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I've been working on open source software for the last couple years (links in my profile).

The funny thing is that after more than one promo disappointment, I just started working on open source projects at work. I did that seriously for the last 6-7 years of my 11 year tenure (maybe 30-60% time instead of 20% time).

That ended up improving my skills a lot, and I never got the sense of my work being thrown away (which would have led to me leaving much earlier). Like you, I always had a lot of respect from my coworkers and manager, and they never questioned what I was doing. I was always maintaining some legacy system that everybody knew was important but nobody wanted to touch (or knew how to touch).

I did eventually get promoted, but somewhat to my chagrin it was for a committee-friendly project -- C++ that handles a lot of qps. In contrast, I think all the developer tools I wrote in Python had a lot more impact on the company. I got a lot more positive feedback on those (just not from the right people apparently, as non-engineer or junior engineer feedback isn't counted that strongly, as it was explained to me).

I guess my view was that the promo committees cared more about technical difficulty than impact on the company, which leads to the obvious situation where people invent difficult work to do.

In my mind, it's not a coincidence that most Google products are now slow and full of bugs -- at least the ones that make it past the all-too-common "just barely launched" state. I never worked on front end code, but I noticed that front end engineers also get the shaft. The products show it.

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I was disappointed in certain things at Google, and there was a certain amount of "believing your own PR", but overall it was fantastic for me. Otherwise I wouldn't have stayed for so long.

I don't have any illusion that other companies are better. They might not have these problems, but they have other problems that Google doesn't. (I know plenty of people who stayed at Google for 5 or more years, then went to another company and left that company after a year.)

I think you might feel the same way, since your choice was to start something on your own rather than take a job at a similar company.

Employees just hold Google to a very high standard, which is both fair and good for the company!
>But regardless of that, a tool that makes a semantic distinction between tabs and spaces is NEVER the UX you want unless you're a masochist.

GNU make has had an option (.RECIPEPREFIX) to change this for a long time now. Stop whining.
or, you can write your recipes as

target : requisites ; recipe

with a semicolon instead of a tab.

However, tabs are beautiful, and every occasion to use them should be cherised as precious.
I'm not involved with this project, but for services that require network effect (which this does), the narrow focus could help build the necessary threshold of members intending to do the same activity. They can always flip a switch to enable other categories later.
I remember reading how Spotify charges ~equal to Netflix, and their expenses will likely be much lower due to not needing to fund 'originals' and all.

While Netflix's originals also offer a distinct advantage over their competitors and increases the cost of switching, Spotify will likely have a very profitable future as a company, and I'm curious to see if their market cap will ever approach that of Netflix.
disclaimer : I worked for a music streaming service for several years

I don't really like the Play Music UI (but I don't hate it either, the new parts are very nice, but the album pages could use a bit more love).

I dislike the spotify UI though (why is it THAT dark and depressive ?) and play music removes the ads from youtube (us user) and pays youtubers, so that's an easy choice.

Oh, the winning feature of Play Music for me is that I can add my own album, even if it does not belong to their catalog. It still shows with all it's metadata and cover as an album.
I was pleasantly surprised how quickly we converged on these principles. I've worked on teams before where some of these items took months of debate!

In particular, only doing code review if the author wants one really demonstrates how this is a team of experienced engineers built on trust. So far this has allowed us to move fast without breaking things!

What are your engineering principles?
I think Paul Graham's old "Hiring is Obsolete" post sets the right framework for thinking about this, why it happens, and the arbitrage opportunity that is present.

http://paulgraham.com/hiring.html
I'm puzzled by the use of the word "own". FB doesn't "own" it's users, which is kind of the point. Users gonna use, and that might be FB, but also could be something else. Thinking that FB "owns" their users is similar to LittleThings thinking they were invaluable. It may not end the way you expect (e.g. MySpace, AOL, etc).
How many of those are bots and phony accounts?

In the US & Canada, the number of active accounts has been in decline.

https://techcrunch-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/techcrunch.com...

Granted, only by ~1 million, but that's not growth.

Facebook will always be profitable in some respect, just as AOL is still profitable, but it's entirely possible that people are going to get bored and move on to other things. Old folks will still use Facebook to debate about which Denny's in town has the better supreme skillet, but there's no sign that Facebook will hold on to the ubiquity it currently has.

Maybe Facebook will continue to mean something to the world outside the west, which a graph in the story I linked to seems to suggest.
Interesting move by the CEO.

Personally thinks that centralized CA proving trust of unknowns of long distance again and again prove that the security of centralized trust is weak!
As illustrated in the well known documentary "Mazes and Monsters" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpcL-fQNPfQ
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I want Spotify to do well, but the reason I'm cautious is the lack of true differentiation. Spotify has a great platform, but I'd worry about the level of control that the labels and artists have over their catalog, and the fact that they make a lot of money as a middleman between consumers and artists... I just feel like I could see another company coming and eating their lunch relatively easily. They're not like Netflix, who has differentiated themselves with exclusive content.

But I REALLY hope they succeed, because I've been a customer since they first announced US support.
National Identity Is Made Up
Algorithmic Wilderness: Can Tech Mend Our Broken Relationship with the Nature?
Nice and easy to setup.

https://buymeacoff.ee/mycah

Might be cool to have the ability to change it from coffee to something else.
Haha, I didnt think you'd read it! Anyway, I want to wait a little to see if there are problems and if not, I'm gonna redirect. I use an nginx reverse proxy, everything seems pretty straightforward, so it's more a matter of taking things one step at a time.
download link:

https://rss.art19.com/episodes/df4a1409-16ca-464b-ba6c-1971b...
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Based on a short story by Philip K. Dick https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Minority_Report
I really need an ATM
The incentive hasn't been market forces though, but government regulation.
If by "defective" you mean has rounding errors, then sure. Everything that rounds numbers is defective. To be fair, round errors can sometimes be mitigated by carefully changing the order of operations, but never fully eliminated in those cases.
I'm reading Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities right now and I recommend it for anybody looking for a deeper dive into nationalism than a video series can do.
Holding STEEM currency will give you more influence on the network (increase the $ ouput of your votes).

A fresh account will give like 0.002 per vote, while my account with 5000 Steem gives about 2$ per vote.

Also, people who vote get 'curation rewards' from the system. Depending on how early you voted and helped discovered a content, you get rewarded for it, even if it's only a small share, it adds up
https://developer.apple.com/app-store/subscriptions/
Just want to say that giving many examples of users of your site with links as replies is a genius way to show off your existing customers. It doesn't feel like spam, more like examples with proof. Good luck!
Their users sure are.
Yes, without limit, barring some sort of severe mental disorder.

1) Most people don’t know how to buy more happiness past some point.

2) There’s also a point at which you’re ridiculously ecstatic 24/7, so you’re really more interested in self-actualization than “happiness”.

I should clarify that I don’t yet know a good way to get instant long-term happiness, there is some work and time involved.
Hire them?
When CEOs’ Equity Is About to Vest, They Cut Investment to Boost the Stock Price
subscriptions throughout the app store.
I have fond memories of playing D&D in the barracks with my fellow "volunteers" during US Army basic training. For those not aware, the conditions for enlistees are very similar to prison. We made a d20 out of wadded up toilet paper and a sharpie that had to be kept hidden until late at night. Our "rulebook" consisted of the hazy memory of our DM who had memorized most of 5E (He also had a separate project going at the time of writing down word for word the entire script of LOTR: Return of the King in a notebook, from memory, to pass the time.). It's one of the few things that kept me sane during that time.
There might be a fine line there; humans need a sense of purpose, and for many people, purpose is tied up in our job.

If you no longer have to work, and you choose not to work because your current job isn't ideal, it can be hard to get the motivation to search for a new job. At the same time, without work, it can be hard to find purpose.

So you might be stuck in a situation where you aren't working and struggling to find meaning.
Not really - the counterpoint to that is that giving supervisors too much direct power is also an invitation for bias, blindspots, or abuse of power. You also don't want to slip into stack ranking (witness how demoralizing it was at Microsoft), which is easy if you don't have a way of getting globally calibrated.
This is a refreshing read that I can relate to personally. I have never been to prison, but myself and a group of fellow soldiers played D&D in army basic training. We drew all maps on notepad paper, played using rules someone either recalled or made up on the spot, and carved bars of soap into dice. It always sticks out in my memory as a great example of how humans can figure out a way to find joy in an _extremely_ bleak environment.
I suggested making new build system that has the power of Make or Shake and is still oriented toward frontend development.

You are right that Shake and most general purpose build tools are out-of-touch with frontend. Even for people who are comfortable with these tools, they are not necessarily better than Webpack for the typical frontend tasks. Shake place in this hypothetical tool will be at its backend - like LLVM is the backend of many compilers.
I've said it before, but Spotify is the single most valuable subscription service I pay for. Video streaming is convenient, but some of the music I've come across on Spotify has literally changed my life and that would never have happened if I was still forced to torrent everything. It's just so easy, it's everything they said the steaming model would be.
I think that was the point. Capital punishment shouldn't exist (and doesn't in most first world countries).
Could be also interesting for people who care about their focus .
Wow. Thank you. I think it is very beautifully made.

https://buymeacoff.ee/ddominik

I recently started blogging, so I am very happy to come across this :)
This was eloquently covered by Kwame Appiah in his Reith Lecture from a few years ago.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07zz5mf

The philosopher and cultural theorist Kwame Anthony Appiah argues against a mythical, romantic view of nationhood, saying instead it should rest on a commitment to shared values.

He explores the history of the idea, born in the 19th century, that there are peoples who are bound together by an ancient common spirit and that each of these nations is entitled to its own state. He says this idea is a mistaken one, illustrating his argument through the life story of the writer who took the pen name Italo Svevo - meaning literally Italian Swabian. He was born a citizen of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and became a citizen of the new republic of Italy, all without leaving his home city of Trieste. Appiah argues that states exist as a set of shared beliefs rather than membership of some sort of mythical and ancient group. "What binds citizens together is a commitment," he says, "to sharing the life of a modern state, united by its institutions, procedures and precepts."

The lecture is recorded in front of an audience at the University of Glasgow. The series is presented and chaired by Sue Lawley. Future lectures will examine the themes of colour and culture.
With respect to Make, does the database (mounted as a filesystem) retain accurate information that Make needs to operate as designed (primarily the timestamps). To what level of granularity is this data present within the database, and what is the performance of the database accessed in this way? Will it tell you that the table was updated at 08:40:33.7777, or will it tell you only that the whole database was altered at a specific time?
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As a TA at Stanford currently, I have heard this from numerous professors and can confirm there is a serious lack of candidates. I have sat in on lecturer "auditions" and even the amount of people that come to interview are low, let alone those with the necessary skills. It sounds wild but really is the case that we lack faculty. The number of students far outweighs those with the credentials and ability to teach the material.
What's wrong with Play's UI? Seems easy enough to use. I can find music and stream my library without much fuss.
I 100% agree that you have to put a lot of focus on how you interact with your coworkers. And further--most people can't take criticism well. At the end of the day business is all about people.

But I would say a lot of managers are trying to get their coders to be more productive with coding. When they introduce something like "assist points" which is really just a popularity game, it doesn't incentivize coding as they think it does. It incentivizes more socializing. Which frequently also means less productive with coding. Don't get me wrong I do need to work with my coworkers, but a lot of the time I need to be working alone, or just send a quick email. And I'll get punished for doing that even if that's the most productive thing to do.

On your theory--I think it depends. Sometimes it's "I'm insecure and need to compensate in some way, like expensive watches" but sometimes it's "I take pride in everything I do, including my looks." Also while in some ways I'd probably be happy to wear PJs every day, I understand that the easiest way to get more power in social situations and business is just to dress nicely.
People have been conditioned by using badly designed software that systems naturally drift into broken states in the course of normal operations and that having to start the system from scratch regularly is therefore very reasonable.

This just isn't so. Also the degree of acceptable reliability that is reasonable is different in a missile defense system vs the toy your grandma uses to browse facebook.

It had to be rebooted because a bug caused it to be increasingly inaccurate the longer it was booted up. This was always broken. It wasn't an acceptable fix because you manifestly can't trust users to do so as shown by the 28 corpses. It was however probably the best that could be done on short notice.
Nations are a logical consequence of heritability and therefore this headline is provably false.
Thanks for taking time to share feedback, @zelon88!

1 & 2. Noted. We'll look into this right away.

3. This is already on our roadmap. Going live soon :)

Cheers!
So as many of the comments echoed they are using big data to perform parallel reconstruction to detain people and justify it using some kind of computational technique ?
Granfalloonery like this is what humans are best at. Everything we involve ourselves in is "made up", but that doesn't keep it from existing.

The book Sapiens suggests the word "intersubjective" (I don't know if this came from somewhere else) for things that exist entirely because a quorum believes they exist:

- National identity

- Nations as a whole

- Tribes

- Religion

- Money

- Civil rights
This is neat! It's cool how powerful Spotify's API is.

I built Amplitude [1], which uses Spotify's recommendations API to create artist based discovery playlists, if you need more new music than Discover Weekly provides and also Rediscover [2], to save your discover weekly playlists so you don't lose songs.

[1] https://amplitudeapp.com/

[2] https://rediscover.rile.yt/
Faith doesn't mean 'belief without evidence'. That's a Richard Dawkins talking point, not anything you'll find in a dictionary. John could have excellent evidence for his own abilities, and yet his faith in those abilities could turn out to be misplaced.
> For some people dimming/color changes/automation features etc are worthwhile.

Who?

I'm not dismissing that there is a market, I'm dismissing that it's the type of product that should be in most homes. I see the value added being worth cost in smart vacuum cleaners, smart thermostats, and IP surveillance cameras for the average home. I don't see a 10x value added for light bulbs.

You're correct about 50,000 hours. Most lights in my home are used less than 5 hours a day, which is the origin of my 30 year number. From my point of view I think about owning an LED for 30 years, but when I communicate the lifespan of an LED to the world I should use a more common measurement.
> My guess is that the original hangouts will be deprecated

The original Hangouts is not yet retired but I thought that Google was clear as far back as the 2016 enterprise focus announcement that the future of Hangouts was as a business communication platform within G Suite and that consumer Hangouts is deprecated.
Capitol punishment is however a complete solution to recidivism for violent crime, undeniably.
First of all who is trustico.

Second of all why do SSL certs need to be resold?
Work hard to justify the decisions of senior management. Outright refuse bad and low priority work

Discredit other teams through data analysis
Never heard of gocryptfs, tried it for an hour or two and its rather interesting.

I guess you could ask on the forums, https://forum.syncthing.net about your issues and see what they say.
Just to try to put this in a (unfair to you) constructive context:

> I could be stuck for days because following the README in a repo just wasn't enough to get the project to compile and run.

>> I can give some insight from my own experience. In my current position, there are a large number of "things" that I've had to figure out, either by reverse engineering, reading code, or intuition. So I get constantly bombarded with helping others get unstuck.

This is why I always try to follow readmes, log my progress and fix errors as I find them. Also document hidden assumptions etc.

That way others can help themselves - follow the readme, look at the up to date network/architecture diagram etc.

Partly this is because I really cannot be bothered to keep such details in my head, anyway.
> Information theoretically speaking, the inside of a black hole’s event horizon does not exist

There's your metaphor. If you didn't need to qualify it that way, you could perhaps get away with saying otherwise—but with the qualification, your telling us about a different domain in which something has the same 'structure' as a (physical) hole. That's exactly how analogies/metaphors work: two things which are analogous share the same structure but have representations of those structures in differing domains.

There's a simpler way of seeing that it's metaphor still, though. You have chosen some characteristics of holes and arbitrarily decided that they are the ones which define it—but if we want to say it's literally a hole and not metaphorically, then all the attributes which familiar physical holes have should apply. For instance, there should be an interior surface, and things inserted into it should be retractable. Your description treats the singularity and event horizon as two distinct objects, which provides a kind of solution to the second—but it seems like those two things aren't as readily separable as, for instance, if we had a hole in the ground and it was filled with a powerful acid: in that case it's clear which is hole and which is thing filling it. Perhaps I'm mistaken, but I'd bet that the way in which the singularity 'fills' a black hole cannot be anything more than metaphorically.
Most people are simply applying social pressure against norm breaking anyways - often times they do not literally mean that he should go to jail - it is simply how people talk about offensive behavior in general.

I'm happy to bash him as well, but I still think the actual jail time should be on legal not social law breaking. Everyone hates someone that is a douchebag, and this guy embraces it making him a perfect target.
Here’s where Aaron Franklin buys his brisket
I've been wondering for a long time, how do you remove illegal content. I don't care so much about copyright and minor offenses like that, but more serious offenses like child pornography. If there is no way to remove it, people and governments will start to take action against the whole website, decentralized or not.
If you are going to be pedantic, you might want to be very careful about what you write... How do you figure it would be more accurate to say that the clock error "could have prevented death?"
The palm-to-ear trick works and can be easily shown - have someone else stand behind you and put a hand to your left or right ear. You can always tell which one.
He definitely had his pick of fish.
That’s probably the closest to the article because the system justifies itself to be right. Other commenters have said that it’s a case of parallel reconstruction . (Which would rule out minority report).
Critical thinking is the most important tool for anyone, PhD or not.

In this noisy world that we find ourselves in today, one MUST cultivate critical thinking skills.

I don't trust phds because they "sound smart". Indeed, true smartness lies in simplifying complex concepts without much loss of information. I know the types of faux intellects you are referring to. Beware of them.

I trust phds more because my prior on their ability to use critical thinking is much higher than a Hollywood dimwit who is paid to express emotions in people.

It is still your job to trust, but verify. It is just easier to verify logically sound arguments or insights.