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The term for absolute ownership of land is called Allodial title. It exists practically nowhere.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allodial_title
It's almost like transport is a mature industry, with lots of competition, decades if not centuries of research on cost reduction, and running on thin margins!
It's not relevant, any more than posting "the sky is blue" on every discussion about the outdoors would be. Everybody knows google has a tendency to try new things and kill them quickly when they aren't working. Reminding everybody is completely unnecessary; we all know it. It's not informative, insightful, or interesting.
That's how the trolls were using TX courts prior to this decision. If you have a website, you're doing business in TX and that's where we'll sue. Sounds like this requires you to be based out of or incorporated where you're sued.
Oh? So if your servers cannot connect to anyone in texas you are still liable to trollers for having a business there?
You act like price and selection aren't that important. They really are. Electronic components? How can you even buy those locally? Radio Shack is dead, and never was that great anyway; if you want components, digikey.com and mouser.com is where you go. Computer parts you can get far cheaper on newegg.com and various other sites, and that isn't something you should worry about failing either (same with electronic components). Auto parts too are something you can get far cheaper online. 1/3 the price of Autozone is worth it even if there's a chance it might go bad early for many people, and for new high-reliability things like spark plugs and filters and brake pads, it's silly to pay high local prices. (But no one can beat Walmart for oil.)

There's definitely some things that do work out pretty well to buy online: clothing and shoes are the biggest ones. Kitchenwares are also no cheaper online, according to my recent experiences. I think the big factor is how much volume do people buy locally. Pots and pans are things that just about everyone buys, so local works out there. However, how many people need brake pads for a 1993 Volvo 840 in your local area? Online shopping's biggest strength has long been getting obscure parts that just aren't profitable for local stores to keep in stock. It's not profitable for your local Autozone to carry weird parts for decades' worth of dozens of manufacturers' cars, and for the Autozone 10 miles away to have all the same stuff, but it is easily profitable for one business with a warehouse somewhere to stock this stuff and be ready to ship it anywhere in the country on-demand. No, local stores do not win on delivery time when they have to special-order stuff for you and you have to make another trip to go pick it up instead of just having Fedex drop it at your doorstep.
https://www.gov.uk/council-tax/second-homes-and-empty-proper...
"True programming generalists are rare. This quiz covers basic programming, web development, algorithms and low-level systems. The questions start easy, but get harder fast. Only 3% of programmers can get all the way through. Can you?"

This test doesn't cover any of that, makes me worry if they think it does.

it's more :-

do you understand python syntax?

do you understand a few algorithms?

do you understand a few security issues?

not sure how you'd go from this test to working out if a person is a programming generalist. In fact I'd be worried that someone passing this test would be fresh graduated from college where they used python.
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I'll try anything once ...

But I'm curious: what's the headline feature? Like Go has their channels, Python has duck typing, Haskell is pure and lazy. What is EC's raison d'etre?
> And you base that on what exactly? Their EVs are in the pipeline.

That's exactly what I base that on. Modern EV's have been widely available in the market for over half a decade, and Ford still hasn't shipped a competitive one.

Sure, Ford may have a groundbreaking product "in the pipeline". But the landscape as it stands today has them pretty far behind. It seems fair to evaluate a company based on the products it actually has, not the products it claims might happen -- wouldn't you agree?

> Have you considered that there have been precisely zero EVs that are being produced profitably?

This is simply not true. The Volt, BMW i3, and some Tesla models are all currently profitable vehicles.

https://cleantechnica.com/2015/01/28/yes-2016-chevy-volt-wil...

http://insideevs.com/bmw-i3-to-be-profitable-from-day-one/

> Despite what HN conveys, the EV market is WIDE OPEN. Tesla hasn't won anything.

I never claimed Tesla (or anyone else) has "won" the EV market. Just that you can't win a game you don't play, and Ford (so far) hasn't been playing.
I work for a company with a strict and specific dress code - ties and slacks for men, leather shoes, etc. I think there is a huge opportunity cost to this dress code, and we lose a lot of potential good talent.

I was asked when interviewing (in a very serious tone) whether I could handle the dress code. It seemed obvious that they were aware it was a sticking point in recruiting.
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Any violin/piano player already knew that.
I think I would feel reasonably comfortable telling a border agent that I didn't bring a phone / specific data because I felt uncomfortable about the idea of having it searched at the border. There's certainly nothing wrong with that, and I doubt it would get you denied entry (unless they pulled you out for a non-routine reason anyway). You're certainly not required to bring anything across a border.
They're not comparable disciplines. One (in theory) involves trivially replicable experiments (just rerun the binary) and the other does not.
They don't, but I don't think the point of it is to accuse people, you would report to HR and have a proper investigation for that.

From the report, this is fully anonymous on both sides, so it sounds like the purpose is more to learn from mistakes and realize things that we may have done unconsciously, more so than pointing fingers. Like for example, when Eric interrupted the other person as the article say, I doubt they were intentionally trying to be disrespectful and he may not have realized what he did was not nice. But by seeing the impact that some action have had on other people, we can view things from other people's perspective and learn from it.
i thought those were just for free tacos?
Thanks. That puts this into context.
There's also some genius in figuring out new mixes of online/b&m services. For example, my wife shops almost entirely at a handful of stores. The B&M stores tend to be low-end retailers where she can buy clothes to mess around with for next to nothing. The rest tend to have on-line stores with returns happening in their B&M stores.

This is brilliant, because for her to return the items she'd have to drive to a UPS or Fedex location (depending) anyways, so why not just end up at their B&M presence instead and since she's there do a little shopping? She ends up buying about 1/3 of her clothes at the physical store just because of this smart policy.

If the on-line option wasn't available she'd buy far fewer clothes overall, but by making it easy for their customers to part with their money, they get better sales. By itself the store isn't as convenient as just finding another on-line retailer.

This model doesn't seem to be as easy to replicate with store types that sell more generic goods, and less likely to need B&M interaction.
My wife (Cupertino native) tells me that it was semi-alive when she was a teenager; her first job was there. That would've been the mid-late 90s.

Other than AMC, it's certainly been dead since I moved out to the Bay Area (2009). My wife was living elsewhere for the whole decade of the 00s, so she doesn't really know when it died.
I showed up my first day in a suit ... and thinks I'm a salesman as they had an issue with salespeople crashing the place.

If I see someone with a suit, clipboard and lanyard, I run the other way. Especially if they have good hair.
Most people have no idea why vi made sense way back when (and, in my opinion, does not today).

I used VT100 terminals for years on both mainframe and CP/M systems. Keyboards were not very standardized before then, the mouse did not exist and most text editors had to use all sorts of convoluted commands to allow you to do anything.

http://www.vintagecomputer.net/digital/VT100/DEC_VT100_SYSBO...

I ran the first version of AutoCAD back then on a CP/M system with 64K of RAM, an S-100 RAMDISK card, an 8087 math co-processor on yet another S-100 card, another card with a graphics co-processor and a 1K x 1K CRT-based analog display. This is the reason AutoCAD has the console. You would type the commands on your VT-100 terminal and the graphics would happen on the stand-alone display. You had to load and unload modules based on what you were doing in order to control memory consumption. AutoLISP, the version of LISP included with AutoCAD, was invaluable.

Oh, yeah, 8 inch floppies and no hard drives.

Everything worked.
That doesn't make it wrong.
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At least you could return it. Returns aren't accepted in India, even on Amazon. If you buy it, you're stuck with it.
An interesting implication from this is there may be unowned land. Some areas may be owned by multiple people where each believes themselves to be the sole owner.

Who becomes the final arbitor in such cases? The cynic in me would think that there's a the-crown-gets-it fallback.
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It exists everywhere, but usually the State claims it. In Texas an individual may be able to claim it.

"Corporations are people" if the corporation is the State, it seems.

Michael Badnarik gave a good presentation on the subject:

https://archive.org/details/Michael_Badnarik
I don't know much about IBM except that they made Intel and Microsoft successful. And I read that Mythical Month Man book.

I'll bite: why assume that IBM does know what it's doing?
I'd be doing that all the time. "Copy that, HQ. Bravo Team is go. Repeat, Bravo Team is go."
What a weird opening sentence. Unless he was planning on making a Michael Jackson joke (quick skim ~ none?) or just wanted to call attention to the "fun" point that he has a friend named Michael Jackson, I don't see why it wouldn't be more prudent to just open with "My friend Michael..." rather than appearing to set up a Checkov's gun with no payoff (even if just a quick "(heh)" after the name).

(I'm aware the gh issues discussion is the more valuable one to most, but as I don't worry about gh much I doubt my thoughts on it haven't already been covered by comments here and before)
I work for a startup in Silicon Valley (hiring devs btw). I work from home most days because the drive from Los Gatos to Menlo Park is a nightmare. Tee and jeans are the normal dress code or track suites if you are one of our Easten European coders. ;) I go to Asia a lot on business. I am sit in Tokyo right now, in a suite and tie. I have a closet full. Only place I have to wear them - NYC, London and Tokyo. Oh well. Bespoke of course ;)

The subway sucks in a suite in the summer in Tokyo. Also they have a mandate to reduce energy hardcore after the earthquake so the AC is set at 28C the offices.
I stay in India, and considered buying an iPhone on a trip to the US. But Apple India told me that US-bought iPhones may not be serviced in India, because Apple service centers in India aren't Apple-run, but franchisees.

Apparently, if there's a service center directly run by Apple, they'll service it regardless of the country.
Can you expand on escaping on output?
That's hilarious, because minus the good hair, that was me.

I had a packet of crap from HR, some goofy lanyard with a visitor badge and of course the suit! :)
This works --- really well! --- when the homework meaningfully offsets both the in-person interview and phone screens. When it doesn't, and is just a ceremony the hiring team performs on most (it's never all in these cases), it's abusive.

The problem is that a lot of the teams assigning these projects don't really believe in the projects and haven't put the effort in to deriving a rubric they can use to reliably condense candidate responses into hiring signals. Without that work, and without a process built in good faith to use that work, this is just cargo cult management.
This is a problem with all the greater NYC malls. They're packed with upscale stores an have limited offerings for the proles.
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If you think the posted sensational anecdotes are not factual, then you're accusing the userbase of being a bunch of liars. Maybe the product isn't as good as you think?

On a more constructive note, why don't you raise the angle that you think is worth discussing? The allegations are pretty straightforward and Uber looks to be admitting to the mistake, hence the payout. Maybe the posted Bloomberg link should be changed to Quartz, which has a more substantial story with more to discuss than the settled payments: https://qz.com/989040/uber-is-paying-back-tens-of-millions-o...
Careful, you're showing everyone you're a racist asshole.
Is that odd? LG made the Volt battery pack too. The Volt, Bolt, and even the old Spark EV battery packs are all made by LG Chem in Holland Michigan, just a few hours away from the Volt assembly line in Detroit.

http://www.autonews.com/article/20151214/OEM06/312149992/lg-...
So when do I get to start wearing my overalls to my coding job?
I was under the impression that Google already did this.

A Googler already described this to me years ago as "closing the loop", where Google's ad network already exposed a customer to a brand/product, but Google only gets credit for the conversion if it happens in the same browser session online. By tying together stats between impression and conversion (purchase, even in-store), the ad network becomes more valuable -- or less, if there was already an assumption of this effect with previously overestimated results.
As a programmer, it's tempting to think that if we were still operating under 1950's social norms, I'd be the guy wearing a suit, but realistically I'd probably be the guy wearing coveralls with my name stitched on the front.

Maybe part of the problem with dress codes is that we (or most of us) aren't the self-employed white-collar professionals who have much to gain by looking successful to their customers. We're actually the blue-collar assembly-line factory workers. No one outside our immediate circle of co-workers has any reason to know or care what we look like.
Given that changing jobs every 1-2 years is common now, I don't think actually trying to act in the interest of the company is a good strategy. By the time anyone really notices that you have, you'll probably already have another job. So perhaps the cure for resume driven development is fixing the constant job hopping problem.
If you are refusing to enter the password, access to the device, or to disable travel mode, then good luck to you. IANAL, but the border agent doesn't care if the data is technically in the cloud, rather than on the device, because it restores when you unlock it.

In addition to removing the data from the device, cheers, don't you also need to be able to honestly say you can not provide access to it?

Ways to honestly answer, "not possible", and mean it:

- schedule a time period where no password is accepted.
- enable whitelist/blacklist zones via geolocation.
- set a new password that you give to a trusted friend/coworker/spouse that you must contact to retrieve.

Some combination of the above for ease-of-use, and ploys like emailing yourself the new password after a period of time for redundancy/safety.
Would you buy a 256GB device if two people are going to share it? Or pay $2200 for 512?
His problem can easily be fixed by adding a FAQ and Guide to Contributing and Opening Issues doc.

Then tell users to read both before opening an issue. Set some rules on how you want the issues written, tone of voice, etc.

A project without issue is a project nobody is using.
Not all of the USA is Miami. London is balmy compared to Boston.
The article was not referring to CS but engineering. EE, ME, Civil, Chem, Aero, Industrial,

http://engineering.illinois.edu/academics/rankings.html

My EE profs at Illinois were capable to run studies and they understand the rigors of the domain which a psychologist would not understand.

The study is in a very emotional area and the findings get lots of publicity advancing careers but making it more likely the results are biased.

I have also worked in CS and studied it so I can say it is not engineering.
Speaking from my previous consulting career (not my current one, which works exclusively with startups that don't care about this stuff):

Dress code varied --- rarely, but it did --- but rules about tattoos and facial hair did not. No client cared about ink or hair, even when they really wanted people wearing jackets and ties. The companies that cared about this stuff were all east coast financial, but mostly not Manhattan.
I only looked at three questions, but two of them were entirely Python specific. Question 2 asks you to choose between:

queue.extend(node)
queue.extend([node])
queue.extend(node.children)

Sure, I could take a guess which one of those appends the contents of "node" to the end of "queue", but I'd be guessing about syntax, not programming.

After that, and question 3 about what happens when you assign to a function argument, I realized it was a Python quiz and stopped reading.
Why? Berkshire Hathaway did this in the past. Holding companies can be well diversified.
I know of a company (that I won't name for obvious reasons), that uses a vulnerable version of Outlook Server because the managers use it to spy on each other and read everyone's mail. They secretly tell eachother and everyone who knows about it thinks only a few others do.

People eventually quit or are fired, are hired by a competitor, and still know about the hack. Its BAD.
Yes, I think this very thing when people try to commoditize software components by analogizing them to a wheel. It works in some places (I wouldn't want to write a custom Redis or an RDBMS) but in most places, it falls down.

All the people I've heard use that analogy don't know what they're talking about when it comes to software development. I think it comes from the "Taco Bell" MBA types. They're the same people who think WordPress will put all web developers out of business.

It's frustrating to see the art of software development regress so much.
Will try this. How many times has it worked / not worked?
"Zuckerberg explained: “I really want to clear my life to make it so that I have to make as few decisions as possible about anything except how to best serve [Facebook’s] community."

Most likely he just doesn't enjoy fashion. Some people love fashion, shopping clothes, figuring out what do dress, and derive tremendous joy from them.

Zuckerberg and Obama aren't one of them. At least Obama is being more honest about the reasoning, while Zuckerberg is just spinning it.
yup. cbp officers can deny your entry if they think blond hair is ugly.

> Visa denied.

you know what's shitty? i have a b1/b2 visa. cost me 100 usd and two working days. i also visited the us ~6 times, never overstayed by an hour. but even then, i'm suspicious because i'm brazilian (that's a theory, of course. i have no proof other than brazilian friends also having problems with cbp).
If this interests you, you should also check out carbon co2, a lightweight object-oriented addition to C (https://github.com/peterpaul/co2/).

Code example:
https://github.com/peterpaul/co2/blob/master/examples/my-obj...
> It seemed obvious that they were aware it was a sticking point in recruiting.

Understandably. I don't even own enough clothing that would qualify to make it through a week.

This would most certainly be a deal-breaker for me unless the compensation was otherwise SPECTACULAR.
You should consider covering MCA as well if you work on this kind of topic again :)
Perpetual motion is finally here!
i usually plan to travel to the us once a year for tourism. that's basically ending this year because of the way cbp treats foreigners.

i know at least another 5 people that are not going to the us because of that.
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There are no legal niceties even needed. Uber drivers in the USA wouldn't be breaking any labor laws by forming a voluntary association.
There is. Uber is predicated on brazen lawlessness and squeezing workers.
I've got 8 in my SP3, and Chrome by itself is usually eating 3+. My development work isn't that heavy (but is very dockerized). I'm usually around 85% utilization, and then if I have a video call I may need to shut other things down.
Mostly I'm just hoping to reduce the amount of trading like that I need to do.

Then there's the fact that I expect to keep it for another 3 years, and I doubt memory usage will go down.
This, I don't have a car right now. Anything I can buy from Amazon, I do. Otherwise, I have to lug it by hand back from the store.
I know at least one executive --- as in, is on the website --- of an east coast Fortune 50 bank with sleeves and a bushy beard.
Agreed, now just need to figure out how to bypass all the other stuff on the way there!
So when is Rodney Gilstrap ( https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/the-year-in-pate... ) going to be investigated for corruption? It seems pretty clear, he passed the law that made it happen, the cases come in front of him.