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> Quite few professionals (in the grand scheme of things) actually read programming books unless they're forced to.

FTFY. I agree, it's a shame but at the same time I understand.
And yet many of the cities where this is true, politicians celebrate adding high-paying jobs but not adding housing to accommodate the highly-paid workers. Whenever a new office building is approved, housing construction permits should be issued until there is at least 1 bed for every desk.
ThoughtWorks Technologies | Pune, India

We are passionate technologists who believe in the power of software and technology as tools for social change. We contribute to a multitude of open source projects.
Primarily we are a Technology Consultancy Company. We look for zealous Technologists who are keen to learn on job. We value Object Oriented and Functional Skills. DevOps and Agile are a normal way of working here.

Skillsets/Platforms/etc.: C#, Java, Ruby, Scala, AWS, Python, Node.js, React, Angular.

Requirement: 5+ years of programming experience.

Interview process: Phone interview, Take-home coding assignment, Pair programming interview, Technical Interview(s), Logic and aptitude written tests, Cultural Interview, Social Economic Justice Round.

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http://www.thoughtworks.com/locations/pune

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I miss "Sys Admin". It and LJ were two of my favorite magazines.
The interest rates would be correspondingly different. Look up the no-arbitrage principle. It explains why all of these concerns are silly. If you can’t be bothered to do that, just know that the general premise is “it all works out”.

In particular, the risk-adjusted deflationary returns are already priced in to the asset’s current price, so you can’t actually make any (time-discounted) expected money just from holding on to a deflationary asset. You can, on the other hand, lose money by holding on to dollars, but only because its utility from convenience sort of counteracts the deflationary loss of future value (up to some small amount of dollars, at which point you start thinking “I should buy stocks or something instead”).
Heh. Try telling the average family that their lifestyle is unsustainable and unfairly subsidized by others.

They will have a litany of troubles and problems that they go through, ready to fire off, no matter how well off they are.

I know I have one. It's not fair, so I try not to listen to it, but I do have one. A whole litany.
SF is just a small portion of the greater Bay Area and probably not all that representative of the majority - either demographically or politically.
The uninhabited land you speak of is:

* mountains: expensive to build on, definitely not a good place for affordable housing

* water: in the past 100+ years there has been substantial build-out onto the Bay. Any further encroachments are met with stiff resistance.

* far: to get past the above 2 difficulties, you're looking at an hour+ to get to SF. Things are (relatively) affordable in Sacramento, if you're willing to deal with that commute.

It's a beautiful but cursed geography, this SF Bay area.

And then there's this, from the article: "Neighborhoods in which single-family homes make up 90 percent of the housing stock account for a little over half the land mass in both the Bay Area and Los Angeles metropolitan areas", so there is an understandable urge to increase density in some of those SFH areas.
This assertion is correct for the more recent robotic missions (Mars Science Lander, Mars Exploration Rovers (MER), Mars Pathfinder/Sojouner) but I don’t recall seeing or hearing about spares for earlier missions or satellite/spacecraft-based missions. Earlier missions would probably have had only an empty mechanical flight spare. I worked in the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at JPL and was very familiar with the Technical Inventory Management team (the group that managed storage and logistics for reusable and non-reusable technology assets).

Generally speaking, we built at least 3 versions (4 versions depending how you count).

1) Flight. The one put in the payload.

2) Flight spare. Often used in one of the 2 or 3 Mars test facilities at (the 2 Mars yards or simulation facility) and hooked up to a spare Ground Data System (controller system) via a 6 inch thick, 100 foot long “umbilical cord”.

3) A mechanical flight spare. A usually 80-90% mechanically accurate version that we called Bubba (at least for MER) that we’d pull out for Open House, or other special events and displays.

4) Lastly, I personally worked with subsystem flight spares (44u rack of the Satellite Communication Subsystem or the Flight Control System). Way too big to fit in a spacecraft in this configuration or a mock-up of the system.

What might be a more interesting story is how we bought dozens and dozens of old SUN pizza boxes and Sparc Stations in the mid and late 2000s from eBay (literally) in order to be able maintain the Flight Ground Data System.
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Or maybe women, people of color and others would be more comfortable and a small subset of ultra wealthy folks would merely be rich.
This ad-hoc definition doesn’t make any sense. Everyone is happy to buy or sell bitcoins at a certain price. Whether that is (for you) higher or lower than market price depends on if you’re more bullish or bearish than the (weighted) average market actor.
There's always room for Jell-O (as an analog computer) http://hplusmagazine.com/2014/01/10/defend-your-network-with...
His lawyer is very careful in his statements not to say that.

Investors in Retrophin made a lot money. They would have made more if Shkreli had not committed fraud. His lawyer’s argument is basically that the investors made money and it doesn’t matter that Shkreli used the company as his piggy bank, issuing shares, thus diluting investors, and writing checks to settle his debts and make whole the investors in his previous hedge fund.

There were victims. Victims who made a lot of money, but would have made more if Shkreli hadn’t committed fraud.
TradeRev | iOS, Android, any JVM language developer | On-site | Full time | Toronto
TradeRev built innovative solution that connects auto dealers all over Canada and United States with a goal of moving wholesale inventory quicker, easier (outside of traditional auction houses), and more efficiently (from the comfort of your own dealership). We’ve recently been acquired by KAR Auction Services (https://goo.gl/qDZgFT) and are scaling up our team to bring innovative solutions to the market faster. Checkout http://work.traderev.com/
NEURALINK | Software engineering | San Francisco, CA | Full-time | Onsite

Neuralink is a new neural engineering company founded by Elon Musk.

Our goal is to develop brain-machine interfaces so useful and so safe that ordinary people will choose to get them like they get a smartphone. Neuralink's aim is to bring humans and machines closer so software forms a true extension of ourselves, rather than something separate we interact with slowly and awkwardly.

We are hiring for a fairly diverse set of technical backgrounds. There is a ton of software to write ranging from firmware to surgical robotics control to an experiment management web app. Experience with C++ for robotics is especially desirable.
Culturally, we place a premium on diligence, care and thoroughness rather than trying out every latest cool framework.

If you are up for the challenge check out our website: https://neuralink.com
Intent is such a petty way of regulating or enforcing law
Any Hiring from India.....
House Intelligence Committee Advances a Deeply Flawed NSA Surveillance Bill
> Much more than single digit billions.

Yes, this 10x over: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-cas...

The fact that american politicians can't even have a conversation about reparations is a disgrace.
I like the notions of specialists and generalists. Generalists tend to under-estimate specialists and vice-versa.
Per Zillow, the very house in the linked article is up 14.6% just in the last 12 months. Decades what now?
Mason | Software Engineers | San Francisco | ONSITE, FULL-TIME | Salary $110k+ significant equity | https://www.trymason.com

Mason provides UI-as-a-service: configurable, fully functional UI components served over API.

Tech: golang, react

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Big companies understand this and that's reflected in their hiring practices. They don't care what skills you have, just that you're smart.

The way they throw you into cold water is using whiteboard interviews. So if you don't like those... sorry.
Stop the fucking mantra of "deflation is bad". We've had way more crisis caused by inflation than by deflation. Stop thinking that the problems caused by printing more money can only be solved by printing more money!

And actually, maybe these days our planet needs a bit of deflation, to stop all that mad consumerism of our society.
You are correct this wasn't the article I was looking for, didn't read it to verify. I can't find it now but 1-2 years ago some people used that dish to reactivate a "lost" satellite that had not been used for several years.
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> I didn't find the grammar particularly hard once you learn the differences.

Then you are either a genius in language learning/grammar or you are not aware of your mistakes (choose for yourself). I say as a native German speaker that even less educated Germans do some really ugly grammar mistakes that you should better avoid, just to give two examples:

1. Using the dative as "Deppengenitiv" (douche's genitive): Some prepositions (such as "wegen") require a genitive; also some (a little bit obscure and old-fashioned) verbs (such as "gedenken") require a genitive object. Uneducated people use them with dative. You are hopefully not uneducated.

So the following sentences are WRONG:

- Wegen einem Unfall kam ich zu spät zur Arbeit.

- Ich gedenke den Verstorbenen.

Correct is of course (you guessed it after I gave the rule):

- Wegen eines Unfalls kam ich zu spät zur Arbeit.

- Ich gedenke der Verstorbenen.

2. Which are the correct principal forms of "hängen"

a) hängen - hing - gehangen,

b) hängen - hängte - gehängt?

Answer: Both are correct, but have different meanings. a) are the correct principal forms of the intransitive verb (i.e. without object) "hängen" and b) are the correct principal forms of the transitive verb (requiring an accusative object) "hängen"

So the following sentences are WRONG:

- Er hing ein Bild auf.

- Die Jacke hängte am Ständer.

Correct is

- Er hängte ein Bild auf.

- Die Jacke hing am Ständer.
Hey, that’s beautiful! Props to you for taking the initiative!
That's OK though isn't it? Even having more luxury housing will eventually drive all prices down if we build enough housing. I don't care which end of the spectrum we want to tackle first. We need a huge amount of additional housing. If there is more incentive to build luxury housing first, so be it. But let's just start to actually build significant(!) amounts of any housing. Of love to see a lot of high rise buildings added all over the bay area. The avenues in SF for example are very low density and the houses aren't historically significant or anything either. Let's build a dozen or so 60+ floors apartment or condo buildings there and the prices are gonna come down.
I guess sometimes, you understand someone in a way that no one else has before.
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> Sure, but the relationship I'm claiming is one way:

> bad marketing implies bad product

That definitely doesn’t hold up to any scrutiny.
Source on your claim GM doesn't plan on selling many GM Bolts?

GM has announced many more electric vehicles.

Source on GM not selling many Bolts? Define "not many"... Definitely more Bolts are on the road than Tesla Model 3.
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I definitely agree there is a negative ROI in areas like SV, but I would argue rather than trying to solve the problem with remote work, tech companies should seek cheaper cities. There are states with major metro areas that are in desperate need of new industry, like Kansas, where Wichita’s economy is hurting due to the aircraft industry’s shakeups.
Suppose that instead of using e-mail or instant messaging you use BSD ntalk, where every keystroke you type is immediately seen by the other party; they can see you backspacing over everything, fixing typos, rewording. You are saying that you will not say less shit in ntalk than in an e-mail?
They have in a sense, just not at the resolution of days/weeks. Airlines move their fleet capacity around all the time according to seasonal demand and passenger trends.
In his defense (and admitting your points are all completely right):

I consider my self analytically minded (i hope I am to some degree since its how I make my living).

Statistics during university also gave me a headache. Still does.

10 years later though: I've now worked for the national statistics body. I put my head down and said "Screw this, every time I don't get something, I'm going to try to implement it from first principals until I do. I'm going to code it up. Every time I don't understand the paradigm/language, i'm going to try to do everything in that mindset until I do."

I worked for several years in the stats methodology division until I moved on.

I am now of the not uncontroversial opinion admittedly, but ever increasing in popularity, that the reason I didn't understand stats in university stems from:

1) It is taught badly.

2) Often what is taught IS wrong.

3) In practice it is used wrong: sig testing is the most overused technique I've seen in any field i've had experience with, except perhaps linear models (another stats baby) and in my experience, once one has internalised the lessons/mindset of variance/sampling/etc rather than "correct/not-correct", statistical significance is almost always tangential to the actual analytical question, yet it is often treated as the goal. I think its popularity is partly due to the fact that it does provide someone a framework for yes/no decision making, negating the very mindset change needed to properly understand statistics. Frequentist techniques were the focus in university stat level classes, and such a framework and models are often forced into very non-frequentist type situations where a bayesian/subjective interpretation is, in my subjective opinion, more rational and justified. My stats classes had almost no material on computation, logic, falsifiability, experiment and data design, etc, which, subjectively I view as much more important to real statistical work than rote learning what a regression, least squares, or R^2 measure is.

A great deal of the time, analysts have trouble explaining the methods they use because its obvious (to me) that they don't really understand the methods they're using (if they did, they often wouldn't be using them).
Yes, I forgot about OneWeb. I'm hoping for the same from either company.
> Try telling the average family that their lifestyle is unsustainable and unfairly subsidized by others.

Well the fact remains that it does not happen. When I purchased my home in 2003 I received no tax credits, support from the government, bonuses, or a pat on the back. I put 20% down after saving up everything I could for a solid 5 years after landing a great job after college, which again wasn't subsidized or had grants for.

No one else does this but me and the ridiculous sense of entitlement or attitude of it being "unfair" that someone else can't afford it really stems from a deeper issue.
"Walmart comes to rural areas, extracts massive amount of money"

They "extract massive amounts of money" by providing goods that people in the area want to buy.

"and doesn't replace all the workers that were displaced."

Typical rural areas didn't have any jobs to begin with. Now they do. Granted, a Walmart job isn't the greatest one in the world, but it sure beats no job at all.
Novel to the student up to a point—math students are taught a variety of proof techniques in each of their subjects, theorems that students are required to prove generally fall to very similar techniques.
Oh! Well that solves the mystery of how Apple allowed their new USB-C MBPs to be so buggy in trivial use cases.
The audio carries that information in-band even if it is stripped of all meta-data.
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Yes. Couldn't agree more. Politics in so called democracies is nothing more than legal organized crime syndication.

In other words, politicians run legal protection rackets. Mafias.
> The fact remains that Slack is engineered to be attention-grabbing out of the box. Sure you can tweak it to make it less shouty

But this is kind of an absurd critism. Who wants a real-time business-oriented operations chat system where you don't know about incoming messages by default? Can you imagine people complaining about not knowing about new messages for minutes and support staff having to inform people that you have to turn those on manually? Slack wasn't engineered to suck you in, it's acting in the only rational and useful default for what it is, a standard established by every chat client I've ever heard of before it. It would have been a product that didn't work by default. If slack was missing a seeing you wanted, I could understand, but at some point you're just blaming a chat tool for being optimal for chats because your organization wants you to respond unreasonably quickly or because you're not muting channels or snoozing or not using the settings to the fullest.
Gotta correct you there buddy. GM sold 3,000 Bolts last month. 20,000 for the year (only started selling it nationwide recently)

https://electrek.co/2017/11/01/chevy-bolt-ev-sales-record-us...
Non-comsumer facing, retailers, middlemen, manufacturers etc don't follow the same rules of marketing; they still have to do it, but in a different fashion. IE alibaba and amazon are "advertising" based on how cheap they are; it would be a bad show for them to put out extremely nice, expensive ads for their e-shop. Its absurd to see ads for a car parts supplier.

Marketing exists in the context of its market, and must be judged in that light. Sometimes cheap, shitty marketing is the best thing to do.

And to be clear, books to programmers is one of those fields where marketing matters; it just be because I'm more involved here than any other community, but its one of the heaviest trend-following communities I'm aware of, and seems to have been that way since the 80's.

Also toc and reviews is a second level filter; author may be first-level, mostly dependent on whether you actually know who he is; cover is almost always the first point of contact; physical or e-store, you're most likely looking at a list of covers.

It would be absurd not to realize this, and not to try taking advantage of it. And you should be judged for both, if you don't do it well.

And it would be absurd if you, as a consumer, are not aware, and do not take advantage of this situation (by acknowledging, and applying, a filter on covers!)
For short/medium haul flights, all I care about is price and itinerary times. For me it's a simple transport utility like a bus or train and so commoditization feels inevitable. I actually care more about the airport and ground transport options that I do the flights.

Long haul is a different story and it feels like there's still lots of space to differentiate.
Probably this? https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/05/linux_systemd_grant...
With regard to shibboleth, do you mean the common English usage, the biblical reference, or the SAML reference implementation?
Candy Clicker is a great example. I miss 2013.
A large percentage of the remaining open space in the peninsula at least is either state / county park land / public park land ala Midpeninsula Open Space or Santa Clara Water/San Francisco Water District land like Crystal Springs Reservoir.
I think I'm glad CSS isn't an actual scripting language, Scheme-based or otherwise.
I may be conflating the coincidental timing of two events: I mistakenly thought Google Fiber -- in addition to wanting more internet access and faster speeds from incumbents -- was a response to Google's NN concerns, as well.
I think the relevant quote from the judgment is: 'criminal forfeiture serves no remedial purpose, [and] is designed to punish the offender...'

So they don't actually care about compensation, they just have the right and want him to bleed.
Speed isn't what bothers me, it's the feel of jamming my fingers into a glass slab, combined with the helpless frustration when I type something and autocorrect changes the preceding words, and I have no arrow keys and touch-moving-the-cursor is so poor.

This happens several times for every sentence that isn't pure English literature and includes some kind of custom caps, word, abbreviation, number, code, contraction, name, or whatever.
But that information seems to change every few years. The acrylamide is the newest twist created during roasting, even cold brew can't escape acrylamide.

For me, I have to be careful drinking coffee because I have GERD if I drink too much coffee my throat spasms and at night I cough up stomach acid while asleep. It gets into my lungs and over time damages lung tissue.

Even for coffee roasters, the people near the coffee are at risk of lung damage from whatever roasting coffee emits. https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/investigations/2017/09/2...
>>infinite sum 1 + 2 + 3 + ... = -1/12

Sounds interesting. What is the name of this?