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is anybody forcing you to use datomic? no.

is cognitect doing something to clojure that is beneficial exclusively for datomic? no.

has cognitect banned you from making pull requests that improve clojure? no.

has cognitect banned you from forking clojure and fixing whatever you think they've done with some evil intent? no.

so wtf are you on about?
>>How to deal with 'overconfident' and 'mediocre' individuals?

Realise that the source of your problem is your own hubris.

"Overconfident" just means "un-tested and un-proven".

"Mediocre" just means "un-developed".

No man is an island, if you feel that your social perspective is coming from a place of moral authority, it is incumbent on you to place that altitude in perspective - push these people forward. The "overconfident" need testing - real application. The "mediocre" need training - you have an opportunity to push these key members of your team forward.

And, you should. Anything less would be a manifestation of your own 'overconfidence' - and the fact you're asking, means you are, actually, also 'mediocre'.

Thus, hubris is your real bug. Fix it.
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Reminds me of an even more minimal browser called "surf".

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And the UK which you seem to have left out. Why? Tech City Visa is well known.
> Expect VR assets in the Facebook feed

Like what? I've been thinking about this and I'm having a hard time coming up with something that would get my relatives to buy a headset.
I understand the logic of this phrase, but I don't see Cousteau eating a lot of herbivorous fish in his films. When they fish and cook fishes in the Calipso, are often from carnivorous species. Because carnivorous fish are delicious, and herbivorous fish often just so-so. There is not reason to put your money in a product that nobody will buy.

On the other hand, Tilapia needs proteins. Few animals can trive eating just its own discarding products, void for definition of anything that would merit to be recicled by the fish metabolism.

If their fish (or cattle, or poultry) is so hungry that start to eat their own excrement, they are just making a very poor product, and scamming their customers.
Maybe move the S shape from the horizontal to the vertical plane. Then, you can handle the bend by dynamically changing the height of the pylons.

It's still an issue that at bends of this diameter, the approximation sin(x) = x is pretty accurate, which means it takes 300m of height difference to deal with 300m of thermal expansion.
It might be workable to change that to e.g. 100 bumps of 3m.
What you said reminds me of that old comment: "If one woman takes 9 months to have a child, how long is it for 9 women?"
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When you work as a team, being right is important but so is getting along with others. Try to turn your fury and intolerance into a constructive experience by developing an important skill of diplomacy.
You mean that they want to make some money?
Said account is 5.5 years old, so they know what's what. Furthermore, judging by their comment history, this user as a habit of posting low-quality comments interspersed with enough 'real person' stuff, I suppose, to prevent a ban. I'm not a fan.
Why? Apart from the big guys, who is actually doing deep research or highly technical work in Machine Learning? It is a niche industry.
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You like it because it allows you to not change yourself, you are going to change the processes (or at least, people in general like this). It's a way, true, but will it work everywhere? What if you could change yourself to handle these situations better, regardless of the processes? That's the hard way.
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Good point, yeah all the instances of 'ArgumentXXXException' points to there needing to be better language/tooling support for it.
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> I can’t think of any way you could ‘bring them down to size’, etc, that wouldn’t just bring more pain.

That's horrible advice. OP should be encourage to be on the offensive regardless of position. Fighting for what you believe is true is the good fight, and it's ok to even fight it with more subversive/undeground tactics if you're not the extroverted type. And "more pain" can be a good thing regardless who experiences it. Just remember to fight back harder if things turn against you, and keep fighting until something/someone breaks (and if it's you that breaks, that's ok too, it means you needed the breaking and re-building). Pain helps people and organizations grow healthy.

It's the person who's leading the discussion and asking people about their skills who should adequately select for people either 'fast and confident' or 'deep and thorough' or 'collaborative and thorough'".

Also "careful collaborative decision making"... you can have "careful decision making" or "collaborative decision making" as very very separate kinds of doing things. One is the introvert loading up ideas and facts into his/her mind and letting them brew for a while until a solution is ready to be distilled and shared. The other is a group of amiable people thoroughly talking through the possibilities. If you prefer the former process, you might make better team with "fast and confident" people by completing their "lack of depth", than with the "never ending chatter" of a team of amiable group-thinkers.
I found the daily interactions and increased participation in strategy to be great... BUT I never felt productive. As a dev, it was easy to know when I was productive. I could FEEL productive. As a manager? Not so much. There was nothing tangible. Just meetings and documents, and comments from direct reports. After 2.5 years, I just went back to development.
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Has a total net of -£225M from Virgin in 2013/4.

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Useless to whom? It would be somewhat arrogant to suppose that some people would not prefer to make arrangements for their family and themselves in the light of a diagnosis. Might they not have one of the 'X things to do before you die' books and feel like following it up while they have the opportunity? Moreover it may be that new treatment arrives that optimally only works in the very first stages as detected by this test.
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it's a little different but when I look at my experience with developers from Xteam or TopTal (very positive experiences) vs other agencies (some in India) that I've worked with I see a set of clear differences. One is quality in code. I'm very rarely having to correct work, whereas other agencies we will receive a project and it often way off base. The work might meet the spec but not of quality and certainly can't be built upon. In another post, you mention team augmentation and I think that is a great idea. I would also echo concerns about autonomy and ability to innovate. Again with X-teamers/TopTal devs they usually want to help drive technology decisions and want to help to own a project. They then build trust by executing successfully on those ideas. I think if you differentiate on quality, augmenting teams, and autonomy, you will be able to rise above stereotypes that have been built up. That likely means charging more and spending more time screening potential hires. Smart companies will recognize that it's worth paying more so they don't have to pay several times over to fix what was done by a lower quality team.
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That's a pretty far reach re AOL.... However, AOL went from being a small, scrappy upstart service provider to being the 800 pound gorilla that wielded increasingly significant media power, in just the span of 5-7 years. One moment they were subservient to the classic media powers, smaller than a mid-size magazine publisher. The next, they were lording over the media powers as a larger, potentially more powerful corporation worth $220 billion with tens of millions of subscribers (and it sure looked like they were going to get much larger). In the media world, AOL was just starting to become as feared as Microsoft was broadly when they purchased Time Warner. That completely shook the media landscape. This is mostly forgotten now, because that position lasted for only a few years. AOL at its peak, was starting to near Microsoft's financial position circa 1995-1996 or so. Their stock went from $7 to $175 in two years from 1997 to 1999. Their revenue went from $425 million in 1995, to $4.77 billion four years later ($762m in net income, with $1.1b in cash from operations) - nearly unbelievable growth for anything consumer Internet related at the time. Just as they arrived at burgeoning juggernaut status, it all began to unravel.
Low quality, mediocre delivery to spec, frustrating communication, but cheap.
I was a Sr. Developer. My boss refused to relocate, and I was offered the job. We have the following leadership roles on a team: Scrum Master, Technical Lead, Product Owner and HR Manager. Originally I was Technical Lead and HR Manager. Later I was TL, PO and HR.

I gave up TL to someone but retained PO. I was just too busy to do all three and decided that Power of the Pen trumped Power of the Code Review, though I still do CRs.

It's hard to let go of the technical leadership, not just for me, but also for everyone else who is used to coming to me.

The people management role is the least rewarding and the most challenging. Hiring can be rewarding, but unless you work somewhere where you're always hiring, you quickly hire some decent or great folks, and then you're done with that. Like really done -- letting people go can take a long time in a big company.

I still write code, but it tends to be emergency fixes or prototypes, not the type of code that requires days on end of focus, because it is impossible to be left alone for any length of time, and not have to do a million simple but important tasks.

Being somebody's boss typically carries a lot of weight, as long as you have their respect, and I find it challenging not to suck the technical oxygen out of our team by doing the research while writing the requirements and taking that fun phase away from developers, thereby limiting their satisfaction and growth. I mean, a good developer will still do their own research even if you hand them something on a silver platter.

Also, you have to learn how each team member works and communicates. Some people are very focused on dry facts, and others on feelings. If you don't speak their language, you'll never be on the same page with them and your relationship will be constantly frustrated.

Some people work fast, and others more slowly. When people seem to be working slowly, you need to consider why. Are they on the wrong path? Did you not give them all the info they need, and they're hesitant to admit they don't understand. Maybe they just the real thorough type? Find a way to get people into their zone quicker, and leverage their individual strengths.

Finally, there is the whole issue of what role do you play. You may have been friend/peer to people who now report to you. If you notice they are slacking off, it's a bit more challenging to get them back on track, but not that hard. Just ask for a detailed status update, take a few notes, and then do it again a few days later, and compare what they've done, or schedule a demo.

Larger or less flat organizations will have a dedicated people manager for 1-3 teams, and their full time job is to manage people, foster moral, etc. That may be rewarding for some folks, but I tend to think the majority of engineering types would hate it.
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>> How do we work on changing customer's perspective?

What perspective are you trying to change here? This question is broad.

Rather if you are more specific and give one or two broad examples of what exactly happened vs what was expected by your clients and how to address them etc., you might get more useful answers.

Remember Indian IT companies vary from small boutique shops to mid-size to giants like Tatas. Company culture/ operating practices vary based on size and skill base.

The industry is quite mature and you may want to provide a little bit more information about your size/ context /problems faced, to get specific answers or recommendations.
Criticizing questions is not useful.
Because global business owns your Govt simply by offshoring what they can and withholding taxes in tax havens ala Apple.
Dont under estimate how malicious & psychopathic these CEO's are when it comes to climbing the corporate ladder. Even Billy Gates implicated for murder in a book got away with murder due to insufficient evidence.

You are lied to and brainwashed with your education, propaganda news and its been around since the major religions were invented thousands of years ago.

Remember you dont have to be the fastest runner to escape a wild animal, just faster than the slowest runner.
I think the use of the term "over qualified" is often used to mask the real reasons for rejection.

I was rejected for a job when I was aged 39 for supposedly being over qualified. When I applied for the job in question I was upfront about my experience, qualifications and desired salary which was market rate for my experience. I didn't sell myself short. The product I would be working on was unified message distribution system not too dissimilar to Twilio.

After a code test, a whiteboard exam and two rounds of interviews I was told "Yeah, we really like you and you undoubtedly have the skills. But we were really looking for someone a little less qualified". I pushed a bit to find out what that meant and the HR person claimed it was my salary expectations, but I had my doubts.

During both interviews I was asked if I had children. I said I had two. I was then asked their ages and where they went to school. This led on to questions about how they got to school and what happens if one or both of them are sick etc. The questioning style was casual, but they were definitely probing me. In Ireland this line of questioning is illegal, but it happens a lot. At the time I answered the questions with a feeling of reluctance. I do believe that having young children lost me the job. I was asked what would happen if my children were sick off school, I answered that either me or my wife would have to stay home. I was asked why my wife wouldn't take on that responsibility exclusively. I responded because we share our responsibilities to our family. I could see the interviewers brow furrow when I said that.

I have a strong suspicion that the reason why age affects IT recruitment so much is not because of "over qualification". It's because the older you are the more likely you are to have family that you want to spend time with. Or if you don't have children you might have other interests that take priority over work. I've had managers who have straight up admitted that the older you are the less likely you are to put up with overtime and more likely to challenge over bearing bosses.

Put simply younger people have fewer adult life distractions, will work longer hours and put up with more crap.
From the US the time difference is a major problem. You can never discuss anything during normal work hours and any issue will have a one day turnaround. Or you stay up late all the time and then it takes over your personal life. We have some devs now in Costa Rica which is much easier to manage because you can discuss things on the phone during the day.
Sadly, while WebRTC is "supported" by iOS 11, it is disabled in web apps added to the home screen, as well as any embedded web views like UIWebView or WKWebView.

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To expand on this:

detailed descriptions of even minor things; to distract from the fact of very little being achieved.

Unnecessary details are relayed; implying little comprehension of task meaning and/or importance.
This was exactly my thought as well
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Have you ever tried to obtain it? Have you ever seen it as an OEM version bundled with computers, or just a box?

The only time I've seen it was on the MSDN download page. Nowhere else.

"Nobody wanted it" was a dishonest statement. It was not available -> nobody bought it -> so nobody "wanted" it.
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I understand your concerns. That never became a crisis for us because of a few reasons. 1. An individual rarely deployed their stuff right before vacation (because of this reason). 2. We had an exhaustive QA process (full regression had to pass before deployment). 3. Everyone on the team was senior and could debug other people's code quickly and easily. 4. Other people's code wasn't crap (see #3). 5. Everyone was familiar as to what the other modules were doing.

Just to note, this wasn't a small system. At least a million lines of code and it was a decision support system. Bugs could theoretically cost lives (at least that's what we told ourselves, but it was kind of a stretch).

This was in a software shop back when we cut and distributed CDs. We had a 3 month release cycle which really enforced #2. I understand this is a lot harder when you are doing 2 week release cycles in Agile or something. With 2 week cycles, full regression for every release kinda goes out the window because there isn't time. (one of the down sides to Agile).
But you can answer that, by giving an opinion on development agencies in general.

It's only a problem if agencies in India are highly variable. If there is little deviation from the norm, it's not a problem. As such, the potential that this kind of question might be hard to answer is conditional itself.
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Do you imply that in general, the (perfectly valid) desire to make money would have justified bad behaviour towards a community?

In general, if you have a community around your comany, you can do it properly, or you can do it Oracle style. (pushing MySQL, OpenOffice, OpenSolaris, etc. into forks or death).

So the question is only whether Cognitect is good or bad for the community, not whether they make money or not. Making money is not a good excuse of bad behaviour. And while we are at it, doing voluntary work isn't a good excuse for bad behaviour, either, but that's another topic.

Having said that, I don't see where Cognitect is bad for the community. Rather, they seem to interact very well with the community.
>I clicked on the comment section assuming I misunderstood something. No. Apparently "over-qualified" is a thing in Silicon Valley. Wow.

Yes. And it isn't just Silicon Valley. I started getting "you are overqualified" in my former profession at age 35, when I was at the top of my former field. Many of my similarly experienced colleagues got the same treatment. So I switched to software hearing that qualified developers were in short supply only to find that this same lame "overqualified" argument was being used for over 35 year olds I came to know in my new profession. There doesn't seem to be a place for anyone who isn't already securely positioned at 35 in any profession these days. Career changes after 30 are becoming impossible in many fields.
I thought that the ME was some weird off-brand JVM? Maybe that was a prior revision?
He took thousands of calculated risks. Lots of those calculated risks didn't pay off, you can be sure. But enough of them did. There are no Übermenschen.
Me: Can you blah blah blah?

Them: Yes

Me: Ok, and would you be able to blah blah blah?

Them: Yes

Me: Great, and do you think that will be ready by blah blah?

Them: Yes

Me: Fantastic. What approach do you intend to use?

Them: Yes

Me: mutes phone, curses, unmutes phone, goes back to start

I've occasionally worked with some excellent individuals, but the aggregate has been poor.

My most recent experience with a team of this type repeatedly involved requests for documentation at a level of detail where automating the task would be less effort.

The biggest problems are cultural, but the perception is going to be hard to overcome.
LG also was also sourced for the first gen retina macbooks due to capacity issues with Samsung. So this story repeats over the long haul where Apple has to go to lg for a seriously inferior product. Would be fantastic to see them correct this issue since they keep paying the same quality price over and over again.
I really cringed at the title and explanation on the subsequent article, even though it presents good information.

Rigorously speaking a theory is a body of established scientific knowledge, in which case is classically defined to be a set of propositions that describe phenomena and has proved to be the case for some measure of accuracy via experimentation.

So the theory of inflation was never a theory in this sense, just an hypothesis that seems to hold some water, more akin to a conjecture. 'Theory' in this case, and in most of human interaction, being used for practical purposes to signal that we're talking about something scientists take seriously and waste time upon.

That's not a problem for me, just an annoyance when people use the term in a more serious and controversial manner without understanding this distinction.
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2. As a someone who is from the land and had the same CS education I would beg to differ.

Once you are a developer you must not blame the education you received till now. It all depends upon how you work and learn after college/uni. Also, the quality of CS education depends a lot on what college/uni a particular person went to. Some places impart really good fundamentals and I am not talking about just the IITs.

But it's always the student (while in college) or developer (after college) who chooses and works towards the standard they set for themselves for how good they want to be.

3. As an engineer (who has worked in India almost all these 6-7 yrs after college and some outside exposure) I would advise adding one thing to your internal deck - work-life balance. I have seen many such startups/groups that begin with much enthusiasm and aplomb but often compromise on one very important thing - work culture and work-life balance.

Hell, a lot of them actually celebrate a bad work-life balance and I find that really depressing. Attended an interview recently with such a firm and when I turned down the offer citing work culture, after they pestered me for a reason, their retort was "Oh, we are anyway looking for 'highly motivated' engineers only".

So maybe add that. Because a bad culture does two things:

- You might never get best or even better talent to work for you or with you.

- It's affects your output and productivity. It's never more hour, more/better work.
I think that technically, this is google via google maps, as opposed to android.
Thus, permission might be granted via the terms of service on your google account.
That’s not true - plenty of people/places will stop you, and tell you not to speed, and then send you out a ticket in the mail. It’s also a totally different situation - if you were under investigation for X crime (but not proven guilty yet) you’re allowed to (mostly) go about your business while you wait for the investigation to conclude
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