skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, I was always happy to have good developers. The better you are, the bigger pain in the but you can be, as far as I am concerned as long as the code you are delivering is excellent. I am perfectly happy to work around your quirks, within reason of course.

And, of course you will be a jerk when you are seeing things others just can't and they can't understand you. After a while you lose patience.

What good developer can bring to a team is more valuable then 3-4 polite junior devs that have enthusiasm (which I value also highly) but can't produce quality stuff.

So two essential qualities in my view are: being really good, have excellent foundations and being open to learning and coaching if you don't have those.
I also use self-hosted Ghost. Digital Ocean has a preconfigured droplet that you can use and everything will be setup for you without any extra work on your part.

Ghost's interface for writing is really nice. It get's out of the way so you can worry about writing content. Writing your own custom theme is pretty simple as well. I end up redesigning my own website every year or so.
Is grid/cloud computing development normally slow?
I spent 5 years working with soft real-time embedded systems, where incremental builds took about 5-15 minutes on average. I thought that was bad, but six months ago I left to join a travel IT company and found that it can take them a week or more to get even broken code into a test environment.

This delayed gratification is frustrating enough for me that I've begun looking for a new job, but I wonder: is this normal for grid/cloud computing development? Am I just not cut out for server-side computing?
Yeah, good point. I may have been adding a tone that wasn't actually there.

Apologies if I took it the wrong way!
I found your remarks about succession planning at around the 5:50 mark of the linked video:

[The software that makes the Internet work] is maintained almost entirely by volunteers, and those volunteers are aging. Most of them are older than my father, and we're not seeing a new cadre of people stepping up and taking over their projects, so what we're seeing is ones and twos of volunteers who are hanging on and either burning out while trying to do this in addition to a full-time job, or are doing it instead of a full-time job, or should be retired, or are retired, and it's just not getting the care it needs. And in addition to this, these people aren't always up to date on the latest techniques and security concerns of the day, and the next generation isn't coming up.

In context "should be retired" sounds awfully prescriptive, but I can see how that could mean something like "these volunteers want to retire but feel obligated to continue their maintenance duties".

Then at the 7:00 mark, you say:

It's a really tough thing because there's a certain amount of what I call functional arrogance involved... There's a certain point where you just have to say, "I'm going to decide that I'm in charge of this"...

I dunno. I can see where that's going to rub people the wrong way while at the same time seeing the value in having some moxie. I get the impression, though, that Stenn wasn't too happy with this approach.
okay, I can concede to that perspective.
I think either you're misunderstanding what static site generators do, or I'm misunderstanding your comment.
The lesson here seems to not publicly share your trade secrets if the barrier to entry in the market are too low. Even if the idea is out there, holding off on behind-the-scenes execution details is a good idea.

While most people have enough ego and morals to do their own thing, there are many out there looking for easy ideas and methods to imitate. They like to call it inspiration which is a self-serving label to an otherwise immoral action.
About the alternative, you can learn about algorithms but be prepared to not learn them in a pythonic way.
It was always my impression that Delphi is significantly more productive for LOB CRUD than VB. In Delphi you can create meaningful CRUD applications in which all the manually written code consist of single-line methods of the FooForm.ShowModal variety.
My observations seem to differ.
Every now and then I slip into increasing my dose. But, for 90% of the time I drink one shot of espresso in the morning. It keeps me alert for most of the day. When I feel a bit bored or lazy after lunch, I'd have another one. If I keep doing that for a week, I realise the days when I don't I get particularly sleepy and low energy. 3 days after sticking to morning coffee only reverts me back to previous energy levels. I'd say if you are disciplined with your dose, it helps just the same as it did when you started drinking it.
No, it's not normal.
Well, the hard part is to switch niches after you're experienced (and bored) in one niche... i.e. you work in web dev now, but will you be able to get a job in Aerospace or custom CAD software building?
You referring to when he had the French Vichy fleet sunk? Was that aimed at the US?

Churchill's fun. Probably saved the West by rallying the Brits, foresaw the Cold War. On the other hand incredibly bumbling at Gallipoli and completely wrong about Gandhi.

Back on the topic of aliens, Reagan has one of the more interesting references:

I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world. And yet, I ask you, is not an alien force already among us? What could be more alien to the universal aspirations of our peoples than war and the threat of war?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag44dRO8LEA

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/reagan-and-gorbache...
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Here's a link to the paper:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v542/n7641/full/nature2...
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v542/n7641/pdf/nature21...

And the IBIS Network who drove the study:

http://www.ibis-network.org/
> The value for my money was there just for 2 day shipping and would keep it for that reason alone, everything else is a perk.

If that were true for a large number of customers, the perk wouldn't exist.

Amazon is the "Everything Store" and Prime is the "Everything program". It's clearly bundling Every part of it reinforces loyalty to Amazon in unrelated sectors, from books to electronics to music to movies to more.
The next thing you're going to tell me is that Arhnold isn't a human-killing robot from the future!
>An obvious counter-argument to this: NSA. If someone had said 10 years ago that an organization like NSA exists, and that it is conducting electronic surveillance at the level that it currently is, they would have been laughed at as a conspiracy theorist. One can only imagine what Ezra Klein would have said to such a person.

And even 10 years ago I (and many) would call those people (laughing) naive, and Ezra Klein if not naive, then in bed with those in power.

For someone from a place that experienced actual history (wars, civil wars, dictatorships, all kinds of governments and ups and downs, etc.), and has a working knowledge of US history (from Hoover and McCarthy to Project Nightingale and Watergate and so) it's obvious that this agencies not only do that today, but have been doing it, to the extend possible, for ages.

And that people that look too much into those things are also put "out of the way", or are intimidated, blackmailed, etc. And some are just discredited in an organized paid-for way (with 'useful idiots' in the media joining in to also help discredit them for free, e.g. Gary Webb).

It's not that different that in all kinds of places. No country has powerful agencies and government, or trillion dollar interests without also having those things.
I think it is important to match coworkers by their caliber. You're right, if you have one really amazing developer and a bunch of mediocre developers that one really good developer could become bitter.
This has been my experience as well, if the manager does not stay on top of it the person is toxic. With sufficient incentives, they can be managed to lift up the team.
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If you have a VHS and a DVD player, you don't need to pay $80 to play those movies.
Because they'd advertise that /s
This works great for me to connect my Meraki MX-series firewall into my AWS VPC.
Microsoft actively maintains backward compatibility for Windows programs that are decades old. Apple reliably breaks waves of apps on a yearly schedule.

You can't take one company's culture and apply it to a radically different one.
Unfortunately, from what I've seen support for those "fringe extreme leftists" has become an expected norm on a surprisingly wide chunk of social media, and probably a more-or-less mandatory part of leftwing activism. Opposing it marks you out as a neo-Nazi sympathizer or worse in those circles. There was even something of a backlash against the ACLU for taking the other side, though more muted and conciliatory than the treatment less prominent individuals received.

In unrelated news, I'm currently looking for better social circles.
"Disaster" ? not yet (and I hope not ever)
Nope, your ACID database will ensure that two writes in the same time for the same record will not happen. You don't even need to ask database if coupon is used. You just try to use coupon, if already used return message to user.

Node give you freedom from Thread Hell. You enjoy similar performance without locks, threads, synchronisation. Race conditions happen but mostly with cache invalidation where you can have limited consistency guarantees.
Churchill is a figure that always puzzled me. The image I have of him was that of a non-intelectual politician who had very deep understanding of human nature and lack of charisma. Some of his quotes are incredibly catchy (e.g. "I will be sober tomorrow, but you'll still be ugly", " best argument against democracy is a 5-min conversation with your average citizen", etc.) ... He managed to win a war, sit at the same table with Stalin and Roosevelt at the end of WW2 and after all that he managed to lose 2 IIRC elections!!! How is this possible? I don't known.

He is by far and large the most famous British figure of his era, but he came in power mostly because of the situation not because voters.

I wonder how others see him...
Imagine a cannonball, on its flight through the air. Attached to it is a feather. We can't predict the fluctuations of the feather, as it is whipsawed by the airstream of the cannonball, but this has almost no effect on the trajectory of the composite.
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> conspiracy theorist

the irony being that by definition a theory about a clandestine plan by a group is a conspiracy .... theory ....

:|
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> What was the problem they were trying to solve with Swift? That square brackets were off-putting?

If you think this is the difference between programming in Objective-C and Swift, you either haven't used swift much or are very misguided.
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It's always possible the brilliant jerk is just being taken advantage of so his boss can take it easy. Exploiting ego isn't hard and you don't need to be better than him at his own game to do it. If his manager is insulated from the rest of you, it's probably not worth enduring the brilliant jerk though.
The Guardian actually has a pretty great U.S. edition -- I'm a proud supporter.
Tangential and more applicable to a different style of leak, but I'd be interested in seeing the development of some protocol ideas for authenticating leaks to gain confidence the leaker is actually within a given organization. Otherwise we're left not knowing if a casual leaker is for real or just entertainment twitting.

One rough idea is that large organizations make specific press releases or announcements, that a precommitment could demonstrate privileged access to.

Another idea would be inclusion of some internal communication, which other members of the organization could confirm. This would require those other members to be sympathetic to the leaking, and also not worried about reprisals for speaking publicly like so. This probably isn't useful on its own, but the basic mechanism could be combined with other means to derive utility without public attestation.

The biggest issue is (of course) an adversarial organization subtly changing to-be-published information, to sniff out the actual leaker. Which is why I'm envisioning the need for some formality that could quantify and mitigate such leakage.
> A “No Jerks” Policy Must Be Built Into Your Culture. It is entirely possible to be extremely passionate (and even brilliant) without being a jerk. A “no jerks” policy must be preached and practiced from the highest levels.

Following simplistic rules like this is usually what leaves us knee deep in the proverbial.

Maybe I've been lucky, but I've never worked with anyone who's as much of a jerk as described in the article. In my experience, talented developers are usually intelligent enough that they can make up for their shortcoming in the social area by consciously adapting their behaviour. They're not "normal" but they function well enough to work with others.

I've worked with plenty of jerk-ish, abrasive, opiniated, "take no prisoners" people who can be very fiery in meetings and can be highly critical of other people's work. Yes, they can be a giant pain in the arse - they're just so damn challenging. But in my experience they're normally challenging because they want the company to do better.

But I've seen many times (mainly in large companies) teams that were populated and led by people who were very consensus-based, had superb social skills, and had a genuine drive to succeed - but didn't because there was not enough fire in the team to make the right choices.

To me, the business of software development is way too complex to apply a simple "no jerks" policy. Brilliant jerks are often to be found at the beating heart of successful software.
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It costs Comcast ~$0 whether you watch TV or not. They have no interest in how much or what you watch, only that you want the service. (It was exactly $0 before digital, when you got all the TV in your wire whether you examined the signal or not)
No they don't; mediocre 'nice guys' do though. Every 'brilliant jerk' I've worked with and led has been a net positive over the long haul. Every mediocre nice guy has been dead weight that costs everyone around them time.

I'll take the brilliant jerk any day. They can simply deliver in ways that others cannot.
Seems like the case here, if someone is leaving hundreds of opinion-based criticisms of someone else's work that's a pretty clear indication of dissatisfaction.
To be left-leaning in the 60s and 70s was to be alternative to the mainstream. Today, to be left leaning is to be mainstream. Saul Alinksy's work has undoubtedly been a central tool in this transition. Here are some of Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals" which succinctly represent the behaviour of people today:

2. “Never go outside the expertise of your people.” It results in confusion, fear and retreat. Feeling secure adds to the backbone of anyone.
3. “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions.
13. “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_for_Radicals
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If 2 was the plan, I really wish Apple had been more forthcoming about it. The message from Lattner would have been misleading at best. If Swift is the future, why not be absolutely clear with developers about that, and let us plan accordingly*

Because it's nowhere near a short or even mid term thing? It will take a decade or more to be able to move to Swift 100%, and even then, it will came with ample warnings years ahead to port your Obj-C code over.
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On the subject of VPNs, if people find *swan or Openvpn difficult to get working, I highly recommend OpenConnect (ocserv); _so_ easy to setup.

It's an open source implementation of the Cisco AnyConnect SSL vpn, works great and it's compatible with the AnyConnect clients.
Is it less risk to hire the open source guy? What if he spent a bunch of time at his last employer working on un-sanctioned projects? Will he do that to you as well?

Just playing devil's advocate.
Reading http://www.nsc.org/NewsDocuments/2017/12-month-estimates.pdf, half the increase is due to an increase in vehicle miles travelled, which went up because the USA is coming out of a recession.
The bit about improved productivity seems dubious.

One of the problems in this industry is that a lot of teams have no real measure of their actual productivity. We have scrums and points and velocities, but seldom have any way to know how this actually compares to other teams, or any other benchmarks.

I've been dropped in on teams that had spent long periods (in cases years) creating trivial solutions. They were productive in their own way, generating huge volumes of code, had a great sense of satisfaction about their process and a sense of accomplishment, but what they were creating was a week of work for a single person if correctly built. And they happily enjoy their synergy until they are outsourced or eclipsed by competitors.

Maybe I'm sensitive. I've been "the jerk" before. I once had a coworker complain to HR and my boss because she felt that I was domineering. I was domineering in this case because I had opinions and expressed them to the team, and their opinion and suggestion of a new process was that we should have "opinion roundtables" where each participant gets the same amount of time to talk with a timer, etc, and need to suppress any suggestions or opinions outside of that period. I left that team and organization, and eight months later the team was fired.
I have my editor set to expand tabs to spaces. It plays havoc with Whitespace programs.

Leaves all the comments intact, though.
There is simple counterargument: there is integrated runtime for webapps in windows since at least windows 98 (probably since 95 desktop update bundled with IE4). Just rename HTML file to .hta. Running that gets you IE window without any browser UI and scripts in the page run outside any sandbox and can interact with windows API anyway they want. Various windows components are exactly this.
What do you mean? Makefiles are not written in rust...
If you're conscientious enough to ask the question you don't have to worry about being a jerk :).
That's painfully true. There have been, though, broad long-term plans that succeeded. Here are two classics:

* "Attack on American Free Enterprise System" (1971), by Lewis J. Powell.[1] This is the founding document of the modern conservative agenda. Powell later became a Supreme Court justice. He proposed heavily funded groups to push a conservative pro-big-business agenda, with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce taking the lead. This was quite successful, especially noting how politically weak big business was at the time.

* "The Overhauling of Straight America" (1987), by Marshall Kirk and Erastes Pill (pseud. of Hunter Madsen). This is the founding document of the modern gay agenda.
This, too, was quite successful. It outlines a detailed program, and most of the goals listed were achieved.

[1] http://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=...
[2] http://library.gayhomeland.org/0018/EN/EN_Overhauling_Straig...
>Apple reliably breaks waves of apps on a yearly schedule.

Not by suddenly stopping support for their previously sole language, so it's a moot point.

At worse, they deprecate some APIs.
If the guy was so good, why didn't they promote him?
IMHO BI has gained such interest, not because it would help the poor, but primarily because everybody that would describe themselves as "middle class" is frustrated at seeing the largest part of their paycheck simply go towards rent.

Perhaps my characterization is the root of why you're seeing me arguing a strawman? But if my assessment isn't correct, then why do mainstream articles present it as such a society-changing idea? Or is this judgment incorrect as well?

The reason I keep beating this dead horse is because your nick is one I see associated with more insightful comments. That we're in such obtuse disagreement here seems odd.

Yes, my critique here "comes from the right" [0]. But please just try to give me a benefit of the doubt that my aim is actually to reduce the wealth extraction by "the capitalist class", and analyze my point on its own merit. My goal is certainly not to perpetuate the status quo.

[0] The way I see it, "left" and "right" are really just two different approaches to characterizing a problem and they generally both give some insight.
torchcraft is the best way to learn about machine learning.

If you can sim a set of boxes, you can learn whats inside them.
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That's where mentorship comes into play - mentoring the rest of the team has greater effects than trying to plow through code over the long haul. The reason is that it creates a silo that the one high producer gets saddled with, and it creates a bottleneck that ultimately probably will even result in the high producer becoming unhappy due to being distracted with all of the maintenance burden from his/her code.

I used to be more of the former type who would try to power through everything & still display flashes of it whenever I do have to code, but after being a lead engineer for almost a year, I understand more deeply the value of knowledge transfer and making everyone more productive. Having a team that is genuinely happy to work together has an effect of creating more for the company than the sum of their parts because the team is more honest with each other from being comfortable/not having to fear reprisal, which results in better (& planned) team architecture, mistakes being caught as early as possible, and overall decreased stress.
Thank god, maybe this'll slow down the whole "vaccines cause autism" BS.

A huge part of that was that symptoms started to show after a big vaccine dose you get around 2 years old.
This is good, the argument order and axis handling was inconsistent.
> ability to tolerate potentially biting criticism that comes with it

I wonder if this is the issue really. Some people can't take criticism unless wrapped in sugar. If it's really, and especially if it comes with potential alternatives it should be socially fine, but it's not.
When new faster CPUs appear, they add more nops.
Probably more a human nature / social hierarchical / evolutionary thing than we'd care to admit. It's a weakness on an individual level, it may seem.
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I'm not demanding anything, I'm just listing some options and emailed the OP to offer my help.
> I'll take the brilliant jerk [over the mediocre nice guy] any day.

Holy false dichotomy, Batman. I'd rather take neither of them and fill my team with adequate-to-exceptional devs who also happen to be decent human beings.
I think many people knew what was happening (Cypherpunks and EFF even before 2000) and the scale was pretty publicly clear when the massive tapping of ATT was revealed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

The ultimate threat to the privacy and security of US Citizens living in Country is that our Surveillance State can't keep its own secrets. I don't think it is unreasonable to believe that the China and Russia don't need to spy on the US government, it's citizens, or businesses, because we pay for the NSA to do it for them.

Don't develop any tool that you don't want used against you!
Also relevant: http://www.inc.com/jim-schleckser/why-netflix-doesn-t-tolera...