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Yes, the Floodgap guy has its own Android client available on his website. Sadly, it follows the design conventions from Android 1.5 or so.

http://gopher.floodgap.com/overbite/
Some finance apps included development/staging details, yes. We didn't find any secrets from traditional finance firms (I expect this is more a function of them not using cloud services as much as other industries at this point in time).

One of the worst offenders in our sample was fintech companies, with obviously no real pentesting being done on the client side at least.
I was researching a comment for another post and I came across this photo of the legendary DEC PDP-8:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-8#/media/File:PDP-8e,_insi...

That got me thinking that it might have been an inspiration for movie computers, and, here you go...
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Also worth noting that a major point of the anti-independence campaign last time was that Scotland would get to stay in the EU if they stayed part of the UK.

That has obviously changed somewhat.
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It's incredible when you consider Queen Elizabeth's reign. From visiting India as a British realm to overseeing the dissolution of the Union itself.
I think it's a big change. The idea of Scotland leaving the UK was a non-starter when the UK was in the EU. The Spanish and other countries with separatist regions would never have allowed it. Now that the UK is leaving Europe (something the Scottish people did not vote to do), there is stll substantial risk in leaving the UK (which is a much bigger trading partner with Scotland than the EU) but also a great opportunity to attract all of the English companies with exposure to a hard Brexit - from financial services to manufacturing, this could be an awesome opportunity for Scotland should England push for a hard Brexit and be left trading on WTO rules with the applicable tarrifs.
We're actually still in a pre-Middle Ages state! In the Middle Ages craft guilds generally did have required bodies of knowledge which apprentices were expected to master.
With the UK faring economically well since Brexit

I think we'll need to wait and see on this one. A collapse in currency value has masked some of the longer-term issues that leaving the single market will raise.

but nevertheless, it makes them look rather without credibility on the surface of it.

I can't agree with this. The current Scottish government was elected with a manifesto indicating that a second referendum would held if Scotland was removed the EU.
> would likley be forced to strongly discourage the use of the UK pound to maintain fiscal control

Do you mean "monetary control"? What do you mean by "strongly discourage"? Forced by whom, or by circumstances?
i have to ask... what terrible experience did you have the original iphone? it was an amazing phone for its time... by any standard. I still have mine and it still works...

also i think its pretty short sighted to say android isn't really tied in with google. that phone sends an insane amount of data back to google, right down to the keys you press on your keyboard.
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Is that still true? AIUI the Stability and Growth Pact [1] requires EU members to limit their deficits to 3% of GDP, and Scotland's deficit in 2016 was approaching 10% after North Sea oil revenues collapsed. Right now it's only fiscal transfers from England via the Barnett formula keeping Scottish spending afloat, and neither spending cuts nor tax rises are traditional political winners.

Which is not to say it's impossible (as some have, [2]); the EU has turned a blind eye when convenient before and I'm sure will do again. But many in the EU might be reluctant to go that route again after the way Greece turned out.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stability_and_Growth_Pact

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2016/08/25/scotland...
I did some of that in part 2! For the most part, it is smart enough to do the right thing for simple operations like cut and inserting rows/columns, however they are indeed some edge cases that it doesn't handle well.
> While that would protect the fraction of workers looking to make Uber their full-time job...

I don't have any numbers but is that fraction actually that small?
Thanks for the feedback! I fixed that in part 2.
>> It's also looking likely that Brexit will cause problems for the Northern Ireland peace arrangement.

This is the first time I've felt a border poll in Northern Ireland is a possibility. The recent election resulted in a huge swing in power and a hard border with the south would be devastating for a lot of people regardless of political persuasion. It'll be interesting to see how each part of the UK ends up in 5-10 years time.
I think flamebait is the correct word, because the discussion would have just ended in the usual "modern web" complaints interspersed with people saying that these things have legitimate uses, and so on and so on. They're never productive discussions, just full of ranting and flaming.
The collision avoidance systems (I presume OP is speaking about) is aftermarket. That's a small part of Mobileye's business, but it is based on the same technology.

BMWs and other high end cars have had Mobileye as OEM for a long time, but the company itself is a bit of a legacy company and not always run well (and is based in Jerusalem which is even more legacy) - but like many Israeli tech stories has great tech.
That wasn't arguing. This is arguing.
> Subprime loans are expensive because they're risky. Nobody is stopping those people from taking the normal lease, except that they can't get one because they have bad credit.

So everyone is stopping them.
> There is no such thing as intrinsic value. There is price and price ($16B) is determined by the market.

"Intrinsic value" is a basic financial term that is widely used and has a well defined meaning - just type the term into Google: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrinsic_value_(finance)
Are sysadmins, network/data engineers, or other back-end techs subject to the same age discrimination as programmers?

As an aging jack-of-all-trades, I've been wondering if I should refocus more on back-end skills (and skills lower down the software stack) and start transitioning away from app development - especially web development.

I'm also wondering if Woody's observations of ageism mostly apply to 1) Silicon valley, 2) startup companies, and 3) web development.
isn't that key though? you have to go to many other shops which and play the game of best price combined with shipping. you can also go to ebay for many things as well and people overlook that a lot.

the key seller for prime for me was, I am already paid up so I can just be lazy and impulse buy without too much concern.
While that might be the case, the resounding pro-remain vote in Scotland at the EU referendum is convincingly a vote for EU membership. It's fair to say that there is a popular consensus that Scotland should be a member of the EU.
Scrum isn't the problem, there's no causative relationship. And I don't remember that older software being any higher quality than what we have today on a defects per function point basis.
Companies like Amazon and Walmart do this as well. Amazon's contracts (when I was there) included terms for firing workers that tried to unionize.
An hour is a bit of an exaggeration. I come in to work early every day, and sift through operational alerts/clear out easy tasks in that hour. I do this while eating cereal, making and drinking coffee, etc. If I have some time left over, I read the news (usually finish everything up in about 20-30 minutes).

Of course, we do a technical rotation, and there's a lot of small tasks to do, most of which require a very quick grep of the logs.
I'm not a recruiter. At my work, we are always looking for folks with experience, especially with distributed systems. If you're interested in living in SoCal or Colorado and want more info, hit me up. Email is in my profile.
> you're basically saying better services should be for the rich only while the poor should use lower public services while saying at the same time that you support the poor

No, what I am saying that taxi driver's job should be paid well enough. If you want a personal driver, it will cost you. The interpretation that taxi is better than public transport is yours only.. Many people in Europe don't need taxis, because we have excellent public transport, which, by the way, also employs people.

I am not sure how you can twist the logic to think that my position supports the elites more than poor. :-)
Why are you assuming all learning is about "new tech"?

How about just taking an online class in old traffic theory, to improve your network coding skills?

Your whole comment is attacking some straw man.
* Austrian nationalists lost the presidency by a tiny margin. *

46.21 % to 53.79 % is NOT a tiny margin.
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Thanks for the feedback! I fixed it in part 2, let me know if it's still an issue for you. Also, I did not know that's how it's implemented in real life (learned it from this thread). Perhaps I should try building that in Web Audio in another series!
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I have never in my life made long term plans and I don't know many people that do. Maybe making long term plans is a cultural thing? Despite not having a plan, life seems to work out just fine.

For those that do cherish long term plans: don't you get fed up with the perpetual feeling of "being not quite there yet"?
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I just tested your blog with OverbiteFF (I guess that's the client you're using), and I had to manually switch the encoding to Unicode (View->Text Encoding.) I see there's an "item type" field in the protocol, it's set to 0 (ie "plain text file") for your blog entries. The protocol doesn't seem to offer anything to specify the encoding to the client, so overbite must default to something like plain ascii.
If content is filtered, those filtering the content can bias what's shown; influencing their audience. E.g. imagine if Amazon filtered out all the <4 star reviews of their products, and filtered the 5 star reviews of their competitors'). If that's transparent it's not so bad; you can see that things are being influenced, and ideally can see justifiable reasons behind those decisions. Otherwise the site's worth is devalued as you cannot trust what you see.

So whilst it's a privilege to have such a resource, it's also acceptable to complain about issues with that resource; especially when things are being manipulated for unclear reasons with no transparency.

That said, the author wasn't complaining; just doing analysis and pointing out an oddity which was of interest given the context of their research.
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Illegal markets also have a counterforce -- diluting quality ("cutting") makes more product available at the same price.
That's not quite true. "Buried" just means "gravity has been increased." Sometimes the gravity is adjusted massively, which moves stories to the 50th page. But it's very common for stories to go from page 1 to page 2. Even more common is to go from rank ~5 to rank ~29.
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Once it's public (even unofficially), people will begin to rely on the current implementation and then complain if it is ever tweaked or changed. They build towards the value it grants and then complain that the value was arbitrarily stolen from them.
I think there is some nuance that is missed when performing studies that compares hours practiced to mastery. I'm currently reading a book called A Mind for Numbers (the companion book for the popular MOOC on Coursera called Learning How to Learn) and what I am realizing is that not everyone practices or studies the most optimal way.

"For example, the number of hours of deliberate practice to first reach "master" status (a very high level of skill) ranged from 728 hours to 16,120 hours. This means that one player needed 22 times more deliberate practice than another player to become a master."

Maybe those 728 hours were more efficient and effective deliberate practice than the 16,120 hours.

Edit: the book is called "A Mind for Numbers", not "A Mind for Math"
What's the torque exerted on the rotor and does it scale and what head of water does it take to produce a useful amount of power?
It's not a matter of $1. In that case obviously your example is clear but what if you taxed that billionaire so much that he decided, "why bother" and he stopped investing, building firms and simply decided to live a life of ease in Mexico? The net utility in that case with the job losses and movement of capital it entails would be negative.

Now take a look at the policies on the table. Bernie's medicare for all has a projected cost of 2.5 trillion dollars annually. If we taxed everyone who makes 1 million or more a year at 100% we would have about 1.5 trillion in receipts. It just isn't possible.
Note: no support for compression. https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/21
Why do we still have this misnomer. The front end which decodes the x86 instructions is a small part of the overall chip. Intel made low power chips that were on phones using x86. They just had no competitive advantage in that space and left.
What do you suppose is the risk per year of nuclear war? One in a hundred? One in a thousand? One in a million?

Going 71 years without it is compatible with all of those numbers, yet they mean very different things for our ability to prevent nukes from being used, and for our likely future.

I personally don't find it particularly comforting that we've made it this far. Just because we've made it 71 years doesn't mean we'll make it another 71.
I don't want to go here, because it's the thin edge of a tbh racist wedge.

It's always entertaining to watch people label a claim as "racist", but refuse to call them "false" or argue against them.

I made no normative claims (e.g. "screw the others"), only a positive one.
At the end of the day, good code is code that solves your problem. Trying to define "good code" without considering the problem will not deliver much punch.

If we're talking a small application, such as a new startup, writing efficient and optimized code is hardly a concern. In this case, good code means flexible, easy-to-change code. The code must make it easy to modify existing features and add new ones.

Compare that to, say, Google's search. The feature isn't evolving much anymore, in terms of functionality, but it needs to be as efficient and optimized as possible, considering the bulk of data it needs to read through, and the immense traffic it gets every second. Sure, you still want flexible code, but speed is critical.

If we're talking an open-source project, the most important part could very well be documentation and ease-of-read. when you have dozens to hundreds of people writing new features, making optimizations, and solving bugs (in their free time and without compensation!), quality of communication takes on a new significance.

These are, of course, simplifications, and the accuracy can be debated (as these situations always have an incredible variety of factors), but the point is that "good code" is not something that can be defined in a vacuum: it can only be defined in terms of the situation at hand.
>> One could argue that the root political problem is the EU itself.

I would argue it's the politicians. No matter what way you voted it's clear that the campaigns around the referendum were incredibly dishonest. Politicians were largely playing games to further their careers and were willing to say what they had to to succeed. We need to do something to ensure referendums deal only in fact because a large portion of voters have no interest in doing their own research and will vote on lies and propaganda.
> That looks clear and concise to me?

What's a FRST? The actual code appears to do a LE encoding of a u16, but I can't fathom why you'd call that "FRST". But maybe in context it makes more sense.

The rest, IDK. Can't tell what an "LZF hslot bias" is. Again, might make sense in context.
I'm no fan of the "knowing-all-that's-best" trend of articles either, but here's why I don't mind this:

Facebook popularized the idea of "move fast and break things." Move fast, by all means, and don't be paralyzed by fear of all change whatsoever, but I really didn't appreciate it when my classmates thought that by being willing to break things constantly in our group project they were showing us all their potential to be the next Mark Zuckerberg or Steve Jobs. Or when some of those classmates were hired as my team mates and brought that crap into a customer-facing service. I interviewed at Facebook and was scared by the cowboy mentality I sensed in every room and with every interviewer. I'd like the glorification of that to be balanced by, "hey here's some concrete data demonstrating they have some real issues that could clearly be addressed better."
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So we can accept this as probably true but we are not willing to accept that 10x programmers exist?
Collective bargaining and safety net are quite different concepts. In fact, it's been pointed out by Luigi Zingales and others that Southern European countries actually have stronger job protection rules than Northern countries, yet our workers are clearly not richer.
Very well explained video. This was incredibly interesting to watch.
Honestly Kezia is the bigger reliability. She was actually quoted as considering independence in the even of Brexit.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/01/kezia-dugdale-i-c...
> a couple of years (at most) of generic training in management qualifies a person to manage any activity effectively even without a shred of domain knowledge. Pfeh.

+1 to that.

However, it cuts both ways. Being an engineer with a recently bolted-on manager responsibility, I am struck by the many ways that nothing in Engineering or Science prepared me for dealing with the people side of management.
Any todo has a context (work, project, hobby) which prescribes a set of time ranges at which you'd do the todo. You might not plan a specific time, but an order/priority and estimated time. Then an algorithm can show those on a calendar. These entries are also used to capture the results of the todo. That way your list of todos is also a calendar and diary.
> It isn't that bad in the US using turbo tax.

That's entirely the point of the linked article. TurboTax has lobbied to keep the system convoluted so they can sell you their software.
Can London please also seek independence and stop sending huge sums of money to the rest of the UK. I'd even be happy with the Euro or our own currency The London Pound. We might need to ask Donald Trump about building a wall though...

You might not even have to charge people who lived in London income tax, for example, due to the large number of companies based here.

;-)
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The entire series has such hyperbolic language. I know that's BI's thing, but to treat the closing of shopping malls as a cultural apocalypse is surreal.
As I got older I realized my threshold for tolerating bullshit is getting lower and lower. At the end of the day as an engineer, I'm as much (if not more) motivated by the quality of work I'm doing as an individual, team, and company as I am by purely monetary rewards. I could trade this justified pride for a feeling that I'm building something good and important, but FB is probably a net zero on both counts.
I don't have a problem with conflating Google and Facebook. Facebook's encroachment on your privacy is just less subtle.

Yes, you can use Google search anonymously. But the search results you see are tweaked and tuned by the majority that don't search anonymously. Without them, your results would look more like DDG's. And "anonymous" is malleable. It still dumps cookies and fingerprints your browser, etc. Not logged in != anonymous.
I've always been a fan of Slashdot's system where you place a vote and then specify a reason. It's probably too complicated for something like Facebook or Reddit, but HN should be okay with it.
Carting around a 120lb cylinder 6" in diameter and 33" long seems eminently doable in a rolling suitcase. You'll want to get a sturdy one and make sure your suicide bomber is well built, but I don't see what's so disbelievable about it.

Does this skepticism come from thinking "briefcase" rather than "suitcase," or...?
Japan is also not that big of an island.
Lyft is the better platform anyway. The CEO of Lyft isnt a turd either.
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>But if you want psychological tips that really work, don't go anywhere near his books.

Just curious, what would you recommend in terms of psychological tips/books that do work?
Still, the concept of hard work beating talent without hard work is a very powerful one. You won't be the best but after such dedication and hard work, you will always achieve above average results in your area.

So, keep on hustlin!
> My question these days when I read such article, "What has the author done that is equivalent?" There is rarely anything to be found.

Literally an ad hominem.
If it is a company you want to work for then keeping in touch with the recruiter might make sense -- with the caveat that the recruiter is a company employee not a third party. If the recruiter is a third party then the process smells like common recruiter waste your time horseshit at best and a potential scam at worst.

The waste your time horseshit with third party recruiters runs along the line of using a potential candidate as the basis for negotiating a contract for placing them that contains a nice fee. If the company does not agree (and that may be by policy based on having in-house staff or existing contracts with external recruiters) then the candidate is told they did not get the job (or the job was not funded).

There are good recruiters and the best of them get retained contracts (paid to search). The next best get contingency contracts (paid to place).

Most recruiters have no contract. They scan help wanted ads on the internet, email people based on their resumes, and then pitch various candidates for positions with the hope that a company will bite and agree to their fee. The business model is more or less the same as email spam: the low cost of making contact makes high volume feasible and the high volume makes low conversion profitable.

Again, if it was a first party recruiter and you want to work for the company, then keep in touch because something else is likely to come up. But in any event, the best advice I have is to move forward.

Good luck.
>> That’s about 2.1% so it’s not a particularly common occurrence but it is happening on a daily basis.

I would say that 1/50 front page stories being buried is particularly common.
Take a look at PIES[1]. I've switched most of my production systems to it. I especially like that it's inittab-compatible.

[1]: http://www.gnu.org.ua/software/pies/
About a year ago I sold my two Mamiyas for a Hasselblad 503cx. The Mamiyas never disappointed from an image point of view, but the Hasselblad is just a lot easier to work with, and a lot easier to carry than an RB67. That is a big beast.
Furthermore, given the 99% fall in oil revenue since the previous referendum, the Union dividend (£9bn / year) and a deficit of 10% GDP, and state aid rules within the EU, the economic case for independence has dwindled, to put it mildly.

Politically, the case for independence is on the downside; both Theresa May and Ruth Davidson have higher net satisfaction rates than Sturgeon in Scotland, and the likelihood of a general election before EU exit is getting higher every day, but for other reasons. Peak Sturgeon has come 2 years too soon.