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So you're looking for an organisation who will use non-free employees to give you a product for free?
The only reasons to not prefer working for a machine are

a) you don't trust its value function to be just, or
b) you believe it will be just, but you would rather cheat people by taking advantage of human faults like irrational emotions and imperfect memory

We can argue about a) but I can't respect position b).
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Not everyone lives where you do, so advertising the price for "this is how much it costs to send to StavrosK assuming they buy nothing else" would probably be less useful than giving the item price.
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> but at the cost of huge technical debt

Which is also unquantifiable and is a very similar myth.
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Indeed, those are the "people", no offense.

So for example of a situation...

Immigrant I comes in my country. He's intercepted by the police, I is sick, so the police send him to hospital. As the guy as no social security number, the hospital gives him a temporary one. The hospital pays the bill (yes, my country is socially very advanced). Then guy is better but, because the hospital paid the bill, he now has a special "register number" (more or less a social security number). The guy now reaches a "social help center". They find him a place to sleep. At the same time the guy request a request for asylum. For that he needs a lawyer because, well, he doesn't speak our language and our administration is sometimes complex. Now the guy is interviewed, because the state wants to make sure he is in the condition for asylum. Problem, he'll have to wait 6 months before the first real interview. So the guy starts to run out of money (eating, paying lawyer,...) so he seeks friends. Ah, those friends are somewhere else in my country. So he moves. Ah, friends are in deep shit for some reason, so he moves again. Now he has to be tied to another center for social help, more papers, more complex administration. He now has his first interview. Not a good one, the guy didn't manage to offer all the proofs. So the lawyer will help him to gather some more proofs. Second interview, better this time, he's on track to be recognized as a political refugee; but that'll take a year or two. More lawyers, more money, more small job, more moves from place to place. And all of this is OK if the guy keeps sane (yes, they are people who try to abuse the weaks).

If this sound like a pile of facts, it is. But all those facts are gathered, analyzed, to determine what kind of help the person can receive from the state. And that makes my little database and rule model extremely complicated (or sophisticated, depending on your point of view).
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Not many people would take issue with the statement that Shakespeare was 10x better / more effective than the average playwright. If you consider that both are creative processes there seems no reason to reject the idea that a programmer could be 10x more effective than his peers.

The comparison between writing a play or a program starts to break down if the problem space is narrow, as the article also mentions, so a lot of what people end up arguing about is what programming actually is.
Absolutely. This is why it's so important to have input from engineering during the product design stage of any new product or feature: good engineers can help spot when a minor change to the requirements could have a major positive effect on the overall system complexity and time to delivery.
I used to be a tech lead/PM on teams where we came in as an outsider and delivered code where the organization itself couldn't.

Part of that was having great programmers with great habits, sure. But a big part of that was something like "Not letting your broken organization and practices break our delivery speed"

Bad org structures and practices pull developers and teams into poorer and poorer practices, like an accretion stream getting sucked into a black hole. The org itself can take a .1 dev and turn them into a .01 dev.
I'm a developer, who works alongside other developers, on a floor full of developers. Not only does this apply to my work, but also at hack[spaces|athons] and jams I've been to (With ages ranging from ~8 - >30). I've literally never encountered anyone using su for a command that doesn't need it. Even when they need root, they just use sudo for that command.
just not making anything isn't the most insidious - the most insidious find ways to slow down whatever you're making as well as not doing anything themselves.
Depends who finds the poison first : animal life or ocean :-)
Fixed width font on a blog? Is it still 1983 out there somewhere?

Maybe you'd be 10x more productive if it didn't hurt everyone's eyes to read your writing.
Just because every time you personally saw fire behind smoke doesn't mean that in the future this will hold.
Have a look at orangescrum. Its quite simple and easy to use for managing small teams
Yeah, this is totally not racist in any way. Good to know all the brown people live in "shitholes". Hard to know if this trolling or just casual racism.
Exactly... working as a consultant in the past I saw there was this communication/personality problem. It gets both the experience to recognize there is a problem with one of the spec and the authority to say it and get a different proposal accepted. If the environment is hostile about proposals coming from programmers, a lot of bad things happen.
While I agree with almost everything you wrote - I found that original post awesome and there are many great lessons in it - I don't see what this has to do with my comment.

Also, I don't get what I seemingly did not realize (mostly helping clients with legacy code on legacy platforms in legacy organizations to improve their quality and teamwork), or why this is disrespectful...
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Muh wage gap. Muh partiarchy.

It's cringy reading.
To be honest I think your post is more distracting than the one you're replying to (and likely mine more than yours). Complaining about lack of stock is a fair comment and I don't mind reading it. It also creates conversation about where to find it for cheap, why it's limited, etc. (as seen by the replies).
Why not postbox ?
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Unfortunately lowly devs are not allowed access to that particular server, but I'd bet it's the Workstation service. Thanks.
Yes. If you add two -2x programmers to the project, you decrease its productivity by 4 programmers. You don't multiply it by 4.

I started my professional career in a project where the previous developer had been given incentives per lines of code produced. Her approach was to do

display_buffer[0] = 'H';
display_buffer[1] = 'e';
display_buffer[2] = 'l';
display_buffer[3] = 'l';
display_buffer[4] = 'o';

instead of having a print function and saying

print('Hello');

This was on a 8-bit microcontroller with 64k program memory. And, surprise surprise, I, a humble CS student, was given a task to "implement software to control our new HW with memory paging mechanism, so that the software, which is larger than 64k, can be put on a 128k EEPROM, and then add a network management interface".

Well, having taken a look at the code we didn't have to do any paging; soon after deploying a print function we could put everything on one 64k page and the other 64k of program memory was just sitting empty.
so much opportunity for celebration and at the same so much opportunity to destroy the company. hope they do a few dry runs that we get to watch because while this could be a publicity event of incredible benefit it can just as easily backfire
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Exactly. All the arguments that have the word "productivity" are probably off. It's not about "productivity" as in "which programmer produces more code" or even "more programs" or whatever. It's about the person being able to recognize what matters, on one side, versus those that can even make such decisions to finally cause the doom of the project. I have such experiences, and some huge failures can really be caused by the disconnection on the lower levels (programmers) and the managers who can't recognize what's going on (accepting the wrong arguments of these doom-causing programmers). Some of stories like that are also in the book "In Search Of Stupidity"

http://www.insearchofstupidity.com/

The author calls them "marketing disasters" but I recognized several purely technical disastrous decisions there, like "let's rewrite the product from scratch, but ignore the way the users use the product (to print) and ignore the printer drivers existing in the earlier version." Then wonder why nobody wants to use the new version, and the competition takes over. These things are eternal in tech.

On another side, if we claim that as soon somebody is making any design decisions is not "just a programmer" then sure, all the programmers are "good enough."

The way I understand it, antirez probably considers himself a programmer and for what he produced he really made most of the design decisions himself?

But if you factor in the design decisions: they can make the product great or kill it. What's the difference then between the best and the worst? Much more than 10 times, if we compare the survival vs. the death, it's even infinite.
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That's a valid point! A quality of my poor english is that I write it at the same speed I write Italian. This blog post took me 10-20 minutes at max to write, even if the concepts I elaborated for much longer time when thinking/talking about these issues with people.
The entire use case of BlueCoat and the like is to satisfy executives' desire to spy on all usage of their network. It's certainly not to benefit the users who are stuck behind it, to increase their security, or to give them a better Internet experience.
Yeah, lets be real here. The idea that all (or even most) current and past Uber employees are findable on LinkedIn is laughable at best.

if you went looking for my work history you wouldn't find it, it's not documented anywhere public. You would have to have access to some completely internal/non public databases.

Even if she did have a LinkedIn, she'd probably just leave Uber off of it.
You're far from hopeless.
"""There is some model for "justified" that you have, and the data either lets you justify welfare or does not (and tells you the degree to which it is so, if your thinking process is worth anything)."""

Your mistake is assuming the data is objective in the first place, and doesn't, a) contain the societal bias at the time it was written, b) contain the bias of the authors that made the study, and c) contain any inherent bias in the metrics used.
How high have you gotten on dogs VS cats? Just curious, am submitting there as well.:)
The problem with Delphi and its relatives is that they are walled gardens. As long as you are working on the kind of application envisaged by the designers (roughly, CRUD with a SQL backend) everything is easy. As soon as you step outside that domain your foot disappears into a sucking quagmire.
On Pimoroni, shipping to Switzerland is also around £4. In contrast, the official distributor for Germany/Switzerland (pi3g) wants 19€ (!!!) for shipping an envelope with a single Pi Zero in it. And it prohibits reselling. In my opinion the Raspberry Pi foundation should do something against this kind of pricing to keep the boards accessible.
And how did you define and measure the "best developers"?
TLS1.3 may be a working draft, correctly implementing TLS version negotiation on the other hand is not as it already is a requirement of previous versions.
had a similar response. lots and lots in this piece that actually works out as fairly profound advice.
> "Carrying no devices ... interrogated for hours."

Right. So citizens who are aware that the CBP can now peer into their personal affairs decide to leave their devices at home as a matter of privacy and principal. Therefore, this makes these citizens suspicious enough to be interrogated for hours, because:

> People who don’t own laptops, tablets and/or smartphones yet travel internationally don’t exist anymore.

Give me a break.
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Absolutely. I am surprised and frankly confused.
Perhaps it's worth stressing organisational factors in productivity.

Often when you find someone who's really good at what they do, they're the type of person who loves their work, and they've managed to find employment in an environment that suits them. The two are of course mutually helpful.

Also keep in mind it can be very hard to find more than one space for such a person. It's like how certain soccer teams are built around a particular star player; everyone else plays to suit that guy, and it would be hard to fit a clone if you had one. Others may well be suited to a star role, but happen not to have landed the role. Watch the Tour de France to see what happens when the lieutenant steps up to the captaincy. I can often be dramatic.
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Evenly distribute work across day (with blocked hours)
ok, now I'm asking... why?
what this technique offer that a simple animated svg (or event a crusty .gif) don't? If the problem is the load time of the external asset you can still embed the image in the .css file directly...
Why is it not an issues, the dosage is too low? Afaik lead enters through the skin, too - washing hands after soldering sufficient?
Maybe? I guess thats a fair response. I just had a pretty allergic reaction to <rant> and what came off as really, just whining, especially since as I pointed out, the comment directly above it (for me, at the time of posting) was an almost word for word rebuttal of the attitude of op. Maybe I just need a break from this site, getting to the point where logging in to see people complaining, constantly is weighing me down. Thanks for the comment.
>This reads like a summary of what most are already doing. I can't shake the feeling some of these wisdoms could trendy things that are just part of the herd mentality that plagues UI design.

This basically describes all of Babich's writing. He even names some of his articles "Popular Trends in..." or "Popular Techniques for...", but basically all of them are more or less a recap of what's trendy in one facet of UI/UX design.
Blank as in "wiped" or blank as in "wiped, reinstalled OS and apps, configured for the user but with no corporate data on the device"?
> b) you believe it will be just, but you would rather cheat people by taking advantage of human faults like irrational emotions and imperfect memory

This is interesting. If all men are created equal and had are grown in same environment then treating by a machine equally is just. But all men are not created equal and hence treating equally by a machine which decides their pay will be considered unjust by the lesser capable men. I am not saying it is just or unjust, just a possible thought process by an intellectually less capable men.
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the probabilities and number of clusters imply we'd expect
a bullet cluster

Not according to the references in that article, which put the probability of seeing such a cluster at 10E-4 to 10E-6. And Sabine isn't one to conveniently forget to multiply that probability with the number of clusters: that's already factored in.
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Not all bad actions are illegal. It's generally legal to ask people to have sex with you, even if they're working for you. But it would be a poor company which tolerated that from its managers.
which technologies stack did you use to build this?
> I've also seen negative impact developers. If they did not code, we'd be closer to the finish line than if they did not.

Code? I know people that have caused big projects to fail by just showing up at the meetings. The amount of damage a -10x idiot can do to a project is just mind boggling.

Here is my unsolicited advice to young players: if you end up in a project with a -1x (or worse) guy who is also the darling of the PM or CEO: no matter how hard you work you cannot save this project, don't wait for the shit to hit the fan, give them your two week notice today!
While I don't know what this article says (it doesn't load for me), I agree with the title.

The github repository isn't updated any more since Oct 11, 2016. [1]

Serious question: Is it possible to just stop publishing the source of a GPL2 licensed software?

[1] https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram/commits/master
It's unprecedented to experience that change with a population of 7 billion. 125,000 years ago we didn't have millions of people totally reliant upon just in time food shipped in from distant locations or have massive settlements in areas significantly affected by climate change.
Way too many vermin }, would be detrimental to the fort.
> But it does pretty well, all told

The main problem IMHO is that it stands largely on inertia from a bygone era, the pre-2007 period where most of the existing basic content was put in place by a swarm of highly motivated volunteers with a few loose rules.

This is completely different from the current situation, where the bureaucracy has been ossified into a neverending rulebook designed to protect the precious content from vandals and good-willed naive newcomers, in the hands of a shrinking and overworked zealous user base.

The original drive that got the whole thing up is gone. The only regulars are equally split among inclusionists and deletionists, but by its very nature deletionism will prevail in the long term - it only takes succeeding once to get rid of an article forever, while people defending interesting content from removal need to keep an active watch and regularly spend effort in fighting for its survival.
Yep. Wish I could find a link, but there's one episode of Border Security: Australia's Front Line, where a tourist / backpacker is asked to demonstrate proof of sufficient funds to enter the country. He's escorted by Border Security to an ATM, where they ask him to access his account and display the account balance on screen for them to verify. He didn't have to comply, but if he didn't do so they intended to deport him back to his home country, at which point he would have been subject to a 3 year exclusion period from visiting Australia again.
> a little bit off to me

I can't even work out if you think it's too high or too low.

You say that the woman was knocked unconscious with lots of exclamation marks as if you think that's really serious, but then you say he could have injured her badly, as if you think being knocked unconscious isn't a bad injury.
This is kind of a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13752376 but with another source (opensource.com rather than Raspberry Pi themselves).
It seems that they have. I just started using Thunderbird again after a number of years and the setup to connect to my gmail account has been simplified to confirming the settings on one page with three auto-filled fields.
Not sure what you meant, but I think an appropriate answer would be: for fun and profit.

It is a bit like saying, why go climbing the mount Everest if lots of people have already done so. Indeed, why trying to do stuff nobody else have done before, exclusively? If billions of people have already existed before yourselves, all the good stuff worth doing will have been done over and over again, and the only original stuff left will be JackAss(TM) material.
Is that true? Isn't harassment at least a misdemeanor?
He is not a scapegoat. Judgement has been delayed. Harassed at google, punished at uber.
Adrafinil works great if used sparingly, other than that you can try cutting down on the caffeine and using L-theanine to supplement.

http://nootropicsdepot.com/ has a pretty good selection of capsules and they are fairly good in terms of pricing.

Just remember there is no free lunch, and you can usually over do it. One recommendation would be to cut all the sugar or energy drinks, the sugar crash that comes will just make it higher.

As well something you might want to try is cutting back coffee altogether during weekends to give your body time to recover.
It's in BlueCoat's political interests to make sure TLS 1.3 rolls out as slowly as possible since it actively works against their entire business model, so they have zero incentive to be proactive about this until the TLS 1.3 extensions are approved that make MITM possible again.
Magnifying-glass icon is for `search`, because in the western culture we use one to search clues. Thank you Sherlock Holmes.
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Yes, you need the gradient. And despite what the autodiff people say, that might be hard and/or not very useful in practice, if your likelihood is based on running a lengthy astrophysical simulation.

You can run HMC on any differentiable surrogate surface surface. It's only the accept/reject step that has to use your real model and data. You might consider that if you have a less hairy approximation to your model.

Emcee is popular in astronomy, partly because of network effects, partly because it's a really nice package, and partly because the method's a great fit for some of the posteriors you have: often unimodal-ish even if the likelihood is nasty to compute, and often in not that many dimensions. It would fall flat on its face for something like a Bayesian neural network.
Twenty years ago, I wrote an application for the taxation office to help businesses calculate payroll tax. It was written in Delphi for maximum portability, because it had to run on Windows 3.1x, 95 and NT and was distributed to 16,000 businesses on 3.5" diskettes. Talk about old school.
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I didn't ask whether consciousness is abstract crap, nor did I ask about vision subsystems (which aren't even unique to brains), nor did I ask you to explain the whole process of development from fertilized egg to me. Well, unless that has something to do with the experiment that would show that consciousness exists, which it may or may not, at least you drew no apparent connections in your post.

I asked you to describe the experiment which proves that consciousness exists.

Merely saying that consciousness is a product of the brain is like proving dark matter by saying it's a product of the universe. I hope you can understand why that is not a convincing argument.
The fix should not have been reversion. The fix should have been a simple workaround that if the connection fails totally and no downgrade handshake attempt was made, make a new connection using 1.2 to start with, which would succeed and the connection opened. This would be equivalent to a downgrade handshake from 1.3 to 1.2 but without requiring all products support 1.3.
When I mentioned on a mailing list that we should probably pronounce this like "expect your personal bank info to be pwned" rather than "please don't use work resources for personal purposes", I was reminded that there are lots of perfectly reasonable work-related purposes that are undermined by TLS MitM. Corporate bank accounts, ACH transactions, payroll, vendor accounts, tax portals, employee benefits/401k, etc. All of that stuff should actually be secure.

Incidentally, "Blue Coat ProxySG 6642" was the only middlebox to get an "A" from the study referenced above. Apparently they didn't test for 1.3...