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As an ex-owner of an outsourcing company, I've been on the other side of this. Without any disrespect intended in asking this, is it possible you've been without a project for so long because you don't have the most flexible skillset?

I can say that, in my company, when business was slower, we would often see the same few people constantly without work because they were either too inexperienced, too limited in their capabilities, or too inflexible in what they were willing to do.

We worked hard to try to give them opportunities--having them shadow more senior engineers on projects (the extra project help also gave our clients more bang for their buck and made us look even better as a group), getting them training, having them work on internal projects, etc. Not all companies will or can go this extra mile to find opportunities for you, but might be receptive if you structure and propose something that uses your down time to your mutual benefit.

If they're not receptive, or if you can't structure something like this in your environment, then you might consider moving on.

Edit: Actually, as others are mentioning, it was also way easier to staff people who were actively involved in the sales phase of a program. Volunteering to do research, prototypes, etc. was a great way for motivated people to help out during this phase. Since they were effectively already working on the program by the time it started, they were usually the ones who would wind up staffed on the program.
See above in this thread if you didn't already.
There's no evidence for Mozilla having fired him. All we know is that the media was doing a witch hunt on him and he decided to step back.
Thirty five years ago I started working for a company that made label printers and one of the common technical issues I had to deal with was pound signs not printing. It's quite funny that we still have the same issues after all that time.
> I find the Steam client does it's job of launching games particularly well.

The client is really heavy, and if it's out of date, you're in for a long wait before being able to launch a game.

>It even makes it pretty straightforward to buy them,

Yeah, it opens the webpage inside the app. Any browser would do the same.

> and keeps them up to date in the background.

The steam client has no such feature: it only updates games IN THE FOREGROUND. There's no service or deamon that does anything in the background.
> salaries in tech startups are high (for what I saw: ~42K junior, ~60 senior (5y))

Are the salaries at the big corps lower than that in France? In Germany, I get about the same working at a big software company in a developer/architect role.
It inter-operates better than Microsoft's own software. Try opening a document that was saved from an older version of word in the newest. LibreOffice is better.
No reason to do this - you have the shares and the CEO wants to buy you out. Remember - the CEO wants to buy you out for a reason, and I guarantee you the investors want you bought out. Don't underestimate how much leverage "them wanting you bought out" is. It may even be a stipulation of the funding round.
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In my personal anecdata experience of observing C-level sales efforts from the inside follow this general pattern. I encourage you to look at these situations from an angle other than "all/most sales people contacting C-levels are spammers, and C-levels who respond neutrally/positively are idiots for not recognizing spammers".

Generally speaking, C-level relationships are cultivated over a long time with the kind of sales and marketing budgets you've read of; dinners, sporting events, wine tastings, etc., with some proven sales account manager. However, it takes a lot for some sales opportunity to rise to the level of bringing it to the attention of this relationship. If you want to stop what you call spamming, then your job is to manage upwards by ensuring pain points do not rise to that level. This keeps the sales account management activity focused on the numbers when the support contracts come up for renewal.

However, if you have not been successfully managing upwards, then lines of communications have broken down between C-levels, or between CIO to your level. The first you can't do much about. The second is partly within your control. If you ensure your manager has nothing from the business to complain about that can be addressed within the solutions you are responsible for, then you've done what you can about it; you can't fix what you aren't told, after all. Where most technology-oriented staff misstep is they think they need to hear it from their management; the staff who successfully short-circuit pain points coming up to the C-level's attention realize that they can also ask, and more importantly, demonstrate they can communicate and coordinate between departments and people to help address those business-oriented pain points before they percolate upwards.

Where these sales account managers pounce is when the pain points become so grave that the C-levels hear about it and feel they have to "do something" about it, and "it" is a competitor's solution. And if you really like that competitor's solution, and hate the idea of switching away, be on the lookout for a call from one of the sales reps assigned to help that sales account manager. If you've even heard about the pain point, then you will be able to help drive the discussion, and most of the time if your favored vendor is on the ball, close the window of opportunity for the sale to be floated up.
I like your style. I am really glad that you have the resources to go it alone, against the zeitgeist.

I don't think any big VC will take you up on your advice though. VCs don't work in vacuum, they need to exit at one point, and they need something that is sexy to sell at that point. AI/ML is sexy, and will be for at least the next 5-10 years.

BTW, my advice to you is to be careful that the zeitgeist does not get you. Even when you want to hire a dev-ops guy, you need to sell the guy a vision. And if the vision is "we don't to sexy ML, we do dull statistics", you will not be getting the best guys.

Just noticed you are being down voted. That is the zeitgeist getting to you my friend. Think how many good employees you are ditching :)
My Danish street address includes non-ASCII letters.

There are easy transliterations, but I input them on my British accounts to make a point. About half work correctly.
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I'm in the Netherlands - these are the right ones for me:

https://www.bol.com/nl/p/get-plugged-sleep-plugs-7-paar-oord...

I just chose the pair that dampened the most and irritated the least. These are extremely soft so it's not annoying to lie on one ear. But when they're decompressed they filter so much that the only sound I still hear are my breathing, and my long time friend mister Tinnitus. (I can distinguish​ 8 or 9 tones and pitches so my tinnitus is really heavy I guess)

I use one pair for about 1 or 2 weeks depending on how much wax is released from my ears. If the plugs get too waxy, I replace the plugs.

These aren't cheap, but they are the best imo.
Mainly from people who just want the language to fail for some reason.
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On a good day my house uses 8kwh, I suppose I'd qualify as an endurance athelete after pedaling 20hrs a day for a bit.
Have you never read feminist literature? Everything is 'problematic'.
Thanks for sharing, the code looks very elegant. This alone makes me want to sit down and learn Haskell.
Thanks, I appreciate this comment.
If you work remote, go for the two full time jobs route
They are doing work on the UX, but that's work for a different kind of people than the folks who do security.

Security is an enormous concern with an office suite. The formats which need to be supported by an office suite are terrifyingly complex, and people open documents from untrusted sources on a regular basis. Opening malicious documents in office suites is a major vector for malware attacks, especially in the "commercial world".

and as soperj points out, LibreOffice often has better interop with word, especially older documents. It also correctly opens and saves ODF formats, generates better quality PDFs.

The UX is also kinda hard to objectively iterate on. The current iteration of the office ribbon generates some amount of positive feedback for new users, but experienced MSO and OO.o users often prefer the current style of LibreOffice. If iterating on the UX means anything, it probably means adding a second UI. Outside of UI, it would probably be good to get better cloud (or even collaborative) support. It's frankly not certain how that would be done, maybe federated synchronization servers.
"written under an hour" "I am really smart"
(tongue-in-cheek

"This is just what I wanted, all the syntactic peculiarities of Haskell with all the parentheses of Lisp." 'sarcasm.)

Is there a way that Hackett would standardize in using Readable Lisp [1] with Sweet-expressions as the default reader, to get rid of all the unneeded parentheses?

[1] http://readable.sourceforge.net/
You pretty much come to the right conclusion in the end. In reality, nobody is forcing us to use WebPack, Yarn, React, etc. If an employer thinks I can't learn most of these tools on the job, then that's not the right employer for me. Although I don't think you're entirely right about Gulp, I tend to start most of my projects with Gulp, Express, and Handlebars because those are the tools I like to use. Nobody is stopping me from using those, nor will I ever be chastised for doing so. If any tool becomes useful to me, I will learn it regardless of its popularity. Well, unless support needs to be a serious consideration.

The "churn" we feel is really just a confusion from having so many new options while only wanting or needing a handful of simple/stable ones. This is troublesome because there aren't market forces(per se) or companies with researchers to limit our choices for us, like a spaghetti sauce company figuring out which 3 flavors of sauce to sell. If you can distance yourself from needing to be relevant, you'll be fine. Learn JavaScript and keep up with browser and Node.js advances; that's really the majority of what we need to do to stay relevant.
I had bench time when I was a "consultant." I used it for skills improvement (like learning a new framework or billable service), creating and presenting training materials for formal courses we offered, interviewing candidates, creating white papers, creating internal training materials on new frameworks or new versions, and infrastructure work like pulling cables, setting up hardware, or working on internal tools.

If you're still getting paid, they likely see you as a valuable asset for future projects. It can't hurt to ask if you can help with sales calls to build new skills and relationships, or if there are smaller projects where you can be billable.
I was at a conference last year where @patio11 performed a rap trying to persuade people to do all their writing in markdown. I wish I could simply link to it as an argument from authority, but consider the value of doing your writing in plaintext. You will benefit from editor choice, flexible tooling, version control, and forward compatibility. There are a lot of tools out there for "compiling" from markdown to a nicely formatted pdf, rtf, docx, or odt file.

I've got a pile of inaccessibile old university papers that for some reason are in Aldus Pagemaker format.

Edit: typo
It's not that simple unfortunately.
Some disabilities are "invisible" (as in "we don't know how to measure it with medical equipment"), which brings the challenges to a whole new level as the patient cannot prove that s/he suffers from that disability: the patient may simply be "making it up" to get disability pay.
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Okay, I completely​ missed. Explain me again why should the average American taxpayer subsidize the habits of a snob coffee​ drinkers?
I tried this once for a game that crashed on startup. My game "suddenly" had 11 hours played (according to steam).

The game crashed, but it turns out that steam kept the counter going after it did, so not only did it not work: it also meant no refund.
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Opera do the job well for me, it's minimalist too and seem to perform better than Chrome for batteries life on my machine (also it support the touche bar).
I would actively seek assignment to a project! At least in the case that you want to stick around and be valued by your employer. I always am searching for more work at work whenever My current project(s) are in a lul. Employers value self motivation.

On the other hand, if none of the work available at your company interests you enough for you to want to pursue it, you probably should be looking for a new job.

Also, I limit my side projects' leakage into the work day to a few peeks into API docs or datasheets, anything more is inviting trouble.
> Extremely tangential, but does anybody actually love javascript?

I know that I do, and it's my language of choice. That's not to say that it wasn't deeply flawed for a long time, but now both the technology and standard practices have evolved to where I really enjoy writing it and using it.
A bigger question would be are you willing to take a step back. In your previous role you were probably fairly senior developer. Moving to the frontend you'll probably be more junior are you okay with that change?
And I thought the shoulder thing would protect.. now I wonder if it's not worsening things.
I've seen a register app coded in Javascript.
How do you deal with that many tabs in Chrome? I found it to be a nightmare, the tab buttons are small, you can't even see the titles. Typing a part of a URL you remember in the address bar dumps you to Google search instead of the actual URL.

Those two reasons were the only thing keeping me from switching to Chrome when it was fast (apparently it isn't now)...
Basically, these reviewers (doctors) are thinking, "If he/she can hold a shovel; they aren't getting benefits."

It's more nuanced than that, but insurance companies are jerks.
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Maybe I'm alone in this, but ever since Microsoft went to the ribbon-style UI I've not much liked the MSO user interface, it hides too much stuff. I find LibreOffice's menus far simpler to follow and find things in. Possibly just from having grown up on WordPerfect and Lotus 123.

Just a taste thing though I suppose.
Maybe next we could ban all passengers on all flights. I imagine that would drastically cut down on the risks.
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Don't know how many will read this now, I'd just like to point out that since you can only message addresses/accounts you're "friends with" on Fb AFAIK, you can effectively broadcast to all your friends without Fb knowing the plain-text recipients.

It is simply necessary to have the plain-text in a publically known format, e.g. prepended with date or name or whatever. Then you post the cypher-text to your "timeline" (or whatever it's called) and try decrypting all your friends' posts to find which one is meant for you.

To get around Fb-imposed usage restrictions use a steganography or obfuscation tool. https://seecret.io is already linked to somewhere on this thread.
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Bigger tab buttons, such a basic feature!
I never had a crash, and thus never felt the need to switch.
From Mozilla. I have adblockers installed too which help a lot.
"Dolphins are said to sleep with only half their brain at a time, keeping partially alert for predators. Many of us spend much of our lives in a similar state."
This is definitely deep.
Yeah but you know where a man's brain is.
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Which is irrelevant is they actually want to acquire his stake. That said, I would offer them a 20% discount on his post money share. Who ultimately acquires the shares doesn't matter either, could be the company (they would destroy the shares) or the new investors (the shares could be modified to become preferred shares upon acquisition)
Domainers: I've known many on person companies that made tons off parking domains. Seems like this model has run its course.

Farming has done well for my wife, she run her business and feeds a bunch of folks. Find her at the Oakland Grandlake on saturday and Marin civic center on Sunday. She sells plants :)
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That's the quote that jumped out to me too. I moved to Chrome about 5-6 years ago, and I'm utterly shocked that they haven't done this yet. I remember this being the reason I switched to Chrome.

And they still haven't done it? In 6 years? No wonder I'm still using Chrome...
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Ask him how he came up with that price, see if he is able to make sense of it mathematically somehow, intuition is often wrong on pricing. Explain that a company with less owners (and thus less conflict of interest) is more valuable and less risky. Also a peaceful board is more valuable than a board backstabbing each other. If the CEO doesn't value these things then I am sure other investors will value it. You should be clear that he is stealing your cut of the value from risk reduction. Also, think if the CEO somehow has more information than you do. If he has more information and is buying, you should consider keeping the stock until relevant valuation info is shared.

Of course this could be wrong too, depends on the non-money terms the other investor got.
Generally: If none of the work is interesting, you should be looking for a new job anyways (if feasible)
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Interesting, I wonder if this could also be applicable to that other article regarding sleep deprivation.
> Unprocessed meat

That's one major difference. The Paleo Diet recommends getting 55% of all calories from meat and seafood, but I don't eat any meat other than occasional fish (maybe 700-1,000 calories per week), and I do eat some brown rice. Most healthy diets recommend eating a lot of vegetables. For me, sweet potato is the same as any other vegetable -- not exactly a staple by itself.

I would intentionally avoid the word paleo, because I think that it would confuse people or give some kind of implicit approval to ideas that I don't agree with. I used to seriously practice real paleolithic living skills[1], and I think that the Paleo Diet gets too many things wrong. If I would use the world "paleo", people might think that it has something to do with the other paleolithic activities I used to practice, so I'm making an effort to distance myself from it. :)

[1] http://artofmemory.com/forums/traditional-wilderness-living-...
Oh, this one is clever!

Added one more mine, it should do the job.
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[EDIT] I suggest looking at your situation from this perspective: $100,000 is a lot of money and can last you and your family over a year in certain places.
Ok, we added 'currency' above.
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Aldus Pagemaker? Wow. Even back then that was pretty fancy for University work.

I keep all my notes in markdown: Daily journal entries and templates, schedules, collections of code snippets; even a book which is just about ready to publish. I find that I rarely use any of the conversion tools, but they are nice when needed. Overall I'm really glad that text editing keeps evolving and find it a sort of foundation of computer use with which you can't go wrong.
I had a brief look through, and it looks like there's no proof-of-work in the mining?

What stops somebody from rewriting history and passing it off as legitimate?
Haha, and what mysql calls "utf8" is not, in fact, all of utf8. That's called "utf8mb4".
or sell them more poison.
This thread is just endless collection of n=1 observations. This is how it goes =

- I eat meat and I am healthy

- No, I am vegetarian and I can run faster than you

- No, I eat meat but I also eat peas and I can read better than you.

You know what? Maybe all of you are right and maybe all of us don't need exactly the same food that is good your somebody else.

Geez!! :-)
How did this get 86 points (as of writing this) ?

It's basically the third chapter of every C course every CS student will get. And not very well done.
Interesting stuff.

I guess the advantage is that you don't have to rely on nature and chance to get that food, since you literally create it from scratch.
What do you want? What's the lowest you've asked for that was refused?
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;-)
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See my reply to ihm about how to deny Fb metadata.
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> Type inference has its shares of issues once you're dealing with non-local type inference, subtype polymorphism or parametric polymorphism.

Just wanted to point out that actually, type inference works quite well with parametric polymorphism, like in ML. Even non-local type inference can work fine given other constraints, also like in ML.
See my reply to ihm about how to deny Fb metadata and circumvent usage restrictions.
No, obviously not just like Washington DC. I'm not even expressing my opinion in the matter I'm just explaining why Puerto Rico isn't always included when people say "the US"! Why did I get downvoted?
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If you have a lot of time: Gentoo, Linux From Scratch, Arch, Slackware.
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EDIT: The parent said there was no evidence, here is evidence that the board already made its mind up, whether you like it or not is of no consequence. It's still evidence of that bias.
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Are there actual examples of green threads that are not cooperative?

All the implementations I've seen are cooperative.
An "alien" watching us would understand the nuance of the situation instead of thinking like a children's book caricature.
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