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Certain places place high value on domain-specific knowledge and trained employees.

I work at a wholesale insurance company (middleman); we have over a hundred individual systems, some simple, some quite complex. Some of those systems can be maintained by any programmer that comes in. Others really shouldn't be maintained by someone who doesn't have good experience in writing maintainable code.

But many projects require domain-specific knowledge---and not just to specific parts of and companies within the insurance industry, but _our specific company_.

For a few years, we hired less experienced candidates with the hope of training them, because the talent in Buffalo NY is hard to come by (which could also be an outreach problem, but our last three hires were from out of state). Our team's consensus is that it takes approximately two years of experience with our systems to have a good, balanced grasp on them. Because of the small team size (five at our highest, two right now), we place great value on team members who have been around long enough to know the systems, the rationale and design decisions, history, etc.

This relates directly to Peter Naur's concept of Theory Building.[0]

We've had the past four candidates leave in ~2, <2, <1, and ~3 years. Because of the upfront training cost and distraction from the more experienced programmers (the two that remain at the company today), and in some cases the degree of maintenance problems ("technical debt") introduced, I consider three of them to be a wash: we're no better off having hired them than we would have been not hiring them. Possibly worse off.

Because we have the tendency to lose employees at around two years, I'm no longer in favor of hiring more "junior" candidates---having to train in both domain knowledge _and_ general programming is too risky and hasn't panned out well. So hopefully we can hire programmers that can immediately get into the code from a general programming perspective, but it's going to take them quite some time to really understand what the systems are all about.

I've been there for over eight years, and the last programmer that remains with me has been there for six months longer than me. One of our programmers transitioned to technical director, and has been there for over ten years. My supervisor dropped programming for project management responsibilities, and he has been at the company for nearly ten. Our sysadmin has been there for over ten. We just lost an employee that was there over ten years. We're a close group. Would I be making more money job hopping? Probably, yes. My point here is that the company I work for---the team I work with---values experience with the company, and so long-term employment history is attractive.

[0]: http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf
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Tried to apply for the position of Fart Engineer but it led to a 500 error page.
Livestream is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzjUwXX-azU

Interesting project, but I think we all know how these things end up when anonymity is involved :)
I don't think it would be much of a stretch to get people used to them. The concept is already there with mobile boarding passes and some phone-displays-barcode loyalty apps like the one for Starbucks.
So, do you have a laptop to recommend where suspend/resume work well? Or should i just avoid openbsd if i want to use a laptop?
Studies show that happiness increases proportional to salary up to USD$70,000.

Beyond that dollar amount, there's no increase in happiness.

Now, salary isn't necessarily predictive of "success," (as per your question...) so the above fact may not necessarily be relevant... but I present it for what it's worth.

EDIT: I haven't evaluated the study I cited (perhaps erroneously) as fact. But I'll leave this comment here for it to be evaluated.
Well, nuts. I really liked MPC-HC as part of the CCCP. I'll check out some of the alternatives offered in this thread. Hopefully one follows the slim design and flexibility of MPC.
Rejoice, if you look at the repository you'll see that's exactly what they're doing - replacing the runtime/C underpinnings and keeping the elisp.
You can't seriously be comparing those <1000 companies to the entire rest of the world economy.

Cryptocurrency doesn't even register as a drop in the metaphorical bucket.
Not everywhere takes WeChat pay. AliPay is slightly more common. Businesses prefer AliPay for their lower interchange fees. Though I'd estimate 80-90% of places in cities take one or the other.
Gym - what gym has the best equipment for me to get to my fitness goals

Bicycle - which bike is going to make my daily commute the most enjoyable? Weight, reliability etc.

Clothes - when I'm on my bike and it starts raining what rain jacket gives me the no movement resistance while keeping me dry?

Skills - what books, websites, subscriptions can I get to learn new skills the most efficient way

There's a bunch more. Each of these categories are a problem I have, an experience I want to maximise or a direction I want to take myself.

You'll notice that the people that have the best quality of life are the people who understand their needs. Money to them is just a tool to meet their needs.
I have to admit I think of George A. Romero as like I do Shakespeare.

I didn't like their work but appreciate what they did.

Well Romero's earlier work. His latter movies were just crap.

PS I'm a big fan of the genre of Romero's.
Mobile payments haven't taken off in the west because credit cards have worked well enough. In china, lots of small-scale businesses lack POS terminals while Chinese banks put the burden of proof in case of fraud on the card user, rather than the merchant as in the west. Using a credit card in china is an absolute PITA.

Since returning to the states from china, I've been happily surprised that I can just tap my credit card to pay at many terminals. This still pales in comparison to austrailia, where this tap to pay seems to be ubiquitous.
At least in the US, the Overdrive app for android let's you rent audiobooks from the library so you can play on your phone. No need to rip or convert.
I am not a programmer, but I've automated a few things in my life.

I self publish graphic novels. I have a script that runs on a directory full of page files and outputs a CSV in the format InDesign expects. I wrote it after manually editing a CSV and leaving a page out, and not noticing that until I had an advance copy in my hands and 400 more waiting to be shipped from the printer. That was an expensive learning experience.

I like to rotate my monitor portrait mode sometimes, but hate trying to rotate the Wacom tablet's settings as well. So I have a script that does this all in one go. It used to try to keep track of separate desktop backgrounds for landscape and portrait mode, but this stopped working right, so I took that part out.

I have a bunch of LIFX bulbs in my apartment. The one near the foyer changes color based on the rain forecast and the current temperature, to give me an idea of how to dress when going out, thanks to a little Python script I keep running on my computer. Someday I'll move it to the Raspberry Pi sitting in a drawer.

I recently built a Twitter bot that tweets a random card from the Tarot deck I drew. I've been trying to extend it to talk to Mastodon as well but have been getting "request too large" errors from the API when trying to send the images. Someday I'll spin up a private Mastodon instance and figure out what's going on. Maybe. Until then it sits on a free Heroku account, tweeting a card and an image of its text about once a day.

And does building a custom Wordpress theme that lets me post individual pages of my comics, and show them a whole chapter at a time, count as "automation"? It sure has saved me a lot of hassle.
Take out card, put on NFC reader, get out. One problem is the 20€ limit though.
I sold my hardware last week. GTX 1060s, a 1080, an AMD R9 290X, some other stuff.

Unless I'm missing something, there's no huge flood of video cards on ebay. There's maybe ~20% more than there was a week ago. All told, for the in demand mining hardware, you're only talking about a couple thousand cards.
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You’d have to wait even if they paid with cash, no?
That's like saying the customer is never right. Having said that hardened and PHP isn't something that comes hand in hand.

Containers or not; I hope they stay on top of security issues or that hardened statement is going to be very underrated.
That's simple and accurate. Success is not an absolute value.
Paywalled. Any workarounds?
A lease can have a clause forbidding commercial use of the property.
I think this is a good illustration of the different approach in how China and America approach the consumer economics space. In America, there is a very heavy reliance on "trickle down". We create a "best-in-class", "top-of-the-line" product that only the elite and wealthy can buy into. These people then set the tone of how it will develop in the future. The first mover also tries to do everything in their power to lock you into the ecosystem. Examples of these are iPhones (and the app ecosystem), Tesla, etc.

In China however, they throw away that pride of creating the greatest and shiniest. Instead, they start off with an "inferior" product but use the scale of their population to bring down costs and they try to ensure everyone has access. The top example is smartphones. In the article itself, "Even the buskers were apparently ahead of me. Enterprising musicians playing on the streets of a number of Chinese cities have put up boards with QR codes so that passers-by can simply transfer them tips directly." China starts off with a product that gives every citizen a chance to get in on, not just the wealthy, and they build up their economy from the bottom up, rung by rung.

The way I see it, we have democracy in politics but in products, its authoritarian because its guided by the billionaires and wealthy. In China, they have an authoritarian political system, but democratic economy space because they can actually vote with their wallets.
No responsive site in 2017?
As Jordan Peele said about his Get Out, "This is the only woke horror movie of all time, save for Night of the Living Dead. ... I felt like race has not been dealt with in my favorite genre which is horror. Every other human horror has its sort of classic horror movie to go along with it. So I kind of wanted to fill the gap in that piece of the genre of conversation." (http://www.npr.org/2017/02/19/515813914/in-get-out-jordan-pe...)
No, this is very strange actually. At least Starbucks would take credit cards, and you should be able to find an ATM that takes your USA-based ATM card. Never had this problem before.

I did feel screwed when I arrived in he Netherlands thinking my unionpay card to work, just to find out it was one of the countries besides India where it didn't. Thankfully, I could find some place that took credit cards...but I was freaking out as I didn't have much convertible cash as backup.
In Texas, 8-12 cents is more likely.
Induced demand only goes so far, y'know. The rule is not that consistent.
> Anything longer, especially if there is a lot of long-term stasis on a resume (e.g. "tech lead on product X" for more than a year or two), is an indication to me of someone who either isn't capable of stretching himself or doesn't want to.

That's insane. Someone who is the technical leader of a project for more than two years doesn't "stretch himself"? I see no reason to believe that's true. If anything, it takes years for you to realize design flaws in components of the earliest-developed systems. The extent to which you can learn about how to design well-designed systems is going to be quite limited if just peace out after a year or two, as you suggest.
I just figured out how to use ansible and python to script out changing the passwords for all the network gear in the office. It uses a random password generator api https://passwordwolf.com to fetch a new password, changes it on everything, then sends me the new passwords. I'm changing passwords monthly now but it works so well that I might set it to weekly.
If you are curious how smartphone payments work in practice, Here's a video of someone using Wechat Pay to order squeezed-to-order orange juice from a vending machine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um53J3shL7I

In practice, scanning and paying is much faster than shown in the video. He is using an old phone, on a newer one scanning the barcode takes around 0.5 second and the verification takes 2-5 seconds (not 15 seconds as shown in video).

Paying in stores works differently. The WeChat app has a wallet section with your personal payment QR code (which changes every time you open the app). To pay in a store, let the clerk scan it like this https://wx.gtimg.com/pay/img/wechatpay/intro_2_1.png then enter your six digit payment passcode (optionally, you can scan your fingerprint). After entering your passcode, it takes around 5 seconds to process and verify. You get a receipt as a WeChat message (last screen shown here https://www.royalpay.com.au/resources/images/retail-example.... ).

Many stores (usually restaurants) have a nearby QR code you can scan to follow the business's WeChat "Official Account". Follow this account to earn loyalty points, discounts, and freebies whenever you pay with WeChat wallet at this business in the future. The business can send you chat messages about promotions too (you can mute them if you like). This feature ties in really well with WeChat pay.

There are other uses of WeChat Wallet too, most of which are shown in this promo video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1r95Q2qElFM

At timestamp 0:09, that sign/sticker signifies this store accepts WeChat Pay

At timestamp 0:24, watch the clerk scan the customer's barcode

At timestamp 0:30, the customers scans the store's payment QR code and types in the amount they want to pay. More at 0:50

At timestamp 0:38, this store has a dedicated QR code scanner

At timestamp 0:50, it's the same as 0:30 where the customer types in how much they are paying. Paying like this is common at street stalls.

At timestamp 1:00, two friends use WeChat Wallet to transfer money to each other

Opening WeChat wallet on your phone is very easy. On iPhone just force touch the WeChat app and a quick menu for the QR code scanner and WeChat Wallet appears. In my opinion, it's much faster and more convenient than paying with credit card.
Agreed. I would rather have silence than constant trickery and scammy sales everywhere I turn.
I've been struggling with this, too, but then I realized that even through my home office has a bookshelf receiver that has Spotify capability, as does my iPhone, I still have Spotify installed on my Mac, and use it from time to time. As someone who jumps on video chats or calls pretty regularly, it's nice to have a keyboard key that can stop my music without the need to hop devices. Likewise, if I'm wearing my headphones already, I won't need to switch devices to the computer when one of those calls starts. There are reasons, I guess, and managed to talk myself in to a few.
I switched from mplayer/mplayer2 to mpv a few years back and it's pretty amazing. It's my primary video player.
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That it took you that much to explain kind of illustrates the point, I think.
I'm on mobile. I think this is the diff?

https://github.com/github/site-policy/commit/88dc965c17f48f5...

Can anyone confirm?
I can confirm anecdotally that this ranking makes sense.

When I first started my career, I lived in Seattle and really struggled meeting fellow entrepreneurs and VCs. People just seemed to live there to work for the two massive tech companies that are there, but not to start their own.

When I moved to Silicon Valley a year later (having lived there ever since), the culture and affinity towards entrepreneurship was a night and day difference.
Yeah I was just checking this myself, nothing great there. I did look to see what my 1070 was selling for recently at various online sites. Looks like they did spike in value starting in June, going from $380 to $500 and being sold at fewer places.

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/fKp323/msi-geforce-gtx-1070...

In a couple weeks maybe prices will be back to normal or even drop lower.
Kind of what I was referring to here .... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14779517
German, where noun gender doesn’t make any sense? and things like dative case have to be specifically marked? German and English have the same lineage anyhow, both have irregular verbs (in many cases English irregular verbs are also irregular in German).

Analyzing any real language (not Esperanto) is going to be extremely difficult. I would think English is marginally easier than say Korean where everything is based around context, including dropping the subject itself and particles. Otoh, some aspects of Korean are probably easier than English. And all 3 have irregularities despite Sejong the Great purposefully creating Korean Hangul.
Born in China and moved to U.S. since college. In my observation, there are several reason for the boom in mobile payment in China that makes it hard to replicate.

- Low transaction fee & minimal barrier. For merchants taking WeChat pay, the transaction fee seems to be a flat 0.6%, compared to 2%-3% in the U.S. For the food cart vendors and similar one man shops, they just use the person-to-person payment feature (like Venmo), which has no transaction fee and does not need a merchant account. While Square helped somewhat in the U.S., the transaction fee, for many, is perceived as a rip off.

- Cards are a pain to use. In the U.S. you sign. In EU you use a PIN. In China you do both. Usually, it seems slower than cash! Mobile payment, comparatively, is a breeze. However, it's quite difficult to argue that taking out the phone, unlock it, open the app and show the QR code is easier than using a card in the western world.

There are some deeper historical reasons for these two conditions, which I would not dive into in this comment, but needless to say, it's a much, much more fertile ground for mobile payment to blossom.
Bitcoin is down 20% over past 7 days; Ethereum, 30-40%.

That said, I don't think people sell that fast. Back when I GPU mined Bitcoin (2011), when the price fell from $35 to $2, I turned my miners off and waited a few months before selling. (If only I had kept them going, but that's a sad and off-topic story ....)
No. Also eating and sleeping don't make me happy. But lack of eating and sleeping make me decidedly unhappy.

This is the same type of thing. In other words, success doesn't make you happy, but it's hard to be happy without some level of success.
:)
reminds me of startup generator
http://tiffzhang.com/startup
The login allows you to push packages. If you only want to consume public packages: no login required.
I feel happy because I am very successful in my job, my investing, with my family and with my few friends - all those are very important, because life is not only work...
It's a fairly honest reply. It means "you're not there yet". It's far from Yes, but it's not No; and a future Yes is not likely but not impossible.

You could try asking for specific things that require improvement but I don't think you'll get a useful answer in most cases. You'll hear some words back but all they will mean is "I am not in love with your company".
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Not kdb+, but a proprietary (internal-only) language that it heavily influenced was designed around execution on GPU clusters.

The FPGAs were used mainly for feedhandlers and there was a different DSL for that (compiling to verilog).

It was indeed rather something to see :)
Android was released a couple years after the iphone and it has defined the low end market. From the USA.

A big reason why QR codes caught on in China is because everything else was really bad. In america, credit cards were 'good enough' compared to what was in china, so QR codes didn't catch on that quickly. Also because it's a wealthier nation, the typical merchant could afford the hardware required for processing cards, but QR codes all you needed was a print off and the mobile phone you already had as a merchant, which made more sense for china at the time.

Then network effects kicked in and QR codes became the standard.

You see similar environment specific things that created this kind of stuff. Like whatsapp took over the world because SMS cost something, while in the USA it was effectively free and good enough, so whatsapp wasn't a good enough thing to switch to.
I am pretty disappointed at the lack of locations accepting Android Pay. I was hoping to ditch my wallet but can pretty much only use it at the gas station, Subway, and Walgreens.
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Think of all the SF/SV pollution caused by wastefully funded startups building the next Uber for ice cream or whatever.
Where does it break down? Quilt can package and version directly from in-memory objects so if you are working in Python (more languages planned) you can package as you go and include any dependencies?
But you can make money if nobody uses Bitcoin. Such is speculation.
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Group investment clubs. Get a group of 20 guys each putting 10k in and you get 200k. These exist in B.F. Indiana so they must be elsewhere too.
I have been living in Shanghai for few years now. Alipay and Wechat are really a big thing. It is far from the vision of mobile payment people have in Europe for example, where it is more of solution for small payments.

People are using Alipay and Wechat pay for everything, being online shopping, restaurants, supermarkets, train tickets, electricity, water, even some tax declaration. So it is not just a replacement to cash and bank cards, it is starting to go beyond
that.

I go for months without having any cash or bank cards on me. Unfortunately everything falls apart when my phone runs out of battery.
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