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I've met many musicians who actually prefer Beats in the studio for recording. They argue that they don't care for sound quality that much, but they're much more comfortable on their head than any conventional studio monitots. Personally, I found that for DJing, I don't care about sound quality either - it's much more important to be able to quickly move headphones on and off and how comfortable are they on one ear.

Sound quality is not the only important quality headphones can have. Could the same be true for phones as well?
Not really. Not to mention that there are infinitely many ways to spend time in a more rewarding (and for many also more socially useful) way than TV or a dayjob.
LVS/IPVS is OK, but what does it have to do with SSL termination and certificate churn?
I'd hope the interview / assessment process already gives the interviewer the answer. If not I doubt the interview process. A good answer to this question will mean very little.
My standard reply to "oh we've never asked for someone's IP even though it's in the contract" is "great, then you won't mind me taking that term out, since you weren't using it anyway".

Remember, if it's in the contract, it's what's happening. Let no amount of promises persuade you.
Communicating intent with Rust
"James S. goes on to point out that while you can achieve the percentages suggested by Craig using modern barley, malting techniques, yeast, and equipment, such ‘show-stopping’ figures were unlikely to have been achieved by even the commercial producers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries."

This is a key point. Malting is tricky: The barley seed must be germinated, since the enzyme that converts starch to fermentable sugars is produced by the sprouting seed. Then the germinated seed must be sterilized in a way that prevents too much of the starch from being converted but also does little damage to the grain. This can be done with drying, toasting, and smoking, but it requires a lot of process control to get a uniformly "pale" malt rather than a darker caramel or chocolate malt where some of the starches and sugars have been caramelized.

The development and popularization of pilseners and other light, clear beers in the 19th century was driven by techical advances in malting. 18th century malts were certainly less advanced, more uneven in quality, with a higher proportion of caramelized and toasted sugars and consequently a lot of body and a lower alcohol content.
I think its just difficult for people to hold themselves accountable. in standard colleges, you have other students, teachers, grades, etc which creates a social pressure for you to continue your progress.

with a MOOC, there doesnt really exist the same social pressure to continue or excel.

Its been interesting to watch how various MOOCs have tried to recreate these pressures (due dates, courses separated into weeks, peer review assignments, teacher 'office hours' etc.) and while i think they've gotten a lot better than at the beginning, im not sure they will be able to fully replicate the pressures of having real people in the classroom with you, who will notice if you are gone for a week
Most 'proper' IDEs have no or terrible merge tools.
Reminds me, the military defence line across the Kowlon peninsula to protect (then British) Hong Kong from Japanese invasion during WW II was known as "The Gin Drinkers Line" :-)

(Unfortunately, the line fell in about two days, and HK in less than two weeks, Christmas 1941...)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gin_Drinkers_Line
You're assuming the only reason for wanting to do it would be as contrition, but it sounds like that's not the reason here. Possibly the GitLab team cares about transparency to the extent that they simply prefer to be transparent.
How to Start Using Laravel Homestead as Development Environment
Not a smoker, never been a smoker, agree with sanswork. Smokers are generally very inconsiderate about their habit. Not everyone, but most of them. They throw them on the ground even when there's an ashtray. They throw it out their car window. They smoke right outside the door. Even if there's a sign that says be 50 feet away from the door, they'll be -maybe- 10 feet away.

Since they get used to the smell they don't realize how awful it is to be that close to the door, or how bad it is when they come inside. I imagine a lot of them don't know about the environmental effects of throwing it wherever, but to be fair I see the same attitude with plastic bottles being all over the damn place.
Look at the US's GDP history. It started growing faster than Europe at the end of the 19th century. And you say it only enriched the top of our society? First look up what median means, then realize that the US's median income is 50% higher than Germany's. For a population several times larger and several times more diverse.
Troubling chemicals found in wide range of fast-food wrappers
When I started my study (Artificial Intelligence), I came to the conclusion that yes, I was going to spend a lot of time behind a keyboard, and yes, switching might be worth it. At that point, I looked into possible alternatives for QWERTY and decided to try Colemak, mostly because of its closeness to QWERTY which I knew pretty well then.

I went in cold turkey, which was probably easier than for Dvorak, but still a pain. Anyway, after a couple of days I could type slowly again, and from that point on (taking notes using my laptop daily), the situation improved.

After a shorter than expected time, I was up to my old typing speed again. The downside: I lost my ability to type blindly on a QWERTY keyboard. On Macs, smartphones and linux computers this is not a problem as switching them to Colemak is trivial when I have to use them longer, but for Windows computers it is occasionally annoying. I do have a portable executable that switches such a system on a USB-stick I carry on my key ring, but it's still a pain.

Anyway, the end result is that I type faster now then I did, and the smaller distance your fingers travel does result in a more comfortable typing experience. I would definitely make the switch again with the knowledge I have now. That said, it's probably only worth it if you actually type a lot.
Can you provide an example by chance?
Yes the problem is that I'm not keen on trying £160 headphones without some confidence that they will fit - not like over ear ones where you can try them in shops.
What is Microsoft doing in this space? I honestly don't know, so not trying to be a jerk.
How does Elon Musk run his famously efficient meetings?
Unfortunately ECS doesn't provide Kubernetes clusters, it's a proprietary orchestration platform with its own feature set.
> I've been craving for a trivial, embedded scripting language that feels just right for a long, long time; something I can quickly drop into any project that needs scripting without too much ceremony.

How are you quickly and casually going to drop in a scripting language into any project, if it requires Common Lisp?

Maybe this means "into any CL project". But why would you need a scripting language in a CL project.
Man, I'm starting to hate elaborate fantasies about how Trump will finally go down almost as much as I actually hate Trump, and that's a pretty high bar.
The Privacy Debate Over Research with Your Blood and Tissue
I believe that in the UK now cigarettes have to be hidden behind screens/not displayed as a matter of course.

But they've not yet moved to black/white boxes and I imagine you can still see the boxes if you ask.
You'll like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo3cVuvVRUE then.
My Windows 10 laptop does this. As soon as I connect to a captive portal wifi, it opens up my default browser with a sign in window.
I have it too. It would have been impossible to change, I was given a template contract and I do have side projects outside of my work. On the day I leave the job because my side project is making enough money, I would not be very nervous about it. How would they know?

I also have something like "should not work in similar area within The UK". Again, how would they know? This conflicts with data protection act, therefore invalid.
Any blame that would be generalized to the company as a whole is also specifically the CEO's fault. The buck has to stop somewhere. That is part of the deal for the big chair/title/paycheck/expense account (at any company, not just Gitlab or in SV).
I've always found it surprising how easy it is to find yourself in a no-work situation like this at a large corporation, without even trying!

Projects will end, people and managers will get shuffled around and suddenly you have no direct work responsibilities for months and months. Sometimes years if you were to let it go on like that.

It is something that sounds great, but if you have any drive at all it will drive you crazy after a month or two. I'd hop on Hacker News only to find all the links were already visited. I would try to learn some new technologies but it didn't have the same impact that learning them out of necessity had.

Eventually you have to sound the alarm to people that you don't have work to do, sometimes repeatedly, before they will 'fix' the problem by assigning you somewhere else.

I honestly think that this is the default state that workers settle into at many large companies. There are some small percentage of highly productive workers doing a ton of work, and a lot of very low productivity workers making up the rest of the ranks.

I've never worked at a startup, but one of the things that I think I would find appealing about them is that there are so few people that everyone's function would be important and that situations like the above would be difficult to go unnoticed.
Yes, this is predicated on actually being able to deliver.

If you're looking to edge your way into a BigCo role where you can look busy without actually doing much (hey, I'm not going to judge you if that's your cup of tea), you're more likely to succeed with equivocation, pontification, and bloviation (though not necessarily in that order).
Other developers have different styles of developing. I have a REPL open in a tmux tab all day every day, and pipe snippets to it from vim to test how stuff works. When I was working with Java there were times I wanted that: just a quick way to verify behavior. I'm currently working with Ruby, and for me the REPL help me work faster because I can play with the code in parrallel to writing the tests or implementation code.
Bad devs are devs who just haven't spent as much time thinking about software, they probably don't consider themselves bad developers, and they sure as hell aren't sabotaging projects.
>Official Java REPL is not big. I know I will never use it and I don't know anyone who will. Those who get excited by live scripting/REPL probably won't be using Java.

That's a chicken and egg problem. They wouldn't be using Java because it didn't have one. Now it does.
I've worked as a consultant for years. I occasionally employ a lawyer to review contracts with my clients.

As a general rule of thumb, I'll only work for a client under one of three circumstances:

1. The client's standard contract is reasonable. This is rare.

2. The client's standard contract is unreasonable, but they're willing to cross-out or rewrite the objectionable bits before signing. This is very common.

3. It's worth everybody's time and money to get our respective lawyers involved. Hint: This will cost at least $1000 for each side, assuming 3 hours of legal time at roughly $300/hour.

This sort of email thread is one of several reasons I wouldn't touch a site like Gigster with a 10-foot pole. If I can't renegotiate an unreasonable contract, I'm not a respected consultant, I'm probably an interchangeable body.[1] If you can't afford three hours of your lawyer's time, you can't afford me.

The other reason why I wouldn't touch a site like Gigster is that those sites almost always turn into a race to the bottom for low-value jobs for the most difficult clients. It's OK to do a couple of those jobs when you're starting out—but once you've done real projects, your time is better spent networking to find new contacts.

[1] I might make exceptions for very large and established organizations, for the right project and budget.
Yes, please set up an rss feed. Thanks!
Because 5 years in jail + felony conviction + $7500 fine is totally about other people's right to travel, and not about hammering down public dissent.
I believe it helped you. I also believe if given a chance to try you may have been able to earn a full masters from Stanford and been helped even more. Not everyone has the time/money/desire, but many people now are artificially limited in the name of preserving brand equity and profit.
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I've been working with ASCII for over 30 years and never realized this smh
Or you know, just confirming the backups actually ran!?
GoPro Karma Is Back
There is a concept in law that it is the responsibility of the party making the contract to be specific.

For instance, if I hire you to paint my barn red and specify the shade of red, it had better be that red or you failed to meet the terms of the contract.

On the other hand, if I simply specify "red" then any shade of red would fulfill the contract. The lack of detail was my fault.

Depending on how specific they were, you may have been able to do it. Or, you could have sent them a letter telling them your intentions and let them either loop in the lawyer, or, at their risk, ignore the issue.
My question is: Does this ever actually result in them amending the contract? If not, do you then refuse to sign (as I suppose OP did in the gigster case)? If so, what happens if you discover that everyone's contracts are similarly problematic?
Thanks for the recommendation! My keyboard is getting pretty old, and I've been looking at the Keyboard.io because of how it uses your thumbs, but you can't get one yet :(
> I know you have been sarcastic.

No, I'm quite serious. I've had a bellyful of being lectured by boy billionaires. Anything that helps me and hurts them, I'm all for.
In my company all projectors have an HDMI cable already so there is no need to carry one. I just think if you need really small go for an Air. With my current MBP I can walk around without adapters and have reasonable confidence that i can deal with most unexpected peripherals like USB devices or HDMI screens. In my view they should have put in a USB-C port but also left at least some legacy ports. My MBP 13 has an SD card reader , screen connector and USB ports and is still pretty small so I don't buy the size argument.
Yeah, but there are thousands of devs who say yes to gigster. That's enough to make money.
I found some fonts reuse exact same vector instructions for Cyrillic "А" and English "A" in the same file
For what it's worth, it's a horrid interview question. But I'll put that aside for a second.

Having candor and talking as though you were the interviewer can show empathy for their thought process while deliberately disconnecting you from the answer. This can kinda disarm the awkwardness of selling yourself so blatantly.

Example:

"If I were in your shoes - I would be looking for someone who would be the best fit for the team and can demonstrate X, Y, and Z skills [Note: great time to demonstrate understanding of what they're hiring for and pander towards your specific skill set. The real important thing here is knowing what X, Y, and Z should be]. Hopefully I have demonstrated that I fulfill those requirements through our interview, but certainly let me know if there are any areas that I can provide additional clarity. [In a sales interview, sometimes someone goes for a close here. Asks the interviewer if they have any objections about moving them forward to the next step. That's too aggressive in an engineering interview, but this might eek out an additional question or two. But in all likelihood, they'll just move right along]".
Why not draft up something to give to the company disclaiming all rights to your work? If lawyers are too expensive for the company, I'm sure they'll sign it right away! I'm guessing the HR person is just incompetent and the issue should be escalated.

What exactly does a company think is going to be the outcome of saying "Oh, BTW, we might sue you for this, we might not and we're not going to give you a straight answer one way or the other" to one of their employees?
Exactly, large companies are going to get more than 5% turnover per year simply from people retiring / dying. If they cut back on hiring they can fairly quickly shrink and retraining is cheap when your willing to let a 50 year old worker sit in a room at full pay.

The real issue is older workers are expensive and companies want a cheap workforce not lower headcount. Society on the other hand benefits when older workers are employed and can't supply unlimited quantities of well trained and cheap workers.
This is solid. Not purely the phrase, but more so what you say about explaining how you'd add value. Thanks
This article silently assumes that a "meaningful life" means:

- making good choices of the projects you work on

- making those projects succeed, or at least ensure pushing them forward

So it reduces this broad topic "meaningful life" to the aspects of personal time management, project management and motivation management. In short, the article appears to be very work-centric (but including paid work as well as volunteer work).

Within this work-centric view, the article is great. But given the article's title, I would have expected a broader treatment of the whole topic.
Our product sucks because we have no vision, our process sucks because upper management is entangled in turfs wars, it's probably because our developers are unhappy.
I started with Dvorak in 2008. I went full tilt and printed and cut out a keyboard template and glued it on my brand new macbook. The keyboard remained sticky for the remainder of its life. It took me 2 - 3 weeks to get accustomed to Dvorak, and from then on I’ve been able to touch type.

I’d imagine it would be hell to have to unlearn the qwerty muscle memory.

tl;dr: I learned to touchtype thanks to Dvorak
the source to all the benchmark is available https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks

If you want to make your chosen platform fast you can see what they're doing in the src to get those results. The ones not marked "stripped" and with "full" for ORM are very realistic examples. Not sure where you're going with this? Nobody's real workload looks exactly like benchmarks.
Should we grow human organs inside pigs?
This website lets you sell your photos and videos to companies
>I don't understand the love for voluntary infantilism.

Because people seek leisure and ease and going against that means the competitor who recognizes this is going to beat you. Also on a more pedantic front, did you write your own operating system or create your own cpu? What does "learning the system" mean here? Its arbitrary. Even a hard code dev today would seem like a child to the guys in the 60s who had to do literally everything by hand.

>I don't think anybody here would argue that using a keyboard is too difficult.

Ever watch someone learn a keyboard for the first time? Its painful. The common layouts are questionable and lots of keys are extraneous. I dont need a sysrq or break key, thanks. Look at mobile. When I use a mobile device I either use voice or a swipe keyboard. When I'm at home I use my Google Home and Amazon Fire via voice instead of a hunt and peck virtual keyboard. Keyboards are actually fairly terrible, but right now for a lot of tasks are the least of the worst.
To those who check the comments before reading, note this article says nothing about what Quantum Bayesianism is. It's an announcement of a presentation and apparently a book, and a sales job on how important the idea is, but has no trace of the idea. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that per se, but it's probably not what an HN reader is expecting.
I don't understand. Can you explain what you mean?
Regarding making mistakes:

Tom Watson Jr., CEO of IBM between 1956 and 1971, was a key figure in the information revolution. Watson repeatedly demonstrated his abilities as a leader, never more so than in our first short story.

A young executive had made some bad decisions that cost the company several million dollars. He was summoned to Watson’s office, fully expecting to be dismissed. As he entered the office, the young executive said, “I suppose after that set of mistakes you will want to fire me.” Watson was said to have replied,

“Not at all, young man, we have just spent a couple of million dollars educating you.”
I think its not just the tax, but the combination of plain packaging (strong imagery) and the laws regarding where people can smoke. It makes it harder for people to continue to smoke, providing motivation to quit.

However, I think its more about providing a strong deterrent for potential new smokers.
You are now literally reprising a joke from Season 1 of Silicon Valley.
Maybe. I've always enjoyed whatever corporate employment I have had, because I could build things using much (!) more expensive equipment than I could afford to set up on my own. Maybe I've been fortunate - or maybe I'm just wired differently.
Good advice, this works for any verbal communication; by repeating the issues the other person has first you show that you have in fact listened to them. People love it when they feel as if people are listening to them.
Mmmm... I think thiel knew exactly what he was getting with trump. Let's not make excuses for the guy
The "quick approval" iirc involves emailing a VCS diff for every pull request for manual inspection. Google is a great employer but this is something I don't miss.
How social media shapes protest
From the article: financial questions “are easy,” as Buffett says. “It’s the human problems that are the tough ones.”

Preach. The more I 'practice business' the more I come to appreciate that the only thing out of your control are people (and that's probably a good thing). Everything else you can structure some kind of deal to resolve, but people are emotional, untrusting, illogical and often good at hiding their true motives.
Amazon will build its own $1.5B air cargo hub
Yes. Usually, I manage to get out of it (simply by asking and explaining).
I've always seen it referred to as "fractional". Have you seen it described as something else?
Great write-up and overview, thanks!
I've read a study before (sorry don't have a link) and the timing tends to work quite well, you smoke and work until retirement, then die - give or take a few years.

> being able to leave children with their grandparents for care.

Don't recall that being addressed though, but it's almost certainly less than pension.
The people with all the guns are the ones who are big fans of this new administration.
Cholera was transmitted via contaminated water, remember John Snow's famous map showing the affected families during an 1854 outbreak in London were near one particular pump:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1854_Broad_Street_cholera_outb...
I use Time Machine for quick recovery stuff, and then Arq Backup to send to remote storage.
Wouldn't they be able to find that out from LinkedIn or social, for perhaps the majority of tech people? Not saying that you use social media, but it's possible they find out.
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