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Yep. As weak as union laws are in the US, firing workers for attempting to organize is a surefire way to run afoul of the Wagner Act.

As per the article:

> Outsourcing jobs abroad for the purpose of punishing or discouraging union organizing, as opposed to a valid business reason, would violate the National Labor Relations Act.
So something akin to BBSs with a central registry?
Well no, unions also collectively organise to legally represent themselves to lobby and fight for better conditions at work, via legislation or judicial decisions.

Such legislation or judicial decision-making may or may not include making it illegal to do destructive bluff-calling, since an argument can be made that employers shouldn't harm the economy just because they find it offensive that people want to collectively-organise themselves in order to reduce the power imbalance inherent in an employee-employer relationship.
Yep, we don't want to talk about this...and maybe it's unfair this particular example is getting focused on...but yes, it does have many of the hallmarks of the software industry's dirty little secret: we like shiny new stuff, and we've gotten really good at convincing ourselves and others that novelty is not holding an undue influence in our decisions.
I was at Google during the Motorola years. There was no integration whatsoever, by design. The Android team bent over backwards not to give Motorola any special access.
These are good suggestions for anyone starting an online retailer.

But when it comes to overall innovation I'd argue that Amazon is significantly out-innovating Facebook, Apple, and Google, each of which seem afraid to take any big risks or make any obvious long-term bets.

I think markets will catch up with this reality at some point. I reorganized my tech stock portfolio to reflect this view yesterday.
The narrative is that they only wanted the patents (and the experimental division) of Motorola.

Although I suspect that Google's directionless approach does not help.
Either you are confusing verbosity with complexity or you have never actually written a "complex" software in C++. There are too many things to think about while writing a piece of code in C++, most often than not, you are bound to get things wrong.
What advertisements? I don't see any.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It seems like Source Insight for Linux/Mac.
Yup, and the good ones don't usually advertise since word gets around that they know their stuff.
Good, because unions have long outlived their usefulness. The time for them is OVER.

Why organize for the privelege of being able to fork over a good chunk of your paycheck for not a damn thing?

HOW DO I KNOW?? I've been a union member. CWA. It was worse than worthless and useless. A net negative in every respect. 20% of my net pay for not a damn thing. Unions are a waste of time/money/oxygen.
Worked for me. what? Bypassing the paywwall is this simple? Does this work for other news sites with paywall?
From what I'm seeing on GitHub, Rust has beaten it to the punch, mightily.

Levien's Xi video today being yet another example.

edit: As for why, languages are more of a battleground than a substrate. If you have a choice between Swift (Apple), Rust (Mozilla), Go (Google), or D (Walter Bright), most people are going to flock to one of the bigger forces.

Golang is a kind-of underwhelming riff on Pascal, but I use it anyway for network stuff. Why? Google has given it an instant ecosystem with plenty of well tested libraries, docs, and howtos. Never underestimate the ecosystem.
Presumably you mean they're to low? Don't forget that land and construction prices have continued to increase by a fair amount in the past two years, so expect to pay somewhere between 10% and 20% more, depending on the area. Also note that your local muni government may flat out refuse to let you build the house you want to build, depending on which city you're in and how big the house is you're trying to build.
+1

We've also built https://github.com/vpsfreecz/vpsadminos recently which is based on not-os / NixOS
Kodak died 6 years ago when they went bankrupt, and split into 2 Kodaks: Alaris and Eastman. EastMan Kodak is the one that we're talking about here. They mostly make money by selling their brand name. That Kodak phone that came out a couple of years back was made entirely by another company, and Kodak just slapped their brand name on it for some cash.

Kodak Alaris is the company that makes photographic film (but not cinema film, that's Eastman). They're not going anywhere fast. I think that the number of film shooters, and demand for film, is going to stay relatively constant for the next decade.
I would love to see how much of the purchasing and decision making committee was composed of people who didn't understand technology, let alone how to procure and implement technology.

At the highest levels, there is a self-preservation disease permeating most organizations where CxO's try to fake it till they make it with the IT/Systems decisions they take on, and it turns out like this.
A graph of income share versus union membership:

https://i.redd.it/nhp7e2rzy8d01.jpg

Think also of the insanely high CEO pay.
Or local universities[1]. I think they had their then current staff train their replacements --what gall.

Now, imagine if the faculty president thought "hmm, I bet we can save a bunch if we do remote teaching. We'll get super large interactive displays in every classroom and we'll have faculty in [some country] teach our students. We'll save millions!"

[1]http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/UCSF-to-outsource...
But I thought they were unsuccessful in joining the union.
20% of pay, what the fuck?

Unions here range from $50-$100 / month memberships generally (Aus)
The person overseeing the NLRB was the lawyer on the side of the government breaking the air traffic controllers union under Reagan and generally sides against unions.
there are also MASSIVE spans within the human genome that are copies and copies and copies and copies.
The question you should ask is why wasn't the contract given to an American software company ?
A workplace, sure... but if a kid was bouncing a ball against my home's windows when I wasn't there, I'd sure want someone to come by and tell them to stop.
I am not confusing verbosity with complexity and I have written all kinds of C++ software over a career of 15 years ranging from legacy core banking systems to hardware drivers. In fact, the simple C++ code often tends to be verbose.

When you are writing complex software, you are bound to get things wrong in any language, not just C++.

What I am arguing for is that C++ code need not be complex even if the C++ language itself is complex or the software is complex.

If you have an argument against this, please make it substantiatively without resorting to insinuation about the kind of work I do or not do.
> I think D is way better for beginners than Java or C

I love D but tbh I disagree. I think an optimal-ish progression for learning programming languages is:

Python (basic programming&computer knowledge, algorithms) -> C (low-level knowledge) -> ASM (optional, only if you want to learn extra low level knowledge) -> C++ or Java (to learn modern OOP concepts. D's are a bit too complex and the error messages aren't as good and thus off-putting to a beginner) -> D (amazeballs metaprogramming) -> LISP (amazeballs metaprogramming and FP)

Neither C, D, nor Java should be beginner languages. They're too big and fancy. (To be fair, python does this too, but it does a bit better job of hiding it, and exposes an api that can be leveraged to teach people programming even if they don't understand how it works.)
Any advice on how to find a good GC? All the people I know who remodeled their home seem to have horror stories. A couple of them ended in law suits with the GC.
> Organizational Values

> “We win only when our customers win.”

> Fast, Deliberate, Accountable, With Integrity

> Resourceful, Empathetic, Inclusive and Creatively Frugal

Creatively frugal. Check.
Not sure about the others.
Tech Mahindra contractors, not surprising. An acquaintance of mine came in on a job with them- they pay all their guys salary which is kind of crazy. That guy was doing better than the hourly contractors with family time and pay. Something sketchy is up with them.
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Ad auctions have 100ms to reply to an auction request.[0] This does not give you a lot of time to display the perfect ad for a given customer or search. Especially when you need to do this at the volume that Google shoes ads.

[0] https://www.quora.com/How-do-ad-exchanges-and-real-time-bidd...
Can you link to info on the TV show? Because all I can find is Morgan's recent blog post recounting his visit to the set:

https://www.richardkmorgan.com/2018/01/fragments-of-a-jet-la...
And that right there is the reason housing is so expensive in the Bay area: people oppose any and all new housing, so construction falls far short of population growth and there's a shortage.
Experienced developers know that a mess can be made in any platform.

One issue with a position and maligning statement like the above against any platform is that it actually enables said charlatans to charge way more for a sub standard developer base who end up being over paid, because skilled developers are not as readily available to fix, and ideally refactor the system.

Hardest of all to imagine is systems that have had legitimately tens of millions of dollars of mission critical and hardened infrastructure that manage more complexity than many of us will ever handle.. are written in platforms like Powerbuilder.

I have personally never used Powerbuilder. I know some ace developers who spent a lot of time (among other things) using Powerbuilder and they have said it's like any other language or framework - lots of messes, some good stuff too.

Still, I won't ever stop noticing the kinds of hateful comments people throw at others because of what stack they work in. It's sheer overlooking of opportunities.

Comments like the above are like saying all wood is bad because we saw a house built poorly out of wood.

This approach excludes folks from the real huge innovation projects that are coming due as these platforms and projects are gradually renewed or refactored.
That I guess is a subtle nod to the company Pied Piper in the series Silicon Valley [1].

In the last season one of the characters built an app called "SeeFood", a Shazam for food:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNyi3nAuLb0

The app ended being used at Periscope to detect penis which explains the ending for the website too.
It's unfortunate that you had a bad experience, but I don't know how you can expect anyone to respect your view when you've made it blindingly obvious that it's based on a single experience you've had. The "unions don't have a place anymore" argument is nothing more than privileged neoliberal propaganda. Shitty apathetic views like yours are how workplace standards slip.
Oh come on, just because your union is shit doesn't mean all unions are. Historical unions are why we have 8 hour workdays in America, and Fight for 15 in the present day is doing great work. Don't generalize, that's sloppy and emotional thinking.
Not to mention living with all of your extended family under one roof, starting a church or homeless shelter or disco club, stockpiling enough food to outlast a zombie uprising, or displaying your collection of luxury cars you never drive....

More seriously, in general single-family houses should be on the order of 1000–2000 square feet. The rest is typically a complete waste (nobody I know who has a 4000+ square foot house actually uses most of the space – people with real on-site wood shops etc. put them in a separate space detached from their home, not in spare bedrooms), and serves to isolate households from each-other, force a car-centric lifestyle, drive up housing costs for everyone and force people working essential menial jobs to live far away and commute long distances, cost much more public infrastructure than denser alternatives, etc.

I have a several rich programmer friends (early facebook or whatever) who bought outrageously large houses in Silicon Valley as a status symbol, but work all the time, eat out every meal, and only go home to sleep. What a tremendous demonstration of unthinking excess.
oh wait, here it is,

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2261227/

I'm disappointed -- it's on Netflix.
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Why was it designed that way? Can you elaborate?
Apple comes across as people friendly, a hardware company who provides a tangible, usable set of products. Google comes across as what they are, an ad company with a semi-decent search engine and an OK web mail and docs platform. I stick with my i-devices and Fastmail.
Wow. You're 3 for 3.
Sorry, I should frame my response by noting that I live in Australia - a country with way more employee-friendly hiring laws than the US. 4 weeks of paid leave with rollover, sick and carers leave, much better rights wrt getting laid off.etc. Even with these advantages over the US, I still see a need for unions.
after being an iPhone user for 6 years and recently switching to android (first a pixel, then one plus) I can say with confidence Google's hardware approach sucks. Android can do a lot more than iOS but it does most of the simple things in a user unfriendly way
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Yes, both are true.
The time for doctors is over! I went to one doctor who misdiagnosed my condition. He charged a lot of money for the visit too! Nobody needs doctors based on my experience!
Advanced robotics is utterly dominated by C++.
Unions have failure modes. So do businesses, bridges, bodies, and, well, most things. Having a front row seat for a failure of any of these doesn't mean the time for them is over, though it might mean there's lessons to be learned about how they should be put together and managed.
Kinda offtopic, but apparently they also own a Formula E team. Big money.
I was pointing it out because the feature is called "hash randomization".
> Chatting with a former coworker and apparently Oracle has their own (dysfunctional) cloud offering these days.

I think that's right. I keep getting emails from Oracle sales claiming they are going to save me tons of money if I move my cloud to workload to them. When has Oracle ever saved someone money?
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The attitude towards unionisation on this site is sickening.

I live in a country with a very strong union movement and the only reason I'm able to sit here typing this message is because my parents and grandparents unionised rather than live off of slavery wages. That may mean nothing to Americans where it's every man for themselves, but don't think yourselves so lucky that you got to the position you're in without workers uniting with one another and ensuring they get a fair share against the greed of the few.

It might not have affected many of you with the silver spoon you have in your mouths but the only damn reason that kids still aren't working in sweat shops and you get to go home at 5pm is because of workers organising and having each other's backs when abuses and overreach occur, and a little bit of solidarity for each other is necessary when you see such flagrant abuses like this.
Recent article: https://danluu.com/input-lag/
Where is the DEA in all of this?
> C++ falls into an uncanny valley, it is neither high level language with all of the benefits (e.g. programmer efficiency, certain security guarantees, lower barrier to entry) or a completely low level language (or at least it isn't if you want to benefit from most of C++'s advantages over straight C; you'll avoid a garbage collector but not a lot of "magic" behind the scenes).

There are lots of high-level, cost free niceties that C++ provides that I miss when I have to fall back on C. Generics and RAII alone are quite nice.
Don’t a lot of systems have built in protection against that now so that a user is forced to confirm?
Step 2: bigger union.
As much as I see flaws in unions in the US, that graph should be plastered on everyone's eyeballs whenever unions come up. Unions are one of the very few proven ways to address inequality

The others are worse: war and revolution.
D looked cool when I was struggling to learn C++, and got a little bit of buzz on some sites I was active on, like gamedev.net. That was 12-15 years ago.

I'm just not sure that middle ground between C++ and Java/C# is terribly compelling, and has also been swamped by later entries like Rust, Swift, and Go, which additionally have major backers.
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I just quit my job as a Software Architect for one of the biggest hosting providers in the US. I am available for short term projects if you are still looking.
It looks promising, but the current result isn't great. Use cases for something like this is very specific... perhaps mass conversion of thousands of photos from 4:3 into 16:9...
the only damn reason that...

Doesn't labor productivity increases and spending some of that new found wealth on leisure time also have something to do with these things?
Wealth is always concentrated in the hands of a few. It's the same story with Bitcoin.

http://www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-97-are-held-by-4-of-a...
Is the new Ektachrome that's being released by Kodak being released by Kodak Alaris or Eastman Kodak?
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It's not a big enough improvement over C++ to warrant switching.
I think OP is referring to a potential settlement. The engineers' case alleges the startup violated the National Labor Relations Act.
Crypto used to exclusively mean cryptography. Cell used to exclusively mean unit of living matter. Language evolves, and it's the popular culture that decides meanings. Cryptography isn't as popular as cryptocurrency. I don't know what you expect to gain by holding on to a definition losing the language war.
There's no doubt that unions in America have had their problems. But the solution was always better (more democratic, less corrupt, etc) unions, not less unions or none at all.
I use Apple Notes. I have no problems with it seamlessly syncing nearly what seems like real time with my desktop and mobile iOS devices.
I remember reading somewhere that they did not integrate to not alienate other phone manufacturers, they were trying to avoid making the manufacturers feel like second class citizens.
This is assuming they have the money to pursue the back pay in court and the NLRB ends up agreeing with them.
We're going to need to see some evidence that the CWA is taking 20% of your net pay in dues.
it's illegal to fire someone for joining a union, attempting to join a union, or forming a union.

Alex is probably referring to their settlement offers if they prove their case to the NLRB. But the truth is the penalty will probably be far less... they'll likely just be required to rehire the employee and back pay wages from the date they were fired to the day they're rehired (if they win).
Presumably to avoid any impression of special collaboration between Google and Motorola that would have spooked the large Android OEMs of the time - Samsung, HTC and LG.
Do does that mean housing prices are justified based on construction costs?
Managers spend a lot of time in meetings, and have to deal with personnel matters such as performance reviews, hiring, layoffs, pay issues and interpersonal conflicts. They bear the responsibility for the work of their entire team. They try to shield their teams from all the nonsense that's coming in from upper management so their teams can concentrate on their work. Some people thrive in this kind of job, but others don't. After being a manager for ten years, I got tired of the stress and went back to being a developer.

One more thing: new managers rarely get the training they need to do their jobs well. They have to learn by making mistakes (some of which can be very costly and painful).

I definitely think you should become a team lead before becoming a manager, since it gives you the opportunity to learn about leadership without having to deal with many of the other issues that a higher-up manager needs to deal with.
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I don't know why you seem surprised. It's not at all unusual for a skilled tradesman to be well compensated.
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Simply put so that the oems like Samsung were not allienated into forking Android or going with another OS not that Samsung and Lg didn't try going with another OS.
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> Yes, it has a ton of warts if you know where to look.

I've never had to go looking to find warts in C++.
I've written and shipped plenty of software with modern C++. Ownership and move semantics mean that after writing a few helper and utility functions, things go pretty smoothly. The most concise and direct software I've written has all been in C++. I can organize and transform data directly instead of jumping through hoops or suffering from enormous amounts of overhead and indirection in a scripting language.

Not to mention I can create stand alone executables that have no dependencies and wind up smaller than most scripting language's interpreters for entire openGL based programs with GUIs.

One thing that doesn't often seem to get considered here is what your user wishes you wrote it in. I don't want my software to come as an assortment of scripts that depend on interpreters that themselves might have dependencies. One file is all it has to be.
I’ve not seen it on racing drones (likely for the reason mentioned by others), but have seen it in mid-range pre-built ones quite a bit. For example, the DJI Mavic has a similar configuration to what you mentioned.

I’ve built or bought well over two dozen drones ranging from palm sized to my beast, an octocopter with a 5’ “wing span” that draws hundreds of amps at 25v at max throttle, but never got into racing. I’m much more into the building and photography aspects. I’m tempted to build my own software from scratch next (there’s great open-sourced platforms, but I like the challenge of doing it myself).
Regarding Mosh and control mode, Eternal Terminal https://mistertea.github.io/EternalTCP/ provides the same resumable session, and works flawlessly with tmux control mode.
I'm not really sure. I followed the instructions on the README to build with "xcodebuild".

It's painfully slow, moving the cursor 1 character to the right takes like 10 seconds.

Do you want me to file a bug?
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Yes, that is correct. But I think that's a pretty reasonable provision. Taiwan has internet, and people from Taiwan trade Bitcoin.