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Sorry, I think you may have misunderstood me.

If a company has 10 developers and needs to cut down to 7, then the folks who have actively been interviewing in the near past are going to be considered more of a risk, especially by HR, who are likely to be making the list.

Hiring is an expensive endeavor, so if HR sees someone as a risk and they need to cut positions, you can bet that they're going to see it as a better thing to let employees who have a risk factor to them go than others who don't (on paper that is, no-one can know what's going to happen tomorrow).

They definitely don't want to cut the staff down and then have to go into a hiring stage soon after, because someone who was getting itchy feet decided to walk with another offer anyway.

This isn't about targeting people just because they want more money/fairer pay/more holiday/bonuses. It's just about how companies behave.
Ha! I didn't realize :)
No Dividends, the early people sell their currency to the new buyers.
Some Perspective and Experience While i was in China.

I couldn't set up my WePay in time, so like the Author, I had to use Cash. And from my experience between a Tier 2 City and Tier 1 City like Shanghai, it is actually those Tier 2-3 City refuse to accept cash. They thought Cash were cumbersome. And Shanghai may be more welcoming cash / Credit Cards for variety of reasons ( Likely privacy ).

I tried to buy breakfast for $2, ~20 cents in USD, i didn't have WePay so I paid in cash. The Shop owner said she didn't have any changes and decide to give me the meal for free.

Over the 15 days, I kept thinking about QR code as Tech. Trust me, it is crap. I dont believe there is that much time difference holding up the queue as noted in the article. You have to Open up WeChat, and let each other scan, input your payment by youself, show them you have paid. To me this is very backwards. Octopus in Hong Kong, Scuria in Japan, Oyster Card in London Transport, Offline Mobile Payment from Master Card and Visa, All these are 10x better in UX. The merchants input my bill, I beep. That is it.

Then suddenly one day it clicked, and I knew why QR Code succeed. With NFC or any other Wireless payment, you need something, a electronics, a beacon or what ever for sellers to work. With QR Code, They "Print" a QR Code and laminated it. And you can photocopy as many pieces as you want. The barrier of entry for QR Code is so low every one could use it. At the expense of consumer UX.

And then weeks after I visited China, Apple announced in WWDC, iOS 11 will come with Auto opening QR Code in Camera mode. That, may have just made the friction of using QR Code much more bearable for me. And it is likely both tech will exist side by side in the long future. I cant see QR Code as it is used today ever getting replaced by the more expensive NFC solution, and NFC will likely stay in transport and other areas.
A bitcoin transaction costs me 2$.

A credit card transaction costs me 2$ (which is used to provide me great service, including insurance against unauthorized use): Somehow this is a bad thing?
I don't get it. Any 'damage' to the studio happens when the movie is publicly leaked, at that point just download the copy yourself and check for a watermark, telling you where the leak originated without ponying up $5-$10 (which is a paltry sum to begin with).
I'm turned off by watching a bunch of people who haven't learned basic lessons about banking trying to reinvent it, badly. Anyone who spent a few days learning about how banks do security could have understood that what these exchanges like Mt. Gox were doing was frightfully vulnerable, and anyone unwilling to spend at least a few days learning about banking security has no business running a currency exchange. But it's all handwaved away because fiat money is evil and cryptocurrency makes you feel like the hero in a Neal Stephenson novel so screw the man. So now we have a bunch of programmers and enthusiasts learning how the financial system works from first principles and making boneheaded mistakes as a result. And they have enough money swirling around thanks to Chinese capital flight that they can screw with the pricing for an entire market like GPUs. And then when you point out how much electricity this whole scheme wastes they say "well banks use electricity" as if that's the same thing. It's heedless, irresponsible and discouraging.
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Fine but then how to you back up your claims that you actually are worth a higher salary?
Looking ahead 10-20 years, I don't see how anyone born from 2015 onwards has any solid concept of reality the way I feel I know it. Between things like this and AR, I feel like "real" vs "simulated" will seem to the AR natives to be a pedantic distinction... Like how my parents still distinguish between "having met someone" and "someone I have talked to on the internet."
But you bought the GPU not the BTC?

Even if BTC becomes worthless, you still have the GPU to sell
Wow! The article was interesting, but looking at the Grid+ project is amazing! They are going to start a blockchain based electrical utility, create a secure hardware device to interface Ethereum with IoT. Establish a USD backed stable crypto token, and establish what will likely be one of the largest off-chain liquidity pools using state channels! Mind blown.
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IIRC this: http://www.coindesk.com/understanding-dao-hack-journalists/

tl;dr dude stole coins from ethereum creators, they decided to fork it

"A software fork has been proposed, (with NO ROLLBACK; no transactions or blocks will be “reversed”) which will make any transactions that make any calls/callcodes/delegatecalls that reduce the balance of an account with code hash0x7278d050619a624f84f51987149ddb439cdaadfba5966f7cfaea7ad44340a4ba (ie. the DAO and children) lead to the transaction (not just the call, the transaction) being invalid …"
That's the definition of insurance. The problem with bitcoin, if you think that's a problem, is that there's no obvious way to implement this scheme. You'd have to insure your coins to a third party but then you'd probably have to give them some control over your wallet so that you can't just "steal" your own coins and make a claim.

But clearly people want this type of guarantee so I think the cryptopunk dream of having every human being owning a bitcoin wallet aligns poorly with what real world human beings want.

Everytime I read about long term adoption of cryptocurrency by the masses I always end up asking myself the same question: "Why would a random person for whom money is not a political statement care about any of that? What's the added value?" As far as I'm concerned I still haven't found a satisfactory answer to this question.
I don't believe that's accurate, cash-banks are inter-bank processes, and I know several vendors who do actually see a reduction in their bank account when a cash-back occurs.

Yes, if the recieving bank won't honour a cash-back then it will come out of card processing fees, but that's more like insurance than anything else. I wouldn't say that insurance is without worth.

Also, BitCoin has transaction fees. Except rather than being used for insurance, they provide a (very poor) profit motive for miners to continue keeping the network hashing rate high. The reason it's clearly a poor profit motive is that the popular markets around BitCoin are secondary markets (selling graphics cards rather than doing the mining yourself).
You don't think the IRS can't seize your coins? They just have to demand your wallet or put you in jail. The fact that they can't drain your account isn't some magical cloak that keeps them locking you up. Or you could try and lie about the value of your wallet and perjure yourself.
Yep, there's more than enough liquidity. People clearing more than $70k USD worth of ETH are usually going through OTC channels, not through exchanges like Poloniex and Coinbase. OTC fees are generally higher than exchanges, but offer the advantage of legally guaranteed finality and no chance of slippage affecting your transaction (exactly what happened with GDAX when the price of ETH briefly dropped to $0.10).

When deals are large enough, sometimes they are even executed as a set of "tranches" (large set of smaller transactions over time) so the transfer isn't easily traceable and counter-parties remain largely unknown.
> I'm sure SC serves up a lot of content per day, but how do you think they will react by suddenly having someone download all of their 900 TB or whatever it is in one day? How much will Archiveteam be contributing to SC's downfall by suddenly causing them a huge unexpected bill?

Obviously, there's more than just the bandwidth cost, but assuming they pay $0.02/GB for CDN traffic, we're talking about $18k. It's not nothing, but I doubt it'd change their outlook in any meaningful way.

I should add that the ArchiveTeam doesn't download everything in a day, but rather uses a distributed crawler (ArchiveTeam Warrior) run by volunteers. They rate-limit the crawling rate as needed in order not to overwhelm the site being archived.
And.. I doubt anyone today believes their skill set will be in demand 20 years from now.

Get as much as you can right now... Cause there is no guarantee of a future
If an employee is coming to you with those offers instead of just leaving for the other job, shouldn't that indicate to you that they WANT to stay, but they also want to keep their career moving forward and earn more money? Why is that unreasonable? You're sending people out the door that want to continue working for your company just because they're telling you they have better opportunities and giving you a chance to give them one, too.
I've been getting robot calls/voicemails (IRS/FBI impersonator) where the scammer leaves a callback number that matches the caller ID number. Always an 800 number. Any insight into how this works for the scammer, how they don't get caught doing this?
Has the boss brought someone in to replace you and said, "Okay, Coldtea, we found someone to replace you at your job. He's as good as you and he'll take a 10% cut in salary over what we pay you. Do you want to take a pay cut so you can stay?"

That would be the upper hand.

Before that, it's just a discussion.
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You'll want to pick up citadels or hanabi.

https://www.shutupandsitdown.com/games/citadels/
Requirements.txt + virtualenv, everything is fine.

Really, significantly easier to not screw up in a large org than bundler, because dependencies don't leak by default.
As someone who ran a gas station convenience store for six years, I can tell you that this is not a universal truth. We did require a minimum purchase amount to accept cards, but we most certainly did not raise our prices in response to credit card fees.
This is the difference, in my opinion, where they let their pride get in the way of good decision making.

The probability of someone leaving didn't change because of the new offer, the manager perceives a power differential and is responding to that.
I've built/building Orchestra (http://orchestrahq.com) to help me build better professional relationships. It helps me keep track of details of my interactions and also reminds me when I've not spoken to someone for a while.
I liked the "computer rooms" of the past, where you could see the computer from the offices above it, as it was a sacred relic.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DDgqA5IW0AIeOw4.jpg:large

https://ist.uwaterloo.ca/cs/redroom/morehistoric/MCRMay1977....
Super interesting, thanks for typing this all out.
Blackmailed by what? The market? Some of those points are excuses for doing nothing.

#2 especially - what, they'll find a better and better job every six months? Not likely. If somebody can show you how they'd be paid better somewhere else, deal with it. Denial gets you nowhere.

#3 is exactly what the above remark addresses. If I can show my boss I'd be treated properly elsewhere, the boss sure better get on board and start doing those things.
> All I am saying is that you can't immediately dismiss alternative medicine

dismiss in what sense? dismiss it as no more plausible than an infinite number of possible cures?

If you go to the trouble of mail-ordering an expensive pill, you are clearly giving its plausibility as a cure greater weight than, say, a mixture of ketchup and toothpaste baked at 200 degree for 20 mins - which also can't be dismissed as a cure.

> also a lot of useful stuff

How do you know?
looks great! I'd definitely be looking forward to use your service as soon you accept applications from non US and Canadian citizens.
I'm a little worried about webcam access in browsers at least as currently implemented (and native apps I suppose but less so)

As it is, in Chrome, if you let a webpage access your camera (or mic) that page gets permanent permission to access the camera whenever it wants forever, no questions asked again. I recently visited one of the early HTML5 Webcam demos that I hadn't visited in over two years. I expected to get asked for permission to access the camera. Instead the camera just came on. That is NOT a good model for web sites that are covered in ads and scripts from all over the net.

I'm sure Google was thinking of supporting hangouts when designing webcam support and for the most part I agree that if hangouts always had access to the camera that might be no worse than a native app. But, it's the browser it's not a native app, it's untrusted code.

Even for communications sites though if I run them in an iframe they get camera permission. In other words, say yes just once and now that domain can follow you all over the net and use your camera, at least as of Chrome 59.

I don't know what the best permission UX is. Always asking seems lame for actual communication websites (messenger, hangouts, slack?, ...) but not asking sucks for the open web. It even sucks on a communications website if the camera feature is not something I use often. I don't want any app to have permission to spy on me. I personally want to opt-in to always ask. I'd prefer this even in native apps but especially for the web.

https://greggman.github.io/doodles/html5-webcam-iframe.html

PS: I filed a bug on this about 5 months ago but no word

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=687834
This is only topic-adjacent, but here is my number one emacs wish: for the GTK frontend to be pure GTK with no X, so that it can be run directly as a Wayland client.
Usually, companies conducting ICO's only release the block number in advance, the smart contract address is generally released last sometimes just hours before the ICO start time.
By which you mean, take everything provided by current currencies and monetary regulation and financial institutions assuming risk... then put a pretty fascia of your kinda UX on it, called crypto currencies.

It is a 3000 year old problem.

Trust. In short, is big business.
In Belgium (Europe) i work from 06:00 to 14:00 Best hour to avoid trafic. We can choose or start hour between 06:00 and 09:00
I think you'd be surprised at what goes into running a dealership. The software is complex with a lot of dependencies.

You have a full parts/warehouse inventory system and invoicing internally and to other mechanics. A service system (including rosters and timesheets) and it's own invoicing system to customers. You need a vehicle module to manage all the local laws and taxes as well as interfacing with manufacturer systems for models and options (which are God awful undocumented weird binary formats over long dead networks - sometimes hardwired through parts of the phone companies that even they don't know they have anymore) so you can sell to customers.

So that's 3 different invoicing systems to start. It all needs to be underpinned with an extremely flexible accounting system in the back end because every dealer does stuff differently but all of those things are related. The parts department sells to the service department at a discount; the service department prepares new vehicles for sale (called pre-delivery) and bonuses and rebates occur through each step.

You need to import a lot more data covering log book service information and parts catalogs. And lots of reports for those car companies and online sellers and more.

Some of that isn't exactly a programmers problem but the breadth of the issue and lack of generalised knowledge sources (and how every car manufacturer does things completely differently), it's a minefield to keep one going let alone building a new one.

Consequently most of the world runs on only 2 or 3 systems and they're all ancient and generally the companies that develop them are awful and treat customers like garbage. There's a lot of vendor lock in and manufacturers fighting each other.

Car dealerships have a tough job. Also their accountants are near God level skills wise.

Anyway I don't think I answered your question. Yes I also don't know exactly what happened but yeah it was a disaster that only happened to work out because of millions of dollars. Once it WAS ready though money started flowing in because dealers are desperate to get away from the existing awful vendors. On the other hand each wanted so much custom functionality that it led to work pipelines planned years in advance by the time I left - and that doesn't make for happy customers either.
I suppose the unacceptable flood risks are why the Mississippi is lined with cities, including Brainerd, St. Cloud, St. Paul/Minneapolis, La Crosse, Dubuque, Quad Cities, Burlington, Quincy, Hannibal, St. Louis, Cape Girardeau, Cairo, Memphis, Greenville, Vicksburg, Natchez, Baton Rouge, and New Orleans.

That list includes two state capitals.

Clearly, Disney was less worried about the average of 3 major tropical storms per year, or the cat3 or above hurricane every 4 years or so, than he was about the fact that prior to Disney World, only 2% of visitors to Disney Land came from east of the Mississippi River. He needed cheap land, interstate highways, and weather that was generally pleasant [whenever a disaster was not in progress].

If you want to see how much Disney cares about making water its bitch, punch in "28.396, -81.578" on a map. They'd build a 90-foot levee. They'd build a 200-foot levee, if they could put mouse ears on it and charge $150 per day for admission.
I do know the US implementation is different, but I do not know if it is different in regards to this highly relevant information.
Hi, thanks for responding!

Funnily enough, I'm specifically thinking of the Git plugin and issues like https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-6124 & https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-14572, and Nicholas de Loof's comments 'ur doin it wrong'. It's extremely difficult to extend this plugin; we have a lot of work tracking all the existing plugins we use, and adding maintenance of our own plugin on top of that is work we don't want to do.

Nowadays we try to keep as little as possible defined in jenkins configs and put our build & test logic in makefiles/tools.
It's a cute analogy perpetuated by GenX VCs and crypto-wonks who don't see a down-side in making bold, wild claims. It's one of the many problems today in which there is no down-side risk on making extremely early predictions. No one will call you out on being wrong. I view it similar to people who have been calling for another tech bubble and the subsequent market crash even though we're still very much in the midst of consistent All-Time Highs.
Wow, here in Berlin things go totally different.

1 hour lunch break is often encouraged by employers. Working as a freelancer I work an "extra" hour, because of my lunch break. So do the employees here.
Absolutely. This thread seems to be populated with people who think everywhere in "the west" = the USA.

I'm in Ireland and hate carrying change so I use my phone all the time to pay, I only end up going to the ATM ~ once every 2 weeks or so.

Some people working in shops aren't used to paying with phones yet but you just tell them it's the same as contactless card and it works out fine.
I always found that fascinating myself, serving the download and checksum from the same source.

Doesn't http have enough redundancy checks built in to make this pointless? The only time to really do a checksum isn't on a browser download, it's when you push it over some serial connection, or android adb or something else.
You can do virtualization also using z/VM operating system, each user has its own VM.

It still stores all the users password in plain text inside a DIRECTORY file that resides on the maintenance userids. I've seen it 100% of the time I did support on one of those systems.
But do they eliminate the middleman? At least for Bitcoin, it takes an hour for any confidence that a transaction is truly valid. I'm not going to wait around for an hour just to grab my morning coffee.

So obviously there's going to need to be a credit backed middle man to guarantee your transaction so the seller doesn't get screwed by a double spend.

Eth is slightly better, but it still takes something on the order of 10m to confirm a transaction, and it doesn't look like it can get anywhere near the speed needed for a coffee purchase.
Thanks to David Recordon this has now been fixed and RocksDB is now dual licensed under Apache or GPL 2. The ball has been started to have the same change occur at React, which AFAIK is still under the old BSD+Patents license. Please click through the OP's link to get the current details.
The full text search on JSONB columns is going to be really nice. I currently use Algolia for this, but for small stuff that doesn't have to be blazing fast, I'd rather do it in postgres.
>For goofy games that play quickly over the lunch hour at work

I started playing those 1 hour games at work and really like a game that can be played quickly that have some depth, but not "break out the spreadsheet" depth..

Colleretto is my choice for a light quick playing games with some strategy but not too deep. I like Big Points too.

Tzolk'in is really kinda fun (Spinning gears), then some people figured out a "Dominant strategy" for winning consistantly. Making me realize these games are a delicate balance and no matter how much you test..
> Letting everyone know they'll immediately be shown the door if they dare request an increase would create a terrible culture.

On the other hand, sending every other employee the clear message that the only way to get a raise is by showing up with a better offer isn't the path to the best of cultures either.

Those that imitate the tactic are not the ones to be concerned about, the others are, those who have nonmonetary reasons to stay. Employment isn't equally fungible to all employees. The less mobile will feel screwed and their motivation and productivity will suffer. Getting paid less than market rate is much easier to not mind about than getting paid less than the guy across the table. Secrecy could be a solution, but before you embrace it all too enthusiastically ask yourself twice about the gossip level in the organization.

In the end, the ratio of "will imitate" employees to "will grudgingly accept" employees determines the better answer. The former will hate "aggressive bargaining will not be tolerated", the latter will hate "only aggressive bargaining will be rewarded".
Same here, we loved it. Played it together with my partner.

We immediately ordered a second scenario after completing the first. The price was worth it for us.
lol, it's just the solution I have when I work from home. I'm often up doing the dishes or what not and I just turn the volume up before I leave my desk.
> Like how my parents still distinguish between "having met someone" and "someone I have talked to on the internet."

I am not sure that that distinction is really gone.
What's the benefit with a technology like this? Seems like it can only cause harm