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Archaeologists find early democratic societies in the Americas
Uber isn't going to exist
Sure containerd was 1.10 right? How does that relate to the OPs link above?
If you think of culture shock as visiting a new culture and being "shocked" by something different, reverse culture shock is returning to your original culture and being shocked by it. It has nothing to do with the US.
What does "rank and yank" mean? It's not mentioned on the page you linked to.
I don't believe this will come anywhere near the biggest challenge they face.
I remember clearly the day when I decided the work of pushing my items through the shitty self-checkout scanner (the clerk's scanner is way better) and bagging my own stuff was a waste of time vs saying four or five pre-rehearsed words and letting the nice clerk do it for me.

"Hello!"
<clerk something something pleasant>
"It's nice outside"

Now I understand the clerk would also rather just jam my shit through the scanner and point at the payment total and grunt.

I think of it as the chatter when two modems connect. Some noise and then a little signal then we are done.
Born in the US and I find tip culture here weird. In fact I hate it. It has taken away the pleasure of giving a great tip to someone who really earned it.
Right on. I use Lyft and frequently leave tips when I feel the driver and my ride experience has been great. I also think the tipping experience is much more friendly to both the driver and the passenger (compared to say, a usual taxi ride) and I've rarely, if ever, had an unpleasant experience with Lyft.

I used to rarely use Uber (more outside bay area) though I did have Uber installed on my phone. But I uninstalled Uber a few weeks ago as I was feeling more and more uncomfortable with Uber's corporate behavior and their CEO's personal and political reputation. This was even before the latest spate of allegations of sexual harassment and other bad publicity. I don't think I'll ever install Uber app again... the tipping policy being just one of the many reasons for that decision.
Unfortunately it's the nature of the beast when wages are so low. Bartenders are typically paid next to nothing and depend on tips, whereas in Europe they are paid a decent amount and don't need tips to get by.

Unfortunately US politics means this won't change any time soon. Evidently it's simpler for every American to carry around spare dollar bills every day than it is to pass meaningful legislation.
I deleted my Uber account over all the bad press and a few bad rides last couple months. There's definitely a trend for the drivers to be either really really bad at driving, or super aggressive with tips.

Do drivers really expect people using a cashless system to... carry cash? I actually had one driver accepts tips using stripe.
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Or a VM, or (in the extreme) even a memory allocator (which is how it gets by on microcontrollers).
Yep, I was curious and visited 4chan about 6 years ago and I've just revisited it now, it's much more tame compared to what I remember. I mean it's still rather misogynistic and not a great place to be but it's definitely not as bad as it was...
Well, programmers do the same thing.

Blah blah make better software blah blah world makes better idiots.
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Not everyone knows what's been going on with Uber lately, though. If you don't read the tech press you might have never seen it, so it's not fair to say the OP is endorsing it.
Sure, they probably would, but would they be right? Are they getting the best for their not-dollar? 9/10 New restaurants fail after all... typically investing in a restaurant is a losing bet.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2015/10/service-comp...

But even more to your point... https://www.bna.com/no-tipping-fewer-b57982065202/
Wow, norms change quickly. I traveled with my golden retriever several times last spring (always asking first by phone) and the drivers were all genuinely surprised when I offered a tip at the end of the ride.
This is what drives me crazy about vegans.

Sorry, it is easier to eat meat. The protein IS higher quality, easier to digest and more balanced. Eating nutritional yeast and balancing your legumes, tofu and other protein sources to get a proper assortment of B vitamins and amino acids IS harder.

Not saying it's not healthier, not saying is not more ethical, not saying anything except it IS easier. Stop lying.
I know it's intentional. I'm just saying it results in something that is definitely not direct and noticeably less useful. That it can be made to trigger a download is not particularly useful.
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I have the same, living in the UK for the last 3 years. Any ideas how to feel home back in Denmark? Do you mind you don't feel 100% home in any of the places?
I'd just like to say that I admire Matthew Butterick's creative experimentation with business models for web publishing and absolutely adore Practical Typography to the extent that I've purchased several of his fonts and intend to purchase Beautiful Racket as well. It can be hard to imagine that there's a world for type design on computers outside the formulaic mundanity and advertisement-laden nature of the rest of the web, but then you get brilliant stuff like Practical Typography and now Beautiful Racket and you can see the world we don't have in contrast to the one that we do...
you can't have a read transaction that's serializable that doesn't go through global coordination unless all of the data is guaranteed to only ever be local. Looking forward to the blog post.
Have lived in Japan for about eight years now, with a year-and-a-half somewhere in the middle spent bouncing around Germany.

Originally, it felt... very odd, every time I came back Stateside, especially when visiting the podunk suburb where my parents live (and incidentally, where I grew up).

Going from a city of 13 million that has quite possibly the best civic infrastructure in the world, to an aging and slowly dying town that barely breaks the 80k mark in terms of population is quite a transition.

I think the best way to explain it is... divergence? As in, my path, and the path of that place have diverged. Everything from before that point feels "natural", and everything afterwards feels strange.

Now that I've been an expat for awhile, and have bounced around quite a bit, that feeling of oddness seems to have vanished for pretty much everywhere I visit.

Sure, things are different in different places, but everything seems to fall into a slot of "this feels right" or "this doesn't suit my tastes", and there really isn't anywhere that has a perfect mix of everything.

Although I'll admit, the urge to return stateside has gotten quite a bit stronger over the years. I'm very comfortable in Japan, speak the language, and have a solid social network, but at the same time, I find myself missing a lot of the daily aspects of American life (especially the grocery stores!)

There's a really good article on the subject as well; On Being A Triangle (And Other Tips For Repatriation): http://naomihattaway.com/2013/09/i-am-a-triangle-and-other-t...
As an EU citizen living in the UK for 7 years, worried as we all are about my Brexit bargaining chip status, the part about "involuntary/unexpected reentry" is sad and terrifying to read.
I don't recall Musk being a Trump supporter. He is working with Trump, but that is not the same thing. He has stated that he thinks it's better if the President has good people advising him, regardless of how one thinks of their policies.

TSLA is really volatile. The market cap is absurdly larger than the company's actual assets, meaning investors are banking on massive future growth. Going from $195 to $256 isn't that big of a change IMO. Your links are either irrelevant (e.g. talking infrastructure with Trump doesn't equate to support) or speculative.
Nothing wrong with Tesla raising money, after all they basically burn it to sustain the company..
The curios part is that it looks so few.. 1 B isn't a really much.
> Why call it reverse culture shock? It's simply a realization that the United States not the best country in every regard.

That's completely not it at all. Culture shock is what happens when one visits another country and realises that certain things one takes for granted aren't, and other things one thinks are negotiable aren't. It's the same phenomenon which young historians have when they first read of a technologically advanced, trading culture which also casts every firstborn child into a furnace (e.g.).

Reverse culture shock is the same phenomenon, when one returns back home. It's caused by the fact that one has assimilated to one's guest culture to some extent, and upon returning home … one finds that certain things one had grown accustomed to taking for granted are not, and other things one had grown accustomed to thinking negotiable are not.

An example is the wide variety of cereals in American groceries, or the limited variety of organ meats. If one has grown accustomed to just buying 'müsli,' and one suddenly has a dozen different varieties, one claiming to be good for keto diets, one claiming to be vegan, another gluten-free, another paleo — that's a culture shock. If one has grown accustomed to making kidney pie, then returns to America and must make a conscious effort to source kidneys — that's culture shock. If one has grown accustomed to horse or whale, and returns to find that they are illegal — well, that's culture shock too.

It's not about better/worse; it's about different.
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Well if someone chooses to share their car, you should just be happy that things worked out such that it was convenient for them to pick you up. And certainly you can share an extra couple bucks with them.

We're all just sharing, right?
I stopped using Uber and switched to lyft exactly because Uber doesn't allow in app tipping. The problem is you aren't paying more for each fare to avoid tipping Uber is just using it's duoploy pricing power to put the squeeze on drivers.
Tipping per se doesn't suck, but it being expected to the point of being all but mandatory does.
Like how Java used to?
Absolutely, so instead please enjoy this read of a much more grueling and revealing 40 years in Siberia. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/for-40-years-this-russ...
Yeah the headline caught me but the article disappointed. I don't think there is any honor in being homeless and stealing from others. Had he been self-sufficient that would have been interesting to me; however if you've read Into the Wild you know how that ends.
How do? Lots of low margin businesses try to use new customer discounts. Think Groupon.
Don't shit on fraternities, they're not all that bad.
There have been numerous studies done on the economic benefits to having broadly deployed, super fast wired Internet. The results are always the same: the economic benefits are dramatically underwhelming. It's true in Romania, Netherlands, Latvia and it's just as true in Kansas City [1]. Finland has had among the fastest Internet speeds for years - they've been stuck in a decade long near-depression economically and could hardly be further away from being in a tech boom from their high average access speeds. So where is the evidence to support the societal benefit of going from good speeds, to extremely high speeds? I've seen no evidence for it over the last decade anywhere on the planet.

For now, it turns out anything beyond ~50 to ~100mbps, is practically useless for consumers in delivering a big leap in productivity or quality of life. That has been the case for a decade (despite the propaganda in favor of spending a trillion dollars so everyone can have 1gbps tomorrow). South Korea for example has had among the fastest wired Internet speeds on the planet for a long time, it hasn't turned them into the next economic juggernaut in any regard (GDP per capita lower than Puerto Rico).

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-02-28/why-it-s-...
We're hoping the next version should hit about 100ft, we're aiming to improve in small steps and often.
I'm going to guess it doesn't take much to defeat the communications and sensor package on a $200 drone.

I expect the RF spectrum around disputed territory and secured installations to become useless, if not actively misleading.

I suppose eventually we'll have commercial drones that can fly missions autonomously on cameras only when GPS and communications are unavailable. I don't think we're there yet.
A very unexpected reversal of that was upon returning I quickly realized that the various candy and snack food I had come to enjoy while living abroad in Norway just flat out don't exists in the U.S. While there I would pick up random stuff now and then and over time found favorites. While there is 100 feet of cereal it is only a few big companies and each individual choice is even given sometimes 3 feet of space. So I realized to my sadness (except brown cheese which I found in the little "international cheese" case) that while the American grocery stores give the impression of choice that is not as true as it seems.
Or would realise that changing the wording slightly (not adding an exception, just updating the wording of one clause) to allow using a sign in place of a non-changing light would be a small enough change to get instantly rubber-stamped (so low administrative implementation cost), and would be trivial to enact because we already know that there's only one place where it applies.
> indexes are LEB128s

It's just a personal nit and beside the point of the (rather short) article, but I've long felt it sad that the more correct 'indices' is so rare and the correct-but-inelegant 'indexes' is so very common.
Hi. I feel the same way. When I was a kid, once a week my family would drive to the other side of town (the 99.99% black side) to visit my grandparents and uncle (they were the .01% white folk). I would spend all day Sunday hanging out in this area of town full of dirt poor people (just like my family there). I've never felt at ease and at home as I felt there. The people were friendlier than I could imagine. There were very, very few black people on my side of town, and it seemed weird and wrong.

When I was in my 20's at college, I would sometimes find the bad part of town and just ride around on my motorcycle. I'd do this when I was lonely and needing that "belonging" feeling.

So, from that early age on the other side of town, I've embraced otherness, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
They were always boasting about building okcupid in C++. Guess they needed garbage collection after all.
Boring things can be productive things!
After 27 years, you'd hope he might have built his own accommodation or other useful tools in the style of Primitive Technology (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA).

Interesting read, but I don't think there's much to take from it.
an awesome idea !!
If you have a problem with Uber's business practices, stop using them. That is the way this is supposed to work.
They cut anyone with a rating below X where X is determined market by market in order to balance out the number of new drivers they have coming in with the number of drivers they are cutting for bad ratings and also taking into account growth for demand in the market. In new or rapidly growing markets they hardly cut anyone ever but in mature markets with ample supplies of drivers they demand a very high average rating. At one point the cut off for being let go in LA for example was something like 4.6 out of 5.
Statistical syllogism won't absolve the police of their institutionalized racism. Black Lives Matter.
How do you know the other owners worked for them? They may have inherited them or paid for them from capital (ie non-labor) income.

Stealing from the rich increases equality, and is thus a morally good thing, not a bad thing.
Awesome.. I moved away from FreeNAS to Ubuntu 16.04 ZFS.. Now, back to FreeNAS..
The old adage is that a man can never step into the same stream twice; for it is not the same stream, and he is not the same man.

Stepping back home (in our case, moving back to Australia after 2+ years living in London) is much the same - you have changed, and home has changed, but you don't expect either to be different.

I think a big part is expectations. When we left, we were expecting something different, unusual, full of surprises (how bad is London coffee?) and annoyances. But returning 'home' you have no such expectations - you just 'expect' to slot back in.

But you've travelled the world, learned a different culture (although I don't profess that in our case it was enormously different), moved on with your life in some way ... and so too have all those people who stayed behind, and indeed the city/town/country itself. So you're surprised, and you were expecting it to be effortless. Shock!

(And it is the weird little things. For the first year I was always one block off with my directions. But thankfully the coffee was as good as I remembered it.)
We don't seem to have a problem imposing the morality of "don't kill people" and "don't steal stuff." Is this fundamentally different?
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I don't agree with the argument that passengers should tip because Uber isn't paying their drivers enough. That sounds like welfare for Uber. If the pay sucks, Uber should have trouble recruiting drivers.
> "Netflix deck and Netflix Glassdoor reviews don't match."

And which of the two more closely matches the 4,536% increase in Netflix's stock price over the past 10 years?
Serious question for those who are pro-tipping...where do you draw the line? How do you choose which products/services are tip-worthy and which aren't?
Whatsapp web is super difficult to use. It requires your phone to be in your hand every time you start using it, your phone must also remain on and connected to the internet.
Java bytecode already did that too. The cool thing about WebAssembly is that we all think it might actually happen this time.
I exercise at work during lunch. If there's a will, there's a way.
Don't burn yourself on that hot take.
I stand by my statement. I care more about children (not to mention the other people they will harm) than about the feelings of an adult with BPD. My hope is that such an adult would do the responsible thing and choose not to have children, and spend that energy on making themselves better (which is a difficult, lifelong and worthy task).

No, it's not an easy policy to enforce, or to enforce fairly. The diagnosis is inevitably subjective. This is a fundamental difficulty in dealing with all forms of psychological abuse. If only there was an equivalent way for kids to come forward with bruises and broken bones or saying "Mommy touched me in my naughty place"! But this is precisely why BPD adults should not to have kids, because the harm is extremely difficult to detect. Prevention is better than cure.

I'm not an expert, but I strongly suspect that the harm of psychological abuse is 10-100x the harm of physical or sexual abuse, both to the child and to society. But too often people say "it's none of my business" even when they would have said something if there was a broken bone.
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Gitter is joining the GitLab team
My experiences in Asia come mostly from Korea. Over the last decade or so I've noticed the grocery stores and selection there have dramatically improved such that I can usually find a reasonable analog for just about anything I want (so long as I don't get too fancy or want good cheese). But I've never lived there long enough to probably need that one thing.

I think also, I've been married into Korean life so long, most of my home grocery shopping occurs at big Asian grocery stores anyways, so the experience isn't that much to translate.

What do you miss about groceries in Japan that the U.S. has?
Whenever worker exploitation is involved (such as in this case), or when the worker materially relies on tips to stay afloat, I always try to tip.

Wherever it's accepted by society, I also generally tip.
Total shot in the dark, but it wouldn't surprise me one bit if they licensed usage of the API to "Authorized Board Partners" for an extra fee.
No probs. I suspect a lot of organisations use a database mainly for user data.
The example apartment the author presented is in soma, which is in the very heart of downtown sf.
I really like Gitlab and this acquiring.

When I firsted started as a developer, I don't know how people do thing in real production. I don't know how real company build real software.

Nowsaday, with all open source thing from real company that acquire/shutdown I can finally learn a lots from them.

Recently Stajoy open source everything, now Gitter is next. I'm sure I will learn a lot by consume the real code that run on production.

Thank you Gitlab/Gitter.
I'm happy this comes up in every thread about gitlab, and that they appear to read them. I'm hoping one day someone on the team says "you know, they're right, we should do something about this."

Just to throw my example in, they would want to pay me at least 20% less than what I currently make -- and I'm already a 100% remote employee working for a financially stable startup. What they offer is simply not even close to market value -- yet they claim it is. In this case it's the D.C. area.
> Instead I recommend utilizing the whitespace for your projects and listing your technical skills within a project’s context.

Context is king! I can't agree with the OP more. Stop the technology bingo. When you highlight the technology, approaches and processes as part of the experience the conversations come easily.
It's all based on use case, I guess. I spent the early part of my programming career building ERP and Accounting type systems, where real time updates are not factored into any design.

However, of late, I have been working on collaborative type apps, including IoT device programming, and real time updating is not just a luxury, it is expected. Indeed we are seeing things like SSE (Server Send Events) etc. being incorporated in the latest browser specs to support this.

Granted, unless you are using frameworks like Meteor etc., there is still a lot of work to be done to ease the integration between back end server push and browser real time display. Websockets are great, but require a lot of tedious management at scale.

But the thing is - once you start down the path of realtime updated apps, possibilities open up, and you begin to wonder how you used to program without it. For me, it all started when I knocked together this [0] real time update of Hacker News as a weekend project using RethinkDB for push updates, and Vue.js as the front end...

[0] - https://tophn.info
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