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> For context this is an org that has been, historically, in the dysfunctional area of the operating spectrum, high employee churn, lots of technical debt, no testing to speak of in flagship product

> P.S. Team size is 10 devs, core team of 4 in U.S.A co-located, all others remote international.

My advice would be to bring in a good dev manager and stay away from trying to narrowly define dev productivity metrics.

A good dev manager will be able to bring you up to average and fix the obvious problems.

If you are part of a larger company then the business side is probably using OKRs (objective-key results) or something similar to track at a higher level. Start looking at and making sure your team is contributing to these.

As a senior manager your teams self-assigned dev metrics are meaningless to me. It's not going to be enough to justify more staff, pay rises, different work, etc.
Is this your opinion because you work at Amazon? Or because you can prove this to be the case?
Congruent means that you have some relevant information that you are discarding (projecting away) information, such as position and rotation. It's just as correct to say equal if you've already established the relevant context / quotient space.

Two triangles on a page are congruent, because they have different position. The three corners of an eauikao trisne are congruent, because their corner+angles are equal. If you take angle to mean corner, you say congruent. If you aren't also talking so about their position, you say equal.

In math you can slice things every which way, so it's impossible to use the different words for every different concept, so you have to establish a context

Equal vs congruent (and equal vs equivalent, which are also synonymous in math) is a crutch for beginners who are over reliant on their informal intuition.
Hey guys,
I was tired of applying to jobs last year, so I came up with the idea at a hackathon to build a job applying program that lets you apply to hundred of positions in 1 click.

Simply fill out your ideal job title that you’re interested in, upload your resume and contact info and my program will do the applying to individual companies for you.

Have a try! Let me know what you think!
> Once the power plant is reopened (expected to be completed within 12 months), it will offer wholesale or "pre-grid" power prices to blockchain companies

Doesn't seem like nonsense.
In your spare time [if you still have the energy and disposition] try to build small projects using other languages that are in demand on the job market such as Java, Scala, Kotlin, Go, Python etc. If anything at least you will gain a better perspective about what are the alternatives and what are be the strengths and limitations of Node.JS.
1. Expectations vs reality

What do freelance developers actually make in the US? Because all this advice says "raise your rates" and that recent HN post saying freelance developers make $150/hr on average but no one wants to pay that. I'm getting rejected left and right. I have a portfolio, I have great references, 10 years of experience, and experience in the most popular languages and frameworks. So am I missing something?

2. Where are the clients?

As a consequence of 1, I'm not overwhelmed with work like everyone says I should be. So yeah I'm getting leads, but everyone balks at price, and I'm less than $150/hr.

3. No but seriously...I need clients.
1. Managing customer expectations. It takes a week to handle a week delay with the customer - things like negotiating what to prioritize, understanding new requirements, communicating what is to be done in replacement. If you're the main programmer with no project manager on your side, it takes too long to communicate and calculate schedule.

2. Getting paid. Agreeing on a contract that doesn't screw us. Waterfall is actually better for managing a fixed 2 month project, but it's terrible for payment. Agile is more suited to long processes.

3. Other freelancers. A lot of people try to get their foot in the door - they charge something like $5/hour and then do a sloppy job. This effictively ruins a lot of markets. People get frustrated with freelancers, people mistrust them, people also expect to pay very little. I don't mind if other people charge cheaply and deliver; the problem is that the model only allows for fast and sloppy.
The scope is too small here. QC will wreak havoc on online banking, telecommunications and everything else that depends on unhardened classical cryptography.
Would it be possible that when the old guard die or retire at oracle a new guard would be more open and similar to Microsoft’s new stance on open source ?
I'm having the same experience with Azure after coming from AWS.
> My belief is that everyone has minor bouts of mania and depression

I've experienced situational depression, but never mania. Belief disproven. ;-)
Hey thanks for the kind words, I sent you an email. Have a great weekend!
Maybe it's because we're slower on the release cycle? We stick to LTS and a little extra depending on our workload. We also committed to using controllers thinking it would be easy to convert to routable components later on, when the routable components never landed it made our lives easier.

Otherwise, I haven't paid attention to the core,data, and cli release schedules.
>> Having rational and largely unemotional conversations about it with friends, family and co-workers is a near constant struggle, when even possible. Just mentioning it is enough to get responses like, "Yeah, but everyone has a mental health disorder!" to change the subject.

I'm wondering what the stigma is. From what you said people don't make a big deal of it and may even be dismissive. Or are you saying they refuse to acknowledge it as a problem and change the subject? While not helpful, it's not making fun of you either. I know people who are bipolar and the only people I've seen who think much negative about that are the people who have it. Perhaps my observations are missing something major? Are people actually hard on those with bipolar? How does the stigma manifest?

I feel like I'm really ignorant about something here.
I recently made the switch to using ParcelJS [1]. Came from a browserify + rework + npm run scripts setup and wanted something with 0 configuration for my projects. Parcel's been that for me.

Disclaimer: I'm not a serious webapp developer/software engineer. I mostly build websites so mileage may vary.

[1] https://parceljs.org/
Running a professional services business in China performing resume editing, creating LinkedIn Profiles, interview coaching and providing support to academics aspiring to undergrad, masters and PhD programs, my clients fall into two camps. There are those who fully understand that excellent results require an investment (premium price) and there are those who have sticker shock. There does not seem to be much middle ground. I require all payment upfront for B2C work and generally try to push for 50% before/50% after with any corporate clients (HR workshops on how to vet foreigners, etc.)
> It's just that I was rubbish at it.
Glad you sorted it out.

I feel with you because this is how I experienced all of school

It's still there though, for me though the hinder lies in expectations I set for myself (most likely inherited from my parents). I always hoped I would have someone on my shoulder saying, it's ok to be rubbish, as long as you keep writing, because eventually it will be better.

What you write about is also something that I think is wrong with how it's supposed to be when I was at school. I would most likely be more adept if I was writing about something that I was really caring about, and then getting help with the constructs, identifying them and restructing the text. Not what the teacher picked out.

Maybe there's a middle ground, if the early years are all about getting _your_ flow from thought to paper is what matters, the teacher have a piece of cake hammering down the structures later on, which in turn would make it possible to take on any kind of task. I know there's some work in our schools today, but I'm not that positive about it (since they ignore spelling pretty much). It will be great to read some results from it whenever it appear though.
let's hope the exclusion zone doesn't happen, k?
Netflix recommendations are so bad they are downright comical and make me laugh every day. I can't believe their developers get paid 300K+. For that kind of salary and the work they put out, they have got to be the world's most unproductive employees.
Alan Kay - Is it really "Complex"? Or did we just make it "Complicated"? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubaX1Smg6pY
It would seem there's a spectrum of them. In a sense all anxiety could be existential in the way it presses on the nerve of one's own particular instance of existence. Though I think we'd all describe Neo's awakening in The Matrix as something somewhat more than anxiety.

Of course "existential" is a philosophical term. Heidegger, one of the great existential philosophers, famously used the day to day experience of humans in order to access the very nature of being - of existence - because humans are unique in that existence is a fundamental concern for them. Like when Satre writes in detail about the strangeness of door handles, they're something that we use countless times in our day to day lives, we just never notice them until they become a concern for us, like when they break.

So an existential crisis is just that feeling of unearthing something fundamental that's always been there, but now has come to the forefront for whatever reason.

Personally I believe there is only ever one existential crisis that we go through and whether we face it head on or just the satellites around it, its centre of mass is always that audacious fact that something exists rather than nothing.

BTW one doesn't simply answer this question. The resolution of an existential crisis is a new way of life, not merely understanding some standalone empirical fact about psychology or physics.
I'd especially love this when working remotely at cafes/busy shared spaces. Being able to tune in and hear someone better if they're in front of me or speaking directly at me or blocking out background noise.
They are allowed to bid. They just want the Pentagon to split its information across multiple cloud products because they find it unlikely that they'll win such a big contract on merit alone.

> The Pentagon has said it intends to move the department’s technology needs -- 3.4 million users and 4 million devices -- to the cloud, indicating the massive size of the award. Pentagon officials, including Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, have repeatedly said no decision about the winner-take-all contract has been pre-made and that bids will be considered on their merits, with an award to a company or a team of companies expected in September.

What rational reason would there be for a corporation or government entity to spread its information across multiple cloud products? That would be like mandating that half a company use LibreOffice and the other half Office365 for the sake of "equality".
Using markdown as a sort of templating language, like Haml, is a pretty cool idea.
You sound exactly like the two oracle engineers I spoke to circa 2000. “We hate WebDB. If you don’t buy it, we’ll get made redundant and can sign on and get free education to do something other than IT. Please don’t buy it. Think of our children”.

I exaggerate but not by much.
Due Process
No, not like all other "pods" out there. Amazon's is selling very well.
The White Hat’s Dilemma, by Alex Stamos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEeHTQHTSgE

Stamos has been in the news recently for quitting as CSO at Facebook. Before that he quit as CSO at Yahoo after the government scanning scandal (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-yahoo-nsa-exclusive/exclu...).

This talk took place before he started at Yahoo. In the latter half he goes over a number of potential moral quandaries and how ethically to respond to them. One matches the later Yahoo incident almost exactly.

The overall point is that it’s important to consider these scenarios beforehand, because it’s easier to do the wrong thing if you have to make decisions on the fly.
Have you tried weed or CBD supplements? It helped with my bipolar and levelling my emotions to deal with a job and daily life.
Another great console talk: Breaking the 3DS, from 2015.

https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7240-console_hacking
> The Home Pod, and Siri more specifically, simply cant compete in the "Home Assistant" space on either a technological nor price front.

I'm not big on Apple products these days, but I disagree.

Today's Apple is as much of a "brand" company as it is a technology company. Apple products have recognizable features, e.g. white cords for ear buds, the shiny Apple logo on the new mac books, etc. Apple wants you to remember you're using their brand almost as much as you enjoy their technology.

That said, the home pod almost looks like it came out of Google/Nest. In fact the top view reminds me of the Nest smoke alarm. There's nothing really "Apple" about it.
I have another: several federal courts require hard copies of all filings delivered to chambers by noon the day after. All filing is electronic already, been that way for nearly 20 years, which means everything is a pdf upload. But getting those hard copies out to chambers is a chore. Would be great to just upload the files PDFs to a service, click on an address, and done. (Probably not a huge business, admittedly, but things like this still exist. Sadly. Blame elderly judges with lifetime tenure and broken processes that are still paper based.)
Why does this keep getting reposted?
I'm unclear why they would be buried, there's no Moon-wind storms as far as I know.

Footprints from the Apollo missions can still be seen.

Anyways, I was thinking that the metal from the spacecraft wouldn't have gone through the weathering/oxidation that anything man-made still on earth would go through.
I'm at a loss to understand why people keep using the words "sell data" in this way. It's a weird way to use the word and inconsistent with how it's used in other situations.

Would you also say a pizza delivery driver sells their car? It's a resource that they use while providing a service but they retain possession of the car. Most people wouldn't describe that with the word "sell", so why does the definition shift when it comes to user data?
I never heard Art Bell before, but this post makes me feel like, in a small way, I got a little slice of it. The imagery of your comment really invokes the imagination and feelings. Thanks for sharing this experience!
These work quite well: https://www.bose.com/en_us/products/headphones/conversation_...

I’ve tested them in demonstration environments only but they seemed to be close enough to real world cases to me.
"Social network" vs "Social media"

It is arguable that the primary purpose of Facebook originally was to allow two friends to communicate over a third person's website. There was no "news feed".

Is this a "social network" or is it "social media"?

Later the website became a means to broadcast "news".

Is it a "social network" or is it "social media"?

Later the website became a means for third parties other than Facebook to broadcast advertisements to specific users of the "network".

Is it a "social network" or is it "social media"?

Why might this distinction matter?

This is a quote from Van Jacobsen's 30 August 2006 tech talk entitled "A new way to think about networking":

"The raison d'etre of today's networking, both circuit switched and TCP/IP, is to allow two machines to have a conversation.

The overwhelming use (>99% by most measurements) of today's networks is for a machine to acquire named chunks of data (like webpages or email messages).

Acquiring named chunks of data is not a conversation, it's a dissemination (the computer equivalent of "Does anybody have the time?")"

What is Facebook?

Is it particular communications between two friends? Is it a "network"?

Is it dissemination? Is it "media"?

Is it both?

Does Facebook communication between friends upset the traditional media? Does it "threaten democracy"?

Does Facebook dissemination upset the traditional media? Does it "threaten democracy"?

The tech talk cited above discusses why in the case of dissemination the data matters, not the supplier.

In the case of dissemination it is desirable that data being disseminated must be trustworthy. Once this is achieved it should not matter the source from which the reader obtains it (whether via a Facebook page being surveilled by Facebook, or via some random address elsewhere on the internet).

The talk describes how this might be accomplished.
An existential crisis is one that you can't resolve until you've figured out the meaning of life.

If you're not contemplating radical changes, you're probably not having an existential crisis.
Save the Date: Hack for the Sea 2018
The guy spends 3,000GBP in a laptop, and his bride buys an apple watch while he's chatting with the repair guy, but finds a way to complain about paying 2 tolls on the road :) I get the principle, but it made me laugh.
Could you please not post unsubstantive comments to HN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Art Bell is a completely difference experience when you are driving through the middle of the Nevada or California desert. Its hard to explain to people who have never done it, but somehow on those long desolate drives, his radio show just made sense somehow.
TurboTax Freemium Funnel: Critical Analysis and UX Teardown
A lot of Android TVs run MStar (acquired by MediaTek) chipsets.

I've successfully (with some hacks) ported AOSP to one of these devices in the past.

Kernel source, and some associated flashing information can be found here:
https://github.com/Benjamin-Dobell/kogan-tv-gpl
Airlines would be willing to do this if all tickets were 100% non-refundable, non-exchangeable, no excuses. But, that would be a terrible experience for customers. Imagine if you missed your flight, and were informed that you had no choice but to pay for another ticket.

Movie theatres can do this because the $12 loss of missing a movie is annoying, but not life-changing, and the social contract is that event tickets are not changeable.

I would wager that the fallout of tens of thousands of people per day being told they have to re-buy a ticket if they miss their flight would have much greater negative fall-out than the much smaller number who get involuntarily bumped.
I did it less than a year ago with a Florida LLC. Walked into a California branch of a very large international bank and walked out twenty minutes later with a temporary ATM card and checks.
Because this country was built on privatized everything.
Are you the same person, and if so, why a different account??
Very interesting.

Anyone know if this applies to antibiotics? I think a lot of people, myself included, are hoping that new drugs will buy us enough time to solve the sociatal problems (e.g. heavy use in ag) causing antibiotic resistance.
What a farce. The use of the ML for background subtraction is almost inconsequential to the contribution of the paper and the result.
Thought the same! What if life is exploiting such a flaw - a flaw that led to the existing matter out of which our universe is built.
> but seriously, just use Hugo or Jekyll!

Both of those lack support for custom "sources", instead of just markdown files.

A lot of people like Contentful (https://www.contentful.com/), which static site generators like Gatsby support.

This doesn't really address your remark about webpack though.

However, I have been using Gatsby and I haven't had any issues with it. It is completely internal and hidden from the end user.
Would you please stop using HN for generic ideological arguments? They lead to nothing new, only generic ideological flamewars, the thing we need least here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I believe this was changed because of abuse.

Alt right people were giving Amy Schumer's standup 1 star. I remember watching it thinking it was good, not amazing, but certainly not 1 start standup compared to most of the filth out there.
Part of the reason those load factors are so high is that airlines are allowed to oversell capacity, to help ensure that as many seats as possible are occupied.
Though, I should have mentioned, some things in common.

Like competent, but sassy, wait staff. No diner puts up with your crap. Formica, pleather booths, tall laminated and fake leather trimmed menus, as well as neon seem to be common threads.
Could this property be of interest to the user that wants communications free from advertising, e.g., if she understands that the "social network" architecture created by the users of the software is such that there is no incentive for ads.

For example, if the software allows users to create many small groups all communicating separately, peer-to-peer, not aggregated into the same "network" via an enormous third party website.
The system (obviously) did not encourage free market competition, and there were issues in supply and demand. Therefore things like re-design and re-styling, which happened naturally in a highly competitive marketplace didn't happen. But, on the other hand, having worked out a reasonably functional, stylish design for a coffeepot there was no need to invest pointless money re-styling it, to try and capture market share.

These designs were 'contemporary' when done. They froze? sure, but thats a rational decision when you face cost side imperatives like 'how many can we make and for how long' rather than 'what can we do, to innovate, to capture more market share'

As design exemplars, in context, these are pretty good. The typography and design sensibility is world-class.
You would be surprised at the requests I get from people running CentOS 6.
1000ms is plenty of time, but in this particular crash you have 500ms total between the car veering out of the lane and impacting the wall.

Regardless, you're saying that if you're not paying attention every single second of the trip, instantly ready to rect to even the slightest deviation from your intended trajectory, then you're doing it wrong.

What, exactly, is the point of an auto-pilot system if you need to be in that state of absolute alertness?
Nuvu Studio – Innovative high school built around projects instead of subjects
Are you able to share any specific complaints, gripes or issues? This entire thread is an Oracle bash fest without much specific data or information.

Don't get me wrong, not a huge fan of Oracle but am curious to know if there is an actual problem, or if this is simply a hater-ade/fanboy party with no substance.
Almost nothing is unusably bad. In VCS space, even SCCS is still better than nothing. CVS is still quite operable, OpenBSD is one of the finest codebases out there and it uses it. I actually agree you that Fossil is not a big improvement, and I guess I'll stick with Mercurial for quite a while for my stuff. But in our world of software improvements are almost always incremental, even when dubbed otherwise. I'm not trying to convince you that Fossil is an ideal tool to switch to, just that saying that it doesn't bring any improvements and then listing some problems common to other tools in the same space is a bit unfair.
Not to quibble with you, but I don’t recall seeing a requirement for having an operating agreement separate from the certificate of formation in the Uniform Act or anywhere else. As far as piercing the corporate veil, that’s a matter of state law and very fact-dependent, and exceptionally rare.
How people die vs. media coverage of death
EU Space Agency Software Productivity Benchmarking (1996)