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> If you passed his desk around 2pm on friday? It would be empty.

And the flipside of this is that his desk is probably empty because he's on a plane, flying either to or from a potential customer's office.

Sales people travel a lot. Now, you might think "oh sweet, I'll get to see all kinds of exotic locales". Unfortunately, that's not what business travel is. You will get to see three things: the airport, your hotel room, and your potential customer's conference room. If you're lucky, you may also get to eat at a nice restaurant. You won't have time to sightsee and be a tourist.

It's very tiring. You go from the airport to your hotel room, drop off your suitcase, maybe change your clothes, then head over to the potential customer's site, spend all day schmoozing them, maybe go out to eat after, and then go to your hotel room, pass out, and wake up first thing in the morning and go back to the airport. Then you repeat the whole process the next day.

It's a lifestyle very few people can tolerate.

Are there sales positions that don't involve travelling all the time? Yeah, it's called inside sales. Inside sales is basically working at an outbound call center. It's a fancy name for telemarketing. It doesn't pay nearly as much as outside sales, because most companies that use inside sales only use them for their smallest accounts, and the work environment is its own kind of shitty. You're going to have a manager walking the floor all the time to make sure everyone's on task at all times. You know how in IT/software you might spend half your time goofing off on HN or wherever else and only doing a few hours of work a day? Yeah, that's not going to fly in inside sales. I used to work next to my company's inside sales department... I remember hearing the head of inside sales tell one of the ISRs "Any time not spent on the phone, writing an email, or in a meeting is time wasted". Later on, I heard him tell the same ISR that he needs to write and develop his sales pitches at home on his own time. Inside sales is the entry level; it's what young sales people who don't have any experience or their own list of contacts do. Once someone has built up a rolodex and gains enough practical experience how to sell things, they leave inside sales and move up into outside sales.
I think reasonable climate sceptic is no longer possible.

To be a climate sceptic requires wilful ignorance of evidence.
Part of the reason that Android doesn't support later Java versions is disagreements with Oracle. By supporting another language, Google is basically saying, "Play ball or we'll leave."
I definitely support paying more taxes to improve the infrastructure/rural areas of the country, but I also start to think that maybe the country is just too big.

Are there any countries that are nearly this large that have a consistent quality of infrastructure for everyone? I live in a large city and it seems that even we have trouble maintaining up our roads/bridges/grid/telecom systems and we pay a lot of state taxes comparatively — I can't imagine how a much larger, less dense, less wealthy area filled with people staunchly against taxes could even begin to keep up.
There were no free markets before 2008 and none after, either. So what is your point? Had we real free markets, a one major thing would have happened--all those banks that broke the law and did so many hugely unethical things would all be gone right now and we could recover. Instead, they all got bailed out--with our money (see: gas prices during that time, as well as direct transfers via TARP, low interest rates, etc.).

If we had real free markets, we would have sound money, we would not have a huge federal government with multi-trillion dollar budgets, the change in your pocket would still be worth something, not that anyone even BOTHERS with change anymore. I can go on and on, but the point is we aren't free and THAT is the problem!!!!

None of us have ever experienced anything remotely free market in our entire lives in the macro sense. Hell, people are even afraid to simply haggle on the price of a new car and we're even fearful of cash money nowadays.
You don't want them linked as a source but you want to read their articles?
Major selling point is the ability to mix Kotlin and Java freely.

I just find it funny how Scala guys are saying "me too" at every opportunity. But that always comes with an asterisk, if you look closely.

IDE support is as good, Java interop is as good, etc.
It's not something we like to hear, but I think most people prefer to keep first past the post elections. The U.K. had a referendum to change it and 68% voted "no".
The worst care scenario for global warming is lightyears better than living on Mars, etc.
Intuit's lobbying to keep the federal tax code complex is a fun example.
100% of your takehome, the takehome of your children and the takehome of their children is going up in smoke in perpetuity if you ever get sick without insurance.

"Well then just dont get sick" is a bit of a stupid way of life. Getting sick is rarely optional.

Blue collar workers get injured. Thats just the nature of their jobs. If you work in a coal mine, your lung is fucked up, at some point. If you work in construction, it fucks up your back.

Wishing for medical care to be outlawed is not just a bit retarded.

Even if you're one of those wholly arrogant retards who think that people who "didnt manage to not be blue collar" - someone has to do it. Its conceptually impossible for the entire population to make it big. Even if every indivdual had the "chance" to be a millionaire, not all of them can be.

Insurance is just about the most basic necessity you can think of, to maintain society.

Or you can just solve it with outlawing insurance, forcing everyone who ran a streak of bad luck into crippling debt and then imprisoning them. Thats what they did in the middle ages. We progressed past that for the better.
Notice you don't see them giving most other employees private space back. Just themselves and some 'senior employees'
Good thing none of his lower status employees ever need to do certain kinds of work!
Yeah, but still same order of magnitude. I would have expected near-Dubai speed to be more than that.

Though admittedly Seattle is smaller than Amsterdam. I expected it to be bigger (because Amsterdam isn't all that big).
It's from wsj. They consider you replaceable.
And that is your healthcare and insurance industries writ large.
10,000 Bitcoins could buy 2 pizzas in 2010 but now worth $22M
And I'm afraid that Europe is shifting to be more similar to the US...
Well in that case, unrecoverable damages are caused whereas in many ways you can hack - or penetrate - without causing any damage. I guess.
'Slave ownership by companies has traditionally taken very curious forms.'

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/07/nassim-nicholas-taleb...
The problem is that people like to skip over the gritty details about what makes a free market work well, and in so doing lose a lot of foresight into how to appropriately respond to some problems. Markets work better when information is freely available and easily understood, and when people act rationally. Humans aren't always all that rational, and information is routinely obfuscated and distorted. What's worse, sometimes we pass laws to make this worse instead of better because it's not well understood by some lawmakers.
"Free market" does not mean "unregulated market". Free markets are those in which there is healthy competition. Regulations that oil the gears of competition are pro-free-market.

But it may be worth switching language to something like your "functioning market" because at this point it will be hard to convince most people that this is what "free market" means.
It wouldn't be HN without an immediate dismissive comment!
How to Own a Slave (2016)
Yes, entrepreneurs are flocking there to take advantage of their low, low taxes and non-stagnant economies.
No one buys because of ads. They buy great products that meet their needs (in this case with the best design, UI and software).

The ads tell or remind consumers those products exist, and how good they are for their needs. The ad is a trigger to a pre-existing match. The purchase decision is created by the match.
Large scale MP3 filesharing was cool, or rather: once it hit mainstream, not having very much music available made you an exceptionally boring person. A few years earlier, this had been the exclusive privilege of professional music journalists, DJs and record store owners, and even just getting a tiny fraction of that music availability was the dominant teenage status symbol. Once access to music exploded (via p2p), that status currency went through a massive inflation cycle, before it eventually lost most of its relevance. This hyped inflation cycle is right where the iPod came in: the iPod was what made those collections portable outside of bedrooms and basements. The advertisements in the style of Len Lye's Rainbow Dance came later, expanding the market domination, not starting it.
I honestly cannot tell if this is sarcasm.
Have you ever considered the possibility of the alarmists being the ones actually involved in an "intentional and sophisticated astroturfing campaign" of global scale?

You may disagree with climate change skepticism, but you still ought to recognize the fact that a group of government-funded scientists with incomes tied to political agendas all screaming "but almost all of us agree on this thing!" in every media outlet is a bit suspicious (as if the laws of nature have anything to do with size of your bandwagon). Add the fact that they've been demonstrably wrong over and over again for the past 50+ years, and it smells even more fishy. You may not change your position on the matter, but it shouldn't be surprising that even educated people (especially those who have heard these predictions for decades) are skeptical.
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Why Millennials Job-Hop and How to Break the Cycle
Yes! You are woke!
I would take a 10% paycut to have a small office that fits 2 monitors, a filing cabinet and some pictures, rather then dealing with constant clattering of the guy behind me that decided converting a type writer into a digital keyboard was a good idea.
I think that's lazy thinking. Blacks didn't make up such a large percentage just a few decades ago, so its a recent problem. Fatherless homes, for example, are much more common than before.
D is a good C++ replacement language. But it needs more community support.

Its advised to develop in DMD compiler and only compile the release code in LDC/GCC as this can be twice or trippel as fast. Not saying that DMD is slow ( unless you consider Go/Swift slow).

https://github.com/kostya/benchmarks

With the 3 reference compilers:

D DMD also written sometimes as simply D
D LDC = LLVM backend
D Gdc = GCC backend

The benchmarks are somewhat out of date for D, as it has never versions of Rust, Go etc where as the D LDC is still using the very old 0.15.2-beta1. Now its at 1.3.0 beta1, that support LLVM 3.5 to the latest 4.0 ( what is faster ).
Yes, it would be great if we could sub divide the large country into smaller areas, and give each of those areas control over most of the roads / bridges / etc.

If spending and benefits are primarily local, shouldn't the decisions be as well?
Aren't a lot of these people in jail for stupid shit like drug position and there are rules such as 3 strikes and out specifically designed for them? Maybe this fiscal freedom Americans love to talk about and the gun carrying freedom could extend to some other parts of life...
If all you need to do is transfer the file, couldn't you just use something like WinRAR to archive the file, possibly with a password?
"Lobbying is fine, when it is open, transparent and competitive (there are always stale laws that need to be corrected). The alternative (lobbying is officially prohibited and everything happens behind closed doors) is worse."

It seems that what happens now is the combination of those two. Politicians take money (and campaign donations etc.) more or less in secrecy from private organizations/corporations.

I don't think there's any way for them to represent the people anymore in an unbiased fashion. They just represent the companies where they get their money from.

But is the goverment for the people or for the businesses? In the US for the latter.
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Bottom-up corruption has its advantages. If people like Michael Brown could bribe cops, there would have been no Ferguson scandal.

However the top-down approach allows corruption to be managed and ensures that important business isn't derailed because some random bureaucrat has a drug habit or is in a bad mood.

You might be interested in this article http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2011/08/the_nature_of_the_gri...
which tries to explain the difference between corruption in first and third world countries.

I don't know if his thesis is true because I only know the third world kind. If the article is of interest to you, can you tell me what you think of part VI? Does the story with Sally at AT&T sound true? I only have experience with what the author says happens in Hungary, and that part is spot on.
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> any optimizations that can be preformed by the cumbersome JVM can be preformed in LLVM

That cumbersome JVM can optimise based on runtime knowledge of the characteristics of the running code. In many cases, that kind of optimisation is more effective than the static compile-time sort.
careful what you wish for. I also like silence. But I'd rather use noise cancelling headphones than work in the booth among thousands other booths.
You make a good point and I agree and can see the correlation in so many governments.

However, won't educated people in power make informed decisions for their own benefit?
Seems like you are time rich - travel?

If money is an issue - set a goal (say $2000) and work until you reach it.

Building simple website / setting up WordPress / educating people on value of online presence - not very scalable but good enough to get you going...

(I believe you have a techie label among your friends and family)
How is this not just stealing their work?
My company replaced the integration server I had originally written in Python/Django/Celery/RabbitMQ with one built in Elixir/OTP. The results were impressive.

Our task load was getting out of hand, and during peak load throwing memory and CPU at it was not helping. Task monitoring was also a pain. It needed a complete rewrite, because the original design, while robust for what it targeted at the time, could not keep up with our growth.

The integration developer I hired to take over the project looked into using Go at first, but then discovered Elixir. I started learning it with him (he quickly surpassed me), and after a few trial task implementations, I gave him the go-ahead. We couldn't be happier with the result. Thanks to OTP and the existing tools built around it, we have great monitoring, and the ability to easily and quickly scale up workers at peak times.
Where does a "hey, I have this idea, could send a PR if you like it" goes?

And what if the maintainer does not talk about any forum in the README? (What is, like, some 90% of the repos.)
The fastest code is that which is never run.

Don't upload files to a server if you're using S3. Upload directly to S3 with client-side code instead.
Be very careful about such a career transition. Grass always seems greener on the other side. You don't realize what you have until you lose it. Sure there are job related problems in IT but they are nothing compared to other other industry jobs especially the ones that pay minimum wage. Most minimum wage jobs are physically demanding and will drain the hell out of you. Any job that requires dealing with general public is very taxing and offers virtually no flexibility in work hours. You will be more burnt out than in IT. I suggest you take up hobbies in free time (sports, musical instrument etc). Do things that you like and then you will not feel burnt out but you would enjoy the hobbies as well as work. You will also realize that work is not everything. If you view work as something that enables you to do other things in free time you wouldn't mind it so much. And IT is particularly good at that - good salaries, good working conditions, reasonable work hours. Do not underestimate what you have.
no one ??
I've always thought GitHub should be more social.
> If we decriminalize drugs, that number will fall dramatically.

Not so much. Drug charges are common, but sentences are often short. Releasing everyone in state or federal prison solely or chiefly for drug crimes might manage a 14% drop. That's important, definitely, but we would still be #1 globally in incarceration rate.

And worse, that's everyone in on drug charges, up to and including smugglers and major dealers. Some of those people are fine to release, but remember that drug charges are very easy to get convictions with. So some people doing long sentences for dealing are also known murderers, but got convicted of possession/intent conviction because it's easier to prove in court. If we let them out, they'll probably reoffend violently. If we hadn't pressed drug charges initially, they'd have gone to prison for one of their other offenses. (The difficulty of identifying these people is one reason politicians are more opposed to decriminalizing than other people - they don't want to enable Willie Horton ads.)

None of which makes drug decriminalization bad! Our drug laws are ineffective and immoral. But something like cut50 is totally unattainable via drug law.
The article mentioned that the final executable was packed again, so the GLSL source code is also stored compressed.
At the beginning and end of every business cycle, the media ( sellers of ads not news ) run the "peak oil" and "peak oil demand" stories.

8+ years ago, "Peak Oil".

https://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2009/05/04/peak-o...

Now it's "peak oil demand".

It's so silly. These people write the same thing over and over and over again because they are in the business of selling ads and propaganda.

"If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed." - Twain
Agree completely. For some reason the success of the iPod has been attributed to simple and clear marketing when that was only part of the story.
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There's no such thing as a permanent belief. The strong association between socialism and totalitarianism only started in the late 1940s as a reaction to the horrors of the USSR. Before that, socialism had been expanding in America with widespread public support.
The mechanical keyboard people in open offices bother me.
Why on earth would I need to "log in" in order to read an article?
This feels like a fascinating story waiting to be told. I don't suppose you blogged about this anywhere?
The problem with AHCA is that there aren't enough suckers. Almost everyone would do what you plan on doing, so one person's insurance premiums would have to be enough to almost completely cover a very sick person's medical bills, so insurance effectively wouldn't exist anymore.
A chromebook as a dev environment is something I've never heard of. My dev laptop has 16Gb of memory and a 512Gb SSD with a Core i7 onboard. It gets 8 hours of active dev work on a charge. No Chromebook comes close to those specs.

More generally, Linux just fails on a laptop. See the comments here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/48y2db/system76_lapt...

And that's for a laptop designed to work with Linux.

Again, I have deep familiarity with running Linux on a laptop, having done so for over 10 years. Debian running on my old Lenovo T410 worked okay. Most of the time. Well, for a while, anyway. Assuming I could live with 2-3 hours of battery life and apt-get update resulting in random hardware breakage.
> The only thing in my office that works well with interruptions is my CPU.

You certainly have never tried to write interruption handling code...
That's all well and fine until one market segment (finance) can grind capital for unrelated industries into the ground by crunching credit. It's a classic ecosystem problem, some of the critters in the pond are going to rise above others in the chain, and that can cause ill effects everywhere if not properly controlled.

Given that one of the defining characteristics of humanity is that we've been cultivating ecosystems for millenia, it's not that much of a stretch to say we're going to cultivate our own invented ecosystems for the betterment of the system. It's actually a stretch to say -- we're just going to throw all these actors into a system of shared responsibility, and they'll just work it out.
Same here. Interestingly their meeting rooms whre they spend most of their time aren't open space and have nice big windows. They also have nice offices for themselves.
Depressingly, though, states with easy firings are also the states that make noncompete enforcement easy.
B2B sales is probably a lot more compelling than B2C sales. Big difference in mentality. Consumers don't typically value their time monetarily, whereas businesses are (mostly) only concerned with how much money they'll save if they buy your product.

And then you realise why people will pay $10k for software that saves them even an hour a day. It pays for itself in under a year.

Having done it, I would never get a job in retail again. It's absolutely soul destroying.
"A study published in 2009 by the University of Colorado
at Boulder indicates that human factors are causing
deltas in Asia and America to sink significantly. The
study concludes that this problem is exacerbated by
sediments being trapped upstream by reservoirs and
dams, man-made channels and levees that whisk sediment
into the oceans beyond coastal floodplains, and
the accelerated compacting of floodplain sediment
caused by the extraction of groundwater and natural
gas."

People always mention 'rising sea levels' with loss of land but it seems to me the real issue is local human behaviour.

http://www.deltatimes.org/doc/deltatimes/turning-the-tide.pd...
Didn't intend to be dismissive. I think they're awesome. It just seems incorrect to conflate one of these 64k demos with one that runs on, say, a Commodore 64. Context is needed. There's a lot more code actually running.
How is it "stealing"?
The problem is the open office, not the mechanical keyboards (which are awesome, btw).
They mostly provide hardware abstractions; I suspect that the intros, if coded in 100% bare metal (Amiga style), wouldn't be that much larger.
I would consider that a bonus and install IrfanView.
" So what is your point? "

My point is that the people who are shouting "free market" the loudest don't like it when they have to experience it themselves.
I am a professional penetration tester right now in the US. I got into the field from education, but once I got my OSCP I had multiple offers from different companies.

There are a ton of "boutique" firms in the space right now, but there are quite a few who seemed to be popular and then died off right away.

One of the big market gaps I see is the ability to provide really good tactical feedback but also package it in a way that it provides value to the actual decision-makers at the top. There are so many pentesting firms that are extremely talented at breaking in, but are really lacking at helping to actually implement cultural and program-level changes so that it doesn't happen again. There are also firms whose idea of a penetration test is just running Metasploit/Nessus/Acunetix and then packing it up without a lot of insight.

Compliance is a huge driver right now, meaning some companies just want to check the boxes and be done with it. However, just because you are PCI compliant doesn't mean you are actually secure. It takes a special set of "soft skills" to be able to help companies truly improve their posture.