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He writes that he has had that over a decade. Maybe he would have noticed it himself that it was seasonal.

I just don't like the tone when people have difficult problems, make an observation and get dismissed immediately because their observation doesn't fit with the mainstream.

I started doing meditation and yoga before it was cool and whenever I mentioned that meditation seems to help with my depression and anxiety there were always plenty of smartasses telling me this is all bullshit. Now, 25 years later they suddenly start listening.

There are plenty of bullshit alternative cures out there and it's good to question people. But pretending that the only cures that are valid are the ones from current mainstream medicine makes no sense. There is plenty of stuff out there mainstream medicine doesn't have a solution for and doesn't understand. In addition it has its own snake oil problems like unnecessary surgeries and feeding psychoactive substances to more and more people.
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I once saw a press release about Goldman or one of these other big money firms and how they were going to build software "like a startup". In the photo that accompanied it were a group of guys wearing hoodies that had some lame slogan on it, trying to woo Silicon Valley talent to come to finance by showing how they were cool now.

Under the hoodies were expensive shirts and ties.

The picture had exactly the opposite effect of what it intended- it showed how fake and false the 'culture' they were portraying was.
some people are calling this a weekend project.....

Make no mistake.... this is a ten minute project one can do in a tea break!
"And make no mistake."
>that it is still in existence with the same constitution is no small feat

I would call that a defeat. The US constitution is clearly past its sell-by date.
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Every time my friend and I went to costas, I would check out much faster than him with a basic unionpay debit card while he was using alipay and it took time for the baristas to setup their equipment then to do the scan.
> When science fiction writers first imagined robot invasions, the idea was that bots would become smart and powerful enough to take over the world by force, whether on their own or as directed by some evildoer. In reality something, only slightly less scary is happening. Robots are getting better, every day, at impersonating humans.

This is actually the main plot point of Asimov's 1946 short story Evidence, which was later republished in I, robot (1950). Stephen Byerley is running for office and the main protagonists are trying to figure out if he is human or a robot.

Edit: Removed spoiler
Who's buying these things?

Compuware has 2,200 customers worldwide. I'd guess most of them have at least one IBM mainframe. They're based in Detroit so I'd say their largest customers are the big three automakers.

eBay was a big IBM customer at one point weren't they? I'm sure there a lot of banks and financial institutions, and big manufacturing companies. Most of the Fortune 1000 then?
I had the pleasure of arguing for a team members promotion once (ie a raise effetively). The domain our team of 5 worked in was pretty challenging (heavy algorithmic stuff). I spent a year trying to train up my team, and although they improved, I still felt like I had to do the hard stuff myself. With the exception of one developer. For example if a project was particularly hairy or the time frame was too short, it was either me or him doing it. And I couldn't give him all the hard stuff so I ended doing a lot more coding than I had time for.

I went to my boss and said, X is carrying my team, he does more than any two other developers combined. He needs a raise, I can't lose him! And he got it.

If you got someone who's good, that's what it boils down, either play ball or lose them.
Sure, but that implies that all business and real estate transactions are going to remain using normal non-deflating money.
One of the big failing of Jinja in my opinion is that it's Python with only instance methods, but Python has a weird, arbitrary-seeming historic division between basic functionality being implemented as global functions versus instance methods.

So if you want to replace a character in a string, that's fine, because `replace` is an instance method:

Changed plus to dot: {{ string.replace('+', '.') }}.

but if you want to take the length of that string, you need a Jinga-specific filter to have been implemented, because getting the length is via a global function `len()` in Python. This fails:

My string is {{ len(string) }} long.

If you're just using Jinga to build some HTML or whatever and you were always in your own Python code right before the template it's not really a problem, 'cause you can just do it in said Python code. I happily used Jinga for several web apps for years.

I really started to hate it in Ansible though, where I'm often just trying to get a one-off little operation done that I would rather have obvious right there in the template source rather than having to bounce over to a one-off filter function (or invoke some other outside code), and I can do it in Jinja, but it just looks and feels like hell... which kinda defeats the purpose.

I feel like Jinja was an especially bad fit for Ansible, but as a templating language I feel like it's main strength is it's better than D'jango templates... but that doesn't matter much outside the D'Jango world.

As a logic-ful template language I think it's deficient because it omits the functional parts of Python, which - as discussed above regarding `len()` - are very core to Python, and Jinja adds them back in a different way that requires extra mental overhead to keep track of. I really like the pipes (filters) but it would have been nice to just keep the Python globals as well for consistency.

And if you really want to go logic-less with your templates, I think Mustache(-variants) would be the way to go since they're much more truly "logic-less" and they're supported across a plethora of different runtimes besides Python, giving your much more flexibility. I've never really had the patience / discipline / right use case for logic-less though, so I'm far from an expert in this area.

Jinja is just a really weird mix... it's not logic-less, but it's not Python... it's a funky half-logic mishmash. It obviously makes sense and feels right to the people that make it, and if it makes sense and feels right for you that's awesome, but I hope you can understand how could feel awkward to others.
Your point is slightly undermined however in that China didn't build any of this. Their "inferior" product, and even the big current one (WeChat) is all based on technology pioneered by other countries.

While we were putting together the first apps, China was still by an large a poverty-ridden manufacturing-exclusive economy, Hong Kong being the exception. It's only in the last 25 years or so that they've finally opened up and started really growing, and when they did, all of this technology was already more or less proven and available for them to use.

The real test will be the next 50 years or so, when these various systems will need to be upgraded to see if they can keep the same pace and keep everything exactly as, for lack of a better term, shiny. :) So far they've done well, I hope they continue to do so.

It's also worth noting: All that's been accomplished could have been accomplished without the Chinese central planners too; the real problem for America and countries like us is the crony capitalism, not the lack of central planning.
I'm just imagining this becoming the next big thing in the mechanical keyboard community. They're a bit nuts, but then again, so is just about any bobby's community!

60% typewriters incoming?
I'm being used to do free work for Google

Does Google do [edit - adding quotes:] "free" work for you? Not sure how anyone dependent on Google's services (not you specifically necessarily, but most in general) such as search or mail could justify this perspective.
Yes, this is what genuinely puzzles me the most. I get that mainframes have their place for highly stable IO-heavy processing, but I've never heard anyone claim that they are particularly effective for compute-bound workloads. Especially when machine learning does not require much robustness - you just reboot the cluster nodes when they crash (and they will, because GPU drivers are crap).
That's pretty impressive! nice demo too.
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It's a hard question to answer. With this kind of gear IBM sells both the machine itself and compute capacity. You have a long term lease on the baseline workload, then lease some MIPS when you need it.

It's further clouded by virtual x86 and Linux workloads which have a different billing scale.

They also do stuff like provide "free" DR hardware that can only be activated in the event of an emergency.
> investing only in founders that show up with a box already pooping bars of gold

will get you a 100% success rate at getting conned, btw.
> but as a line manager, if you pull this on me I'm more than likely to shake your hand and wish you luck in your new job.

"Pull this on you"? You sound like a real joy to work for.

This is expressly why I choose gigs where I'm working directly for an owner if at all possible. If you've created value, owners know how important you are and will take your request seriously as long as it's reasonable.

In my career, I have received 100% of the raises I've requested ... at least a half dozen times. I've never once received a no or even negative push back. Owners were eager to retain me.

Even if your intention as a "line manager" is to not give the raise, the right move is to at least feign consideration for a few days and show the employee his request at least matters enough to think about.

Letting everyone know they'll immediately be shown the door if they dare request an increase would create a terrible culture. Clueless management.
"Contact us for a quote"

First question becomes, "So, you're a 2, 3 billion dollar company?"
Its a red herring used by the government to build a stronger surveillance state.

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety
I agree, lately they've become incredibly aggravating - frustrating, slow and tedious. I'm pretty sure it stopped being about proving that you're a real person some time ago too.
Of course. I'm not claiming it is so. I'm just saying, if you think so, then you are likely to come up with such a license.
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I think ipfs is very interesting, and will hopefully evolve to become a viable archive solution - but that'll only happen once you have a few serious organizations running their own redundant ipfs "intranet" storage networks, with geographical redundancy (or at least good local availability). Then we might see "archive peering" between such organizations.

The time horizon of "archival storage" probably starts at a hundred years - that will need some structure to have a likelihood of persisting for so long.
This is what I have. I had a Mirra, Aeron, and Steelcase Leap.

The Mirra was fine, nothing special.

The Aaron was horrible. Yes, I had it fit for the right size.

The Steelcase Leap and Embody are both top tier. You can almost argue the Leap is superior since you can get it in leather, making it easy to keep clean and free of stains and you can get it with a headrest.

They also make a Leap Lounge and it's sublime. I wouldn't mind the Herman Miller lounger though.

Either way, you can't go wrong. You have to find out what fits you best. Many rave and swear by the Aeron, but for me it was terrible and uncomfortable. The Embody and Steelcase Leap are sublime to me though.
You definitely can. Sick and weakened people in particular, are not likely to provide reliable evidence - they really, really want to believe that this time, it's going to work, after all.
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> (Even in the AAA game industry people are asking for DLCs instead of a 20xx full version)

Not sure if that's true. I'd love to read a more detailed analysis on history and driving forces behind the current DLC fashion. The way I see it, it's what the companies figured is a better way to extract money from players - instead of spending a year or three on another game, they can release a bunch of smaller DLCs every few months.
This particular guy is a middle manager. In the US typically right under VP.

He has been there for around 10 years. The fact that he has stayed on for 10 years while mistrusting people who have worked for him for the same time doesn't make sense. But neither does it for managers who have nice offices to promote open office arrangements for their workers. Hypocrites are everywhere.
> The fact that lots of people stay with a lower salary in a job is a testament that it is often the employees that choose to pay that fee.

That employees "pay that fee" doesn't indicate why. It also doesn't provide insight into whether it makes economic sense for them to do so.
>>I don't understand why people seem not to mind being lied to their faces,

Because most rational people use common sense and logic to come to the understanding that when a company is offering you "unlimited" storage for your PERSONAL FILES, they do not intend for you to go out and download SoundCloud as backup in case the SoundClould Service goes under

Just like when a "All you can Eat" buffet does not intend this to mean "All you can eat in your entire life" where by you fill grocery bags full of food to take home with you
Oh, it seems that react fanatics are not happy.
Well if you're paying half a dozen people below market, that's sort of to be expected, isn't it?

Management knows the market rate for a given role. Let's say a good-not-great senior developer (as in give them a code base and a quiet room and you've got substantive code on day 1 or 2) commands $100k cash comp to make the math easy. You take the job for 10% below market for whatever those reasons happen to be. Maybe your last job was only $95k but this one has a much better vacation/retirement package.

If you go to your boss after 6-12 months of being a good senior dev and a good employee (meaning all the admin nonsense that comes along with being an employee - meetings, timely communication, generally not being an asshole, etc) and say that market rate is $100k, you're getting paid $90k, and you'd like $100-105k, they know that's a fair ask. Whether they are willing and/or able to actually pay you that ask is another thing.

My point being that there's nothing "terroristic" about asking for what you're worth. You can do it without a competing offer, but often times a competing offer is the easiest way to get something close to a market rate number.
If tectonics moves slow enough, and live gets a chance to adapt in a underground bubble, as in - to incooperate new materials- maybe there is live, allready sailing in bubbles over a ocean of magma.

After all, life is just statefull storage of energy. Other stuff than carbon can do that.
To play devil's advocate, what makes them unemployable in that scenario? Is it just that employers are so picky as to commonly choose people who stay at a company longer over all other factors? Also saying they have to work at Starbucks implies they can't get ANY software job, which I'm not sure I see the reason for.
They do this with RAM and processors as well. If the mainframe sees a hardware fault it'll email IBM to send a service staff member to fix itself.
You made a baseless claim. I took the time to find data to back up your baseless claim, specifically stated I couldn't find any stats, and asked if you had any. You then responded, twice, with anecdotes. Why would I thank you if you weren't helpful? All you've done is spread baseless rumors which hurts the community.
Is it okay if I quit(as a Co-Founder)?
Hello,
I have gotten myself into a complicated situation and would love to hear the public opinion.

So here is the problem:

I started a company with two partners but since I did not bring enough value to the company I was not included in the stock distribution in the opening of the company.

I was promised that I would get 10% (in options) of the company when the options plan opened.

Now we are a year in with over $1m in investments and 10+ employees and I have still not received my 10%.

I am underpaid and the reason they are refusing to raise my salary is because I "have" 10% of the company.

I keep bugging them to give me the options but that does not seem to be happening.

After a lot of thinking I think the right thing to do is to quit. If I do quit I will kill the moral of the company as well as get my investors mad at me and ruin future potential partnerships.

I am unhappy in the company and although I am a team leader I am disappointed in the CEO's poor management of the company.

What do you guys think I should do?
Any answer will be appreciated!
Perhaps so. So to be proactive we should all disable WebRTC and hopefully (fat chance) we can stifle it enough that web developers can't rely on it being available.
How powerful is a Z-series mainframe?
The last few paragraphs go kind of bonkers:

> The problem is a public as well as private one, and impersonation robots should be considered what the law calls “hostis humani generis”: enemies of mankind, like pirates and other outlaws.

> Improved robot detection might help us find the robot masters or potentially help national security unleash counterattacks, which can be necessary when attacks come from overseas. There may be room for deputizing private parties to hunt down bad robots.
There's no proof that a paying service isn't also selling your data on the side. The only way to prevent a company from selling your data is to not give 'em any!
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I've had the same experience. It seems like a lottery as to whether it'll decide I'm not a robot, or want me to help train their computer vision system. It wouldn't be so bad if it was just a few images and took 2 seconds, like text CAPTCHAs, but yesterday I had one that probably took a full minute to complete, as it just kept showing me more pictures of cars. It was really annoying.
Project Voco creates speech based off new text for a person, this creates video based off speech. When these technologies get better I assume you'd be able to use Adobe's technology to fake a speech from someone, than use this to create a video for it.
So none of this functionality would work for mobile browsers? Or can you at least receive messages somehow?

After some googling I found OpenWebRTC which says "WebRTC standard would transcend the pure browser environment and that native apps, implementing the same protocols and API's, would become an important part of the WebRTC ecosystem". But I thought the beauty of this would be transcending the need for native apps.
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I'd much rather have an offer in hand in case I bring salary up and they shake my hand and wish me good luck.
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They also face considerable risk for sticking around when an employer has expressed interest in underpaying and overworking them or just outright firing them. If you're hiring people at 50% of their desired pay, then you're generally only going to get 50% of their skill. This is a double-edged sword. Employees also have an inherent need to accomplish things, and if you're not using them to their full capacity, that's also a risk of them leaving, or being completely checked out at work.
Unlimited is a marketing term used to express simply to the consumer there are not overall limits placed on your storage provided you adhere to the rest of the terms of service.

Which specific clause of the TOS is this violating?

In the context of data cloud data stroage when Google, Amazon and the rest talk about "unlimited" they are referring to unlimited PERSONAL storage of data you create as a person, this would include backups of your personal computer, photos, important documents,etc

That's your interpretation. Nowhere do they actually claim or imply that you're only supposed to use it for data you create as a person. In fact, it'd be absurd, considering that sharing files is built into the system.

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That companies lie to us repeatedly under the guise of "common sense", as if they followed the same standard when applying their unreadable TOSs against us, is bad enough.

Corporations are not your friends, and they won't hesitate to block you if you start becoming a liability. Assuming good faith is absurd, defending it publicly is grotesque.
"Open source" historically meant just that: that you could look at the source, in contrast to machine code-only software.

Only later did the term got confused with "free software" idea from Stalman and the "preferred form for making modifications" as he put it.
It's really not much different from the Internet Archive as a whole. The vast majority of the content that the Internet Archive stores is copyrighted and not under CC, etc. The Archive mostly gets away with it because it is/was all public facing material and they bend over backwards (with retroactive robots.txt, etc.) to remove anything that the owner objects to.
Well, two things. Firstly a generic indie hoping to get a slice of that giant mobile pie of cash is most likely going to end up very disappointed.

Secondly, the majority of games on mobile does not need Vulkan performance. Sure, extra performance is always great, but the majority of big sellers are your generic run of the mill 2d games.

But having said that, either way I really dislike the in-fighting between the companies, each trying to get their own API/vision to the top of the pile (The same is happening with VR etc). At the end of the day they're just damaging their own ecosystems.
Bob: "OMG why are the build times so slow??"

Alice: "oh it didn't find anything so it posted a question and now it's polling for a compilable answer"
It seems that there's plenty of prior art in unreadable captchas already
For when you need to automate copy pasting.
They used to have these easy to understand metrics like 1 mainframe can run 1000 Linux VMs at such and such hardware spec. And that almost made it worth the price. Now I see only blahblah.
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Mainframes are all about VMs and containers. They just use different terminology and tech.

I've heard of a few new deployments (more accurately expansions) where it's cheaper to buy more mainframe than Oracle licensing.
This isn't quite correct. What was - and still is - made available to customers willing to pay for it were listings, generated by the compilers, not the original sources. There are more bits and pieces besides LMF that are excluded, sometimes for security reasons, sometimes for legal reasons. Also not made available, are any of the build procedures. What was never done, is release the sources under an open-source license. The source listings are intended as a debugging aid, not as a way to rebuild the OS.
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That's a non sequitur. If you only had to fill captchas to access google services you'd have a point, but plenty of 3rd party websites completely unrelated to Google use them nowadays.

I also much preferred the older text-based captchas (which google also "abused" to OCR text IIRC), I found them easier and quicker to solve and I didn't have to reach for the mouse. Fortunately 4chan at least lets you switch back to "legacy captcha".
Well in exchange for my dependence on their services they show me ads, and make rather a lot of money doing it.
Predicting a future of devestation. You would think we would be past buying into that ruse by now.