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The customer was a Bank.

One the biggest banks in Europe.

They just bought (aka "rescued") another bank somewhere in Europe and they wanted to lay dark fiber for datacenter synchronization.

And they wanted us to manage that network.

After several weeks laying fiber, and setting all connections we started the network manager on the operations center... and couldn't see any device, except the "secondary" network manager in customer premises wich could see everything.

Turns out the "security" people at the simply put a Firewall between the NOC and the network and didn't allow any traffic to go from the NOC to the fiber optic devices.

We asked them to give us access but they didn't have IPv4 addressing compatible with ours. Whay? Because the bank used all IPv4 address space internally. All private IP adressing was already alocated and the NAT ("public") they could use colided with other customers equipment.

Finally I had to build a ugly "semi-isolated" network island between the bank, the noc, and some virtualized workstations that could "see" (natted) the customer devices (wich we were paid to manage) and the NOC workstations.

On the plus side, that junk made me write the best documentation I've ever made because just in case something broke in the middle of the night.
> What's fair is that LexisNexis be compensated for the value it has added to that Law.

Nobody has an automatic right to be compensated for doing work.

Any right to compensation arises from people having benefited from that work, and from the receipt of that benefit having been voluntary.

Citizens of Georgia are required to obey the law. Judges use the annotations when deciding whether the law has been obeyed.

So, citizens of Georgia have two choices, risk breaking the law, or pay a third party for permission to know whether or not they are breaking the law.

LexisNexis's compensation is about as legitimate as that of a protection racket.

"Say, that's a nice law you have there. Be a real shame if someone were to... annotate it."
Thanks. It is a miracle something survived on those floppies, let alone computer deaths... The directory they are under is called "Y2K Backup\MYFILES\Ancient Pascal Disk 3"...
This study is suspect. First, using self-identification as high-performance is already troublesome. Second, the author never defines what an HPE is, and the most concrete specification is from this article they backlink to:

>For example, in a software or tech company they would be:
> Software Engineers
> Data Scientists
> Visual Designers
> Structural & 3-D Prototype Designers
> Narrative Developers

This certainly doesn't agree with what almost anybody else uses to define high-performance employees.

Third, the question they use to resolve this is from their survey:

>Are you motivated more by mastery of skill/craft, or motivated more by earning money?
> Mastery of skill or craft
> Money
> Other

I don't think we can draw any conclusion from the fact that 76% of the people who answered this public google form chose 'mastery'.
IIRC Google's IPO did some sort of auction. But I don't know if it was available to regular folks or not, or how it turned out in the end.
tl;dr but so the simple operations like "update my birthdate" happen with sync MySQL operations?
you're speaking very authoritatively for someone who apparently does not know the difference between sales, marketing, and advertising and also does not know how to pull basic financial information of publicly-traded companies
So that's an article on how pharma companies spend more on sales and marketing than research. But many companies we'd consider "innovative" spend about twice as much on SG&A (sales, general, and administrative) as on R&D. For 2014-2015, the ratio between R&D spending and SG&A spending is 0.59 at Pfizer, 0.75 at Google, 0.56 at AstraZeneca, 0.43 at Apple, and 0.58 at Microsoft.
> 76% of HPEs are not primarily motivated by money.

"Primarily" is a pretty slippery word here. So they are motivated by money, but motivated more by mastery? In that case, how much more? Is it close?

Also, money has diminishing marginal utility. The first $50k of your salary is worth more than the next $50k, and so on. So how much are these people already compensated? If they are the top performers, chances are they are already the top earners too. How much do you have to earn before marginal mastery is worth more than marginal money?

Finally, how do you make this actionable when hiring? If you offer me more salary, I fully trust I will receive it. If you promise me greater mastery (or autonomy, challenge, better peers, making-the-world-a-better-place, etc), I will tell myself that everyone says that. Anyway, I've learned that good work is correlated with good salary, so seeking high compensation is a trustworthy proxy for seeking better mastery. As an employer, how would you answer that?

Of course there is also the question, To make his comparison, how is motivation even quantified and measured? The truth is his whole survey is suspect, but it's interesting nonetheless to see what a willing suspension of disbelief leads to.
All three papers mentioned were published in 1905, also known as his Annus Mirabilis. The one that won him the Nobel Prize was received in March, before he'd even finished his thesis (on a different topic). The work itself was done prior to submission, of course.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annus_Mirabilis_papers
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> and doesn't suffer from the moronic impulse to push up against the car in front of them

But see that's the problem. In this piece, we see direct advocacy of that exact moronic impulse under the misguided assumption that computers can will away the laws of physics.
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Any reasonably good employer-offered 401(k) plan will include a Roth option.
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"Dropbox it's not a product, it's a feature". Don't get me wrong, I'm a Dropbox user myself, but I don't see their actual moat. Isn't cloud storage a commodity nowadays?

IMHO they should have spent money in investing in other productivity companies in order to diversify and be able to offer a complete productivity suite.
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They just built out their own data centers to transfer off AWS. I'm guessing that long term bet cost a few $$$
Also, "X" for me is OOP as the sine qua non of programming practice. I mean, the concepts of Simula 67 were promoted endlessly in the 80s, but I'm tired of being stuck with that as the primary design mechanism.

"COBOL with separate compilation and parameters" is what we seem to be stuck with, even though the advances in hardware and garbage collection software have made FP type stuff practical now, rather than something that was scoffed at back in the 80s with the advent of microprocessors posing as general purpose computers :-)
FWIW the anecdotal experience of people I know in the health field in the US is that pharma sales reps know nothing about medicine, are hired for their sales / "relationship building" ability, and can't answer any question about the drug they are touting that can't be answered by looking at the brochure. Very disappointing.

You can't expect to get unbiased, quality advice from someone with such a strong incentive. The right way for doctors to stay up to date is for doctors to stay up to date! They need to read a damn book or journal article once in a while and takes responsibility for their own professional development. If doctors aren't doing that, regulators need to suspend their licenses.
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Isn't there large economic incentive to recycle large batteries?

I agree many won't be recycled, but until we snag ourselves and asteroid, we have a finite supply of lithium. People will do their best to not lose something worth money.
This one of many articles existing the abuse of the disability system. Where's the call to cut the waste, fraud, and abuse?
In tech/development culture, working smarter equates to something like "I did this in 3 lines of Node". God help the maintainer or ops person when left pad is pulled or the performance suffers.
I am neck deep in C, pretty much all the time, from actual bare metal (i.e. no OS) all the way up to application code, so none of what you mentioned is atypical use of C to me :p

I do not mean to trivialize compilers, linkers and assemblers, but fundamentally they are programs that just read and write files. They don't really have to be in C, IMHO.

I am still waiting for someone to chime in with credible examples of successful C -> non-C transition.
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You are misunderstanding the incentives of the insurance company. They get to keep 20% of money that passes through them. The only way they can make more money is by increasing the money flow.

You lose though. Insurance is part of your total compensation, you are paying for all this. It's averaged out across a bunch of people, but you are still paying for it.

In summary, drug company wins, insurance company wins, your employer doesn't care and you lose. But you don't even know you lost, and can do nothing about it even if you wanted to.
Because Studio Ghibli continues to make films. So you don't have to 1) know when a new film is released 2) download a new data dump.
I feel like the challenging and political nature of Mr. Malamud's communications were a big misstep. Putting government representatives on the defensive turns an already difficult bureaucracy into a brick wall.

On the other hand, there's an opportunity for a sufficiently funded non-profit to cross reference official code books with judicial public records to auto-annotate the law with pertinent cases where it was used. What would be missing would be human-added value like brief descriptions of the outcome and how it is likely to apply to other legal cases.

On the other hand, if there's no way to machine-read the law, we have a questionable impasse.
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Besides the freedom of speech issue, what arguments are there for not banning prescription drug ads?
You're implying that grades are an objective metric of value. This is often false, because the metrics for grading are oriented around what's easily testable, rather than what's actually a sign of good work.

Kind of like hours spent in a gym, actually.
Agreed. It's worth noting that Sweden offers generous health insurance for its citizens, but they don't cover routine dental, because anything routine is not insurance.
The US government borrowing is how that money is invested. If you're upset it was all spent on wars and the military and not on productive uses, that's a governance problem; hold your reps accountable.
The Roth IRA, at least, can be a part of your emergency fund strategy. Contributions can be withdrawn without penalty (not earnings) at any time. I have an actual e-fund (cd ladder, though the rates on renewal will be even worse so I need a new plan), but for a true catastrophe, that's part of my strategy. It also gives you tax free growth. I've only had one investment pan out well, but it hurt to see 15% of the gains go to taxes. If it had been in my IRA I could've kept that money for reinvesting.
You need to not look at the cost as cost-per-channel or cost-per-show, but in terms of value to you.

If you are paying $15 or $50 or $200 per month for TV, do you feel you getting adequate value? Are you getting the shows you want to watch?

An interesting thing about nearly all subscription services (cable, YouTube Red, Netflix, Sling, etc) is because they are fixed cost they have a built-in volume discount: the more you watch, the less you pay per hour.

So if you pay $100/mo for all your services, and watch a total of 2 hours a month, that costs you $50/hr. If you watch 6 hours a day, it costs you about $0.55/hr.

Let's say you're paying $185/mo for cable, and $15/mo for Netflix, but watch them evenly (3 hours a day each). Now cable is costing $2.03/hr and Netflix costs $0.16/hr. Are you getting value for the time? Are the shows you're watching on cable really worth paying 12 times more (plus being forced to watch commercials) than the ones you're watching on Netflix?

Your original point was about paying for stuff you didn't watch, but when you think of it in terms of value per hour, if you are watching 6 hours of content you want to watch, you are paying $0.55/hr. It doesn't matter if you get 6 channels or 600, the cost per hour of content is the same to you.

It's a different question you have to ask yourself if the service adds 200 channels (that you don't watch) and ups the cost so now it costs you $0.65/hr to watch the exact same content you were watching before: are you still getting adequate value for that price? If so, continue paying.
> You can do a moderately acceptable amount of work on any given assignment and get a C+, work hard for a B/A or work your hands to the bone for an A+, but at the end of the day all three students graduate.

Forgive me but I must take you to task for this. The point of post-secondary education is not to graduate; the point is to get an education that enables you to succeed in your career. This may or may not matter if all you're doing is websites and CRUD apps (which should really be taken as a warning about the long-term stability of such a career) but that's not the fault of the degree program.

(Some may wish to point that grades don't necessarily correlate with mastery of the knowledge presented, and I'd have some sympathy for that, but that's a different argument entirely.)
5 kwh still sounds like a lot. Our house in the Netherlands uses about 10/day with a family of 6.
>security-focused Linux distributions

>Kali

I don't even know where to begin with this one...

Kali definitely is not "security focused", it JUST a pile of scripts added on top of flavour of the month Debian. At least in Backtrack days it tried to be all secure and invisible and sneaky and shit, but then noobs complained since they couldn't figure how to start X or how to enable network interfaces.

Now it's just bunch of script kiddies running shit they know nothing about and then crying when some version update breaks random dependency they weren't even aware of.
what's the benefit of this over caching the HTML with one of the myriad HTTP/HTML caching methods?
That is what I meant exactly.
My guess is that this was built for practice. That said, some of the data is coming back bad. The 'url' property contains an address that is missing the 'u' and 'a'. https://ghibliapi.herokpp.com
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Very likely, the annotations have no controlling legal effect. The difference between unofficial and official versions of the text largely relies on which version will control the interpretation if there is a copying error (e.g., one says "remuneration" and one says "enumeration"). I suspect Georgia made the annotated code official on the basis that it's the copy that everyone already has.

Stripping out the annotations and publishing that should be completely kosher for copyright and would still give the controlling version of the law (assuming no copying errors were made, of course).
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There seems to be a confusion among people that self-driving cars are going to fully self-contained, with no interaction or communication between them. At first they probably will - but the greater gains in safety, efficiency, speed, and utility will only happen when they all can communicate with each other - to inform each other about traffic pattern changes, as well as to coordinate on local issues.
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Georgia scares me. Their (lack of?) sentencing structure and "officializing" the paid version of their law are enough for me to steer clear.
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I've stopped using Dropbox for a few years already. Their software was good when I used it but I decided to boycott them after Condoleezza Rice joined their board. I just couldn't trust them with my data after that.

Plus, the fiasco they had with their Mac app comforted me in not trusting them
it will come not just from transitioning from ice to electric engines, but also, later, from removing the steering wheel and all associated parts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmvCdBufz6U
the arcimoto dropped from 1700 lbs to 1000lbs just by going from a steering wheel to a bike handle.
I've not tried this plugin, but it might do just what you want.

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> It's not a mistake, the official version is the annotated version.

Joshuaheard is saying that making it the official version is a mistake. Not in the sense of "oops, we accidentally wrote down the wrong thing" but in the sense of "this is a bad idea caused by lack of foresight". Just as someone might say it's a mistake to ask a stranger in a bar to watch your bag while you go to the restroom. It's not an accident but it is a mistake.
Some other anecdotes:

At seventeen Hussain went on forty-day self-imposed retreat known as a chilla, where a musician practices in isolation until a state is reached in which the music and musician become one. The removal of everyday distractions, combined with single-minded concentration on the practice allows the musician to attain a state of Samadhi or meditative absorption, where one enters into a deeper relationship with one’s own music, and comes in direct contact with the source of music itself. Visions and hallucinations are not uncommon, where one’s musical ancestors may appear and offer encouragement or criticism. What is certain is that the musician makes remarkable progress in his craft. Hussain recalls his first Chilla in Hart’s drumming “I saw things in the music that I had never seen before, new combinations, new patterns”. Six month’s later, against his father’s advice, Zakir was ready to do a second chilla. This time around, the visions were more intense, and Hussain had a premonition that he would soon go to America. From: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Zakir_Hussain_(musician)

Or

“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met. It’s gonna take awhile. It’s normal to take awhile. You’ve just gotta fight your way through.” From: http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/309485-nobody-tells-this-to-...

Just presenting a different perspective. Its all too common to look at this idea of brilliant talented scientist to whom 'solutions come out of nowhere'.

The point really is it takes a lot of work to get to a point where you can paint a masterpiece or compose a symphony effortlessly.
As a satisfied HelloSign customer, I've been waiting for what seemed like an obvious addition to your product for a long time. Single forms and agreements are fine, but having those conform to our internal process flow makes for a much more useful tool.
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You can work on a lot of different problems and still do the creative garden cultivation that the previous poster said. I do that. I've got about 10 prototypes for board and card games actively going at once at the moment, and I write down fresh ideas that pop into my head to come back to later.

Even if months pass, I'll get spontaneous ideas to certain projects that improve them a ton. But I have to feed my brain with fuel for inspiration constantly, and actively try to apply any interesting idea to my existing projects and see if they inspire anything new for them.

I can't find the quote now (It's written in a notebook I don't have on me at the moment), but this is apparently how Richard Feynman approached work, although by working on multiple problems at once, not projects (although all of my projects have problems :).
This is an awesome feature and thanks to everyone who made this happen.

FWIW, in minikube, we've added a custom dynamic hostpath provisoner for local storage. This makes the abstraction much cleaner between development and production.

Disclosure: I work on minikube at Google
I am certain that this was a metaphor, not an actual comparison.
Explanation anyone?
Try arxiv, although I'll warn that if ICML and NIPS papers are too complicated for you, then you should probably stick to application papers like lipnet.
I tried https://appear.in recently for a short call with a student and it worked well. A friend and fellow freelancer also uses it, he said. One good point about it is if you need to do a quick ad-hoc call - it is browser-based (probably uses WebRTC), and also does not need to you create an account or sign in. Plan to try it more in future, as well as TeamSpeak which I also mentioned in this thread. I had installed Wire too, both on PC and Android phone, but not tried it yet with anyone.
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Just get them to pay a carbon tax which can be used to pay for installing renewable in the places where it makes sense. It's a global problem, and it needs global solutions.

And if they do happen to figure out something that's cheaper than the carbon tax they're paying (maybe they can extract biogas from waste food, sewage or farm slurry or maybe they just super-insulate their homes to save fuel) then they have an immediate financial incentive to roll it out.
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Elite and even state flagship universities do not see their mission as primarily career training [0]. You'll get that in vendor certification courses at your local community/technical college (Microsoft Certified whatever, Oracle Certified whatever, Cisco Certified whatever). Not generally under the heading "computer science."

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2015/02/...
>I think this fact alone invalidates the data

It invalidates the data? How so? Or do you mean conclusion?

Even so, there's nothing inherent with "a few days" that makes the analysis invalid due to sample size; that depends on the nature of the data. In my employment we are measuring changes hour to hour.
It's the seemingly fruitless effort that builds up our familiarity with a problem via intense focus on each small detail. With the clear, detailed problem built up, Poincare could look at it from a distance and see the solution.