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Such tests are not very informative when they are disconnected from the type of companies/industries one is looking for. This is a criticism I have of the Joel test, too, since at the time he wrote it it seemed to me a good way to evaluate prospective software houses. After all, he worked in one. Yet I dare say most of us will probably spend at least part of our careers working in in-house IT departments. Different rules.

It is not unlikely to find companies that fulfill all requirements, although they will likely know how attractive their working environments are and will filter candidates accordingly. An interview I had with such a small-sized software house two months ago confirmed this. I gave them the Joel test, which they had never heard of before, and they scored perfect. Dedicated testers, usability testing, quiet working environments (like a library, the team lead said; no need for headphones). Predictably, they were extremely picky as to who they let in.

The ones much less likely to get good test scores?
1) Government IT, by and large
2) IT for any non-tech company less than a certain size.
3) Non-tech corporations (and even some tech ones). One notable one I was aware of used excel for bug tracking, was full of red tape and their main technical test was a 20 question multiple choice.
Its pretty complex. For instance, growing plants means essentially sterilizing the ground under them, killing tens of thousands of small rodents. Millions of insects. Billions of soil microorganisms.
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Not to mention that IQ is such a blunt statistic. There's a guy I've known since 1st grade who I'd assert has a way higher IQ than me. When we were in high-school he was 2 or 3 years ahead of me in math and still breezing through. He was helping me install and configure php and apache while we were freshmen.

We enrolled in the same college at the same time, but his mom died. He dropped out and got a job working at Taco Bell. He's worked there ever since. Just a single acute stressor changed his track and now by all accounts he's stuck. His crappy job keeps him working strange shifts and he can never accumulate anything for savings. When you have like 20$ of disposable income after working 40+ hours a week everything seems out of reach.
Saying IQ is trending towards correlating to earnings feels like an elitist cop-out. I certainly hope they're right for the sake of all my anecdotal life experiences! I've met a lot of foolish people in fantastically lucrative situations and really smart people on the rocks.
>For instance , there is no one reason that I am able to recognize a dog as such. Any feature or combination of features I can think of can be had in another animal. Something deeper is happening when I am able to correctly identify dogs that is unexplainable, at least by me.

Well, your categorization judgement is probabilistic. Some features make "dogness" more likely, some less likely. However, there is in fact a specific causal structure which constitutes dogness (ie: organism grown via natural reproduction along the canid species-history, with the accompanying genotype and within normal phenotypical variation). Your brain tries to learn a causal model which approximates the correct causal structure, given the evidence available to your senses.

Better: the human brain also seems to perform second-order inference, reasoning about which models predict most precisely, what's relevant to what, and which latent parameters in the learned causal model are most relevant.

So when you see a dog-like tail versus a cat-like tail, you can identify which apparent features are making you say "dog" or "cat" most strongly, which ones are the strongest evidence.
Or perhaps your kids will suddenly get "ill" if you don't comply. Carrot and stick you know.
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No, boil those after and make soup
We've been playing around with this as a way to help explain how Radbot (myradbot.com) can save 30--50% of a typical UK heating bill (and carbon footprint) but we think that this is probably still too complex.

Suggestions welcome!

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You can find good food in most medium-sized and larger cities but you have to seek it out. And the local treasure may surprise you. Food trucks have been great for finding tasty fare the last decade or so.

That said, I do think there are two standout foods that are ubiquitous in America although they vary by region. 1) bbq; 2) the sandwich. Behold the great American sandwich in all its varied forms:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/04/14/dining/field-...
If you are replaceable you need to focus on building some skills which make you invaluable. Amazon can replace an unskilled warehouse worker without blinking. When a good programmer leaves the company though it's a painful and costly effort to re-staff the work/projects they were doing.
>Do you contribute to Open Source?

Of all the Merits, this is one I disagree with. It's merit is primarily "joining like minded folks" (i.e. cult) than any inherent merit in and of itself.

How many great developers do you know who do not have this "merit"?
It was, for the most part, regular DRM and proprietary data/hardware format stuff that is common across industries.

The very high cost of the equipment if it were bricked for license violation, and the very narrow windows for being able to use the equipment (if you need to call John Deere and have them re-enable your tractor you've just potentially lost out on an entire seasons revenue) were also big factors. Many of the farmers that we talked to were fed up enough that they would have risked it, but between our own direct legal risks, and the risk to our reputation if our customers equipment started getting bricked, was enough to stop us from moving forward.
For software developers (especially in SV) bonuses can be quite a big chunk of their "paycheck".
Forgive me, I hear you and agree with a lot of what you say, but I do not trust corporations. I think they will replace you to save the job of your superior, to reduce costs, or increase profits. You are fortunate, and I hope it continues for you, but caution to never get comfortable.
I don't think there is a goal. I think it's a relatively organic community made up of loosely connected people who are all susceptible to conspiratorial thinking.
But the distribution of returns isn't symmetric. With the losers, you can lose at most 100% of your investment; with the winners, you can make a lot more.
I assume that often these theories are first perpetuated by someone who is joking, but then people take it seriously.
Another way to frame it is how well people can bounce back from a medical emergency. The poorer you are, the harder it is to come back to even where you were before the incident.

Medical bills get out of hand but blue collar workers often find themselves out of work, fired because they couldn't make it to work through no fault of their own.

Our society punishes people for being poor and it's disgusting that it's so hard to even get people to acknowledge this, much less try to fix it.
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They've just hired one the founder of Kubernetes so my guess would be yes https://www.onmsft.com/news/google-engineer-kubernetes-found...
PGMs and neural networks are usually two completely different things. Neural networks involve graphs, but those graphs usually represent continuous relaxations of circuits -- rather than probability models.
Well, you can make breast meat juicy and awesome, but it's just much more difficult, especially with the ridiculous size pieces you get nowadays.
Next week, Flynn to Join Apple.

Let the PaaS arms race begin.
The barrier of running an EU B2C business is so high if you need to sell all over EU that most of the time it doesn't even make sense. It's a shame because if you're in the EU and you want to bootstrap a small B2C business you have no choice other than sticking to the country you're in.
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This site was released for just about one week, and yes, we know there're still many many problems, we will fix that as soon as possible.
I am confused by this as well. I thought does was part of engineyard. Can someone clarify? And does this affect dokku by any chance?
That's a poor example. I switched to buying my phones in cash and overall I'm now paying more when I total everything up.

Not buying on credit would be a more useful example.

But to answer, I don't think it matters much at all. Saving can certainly increase your wealth. It won't do much for your income unless you're already quite wealthy. Earned income is the biggest factor for economic status. If you're poor, your income is low. If you're wealthy, your income is almost certainly quite high.
As far as I can tell there's a huge overlap between flat earthers and fundamentalist religious beliefs. If you go digging into their resources you'll very often find treatises about "the science of the Bible" and similar things. As such you'll often see the same people arguing for a flat earth, intelligent design, 6000yo earth and similar things.

See for instance this video I was just watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LNT3CucL6c

It's a video about how NASA supposedly fakes the Mars rover pictures, yet the description starts with "I believe the pope of Rome is Antichrist (Daniel 7:7-27,2Thessalonians 2:1-12,2Peter 2:1-22,1John 2:18-25, Revelation 13:1-9) and Rome 'Mystery Babylon the Great the Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth' (Revelation 17:1-18)."

This is one of the first resources on the "flat earth society" website: http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/library/books/Is%20the%20...

I haven't read through it but it features a chapter called "The Bible and science", an other "Moses and geologists" and a third one "science versus christianity".

I'm sure this tale of a primeval forest being destroyed by evil beings resonates with people who believe in flood myths and the like.

In the end all these conspiracy theories are about rejecting science and the "new world order/illuminatis/freemasons/..." who are the work of the devil trying to corrupt us so that we stray away from god's path, or somesuch.
Fair point. I can qualify that by saying it's much more pronounced here than where I'm from, Northern Europe.
I think their docs says that unless you expect to scale to multiple x 10 000 requests / second then it caddy might be worth trying.

I went with it for the test networks at my job and liked it a lot.
Also, the options to just "not buy from them" are rapidly decreasing.

Sythes and oxen-drawn plows don't have any terms of service but they are not competitive these days.
Detroit paid good money for this report. Driverless cars are going to be based on data and talent. Just because Ford and GM overpaid for a couple of small startups does not make them a contender. No one has more data right now than Tesla. That they were in the middle of the pack speaks volumes to the flaws in this report.
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Deliverability is #1 priority for me, but I only send about 20k emails per month. Anybody have any strong recommendations?
I had the same issue, solved it by finding a job. Repeated it twice. Every time I'm not busy with my projects or work for too long, I start doubting.
This should be the abstract.
I was, thank you for the clarification!
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I've been excitedly watching this product category for a while. I wanted to buy a DPTS1, but it turns it it only reads PDFs, nothing else. That felt a little too limited for $900. I've pre-ordered the reMarkable tablet, though more as a vote for the product category than love for the specific product.

This doesn't replace paper at all, but it does bridge a gap that I've wanted to bridge for a long time. I've always liked printing out documents and making notes on them as I read, but it's hard to share those notes with others and it's impractical to haul the documents around. Products like this let me do this much more efficiently.
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The most unbelievable thing of all of this is that I spent an hour watching the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHkiZNT3cyE

I started taking notes on everything that was wrong, but literally ran out of ink. I advise watching at 1.5x speed.
My industry is government policy. Every single one of us is replaceable. No exceptions. Until we attain some public status or clout, as a policy analyst, I am replaceable for any number of reasons, and have been. Nonprofit ran out of money. Elections. Preference for women on the team by the ass grabbing boss.
What's your source on a gap with higher earning women below age 25? All I can find is http://www.aauw.org/files/2017/01/spring2017-the-simple-trut... which doesn't control for education or position, but with women going to college in higher numbers than men...

I can't find any statistics that show women out-earning men, at any age or education level, in the US.
They didn't say that though. They just proposed that the blanket statement is baseless. As the parent states, I could as arbitrarily state that CEO's are underpaid. They also provide further explanation on what might dictate CEO pay, factors that some people might not consider when making such blanket statements. You on the other hand provide nothing constructive to the discussion.

I do not doubt that there are CEOs that are overpaid, as do I not doubt that there are those that get paid fair. Chants and overly ideological short stories aren't going to fix the problem with the former.
Maybe the human brain never computers for global optimas. It gets to a point where it's good enough and then stops.

That sounds a lot like Herbert Simon's idea of "satisficing"[1].

Satisficing is a decision-making strategy or cognitive heuristic that entails searching through the available alternatives until an acceptability threshold is met. <snip> Simon used satisficing to explain the behavior of decision makers under circumstances in which an optimal solution cannot be determined. He maintained that many natural problems are characterized by computational intractability or a lack of information, both of which preclude the use of mathematical optimization procedures. Consequently, he observed in his Nobel Prize speech that "decision makers can satisfice either by finding optimum solutions for a simplified world, or by finding satisfactory solutions for a more realistic world. Neither approach, in general, dominates the other, and both have continued to co-exist in the world of management science.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satisficing
What do you think the EU is? A democracy? ;)
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Maybe, but it's part of an ecoSYSTEM, so do other reef dwellers all need to be modified? How does that affect migration and comptetion? Etc
Congrats to Gabe and the whole Deis team on the acquisition.

For folks not familiar with Helm, it's basically apt-get for Kubernetes, but with the ability to deploy complex multi-tier systems. It has now graduated out of the Kubernetes incubator.

And their Workflow product (also open source), is basically the smallest piece of software that lets you run Heroku buildpacks on top of Kubernetes. So, you can get a 12-factor PaaS workflow, and still have the full Kubernetes API underneath if and when you need it.

Update: And I left out my all-time favorite piece of marketing collateral, their Children's Illustrated Guide to Kubernetes (available both as children's book and video): https://deis.com/blog/2016/kubernetes-illustrated-guide/

(Disclosure: I'm the executive director of CNCF and Gabe has been a super valuable member.)
It's not easy by any means but neither would I call it a huge, overcomplicated mistake. Even the new rules for digital services are overdramatized – it's really just as simple as charging a different VAT rate per country and submitting a single quarterly VAT return for the entire EU. For most people, if their web store and accounting software doesn't already take care of this, it will soon enough.

Also, every EU member state already had VAT and already had differing rates and rules before joining the EU, so the complexity was already there.
Don't anthropomorphize non-human systems. They hate it when you do that.
You should specify a bit more clearly (it's on the bottom though) that this is for B2C. B2B different rules apply.
I'll keep my color syntax highlighting. I like it.
The industry is consolidating around the Kubernetes ecosystem. This acquisition is an example of many others that will follow as the major players want to build up their offerings and expertise.
What other devices of this size are there?
Well, corporate taxes and income taxes are already quite high in some countries (eg. Italy) and I'm not sure what other alternatives there are to VAT other than raising those two to compensate
Sure, the headline rate is applicable for most things, but not everything, and those differences can be important. For instance, if Amazon are selling children's shoes into Ireland, they must charge 0% VAT. That's still a digital sale.
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There's also the anti-luck or what I'd call self inflicted pain put on themselves with drugs, alcohol, bad behavior, out of control spending, etc. If one can avoid those things through strong will and at the same time, work hard, then they'll likely do well. Close friends of mine that are stuck, well, they fell into the trap of those things listed and they tend to surround themselves with people doing the same, The bad choices they make end up being normal choices judged by their peers and they don't break free.
That's for stocks. You can always short and potentially have no limits for your loss.
SSE is not extremely HTTP-y but it at the core is the sort of thing we have used for ages for the same thing we use web sockets. The only difference between SSE and old good polling is the presence of a nice API on the browser side.

We have worked with SSE, HTTP/2 and HTTP/2 Push of SSE event streams and it is a combination made in heaven. In particular, we use SSE events to have the server announce to the browser when a particular segment of an interlaced or progressive image has been delivered. With this combo, the SSE events can be delivered on the wire very close to the data frames for the image pieces themselves.
Kind of off topic, but I can't recommend Quantum Leaps (www.state-machine.com) enough for microcontroller development. Also, the book by Miro Samek (quantum leaps founder) is very good. I've had a really good experience using his software on the cortex-m MCUs.
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Not just health problems really - it just tastes gross, a much less pleasant texture and consistent flavor.

Especially when prepared in a sandwich or in chicken nuggets the white meat is much nicer - chicken nuggets the ooze fat and leave your mouth and hands greasy have horrified me too much.
More articles and studies like this would be appreciated.
With so many questions out there about the impact or jobs and automation it is very important to get educated and be prepared for the potential changes coming
"Because if you manage to finish the tasks early and leave at 2, they'll make sure you have enough tasks so that this doesn't happen again."

Yes. I've had managers get offended at the idea of taking a break when tasks are complete because you should be jumping on the next thing.

From what I've noticed, though, jumping on that next task doesn't help your career at Big Corp in any way and usually doesn't significantly lead to more personal accomplishment.

Taking some time to reflect can have a big impact on what you accomplish, though.
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Color might be a distraction to you, but for me syntax highlighting speeds up my work significantly.
GM owns Cruise Automation which I think rank them higher than I would have guessed a year ago. That can do some cool stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Tp6Ubf6mE4
Any informed opinions on where that technology ranks against Waymo and Tesla?
Congrats on the acquisition, I'm just sad I can't be there to congratulate you.
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If I remember correctly, human CO2 emissions has been flat for the past couple of years.

The reason CO2 is going up, at an increasing rate, is largely because the biosphere's ability to absorb CO2 is diminished.

> the world drastically cutting carbon emissions

I believe the grim truth is this: the world's transformation would continue for a long time even if humans stopped producing CO2 tomorrow.

Preparations for the inevitable should be our focus.
> And does this affect dokku by any chance?

No cause effect on dokku. Both are separate projects managed by separate entities.
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Running Debian stretch (current testing); nothing I've done has made it work. I can verify that the monitor is happy taking HDMI2.0 4K@60Hz from a Roku.
Trying to tell me a big comprehensive CSS library breaking mobile devices in 2017 is useful is like trying to sell me a car that can't drive on pavement.
All formal systems capable of describing Turing-complete computation. All of them.
I just finished reading Dreamland which I also thought was good.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dreamland-True-Americas-Opiate-Epid...

This book has more of a focus on American pharma industry but still has lots of interesting insider insights.
Calling it. Nginx won because it's configs are not xml. Apache should have learned by now.
Chicken is also significantly better from a carbon emissions perspective too I believe.

Going off http://media.treehugger.com/assets/images/2011/10/Greenhouse... chickens are far better than almost all other animals.

So if you're going to eat meat, chickens are a good choice in this way at least.
I'm not a big fan of the hamburger menu either, but web developers also didn't have to worry about mobile 15 years ago.
Congratulations! There are few Kubernetes experts on the market right now. Deis is certainly a smart acquisition for Microsoft (along with hiring Brendan Burns).
I've found sous vide to produce <insert literally anything> that are unbelievably juicy.
The answer is universally the same across all software ever: no. The space shuttle probably came the closest, and they still had to fix bugs - or in other words there were still edge cases where the software did not work. You can step back from perfection, but then do you draw a line: even the most buggy software often worked a little in some situation.

If you have all of the list in software that doesn't work well I can spend the next 5 years fixing bugs and eventually get to useful working software - it won't be the most fun job but it won't be a job I hate. Everything you are missing from the list makes it that much more likely that the missing thing will frustrate me until I just want to quit.
Indeed, Ken Regan has attempted to measure it in chess.[1] The techniques used for AlphaGo may soon make go another model problem we can use to precisely study human cognition.

[1] https://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2015/10/06/depth-of-satisfici...
If I remember correctly, human CO2 emissions has been flat for the past couple of years.

The reason CO2 is going up, at an increasing rate, is largely because the biosphere's ability to absorb CO2 is diminished.

I believe the grim truth is this: the world's transformation would continue for a long time even if humans stopped producing CO2 tomorrow.

Preparations for the inevitable should be our focus.
Thank you for providing the helpful specifics.
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