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You kinda realise we are on a technical site right? This answer is wholly dismissive of where technology is going. How about the flipside?

> The Flying Car

New technologies such as metallic hydrogen are on the horizon. Coupled with better advances in battery tech, we may see the advent of a hybrid approach where VTOL is used via battery and propulsion with hydrogen.

That said. Flying Cars may be mandated so that it's for use intra-cities or states. But then localised will be for autonomous driving.

Having synergistic travel mediums will allow people to travel further and faster. Imagine having flying cars, hyperloop, autonomous driving and spaceX to combine to get you from A to B over a great distance in a matter of hours? All running on clean energy?

More importantly, all AI driven without the need for human intervention?

> will require a new kind of air traffic control

Sure, AI driven. There's nothing wrong with having an AI that ensures cars fly amongst already agreed routes.

> "Boy howdy. And create new categories of horrific accidents. Let's not build a world where a drunk driver can plow through the roof of a school, shall we?"

How about No? How about having AI actually fly the car? We already have planes which go on autopilot for most of the journey. AI for flying cars should actually be a whole lot easier, than driving on the road.

There will be no drunk driver, because there will be no stick.

If you actually look at all the differing technologies that are coming out. Graphene, AI, Chemical processes, Battery Tech, etc, etc, etc. It's not difficult to see the next 5 or 10 years being a whole lot different to now.
> Google had an opportunity to do just that but instead chose to shut down the conversation

You are referring to him getting fired, correct?

I never really followed this whole thing but I do recall Google ended up firing him in the end. So what do you think they should have done instead?
What do you mean by "WIP" in this context? Work in progress? If that's the case, what does "WIP limits" mean?
I'm not affiliated in any way with the grand-parent company but IMO this fizzbuzz is a fair exercise for the position of "Experienced Software Engineer" and that'll get your application reviewed by a real person.
For a site that claims to laud "really good UX", their own UX leaves a bit to be desired. If you go into a category page, there's no navbar or breadcrumb that can help the user identify where they are in the site hierarchy.
Hmm, I got 5 out of 5 for the Postgres, but the questions seem pretty easy for anyone who has dealt with trying to create useful indexes in different databases and debugged slow running queries on an index.

`EXPLAIN` is probably the most useful word in all of SQL. I didn't know how to read `EXPLAIN` results for the first few months of first starting to work with raw SQL for the first time. It made life so much easier when I could just take a query, throw an `EXPLAIN` in front of it, and have an answer as to what was being used to fetch my data.
I guess I don't see that as really a problem with UBI though. The same is true of the criminal justice system (and lots of other government functions), for example, tons of pressure to increase sentences and basically none to lower them. It seems more like a problem with representative government than anything else.
I've been extremely happy with Firefox Nightly. Highly recommend it to everyone here
I guess I still don't see the problem, then.

Is the problem that EA has some sort of moral obligation to introduce only the kinds of game mechanics that a specific set of people enjoys, and anyone who responds to (and, apparently, is willing to pay a whole lot of money for) different game mechanics can go jump in a lake?
Wouldn't be working on it if it weren't. I can't go into specifics.
Reed Hastings looks like a brilliant jerk in that photo...
Precognition, mind-reading, and solving the halting problem are indeed beyond modern compilers - but thankfully, some clever people have given us other options for achieving the goals you describe:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profile-guided_optimization
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-in-time_compilation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial_evaluation#Futamura_pr...
> I'd love to work for a startup with a like-brand-X-but-for-Y or a word-salad elevator pitch

Why? I'd much rather actually deliver something to the client, even if...

> I get billed to a customer at $200-$400/hr and get maybe $50-$60 of that in total compensation.

Then it sounds like everything else around what you deliver is worth at least $140-350/hr. If it's really so easy I'm sure you could offer your services for $100/hr, take a nice big raise and save your clients hundreds of thousands a year.

> it seems the culture has an unnatural aversion to spreading itself somewhere else

Because even for a culture that bitches and moans about how old school business ways are out dated, they still insist you be within a 2 hour drive of your investors, so that when Ashton Kutcher gets mad at someone he can yell at them in person instead of over ~~email~~ ~~hipchat~~ Slack.

> It will take my money, but won't give it back by spending it in somewhere in my neighborhood.

Stop buying shit from startups
Your next action might be, "research steps to becoming a dank ass motorcyclist".

And if that's too broad, could break it down to "look for beginner motorcyclist YouTube channels / subreddits", or "look for motorcycle coach"
I was about to suggest the same thing, I've started doing that in Australia too. I tend to spring for Uber Black on those occasions though, the limo drivers seem more receptive to that, and more experienced. Hopefully the extra cost helps compensate for me being slightly less social / entertaining.

I would like that profile feature though (sounds like Virgin America's avatar system in the seat allocation, where you could show yourself as happy & chatty or a grumpy business man). And I'm sad that the Uber - Spotify integration never took off, my friends were really excited about being able to have our own playlists queued up when our Uber arrived on the way to the nightclub.
What character did you insert after "G" in "GxTD?" It's not rendering on my browser, weirdly.
Unfortunately the piece is light on the technical details.
I think helping with the economic development of smaller areas would be a huge benefit in and of itself. But basic income opens up really revolutionary ideas beyond this. Imagine you get 10,000 people together and the income is set to something quite low - $1000 a month. That's $10 million a month that, if a moderate sized group of people were willing to coordinate and work together, could be used to build new cities and developments from the ground up.

In a way a basic income can almost be seen as a decentralization of government as it enables citizens to direct government funded spending at their discretion.
Great to hear that you're excited by it, we're too :)

This blog post has a few more details and examples of the WebAssembly work: http://www.mono-project.com/news/2017/08/09/hello-webassembl...

Disclaimer: I'm working on Mono for Microsoft/Xamarin (primarily class libraries and tools).
> how on earth would I break these into "actions" [...] if I had no concept of how to learn a language?

If you don't know how to break a larger task into actions, you are simply unable to perform the task, regardless of whether you use GTD or not. What GTD does is make you consciously aware of the process of breaking down larger tasks into smaller actions.

> Right now I just putt around in the Santa Cruz mountains and do what I can, but what would I put for "next action" for this project? I guess schedule a track day?

It sounds like you think that the "next action" needs to be different from the previous one. It is not. If you want to learn the piano, you can just perform the action "practice the piano for 30 minutes" every day, unless you decide that you want to take a different "next action" at some point.
I think it's OK, there are plenty of opportunities, but I would not do it if I were young. I would do Silicon Valley, get a "big tech" or startup name on my resume and work on cutting edge projects, and then move to Chicago.

The major advantage here is cost of living is so much lower than the valley. Housing is cheap, which leaves a lot of room for money to use to eat out, nightlife, plays, music, etc.
Mobilizing an ER department to handle a mass casualty incident
In the UK it's impossible to get Vitamin D from the Sun during Winter months, due to the high latitudes (it's above all of the US apart from Alaska, and is also above most of the population of Canada), even if you walk around naked at noon for an hour! Doctors here recommend everyone to take supplements.

From what I recall the season is from mid October to mid March. There's a few Vitamin D online calculators about if you're curious about where you live, also.
Cal Newport wrote the book "Deep Work". David Allen wrote "Getting Things Done". Do you mean David Allen instead of Cal Newport?
You could just put the Toronto HSR station in Hamilton and connect from there to the Toronto metro system assuming it has one. That saves you the "jog". Also I think that the second time you mention Lake Ontario you mean to mention Lake Erie which is the real NY-Detroit obstacle, which is what motivates going through Canada.

Reaching the absolute minimum NY-Chicago travel time isn't necessarily the highest priority because at that distance you're not going to beat a plane and you're probably not going to see same day round trips. Instead making the line economical by including as many people as possible would make the trip cheaper for people who can't afford flying. You could even add stops in Philadelphia and Toledo, which aren't too far off course.
Your government issued ID is no secret and it doesn't contain any information I couldn't easily get elsewhere if I really wanted to. You hand it over to people all of the time for trivial things.

If your account is locked due to suspicious activity (as it was in your case) then Blizzard's only options are to A) just allow it (your account is gone) or B) make you verify that you are who you say you are. I don't think B is unreasonable.

And you didn't just 'move'; you moved _countries_. I didn't get locked out when I moved from CA to TX, but moving countries isn't all that common and they only have so much contextual information with which to make a decision.

>I am on those forums

Then you should already know Blizzard takes grief for this and many other things all of the time.

https://www.google.com/search?q=why+does+blizzard+wnat+my+id...
Apple denies they ever relaxed any sensor requirements.

Attacks will always be possible because FaceID can never be infinitely precise. Your face changes over time, even during the day. People wear glasses or sunglasses sometimes, and take them off sometimes. They grow facial hair, and shave it off. They wear makeup, and take it off. They pick up black eyes in jui-jitsu class.

There is a balance between maximum precision and maximum usability. Apple's task was to find that balance. This hacked up "exploit" does nothing but show they found the proper balance.
What do you do about the torque exerted through all the fasteners connecting the large masses mounted to the car that are designed to have the force directed vertically through the bottom of the car?

Turning the car on its side sounds like a good idea until you realized that, e.g., the seats can now twist the bottom of the body pan.
While there might be actually something to it, article lacks so much in detail it's hard to do anything else with it than dismiss it whole.

When trying to denounce a person, it's not OK to be glossing over the details to this extent.

Pretty much reads as "You can't trust Eben Moglen because I say so."
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> Why shouldn't we hold corporations to the same standards as governments?

Because one of these organizations can throw you into a cage to be raped and tortured for the rest of your life, and the other can deny you access to some fairly useful web apps.
> Being a jerk and disagreeing are orthogonal

In theory. In practice, it's much more difficult.
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I'd be more worried about chrome tracking and selling my data than I would about Firefox being p0wned.
I felt like the title of this story was almost certainly going to generate threads from people reacting to the headline without reading it, which would suck, because this is from start to finish an amazing story about incident response and improvisation. So I synthesized a title from the intro paragraph.

A bunch of the terms used in this piece (like "crumping", which apparently means dying without doctor permission) are emergency medical jargon, all easy to look up.
> Supporting multiple systems does not necessarily make your
> software portable. What makes your software portable is
> standards.

Only someone unfamiliar with the varying states of POSIX compliance across different platforms would make such a statement. Not to mention the multiple effective versions of POSIX.[1]

Keeping the relevant standards in mind is good practice if you aim to achieve substantially equivalent functionality across multiple platforms (aka what portability means in reality), but it doesn't get you across the finish line, not by a long shot. It takes experience, a lot of testing, and regular tracking of OS updates to know when to stick to the letter of the standard, when to depart from it, and when to anticipate a change--in either the standard or a platform.

[1] Hint: those few systems (Solaris, OS X) which are "100%" compliant are compliant to POSIX:2001/POSIX:2004 version, not POSIX:2008 version, even though the majority of the extensions in the 2008 version are widely available. Characterizing code as "POSIX compliant" is ambiguous from the outset.
They already voted on the fact that they want to leave (via referendum and votes in both Chambers and by royal approval)

They could have voted on a more precise direction beforehand, but no "Brexit means Brexit" was the most precise they were willing to support ...
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I'm hoping these developments might eventually clear the way to a somewhat supported Firefox browser core sans UI to embed in our own applications (ala WebKit and Chromium via QtWebEngine), and then I might switch back. I'm tired of being pushed around by UI churn in the applications I use.
Firefox Sync is intentionally designed so that we can't read or recover your data; it's all encrypted client-side.

Chrome is specifically designed to do the opposite: Google explicitly states that when you sign into Chrome, "your experience in other Google products is personalized by including your Chrome history with your Web & App Activity." (https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/185277)
A class-based approach to writing reducers in Redux/NgRx
I looked this up: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-41183041
Reddit limits how much a single comment can effect your overall karma score. This was done to slow down negative karma trolls.
Didn't Djikstra write about this? I wasn't able to pull anything up, but maybe this will jog someone's memory.
I suspect the reverse. Once basic income exists there will always be pressure from the top (who don't directly benefit) to reduce it.

In the end it's the classic choice. People want more from the government and they also want to pay less taxes which ends up at a balance point.
You are wrong because the vast majority of people take criticism personally. It turns out that when you tell people they are wrong and present them with reasons they are wrong, a surprising number of people double down. I'm sure you have heard this before, but you have to make them think it was their idea.

Edit Source: I make this mistake all the god damn time, and never realize it until the person breaks and finally snaps at me. The whole time I thought we were just having a reasoned argument. I think that I am constructively invalidating the other persons arguments, meanwhile they are feeling belittled and defensive.

Edit edit: This is even worse if, like me, you think arguments are pretty much the greatest most entertaining game it is possible to play.
Until all the big corps start censoring the same kinds of contents and behaviour by an unspoken consensus. At that point it becomes effectively as easy to live without all the major online services as it would be to live as an outlaw.

Easier or more difficult to get by without shouldn't distract us from the core point GP made, that corporate (arbitrary) censorship, with no redress, should be taken as seriously as govt censorship. These days they are just two arms on the same chimera.
I recently started watching Fargo and I'm, for the most part, enjoying what was done there. Captures the source material well while telling a new story in the same universe.
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Early on in my career (DevOps/Virtualization/SDN/etc) I landed a role as a junior admin, a backfill for a more senior engineer who was moving up in the organization, but staying on the same team. It could be said he landed somewhere between "Alice" and "Bob", probably due to some mild autism. Without getting into excessive detail, working with him was hard, but by far the most rewarding, educational, and instructive years of my career. I learned more in that short time from that one difficult engineer than the next 3 years combined.

I'm not excusing his behavior, but if you're able to handle that style and develop a functional relationship "brilliant but difficult" folks can be an amazing resource. He's the Sr Infrastructure Architect for that organization now, and they've never been doing better. His ability to be difficult but brilliant keeps the overbearing management folks in check, and has allowed the technology platform to move forward dramatically.

The one downside (other than the constant testing of my self esteem and resolve) was that I let him teach me D&D and he was a pedantic dick of a GM.
Firefox Focus/Klar is a pretty compelling app. :-)
So young Aragorn and young Boromir killing orcs? Gimli killing elves?
Fenwick also had some more information about the bill: https://www.fenwick.com/publications/Pages/Proposed-Tax-Refo...
> My problem with basic income is that once you start, there will always be a demand to increase it, and enormous political pressure to increase it

This same logic applies to corporate welfare as well - and you can see the results (see latest tax bill).

The differentiating factor is that, in one case you give to those without much political power vs. giving to those who have enough power to play havoc with your politics (or have already controlled/captured it).

A bit of perspective helps to balance the slippery slope danger you presented.
Hiring brilliant jerks is fundamentally a decision that comes down to the specific situation and imo it should rest with the hiring manager.

I strongly disagree. The benefits of having a brilliant jerk mostly accrues to the team he is on. The costs are felt throughout the company. Therefore the hiring manager is motivated to hire and try to manage the jerk, and has an incentive to avoid truly accepting how damaging this productive employee is.

That said, there are times that it actually is worth hiring a brilliant jerk. But the decision should be made at least one level of management above the problem employee, and both the employee and the manager should be managed. Even so don't be shocked if, as happened in one case that I know of, the brilliant jerk stole source code and ran a copycat site out of the Ukraine.
What happens when your vesting options are underwater?

Do you get to claim them against your taxes?

If so, given the rate of startup failures, this may be of net benefit to most startup employees.
Win 8 sucked for .NET developers regarding API compatibility, because it required lots of incompatible changes, which are the reason Windows 10 FCU is the first UWP version to be finally compatible with .NET Standard 2.0 (4.6.1).

Then there was the whole 8.0, 8.1 with UAP, and finally UWP transitions.

The two only good things from UWP for .NET devs were finally getting .NET Native, which should be there since 1.0 given the Delphi roots of Anders, and the COM Runtime model that was in the genesis of .NET (formerly known as Ext-VOS).

I think the talk you refer to, is one from OS research group at MSR.
Many of us who work in large corporations have worked on stupid projects that waste hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars in company funds. Oftentimes, these failures happen because no one is willing to call his manager a moron.
>If people could vote themselves more money the voter turnout would be insane. How would anyone control something like that? Anyone who ran against the increases would be easily defeated with something like this: "My opponent wants to take the money you deserve!".

Yeah, that seems mostly fine to me though (aside from the rhetoric.) If an increase in UBI makes life meaningfully better for enough people and they turn out to increase it that seems like democracy in action.

>At some point you would be giving people more money than you produce as a country and then it's only a matter of time until the money runs out. Once the money runs out then your government will evaporate as the enraged populace tries to pin the blame on one group.

Seems pretty hyperbolic.
I hold that there is no incompatibility between charity and capitalism. The market is an emergent behaviour of the personal desires and values of individuals. There's nothing anti-market about wanting to contribute to a public good voluntarily, nor to taking work that is ideologically more attractive to you (even at reduced pay).
It is Matthew J Garrett's personal blog. He was a member of the EFF and has publicly been involved in the free software community.
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It's not a separate issue if someone is making the charge that he (a taxpayer from a state with no taxes) is subsidizing me (a taxpayer from a state with taxes) - when it could very well be the case that I'm actually still subsidizing him.
> No one would want options anymore, which would make it impossible for startups to compete with large, cash-rich incumbents.

You're right; nobody would want options. So we have to start paying people in actual shares if we want to give equity. Which means you have to give employees way more of the company than deep-pocketed investment bankers who will still invest -- despite their temper tantrums to the contrary -- because there are very few companies that can absorb a nine-to-ten figure investment and do something productive with it.

Just because the system as it exists right now would be destroyed doesn't make this a bad change. The system right now is overly complicated, leads to workers abandoning in-the-money options or staying at a job they hate, and is heavily slanted towards early employees.

But the current model of venture financing is largely dead regardless of whether this change goes through. It's already being replaced by cryptocurrencies / ICOs, which seem like a far more sensible method of issuing restricted stock in excess of the SEC's limitations (since the right crypto / wallet scheme for something like this would not be anonymous). I think ultimately, cryptocurrencies are going to replace RSUs, but the cryptocurrencies that replace RSUs will probably have many of the same governance restrictions as RSUs.

How we treat them for tax purposes is a different problem, but it should make the RSU liquidity problem less troublesome (e.g. you can sell some of your crypto-RSUs back to the company in exchange for ETH/BTC, then convert back to USD and pay your taxes).