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I have shipped React and React Native apps. I've built nontrivial open source infrastructure/devops tools that are used at Companies You Have Heard Of. I've done backend stuff for NASDAQ-listed companies.

I'm not a web or mobile developer. I'm not a "devops engineer", and I'm not a "backend engineer." I'm a problem-solver. But to many (most?) companies, this means that I need to be classfied into a track. I need to be an X or a Y or a Z. I can't adopt those roles when necessary--I need to be slotted in and just go.

That doesn't really work for me. Which is a major reason why I'm a software consultant now. I'd go do a full-time job that respected my complete disinterest in being pegged to a particular role and was able to give me the latitude to solve cross-cutting problems at scale. But that's a hard role to define, a hard role to hire for, and a hard role to evaluate--which is why they, and other generalist-focused roles, don't often exist.

It's easy to get a job. I can walk into almost anywhere in Boston if they're hiring and get an offer; I interview extremely well. I can't get a job that actually leverages my skills.
Depends where you live. My wife and I lived on less than $50k. I know some families that live on $40k. We live well above that now, but our standard of living is drastically higher.
It's not a question of what medium will make me more likely to say shit. It's a question of whether my choice of that medium should be, de facto, considered incriminating. It's a question of whether a company can ask its employees to use ephemeral mediums to communicate.

See, if we get down to brass tacks, I personally would be willing to put my money on Uber being guilty as sin.

But that doesn't mean that I think a company should not be allowed to ask employees to prefer a confidential or ephemeral medium of communication.
I'm mostly using it as a base, as a hypervisor of sorts for docker and libvirt. Anything else I need I can access with those. State of the system declaratively described in a few files, what's not to like?

From limited experience I had with AUR - for not so rigorously maintained packages it's not much better than building from the source yourself.
Hardly any renters in San Francisco are market rate renters. Market rate raters are the only ones who directly benefit if the market rate comes down.
> the reason that all the students go to university is to make money. Like 90%+ of undergrads go there to make money
Which is it, "all" or "90%?"

Ok come on man. I said 90%+. Don't quibble just to be a prick.
> Typical rural areas didn't have any jobs to begin with. Now they do.

Those rural areas had jobs before Walmart came into town. It's not like people lived without dishes or lawn mowers before Walmart was here. Demand was met with small businesses, and profits were almost always kept in the local economy. With Walmart, those profits are extracted out of the area, causing an economic drain on the area.
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There seems to be a typo in your domain name.
Some good discussion, but I still didn't find a suitable product.

Someone recommended the Casio Pathfinder (doesn't need a phone!), but the Casio ProTrek WSD-F20 model that has multiple alarms costs $500. I could buy another phone for cheaper.

It seems like a good discussion group for another idea I had about vibrating wristbands linking to a GPS app to give directions.
Attempted murder is still a crime, even if no one was hurt. Similarly, fraud is still a crime even if no one lost money.

The purpose of the law is to discourage situations that were deemed likely to yield harm, regardless of whether the victims lucked out this particular time.

Consider a drunk cab driver for example. No one is hurt, and the passenger is home in one piece. Still should be a crime, no?
> I'm always surprised by how thoroughly uninterested the Haskell and Rust communities are in learning from the Ada/High Integrity Software community.

If you read the paper you would find that the VAST majority of issues were human communication or understanding of the problem. No programming language can fix that.

Rust was started with one overriding goal: make programming on Firefox manageable. And they identified a primary problem: uncontrolled sharing. And they killed it: Rust disallows sharing by default. Everything else in Rust stems from that. "category theory" or any other academic CS is used when it helps the primary mission--otherwise it gets deferred.

> Maybe eventually the valley bros will rediscover most of what the Ada programmers already know.

And yet Ada exists practically nowhere that requires timely deliverables. Funny that.

Much like Lisp, if Ada were such a force multiplier, there would be someone who would use it to make lots of money.
You're going to have to flush out your meaning more. Are you implying Nazi Germany didn't make quite a few large mistakes that are often pointed to as how they lost momentum and failed to repel D-Day?
Have you read The Bell Curve?

You may disagree with some of its conclusions (I personally am skeptical of its conclusions about racial differences in IQ), but to call it pseudo science is, I think, unfair. FWIW, Steven Pinker, who is about as thoughtful and level headed as they come, agrees:

https://mobile.twitter.com/sapinker/status/84691284703672320...

And, anyway, the point I was making had nothing to do with racial IQ differences. It was referring to what the rest of The Bell Curve is about (discussion of racial IQ differences makes up only about 25% of the book): how the US society’s transition away from most people working in agriculture toward most people working at desks has created a class structure stratified by intelligence.

It’s actually a shame that the book discusses racial IQ differences at all, because everyone got hung up on that and totally missed what is, IMO, a much more important point. And I think it explains a lot about current politics in the US.
>and a small subset of ultra wealthy folks would merely be rich.

Do you genuinely believe this to be a possible outcome? The incentives for those with wealth, and very real political power, would be to rest any financial burden upon the tax payer. We have sent thousands overseas to die or be horribly maimed forever, and then burdened their children with the bill for the whole endeavor - what would be different here?
Not to you but to the person you stole it from, yes. The underlying legal principle being that though you had the item, you never had the legal control of its ownership, and thus although you transferred the item the original owner retained legal control of it.
This might be a contentious question, but how did it come to this in US (likely not the only country suffering from problems with law enforcers), i.e best course of action would be to not talk to the police? I imagine if I were in say, Japan, I wouldn't have to worry about cops having it out for me (especially if I'm innocent).
Tax land and smoke the boomers out their oversized houses.

Voila.
One can imagine workflows that combine some of these solutions. Imagine pre-registering experiments and analyses... and then fellow scientists privately weigh in with their predictions for the results. These predictions can then be used to form a prior for a false-positive risk calculation.
Watch out before you throw any punches, he's tough. He's going to bounce back from all of this.
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In such situations, Chief of Staff is basically an Executive Assistant, but in big companies, an EA is not a mere secretary who manages the calendar and orders food and books flights. An EA basically becomes the right-hand man/woman of the exec.

Also, Chief of Staff is not merely a Valley term. It's common in DC.
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Did they ask for contributions before going bankrupt but not get much, or did they never ask?

I feel these tech magazines should be more open and transparent about their finances and horizons, so that people who feel like contributing can start doing so at the right time.
>You can’t really have rule of law and increase someone’s punishment because, well, they’re an asshole

His punishment is not even known yet, the sentencing is not due for another seven weeks.

Perhaps you meant it more broadly, then where do you see injustice being done? Is the evidence made up? Was the jury rigged or unduly influenced? Was he deprived of legal counsel?
Nope Wifi.
Stanley Kubrick movies.
Ask HN: Is there an electronic version of the US Tax code anywhere?
I want to put it on Github and take a crack at making a better one. Seriously.
> You can have a relationship spanning back years, maybe it's even someone you've known since you were a child, and suddenly a switch goes off in their brain and you may as well be someone that they just met yesterday.

This is a perfect description of what it's like. It seems to happen in episodes, too.

Every time you think you've built up some kind of bond (not anything special, just a typical everyday person-to-person emotional bond), there's another episode around the corner to reset it to zero in the blink of an eye for no apparent reason.

I was in a years-long relationship with someone with BPD, and eventually what I realized is that time doesn't strengthen anything with them. Nothing builds up over time, there's no foundation being built, you are always one instant away from being nothing to them.

Time can make you a recurring candidate for bizarre episodes of infatuation and idealization after you've left. But no amount of time you spend with them will ever meaningfully strengthen whatever bond you think you have.
Warm-blooded animals need more food to survive (and maintain body temperature).
I just broke off contact with someone I suspect having BPD after the second time they did a complete 180 from the friendly 2 hrs we had before to zooming into a angry, paranoid state over something trivial that was frightening for me.

Our interactions were mostly them telling me all about themselves, troubles, and what I considered a bit too wrapped up in their family and essentially anything I said was forgotten. But they were nice to have a glass or two of wine with.

After the incident, I said maybe they should seek professional help. They said that they hated that I turned out to be one of "those people" that, when they were being 'different' or 'standing up' for themselves, were always saying that maybe they should talk to a therapist or that something was wrong with them and that they were "disappointed" in me. Over the three days following they tried to shrug it off, bring me gifts, etc. but I figured it best just to go "no contact" as they say online.

Anyway, I don't know if they have BPD (though a friend with a bipolar mom confirmed some things) but it's tough when 80% of the time the person is nice and functional but there are hidden faultlines that rapidly turn frightening.

If I could afford to, I would go see a therapist just to get a different perspective on my life from my friends but it's sad that someone who seems to really need it are in refusal. I recall when my mother told me about her taking depression meds and was sad that she was struggling with that and I had not recognized it but also happy that she had sought help.
Not to mention the companies that specifically write the ads so that they can claim their person doesn't exist and bring in an H1-B holder for half the rate. The fact that these shysters ruined it for the companies that actually need good people at good pay is a major problem.
Not knowing much about amazons strategy it’s hard to say. I really don’t know why they’d enter this market. The regulations and compliance requirements just doesn’t seem to fit with their business as I understand it. But I think eventually they will want to operate a PBM and negotiate pricing directly with manufacturers
Single family homes are historically how populations insulate themselves from the consequences of the policies the NYT advocates. On a macro scale, they're a defensive architecture. They make your neighborhood expensive enough that the population is (by selection) wealthy enough to ensure sufficiently low crime rates and sufficiently Good Schools, with enough geographic buffer to survive natural population movements.
Funny, now I am stuck with a TFS -> grunt -> sass -> css workflow and it's still less featureful than a modern DSSSL would have been.

Somebody write a proposal to make it a web standard! It looks lovely.
He said it would be the silliest thing ever. That's silly.
If pawn broker purchases stolen good does the original owner have a right to recover their stolen goods without buying them back? (yes)
Interesting, I didn’t realize cold welding was a problem in space. I assume it can be solved by applying a coating to surfaces that might come in contact with each other.
Yes, and if Toyota were only allowed to build 1000 cars a year, you can be damn sure they'd only build Lexuses. But since 1) they're allowed to build as many cars as the market will buy; and 2) because they want to sell a car to every single person they can; and because 3) not everybody can afford a Lexus, then; 4) they end up making a lot of Camrys and Corollas, too.

Now imagine they were currently constrained to just those 1000 cars and lobbying to build more. The car NIMBYs would be saying, "But look! They only build Lexuses! They'll just build more Lexuses!"

But we know that's not what actually happens. And it won't be true with homes either.
I'm not so sure. If a person has historically been an outstanding citizen, I think that it should be considered when judging someone. Otherwise, why not just have a single punishment with a predetermined timespan for every single conviction?
Honestly? Bringing everyone into the office. I got hired as a remote worker. About a year and a half later, they gave everyone an option: come into the office or get laid off.

They claimed we needed better communication.

Only me and one other person moved across the country. About 150 people were let go.

Got to the office.. communication still isn't that great.. it is actually about what it was before I moved, but now we talk through Slack instead of email and everyone sits a cubicle next to each other, so yeah, great communication.

As for why they spent too much money? I mean, it worked out great for me: I went from having no benefits, no bonuses, no 401k, no health insurance, no vacation time, a lower salary, and I worked from home.

Moving me into an office gave me PTO (Paid Time Off), sick days, floating holidays, health insurance, 401k, bonuses, a higher salary, and of course, the benefits of working in an office, such as parties and all that company stuff. And finally, this year, I got a new laptop!

But then again.. maybe I was a good investment? Been with the company for 5 years now.
Is it? Seems fair to me that if you antagonize everyone under the sun, it comes back to bite you.

I would hate to live in a system that worked by the letter and just said "Well, can't touch him, he didn't TECHNICALLY break any laws...."

Like what if you had a stalker who wasn't TECHNICALLY violating any of the terms of his restraining order but was doing everything in their power to make your miserable anyway? Is it a disgrace for the law to find a way to stick it to them?
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Its something like this. Say a person burnt his house, the house is razed to ashes. There is nobody killed, nobody injured or let's say nobody was even present at home.

The house was insured, but the owner doesn't claim insurance either.

Despite all this. No insurance scam and no harm to anybody. But still the guy setting fire to his own home will considered a arsonist.
That's not even related; currency follows different rules than goods, at least partially because it's fungible.
My god, that read like someone did way too much meth or weed or both at the same time. How in hell did this get upvoted..

it's like a huge collection of click bait, overly vauge, broad, and hyperbolic with zero signal density.

ooohhhh I get it now, it's patio11. Ok, well, all is forgiven then. He's a nice guy.
Is this true? My instinct is that the person who stole it is still directly on the hook, but I'm not a lawyer.
They have to be novel in my experience.

I have a BS in Mathematics from a mediocre school (University of Arizona) and exams were always "prove this fact (which you have never heard of before)", never "what is the proof of XYZ theorem (which we studied)"
But realistically they won't be able to build an unlimited amount of houses. So in your example let's say they're suddenly allowed to build 10000 cars, an order of magnitude increase. I think those 10.000 will still be just Lexuses.

I agree with the sentiment that luxury apartments is a start/ better than nothing, but I think the benefits for the lower end of the housing is overstated.
Most of the "smaller" players like Boost either resell from one of the major carriers are owned by one of the major carriers.

Sprint owns Boost Mobile, Virgin Wireless in the UD

AT&T owns Cricket Wireless

T-mobile owns MetroPCS
No it is not. I studied math and the engineers only went as far as differential equations, basic (non proof based) complex analysis, and so on. There were zero engineers in theoretical classes.
That bug required root to exploit, not really the same severity.
I don't think you understand what you are advocating. The letter of the law is sacred. This is fundamental jurisprudence.

If you don't like the system, we have something called legislature to change it.
Yesssss... now I shall use my meager amount of BTC to lose it all on an off by one error!!!! MUAHAHAHAHAHAA!
You should touch up on your history.
It's not entirely unreasonable.

You're right. It's not at all -- like not even a little bit -- unreasonable to desire that your neighborhood stay the way it was on the day you bought into it. That's why you bought there in the first place, presumably; you liked it the way it was!

But it is 100% unreasonable to expect the rest of the world to help you achieve that goal. Times change. Places change. Building more density in the Bay Area is good for the most people and should be supported on those grounds.

I desire a lot of things. They aren't unreasonable desires. But that doesn't make them good policy goals for society as a whole.
There are charter operators who do that kind of thing, such as for holiday destinations and religious pilgrimages, as well as cargo airlines. There are also "wet leases" where a provider has aircraft and crew packages you can deploy for a fee, as well as dry leases where it is just the aircraft.

However as other responders mentioned, aircraft logistics are complicated. Unless you operate virtually identical aircraft (the Southwest, Ryanair etc model) then you need both pilots and cabin crew that are certified on the aircraft model. Plus you need appropriate maintenance staff, baggage handlers, gate staff etc.

It is just too complicated to pull off logistically. That isn't to say major airlines don't have the ability to respond on-demand. They do have spare aircraft around, and have ones that can be chartered. For example that is how sports team travel around the US.

Also be aware that airlines have a typical load factor (how many of the seats they sold on each flight) of around 85%. There isn't that much slack in the system. 25 years ago, load factors of 65% were considered the norm. These higher load factors are also why the frequent flyer programs are so much more stingy now - they have more paying customers to fill more seats.
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I spent hours on this similarly named website back in early high school:

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Great details about old and exotic display and memory technologies too.
Yes. ABSOLUTELY YES.

Rules have to mean something. Retroactively changing the rules because you don't like the outcome is like having no rules at all.
At the time you could use third party video calling apps so it wasn't about video traffic. I used Yahoo Chat at the time.
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There are some products that serve a need that doesn't occur often enough to become habit forming. For instance, there are apps/services that help you when your car breaks down. Marketing a product/service like that is a fundamentally different proposition from something that's intended to be used daily/weekly/monthly.
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Calculations that youtube is an unprofitable loss leader make the assumption that google pays retail rates for bandwidth. Google is peered with virtually every transit network and ISP on earth, and pays (in relative terms) virtually nothing.

Its a near certainty that youtube is infact massively profitable.