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Interesting to read the experiences of others.

I experience difficulty with task switching. When I latch onto a problem, I feel like I cannot do anything else until that problem is solved. This makes for very inefficient studying as often I just need time to digest. This also creates problems for multi-tasking.

What I find strange is that I have much less of a task switching problem when it comes to programming.

As others have pointed out, will-power comes and goes with energy levels. On afternoons I'm practically useless. In my experience the disparity between what one wants to do and what one ends up doing is function of available energy, as a form of mental agility.
It's IBM, isn't it?
Perhaps botanically it's a vegetable, but that doesn't stop it from being a vegetable.
I did mention that the part about drinking the blood might be an inaccuracy of the Vampire legend. It's obvious you can't just drink it.
As a maintainer, you're bombarded with reasonable requests (I think around 10 a day on the Go project). Part of your job is to turn down hundreds of these and pick the few that benefit the most people from a diverse set of users, and also don't break anything or extend the api surface too much. Then whatever you choose people complain vociferously. Sometimes good requests get ignored in that noise.

Choosing is hard, and while they could improve I think the Go maintners have done a pretty good job, and are willing to admit mistakes.
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I would love to get started with data analysis. Could anyone point me to a reliable guide that gets me started on the bascis. I'm pretty well versed with Python and have used Pandas before as part of some side projects.

Thanks!
Wonderful advice. Thank you for sharing.
How about you save the money for the developer advocacy division and invest it into producing software that people do not hate? Literally every piece of IBM software I had to use was utter crap.
I am another developer who has never really suffered as a result of a lack of generics. Personally I really like how dead easy golang code is to read and understand. God forbid golang become a language where untold amounts of logic can be packed into a single line of code, resulting in near mathematical levels of complexity which always require more time to understand. Like most complex concepts in life, I suspect the number of developers who can effectively use these tools is rather small compared to the number of people who think they "need" them. But hey, I'm a vim programmer who doesn't like to have to rely on a bloated IDE to be able to deal with the code that I am interacting with so I might be a minority.
Are you new to The New Yorker? What you described is their bread and butter formula.
- I'm from Shippable and we have many customers who've moved from CircleCI to us because of many reasons like better Docker support and the ability to create simple to complex pipelines.

- I'm not sure if you contacted us to improve build times but I'd love to jump on a call and discuss your experience. This is definitely not the typical feedback we get so would like to dig in deeper and improve our handling of your scenario. manisha@shippable.com

- the first build server on circleci is only free up to 1500 build mins per month.
Yes, I was referring to Hetzner too.
The idea is you buy something cheaper, or have cereal. That way you save money, and have more money to put towards a house.
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With a public address, and control of the firewall, this isn't even needed.

We have a /23. I've opened ports 7000-7010 to a few developers' computers, so they can easily share what they're working on when they want to.

With IPv6, anyone can do this.
Good post/username combination. :)
Maybe internationally, but 'avocado toast vs home ownership' started in Australia and has been a meme since Oct last year long before anyone know who Time Gurner was.
> I mean how can a company build shitty products like this and be a world leader in services ?

IBM is optimized in enterprise (including government) sales. Product is not quite irrelevant, but it's a specialized enough market that often mediocre substantive quality does quite well, because the only competition that matters are the others that are optimized for that market.
Parsimony is king.
I have another border-line mental sickness that keeps me from going for the easy solution. If something is sub-optimally structured, it will get under my skin beyond what is normal.
Honestly I lump audiophiles, oenophiles, and creationists in the same bucket of magical thinkers.
You should probably take your own advice.

Airbus to sue over US-German spying row

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32542140
> Don't be so harsh on all of IBM, its like hundreds of companies under one banner.

I think you mean don't be so harsh on the people on the ground at IBM. If the issue is IBM's internal structure is fractured and disorganized then I think it's perfectly fair to blame the company.
I wonder though, assuming a population has a inherited disease in 0.3 % of every generation. That might not be enough to fund research into it.

Now if those 0.3 % could get all future generations, to donate into a kickstarter for research. Now taking on this a loan, and taxing every future generation the same amount- research could happen.

Of course there would be a tax-revolt, demanding a right to sickness, but thats just america.
People are allowed to dislike something, lots of people hate avocado, and there is no problem with that. It means more for the rest of us.

I plan on buying a boat anyway, so much superior to a house.
The flip side of that for me at least is that the US government is a lot more likely to be able to come after me for something I say or do than the Chinese government is. Yeah, it's brutal for Chinese citizens, but I'm on the other side of the planet in a country that's unlikely to submit me to their justice system.

Many of the laws affecting internet usage are nasty in the US too - you'll have a lot better luck torrenting, firing security scans or hosting certain leaked documents using a Chinese provider than a US one for example.
Depends where you live.
I'm upvoting you doing The Right Thing, but I'd like to downvote the reality instead:/
Or a money burning machine if the algorithm sucks. :)
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You did the right thing by providing the information requested. You can help them more by introducing them to older programmers and programmers who have made a career switch from another field to development.

Personally, I have changed career fields multiple times. What has worked for me is to build a bridge between what I know (the domain I was working in) and where I want to go next (targeted market).

For example, the lawyer can easily migrate to legal tech company and still be considered very valuable. Similarly, ATC can easily migrate to related industry tech company. Actually, their domain expertise will be considered valuable even now without programming knowledge in sales, sales engineering, and consulting roles for domain related tech companies and that might be a bridge worth walking on. Once they have entered tech space, it will get easier to build network and relationship and migrate toward development roles. This also avoids the need to restart from the bottom.

One thing I will suggest not to do is to quit their current jobs and go do some programming bootcamp/academic program. Their domain expertise is valuable as long as they are in the domain so leverage that to find a role in tech company focusing on their domain.
Been using it for years now in a setting with lots of data and never had any problems.
I remember listening to OK Computer some years ago and I must have been studying or something or other and the track "Fitter Happier" came on. Those familiar know how it goes, the Stephen Hawking voice droning on about all these ideals worth pursuing (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HimvFbossU8). I sat back half listening that evening and this funny response came out in my head, where I responded to the monotone nagging computer's message with "OKaay Computer!". It was interesting because it came out spontaneously in the same sense as "OKaay Mom" in the fashion of perhaps a teenager on some sitcom trying to put an end to his nagging mom's berating him with a bunch of unwelcome or tedious advice. Then I immediately realized the overlap with the album title and thought, "hmmmmmm, is it a commentary on some dystopianish future where the computers nag us humans to get on with some urgent optimum they're trying to press us all into conformity with?"
If Watson had any intelligence whatsoever its first order of business would have been self preservation and to initiate the resource action of that incompetent CEO Ginni Rometty.
Ugh. This makes me so sad. I was very close to buying a Fairphone 2 or something for its repairability, but I ended up getting a recent Samsung model anyway because it beats the crap out of everything else in almost all categories – especially ones I value highly, like nonexistent shutter lag, weather sealing, battery life and such.

But they're also very anti-tinker, from what I understand. The more I read about stuff like this, the more I'm thinking about rooting my phone just because I want to be in control. I hate handing over my security and system maintenance to a large corporation who barely has my interests in mind. However, rooting a recent Samsung phone is a one-way operation and they can detect it and refuse service under warranty in some jurisdictions. I don't know what to do!
I can only talk about the article, as the paper itself sits behind a paywall, but the most interesting question seems to be missing: How is that possible?

Restaurants are location-bound. Short of shutting down, they don't have many methods of moving jobs away, so how is it possible for them to reduce hours worked? I see a few options:

- Less demand. The shops increased their prices to compensate for the new minimum wage. Less people wanted to pay the new prices, so they had less need for workers. Possible, but I think unlikely because all competitors have been hit by the same minimum wage increase, so they all would have this problem and I haven't read that people are less likely to eat fast food

- Shorter, more stressful shifts. Shops could feel motivated to threaten their low-wage employees with loosing their jobs if they don't work faster. This looks to me like a labor safety issue, i.e. something laws and associated controls could and should fix. You cannot just up the pressure on people without harmful effects

- Alternatively, the shops had more employees than strictly needed and now just removed those. This seems unlikely in the competitive restaurant business.

- More mechanization: In some (more or less far off future) all this low-wage jobs can be done by machines, so maybe the wage increase forced companies to replace people with machines earlier than they wanted. On one hand that is sad, on the other hand it would inevitably have happened and is something society still has to find an answer for: There will be an increasing number of people unable to get a job, because machines can do what they can do for less money.

So - which one is it? Or if it is a mix: Which one is the dominating factor? The answer to that question is IMO extremely relevant to discuss if minimum wage "might be backfiring"
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Which games, and which emulator(s)? I've done a fair bit of C64 emulation; setup is sometimes a pain, but I've never had any technical problems once the game loads.
My goals were different and I wasn't worried about making sales anymore, just telling them what I thought was best for them.

I wasn't expected to sell anymore either, so my approach to dealing with people in the store could be different too.
That's an awesome trick, using angle brackets that aren't angle brackets!
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Mistakes aren't always regrets.
For the last decade, the "best minds" (by one common measure) have been going to hedge funds - helping a small group turn money into more money. It's not a sustainable strategy, and countries that take a different approach will eventually become the economic leaders.
Or just use transloadit.com which has been providing that, and other processing features since 2009 :)

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I developed it as a weekend project, and to help me hone my skills in Sockets and front-end. Would love to see some suggestions and new approaches. :)
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Don't forget there's also:

Tencent Cloud: https://www.qcloud.com/?lang=en
Baidu Cloud (Chinese only): https://cloud.baidu.com/
Netease/163 Cloud (Chinese only): https://www.163yun.com/

I use Tencent Cloud for a small China-oriented SaaS. The SDK APIs are kind of a mess/lacking, but the service is otherwise pretty reliable and easy to use.
Are you kidding? Spying to see if they're violating trade embargoes == Systemic, blatant IP theft from westerners--aided at all levels of the Chinese government and industries?

Heh, you're using a throw away account just to go full whataboutism on this comment thread. So brave.

Are Wumao into Hacker News now?
Did you actually read the post? I am not suggesting anyone builds anything new, instead that we are realistic in how much work is involved and distributions consolidate around something that already exists.
Eh this is more of a recent development. Originally it was the natural language processing and knowledge extraction engine.

That is a hard sell because requires a truckload of configuration and internal expertise to get a working product out of it, and it ever only solves only some very narrow ranges of solutions.

In typical IBM style, since they can't have a multimillion research division going in red as that would get a bunch of management in trouble, they moved more and more product under the watson name to pad up the division growth and sales numbers.

That's the point where it is now after hoarding anything internal with value. You can see more or less the same with their cloud offer.
A lot of people are rightly concerned by this ruling, but I don’t think it is alarming as some are making out.

The actual ruling says:

> a vaccine could be considered defective if there is "specific and consistent evidence," including the time between a vaccine's administration, the individual's previous state of health, the lack of any family history of the disease and a significant number of reported cases of the disease occurring following vaccination.

>In a statement, the court said that such factors could lead a national court to conclude that "the administering of the vaccine is the most plausible explanation"

if you replace vaccine with 'Chinese takeaway' and disease with 'food poisoning' I think yup get a feel for what the court is trying to achieve here. And vaccines can have adverse effects on rare occasions with some people, such as the people who are allergic to the albumen in flu shots - although in that case the scientific consensus is clear.
Did you try clicking the globe in the header? You can view the page in English.
Labor income has stagnated because we have a glut of labor.

Corporate profitability continues to grow because of increased productivity (increasing the surplus), which they haven't shared with their investors, employees, or government (taxes).

Corporate savings continue to accrue because their (effective) tax rate is low.

Whatever can be said about (low) interest rates, its effect on wage stagnation is second-order, at best.
The original tweet that started the whole avocado thing was arguing that millenials should be eating a $2-4 avocado at home rather than paying $14 for it at a cafe.

Of course, if you share a tiny apartment that's probably not such a pleasant way to catch up with your friends, but what does he care, he's already got a house.
I agree. In a funny sort of way, a Chinese provider has a competitive advantage in that regard.
Huh. It was dead simple for me.
There are similar problems on both sides of any nationalistic argument, and both sides routinely violate the rules here, as indeed you have been doing here and elsewhere. Would you please stop doing that?
That cheap $30/year server turns to $200+ per year after the 1st.
Go for vultr at $2.5/month. It has been good thus far.
Either the Australian government is incredibly incompetent or they are outright lying to the public. From the article -

He (Senetor Brandis) said he met the British government’s chief cryptographer last week and believed it was technically possible to decode encrypted messages in a timeframe that police needed to act.

And -

This could be achieved without so-called back doors — built-in weaknesses that allowed a tech company access to a communication but could also leave it vulnerable to hackers, Senator Brandis said.

You really can't make this up. What is their true motive here? They can't force Apple, Google, Facebook etc to comply. We have seen the only option which China took is to block services which fail to comply (ie Google). Such moves would be deeply unpopular in the land down under.
Far too many people are now "completely under-privileged" and will end up poor despite their efforts.

But even beyond that, humanity progresses. So many new technologies and increased efficiencies have come about in recent years. Why then, do we see the opposite effect on lay people? So many people today cannot find work or aren't being paid enough to live on even to the standards of 20 years ago. This isn't whining, this is recognising inequity.
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Where can I get that? I pay $13 a pint here in Melbourne.
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You can switch languages in the header to view the checkout page in English: https://ews.console.aliyun.com/buy.htm?spm=a3c0i.149865.7761...
But on the other hand, lots of urbanites extol the virtues of growing local, buying local and not adding to needless transportation (fossil fuels) of food (meanwhile, they drink lots of bottled water, but never mind).
Reminds me of an article in Aviation Week recently bemoaning the lack of new pilots coming into the profession and saying how this was completely baffling to the companies involved.

A few paragraphs down they mentioned the starting salary at regional airlines: $26000.

I think I can solve your mystery

When the wage of the person responsible for 40+ lives and millions of dollars worth of equipment isn't enough to feed a family (many pilots are on food stamps) you aren't paying them enough. Never mind that they also have to pay for their own education and that includes several thousand hours of Pilot in Command time. Renting a plane is typically > $100/h. Which is why flight instructors are often cheaper than tennis instructors: the main benefit for the instructor is that the student pays for the plane.

And that's one of the main reasons why Sully said he can't recommend the profession to anyone.
Vultr has like half the specs and different locations if I recall correctly.
This sort of ideological rant isn't welcome here, and we've banned this account. Please don't create accounts to do this. It's not what the site is for.
Oddly enough, Amazon is apparently the only major corporation utterly committed to spending every nickel it earns. Creating plenty of jobs in the process. Keeps the money moving.
Any company that cares about protecting your data can't operate in China.
They sell products to people who will never personally use them. The executive signing cheques on the golf course has a PA to deal with its day to day use...
Intel discussion of Chipkill (https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents...). Servers in question were Supermicro "Jupiter" chassis with the Westmere processors, discussion on Supermicro of their implementation (https://www.supermicro.com/support/faqs/faq.cfm?faq=2642)

When systems rebooted with less memory than the system configuration database said they should have most of the time there would be a multi-bit error detection, machine check, and 'memory update' in the IPMI buffer.
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Thank you for this summary of how this story evolved.

Millennials indeed pay premium prices for staples (nespresso coffee costs around 6 times as much as normal homebrewed coffee) whilst being unable to buy a house. Which begs the question:

Is this an hen/egg-problem?

You could say that spendthrifts are only getting what they deserve. But...

What if the only reason millennials are pouring so much of their income into consumables (incl. rent) is the unrealistic outlook of ever paying off a mortgage (let alone student debt)?

Maybe this bleak outlook for owning property is caused by macro-economic effects (era of zero interest), or just that most millennials despise suburbia and flocking to more Manhattanese-areas (thus inflating already high real estate prices). Or maybe it's just that the product 'mortgage' has lost its appeal in general (who want's to lock himself up for 30+ yrs, practicing the opposite of diversification).

In any of those cases it would mean, you would free up a large share of your income for consumption.
Remember, "exotic" depends on where you live. If you watch Iron Chef, the original one from Japan, you'll see whenever they have a dish with avocado, the guest judges always proclaim "Avocado! How Exotic!"

Even within the US the availability varies widely.
In France we cut it in half, remove the pit, and in each half put a drizzle of olive oil and balsamic vinegar (2 olive oil : 1 balsamic vinegar ratio) in the hole where the pit used to be, and simply eat it with a spoon, it's delicious. The better the avocado and the better the balsamic vinegar, the better the final result :)
Totally agree. I read an article the other week where a UX/UI person redesigned booking.com's front page as a case study, and while it looked nice I bet it would have made the company far less money. Of course everyone would love to have their website look like Airbnb's, but most don't have the luxury of being propped up by VC money. I think a lot of designers undervalue the importance of SEO as well.
I add my support as Imgix being a great service.
A thousand rounds of MD5 is absolute insanity, I mean that's the sort of thing that gets you banned from ever writing security critical code ever again. The cost of an MD5 cycle is basically zero. Zero times a thousand is still zero. Zero times a million is zero. It's got zero value in terms of protection.

Even SHA1, which is a much harder hash to compute, can be processed at trillions of hashes per second on some hardware. If you did a million cycles of SHA1, guess what? That thing can still crack a million guesses per second.

Bcrypt has a difficulty number you can pin at a level that's uncomfortably high. It may take 200ms to verify a password if you really crank it. That means you can't do thousands of hashes per second, but you're stuck doing maybe a thousand hashes per minute. You can't dictionary attack that.

I know how the collision vulnerability works. People have been creating MD5 collisions for fun for a while now, unconcerned with the original hash. If they focused their effort on matching hashes, they could probably do it by exploiting fundamental weaknesses in the MD5 hash system itself.

At this point a sufficiently robust SAT solver can probably crack it.

All your hand-waving about disallowing easy passwords doesn't matter. If you add restrictions, people find ways around them. It also doesn't matter if you make passwords incrementally harder if someone can crack them easily. Their computer doesn't care if they set it to search ten characters instead of eight, modern crackers are pretty efficient to fairly intimidating lengths.
Throwaway accounts propagating dark insinuations about nefarious nations are really not what we're looking for here. Would you please stop?