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In my experience, places that can't hire talent tend not to filter to people with strong skills (either in specific or in general) and just want bodies in chairs that they can use to manipulate <specific material>, so they write that into descriptions.

Also in my experience, places that can hire talent tend to get to be picky and can look for folks which have the general skills (which they interview for) but also can look specifically for people that already have experience with <specific material> so they write that into their descriptions.

In neither case does it make sense to write a description that asks for skills that require subjective self-assessment, since people who don't know what they are doing also have no ability to accurately self-assess. In neither case does it make sense to look for generic skills and train for specific ones when you can just acquire specific ones.

Conversely, there's no way for the organizations to put an honest signal into a job posting that distinguishes them as one or the other class of organization above; anyone can (and probably will) say "we only hire the best", "our product(s) are high-quality" or "we take engineering seriously".

There's too much money to be made as it is, with e.g. the average enterprise IT team or the average startup, software teams don't generally have to be both effective and efficient with their labor, just maybe or the other if either.
john gruber's take:
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/04/23/heartbreaking
I'm not a programmer per se, but I've encountered this. Probably after age 35 I noticed I couldn't remember stuff I wanted to come back to as well as I had become used to years prior. I've adapted by taking extensive notes & using a "To Do List" app on Android in which I can remind myself of stuff for later.

I have to say though, this year is the first time I've used an Android, having been a BlackBerry fan since 2006. I still have yet to find a "Tasks" app as good as the BlackBerry's "Tasks" app.

Perhaps worth mentioning is that I've also noticed that coffee (& caffeine in general) no longer provides the desired 'pep' & alertness it used to. I switched to Yerba Mate last summer & it didn't live up to the hype that caught my interest. Was lurking on r/Nootropics for awhile before deciding that would be too expensive to try. Saw some success stories there, so I figured I'd mention it here. YMMV

Best of luck!
Why would that make sense for airlines? Missing a flight and then paying extra sounds awful, especially since the justification is "we could have also sold your seat to someone else."
> And yes, `[[ ... ]]` is a bashism. It's not going work on the HP-UX box, that you do not have in your server fleet.

I wish. I've to take care not to break things like AIX, HP-UX, Solaris 10, Openbsd 5.1. That's an open source project, but there've been actual production customers complaining when we broke things in the past...

EDIT: corrected openbsd version, machine has been updated since the last complaint
>Going public does mean that your company is obliged to maximise shareholder profit, rather than achieve whatever goals the founders envisioned.

and

> And what exactly is the interest of the shareholders, rather than maximising share value / dividend payout?

Wait. By your own logic why would anyone invest in anything that wasn't public if you were just throwing money at some dude that wanted to do something that wasn't in your interest? Your logic makes no sense. It sounds like you're saying, it's sad that founders don't get to spend money anyway they want without carrying about the wishes of who gave them the money.
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> If achieving a free market requires a complete upheaval of all of our governments and laws, then the idea isn't very useful.

The idea is extremely useful: act consensual to others. There is no better basis of a social system than this. Having conversations like the one were having now is really all we need. To force the ideas on others in anyway, especially through democracy, would be hypocritical.

A social system based on utility, which is basically all social systems we've had throughout history, is violent, aggressive and dangerous. No wonder history repeats itself.
Consider a few salient states: the U.S., Iran, Russia, ... If computers worldwide are mostly secure, which see the greatest benefit? If they're a festering pile of vulnerabilities, which see the greatest cost? That's the choice, as U.S. policy, of where you can focus your efforts. It's not a choice of secure U.S. computers and insecure Russian ones.

The way you're framing it presumes SIGINT is in charge and positively welcomes insecure U.S. computers. I'm saying that's bad for us. I've seen others saying the same.

Also, secure computers would not make spying go away, and SIGINT would not be impotent. Its powers are still increasing with, e.g., surveillance of whole populations from the air with high-res video cameras. Comms spying would go back to retail instead of wholesale data collection.
Ugh. This wasn't a mistake, it was their business model.
Thank you for clearing that up. Are you aware of what kind of consequences might be incurred at the expense of disobeying the OMB as a government entity?
http://trinityradar.com/ can do this.

Full disclosure: I work on this project.
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This work pretty well on my phone. Like the touch controls almost make it convenient to play without a gamepad.

They just need to fix the issue of the browser highjacking touch inputs and add fullscreen support.
Yes. The CEO is "heartbroken" for being caught, but he should probably be "pocketbook-broken" for it, since he apparently has no morals: http://blog.unroll.me/we-can-do-better/ .
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Why should this excite me? Wine already can do DX9 pretty good. And according to one comment this does not even compare. Who cares about DX9 nowadays? DX10/11/12 would be very different story. Something like this bringing modern windows games to linux would be great.

Even greater would be M$ open sourcing DX but that will not happen in the next few years.
Companies only act ethically if it has a potential to affect their bottom line and they have the foresight.

It's not just tech, think pharmaceuticals or finance.

As for naivete - as the old saying goes, the only free cheese is in a mousetrap.
None moreso than OkCupid.
If we were to judge companies solely through a moral lense, sure.

But in the direct interest of capitalism, and indirectly consumers, it's terrible to restrict important businesses.
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I'm experiencing the same jumpy Live Photos on Firefox for iOS. Latest version of both iOS and Firefox.
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He puts a lot of work trying to weasel out a theory based on a caricuturized comedy.

It reminded me of some ideas from socionics though, mainly how strengths and weaknesses create relationship types

http://www.socionics.com/rel/rel.htm
Yes, the test to see if "x" matches is the old school trick I was taught
I think much more widely for sleep than depression.... it was originally an anti-depressent but had a nasty side-effect of making one very sleepy.
Can we get an addendum to please resist quoting the guidelines? That is definitely boring reading.
Pardon my ignorance of perhaps a common deaf experience, but why would a driver care whether you were deaf? (Naively, it seems like it'd be a benefit.)
The food records were done over repeated visits and long periods of time. Weight, body fat analysis by DEXA scanning, etc. was done as well.
yeah, what disingenuous corporate PR bullshit.
Give me a break!

>"So it was heartbreaking to see that some of our users were upset to learn about how we monetize our free service."

This reminds me of the United CEO "apology" that wasn't. Really, your gentle little heart was just shattered to learn people were upset that you send their bloody Lyft receipts from their email inbox to Uber!! You pour soul!

You know, America, you could do with less bullshit. I would respect this guy more if he said simply, "We offer a service at no charge, and in order to make money, which is what we need to live and so do our employees, we mine data from inboxes and sell it. This is all in our privacy policy which I advise everyone read before they hand anyone access to their email."
Does this make targeting new ISA's trivial?
I haven't been doing it long, but it came to mind after noticing a user with a ton of karma & being interested in many of their previous submissions. Then I realized I'd seen patterns before when reading other users' submissions- someone with lots of AI/ML -related stuff for example. But I never bookmarked them so I feel like I'll miss out on others' themed contributions unless I bookmark & look regularly.
You're assuming that shell and Python which do the same thing are equivalently readable to a proficient user. As someone who frequently uses both, I would strongly disagree with that. I have inherited lengthy shell scripts which probably took as long to read as it would have taken to learn Python.

I would argue that a well written Python script is going to be more comprehensible to the average sysadmin than an equivalent shell script, even assuming the sysadmin is more conversant in shell. More portable and testable (!!) too.
I have too many. But it works well for me. I've worked on too many languages with the same editor, so I've got... Front and back-end JS tools (linting, tern autocompletion, builds); clojure with a repl and parinfer, paredit; some rust and elm plugins that can probably go since I just experimented with those mainly. Linter for terraform. I also use atom for general note taking, so I've got a couple plugins for that.
It's worth noting that eval in perl5 can be used with a codeblock to give basic exception handling, in perl6 this functionality has been moved to try. So while it's quite common to use eval in perl5, I'd expect much less usage in perl6. The name change is probably a good reminder of this.
If you're working on the train that's work. Better to catch up on work email or whatever than waste the commute hours each day. Remember the US is not strict about work hours for salaried employees like EU.
"I'm calling it what it is," is a poor excuse for poor rhetoric. Balkanized APIs are a historical fact. Khronos wasn't exactly quick to support modern hardware in the 2000s, everyone paid the price for it, Microsoft picked up the slack, and here we are with developers entrenched in the Direct3D ecosystem. Vulkan arrived about a year ago and that's not exactly a lot of time to sweep away all the inferior APIs before it. These things take time. The engine developers are figuring out how to use Vulkan, and Vulkan support is spreading. It's going to take more than a couple years.

Meanwhile, Microsoft is managing their profitable Windows business by supporting key app developers, including game studios, who are already happily using Direct3D. Are they going to axe it and piss off a valuable segment of developers? No.

The analogy with Flash is a pretty good one. Flash was used everywhere on the web for years and years. Then the iPhone sucked all the oxygen out of the room and Flash died.

Just like everyone switched from Flash to JavaScript so they could get their websites to run on the iPhone, maybe everyone will switch from Direct3D to Vulkan for the same reason. Flash took a long time to die. After Apple announced the iPhone would not support flash, it was five years later that YouTube stopped using it for video. And yes, there were a lot of good reasons to require Flash in the meantime, until the open web caught up.
Is it only for mobile? Doesn't work on Chrome for desktop (at least not on mac anyway). I'm guessing it's supposed to animate?
One of the main conservative arguments against net neutrality is simply that Obama pushed for it, supposedly in an overreach.
This is truly despicable. Honestly, they signed up users for a _completely_ different service and monetize by mining gmail data. TBH, I feel the same rage against all Google services which are about taking notes, mail, contacts, location and what not whereas in reality they are just mining away. For the startups out there - the Big G is an exception because their service is so wide spread and hard to ignore that people accept their mining as a necessary evil but for others this is totally not a good business model.
So, instead of taking the 50/50 chance of something being great, you'll accept downright poor instead.

I'm not actually poking fun of you, one of my friends has the same attitude - something that I just can't understand. I'd rather try and find something that was decent than something that's not.
This brought to mind the NwAvGuy discussion (mysteriously awesome no-derivative amp) nearly three years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7451062

To be fair, his style was highly argumentative. He left no room for subjectivity or talking about subjectivity in anything. Which leaves out a fair portion about what audio really is to the human brain, whether or not you perfect its reproduction mathematically.
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Works just fine on Chrome from my Mac.
Yes but effective communication is NOT about visuals or font choice. An idea presented clearly and concisely is key.
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Just so you know, you have been quotes on gruber's article. Be careful about what you say on careful forum especially since your profile gives your contact information.
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So there's actually not a story?

I read the email and the dude just gives them that port assignment with no ceremony. I was hoping it would be more climactic.

HN doesn't really seem concerned that all these titles are low-quality bait. Guess they're digging those page req numbers. Unfortunate how effective it is to just deceive your users.
Probably, but then, what's the added business value from them really? Few percent at best? Zero at worst?

On a similar note: Yahoo had their "verticals", and when they had to cut something, these search addons were the first to go.

I tried to start a search engine twice so far in fact. The first attempt was a decade ago, for a small country. I had objectively much better and cleaner index then Google. Perfect native language support. All spam removed. Other features that Google didn't.

People have me honest feedback actually (it was a different time for them then). Basically, I got 30 daily users, and a lot of "yes but why bother when Google already exist" type of answers.

What I got out of it, was that technical superiority didn't enter into it. One simply can't break on marketing and business with Google around.

In any case, it was an amazing experience, and a great interview taking point afterwards. Landed me all the jobs I wanted ever since.

So that being said, I don't think the search features matter that much. The mountain to climb over is their integration on Android, inside other services, and more along these lines.
Serious question. How can I short this $70B stock?
I have never seen a gloriously snarky, incredibly accurate, incredibly concise synopsis of something before. This comment should be chiseled in stone and buried for future post-nuke earthlings, so they will know just how capable we used to be.

Thank you
"Apple optimizes their app stores for devices that are able to actually install these apps."

Right, yes, we agree on that. And I don't find anything at all convoluted about it, I'm not sure why you would think that - there is nothing particularly complex about any of this.

My only point is that, in my personal opinion, it's a far nicer experience to explore apps for potential install on an Android phone, via the play store website, then it is for an Apple phone, via this...listing page - when you're not on the device itself. It's possible I'm simply in the minority here but when I'm chilling on the couch thinking I need a new (insert application here), I'd rather use the screen with more real estate.

Re: your battery life...cool?
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that was a... pretty contrived link. I'm not sure how pop pseudo-psychology has much to do with libertarianism.
> Did anyone ever host their own email "at home" using ArkOS?

arkOS is generally aimed at tinkerers/hobbyists. So, it's not really meant for people to use it for serious stuff. It's always fun to run email at home except most of the ISPs block mail traffic.
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The ability of consensual exchange to increase utility for both parties frays at the limits of the ability of the parties giving consent to predict the results of their decision. Our ability to express the inherent failings of consensual contracts requires us to understand the limits of our own predictive power, which turns out to be a monstrously difficult scientific question.

However, it seems to me that, if one party to a negotiation takes actions which are intended to limit the other's understanding of the exchange, the usefulness of consent as a mechanism to prevent bad trades is degraded. This is not quite violence, but it is scummy, and it doesn't seem that it would be "anti-capitalist" to restrict it.
As sympathetic as I am to anti-capitalist rabble-rousing, your comment comes off as a canned micro-rant which doesn't relate in any substantial way to the parent.
You're describing my assumptions exactly! I incorrectly assumed that the occasional ads for Dashlane, HelloFresh, etc. in the "Daily Rollup" were how they monetized their service. But hey, turns out they're straight up selling my emails to third-parties. I've deleted my account and revoked their access on my Google account.
Full functioning demo seems more than sufficient.
Mouse over the 'Live' box and it'll play.
Apple needs to improve the image stabilization on live photos. I like live photos a lot now, but I had disabled them until I discovered Google's Motion Stills app.
Does the author claim that AI should be neuromorphic?
i don't know how did you reach the conclusion of costs amounting to 'pennies', they are a taxi service without owning or leasing a taxi (generally) and without investing into depreciating assets, does not make the costs 'pennies' even worse, their one time investment might not be higher but monthly operational and running expenses are far more therefore, who hires taxi drivers, and it's almost costing them more than they pay to taxi 'partners' and all other costs involved, hence the massive losses, have you got a car? go to their office, and 'recruit' yourself and do the math.

pssst!! it's not a 'angelic ride sharing' service period. it's hiring taxi drivers and in this case mostly entrepreneurial taxi drivers having multiple cars and running it as a business.
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Tried that. Clicked on it a bunch, too. Disabled ad blockers for good measure, even.
Apparently this is true not only of the US but also of Japan.

I just finished watching a nice dram series called 'Shitamachi Rocketto' which might be of interest to folk on HN.
Is this why Apple won't allow WebM on iOS? It's like they want to pull the web apart, stick it behind a private API, then sell it back to you piece by piece.

What is this even supposed to be beyond webm/gifv anyways?
I'm seeing the same in Mobile Safari though it works normally in Safari on a Mac.
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You say "it just happens" as if it's a coincidence. It was a deliberate choice.
It does not make me feel any better or worse either way. I am merely curious about Apple's motivations for publishing xnu and other Darwin code.
Well, there’s really only a handful of operators in typical code that don’t appear in other languages, and these are bound to the standard abstractions (functions, Functor, Applicative, Alternative, Monad, Monoid) that are used all the time. Once you learn those it’s pretty much smooth sailing, but yeah, it was pretty daunting to me at first, and even now as an experienced Haskeller I don’t care for packages like Lens that can turn into operator soup.

However, I do think the built-in symbolic syntax (::, ->, =>, =, |) is all pretty clear. And thankfully there’s Hoogle to find the meaning of any operator you don’t understand, or even to find a function that you think should exist of a certain type. So I dunno, we get by well enough. And you could actually write your code largely without operators if you wanted to, either because there’s a standard name already, or because it’s easy to define an alias.
You are selling google short. Google doesn't sell their consumer data to anyone directly. They use it to help inform advertisers how to sell stuff to you. Uproll is directly selling data about their customers to third parties for whoever will pay.
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