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Did you even read it?
There's no mention of PRINCE2 or any recommendations in it at all
Nothing lasts forever. How many products can you name that last 30+ years w/ minimal maintence?
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I'm not actually sure it's "more documented". It has more documentation, that's true, but that's not the same thing as better documentation, and after some point the mountain of documentation becomes a daunting obstacle. TF IMO is far beyond that point.
I'd beg to differ. Interpreted lua on a 4GHz pc with 4G of ram is not like compiled C on a 8bit micro. Avr dev or arduino could be arguably closer.
How would you project a 10D sphere into 3 dimensions? Worse, the projection tricks you into believing you've gleaned some insight.

The animation was critical for understanding the relationship between the values as they change.
Nothing, and I do. It's just odd when I see tofu recommended as a "fake meat".
I think the difference is that those weren't created solely for Apple's benefit.
Up until now Google has been the one company that I have trusted with all my secrets. "They" pretty much know everything about me.

The reason I trusted Google with this is that they know their shit, technically speaking. And it wouldn't make economical sense to try to make money from e.g. blackmailing me using my darkest secrets.

Where I have my doubts though, is in their neutrality of Search. What I have read the past week does not fill me with confidence that Google will be a politically neutral search engine e.g. 5 years from now. This is the real risk.

Edit: A Google recruiter has been trying to recruit me for some position during all of this. The ball is currently in my court. I am not sure I want to return it.

(And now I am paranoid about that recruiter having access to my Google search history, or perhaps more likely, some algorithmic summary of it.)
It varies from day to day and person to person, but "the task level, where coding gets done" is not really where I spend much of my working time. Much more of my time is figuring out how things work and then getting agreement on changes.

So that consideration elevates the value of social skills, but it's not obvious what that means in practice. Nerds with poor social skills can fail for all the usual reasons, #1 being big ego. But if we respect our colleagues' intelligence, then it can be helpful when we nerds are socially "naive" enough to take comments at face value without the usual human instinct of treating them as moves in a complex game.

Another social skill is clear communication, and that is rare. But I've found it uncorrelated with nerdiness -- maths and engineering types are occasionally good at it, because they are good at pinning down concepts. But artsy types can also be good at it. I'd say lawyers are the best overall.
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It's not a matter of trusting you, but the processes that Google is required to adhere to. We live in an age of NSLs, gag orders and an endless war on terror. The reality is Google is probably a national security asset that feeds directly into intelligence pipelines. Someone has the keys to the kingdom, and that person has to follow the law. We saw it at Yahoo, and I'd probably trust most engineers there.
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Would your job consider paying for a coworking space? I found it helpful for meeting new people in a new town while working remotely.
Having my email or webserver tied to my ISP seems terrible. What happens if I want to switch?
Also:

> Last week, Google fired a software engineer for writing a memo that questioned the company’s gender diversity policies and made statements about women’s biological suitability for technical jobs.

This is a huge misrepresentation of the ideas of the memo.

This level of journalism, both from the writer and from the editors, is disappointing.
Maybe it's telling of what they want to recruit for. If the CEO is emailing you, I presume it's an early-stage startup. When I join a startup, I care more about the product and growth than tech stack, but the tech is a factor once I have multiple companies that are a product fit. I suppose everyone has different priorities... I wonder if there's a good survey on this from a lot of engineers (divided by title, region, etc.).
> Reading the quote with a reasonable level of charity suggests Thiel would prefer to convince these voters of the appeal of limited-government policy, not revoke their right to vote.

Where are you getting this from? He says nothing of the sort; simply that women and poor people have destroyed capitalist democracy, by attaining the right to vote.

There are a great many on HN who rush to Theil's defense, who seem unfamiliar with his very public, very outspoken politics. He's also said that "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible."

His solution to the fact that democracies may disagree with him is to weaken and destroy democracy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment
If that's the case then immediately giving interviews to several right-wing YouTubers and telling them he's a "huge fan" is simply terrible optics...
Yes, life in the East was less stressful. "East German women suffered from the notorious double burden of formal employment and housework.", except work was quite a bit less demanding than you'd think. "We pretend to work, they pretend to pay us". This is the foundation of the lack of stress in the Soviet block. It eventually led to the utter economic crash of the system.

Yes, the current generations are sucked dry at work compared with their parents and grandparents. What do you expect when the supply of labor explodes 10x from 500M western males to 7B males and females worldwide, thank to globalization, feminism and demographic explosion? Throw in open borders immigration in the West and post-communist depression in the East for good measure.

The article fails to account any of this. Instead, it engages in nonsensical drivel about "patriarchy".
It seems you've been hurt recently by a consultant :).

The institutional response to managing the risk of complex systems is often to introduce layers of approval and process that appear to be dealing with a problem ("this system can't fail, therefore please check with everyone involved in the system before making a change") but really have little real world value except driving everyone crazy and incurring enormous cost. They also shield individuals from real responsibility (how carefully do you review something you are the only approver on? What if there are 5 approves? What about 15?).

A better answer is to find ways to conduct real world tests with subsets of your system where you can roll back bad consequences. As far as I can tell This is the approach of google/Facebook and other newer tech companies with pushing small changes to subsets of customers for testing.

Legacy enterprise companies are woefully inequipped to do this for the most part, both technically and culturally.

Some industries have regulations that make this approach difficult (financial services) or human consequences to failure that make the cost of experimentation too high (medicine, airlines, etc)
First, note that the article is from 2013, before Thimbleweed Park was conceived. Or maybe he had the seeds, the returned urge to write an adventure game again as he wrote this blog, as the Kickstarter was announced in 2014?

> Three - It would be a retro game that harkened back to Monkey Island 1 and 2. I'd do it as "enhanced low-res". Nice crisp retro art, but augmented by the hardware we have today: parallaxing, depth of field, warm glows, etc.

Much of this was Thimbleweed Park's style. It does have both "enhanced low res" pixel art and paralllax too; as part of the very first scenes, no less! I don't think it has DOF effects though, maybe it was deemed they didn't help once he got an actual retro game in front of him?

> Five - I would lose the verbs. I love the verbs, I really do, and they would be hard to lose, but they are cruft.

These were strangely in Thimbleweed Park though, and even from early alpha/beta screenshots. I wonder if they were always there. He must have changed his mind early on. What's weird is that TP doesn't even have the reduced verb set found in later LucasArts games? It's the full, clunky 180 of what he wrote here! I think only three are actually essential: "Act", "Look", "Combine". "Acting" on a door opens/closes it, acting on a light switch turns it on, acting on a person talks to him/her, acting on a book in a bookshelf reads it... Looking is always passive, for descriptions. Combining is to combine items in your inventory to contraptions.

Otherwise he nails a lot of those points in TP. He did rewrite SCUMM, he did introduce humorous conversations, juicy pixelated inventories, use a small team, and even used Monkey Island cameos.

I've had this theory that Thimbleweed Park is secretely played in the Monkey Island universe. I wish that was true, but alas the in my opinion a bit too Gilbertesque ending kinda disqualifies it for that. If it weren't for that, there is a "G <3 E" (Guybrush <3 Elaine) in the elevator, you find a Navigator's Head, etc. It's also been theorized that Thimbleweed Park has an ending originally envisioned for "his" Monkey Island 3 since it would go well along with similar fourth wall breaking in that game, but Gilbert has expicitly said that he wouldn't reuse such an MI3 ending for a different game.

I think TP wasn't really a financial smash hit so I have my doubts we'll ever see MI3 unless Disney on a whim donates him the rights. Maybe then, because Kickstarter funding would obviously be no problem that time? He'd also have his new adventure game engine to build upon. It's a shame Disney is so closed up and uncommunicative like a clam about those rights that has seemingly little relevance to their current works.
I know there was a similar safety push at Anglo Gold mines in South Africa. The biggest policy change was that a board member or C-level officer had to be the one to inform family, in person, of any employee deaths. Suddenly safety was a number one priority, and employee deaths dropped by an order of magnitude.

As for Musk? Well, considering that he's spent time in the past sleeping at the assembly lines to make sure stuff is going well, I don't see him reneging on this.
> Companies don't care about people.

> So, the question is, do you trust me? :)

No, I don't. If the history of capital concentration in the past 50 years has taught me anything, it's that capitalism is ruthless, and that money and power corrupts. The simple fact of the matter is that even if the entirety of Google's upper management was full of good people, the fact that Google is a publicly traded company means the company must act sociopathically and unemotionally to maximize return for shareholders or risk the board's wrath.

They may not act evil now, but when they have no other way to provide the exponential growth expected by shareholders, I guarantee they will exploit users in every way possible.
Privacy, getting away from sensory bombardment of cities and things that constantly vie for your attention, sustainability, a feeling of purpose, an excuse to live a healthy lifestyle of hard work
You cannot solve homelessness by giving out houses

https://medium.com/homes-for-the-homeless/solving-homelessne...

"If you take one thing away from this post, remember that the very best way to help the homeless, and how we can turn things around, is to provide them housing in safe areas surrounded by supportive services."
> I'd do it as "enhanced low-res". Nice crisp retro art, but augmented by the hardware we have today

I think we now refer to that as "pixel graphics".
There's something callous in the tone of the quote that rubs people the wrong way. Thiel seems to mourn the extension of the franchise, and makes it sound like USA would be better off if this error of the past could somehow be fixed.
Or Thiel likes all three and sees that they can work against each other.
> long distance laser or EM transmission

This is either impractical, or a literal death ray.
Doing the task himself on the production line is a key differentiator that separates the rhetoric to being able to have realizations that people on the floor already have had.

Managers may know how to manage, but the best people who know how to do the technical job, and how to do it best are always the folks on the production line.
My own controversial opinion on this, borrowing words from Peter Griffin: "Oh my god, who the hell cares?!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFZrzg62Zj0

Googler wrote a document which was widely derided internally and externally. Sundar took the conservative option and let him go, due to his toxic effect on work environment. Shouldn't that be the end of the story?

Maybe a googler can explain how and why this has exploded into the zeitgeist, because I fail to see it. It seems there were some number of bad actors inside google besides the original author, but a small number.

If Google has a mono-culture that's not open to debate about gender and diversity issues, it's neither my business nor my concern, and all the bloggers and Ezra Klein and NYT who are trying to frame a megacorp-sized story about this, are stretching.

EDIT: Instead of downvote, maybe an explanation on WHY this incident shows (as the posted article claims) Google's bad intentions for us?
The author has probably romanticized the concept of a hermit, as literature and media have countlessly done in the past. Or possibly this is the author's way of being counterculture and edgy.
Why would you teach someone how to code when they like talking on the phone all the time?
A lot of this really depends on what your company is doing.

One thing that I always do when I am working on a project is documentation. While an all encompassing organizational wiki is great and where you should be headed, at the bare minimum throw some notes into a text file. Proper documentation early on prevents a lot of headaches and wasted time back tracking or redoing research. It also makes on-boarding new teammates easier. I personally use dokuwiki for this purpose.
You claim that. Yet none of the most mentally demanding tasks were done by philosophers. Today philosophy is mostly meaningless intellectual posturing. In the past, it was the act of thinking without applying the scientific method. As Feynman said of Spinoza "meaningless chewing around".
The reason are: games.

All the games (which are of course binary-only, often 32-bit only) released for Linux are linked against SDL 1.2/SDL 2 and X11. It means, that if you are Nvidia owner, you cannot switch to Wayland, unless you are willing to give up gaming (in the current session, at least).

On the other hand, who is buying Nvidia cards? Gamers.

So by not having OpenGL support in XWayland, they have to choose what kind of session they want to run. Many are of course going to choose X11, thus slowing down the adoption of Wayland, delaying the retirement of X11 and of course losing some benefits of Flatpaks (namely isolation at GUI server).
Or (4) Two things that are good and just can conflict sometimes and cause challenges.
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Elon has a long rope to hang himself with because he is generally not perceived as a small minded person.

It's sometimes easy for founders to forget while they can take a lot of pressure on themselves its unfair to expect the same level of performance from others, who may not be as vested as the founders.

Passion doesn't scale.
> Quick, where do web applications go? /srv/myapp, /opt/myapp, /usr/share/webapps/myapp, /usr/share/myapp, /var/www/myapp, /var/myapp/, /myapp, /usr/local/myapp? If you answered all of this above you've used 3rd party software on a Linux system. Where do you think the logs for all those locations wind up?

This is a large part of why so many people love containers. I don't care where my app is installed as long as it's inside the container image. And logs come to the container's stdout.

> I promise [a package repository] will be the easiest web service you've ever configured.

I host my own package repository, and the tedious part is that I need to do everything on my notebook since I don't trust any server with the signing key. Not saying that it's particularly hard (it's definitely not), but it's tedious. I cannot automate the package-building part even for sources that I control because the packages need to be signed by me as the very last step of the process.
How would you summarize the memo in one line?
I'm not defending the UK fare system - it's appalling - and I'm not saying the fares are reasonable - they're not. I'm just replying to the person who sounded astonished about the existence of a £50 fare each way to EDB, claiming that MAN-EUS was significantly more.

It's not (or doesn't have to be) and I provided evidence. So you're replying to the wrong indignation.
I have a few pedantic criticisms of the article. I'm not a local to Kaua'i, but I've lived there a long time.

The article uses the correct spelling of Moloka'i, but incorrect spelling of Kauai and Hawaii, which should be Kaua'i and Hawai'i. The ' symbol is an actual letter in the Hawai'ian language. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CA%BBOkina

The article mentions Luke growing taro [1] and their daughter mostly eating poi [2], but it doesn't explain that poi is the mashed taro root, usually fermented.

1. “The only real success I’ve had is taro,” Luke says.
2. ... Finley, subsists largely on homegrown poi.
>In most countries, ability to read street signs is part of the requirement for a drivers license.

Older people tend to develop presbyopia, they can see and read signs alright, i.e. they drive normally without correction lenses but they need them to read at "windscreen distance".

At least at the time my father managed to collect a fair number of speed tickets, claiming that he couldn't see properly the speedometer.

As a side note, "in most countries" traffic stops ending up in a shooting or more generally people shot by police are much more rare than in the US.

The (unofficial) numbers reported on this Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_firearm_use_by_country#...

are impressive.
I'd like to hear it. It's better than the USplaining of U571 in that movie. You know, where the US Navy stole the Enigma machine with Bon Jovi. :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-571_(film)#Historical_inaccu...
You're saying this as if it hadn't already happened.
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I must say, MI didn't age well.

The humor was pretty awesome back then, but now it just feels awkward all the time :/
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In the conservative circle, this is considered a "crusade" against "conservative values".

That's why you see tweets from the likes of Kellyanne Conway.

Conservative Googlers have been leaking people's names and locations to known white supremacists to harass and threaten people they disagree with, and the snowball is still growing.
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That's a neat idea. I can imagine most of the potential problems can be solved by requiring a credit card to sign up, and image recognition software - if the pod is supposed to be empty, then the onboard camera can check if it really is (could also measure the pod's weight, use infrared and ultrasound "vision"), and alert a human operator otherwise. Bombing a 4 person pod does not make much sense to me, since there is not that much damage that can be done underground, with the exception of starting a bomb right beneath a huge building. I'm not sure a potent enough bomb can actually be carried around though.
I've been in places all across the US billing themselves as Irish pubs, and this is corroborated by my experience particularly in Ohio and Houston. (Yes, I know I went from a state to a city.) I've literally been at sessions where left leaning doctors, devout Christians, gun shop owners, republican judges, wiccan radicals, Discordian internet hipsters, polyamorous librarians, liberal engineers, and libertarian programmers can all bond over a love of music and even be friends. The level of actual Irish Pub authenticity can vary. The actual communication from different points of the socioeconomic ladder and political spectrum is real. What's more, it seems to work better in red states than in blue. In Red states, there's enough left leaning in the music communities, such that a left-right balance of power occurs in such places. In Blue states, there's an overwhelming left lean, so sometimes people far enough on the right are shunned. (And the center-left is labeled "right.")
I'd like to see the biggest losers at these punning competitions give a talk at the Pun Ted conference.
Which computer science books should I watch out for? I am a software developer but without a CS degree and I'd like to learn more CS fundamentals.
Stop pretending that you are a repressed minority.
The fact that recruiters lack an in depth understanding of the work the people they place are engaged in is a symptom of the larger problem.

Receuiters can be rude to you, they can miss meetings they schedule with you, they can reach out about a job and then ignore you, they can mislead you, they can waste your time on phone calls, they can send you spam email, and they do it all with impunity.

The real problem is that Recruiters have no accountability in the process aside from getting butts in seats.

HR tools keep getting developed to refine that filter candidates for skills and personality but never to bring in the much needed accountability missing from the process.
Maybe there's no direct causal link between "Loner Genius Nerd's" and "being a great developer" but I think there's an indirect correlation.

"Loner's" have lots of alone time. One way to use alone time is to use and learn technology.

Technology is a new, complex and fast-changing field. There were always professional benefits to having thousands of hours invested in it.

There is a correlation between "loner nerds" and "good developers" in the same way that there is a correlation between "drinking orange juice" and "testing well on the SAT." One doesn't cause the other, there's a underlying thing that causes both.

Nowadays, technology is so broad and pervasive that there are also ways to channel thousands of hours invested in socializing, understanding people, drawing, writing letters, farming, helping old people into being a good developer.