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here, hangon, I had a Bloch quote that was kinda awesome:

"What, probably, more than anything else marks the true leader is the power to clench his teeth and hang on, the ability to impart to others a confidence that he feels himself. This he can do only if he does feel it. Never, until the very last moment, must he despair of his own genius. Above all, he must be willing to accept for the men under him, no less than for himself, sacrifices which may be productive of good, rather than a shameful yielding which must remain for ever useless" - Marc Bloch "Strange Defeat"

This quote really hit me because I have been thinking about my own failures as a leader and as a businessperson; I approached leadership as you would approach a technician job. Honesty is important. Openness to new ideas is important. Humility is pleasant. Confidence is irrelevant.

It is great for a technician to say "I'm happy to do everything I can to make the project at hand succeed. I see it as my responsibility, though, to tell you that it will probably fail anyhow, for these reasons."

That makes you a good technician; But a bad leader. It's interesting, because I think that you are a bad technician if you act like a leader and show confidence when the chances don't warrant that confidence. You are, then, lying, and while people will follow a lying leader to the end of the earth, if s/he is good enough at it, a lying technician is nothing but a liability. A lying technician is worth less than nothing. A lot less.

Leaders, of course, have been selected for and trained for leadership, so they are attuned to those qualities. They end up picking confidence and other leadership qualities over honesty, humility an other technician qualities, even when they pick technicians. This is one of the big reasons why I thought I could be a leader, and one of the reasons I was able to pay my rent in that role, even though I couldn't approach opportunity cost profitability... I really am way better at selecting technicians than someone who thinks like a manager usually is, mostly because I don't give points for confidence. Unfortunately, that is only one aspect of management, one that is not particularly profitable on it's own.

I personally think that as a technician, the best way to handle this, the best way to project confidence to the boss while still maintaining the honesty and humility required is to always act confident around the boss, because otherwise they won't listen to you, but then to give percentages "I'm 65% certain that solution Z will solve the problem at hand" - that way you maintain the actual honesty, while still projecting the confidence that some bosses require.
True, in Finland it's very good if you get 50k. Most SW engineers work for 25-40k salaries.
You didn't answer the question. Are you affiliated with them?
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14013996
This is a lead position. 70k is low.
Pegasus App on Android: Technical Analysis [pdf]
That's not the point. The company has no right to deprive a user who paid from receiving the product.

You don't get to do a personality test on your customers. Some will be jerks and it's their right. Someone who doesn't recognize that others are under no obligation to like you is dangerous to society.
[edit]: Current finance professional here.

> When two companies have wildly different capital structures, you have to compare them on enterprise value, not the market cap of their equity. So while I give kudos to Tesla for building a valuable business, it still has a long way to go to catch up to Ford.

That is not necessarily true.

Market cap and enterprise value are two equally valid ways of measuring value or worth. There are even more ways to measure value, such as DCF or value of assets. All of these have their pros and cons.

In this case, my personal opinion is that market cap is a very meaningful way to measure Tesla/Ford and that it's noteworthy that Tesla has passed Ford.

I think it is very meaningful because it (loosely) implies that the present value of Tesla's profits (i.e. net profit after tax) is higher than Ford's. Even on a risk-weighted basis. Or, at least, that's roughly-kinda-sorta what the market believes.

I would argue that enterprise value would be more meaningful that market cap if we were talking about which company was 'bigger'. However, the interesting thing here is that Tesla has become more 'valuable' than Ford, for this definition of value.
As a company owner where most work is done remotely, I believe it is just education, people have been brainwashed all his life, and it takes time and work to make people operative remotely.

Working remotely means you can life whenever you want,not just in cheap places, (in practice anywhere in the US, as living in other countries have political problems like taxes and bureaucracy) L.A or New York, but people are not conscious they can, and that is the biggest problem, the biggest limitation is the one implanted in their mind.

I love traveling and after some time I need to go met a new city.

In remote working, we have to teach the people the most basic things like they are children or even worse because children would learn it right away but people have to unlearn what they already know.

They know you go to a locked place called school when you get with other people and do what other tell them to do. Over time you don't need physical locks, the locks are already in people's heads.

This behavior has been trained for years. Anything alternative competes with this psychological training.

This model place called school was designed after 1850 in order to train people for the industrial revolution, and it worked wonders for it.

We can't really understand the consequences of improved communications like talking from the US to Japan ultra cheap, simply and fast.

This happened over my lifetime, so social structures have not adapted to the new reality.

It is such a big problem that I am seriously considering creating a company just to train other companies to work remotely.
A* dates back to 1968 [0]

It's an extension of Dijkstra's algorithm that adds a few heuristics.

[0] http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4082128/
Yes, the device the user paid 99 dollars for and is now useless. So for the user to get his money back he has to send back the device.
People get by with a lot less. The median household income in London was £39k in 2013 [1]

[1] https://data.london.gov.uk/apps_and_analysis/gla-household-i...
A few reasons.

1. Ignorance.

2. Not-invented-here syndrome.

3. They want to own your IOT ecosystem with their proprietary protocol.
Because the farmers get paid next to nothing so disrupting supply does nothing to raise costs (the usual measure of the effect a supply side policy has). Mexican weed production soared because the authorities were pulled into cities due to violence leaving the rural terrain uncovered.

Narconomics is a good read on the various measures that have been tried. Going after poor South American farmers these days means the cartels just means the cartels don't pay them as much.

Far too much policy making around narcotics is done by knee-jerk reactions, on both sides.
Nice find.

I personally claim that I am aware of much more really deep mathematics and programming problems that I would love to solve than I have lifetime. Using this money to fund a company to implement all these ideas (without investors on the tail) sounds like a quite fun idea to me.

So I personally believe that the problem that notch describes (in particular "The problem with getting everything is you run out of reasons to keep trying") would only exist in a strongly reduced version if I became a billionaire.
I hope notch pulls a jk Rowling, creates a pseudonym and makes another game.

Minecraft alpha was fun. Quirky weird and awesome. I like to think notch was happy building that. He could start another, and cultivate a community. If it sucks (the pressure), open source it.

Or whatever, it's his life, and I wish him all the best.
That is not a EU permanent residency permit. It is just for Cyprus. Cyprus is not even in Schengen, and this permit doesn't even allow free travel, you still need a visa to go even to Greece. It also gives no right to work or do any kind of business (even in Cyprus), i.e. it is against the goals of these people, it is mostly for retirees.

A 2-year residence permit which becomes permanent in 5 years is easy to get in any Baltic country, and it is a lot less restricting. That is, if you are too rich to work, but not rich enough to buy a passport. Otherwise you can get a permanent permit in Germany after 2 years of work which will give you full rights similar to U.S. green card, in all of the EU.
Doesn't the link you're pointing to kind of refute your critisism that legalization doesn't help mexico? It seems to say that the main reason there's a black market, is to sell high-quality colorado-grown weed to the rest of the US. Is that a shocker? And is that really that bad?

So doesn't that imply that it might be displacing weed from Mexico, from violent cartels, with weed grown in the US from less violent black markets?

And who ever said that weed-smoking, weed-growing or black markets would decline? That's a huge straw man right there. The point is to replace a smaller amount of very bad stuff (black markets linked to violent crime, bad quality weed, unregulated untaxed sales, etc), with more of something much better. More people smoking weed isn't necessarily bad, if it's more regulated.

It's surprising how often it has to be repeated that there's no qualitative difference between alcohol and other drugs. It's plainly obvious that legal but very strictly regulated sale of alcohol is the best solution. It's odd that it's so hard to see that it's the same for all other drugs.

I suppose that the problem is that the US doesn't know how to strike a good balance. You either gotta go all out war-on-drugs, or you gotta go laissez-faire. You don't know how to strike a balance. Maybe look to other countries for solutions. Every heard of government monopolies for alcohol sale? Funny thing is, when you combine this with universal healthcare, then the government that sells you alcohol, is the same that has to take the consequences from overconsumption. So you got someone who wants to sell to you (to avoid black markets), but not too much. That's exactly the incentives you want from a drug seller.
The product is basically a cloud-enabled garage door remote. It doesn't replace the buttons on the wall in the garage, nor does it replace the garage door opener you use in your car, or however it is you work your door. It supplements them, like buying a spare remote, except this one is app-enabled and can be used without line-of-sight to the door.

I have a smart garage door opener, smart deadbolt, smart car (remote start/heat/cool/etc), smart thermostat, smart light fixtures, smart smoke detector... all of them function without internet, or power, as applicable. Light switches, buttons, keys, etc still work. Most smart devices are like that; the remote functionality is supplemental, not a replacement.
Yep. Want to become resident in the UK? Agree to invest £1m and a "Tier 1" visa is yours: https://www.gov.uk/tier-1-investor. The US has a similar programme to sell Immigrant Investor Visas: https://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/immigrate/Immigran....
This is actually not true if you hope to sell long term as an Amazon marketplace seller.
make a 15" version that weights only 2kg and has 1080p or the retina size and maybe for some people the 4k version.
with fedora and open hardware.
i would buy it on day one.
"Bricked" being an irreversible state, I agree (technically). If there isn't a way for the customer to reverse the ban, it might as well be bricked in the practical sense, from the customer's perspective.
NET Core instead of Nodejs – claimed 2000 percent increase in throughput
While i don't necessarily agree with the overall dystopian tone of this article (almost a version of - richest person in the room is also the saddest one), I have to agree on some of the points. Below is my take on this :

1. Having more money does present you with complications. You can't just keep it in a Savings account and ignore it. You just can't , especially for long periods of time. This adds a significant amount of stress, much more than you would've imagined !

2. You start making investments (good and bad). With bad, you learn a lesson and move on. With good, you again go back to the first point.

3. Worst problem is when you invest in expensive/market-risk assets (Ex:a house). After your purchase, if the market goes bad/you don't want to maintain it etc., it becomes a burden like no other. There are many a sleepless nights to be had in anticipation of the outcome.

4. I've a friend who goes to a 9-5 job, stays in a rented house, has a small piece of land he has bought as an investment for his old days, and spends most of his free time watching movies (basically doing what he likes). He doesn't have a fancy car (he actually doesn't have any car), or a fancy house, but he seems quite happy with what he has. That's the crux of the article I presume ?
Because that's where the jobs are. I'm always wondering why the most interesting and best paid sofware openings in EU are in the shithole cities cities like London, Paris, Zurich, Munich etc (I'm not talking about these "best cities to live" rankings). Try renting anything livable there - it's not only extortionate but can be very difficult in terms of required documentation, try to eat out or use any services (prices), hanging out is difficult (Germany is simply old in terms of demographics, Switzerland boring and formal), etc. Don't make me relocate there.
Hmm.. in that case some sort of classification should be there. Games are non-essential but temperature controller, door openers and locks are essential functionalities.

As a general rule the manufacturers of IOT devices should be made by law release the server side code/binaries that a consumer could run by yourself (and also provide configuration options on the hardware device itself).
I know it won't be of much use to most consumers as of now but as people become more techology-literate they should be able to download a container, choose a cloud provider and upload it to run the backend.

As IPv6 become more popular home routers could expand their functionality to provide container hosting.

edit: Added the part about self-hosting.
I'll just note that this entry was posted twice, by two different accounts, with the same title, even though it does not appear anywhere in the site. PR effort for or against.
Or the Google equivalent if you are on Android -http://www.gstatic.com/generate_204
The content ads in the article like "Rich people use these 6 mental tricks to make more money" or "How rich people save" are kind of funny - and sad at the same time.
It causes incremental demand for H1-B visas from H-4 dependents whose specialized skills were not sufficient to warrant an issuance of an H1-B visa in the first place. This could be happening at the expense of more qualified H1-B candidates without physical presence in the country, as well as at the expense of citizens and permanent residents.
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Indeed. And games have stopped flaunting advanced effects like environment-based dynamic reverb and position-based occlusion etc.

What the hell happened?

I suspect it was Microsoft's push for the dumbed-down XBOX, which also cost us the more advanced DirectInput API in favor of XInput (which, the last time I checked, was missing many features from the older API, like complex force-feedback.)
> trying to stick it to the little indiegogo guy

If it was purchased from Amazon the customer may not know anything about the indiegogo or the size of the "company". Just expected to get a working product.
i still miss an official dock. :/
the extensions are quite nasty.. they don't feel right and don't integrate very well.
> took long lead time, high cost, high risk tasks and made them like ordering Chinese food.

Come to think of it, that almost sounds like what Tessa is beginning to achieve with large scale electrical storage. [1]

[1]: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/01/30/business/energy-enviro...
He mentions the "basic necessities being taken care of", but I just want to mention again that a certain amount of money can make a surprising amount of problems go away. I don't think that aspect should be underestimated. As I am scrambling by these days, I often run into these problems.

For example recently our dishwasher broke down. I spent a lot of time deciding whether to get it repaired or buy a new one, and then researching the latter. With money I would have saved lots of time by simply buying a medium priced new one off the internet.

Health issues, accommodation, travel plans, lots of worries can go away and they wear down people who don't have the cash. For example we often stress out about travel plans because we have to book far in advance or it gets too expensive. (I know these sound like luxury problems, but when it is a strain on the marriage it can escalate into real problems quickly).

On the other hand, it seems a lot of people feel rich when they aren't yet. For example, 5 Million $ doesn't seem that rich to me, more like a slightly higher pension prospect.

I have friends in the tech industry who have some money (not super rich) and take it slow, not taking into account that one day their needs might change and they might suddenly need a lot more money, and have less opportunities to earn it (for example because they get a family, or health issues).
Managers, CEOs, police officers, border agents, and presidents can also be childish, vindictive, and sexist - but they're rarely subject to similar oversight.

There's something disturbingly paternal about the idea that unusually clever and/or creative people can't be trusted to act like adults and therefore need adult supervision from people with authority over them.
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Introducing BOSH
> and I get paid only 20% less than I did in SF

Out of curiosity, did you start your current job while in SF and then moved? Or did you find the job while you were already overseas? If the latter, was the hiring process remote too?
sounds great, but is Nodejs really becoming slower? Were they just using it wrong?

.NET Core does sound attractive to an old .NET dev like me (I really like C#) but I can't see that an apples to apples comparison across the board would result in such a wild difference for all applications, am I wrong?
> Obviously both are worth the same amount: each company has an "enterprise value" (the value that all investors in all securities place on the underlying enterprise) of $1,000,000. The only difference is that company A has only one class of investor, while company B has investors that own a riskier asset (the equity) and a less risky asset (the debt).

There's an important issue that you aren't taking into consideration. The value of the equity is ultimately based on the profit that remains after interest/debt has been paid.

In your example, it is perfectly valid (if not MORE valid) to say that Company A is worth more than Company B.

The investors in Company B figured that at the end of the day they will only be eligible for half the cash that investors in Company A will be eligible for. So they paid a lower price.

You're insisting that debt is another form of investment, and depending on what you're looking at that makes sense, but when talking about 'value' it doesn't always hold true.
Client isn't "bad". They are a customer not a client, the relationship is so very different, you can't just fire a customer or tell them to go away, especially not if you're selling your product on Amazon where people have an expectation of quality.
I absolutely second that.

And the problem is: the industry's interest is to lock you in on their cloud so that you end up paying a recurring fee of some sort, while the public's interest is clearly to be as free as possible from the manufacturer once you have purchased from them...

So until there is clear regulation about what you own, what you don't, and what your (preferably protective) rights really are when you purchase a device that relies on the manufacturer's cloud for operation, and even more generally, when you seem to own some thing but the manufacturer explains in the fine print that you only have a "license to use" that thing that limits what you can do with it ; until that, my friends, we're going to be at the mercy of manufacturers acting in their own interest, punto.
In terms of raw income, sure. However one might consider modern social security and employee protection standards as part of the compensation.
Except mobile OS never suffered even 10% of the problems Windows had.

You don't have 1000 toolbar crippling your mama's android browser.

I never had to reformat my mobile to "make a clean" install, and certainly not every 6 month like I used to do with windows.

We never had any large scale infection on Android like confiker.

Reports of anything bad, virus, worms, rootkits... happening on Android are incredibly rare and never happened with my relatives.

Clearly we can't hold Google to the same standard as MS, because they are not even on the same level.
> A PDF viewer that supports highlighting.

Tried Okular?

> A better email app. Currently none can be said to work very well. I'm actually considering mutt at this point

Switching to Mu4e was the best thing I ever did to my emails. If someone doesn't know/doesn't want to pick up Emacs then I'd recommend Mutt all the way.
This whole area feels like the territory the super-injunctions came out of.

There is almost no coming back from widespread bad publicity, no way to equally show the other side of the discussion, and its only getting easier to take your 5 minutes of frustration to the largest platform in the world and complain before doing a single minute of work, thought or reasoning.

I don't think its a bad attitude to simply say "I don't want to work with those who don't want to work with me."