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These large government software projects end up costing way more than they should pretty much every time. The process is just broken. There's way too much design by committee and tying the hands of the people who are doing the actual work, preventing them from implementing the correct solution and instead making them implement the one the disconnected-from-reality specification writers decided on.

Then they have to go back an iterate the correct solution, which involves more committee meetings at huge expense and rewriting documents and disseminating them to everybody...
If your product does not target entrepreneurs, then you're not really missing much, other than stroking your ego.
Often multiple smaller/medium-sized systems are better for the particular task than one large. Even more so for taxation and payroll systems where taxation/regulation varies greatly.
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Black women in America are dying at alarmingly disproportionate rates
Yes, bacon really is killing us
Note that the video embedded in the post is higher quality. :) Useful discussion link, thanks.
Personally, I'd recommend against (and sorry for being the black sheep here).

I think it really takes smart people with good experience to read absolute numbers, and you don't want to risk a rejection for that.

I'd recommend to just write about your % growth and call out that you're making revenue. Keep the details for in person interview, where you can see how the person reacts, and adjust what you say.
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Why is it odd? It has been my experience with all iphones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSkZQ3XNW58
Dropbox is simpler, has easier setup, less features, and in my experience a more reliable/quicker on-disk sync client. Google Drive has quite poor UX, which puts a lot of people off.

I use Google Drive, but I can see the appeal of Dropbox for someone who doesn't need Drive's web UI features and extras and just want something that works.
Makes you wonder, too - why do we put up with this? I thought we were supposed to be hard to come by and "in demand". Why do we allow them to kick us in the teeth like they do?
Actually making stuff with your 3D printer that people will buy
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Because Law Enforcement generally behaves like people, and (like people), often take cognitive short-cuts when making certain assessments. In this case, the short-cut would be to assume that the individual has to be a criminal, and act as such.

Now, there are step that you can take to reduce these assumptions, but those are steps outside of the program, and would have to be introduced in tandem with the introduction of the program. Unfortunately, policy-makers often assume that any single idea that is funded (i.e. buying a predictive model from Palantir) is a comprehensive solution to the problem (often encouraged by the sales reps peddling whatever the 'solution' is) and fail to recognize that other programs will have to be funded alongside in order to deploy the program effectively.
The availability of most of these delivery services seems to be very dependent on density and demographics. You get out of the core metro areas of relatively large cities and the options for these types of services tends to decrease dramatically.
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Yeah, I'm not disputing that. I was saying the statistics (in the Bloomberg article) don't support that argument.
Any links to these stories, I’d like to read some.

I’m sure there are people at Uber who are fascinated by seeing where celebs take ubers... and can’t blame them.
Would you sign to build a project who's MVP is 260,000 salary calculations with rules poorly documented and spread other hundreds of agencies?

Maybe if they started with a subset and slowly built up..
Are you looking for software engineering interns as well?
Just a side note but I remember seeing this then and found out that Mayur left Google after making these comments (July 2015).
couldn't you just look at windows processes and keep track of how long its running based on when a user starts the timer. Really wouldn't an annoying timer do the job just as well ?
This was my first thought too. The article doesn't mention this at all.

It sounds like they just pulled people off the street, tested for the protein, and assumed causality. Wouldn't they have to had tested the same subset of people over time to make their claim?
Absolutely, but you'll probably need an amplifier as these things tend to be ~1mW-10mW output power.
HIPAA violations can cost a lot of money (up to $50,000 per record, depending on the severity level). A single incident can cost a few million dollars in fines, so there's a _very_ strong incentive to do things the right way.
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You need to at least get the product working for the potential clients you already know.

They're your network not his.

CEO is sales to employees, investors, customers etc.

your always going to have to sell to big clients and help out your sales people.
If Github had no open ports they wouldn't have much of a website.
As a creator, I'd like to understand the differences between this and Patreon. Why would I use this instead of Patreon?
It would be for a senior QA/test/automation engineer position. I don't have an impressive GitHub account and I wanted to show that I have an interest in writing code outside of work.
Yep, I completely agree about the accuracy. Last year it was neutral. This year it slipped down a notch.
Granted, Type II error and confusion matrices are covered in more basic statistical classes, and are indeed important for hypothesis testing.
This is also why Ceridian is still around in spite of all of their faults (or so I hear from any small/mid-size business practitioners I know).

I take it that's who you're referring to?
Yes, and you don't need to limit yourself to the LimeSDR. You will want to pay attention to the frequency range the SDRs support to get an idea of which bands you will be able to use, but that is definitely one of the many things SDRs are good for.
haha, i've pretty much migrated to google docs, so i didn't realize how terrible that workflow was in excel. I didn't need such a function back when i still used it.

for anyone else wondering:
you can only have a whitelist of editable fields in an excel worksheet, and adding items to that whitelist is a well hidden feature

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/lock-or-unlock-spec...
I have never gone through the same performance review process two years in a row. And despite all the tweaking and rejiggering, and employer changes, none have ever been able to capture a meaningful metric for performance. Nor have they ever resulted in a salary increase that meaningfully competes with moving on to another company.

The only positive thing I can say about it is that it's less stressful than the interview process, which is my only reason for staying somewhere that I'm not particularly happy.

The only meaningful self-appraisal is "can I make more money doing the same work for someone else?" And the only meaningful goals are "build my resume to make myself a more valuable employee for any company, not necessarily my current employer."

It has always been a waste of time to require the employee's participation in the review process. We are perfectly capable of appraising ourselves, and when we do it, we are always doing it in the context of the whole job market, and not just one company. But no one is ever going to admit "my goal is to jump ship for your leading competitor within the next year and get 20% more pay for doing exactly the same work." We will happily tell the current employer "I plan to increase meaningless metric X by Y% of completely subjective measurement units this year." We might even put that on our resumes, and pretend it's not bullshit in an interview.

It's pants-on-head stupid. Just hire managers that know how to assess the performance of their reports for whatever it is they specifically do, and trust them to do it to the best of their ability. The amount of cargo-culting used to prop up those who are completely incompetent to assemble a working team and keep it humming is ridiculous. Eventually, these companies are going to have to promote more tech workers into tech management, because they'll be the only ones that actually know what good tech work looks like. Slapping on the same performance appraisal process used by the sales department from the top-down just isn't going to get around that.
I'm hesitant to use the phoenix framework for exactly this reason.
>And an increasing share of wages going to the top income brackets isn't in itself cause for concern, only if the members of the top income brackets are largely static does it matter (since it means income is going to a small group of individuals, rather than a broader group of individuals who are swapped in and out of the top income groups).

Actually I have to disagree, a bifurcation in income is reason to worry in itself. In a society where everything is commodified this wealth gap allows the rich to opt out of normal civil society. A society where a small few can buy their way out of a crap education system, out of a crap healthcare system, etc. isn't just no matter how well we swap people in and out of that group.
Could this be the first time someone gets fired for hiring IBM? (Sorry could not resist after having heard of that quip so many times).
I didn't intend for it to be either/or. If removing bad actors from the general population wasn't the first priority, then there wouldn't be prisons at all. There would only be fines, etc.
The easiest way to break A* is to use a non admissible (overestimating) heuristic. This will usually still produce reasonable paths but not optimal.

What they had was even more of a bug where some nodes were skipped from expansion.
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Your website is beautiful, in near of perfection! I have one question: how does one get paid exactly? Is it with ethereum itself?
I saw somewhere that someone was working on something similar in Swift, but can't seem to find the link.
I always find writing out my programs (even in pseudocode) before actually attempting to type it out has helped me weed out bugs in the long run. This is especially true as long as whiteboard interviews is still relevant.

Despite me typing pretty fast on a keyboard (~90wpm), writing things out on paper makes me think more carefully, and I don't have to maintain a contextual overhead in pressing the right keys or seeing a red, strong underline for every typo I make. This is also true for non programming related work. It frees my mind into solving the actual thing where typing is just the medium.

Then again, I grew up doing a lot of writing and only got my first iPhone in college. This might be different for kids who interact with iPads in elementary school though.
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I too was a supporter of Bernie and cringed at similar proposals. I guess I just figured all the other candidates were amenable to reason and when put in this position would make a more measured gesture.
>And an increasing share of wages going to the top income brackets isn't in itself cause for concern, only if the members of the top income brackets are largely static does it matter (since it means income is going to a small group of individuals, rather than a broader group of individuals who are swapped in and out of the top income groups).

So a society in which there's competition to be among a handful of feudal lords, but where everyone else suffers tenuous and desperation is unconcerning? How so?

We've been through this in American history. It was called the Gilded Age and it was a nightmare for all but a handful of robber barons, resulted in widespread social and political instability, and violence.
>At least in China, the quality of life for the average person is increasing. In the U.S. many people can no longer afford to buy a house, have no savings, and are at risk of losing middle-class status.

I cannot believe you are anything but an agent of a foreign power, or a naive, misguided adolescent, to suggest that the political structure of China is more liberal and achieves a better ends than that of the Unitd States.
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Healthcare costs are not accurately represented, and almost all families are just one medical emergency away from losing everything. Also, increasing government taxes, fees, and decreasing quality of government infrastructure and services.
Also, many companies who deal with medical data, but are say startups but not an actual healthcare provider gets audited for compliance - and it is fairly rigorous and so think of it like a SOX audit, but even further. Some companies have dedicated rooms with limited, tracked, badge access to the machines in that area which are the only machines that can access the data.

So if any breach occurs, access can be tracked to individuals.
They do, but it's not that black-and-white, which leaves lots of room for disputes.
One of the big players should launch a giant warehouse - serving as a giant kitchen. Capable of cooking all kinds of different varieties of cuisine and tons of automation. And a huge staff of well-trained chefs cooking, and delivering to a ~50 mile radius.

I'd imagine they'd open this in - say Fremont - and deliver to the entire bay area.

It would be great, because I could order Mexican food for me, Indian food for the wife, and the kids could have a couple hamburgers.

Seems like something Amazon would be good at.
"Due to the telecommunications landscape right now, it may not be possible to seamlessly maintain your primary number for all instances, for example it is not possible to forward messages with most carriers we have explored."

This pretty much kills it IMO. When someone is trying to reach you they have to message two numbers?
ssh is, by default, Trust on First Use which is a significantly different model than a Trusted Thirdparty (CAs).

There are some well known trade-offs, namely that having everyone manually verify fingerprints on initial connect and again on any server change is a large burden.

I don't particularly want to have to go into my bank's local office and verify in person the fingerprint is correct each time they need to rotate a secret.

If this isn't what you meant, that we should use TOFU vs Trusted third party, please do expand.
The proper solution is to actually make sure the CAs are secure, it doesn't matter if there are 1 or many. Also more CAs mean that any problems are only localized to their certificates instead of the entire internet.
This naming is ridiculous. Did they hire a bunch of Microsoft people ?
As long as the timestamp changes on the C file, that's fine, right? At least with the version of redo I use timestamps are used by default, not file contents.
It's worth pointing out that BECAUSE Dropbox recently announced their plans to IPO, all media coverage is now viewed in light of what's best to prop up their pricing.

No surprise that they are including names like Google, Microsoft, and SAP to put a more positive spin on everything.
The same could be said for the racial-based statistics, since race might be tied to cultural opinions which could impact how many hours a week or years in a lifetime someone works.
sorry if i was unclear. if a company is storing medical history data that falls under HIPPA which is serious.

If a company just has data about you that is not medical data then there is no legal requirements as to who can have access to it internally. (So Joe's Sprocket's has a list of everyone who has bought sprockets and their phone numbers - anyone in the company could look at that info and there would be no legal implications)
The previous poster is arguing metrics and the secretary-general is arguing ethics. You can't compare those two. Both statements could be true or false; the truth value of the statements is independent.
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I haven't been at the job I have long enough to have been through a performance appraisal yet, but every job I've had prior to this worked the same way: they demand that I set "goals" for myself early in the year and don't give me any specific guidance about what sort of goals they're looking for, so I put together a set of what I think are reasonable goals based on the priorities I'm aware of at the time (taking in to account that I know that new things will come up in the course of the year). Then my completely unqualified, self-serving, low-level middle manager looks at my goals, says, "these are bad goals", writes up a new, impossible set of goals based on the project-of-the-day (his goals, of course, are so vague that it would be impossible to ever say that he didn't reach them), requires that I agree to them, and then gives me a negative performance appraisal at the end of the period because I didn't achieve them (mostly because the priorities have completely changed in the last 12 months so that none of the ridiculous goals he made up for me make sense any more). But then, after my negative review, I get a standard cost of living increase, they keep me on, give me more responsibility, and then are genuinely shocked and disappointed when I leave for a better paying job.
You'd also probably need an upconverter like the HamItUp (which works for the HackRF).
It does happen, but its not very common. (some exceptions for cold food, where the tax is different).
Excellent point -- I completely agree. While there are several different types of coders, I think all too often you have that one person on the team that busies themselves to the point of being wholly unproductive. Applying the "10X" tag to those that work more diligently is probably the best use of "10X" I've seen in a while.