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I'm back in coding, but I wasn't for a while. For a while, I was in management, and ended up a CTO. Twice.

If you find yourself not enjoying writing code, then perhaps it's not the perfect job for you. It pays better and is perhaps more fun than manual labour and cleaning jobs, so have a think about what your pain points really are, but genuinely: if you think you'd prefer to be a farmer? Go be a farmer. You'll probably hate it, but at least then you'll know.

I came back to coding because one day I wrote two lists of things about my job: 1. Things I like doing about my job. 2. Things I hate about my job. At the time I was a startup CTO and so was doing some code and architecture stuff as well as meeting investors and doing the finance and strategy stuff. All the coding stuff was on list 1. All the business and strategy stuff was on list 2.

I quit that day, and took a job as a senior dev. Don't regret it, but find it difficult to bite my tongue around managers and even CTOs or CEOs I think have got it wrong. I'm trying though.

I learned to code when I was 11. I thought I was rubbish for a long, long time. I had constant imposter syndrome. But it was only when I left the coding gig I realised that it was something I loved doing, was actually not bad at it, and that the alternative was just mindless games and niceties dressed up as strategic planning.

Go do something else, if coding is for you, you'll find yourself being pulled back to it all the time. If it isn't, consider stuff that plays to your strengths, and challenges your weaknesses in a good way.
Information could also be exchanged while doing a "firmware update".
It never made sense for Intel to enter this market to begin with. Opportunities that move the needle for a company like Intel come in sizes of 100s of millions $ or more. The maker market is just not that big. "IoT" however is - from industrial to home automation and everything in between where sensors, controllers and networks get added to traditionally analog or un-networked technology.

If you look at what Intel was selling, that's the market that Intel's products were actually geared toward. Look at the price, specs and form factor of the Edison. Now imagine that Intel was really trying to push into the IoT space, it is a good play considering they failed to break into mobile. These products were really competing against companies like Phytec, Variscite, Compulab, Toradex, Myir and Olimex who make ARM-based modules for embedded networked products.

Why they pushed so hard to market to the maker community instead of commercial IoT is sort of beyond me. Marketing to makers helps gain mindshare and familiarity with your product (but x86 is already ubiquitous.) For comparison, I wonder how much Atmel's bottom line has been affected by Arduino, or RPi for Broadcom. Why Intel couldn't get their act together to make a well-supported compelling product for commercial IoT applications is baffling. That's where they really failed.
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Agreed.

People are just complaining to complain. It's also kinda cool right now to hate Amazon. It's gotten too big, ya know. They're evil, lol.
With context, Gadkari appeared to say that driverless _commercial_ vehicles will not be allowed.

A lot of politicians around the world may be saying that soon.
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The Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, has closer ties to Fusion GPS, the people who came up with that "dossier" with the whole golden shower blackmail conspiracy theory, than she does the Russian government. The worst you can reliably take away from that meeting is that they decided to take a meeting with someone who claimed to be a Russian government lawyer with information on Clinton. Plus, there's more evidence of the Clinton campaign colluding with the Ukrainian government against Trump than there is evidence of Trump colluding with the Russian government.

And yes, I was referring to the DNC hacks.
You sent a slide deck that proposed throwing out all the DOTS work after that work had been underway for more than two years.

https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/search/?email_list=dots&q=...
> the intersection of all languages' phonemic inventories is probably empty.

I believe the "a" sound in English "father" is universal. But otherwise yes.
The stock price is driven by what investors think the company is worth. For what you describe to work, investors would need to calculate that the investment Intel made here was profitable (via the sales made, for example), thus adding value to the company. At which point you couldn't really see it as a "game", but a good investment that was now ended.
To me it's a pointless indignation.

This is a lot better than companies fencing off huge swathes of land so you need to meander around their properties.

I really like recent development in my hometown (Warsaw) where you can walk around new buildings, sit on a bench and watch a fountain. Usually the local government doesn't have a budget to stick those facilities everywhere.
It seems to me like Mr. Stanley paid something more than £14 (a fair enough sum IMHO) for a simple lesson: there are risks involved in buying anything from a dark net market (no matter if legal, illegal, ethical on unethical).

Typical risks:

1) The seller (untraceable) may never ship the "whatever" bought.

2) The received material may be "defective" or not corresponding to the description.

3) The FBI (or the Police, etc.) may shutdown the site and confiscate the money.
Hi. I am working on building an application using ML on confidential finance documents. Data I require in huge number are private information which I can never have legally without the permission of the owner.

Has anyone used ML on such private documents, if yes what approaches did you take to collect such data?
Penetration testing now. That's what I wanted to do as a high schooler more than 15 years ago.

Started as C/UNIX dev, but as a way to find a "first job" because I needed $$. I did this for around 3 years.
> Imagine taking a time machine back to 1750—a time when ... all transportation ran on hay

wait, what? weren't ocean-going ships using wind power in 1750? come to think of it, weren't ships using wind power in 1750 BC?
I think that we do not have Apache licensed code in project, it's just protocol description for protobuf: https://github.com/pavel-odintsov/fastnetmon/blob/2005b4e94e...

And it's not used by version available in Debian repositories at all (just some experiments).

The project itself licensed strictly in terms of GPLv2 (not GPLv2+).
He said that they "originally developed for MS SQL." and then "Later we added in support for Postgres/MySQL."

Sounds like they develop a product that can use multiple RDBMS back-ends. Also, I'm guessing that since 90% of the businesses out there use Microsoft products, you would probably want to support their products in such a venture.

On a personal note, I find anything that's not SQL Server to be tedious to work with due to the lack of high quality GUIs, client tools and certain features.

For instance - did you know that Postgres can't easily return multiple resultsets? In SQL Server I just write one procedure containing multiple SELECT statements and my client code can get all of those resultsets with only one call to that procedure. This one feature alone cuts down on all sorts of boilerplate code and trips to the database.
Quantum is now also a bit of an umbrella project for initiatives making Firefox faster. "Quantum Flow", for example, is an engine-wide effort to push performance in the bits that still C++.
I understand that Musk's ideas of doom and gloom concerning AI are far into the future (loceng drops the Andrew Ng quote that draws parallels to people worrying about the overpopulation of Mars) but even if that is the case isn't it still worth noting now?

My simple understanding of this all is that once we create AI that surpasses the intelligence of the human race, we as inferior beings will no longer be able to predict what they will do. If that's the case and the desire of AI (can AI have desire...?) runs contrary to human will, then there's no way to cut it that bodes well for the continued existence of the human race. And once that line is crossed, it's never going back.

Is that not a reasonable thing to be worried about even if it's 200 years away? Even On the Origin of Species was published only ~160 years ago.
That example has absolutely nothing to do with AI...
Also, with Arduino you can easily and cheaply buy more ATmega328 DIPs and put them on protoboard for an embedded project.

I built a little server rack temperature monitor (which collects data from a couple sensors and provides a simple REST service over ethernet) that way, all you need to run the ATmega328 by itself is about 50 cents worth of components.
It's quite unfortunate as they were a convenient middle ground between amateur and "we'll sell to you only if you order 500+ units" boards, and the brand was famous enough in less technical circles to help prototypes being taken seriously (given the technical side is rarely what kills off a project).
Funny how the the symptoms of so many addictions boil down to this.
Don't underestimate the exponential.
BitClave wants to ‘decentralize’ search, let users profit from their own data
The four-bar linkage is a common design pattern in mechanical engineering. With 4 rotating bearings and 4 bars, it allows one to constrain motion to a plane. In particular, along a partucular path both position and angle smoothly change together.

Once you start noticing them, you will see them everywhere (bus doors, clamps, etc.). Their available paths are of course limited, but quite varied with interesting tools for design.
The Arduino itself might cost 10-100x of something that could go into production, but couldn't you prototype with an Arduino and use cheap Atmel chips with the bootloader installed in production?
Given that a significant chunk of design/product nowadays is centered around 'engagement', the inevitability of this can't be understated.

Imagine if our medication, food, etc were designed around engagement. We already have a term for that, and it's addiction.

I don't understand why we guard our physical intake from 'addiction', but don't show anywhere as much concern re: our cognitive intake despite our mind not mattering any less than our body.

I know the practical solution here is being a more conscientious user, but I feel like there's ethical culpability on our profession.
Hey, any reason to downvote someone into oblivion is a cause worth fighting for.

- Someone with too much time and too much karma.
> sybase's optimizer was the biggest piece of shit ever

Sybase even in the 11.5 days was horrible. Even with updated stats, it would drop off the cliff and you would suddenly have queries that took less than a second go to multiple minutes. It was the database where I had to force a lot of indexes. It really got confused with simple reference tables. Temporary tables were just plain problematic unless you did the trick of declaring them in the outer procedure and then calling another stored procedure to actually use the temp table.
It will be very interesting to see how Amazon performs versus the Asian giants. Amazon is an specialist defeating local champions in smaller markets (European countries), but Asia is a different story.
I also think that internet addiction is visible. When you submerse yourself into the digital world, you don't take care of your health, your physical appearance. I guess internet addiction varies in its severance.

I have a friend from high school, he was the smartest kid in class, was a math-genius. Somehow he lost interest in school. He has a Youtube channel, where he posts game videos, earns a bit money from there (i guess 500 dollars per month). He is "trying" to study economics, but he is still in the same semester after three years. He does lead a life, but not in the physical world. He was a handsome kid, now he doesn't eat and doesn't care about appearances. He only drinks iced tea (no water) and eats limited food he likes (like pasta or chocolate). Although his life may seem weird, I respect him. That's his choice to live in the digital world.
How product managers are slowly becoming mini CEOs
"1) the settlement should not cost the tax payers money"

What would happen if the cop responsible for the act could not cover the settlement money ?

The one affected by brutality would be doubly screwed.

The Police as a whole should be held accountable, and victims should be ensured compensation, they are by all accounts being brutalized by the state, and the state is run with taxpayers money.

Agreeing with the rest though.
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Used to be a programmer.

A few years ago, started Hacker Paradise, which is basically a travel company. We organize trips around the world for people (mostly in tech) who want to work remotely while traveling.

I came from a background of startups & some freelance web dev, and my co-founder was a senior software engineer. We didn't have much experience in travel, but we both had some experience organize events & managing community (running hackathons in college, etc.).

Interestingly, after 3 years of doing more operational / community work, I'm moving back towards spending more of my time programming and tinkering with hardware. My old co-founder already made the switch and is back working as a software engineer.

I think the takeaway for us is that there is no panacea. There are some fun parts about operational & community work, but it also ends up being pretty admin-heavy. After awhile, knowledge work becomes something that seems like a lot of fun again.

My $0.02 - doing the same thing (regardless of what it is) for 3 decades sounds boring! Feel free to make the jump to something else, but be open to coming back to software or jumping into other areas as well.
I would have said form factor. Commercial has all signals routed to high pitch headers, with few or no on-board jacks, also many times surface mount.

Also there are places where Linux is appropriate and affordable at volume, depending on the application.
This message was prepared about 14 months ago and shared privately with WG members. So, at least few persons from this WG saw it.
There's a Radiolab podcast about a pill that supposedly cures alcohol addiction: http://www.radiolab.org/story/addiction/

The pill they mention is called "Baclofen", and the podcast goes into how effective it is and why, if it's so good, it isn't used broadly yet.
I was a successful coder for a few years. VB and java.

I watched myself and those around me rot, in body and mind. That is some fucked up morlock shit right there.

These days I'm a handyman. Carpentry, plumbing, painting. Stuff like that.

I still work on my own software projects. Art stuff.
Is lab meat an existential threat to the agriculture industry?
Surely you're no worse off sending any content steganographically compared to in the clear?

Worst case, they find it, and you're in the same position as you would be if you sent it without steganography.
First, in many places the police are paid more than the market clearing rate for various reasons. So there's room to cut compensation without having shortages in applications.

Second, if officers are forced to seek out indemnification on the open market these policies will be underwritten. Bad risks will be forced off the job through unaffordable policies. Whereas blanket indemnification by the taxpayer has no selection effect at all.
Esperanto fails at being neutral because it's inherently oriented towards the subset of European languages Zamenhof based it off of. Someone who speaks German or Czech would have an easier time learning it than someone who speaks Mongolian or Korean or Mandarin Chinese.
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Just because you enjoy doing something doesn't mean you will enjoy doing it for 40+ hours a week for 45 years.

I actually do enjoy programming and I get paid (well) to do it but going to work is certainly not "awesome," and I would not do it if I didn't have to.

You could absolutely love caring for children but hate being a child care worker because of dealing with parents and issues like abuse and negligent at home among other reasons.
Token sales should always use a .eth name as the wrapper for their deposit address. That's what FunFair did with their token sale [1]. It makes it a lot harder for a hacker or scammer to trick users into sending to the wrong address, since a user-specified identifier can be made far more mnemonic than an Ethereum account address.

[1] https://medium.com/@weka/token-sales-done-better-funfair-d38...
I'm in medical school
Whenever these concerns are raised I find it difficult to gather any information on what the land was before it became "pseudo-public".

"insidious creep" implies that land that was previously public has become pseudo-public. But the examples cited seem to be land that was previously private has become pseudo-public. That just doesn't seem so dystopian to me.
Do you even need to hack it?

I'm not entirely sure what fiduciary (or other) duty you owe people who invest in ICOs -- but conceivably with the right phrasing, you don't actually need to steal the money to just sit on it.

-> Talented team, crypto, yada, yada, yada.
-> ICO token entitles buyer to use all of our services.
-> Throw up site that validates token and then serves static site telling you future projects will be here.
-> Spend money on living it up while you "develop apps".
-> Alt: Put money in trust after incorporating as a non-profit; sit on returns indefinitely.

I don't think it's very hard to not technically break your word as long as you only plan to take one investment round and don't need goodwill.
I have no experience with this, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was against the terms of service with the credit card company.
Just like http://Fomocoin.org/whitepaper.pdf

Disclosure: I wrote this "whitepaper"
IMO, the biggest problem is software startups unwillingness to hire other types of engineers.

It's easy to bridge from Arduino to Atmel AVR IF you know how to do board layout. Startups need to either grow their knowledge of electronics or hire some electrical engineers.

The AVR documentation is excellent, you could easily design your own board if you have anything beyond rudimentary electronics skills.

A lot of IoT startups are dependent on attachment "blades" for interfaces. They get burned because a lot of their value proposition and profit is tied up in some other guy's blade they don't know how to build.
It seems like a neat idea, but do etherium-backed ICOs have any credibility right now? There are so many problems surfacing that it's not clear why anyone can take them at face value.
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Swedish PM admits that huge data leak is ‘a disaster’
> "In order for someone to be transported into the future and die from the level of shock they’d experience, they have to go enough years ahead that a “die level of progress,” or a Die Progress Unit (DPU) has been achieved."

I suspect that it is no longer possible to achieve a DPU going forward. We now know that amazing things have been achieved and will continue to be achieved. Plus we have science fiction that can conceive of almost any possibility, from intelligence at sub-atomic scale to creatures the size of galaxies, parallel universes, humans capable of controlling time and space by mere thought etc etc.

Based on recent history, I expect the future to be unrecognisable!
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Strange - I don't feel invaded.
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It depends on how you classify "successful" :)

I quit my job in order to hike every trail in Ireland with my girlfriend and make videos about it: https://www.youtube.com/toughsoles. We're not making a profit by any means - so, not successful in that regard. But we are seeing the country that we belong to, and I think we're slowly raising awareness about the incredible places that exist tens of kilometres from people's front doors.
I'm not entirely sure that's true in the US, that people can make medical decisions on behalf of a minor without any legal coverage of whether it's in their best interests, but I'm not familiar enough with US law.

However if we look at the facts of this case: http://www.gosh.nhs.uk/frequently-asked-questions-about-char...

"One of the factors that influenced this decision was that Charlie’s brain was shown to be extensively damaged at a cellular level. The clinician in the US who is offering the treatment agrees that the experimental treatment will not reverse the brain damage that has already occurred.

The entire highly experienced UK team, all those who provided second opinions and the consultant instructed by the parents all agreed that further treatment would be futile – meaning it would be pointless or of no effective benefit."

Edit: oh yes, and the court submissions are interesting reading (via twitter:) https://t.co/Wjs7KrRWMU

> When the hospital was informed that the Professor had new laboratory findings causing him to believe NBT would be more beneficial to Charlie than he had previously opined, GOSH’s hope for Charlie and his parents was that that optimism would be confirmed. It was, therefore, with increasing surprise and disappointment that the hospital listened to the Professor’s fresh evidence to the Court. On 13 July he stated that not only had he not visited the hospital to examine Charlie but in addition, he had not read Charlie’s contemporaneous medical records or viewed Charlie’s brain imaging or read all of the second opinions about Charlie’s condition (obtained from experts all of whom had taken the opportunity to examine him and consider his records) or even read the Judge’s decision made on 11 April. Further, GOSH was concerned to hear the Professor state, for the first time, whilst in the witness box, that he retains a financial interest in some of the NBT compounds he proposed prescribing for Charlie. Devastatingly, the information obtained since 13 July gives no cause for optimism. Rather, it confirms that whilst NBT may well assist others in the future, it cannot and could not have assisted Charlie.
Tech leaders need to be technologists
You sat on the deck for a year?
Why waste time, buy a service like codility and only interview the best couple ones. I don't work for any of those online code tests btw, but they're pretty good for sorting applicants and cheaper than your own time.

Junior developers need to have high IQ and ability to code, everything else you will need to teach them anyway. Keep in mind that if you don't have time to teach them they will not be cheaper than seniors, unless all you need is bums on seats to fool investors or something nefarious like that.
Ad https://getbetterluck.com/ - usual struggle - when I search for "UX", it also shows job offers containting word "linux".
This article is bullshit, and I can tell from experience because I learned to read all by myself when I was about three years old.

My IQ is also at least good enough to get through the official Mensa pre-test (which you need to take to know if you should even consider taking the official one).
There's always been the possibility of selection bias in finding CTE in football players' brains. Many of the brains are studied at the request of the family of the deceased player, presumably because they had noticed symptoms of mental degeneration. And there are cases where the player themselves requested the scans in their will. Junior Seau didn't leave behind a suicide note, but he did kill himself in a way that left his brain physically intact.

The NYT piece notes that even if none of the other ~1,300 NFL players (who have since died since this research began) have brains affected by CTE, "the minimum C.T.E. prevalence would be close to 9 percent, vastly higher than in the general population.".