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Mine is. I had better handwriting in primary school. It can be quite embarrassing on the odd occasion where I need to fill out a paper form (which itself is rarer these days).
Something about attribution, malice and stupidity...
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>Medina said he experienced the high-pay, no-work situation early in his career when he was a software engineer in grad school. He finished his project months early, and warned his company he would be leaving after graduation.

>They kept him on for the remaining months to train others on his software but didn't want him to start a new coding project. His job during those months involved hanging out at the office writing a little documentation and being available to answer questions, he recalls.

This isn't a good example. The company budgeted X dollars over Y months for a total comp package of Z for an engineer they knew had a discrete timeline, and the engineer finished in Y-3 months. What should the company do, fire the engineer and save delta-Z? The company got what it wanted and more by having him stick around and answer questions and do documentation work for 8-10 hours a week of "free" labor.
One risk is if the item is perfectly legal and ordinary in the US but is illegal to import into the foreign country. The courier could wind up paying heavy fines or much worse.

Kinder eggs are an example of an item that is perfectly fine in, say, Canada, but carries a heavy fine for import into the US.
If you ever decide you want to migrate away from Postgres, it's because there's another platform that supports significant functionality that Postgres doesn't. Changing out the data tier is not a decision made on a whim.

If there is significant functionality we want to take advantage of in this new platform, then that means that we have to refactor anyway to use this, because by definition we either don't do it today, or we do it with an insufficient workaround in Postgres.

The migration necessitates large refactoring by its very justification.
The author states basic scientific facts and the regressive left hate him for it.

They are the lefts equivalent of the rights climate change deniers.
Reminds me of the common saying,

"The hardest thing about working at Google was the job interview to get the job in the first place."
Still does for the right positions. Research-directed ones pay exceptionally well.
Such drama!

I am saying that manigandham's total separation between speech and action is incorrect.

I think Gizmodo and Google and this guy are all welcome to keep publishing whatever they want to. I think everybody else should also feel free to exercise their freedom of speech and freedom of association in response to that speech and publication.

I'll be interested to see how Google handles it, but there's a good case to be made for them firing him. See, e.g., this post from a senior recent ex-Googler: https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/so-about-this-googlers-man...
I wonder how much of this is due to non-voting shares being sold to the public that prevent an activist investor from being able to push the board to trim the fat?
Tcl is pronounced tickle.
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You could spend the extra time learning about new technologies and languages. Become an expert at Haskell or AI. Since you're probably in America I suppose they'd sue you if you started working on a side project but you can at least get thoroughly prepared for one!
I also got the same idea.

I do dislike forums like ArsTechnica where "/s" is prominent, I believe that if you need to write a sarcasm tag to get that across, you likely should not be writing sarcasm at all.

Then again there's people like parent which will miss what I believe to be obvious sarcasm, and I wonder all over again if there's a point to it all.

Sometimes I think we should just not write sarcasm at all on written communications.
Google/FB stock is in no way illiquid.
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We have Earth on AWS so where you can observe earth on Amazon Web Services.
Do we have anything for observing data or information of common crawl ?
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> WARNING: PLEASE DO NOT RUN THIS CODE ON A HARD DRIVE, I'M NOT SURE HOW LONG IT WOULD TAKE. I USED A RAM DISK

How much disk IO does this program generate? Why?

In any case, the OS should cache stuff and give similar performance to using a ramdisk, provided you have enough spare ram.
Nothing here: no link; no question.
I don't think money laundering and corruption narrative makes sense here. Since the west basically controls the financial system of the world, it's only natural for Russia to adopt an alternative that no one controls and take away some power from the west. The only weird part is that they actually figured this out.
So what exactly does indispensable engineer mean? How many people making more than 1M a year are at each of these companies?
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> Ultimately it does become a matter of "suing the copyright holder for a license granted by that copyright holder", but it's definitely still not okay. By that logic, no copyright license can ever be expected to be honoured by the original author -- because "they own the copyright and thus cannot be sued for breach of license".

If the license promised delivery of source code then of course the author could be sued. But as far as I can tell, GPL (at least v3) makes no such promises. If you disagree, please point in the license text the part that you think applies.
The fact that they have a the market position and capital to buy up human resources and waste them simply to keep competitors from being able to develop products goes to show that they are abusing their monopoly positions. Wouldn't it be better for the economy & society at large if these talented people were working hard at building new & better products?
Torvalds: I've pulled this, but if problems, ext4 is going on my shit-list
Summers lost his job as university president because he alienated a significant portion of the faculty by making dramatic political decisions without buy-in from the rest of the community. (Firing popular administrative staff, diverting budget from long-running projects with internal political support, getting in aggressive fights with influential faculty members, etc.) Overall he made for a divisive and relatively ineffective leader of the university. His poorly considered sex differences comments were just a convenient excuse to put someone more politically savvy and charismatic in as a leader.

Additionally, it’s hard to feel bad for him as the way he “lost his job” was by being offered an extraordinarily prestigious named professorship (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_University_Professor), giving him the ability to work on pretty much whatever he wants for the rest of his life, with a great salary, benefits, etc., and with few required duties.
True. The issue then becomes: what could they be doing for society? This takes more ingenuity and leadership.
That part was responding to your erroneous notion that speech and action are totally distinct. Some speech is action.

If you aren't clear on some other point, feel free to ask.
I always carry a pen.

I prefer handwriting to taking electronic notes and have never found a touch device I'd rather write on than paper.

Aside: Teaching kids cursive also still has value in teaching fine motor skills.
(ML looks like magic to me and involves lots of math, which I suck at).

Math is taught pretty badly in most American public schools from K-12. Many people have terrible math experiences in elementary school, in part because the U.S. actively encourages women to go into early childhood education if they can't cut it in other fields (a thing not done to men). So, there are a lot of women who are basically math-phobic who are teaching it to our K-6 kids and the primary thing they teach a lot of kids is that math is scary stuff and you should hate it. It's really terrible.

I pulled my two sons out of public school at the same time. At the time, my oldest was in sixth grade, and he hated math and had terrible, terrible baggage about it. My ONLY goal for him for math while homeschooling him was to teach him "math is your friend" and that was it. I didn't care if he actually learned any math. I just wanted him to stop having fear and loathing of math. He now sometimes does stuff like reads illustrated calculus books (which are over my head -- I dropped out of calculus in college, due to having had a year long math gap... it's a long story) when he runs out of other things to read at the library and is bored.

If you want some pointers on how to get over your fear of math and how to learn math comfortably, I and no doubt lots of other people here can give you some pointers. Because there are people here who think math is cool and fun and managed to get through the school system without becoming math-phobic, in spite of how hard the school system actively tries to make most of us math-phobic.
Any chance you could move this conversation over to https://www.indiehackers.com/ and maybe do an interview with the folks over there? You sound...like someone I'd like to hear a lot more from.
How does a film editor think and feel?
he doesn't work at deepmind actually
Food for thought:

* Trans people of Reddit, what was something you weren't expecting to be told, find out, or experience when going through your transition (https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/4g1pgu/serious_t...)

So yes, even hormones by themselves make changes, going beyond cultural pressure and upbringing. Exposure for different chromosomes, and hormones, though all live (including prenatal development) may have even stronger impact.
Actually, there is some research showing women are equally physically violent in domestic situations. Men just go to jail more. But, anyone will point out that if black men go to jail more than white men, it means there is a systemic bias against black men.
Fair point. I should say, it wouldn't surprise me if evolution favored a division of complimentary abilities. It also wouldn't surprise me to instead see a homogenous distribution across sexes as another commenter pointed out. My experience leads me to the first hypothesis. Either way, it's not clear which way evolution did decide on for us. So we should get to the bottom of it. We should be allowed to have hypotheses born out of our experience assuming we can handle being proved wrong, control for confirmation bias, etc. It's quite far from being a solved problem.
Nah, go for gold. Learn math and physics!
Burned out and trapped by debt. Not a great place to be even with the $1mm/year compensation. Most of which is illiquid I assume.

It can be worse, like being trapped making $8 an hour at some supermarket.
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There seems to be conflation in this article between two very different groups.

Group A is folks who are acquired and have outsized grants that say vest over N years (N between 2 and 4). It turns out the acquisition was probably a mistake, but the acquiring company made it (and won't own up to it). That's what's described in the Facebook and Microsoft examples. This is the classic "rest and vest" scenario (Note: an acquisition is not required, just any outsized grant).

Group B is "just" engineers at Google, Facebook, etc. getting paid really well for not doing much, while hanging out with the lavish perks. I've never heard of anyone refer to this as "rest and vest". In particular, I found this quote disturbing:

> There are a lot 'coasters' who reached a certain level and don't want to work any harder. They just do a 9-5 job, won’t work to get promoted, don’t want to get promoted.

At Google (and elsewhere), it's considered fine to reach a senior / terminal level and stay there. Is a VP or Director of Engineering lazy if they never move up? Of course not. The same is true of individual contributors.

Finally, the numbers mentioned for compensation are normal for very senior engineers at Google (and again, Facebook, Microsoft, etc.). This isn't "rest and vest", it's just business as usual. I don't particularly agree with the folks who spend their days in classes, taking long lunches, etc. but if they get their work done, what do I care?
i think the point is that the plant would become prohibitively expensive so the economical and profitable thing would be to produce in a cleaner way.

Unfortunately the other option is to move the plant to the third world and kill poor people who can't afford to fight back.
Simply astounding read. Just added the book to my wishlist, but I wonder how much it'll do above and beyond.
I think that the worst enemy of capitalism, is paradoxically, the stock market. Original idea behind capitalism was that entrepreneur is building his company for a profit, and to reach that profit he must take a risk. Because of the risk involved one must be very careful and make well-thought business decisions because bankrupting the company meant bankrupting its owner.

Now, with a stock market the valuation of your company is tied to a public perception of how your business is doing, not to how it is actually doing. That's why companies publish non-GAAP financial reports (non-GAAP basically means "bullshit") - after posting higher-than-expected profits your stocks skyrocket, so you sell some of them, turning some of that "perception" into a real cash.

Being publicly traded also gives you easy way out if something goes wrong - just sell all your stocks and you are in the clear.

Plus, as a majority shareholder you can hire a CEO and use him as a scapegoat in any illegal activity your company chooses to engage in.

Privately held companies are much better in terms of holding their owners accountable for company's actions.
There is a quantitative craze in academia that is producing ever more ridiculous scholarship. Political science journals are full of studies running regressions on preposterous data sets, usually to justify some predetermined qualitative analysis.
Unless you hold up a sarcasm sign here you will downvoted into oblivion.
1) Jackpot winning lottery numbers.

2) Possibly various patents.

This is more a matter of the sheer number of people who could become involved in Bitcoin in a short amount of time (i.e. an artifact of the modern era) than it is about Bitcoin per se.
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Not sure how "She owed a big chunk of money in taxes thanks to that stock". One has to do really risky/dumb things with stock options to get into that scenario
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I think I expressed myself poorly. They aren't using banned things because they are banned. Instead, they go the easier route of killing people with non-banned things.
Historically, block letters were taught to young children first because they were seen as less difficult to form, and therefore writing by someone with little fine motor control would be somewhat legible. Cursive was how adults wrote. In that sense, she was correct.

That said, "the writing of the business world" today is Times New Roman (or maybe Helvetica Neue). It replaced the Palmer Method of Business Writing[1], which is quite distinct from the the cursive that is taught in schools today (Zaner-Bloser[2] or D'Nealian[3]).

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_Method

2: http://content.yudu.com/web/y5b2/0A3vbrb/16Grade6Student/htm...

3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D'Nealian
And can they use one more?
The problem may be, you perceive the other's celebration of masculinity as an attack on your persona.

One of my favorite movie scenes is from the Matrix, where Neo is told, "Confidence, it means know thyself." This should be read as knowing both your strengths and your weaknesses so vividly, you can predict your performance and emotional state given a situation.

Practically, if you accept that you are sensitive [nothing wrong with that, a lot of talented artists and musicians are] and that your self-value is defined elsewhere that typical masculinity, then this whole discussion becomes pointless because your validation will come from within. If you're looking to define self-expectations by society and others, you'll struggle forever to be happy or confident.
AWS fees. We're an email marketing platform, we send around 150m emails a month, all of which we need to store and process clicks/opens on.
Yes, I will not be watching any videos. I don't like videos. If you have a point, feel free to make it.

I also didn't call you stupid. Sorry if I was unclear. I am suggesting you are a bigot.
I am inclined to agree!

I think their technology has given them the ability to coordinate laborers with buyers like never before.

It isn't centralized like a casino or brothel, because the workers are geographically dispersed and don't have to show up to a physical building/boss for instructions.

It is more effective than craigslist or a newspaper, because their technology has evolved and is trusted enough to deliver quality service in real-time.

There is a big war on how to regulate/clamp down on this (depends on your view), but it is likely their technology that made the difference compared to other business models.

this doesn't give them a free pass, it just explains why/how it happened maybe ^.^
> I would say that your attempted comparison is intellectually dishonest and places you on far more morally shaky ground than him.

Maybe you should refer upthread where someone else threw out that comparison, not me? I was replying to them with the theoretical they outlined.

I don't really know how to respond to the rest of your post. Public moods have always shifted, and people's public responses have changed. It's already normalised. People used to be openly racist, now they aren't. Their racism then wasn't correct at the time and incorrect now, it was always wrong. Will my views become equally offensive some day? I don't see why I would assume they will. And if they do, and I don't adjust, maybe I will deserve to be called out for it.
IMHO cursive script is optimised for writability, but not readability. If asked to use it, I'd probably say "I can try if you really insist, but you're unlikely to be able to read it" --- instead, I'll use my "personal font" which looks like either Futura or Courier depending on what I'm writing, and which others have commented quite positively on the legibility of.
Taking note is still faster in with a pen and paper. Thinking as well. And I'm on the very upper scale of computer skills.

Lately I even removed some part of my project management tooling to replace it with paper. Very short term actionable data is more productive on paper for me.
It means low quality of the article, at least.
> Aside: Teaching kids cursive also still has value in teaching fine motor skills.

It's also been shown to be helpful for students with dyslexia.
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I wonder what kind of work they do that makes them so unique and indispensable. I also heard stories about engineers who did not share how their code worked, so that the company would not risk firing them.
Frequently, their parents decide for them.

As someone coming from Eastern Europe, that is sometimes the case, but it's not the biggest factor, which I believe is that life's harder there, and smart women chose whatever is going to give better income and job security. When women are free to chose whatever, because they believe their life will be fine regardless of whether they get that higher paying job in IT or that fun degree in Literature, they chose according to their real preference.
I have probably two dozen blogs and initially wrestled with the same thing. If you want to blog, I would be happy to help you find a process that works for you.

I am sure you could find an audience. You sound like a rich source of much-needed wisdom on the subject of small business of a sort that would be highly relevant to lots of people on HN.

Edit: It is also fine to interpret my first remark to mean "No apologies needed re the length. Lots of people here would be happy to read more." I mean, you aren't obligated to start a blog because a random internet stranger flippantly suggested it, but I have the bad habit of taking objections literally when people really mean "I don't actually want to do that" but they don't actually say that, they say "I would, but (reason)" and then I'm all "That's totally solvable!" because I am compulsively helpful.

I shall stop digging my grave deeper now. kaythxbai
That post was downvoted and flagged, no need to further indulge that sort of thing either way.
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I doubt i'm a candidate for indie hackers, i dont have a product, i offer a service. But i'm happy to answer questions.
It's just that the python library used won't read SVG from a string, online from a file given a filename, so each character must be written to disk, then read back in.
>but it is easier to talk about gender or race

It's intellectual laziness.
This is known as Lewontin's Fallacy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Genetic_Diversity:_Lewon...
CAISO's big board is reasonably uncluttered. PJM's has too much small stuff. [1] But everybody probably uses mostly the screens at their own position.

One can get carried away. Here's the control room for Moscow United's power control room. This is just for the Moscow area, not a regional grid control room like the others.[2] This is the as-built version. The original plan [3] looked like a set for a Bond movie, including a suspended oval glass conference room overlooking the big board. That was from Russia's oligarch era.

[1] https://www.elliottlewis.com/app/css/images/pjm-control-room...
[2] https://www.dezeen.com/2009/08/03/electricity-distribution-c...
[3] http://www.experience-it-all.com/2009/08/moscow%E2%80%99s-el...
I'm amused with how much you've amused yourself here.
> A simple "yes" would suffice.

Kind of you to put words in my mouth but I'm quite able speak for myself. My answer is a resounding "NO". As a liberal, I say we should all find the notion of "safe spaces" odious and contemptible; while we are not required to accept all ideas, there is no idea that may not be discussed and analyzed out in the open, no matter how wrong or unpalatable it may be.

What will it take for your particular faction to comprehend that you cannot _exclude_ your way to power? How many more elections must you lose before it sinks in?
companies that kick their founders generally fail

Don't companies "generally fail" on average, period? (>50%)
Yes and moreover, engineers are expected to have an upward trajectory until they reach senior level. Edit: I'm not sure what happens these days if someone doesn't get promoted in a timely manner.
Nice videos! Reminds me of the excellent Visual Complex Analysis by Needham.

Just a general warning: one problem with trying to use visualization to help better understand and solve problems involving complex numbers is that this only works in one dimension. While it is easy for us to imagine real spaces up to three dimensions, trying to get an intuition about even a two-dimensional complex space by trying to "visualize" it seems to be so difficult as to be not worth the effort, and all we are left with is formal computational rules. (Incidentally, these rules are not so bad, and thus being able to "see" them at work in one-dimensional case, while helpful in getting comfortable with the idea, quickly loses its importance even in one dimension.)