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> It seems like it's pretty hard for the government to compete with private industry in compensation

But you should not compare compensation for the top tech experts. It is not in general the function of the government to develop technology. There are some exceptions (for which there are opportunities for sweetening the pot), but in general government manages things, buying tech when needed.

Majority of it's bureaucrats are very expensive, non-fireable paper pushers. Non-fireabilitg leads to a huge waste. Raising the GS rates will make government even more expensive. To fix things you need to completely reorg promotions, allow for easy firing, do a RIF and give those remaining significantly more authority and autonomy.

Current schedule is pretty generous already once you factor additional pay scale multipliers and benefits. And if you must raise pay for top tech, at least go for the NH schedule, not GS. My 2c.
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No amount of data or ancdotes beats calories in. Fact is, not only is it possible to eat strictly vegan and get fat, it's not even difficult. If the majority of vegans avoid that, it's not simply due to being vegan.

Sure, let's get our data from "vegikitchen.com", quoting from some vegan book by nutritionist quacks.
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One response to this is: the market has spoken, it's not interested in paying for product longevity.

I'm not entirely sure I agree, but here we are.
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Centralised authentication / SSO. A fancy obfuscation indeed.
Yes I was a branch secretary for the M&P union in BT and in all my time I only came across 2 cases where making some one redundant on grounds of NCI was probably correct and one of those was probably due to health issues which leaves one real case.

what I did see on a major scale was manipulation of the performance system to force people into leaving.
You forgot the most important psychological part "... and if that wasn't true, then life would be terrifying".

People believe in the witchdoctor's raindance because the alternative is to believe your entire life is at the mercy of the random chance of weather and could be destroyed at any moment. Which is true, but hard to deal with mentally.
"separations of concerns" is not about putting things in different folders or files.

It is about those things not being entangled as spaghetti with each other.

Reacts Philosophy is that everybody's css/js/html is tightly coupled and therefor using different languages with different semantics and scoping rules increase the cognitive complexity without providing any advantage.

Can I break your app by just touching the CSS? Does any cosmetic change at any point require that I touch the html? Can I write a new style sheet for your app without knowing the JS or HTML? Can I plug in a new style sheet of one application into another? Can people work on the JS/HTML/CSS separately and independently?

Putting your spaghetti in separate folders doesn't make it less spaghetti.

And the market knows it's tightly coupled spaghetti for everyone. Thats why you don't see different job adverts for your three different folders.

The goal was to have a world where the designer would know CSS but zero JavaScript and zero HTML. This goal has completely failed.
>Isn't the norm to use "they"

In theory, yes, but in practice we see "he" used way more. The subtext is that it is a lot more noticeable when people use "she" precisely because the opposite is used so often in typical writing. It is a response to underrepresentation, only made more salient because of the recent political conversation surrounding women in employment.

Your reaction seems to prove the point.
That is because they are attempting to solve the wrong problem

Congress needs to do 3 things

1. Find away to limit and prohibit SSN from being used for Identity.

2. Give People Ownership over their PII, end the concept of "who collects it owns it"

3. Make companies liable for damages when they lose control over PII that is collected

Congress does NOT, should not, and likely can not create rules and regulations to govern data storage, security, etc. They should stop trying as that is not a problem they need to solve nor is it a problem that should be "fixed" in law
Scoped permissions, scoping or referencing the same projects, etc add additional value b
I'm guessing it is because some people (like me) who don't use the nordic layout on their phones (I'm pretty sure the original iPhone at least didn't come with different keyboard layouts) just use 'a' and 'o' instead of 'å/ä' and 'ö' and expect the auto-correct to sort it out. Speaking only for myself I find this feature extremely helpful.
Dude got himself elected while being opposed by both political parties and the media...and he's a billionaire to boot.
> Why are we still using this outdated security model?

Because it's convenient. The alternative would be something like flatpak's portals, which funnel everything through a few standardized dialogs; but how would you for instance use them to implement a media player application which scans for mp3 files, reads their tags, and presents them on a list? A "select a directory" portal dialog either would not allow for a recursive scan, or risk a non-technical user selecting their home directory, and either way would be a strange interruption in the workflow. (I understand, however, that Android has done precisely that for removable SD cards...)
> Copying bytes of a track into a buffer for transmission is not the same as storing a complete copy of the track on persistent storage i.e a downloaded copy done as part of an "offline sync."

Physically they are the same thing. A buffer could be large enough to hold a complete copy and all storage is persistent to greater or lesser degrees.

It sounds like you are claiming if you buffered a small track in a future non-voltile RAM suddenly it's a different license?

The legal difference is intent. What can the user do with the copy and does it feel like a copy.
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As a Swede I can agree that it seems few of us know why that date was chosen. However, I'm surprised you think it's uncommon to know which day of the year it is.
If you go for a second and third helping of rice without additional vegetables, I doubt it. Vegetables aren't a magic bullet. Calories are calories. Maybe vegetables can slow down the absorption so smoothing and flattening out the "transient sugar peak" that the liver has to deal with after meal, but that can be overwhelmed with a big enough intake.

The slender Asians you see aren't the ones stuffing on huge amounts of rice, with or without veggies.
I agree. Most of the least competent developers I have worked with in the past have been contractors.

I assume the instability appeals to them because they can move on before anyone realises what a pig's ear they have made of everything.

Most of the highly competent developers I have worked with have spent 7 or more years in one organisation.

From my anecdotal experience, therefore, tolerance to short-term disruption is negatively correlated to ability. However, I would be reluctant to make any assertion that links potentially unrelated traits like these.

In my (again, anecdotal) experience, organisations with more stable positions have a greater proportion of people who value that stability for its own sake e.g. those with primary care responsibilities (e.g. for children or disabled dependents); those with voluntary commitments (e.g. scout leaders, special constables); and people who have cause to worry about discrimination (e.g. those from demographics that are poorly represented elsewhere in their profession).

That correlation would be one that I would be slightly more comfortable to assert.
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This has only been allowed into Unicode for compatibility with older encodings and is sort of an exception.

> Multiple Semantics. Because nonspacing combining marks have such a wide variety of applications, they may have multiple semantic values. For example, U+0308 = diaeresis = trema = umlaut = double derivative. Such multiple functions for a single combining mark are not separately encoded in the standard.

[..]

> Occasionally, for compatibility with other standards, a single abstract character may correspond to more than one code point—for example, “Å” corresponds both to U+00C5 Å latin capital letter a with ring above and to U+212B Å angstrom sign.

Both quotes from Unicode Standard 10.0:

http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode10.0.0/UnicodeStandar...
I am not sure if it's just money but the public sector can't or are unable reach the same market as the private sector.
Those are two rather different things though?
The US jumped the shark in 1971. A comeback is very unlikely.

After WW2, the US established a system that was used extensively for its own economic advantage: Bretton Woods.

Many countries could use dollars as their reserve currency, and those dollars could be redeemed for gold.

The US abused this system by printing more dollars than what it had in gold, giving rise to the concept of "exorbitant privilege" (virtually unlimited money with no chance of accountability).

This started some sort of bank run and since the US did not have enough gold, Nixon suspended the convertibility of dollars into gold. After that, dollars were allowed to float, and if it wasn't for exclusive deals (e.g: oil), it would have a much lower value.

Now spending on healthcare, education, infrastructure, science, space exploration: all gone.
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> Essentially looks like Intel compromised (whether intentional or not is a different point)

If it wasn't intentional, then it wasn't a compromise. So it's not a different point.
On the contrary, last few seconds of video demonstrate a pretty wide viewing range.

The range shown looks comparable to low quality LCDs before off axis causes color shift. People accept those LCDs, seems that angle would be plenty for this purpose since they also let you (appear to) spin the object.
It doesn't help that there are two competing stories for why the date is chosen. The other story I've heard is that it was due to the Swedish 'constitution' being signed on that date in 1808.
Most places don't work like IT where workers have easily transferable skills across a large market -- getting rid of somebody who you can't easily replace is not rational, suboptimal is better than none. It's not the people it's the organization and incentives around it that matter -- things get really complicated in larger orgs and systems of orgs. In your post it's like there is an easy and clear cut solution to this. You do understand that in an organization you take orders top down or you have a lack of information at the lower levels to make a decision right? You get what you measure and no rank and file employee controls that process + career progression depends on adherence to whatever incentive structure is set up before you started. Also hard as it is to believe, governments don't deal in stupid little apps that are based around some gimmicks. Quality is hard to measure, either you set up an arbitrary hoop for people to jump through or do it based on past performance which is almost completely tied to the environment -- which coincidentally dictates what problems are available to work on which also coincidentally dictates the skills you develop; it's not like implementing a ranking system is a perfect art either. I'm not a fan either of how things are, I know more about the pharmaceutical procurement process and pharma regulations than I ever wanted to.
I read it more like selectivity is higher for foreign students then for Americans, which would inevitably lead to such a skweed outcome. That said, I will agree with [citation needed].
That's what all the "non-Swedish physicists" thought.
I disagree entirely, Atlassian is moving to accomodate both lightweight teams and rigid organisations.

If you look at the most recent changes to Jira, like the Agility boards announced at Summit, it’s about starting from as much flexibility as Trello and expanding to as much power as standard Jira (if you need/want it).

Disclaimer: ex-PM on Agility boards, no longer at Atlassian, opinions are my own.
I think they meant the principal civil service in general from what I see the intelligence arms are are a bit more open to hiring non standard recruits.

BTW the NSA equivalent does hire school leavers and even advertises on the busses locally as I live in spook county (befordshire)
The US is a big country with different states, but so is the EU.

The policies of Holland, Denmark or Germany could definately work in the US, if only the people developed a different stance on criminal behavior, healthcare, guns and taxes,

America is the land of opportunity for some people. There are a lot of other countries with a lot of opportunities and freedom. More than 2 million people are incarcerated in the US right now. Where's the freedom in that?

America is very egoistic and hard country, built on the lives poor people who were left behind by their fellow countrymen.

With their stance on criminal behavior, healthcare, guns and taxes, the people in the US are definately more egoistic than people in more social democracies.
Easy: Erratas are actually specification updates. (And indeed, not just by sound and smoke, since most errata are never fixed but rather declared this-is-how-it-works-now).

In some abstract, philosophical sense it means that the specs are actually elected by majority of the produced processors.
Depends if the "tribute" or taxes payed are actually returning to the people in the form of services like roads or schools, fire department all those things. If not, and a rich guy gets most of it just to get more rich then yea, I'd see why people would see this as a scam and criminal behavior.
There's nothing wrong with being happy where you are... but it's true that since learning is always a little painful, you need to make sure that being happy isn't due to not learning.

One thing I do: every time I make a mistake I try to figure out why, and how I can avoid it next time. Then I write it up for my newsletter (https://softwareclown.com), which forces me to dive enough deeper that I can explain it.

Initially I was worried about running out of mistakes, but turns out I make them all the time :) Which means there's always a relevant learning moment around the corner.
> America IS the land of opportunity and I would challenge you to find any other country which provides better opportunity and still protect your rights as well.

That's pretty easy. The measure you are looking for is social mobility. Most of Europe is more socially mobile than the US. In layman terms, it's easier to climb from the poorest quintile to the richest quintile. It's the result of the free education and social safety net that Europe is famous for. If you really want a country, ironically in Denmark social mobility is double the score of the US' [https://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21595437-americ...]
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One can't remove 'Apple apps' because Apple follows the BSD logic: https://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/01
Ahhhh ... it doesn't suffice to simply do your work without slacking, we need no less than the best and brightest for mostly boring office jobs in the government!

Maybe some groups within the NSA need the best and brightest, but the government in general doesn't. A lot of government work concerns accounting and administrative tasks that are neither intellectually challenging nor do they have a clearcut equivalent in business. Most government agencies cannot be run like businesses, because there either is no market to speak with or the markets for their 'products' are not free and open.

All you need is people who get their work done.

> but we must also make it easier to fire people (or manage them downwards) for incompetence

That only works if you start at the very top. If you get what I mean.
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Why try to win a case if all you need is a settlement? Going into an actual trial is far riskier than negotiating a settlement, for both sides.
The article concludes the usa has lower social mobility simply because the very rich, are now much richer thus it is harder to move to that income group.
//Off Topic// As an ex-Notes developer, good to see it still used.
I wonder if this is related to the recently discovered design flaw in Intel CPUs:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16055395
Or alternatively, "I like to pay taxes. With them I buy civilization" and some would consider pointless wastes of time as a tax too, just one that benefits no-one.

Apparently the anti-tax element of the Republicans are responsible for taxes in the US being much harder to file than in other countries, because they follow your principle that paying taxes should also inconvenience people in an attempt to make them angry about the whole thing.

Presumably they're not supposed to find out who was responsible for making them angry and wasting their time with pointless busywork.
Looks like a great update! Definitely how they re-worked the bezier approach! There are some innovations here which I would love to see in Adobe Illustrator as well.
You can not trust the user. Never.
What happens to the fat that you eat if you don't burn it off?
Not just product execution but GTM strategy, pricing. Jira is cheap. It’s a no brainer.

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The point of the article is that there's no documented way to do the SIP procedure in reverse.
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You're making big generalizations about lack of usage and economy, and you've provided no citations or verifyable grounds. For example, did you know about https://www.projectcoralreef.com?
Because those two sports are largely profitable and often subsidize other sports.
That's an awfully long time to be in a state of "failing"? Can we quantify what we mean by "failing" here?
I had a 17" Iiyama 'Diamondtron' (really trinitron) monitor through the late 90s and well into the 00s. It had amazing picture quality for the time, put up with a fair amount of abuse and was still working perfectly when I gave it away in '05.

But then flat screens hit and all of a sudden I could have more screen real estate and more desk space. No contest really, the future had arrived even if the future was worse colour and response rates for a while.

I can't imagine the tonnage of CRT needed to recreate all the flat screens around my home and office now.
are they ? the latest version has a bunch of new things: https://wiki.qt.io/New_Features_in_Qt_5.10 and the git seems relatively active: https://github.com/qt/qtbase/tree/dev/src/widgets
Could this problem be attacked by a goodwill billionaire with a long-term plan? Open several private medical schools that will offer "free" med education in exchange for multi-year contracts. Open many small copycat clinics. Manufacture your own generics if possible, import whatever is cheapest, focus on things you can do cheap, be transparent about pricing, build awareness and brand.

McDonaldize/Amazonize American healthcare.
It is not unique to healthcare either. It is simple a common aspect of large organisations that have too many stake holders that need to coordinate to get things done.

It is an interesting organisational problem.

But inefficient does not mean expensive. Generally you see a lot of inefficiency, much like with code, when it is not the hot path. If you would fix all the obvious inefficiencies it will not drastically reduce cost (actually: it would mean the hospitals have more money, so anybody selling anything to them would up their prices)

Inefficiency only makes a difference when the price is based on cost not on negotiation position (i.e. value based). So in a red ocean as they say, there is a strong economic incentive to fix all in efficiencies and squeeze the last dollar out of it. This is referred to a race to the bottom.

But health care is the opposite of a red ocean. And no price is too high if it means survival, so the consumer (i.e. the patient) needs a much better negotiation position. For example: having all patients collectively negotiating the price. If only over time the invisible hand of the market would have created structures for this purpose again and again everywhere in the world. Oh wait! It did. It's called government.
Can you define what do you mean by slow connection?
> Wouldn't even surprise me if we have nukes in space.

There's a treaty prohibiting that. Of course, it wouldn't surprise me if the US broke a treaty unilaterally, then was eventually discovered prompting an international arms race to space to the detriment of everyone.