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A startup, let's say company A, I used to work at did something very similar. I told the CEO that I knew another startup was shutting down, let's call it company B.

Company A decided to something really smart: they organized an information session just for Company B engineers. I sent over the invite and 10+ engineers from Company B joined our after work event. We had free food and drink (important) and an overview of our company; our CEO asked our team to stay over afterwards to socialize and answer questions. They also had an open invite to any engineer to come onsite to interview the next week. We basically structured it like an on campus recruiting process. The event cost us maybe $300 and we ended up getting 4 of their engineers, all of whom who stayed for over 3 years.

Company A actually had huge issues, but that was the smartest thing I saw them do while there.
I guess that is what they meant as well.
Self driving cars will be quiet, electric, clean, shared and won't need the parking space. They'll make living in high density areas that much more viable and pleasant. I wouldn't be betting on sprawl right now. A long commute is still a long commute.
I meant something different by "enterprisify". Ever dealt with SAP?
That's an interesting idea, and it has a secondary benefit of informing buyers about sustainability.
Dad of a 23 months old here, also europe. Let me tell you, even 11 months is far too short. Next thing for you kid is learn about the world around it and how to talk/interact. Just a day carer, even just one parent isn't enough, both parents are vital to give the kid the best start possible.

I'm in a great position to work part time and nowadays we both do. The work gets done and our child gets love and care. Those two days we put her to a day care place, she loves being there. Everyone's happy :)
One of the bigger delays to adoption in higher-density areas will be the problem of retrofitting residential parking with charging stations. Condo associations and rental companies won't spend money to install them until their residents are all but begging for them. Adoption in suburbia is relatively straightforward in comparison.
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The distinction does make sense though. If an intercept is taken, never looked at, and eventually deleted, then from a 'privacy violation' point of view it may as well not have been collected at all.

But these still need to be intercepted in the first place, because you don't know in advance which of the 0.01% of records are of interest.
> Growth - I cared less about growth as far as I had a decent salary to live with. I am someone who likes to work for the challenges I can solve and not for the minor salary increases or bonuses. May sound stupid

Is that a gender bias? I had this issue myself, being an introvert and generally hating any conflict. I had to train myself to play the game.

I'm not saying that's a good thing, but not sure It's the company putting down one gender. Louder people tend to move up.
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Then they are subjects, possessions, and things to be owned? Surely a citizen would never be treated as such
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You can do both 1D and 2D blendspaces in Unreal, so you end up with something like this: https://80.lv/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/walktorund2.gif

Very handy for character locomotion, but only gets you so far. I'm not sure how applicable offline processing is to this though, since if you have a large number of different types of obstacles to be traversed, you'd have to bake >= that number of animations, and your animation state machine would be enormous. The end goal might be to do that in real time, but I don't think anyone is going to seriously suggest running a neural net to calculate animation positions while the game is running. Maybe if you had some smarts in the level designer you could determine the potential pool of animations needed based on placed geometry, and build the animations at packaging time along with the state machine.
By a user I mean person who has used the service to pick up and repair an item. I do not mean people who are using Hacker News.
>what makes them better or different from any other storefront?

Brand, or...genre? I'm having a difficult time finding the word for it, but there is definitely a type of thing I go to etsy to look for. For instance, this: https://www.etsy.com/listing/159631469/aztec-death-whistle-t... (which is such a cool piece with such a cool story!).

I have no idea where else to go to even look for something like that. When I wanted one, etsy is the first thing that came to mind.

So I think that the mass produced stuff hurts browsing, but if you know what you are looking for, it's still easy to cut throgh the noise.
Keep doing the freelancing and keep doing contract positions, build up a portfolio and gain some more work experience in the field, which you can then talk about more in detail in interviews for full time roles. I think one or two years of experience doing contracting and freelancing would be a good idea. Get some more references and testimonials.
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> In my experience, the least qualified female engineers I encountered were more qualified than the lower quartile of male engineers and they worked a hell of a lot harder to boot.

lol, that's so ridiculously sexist, can you imagine making the opposite statement in today's climate. To top it off it's based off your one anecdote, I don't even know how to respond to this.
They should really just add a rating system, I dont know anything about etsy but if customers say that they found it on alibaba with a given link then the seller would probably lose all future sales.
Sounds like a very easy problem to solve...
Why would people need to gather in a few central locations to do their work in the future and not work from home or in a small shared office space that's in walking distance from their home? In many places in the world it already works like that or the transition is happening. I wouldn't bet on cars being such a mass phenomenon as they are today (along with 'work' in general).
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That presupposes a lot. Who says it would have been kept a "trade secret"? And, supposing it would have been, who's to say someone else wouldn't have come along with an alternative open solution?
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> Pule did it, I did it – we do this, as humans, we humanise seacraft. Vessels are christened under bottles of fizz. They’re given nicknames and ascribed character.

I find interesting that by even reading about boats one tends to humanize them but it seems to not happen with planes and cars.

Probably it has to do with the long relations kept by crews and the ships they sail in.
My local dealership in California was packed more Bolts than they know what to do with, so it sounds more like they just aren't being distributed well yet.
What seems to be particularly interesting about this is the response from the incumbent automakers. It seemed like they were dragging their feet (they were), but more likely they were waiting for the technology to be affordable for the mass market.

The much fabled EV1 apparently cost GM around 250K apiece [1]. So while it's easy to criticise them and other big automakers for resisting electrification, the tech really wasn't ready until very recently. They basically sat back and left someone else take the risk before jumping in. And now their electrification goals seem pretty aggressive considering the infrastructure.

[1] https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2013/06/27/cars-of-futures-pas...
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> What is the purpose of an "application firewall" in an open source world?

Aside from the problems with trying to read the source code for every application on your machine (which I guarantee you have not done), security is all about depth.

If an application is compromised or contains network functionality that doesn't do what you would like (and assuming you don't want to have to patch it and rebuild it) then something like this is incredibly useful. Not to mention that (unfortunately) we don't live in a completely free software world, so something like this is very useful if you're forced to run a proprietary program.

> But truthfully in most cases controlling DNS catches most if not all of today's applications' attempts contact the mothership.

Okay, but what if the application hard-codes the IP address? For an example of a normal project that does this, look at Tor.

And even if it doesn't hard-code the IP address how do you dynamically add entries to /etc/hosts? Are you tracing every process on your system and adding entries to /etc/host as soon as the process tries to gethostbyname(2) -- how do you deal with the fact that this will slow down your programs significantly? And what if you want to handle different applications differently?

There definitely is utility in a tool that can do all of this dynamically, per-process and also has full support in the Linux kernel already built in without the need to generate /etc/hosts in a horrifically racy way.

> IMHO a "firewall" operates on incoming packets from other computers,

Yes, and an "application-level firewall" operates on packets from applications. The term firewall is used to describe the "operates on packets" part, not on the "from applications" part of the definition.
The sequel to the SQL? ;)
or google gets tired of supporting whatever server those machines won't function without.
Generics. Can't cope with a bag of objects I need to cast and hope.
I want to point out that yes, even tho it's longer than the URI by 2% , it is shorter than the Base64 encoding of the URI by 24%

For high entropy URIs with long identifier sections, this is common. While we may exceed the length of the original URI, we are almost always shorter than the Base64 version.

And this is just the first iteration of this algorithm. I think we can do better when we introduce some new ideas that people have suggested and are already in the works!

Thanks!
Didn't take long before they removed the bit about redundancy. https://github.com/basecamp/handbook/commit/695f0bff611b3d9a...
Spending a lot of time on the toilet is not healthy. Increase your fiber intake instead of deciding on a bathroom book :-)
That link you provided doesn't work.
Killing the UPU subsidies might be enough on its own.
I use different solution that is arguable better than this and is right now on the market for not much money. I am talking about MMO mouses. Personally I am using Logitech G600 that have total of 20 programmable keys which can be programmed in 3 layers giving grant total of 60 macros, all within a reach of your thumb. This mouse is able to save macros onto on board flash memory which allows use on any system, even Androidm of course after configuring it either on Windows or MacOS.
That first quote could be rewritten

> The things that makes TOR useful for people avoiding prosecution also makes it useful for people avoiding prosecution.
> On GNU/Linux, is this much of an issue?

Even if you ignore the proprietary software side of things (which is an issue unfortunately), if an application is misconfigured or exploited then this is one way of detecting and blocking that.

And sometimes there's some weirdness like VLC will sometimes make network requests to get album artwork even though I'm fairly sure I've disabled that feature. It's better to have a tool that screams about applications that are safe than it is to try to patch things up with configuration options in every app on your machine.
There really is only one. The pretenders on the West Coast should really know better than to get into this fight by now.
> Smooth, controllable, quiet, but surprisingly-strong acceleration

To be fair, that's what you get with every EV without any engineering effort (a very, very early prototype of the eSmart I was driving, i3).
"Princes of Yen" ( 円の支配者) has a more cynical view of things. I'd definitely recommend it, if you're the "conspiracy theorist" sort.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5Ac7ap_MAY

Some of Richard Werner's and Karel van Wolferen's lectures might be interesting too.

Our society is inclined to attribute success to some intrinsic nature (race, culture, language..).
Japan's successful ? It must be Zen. China not ? Must be Confucianism, shame-based culture. Now China is ? Ah it must be Confucianism, collectivism. India is not successful ? It must be Hindooism. They have Sanskrit ? Ah it must be the Aryans. The Native Americans died out ? Ah it must be their immune system. The play is clear.

Japan's success is likely due to the way MacArthur normalized its war-economy, and because of how it was guided in the post-war years. Ditto with Korea/China/Thailand/ and now Vietnam/India (and other SE countries). I haven't seen a tick of anything "native" at the heart of it, even though nationalism dictates that the citizens be deluded into believing these things.
This has been the wettest 7 months in ages here in the pacific northwest. There are a few die-hard cyclists out though.

I've often thought about something like this for my around town type errands.
Huh, really? That's very nifty, I didn't know it saved commands to flash and didn't need a companion utility. Very useful, thanks for the info.
SWIG is ... special.
I don't know if Spotify is Electron but it's some kind of embedded Chrome and I'm really happy that it scales so well on my Linux HiDPI setup. The regular zoom shortcuts for Chrome just work. I also love that about Slack. Arbitrary user zooming in native apps is usually not implemented at all.
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Regarding the interview process - similarly to BigG - do you assume that the candidate should prepare beforehand (e.g. 6 months), or is the process good enough to test candidates "AS IS"?
I wouldn't count Nissan as a loser, they are very closely linked to Renault who do have more current EV models. Both typically rebadge each other's vehicles for different markets.
you used it wrong. its not a single task tablet like android or ios. it is a computer. which you can interact with as a tablet (touch, pen).

it can do things a mobile device will never be able to. the downside is that instant on is 2s instead of 0.5

I dont use it myself. while I loved the interaction of touch+pen, it wont run linux well. so thats a no go for me, as with any mac product.
I quite like using Erlang/OTP to host C++ nifs. I feel like it strikes that 10% of code being in C++ balance that you mentioned. I heard it's a popular combo for HFT applications.

http://erlang.org/doc/tutorial/nif.html
I'm not sure why we should assume that lowering the bar is even in the best interest of the women/minorities.

If I was hired for a position I that I wasn't qualified enough to get myself, I would likely not perform as well, and I'd become disheartened, and would be more likely to quit.

For example, race-based affirmative action for law school admits students to schools they otherwise wouldn't get admitted to. Although it is a good gesture, the students end up much worse off because they pass the bar at a much lower rate and end up with student loans they can't afford.
A lot of "developer brilliance" is simply avoiding the inevitable slowdown that happens when projects mire themselves in technical debt.

I've worked on plenty of projects where two smart developers would have massively outperformed the 10-12 mediocre and highly risk-averse developers working on the shitty (gradually getting shittier) code base over a period of 6 months.

For greenfield I don't think 10x productivity is likely though. If you're testing an idea you might throw away, cheap and cheerful will do.
100W idle is quite a lot in absolute terms, and more than I'd like because my boxes tend to run 24/7 (as do yours, I assume), but I suppose for the sheer amount of hardware you're running it's actually pretty reasonable.

So energy cost would be about €240/year where I live, assuming permanent idling. Not exactly cheap, but you get what you pay for I guess :-)

Thanks a lot for the info, and congrats on the sweet rig :-)
I understood that it was a lottery, I'm just grousing that 5% more set-up would've made it much more approachable.

It doesn't quite say what happens when the slack runs out on the other ropes, come to think of it. Unless the cleaver cuts them all at once somehow.
I suppose it's pretty safe if they're balancing it on top of a closed laptop. Next to the trackpad would just be madness!
> a clone, because that is its stated aspiration.

Thanks for the clarification. In that context then calling it a clone makes perfect sense. All the best to the project. LittleSnitch is great and to have a full clone on Linux would be fantastic!
If you can predict a cosmic ray strike with great precision, then you might be able to get that bit flipped for free.
You're just speculating.
Thanks a lot for your reply. I'm really curious.
I find that with my MacBook, the areas next to the trackpad and my palms become sweaty and sticky pretty quickly. Do you think this would be worse or better with this 'fabric'?
Seems Windows specific?

It'd be nice to have something that actually disables these additional Intel "management" chipsets, across all platforms.
As a Prius owner, I'm really dissatisfied with Toyota over the past decade. I thought for sure they'd beat others (perhaps even including Tesla to a workable EV or at least a PHEV with decent range).

The current Prius is a much better car, but marginally more efficient than evan a Gen2. They sold a hybrid minivan in Japan a decade ago, but still hadn't brought it to the states (we got the Prius V instead).

Hell even the Chrysler beat them to a usable hybrid minivan (Pacifica PHEV even with a better EV range than a Prius Prime).

Why would I choose a Prius when I could choose a Bolt, Ioniq, eGolf or others - all of which could support my 70+ mi commute easily with overnight charging.
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Honestly a time window is standard practice to prevent customers from potentially holding the ability to negatively review as leverage.

For example if they were to allow indefinite periods for reviews, then customers could hold off on reviewing for a year, then leverage it to get the seller to provide out-of-warranty service.

Not sure what their time limit is, this is the case for it. In any case, good customer service still means a human reviewing and deciding if it's appropriate at the edge cases of policy.
> for some reason the table comes after its fields

I agree it would have been better to start with the FROM clause and have the fields listed near the end.

> I write in this style anyway,
> using a chain of WITH clauses

That sounds like it could make it better. I will try that more often.

> the ORDER BY can't be expressed using field aliases
> defined at the start of the query

In Postgres you can!
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I have a USB foot petal I keep under my desk: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B008MU0TBU/ref=oh_aui_se...

I mostly use it as a quick play/pause video button.
I've always thought there is no such thing as the wrong weather, just the wrong clothes ;)

In all seriousness, an eBike lets me get anywhere I need to in 20 minutes or so. As long as I wear a rain coat, only the front of my trousers get wet.

My bike has mudguards and panniers. I've gone with the Ortlieb classic panniers as they 'roll' at the top. Between two I can get one layer of a large supermarket trolleys worth of goods into them. Although the last minute pack of 9 loo rolls was more of a challenge but because the tops unroll you can just wedge them in.

It's very 'sensible' practical bike aimed squarely at the function of 'living without a car in a city'.
I suspect that they might only sell through massdrop: https://www.massdrop.com/buy/rama-m10-a?mode=guest_open
Last I heard, ZoneAlarm itself was phoning home. Granted, this was in 2006. Didn't trust it since though.
Yes, windows only for now. The Linux guide is upcoming: https://twitter.com/IntelSupport/status/859437569368567811
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Imagine they would've each killed 50 citizens on average. I think that's a very high estimate. I think 5/terrorist would be high, but lets pad the estimates.

That's 40.000 deaths since 9/11. Was it worth it?

Was that worth harming your culture, making your country more hostile to vistors and citizens alike, while spending (very roughly) $660.000.000.000[0] on "counter-terrorism"?

Couldn't that money have been used more effectively, for instance on cancer research or programs to reduce obesity?

40k deaths over 16 years is nothing. It's how many Americans kill themselves in a year, while orders of magnitude more Americans die of heart failure, diabetes and cancer.

And that's a very high estimate of the additional deaths-by-terrorist that might have potentially been prevented, maybe.

[0] http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/09/11/u-s-spends-o...
As a side note to your side node, rpi clusters are a terrible idea in any case :-)
I'd be surprised if this actually disables all aspects of ME and AMT. Those things listen when the computer is off, and cause a CPU shutdown when deactivated unless you are work hard to subdue them (recent CCC had a presentation on what's needed).
I don't think it will take Toyota and Honda long to get on the bandwagon. While they did take a wrong turn with hydrogen (and that's blatantly obvious in Japan where the Nissan Leaf is starting to become popular), they have invested really heavily in electric drive train cars. It's not like they have to start from scratch.

The really big loser among the big boys in Japan is Mazda. They are reportedly just getting into hybrid vehicles in 2019 and while they are also planning a "bespoke" electric vehicle, I really don't think they are taking it seriously (could be wrong).

Mitsubishi has a production electric vehicle that I've seen from time to time in Japan. Again, the Leaf dwarfs it in terms of popularity (at least out where I live), and I'm still not sure what to make of it. I've never seen one when casually looking into a Mitsubishi showroom, and I don't think they really see it as mainstream. If you go to a Nissan showroom, though, the Leaf is front and centre.

It will be interesting to see where it goes. I personally predict that Japan, as a nation, will go electric far before the US does. The distances that people drive here are typically quite short because the speed limits are very low. A lot of people would consider 100km to be quite a long drive. I've also seen charging infrastructure pop up here (mostly in luxury hotels, but also in many businesses and apartment buildings -- alas not the one I live in).