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I don't even understand how someone could ship that DNS resolver, especially as the default install. It's completely broken on my systems, literally crashing on every other lookup. Nobody online seems to have a fix either, I just had to disable the thing and revert back to the old resolver.
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It's a balancing act, to be sure. I'm sure all of the issues you raised would be serious impediments to hiring 20-somethings but many of us have only improved our programming prowess with age.

I'm in my 40s, I don't care about after work fun. I HATE that I have to commute into the city every day.

I would LOVE a 15 minute suburban commute to work. If the pay/benefits are right the only big concern would be stability.
Yep. The AMA/AAMC is essentially screwing the rest of the US so that they can keep doctors' salaries artificially high. There are tons of medical school applicants who get rejected every year, and not because they can't become doctors, but because medical school sizes have remained constant while the country's population (and demand for healthcare) has increased drastically.
Average person's priorities:

I > My family > My home > My life convenience > My country > Other human beings > Planet Earth.

This is what the average person expects from other people:

Planet Earth > Other human beings > Their country > their family > them

And you wonder why we fail to combat climate change?
> So you get this weird situation where at the junior levels, the supervisor knows more than the supervised. At the more senior levels, that's usually inverted.

And on some level, this makes sense. A completely junior employee may well need substantial guidance, and if they aren't reliable that won't necessarily be easy to predict - so you get them a supervisor who can evaluate their work in full. A midlevel or upper-level manager ought to be competent enough to perform reliably, and it's more useful to have someone above them with skills they don't have.

(Of course, hiring is a mess, and "senior staff ought to be qualified and reliable" is not the same as "senior staff are...")
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The failure modes of 2FA and what happens when a token is lost or breaks are definitely one of the pain points.

I'm not a fan of the "back up recovery token" approach, as if you only need the backups once every couple of years, a lot of people (myself included) are likely to misplace, forget where the tokens were.

My current approach is TOTP with sync via iCloud, so the tokens are available on each of my mobile devices, so unless I lose all of them I should be ok.

Of course that provides a weak point (my iCloud account) but there's always a tradeoff somewhere.
It's not orthogonal. Being technical, gives you the necessary knowledge to judge whether a claim that uses technical terminology to argue a business case, actually properly argues that business case or not.

There's an implicit misunderstanding here that engineers making technical arguments, are not making business cases. That is not correct. Good managers know how to interpret engineer arguments in a business context. Bad non-technical managers, will dismiss technical arguments because they aren't able to translate these arguments into a business context.

Sometimes good non-technical managers will nevertheless still do a good job by delegating this judgement based on people they trust. Someone with extra technical knowledge however, would have done an even better job.
the difference is the miner continually payouts.
Ditto on Android, and I've also seen only one website try to do that.
> It could be that the supposedly "rogue" jet that broke formation had realized the others had lost course, and thus reestablished the "correct" course.

This analogy is flawed: it assumes there is some objectively "correct" course that exists.

We could say that psychiatry is flawed because it assumes that the mean corresponds to "health," but this does not seem to be the point of psychiatry. Psychiatry isn't attempting to bring individuals into some objective "healthyness," rather it seems to be attempting to reincorporate deviant individuals back into society, flawed and unhealthy as that society (and treated individual) may be.

The ethical implications of this are another question: a psychiatrist might argue that this is a good practice, as they are helping people remain within society, which will likely result in better outcomes along the broader society's axes of good and bad. Others, such as yourself, might argue that this is bad, for various reasons such as that the treatment results in suffering or that deviant individuals also have access to novel perspectives.
> Reflecting this shift, design guidelines are increasingly recommending putting app navigation at the bottom of the screen.

IMHO the mobile web is terrible BECAUSE of lost screen real estate due to all these sticky elements. I have started a filter list [0] for uBlock Origin that attempts to fix this by pinning scrolling nav bars that block real estate to a fixed location as well as blocking other annoying web elements.

I also think these items are terrible for web usability on a desktop (and my filter list works well against them on desktop as well) but taking up such a large portion of the readable screen size with a 'download our app banner' and a navigation scroll bar plus a button that scrolls with you so that you can click to jump back to the top of the page is really horrible.

Feel free to subscribe to the filter list [1] by pasting the url into the 'Custom' section under the '3rd-party filters' tab of uBlock Origin and let me know your thoughts.

[0] Project Homepage https://github.com/yourduskquibbles/webannoyances

[1] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/yourduskquibbles/webannoya...
Don't get me wrong - I enjoy Matt Taibbi's writing. I generally agree or am sympathetic to his perspective. I think Goldman Sachs has been bad for most Americans.

However I think you need to take what he has to say with a grain of salt. I'm one of those liberals that won't take their own side in an argument. I like his writing and agree with its sentiment but I do think his writing is more editorial, rather than adhering to the ethics of journalism. It is in the same vein as Michael Moore. He has a perspective, and his content is more about validating his opinion as opposed to doing true investigative journalism.
Oh great. Let's tell managers that wanting to refactor is a yellow flag. What a terrible idea.
What is the answer to those questions? I can Fizzbuzz in any number of languages, but the first response that springs to mind for the others is "Fuck off."
Exactly. Without trying you get double the recommended minimum cardio. I can't imagine how people can go about their daily business and not cover it.

Strength is trickier. Nothing in my day to day life requires me to pull something 12 times in succession in such a way that my lats will refuse to do a 13th pull.
but when somewhere like Cloudflare insists on ONLY using Authy it makes me want to look elsewhere for service.

Cloudflare supports Authy and Google Authenticator (or any TOTP-compliant app): https://blog.cloudflare.com/you-can-now-use-google-authentic...
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I think it's more that MacOS is run on end user machines where the defaults are just fine. As long as you don't have to fiddle with it launchd generally stays out of the way. If you start trying to get fancy you quickly find yourself in plist hell and brick walls of "Apple doesn't think this is a valid use case, so it is impossible".
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Seems like a feedback loop. It's expensive, so most apps avoid doing that, meaning there's less need to check for performance regressions. Then if there is a regression, it further increases the incentive for developers to avoid it, so in the future even fewer apps will do that, making it even more of an unusual use case, so even less need to test for it..
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Sad. So does anyone sell a bone-conduction microphone now? I see bone-conduction headphones, but they seem to come with regular microphones.
"If you are in a technical field" Well, there's the rub, right? Not every organization that employs technologists is actually in a "technical field" and thus doesn't have the resources to aquire and deploy technical managers everywhere where they might be useful.

Unless your company's core business is software, eventually there will be someone who is non-technical who will be required to make business decisions.
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My two cents:

Sexual harassment should never be condoned at the workplace. Perpetrators should be punished according to the law and company policy. That being said I do not know whether the accused is guilty. I take this as an opportunity to talk about what this means for the local tech scene.

1. Ushahidi must take responsibility. They have issued a statement so far but it is unsigned and apparently was shared on WhatsApp.

2. People shouldn't resort to cheap insults.

3. There should be no sacred cows. Who was the board member that was allegedly approached by victims then told them to be quiet? That person needs to own up.
What? They may need short term loans but almost every business in the real world funds itself through its own operations. They may take out loans but then they pay them off.
Would it then become important for that business to give these minds that would not make them feel trapped and caged? Wouldn't the quality of results be hampered if lots of suffering were to occur? Could the mind at some point become useless since it would be drowned in depressive, cyclical, and often illogical thought? That, too, would create a research point, but would be pretty inhumane and I would hope an ethics oversight panel would not allow such states to exist.

So many questions surround this... If the body is dead, but the brain is still active of reasonable thought and to that end communication, who decides it's fate? Does a mind deteriorate once there is no outside stimuli of the senses?

Not that I would agree to be in this state, but man there would be huge fields of research to do.
Thanks for the kind message.
There are excellent teams doing Kaggle competitions. I tried last fall to make some students aware of Kaggle but they were not interested.

We did not try to raise funds, it was difficult when there was nothing concrete to show. But now we can show a simple app that can classify a heart sound as normal or not.
For example in [0] there is a ultra simple app (one button!) that classified my heart sounds as not normal, in less than one second.

I am thinking about making a kickstarter in December or next January to rise awareness about the detector and to raise some money.

[0] https://padiracinnovationdotorg.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/...
All else being equal (i.e., in steady state, low-innovation, markets with healthy competition), the purchase price of something is just labor + energy costs of mining/recycling the raw materials, and manufacturing, with a small profit margin tacked on top.

This makes "do the cheapest thing possible" a surprisingly good proxy for "do the most energy efficient thing".

Of course, if you know something about the manufacturing chain, you can use that knowledge to do something better, but that is usually taking second order effects into account.

Taking cars as an example: buying a $100,000 Model S Tesla instead of a $35K gas guzzler to save $10K on gas is probably bad for the environment, if you only look at the marginal effect of that one car (and ignore subsidizing Tesla R&D, etc).

If the Tesla is only $35K, then you saved $10K of gas and the Tesla manufacturing process had a much lower energy footprint, so it is probably a huge win.
It also led to the classification of homosexuality as a mental disorder. And, e.g. the chemical castration of Alan Turing.

But at the same time if you've ever spent time with people with serious dehabilitating mental illness, it's clear there are a lot of people who are very seriously struggling and very much need help and aren't capable of seeking it out on their own. And if you've ever experienced any kind of mental illness or talked in depth to someone who has, it's clear it's a very real phenomena and not just someone daring to be different.

So while I agree with the general thrust of your post I think this:

>It makes the subjective and critical judgement that the behavior exhibited by most people signifies health, and any deviance from the statistical mean is diseased; evolution be damned.

Is unfair. It's a tough line to thread, which is why psychiatrists and philosophers spend lifetimes working on these issues and trying to figure out where the line is. It's absolutely not the case that "any deviance from the statistical mean is diseased"; this is not an unfair characterization of what was done at the inception of the field when people understood nothing, and it's certainly a good warning about how powerful and dangerous it is classify something or someone as 'insane' (read Foucault! Who is shockingly missing from this article!) but it's not a fair critique of modern day psychiatric medicine.
Yup should work just fine as mobile. In fact - here's an example that you can view on your mobile device - https://chinedufn.github.io/skeletal-animation-system/
I am self-employed as a contractor/consultant doing frontend work - this is similar to how I started the relationship with my biggest and best client.

They had a post looking for a full-time contractor, I contacted them and they gave me 4 hours of paid work. That was good, so they gave me 8 hours next. That was good, so they gave me a week's worth of work next. That was good so they gave me a month's worth of work.

By the time my half day + day + week + month was up, they had a nice contract ready for me to sign and we've been happy ever since!

I really like the way they onboarded me - there was small, but increasing risk shared equally between them and me as we started our relationship and learned to trust each other. It's been great, and if I was going to hire somebody on I'd do the same!
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I mean being able to combine latent codes through some form of algebra (e.g. linear combinations) and have it retain coherent semantics:

https://github.com/Newmu/dcgan_code/raw/master/images/faces_...
Modern application development is horrible.

Why on earth do we still design and implement user interfaces by hand? Shouldn't 99% of development be about creating semantic models and let generic clients take care of rendering it properly based on form-factor, context, preferences, etc?

Today, every single app needs to re-implement the user class, authentication system, profile management interface, responsive design, loading indicators, caching and offline support, third-party access, sharing, filtering, theming, localization, accessibility, etc. This is insane.
You think that doctors profit from the current system? How exactly?

Applications to med schools have been down for the last few years, and the trend is worrisome. Your doctor-bashing stance is common but uninformed.
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It's also telling when the hospital gives you different bills depending on if you're insured or not. If you're insured they charge waaay more. They give you a more "realistic" bill if you are uninsured.

It's a ridiculous system.
In general, wearables, a lot of consumer IoT (SmartHome), action cams, maybe consumer drones (?), maybe VR (?), etc. there's also a lot of fashion/fad. And, as you suggest, the actual core number of users in a lot of these areas may turn out to be relatively small when the dust settles. And the current fads switch elsewhere for a couple of years.

That's not to say that everything is doom and gloom. But it's a tough market for companies to play in and they probably need to be reasonably diversified for when one area falls out of mainstream favor.
This.
I've been "in the loop" on several people getting PIPs. Two were 100% a pretext for firing. One of those two was fired less than a week after going on the PIP, despite it being a six week plan. I thought that was especially shitty as it didn't give the person sufficient time to line up other work.

The third instance was "we wanna fire this person but if we see improvement then they can stay". This person stayed for almost a year.

In all cases the PIP was to create a paper trail to support an argument of firing for legal cause in a potential lawsuit.
Some non payment is also considered bad debt (they expect the patient to pay, the patient doesn't pay). With charity care, the bill is explicitly forgiven.

The hospital industry claims non payments total around 6% of hospital expenses.

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20120106/BLOGS01/301...

I do wonder if they calculate that 6% on what they bill though, rather than on what things actually cost. The margin on an unpaid bill isn't really a cost.
You should definitely consult a lawyer as i'm guessing you have a german contract. Even if you haven't started but signed everything you have something called trial period (Probezeit) which has at least a two weeks notice for termination.
> I’ve long held that the web experience can be just as performant and polished as native.

Recently I've been starting to think the assumption "apps are faster" is wrong when you factor in app start time. Two well known offenders here are LinkedIn and Twitter; opening a push message from either it frequently takes 10+ seconds of staring at their logo (which they use as a launch screen counter to recommendations at https://developer.apple.com/ios/human-interface-guidelines/g...) before I can read anything.

For this type of transactional UX, slow-to-load apps are doing a poor job
I think that when this happens in design it's more about looking normal so as to project credibility (so that people will take you seriously/give you money). The important part is not that actual browers/people-spending-money feel this way, but that product owners and designers think they do (and maybe they're right, I don't know, though Kalzumeus' post about the success of the Big Ugly Button makes me think they're at least sometimes wrong). This is what drives web design trend-chasing, when really the old two-or-three-column-header-footer sites of The Distant Past of A Decade Ago were totally fine and often more usable than the "beautiful" crap put out today. But they look "old" so out they go.
I got a $20 fire-resistant lock box just to keep my backup codes in, written down on index cards.

It was a huge pain in the ass to go back into all my accounts and get the codes. In many cases, I had to reset 2FA to get the codes. But now that I've done this, it's easy to keep up when adding 2FA to an account, and I no longer have the anxiety of worrying about getting locked out of important accounts.

Another idea I've been considering is a separate password manager account (from a different provider) just for backup codes. It would have a really hard password and 2FA stored on paper.
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The last client release for HipChat on macOS was 8 months ago, same with the rest of the clients. AFAICT there hasn't been a single feature release or bug fix since that point for the 'cloud' version. That seems like a pretty large gap for a product which is certainly not bug free.

https://www.hipchat.com/release_notes/mac
> There is a widespread sense of economic instability due to large trends that are gutting the middle class and concentrating jobs.

Widespread area-wise, maybe. In denser areas it is less of an issue.

Politics won't stop such a trend. Technology will do as it is asked. IT innovates.
This reminds me of that scene in Silicon Valley where Bertram tells Dinesh he can make a friend just as good as his friend. Someone told me a while ago if you want to have a personal connection you have to be personable yourself and tell someone something honest and truthful. I've had much better luck since then. The middle box on this diagram is good advice.
We have an ecosystem that's free, it is the web. The spam, the malware: A great deal of web apps don't have these issues. We need to continue to enhance the web as an application platform, rather than hobble it.
$ cat /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler
cat: /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler: No such file or directory

I guess my work does something weird with our desktop linux installs, laptop says this though:

$ cat /sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler
noop [deadline] cfq
This is a great tip (eg banning TMZ seems like a great idea). Unfortunately, if you switch between US & regional Google News often (maybe you mostly read Google News Australia), it has a tendency to delete all your carefully curated settings on both sites.

You can also add preferred sources now, which helps a lot (when they don't delete it). I found adding WSJ, Deutsche Welle, FT, Bloomberg, Financial Review & similar sources improved things for me. I wish I could add blogs I follow there too.

I'd love to see a Google News alternative that used a customisable whitelist of sources, and mute filters to block topics I'm just not interested in.
Ok so this explains Musk's new startup then.
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That doesn't seem like an especially compelling argument. There are components of every ready-made operating system that you 'don't need or want'. I don't need or want an IPv6 stack, or debugfs, or half of the other features that come with most distributions' Linux kernels, and i don't need or want legacy bull shit like (d)ash and cpio and Python 2. But there they always are anyway, and i don't lose much sleep over that fact.
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Eric Paley from Founder Collective has written a lot about the mechanics of over-funding. The basic mechanism is that companies start scaling marketing efforts that don't return $1 for a $1 investment.

That's obviously startup 101 stuff, but scale makes a huge difference. Losing money is fine if there is a long term network effect, but more often than not it's just an effort to make toppling growth look good enough to attract a VC in the next round.

So instead of being a modest company, that's nearly profitable with loads of potential, you become a company that is wildly expensive to keep afloat and seem to have less potential since you've already spend hundreds of millions experimenting with acquisition. Instead of having a million potential customers, there are maybe a couple dozen VCs that can make or break your future. That's overly generalized, but here's a reading list for a more detailed explanation:

Wasting Time with the Startup Joneses:

https://techcrunch.com/2015/07/30/wasting-time-with-the-jone...

When Burn Rate Outweighs Enthusiasm:

https://techcrunch.com/2016/01/13/never-let-burn-rate-outwei...

VC is a Hell of a Drug:

https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/16/venture-capital-is-a-hell-...

Overdosing on VC: Lessons from 71 IPOs:

https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/15/overdosing-on-vc-lessons-f...
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If you Google search on the El Salvador claim there seems to be a lot of other articles backing it up, like this one:

http://www.theage.com.au/good-weekend/climate-change-and-kid...
Honestly it would depend on the size of the cage.