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Hm...no, it's right there, below this phrase https://imgur.com/a/vN0Q3
Bring in the Japanese.
Try to list the distinct reasons why you need want a mentor. E.g.

1. Camaraderie with other developers IRL

2. Technical assistance when you're stuck with a technical problem

3. What else?

Then try to address these needs individually.

Sure, you can find someone to geek out over general technical stuff (1), but maybe you don't geek out over the same technical stuff (iOS vs. back-end web), so he/she doesn't know as much about back-end stuff to help you debug (2). Or vice versa.

For #2, there's so much help online though. For #1, look for a developer group (maybe a HN monthly meetup). If there isn't one, start one, and you'll start meeting like minded people near you. A few years back I started a HN monthly meetup in San Diego, and it was a fun crowd.
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Your country already got hijacked by outsiders. You just don't know it because it's a secret.

Yale put Mao Zedong into power. Every US ambassador to China after that has been a member of Skull and Bones.

You are correct that maintaining power in a Democracy is more difficult. That is why the secret society wants to make China the model for a new world government. The US must be destroyed for this to happen.
How is Informix doing?

Last time I used it, it was still an independent company and in all these years I thought it was gone.
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> "The point is if you ignore this or don't understand it you are going to be disappointed."

You can recognise it exists whilst still being disappointed that it exists.

Someone I work with suggested "Perception is the only reality", which seems to fit here.
I would argue that increasing the number and quality of great actors increases the profitably of movie studios, and thus the number of movies made.

Similarly with sports, there is a huge range of player incomes and assuming the sport becomes more interesting to watch and thus profitable their would be room for more highly compensated players.
Step Somewhere-between-1.5-and-infinity: Market the holy shit out of everything you do.
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I wonder if that's what's happening with my Nexus 6P, which shuts down at 40ish%.
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Too bad the kids couldn't be saved from Netflix.
Can you elaborate on what kinds of things fill the 40% difference between PG and MSSQL?

SQL Server is well ahead of PG in query parallelisation and complex replication topologies, even as of PG 10.1. SQL Server is also ahead in change data capture, but PG 10 narrowed that gap. Managing a large user base is easier on SQL Server. If you have those use cases it is well worth the money.

If I need to do something clever with the contents of the table, SQL Server's embedded R is very good.

Having used both PostgreSQL and SQL Server,

Well indeed, most people only use a subset of their DB's full feature set, but it will be a different subset for each person :-) I don't really use GUI tools so I can't comment on that but I've heard that pgAdmin 4 is awful.
> '"you" is the "you" in particular who is having problems.'

Thanks, do you have any insight into what characteristics the people who are having problems may share?
Patrick is a charismatic and compelling writer, and he writes in such an earnestly nerdy way that you think what he's saying must be true. Similar to the guy who wrote The Gervais Principle posts. It sounds great and you feel like you're hit with a series of epiphanies. But it doesn't pass the smell test. The author isn't a wealthy consultant. He's a full-time salaried employee at a YC startup (where he assuredly makes less than $x0,000 per week).
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We are using BQ for 4 years now. Since the beginning with dual-writing to diferent engines. We did an architecture that routes data to Redis, Riak, Elasticsearch, Mysql, BigQuery.
We often have 500+ lines of queries in BigQuery writen in standard SQL that runs our reporting system. The average query time we have is 10 seconds usually scanning at least a terabyte.
We truly love the ability to write in Javascript the UDFs, and our marketing team loves to combine their Google Sheets (mapping data) with a real BQ query.
We heavily use the 'dryrun" feature of BQ to see without running the query how much resources and costs will generate. We even implemented a quota for users, based on this feature, wich works great, and only when they do a mistake in a query targetting alerts them at a certain treshold.
Afer a couple of years we naturally started to consolidate all our data into BigQuery.
Since it's Standard SQL all our team members can start using and reporting + tooling works quite well. DataStudio is another service which we started to use more and more as well.
If you colour between the lines, APEX is fantastically productive, agreed.
Or: just invest a bit at a time in https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/VTSAX/ and forget about Bitcoin. Concentrate on advancing your own skills and career, and maybe invest in some local real estate if you have some extra cash.
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but you need an original battery. Just replaced the battery that seems fake. And.. the clock reduced from 1127 to 600 Mhz instead of 1400 what was I'm hoping.
firefighters, cops and nurses in many Bay Area communities make more than typical programmers and have more deterministic career/salary upgrades...and in many cases, pensions. and they don't have to worry about market forces

the other day there was a story of a nurse in San Jose (no one special) making $260k...more than most people here I bet

Programming is declining in attractiveness and may become a McJob for most
You're missing the biggest reason: advertising. Getting your product on the show is great for brand awareness and probably costs quite a bit, plus free products.
Did you start the first agency? What was its niche?
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>>Not at first, no, but even Patrick had to start at zero, right?

More or less everybody starts at 0. I don't exactly mean 0 as absolute nothingness, but some a low enough value of opportunity possible. That's the seed available to you, and from there you have to bootstrap.

Of course not every one will make it big in this game. But a sure shot way of going failing, is to not try.
What do you think would motivate them to tell you about their successes and paint a giant hacker target on their backs?
Phones and laptops are different beasts. I'm going to make up some numbers here to simplify, but the idea is the important part.

Note: I wrote this whole comment with C inverted the first time. Too little sleep. It is now fixed thanks to user revelation.

First: Battery people like to talk about discharge and charge rates in a unit called "C". If you drain a battery at 1/10C, you will totally use it up in 10 hours. If you drain it at 1/2C you will totally use it up in 2 hours.

Laptop: 5000 milliamp hours at 10 volts for 50 watt hours of energy. This will last for 10 hours of use if you average 5 watts. You will be discharging at 0.1C on average. Your CPU might be a 15 watt CPU, so you can burst to maybe 20 watts total, or 0.4C.

Phone: 1500 milliamp hours at 4 volts for 6 watt hours of energy. This will last for 6 hours of active use, so that is 1 watt. You are discharging at 0.16C on average. Let's guess the CPU can surge to 5 watts. That takes you to 6 watts total use and a discharge rate of 1C.

So that is a 2.5x safety margin that the laptop has for degraded batteries over the phone.

Summary: Phones operate much closer to the current limits of batteries compared to older laptops. Accumulated wear or damage to the battery will affect them sooner.
What if the flaw was earlier in the design? The iPhone has a battery that's 2/3 the size of other phone batteries. Would there even be a problem with a 1000mAh bigger battery?
Not at all -- lots of opportunities for misunderstanding in this thread.
Weinberg is great but I knew him from other material. Thanks.
>The adults

Drop the condescension here.
I wonder if the economy is truly on firm footing. Since the industrial heartland has been stripped starting in the seventies and excessive financialization of what remains from the 80s on wards. After the collapse of 2008, the only thing that keeps the economy up in any meaningful way is the global central banks infusing play money into the system and building an illusion.

As long as the world is willing to go along with this illusion, it's not a problem. But once that confidence is lost, I dread to think what will happen.
I think that once the baby boomers enter into retirement en mas and start impacting on pension plans that are not likely to return to its participants what they were expecting and health services and selling their real and financial assets(stocks, bonds etc..) to finance their
retirement life, real valuation will implode.

People living in cities are especially vulnerable as all their daily means of existence relies on outside sources. Water, food and every other essential is trucked into cities. Anyway, it may take 10 to 15 years but I hope there is a way out this mess.
Can you share what contributed to the healthy remote culture that allowed you to build a solid base?
I used to be bad for trying to correct things I heard people talking about. It really bothered me when i'd hear someone saying some complete bullshit and everyone acting like this person was a genius. It never worked. They don't care and it doesn't matter. People want to live in a world they feel like they understand. If something comes along that breaks that they get scared and defensive.

I've really found it easier the older I get to just not give a shit. In the end, It doesn't matter what other people believe. If they're happy going through the world ignorant about the most basic things around them, then who am I to step in and change that? Just because you or I enjoy knowing how things really work and about the world around us doesn't mean everyone does.
Are you consulting on one project at a time, or multiple?
Not at all. Shoot me an email, it’s in my profile.
I also work at Facebook. These comments do not reflect any internal wisdom at Facebook. The article should probably be retitled "...from a junior front end engineer."

Facebook uses Haskell internally for a handful of projects[0] and its C++ library, Folly[1], uses a lot of functional programming idioms (which are actually used extensively internally).

[0]: https://code.facebook.com/posts/745068642270222/fighting-spa...
[1]: https://github.com/facebook/folly/tree/master/folly
Did I miss something in the article? It didn't make it clear as to where I actually can see it or how...

Edit: I eventually went googling for it, and disappointed I need BlueRay/DVD to view. It can't be hard to distribute digitally these days....
I agree with most of what you wrote, and I do think it was the right call for them to implement this feature for iPhones with batteries having trouble, and I agree most if not all the articles about this have been poorly written and badly misinformed. However...

> for the "Apple should have been transparent" crowd, here's what it said in the release notes

I can't agree that that's sufficient. That little one liner in the release notes just isn't enough.

On macOS, they did more. The battery menu extra will actually display a warning when clicked if it detects that your battery is having trouble. It shows as an extra row at the top of the drop-down menu with a little little caution triangle icon and the string "Service Battery". When you click this, it takes you to a help article advising you to "take your computer in for service". It's not perfect, but it's better than not telling the user anything.

Apple could and should have done something similar on iOS, especially given that there's a whole section in Settings for just the battery. They could have displayed a similar alert icon with similar help text, for starters. A full-screen alert advising the user to get their battery serviced whenever this condition was detected would have been even better. Burying it as a single sentence in the release notes wasn't all that helpful or informative for customers.
Depends, there are many ways of doing consultancy.

I do enterprise software consultancy, which means that those big companies that don't think twice about buying Oracle or Visual Studio Ultimate, hire companies like my employer to come in and develop software for them, instead of having an internal R&D department.

Usually because for those companies software is a by product, something that they need for their real business, the one that they earn money with.

Then you have business consultants, than come in, evaluate the current set of working processes and provide optimization guidelines based on a specific set of targets.

There are other variations.
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The problem with the current phones is that they are dependent on the SoC's designer for update support. If Qualcomm decides to phase out support for one of their SoCs, there is nothing that Google can do about it.

This is the kind of situation that they are annoyed with.
If you’re interested in how this works or would like to try it out you can also checkout the blog post I wrote about the system:

https://blog.veitheller.de/Introducing_anima.html

Please note that you have to have Carp and SDL2 (including SDL_image) installed.
No, you as the person writing this new database, not you as the user of the API.
Why can they not maintain that level of marketing? What is stopping them?
In the case you mentioned, that's basically "credibility."

Although a lame story, Let's say you are responsible for initiating and managing a new software project in your company with complex bureaucracy and management. You have found that it is highly feasible to work with Agile methodology instead of Waterfall.

But Waterfall has been how the things had always been done, yet you know that the team is ready for Agile and project is an exact type of work that would benefit from some "lean" approaches. Worse still, management won't listen, also because "The Board" won't listen.

What you do is that you go to that well-known, highly-paid consultant, discuss the situation and he basically says, "OK, You are right. Also this and that."

Then in your presentation to the board while pitching Agile, you say, "Agile is the way to go. I asked Patrick Kalzumeus, and he said it was a good idea."

And that's it.

That "credibility" is one of many ways how a business consultant may "add value" to a highly organized company.
What do they say? Just small talk like where youre from and whatd you do for a living?
>>Not everyone can be in the top 1% of paid professionals in their field.

The whole point of the 1% is the remaining 99%. The axiom of this game is there are filters enough to filter out the 99%.
Yes, took a week rolling out a new VM system that has no complication of Windows.
This way a single use fleet of build nodes.

Main issues were related to RAM amount. It is rock solid since, remaining issues are caused by ancient software running on it which cannot be bumped without reinstalling the server.

The management and ease of deployment made it totally worth it and the system is much simpler than running a "real cluster" like Kubrenetes or especially a Docker setup.
Original was a chroot that got messed up on OS updates.
Python ships with the system. I am not aware of common Ruby scripts. I am a Ruby dev so I use a exception on that.
Hi HN, I made this.

For those that are curious, courses are sourced from the big guys like– Edx, Udemy, Lynda.com, Pluralsight, CodeSchool, Codecademy, Treehouse, YouTube Conference talks but I also aggregate resources from some smaller niche providers that go deep on a specific topic like– GoRails, RubyTapas, Frontend Masters, EmberMap and I'm looking to add more.

Resources are categorized using basic natural language processing on tutorial titles and descriptions. For example, since the words “deployment” and “blocks” come up frequently in the 772 Ruby tutorials they are made available as topic filters. The categorization system is definitely a work in progress but I think it is helpful for those new to a specific technology.

I'm actively working on adding new resources and providers so if you have any content suggestions let me know in the comments. Of course, any general feedback is welcome too!
Yes, it was so easy to be a self-taught programmer living in Silicon Valley in the 1980s...

You see how this doesn't scale as an assumption about people and their situations, right? Just because it was possible for some people does not mean it was possible for a meaningfully large number of people. We take for granted how easy it is to train oneself as a programmer these days, but then most of us in this space have been doing this since elementary school. Who would I be today if my dad hadn't made enough money to buy me my own PC when I was in the 3rd grade?
> Plain and simple, battery is shaved so much that there is no surplus left (in the name of thinness), nothing to amortize normal battery degradation, so iPhone only works beautifully during initial review and couple of months after that.

This is the crux of the issue. Apple is trying to "fix" a design flaw with software.
Are they in-person jobs?
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Today's pro sports players are, as a rule, far better than pro sports players in the past. Why isn't this happening already? People only have so much time and attention. Also, many leagues operate with salary caps.

You also mentioned movies, but a lack of competent actors is far from the biggest reason there aren't more movies being produced.
An atom is a particular type of arrangement of protons, neutrons, and electrons. If something is not made of protons, neutrons, and electrons in that particular arrangement, it's not made of atoms, by definition.
I'd argue that the ones that are really struggling are the ones that went to some college, but didn't manage to finish. My generation was sold hard on the idea that everybody needed to go to college, but the reality is that most of them were not prepared or equipped to actually complete a college-level education. So an alarming number struggled through a few years, bounced around a couple schools, and dropped out, with little to show for it besides a heaping pile of student debt. Now they are competing for the same jobs as their compatriots that didn't waste a few years and tens of thousands of dollars, and were earning and gaining real-world skills in the meantime.
Not everyone can; but anyone can.
They did in the 10.2.1 update [1]. As well as interviews with the tech press about it [2].

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207453

[2] https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/23/apple-says-ios-10-2-1-has-...
I used to have a similar scarcity mentality --- thinking that because other people were successful, it was like the lottery -- based purely on chance.

But I learned over time to develop a abundance mentality -- rather than say 'it can't be done' -- to change my mode of thinking to say 'how did they do it, and is there anything for me to learn.'

A consultant making 5 figures a week is not a unicorn, it's not even that uncommon. But it's not just coding -- there's other steps that are also necessary but not sufficient. Building a reputation, building a following (a blog or email newsletter is a good way to get started), meeting people who open doors, etc.
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> The functioning of chemistry in individual cells definitely are influenced by quantum effects.

So? Transistors used in modern computers directly depend on quantum effects (semiconductor physics was an outgrowth of QM) as well, yet we do not need to take into account QM when writing software or designing microprocessors.
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As I'm sure we both know, few of those billion people have anything to do with how the government makes decisions about enforcement against dissent. Power is concentrated to a group of people representing a small fraction of the population that is intensely conscious of its own political and historical identity.

The main problem in this thread is people engaging in whataboutism and obscurantism to signal sophistication, because they look at "is massacring civilians bad" and mistakenly think it's a trick question, and set about looking for oversimplifications to correct which they think are secretly attached to the question.

Just like aaron-lebo points out above, a dichotomy between hellish labor camps and flawed western democracies was never posed, yet somehow got corrected. Similarly, I don't think anybody in this thread ever suggested that the problems with the regime were the collective responsibility of every Chinese citizen from Shanghai to Kashgar. Yet those are the kinds of arguments offered in defense of Tiananmen in the name of signalling sophistication.
In general, you're right, but there's a sub-niche of entrepreneurs who are either independently wealthy or have easy access to capital that keep all the MVP-building agencies and consultants afloat.
> You can recognise it exists whilst still being disappointed that it exists.

Yep.

To me an interesting contrast to what I said is Bitcoin.

It has legs of its own to stand on and therefore does not need to borrow credibility from the author.

Imagine if books and blog posts and movies and art work didn't have the author/creator next to it. Interesting to think how people's reactions would change.
"Can not learn?" No.

Not interested in / willing to spend the time to do it? Marketing yourself is a full time job.
In the end you get paid as usual.

The company didn't get much value but they probably don't get much value out of their employees or anything they do. Doesn't matter, you are not here to change the world, they don't want you to change their world.
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