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> They got unlimited paid time off (yes, you read that right—some companies offer unlimited vacation time to compete for talent).

I started reading the article with skepticism after that. At my previous startup, unlimited vacation time ended up meaning no vacation time. Sounds great in theory, not in practice. When I left, I did not get reimbursed for the unofficial ~15 paid vacation days we're technically allowed.
AssemblyScript is slightly more involved because the author of the template loads the compiler dynamically.
You can't get "Read X bytes since last reboot" from the standard performance counters, so, no, Resource Monitor doesn't have this data. The best it can do is the IO rate at one-second resolution.
For weight loss, diet is more important than exercise, by far.

There are several aphorisms about this:

1. "Abs are made in the kitchen."
2. "You can't outrun a bad diet."

Personally, I've found that carb restriction (e.g., Keto) has worked well for me for keeping my blood sugar (A1c) levels down (with an added bonus of weight loss). YMMV
In data warehousing and BI, it's MacGyver and data technical debt all the way down. MacGyver because of all the "urgent" reports whipped up for CEO, duplicate copies of data and the reports done by consultants who barely understand industry. Data dept because of all the bugs and changes passed down as data from source system.
The attitude of most python3 devs, which can be surmised as: "I moved my Twitter clone from python2 to python3, and it was easy. What's the big problem? You've had ten years to get this done! Hurry up, you're hurting my productivity."
"It seems to be that the responsibility level depends on the institution. For K-12 teachers, they're definitely responsible for trying to help every student succeed. But in college the students are there voluntarily in order to better educate themselves. The responsibility to succeed lies with them. The teacher's responsibility is to teach the material to the best of the students ability to learn it. That maximizes the value the student gets (and is able to get) for the education they're paying for."

That might accurately describe the current education system, but we can do better. Viewing the system as merely a marketplace of information for rational consumers is really part of the problem.

That view leads to teachers and schools throwing up their hands and pretending they're helpless when students don't consume the product they're offering. But they're not helpless. There is a lot they can do, and if they don't do it, it's their choice not to.

The students aren't helpless either, but their own attitudes towards learning are shaped by those very institutions which aren't doing as much as they could do to encourage a love of learning, knowing how to learn, or any of the other things mentioned in my original post which could make a great difference in educational outcomes.

The students attitudes towards learning are also shaped by parents who've been through the same often ineffective institutions, and come out with an indifference or even a contempt for learning. The schools and society as a whole could do better. A lot better.
Is it creative destruction to have a single company control so much of the time people spend on the internet? That sort of entrenched market power is going to lead to less innovation in general, because they don't need to worry nearly as much about people flocking to new apps or advertisers who would then have cheaper ways to reach consumers.
Headlines and articles essentially identical to this one have occurred a number of times throughout the years, like you point out, largely focusing on one person or a small group of people.

I'm unsure how much viewership and engagement they expect to get from these articles, but they obviously think it's a story that other people should at least read (if not live by). At the expense of other matters, naturally.
The primary goal of a business is to make its shareholders money. When you add public trading of corporate stock into the mix, you're essentially cementing that idea into how the business is run.
Again, having lots of content doesn't necessarily mean it is good.
Machines should learn to understand understand human language, not the other way around.
The only thing worse than a video game based on a movie is a movie based on a video game.

Maybe if someone makes a movie based on Zork - basically 3 hours of Star Wars "crawl"?
Trust but verify.
Proof: all those world-changing innovations just pouring out of socialist hotspots of the world, with their shared high living standards outpacing the rest. (/sarcasm).

If Musk had not gotten wealthy on paypal, SpaceX wouldn't have been possible. Nor Tesla. If some country had capped his wealth at an arbitrary # (say, $1,000,000) none of this would have happened. Instead, there's a self-driving car in orbit around the sun and thousands of engineers doing amazing stuff.

Opportunity is the natural consequence of a system that maximizes liberty. And yes, that opportunity is for success and failure. But by removing reward, you remove incentive, which reduces effort. Vicious circle. How is this difficult to understand?
> I played the last World of Warcraft expansion and got to the stage where I could start raiding (Blizzard is trying to make this easier to break into for casual players) and 95% of raiders only wanted to raid with those who had already done the raid before and had an item level higher than anything the raid drops!

I was Raid Leader and Guild leader (my guild was second on the server) in WoW and it was always like that. It's about time optimization, raids are really hard for newbies, they stand in shit and some of the raids on early stages are for example DPS oriented (kill the boss before he enrages etc) so you need to have good gear and know your rotation. When raid wipe because of you after 10 minutes of boss fighting and then again same thing on same boss happens, people get angry because you are holding them down, the whole team. If someone has 60 minutes that day to clear whole raid then he wants to play with experienced people and not to wipe very often.

You should do LFR first couple of times, all dungeons and special daily quests to get around your BiS gear from non-normal+ raid sources. You should watch on youtube guides to know how to fight particular boss too, you should come prepared for raid.
I still have hope. It took many decades before we entered the golden age of comic book movies, and while I don't think the wait will be as long, I think we're still not quite there yet with video games. What makes a good video game movie is what makes any movie good: when the creative team behind the endeavor believes in it and is tied to the source material. Read some of Nolan's early interviews before Batman Begins comes out and you'll get a sense of that.

I would love to see a Bioshock movie done right, or honestly a proper Metal Gear film. But if the filmmakers don't relate to the material or see it as more than just another narrative engine, we'll get the dime-a-dozen action flicks that try to hype up a few moments without capturing what makes so many VG experiences special.
Think macro: record actions in Google Sheets to skip repetitive work
Depends on the template really. Our goal was to not hide any of the magic, the tool only really needs a build.ts file, where you define what the Build button should do.
I’m glad someone is asking about the collection of non-user data and data collection outside Facebook sites, but I can’t help wanting someone qualified to speak on such technical subjects that would be able to effectively question without a prepared list.
I’m interested where you are going with this. I made what I thought was a pretty innocuous comment about actions mattering more than appearance. Are you making the point that tech in general is not building in some sociopathic behaviors as an industry?
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At least in europe, people don't care for equifax, but Facebook is very popular and certain to generate enough clicks whenever it's mentioned in the title. To answer your question, the reason is clicks.
“The behavior this engenders, people do everything they can to stay out of the bottom bucket,” one Microsoft engineer said. “People responsible for features will openly sabotage other people’s efforts. One of the most valuable things I learned was to give the appearance of being courteous while withholding just enough information from colleagues to ensure they didn’t get ahead of me on the rankings.”

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/business/2012/08/microsoft-l...
Are you seriously suggesting Facebook use it's employee's private account data as part of hiring & performance management?
Things are OK on the server side.

Ah, scratch that. I see the issue!... Check now?
> It cedes leadership because the Chinese companies, modeled after the un-splintered US platforms, have more resources, capability to undertake coordinated action, and can take advantage of greater network effects.

The Chinese platforms could be banned from the US for a whole host of reasons. China does the same to US platforms and they're unlikely to reverse course on that any time soon.
I completely agree. I remember all the years where the prevailing wisdom was "standard web byte-code isn't necessary/feasible/desirable/etc." It's nice to realize that such pronouncements aren't necessarily the final word. It turns out there is a way to give people the byte-code they always wanted.

(btw I know WebAssembly isn't, strictly speaking, byte-code. It's a compact binary encoding of an AST. But it has all the characteristics that people really cared about when they asked for byte-code: it's a low-level representation that is a good compilation target for compiled languages)
I've never understood why we don't gasify our waste plastic and woody material and use it as a fuel source. PVC withstanding (as it create toxic Chloride gases), the stuff has value for a large power plant.
> For a new language targeting WASM, it might be nice to use JavaScript strings directly, without needing to convert them at the border?

This doesn't really exist unless you mean they need to not operate on the strings in their own memory and instead make a bunch of JS calls to operate on strings. That has overhead. Otherwise you have to use some approach to get the string to an array buffer (e.g. TextEncoder, charCodeAt, etc) and even though they are probably utf-8 internally, the step still exists to get them to WASM memory. For the GP's post about combining languages, it's no fun to do all of this to use a WASM Rust string in WASM Go (this is what I meant about "lowest common denominator").
There's absolutely a "problem domain debt". If you are a game company, your problem domain that gets you paid is your game(s). Time spent rebuilding standard libraries is time not working directly on the game, and maybe time not getting properly "paid". Meanwhile, there are already people paid to work on the standard libraries, and its their job to make those work and continue to improve them.

Certainly there are tradeoffs where you may have to know the standard libraries well enough to know their performance characteristics, or how best to mitigate worst case scenarios, but if the people paid to build standard libraries are doing their jobs (that you pay them for when you buy that compiler), it should be less debt work to workaround an existing solution than build one from scratch.
I'm confused. What does "2" mean in the context of a web page? If the server broke wouldn't it cause a 500 HTTP response? This just seems odd: 'if error write "2"'.

Maybe it is some kinda of secret society code: "I'm sorry Dave, I can not do that... TWO!!!!"
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Back in my 20's I had a girlfriend who simply could not handle the opportunistic, hit-or-miss nature of finding work in tech.

I ended up breaking up with her. I just couldn't tolerate that kind of friction and lack of support when I was already under the pressure of a job transition.

Even when I succeeded in landing a better paying job she was never truly happy for me. From my point of view it felt like a lack of trust.

With the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, I see how I failed to understand the emotional burden I was asking her to carry for me.
Why would they not? Any other employer is allowed to, so why not Facebook?
1) Lore != character development or plot

2) See the part about grading games on a curve.
This is a fantastic article.

Contagion is a really great term. I've seen my poor abstractions be replicated by others on my team, to my horror -- "don't they see why I did that in this particular case, and not in this other case?" Of course, that's entirely, 100% my fault. I picked a poor abstraction, I put it in the code, I didn't document it well enough, and of COURSE other programmers are going to look to it when solving similar problems. They should!

That said... Sometimes I spend a bunch of time finding the right abstraction for a feature that we end up not expanding. And then it feels bad that I spent all this extra time coming up with the "right" solution, instead of just hacking out something that works. Hmm...
>The statements you quoted are about apathetic students. Do you have a cure for apathy in learning? I don't.

The "cure" is to recognize that you're solving the wrong problem.

Universities originated when there were highly motivated learners, actually interested in the material and taking an active interest in peppering the lecturers with questions.

Today, it's de facto purpose is to get a credential and network with useful people. Learning the material is almost entirely orthogonal to why they're there, so of course they're doing the minimum to pass (or receive a high enough grade).

Trying to get the students interested in the material is just digging the hole deeper. The answer is to stop digging!

Specifically: find a better mechanism by which people can network and signal their abilities. Leave universities to be attended by people who actually care about the material and who actually use it as an interactive experience for which it's best suited.
Presumably maybe you should pay more than minimum wage or at least pay SOME of them more than minimum wage so you can find some people of higher caliber than the the average taco bell employee. Then perhaps your hypothetical customers wouldn't feel like the only outlet for their frustration was to sue you.
This culture is firmly entrenched in the West coast of the US, and possibly some East coast finance. I worked in the tech industry for decades in a large US city and only came across that type of culture once, and that company folded within a year.
Simple but powerful note taking: https://notein.com
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Unclear regulation? I am encountering this over and over again. Lets clear the unclearity...

If you have my data, you will handle them in same manner as you would handle yours. You are not selling yours to get higher prices when buying something online? You are not selling your email account to spammers to get a lot of worthless emails to your email account each day? ... Now you wont do it withy my data either. It is so simple, you don't need any clarification. No special law or directive, no studying of GDPR... it just works. Oh you want me to receive unsolicited emails for your profit? You want me to get tracked? ... I will personally take care you will get a punishment and/or sue you personally.

What is so complicated here? Act in best interest of you customers, regarding the personal data, and you are safe, over whole EU. I don't understand what is the problem unless you are NOT ACTING IN THEIR BEST INTEREST, then it becomes vague (you need a way to circumvent GDPR, but you can't as it is not an IRS list but a conceptual law). Anyone having a problem with GDPR already knows the answer that solves the "problem". But wants to continue his habits.

Just state your problem and I will answer to you with advice where you wont get punished for breaking GDPR, just ask. But you wont, right? You know the answer, but you need a way to avoid it. Wont work.
Here's a discussion about the lower costs of hemp supercapacitors as compared with graphene super capacitors:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16800693

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Hemp supercapacitors might be a good solution to the energy grid storage problem. Hemp absorbs carbon, doesn't leave unplowable roots in the fields, returns up to 70% of nutrients to the soil, and grows quickly just about anywhere.
Hemp bast fiber is normally waste. Hemp anodes for supercapacitors are made from the bast fiber that is normally waste.

Graphene is very useful; but industrial production of graphene is dangerous because lungs and blood-brain barrier.

Hemp is an alternative to graphene for modern supercapacitors (which now have much greater [energy density] in wH/kg)

"Hemp Carbon Makes Supercapacitors Superfast”
https://www.asme.org/engineering-topics/articles/energy/hemp...

> “Our device’s electrochemical performance is on par with or better than graphene-based devices,” Mitlin says. “The key advantage is that our electrodes are made from biowaste using a simple process, and therefore, are much cheaper than graphene.”

> Graphene is, however, expensive to manufacture, costing as much as $2,000 per gram. [...] developed a process for converting fibrous hemp waste into a unique graphene-like nanomaterial that outperforms graphene. What’s more, it can be manufactured for less than $500 per ton.

> Hemp fiber waste was pressure-cooked (hydrothermal synthesis) at 180 °C for 24 hours. The resulting carbonized material was treated with potassium hydroxide and then heated to temperatures as high as 800 °C, resulting in the formation of uniquely structured nanosheets. Testing of this material revealed that it discharged 49 kW of power per kg of material—nearly triple what standard commercial electrodes supply, 17 kW/kg.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=hemp+supercapacit....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercapacitor

I feel like a broken record mentioning this again and again.
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The video games that do have a decent plot often have a plot that just can't be squeezed into a movie. I've seen some decent anime conversions of some video games, which were arguably interactive anime anyhow (i.e., Persona 4), but at roughly 8 hours (call it 24 20 minute episodes by the time you're done with commercials, opening, and closing) and still feeling a bit squeezed at times, that's not going to be a movie any time soon. From a more western perspective, good luck getting Planescape: Torment into a movie format.

I supposed if Hollywood had some confidence about making video game movies they might be very excited about getting a pre-made trilogy, but since their lack of confidence is well-founded in fact I don't see this happening any time soon.
> ...it's the enjoyment I derive from these things...

Right. Can (or should) appreciation and enjoyment of a particular kind of work be taught? Or is it an innate quality... a talent, even?
> Citation needed.

Read biographies of Gates, Jobs, Carnegie, Bezos, Rockefeller, Walton, Buffett, etc. (More than just the wikipedia page.)

> Which misses the point

That isn't the point. The point is that method of increasing wealth (randomly thrashing about) does not work.

> That's a myth.

For which of the ones I mentioned?

> Most billionaires you read about that grew up poor are in the vast minority of people who ended up in the top 1%

We're talking about middle class to the 1%. All of the ones I mentioned went that route.
Absolutely. Not only that, but the experience as a tech worker is quite terrible at almost all companies and especially startups. The difference is, of course, that jobs are plenty and demand is high. If that's how they treat their developers, it should come as no surprise that everyone else is treated even worse. I can't imagine why anyone would want to work in this industry if they don't have some obsession with technology, nor that many people who don't have such an obsession make it long term. It's brutal, although probably less so out of the tech hubs like SF and Seattle, at small companies, and generally wherever people still have some human decency. Human decency in business, if it was ever there to begin with, seems to be declining heavily.
So keep using Python 2.7 on some previous version of RHEL? There's still banks using COBOL, man. We don't insist that RHEL ships IBM COBOL with it.
>Please list the, "pro-pedophilia and ISIS web sites." hosted by Cloudflare?

It's in the linked archived DS article and I confirmed the information is still true.
That's fair, I was definitely reading between the lines a bit. Just seems like the kind of article that some people who are deep in denial about their health will point to as "proof" that they are just this way and cannot change.
I loved the Mass Effect games but I disagree it’s an automatic home run. The characters are all very thin and the main character, like most main characters is a vessel for the player to project themselves into and not a compelling protagonist.
I haven't worked for that many companies, but every company I've worked for has fired a marketing department. Usually because they realized their marketing department was useless.
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You may not owe better to Zuckerberg but you do owe better to the community here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Whale washed up on beach in Spain had 64 lbs of plastic and waste in its stomach
Why make it nicer?
Side note: Balint Seeber, the lead on this paper, has given a number of excellent talks on wireless communications and signal processing. I'd recommend his series of "Hacking the wireless world" talks (available on youtube) given at DefCon for anyone interested in digital signal processing and RF security.
Google clearly has a LOT of cash to play with. They could have refactored/re-used the permissively licensed BSD core, but ended up re-inventing the wheel, breaking a TON of POSIX based software.

For what benefit exactly?
All you have to do to comply with it is be clear and direct when collecting personal data, and make a record of the permission granted.

It appears that you also need to have been all of those things, as far back as you've been collecting personal data, even if no such requirements existed at the time. Organisations might not be in that position even if they followed accepted good practices when signing people up to their lists, so the GDPR may have unintended consequences here.
Page isn't loading for me (I just get a "2", no other content), but archive.org appears to have it cached: https://web.archive.org/web/20180411180009/https://bvckup2.c...
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Exactly. I will never work again for a company with unlimited PTO.
In what world does honor have value for businesses? The business that is willing to like, steal, and cheat their way to higher profitability is going to outcompete the ones who will not. Even if they get bad PR just hire a company to clean up your image,rebrnd, or hide your activities behind a plethora of other companies and branda you own.

Nothing in the history of corporations has shown any preference for honor on their part
You work at DataQuest? Thanks for sharing this!
Writing own notes help in situation where informations is only said. Then you can read it. Pretty much no one is able to consistently remember heard information after single hearing, overwhelming majority of people need to revise it.
Yeah, a normal SQL model is not perfect because of the requirement that it look like a flat table i.e. fixed number of columns.

But H2 has ARRAY for repeated fields, and with some custom functions for decomposing other functions, you could get pretty far.

Just saying, not perfect, but could be useful without too much effort.