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I keep a notebook partially to help myself but also to protect myself James Comey style. It really comes in handy when non-coding managers ask what I do all day or when they try to gaslight me on my commitments.

And yes, I am looking for a new job.
Could we automate the search. Look for portions of the sky where the planet covers a background star. Plot real and false positive data to see what could be there, flying around.

Unless it orbits faster than Earth, it's periodic data too. If it does orbit the sun faster than Earth, outside Neptune's orbit, its really cruising!
I do not understand how that is, even remotely, a plausible explanation for the fraud scandals. It makes me think of this comic http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-was-only-pretending-to-be-re...

Despite IP laws being useless in the international arena it's not too far fetched that even the Chinese, despite being so large, are aided by the whole global scientific community reviewing and replicating their results. It makes progress all that much faster and easier.
In Dropbox, I keep an annual logbook file for both work and home, just a text file (well, rtf). As I do things that I want to remember I did, I write a note, paste a command line or link, etc, under a line with the date on which I did/wrote/pasted. Over time I've built up a record of my activities, and a handy notebook for remembering how to do complicated things I seldom do. It also makes it easy to write up status reports when those are necessary.
Absolutely. I second that. I would be willing to spend a couple of hours on an interview task, which could give the interviewer an idea about my skills, but more than that I would see as an overkill. Besides, in my view, showing some OS repos on GitHub can be a good alternative.
So you're saying we should all just settle for Javascript, Python, Java, and C because they're familiar and not esoteric (whatever that means)? Should we not consider ReasonML an option for frontend development, even though it solves many problems, because it is esoteric?

The problems you list above are true enough regardless of language choice. I've seen disasters in Clojure as many times as I've seen disasters in Java or Python. Also, why are first-time Clojure programmers code worse than first-time C programmers?
Location: where is the office exactly.

Picture with my desk, chair and station.

Salary range.

All the rest.
What exactly about this works for you?
China isn't failing, it's just succeeding in a different direction. They're extremely good at what they do, however, "innovation" isn't what they care about. They're stockpiling. They're preparing for a difficult world future. They are the international equivalent of "preppers."

This Zak Slayback article (which itself is summarizing Peter Thiel) explains it exceptionally well. https://zakslayback.com/2014/10/07/pessimism-optimism-defini...

>Their democracy is even more of a joke than that of the US.

Really? You're actually going to make that statement? Calling China a democracy is beyond ridiculous.
This is a bit of a tangent, but mini-DP is a horrible connector and I'm really glad we're getting rid of it. It's fairly bulky for what it does, and it does a really bad job of holding the plug in the port. I'm glad that TB is moving away from it, although not necessarily that it's moving to USB-C.
This is the third time I've seen this posted this week. I don't know if it isn't getting any responses because the game looks deceptively basic at first, or because the people who played it long enough to know better haven't come back.
> days to weeks to months where I’m derelict as a software engineer.

Months? I don’t know anything about your situation, but how could you expect an employer to think that this is worth their resources?
"I feel that we on the west are plugging our ears and going nanananana"

About what? Nobody's shouting down actual Chinese achievements in science. We've learned from experience to be dubious about any scientific announcements out of China, because so very frequently, they turn out to be bogus. They make the western reproducibility crisis look like a few un-dotted i' s in comparison. I can't think of the last discovery out of China I heard of that didn't get retracted or turn out to be fraudulent.

Right now, science is not a field I'm even slightly afraid of China taking a lead on, any time soon. Maybe in a generation or two, after a lot of reform. (Space, now, maybe. You can use decades-old, already-done science to get into space. You just need money.)
Unless you're solving toy problems, it matters quite a bit. In mathematical optimization, constructing the problem tends to be just as expensive as solving the problem is – sometimes more so. The existence of expensive commercial systems like AMPL and GAMS that only exist to express optimization problems demonstrates that this is a non-trivial issue that people are willing to pay money for. Using C++ APIs to solvers is extremely painful, inflexible, error-prone, and completely locks you into a specific solver.
Dude, how pretentious are you? I'm writing this on a Acer Chromebook, btw, which I absolutely love.
That's not shallow at all. If a job doesn't list an attractive salary it's a clear indication it's not a good job.
I have never heard about confusion with Ethernet cables. Everybody understood that to get gigabit speed one needs more expensive Cat6 cables with no suggestions to have a different connector. Why USB-C should be different?
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https://gist.github.com is my notebook which has 800+ collections of my own samples and notes along with 800+ stared notes from other developers.

It's one thing to keep notes. It's another to have a social network around notes.
>> China is evil
> I can only imagine that the Chinese middle-class feel the same way towards the USA.

Is that why their kids go to US grad schools? For the evil?
I remember hearing stories of homes in Houston that had been elevated after previous floods to make them flood proof. They were elevated high enough to survive the highest flood on record. But this one was higher..
Are you saying that my comment was "not even orthogonal"? I've ready your post several times and still don't understand what you meant.
up to 12% of internet users still use IE11, and even more if you count lower versions. It will take them about a decade to upgrade to a "modern browser". There are still large companies who want browser compatibility down to IE 8.
I grew out of dismissing whole branches of an art form. And so should you.
The state of adapters is atrocious. Apple couldn’t even release a good one to go with their flagship products.

Take the USB-C to HDMI adapter. The USB port is useless for connecting to external drives. When I plug it into my MacBook one of three things happens:

1 - nothing

2 - it works at USB 2.0 speeds

3 - it erratically works for a minute or two then locks up my laptop

Meanwhile, the plain USB-C to USB adapter works perfectly.
Where I work, we have an internal R&D wiki in which we describe build processes, tips and tricks, data flows and their diagrams, and so on. It is one of the most valuable tools we have, and the articles steadily increase in quality as we all keep contributing.
Destroy Erase Improve is indeed killer. I also love Amorphis' Tales From the Thousand Lakes.
My great-grandmother, who at the age of 14 traveled halfway around the world on her own to start a new life in a country with more opportunity than the one she left.
I agree, the USB-A form factor is by far the most widely used peripheral connector in the history of computers. The shift from USB-A to USB-C is without precedent.

Practically every mouse, keyboard, printer, camera, charger, and external drive made in the last 20 years has used USB-A. Practically every car in the last 10 years has USB-A. Every hotel room, every airplane, every DC power converter. There are still millions (billions?) of devices shipped every year with USB-A.

We are nowhere near the inflection point.
Since I got over the hurdle of buying cables and adapters, I've been mostly happy with USB-C. The one lingering concern is actually mechanical.

Many of the cables/dongles are long and skinny relative to the tiny metal connector, placing a fair amount of torque on the port. A number of the cables I've used are poorly fitting as well, exacerbating the mechanical strain.

A good example of this problem is the Yubi-4C. The connector protrudes about half a mm from the port and it has enough play to wiggle up/down/left/right. Having had to replace the logic board and I/O boards on my 2016 MBP 15 within 3 months due to port damage, I get a bit nervous when I notice fit problems like this.

Aside from outright damaging the ports, poorly built cables seem to wreak havoc on the mechanism that grips cables on Apple machines. Prior to the board replacement, the Apple power cables would gradually come loose by their own weight. Fortunately, the Geniuses did agree that this was a problem and replaced the top case along with the guts of my computer.
Mostly tees, but I've seen those 3/4s also. With white sleeves too.

It's cultural appropriation, I tells you!
Unfortunately some devices don't respect the indicator :(

Most people don't know about it anyway, making the c port reversible was a good decision.
It took him 6 years to make that $40 million. It's not clear the timeline on that $30 million. For all we know it could have saved the company $30 million a year.
Most tech users... not every user is as tech savvy as your average HN reader and able to google these things, and that’s the issue.
For me, it's working with really good colleagues. Quite hard to find out before starting if they are, but if they are already there, the company is likely good, and I will probably learn a lot.
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I think you’re looking at the wrong factor — Eastern European outsourcing has plenty of the same failures, and for the same reasons. Most of the companies which jumped on outsourcing did so because their internal processes were failing and then spent the next few years learning that adding communications overhead and conflicting incentives doesn’t improve that situation. That’s a hard lesson for many companies since it means accepting that the root cause was management rather than the workers.
Seriously I'm all for criticizing USA since they're onto a weird path and the glow of the 20th century is starting to fade. But after reading 60% of the article, I didn't even bother finishing it. It's such a sad bag of tricks to get money on publication for no reason that it casts doubts on everything China's research is outputing. Not long ago I read some medical papers about cancer for real purpose, I now wonder if I was fooled by some bad claims..

My POV about China, there are two points:

- a history of low grade copy: this is not how you discover or get attention/credibility

- a booming growth: as the article says, they "want" to become a science leading country, but you can't rush it, skipping steps now may cause implosion later on (as the amount of paper retraction shows).

Other than that, nobody says China or any country cannot do science, but it needs proper dedication to the method and patience...
Could either of you expand on your stances?
suppose that all of the world's scientific and engineering researchers migrated into a single new country, Researchistan, with plenty of research funding. imagine further that all of their results were published in public journals.

finally, imagine that the rest of the world's people, though not researchers themselves, had access to all of the research journals.

does that arrangement in and of itself determine which country or countries will have the highest per-capita GDP?
That's a great list worthy of study in any context.
Clojure is much 'closer to the metal' than django in the sense that you have to rebuild all of the pre-built, fairly hardened pieces that django has.
Perhaps in such a case the government should apply eminent domain to the land. This ensures that the previous owners are duly compensated, and guarantees its continued availability as a park.
This resonated with me except the part about integration.

The article seems to assume tight coupling between tools as a prerequisite for seamless integration between them.

I am the maintainer of git-appraise, and its founding precept is that tools can be loosely coupled and still seamlessly integrate together. All they have to do is store their data in the git repository in a common format.

The result works well. For example, a commit can be built by both Travis and Jenkins, and other tools can show both results without caring which tools produced them.

The rest of the suggestions seemed reasonable, though.
Interesting the banks holding the mortgages don’t insist then. Didn’t people just walk in 2008 when their homes were worth less than mortgages, seems it would be a comparable situation. Maybe not, but there are a lot of ways to discourage risky ownership. One could improve standards too
>> If it takes me more than 2 minutes to apply for your position, I’m going to skip the whole thing

This is such a pain, it’s 2017 and I have job sites who want a Word document resume, plain text resume, then in the middle of filling out a web form with my work history I just closed the browser window because I don’t think I really wanted to work at a place like that anyway.
On the other hand, based on my personal experience, maintaining a constantly growing archive of things, be it notes, bookmarks, emails, etc. turns out to be not very useful. Also, it gradually becomes something that you spend more time on than on other things. I now prefer to be more spontaneous, try to minimize the number of things that drag me into the past, start things as if from scratch, "reset" myself, dismiss the baggage that is often turns out to be nothing more than a dead weight. This "lightweight" approach seems to allow me to move forward faster, learn new things that I might have no plans to learn for a long time, because of a queue of other things on my "TODO list". But again, this may be personal.
Relevancy to OP?
The issues are the same, but the frequency of them is very important. Academic fraud is like crime: it's always going to happen, but a little is very different to a lot.
This might seem like over-kill at first, but I've been running the Enterprise version of http://www.xwiki.org on my laptop, and couldn't be happier. Its served up using Jetty, and starts up automatically when I login. I like using tools that I know will scale well in the future, should the need arise (no reason why you couldn't run it on a free Heroku instance, if it handles the load, and it should, as it just idles along most of the time).

It has a Code Macro plugin that supports Pygments syntax highlighting. It all comes down to how you structure the wiki (I often turn to Wikipedia for help with that). I've been an Engineer for 20 years, and the info-flood doesn't really end, unless you dial back your enthusiasm. I like to document the tools and services I discover so that I know what's valuable, and what's out there, should I ever need them.

Once installed, its very easy to create new pages and edit them. Plus there are hundreds of plugins.
Just tell me what you want... which is usually what you want to achieve by hiring me.

What are the key differentiators you’re looking for? If you had to explain your search to a recruiter... what would your elevator pitch version be? Just tell me that.

For one of my last jobs it would’ve been this for example:

“You need to be able to explain/guide our customers on how to build internet banking sites using our product and keep them happy in the process. Lots of traveling involved.”
I like learning about these legacy systems precisely because we are past them. They are no longer being extended. What I learn about e.g. 6502 today will be 100% applicable 10 years from now. I don't have that confidence with modern systems.
Ouch. Come on.

The studs fad was a few years ago. I don't think it's completely over either. I still see people going 'round with studded leather handbags or high heels, or some other items less frequently. I've seen a few mens' sneakers with studs also.

And at least one totally not a mosher girl with a neck leather band with nickel studs that'd probably make Gaahl bat an eyelid.
You’d be surprised.

I was just last week forced to use a USB-C-to-DisplayPort cable, instead of a straightforward DP to DP cable to get a 4K monitor to work. Using the latter, the computer thought everything was fine but the screen flickered like a CRT, horizontal splits and all, and went black every 3s.

There are so many layers involved I don’t even want to think about it, and am just happy it worked...
>Alphago was not such an event. Yes, we did predict that Alphago is decades away, but that's assuming that academics will continue working on it at their pace using their limited resources. No expert was surprised with Alphago. No expert will be surprised when Starcraft or Dota is solved. It's simply a matter of compute and some tricks here and there. Why? Because these are closed systems, with good simulators available. You just need to keep playing and storing the actions in a big lookup table a la Ned Block, and you're done.

AlphaGo worked according to statistics, not lookup tables. Bit of a difference.

That said, theoreticians may not have been surprised, but there's a huuuuuge difference between what's doable in theory (sufficiently large neural nets are universal function approximators, after all), and what the resource requirements for problems we care about actually turn out to be. We should all have been fairly pleasantly surprised that AlphaGo required only a small data-center worth of graphics cards for training, and could then play on less hardware than that.
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Sure it could be a giant conspiracy...

Or it simply could be corruption.
Is it possible to apply the https://solarwindow.com ($WNDW) glass coating to a non-glass garage door?
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I agree that in your thought experiment, the program remains OO, but the language is not. You can write OO programs in many languages, but I would argue that you don't have an OO language unless it has special support for OO programming.
Can you share an example of calling JuMP directly via pyjulia? I was under the impression that Julia macros are not currently callable from Python via pyjulia.
The relevance is covered in more detail in the story but it basically comes down to not being able to charge market rates. The cap is well below what normal actuarial practice would call for but politics makes changing that hard.
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I have adopted this practice over the last year and have found immense value in the practice. I believe this practice is one of the cheapest ways to help leverage your previous experience on the job as you keep yourself from having to repeat previous learnings over and over again as you try to remember what those compiler flags you used 6 months ago actually were :).

My system is quite simple. I have created a github repo called journal and an alias which opens vim to a markdown file for today's date. If I leave the file and come back later vim will drop me in at the end of the journal. I intend to add some vimscript in the future to automatically add a timestamp when I reopen the file but haven't gotten there yet.

This system has been quite helpful to me as it is resilient to data loss as I can push to multiple backup systems. Easily searchable (grep). And can support prettier documents if I want to open my Markdown formatted journals in tools like Macdown.

TL;DR I use vim to manage this. See alias below.

alias journal='vim + "/Users/username/journal/$(date +%Y)/$(date +%Y%m%d).md"'
I'll go further than this. USB-C isn't misguided, problematic or questionable. It's insanity.

Take a given cable and there's a number of dimensions you need to considered:

- Supported power standards (none, USB, various other wattages and standards)

- Supported bandwidth. I think some don't even support data transfer (which might include the USB-C cable that comes with the Apple Macbook charger)

- Supported modes (USB, Thunderbolt, DisplayPort?)

There's no colour scheme that can adequately handle all the possible variations.

But there are other problems: it makes no sense to have all 4 ports on a 15" Macbook Pro (for example) support power. You only need one port to charge with. I think I read that not all the ports on the 13" Macbook Pro are the same (in terms of capabilities).

This is just strikes me as a (hollow) victory for principle ("one port/cable to rule them all") over pragmatism. This always reminds me of the quote: a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.

This whole thing is expensive, unnecessary, user-unfriendly and confusing (to the average user).
This is one of the two most common objections I see raised when I describe what we do, the other being the pairing thing. Of the two, the fact that we preach and practice TDD and pairing probably shrinks our applicant pool more than any other factor.

For people who can't get the time to do a pairing day, it sucks. We miss out, they miss out. There's no dressing things up: we know it costs us good applicants.

But for people who just aren't feeling it, it's actually a good thing. As you note, it's a seller's market. Why would you apply for a job you feel only "meh" about? Why would we want you to?
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You don't even need regulation. You just need a private market of flood insurance that will be naturally prohibitive where the risk is high. The problem with leaving it up to regulation is that there are too many interested parties in seeing their area does not get marked as high risk. This encourages to FEMA to leave maps out of date to avoid a public outcry.

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2017-fema-faulty-flood-ma...
This. The ability to quickly capture and annotate screenshots and the setup of multiple notebooks makes this my most-used (and most loved) Office application.
> micro-USB is a legally defined requirement for device charging in some areas

Where? Wouldn't this outlaw iPhones?
Specifically the parent is talking about coding without a framework that has solved many problems for you. "Metal" is the language in this case, not the CPU
Most jobs don’t list salaries lol
>Your story clearly indicates this has nothing to do with it being a wolf

How do you figure that? The entire article basically talked about how you can never domesticate a wolf.
Exactly this, long term the cost of living and GDP across the world is going to normalize. As it is now, someone living in a western country could take a month's salary and live like a king in many less developed countries, that is rapidly changing.
>we do not have political influence on foreign economies and governments

Through trade (and the threat of trade sanctions) we have enormous influence on foreign governments. The US in aggregate has more leverage over China than (say) Idaho does over California. Why should the citizens of Idaho accept competition from Californians?

If it's because CA and ID both roll up into the federal government, then don't we all roll up into the UN?

>we have vast amounts of our own poor we underserve

We do. The welfare state is too weak, we don't do nearly enough redistribution, it's unconscionable that we lack national health insurance, it's unconscionable that we let neighborhood wealth determine school quality and make college cost so much, etc. But raising the price of goods by locking out foreign competition is regressive: the made-in-America premium hurts most when you have the least to spend.
Asset inflation is part of that answer.
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This is way more helpful for me in understanding your take on the article. Thanks!
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Eventually I will pick up an Arduboy(1) or a pocketchip(2) with pico8. The games BMO is loaded with are a great source of inspiration: http://adventuretime.wikia.com/wiki/Super_Good_Boys

1) https://arduboy.com/

2) https://getchip.com/