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The key is to have people you've worked with who can bring you in to their org and vouch for you.
China needs to attribute its advancement to 3 generations of technocrat administrations, nothing else.

When a man with brains is on the top, big things do happen.

Now there is Xi, a semiliterate * who spent his youth as a pig rearer. Not a bright talent he is.
No it’s about experience, skills and knowledge. If you were a VP at a prominent company, that says you know what you are talking about. The CEO or VPs at a smaller company automatically view you as a peer, or superior.

Actually knowing what you are talking about is the key to making the business last.
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What is negative about bourgeois?
Consistently bad parsing of YAML
From what I understand the govt there made an implicit pact with the people basically to allow some free market liberalization, letting Western companies in and such in exchange for being able to sweep this massacre under the rug and pretend it didn't happen.

Crushing people into pies, then bulldozing them down and then washing what's left into sewers is hard to forget though. Add another 10k to the list tens of millions of victims of Communism.
That's not what the person was saying, though. They were saying something much more simplistic.

To your point, I'd say all 3 parties (D, R and CCP) have had slow and continuous ideological drift. All 3 are unrecognizable compared to 1989.
Millennials' ideals don't originate from their lack of exposure to the failings of the baby boomers, their ideals originate from their actual lived experience. To believe otherwise would be to dismiss the relevance of the things that have actually happened in their lifetimes and the economic situation they currently face. They saw their future prospects destroyed by a deregulated financial market, and now they're seeing the economic restoration that follows skipping them entirely and consolidating global wealth in the hands of a few while they struggle with basic necessities. All the while they're being perpetually maligned because prior generations lack the ability to relate to their day-to-day reality on a basic level and the fear of something different is a great driver of ad revenue.

Millennials are moving away from techno-libertarian ideals because laissez faire attitudes towards the application of technology have placed fundamental aspects of their lives in the iron grasp of private corporations who regularly harvest their data for the explicit purpose of manipulating their behavior without their knowledge.

http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/poor-millenni...

EDIT: As an aside, I find it kind of amazing that the myth of personal responsibility for outcomes is so prevalent among the very people who take the mass-scale manipulation of user behavior for granted. How can these people who spend massive amounts of money and resources studying how to best psychologically exploit their users and who can see directly how the most minute aspects of outside influence can reliably change behavior find it so easy to then turn around and claim that people are fundamentally responsible for their own situation? Do tech libertarians really believe that they're immune to the forces they use to manipulate others on a daily basis?
Right. And the reason we keep historical events like these in mind is so that we learn lessons from them, understand clearly that they are wrong, so that we don't reproduce the political and intellectual climates that allowed them to happen.
The two things I found (can be positive or negative), is that the consultant isn't tied to the familial expectation of employees at a company giving them more freedom, and they typically don't have much stake (except fees). This means that given the right consultant and party seeking services, the consultant may provide contrarian point of views that don't hold as much baggage.

Probably most important is the the company externalizes the decision so there is less internal responsibility.
KYC/AML is going to be the biggest bone of contention going forward. Given the rising complexity of online transfers lot of countries are now rolling out laws which require banks to track source of funds. Any transfers which happen outside known sources is promptly reported to government authorities.

Then there are transfers from high risk companies. Coinbase seems to be one of them. With the bitcoin prices going through the roof, IRS and DHS will be keenly interested in the flow of money.
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Your example reads like a programmer wrote it instead of a consultant.

- Would not expect to see a "such as" in statement of work in the locations you used them.

- Would not expect typos in statement of work.

- Consultant will push commits to source control.. I have other employees to code, I would pay an consultant to consult. Define strategy, architecture, coach. Not type code, you are way too expensive for that. Are you taking yourself serious?

What I read is a freelance software engineer.
For example I develop software for trading applications. Let's say I have a trade with its portfolio (an attribute). I want to get the full path of such portfolio (see it like a floder/filename tree structure). I'm not descending anything, I just need backward propagation...

And also I don't want to "remember" the parent path (let's say a long string) by duplicating it in memory for each of its children...
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Pluggability is very hard. Different version control systems have entirely different concepts of revisions.

It's very obvious, and much worse, when an IDE has plugins for VCS, as often the VC concepts aren't mapped well. When original git integration came out it was often terrible, because it forced git to behave like SVN.

I'm not saying we should tie ourselves into a single VCS, but tight integration has lots of benefits, and pluggabilty while maintaining those benefits is harsh bordering on impossible.
Yeah, but just the tip is more.

(I'm sorry.)
but to assume that China is some kind of giant hellish labor camp, and that our frankly ineffective and destructive forms of Western democracy are the only true answers to the world’s problems, is short sighted

That dichotomy was never made. The answer isn't today's ineffective democracies, but it is much closer to those than it is to governments which kill their own citizens to maintain power.

It always reads like whataboutism to say "but what about their mistakes"? In the 1930s there were plenty of cheerleaders for the USSR who made just as much progress at great human cost. You're aware of the sins of the West because a free press broadcasts them. What is it that the Chinese government won't let the world know about?
> Cutter is not aimed at existing radare2 users. It instead focuses on those whose are not yet radare2 users because of the learning curve, because they don't like CLI applications or because of the difficulty/instability of radare2.

That's what I was looking for. (I do like CLI applications though.)

Thanks.
One of the problems I've always had with patio11's advice is that the skills he brought to a job was something that could easily be measured, e.g. he mainly did sales funnel optimization so it was easy to see the before and after of the direct impact on the bottom line.

As somebody who is a skilled backend developer the value I provide is not as measurable. How can I justify charging a large weekly rate, when almost nobody can provide an objective number of the value I provide?
I'm not sure if a few journalistic op-eds and moderate pieces of international condemnation count as "messy fallout." It seems like it was a successful, measured attempt at probing the limits of what they could get away with.
I know a guy like this. He ended up a VP at a big company like Salesforce a few years ago, got laid off spent a year and a half blowing money on drugs and women. Came back and fudged his LinkedIn / resume to make it look like he was a consultant those years (no months only years on his LinkedIn) some company is back to paying him 300-500k salary. It mostly seems to be about selling yourself hard and interviewing a lot until you find the sucker who is desperate enough to hire you. Another thing he did when he was originally getting hired was to start a MBA class in a small town and never finish it so that while he was applying he could say he was getting his MBA. He does SAP and such. Not a route a lot of people will want to take.
I think a consultant in this context means a programmer with valuable experience in a particular domain. In Patrick's case it's sales funnel optimization. I do a lot of fisheries data work. The work done is usually based around a deliverable, and that can be anything from a written recommendation to a turn-key, green field system. You're a contractor with some specialized experience that somebody values more highly than software development alone.
If they survive any significant decline of civilization, then the next civilization's archaeologists may suspect "alien astronauts."
If you have Gmail you have a fantastic training set of important and not important email pre-labeled for you to try learning that model for yourself.
I dunno. In principle it's easy to automate the financial stuff but the social stuff wouldn't be automatable and distributing the reward properly is hard there. If a few people are good at communicating they might be tempted to believe that they are the ones bringing in the value, dropping the morale of the engineers doing the concrete work that is the foundation of the value being brought in.
that's a management consultant, and the reason they're hired is to provide cover and credibility for both management and your technology team.

i.e., "the expensive consultant said it was okay, so don't fire anyone in management, or our technology team, if it goes sideways."

in other words, they're actually helping you do your job because they can compare your recommendation to other companies and teams in the industry and make sure everyone is doing things sanely. in your case, you were smart, and made the right recommendation, so they agreed with you. good job, you're competent, and aren't putting an established company into a risky situation like you would at a startup, which generally does not hire consultants, because they have nothing to lose and everything to gain.

you probably didn't see it that way, i'm guessing.
"But what happens when a fourth use of money is introduced, one which subordinates all the other characteristics: money as a system of control?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyK4P7ZdOK8&t=382s
Thanks for the feedback. Could you point me to the typos please? I'd like to fix them.
Interesting, thanks for the info. 24 hours later, the priced has recovered 33% from the 12k low to 16k.
Are you a consultant or freelancer currently? Have you tried doing this justification in the past and how has it gone?
EDIT: length
If I'd have stumbled upon that shady-looking website (https://training.kalzumeus.com) anywhere other than HN, I wouldn't have spent a minute on there.
> Trains that come every 90 seconds

It's remarkably hard to get reliable numbers on train frequency in subway stations worldwide. However, it is generally believed that the only system in the world that gets headways smaller than 100 seconds/train is the Moscow Metro at 90--95 seconds per train = 38--40 trains per hour (tph), followed by the Jubilee line of the London Underground at 100 seconds/train = 36 tph.

While it's easy to find no shortage of sources that say that SkyTrain in Vancouver can "theoretically" run at 75 seconds/train = 48 tph, the more optimistic figures of its actual peak frequency look like 108 seconds/train = ~33 tph. Some sources I found (including the official schedule) suggest 150 seconds/train = 24 tph.
You feel the worker should give more of their value to the employer for free?
What is the value of the deliverable? Can you easily leverage your value?
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I live in India. Where can I start investing in bitcoin? What is risk?
The one advantage of the 80s is you could open the windows (though there was no ac) and you could ride in the vestible between cars. Still having some risk adversion, I would generally get on/off from inside a car but had no problem reading my WSJ one handed while holding the handle. (Always ride your back to the direction of motion so braking pushes you against the door!)

I do miss some of the better exterior graffiti of the late 70s/early 80s
I honestly wonder what will become of historical archive records of events that happened in the 2010's and beyond - where the reach of the internet facilitates for the massive diffusion and storage of recorded information while, at the same time, allowing for its dilution, manipulation, alteration.
Guess the term "public servant" doesn't apply anymore if one's politics are that important to their job.
Were you the consultant in this case?
America and the UK have a track record of propping up plenty of dictatorships too which is fairly odd for supposed democratic ideologues.
> Hong Kong is not China under the two systems policy

Isn't the full name of that policy "one country, two systems"?
One of the core devs have expressed interest in creating an sqlite version. But work hasn't started. If you would like to chip in we would be happy to support you in every which way.
Lots of people can cash out, but really, lots of people can't. Money suspended in mid-air from Coinbase for an indefinite length of time is becoming a standard consumer experience.

Perhaps retail investors shouldn't go near bitcoin, in which case I completely agree.

I'd love to know what proportion of transfers from Coinbase end up stuck in mid-air; I did ask them, but of course they haven't time to answer email from some blogger.
I used to be a "skilled backend programmer" but now I "help entrepreneurs start their businesses." See the difference?
I think you're right that all three parties have been subject to a certain degree of drift. However, applying that back to the original point (is the current regime the same one that did Tiananmen), to me that's an argument that, for the most part, this is the same regime. And if the original commenter wasn't arguing about a continuity in ideology or personnel, then I'm not sure what they were arguing.
You have never converted a cold client? Has anyone done this before?
People will compare hourly rates to people's salaries in a way that don't really compare weekly rates.

$200/hr seems rediculously expensive to pay a dev. but a $8k/week will intuitively be compared to the value they get from the project, and 16k to increase wbesite traffic 30% seems like a steal.
My Pixel XL is the first Android phone I could see lasting me long enough to get to 2019.
We should forgive. It's not an easy thing to do. The notion of forgiving was a revolutionary idea 2000 years ago, and in spite of lying at the bedrock of western morality, it's still a revolutionary idea today.

The regime in China also brought 650 million people out of extreme poverty in span of a generation. Somewhat unprecedented in world history, and definitely not something that gets dredged up time and time again to reinforce a distorted narrative. Rip the bandaid off that one and there's no wound underneath to pick at :(
Do consultants never code?
Exactly - part of America's heritage of a free, unusually aggressive, and intellectually combative free press (on both sides of the political spectrum) is that criticism of our government, history, and society is widely studied and disseminated, both domestically and abroad. Knowledge of American human rights injustices, ranging from slavery to Guantanamo Bay, is promoted, shared, taught in schools.
You're only 30? I thought you meant after a 30 year career and was going to call your bluff on starting with iOS. I'm nearly 30 and just last year switched into my first software engineer role after studying electrical engineering. Everyone has been very supportive of teaching me things I miss, and has been happy to leverage my electrical experience to better interface with the electrical teams in the company.
I was give 0.5 BTC at a hackathon run by an Irish bank (Ulster Bank) a few years ago. I guess when I cash out, I'll cash out with them!
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Could you explain that to me like I am dumb? How does it relate to consulting?
If alien visitation were real (a huge IF), this wouldn’t have been the first project started to investigate it. Most likely there would be deeply secret and entrenched organizations around this in the government, which would also explain why this program was shut down without explanation despite “much progress”.
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It's like saying Hollande and Chirac are both part of the 5th Republic regime. Technically true but not indicative of anything and probably a red herring.
Pray, do tell what this one skill is
Surprised you have a quadcore macbook air, since they were never made.
I agree that detailed initial messages are probably too time-expensive for the additional info communicated, especially given the high probability that the sender has some clear deal breakers from the recipient's point of view. But I'm not as pessimistic about detailed profiles as you are.
In my experience, the emphasis on detailed profiles has been at least partially effective for OkC. My first-date signal-to-noise ratio has been much better there than on Tinder, Bumble, etc., to the extent that I rarely bother with the latter.

Dating apps are simply not going to be able to change people's deep seated preferences and biases. Better and more realistic goals are just (1) to avoid wasting people's time when preferences make a match impossible and (2) allow people who would like to match based in part on non-superficial features (longer, more detailed profiles) to do so. I'm worried that we're moving toward an equilibrium where (2) is not available on any dating app.
Or you know, the government could just stop the polluting factories from polluting
This was my understanding of the service, but I haven't tried using it in 3+ years. Things may have changed.

It depends on what you're doing. Most users use it as a simple, time independent trigger mechanism. IE: when they post to twitter, IFTTT picks that up and reposts to tumblr.

Most popular use cases are not time sensitive or high throughput. I once heard a fellow programmer say IFTTT was not designed for people like us. Those two caveats are why. Time sensitive use cases, like getting text messages when it's going to rain, don't work well. Neither do high throughput tasks like filtering the HN firehose.
I am a full time employee currently, but have done consulting on the side for $50-$100/hr several times. I've never tried to negotiate weekly rates because I've only been able to do ~10 hours of work a week on top of my full time job.
"Stop buying things from [x]" probably hasn't been an effective mantra for several decades. The U.S., E.U., China, Japan, and other nations are all intractably linked in the global supply chain economy.
What if it's not website traffic or ecom sales you are increasing? What if the payoff is 6 months down the road?
Using Google search data to distill the Christmas spirit
Nope. China can attribute that to cheating and lying through wto, which now us japan and eu are now stopping. Also to massive investments brought by.....guess who....evil western forces
Altman, Zuckerburg, et al appear to be happy to kowtow a lot in hopes of a little glimpse of that fabled market penetration.
Would you want to do more consulting?
There's a lot more. The article makes it sound like this is all recent, but the Visual Core was in the works for at least three years. Then there's the Titan security chip and the Lanai processor used in Google NICs. Google is heavily involved in RISC-V, through David Patterson, who also worked on the TPU and is, of course, famous for the Berkeley RISC that eventually turned into Sun's Sparc. It also has expertise in other areas like memory chips or more esoteric ones like silicon photonics. Then there is a bunch of former PA Semi folks and even an Alpha architect, Dick Sites, although none of those worked on CPU design at Google, AFAIK.
In my case my company has a terrible product development process, and it’s a big reason why our app sucks, it doesn’t deliver the key value customers and the company need.

I have said as much to everyone up to the VP level, and provided detailed recommendations (I am a Sr Dev, but in prior jobs I successfully managed dev groups of 40+ people). The response I’ve gotten has been coaching on delivery (stop being so blunt) and crickets on any actual changes.

If a $30K a week consultant came in and made the same recommendations at VP level, they’d be prized for their directness, and people would be having fires lit under them to implement most of the changes. And the actual staff would benefit as much as the company.
Hello,

I downvoted you because you are best case ignorant, or worst case trying to cover this up. I suggest you read through Amnesty Internationals documentation about the incident.
Some actors grew up poor but I wouldn't go around telling poor people they can all become world-famous actors.
I hope you are right because I feel that the Android ecosystem is a quagmire.
These articles raise real problems that exist, however the negative bias + the title tip the scale towards FUD. You might have trouble cashing out. You might, like me, have no trouble at all beyond having to upload a couple of images. I think if you do some research ahead of trying to cash out, your odds are pretty good.
Unfortunately I thought the same thing, and paid for giving out your exact advice. Kraken has a hidden $50k/100k/yr limit even if you are verified at level 4. Be exceedingly careful not to rely on an exchange's publicly published limits because they are universally incorrect for US customers.

"Thanks for bringing this to our attention.
We realize that your transaction couldn't be processed by our wire processor since you had exceeded your current annual USD transfer limit of $50,000. Since you seem to be interested in withdrawing or depositing large amounts of USD, we would like to see if we can do anything to help make your Kraken experience any better. You may provide us proof of source of funds document(PoSoF) to have these limits to $100,000 on a daily/monthly/annual basis."

(sorry, HN's quoting is horrible)

Basically the tldr is if you are a US customer there is a $100k annual US wire withdrawal limit, but no annual deposit limit. The above was sent to a L4 verified customer. You will find many other exchanges have other "hidden" limits you will trigger as you attempt to bring money into the US. This includes coinbase/GDAX, and is seemingly almost random. Even Bitstamp will stop sending you wires after a certain amount of time and require an invasive level of documentation such as tax returns.

The good news is for people liquidating large amounts of Bitcoin you can get approved on an OTC desk like Cumberland or Gemini which have zero problems doing 10x the amount in single transactions. This does require a bit more human vetting of you though, and you better have zero reputational concerns on google/etc.

Edit: I don't entirely blame them - if they could, they wouldn't care in the least about KYC/AML laws. They are simply attempting to keep their businesses from being locked out of the US financial system. Ironically this exact kind of "your money isn't really your money unless we tell you it is" stuff is the reason I first got into Bitcoin. I've seen more money outright stolen by banks than I have criminals.
Seems like majority of HN hates crypto which is disappointing. Luckily there are a ton of great subreddits, slack, telegram, and discord channels out there.