.) Looking through the different abstracts in the issue, I have to be honest, they don't seem very different than normal papers you find everyday on arXiv. I don't think it's a good thing to have another journal in this case, since Nature is not open access friendly.

To be honest, I don't know too much about Nature Publishing Group, but what I do know is that the standard astronomical journal in America, the Astrophysical Journal (ApJ, "ap-jay"), is very well. It's owned by the American Astronomical Society (AAS) and published by the Institute of Physics (IOP) [1] which is itself a non-profit and does great work in education and other fields. They have a lenient policy where articles become open-access after 12-months.

My point is, they're not blood-suckers like Elsevier :) And I would be unhappy to see Nature use it's prestige to muscle in a journal with more onerous access policies.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOP_Publishing
> beer was more important as a source of energy (via calories both from grain and alcohol)

> they were likely to have been pushing for ‘sweetness and body’ rather than maximum alcoholic strength

So, basically, people drank beer like they drink soda-pop today, and wanted the same things out of it (sweet, fizzy, not necessarily alcoholic, goes well with food.)

Anyone know what those people of the Early Modern era had to say about coffee? Were people who drank coffee, but not beer, considered teetotalers?
> They really should focus on creating jobs that pays $200,000+ a year, regardless of living location, to attract the best talent from around the world. Getting 3-6 top talent, that can help steer the company in the right direction, can make all the difference in the long run.

SIGN ME UP! That would be a freaking great opportunity!!
Those laws banning smoking indoors at public places (and also in outdoor eating areas at cafes and restaurants in my state) are also wonderful for non-smokers. You sort of take it for granted until you visit somewhere without the laws and remember just how obnoxious cigarette smoke is!
> Don't get distracted and start switching between terminal windows.

I got bitten by this in the past, luckily nothing that could not be reversed, just 2-3 hours lost. I can imagine how YP's stomach must have felt when he realised what happened.

Still, I had no idea about checklists and so many people here seem to be pretty familiar with the concept :-)
To complete here are two examples in US of existing hydroelectric that had pumped systems added in latter date (decades after operation start) becoming the so-called open-loop system I referred:

[1]Richard B. Russell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_B._Russell_Dam

[2]Grand Coulee: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Coulee_Dam

So before saying something is "flat out wrong" be sure you are not ignorant on the subject.
> First, there is no such animal as a person sitting in a cafe with a laptop who is not plugged into the wall.

Then you should not come to European cafes where you don't get a power socket, unless you happen to be luckily seated close to the one used for the vacuum cleaner.
It's hard to describe. But the way they sync across all your devices without doing anything, the way it just pauses when you pull them out of your ears, the ease of switching between Apple devices (could be better but pretty great); I just forget I'm wearing them and they become a part of my day to day life.
Show me the dangerous side effects when a smoker quits smoking and I'll allow you to include it in the addictive category of alcohol and heroin.
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Well, thank god our friends and relatives are dying young so I can save a bob or two in tax!
In my experience, a good process and environment will make people of _any_ skill or experience level shine.

Nobody likes to stagnate. Give most people a safe place to learn as they work and you're likely to see them improve over time.
What press always talks about are the problematic part. In fact these are true too in many cases. Apple has larger goods in it, inherently part of every product. These are getting polished on upgrades and everything else becomes secondary.
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Multiple Thinkpads had to have complete motherboard changes because someone stumbled over the power cable, which broke the female power jack which was soldered directly onto the motherboard. :(
She's called for doing much worse than banning, under the euphemism of the war on terror. Trump's ban pales in comparison and it's just a terrible bit of partisan hypocrisy to focus on the ban and how important it is to respect Muslims.
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Sounds like what you want is a nilfs2 or similar file-system...

http://nilfs.sourceforge.net/en/

And/or a system like etckeeper to help keep a log on top of an fs that doesn't keep one for you:

http://etckeeper.branchable.com/
If you lose a shoe while running across a highway, it's probably not worth the risk trying to get it back.

The disk usage is just one example of many. Actions that you take really depends on what field you're in and, and again, legacy/inherited systems are completely filled with this sort of shit.. You can say that I shouldn't let get it to that point, but you're kinda dismissing the point I'm trying to make that - shit can and will happen, and you need to know how to deal with shit on your toes. There are times when you have to do things that would make most people flip there shit. There are ways to mitigate the risk in emergency scenarios as you say, but when the risk is actually worth it, you tend to do Bad Things because there's no other option.

In my case, it was in HFT where I inherited the infrastructure from a JS developer who inherited it from a devops engineer who inherited it from a linux engineer who inherited it from another linux engineer. It was a complete shitshow that I was dropped into mostly on my own with little warning. To make matters worse, each maintenance period was 45 minutes at 4:15pm and weekends. Even worse, if a server went down at 5:00pm, the company immediately lost about 35k - which was the same for if the trading software went down. When I asked for additional hardware to do testing on, I was told that there wasn't a budget for it. The saving grace there was that there was 23:15h of time to plan during downtime, so an `rm -rf /` would have had nearly identical long term impact as a `kill -9` on the application server.

Mind you, the owners of the company were some of the smartest and most technical folk I've ever worked with and were surprisingly trusting in my ability to manage the infrastructure. The company no longer exists, and not without reason.

Just to show the lunacy of the infrastructure - they had their DNS servers hosted on VMs that required DNS to start. About a month after I joined, we had a power failure. You can imagine how that went..

(That all said, it was the greatest learning experience I've ever had. Burned me out a tad, though.)
Yes, that is true, but there are many, many channels for that type of discussion. I don't want politics to be in my face 100% of the day.
Yes, but for the unique reason that I have worked on web tracking analytics packages and they are terrifying.

From what I have seen working on those packages, the vast majority of users do not care, or do not understand what they are in for and will say "Sure, track me, what's the worst that could happen?"

We used the dreaded zombie-cookies to track when users would hit our pages and to track their passage across content because it gave us a lot more information on how our products were used, and as such gave us a lot of information to hand over to marketing to up our lead gen strategies. From there, we could wow investors.

From a company perspective, we loved that most users would blindly click yes. Enough did so that we never even bothered looking into the minority that opted for do not track.
I really like your style.
> i only got 4gb of ram

Well, for all of their benefits Electron apps in general have some hiccups on resource constrained systems.
Very common. I no longer do these tests.

Basically, I refuse any interview that has me invest disproportionately more time than the interviewer. You're interviewing the company as much as they are interviewing you.
I happen to know someone who had managed to build an emulator for iOS, but it could only emulate one particular old device (the key thing to understand is that we had a bootrom exploit that let us dump a lot of the code and encryption keys from these older devices). The issue with Apple goes well beyond distribution of apps: they also control the hardware, and they use that control to shroud the software; and unlike with a typical game console, there is a ton of software running on the device as part of a network of dependencies.

But like, we can go further: as it stands, without exploits for security vulnerabilities for these devices, it isn't even possible to get a copy of the apps to run in an emulator, due to the as-yet uncracked DRM used by Apple (which may or may not use hardware AES keys; I still haven't figured this out). So even if you had an iPhone emulator (and you don't, and might not for a very long time, if ever), you also need to obtain an unencrypted copy of Trainyard (the app in the banner image of this article) to run on it, as if they really are using hardware AES keys for that, your emulator is going to be missing those.

Essentially, I would argue that we are moving into a post-emulator reality. It was really easy to write a Nintendo emulator, and it was sort of OK to write a Nintendo 64 emulator. The existence of Wii and PS3 emulators is only due to bugs in security of systems, often the kind that are caused by people too often using unsafe languages like C. Imagine a world where people with intent to lock things down and the experience to know how to do it well are also coding in secure-by-default languages: you get to a point where even a scanning tunneling microscope isn't enough to get you access to the code either from the console or from the game.
Two points:

1) Patio11 touches on a very good lesson, in passing, in an article about Japanese business[1]:

While raw programming ability might not be highly valued at many Japanese companies, and engineers are often not in positions of authority, there is nonetheless a commitment to excellence in the practice of engineering. I am an enormously better engineer for having had three years to learn under the more senior engineers at my former employer. We had binders upon binders full of checklists for doing things like e.g. server maintenance, and despite how chafing the process-for-the-sake-of-process sometimes felt, I stole much of it for running my own company. (For example, one simple rule is “One is not allowed to execute commands on production which one has not written into a procedural document, executed on the staging environment, and recorded the expected output of each command into the procedural document, with a defined fallback plan to terminate the procedure if the results of the command do not match expectations.” This feels crazy to a lot of engineers who think “I’ll just SSH in and fix that in a jiffy” and yet that level of care radically reduces the number of self-inflicted outages you’ll have.)

2) I once heard organisational 'red tape' described as 'the scar tissue of process failures' and it is absolutely true and I deeply regret not recording the source of it. Whenever you wonder why there's some tiresome, overly onerous process in place that is slowing you down, consider why it may have been put in place - chances are, there was a process failure that resulted in Bad Things. When you wonder why big orgs are glacially slow compared to more nimble startup competitors, understand that those startups have yet to experience the Bad Things that the big org has probably already endured. Like scar tissue, the processes they develop reduce their agility and performance but also serve to protect the wounds they experienced.

[1] http://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/11/07/doing-business-in-japan/
Depending on the age of the child, the child may be required by law to use a child safety seat.

Taxis typically don't come with such seats and so they will refuse to carry you.
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Do they get uncomfortable after a while?
Those quantities don't sound enormous - nowhere near enough that being "tossed off their butts" or "very tipsy" could have been the typical experience. Four gallons of pure ethanol per year works out to 4*128/365 = 1.4 ounces per day. That would have most likely been consumed in the form of beer or cider, and even if we assume a relatively modest 5% ABV, that's only 28 fluid ounces of alcoholic beverage per day - less than two pints. That's nowhere near enough to get plastered as a regular occurrence - that's just a culture where it's normal that the beverage you consume with your meals happens to be moderately alcoholic.
I know that feel :-(
Maybe they're talking about a child young enough to need a booster seat? They recently raised the age below which children require a booster seat to 7 years.
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Because the law can't depend on how many people would like to disregard it. If, in any particular locality, it's not a small minority at all, we're quickly back to "separate but equal". We've seen that movie and we know it doesn't end well.

So given that people's rights would be grossly violated if lots of businesses turned them away, the law must say that no business may turn them away.
>>There are those, employed by the likes of AmaGooFaceSoft / Unicorns or graduating from mid-top tier universities, who will benefit by the proposed changes and who were indeed the "target audience" in mind when H1-B was linked to "getting high skilled immigrants in the US".

Pray, educate us how modifying a XML or Json while working directly for AmaGooFaceSoft automatically makes you a 'highly skilled immigrant' and working through a outsourcing firm and doing the very exact same work doesn't.

The worst thing I have seen among Indians which often comes and bite us is to actively treat other people's work as beneath us.

By the way there are tons on projects in the outsourcing firms you mentioned which demand far higher quality and productivity than your ordinary project at AmaGooFaceSoft will ever ask. This is about work, not which company you work for. But I don't expect our fellow Indians to understand this any better given how we treat the social conditions we are born into as permanent positions for life. I can absolutely understand how some one with a job in AmaGooFaceSoft might think of people from outsourcing firms as lesser children of god, and they being masters of the universe, despite in many cases the former doing far better quality of work. In India workplaces are treated as status symbols for life and displayed on house nameplates and marriage invitations. So I realize the obviousness of 'they' vs 'us' context here.

If you don't speak up now, or take a stance just because it helps you, please note it well, you are next.
I hope they ban pokies next.
Dropbox isn't an OS storage, photo storage, mail storage, mobile devices backup all rolled into one (and all of that switched on by default) Comparing with Google Drive is fair, but the aforementioned stuff is why Google offers a fair 15Gb that you won't cap out soon.

I have almost 50Gb of free Dropbox storage btw, through referrals + events like the space race. But that's not really a fair fight anyway, since (aside from Dropbox) no one offers free space in exchange for actions..
It's one thing to schedule a backup.

Quite another to test the backup's restorability.

Most of us back up. Very few test that the backup works as intended. I need to do better in the later.
That choice to go to bare metal was reversed:

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/infrastructure/issues/727#note...

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:M2CRY7... (cache link until GL.com is back up.)
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For me, I dont have to put anything in my ear, and it doesn't plug up when I'm sweating a lot during a workout. The sound is ok, nothing special, but much more reliable than what I had before (because of the sweat problem), and my ears feel so much better not having to sticking anything in my ears.
Being able to rely on at least SSE2 is a big win for 64-bit on x86.

Technically you could use 32-bit addresses on a 64-bit processor and not have your data be any bigger, but most languages don't offer a good way to do this (IIRC the HotSpot JVM's UseCompressedOops option does something along these lines).
Somewhat OT, but I'm curious what you think is awkward about CLOS?
That was the plan all along, and I think it's the one that is really working. They moved Air customers to the Pro line to squeeze them better. Meanwhile, Pro customers are not playing ball (they are the ones complaining), but it's compensated by higher margins at the lower end.
Ask HN: Infrastructure-centric vs. data-centric pricing for query engines?
What do you think? How do you make a choice?
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>Hire a couple of smart engineers who already holds the technical knowledge

Then exactly what value are you bringing to the table? Money? Sales skills? If that's the case then why focus on ML/AI technologies? Any company needs money or sales expertise.