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hello, recent bootcamp grad in nyc here. pple are asking that much because other companies are offering that much. I'm sympathetic to the cost perspective for employers, but that is actually the price that many companies are willing to pay (source: got multiple >120k offers myself)
Definitely! We've had a lot of requests from the sport/workout wear side of things in particular. For anyone interested in more of a sport related product, I actually have a list you can subscribe to for updates as we continue to explore new product variants: http://eepurl.com/dkHD6X
That is probably part of it, but the work they'll be doing is more labor intensive. I was a union electrician/power plant operator for nearly a decade before I finished my degree in CS and took a job as a software developer. I'm not in SV/NY/Seattle so my pay is roughly equal to what I was making as a topped-out Journeyman, but the work is less stressful on the body.

In the trades, after the job was over or I had turned over to the oncoming shift operator, I didn't think about work at all until my next shift, it was great, my off-time was mine. It was much better mentally compared to now where I have to have my phone on me at all times and respond to emails from our customers (granted, my customers or Transmission System and Distribution System operators controlling the electrical grid, so it is pretty critical when the applications experience issues). There are pros and cons of each, with pay being roughly equal (outside of the major tech hubs). Am I glad I switched? Sometimes, but the skilled trades (electrician, pipe-fitter, plumber, HVAC tech, welder, etc.) are definitely a good way to go if you want to learn a useful skill and have a relatively stable middle class life.
It's not just the Eastern Bloc - it's not uncommon in the US, particularly among recent college grads who move to a new state, to not get a new driver's license (which costs $), or to avoid getting new license plates on a car and summarily to avoid the higher insurance costs in that locality, etc..
That is because business regards its technical staff "in comtempt" and that is a direct quote from one of my previous bosses (a director at on of the largest publishers in the world)
Or just a generic reconnect in case the websocket connection breaks for any reason really.
In practice you probably would want pretty thin proxy layer as you said, which is then forwarding requests to other services as needed...but you would still need to re-deploy this proxy layer, and would thus need a similar solution to the one proposed in the article.
Most VPN systems use UDP, with TCP possibly being supported as a fallback solution for when UDP connectivity is broken.

The exception are things like SSH tunnels using sshuttle but they call themselves a "poor man's VPN" for a reason.
It is a good point I hadn't considered that public cryptocurrencies are not fully fungible. I.e. It may be socially unacceptable to accept money from certain known people.
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Neat writeup, thank you.
Yup:) We wanted to create something that was truly indestructible. There are many on the market claiming to be, but we tested them and they were very easily ripped. We set out to push the envelope and also to try and revolutionize the hosiery industry- which we have and we are really excited for everyone to try them out!
Okay, I admit: it was me. I just couldn't handle another PR where they didn't RTFM.
My Rpi1 WSPR transmitter was heard once in New Zealand on 30M and it is just the Pi, a filter, a tuner, and a long wire over the roof. Here in central Ohio I routinely get Thunder Bay receiving me with the setup which is wild.
For that matter, I take issue with the idea that Shakespearean English is any more elegant or functional than contemporary English. I would consider the poorly standardized spelling and, to an extent, grammar, to be pretty damn inelegant!
Select "crane" and rotate to view the bottom. You'll see multiple planes passing through each other
How did we determine the 50 wears metric? We've been producing prototypes since September, and have been testing them with real women for day to day wash and wear (in addition to our other more extreme tests like velcro, rings, and hanging from the ceiling...lol)
Take a look at other countries historical inflation too. I bet you'll see 50%-100% inflation rates before the supply problems started.

Only after the government realizes they can't indefinitely finance their spending by printing money, then they turn to seizing wealth production, or do stupid things like price control. Then things get really ugly.
"1998 restructuring. It gave the IRS 40 slots ... Congress did not re-up this authority in 2013"

That's 15 years of "streamlined critical pay" authority. And it appears that some number of these slots continued to exist until recently. Two decades of special authority to modernize this software, and nothing to show for it, except perhaps some patents...

At some point you have to cut your loses.
The power of the crowd + tech. Great way to solve many last mile issues and improve supply chain in emerging markets.
Depends on how much time I plan to spend and the size of the project:

vim - quick edits

Visual Studio Code - medium-sized projects, Python or JavaScript

IntelliJ IDEA/PyCharm - Java, or other large or complex projects
Having more male teachers in K-12, with a specific need on the earlier years, can help boys stay interested in education longer. 76% of the teachers are female [0], with most of the male teachers teaching in later years. This isn't a silver bullet, and I don't have advice on how to achieve this, but my gut tells me this can help.

Male teachers provide male role models for boys to look up to.

Male teachers have a more personal understanding of what it is to be a boy.

Men and boys communicate differently than women and boys do.

Male teachers show boys that education is something males value enough with their time and attention.

[0]https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=28
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Definitely shares a lot of similarities!
Cool, thanks for your reply and insight. That does sound pretty useful!
I learned touch typing embarrassingly late in life for someone that programs all day, but I talk much faster than I type (type racer says 60-80wpm).

I find the qualities of someone’s voice, intonation and hesitation much more feature rich than emojis, in terms of transmitting information.
Alternatively, it could be that the website owner has "bought" low quality content that can't keep an audience, and is just looking to throw blame
Consider that “Friends” first appeared when you were ~3, and it should be more intuitive.

I feel really old...
Curious about the 24h-48h burndown...could it potentially be longer for you guys or is there some mechanism in place to force disconnection (and thus risk a spike) after some TTL?
Never in the history of computing has your hardware required the manufacturer's blessing to run apps.

Except for every game console that has existed since the early 80s.

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/227899-atari-v-coleco-lawsu...
What kind of medical benefits are we talking about? How many years do you have to work for the government to get it?

My employer's healthcare plan costs my employer ~20k/year as long as I'm employed, more if I had children, yet for some reason, nobody ever counts that as part of AMAFAGOPL salaries.
The real "phasers on stun" wireless method may be the laser-induced plasma channel: a brief UV pulse ionizes the air, making a conductive path over which an electrical current can be sent. There's a lot of applications of this, from stopping people to HERF-ing things, but none have made it to market yet... Maybe it's a hard problem?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolaser
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This is essentially how Pushpin (http://pushpin.org) works. It can hold a raw WebSocket connection open with a client, but it speaks HTTP to the backend server, and the backend can be restarted without the client noticing.
There is plenty of dual GPL-BSD (or even MIT) licensed code in the Linux kernel that can be merged back and forth with FreeBSD. Examples are most Intel-contributed drivers (BSD+GPL) and graphics code (MIT).
Much larger public subsidy than say the Uk has.
Tangential, but I feel the need to quote Dan Colascione:

"Ah Linux, in which a thread is a process, a semantic patch is a lint rule, and a packet filter is a system profiler."

;)

(but seriously, your work in exploring and expanding it has been wonderful. Thank you!)
...and any sizable employer offers healthcare and a 401(k). So at best you could say they're betting on an inflation-adjusted pension? That's not going to sell many candidates.
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Considering the current climate in the West, a man would have to be on Evil Knievel's level of foolhardiness to take a job teaching.
> CSS was a web technology from the start.

Sure, of course it was. But the web was almost entirely a collection of documents back then.
The goal of CSS 1.0 was to just move formatting out of HTML; it added relatively little beyond what was already doable with HTML (and a lot of what was new were things needed to typeset howcome's PhD thesis nicely).
There was some research exposing vulnerabilities in Monero privacy tech[0], but AFAIK ringCTs and enforced minimum sizes of ring signatures fixes it.

[0]http://hackingdistributed.com/2017/04/19/monero-linkability/
I agree, but again the point is not to get into hacks and alternative schedules but to raise awareness of the issues of short sleep.
Is the expectation and posture different for people who are brave/curious/willing to write/look to the tree for a relationship?

Do they behave differently and cause such positive outcomes?
It's also more private. Not so much in the sense of secrecy, but I feel very self conscious talking to a machine in public. I feel like this aspect of ergonomics is often ignored.
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The hype has subsided because so many organizations adopted the shell of an agile methodology (oftentimes scrum, having meetings called standups and things called stories), paid lip service to its tenets, but never actually incorporated the core concepts in how they work.

So that said, I'd say modern best practices are still agile. The trick is recognizing and convincing an organization they aren't actually practicing agile, they're practicing cargo cult agile, and to get them on board with the necessary changes.

That said, if anyone has any good resources on how to explain and affect that change, convincing higher ups who believe that they're already agile that in fact they're just cargo culting it, and to instead implement the scary changes that are required to truly be agile, I'd be interested.
> I've never seen a cafe a-la 'friends' where people hangout and constantly buy things.

I'm becoming an old, so I'll chime in with the others.

Before laptops and - maybe more importantly - before cellphones, the coffee shop was the place to hang out and meet up.

From 1993-2000, I practically lived in the coffee shop downtown. We had one main shop in a city of about a quarter million. We didn't get a Starbucks until 2001, of you don't count the Barnes and Noble.

It was awesome.

It was the nerve center of our music and art scene. It was the only place where college kids and lawyers downtown could get a latte. It was the only place where kids who couldn't get into bars yet could hang out, and the people who could go to bars would pregame there with a cup of coffee. There was a lot of cross-pollination.

I met every single one of my close friends at the time at that cafe. We would sit there all day long and talk, smoke cigs, play chess, venture out into the park or the rest of the city, then meet back up at the cafe.

And it was packed - in the summer, there would easily be a hundred people hanging out in and around this tiny place. We'd spill out onto the sidewalk. It was almost like a daily block party.

But back to the whole pre-cellphone pre-laptop thing - absolutely no one was there to work. It was where you went after work, to do your socializing.

And without cellphones, it was a rallying point - everyone got out of work or were at their home phones at different times, so if you wanted to meet your friends, you had to hang out at the coffee shop because the odds were high they'd show up there too, uncoordinated. This concept is foreign to anyone in their 20s.

The 90s coffee shop culture was real, it was awesome, and for better or worse, it'll never come back. Sometimes this makes me sad, but the upside is that I don't waste half of my day alone hoping to bump into friends.

But - so many good memories!
What's stopping you from sending and receiving regular sms, mms messages to your iPhone using family? It's not like there is a separate app for iMessage and text messages.

Your SMS messages will even go to their iPads and Macs.
It's the only book where author actually tries to make you understand the topic rather than mastrubating on it's academic background and a bunch of pseudomath.
This would change the logistics in the world
And get caught dodging rail fairs you will often be fired there was a high profile case of a highly paid financier in the City (uk) getting fired for this he probably wont be able to work in finance again.
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Facebook has actually done a lot of work to reach the "next billion users". See https://info.internet.org/en/impact/. They want to make Facebook essentially a portal to the internet for people in poor countries.
At the Inbox Awesome conference this year there was a talk on this, not sure if it’s online.
One of their biggest donations was $5 million to GiveDirectly, which is one of GiveWell's top-rated charities.

https://pineapplefund.org/

https://www.givewell.org/charities/give-directly
> maybe it would have similar educational use. [...] it's (faintly) visible with the naked eye.

Indeed! It's nifty to hear of an atomic naked-eye visibility story with provenance. Thanks!

"Atoms are 'too small to see' (it is said)... but not really"' stories are liked.

One of the linked papers has the illuminating laser as ultraviolet (thank you sci-hub[1] - making science part of life), so that's definitely electron transitions, not nuclear ones. I'd expect an X-ray laser to be bigger-than-room sized. And I don't know if gamma-ray laser equipment exists yet.

Nuclear shape-isomer transitions are literally the nucleus changing shape. Say between hugged and non-hugged beach ball shape. They're different energy levels, so the nucleus emits a photon to balance. It squeaks. Squeaks a blink.

I don't remember whether the visible transition was a shape-isomer or a spin-isomer transition. But that emitted photon, is usually an invisible gamma-ray or X-ray photon. A few oddball nuclei, toss out an extra (visible low-energy) photon. So if you hit one of these nuclei with a high-energy photon, it changes shape (or was it spin?), it then quickly changes back, giving you back a very-slightly-lower high-energy photon, and a second, visible photon. And then you do it again. So very quickly (nuclear-time-scale very quickly), that a single nucleus can generate enough visible photons, that it can be seen naked-eye. Seen through a gamma-/X-ray-blocking piece of glass, so you don't lose that eye.

[1] Regards sci-hub, that's one point which didn't come up in the recent sci-hub thread. Often when creating education content, I don't need to actually read a paper - I'm just searching for some little bit of information, that's not in the abstract (often it's in the introduction, or mentioned elsewhere in passing), and am thus stymied by paywalls. Imagine trying to do a google search, with no blurbs, and each link you click costs tens of dollars. Until sci-hub.
It would be very nice to be able to use the same Dtrace tracing skills and interface across a variety of modern Unix systems. I hope it isn't too late.
> You can't build something from scratch that way

Yes, you can. Especially a from scratch automated system to enhance an existing business process, but also a from-scratch process and system together.

> especially if there is a lot of research and unknowns involved.

The research part is distinct, but as it produces results and those are feed into a “what do we want to do” decision making process, it absolutely can feed exactly the kind of incremental development process described, which can even operate in parallel with much of the research.
I wasn't familiar with her before this. But it certainly seems as if they didn't do their homework before hiring someone potentially controversial into a rather visible role (given that they apparently didn't want someone who could be controversial).
Teaching isn't a simple matter you can flatten down to like/dislike.

One aspect of teaching is explaining your inventions to your peers.

But another aspect is telling a new graduate what a version control system is and why you need one. Then doing the same for your build system, continuous integration system, staging environment, code review, bug tracker, style guide, and so on.

Seems to me those are quite different skills - I can easily imagine a person who is good at / enjoys one might not be good at / enjoy the other.
> nail down all the functionality the assembly program

This often proves to be much harder than expected which is /why/ people almost never touch systems like this where the creators are long gone
I have one point of contention: Google is already monetizing Gmail with Gsuite. Gmail is to Gsuite as Fedora is to RHEL. It's a public testbed where they try out new ideas before moving them into LTS.

Regardless, many of the disagreements with you seem to have stopped reading at (2). I am completely aware of the irony of my using Google devices while simultaneously criticizing them for their shitty practices. If you were to point that out to me I'd agree with you. Pointing that out to me isn't a personal attack, it's a statement of the facts of human nature: we are all hypocrites.

I can honestly see why AMP is a clever idea from a technical standpoint. Heck, if Google made the switch while keeping the same look and feel (minus the dynamic content), I doubt most people would notice beyond "Gmail somehow got faster."
The Interactive Brokers (IB) API would probably be your best option for trading on the side.

Here are a few words of advice regarding IB:

- Thoroughly read and understand the IB documentation.
- Be sure that you never get close to any of IB’s risk limits that can result in the automatic liquidation of some, or all, of your positions.
- If you don’t want to put up enough cash in your IB account for day trading, be sure you don’t exceed the trading limits that will get you classified as a day trader and thus prevent you from further trading until you add more cash.
- Be aware that the IB market data can have significant inaccuracies and/or delays.

Here are a few words of advice on automated trading:

- Thoroughly understand the exchanges that handle the instruments you want to trade. Each exchange has online documentation explaining details of traded instruments, matching algorithms, pricing, and market data. Even though you won’t be accessing the exchanges directly, these details have an effect.
- Thoroughly understand IB’s order routing and how they construct their market data (if you use it).
- Just because your historical data says an instrument closed at a particular price, that does not mean you could have actually bought or sold at that price with IB or even with direct market access. The same is true of tick data constructed at 1 minute, 1 second, or even millisecond resolution. Trading simulations can be terribly inaccurate if you don’t have a reasonable approximation of the exchange order books, the exchange latencies, IB’s latencies, and your own trading system latency. To counter this, you need to be extremely conservative in your assumptions about getting an order filled at a particular price.
- Even with accurate market data and exact latency measurements, predicting future profits by backtesting over historical data is perilous. I advise having a strong background in the statistical/machine learning methods for constructing and analyzing appropriate training, testing, and validation sets.
- Don’t make a trade just because some analysis suggests the market will go in that direction. Doing this will probably get you hurt and it harms markets by pushing them to overshoot or undershoot the correct prices. The trend is your friend until he turns around and stabs you in the back. Make a trade because that’s where the market should go and probably will go eventually.

My best advice for trading profitably is to do something to improve a market. Focus on areas that can benefit from your strongest personal advantages (mathematical, technical, domain knowledge, etc.). Gain an understanding of the exchanges and instruments that allows you to recognize ways to make prices more accurate. This improvement could be in an absolute sense for individual prices or it could be in a relative sense in terms of how instruments should be priced with respect to one another. It could also be in terms of adding liquidity (offering to buy or sell) where needed and justified. Improving markets improves our economy by helping it to better prioritize resources and limit risks. That is a valuable service and the market will pay you for it.
GiveWell is great, but by their own admission they can't accept all charitable dollars -- there is only a limited amount of capacity to receive funds effectively, and their growing popularity has drastically increased funding for the very few charities they approve. They will need to do more work to identify charities beyond their top 3.

Also, GiveWell's metrics only value human life, not animal life, so don't apply to Ocean fund.
I think you can touch in and out in London with your phone now most people just use there debit or credit card as they almost all have NFC.
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>Building diversity is an important component of forward progress, since it engenders a broader experiential pool to draw from.

Only the pool has to be created in the lower levels (education etc) not imposed at the company level with less good candidates favored just because of their sex.

>Until such time as that happens, "sex discrimination against men" is impossible.

It's very possible, if meritocracy is sidestepped, and the person who gets sidestepped is a man in favor of e.g. 50-50 parity with a woman.

Unless the pool entering the workforce is 50-50 already, then 50-50 hiring requires discrimination.
Not all laptop users are working.
Absolutely. 100. Do you have any revolutionizing ideas about how to change this for the better? I think you could start a movement right here.
Wrong, I have a company car and use it daily, but would use public transport if free. Public transport I have to pay myself, car is paid for by the company.
Facebook's efforts in that are self-serving and mean-spirited. Connecting people to your platform and hiding the rest of the internet while telling them they should love you just isn't right - and it's not done to help them, it's done to make Zuck more money.

See "Facebook and the New Colonialism", https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/02/faceb...