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I know some people prefer money over morality and integrity, but personally, I am satisfied that these guys have to struggle to get people to work for them. In my ideal world, people would grow spines and would not work for these shady big companies.
That's the exact reason why I hate wearing and even worst ever being forced to wear one.
I never got the point of dress codes. When everyone dress (boringly) alike I tend to view them as mindless drones and my respect for them drops to near zero.
Show up in some unusual or creative outfit however and I'm so much more willing to believe you are an intelligent and interresting human being.
Numerous studies show this not to be the case. It's bad for your mental health and it's bad for your work.

Care to cite some?

(Although I'd argue that averages shouldn't matter here, it ought to be about what works for the individual -- and the constant "team, team, team" refrain in contemporary management speak seems like a somewhat-deliberate attempt to distract from that).
>"I truly believe that a name is an identity ... I am strong in my feeling that this is the name that fits me and that embodies the type of person I am."

A guy who can't admit when me made an error or stupid impulse decision?

A person who thinks two words (name, surname) define them, instead of their actions and achievements?

Something that anybody can get with $100 dollars and an application is clearly not what "embodies the type of person" they are.
Yes, I understand the anecdote here is a lawyer, but it certainly needs to be studied for all professions and modern lifestyle affects - lawyer, banker, programmer or blue collar or service jobs with infrequent customer interaction
Yep. I lived in Austin for a summer. 104 daily. I put on shorts and a tank top and biked miles into town, up plenty of hills both ways.

Humans have sweat! We we're built for the heat! We can survive just fine in the arctic too. We're the most adaptable species on Earth.

You have to get in shape, but that's another issue...
"Their ambitions seem to be exhausted by their kids and family"

Don't let this discourage you. Yes, it is a lot harder to do anything with family and specially kids. But can you have a great career with a big family ? Absolutely. It just requires a lot more dedication, hard work and commitment from your end.

So don't ask yourself "Career or family". Ask yourself "Do I have it in me to have a great career along with a great family ? ".
This guy probably has it worse: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=5

...or him: http://mw.eco.br/ig/prof/ReinhardtAdolfoFuck.htm
I'm a huge fan of Pug. Out of the various view engines I've used, it's been the most intuitive and productive for me. Pug, with it's indentation defined blocks, seems like a good fit for Python (less context-switching), though I've mainly used it with Node.js.

One peeve: managing multiple partials for a single page with mixins seems a little more complicated than necessary.
Having grown up in Switzerland, I understand where the advice came from. There, bankers are more servile. It could be seen as inappropriate for a banker to be dressed as if about to enjoy something luxurious. As you observe, however, it translates stupidly across cultures.
those against "chemicals" in food often demonstrably have no idea what they're talking about. the overloading is a rhetorical attempt to associate fear and lack of knowledge with everyday experience. your defense of this practice is vastly more inane than any objections to it.
Of course, ski towns have also had a short, long, and midterm rental market since long before there was an AirBnB. For a number of years after school, a group of us rented a ski condo decades ago.

I'm a bit curious about this trend generally. Skiing as a sport isn't growing much and I believe it's still below pre-recession heights overall. Of course that's not the only reason to stay in a mountain town but it tends to be a big one in the winter.
Family gave me a great boost

Because I love them, it not only game me a noble reason to be productive, but they also made sure that I did it efficiently so I can spend time with them.
Sailfish isn't open enough for me, they have closed source UI components and I couldn't even find the build recipes for the packages they provide when I tried.

They do not support full disk encryption, although it has been asked for by the community for ages.

Also Sailfish tries to abstract components from Android with libhybris. I wanted to have a real Linux distribution, which does not need some sort of Android compatibility layer to actually work, or else it would just run behind Android and the phone industry (as I've worded it in the introduction post of pmOS).

MeeGo has its last release from 2012 (according to Wikipedia), so one would need to update everything first, deal with the legacy stuff that it brings and fully maintain it from there. By using an alive desktop/server Linux distribution all the regular distro maintenance does not need to be done, it just needs to be bent to run on phones.

Finally there is the pmbootstrap component. I've started scripting everything before I developed it and realized, that I need a real program that abstracts all the bootstrapping and cross-compiling. The result is, that you can install it on any Linux distribution, that runs Python 3.4 and OpenSSL, and it sets up all the crosss-compilers and else everything you need in chroots. I haven't seen any other of the existing projects doing something like that.

(We also have the deviceinfo files, and the one-package-per-device thing, which I haven't seen anywhere else.)
If you have a strong career ambition and have also raised a big family (more than 1 kid, and spouse doesn't work), do you feel that family is a career obstacle or a booster?

You don't want to hear the experiences of those whose spouse does work?
There's a guy in Leeds who changed his name to Megatron, I didn't believe my friend when he told me but it's true https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65...

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If you read the article, the author cites quite a few very believable effects of having such an outlandish name. While I don’t doubt that having such an eccentric combination of puckishness and impulsivity would cause problems professionally and personally, those are not the problems directly addressed in the piece.
Our team is usually fully remote. I've actually worked my full career in mostly remote positions (15 years now). I've very rarely experienced people randomly disappearing for hours at a time, and usually a simple text will clear things up. However, if you work in a flexible office and your team has core business hours, official or not, your manager should probably convey this. This just falls under "managing expectations", and is not necessarily a failure of the employee.

Sometimes emergencies will necessitate missing even core business hours. This is more a matter of having more responsibilities (family, kids, etc) than being remote though. But if an employee has these sorts of responsibilities, I'm guessing they are more likely to take up remote work.

There are positives and negatives to hiring remote workers, and I think there are several ways to compensate for the negatives. Obviously since I work remotely I think the positives outweigh those negatives. But I also think placing so much emphasis on one of the negatives, that I rarely experience in practice, is extremely narrow sighted. But maybe your remote workers are bad at working remotely, maybe your company is bad at managing remote workers, or maybe there's confounding variables like the one I mentioned above.
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No, of course not. But let's not overlook the fact that there are people who eat that every other day and lots of people who eat nothing but processed food to the point that they find real food sort of gross and hard to cook, eat or digest. This is a Bad Thing.
In the sysadmin world yes but not nearly enough. UML along with similar ones like blockdiag and nwdiag interface nicely with my documentation systems in orgmode and asciidoc.

One of my side projects is an automated nwdiag mapping system with diff's to be able to help sysadmins coming in blind to orgs (happens way more than you'd think, usually a 5 yr old visio file somewhere).

Anyway, in the future I see uml style things as useful for similar automation projects, due to the simple text nature.

Also, I live in a terminal most of the time so personally prefer stuff like nwdiag over say visio or some of the alternatives.

I also used to make repair flowcharts with seqdiag for my t1 and 2s.
Why do you say that? And what exactly do you mean by "pay quanta"? Rewarding and incentivizing high performance seems to obviously be in the business's best interest, so why do you say they don't focus on it, even for the companies that do it explicitly for that reason? Are you claiming they're lying as to their motivations?
Jinja is great. I'm also a fan of Play's Twirl.
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confirmed. Chrome 59.0.3071.115 on Mac back button is broken.

cool site, tho
It's not realistic to expect exhaustive detail in a headline.
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A red flag regarding the nature of the company. No interview shows lack of diligence. If there is no diligence about who they let in, what else are they not diligent about?
Ah okay, so at most it's a withdrawal of special treatment, NOT punishing a regular app's position in the app store because they launched in the Android store first, which was how the original accusation sounded.

But thanks for the info, I can see it certainly would stink to be treated that way, losing your benefits and being ignored by your contact.
I admit that my novelist analogy breaks down a little when you're building, say, Facebook.

But how many people who wished to be writers ended up working in advertising, or government, or someplace else where they do write a lot, in collaboration with others and subject to requirements handed to them by their bosses?

I think most of us write software the way a copywriter writes copy at McCann[0]. It's great to make Creative Director, but...

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCann_Erickson
If you have some time to spare and your oneplus one is not your day-to-day phone, you could give porting pmOS to it a try:
https://github.com/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap/wiki/Porting-to-...

All you need is some Linux knowledge, and we will help you with the process in the irc/matrix channel.

Even if you can't get very far, it helps the next guy who picks up your work and starts from there. That's why we document our progress on a device-specific wiki page:

https://github.com/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap/wiki/Devices
I suggest reading that book!
If the amount of second homes and STRs is causing a problem, it's perfectly reasonable for the government to tax them. As an example, UK councils are allowed to charge 50% more tax on homes that have been empty for more than two years (100% and one year in Scotland); if 19% of the town's rental stock has been converted to STR, that's a sizable revenue stream for rent subsidies and other programs.

That said, the only way to guarantee affordable housing is to build more housing.
Increased affordable housing supply in these areas would help. Unfortunately residents often don't want it.
Interesting. Never heard of that before. I didn't think there could be regular quaking in non-seismically-active bodies.

> March 15, 2006: NASA astronauts are going back to the moon

This broke my heart.
I think the answer is that the remote workers were just bad/slackers/not devoted to their jobs. As I said, they failed to move upwards in the company and some were even fired. This was not at a company that was a particularly good or high-paying place to work, mind you. Maybe you've been luckier in the caliber of people that you've worked with, but I contend that, in general, across the entire workforce, it's not rare to see people taking liberties with remote work.
This is my code for Hello world in c++
https://tio.run/##HckxCoUwDADQPaeIuigoOGtx9hqSBinEVGqKg/yz96...
The other day I was debugging an Ops issue only to find that it originated in a python-based executable. I soon found out it was a feature unfinished and buggy.
There is a github issue that documents it, it has been around for no less than 10 years. 5 people offered PRs that got rejected for style and they are still discussing how to fix the bug in the most pythonist way.

I'll try to find it again.
I obviously ditched the
Is it nosebleed expensive because of this class or that class, or because demand is high and supply of positions in medical schools is strictly controlled to provide scarcity to the consumer market on the other end?

I kinda feel like you're pulling an XY problem here.

(Grats on your oldest, though. Condolences on the bill.)
For those looking for something similar with Rust: http://vulkano.rs
I'm not a big fans of unions as they currently exist, but this is a good example of why tech people should organize into some sort of collective structure so as to equalize their bargaining power. At the end of the day, you're just disposable labor that will be disadvantaged at any opportunity for the sake of profit.
So, if you want us "techs" to work on antiquated languages like Slang, then cut us some slack in our slacks.

Tech is IB land is billions of dollars, yet, the actual end delivery, the systems, the codebases, the platforms are of a far lower quality than most outside could ever suspect.

Bonus-driven development is partially to blame there though.
That pendulum swings back and forth. Currently AI/tech is on top but I would not bet it will stay like this forever
I know it sounds like free market dogma, but I swear this is true: supply grows to meet demand. Airbnb will just encourage more housing to be built, by creating a new short term housing market that until now had not existed.
I think every story is different, and it all depends on the individual circumstances. I worked for a startup where the founder was a "family man" - with an extensive family, and he was doing great at work afaik. Wasn't sacrificing much on either front. He did have to employ a part-time nanny, to free up time for his wife and himself could both simultaneously have good careers.
Family is a big responsibility but also a reason to try harder to be successful. Keep in mind that a day has only 24 hours and eventually its a compromise between your career and family life. If you manage to strike the right balance you'll be happy. If your career fails though don't blame it on your family cause it's as likely that you'd have failed without one.
Right, this is YC we're talking about, not the Drupal Association.
Kids are a big opportunity cost diversion. The focus can be in what they take or how generous you wish to be with your time. I've been curious for sometime to add a children field to Wikipedia biography articles and go about checking on average how less fecund highly successful people are. Like many things in life we're confronted by trade-offs. Children are some of the most awesome additions to life offering great meaningfulness that will outlive a career and yourself.
BlackRock did the same.
Awesome technology; and todays SMBC [1] seems to be related.

[1]: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-real-me
What, the pedantic reactions of people who only read the article's title? The article is clearly talking about phthalates, first mentioned in the second sentence.
fun fact: 2FA QR codes contain the secret as just part of a url. you don't need to save the binary image, just figure out what the (usually base32-encoded) secret value is, and store that. google authentcator lets you type in the base32-encoded secret (useful if your phone's camera is broken). see e.g. https://garbagecollected.org/2014/09/14/how-google-authentic...
Too many people think that what works for them must be ideal, and should work for everyone. I honestly think that most people will not thrive in a fully remote, work-from-home environment.
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This seems like a problem that could be solved by simply having business development classes in high school. Much like all other skills, there is a need to understand what it takes to run a business; manage budgets, invoice and some rudimentary things. You don't have to create some crazy big start-up, but these are skills that seem necessarily to understand before college. My sister started a therapy business after she was in college and there are basic skills that could of been taught in high school that would of better prepared things. I didn't come across business plan proposals and contingency plans until college but these are pretty straightforward things that could of been taught far earlier IMHO.

Once you have that in place, if not in the education system, then through parenting and after-school programs, then by the time college comes around the "decision to start a business" won't come with the unnecessary risk of not knowing how to run one.
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Interesting analogy and one I'll give some thought to.

I can't really see copywriters doing the kinds of "team rituals" (daily standups, etc.) that are de rigueur in parts of the software world -- but maybe I'm wrong about this.
Cofounders are equal partners. Employers/employees, not so much. Employees rarely have significant negotiating power as peers do. It's a mistake to assume what's true in one context is true in all others.
I've been this person. I was not only somewhat surprised, I also felt betrayed. It was apparent that complaints had been building for some time, but I heard very little of those complaints in the form of direct feedback. It was only in hindsight that I realized my coworkers had been subtly dropping hints for a while.

It sucked. Then again, I actually did kind of suck at my job, too. So maybe the real lesson here is that sucking at your job sucks, not just for you, but for your managers and coworkers too (albeit for different reasons).
Having spent some time at one of the other big financial sector names recently (bigger than goldman)...

Yeah dress codes for tech folk went out some time ago. Among the coders I spent time with, jeans and metal t-shirts were de-rigeur
If you want my attention, the thing to offer is an actual office with an actual door that closes. (Private, semiprivate, whatever—just not a thousand of my closest friends and a jet engine or two.)
No, all you need is the source code to a kernel that works on the phone. This could be from LineageOS, AOSP, TWRP, CyanogenMOD (if they didn't transfer it to LineageOS yet), or any other random repository on github with "kernel" and your device's codename in the repositories name. There are lots of those actually.

Even if you can spend "only" one weekend on it, it would hep porting to your phone immensely. As we document our progress in a device specific page, someone else can pick it up from there and advance your port!

https://github.com/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap/wiki/Devices

Get started here:
https://github.com/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap/wiki/Porting-to-...
Please pardon any confusion on this point. What I am considering (I'm not really proposing anything) is offering a guaranteed amount of coin for working for a short period of time (3-6 months) leading up to an ICO. After the ICO the company would buy back all or a portion of the coin at the final ICO price. Beyond that the coin could be exchanged (ultimately for cash) on open exchanges.

From my perspective the work could be done remotely, full-time, part-time, on the side, essentially whatever you like. This will likely vary depending on the role and the work being done. As would the amount of coin.
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I've never been forced to wear one in my professional life, so I dunno about that. But I'll wear one by choice on occasion. Even when I was working a day job I'd just wear a suit some days. My boss would think I was interviewing (I wasn't, usually), but it's really just because it is an easy, straightforward confidence boost.
AirBnB has increased the price of Reykjavik rent from an average of ~150k p/m (approx $1500USD) to ~250k p/m in two years. 44% of the Reykjavik rental market is on AirBnB[1].

The government passed laws limiting how much a private individual can AirBnB their property, but they forgot to specify which department should enforce the law, so at the moment no one is enforcing it. Things are starting to come to a head.

Keep an eye on us, we're gonna be a tracer bullet for how the rest of the world might react.

[1] https://grapevine.is/news/2017/05/31/90-airbnb-increase-44-o...
I don't think that the startup tech companies and non-startup tech companies are that different of a world. Something that negatively influences one in a given area will negatively influence the other. And people do move between them quite frequently (this has been my experience in DC and NYC at least, I can't speak to Boise).
>"If you take a look at the website more closely, you will find that Packt books are rarely on the top. Your comment is actually well reflected in the ranking."

Rarely on top but still a high ranking relatively speaking(2-4 etc.)

>"You had a problem with the Dusty Phillips book ranking on top of Powerful Python."

I didn't have any problem with this book and even mentioned I hadn't read it. I simply used it as an example of a book that had another perhaps more popular retail outlet than Amazon, that's all.
When people refer to "chemicals" in food, without distinguishing what type or category of chemicals, I tend to assume that they have an agenda of frightening an uninformed populace or that they are a member of that uninformed populace themselves.
What is your view (or anyone else reading this) on software dev QoL in the tech industry vs. non-tech firms in finance or energy/O&G?

Are tech companies open to hiring from different industries, like the ones listed above?
If you're talking about a true 1%er they're hiring handy-man types and maids. They're paying property tax on those homes, funding roads and schools they will never use. It's highly likely they are paying other state and local taxes too, including but not limited to income taxes. All of the other 1%ers who come into that area are spending money at local restaurants or other venues which is pulling money out of the 1% and into the hands of locals.

If you're talking more like a 20%er, then they are either doing the same thing, or they live locally so even though they're not hiring a maid/handy-man, money is going from the 1%er to a person living in the local economy (themselves).
That's basically correct -- some case endings differ only by vowel length and are therefore not distinguished in standard Latin writing, which doesn't indicate vowel length in any way. (Old Latin writing sometimes did.) "Via", in nominative case, meaning "the road" as the subject of a sentence, is written identically to "via", in ablative case, meaning "by the road", but the 'a' of the ablative case ending is longer.

However, you can't describe this as "the meter driving the grammar". The grammar requires the same cases and vowel lengths regardless of the meter you're trying to achieve. Rather, we modern-day people reading Latin poetry can use the meter to help us determine what was originally written. All of the causal influence is from grammar to meter, not the other way around.
Is it the majority of cases?
>I guarantee the majority of companies don't even know what's in that contract. They just pulled it off the internet

I worked for one of those companies once. He apparently didn't read his bank statements either, hence I didn't get paid for a significant chunk of the work I did.

Nobody before or since has acted surprised about the contents of their own contract. I'd view it as a major red flag.