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A couple of things I learned in a career in sales and engineering:
1. Salesmen make most of their money pushing and closing on a hot product with a true advantage. This is easy big money, and it's a lot lot of fun. During this mode, when they come to town, they screw the secretaries in the marketing department (back then.). This mode can't last; market saturation and the competition intervene. The company is wasting a lot of money during this period on commissions, but the good times can build some loyalty in the sales force, but not much. Top salespeople leaving for the competition when this period ends is common. During this period, the sales manager should fire at least one salesperson who is above quota, but who is slacking off and not making the one extra call. That salesperson doesn't get it, and a rookie with a good understanding of the sales material can do great in this environment, and for cheaper.
2. Sales greatness is measured by stolen sales. By this, I mean that if looked at objectively, better specs/price, or historically, customer is used to buying from company, in many sales situations, one company starts out with an advantage. A great salesperson can reverse that advantage, and in doing so, outcompete his counterpart. THIS is why you pay a commission.
3. A salesperson is different from anyone else in the organization. He has to look the customer in the eye and ask for the order. And deal successfully with what follows. The people in the Apple Store are not salespersons, and are not paid as such. Imagine: 737 vs A320. Capiche?
4. Salespeople have contempt for engineers, whose heroics make them rich. Bad salespeople don't hide this effectively, and get fired.
5. Good salespeople know: "The customer is the star." Not his product, not his company, and not him.
You don't need a bank account for a credit card. At least in Switzerland all you need for a prepaid credit card is a valid phone number.
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This is what the _chk functions do. In most cases it know the compile-time size of s1.
But in dynamic cases the _s functions are far better than the truncating 'n' versions. Read the rationale.
I clicked on this expecting an article about cryptography lol
In section 23, the author states that economics is a science. Moreover he explains what is an algebraic equation and deduction in math to state that the same deduction can be made in economics. For me this is a great joke. The author portraits economics as the science to predict in an accurated and detailed form what will be the consequences of economic actions.

In the book there are no mention to feeling or poverty, missery or people suffering, but surprising there is an emotional strong empathy for the "forgotten men" that he defines in other terms as the people who pay a lot of taxes.

In this lesson economic is defined as a mean to maximize production, no wonder that manking problems are let outside of the equation. Applying his dry logic drug dealers must be perfect economic agents.

The author try to backup his position with one axiom: We must take into consideration all the possible consequences of any economic policy, but he knows that we need to be aware of all those possible consequences. The word education doesn't appear in this lesson, this lesson is lacking any reference to how create values to make a better society and world, how to live in peace. We need to educate people to make then aware of future implications of economics, but the implications are not only for overall production but for our wellbeing. This is not a lesson to make a better world, is a lesson to forget about mankind, the men are out of the equation. The only victims of any economic policy are the "forgotten man" that is the rich suffering paying taxes.

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I see it differently.

It's my meta data. More valuable than phone meta data, and perhaps (to me) more valuable than my medical records. I have a relationship (as well as ethical and legal protections) with my doc. On the other hand, I've never met Equifax. They have no relationship with me other than to exploit my personal info. I never opted into that.

Yes. It lowers risk. But who benefits more? Who carries the risk?
Me? Or them? It's the latter, yes. Yet we have no choice in the matter? That's not kosher.
If I tell you the sun is going to rise tomorrow morning, I don't actually know it's going to do that until it does. That's kind of the thing about future events, it should go without saying. Nothing you've written is a counter argument. You just used way more words than you need to to say 'I don't believe you'. Yay.

My points are that GM is doing well, and that they are scaling up their operation to a degree that wouldn't make sense if they didn't intend to deliver the minimum viable commercial robotaxi service sometime over the next year or so.

The counterpoints are that 'this smells like PR bullshit', and that Kyle Vogt is an asshole (because no asshole has ever successfully led a technology company before).

You guys have nothing substantiative to argue with.
The issue is not whether they are capable of understanding it, it's that they don't currently, and browsers have to be designed with that fact in mind. Showing them a message like you suggested only works if they already understood it.
I live on A B Road West. One street over is A B Road. The street joining them at the top is A B. As you can imagine, delivery drivers get very confused.

Additionally, one street over the other way is A Fields which leads into A Hill. Across the main road is A Terrace.
Were they? What is your source on that? People who checked the info found the opposite. https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopo...
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But isn't your SSN given by the government? Does the US government require anyone to sign such an agreement before they get an SSN? Without it, a bank claiming I owe them money because "we got your SSN" is fraudulent, plain and simple. Report the bank to the FBI.

But that's probably far too sensible European thinking.

I regularly keep hearing reports of how the US handling of money is basically medieval with some badly thought out insecure bits pasted on top. And some of that gets exported! It sucks that I need to own a credit card to be able to make international purchases on the internet. Why is there not an international version of iDEAL?
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Yep, statistically there are not many. But people helped by "social security" is growing faster than demographics. Those people are at the last level of social welfare, after that they're super close to homelessness.

the thing is, before being homeless, you're already in deep shit.

for refugees, I think you're right but "their choice" is a way to frame them that is a bit harsh. I see many of them everyday close to north station (brussels) and I doubt it was their choice to be there in the first place.

(edited the station, it's the north one :-))
> The only difference between the guy who owns a successful Veterinary practice and the guy working as an underpaid veterinarian is that one of them went out and leased some office space.

I understand the point you're attempting to make but the guy who owns the <type of business> has done much, much more than simply lease an office.

Many business founders put their life savings on the line. Those who don't have that luxury ramp up thousands of dollars of personal debt.

On top of that they work every waking hour. Time is a precious commodity and cannot be replaced, so risking so much of it to enjoy the slim chance of being a successful business owner is not something most people care to risk.
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Enough people have left Yelp that if there were black programs in place, we would know.

I totally believe that there are some shady salespeople at Yelp that talk about... the implications. But I doubt they actually do sell improved ratings.
From my own experience with TLDs, .com, .info, etc are the worst to deal with. It’s insane how wrong they get the TRANSFER process, and everything.

On the other hand, I’m positively surprised by how well DENIC (.de) handles it all.
Yeah but here all the lanes are within 700m of each other. There's clear lines of sight down each lane and three major cross-streets to gain access from[0].

I guess if a 999 call said that they're "on the lane near Gorden's Saddlery", that would add a significant delay as the paramedics might have to check 9 lanes.

0: https://goo.gl/maps/ArGeqNKwcJ52
250k lifetime? So he should get another $6k.
Teachers and engineers don't work for money. And there are often bad consequences for people who "don't work for money."

I worked in sales so I could afford to be an engineer later. There were plenty of ex-teachers in sales. They did well.
> On the other hand, they issue a lot of certs - if you've used Cloudflare's free SSL stuff, you've got a Comodo certificate - so they're unlikely to be shut down or anything that extreme.

They're still smaller than Symantec, for whom the nuclear option was considered (and ultimately decided against, in favour of a phased distrusting).
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Re: Cost of fraud.

Agreed. It still amazes me how prevalent credit card fraud is. Certainly that's preventable - if they want it to be. The problem is, the banks don't bear that cost, the consumer does. Even if the bank factors the loss into the cost of doing business, that still gets passed on to the consumer.
the implication being that if you don't find it easy enough to do it, then you probably aren't expert enough that you should be doing it.
Hmm... is that really true? Light travels pretty fast!

The poster proposed a 90% duty-cycle for capturing the image (i.e. shutter open for 90% of the time, shutter closed for 10% of the time).

Since I'm based in the UK, let's assume the simplest synchronization mechanism - the 50Hz mains signal. (I appreciate this probably isn't perfectly synchronized.)

That means that the shutter is open for 18ms and closed for 2ms, during which we want to have our light pulse.

Let's assume that we have a 1ms flash and we allow 0.5ms for synchronization error and 0.5ms for light from the flash to dissipate.

In 0.5ms, light can travel approximately 150 km. Most of Earth's atmosphere (and hence most of the scattering) is within ~15km of the surface. As I understand it, reflection takes very little time (less than 1us), and each will cause energy loss (and hence less brightness).

I think there are engineering details to work out, but I'm not convinced that reflections or scattering are a significant problem.

I think the bigger problem is that it just doesn't seem worthwhile - how much would it cost to do this, and how much do people care?

As an aside, I wonder what the effect (on humans, wildlife, etc.) of regular 1ms-long pulse of 20x the average brightness would be - maybe it's fine, maybe not?
Was there ever a big, significant backdoor in any widely used open source software?

I don't mean a bug like heartbleed, but an actual intentional backdoor.
Why would a scraper who doesn't respect robots.txt be accessing that file?
tinfoil: why is he suddenly writing a blog post on how curl is not backdoored? does this mean curl is backdoored but he can't say directly that it is backdoored :)
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Source? Not only is there a height limit, there is a speed limit for call handoff between towers. It's pretty low at ~100mph. Way below airplane speed.
The solution assumed mail clients would be adapted to enforce this. So if you send me a forged email claiming to be from hsbc, the mail client would allow showing html content only from a https connection to somewhere on hsbc.
Kind of like the same-origin policy but where the origin is the domain the email claims it came from.
https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thomp...

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Websockets are of use to live documents.

Application stacks are different.

The definition is extremely important as the current level of interaction richness was never really envisaged in 1996.

A document is a resource that is available specifically over http or https. An application is something entirely different as it can be served via a huge array of protocols and terminated and rendered entirely differently.

The separation of concerns here is my need, not the terminology.

For example, how much time have programmers spent globally repeatedly creating and implementing a user login and password reset flow?

This is simply not the concern of the Document Object Model and it means that we have to put up with a huge array of home brewed solutions that each have their own weaknesses. Imagine the same effort and logic applied to routers or tcp/ip for that matter. The internet would simply not work or break.

My point is - there has been a land grab over the UI / UX space that has meant standards like web components are marginalised in favour of 'frameworks' and compilers.

Seems like an awful lot of duplicated effort to reach the same result.
> found Milton Friedman in "Freedom and Capitalism" to be more critical of capitalism that I'd have expected (e.g. concerning monopolies and externalities, I read it a while ago though).

He's against government-enforced monopolies; market capture is fine by him (because surely an upstarted would disrupt the incumbent & wouldn't be subject to anti-competitive actions that kill their business).
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I don't think that's right.

For example, when Clippy pops up and helps me write my novel, Microsoft doesn't have any copyright claims.

> I also imagine writing the program to create songs would count as a creative act.

Yes! You would own the copyright on the creator program, but not the created works.
Still completely theoretical though, at least as far as I know.
> now there's too much lobbying money thrown around

But this is Canada! We have strict political donation laws and campaign spending laws that really prevent lobbying from getting nuts like it is in America.

I'm mostly upset because this is in my back yard. I could be at this factory in 20 minutes in current traffic conditions.
Doesn't Yelp have a reputation for much shadier business practices (i.e. extortion)? Maybe they're not a very sympathetic underdog in this fight.
I think people would demand more security if they really understood how venerable the technology was. But no one beats that drum. So consumer remain ignorant and just keep shopping.
Ah don't put yourself down. Hiring is super hard and you're supposed to hire slow, fire fast, so perhaps you just did it the right way given your circumstances.

A whole host of factors come in to play too. Timing - was the market just not that full of good devs at the time? Location - you might not have lots of good .Net devs nearby. There's also a healthy amount of luck involved.

We hire .Net divs, and our theory test includes a FizzBuzz and we've seen some interesting results...
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Mozilla comes to mind.
Thanks for the down votes agenda pushers.
But you don't need to keep the state of "this file is opened".

What if the task that is being processed is idempotently writing something to the disk and then fails (and we assume we should be able to repeat it)?

Statefulness would make us write the code to process the closure of the file and also to process all of the failures if we failed to close the file for proper RAII.
Sparklines are good for at-a-glance monitoring, as they're a way to show travelling-window patterns in a small space. They're useless for numbers, but great for patterns.
I have never understood that, and consequently never placed punctuation within quotes.
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Fantastic, that's exactly what I wanted to know, thank you. This is very useful for setting my max auto ISO.
Yes and buildings are made for way bigger tolerances that are feasible. You think a building wide fire was not considered and the effects of the area around it?
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> The issue is not whether they are capable of understanding it, it's that they don't currently, and browsers have to be designed with that fact in mind. Showing them a message like you suggested only works if they already understood it.

But I'm only saying the current UX could become much better, not that they have to switch to my suggested UI by tomorrow. Of course spending some time on user education and transitioning gradually would be a great idea. I was never against that; I'm all for it. So why implicitly rule this out as an impossibility?
References:

https://github.com/electricbookworks/electric-book

https://medium.com/fire-and-lion/how-we-made-the-economy-a87...
It's important to note that what counts in the end is the bottom line of the company.

Revenue brought in by sales has a direct effect on the stuff that matter. The effect of product quality, support quality and engineering morale matters only to the extent that it affects revenue.

A salesman getting some CFO to sign on the dotted line has a clear and guaranteed impact on your profits.

An engineer developing an excellent new feature or removing a major future scalability problem might have an uncertain (though possibly large) effect on your profits in the distant future. Maybe the feature will drive new sales, and maybe it won't. Maybe the company won't ever reach the volume where the future scalability problem will matter, as they'll go out of business.

Companies are in the business of using money to make money. Selling a feature doesn't work will get you money that might allow to make that feature. Making a great feature that's not sold is money and effort that's completely wasted.
Bill is hardly a great person to learn economics from: an interesting perspective but also someone who's decided the best way to avoid criticisms of the practical problems posed by his preferred fiscal expansion strategy is to make as many outrageous claims as possible and then deliberately elide terminology and concepts to show how actually the establishment just don't understand how the world works.
A computer model is a model. There's no escaping the fact that models are built on simplifications (a.k.a assumptions).
With gender, it's easy. There appears to be no solid evidence for any difference in IQ between men and women, in terms of averages.
Maybe better, but I have yet to see anyone publishing code for a remotely feature complete Rust/Go/C#-Curl.
Emails can send in both formats for a single message, so it's possible and even likely that most mailing lists, etc. he receives send in both formats. In my experience, even most marketing e-mails are at least somewhat good about this. I'm 99% sure that Gmail will still send a plaintext e-mail inferred from your HTML content whenever you send, so it's not quite accurate to say it doesn't send in plaintext.
Not a designer, but I pretend to be one sometimes... One thing I've always read is to avoid relying on gradients in logos.
Why wouldn't this be a one-liner?
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Years ago, we were weekly renting a house in Ocean Isle Beach, NC. I don't recall the exact number of the address, but let's say it was #164. The house was a duplex, with an east and west side. We were staying in 164 West. That house is on East First Street.

One afternoon, our infant son suffered a febrile seizure, stopped breathing, lips turned blue, eyes rolled back, and while my wife administered first aid, I called 911 to summon emergency services to "164 East First St, West".

Thankfully, we were able to manage the situation, as the 911 dispatcher thought that I was correcting myself and sent the responding services to 164 West First St. It was more than 15 minutes (which felt like hours) and a return phone call before anyone outside responded to the correct address.

I take some responsibility for the communications gap (in retrospect, there was no need to specify "west"; we'd have gone and got them) and everything worked out perfectly fine for my son, but even 5 years later, it's incredibly hard to type this without tearing up.

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You're right. I think we're on the same page. I was trying to get across the idea that CSS and visual presentation is a special case, peculiarly unsuited to DRY. Often visual features are only superficially similar ... e.g. at a certain stage in development the "Foo" component is superficially visually similar to the "Bar" component. If we then couple them together by both using the same CSS, but the implementation diverges as new features are added then we've given ourself a headache.
That argument is more reasonable if users had no platform choice. A cellphone can track your location and listen in on your conversations so you may reasonably want more security than say a PC.
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My girlfriend used to grab her phone and start scrolling the fb newsfeed while we were talking. As she knows that I've deleted my fb account, my trick was to gently remind her that we were in the middle of a talk, and although she may be able to do two things at the same time, I don't, and her using the phone is distracting to me and makes me break the flow of the conversation. Like Pavlov's dog, she is now so accustomed to that, that I don't really need to say anything anymore. I just look at her doing that, she understands and turns off the phone (well, most of the time at least).

Even if you aren't both in the middle of a conversation, I suggest to you to slowly start talking to her about all these shaddy things about facebook (important: is not an addiction but a mental conditioning, as "addiction" is a very strong word for some people and "conditioning" is a much fuzzier concept). Then, slowly, start noticing that her "conditioning" on facebook is a turnoff on certain situations. Be honest and frontal about that..
I'm still waiting for people like that to automatically email back a CAPTCHA to the sender, if the sender is unknown, and not on a whitelist yet.
See my new comment just above about DRY. Just because CSS-in-JS lets you re-use styles doesn't mean you should. Re-using styles is often an anti-pattern in large component systems.
"Mail clients don't execute JavaScript."

Maybe not on purpose, but EmailPrivacyTester.com has found several clients in the past (usually webmail) which do.