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> Your descendants probably.

Go back three or four generations, and most people can't even remember any of their ancestors names. Why should I care about the privacy of people who died long before I was born, and whose names I can't even remember?

> To me, when I sign up for confidential that means now and always. Not until death do us part.

I guess it is a matter of personal preference. But why should I care about what happens to my personal info long after I am dead? Once I am dead, and my children are dead, and their children too, and nobody alive can even remember who I was–what difference does it make to me then? (Maybe 100 years is too short, since a century from now I might still have living grandchildren – but I think the principle is sound whatever the exact timeframe should be.)
The part that I don’t understand is that just about everyone involved with the current administration, as well as many of those who voted for it, are old enough to remember. I’m certainly old enough to remember a smoggy L. A., a dead Lake Erie with rotting, dead fish on the shore, and companies that just dumped their toxic shit wherever they liked. The pictures just don’t it justice, especially that it was just everywhere you went in comparison today.
And yet despite being old enough to remember, those responsible for current policy, and those that vote for them, want to return to those times. I just...don’t...get it.
> But who cares? I don’t think their users do, and Wix is growing.

Do Wix users even realize? If they're building their own website then they probably have enough of the javascript cached that they don't realize the performance issues.

For other end users though, they care, they just don't know what's wrong or they can't articulate the problem. They think their computer is getting to slow, or the networks bad, or they have a virus. They'll use vague terms like that because they don't know there's 20MB of javascript running. If a wix site is slow then they're more likely to blame MS or dell or their ISP than to realize wix is the problem.
In short, what are you working on in your side time to move this forward?

College can be an expensive (time and money) way to do something you can do with other resources, unless the credentials are required for that career/field.

In software work, I have personally found that my side projects teach me the skills I in turn use to sell solutions to clients.

So as long as I put myself to learning that which I want to work on, I make ground, slowly getting paid ever larger amounts to work in the field I targeted. In your case, HP computing, probable heavy math ability?

As my talent grows, I spend less time on CRUD-type stuff and more on my chosen pursuit.

And in my experience, people who _do_ have more value than people who know but do not do...

And I personally favor hiring someone I can teach the specific skills to, if they already have the proven background of "getting things done" (Spolsky reference).
Folks might forget that before unix, most OSs were written in assembly, the obvious important one not written in asm was Multics (used PL/I). I worked on the Tops-10 and -20 OSs and they were pure assembly. People seem to think that it's not possible to write maintainable, reliable code in assembly, that's just not true. The DEC source was well-documented and well-tested. Sure, it had bugs fixed each release, as every code base has bugs. Still, I was never flummoxed as to what a routine did: after all, it was executing one machine instruction after another, and once you knew the operands, you knew the result. Debugging was at the machine level, instruction by instruction.

Building higher-level code was accomplished just like it's done today: from smaller modules / subroutines. PUSHJ - Push PC and Jump, or 'Call'.

These days, writing software is almost magic, meaning there is a whole 'chain of trust' that must be invoked -- all based on belief that it's all correct -- before proceeding. With assembly, magic stops at the hardware / software boundary; that is the actual machine instructions.
>since the majority of all of our rights are still intact.

It depends on your starting point. If you go back to pre-cold war, they certainly are not. If you go back to the turn of the century, we have even fewer rights. If you go back to the early 1800s, we have even fewer.

>Has nobody here ever talked to someone who lived under a real tyrannical state? Or even... God forbid... googled for a video of an interview with one?

I think that's a pretty low bar.
That's an extremely good point. The solution to this would be that the output is plugin based. It could spit out react, angular, next framework, framework after that etc.

Edit: Thinking some more about this. I think the future proofing is the hardest aspect. If you were able to leverage a custom compiler to transform react or angular components to a future framework, that would get you there.

Also, Jhipster looks really great _if_ you happen to be using java.
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> short of coding boot camps (and they’ll probably turn into a scam within a few years which is sad)

Some of them are pretty close, if not there already -- not always intentionally though.
> Most of what they do is host the work of others, who are not paid.

Have you actually read their annual report lately? I don't follow what they do at this point, but the last time I checked many of their contributors were paid.
That shows how much I need to go back to school to understand the different disciplines in the field, as I didn't know most sci-tech programming is reserved for PhD's.

But what if, while you are going for your undergrad CS degree, you get internships from places doing heavy computing? I've read several accounts of undergrad students getting internships at JPL/NASA and NVidia, so it should be possible at least to get interest from these places.
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Side note: I'm curious whether an explicit employee profit-sharing arrangement would be included in the denominator for the 54% and 37% figures.
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It's true. It's a result of the 2008 crash. Here's an article from 2009-2014.

http://www.pewhispanic.org/2015/11/19/more-mexicans-leaving-...

Apparently it's still happening:

https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-01-18/more-mexicans-are-cro...
I haven't used web forms or asp.net mvc in a while. Do they output react or angular now? Do they not require a .net backend? Those are hard requirements for a lot of teams.
"given that some portion of revenues become profits, they are either going to turn into a corporate cash hoard, dividends, or buybacks."

Companies can also reinvest profits in the business. The textbook example is building more lemonade stands.
I've seen far more dirtbag middle managers than anyone on the top or bottom. Many want to make themselves look good, so will do whatever it takes.
Paying CEO’s most of their compensation in stock was a theoretically sound idea when it was made— after all, shouldn’t their pay be linked to performance?— but one that should be abandoned now that the empirical results have shown what it mess it has really been. It encourages tax and stock shenanigans like this in favor of real investment, further prioritizes short-term thinking, and is just generally useless since there connection between CEO performance and stock price has been shown to be tenuous even without the manipulation.

Let’s go back to paying CEO’s purely in cash with an annual performance bonus decided by the board.
While I get the sense that this is Ivan's "baby" I'm pretty sure that he hasn't held anything back from the rest of the team and that they could carry on without him. Although his mind is as sharp as ever and his hair is fabulous so I'm not really worried about his health either.
I didn't do it to avoid the Luxottica monopoly, but I moved to Mykita frames (fitted with zeiss or hoya lenses, since I like my sunglasses to be corrected too - can't wear contacts) and I wholeheartedly recommend them.

The steel ones are exceptionally light and easy to clean. Design is subjective, but the 'studio' line is generally rather inoffensive (I do have a pair of the Damir Doma ones, too -
https://my.mixtape.moe/ffhahq.jpg). Their screw-less hinges are pretty great. The prices are high, but they're low volume objects and there is probably a lot less gouging going on. There are other non-luxottica boutique makers, too.
> Not to mention the "opinionated" choice to ignore a dynamic set of files and directories

That has bitten me a few times when using `rg`. Sometimes (but not often enough to remember the switch) I want to grep a lot of binary .so files for a string and am left wondering why nothing was found before just replacing rg with grep. Just calling `TOOL PATTERN` without switches is the most intuitive thing, and there I agree with `fd` to make `fd PATTERN` the default. Unlike BSD find which always needs at least a `.` to function.

> chained patterns.

The -or/-and and are indeed nice, but the -prune logic should get an update. Maybe when fd grows from 80 to 90% of use cases.
South Korea as well, I got a paid of glasses made in 20 minutes as I walked around and ate street food
> My professional network is also weak. Nobody I know is looking to hire software developers. I think my reputation works against applying to large companies.

Being honest, I don't know if the degree itself is going to help you. What's going to help you is the networking and getting real-world experience. Perhaps going back to college might help with that, but I also think you could equally get it elsewhere.

When you submit your resume to a large tech company on their job site the chances of it getting to a hiring manager are exceptionally slim. If you actually know the hiring manager - or know somebody who knows the hiring manager - your chances are exponentially higher.

If your background is non-traditional the absolute best thing you can do is seek out and network with other engineers, many of whom will be more than happy to help mentor and provide references for you.

> and see myself as a mediocre developer. So what are your thoughts about returning to college and doing it "the proper way"?

A CS degree doesn't qualify you as a good developer, in the same way that my film degree doesn't qualify me as a good film-maker. I must have done several hundred interviews when I was working at Apple, and I don't think I really paid attention to the candidate's major at all: it was never a good indicator of performance.

I can't tell you whether going back to school for a CS degree is or isn't the right decision: what I can tell you is that if you do go back you should absolutely concentrate on networking, building connections, and getting as much practical dev experience as possible. All of these will be far more valuable to you when it comes to getting a job than the academic content of the degree itself.
It's still compensation, a cost. It would come out of profits before we asses how profits are split up.
I see what you mean. Doesn't component level style and markup encapsulation solve these though?
AMZN is a pretty good counter example of a company that invests in itself and it's workers rather than spend on stock buybacks or dividends. Surely someday in the future shareholders of AMZN will realize a profit!!!
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The "median" here samples 16-year-olds in high school, retired people, stay-at-home parents, voluntarily part-time workers, and many others who we would expect to have little or no income.

Among full-time workers, as reported by the BLS, median income was about $45,000.
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> small fast-spinning not equivalent to a big slow-spinning spaceship

The smaller the radius of the spin the larger the differential in gravity and motion between your head and feet. This wreaks all kinds of havoc on the vestibular system which leads to short-term issues (think motion sickness like on a boat) which some people don't have issues with issues, some grow accustomed to, or some treat with drugs (generally some combination of the three) and much longer-term issues that we really don't fully understand but can begin to affect cognition and physical well-being beyond the obvious motion-sickness-like events.

The Zubrin book mentioned goes into a lot of this and suggests a novel solution of providing a tiny amount of gravity, basically enough that liquids pour, at the end of a very long tether such that there is minimal difference in gravity between your head and feet and minimal speed so you don't sense motion. This can, theoretically, allow for much easier and more productive exercise as well.

I highly recommend reading _The Case for Mars_; it is an excellent technical volume that explains in a lot of detail exactly why our current space program faltered after Apollo and how to get us focused again. The chemistry bits were a bit too complex for me, but are very easy to skip.
> There's room to do something better, so long the customization is really easy and trivial to add one-offs.

Exactly!
I'm interested in making frames for a niche market. And then we can grow to become mainstream. If you're a skilled frames designer, send me a PM, I can finance the project and "handle the business side" (serious).
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This is why people like Scott Kelly should be considered heroes. They are pushing our knowledge about manned spaceflight, and doing to at considerable personal risk and effort. But as a result, we are getting more knowledgeable about the problems, and hopefully solution approaches. That stays on the ISS of 6 months or even a year are somewhat a routine is quite an achievement. And we might find out, how to do even longer stays in zero gravity. With these results we then can set mission limits for a potential Mars mission. Of course one obvious solution would be to fly faster. Musk hinted at his BFR presentations of a 3 month flight time which would be less than the routine stays on the ISS.
Their episode of How I Built This was pretty interesting. They talk about how they initially tried even lower prices but found that below $99, people started to question the quality of the product. That could be marketing in and of itself, I suppose.

http://one.npr.org/?sharedMediaId=506455305:506610651
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That's been a sore point for a long time, hence the discussion we're having today. But even with the weasel words, there are misleading practices going on.

For example, if an ISP is offering several levels of service with speeds up to X, Y and Z (in increasing order), it's clearly unexpected from a customer's point of view for an ISP to move them from X to Y or Y to Z if the customer is already getting below the upper bound speed on their current plan and has no prospect of getting a faster speed in return for the presumably higher charge for a "faster" plan.

Likewise, if there is no realistic prospect of a customer achieving anywhere near the X in "up to X", it's misleading for the ISP to offer them service on that basis.
Most of the time delivery problems have everything to do with the seller. The point is that the seller and the product should be separated in reviews of the product.
They have free shipping. Hi-index single vision lenses are included in frame prices, https://www.jins.com.

JINS PC (blue-light blocking) glasses were an industry marketing breakthrough, selling almost 1 million units in the first year, https://corp.jins.com/jp/en/company/history. Their success prompted eyeglass lens makers to launch blue-blocking coatings, now widely available.
Right, a solution would have to allow customization via a 100% code approach to be useful.
Didn't downvote you for the record. If a comment's worth responding to, it doesn't make much sense to me to downvote it (:
What do you consider to take for one of those engineering fields? I'm thinking of UIUC (they have aerospace as well) and curious to know which schools are most targeted for internships and job recruitment related to engineering.
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Sounds like you've just described the "Graviton", a popular amusement park ride.

While a 30 second ride may be fun, I couldn't imagine living on it for months at a time. (granted, it simulates > 1G)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitron
Embedding XML inside a C-comment (as a standard) is just fucked up. Do you have correct syntax highlighting with that?
(I don't. But even if emacs would understand this, it's still wrong)
Django admin sounds like a very useful tool.
I’ve never worked at Deutsche but I know several people who have and some who still do – the dev team seems fairly distributed as it usually is with the top tier banks. They definitely have devs in London, but a lot of the lower level positions are indeed outsourced if I recall correctly.
You should ease into this by taking some online, full credit college classes at a named institution like Harvard Extension, UCB extension or Georgia Tech for example. Given you already have a bachelors, why not go for a masters which be more distinguishing than another undergrad degree.

If you enjoy the classwork and find it helpful to your career, you can dedicate an increased percent of your time.

We're all lucky that there are so many choices available.
Oh cool, do you know the names of them?
That hasn't been true since the Civil War.

https://cis.org/Historical-Overview-Immigration-Policy

https://www.uscis.gov/history-and-genealogy/our-history/agen...

https://fairus.org/legislation/reports-and-analysis/history-...
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I've had a great experience with Zenni Optical over the years and it's a LOT less expensive than the alternatives. Regarding the comments "You get what you pay for" - I guess this is somewhat true but the only competitively priced retailer that I've used was Wal-Mart - and those frames were much lower quality. For the money, I thought that Zenni was pretty great.

YMMV.
An emergent property is precisely one that obtains unexpectedly from simple components. For instance, it is supposed by some that the universe truly consists of nothing more than electrons and quarks and what have you which interact in relatively simple ways, and that subjective human experience emerges from that. We then have a situation that is easier for us to reason about using higher level concepts, but there isn't a chapter in the laws of physics called "subjective human experience". That's in the book called "diverse applications of the basic laws of physics".

In any case, I dispute your facts too. I don't think we have the ability to cross apply our heuristics. I can calculate fairly accurately a lot of mathematical problems when I'm riding my bike, but put me in a maths class and I'm stuffed. I don't have independent access to those hacks.
For example: https://www.extension.harvard.edu/academics/graduate-degrees...
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Right, to me higher order components could get us there.
> fallacy alert.

He posted a fact and made no arguments. It's impossible for that to be a fallacy.

> If an Article was titled "Obama for President [2017]" because the article was written in 2017, it would be misleading because the article is about his presidency in 2008.

The inverse is true. It would be misleading to put '[2008]' in the title of such an article because the perspective and facts in the article would be totally different having been written in 2008 than in 2017. This is a great case for putting the publication date in the title.

> If an article published this year about the holocaust was titled "6M Jews dead [2017]," referencing the holocaust of world war 2, it would also be misleading because is is also not about 2017.

That would be a terrible title for an article written in 2017... I'd argue that's the fault of the author rather than the stylistic standard of including the publication date in square brackets.

The way dang edited the title (adding 'of 1982') is ideal for this purpose but unnecessary; the style of the original title made it clear that it's not a news article.

P.S. Outside the academic world we would take it easy with the thesaurus and just call it a fact, not a truism. ;)
On the one hand, at least they're doing progressive loading.

On the other hand oh my god it's 40MB, this is pants-on-head crazy.

That's 20X the average web-page size, which is already bloated. 20X . I'm starting to think those Alexa numbers are just being inflated by Wix sites.
Maybe the number got bigger? We don't have data so who knows?
Unless they’re one of the 300 employees splitting that salary, winning awards, or under the ~3mil of specialist services....

If the latter, then they still account for a fraction of the budget.

Bull. Shit. An operation which could be run for about 5 mil is running an order of magnitude higher for no discernible change in service.
> there are misleading practices going on.

I don't really know how you fix it though. Would selling priority be enough?

Priority 1: "For gaming and other high performance needs. Typical ping: Xms, Typical throughput: Y/Mbps"

Priority 2: "Perfect for causal streaming and general internet usage..."

Priority 3: "Affordable internet and good performance on off-peak hours..."
Not quite sure I follow. I'm just thinking about how to deliver value to users faster.
It's such an easy task that a set of rules are totally sufficient - no need to throw ML at it.

In fact, typography is a solved problem since Donald Knuth gave us TeX in the 80s.

The problem isn't typography. It's people not caring enough, or forgetting and then repeating history.
My for-fee screencast letscodejavascript.com is exactly that, with a focus on design and rigorous development practice, and coincidentally is about a collaborative drawing app.
Wow, that has to be the worst website I've visited in a very long time. The page was white for about 10 seconds, the videos were laggy/stuttering, the moving content below the first video had random black artifacts popping up.
Although I agree with you in general, to play the devil's advocate, it's also possible that the current state of affairs is a side effect of the state of record keeping over the past couple hundred years.

Given modern data storage paradigms, with perfect[0] recording of a wide range of data, it's entirely possible that people might care in the future. For example, if you have an ancestor who was near-sighted, you are automatically disqualified from any colonization missions (regardless of your own eyesight) due to the presence of potentially-flawed genes.

It would be similar in concept, if not degree, to the Nuremburg Laws[1], which were only made possible by the meticulous record-keeping of the pre-WW2 German bureaucracy. Whether or not those records are used for malicious, distasteful, or nefarious purposes at some indeterminate future is not something we can control or predict effectively today.

[0]: Reduced human error

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Laws#Classifications...
I know you're making a joke, but what you're saying is not at all true. Most people in the US have quite good healthcare. That's why it's so hard to change anything.
Because it's going to be an interesting counterpoint to next month when the Republicans in Congress start telling us all how badly we need tax cuts for rich people. And then talk about how we should pay for it by cutting the meager benefits we give out to people who are hard up, like those in this article.

I'm not a socialist, but the contrast between this and gold-plated Trump Tower is almost enough to make that sound appealing.
I agree that the risk is real but your second sentence is unhelpful hyperbole. Yes, there’s room for improvement but that’s just not true – and I say that as someone who stopped personal use of Microsoft’s operating systems when I switched to DR-DOS.

Exaggerating the scale does nothing other than lower your credibility.