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Major news sites seem to not care about what their advertisers are up to, I don't understand why they don't put the effort in. It makes me think that the people at the top know and the explanation is that they pay better and that increases their paycheck.
>I'm very uncomfortable with you attributing such things to a culturally determined approach to parenting instead of looking at individual factors.

You should thank God you aren't American...it seems everyone else thinks they know exactly what makes us tick, and (as in this thread?) aren't shy at all about making sweeping generalizations about us.
Written address or a map and a finger worked for me years before mobile phones were popular.
I'm not muddying anything. Come up with a specific definition and I can show you an example where it doesn't work.

This is why the law doesn't use the word! Instead there are laws against specific kinds of behavior that could be said to be rape, but use different terminology and apply in different ways. It's counter-productuve to cling to this one word to describe complex situations just because of the emotional weight and general ambiguity that the word carries.
http://cryptnet.net/mirrors/texts/kissedagirl.html
Logging in .Net Core Console Apps
What do they do from an SMTP point of view that's different to the usual/RFCs?
Misleading title! „ As devastating as the German inflation was, there were three hyperinflations that made the German case look amateurish: _Hungary in 1946_, Yugoslavia in 1992-1993 and Zimbabwe from 2004 to 2009. Of these three, Hungary’s was the worst of them all.”
Are these just basic junior devs, or are they specialists in another field with multiple advanced degrees from top tier schools ($$$) and professional experience in that other field? (law, medicine, the arts) and (Yale, Princeton, Juilliard) If so, I'd say they are well worth $120,000, probably have a giant body of work in another field, and are motivated to make back their investment in a mountain of education that has led them over and over again to unemployment or low wage work. If not, my guess is that the math of buying so much schooling over so many years (even mid-tier) and then having to buy tuition at a coding school because the competition is so tight they have no time to waste teaching themselves just doesn't work out, especially when they have to pay $2000 a month in rent plus a 5 month security deposit in NYC, just to attend the "free", "scholarship-supported",or "tuition deferred" bootcamp, that is, if they are new to the city. If they are already New Yorkers, they are probably about to be evicted due to non-payment of same. No one is really talking openly about this with respect to this group of people; the affected must hide their ivy league scholarship homelessness at all costs if they want to ever get a job. It leads to a whole new breed of homeless: living as a homeless person/person-on-the-brink-of-homelessness, well educated, loans to pay, healthcare to pay because they aren't young anymore and really have to get root canals and cancer screenings, middle class props, lunches, and clothes to pay for so they can "pass" as middle class at interviews. It is not sustainable. This wave of unemployed people is exceptionally educated and professionally seasoned (in other fields) in a way that most in previous waves of new job seekers didn't have to be. And on top of all of this, they aren't good at the business of being poor-- they don't know how to get support because they were raised to behave like the middle class. Their families don't understand why they can't get jobs. I remember how little a junior dev had to know just 8 years ago in order to get work. The bootcamps aren't being honest about the lack of interest in bootcamp grads. The online programs aren't getting completed by students. Just a year ago on HN, very few would even recognize the lack of interest in junior devs. Now, we can't ignore it anymore. The tech ecosystem is unhealthy and dishonest with itself about its addictions to certain cultures and practices. It needs to take responsibility for educating newcomers (of all ages and backgrounds) because it is responsible for the fact that these highly skilled people are now useless in this increasingly tech-based society. Mentoring should be a natural part of prepping the soil. It should not matter if devs stay at the company that mentored them. The only reason this is a problem right now is because tech behaves like warring nations not like collaborating artists.
Was marksmanship ever part of the mandatory curriculum? I didn't think so even back then. Marksmanship as an extra-curricular activity was probably more common 50 years ago, but from what I can Google, some high schools still have marksmanship clubs (usually under the guise of the JROTC).

The biggest issue I can think of with shooting ranges honestly is not "violence" or danger of accidents, but the problem of lead exposure -- a problem that people were a bit less aware of back in "older times", and a particular problem for developing children. Given some reports I see (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9117191) I personally would not be comfortable with a school shooting range that doesn't try to mitigate this risk.
When I was a jr I could not understand how other engineers, jr or especially sr, did not share this passion for helping and learning. Over the years (decades now) I came to accept that even in software development there are all these different types of people.

I learned to not get upset by it but still help/share, trying to inspire others and always learning more in this process.
I've seen this attitude also, and it completely turned me off from interviewing bootcamp graduates. I'm sure there are great bootcamp people out there, but a 12 week course + a demo is basically an intern in my book.
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I'll see your management issue and raise you a leadership one.

At my last job, a $40MM cosmetics and skincare company, the CEO had a great deal of trouble figuring out how to get his e-commerce department properly managed. I was willing to step up, and for a brief time they allowed me to bring in candidates for a position that would report to me, but I didn't have enough political cover over me so that fizzled out.

I cycled through 3 managers in 2 1/2 years at that job, 2 in the "Director of E-Commerce" role, and one in the "VP of E-Commerce" role. All three left for more sane roles.

It's hard to fix management problems at your company when leadership is so confused.
I also wonder why does a supposed "remote worker" (for money, I presume) want to eat (literally) into their profits by spending money constantly at a cafe?

I'm not a full-time remote worker, but as mentioned above, I do work out of cafe environments quite often. Why? Well, in my case, I'm single, I live alone, and if the only place I'm ever at - besides my day-job office -
is my apartment, I'd get really bored and go stir-crazy. For me, the cafe is a "3rd place". That is helped by the fact that I drink copious amounts of coffee.

Also, sometimes (as somebody else in one of these threads mentioned) there's something satisfying about being around other people, but not being required to interact with them. And there's something about the hustle-and-bustle / hum of activity in a cafe that is comforting. See, for example, how some people working in an office will put on a "coffee shop noises" audio track while working, to attempt to partially simulate that environment.
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> Having the admiration and respect of the next generation of developers at your company offers far more leverage than the nebulous prestige

“Prestige” and “respect” are essentially synonyms, and careerwise respect of developers in the org often is not as important as respect of management.

> What could provide more organizational political power than building a hierarchy of capable engineers that consistently come to you when they need help?

Being perceived by management as delivering results rather than being the one behind the scenes enabling others to be perceived that way.
I briefly needed to stay in Maryville (~3 months) while remote working, but I had no real workspace in my extended stay. I should mail the owner of Vienna a co-work space sized check for the amazing service she and her coffee shop provided while I worked there every day. +1 for the people and especially the coffee shops in that area.
A new form of ticketing?
I've developed a new form of online ticketing. A ticket which can't be copied, transferred or replicated without the approval of the organizer himself. I've built the product, how do I push it into the market now?

Most small events, don't care whether their tickets are replicated or not. Big bands and huge events have that problem. How do I get to those big players? By approaching them directly or by starting from below? I'm just a one-man team at the moment.
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In my opinion, attitudes similar to yours are toxic to this industry.

I've been working >10 years as a software engineer.
If I'd never worked on a (necessarily) complicated system(s), I could maybe understand your viewpoint.
Churning out the same CRUD app with minor differences would probably be safe enough to expect a junior dev to 'have at it'.

> Everything is fast

Unfortunately, this is the current 'thinking' on how some un-enlightened people think the industry should work.
Ultimately, I think this is a load of nonsense.
Software engineering is engineering.
Some people may have snuck in & survived as they never had to do something non trivial & deal with the resulting consequences.
i don’t think “politically progressive” is a determinative. The DC suburbs skew extremely left, by are oppressive as hell for children. Some parents recently got CPS sicced on them for letting their 8 year old walk less than a mile to school.
I'm also using a T43, circa 2006.

Nowadays I've found myself mostly using it for VNC to a slightly better machine (my old desktop, on permanent loan to a family member after their laptop broke. This works...). And... even on my not-great 802.11g, and the CPU even locked to 800MHz, typing this text over TigerVNC is literally realtime with no perceptible lag or delay. I'm honestly amazed. But anyway...

FWIW, launchpad.net have multiple sources providing the latest 32-bit builds of Chromium. These are built for Ubuntu, but I find they've worked 100% fine on Slackware. :P (After some work I even got the debugging symbols into the right place!)

(Nothing stopping you from building the world's largest LD_PRELOAD to pull in "enough Ubuntu" that Chromium boots, but I find that 100% unnecessary at this point.)

Some build daily(ish), some build fortnightly-to-monthly-ish. Before I set up VNC, I was in the process of figuring out an autoupdate script (CLI PHP, easily rewritten) that would find and fetch the packages off Launchpad. Let me know if you'd like a copy, I never finished it but I did do the Herculean bit of figuring out the magic API URLs, the rest is just boring scripting and downloading.

Protip. If you open 100-170 tabs (possible! on 2GB! with The Great Suspender), the main process will hit 4G VIRT. xD

Besides that, NetSurf is a bit better than Dillo, you're probably already aware of it.
Then you will need two senior devs. This is because rockstar devs rarely want to mentor junior devs nor attend meetings.
Most inventors are not professors.
We haven't been able to detect radio signals from outer space for almost the entirety of mankind's history. So that's not a very compelling argument.
Probably a great way to making money in the long run, wonder what healthcare cost for all people going sick by the environment.
I predict a huge spike soon.
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/aliencoin/
But the ‘learning the skills as you go’ part is where the seniors come in. I’ve benefited immensely from the code reviews which took things that technically worked but we’re convoluted and transformed them into code that could be maintained and read easily.

Now that I’ve had some mentorship I can be productive on my own, but yeah, it took some work.

The senior devs get pulled into meetings, customer escalations, bug reviews, etc. all the time. The juniors, now trained and competent are free to code all day and get the work done because they have fewer responsibilities.

Yes, it takes work to get there, but it’s worth the effort.
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I agree completely with your observation about Google EEE here.

Just wanted to say that you can read HTML emails in Mutt by having a browser, like Links2 or Lynx, do the formatting.

https://www.marksanborn.net/howto/reading-html-email-with-mu...
Yes you are. The trick that KDE uses is that the screen locking is done by the KDE session manager, and because that is the main process in the X session if it crashes the session terminates so it's not possible to bypass the screen locker that way. None of that requires systemd; it makes use of something that's been true under X11 pretty much forever. The only thing that changed with logind is that instead of trying to restart the password prompt if it crashes, KDE now pops up a message asking you to drop to a console and use logind to disable the screen locker. (Annoyingly, it does this even on systems that don't use logind, in which case the instructions don't actually work.)
I agree that probabilities are against us when looking for Alien life. There is probably beyond doubt some kInd of life in our galaxy, but there is no reason it would be occuring in the neighborhood. And we have no clear model that would Explain that all intelligent life would emit radio waves. Most species on Earth dont and they are certainly in the realm of what we define as intelligence.
As someone who graduated in the summer of 2016 without having done any internships, I wholeheartedly agree with this sentiment.

Finding a job was much more difficult than I thought it would be. Part of that is because I was looking in a very specific geographic area so I could live with my girlfriend (now wife) , part of it was a low GPA, but most of it was because I didn't have any experience outside of college classes.

Eventually I lucked out and found a job with a company that was looking to train someone because they develop software for IBM mainframes and weren't having any luck finding people in that field in the area.
Somewhat related, the Forint still officially has minor units but practically they're never used except in some cases where they're for display only. Frustratingly some banks don't use them in transactional data, which can lead to interesting bugs: https://leejo.github.io/2015/08/02/a_lot_of_huf/
if you have a specialized application knowing how to do this can be quite useful. CDN pops are almost not existent across much of the Middle East and Africa. Sometimes building your own is the only way until a commercial offering becomes available.
I had trouble explaining someone what the Deep Web was. I was using the analogy : "Imagine the Internet without google.". I also tried to say "Imagine you only had access to a set of links to find content". I was unable to get over this mental hurdle when explaining this to them.
I'm pulling my Baofeng out of storage.
> Developers must have the capability of quickly testing the system without manual work

Running unit tests is hardly quick. Especially if you have to compile them. End-to-end are even worse, in this regard.

> They don't, they test whether or not the API contract the developer had in mind is still valid or not.

If you're always breaking the API, then that's a sign that the API is too complex and poorly designed. The API should be the closest thing you have to being set in stone. Linus Torvalds has many rants on breaking the Linux kernel's API (which, also, has no real unit tests).

It's also really easy to tell if you're breaking the API. Are you touching that API code path at this time? Then yes, you're probably breaking the API. Unless there was a preexisting bug that you are fixing (in which case, the unit test failed) then you are, by definition, breaking the API, assuming your API truly is doing one logical, self-contained thing at a time as any good API should.

edit: As an aside, I'd like to point out that POSIX C/C11/jQuery/etc. are littered with deprecated API calls, such as sprintf(). This is almost always the correct thing to do. Deprecate broken interfaces and create new interfaces that fix the issues. Attempting to fix broken APIs by introducing optional "modes" or parameters to an interface, or altering the response is certain to cause bugs in the consumer of the interface.

> Don't abandon good development practices

Unit tests are a tool. There are cases where they make sense, where they are trivial to implement and benefit you greatly at the same time. Then there are cases where implementing a unit test will take an entire day with marginal benefit and the code will be entirely rewritten next year anyway (literally all web development everywhere). It doesn't make sense to spend man-months and man-years writing and maintaining unit tests when the app will get tossed out and rewritten in LatestFad Framework almost as soon as you write the test.
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It’s clear the implication is crypto is “letting” you invest in itself by its nature, where as some government trying to invent a new monetary system probably wouldn’t let individuals invest for a stake in future circulation

But realistically, the government can stop you from investing. Or more specifically, the government can derail investment in the system by removing the aspect of speculation that’s driving this “investment”, by limiting people’s ability to liquidate.

The government moves slow. Yesterday hundreds, if not thousands of people here in CT got letters requesting taxes on out of state online purchases from Newegg from up to 3 years ago. Everyone knew the law was that you should report your own purchases and pay taxes on them, but they ignored it and thought “buying out of state will let me not pay taxes!”. Now the taxman is coming for its due.

Stories like this on current transactions could start to hamper the speculation on crypto drastically.
Reminds me of the paperclip optimizer. The singularity is us.
> unstoppable financial freedom

By the time we find out this isn't true, they will have successfully taken cash away...while we were all distracted. Can't wait for total financial surveillance. So excited. It's going to make the Big Dildo Refund joke completely non-understandable.
Am I the only one who finds Troy’s description of a tragic suicide offensive?

“Many [dark markets] with their operators in jail or dead (it didn't work out so well for the operator of AlphaBay)”
EURGBP: Bullish, Eyes Further Upside Pressure
You're wrong about cars. They might need more specialized maintenance, but they are much better than they were 20 years ago.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cars-now-last-longer-than-ever-...
Ask HN: AV1-based image format?
Apple opted in HEVC-based image format for its internal use - 2x space savings are very useful (especially for iphone). Still, anything HEVC-based is plagued by unbearable licensing issues and can not widespread anyhow.
How about some new image standard for everyone? AV1 is going to be at very least a bit better than HEVC
> Now it seems a lot of people go into programming because it pays well and looks like a good career but they don't really care for tech.

This was already happening in the late 90s. Initially my undergrad was filled with people because CS paid well, but back then at least the first two classes were setup to weed those people out.
Young man, i had enough of this. You are getting outside, sunshine, no technology, no internet. We bought you a skate-board and a e-guitar as punishment. This is what your summer looks like.
My brother has been able to sell his graphics cards that he has had for six months at MSRP or better even while being slightly used a few months ago. Graphic cards are hard to come by and they can't even make them fast enough. Even for gamers who need only one card.
They probably wouldn't exist.
I mean that's just a fault of the candidate. You should be presenting anything relevant to the job you're applying for.
I actually travel often for work so I've experienced this on both coasts and at most points in between, but the doctor was in Eastern Washington. Which is quite similar to Northern California about 20 years ago: a little bit country and a little bit Rock n Roll, if ya dig.

It surprised me as the area is generally well educated and has strong agriculture and services sectors in it's economy.
Proof of stake on Ethereum is right around the corner. As soon as that happens there will be plenty of cheap GPUs back on the market.
> to ensure that nobody can have total control of the system, it has to be computationally heavy and expensive in terms of energy required per transaction.

To be entirely safe when I go to the grocery store I could drive a tank, but a cost-benefit analysis reveals that I shouldn't.

As a thought experiment, what would happen right now if the mining incentive went to 0 and miners subsisted entirely on transaction fees? Would the system still be secure? (It's an important question since that's what will eventually happen with difficulty adjustments)
Hmm, this Larry Page fella might be onto something here
Not in my experience.

Happy productive teams are teams which have a tech lead making tech choices (& involving team to some extent), with the people management side taken care of by a (dedicated) people manager who can cut across multiple teams ( & also taking care of the people management of the tech lead)
>...it should not be necessary here

I think it's a lame figure of speech that's only used to paint yourself as some kind of underdog hero.

The top comment (!) in the "AMP for email is a terrible idea"-thread [0] is a post starting with this exact phrase. Obviously your idea wasn't so controversial after all, so just let the users decide the up-/down-votes.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16372234
Everyone is average, at some point. Some folks forget that.

The key is, to "human" well, and work to improve your life. Small bits at a time. This goes for vocation, as well as character.

Don't be content to remain average.
>but to ensure that nobody can have total control of the system, it has to be computationally heavy and expensive in terms of energy required per transaction.

I don't understand how making it so energy intensive will level the playing field. Wouldn't that favor the existing financial authorities since they already have so much computing power and resources to begin with?
Good point. If the ad is integrated into the player, it does not seem to bother Google and Google won't treat it as a pop-up. They are using a very narrow definition to score points. I hope people figure this out.
That's how the world used to be. Now you're either a customer or not. You will always be the product.
> I don't view the value I add as "can code features faster"

I do, at least partly. I can code so much faster that my cost per feature is lower than a junior dev.
AMD has been shipping GPUs with HBM (on package RAM) for years. Recently, AMD and Intel have struck a deal to put that GPU+HBM in a CPU package.

https://wccftech.com/intel-kaby-lake-g-amd-4gb-hbm-gpu-pictu...

When HBM first came out, I mused at how much faster/more efficient a CPU+HBM chip could be. I wonder what's stopping it from happening.
This isn’t just a German thing. I think Americans are in the minority expecting adults to play with children. I’m south asian, and growing up, my parents were warm and loved me, but they never played with me. As I tell my daughter: “grown ups don’t play with children.”
Another example of this was IE's non-standard page rendering standards years ago.