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Truebase | Founding Member, Developer / Architect | 50-100k + 0.5% - 4% equity | http://truebase.io | Seattle, WA | Full-time

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I consider family wealth to be chance as well. You don't choose which family you're born into, after all.
perhaps an alphabetic shorthand like keyscript?
In the Windows world, OLE and COM did things that you can only dream of in the Cloud world.

OLE[0] allowed one application to embed content from another application, without needing to know anything about the other application. It even had facilities to sort-of merge the UIs, so if you were editing a CorelDRAW drawing within your Excel spreadsheet you'd get a subset of the CorelDRAW toolbars and menus within your Excel window. All of this was done at runtime - there was no special programming in Excel to embed a CorelDRAW object.

This stuff actually worked and worked surprisingly well. It's unfortunate that we seem to have lost this.

I don't think we'll ever see this happen to the same extent. The only integrations will be ones that are specifically approved and developed, all N^2 of them.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_Linking_and_Embedding
> Atleast that is what the Chinese Communist Party is all about. They are significantly engineering and technical backgrounds, not politicians. They cannot weave and deceive through people issues.

The leadership of the Communist Party may have lots of people with technical backgrounds, but they quite obviously do actively work to, and do well enough at, weaving and decieving through “people issues”.

Also, they are politicians: having a technical background doesn't make a politician any less of a politician.
Meh, or just block UDP to your networks that have no reason to run UDP. Every carrier will do upstream ACL's these days. 5 years ago that wasn't the case. These days, they all do. Some free, some charge.

re: chat ops vs a web page. It's just a single BGP advertisement -- big whoop. Chatops is just hipster famous right now.
ML based welfare eligibility screening seems a few short steps from Kafka. I'm not sure if that's what they were doing, but it seems like something that somebody would think is a great idea.
Bye bye black box: Researchers teach AI to explain itself
> In IBMs defense, I don't believe our public sector has the experience or aptitude required to act as a supporting interface for a job of this scale.

How in any way is this "In IBMs defense"? We should think it OK that they pursued and committed to a large government contract that in reality they were not qualified to complete? The sentence reads more as a condemnation.
I wonder if journalists will ever tire of writing disingenuous articles like this.

The uninitiated in business will understand this as another company contributing nothing to the tax base, but they’re intentionally leaving out the other side of the equation.

The money deducted from employees exercising option grants doesn’t go into a black hole. It simply shifts the tax burden to the employee.

The real story is money never escapes the tax man. The burden may shift, but Amazon is creating wealth and the recipients of that wealth are paying taxes.
Building 2d plotters is a fun mechanical design exercise too. It's very accessible from both a mechanical design + software/electronics perspective.

Shameless self promotion but here's one I built: https://www.markjgallagher.com/projects/#/utsushi/
The comment section on this one is both depressing, and utterly predictable. The brigading, the “but’s” and the use of the article as a flimsy ideological springboard to make really asinine points. It’s good to see people expressing their dismay and surprise too, and hopefully over time those voices will become louder.

We’re still a ways from an article like this being met with something more constructive than the usual deflections, excuses, and ideological fights. We’re still stuck with arguments that wouldn’t have been out of place during various civil rights and suffragette movements.

It’s coming though, and I for one can’t wait. It’s just sad that we’re missing out on the talents of many women who make a rational choice to avoid STEM and it’s frequn toxic culture of asocial/antisocial asses. It’s sad that a site full of bright, educated poeple can still so frequtmly come off as a pack of deflecting, equivocating, terrified boys. Everyone involved deserves better than this.

So speak up, take a risk, and most of all act like and be someone that other people know would stand up for them. Be the kind of person who an absuive prick would never think of saying or doing what’s described in this article, around. Talk to and listen to your coworkers, and try to have some ideals beyond personal advancement.
Birth to 10 years old in 85 seconds
Of course! I should choose my words more carefully. My point wasn't to say that QRP is pointless, most of the time I spend on radio nowadays is <25W. It's just a struggle, but the reason that you and I seek out that struggle is because we've probably both made plenty of contacts, and we're in it for the sake of being the best operator possible and seeing what we're capable of with limited resources, not for chasing DX with big beams and legal-limit power. For us, a 5W contact with less distance is worth more than a 100W contact that goes halfway around the globe.

That's not how I felt when I first got into radio, though, and I wouldn't recommend that new hams go straight for QRP operation. You're just going to get frustrated.

(PS: How do you like your EFHW? My father has one and we have been really underwhelmed, noise is just unbearable compared to his vertical. For portable operation it might be okay, but I think he's going to replace it with an off-center fed dipole. I'm jealous of your KX3, I've been eying that new Xiegu X5105 and the KX2. Something portable opens up a lot of fun operating scenarios.)

-- 73 DE W9NLS
This reminds me of a tweet thread I read today where it seemed the guy was unnecessarily lambasted for raising a question to a feminist:

https://twitter.com/akaij/status/968968751063490562

Kelly Ellis:

"But, y'know, thanks for being the dude chiming in with unnecessary remarks intended to undermine both my point, and the plaintiff's lawsuit, while we discuss the topic of gender-based discrimination and harassment.

Super helpful and appreciated."

akay:

"not at all what I was trying to do, sorry if it came across that way. I just don't see how confirming the existence of nerf guns within that team helps the discussion in any way.

unnecessarily harsh, this tweet."

So sometimes we men just remain silent.
Datawire | Customer Support Engineer | Boston, MA | Full-time, Contract | ONSITE

We build OSS tools (Telepresence, Forge, Ambassador) for developer workflows on Kubernetes. We're getting a ton of customer usage, so we need someone who can do customer support, work on the documentation, test/repro issues, and fix bugs. We're looking for someone who's very comfortable with Linux / networking / etc who loves talking to customers and troubleshooting. You'll learn a ton about state-of-the-art tech: Kubernetes, Envoy, Docker, among others. Email careers@datawire.io.
It is 'just' the parsing, but the analysis is fairly easy. Here is an example of:

1. Taking a database

2. Parsing every view and stored procedure

3. Tracking how tables are joined

4. Creating a graph visualization of the tables and their relationships:

https://github.com/isaksky/FsSqlDom/blob/master/examples/FsS...

(Not perfect, but does a pretty good job on databases I have tested.)
I was in bed for 3 weeks with real flu - not a runny nose or even a nasty cold. Plus, we just moved to a new neighborhood and finding a (good) primary care doctor you can visit is all but impossible - they're all full and not taking any new patients.

The Heal service was an immense win for our family's situation.
Well actually...
Tangentially, this is an exceptionally lucid and well-written press release. I haven't worked in media for years but it's head and shoulders above the copypasta I used to get.
Maybe it's time to start firing people for choosing IBM.
Discord also has amazing performance. I guess it's because gamers would be mad for something like Slack eating up all the computer's resources.
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Okay, but now I want to know how it works on something other than (foo)Nix, because that's not an OS space I care about. What about how it works in CP/M or foo-DOS? I've never used a *Nix computer, but I know that I used 'cd' going back to the time of using a TRS-80 CoCo.

I know it's a low-level system call in most on-disk operating systems to change directories. But, for instance, how does it translate physical address to the human-readable name? Do modern (WinXP+) implementations actually take the time to translate folder names from 8.3 to the extended name field? How?

Heck, I'll be dumb enough to ask - why, specifically at the call level, does 'cd\' stick to one level up/down whereas 'cd ' can just pull from just about anywhere? And why, dare I ask, can 'cd' not display like 'tree'?

These are questions about how 'cd' works, to me. Not just, oh, in (foo)Nix it's a system call.
There are a lot of disturbing things in these stories, but I also see a lot of remarks about situations that have a number of alternative explanations besides sexism.

For instance:

> Noting how if two women are talking to each other at a conference, it becomes highly unlikely any guys will walk up and join us. If three women are talking, forget about it.

Yes, indeed, and there are a number of reasons for this. From my point of view, I would avoid approaching a group of women talking by themselves since I'd be the odd one out.

> My “mentor” told me he had never worked with a woman before and wasn’t sure how to talk to me. I suggested he try talking to me like a person.

Depending on the tone, it may mean something completely different than what you are trying to say.

In fact, to me, it looks to me like he was talking about an insecurity he has, and it's not directly related to you... and you are tagging this as sexism.

Long story short, there is a clear line between acceptable and unacceptable behaviour, and that is respect. It's clear that this line was crossed in a number of times in these stories, but just because you are in a position where you didn't like something doesn't mean the line was automatically crossed.
Termites Finally Being Recognized for What They Really Are: Social Cockroaches
This doesn't seem to be taking reputation into account. Sure an agent can just try to close any deal to get their cut and move on. However, an agent who does this as a matter of practice is not going to have the same long payout.
>I have female friends who changed jobs just before getting pregnant or visibly pregnant, and those employers were not happy.

I have a friend whose wife did that in the UK. The employer then let her go. They sued and either won or settled (can't remember which).

I think it was for an executive type role.
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Capsule is a healthcare technology company reconnecting medication to the healthcare system. We are rebuilding the $425bn pharmacy industry from the inside out - things you see and the things you don’t see.

https://medium.com/capsule-cares/everybody-needs-some-lookin...).

At Capsule we are hiring for Senior Backend Engineers, Senior Front End and SRE. All jobs are full-time, NYC, Salary + equity, 5+ years experience.

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It is very hard to get a Java or Python programmer (what those AI guys want to use) to move to C, even if they HAVE to use something native. So C++ is where they end up.
Google Chrome's Block Site Auto Installing?
Fired up my MacBook Pro that was sleeping since last night, and Chrome showed a "Thank you for installed Block Site" which I very much did not do.

Anyone else experience this?

I uninstalled it and was present with a Google Form asking why. I gave the reason "I didn't ask for this to be installed"
> Also, why are you telling people how to have discussions?

It seems like he thinks their argument is dishonest strawman and manipulative. The discussion is usually improved by people pointing that out, as it makes such argumentation less likely.
Sorry, It's not. We are however, considering to go in the opposite direction, to produce a swagger.json from the loaded plugins & configuration. That would give users a nice way to explore their API and quickly see the result of various changes to the loaded config.
A similar thing happened in New Zealand when the Ministry of Education rolled out their new Novopay payroll software.

Teachers were getting overpaid, and then collection services would be sicked on them to recover the excess pay, often without contact first to simply ask for the money.

Meanwhile, there was no compensation for teachers who were underpaid.
NYC looks to modular construction as an affordable housing solution
If you're saying that the real headline should be "Amazon shifts 100% of its tax burden to its employees," then I think you'd still have a story that would make some readers angry.
That's the point I was trying to make. This was something where we could've bikeshedded for weeks with numerous interdepartmental meetings and spent way more hours than necessary to try to come to the optimal solution. Instead since both the user and I had the power to come to the final decision together, we picked this option.

If it works, then we spent less time on the business problem than I've spent writing my two comments here. If it doesn't work, we go back and decide if 8 hours to fix osTicket is worth it or not. Or maybe we find an osTicket consultant to do it for us. Or we find a hosted, mobile-friendly alternative to replace osTicket. Or we integrate this feature into our existing ERP system.

There are a million ways to do anything. Nobody has the time to do any of them in the real-world when we all have hundreds of things to do on a daily basis. The right/optimal/correct solution isn't often the most appropriate solution and vice-versa. People willing to take risks and defend their stances on difficult decisions can get work done. Otherwise you get 'Nobody Ever Got Fired for Buying IBM'.
I believe NL taxes are in fact regressive in the usual sense of the word. I'm curious what the justification for this claim is as well.
Intimate raises $1.1M to enable payments for porn and sex services
I wonder if journalists will ever tire of writing disingenuous articles like this.

Judging from a couple centuries of mass media, the answer is no.
I have doubts about the authors intentions: Look up the wikipedia article and in the past he has done things of questionable integrity to be popular. He is a good storyteller and there is strong criticism from the medical professionals about his skewed views about ineffectiveness of current treatment methods. He does not cite enough references for such a hevayweight topic. I have no problem in him presenting a new perspective, but this is more of getting into the bestseller book list by telling you what you wish to hear.
Half the point of a basic income is that it doesn't discourage people from working, unlike welfare systems that suspend payments to working people including a basic job that de facto prevents you from taking a real job because if you stop doing the makework job you no longer get the redistributive subsidy.

A basic income even eliminates the need to have a minimum wage, which allows people whose labor is not worth a living wage to nonetheless trade it for whatever they can get and still not starve.

A basic job is economically damaging because by definition the value derived from the work is less than the compensation (or it would just be a regular job). Which creates all kinds of terrible incentives where, basically, people choose the basic job over more actually productive work because it's government-subsidized and the real job isn't.
The ONLY person who would think all that is a good idea are the engineers who were able to update their linkedin with "implemented ML based solution to replace human resources with computer resources to streamline the welfare system for the state of X"
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Passively wishing does not tend to influence government policy.
Up or Out Policy
I would never trust Uber with something like this.
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Coalition is working to solve cyber risk. We are a small team of security experts, insurance professionals, and intelligence community veterans building a better cyber insurance product. Coalition is automating risk assessment to make purchasing insurance easy, and using our knowledge to educate clients and mitigate risk where possible. We've raised $10m recently.

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Our front-end is in React, our back-end is in Python 3.6, and our infrastructure is hosted on AWS. We are also always open to new technologies; we believe in using the best tool for the job.

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DoorDash seems to cater to the 1%. Even when we had free lunches at work ($10^7 funding), we avoided using DoorDash. For two people, we would end up paying the equivalent cost of three people.

I enjoyed DoorDash's interface and checkout experience, but +50% is a high premium for delivery, especially if you're close to food. If I live in the middle of a city and I'm only getting food for a few people, I usually just walk. I wonder if DoorDash would be more useful for very large parties (N > 10).
Same for me, working on MRP-ish software for small businesses.
I feel like Jordan Peterson has been treated pretty unfairly by the media. This article is by far the most fair. I remember coming across his lectures many years ago and went through all of them and found them really fascinating. I'm an self-proclaimed progressive, liberal, feminists, whatever, so I was pretty damn shocked when he became this alt-right figure head, because, well, I couldn't comprehend why they thought that way.

His lectures are far from politically divisive, they are actually quite interesting. Hell, one of his classes on mythology so closely mirrors the Monsters & Myths series on Netflix, that I believe the lecture partially inspired the show.

My person opinion is that a lot of young guys watch his stuff because it's interesting and insightful, but pull the wrong message from it. Part of the blame lies in the prevalence of clips and montages of his lectures that cherry-pick parts of his lecture and present it out of context.

For example, his controversial statement about women being neurotic and too agreeable. The context was that he had a professional female client who was having difficulty getting ahead at work because she was too nice to people, and what he did to help her was put her through assertiveness training to help her develop skills that did not come naturally to her. The premise is that women are more agreeable and neurotic, thus they may not naturally develop these skills.

I will admit to not having followed him recently, so it's completely possible that there's a video clip out there of him being a total alt-right asshole.
Reinforcement Learning Algorithms in Python (Based on Sutton and Barto)
What might not be super clear to most folks is that this is one of the last areas that medallion owners make bank. Typically, in many US cities local taxi operators have deals with the govt to ferry the elderly around. So this in effect is uber putting the final nail into the taxi company coffin. I've spoken to taxi drivers which have resisted switching to the gig economy because they made enough from this government tie up to not have to move; I guess that all changes from here on out.
Right, FDR pulled it off.