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Yes. The "company man" is a 50s cliche. Many 1950s movies were made about it, such as "The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit" and "The View from the 40th Floor".

The 1950s were the high point of manual bureaucracy. People were doing with paper and people what's now done with computers. This required huge buildings full of paper-pushers. Assembly-line organization was applied to office work. Because everybody in the 1950s had military experience, office work tended to be organized on military lines, with the military emphasis on uniformity.
Lol. Bitter much? Considering how much terrible advice is on this forum from people who wouldn't know the first thing about building a business, at least Patrick has a track record.
I've often thought about taking my laptop into a bathroom stall so I could get some work done for a few minutes.
'cd -' only saves one previous directory, which is held in $OLDPWD. pushd can store an arbitrary history in its stack. And of course, $OLDPWD will change if you hop around after a cd, but the pushd/popd stack will persist.
Oh, our silly sensibilities. Go to a nude beach this summer and bare all. Just remember sunscreen!

Only a small percentage of people look anything like the magazines, and even then only with makeup and Photoshop. Fear of nudity, your own and others just isn't healthy.
So Google still won't reveal what kind of floating-point TPU 2 actually runs. That is really really really strange. I cannot help but suspect it's some sort of non-standard floating point but that's easy to clear up, no?
Glad I'm not the only one. Every shipment I've had using Amazon Logistics has showed "out for delivery", then an hour later "back at carrier facility". The next day, same thing. They can't find my address, even though it comes right up on Google Maps, as well as Mapquest, Bing, and TomTom.
Unless you're looking at their parents pretty much no student is "credit worthy" for a loan into the tens of thousands of dollars in the traditional sense.
Half of US public companies, 64% of fortune 500. It's generally recognized as a corporation-friendly location.

https://technical.ly/delaware/2014/09/23/why-delaware-incorp...
For what it's worth, you can now deactivate your Facebook, but maintain Messenger. It's what I've done in the interim while I figure out how much of Facebook I actually want.
For me it's a self control thing. If I just deactivate, I know I can go back at any time, and then I do. For permanent deletion, you have to remain logged off for two weeks, and then you're done. The time constraint helps me.

Why do I do it at all? Being off Facebook is good for my mental health-- this is the main reason. Privacy reasons are secondary but also important. I've posted some really stupid stuff in 2004 that I'm glad is (theoretically!) stricken from the record.
I think you've understood those words in precisely the opposite sense in which he meant. A possible implication of "provided the company stayed around" is that it was around that time that they started going through a major phase of mergers, closures and downsizing. And, if this was his meaning, that's just Taleb obliquely and wryly stating that the 'company man' era was over.
FYI - my parents refused to join Facebook, so they started a Cluster account. I have no idea and the privacy and stuff for that, but it works for them.
Austin itself is actually known for being quite plaintiff-friendly, at least for certain kinds of cases.
Pretty sure it's a mini float of some sort.
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What does this have to do with the comment you are replying to?
The sculpt with the mouse is about $60 on amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CYX54C0/ref=oh_aui_deta...
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Interestingly, Microsoft was:

Q.What year and where was Microsoft incorporated?
A.Microsoft was incorporated in the state of Washington on June 25, 1981; reincorporated in the state of Delaware on September 19, 1986; and reincorporated in the state of Washington on November 1, 1993.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor/FAQ.aspx#section_2
I've had apple chargers due. I've yet to have Anker chargers die. Anecdotal, for sure, but... ;-)
> This article is conflating whistleblowing with leaking internal product information

So basically, it's doing what every other attention-whoring wingist news site does in order to rally the critical-thinking-impaired troops into an emotional frenzy
This is too kool! It looks like a timestamp counting down followed by aphex twin jumbled.
This is as good a time as any to remind everyone to install EFF's Privacy Badger https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
We're at about 7.5 billion currently and we hit 1 billion in 1804. Population growth peaked in the 1960s and has been slowing ever since, we may not hit 9 billion until sometime between 2040 and 2050.
All the items in this list are assumptions. I don't think it makes any sense to make them as rules.
I am beginning to learn Haskell. Are there any good 'beginner' level tutorials to follow where I can actually build little projects along the way?
"a lot of workers have thought jobs without much time to think."

I think this is why big companies have trouble innovating. They get filled up with hard workers who spend little time time thinking because they're too busy working.
As kids back in the 60s, we loved to climb all around that ship when we'd camp in the park. It is amazing to me that we never got hurt or fell into the ocean, given there were holes in the deck that weren't fenced off. Rusted, flaking metal was all around, waiting to slice open a hand or a foot but, somehow, we survived. I never knew, until now, 50 years later, the history of that ship or its name.
I am totally in agreement here. Many of my best ideas came about as I was in between sets of 225lbs on the incline bench press. I don't actually give up on problems just because I'm not at work. I am trying to get new ways of looking at a problem by doing something else and giving my mind time to come up with a solution that I am happy with.
I've never bought a costume and the (total) cost is easily comparable to an overseas trip of the same length.

The people I meet who do buy costumes are either a) putting on a literal show, like clowns in an audience or b) doing fashion photography out there.

Thing is, you can be the clown or the fashion model without the costume, but you can't be the clown or fashion model without the actions. The costume is a tool to improve that goal.
Society implies culture thus construct whereas this feature is observed in much (all?) of animal kingdom as well.
It sounds like you hired a great engineer to be honest. Elixir, and the OTP environment is well designed. But it shouldn't downplay the achievement of the guy who re-implemented it (or yours, for letting him do so and provide him with the adequate mentorship). Props to you both, it's an impressive feat.
um.. this is incorrect.
Elixir Source Code -> -> Elixir Macro Expansion -> Erlang Abstract Format --> Core Erlang --> BEAM bytecode

Erlang does something very similar.

Erlang Source Code -> Erlang Abstract Format --> Core Erlang --> BEAM bytecode

I'm pretty sure that LFE doesn't skip the Erlang Abstract Format step
Anker, Aukey, Choetech, Ravpower, the 4 heavy hitters. Save for some of their weird stuff like dash cams and vacuums you can't go wrong. Those brands make up just about every cable, charger, or battery in my apartment.
If you're talking about small (last-mile) deliveries, there's a big difference between manned and unmanned delivery: if your package is ~1 kg and your pilot is ~80 kg then an unmanned craft can be ~1% the size of a manned one. On the other hand if it's ~900 kg vs ~980 kg then it seems to make less of a difference whether or not there's a pilot.
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Are people really concerned of privacy, or just witch hunt against some companies? Bigger privacy threats I see are always tracking, always listening device we keep in pocket, which sends it all to cloud. Still I see know serious effort to mitigate that, efforts by like of Firefox/Ubuntu are dissed as distractions.

Developers on HN regularly proclaim wonders of Chromebook/Google Docs without any corresponding rhetoric about privacy.
How are incidents handled? Does your company have admins that take shifts on call?
Anker's customer service is amazing. I bought a two-port charging block from them on Amazon, and while it works great, I was disappointed to find that it's a little too easy to knock it out if the wall.

I wrote a 4-star review in which I mentioned this issue, and within an hour or two, I received an email from an agent asking if my address was still the same so they can send me an updated unit. A couple of days later, I had a replacement that didn't suffer the same issue.

I never was pressured to update my review, never asked to return the original unit, never solicited to buy more stuff. They seemed to have a genuine desire to make sure their customers are being served well, and that is the kind of thing that will make me a customer for life.
I've had that happen to me as well. I just nodded my head in agreement and did whatever the hell I wanted to anyway.
You say "I am sensitive to privacy and secrecy. I will fight for it every chance I get" but then contradict with "I willingly share my life on facebook and enjoy the content shared with me". That's the problem. The government has never had a tool like this before and because of the social graph that facebook created, will likely not have another one like it anytime soon. Unfortunately for the average user (and even very advanced users) leaving Facebook altogether is the only option to maintaining secrecy of any kind. FB updates ToS far too often and nobody bothers to stay up to date with it. Using the service is admitting that you are willing to give up all secrecy and privacy (thanks to their chat being completely centralized). IMO, using Facebook implies you don't care about secrecy or privacy.
You might want to see the definition of "enormity"
I would agree.

HR is driven by perceptions
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A counterpoint -- For the price of one Anker lightning cable, I can have a dozen lightning cables shipped to me from China still in their original Foxconn bags. They will last just as long as the Apple cords, and are much, much cheaper. For a little more, or a few less cords, I can have the same cords delivered to me by a US based box shifter.

The same thing goes with chargers -- I can get high quality, OEM level stuff for pennies, directly from China, or, for a small surcharge, from the US.

I understand Anker is trying to be "better" than OEM, but realistically, they're not 10x better -- maybe 10 or 20% tops, yet they charge significantly more. I personally do not see the appeal, other than maybe convenience.
Noise canceling headphones don't really work that way in my experience. They're good at canceling out droning background sounds to make the overall sound quieter, but they can't "predict" and cancel out less repetitive/droning sounds sounds like conversations and those godawful clacky keyboards some people insist on. In effect, noise canceling headphones make those sounds louder, relatively speaking, because they quiet other sounds.
Speaking as someone with a graduate-level education in mathematics, I definitely can't make change as quickly as an experienced cashier, and I'm sure a drug dealer would be able to judge the profit or loss expected from a series of transactions more quickly than I would. Some respect for those skills is warranted, I think, even if they just boil down to being fast at arithmetic.
Isomorf is the closest thing I have seen to what I was talking about.

https://isomorf.io/#!/demos

If you are interested search for "Intentional Programming".
Possible sure, it was possible in 2013 itself. I've run android both on Ubuntu in AWS and locally inside Virtualbox (or maybe VMWare). And Eclipse (then) and Android Studio come with a variety of emulators. In all cases, you better have a somewhat beefy dev machine. Macs are more than enough, my wife's cheap Thinkpad can't handle both Studio and emulator.
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Unless you're required to clock in/out, or you -never- have meetings away from your desk, no one notices. It's only if you have issues delivering that a manager is going to start paying attention to when you're not at your desk and notice you're gone longer than an hour.
I don't disagree with you, but ND is a bit of an outlier. There are huge swathes of the once-prosperous rural south and midwest that are slipping into developing nation territory as their infrastructures degrade over time.

Many of the prominent examples of a successful rural area are either very self reliant (parts of NH serve as good examples, but the opioid epidemic is taking a toll) or reliant on a single industry that might just up and leave (airline manufacturing or fracking come to mind).
>Because from that premise, now you need to be careful about what you allow to be filmed and by whom.

Yes, exactly!! You do need to be careful about what you allow to be filmed and by whom. That is the substance of my comment. I agree that this is unfortunate. Maybe in some wonderful utopia to come we won't have to worry about such things, but in this world and under current circumstances, unfortunately we have to take steps to protect ourselves from the possible evil deeds of other men and women.
Nonetheless, in the matter of patent law, it seems to have been ignoring SCOTUS a lot.
As an American this is the single biggest fear I have about a nationalized healthcare system. I've been using the Dexcom CGM for 4 years and never had to pay more than a standard co-pay. It seems to me systems like the NHS are set up to serve the majority and people people with (relatively) rare diseases get screwed.
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I'm trying to build a web app where users can share sensitive information with their trusted friends via a public link.

I'm thinking of making it password protected, so you need the link plus a code.

I want this feature so an attacker cannot just brute force all link combinations to get the user profiles.

I was wondering if there is a better way to do this than passwords
Sure we don't like our focus interrupted, but that's what work is. It's dealing with the managers and leads that need to ask you something urgent while managing your deadlines and dealing with noise which is still very much present in a closed-office area unless you are the board members that get to work remote.

It really isn't normal to be constantly interrupted. I'm a developer managing 2 other devs and dealing with stakeholders and still manage to go many hours without interruptions. It's all about respect and being organized. Most urgent things only become urgent because somebody dropped the ball. Improve the way people work and organize that work, and the urgencies go away. You do need to retrain some people a bit to be respectful of your time, but mostly it works out because mostly people mean to do right by each other.
Whaaaat? We had eight PhD students crammed into a tiny open space. It was pretty stinky.
Led the $542M series B, invested in the $800M series C:

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/magic-leap#/entity
Fair elections are supposed to the check on abuse. If constituents fairly re-elect people who line their own pockets, presumably that is what they want.

No amount of fair or unfair reporting will sway the minds of left wing or wing right loyalist entrenched in their view that their team is correct. A mix of opinions is required to get a different result on a given issue in a Democracy.

I don't know of any fair way to do it and I see the potential for abuse, but it makes want a poll test of some kind. No voting without critical thinking and a basic understanding of the issues you are voting on. But that can't work without abuse in anything like our current system. Fixing districts and voting methods is probably the best we can do until we see what problems that raises.
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It says "200 miles", so it's probably closer to unmanned pipers than to giant DJIs. The description reads more like using the cargo UAVs as a solution for slow inter-city surface transport (or as a substitute for expensive bush pilots) than as a solution for the last mile.
I've done this a few times too. Facebook still knows who I am even though I sign up with different email addresses. I do have an account right now but I only really use it to authenticate on third party sites.

It's interesting to me that my friends ask did you see my X post on FB instead of telling me about things in their life.
Right. As a Google employee, it's awesome the degree to which the company trusts us with future product plans even in divisions totally unrelated to our personal areas of work. Obviously though, as the company grows that makes it more likely that an employee will, intentionally or not, leak those product plans to the public before the big launch. Most internal presentations that include non-public information generally start with a strict reminder that the information is confidential, and we also get reminded about the stopleaks@ email address fairly frequently. I think this is a reasonable price to pay for the level of internal transparency in a company this large.

I've never associated the stopleaks@ address with supressing whistleblowing, and Google's internal culture and morals are such that I suspect would-be whistleblowers would feel more empowered to publicize their grievances here than in most other large companies.

Disclaimer: personal opinions only, not speaking for Google.
Tools like rdfind and rmlint breathed new life into my SSD by hardlinking duplicate files after video editing software helpfully duplicated huge videos on import.

https://rdfind.pauldreik.se/

https://github.com/sahib/rmlint

There are great GUI visualizers for disk space, like WizTree/Baobab; for the command line I've had success with ncdu.

https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu
Where do you order these from?
That only works for some keycap profiles, if you use DSA or SA profile then you can't really dampen them well.
That's still not eugenics. I also think it's a very good idea. I will be using this technology if it becomes available by the time I have children.
What bothers me is that there's no way to know whether it's a paid advertisement, or a legitimate piece. This thing reads like astroturfing to me.
I don't think so. I can only speak for myself and some of what I've observed in my colleagues, of course.

From what I've seen, you can only work on one thing so much before you grow to resent it. You need to take time off from it, even if that time is working on another software project. Companies like Google have tried to emulate this effect with their "20% time" initiative, but from what I've heard it doesn't really work, since people still consider it to be part of their main body of work.

Some of my best revelations for solving problems at work have come from entirely unrelated projects. As someone who does game development as a hobby on the side, I've actually discovered solutions to major enterprise software problems while working on a random indie game. It's important to let yourself do this.
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Why would I be bitter? I have no personal animosity against Patrick. We don't compete in any meaningful way and I can only recall a few very limited interactions in the comment sections on HN. If anything, I feel a personal affinity for him, as I also ran a side business that ended up having a similar demographic to BCC (in a totally different sector).

I have nothing against Patrick whatsoever and as I said, no one can blame him for taking advantage of the position that the social media gods awarded him. I just think he's overrated. I normally wouldn't comment just for that, but I guess I felt bad for the parent commenter taking all the heat, and wanted to let him know that he's not alone, and some of us are even willing to say it without using a throwaway. ;)
That's an oversight on Github's part and will end in a TOS change in one of two directions: price parity or complete prohibition of paid services that use GH integrations outside of the marketplace
"Their newer USB battery packs in particular are very interesting because they will ignore the line termination and do a TCP-like ramp on amperage until they get a voltage sag"

This comment doesn't make sense in the context of the battery pack being used as a charger. Are you talking about when the battery pack is charging?
> they started rolling out in Switzerland last year

Wow, do you know why this is? The Dexcom G4 is already 5 years old and is absolutely a life-saving system.
100000000000000000000000000000000000000

== 10 ^ 38

== (2 * 5) ^ 38

== 2 ^ 38 * 5 ^ 38

== 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 5 * 5 * 5 * 5 * 5 * 5 * 5 * 5 * 5 * 5 * 5 * 5 * 5 * 5 * 5 * 5 * 5 * 5 * 5 * 5 * 5 * 5 * 5 * 5 * 5 * 5 * 5 * 5 * 5 * 5 * 5 * 5 * 5 * 5 * 5 * 5 * 5 * 5

Are 2 and 5 not prime?
I think Twitter and LinkedIn may have patents on this dark pattern, based on the frequency with which they do it.

Seriously, Twitter has ~20 email subscription options now, and they add a new one (and opt you in) every month.
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There are no goalposts. I'm just trying to add nuance to the discussion.

Also, governmental assistance varies wildly in the US. I was part of the reduced price school lunch program, but my family never received raw cash like is often conjured up by the term "governmental assistance."
That doesn't answer the question as to whether they are still using the data internally.
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Not trying to be rude, but why would someone build a V4 API and plan to keep the V3 API alongside it long term?
"How can I be a data scientist with no computer background?"

The first answer to himself should be "Get a computer background". He already indicates knowing about the needed math topics, and is thus not ignorant of the steps required.

This sort of question is near universally "How can I get on the bandwagon without effort?"
OK how is it you think epicycles differ in this respect from say the keplerian model of the solar system? I struggle to understand what you think is "special" about epicycles. No model of the solar system will allow you to predict the movement of the planets if you don't enter the correct parameters, which you have to find through observation. Given the correct initial parameters, the ptolmaic system with epicycles will yield predictions about the movements of the planet, predictions you can verify or falsify through observation.
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Agree. 2 to 4 is very nice. That would be my setup too. It's not even necessary to work on the same things.