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also: broadband. It originally contrasted with narrowband, and they describe modes for propagation of light through fiberglass cables... I thought it was really weird when I heard people on mainstream radio discussing such things. Eventually I realized they were using broadband as a synonym for 'fast internet' :P
Well, you'll get US-centric answers.

The longshoremen union is a great example of a union that stops technology.

The auto workers and steel workers unions didn't help the Midwest stay afloat either.
Modernize:

1. Base promotions on skill, not seniority.

2. Address problem members properly -fire transgressors.

3. Allow cross-industry move (people change jobs)

4. Eliminate corruption

5. Think of workers + company (not union for the sake of the union, etc)

6. Don't politicize (cozy up to one candidate or another) fight for beliefs not political parties.

7. Don't promote luddism.

8. Don't get in the way of work (only union members from local 783 can turn that screw and we won't have one in the shop till Monday next week)

9. (almost forgot) Stem outsourcing.
Absolutely.

But Atomic was architected as containers infrastructure and is/was a direct competitor to CoreOS and other lightweight container OSes.
No - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-hour_day
In America, if you open a business and advertise for workers and offer slave wages, nobody is going to apply.
Actually, the Federal tax credit was supposed to disappear in the tax bill, but like magic, when the smoke cleared and the dust settled at the end of the all-Republican final negotiations, it was unchanged. I think you misunderstand the current political climate. It's more likely that the phase-out will disappear.
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"Contractor Did Not Provide Personnel Proficient in English
DMV represents the contractor is not meeting the RFP requirements for proficient
communication. In the RFP response, the contractor represented all project
personnel will be proficient in communicating, speaking, and reading English.
DMV had to edit project documentation and meeting minutes provided by the
contractor for grammar and spelling because they were not written in a clear
manner and were not useable. Consequently, required project documentation
and meeting minutes have not been completed timely. "

This tells me everything. In my experience nothing turns a project into a slow moving trainwreck more quickly than poor communication. The ambiguity and confusion it creates saps all morale and clarity of purpose out of everyone.
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OIG rather.
I think this is in part because software is such a 100x type of profession. There are lots and lots of single person software companies. And there are startups doing with a handful of excellent programmers more than giant corporations.

Since the work isn’t rote and the talent is super creative, this means it’s frequently better for the individual to not need a union.

I’m sure there are other professions, but I’ve seen more copies of Atlas Shrugged on programmer bookshelves than other professions.
They're not wrong in the sense that they're not even wrong (similar to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong, except in this context).
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Yeah, camelcamelcamel is the one that comes to mind for me.

Also, for Amazon Video, instantwatcher.com, but not sure how they monetize. Way easier on a PC to navigate Amazon Video Prime and Netflix than on their native sites. Amazon still leaves a lot to be desired though.
It’s great that unions got us weekends off and ended child labor. Thanks unions!

But that was a century ago. What have they done for us lately besides bankrupt state pension systems?
You should be able to fire slouches no questions asked. Not sure why that's controversial.

Yes, we have minimum wage laws, child labor laws, OSHA, laws in place to ensure you get paid, wrongful termination laws, and so on.
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Many unions in America have developed into malevolent forces that seek unfair competitive advances, often to the detriment of many people working in that industry.
I don't think anyone is planning on selling that car anytime soon, so you're out of luck. The Smart brand is going all electric in the US, but the battery will probably be too small for what you want. No one else is planning a 2-seater, except for very high-end cars.
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> You may ask, “Who cares what some dad from a flyover state or some businessman from another country thinks of us?”

Do people really ask that? I'm sure they do, but the lack of respect for the "fly-over states" from America never fails to surprise me.
I find the knobs on the steering wheel to be fine on the S.
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Very much this. Their design is one of the most frustrating things about using the website. I'm mainly buying books and maybe some home goods on there. You would think at this point the metadata would be so much better (and I assume it is for their recommendation engine) but browsing, learning about products, etc. is still not as much 'fun'. I'm fine with bare basic but please make it useful.
That makes sense. Our problems are somewhat different. Do you need to deal with arbitrary combinations of foreground and background colors? For me this was the hardest problem to deal with because of subpixel antialiasing.
As an identical twin we have 99.99% the same DNA. But after conception you have epigeneic factors that will start to play. Or even the fact that we don't live the same lives. For instance I like doing math for fun. My brother doesn't care for math at all really.
> People lacking sight, hearing, mobility, and similar would disagree.

I think "to see" is meant as a placeholder for any kind of sensory input. I doubt that people who lack any form of sensory input with no way to communicate would disagree even if they could -- while they are in that state. As somebody who experienced some knock-out after an accident, I'd say the consciousness is a fragile something (but uses any straw to re-establish itself).
Vanguard Target Retirement funds have been a great baseline: https://www.fool.com/retirement/2016/07/04/why-vanguard-targ..., https://investor.vanguard.com/mutual-funds/target-retirement...
> The letter also reveals that in Kermit, West Virginia, a town of just 406 people, the company delivered 6.3 million hydrocodone and oxycodone pills between 2005 and 2011. For just the year of 2008, the numbers work out to Miami-Luken providing 5,624 opioid painkiller pills for every man, woman, and child in the town, the committee notes.

> “If these figures are accurate, HD Smith supplied this pharmacy with nearly five times the amount a rural pharmacy would be expected to receive,”

So it's normal to supply 1124 pills per capita&year to rural pharmacies? Something seems strange about these two pieces of information...
This is probably because most American's exposure to unions is the teacher's union, and the teacher's union promotes based on tenure, not merit.
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Because all of the problems with unions come from the "closed shop" -- the right to exclude non-members from working freely for companies. No one has a problem with voluntary associations of workers (e.g. ACM or IEEE); the issue is when a group is allowed to force a business to only hire members of that organization, or to force all employees to pay dues to that organization.

Your "labor contracting corporation" would just be one competitor among many. If it tried to increase the price of labor, it would be bypassed.

Right-to-work solves the problems of unions. It also eliminates most of the power of unions, so it is unpopular with trade unionists.

The only unions I really want to see eliminated, though, are public employee unions (prison guards, especially, but also police, fire, teachers, etc.). Those employees have other means to redress grievances. I'd also like to see AMA and ABA (which are effectively unions, but for people making far higher wages) de-fanged as well.
I have worked as a contractor with TI audio team. I have heard from them that, HTC Taiwan team is one of the best in the world.
Not to demean you, personally, but you sound like every other bright eyed ad-team member I've ever spoken with. Have you worked at other "top-tier" advertising platforms like AdWords, or Facebook, or Yelp?

Do you think anyone on the AdWords team feels differently about their product? That's why their public statements are so convincing, because they believe them.

Maybe Amazon's situation is different. Alls I'm saying is that I have no way of knowing.
We have laws against discrimination, workplace safety regulations, the Family and Medical Leave Act, numerous state and local laws for starters. These things have teeth and companies have to take them pretty seriously.
Keep in mind a lot of less-sophisticated users will just mash navigation keys (or click-drag the scrollbar) instead of using more sophisticated navigation commands. If high-speed scrolling isn't reasonably optimized, it will be noticed.
In addition to the other comments, what interested me about the findings mentioned in the 2016 quantamag article was the shared problem solving required to answer Joe Corbo's sense that there was a pattern to be found in the distribution of retinal cells.

To conclusively identify the pattern, the biologists needed to contact a theoretical chemist who studied optimal object packing density. Looking at the rest of that 2016 article shows the possible shared mechanisms and mathematics behind not just the hyperuniformity found in chicken retinas, but the same packing phenomena in other systems/objects. It is exciting to find organizational principles which can be seen in many different systems.

The other elements I like are that any study of receptors and neural organization, connection, and communication is that this outside-in approach ties in with study of the whole visual system and can connect other neurophysiological and cognitive findings. Not only is this relevant for some specialists, but many people are curious about the conscious experiences and capabilities of other species so learning about this may generate popular interest depending on the findings.

As a commentator (twic) mentions below, one of his colleagues did not care about the receptor packing patterns in her data. However, what one person ignores or deems a waste of time, another can pick up and use. Somewhere out there is a graduate student who is frantically looking for a finding to publish so I bet someone would be interested in looking at the control, visualization, quantification, or prediction of receptor spacing. I don't work at the cellular level, but this sounds fundamental. Mr. Twic - any reason not hand off your observation to an undergraduate or other interested party?
My S doesn't squeak or rattle. From the various complaints I'm sure Tesla has built some that do, but you might be over-generalizing a little.
OK, but that isn't how these devices work.

Source: I've used lots of them and it's a real pain in the ass.
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Labor Unions were obviously a big factor and that link does a great job documenting that. But why did unions at that time choose to bargain for a decrease in hours worked instead of pay increases?

Because wages had risen sufficiently that workers valued an increase in leisure time more than they valued an increase in income. It required productivity rising to get to this point.
be much more aggressive about sharing solutions between institutions or making them available as open source outright (see https://code.gov/#/).

How different can the needs from one DMV to another be?
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I call this phenomenon “adolescent” libertarianism.
The amount of money a tech worker makes shouldn't really factor in. A personal example: Non-competes are banned in California. They're banned in Illinois .. if you make $13/hr or less. Why does your income change your rights?

I've never signed a non-compete and refuse to. In the past most companies that had them would just take them out. "Oh they're not enforceable anyway, so if it makes you uncomfortable we'll remove it for you." I still sign NDAs, waver of patent rights, waver of copyright, anti-poaching, agree to all IP transfers, etc. etc. I just refuse to sign things that say "For 6 months after your employment with x .. you have to ask us if you can work for y" (I've never even worked for a direct competitor of a previous company).

Lately it's been getting more and more difficult to fight for this right. It's getting to the point where I've considered moving back to California just because I know this right is protected by law.

Tech workers don't have unions. We don't collectively bargain. But a lot of us also don't fully read contracts and hold to certain labor standards.

And as a side note, if we had unions and they drove down wages a bit so everyone gets paid more fairly, wouldn't that help a lot in cities were rising wages drive a wedge into income inequality? People in Seattle and The Valley who run restaurants and Starbucks have to live pretty far away and commute 1 ~ 2 hours on a train/bus/car to be able to afford to live in cities where only a few decades ago, they could live and work easily within less than an hour bus commute.

If unions could drive wages more equal (even if they'd go down a bit with everyone getting paid more equal), wouldn't that be beneficial? Wouldn't it be nice if everyone's wage wasn't a secret? If you're a Junior or Senior or SA-I or SA-II, everyone with that tile gets paid the same so everyone knows what everyone makes and you make that same amount no matter if you're black, white, male, female or other?
I have always, always, always gone back to vim. Fast, efficient, clean, portable, heavily-featured, strongly customizable. It's trivial to call shell commands or inline python code generation.

I glanced over much of the presentation, and none of it was about the editor itself as a user would see it. I'm impressed and glad for the technical investment, but to be even a consideration for a replacement, I need a focus on how it's supposed to be an improvement, not just a substitute, for vim.
They could pay attention to the person doing the selling, whose customer is the buyer. Swap-meets are generally one-way markets; much less swapping and more of a marketplace to sell (cheap) goods.
How about minimum vacation days, parental leave and healthcare coverage?
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ironically many programmers ARE doing fairly rote jobs. And getting paid more than ever for it!
I don't use go but some of your more general complaints sound like good things to me.

> Regardless of which you choice, Go appears to lack the niceties of prebinding the JSON into a struct. Boilerplate. Oh, and you have to do the same to write the JSON out!

The more time I spend doing maintenance the more I've learned to love this sort of boilerplate. It makes it much easier to trace where things are being used across the system, no reflection magic that causes the trail to run cold and forces you to use a debugger. I know programmers hate writing boilerplate, but it really isn't so bad and makes maintenance that much easier.

> Ever tried to use transactions with Go? You have have to personally keep track of it. Every SQL call has to peg against the transaction because the connection pool won't manage it for you.

Again I like this explicitness and don't want this hidden. Whether I'm operating inside a transaction scope or not in a given piece of code should not be a mystery.

> Also the DB and Transaction structures have the same general interface, but DON'T implement a COMMON INTERFACE!

I agree that a common interface might be nice, but given that there is seldom a good reason to operate without some kind of transaction is it really that big a deal? Just always use the transaction interface.
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The S and X have full climate control and audio on the steering wheel buttons. You might also find that you mess with the audio a lot less when you're listening to Internet radio.

There are a ton of aftermarket storage solutions if you like a big hump. I don't want that much stuff up front, so I didn't end up buying one.
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You do realize that it was unions who brought about the change for these laws right?
How would a union harm employees?
The few “squeaky wheels” making the most noise - determining the very face and presentation of a context (in this case a field full of cattle, in GP’s case a handful of advertisers on radio) - is an old idea that even has prose to describe it.
> Seems like if you're on an anti-union bend you could give specifics rather than vague complaints?

I'm not the person complaining about CWA. That's the user "packetized."
First mover problem - nobody wants to take a pay cut when the carrot of homeownership is close but still so out of reach.
Sure, but who gets to decide who is a slouch?

And once you dive in to the details, thats where life gets muddy.

I do think it's controversial that a single boss that might hate you for totally irrelevant reasons be able to fire you on a whim. Made up performance standards and the like.
You're kidding yourself if you think at will employment is used to just "fire slouches no questions asked". It's a gun to your head held by your boss. One wrong step and you're on the street. It's ironic that "the land of the free" is so keen to submit its citizens to such a tyrannical workplace.
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Tenure is actually valuable at the University level .. or at least it was when professors weren't afraid of controversial research. People like Churchill, post 9/11, kept their jobs and promoted ideas that, although not everyone agreed with, at least promoted discussion and made people think.

Today, let's take an controversial issue like say: climate change. There are actually quite a few secular scientists that don't agree with a lot of the man-made climate change ideas. Al Gore would have you believe differently. Many of them even get their ideas published, but they're often criticized heavily and often pushed out of Universities, even though they have tenure.

There are also documentaries like Waiting for Superman that place every fault of child development on bad teachers and teachers unions. It's a pretty bias film and doesn't even consider other factors like bad neighborhoods, bad parents or poverty and tries to squarely place all the blame on teachers unions.
> 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.

There is another side of this coin too. I just finished reading The Box, a book on the advent of containerization, and it's appalling how unions fiercely fought any sort of mechanization. A job that required only 1-2 longshoremen mandatorily needed many more because unions said so. Days, and sometimes weeks, were wasted on strikes when a consensus couldn't be reached. Jobs that weren't needed anymore were still forced to be kept because any labor-saving innovation was undesirable. In the end, it was more cost-effective to compulsorily retire the longshoremen with a guaranteed income than to fight them.

I don't deny that the unions serve a purpose but the exploitation of their dominance can surely set back innovation by years. I wouldn't want to part of an organization that mandates that I can't touch PHP code because I am a Frontend Engineer.
If you cannot fire workers at will, you will be much more cautious when hiring and trying to ramp up quickly. When I read about other areas trying to incentivize startup culture (e.g., France) they try to replicate one or two factors of Silicon Valley's success, they seemingly fail to realize that there is a panoply of reasons why Silicon Valley is what it is.

I won't try to argue that at-will employment is the primary reason, but I do believe that it is an important one.
The "facelift" S is your new generation of the S.
But let’s say the spots are actually only worth $10, in terms of the ability to generate revenue. If you sell them to someone else for $20, you win because you get more money than the slots were worth. If you sell them to yourself for $20, you don’t lose any money and you can still make $10 (which is more than the slots originally cost you).

However, Google claims it is not doing this:

> As part of the change, Google said it would operate its shopping-ad service as if it were a profitable, standalone business to ensure doesn’t overbid for ads.

Still, “profitable” could be by the slimmest of margins, and Google would still have a strong incentive to keep the “standalone” business going (that is, the profit to their other business), whereas an independent company wouldn’t.
Did the gov there actually help him? Or just not hinder him?
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>Google's hardware approach sucks

What is wrong with the Pixel hardware? (Have never owned one and have only heard good things)
If you say this in the sense of having all of your needs met by vim or emacs, I agree with you completely. [I'm a vim guy but I know emacs folks exist.]

If the issue is the claim that Eclipse/Atom/PyCharm/JetBrains products are fast enough for you, I couldn't disagree more.
That’s true, but I think the rote programmers are making much less than the awesome folks. I’ve done a bit of hiring and it’s pretty common to have 50-75k salary bands for positions based on performance. That’s a huge swing. You the different between being a cog at AT&T or something making $75k and a profit center developer could be 150-200.

This isn’t even accounting for all the entry positions at $40k and all the google stories of $500k after stock.

I’m always surprised that BLS shows the average national salary to be like $80k.
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I never considered that scammers specifically tailor their message to be “dumb sounding scam” in a calculated way (to attract the right targets and repel others). I always thought it was just the nature of the intelligence level of folks who choose to scam rather than work to make something.

It’s just even more pure, distilled evil - with no benefit of the doubt of stupidity - when viewed from this angle :-(
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>2) Do you not see the flaw in the logic of “something worked before, so we should keep doing it regardless of changing circumstances.”

Do you not see the flaw in the logic "Something is imperfect, therefore discard it"?

I work at one of the most rewarding (financially) Information Security employers in the country, I believe, and I enjoy most parts of my job. Does that mean I should not be allowed to coordinate with my coworkers on fair pay and overtime conditions? At what point should I "suck it up" and who gets to say?
But tailored hardware might be.
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