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Isn’t the more important question, if you disagree with someone and had the power to censor them, would you do it?

Unless people believe in free speech even when it benefits points of view they disagree with, its future in society is in peril. Nobody wants opinions they like to be censored, it’s much more difficult to say that the NRA or religious fundamentalists should have the same protected right of speech as everyone else.
Love this. Any interest in a merger with the cash machine that is http://subpar.biz/
We do a lot of the same stuff, it's just framed completely differently under the label of freedom. I feel that even if the US became a dictatorship, there would be denial about it, likely we would continue to hold mock elections ala Russia, or maybe even real elections where the outcome is clear because the people have been so thoroughly controlled and manipulated.

It reminds me a lot of 1984 where the three different powers, on the surface, have utterly different values, but in the end act in exactly the same ways.
This is not correct, the nature of gravitational waves emitted by the merging of two objects is different in its final stage, depending whether the objects form a black hole or not. Until a black hole is formed, the nature of the emission is the same for all objects (e.g. black holes or neutron stars), but if a black hole forms, the final emission (ringdown) is different.

The first LIGO-Virgo events detected black hole mergers which resulted in black holes.

The last LIGO-Virgo event detected two neutron star mergers. Unfortunately the sensitivity of the apparatus is not good enough to determine if the merge resulted in a black hole, or a neutron star based purely on gravitational wave measurements. However, we have secondary evidence[1] that the remnant was a black hole.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.05938
You're describing knowledge work at many companies.

You've also recognized why upper management, particularly execs, are more likely to be sociopaths (or at the very least, admittedly selfish).

And fortunately you've come to understand that being the boss/owner is the best way to make your hard work actually pay you accordingly. The downside to being your own boss is that your work ethic and motivation may drive you to work every waking hour. This is bad, and I hope you learn balance.

I don't think there's a solution to the problems you described - at least not a solution that includes staying in a company and working for someone else. There are people who are happy to stay mid-level and just churn out work for pay. Sometimes they play for the team, and sometimes they're a little selfish. But most importantly, they are satisfied or complacent. Others, like you, are neither.

Cheers and good luck!
No. Jython is a full implementation of Python in Java.

Last I collided with it, it was terribly slow, but that is not the point here.

Some of these alternative implementations are very interesting. PyPy is JIT'ed, and insanely fast compared to CPython. IronPython, IIRC, has no GIL.
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To author: you lost the political game.

I busted my ass at a startup for years and also lost the political game. So I'm speaking from experience here.

You can either get all mad and worked up and pissed off about it, and waste years of your career (as I did) being pissed off, stubborn, and refusing to change. Or figure out how to play. I'd like to think there are places with better politics but I think it's pretty endemic of large organizations. I'd love to be proven wrong.

The thing is, "working for yourself" is so flawed in so many ways. In the first place, nobody "works for themself". You might work for customers, or clients, or whatever, but not "yourself". Second, you're a lot better off working at a good company -- MUCH better off -- unless you have a pretty damn concrete idea of what you're doing. In addition to the income, the big company will provide better networking, more credibility for anything you do subsequently (whether a new job, fundraising, hiring--ANYTHING), it's an all-around better gig.

I'm just trying to save you a lot of wasted years and time here. Take it or leave it.
Coming from a scheme world I find it pretty common that people don't know that a left fold is the fundamental list iterator.

You often find people chaining maps and folds and doing all kinds of strange things when a single fold would suffice.

I can live with people not grokking unfold, but the amount of time wasted because people emulate fold using at least 2 passes over a list is probably close to my own petty 30 year lifetime
unfortunately to my knowledge they work only with thunderbolt 2+ (ideally 3), not quite sure about 2014 models and their ports.
Similar to Walmart pricing. I rarely see it is SaaS though.
You pay VAT on anything over £15 (including P&P).

You pay customs duty on anything over £135.

You pay a handling fee for the courier to sort that out for you (although it's doubtful they can force you to pay that).

It takes a few weeks to arrive. And you gamble with the safety of it, especially if it's mains powered. But it's so cheap Maplin doesn't really have a chance.
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I wonder if corruption is to some degree inevitable in any country this small. How do you deal with international companies and billionaires who are richer than your entire nation?
I think google itself follows that same path of promotion, ending in a fellow position after distinguished engineer? I wonder how many people at google have the fellow title.
Hard to imagine how different the resulting universe might be, what if the speed of light and causality were say 10x higher than what it is now? Or what if the speed gradually increased over time? Would we just evaporate?
Try doing actual calculations without mathematical formalization and let me know how it goes.
Yea if a developer helps someone there is no guarantee that there will be an email chain generated as proof. If you truly believe this in all due respect you are out of touch with reality. People still walk up and ask for help. Maybe not in remote teams but in the office all the time.
Supposedly making these type of interactions possible is the whole point of open offices
I'm pretty sure that's going the long way round to wreck the power grid, if it works at all. DOSing critical infrastructure is pretty scary in general, though.
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Hmm, I deal with many files and maybe 100k lines of code in one project, 6k is not that much...

Edit: In case people don't know about Certbot from the EFF.

https://certbot.eff.org/
maybe I'm being optimistic but a couple days ago I spent basically the whole day helping another developer getting a fix done so they could make a pull request before the deadline, I think that was noticed because we are in an open layout so me telling him do first A, then B, if you do C that won't work. It isn't working in QA because of this reason etc. etc

So anyway I think that was probably valued by our project manager who is also a former techie, because she probably realized if I didn't do it, that PR wasn't going in that release.
The problem is that phone is at the end of the day a niche device. Anything requiring real computer power will be relegated to a larger screen such as a laptop or desktop. Phone reached the speed they needed to get pretty much any basic task done years ago. Other than battery or slight speed improvements, most new phones just aren't game changers anymore.
Yeah, exactly. I only found out after I did my first promo attempt that the committee is expected to grant the promotion if you've fixed the gap the last committee identified. I wish I'd known about that earlier so I could have gotten my gaps defined explicitly.
I'd go for Librem 5 when it will come out, but otherwise - totally agree.
I found his “Resolving the Gender Gap” paragraph quite credible. Heck, it's even a viable description of some HN comment threads.

I'd very much appreciate the input of women on this, but alas, they are few and far between in our profession. If the author is actually wrong, they might even be too busy being “good developers” to show the same amount of “disrespect” for the field as he does. But I'm not prepared to believe that yet.
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And it makes sense. Why would you want to continue running an online dating site after entering into a relationship? Not only would I think the motivation would mostly disappear, or at least drop off precipitously; but also, you have to think your significant other would always be kind of suspicious, and rightfully so.
I forgot the division in that post, and I can't edit it. See the post below. Sorry.
I almost didn’t write it and knew I’d be downvoted. Many folk that hang around HN are very idealistic myself included. My main point is that you shouldn’t feel sorry for cryptocurrency investors; many know exactly what they’re gambling on. Easy money and BS “tech innovation” being used to grab portions of that cash pile is the reality I see. What’s your opinion of the mkt?
The right in America is starting to up their noise about Chinese shills on the internet, while the left continues to make noise about the Russian shills.

We're in a way being made into a proxy where Americans are making their allegiances to either Russia or China.
Some people are just inclined to this sort of thing- to call it abuse is unfair. If you are into getting beaten up by a dominatrix, that just is your thing.
If you want to crunch till you crack for EA- that is totally fine.
Its a free world, if you want your free willy beaten up- noone is stopping you and nobody should.

Why not tolerate other peoples needs?
No need to judge them.
"There's some who argue"

Let's be clear about who.

Who is arguing that people need separate identities for work, family, and friends? Sociologists

Who is arguing that having a single identity will make society more open? Mark Zuckerberg.

Source:
https://boingboing.net/2018/01/22/facebook-is-sad.html
And also, the main takeaway from his story (like so many other similar stories) is: build a community.

Really, his projects are interesting and all but "just ship it" is not enough, it has never been.
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On the meta subject of notifications: I've disabled all sounds and vibrations of my personal phone and I make frequent use of the snooze functions (either app level or os level). I feel like it's also good starting point.
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Making two of them interact with each other would be fun.
Oh yeah, that's rough. I'll admit to having a strong affection for Wayne Gretsky Estates cabernet though. Mostly because its a total oddity in the US. It also tastes okay.
Sounds like the same shit management at most places I've worked. Not surprising in the least though.

Everything to the sister company in India!
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You give Google too much credit. They were never going to make those billions in profit in China; that game was over before it started, and they knew it. They saw that the government would ensure that the local service companies would get the vast majority of the pie.

So, Google and Apple aren't really on equal footing.
See my parallel comment, ringdown is different for black hole remnants vs. something else, so in principle we can tell if it resulted in a black hole or not. However, for objects of suitable mass (a.i. small) the current detectors don't work very well at the frequency required to make this assessment accurately, so secondary evidence is required.
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By external dependencies, do you mean things like arbitrary Git repos? There are standard rules there to accommodate things like that.

As well, this may be new documentation since you last looked, but there's https://docs.bazel.build/versions/master/external.html to read now, at least.
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Interesting that after much bad news on IOTA, the market is still pricing IOTA well https://www.coingecko.com/en/price_charts/iota/usd
market is ignorant, uninformed, or its all none total speculative
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We've had some emails from them as well, but we still assume it's our responsibility to check the rates weekly, based on the fact that at least one rate change has come into effect with little more notice than that and nobody (including HMRC) actively notified us first.

Publishing the rates is certainly better than not publishing them, but unless that information is updated in close to real time so it picks up those short-notice changes and unless it's supplied in a machine-readable format so that you can use it as a basis for automatically calculating correct VAT at the time of sale, it's of limited value for anything other than spotting mistakes retrospectively.
Sure, I didn't mean to suggest otherwise. I just meant, if they have an endless flow of "pretty darn good" employees, they have no particular need to try to retain any given one.

Other companies may have to search hard to find excellent software engineers, but Google does not.
The notion that "a junior engineer and a manager who is at least partially paying attention can get that done" is a horseshit excuse that could be applied to 99% of what any given developer does. Moreover, developers find themselves having to write tests and fix bugs because the priorities of upper management didn't allow it or foster it for the last developer.
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Since 1798, Knights of Malta have been based in Rome (where they have their tiny extraterritorial palaces). They have nothing to do with the island of Malta anymore.
It doesn't have anything to do the island of Malta
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Yes I was wrong in that comment. I re-read the twitter thread and apologized for it in a different reply chain to Pieter.
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Do you believe statistics aren't real math? I'm not sure why the complaint. Sure it may be inaccurate, but as others said, along questions like: "do you have X heritage?" are already used as predictors for certain diseases. Genetic investigations just gets a little closer to the base truth, even if no one knows exactly which genes are doing which things.
I think you just described a typical day in Congress...
So you're the wonderful person who started standardebooks. Many thanks!
I just thought it was cool to see Raskin and Woz in the same ad post-Macintosh.
I was not talking about neuron networks.

But ok, I was not aware that gpu had error correction, how much additional transistor does it take?
The first concern I had is that assist points that people assign to other won't be directly comparable -- so an "assist leaderboard" might be misleading and potentially cause more trouble than it's worth.

A point that Dev 1 gives to Dev 2 will not likely be equal to a point that Dev 3 gives to Dev 4.

This will be especially true if everyone has the same quota of assist points to assign, as people may very easily receive different amounts of help, and thus their "actual help per assist points assigned" values will differ.
Anybody use this along with a non-tech significant other? How does it compare to commercial password managers in terms of usability?
KPXC is currently my favorite password manager. Much more portable than Keepass itself (Mono, lots of plugins just don't work).

I do recommend that anyone without PW manager atm either try KPXC or Keepass itself. It's worth it for your security.
> Google does a good job of building a sense of community within the organization.

That is the true test. You are supposed to pretend only to buy into it but never really believe it. Understanding that things function on two levels is critical. One level is the superficial "we are a family, community, we are not evil, making the world better". But that's the trap to catch all the naive people and extract extra work hours from them (possibly at the expense of family or personal time).

There is a second level of unspoken rules - "it really is about business and internal politics". You are supposed to discover and navigate a set of unwritten rules. And these usually don't get spelled out for you, because they are kind of ugly and often diametrically opposed the official rules from the first level.

Slavoj Zizek likes to talk about this when he talks about institutional ideology and how there are rules and meta rules. The meta rules dictate how you relate to the official rules. Which ones you are supposed to break to get ahead, for instance. The other side is that you are given permission to do something but you are not really allowed to take advantage of that or you get in trouble. For example the whole "take any vacation time you want, we don't have fixed days". But you are expected to not really take more than a few or you'll be laid off eventually.

Here is an excerpt where he talk a bit about that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfO9gL28pAs (warning, he likes to use gross jokes and you might find his style unpalatable)
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> I'm 6'"4 and have never had a problem seeing the speedometer in any car I have driven

I have this problem all the time. Often the top is cut off by the steering wheel. I adjust the seat and the steering wheel to fix it though, not a big deal.
>I agree. I think IoT definitely gets a bad name because of poor security practices and design decisions made by a few bad actors.

No, it gets a bad name because it moves all the legacy code security problems common in heavy industry into a consumer environment where it is much easier to justify not allocating resources to manage those problems.

Stable, mature, well done, IoT is basically nonexistent. There is no boring Toyota Corrolla running Debian stable in IoT. All you can find are Teslas running Gentoo nightly cross compiled from a $30 Android 2.2 tablet. Anything partially obstructing a lane and a few 18-wheelers will bear the scars.

IoT is going to be a security mess for the foreseeable future. Something that actually harms the companies employing the people writing the spaghetti needs to happen before the ball gets rolling to solve things.

Operating systems, networking protocols, serving web content, etc, etc all used to be the wild west at one time too. The problem in IoT is that right now the spaghetti authors are responsible for a huge part of the stack, not just the spaghetti and the sauce. When many IoT projects are reinventing a bunch of wheels it's no surprise that a few of them are square and not very secure. As IoT matures more and more things will be abstracted and the spaghetti that makes your blender smarter than everyone else will run in nice little padded cells where it can't hurt anything.

I expect that eventually most of IoT will be running on a handful of platforms built around a mostly common core stack similar to Linux today (most of IoT uses Linux so they'll probably copy that architecture). There will be plenty of stupid stuff that goes down between now and when IoT starts to mature though.
> An interesting fact is that the bulb does not interact with the mobile application directly. Instead, both the bulb and the mobile application are connected to a cloud service and communication goes through it.

That convinces me to not buy a smart lightblub. The lifespan of an LED is ~30 years. The lifespan of a IoT/cloud company can be much shorter.
"Completed" means they finished debt restructuring. Your "attempts" are actual bankruptcies that still hadn't exited bankruptcy at the time your LAO document was written.
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Thats not just google mate, every large company is like this. We join thinking that our engineering will make a difference but it does not work like this. If you want to climb the ladder either join high, or grow through a smaller company.
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The article really resonated with me, as it's eerily similar to my own experience at Microsoft a couple of years back. Constant reorgs, resulting in projects being cancelled, resulting in lack of motivation, as months of your hard work are thrown out due to unclear decisions by the management.

I too was hoping for a senior level promotion. The last project I worked on, I was the only non-senior level developer in a team of 5. I went out of my way to ensure we released a well designed, built and tested system on time. At times I felt like I was committing more to the project than any of my more senior comrades. Come release time, I even saw one of the design decisions I had insisted on save us from down-time. All of this I was sure would lead me to the desired promotion.

Come performance review time, I was rated at the top performance tier, as I had the past couple of years. Unfortunately however, I was informed not enough time had passed since my last level increase, but I was sure to get it if I kept it up for another 1-2 years.

It's hard to describe the feeling of defeat I felt at that point. I resigned and left within the next few months. What I found most off putting, was when meeting my skip-manager (your managers manager) for the first time during my exit interview, all doors for a senior level promotion were suddenly open, to incentivise me to stay. Doesn't feel great when negotiations with your employer are comparable to those had with your cable provider.
Tarsnap. I have an employee now, but I ran the company myself for the first ten years and from ~2011 onwards Tarsnap has been the vast majority of my income.

I got started by... well, sitting down and scratching my itch. I wanted good backups, and it turned out that other people wanted them too.
Terminal level and Max mean different things here.

Indeed you can become a senior fellow at Google, but you aren't expected to. You are however expected to hit senior at some point in your career. There's no requirement to grow further, so the bar for senior is high.
A little OT, but I wonder what recruiters / interviewers think of people who took time off to bootstrap their own business but ultimately went back to applying for a regular job. Having the option to go back to working for a big corporation is a good safety net, so it would be an important factor if taking a year off would drastically reduce the likelihood of being hired again.
Is it worth to migrate from Keepass2 to this? Any interesting user experiences?
> It's wrong and I hope that nobody takes this seriously

It's wrong and I hope people take that seriously.
Yeah, but as I'm sure you heard before, newer reactors are really well-designed.

I think the low death rate per kWh, effective risk to the environment, and carbon footprint are all clearly in favor of nuclear.

The downsides: cost, time to operation, and ramp up/down times. But none of those have large negative externalities.

Compared to the negatives of conventional power plants, I really think we should be subsidizing nuclear heavily to mitigate climate change -- in addition to renewables.
I have, I’ve thought long about the marvelous future that could result. We can ask whether or not we should have built it only in retrospect.
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"terminal level", in the sense being used by the OP, doesn't mean "end of the IC track". It means a level that you can be at "forever". Often times the junior engineering levels have some expectations around eventually being promoted (ie, "up or out").
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One thing I've found useful about gulp and webpack is the fact that it's multiplatform.

What is the best approach to make sure your Makefile will work as expected on every platform, meaning, windows included?

For example: Can we write file paths using forward-slashes, or is it still an issue? I imagine running it via git bash (bash provided by the git installer on windows).