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The article makes some valid points, but sales/marketing is just not for me.

I understand how important it is for my product, but I just don't enjoy it, and would rather pay someone else to do it for me.

Essentially, I would need a Jobs for my Woz, if I can ever aspire to be a Woz. :)
I bet you mean something along Postmark's pricing https://postmarkapp.com/pricing.

I'm probably going to start work on incorporating this soon. Thanks for the input!
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Lots of people in health research do treat pubmed as a gatekeeper though (sometimes foolishly imo). It is more exclusive than both Google Scholar and arxiv -- but also like you say, not a guarantee of quality + not the kind of resource where you can read one article and be like "here's what NIH says."

So semantics, I guess. Just felt compelled to mention it, probably more because it frustrates me to see health researchers use pubmed as their only gateway to scholarly lit.
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Lawyers in criminal cases generally work on a fixed fee basis, so working needless hours on one client means less work they can do on other clients. Celebrity lawyers charge hourly, but that is because their clients are so much more demanding that they generally only work on a single client's case at a time.

Lawyers in tort cases bill on a contingency basis, so working more does not change their payout--success is all that matters.

Lawyers in transactional cases usually bill hourly, because when you're talking about multi-million or multi-billion dollar transactions, the few thousand you spend on the lawyers and accountants is a rounding error compared to what you spend on the airfare for the executives negotiating the deal.
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> All that technology, and yet a bunch of Vietnamese living in small villages and mud huts put up enough of a fight to create a permanent sore spot in US military history.

The table titled Belligerents on the page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War doesn't say "US gov" vs "mudhut villagers".

Do you expect Soviets to help you with your struggle with your oppressive US government?

Besides it was 40 years ago which is pretty much ancient time for military and anti-riot technology.

> Also, those guys we've been trying to kill for the past 15 years in the middle east keep coming back fiercer than ever.

So losses of 15000 isis soldiers for each US military soldier dead is for you "guys ... in the middle east coming back fiercer than ever"? You'd like to be of the loosing side of such conflict for whatever reason?

> And who do you think operates all that fancy technology? Men who own guns and whose fathers owned guns before them.

Not necessarily own, just operate. I don't think that soldiers have significantly higher gun ownership percentage than civilians. Also all of them have a strong opinion about obeying your superiors, kinda goes along with the job. I don't think they'll be sympathetic to bunch of civilians that don't obey their superiors.
>Upset/uncomfortable - maybe, but at who? The rich family? His own family? Himself? Society? All of those?

"Upset" wasn't my word choice, I was just re-using what clark said to show the emptiness in using childhood feelings to determine what is and isn't a natural right. I don't actually believe our society should be governed by the feelings of children.
In case you're interest in reading his book online - or 'running' it, here it is:

https://notebooks.azure.com/wesm/libraries/python-for-data-a...

If you want to read, click on any notebook, for example:

https://notebooks.azure.com/wesm/libraries/python-for-data-a...

If you want to run, click Clone, sign in, then Run. It's basically a collection of Jupyter notebooks. This is from his personal repo.

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For many companies, data science means statistics. Statistics are used for experiments and to analyze data. If you don't know what a t-test is, you cannot be hired as a statistician. However, you may be hired as a machine learning engineer.
I have family in Sarasota. If you at all like the fact that you can do things after 8pm in Austin do not move to Sarasota. Go visit your parents so you can go to the beach (Siesta Key) and go home.. lol. I lived with my mom in Sarasota for year after college and not only did I have to drive an hour to Tampa for work but the place was one of the most boring places I'd ever lived.

I'm 2 miles from the domain which is one reason my property taxes are so high, $380k 3/2 house. So, while I'm not "in the city" it's a $6 Lyft to go to rock rose, train downtown is 5 minutes away (but stops going north at 7pm).

I lived in midrises forever. I got absolutely sick of dealing with parking garages every time I wanted to go drive somewhere. Beware as well, some of the downtown highrises require you to use and pay for valet services. The Austonian didn't require me to use it but there are a couple that do.

I just wanted a damned nice townhouse like I had in Houston. They started building them in 78704 but they're $800k (because 78704). These sorts of things; https://i.pinimg.com/originals/16/f0/4c/16f04c1392ade123104c...

They're perfect for me, I'm single and just have dogs. Right now I have a front and back yard that nobody ever uses.
>lead to all the power going to parties that can afford specialised hardware who are in countries with low electricity costs.

Is it costly just because it was newly created though, and won't this cost come down? You can also mine in countries with high electricity if you build your own renewable energy generator.

In terms of decentralisation, the nodes are still decentralised and can at least detect when miners try to use their dominance. They can only do it after the fact, and it might be messy, but it makes performing the attack fairly worthless as you can no longer mine on the network anymore.
Anyone else find the whole setup strikingly similar to HAL-9000's role in 2001: A Space Odyssey? The article, too, presented the author with the same issue Dave experienced, when HAL wouldn't open the pod bay doors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARJ8cAGm6JE

HAL's decision was a conscious one, but I find it rather interesting a 1960s-Kubrick (& Arthur C. Clarke) could predict the casual use of multiple currently-cutting-edge devices, and incorporate them into the story:
- One being HAL's resemblance to a new amazon smart-home, at least in general purpose functionally, plus the vibe of sentience and omnipresence
- Another prediction being realtime face-to-face chat as shown in one scene, which would
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWwo6JpMceg

Naturally this makes me wonder if artificial consciousness is possible or not (be it X years/decades/centuries into the future), what fundamental questions it may answer, and what consequences it may have. I am not necessarily referring to the consequences of recursively self-improving super-intelligence, but not excluding it either I suppose. I am referring to true consciousness, with human-level feelings and emotions, where the personality may have an effect on what it does rather than simply and emotionlessly taking the logical (or programmed) route every time.

Creation of artificial consciousness may be many steps away from trying to undertake; however, given the ever-accelerating rate of both digital-tech and neuroscience, if true consciousness is at all possible to program, it will likely come far sooner than expected. It's bound to also answer a lot of questions about our ontological understanding of our own perception in/of realities.

In any case, by the grace of God and Elon Musk, let's hope we can avoid a Hollywood catastrophe in the upcoming rise of AI in general through the end of time as far as collective consciousness is concerned.
I'm afraid I'm not going to answer many of your questions but I am going to say some stuff still:

It may be stressful but try to embrace the change and remain positive. Take it as an opportunity to reevaluate other things in life if possible e.g. how much physical stuff you need in your life and if that stuff makes you happy. Change and hardship/being uncomfortable is good for you in moderation and trains you to weather bigger storms you may encounter later in life.

The bay area is a fantastic place to live, especially for a young person in tech, so try to remain positive although I can understand where you are coming from, and your stress is totally reasonable. The climate out here (both physical environment and cultural) is fantastic, be sure to seek it out. Good luck and congrats on the change!
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Not sure I necessarily agree with the point about making it easier for companies to raise money. I agree with it at face value but not based on what usually happens in the market.
Chances are, if there's liquid CDS for an issuer, they're not going to be issuing weird, illiquid bonds. On the other side, if all an issuer has are weird, illiquid bonds outstanding and without knowing anything about the issuer, I would say it is negative to have a liquid CDS market as that's probably a negative creditworthy signal.

I'm sure some academic has done a study about how CDS has shaved a few bps off borrowing costs for large IG issuers though.

Agree with everything else in there.
There are many documented cases of obese people not eating at all for weeks or months. As long as particular basic needs are taken care of (water, vitamins, minerals), you can live off your own body fat. That's what it's there for.
Of course, as you're running out of it, things go downhill fast.
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Well at first almost everyone seemed to have thought it had to be complex to write an Ada compiler. It wasn't until the Robert Dewar talked (for some time) with Richard Stallman that he saw à way to drastically simplify the implementation of an Ada compiler.

This story and hommage by dwheeler https://www.dwheeler.com/essays/make-it-simple-dewar.html was one of the nicest things written on the late Robert Dewar... and on RMS !

The GNAT Front End is a large and complex piece of software and the language is very powerful thanks to all the features packed in the compiler.

On the other hand, for compliance with the standard there is a complete test suite : ACATS... It should help...
This is really important. I love programming and am somewhat introverted, but being newlywed with a wife who couldn't work (visa), a mortgage, and a commission plan really made me learn to sell. The really good salespeople aren't deceptive, and I luckily learned from them.

Also: if you're at a good company the engineers don't scorn the sales people (instead: "you guys bring in the money that pays our salaries") and the sales folks actually sell the product to people who will benefit from it.
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Driving is a privilege, not a right. What proof are you looking for?

And this is a thread about red light cameras. Is this confusing to you? What's the difference in "money grabbiness" between red light cameras and speed cameras?
Is someone who disregards the one but not the other qualified to drive?

And you seem to have missed it, but this article and the "engineer" isn't even claiming the devices are wrongfully ticketing.
i have read it
I bought it straight away.
Eh, I'd call it more of a "tu quoque" (appeal to hypocrisy).
Curious : is there an up to date analysis on the reasons you would still want to render to html on the server today ? Which search engines work fine with client js rendering the page ? Are there other issue you may still experience ( facebook links, mobile browsers bugs, etc) ?
True enough. All generations need this type of speech. For example, I first came across the term chronological snobbery reading C.S. Lewis, according to Wikipedia he used it in "Surprised by Joy" which was written 50 years ago. Since he coined the term to describe the thought patterns in his day, we can easily tell that generations before Millennials have also believed things because they were modern rather than because they were true. Different generations may sometimes have different weeds to pull, and I wish he describe his own biases which he overcame.
I wanted to say that I disagreed with you, but then I realized I don't know what you mean by "execution" here, though.

This statement "The more complicated a model is, the less well you can execute it" is fishy though. The typical problem in practice with complicated models is the data quality and quantity to support it, not the implementation or interpretation. I suppose here we also need to define "complexity" - I am using this to mean roughly number of parameters.
Well, yeah, that's my not so subtle point here. The only people who seem to be upset are the people who have to have paid actors pretend to be their friends for a few hours.

From the outside, it looks silly. I think it would be a shame to see their personal embarrassment and bruised egos ruin an easy job opportunity for a few people who would like to make $200/hr attending a party. That sounds like a pie job. Professional party attender.
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This was a confusing read that felt like an emotional plea, rather than some kind of objective discussion about DACA.
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It sounds aweful but I'm talking advantage of the relatively awesome access to information we have today to slowly get myself into indie hacking and building my own products for a particular niche I have found. That means even more work but eventually that may pay off with real freedom. Know when you can launch your own product with so little overhead it behooves you to learn to sell even if it means no free time at all until you can launch that could lead to quite a lot more free time in the future.
The generally-good requirement that plans are stamped by a "Professional Engineer" is required by public AHJs/codes and private regulations (eg insurance), and is not under dispute here. Meanwhile much engineering work is not under this regime, but checked by market demand and testing (eg software/electronic).

As an Electrical Engineer that has little interest in power systems and isn't looking to rewire other people's houses for money, I have very little use for a PE. I still have the basic right, along with everyone else (regardless of education), to make technical judgments of any situation. How these judgments are valued can (and should) be questioned, but our right to speak them cannot.

These laws you speak of are a mix of unenforced, unenforceable, unconstitutional, and unconscionable. Their actual effects are constrained between nothing (ie most people accept the concept of free speech) and the harmful thuggish behavior described in the article.
Melbourne is liveable; Adelaide is a retirement village. The population has been stagnant for two decades, and the brain drain continues to worsen. I can count the number of people worth working with on both of my hands.

I'm in the US at the moment (Silicon Alley), and it's staggering the funds available compared to Australia. Fairfax County, where I'm currently based, has half the population of Australia. I've always been bullish about the US, but I don't think I can afford to ignore this market once I get started on my own adventures.
One nice thing for retail investors in open markets (as opposed to strategic investors like VCs in private markets) is that there is no pressure to pick only one winner.
Not trying to start a flame war here, buy what is the argument for using Rails over Express or Django/Flask for a new project ? Genuinely curious to know the benefits / downsides of each option
> a $500 fine for “unlicensed practice of engineering.”

Looking this up[1], this is phrased terribly. It's claiming some title or degree that you don't have, that's illegal. Not "practicing engineering" (which sounds to me like: you measured something and proposed an improvement, which you have to do a study for to be allowed to measure and suggest to improve it).

That "state-issued license to practice engineering" is just your degree which allows you to wear a title.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_and_licensure_in_en...
I have no idea how well it would run or what the process for this might be. Could you use a web view to get a sort-of-working version built quickly?

Edit: in my old days I would just convert the JS to ActionScript and drop it into Flash to generate an SWF for use as a screensaver. :)
It doesn't have to be. Competition is competition.
I was in sales for 10+ years, now am a dev. Best sales book I ever read was New Sales Simplified. Really breaks down the sales process.
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Do they teach how to work with other developers on large scale projects in CS degrees? Or is the problem that people without those degrees can't get hired BG big corps with large scale projects and can therefore never get the experience?
We did a study on 700 candidates applying for a graduate role, putting CV sift in parallel with work sample and situational judgement testing.

The CV scoring was entirely uncorrelated with who went on to do well (in fact it was slightly negative but not statistically relevant).

That said, graduate level roles suffer from the behavioural/motivational disconnect between education and the workplace. I'd love to do another study with more senior hires.

In case anyone's bothered we wrote it up here https://medium.com/finding-needles-in-haystacks/putting-appl...
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Let's all sit and reflect for a moment that Apple was the first (and for a long time, the only) company that used to get sleep/wake "right".
The is a difference between the trade being zero sum, and the negotiation being zero sum. In the apple example, the trade is not zero sum, but the negotiation is. If I negotiate to spend less money for the same amount of apples, then the seller has lost as much as I gained. The caveat being that even in this simplified apple example there are multiple dimensions to negotiate on. I could buy more apples at a lower cost per apple, which may very well be benefit both parties.
This sounds terrible. Why not having it op-in? I'd expect that I'll need to go to settings and add it to the functionality of the control center button.
I am very curious to see what this will do to Chinese style capital controls. They probably have started cracking down on exchanges but even with an outright ban it sounds like a more powerful method to get money of of the country.
Maybe that's because the strategy is to produce bullshit
>First, read Dale Carnegie’s “How to win friends and influence people.”

Already done. I am currently reading "7 Habits of Highly Effective People". How to Win Friends majorly influenced me already.

Do you believe the methods explained in How to Win Friends are sufficient? They have absolutely helped already but I am not sure if it is just a matter continuing to apply or if there is another that could help level me up more.

EDIT: Also on the reading list is Purple Cow by Seth Godin. I've heard good things about it and the first ~20 pages were pretty good.
>he is not allowed to call himself an engineer in such a was as to imply that he is a traffic or transportation engineer.

He never claimed to be a traffic or transportation engineer, in fact the fine cited him for use of the phrase "electronics engineer." He is an EE: He has an electrical engineering degree from his home country (Sweden) and he has worked as an electrical engineer for decades.

>I am a registered professional traffic engineer. As such, I feel that registration is very important and serves to protect the public at large from people producing work with little to no relevant experience.

"PE" (professional engineer) does have a legal distinction in the jurisdiction of Oregon, but he never claimed to be a registered PE in the state of Oregon. "Engineer" is not a legal distinction. He never made any false declarations about his credentials.

>the State Board did not censor what he was saying, they asked him to stop representing himself as an engineer.

They "asked him" by issuing a $500 fine in response to his letter for committing the apparent crime of sending a letter in which he (factually) stated that he is an engineer. Telling citizens "you are not allowed to write a letter to the government in which you use the word 'engineer' (a term with no legal distinctions) when describing yourself" sounds like censorship to me.
I've never seen a "data scientist" produce anything meaningful, at least at my company. They run some data through some Python framework and produce weird meaningless numbers that I'm supposed to be impressed by or to trust. No insight as to how that number came to be. "87.525%". Ok sweet. Could've come from /dev/urandom for all I know. At least 3 of them have left in the 2 years that I've been here.

It seems like 90% of these guys are buzzword wankers who jumped onto the "Big $$$" bandwagon. Same type of person who put "PHP Wizard" on their resume in 2005.

Good riddance.

I'm sure, of course, that quite a few of them are decent, intelligent people producing real value at real companies. But the ones I've dealt with? Nah.
Sales is not "convincing" people. A sale is when the products, goods, or services you represent fill a need. Listening and asking open ended questions help the sales person determine that need.
Do not accept this as the status quo.

It sounds like you live in California? If you're a decent software engineer in any major city in California, you are one of the luckiest people who has ever lived. You have your choice of employers paying you six figures to sit at a desk and push buttons 40 hours per week.

If you're overworked and underpaid to the point that what I just said sounds crazy, it sounds like you need a new job, immediately. There are better options out there, don't settle if you're miserable.

Some of the other points you mentioned sound like you might want to speak to a professional therapist. There's no shame in that (I've done it before and will again) and it can really help you work through some issues.

Good luck!
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I tried out Endless Sky a while back, but was frustrated by the seeming uselessness of most of the engine upgrades—most ships seem to be designed specifically for the engine they've got, and any upgrade that's worth bothering with won't actually fit in it. This seemed to be the case with a bunch of the potential upgrade types, as I recall...

I'll probably still pick it up and play it again in a while, 'cause I loved EV, but it is frustrating when trying to incrementally work your way up from your starting ship to something with real oomph.
This doesn't seem like it would qualify under their categories. Not to mention, their bug bounty program info is nowhere to be found. I see tech sites reporting that they offer one but nothing on any apple site.
Yes you can. Not like jQuery where you use it to manipulate the DOM (as rendered from HTML generated on the server).

With React you basically let it manage one or more subtrees of the DOM; you let React do the rendering for that subtree at all times (possibly using React on the server to do pre-rendering).
It kinda turns into the problem (if you want to call it that) in California where you must keep up with traffic but you also must not go over posted speed limits. Basically putting you always in violation of a law if they really wanted to get you.

My biggest gripe about drivers in Oregon is the people that zip in and out of lanes at high speeds without signaling and the amount of people in city traffic that simply don’t look where they’re going.
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