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I wonder if there's a name for this: that impatience and discomfort you feel about anything new until you understand what it is exactly and what to compare it to.

Until that question is answered, you have ZERO patience for any marketing you read: especially fluffy visionary commentary about "digital transformation". You are quite literally making your readers angry because you are not answering their questions.

For anyone launching anything:

1. Make the first goal of your homepage just explaining what the thing is. Be clear. Be specific. People just want to know how to reason about it.

2. Show photos, video, or screenshots. (Even if you don't think it's amazingly sexy.) Seeing the product makes it so much more real.

3. Compare it liberally with what's out in the market now: this is your chance to show how it's similar and why it's different. Can be chart or table.

Then and only then, can you move on to how your product improves the lives of devs, chefs, athletes, etc. who uses it. (But you may not even need to.)
At first I read this like a brag, but then I realized you meant that your skills lie in one place and not another. So perhaps it is like this for many. Maybe many under-performing devs are simply not in an area engaging to them, but they are doing something to get their bills paid.

If so how do we address such a problem?
Would you mind identifying where? And when you went to school where they were teaching creationism?

I hate to challenge you on that, but really, where is this actually done in the US?
You have to be very specific about what Android phones you're talking about, and I'm the wrong person to debate Android security with. I have friends who work on Android platform security and I am very hesitant to cast aspersions on the Android security effort as a whole. But my advice for people who really care about security is: get an iPhone.
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Can you post some kind of evidence for this? I know salaries are somewhat secretive, but do you have something to support this?

The reason I'm skeptical is that while I do know people at google as relatively senior dev (very talented, elite CS degrees, 15+ years experience), they were well above 200k a year, but nowhere close to 600k. This was also more than 2 years ago.

Again, I understand data isn't public, but do you have something to support the notion it isn't hard to make 600k as a dev?
I'm curious what Pingdom uses to detect their own outages.
So the nesting you have is Shell -> Nvim -> Ranger, so ranger is contained inside of a vim split?

Mind sharing some docs on how to do that?
Let's be honest though, no one is going through the trouble to port their app to Windows 10 only HTML and JS. I don't think MS has even talked about that stack at their recent developer conferences.
I don't see why if someone invents a clever way to perform e.g. fluid dynamics simulations in software, that can't be patented just like in other disciplines.

Not all software is just shopping baskets, and website glue logic.
Thanks. I was kind of surprised about how articulate President Trump was.

It would be nice if that were noted somewhere on the page (maybe it is on the desktop site — I'm on mobile).
I only use locally-sourced, artisanally curated softwares.
I trust Google, but I don't trust vendors. I expect vendors to make compromises left and right to deal with shitty hardware (oh, the radio doesn't work with this security feature enabled? Meh, we don't need it).

However, I'll admit that you seem more knowledgable than me on the subject, so I won't spout FUD if you say so.
This sort of thing comes up all the time in the photography communities I follow. In particular, the idea of post processing. There are some purists who think that no photo should be Photoshopped because there's some sort of loss of integrity there. You didn't capture the moment, you made the moment.

But post processing has existed long before Photoshop. People who shot film did (and still do) alter their developer times, or do stand development over agitation, or dodge or burn prints. And every modern digital camera does some post processing in camera as well. White balance, color correction, or even more fancy stuff like film emulation modes...those are all forms of post processing.

I know a lot of photography contests require the submission of an unedited raw file in order to enter, but that's not what people want to see in the end. They want the Photoshop look without going into Photoshop, and that's very, very rare to pull off. So where do you draw the line?
I noticed reddit went down briefly.
I do think it's badly, particularly if you are not a college-bound student. If you're not going to college, you are a write-off in today's public education system.
> Given the target market (schools) I think not being able to install downloaded software is only a good thing.

Except that giving kids unfettered access to their computers allows them to flourish. See: BBC Micro, Raspberry Pi, Apple ][, the list goes on.
Whenever I see something like this all I can feel is insanely jealous that I didn't get to go to one of those schools. Their memes are so much better than my commuter school's
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The Ryzen chips don't yet seem to be available in lots of off the shelf computers, especially laptops. Once it is that should help revenue again.
Tallulah, LA is 77% African American [1]. I'm surprised The Economist would publish this kind of victim-blaming about a very marginalized community:

> men like those of Tallulah [...] lack the resources of training, of imagination and of opportunity to adapt to the new demands

> poorly educated men are often much worse at things such as showing up on time and being pleasant to customers

> criminality, alas, remains an option for men of all skill sets

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tallulah,_Louisiana
This is why I hate using AWS and similar virtual servers. I use them for quick dev stuff then get a non shared server. Massive datacenter scaling doesn't save that much money. The money in cloud is made from huge over-provisioning.

Most providers will artificially limit you below the published limits if you use "too much" CPU or internal network bandwidth. You think that 1Gbps link between your machines isn't shared? See what happens when you try to use it full tilt for a couple days.
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"Is it really that non-parallelisable?"

Yes. If you have a very complex problem, it won't help to just put more people to it. Rather the opposite.

Though there are also plenty of jobs for not-genius programmers.
Do wild animals even exist in the wild anymore?

Edit: Wow, lots of down votes. I'm not being snarky. I genuinely ask. The term "wild" seems to have undefined semantics. Would a reservation park count as wild?
That's interesting. I have been using Plex for a few years now as my primary media source which means several hours of streaming use daily both at home and travelling and have never had any issue related to the Plex central server being down.
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I don't go that far, but I do have all my hardware encrypted (MBP, iPhone, iPad) and I power these things off so that they will be unable to trivially decrypt them when I go through customs.

I wish iDevices had a thing that would let me "double click" the power button to passcode-lock the device and disable TouchID until unlocked again.

I don't use the TouchID on my MBP at all.
Validate it via users.
There's also cherrymusic that works fine on RaspberryPi, with a very similar interface, too.
All the evidence (especially salary) shows that there isn't a national dev shortage, but there must be one because the Bay area has problems finding devs.

According to cost of living calculators, I would have to make almost a half of a million every year living/working in the bay area to keep my current standard of living. Are they going to offer me that salary to relocate? I don't think so (and most don't want me to work for them remotely either).

The blame is on the founders who choose overpriced locations and either cannot or will not pay correspondingly high wages.
It comes across more like drunk driving to me. Making a mistake, then blaming it on the drink (or lack of coffee here).
accounting for inflation, the buying power of $40k in 1980 is the equivalent of $118k today... enough to buy a house, a vacation house, a boat, and multiple vacations year in most regions. Maybe the percentage of the population making this amount has decreased, I'm not sure, but the buying power is roughly the same.

And if you're going back to 1970: $40k in 1970 dollars could buy you $250k of stuff today.

http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
How well does it handle larger libraries? My collection is around 1.4TB and I've found web apps that use a lot of js tend to lag up in the browser etc....?
You have to realize that DDoS mitigaters are in a position to not stop attacks. They get paid more money when attacks happen; so any company whose sole purpose is mitigation, has a major conflict of interest. A small site can easily be hosted on AWS, which has their own protection which is transparent. Any other cloud provider should offer it transparently anyway.

I absolutely hate people who claim Cloudflare is their only solution for mitigation/protection, because it simply isn't true, and Cloudfare does some rather shady stuff.
That's a good point, I think a lot of people feel the same way. One option as a "workaround" for now until I have time to build something out, would be to use your current phone's default alarm and then use jolt on top of it. For example if you woke up at 7AM. You could set your normal alarm at 7AM and then Jolt at 7:01AM. Now you just doubled your chance of getting up and you have some cool music to listen to too.
Syncthing works fine for me to do just that (I dont have an iPhone however).
Free product w/o free updates.

Secure that.
The only thing that bugs me about neovim is that it seems to require workarounds to get the escape button to behave the same as in vim. When I press escape to exit insert mode, there is a small delay. If I press a key (e.g. 'j' to go down) too quickly after Escape, it inserts the 'j' and cancels what escape is meant to do.

In tmux I know of a workaround (iirc, 'set escape-delay 0' or something similar), but I wish I didn't have to change a tmux setting so one program can function. It's really annoying.. but ultimately worth it, I guess.

That said — to the neovim team: congratulations ​on reaching the 2.0 milestone!
There's an automated packager for the Centennial/Desktop Bridge: https://github.com/felixrieseberg/electron-windows-store

Slack in the Windows Store is packaged by that. It packages the Win32 executable, so it only runs on Desktop environments.

If your codebase is adaptable enough, you can often run directly on the Windows 10 Native HTML+JS stack and cross-compile to that, either directly or maybe through Cordova if you want mobile platform reach.

(I'm wishing there were more convergence between the Electron and Cordova stacks, but writing portable code that mostly runs on both isn't terribly difficult. Every now and then it would be great to have a Cordova plugin in Electron or vice versa.)
I later saw how terribly I worded that, however regarding the sexual assaults I was mostly talking about how extensively and forcefully ESPN covered incidents of sexual assault / domestic assault / etc of players in various sports (particularly football). To a certain contingent, doing so was being a "SJW", and many of that group decried it as leftist or liberal, absurdly.
Probably because CS is the obvious route to a programming job, while doing something else for intellectual satisfaction speaks to being inquisitive.
I've only got one thumb set up for touch ID. If you use the wrong finger 3 times, it'll disable touch ID until you put your passcode in, so you could use your other hand 3 times before you enter the airport.
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There's that familiar chest pain again.
>It's really hard to know what constitutes DDOS traffic at times. Suppose a Netflix show got really popular, do you cut it off. Let's make an exception for Netflix. What if a new competitor blahflix got popular quickly, Does its traffic get blocked?

Well, presumably companies have arrangements with their ISPs for expected usage and such. There can be a grace period as well, when you hit up the user and say "hey, you're using a lot of bw, is all well?" You also combine this with abuse reports from the victims if a DDoS is in fact underway. I don't think it's bad for an ISP to establish trust with a customer, either, this already happens with things like DMCA requests.

>Suppose DDOS happens from iot devices. One of this is an important medical device that got hacked. Do you auto shut it down and block it's traffic. What about the life critical device under same IP through NAT that is secure also getting blocked?

Life critical devices aren't exposed to the internet. IoT users should get throttled and receive a comminication from their ISP telling them they have a malicious device on their network with advice on how to fix the problem.
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We're a relatively established, founded several years ago and with several million users.

We have an engineering team of ~16, and a total head count of around 80 split between three countries, with a reasonable staff turnover.

The Devops team are spending increasing amounts of time fixing laptops and manually fulfilling ad-hoc support requests relating to new starter or leaver requests. There is no standardisation or responsibility for ensuring security patches or deployment of workstations/laptops for staff - I dread to think of the state on them. From a security perspective, endpoint security is an obvious vulnerability.

When did you make your first internal support related hire; and did it work out well?
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that's also what i thought -- vacations for me means a month away from work where i don't have to check anything work related (email, slack, pagerduty).

according to google, sabbatical is:

> a period of paid leave granted to a university teacher or other worker for study or travel, traditionally one year for every seven years worked.
Well you were saying that the only answer was of a biological nature, I was pointing out that while it probably factors one way or an other it's a bit presumptuous to say that it's the only reason.

In particular your example: "Many women would be uncomfortable or refuse to have a male caregiver help bathe or dress them." I think there's a massive cultural component to this, rather than some innate behavior. And the fact that there are many male gynecologists show that many women aren't that picky with their intimacy...
For anyone interested in handbooks and culture codes, my startup, Tettra, curated all the ones we could find on CultureCodes.co. Will add Basecamp to the list soon too.
it's a proprietary binary serialization. However nothing revolutionary, just comparable to thrift and protobuf.
You do have a point there. Mail fraud has been a federal offence since 1872.

However document fraud appears to be a little less black and white. Obviously I have no legal training and my interpretation is probably way off, but reading U.S. Code statute 1324c regarding document fraud, it appears to insinuate in subsection b that somehow law enforcement agencies are exempt.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1324c

Perhaps you can interpret this more effectively than I can.
Even higher level formal approaches are ferociously complex:

Within each cell is very complex gene regulatory network (GRN). GRN behavior can be modeled as complex stochastic recurrent neural network. Genes are on/off and they can put other genes on and off with gradients and interaction of the proteins they produce.

Then there is the functioning of neurons on top of that.

There are even higher level abstractions, like cortical columns and other structures. It's conceivable that there are 4-7 levels of complex functional interaction that produces human behaviour and understanding all of those levels is important.

The brain of C. elegans (roundworm) has been mapped exactly (connectome is known) and we know it's 302 neurons and 8000 synapses well (it has little over 1000 cells total) but we still can't understand how its primitive brain works. It don't even have spiking neurons and it's still a mystery.
Just because you can't see a use for a connected device does not mean the use doesn't exist. And given the amount of time, energy and money that goes into developing any manufactured product, it doesn't happen on accident.

There is a large market of people who have property too large to spend walking around all day turning on and off devices to keep everything copacetic. Simple, arguably stupid, devices with IoT capability can greatly reduce this. Then you move into any application slightly larger than a personal home and the power of managing all these devices with software at scale becomes immense.

Specifically for the IoT room humidifier, I've seen such things in labs studying bugs or other exotic life that needs proper controls. These labs are setup by scientists who are just trying to get the conditions ideal and keep them that way and becomes an interesting mix of industrialized equipment and odd one-offs like a connected humidifier.
Elon Musk is working on direct brain interfaces with computers. Soon, they'll be able to hack your brain!
Some of my experience and solution to those issues

1) UptimeRobot [0] - use to monitor various client websites. The free plan checks every 5 minutes, which should be enough. Notifications can be sent to email, slack, sms and many others. If you think there may be a problem only from some locations make a fast check with [1]. If you suspect DNS issues [2] or [3].

2) Again use UptimeRobot for monitoring device publicly accessible from your network. Moreover, if you are in control of your office network, using pfSense [4] notifications when a network gateway goes down works well (still, that works only if you have 2 or more ISPs). Or use a dedicated monitoring device/service like Zabbix.

3) Using to Twitter to Slack notification, subscribe for updates from both services that you use and major services responsible for Internet backbone. An example is, that using GitLab, comes with multiple time when the service dies (even that they are improving) - seeing the message in Slack that something is WIP currently by all team members (in a dedicated channel), helps to skip unnecessary debugging [5] :)

Not affiliate with any of the service. Still - met the UptimeRobot guys some ago - they are a small startup based in Malta, are very cool and have very stable service :)

[0] https://uptimerobot.com/

[1] http://www.super-ping.com/

[2] https://www.whatsmydns.net/

[3] https://dnschecker.org/

[4] https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Gateway_Settings#Gateway_S...

[5] https://twitter.com/gitlabstatus
It sounds like that could be part of the fun. lol.
recent discussion, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14225804
I'm not sure so much as a naturalistic fallacy of "women are naturally X" or "men are naturally X" should be a basis of argument as much as aggression is highly correlated with testosterone levels, and aggression is not something that is compatible with most interpersonal customer service jobs especially in healthcare and education. Those that achieve higher academic success also tend to score higher in traits such as delayed gratification and emotional expression control, and a lack of these traits thereby limits upward mobility. I can't find the recent article submitted to HN discussing these problems from the perspective of someone quite successful raised in rural Tennessee asserting that luck does play a larger role than anything else for upward mobility rather than hard work in America now.
Our current manager wants to transition over to NoSQL, as he doesn't see any value having to constantly update JPA Repositories and dependencies when a column is added or removed from the database table.

I recommended that JPA Repositories shouldn't be stored at the lowest level of Maven jar package's eg... we have a very deep nested Maven pom dependencies (about 6 layers deep) of which the JPA repositories are defined in the lowest of lowest levels. Granted I gave references to research papers from Google that JPA Repositories and Hibernate ORM should be at the project layer (due to their nature of changing rapidly).

Turns out, still going with the NoSQL solution. Although it seems like everyone have convinced themselves that NoSQL is faster development processes than a simple table with constraints.
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Thanks for replying. I was wondering if they had to charge something to comply with a law or something (not that they would really let that get into the way of a feature).
Yep. Great article. Google and Facebook really have learned how to game the talent system with strategic open sourcing of tech. And you're right, it is Macchiavellian.

And here's how you, as a smaller tech company, can beat the system and snag great talent anyway: look for devs with expertise in technologies other than those created by Google and Facebook.

You've seen what lies behind the shadows on the cave wall. You know that the talent gold rush is not really about getting the right tech skills, but using tech to get the right people. Now make a bold move based on that knowledge and go with Ruby on Rails. Or Django. Or Ember. Or Intercooler. Or heck, even PHP, which Facebook uses but hardly has a monopoly on. Or even - dare I say it? - .NET!

Step off the hype train. Break the monopoly.
That looks very similar to JDBI for Java: http://jdbi.org/
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Any feedback would be appreciated.
How 'bout addin' Rusty's Random Rooster feature
It would be nice to include hetzner :)
What's got me confused is the % of men who seem to be surprised by this. It's business as usual for women.

If you see a woman with a 5-10 year long engineerin career, please recognize the determination it takes to make it that far.
It's not exactly the same problem. A cell model will hopefully not have to know the exact geometric configuration of a protein, as long as it contains a rich enough collection of possible reactions with other proteins. Determining those reactions is difficult indeed, but it only has to be done once, and one can hope it will be done soon with quantum computers.
Except that having each kid able to brick their computer leads to significant problems for IT in debugging everyone's computer. As well as letting them move away from educational material extremely easily.

I agree that great things can happen when kids can truly explore their computer and take away the 'magic', but just handing all kids a laptop and having them go wild is not the way to do it. I don't what is, to be fair.
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