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Opinionated take about costs and benefits that doesn't make strong statements about whether remote work or onsite is better:

For context: I moved from NYC to Philadelphia, to finish my thesis and be with my wife who works at the world's best children's hospital. I have lived in Portland, Chicago, and spent extensive time in Toronto. I haven't spent much time in SF.

The change in cost of living is dramatic, and the quality of life is higher by far. I have eaten in extraordinary restaurants in my life and I don't feel Philadelphia suffers in that regard. There is a similar caliber of restaurant (with the exception of a very select few you are likely to eat at a few times a year and could honestly fly to and still save money). While I'm sure ballet and music are better in NYC, I'm not sure most consumers can tell the difference or whether it's worth living nearby.

I don't like remote work as much, and I make no arguments about remote work vs onsite. The talent pool in big areas is probably a huge plus for expensive areas (although healthcare related industry is probably great in Philadelphia, so maybe I haven't lost much there). And if you need onsite workers (again, that's maybe best, I have no argument either way), you can just hire them in SF. (You could probably pay 2x going rate adjusted for cost of living in Philadelphia and still come out ahead, but it might be harder to hire replacements). Quantity of cool jobs is definitely lower.

But if your goal is just financial independence, you could cut your rent to 20-40% of NYC and be within walking distance to work here, it's like getting a 3x pay raise.

I miss certain things about NYC, to be clear. Philadelphia is smaller, there's less of the intense artist feel, less craziness in the streets and much, much more typically dressed men and women. I miss hundreds (literally) takeout places that deliver amazing food in 30 minutes.

I do not miss the trash in the streets (piled three times a week in big bags in Manhattan ) the smell (everyone knows that returning-to-NYC smell), the rats, or the 500 sq foot apartment I was lucky to get in Williamsburg that pales in comparison to the apartment I leased in one of the top ten neighborhoods to live within North America here in Philadelphia.
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I honestly sympathize with Garadget a bit more in this case. Some people are just "assholes" that are all too quick to give a one-star review over the slightest thing, and it looks like this customer was one of them. The customer is not always right.

EDIT: Sorry for being inflammatory here.
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When you xor data with truly random data, the result is just as truly random as the original random data. Consider this: considering that xor is its own inverse, how would a court distinguish the original and the xored random data?

Perhaps you're right, and the latter is legally considered copyrighted. However, on a practical level, this is completely unenforcable; so long as you never state the way the data came about, there is no way to acertain the connection (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/one-time_pad).

This is what the lawyer of the article believes: the xored data is copyrighted. He explains it by introducing a metaphysical "colour" associated with the data. Given that litigation can only occur when you have stated that the data is a transformation of a copyrighted work, it seems much simpler to ascribe the litigation to your statement, rather than to "colour".

I am under the impression that "copying", as far as copyright goes, really refers to distributing. You are legally entitled to make a single backup of copyrighted work you come into possession of. If this backup was stored in the cloud, I imagine no one would mind, unless you handed your password out to just anyone. This is why I believe that distributing an encrypted copy is safe - without the password, it doesn't constitute distributing the original.

As you said, copyright is confusing, so I may be wrong on the previous count. However, the fair use claim is much easier than you make it out to be. One clause of fair use is that the work doesn't compete with the original. An encrypted file, being useless for consuming the original, surely doesn't compete with it.
No, it's probably more like 4 1-hour interviews where they do whiteboard coding 2 - 4 times for 30 minutes and the rest of it discussing other previous experience, what they are looking, what the company's doing now and looking to do in the future, etc.
Most of my assumptions are baseless, and only generated based on my anecdotal evidence, life experience, and the occasional Google search. No refunds!
Does anyone know when this guidance was first released? I see it cited as far back as 2004 but I seem to remember it earlier than that.
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I don't understand how this is a bad thing, I mean to Google is a verb, to Photoshop ® is to edit photos, it means that their product is the absolute best in its category so much so that it became a verb. Most startup folks would kill it to have their product be a synonym with a verb.
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Nothing stops you from discussing your own work. Typically I ask people about past work...
That article gives some more details about when and where it happened:

On a cold morning in February 2015, a group of men left the spacious Google X headquarters in Mountain View, California, before daybreak. They traveled more than two hours east to some trailers parked in the middle of nowhere, on private ranch lands in California's Central Valley...And on this day, their complaints turned into terror. One of their team members, a man in his mid-50s, collapsed on the job...

While the Central Valley can have searing heat in the summer, it's generally less so in the winter... so I looked up the weather for Merced, CA in Feb 2015 and temperatures were:

Max: 75 °F	Avg: 67 °F	Min: 55 °F [1]

While 75 is warm when doing heavy labor, it sounds like the article is exaggerating when it refers to "...extreme temperatures of the Central Valley..."

[1] https://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KMCE/2015/2/13/...
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I think it's an excellent excuse to try to get people to stop making implicit product recommendations and reinforcing a de facto standard (monpoly?) when they are really just trying to say "photo editing".

Adobe's Creative Suite is a little pet peeve of mine. Many people I know have it illegally (I'm a student, so that says something about the financial capabilities of my peers), and even if they can afford it they say they don't use it professionally or not enough to warrant buying it. Many are even software developers themselves. Some subjects in the study I do even require using Adobe Photoshop specifically, but kindly ask people to buy it rather than supplying a license "because it's too expensive to provide for everyone". (So they think the students can afford it then? I'm quite certain they're just covertly asking us to violate copyright laws here.) If it's all so terribly expensive and apparently we can't negotiate with this overlord, why don't we try to get rid of this industry standard?
BL2 was fun and I sunk 100+ hours into it and enjoyed it a lot, the writing was good other than Tiny Tina who was just annoying. There was nothing complex it about it though, the weapon tiers were well defined and the gameplay boiled down to "farm for better guns" after awhile.
Truthfully he might not even be scared of jail. He probably has the most power in uber right now in terms of negotiation and can probably get immunity for a full confession.
I wonder if Xerox went through the same mental gymnastics on their path down the drain?
> The customer is not always right.

"The customer is always right" never meant that customer service should be a door mat, but rather comes from advertising and the idea that consumers will spend their money on products that best fit their needs at the best value. If you sell something noone wants, or at too high a price, you'll gain little to no market share.
I'm sure any negative review is painful, but that hardly seems to cross any lines.

"Abusive language" is really, really, really stretching it.
Carry the torch friend, I gave up the battle long ago. My last remnants of caring are my recurring donations to the EFF and Public Knowledge.
Look at the timing.

This was an Amazon purchase. The developer mentions Saturday, and how the Amazon review was left around the same time as the forum post, so presumably the the item was delivered on that same day. That's gonna be a bad experience for both sides: The purchaser has to wait until Monday to return, and the developer has to deal with (what I expect is) a drive-by flame. It's a Saturday night, and each side reacted poorly.

Honestly, I doubt the guy was going to continue attempting to use his device after leaving such a review, so the developer bricking it doesn't have any effect. In addition, the customer will get his money back via the Amazon return, so the developer was losing there anyway.

We don't know anything else, so I don't know what the actual problem would be. It could've been build quality, or shipping, or software, or the purchasers mobile device, or who knows what.

To be honest, based on what I see here, and speaking as someone who is just a customer, I believe the customer started the boulder running with his negative review and drive-by flame, and I feel lenient towards the developer.
Easiest solution is stack rank all H1b applicants by salary and fill the quota with based on ranking. Top talent in theory should be making the most money so we wouldn't risk losing them.
There is an assumption that developers could work anywhere. This isn't generally true, except in the sense that it's possible to do so in a way it hasn't been in previous decades thanks to the internet speeds and collaboration technology we enjoy today. In reality remote work opportunities are still very much a rarity and they tend to offer lower compensation.
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Believe it or not, I can see those with my eyes and when I tell people the light flickers, they usually don't believe me so I show it to them on my phone.
So then don't use it except if it's a necessary detail for the story.
"Lol" - yeah exactly. Where am I defending Hitler?
Not only a better link, but the only true link. HN is supposed to link the source, not reports on the source.
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It's possible. I got a job as a software engineer at Google despite having a degree in Economics and only knowing Javascript. I spent a lot of time studying data structures & algorithms on my own but it's do-able.
Xerox went to great lengths to prevent their trademark becoming generic in just this way. In the west, they succeeded, and so fell into obscurity—but at least with their trademark mostly intact. In India, where we in Australia would use the verb “photocopy”, they use the verb “xerox”. And a fair few of the machines actually are by Xerox (though far from all of them).
Someone should alert them that their phone number on the bottom is missing a digit somewhere.
Garadget is a "cloud-enabled garage door opener" sold for $99 on Amazon.

The manufacturer seemingly disabled the product, or primary advertised features of the product, in retribution for a short negative review left on Amazon.

IMO Amazon should immediately drop the product when they catch wind of that, and so should any other retailer that carries it. The manufacturer's abused their relationship with the retailer (which now has to handle a return of a perfectly good device they sold) and the customers (who now have to fear retribution for reviewing products they purchased at retailers).

Regardless of whether the content of the review was justified or not, this probably won't go well for Garadget, whoever he is. A journalist has already reached out to the customer.

I can sympathize with being frustrated with customers. It takes a lot of self-control to remain professional at times. If you don't have that kind of self-control, you need to hire someone else to do customer support that does, or you won't have a very successful business. Being the boss doesn't mean there are no repercussions for your actions.
I believe that is a bit of an oversimplification of the overall thing.

Most of the legal agreements - customer/consumer usually lose because of the super vague and often-in-favor of the company providing the loan/service.

I am not sure if you meant font size literally.
It's just absolutely fantastic how much the world has changed since this article was written. Let's see...

In one paragraph, we have:

> Damaged Cybernetics was a general grey-area information group. Their main goal, so they said, was to free as much information as possible, for, as the saying goes, information wants to be free. They had sections on their website dedicated to such things as Audio Piracy information (the ripping of CD-DA Audio Tracks and compression to the MPEG-2 Layer 3 audio format),

followed in the next paragraph by:

> What exactly is grey area information, you may ask? It is information that many people would rather not touch with a ten foot pole. It lies somewhere between the realm of legal and illegal.

It's genuinely hard to imagine a world where ripping your own CDs to MP3 was considered "grey area information" that you wouldn't want to "touch with a ten foot pole". The '90s was a very different place.

And then there's this:

> How did he steal the source code? Sardu was running Windows 95 at the time. He made the mistake of leaving drive sharing on (which should not have been on by default, but for some reason, it was on). MindRape was then able to mount Sardu's hard drive (since drive sharing was enabled) with Samba. Pretty clever, right? Regardless, he did this and not only was he able to retrieve the NESticle source code, he was able to look through all of his drives. His Zip drive. His hard drive. His CD-ROM drive. Whatever he wanted. Such an invasion of privacy is ridiculous, but this is what transpired.

Mounting somebody's hard drive through Samba over the open Internet! Of course, this was back in the days of dialup, when everyone's desktop computer had a public IP address. You'd dial in to your ISP, and the IP would be directly assigned to your PC. And, of course, IRC networks back then had no concept of shrouds, so you could just find somebody on IRC, get their IP, and start hitting their open ports! A lot of people will vehemently say that a NAT router isn't a proper substitute for a real firewall... but in this case, it would have prevented this attack. Even the most dirt simple of NAT routers would prevent some rando from over the Internet mounting your HDD via Samba. At the very least they'd have to spear-phish you into running a trojan now. But, of course, home NAT routers weren't a thing until people started using cable and DSL and having multiple computers sharing the same Internet connection. Back in the days of dialup, if you had multiple machines, you paid out the nose for multiple phone lines and then you paid your ISP an extra $5-10/month to allow you to have multiple simultaneous connections on the same account (or you had multiple ISPs; hey, they were only $20 a month and there were dozens to choose from in every major metro area).

The mention of the Zip drive dates it, too. Man, remember when every major PC manufacturer was putting internal Zip drives in their computers? That was a looooooooooooong time ago...
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No, go learn a trade, join a union, and in 5-10 years, make 100k+...

You can easily make what an average lead developer makes if you pursue a career in the industrial operations industry (power plant operator, bulk electric system operator, etc.)
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So your brand got the rare honour of being used in many languages of the world as a verb, burning the brand to peoples heads and then, instead of being damn proud, you publish such a marketing nonsense and slam it in peoples faces? Are you kidding me?? Really, your marketing department thinks this is wrong? Challenge accepted. Let me GIMP your brand out of my mental image.
> If a company really wants to test someone's programming ability in an interview, I feel like the best thing to do would be to make up a programming language, give them a reference sheet, and then ask them to program a couple different versions of fizz-bizz.

Are you joking? Doing fizz-buzz is way too low of a bar. That doesn't even show you can use standard classes and things, like maps and lists.

> but I think you'd at least be testing the skills people actually use when programming

That would tests very few of them, unfortunately.

> rather than whether they can remember every bit of syntax from every language they have listed on their resume

No one I see tests for syntax, but for the more important/broader concepts.

> if I lied and said I knew javascript, I'd almost certainly fail a programming test that used a made-up language based on it.

Probably not. Most mainstream languages have pretty similar syntax. And if you expected people to know others without warning, people would raise hell. Anyone who knows C can probably guess the gist of what a small snippet of non-tricky Javascript does.
The point is that many technical users do not install custom versions of Android, though. We all agree on non technical users, but changing Android version is still more complex, to the point that many people comfortable with upgrading a desktop will not mess with their phone
> this COULD also backfire as bad publicity.

Assuming the review that nneonneo found is the correct one, then a journalist has already replied wanting more info, so it seems plausible that some bad publicity will come from it.

https://www.amazon.com/review/R2XHHHGM6BEUG6/ref=cm_cr_rev_d...
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I think this is a bad thing to do. Customers bad-mouth companies all the time, most of the times just temporary. Best to try to please them or to ignore it. "Customer is always right" is in the end one of the best strategies, even if it isn't true.

It takes great arrogance to ban someone bad-mouthing your product. I don't think it is illegal and I don't think it should be, but I do think you should be able to get a full refund.

Besides, getting banned for services you leave a bad review on is really bad practice. Imagine a world where leaving bad reviews results in a ban from that service... It would greatly reduce customer's trust in their products

Edit: The journalist comment on the amazon review (linked below). That might burn, hehe
To be fair, that guy could have been an ass..
I have half sleeve and never had issues in either Europe or States.
> but it is very impressive compared to Latin America and Europe's largest country, Russia.

"Better than Russia!" isn't much to brag about when it comes to social niceties. Given that the US starts out at half Russia's homicide rate even before you filter out anything, it seems like you're intentionally selecting a very bad comparator to make it look good.

And given that 17 of the top 20 homicide-rate countries are in Latin America, that's an even worse comparator. Indeed, the top 4 countries that are around double #5 and below, they're all in Latin America. You couldn't ask for a worse comparator - being better than the most extreme outliers isn't "very impressive" in the slightest.

Likewise, if you're pulling the trick of "oh, don't include the bits where the crime really happens", you need to do the same to the other countries you're comparing against. They have crime centers as well, and it's not an apples-to-apples comparison if you don't treat them similarly.
I agree. Unfortunately, loud people want to be loud, and you have a problem if you want quiet.

Also I hate loud music in every cafe/store.

Why are people so scared of a bit of quiet reflection/concentration?
It reminds me of "Legos".

It is a shibboleth, and the "Lego community" is incredibly serious about it, to the point of incivility, but who cares?
he's saying "lots of people are probably running this scam" as an explanation his shitty experience with the shittiness that is the bay area housing market.
Net on the list: Google is not a verb.
So he can return it for a refund. They're revoking his usage of the service. It's petty, it's going to Streisand them for a while, but it's certainly not illegal.

Perhaps a good analogy is getting banned from bnet after having bought Starcraft/Diablo CD... but in this case they're offering a refund for return.
I'm talking about the DLC. And you're conflating complexity with creativity and narrative depth.
>That requires that you can afford to buy a plane ticket and then spend nine months not working while paying US cost of living and pregnancy-related medical expenses out of pocket, which puts it out of reach for most people in the world.

Uh... It requires literally none of those things. You can get into the US on a car, train, boat, bicycle or a good pair of chanclas. You certainly don't need to be here nine months to have a kid. You can certainly find work in that time, and emergency medical care is "free". And while yes, it means more people, those people are a far cry from new immigrants and their numbers can still be limited federally. And regardless, with 12 million immigrants here already, the number of births won't be changing much any time soon.

I think you're rather missing the forest for the trees with the rest.
If you have F.E.A.R. on Steam, the SDK is still available and contains most of the AI code, be careful of licensing issues but it's interesting to study.
Wait a little while and the share price will crash. It does every once in a while. In my opinion the stock is richly valued right now, based on assumptions that everything will go pretty good with the Model 3 launch.
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