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> might require faking some plane tickets

> who says they are there for tourism

I'm not a nomad, I guess I enjoy nesting too much for that to be an effective lifestyle for me. But I'd be very cautious about choosing a professional lifestyle that's predicated on routinely misrepresenting myself to the authorities.
It doesn't say "require". Possibly they are selecting the same information over and over again, instead of passing it along the different functions, because it is fast enough.
Sure you can, but my point was I'll bet most people don't. They just get this crap from an article they read because they don't think about all the ramifications, or don't think about it much at all.
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This little bit of political sparring was my favorite part of the article:

>SB 827, Wiener’s bill to mandate increased density near public transit, was recently the subject of a spat on Twitter between the Senator and former Beverly Hills mayor John Mirisch. Mirisch began his tirade by calling the bill “a bizarre combination of Soviet-style master planning with raging crony capitalism…the urban planning lovechild of Vladimir Putin and the Koch Bros.”

>“Not quite sure how he got to this conclusion but definitely scores high in the melodramatic response competition,” Wiener responded. “Interesting to say that my authoring a bill to allow more housing near transit makes me Putin, since I sort of got the idea from a guy named [President Barack] Obama,” he remarked wryly.

The name dropping and mudslinging here is pretty laughable. The reason reason for conflict seems to me to be misaligned incentives though. The idea that a place like Beverly Hills is going to have to throw up a bunch of new housing to please CA congress is ridiculous, since essentially the city now has to find a way to destroy existing housing or places of business in order to throw up new, cheaper housing, assuming the bill passes.
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Thanks for you answer, you have opened my eyes! I didn't think to use the domain records. 2 levels would be enough considering I didn't know you could do more than 1 level.

Do you know a good starting resource to set up any of those methods?
> It's unlikely the parents pay more in taxes than they receive in benefits like free schooling for their kids.

I think it's a mistake to assign the educational benefits people receive (whatever age they are at the time) to their parents.
This is going to sound worse than I intend it to, but If you can't tell when a programmer is blowing smoke up your ass during an interview, you are either asking the wrong questions or you need to have someone else in there with you.

Interviews, technical or not is a psychological process. Ask them about their previous projects, ask them what their favorite projects were and why. Ask them what their least favorite projects were and why. Ask them what the hardest thing they've worked on to date was and why.
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This is a technical point I haven't seen anything about so I'd be glad if someone can inform me. Does the constitution of USA grant the first ammendment rights to everybody even if they are not citizens? If yes, then are the protections equal to those afforded to citizens?
Who are you to state what is generally acceptable in the United States?
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Roads are a public place, subject to constitutional reasonable regulation (by the states, not the federal government) as long as not in violation of our right to travel. So you picked a bad example. Case in point, if I own a vehicle that never leaves my ranch property it doesn't need license plates, insurance, or a drivers license to operate it, and I can go as fast as I damn well please.

What I do in the privacy of my own home is none of yours nor the governments fucking business.

>"people do need to be told what to do"

This is a disgustingly subservient slave mentality. Enjoy your self-forged shackles. The worst part is you would put them on others and tell them it is for their own good!
Then I don't understand what you meant by this:

> > But as for Slack, you DO have to be a team player.
The last three corporate wikis that I have worked with have tended to contain some very useful and well maintained sections detailing stuff like developer machine setup and tooling.

They have also contained large amounts of information from separate projects, none of it which was relevant to my task at hand, and on top of that they have contained a wasteland of obsolete pages, the contents of which was trusted by no one.

I don't have a problem with the concept of a Wiki per se but I do have issues with treating them as a magical virtual haystack on top of which you can shovel information and from the midst of which you can painlessly extract needles.
Isn't gevent still better than async/await ? (if it had core support it would be, kinda like golang)
I got Ambroos#2772 or #2727 (can't remember, it's been a while). Which is fun, because I have a thing with 27 as it's the birthday of all my grandparents (moms side) grandchildren.
That's fine, just understand that is a technique for finding "growing" developers, and still not a great one for that. If that's what you are looking for, that's fine. If you want tops, this isn't the way to go. Unless you've already hired someone that knows a top, you probably won't get them anyway.

Think about it this way. It takes about 2 hours to learn how to write unit tests for someone who has never done it. Why make something as trivial so important in your interview process? I understand unit tests are important, but they aren't difficult.
California always amazes with its goals, decade after decade of leadership among the states. Building is promoted to improve affordability. Building is discouraged to preserve the environment and maintain a local culture. Building is promoted to provide new transportation options. Building is discouraged to reduce congestion, contain sprawl. Building and not building at the same time helps California maintain its unique logical and psychological balance.
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There's nothing really to learn. It sounds weird to say but anything you can imagine a computer doing is possible.

For the business process you want to optimize/predict/classify/etc generally you want to have a lot of data or the ability to generate it (eg. like AlphaZero).
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You look at, say, Fresno and there are properties for sale under $200K (although that's below the median of $300K+). I assume those are not the most attractive places but they certainly exist. That's the 5th most populous city in California so it's not exactly the middle of nowhere.
"Only a small minority of countries across the world enforce any rule about having to prove that you will actually leave the country".

My guess is that it will depend a lot on the passport you arrive with.
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Click on the linked site (or: https://sqlite.org/np1queryprob.html ), the sqlite project explains it
Really puts a point of the phrase "to bury one's head in the sand" - doesn't it?
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You do realize that an English longbow's pull force is probably 5 to 10 times the bow you are using?

I don't disagree though, these archers were farmers first, which builds massive strength, and archers second -- which again, builds massive strength. People today, even hobbyists, aren't training for life and death battles. Even daily training won't compare to being a commissioned soldier.
I know the founders of this company (we live in the same city).

I've seen how much hard work and emotional energy they've put into their product over at least 4 years. And I've observed them go through a whole lot of different experiments on how to optimise their on-boarding process for new customers.

I can tell you that their current signup process has been tested and optimised to within an inch of its life, in order to get the outcome they want, which is to attract users who are serious about using the product and will be happy to pay for it as soon as they're convinced it does what they need.

As the article says and as another commenter pointed out, they now make enough money to pay both founders a modest monthly wage.

They don't sell advertising in the app, they don't sell your data, and they haven't taken funding. Every cent they make is from people who love their product.

Please believe me when I tell you they really don't mind when people are turned off by the requirement to enter payment details.
Slightly more than half of my working days in my 19-year career have been remote. In my experience, Slack is hands-down the best tool for bridging onsite/remote. I can choose to engage with it in real-time for active participation for inevitable unplanned discussions, but there's also a historical record to reference. If the real-time chat merits "let's hop on a call" it happens then and there (in which case someone needs to be scribe, to summarize the takeaways in-channel, for
posterity).
Catching up w/ the conversation after a heads-down stretch (or vacation, whatever) is straightforward. Proper use of channels is important (ie, not just a firehose in #general) but very easy to establish, and the benefits compound.

It's not just real-time, it's real-time plus async/archival. Best of both worlds if done right.

To borrow your "cavemen" analogy: email and undocumented verbal conversations strike me as prehistoric / uncivilized, in comparison.

(That's leaving aside the benefits of having a single hub for ~everything, which Slack is ~uniquely suited for given all the integrations.)
I do appreciate the perspective on bug fixes. A bug is a bug - fix it. This does not mean that security issues are not taken seriously, but that all bugs are taken seriously.

And in return, you should be able to apply any patches coming from upstream without fear of breaking anything. Having had to deal with patch management on Windows, I really appreciate that.
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you can't change your profile id though. That's what's called a "steam id". You can change the URL (steam custom url) however. But accessing your profile with the steam id will still work.
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Being a team player is measured by communicating and working together. It just so happens that in some organizations communicating and working together happens on Slack.

That was the point of my original comment: in one of these organizations, the fact that I struggle to work because I have noise coming from Slack that I'm expected to respond to is NOT my lack of discipline. The person I was responding to just took a fashionable meme on HN which was originally meant for Facebook and mindlessly applied it to Slack. Not applicable.
Unfortunately for Steam, your login username is still displayed in some places like the top right of the Steam app and any computers you choose to share your library on.

It's also likely that they used the login username as a primary key, which means it's unlikely to be able to be changed anytime soon.
If you are making up random usernames on a banking site, attackers aren’t going to know your username. So it is two-step.

The username isn't supposed to be a secret, social engineering will most likely be very easy.
And you can see the distortions on the musculo-skeletal system that pulling those heavy bows over and over for years inflicted on longbowmen from their remains.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2235150/Elite...
Even so, querying data once and reusing it is usually the more maintainable option and probably means less code, too. It is not only about performance.

(And just to be clear, for my use cases, I have been very happy with SQLite's performance.)
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> GUI software that could be composed of independent, interconnected parts (like Unix pipes for the GUI)

You should look into Plan9. I think it fits that description in some ways. (Disclaimer: I've never used Plan9 before)
I guess we will just have to disagree. What works for me may not work for others. I would never sign a contract that sells all my personal work to the company I only get paid 9 to 5 for, and I don't know anyone who has. Also, it's pretty evident when someone posts their companies code to their GitHub. Simple questions and looking at the code can dispel that. If they do manage to squeak by and pass all the interviews, I don't see how a takehome would have made it any harder anyway.
> The software developers and software companies of today are on average not to be trusted: they will outright steal the customers' private information and sell it or give it away without a second thought.

This is an 'unintended side effect' of the software-as-a-service model. When software was licensed the software itself was what made the money, and there was no way that someone would buy a piece of software if it did not at least try to keep the data safe, in one piece and on the users' computer. But with software-as-a-service the user expects to see their data moving elsewhere and once that has happened all bets are off on how it can - and will - be monetized.
"but end up living fulfilling and productive lives regardles"

That doesn't happen though. Not because of existing drug policy, but because of the all consuming nature of addiction.
Just to check that we are on the same page: when we say "threaded conversation", be we both mean the ability to visually group the messages in the conversation in hierarchical trees[0], right? Because I don't recall ever seeing anything like that in Slack, nor being taught how to do that. I haven't used it in quite a while though.

Even if it is there, the affordances of the UI[1] don't seem to encourage this style of conversation. There is a huge difference between something being theoretically possible for expert users, or intuitively embedded it in the mode of conversation.

Mind you, I'm not saying that hierarchical trees are a panacea. I think human conversation is much more similar to the way branching and merging works in distributed version control systems, but I can't see how one would easily make a conversational UI based on that.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversation_threading

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordance
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I'm a Burmese Buddhist and strongly against both the arrest of reporters and killing unarmed people of any race/religion. But there is a hidden agenda behind such article.

It used the word "Buddhist" many many times, such as Buddhist village, Buddhist neighbors, Buddhist community. The conflict is much more complicated than religious and those Buddhists mentioned are in fact local "Arakan" people.

See following NY Times article, not to defend the killing or anything but to show the matter is much more complicated than it seems. The western medias have been entirely one-sided and barely listen to the other side of the story of local Arakan.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/02/01/world/asia/rohingya-my...
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This is really good, as in there isn't anything really to disagree with good.

I've found Edmund Morris's books about Teddy Roosevelt to be a great insight into this time because he was such an epitome of the Gilded Age generation that wanted empire. 1898 really does seem to be a crucial year, prior to that the US had not gone much past enforcing the monroe doctrine (see Cleveland's disagreements with the Germans over Venezuela). Teddy is front and center during this time when the US conquers Cuba and the Philippines. Within a few years Hawaii is conquered/stolen (this is the colony that never got away), Panama is basically annexed so the US can get the canal.

It was a weird kind of imperialism. The US actually gave Cuba its independence really quickly (02-03?), but it was economically dependent. When Castro came to power like 80% of the Cuban economy was owned by US holders. In the Philippines, horrible things were done to the Filipinos who resisted. This was done under the auspices of Roosevelt and Taft who otherwise were very moral men. See their actions domestically. They just had a very paternalistic view about the US's role of spreading civilization. Mark Twain (who apparently posted this link) was a huge critic of these actions. The US was very aware that it was getting into the empire business and there was lots of debate about it.

There were many holdouts and it took both world wars for the isolationist sentiment in the US to be completely broken. Not surprisingly, maybe, by FDR, who modeled himself after his older cousin in more ways than one. After WW2 the ship had sailed and the US had so much global power (all the old empires save Russia dying), that it no longer really had a choice.

Someone on HN recommended Oliver Stone's Untold History of the Unites States. It's a really good look at the other end of this empire. It's obvious where his biases lie (check out his Putin interviews for some real ass kissing). Sometimes he says cringeworthy stuff like "this particularly American sin of xenophobia" (like really dude, you know this much about history and you're gonna say that), but it's great criticism and something lots of people would do well to watch.

Not to be too pretentious, but we must know our history. So many things that are currently happening have deep roots in the past. Hopefully someone will find these recommendations useful.
This is pretty neat...but is "dashboard" the proper descriptor here? I was expecting something completely different, when I clicked the link. Perhaps "turn your Gist into interactive charts" would be more appropriate?
> Most people understand Fizz Buzz, building up and solving the problem with a neural network shows that a bit of ML code can solve the problem without being programmed explicitly to do so, quite a good example.

If you train your model with completely different data than you use for inference, there is absolutely no guarantee that it will work as expected. In this case, they trained with numbers >= 1024, where numbers <= 100 were used for inference.
A Wordpress page with 12 posts will do 60 queries - shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=41607

I should imagine something running on a generic ORM (ie without the optimised queries) would use considerably more (Rails, IIRC, will often do two queries to load a single object.)
We're in Saigon right now! Bangkok next but thinking about Chiang Mai.
The owner of this company knows how to order coffee in spanish, wow. /s

Don't bother learning the local language.
Don't bother hanging out at local cheap bars.
Don't bother paying a fair price for things.
Abuse parts of the world and turn them into playgrounds for "bloggers" and "YouTube creators".

Digital nomads, especially from the Silicon Valley startup area, are the new digital colonialists destroying Asia and Europe (viz. the gentification of Thailand and Portugal) so that they can have 9$ massages and a story to tell. Fuck you, from the deepest part of my soul.

Let the downvotes pour.
/rant
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This one is just on Joel's site though - it was written by http://www.benjismith.net/
You are right in that meetings are prone to being wasteful and unarchived. A few considerations that I find necessary for meetings:
- Schedule in advance (if possible)
- Set an agenda and provide reading material (if available) such that attendees can prepare
- Be selective in who attends; those with relevant knowledge, interest or stakeholders
- Record meeting notes (key decisions, unsettled conversations, differing opinions)
- Appoint a chair to keep the meeting on track, as per the agenda. They can also help shut people up and give others a chance to speak.
- Share the meeting notes with the team at large
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I'm having trouble getting the reference..do you mean some type of drug? Or do you mean the soldiers' salary?
The "digital nomads" I know fly more than anyone I know. The discounts they find make them beneficiaries of our not accounting for externalities of the pollution from flying.

Does anyone know the carbon footprint or pollution levels their lifestyle causes? My intuition may be off, but they would seem high.
Your resentment may or may not be valid. Can you explain any reasoning behind it?
I haven't gone through the traditional interview process since 1999, and that's just because I was only a few years in and wanted more money. Every job I've ever gotten since then has been from someone I've worked with before. They tell their boss, they take me out to lunch and it's a done deal.
Hey cut them some slack, PR articles got to follow certain grammar standards! /s
It’s as though California is a giant state with a diverse population, both politically and geographically, with lots of competing interests that, over time, has gone through various political and leadership changes that reflect that diversity.
>> Nobody cares about autorouting trivial boards, but there are serious economic incentives to turn 8+ layer boards into 6+ layer boards.

Sure, but if a tool can't route a trivial board like the author had, what hope does it have for doing complex designs?

On a related note, pick up an old arcade game board from the 70's or 80's made by Atari. They're all double sided and are very cleanly routed. The Cinematronic CPU made from 74xx series parts is also double sided and very cleanly routed. In both cases though there is a lot of area not covered by components, but they're still works of art.
I'm confused, would you mind clarifying? What is for Google-domains/business only and has been discontinued? I'm using the software I mentioned with a regular @gmail.com account and it syncs fine with my Google Drive. I don't have gSuite/a business account/anything else.
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You mean modern Blizzard does that.

Oldschool Battle.net had a 16 alphanumeric characters with underscore allowed and that was that. At least for Warcraft 3 it's been the case since 2002 for a very long time (until quite recently last year they allowed fancy symbols in usernames).

You also had to login at least once every 3 months or Blizzard purged your account.
I don't disagree with you but I'd point out that the creation of DevOps was based on the idea that the bridge between Sysadmins and Developers was too large. So why don't we train up some developers on Sysadmin skills?

At least at my company, with two exceptions, if you want to be part of the DevOps team you need to pass a developer interview first.
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Actually..per the article, hopefully the same one we all read, given the flight time of an arrow, there were likely at least 1 if not more than 1 arrow per archer, in the air at a single time. So at least 5000 but likely more.
Worst I've seen is a CMS site which, with caching disabled, used upwards of 40,000 queries to load the homepage.