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> This sounds like a really interesting job - consultancy?

I'm not OP but I do the same thing, solve the problems and bugs that the dev team can't. In my world, this is simply "Operations" or, in later years, "Systems Engineer." I'm really good at doing that but I am not at all skilled at large-scale software development even though I can read and understand already-written code as part of my troubleshooting.

Descriptions like the author's are why I'm dismayed that Ops has such a bad reputation in the modern computing industry and why I'm not so keen on the combination of the two roles into "DevOps." Troubleshooting a working, in-motion system requires a different set of skills, in my experience, from writing and debugging code. It's also a set of skills that doesn't seem to overlap very often. The two roles go hand-in-hand, of course, but asking someone to do both in a large environment hasn't ended will (again, in my experience).
It's true to a first order approximation.

If there were no exceptions, then how could those born into wealth persuade themselves of their own moral superiority?
Step -1: Read too much /r/personalfinance, come to believe the dogma that all investment is completely unpredictable, diversification is the ONLY possible way to make money and that past results are a sure-fire indicator of the future. Preach your dogma as the one true answer to anyone who will listen.
Right, and oftentimes (but not always, anymore) companies contribute to your 401k as well.

Also, as a self-employed person you can contribute up to $55,000 in the year depending on your income, in what's called a SEP IRA.
There's a great and relevant Radiolab episode published just a few days ago. It discusses the Commerce Clause of the constitution[1].

Something I didn't know is that when the US government ended racial segregation in privately owned businesses they did so not on any sort of human rights or equality basis. Rather they argued that businesses being able to deny black clients service has a depressing effect on the economy, and is thus something the federal government can regulate under the Commerce Clause.

Today there's still people who think that was a bad call not because it ended segregation, but because it gave the government precedent to regulate other things via the Commerce Clause.

1. http://www.radiolab.org/story/radiolab-presents-more-perfect...
Not my field, but I've heard it suggested that China-style government corruption is better for innovation than US-style. When influence buying is less pervasive, more concentrated in large incumbents, the resulting regulatory capture, and associated intellectual policy (patents and copyright), places more of its anti-competitive emphasis on reducing the threat of innovation.

One of the concerns about TPP, and especially its investor-state dispute settlement (sort of regulatory-capture insurance), was globally institutionalizing the less innovationally-productive style.
You can do this without deleting records of transactions with that individual. You would however note that you can no longer identify the buyer because of such request x on date y.

Instant EU VAT law violation if you do this without retaining the required proof of customer location for at least 7 years. Formal tax investigation(s) to follow if you're big enough to be interesting and doing this systematically, possibly by up to 28 different member states' tax authorities depending on how much tax revenue each suspects that you have avoided paying them. Good luck. :-)

If your architecture is solid then these change requests should form part of ongoing BAU, no? Submit change request, develop, test, deploy...

And again I come back to my recurring theme that for many smaller organisations, almost every term you mentioned in that paragraph might as well be written in a foreign language. Small organisations don't have dedicated staff or established formal processes for running a lot of their day-to-day activities, never mind things like regulatory compliance.
Java was far less open back then than it is now, and this lawsuit is a good example.. There was even a question whether you could have a clean room JVM implementation at all.
Agree. Once the management fees are considered, you don’t come out any better than an index fund. At least that’s the conclusion in A Random Walk Down Wall Street.

Reminds me of John Stossel throwing darts into the newspaper stock section, and doing just as well as managed funds.
Dang posting a polite comment, to which the author responded positively by editing his post, is censoring?

Excessive generalization is the problem, by the way. It's important to be careful to criticize a particular behavior without criticizing everyone in the region.
That doesn't mean they should not write tests for the cases they _can_ think about.

It's better to have some test cases, rather than no test cases. Even if only the golden path is tested, that's still better than nothing.
The progressive bubbles are still rife with racism, it's just not as obvious. Think of stop and frisk, school district segregation, gentrification, modern day redlining, etc. "Progressive" people often still hold subtly racist views. The kind of thing you see black people point - say like in "Get Out" and "Insecure" - is completely common place, where well-meaning liberal people perpetuate racist systems.
>Prior to your edit you made the claim that “violent speech doesn’t lead to violence”

I didn't make that claim, although I regret trying to trim down my comment because now I can't easily quote what I really said. Indeed, it's quite disingenuous to put those words in quotes!

I claimed that it's not calling for violence that silences people, but the resulting violence itself. As a result if we just cool down the violence then no new restrictions on speech are necessary. Indeed, if the physical world is kept safe, then no speech will be scary.

You might not think we can be trusted to keep the real world safe, but then how can you expect the same imperfect society to keep speech tamped down?
A good way to tie the money and non money aspects of signaling is to change the definition capital. Sure there's financial capital, but also social capital (who you know can often be an asset) and intellectual capital (i.e. what you know).

Different groups have different methods of valuing the different types of capital, so the serious engineer example can be someone who has a lot of one type, an an average amount of the other types of capital. Basically just a paraphrasing of the signaling point but a useful model nevertheless IMO.
I'm guessing the tldr is that there are issues. Just read this article which is taking about potential solutions (or the lack there of).
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Good luck if you're in a state that allows non-competes or forced arbitration for contracts. The companies pay the arbitration and will black ball you in the entire industry. Protection for American workers is a joke.
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I think you may have misunderstood. When the OECD talk of efficiency, they mean a tax that is efficient to collect. It is one of the fundamental principles of taxation in the study of economics.

"Efficiency: Compliance costs to business and administration costs for governments should be minimised as far as possible."

That is a quote from

OECD (2014), "Fundamental principles of taxation", in Addressing the Tax Challenges of the Digital Economy, OECD Publishing, Paris.

This seems like a fair criticism of the post above where something other than a progressive income/profit tax was being suggested.

RE: Marxism

I don't really think you have taken the time to find out who the OECD are. The OECD are the "Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development". Their role is to spread the market economy, and in particular work on double taxation treaties between countries. The antithesis of Marxism.

> This suggests we should simply invent money as-needed. Destroy it when not-needed.

This is the kind of misunderstanding you get when you model national finance like a household budget. Money is created and destroyed constantly by governments, and even more so by banks. When banks lend money it comes from nowhere. Governments run deficits for years, where they create money that didn't exist before.Taxation is exactly the destruction of money. This is not Marxism, it is economics.
Yes, but the model does more to confuse than explain the problem of American racial segregation. For one, it suggests that blacks share an equal responsibility for segregation as whites. It suggests that whites and blacks are both free actors with equal power and self-determination. Neither of these are true in America, of course. Whites started out with a huge surplus of power and control over blacks, and the Civil Rights Era was the struggle of blacks for equality. Today, there continues to be a huge imbalance of power which can be observed in the wealth gap.

If one studies the history of the failed campaigns to desegregate America's schools, it's apparent that segregation continues to be something imposed on black people and not the result of mutual preferences.

I feel strongly that this model does far more harm than good as a tool to understand American racial dynamics.
I believe that one compelling use case is to avoid the overhead of cross language boundaries (ie JNI) when the native code is compiled to bitcode and run with Sulong.
I am struggling to read their comment in a way that suggests that.
The SEP IRA sounds like the equivalent to a SIPP in the UK, basically a DIY pension, although there's no requirement on you having to be self-employed to get one.
It seems not, because, even later:

"fr24feed appears to be doing 12 NTP queries direct to servers around the world every ten minutes, which is about three times as much load as the pool recommends and appears to be a very high load on the parts of the world where there are few volunteers running NTP servers"

https://forum.flightradar24.com/threads/11042-Excessive-DNS-...
That's funny how a huge company may bring a technology to the mainstream and then kill it just like that.
Jabber, RSS. Open protocols that treated their monopoly.
What's next on the kill list? HTTP, email?
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> This whole idealistic fantasy that this time around "we're going to get it right" - whether it's because we're smarter than those who came before, or we have better tooling, or a better framework, or better languages, or whatever specious reason is given - is just that: fantasy.

I'm glad smart people before me have decided that they're going to try and get stuff right or at least more right. Say what you will about Java or C# enterprise software, but I can't imagine COBOL was any more fun.
Unfortunately, every story about smart speakers is flooded with comments like yours, saying that they're evil and they can't understand why anyone would ever buy one, while stories about smartphones never get any comments like that. If smartphones are the problem, why are you complaining about smart speakers instead?
I get your points.

Incidentally, I had read good reviews of OS/2 Warp in a computer magazine, PC Quest. I think they included a trial or full copy of Warp with that issue on a CD. (They used to do that now and then, and I got to try out QNX for a while that way - very fast and light OS.) It was a while back, but I remember a few things, like they said it (Warp) was very stable, maybe fast, and probably a few more good points.

I remember terms like System Object Model and Workplace Shell, although I probably did not understand all of those concepts fully - a bit too junior at the time, maybe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System_Object_Model

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workplace_Shell

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/2
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This seems to be based entirely on an anonymous post, at least as far as the linked tweet goes. It wouldn't really surprise me anymore if anything like this happened, but there doesn't seem to be any evidence here. Or did I miss something here and there is more than just the anonymous post here?
There are a bunch of crawlers that aggregate that kind of info -- I'm building a new search engine, and I'm not in the business of publishing stuff that would encourage anyone to block my crawler.

builtwith.com is an example, but they're being pretty strict with what you can see for free these days. And hey, they only know about 2k sites using script integrity, so maybe I've got a bigger crawl than they do! :-)
Collecting a growing pot of tax revenue from a shrinking pool of workers will not be without challenges. Emigration seems likely, although I suppose the elderly majority can then vote in an exit visa scheme.
Yeah, I would agree there's quite a disconnect between "rubber hits the road" and the "Gospel of Docker".

This was magnified when I attended Dockercon in Austin last year. As a very small team that has used Docker (and ECS) to solve some problems, I was excited to learn more. It became quickly apparent that I was at the wrong conference for that: it felt like an enterprise vendor party where everyone was passing around cups of kool-aid.
>Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information, on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, politically incorrect or "inconvenient" (wikipedia)

Yes, and it effected the desired result: the speech was altered.
Keep reading. They hammer hardcoded NTP servers constantly, as opposed to abiding by the pool guidelines
IMHO,

strace -e trace=file -f program

is much better in this case.
There's already an officially-sponsored bookmarklet[1] to do this.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/bookmarklet.html
> The argument against unlimited tax free contributions is that above a certain point it becomes a tax break only for the rich.

That's where the lifetime cap comes in I guess. £1M isn't that crazy over a ~40 year timeframe for someone on a high income who isn't necessarily 'rich' and, at current annuity rates, won't buy you absolute luxury in retirement.
I don't think this article is arguing that the Fields medal should imitate the Nobel prize. Rather, it argues that the Fields medal should return to its early selection criteria: mathematicians who have
1. done good work,
2. look like they will do more good work/positively impact math, and
3. would find the Fields medal's recognition and prestige useful in doing future good work (e.g. in getting them collaborators or funding)

The article argues that the <=40 cutoff is a poor proxy for points 2 and 3, and also seems to make a separate point that the habit of awarding mathematicians who are already professors at top institutions means point 3 may not be addressed well either.

An example of the kind of person this might help is Yitang Zhang, who made substantial progress on the Twin Primes conjecture in his 50s after a relatively quiet math career as an untenured lecturer beforehand. Granted, his result was big enough to get him a MacArthur and a professorship at his university, so he may not need extra recognition. But perhaps there are similar, less-lauded cases.
For the nested object traversal, is there a reason this uses string based paths instead of array based? Dynamic path building via string concatenation feels messy.

Seems like there may be a performance hit too with all the string operations inside 'utils/getNestedObject'. Probably not an issue for messing around in small amounts of data, but using this to manipulate a big server response could run into issues.
Macs were considered useless toys

And then Apple supplanted Sun as the biggest Unix workstation vendor on the planet, pretty ironic!

Back in the 90s I did most of my Java on Mac, using the excellent Metrowerks Codewarrior environment. It was considerably more productive than NetBeans (or whatever it was called then, I forget) on the Ultra-10 I also had on my desk. Writing was on the wall for Sun even then...
Bloomberg terminal because it is the best way to get up-to-date financial and other news reported impartially. I also pay for Medium.
Like Grigori Perelman did?
CSP reporting is an unprotected form, in itself a vulnerability.

The author of the article is biased as he made a SaaS product for CSP reporting.

CSP reporting should be for local debugging only.
> Not sure why he/she hates webpack or any sort of web bundler.

Not OP, but I have built up a natural aversion to adding any new tool as a dependency to my work flow. More complexity, more edge cases, more things to worry about.

I tried webpack, with settings from the tutorial. It took 7 seconds and the result was a JS file much bloated then the parts used to make it. Given that, why should I bother? I have programming to do, not build tools to yak-shave.
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> The Trump administration is also looking to trim the budget of NASA’s earth science directorate

> The nearly $1.8 billion budget for that part of NASA would be about 6.5 percent lower than what was enacted for fiscal year 2017

Donald seems to be stuck in the Cold War. I've not heard of one good reason for him wanting to send Americans back to the Moon other than "prestige." There are much more valuable scientific targets than the Moon that we could be targeting, and it's very upsetting that he seems to be using NASA to enhance his own image (e.g. deep cuts in areas where NASA needs budget increases..)
Train like you fight, fight like you train. That is more or less the doctrinal position of modern militaries, and it works. From sillouette target practice, to live fire drills under stress, and yes, ejection from a doomed aircraft.
You're right: mobile version doesnt work any more. I tested it on Chrome, too. Ill tell the maintainer. Btw, there's a desktop link on bottom that gives working set of links for me. Try that if you see it in FF.
Well, beyond that, I have to wonder if self-driving cars are really the solution we're looking for, rather than more mass transit.
This sentiment is the driving force behind the popularity of many crypto currencies. Crypto enables class mobility where there was none before. For instance, purchasing $1,000 of Nano (XRB) at 10 cents (4 months ago) would be around $87,000 now if it didn't get stuck on bitgrail.
Good point. Short term parking gets leveraged, car moving to a new spot every few hours while occupants sleep.
Thank you for the comment! It's definitely not your fault, but more a community fault and general lack of momentum.

Common lisp implementations indeed lag behind mainstream languages in many occasions, and it's really hard to justify it as a choice for something like straightforward web app compared to other combinations like python + django that provide a lot to get up and running very easily + lots of robust libraries.

What's necessary on my opinion is to create a community effort to pinpoint all missing pieces in ecosystem regarding practical applications like webservices and address them by creating corresponding libraries event if it means direct port at the moment.
I programmed in more than 10 languages and I'm very productive with TypeScript and I doubt there's better language for interface development or I would be using it instead.

What exactly do you propose? I will test it out.
I wonder if it would be possible to run other languages such as rust, d, or ante, that use llvm, on this? Specifically interested in how languages with gc like d or nim will fare.
"Day Trading" is one thing, namely the strategy of unloading all positions at COB.

That's stupid.

But picking companies YOU think might succeed, either because you've used their products, have a good feeling, read a news article, worked there, read magazines on the niche industry, or a million other things, is perfectly legit.

You don't need to time the market. You can invest long-term in your picks.

You CAN time the market, if you notice patterns and feel like you can ride them.

Not everyone who isn't conservative is necessarily a child
"playing" with a brokerage IRA. Some ARE beating the market.
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So I have considered taking a more active approach to investing, but every time I think about I am dissuaded by the findings that actively managed funds get beat over the long run by index funds. For example, the Buffet bet of S&P500 beating mutual funds, the lack of correlation between fund performance from year to year, the darts thrown at NYTimes fund, etc. All these things suggest to me that actively managing can beat the indices in some years, but will be balanced out in others.

I would be interested to hear more of your thoughts about this.
In most combat sports such as MMA you avoid training illegal moves, like biting, gouging, kicking a downed opponent, Etc. Under pressure you resort to what you’ve trained to do, and if you’re training for a street fight then you’re going to do something disqualifying.
I had 3 screens for 2 years. Thought it would help but ended up being too many distractions. As a coder, i like 2 screens (IDE in one screen, testing in the other).
I agree, but the opposite also happens: teams start by implementing something small themselves because the framework is so 'huge'. Over time, they end up with a semi-huge custom framework because they run into the same issues and feature requests the 'huge' open-source framework ran a few years before them.
>If someone with the right technical skills wants to generate a profit that consistently beats the market, they can do so [...]

by playing on-line Poker?!?

Just because clever people win doesn't mean you will win because you're clever. In order for you to win someone else has to lose.

"But I'm recognising inherent market inefficiencies and adding value, not profiting off other's failed gambles". Phooey.
Very interesting point. Any chance you can recall a specific example? I'm not doubting you; simply curious since the above seems like a good idea to me and I want to understand the pitfalls.
> It took some time to realize that having parents who are academics/engineers helps significantly in guiding you in a career such as mathematics.

This is true of every good job.

I'm trying to get hired at big 4 tech right now. Every person interviewing me is a rich kid. All of my competition is rich kids.

Touring these big tech companies was discouraging. They're all very diverse. Rich white kids. Rich Asian kids. Rich female kids. Rich European kids. Rich Indian kids.

I'm not sure there's anything I can ever do to make it past the social/socioeconomic judgment round of these interviews.

These interviews make me feel like Red at a parole hearing in Shawshank Redemption.
The jQuery might be straight-forward in the sense that you know what `$cardForm.find('input[type=submit]').prop("disabled", false)` does, but the hard part is reasoning about the possible states of your UI when your only source of truth is a bunch of procedural mutations.

Not only does it incrementally change the DOM, but it also queries state from it. We've been trying to move away from that for some time now. I remember that's how jashkenas pitched Backbone 7 years ago.
That’s wrong. Data protection legislation expressly forbids a “Data Controller” from sharing information relating to a “Data Subject” with any third party, consent notwithstanding. There is limited scope for a third party “Data Processor” to operate on the data but this is subject to strict conditions including maintaining the integrity of the data subjects privacy. GDPR elaborates on this and provides tougher enforcement mechanisms driven at commission level rather than purely enacted by individual governments. This elimination of wiggle room is what has people running scared.
Thanks for mentioning Amsterdam lisp meetup. We're very small at the moment but constantly looking for new members and speakers to make it more interesting and attract more people to explore lisp languages.
They are probably arguing on those FidoNet boards or something.