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What is an earlybird? Is it someone who is unambiguously physically hardwired to get up early? Or is it someone who has made the choice to implement the sequence of changes in their life necessary to facilitate comfortably getting up early in the morning?

I imagine both sorts of earlybirds exist, and I'd be interested in seeing how common each is.
Last time I took the Megabus, the bus drivers were complaining that the company had sold the Midwest division (or something like that) to Coach USA. Indeed, the last few times I took it from Chicago to Ohio, they were Coach USA buses instead of the usual blue double-decker Megabuses. Apparently they downsized majorly in the region [1].

It didn't strike me as a particularly profitable venture in this country.

[1] http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-megabus-downsizing...
The Economist is strongly pro mass low skill immigration.

One major change in the US has been border enforcement and a promise of deportations instead of amnesty. If that's what's resulting in higher blue collar wages and employment then they have to re-think a large part of their world view.
Talk to your neighbors and offer to split the internet bill. This doesn't solve the long-term problem, but at least it hurts the local internet monopoly.
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>Drug tests don't test for intoxication.

Exactly this. Pot is probably the most common and it stays in your system for 30 days after use (probably the longest that is tested). Essentially the screen will fail a guy who smoked pot two weeks ago, but pass a guy who shot up heroin all last week. Like the polygraph test, they are deeply flawed, in this case, for testing for intoxication.

Also, imagine if drug tests failed an applicant for having a beer in the last 30 days. Like it or not, pot is replacing beer for a large portion of Americans, time to adapt.
You sir are doing God's work. Actually get things done instead of making fake work under the pretense of being busy - more people could do well by following this principle.
It'd be nice if Pai came around all of a sudden too..
Most VPN traffic is very obviously not normal HTTP/HTTPS traffic. It will always be a cat & mouse game, but a motivated ISP could make it very difficult for most people.
Mobile broadband also has an oligopoly (with some of the same players, hi AT&T), and all the provider power issues that apply to fixed broadband;the neutrality rules being repealed applied to them, too (but even they allowed mobile operators more non-neutral action.)

I don't know why you think mobile broadband is in any way going to be better in the non-neutral net.
"Germany's" FlixBus is largely owned by American private equity firms.

Good ol' all-American Greyhound is owned by one of the biggest UK public transport companies, FirstGroup. (Megabus is owned by another, Stagecoach.)

Meanwhile, over in the UK, Stagecoach and First duke it out for rail franchises with the nationalised rail companies of Europe.
That‘s why it‘s open source: because it‘s your computer and you can change whatever you want.

But Mozilla doesn‘t owe every single user his own build with their pet features.
Chesterton's Fence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton#Chesterton.27...
People also have the option of the cellular network via their phones, though that's not a true substitute for a wired ISP.
The funny thing is that most business schools drill "customer focus" into their students' heads. But I suppose it's one thing to gain knowledge second-hand, and another to gain it through life experience :(
It's in part used for DRM. You've probably used it if you've watched BluRays or Netflix over 720p.
I have to try that question on people sometime. Sounds like fun.

Also, reminds me of this:

Status: Alive

http://futurama.wikia.com/wiki/Amana
Probably some people drafting up e-mails as we speak, I imagine. There's probably a lot of work to do to make a meaningful response.
Once you throw in another 15+ms of keyboard and USB latency...
How about if Comcast charges Netflix more to be able to access you?

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/12/comcastlevel3/
No, they shouldn't all be treated equally. But the packet's source or destination should also not matter. NN fully supports traffic QOS by packet purpose (i.e. VOIP over gaming over web over bittorrent), just not by origin or destination.

And it's origin/destination that ISPs demonstrably want to prioritize by.
A unique error code would accomplish the same thing, but I get your point.

This happens to me all the time with the software project I work on, which is enormous and has been around for a long, long time: the error messages usually aren't very useful. Neither is the log. In fact, the log is often little more than all the debug messages created during development.
I believe this was part of either an E911 requirement or CIQ(Carrier IQ) feature. Nothing new and nothing crazy.
so the issue you bring up is good because there is difference between origin neutrality and content neutrality. unfortunately (IMO) its rather naive to think that comcast has your best interests and will do the 'right thing' when they have power to distort the traffic and make so much money while they are at it. This action effectively allows them to double dip into any internet startups profits and worse yet pick out winners and losers based on their whim.

Oh well .. that's the america we live in now.
So, why does the hospital next to my house deserve cleaner water? Isn't this the same argument?
Imagine you were selling your rent controlled apartment on Airbnb and all the sudden the landlord wanted a fat cut. You'd be pissed...
Oh man, I hate that thing on Medium so much. I'm slightly fidgety so sometimes I double click the text I'm reading. I didn't even realize how much I did it until I visited Medium and almost tweeted some random paragraph I was reading. I would love to turn that crap off.
">On December 14, the FCC will vote on Chairman Pai's plan to repeal President Obama's heavy-handed Internet regulations and restore Internet freedom."

Freedom for whom?
I think it depends on the company. I was extrapolating from my own experience but I realize it may not be the same elsewhere. In my experience Staff Engineers were almost always at least 10 years-experienced. I might be wrong about those companies I mentioned, though, because I've never worked at any of them

Also keep in mind I said "usually" in my original comment. Blue collar labor and software engineering are not directly analogous because yes, there are software developers at the high end that are making a lot of money compared to some of the best blue collar workers. But it's still only a small percentage of them making that much, and I wouldn't mention those figures to someone looking to go into software for that reason
The most strange bugs have the strangest solutions. Just an hour ago I was trying to debug a queueConstructor (it returns a malloc'd pointer to a queue data structure), right after I finished implementing the operations for a stack data structure. Malloc was inexplicably causing the program to hang (I don't know if it's a segfault, I was using Windows). printfing around the constructor and inside it didn't work. I had included all the libraries I needed to, syntax was good, no warnings, I even changed the declarations from int var to int var.

It turns out the problem was that in main() just before I called queueConstructor, I added the item 633346 as an integer element in my stack data structure. Whether this overflowed the integer, I don't know. But I don't know why it would stop malloc for a different data structure stored in a different variable from working (perhaps it was occupying some memory that my queue wanted?).

This isn't the first time bugs like this happen, and as a novice programmer I really wish tools were better, or I knew how to use the tools. GDB available via CodeBlocks wasn't helpful.
thats a good way to put it.
It's like saying why do we need Environment protection laws, the world survived for 13 billion years. Well, duh, 'things' have changed.
In what way are customers "held hostage"?

If you sign up for an internet plan that promises not to throttle certain sites and then that provider throttles those sites, you can sue them.

If you sign up for an internet plan that makes no such promises, why would one expect anything different?

This may sound like a harsh reality, but it's called "taking personal responsibility" and "voting with your feet". Switch to another internet provider.

The appeal to paternalistic regulatory bodies to restrict the choices of other consumers (who may want to purchase cheaper, more restricted internet plans) is creepy.
You're right, but phrasing things in terms of addition and zero is possibly taking some liberties with the definition of group. Even if additive groups and general groups are isomorphic, I agree it's a bit misleading to use additive group naming to provide a lay definition of "group".
And no true Scotsman will be caught outside doing construction work without his Utilikilt! [1]

[1] http://www.utilikilts.com/accessories/switchback.html
Why not go with 5k 27" monitor?

http://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/cty/pdp/spd/dell-up2715k...

Sure, it's over $1k, but if you're making $10k/mo writing code on it, then you should be able to afford it.
For those who don't understand why net neutrality is important, it is worthwhile to read about the history of communications (telephone, radio, TV). There is an excellent book by Tim Wu called The Master Switch [0] which investigates the history of communications (with an American focus), describes how each industry start out open to all (farmers using fences for telephone, independent radio broadcasters), and each one collapsed into monopolies with a near-impossible barrier to entry for anybody else who wanted to do the same thing.

Parallels are then drawn to the Internet, where if we're not paying attention to what is happening now, then the free and open nature of the Internet today will slowly vanish and be replaced by only the big sites who can afford to be on the Internet.

[0]: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/apr/02/master-switch-... (book review, you can find the actual book on Amazon or wherever)
Customer focus is pretty easy to misinterpret as "snow over the customer to sell them in the short term so you can flip it to dumb investors."

It's also sometimes a bit more honest in the sense that a lot of these biz-school graduates have no idea about anything other than business. Being customer focused means gathering what the customer wants and then promising to deliver it and then attempting to do so... and finding out it violates the laws of physics or costs 1000X what they estimated.
Most developers are not in position where the client would have slightest idea when developer came in.

If you have regular hours long outages that require specific developer to come in and fix the code asap, you have huge mismanagement problem. The developers coming not in the morning is your least problem. Insufficient testing, apparently badly set up servers+application and most likely general mismanagement are primary problem.

Also, if you are in this situation, then it is reasonable to assume that your developers had to deal with similar outages in the middle of the night or during weekends.
The difference between English and German, and later the difference between English and Danish, was emphasized when I was learning the two languages.

Almost all Danish people know that "halv to" is "half one".
I don't support the right to an abortion, but I do support abortions. My motivation for donating to planned parenthood is altruistic - if the mother doesn't want the kid, society really doesn't want the kid and doesn't want the mom to have a kid. Society can't be more invested in the kid than their parents.

Ideally we'd tie (reversible) sterilization with welfare participation but the horseshoe of fundies / progressives make that neigh impossible.

And I don't support eugenics at all. I just think that the social contract should have an 'out' and there should be a place in the world where we can put the undesirables (a la Australia). This is why we need to colonize mars (and other planets). There should be enough societies that people can find one that works for them and that societies can isolate themselves from factions they don't want. Look around, liberalism is failing and doesn't offer a credible alternatives to tribal politics. The only way we can make tribal politics safe is to reduce friction in interactions which means more space.
> Who was being harmed in the first 20 years of the internet without these regulations?

It's not that these regulations didn't exist, it's that they hadn't been formalized as regulations. Net neutrality is how the Internet has worked for over 30 years, and is what made it such a success.
The difficulty with moving to realistic cost estimates for open source software is partially that people aren't willing to put up a fair wage for many bugs/features and that open source developers often don't have the flexibility to address things immediately.

Consider what happens when the funding doesn't reach the desired amount? Does the fundraising stay open frustrating users without the functionality and users who have already chipped in? Does the developer lower the amount and get it taken care of? Is development sustainable when a funding goal is missed? Are donations going to be repeatedly available when discussing fine grained technical issues (a subset of the userbase is likely affected by each issue)?

Even if a project obtains funding, unless you have a team of people working on the software as their job it is difficult to predict how long it will take to implement something. Non-FLOSS work/life will end up taking priority in an unpredictable fashion and that would frustrate both the donors as well as the developer who doesn't have enough available hours to address problems that users are willing to pay for.

Some projects have gone the route of fixing the time issue by fixing the problem and holding the new code hostage, however that can result in a lot of frustration if funding doesn't go smoothly. The users will think "Why don't they just release the functionality, it's done already?" "Why do they even need the money if they already did it?". The developer will think "Why did I waste my time doing XYZ? Not many people see to care."

All and all, users currently don't expect to regularly fund FLOSS and this makes it difficult for FLOSS to consider a by-the-feature funding method a reliable technique. (some projects may have some success, but in general funding FLOSS is a difficult unsolved problem)

(per the downvotes, they seem to be used in a "I disagree" sense rather than a "this doesn't contribute to the discussion sense" IMO)
This whole tree of comments is a response to someone complaining that it's hard for a company to find workers. Nobody's saying that company is required to hire anyone - we are just making suggestions to help them with their problem.

If labor is turning into a seller's market, buyers are going to have to adjust.
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Actually there are quite a few, if you include the variants spoken across the peninsula, Galician, Mirandese and Aragon are even closer to Portuguese than Spanish. :)
Are you referring to the topic in this 2014 article refuting your claim about "internet companies" trying to charge Netflix extra? When in fact Netflix's own ISP, who Netflix rightly pays, was actually doing critically important network management.

I am attentive to Net Neutrality arguments because I care about an open internet, but I have yet to hear one that doesn't betray a total lack of understanding of how the internet actually works; i.e., peering. Perhaps counterintuitively, the FCC is right on the money about rolling back Obama's populist regulations.
They do--but this (a difficulty in getting lower-paid workers to even show up) is a new phenomenon. We've always had lower-paid workers and poverty, but something else has changed.

My concern is that the "something else" might be counter-effective but well-intentioned policies intended to help.
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> ...their first major legislative accomplishment

First, Trump and the Republican party are two different political factions. Trump basically ran on that claim. In history books, I would expect this presidency to be marked with an asterisk as one single party does not really control Congress and the White House.

Second, the White House vs. Congress dynamics have been pretty dysfunctional for quite some time now. When there is single party control over all of the above, it's usually fleeting. And rarely with a filibuster-proof majority in the senate. You need to go back to the Carter and Johnson years to see that.

What's the point? People are getting what they vote for. They pretty much want gridlock on issues, they want "our team" to fight "their team", otherwise we'd see consensus on some issues and bills passing and being signed. The thing that concerns me is that the consensus that does seem to be forming is that more should be done by unelected officials: judges and members of the Something Or The Other Administration.

That is, there's no real interest in making sure legislators actually legislate. The lack of separation of powers will be unhealthy in the long run. Possibly catastrophic.
> I think a lot of people are sick of having to contact their representatives, or don't do it because it's a burden.

Contacting representatives is not what the lobbyists are selling. Neither is taking them to dinner and buying them a filet mignon. What they're selling over those dinners is future donations to their election campaign and future cushy jobs after they leave the bureaucracy and go into industry. A private PAC can't offer that.

Some of these groups (like the NRA or AARP) can't offer as much in donations or future jobs, but they can offer a large group of voters, which has similar value to a donation to a campaign.

The belief that what's needed is a person to talk to your representatives is naive.
It's a terrible idea. USB-3 is faster than 1Gbit/s. and there's no way you can drive a 5K monitor with any current or near future Ethernet standard, the bandwidth demands are too punishing.

Ethernet isn't optimized around short-haul signals, like computer to screen over a few metres at most, it's for 100m+ runs in datacentres. The signals have to be a lot more durable.
Forgot to actually post the article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/larrydownes/2014/11/25/how-netf...
You can't tell me that's better than the USB-C connector.

Even HDMI is better.
>I bet you'd get approx. 0 noshows if you bumped salary.

That's both the easiest solution and the one last chosen. Complaining about how shitty the workforce is usually comes first. :)
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You aren't alone in this sentiment:

https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/

First, a few basic discoveries:

Indigo was totally just added to the rainbow so it would have 7 colors and make that “ROY G. BIV” acronym work, just like you always suspected. It should really be ROY GBP, with maybe a C or T thrown in there between G and B depending on how the spectrum was converted to RGB.
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He's looking forward to his cushy job at some telecom after his term is over.

It's an odd bird these types of positions when they are handled like this. To Illustrate how odd they are, imagine you apply for a job which a friend helped discover for you, then that friend recommends you to his manager. You get hired but instead of taking orders from your managers you ignore them, and you work for your friends instead.
For a great many, youtube is surprisingly awesome. My normal approach to home DIY now is to watch as many youtube videos of the process I want to try as possible, then make a determination if it is something I still want professional help with or can try to do myself.
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That's fine. Then I can decide if I want to pay that price for Netflix or not. I also have Amazon Prime video, and Youtube, and etc. so I have several competing choices.
Oh, no! The point here is that regulating the internet is dangerous – Net Neutrality un-regulates it.

We don't want every administration for the next 100 years to treat the internet as a victim of regulatory abuse, pushing it and pulling it towards their vision of "beautiful".
FoxTales: Behind the Scenes at Fox Software by Kerry Nietz. It is about the development of FoxPro, the late 80s massively successful xBase clone that was acquired by Microsoft.

Programmers At Work by Susan Lammers is a series of interviews with programmers (Charles Simonoyi, Gary Kildall, Bill Gates, Daniel Ratliff and so on), in the 80s when Microsoft had just 160 employees, "multimedia" was a buzzword, and Bill Gates was trying to understand how CD-ROMs would change everything. The programmers talk about how they built their favorite software, and there are certain philosophical nuggets about computing that is unsullied by the complexity and sophistication that the field acquired later.

Coders At Work by Peter Seibel, written in the vein of Lammer's original work. This time it speaks to a different set of programmers including Joe Armstrong, Ken Thompson and other stalwarts.
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Seems like this is just a bug that HN should fix.
Kickstarter for an independent balloon Internet over major cities next? Or for launching 100s of "cubes" into space?
No it isn't. You've probably been seen and healed by a great doctor that smokes or has smoked weed recently. There is a good chance your financial advisor, lawyer and/or boss smokes or has smoked weed recently. Most professionals who do certainly don't boast about it with the witch hunting Puritan culture in the US, but there are a lot of them out there, and you've probably never noticed because it's not noticeable.
Construction is not particularly more interchangeable than programming. Inexperienced workers can do some tasks, which have been prepped by more experienced workers. A worker operating out of their depth will cause problems that cost 10x to fix.

In other words: you can fill part of your staff with interchangeable workers, but not all of it.
> So are they protesting this action simply out of principal?

No they are protesting to protect their wallet as well. If suddenly ISP's feel you should have to pay extra to use Google, that will have an immediately and direct affect on Google's revenue. That is why they are protesting.
You are not stuck with those things. Converting dates or adding references or changing the customer model or even migrating to a different type of database are things you would normally do when you start scaling anyways.

The code doesn't have to be perfect aligned to some doctrine.

If you feel the need to fight back over a single private member variable delay some important release the reasoning must be better than one day in the future it, it will make development slightly harder. Refactoring is a good practice.
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