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Thanks! That is really helpful, practical advice. I definitely get tripped up by the stopping thing; it's like this weird politeness reflex or something. Your point about 'training' others to talk over me is quite insightful.

Although it probably doesn't come across this way from my previous post, I'm actually pretty relaxed if someone innocently/accidentally interrupts me. I'll usually do the whole 'no please, after you' thing. But I can see how I might be creating a rod for my own back if I do this in the wrong situation...

So thanks again for the advice: I need to stop conditioning others to interrupt me. I'm assuming I'm not allowed to go in the complete opposite direction with this though: immediately applying aversive stimuli when it happens. It might be a little unprofessional :)
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Yep, long lost brothers :)
Yup I did not mention nix but from what I understand it is very similar in spirit to snapcraft.

Unfortunately creating an embedded linux distro leaves one with few package manager/ updater options - Debian (apt/deb, although Sid has a package for snap), debootstrap (none) or Yocto (ipk). Seems NixOS for embedded [1] has not seen much love.

[1] https://nixos.org/wiki/Embedded_NixOS
Being shy sucks, but let's be clear. It doesn't suck because of anything about the shy person. Shy people are fine. Being shy sucks because

1. Our culture strongly values both extraversion and assertive non-shyness.
2. Non-shy people will go out of their way to make shyness suck.

Don't put the blame on shy people (including yourself). That's just internalized victim-blaming.
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Is there an altcoin I could mine with a GPU instance to at least convert some of these credits to liquid currency?

Any other ideas?
Well, I was in fact born in America, and have been comfortable with low-level hacking for years.
A desire to recreate great things from the past always comes with some hindsight bias. What we'd like is a dataset about hundreds of labs like PARC and what happened to them. Of course, we could never get it, so we have to work with our observed history. But sometimes, in the case of these big labs, I wonder how much we can conclude.

I recently read The Idea Factory, about Bell Labs, and it has great insights, to be sure, but enough information about the causality to recreate Bell Labs? I don't know.

Maybe it really does come down to one thing, like funding, as the top comment (currently) on this thread suggests. But I doubt it.

When I was younger, my siblings and I played this game that we sort of made up as we went (too detailed to explain), and it was awesome. Years later, in a bout of nostalgia, we tried to recreate it and it was just awful. Enough small details had changed that it didn't work. One of the important details that changed was a total lack of spontaneity. All of us knew what the outcome should be like, and it made us behave differently. I don't think big orgs are at all immune from this effect of expectations.

Don't get me wrong, I'm obsessed with the famous labs like anyone, a big fan of Alan Kay, etc. I just think somebody needs to call attention to a giant hurdle in learning from them.
> decoupling of GDP from physical processes

Well, yes: much of the growth is in services. E.g. education or health can get a lot more expensive without necessarily consuming more electricity.
Was one of the options "launch a text chat program called slack and chrome with 3 tabs on websites with movie advertisements"?
After a certain point, the IP should enter the public domain. Traditionally, this would occur after a decade or two, but thanks to heavy lobbying by Disney, I doubt I will ever see Mickey the Mouse in someone else's cartoon :(

Why should a company be able to strangle the cultural development of our society in the name of greed?
And for the macOS folks out there:
http://dustlayer.com/c64-coding-tutorials/2013/2/10/dust-c64...

I might have to dust off the LADS assembly code of a decades old game I was trying to make during the summer after I graduated from collage...
As I said in my previous comment, it is easy to twist a definition as you just did, to claim that the penny stock owned by the average Joe is even comparable to the stock controlled by the actual capitalist class.

I think that everyone can understand the difference here, even though the line between proletariat and capitalist class may be a little more blurry than it was 50 years ago.
As of December, the Austin Energy rates are 2.8c/kWh at the bottom tier, ranging up to 10.8c/kWh at the top.

Once you add all the extra fees and "one time charges" that happen every month, it's more but that's the base.

Ref: http://austinenergy.com/wps/portal/ae/residential/rates/resi...
What I find truly amazing about the tax situation here in the US is the sheer unpredictability. You the employee are burdened with choosing the right formula to deduct taxes from your paychecks, but there is no ironclad way to ensure that you deduct only the exact right amount—or to check whether you've been deducting enough. For most people, tax time comes and either they get a bunch of money back (they deducted too much), or they owe a bunch of money (they deducted too little). I'd rather just have exactly the right amount deducted.

Some people choose to not deduct any, and put a guesstimate of what their tax bill will be into savings, so that they can make some tiny amount of interest on it over the course of the year, then when tax time comes, pay just exactly what's owed. But this feels like playing with fire to me.
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I don't teach my children they live in a democracy. Maybe we should all stop doing that and maybe we can start to address the lack of democracy (and excess of lobbycracy/plutocracy/capitalism) as a problem.
Weird question - why does that bash script use absolute paths for standard tools like awk and grep (/usr/bin/awk instead of just awk)? Is this some best practice I know nothing about?
My first thought, they did the right thing.

Just don't read more into that than what I said. Async network programming is hard. And while I think that tokio's examples could use a little bit of help on simplifying, clarifying, and using the same terminology across them, that wouldn't make this a simple subject. Since the authors are just learning it definitely makes sense to use the stable, well-understood APIs that have decades of tutorials on how to use them (well not in rust, but bsd-ish sockets in general).
It wouldn't really be surprising. Prokaryotic life appeared on Earth very quickly after the Earth cooled down. But it took a very long time after that for Eukaryotic cells to develop. Just going from Earth history I'd expect lots of planets with bacterial mats but very few with complex or multi-cellular life.
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Your resume is still identifiable via your Github link.

The gaps in your employment history are probably a bit concerning. Have you considered just using years instead of months and years? Since they're gaps below one year, it would make it less obvious that there are employment gaps at all.

I would also expand upon your freelance work if there's anything else you can fill in there. Were you on a marketplace with a feedback page? Link to it if the feedback is good.

Otherwise not bad. How are you applying to jobs? Are you writing a custom cover letter for each application?
IP should enter public domain after a decade, the concept of multi-decade copyright/IP protection causes massive cultural losses by making products and ideas inaccessible and unusable in other creative works, stunting our society's development.
Thank you, it's really helpful. I have very little experience with UX so I decided to start by sticking to the guidelines.
But what you are saying makes a lot of sense and I will definitely look into doing some tests with real users.
Are you confusing Customs with the TSA? In general, customs agents are much better trained and there is a lot of former military. TSA on the other hand is as you a low requirement job as you described.
Could it be possible to identify these words by cross correlation with IE words?
>> The advantage of voice is hands-free operation.

No, the advantage of voice is natural language queries. Imagine the following:

"<computer name> open the file I was working on yesterday."

"<CN>Find the email from Bob with the attached document on system requirements."

"<CN>Open the calendar and see when I can schedule a meeting with Alice and Jane."

"<CN>Find the picture of <wife> in front of a waterfall from our trip up north."

This requires smart apps that accumulate meta-data about your files and activities. That data then enables natural language communication with the machine, and that is what's needed to make voice recognition worth while. But with all the pieces I think you'll find it very rewarding.

I've often imagined a photo-realistic office assistant in a small window off in the corner that speaks and understands and takes care of things like this. It may seem like a gimmick but that's because nobody has done it correctly yet.
Nintendo is run by old men who will not do anything different. Trying to get Nintendo to change is a laborious task, requiring everyone to be on board with it.[0] Combine it with their copyright, trademark, and Youtube monetization policies, if it had it's way, Nintendo would love having no one play with their toys.

Mr. Sterling has preached about Nintendo many times before:

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_vGe68T6sM

[0] http://www.polygon.com/2015/1/21/7867965/conservative-stuffy...

> "Nintendo is not only a Japanese company, it is a Kyoto-based company," he said, replying to a question about the difficulty of effecting change at Nintendo. "For people who aren't familiar, Kyoto-based are to Japanese companies as Japanese companies are to U.S. companies. They're very traditional, and very focused on hierarchy and group decision making. Unfortunately, that creates a culture where everyone is an advisor and no one is a decision maker, but almost everyone has veto power."
I'm trying to parse out the logic, but it looks like the outer ring and inner rings are moving clockwise in whole steps, with the outer ring starting on C and the inner starting on C#. If we took the rings and straightened them out we'd have (its hard to tell some of the notes so correct me if I'm wrong):

[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [1]
C D E F# Ab Bn? C D E F# An? Bb C D E Gb Ab Bb C D E F# G# Bb C D E F# Ab Bb C
C# Eb F G A B C# Eb F G A B Dn Eb F G A B C# Dn F G A B C# En? F G A B

Note:

n = (natural sign)
? = its hard to read the scribbles.

It looks like he augments some of the intervals in the middle of the scale and diagramming how to elide from one to the other. Note that Bn could be considered distinct from B. Coltrane was familiar with the overtone series that generate what are called harmonics. Harmonics could be thought of as the sine waves that sum together to create the timbre of a pitch. If you've played guitar and you pluck the string while gently pressing the string down at the 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/5 (etc) division, you'll force the string to vibrate only at the frequency that corresponds to that harmonic (ie 1/2 would force it to vibrate only at 2f where f = the lowest vibration mode of the string, sorry If I'm not conveying the physics perfectly). Anyway, the overtone-series closely approximates a major scale, but it gets tricky when you want to shift from one series to the next because the series is generated from integer ratios, and prime numbers generate similar but distinct pitches. Long story short, you can have several genus of the same note that are all mathematically distinct.

..I've got a better description here https://music.stackexchange.com/a/33787
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I don't think this is actually all that insightful. Political parties are a component of every single democratic system on Earth, and were emerging in America even before Washington "warned" about them. Hell, he was actually doing to support his own faction, beginning the long American tradition of "it's partisanship when the other guy does it."

The real problems here are the assortment of the general population into self-selected "red America" and "blue America", who have different economic priorities, live in different sorts of municipalities, and fundamentally different analyses of the world.

(I'm actually partial to both for some reason: I like the "plainness" of the Reds, but think Blue usually has a somewhat half-decent analysis of reality while Red is usually wildly delusional. My actual preferred analysis might be called "the Other Red", the one with the gold stars and roses and such.)

Complain about "partisanship" all you like, but it won't sort out the difference between someone who thinks the economy runs on consumer demand, thus requiring a level of wages that lets most people consume without much debt, and someone who thinks it runs on manliness and resource extraction, thus requiring wage suppression until all those namby-pambies buck up and do a day's work. Those are just different causal models.

What we could really use is proportional representation, so that "partisanship" could at least sort itself out into multiple competing parties within each of the two broad coalitions, and every well-supported analysis of the world could find some official expression.
"Actually, I would argue that following ethics often puts a corporation in a less competitive position"

True, because most PEOPLE don't care about exploitation.
Or can't afford to care if they want to keep their living standard.
Thats the problem.
That's my whole point, corporations just produce what people want. And most want it cheap.

And yes, the system is flawed, because people are flawed.
Change one, and you change the other. Hard? Now thats news ...

But I think many things are changing for the better. So we are on a good way.
> People haven't yet realised that it's not [some dividing topic] but rather corporations versus the people.

Maybe you should try to meet some socialists. But the authoritarian ones (like Marx) and the anti-authoritarian ones (like Peter Kropotkin, Emma Goldman and Murray Bookchin) have written many books on the topic of class-struggle.
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"Every improvising musician ... holds a similar diagram in their heads when practicing common chord progressions"

Nope
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In reference to the psychological comorbidity of dealing with this issue, there are psychiatrists who are now specializing in post shock depression and anxiety. Not uncommon for cardiologists to refer all of their device patients to a mental health provider.
Awesome find. Amazing how much more enjoyable the world can become when you step out of your car, out of traffic and venture on your own two feet. A lot to see that is easily missed when looking at your own speed as you pass by.
Yes, when I plug in at home, I plug my laptop into a pair of 22" screens, a simple sound system, and a keyboard.
Can I get a TL;DR on what separates this from existing solutions like Cvent, EventMobi, Guidebook, QuickMobile, etc.?
Now, the alternative view.

I despise 10 hour days. I can't have a life outside of work if I work such days, 5 days a week. Forget 80 hour workweeks: I'd never take the job. When do I have time to do artwork, spend with my family, or explore the place I live? Simple answer, I don't.

Heck, I hated not being able to take 2 weeks off in one chunk, and felt lucky I got that much time.

If you really enjoy the job you are doing, feel appreciated and are decently good at it - it might not be so bad. Unfortunately, I have never found this at a job. At the end of the day, I'm still working for a relative pittance and hate that I have to work. Fuck the folks that want to take my entire life away from me.
The set up op describing is more suited for clouds I guess, where networked storage is already a ready to use feature like aws ebs block storage.
Microsoft is trying with Office 365 and their other SaaS/PaaS options. If I was building out the infrastructure for a bootstrapped business today there would have to be a good business reason for me to not go that route.
Running system services in containers
> Sure, but just as with customers, the dissatisfied (ex-)employees are going to be most vocal.

Agreed that Glassdoor is an outrageously bad indicator about a company, taken in isolation.

> Do you really think Amazon could build things like AWS, Alexa, the Go Store, etc, if it was a sweatshop where everybody but Jeff was in hell?

Nobody is claiming that every single employee has a terrible life at Amazon. But new college grads who don't mind and/or mind but don't really believe better working conditions are possible can build most of what you referenced.

I have only anecdotal evidence, but the majority of ex Facebook, Apple, and Google employees I know say pretty balanced pro/con things about their former workplaces.

Of the six ex Amazon employees I know well enough to discuss this with, they universally decry the horrible work cultures they experienced there.

So, I'm glad you like your work culture, but I know I'd never even consider working at a Jeff Bezos company. Despite how awesome I thing Blue Origin is.
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I have a small company (11 of us). We provide a subscription based service. Customers pay annually but their subscriptions vary in length (3-5 years) and we have 60+ contracts like this. Is there a platform out there that tracks when contracts are ending and notifies you so you can followup with the subscriber ahead of the expiration date to make sure they resubscribe before subscription ends? There are a bunch of technologies out there that can be hacked about to kind of do this, but i was wondering if there is a technology that is designed specifically for this? We currently use SF and QB. Thanks in advance. L
> what's your perception of W10M today?

Some kind of ad financed adware that is ment to run as your desktop and looks like it belongs to a kids nightmare about computers?
.. manipulate some of that data to improve their ads.
>"They were supposed to only serve for a couple of years at a time. It wasn't a lifetime job"

Indeed. The order of priorities for law makers in Washington seems to be:

1) In keeping their job as long as possible. In order to accomplish this it takes vast sums of money. However this money flows freely from the lobbyists on K Street so is generally not a problem.

2) The concerns of special interests. See number 1.

3) The third concern of lawmakers in Washington is to blind allegiance to their party. They generally vote along party lines regardless of whether those votes reflect the will of the folks they are supposed to be representing.

4) Dead last - the wishes and concerns of the regular working folks back home.
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'Creative Depopulation in a Rural Japanese Village' (2015)
This small Japanese village is attracting young tech workers to support their aging, agrarian population. Are their any towns pursuing a similar strategy in the US? If not, could something similar be encouraged in the US to simultaneously stem the erosion of small town life and the alleviate the staggering housing prices in tech rich cities?
I am also using Go in production, and I am really getting C like speeds. Low level code is basically the same efficiency - the Go compiler does not optimize as well as good C compilers, but that gap closes constantly, and there is some overhead due e.g. bounds checking. But many those checks can be optimized away and of course, safe C code would have explicit checks as part of the programs usually.
Beside inspiring the shit out of me I have no idea. You have to trust a tad my internal feeling for beauty. If I could I'd ask Moore directly, he surely had very practical applications since he created Forth chips (I remember CAD and VLSI projects).

That's the thing with these guys, you're never sure if they're insane or just that the world doesn't tune enough to their ideas.
A good definition is not easy to "twist" (i call it arguing btw), but a blurry, vague and oversimplifying definition like yours of capitalist, is just useless.

You might as well say "rich" and "poor". Which is more fitting and more to the root problem.
I was always amazed at how little my heart rate went down on the descent.
If generally an employee stock option pool is ~5% of the company, then why is it worth spending time optimizing for that by firing people before stock vests? I suppose it'd be possible that management/investors view the employee ownership as getting out of hand, but even if the options pool is 10-15% (which I think would be fairly ridiculously large), it's likely mostly held by early employees who may have already vested.

It just seems like a silly thing to spend time doing, monitoring who will be vesting soon to fire them. Sure, maybe for one or two executives who are vesting integer percents of stock, but beyond that, it's not worth the time, and definitely not worth the backlash.
20 hours of work? Are you kidding me? You are going to need to spin the PCB, re-validate signal integrity, deal with the situation of purchasing over 100k of the part, re-tool your manufacturing setup, make whatever software changes are required and re-validate SW, and probably a whole lot of other things.
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... X20? Hmmm that brings memories of another camera business called X10 ... remember those?

They sold tiny wireless spy cameras or something, but most famously, were at one point almost synonymous with "Internet banner ads".

I remember a song "We must destroy X10!", which was protesting against the rising ubiquitousness of Internet banner ads (in general, although the X10 ads really were everywhere back then).
You can go to the Reader mode on Safari and export as PDF, then email the PDF to your Kindle (enabling conversion). I did that and it looks near perfect.

However, you have to do this for each article, which takes some time.

Well... not as smooth a process, but the articles are long-ish and worthy of preservation on your Kindle.
I used PhantomJS as part of a report generation pipeline which served no HTTP requests and contacted no outside servers. We made PDFs and ready-to-email, single-file HTML reports with some minimal interactive features. (Ready-to-email, single file == all images turned into data URIs, styles inlined, for HTML files sent as attachments)

PhantomJS loaded up an HTML file written earlier in the pipeline. The HTML consisted of a big slug of JSON containing all the relevant data (which would vary from one run to another) and a bunch of scripts and templates (which were fixed for any given report type). The scripts built into the HTML file would chew up the JSON slug and build up the DOM required for the report. Then the PhantomJS script would identify all the images in the DOM and replace all of them with data URIs, strip out the JSON slug to prevent giving away more data than contained in the DOM, and strip out all of the templating JavaScript, leaving behind only the JavaScript needed for the interactive features, which was inlined.

We went with PrinceXML for PDF generation. I was briefly nervous because I saw people praising PhantomJS' pdf generation capabilities... but then I saw the people saying, "we used PhantomJS for pdf generation, we used wkhtmltopdf, then we just paid some money to get something that wouldn't produce weird output some of the time." CSS Paged Media Module FTW, y'all.